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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 07, 1971
Page
1
The Minerva Study Club will meet at 10 a.m. Friday at the home of Mrs. E. R. Cunning ham, 2112 Utah.
Baytown Opportunity Center announces its annual meeting January 14 at 7:20 p.m. on Baker Road to elect new board members and consider proposed bylaw revisions. Regular reports and fellowship planned for attendees.
City Atty Bill Laughlin swamped with early legal questions. Bill Wardlaw expects visit from California son during Houston broadcasters convention. Rhonda Ann Walker U H student reports from Los Angeles on Rose Bowl parade excitement. Lowell and Jean Lammers host out of town friends. Bill Kelly discusses new restaurant venture. Helen Porter enjoys after hours entertainment. Juan Rodriguez chats Spanish with a Baytonian. Lou Davis plans February events.
Baytown city councilmen plan a 6:30 p.m. meeting with a full 1971 agenda. Items include water pipe corrosion remedies, overnight parking ban for commercial vehicles, annexation of land along FM 1405 FM 565 and State Highway 146, and ordinances on building code updates, truck routes, and electrical rates.
Morrison seeks a $12,000 1971 budget boost for Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace to fund two more clerks and 24 hour operation. Current hours end at 2 a.m. with on call delays, total request about $77,162.32. past year charges include 708 felonies and 6,994 misdemeanors. Precinct 3 Constable Paw Anderson asks $3,000 more for 1971 to cover rent and salary raises.
Jerry Farrar longtime Humble Baytown Refinery boiler inspector retires after 41 years with Humble. He joined in 1929, became senior engineering technician in 1985, authored a National Power Magazine article, and plans travel, hunting, and fishing after retirement party at 1 p.m. Friday in the safety and training building. Farrar, native of Big Sandy, SMU alumnus, and Baytown resident, is active in local clubs and church activities.
Ice on area roads caused a morning crash surge in Baytown with no major injuries by mid morning. Carolyn Scott narrowly escaped a plunge into a bayou from a Market Street Road bridge as icy winds and freezing rain froze surfaces. Crews spread sand and land bridges across Goose Creek and Cedar Bayou while state and city workers treated highways I-10 and US 146. Police urged slow careful driving and braking technique as they investigated incidents.
A 10-hour series of explosions at a central coast South Vietnam ammunition dump killed three South Korean workers and destroyed over 5,000 tons of munitions. Cause of the blasts was not immediately determined.
Mostly cloudy and cold through Friday with a slight chance of rain. Thursday night and Friday temperatures run from the mid 30s to the low 40s. Morgan's Point tides Friday include a high at 2:19 a.m. and a low at 1:07 p.m. Friday sunrise is 7:18 a.m. and sunset 5:39 p.m.
Bob Singleton executive director of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department since September 1966 resigns after a long feud with Commission Chairman J. Pearce Johnson over the Mustang Island purchase and other issues. He previously led the La Porte Regional Office and once worked as a waterfowl biologist along the Texas Gulf Coast.
Ken Dell Sowell seven year old missing from Channelview area since Tuesday afternoon. Father J H Sowell Jr participated in a large search of woods and bayous around 14927 Arundel. Harris County Sheriff investigators monitor the search as hundreds of volunteers, helicopters and local groups assist. Authorities checked rumors but no verified sightings yet. informal HQ set at Channelwood Park Overbluff Street.
A district court suit filed by B B Williams of the Texas Federation of Independent Businessmen and Taxpayers Alliance seeks to halt Baytown’s plan to sell part of 11.6 million in bonds. The suit alleges council members were in arrears on city taxes when the bond ordinance passed and questions the ordinance’s validity. Proceedings set for 9 a.m. next Tuesday in Judge John Snell’s 152nd District Court.
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