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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1970
Page
1
Baytown Rotary Club meets at noon Wednesday at the Tower. Harris County District Attorney Carol Vance will discuss strengthening bail bond laws. Robert Strickland is program chairman.
Dianne Gillum accepts a speaking invitation while Cave Kominek acts with urgency. Jeffery Gaskey praises his new baby sister Suzanne Elizabeth. Lelia Bloodgood hosts an invitation, and Pon Riddick plans a cast party after Paisley Convertible. Ida Griffith and Babs Smith share information. Kilgore has a flat tire and seeks help. Beulah Hanley helps organize. Cynthia Huey lags the camera, Jan Beck notes details, Marilyn Linder misses a meeting, Smiley Heiman rests, Russell Moore has mumps, Don Riddick offers a compliment, Pat Boyle buys for the BLT production of The Paisley Convertible.
Editor notes the final piece in a series on local pollution issues and the use of Texas Air Control Board variances. The practice allows industries to continue pollution while addressing problems, with concerns about abuse and calls for stricter limits. Rex Braun warns some variances may be misused as a license to pollute.
Harris County Commissioners Court will scrutinize future variance requests, especially from industry, before sending them to the state board. The board has final say, but local opposition may curb variances. Baytown and 79 Harris County industries reportedly received permits, while only six temporary effluent permits exist in the county. The water board cites staffing shortages as a major hurdle in monitoring compliance.
AUSTIN AP George Bush declared he will challenge Sen Ralph Yarborough in Texas for the U S Senate. He cited a desire for a new voice and said the race could cost about 1 million dollars. Bush met with President Nixon in Washington and noted high Texas support from a private poll.
Congressman George Bush of Houston will address Baytown Jaycees annual Distinguished Service Award banquet set for January 34. He announced his bid for the Republican nomination to the U S Senate seat held by Ralph Yarborough. Awards will honor local men for meritorious service. last year's recipients included Bob Gillette and David Evans. Tickets are $5. crowd expected. Public invited.
Mrs. Melba L. Pittman clerical assistant at Baytown Selective Service Board No 63 received a 15 year service pin in a ceremony at the local board offices in the Federal Building Col Defoe Street Sam Alford chairman and Col Morriss S Schwartz State Director sent congratulations Pittman lives at 1005 E Fayle is a Robert E Lee High School graduate attended Lee College and Massey Business College Her husband J W Pittman is employed at Humble Oil Baytown Refinery They have a daughter two sons and two grandchildren all living in Baytown
The La Porte Bayshore Chamber of Commerce will hold its 47th annual banquet at 7:30 p.m. Friday at the Houston Yacht Club. Newt Hielscher, “The iHumourist with a Message,” will be principal speaker with a social hour from 6:20 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets cost 7.50 and dress is informal.
CLEAR TO PARTLY cloudy and warmer Tuesday with a slight chance of showers Wednesday. Temperatures forecast from the low 40s to the low 60s. Morgan's Point tides for Wednesday show highs at 7:07 a.m. and 10:01 p.m. and lows at 9:13 a.m. and 9:97 p.m.
A Harris County school board debate centered on a four point policy for suspending students who disrupt classes publish underground newspapers or misuse drugs. Trustee Philip Dignam harshly criticized the plan calling it a legislative monster while urging a lay educator committee to study deeper causes of unrest. Trustee Glenn Lippman preferred the current may be suspended wording and questioned the need for the stronger policy. Superintendent Johnny Clark noted the policy, approved by a regional committee, aligns with prior drug abuse rules and adds disruption suspensions.
Harlem Elementary faces a repeat order from the Dallas regional Civil Rights Office to submit a new plan by February 5 to remove racial identifiability. The district has spent over 500000 on modernization while operating as a prio l school with a progress curriculum and free bus service to attract white enrollment. In grades 1-5 there are 60 white and 249 Negro students, with 14 white students in preschool.
State Banking Commission in Austin will hear two Mont Belvieu charter applications at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday. West Chambers County State Bank and Mont Belvieu State Bank names appear with listed directors and capital plans. Applications filed in 1969 follow a 1967 rejection. other note on Baytown Employes Credit Union meeting.
Sgt. Jerry L. Cartwright 21 son of Mr and Mrs William H Cartwright of 223 Harretts Drive Crosby has received the Air Medal in Vietnam for meritorious service during aerial flight in support of ground operations. He holds the Combat Infantryman Badge and serves as a gunner in Company A Second Battalion 12th Cavalry First Cavalry Division Airmobile. A 1967 graduate of Drew High School.
The Baytown Chamber of Commerce highway committee is authorized to form a Spur 204 subcommittee to speed completion of Spur 201 and improvements to Bay Way Drive through Wooster. Fred Hartman urged broader support for all projects and invited local residents and chamber members to join, calling Manager Dave Moore at 422 4349. The panel will organize this week with a first meeting date pending.
Fire erupted on Storm Drilling Co. rig No. 3 about four miles northeast of Galveston in the Gulf of Mexico. One man was killed and at least four others injured in the blaze.
Prospective voters have 19 days left to register before the January 31 deadline. Harris County Tax Collector- Assessor Carl Smith urges citizens not to delay registration until the last minute, noting that late registration is a major problem.
The form states no charge for registration. To vote you must be a U.S. citizen over 21 on election day, have resided in the state for at least one year, and in the county for at least six months before the election. It notes this applies to local elections but not statewide votes.
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