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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 13, 1971
Page
2
A Baytown officer found six cases of beer on a dirt road off North Main after a beer truck was burglarized overnight behind Lone Star Beer Co. at 3215 N Main. The officer left the beer on the road to attract the thief, but returned 20 minutes later to find the beer still there and no burglar.
Lee College offers two night developmental reading classes for adults to improve reading skills. Eight other sections run daily. admissions lists spring classes. Developmental reading aims to boost rate comprehension and vocabulary with multi level learning labs and personalized instruction. Registration January 18 and 19 via permit in admissions office.
Two motorcycle crashes Tuesday left Baytown officers injured. Officer Franklin Helms, 28, riding his motorcycle west on Market, was struck by a turning car at Airhart and Market and treated at Gulf Coast Hospital before being released with bruised legs. A 32-year-old driver, Robert W. Smith, received a ticket for failure to yield right of way at a stop sign. In another crash on Bayway Drive near North Street, Albert Fred Grothe, 16, and Frank W. Grothe, 15, suffered minor injuries. a car dragged them off the road and fled the scene, with no hospital transport for either rider or passenger.
Baytown officials discussed a landbased levee for the Brownwood peninsula to reduce flood tides. The plan, part of an $11.6 million capital program with $200000 earmarked, aims to address subsidence and flood risks through a detailed Bay area survey and hearings February 12 with input from civic groups and congressional representatives.
RATE proposes trimming the city subsidy by 200 dollars per month and relocates from the old leaking fire station. Reopen review of library board mem bers terms. Baytown IAFF Local 1173 representatives discuss salary increases approved by the City Council.
Residents near High way 90 report a strong acrid odor and black oily sludge on water. They say floodwaters spread waste across fields toward Banana Bend, killing trees along the highway rights of way.
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