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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 19, 1970
Page
1
SA bans HORC Annuitants Humble Annuitants Club will meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Civic Center. J. R. Vanderheider will explain Humble Oil and Refining Co. medical benefits for annuitants. All members urged to attend.
A program to collect 247022.01 dollars of delinquent taxes in the school district will begin Feb. 4, said tax assessor-collector Hobart Enoch. Accounts more than three years delinquent will go to school attorneys for court processing. Jan. 31, 1970 is the current tax deadline. penalties apply in February for unresolved 1989 taxes. Mail payments postmarked by midnight Jan. 31 will be accepted without penalty. Ad Valorem Records, Inc. of Houston has placed delinquent accounts on a computerized system. about 2,500 accounts are on the roll. Statements listing all delinquent years will be mailed. Also notes include a coma condition of Bobby Stone, a Baytown student, after a bus fall, and local club meetings and a theft at Rainbo Baking Co. distribution station with $1,619.23 missing.
Peggy Power calls in for a friend as an overflowing crowd attends a luncheon with Margie Kinesel planning to run again for Precinct chairman. Richard King provides quips while Geneva Ferguson attends in rain. A. N. Johnson sits front row. Deacon Jones stays by the window as Raymond Hardy and John Rosamond identify a photo. Mary Elizabeth Coe collects reports for a reporter Lester Alford buys chocolate. Aline Reineke fails to recognize a friend.
Harris County Tax Assessor-Collector Carl S. Smith announced 1970 auto license plates go on sale Feb. 2 at the Baytown office, with a April 1 deadline for display. About 1.45 million sets will be sold including 850,000 for passenger cars. Tags can be purchased at Houston courthouse offices or Baytown, Pasadena, Humble, Bellaire and Da Porte branches. Mail renewals must include the three part form, fee, and $1 postage by March 1. Smith noted Jan. 31 is the voter registration deadline and property tax payments for 1969 without penalty. The courthouse office will stay open until midnight that day. So far 463,502 voters have registered for 1970 elections. expected total may exceed 600,000. County property taxes received total 56.5 percent of the 1959 levy, $73.5 million.
Baytown city elections open with April 7 race kickoff at city hall after council votes to schedule filings by March 6. Incumbent Ted Kloesel seeks re election in District 1 while Leonard Stasney and Allen Cannon consider another term in Districts 4 and 5 respectively. Braswell resigned from District 3 to run for mayor but was eliminated in the primary. Fanestiel lost to Walker in a runoff.
The Democratic majority in Congress returns to Washington prepared to challenge President Nixon’s call to cut education spending. They may push to veto the 19.7 billion education and health appropriation, seeking a two thirds override in House and Senate, while GOP leaders doubt success. The Senate agenda will proceed without delay ahead of the State of the Union address.
Washington reports the compensation bill for disabled miners has drawn 45,209 applications for multi million dollars in benefits. Nelson calls constitutional protection for a right to a clean environment and proposes anti pollution measures. Agnew ends Asian tour and heads home. Israel continues strikes near Cairo and Helwan. Viet Cong mine kills 18 and wounds 35 cadets. Thieu reorganizes command, promoting ten colonels. Lord Hunt returns to Lagos amid genocide fears. McKay, Mormon Church president, dies. Smith eyed as successor.
Coast Guard reports the tanker Esso Boston rescued 30 men from a burning freighter in the Gulf of Mexico about 180 miles southeast of New Orleans. No injuries were reported. Among the crew is Larry Austin, son of Mr and Mrs Frank M Austin of Baytown Texas.
Crosby Texas board meets at 7 30 p m to review desegregation steps and personnel changes from the track merger. Supt Prochazka cites crossover assignments by teachers and reports on accreditation talks with the Texas Education Agency as well as a policy on drug abuse and related local actions.
The forecast warns of a hard freeze Monday night with temperatures in the mid twenty to forty degree range. Exposed water pipes and tender vegetation should be protected. For Morgan's Point the Tuesday tide shows a high at 3 37 a m and a low at 2 19 p m.
Baytonians faced freezing temperatures with mid 20s to the upper 40s forecast by Tuesday. Officials warned of ice on bridges and overpasses from a drizzle and freezing night. residents were urged to drain pipes or run water to prevent bursts. six of seven city bridges were sanded and drivers told to use caution as weather improved.
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 3 that draft boards lack power to speed up inductions of Vietnam war protesters. Justice William Douglas said federal draft laws show no intent to grant such broad administrative authority, deeming it incompatible with our lawmaking traditions.
A Houston AP report highlights growing air and water pollution in the greater Houston area. Industrial emissions from petrochemical plants, autos, and other sources damage leaves, stain water, and strain budgets for residents like the Caprons and Weatherford. Local officials note auto exhaust and industry jointly drive the problem.
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