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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 23, 1973
Page
1
Baytown civil defense director Fletcher Hickerson and Dr. Jack B. Trunnell along with Dr. George M. Fleming of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital returned from a symposium on Emergency Services in Austin. The Texas Medical Association cardiovascular diseases committee sponsored the event. Mrs. Trunnell and Mrs. Hickerson accompanied their husbands.
A noon compilation lists numerous corporations including General Motors, Exxon, Ford, Dow, Texaco, Chevron, IBM, AT&T, and Union Carbide with market quotes and percentage changes. The report reflects a broad mix of industrials, energy, consumer goods, and technology firms, showing varied gains and losses across sectors.
The MB Water council told City Manager Don McLeod to inform employees to limit to 40 hours weekly unless emergencies occur. They urged alternating off Fridays and Mondays and four hour Saturdays Sundays to prevent large overtime. Thurman Goodman noted possible time off in slack periods. Pomykal warned against risking service with excessive time off.
Hubert Earl Singletary 62 of 228 Georgia died Monday in a Galveston hospital. Services were set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at Farthman Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jewel McClure, then transfer to Alto for 1:30 p.m. Thursday services at O. T. Allen Funeral Home Chapel. He was a boilermaker for Exxon and is survived by wife Agnus, daughters Laura Mills Katherine Cox Miriam Kelly, a brother James Louie Singletary, a late son Earl W. Burial is in Shilo Cemetery, Alto. Pallbearers named. Earthman Funeral Home arranged.
School Superintendent Johnny Clark told trustees staff will prepare educational specifications for a new building plan in discussion and likely to include new educational and physical education facilities, with a bond election. Trustees granted three year contracts to Deputy Superintendents Barry Nettles and Curtis Herring. Deputy Supt. W D Bill Hinson has no action as his contract runs to retirement in June 1974.
Hancock advocates merging the Bayshore Center and the Opportunity Center to improve services for the handicapped. He notes salary limits hinder qualified staff retention and cites waning federal staffing grant support. Both centers receive Baytown Community Chest aid, with Chest contributors allowed at the Thursday meeting.
Chambers County commissioners approved a 26.8 percent pay increase for all county employees on the payroll as of Jan 1 and clarified the earlier instruction affecting those with less than one year on staff. They also approved a land condemnation for Farm Road 1405 widening after negotiations failed. The Health Unit will assist state efforts to improve tuberculosis care in the county.
A scrambled AP News Quiz questions readers on trade, energy, wage disputes, constitutional amendments, and notable trials. The item lists multiple choice prompts with answers coded and notes a high total score possible, reflecting on 20 years in prison and other figures.
Taxpayers urged to avoid simple errors on 1972 federal returns as refunds may be delayed. Harald E. Moores of Internal Revenue, Bay town, lists a checklist including name and address, Social Security numbers, correct tax table, itemized deductions, attaching W-2 forms, and both spouses signing.
Ramsey proposed a two day voting window and a ballot with non contested races on one side to shorten the ballot. The only witness Monday was Cecil Bobbitt, CPA for Chandler, who testified that a 1966 payment from Shoup was for Ramsey, not Chandler, amid tax return implications.
Former Baytown area service members who served with the Third and Sixth Army Headquarters and Headquarters Company at Fort Sam Houston 1940 to 1943 will hold a reunion in Austin from June 22 to 24. Details may be obtained by writing George Moon Mullens, Reunion President, 518 Park, Baytown, Texas 77520.
Bay area student 2DDIE D. Schultz at McNeese State University makes the honor roll with a 3.0 grade average or better while taking at least 12 semester hours.
President Nixon designates Thursday as a national day of mourning for Lyndon B. Jobson and orders federal offices closed. A compilation from AP covering Topeka shootings, Texas weather, Icelandic island eruption evacuation, Vietnam ceasefire talks, abortion rights, inflation, a Sharpstown Bank scandal conviction, Onassis ailing after crash, and Kis singer Hanoi talks.
The court faces criticism over proposed new airports in Winnie and Mont Belvieu. Land costs reach 800 and 1500 per acre, with a $50,000 access road from Highway 146 and uncertain operating costs. Taxpayers claim lack of public input and urge bond funding or a referendum. Petition signatures note 716 opposing residents.
Navy Airman Recruit Ern est D Haney son of Mr and Mrs Ernest D Haney Jr of 30 Burnet Drive reported for duty aboard the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk He is a 1971 graduate of Robert E Lee High and a former student of Lee College Fossil remains show walruses lived in the United States Belgium England and France more than 100 million years ago
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