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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 26, 1970
Page
1
Tickets for the Crippled Children's Benefit Ball co sponsored by the Baytown Elks and Knights of Columbus are available from the two fraternal groups. The event will be held at the KC Hall on Saturday night with Frank Tilton's Orchestra providing music.
Homer McBride arranges a Baytown Optimum Club photograph to launch Respect for Law Month. Edge is back in Baytown after hospitalization at John Sealy Hospital in Galveston. Eddie Huron recovers from surgery at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. Alford battles the flu bug. Al Jones sets up a portrait showing the Baytown Society of Professional Engineers in the community. Virginia Blackmon provides a welcome pot of soup to four sick friends. Sondra Adoright prepares for a major event. Plowden Bridges vacationing with his parents. Bill and Mary Glenna Gandy seen with the Brunson film Alaska Safari during a fishing trip.
Harris County voters face a midnight Saturday deadline to register for 1970 elections. Democratic primary May 2, second primary June 6, general November 3, plus Baytown bond election March 10 and a Baytown runoff in April. Registration sites include Gibsons Kroart Glabe Lae College Sterling Library and Citizens National Bank with extended hours at Oak Street Community Action Building.
In New York the ABA federal judiciary committee chairman said there is substantial basis for speculation that the panel informally approved G Harrold Carswell for the Supreme Court. He noted the panel would announce Tuesday whether Carswell is qualified. Nixon had nominated Carswell, a Fifth Circuit judge in New Orleans, to fill Abe Fortas’s seat, with Senate hearings slated to begin.
A university math club event at Texas ABM University has been canceled after a large number of club members forced the withdrawal. The Tuesday night dinner was called off due to member action and organizational factors.
AP reports Arab and Israeli forces clashed on all fronts over the weekend amid denials that Arab forces shot down three Israeli planes and attacked a radar station. Hostilities extended to Egypt, Lebanon guerrillas, and Saudi forces in Jordan, with broader regional tensions noted.
In a South Texas interview, a former high school player now known as Fred recounts his drift from a routine life to narcotics dealing. He explains starting with marijuana in Tijuana and Los Angeles, then fronts money in Dallas Arlington and Brooklyn after Navy discharge, describing keef hash and the risks of front money.
Superintendent Johnny Clark blasts Hew for setting a February 5 deadline for Harlem Elementary School desegregation plans for 1970-71. He notes Hew’s prior acceptance of Harlem’s 1969 plan, cites unresolved correspondence, and questions the school board’s timing and investment in new facilities amid ongoing deliberations.
Attorneys for policewoman Shirley Turner ask Baytown city officials for a payroll wage report from April 27, 1964, claiming classification as a policewoman on probation paralleled patrolman duties and seeking back wages from 1964 onward. The Civil Service Commission previously declined a hearing, saying it lacked authority over employee wage claims.
Baytown Selective Service Board No. 64 filled its February craft quota of 29, said chief clerk Abigail Frazier. Officials in other states warned February quotas may be hard to meet due to a federal order curbing calls. Baytown also met January’s 30 quota. The February ceiling tests the Pentagon call for 19,000 men under the birth date lottery system signed last November. If short, the difference will be made up in later calls.
The Supreme Court ruled 6 to 2 that local draft boards may not strip students who opposed the Vietnam War of their deferments and reclassify them IA as detinuents. Justice Hugo L. Black stated that Congress did not intend to allow boards to deprive qualified students of deferments for opposing the war.
U S B 52 bombers conducted their heaviest raids in nine months targeting North Vietnamese supply depots in Laos near the A Shau Valley and along the Cambodian border. About 60 B 52s, four fifths of SAC's Asia force, dropped nearly 2000 tons from bases in Thailand, Guam and Okinawa. American forces hit trucks and a warehouse, with 14 N Vietnam soldiers reported killed. Officials note Ho Chi Minh Trail traffic remains heavy during the dry season, as Tet nears on February 8.
A Lee College contingent will attend a graduation outside Huntsville where two Texas Department of Corrections inmates, Ronald Whitaker and Ronald Rust, will receive degrees. Whitaker faces life imprisonment and Rust 99 years. Dr. George Beta will deliver the principal address, with Dr. Richard Strahan awarding degrees after formal certification by Dr. James McWilliams.
Baytown area clouds mix with partial sun for Monday with temperatures around 60. Morgan's Point tides show high at 5:43 am and 4:55 pm with low at 5:13 am and 7:67 pm.
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