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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 01, 1971
Page
2
Administrators project 41 percent of eighth graders will take the new 18 week electives including food clothing speech shop and art while Earth science remains required. Horace Mann adds an 18 week reading elective alongside band Level 1 and Spanish placement. Changes stem from staff meetings and TEA district recommendations.
The Marcis County Library on Bayway Drive closes only Saturday noon. Baytown Chamber of Commerce dues processing halted Friday due to holiday. Public schools and Lee College schedule a pause, administration buildings close, and most industries suspend operations except essential crews. The Baytown Sun will publish Monday.
Funeral notices announce the deaths of Mrs Emma Bluitt of Crosby and Willis Grundy Downing of Baytown with services in Earthman Chapel and burial at Spring Hill Cemetery Magnolia Springs. Also listed are Mrs Ira Denham Baytown and survivors including spouses, children, and grandchildren.
Mrs Binh outlined a plan tying a deadline for total U S withdrawal to a cease fire and prisoner releases. She urged both sides begin and end withdrawal on the same date and included freedom for captured soldiers and civilians. Xuan Thuy endorsed the proposal as reflecting Vietnam’s aspirations for peace and concord.
The disclosures reveal two months before the Tonkin Gulf incident President Johnson's advisers weighed striking North Vietnamese torpedo boats to provide a boost to South Vietnamese morale.
The report notes Dr Stephen H Spurr was chosen as the University of Texas at Austin's first president adopting ecology as a life's work long before it became popular. The piece also mentions Nixon with a large education bill and other AP world items.
Mrs. Sadler, born in Willis and raised on farms in Colorado County and Mart, left school after seventh grade and worked hard all her life. She moved to Baytown in 1922 to work at Murphs dairy farm, facing a dangerous cow and surviving an influenza era. Now with eight children and 32 great grandchildren, she plans to rest at home and avoid convalescent care.
At a Texas public hearing the State Board of Insurance discussed recommended auto premium increases. Harris County and nearby urban areas face rises above 25 percent for private passenger full coverage, with a statewide average nearing 9.8 percent requested by insurers and opposed by several legislators.
Glen Van Slyke HS, 21, a Rice University student, was convicted Wednesday of desecrating the American flag and given an eight year sentence. Balaguer in the Dominican Republic says he blocked another coup by retired Gen. Elias Wessin y Wessin, the man who ousted President Juan Bosch.
A legend credits Tincup Colorado with its name to a miner who brought gold bearing sands in a tin cup to an assayer. The Rocky Mountains though not ideal farmland host 4,500 wild plant species in the high country.
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