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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1968
Page
1
Former Baytown City Councilman A. C. Carleton will attend his mother’s funeral at 19 am Tuesday in Loflkin. Cleo Hunter of 1209 Johnson reported a fan two watches and a pair of shoes stolen from her home Saturday totaling 28 dollars. Patrolman Randall Craig-
Baytown daytime forecast shows scattered thundershowers possible with otherwise partly cloudy warm conditions through Tuesday. Galveston tides: high 4 52 a m, low 3 p m Tuesday. Story Hour at Sterling Municipal Library Tuesday 10 a m for ages five to nine led by Mrs O Huggins Jr and storytellers Mrs Frank Turpin and Mrs John Wiesner. Optimist Club meets Monday 7 p m Junior Optimist Building with Kim Armsworth discussing the Y. Wooster Chamber to hear subsidence talk 7 p m Tuesday at Tower with Mason Lockwood of Lockwood Andrews and Newman as speaker. Beach City City Corner meets 7 30 p m Tuesday at Community Building on West Bay Road.
MR and Mrs Charles Porch and MR and Mrs W A Barton return from a jet to Acapulco. Justice of the Peace Glenn Vickery on Baytown Day. Joe Whittington visits Baytown friends. Mayor Seaborn Cravey recovering at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. Charles Byers and family return to San Marcos after visiting Sam Alford. W C Underwood and spouse post Honolulu postcard from Rockport vacation. Donald Barker receives important letter.
Channelview's Brenda Robertson, a top 10 Miss Texas finalist from TWU, missed the finals in Fort Worth after surviving preliminary rounds. Her dormitory friends funded ads, telegrams, and flowers flooded in, with Al Hirt among the well wishes. Shirley Huggins of Nacogdoches won Miss Texas and will vie for Miss America in September.
Our World Today notes Vice President Hubert Humphrey's authorized biography asserting his private Vietnam views align with public statements. United Steelworkers predicts a strike vote for a strong contract. A presidential panel warns against wage and price increases and urges restraint from labor and business.
Lt. John David Ward son of Mr and Mrs Henry A Ward Jr of 1000 Parkway received the Distinguished Flying Cross from Vice Admiral C T Booth at NAS Cecil Field Fla for heroism in aerial combat over North Vietnam. While serving with Attack Squadron 352 aboard USS Oriskany he piloted an AIH Spad on a first section search and rescue mission 22 miles south of Hanoi, directing heavy antiaircraft fire and protecting a rescue helicopter despite being hit. He also earned seven Air Medals, a Navy Commendation Medal, the Vietnam Service Medal and the Vietnam Campaign Medal. Ward is a replacement pilot with Attack Squadron 44 at Cecil Field.
Absentee voting ends Tuesday in Harris County on the Hood flood control and road improvement bond issue totaling 61 million dollars. Voters may cast ballots in the County Clerk's office Room 206 of the Harris County Courthouse from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Tuesday. Two propositions on the ballot: 31 million for Alameda Genoa and Little York roads improvements, and 30 million for Harris County Flood Control District construction projects. Absentee turnout has been light, with 175 ballots reported by Monday morning. County officials and local business groups have campaigned for passage, noting past defeats and urging support to avoid halting flood control work.
Funeral services for Mrs. Katie Lenorah Funderburk 78 of 116 Miriam were held at Paul A. Lee Chapel with Rev. Robert Joiner officiating. Graveside rites followed at Forest Lawn Cemetery Beaumont. Survivors include three sons four daughters fifteen grandchildren and five great grandchildren. She was a Baytown resident 33 years and a native of Tioga Louisiana. She was a member of Grace Methodist Church and the Woman's Society of Christian Service.
Baytown Rotary Club will hear County Commissioner V. V. Red Ramsey discuss the need for bond passage at noon Wednesday meeting at The Tower. The bond election is set for Saturday.
Baytown, facing population growth, uses twice as much water as a decade ago. Engineer Andy Braswell urges switching to surface water to meet demand after 1875 while land subsidence linked to groundwater pumping worsens the crisis. Pasadena warns similar issues as Baytown may require a bond for a treatment plant.
Funeral services were held at Paul U Lee Funeral Home for Baytown resident Sutphin Ernest R Baytown native 43 years died at 7 15 pm Saturday in Methodist Hospital Houston. He came to Baytown Jan 25 1925 was a pipefitter first class at Humble Oil and Refining Co Baytown Refinery retiring Sept 1 1957. Officiating were Revs Harry Holmes Leslie LeGrand Rudy Pace. Interment San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery. Survived by wife Mrs Houston M Sutphin two sons Ernest R and Cecil three daughters Mrs Sam Yer total Rests. eleven grandchildren and one great granddaughter. Member of St Merit's Methodist Church Brotherhood Board of Stewards and Men's Bible Class. Pallbearers listed. memorials to St Merit's memorial fund.
In Saigon and Mekong Delta towns a new Viet Cong wave left 13 dead and 92 wounded, with theaters struck and a child injured. Reports say at least 1,000 Viet Cong troops hidden in Saigon, as Thai Black Panther Division arrives to bolster defenses and halt infiltration. Marine actions near Khe Sanh and Con Thien report multiple enemy casualties while Saigon authorities warn of a possible third major offensive within two months.
Six Baytown New Year babies remain in the area eight years after their births. Mauricio Alejandro Ramirez, born eight minutes after midnight in 1963, is now about two and a half times his birth weight with five brothers and a sister. He enjoys playing with siblings and riding his tricycle.
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