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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 28, 1967
Page
1
The city council studies benefits of creating industrial districts similar to Houston plans. A council committee led by Lamar Kelley reviews feasibility with members Andy Braswell Ball Albert Fanestiel and Mayor Seaborn Cravey.
AP reports Sanders 78 of Pasadena died Thursday in Pasadena hospital. She is survived by daughter Mrs. C Reichnech and son Grady Sanders, both of Baytown. Funeral arrangements announced. Local Baytown council discusses industrial districts powers, with several area firms named in talk of contracts under new law enabling payments in lieu of tax. Committee plans to study district options and report, with possible single or multiple districts.
Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday in the Baytown area with a forecasted Friday high temperature. Galveston tides predict a Friday high at 2 42 am, 3 32 pm, and 1 00 pm with no low tide.
Charles Graber, son in law of Grover Edge and a war warrant officer, plans his first Astrodome visit Friday night while Milton Stewart acts as go between for Earl Hemphill. Norman D’Olive shows off a blue tie before leaving. Fat Tobin runs errands for his boss as Mrs Jane D Roberts and Mrs Billie D Hinton make the Dean’s List at the University of Houston. Mrs Baxter Littlefield Sr and Jr tour The Sun plant.
Construction starts on a $5 million, 601-unit Barcelona Apartment Village near Beaumont Road in Baytown. Partners Joe Aylar, Douglas Gunn, and Kenneth Vornsand lead the plan to deliver a 10 phase complex with all-electric utilities, Spanish themed architecture, landscaped courtyards, play areas and recreation facilities over three years.
Lee College Regents awarded a two year depository contract to First National Bank of Bay Town on the basis of a 1.2 percent below New York prime rate offer. Citizens bid 1 percent below and Peoples State 2 percent above the rate. The term runs Sept 1, 1867 to Aug 32, 1969, with related budget notes and collateral discussions.
Lee College Regents accepted 382,933.61 in bids during a regular Thursday night meeting. Bids covered two station wagons furniture and equipment for the technical vocational program and lab supplies for the division. Franta Pontiac won the big bid for two nine passenger wagons at 7,080 each though not the lowest. The college noted Pon tiacs better fit needs and flexibility for student activities. A total of 28,625.65 in bids for the coop office occupations program was also approved with bids from A. B Dick TEM Lanier Matherne Olivetti Underwood SCM Marchant and Toledo Furniture Co.
The Detroit city council awarded Bayshore Constructors, Inc. a 316 089 75 contract for sewage collection lines extending to Highway 146 Cedar Bayou Crosby Road and Massey Tompkins Road areas as part of a 5.2 million bond program. Completion is planned in about 230 days, around March, with additional bids approved for waterworks supplies and rock asphalt.
Mrs Davie Lee May 72 of 601 W Miriam Baytown died Friday in a Baytown hospital after a long residency. Born July 14 1895 in Alma Texas she came to the area years ago widow of Andrew S May Sr. Survived by two sons E C May and Andrew S May Jr Baytown eight grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Member of St Johns Methodist Church. Funeral 2 p m Saturday at Paul A Lee Funeral Home Chapel Rev Louis R Gant officiating. Burial San Jacinto Memorial Park Cemetery.
West Texas heat dominates the day as a nationwide report notes Catfish Cole, once a KKK leader in North Carolina, died in a Greensboro traffic accident. General Taylor and Clark Clifford meet with Thailand's premier on Vietnam, while Mrs. Kennedy marks her 38th birthday in Hyannis Port. US farm income falls about 10 percent from the prior year’s first half.
Detroit on a quiet night as racial tensions flare. Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh escaped unhurt during an armored car and police assault on an apartment building on the near West Side. Gunfire from a .22 rifle limited to about a dozen shots. The incident marks another violent episode in the spate of rioting that has left 39 dead and 1,300 fires since Sunday. national action includes a Johnson commission to study causes.
President Johnson proclaims Sunday a national day of prayer for racial peace and forms an 11 member commission to probe causes of race rioting and propose future safeguards. Ohio guardsmen are deployed in Lorain as racial unrest continues, while Seattle vandals ignite fires and Waterbury sees rock and bottle throwing with injuries. Texas NAACP officials urge riots prevention and insurers survey riot damages in major cities. Four of twenty three arrestees in mid Manhattan riot are city employees.
Tax advantages of giving to the San Jacinto Methodist Hospital fund drive were explained to campaign workers. Charles W. Suesse noted federal laws allow up to 30 percent of adjusted gross income for gifts to non profits. The drive aims to meet a 670,500 goal to leverage a matching grant and fund expanded patient care facilities including 42 beds.
A Chambers County delegation will urge the State Highway Commission in Austin at 9:30 a.m. next Tuesday to authorize a feasibility study on a high level bridge from Smith Point across Galveston Bay. The plan, a multi‑billion dollar project, is led by Commissioner Joe L Lagran and county judge Oscar F. Nelson Jr. Two buses will transport delegates from Anahuac and Winnie Stowell.
Private York, 19, of Chelsea Maine, was captured after his platoon was overrun near the Vietnam Cambodia border. He bit through ropes and dragged himself through jungle to join rescuers as heavy shelling and air strikes pounded the area. York, injured with shattered legs, survived with fellow soldiers after a perilous night of battle.
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