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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1968
Page
1
Story Hour will be held at 10 am Tuesday at Sterling Municipal Library. Children aged five to nine are invited to attend. Mrs. Offermann will lead. Mrs. John J. Seligman and Mrs. James M. Cauley will be storytellers.
Partly cloudy and warm conditions with widely scattered daytime thundershowers in the Bay town area. Temperatures expected from the mid 70s to mid 90s. Galveston tides note highs around 7 30 am and 8 24 pm with lows at 12 42 pm and 22 15 pm.
Tom Farmer plans a September 4 address in Belgium as Esso Chemical S A vice president. D Sowell Sr begins ER&E duties. Benny Hoskowitz stretches for Beaumont client info. Jim Pridmere and relatives visit in Tuscaloosa. Lynn Searman assumes a new assignment. A Wilhite cites a light censorship moment. Frank Boyle awakes from a Sunday nap. Kenneth Badgett hurries to a barber, Tom Crawford preps for work. Velma Munson greets customers. John Hollands return from Ozarks vacation. Air Force Capt Rick Hurst visits his mother in Baytown en route to Goose Bay Labrador. Patricia Tavary welcomes home Connie Magouriks.
Commissioner V. V. Ramsey reports $452,120 spent on road and bridge work east of the San Jacinto River in the year ending May 1. Most funds came from an old budget. Baytown saw about $399,000 of East Harris County work. Notable project: North Main Street widening and resurfacing for $60,000, with total cost about $600,600. Ramsey cites limited funds and advocates a bond issue to cover major needs including Baker Road and intersections.
Vatican City AP Pope Paul VI bans the birth control pill and all mechanical and chemical means of contraception for the world’s Catholics. He also says the rhythm method should not be used regularly and that every marriage must remain open to life, signaling no acceptance of contraception in any form.
Baytown Civil Defense Director J Fletcher Hickerson oversees the Emergency Operating Center in City Hall basement as Baytown stocks emergency supplies for 257 people with shelter for 46. The plan includes food water sanitation and radiation gear, with Red Cross aid and government shelter licensing guidance for worst case events.
AP reports 26 traffic accidents statewide over the weekend in Texas, including 13 deaths on highways. Nixon leads Rockefeller in GOP preference per Gallup. Westinghouse-Wart merge plan announced by MOA and Westinghouse executives. Humphrey vows Vietnam peace if elected. Cameras assaulted in Cleveland while filming arrest. Johnson adviser warns of looming recession due to tax hike and cuts. South Yemen rebels cut off government troops in Radian Mountains. Gary Indiana disorder blamed on Vegra youth gangs. McCarthy aims to redirect $30 billion annual federal funds to city problems.
Baytown police chief Blair Mann said signs under the Jetate law must be displayed by all Texas Liquor Control Act licensees in prominent places on premises where alcohol is sold. Signs must be at least six by fourteen inches and warn that carrying weapons where alcohol is sold is a felony with up to five years in prison. The bill HB 16 defines carrying weapons on licensed or dance premises as a felony and lists prohibited weapons.
East Harris County voters rejected a 38 million flood control bond by about 2 to 1 and a 31 million road bond by about 3 to 1, with light turnout. County-wide totals: 19,466 yes 23,865 no on flood bonds and 19,24 yes 24,155 no on road bonds. The flood bonds would have funded the Harris County Flood Control District. their defeat jeopardizes district jobs and operations.
J T Adams, Baytown pioneer active in recreation, helped fund and promote the Adams Fishing Pier near Goose Creek bridge by Market Street. A former railroad worker and Humble service-station founder, he mentored youths and supported local charitable needs. His rescue and civic efforts spanned decades.
Preston Pendergrass announced a city street upgrade totaling 223985.95 funded from capital improvement funds. Warren Bros. of Houston will supervise 120 days of work replacing old street surfaces with crushed limestone on several streets including raising Crow Road, using shell material if available.
Mr and Mrs F A Royder of 2722 Virginia plan a sixth Alaska trip with a Baytown reunion joined by Humble OU and Refining Co annuitants. They travel by camper from Yellowstone to Edmonton then along the Alaska Highway toward an anticipated ferry to Prince Rupert B C. They expect camping, fishing, hunting, and Eskimo chats during their summer sojourn with gear and supplies ready for cool 40 degree nights.
Mrs Cuba Greer a longtime Bai ntown resident was found unconscious at her home and died at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital. She owned an antique shop at 1810 N Alexander Drive. Earthman Funeral Home will announce arrangements. The body was taken to the Harris County morgue for autopsy.
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