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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1969
Page
2
The society announces an 843,733 Moody grant to build a special education center for school age patients. The project includes a teacher and assistant, nine staff, and volunteers. Construction may take seven to eight months with two interim options for operation during build.
A University of Texas scientist told 500 students that Russia leads in controlling thermonuclear fusion for peaceful use. Dr AE Robson said UT plans a new plasma physics center to build an experimental device surpassing Russia, noting Russians held plasma at 10 million degrees for 1 tenth of a second, better than prior 1 ten thousandth second containment.
Compton California selects Douglas Dellarhide as its first Negro mayor and former Negro city councilman. He says character matters more than race and aims to develop the 78,000 population city as a good place to live and work. Dollarhide won the election by 9,711 to 4,079 over Dr. Walter Tucker amid a tense LA area political scene.
The Soviet Academy of Sciences reported that Venus 4, Venus 5, and Venus 6 gathered nearly identical data from within Venus atmosphere, finding the planet enveloped in carbon dioxide and nitrogen. Venus 4 said 90 to 95 percent carbon dioxide and not more than 7 percent nitrogen, while Venus 5-6 reported 93-97 percent carbon dioxide and 2-5 percent nitrogen.
A symposium in Johannesburg debated sex education and warned that teaching children about sex via animal examples risks obscuring the unique human relationship beyond biology. A speaker argued humans have a special bond distinct from animal drives.
Catoosa Oklahoma sees navigation open along the Arkansas Verdigris rivers boosting growth. A 1.3 mile port with wharves and facilities will unlock Oklahoma Texas and Kansas trade. Population rising from 638 in 1926 to an unofficial 1244 and projected 19000 by 1965. A 1500 acre industrial park transforms nearby Rascal Flat. New high school bank clinic and shopping center spur downtown modernization as Will Rogers Turnpike raises to allow barge traffic.
Bundy criticizes a draft measure that would bar former Secretary of State Dean Husk and White House aide McGeorge Bundy from becoming presidents of foundations. He calls the proposal discriminatory and sweeping as opponents argue it limits post government work.
Senator Mondale and Representative Thompson urged Lt. Gen. Hershey, 75, to retire as director of Selective Service after heading the draft system since 1931. Mondale said Hershey should be honored for long service while Thompson disagreed with him continuing.
Washington AP report says two federal scientists present computer aided evidence that Australia and Antarctica were a single landmass about 40 million years ago. Walter Sproll and Robert B. Dietz of the Environmental Science Services Administration support continental drift theory, noting the southern Australian continental slope joined Antarctica from the Ross Sea to the Knox Coast.
Dorene Lanay Wrich daughter of Mr and Mrs Peter Ulrich Baytown Room 125 Donald Joseph Mann son of Mr and Mrs Pal Mann 1403 Idaho Room 209 Robert Stanley Wallace son of Mr and Mrs Benny H Wallace 5005 Somerset Room 2H Terry Annessery granddaughter of Mr and Mrs A R Morris 713 E Gulf Room 203 Kitty Evonne Holloway daughter of Mr and Mrs Floyd WN Holloway 219 W Jack Room 105 Joseph Aaron Mainer Crosby Room 215 Robert Bass Johnson Highlands Room 120
Legal notice lists Raul Tamegoza as applicant for an on premise beer license at 1208 Harbor Street under the assumed name Muchacha Alegra. The notice is dated Thursday June 5 1969.
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