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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1967
Page
5
Texas had 1 284 traffic fatalities this year, up 8 percent from 1 159 at the same point in 1966, with 1 054 fatal accidents, a 6 percent rise from 955. The YMCA invites teenage girls to summer sports, gymnastics, trampoline, swimming, softball and archery, with sessions TueThu mornings and afternoons. information at 583-1797.
The Houston Port Commission moved toward five year facility development including open bids for 400000 dollars of wharf and warehouse work. It set July 32 for sale of six million in tax bonds and asked Congress to review port potentials and navigational needs. Low bids from John Kraak and Amerlux Steel Products total 443020.28, under the 536950 estimate, with work to start after preliminary excavation and grading. The panel also adopted a resolution to update the 1858 study, targeting Alexander Island fill, dredging a deep draft channel, and a turning basin in upper San Jacinto Bay.
Texas National Guardsmen will work on simulated nuclear attack response during a five day exercise Ever Ready III starting Monday. The emphasis is on aiding civil authorities with traffic control evacuation of the injured from high radiation areas and care of the sick and injured. The exercise is directed by Col Thomas G Hicks in Austin under Maj Gen Thomas S Bishop. It also covers port and maritime infrastructure work including dredging Bayport Channel Cedar Bayou widening Galveston Bay channels and increasing turning basins and offshore loading pipelines and anchorage areas.
A scrambled TV listings page shows an eclectic slate across channels with titles like Gilligan’s Island Maverick Peyton Place The Andy Griffith Show The Untouchables and Petticoat items. The guide lists morning daytime and prime time blocks including Today Show News and game shows along with theater films and public affairs segments.
Texas wildcatters logged 13 gas and 13 oil discoveries in the past week, per the Texas Railroad Commission. The commission also reported 107 oil and 57 gas wells completed, boosting year totals to 2,886 oil and 1,217 gas wells, with three oil wildcats in District 8 and other detections across districts. A total of 184 wells were plugged, including 65 dry holes.
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