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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 19, 1968
Page
3
New York AP reports Wall Street sinks under a flood of paperwork as backrooms groan with outdated systems. Officials blame mismanagement and a shift to performance driven funds, with 21 million plus shares traded daily, highlighting a labor gap and fragile bookkeeping control.
Sen. Criss Cole of Houston and Sen. Chet Brooks of Pasadena co sponsored an amendment to strike a rider in the Appropriations bill that would have blocked the air control board from spending to curb cotton gin pollution. Cotton gins in 85 percent of Texas counties affect over 500 000 people and can emit up to 4 000 times the accepted human level. The action closes a loophole in Texas pollution control and aims to prevent future exemptions for other polluters.
Baytown area residents are invited to join the Crime Spot Council sponsored by the Harris County Grand Jury Association to curb crime. T W Weston of Houston chairs the new council and says interested organizations may write to 41 PO Box 53151 Houston TX 77001 for information. The program covers street crimes fires accidents suspicious acts abandoned cars and other unusual offenses with volunteer observers enrolled through participating organizations. The Houston City Council recently passed a resolution supporting the crime control program.
Six building permits were issued this week by the City Inspection Department for a total of $53,933. Permits went to E. F. Luquire for a $25,000 residence at 2207 Kipling. L. W. Moreno for a $15,200 residence addition at 102 West Bayshore. Willem OHar a for a $11,500 residence at 149 Ridgeway. J. N. Hudson for a $1,470 residence addition at 118 Morrell. Franz J. Kiiesel for a $531 rebuilt forage at 07 Hawthorne. and John J. Petrash for a $432 carport at 512 Live Oak.
Philip James told police a tape player and speakers were stolen from his car Saturday night while it was parked at a bank parking lot. Total value of the stolen items was 64.95.
Humble Oil and Refining Co announces a San Francisco branch to manage West Coast marine transport from its Benicia California refinery. John M. Sachs named branch manager. previously operations manager in New York. Sachs is a 1943 US Merchant Marine Academy graduate and veteran of Marine Department postings in Norfolk, Baltimore, Houston, and Bayonne. Construction of the Benicia refinery is underway with operations slated for early next year.
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