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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1971
Page
12
TV guide style rundown lists NBC CBS and ABC primetime films and news. Highlights include Mission Impossible Benny Goodman Story Dairy of Anne Frank and The Bad and the Beautiful with a mix of dramas musicals and sports listings across Saturday night programming.
Newton County marks its 125th anniversary with a June 26 festival in Newton, led by the Fort Polk band at 2 p.m. and featuring the Shankeville Community Singers and Cooper Reagan as principal speaker. Exhibits open at 10:30 a.m., awards at 7:30 p.m., with a parade including trail riders and history floats across the county square.
Baytown votes to criminalize opening a car door into traffic, adding a new city ordinance after state law alignment. Acting City Atty. Ken DeHart notes the measure mirrors a recent legislative provision.
Baytown celebrates Buddy Starcher a Grammy winner and radio veteran in KWBA's lineup. The Baytown native and former Florida radio manager rose to fame with History Repeats Itself, sharing stages with Arthur Godfrey Ken Curtis Shug Fisher and others. He recounted a storied 44-year career bridging Nashville programs and national broadcasts, offering advice to hopeful performers and songwriters about publishing, demos, and networking.
Two Baytown engineers, Tommy Cook and Pat Mann, were chosen as delegates to TSPEs 36th annual meeting in Amarillo June 24 to 27. They will hear a keynote address by Sen. Lloyd Bentsen and a report by Dean Harry C. Simrall on national society activities. The Texas Society of Professional Engineers, with about 7000 members statewide, focuses on professional, ethical, economic and social aspects of engineering.
Three Texas foundations provide grants totaling 50,000 for the permanent battleship USS Texas berthed at San Jacinto Battleground. Brown Foundation gives 25,000 while Moody Foundation and Houston Endowment each donate 12,500 to repaint the hull and repair the superstructure and upper decks. Captain A G Taylor confirms the plan.
Baytown senior Michael Leland McKee of Lamar State College of Technology has been awarded a Fulbright-Hays Fellowship to study physical chemistry at the University of Heidelberg Germany for the 1971 79 academic year He will spend eight weeks in language study at the Goethe Language Institute before enrolling at Heidelberg and plans to return to the United States for graduate study He is a Phi Kappa Phi and American Chemical Society member and is the son of Mr and Mrs John W McKee of 5601 Bayway Drive This is Lamar's second Fulbright-Hays Fellowship and the program funds study abroad under the Fulbright Hays Act supporting exchanges with 130 countries.
Nearly 80 teachers from across Texas enrolled in the 14th annual Petroleum Institute for Educators at the University of Houston June 14 to July 2. The three week, expenses paid program covers exploration through marketing, is sponsored by the Texas petroleum industry via the Oil Information Committee and the University. Instruction is by industry veterans with five field trips, coordinated by Dr Silas W Schirner. Dwight E King of Humble Oil serves as general arrangements chairman.
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