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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1968
Page
1
Severe rains trigger heavy flooding across Baytown. Earl Warren announces retirement from the court board. St. Mire's Methodist Church official board meeting is rescheduled from Wednesday to Monday afternoon in the Fellowship Hall.
AP reports Chief Samuel Zane Compton of the Supreme Court would leave Baytown after 15 years with Warren to head a new era. White House officials offered no comment as efforts to reach Warren were unsuccessful.
Summer course student Getty L Tompkins of 701 Scenic studies geology and meteorology at Texas University Earth Science Institute. Afternoon and evening thundershowers forecast Baytown Friday and Saturday with temperatures in the low to mid seventies. Galveston tides Saturday high at 4 96 a.m. and low at 9 06 p.m. Picnic postponed. Warren celebrated 75th birthday two years ago and a homemakers class may be compulsory retirement age issue discussed at Grace Methodist Church. Public officials retirement age and Supreme Court norms noted. Warren’s salary listed at 40000 annually. Warren’s retirement normally requires presidential notification.
The article recalls Robert T. Callaway one of the first REL Class of 1913 members to be featured at Saturday’s reunion. Callaway, now a San Antonio architect, is a partner in a nationally known residential construction development firm. Other items mention Frank Boyle’s discharge from Methodist Hospital Nioust after surgery, G. H. McCollum’s hospital visit preference, a rumored large real estate deal, Pat Bryan’s difficulty locating people, Sue Jones’ in-demand photographs, Mrs. Georgia Collier’s recovery in Gulf Coast Hospital Room 405, W. P. Smith’s visiting great grandchildren from Amarillo, and R. E. Andy Anderson at 102 Wilburn Drive in San Jacinto Hospital Room 213.
The Senate passed and sent to President Johnson a long debated bill imposing a 10 percent surcharge on individual and corporate income taxes and mandating a $ billion federal spending cut.
City council approved a Lindsey Construction Co bid to aid Bowie Park, a joint city school park project, despite opposition from Councilman Andy Braswell. Debate centered on funding allocations, with suggestions to scale back features and redirect savings to other Baytown playgrounds and elementary school areas. The project was framed as a pilot cooperative effort between the city and school system.
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Harris County taxes due by July 1 with payment options in Houston or Baytown. Mail postmark deadline is June 30. City taxes delinquent Feb 1. penalties accrue after July 1. School district tax roll May 31 shows strong collection. board of equalization set for June 25 26 and June 27 for corporations. Delinquent totals and current collections listed for city, county, state, and college district taxes.
Residents on Katherine Street report ankle deep water at J C Barton home as ditches failed to drain floodwaters. By 9 am city crews cleared debris causing backups and water seeped through kitchen tiles. Cedar Bayou Road area saw homes surrounded by water with driveways inundated. Ruby Barton notes prior flood experience but this event was the worst in years.
At a Thursday night council meeting, A M Chappell of General Telephone sought approval to amend the franchise ordinance. Councilman Lamar Kelley pressed on repair times, receiving a reply of four hours for residences and two hours for business phones.
AP reports that South Africa will resume gold shipments abroad. A hurricane hunter was sent to probe a tropical depression about 150 miles southeast of the South Carolina coast. A murder trial for Charles E Freeman is postponed until Oct 23 by District Judge Joe E. Melly. An AP survey notes 109 people killed in the United States since midnight Sunday. US radar misreads may have caused erroneous reports of enemy helicopter sightings near the demilitarized zone and led to mistaken attacks on allied warships. CPL Chester C Nabours, 19, son of Mrs. Maxie Nabours of Corpus Christi, is at US Naval Hospital Corpus Christi in fair condition with shrapnel wounds. he earned the Purple Heart after Da Nang injuries May 22.
Optimism rose among legislators that taxing spending and liquor regulation chores could wrap up without a special session. The House Senate conference on appropriations met secretly in Speak er Barnes’ Cap to l apartment while officials projected adjournment by July 3. A $124 million revenue measure raising sales taxes faces early Senate action, and liquor by the drink moves through Senate committees. If progress holds, the session could end next Saturday, with a conference on taxes likely needed.
Senate Cities Counties and Towns panel sent the House liquor by the drink bill to a five member subcommittee after three hours of testimony. Sen. Jack Hightower said it would reach the floor for debate. Gov. Connally proposed the measure with Sen. Joe Christie and others as sponsors amid opposition over open saloons.
Heavy rainfall floods Lomax area and Baytown causing evacuations along 26th Street where water reaches as deep as five feet in places. Record totals include 9.8 inches this week at a local gauge, with 5.35 inches from Thursday night to Friday morning. Roadways across the city, including Decker Drive and I-10, remain flooded forcing traffic control measures as residents evacuate.
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