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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 26, 1968
Page
1
Community Blood Drive at the Baytown Community Building noon to 6 pm Thursday seeks local donors. Miss Janice Manteris urges Paytonians to contribute. call 422-8754 ext. 244 for details or appointments.
SONS BAYIOWN AMERICAN Legion Post 323 withheld its regular monthly meeting at 7 30 pm Thursday in tom 5 of the Bay town Civic Center Election of officers will be held and all members are urged to attend Thursday Movie THE INCREDIBLE Mr Limp wit starring Don Knotts will be shown at 20 am at the Community Building Knotts has the irresistible urge to become a fich in this comedy Chapter 4 of Gang Busters and comedies will be shown Cost is 25 cents.
Tamara Lancaster returns home from the hospital in family news. A A Ferguson aids a Highlands story. A baby boy named Guy Barclay Orton born to Gerald Wayne and wife. Peggy Power reports on a car with the hiccups. Mildred Foster walks to her car in boots. J B LeFevre acts city manager during Fritz Lanham's vacation. Joyce Otis makes a flying trip to Philadelphia. Mack Holland hard to reach by telephone. Anna and David Stock attend a wedding. Suzanne WillSon serves cake. Dot Denton describes a hand carved salad bowl set from the Philippines via son-in-law Richard Enderli, now stationed in Abilene. Archie Odom breaks his ankle. Nancy Brainerd stays busy.
A group of 20 to 40 hippies stormed WNDT during a Newsfront segment, shouting obscenities and injuring a staffer while seven demonstrators were arrested. Former astronaut John Glenn witnessed the scene and producer Lee Hayes chose to keep the camera rolling as police were called.
Harris County board approves 2700 budget for operations and 3800 for furniture for a new day center at 511 Wisconsin near the Bayshore Center. Don Marler, acting administrator, to supervise, with donations expected to cover furnishings and equipment including piano stove refrigerator and occupational therapy supplies for about 20 patients already under care.
Dr Lee Liggett was installed as president of the Buaytown Rotary Club at noon Wednesday succeeding Al Ten Miles. Jack Jacobs installing officer named Charles Tiffery as vice president and Ted Lyman as secretary. New directors include Dr Herbert Duke Jr Dan Harrison and Alton Laird with hold overs Blair Murs Dr Henry Dis mukes and Bryan Stratton and retiring directors Tillman O'Brien Jr and John Sandhop.
Baytown City Council approved asking the Texas Air Quality Control Board for a deadline extension from July 1 to January 1, 1969 to stop burning garbage at the Terry Road landfill. City Manager Fritz Lanham cited costs of about 32,500 dollars and a need for five open-bed trucks and seven garbage trucks to comply.
The city announced that 42 students from Sterling, Robert E. Lee High School and Lee College will work as pages at the library and in the parks and recreation department, Neighborhood Youth Corps, and Mayor Cravey’s Job Fair.
Lee College Board of Regents will discuss annexation plans with Crosby School District at Thursday night’s meeting. Crosby trustees may attend at 6 20 p m in the technical building but have not committed to circulating a petition. Dr Richard Strahan invited them to join the meeting as remodeling updates for Rundell Library and the new academic facilities are reported along with a $73000 Moody Foundation grant for the student center remodel.
Donnie James Woods, 19, of 111 Avenue E in Highland, was fatally shot Wednesday morning when a young friend picked up a pistol and it discharged at Richard Davis's home on Oakland Avenue. Woods died at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital.
Recent rains drive rising Jacinto River and lakes near Houston prompting evacuations in Redbud Acres Sheldon Highlands Shores Banana Bend Casey's Ridge and Lake Houston area. County officials warn water to rise further with possible dam impact and advise precautionary evacuations if needed. Local flood control experts note conditions could worsen if rains continue.
Iwo Jima returns to Japanese control from American administration. The news notes a shift in governance at a historic battlefield as part of postwar realignments. The report highlights broader Cold War era tensions and ongoing international maneuvering influencing territorial status.
Baytown police arrest two Houston men, W L Watkins and Bully Ray Reeves, after a May 20 swindle targeting an elderly Baytown woman. Bank cameras helped identify and arrest them within three weeks, with both charged with felony swindle in Justice of the Peace court.
Texas Attorney General Crawford Martin ruled that reserve police units in civil service cities are illegal, casting doubt on Baytown Police Reserve. Baytown officials seek the ruling's details to gauge impact on a 35-member unpaid auxiliary force created in 1958. The ordinance grants police powers when summoned by the police chief, but the AG's view limits special forces to mayor-summoned emergency units per state law.
Chambers County Commissioners Court unanimously endorsed the Baytown Chamber of Commerce proposal to urge the State Highway Commission to build a loop from Highway 146 in Baytown to Farm to Market Road 1405 in Chambers County. The plan includes adding a Cedar Bayou bridge and seeks state approval with court support at public hearings.
About 357 youths joined a YMCA bicycle hike on a 24 mile loop to the San Jacinto Monument. Eight girls rode back in a pickup after starting, five flat tires occurred, and the complete trip lasted around four hours aboard the Lynchburg Ferry.
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