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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1971
Page
6
The National Urban League summer fellowship shows the economy through black educator placements. In 1973 fifty three corporations and seven government agencies participated, placing 192 educators. in 1974 government agencies stay at seven but corporations drop to 41 with 125 educators placed so far.
In Houston, the omission of a census tract from the 1971 Texas Legislature redistricting bill sparks a dispute. GOP chairman Nancy Palm says a special session is needed to correct the omission, while Speaker Gus Mutscher maintains no extra legislative action is required as the intent stands. Rep Delwin Jones notes the tract was missed in final typing and will be corrected in a general validating act. the tract covers about 6,000 people near East Houston Road and Greens Bayou.
Harry E. Bovay Jr., president of Bovay Engineers Inc. in Houston and former Baytown resident, won a second term as southwestern regional vice president of the National Society of Professional Engineers. He previously worked for Humble Oil and Refining Co. and heads Mid-South Telephone Co. He is active in the Houston Chamber of Commerce and Boy Scouts, and belongs to several engineering societies.
The Rev. and Mrs. Ronnie Guidroz of Houston conduct daily revival services through July 4 at 7 30 p m at Faith Temple United Pentecostal Church 704 Bolster. Guidroz, a former Baytown resident and Robert E Lee High School graduate, leads with his father V A Guidroz a long time pastor now UPC Texas district superintendent.
Jimmie W. Lumus of Lumus Baytown Dodge has been appointed area director of the Texas Automobile Dealers Association. The 54 year old organization of franchised new car and truck dealers includes Lumus on the ITADA board of directors to study all phases of the auto industry.
A passenger in a pickup suffered minor injuries in a wreck on West Texas at Gaillard. Police said Mary Jeannette Maxey, 18, of 271 Waco, Me Nair, was slightly hurt in the truck driven by Jewel Ester Maxey, 19, of the same address. The truck collided with a car driven by Alta Smalley Troutman, 43, of 4515 Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road after leaving a parking space. The pickup driver was ticketed for an improper start from the parking place.
Humble Pipe Line Co has applied to the U S Army Corps of Engineers to reconstruct an earthen cofferdam in Mitchell Bay near Baytown's west shoreline. The dam will sit about 3 5 feet above mean sea level and relocate gate valves on 480 feet of pipelines. Removal upon completion, and about 6000 cubic yards of material moved land to cofferdam. Protests should reach the Galveston district engineer by July 8.
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