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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1968
Page
1
Goose Creek Country Club hosts Juan Rodriguez Appreciation Day this Sunday with all members urged to attend. Also on the schedule Canny Stripers meet Thursday at 7 pm in Gulf Coast Hospital cafeteria.
Road Engineer F G Young Beaumont District will speak at noon Friday at the Holiday Inn Baytown Chamber meeting on the Texas Works project and proposed improvements. A larger than usual crowd is expected. members bringing guests should reserve at 922 8359.
The Baytown area weather forecast predicts cloudy to partly cloudy and mild conditions through Friday with temperatures around 50 on Thursday. Wednesday’s high reached 67 degrees, while Galveston tides show a Friday high at 2 24 p.m and low tide early morning.
Steve Underwood hosts a radio event while Katy King and others receive thanks for gifts and assistance. Mary Beth McElroy reviews campaign slogans for a student seeking a top DE office. Bruce Travis rises to help others. Katherine Mangum enjoys a birthday gift of a color TV from her son. Madge Terry calls with important information. Mrs A D Foster and Mrs E C Fulmer attend their brother Wallace Foreman’s funeral in West Columbia. Mrs L A Wilder, baytown resident, reads The Sun daily. her husband Leonard recently transferred to Concord California for 18 months. Postcards express theater tickets thanks.
U S military reports near record weekly toll in Vietnam with 24 Americans killed in ground fighting and 48 presumed dead in a crash near Khe Sanh. Command says at least 128 Communists killed, while Hanoi claims U S planes shot down. Casualties bring seven year total to 29 251 killed and 117 355 wounded with 1 137 missing or captured. Ground fighting noted near Con Thien Ban Me Thuat and areas around Da Nang. Marines at Con Thien report 81 North Vietnamese killed and 27 wounded across two blasts.
Funeral services for Homer C. Jennings a Baytown Research Center chemical engineer will be held at Sagecrest Baptist Church Pasadena. He died at Bayshore Hospital Pasadena from injuries suffered in a two month old automobile wreck on La Porte Road. Jennings grew up in Paducah Ky was valedictorian of 1955 Tilghman High School. He joined Baytown Research and Development Division 1 in 1960 after earning a Georgia Tech degree. He was in Phi Kappa Phi and Tau Beta Pi and served in the Armed Forces Chemical Association. He later worked on insulation oils and petroleum products for devices such as transformers.
Lee College ex-students association invites members and friends to hear veteran Madge Stallings, former secretary treasurer of the Ex-students association at Stephen F. Austin College, at 7 30 p.m. in the Tech Building conference room. Ezell heads the rejuvenated group with officers Travis Porter Mary Kibler and John Tucker and three new study committees as they seek constitution revisions.
Seven candidates for the Lee College Board of Regents will meet at 6 30 p m in the conference room of the Technical Vocational Building to draw for ballot positions. The filed candidates are William H Harrop Claude N Cook John P Henderson Milton L Campbell Cheney R Coker incumbent Royal D Burnside Jr and D A Bottright. Incumbent Bill Strickler did not seek reelection. The election is set for April 6.
Crosby faces a three-seat contest as six candidates split into three races for Positions 5, 6, and 7. Incumbent W. L. Loftin draws Jack Woodard. Petrick and Buchanan contest Position 6. Marek and Spence vie for Position 7. Spence and Petrick align with the Citizens Committee for Better Education amid federal aid and accreditation tensions. Incumbents Eddie Faust and W A Hearn not seeking reelection.
Mrs. Thedford of Baytown reported a surprising call from Australia about her son Lance Cpl David Thedford, 20, on rest and recuperation in Sidney. The Marine is with the 3rd Marines in Vietnam, previously at Khe Sanh, now believed stationed at Cam Lo. His year of duty ends in April with discharge planned for September.
Funeral services for Col. Roy William White of Baytown will be held Friday at 3 p.m. at Grace Methodist Church with Rev. Asbury Wenox officiating. Burial in Cedar Crest Cemetery under Paul A. Lee Funeral Home. White, 37, died Wednesday night in a Baytown hospital. He was assistant principal of Ross Sterling High School since February 1966 after serving as Horace Mann Junior School principal and Baytown Junior School science teacher. Survived by wife Edna Dorothy White and two daughters Kathleen and Betty Colleen, also mother Mrs. Susan E. White, Baytown. sisters Mrs. Mary Hemphill and Mrs. A. Bordelon. brother C. K. White Jr. of Rosenberg. Born in Bunkie La., he held multiple school roles over 30 years.
Rescue experts lowered a makeshift elevator 1200 feet into a murky shaft where 21 salt miners have been trapped for over 30 hours. They reported a fair oxygen supply and a diesel motor heard, suggesting possible progress though no lights or contact were seen. A Cargill Inc spokesman noted oxygen on site and a small fire near the fan area.
Boullion of 2101 Utah drew the first ballot position for District 1 councilman in the April 2 election. Five candidates filed for the vacancy left by Pat Ball, with James E Burgess drawing second, Ted Klosel third, Dud Ward fourth, and Dudd Ptacek not present for his assigned spot. Incumbents Braswell and Fanestiel stand reelected without opposition.
Jim C Sheffield head of Humble Oil Paytown Refinery accounting dept and last year's Community Chest president was elected chairman of the Chest Council of Members at the annual meeting. He succeeds Lee Brasfield of First National Bank. Katherine Suesse was elected secretary. Five new Community Chest, Welfare League, and Health League directors were named, including Rev Asbury Lenox Connie Magourik Frank Turpin Glen Walker and John Wiesner. New Health League medical director is Dr J W Herman with Tommy M Chayton Jr and Dave Sherron as lay directors. Eight plaque recipients announced by Joe Alien include Brasfield Mrs Fisher Sheffield Norman Foote Magourik Turpin George Crist and Jody Lander. Reports from member agencies were heard.
J D Morton named chief of Baytown Volunteer Department District 3 with Richard C Whitaker as first assistant chief Roy Istre second assistant chief R MBob Ament president Harry Levine vice president Richard Muckelroy secretary Mac Wallen trustee The district mascot for the year is Richard Whittaker Jr son of the first assistant chief
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