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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1965
Page
2
HAL BOYLE insists stinginess is a phase in mid life with a comic look at saving habits. He lists personal tics like hoarding brown paper, campaign buttons, and odd mementos while claiming a proper stingy man shuns nightlife and believes in “To each his own” as modes of living.
President Johnson publicly thanks Gemini astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young for piloting the first maneuverable spacecraft in history. Army plans to merge Reserve and National Guard without new congressional authorization. Britain says Soviet and North Vietnamese messages press for action to halt U.S. operations. LeMay asserts Soviet military aims may be masked by peaceful posturing. U.S. Navy jets strike four radar stations along the North Vietnamese coast near China.
Patrons may mail questions to The Baytown Sun designating the candidate. The move aims to test candidates on issues including separation of the public school and Lee College boards.
Vesone Devereaux, a Democratic candidate for Baytown City Council District 3, announces a progressive platform and urges forward-thinking residents to vote on April 6. He notes he is the first Black candidate in Baytown and provides his address and contact number for discussions.
Baytown council actions include a $135,009 plan for improvement work and extending a six-inch water main to the Baytown Housing Authority site for a $500,000 Tenth Street project. Other items cover closing Hemphill Street for kiddie rides, purchasing a two-wheel trailer for Civil Defense, and bidding on a police patrol car replacement. A delay on pawn broker regulation was granted for legal review.
Bay Shore Square Dance Club will host a two night Saturday event at Knights of Pythias Hall with James Martin of the Cactus Club Houston serving as master of ceremonies and additional Houston callers participating.
In Austin AP report lawmakers work through differences on a general appropriations bill as a 10 member conference committee meets. Senators debated pay raises for the Speaker and others while House changes move back and forth. The House Liquor Regulation committee advanced a plan to extend the Texas drinking curfew to 2 am nightly and to curb Mellor package store sales with limited delivery hours for hotels and motels remain.
The Rev Herbert Zimmerman Baptist Temple pastor will speak at a Friday banquet at 7 p.m. at Holiday Inn. Master of ceremonies is Bob Dalcour. Music by Joyce Amnett and Paul Worley. The Veterans of Foreign Wars sponsor the Miss Baytown contest Saturday at 7 p.m. at Holiday Inn.
The report mixes noon stock quotes from Merrill Lynch and peers with a sweeping account of civil rights actions. It notes a fatal stabbing during a Brooklyn race clash, a white suspect charged, and Senate leaders attacking Johnson’s voting rights bill as discriminatory. It covers AFL-CIO concerns, boycotts at Jackson High, and federal fair-employment push, focusing on Lowndes County voting rights drives near Selma.
A string of minor auto accidents kept Keen Police busy Thursday with no injuries reported. Incidents occurred at Texas and Main, Crosby Lynchburg Road, Kilgore Road, North Main and Bob Smith, Oak and West Main, West Main, K Mart parking lot, Prunell and Lobit, Garth Road, and a daily 2:20 p.m. traffic issue near Baytown Junior High. Prowlers were seen on Goose Creek Drive Yupan and Miriam. A dog bite report was filed on East Cleveland and another case involved four men shooting dogs with a pistol on Sheridan.
La Porte resident Alan Buster placed second in the Men's State Individual Events Tournament at the University of Dayton Ohio He is a sophomore Speech major from Oberlin Carlese Forensic League and has previous finalists and podium finishes in 1985 and 1987 contests for Public Discussion and oral interpretation of literature
A Nashville Tennessean reporter tried to confirm Houston tax assessor figures on the tax rate per $1000 valuation. After an initial figure of 370 appeared, the reporter pressed again and was told 270. The clerk paused, then affirmed the valuation, highlighting frequent questions about Texas rates.
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