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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 02, 1971
Page
2
The Baytown Sun reports Brunson Theater will show Cold Turkey after Love Story next Wednesday. Rufus Honeycutt offers a three month two person pass for the best essay on Why and How I Quit Smoking with ten runners up getting two passes each. Entries due by Wednesday to Box 538 Baytown.
The 39 Study Club will meet at 2 30 p m on Wednesday at the home of Mrs George Bland Focused on social gathering and discussion in a neighborhood setting hosted by Mrs Bland.
Mary Byers of Deer Park and Maybelle Fletcher of Houston plan 2740 mile race from Columbus to Managua in the Angie Derby with 72 planes. They carry a governor’s letter to Nicaragua’s president and aim for a $5000 prize. They also eye the Powder Puff Derby in July for $10000.
Funeral services for Jack C. Carter will be held at Forest Park Lawndale Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Mark Dano officiating. Carter, a Houston resident for 45 years and native of Cameron, died Friday in a Houston hospital. He was Baptist, served as personal representative to a Southern Pacific Railroad executive, and is survived by his wife Getrade Jane Carter, a sister Martha Ann Carter, a son Jack S. Carter, and granddaughters Jacqueline Caye Carter and Sandra Lynne Floyd. Burial at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery.
E G Marsh regional director of Wildlife and Parks says pollution from Dallas Fort Worth area industries and small cities with poor sewage plants caused the Trinity River fish kills. Heavy rains stirred pollution reducing oxygen and suffocating fish, with losses running into thousands of tons. Species affected include trout catfish gafftops shrimp crabs and turtles at McCollum Park area.
BAYTOWN OPPORTUNITY Center advertises plant stakes cut to customer specifications. Call 422 9290 or 422 5224 between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Monday through Friday. The notice also mentions UT candidate Janet Marie Kay Mc Connell of 707 Littlewood pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at the University of Texas.
In a close city election, District 2 candidates support Evans and District 3 and 6 races show lead changes. Polls run 7 am to 7 pm Tuesday across 11 precincts. voters need 1971 registration certificates. Lists of precincts and election judges provided. Teams include Alamo Elementary School Precinct 12 and 13, David G Burnet Elementary Precinct 13, and others.
Baytown offers breakfast with orange juice cereal toast and milk. Lunch includes barbecue wieners or steakette beans mixed vegetables and cabbage choice plus potato salad buttered corn bread milk and fruit bar. Barbers Hill lists hamburgers or toasted cheeseburger with sides and cobbler. Channelview Elementary serves Frito pie yams spinach apple sauce bread and milk. High School serves hot dogs with chili or spam and cheese port beans potato salad cake milk and bread.
John L. Mortimer of Houston, former U S Steel public relations director for the southwest, is named administrator of the Texas Air and Water Resources Foundation. The announcement came from Joe Lagow of Anahuac, foundation president, who said the group formed in 1965 funds coastal water and air quality studies including Galveston Bay. Lagow is a Chambers County commissioner and executive vice president is Glenn Purcell, retired Shell Chemical Co. plant manager.
The federal agency maintains its outlook as HL&P expands its facility with a second 750,000 watt unit. Pending permits delay further discharges while AL&P studies alternatives to protect marine life. When complete, the plant will be among the nation’s largest single power plants with capacity up to 5,000 megawatts.
Galveston Texas AP reports that minority stockholders plan suit to overturn the meeting and election for American National Insurance. Moody family member Shearn Moody Jr. held about 800000 shares. Proxies cast by board chairman Phil B Noah and president Glendon E Johnson covered 29 million of 33 million shares. Lawyer Roy Cohn said the case will go to court. Cohn alleges conflicts of interest and outside payoffs while executives profited and a lawyer was ejected from the meeting amid claims of a sham process.
AP reports Capt. Samuel L. Gravely Jr., 48, nominated to be the U.S. Navy's first Black admiral. The former railway postal clerk from Richmond, Virginia, rose through three wars and says many talented Black officers exist. He spoke from the guided missile frigate USS Jouett, where he commands and expects this not to be the last such appointment.
PARIS AP direct dial telephone service begins Saturday between Paris and the United States. The charge will be about 6.95 dollars for three minutes.
The latest Soviet encyclopedia volume brands George Washington as shaping only bourgeois gains in the American fight for independence, while praising the Bolshevik revolution for abolishing capitalism and building socialism. It also criticizes Stalin’s wartime leadership and credits Brezhnev with a broader wartime role.
Sen Harold Hughes of Iowa denounces antiwar demonstrators who threaten to shut down the government. He calls such actions counter productive and says they erase gains by peaceful protesters. Hughes, a potential 1972 Democratic candidate, spoke at a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner. He called anyone who carries a bomb in the name of peace the biggest hypocrite of all.
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