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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1967
Page
1
Baytown Elks Lodge pool will open Saturday from 10 am to 10 pm with opening ceremonies. A karate demonstration by David Rowan Co. of Houston is at 3:30 pm and a teen band The Soundtracks will play from 7:30 pm. Also notes obituaries and local notices.
Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday. Friday temperatures expected 74 to 92 degrees following Thursday’s 74 to 91. Galveston tides show Saturday high at 6:36 a.m. with no low tide.
Nancy Thompson and Marjene Dickerson attend the cinema while Mike Moliason continues playing through an injury after his mother steps in. Jeanne Morlan receives news in advance. Florence Neill wears a black and white dress as Wita Wood’s glasses distract. Mrs Jewell Holt chats about graduates. Leah Fisher contemplates. J B Wood missed at a circle. Sydonia Tucker reschedules a Tancheon appointment. Mary Hunt Colley enjoys shopping on her wedding day. Mike Rizgi worries over a bruised eye. Mary Kimble has a busy morning. Katherine Wood suggests misplacing items while still. Bernon Lee weighs in as wife Jerry notes he looks thin. Linda de la Verone and Charlotte Baumbach surprise a friend.
The Trinity River Authority gains power to build and operate navigation facilities with a higher tax rate after a 131 to 8 House vote. Debates focused on property tax exemptions for truckers and freight lines versus railroad property. Senate filibuster battles over salaries and a $437.5 million appropriations bill delayed action as the chamber adjourned for lack of a quorum.
A brilliant electrical storm hit Sherman and nearby North Central Texas causing a house fire during a severe thunderstorm watch. Hail fell near Whitesboro and Bonham with golf ball sized hail in one Bonham area, while temperatures dropped from the high heat of the day to the 40s and 50s across parts of the Panhandle-Plains region.
National Guardsmen state troopers and police patrolled Lynch Street after a riot at Jackson State College. A truck driver Benjamin Brown, 22, and student Cleothus Jackson, 19, were hit by shotgun fire as rioters attacked police lines. Brown died at 4 42 a.m. A highway patrolman Dewey Weems was injured by a thrown object. Mayor Thompson imposed a 10 p.m. curfew and 12 arrests followed. Government alerted to continue demonstrations.
Rescuers using flood lights dig into a bluff cave near Hannibal Missouri to locate Edwin Lowell Hoag Joey Hoag and Bill Hoag last seen Wednesday afternoon. Civil Defense teams from Missouri Illinois and Washington DC plus Missouri National Guardsmen join cave explorers amid a cave system opening created by highway work. Police dogs traced moving dirt as rescue efforts press on through blocked passages hoping the boys are not in Murphy's Cave or other newly exposed caverns.
Bay town Lions Club announces three graduating seniors Gail Gammage Rupert Gar sia and Gertrude Cartwright as $400 each two year scholars Gail attends Lee College to study medical records librarianship Rupert plans civil engineering at Houston University after Lee College and Gertrude will study English and American government at Bishop College She is in Carver Band and Interscholastic League while Rupert plays baseball at REL and belongs to the Junior Engineering Technical Society
The Baytown Citizens Traffic Safety Council schedules an eight hour defensive driving course aimed at broad citizen enrollment. The Pilot Club will join first with a June session. A 24 person team of instructors will teach, with NSC accreditation. A TV National Drivers Test broadcast May 23 will be promoted, and 10 000 test forms ordered. The course costs four dollars for materials and four two hour sessions lead to a completion card from the National Safety Council.
Premier Nguyen Cao Ky announces he will run for president in South Vietnam, while noting he would drop out if Nguyen Van Thieu takes the top post. Senator Beary Jackson warns National Guardsmen and Reservists must be mobilized soon to meet Vietnam manpower needs. United Nations Secretary U Thant urges stop bombing North Vietnam as a step toward preventing wider war. Police clash with demonstrators in Kowloon housing project amid anti British sentiment.
Mexican laborers crossed the Rio Grande at Roma Texas to harvest Texas melons while pickets who sought to block them left for the night. Immigrant officials said most workers were already on the U S side when CIM resumed picketing on the day shift. CTM said the strike ended late Thursday as no one ordered them to stay. Riverra, CTM Miguel Aleman secretary general, was arrested briefly at Camargo for failing to remove pickets. About 150 field hands were blocked from work during a crucial harvest period, marking a first union cross-border action amid almost daily Starr County labor demonstrations since last June.
Communist rockets and mortars struck Bien Hoa and Phuoc Vinh near Saigon, killing six Americans and wounding about 100. The blasts damaged 25 planes while Marines and Army units fought off attacks near Gio Linh and Con Thien below the DMZ, with 24 medical evac flights and several minor injuries reported.
Mrs. Savage of Brown Mills New Jersey received a moving letter dated April 22 1967 from Le Van Bem a Vietnamese friend of her husband Sgt William E Savage an adviser to South Vietnamese troops at Bien Hoa. The note praises Americans and expresses hope for peace critics of war, and thanks the Savages for their support.
The Houston city council approved a contract with Pritchard and Abbott to provide tax billing by data processing at 3300, with Ad Valorem Records offering 6490 and a 1050 option to buy the system. City officials expect savings from improved efficiency to offset costs and continue study of data processing for bookkeeping and delinquent tax notices.
Baytown City Council postponed action on ambulance service until the ambulance study committee reviews bids from seven firms led by Irvington Ambulance Co of Houston. Chairman Andy Braswell said the committee will meet at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday at the Holly Inn Restaurant to study the bids thoroughly.
A council panel is formed to study an industrial district near Baytown. Councilman Braswell, chair, names Kelley and Ball to the committee. They will report progress to Mayor Seabomm Cravey, aiming to lure industry, widen the tax base, and reduce ad valorem taxes through seven year tax agreements with local industries.
Baytown fans can reach the Pasadena New eld cor for Friday night playoff baseball at 3 pm by following directions to the baseball diamond beside the new track field at the athletic plant off Spencer Highway. From La Porte turn right onto Highway 136 to reach Spencer, or reach Spencer via Deer Park.
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