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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 14, 1968
Page
1
Early voting in the Lee College special election shows turnout could reach 3000, above last fall. Backers say at least 3000 votes are needed to overcome built-in no votes in bond elections. Regents seek a 991000 bond and an eight cent M&O tax hike, costing a 15000 dollar home about five dollars a year from next year.
Baytown PTA and Baytown City Council plan a 1 am workshop and covered dish luncheon at 1305 North Dakota. Officers and chairmen urged to attend. McDougall in poor condition after Friday crash in Methodist Hospital. John Tveten to speak on birds at Rotary Club meeting. Annuitants Club to meet at Baytown Civic Center. WEH Education Association to install officers and honor 11 retiring teachers. Weather set to cloudy to partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with 70 to 83 degree temps. Galveston tides Wednesday high at 8:24 am.
Mrs Joseph Coffey of Providence, R L visiting son and family in Texas. It is her first flight and first Texas visit, arriving in time for Mother's Day. Margie Rodgers, an airline stewardess, vacations with her parents between trips to Los Angeles and Atlanta. Virginia Carter signs autographs at Baytown eighth grade banquet. Annie Bell Dreyer’s granddaughter's birthday.
Armco Steel Corp. announced a $2,250,000 pollution control facility at its Houston works to replace an older abatement unit. W. M. Rankin said the wet gas cleaning system will remove air contamination from electric furnaces, with a water clarifying plant to prevent water pollution. The Houston mill, one of the largest between the Rockies and Mississippi, employs about 4,400 people and handles raw materials to finished products.
Three junior students from Baytown have been selected to attend the eighth Texas Nuclear Science Symposium at the University of Texas in Austin, June 4 to 7, sponsored by Houston Lighting and Power Co. HL PCO will take 500 students and teachers to explore nuclear science, with tours of UT laboratories and talks on peaceful uses of nuclear energy.
Our World Today reports John Stuckwish a Houston heart transplant patient remains in critical condition after two weeks of recovery. The piece notes political figures in Texas races and national events as part of a broader news roundup.
The school board approved revision of a district policy at a Monday meeting. It recognizes the Baytown Education Association and Baytown Classroom Teachers Association as professional organizations and guarantees teachers and staff the right to join or not join. The policy creates an Educational Advisory Council with 12 teacher members and three administrators to advise on professional concerns.
A Baytown man was saved after a capsized boat in the swollen San Jacinto River near Highlands. Pasadena resident Joe Boyd, 42, is missing and feared drowned after the craft struck a barge amid debris from heavy rains. Bernard Miller reports swift current hampered search. boat sank and drifted 40 feet before removal.
Baytown Humble Oil and Refining Co. allocates 3 million to upgrade the Baytown Refinery to handle rising lube business. Plans include line blending to serve sea going cargo vessels and rail cars, remote valve and pump controls, 421000 barrels of new tankage, and a heated line for wax products. Completion targeted by May 1963.
Joint funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Earthman Funeral Home Chapel for Mrs. Katie V. Whitener, 28, and her four year old daughter Kimberly. They died in a one car accident on a service road near I 40 and Farm Road 565. Whitener was secretary to L. Lee Brasfield of First National Bank. her husband Walter L. works at Coca Cola Bottling Plant in Channelview. The car left the road, hit a bridge abutment, then plunged into a two foot water filled ditch. Both were pronounced dead at Gulf Coast Hospital. Autopsy results for Whitener were not released until Wednesday.
Dr George Walmsley 41 elected by five of six board members to fill the unexpired term of resigned President Seth Mitchell. The vote was 4 1 secret but later made unanimous. Vice President Paul Parkinson became president with Troy Peterson elected as vice president. Trustee Bob Wahrmund was absent. Mitchell’s resignation accepted.
The First National Bask will close from 1:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday to permit officers and employees to attend the funeral of Mrs. Katie V. Whitener and her daughter Kimberly.
Baytown area buyers gain a new service with a weekly home feature in The Baytown Sun. Page 3 shows Baytown builders, with this week highlighting a landscaped two story contemporary home by Starett Lumber Co. in the 26000 dollar range. Starett Lumber Co. at 3318 N Main, owned by Brooks Starett and son Jim, shifts from contracting to speculative home building.
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