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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 19, 1968
Page
1
A plan to enlarge the Bayshore Mental Health and Retardation Center to offer a Day Center for psychiatric care will be discussed at a Monday advisory council meeting at 7 30 p.m. at St Pauls Lutheran Church. Summers registration for classes begins Monday at 9 a.m. at the Parks and Recreation building.
Partly cloudy and cooler conditions expected in the Baytown area. Temperatures range from the low 70s to the high 70s. Galveston tides list high and low times for Sunday and Monday, with noontime high tides and varied low tides through the night and following day.
Mrs P L Chapman asks for the Good Samaritan who pushed her car on Burnet Drive Friday to be identified for thanks. Phone 424-0823. Other brief items note visits, social mentions, hosting duties, and a golf tournament upcoming with notable participants.
President Thieu announced the appointment of ex-school teacher Tran Van Huong as South Vietnam's new premier, nine hours after Premier Nguyen Van Luu resigned. Ky opposed the move, absent from a cabinet meeting at Nha Trang, while Huong, from Vinh Long, had previously served as Saigon's mayor.
A 12 page report shows the district near completing its 7.77 million bond program with about 50 thousand dollars remaining to finish projected improvement work. New estimates place total needed at 8.193 million while available funds total 8.097 million, leaving a gap largely due to roof repairs charged to maintenance. The board, after review, notes clearer insights into bond progress and has adjusted planning to balance income and expenditures.
Gregg Gullion four died at Methodist Hospital Houston after a three car crash at Libell Br and Baytown route. His parents Dr and Mrs Gullion of Marshall and grandmother Mrs Murray Rogers of 101 Hay shore Dr Baytown are in Houston while siblings Laura Ann three and Guy eight were treated at Woodlawn Hospital Lufkin with unknown injuries.
U S peace talks in Paris seek a halt to bombing in North Vietnam in exchange for Soviet Communist force freezes in the South. Senator Robert Kennedy begins his Oregon campaign for the May 28 Democratic presidential primary with a modest reception in Portland. Bayl or University prepares to consider Dr Michael DeBakey as dean. J Edgar Hoover warns of Mexican Communist party plans for weapons stockpiles. Severe weather produces tornadoes and extreme rain in deep South Texas.
A Southern Association team praised Ross Sterling High for a strong, well administered system and high student morale. The report noted an unusually fine rapport among students faculty and administration, and endorsed the school climate. It urged faster construction of a vocational arts facility and detailed curricular strengths and gaps including a vocational offering deficiency.
Mrs Sybil Jordan of Robert E. Lee High School, sponsor of the Junior Historian Club, was honored for 25 years of service to the Texas Junior Historians. Under her leadership Chapter 61 has consistently ranked among the top in state meetings and the group engages in service, parades, historic trips, and a forthcoming play Birth of a City Houston.
An independent municipal port facility in Baytown proved not feasible, according to a Houston based consulting engineering firm hired by the city to study the possibility. The report outlines financial and logistical hurdles facing a port project proposed for the area.
Shelley Greenwood, a Robert E Lee High School sophomore, earned fourth place at the International Science Fair in Detroit after shipping losses ruined much of her hamster mutation project. She rebuilt posters overnight with help from Glen Shankle of Brazosport High School. Shelley has previous wins at the Greater Houston Science Fair and Baytown Science Fair and participates in Junior Achievement and science seminars.
Neil Seeley runs Baytowns radio maintenance from a tight shop at 3308 Minnesota repairing more than 100 radios and 160 monitors for police fire and public works. He faces space limits aging equipment and a need for another worker while council debates a new shop site.
Ambassadors Harriman and Xuan Thuy held a four hour session the longest of the talks week as US Saigon relations show strains. Saigon Foreign Minister Tran Van Da signalled reluctance on a proposed freeze of Communist forces in the South. Nguyen Van Loc's resignation prompted a quick cabinet shuffle with Tran Van Thoai named as successor, signaling fragile Saigon stability.
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