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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 20, 1969
Page
1
A meeting of all A and B division workers in the YMCA capital improvement drive is planned for 7 30 p m Wednesday at the Y. President Bill Hotze asks workers to turn in all cards on people contacted.
Partly cloudy and continued mild through Wednesday in the Baytown area. Tuesday temperatures in the mid 80s, with Morgan's Point tides on Wednesday high at 9 37 p m and low at 7 01 a m.
Herbert Bud Bruner, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Bruner of 1500 Harvard, earns advancement in the U S Navy to radioman third class. Nearby items note various community greetings and social mentions including Katharine Ross recalling Baytown filming memories.
Baytown voters cast 1,163 ballots by noon in 11 precincts, fewer than in the mayoral runoff and general election. Precincts Ashbel Smith, Stephen F. Austin and Carver Jones led turnout, with several precincts reporting double digit votes and overall interest varying by area as campaigns for and against the zoning proposal drew both organized support and opposition.
A Texas House session was set to consider SB 462, a bill by Senator Chet Brooks to let the Coastal Industrial Water Authority CIWA create and run parks along the 70 mile Trinity River canal. Harris County lawmakers oppose the measure with 14 of 19 signing a petition to block rules suspensions. Speaker Mut scher pressures support while Houston Rep. Cummings proposes amendments to dilute CIWA powers.
A new Baytown chapter of the Texas Association of Retarded Children brings together 30 teenagers. They plan a summer recreation program for mentally disabled children, ages 10 and under or older, with guidance from Mrs. A. B. Floyd Jr. and George B. Clark. The statewide group, founded in Dallas in 1965, requires five hours of orientation and membership from ages 13 and up.
President Nixon and South Vietnamese Chief of State Nguyen Van Thieu schedule a June meeting at Midway Island to discuss a shared path to a peaceful Vietnam solution. The briefing notes outline a coordinated policy approach between the two nations.
Baytown landowners along Goose Creek showed interest in forming a corporation to convert the stream to a fresh water lake and development site. About 30 of 60 contacted attended a private Civic Center meeting. a public session is planned. Architect Earle Britton said adjacent land could rise in value tenfold with development. Mayor Glen Walker called it a beautiful idea.
Capt. William Sanches, husband of Joyce Kimmons Sanches, receives the Distinguished Flying Cross for extraordinary achievement as a forward air controller in Southeast Asia, including directing airpower under heavy fire on Aug. 30, 1968, while flying a C-2A unarmed aircraft. He is a U.S. Air Force Academy graduate, native of Newport, Rhode Island, and will return to Grand Forks, North Dakota, to fly a BS2 for SAC. Mrs. Sanches teaches speech therapy in Baytown.
Dr. Clyde W. Spear marks a half century of dentistry in Baytown honored by the American and Texas Dental Associations and the Baytown Dental Study Club. He has operated four Baytown offices since graduating from Baylor, including a present location at 603 W. Texas over 23 years. He recalls early days with kerosene lighting, a treadle drill, home-made anesthesia, and travel by train, noting modern air and water cooled drills and current equipment. He has no plans to retire.
Apollo 10 crewmembers John Young Eugene Cernan and Thomas Stafford woke after nine hours sleep and reported no midcourse firing needed as mission control confirmed an accurate trajectory toward a moon rendezvous. The crew noted flawless systems aboard the command ship and the lunar module and heard the engine roar on a minor midcourse correction.
School trustees delayed the district tax ratio decision and postponed a salary increase for teachers while awaiting more information on next year’s tax base and possible legislated pay hikes. Trustee Glenn Lippman urged advancing a $701 basic raise for 1969-70, but his motion failed. The board set June 9 for a final vote.
Baytown Post No 12 Veterans of Foreign Wars will hold their annual Buddy Poppy sale Friday and Saturday. Net profits go to the post relief fund to aid area veterans and dependents. Members will sell in downtown locations and at industry gates to support local relief work and the nationwide rehabilitation service.
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