10 Nov 1966
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 10, 1966
Page
1
Baytown workers celebrate as the United Fund exceeds the 1987 goal of 205,029 by reaching 217,913.36 with late pledges possible. Campaign chair John J. Coates praises volunteers and notes funds will aid unmet needs and services for crippled children, the sick, and youth programs next year.
AP reports a Republican surge in the midterm 1966 elections threatens President Johnson's agenda and 1968 re‑election prospects. GOP gains include at least 41 House seats and eight governorships, expanding their base to 25 states and 290 electoral votes. Nixon calls the results a sharp rebuff to a president in a generation.
Goldwater argued GOP wins reflect an LBJ backlash with anti Johnson sentiment noted in Florida and California. The view met some discounts, yet evidence appeared across diverse regions, including Florida and California.
Bulleting Breckenridge Texas reports that 95 year old California mill owner A tis Birch and his 159 year old wife vanished from the Breckenridge home where they have lived since their marriage last month. Authorities say they have not been seen since Monday.
Baytown relatives attend the funeral for John Paul Portis born to Glenn and Mrs. Portis of Victoria. Portis was a newborn. Humble Pioneer Club plans a 7 pm Saturday meeting at the Holiday Inn. Robert Lee High School hosts Homecoming events with a pep rally bonfire and a snake dance scheduled Thursday evening.
At least two graduates of Eanes E. Lee High School have become lawmakers. Joe Allen of Baytown and Jack Oge of Houston were elected to the Texas House of Representatives. The item notes a call for donations of paperback books and provides contact details for Mrs. T F Montgomery.
The Sacred Heart Altar Society of Crosby sponsors a turkey dinner with all the trimmings at the Parish Hall. Serving runs from 11 30 a m to 3 p m. The public is invited to attend.
Baytown councilmen and General Telephone Co. of the Southwest officials met at Goose Creek County Club to review a contract between General Telephone and Phonoscope of Baytown Inc. The plan would install cables for Phonoscope to televise movies news and weather directly to homes, with legal questions to be explored.
Charles Mosley, organist of First Methodist Church in Houston, will perform at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church as part of a public concert series. Known for recital work and as an oratorio accompanist, Mosley has served as organ clinician at the Texas Conference Choir Clinic and has long held major church positions since starting as a church organist at age 10.
Baytown property owner L. J. Arnold and Missouri Pacific lawyers exchange letters showing likely condemnation to secure right of way for a spur through Easytown to serve a proposed U S Steel mall site in West Chambers County. Arnold rejects the railroad appraisal and calls for negotiations while the railroad says it will proceed if no agreement is reached.
The Mont Belvieu City Council approved a 30 year franchise for United Gas Corp at a Monday meeting. Jim Sterling of Sterling Funeral Home in Dayton updated the council on ambulance service, promising continued support for West Chambers County and that an ambulance could reach Mont Belvieu within 10 minutes in an emergency.
W. G. Bil Wilson 55 of 1800 Woodlawn Baytown prominent Bay town insurer civic and church leader died Thursday in a Houston hospital after about three weeks in care and a 10 day prior surgery Funeral arrangements are pending at Forest Park Funeral Home Houston Survivors include wife Eva daughter Mrs Stephen V Pierce of Houston three sons Charles Wilson of Fort Worth Jerry and Gordon Wilson of Houston five grandsons two sisters one Batesville and one North Carolina and his father of Batesville He was an associate of Northwestern National Life Insurance Co honored for 25 years of service for production consistency and performance native of the Uvalde area moved to Baytown.
An ambush by Viet Cong on a U S 1st Infantry Division patrol north east of Suoi Dau in War Zone C used nonpoisonous tear gas for the first time in the war. The 30 men wore gas masks. casualty details were not known.
The Baytown City Council on first reading approved three annexation ordinances, initiated an improvement on Commerce Street, and moved 432 from the contingency fund for Texas Employment Commission office rent. They debated Cedar Bayou effluent dumping by Houston and adjourned early due to quorum issues.
By George Ferguson the article recalls Nashville Arkansas election night lore and NBCs early use of telecentered precinct results from Precinct 12 at Alamo School in Baytown. It notes the shift from town gatherings to TV and radio in forecasting governors and senators and questions the impact on hometown voting culture.
Baytown Chamber of Commerce will hear W. J. Strickler present Ten Years of Progress 1956 1966. He will compare population growth physical city growth taxation street improvements building permits utilities bank deposits and traffic with note that Baytown La Porte Tunnel traffic doubled despite I 10 and bank deposits rose sixfold since 1956. Strickler suggests growth may soon surpass Pasadena’s historic boom.
In Bonn the Christian Democratic Union chose Kurt Georg Kiesinger, current minister president of Baden-Württemberg, as its candidate to succeed Ludwig Erhard as head of the West German federal government.
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