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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 18, 1968
Page
1
Winners Melvin Horton and Mrs. G G Wilson claimed paintings by Susie Peoples and Jimmy Wainwright at the Art League Show. Event runs 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. through Saturday at the Optimist Building on Market Street.
A collage of short items recalls local life: Evelyn Shima bakes a banana nut coffee cake while Jane and John Tucker attend a Houston film. Mrs H. DB Cartlidge delivers a picture, Marle Peterson offers a compliment, and Mrs R E Singleton is named Teacher of the Year at Highlands Assembly of God Sunday School. Other notes mention Lee hearing an earful, and social events like a bridge party hosted by Jewell Ammons and Olive Rundell.
Allied forces report 416 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong killed in coastland battles below Da Nang marking the winter offensive kickoff. Lt. Gen. Lam notes heavy local fighting, rocket and mortar assaults on cities, with Viet Cong incursions and security sweeps as police detain suspects in Da Nang.
Baytown resident Jack Alfred Hillhouse 22 of 230 Arbor Baytown died in a single vehicle crash at 8 30 p m Sunday. His car left the road struck a culvert near Garth and Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road a mile north of Baytown. He was pronounced dead at Gulf Coast Hospital. Hillhouse led Kmart auto service and is survived by his wife Theresa and infant son Robert his parents and several siblings. Funeral arrangements were pending with Earthman Funeral Home.
A Baytown mayor and a Chambers County official led a delegation to appeal to the State Highway Commission for a state built loop from Highway 14 in Baytown to FM 145 near U S Steel site. The plan includes a Cedar Bayou bridge at Roseland Park and an improved link to Highway 166.
AP wires report the US Supreme Court will hear Adam Clayton Powell's claim that his House exclusion in March 1967 was unconstitutional, signaling a clash between the high court and Congress as major civil rights and political tensions unfold.
European money markets were quieter as speculation cooled amid Basel talks on emergency aid. Reports of a $1 billion German credit to France eased pressure on the franc, while traders, previously betting on franc devaluation and mark revaluation, showed less certainty. Bankers warned a franc and pound collapse could destabilize global finance, urging world financial unity to curb speculative moves.
In 1964 Robert E. Lee High School hosted visitors from the National Study of High School English programs, part of a survey of about 150 schools. The study results appear in High School English Instruction Today. Co authors James Squire and Roger K. Applebee cite leadership, teacher quality, resources, material variety, and in service programs as preconditions for excellence, while noting lack of curricular sequence as a common shortfall.
Sgt. David Alford, son of Mr and Mrs Sam Alford of 301 Tri City Beach Road, earned the Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry with Bronze for his achievement in support of the Armed Forces of Vietnam. He serves with the 1st Amphibian Tractor Battalion in Vietnam and is due home around Christmas after his second year in country. He volunteered for the second tour and is a graduate of Robert E Lee High.
Robert E. Lee High School marching band earned a first division rating for the tenth year in Interscholastic League competition at Katy High School. The twirlers captured 11 first division awards as part of a day-long event with 20 bands in 4 A. Ross Sterling placed second division in its third year. Sterling's twirlers won seven medals as more than 3200 band students from Baytown attended.
Humble Oil and Enjay Chemical offer wage reopenings covering four unions at Baytown plants. Three unions receive 2 cents an hour or about $8 a month, retroactive to November, with a BEF counter proposal of a $0.05 lump sum through January. Additional raises include $4.40 monthly for medical plans and higher evening and night shift differentials.
Former Baytown resident Barbara Jean Atchley, married to Apollo 10 lunar module pilot Eugene Cernan, is tied to the mission’s crew along with Col Gordon Cooper and others. The crew plans to orbit the Moon within 50,000 feet and then journey near the surface, a historic step in the Gemini era and Apollo program.
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