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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1968
Page
1
Crosby Texas auditors praised the Crosby School District with an Aplus after a year ending Aug 1968 showing a $4,000 local maintenance fund surplus and about $682,500 debt, well within the 10 percent limit, while state and HEW concerns loom over accreditation and federal funding.
E A Auld of Liberty died of a heart attack at 2 20 p m Monday funeral services set for 10 a m Wednesday at Liberty s First Baptist Church with Rev Jimmy Burns officiating He is survived by his widow Hazel and two daughters Iris Jean Jones Kilgore and Shirley Caskey Alvin Burial will be in Mims Memorial Cemetery Conroe Also a note: BAYRIDGE HOME Owners Club will hold a 10 a m Wednesday called meeting at Mrs Bert Pace s Ocean Drive home.
Crosby Texas newly appointed trustee Abbert J. Shmidt took his seat at a Saturday night Crosby School Board meeting held at the Knights of Columbus Hall. After a tie vote, Eagleton was chosen as secretary and Woodard won the board seat. Shmidt, a research chemist for Esso in Baytown, has prior Crosby service and degrees from Southwestern College and the University of Kansas.
Dr. Frank Laubach world renowned missionary educator will address a noon Baytown Rotary Club meeting at Tower and a public lecture at St. Mark's Methodist Church. He founded Laubach Literacy and advocates the each one teach one method, stating illiteracy silences people and that literacy expands the gospel. The Baytown program begins at 3 30 p.m. with a nursery provided.
The annual Charity Ball sponsored by the Service League begins with a champagne hour at 7 p.m. Friday followed by a dance and midnight breakfast. Tickets for Hellfighters top 500 in advance sales as Rufus Honeycutt, Brunson Theater manager, reports. Unused Dec 20 tickets may be used during the film’s Baytown run. all seats are 1.50 for the premier show. Weather will stay clear to partly cloudy through Wednesday with colder Tuesday night. tender vegetation should be protected from frost as temperatures edge from mid 30s to high 60s by Wednesday. Baytown’s Tuesday morning low was 35 degrees.
Sun News editor Mike Lonsford fights illness while Clay Hooper returns from vacation bragging about a new family addition. Molly Cart r idge misses a friend wave as Jane Russell recovers from a brief hospital stay. Nona Rushing notes how older women are called so-and-so’s mother. Myrna Sewell struggles to start her car. Ida Stevens attends Shrine circus twice this year. Sandra Gross upset by an incident. Bess Barker busy with out-of-town company preparations. M C and Erma Harls return from Arkansas and Oklahoma. Patricia Deckert plans a bazaar. Dovie Follis bakes a Nothing Cake. Judson Trout attends a Houston play.
Bids are being received again for a 120000 project to furnish and install a four‑unit chilled water air conditioning and heating system at Horace Mann Junior School. James A. Davis, architect, released plans after the Oct 17 sole bid was rejected. Bids due 11 am Wednesday 27 in the administration building board room 1413 Market. Five percent bid bond required. Structural engineer Vogt and Clouse. consulting engineers Chenault and Brady. Plans available from the architect’s office with zero deposit. one set on file at AGC Plan Rooms.
Ford III says the public grows impatient with slow advances in solving common car industry problems. Markets show the dollar at 3.97 marks as speculation on the West German mark persists. A hijacking diverted a Mexican airliner to Havana with 17 passengers and 5 crew aboard.
In Prague appealing to protect free expression and travel rights, about 100000 university students in Bohemia and Moravia occupy classrooms for a second day of a three day sit in. Journalists warn that ending press freedom would derail socialist reform.
A Baytown Chamber group and local officials presented to the Texas Highway Commission in College Station seeking designation and funding for a Baytown Cedar Bayou loop to U S Steel mill area. The plan envisions four divided lanes with initial two and two more later, pending right of way and Coast Guard bridge type approval. Commission chairman Kultgen said a decision may come by year’s end and noted the project’s high cost due to Cedar Bayou bridge needs.
The U S Weather Bureau reports Baytown will warm Tuesday with early morning frost in the area. Temperatures expected to rise to the mid 60s Tuesday afternoon under partly cloudy skies while northern Texas faced freezing temps and light snow in the Panhandle.
Sam Houston Area Boy Scout Council vice president Harry L. Schaeffer will speak at the East Harris District annual appreciation dinner in Baytown. A 6:30 p.m. catered barbecue meal follows, with awards for unit leaders and sponsoring institutions and a nominating slate for 1969 to be sworn in by W. J. Strickler. Reservations and tickets ($1.50) are via Larry McCoy and Louis Wall.
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