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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 09, 1967
Page
1
Weather forecasts for the Raytewn area predict mostly clear to partly cloudy skies with a temperature range to start the week. Funeral arrangements are set for Mrs C F Gi of irs ar, with burial in Poorst Park Cemetery in Houston. several local events and notices appear in the day’s short items.
A hospital visit lifts Clarissa Spear nine year old daughter of Clyde and Mrs Spear. Tommy Lockdoe boasts about his team in the first game and says he was scouted. Baytown residents Donaky Yancey Gertude Yancey and Leona Sheffield attend Hedees Gardens. Band Day at the Astrodome appoints Fredi Waring as director. Claire Bays becomes a sailor for the night. Jimmy Boyer and Steeling supporters with uniforms attend games. Chaperones R C and Kathryn Stephenson and Mrs Pate Jones and Dave Moore supervise. Louise McCall wears a bright striped sweater. Joe Greeland buys Eleanor orange sherbet. Mrs Clyde Andrews treats girls to ice cream after the game.
Funeral services for Pte. Charles Howard Kilgore 24 killed in Vietnam Oct. 2 will be at 5 pm Monday at Cedar Bayou Methodist Church. Rev. Len Allen and Rev. Paul l Stephens will conduct. Burial in Cedar Bayou Methodist Cemetery with Maj. Gen. J. D. Scott leading graveside rites. Kilgore survived by wife, parents Jeg Kilgore and Mollie Hartwig, two sisters, grandmother, and other relatives. Earthman Funeral Home directing.
Harris County board meets to select a site for the Jessie B. Pumphrey Elementary School at Country Club Ponderosa Craigmont. Trustees may set trustee election date and consider annual tuberculosis exam mandate for all pupils.
John Emmerich, president of UPI editors and editor of the Houston Chronicle editorial page, will speak at the Baytown Kiwanis Club Thursday meeting at 12 05 p m at the Tower.
Eight people die in a highway accident near LinEvIn Texas as a series of deadly crashes hits the state. The toll and circumstances are reported amid other international and domestic turmoil, including protests and political tension abroad.
Houston leaders reacted with surprise as the Democratic Party chose Chicago for the 1968 nominating convention. Ed Stumpf said political overtones influenced the decision, while Mayor Welch and others blamed timing, local relief debates, and party dynamics for the outcome.
Larry Hale named chairman of the bond steering panel to back Lee College’s tax and 1.5 million bond proposal for Oct 28. Committee includes bank and business leaders, faculty, and regents with plans for campus expansion, new north campus, and classroom and arts facilities amid rising student growth.
Baytown plans a first city-wide art show with nearly 500 dollars in prizes for the Nov 11 opening of the new Civic Center. Entries are due Nov 3 at the Community Building. County artists invited from Harris Galveston Liberty Hardin and Chambers. Top prize two dollars donated by three Baytown banks.
Eight motorists died from injuries after a violent collision during a Tale storm near Lincoln, nine miles north of Giddings in Lee County. Alvin Pampell Jr., 19, of Houston drove into Julian Ferex Jr., 24, of Lockhart. Dennis Nowotnik, 19, also of Houston, died Sunday at a Giddings hospital.
St Louis faces Boston in game five as Lonborg is singled out to stop the Cardinals. Nelson Briles and Gibson dominate on the mound while Carl Yastrzemski and the Red Sox offense struggle. Cardinals win with six hits and four runs in the first inning. Lonborg must carry the game Monday.
The piece outlines Chicago hosting the 1968 Democratic meet as Johnson faces a hostile Middle East and Vietnam questions. It notes Nixon and Sen. Charles H. Percy as GOP opponents and Rockefellar associates as tough foes, with party strategists weighing positions ahead of the Chicago gathering.
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