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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1967
Page
1
A grant of $62,232 was announced for the Department of Health Ed Opportunity Center for the Med ication and Welfare to construct a new facility in Baytown Washington. The grant was disclosed late Monday as part of a plan to expand services and improve welfare efforts in the area.
Baytown police unit will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday in the training building in Wooster for a special session. Weather outlook for Baytown area shows a fair pattern with Tuesday temperatures mid 70s to near 80s and a 60 degree low Tuesday morning. High and low tides noted for Galveston area Wednesday and Thursday with morning high tides around 2 18 a m and evening lows around 5 06 p m. Baytown managers meeting in New Orleans through Thursday for the International City Managers Association conference attended by Fritz Lanham and more than 830 urban administrators from the U S and Canada. A grant to build a day care and vocational center for 43 mentally retarded persons, with over 50 000 in pledges, to be built on three acres near Baker Road and Garth Baker intersection. Baytown Opportunity School board chair Mrs B W Thomas notes expansion to four classrooms, activity center, kitchen, offices, and consultation room. architect James A Bitsy Davis designed 5 000 square foot center at an estimated cost of 213 130. Current facilities on Parkway Street, with funds raised exceeding 350 000 to meet the goal. Rev B W Dowler twice chaired the drive. Building committee members listed. Other directors named.
John Everett Clifton a Baylor University sophomore from Crosby died at 3 30 am after collapsing during an initiation ritual. Nine other initiates reportedly were running in place while a laxative mixture was given. Autopsy ordered. Baylor President Abner McCall expressed shock and reserved judgment pending facts.
President Johnson made a new appeal to the Soviet Union to abandon competitive spacemanship and join with the United States in a cooperative effort to explore the heavens.
Baytown United Fund reports about 25 percent of its quota reached with $60,600 contributed. Connie Magourik, chair, notes several Humble Oil and Refining divisions and Enjay Chemical groups exceed their goals. A Baytonettes service group raised 24 dollars through car washes at Cedar Bayou Junior School.
In St Louis, Jim Lonborg pitched for Boston, fending off the Cardinals as the Red Sox aimed to rebound toward the 1967 World Series. Two wins in five games, with Maris homering for St Louis, set up a pivotal game six at Fenway as Boston hoped Lonborg would deliver again.
Glenn H. Ivy, director of the governor's committee on public school education, will be the principal speaker at a Baytown Education Association meeting Tuesday night. The 7:30 p.m. session will be in Ross Sterling High School auditorium. Ivy previously directed studies for multiple Texas agencies and state boards, with a career spanning education, public administration, and wartime service.
The Trecity Beach Civic Association will meet at 7 30 a m on Tuesday at the community building on West Bay Road. The Sun Monday incorrectly carried the meeting night as Thursday.
Thirty supporters urge Gov Joby Connally to run for a unprecedented fourth term. He offers no clear indication of his decision. Alabama Gov Lurleen Wallace hospitalized again at MD Anderson in Houston for examination after adverse cancer radiotherapy reaction. Mercury dips as cooler air moves into Texas and the southern plains. NASA delays Apollo flight launch after countdown issues. Soviet defense budget up 2.2 million rubles or 0.15 percent for next year.
President Grace Ramsey appointed two new Baytown Chamber of Commerce directors to fill one year unexpired terms. Richard King of Wooster real estate and insurance, and Jack P Thorn of Esso ER&E were chosen to replace Tom Farmer and James M. Black. King, active in the chamber for four years, and Thorn, a longtime ER&E chemist, bring strong local ties and professional backgrounds to the board.
Baytown engineers prepare for the 22nd annual South Texas Section meeting of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers at the Moody Convention Center and Galvez Hotel in Galveston. About 100 Baytown chemical engineers attend. L Waldo Leggett chairs. George Bush to speak on the 5th Congress. sessions on pollution polyolefins and plant start ups. 50 exhibitors. student and wives programs.
Harris County school board split 4 to 2 ends study of city school and college elections. Trustees vote to move trustee elections from April to October, postponing next year’s elections and extending terms by six months. Several trustees opposed, citing voter convenience and term extensions.
Trustees unanimously endorsed the Baker Road site for the new district elementary, with conditions to set the building at least 100 feet from pipeline easements and provide blast protection. Trustee Bob Wahrmund urged revising the proposed plan, noting walls near casements should be windowless and seeking changes to Davis’s 24 classroom layout.
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