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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 18, 1971
Page
1
The Baytown Sun reports a District 7 staff expansion including chemists hydrologists biologists engineers a geologist and clerical workers. The office moved from La Porte to better quarters on Sept 1 due to outgrown facilities with Morgan's Point lab added to speed water sample reporting and oversight.
Funeral services set for Ernest Preston Ashley 72 of 2306 Buchanan at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Earthman Funeral Chapel with Rev. Roy Cloudt and Rev. Paul Stephens officiating. A Baytown resident 52 years he died Sunday in a Baytown hospital. He worked at Humble On and Refining Co Baytown Refinery and once owned a lumber yard and Lou's Florist Shop on North Main. Survivors include wife Lou Clark Ashley daughter James D. Walding of Corpus Christi son Delton Ashley of Victoria mother Mrs. W. A. Ashley three sisters all of Baytown four grandchildren. Burial Memory Gardens Cemetery. Pallbearers listed. Honorary pallbearers named.
Sun Houston Bureau reports Harris County still operates two jails illegally amid state findings from last April that overcrowding at the main jail and Humble rehabilitation center violates regulations. Mrs. Robert Sibert lists court recommendations for Sheriff Kern to address the issue, noting lack of court support in Austin. Commissioner Chapman questions Sheriff Kern’s outreach history.
Gov. Preston Smith named Dr. Willie Lee Ulrich of Lubbock to the Texas Air Control Board chairing the agricultural engineering department at Texas Tech. He also appointed Charles R. Jaynes of Waco to replace Henry LeBlanc Sr. and E. W. Robinson of Amarillo to replace Clint on Howard. LeBlanc and Howard had been appointed by former Gov. Connally.
The article details looming district changes for 1972 with LOOP and Channel View shifting to Class AAAA and AAA respectively. It lists member schools across multiple districts including Crosby Anahuac Dayton Kountze Barbers Hill Tarkington Hardin Huffman Montgomery Splendora and others, noting promotions and new placements in zoned regions.
Stock quotes are provided courtesy of Citizens National Bank and Underwood, Newhaus and Company. The listing features a selection of prominent equities with current prices and daily movement indicators. Investors are advised to consult official sources for precise trading values.
About a third of Anahuac faculty volunteered for a master teaching plan emphasizing student choice and cooperative learning. Teachers are evaluated over a year, with potential raises up to 1300 dollars after successful review. the program rewards individual merit and special projects rather than group results.
A man climbed to the top of a 100-foot tower on Airhart Drive and, after about 30 minutes of threatening self harm, was persuaded to come down. Police and emergency crews, including three police cars, two fire trucks and an ambulance, coordinated rescue efforts. The man later was committed to a hospital as a mental patient. Firefighters used a life net and an electronic public address system to communicate. The tower sits on Houston Lighting and Power property between Park and Texas streets. the incident occurred around 8 p.m. Sunday.
The Baytown Art League will host a Modular Acrylics demonstration at 7 3 p m Monday in the Mockingbird Room of the Community Building. The event invites members and local residents to view the technique and materials in a regional arts program.
Williamson says new Center store aims for convenience with up to date illuminated displays. The facility employs 90 people and houses a complete supermarket plus hardware toys housewares sporting goods health and beauty aids records small appliances clothing and a pharmacy. The food department carries national brands and Kroger labels and the Center will feature a lunch counter.
Mr and Mrs Abe Hiebert of 205 Wildwood and their son Roger along with Mr and Mrs Bill Malloy of 200 S Second have returned from Texarkana Texas where they attended funeral services for Mrs J M Seay mother of Mrs Hiebert and Mrs Malloy Seay died October 9 at age 67
John R. Bridges of Alexandria Louisiana received his second Air Force Commendation Medal at Ext AFB Cole. He is married to Amma Atherton of Baytown.
The agenda includes a proposed dog bite premises amendment, bids for a multipurpose excavating and grading machine, and a talk by Bob Warford on Optimist Pee Wee football. Also on the docket are a thoroughfare plan amendment, subdivision ordinance revisions, plat handling, street revisions in subdivisions, and a board of equalization contract for appraising industrial property. Hearings on General Telephone Co. and city water line extension are listed, with unfinished business on a telephone rate expert and drainage study consultant.
CODE continues from Page 1 with revisions to dress and hair rules allowing shoulder length hair for boys and pants for girls with hot pants barred. A committee on married student policy chaired by board members, parents, students and Supt Crenshaw will meet at 7 p.m. Monday to review findings. Also on the agenda are YMCA stadium use, two concession stands for a Dec 4 fundraiser, bids for furniture and a pickup truck, and the International Thesbian Society constitution plus driver education and foundation fund approvals.
MB Pumper Team Event Winners Told at Barbers Hill host site Saturday for Gulf Coast Fire men's Association. Ladies pumper teams Deer Park and Channelview tied for first and second with 15.7 seconds, LaMarques at 16 seconds. Men's winners Rosenberg 15.1, Channelview Fire Station No. 1 15.2, Livingston 16.0.
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