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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 19, 1969
Page
1
Baytown’s 1969 tax roll shows an 7.96 percent gain over 1988 and a 23.31 percent rise since 1965. The 1969 total assessed value reached 195,175,300 dollars at 50 percent of fair market value, reflecting an 11,612,625 dollar increase over 1968.
Sacred Heart Catholic Church Crosby will hold its annual bazaar from 1130 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday with games music refreshments booths hay rides and other attractions. A 230 p.m. auction sale with Boots Krueger as auctioneer is planned. The public is invited. Dr Charles Allen will speak to Gulf Cedar Bayou Women’s Club at 630 p.m. Monday at the Tower. A bicycle valued at 32 was stolen from Lamar Elementary School Friday. owner is Stephen Sandhop. Baytown Fire Department Wives will meet 730 p.m. Tuesday at Mrs Mark Wiess 1 W Humble. Italian buffet precedes the meeting.
Baytown policeman Sabino Montemayor became ill Saturday morning with chest pains and was taken to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital where he lies in the intensive care ward. Wanda Schwendeman and Frances Lewis are among locals helping, as the Sun notes ongoing community activities and recent visits.
The Bay Plaza Shopping Center Merchants Association hosts a two day smoking exhibit on Oct 24 and 25. The Harris County American Cancer Society unit operates the mobile display with slides, panels, transparencies and a tape about smoking hazards. Dr C George notes 59000 U S deaths from lung cancer this year.
Supt Johnny Clark says a state law requiring combining pupil accounting for Negro and white students increased district funding by about 7500 for 1968 69. The TEA allowed the switch to combined accounting, offset by changes in CTUs and principal allocations, with future gains uncertain.
Dick Sanderson grew up in Independence Missouri with Cub Scouts and now leads a Baytown Sun subscription team and Boy Scout Troop No. 63 sponsored by St Johns United Methodist Church. He earned Eagle rank and aims for the Silver Beaver as he juggles newspaper circulation and weekend camping trips for the scouts.
AP reports Health official Robert H. Finch expected to announce severe restrictions on cyclamate use with a phased recall of products. Also noted are Soyuz space mission returns, North Korean ambush deaths, inflation talks with business and labor, resumed chemical warfare testing, Peace Corps protests, and White House concern over overseas protests.
Baytown Councilman David Evans, a state Jaycee officer with Herbert Hauser Insurance, is chosen to join the national delegation in Washington from June 28 to 30 to back a constitutional amendment on public prayer. The move aligns with Dirksen's amendment amid Madalyn Murray O Haire anti prayer campaign after an Apollo moon reading.
Baytown police step up radar enforcement in front of Robert E. Lee High School during school hours. Two drivers were clocked at 50 mph in a 20 mph zone near noon as REL students headed to lunch. Sgt. Don Baker warns of danger when students cross Market Street and notes radar favors speeders.
Secretary of Welfare Robert H. Finch announced all foods and drinks containing the artificial sweetener cyclamate must be removed from grocery shelves by February 1 due to new animal cancer evidence. The directive targets consumer products nationwide under existing food safety authority.
Partly cloudy and mild weekend forecast for Baytown area. Temperatures range from 60 to 80 degrees. Morgan's Point tides preview Sunday high at 12:49 PM and low at 11:48 PM, with Monday highs at 1:13 PM and 10:24 PM and a low at 1:55 PM.
The Texas Water Quality Board granted US Steel a permit to discharge 15 million gallons per day of treated industrial waste into Cedar Bayou Baytown Texas. Officials said the 15 million gallon limit supports about five years of production. An extensive ecological study will be required.
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