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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 20, 1965
Page
1
The Robert E. Lee Suicider game against Brazosport Storm Squad set for Thursday at 7:45 p.m. is canceled due to an accidental death in Storm Squad Coach Breezy Cox's family. The Brazosport JV game on Saturday at 7:20 p.m. remains on.
Lowell Lammers crafts a duck story and readers can find it elsewhere on the page. Ronnie McCraw escorts his mother to her office en route to school. Wallace Heaner offers help with a photo problem. Jim Armsworth sets up a swimming team photo. Zella Mawell prepares for another Baytown Christmas Seal campaign. Jan Lammers, born Jan 1, visits Texas Tech for Dad's Day. Ben Groner and Raytown guests also traveled to Lubbock to see their father studying commercial art. Alan Encin from UT spent the weekend with his parents. Jim Ezel hosts coffee guests from Baytown and Cit.
Four sub committees on Baytown downtown redevelopment plan to hold initial meetings next week after a presentation by Bill Strickler. The panels will survey needs, plan objectives, and develop procedures to implement and evaluate projects. Strickler stressed cooperative effort with merchants, property owners, and consumers, and noted eight common city problems to address. A color film titled Operation Foresight was shown at the Tuesday night session in the Sterling Municipal Library auditorium.
Baytown rallies behind Robert E. Lee as the Ganders prep for a key Friday night game versus Brazosport. REL Art Club and Key Club unite with cheerleaders to boost support, with letters sent to the Lee organization and city merchants urged to back the drive for a potential fourth district win.
President Johnson may depart the hospital after tonight as doctors advise, while he pushes forward with a new air pollution bill. Rhodesian Cabinet weighs British independence amid defiance claims, but no decision disclosed. In hunting season, eleven men are dead over four days from Cadomado’s plains, including two from heart attacks and one crushed by a jeep. Gemini astronauts Schirra and Stafford rehearse for Mondays rendezvous to connect with a second satellite.
Three ducks escaped into the Baytown La Porte Tunnel causing traffic stoppage Tuesday around 2:30 pm. The owner had the birds in a truck coop when a passing car released them, and tunnel officials said ducks were the first to be loose in the tunnel, though other animals have been found there.
The South Texas Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers will hold its annual technical meeting Friday at the Sharrock Fitz in Houston. The event, chaired by J. Cinque of Sinclair Petrochemicals, aims to showcase latest developments in chemical and petroleum engineering with sessions on optimization, new process technology, water resources, and chemical market research. Exhibits from twenty five manufacturers will display new equipment and services.
Chanius Murrow of Pasadena and Harry Massey, manager, said the blaze caused more than $20,000 damage to the building. About ten appliances were destroyed or damaged including stoves refrigerators and hot water heaters, with probable total losses above $304. No one was inside the building.
A Burnet Elementary group and local officials met to address a polluted ditch adjacent to the school. They discussed temporary fencing, possible storm sewer links, and coordinating with flood control engineers to find a safe, effective solution while continuing pollution reduction efforts. A dedicated study team from the three governments and residents will investigate on site.
Sherilyn Balke, three, remains unconscious in the intensive care ward of Hermann Hospital after being struck by a car late Tuesday afternoon on Pamela Street. Police report the driver, Peter J. Krey of Florida, was traveling 26 mph. no charges filed.
Lee College division of Foreign Languages offers French Spanish Shan and Russian for two years. New instructors include I and E A Guzman and T L Kidman. courses emphasize listening speaking and reading with language lab hours and cultural background studies. Career paths include teaching translating international business and Peace Corps work.
A Houston federal court will hear the Baytown Leaning Tower case on November 1, with City Attorney George Chand noting Baytown is a cross plaintiff in Chicago Iron & Bridge Co. vs City of Baytown. The suit involves a 7,000 gallon elevated water tank built on Thiker Road and a negotiated price dispute over $10,438 in withheld funds.
Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union seeking a 10 percent boost in annuity benefits for Baytown Refinery pensioners. The union says cost of living rose 10 percent in a decade while annuities stayed flat. Humble officials study the plan and contest the payoff method, with questionnaires sent to about 1,500 Baytown annuitants and many residents remaining in the area.
Baytown students asked for names of President Robson's Cabinet officers. The list includes Henry Hamill Fowler as Treasury secretary, Robert S. McNamara as Defense secretary, Dean Husk as State secretary, Joan W. Gantner as Education and Welfare secretary, Stewart Teatilail as Interior secretary, Gentile Li Preeman as Agriculture secretary, Thomas Connor as Commerce secretary, Willand Wirtz as Lesser secretary, Nicholas Rattentant as Postminister General.
Jones, president of Renmin Co., urged industry leaders at a Midwest meeting to plan for the future during a session on meeting the needs of a rising economy. He warned that energy use and production must balance with profits while stressing careful solvency and industry-wide planning for the coming era.
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