22 Sep 1967
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1967
Page
1
Court Of Honor for Boy Scout Troop 288 sponsored by First Presbyterian Church will be held at 7 pm Tuesday in the church fellowship hall. Ceremony led by Scoutmaster Paul Hall and Assistant Scoutmaster William Warner.
The Baytown area forecast calls for widely scattered showers Friday and Saturday with temperatures in the mid 70s. Galveston tides show highs around 4:30 p.m. Friday and 5:06 p.m. Saturday with lows near 8:54 p.m. Friday and 10:12 p.m. Saturday. Sunday tides include a high around 5:33 p.m.
Council members discuss taxes amid chatter at a Baytown council meeting while residents and visitors share meals and news. Notable items include Waylon Ward recovering after lawn mower injury, Baytown guests in New Orleans, and local families Mrs Barney W. Smith and Dr. M. B. Strole with their daughter Laura visiting and commuting to college.
Corpus Christi AP reports Hurricane Beulah's aftermath as the Weather Bureau projects about a billion dollars in damage. Thousands remain victims as relief efforts rush aid, food, and snake bite kits to refugees while regions around Corpus Christi, Robstown, Linton, Pettus, and Three Rivers stay isolated.
Paul L. Nevil head of lube process dept at Humble Baytown Refinery died Thursday in a Baytown hospital. He 43, had heart attack at home earlier. Memorial services Saturday 4 PM at Westminster Presbyterian Church. no burial. Survivors: wife Mary Catherine Crooks Nevil and three daughters.
Clear Creek Bank stockholders at a Sea brook meeting approved a 5 for 1 split lowering par value from 310 to 32 and boosting shares from 20 000 to 106 000 among 137 stockholders. Board had authorized a 50 cent cash dividend last month and stated deposits top 6 000 000 as Seabrook NASA and Bayshore communities attract industry.
LaMarque, 2-0 in 124A league, visits Memorial Stadium in Ganders, LaMarque, aiming to extend a two-game win streak against the Ganders who sit 0-2. LaMarque strong in backfield led by Kent Bransteller and Donald Hicks. Ganders face injuries and lineup shuffles. Friday game kicks at 7 30 p m with local district implications minimal as both teams seek momentum.
Nations clash over Vietnam as war progress and diplomacy unfold. Reports claim warpike strikes sever Haiphong bridge while U S command notes enemy MIG downing attempts. Percy blasts the administration amid broader international and domestic political upheaval.
The Ganders list Steve Weaver and Ferris Platt on the defensive line, with Mike Messick and Tommy Burnside up front. La Marque counters with Wayne Mitchell and Russell Held at ends and tackle, plus Gary Syfert and Gary Denham at linebacker and safety respectively.
Johnella Boynton profiles Monteze Botkin the new Horace Mann Junior School principal a youthful grandmotherly figure with a modellike bearing. She brings four years as an intermediate coordinator and a year as reading coordinator for grades six to eight while aiming for close student contact and a smoother opening. She will lead a 45 member staff with 15 new teachers and plans in service training as she learn 768 students’ names and oversee football games and student council elections.
The Baytown council advanced the remaining seven cents of a promised one cent tax increase to retire 1985 bonds and added one cent for street improvements in the 1967 68 budget. The new rate climbs eight cents to 1 41 3 49 per 200 of assessed value, raising about 151 803 for next year. A 4 220 584 budget was adopted amid protests with 225 658 earmarked for streets alongside existing bond funds.
Baytown Airman 3-C Richard A Saunders, 21, seeks habeas corpus relief in a federal case arguing conscription would violate his morals as a conscientious objector. Judge Robinson issued a restraining order before a Sept. 27 hearing at Offutt AFB.
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