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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 28, 1967
Page
1
LC Regents weigh a $1.5 million bond election with two propositions to extend tax authority by 20 cents and finance campus improvements. A late October date is likely with petitions needing 250 signatures and a 10 to 30 day call period. reports on facilities, student life policy, and staff hires accompany the agenda.
Offer cancellation follows UH vs Wake Forest game postponement due to high ticket demand after the Cougars defeated Michigan State. Uniformed scouts would have entered free. a future Scout Night is expected to be scheduled. Weather notes and local notices follow.
President Johnson appoints Daniel to head the Office of Emergency Planning with a salary of 28500 dollars. He will move to Washington after Senate confirmation, succeeding Farris Bryant who resigns in March 1966 to return to Jacksonville. Daniel is a former Texas governor US senator and Liberty lawyer active in law ranching and local papers. The office oversees national defense spending natural disaster advice and federal aid planning.
Patrolman Ray Hardy has been promoted to sergeant in the Baytown Police Department. Police Chief Blair Mann announced the promotion on a recent Wednesday. Hardy joined the department on January 3, 1957, and his new assignment is still under consideration.
Robert E. Lee Band and Brigadiers will perform at the Brazosport REL game in Freeport Friday night. The band will enter in a double block to Eagle Squadron, execute a countermarch into Invictus, split into front and back halves for a two drill, and exit in four company fronts to Tropic to Tropic. Drum major Royce Marshall and assistant Kathleen Wilcox lead. field leaders include Ides Mann Kay Armstrong Kay Beavers Jody Laird with honorary lieutenants Gail Kana Ruth Ann Lively. Semper Paratus welcomes the drums and bugles as diagonals form and arrows rise from a stationary line.
President Johnson faces a tough test to ease tensions between Gov. John Connally and Sen. Ralph Yarborough as flood relief pressures mount in South Texas. Yarborough accuses Connally of political delay in seeking a disaster declaration while White House plans a presidential visit to Harlingen or Brownsville to inspect flooding from Beulah along the Rio Grande.
The delegate assembly of striking New York teachers approves the proposed school contract by a 2 to 1 margin despite opposition from two APSAN vice presidents. Also reported: a deadly insecticide traced to a Tijuana warehouse. a naval air collision in Jacksonville with casualties feared. and other international and domestic headlines.
Baytown City Council meets Thursday to consider an anti litter ordinance and a ordinance establishing charges for sanitary landfill use. Additional items include a public hearing on annexation of part of the Marbon Plant and bids on bank depository antenna tower and emergency radio equipment.
Sterling Stars prepare a marching halftime performance for Ross Sterling High versus LaMarque at Memorial Stadium. The Precision Corps led by Majors Cantrell and Frymire and Captains Tomlinson and Anderson will execute multi pattern drills with drums and trumpets. The Big Blue Band opens with Swinging On Parade, then Ponderosa, finishing in a block and bow formation as the show moves to midfield.
Milton Brucker of Life Spheres Co unveils a 12 foot diameter capsule seating 23, designed for offshore rigs and ships. At Lee College, the unit withstands blasts, is fire resistant and radar reflective, with two hatches, self-righting stability for 28 aboard, five day life support, self heating, rapid internal launch, and from within control to reduce panic and save time during emergencies.
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