Community notices and events near Baytown and Galveston
Local groups schedule meetings at Grace Methodist and Robert E Lee High School for youth fair and social relations. Pipe fitter James Rice wins state test. goes to Beaumont in June for competition. Baytown Youth Fair, sports car club, and church activities listed. Obituaries note deaths of Mrs. Cluster Stacks and Mrs. Lon Pearson with funeral details. Houston Chamber reports February Harris County nonresidential construction at $16.1 million. Recital by Robert Arnett at Sam Houston State College and Sterling Library offers paperback trading shelf. Bayshore fishing contest planned June 29 to July 7. Weather notes forecast little change with temps and tides for Galveston.
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James H
Butch) Rice
Pipe Fitters Local 23
Beaumont
Levee project delayed months away in Texas coast plan
George Marinos of the Galveston District says Congress has not yet funded a study for the Brownwood levee and an 18 month study will follow if approved. He notes possible local action before a full coastal protection plan is ready and cites Port Lavaca Palacios Brownwood Lakewood Wooster as needing interim protection due to catastrophe risk.
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Wooster Chamber of Commerceti
George Marinos
Thel
Galveston
U. S. Army Corps of Engineers
Congress
Marinos
Baytown
Texas
Bay Area
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United States
Thelahead
Soviet Union
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Maurice Stans
Ken
Stans’ly
Pentagon
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Senate
Local notices and odds and ends from Around town
Community snippets report a pediatric tonsil operation at Gulf Coast Hospital for Andrea Liles from Yaupon Drive, a Pekingese needing a home, a lost billiard at Robert E Lee High School with wallet return urged, a Baytown man touring Carlsbad Caverns, and miscellaneous society mentions including photo arrangements and a poetry showered Ann Pritchett.
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Ray Rushing
Andrea Liles
Yaupon Drive
Gulf Coast Hospital
Acie Harrison
Ronald Laird
Wright Blvd
Robert E. Lee High School
Douglas Crawley
Baytown
Carlsbad Caverns National Park
New Mexico
County Seeks Tax Action Over Tunnel Right of Way
Harris County threatens to condemn a land strip from Missouri Street to the bay high tide line used for the Baytown La Porte Tunnel right of way over back taxes owed by Andy Bargainer. Bargainer disputes the tax records while the state holds the land previously owned and planned for a house. The notice demands $87.66 within 14 days or the county will sell the property for taxes.
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Baytown- la Porte
Morgan’s Point
Harris County
Andy Bargainer
Baytown
Bargainer
Missouri Street
Bay High Tide Line
Sun Grin One Girl to Another Cad in Convertible
A fragment shows a girl calling a man a cad while describing him in a hot convertible, capturing a cheeky street conversation and tone of teasing gossip.
Kennedy comments on Cuba and Soviet troops in Cuba
President Kennedy told reporters he expected further reductions in Cuban and Soviet presence but cautioned against overreaching claims. He cited estimates of 4,000 to 12,000 Soviet citizens remaining in Cuba and noted the broader Cold War pressures from both sides. He also defended space and defense programs while predicting mixed congressional reception for administration proposals.
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Washington
Kennedy
Jeff
Cuba
United States
Bay of Main
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Argentine revolt slows as loyalists seek truce terms
In Buenos Aires a mutiny by rebel naval units pauses as Rear Adm Vazquez and loyalist leaders consider ceasefire conditions. Defense minister Astigueta relayed terms for navy withdrawal while reports place unofficial death toll at 26, amid ongoing gunfire and conflicting casualty accounts.
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Argentina
Jose Maria Guido
Juan Manuel
Astigueta
Adm
Eladio Vazquez
Juans Cozies Ongania
Vazquez
Navy
Jujuy
Government House
Wooster Library Opens New Harris County Branch
The Harris County Library opens a Wooster branch at 6014 Bayway Drive with 8 000 volumes. County Commissioner Red Ramsey will cut the ribbon at 2 p m Sunday, with brief remarks. Hours: 9 am to 5 pm weekdays, 1 9 pm Wednesday, and 9 am to noon Saturday. Mrs C T Shewell is librarian and Barbara Collier assistant librarian.
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Harris County Library
Wooster
V. V
Ramsey
Bayway Drive
C. T. Shewell
Barbara ‘Collier
Moore Named Baytown Chamber Manager After Borger Farewell
Baytown welcomes Dave Moore new chamber of commerce manager after saying goodbye to Borger at the Panhandle dinner. He plans a rapid start meeting locals and launching a growth oriented program. Moore, 13, brings broad experience from Borger Laredo Weslaco and Little Rock.
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Baytown
Chamber of Commerce
Borger
Moore
Temple
Bowie
Moores
Board of Directors
Laredo
Weslaco
Little Rock
The
Chamber
Borper
Gulf Coast
Redistricting Battles Shape Texas Politics In 1963 Session
Austin AP reporting shows the Texas House advancing a redistricting bill with 21 amendments and two substitutes. Senate delays Connally merger of Game and Fish with Parks, calling it political blackmail. Tax breaks for sulfur producers lower production tax to 1.03 per ton, speed limits up to 70 mph debated but radar concerns recalled. Authorities push voter registration reforms with a 7 cent annual fee and literacy prerequisites.
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Connally
Game and Fish Commission
State Parks Board
Senate
Rogers
House
Sabc Uss
SLM
Dallas County
Harris County
Sam Rayburn
Ray Roberts
McKinney
Wright Patman
Texarkana
Texas
Dallas
U.S
Joz Pool
Con Tally
Department of Public Safety
Forest Harding
San Angelo
Dorsey Hardeman
Bill Walker
Cleveland
Redistricting Bill Faces Doubt In Texas Senate
Austin dispatch notes House approval of a congressional redistricting plan that would create a new Dallas County seat, shift districts including Rayburn’s former seat to South Texas, and pair Rep. Ray Roberts with Rep. Wright Patman in a northeast district, prompting grim forecasts for the bill’s fate in the Senate.
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Austin
House
Dallass County
Sam Rayburn
Texas
Ray Roberts
McKinney
Wright Patman
Patman
William Patman
Canada
Senate
Roberts
Joe Poot
Dallas
Harris County
H&o
Bexar County
Tarrant County
Dallas County
Steward Rites Incomplete In Baytown Vet WWI Church
Clarence Edgar Steward 67 of 307 W Francis Baytown died at home Wednesday night after 20 years in Baytown and 28 years with Houston Natural Gas He was a World War I veteran and Trinity Episcopal Church member Survived by wife Dorothy Steward two daughters two sons and two sisters Funeral arrangements to be announced by Earthman Funeral Home
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Clarence Edgar Steward
W. Francis
Earthman Funeral Home
Baytown
Steward
Houston Natural Gas Co
Trinity Episcopal Church
Dorothy Steward
Air Force
Charles E_ Steward
Savannah
Charles H. West
E. M. Gilbert
Houston
W. M. Head
Mary Heath
Rail Strike Threat Postponed 60 Days
Washington reports a nationwide railroad strike delay of at least 60 days as President Kennedy appoints a three member emergency board to mediate the Featherbedding dispute under the Railway Labor Act. The panel led by Samuel J. Rosenman will begin hearings next week with two other members, seeking settlement proposals within 30 days and a further 4 day negotiation period.
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Washington
Kennedy
Samuel J. Rosenman
New York Supreme Court
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Law
Nathan Feinsinger
University of Wisconsin
Clark Kerr
the Uniiversity of California
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Feinsinger
Rosenman
Rosenman Board
VFW Marble Play Starts Preliminaries for Annual Tourney
The VFW Post 912 tournament opens April 6 and 13 at the VEW Hall with preliminaries for Baytown city championship. The final playoff is set for April 20 at VEW Hall. city winners face Harris County district winners in an effort to settle labor and retraining issues via binding arbitration.
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VFW
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Simon H. Rifkind
U.S
Eas
New York
David Es
Jors
Greenvill
Sun Carriers To Take Part In Fitness Test
Baytown Sun carriers will join a physical fitness test tied to a major circulation campaign. Led by Bob Gilmore, the program follows a failed 50 mile hike by Billy Mitchell Jimmy Sheppard and Raymond Fellers and encourages carriers to hike routes and sell subscriptions at non subscribers homes for cash increases and prizes.
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Bobby Kennedy
Kennedy
Baytown
Houston
Gilmore
Cedar Bayou Bridge To Be On Harris County Ballot
Harris County plans a spring bond election with funds for a Cedar Bayou bridge to connect Baytown and Chambers County and replace the damaged bascule bridge. The ballot may also include a high level bridge across the Houston Ship Channel, Bayway Drive improvements, jail and penal farm funding, and Fairmont Parkway construction from Sylvan Beach Park to the Gulf Freeway.
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Fred Hartman
Baytown
Harris County
Commissioners’ Court
Bill Elliott
Cedar Bayou
Chambers County
Houston Ship Channel
San Jacinto“ Ordnance
Shell
Bayway Drive
West Baytown
W. V. Ramsey
Court House
la Porte
Bayshore
Fairmont Parkway
Sylvan Beach Park
S W Dobson Funeral Set For Saturday
Funeral services for Starrett Washington Dobson 67 of Baytown will be held at 10 am Saturday at Paul A Lee Funeral Home. Burial in Memory Gardens of Baytown Cemetery. Survivors include wife Polly, two sons Harold and Jack, daughter Harvard J Smith, 11 grandchildren, two sisters, five brothers and one sergeant brother.
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Paul A. Lee
Starrett Washington Dobson
Felton
Baytown
Houston
Burnett W. Dowler
First Presbyterian Church
Polly Dobson
Harold L. Dobson
Bellaire
Jack Dobson
Little Rock
Harvard J. Smith
C. C. Barrett
Sugar Valley
J. B Flemming
Birmingham
Ala
Ben. HL Dobson
Rome
Henry Dobson
Walker Dobson
Roy Dobson
Msgt
Hoyt Dobson
Anchorage
Alaska
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Ann Pritchett
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Newton
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Grimes
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Maoyston
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Trinity
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Teague
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Higolga
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Jim Wells
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