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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 13, 1969
Page
11
A guide to crafting paper camellias for year round color. It explains supplies from crepe paper to wire and stamens, plus step by step folding, shaping, and assembling six small and eight large petals into a bouquet.
At the April meeting in the Tower Pilot Club selected delegates for the district convention in San Antonio in May. Attending are Mrs. W J Strickler Mrs J M Richards and Mrs David Sherron with alternates Mrs Charles Hill Mrs Allen Hamilton and Mrs J Gray. Two alternates named for Baytown to the international convention in Chicago. Club voted $500 to Cerebral Palsy Capital Improvement Fund. New members installed: Mrs A W Henscey Mrs R M Johnston Mrs G I Lerch Mrs Edna Oliver and Mrs R D Malone. Dinner installation in May at the Houston Yacht Club.
Alma Morgan captured the Women’s invitational golf championship for the second year at Sunset Grove Country Club in Orange. Baytown winners included Makey Bates low net in championship flight and Juana Herring low net first flight. Goose Creek Women’s Golf Association results feature Lois Strawn in the championship flight and multiple ties across flights. Joann York posted a 26 for putts and leads the Jo Wright monthly award. High Hopes TOPS awards were given at Citizens Bank to Mrs. W. G. Hall Janey Laney and Janie Strickland with plans for a family pot luck dinner. Connie Smith will represent the club at the state TOPS meeting in Houston. Obvious weight-loss materials and poems featured in meetings.
The Ladies Auxiliary to the Wooster Volunteer Fire Department held an April meeting at Mrs. J. W. Boyd's home with a short business session led by president Mrs. L. H. Allen. Members and guests enjoyed Easter egg hunts and a picnic lunch, with next gathering set for May 1 at Mrs. Allen's home.
David Sherron of the Baytown ACS announces a national Cancer Crusade to distribute 45 million leaflets. The material tackles myths about cancer and urges adults to schedule checkups, listing seven warning signals and urging a personal doctor visit.
Mr and Mrs Herbert Johns of Houston announce a son Charles Matthew born April 10 at Memorial Baptist Hospital weighing 8 pounds 14 ounces. Grandparents C C Parrish of Highlands and Rusty Lowe of Houston. Mr and Mrs Robert Bolivar Martin of Baytown announce a son Kevin James born March 24 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital weighing 7 pounds 3 ounces. He has brother Steven 6 and sister Kimberly 4. Grandparents Harry Martin of Conroe and Clyde Elliott of Baytown. Great grandmother Leatha Elliott of Baytown. Mr and Mrs Tom Dutton of Mont Belvieu announce a daughter Delinda Dorine born April 11 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital weighing 10 pounds 8 ounces. She has brother Glen 8. Grandparents Omar Shoemaker of Baytown and Alma Dutton of Cove. Great grandparents C C Shoemaker and Eula Syer of Baytown.
St. Josephs Catholic Church will host a Day of Recollection for the Bay Area Deanery beginning at 9 a.m. on April 16. Representatives from ten parishes and two missions will attend. Rev. Raymond G. Brezna of Holy Cross Austin will conduct and also serves at St. Jude’s, Brackenridge, Travis State School, and as Catholic Youth director.
Monday and Tuesday meeting times across Baytown and surroundings list clubs, PTA groups, and garden clubs at local venues including Community Building, Sterling Library, and Knights of Columbus Hall. Hollis Clifton Riley Jr. to celebrate first birthday Sunday with grandparents and great grandparents named in the Baytown area.
Marcella Daonnelly retires after 40 years at Humble. She begins travel in June a Northwest bus tour into Canada and hopes to garden at Woodlawn home. Born in Madison Pa she joined in 1928 as a stenographer becoming administrative secretary in 1941. Attends St Josephs Church.
The John Lewis Chapter DAR will host Walter W. Breemer, superintendent of the Alabama-Coushatta Indian Reservation at Livingston, as guest speaker. A 10:30 a.m. business session at Goose Creek Country Club precedes his talk on Texas Indians progress and programs, with a student trainer, crafts display, luncheon, and scholarship support noted. Breemer spearheaded self sustaining life programs bringing tourism, scouting, baseball, kindergarten, scholarships, timber and mineral programs to the reservation. He holds a UT education degree and a Sut Ro ss master, with prior track captaincy in 1951. The DAR and tribal council fund scholarships for Indian students.
The League of Women Voters schedules unit meetings on parks and recreation in Baytown. Hostesses will be Mrs. Wallis Hunt at 9:40 a.m. and Mrs. Robert Oracheff at 7:40 p.m. The meetings revisit a March 1968 study with sources from the City of Baytown report, Outdoor Space Standards, and a 1969 capital improvements review. Attendance invited for those interested in local parks and bond issue plans.
Names N Notes Baytown Duplicate Bridge Club winners Thursday were Mrs. James Harrop and Mrs. C. L. White first, Mrs. Jack Furbee and Mrs. Fred Hartman second. Three tables were in play.
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