City Summer Softball Deadlines Extended For Entries
SRS oms Softball Entries DEADLINES for entry fees and rosters for the city summer softball program have been extended until noon Wednesday. Minerva Study Club will have the annual guest day at 1 am Friday at the Community Building Room 3. A&M Mothers Club will hold a business meeting at 7 30 pm Tuesday at Mrs. Truett Smiths home 100 Forrest. Deanery Diocesan Council of Catholic Women will meet at 16 am Wednesday at St Judes Church Highlands to elect officers. Lutheran men will hear attorney John Pfennig speak on wills at 7 pm Tuesday at St Pauls Church. Baseball Officials scorekeepers and umpires will meet at 7 30 pm Tuesday at Parks and Recreation Office Community Building. Civic Association Brownwood Civic Association will meet 7 30 pm Tuesday in the Wooster Water Office. Scout Training final training session for Day Camp for Girl Scouts will be held at am Wednesday at Camp Reber.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A&m Mothers Club
Catholic Women
Bay Area
Diocesan Council of Catholic Women
St. Jude's Church
Highlands
ST. Paul's
John Pfennig
Parks and Recreation
Reber
Bay town weather forecast warm through Tuesday
PARTLY CLOUDY and warm through Tuesday in the Bay town area. Temperature range expected around 60 to mid 80s. Galveston tides show high at 3:48 a.m. and low at 12:51 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Area
Galveston
Easter Weekend Notes From Dacus Texas and Nearby
A mosaic of hometown clips with names and events. Buddy Jones comments on bluebonnets in Dacus where he was born. Norman Hargrave Jr. keeps busy as a beaver on Easter Sunday. Carson Howell laments aging back. Jim Dix injures hand while mowing. Harry Stefani muses on flight. Dr Joe Ed McLemore of Houston visits with parents. Noel Richardson tests golf clubs. Dub Rogers and Wanda Burch attend an Astros game. Neil Jones and Virginia Vaughn travel to Terrell to judge an Easter art show at the state hospital. Johnny Walmsley brings a vintage bugle to play in a theater piece. David Dignam fills in for the jester and blows reveille. Henry Armstrong discusses computers and class programming. Mrs How ard Moseley promotes a Sam Houston sorority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buddy Jones
Dacus
Tex
Norman Hargrave Jr
Carson Howell
Jim Dix
Harry Stefani
Joe Ed McLemore
Houston
Holly McLemore
Noel Richardson
Dub Rogers
Astros
Wanda Burch
Neil Jones
Virginia Vaughn
Terrell
State Hospital
Johnny Walmsley
David Dignam
Reveille
Hern
Henry Armstrong
Howard Moseley
Sam Houston
Duke Wayne Stars In Baytown Oil Film Hellfighters
John Wayne continues filming The Hellfighters in Baytown Texas as Universal Studios powers a busy set amid fires and rain. Jim Hutton admires his wife Marilyn and kids as he and Wayne work on The Green Berets while Red Adair fine tunes the technicals on location.
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John Wayne
Baytown
Universal Studios of Hollywood
Texas
Goose Creek
Jim Hutton
Marilyn
Heidi
Timothy
Hutton
Houston
Red Adair
2300 Volts Fry Worker Nearly Fatally Electrocuted
Larry Thomas, a 12 year old pipefitter helper at Starco Contractors working near electrical installations at Humble Oil Baytown Refinery, was shocked by a 2300 volt line. A co worker freed him, witnesses said he seemed fatally injured, but he survived and was treated at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital with resuscitation efforts. The report also mentions film production notes for Hellfighters with Bruce Cabot observing, and schedule shifts due to blizzards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Larry Thomas
Starco
Humble Oil and Refining& Co
Baytown
Thomas
Boo Callins
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Absentee Voting Opens In Harris County Primaries
Absentee voting for the May 4 Democratic and Republican primaries runs through April 30 at the old fire station corner of Caroline and Preston in Houston. Only ill or disabled voters may mail ballots with a doctor's note. Hours are 8 to 8 on Mon and Fri and 9 to 5 Tue Wed Thu. The old fire station polling place closes April 20 22 but opens 2 to 5 on April 27 28 weekends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harris County
Bob Turrentine
Humble Annuitants To Organize Club
Baytown annuitants of Humble Oil and Refining Co will form a Separate Humble Annuitants club at 1 p.m. Wednesday in a meeting at the Civic Center. All retired Humble workers are invited to attend and discuss relations with the company and aid from similar groups in Houston Baton Rouge Linden New Jersey. A slate of officers will be named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Annuitants
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Humble Annuitants Lab
Civic Center
Baytown Humble
Houston
Baton, Rouge
Linden
N.J
Eric Galt Key FBI Snag In King Probe
Investigators chased a elusive Eric Starvo Galt after a taxi flight from Memphis with a white Mustang tied to the sniper case of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. A Birmingham landlady identified drawings resembling Galt, while his alleged car was impounded in Atlanta. The FBI pursued clues and pressed for details while declines and blank records hinder the case.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
FBI
Martin Luther King Jr
Eric Starvo Galt
FBE
Eric Galt
Peter Cherpes
Galt
Atlanta
Hin
Memphis
Tenn
John Willard
King’s
Sant
Willard
Florida
Cherpes
Associated Press
Eric Starve Galt
Mississippi
Louisiana
Peace talks blocked as Hanoi cites lack of goodwill
North Vietnam accuses the United States of a lack of goodwill after rejecting two sites Hanoi proposed for initial peace meetings. A separate report criticizes Detroit antipoverty administration for misleading information on participants and finance claims. Texas Wallace campaign coordinators say groups are organizing in 126 of 254 counties to place his name on the November ballot. Senate to consider White House riot commission recommendations costing about 350 billion in a decade. The Soviet Union links unmanned Cosmos satellites, delaying the U S space program by nearly four years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Viettnam
United States
Hanoi
Texas
Alabama
George Wallace
Wallace
Senate
White House Riot Commission
Governors Fail To Tag Favorite In Democratic Field
In St Louis Democratic governors failed to back a preferred presidential candidate. After 21 hours of talks they did not reach a consensus on a nominee, acknowledging President Johnson would neither seek nor accept the nomination. A minority had voiced choices beforehand, but no new commitments emerged.
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ST. Louis
White House
Johnson
Services Are Wednesday For Dr H D Giddings
Funeral services for Dr Harold DeWitt Giddings 68 of 115 Lazy Lane are at 10 a.m. Wednesday at Earthman Chapel with Dr Robert Joiner officiating. Military graveside rites follow at 11:30 a.m. at the Veterans Administration Cemetery in Houston. He died Monday at home. A Rice Institute 1923 and UT Medical School Galveston 1927 graduate, he worked as an industrial surgeon in Houston and served in the Navy reaching captain before retiring in 1981. Survived by wife Vesta of Baytown, two daughters, two sisters, a brother, seven grandchildren and numerous nieces and nephews. Two Baytown nephews also listed.
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Harold DeWitt Giddings
Lazy Lane
Earthman Chapel
Robert Joiner
Veterans Administration Cemetery
Houston
Giddings
Rice Institute
University of Texas Medical School
Galveston
Baptist Memorial Hospital
Southern Pacific Hospital
Uni
Versity
Edinburgh
el Campo
Navy
Atlantic
Nassau
U. S
Honolulu
Baytown
Taos
N. M
Albert Thormas
Rice
Thomas
Dr. Giddings
Yari
Tr. Giddings
Vesta Giddings
Vesta Bowden
Mattie Lou Fry
Bellaire
Mattie Brusse
Louise Giddings
Brenham
William M. Giddings
Gramdchildren
J. D. Giddings
L. E. Giddings
Underground cable project starts in Baytown area
General Telephone Co of the Southwest begins a major 1968 underground conduit project in Baytown to service the northern area for 30 years. The plan includes pressurization, cable upgrades, and removal of aerial lines to enhance one party service, with completion anticipated in four months.
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Henry Holcome
Baytown
General Telephone Co
al Chappell
Pearce
Td Jones
Jones
Morrell Street
North Main Street
North Main
Morrell
Baker Road
Bob Smith Road
Massey-Tompkins
Shiloh Exchange
Chappell
Concete
Chappel
Nationwide strike looms as telephony workers union warns
AFL CIO Communications Workers President Joseph A Beirne says only a miracle can avert a nationwide strike of about 200 000 telephone workers next Thursday. Two American planes are shot down over North Vietnam's southern panhandle and a U S spokesman notes the Communists may position more anti aircraft guns south to counter intensified bombing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph A. Beirne
Aflcio Communications Workers
North Vietnam
Panhandle
U. S
Posthumous Viet Awards Given Soldier's Wife
Second Lt. James D. Carter Jr the son of Baytown car dealer Mr. and Mrs. Jim Carter and Mrs. Frances Turmer of Lubbock has been honored posthumously with the Purple Heart National Defense Service Medal Vietnam Service Medal and Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal Janice L. Carter of Houston his widow attended the parade ceremony at the Marine Corps Reserve Training Center in Houston Carter was killed June 7 leading a patrol near Da Nang He had previously earned two Purple Hearts in Vietnam He attended Horace Mann Junior High School Baytown and Plainview High School He graduated from Texas Tech in 1965 with a BA in business administration His survivors include his parents wife one year old son John Scott a sister Adrienne Ragle a half brother Christopher Turner and grandparents in Fort Worth
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James D. Carter Jr
Baytown
Houston
Carter
da Nang
Vietnam
Horace Mann
Plainview High School
Texas Tech
John Scott
Adrienne Ragle
Plainview
Christopher Turner
Lubbock
Joe Kennedy
Fort Worth
Louis Reid
Ft. Worth
Mont Belvieu annexes 568 acres expanding townsite
Mont Belvieu City Council annexed 568 more acres, expanding the townsite to 3,022 acres and lifting population to 1,132. The move followed a petition by a majority of 22 area residents, with 15 registered voters in the new tract. The annexed area lies south of the old city limits near Interstate 10 and Cedar Bayou Stream, including Sun Oil properties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mont Belvieu
J. B. Gill
Mont Belvien
Gill
Southern Pacific Railroad
Cedar Bay‘pu
Sun OU Co
Sun
Sun Oils Ofls
Barbers Hill
Teen Baseball Sign Up in Baytown for 12 to 16 year olds
Boys in the Baytown area aged 12 to 16 are invited to sign up for the Optimist Baytown teen baseball leagues from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday at the Junior Optimist Building on Market Street. All players must sign up, even if they played last year, and one parent must accompany the boy. The final signup date is April 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
Optimist
Junior Optimist
Market Street
Tommie Jones Named Optimist Club President in Baytown
Tommie Jones of North Shore National Bank is elected president of the Noon Optimist Club of Baytown succeeding Reggie Brewer of Citizens National Bank and Trust Co. New directors include Gil Gresham, Lee Horacefield, and Randall Pitts. Officers to be installed at a May banquet with office taking effect June 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommie Jones
North Shore National Bank
Noon Optimist Club
Baytown
Reggie Brewer
Citizens National Bank and Trust Co
Jones
Baytown Engineering Co
Randall Pitts
Pearl Beer Distributing Co
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Minerva
Menerva
Willl
Civic Association
Brownwood Civic Association
Wooster Water Office
Jim Kyte
Bruce Cabot
Casper
Wyo
Hollywood
Katherine Ross
Jackson
Eldorado Country Club
Humble
Universal Studios
Orenn Borsten
Houstonian
Hellfighters
King
AP Wire
Detroit
Soviet Union
H. D. Giddings
de, H. D. Giddings
H. J. Burton
H. E. Summers
James D. Carter
Fed
Citizens National Bank & Trust Co
Mamper
DIC
Teen
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