School-Community Guidance Center OK'd for 1970 71
The board approved a pilot plan to create a school community guidance center using district city and county staff to cut drop outs and truancy. Aimed to locate absent students through no-show lists police sightings and citizen reports the program will include a visiting teacher a special assignment teacher a police officer and a county probation officer housed in Anson Jones building with a secretary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnella Boynton
Dallas Public Schools
Ty Probation Officer
Anson Jones Building
Funeral for Frank Kanak Observed in Wallace Texas
Attend funeral for Frank Kanak of Wallace Texas as MR and MRS Edar of 111 Weaver attended. Also notes a Diabetes Association meeting in Sterling Municipal Library auditorium with Dr Harold J Dobson speaking at 7 30 PM about outpatient services and hospitalization insurance. John Stuart, retired deputy superintendent, is in intensive care at Shannon Hospital San Angelo after a Sunday stroke leaving him paralyzed on the right.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank Edar
Weaver
Frank Kanak
Wallace
Tex
Harold J. Dobson
Hermann Hospital
Houston
South Texas Diabetes Association
Bay, Town Diabetes Association
Sterling Municipal Library
Hal
John Stuart
Shannon Hospital
San Angelo
Stuart
Drexel Vincent
San Angelo College
Mrs. Vincent
Weather And Tides Tuesday Baytown Forecast
Considerable cloudiness with little change to temperatures. Baytown area temperatures upper 60s to low 80s. Morgan's Point tides Wednesday high at 8 13 p m low at 6 07 a m. Wednesday sunrise 6 42 a m sunset 7 54 p m.
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Baytown Area
Morgan's
Local figures tour Astroworld and plan events
Percy Jackson and Gary Nelson of Mont Belvieu visit Astroworld and discuss its wonders. Thurman Rowlett, Lee College director, guarantees a family friendly rating for Once Upon A Mattress. Ernestine Bright coordinates a meeting. Merle Coates works on a youth project. Mrs Albert Bryan plans an occasion. Bobby Sutphin, Jean Bitterly and Lois Schmidt rent Market Square for an art display next Sunday. Shirley Englemann prepares a banquet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thurman Rowlett
Lee College
Ernestine Bright
Merle Coates
Albert Bryan
Bobby Sutphin
Jean Bitterly
Lois Schmidt
Market Square
Shirley Englemann
Baytonian Bernice Brinkley Killed in Fairfield Car Crash
Mrs Bernice Lamb Brinkley age 42 of 309 Long Drive died after a head on collision on the outskirts of Fairfield Texas Monday afternoon. The other driver also died. Funeral arrangements at Paul A Lee Funeral Home pending arrival of her husband Charles A Brinkley from Seoul Korea where he works for Kellogg Construction Co. Survivors include daughter Patsy Compton Wichita Falls son Wayne Brinkley Houston and three grandchildren.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bernice Lamb Brinkley
Fairfield
Tex
Council Sets 5 PM Meeting to Consider Craigmont Sewage Bids
Baytown City Council plans 5 PM Tuesday session to act on six bids for a Craigmont sewer plant addition of 250000 gallons per day. Bids opened showed wide ranges from 42490 to 65665 with differing inclusions as Mor ton reviews for a recommended action.
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Craigmont
Baytown
Marton
George W. Noyes and Associates
Houston
Smith-Loveless
Rites Set For Former Chief Of CB Schools
Funeral services will be held at 3 pm Wednesday at First Baptist Church in Pasadena for R. W. Akridge 60 of 2602 Williamsburg Pasadena who died of an apparent heart attack at 9 15 am Monday in a Pasadena hospital He was former superintendent of the Cedar Bayou School District and Houston representative for J F Clarkland Co Akridge served as Cedar Bayou superintendent 1940 1954 and Northeast Houston district 1954 1957 He held BA and MA from Southwest State Teachers College and did graduate work at University of Houston He was listed in Who's Who in School Administration.
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First Baptist Church
Pasadena
R. W. Akridge
Williamsburg
Cedar Bayou
L. D. Morgan
E. R. Burns
Akridge
Houston
J. F. Clarkland Co
Baytown
Northeast Houston
Southwest State Teachers College
San Marcos
University of Houston
Port official expected to be named Houston director
Houston bulletin reports Spi George W Altwater deputy director of the Port of Houston is expected to be named director at a Port Authority meeting at 1 30 pm Wednesday succeeding Director Jerry P Turner who has asked to be relieved Austin AP Texas House members approved 138 9 a proposed state constitution change giving 18 year olds the vote in state and local elections
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Austin
Texas
Fourth day of intensified shelling hits South Vietnam bases
In Saigon allied bases faced renewed multi-venue shelling while a Da Nang rocket caused a fuel blaze and mass evacuations. Separate reports from Ft. McPherson note testimony about alleged prisoner harm at a court martial. In Washington the Republican National Committee named Hubert Humphrey as the odds-on favorite for 1972 Democratic nomination if Kennedy stays out.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
da Nang
FT. Mcpherson, Ga
Army
Eugene M. Kotouc
Kotouc
Washington
Republican National Committee
Sen
Hubert H. Humphrey
Edward M. Kennedy
Nixon Favours U.N. Seats for both Chinas
A presidential commission led by Henry Cabot Lodge urges United Nations representation for the People's Republic of China and Taiwan. The report says allegiance to the UN charter should govern membership, allowing dual seats for China and other states, and notes U.S. signals toward Peking. It also cites new exchanges with China and easing embargoes as a thaw in relations.
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Washington
Washington- Peking
Nixon
U.N
White House
United Nations
United States
China
U.S
Edgar Snow
Life Magazine
Mao Tsetune
State Department
Snow
Peking
People's Republic of China
Charles Bray
Bray
Commission
Republic of China
Taiwan
USN
Paul D Hodge 43 Years in Texas Education to Retire
Dr Paul D Hodge, veteran Baytown educator and LBJ classmate, will retire after the 1970 71 school year with 43 years in education 18 in Baytown He recalls federal aid increasing paperwork and policy changes and notes today’s teens are more advanced He will be honored at a Community Building open house from 7 to 9 PM Tuesday Hodge began teaching in 1924 in Skidmore and later led Cedar Bayou Junior High School prior to district consolidation He earned his doctorate from the University of Houston in 1958 and started his career at age 19 in Texas
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nettles
Baytown
Clark
Betsy Webber
Paul D. Hodge
Texas
Bay
Hodge
Saie
Cedar Bayou
University of Houston
Greenville
Skidmore
Subdivision Park Bill Goes To Study Panel
Two Texas House committees sent bills by Rep. Joe Allen to subcommittees for study. HB 1563 would let local governments require 10 percent of new subdivision land be park or school space and was debated in the counties committee with support from Baytown planner Ross Wilhite. HB 11 would curb dredging permits by the Parks and Wildlife Department in selected bays near Galveston Trinity and East Bays, with the measure referred to a subcommittee for review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Erwin
Austin Bureau
Austin
Texas
House
Joe Allen
Baytown
Allen
House Counties Committee
Ross Wilhite
Texas Association of City Planners
League of Women Voters
Wilhite and Allen
The
Parks and Wildlife Department
Galveston
Trinity
East Bays
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Channel 39
Cambodia
Jack Morton
Whispering Pines
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Rites
CB Schools
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