Weather Heralds August Entry With Thunderstorms
Baytown weather turned tempestuous as August arrives with thundershowers and lightning. Rain measured .46 inch Tuesday and another .46 by midnight at the Exxon Baytown Refinery gauge. Lightning struck near two homes but caused no reported damage. outages were minimal. The National Weather Service forecasted storms through Thursday with highs in the low 90s and lows in the 70s, while tornado tunnels were sighted near La Marque and Alta Loma though no ground touch-down reported. Cooler air advanced from a front toward the Gulf, bringing widespread showers across Texas from the Panhandle to the south. Severe storm warnings extended to Jasper, Newton, Jefferson, Hardin, and Orange counties.
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Baytown
Exxon
Larry Hale
Houston Lighting and Power
Hale
National Weather Service
Weather Service
la Marque
Alta Loma
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Panhandle
Alice
Falcon Reservoir
Jasper
Newton
Jefferson
Hardin
Orange
Highlands Junior and Baytown Band Rehearsals and Meetings
Seven and eighth graders begin summer band rehearsals at Highlands Junior School from 9 to 12. Baytown area groups hold meetings at 7:30 p.m. around Thursday at the Baytown Fair Grounds. ROBERT E. Lee High summer bands run 12:30 to 3 p.m. with symphonic from 2:15 to 4. An Optimist Club dinner is postponed to Friday at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn. Airman Lucio Samora is assigned to Sheppard AFB after basic training following Robert E. Lee High.
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Highlands
Robert E. Lee High
Baytown
Optimist Club
Holiday Inn
Lucio Samora
John Samora
E. Murrill
Sheppard Afb
Local residents enjoy events and daily life in Bay town
Lynda McCage enjoys a movie. Tana West chafes Karl and Kris Koepke on errands. Kathy Brown helps. Kathi Hayden prepares for summer band. Hallie Martin wears new glasses. Mildred Franklin visits a friend. Ed McGee shows humor. Richard Hardy has a birthday. Ruth Delfke gives up with a song. Linda Irby enjoys a new car. Leatha Whitaker bakes a cake. Kenny and Patti Lannon visit parents. Y. M. Lannon recovering in hospital. Melanie Hinton shares sherbet. New residents Robert and Mrs. Chumley welcomed from Spring. Linda Cassity shops. Bob Grant takes a civil service test.
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Lynda McCage
Tana West Chaffeurs
Karl
Kris Koepke
Kathy Brown
Kathi Hayden
Hallie Martin
Mildred Franklin
Baytown
Ed McGee
Richard Hardy
Ruth Delfke
Linda Irby
Leatha Whitaker
Kenny
Patti Lannon
T. H. Lathams
Y. M. Lannons
Y. M. Lannon
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Melanie Hinton
Billie Hinton
Robert Chumley
Linda Cassity
Bob Grant
Egg prices soar adding to cost spiral in July findings
The Associated Press market basket survey shows a rising grocery bill across 12 of 13 cities from July 23 to July 31 with eggs leading increases. A dozen grade A eggs rose from 58 to 66 cents in Seattle July 1 to July 23, then to 68 cents, and pork chops also climbed in most cities amid price controls ending.
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Associated Press
Seattle
Los Angeles
Marshall declines halt on bombing Cambodia decision
Washington AP report Justice Thurgood Marshall refused to reinstate a lower court order that would halt all U S bombing of Cambodia as of today. The action keeps U S military activity in Cambodia proceeding while caseloads and legal questions continue to mount.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Thurgood Marshall
U.S
Cambodia
Haldeman Defends Note On Demonstrators At Nixon Graham Event
Washington AP H. R. Haldeman testified before the Senate Watergate committee defending a 1971 memo that noted violent demonstrators and obscene signs at a Charlotte appearance by President Nixon and the Rev Billy Graham The memo underlined obscene terms and penciled great and good to describe how the protests might be perceived Haldeman said the annotations reflected potential misinterpretation rather than approval He also discussed an enemies list used to deny courtesies to prominent opponents of administration policy, including Vietnam war critics.
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Washington
White House
H. R. Haldeman
Charlotte
N.C
Nixon
Billy Graham
Haldeman
Lowell P. Weicker Jr
Rconn
Senate Watergate Committee
Weicker
Ronald H. Walker
Secret Service
Graham
Joseph M. Montoya
John W. Dean
Exxon refinery tax roll cut approved by city board
The city board of equalization voted 2-1 to lower Exxon property value by 2 881 080, cutting about 19 000 from the city tax roll at a 1 35 rate. Pickett firm values for the city portion dropped from 113 142 060 to 110 260 980. Industrial district value unchanged at 287 317 520. Exxon total city payments for 1973 drop to 961 296 40 from 956 295 01. Six older units also reduced.
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Wanda Orton
City Board of Equalization
Exxon
Thomas Y. Pickett
Pickett
Delta stewardesses among 88 killed in DC crash
Our World reports three Houston Delta Airlines stewardesses Janie Lea Wilson Anne Lee Moore and Patricia Lee Humphreys were among 88 dead after a Delta DC crash. Houston Oilers acquire James Ford from New Orleans Saints for two 1974 draft picks pending a physical after knee surgery in 1971. Pentagon says U S doubles rate of military aid to Phnom Penh as Aug 15 Cambodia cutoff nears.
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Boston
Delta Airlines
Houston
Janie Lea Wilson
Anne Lee Moore
Patricia Lee Humphreys
Houston Oilers
James Ford
New Orleans Saints
Ford
Washington
Cambodia
Pentagon
United States
Phnom Penh
City Tax Board to Meet Advancing annual report review
A work session is planned at 4 p m next Thursday Aug 23 by the city tax board to prepare the annual report and address problems in fees and industrial appraisals Exxon is the only protested value Others industries have varying industrial district payment formulas while fixed sums for U S Steel Houston Lighting and Power Co and Mobay Chemical remain unchanged The board has finished its informal hearings for the year Ted Kloesel chairman said
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Ted Kloesel
Thomas Y. Pickett
Exxon
Kloeser
U.S. Steel
Houston Lighting and Power Co
Mobay Chemical
Kloesel
Baytown
Drinan Files Impeachment Measure Amid Cambodia Bombing Row
Rep. Robert F. Drinan introduces a House impeachment resolution against President Nixon over a secret Cambodia air war. Leadership expresses cool reception and no early action. Drinan cites Watergate and seeks a hearing to restore public trust amid mounting political pressure.
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Washington
Nixon
Cambodia
Robert F. Drinan
Dmass
Drinan
House of Representatives
America
House
Haiphong Harbor
Richard M. Nixon
United States
Democratic House
Thomas P. O'Neill Jr
Massachusetts
O'Neill
Senate Watergate Committee
Special Watergate
Archibald Cox
Beach City Rejects Revenue Sharing Funds
Beach City officials voted to send a letter to the U S Treasury declaring no interest in revenue sharing funds. The council learned the city had a zero adjusted tax figure before 1971 and future allocations, estimated at 200 to 400 dollars, were not worth the paperwork. Aldermen Reed Bai les and others urged writing the letter to be removed from the mailing list.
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Beach City
U.S
U.S. Treasury
Jimmy McClellan
Revenue Sharing Fund Office
Weather Update for Baytown Area Clouds and Warm Showers Likely
Cloudy to partly cloudy and warm with a chance of showers through Thursday in the Baytown area. Low temperatures expected in the low 70s tonight with a high Wednesday. Tide times near Morgans Pont show highs around 5:20 a.m. and 6:10 p.m. and lows at 6:28 a.m. and 7:22 p.m.
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Baytown Area
Morgans Pont Tidles
Ulbricht Dies A Longtime East German Leader
Walter Ulbricht, the elder statesman of East German communism and chief architect of the Berlin Wall era, died at 80 after a stroke. He led the state from 1960s into the Brezhnev era, shaping policy and relations with the Soviet bloc and backing 1968 invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
Social Unity Party of Germany
State Council
The
German Democratic Republic
People’s Chamber
National Council of
National Front
ADN
Ulbricht
Roger Bonvin
Switzerland
Uboricht
Europe
Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Leonid I. Brezhnev
Alexei N. Kosygin
Kremlin
Czechoslovakia
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Abe Rosenzweig
Truett Smith
Our World
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Julie McNeil
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Bowie Elementary
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