Beltway 8 designation for Houston outer loop approved
The Texas Highway Commission approved signing and guard fencing on a 6.5 mile section of Interstate Loop 616 in Houston from I-10 northward to Hardy Street at an estimated cost of 308000 dollars. The commission redesignated the proposed 87.5 mile outer loop as Beltway No 8, extending from I 45 north of Houston east of the airport across the Ship Channel and back to the starting point. Maine's Mount Desert Island was named by Samuel de Champlain who saw it in 1604 and called it Ile des Monts Desert.
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Austin
Texas Highway Commission
Houston
Hardy Street
Interstate High
Houston Intercontinental Airport
Houston Ship Channel
Maine
Mount Desert Island
Samuel de Champlain
Ile Des Monts Desert
Sears Catalog Makes Fall Debut In Baytown
The 1969 Fall Sears catalog debuts in Baytown with new knit wear, wrinkle resistant fabrics, and family wardrobe ideas. It highlights the Kings Road Collection, youth sleepwear, and no iron children’s clothes while noting enzyme washing machines, shortwave radios, and space for Chinese and Japanese cookware. More than 12 million families will read and review the 1,600 page volume.
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Sears
Baytown
Charles L. Tillery
New Kings Road
Crosby Soldier Completes Basic Training at Fort Bliss
Pvt. Larry Martin, 20, son of Mr and Mrs Hubert Martin of Crosby, completed eight weeks of basic combat training at Fort Bliss Air Defense Center. He qualified as an expert with the M14 rifle, hitting 59 of 84 targets. A 1967 Crosby High School graduate, he entered the Army in May and finished basic on August 1.
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Fort Bliss
Tex
Larry Martin
Hubert Martin
Crosby
U.S. Army Training Center
Air Defense
Martin
Crosby High School
Army
Beverly Ann Lannon Celebrates First Birthday
Beverly Ann Lannon daughter of Mr and Mrs Michael L Lannon celebrates her first birthday Tuesday. Grandparents are Mr and Mrs Albert J Jacobs and Mr and Mrs Gordon C Lannon of Raytown. Great grandmother is Mrs Rose Heiman of Raytown.
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Gregory Scott Naiser
Ronnie Naiser
Jefferson
Ron
J. J. Honker
Kaly
A. J. Naiser
Baytown
Frank Stavinoha
Richard Nasser
LaGrange
R. J. McReynolds
Dallas
R. B. Hooker
Parts
Beverly Ann Lanton
Mer
Michael L. Lannon
Republic
Albert J. Jacobs
Gordon C. Lannon
Raytown
Mes
Rose Heiman
Raytowns
Record flight sets payload world record in 1939
On July 30, 1939 at Wright Field Ohio Maj C V Haynes and Capt WD Old flew a Boeing B 15 to an altitude of 8200 feet carrying a payload of 15 and one half tons reclaiming the world record for payload capacity in a military aircraft.
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United States
Maj
C.V. Haynes
Capt. WD. Old
Wright Field
Ohio
Smoke alarm leads to empty warehouse fumigation
Edinburgh firemen wearing breathing masks burst into a warehouse after a report of smoke but found the building empty. The structure was being fumigated for moths. The report mentions Boothbay Maine, settled in 1830 as Newagen in its early history.
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Edinburgh
Scotland
Boothbay, Me
Newagen
Channelview Soldier Completes Basic Combat Training
Danny Frank McGee, 20, son of Mr and Mrs Frank M McGee of Channelview, completed eight weeks of basic training at the U S Army Training Center C A. He served in B Company 2d Battalion 3d Basic Combat Training Brigade and qualified as an expert with the M 14 rifle. A 1968 Channelview High School graduate, he entered the Army in May and finished basic training in August. He attended San Jacinto Junior College and remains active in his church.
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Fort Bliss
Tex
Danny Frank McGee
Frank M. McGee
Ave. D
Channelview
U.S. Army Training Center
Air Defense
McGee
Channelview High School
San Jacinto Junior College
Pasadena
Army
Maine Leads U.S. Shipbuilding Amid 1848 Output
In 1848 the United States built 428 brigs barks and ships with Maine accounting for more than half of those vessels. The record highlights Maine’s dominance in the era’s shipbuilding boom.
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U.S
Maine
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Gordon
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