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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 1964
Page
3
Galveston engineers Welton Vecket and Associates have been asked to prepare the master plan for the $20 million Magic Harbors project. The 1,500 acre development near Galveston port will use surplus funds and include theme areas.
Channelview 4-H members with goat show entries on August 16 at the North Houston Auction Barn will hold sessions Tuesdays and Thursdays at the S.N. McGuffin facility. Prizes include a donated goat. Also notes on local residents: Patersons’ new oval swimming pool, crutches for Mrs Gianake after a past auto accident, and Channelview residents away at parks, camps, and military leave, with various brief updates.
The National Urban League released a list of more than 740 cities in 24 states where federal aid is barred by racial discrimination. Whitney M. Young Jr. said the situation is intolerable and urged end to such practices. The report, submitted to the White House, contends Title VI of the Civil Rights Act prohibits disbursement of tax dollars to segregated institutions.
The points where the sun crosses the celestial equator are the equinoxes, marking days and nights nearly equal in length. The sun’s farthest distance from the equator creates the solstices, when daylight and darkness are most unequal.
The Baytown Police Wives Club will sponsor a charity music festival in Harlingen and West with religious and variety acts. Notables include Eddy Arnold TV segments via Chicago and Louisiana Hayride, and performances by the Nash Family Trio from the Rio Grande Valley. Proceeds go to police wives charity projects. tickets $4 adults, 50 cents children. MC Larry Warren of Houston. Clergy ministers Paul Stephens and Jenkins R. Woods will deliver invocation and benediction. The Nash Family, formed in 1956, has recorded albums for Columbia and performed nationally and on radio and television.
Washington AP reports Senate Appropriations Committee approved a 424 million public works bill providing 5 million for Texas water projects. Key Army Engineer items include Bardwell Reservoir 6.5 million Brazos Island harbor Freeport 360 thousand Galveston harbor jetties 1.8 million and 40 foot projects 500 thousand along with Intracoastal Waterway Guadalupe River Victoria 2.955 million Houston ship channel 3.2 million Matagorda ship channel 2.477 million Pat Mayse Reservoir 1 million Sabine Neches 40 foot channel to Echo 1.5 million Rayburn Dam 5 million Somerville Reservoir 5.2 million Stillhouse Reservoir 2.6 million Texas City 4.3 million Wakem Reservoir 6.926 million planning Lake Kemp Reservoir 200 thousand Port Arthur hurricane protection 389 thousand San Gabriel River 400 thousand and several other sites.
Hollywood studios stage wartime scenes for NBC’s Suspense Theatre, including Operation Grief about German saboteurs. Robert Goulet makes TV debut in a tense segment as a weary soldier, while other actors portray a battle recreated near a snow Alaska set.
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