Baytown Council Hears 6.0 Million Thoroughfare Estimate
The Baytown City Council considers a near 6 million dollar estimate to convert streets into thoroughfares on a square foot basis by City Engineer Joh Busch. Le Fevre notes at least 1 mile more funding for right of way and drainage, totaling about 6.758 million with bonds the only feasible financing. Council to study priority status and set budget hearings as 1961-62 plan advances.
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Galveston
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Baytown
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Dinance
Epsom Weather Forecast Through Friday
Tomorrow will mirror today with partly cloudy warm conditions and scattered showers. Friday tides in Galveston show high waves at 5:09 a.m. and 3:07 p.m., low at 10:53 a.m. and 9:07 p.m.
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Local Youth Notes and Vacations From Area Families
Ken Purdue vacations at Gamer State Park while Lee College Circle K Club honors and community names appear. Lane Ward recovers from a broken arm and clients plan to witness the SS Iwo Jima launch. Stella Herring discusses trophy cases at Robert E. Lee High School. Steve Blakey reports big catches at Cleveland City Lake. Carl and Mrs Larson find a pile of loose clothes on Dyer Street after a carwash incident.
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Lee College Circle K Club
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Katy King
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Steve Blakey
Charles R. Blakey
Nebraska
Cleveland City
Blakey
Carl Larson
Dyer Street
Legislators Begin Second Texas Special Session
Texas lawmakers opened a second special session in Austin to raise teacher salaries. They returned after approving a $361 million tax bill earlier, which Gov. Price Daniel threatened to veto for two tax measures tied to a 2 percent sales tax.
Jaywalking Fine Plan Highlights City News
The record notes a proposed $5 jaywalking fine aimed at pedestrians including Baytown students and teachers. The piece references Texas legislative action on teacher pay raises and transportation costs, with a $144 million yearly impact, amid sessions and debates in the House and Senate.
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September Draft Call Sets 25,000 Quota for September
Washington AP reports the September draft quota at 25,000, the largest since Korea War doubts about tax bill. Defense Department notes September calls affect Army only, with Navy Marine Air Force not placing Selective Service calls that month. Total drafted since 1950 would reach 2,640,950. In Baytown police news, Chief Roy Montgomery announces a crackdown on jaywalking, giving tickets akin to red light penalties to curb a growing traffic hazard on main streets, urging parental guidance to stop risky pedestrian behavior.
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Cadon faces charges in hijacking and assault
Federal complaint accuses Albert Cadon 27 of hijacking a Pan American DC8 to Havana with a cocked pistol. He appeared before U.S. Commissioner Roger Edward avis. The incident carries up to 10 years or 3000 dollars fine for assault with intent to commit a felony.
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Federal Government Today
Albert Charles Cadon
High Seas
Pan American World Airways
Havana
U.S
Roger Edward Avis
Cadon
Mexico
Hoover
Revenue measure faces signature dispute described as inequitable
The giant revenue measure, labeled as containing inequities the speaker has fought for years, may still become law without his signature, as he says he will allow it to pass by not signing.
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Whate
Jay
Gasoline Price War Surges In Baytown
Motorists save five cents a gallon as Baytown experiences a second gasoline price war. Tegatrar gasoline at major stations was 35.9 cents a gallon, premium 31.9, super 31.9, independents offered regular at 23.9 cents. Prices are all five cents below usual levels and follow an earlier price war that never ended.
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Baytown
Fur burglary probed at Pilgrim Cleaners Baytown
Baytown police pressed on Thursday with the probe into a Tuesday night burglary at Pilgrim Community Cleaners and Laundry 280 Market. Thieves stole a fur, an adding machine a typewriter and a check writing machine from the front area.
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Pilgrim
REL's DE Head Named President of Area
Leslie Conch of Robert E. Lee High School was elected president of Area II Association of Distributive Education Teachers in Austin and will preside at the MTTADET meeting October 21 at the University of Houston down town retailing school. Officers include Johnny Young and Mrs. Shirley Johnson Houston's Reagar High School secretary. Conch returns to REL and offers on the job training info via his morning office visit or FR280K. Police report burglars forced a boiler room door to access a storage vault and stole no furs. firm BW insured.
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Robert E. Lee High School
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REL
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Area Iit Association of
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University of Houston
Down Toxyn School of Retailing
Johny Young
Palestine
Shirley Johnson Hous
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Carrel
Roy Montgomery
Ceddie Anderson
Finn
We Ay
Montgomery
Bongkery
Couc Ivecall
Baytown
Berlin Peace Hope Cited By Kennedy
President Kennedy said the United States will use every diplomatic means to seek a peaceful Berlin solution with the Soviet Union. He added he is hopeful of a peaceful outcome and noted a summit would only be useful if groundwork is laid, while stressing readiness to coordinate policy if needed. Rusk plans return after meetings with Western allies to discuss Paris talks.
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Kennedy
United States
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Soviet Union
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Paris
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Rusk
Hoover Turns 87 as Hoover Makes Safe Speeches
NEW YORK. Herbert Hoover celebrates his 87th birthday amid optimism about American resolve. In a Waldorf Astoria news conference he dismissed claims of national softness, praised baseball stars and urged cautious negotiation over Berlin while warning against passive resistance as a danger to society.
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All Return Safely Hijacked Pan Am Flight Lands in Miami
A Pan American World Airways DCB jet liner landed in Miami after a one hour hijacking. The 82 passengers were unharmed. The hijacker, identified as Albert Charles Cadon, 27, was subdued and taken into custody. The incident prompted Prime Minister Fidel to order the plane released and returned to Miami airspace.
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Khrushchev Threatens Super Bomb at TitoV Reception
Soviet Premier Khrushchev warned at a reception for cosmonaut Titov that the USSR could build a bomb equal to 100 million tons of TNT unless peace prospects improve. He stressed he seeks peace while pressing for disarmament talks and claimed this threat was shared with Kennedy's negotiator and Italian Premier Fanfani.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Kennedy
John J. McCloy
Amintore Fanfani
Car Train Wreck Injury Shakes Houston Man
W R Armstrong 60 of Houston was admitted to Gulf Coast Hospital after his car struck a Southern Pacific train at a Crosby rail crossing. He left Houston Wednesday evening for repair work and was returning when the collision derailed two cars. Authorities said no charges had been filed and listed head injuries and arm abrasions as his conditions.
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Kennedy vows maximal U S space effort to catch up
President Kennedy said the United States is applying maximum effort to space development to close the gap with the Soviet Union, which he said is months ahead. He stated a Manhattan Project scale approach is unnecessary, but Congress must fund all feasible, non diminishing uses of personnel. He stressed no nation hostile to the United States should dominate space and called for UN progress on peaceful use of outer space.
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Rainfall Report From Baytown Continues Light Totals
A battered weather note shows showers and a thunderstorm Thursday afternoon, with about an inch of rain in the Baytown area. Most rain fell between 2 and 3 pm on Wednesday, totaling 2.6 inches for the month so far. The Baytown Refinery and Humble Oil and Refining recorded the day’s rainfall totals, with measurements spanning 6 am Tuesday to 6 am Wednesday.
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Baytonian Small Gift to Reduce National Debt
A Baytown man, unnamed by government, sent a nickel to help reduce the national debt as bequests to the U S Treasury become allowed. Five nickels in total were sent to lighten the burden, with a call for identification to receive a photograph and prize.
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Houston
Kennedy outlines border patrols and cabin door locks
President Kennedy announced plans to assign border patrolmen to several airplanes to counter hijacking threats and to lock pilot cabin doors with keys kept inside. He urged other governments to use all means to end these “exercises in futility.” He cautioned against premature protests over hijacker identity while Congress blamed Castro for recent piracy. At his 14th news conference, attended by 433 reporters, he said Arthur Dean would return to Geneva August 2 to pursue a nuclear test ban and noted scientists doubt positive proof of Soviet weapon testing with current methods.
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Enfield
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Kennedy
Congress
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Arthur H. Dean
Geneva
Russia
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Senate backs hijacking penalties and death option
The Senate approved by 93 to 0 a bill to make airplane hijacking a capital crime and extend stiff penalties for related offenses. Kennedy called for diplomatic steps to resolve the cold war Berlin issue and urged efforts to curb hijackings after recent incidents. He cited a French hijacker and a father and son linked to other jet piracy acts, warning of a lunatic fringe and noting an Eastern Electra hijack held by Cuba.
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Senate
DIA
Berlin
Kennedy
Pan American
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Texas
Eastern Air Lines
Havana
Kennedy nominates O Connor to FPC amid conflict concern
President Kennedy moves to nominate Houston oilman Lawrence O Connor to the Federal Power Commission while senators raise possible conflicts of interest as he begins disposing of stock. Deputy Senator Proxmire notes potential ethics issues. In related moves, Judge Parsons, Chicago, could become the first Black district judge once approved.
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Federal Power Commission
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Kennedy Nomt Wales
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