School Board to receive building status report
The board will review status of district construction projects ahead of the September 2 opening. Details include kindergarten spaces at Ashbel Smith and San Jacinto, potential use of auxiliary rooms, and projected completion around August 22. Major renovations at several schools may not be finished but should be in satisfactory condition by opening day.
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Johnella Boynton
James Aa
Bitsy) Davis
Ashbel Smith
San Jacinto
Davis
Alamo
Lamar
San Jacinta
Baytown
Cedar
Bayou
Horace Mann
Sam Houston
Stallworth Stadium
Lowell Lanners
Cedar Bayou Park
Harlem
Texas Association of School Boards
Gulf Coast School Board Association
Monthly meeting notices and events at local groups
The Robert R. Tuck Post No. 912 VFW Women's Auxiliary will meet at 8 p.m. Tuesday at the VFW Hall with district president Mrs. Lucille Luchina of Houston visiting. SAN JACINTO Chapter of National Secretaries Association meets Monday at 7 p.m. in Citizens National Bank conference room for reports from the International Convention. The Ron Gardner Singers from Chico Calif will present for Tuesday night at 7:30 p.m. at Northside Wooster Baptist Church as part of a revival. Rehearsals are 8–11 p.m. Monday at Memorial Baptist Church. Harris County Community Action Association reorganized meeting moved to Thursday at 7:30 p.m. to allow time to review Office of Economic Opportunity rulings.METHODIST MEN of Grace Church sponsor ice cream supper 7–9 p.m. Tuesday, donation $1.50 per family. BAYTOWN Barracks No 3481 VFW and Auxiliary meet 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Civic Center. non-members welcome, refreshments served.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert R. Tuck
VFW Women’s Auxiliary
VFW
Lucille Luchina
Houston
San Jacinto
National Secretaries Association
Citizens National Bank
Ron Gardner
Chico
Calif
Crusade For Christ
Northside
Wooster Baptist Church
Assembly of God Church
Cedar Bayou
Lynchburg
Roger Orthlieb
Harris County Community Action Association
Office of Economic Opportunity
Methodist Men of Grace Methodist Church
Church Fellowship Hall
Baytown
Civic Center
Anniversary and theater sellout across Baytown week
Happy 23th anniversary to Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Kubik on a weekend celebration. Theresa Moore announces Baytown Little Theater’s The Impossible Years has a sell out opening night, first in seasons. Other items include Gary Sherer visiting family, N. R. S. Downing birthday, John Lindsey at the Sun, Judy Burnett and her mom hosting tea, Dianne Carey dislikes rare hamburger meat, Kent Gandy and Gary Raynor on a skiing trip.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Kubik
Theresa Moore
Board of
Baytown Little Theater
Gary Sherer
Sun
Binghamton
N.R. S. Downing
John Lindsey
Judy Burnett
C. P. Burnett
Dianne Carey
Kent Gandy
Gary Raynor
Weather Outlook and Tides at Morgan's Point
Weather shows clear to partly cloudy through Tuesday with temperatures Monday in the mid to upper 70s. Tides for Tuesday: high at 12:19 a.m. and 5:01 p.m. lows at 3:43 a.m. and 5:01 p.m.
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Morgan’s
Reform and autopsy plans emerge in 4P World Today
Dinis says he will seek exhumation of Mary Jo Kopechne for an autopsy this week. Burger calls for broad prison reform as ABA meets in Dallas. Arab forces fire near the Ghor canal amid Israeli border clashes in Beisan Valley. Texas weekends see at least 32 violent deaths, traffic the top killer. 18 die in traffic. Government disrupts MPC use in post exchanges. CBS agrees to tobacco ad phaseout if Congress approves. A defected Chinese diplomat warns of chaos after Mao’s death, regime collapse possible within weeks. Ninety Vietnamese AF officers and cadets depart Saigon to train in the United States for up to 48 weeks.
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Hong Kong
Communist China
Communist Party
Mao Tse-Tung
Humble Awards Pact For Office Complex
Humble Oil awards a 7.4 million contract to Linbeck Construction for a 12 story office tower on Decker Drive Houston. Construction to start within a week with a 26 to 29 month timeline. The 312000 square foot complex features precast exterior walls and a 28 acre site with two connecting wings.
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Alan McWhorter
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Decker Drive
Linbeck Construction Corp
Houston
Humble
Robert Stroble
Linbeck
Stroble
Senate Vote Key To U.S. Chemical Warfare Tests
Washington AP Secretary of Defense Melvin R. Laird says the Pentagon can maintain its chemical and biological warfare program under a Senate plan. The CBW amendment, endorsed by Laird, would impose rigid testing restrictions and require advance notice and approval from defense leaders, as the $20 billion military procurement bill advances.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Pentagon
Senate
Armed Services Committee
Laird
Well-known Churchman Dies Here
The Rev. James O. Savell Sr., 77, longtime Assembly of God church official and pastor, died Saturday. Funeral rites were set for 4:30 p.m. Monday at Trinity Tabernacle with ministers from national and regional Assembly of God leadership officiating.
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Trinity ‘Tabernacle
James O. Savell Sr
Assembly of God Church
Gayle F. Lewis
J. Phillip Hogan
National Assembly of God
Springfield
Kermit Reneau
San Antonio
W. S. Graham
South Texas
Houston
Fred Kiting
Churchman
Loop 201 Work On Schedule
Loop 201 construction advances with a 50 foot pile driver driving 16 inch pilings eight tons each, 36 feet into the ground to support a bridge over West Main. Texas Highway Department official Jerry Higgins notes piles endure 47 tons pressure when full length, each pile advances .15 inches per blow, about 306 minutes per pile, totaling 136 pilings. Also, Story Hour at Sterling Municipal Library 10 a.m. Tuesday for children five to nine, with Mrs. Henry Armstrong and others as storytellers.
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Loop 201
Loop
West Main
Jerry Higgins
Texas Highway Department
Baytown Sun
Robby Nixon
League
Sterling Municipal ‘Library
Henry Armstrong
T. D. O'Brien Jr
Tom Mayo
Director Hired By Opportunity Center
The Baytown Opportunity Center named Timothy O Sonnenberg as executive director, effective Sept 1, funded by a 21900 federal state staffing grant. The board chair Mrs Ben W Thomas announced the grant and new hires, with move to Baker Road facilities planned in September.
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Baytown
Timothy O. Sonnenberg
Parl
Opportunity Center
Sonnenberg
Baker Road
United Fund
President pushes social pioneers with new OEO role
President calls for a bold reshaping of social policy assigning the Office of Economic Opportunity to lead innovative ideas for progress. He backs continuing the VISTA program and sends Congress the first of three messages detailing a $4 billion family assistance welfare plan.
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Frances Lewine
Associated Press
San. Clemente
Calif
Office of Economic Opportunity
Earth
OEO
California
VISTA
America
Congress
Temperature Reaches 100 As Houston Hits Hottest Streak
The heat wave drove readings to 102 degrees in Houston at 5:30 p.m. Sunday, with Baytown at 100. Downtown thermometers under sun reached 101 to 102, while shaded home sensors held at 100. The Weather Bureau said Houston’s 102 was the hottest downtown reading since August 1944.
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Houston
Baytown
U.S. Weather Bureau
Two More Similar Killings Reported In LA Case
Police pushed a manhunt for a suspect in the Sharon Tate killings and a second slaying five miles away in a similar style. Authorities said the victims, Leno A LaBianca and Rosemary LaBianca, were found in nightclothes with signs of a struggle and the word death written in blood on a wall.
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Los Angeles
Sharon Tate
Bryce Houchin
K. J. McCauley
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Memorial Baptist Church
National
A Trust
Edmund Dinis
Mary Jo Kopechne
Warren E. Burger
American Bar Association
Dallas
Ghor
Beisan
Texas
U.S
Columbia Broadcasting System
Saigon
United States
Strable
Neuhaus and Taylor
McCandless Consultants, Inc
Ellisor Engineers
Chenault and
Brady
Houston Ship Channel
Loop 610
Interstate 10
Tidge
Hev, J. C. Savell SR
Eyes
New Ideas
Hollywood
Houchin
Miss Tate
Leno A. LaBianca
Wises
First National Bank
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Fate
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