Veteran Senator George Parkhouse Dies in Dallas
Veteran Texas state senator George Parkhouse died in Dallas at age 67 after suffering repeated strokes. A conservative Democrat, he helped craft Texas right to work and advanced water conservation programs during 26 years in public office. He lost an arm and two legs as a child in a firecracker accident.
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Dallas
Tex
George Parkhouse
Texas
Parkhouse
Price ‘Daniel
John Connally
House
State Senate
Baytown Weather and Tides Plus Local Obituary Notes
Cloudy bay area forecast with warm air and scattered showers and thundershowers Thursday. Temperature range 72 degrees. Wednesday’s high 87 and low 73. Baytown section also notes quotes on Texas water legislation and a profile of Senator Parkhouse, plus tide times for Galveston and local social notes including school plans and birthdays.
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Baytown
College Regents Set To Hear Reports On Finances
College Regents will meet Thursday night on the second floor of the college library at 4 30 p m. Reports will cover financial matters including tax collections and a budget comparison with the final amended budget. New contracts are proposed for William E Farley in data processing and Robert W Spencer in Mid-Management.
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Wiliam E. Farley
Robert W. Spencer
City Leader Sees EnJay Growth Through Baytown Plant Visit
Enjay Chemical executive vice president T. J. Innes Jr. said the company seeks new investment opportunities and Baytown will share in the growth. He noted no current expansion plans but land and conditions favor the Baytown site. Innes toured the Baytown plant with Plant Manager Gene Gillis, meeting reporters from major national publications. Enjay, formerly part of Humble Oil, operates polypropyene and other chemicals at Baytown and other sites. Innes began at Humble in 1946 and rose to VP after leadership moves in New Jersey plants.
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Baytown
T. J
Téa” Innes Jr
Enjay
Innes
Louisiana
Newark
Gene Gillis
Wall Street Journal
Chemical Week
Oil and Gas Journal
Petro-Chem - Engineer
Business Week
Chemical and Engineering News
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Enco
Humble’s
Baton Rouge
U. S. Army
Humbie’s
Bayonne
Bayway
Senate panel probes filters for safer cigarettes
Senate Commerce subcommittee hears about a new filter claim by Robert L. Strickman and Columbia University that could slash tar to 1 milligram per cigarette and cut nicotine by 70 percent. He says no major company will grant exclusive rights while negotiations proceed with about a dozen firms. The filter, if adopted, could be worth about 200 million dollars annually. patent status and exact components are undisclosed.
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Senate Commerce Subcommittee
Robert L. Strickman
US_ tobacco
Strickman
Columbia University
Columbia
Grayson Kirk
Commerce Subcommittee
George E. Moore
New York
Public
S Health Research
Strickman Columbia
Baytown Council weighs Cleveland Street extension issues
Baytown council members discussed delaying acceptance of the Cleveland Street extension from Missouri Pacific until the cleanup of construction mess along the roadway is completed. They directed City Manager Fritz Lanham to have someone review the site before Thursday’s meeting and eyed dedicating Cleveland Street and part of Parkway at the next council session. The panel reviewed traffic signal costs at several intersections, including Highway 146 with Cedar Bayou and the Decker Drive area, and considered adding large overhead signs to improve traffic flow. No action was taken on funding an extension of sewer lines for the Baytown Opportunity School.
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Cleveland Street
Missouri Pacific Railroad
Fritz Lanham
Parkway
Cleveland
MoPac
Alexander Drive
St. John’s Methodist Church
Lanham
Martin
Seaborn Cravey
Southern Pacific Railroad
Decker Drive
Memorial
Garth and
Lobit
Albert Fanestel
Highway
Cedar Bayou - Crosby Road
Baytown
Council
Observers to Watch South Vietnam Election
A 20 member American delegation including clerics labor leaders and business figures sails to Saigon to observe South Vietnam’s September 3 presidential vote. They will report openly seek no reports and are funded by the U.S. government. observers expect a difficult process in a country at war.
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Washington
Johnson
South Vietnam
George Christian
Christian
U.S
United States
Saigon
Tran van Do
Sern. Edmunds
Muskie
Maine
Sen
Rourke D. Hickenlooper
Ohio
John S. Knight
Knight Newspapers
Impact Of Red China Inner Struggle Yet To Come
AP Special Correspondent William L. Ryan reports that experts see the Chinese upheaval as only beginning to unfold with major effects not yet felt. Scholars at the University of Michigan’s Orientalists congress say the clash between Maoist and Liu Shao-chi forces could redraw global politics and reshape China’s leadership for years, with both outcomes carrying risks for the United States.
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William L. Ryan
United States
China
Congress of Orientalists
University of Michigan
Lin Piao
Mao Tse-tung
Liu Shao-chi
Unclear mix of world events and local notices
A杂 text compilation cites AP wires covering US losses in Vietnam, labor demonstrations, Nigerian civil war claims, DC commission speculation, disarmament talks, Alaska exposition, Kern County merger injunctions, stock market, flood warnings, Houston education probe, Palestine Liberation Army arrests, ailing official, heavy rains, race issues in Nashville, Mennonite stance on Vietnam, and Texas showers.
Britain says Britons safe in Peking plan to stay
London reports Britain's diplomatic mission in Peking back in its compound and to rebuild the burned legation as proof of resolve to remain. Hong Kong militants praised the attack and Red China pressed threats amid the siege. Staff and families are safe, Hopson lightly hurt, and 190 Britons in China worry officials.
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Britain
Peking
Legation
Foreign Office
Red China
Hong Kong
Red Guards
Donald Hopson
Hopson
China
New China
Lam Bun
Gulf Adds Cedar Bayou Unit at Gulf Coast complex
Gulf Oil Corp subsidiary Gulf Research and Development establishes a Cedar Bayou unit at its Baytown chemicals complex. Lichtenfels named manager after transferring from Pittsburgh. The new lab serves Gulf Oil plants along the Gulf Coast and in West Texas. The family resides at 301 Tri-City Beach Road.
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Gulf Research and Development Co
Gulf Oil Corp
Gulf Coast
Cedar Bayou
Baytown
KL Lichterfels
Gu Research and Development
Pittsburgh
Gulf Oil
West Texas
Lichtenfels
Guilt Research and Development
University of Fittsburgh
New
Tri-City Beach Road
David
University of South Florida
Tampa
Ohio
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Hunt
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Kentucky
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Crosby
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East Texas Ave
University of ‘Texas
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Texas Water Rights Commission
Water Board
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Galveston
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Houston
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Sterling Municipal Library
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Midland
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California
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Georgia
House Education and Labor Committee
Harris County Community Action Association
Antipoverty Project
Palestine Liberation Army
Jordan River
Jordan
Jack Strong
Longview
Parkland Hospital
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George Washington
Nashville
Mennonite General Conference
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D. H. Lichtenfels
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