REL Students to join distributive education program this year
REL students at Robert E. Lee High School should contact DE coordinator Leslie Couch at 422-8945 to enroll. DE counts two credits and physical education is not required. business people may contact Couch about employing DE students. Most DE students can be on the job by 1 30 a.m. Also note School Board meeting at 7 30 p.m. Monday with cafeteria program, salaries, and building project reports on the agenda. Summer Band practice times and a junior school pool party are announced. A narcotics talk by Dwane Jackson is scheduled Sunday at Coady Baptist. Hurricane Camille relief points and donation details are listed for Baytown.
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REL
Robert E. Lee High School
Leslie Couch
Couch
National Guard
Wye
North Main
Baytown
Baytown Jaycees
Jaycees
Astrodome outing draws Raytonians and notable visitors
Raytonians Ateveanna and Lucy Murphy attended the Astrodome extraguaganza for astronauts. Lois Walstead endures heat during a building project. Sharon Anne Courville shows a black eye from a ping pong game. George Lehr of Utah visits friends. Ted Kloesel rushes from Mont Belvieu to a meeting. Mrs. W. R. Molleman recovers from surgery in Galveston. R. Cook family and J. Reynolds visit Oak Ridge and J. M. Houses respectively. Jim Richardsons and William Bruecks attend a Houston musical.
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Ateveanna
Lucy Murphy
Astrodome
Lois Walstead
Sharon Anne Courville
George Lehr
Utah
Ted Kloesel
Mont, Belvieu
W.R. Molleman
Graham
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
Cook
Mont Belvieu
American Museum of Atomic Energy
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Jane Reynolds
Pampa
J. M. Houses
Jim Richardsons
William Bruecks
Houston
FBI Agent Praises Baytown Chief Pick Wilkinson
FBI agent John B. Wilkinson, Alamogordo safety director, hailed as prospective Baytown chief by Delly Voelkel, says he is very impressed after reviewing his credentials. Widespread crime rise since 1960 noted. 1968 violent crimes up 19 percent nationwide.
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Ron Lennard
Frank E. Rooks, Jr
FBI
Houston
Baytown
Wilkinson
Toulso
Mann
Blair W
Hooks
Police Department
Rook
Rooks
Baytown Area Forecast Partly Cloudy Warm Through Sunday
Partly cloudy and warm through Sunday with a 20 percent chance of daytime or nighttime thunderstorms. Temperature Saturday in the lower 70s to upper 80s. Morgan's Point tides for Sunday show a high at 3:19 a.m. and a low at 1:13 a.m.
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Baytown Area
Morgan's Point
Albert Thomas In Space Hall Of Fame
Houston news announces first ten honorees for the National Space Hall of Fame to be honored at a Sept. 26 dinner at the Albert Thomas Convention & Exhibit Center. Recipients include Wernher von Braun, Kurt Debus, Hugh Dryden, Maxime Faget, Robert Gilruth, and John H. Glenn Jr., with Mrs. Dryden accepting for the late Dryden.
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Houston
National Space Hall of Fame
Morgan J. Davis
Albert Thomas Convention & Exhibit Center
Wernher von Braun
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Kurt H. Debus
NASA John F. Kennedy Space Center
Pla
Hugh L. Dryden
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Leukemia Victim Needs Blood for Houston Patient
Stan Bigler, 19, of Baytown, a leukemia patient at M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, needs blood donors. Friends say 50 to 60 pints are required. donations available daily including weekend 6:30 a.m. to 12:90 p.m. in clinic area and 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on weekdays. Duplicate Bridge Club meets 7:19 p.m. Monday in Humble Community Building.
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Stan Bigler
Baytown
M. D. Anderson Hospital
Houston
Bigler
Clyde Bigler
Pamela
M. P. Anderson’s
Duplicate Bridge
Humble
Duplicate Bridge Club
Baptist group pledges 10000 for Camille relief drive
The Baptist General Convention of Texas approves a 10000 relief fund and asks 4000 Texas Baptist churches to contribute money supplies and volunteers for hurricane Camille victims. Land Commissioner Sadler expected to testify before House Rules on a separate matter.
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Baptist General Convention of Texas
Jerry Sadler
Baytown Council Approves Sales Tax Election and HLP Contracts
Baytown City Council approved a one percent sales tax election for Sept 23 and two industrial contracts with Houston Lighting and Power Co. Voting included Kelley Hullum Stasney in favor with Kivese dissenting and Mayor Walker not voting. The session also designated Special Drug Education Week with plans for speakers and events, and announced a demonstration of a new asphalt street product in Jacinto City and Baytown.
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Wanda Orton Im
Baytown
Houston Lighting and Power Co
Lamar Kelley
Donnie Hullum
Leonard Stasney
Ted Kivese
Glen Walker
David Evans
Allen Cannon
Kloesel
Cedar Bayou
Small Baytown refinery fire quickly controlled
A small fire in the resortility area of the Baytown Refinery was brought under control by the company fire department about 10 a.m. Saturday. Damage was minor and no one was hurt, a company spokesman said.
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Baytown
Baytonian Receives Navy Medal
Arthur H. Ainsworth, 34, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Ainsworth, won the Navy Air Medal for meritorious achievement as a door gunner with Helicopter Attack Squadron 3 in Southeast Asia. He has 16 years in the Navy after four in the Air Force, served 13 months in Vietnam, and is stationed in Memphis. The Ainsworths, formerly of Oak Ridge, Tenn., have lived in Baytown since 1959.
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Arthur H. Ainsworth
J. W. Ainsworth
W. Lohit
Navy Air Medal
Southeast Asia
Ainsworth
Vietnam
Memphis
M Enn
Navy
Technical Air Center
U.S. Air Force
England
South Africa
Japan
Hawaii
Midway Island
Ainswourths
Oak Ridge
Tenn
Baytown
Baytown Ambulance Donated to Pass Christian Mississippi
Baytown Ambulance Service owner Jess Navarre announced the 1960 Cadillac will be donated to Pass Christian for hurricane relief. The vehicle will be loaded with food and supplies and replaces a newer unit. Jaycees coordinate the area drive including La Porte LaMarque and Texas City led by Ernest Hauser and David Evans.
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Mississippi
David Evans
Jess Navarre
Ernest Hauser
Pass Christian
Baytown
Navarre
Jaycees
la Porte
LaMarque
Texas City
Crosby Trustees Prepare For Court
Crosby School Board plans to stay in Crosby next week but may travel to Austin and Houston in September. The Justice Department filed a federal civil rights suit seeking an injunction to halt classroom construction and to force steps to eliminate racial identities at Drew and Crosby campuses. A hearing was postponed. discussions will occur in Crosby ahead of a Sept. 13 accreditation hearing in Austin.
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Johnella Boynton
Crosby
Crosby School Board
Austin
Houston
Texas
Federal Judicial District
Uhe State Board of
Joe Ingraham
Justice Department
Ingraham
Joe Reynolds
Jerry Prochazka
Trial of Larry Lane in Effie Chambers murder case
Closing arguments were heard in the murder trial of Larry Lane, 30, of Houston, charged with killing Effie Chambers in January 1968. The trial began last Wednesday in Judge Dan Walton's 178th District Court after a seven day jury selection. Attorneys for both sides presented their final arguments after the charges were read. Baytown detectives testified and Lane reportedly signed a confession in the case.
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Larry Lane
Houston
Effie Chambers
Lane
Dan Walton
178Th Criminal District Court
Sam Wilson
Gerald Applewhite
Bob Bennett
Irvin Ernest
Bay
Levy On Groceries Is Attacked
Liberal Texas senators battled all night to defeat a tax bill shifting groceries under the sales tax. The $341 million package would cut overall rate to 2.5 percent, remove exemptions for food, alcohol, farm machinery and repairs. If approved, effective Jan 1, it would raise about $90.8 million in 1970 71. Speaker Mutscher indicated no House action until Senate moves.
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Austin
Mike McKool
Dallas
House
Gus Mutscher
Senate
Mutscher
Garbage Innovation Introduced To CC
Linda Ferrell reports on a Baytown Chamber lunch demo of disposable smart sacks for garbage collection by Doug Looney of St. Regis Paper Co. The system channels waste in sealed sacks, boosting area coverage and cutting curbside handling, with 35 cities, including six in Texas, already using the method. Baytown may soon test the program locally.
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Linda Ferrell
Baytown
Looney
Texas
Alvin
Tooney
Sits
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