Baytown Officials Meet to Discuss Baker Road Extension
Trustees set 7 20 p m special session to revise the 1964 65 budget and review Baker Road extension plans linking to North Main Street. County Commissioner Ramsey attended a breakfast with Baytown officials about the project to provide access to the new Sterling High School. SAN JACINTO Museum will open Labor Day and stay open through September with daily hours. An August 30 CPA seminar at Hotel America in Houston is announced for Baytown area accountants. Ivy L Warren of Baytown Humble Refining Co dies in hospital. funeral arrangements by Earthman. Realtors Board to meet Friday noon at the Tower. Baytown Senior Citizens head speaks. Dinner fee 2 per person.
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Baker Road
City of
Baytown
W. V. Ramsey
North Main Street
New Sterling High School
Ivy L, Warren
Humble of and Refining Co
Earthman Funeral Home
BAY Area Board of Realtors
W. P. Smith
Baytown Senior Citizens Organization
New American Record Astronauts At Midway Mark
Gemini 5 marked its halfway point with Cooper and Conrad in space for over 57 orbits as a new American duration record. They eyed Lake Champlain recovery, logged 57 orbits, and faced radar issues while continuing tests and mission tasks. Findlay, 34, of Highlands, died in a Baytown hospital. arrangements by Earthman. Houston, Tex. AP.
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Manned ‘Space
Houston
Tex
Gordons'-Cooper Sr
Charles Conrad Jr
Order of Arrow
Order OF the Arrow
Grace Methodist Hellway
New Lodge
Cooper
Conrad
Atlantic
Lake Champlain
Bermuda
Outer Space
Valery Bykovsky
Cape Kennedy
City Budget Proposes Lower Capital Outlay Funds
City Manager Fritz Lanham unveils the 1965 66 budget with a 200000 cut in capital outlay funds from the current total. The plan shows 165000 more in general revenue expenditures funded by franchise taxes licenses fines and other sources but relies on a 136 tax rate per 100 valuation to meet estimated revenues.
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Fritz Lanham
Lanham
King Nie Nue Fund
Severa
Iran
Houston Natural Gas Corp
Houston Lighting& Power Co
General Telephone Co
Sun's Looking For Cooks
The Baytown Sun seeks hometown recipes for a Thanksgiving special cookbook edition. Readers should submit dips relishes hors d oeuvres and appetizers to the woman’s department at The Baytown Sun Box 90 Baytown Texas. The paper will select published recipes and outline future weekly categories.
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Baytown Sun
Mousewives
Woman's Department of the
Box 90
Baytown
Tex
Sun
the Sun
Local Notes Include Dismissal and Visits at Baytown Hospitals
LAVERN FULLER was dismissed from San Jacinto Methodist Hospital after admission for tests. Ben Wilburn remains a patient at San Jacinto. W. G. Wilson at Gulf Coast Hospital in Room 213 allows visitors. Ken Pace opens a Highlands venture while Baytown friends drop by. Mayor Seaborn Cravey comments on mosquito casualties at a council meeting.
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Lavern Fuller
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Ben Wilburn
San Jacinto
Glenn Harbours
Alien Rice
Cathy
Lynn Morez
Sybonia Kalisek
Vicki Hutchinson
W. G. Wilson
Wood-lawn
Gulf Coast Hospital
Fred
Martha Lee Fenton
Baytown
New York
Ace Bishop
Deer Park
Ken Pace
Highlands
George Gentry
Bob Feinberg
Seaborn Cravey
Johnson invites Soviet academy to observe next space launch
President Johnson offered the Soviet Academy of Science an invitation to send a high level representative to observe the Gemini 6 space capsule launch next month. He directed Space Administrator Webb to extend the invitation and said Russia’s response would be warmly welcomed. He announced a planned manned orbital laboratory program to enhance knowledge of human space capability and defense.
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Johnson
Soviet Academy of Science
James E. Webb
Academy
Space Shot
Defense Department
America
U.S
South
Viet Nam
Gunmen surrender after Fernley tavern robbery chase
Our World Today reports two gunmen charged with robbing a California tavern at bayonet point held 11 hostages in Fernley Nevada then surrendered following a police pursuit. Elsewhere Indian forces cross cease fire into Pakistani held territory as UN diplomats doubt Yemen pact will end the civil war. Greek Premier Tsirimokos risks parliament endorsement, while Korea threatens school shutdowns over protests and Japan treaty.
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Fernley
Nev
Yemen
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Faisal
Arabian Peninsula
Missiles Down Phantom Jet Near Thanh Hoa
AP report from Saigon says a U.S. Navy Phantom from the Midway was shot down about 90 miles south of Hanoi near Thanh Hoa. A crewman survived, another is presumed dead, and searchers failed to locate the airman. U.S. officials note soon after the incident a surface to air missile appeared mobile. Soviet technicians are thought to have installed missiles in North Vietnam.
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South Viet Nam
Hanoi
U.S
Midway
Thanh Hoa
Viet Nam
Goose Creek Lake Study Begins With Committee Appointments
Goose Creek Stream Study Committee met Tuesday night to examine developing a fresh water recreational lake on Goose Creek Stream just north of Market Street bridge. Members named to investigate constraints include RH Pruett Eddie Gray Grover Edge Sid Brady George Chandler and Chairman Andy Braswell.
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Goose Creek
Market Street
Andy Braswell
Pruett
Eddie Gray
Grover Edge
Gray
U.S. Corps of Engineers
George Chandler
Gray, Edge and Brady
Councillman Brasswell
Baytown Bank Owners Buy Controlling Interest in Fidelity Bank
Baytown based First National Bank executives Lee Brasfield astronaut Alan Shepard Jr and Bill McDavid announced the purchase of 53 percent of Fidelity Bank and Trust Co of Houston in a deal exceeding two million dollars. They paid 150 per share and extended an option to other stockholders. Shepard becomes Fidelity president. McDavid and Brasfield named co chairs. Fidelity is at 162 Milam in Houston.
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First National Bank of
Baytown
Fidelity Bank and Trust Co
Houston
Lee Brasfield
Baytown Bank
Alan Shepard Jr
Bill McDavid
Fidelity Bank
Brasfield
Shepard
Houston Bank
McDavid
First National of
First National
Milam
Budget study notes pay raise costs for police and firemen
Friday budget review cites that a $350 per month raise for 28 paid firemen would total about $16,000 and police raises adding six more positions near $27,000. City manager Lanham notes a 10 percent rise for all city employees would need roughly $132,000 in extra funds.
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Conetiaia
Raymond’ Donnelly
WC. Turner
Lanham
Night flight okayed for Cooper and Conrad to complete 77 orbits
Mission Control in Houston approves another day of night operations for astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad. They will conduct at least 77 orbits. In Louisville Kentucky a Dupont neoprene plant suffers a series of explosions with damage and injuries not yet known.
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Touston
Cooper
Conrad
Dupont Neoprene
Louisville
Rainfall totals soar in Baytown refinery record
Tuesday's rainfall at the Baytown refinery reached 140 inches in a 2 hour period, recorded by Essa Research and Development Lab at Humble Oil and Refining. The monthly total rose to 2.55 inches, with August average 4.72 inches. Other readings include .25 inch on Monday, .15 on Aug 15, and .75 on Aug 9.
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Baytown
Essa Research and Development Lab
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown Resident Roy Kerr Dies At 65
Roy Lester Kerr, 65, a Baytown resident for 35 years, died Tuesday afternoon in a Baytown hospital. Funeral services will be at 3 p.m. Thursday at Paul A. Lee Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Edwin Summers and Rev. W. N. Harbaugh officiating. Burial follows in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston. Kerr, a Louisiana native, worked at Humble Oil Baytown Refinery until retiring in 1958. Surviving are his wife Hazel, daughter Sylvia McKinsey, a brother Charles Kerry, and eight sisters: A. O. Briggs, J. L. Moreau, F. P. Presclair, R. P. Martin, J. Barnado, Ruby Wagner, Amy Kerr, and Joyce Bourgogne.
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Roy Lester Kerr
Polly
Baytown
Paul A. Lee
Edwin Summers
Grace Methodist Church
W. N. Harbaugh
Lakewood
Humble Oil & Refining
R. P. Marstin
Opelousas
J. Barnado
Hemet
Calif
Ruby K. Wagner
Ridgecrest
Amy Kerr
Joyce Bourgogne
New Iberia, la
Farewell Covered Dish Dinner for Piagida Family
The Women's Missionary Union of First Mexican Baptist Church hosts a 6 p.m. Wednesday covered dish dinner honoring Mr and Mrs Jose Piagida and their children. Mrs Piaguda, daughter of the Rev and Mrs Ramon Vasquez, will return to Argentina next week.
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Women's Missionary Union of
First Mexican Baptist Church
Jose Piagida
Piaguda
Ramon Vasquez
Argentina
State To Hear Request CC Panels Push For 146 LP Seabrook Completion
The Baytown Chamber highway committee joins La Porte Bayshore and Clear Creek groups to urge the State Highway Commission on Sept 1 for immediate completion of the SH 146 segment between La Porte and Seabrook. Efforts include recruiting Baytown members to Austin with NASA and Bayport projects driving need for the new freeway. Local right of way issues threaten timely funding and construction. plans outline North Loop in Baytown and La Porte segment bypassing downtown La Porte.
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Baytown
NASA
Bayport
Hartman
Perry W. Britton
Douglas
West Main
Decker
Cedar Bayou
la Porte
Southern Pacific
Red Bluff Road
la Porte School
Boyle
Spacemen Photograph Mysterious Zodiacal Light Clues
At Houston's Manned Space Center astronauts Gordon Cooper Jr and Charles Conrad Jr collect photographs of a zodiacal light phenomenon. The pyramid-shaped sky glow, seen on moonless nights, may offer clues to its origin.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
L’ Gordon Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad’Jr
Democrats To Meet At 7 30 P M Thursday
A quarterly East Harris County Democrats meeting will start at 7 30 p m Thursday in the American Room of the Holiday Inn. Officers to be elected include Joe Hy Alsly president George Zumwalt vice chairman Mrs Wallis Hunt secretary and Roy Hughes treasurer. The agenda runs about one hour.
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East Harris County
Holiday Inn
Joe Hy Alsly
George Zumwalt
Wallis Hunt
Roy Hughes
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