Baytown thrift exchange and events schedule
Thrift Exchange meets at 9 30 a m Wednesday at the Chamber of Commerce Building with parents council PTA presidents and thrift chairmen urged to attend. Bookmobile sponsored by Sterling Municipal Library and Baytown Service League visits 1900 W Texas at 9 30 a m Wednesday and Clyde Drive Archia Courts at 10 30 a m. Baytown Rotary Club noon meeting features Richard Smith of Texas A M University Water Pollution Research Center on pollution research with Larry Hale as program chairman. Willie John Twardowski 51 of 108 Lone Oak Highlands died Tuesday in a Baytown hospital. Highlands Funeral Home to announce arrangements. Sterling High School reception for teachers and spouses set 7 30 8 30 p m Tuesday. John r Baker, son of Mrs Alice L Baker of Baytown and husband of Dana Cunningham of California, serves with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion in Vietnam. Jody J LaFleur, son of Mr and Mrs Lea LaFleur of Channelview, graduates from Chanute AFB technical school and assigned to Tac tical Air Command at Bergstrom AFB Tex.
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Thrift Exchange
Baytown Thrift Exchange
Chamber of Commerce
Parents’ Council
PTA
Thrift
Sterling Municipal Library
Baytown Service League
W. Texas
Washateria
Clyde Drive
Archia Courts
Rotary
Richard Smith
Texas A&m University Water Pollution Research Center
Baytown
Rotary Club
Larry Hale
Willie John Twardowski
Lone Oak
Highlands
Garthman
Highlands Funeral Home
Nancy Savage Plans Return to Southwest Texas State
Nancy Savage daughter of Mr and Mrs J W Savage of 101 Williams says she is set to return to school as a junior at Southwest Texas State University.
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Nancy Savage
J. W. Savage
Williams
Nancy
Southwest Texas State University
Debbie Honsler
Glenna Conder
A&m University
Ale
al Melinger
Dallas
Linda Miller
Shanda Karen Terry
Baytown
Annie Harrison
KR. J. Thompson
Honolulu
Sue Helbig
Nixon
Jaycees Seek Help for Camille Relief Drive
Baytown Jaycees appeal for volunteers to sort and box hurricane relief items at the National Guard Armory on Wye Drive off North Main. Work resumes at 7 p.m. Tuesday with aims to fill additional trucks for Mississippi. Donations of money are urged at local banks. checks payable to the Camille Relief Fund.
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National Guard
Wye
North Main
Ernest Hauser
Baytown Jaycees
Mississippi
Jaycees
Picayune
Miss
Mike Jordan
Mississippi Jaycees
Hauser
Baytown Jaycees Camille Relief Fund
Feud In Austin Tax On Beer Is House Proposal
In Austin, House negotiators push a beer tax compromise to end a deadlock that could trigger another special session. A plan would place beer and whiskey under the sales tax, cut beer tax by $1 per barrel, reduce liquor excise by 18 cents a gallon, and raise overall liquor and beer taxes by 26 million. A broader $318 million to $326 million package includes higher sales tax, vending machine levy, repair tax shift, franchise tax rise, and a nickel per drink levy for private clubs.
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Austin
House
Senate
Gus Mutscher
Ben Barnes
Preston Smith
U S Steels Head Of Accounting Dies In Baytown
William L. Thomas 37, newly assigned to U S Steel Baytown works, died Tuesday after illness at a Baytown motel. He was taken to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital where he died on arrival. The body goes to Harris County morgue for examination and will be shipped to Addy Funeral Home Newcomerstown Ohio. Survivors include his wife Hilman and three children. Thomas succeeded Harold C. Hlaase Jr. as accounting manager effective Aug 2. He was a native of Newcomerstown Ohio.
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William L. Thomas
U. S. Steel Works
Dam
Baytown
Thomas
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
James H. Summons
Harris County
Earthman Funeral Home
Addy Funeral Home
Newcomerstown
Ohio
Hilman Thomas
William Thomas
Brent Thomas
Terri Thomas
Kathlen Steffan
Dover
Gmrs
Carole Westfall
Coshocton
Harold C.hlaase Jr
U. S. Steel
Baytown area forecast looks warm with sun and storms
Partly cloudy and warm with a chance of showers and thundershowers through Wednesday. Tuesday temperatures range from the low 70s to the low 90s. Morgan's Point tides on Wednesday show highs at 1:31 am and 4:37 pm, lows at 12:55 am and 4:43 pm.
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Baytown Area
Baytown Student Recalls Munich Experience
Pierce Swofford, a Baytown junior at Rice University, spent his junior year in Munich as part of the American Field Service program. He describes Munich University as less regimented than American schools with immediate specialization, fewer professor contacts, and German-taught courses while noting the program included about 80 American students and tutorial testing.
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Wanda Orton
Pierce Swofford
Baytown
Rice University
Munich
Germany
Pierce
AFS
Willy Simon
Kutenhausen
America
Wayne State University
Wolfgang Clemen
Board Raises Cost Of School Lunches
The school board approved a 40 cent unit lunch price with desserts added as a planned lunch to offset higher cafeteria worker salaries. Milk prices rose up to five to eight cents. An elementary breakfast program was approved. anticipation of an early report on income and participation influenced the vote. Only Trustee Philip Dignam voted against the hike amid concerns of a 60 percent rise for elementary lunches.
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Edythe Musick
Johnny Clark
Philip Dignam
Musick
Troy Peterson
Karl W. Opryshek
Peterson
Vietnam War Promises Escalation Amid Cabinet Change
The Viet Cong condemn Nixon’s troop withdrawal pause and Gen. Tran Thien Khiem’s premiership as failing to solve Vietnam. President Thien says his choice signals no warmongering cabinet. An attack at Vienna’s Canadian Embassy leaves two dead and 15 injured. Eisaku Sato aims to renew the U S Japan Security Treaty. The U S and Thailand plan talks September 1 on downsizing Thai forces.
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Nixon
U.S
Vietnam
Tran Thien Khiem
Nguyen van Thien
South Vietnam
Eisaku Sato
BH School Official Quits Post
R Kenneth Irby resigns as Barbers Hill School District business manager tax collector effective Sept 12. He takes a post with Northeast Independent School District in San Antonio. His wife Ann remains secretary Lo Wki, Womack high school principal until mid term. The couple’s daughters Sandra Kendra and Melinda attend local schools. family plans to move after mid term.
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Mon't Belviey
R. Kenneth Irby
Barbers Hill
Irby
Northeast Independent School District
San Antonio
Ann
Lo Wki
Womack
Sandra
Kendra
Melinda
Trustees Approve Special Services Director at Robert E. Lee High
School board approves five building project acceptances and creation of a special services director at Robert E. Lee High School. Mary Whitaker named to the post, with budget questions raised over funding and prior approvals. Trustees vote unanimously amid budget scrutiny and prior deferrals.
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Highlands
Travis
Baytown
Carver-Jones
Lamar
R J
Robert E. Lee High School
Mary Whitaker
Robert E. Lee
Ross Sterling
Glenn Lippman
Robert Sauls
NREL
Parents Complaint Hidden From Crosby Board in Civil Rights Suit
In Crosby Texas a federal civil rights case against the Crosby School District omits the actual complaint signed by parents of minor children alleging violation of equal protection. Attorney General John N. Mitchell certifies the document exists and may involve more than one family but is not included in the pleadings filed with the Justice Department. The board was reportedly notified via the superintendent and given time to adjust conditions alleged.
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Jomnella Boynton
Crosby
Justice Department
Crosby School Board
The
United States
John N. Mitchell
Mitchell
Board of Trustees
Jerris Leonard
Pests Not Children City Fogging Machine Faces Two Sides
Raytown city pest control workers Jim Dreher and W. H. Costlow describe the fogging truck as necessary yet dangerous. They warn about a 1200 degree hot tailpipe and urge parents to supervise children who rush the truck, while some residents react by opening doors to let fog circulate inside.
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Ron Lennard
Jim Dreher
W. H. Costlow
Raytown City
Dreher
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Gatowy, Texas
David Evans
John Shearer
U.S. Steel
Baytonian
First National Bank
Clark
Opryshek
Bob Wahrmund
Vienna
Thailand
Lippman
Sauls
Supt
Crosby Board
Costron
Wreher
Baytown State Bank
F.D
C. Bay Plaza Center
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