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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 29, 1971
Page
1
The following named person applied for a wine and beer retailer license at the stated address under the assumed name Home. Santos C. Gonrater, Andress, Ed East Favie, Type Business American Legion Past Ho ass.
Scout troop 183 held a Court of Honor at St Pauls with E Lutheran Church officials presenting Life ranks to Mike Cheek Sandy Will Cochrum Paul Ffrench Wes tson and others. Second class and merit badges were awarded to several scouts including Mark Anderser Mike Probst and Gus Wilson. Leadership warrants were signed for senior posts and fifty mile hiking awards announced. Highlights included top Baytown Camporee Baytown Scout-O-Rama and Bowling League honors with summer camp film reels shown.
Two funeral notices from Scottsville and Austin report deaths of Alvie Daniel Donovan 52 and Guy Smithson 61. Donovan served as USAF lieutenant colonel with World War II and Korea service, with services in Scottsville and Wallisville, graveside with full military honors and numerous survivors. Smithson of Lake Travis died in Austin with services held there and burial at Cedar Lawn Cemetery. he leaves a large extended family across Texas and Oklahoma.
Discussion on minimum staffing at Station 2 and Station 4 includes a supervisor for each building with three or more occupants. A shorter work week is proposed with a policy allowing sleep at the station from 10 pm to 6 am to save time. Community urging Reactivation of Pelly Station highlights local tax concerns and access for widows and orphans.
Chief Bland outlines a plan to add four firefighters to allow driver assignments for an aerial truck and to hire nine more staff for 1971 72. He calls for a lieutenant in each engine company, new pumper tanker, updated communications, expanded education, and a new station near Raccoon Drive and Massey Tompkins Road with bond funds, aiming for 1972 and 1973 milestones.
Steel and six tinplate firms run 80 can collection centers in 39 cities across 13 states to cut litter and supply raw material for steelmaking. Also featured are a cleaner air and water mobile labs program, galvanized welded red fabric, Gary Works bar mill upgrade, Herb White’s customer‑oriented outlook, and a quick digest of corporate news.
Humble Oil and Refining Co announced changes for two physicians. Dr J G Lione will move from Baytown Refinery to headquarter medical department in Houston as an assistant medical director on Sept 1, and Dr C A Montgomery will become head of the Baytown Refinery Medical Department.
Funeral services were held for Gordon Alvin Lewis, Baytown's first city auditor, who died after a short illness. Survived by his wife and three sons, he had been a public accountant in Baytown since 1947 and served as city auditor from 1947 to 1953 after Tri-Cities consolidation. Burial followed at Forest Park Lawndale Cemetery in Houston. Lewis was a Kansas City native.
Lanham outlined a continued push by the Department of Community Affairs to inform state officials and the public about local government needs while noting a substantial reduction in the U.S. poverty level.
The article notes that every person riding a bicycle on a roadway has all rights and is subject to all duties applicable to motor vehicle drivers under this Act, with exceptions for special regulations in this Article and provisions that cannot apply. It references Article 221 and Section 179 as the governing rule.
Mount Kisco, N Y publisher and TV personality Bennett Cerf died at his home late Friday night at age 74. Cerf chaired Random House, which he founded in 1927, and founded Modern Library Inc where he served as president.
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