Tax on Electrical Energy and Excise Increases Considered
State lawmakers pushed continued debate on excise tax changes raising domestic and commercial electricity charges. Senate committee endorsed higher rates, boosting pack of cigarettes by one cent, gas tax to two cents, beer to three dollars a barrel, and distilled spirits tax from nine to ten and a half cents per proof gallon, signaling a broader price rise across alcohol and energy. The House version parallels these adjustments, maintaining a higher baseline for revenue.
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Senate
Counts Funeral Rites Saturday for Robert H Counts
Funeral services for Robert H. Counts 80 known as Uncle Bob will be at 4 p m Saturday at Earth men Chapel with Elder John Hawkins of the Primitive Baptist Church officiating Burial will be in Cedarcrest Cemetery Counts a Bay town resident for 50 years died yesterday at his home 25 Sam Houston Courts after a long illness He was a trinket salesman at the Morgan Point Ferry before health failed two years ago Pallbearers include I L Fones Joe S Barris O B Riley J P F Hawkins B D Roden and P J Young
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Robert H
Bob
O. B. Riley
J. P F. Hawkins
B.D. Roden
P. J. Young
City council weighs recreation coordinator plan
The council debates replacing the pool manager with a full time recreation director at Rose land Park. W. W. Brown, a Robert E. Lee High School teacher, would lose his pool manager salary of 1500 to fund the coordinator. Some members support equipment buys and volunteer programs, while others push salaried management and social security provisions. A final decision remains pending.
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W. W. Brown
Robert E. Lee High School
Brown
Reeves
Buelow
J. A. Ward
Roseland Park
R. H. Pruett
City Polishes Up Budget Continued On Page One
The council weighs two employee benefit plans totaling 29 830 and eight percent of 372 885 for salaries to cover Texas Municipal Retirement Plan and Social Security. Mayor Ward calls for a meeting to decide adoption and suggests a taxpayer vote on the retirement plan while denying immediate salary raises this year.
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Texas
J. A. Ward
Middleton
Ward
Bridgekeeper Fell at Clear Creek Bridge in Seabrook
Investigating officers say Henry Anders, 47, bridge keeper at Clear Creek bridge in Seabrook, fell Tuesday night. He was found semi conscious, told investigators a car knocked him off. Three motorists witnessed the fall and helped. He was treated at Jeff Davis Hospital and later at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital, with rib fractures and a possible spine fracture.
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Henry Anders
Clear Creek Bridge
Seabrook
Anders
Paul Anderson
Jeff Davis Hospital
Houston
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Stork Delivers Babies in Baytown Area
Mr and Mrs Linnie Ray Harls of Baytown welcomed a son born yesterday at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. Williams A som born yesterday at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital to Mr and Mrs Clayton Williams of Channelview. Sanders a son born yesterday to Mr and Mrs A A Sanders of 215 West Nazro at San Jacinto Memorial Hospital. Maxwell Mr and Mrs David M Maxwell of Route One are the parents of a son born Wednesday at Baytown Hospital.
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Earls
Linnie Ray Harls
Baytown
San Jacinto M Memorial Hospital
Williams
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Clayton Williams
Channelview
Fort Worth Livestock Prices Steady for Cattle Hogs Fall
The Fort Worth livestock report shows cattle 500 head steady with slaughter steers and yearlings scarce. Utility cows 22.00 to 25.00, canners 15.00 to 22.00, bulls 28.09 and down. Mixed stocker steers 28.00 to 33.00. Hogs 250 head price down with butchers 25 to 50 lower, sows and feeder pigs near steady, Choice 180 to 270 lb 21.50, 140 to 170 lb 19.00 to 21.00. Sows 17.00 to 18.50, feeder pigs 19.06 down.
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Fort Worth
USDA
Custom of milking cows from the right side
Milking cows from the right side is nearly universal and likely originated from the preference for using the right hand. The behavior reflects practical hand dominance shaping routine tasks across farming cultures.
Notice of Budget Hearing and Creditors in Harris County
Legal notices list budget hearing for Barbers Independent School District 1961 2952 with meeting on Tuesday September 4 at 7 30 PM inviting patrons. Also notices appointing executors for Herbert Weldon Herring and Angel LeBlanc estate with claims deadlines and addresses in Baytown Harris County Texas. Includes board of equalization session September 4 at 6 PM in Wooster and public notice of administration for Blanche Boerm e LeBlanc estate.
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Herbert Weldon Herring
Harris County
Texas
el Bunsiouts Baytnon
Yda Irene Herring
East Hunnisuur
Baytown
Strickland & Gillette N
Galtlard
Board of Equalization of
Hervis Coun Fresh
Elm
Blanche Boeseme
Angel Leblanc
wAtipost
Angel le Slanc
Blanche Borsme
Hlanche ‘Jehme
Harris Coun Texas
Blanche Soehme
Blanche Boerme
Pins Street
Stock Finals Special To The Baytown Sun
A fragmentary stock market list from Baytown Sun shows company names such as Armco Steel Amerad Pet Calumet and Hecla Celanese Chrysler Gen Electric Goodyear Tire Gulf Oil Shell Pennant firms like AT and T Dow and Du Pont Chem Eastman Kodak General Motors US Steel and others including Sears and Woolworth, indicating a final compilation of stock entries with many gaps and ambiguous figures.
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Bud Co
Celanese Corp
Chrysler Corp
Davison Chem Dow
du Pont Chem Eastman Kodak - Gen Electric
Eessseeeer
Gen Motors
Seeseereess Goosyear Tire
Greyhound Bus
Gillette Saf
Gulf Oil
Gulf Stat Uul HlLand Pco
Humble Oil
Libby McNligsett and Myers
Montana-Dakota
Mack Trucks
Mid Con Pet
Nat Dairy
Nat Steel
Ohio
Penney’s Inc
Packard Motors
Repab Steel
Sears
Regis Paz Sou
Pacif
Stan OH
Surrey Oil
Ter
Gulf Texas Co
Tex Gulf Prod
US Steel
Woolworth
N. O. Cotton
Two Baytonians Attend Brother's Funeral in Aransas Pass
Mrs Albert N Marvick and Jerry Ulich travel from Baytown to Aransas Pass for funeral services of Scotty B Ulch 46 who died yesterday in a San Antonio hospital after years of illness. They plan to return Monday with Walter and Mrs. Nelson of Galveston, sister to the Baytonians.
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Albert N. Marvick
Jerry Ulich
Aransas Pass
Scotty B. Ulch
Ulich
San Antonio
Marvick
Jerry
Uleh
Baytown
Walter Nelson
Galveston
Nelson
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