Speech Cancelled Baytown speaker cancels luncheon appearance
U S Rep George Bush cancels Baytown Chamber of Commerce luncheon plans scheduled for next Friday. Other local items include funeral in Palestine for Mrs. W L Cook, Christmas pilgrimage by Trinity Episcopal Church Women, Crusade for Christ program at Memorial Baptist Church, a Beta Sigma Phi Santa suit missing, and the Baytown Rough Riders Christmas party set for Saturday at Lakewood Clubhouse.
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U.S
George Bush
Baytown
Crusade For Christ
Memorial Baptist Church
Gulf
Coast Bible College
Rob Adams
H. A. Whitaker
Rough Riders
Rough Riders Club
Lakewood
Weather Outlook With Rain Through Saturday
Rain is expected to continue intermittently through Saturday and turn cloudy to partly cloudy and colder Saturday night into Sunday. Morgan's Point tides for Sunday show highs at 2 01 a.m. and 16 37 a.m. and lows at 2 13 a.m. and 1 25 p.m. Monday tides list highs at 2 55 a.m. and 10 55 a.m. and lows at 3 19 a.m. and 2 13 p.m.
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Morgan’s Point
Frankie Attaway Checks Up On Apple Recipe
Frankie Attaway prepares a tasty apple dish while Mabel Padgett comforts a hospital patient in Houston. Rossina Coffey meets with the Peruvian consul for a memorable visit. Beth McDowell will share photos. Carolyn Morris shares a potato candy recipe praised as best. William Krizak turns 65 on December 6. Ronnie Knippa also celebrates. Gwen Gober appears in black. Dana Larpenteur stops traffic on Texas Avenue offering an autograph. Mrs Roy Hall assists a friend with witchcraft.
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Frankie, Attaway
Mabel Padgett
Houston
Rossina Coffey
Beth McDowell
Carolyn Morris
William Krizak
Ronnie Knippa
Gwen Gober
Dana Larpenteur
Texas Avenue
Roy
Samantha) Hall
Warren Brothers Bid Wins Ward Road Improvement Contract
Baytown City Council awarded Warren Brothers Construction Co. of Houston a $334,479.45 low bid to pave Ward Road east of Highway 146 with $75,000 drawn from 1965 bond drainage funds. Engineering and contingency bring the bid to $290,851.45 plus $43,628. The council discussed funding gaps and promised a study on flood-prone road rebuilding while annexing a 10 foot strip along Farm Road 1405 near U.S. Steel plant to secure fair transportation rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ron Lennard
Baytown
Ward Road
Highway 146
Warren Brothers Construction Co
Houston
J. B. LeFevre
South Main Street
Warren Bros
Don M. Hushim
Delly R
First Reading
West Chambers County
U.S. Steel
U.S. Steel Works
Greater Houston
Messiah Sing Set At St Mark's Sunday In Baytown
Eighty singers from 28 Baytown churches join in the annual Christmas Messiah at 3 p.m. Sunday at St. Mark's Methodist Church. Conducted by Dr. Ralph Dockendorff with organist Dr. Norbert Kelvin and harpsichordist Mrs. Mary McClendon. Soloists include Anniedeen Creel Shirley Schubert Richard Bains Charles Stephenson and Gene Branscome. Free admission nursery provided parking rear of church.
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Baytown
St. Mark's Methodist Church
Oklahoma
Ralph Dockendorff
Norbert Kelvin
Mary McClendon
First Presbyterian
St. Mark's
Ralph Dockendorf
Charles Stephenson
Anniedéen Creel
Tourism fuels Galveston economy says chamber leader
Wanda Orton reports on a chilly Friday luncheon where Tom Purdy, Galveston Chamber of Commerce manager, touts tourism as the third largest industry in the nation and a growing force in the island economy. He notes the tourism dollar circulates about 15 times, outpacing other sectors, and recalls Galveston’s past image before modernization.
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Wanda Orton
Galveston
Chamber l of Commerce
Tom Purdy
Isle City
Baytown
Purdy
Glenn Campbell
E. J. Pendleton Sr
Brownwood Civic Group Seeks Flood Aid From City
Brownwood Civic Association President Garland Ware and members urged Baytown City Council to act quickly on five flood relief items for Brownwood. They seek drainage improvements on Mapleton and Milner Streets, higher street grades, resurfaced roads, cleanup of sloughs and vacant lots, and better street lighting, citing settlement of old drainage culverts and the low tide season as windows for work.
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Garland Ware
Brownwood
Ware
REL Senior Wins National English Award in 1989
Robert E. Lee High School senior Alan Dale Landry won a national Achievement Award from the National Council of Teachers of English in 1989. He will receive recognition scrolls and a scholarship recommendation, continuing REL’s 4 decade tradition with 16 winners since 1959.
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Alan Dale Landry
Robert E. Lee
National Council of Teachers of English
Alan
Gerald F. Landry
Alabama
REL
Ima Muston
National Council
United States
Muston
RET
John Ella Carroll
Helen Bowers
Natalie Huckabee
Jane Mitcham
Huckabee
Committee
Robert E. Tee
Jimmy Herring
Curtis Herring
William Burns
B. W. Burns
Time Short To Help Kids At Christmas Time
Chief Goodfellow urges Baytown area residents to support the Goodfellows annual Christmas fund. About 1,000 needy children need toys and goodies, with a goal of 3000 dollars. Donations fund a one time yearly drive run by local Goodfellows to ensure underprivileged children enjoy Christmas. Time is short. Baytonians are urged to contribute now.
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Goodfellow
Goodfellows
Baytown
Chief Goodfellow
Goodfellow Organization
All Goodfellows
Baytown Christmas Parade Delayed and Rescheduled
Baytown canceled the 2 p.m. Christmas parade as storms loomed and thunder rumbled over the coast. Officials set a new parade time for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday after rain gauges topped four inches in some areas and a 3.75 foot high tide neared midnight. Civil Defense Chief Pletcher Hickerson noted the tide was retreating later Saturday as rain chances eased from 40 to 20 percent.
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Johnella Boynton
Baytown
U.S. Weather Bureau
Houston
Texas
Brownswood
Hickerson
Civil Defense
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George G. Miles Sr
Palestine
W. L. Cook
Trinity Episcopal Church
St. James House
Kappa Kappa Sorority
Beta Sigma Phi
Laround
Peoples State Bank
J. H. Melvin JR
Pine St
Channelview
Jacinto Methodist Hospital
San
Farm Road
Warren Brothers
Voelkel
T. L
Ted) Kloeser
Brownwood Civic Association
Handel’s ‘Messiah
Baytown CC
Ett Bank & Trust Co
Getardays
Alan Dale
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