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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1969
Page
2
A Siamese cat, black feet and both ears, is missing in the vicinity of Garth Road and North Road. It is described as a child’s pet. Please call Mrs. Gus Tomek at 575-1376 if seen.
Donald Ray Fowler 31 of Baytown died in Dallas. Funeral 10 a.m. Tuesday at Earthman Chapel with burial at Memory Gardens. Survived by wife Twilla, six sons and a daughter, plus parents, siblings, and stepfamily. Mabel Tessa Moore 76 of Houston died in a Baytown hospital. Services 1 p.m. Tuesday at Earthman Chapel, burial San Jacinto Memorial Park. Survived by daughter A D Dillahunty, three sons, six grandchildren, eight great grandchildren. Modesta Martinez 84 of Baytown died in a Baytown hospital. Services 2:30 p.m. Tuesday at Earthman Chapel, burial Hill of Rest Cemetery. Survived by daughter Anita Garza and son Justo Martinez, plus 14 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.
The board prepares the 1969 70 budget with travel reimbursements and asks for reports on football receipts for 1969, 1968 69 travel costs, and campus maintenance expenditures. Attending attorneys will opine on re entering policy changes, and the board will consider bills, new personnel, and resignations amid agenda debate over item reinstatement.
Federal hog cholera quarantines have been extended into 17 counties over the past two weeks. Agriculture Department officials say the move does not signal a major resurgence. Quarantines mainly affect the South and East including Mississippi, Texas, North Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland, prohibiting interstate shipment of feeder pigs and breeding stock from affected areas.
Norwood, Duke, and Dettore join Texas Works from U S Steel Fairfield Homestead and Canonsburg posts. Norwood chairs AIMME section and belongs to multiple metal and testing bodies. Duke comes from Fairfield Works Birmingham with a chemical engineering background. Dettore, Pittsburgh native, moved to Texas Works after refinery metallurgy posts.
Perry and Charles quit U.S. Steel jobs for a motorcycle trip from Panama to Argentina. They expect delays at the Panamanian jungle area but may ferry around it. They will contact ham radio operator friends, mail postcards, and hope to photograph diverse regions in Colombia Ecuador Peru Bolivia and Argentina. Perry is Dorothy Du Bose’s son and Charles is Graden Cox’s son.
Franklin Abshier a longtime Hankamer resident and father of Mrs Grace Parrish of Baytown died Sunday at 2 p m Funeral rites are planned for 2 p m Tuesday at Sweet Home Baptist Church Hankamer with Sterling Funeral Home of Dayton directing.
Baytown readers were told Santa will lead the town parade, expected to be among the largest, weather permitting. The lineup includes Ross Sterling, Lee High, brigadiers and bands from Lee College and four junior schools, plus floats, antique cars and horses along Texas Avenue. Dave Sherron coordinates entries. the parade runs from Thomas Circle to Third Street.
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