Baytown Theater Pass Good Through Dec 20 For Gone With The Wind
The Baytown Sun offers Mr and Mrs M Bevins two tickets at Brunson Theater box office with this pass valid through December 20. Also notes Beauceant Rainbow Girls Christmas parties schedule and Baytown Youth Fair activities including live stock scramble and steer weigh-in 8:30 to noon Saturday at the fair grounds. A set of keys found near Baytown Hospital is listed with contact numbers for claiming.
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Baytown Sun
Mrs. M
Bevins
Nazra
Brunson Theater
Rainbow Girls
Social Order
Beauceant
Baytown Assembly
Goose Creek
Lodge
Ancel Boswell
York
Lufkin State School
Baytown
Community Notes From Houston Area Church Youth Event
Eva Rae Collier and Rita Standridge receive congratulations and thanks for help. Mrs Ray C Galloway undergoes surgery and is recovering at home. Coady Baptist Church will run a free bus to a Youth for Christ meeting at Music Hall Houston on Saturday leaving Ward and Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road at 6:30 with speaker Tom Skinner author of Now I’m Free.
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Eva Rae Collier
Sam Bramlett
R. L. Martin
Carter Miller
Rita Standridge
Donna Jarry
Cecila Gasket
Annette Elliott
Richard Taylors
Gary Lucas
Ray C. Galloway
Osie McDaniel
V. E. Buchanek
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Howard Kost
Santa Claus
Rhonda Pierce
Louis Bains
Coady Baptist Church
Youth For Christ
Music Hall
Houston
Ward and
Cedar Bayou
Lynchburg Road
Tom Skinner
Drainage on Ward Road Draws City Council Attention
Ward Road drainage issues dominate Baytown City Council discussions along with prior topics like traffic lanes at Alexander Drive and a bridge. Floyd Bishop urged an on site inspection of the east end while city engineer John Busch explained road height to clear existing culverts and a flood control ditch needs cleaning after two heavy rains. Busch offered to meet Bishop to discuss solutions and noted the ditch maintenance as a key factor.
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Ward Road
Baytown
Alexander Drive
Floyd Bishop
John Busch
fHtarris County
Kilgore l
Busch
Bishop
Baytown Council OKs Plan to Sell Bonds for Capital Upgrades
Baytown City Council voted to hire a financial adviser to prepare a January bond sale for the first phase of an 11.6 million capital improvement program. The exact amount and timing will be firmed on January 7, with interest rates potentially at or below five percent.
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Johnella Boynton
Baytown
Tom Masterson
Underwood Neuhaus and Co
Allen Cannon
Masterson
Internal Revenue Service
Water Quality Plan to Address Baytown Problems
Frank Dorr, a water quality and corrosion expert, will present a proposal on Baytown water issues at the next council meeting on December 17. Howard Northcutt said he and Dorr inspected Sherwood Street in Plumwood after reports of two children with kidney infections. one mother suggested a physician blamed soil or dust in the water, while another mother’s doctor could not determine the cause. A water sample was taken, and Ted Kloesel commented that the water may be safe for humans but unsafe for pipes.
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Leonard Stasney
Masterson
Washington
Senate
U.S. Treasury Department
Frank Dorr
Baytown
Howard Northcutt
Northcutt
Doerr
Sherwood Street
Plumwood
Joe
Humber
Houston
Ted Kloesel
Panel Will Study Phone Rate Hike Refer Ordinance to Utilities
San Angelo council voted to refer the recently passed telephone rate ordinance to the Utilities Committee chaired by Councilman Lamar Kelley. Kelley said General Telephone Co. division manager Al Chappell called after the council froze base rates to Dec. 31, 1972. Ted Kroesel called the increase a customer victory and warned against shifting costs to small businesses and residents.
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Baytown
Utilities Committee
Lamar Kelley
Kelley
al Chappell
General Telephone Co
San Angelo
Chappell
General Telephone
Leonard Stasney
Ted Kroesel
Weather and Tides Baytown area forecast
Partly cloudy and continued mild with a chance of showers expected in Baytown Friday. Temperatures range from the lower 60s to near 70. Morgan's Point tides on Saturday show high at 3 55 a.m. and low at 2 49 p.m. Saturday sunrise is 7 07 a.m. and sunset is 5 23 p.m.
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Baytown Arena
Morgan’s Point
Unemployment tops Texas rate as 1970 closes
Texas unemployment reaches 3.7 percent at end of fiscal 1970. Texas Employment Commission notes the rate leading every year since 1965. Governor Preston Smith’s administration faces ongoing labor challenges. Police search 17-year-old son after multiple family slayings in New Canaan. Nixon pledges air strikes against North Vietnam if enemy infiltrates, while trains resume after a 24-hour railroad strike. In Indochina no American fatalities reported for a ninth day this year. Peru quake toll uncertain with 81 dead reported so far.
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Faustin
Texas
Texas Employment Commission
Preston Smith
Hullum To Work With Good Folks In Chambers County
Mayor Glen Walker proposed a permanent city liaison to Chambers County with quarterly meetings. Councilman Don Hullum agreed to represent the council, praising the county as having a set of good folks over there.
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Glen Walker
Chambers County
Don Hullum
Hallum
Baytown Council Debates Lakewood Townhouse Approval
At a Baytown City Council meeting three terms illegal erroneous and premature were used to criticize the planning commission preliminary approval of a Lakewood townhouse project. Council also moved to curb density with an eight per acre cap for individually owned townhomes and 20 per acre for rental apartments.
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Baytown
Ross Wilhite
Frank Whalen
Lakewood Civic Association
City Planning Commission
Lakewood
Bush Nominee for U.N. Envoy Faces Senate Vote
President Nixon announced Rep. George Bush of Texas will head the American delegation to the United Nations succeeding Charles Yost. Bush, a Yale-educated oil millionaire and former Navy pilot, challenged Troyd Bentsen in the Texas Senate race and lost.
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Washington
Nixon
George Bush
Texas
Charles Yost
United Nations
Bush
Senate
Yost
William Rogers
Democrat Yost
U.N
Congress
Troyd Bentsen
George Herbert Walker Bush
Connecticut
Prescott Sheldon Bush
Bonin Islands
Zapata Petroleum Corp
Midland
Tex
Zanes Off-Shore Co
Pet Project Cited Antler Club Toots Goodfellows
Chief Goodfellow at Robert E. Lee High School notes the Antler Club donated 50 dollars and praises the group of girls for yearly charity work. Their main effort supports the Child Care Center on Oak Street with monthly parties and an upcoming Christmas event with toys and refreshments for local children.
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Chief Goodfellow
Baytown
Antler Club
Robert FE. Lee High School
Oak Street
Antler
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Beaumont Street
Whalen
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Mervin Rosenbaum
Toots Goodfellows’ Horn
G. L. Smith
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Charlotte and Family
Ira Lindsay Pankey
Isenhour
Ack Humphries
M. Smith
Robert E. Lee
Een Ottin
Omega Hudiiemonary
Levi Mitchell
Mary Jane
C. L. Winningham
Vestal
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Ashbel Smith
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