Baytown Plans New City Hall and Center in Creme Limestone
Baytown's new city hall and community center will be built from creme limestone with a smooth finish and dark-tinted glass framed in bronze aluminum. Architect Lowell Lammers outlined a two-building, 29-acre civic center with gardens, a pedestrian court, and a concert auditorium seating up to 1,200, facing across a median.
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Bee Landrum
Baytown
Lowell Lammers
Lammers
Appain Unity Center
Mers
Garden Court
Solice
Civic Center
New City Hall
Local notices mix with holiday events in Baytown roundup
A string of community items includes a Christmas party postponement for Jessie Belvitte in the Dabney Goodwin chapter, a hospital board meeting about the Employees Pension Fund, a Baytown man Grady Pitts killed in a Goliad crash, burglaries at a market, and club gatherings. Also listed are a city weather forecast, Optimists meeting time change, and Christmas dinners among women’s clubs.
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Jessie Belvitte
Oak Ad
Dabney - Goodwin
Diion
United Daughters of the Con
W. Homan
Benthome
William
Taub Hospital
Houston
E. Eutopsy
H. Seeley
Burnet Drive
Harris County Hospital
Ben Taub General Hospital
Employees’ Pension Fund
Robert L
Bob) Gillette
Baytown
Pitts
Grady Lee Pitts
Goliad
Ruthie
Doranda
Sharpstown
Crystal City
Baytonians Fall to Virus and Local Happenings
The notice lists several local figures with varied statuses. Harry Massey is among those felled by a virus in Bayton, Joe Gibbs of 2301 Utah is at John Sealy Hospital awaiting surgery, Minnie Roberts now visiting Isaytown and residing in Chicago, while Mrs. L. F. Kent’s Christmas yard art draws compliments. Re v. Harry Holmes has a surprise for a church editor.
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Harry Massey
Baytonians
Steve McWilliams
Ben Shirey
L. F. Kent
J. T. Massey
Joe Gibbs
Utah
John Sealy Hospital
Galveston
Minnie Roberts
Isaytown
Chicago
Harry Holmes
Richard King Elected Wooster Chamber President 1965
Richard King was elected president of the Wooster Chamber of Commerce for 1965 at a Thursday membership meeting. New officers include Rev Earl Crawford as vice president and W P Smith as vice president with R G Holzheuser as secretary treasurer.
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Richard King
The
Wooster Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Earl Crawford
W. P. Smith
R G. Holzheuser
Smith
King
Crawford
Dean King
James Frank
Roy Williams
Orville Younse
Holzheuser
City Hall Land Purchase Questioned Over Authorization
City officials debated whether the council ever authorized buying the 29 acre civic center site fronting Market and North Main Streets. The land was bought for nearly $120,000 on Nov 2, prompting council members to recall past votes and keep records clear.
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Civic Center
Raymond Donnely
Seaborn Cravey
Cravey
Andy Braswell
Braswell
Lowell Lammers
Hullum
Huron
Fritz Lanham
Clear Lake Boat Lane Christmas Parade Set Dec 17
Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce plans the Christmas Boat Lane parade of lights from 7 to 9 p.m. Friday December 1 between Kemah Seabrook and Clear Lake with about 50 decorated boats sailing from Galveston Bay into the channel, featuring the Bay Area Chorus singing Handel's Messiah and a roughly 32 million dollar investment in participating boats. Baytown owners can join by contacting Campbell or Carter at the Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce Seabrook Texas postal box or calling Seabrook.
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Jack Campbell
Clear Lake Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Wearly
Kemah
Seabrook
Galveston Bay
Clear Lake
Bay Arma Chorus
Jane
Campbell
Baytown
Joe Carter
Sam Houston teachers college hosts women’s choir concert
Choir participants included Janice Roach daughter of Mrs Bessie Roach 715 N First and Janie Clinton daughter of Mr and Mrs B A Clinton 3810 Cedar Bayou among Sam Houston State Teachers College students in Friday night concert at the school.
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Janice Roach
Bessie Roach
N. First
Janie M. Clinton
B. A. Clinton
Cedar Bayou
Sam Houston State Teachers College
Gemini 7 and 6 prepare for close space rendezvous
Gemini 7 and Gemini 6 crews, Frank Borman Lovell and Walter Schirra Stafford, race toward a historic meeting in orbit. The two programs aim to a nose-to-nose formation some 185 miles high, with 82 hours later separation and splashdown planned after a 329 hour flight.
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Manned Space Center
Houston
Tex
Air Force
Frank Borman
Navy
James A. Lovell Jr
United States
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Thomas P. Stafford
Mission Control
Schirra
Stafford
Earth
Borman
Charles Berry
Jim
Frank
Berry
Lovell
Space Twins
L. Gorton Cooper Jr
Charles Conrad Jr
Baytown Boys Attend Oilers Chargers Game
Baytown youngsters invited to attend the Houston Oilers versus San Diego Chargers game at Rice Stadium. All boys from Little League MCA and Optimist programs may participate. Contact organizers for transportation. entry via gates three and four withID required. Game time is 1 30 p.m.
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Houston Oilers
San Diego Chargers
Rice Stadium
Oilers
MCA
Oge
Federal Funds Push for Sterling Library Collected
Sterling council authorized the library advisory board to apply for about 5000 in federal funds under Title I of the Library Services and Construction Act to supplement a 7500 bank gift. The library would use at least 75 percent of its budgeted book funds through a central processing program administered by the state with federal funds, while discounts on state-purchased books reach 39 to 41 percent.
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Sterling Municipal Library
Library Advisory Board
Fiera Wilhite
Library Services and Construction Act
Sea Library
Private Garbage Firms Must Get City Permit
City approves ordinance requiring haulers of garbage and waste to obtain a city permit. A $10 annual license fee and public liability insurance are required. Haulers must file biannual lists of customer names and addresses and cannot add new residential customers. City Manager Fritz Lanham cites fewer than 60 residential customers for the sole hauler and seeks authority to cancel unused city service charges.
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Fritz Lanham
Baytown
Lanham
Faithful Supporters Of Annual Goodfellows Drive
Baytown Goodfellows praise PTA members and the Carpenters Union for organizing and supporting the annual Goodfellows Party. Readers are thanked for cash gifts from Girl Scout Troop No. 590 and local residents, with continued appeal for donations to fund candy, fruit, and toys for-needy children.
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Carpenters
Dual Goodfellows
Baytown
PTA
Goodfellows Party
Goodfellows
Anson Jones
Girl Scout Troop No
V. E. Wratten
G. Rex Curtin
The
Baytown Sun
Gus Groos Named Proxy Leader for La Porte Chamber
Gus Groos elected president of the La Porte Chamber of Commerce at the annual directors meeting. He succeeds Bill Hartman and will be installed January 21 at the Houston Yacht Club with Texas Highway Commission chairman Herbert C. Perry Jr. as principal speaker. Groos is a longtime La Porte resident, former Benj Galveston Sears owner, and moved to La Porte to open his own business. He and his wife Vee have four children.
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Sears
Franklin Variety
la Porte
Own
la Porte - Bayshore Chambers
Commmerce
Tion
Bill Hartman
Directroos
Tors
Jerry Hoff
Bayshore National Bank
James W. Martin
Houston Lighting & Power C
Knox W. Askins
Bill Haiflich
la Porte Insurance
Houston Yacht Club
Herbert C. Perry Jr
Texas Highway Commission
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