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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 14, 1972
Page
1
The Baytown quarterly gospel singing convention runs Saturday 7 40 to 10 p m at the Community Center auditorium. It reconvenes Sunday 10 a m to 4 p m with lunch at noon.
L G Williams 61 native of Ashland Alabama died Wednesday in a Bay town hospital after 38 years in Baytown. He was a machinist retired from Williams Humble Oil and Refining Co. services at 2 pm Friday at Earthman Funeral Home Chapel with Masonic rites. Survived by wife Grace, daughter Delores Duke, stepchildren, brother J W Williams, sister Eula Carr, and 11 grandchildren. Burial at Memory Gardens Cemetery with Masonic graveside services. Pallbearers listed. honorary pallbearers from Humble machinist dept. Arrangements by Earthman Funeral Home.
The Ross Sterling High School staged Up the Down Staircase last Thursday and Friday. No reruns are planned this week. An error ran in The Sun. Mr. and Mrs. A C Smith gave a five dollar Goodfellows contribution for Christmas cards, correcting Wednesday's Sun listing of Smith alone.
The school board discussed funding for Foote Park and matching federal funds with bids pending on Duke Hill Tejas and Westwood parks. If pool contracts are eligible in April the facility could be ready for summer use. The board also proposed naming the fountain area between city hall and the Community Building the Baytown Memorial during the 25th birthday celebration in January 1922.
spacemen step onto the moon as the final visit of the generation to lunar exploration ends. they report unusual lunar dust and formations while data from an atomic powered station is relayed to earth.
The article blends tributes to Mrs. Brown at Sterling and Apollo 17 astronauts Cernan and Schmitt. It notes Treuhardt praising Mrs Brown and looking forward to a new principal, Charles Cross, while Brown humbly reflecting on her staff. It then covers Cernan and Schmitt leaving the moon aboard Challenger after 22 hours on the surface and their hopes for peace, cooperation, and sharing lunar samples with nations.
Environmental groups and the Citizens Environmental Coalition of Houston voiced fear that canalization, dams, and locks on the Trinity could curb Gulf fishing by destroying Trinity and Galveston Bay breeding grounds. Guy K. Jackson urged considering flood-prone land costs as the Corps weighs impacts amid ongoing hearings and a separate Wallisville dam lawsuit.
The Baytown Sun editor Fred Hartman hosted the event as Rotarians heard of ongoing well wishes for the retiring REL principal. A former Gander co captain from 1952 voiced strong solidarity, and Mrs. Brown noted no discipline issues among the boys amid widespread praise.
Huffman TOPS monthly meeting honored Sherrie Mozingo as guest of honor. The agenda included presenting the weekly queen prize to Louise Collins for November. Mary Mullins won queen of the week by losing the most weight.
Sisters of Our Lady of Fatima Mission in Leon Guanuato Mexico will offer a take out Mexican dinner Friday starting at noon. Dinners may be purchased at 3307 Illinois and proceeds support the mission.
Kathleen Atteberry daughter of Mr and Mrs Dan S Atteberry of 1307 E Texas will perform as a member of North Texas State University Grand Chorus with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in Verdi Requiem Bolivia is named for Simon Bolivar, the liberator who helped found Colombia Ecuador Panama Peru and Venezuela
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