Baytown notices and local events page roundup
DuBose dies in Baytown hospital. Home for Yule Jimmy Odom to return from Puerto Rico December 21 for Christmas. First Mexican Baptist Church Christmas program December 5 at 7 pm at 1126 Cypress. Baytown Civil Air Patrol seeks cadets ages 13 to 17. Baytown Junior School band concert Tuesday at 7 pm in Community Building. Evelyn Bil ski Cunningham Hurt in two car crash recovering at Hermann Hospital. Pat Wylie earns UT English philosophy BA with honors. Weekend forecast fair and cool with no rain. Galveston tides listed for Sunday and Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yale
First Mexican Baptist Church
Cypress
Baytown
Local Folks Make Small Gestures During Holiday Season
A string of brief, human interest notes describes acts of kindness and everyday help. Bill Green aids a friend in need while J C Foster receives birthday wishes. Sgt. Antonio Ramirez, stationed in Vietnam, will return home to 108 Ashby upon discharge January 18. Mac Meglugan of Carcourt Engineering helps Baytown High School. Mrs How Wright locates a lost poodle and brings happiness. K R Parker does extra photography and Ann Bond delivers cookies at The Sut. Shirley Andrews shows thoughtfulness and Mrs Thad Johnson hosts a holiday gathering. Mrs Frank Bratwr identifies local youths in a photo. Mrs Ko M Vanle celebrates the finished highway project with Hat House. State Highway worker Williams shares auto accident information with illustrative photos.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill Green
J. C. Foster
Antolonio Ramirez
Vietnam
Ashby
Mac’ Meglugan
Carcurt Engineering and Specialies
Baytown
How. Wright
KR. L. Parker
Ann Bond
Shirley Andrews
Thad Johnson
Frank Bratwrt
Ko M. Vanle
Happy Bun
Hat House
Williams
Hospital Board To Mull Area Aid In Clinic Here
Harris County Hospital District Board considers paying for indigents from East Harris County to receive care at Baytona Health League clinic when closer to Baytown than Ben Taub. Barret Station and La Porte residents cite transport costs, limited bus service, and long waits as major barriers to treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Froneberger
Houston Spi
Harris County Hospital District Board of Managers
Baytona Health League
Harris County
Baytown
Ben Taub Hospital
Houston
Barrett Station
la Porte
Baytown to display U S Steel plate mill model
A detailed scale model of U S Steel's Baytown Texas Works plate mill will be shown to the public starting Monday in the Baytown Community Building. The display, showing completion and 1969 production start in late 1969, includes labels for mill sections and adjacent structures. The preview will be led by Mayor Seaborn Cravey, City Manager Fritz Lanham, and Ed Vaught, with Harry S. Spitz and Jack R. Scott unveiling. The model will stay at the Community Building through Christmas and move to City Hall lobby in January. Visitors can view the future Texas Works mill and its capacity to produce carbon and alloy steel plates up to 60 inches wide and over 100 feet long. The plant will use modern equipment and support Southwest industry growth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U.S. Steel
Texas Works
Baytown
Offee
Seaborn Cravey
Fritz Lanham
Chamber of Commerce
Ed Vaught
Harry S. Spitz
Jack R. Scott
U. S. Steelin Houston
Market
City Hall
Southwest
Goodfellow Goal Nears as Donations Lag
With 10 days left before Christmas Chief Goodfellow lacks seven dollars and 15 cents of the $1,000 mark, aiming to raise $2,090 more to finish this year’s drive. A Leslie School of Dance recital on Dec 19 and the Dec 23 Kiddie Show will help but not enough. Baytonians are urged to contribute, as early donations picked up late in the campaign.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rex Leo Elliott
Aquarius Temple
Pytilan Sisters
Chief Goodfellow
Leslie School of Dance
Guy W. Boyd
Czechs await leaders as Soviet ties loom over protests
Readers watch in worry as Czechoslovakia ponders leadership changes and concessions to Moscow while a military backed regime in Brazil clamps down on opposition. Melvin Laird hopes to frame a postwar defense budget by next year. Cosmos launches its 259th satellite and a Texas Ranger testifies on labor conditions. Venezuelan search resumes for two lost jet crash victims as talks in Paris stall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melvin KR. Laird
Red China curbs aid to North Vietnam amid peace talks
U S diplomats report Beijing cut military and labor support to North Vietnam as bombing pauses and new peace talks loom. China withdraws roughly half its 50 000 strong North Vietnam labor force, protests from Red Guards rise, and Chou En-lai protests Red Guard actions while Beijing signals disengagement from the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
China
Hanoi
North Vietnam
Johnson
Peking
Nanking
Chou En-lai
Smoking dangers school assembly with mannequin Tobacco education
Miss Carol Salmon of the San Jacinto Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Association spoke to Robert E. Lee High School students urging non-smoking. The program featured Smoking Sam, a 12 year old life size mannequin, who puffed a cigarette and revealed lungs through a back window. REL Future Nurses Club arranged the event with Vickie Rosamond and Glenda Raney.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carol Salmon
San Jacinto Tuberculosis and Respiratory Diseases Association
Robert E. Lee High School
Glenda Raney
Baytown Sun
First Time Home Since 1966 A Happy Yule For Little Rick
Five year old Rick Tankersley is returning home for Christmas for the first time since 1966 after a severe burn accident at a Pasadena service station. The boy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Tankersley of Highlands, survived 65 percent body burns with skin grafts and multiple surgeries in Houston and Galveston. Shriners hospital offered to cover treatment costs, and Rick will stay home until January 7 before returning for his eighth operation at Galveston Burn Center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rick
Ron Lenary
Rick Tankersley
Rick
Gerald Tankersley
Pin Oak
Highlands
Roy Tankersley
William
Baytown
Pasadena
Galveston
Shriners
Ricky
Sixty One Baytown Men Drafted In January
Baytown area draft board announces 61 Baytonians will be inducted in January reflecting a higher national quota. Mrs Abigail Frazier, chief clerk, notes November 23 and December 43 quotas, with 53 registrants reporting for physicals in January. Defense Dept sets February quota at 33,700.
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Baytown Board
Armed Services
Frazier
Abigail Frazier
Selective Service Board
Baytown Area
Defense Department
Pentagon
Baytown
Weefee
Baytonians on Texas Chem Council Board
Charles M. McKay of Ashland Chemical Co Baytown is among 10 directors elected to two year terms on the Texas Chemical Council board for 1969. The council unites 53 Texas chemical plants with a 20 member board from 10 new and 10 continuing directors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles M. McKay
Ashland Chemical Co
Baytown
Texas Chemical Council
M. E. Gillis
Enjay Chemical Company
TCC
Texas
Dr. C. M. Blair
Union Carbide
Houston
R. H. Featherston
Reynolds Metals
Corpus Christi
John H. Frick
Celanese
Bishop
T. Brockett Hudson
Southwest Chemical and Plastics
Seabrook
S. J. Hultman
PPG Industries
R. V. Lailner
Baytown land value debate at South Main paving hearing
Otis Graham testified before the city council on Thursday night about two small land parcels impacted by the South Main Street paving project. He said one tract has nuisance value and the other is a briar lot with an oil well in the middle, noting no value increase from the project.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Otis Graham
Baytown
Graham
Tealdes
Also Mentioned on This Page
Yule
Jimmy Odom
Mes
J. F. Odom
Barrymore
Puerto Rico
Civil Air Patrol
CAP
Stanley Wiggins
MHS
Catiferine
Evelyn Bilski
Cabaniss
Lynchburg Road
Hermann Hospital
Pat Wylie
University of Texas
Wylie
Roger Wylie
State Bank
San Francisco
San Francisco State College
Beatrice Lewis
Harris County Community Action Association
Ben Taub
Wanle
Guy W. Hayd
Virgil Hargis
Armandorden
KLD
Hornside Jr
R.dib. Layton
D. B. Perry
Mer
H. Mwebner
Chelstaingurls
Communist Party
Soviet Union
Arthur da Costa E Silva
Rio de Janeiro
Tass
Texas Ranger
A. ¥. Allee
U. S. Civil Rights Commission
South
Allee
Coast Guard
Caribbean Sea
Caracas
U.S
Saigon
West
Red
Capital Military
Strategic Air Command
Okinawa
Guam
Thailand
Larry Eatherton
Baytonians
Charles McKay
Baytonians On
Chem’ Council Board
F. Zimmermann
Monsanto
Alvin
Ty. T. Chase
la Porte du Pont
AEL
Robert E. Lee High
Houston Oiler
Boston Patriot
Astrodome
Diane DeGarmo
Terry Sanders
Virginia Herrington
Mary Parker
Jo Ann Harris
Paule Greer
Lynda McFee
Verna Brown
Pah Pears
Laura Massey
Susan Kelly
Jeanne Smalling
Frances Smith
Sandra Mullins
Gwen Kader
Oto
Laek
Citizens National. Bank & Trust Co
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