Baytown housing boom to reshape city growth
Builders in Baytown brace for a population surge over 13 years as U.S. Steel expands, with 750 to 1,000 apartments under construction and a mix of two bed room units, townhouses, and single family homes planned. The Barcelona complex near Beaumont will add 600 units with luxury features. rents range from 113 to 200 dollars monthly. Major projects include White Hall, Creative Arms, and Hyde Park townhouses, signaling a broad shift to apartment living as area developers hire crews and hunt land.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan Erwin
Baytown
Baytown Builders
the Sun
U. S. Steel
Barcelona
Fil Beaumont
Peggy Harpst
Barcelona Marager
White Hall
Narilie
Ward Roads
Creative Arms
Baker Road
Ponterosa
Bluebonnet
Highway 156
Hyde Park Townhouses
Ward Road
Hyde Park
Starett
Flamenco
Plumwood
Gilbert Manor
Tifanny
Hones, ‘Inc
Craigmont
Glen
Sun Spots Advertisers Holiday Ad Deadline Notice
Holiday notices and weather tidbits from The Baytown Sun list ad deadline extensions to Tuesday at 9 30 am and note no publication on Christmas Day. It also includes Galveston tides for Sunday and Monday and a ski accident involving Sidney Brasfield and a batch of community notices about parties visits and personal news in Baytown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bostowa Sun
the Sun
Laura Pohler
Highlands
Wisc
Jane
Jane Tucker
Bonnie Kidd
Anna Mae Johnston
Gene Johnson
al Sanders
Lais Phillips
Cecil
Hal Thomas
Mary Coker
Mary Meade
New
Community Center
Sun
Glenn Pfennig
H. P. Gillespies
Austin
R. L
Waco
Baytown
Ann Comeaux
Yale
Doc
Mann
Lynn
Dan Burgess
Keltha Harper
Mrs
Reese
Kathy
Andrea
Matt
Jim
Ann Arbor
Mich
Sesson
Ross Sterling High School Octagon Club
Tom Walmsley
Baytonians Take Shrine Holiday Trip
A Baytown Shrine group and spouses depart Houston International Airport at 4 30 p m for a San Francisco sight seeing stay then Honolulu and Las Vegas on a two week Christmas tour. The itinerary includes a special Christmas party and gift exchange and confirms several named travelers among the group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Shriners
San Francisco
Honolulu
Las Vegas
Houston
Baytown
Weather and world news brief from AP and nations
Freezing weather hits the Texas coast as travel improves. Texas DPS estimates 55 will die in accidents. Johnson meets Pope Paul VI after addressing US troops in Vietnam. McCarthy seeks radio TV time. Greek junta grants amnesty to 2600 prisoners and schedules a referendum for April 21. Vietnam ground fighting ebbs as holidays near.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Department of Public Safety
Cold Snap Boosts Houston Area Christmas Bird Count
The Houston bird census set for December 30 draws 75 volunteers from Houston and Baytown. A cold front before the event typically boosts species variety, with last year tallying nearly one million birds across 170 species in a 15 mile diameter Baytown hub.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jonnella Boynton
John Treten
I Teveton
Houston Outdoor, Nature Club
Aidubon Society
U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Houston
Sikes Fund Reaches $400 for Burned Family
The Sikes family burn victims receive community help with gifts and cash totaling over $400 by Friday afternoon. Ruth Adams Sikes and three children are critically injured. James Sikes transferred to Ben Taub in fair condition. Funds aid Christmas gifts and hospital costs. Baytown and Houston Shriners arrange transfer to Shrine Barm Clinic Galveston.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sikes
Dan Savell
Ruth Adams Sikes
Larry Joe
Laura Kay
Matthew
Ben Taub Hospital
James Sikes
Ben Taub
Tidelands Hospital
Channelview
Baytown and
Houston Shriners
Shrine
Galveston
Lakewood Church of Christ
Lavell
Jesse Navarre
Citizens National Bank Fridday
Hazel Echols
Savell
Gulf Coast Union Sets Wage Talks
The Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union schedules two membership meetings at 314 Market St Union Hall to discuss Humble Oil and Refining Co. and Enjoy Chemical Co. wage offers. A four percent raise would take effect Jan 11, 1968 if accepted by that date. later acceptance would push the start date. The union represents about 2,000 Humble and Enjoy employees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Gulf Coast Industrial] Workers Union
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Enjoy Chemical Co
Market St
Pete Brewer
Ign
Levee Feasibility Promises Baytown Growth and Park
Engineers say a western Baytown levee is feasible and would protect land along Baytown’s bays, create a large freshwater lake, and boost tax values. The project, costing about 6.1 million, could open land for development and a public park, with final results due to civic leaders and potential federal funding sought in 1968.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry “Holcomb
Baytown
Don van’ Sickle
Turner, Collie and Braden
van Sickle
Drake
Jevee
E. V
Gene
Muller
Baytow
Itme
Burnet
Scott Bays
Crystal Lake
Brownwood
Carla
Beulah
Lame
Lake
Livingston
Washington
Sun Adds Sunday Supplement On Jan 7 Across Texas
The Sun of Baytown will join editor Fred Hartman and three Southeast Texas papers to publish a Tempo group Sunday supplement. The Houston Post, Galveston News and Texas City Sun will share a 56 page first edition with articles aimed at Texas readers. Al Shire, longtime Houston Post writer, also joins editorial staff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
Sun
Texas
The
Post
Tempo
Louisville
Fred Hartman
Houston Post
Galveston News
Texas City Sun
the Post
al Shire
Bitter Baytown Morning Delivers 39 Degree Chill
Temperatures dipped to an unofficial 39 degrees in Baytown Saturday as a blustery north wind intensified the chill. Forecasters expect clear skies and cold but not freezing conditions for Sunday and Christmas Day per the U S Weather Bureau.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
U.S. Weather Bureau
Goodfellow Christmas drive aids Baytown children
Baytown Goodfellows celebrate the 37th year of Chief Goodfellow’s drive, surpassing a 33,000 goal with about 3,284 dollars raised by volunteers and donors. Sterling Stars KWERA contributed 50 dollars, aiding toy and candy purchases for needy youths. final accounting to come next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chief Goodfellow
Baytown Goodfellows
Baytonians
Sterling Stars
KWERA
Sterting Coeds
Stars
KWBA
iChief
Cirele ° K
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Lona
Mattic
Brooks Starett
Starett Lumber Co
Penderson
Creative Arms Apartments
Oplex
Sidney Brasfield
Lee Brasfield
First National Bank
Denver, Colo
Jsdan
Lee College Baptist Student Union
Campbells
John Campbell
Milton M. McCamey
McCamey
Campbell
Sean Jamison
Humble Oil and Refining Cos
Polyalefia
Texas Coastal Plain
Johnson
Pope Pauli
Vietnam
Eugene J. McCarthy
Trace Periols
Treten
Watehers
Gulf Coast Union
Cevaressere
SS Oblss
Tri-City Motion Picture
Tese
Weeere
Anonymers Seeterre
Boy Scout Troop
Susie Belle Lewis
Welcome Wagon
Wees
Eames
Miss Burch
Highlands Elementary
Sterling Stara
Gari S. Tharp
Stan
Carmel Nortog
Horace Smith
Ruth H. Shannon
W. W. Cox
Ross
Sveveararnes
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