Christmas TV and radio music and club notices
Memorial Baptist Hand bell Choir to perform at noon Christmas Day on Channel 11 hosted by Joanne King with Barbi and Bonnie Goodrich joining the harp ensemble on Dialing for Dollars. Memorial Baptist Youth Choir to sing Love Transcending at 3 p.m. Christmas on KWBA radio. Baytown Stamp Club cancels Dec 25 meeting. next gathering Jan 22. Kiwanis speaker Ken Thompson discusses Interlingua at noon. teen center open 4 8 p.m. for college students with IDs.
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Memorial Baptist
Joanne King
Channel 11
Barbi
Bonnie Goodrich
Memorial Baptist Youth Choir
KWBA
Baytown Stamp Club
Weather And Tides
COOL CRISP weather is expected to continue through Christmas Day with temperatures in the upper 40s to upper 60s. Morgan's Point tides Friday show high at 1 49 am and low at 12 55 pm. Friday sunrise is 7 14 am and sunset 5 29 pm.
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Morgan’s Point
Christmas Greetings Across The Lone Star State
Sam Houston State College and Blinn College students Larry Kluck and Ross Hargis head to Brenham for Christmas hunting with Ross’s father. Mrs. R F Dial recalls a holiday incident that reveals Christmas spirit. Gene Gillis shares a Christmas card from across the pond. David Pryor wishes friends a merry Christmas and happy New Year. Johnnie Walker continues Christmas programs for children. Doris Walmsley from Billings Montana notes a white Christmas while missing Baytown friends. Elton Forbus birthday wishes.
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Larry Kluck
Ross Hargis
Sam. Houston State College
Blinn College
Brenham
Ross
Herbert Campbell
R. F. Dial
Gene
Johnnie Walker
Doris Walmsley
Billings, Mont
Baytown
Elton Forbus
Sterling High names Hess as new head coach in two year deal
Jim Hess 34, former Rice assistant, was unanimously chosen at a school board meeting to lead Ross Sterling High. He takes over Jan 18 with a two year contract and option to add two assistants. Hess has coached at Kilgore Farmersville McKinney Rockwall and Rice, holding a 70-19-1 record as a head coach and guiding Rockwall to the 1963 class 2A state title.
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Bobby Risinger
Sun
Jim Hess
Ross Sterling High
Hess
Roland Kudila
Sterling
Johnny Clark Jr
Rice University
Houston
Rice
Owl Frash
Bo Hagan
Kilgore High School
Farmersville
McKinney High
McKinney
Rockwall
Farmersville High
Holiday Pause Baytown Ready For Christmas
Baytown prepares for Christmas with last minute shopping and gifts. City offices close for a long weekend through Monday. Garbage collection shifts to Tuesday for Friday routes. Sterling Library closes Thursday and reopens Monday. Harris County Wooster branch closed Thursday and Friday, open Saturday morning. Post office lobby open Saturday and Sunday. windows closed Saturday. Schools reopen January 4. Lee College students on break.
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Sterling Library
Harris County
Wooster
Yale
Lee College
Baytown
Christmas Cease Fire in Vietnam With Low Weekly Death Toll
Saigon reports a Christmas cease fire across South Vietnam for 24 hours ending 6 p.m. EST while bombings in Cambodia and Laos continue. Viet Cong and North Vietnamese also observe a 72 hour truce starting at 1 a.m. Saigon time. Allied commands note only two enemy attacks early, one South Vietnamese soldier killed, and U.S. weekly casualties reaching lows in over five years with 23 KIA and 46 nonhostile deaths. South Vietnamese HQs tally 266 killed and 886 wounded last week.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Cambodia
Laos
Indochina
Safety Council estimates Christmas travel toll rises
The National Safety Council says between 550 and 50 deaths will occur in traffic accidents during the Christmas holiday weekend from 6 p.m. today to midnight Sunday. It also projects 400 to 500 deaths for the New Year weekend.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Beach City Annexation Suit Filed to Void 8,000 Acres
Baytown attorney Bill Laughlin filed for a group of Beach City landowners in Anahuac's 75th District Court seeking to void Beach City's annexation of 8,000 acres within Baytown's extraterritorial area. The suit names managing entities and trustees, noting owners hold over 600 acres. The plaintiffs claim annexation exceeds extraterritorial jurisdiction and violates state statutes.
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Wanda Orton
Baytown
Bill Laughlin
West Chambers County
Beach City
Shindler-Cummings
Anahauc
A Management Co
Jimmy Land Owners
McClellan
S Suit, Management Co. No. 42 Limited
Texas Limited
Laughlin
Thanks To All Of You Splendid Goodfellows Holiday Message
A Baytown Christmas fund notes a $3042.97 tally with more expected from carton returns. The Lee Brigadiers led carton distribution and collection for The Sun office. Thanks to workers and donors, toys and presents will reach deserving Baytown children.
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Lee
Sun Office
Baytown
For Unto You Is Born This Day A Savior
Nativity summary recounts Joseph and Mary traveling to Bethlehem for a census under Caesar Augustus. Mary bears a son in a manger as shepherds witness angels praising God. The shepherds visit, spread the news, and return glorifying God.
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David
Christ the Lord
Bethlehem
Mary
Joseph
God
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Parks and Recreation Department
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Baker Road
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Sterling High School
W. V. Ramsey
Precinct 2
Ramsey
Bill Lilly
Kim Richardson
Glen Rusier
Roger G. Snyder
Baytown Optimist Club
Snyders
Optimists
Linda Cassity
Paul Parker
Foley
Ala
Glen Rosier
Rosier
Ramada Tower Center
W. C. Reeves
J. B. Cooper
Vietnam
Baytown State Bank
Plaza Cente
Preetey Are
Citizens National Bank A
Washington
CHIEF
Goodfellow
Goodfellows
Sa Far
J. D. Goodlett
Jody Landers
Pero
Caesar Augustus
Cyrenius
Syria
Galilee
Nazareth
Judaea
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