Traffic Collision Halts Baytown La Porte Tunnel Traffic
A two car crash at 9 35 p m Thursday in the Baytown La Porte Tunnel halted Christmas Day traffic for nearly an hour. Three people sustained minor injuries and were not hospitalized. Firemen contained grass fires on Wade Road and Thompson Road and a garage fire at 403 W Francis caused only smoke damage. Carol Marti has Bluebonnet Bowl tickets on the 50 yard line. Baytown Stamp Club meeting Friday night was canceled with date and place to be announced.
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Baytown- la Porte
Wade Road
Thompson Road
Baytown
W. Francis
Carol Marti
Stamp Club Baytown Stamp Club
McCormick Receives Power Generation Specialist Rating
George W. McCormick, son of Mr and Mrs B M McCormick of 1209 Ash, has earned the military rating of Power Generation Specialist and received his diploma for completing the Power Generation Course at the United States Army Engineer School.
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George W. McCormick
B. M. McCormick
Ash
Department of Mechanical and Technical Equipment
United States Army Engineer School
Weather and Tides Forecast for Friday to Saturday
Generally cloudy Friday with increasing clouds Friday night and Saturday. Temperature range Friday upper 40s to mid 60s. Baylin low around dawn. Morgan's Point tides Saturday highs near 6:43 am and 6:19 am/5:31 pm lows.
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Baylin At & Am
Morgan's Point
Birthday Cards and Navy Visits Highlight Holiday Notes
A jumble of short items mentions Peggy Power’s clever birthday cards, Gregory Hunsinger visiting his Orlando based parents during the holidays, Virginia Gray admiring a homemade purse, Katherine Alford pondering an absent minded friend, and Shirley Turner buying scientific Christmas gifts. Also described are Per uaa1d celebrating a tenth birthday, and a Navy pilot named Mike Hull with mixed feelings about Christmas while family news and plans to Hanoi surface amid holiday shopping and a brief reference to the North Vietnamese government.
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Peggy Power
Gregory Hunsinger
Navy
Orlando
Fla
J. K. Snapp
Virginia Gray
Katherine Alford
Shirley Turner
Ro Holzheuser
David House
Tyee Bernouu
Don W. House
Perol
Hanoi
George BE
Smith
Cincinnatii
Ohio
Ted
Goodbye Christmas Gift Changers and Shoppers
The world turned away from Christmas as the decade ended. U S and South Vietnamese forces resumed combat after a 24 hour cease fire with no major fighting. Pope Paul VI called for extended truces for reconciliation. Israeli jets attacked Egyptian targets across the Suez Canal. In Bethlehem turnout was smaller than usual. Odumegwu Ojukwu urged peace in Biafra. A group of 58 women and 94 children of missing or captured Vietnam veterans flew to Paris as peace talks continued.
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Associated Press
U.S
U.S. Army
Bob Hope
Terence Cardinal Cooke
New York
Muss
Long Binh
Saigon
Paul VI
St. Peter’s Basilica
Nigeria
Middle East
Suez Canal
Bethlhem
Owerri
Biafra
Odumegwu Ojukwu
Atlantic
Paris
Hanoi
North Viet Nam Shuns Gift Airplane Admission
In VIENTIANE Laos the North Vietnamese refused to admit Texas billionaire H Ross Perot and two airliners carrying Christmas gifts for American prisoners of war. Perot met for about an hour and 35 minutes with acting charge d affaires Vu Tien at the North Vietnamese Embassy.
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Vientiane
Laos
North Vietnam
Texas
H. Ross Perot
Perot
Vu Tien
Awawarn
Eofitoni
Harry Hartman Profile shows 40 year Baytown refinery turn
Fred Hartman and Ron Lennard profile Harry F. Hartman tracing his 40 year arc from a 1929 Cornell graduate entering the Baytown Refinery to a gray haired veteran leaving the Humble Oil operation as it moves into the space age. The piece contrasts mule power with hydraulics and computers, marking six decades of Baytown refinement and legacy.
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Fred Hartman
Ron Lennard
Harry F. Hartman
Cornell
Baytown
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Hartman
W. P. Willis
John
Harry
New York Stock Exchange
Vietnam War News Quiet After Christmas Truce Ends
AP dispatches report no major clashes in Vietnam as a three day Viet Cong cease fire expires. Other items note Pentagon budget cuts reducing 1970 71 defense involvements, Agnew plans a 37000 mile ten nation Asia trip, Nixon delaying a California vacation to tackle the federal budget, and Lyndon Johnson saying he never wanted the presidency and would have ceded the nomination.
Theft of Road Grader Tire and Equipment
Police said a road grader tire and equipment worth about 500 dollars and weighing 400 pounds were stolen from George Consolidated Construction Co at Loop 204 and West Main. Complainant Sam N. King said the theft occurred between 3 30 p.m. Monday and 7 30 a.m. Tuesday.
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George Consolidated Construction Co
Loop 204
West Main
Sam N. King
Million To Be Cut From Defense Jobs Budget Slash Blamed
Pentagon officials project about 1 million fewer Americans in defense roles over the first 30 months of the Nixon era. The plan foresees a budget of 73 to 75 billion dollars for next year, with cuts across military, civilian, and defense industry employment, plus base closures and halting programs.
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Washington
Pentagon
Nixon
Armed Services
Congress
Melvin R. Laird
United States
Vietnam
Defense Department
Lyndon Johnson says he could have won in 1968
In a CBS interview Lyndon B Johnson says he would have likely won a second term if he had run in 1968 but chose not to due to his belief he could not unite the country. He cites Lady Bird Johnson’s counsel and notes Nixon remained a formidable rival.
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New York
Lyndon R. Johnson
Cbs-Tv
Walter Cronkite
Johnson
Lady Bird
Sen
Robert F. Kennedy
Thim
United States
Bobby Kennedy
Hubert Humphrey
Vietnam
Three Police Cars Damaged In Wrecks In Baytown
Baytown officers faced two Christmas Day crashes injuring Patrolman P J Kuehn Jr and Officer Mike Jordan. Foyt collided with a teen driver John David Foyt 16 of 5110 Somerset, causing his car to hit two other vehicles. Both officers were treated and released from Gulf Coast Hospital.
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Wanda Orton
Foyt
Baytown
P. J. Kuehn Jr
Mike Jordan
Jordan
Texas
Main
John David Foyt
Somerset
Roy Douglas Gilbert
Austin
William Wardlaw
Schilling
Gulf Coast Hospital
Not Even Santa Can Hide From Thieves
Police probed Christmas thefts including a large plastic Santa and an eight foot plywood tree with 145 lights from a North Jones porch. Other incidents: purse snatching at St Joseph's parking lot, a broken window burglary at 6101 Bayway Drive, gifts worth 96 dollars stolen from St Andrews home, and gasoline totaling 4414 dollars stolen from a station. patrol car wrecks delayed response as four new cars arriving were wrecked in a Dallas to Houston train crash.
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North Jones
J. BE. Whitaker
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Bayway Drive
B. J. Ausley
F. E. Helms
North Commerce
Dallas
Houston
Traffic Death Toll Rises Over Christmas Weekend
The Associated Press reports the national Christmas holiday traffic death toll reached 216, with poor highway conditions across the East and parts of the Midwest and Far West due to snow, freezing drizzle, and rain. The count runs from 6 p.m. Wednesday to midnight Sunday.
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Associated Press
East
Midwest
Far West
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South Vietnam
Military Academy
West Point
Clarence R. Miller
Grantham
Methodist Hospital
Fondren
North Viets
Peoples State Bank
Baytown State Bank
F.D.I.C
Harry Hartman
Spiro T. Agnew
Asia
California
Lyndon B. Johnson
CBS TV
Lyndon
Eugene J. McCarthy
New Hampshire
Robert Kennedy
McCarthy
Kennedy
McGovern
Santa
St. Andrews
Stimpson
North Gaillard
Alexander’ Drive
WSL Bank & Trust Co
Babcock & Wilcox
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