Funeral Attends Lela Webb Attends Nannie Bolton Funeral
MRS LELA Webb of 416 Stimpson returned from Center where she attended her mother Mrs Nannie Bolton's funeral on Christmas Eve. Police officer James Glenn pictured giving bicycle and food to needy children in Baytown Sun report. Firestone grand opening winners named Clifford Waller Jerry Davidson and Fred L Henning. Elks Club New Year dance at Elks Lodge 2515 Market Nine to two. Pete Shelley Five provides music. Bert Dandrea and wife travel to Chicago to attend father Sam Dandrea's funeral. 76. REL judges thanked for sponsoring forensice invitational meet.
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Lela Webb
Stimpson
Center
Nannie Bolton
Jordan
James Glenn
Mike Jordan
Baytown Sun
Firestone
Clifford Waller
Dayton
Jerry Davidson
Fred L. Henning
Baytown
Elks Club
Bobby Sutton
Elks Lodge
Pete Shelley
Bert Dandrea
W. Francis
Sam Dandrea
Chicago
Dandrea
Weather And Tides Baytown Weekend Forecast
FAIR AND cooler is the weekend forecast for the Baytown area with temperatures from the mid 30s to upper 50s. Morgan's Point tides show Sunday high at 3:25 a.m. and low at 2:13 p.m.. Monday highs at 4:55 a.m. and 12:01 p.m., lows at 4:55 a.m. and 3:55 p.m. Sunday sunrise 7:11 a.m. sunset 5:30 p.m.. Monday sunrise 7:16 a.m. sunset 5:30 p.m.
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Baytown
Friends of Bill Buelow reminisce on old ties and locals
A compact notes page recalls longtime friends and residents. Bill Broyles in Marine gear heads for Annapolis teaching tour while Ralph Kunz outlasts Lamar Kelley. Wallace Brunson visits Baytown to study dentistry in Houston. Pam Brown and Tammy Sanders plan futures as Wendel Barrow enjoys a day off biking. Susan Dowdy gets driving help from Rhonda Gentry. Carla Andrus prescribes pecan tassies baked at 325 degrees for 25 to 30 minutes.
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Bill Buelowold
Bill
Bill Broyles
Annapolis
Lamar Kelley
Ralph Kunz
Wallace Brunson
Baytown
Houston
Pam Brown
Tammy Sanders
Wendel Barrow
Susan Dowdy
Rhonda Gentry
Carla Andrus
Peace dividend myth fuels postwar inflation wave
Washington AP reports that the so called peace dividend vanishes as inflation surges. Pentagon comptroller Robert Moot says the 1968 peak cost the Pentagon $20 trillion annually, sliced to about $10 billion by year end. Defense spending is rising again next year, with inflation and pay raises eroding any savings.
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Washington
Robert C. Moot
Pentagon
Moot
Defense
Melvin R. Laird
Lion
Defense Department
Car Train Crash Kills Baytown Club Employee
John Lee 30 a Goose Creek Country Club worker was killed in Navasota when a southbound Southern Pacific freight train hit the car he and two other men occupied. William Lee 21, driver and owner, died at the hospital minutes later. Claudie Steptoe Jr. 29 died at the scene. Both Lees from Houston worked at the club and Pasadena Dodge Co. Steptoe was employed by rancher Ike Ashburn. The Halland Street crossing saw the collision as the car moved onto the track despite a full blast whistle.
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John Lee
Goose Creek Country Club
Navasota
Lee
Grimes Memorial Hospital
William Lee
Claudie Steptoe Jr
Lee Brothers
Houston
William
Pasadena Dodge Co
Steptoe
Ike Ashburn
Southern Pacific
Halland Street
T. S. Hall
Hall
Nixon Plans Budget Push After Quiet Christmas
President Nixon resumes planning for next year’s budget and legislative program following a quiet Christmas with family. Coast Guard and Castro’s boats rescued seven Americans from a partially submerged boat aground off Cuba on Christmas. Spain awaits verdicts for 16 Basque separatists with potential commutations by Franco. Alabama Governor-elect George Wallace to marry Cornelia Ells Suively, a 32-year-old divorcee. Vietnamese officials say POWs may participate in sports during Christmas. no major action reported as a 24-hour cease-fire ended and a 72-hour Viet Cong truce remains in effect.
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Washington AP
Nixon
MIAMI
U.S. Coast Guard
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Madridap
Spain
Francisco Franco
Burgos
Montgomery
Ala
George Wallace
Alabama
Cornelia Ells Suively
Saigon
South Vietnam
2 Area Men Hurt In Car Train Crash
Two Baytown area men were hospitalized Saturday after their car collided with a moving train at 2:25 am near Wade Road and Decker Drive. Driver Charles Graves, 23, of Channelview, was eastbound with passenger Gene Owens, 19, of Cedar Bayou Station. A waiting car at the crossing was bypassed. Graves passed it and struck the northbound Missouri Pacific train. Graves in fair condition at Gulf Coast Hospital. Owens in critical condition at Ben Taub. Baytown Police Officer Frank Helms filed the report.
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Wade Road
Decker Drive
Charles Ray Graves
Ave C
Channelview
Gene Owens
Cedar Bayou
Graves
Gulf Coast Hospital
Owens
Ben Taub Hospital
Houston
Baytown
Frank Helms
Texas Christmas traffic toll tops 23 deaths
The Associated Press reports 23 people died on Texas roads by Saturday morning as holiday back home traffic surged. Fatalities included Roland Sanchez 3 in FM 764 crash near Accidents on the nations highways killed 236 during the weekend. Robert Stinson 49 of Houston perished after his car struck a signal box and plunged onto the Gulf Freeway. Three youths died in a collision with a Southern Pacific freight train at Navasota. Other victims were Claudie Steptoe 29 and William Dee Lee 21, as well as John Lee 30, brother to Houston resident Mrs. Shirley Warren. Angela Mulkey 2 died in a two car crash near Texarkana with seven injured.
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Oscar Sanchez
Corpus Christi
Robert W. Stinson
Houston
Gulf Freeway
Southern Pacific
Navasota
Claudie Steptoe
William Dee Lee
Corpus Christi International
John Lee
Airport
West German Consul Freed By Kidnappers
West German Consul Eugen Beihl, held by ETA in Spain since December, was released and flown to Frankfurt. Beihl plans to reunite with his family in San Sebastian before returning to Spain to resume duties, while his wife expressed joy and relief at the reunion.
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West Germany
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Eugen Beihl
Trymen
Spain
TelallVes
Soulhepn
Germany
San Sebastian
ETA
Burgos
Jews Call for Soviet Refusal to Break Emigration Chains
Worldwide denunciations follow death sentences in Leningrad for two Jews accused of planning to hijack a Soviet jetliner. In Israel protests erupt with Tel Aviv schoolchildren urging let my people go and Haifa pupils appealing to the White House for Nixon intervention. Mayor Yorty appeals Hilat's sister city to support the condemned men while Israel's Golda Meir says the defendants sought emigration, not protest. Knesset approves a resolution urging enlightenment and Kremlin pressure to free the defendants and eight others. Edward Kuznetsov and Mark Dymshits face death by firing squad after a two-year escape plan.
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Leningrad
Israel
Moscow
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Haifa
White House
Nixon
Hilat
Sam Yorty
Los Angeles
Rakah
Communist Party of
Nikolaiv
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Paign
Golda Meir
Knesset
Lon
Kremlin
Edward Kuznetsov
Marki Dymshits
Finland
Sen
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D-Miss
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Fon French
London
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Tri-City Beach Road
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Herb Boggess
Woodrow McQueen
Lola Clepper Kornegay
Rockdale
Anna Lee McQueen
Chester
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