Judge issues injunction over Mustang Island purchase
U S District Judge Joe Ingraham granted a temporary injunction against the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, blocking state park fund expenditures to buy Mustang Island while Judge Jack Roberts of Austin presides. The Interior Department has issued the government's $4.2 million matching share, pending the ruling.
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Houston
Joe Ingraham
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Mustang Island
U.S
Jack Roberts
Austin
U.S. Interior Department
New Year Dance Tickets Priced At Seven Dollars Per Couple
Veterans of Foreign Wars announce a New Year’s Dance at Moose Lodge 515 W Main priced seven dollars per couple, not one dollar as previously listed. The Moose Lodge event starts Thursday at 4 40 p m with Alton Herbie and his band providing music. Also notes funeral in Luling for Mrs P K McDonald and December rainfall figures from Harris County Mosquito Control District citing 1.13 inches total.
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Moose Lodge
W. Main
Alton Herbie
H. G. Work
Harris County Mosquito Control District
Rebel Motel
Baytown
Holidays Gather in Baytown and Around Town
Mr and Mrs Vernon Tapp of Colorado visit Baytown relatives during the holidays. Barbara Kunze and Mrs Jiles Upton are seen busy with holiday activities. Debbie White runs early errands. Mrs Geraldine Castleman celebrates a birthday. Susan Bryan, daughter of E W and Mrs Bryan, is in Room 513 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital after surgery and visitors may come. J B Killingsworth accepts a position at Langley Air Research Center in Hampton Virginia. Sharon Gary and Missy Smith enjoy a week’s vacation with their families in Victoria. Beatrice Sorenson has a birthday. Mr and Mrs Ruben DeHoyos attend their son Ronald’s wedding in Indiana. Ronald’s aunt Tony Alaniz also attends.
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Vernon Tapp
Colorado
Baytown
Barbara Kunze
Jiles Upton
Debbie White
Geraldine Castleman
Susan Bryan
E. W. Bryan
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Sharon
Gary Smith
Missy
Victoria
Beatrice
Sorenson
Ruben DeHoyos
Indiana
Ronald
Tony Alaniz
Baytown Says Farewell to 1970 With Holiday Plans
Baytonians plan varied New Year activities to mark 1970, from football bowl hype to parties shows and church services. Financial and public services pause Friday including banks mail and garbage pickup with a Tuesday reschedule for Friday routes. New officials sworn in Monday, JP Morrison and County Commissioner Bray, while Constable Anderson remains in office until 1972 and 14,000 Baytown students return to classes.
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Alabama
Oklahoma
Baytown Sun
Howard Northcutt
Justice of the Peace N
Morrison
Jamie Bray
Commissioners
Houston
Glenn Vickery
Bray
W. V. Ramsey
Paul Anderson
Bay Town
Family Weekly comes to The Baytown Sun Sunday edition
The Sunday Sun will add Family Weekly as a color gravure magazine distributed nationwide. The new magazine debuts in The Sun's weekend edition, offering stories with unusual angles, color pictures, and sections tailored for women and men, including food, features, and sports.
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Sunday Sun
New Magazine
Family Weekly
Baytown Sun
iSunday
the Sun
U S Steel Reports Progress at Texas Baytown Plant
Harry S. Spitz, general superintendent of Texas Works, U S Steel, notes strong progress across Texas plants. The Baytown facility, home to a 160 inch plate mill, saw high quality steel plate demand rise as the plant operated smoothly. By year end two electric furnaces, vacuum degassing, and a continuous slab caster were being prepared for startup to boost semi finished steel for the plate mill. Steel slabs will continue to be shipped from other U S Steel plants, enhancing flexibility.
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Harry S. Spitz
Texas Works
U.S. Steel
Cedar Point
Baytown
Texas
Houston
Spitz
Theer Steel
U.S
Baytown One Percent City Sales Tax totals to date
Baytown’s one per cent city sales tax, in effect since January, has netted the city $509,400.04 through three quarters ending Sept. 30. Finance Director J B LeFevre said receipts trail behind by a quarter but expect a strong December as Christmas shopping boosts the last quarter. The tax applies to most state taxed goods with food exempt. state comptroller’s office collects and refunds the city share.
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Wanda Orton Baytown
J. B. LeFevre
LeFevre
Comptroller's Office
State Comptroller's
Last of Baytown glass blowers retires after 28 years
Louis LeBlanc ends 28 year run at Esso Research Baytown division, leaving glass blowing, a craft he began in 1943. He plans hunting and travel, and hints at possible future hobby glass blowing for industry. LeBlanc, a 1919 Baytown arrival from Abbeville Louisiana, tempered the war era with glass ornaments for Humble Refinery in 1944.
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Betsy Webber
Louis LeBlanc
Esso Research and Engineering Co
Baytown
LeBlanc
Humble Oil and Refining Co
R. A. Miller
Scientific Glass Blowing Co
Houston
Humble
Abbeville
Goose Creek
Horace Mann
Weather and Tides Forecast
Weather and tides show clear to partly cloudy through Friday with a dip in temperatures Thursday night and a slight warmup Friday. Thursday highs around the mid-teens, Morgan's Point tides with two high tides at 6 43 a.m. and 4 01 p.m. and two low tides at 6 49 a.m. and 6 19 p.m. Friday sunrise is 0 a.m. and sunset 5 33 p.m.
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Morgan’s Point
Baytonians Sell Large Land Tract in Baytown Area
Shindler Cummins Inc of Houston completed the purchase of 58.12 acres along Highway 140 north of the Smith Store intersection and Cedar Bayou bridge. Sellers were Robert Matherne Theo Wilburn Mrs Lillian Wilburn and Harry F Hartman. The deal closed Wednesday with attorney Robert Strickland handling the sale.
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Shindler-Cummins, Inc
Houston
Smith Store
Cedar Bayou Bridge
Robert Strickland
Baytown
iReid, Strickland, Gillette and Ramsey
Robert Matherne
Theo Wilburn
Lillian Wilburn
Harry F. Hartman
Alexander And Texas Turn Signals New Signs Begin Thursday
New right turn signals will be installed Thursday at the intersection of Alexander Drive and Texas Avenue. An overhead sign beside the red light will indicate must turn right for motorists in the right turn lane heading north on Alexander toward Texas Avenue.
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Alexander Drive
Texas Avenue
Alexander
Gulf Coast Hospital to add 88 beds in phase one
Groundbreaking for Gulf Coast Hospital expansion set for January 15 announces a long range plan worth 6 million dollars. The first phase adds 88 beds, relocates the entrance to Loop 201, and includes a two story professional building with offices for 15 physicians.
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Gulf Coast Hospital
Harry Miller
Goleman and Rolfe Architects
Houston
Loop 201
Garth Road
Bella Construction Co
Beaumont
Miller
New U S Post Office in Highlands Delayed by Door Delivery
Delay in delivery of two large double doors holds up completion of the new post office building in Highlands. Contractor E V Hamby says the one story brick structure is 98 percent complete and could be ready for occupancy two weeks after doors arrive. Doors are specially made metal units. light fixtures and vinyl floors await installation. The $100000 building at 808 S Main began in July. postmaster Mrs Clairene R Dunn had hoped for mid January occupancy, with dedication plans pending a known completion date.
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U.S
Highlands
E. V. Hamby
Hamby
S. Main
Dunn
U.S. Postal Service
Fata
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Luling
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Hampton, Va
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Gordon M. Laird
Robert E. Peterson
Tom S. Litras
James W. Flynn Jr
Sidney L. Norwood Jr
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Robert C. Tyler
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J. A. Olds
Darrell Speights
Allen Speights
Nathan Speights
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