Plans Behind Schedule New High School Opening Delayed
The School Board heard that opening the proposed new high school by September 1965 looks unlikely. Architect James A Davis cited delays from an automobile accident and detailed a revised plan with four months for working drawings and specifications, a month to bid and contract, and 13 months for construction, aiming for a 13 month build if all goes well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rice Hurst
School Board of ‘Trustees
James A
Bitsy) Davis
Davis
Mrs Melody Capote Seeks Thanks After Mother's Death
Mrs Melody Capote of 715 Grantham Drive reports the death of her mother Mrs Emily St Croix age 73 in the Dominican Republic after a two week illness. Capote cannot travel to offer thanks to Baytown friends for help received amid funeral planning. Weather outlook cloudy with showers through Wednesday. temperatures 30 to 62 degrees. Galveston tides Wednesday high at 11:01 pm and low at 4:31 am.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melody Capote
Grantham Drive
Emily St. Croix
Dominican Republic
Baytown Council Plans Rummage Sale For Charity
Baytown council for Retarded Children plans a rummage sale in early February. Contributions may be picked up by Mrs. Frank Rice or Mrs. M. J. Coady. Also notes of pancake breakfast at Ashbel Smith Scout House from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday with 3 cent tickets and other local events and school updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
Council For Retarded Children
Frank Rice
M. J. ‘Coady
Sre
Ashbel: Smith
Scout Dads' Club
Ashbel Smith’ Scout House
Fast, Wright and
Seventh
Baptist Brotherhood to Meet at Cedar Bayou Church
Baptist Brotherhood plans its regular meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Cedar Bayou church. Kenneth McNulty leads the program. Gleaners Sunday School class of First Baptist will meet at 7:30 p.m. Thursday at the home of Mrs. George D. Wilson Jr. at 537 Stimpson.
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George Lush
U.S. Senate
Republican Women's Club
Trinity, Episcopal Church
Baptist Brothers i
Cedar Bayou Baptist Brotherhood
Kenneth “McNulty
First Baptist Church
George D. Wilson Jr
Stimpson
Funeral rites set for City worker Alfonso Canales
Alfonso Canales 18 years with Baytown city water department died Tuesday morning in a Houston hospital. Funeral rites will be held at 2 p.m. Thursday at Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. Survived by widow Petron Perez Canales of Baytown, two sons Jesse and Ezequiel, two sisters Mary Garcia and Guadalupe Amontoya, five grandchildren and one great grandchild. Rosary at Earthman Funeral Home at 9 a.m. Tuesday.
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Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church
Alfonso
Laura Canales
City Water Department
Houston
Canales
Baytown
Mary Garcia
Guadalupe .Amontoya
Matamoris
Mexico
Earthman Funeral Home
Baytown Resident Dies After 60 Years Local Work Service
A Baytown resident of 31 years, Thomas Praetorius 60, died Monday in Baytown. Funeral services are set for 9:30 a.m. Wednesday at Earthman Funeral Home and 10 a.m. at St Joseph Catholic Church with Rev Denis Kennedy officiating. Rosary is at 7 p.m. Tuesday. Praetorius, a Humble refinery retiree and Knights of Columbus member, is survived by his widow Hattie, three daughters Annabelle Macey, Yvonne Heintscher, Marlene Snider, three brothers Frederick, Wilfred, Leo, five sisters Clyde Frazier Edna Edmiston Virgil Bridges, John Payton Bertha Praetorius, and nine grandchildren. Interment at Grand View Memorial Park near Pasadena.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corning
Gerles
Thomas
Praetorius
John A
Baytown
Humble Jo and Refining Co
Earthman
St. Joseph's Catholic
Denis
Pasadena
Frederick Praetorius
Fort, Worth
Wilfred
Leo Praetorius
New Orleans
Clyde’ Frazier
Edna. Edmiston
Houston
Virgil Bridges
John. Payton
Bertha Praetorius
Grandview Memorial Park Cemetery
Bayport awards cafeteria repair bid to Baytown firm
Bayport School Board awarded a 3,697 dollar contract to Construction Co. of Baytown for Lee College cafeteria repairs after two bids. Payne and Keller proposed 6,700 dollars with completion by April 1, 1964. Bayport aims March 10 completion and cost estimates fell from earlier 8,000 dollar projections. Gulf Coast Electric won 695 dollars for Memorial Stadium wiring, with Pfeiffer Electric at 975. Board set trustee election for April 4 with March 2 filing deadline and absentee voting from March 16 to 3. Opryshek urged review of teacher special funds to reduce clerical burden and focus on instruction.
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Davis
Robert E. Lee High School
Marco Construction Co., Inc
Houston
Harcon ,Mechanical/Contractors
Young’ Plumbing Co
Baytown
Gulf Coast Flectrical
General Equipment, Co
Jackson, Miss
General Equipment Co
Late Sales
School Supply Co
Teo
O. A Brawn
Frank Krustyniak
Bayport
Construction’ Co
Boanl
Lee College
Shilling Eacth
Payne ,and Keller, Inc
Carl R. Gairing
Pace Egineers, Inc
Gairing
Gulf Coast Electric Co
Memorial Stadium
Gulf Coast
Pfeiffer Electric Co
Pfeiffer
W. H. Bridges
Karl Onryshek
Market St
Statewide candidate slate listed for Texas races
AP reports the statewide contest slate with candidates for Senate Governor Lieutenant Governor Attorney General Treasurer Comptroller Agriculture Commissioner Land Commissioner Railroad Commissioner Supreme Court Court of Criminal Appeals and Congress at large. The list includes Van Cronkrite Yarborough Connally Weakley Crichton Diehl Smith Fuentes Houston Trice Carr Neumann Calvert Mescal Calmes White Williams Armstrong Matthews Langdon Owens Flanagan Ramsey Walker Kennerly Hamilton Culver McGee Pope Woodley Pool Baker Elkins Sullivan Hayes Looney Sullivan plus others.
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Austin
Senate
John van. Cronkhite
Dallas
Ralph Yarborough
Austin Gordon
McLendon
George
Bush
Houston
Milton Davis
Robert Morris
Jack Cox
D. John Connally
Fort Worth
Don Yarborough
R. C. G. Weakley Jr
Jack Crichton
Harty
Diehl
D. Preston Smith
Lubbock
Albert Fuentes ,Jr
San Antonio
Horace Houston
Waggoner Carr
John Trice
Waco
Jesse James
Fred Neumann
Beaumont
Robert 5
Ben Ramsey
Supreme Court
Ruel Walker
R. T. E. Kennerly
Robert Hamilton
Frank Culver
Sears McGee
Jack Pope
Court of Criminal Appeals
D. K. KL. Woodley
Pool
Bob Baker
Bill Elkins
Greenvill
Bob Looney
Dan Sullivan
Andrews
Bill Hayes
Temple
Baytown Police Sergeant Fights Speed Charge Jury Trial
Baytown Police Sergeant B J Ausley, 33, of 209 Wo Nazro, faces a speeding charge after a two car crash at the intersection of Highway 146 and Texas Ave Nue on Jan 22. Police say he was exceeding the 25 mph zone while responding with siren and red light. A jury trial will be held this month in Judge Bar ney Ward's Corporation Court with 12 residents to be pared to a six member panel.
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Barney — L
Ward
Corporation Court
Baytown
B. JL Ausley
Ausley
Macley
Don Baker
Austey
Fordhe
Highway 146
Elva D. Standley
Belvedere
Standley
Texas Avenue
Baker
Clebt
Goldwater ends Where Do You Stand Sir feature
Senator Barry Goldwater discontinues his Sun column Where Do You Stand Sir, a regular editorial feature. He seeks the Republican nomination for president, with Arizona's party at the forefront as a chief spokesman for American conservatism.
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Barry Goldwater
Sun
Arizona Republican
Court fight over school integration delays in Tuskegee
The showdown between state authorities and the federal government over court orders to integrate two rural Tuskegee schools is delayed by about a day. References to Medgar Evers, Byron De La Beckwith, and other 1960s events appear in the scrambled text.
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Rnat
Tuskegee, Ala
Bayport Complex Plans Announced by Humble Oil
Humble Oil and Refining Co unveiled Harris County's largest industrial expansion, Bayport, a 7,250 acre district between La Porte and Seabrook with a deepwater channel to Galveston Bay. Estimated cost near 900 million, creating about 25,000 jobs. The project extends from Fairmont Parkway north to between Shoreacres and Seabrook and involves the Port of Houston in channel and basin work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fred Hartman
Harris County
Baytown
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Bayport
la Porte
Seabrook
Galveston Bay
Honard Tel Jepsen
Port Commission
Carl Reistle
Humble
Claude Barrett
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Fairmont Parkway
Shoreacres
Port of
Houston
Clear Lake City
U.S
Rice University
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Manned Spacecraft Center
Clear Lake
Friendswood
Gistriet
Harris County Navigation District
Bonds Acquitted In Boy's 1963 Slaying Trial
Jack W. Bonds, 42, an elevator mechanic, was acquitted by an all male Harris County jury after a 29 day trial for the pistol death of William John Walden St Jan on January 18, 1963. The verdict came on the third ballot after a mood of relief in the courtroom.
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Houston
Jack W. Bonds
Bonds
William John Walden
Harris County
Ola Mae Bonds
Young Walden
Beverly Chambers
Walden
Channel Port Projects Studied For Four Years
Over four years of study by Alexander Potter Asso and Roy Weston Associates assessed Bayport Humble port channel plans near Galveston Bay. The program targets 7 250 acres east of Houston, expecting about 50 million dollars in industrial investment and a new industrial district with strict air water waste controls. Plans include environmental standards, monitoring by member firms, and selecting plant types like chemicals machinery and transportation products for the Bayport area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Humble
Alexander Potter
Harris County Naviestion District
Moanans
Bayport
Industral District
Industrial Economics Research Division
Texas
ARM
Lumble
Billy Saves Puppy's Life After Hit-and-Run
Billy Ainsworth of Paul A. Len Funeral Home witnessed a German Shepherd puppy struck by a car near Lamar Elementary around 3 p.m. The driver fled. Ainsworth moved the injured pup to Dr. R. D. Howe, who treats it as it recovers. Owners could not be located. the dog may belong to a Lamar Elementary child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Billy Ainsworth
Paul A. Len
Howe
Ainsworth
Bee
Lamar: Elementary
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