Baytown News Briefs Highlight Meetings and Local Events
BAYTOWN ROUGH Riders meet at 7 p.m. Friday at the Baytown Civic Center to accommodate a fashion show at 8 p.m. JOHN GILCHRIST of Rexburg Idaho belongs to Ricks College Karate Club with demonstrations on area TV. DR. MINNIE ALICE ROBERTSON returns from Austin where she led a kindergarten workshop and helped prepare a Texas workbook. BAYTOWN BARRACKS MBl Veterans of World War I and its auxiliary hold a 2 p.m. Tuesday meeting at the Community Building. all members and widows invited. JOHN DAVID BROWN, SMU math professor, earns NSF faculty fellowship to finish Ph.D. at North Texas State University over a year starting Sept. 1. BAYTOWN FIREMEN extinguish a bedroom window-seat fire at 7:50 p.m. Thursday, causing about 150 dollars in damage at 308 North St. two pumpers and a tanker respond. EIGHTH GRADE St Joseph Junior School students sponsor a car wash from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday at Robo Car Wash and Talk of the Town Car Wash. 50 cents per car.
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Minnie Alice Robertson
Austin
University of Texas
Baytown Barracks
Mbl
Baytown
W.T. Buchanan
North St
Weather outlook with mild days and showers possible
Weather report notes cloudy skies and continued mild conditions through Saturday with a chance of showers Friday night. Temperatures range from mid 50s to mid 70s, with Thursday’s unofficial Baytown high previously listed as HL degrees.
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Baytown
Local notes of community life and milestones
Mrs Rose Howe returns home after hospital stay. Mrs D O Huddle rises early. Patti Latham earns a promotion while Sandra Freeman plans for Saturday. Jdimin Tapp works long hours as Hydroformer Viree completes. Kingston Adams reassures parents about a future junior schooler. Charlie Caldwell buys coffee for a sleepwalking reporter. Mary Keating chaperones a winter camping trip. Justa Walsh inspires a local writer. Charles Guidry has a birthday.
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Rose Howe
D. O. Huddle
John Coker
Houston
Patti Latham
Sandra Freeman
Jdimin
Will Salurnell
Beverly Manne
Kingston Adams
Charlie Caldwell
Mary Keatng
Justa Walsh
Charles Guidry
South Vietnam Tightens Saigon Da Nang Security
Saigon and Da Nang see tightened security as forces halt hundreds of vehicles at checkpoints to search for arms. Marble Mountain areas near Da Nang are cordoned off as U.S. and South Vietnamese units step up searches amid Tet truce talks and ongoing low ground action.
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South Vietnam
Saigon
da Nang
U.S
Marble Mountain
Viet Cong
Nguyen van Thieu
Thieu
9Th Infantry Division
Witnesses tie Shaw to Oswald and Ferrie in late 1963
Corrie C. Collins, a Baton Rouge civil rights worker, testified that he saw Clay Shaw with Lee Harvey Oswald and David Ferrie in Clinton, Louisiana, in late August or early September 1963. The claim was offered as key opening testimony in Shaw’s conspiracy trial, challenging defense arguments.
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New Orleans
Clay L. Shaw
Shaw
Lee Harvey Oswald
David W. Ferrie
Corrie C. Collins
Baton Rouge
Oswald
Ferrie
John F Kennedy
Asst. Dist. Atty
James L. Alcock
Collins
Clinton
F. Irvin Dymond
Criminal District Court
Clay Shaw
Ferre
Jim Garrison
Dymond
Dealey Plaza
Dallas
Jack Ruby
Congress of Racial Equality
Baptists Launch 17000 New Testaments Drive
San Jacinto Association Baptist churches will distribute 17000 copies of the Good News for Modern Man New Testament during March 3 8 as part of the Crusade of the Americas. Churches in Baytown Channelview Crosby Highlands La Porte Mont Belvieu will pass Bibles in homes with Spanish editions for Latin American communities.
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Baptists
San Jacinto Association
Southern Baptist
American Bible Society
Churches
The
Baytown
W. L. Baker
Bayshore
San Jacinto
Drive To Aid Kids Planned
The Baytown-La Porte Association for Retarded Children announces a February membership drive open to all interested persons not limited to families of the mentally retarded. Mrs. Albert Butler, president, outlines aims while Mrs. Walter Loflin is state Region 9 chair. A prize weekend for two at Astroworld will reward the unit with the largest membership percentage increase, as the group backs the Baytown Opportunity Center for the Mentally Retarded currently building a new facility.
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Baytown - la Porte
War on Poverty Surges Amid Cold War Pace and Protests
AP reports Britain nearing Western Europe join, Common Market nations to consult on world issues. Texas to gain 4.5 million antitrust payout if drug firms’ price hike offer accepted. Cuban exiles rapid naturalization fills Miami courts. a 13 year old faces or faces electric chair case ends in home return. Evacuations near Houston Ship Channel after toxic fog. Nixon seeks summit progress and crime-busting bail limits. Batangan Peninsula cordon declared major success with over 600 Vietcong killed.
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Congress
Nixon
Batangan
New Breathalyzer Program Comes to Baytown Patrol
Texas DPS assigns Sgt Charles H Rudd to Baytown to pilot a voluntary breathalyzer test for drunken driving suspects at Wooster. Officials hope to prove its value against areas without testing and push for mandatory chemical tests and implied consent laws statewide. Studies show drivers with .10 percent BAC are six to seven times more likely to crash, and higher levels raise risk dramatically. The effort targets reducing Texas traffic deaths and may expand beyond Baytown.
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Ron Lennard
Baytown
Texas Department of Public Safety
Highway Patrol
Charles H. Rudd
Wooster
Harris County
Rudd
Texas
DPS
Sgt
Department of Public Safety
Bank of Baytown forms new chartered bank officers named
Bank Of Baytown completes organization with L A Hill Jr as president and construction supervisor. Officers include Fred J Hartman chairman, J Evans Atwell VP, John Larrine cashier, Linda Otis assistant cashier. Directors from Baytown and Houston chosen. Located in Kmart Shopping Center pending construction completion. Hill aims to open once work finishes and hopes to foster regional growth.
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Bank of Baytown
Financial Institution
Kmart
L. A. Hill Jr
Deer Park
Willis and
Pasadena
Lowell Lammers
Fred J .Hartman
J. Evans Atwell
Houston
John Larrine
Linda Otis
Highlands
Hill
Hartman
Atwell
Perry W. Britton
Robert K. Carter
Paul Edwards
Robert Matherne
Bruce Ramsey
F. A. Richardson
Lewis Wilburn
Baytown
Marvin Collie
State Banking Commission
Baytown State
Train Crash in Australia Kills Dozens near Melbourne
Bulletin report from Melbourne says 12 to 28 people were killed when the Sydney Melbourne streamliner Southern Aurora struck a freight train and exploded into flames 104 miles north east of Melbourne. Of 190 aboard, 10 bodies recovered, two known dead, many unaccounted for. Rescue teams pried loose 20 people from a burned sleeping car as about 100 passengers were injured, 40 seriously.
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Melbourne
Australia
Victoria
Baytown Reaches New High in February Heat
Baytown logged a record 81 degrees on Thursday with a February high that surpasses the 1 1 degree reading from Feb. 6 1950 per the U S Weather Bureau Houston. A Pacific cold front is expected to cool the area by Saturday morning and forecast calls for a 75 degree day Friday before the front.
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Texas
Baytown
U.S
Houston
Weather Bureau
Army PFC William K. Rogers Assigned to 25th Division
Vietnam duty brings PFC William K. Rogers 20 son of Julian K. Rogers of La Porte to the 25th Infantry Division in Viet Nam. Report confirms assignment and unit posting as part of ongoing U S military operations in the region.
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Vietnam
William K. Rogers
Julian K. Rogers
la Porte
25Th Infantry Division
Vietnam peace talks slip into months of deadlock
Paris AP reports the Vietnam peace talks again produced no progress after a six hour session. U.S. negotiator Henry Cabot Lodge warned against false optimism while North Vietnam and the NLF demanded de escalation tied to a political settlement. The Front accused Saigon and Washington of aggression and no deal was reached, with delegates scheduling another meeting.
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Paris
Vietnam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
North Vietnam
Viet Cong
National Liberation Front
Demilitarized Zone
Hanai
NLF
Tran Buu Kiem
Ly Yan Say
Kiem
Saigon
United States
Front Lao
V Newsmen
South Vietnam
William Jordan
Jorden
Voters League to Hear Texas Citizen Author at Luncheon
Baytown League of Women Voters will host a regional luncheon on Tuesday February 18 at the Holiday Inn to study the Texas Executive Department. Guest speaker will be William Henry Gardner editor of political affairs for the Houston Post Austin Bureau and author of The Texas Citizen. Gardner has held senior posts at the Post and has won multiple journalism awards. The event is open to the public with reservations via Mrs M T Waddell or Mrs Thomas Mayo by February WW.
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Baytown League of Women! Voters
Holiday Inn
Texas Executive Department
Houston
Beaumont
Galveston
William Henry
Bill) Gardner
The
Houston Post
Austin
Gardner
Post
Allan Shivers
Texas Citizen
Texas Senate
National Guard Association of Texas Minuteman
Headliners Club
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Northside
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Fla
Robert Curtis
Houston Ship Channel
K. D. Woolsey
Woolsey
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