12 Feb 1978
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1978
Page
1
Funeral services for Mrs Madlyn Scalise of Trouston sister of Baylonian A Shari are pending at Earlinton Funeral Home Houston following her death Thursday in a Houston hospital.
Wallisville residents push federal return of the townsite to private ownership to rebuild the 1886 Harris County courthouse exactly as it was and perhaps repurpose the site as a museum and cultural center. Chambers County news notes a long history of floods and county seat loss, with environmental suits tied to the Wallisville Reservoir project and Middleton pledging funds for a hospital rebuild in Kilgore.
The Associated Press reports eight dead in California as a Pacific storm brings heavy rain and mudslides. Power outages affect about 1200 families in eastern Colorado and across the region, with National Guard help and generator use continuing as crews replace poles and restore lines.
Cloudy with a 50 percent chance of warm temperatures from the low 40s to upper 50s for the Baytown area. Weekend outlook includes Sunday tides with highs around 12:92 p.m. and 14:58 p.m. and Monday tides near 2:22 p.m. and 7:02 a.m. to 5:20 p.m. Sunrise and sunset times listed for Sunday and Monday.
SANDY SHEAYS and Theresa Moore appear on a Houston television talk show to plug Red Stocking Revue. Former Baytonians Nowyla and Abe Badgley visit Baytown, host a luncheon for June Gills of Houston. Don Smint helps out. Trey Tolleson wins a can of stimy worms. Riva Caudle visits with Charles Shaffer. Sterling Flaers and Brenda Stone celebrate birth of a son. Roseanna Henrichsen learns about breaking ceramic items. Polly Tilman Baker travels to Humble to check on her mother after surgery. Janie Wardlaw hands coworkers popcorn. Debbie DeShazo frets over adjectives to describe the p xipeam.
City staff advised no need to move the median change to a separate vote as a Feb 21 meeting considers widening the opening on the north median near Wendy’s and McDonald’s. Officials cite potential traffic impacts and recall past assurances while critics say the plan favors a single business.
The accreditation panel meets Wednesday at 9 30 am in the Administration Building board room to refine curriculum goals for Student Development and Organizational Competency. Members will list indicators, discuss validity, and finalize tentative targets including intellectual growth, economic and occupational competence, social and civic development, and language knowledge.
A Beechcraft 99 twin engine plane of Pacific Airways crashed near Richland Washington killing all 17 aboard and two crewmen. Witnesses said the aircraft seemed to stall then dive into sagebrush as flames engulfed the wreckage. Investigators from NTSB and FAA arrived at dawn to probe the disaster.
In 1923 during Jack Dempsey training for the Firpo bout a youth asked to spar and urged Dempsey not to hold back. The challenger Hor ward Hughes was knocked out twice leading to a long standing question about where Howard Hughes actually lived.
Fragmented text reports Sadat talks with allies in Salzburg and near misses on a peace initiative. Renewed fighting in Lebanon tests fragile truce between Christian and Syrian forces. Soviet expansion and mid east proxy concerns loom. US treaty stance shifts and West Texas policing and public safety actions noted amid unrest. A disturbing US legal case and a haunting death investigation in California conclude the fragment.
Mrs Helga Mae Ratehell 62 of Baytown died Saturday at Waylawn Medical Center from injuries after her car collided with a Southern Pavifly train near East Foyle and Malin. She was a Lafayette La native, past Delta Kappa Gamma president, widow of Polis Hatchell, and survived by a sister, three nephews and a niece. Burial at Cedar Crest Cemetery.
Beverly Hargrave Crosby, active wife and school volunteer, suddenly lost movement from Guillain Barré syndrome after Dec. 14. Doctors gave 35 percent survival, now she regains some movement, the family urges support via a local appreciation fund and a community rally for her recovery.
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