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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 13, 1963
Page
2
The Bayshore iway keel and gun club hosts its third oyster fry at the club building 3223 Minnesota at 1 p.m. Friday Feb 22. Eddie Huron and crew will cook. Admission is 1 with tickets from members or at the door. Also notes a chemical engineers event and a military exercise.
La Porte School Board awarded contracts totaling 287000 for new facilities and additions at the primary intermediate and De Walt Elementary schools plus kitchen equipment for De Walt and other campuses. Span Glass Inc. of Houston won two contracts totaling 309345 with a 2095 increase for a revised electrical bid by architect advice. Five contracts since a 3.5 million bond issue total about 1,155,988. Budget overruns noted. merit raises discussed for fall 1964. trustee election set for April 6 with filing by March 6. Dr Gordon Burdick and D O Laird seek reelection.
The Houston NLRB seeks a court ruling on Shell Oil Co turning over contracted work records from the past year. Shell refused subpoenas for all such records, tied to unfair labor practice complaints by the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union. OCAW says the dispute centers on notifying the union of outsourcing bargaining-unit work and bargaining on that work before and during the strike at the Deer Park refinery where workers have been on strike since last August.
James J. Lankford, Baytown police accident investigator, recalls a 1931 Thanksgiving wreck that convinced him of seat belt value. He credits belts with limiting injuries after a left-door ejection and a leg fracture. Now a family man and officer, he urges belt use and notes belts saved Sgt. Charles Cowan in a patrol-car crash.
Lankford described his habit of leaving firearm restraints in his patrol car during a four day course at Southern Methodist University and the Institute of Real Estate Planning. He said he kept them on while seated in the car awaiting instruction. The session began Monday.
An intensified hunt in Galveston Bay continued Wednesday for a third body linked to a sailboat accident off Morgan's Point. The two men, Mike Hughes 21 and Frank Floyd 27, both of Houston, were recovered Tuesday near Raceliff. Edward Hughes 01, Mike's brother and La Porte High senior, remained missing as investigators probed jurisdiction and inquest procedures.
Mr and Mrs Leonard C Hooper of Irving Texas announce the birth of a son Leonard Ray born February 8 at San Jacinto Hospital weighing 7 pounds 15 ounces Grandparents are the Rev and Mrs E R Burss 2003 Chilton Drive and Mr and Mrs F L Hooper Baton Rouge Louisiana Great grandmother is Mrs W C Frank Baton Rouge Louisiana The pyramids were the royal tombs of Egyptian kings.
Four Baytown area men were sent to Houston for induction by Local Board 63, with twenty five others sent for exams Tuesday and twenty more Wednesday. The draftees likely head to Far Polk Louisiana. names include Wilbert L. Eagleton Crosby Herbert Joseph Bernard Jr La Porte Damon D Miller Channelview and Patrick R Butler Baytown. Office hours for Local Board 63 run 9 a.m. to 4 30 p.m. Monday through Friday at Federal 218 Defense.
Schuylerville New York Milton Larmon suddenly received $12,000 from unexpected sources. A man handed this year old house-move check for $8,485 with a note that it paid interest on a $5,000 job Larmon did 11 years ago. A $3,245 check from select Security followed as an adjustment for underpayment. It felt like Christmas, Larmon said.
Harris County Commissioners Court will receive bids until 12 30 a.m. Monday February 18 for the Burnett Bayland Home a juvenile detention facility in Bellaire with an estimated cost of 70000 dollars.
The Sun notes that stock market coverage is omitted from today’s issue because of mechanical difficulties. No market scores or company data are provided this edition.
Baytown firefighters extinguished a Wednesday morning blaze at J. B. Daniell’s home on T Wilburn Drive. Mrs. Daniell said the fire likely started from an electrical blanket short, with damage confined to one bedroom of the house.
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