Trustees Eye LC Plan For Vocational Center Expansion
Trustees consider state funded rate arrangements that pay $397 per student for contracted college instruction. Lee College proposed for air conditioning, refrigeration and drafting, plus offset printing, with overflow enrollments. Administrators envision a central vocational complex housing auto body, welding, data processing and related trades, moving some classes from Sterling and Lee High to centralized facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clark
Lee College
Sterling
Robert E. Lee
Office For Vocational Health Cooperative
Lee
Compus
REI
Bay Area Council Opposes Shifting Highway Funds
The Bay Area City Council backs highway funding for roads and opposes diverting gasoline tax revenue to mass transit. Fred Hartman, highway chair, will notify Texas lawmakers in Washington of the delegation’s stance. Supporters foresee a congressional push to permit tax use for transit, especially in the northeast and large cities, amid geographic law mentions and Azerbaijan references.
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Bayawa
Fred Hartman
Highway Committee
Noui
Texas
Washington
Hartman
Ses
Huffman School Board Revises Special Education Policy
The Huffman board approved a revised Special Education Policy to align with the Texas Education Agency to safeguard future state and federal funds. The district noted near 100 students in the program and ongoing use of state funds for teacher pay, materials, and testing. The meeting also sought new bids for parking lot repairs, moved $700 between athletic and homemaking budgets, adopted new teacher contracts, and heard about scholarships for graduates from Tom Bowen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porter
Texas Education Agency
Huffman
Tom Bowen
School board reviews long range facility plan
The board discussed a long range facilities plan including a new transportation center on Wye Drive with a 2260,000 cost for full build, renovations at Robert E Lee, and a Stephen F. Austin Elementary classroom addition estimated at 315,280. A workshop is set for Friday to continue study.
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Stephen F. Austin
Robert E. Lee High School
Wye Drive
Robert E. Lee
Baytown Mayors and community leaders discussed future plans
Mayor Walker urged advancing the Scotts Crystal and Burnet bays study by the U S Corps of Engineers and expressed desire to continue representing Baytown. He holds regional associations roles, pastors First Baptist Church, and works as a Franklin Life agent. Gentry and Kelley also featured with career and family details.
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Walker
Scotts, Crystal and Burnet Bays
U.S. Corps of Engineers
Baytown
Harris County Mayors and City Councilmen’s Association
Texas Mayors and Councilmen’s Association
First Baptist Church
Franklin Life Insurance Co
Baylor University
Lynnn
Post Oak
Gentry
South Therm Methodist University
Shirley
Memorial Baptist Church
YMCA
Iand United Fund
Lamar Kelley
the Sun
Right-Of-Way To Link Spur 55 Nears Completion
Chambers County Commissioners approve purchasing several small land tracts for Farm Road 1405 right of way, linking to Spur 55 from Baytown Cedar Bayou. They report only one or two tracts remain.
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Anahuac
Chambers County
Comissioners Court
West Chambers County
Baytown
Cedar Bayou
H. H. McCollum
Mont Belvieu
Security State Bank of
Security State Bank of Anahuac
Gulf Coast State Bank of
Winnie
Truett Pritchard and Associates
Air minded teen turns JFK into learning hub for flights
David Lake, 13, a freshman at Aviation High School, spends afternoons at Kennedy International Airport answering travelers questions about planes, paths, and arrivals. He mentors peers as Future Air Traffic Controllers and aims to work in JFK's air traffic control.
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New York
David
Kennedy Complex
Lake
Jfk
Aviation High School
Canersie
Y Aviation
LaGuardia
Frank Quinn
United Airlines
Kennedy
Kearney
N.J
Newjork
Teterboro
Explosion at Baytown plant prompts federal probe
A plant explosion left a worker dead and caused damage to remaining reactors. Federal investigators and an Oil Insurance Association engineer will be called in to determine the cause. The employee's body was transported to San Jacinto Methodist Hospital.
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Ward
Roberson
Oil Insurances Association
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Baytown Ambulance Service
Briscoe announces strict drug control plan in Texas
Gov Dolph Briscoe outlines a new drug control plan in Texas. First offense marijuana remains a misdemeanor while all other convictions could be felonies with up to life imprisonment. In Houston County Judge Bill Elliott seeks to replace HN McElroy with John Garrel in the voting machine department. Dallas notes two teenage gunmen surrendered after an eight hour hostage situation involving nearly 100 officers and 22 hostages.
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Austin
Texas
Dolph Briscoe
Houston
Bill Elliott
Commissioners Court
HN. McElroy
John Garrel
Dallas
Ex Baytonians Snowbound In Carolina
Dr. Harry Adams of Houston Texas and Harold Keown of Charleston South Carolina remain snowbound in Orangeburg South Carolina en route from Asheville. They found refuge with about 60 others at the First Baptist Church where the congregation fed and housed them. Roads are impassable and state patrol blocks exits. about 20 inches of snow paralyzes the area and clearing equipment is lacking.
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Harry Adams
Houston
J. D. Adams
Cedar Brake
Winter Self-Check: How to gauge career progress
HAL Boyle suggests a twice yearly self examination to see if you are advancing or retrogressing. He proposes a simple home test, contrasts ambition with personal life quirks, and jokes about societal signals of success and failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hal Boyle
New York
Club
Aurora
Highlands Methodist Women Host Valentine Party
Highlands Methodist women honor Mrs Fero Kirk with a community Valentine party in the church fellowship hall from 10 a.m. to noon Wednesday.
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Highlands Party
Highlands Methodist
Fero Kirk
Church Fellowship Hall
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