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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 15, 1971
Page
1
Humble annuitants will hold their regular monthly meeting at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Community Building. All Humble annuitants are urged to attend. Merchants Meeting Downtown Retail Merchants Association will meet at 3 p.m. Tuesday at Citizens National Bank. All members are urged to attend.
Baytown area women in National Panhellenic Conference sororities are invited to a 10 a.m. to noon come-and-go coffee on Thursday Feb 25 at 2007 Dewberry Pasadena for information. Call Mrs. Robert C. Tyler before Feb 22 for details. Also notes include LVN meeting Feb 27 at Lee College and Bowie PTA Founders Day with nursery, plus Story Hour at Sterling Library and a filing deadline extension for Houston Legal Foundation candidates to Feb 19 with elections on Feb 26 and 27.
CLEAR TO partly cloudy and mild through Tuesday in the Baytown area. Highs range from the upper 40s to mid 70s. Morgan's Point tides for Tuesday show highs at 4:43 a.m. and 7:45 p.m. and lows at 6:49 a.m. and 7:01 p.m.
O'Brien wears a new Valentine outfit. Barry Nettles and Perry Simmons organize publicity for the Texas Exes banquet. The Garrett Herrings enjoy a seafood dinner. Dennis Mellick attends a Houston track meet. Lt. Col. Jessel V. Williams of Oklahoma City and M. C. Hill attend open house for Justice of the Peace N. O. Morrison. Mrs. Tommy Wheeler, a patient in Room 409 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital, receives entertainment from Hawaii. Lillie Garrett shows off Valentines featuring barbecued ham to candy.
Harris County Fresh Water Supply District No. 6 calls an election for March to seek voter approval of a new maintenance tax. The tax would maintain current rates but fund upgrading and enlarging water lines across the district, with key pipes needing replacement and the treatment plant at rising risk from subsidence and high tide.
Charley O Walker Baytown real estate dealer filed as a candidate for District 2 city council in the April 6 election. The incumbent David Evans seeks reelection. Walker 50 moved to Baytown in 1987 and retired from Humble Refinery last August after a career as an analyst in accounting. He has long run his real estate business from Bayway Drive since 1959 and cites interest in city development and bond fund utilization for street water and sewer projects. He is married to Peggy Kiber and lives at 603 S Burnet with three children Beverly Gary and Steffani. He is active in the Baytown Chamber of Commerce Elks Lodge Masonic Lodge 1192 Baytown Home Builders Association and the Bay Area Board of Realtors.
City Council weighs $500000 bond for a Baytown police station though costs exceed by about $13000. Architect James A Davis lists total near $513000 with site work $55000-$60000 and radio gear $3800? to $45000. Councilman Ted Kloesel urges combining garage and radio shop to stay within budget while planning for years ahead. Commissioner Jamie Bray considers county leasing jail space from the city. next council meeting Feb 25.
AP reports American fighter-bombers renew attacks on North Vietnam missile sites while U S planes mistakenly hit a CIA base in northern Laos. Labor Department says rail shutdown threats ease after a wage agreement. Steelworkers strike three U S can plants. Western oil majors negotiate with Libya after Persian Gulf talks. Democratic leaders back reform plans and adjust DNC rules for next year’s conventions.
The city council authorized a $200000 loan to acquire Bailey tract off Barrymore and West Main for about $86500 and Britton tracts off Highway 146 and Goose Creek for about $65000. The remaining $48500 funds maintenance of park land options and incidentals until bonds are issued. The loan will be interest free from First National Bank.
Baytown eyes a housing boom as townhouses and mobile homes gain popularity. Builders and lenders expect rising demand for individually owned homes, with GI and conventional loans available and furnishings includable on mobile home mortgages. Single family starts fell in 1970 while apartment starts rose, signaling a shift in housing needs amid rising costs.
Santa Fe New Mexico faces a general fund revenue shortage next year with no extra money under current tax schedules to fund special new programs sought by some registrars. The state may be compelled to take back the income tax refunds given last year to citizens.
Last year at Gulf Oil Chemicals Cedar Bayou Olefins Plant in Baytown set production records with ethylene topping 400 million pounds and polyethylene surpassing 200 million pounds. Plant manager H W Blackwood attributed gains to meticulous operations and maintenance, noting sustained polyethylene output over design capacity for the second straight year. The Cedar Bayou facility, opened 1963 with a 400 million pound ethylene capacity, now employs over 300 locally and serves as a key petrochemical producer in the Gulf region.
The AFL-CIO opened its winter leadership meeting in Miami Beach with a broad assault on President Nixon’s economic policies. Andrew J. Biemiller urged Congress to create public service jobs, push national health insurance, and impose U S import quotas to protect American jobs. The federation, with 13.8 million workers in 119 unions, also pressed to raise the minimum wage from 1.60 to at least 2 an hour and expand coverage. In a weekend development, 17 construction unions and the National Constructors Association announced a landmark pact to end jurisdictional strikes.
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