Local club meetings and community notices
Cedar Bayou 4 H Club meets 7 p.m. Tuesday at Baytown Fairgrounds with a London and Paris slide show. Barbers Hill 4 H Club to meet 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Fire Hall with Rusty Moore discussing. George Blumberg services set for 10:30 a.m. Wednesday in Seguin Goetz Funeral Home. Baytown City Council to hold 5 p.m. work session on West Sewer District at city hall. Danbury and Deweyville meet Tuesday for a Class A girls district title game at Sterling gym. Southwestern Bell reports 226 exchange in Houston out of service due to a cable cut. crews restoring service. American Association of University Women hosts a poster making party for its pattern style show at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday at 2101 Florida.
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George Blumberg
Sterling P. Blumberg
Goetz
Seguin
Baytown
City Hall
Danbury
Deweyville
Sterling
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Houston
American Association of University Women
Florida
Weather And Tides In Baytown Area
Partly cloudy and cold Tuesday night then warmer Wednesday. Low Tuesday night near 30s, high Wednesday about 60. Baytown tides show highs at 4 47 a m and 9 02 p m with lows at 32 05 a m and 1 31 p m. Sunrise Wednesday 7 01 a m, sunset 6 11 p m. Denotes weak tides.
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Baytown Area
Baytown
Baytonian Bobby Thompson choreographer on Captain and Tennille
Friends watch the Captain and Tennille show where Bobby Thompson, a Baytonian, is introduced as the choreographer for dance numbers. He has danced in many TV shows and films. The snippet also notes local figures Mary Bowen Carol Fontenot Skipper Smith Paul Harvard Maggie Moreno Kay Tekker Jessica Sylvester and Rick Peebles commenting on school board matters and daily life.
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Bobby Thompson
Rick Peebles
Mary Bowen
Carol Fontenot
Skipper Smith
Paul Harvard
Carol Harvard
Maggie Moreno
Kay Tekker
Jessica Sylvester
Trustees Seek Public Opinion on Creation Teaching
Trustees plan a meeting to gather public views on teaching Creation alongside evolution. Superintendent Johnny Clark will invite clergymen and others to discuss the issue and report consensus to the school board. Dr Monty Kester urged side by side presentation of both theories with the Bible kept out of the text.
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Deva Luthringer
Johnny Clark
Monty Kester
Lee College
Clark
Crosby School Board weighs fundamental education committee
Crosby School Board members discussed forming a committee at the next meeting to study community interest in a fundamental education system. California educator John Hardy outlined Pasadena’s model including reading writing arithmetic discipline respect and parent involvement with homework checks and signed confirmations.
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Muriel Scott Crosby
Crosby School Board
California
John Hardy
Pasadena
Calif
Andi Ng
Hardy
Crosby
Busing urged to desegregate city school systems nationwide
The U S Civil Rights Commission released a 119 page report urging busing children between inner city and suburban areas to reverse growing segregation. It says boundaries between cities and suburbs act as racial and economic barriers and that travel time can be reduced by district mergers while government policies created and perpetuate ghettos.
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Washington
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Atty
Griffin B. Bell
Supreme Court
Bipartisan Commission
Gerald R. Ford
Paniel
Miss Wanda Delivers February Scoop On Pearce Street
The Pearce Street Journal notes Wanda Orton did a good job mid February and recalls Front Page staff sought her comments. The piece humorously requests a favor and compliments Miss Wanda's subtle approach in reporting.
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Wanda Orton
Wanda
Miss Vanda
Aeros face delayed payday amid WHA payroll concerns
The Houston Aeros of the World Hockey Association say they will not be paid on schedule today marking a payroll delay after five years of on time pay. In other items Crosland remains in a coma after a stroke two days earlier. The U S archives chief asks Kis singer to drop claim to transcripts as personal property. Lillian Carter visits Vikhrose enjoying a tearful Peace Corps reunion.
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Houston
World Hockey Association
Houston Aeros
Aeros
Vikhrose
India
Lillian Carter
Peace Corps
Narcotics Lead Way Crime In Baytown In 1976
Baytown crime rose 16.47 percent in 1976 from 1975. Narcotics cases led increases with many large seizures, while larceny thefts, including radio thefts, surged 26 percent. Total property stolen exceeded 1.1 million dollars. recoveries topped 403 thousand. Murders rose to nine, robberies fell 1.7 percent, auto theft declined, forgery up 11.5 percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynn Hughes
Baytown
FBI
R. H
Bo) Turner
Turner
I-10 Crash Fatal to Baytown Woman on Interstate 10
A Baytown woman, Juana Riverra DeLeFuente, 35, died in a 6:05 p.m. crash on I-10 near Monmouth Drive. Two others, Jesus Flores, 20, and Herlinda Gonzales, 25, were hospitalized with chest injuries. A tractor-trailer driven by Raymond L. Mitchell, 23, was eastbound when Flores swerved into its path, sending their car into the median. no charges were filed. DeLeFuente’s body went to the Harris County Morgue.
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Baytown
Airhart
Flores
Clarence Eldridge
DeLeFuente
Gonzales
James E. Reider
Raymond L. Mitchell
Abbeville
Reider
Palljing
Mitchell
Harris County
Exxon Hearing Details Seaman Testifies Before Baytown Blast
Robert Leo Koncher a 30 year old seaman from Key West Florida testified at a U S Coast Guard hearing he did not smell hear or see gasoline fumes on deck 30 minutes before the January 27 explosion at Exxon's Baytown docks He said he did not receive warnings from the control room on his walkie talkie and radio difficulties arose after the fire began.
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Houston
Exxon San
Exon San Francisco Crew Testifies on Alarm System
Officers and crewmen testifying after the Boston cargo discharge dispute the ships high level alarm on Jan 26 and 27. Captain Brower and Chief Mate Danielson say the system was on and functioning, countering prior testimony of two mates. Page 33.
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Exon
San Francisco
Boston
Mass
Wayne Bruce Tortuson
Peter Cote
Jean §. Brower
Staten Island
N. Y
Arthur Danielson
Kenton
Cote
Totjusen
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Cedar Bayou
Baytown Fairgrounds
J.R. Sherman
Wallisville
London
Paris
Barbers Hill
Rusty Moore
Craig Boudreaux
Craig
James Koppie
Sun
Glenn Folkes
Laround
U.S. Civil Rights Panel
Pearce Street Journal
Citizens National Bank and Trus? CO. Foui.c
Foreign Office
Anthony Crosland
United States
Henry A. Kissinger
Peoples State Bank
People Helpers
Berens Chery
FDC
Exxon
Betsy Webber Houston
Charles E. Ormiston
Brooklyn
Iowa
No. L
Ormiston
Torjusen
Heft
James Bowie Drive
Highway 146
Public Works
Ivan Langford
ITI
Lamgford
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