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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 20, 1966
Page
1
About 3 000 people from Baytown and neighboring towns attended the Bay Shore Hod Club’s annual fish fry on Minnesota Street. Club President Grover Edge praised the large turnout and thanked everyone who helped, calling it the largest crowd since the project began.
Guy David Caskey now working in Texas for East African missions will speak at Sunday morning services at South Main Church of Christ. The notice also highlights Texas A&M honors for David McCormick, a new dean’s list freshman majoring in mechanical engineering, and local events including a Friends of Sterling Municipal Library meeting and a Mardi Gras dance at St Joseph’s Auditorium with Outcasts providing music. Viet Nam veteran Jisetty Stubblefield, Navy corpsman with the Third Marine Division, is home on leave from El Toro California.
CLEAR through Monday with no rain and moderate temperatures. Galveston tides Sunday show low at 2:22 AM and 10:34 AM with highs at 5:54 PM and 4:36 PM. Monday tides list lows at 5:24 AM and 10:48 AM with highs at 6:06 PM and 11:96 PM.
Gracie Lubbock covers a party and O B Lee notes on Girl Scout news Isabel Swain welcomes friends at a Rotary dinner Bonnie Magness seeks information Wimpy Wismer unavailable for a photo Winnie Sullivan shares party details Wish Cal and Helen Harrick celebrate 43rd wedding anniversary Ann Fanner displays memory and sharp eye Mr and Mrs J R Barsalou Jr mark their 2nd wedding anniversary in Mexico City Mrs Norman Perkins active with Brownie Scouts D B Marshall shows home grown turnips The Gorman family at oyster feast Bob Feinberg recalls anecdotes Lowell Summers introduces the Mrs as Chamber of Commerce board Clint Bates attends luncheon Mrs Ed Summers joins husband for hunch
Mrs. Albert Thomas, widow of long serving Rep. Albert Thomas, declares candidacy to fill his unexpired term in the Eighth District. Gov. Connally to set a date for a special election. Mrs Thomas, a Nacogdoches native and Alabama graduate, vows to continue her husband’s 30 years of congressional service.
Tickets remain for Saturday night performance of The Crucible at Baytown Little Theater per box office chair Mrs. C H Stevenson.
Marco Constructors Inc of Houston won the Highlands Elementary School renovation contract with a 63 400 bid. The project covers roof removal and replacement, ceiling lights wiring painting new toilet fixtures AC unit and office shelving. Bids for Harlem Elementary expansion were opened. recommendation pending.
The Goose Creek district approval vote authorizes a Title I funds application of 163000 for remedial reading and math, guidance, library expansion and nursing services. Budget projects 169000 through Aug 31 1966 with 110740 for salaries and 58260 for equipment and supplies. 27 staff positions would be created including seven teacher aides two nurses three library workers four counselors and more. The district serves 863 eligible students from families under $2000 income per year.
Alma McNulty filed Friday to run for a seat on the Lee College Board of Regents in the April 2 election with March 2 deadline. Current regents include Jim Black and Warren Spivey, with other board members appointed last August after Lee College split from the public schools. Elections run for three years and occur in even years. the April 2 vote will be held jointly with Goose Creek School District.
The Wallisville barrier project by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers advances with a land acquisition effort in Anahuac. Congress has appropriated 37 million for current construction of the barrier, part of the Trinity River development, to block saltwater intrusion and support Houston water plans. Construction may begin this year, lasting 11 to 14 years. The barrier is an earthen dam about five miles long and up to 34 feet high, located south of Interstate 10 two miles south of Wallisville.
A committee of Ben Shirey Paul Parkinson and Boyd Hill was named to recommend a replacement for the late Karl Opryshek on the school board. Shirey will chair as the appointed member serves the remainder of Opryshek's term ending in 1967. The meeting also approved a sorrow resolution and discussed building committee vacancies and meeting scheduling concerns.
Baytown Lions Club will host Engineer Knox T. Beavers of Humble 68% Refining Co. Baytown Refinery as the speaker for Engineer's Week at Tuesday lunch at the Tower Restaurant.
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