Son Of Barbers Hill Pioneer Dies At 59
Schuyler Colfax Barber known as Buck Barber 84 of Mont Belvieu died in a Dayton hospital. Funeral services will be at 2 pm Friday at the Virginia Street Church of Christ with minister Agndy Dooley and another minister officiating. Burial will follow at Fisher Chapel Cemetery in Mont Belvieu under Paul A. Lee Funeral Home. He was a rancher and a native of Chamberstoun, youngest son of the late Mr and Mrs BE Barber pioneers for whom Barbers Hill was named. Survived by a wife, a daughter Mrs Leon Blagg of Houston, three sisters and two brothers. Pallbearers listed.
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Schuyler Colfax (Buck) Barber
Mont Belvieu
Dayton Hospital
Virginia Street
Church of Christ
Agndy M. Dooley
Bullioz
Church of &Igist
Dallas
Fisher Chapel
Mont Belvisa
Paul A. Lee
Barker
Mont. Belvisa
Port Job Bids Sought For Wharf 36 Reinforcement
Port Commission orders bids March 22 for reinforcing Wharf 36 at Houston docks to dock truck trailers in a new coastwise service. Estimated remodeling cost about 200000. Gantry crane planned for use. Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp will inaugurate coastwise sailing between Houston and New York in early April.
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Houston Docks
Port Commission
Pan-Atlantic Steamship Corp
Houston
New York
Pancake Sale At Key Club To Benefit Robert E. Lee Club
Key Club hosts all you can hold pancake sale at old Humble Waffle Show 3415 Market on Saturday from 6 am to 3 pm. Pancakes priced 60 cents or 15 cents with advance ticket. pay-by-story discount available. Entertainment planned. proceeds aid Robert E. Lee Rey Club under Baytown Kiwanis.
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Key Club
Key
Baytown Sun
Robert EL Lee Rey Club
Baytown Kiwanis
Rabbit hunt nets seven rabbits in two days
Eighty five bow and arrow enthusiasts from Moberly Missouri joined the Missouri Bowhunters Association for the annual rabbit hunt this January and collectively bagged seven rabbits over two days. Tibet’s New Year Festival is noted as falling usually in February or March.
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Moberly
Bow and Arrow
Missouri Bowhunters Association
Tibet
Savings Bonds Sales Hit 17 Million in Texas
Dallas report shows January purchases of the H and Hy series totaling 17,814,581 with Hy sales at 13,313,328 and H sales at 4,486,500. Nathan Adams cites Texas near 6 percent of the 1956 goal of 217,500,000 as O Gossett notes the start of a record year. Officials emphasize Savings Bonds as with principal and interest guaranteed by the U S Government.
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Dallas
Nathan Adams
Eq Gossett
Texas
Gossett
U. & Government
Hickerson Heads Houston Meeting
J F Hickerson serves as host committee chair for a Gulf Coast Spectroscope meeting in Houston. Dr Hastings speaks on Recent Advances in Infrared Techniques while Mr Jones directs a gas chromatography panel. Dowagiac Normal borrows two teachers and two students. high school to appear in its annual play titled Little Women.
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J. F. Hickerson
Dr. Hastings
Mr. Jones
Little Men
Dowagiacg
Mich
Cass County Normal
Mtany
Dowagiac. High
Little Women
Forter Insurance Agency Opens Crosby Building
Forter Insurance Agency unveils a pink stone, air conditioned 30 by 28 foot building in Crosby. Open 9 am to 5 pm Saturday, with Mrs Fortner and staff including Mrs Margerite Peterson and Catherine Martin inviting friends. The firm, founded in 1917 by C. A. Fortner, sits just past Crosby from Highway 90 and features a script sign modeled on Fortner’s signature.
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Forter Insurance Agency
Crosby
Pam
Former
Iste
C. A
Teachers Support Amendments To Retirement Plan
The Baytown Classroom Teachers Association held a regular meeting at GW Carver elementary. Delegate reports and a proposed amendment to the Teacher Retirement system were discussed. Plans for a Public Relations banquet on April 20 were approved with ticket sales and scholarships funded by proceeds.
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Baytown Classroom Teachers’ Association
GW. Carver School
Libr
Ruth Henry
Juanita H. Baker
WLC
Berring
Anson Jones
Teachers’ State Association of Texas
Alvin Norwood
State Association
South Texas
South-East Texas District Association
Odom
Beaumont
Marion Howell
Little Carver
Walker
Harlem
C. L. Randon
Carver High School
Juanita H. Baker. Jackson
South Texas District Association
C. L. Wilson
J. M. Walker
Births in Corpus Christi and Baytown area family notices
Moore announces birth of a daughter Feb 79 weighing seven pounds five ounces. Grandparents listed from Baytown and dating areas. baby born at Corpus Christi naval base. Williams announces Charlene Truth born Feb 24 in San Jacinto Hospital weighing eight pounds eight ounces. grandparents named from La Porte and Baytown. Des Moines report notes a mother of five sews buttons on with 20 pound linen fishline with no further losses.
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Des Moines
Iowa
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Barbers Hill
Inn Barber
Leon Blagg
J. ©. Stockbridge
Elsie Gilbert
Bessie Brown
Q. R. Barber
J. R. Barber
Delno Brown
Q. Glenn Barber
R. B. Jarold Agregard
Lindsey Griffith
W. E. Clark
Texas Water Heater
Piairt Si
Hickerson
C. A. Fortner
Fortner
Fortner Insurance Building
Ftere's
Buick
Sears
America
Baytown
George Carmel
SUN
Fortner Insurance Agency
Crosby, Texas
Best
C. L. Oswell General Contractor
Milner Driva
Phy
Merrell
Insurance Agency Building
Joe McCune
Luther Brady Lumber
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