Ross Sterling Baytown Library Built by a Texas Giant
Baytown honors Ross S Sterling by enshrining memory in a $400000 library. Sterling shaped Texas and Baytown’s growth as Humble Oil pioneer, banker, broadcaster and philanthropist. He built railroads, campaigns, and public works, and funded Boys Harbor. His legacy includes KPRC, Houston Post, and the Tex as oil proration system.
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Fining Co
Bayfront
Goose Creek
Humble Oil
Sterling
Dayton
Southern Pacific
Houston
KPRC
Houston Dispatch
Houston Post
Post-Dispatch
the Post
Houston Post Commission
Hermann Hospital
Houston Ymca
YMCA
Tri-City Beach Road
Camp Ross Sterling Jr
Texas
State Highway Commission
Louis van Meldert
Bayshore
la Porte
Boys Harbor
Ed Kilman
The
Ross Sterling
Kilman
Boeing
Chambers County
Sun Spots New Location and City Notices
Sun Spots reports a new location for offices of Justice of the Peace Harris County and building permits totals this week reaching 30.6 million for the year. Also notes revival plans cancelled, art exhibits granted a patent on hydrocarbon separation, and local tides and weather.
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Justice of the Peace
Harris County
Flu Outbreak Spreads Westward Into Texas Cities
influenza cases surge in Austin with 467 flu type cases reported in six days. Over 100 teachers sidelined and Dallas schools see absenteeism around 20 percent Friday, while Dallas hospitals report heavy flu admissions and a rush of patients.
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Associated Press
Texas
Atlantic Seaboard
Missouri
Michigan
Austin
Dallas
Sterling Municipal Library opens in Baytown with open house
Thousands of Baytonians will tour the new Sterling Municipal Library from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday marking Baytown history’s first new library since the original building deeded by Ross Sterling in the 1920s. The $100,000 facility includes 60,000 volumes, an auditorium, story hours, and free checkouts for city residents. The event, led by Dr. Dorman Winfrey and library director, celebrates community support and the 1961 bond effort sparked by the Pilot Club and Friends of the Library as nearby public schools contend with the Asian flu outbreak and related absences.
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Friends of the Library
Waas
Pilot Club
Abe Rosenzweig
Baytown
Sterling Municipal Library
Duiditorium
Nocona
North Texas
St. Louis
Dorman
Winfrey
Texas State Library
Kentucky
Jafe Ross
Wayne McCleskey
St Mark's Methodist Church
Max Mosesman
Th Library Board
Velma Ansley
Kenneth Badgett
Seaborn Cravey
Roy Hughes
Lacy Lu
Washington Shrugs Off Reds' Blast
Washington dismisses Soviet missile rhetoric as propaganda aimed at boosting morale. In Moscow Malinovsky warned of nuclear war if the U S attacks Cuba, while U S officials including McNamara and Russell outline policies to deter Castroism and defend ships against Cuban MIGs. Russell says U S planes will retaliate if attacked. He dismisses Soviet claims as inflated and non threatening.
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Washington
Cuba
Rodion
Malinovskyi
Fidel Castro
Moscow
United States
Dean Rusk
Senate Armed Services Committee
Robert S. McNamara
U.S
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
McNamara
Russell
IMIG
Russel
Country Club Membership Closed at Goose Creek Club
Goose Creek Country Club directors voted to freeze membership rolls until the current expansion is finished. A maximum of 100 prospective new associate members may apply now and stay on the waiting list until rolls reopen. Options are nonbinding and prioritized when expansion resumes.
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Goose Creek Country Club
Hugh Echols Jr
Buddy Bray
L. G. Sanders
John M. Devins
Maurice Morgan
Floyd Higginbotham
Echols Price
W. E. Lea 56 Dies After 28 Years In Baytown
Warren Eugene Lea 56 of 3401 Minnesota died at 10 08 p m Friday in Houston hospital Funeral arrangements by Earthman Funeral Home Lea had lived in Baytown 28 years and was a pipefitter Survivors include two brothers I G Lea and Luther T Lea of Baytown and two sisters Mrs A W Milne of Baton Rouge and Mrs N R Yarborough of Boga jiusa La
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W.E. Lea
Warren Eugene Lea
Shnnesota
Houston Hospital
Earthman Funeral
Lea
Baytown
I. G.lea
Luther T. Lea
V Town
A. W. Milne
Baton Rouge
N. R. Yarborough
Boga
Jiusa
Libya Quake Ravages Marj City in Eastern Libya
Dawn revealed the extent of destruction after a 7 15 pm quake hit Marj, a 11 000 resident city 50 miles northeast of Benghazi. More than 250 dead and 500 injured, with rescue teams from the US Air Force British Army Libyan Army and civilians aiding amid ruined stone and mud homes and twisted concrete structures.
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al: Marj
Libya
Benghazi
U.S. Air Force
Wheelus
Tripoli
58Th
U.S
Wheel
Oyster Fry Draws 3000 at Bayshore Club Event
About 2 800 to 3 000 attended the Bayshore Red, Reel and Gun Club oyster fry at the club on Minnesota. The feast served over 160 gallons of oysters plus fries and salad. Hundreds signed petitions opposing a Texas Game and Fish Commission and State Parks Board merger. only one refused. Special guests included Don Yarborough, Bob Eckhardt, Don Garrison, Henry LeBlanc, A Brauex, Howard Harcreves, Nig Rayne, John Kubena, and Mrs Martha West.
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Bayshore Red, Reel and Gun Club
Ding
Minnesota
Texas Game and Fish Commission
State Parks Board
Grover K. Edge
Oyster Fry
Don Yarborough
Bob Eckhardt
Don Garrison
Harris County
Texas
Henry LeBlanc
Port Arthur
Sportsman Clubs of Texas
A. Brauex
SCOT
John Kubena
la Grange
Martha West
Howard Dodgin
The
Game and Fish Commission
Fire kills eight in Morefoule family home tragedy
In Morefoule Missouri a family of ten perished in a house fire. Paul Saville 47 and Shirley 25 alongside children Paul David Jr 10 Glenda Sue 9 Hester 6 Everett 7 Alvin 3 Michael 2 Zelda Mae 4 months were trapped in a one story frame dwelling. Chief J T Kindred said the bodies were found in two beds after the flames overwhelmed the home.
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Morefoule
Paul Saville
Shirley
Paul David Jr
Glenda Sue
Hester
Everett
Alvin
Michael
Henderson
Zelda Mae
J. T. Kindred
Kindred
New Officers To Be Elected Methodist SJ Hospital Switch
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital will become a community hospital under Texas Conference control. A new board of trustees was appointed to guide the change with interim leadership by Rev. Larry Stokes. The conference has already taken over Moody Home and Happy Harbour, and plans to charter a new corporation next week.
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San Jacinto Hospital
Baytown
San Baptist
Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Houston
Trong
Texas
San Jacinto
Munity Hospital
Martin
Paul E. Martin
Texas Conference of the Methodist Church
Baytown Community Hospital
Larry Stokes
Texas Conference Board On Hospitals and Homes
Fred Hartman
Ed Summers
Ed Vaught
Bayown
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Church Conference
Moody Home
Buccaneer Hotel
Galveston
Happy Harbour
Bayshore
la Porte
Texas Conference
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Wanda Orton
Ross Shaw Sterling
Anahuac
Stephen F. Austin
Luke Bryan
Sam Houston
Benjamin F. Sterling
Liberty County
Wall
Texas Legion
Ross
Double Bayou
Humble
Sour Lake
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Texas Gulf Coast
Ross S. Ster- Hag
Jones
West Texas
Ross S. Sterling
nerHen Mission
Bay
W. Main
Nounced
Thomas and
Albert Busby
California
W. C. Jones
Bayton Art League
Syd S. Gould
Baytown Sun
Whites House
John ¥. Kennedy
Gouldig
Cleveland Bank
Cleveland
George Washington
R. S
Dick) Manne
Young Democrats Club
Lee College
Avurce Latin
Onernoon Hensley
Margaret Alexander
Harriett McKay
Sylvia Buskin
Lee Potter
Paul and Mary
John Gienn
Scott Carpenter
Graywood
Ikiwanis
Torry Stevens
Memorial Baptist Church
West Baytown Kiwanis Club
Rebel Inn
Paul Anderson
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
Dellas
Critcally
Country Club
Air Force
Methodist
SJ Hospital
Bishop Martin
Texas Annual Conference
Ray Loden
Stewart Clendenin
Beaumont
Ton Riley
Texarkana
Walter R. Willis
Longview
Neal D. Cxanon
Nacogdoches
Earl C. Bayer
Bryan
Willian Hattaway
Derwont Blackwell
Tyla
Stanley Carter
Paleestine
A. Grady Hallonquiet
Huntsville
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