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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 24, 1966
Page
18
Admitted to Gulf Coast with room assignments including Mark Twain Clemons at 1212 Cedar Bayou Room 165 Mrs Lottie Taylor from Dayton in Room 215 and Mrs Myrtle McGraw at 3006 Sewcastie in Room 10T.
Harris County case involving John M Morgan against United States Fidelity and Guaranty Co stems from September 1961 hurricane damages. Texas Supreme Court partially affirmed a jury award, granting 5,956 dollars for damage to a cottage and warehouse on Old River while deducting 1,950 dollars for warehouse contents. total damages set at 36,500 with 6,300 awarded by the jury. court kept most of the award.
Alvin V Holiday retires from Humble's Baytown Refinery after 22 years as a fire equipment inspector in the Utilities Department. A Hawthorne native, he moved to Boswell in Walter County as a child and previously worked five years with the Texas Highway Department. He and his wife Mamie split time with a Tarkington Prairie camp house and enjoy reading, fishing, hunting, and baseball. Their son Storris lives in Houston, and they have two grandsons and a granddaughter.
The Bloomer Girls basketball game between DeZavalla and Violai i Cobb Parent-Teacher Association mothers will start at 7 20 p m Friday in the Coanellee High School gymnasium Admission is 1 for adults 50 cents for children The fundraiser supports DeZavalla PTA with candidates hosting rummage sales barbecues shrimp gumbo and chili funds for the votes and a king and queen presentation by County Commissioner Red Ramsey.
Funeral services for H. A. Shepherd 72 of Houston brother of Mrs. W. G. Wilson of Baytown were held at Forest Park Funeral Home at 12:31 p.m. Thursday. Interment followed at Forest Park Cemetery. Survived by wife Vashti, one daughter Mrs. Phillip Waters, four brothers Leon Park Laodice and Opie Shepherd all of Houston, and sister Mrs. Rosalie Tolar of Deer Park.
Gov. John Connally appointed Dan Walton former Harris County district attorney to be judge of the 2 criminal district court in Houston Walton served six years as district attorney before 1981 return to private practice He succeeds the late A H Krichamer Krichamer died last Sunday of cancer Walton was Connally campaign manager in early races Walton is a Tennessee native and has lived in Houston since 1948 He graduated from Vanderbilt and Duke Law He is first vice president of the Houston Bar Association and a past president of the Houston Junior Bar
Circle K Club at Lee College will sponsor a magic show Friday night in the college auditorium to benefit the College Student Loan Fund. The hourlong event at 7 30 p.m. features Mik Bares a sophomore magician and the Leftovers singing group. Tickets priced 25 30 and 75 cents apply by student grade levels. Proceeds support the loan fund with extra fundraising plans including a drive to the District Circle K Convention in April and a window washing service and “Slave Day” odd jobs. For bookings call Kenneth Martin John Drouilhe or Benny Moscowicz.
Parks land Wildlife Department reports a Colorado man has a notably ambitious travel schedule this year. He intends to cover about 600 miles within Texas, visiting Big Bend Country, the Rio Grande Valley, and the Gulf Coast regions.
The Baytown Sun classified section lists ad rates, policy notes, and community notices for February 24 1966. It includes rates for four line ads, card of thanks, and contract rates, plus meeting notices for local Elks, Beauceant, Shrine Club, and other groups, and service ads for photography and wedding needs. A brief ad for Alcoholics Anonymous and a subscription appeal are also present.
Property listing shows 45 14 rooms at 5308 MARTIN HOUSES with price 180 dollars. Anjac con Sata area unclear. Remaining text fragmented. essential details partially readable.
Mrs Zeg R Dunks a Crosby Huffman lifelong resident died at a Houston rehabilitation home. She would have turned 100 in ten months and is survived by daughters Dottie Curtis Leis Powell Les Sittier and Rebecca Rogers and by six grandchildren six great grandchildren and five great great grandchildren. Funeral services are set for 10 a m Friday at Crosby Church of Christ with Gouver near Clements officiating. Sterling Funeral Home of Dayton handles arrangements.
Dr. Fred Tarpley an associate professor of English at East Texas State University will serve as a consultant on the Texas dialect for The American Dialect Dictionary. He follows an invitation from Frederic Cassidy University of Wisconsin who received a grant to compile the work. Tarpley in his LSU PhD dissertation compiled A Word Atlas of Northeast Texas and was the university of Louisiana’s first linguistics PhD.
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