U S Steel and Baytown’s 1968 mark future impact
The Baytown Sun highlights 1968 as a pivotal year for U S Steel and the Baytown area. It notes a new loop road crossing Cedar Bayou aiding West Chambers County development, plans for a Texas Works steel facility with a 160 inch plate mill due 1969 and 1971 phases, rising land prices, and a building boom with permits over 10.6 million. Population growth and utilities expansion accompanied a housing surge, while local stories cover Lee College bond passage, San Jacinto Hospital expansion, a failed city sales tax, new school board majority, stadium construction, flood-control bond defeats, a potential Baytown levee study, and mental health center growth. Murders early in the year added a crime note to the year’s record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnella Boynton
U.S Steel
Baytown
Baytown Sun
State Highway Commission
Cedar Bayou
West Chambers County
U.S. Steel
The
Steel Company
Texas Works
Bay
Chamber of Commerce
Daye Kloore
Lee College
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
George H. Gentry
Stallworth
Harris County
U.S. Congress
McCormack Defiant On Udall Challenge For House Speakership
Speaker John W. McCormack, under fire from younger Democrats, defends his record and says no progressive is better than him. He dismisses threats to his renomination, citing decades in leadership and pledging fairness while warning of a future where wealth may gatekeep Congress. He references reform efforts and campaign finance concerns amid a turbulent House landscape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
John W. McCormack
McCormack
Boston
Times
Movement
Pye Beer
America
Congress
Weather Clears In Baytown With Cold Stretch Through Wednesday
Baytown area forecast calls for mostly clear to partly cloudy skies and continued cold through Wednesday. Temperatures expected in the high 30s to low 40s. Unofficial 6 am Wednesday low in Baytown was 30 degrees. Local notes mention Judy Lannon visiting Beaids in Vallejo California and Angela Cheatham receiving a call from Eugene in Colorado. Other items cite holiday visits and military deployments to Vietnam, with family members remaining nearby or traveling.
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Baytown
Judy Lannou
Y. M. Lannon
LF. Beaids
Vallejo
Calif
San Francisco
Angela Cheatham
Eugene
Colorado
Cindy Jackson
Elaine White
Kathy Sheley
Melissa Moore
Karl
Betty Molin
Madrid
Spain
Charles
Suzanne Teyk
Jay Keeler
Vietnam
Kathy Keating
Diane
Larry Woodcox
Hawa
Woodcox
Viet
Bottle hits boy riding bicycle on Barbers Hill Road
Lonzo Gale, 15, of Pasadena, was struck on the head by a falling soft drink bottle tossed from a pickup truck as he rode with friend Danny Clary Jr, 13. Lenzo suffered a fractured skull and facial cuts, was treated at Gulf Coast Hospital, and remained hospitalized overnight. The driver sped away. witnesses describe a teenage boy and younger passenger in the truck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lonzo Gale
Pasadena
Joe Lonzo
Danny Clary Jr
Barbers Hill Road
Lenzo
Gulf Coast Hospital
Duhn
Clary
Lonzon
John Gale
Stalla Road
Lonzo
Dahn
Clarys
Bar~ Pers Hill Road
Stalla
Released POW sons shock families in Vietnam news
Families celebrate after three prisoners of war are released in Vietnam by the Vietcong. Spec. 4 James Brigham of Ocala Florida, Army Pfc. Donald G. Smith Jr. of Akron Pennsylvania, and Spec. 4 Thomas N. Jones of Lynnville Indiana are named among the men freed. Temperatures plunge across Texas on New Year's Day, dipping into the teens in the Panhandle and other areas. Federal Trade Commission inspectors warn that chances of winning valuable prizes in grocery store and gas station games are tiny and many cases involve deception.
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Vietnam
James Brigham
Ocala
Fla
Army
Donald G. Smith Jr
Akron
Thomas N. Jones
Lynnville
Ind
Texas
Panhandle
Federal Trade Commission
Harris County Savings Plans New Building Site Purchase
Harris County Savings and Loan Association announced a two acre tract purchase at Ward Road and Alexander Drive from Mr and Mrs C R Meyers. President Jack W Strickler said plans include a multi story building with upper floors for tease and a parking lot. purchase is among the largest real estate transfers on Alexander Drive. The stockholders meeting is set for Wednesday Jan 15 with no further plan details disclosed.
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Harris County Federal Savings and Loan Association
C. R. Meyers
Ward Road
Alexander Drive
Highway 146
Jack W. Strickler
Strickler
Meyers
Alexander
Harris County Savings and Loan
Kerr-Bond Insurance Agency
South Ashbel
North Ashbel
Duckworth Infant May Be First Baby of 1969
A boy born at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital at 6 55 a m Wednesday is likely the first baby of 1969 in the Goose Creek school district area His unnamed infant weighs seven pounds two ounces Parents are Mr and Mrs Courtland Barry Duckworth of 308 W Francis Gifts from Baytown merchants await if he is officially named First Baby of the Year The Baytown Sun requires proof of birth time and district residency by 9 a m Thursday Gulf Coast and Baytown hospitals reported no 1969 births as of 9 a m Wednesday
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San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Courtland Barry
Duckworth
W. Francis
San Jacinto
Gulf Coast
Baytown
Goose Creek
Baytown Sun
Stork Shop
Wright Packing Co
O'Brien's
Harris County Savings
Robson's
Scarsborough’s
Jacob's
Moore's
Culpepper’s
Penney’s
Kmart
Morrison’s
the Tower
White Star Laundry
Beall’s
Lewis and Coker and
Black's
SJ Hospital Improvement Plan Edges Toward Phase 2
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital advances into Phase 2 of its master development, expanding from 80 to 125 beds with planned upgrades. The project adds four emergency rooms, expanded therapy and pharmacy, new exam rooms, patient conveniences, and upgraded facilities including two high speed elevators.
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Ron Lennard
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Dan Brown
Brown
Sterling Street
Sitz
Missouri Pacific ends era with final Texas Eagle run
In St. Louis the Missouri Pacific Railroad sent its last Pullman cars over the line to Texas on Tuesday. The Texas Eagle departed at 6 30 p.m. with six coaches and three sleeping cars, marking the final use of sleeping cars on the service.
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ST. Louis
Missouri = Pacific Railroad
Texas
Texas Eagle
Better Eat Black-Eyed Peas Today for New Year Luck
A nostalgic note urges eating black-eyed peas on New Year’s Day as a lucky tradition. It cites researchers claiming fewer accidents for those who partake, often with hog jowl and can or bag of peas, urging readers to buy for 1969 celebrations.
Proxmire probes theft of millions in U S fuel in Thailand
Sen William Proxmire demands full release of Air Force investigation into fuel theft from U S military operations in Thailand and whether aircraft and ground equipment fuel reached Communist hands. He supports whistleblower John McGee, says Navy blocks raise and assigns him to a make work job in Washington suburbs. GAO confirms 3.4 million gallons stolen in 1967 through bribery forgery and collusion. McGee transferred to Navy Fuel Supply Office in Alexandria Virginia.
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Washington
William Proxmire
U.S
Thailand
Air Force
Wisconsin Democrat
Proxmire
Navy
Bangkok
John McGee
General Accounting Office
GAO
Associated Press
McGee
Alexandria
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Joe
Acc Mnatetung
Artist
Brunson
Honeycutt
Cies
New York
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Citizens, First National
Peoples State
Robert G
Bob” Feinberg
Neill Richardson
SN Bors
Peoples State Bank
Ionzo Gale
Harris County Savings Plans
Citizens National Bank & Trust Co
Oheat
Assembly of God Church
Shelton Road
First Street
Roy Monroe Corley
Roy
Channelview
R. N. Corley
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