Community notes and holiday greetings mixed with local notices
Baytown Kiwanis members recover from surgery at San Jacinto Hospital as 60 year old W A Stephens remains in room 526 awaiting visitors. Holidays include photos from the Ross Tecters and comments on gas prices. Lee College spring registration runs January 9 and 10 with credit deadline January 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. A. Stephens
E.baytown Kiwanis Club
Bunnicutt
San Jacinto
Lees College
Baytown Couple Welcomes First Grandchild Stacey Dale
John and Mrs. Holland celebrate as their son Richard Holland and his wife welcome Stacey Dale Holland in Little Rock Arkansas at 10 53 a m weighing seven pounds five ounces The infant’s father serves at Little Rock Air Force Base Grandparents Don Stacey of Baytown also plan to visit Little Rock to meet the baby amid gas shortages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles
Norma Jean
Teykin Town
Plainview
Ross Tecters
Grant Woods
Joe Phelps
Dec Satterwhite
Bill
Susan Mix
Wilson B. Swan
Baytown
Seattle
Susan
Jason
Baytown Sun
John Holland
Holland
Little Rock
Ark
Richard
Rick) Holland
Stacey Dale
Little Rock Air Force Base
Don Stacey
Percy Foreman Jailed On DWI Charge In Houston
Prominent Houston attorney Percy Foreman, 71, was jailed briefly after being charged with driving while intoxicated and operating without a license following a highway crash. He posted bonds totaling 427.50 and denied intoxication, claiming he refused tests per policy with clients.
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Houston, Tex
Percy Foreman
Houston
Foreman
Forema
Weather Forecast for Baytown Area Includes Light Freeze
Partly cloudy and continued cold with a light freeze expected Tuesday night. Low around 20, high Wednesday near 60. Morgans Point tides show high periods at 7:34 a.m. and 11:02 p.m. with weak tide noted at 9:6 a.m. and 10:18 p.m.
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Baytown Area
Morgans Point
Turin Jet Crash In Fog Kills 39 Of 12 Aboard
A Fokker 28 operated by Itavia crashed in rain and fog while approaching Turin airport. Police report 39 of 12 aboard died, three survived in serious condition. Two survivors are a mother and son from Sardinia, plus a crew member. Most passengers were Italian workers returning to Turin factories after Christmas.
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Turin
Italy
Itavia
Bologna
Catania
Geneva
Switzerland
Sardinia
City Awaits 1st New Year's Baby in Baytown 1974
Baytown hospitals await the first baby of 1974 with gifts from local merchants on the line. Melanie Christensen, born at Baytown Medical Center after midnight, becomes a contender as the first newborn of the year. her family resides on Ward Road.
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Baytown
Gulf Coast
Baytown Medical Center
Viola Hayes
Melanie Christensen
Melanie
Wiliam Christensen
Wards Road
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Baytown Sun
Turin
Caselle
Itavia Air l
Israeli Election Results Tie To Soldiers Vote Fate Of Meir Party
Returns from Israeli soldiers on Syria and Suez fronts could swing the balance as Labor allies seek a new coalition after an election marked by gains for right wing Likud. With one third of precincts counted Labor led 41.9 percent to Likud 27.1, chairing gloom at Labor HQ as Geneva policy and frontier concessions loom large.
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Mrs. Meir
Socialist Laborites
Knesset
Likud
Labor
Geneva
Meir
Israel
Menahem T Begin
Baytown Braces for Bitter Cold Wind Across Tuesday
The National Weather Service in Houston warns Baytown of dropping temperatures near 30 degrees early Wednesday after a Tuesday low of 28. Northerly winds 10-20 mph persist, easing to 6-16 mph at night. Highs not exceeding the mid 40s both days.
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Baytown
National Weather Service
Houston
Weather Service
Quotable quotes from Baytown Sun stories 1973
The Baytown Sun in 1973 featured quotable lines from readers and officials. Notable remarks include Dr. Raymond E. Cleveland on leaving Lee College with a large settlement, Mrs. Bobby Michalsky criticizing toll calls, and New York psychiatrist Murray Banks speaking at Lee College Lyjeeum. Other quotes cover local officials and sports figures reacting to city issues and team performance.
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Baytown Sun
R. E. Cleveland
Raymond E. Cleveland
Lee College
Texas A&m University
Bobby Michalsky
Crosby
Huffman Zone
New York
Murray Banks
Lee College Ly Jeeum
Corral
Dub
Bitter cold grips middle of nation after heavy snow
Bitter arctic air plummeted temperatures across the central plains to below zero as far south as Kansas and Missouri after a major snow storm that dumped over a foot of snow from the central Plains to the Eastern states. Many motorists sheltered indoors amid hazardous roads and gas shortages as salt failed to melt ice. Snow lingered in the western Rockies and across the Ohio and Great Lakes regions with record lows for January 1 noted nationwide.
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Texas
Kansas
Missouri
Central Plains
Rockies
mid-Mississippi Valley
Ohio Valley
Great Lakes
New England
New Year’s Weekend Traffic Toll Rises Across States
The report details rising highway fatalities as New Year’s traffic watches enter a second day. Texas records another deadly day, while nationwide totals approach 295 deaths amid ongoing travel crush. In New York City Abraham D Beame is inaugurated as the 1Mth mayor.
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New York
Abraham D. Beame
City Hall
Year End Weather Roundup Captures 1973 Baytown Sky
Baytown weather and world events dominated 1973 as the Sun chronicled three snowfalls, 80 inches of rain, and Tropical Storm Delia, alongside national shocks from Watergate to Nixon’s inauguration. The year also saw Gov Dolph Briscoe in town for a 25th anniversary, and the Ramsey bribery trial under way in Houston.
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Johnella Boynton
Baytown
Spiro Agnew
Delia
Brownwood Peninsula
Mother Nature
Baytown Sun
Sun
Alendar
Vietnam
Yadon B. Johnson
Nixon
Texas
Dolph Briscoe
W. V. Ramsey
Houston
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Dream Review OF
Gene Coker
Elmwood
Cokers
Blackie
Peoples State Bank
F.D.J.C
Citizens National Bank F.C
Percy
Baytown State Bark
Meir Party
Labor Party
Theront
Daytown
Sharp
Bob Stipe
Sorth Road
Ward Road
North Main
Gander
Ron Kramer
St. Thomas
iGanders
Sterling
al Dennis
Galena Park
American Association of Retired Persons
H. M. McKay
Gladys Casty
Lawrence Weiler
Jefferson Walker
Mable Padgett
Associated Press
Chicago
Tokyo
Austin
Delta
Ron Ae
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