Around Town News Highlights at Texas Tech Return
Jim Young returns to Texas Tech in Lubbock after the holidays with the Henry Youngs. A cold Jacksonville morning features the Tech Band and Blair Manns debate an early Christmas ham. Pvt Tony Bianchi visits family before Camp Pendleton training. Jan VanDeventer returns to Texas Woman's University to major in child development. Glen Whitcomb shines at the Little Theater. Janitor Eddie Durant starts a new job in the channel industry.
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Jim Young
Texas Tech
Lubbock
Henry Youngs
Jacksonville
Fla
Tech
Blair Manns
Bob Jones
Pee Agin
Tony Bianchi
Camp Pendleton
Califf
Kelly Dickens
al Bad
Jeff Yarram
George Jones
Fob
Wolfe
Jerry Hance
Emm Odom
Joyce Bissingame
Dal Grigs
Glen Whit
Refinery Blaze Burns Humble Baytown Operator
Arthur W. Schneider chief operator at Humble Oil Baytown Refinery suffered superficial burns about 9 30 am when a hydroformer unit fire broke out. He was treated at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital and released returning to work. Investigators probe cause and extent of damage as volunteer firemen contain blaze in about 30 minutes.
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Arthur W. Schneider
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown
Schneider
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Humble
Railroad union pushes wage hikes for 30000 workers
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen demanded wage and benefit gains from major railroads affecting about 30 000 workers across 190 railroads including locomotive helpers firemen and engineers. They seek a 223 percent basic wage increase cost of living clause night shift pay 15 cent per hour COLA and a 20 cent hourly differential for night work plus improved lodging meals and five day notices before changes.
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Cleveland
Brotherhood of Locomotive
H. E. Gilbert
Union
Blf&e
BLFEE
Hostlers
Gilbert
Armed robbery at Westmont National Bank Houston
An armed robber stole about $15,000 from Westmont National Bank in Houston. Police and FBI agents arrested a suspect and recovered the money within about an hour. President Johnson summoned top advisers for Viet Nam policy, foreign policy, economic conditions, and Bethlehem Steel price increase briefings.
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Westmont National Bank of Houston
FBI
Johnson
Viet Nam
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Snowstorms Slow Pacific Area Pace
A heavy, drifting snow closed schools and highways in portions of the Pacific Northwest while a Great Lakes storm moved toward New England. Idaho officials reported 18-inch depths with drifts up to four feet, trapping about 300 McCall college students. eight per room, many unable to attend classes. Oregon and California saw highway closures. Interstate 5 chains required. The Great Lakes system dumped several inches across northern Wisconsin and Minnesota, affecting NFL fans traveling to Green Bay.
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Associated Press
Pacific Northwest
Great Lakes
New England
Idaho
Moscow
McCall
Siskiyou
Yrekz
Weed
California
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Milwaukee
Chicago
Green Bay
Wis
Polise
Oshkosh
Neapolis-St. Paul
Boston
Albany
N.Y
Montana
Great Falls
Funeral Set Wednesday For Plane Crash Victim
Ernest Sheldon Wine 53 of Baytown and Kline 53 died in a small plane crash near Jonesboro Louisiana early Saturday. Funeral services for Wine will be 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at Cedar Bayou Methodist Church. Kline, president of Americans Gas and Oil Properties, had lived in Baytown six years and was flying from Monroe to Lufkin with a passenger when the Piper Comanche 250 disappeared. The crash and search were conducted by CAP and authorities. Flight took off Monroe at 12:35 a.m. and was due in Lufkin at 1:55 a.m. The wreckage was found by CAP personnel.
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Ernest ‘Sheldon Wine
Baytown
Jonesboro
Cedar
Bayou Methodist Church
The
Americans Gas and Oil Properties of
Kline
MT Ryulev
Lufkin
Monroe
Sting
Cie Air Patrol
Larkin
CAP
Shreveport
Kathleen Gauntlet
Associated Press
Federal Aviation Agency
R. V_ Dummond
Pupils Return To Classrooms In Baytown Area
About 14 660 students in Baytown and nearby colleges head back to classes as holidays end. Report cards due January 19 for public school students. Robert E Lee High School finals set January 11 through January 14. Lee College dead week starts January 10 with finals beginning January 17 and college term ending January 20.
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Baytown
Austin
Robert EL Lee
J Lee College
Paratroopers Press Mekong Delta Push Amid VC Escape
U S paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade fought mud and swamp in a New Year invasion of the Mekong Delta. Viet Cong forces slipped toward the Plain of Reeds as air strikes and tanks supported the probe. American and Vietnamese reports tallied dozens of enemy killed while spoils included rice stores and National Liberation Front flags.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
U.S
Mekong Dela
Red Sanctuary
173Rd Airborne Brigade
Bao Trai
National Liberation Front
Plain of Reeds
Mekong
Binh Duong Province
New York Transit Strike Grips City Traffic
A New Year transit walkout shuts buses and subways, delaying 7.4 million daily riders. Mayor Lindsay urges driving to a minimum as principals return to bargaining, TWU chief Michael J. Quill faces a show cause in state court. Emergency measures include extra transit, parking rules, and school closures.
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New York
Iap
Subway
Manhattan
John V. Lindsay
Transit Authority
Michael J. Quill
Transport Workers Union
APL- Cio
State Supreme Court
Lind
Salt River water drop fuels Phoenix gas line crisis
Phoenix faces a gas shortage as three of seven major lines washed out amid a sharp drop in the Salt River water flow leaving the city in a tense supply situation. Also, film producer Donald F. Taylor, Maurie McDonald's sixth husband, is found dead in the room where she died from an overdose, the year opening with rising U.S. traffic fatalities. Cuba watches Havans meeting as revolutionists gathering, while Britain’s Princess Anne, 15, misses school holidays in Switzerland due to flu, with Prince Charles aged 17 at Vaduz.
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Phoenix
Salt River
Donald F F. Taylor
Maurie McDonald
Heith
Princess Anne of
Britain
Switzerland
Prince Charles
Vaduz
Lichtestein
Highlands Woman Margrett Mitchell Dies in Texas Visit
Mrs. Margrett Mitchell 23 of Highlands died of an apparent heart attack while visiting relatives in Shepherd Texas. She lived in Highlands 15 years and is survived by husband R A Mitchell two daughters Renee and Rita sisters and two brothers. Services Tuesday at Earthman Highlands Chapel with missionary Baptist minister Sam Powell. Interment in San Jacinto. Born March 12 193? in Porter Texas she moved to Highlands with family at age eight and attended Deer Park schools.
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Margrett Mitchell
Highlands
Shepherd
Tex
Mitchell
van Road
R. A. Mitchell
Renee A. Mitchell
Rita A. Mitchell
Jake Troha
Doris Jones
Bryan
Walter C. Beshears
Charles E. Beshears
San Diego
Calif
Mn Am
Earthman Highlands Chapel
Sam Powell
Missionary
Baytown Man Charged In Death Of Houston Infant
Deer Park police charged John Thomas Long of 216 Greenbriar with negligent homicide after a Feb 4 wreck on State Highway 225 near La Porte killed nine month old Christopher Ray Sandras, son of Ray E Sandras Jr and spouse. The infant died at a hospital after the crash that left the mother uninjured. The case goes to Justice of the Peace court in La Porte for action. Funeral services are planned in Baytown with burial at San Jacinto Memorial Park.
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Baytown
Wasi
H. Lili Wrights
Christopherli Ray Sandras
Ray EL Sandras Jr
To5
Avenue F
Houston
Ray E. Sandras Sr
Channelview
Deer Park
John Thomasong
Greenbriar
le Porte Road
Deer Parx
Christopher Ray
Area
Long
Sandras
Tharses
Justice of the ‘Peace V. L
Bud) West
la Porte
Sandrases
Tyesay St
Earthman Chapel
San Jacinto Memorial Park
James Brannen
Old River Methodist
Baytown Little Theater to stage The Fantasticks
The Baytown Little Theater presents The Fantasticks on January 7 8 14 and 15 with curtain at 3 30 p m Reservations can be made by calling Mrs Glen Whitcomb at 556 7287 The box office will be closed for this special production
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Baytown
Peking Said Certain War Will Spread
Paris dispatch quotes French Ambassador Jean Chauvel after talks in Peking and neighboring Laos. He reports China believes the United States hides a peace curtain to extend the Vietnamese war and foresees American defeat. China distrusts Washington and doubts intent to withdraw military positions as the US confronts Beijing.
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Paris
United States
China
Jean Chauvel
Chauvel
Peking
Viet Nam
Cambodia
Laos
Figaro
Washington
Geneva
Diemi
South Viet Nam
Dien Bien Phu
Pering
Steel Price Hike Forces Defense to Shift Orders
Washington AP report says Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara ordered defense buyers to redirect future steel deliveries away from Bethlehem Steel and to firms not raising prices. Inland Steel Co announced a similar price increase. Government sources warn of possible federal purchase cuts if Bethlehem refuses to withdraw its hike.
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Washington
Robert 5. Midamara
Bethlehem Steel
McNamara
Defense
Arthur Sylvester
Inland Steel Co
Bethlehem
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