Baytown Community Notes and Events
Junior Forum meets at 3 30 a m Thursday at Citizens National Bank. Mrs Perry Britton shows travel slides. PTA Speakers Dr Charles Dewitt speaks at Alamo PTA Fathers Night at 730 pm Thursday on Encouraging Acceptance of Community Responsibilities. Executive committee meets 3 pm in cafeteria. Zone Meeting Women Societies Christian Service 3 am Wednesday at St Pauls Methodist. Opportunity School annual meeting 720 pm Thursday at Chamber of Commerce. United Fund contributors eligible. plan for a new building discussed. Sgt Jack Maxwell notes 1965 Baytown traffic had 1966 crashes. Statue stolen from Hill of Rest Cemetery between Dre 2 and Monday. Mrs O L Tesurn wins 10 in weekly Baytown Merchants promo. Gulf Coast Hospital Auxiliary meets 8 pm Monday at hospital clinic. Weather: clear to partly cloudy. mild, 49-70 degrees.
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PTA
Charles Dewitt
Alamo Parent Teacher Association
Opportunity School
Baytown
Chamber of Commerce
United Fund
Baytown worker burned in La Rose pipeline fire
Richard Morman of Baytown is hospitalized in New Orleans after burns covering more than 70 percent of his body from a major gas pipeline fire near La Rose Louisiana. Four others were critically burned and several escaped with minor injuries as flames shot 250 feet high during a four hour outage along a 36 inch pipeline by Texas Eastern Transmission Corp. One Baytown native, Dennis Bellar, and C R Lipstomb were killed.
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Richard Morman
Baytown
Oshner’s Hospital
New Orleans
la Rose
Morman
Texas Eastern
Baytonian
Dennis Bellar
DeQuincy
C R._ Lipstomb
Centerville
Miss
Bellar
Fred Bates
H. D. van Winkle
George Allen
Bobby Moulton
Beaumont
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp
Houston
Birthday party at Warwick Club celebrates Freamon Pruett
Leitha King provides information on a chamber of Commerce conclave while School Board notes highlight President Knox Beavers awarding Gold Star to Trustee Ben Shirey for arriving 10 minutes early. Local figures share travel, theater, photos, publicity shifts, and a photographer headed to the Carolinas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Freamon Pruett
Warwick Club
Leitha King
Chamber of Commerce
School Board
Knox Beavers
Ben Shirey
Boyd Hill
George Gentry
Houston
Monay
Ya Wiklund
Kathleen Richardson
Justi
Glenella Dieber
Loist
Walker
Norbert Judice
G. A. Tolleson
Ruby Fox
Edwinna Hughes
Lacy Walton
J. Doni Wright
James
Slick
Baytown Agents Host Insurance Meet For District 3
The Baytown Insurance Exchange, with 11 members, will host a one day regional meeting of the Texas Association of Independent Insurance Agents at the Holiday Inn on Thursday. Raymond Junemann of La Marque will preside. Featured speakers include C Beery Ned Price FE Chamness Carl Stevens and Claude Webster from various Texas agencies and associations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown Insurance Exchange
Texas Association of Independent Insurance Agent
Holiday Inn
Baytown Exchange
Patrick Ball
J. S. Moore
Bliss Gdena Childers
Raymond Junemann
la Marque
Gulf Coast
District 2
C. Beery
San Antonio
Texas Association of Independent Insurance Agents
Ned Price
Austin
FE. C. Chamness
State Board of Insurance
Carl G. Stevens
Claude L. Webster
Houston Schools Split POs to Avoid Bids
An independent auditor report says Houston school system split purchase orders to stay under the $1,900 limit, avoiding sealed bids. The board ordered the inquiry last fall and the audit covers Sept 1, 1964, to Aug 31, 1965, noting $137,810 in hardware supplies bought largely without bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Cheatham, Lafferty & Kendall
Sterling Adds Three Administrative Positions for New High
Sterling school board approved three new administrative posts as part of staffing the upcoming Sterling High School. Roy White librarian Mrs Eris Jones and Mrs Mandess Woods will assume duties early next year with White and Jones starting January 1 and Woods February 15 as registrar. The district expects the building to be 100 complete by fall 1966 with landscaping finishing in February and $2 273 million paid to the contractor representing 11 of the contract price. J W Gammel and Brenda Greer resigned. Gammel will teach at Lee College.
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New Sterling High School
Roy White
Eris Jones
Sterling
Jan
I. Is
Mandess Woods
James W. Gammel
REL
Brenda Greer
de Zavala
Gammel
Lee College
Supt
Gentry
Nanda Pledges To Carry On Programs Of Shastri
New Delhi India AP mourners packed the streets as Jawaharlal Nehru's successor Gulzarilal Nanda promised to carry through Shastris peace work after the Indian prime minister died of a heart attack in Tashkent. The funeral drew leaders from around the world and reflected on the limited peace pact with Pakistan. Shastri died after a major effort for peace and the body was returned by Soviet plane to India. Ayub Khan and Kosygin attended the ceremonies before Ayub returned to Rawalpindi.
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New Delhi
India
Jumna
Shastri
Min
Snister la Bahadur Shastri
Jawaharlal Nehru
Kadidia
Gul— Ee Zarilal Nanda
Pakistan
Tashkent
Mohammed Ayub Khan
Nanda
Shasti
Hindu Kush
Ayub Khan
Alexei N. Kosygin
Mosygin
Ayub
Rawalpindi
Flood Toll in Brazil Reaches 36 Dead
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, AP report says 36 people died and many more feared after a rainstorm caused the collapse of 58 buildings, mostly in low income areas. The Maracana River overflowed, flooding dozens of homes as water reached six to seven feet in some low sections. Rescue work continued into the early morning with more rain expected.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Maracana
U.S. Diplomats Move to Direct Talks With Hanoi
U S diplomats engaged in direct contact with Hanoi as part of broader Viet Nam peace efforts. Bill Moyers disclosed the communications while CIA chief briefing a subcommittee. Rusk was to brief the House Foreign Affairs Committee on the situation.
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Washington
U.S
Gressional
CLA
William
Lal Bahadur Shastri
Bill D. Moyers
Hanoi
Central Intelligence
CIA
Johnson
Viet Nam
Dean Rusk Tad
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Nam
Tauene i
United States
Moyers
White House
Yale
Staughton Lynd
U.S. Ambasse
W. Averell Harriman
Saigon
Harriman
Senate
Mike Mansfield
Five Members Trustees Named to Tax Equalization Board
The school board appointed a five member tax equalization board amid abstentions by Trustees Karl Opryshek and Boyd Hill. Names: Nu rgent Chamberlain E. A. Milton Jo. L. Clevenger Gerald Hansen Wilton A. Roper. Roper is a real estate agent and Clevenger Chamberlain work for Humble Oil Refining Co. Milton is retired from Humble.
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Karl Opryshek
Boyd Hill
Nurgent Chamberlain
E. A. Milton
Jo. L. Clevenger
Gerald Hansen
Wilton A. Roper
Roper
Hansen
United Carbon Co
Clevenger
Chamberlain
Humble Oil Refining Co
Milton
Humble
Opryshek
Sam Alford
George Bennett
Kara O. L. Clevenger
Humbles Baytown
Equalization Board
Alford
Knox Beavers
Fee
One OW Corp
Three teens injured in eight-vehicle crash near Houston
Jo Lynn Treybig remains in critical condition after the Interstate 10 crash that killed her sister Jo Leslie Treybig. Mary Louise Anderson and Thomas Craig Elderly are also injured. Anderson has a concussion and is out of danger, Elderly is recovering from nose surgery. Both are Robert E. Lee High School students. families are listed with parents.
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St. Joseph's Hospital
Houston
J Jo Lynn
Interstate 10
Jo Leslie Treybig
Jo Leslie
Earthman Chapel
Jo Lynn
St. Joseph's
Mary Louise Anderson
Thomas Craig
Miss Anderson
Elderly
Rock Glen Hospital
Lynn Treybig
Laster Treybig
Ass Anderson
R_ E v Anderson
C. C. Elderly
Robert E. Lee High School
Stakes Brown Promoted By First National Bank
First National Bank directors approved two promotions at a Monday session after the annual stockholders meeting. Robert A. Stakes, a vice president since August 1965, was elected to the board, and Lloyd Brown, promoted from officer trainee since July 1964, became assistant cashier. Officers were reelected. Brown remains as assistant cashier.
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First National Bank
Robert A. Stakes
Lloyd Brown
First National Directors
Bill G. McDavid
Alan B. Shepard
Teani
L. Lee Brasfield
S. T. Weaver
O. W. Dube
B. E
Police Tests Open Jan. 18 for Baytown Officers
Baytown seeks more applicants for the January 18 civil service exam for three police positions. Chief Rish Mann says more candidates are needed, with a filing deadline 3 p.m. January 17. Starting pay for a rookie patrolman is 475 dollars, test at Sterling Municipal Library, age 21 to 35, height 5 feet 8 inches, weight 145 pounds, and education equal to two years of high school.
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Civil Service
Baytown
Rish Mann
Civil Service Commission
Robert P. Beman
Sterling Municipal Library
Death in Hattiesburg Spurred by Fire Bombing
Federal state and local officials in Hattiesburg Mississippi investigate the death of Vernon Dahmer a prominent Negro civil rights leader burned when his store was set afire by a fire bomb amid civil rights era tensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hattiesburg, Miss
Vernon Dahmer
Burns
Nearly 39 Years On The Job Verbeck Inspects Retiring Customs
Baytown customs inspector Verbeck Jr after nearly 39 years in government service retires at age 60 taking early retirement aided by enhanced benefits. He manned a one man station since 1956 and aided by long service and varied duties including trafficking marijuana case and handling inquiries on duties and registrations.
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Verbeck
Bobby Sutphiy
Verbeck Jr
Baytown
U.S
Ement
Sun's Publisher To Talk At Area Chamber Banquet
Fred Hartman publisher of The Baytown Suns and past Baytown Chamber president will keynote a banquet for more than 200 chamber officers from 17 Gulf Coast area communities at the Crest Hotel near the Manned Space Center. The event, part of a one day leadership conference, aims to foster community development ideas.
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Sun
Fred Hartman
Baytown Suns
Baystown Chamber of Commerce
Chamber of Commerce
Crest Hotel
Manner Spacecraft Center
Hartman
Gulf Coast
Fire damages downstairs Baytown apartment
The downstairs apartment of Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Spell on Gaillard Street suffered heavy fire and smoke damage Monday night. Baytown Fire Department responded at 7 49 p.m. neighbor reports smoke, Fire Chief Art Cintle says the Spells were not home. Bed and mattress, one wall, and a chair burned, no other units damaged. Cause undetermined.
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C. J. Spell
UN 5
Gaillard
Baytown
Art Cintleman
Noother
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Bors
Junior Forum
Citizens National Bank
Perry Britton
WOME
Societies of
Chrisan
St. Paul's Methodist Church
Jack Maxwell
Santiago Alvarez
Hill of Rest
Gulf Coast Hospital
Citizens National
Insurance
Trustees
Name Tax Equalization Board
Q Opryshek
Alfoni
Hill
Truman D. Cox
James W. Girardeau
R. R. Zierlein
Andrew J. Lannie
Cox
Shirey
Hil
Jo Lynn Treybig
Brown
Harris County Federal Savings and Loan Asam
Beman
I Slation
Civil Serviice Commission
W. Defee
Dove Wilson
Dallas
Billy Mitchell
Joe
C.O.D
Sukarno
Indonesia
Texas
Panhandle
Jean Wightman
Springville
Utah
Greece
Thad Felton
Chamber of Commerce Managers Association
Baytowr
Bartown Chamber
Dave Moore
Bill Strickler
Bruce Ramsey
Ed Vaught
Homer Wilson
Jack Strickler
Jack Kimmons
Marvin Hariey
Houston Chamber
Voluntrary
Baytown Mat
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