Meeting Rescheduled and Local Appointments Noted
The SaeERA Study Club meeting was moved to 10 am January 19 with location to be announced. Fred Wabel Jr. transferred from the Corpus Christi PPG plant to Lake Charles as transportation assistant. Baytown club reservations due by Friday for a 7:50 pm Tuesday meeting featuring Andrew Kettles. Andy Braswell to attend Houston Galveston Area Council meeting in Houston. Jim Willard Tapp Jr. earns UT electrical engineering BS. convocation and reception for about 120 candidates set for January 15.
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Saeera Study Club
Boytonian
Baytonian
Fred Waebi Jr
Corpus Christi
PPG
Lake Charles
Fred Webel
2300
Business and Professional Women's Club
Andrew Kettles
Houston
Texas
Jim Willard Tapp Jr
Felton
University of Texas
Gene Muller To Discuss Levee At DC Luncheon
Gene Muller a Texas A&M University candidate and Baytown chamber flood control leader heads a mid campaign talk on a proposed levee along the western edge of Baytown. Don VanSickle of Turner Colie and Braden Houston engineers will outline the project feasibility study completed recently.
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A&m
Mike L. Herrington
Barkaloo
Eddie T. Gray
Inwood
Bryan L. McDowell
Gene Muller
Texas A&m University
Baytown
Herrington
Gray's, Finance and
McDowell's
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Holiday Inn
Muller
Don VanSickle
Turner, Collie and Braden
Houston
VanSickle
V. V. Ramsey
Keith iOzmore
U.S
Bob Eckhardt
Bay area weather and tides forecast
Cloudy to partly cloudy with scattered showers and a turn to cooler conditions Friday. Temperatures Thursday projected in the low 40s to low 50s. Galveston tides Friday expected high at 4:30 pm and low at an early hour.
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Bay Tent Area
Galveston
Tempo second edition features Houston stories and more
Look What You'll Get In Tempo reports Johnny Carson in Houston and a feature on The Black Market in Abortion. Pomp Meadows General Store offers coffins keys and conversation. Two winter recipes appear in A Souper Satisfier. Hooked on Bass covers Sam Rayburn reservoir action.
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The
Houston Story
Pomp Meadows
Sam Rayburn
Paul Gipson
Mississippi
Baytown Sun
Baytown Community Notes Intersections at Rotary Luncheon
Frank Read notes a 1920s refinery ex employee attends Rotary luncheon on Wednesday. Norman D Oliv e hosts an unexpected guest for lunch. Mrs C Stoner explores new ideas on Hower arranging. Mrs T A Young resists credit for new style designs as she tests a Japanese teacher's concepts. Flos sie Bone enjoys her Baytown Little Theater gum chewing blonde role. Idella Gannon, formerly of Baytown, ill in Port Lavaca Hospital needing Baytown friends. Sidney Palmer from Columbia visits his parents and recovers from surgery in Houston. Holding opera seats in Houston for Manson Les caut with Thad Johnson and Frank Smiths party. Mrs E R Donnelly seen on a blustery morning.
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Frank
Rotary
Norman D'Olive
Buddy Bray
C. Stoner
Hower
T. A. Young
Flossie Bone
Baytown
Idella Gannon
Thad Johnson
Frank Smith
Erma Carlson
Ruth Cates
Dorothy Johnson
Billy Quartz
Kathryn Sanderson
Ella Armstrong
San Antonio
E. R Donnelly
Baytown To Send 34 To Gulf Coast Chamber Meet In Houston
Baytown will send 34 representatives to the Gulf Coast Chambers of Commerce annual conference of officers and directors held Thursday afternoon at the Continental Motor Hotel in Houston. Dave Moore of the Baytown Chamber is program chairman and will join Baytown leaders W. Bruce Ramsey Ed Vaught Joe Barsalou and others among the attendees.
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Baytown
Gulf Coast Chambers of Commerce
Continental Motor Hotel
Houston
Dave Moore
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
School Pacts To Talk $1 Million Construction Awards
Johnella Boynton reports the school board will meet at 5 p.m. Thursday to award contracts totaling $1,038,679.12 for eight projects at Bowie Lamar Horace Mann Anson Jones Ashbel Smith San Jacinto and Alamo Elementary and Sam Houston School. BHM Construction Baytown, Wood-Leppard Houston and Young Mechanical Baytown are recommended with base bids winning and additional alternates for roofing sheet metal and educational TV outlets.
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Johnella Boynton
James A. Davis
Davis
BHM Construction Co
Baytown
Bowie
BHM
Lamar
Horace Mann
Anson -Jones
Ashbel Smith
San Jacinto
Alamo
USMC Plane Found No Life Signs
A sheriff’s party in Battle Mountain Nevada found the Marine four engine transport missing since 1:50 p.m. Wednesday during a blizzard. No life signs were detected. The plane, carrying 13 to 18 men, had reportedly disappeared after leaving Buckley Air Field Denver for Seattle. The crash occurred about 20 miles south of Battle Mountain, with radio reports of losing altitude from 16,000 feet. A farmer heard a loud crash around 2–3 p.m. but could not see due to heavy snow.
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Battle Mountain
Nev
George Schwin
Lander County
Nevada
Buckley Air Field
Denver
Colo
Seattle
Washington
Pentagon
Schwin
Buureau of Land Management Office
Federal Aviation Agency
Salt Lake City
Robert Hodges
State Rep Joe Allen of Baytown Seeks Reelection
Baytown lawmaker Joe Allen announced on Thursday that he will seek reelection to the Texas House in the Democratic Primary on May 4, 1968. Allen, 27, would file for District 23, the seat he held in his first term, after winning 69.4 percent in the 1966 Democratic Primary.
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Joe Allen
Baytown
Texas House of Representatives
Allen
Legislatire
Alen
Texas
House
Harris County
Citizens National Bank and Trust Co
Alien
Commerce
Crippled Children's Ball tickets go to Baytown leaders
The Fifth Annual Crippled Children's Ball in Baytown features Mayor Seaborn Cravey receiving the first ticket. Ticket chairmen Robert Donnelly and Vernon Hill present. Sponsoring groups are the Elks Lodge and Knights of Columbus to fund Baytown Cerebral Palsy Center. Donation is $5 per couple. music by Frank Tilton Orchestra. Event at 3 p.m. January 27 at the Baytown KC O Hall.
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Seaborn Cravey
Robert E. Donnelly
San Jacinto Council
Knights of Columbus
Vernon H. Hill
Elke Lodge
Elks Lodge
Baytown
Frank Tilton
KCO Hall
Illness Blamed For School Absenteeism Rise in Baytown
Cold weather and illnesses including influenza and URIs hit Baytown schools this week with absentee rates around 15 to 20 percent. Baytown Junior School showed about 25 percent absence with five teachers out. Robert E Lee High School reported 45 percent absent while Harlem Elementary noted improvement after a surge.
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Baytown
4Ix
Houston
Highlands Junior School
Robert E. Lee High School
Ross Sterling
Harlem Elementary School
Baytown Gun Suspect Collette Held Over Bonds
Wayne Kay Collette a 94 year old construction worker was arrested after a shooting spree and remained in Baytown City Jail Thursday awaiting possible transfer to Harris County Jail and posting bonds. Justice of the Peace M M Brown set Collette's bonds at 2500 for assault with intent to commit murder and 8000 for carrying a prohibited weapon. The charges relate to three shots at Patrolman Mike Jordan and a tavern shooting spree during which Collette held a Baytown woman hostage for 450 minutes before surrendering.
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Wayne Kay Cullete
Baytown
Harris County
Justice of the Peace
M. M. Brown
Collette
Mike Jordan
Baytown Council Explores Broad Insurance Plan Change
Baytown City Council delays final insurance shift as an association of Baytown agents would coordinate coverage for city property. Current premiums run about 16000 dollars yearly. nine agents protested last year. The insurance committee meets again to decide on membership rules and how commissions will be shared.
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Henry Holcomb
Baytown
Pat Ball
Bank Meeting Set for January Stockholders Session
CLEAR CREEK Bank will hold its 1S annual stockholders meeting at 4 p.m. on January 18. The event, announced by bank officials, invites shareholders to attend and review year end results and future plans.
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Clear Creek Bank
Baytown Considers City Sales Tax Levy Vote
Baytown City Council to discuss a potential one percent sales tax election after previously informal talks. Texas has allowed such levies with voter approval. 158 of 180 cities have adopted, 22 rejected. If adopted, funds target property tax relief and earmarked uses vary by city. The meeting also covers traffic study downtown, entrance marker permit, plumbing code amendment, Roseland Park policy additions, Community Center fee updates, fire department budget changes to hire two more firefighters, ordinance codification corrections, and Goose Creek Masonic Lodge storm sewer work.
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Baytown
Texas
Fritz Lanham
New City Hall
Country Club Oaks Civic Association
Parks and Recreation Board
Roseland Park
Fire Department
Goose Creek
Pont Named College Coach of the Year for 1967
AP bulletin reports John Pont of Indiana earned the 1967 College Coach of the Year award for guiding his team to cochampions in the Big Ten and a Rose Bowl berth. Cecil Scrappy Moore of Chattanooga was named small college Coach of the Year.
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New York
John Pont
Indiana
Cecil “Scrappy” Moore
Chattanooga
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