U S Steel Opens Preparations For Plate Mill Startup
U S Steel Texas Works begins preliminary steps toward production this year at a 160 inch plate mill. Harry Spitz says 50 supervisors and about 75 workers on site with hiring underway. Milling start up in 1 2 months, nine more months for caster and furnaces. Open house planned next summer. directors to tour in May.
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Johnella Boynton
Texas Works
Harry Spitz
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Spitz
U.S
Texas
Plate
Birmingham
Cedar Bayou
U. S. Steel
Houston
Pittsbug
Harry S. Spitz
Gordon M. Laird
Young Homemakers Meet and Film Show Monday
The Young Homemakers will meet at 7 30 p m Monday at the Robert E Lee homemaking college for a poise and fashion program Lee College will present The Lord of the Flies film based on William Golding at 7 p m Monday in Rundell Hall auditorium the event is open to the public with no admission charge.
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Robert E. Lee Homemaking College
Lee College
William Golding
Rundell Hall
Round Table Roundup Mixes Instructors Visitors And Local Events
Delton Gooding and Kathryn Wood host Lamar Tech visitors Joe Juarez and Jerry Moseley to inspect LC reading labs in preparation for a similar setup at Lamar. LC academic dean Dr. Kim Mc Williams provides hearing details. Betty Koepke greets guests in the information office as Alley Theater in Beaumont features Everything in the Garden. Baytown La Porte tunnel congestion worsens during shift changes. Lamar Kelley seeks information. Ray Helpert leads a Sterling Movie publicity drive for The Great Race screening at 7 38 p.m. Saturday with tickets at $1. Sgt Ernest C. Chastain, son of Valene Burns and E J. Chastain, serves near Qui Nhon Vietnam as a senior medical specialist. Chili sale by Crosby Sacred Heart set for Jan 18 from 1 3 to 2 30 p.m. at the parish hall. bowls 75 cents adults 50 cents children. Michael Lusk reports a portable radio stolen from his car at Sterling High School for $40. SMARTEENS plans a meet Sunday 2 to 3 30 p.m. at St Mark’s Methodist Church. Airman Raymond F Havens, son of Mrs Marge J Melton, completed basic at Lackland and is assigned to Chanute AFB for vehicle maintenance training.
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Delton Gooding
Kathryn Wood
Lee College
Lamar Tech
Joe Juarez
Jerry Moseley
Beaumont
Lamar
Kim McWilliams
Betty Koepke
E. V. Lockhart
C. L. Rhodes
Alley Theater
Betty Hollingshead
Lester Alford
Baytown-La Porte Tunnel
Lamar Kelley
Ray Helpert
Raymond F. Havens
Marge J. Melton
la Porte
Lackland Afb
Chanute Afb
Ford plant to close in Dallas after 45 years
The Dallas Ford car and truck assembly plant will shut on February 27 due to the high cost of modernization. Ford spokesmen cited the factory’s 45 year history and rising modernization costs as the primary reasons for the decision reached early this year.
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Dallas
Tex
Ford
Lutherans To Name Bombhoff Successor
The St. Pauls Lutheran Church congregation will meet at 7 30 p m Monday to discuss procedures for calling a successor to Rev Harald C Bomhoff who is retiring The Rev Ramhoff has served since May 1957 and announced retirement for March The Bomhoff family will pursue visits with children and grandchildren scattered in England Alaska and Missouri The Rev Bomhoff also serves Bayshore Mental Health and Retardation Center as an advisory board leader and has earned a Community Service Award
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Harald C. Bomboff
Edmund &. Heye
American Lutheran Church
Ramhoff
Samhoff
Somhoff
Elizabeth
St. Paul's
West Main Street
Schilling Street
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Bomhoff
Burton
Anchorage
Alaska
Daniel
Carolyn
Baytonian
Lestie
St. Louis
Bomhoffs
Baytown
Bayshore Mental Health and Retardation Center
Baytown Restricts Cough Syrup Sale With Ordinance
Baytown city council passed an ordinance banning sales of cough syrup containing narcotics. Council members Ted Kloesel opposed adoption, while Leonard Stasney urged regulation. Police Chief John B. Wilkinson cited nearby cities tightening controls to curb drug abuse.
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Baytown
Houston
Pasadena
Ted Kloesel
Kloesel
Leonard Stasney
John B. Wilkinson
Jeter
Baytown Man Awarded Bronze Star in Vietnam Service
Kenneth L. Hill, son of Lorene P. Harp of Baytown, received the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service during operations in Vietnam. He led the line delivery section at Cam Ranh Bay and was honored at Andrews AFB where he serves as jet engine superintendent. Hill, a 1954 Kenedy High School graduate, is married to Linda Westmoreland of Grapevine.
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Camp Springs
U.S. Air Force
Set
Kenneth L. Hill
Headquarters Command
Kenedy (Tex.) High School
Linda
Howard C. Westmoreland
Grapevine
County adopts get tough policy to curb pollution
Harris County Commissioners Court voted unanimously to oppose new variances for industries and to block extending existing ones. The move echoes Houston City Council action as part of a wider effort to fight pollution in 1970. Commissioner Ramsey led the motion, with resolutions drafted by State Rep. Braun, following last session's environmental bills.
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Texas Air Control Board
Harris County
Wiate All
Occidental Chemical Corp
Galea Park
Houston
W. ¥. Ramsey
Rep
Braun
Texas
Strahan To Speak At Scout Dinner
Dr. Richard D B Strahan president of Lee College will speak at the Hast Harris Scout Leaders Appreciation Dinner at 6 30 p m Tuesday at the Baytown Community Building The talk titled No One Lives To Himself argues each person influences others, with examples from Moses Caesar Churchill and Roosevelt and an illustration of Missouri River rivulets forming a large body of water.
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Richard DB. Strahan
Lee College
Baytown
Strahan
Moses
Ceasar
Churchill
Roosevelt
Weather and Tides for Baytown Weekend Forecast
Cloudy conditions with gradually rising temperatures and a chance of intermittent showers. Weekend temperatures expected from the mid 30s to the low 50s with Morgan's Point tides showing Sunday highs at 6 13 a m and 4 01 p m and lows at 6 31 a m and 7 07 p m Monday highs at 6 37 a m and 5 43 p m with lows at 7 19 a m and 6 07 p m.
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Baytown
Morgan's Point
Memories of World War II from a Queen Elizabeth voyage
Blair Mann preserves wartime clippings from The Elizabethan News aboard the Queen Elizabeth in 1942. The papers recall Marshal Rommel’s new offensive, Stalingrad battles, Japs in the Solomons, and other era headlines, plus a 1889 London Herald edition and notes on rationing and a 1829 shooting accident in Brussels.
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Wanda Orton
Blair Mann
Atlantic
Baytown
Marshall Rommel
Stalingrad
Solomons
Blair
London
New York Herald
Brussels
Mont Belvieu Woman Becomes U S Citizen
Ursula Lowery 27 of Mont Belvieu, wife of Herman Lowery and mother of three, joined the first class of 1970 as a new American citizen. She praised the country, spoke of starting a new life, and urged others to accept the national challenge with appreciation and responsibility. Her friends Leo and Mrs. Morris helped her study for citizenship.
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Mont Belvieu
Ursula Lowery
Chambers County
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