Beaumont Man Loses 1970 Chevrolet Pickup and Camper
A Beaumont man reported his 1970 Chevrolet pickup and camper stolen from the driveway at 6922 Bayway Drive between 10 and 11 p.m. Saturday. The total value, including contents such as five rods and reels, a Coleman stove, heater, a blue revolver, and a cat, was $5,884.97. Doors were locked and keys not in the truck.
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Beaumont
Bayway Drive
L. D
James Blythe
W. Adone
Auto Service
N. Main
Robert F. Arnold
Crosby
Cedar Bayou Road
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Decker
Martha Hockenjos
Horace Mann
Leon Allen
Maryland
Charles Berniard
Alabama
Huberto Rodriguez
Coburn
Morrell
Jesse Daigie
Julie Barnes
Beaumont Street
Man Wounded Here Is Dead At Corral Club
Brent Sheppard of Houston died at 2 p.m. Saturday at Ben Taub Hospital from a gunshot wound to the temple after an early morning burglary attempt at the Corral Club on Decker Drive. The owner Ennis Roy shot the intruder and no charges have been filed. the case will be referred to the grand jury.
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Brent Sheppard
Houston
Ben Taub
Corral Club
Decker Drive
Harris County Sheriff’s
Sheppard
Ennis Roy
Roy
Baytown and area school lunch offerings listed
Tuesday menus describe Baytown breakfast with fruit juice cereal toast and milk and lunch options including enchiladas or meat patties with rice beans and corn bread plus salads. Barbers Hill serves Italian spaghetti with garlic bread and jello. Channelview Elementary offers beef stew and cobbler. High School features BBQ hot dogs or baked meat loaf with potatoes and peas.
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Baytown
Barbers Hill
Channelview
Board to Address Accounts, Transitions and Funding Change
The board will review offices operations and approval of accounts payable and consider a method of resolving a problem related to loss of state funds from changes in state statutes governing transfers. Resignations and election of new staff members will also be addressed.
Noon Call Quotes and League of Women Voters Voter Registration
A list of noon call quotes from various companies and stocks is followed by a note that League of Women Voters members who will register voters will be sworn in at 16 a.m. Friday at the Community Building with Leon Moody of the Harris County Tax Assessor's office in charge and babysitting in the Bluebonnet Room.
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League OF Women Voters
Leon Moody
Harris County Tax Assessor’s Office
Bluebonnet Room
Burned-Out Patterson Family Seeks Help After Fire
Fire destroyed most of the Patterson home at 1907 Kentucky in Baytown leaving the family with only the clothes on their backs. Firefighters from Stations 2 and 3 battled the blaze starting in the living room which spread via plastic curtains. Johns Donnelly and Jack Pennington organized a clothing and household goods drive with First Baptist Church as the collection point at 2728 Kentucky. The couple, newly arrived in Baytown and uninsured, have two sons ages 14 and 3. Help may be directed to the church office at 427-1741.
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Michael Patterson
Kentucky
Jack Penning
Patterson
Armed Service
U.S. Steel Texas Works
Pennington
Station 3
Baytown
Pattersons
First Baptist Church
Channelview Water District to Name Officers Tuesday
Harris County Water Control and Improvement District 21 holds its board election Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Channelview Volunteer Fire Department Station No. 2 Ridlon Street. Incumbents John Lee and Edward Smith seek re election. S A Spates and write in Robert Jenkins also in the race. The two top vote getters win. Presiding judge Alice Donaho assists with clerks Mrs. John Martin and Mrs. Jack Hays.
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Channelview
Harris County Water Control and Improvement District 21
Board of Directors
Channelview Volunteer Fire Department
Ridlon Street
John Sidney Lee
Ward Smith
Lee
Avenue D
Smith
Avenue C
S. A. (Tex
Pelly Fire House In Bad Shape Breathes New Move Plan
Baytown Ambulance Service owner Jess Navarre told the City Council the old Pelly fire station at B06 W Nazro is deteriorating and cannot be heated or cooled. He proposed moving the service to a new location and decreasing his rent by 200 per month while the city covers utilities. The contract since 1967 let the service operate rent free in the building, which Navarre says is falling apart and unsuitable for continued use.
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Pelly
W. Nazro
Baytown
Jess Navarre
Navarre
Coun
Cil
Highlands Water Unit Check Errors Cited
Highlands officials deny impropriety over district checks with only one signature. The letter circulating claims clerical error led to payments to election officials without proper counter signatures. Harvill and Lindsay defend transparency and public records, noting monthly checks and audits.
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Highlands Water Unit
Highlands
Eddie Harvill
Jack Lindsay
Harris
County Water Control and Improvement District No
M. W. Hargrove
Lindsay
Harvill
Marvin Gillespie
Highlands State Bank
J. A. Gentry
C. E. Bird
Clara Little
Hargrove
Oliver Harman
Water Board
WWI Veterans to Meet at Baytown Community Building
BAYTOWN. Veterans of World War I and Auxiliary No 3481 will meet at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the Community Building. All veterans are urged to attend. Refreshments will be served. Kiwanis Topic The program at the Kiwanis Club luncheon Thursday at the Ramada Tower will be a film We Come In Peace presented by Gulf Oil Corp.
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Baytown
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Ramada Tower
Gulf Oil Corp
Police Records Open to Press but Not Public
Policy and quotes from Connerton Voelkel and Evans discuss who may access police records in Houston. They note that while the press can view records, the public may face restrictions, with mentions of jail logs and distinctions between police files and city records. City Attorney Laughlin cites charter rules and exemptions for real estate and condemnation records.
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Connerton
Voelkel
David Evans
Houston
Bill Laughlin
Laughlin
Air Force Sgt. Armando Serrano Arrives at Thule Base Greenland
U S Air Force Sgt Armando Serrano son of Mr and Mrs Cornelio Serrano of 1300 Pershing arrives for duty at Thule Air Base Greenland. A medical services specialist he is assigned to the 4th Dispensary at Thule. The sergeant is a 1966 graduate of Robert E Lee High School. Bacteria can degrade crab shells railroad ties transmission grease or old rubber tires.
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Greenland
U.S
AIR Force
Armando Serrano
Cornelio Serrano
Thule AB
Thule
Robert E. Lee High School
Stasney Seeks City Talks on Political Signs
City Council members discuss whether to address political signs at the January 21 meeting. Dr. Kart Opryshek, a Bay town dentist, says he has not removed signs due to hunting season and proposes transporting sewer sludge to his pasture in exchange for removing outdated signs to save the city money. City Manager D R Voelkel questions the proposal and compensation.
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Leonard
Stasney
Opryshek
the Sun
D. R. Voelkel
Alleni Cannan
Councilman Opposes Sub for City Manager Role
City Councilman Ted Kloesel objects to the administrative assistant Howard Northcutt filling in as city manager during D R Voelkel's absence. Voelkel defends designating qualified administrators and notes department heads serve as officers.
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Ted Kloesel
D. R. Voelkel
Howard Northcutt
Kloesel
Northcutt
Barbers Hill Optimist Club Meeting Planned
Barbers Hill Optimist Club will meet at 7 30 p m Tuesday at Frank s Cafe. Guest speaker will be Homer McBride of the General Telephone Co.
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Barbers Hill
Frank
Homer McBride
The
General Telephone Co
Funeral Notices for Simms and Ford in Baytown area
John Edward Simms 85 of 1003 S Shepherd Baytown died Sunday at a Baytown Hospital He lived in Baytown two years with daughter Mrs Olema S Robinson The body sent to Ott and Lee Funeral Home Morton Mississippi for services and burial Lizzie Ford of Old River funeral 1 PM Tuesday at St Emily Methodist Old River She died Friday in Winnie hospital age details survivors include son Vernon Lee Ford Baytown grandchildren Wayne Ford in military service sisters and in laws listed Burial Ford Cemetery Old River Johnson and Frazier Funeral Home pallbearers named
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E. Simms
John Edward Simms
S. Shepherd
Baytown
Olema S. Robinson
Barthman Funeral Home
Ott and Lee Funeral Home
Morton
Miss
Lizzie Ford
Old River
St. Emily Methodist Church
Emmit Harris
Chambers County
Ford
Winnie Hospital
Vernon Lee Ford
Arizona
Sharon
Anita Ford
Wayne Ford
Easter Robinson
Anahuac
Forest Ford
Amy Frank
Sarah Bankhead
Hazel Ford
Elsie Ghant
Chicago
Lena Toran
Ed Owens
McNair
Ford Cemetery
Johnson and Frazier Funeral Home
M. Q. Bradford
Lawrence Ford
Robert Ford
David Jones
Joe Landry
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Doug Henry Fonda
Joseph L. Mankievwiicz
Technicolor
Panamsion
Disney
Very
Gsiai
Decker oRvew
Bandolero
Deluke
America
Hanywhere
Bea Ween
Hug Loberr
Dennis Fonda
Hopper Jack Nicholson
Columbia Pictures
Colum Pictures
Citizens National Bank and Underwood, Neuhaus and Co
Allis Chalmers
Arlan’s
T&t
Anaconda
Apmco Citric Ie
DES Ashland
Sas
Atlantic Richfield
Bendix
Bethlehem Steel
Carrier Corp Celanese Ok
Cree
Es Chrysler Corp
Columbia Gas
Delta Airlines Occidental Petro
Penn
Central R. Rd
Pepsi Cola 53 Ltd
Oil of
Ind
Phillips Petro
Ol of
Oil of Ohio
Syntex Taft Broadcasting
Texas Gulf
Transamerica
Dow Indus
Dow Chemical
Dresser Ind
DuPont x
el Paso Natural Gas
Foremost
McKesson
Eleetric
General Motors
General T&t
General Tire
Georgia Pacific
Getty Oloo
Ellette
Gordon's Jewelry
Greyhound Corp
Gulf of
Gulf States Utilities
Gulf West Ind
Halliburton Co
Harvey Aluminum
Houston Light & Power
Inland Steel
Interlake Steel
IBM Wvecasse Cysses Binh Jones & Laughlin Steel
Kerr McGee
Kraft Foods
Val SS. Kresge
Ccc
Eecais
Ling-Temco-Vought
McDonald Douglas
Magnavox
Marathon Oil
Mobil Oil
Monsanto Ike Cree OM National Distillers
Siscee
RCA
Raytheon Fie
Roan Select Trust
Schlumberger Sears, Shellow
Sperry Rand
Ltd
Register
Wyatt
Market St
CV Water District
Dee
Vaual Bay Plaza
Barbers Hill Club
Ae Ey
Erin
Camaro — Red Cross
Young Dress & Sport Shoes
Bay Fair Charge
BankAmericard
Humble Credit Union
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