Ex-City Painter's Work On Legendary Ship Shown
Baytown artist Smoky Monk will paint the Elissa, the world’s oldest sailing ship, now being refurbished for a Galveston voyage. The Heritage Society plans to publish brochures using Monk’s blueprinted scenes. He will exhibit aboard the Elissa at Seawolf Park during public tours.
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Elissa
Galveston
Heritage Society
Baytonian Bay Area Heritage Society
Robert Kenneth
Smoky) Monk
Lee College
Nainter
Alexander Hall and Son
Scotland
Seawolf Park
Smoky
Greece
Hammer and Saw Gang
Pritts
Tist
Seawolf
Texas
Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Mediterranean
Robert K
Mork
Glenn Folkes
Weather And Tides Baytown Area Forecast
Fair and cold through Sunday. Low temperatures near 30s Saturday night and about 50 Sunday. Baytown tides show two daily highs around dawn and evening with a midday low. Monday tides list two highs and a midday low. Sunrise and sunset times provided for Sunday and Monday. Weak tides denoted.
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Baytown Area
Baytown
Local Gleanings of Baytown and Nearby Residents
Mini profiles capture civic chatter and social notes from Little Amber Chronister greeting Mayor Gentry over coffee. Social tidbits include Madge Labit invited to Jimmy Carter’s inauguration and Vicki Keene preparing for a wedding alongside other community figures.
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Amber Chronister
Tom Gentry
Madge Labit
Jimmy Carter
Sam Hughes
Drew Staples
Johnny Prichard
Bob Wilson
Baytown
Billie Jo Edwards
Ada Moore
Dave Moore
Thelma Pace
Barney Webber
Rox Anne Tolleson
John Lefeber
Hal Thomas
Kay Tekker
Vicki Keene
Vicki Zimpfer
Baytown Rep Joe Allen Named To Appropriations Panel
State Rep Joe Allen of Baytown was appointed by Speaker Bill Clayton to the House Committee on Appropriations the legislature’s top spending panel. Allen previously served a decade on Ways and Means and was ranking member, ninth in seniority, leaving his Ways and Means seat to join the panel.
City pushes state and county to speed road contracts
Baytown City Council votes to invite state and county officials to witness delays on the Baker Road and Bayway Drive projects. Mayor Tom Gentry and Councilman Emmett O. Hutto urge quicker work and question allowed days, while noting drainage work starts June 1 and potential delays persist.
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Wanda Orton
Baytown
Bayway Drive
Baker Road
Tom Gentry
Emmett
Hutto
Bayway
Jody R. Lander
Allen
Baytown Chamber Hears Optimistic Economic Outlook Through 1978
Leonard Patillo of the Houston Chamber of Commerce told the Baytown group that regional and national economies should improve in 1977 and early 1978. He cited Harris County growth, strong construction, and a need to protect personal and economic freedoms while urging greater political activism.
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Muriel Scott Baytown
Leonard Patillo
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Patillo
Houston
Houston-Baytown
U. S
Jimmy Carter
Patillon
Harris County
Chamber
Environmental Protection Agency
Dr. Jimmy's Problem Commentary Cites Economic View
The Pearce Street Journal notes a statement by a renowned economist that the United States faces fatigue rather than systemic cancer, as a new federal administration prepares to take power amid warnings about national problems. The remark frames current concerns as waning vigor rather than terminal decline.
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U.S
Texas Works Announces 1977-78 Expansion Schedule at USS Plant
U S Steel Texas Works outlines 1977 start ups including two new electric furnaces two more continuous slab casters and a slab reheating furnace. Late 1977 to early 1978 will see the first large diameter line pipe mill capable of 48 inch pipes for Alaska and Canada oil and gas transport.
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Texas
Victor G. Glass Jr
U.S. Steel
Evens
Texas Works
Southwest
Glass
CB Convac Sez New Weekly CB Column Is In The Sun
The Baytown Sun will publish weekly a Citizen Band Radio column called CB Convac on Channel 19 and other channels. A writer using the handle Ink Dipper will deliver the latest CB news and chatter for CB enthusiasts.
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Baytown Sun
CB Land
the Sun
Lawyers For McManus File Suit To Stop Prosecution
Attorneys for Vernon E. McManus filed an appeal in the Fifth Circuit asking to reverse a Houston dismissal and grant a temporary restraining order against prosecution in the Cantrell murders case. The appeal cites Texas officials and claims violation of McManus’s Fifth through Fourteenth Amendment rights and accuses authorities of trial by press.
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Lynn. Hughes
New Orleans
Torneys
Vernon E. McManus
Paul
Mary Cantrell
Baytown
Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals
Houston
State of Texas
Texas Court of Criminal Appeals
179Th District Court
Harris County
Atty
Carol Vance
Das Mike Hinton
L. H
Stu) Stewart
McManus
Larry J. Doherty
Don Smith
Ross Sterling
State Dist
Stanley Kirk
Paula Cantrell Derese
Hinton
Stewart
I. D
McMaster
Nixon
Charles Manson
Court of Criminal Appeals
Derese
Water Vote Moves Slow In Baytown Surface Plan
A mid morning survey of 13 polling places shows 655 ballots cast in a surface water supply election. Voters face a Baytown Area Water Authority contract to finance a treatment plant projected to operate by early 1980 with revenue bonds.
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Baytown Area Water Authority
BAWA
Cedar Bayou Junior School
Baytown Junior School
Andy Contreras
Bowie
Ashbel Smith
The
Sun
Carver-Jones
Baytown
Swedish airliner crash near apartment building kills 22
A Swedish domestic airliner crashed today within 100 yards of an apartment building, exploded and burned. Officials confirmed all 22 people aboard were killed.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Suspected Planner of 772 Olympic Massacre Seeks Court
Abu Daoud, linked to the 1972 Munich attack, told AP he would appear before a West German court to prove his innocence. He said he would fly immediately if given protection and German arrangements via the PLO, insisting the charges are a fabrication by Israelis and Zionists.
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Paris
Abu Daoud
Associated Press
Raelis
Daoud
Germany
Palestine Liberation Organization
Fident
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New Mothers Meeting
Baytown Association For Childbirth Education
Solomon Barrow
the Daughters of the Republic of Texas
Houston Lighting and Power Service Center
Ward Road
Alaria Glass
Gulf Coast Hospital
W. E. Warner
Happy Valley
Virginia Woolf
Alfred del
Ario
Ays
Ua Cae
Joe
Pearce Street Journal
Jimmy
USS
Peoples State Bank
the People Helpers
Chern Mormber F.D
Helpingest Bank
Ettizers National Bank
And-Trust CO. Fo
Kirk
Bulletin
Algiers
al Fatah
Algeria
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