Plans to Modify Holiday Inn of Baytown Announced
Plans to remodel the Holiday Inn at Baytown envision a coffee shop becoming a contemporary family restaurant and the dining room bar area forming a new luxurious club with dining and entertainment. Meeting rooms and the lobby will be redecorated, guest rooms updated with color TV, and exterior redesigns planned. Lyndal Booth named innkeeper. Lance McFaddin and Arthur Temple III lead Lufkin Properties and Service Inc. stated commitment to Baytown business community.
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Holiday Inn
Baytown
Lance McFaddin
Lufkin Properties, Inc
McFaddin
And
Service, Inc
Arthur’ Temple
Holiday
Dinner-Dance at Goose Creek Country Club This Saturday
Goose Creek Country Club hosts a dinner-dance with dinner from 6 to 9 30 p m and dancing 7 30 to 11 30 p m Reservations are requested for members and guests. ROY GREER Milner Baytown council man 68 died Friday at home in Silsbee rites pending at Farmers Funeral Home in Silsbee.
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Goose Creek Country Club
Roy Greer Milner
Baytown
Silsbee
Farmer
Roark’s Shoe Repair Owner In Intensive Care
Bill Roark of 201 Morrell, owner of Roark's Shoe Repair Shop at 8S. Ashbel, is in intensive care at Gulf Coast Hospital after a heart attack on Wednesday. The item also notes locals vacationing and social details including plans for events and birthdays.
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Bill Roark
Morrell
Roark
Ashbel
Gulf Coast Hospital
Taos
N. M
Leonard Stasneys
L. C. Smiths
Mike Ackerleys
Lillie Lockhart
William
Linda
Terri Blevins
Ruidoso
N. Mex
Victor Serbe
Glenda Elkins
Mary Elizabeth Wilbanks
Donna Darling
Austin
Mobay Knows It's Under The Gun at Cedar Bayou Plant
Mobay Chemical Co plans strict pollution abatement at its new Cedar Bayou plant with four units including a first in the United States hydrochloric acid electrolysis unit to neutralize muriatic acid before discharge. Phase 1 will produce toluene diisocyanate for foam paints, employing 150 to 175 in the initial phase, with Brown & Root handling maintenance and local hire prioritized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobay Chemical Co
Cedar Bayou
Fred Eliott
Baytown
Texas Society of Professional Engineers
United States
Elliott
McKay
Brown & Root
Library Board Is Expanded in Baytown
The Baytown City Council approved increasing the Sterling Municipal Library Board from five to seven members. Current members include I. M. Jones chair, Joe Barsalou secretary, Mrs. Eugene Lovering, Dave Moore, and Mrs. Martha Ann Hemphill. The council postponed action on delinquent water accounts and on revised ordinances, and two committee reports were tabled for further study. The Utility Committee, led by Lamar Kelley, will reconvene at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday to discuss United Gas franchise and related matters.
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Baytown Library Board
Sterling Municipal Library
I. M. (Deacon) Jones
Joe Barsalou
Eugene Lovering
Dave Moore
Martha Ann Hemphill
Utility Committee
United Gas
Ambulance Committee
Baytown
Utility
Lamar Kelley
Brazilian terrorists free Swiss ambassador in Rio de Janeiro
Giovanni Enrico Bucher, the 57 year old Swiss ambassador, is freed and returns to his Rio residence after Brazil released 70 prisoners as ransom to the captors who had kidnapped him for 40 days.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Giovanni Enrico Bucher
Rio
Chile
Crosby School Board Plans Monday Meeting
Crosby Texas plans its first 1971 session at 7 30 p m with talks on classroom additions permanent and portable, selecting an architect, TEA accreditation review, and school fund deposits. Citizens requests include an elementary school in Indian Shores and agenda comments. A typewriter committee report and bus purchase are on the agenda along with a board newsletter.
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Crosby
Crosby High School
Texas Education Agency
State Board of Education
Indian Shores Civic Association
W. A. LeBrun
Barrett Crosby Civic League
Baytown Sues Beach City Over Annexation
Harris County district court is asked to void Beach Citys Nov 24 1970 annexation attempt of 8000 acres in southwest Chambers County and to bar further annexation. Baytown argues it holds exclusive jurisdiction over the territory and that Beach City unlawfully claims authority. The suit was filed in Houston in Judge Wyatt H Heard’s 190th District Court.
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Harris County
Joe Resweber
Baytown
Beach City
Harris County District Court
Beach
Chambers County
Wyatt H
190Th District Court
Houston
Bill Laughlin
Resweber
Laughlin
Beach City Council
Sterling Library Awarded 12000 Grant Under State Library Act
Sterling Municipal Library received a $12000 grant from the Texas State Library under the Library Services and Construction Act. The grant considers population served and per capita support, with Sterling's rate at $3.04 annually. Baytown libraries in Anahuac Liberty Cleveland and Dayton gain from the Texas State Library Communication Network to improve book service.
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Sterling Municipal Library
Texas State Library
Federal Library Services and Construction Act
Katherine Ard
Field Service Division
Sterling Library
Baytown
Anahuac
Liberty
Cleveland
Dayton
Houston Public Library
Ard
Anahauc
Weather And Tides Baytown Area Forecast With Tides
Cool nights and mild afternoons through Monday with temperatures from the upper 30s to the upper 60s. Morgan's Point tides Sunday highs 6 19 a m and 6 01 p m lows 7 13 a m and 6 37 p m. Tides Monday highs 6 25 a m and 7 49 p m lows 8 01 a m and 7 37 p m. Sunday sun 7 17 a m rise 5 46 p m set. Monday sun 7 17 a m rise 5 47 p m set.
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Baytown Area
Morgan’s Point
Groundbreaking Fete Held For Gulf Coast Expansion
A Friday groundbreaking marks Phase I of a $6 million Gulf Coast Hospital expansion. Hospital Affiliates Inc. president Jack Anderson lifts the first dirt for a two story wing south of existing buildings. Phase I cost is estimated at $4 million and financed by HAI, with completion for the professional building in late 1971.
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Betsy Webber
Gulf Coast Hospital
Jack Anderson
Hospital Affilates, Inc
HAI
Nashville
Garth Road
Anderson
Coleman and Relfe Architects
Houston
Bella Construction Co
Beaumont
U S Steel Texas Works to add 550 jobs this year
Baytown Texas U S Steel Texas Works Plant plans 550 new jobs this year lifting total by 1971 to 1 300 according to plant manager Harry Spitz Speaking at a Chamber of Commerce luncheon Spitz noted the upgrade in employment and outlined plant safety pollution control and community programs The majority of workers come from Baytown and nearby areas with smaller shares from Houston Beaumont Liberty Anahuac area Waco and other states
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U.S. Steel
Harry Spitz
Texas Works
Chamber of Commerce
Wanda Orton
Texas
Baytown
Holiday Inn
Spitz
Houston
Beaumont
Liberty-Anahuac
Waco
Duluth
Birmingham
Council Moves Forward With Phase I Water Sewer Plans
John Busch, consulting engineer for the city’s capital improvements program, told the council Phase One water and sewer projects proceed though approval on street improvement reports for Bayway Drive Brownwood perimeter streets and Garth Road is still needed A special meeting with consulting engineers was urged to review street plans and a park landscape effort around Raccoon Bend will involve a professional planner and aerial survey
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John Busch
Bayway Drive
Brownwood
Perimeter
Garth Road
Allen Cannon
David Evans
Leonard Stasney
Busch
Raccoon Bend
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SAN Jacinto Methodist Hospital Corps
Farr Milton
Bayshore
Baytown State “Bank
FIG
Mobay
Mabay
Amy Millar
Knights of Columbus and
Elks Lodge
Knights of Columbus
Cerebral Palay Center
Ray Helpert
Lynn McCage
The
Elks
Bulletin
Crosby School Board
Baytown Partners
Avieres
Gulf Coast
Lett
George Wabmaley
Charles Brightwell
Glen Walker
Peoples State Bank
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