Baytown Area I Students Earn Degrees at Baylor University
Baylor University awarded 385 degrees at the end of the fall semester. Baytown area graduates include Ronald E. Colburn BBA accounting Linda J. Dicker BA English Mack A. Holland BBA economics Becky J. Smith BA sociology Delia L. Harding BME music education and Claude M. Harding degree in music literature and theory.
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Baylor University
Baytown Area
Ronald E. Colburn
Russell Colburn
Rosewood
Linda J. Dickerson
Bolster
Mack A. Holland
M. A. Holland Jr
Becky J. Smith
O. R. Smith
California
Dayton
Delia L. Harding
BME
Vernon C. Lowe
S. Winfree
Liberty
Claude M. Harding
F. M. S Harding
Newman
Mengden Attacks King Memorial Resolution
Texas Senate honors MLK's 44th birth anniversary but Sen. Walter Mengden blasts the measure as honoring a man who slandered his country. He objects to praising King and urges resolutions honoring loyal Americans who fought and died for the country. The resolution passed Monday despite his critique.
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Sun Austin Bureau
Austin
Marlin Luther King
Walter Mengden
Mengden
Dallas
Oscar Mauzy
Baytown
King
Senate
Surtees to unveil TS-15 European Formula II car
European Formula II champion John Surtees will unveil the TS-15, a new version of the car that won the 1972 title. The racer features an all aluminum engine claimed to develop 270 brake horsepower. Mike Hailwood also secured the 1972 title for his team with a TS10.
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London
John Surtees
Mike Hailwood
Fund Starts For Victim Of Cancer
The Luther Melton Fund opened at Citizens National Bank for Mrs L M Melton sister in law of Baytonian Mrs R H Johnson of 100 Wilburn. Mrs Melton undergoes treatment at Houston M D Anderson Hospital for cancer and was hospitalized again last weekend. Unemployed since Nov 11, her family cannot cover medical costs which total 127500 dollars not including doctors or medications.
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Luther Melton
Citizens National Bank
L. 8. Melton
Baytonian
R. H. Johnson
Wilburn
Melton
Houston
M. D. Anderson Hospital
Presbyterians Host Family Night Dinner With Guest Speaker
First Presbyterian Church hosts a family night dinner in the fellowship hall Thursday at 6 30 p m with Dr Hugh Nelson Synod Executive as guest speaker. Attendees bring food for their family and two guests. bread drinks and dessert prepared by the dinner committee. Nelson led the Synod of Oklahoma Arkansas before and has pastored in California for 18 years. He began service with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in Mexico from 1943 to 1950. Native of California, educated at Whittier College and San Francisco Theological Seminary, he earned a Doctor of Divinity from Occidental College in 1964.
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Hall
First Presbyterian
Hugh Nelson
Synod
Nelson
New Regional Synod of the Sun
Synod of Oklahoma-Arkansas
California
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
Mexico
Whittier College
San Francisco Theological Seminary
Occidental College
Telephone customers face planned interstate rate increases
AT&T files new interstate rate schedule with the FCC raising charges for some weekday business, operator assisted, and person to person calls. Evening and weekend long distance rates stay the same. WATS rates rise about two percent with an interim effective date January 22 1973 and March 13 1973 for WATS subject to FCC suspension.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Federal Communications Commission
WATS
FCC
Inter
U.S
Allen Pushes Scenic Rivers Plan for Texas
State Rep Joe Allen of Baytown seeks a Natural and Scenic Rivers System to protect unspoiled Texas rivers and streams. The measure would place the program under the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department to survey waterways, acquire scenic easements, and develop wilderness qualities and recreational facilities for public use.
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Austin
Joe Allen
Baytown
Texas
Parks and Wildlife
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
Allen
Highlands Church Circle to Meet on Thursday
The Homemakers Circle of the United Methodist Church in Highlands plans a 10 a.m. Thursday gathering at Mrs. Don Knight's home, 608 Battlewell Road. The meeting discusses a plan to preserve rivers in Texas as part of a proposed system, with a nursery for children and a request for visitors to attend.
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Texas
Highlands
United Methodist Church
Alll
Don
Battlewell Road
Allen
Exxon Driving Course Begins for Employees and Public
Exxon defensive driving instructors course starts 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Exxon Building for Exxon employees on January 16 18 23 and 25 totaling 12 hours. Bob Feinberg notes graduates become candidate instructors and may teach drivers. The $21 class has 17 students with Baytown police officers Schulming and Rosier as instructors.
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Exxon Chemical
Exxon
Robert G
Bob) Feinberg
Baytown
Dale Schimming
Glen Rosier
Sterling Library
Feinberg
Don Bakers
Safety Council
al Borde-ron
Lilian Risher
Council Approves Fire Equipment Purchase Totals
The city council authorized a total of 9 224.38 for fire department gear at the last meeting. Vendors include Fire Fox Corp 8788.41 Arthur Dolley and Son 194.13 Claude Wright and Associates 241.84. Other bids approved include Al Fence Co Vulcan Signs and Stampings Doppler Radar Units White Supply.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fire Fox Corp
Arthur Dolley and Son
Claude Wright and Associates
al Fence Co
Vulcan
CMI, Inc
Water Level Testing Set in Wooster for Subsidence Study
The U S Geological Survey received city approval to drill a well inside a fenced Barnes Street yard in Wooster to obtain water level measurements. The work supports a subsidence study in Barnet Scott and Crystal Bays areas led by Robert E. Smith chief of the Houston Subdistrict. Funds now support data collection at greater sub surface depths than the Alta Loma area.
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U. S. Geological Survey | T
Barnes Street
Wooster
Barnet
Scott and
Crystal Bays
Robert E. Smith
Houston
Geological Survey
Alta Loma
Smith
Jack Morton
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