Seaborn Cravey Ends Mayoral Run After Two Terms
Former Baytown mayor Seaborn Cravey served two terms as mayor and two and a half terms as a city councilman. He retired in 1969 to spend more time with family after noting heavy meeting schedules. Cravey helped govern during a period of rapid growth and saw the 1965 5 million bond issue fund city hall and utilities. He is a Baylor and UH graduate living with his wife Rose and daughters Sandra and Susan at 2103 Belvedere.
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Seaborn Cravey
Baytown
Horace Mann
Cravey
Mayor Cravey
Civic Center
Baylor University
University of Houston
Rose
Sandra
Susan
Belvedere
Former City Manager Returns to Baytown Post
Fritz Lanham, Baytown’s sixth city manager since 1963, resumes leadership on May 22 1972 after rejoining state government roles. He has a public administration master’s from the University of Texas and has served in Tulsa Texas Lub bock and in the Army occupation of Japan.
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Fritz Lanham
Baytown
Lanham
Texas Department of Community Affairs
Texas Criminal Justice Council
Texas
Lubbock
Tulsa
Tex
University of Texas
Department of the Army
Japan
Deborah
Leslie
John Fritz
Danforth Foundation
City Charter Provisions Cited in Baytown Pelly Accord
The article notes that Baytown's charter commission wrote with care to preserve City of Pelly ordinances not in conflict. It states Pelly regulations remain in force until altered by the council after the charter takes effect and that all rights under existing franchises and contracts are preserved for Baytown.
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Baytown
Cna Icr
Pelly
Brick industry along Cedar Bayou fades with clay depletion
The Cedar Bayou area developed a brick industry with 14 brickyards serving Galveston and Houston. As local clay became exhausted the brick making industry gradually declined and disappeared from the landscape.
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Cedar Bayou
Galveston
Houston
Baytown Sees One Percent City Sales Tax Grow
The city of Baytown collects a one percent sales tax on retail sales within city limits. For 1972 revenues are projected to exceed $1 million, with $664,139 raised in the first three quarters. The fourth quarter, boosted by Christmas shopping, is typically the largest. Since approval in 1969 the city has received $2,190,271.
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Max Bullock
A. E. Drew
Jack Alford
Robert Parker
Alvin Derryberry
Brad Armendt
Jack Slack
John Brunson
Tom Monk
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Connie Wright
White Star
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