Monthly meeting topics and local notices in Baytown
A Baytown community page lists the Lamar-Alamo Dads Club meeting at 7 am with Dr. Rhodes presenting on ridge analysis in model building. Also announced are a Baytown Elks dance at 7 pm with barbecue, a Baytown Book Club meeting to review Epidemic by Frank Slaughter, and various honors and obituaries for local residents.
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Lamar-Alamo
Henry Benoit
la Porte
San Jacinto Memorial Hospital
LE Livre
Knox Beavers
Samling
Powers Jr
Frank Slaughter
Book Club
Baytown Flats Open for Tour in Exclusive Neighborhood
Baytown unveils ultra modern apartments with a furnished model on display. The new complex sits adjacent to K-Mart in an exclusive neighborhood inviting potential renters to judge the space.
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Baytown
K-Mart
Baytown Students Invited To Enter NASA Competition
Houston area junior and senior high students are invited to enter NASA's Manned Spacecraft Center contest. Eight finalists will be named March 31 at San Jacinto High School after preliminary school judging. Winners receive certificates, plaques, pins, and a briefing with an astronaut.
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Houston
Harris County
NASA
Manned Spacecraft
Center
Clear Lake
Tam
San Jacinto High ‘School
Manned Spacecraft Center
360 Expected At Chamber Fete Monday
About 360 persons had made reservations for the Baytown Chamber of Commerce banquet at 7 30 p m Monday at the Knights of Columbus Hall Social hour at 6 20 p m Jack Jacobs head of arrangements said main speaker Bryan Blalock vice president of Borden Co in Marshall a noted humorist will speak New officers will be installed with J W Strickler becoming president succeeding E C Kimmons Ten Clyde Jones Community Service awards will be presented by W J Strickler Ten Baytown citizens are honored for civic contributions Music by Chet's Hungry Five and Ralph Cain plays dinner organifial notes
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Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Knights of Columbus
Jack Jacobs
Bryan Blalock
Borden Co
Marshall
Canada
J. W
Jack) Strickler
E. C
Jack) Kimmons
Clyde Jones
Hungry Five
Ralph Cain
Naval Academy coach to interview prospects in Houston
Navy football assistant coach CON ROSS of the U S Naval Academy will be in Houston on January 25 and 26 to interview prospective applicants for entrance. He seeks outstanding football players with above average scholastic records. Interested persons may phone CA 49351 in Houston.
Baytonians face hard freeze with 22 degree low
Baytonians should brace for a hard freeze this weekend as the U S Weather Bureau forecasts a low of 22 degrees for Saturday night and a high not above 28 on Sunday. Expect cloudy skies, light rain turning to freezing rain or snow, and brisk northerly winds.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Baytown
Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Panhandle
Dalhart
Dumas
Perryton
Amarillo
Borger
Sunray
Paris
Fort Worth
Dallas
Brownwood
San Angelo
Cleburne
U.S. 67
Lubbock
South Plains
Rio Grande Wall
Gaitskell Dies Shaping Labor Party Succession Crisis
Britain's Labour Party leader Hugh Gaitskell died at 56 as the party faces a looming election and a battle to choose a successor. His death leaves George Brown, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, and Patrick Gordon Walker as leading contenders amid factional strife and the Conservative government's weak standing over unemployment and Britain’s move toward the European Common Market.
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London
Labor Party
Jeader
Hugh Gaitskell
Britain
Gaitskell
Suez
Seeneest
Laborites
HL Hess
Harold Macmillan
Macmillan
Labor
George Brown
Harold Wilson
James Callaghan
Patrick Gordon Walker
Final Rites Monday For E W Owen
Funeral services for Evan Wesley Owen a Baytown resident of 20 years will be 2 30 p m Monday at Earthman Funeral Home with Rev Thomas Guinn officiating Burial will be in Memory Gardens He died Friday night at 10 30 in a Baytown hospital Survivors include wife Winnie Lou Owen a daughter Wanda Spangler a son James D Owen five sisters and five grandchildren Owen aged 57 formerly worked at Humbie CW and Refining Co Baytown Refinery residing at 700 S Seventh Street
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Earthman
Evan Wesley
Owen
Baytown
Humbie, CW and Refining Co
Thomas Guinn
Central Baptist Church
Memory Gardens
Winnie Lou Owen
Wanda Spangler
Group opposes book ruling at Lee College debates censorship
Young Democrats Club of Lee College endorses integration policies while condemning book banning. The group opposes removing MacKinlay Kantor’s Spirit Lake from Robert E. Lee High School Library, calling it a threat to academic freedom. Alton Vernice Williams, 21, of La Marque, has been approved to register for Lee College for the second semester starting January 31.
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Young Democrats Club
Lee College
Board of Trustees
Spirit Lake
MacKinlay Kantor
Robert E. Lee High School
Joe Horeezy
Highlands
Lincoln High School
la Marque
A Tribute To Nelson McElroy
From The Sun News Desk Preston Pendergrass pays tribute to Nelson McElroy 45 who died leaving Baytown grieving. As chamber of commerce manager he devoted years to community projects and inspired loyalty and friendship with his contagious smile and stubborn integrity. His absence leaves a lasting void in Baytown and at the newspaper office where colleagues recall daily coffee rituals and shared work.
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Preston Pendergrass
Baytown
Nelson McElroy
Chamber of Commerce
Nelson
Isan
Highlands Resident Columbus B. Kirk Dies at 73
Columbus B. Kirk, a Highlands resident for 33 years, died Friday night in a Baytown nursing home at age 73. He is survived by his wife, a daughter, three sons in Houston and Bakersfield, Calif., two brothers, a sister, 17 grandchildren, and other relatives. Funeral services are set for Tuesday at 6 p.m. at Earthmonsters Chapel in Baytown. Burial will be in the White Cemetery, Highlands. He was a former city employee of Baytown.
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U.S
Lucy A. Dotson
Jim Ferguson
Mont
Belvieu
Baytown
Herman
Earthman's
P. Pressler Jr
Hassel-Foster Funeral Home
HORC
Palestine
Tex
Houston
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Alton
Herbert A. Bartlow
Richmond
Calif
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Puderbaugh
Richard Chesteen Thomas
Universiy of Texas
Happy Edward Baumann
Gary Lynn du Bose
Tommy DeWitt Evans
T. C. Massey
Gwendolen Ruth Petty
Maurice Edward Thompson Jr
Stanley Floyd Lowrey
la Porte
Michael Mosesman
Robert Rogers
Earnest Searcy
Kenneth Searcy
Highlands Volunteer Fire Department
Naomi Hillebrandt
Nelda Jean Ward
W.L
Dub) Ward
California
Wand
Susan Hayes
Cindy Freeman
Brenda Knowles
Martha Moore
Laurie Ashby
Jackie Greer
Donna Fullick
Tommy Greer Coves
Scott Lane Ward
Camp Strake
Con- We
Jack Rimmons
Chamber of Commerce
Jim Lankford
al Melinger
The
Sun
Columbus B. Kirk
Highlands
Brecheen
Howard J. Kirk
Columbus C. Kirk
Rufus R. Kirk
Bakersfield
Kirk
Ben Kirk
Plantersville
Richard Kirk
C. N
SE Sameer
Irsha Nta
Split Personality and Global Tensions Across Headlines
Ninety Cuban refugees reach the U S with uncertain admission policy ahead. A Havana prison raid leads to a Cuban prisoner ransom. A faulty gas heater suffocates three prisoners in Castilia County Jail San Luis Calo. Democrats who banked about 1 million at a Kennedy inauguration face pressure to push votes through 1964. East German leaders widen rift with China after harsh remarks. Washington urges Britain to join the common market and NATO nuclear arms cooperation. Ex Marine William Hant aids medical recovery after a near amputation. A tourist ferry sinks on Toba Lake Sumatra killing at least 105.
Baytown Resident Alfred Bankston Dies After Long Service
Alfred Acie Bankston, 39 years in Baytown, died early Friday at a Baytown hospital. A Humble Oil guard, he retired July 12, 1956, earlier served at Baytown Refinery. Funeral held at Paul A. Lee Chapel with Grace Methodist Church and League City officiants. Burial in Memory Gardens. Survived by wife Grace, daughters Mrs. F. J. Brewer and Mrs. D. D. W. Gunn, son John Manx Bankston, sisters Mrs. Nora Reeves and Mrs. Prudence Ashley, six grandchildren and one great grandchild. Born January 16, 1893 in Clarksville, Texas.
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Baytown
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Edwin T. Summers
Grace
Methodist Church
James H. Jones
League City
Grace Bankston
Nce
F. J. Brewer
Ars
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