Plans OK'd For Harris County Home For Boys
Harris County Commissioners Court approved plans and specifications for a new 2 million dollar county boys school to be built behind the present building on the Clear Lake site. The juvenile board buildings and grounds committee and County Engineer Dick Doss endorsed the project. Construction will replace present facilities in about a year. Architects Robert W. Maurice and Richard S. Wilkins prepared the estimate. Funds come from the remainder of a 4 million bond issue approved by voters in January 1966 for juvenile facilities. The plan provides complete housing educational and recreational facilities for 100 boys and housing for a staff of 38 adults.
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Houston
Harris County Commissioners Court
Clear Lake
Criminal District
William M. Hatten
Venile Board
Dick Doss
Robert W. Maurice
Richard S. Wilkins
Oil Slick in Morgans Point Bay Cleared 70 Percent
Coast Guard reports a mile-long oil slick from Morgans Point Beach to Sylvan Beach is about 70 percent cleaned up. A duty officer at Ellington Air Station estimates full cleanup by late Wednesday or Thursday as investigators seek the source.
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Morgans
Sylvan Beach
Coast Guard
Ellington Air Station
Lamprey Study Aims to Track English River Return
Bath University professor Martin Hardistry receives a 4,000 pound grant to study lamprey habits, the eel-like fish once a medieval delicacy now possibly spreading through English rivers as Eastern Europe’s staple returns.
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Bath
England
Martin Hardistry
Bath University
Hardistry
Europe
School Lunches Across Districts
Baytown Thursday menus list breakfast applesauce sausage buttered toast and milk. Lunch options include turkey pie or barbecue wieners with green lima beans rutabagas and mixed vegetables with a peach salad buttered loaf bread milk and peanut butter cookies. Barbers Hill offers lunch of hamburger french fries baked beans lettuce onion pickle fruit jello a bun and milk.
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Baytown
Barbers Hill
Fire call in Baytown home turns out to be condensation
Baytown firefighters answered a Wednesday morning call reporting smoke curling from a home on Edison. The supposed fire proved to be condensation rising from the roof, not smoke or flames.
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Baytown
Edison
Little Fauss and Big Halsy at Brunson Now Playing
Little Fauss and Big Halsy unfolds as an action packed motorcycle racing drama starring Robert Redford and Michael J. Pollard. Produced by Albert S Ruddy, filmed in Panavision color, with co stars Lauren Hutton Noah Berry and Lucille Ball.
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Brunson
Robert Redford
Michael J. Pollard
Albert S. Ruddy
Panavision
Movielab
Lauren Hutton
Noah Berry
Lucille Baennon
Eckhardt Seeks Probe of Texas Office Hiring Practices
Congressman Bob Eckhardt of Houston asks for a double inquiry into charges that the Office of Economic Opportunity regional Texas office pursues politically motivated hiring and transfers. He asks the OFO and Civil Service Commission to investigate possible civil service violations and merit promotion breaches tied to regional director James W. Griffith amid a union memorandum alleging a partisan depository of former Texas Republican Party employees.
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Washington
Bob Eckhardt
Houston
Office of Economic Opportunity
Texas
Eckhardt
Harris County
U.S. Civil Service Commission
Frank
Curtis
Austin
American Federation of
OHO
James W. Griffith
Texas Republican Party
Griffith
Civil Service
DEQ
OFO
Civil Service Commission
Texas to Receive Federal Aid for Wildlife Programs
Washington reports Texas will get more than 2 million dollars in 1971 federal funds for fish and wildlife work. Texas receives 1,538,500 in wildlife funds and 653,750 in fish restoration funds through the Interior Department's Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife. Funds are awarded based on area and hunting and fishing license holders, with states reimbursed up to 75 percent of project costs for land and water acquisition, habitat improvement, facilities, and research.
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Washington
Texas
U.S. Secretary of the Interior
Lone Star
Interior
Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
Law Recommended For Police Accident Reports
A Kentucky legislative subcommittee recommended passage by the 1972 legislature of a law requiring every policeman investigating a traffic accident to file a report with the state Public Safety Department.
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Frankfort
State Public Safety Department
United Gas Seeks City Franchise in North District
United Gas Co seeks a 40 year franchise to serve an area north of Decker Drive Park Street and Massey Tompkins Road. The move would pit United Gas against Houston Natural Gas in developing northern subdivisions, with debate over rate bases and pipeline investments. Council questions focus on distribution investments and per meter tax valuation methods.
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United Gas Co
Baytown
United Gas
Decker Drive
Park Street
Massey-Tompkins Road
United
Houston Natural Gas
United Gas Representatives
Utility Committee
Saunders Gregg
Lamar Kelley
Crosby Man Sentenced To 20 Years For Robbery by Assault
Ciint Edward Harris twenty one of 714 Black Hope Crosby received four concurrent twenty year terms in Houston for robbery by assault. Baytown police tied him to six robberies in Baytown La Porte Harris County and Chambers County during a 56 day period last year. He faced charges for Greer Liquor Store robbery on Garth Road May 16 and three other Baytown area robberies. Total take from the four robberies was 526 dollars. Sentences handed down by District Judge Edmund B Duggan.
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Ciint
Edward Harris
Black Hope
Crosby
Houston
Baytown
la Porte
Harris County
Chambers County
Harris
Greer Liquor Store
Garth Road
Edmund B. Duggan
Benefit Dance Aids Cancer Fund In La Porte
Fraternal Order of Eagles Area No 2753 hosts a benefit dance at Eagle Hall La Porte from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday. Admission is 3 per couple with all proceeds to the Cancer Fund. Music by Jim Nelson and the Countr ymen. Public invited. Info call Steve Defewski at 477 3891.
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Order of Eagles
Eagle Hall
la Porte
Cancer Fund
Jim Nelson
Steve Defewski
Free Puppies From MHS shed by H E Peel
H E Peel offers two black and white female puppies to give away and a full grown female. Contact at 427 5062 for details and arrangements.
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MHS. H.E. Peel
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