Overcrowding Debate Spurs High School Zoning Talks
About 300 residents attended a two hour hearing at the Community Building on high school rezoning. RES supporters favored zoning changes, Ross supporters opposed. Speakers urged adding classrooms at Sterling or Lee or rerouting transfers while transportation concerns and growth projections shaped the discussion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Luthringer
Sterling
Citizens’ Committee
Robert E. Lee
Ross Sterling
B. F. Booth Tricting
P. D. Hemphill
Johnny Clark
Bayton weather stays chilly with warming trend ahead
The National Weather Service predicts a cold but nonfreezing night for Bayton Tuesday in the mid-30s, with a gradual warmup by morning. By Tuesday afternoon highs reach the upper 60s as winds shift and calm returns after icy windshields and ice on yards and rooftops.
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National Weather Service
Kiwanis Honors Baytown Firefighters for Rescue Service
Baytown Fire Department’s Station 3 B shift receives a plaque from the West Baytown Kiwanis Club praising Lt. Sam Lanier Capt. Franky Lerma and firefighters Sonny Hoover Jim McCorele and Raymond Diehl for rescuing victims at two crashes on Jan 5 and Dec 15. Victims Mike Wheeler Winfred McDonald and M. Grigsby were aided. Wheeler survived hospitalization. Patrolman C E Shaffer commended their actions.
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West Baytown
Kier
Baytown
Wanis Club
Sam Law
Lanier
Franky Lerma
Sonny Hoover
Jim McCorele
Raymond Diehl
Pruett
Highway 146
Lee Drive
Winfred
McDonald
Mike Wheeler
M. M. Grigsby
Wheeler
C. E. Shaffer
Kiwanis
Baytown Community Groups Plan Meetings at 7 PM
Baytown clubs and boards schedule meetings this week at 7 PM or 7:30 PM. Advisory boards and PTA programs are set for Tuesday in the Community Building and school auditorium.
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Baytown Museum
Parks Board Parks and Recreation Advisory Board
Baytown Council Considers Sewage Plans and District Expansion
The Baytown council will discuss plans for the East and West Main sanitary plant expansions and rehabilitation of West Main sewers from Lee Drive to Barry Street. A bid advertisement for the project and a 1975 street program contract will be considered, along with insurance and utility rate discussions. Two citizens are slated to speak on utility rates and driveway issues.
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Baytown
Civil Service Com
Library Board
Comci
West Main
Cedar Bayou
Cedar Bayou Jandfill
Lee Drive
Barry, Nore
Educators Draft Plan for Baytown Deaf Center
A proposal to locate a seven-district deaf education center in Baytown moves forward with Mike Madison as potential director. The plan, coordinated by Baytown Pasadena Deer Park Clear Creek Barbers Hill Crosby and Channelview districts, would be state funded and taught mainly here with some classes in Pasadena.
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Center For the Deaf
Mike Madison
Ralph White
Texas
Baytown
Pasadena
Deer Park
Clearcreek
Barbers’ Hill
Crosby
Channelview
Madison
Johnny Clark
A Rose By Any Other Name at a Pearce Street Dinner
Dr. Tom Spencer of San Jacinto College notes that gatherings at a public dinner party are also called mixers receptions happy hours and other similar names. He suggests they are sometimes called periods of attitude adjustment.
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Tom Spencer
San Jacinto College
Freeport Accident Fatal To Baytonian Oscar Ingram Tl
Oscar Finis Ingram Tl, 22, of 2007 Adams died at 3 45 p m Monday in a Houston hospital after an industrial accident in Freeport He was injured when a ditch caved in while he worked as a carpenter helper for Oleson Engineering Corp of Bellaire He had been taken to Community Hospital Freeport then transferred to Methodist Hospital Houston He was an Eagle Scout and a 1974 Howard Payne University graduate with a teaching certificate He planned to enter southwestern Baptist Theological College services will be held at Second Baptist Church with multiple pastors officiating
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Oscar Finis Ingram
Adams
Houston
Freeport
Second Baptist Church
Roy Cloudt
William Edward Thiele
Memorial Bap
Troy McMahan
Brambley Drive
Baptist Church
Pasadena
Ingram
Freejport
Oleson Engineering Corp
Bellaire
Methodist Hospital
REL
Lee College
Howard Payne University
Southwestern Baptist Theological
RITES
Inflation hits 1974 high at 12.2 percent in December
Washington AP reports the 1974 annual inflation rate rose to 12.2 percent the highest since 1946 in peacetime. The December rise was seven tenths, easing from prior months while energy taxes proposed by Ford could add about two points this year. The CPI reached 155.4, $155.40 to buy 100 in 1967 terms.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ford
Congress
Baytown Weather Updates Cloudy Skies With Rain Likely
Baytown forecast calls for clouds and a chance of rain Tuesday night and Wednesday, with cooler, windy conditions. Low Tuesday night in the mid-50s and Wednesday high in the mid-50s, rain chances 30 percent then 20 percent. tides list Wednesday at 6:55 p.m. high and 10:11 a.m. low.
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Baytown
Trustees Weigh Boundary Line Change At Hearing
School trustees debate boundary line changes and whether to seek outside help. President Bill Going says the decision should not be delegated to a committee and must come soon to avoid delaying students. Board member Al Bordelon notes the data is nearly complete and urges a quick decision as emotions run high. Trustee Willie Morena estimates about a month to study data before action.
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Wanda Orton
Robert E
Lee
Ross S. Sterling
Going
Bill
al Bordelon
Bordelon
Willie Morena
Three Boundary Options Considered by District
Supt Johnny Clark says the district has three choices on high school boundaries change lines explore a third high school or do nothing He stressed community input objective data and cautioned changes may affect current students later not now The issue may surface in three to four years and Sterling REL zones have shifted fractions to balance numbers Clark said page 2 continues(CLARK)
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Sterling Zone
Lee
Marjorie Conway
Highlands
REL
P.D. Hemphill
Parkridge Bend Civic Association
Joe Zorn
Peter Currie
Said
Country Club Civic Association
Johnny Clark
Clark
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Linda Bryant
Robert Greenawalt
Richard Lawson
Steeting
Steve Ramsey
Ramsey
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Cliff Bradford
Sam Lanier
Bobby Zeagler
Firefighters
Srons
Felix Hatchell
Bayingwell
North
St. Luke's Hospital
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PTA
Danny Tolleson
Bowie
Wavelers Association
Deacon
Don Treuhardt
Cuba Ferrell
Lowry Davis
New Orleans
Clyde Thomas
William Hefner
Robbie Cornelius
Yvonne Sartor
Will Webber
Minnie Grant
Insurance Advisory Committee
Council
Travelers Insurance Co
Goose Creek
B. R. Goodner
Ralph Bond
Pearce Street Journal
Peoples Site Bank
People Helpers
Market St
Citizens National Bank
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Pumphrey
Davis and Burge
Glenn Folkes
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