Floating rubber bands anchor Pacific weather buoy
At 45 feet long and one inch thick, four rubber bands hold a Pacific Missile Range weather buoy 10 miles northwest of Santa Barbara Island. The bands prevent rotation, enabling accurate weather readings, while Roehler notes rubber deteriorates from air and sunlight, not seawater.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Pacific Missile Range
Santa Barbara Island
Fred Roehler
PMR
Geophysics Division
Roehler
Channelview Bank reports record earnings in 1969
Channelview Bank announced a 1969 net operating earnings high of 101774.99 dollars, up 56.3 percent from 1968. Earnings per share were 4.07 dollars versus 2.60 dollars in 1968. Year end deposits rose to 9,275,982.02 dollars and total assets to 10,090,641.50 dollars. The bank added over 2000 Master Charge cards and named Jerry Dominy and Fred Benson to the board.
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Channelview
Channelview Bank
Baytown Insurance Group Honors Secretary Treasurer
Miss Odena Childers received a plaque for 11 years of service as secretary and treasurer of the Independent Insurance Association of Baytown. Marlon Magee presented the award. The group, known as the Big 12 agents, meets twice monthly and will have Childers serve again as secretary treasurer in 1970.
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Odena Childers
Independent Insurance Association of
Baytown
Marlon Magee
Kennedy Magee and Godfrey Agency
Independent Insurance Associaton of
Big 1
Miss Childers
Sh Odena Childers Agency
TSTL Enrollment Tops Two Thousand At Waco Campus
The James Connally Campus of the Texas State Technical Institute marks its fourth year in operation with enrollment exceeding 2,000 students and about 150 instructors. The 2,100 acre campus sits on former James Connally Air Force Base land near Waco and offers two to four year technical and skill development programs. The Rio Gande Campus in Harlingen operates as the state's first bilingual technical institute, with plans for expansion into Amarillo and Sweetwater.
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WACO
James Connally
Texas State Technical Institute
TSTL
James Connally Technical Institute
Texas
Texas A&m University System
U. S. Air Force
James Connally Air Force Base
State Tech
Rio Grande
Harlingen
Bugger
Curtier
TSTT
Shoplifting Cases Rise Cited by Justice of the Peace
Justice of the Peace Glenns vouchsafed December figures showing a rise in shoplifting cases. Vickery said Thursday that 87 misdemeanor charges were processed in Baytown during 1969, with 17 persons charged in those counts.
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Justice of the Peace
Glenns
Vickery
Meyer
Afticg
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LEGE
Stooge
Houston
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la Porte
Beltone Hearing Aid Service Center
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Highway 146
F.M. Saunders
Edwin E. Finn
Charles §. Dreymala
Bob ‘Lyons
James Morell
Andvice
Lola Welch
Tom Stoltz
J. W. Anderson
S. KR. Jones Jr
W. O Lindsey
H. C. Scheichler
W. H. Fagan
J. O. Kirk
R. J. McAmis
Robert Seale
Edwin B Finn
Charles L. Laswell
David Pasternak
Clyde M. Speed
F. G. Jones
C. E B. Leach
F. M. Saunders
E. Jack Walton
Rolan Walton
Jerry 5. Dominy
Fred A. Benson
Dominy
Benson
Baytonian
Marion Magee
Herbert Herbert
Herbert-Hauser Agency
Joe W. Lawrence
Lawrence Insurance Agency
Magee
Ernest Hauser
R&r
Beverly
Odem Childers
C. W. Kennedy
B. A. Stewart
Charles F. Ramsey
Pat Ball
Charles FF
Ramsey
Independent Insurance Association
Odenu Childers
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Impala
RADIO
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Yon
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Tuckster
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