Floating Rubber Bands Hold Weather Buoy in Place
Santa Barbara AP notes Pacific Missile Range weather buoy 10 miles northwest of Santa Barbara Island is anchored by four 35 foot by 1 inch rubber bands. The bands prevent rotation, improving weather data accuracy. Engineer Fred Roehler says bands stretch 700 feet to the ocean floor and worry is about air and sunlight degrading rubber, not salt water.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Pacific Missile Range
Santa Barbara Island
Fred Roehler
PMR
Roehler
Channelview Bank reports record earnings and assets growth
Channelview Bank released its annual report showing net operating earnings of 101,774.99 dollars, up 56.3 percent from 1968, and per share 4.07 dollars versus 2.60. Year end deposits rose to 9,275,982.02 dollars, assets to 10,090,641,500 dollars, with 28.3 percent deposit growth and 27.2 percent asset growth. In fall 1969 the bank began Master Charge card use and now has over 2,000 cards. Officers and directors are listed. after the stockholders meeting Jerry S. Dominy and Fred A. Bensart were elected to the board.
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Channelview
Channel‘view Bank
Baytown Insurance Group Honors Secret ary Treasure
Miss Odena Childers received a plaque for four years as secretary treasurer of the Independent Insurance Association of Baytown known as the Big 1. Marion Magee presented the award. Childers will again serve as secretary treasurer in 1970 alongside officers and committee appointments announced by Magee.
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Odena Childers
Independent Insurance Association of
Baytown
Marion Magee
Kennedy Magee and Godfrey Agency
Independent Insurance Associaton of
Big 1
Byice
Miss Childers
Qodena Childers Agency
Marlon Magee
Herbert Herbert
Herbert-Hauser Agency
Joe W. Lawrence
Tthe Lawrence Insurance Agency
Magee
Ernest Hattser
R. S. Beverly
Gdena Childers
C. W. Kennedy
B. A. Stewart
Charles F. Ramsey
Pat Ball
Independent Insurance Association
TSTI Enrolls Over Two Thousand at Waco Campus
The James Connally Campus of the Texas State Technical Institute marks its fourth year in Waco with enrollment above 2,000 and 54 courses across technical and skill development areas. The campus sits on former U.S. Air Force property purchased in 1967 for 5.4 million, and plans call for growth to 3,500 to 5,000 students and 100 courses by mid-decade.
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WACO
James Connally
Texas State Technical Institute
TSTI
James Connally Technical Institute
Texas
Texas A&m Continent
Amarillo
Technical Sweetwater
Che Rio Gande
Wo Jnstate
Harlingen
U. S. Air Force
James Connally Air Force Base
State Tech
Rio Grande
Jack OH. Kultgen
Roy Dugger
TST
Dugger
Bugger
Shoplifting Cases Rise Reported by Vickery Office
Justice of the Peace Glenn Vickery cites an uptick in shoplifting prosecutions. In December the office processed more cases, including misdemeanors and felonies, with Baytown Police handling seven misdemeanors involving 17 suspects in 1969.
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Justice of the Peace
Glenn
Vickery
Ea Duin i
Baytown Police Department
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Aboard
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Charles §. Dreymal
Foculor
Bob Lyons
James Morell
Jerry S. Dominy
Fred A. Bensart
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Impala
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Tuckster
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