Baytown Briefs: funerals, clubs, and local notices
Funeral attendance for John Wolcik in Fayetteville Arkansas. Boy Scout Troop 255 chili supper Friday at Grace Methodist Church to fund raise. Rotary and Gulf Coast Gun Club meetings set with renewals and keys. Bufkins return from Breckenridge after funeral of J M Bufkin. James Ewell Sr and daughter Candy visit Baton Rouge. Women Golfers plan Goose Creek Club election. Fleming family back from China Lake after visit with W. R. dieBrides. Baytown forecast cloudy to partly cloudy with showers. highs upper 50s to mid 70s. Galveston tides listed for Wednesday at 3:30 am, 7 pm high and 11:18 am, 1L:34 pm low.
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Grace Methodist Church
Baytown Area
Local notes highlight community figures and events
Mary Margaret Tanner recalls aging memories while Nona Higginbotham starts a business career. Latcille Rockhold supports dignified applause as Pete Sultis transitions from coach to assistant athletic director. Lilly Ocker wins a prize and Ewell Clark Jr. demonstrates a music invention. Barbara Listien enjoys a dinner meeting as Wes Woods touts cannas for an exhibit. Don Cook ponders timing of a photo. Mrs Reed Mooring offers extra plates at the Girl Scout banquet. Bertie Carpenter is warmly welcomed. Margie Kloesel delivers a report early and Janet Lee considers Colorado camp options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Margaret Tanner
Nona Mae Higginbotham
Janie
Latcille Rockhold
Pete Sultis
Lilly Ocker
Ewell Clark Jr
Barbara Listi
Wesley Woods
Don Cook
Reed Mooring
Bertie Carpenter
Margie Kloesel
Janet Lee
Colorado
Installment Payoff Boosts 1967 School Tax receipts
Humble Refining Co. paid 3 611 539 39 for 1907 school and college tax. Enoch, collector, notes this largest 1967 check and that over 37 percent of the district’s tax roll is now collected. Tax deadline is Wednesday to avoid penalties of one and a half percent monthly.
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Hobart Enoch
Humble Oil
Bay
Euyl Sesse
Hobart Kneck
Humble Ouan Refining Co
Big Core Pany
Humble
Enoch
Humie
L. Dwayne Jones
Humbe
Law Department
Houston
World Campus Afloat Will Be Baytonian's Classroom
Vivacious Baytown coed May McMillin will study aboard the world campus on the S. S. Ryndam sailing from Lima to Casablanca to Athens. The program mixes classroom work with on site study in ports. May takes Western World Literature Psychology of Religion French Art History and Comparative Sprints Development. She departs from Houston after orientation in Los Angeles.
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World
Baytonian
Johnella Boynton
Baytown
Ryndam
Marky
IK. McMillins
Rollingwood
Mothers Marches For Dimes Campaign In Harris County
Harris County mothers finish a week of door to door soliciting for the March of Dimes. Volunteers including fathers and teens collect contributions with the drive centered in East Harris County and the funds mainly stay for the Houston Birth Defects Center at Texas Children’s Hospital.
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Harris County
Houston
Richard Buttarhee
Baytown
Citizens National Bank
Franklin E. Roosevelt
Estelle Hunter
McNair
H. O Brazzel Ofrosby
Robert, Bandy
Channelview
W. J. Urana
Sheldon
Dale Morse
Hulfman
Nick Listi
Highlands
Ed Hasty
West Baytown
Gordon Johnson
East Baytown
Fran Muller
la Porte
Haris County
Texas Children's Hospital
Nixon aide hints at Thursday presidential decision
An aide to Richard Nixon says he will issue a statement Thursday about whether he will seek the Republican presidential nomination this year. The report notes broader national and international events as context for the day’s news roundup.
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Richard Nixon
Hitchhiker Suspect in Millionaire Death in Texas
Odessa police charged 21 year old Miguel Ybarra with murder while 21 year old AWOL soldier Michael Robineau faced charges after a Colorado millionaire died from a gunshot wound. Robineau had a blood stained car and both men tied by the missing body near Big Lake. The victim, heir to a 3 million oil fortune, had been mustered out at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. Police search involved hundreds of officers and volunteers. the body was found by a 15 year old hunter in a cotton field near Odessa.
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San Angelo
Tex
Michael Robineau
Miguel Galligas Ybarya
Odessa
Robineau
Denver
Ft. Sam Houston
San Antonio
Ybarra
Ybbarra
United States
Korea
Big Lake
Harris County approves 42.6 million budget despite deputy request denial
Harris County commissioners adopt a 42.6 million budget for the justice of the peace and constable offices. Constable Paul Anderson fails in his bid for two extra deputies, with his 1968 office budget set at 44,174 dollars, up from last year. New Justice of the Peace Clean Vickery oversees a 52,833.50 dollar budget, while salaries rise for several clerks and office staff. The tax rate remains 2.04 per 100 valuation, with a July 20 deadline for a new rate, and the budget excludes flood, hospital, malaria control, and ship channel districts.
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Paul Anderson
Harris County
Anderson
Justice of the Peace Office
Precinct 3
Commissioners Court
Justice of the Peace Clean Vickery
Justice of the Peace
M. M. Brown
Houston-Harrris County
City of
Houstonian Is Grilled By Police
Baytown detectives questioned a 41 year old Houston man in the icepick murder of Baytown hotel owner Harry Creger. Creger was found strangled and stabbed 18 times in his Pearce Street hotel apartment Saturday night. Robbery may have been the motive. a wallet and gold Bulova watch were found, the docket turned inside out.
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Baytown
Harry Creger
Houston
Aubrey Henscey
Robert Merchant
James Taylor
Morris Gill
Creger
W Pearce
Zelda Malone
Fis
Man Woman Charged In Check Forgery Here
Arliss J. Huffman 47 was charged in Justice of the Peace Court with forgery and passing forged checks. Arrested in Houston about midnight Monday by Bay town detectives and brought to Baytown. Forged checks passed at Sears A&P and Henke's. Also arrested 9 woman Gladys E. Prather charged with forgery in connection with the Huffman case.
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Arliss J. Huffman
Justice of the Peace Court
Houston
Baytown
Robert Merchant
Morris Gill
Glen Rosier
Sears
A&p
Henke
Gladys E. Prather
Huffman
Kilgore Memorial Dedicated at San Jacinto Hospital
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital will dedicate the John M. Kilgore Memorial in a new hospital wing funded by a gift from Kilgore’s children. The family offered six Lakeview Heights lots appraised above 27000 to support the capital improvement fund, nearing 470000 with a goal of 670590 to match Hill Burton funds for a fourth floor and second-phase additions.
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Hospital Foundation
Kilgore
Morris Kilgore
Raymond
Boyd Kilgore
J. D
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital Foundation
Giddings
Joe Kilgore
James Harrop
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Kilgore Memorial
John M. Kilgore
Children of the Hospital
Cedar Bay Methodist
Lakeview Heights
Harrop
Hill- Burton
James A. Davis
Austin
Hill - Burton
Kikgores
Ana Tat Dar Dinar
San Jacinto Hospital
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Frank Wolcik
John Wolcik
Fayetteville, Ark
Rotary
Rick Thompson
Baytown Roary Club
Gun Club
Gulf Coast Gun Club
Chamber of Commerce
N. V. Bufkin
Naveille
Breckenridge
Bufkin
J. M. Bufkin
Louisiana
James Ewell Sr
Candy
Baton Rouge
State Capitol
Louisiana State University
Golfers
Womens Golf Association
Goose Creek Country Club
R. C. Fleming
Crosby
China Lake
Calif
W. R. dieBrides
Frank Turpin
E. Dyeaynes Jones
Marky McMillin
South Vietnam
Dellas
North Dalias
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Soviet Union
Japan
Philip Biniberg
London Daily Mail
Cuba
Key West
Fla
Ramsey Clark
Senate
West
Texas
Gary Gerngrass
Walt
Gerngrass
Ranger
A. ¥. Allee Jr
M. H. Robinexu
Solimer
Washington
J. D. Giddings
Harrep
Citizens National Bank & Trust Co
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