Accused Plane Hijacker Warns Cuba Trip Could Be Deadly
An American writer named Alben Truitt 35 grandson of the late Vice President Alben Barkley faced U.S. hijacking charges for a chartered plane trip to Cuba. He claims innocence and spoke from a Canadian confinement situation noting Havana papers link to CIA plots. He criticized communism but declined to discuss specifics and described solitary confinement in a security house with limited contact and no tobacco.
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Cuba
Montreal
United States
Alben Truitt
Alben Barkley
Conver
Central Intelligence Agency
Cane Field
Truitt
Havana
CIA
U.S
Ministry of the
Interior
Department of State Security
Public Hearing Postponed On U S Steel Water Discharge
The Texas Water Quality Board postponed U S Steel’s public hearing on discharging 184 million gallons daily into Cedar Bayou and Galveston Bay from February 3 to February 28 due to insufficient advertising. Community events follow with Flora Wilhite discussing library service area, Albert Johnston on Olympics, and local clubs scheduling programs plus Camellia Show in Liberty City Hall.
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U.S. Steel
Cedar Bayou
Galveston Bay
Texas Water Quality Board
Weather shifts as clouds linger into Friday
Mostly cloudy conditions persist with little temperature change through Friday. Showers are forecast Thursday and Thursday night. Temperature ranges reach the upper 60s to upper 70s. Community notes mention Leanee Isget receiving a bowling award and Rev Jim Brown covering duties on short notice. Various local figures attend events and plan activities amid a stream of brief society items.
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Leanece Isget
Jim Brown
Connie Harvold
Vivian Leach
Jim Sammons
Washington
Dan Mundingers
Jim Baileys
Austin
Nancy Mundinger
C. W. Hastings
Voting Registration To End At Midnight Friday
Harris County records show the final registration deadline is midnight Friday in 1969. Tax offices in Baytown will open 8 a.m. to midnight while registration sites at Citizens National Bank Humble Oil Baytown Refinery and several retailers plus Lee College and Sterling Library will operate limited hours. County Tax Assessor-Collector Carl Smith hopes as many as 625060 residents will register.
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Harris County
Carl Smith
Baytown
Texas
A. B. Collins
Collins
League of Women Voters
Citizens National Bank
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Gibson's
Sears
Kmart, Lee College
Sterling Municipal Library
Smith
Baytown Rep. Allen Named Vice Chairman of Data Panel
Speaker Gus F. Mutscher appoints State Rep. Joe Allen of Baytown as vice chairman of the House data processing and printing committee, one of the youngest in the 61st Legislature. The five member panel, led by Carl A. Parker, oversees state use of computers and printing. Allen also serves on conservation and reclamation counties public land and buildings and liquor regulation. He works in Baytown at Citizens National Bank and Trust Co and holds multiple local and state affiliations. The Allens reside at 5315 Bayway Drive and have a daughter, Sydney Lisa.
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Carl A. Parker
Port Arthur
Allen
Baytown
Citizens National Bank and Trust Co
Houston Mortgage Bankers Association
The
United Fund
Baytown Pioneers Recall Life In The 1900s
Edward L. Scott and Esther recall Cedar Bayou life near 6330 Stolander Road. They describe one room school days, three months of schooling, homemade lunches, and land borders without boundaries. Scott recalls 50 years with Cedar Bayou Masonic Lodge, brick trade, ship traffic, and rabbit markets. The 1915 hurricane memory also figures in.
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Ron Lennard
Edward L. Scott
Esther
Stolander Road
Huffman
Scott
Scalt
Ellis League
Cedar Bayou
Scotts
Houston
Galveston
City Tax Payments Due Friday
City Tax Assessor-Collector Q. M. Coe Jr. urged taxpayers to pay current taxes by Friday to avoid delinquent penalties. Mail postmarks dated Friday will be accepted without penalty. Humble Oil Refining Co. paid $741,622.68 this week, about 32.6 percent of the city tax roll, not including its industrial district payment of $274,454.76. Humble’s payments total $998,800.67 this year, up $17,456.77 from last year.
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Q. M. Coe Jr
Coe
Humble Oill Refining Co
Humble
J. B. LeFevre
Baytown Councilman Files For Mayor In Quiet Bid
Baytown City Councilman A. Am Braswell filed for mayor shortly before noon Thursday, becoming the second councilman to seek the post after Councilman Albert Fanestiel. Mayor Seaborn Cravey has not publicly stated his intentions.
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Baytown
A. AM
Braswell
Bela
Seaborn Crayvey
Albert Fanestiel
Cravey
Dulles dies after flu pneumonia at Georgetown Hospital
Allen W. Dulles former CIA chief died at Georgetown University Hospital at age 73 after complications from flu and pneumonia. President Nixon addresses about 700 policy officials inviting dissenting views while seeking advice and consent. An American engineer on loan to an oil firm faces espionage charges in Iraq after recent arrest. Longshoremen leader Gleason vows longer strikes as ILA’s action cripples Atlantic and Gulf coast port shipping.
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Allen W. Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Georgetown University Hospital
Nixon
Iraq
Thomas Gleason
International Longshoremen's Association
Atlantic
Gulf Coast
Sweeping Review Of U S Tax Laws Planned
A report cites Iraq claiming Israeli air raids east of the cease-fire line near Jordan. Israel denies any attack while newsmen observe no unusual activity. Baghdad radio quotes seven Israeli planes striking Iraqi units with one fighter down. Dayan condemns De Gaulle and French arms to Israel amid tensions and trials in Baghdad.
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Tel Aviv
Baghdad
Jordan
Associated Press
Iraq
Israel
Moshe Dayan
U.S. Department
Syrian
Golan Heights
Jordan River
Basra
United States
Strahan Pushes For Full Time Campus Security Officer
LC President Dr Richard D Strahan tells the LC Board of Regents that a full time campus security officer is needed amid on campus thefts and disturbances. The officer would patrol 36 acres on foot and scooter, operate 40-44 hours weekly, be armed under state law, deputized to make arrests, with salary paid from parking fines and a reserves balance of 13579 dollars.
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Lee College
Richard D. Strahan
LC Board of Regents
Strahan
Dr. Strahan
Committee Hearings Set Feb. 18
The House Ways and Means Committee will begin a months long review of federal tax laws on February 18 focusing first on tax exempt foundations. Subsequent hearings will cover deductions and expansive reform topics while bipartisan calls for reform increase.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means Committee
Democratic National Committee
New York
John W. Byrnes
Wisconsin
Ways and Means
Treasury Department
Byrnes
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Kiwanis Club
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Mexico City
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Atascochia
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W. W. Woods
0. A. Dyer
Laround
Peoples State Bank
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Rep. Allen
fOf House Data Panel
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Will Hayden
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Missouri Pacific
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