Flu and illness hit area schools with seasonal burden
Attendance clerks report flu measles mumps and chickenpox strains. Several schools show higher absences than normal though overall district figures run near typical levels. Baytown Junior tops with chickenpox and measles cases while Cedar Bayou Highlands and Horace Mann report varied activity and Ross Sterling Robert E. Lee sit near normal with flu as a major factor.
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Harlem Sun
Baytown
Cedar ‘Bayou
Highlands
Horace Mann
Cedar Bayou
Ross Sterling
Robert E. Lee
Record heat tops Baytown area as temps hit new highs
Baytown area records included 82 degrees on Wednesday and another record Tuesday. Harris County tax office at 307 West Texas extends hours to Friday afternoon to collect taxes before delinquency. Oyster fry tickets from Bobby Sutphin at Exxon Annual Meeting and Bay Gun Club directors to be elected. Lee College LVN applications due February 15 and FEB 1 SAT prep for Robert E. Lee students. Local notes mention community events, a police school visit, and reminders of wildlife fines for robin shooting.
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Harris
Harris County
West Texas
Bobby Sutphin
Exxon
Credit Union
Bayshore
Bay- Gun Club
Children’s
Con- LC Womenter
Inter- Lee College
LVN
Fine Arts
Lee College
Country Club Elects Slate Of Officers
Goose Creek Country Club announces 1976 officers with William J. Gidley as president J Kelly Elliott as vice president Don Faust as secretary and A J Smith Jr as treasurer The five new three year board members are Smith Ralph Sharpness J W Jack Strickler Dave C Swalin and Dr Morris W Wolfean Other directors have two or one year remaining and emphasis this year will be on improving facilities and programs.
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Goose Creek Country Club
William J. Gidley
J. Kelly Elliott
Don Faust
A.J. Smith Jr
Smith
Ralph Sharpness
J. W
Jack) Strickler
Dave C. Swalin
Morris W. Wolfean
Not Sad or Mad Joe Allen Loses House Chair
State Rep. Joe Allen of Baytown accepts losing the House Administration Committee chair in the 64th Legislature. He aims to focus on revenue taxation and intergovernmental affairs, saying the session should be productive. He notes 54 bills introduced and 22 passed previously and lists subsidence control, a utility commission, health and environment as priorities.
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Austin
Joe Allen
Baytown
House
Joe
Sam
the Sun
Utility Commission
Health and Environment
Price Daniel Jr
Allen
Jobless rate drops in Houston SMSA in December
Houston area figures from the Texas Employment Commission show unemployment at 4 per cent of the civilian labor force in December, down from 4.5 per cent in November. The Houston SMSA includes Baytown and covers 1,061,100 in the labor force with 1,018,600 employed and 1.7 per cent insured unemployment. projections anticipate a rise to about 4.5 per cent in March 1975.
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Houston
Texas Employment Commission
Baytown
SMSA
Machinists approve Exxon pact to avert strike
Avers strike threat, International Association of Machinists Local No.1 Aerospace Workers vote to approve 214 year contracts with Exxon. Wages include 75 cent hourly increase retroactive to Jan. 8, 1975 and 8 percent general raise on Jan. 8, 1976. Open-negotiation rights retained. About 200 members cast ballots, per Hector Meza.
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EVA Luthringers
Con- Association of Machinists
Aerospace Workers Local No
Exxon Active
Tsd
Bevan Chaminal Avert
EXXON
Hector Meza
Optimists To Present Program On Hearing Neighbors
The Baytown Evening Optimist Club will host a program at 7 p.m. Saturday in the Community Building. The event features award winning acts from Optimist International competition and includes the Lively Hands Choir from Austin. The project aims to raise community awareness about people with hearing problems and how schools and churches determine neighbors.
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Baytown
Virgie Bletch
Kenneth Thompson
Mack Stephenson
Clifford Flocek
Lively Hands
Congress Avenue Baptist Church
Austin
Lester Alford
Evening Optimist
Budget impasse nears end in Harris County 1975 plan
Harris County Commissioners Court debated a 1975 budget over 200 million dollars with final adoption imminent. The plan adds five deputy constables for Precinct 3 to bolster rural law enforcement and includes a blanket 12 percent pay raise for all county employees. The general fund is 68.2 million, road and bridge 18.2 million, with adoption deadlines set by state law.
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Houston
Harris County Commissioners Court
Jack Heard
Precinct
Jim Fontena
Heard
Jim Douglas
Baytown
Commissioners Court
Sheriff's Department
Grady Fullerton
the Sun
Fullerton
Left Turn Signal Enhances Ward Road to Alexander Drive
A new protected left turn signal began operating Thursday at Ward Road and Alexander Drive. The signal allows drivers to turn left without waiting for a gap in east west traffic on Ward Road, improving safety and flow.
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Ward Road
Alexander Drive
History Revisited: Ross Smith’s 1942 Elms Field Drive
Much-deserved publicity recalls Ross Smith, blocking back for district 14AA, whose key four or five first down drive at Elms Field in 1942 helped a 7-3 win over PA. Though he never carried, his play paved the way for George Walmsley’s TD glides, echoing a 1974 nod to the 1942 model.
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Ross
Ronnie) Smith
Yesteryear
Ross Smith
Bud
District
George Walmsley
Elms Field
Ross’ Smith
Angered Commissioners Trim Sheriff Budget in Houston
Commissioners tentatively set a 13.1 million appropriation for Sheriff Jack Heard’s department, about 1.7 million below his request but over 3 million more than 1974 spending. They reallocated funds to add patrolmen and deputy constables while abolishing the civil division, shifting duties to rural offices.
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Houston
Jack Heard
Commissioners Court
Sheriff's Department
Heard
Bob Eckels
Football gate totals from Houston high schools rise profits
The district collected 126890.05 from football gate receipts this year as varsity attendance declined at Ross Sterling and Robert E. Lee. Football remains the only profitable sport, funding losses in other sports while playoff and homecoming games boosted totals. Sterling-Lee and Spring Branch games were top earners with reserves aiding bond payments.
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Pete Sultis
Sultis
Ross Sterling
Robert EH
Lee Ganders
Sterling Rangers
Memorial
iStadium
Stallworth Stallworth Stadium
Sterling-Lee
REL
Spring Branch
Sterling
Galena Park
Ranger
Weather and Tides Forecast for Baytown
Mostly cloudy and mild through Thursday night and Friday with a slight chance of showers and fog Friday morning. Southeasterly winds 8 to 16 mph. Low temperatures in the mid 60s Thursday night. Friday highs in the mid 70s. Rain probability 20 percent through Friday. Baytown tides on Friday at 11:34 am and 11:40 pm high tides, 5:26 am and 5:35 pm low tides.
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Baytown
Baytown Historian Helped Shape TV Honorable Sam
Dr Ralph A Wooster of Lamar University, Baytown native and Texas State Historical Association president, served as historical consultant for The Honorable Sam Houston. He advised on costumes sets and details from 1860 65, corrected voting booth anachronisms and child ages, and guided script accuracy.
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Wanda Orton
Sam Houston
Ralph A. Wooster
Ralph
Baytown
John Ward
Polly
Lamar University
Texas State Historical Association
Robert E. Lee
W. W.browm
Sybil Jordan
James Chamberlain
Lee College
John Wooster
Wooster
Brownwood
Houston
Texas
Union
Sar Houston
Thomas Jefferson Chambers
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Torney Turner
Oklahoma 400 Club
Fred Kana
Margaret Miller
Adele Swan
Country Club
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Howard Johnson
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San Jacinto Baptist Asso
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Peggy Jones
Sheryle Salyer
Pam Arline
David Pitmentel
Carolyn
Pam Hornsby
Jepp Busch
John Singer
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Optimist
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Aid, Smith Jr
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J.K. Elliott
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