Baytown police tie thefts to string of burglaries
Baytown police probed several thefts Wednesday including a $250 pocket theft from Bowie School Drive, a $3,800 red and white 1978 Ford F 150 from San Jacinto Mall, a motor home burglary with $400 damage, two forged withdrawals totaling $2,575, a forged $375 check, a $400 stereo theft from a Neal Street car, and a $196 theft of a cash box and mufflers from North Alexander Drive.
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Baytown
Bowie School Drive
San Jacinto Mall
Sandy Lane
Neal
North Alexander Drive
Officials say teachers insulted by testing reform
An official from the Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association says teachers feel insulted by a new school reform law that requires competency exams. He notes professionals have commitment to children and community, and favors evaluation over universal testing.
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Austin
Brad Duggan
Texas’ Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association
Duggan
Principals’ Group
Texas
Gene Stokes
Elentary Principals’ Group
Stokes
Highway widening plan for 610 South Loop approved
The Federal Highway Administration approves environmental and public involvement for a 35.8 million project to widen SH 610 South Loop in Harris County from eight to ten lanes and add a center reversible transitway. Project slated to bid in early 1996 funded by federal and state funds. maps and drawings available at the District Office, 7721 Washington Avenue, Houston.
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Houston
State Department of Highways and Public Transportation
Federal Highway Administration
Harris County
SH 610
Post Oak Road
Washington Avenue
Fire destroys W. Jack home in Gre
A Thursday 12 22 a m blaze destroyed Walter Moore’s home at 209 W Jack and caused damage to adjacent houses. Juan Hernandez’s at 207 W Jack suffered 3000 while Robert Steele’s at 211 W Jack incurred 1000 in damage. Steele’s 1944 Oldsmobile and Thelma Keys’ car at 216 W Jack sustained heat damage. Firefighters could not determine the blaze’s start area or cause. Stations 3 and 4 with Districts 3 and 4 volunteers responded.
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Walter Moore
W. Jack
Moore
Juan Hernandez
Robert Steele
Steele
Thelma Keys
Keys
Fire Department
Baytown Area Notices Include Deaths Meetings and Classes
A list of local notices covers services for Joann Mur dock Taylor of Odessa and Wally M. Gibbons in Pearland, pending at Navarre's Paul A. Lee Funeral Home and graveside rites. Community events span Mother Support Center, Humble Pioneers, Service League Baytown, Lee College courses, country cooking cookbooks, church gatherings, KOA residents meeting, a fish fry postponement, Alamo PTA, and a Founders Day luncheon with Baytown School District Superintendent Kennedy speaking.
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Barry Nettles
Baytown
Liz Macon
Parent-Teachers Association
Billy Kennedy
Sun
Angie Bracey
Taylor
Joann Murdock Taylor
Odessa
Navarre
Paul A. Lee
Robert E. Lee
Horace Mann
Economy rebounds as GNP growth outpaces earlier estimates
Indicators point to a late year rebound with GNP revised to 3.9 percent for Q4, outpacing July-September growth of 1.6 percent. Factory output rose sharply in December and personal income increased 0.5 percent, even as the Leading Economic Index fell for three straight months.
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Commerce Department
Senate OKs San Jacinto Day with statewide holiday in 1986
The Texas Senate approved a bill to make April 21, 1986 Texas Sesquicentennial Day with state offices closed. The bill, by Sen. Lindon Williams, would honor Texas independence from Mexico on the 150th anniversary. Other measures passed include investment rules for the state treasury and a raise in youth camp renewal fees. A winter storm forced the Senate to adjourn with plans to reconvene Thursday.
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Legislative Budget Board
Senate
House
James McGrew
Texas Research League
C.H
Ike” Harris
Dallas
Austin
Bill Hobby
Pasadena
Chet Brooks
Winter storm blankets Texas with snow and deadly wrecks
Bitter cold grips the state as a winter storm spreads from Amarillo to South Texas. At 5 a.m. Amarillo logged 2 degrees with wind chills near 37 below. Snow north of a Laredo Kingsville line and dense fog in Southeast Texas slow travel, while a fatal crash near Perryt on northeast Panhandle endangers lives. An Oklahoma man dies in the traffic buildup caused by the weather.
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Amarillo
South Texas
Hill
Laredo
Kingsville
Rio Grande Valley
Texas
National Weather Service
Houston
Panhandle
State Highway Department
Perryton
Oklahoma
Radar aids fight against drug smuggling by forces
Air Force and Navy equipment supports U S Customs Service in intercepting smugglers. Hughes Aircraft radar, built for an Air Force fighter, was installed on Navy patrol aircraft to detect slow low flying aircraft over land or sea. It tracks targets and feeds data to Coast Guard and other agencies for interception.
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EL Segundo
Calif
Air Force
Navy
U.S. Customs Service
Hughes Aircraft Co
U.S. Navy
United States
Coast Guard
Baytown Newspaper Postal Details and Rates
The notice lists second class matter status at Baytown Texas post office and address for Coastal Publications at 1301 Memorial Drive Baytown with P O Box 90 77322. It shows subscription rates four eighty five per month and fifty eight twenty per year with single copy prices twenty five cents daily and fifty cents Sunday.
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Baytown
Texas
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William Littlefield
Seventh
Baytown Sun
Highway 146
Alexander Drive
the Sun
Dewey Bruce Childress
Pecan Manor
Highway Administration
Oks
Trinity Episcopal Church
W. Main
Humble Pioneers
Humble Pioneer Club
Service League
Service League of
Lee College
Ladies Auxiliary
Old River-Winfree
Finley
Federico DE Anda
Allende
Coahuila
Mexico
Isabel de Los Santea
Cesar Trevino
Church Women United
Church Women United Board of Managers
First Presbyterian Church
1715
Market
Wells Group
KOA
Sunflower Mobile Home Park
Beach City
West Chambers County
Alamo
PTA
Alamo Elementary School
Baines
Mary Kay Fischer
Baytown Parks and Recreation Department
Pagel
San Jacinto
The
Donna
Morrell
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