Baytown panel weighs ramp variance amid disability concerns
Baytown City Council set a special Monday meeting to consider a building code variance for Frank Angel's second floor restaurant near Highway 146. The move risks possible discrimination claims against the handicapped and could affect flood plain insurance, with city officials noting legal prohibitions on denying access to public facilities.
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Lisa Ocker
Baytown
Frank Angel
Randy Strong
Fiood Plain
Angel
Baytown- la Porte Tunnel
Howdy
Perry Simmons
Fred Philips
Fritz Lanham
Strong
Philips
Gerald Dickens
Brownwood de annexation eye arises in civic meeting
Brownwood Civic Association weighs de annexation of a subdivision by Baytown to escape the Brownwood Ordinance. President Jean Shepherd says county talks are needed to meet flood plain requirements while attorneys discuss potential lawsuits. About 50 residents met to reorganize and hear an update on legal action options.
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Baytown
Deannex
Brownwood Civic Association
Brownwood
Jean Shepherd
Civic Association
Goose Creek Old Timers Thin As Youths Retire
Old timers in Goose Creek Baytown and Pelly are thinning out rapidly leaving only younger residents to retire from active life.
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Goose Creek
Baytown
Pelly
Around Town: Kiwanis News From Phoenix Convention
Reid Richards son of Steve and Robin Richards recovers well after surgery. Pat Parker, a 1972 Robert E. Lee High School graduate from Oklahoma City, sends regards to Baytown friends via Kiwanis at a Phoenix convention. Ralph Wilson from Arkansas notes he is an old friend of Lan Williams at the gathering. Roger Botelson from Florida mentions his brother-in-law Phil Hilson teaches music at Horace Mann Junior School where Jim Finley’s wife Margie works. Billie Hinton is praised for a new hair style. Rayburn Beaudouef is acknowledged on television.
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Reid Richards
Steve
Robin Richards
Pat Parker
Oklahoma City
Robert E. Lee
Baytown
Phoenix
Ralph Wilson
Arkansas
Kiwanis
Lan Williams
Roger Botelson
Florida
Jim Finley
Phil Hilson
Horace Mann
Jim
Margie
Billie Hinton
Rayburn Beaudouef
Baytown Forecast: Scattered Thunder Showers This Weekend
The Baytown area is partly cloudy with widely scattered thunder showers Saturday night and Sunday. The low Saturday night will be in the mid-70s, and the high Sunday is expected to reach the mid-90s. Southerly winds around 10 mph.
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Baytown
Mobile home subdivision on panel agenda
Baytown Planning Commission will revisit the Orchard Crossing mobile home subdivision near Highlands to revise preliminary approval. Changes include replacing an open flood control ditch with a closed storm sewer and rearranging lots to preserve trees and a ravine. A temporary sewage treatment plant is planned and will be dismantled after use.
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Baytown
Conger
Mobile Home
Mobile
Obstructions banned under new city traffic view ordinance
City Council approved a measure outlawing plants or structures that block drivers’ view at intersections and driveways, allowing only pre existing buildings to remain. A second ordinance amends kennel rules to permit four or more dogs for owners who owned them before the change, with compliance relaxed. The council also moved to seek Emergency Veteran's Job Training Act funds to train veterans from Vietnam and Korea in in demand technical fields, with VA reimbursement at 50 percent of base salary to a $10,000 cap. Public works actions included water and sewer connections for Forest Bend, Goose Creek land dedication, interim utilities for a mobile home, housing rehab contracts, final payment for Oakwood Street improvements, and several equipment contracts.
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Lisa Ocker
Veterans Administration
Richard Hare
Golden Triangle
Baytown
Fisher Scientific
Space weapon talks inch toward U S Soviet pact
President Reagan accepts a Soviet proposal to discuss banning space weapons if Moscow will discuss resuming nuclear arms talks. McFarlane said the United States might attend talks in Vienna in September even if the Kremlin won t discuss atomic weapons. The move comes amid tense relations as Moscow withdraws from arms talks to protest U S missile deployments in Western Europe.
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Reagan
Moscow
Robert ©. McFarlane
Soviet Union
Vienna
McFarlane
United States
Kremlin
Europe
Pentagon
Air Force
U.S
Konstantin Chernenko
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