Violent Baytown storm causes roof and gym damage
High winds and lightning struck the Baytown area causing extensive damage to Ross S. Sterling High School and Winnie Brown gym. Roof sections, a skylight, and a vent hood were blown off with estimates up to 100000 dollars for the Sterlings gym. Minor damage reported at Kilgore Center and other facilities as city crews assessed the aftermath.
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H.S. Wardle
W. Francis
Ross S. Sterling High School
Sun
Carrie Pryor
Angie Bracey
Bruce Guynn
David Mohlman
Baytown
Winnie Brown
Charles ‘Bud’ Cross
RSS
Closs
Sterling
Kilgore Center
Two-Truck Crash Kills West Bay Road Man
A year old Farm Road 1405 resident Donald Leonard Bobbitt died in a fiery two vehicle crash on West Bay Road in Chambers County at 9 40 p m Tuesday. He drove a 1980 Chevrolet pickup rear ending a Ken worth winch truck driven by L B Youngblood of Houston. The pickup overturned and caught fire. Bobbitt died at the scene and was later transported to the Harris County Medical Examiner's Office. funeral services are pending.
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Baytown Area
West Bay Road
Chambers County
Department of Public Safety
Beaumont
Houston
Youngblood
DPS
Sterling Funeral Home
Harris County Medical Examiners Office
Weather Outlook Partly Cloudy With Light Rain Chance
Partly cloudy conditions with a 20 percent probability of rain are forecast for Wednesday night with a low in the mid-70s. Thursday brings partly cloudy skies and a 20 percent rain chance with a high in the low 90s.
Pearce Street Journal Executive Privilege Test
An editor notes a test of executive material and privilege, joking about delaying tasks by delegating to others, asking if postponement will ever stop. The snippet frames a meta question on efficiency and leadership style.
Local figures share health, planning and repair notes
Around Town reports BILL BRENTZELL, ex art teacher at Robert E Lee High School, recovering in Methodist Hospital Houston ICU after open heart surgery. Tom Gentry declines comment on rising paper use. Pete Cote plans for a heat wave. Jim Lewis recounts a door repair story.
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Bill Brentzell
Robert E. Lee High School
Methodist Hospital
Houston
Tom Gentry
Pete Cote
Jim Lewis
House panel OKs tax package Lewis calls secret plan
The House Ways and Means Committee approved a $5.7 billion tax package that would raise the state sales tax from 4.4 to 6 percent, tax insurance premiums, and make the 15-cent fuels tax permanent. If approved by the Senate and signed by Gov. Clements, it would fund a $37.9 million state budget, with $3 billion from the sales tax rise and $1.8 billion from insurance taxes, while halving transit taxes in several cities to ease impact on big-city Texans. If no action is taken, the fuels tax falls back to 10 cents and the sales tax to 4 percent.
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Austin
Bill Clements
House
Ways and Means Committee
Clements
Senate
Houston
Corpus Christi
San Antonio
Dallas
Appropriations Committee
Kathryn Hurzeler Named Harlem Elementary Principal
Kathryn Hurzeler, 39, has been chosen as the new principal of Harlem Elementary School. She comes from Kilgore Center where she served as assistant director for special education last year and previously held roles in special education and early childhood teaching within the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn Hurzeler
Harlem
Hurzeler
Kilgore Center
Houston University Park
University of Houston-Clear Lake
Baytown Soldier Hurt In German Blast Amid Funeral Services
A 23 year old Baytown man Adan Garcia Rosas was listed in very serious but stable condition at 97th General Hospital Frankfurt after a blast that killed three soldiers during a demolition exercise at Hohenfels Training Area. Investigators from Fort Rucker and others sought the cause while training with an M 180 crater kit was suspended. Memorial services were set for Keith Lavoie, Joseph M Renaldi and Joseph L Dewease at Down Barracks Fulda Alberts Hof Center and nearby locations.
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Frankfurt
West Germany
Baytown
U.S. Army
Adan Garcia Rosas
97Th General Hospital
Sth Corps
U.S. Army Safety Center
Fort Rucker
Ala
Hohenfels
5Th Corps
Down Barracks
Fulda
Keith Lavoie
Burton
Mich
Army
Alberts Hof Center
Hohenfels Training Area
Joseph M. Renaldi
Springdale
Joseph L. Dewease
Chewsville
Baytonian wins $100,000 Money Song Contest on KILT
Loretta Krams, a Briton Electric employee in Houston, was named grand prize winner in KILT radio’s $100,000 Money Song Contest after calling in during the Good Morning Houston program. The winner, drawn from daily prize entrants, receives lunch with station staff and plans to spend on property, a pickup for her husband, and a cosmetic repaint of her 1969 Ford.
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Loretta Krams
Houston
KILT
Texas
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Lee
West District
National Weather Service
Alvin
NWS
Fritz Lanham
Highway 146
Lanham
West Bay
Harris County Medical Examiner’s Office
Donald Leonard
Bob
Police
Pearce Street Journal
Lewis
Gib Lewis
Weto
Sue Jenn
Kay Murzeler
Rune
Aves
Bayshore Motors
Baptown Sun
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Kevin
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