Riots Rock Ozark Resort Towns Over Fourth of July
AP reports nationwide holiday unrest in Missouri and Ohio resort communities as 700 youths were detained and 8000 spectators watched. Police used tear gas and water hoses after fights between teens and officers, sparked by arrests of three youths on motorcycles. More than 700 arrests and significant property damage were reported.
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Associated Press
Baker
Rockaway Beach
Ozark Mountain Resort
Ohio
Missouri
New
York
Shraucht Esce
Bane College
Bev Bergeron Rebo The Clown A Baytown Comedy Star Remembered
A82 year old Baytown entertainer Bev Bergeron Rebo The Clown famed for Magic Land of Alakazam and Shrine shows earned praise for his stage craft and comedy. He penned material for Gleason Ball Griffith and was a TV adviser. Riots at Ohio resorts with National Guard called in recalled by locals as memories of a life in show business.
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Knights of Columbus
Baytown Sun
Wanda Orton
Baytown
Bev Berg
United States
Rebo
Bev
Alakazam
Grams
Professor Staggerbum
Jackie Gleason
Lucille Ball
Andy Griffith
Jimmy Dean
Knights of Columbus Hall
Federal mediator works as carpenters resume talks in Houston
Federal mediator Hubbard and negotiating groups resume talks at 10 a.m. Monday in Houston between carpenters unions and two contractor associations Associated General Contractors of Houston and the Constructors Employers Association of Texas. May restart work on Gulf Oil Cedar Bays Olefin Plant expansion while retroactive pay to July 1 is discussed. Baytown High School project remains strike site.
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Houston
Gulf’ OW Corp
Cedar Bays
Olefin
Stone & Webster Construction Co
B.A. Gresham
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Gresham
Span’+. Glass Inc
New St ‘Ling High School
Baytown
Carpenters District
Council of Houston and Vicinity
Associated General Contractors of Houston
Gonstietto Employers Association of Texas
Hubbard
Sun Spots Game Cancelled and Boat Returned
Boat overdue for Baytown games was found and returned at 9 36 p m Sunday after a search by Baytown and Wooster emergency crews. Weather forecast calls for mostly cloudy and warm conditions with temperatures near 95. Fireworks complaints noted across Baytown during the holiday weekend. Funeral services scheduled for Ellis Marshall of Lufkin, former Baytown resident and Humble Baytown Refinery employee.
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Tri - City Beach Road
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Lufkin
H. L. Evang
Baytown
Gipson Funeral Home
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Humble
Origi Bill
Lucille Strickier
Lloyd
Rubirosa Dies in Paris Car Crash
Porfirio Rubirosa, former Dominican diplomat and international playboy, was fatally injured in a morning Paris auto accident. Police said he died en route to a hospital after the Ferrari left the road on the western edge of Paris.
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Rubirosa
Paris
Comprehensive plan to convert Texas Avenue into central parking
City planners in Baytown propose a central business district plan to beautify downtown by planting trees and shrubs along streets and turning Sterling Defoe Gulf and Pearce into one way routes. Texas Avenue would become a primary parking area with limited through traffic to draw shoppers and improve circulation.
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Texas
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Gulf Avenue
Pruett
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Commerce
Baytown Businessman T A Bairrington Dies
Taipa Ackard Bairrington 45 of Pasadena co owned B H Food Market in Baytown with Tom Heflin. He died at 8 30 am Sunday in a Baytown hospital after becoming ill at the business place. Funeral services set for Tuesday at Earthman s Baytown Chapel with burial in Grandview Memorial Park Pasadena. Graveside rites by Holland Lodge No 1 AF and AM Houston. Survivors include wife Jean, daughter Judy Newby, son James, three sisters, and one grandchild.
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Pasadena
Tom Heflin
Baytown
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Driveway Litter Report In Iola Struck By Jelly Jar Incident
An Iola police report notes an odd disturbance Saturday when a bathing suit and a jar of jelly were left in a driveway at 462 Pamela. No injuries. Investigators seek clues to the stray items and their owner.
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Pamela
Iola
Baytonian 91 Dies with Services Set Tuesday
Martha Elizabeth Rogers 91 died at 4:35 am Sunday in a Baytown hospital. Funeral services 2 pm Tuesday at Paul U Lees Chapel with Rev Grady Allison of Wooster Baptist Church officiating. Burial Memory Gardens Cemetery Baytown. Born Jan 4 1864 in Angelina County. Lived Channelview Baytown area past 3 years. Survived by three daughters Lucille Roach Edna McGee Edith Blair two sons E W White H s Davis two brothers Jesse Ray Sam Ray a sister Lile Bruce 23 grandchildren etc
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Baytown
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Abilene
E. W. White
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Channelview
Jesse Ray
Sam Ray
Lufkin
Lile Bruce
Daily world items mix political tension and protests
Our World Today reports President Dolinson relaxing at his Johnson City ranch with no scheduled appointments. Udall warns pollution could reach killer status. A CRE mass march protests discrimination in Bogalusa Louisiana amid the town’s major industry. Kennedy completes river ranking and a kayak run along the Colorado border. A radiation-related bombing alert a Pueblo governor dispute at a St Augustine church ends with closure. Algeria marks independence day with a gun salute and silence. Soviet bombers fly 2200 miles from Guam for a raid near Saigon.
Rites Held Today For Baytonian Captain Miller
Funeral services were held for Capt. Herman August Miller 66 of 5010 Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road at St. Pauls Lutheran Church. He died Friday night at a Baytown hospital. Burial followed at Cedar Crest Cemetery with Paul A Lee Funeral Home in charge. A retired Merchant Marine captain, he moved to Baytown eleven years ago. He was born October 11 1838 in Tipton Indiana. Survivors include his widow Edna Mae Miller two daughters Mrs Herman Haenel of Austin and Mrs Bobby Blair of Dallas a stepdaughter Mrs Earl Doiron of San Antonio eight grandchildren. Graveside rites were conducted by Masonic Lodge No 1192. The Rev Raymond Schleisser officiated.
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Baytown
Windstorm Tornado Rips Port Arthur Causes Damage
AP reports a violent wind disturbance struck the eastern Port Arthur around 10:30 a.m. today. Witnesses described it as a tornado or waterspout, uprooting trees, damaging roots, and knocking down four power lines before moving eastward. No injuries reported.
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Port Arthur
Weekend drowning toll rises in Texas lakes
The holiday period saw multiple drownings as people sought relief from heat. Elias Jefferson Pullins of Houston drowned Sunday when his boat sank near Galveston during a light rain squall. Lofton Titus, nine, was killed when a car ride overturned. Four others injured. The weekend fatalities also include Lloyd Hawkins, a San Angelo boy, in another crash.
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Associated Press
Elias Jefferson
Pullins
Houston
Galveston
Patient Georram treated after hood-riding incident
Georram Chandi of 4B18 St Andrews remained a patient at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital after injuries from a hood ride on a car driven by Richard Warth 16. Patrolman Merced Oviedo reported she fell and suffered a head injury during the incident near Joe Atorey and Gearce Chandler, with others involved.
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San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Merced Oviedo
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Warth
Joe Atorey
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