Newark Teen Killed in Racial Violence Hits Northeast
The Associated Press reports racial violence erupting from a Newark slum in New Jersey on Thursday night and continuing into Friday morning. A 16-year-old boy was fatally wounded by a gunshot in Newark as state police and National Guardsmen were deployed to quell sniping and gunfights. Similar but less severe violence occurred in Warnford Connecticut and a minor incident in Erie Pennsylvania.
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Wedding Date Miss Mikell Enderli and Gene Burroughs
Miss Mikell Enderli and Gene Paul Burroughs will exchange vows at 7 p.m. Saturday at Cedar Bayou Methodist Church. Also noted are funeral attendance by Mr. and Mrs. E. Barton of 1801 Amy and Albert Barton who died Friday. LC Registration for Lee College is set for Monday with timed permits issued from the registrar's office. Board action includes a Harris County Hospital District meeting at Ben Taub Hospital chaired by Bob Gullett. Theta Gamma Beta Sigma Phi hosts a fish fry July 28 at Bayshore Rod Reef and Gun Club with tickets from members or by call. Racial violence flared in Newark Hartford and Erie, with injuries, arrests, looting, and gunfire incidents, similar to Newark’s late-night unrest and rooftop sniper fire.
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Weather and Tides Report Partly Cloudy Warm Ahead
Partly cloudy and warm through Saturday with afternoon thundershowers forecast Friday afternoon. Temperature range expected Friday 34 to 92 degrees, with Thursday’s range noted as 7654 in the Baytown area. Galveston tides list high and low times for Saturday and the IMD times.
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Local Social Notes Highlight Community Visits
Ruth Richards prompts a polite inquiry, Letha King relays a compliment from Elmo, and Bruce Day experiences a memory lapse. Baytown visitors include Elizabeth King and Richard King from Sacramento visiting a weeklong stay. Mrs Gene Bowen serves peanut pie and cherry bread during a reporter visit.
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Letha King
Elmo
Bruce Day
Joe Keating
Houston
Elizabeth King
Richard King
Milton McCamey
Highway 146
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Sacrament
Calif
Gene Bowen
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Sam Powers
F. E. Benson
Greenville
Clyde Dodson
Hurst
B. C. New
Lester Gallatin
Damon Smith
Brooks Says Interim Pay Necessary For Office Duties
State Senator Chet Brooks of Pasadena defends an $860 a month interim payroll as necessary to cover official duties between sessions. He notes higher figures for metro-area colleagues and questions a Thursday release showing three Houston secretaries earning $882 total. He lists his office staff, confirms rents office near his public relations firm, and contrasts Austin staff, including a part time aide at $200 a month handling mail, research and pardons work.
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Houston
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Pasadena
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Barbara Stanley
Aileen McKeough
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DPS Director Tests Amid Baytown High Vocational Plans
Texas DPS Director Col Homer Garrison undergoes cancer tests at MD Anderson Hospital as Baytown High Schools prepare to offer five industrial courses at Lee College facilities. Courses include auto mechanics, machine shop, welding, radio TV repair and data processing for juniors and seniors.
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Better Communication Sought- Baytown Fire Volunteers Appeal
Baytown council heard a plea from volunteer firefighters for better communication with the paid department and council. John Donnelly said Station No. 2 volunteers were not consulted on closures, siren curfew, or reports of a full-time paid fire department. Mayor Cravey apologized for the lapse, while Station No. 1 volunteers complained of lack of notice as they awaited decisions affecting their service.
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Florida
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Seaborn Cravey
Baytown Council Approves Low Bid for Sewer Line Project
Baytown City Council approved Bayshore Constructors low bid of 7 743 50 for a Donovan Street sanitary sewer line. The estimated project cost rose from 5 160 to over 37 000 after engineers said more work was needed. The council held a North Main Street paving hearing, noting 8 24 per front foot assessments for curbs and gutters and that some owners did not receive notice.
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Moon surveyor 4 hunts iron in lunar craters
AP reports America's surveyor 4 rockets head to the moon with a magnet shovel and two revolving cameras to study crater formation. Six rain unions threaten a midnight Saturday strike amid congressional warnings over a labor dispute. Tanks artillery rumble the Suez cease fire line as Egypt claims destruction of an Israeli launch. US pilots fly 170 missions against North Vietnam, attacking Hanoi Haiphong depots and barracks. 20000 United Rubber Workers join a long industry walkout at Goodyear plants in 10 states. Red Cross planes bring 23 Americans and Europeans to Kinshasa after mutinous mercenaries control the area.
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San Jacinto Adopts Instant Replay X Ray Study
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital debuts a television tape recorder linked to an X ray machine for instant replay of examinations. The $125,000 system, installed in the hospital’s new wing, aids in macroscopic exams, teaching, and future consultations, praised for patient safety and a top-notch department setup.
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Eight Day World Northeast Congo City Chronicle
A brief compendium notes events including a Cal ith police charge against Mrs. Pearl Cheate Birch for assault with intent to murder after a duplex dispute. Reports mention Korean casualties in a gunfight, Senate subcommittee exclusion, Texas labor disputes, church Vietnam opinions, Thurgood Marshall Supreme Court prospects, Alabama governor’s cancer recovery, and Newport News shipyard strike tensions with troopers guarding the yard.
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Blast on Barge at Port Neches
Sheriff's officers reported an explosion aboard a barge at the Pure Oil Co dock near the Smith Bluff refinery on the Neches River. One man was killed, another missing, and a third man, Charles Calcote of Port Arthur, was swept overboard and swam ashore. Calcote, Coastal Marine Co. employee, was in satisfactory condition at a hospital. The blast occurred around 3 a.m. at the refinery dock southeast of Beaumont.
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Rain Delivers Relief In Baytown And Chambers County
Showers drenched Chambers and Liberty areas with heavy thundershowers, bringing about 1.6 to 3.36 inches of rain and easing a parched land around Baytown. Rayford G. Key notes the rain saves pasture land and aids soybeans, with 3,009 acres planted locally. Water use is expected to drop, and isolated phone outages were minor.
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Million dollar modernization planned for SO2 Plant No. 1 at Baytown Refinery
Hunton Baytown Refinery will modernize its 1929 SO2 Plant No. 1 in a expansion project worth about a million dollars. The upgrade will add taller towers, reroute heat exchangers, expand water cooling, and enlarge blowdown systems for safety and air pollution control. Completion is targeted for November with a three week turnaround.
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