Channelview School Tax Rate Remains Unchanged
Channelview School Board kept the existing tax rate at 1.70 per 100 valuation for 1961-62 amid discussions on improving facilities. The board approved bids for 41 new desks and 60 per cent market-value based valuation, plus uniforms, and scheduled meetings with architects and church officials to review construction quality and damages.
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Channelview School Board
Thurstion
Ameriyear
Can Desk Co
H.C. Schochler
Chamnelview Methodist
Channelview News Highlights Local Happenings
HOLLYENE Holliman sails as Trans-Texas stewardess while ROTC cadet Jack son LaBoa serves as colonel of the day at Fort Hood. Gaylon LaBoa visits on leave as Lions Club studies tennis courts for Channelview youth. Channelview Little League All Stars head to playoffs Friday with opponent TBA. Firefighters seek training site for rescue drills and land for practice. About $900 in Channelview Little League funds went to hire external umpires. Three firemen head to Texas A&M College for a week of training. Channelview Lutheran pastor Rev G A Peterson hospitalized but improving from mumps. Diane La Due took first solo bus ride to Fort Worth to visit uncle. K B Clarendon named American Legion Post 644 service officer.
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Hollyene Holliman
Cecil Hollimans
Trans-Texas Airlines
Jackson LaBoa
Fort Hood
Gaylon LaBoa
Bob Jenkins
Lions Club
Channelview
Little League All Stars
Doyle Evans
Little League
Texas Aem College
Henry Richie
Bobby Richle
G. A. Peterson
Channelview Lutheran Church
Diane la Due
Fort Worth
K. B. Clarendon
American Legion
Rath Packing opens Houston plant with $12.5 million expansion
More than 2,000 people attended the dedication and opening of Rath Packing Company's new Houston plant at 680 Mykawa Road. The facility processes Rath Black Hawk meat products and represents a 12.5 million expansion and modernization program including sliced bacon sausage luncheon meats and hickory smoked canned hams.
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Houston
Rath Packing Company
Mykawa Road
Black Hawk
Fertilizer tour on Chambers County intensifies soil program
A full day fertilizer demonstration tour as part of the Chambers County Intensified Soil Fertility Program will run all day Wednesday July 16 starting at Chambers County Airport with 15 stops. The event invites interested participants to join the complete tour. Frederick B Humphrey born to Mr and Mrs G Humphrey is a senior at the University of Kansas summer session. Newark New Jersey hosts the world’s largest truck terminal hub with over 8 percent of New Jersey’s population within a 50 mile radius.
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Chambers County
Frederick B. Humphrey
8. G. Humphrey
Missouri
University of Kansas
New York City
Hudson River
Newark, N. J
New Jersey
Disaster memory of New London oil town blast
Eyewitness account of a catastrophic explosion in New London that killed many and left residents scanning debris. Ambulances and rescue crews battled night alarms as coffins and funeral workers filled the scene. Parents endured uncertainty over missing loved ones amid shattered homes and wreckage during dawn searches.
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New London
Henderson Memorial Hospital
A. Crim
Church Delegates Attend Quadrennial Assembly at Purdue
Mrs. Earl Bissex Mrs. E J Fisher and Mrs. Bessie Alexander represent the First Christian Church Baytown as delegates to the second Quadrennial Assembly of the International Christian Women's Fellowship of the Christian Churches at Purdue University West Lafayette Ind. Mrs Bissex is one of eight Texas women serving as a discussion leader. The Baytown church members left Saturday for the conference.
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Earl Bissex
E.J. Fisher
Bessie Alexander
Assembly of
International Christian Women’s Fellowship of the Christian Churches
Purdue University
West Lafayette
Ind
Bissex
Texas
First Christian Church of
Baytown
Baytonians Join La Pesca Club In Mexico Lodge
Two Baytonians became new members of the Soto La Marina Club and Campo Noche Bay area hunting and fishing lodge on the Rio Soto La Marina near La Pesca Mexico. Dr E Broussard and J W Smith joined Monday night with owner-manager Carl Cunningham. Other Baytown members include H M Gann Noel Snow Stiles K R Dick Taylor Carl S Tharp Carl Young and Joe Ayler. William A Nelson accompanied Cunningham on the Baytown tour and presented slides and movies of the camp to Bayshore Red Reel and Gun Club members.
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la Marina
Campo Noche’ Buena
Rio Soto la Marina
la Pesca
Mexico
E. Broussard
Bayshore Rod, Reef and Gun Club
J.W. Smith
Carl Cunningham
Frank M
Snuffy) Yates
Baytown
Cunningham
H. M. Gann
Noel (Snow) Stiles
K. R
Dick) Taylor
Carl
S.tharp
Carl €. Young
Joe Ayler
William A. Nelson
Houston
Bayshore Red Reel and Gun Club
Soldier Charles R Edwards in Korea exercise
Army PFC Charles R Edwards 632 si pre Chiet served with the Tth Division 1st Battle Group 17th Infantry. He led Company A infantry team in its first field training in Korea. Edwards entered the Army last June and is 19. He attended Channelview High School.
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ARMY
Charles R. Edwards
Si Pre, Chiet
Tth
17Th Infantry
Korea
Edwards
Channelview High School
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