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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1968
Page
9
A Houston area family story follows 12 year old Ann Hemphill helping clean her grandmother's attic during a summer visit. Ann finds a red beret and a baby bird rescued from a louvrre. She and the family improvise a feeding plan with milk and oatmeal, tending the fledgling until it survives. The piece ends with a question about what the next attic discovery might be.
Houston prepares to launch its first dinner theater on August 7 with Barefoot In The Park as the opening production. Dean Goss leases a 17,000 square foot building near the Astrodome offering an elaborate buffet before a Broadway show cast and rehearsed in New York City. Prices range from 5.50 to 7.50 with family night on Tuesdays and reservations required by phone.
Rams Auxiliary To Hear Shaw will meet at 11 a.m. on July 25 at 2710 Albany in Houston to hear Ben Shaw discuss A Smoother You. Shaw operates Ben Saw Modeling Studios in Houston. many models appear in national ads and on TV. A question and answer session will follow. Hostesses are Mrs. George Bruce, Mrs. Howard J. Boland and Mrs. Lloyd C. Suddeth.
Miss Kay Ward bride elect of Sanford Ward was honored at a bridal tea hosted by Mrs. Larry Lucchesi with co hosts Mrs. Treeman Baker and Mrs. Raymond McCullough. Yellow daisies and a crystal punch bowl graced the table. corsages were given to the honoree her mother grandmother and groom's aunt along with a gift of anniversary champagne glasses.
Mrs Bobby Sutton and Mrs John Traxler will guest speak for the Summer Swing course at the Baytown Community Building at 7 30 p m Tuesday. Sutton a finalist in the Total Woman contest in Houston is a Baytown schools speech therapist and will discuss effective communications. Traxler who recently completed the Dorothy Carnegie Course for Women will demonstrate makeup techniques to create a fascinating woman.
Sterling Municipal Library offers talking books and Braille volumes from the Texas State Library for physically handicapped and blind readers. The program, authorized by Pratt-Smoot and expanded in 1966, provides free playback machines and mailed records. eligibility requires certification by ophthalmologist optometrist or physician with possible welfare or hospital staff validation. Reasonable access extends to Baytown residents via the Sterling library for eligible readers unable to read conventional print.
Native Texan and top recording star Trini Lopez will perform at 8 p.m. August 10 in the Sam Houston Coliseum Houston. The Society for the Performing Arts brings Lopez to Texas for his first local appearance since rising to fame through Frank Sinatra. Tickets cost 6 5 4 3 2 30 dollars and go on sale July 22 at Foley's. Lopez rose to star status after If I Had a Hammer sold over a million copies and other hits followed including Eemon Tree Sally Was A Good Old Girl It s a Great Life and Mental Journey. Sinatra heard Lopez in 1963 in Los Angeles and signed him to an exclusive contract. He has since toured worldwide.
Crosby PTA announces an art display during the Crosby Future Farmers event August 8 to 10 at the exhibition hall. Divisions cover elementary to adults with categories in painting sculpture and crafts. Entry fee 25 cents, registrations on August 7, judging August 8 morning, blue ribbons noted and winners shown at Crosby State Bank for a week.
Baytown Art League sponsors a July to August exhibit in Sterling Municipal Library auditorium featuring homebound Baytown school students under Mrs. W. D. Hinson. Artists include Kim Ashmore Clint Barefield Sherrie Cone Richard Jones Roland Malone David Schultz Charles Sims and Clarissa Spear.
Martha Ann Hemphill profiles Paul Boesch a long time television figure on KHTV Channel 39. He is an author lecturer dog lover and philanthropist whose career spans wrestling broadcast work and public appearances. He advocates self defense for women and promotes safety while detailing his books Lady Protect Yourself and The Womanly Art of Self Defense. Boesch hosts talks and lectures while supporting youth through the Variety Boys Clubs of America and has a poetry volume Much Of Me. He marks twenty years on air this summer with Channel 39 and remains a strong draw among female viewers.
Hollywood couturier Helen Rose, a two time Oscar winner, says fashion for young girls should be feminine not masculine. She notes men favor feminine styles, stresses coordinated outfits, and predicts simple, ladylike clothes with softer colors like dove gray and white. Rose recalls designing for Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Elizabeth Taylor and Grace Kelly, and says grooming changes for men remain key.
San Jacinto Chapter National Secretaries Association held its monthly meeting at Citizens Bank with three guests Letha King from the Chamber of Commerce Genevia Robbins of Ashland Chemical Co and L D Reed in attendance Don C Marler of the Bayshore Clinic for Mental Health and Mental Retardation gave an informative talk on Mental Health covering Why Women Work and Problems Women Encounter in the Business World The group agreed women work for accomplishment and income after the talk cookies and coffee followed and word arrived that Mrs Cave Kominek and Mrs Malcolm Schultz passed their Certified Professional Secretary exams
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