City Improvement Work Is Underway in Baytown
Baytown undertakes street repairs water line construction and drainage upgrades funded by a 211 804 50 budget for 12 streets. Phase 1 bids open Thursday night. Bond bonds from 1965 fund about 1 10 million in water lines along Highway 146 Decker Drive Spur 201 Garth Road Lobit and 30 other sites. Project aims 90 days to finish started four months ago. Remaining bond projects include South Main extension to Highway 146 and Ward Road improvements to Kilgore Road. West Main contract 58 714 for a 24 foot roadway will begin next month. Ward Road work delayed awaiting tighterway. start planned in two months.
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Wanda Orton
Baytown
Highway 146
Decker Drive
Spur 201
Garth Road
Lobit
South Main
West Main
Ward Road
Kilgore Road
Morton
Ward
iSee City
Junior All Stars in Galena Park Tournament Opener
The Baytown Junior All-Stars will play in the first round of the Galena Park All-Star Tournament at 6 30 p.m. Monday in Galena Park. The earlier Sunday game was halted by rain after four innings and rescheduled. WILLIAM D PRATHER of Baytown made the University of New Mexico spring honor roll for engineering with a 3 0 GPA. Dr Earl C Smith of Toccoa Falls Bible College will lead a Bible study Monday through Wednesday at Alliance Bible Church Baytown 1219 N Pruett. The Beach City Council will meet 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Community Building. Baytown Service League story hour is 10 to 10 45 a m Tuesday at Sterling Municipal Library for ages 4 and up with storytellers Mrs John Sylvester Jr Mrs Mill Hartman and Mrs Robert Buntin. A Robert E Lee High School Class of 1962 graduation ring was found at a Texas Avenue car wash. owner may phone 422 9135.
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TRE Baytown
Optimist
Galena Park
Alliance Bible Church
Baytown
N. Pruett
Earl C. Smith
Toccoa Falls
Service League
Sterling Municipal Library
John Sylvester Jr
Mill Hartman
Robert Buntin
Robert E. Lee High School
Texas Avenue
Inay
Twin Johnson girls celebrate second birthday party
Leigh Ann and Low Ann Johnson celebrate their second birthday Sunday with a home party attended by family. Lanny Guidry photographed at the Armstrong home during a Houston area sightseeing visit. Louise Rossi earns praise for keeping Baytown Chamber office running in the boss's absence. T. I. Doc Satterwhite plans a golf date with son Bill. Jerri Read maintains a full schedule as Mrs. Walter Lehde shares a chocolate pie recipe. Alfonso Nava speaks up at a meeting.
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Leigh Ann
Low Ann
Luna 15 Lands on Moon Near Apollo Flight Site
Jodrell Bank Observatory reports Luna 15 touched down about 500 miles from Apollo launch area as Prof. John Davies confirms at 11:05 a.m. CDT that the probe has landed. Officials say signals described a soft landing though some uncertainty remains about a possible liftoff with lunar samples.
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Jodrell Bank
England
Russia
America
Earth
Jodrell Bank Observatory
Atencated Eil
Luna
John G. Davies
Lovell
Moscow
Splien
E Tb
Apollo
Davies
All-Star. Moon-Talk Eclipses All-Stars As Space Fame Grows
Fred Hartman notes how the moon walk dominates coverage as NASA and Houston become symbols of the space era. He recalls John Kennedy Albert Thomas and Lyndon Johnson backing the Manned Space Craft Center and its arrival 17 miles from Baytown.
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Fred Hartman Washington
Houston
NASA
Manned Space Craft Center
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Albert Thomas
Lyndon Johnson
U.S
Moonwalk and Orbit Details From Apollo Eleven Mission
Apollo eleven unfolds with Armstrong Aldrin and Collins in a lunar orbit and surface EVA. Astronauts test LM functions, deploy experiments, photograph terrain, collect rock samples, and return to the Eagle for final ascent prep. Ground control reports steady systems as Baytown TV sales spike with widespread home viewing.
Partin Assigned as Adjutant General in Vietnam
MAJ. TOMMY M. PARTIN, 31, son of L. G. Partin of 706 N Circle Drive, was assigned adjutant general for the 17th Airborne Brigade in Vietnam. His wife, Judy, resides in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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Partin
Tommy M. Partin
L. G. Partin
Circle Drive
17Th Airborne Brigade
Vietnam
Judy
Tulsa
Okla
Weather and tides at Morgan's Point Tuesday
Announced showers and cloudy skies with warm temperatures for Morgan's Point Tuesday. Tides show highs around 18:19 a.m and 7:31 p.m with additional low tides at 9:01 a.m and 10:25 p.m.
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Morgan's Point
Milestone Marked At Moon Liftoff
Two Americans blasted off from the moon reaching lunar orbit and leaving footprints in history. Armstrong and Aldrin climbed from the Eagle and prepared to return to Earth while millions watched on TV.
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Mission Control
Eagle
Todd Niles
Earth
Columbus
Byrd
Armstrong
Moon
Aldrin
Houston Tranquillity
Apollo
Kennedy Faces Complaint Over Chappaquiddick Accident
Police filed a formal complaint charging Senator Edward M. Kennedy with leaving the scene of an accident after a weekend wreck on Chappaquiddick Island near Martha's Vineyard. A 28 year old woman, Mary Jo Kopechne, drowned. Kennedy was injured mildly. A hearing was set for July 28 in Edgartown.
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Edgartown
Mass
APJ
Sen
Edward M. Kennedy
Chappaquiddick Island
Martha’s Vineyard
Kennedy
Domenic J. Arena
Thomas A. Teller
Arena
Richard J. McCurran
McCarran
Teller
Wo Pim
Mary Jo Kopechne
Washington
Massachusetts
Kopechne
Chappaquiddick
Kennedy’f
Joan
Squaw Island
Hyannis Port
Cape Cod
Robert D. Watt
Suspects Sought In Ducknap Incident
Baytown police sought three young men in white cowboy hats on charges of ducknaping after Van Meter reported his duck Snowwhite was taken Saturday near North Main and Midway. An officer said the trio approached, one asked to see the duck, and they fled in a light green pickup.
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Baytown
van van Meter
Midway
Snowwhite
North Main
John Rakestraw
van Meter
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William D. Prather
University of New Mexico
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Beach City
West Bay Road
First National Bank
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Space Center
al Rin
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Ins In Command
LM Elen
Apsilo
Columbia
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Armsir
fiaVe
Sen. Kennedy
Ko+peching
Ar. Peoples State Bank
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