Baytown 1968 United Fund goal set at 219050
Baytown launches its 1968 United Fund drive with a target of 219050 dollars announced by General Chairman Norman C Foote. The budget committee approved fund allotments for local agencies and two pro rata shares for Houston area groups, with 11 local agencies receiving support including the Seamen's Center added this year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Preston Pendergrass
Baytown
United Fund
Norman C. Foote
Foote
Chila Guidance Center
de -Pelchin Fath Home
Northside Tranch
Florence Crittenton Home
Goodwill Industries
Speech and Hearing Center
Legal Aid Society
Lighthouse For the Blind
Vocatinal Guidance Service
Houston
Smith County Picnic Set In Pasadena Aug 6 In Memorial Park
Baytown residents are invited to the annual Smith County picnic on August 6 in the Memorial Park recreation building Pasadena. Also notes on the Wally Byam Caravan Club 10th International Rally attendance, a missing dachshund named Bushka, a Ladies Auxiliary VFW meeting, hush puppy volunteers for a Xi Theta Gamma fish fry, a Bay Shore Wagon Wheel dance, cloudy warm weekend forecast with showers, and Galveston tides schedule.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Smith
Baytown
Smith County
Memorial Park
Pasadena
Eddie Huron
Xi Theta Gamma
Bayshore
Rod, Reel and Gun Club
Winnesota
Successful Shot Explorer Orbits Around Moon
Ameri ca's Lunar Explorer satellite entered lunar orbit after a Cape Kennedy launch. Explorer 35 will study radiation, solar winds, dust, and magnetic fields for 2 to 3 years to aid Apollo mission planning and shielding needs for moonbound astronauts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Kennedy
Fla
Cape
America
Lunar Explorer
NASA
Goddard Space Flight Center
Greenbelt
Goddard
Space Agency
Baytown Spotlight Notes Finger Injuries and Local Happenings
In Baytown this week L4ROUND Wy goN WOODS broke a finger during a dance scene and Jertlyn Branscome received four stitches on a finger cut during rehearsal. Airman 20 and Adrain L. Gammage, on leave from Luke AFB, Arizona, are noted. Mrs. Lucy Wallace celebrates a grandson’s birthday while Jerry Johnson becomes a twin father couple with Kathy Spengler stealing the second act of The Pajama Game at Baytown Little Theater amid Phyllis Dignam’s onstage injury. Additional scenes include rain delays, a car door scene by Marilyn Linder, and comments on the railroad strike settlement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gon Woods
Jertlyn Branscome
Adrain L. Gammage
Luke Air Force Base
Arizona
Lucy Wallace
Jerry Johnson
Kathy Spengler
Baytown
Little Theater
Phyllis Dignam
Clay Hooper
Marilyn Linder
Jesse Cole
Dixie Chemical Buys 15 Acres In Bayport Area
Dixie Chemical Co of Houston will purchase 15 acres in the Bayport Industrial Development for future expansion of its chemical activities. President Stanley C. Morian announced details are forthcoming. The site lies north of Bay Area Blvd adjacent to Versicol Chemical Corp and Southwest Latex tracts. Bayport has attracted 2,449.8 acres sold for plant locations with total Bayport plant valuations near millions. Bayport sits within Houston city limits and La Porte School District.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friendswood Development Co
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Bayport
Dixie
Houston City Limits
la Porte
Buzzy Wins Golf Crown in Houston Junior City
Barry Magourik of Baytown captained the 13 year old division, posting 279 81 85 B2 to claim top honors in the Houston Junior City Championship at Menwrisis Golf Club. Raytonians Price Goethe and Bill Lewis also competed in the four day event.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Barry Magourik
Conrad Magourik
Baytown
Magourik
Price Goethe
U S Troops, Allies Press Campaign Across Vietnam
Fierce battles involving American, South Korean, and South Vietnamese forces left nearly 600 Communist dead. Two American helicopters were shot down. Heaviest action occurred northeast of Saigon with 11th Armored Cavalry losses 45 dead 60 wounded. U S forces report begun Marine sweeps near Khe Sanh amid scattered fighting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Hue
11Th Armored Cavalry Regiment
Long Khanh
Tiger
White Horse
Phu Yen
Khe Sanh
Blood collection drive schedules regular Baytown visits
Regular blood collection days are set in Baytown to bolster the shrinking blood supply. The Bloodmobile, arranged with Houston blood services, will visit Gulf Coast Hospital with two donation days per month, Thursday 2 to 5 p.m. and Friday 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., starting soon. Donors join a Community Account to backstop hospital needs nationwide, with options including annual blood insurance and group donor incentives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Martha Ann Hemphill
Baytown
Gulf Coast Hospital
U.S
Canada
Janis Manteris
Fire kills five in Sherman two story frame house
A two story frame house in Sherman was engulfed by fire, killing five people. The disaster follows violent unrest in New Jersey and Minneapolis tensions with National Guardsmen on duty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sherman
New Jersey
Englewood
Minneapolis
Senators Give Kids A Chance To Attend Games
The Washington Senators offer free admission to childhood guests for this season with adult sponsors to transport and supervise them at the 45,000 seat D C Stadium. The plan aims to reduce potential racial tensions in the capital this summer as the team already runs a limited free child admission program for years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Washington Senators
D.C
Senators
Jeff Cole named Baytown Sun Carrier of the Year
Fourteen year old Jeff Cole, a Baytown paper boy delivering to Mrs Ellender and 208 customers in the Oat and Pel ly sections, was named Carrier of the Year by The Baytown Sun for outstanding prompt payments, attitude, and route development. His mother and Sun officials praise his kindness and reliability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mike Blackman
Sophie Ellender
Jeff Cole
Jeff
Baytown Sun
Erving Cardy
Sun
Jim Kyle
Kyle
World War II Thank You plaque returned to Baytown plant
Humble Oil and Refining Baytown Refinery receives back a WWII era plaque first presented in 1944 to honor the plant for producing one billion gallons of 100 octane aviation gasoline. Gen Hap Arnold praised workers, and the artifact will be displayed in the main office lobby as Baytown honors its war contributions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown
Humble
H. C. Wiess
H. H
Hap) Arnold
Ammy Air Forces
Gen. Arnolds
H. W. Ferguson
H. H. Meier
M. E. Gillis
Ferguson
War Production Board
Kilgore trio to boat 400 miles to Anahuac arrival
Kilgore College students Wallace Brown Rondell Banks and Billy Hayward plan a 400 mile Trinity River voyage in The Little Ranger to set a fastest time. Their girlfriends will drive assist with food and fuel at rendezvous points as officials welcome them July 29 after a July 26 departure from Kilgore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alan McWhorter
Anahuac
Kilgore College
Trinity River
Wallace Brown
Rondell Banks
Billy Hayward
Little Ranger
Kilgore
Anahua¢e Promotional Association
J. B. Wooldridge
Chambers Countty
Lions Club
Dallas Chamber of Commerce
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Kelly McCarty
Crosby
Wally Byam Caravan Club
Santa Rosa
Calif
McCarty
Highlands
Texas Gulf Coast Club
Kris Love
W. James
Cedar Bayou
Crosby Rose
dAnyone
Ladies Auxiliary of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Louis Harris
Circle
Bay Shore
Moon
Doris Kraft
Doris Lowry
Austin
E. A. Lowry
Jerry Don Smith
FORD
Dixie Chemical
Bayport Area
Buzzy
Gulf Coast Hospital Laboratory
Our World
Council On Human Relations
Mississippi Delta
Belzoni
Miss
Jimmy Foxx
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Algiers
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Ronald Reagan
California
Richard M. Nixon
Sacramento
James AW Pike
Albert Luthall
South Africa
Texas
Wille Lou Meredith
James Meredith
Milwaukee
American Broadcasting Co
International Telehone and Telegraph Corp
Justice Department
Tennesse
Ettree
Hamble
ME. Gillix
H.W (Hap) Arnold
Buytown
Mrs. Ellender
Jeff Currier
Joon
Mitchell
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