Opportunity Center Gets Moody Grant
Baytown Opportunity Center for the Mentally Retarded receives a $13,027 Moody Foundation grant to finish its Baker Road facility project. The gift funds remaining fundraising shortfalls, builds walkways and drives, buys equipment, and unlocks more than $11,000 in matching federal funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnella Boynton
Galveston’s
Moody Foundation
Baytown
Opportunity Center For
Baker Road
Garth
B. W. Thomas
Opportunity Center
Baytown Journal Traces Local Grants and Community Happenings
The Baytown Sun coverage details Westheimer Properties tax and river discharge notes, local accidents, a Beta Sigma Phi fish fry, Kiwanis meeting, rainfall, stolen tools, and Moody Foundation grants. It highlights grants to San Jacinto Hospital Lee College Baytown Crippled Children Opportunity Center and a Moody Foundation project nearing completion with federal matching funds and future occupancy planned for fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
Don ‘Teter
Moody Foundation
San Jacinto Hospital
Lee College
Moody
Baytown Society For Crippled Children
Teter
Opportunity Center
Parkway Drive
W. L. Moody
Galveston
Texas
Tides at Morgan's Point Thursday High at 2 01 PM
Morgan's Point forecasts tides for Thursday with a high tide at 2 01 PM. Local conditions indicate typical shallow ebb and flow with no additional peaks noted. Mariners should plan accordingly for harbor operations and docking.
Driver's Class To Begin At Sterling High
Sterling High School offers driver education for youths who turned five by Wednesday. Two more sessions are planned this summer with openings for new students. Miss Nora Clark says classes run daily through Aug. 12, with three daily time slots and no charge. A written test grants a restricted license.
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Sterling High School Aml
Sterling
Nora Clark
Pentagon to review gas warfare project policy shifts
Pentagon officials predict a top level government review will yield policy changes and tighter oversight of the controversial gas warfare program. The report notes possible shifts in approach and heightened scrutiny amid ongoing debates and security concerns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pentagon
U.S
School Tax Board Holds Daily Hearings on Valuations
The school district tax equalization board holds daily hearings this week from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. taxpayers protest or seek explanations for 1969 valuations. Assessor-Collector Hobart Enoch calls the schedule full as residents react to a district wide 20 percent increase in assessed valuations set earlier this year. The board raised valuations from 40 to 48 percent of market value, boosting the overall hike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart Enoch
Knoch
Bank Depository Dilemma Facing LC Regents Again
Lee College board of regents again faces a bank depository dilemma at Thursday night’s Moody Center meeting. Regents could not choose June 26 between Citizens National Bank and First National Bank as both bids were identical. First National is favored due to current contract and potential transfer costs. A Houston law firm will give an outside opinion after the Federal Reserve Bank in Dallas issued an inconclusive note, and the 360-day vs continuous compounding basis is noted for the bids.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanda Orton
Lee College Board of Regents
Moody Center
Rundell Hall
Citizens National Bank
First National Bank
John R. Pechacek
Pechacek
Houston
Vinson, Elkins, Searls and Connally
Jetter
William Stapps
Bruce Ramsey
Reid, Strickland, Gillette and Ramsey
Ramsey
Richard DB
Strahan, Lee
Federal Reserve Bank
Dallas
Pechucek
Citizens
Lee College Board to Discuss New Law and Resolutions
Lee College president Dr Richard D Strahan explains House Bill 534 creating an Education Agency Code reshaping junior college boards to seven trustees elected by position with runoff rules. Existing districts may operate if resolutions are filed. Board to consider filing to maintain current structure.
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Wanda Orton
Lee College
Board of Regents
Texas College and University System Coordinating Board
Texas Education Agency
Richard D. Strahan
Texas
Strahan
Kennedy license suspended after crash that killed secretary
Edw ard M Kennedy faces a suspension of his driver's license after a weekend crash in Edgartown in which a young secretary died. Massachusetts registrar Richard McLaughlin said a preliminary finding of fault supports the suspension and an upcoming hearing will determine if the license is reinstated or if the suspension stands.
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Edgartown
Mass
Edward M. Kennedy
Aready
Boston
Richard KE. McLuiphiin
State Registrar of Motor Vehicles
McLaughlin
Sen. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Usub
Kenedy
Reine
Apollo 11 Beams Earth TV From Moon as Return Nears
Apollo 11 astronauts Edwin Aldrin Michael Collins and Neil Armstrong monitor a live TV feed from 180000 miles away as they prepare for splashdown near Hawaii. Armstrong shows lunar soil samples and explains containment to prevent contamination. The final moon-TV broadcast airs tonight as recovery plans proceed.
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Neil A. Armstrong
Hawaii
Hornet
Earth
Mission Control
Charles Duke
Earl
Aldrin
Duke
Armstrong
United States
No Value Seen in Bay Conversion for Houston Water Plan
An engineer’s memorandum in a CIWA review disputes converting three salt water bays west of Baytown into fresh water lakes to serve Houston. H. J. Norman states the levee project has no value for Houston’s water supply, jeopardizing Baytown’s financing hopes, though local leaders will pursue soil borings to prove feasibility.
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Brown and Roat, Inc
Baytown
City of
Houston
Coastal Industrial Water Authority
H. J. Norman
C. R. Coneway
CIWA
Scott's, Crystal
Burnet Bays
Houston Ship Channel
Lynchburg Ferry
Brownwood
Glen Walker
Fresh Water Recreation and Resources Board
Ciwa Board of
Walker
Bay
Retirement Means More No Rocking Chairs For Mac
William H. Fortney, longtime Humble Oil and Refining Co. maintenance and construction senior staff planner, retires after 44 years of service. He held roles from general foreman to zone supervisor within M and C and led the Instrument Society of America at multiple levels. Fortney and his wife Kathryn divide time between a Smith Island summer home and plans for another at Take fuchanan, active in St. Josephs Church and Kirks Lodge, with children Gerald and Paula and five grandchildren.
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William H
Mac) Fortney
Fortney
Humble Oil and Refining Co
M&c
Kathryn
Smith
Take Fuchanan
Fortneys
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
Kirks Lodge
Gerald
Houston
Paula Harriman
Laredo
United Drive For the
St. Vincent de Paul Society
Instrument Society of America
Instrument Society
Warren, Ark
Austin
University of Texas
Instrument Department
Police Recover Highly Valued Stolen Items
Baytown detectives recovered about $5,500 in stolen merchandise including five outboard motors a color television set and rifles. The TV and guns were taken in a local burglary while the motors came from Lake Charles Louisiana and Lufkin. Two Baytown residents were charged with burglary and felony theft.
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Baytown
Glen Hosier
Lake Charles
Lufkin
Rosier
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Baytown Orportant
NEW
O. M. Coe
Carmen Martinez
Patsy West
Helen Holbert
National Secretaries Association
Miami
Cave Korninck
Guam
Betty Nugent
Virginia Herrington
Terry Sanders
Samm Houston State University
Virginia
P. McMurrey
John Henderson
Canada
Novey Russell
Bettye
LeRoy
Joey Masterson
Florida
Bob Stap
Baytonian
W. A. Ead
Missouri
Maryland
W. A. Fields
Read
Fields
Beta Sigma Phi
Bayshore
Kiwanis
Harris County Mosquito
N. C. Gilbert SR
Pershing
Harbor
Boytown State Bank
Fdic Bey Plaza Center
Sterling High
Mike Mansfield
Democratic Policy Committee
Senate
Mekong
el Salvadour
Honduras
U.S. Civil Rights Commission
Texas Reform School
Mountain View
Curtis Graves
Federal Trade Commission
el Paso
Juan Carlos de Bourbon
Spain
Small Business Administration
Lou Brock
Iespite
Citizens National Bank & TruSt CO
Pacific
Dramatic Arts
Baytown San
Robby Nixon
LC Regents
Lee College Board
Dr. Strahan
Jaytown
Bulletin
H. Fortney
FOIG
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