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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 31, 1961
Page
2
Dr. O Erbee assistant director told the commission that Florida's alligators are being driven toward extinction as hunters, once restricted to six feet for hides, now take longer specimens. Frye noted widespread overharvesting beyond the Everglades and nearby counties, accelerating disappearance of the reptiles.
Immitted to San Jacinto Hospital Oscar W Langston Channelview Room Malcolm J McDonald Wisconsin Room 200 Mrs W F Hogue Bass Jasadena Room 303 J M Rhodes Browning Liberty Room 342 Elena Avalos Harkins Room 218 Pieter Gerrit DeWaal E Texas Room 34
Funeral notices list names and addresses with rooms and medical or surgical statuses. Notables include Johnny Donnelly of Houston obituary details and Cedar Bayou Methodist Church services for Donnelly. Additional items mention Franks and Dubcak family members, hospital arrivals and patient room updates.
The Summer Term Honor Roll lists Artie Sue Feltner Mike Fleischamn Marianne Floyd Phillip Gazaway David Grayson Herbert Hall Lois Hanson James Henley Stephen Hudnall Barbara Jones Elizabeth Jones Kilgore Violet Lavender Bernard Lerner Sheila Lyles Elvie McHenry Harold Martin Diane Mayhall Mary Moore Charles Mylar Ann Parrish Malcolm Payne Caroline Peterson Rosina Phillips Judy Perkins Wayne Porter Hugh Robey Michaels Ramsey Gene Smith Linda Smith Paula Smith Louis Storner Anna Teeggeman Charles Templeton Elizabeth Theeck Marv Lou Tyer Judy Wanzer Michael Wier Richard Wright. Also three of Russia s seven major rivers the Oh Yenisei and Lena flow northward into the Arctic Ocean.
The United States, top track power, opened a four meet European tour by beating Poland 121-91, as stars including Truex and Budd shone in relays and sprints. Poland’s Piatkowski and Uelses highlighted field events, with European teams unable to match the U.S. pace.
The American Legion unit in Texas calls for a congressional investigation of the U S State Department and the Supreme Court during closing Houston convention. It accuses the State Department of infiltration by men sympathetic to Soviet Russia and communism. The Houston Crime Commission honors a bystander who aided officers in detaining hijacking suspects. Lou Reggy praised for assisting Officer T C Stewart. Eldrewey Stearnes of the Progressive Youth Association released after eight days in jail following an integration sit in, after initially protesting. Elijah Brooks, 90, charged in a knife killing of his brother after a tavern dispute, while a robber steals 500 dollars from a Houston drive in grocery store during a late Sunday incident.
Lamarque Texas AP An odd salesman jailed after trying to force a ride for his kids rammed a plane on a runway during a takeoff attempt for the Galveston Sky Diving Club. James Watson Jr 39 of near Dickinson charged with drunkenness willful destruction of property and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle. Bond set at 3000. Witnesses say Watson stopped the plane to claim a ride shouting I’ll pay you whatever you want and drove his car onto the runway as the plane moved to take off buckling its gear and fuselage.
William A Bill Retz son of Mr and Mrs Andrew M Retz resided at 101 Holly Drive Baytown spent five weeks aboard the escort destroyer USS Renshaw while taking part in the Naval Reserve Officers Training Course He attended the University of New Mexico and owned a Watson model car with a dented windshield No injuries were reported in the incident near Lake Menvaienia and the Suez entrance area
Bids for signs and marking on a 30. mile stretch of Interstate 10 from the Harris County line east to Winnie will be taken Aug. 15 and 16 in Austin. Don W. Syphrett, Texas Highway Department resident engineer, announced the plan.
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