Ward Road project approved with esplanade debate deferred
Baytown City Council approved a 330820 dollar widening and realignment of Ward Road from Highway 116 to Kilgore Road excluding esplanades, while postponing sidewalk plans. Mayor Cravey urged considering all views. some council members warned of future Cedar Bayou bridge implications and traffic impacts. The sidewalk issue was tabled for further resident study and city funds remain limited for sidewalk work.
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Kilgore Road
Esplanade Haid
Seaborm Cravey
Cravey
Beytown
Antler Club
Robert E
Lee High School
O’briens
Kmart
Glen Walker
Cedar Bayou
James Street
Albert Fanestiel
Andy Braswell
Braswell
Fanestiel
Hullum
Walker
Hloesel
John Busch
Fritz Lanham
Class Reunion Plans for Ruth Griffith Heads to Hope Ark
Ruth Griffith and regional class mates from 1918 will gather in Hope Arkansas for a high school reunion. About 32 attendees are expected with four noted as deceased. Social activities are planned all weekend for attending members. Baytown Service League will meet Friday at Goote Creek Country Club at 9715 a.m.
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Ruth Griffith
Hope
Ark
Baytown Service League
Goote Creek Country Club
Budget hike boosts drug allowance for Baytown clinic
Harris County Hospital District board votes 4 1 to raise the Baytown Health League clinic drug allowance from 15009 to 315,600 while omitting new cash funds. The proposal totals 18.2 million and would raise the tax rate five cents if approved. City officials plan to push for a separate 28,000 cash grant from a 150,000 community clinics fund.
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Harris County Hospital
Baytown Health League
Hosppital District Board of Managers
Baytown
Health League
Harris County Commissioners Court
Hospital District Board of Managers
Charman Dana Arnold
Commissioners Court
A. M
Andy
Braswell
Hospital
Baytown Chamber Speaker Presents City Comparison Program
Baytown Chamber of Commerce Manager Dave Moore will present a comparison of cities at the weekly membership meeting Friday at the Holiday Inn. The annual event reviews income, family figures, and buying power for several Texas cities including Orange Killeen Port Arthur Grand Prairie Victoria Longview Denton Temple Big Spring and Baytown. Weather forecasts show sunny to partly cloudy skies with possible thunderstorms. highs in the upper 80s and lows around the low 70s. Galveston tides list high and low times for Friday.
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Baytown
Galveston
Baytown Notables and Local Notices in Brief
Local notices include Danny Watkins’ morning trouble with parents away, Kathy Himel moving back to Baytown, Judy Johnson a TWU graduate working in Houston Parks Dept, Doyle Tours home from college, Betsy Maeser sewing a new dress, Eugene Cheatham returning to Baytown from Hentts Fair and a visit to Waco, Buddy Bruner on leave and soon to Pensacola Naval School, Dora Ward hard to reach, birthday wishes to Bonnie Campbell, Stacey and Jayne Smyre visiting Mrs. G. J. Smyre, Rosemary Jeuneau of New Orleans and Baton Rouge staying with Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Travis in Baytown.
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U.S. Navy
Pensacola
Fla
Naval School-' Ans
Dora Ward
Bonnie Campbell
Stacey
Jayne Smyre
G. J. Smyre
Rosemary Jueneau
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
E. B. Travis
Baytown
Lee College names 35 Distinguished Scholars for spring
Thirty five students at Lee College are named distinguished scholars with at least a 3.5 GPA. An additional 34 part time or mixed course-load students earned scholastic recognition for A grades, with two full-load students achieving a 4.0. Other top averages include 3.8, 3.7, and 3.6 by multiple named students across several overviews.
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Lee College
John Lamonte
Marsha McAlister
Larry Foerster
Phyllis Nugent
Donald Cartner
David Kelly
Eileen Knox
Kenneth Skrabanek
Bethany Bletsch
Charles Brinkley
Camille Bunting
Carolyn Burns
Stacie Envin
Sharon Mitchell
Patricia Stevens
Terry Bland
Diana Bloom
Patricia Brinkman
Carrie Casey
Larry Ezell
Stanley Milner
Fer
Randolph Churchill dies in London at 57
Randolph Churchill son of the late Sir Winston Churchill dies in London at 57 while pursuing a biography of his father. An advisory committee will report June 13 on private Texas higher education pace. Bystanders injured in Kennedy shooting show improved condition as President Johnson appoints a commission to study violence causes.
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Sir Winston Churchil
London
State College Coordinating Board
Texas Higher Education
Johnson
Sen
Robert Kennedy
Erik Jonsson
Dallas
Kennedy
Jonsson
Helen Grady
RFK Slaying Triggers World Grief and Shock
AP reports a global wave of mourning after Senator Robert F. Kennedy is killed. Leaders from Queen Elizabeth II to Harold Wilson sent condolences as crowds wept in Dublin and Saigon veterans voiced sorrow. France, Ireland, Germany, Israel, and Italy joined in expressing profound sympathy and reflection on the loss.
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Hubert F. Kennedy
United States
Kennedy
America
Dublin
Mary Ryan
Saigon
2Naq
Lawrence Patch
Topeka
Kan
Elizabeth Ti
Harold Wilson
Giuseppe Saragat
de Gaulle
Johnson
Sen. Kennedy
France
Ireland
Bonn
West Germany
Tel Aviv
Baytonian Heads Up GOP Caucus for District Nominees
John Davis of Baytown named temporary chairman of the Eighth Congressional District caucus at the Republican State Convention. Preliminary meetings start Sunday in Corpus Christi with 23 temporary chairmen slated to lead districts. Delegates and alternates named from Baytown and Highlands will select nominees for state committees and choose two delegates and two alternates to the Republican National Convention in Miami Beach.
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Baytown
Corpus Christi
Davis
Miami Beach
E. A. “Woody” Rose
Loren W. Good
D. R. Miller
T. C. Gage
Dan H. Beard
Robert L. McKinney
W. C. Jones
Fred C. Sims
Zane Stephenson
L. W. Good
Fred Santogrossi
Jack Henderson
Douglas C. Benton
Andy Whitaker
Jane Boydell
Horace Smith
Jimmy Davis
Highlands
F.W. Brown
LC Summer Sign Up Set For Monday
Lee College begins first summer term registration Monday with extended hours to accommodate students. Signups run 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM and 4:00 PM to 8:00 PM in the library. admission permits must be obtained in Rundell Hall. Office hours extend 8:00 AM to 9:20 PM next week and 8:00 AM to 9:30 PM in the second week, with library hours 8:00 AM to 9:30 PM.
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Lee College
Rundell Hall
Governor Connally recalls RFK death in Texas sorrow
The Texas governor and Dallas leaders react to the Kennedy assassination. Gov. Connally calls the death senseless and urges guidance to curb violence. Dallas plans an interfaith memorial service with leaders from Protestant, Catholic, and Jewish communities. Fort Worth joins in mourning with a formal resolution against lawlessness and violence.
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Texas
Sen
Robert Kennedy
New York
Los Angeles
John Connally
John F. Kennedy
Dallas
Sen. Kennedy
Austin
Kennedy
Claude Stinson
Dallas Pastors Association
Fort Worth
Central Texas United Methodist Conference
Abby Hurls High Winds At Jacksonville Beach
Tropical storm Abby lashed Jacksonville Beach with 63 mile per hour winds toppling trees and flooding streets. Seven deaths in Florida were blamed on Abby with four missing and presumed drowned, while warnings extended from Melbourne to Charleston and inland rainfall spread into Georgia and South Carolina.
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Fla
Florida
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Daytona Beach
Melbourne
Charleston
Georgia
South Carolina
National Hurricane Center
Miami
Abby
Duval County
Caribbean
Yucatan Peninsula
Mexico
Plant City
St. Petersburg
Sunday A Day Of Mourning Proclaimed After Kennedy Death
President Johnson announced a two day national mourning period after the death of Senator Robert F Kennedy. A proclamation directs next Sunday to be observed as a day of mourning and calls for American flags on federal buildings to fly at half staff until Kennedy's burial.
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Washington
Johnson
Robert F. Kennedy
America
Kennedy
Burke
Head Wounds Prove Fatal To Senator
Senator Robert F Kennedy died early today after a gunman shot him at the Ambassador Hotel. His wife Ethel was by his bedside as he succumbed to a brain wound after more than 24 hours of no consciousness. The body was to be flown to New York aboard a White House jet.
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Robert Francis Kennedy
Ambassador Hotel
Los Angeles
Ros
White House
New York
Ethel
Kennedy
Robert E. Kennedy
la Guardia
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Washington
Senate Office
Department of Justice
Arlington Cemetery
John F. Kennedy
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