Baytown Council Forms Bi-Racial Study Panel
Baytown city leaders held an exploratory session with ten Negro community representatives and invited Latin American voices to shape a bi racial committee. Mayor Liggett named a six member subcommittee to draft needs and wants of minority groups ahead of a full council review on June 27.
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Baytown
BE. F P. Green
Carver High School
J. ¢. Baldwin
Baytown Civil League
Woodrow Lewis
CG. A McCloud
Baytown United Fund Agency
Tee
Earl Lively
Council
Reewar
Velma Ansley
Lively
Andy Contreras
Tony Campos
Green
Ee En Angey
Baytown Humble Club Dance and Local Notices
Baytown and Humble area events include a 9 p.m to 1 a.m dance at the Knights of Columbus Hall for members and guests. The Baytown Lions hear Rev. A L Jordan at noon next Tuesday at the Tower. Also notices on highway planning meeting, Bear Den hours, children's theater registration, acting workshops, and hot dry weather with temperatures mid 90s.
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Humble Club
Baytown
Knights of Columbus Hall
Lions
A. L. Jordan
Memorial Baptist Church
Baytown Lions Club
Children's Theater
Children's Theater Workshop
Little Theatre
BLT
Local notes mix kittens and town life in Around Town
Reported items include a Bath Road kitten find where only the mother remains, community gratitude for blood donations to Charlene Freeberger in Houston, and local chatter about high school site ideas, vacations, sports, and a bass fiddle hobby among city police.
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Jean Koudelica
Bath Road
Bob Smith
J. W. Allen
Clarence Schultz
Ulysses Grant
Robert E. Lee
Mary Helen Barker
Jack Kimmons
George Chandler
James M
Jim) Brean
Herman H. Steele
al Clayton
Ricky
al Melinger
Texas
Charlene Freeberger
Ben Taub Hospital
Houston
Baytown
Charlene
March March March air of foreboding over Jackson
In Jackson Mississippi an air of foreboding filled the city as Negro leaders planned a March March March strategy and prepared a dramatic funeral for slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers. Police and FBI pursued clues from several states while Evers’ funeral and his Arlington burial plans drew national attention.
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Jackson
Miss
FBI
Staes
Medgar W. Evers
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
FBE
Washington
Evers
Masonic Temple
Arlington National Cemetery
57 Degree Heat Ties Previous June 13 Record
The Houston Weather Bureau logged a 97 degree heat reading in the Houston Baytown area at 1 30 p m Thursday tying the June 13 record set in 1942 It was Baytown s tenth straight day with temperatures at or above 90 degrees A low of 78 degrees was recorded Friday morning
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Baytown
U.S. Weather Bureau
Houston
Galveston
Houston Weather Bureau
Fifth Russian Put in Orbit Hope Dim for Test Ban
Washington officials show little optimism that Moscow will concede on a comprehensive test ban. Khrushchev reportedly demands no international inspection inside the Soviet Union, fearing military pressure to resume tests in the fall.
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Washington
U.S
Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Anther
Soviet‘Union
United States
Kennedy
Harold Macmillan
Russia
Fuw
Red Chinese
Sino-Sa
Keeler reveals plot to obtain secrets from Profumo in London
A British socialite Christine Keeler admits a Soviet naval attaché urged her to secure nuclear secrets from former War Minister John Profumo. Across the Atlantic, labor strife, political clashes, and protests color coverage with strikes, pickets, and demonstrations tied to housing and civil rights. Victor Ridder dies. Texas weather stays mild in a dry pattern.
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London
Christine Keeler
John Profumo
Baytown Council Delays Planning Commission Action
Baytown City Council postponed naming a seven member planning commission at a regular meeting. The panel will assist in forming a city master plan and include a housewife educator businessman Realtor attorney architect or engineer and utility manager. Other items included abolishing the advisory planning board and approving plats retirements long term lease discussions civil service amendments and fruit and vegetable stand controls.
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Baytown
Regilar
Ali Planning Commission
Tommy)Cook
Holly Hill
Olive St
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Cook
Velma Ansley
Civil Service Commission
Lee Liggett
Austin
J. B- le- Fever
Corpus Christi
Kenneth E. Badgett
Councl
George Chandler
Kim King
National Guardsmen Relieve Alabama Barricades at University
Federalized guard unit moves in as Governor Wallace stands by during a tense Alabama confrontation at the University of Alabama Tuscaloosa where two Negro students, a boy and a girl, enroll amid barricades and national tension tied to federal action and school integration.
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University of Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Kennedy
Alabama Guard
George Wallace
Labor Leaders Help Asked JFK Hits Job Discrimination
President Kennedy urged AFL-CIO leaders to back a nationwide drive on job discrimination. He asked for a top level committee, union support for civil rights legislation, voter registration campaigns, and more minority leaders in unions. He urged biracial councils and said many white faces were present in the room.
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Washington
Afl-Cio
George Meany
House
Kennedy
Aflcio
Trade Union
Harry S. Treman
Khrushchev Announces Fifth Man In Orbit By Soviet Union
Soviet Premier Khrushchev revealed the fifth cosmonaut has been placed in orbit aboard Vostok V. Lt. Col. Valeri Bykovsky, 29, was identified, with Tass reporting the craft reached orbit and experiences weightlessness as it circles Earth.
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Moscow
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
United States
Valeri Fedorovich Bykovsky
Vostok V
Tass
Earth
Harold Wilson
Labor Party
Kremlin
Wilson
Lance
Fats Brown Improves After Heart Attack In Baytown
Justice of the Peace M. M. Fats Brown showed improvement after a heart attack Thursday evening at his Baytown home. His son Jimmy said he was transported to Baytown Hospital by Mrs. Brown and placed in an oxygen tent with no visitors allowed. Brown, a former Harris County deputy sheriff, began his term as justice of the peace last January succeeding Walter Queen. The Browns reside at 608 Inweed.
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Justice of the Peace
M. M
Fats) Brown
Baytown Hospital
Jimmy
Brown
Harris County
Baytown
Walter Queen
Union election set at Humble Baytown Refinery July 9 10
A bargaining election will be held July 9 10 at Humble Oil and Refining Co s Baytown Refinery to decide whether maintenance and production employees retain the Oil Chemical and Atomic Workers Union AFL CIO or join the Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union or vote no union. The National Labor Relations Board Houston region set the date after a Gulf Coast union petition. Ford Geyer Gulf Coast union secretary said OCAW agreed to the election. OCAW s contract with Humble has expired and negotiations are pending.
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Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union
Afl-Cio
Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union
Nnmble
National Labor Relations Board
Houston
Ford Geyer
Gulf Coast Union
OCA
OCAW
Humble
Dredging Decision Due Next Week In Oyster Bays
J R Bob Singleton regional director of the Texas Game and Fish Commission said he would rule next week on Parker Brothers plan to dredge oyster shelf over 125 square miles of state land in Trinity and Galveston Bays. About 40 fishermen from Baytown Galveston Anahuac and Smith Point attended the hearing to protest. Some feared harm to live oysters and erosion while others doubted dredging would help. Parker Brothers did not present a rebuttal.
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J. R
Bob) Singleton
Baytown
Texas Game and Fish Commission
la Porte
Trinity
Galveston
Anahuac
Smith Point
Parker Brothers and Co., Inc
Houston
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Cedar Bayou Junior High
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Tougaloo
Allen Thompson
NAACP
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Ohio House of Representatives Chamber
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Ridder Newspaper Group
White House
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