Community club events and meetings listed for Baytown area
KC Games Night at 8 p.m. Tuesday at KC Hall announced by council lecturer D. C. Kane. Brownwood Civic Association meets 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at old Wooster water office on Bayway Drive. Kiwanis hosts Living Circle group at noon Thursday at Ramada Tower Center. B and P W installs officers with dinner at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Ramada Tower Center. Parish supper features Rev W Graham Kingham discussing church ministry near Allen's Landing at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at Trinity Episcopal Church parish house. Kilgore chairs. Rotary Club noon meeting at Ramada Tower Center to discuss Four-Way Test. Virgil ae will speak. Baytown Professional Firefighters Wives meet 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mrs Mark Wiess home. Mrs Ray S. Martin to undergo surgery Thursday at Houston Diagnostic Center Hospital.
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Brownwood Brownwood Civic Association
Old Wooster
Bayway Drive
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Living Circle
Baytown
Ramadal Tower Center
W. Graham Pal- Kingham
Church of the Redeemer
Houston
Allen's Landing
Trinity Episcopal Church
Hardee Kilgore
Rotary
Rotary Clu
Ramada Tower Center
Virgil [Ae
Mark Wiess
W. Rumble
Local Notables Make Quiet Summer Round of News
Allen Day makes a surprise visit while Nancy Savage sends a thoughtful message. C. P. Burnett enjoys shade with his paper. Mrs. John Walczynski Sr. “catches” a friend. Joe Couch may be the champion tomato raiser of West Chambers County. Jim Kyle returns to work after a medical bout. Ben Wilson counts noses and laments Bay towns. Jon Pfennig travels to Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Leon Daniells returns from California. Gene Richardson Jr. and Janet Hansen are the YMCA swimming team’s youngest members.
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Allen Day
Nancy Savage
C. P. Burnett
John Walczynski Sr
Joe Couch
West Chambers County
Jim Kyle
Ben Wilson
West Texas
Jon Pfennig
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
Leon Daniells
California
Gene Richardson Jr
Janet Hansen
YMCA
Wednesday Talk On Minority Race Study At Lee College
Lee College instructor Fred E. Adams will discuss minority race problems in education and employment at 8 p.m. Wednesday in Maude Moller Hall. He has spent 14 months studying disadvantaged youth with a three year Southern Regional Education Board grant. Adams notes few minorities use junior college programs and aims to involve the community to help students return to school and gain skills.
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Fred E. Adams
Lee College
Maude Moler Hall
Adams
Southern Regional Education Board
jHe
South
Carneigie Foundation
Baytown
Agnew urges Rhodes to resign over campus unrest remarks
Vice President Spiro T. Agnew criticized Joseph Rhodes Jr a 22 year old Harvard junior fellow and said if remarks attributed to him are accurate he should resign from the President's Commission on Campus Unrest. The commission is led by former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and appointed by President Nixon.
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Detroit
Spiro T. Agnew
Joseph Rhodes Jr
Rhodes
Harvard University
Nixon
William W. Scranton
Pennsylvania
Lee College may build own sewage facilities north campus
City Planning Director Wilhite told a Lee College planning group that expansion north of Baytown could require the college to own and operate its own sewage treatment facilities if construction starts within five years. Bond funds run to 1975 with north campus opening planned around then.
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David Specht
Ross
Wilhite
Lee College
Baytown
Loop 201
Harris County Hospital District Battles Budget Cut
Harris County Hospital District board wrestles with fitting 1970 71 expenditures into a $23.6 million budget after Commissioners Court cut the proposed six cent tax increase in half and reduced the overall budget by $803 682 from $24.4 million. The court approved a three cent tax hike to fund operations and rejected the clinic funding for Baytown Health Clinic now county financed. Dr Myke Durham warned indigent patients would suffer as a result.
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Houston
Harris County Hospital District Board of Managers
Commissioners Court
Hospital Board
Baytown
Myke &. Durham
Harris County
Bill Elliott
W. Kyle Chapman
E. A. (Squatty
Special Prosecutor To Aid DA In Baytown Area
Harris County District Attorney Carol Vance announces a special prosecutor program to screen criminal complaints before charges. The four prosecutors, two secretaries and one investigator will operate from regional offices funded by a $238,000 two year grant from the Texas Criminal Justice Council. Prosecutors will interview witnesses and guide cases to indictment, speeding up examining trials and police report submission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baytown
la Porte
Harris County
Carol S. Vance
Texas Criminal Justice Council
Vance
Justice of the Peace
Mont Belvieu to vote $415000 water bond in June
Mont Belvieu officials set a June 27 bond election for 415000 to fund sewer system upgrades, treatment plant and line improvements. The Chambers County Water Control district No 1 is to be dissolved after annexation by the city, with the water board to serve as an advisory panel during the take over.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mont Belvieu
Chambers County Water Control and Improvement District No. 1
J. W. Grimes
Grimes
Water Board
Virgil Carlile
Andrew Lannie
Crosby Board Seeks $38,545 Title IV Federal Grant
Crosby School District requests a 38,545 Title IV grant to fund staff development and advisory specialists for total desegregation. Curriculum director B S Griffin outlined a plan including nine advisory specialists and two counselors, with HEW cautioning on staff numbers. The district aims to revise curricula, obtain materials, assess pupil needs, and expand audio visual aids while seeking regional HEW approval. The board also renewed Region IV Media Service at 1,940.37 based on last year attendance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wanda Orton Crosby
Crosby
B.S. Griffin
Griffin
Dallas
Office of Health, Education and Welfare
Jack Woodard
Weather Summary For Morgan's Point Area
Clear to partly cloudy and warm through Wednesday with temperatures Tuesday in the mid 70s to low 90s. Morgan's Point tides for Wednesday show high at 3 49 p m and low at 2 01 p m. Wednesday sunrise is 6 21 a m and sunset at St 24 p m.
Former City Judge Named To Port Panel
James Walton Fonteno of Houston, 43, a Baytown Corporation Court judge in the 1950s, was named to the Port Commission by Harris County Commissioners Court. He studied real estate after leaving Baytown in 1958 and later moved to Houston. Only County Judge Elliott opposed his appointment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Walton Fonteno
Houston
Baytown
Port Commission
Harris County Commissioners Court
Fonteno
Corporation Court
James W. Girardeau
Little and Zorn
Port Arthur
Bill Elliott
W. Kyle Chapman
Elliott
John H
Buddy) Raspberry
International Longshoreman’s Association
E. H. Henderson
E. A
Squat-tly
Lyons
John W. Hazard
Bank of Texas
Barney L. Ward
R. H
Red) Pruett
Apollo 13 Investigation Blames Human and Mechanical Error
A Monday review board faulted NASA North American Rockwell and Beech for serious design and testing oversights in the oxygen tank blast that endangered three astronauts. Apollo 14 is delayed two months to December 3 with others possibly stretched or canceled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Space Agency
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
North American Rockwell Corp
Beech Aircraft Corp
North American
Rockwell
Beech
Cape Kennedy
Fla
NASA
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SAN Jacinto Council
Knights of Columbus
KC Hall
D. C
Kane
Council
B&pw
Business and Professional Women's Club
Ray S. Martin
Houston Diagnostic Center Hospital
Baytown State Bank
F.d.lc
Korea
South Korea
Kumsan
Boatright
AO Service
Craage
UPD Secu
Crosby Board
Barlyx2rs Hill High
Chambers County Water District
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