Crosby Schools Alter Financial Policies Approved
Crosby schools board approved receipts format for delinquent taxes and set up a $30,000 funds to deposit collections immediately. They endorsed tax changes by the board, authorized an ad valorem record, and used letters to inform taxpayers of returned checks. Purchases include local supplements, 100 percent increase in property assessments, and an 80 percent assessment rate leading to about a 4 to 12 percent tax rise. They named Jerry Prochaska as assistant superintendent and business manager, and Robert Cunningham as Crosby High School principal. Resignations were accepted from Donna Campident, Norman Payne, and Hazel McClain. (Plus site- and building-related planning actions and a June 28 called meeting to select an architect.)
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O R. Perkin
Jerry Prochaska
Crosby
Robert Cunningham
Royard Donna Campident
Norman Payne
Hazel McClain
Jerry Wilson
Eddie Faust
Wilburt Eagleton
Bob Bradley
Perking
Channelview Board Approves Teacher Pay Hike
The Channelview school board on Tuesday approved a teacher pay raise above the state increase. The new scale will bring most teachers to about 730 dollars total and raise the minimum to 550 dollars above the state minimum. Superintendent H C Schochler said the district will spend about 12000 dollars to fund the raise.
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Channelview Ay Board
Channelview School
H.C. Schochler
William Hickling Prescott Historians Despite Blindness
William Hickling Prescott, famed American historian, lost sight in one eye as an undergraduate at Harvard and later the other eye suffered rheumatism. He conducted careful research by employing a reader to read manuscripts aloud to him.
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William Hickling . Prescott
America
Harvard University
World Almanac
Prescott
Noon Stock Quotes From Readable Company List
A trimmed list of companies appears in a noon stock quotes segment. It names numerous firms including General Motors, IBM, Gulf Oil, Dow Chemical, Texaco, Union Carbide, Dow Jones, and others while noting Canada’s population distribution along the US border.
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Alis-Chaimers
Arian’s Dept
Gen Motors
Gen Tel & Elee Am Tel & Tel
Gen Tire
Smaconda Georgia-Pacific
Armco
Gillette
Ashland Oil
Gordon's Jewel Bendix
Greyhound
Beth Steel Gulf Oil
Carrier Corp
Gulf States Util Celanese Halliburton
Chrysler
Frosiman
Columbia Gas Ho
Delta Air
Interlake Steel - IBM
Jones & Laugh
KereMcGee
Kresge SS
Ling-Temeo-Vought
el Paso
Nat-Gas
McDonnell-Douglas Mapnavox
Marathon Oil
Mobile Socony
Monsanto
Ecuee
Dow Chem
New York Occidental Pet
Penn RR
Pepsi Cola
Phillips Pet Technicolor
Texas Gulp Snr
Tidewater
Union Carbide
Union Oil
Cal
Viet War Victim's Rites Scheduled For Thursday
Funeral services for 2nd Lt. James Douglas Carter Jr., 24, who was killed in action in Vietnam, will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. in the New Veterans Cemetery chapel, Houston. The Marine Corps will conduct full rites. Carter’s body arrived in San Francisco, then flew to Houston with a military escort, to be at Waltrip Funeral Home about 1 a.m. Thursday. Donations to a memorial fund at First Christian Church in Baytown are requested in lieu of other remembrances. Carter is survived by his wife Janice, a two-month-old son, his parents Jim and (unnamed) Carter, two sisters, a brother, a grandmother, and numerous relatives. He died near Da Nang after leading a patrol in Operation Cimerron. He earned two Purple Hearts and a Bronze Star, served with Company B, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines. He was a Baytown and Plainview High School standout and Texas Tech graduate.
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Puneral Services
James Douglas Carter Jr
Vietnam
the New Veterans Cemetery
Stubner
Houston
Carter
Jim Carter
Carter Motor Co
Texas Avenue
Marine Corps
San Francisco
Waltrip Funeral Home
First Christian Church
Baytown
Fayls
Janice Carter
John Scott
Adrienne Ragle
Plainview
Willie Sherrell Gentke
Webster
Vann Hooper
Highlands
Joe Kennedy
Fort Worth
DaNang
U.S. Department of
St. Marines
la Carter
Baytowwn
Sant Plainview High School
Texas Tech
Businss
Duncan Johnson Dies Rites Pending
Duncan Johnson 54 of Baytown died at 7:45 a.m. en route to a Baytown hospital after Open heart Surgery in Houston May 17. Autopsy ordered. Born May 7, 1917 in Batson, Tex. Survived by wife IGenevieve two daughters Janis Lynn Joyce Ann a son Jay Duncan and mother Mrs Nevie Johnson. Funeral arrangements pending at Earthman Funeral Home.
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Duncan Boyd
Johnson
Belvedere
Baytown
Methodist Hospital
Houston
Batson
Tex
J. M. Huber Corp
Jimmie
Sanderson
Earthman Funeral Home
Debated UN standoff shifts to Soviet ties in Cairo and New York
News from Cairo reports Soviet arms shipments resuming as Marshal Zakharov visits ahead of Kosygin while at the UN the Johnson Kosygin meeting remains uncertain. US officials say Johnson would meet Kosygin elsewhere. Kosygin hosts Arab leaders in New York and Moro dines with him in Rome. The Burma note adds a contrast on social structure.
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Israel
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Cairo
al. Ahram
Matvei V. Zakharov
Podgorny
Yugoslavia
Tito
U.N
Johnson
Kosygin
New York
Washington
U.S
White House
George Christian
Camp David
Pla
Noureddin Atassi
Ahmed Mahgoub
Italy
Moro
Rome
Car incident at Wright and First Streets detailed
The Baytown Sun notes a car driven by Refus Thedford struck a parked car and a house after a prior collision at Wright and First Streets Friday. Thedford says he did not hit the parked car or house. The article appears in the Baytown Sun dated Monday with local office details and press association credit.
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Baytown Sun
Refus Thedford
S. 7Th St
Wright and
First Streets
Thedford
Insurance rates rise in area counties on job injuries
The article notes higher air-coverage increases beginning Aug. 1 for Galveston up 36, Jefferson up 38, and Orange up $6, while Liberty, Chambers, Brazoria, Wallers, and Montgomery counties keep rates unchanged. Factors blamed include higher repair costs, a more litigation-prone public seeking damages, rising accident and death rates, and population growth.
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Galveston
Jefferson
Orange
Liberty
Chambers
Brazoria
Wallers
Montgomery
Conner resigns Winnie Medical Center post
J A Conner administrator of Winnie Medical Center resigns to take a position with Pavilion Hospital at the Houston Medical Center.
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Winnie, Tex,ap
J. A. Conner
Winnie Medical Center
Pavillion Hospital
Houston Medical Center
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