Fraziers Thank God Apache Move Delayed
Mr and Mrs Leon Frazier living on FM Road 1942 saw a tornado funnel and debris flying over the Apache Mobile Home Park Sunday morning They heard it coming from the south and watched the funnel despite blocked vision by trees They had planned to move their 14 by 72 foot trailer to Apache Lane but delayed due to the weather and narrowly avoided damage.
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Leon Frazier
FM Road
Apache Mobile Home Park
Frazier
Mobile Home Park
Fraziers
Apache Lane
Story Hour at Sterling Library in Beach City
Story Hour will be held at 10 am Tuesday at Sterling Municipal Library. Children up to 9 years old are invited. Mrs. Leon Brown Mrs. Joe Bonem and Mrs. Barton Bruce will tell the stories. Beach City Council meets 7 pm Tuesday at the Community House. SKEETER WHITTINGTON celebrates birthday with family. Carol Bartz discusses adolescent reading. Henry and Edna Schutze talk about Padre Island vacation site. Deputy Sheriff Scott among tornado scene, pastor undecided. Dave Sherron aids reporter on Apache Lane. Wooster Emergency Corps leads pen and note pad. James Stipe assists James Summersill family. Billie Young delivers message. Lester Alford back from vacation brings Illinois souvenirs.
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Sterling Municipal Library
Leon Brown
Joe Bonem
Barton Bruce
Skeeter Whittington
Rusti Beckmann
Laura Clinton
Joe Everitt
Carol Bartz
Henry
Edna Schutze
Padre, Island
George Scott
Apache Mobile Home Park
Scott
Dave Sherron
Apache Lane
W. BE. Broom
The
Wooster Emergency Corps
James Stipe
James Summersill
Billie Young
Lester Alford
Illinois
Mont Belvieu City Council Meeting Scheduled at 7 30 pm
Mont Belvieu City Council will meet at 7 30 p.m. Monday at the sub courthouse in Mont Belvieu. The Baytown Rotary Club will hear New Directions Club Inc on prisoner reentry Wednesday with Alton Laird as program chairman. Baytown Traffic Committee meeting for 5 p.m. Monday has been canceled.
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Mont Belvieu
NEW Directions Club, Inc
Texas Department of Corrections
Baytown
Baytown Area Weather and Tides Forecast
PARTLY CLOUDY and warm with a chance for showers through Tuesday in the Baytown area. The temperature ranges from the low 70s to the upper 80s. TIDES MORGAN'S POINT Tuesday high at 5 19 p.m. low at 3 25 a.m. Tuesday sunrise 6 21 a.m. sunset 8 25 p.m.
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Baytown Area
Morgan’s Point
Tornado Miraculously Spares Home Amid Destruction
A tornado Sunday morning left 10 people injured and six mobile homes destroyed. J B Green’s home at 4818 Apache Lane survived the wreckage, dubbed the miraculous middle between two devastating dips where neighboring homes of J A Guidry and Richard Gillet were obliterated. Green recalls his trailer being displaced with a hole in one side, and credits luck as the Guidrys were not at home. Green believes two or three tornadoes occurred that morning.
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J. B. Green
Apache Lane
Green
J. A. Guidry
Richard Gillet
Guidry
Guidrys
Recaptured killers tied to Harris County jail escape
Two men including a convicted hired killer were recaptured by police hours after escaping Harris County Jail by a crude rope. One suspect, a rapist awaiting Huntsville death row, was seized in Houston.
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Houston
Harris County
Huntsville
Daniel Price Daniel To Run For Speaker
Rep. Price Daniel Jr. of Liberty will announce at 2 p.m. a bid for speaker of the Texas House. The two term lawmaker positions reforms and limits on the speaker’s power, opposing current Speaker Gus Mutscher amid standout Texas politics. He will represent 21,000 Jefferson County residents plus Liberty and Chambers counties and 17,000 residents of Galveston Island.
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Alan Erwin
Sun
Austin Bureau Austin
Price Daniel Jr
Liberty
Baytown
Texas House
Baytown Sun Austin Bureau
Daniel
Gus Mutscher
Texas
Texas Supreme Court
Jefferson County
Chambers
Galveston Island
Sun Editorial Department Promotions Announced in Baytown
Fred Hartman announced three promotions at The Sun on Monday. Preston Pendergrass becomes executive editor, Jim Finley steps in as managing editor, and Wanda Orton is named associate managing editor. Johnella Boynton retires to part time work as schedule permits.
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Baytown
Wanda Orton
the Sun
Robert E. Lee
Johnella Boynton
Sun News
Hartman
Pendergrass
Tennessee
The
Sun
Cleveland (Tenn.) Banner
35Th Infantry Division
George Patton
Third Army
St. Lo
France
University of Tennessee
Finley
Brazosport
Bay City
Victoria
Deer Park Progress
Margie
Robin
Scott
Harold Lane
Orton
Lee College
University of Houston
Wanda
W. A. Orton
AEL Grid
Annexation Delayed Over Whispering Pines Drainage Demands
Baytown City Council tabled annexation of Whispering Pines subdivision pending more drainage data. Harris County Flood Control demands a 150 foot easement along Cedar Bayou, while 30 foot and 12 foot easements along Cary's Bayou and a drainage ditch are also required. County to pay half of a $90,000 drainage study. plans to update the 1960 study remain pending.
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Baytown
Whispering Pines
Harris County Flood Control
Cedar Bayou
Asta
Dan Savell
Savell
Cary's Bayou
Harris
Tom Langford
City Planning Commission
Langford
Ross Wilhite
Harris County
Wilhite
Planning Commission
Raccoon Drive
Cary’s Bayou
Tornado hits Apache Lane mobile home park injuring residents
A tornado struck a mobile home park on Apache Lane at 8 30 am Sunday destroying six homes and damaging five more. At least 10 people were injured including eight months pregnant Mrs Murl Linck admitted to Gulf Coast Hospital after surgery for lip lacerations. Linck family, neighbors, and visitors suffered various injuries as trailers were upended or moved. The storm damaged multiple homes near Crosby Barbers Hill Road and Garth Road with residents recounting roaring winds and hail-like noise.
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Wanda Orton
Mobile Home Park
Apache Lane
Murl Linck
Crosby- Barbers Hill Road
Garth Road
Linck
Gulf Coast Hospital
Apache
Rex
Richard
Mary Isabell
Melvin
Mary Linck
Smith Vetoes Pork Barrels In Budget Dispute
Gov. Preston Smith vetoed the entire second year of the 1972 73 state budget and 5.5 million in appropriations Sunday night. The moves targeted items critics called pork while defending essential services. The Dirty 30 coalition cited liberal excess as the motive, though an aide said there was no direct contact about specific vetoes.
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Austin
Preston Smith
Smith
House
Attorney General
Atty
Crawford Martin
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Linck Home
Beach City Beach
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Rotary
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D.G
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Jim Kyle
Sharpstown State Bank
National Bankers Lee Insurance Co
New York
New York Times
Washington Post
Pentagon
Time
Newsweek
Lyndon B. Johnson
Garden City
N.Y
Sen
Edmund
Muskie
Saigon
U.S
Preston Pendergrass
JM Finley
Apache Land Park
Lincks
Ike Hortch
Joyce
Hortch
Sharon Manning
Diane
W.S. Heatly
Paducah
House Appropriations Committee
Quanah Parkernterpretive Center
Copper Brakes State Park
Heatly
Ar Sereite Service
Ariary Citizens National Bank
Iene
Arco Car Wash
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