Car Train Collision Injures Two Channelview Residents
Ruth Pittman and Beatrice Hall, both of Avenue C Channelview, are in good condition at Tidelands Hospital after a car train crash at the Delsdale crossing. Pittman’s 1966 sedan was shoved 22 feet along the track by an eastbound engine, while Steen’s pickup swerved into Pittman’s car. The mishap drew Channelview rescue crews and state troopers who cited Steen for being on the wrong side of the road.
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Channelview
Ruth Pittman
Avenue C
Beatrice
Spike) Hall
Tidelands Hospital
Delsdale
Pittman
Missouri-Pacific
R. B. Peel
Baytown
H.H. Steen
Waldine Road
Houston
Texas Department of Public Safety
Chuck Bailey
L. T. Dehnert
Robert Seale
Sheldon Road
Delldale Road
Delldale
Steen
Channelview Fire Chief Ed Smith Receives Union Support
The Harris County Fire Fighters Association voted to back Channelview Fire Chief Ed Smith for the next year in his campaign for fourth vice president of the State Fireman's and Fire Marshal's Association of Texas. The Crosby meeting drew 125 firefighters from 50 counties. Smith, 1970 Harris County president and 1971 Gulf Coast president, has led Channelview for six years.
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Channelview
Harris County Fire Fighters Association
Ed Smith
State Fireman's and Fire Marshal's Association of Texas
Crosby
Harris County
Galveston
Smith
Gulf Coast Fireman's Association
Rites Set For Former Baytonian Sam Raven
Funeral services for Sam Raven of Victoria will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at Colonial Funeral Home in Victoria. He died Monday morning in a Victoria hospital after a long illness. Raven was a security guard in Baytown for years. Survivors include his wife Lucille and several nieces and nephews. He was the brother of the late Mrs. A G Barber, longtime Baytonian.
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Sam Raven
Victoria
Colonial Funeral Home
Raven
Victoria Hospital
Baytown
Lucille
A. G. Barber
Grants To AID Repairs On Battleship Texas
Grants totaling 50000 from the Brown Moody and Houston Endowment foundations will fund repair work on the USS Texas, permanently berthed at San Jacinto Battle ground. The effort includes sand or water blasting old hull paint and applying new coating, plus repairs to the super structure and decking.
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Texas
San Jacinto Battleground
Brown Foundation of
Houston
Moody Foundation of
Galveston
Houston Endowment of Houston
George R. Brown
Brown Foundation
Beauford Jester
San Jacinto
Lloyd Gregory
The
Battle
Texas Commission
Brown, Moody, and
Houston Endowment
A G
Spike) Taylor
Gregory
Killer Old Guns Bring Back Memories From Texas Mob
In Dallas a wax museum features Deacon Jim Miller and fellow killers from Texas history. The display notes Miller’s brutal past from 1866 birth in Van Buren Arkansas to murderous acts in Pecos and Ada and his 1909 jail ambush lynching. The exhibit suggests Miller's coat and gun lore endure as dramatic relics.
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Associated Press
Dallas
U.S
Texas
United States
Jim Miller
Nester
Southwestern
State Fair of Texas
Jim
Berry B. Burrell
Joe Allen
Jesse West
Deacon
Deacon Jim
van Buren
Ark
Franklin
Tex
Evant
Coryell County
John Coop
Pat Garrett
Billy the Kid
Ada
Okla
Angus A. Gus
Bobbitt
Glenn Shirley
University of Oklahoma Press
Miller
West
Allen
Burrell
Maman Prusett
Pauls Valley
Prusett
Shirley
Wax Museum
Thornton Expressway
Williams Retires From Humble Baytown Refinery
R. E. Williams Jr., machinist in Humble Oil and Refining Co. Baytown Refinery, retired June 1. He plans to hunt, fish, work in his yard and church, Wooster Baptist, and pursue woodcraft. A Texas City native, he joined the refinery labor department in 1939 and moved to maintenance and construction in 1940. his wife Melrose belongs to Refinery Employee Relations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. E. Williams Jr
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown
Wooster Baptist
Williams
Texas City
Refinery
Melrose
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Lancelot
Lori
Coker & Penn
Lance
Els
By Howie Schneider
Eek & Meek
Uanrriage
Sven En
Princ
Crocks & Lawrence
Captain Easy Kear Mne
Ney Ane
Iene
Bok Ee
Bugs Bunny
Bucsy
Priscilla
By Heimdohl & Stoffel
By Y. T. Hankn
Mus Ta EA
Vermeer
Vali
Winthrop
By Dick Cayaill
Norman
Ron Haddox
Judy Lively DeLoach
Carol Flukinger Shanks
Jerry Don Smith
Robert E Lee
Ramada Tower
Sun
Wanda Orton
Channel View
J. M. Honea
Odis Chappel
Inzel
Rey
London
Royal Society
Rites
Astroworld
Peaney
Rosson
Solomon
Ceve
WI OF Morrison
Merle Horman
Montgomery Ware
Earl Jhootan's Service
Toyota Slemder
SAL
Killer
Pecos
IR. E. Williams New Annuitant
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