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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1967
Page
5
Joe Kyle recalls meeting an old man living aboard a houseboat on the Wabash River. The drifter offers rustic philosophy about happiness, poverty, and freedom from taxes and chores while sipping coffee and whiskey. He questions ordinary wealth and asks if anyone has a houseboat for sale.
Tony Messick of Kemp and Tony Equipment Co. in Bay Town has been selected as the Bermuda vacation winner in a nationwide International Harvester promotion based on retail deliveries of IH equipment.
Summer Workshop ES McWILLIAMS will study education administration concepts at a two week seminar starting Sunday at Texas A&M University. McWilliams is academic dean at Lee College.
J C Bevers of Baytown will be installed Saturday as worshipful master of Goose Creek Lodge 1192 AF and AM at the Masonica Temple on Texas Avenue. The ceremony begins at 7:30 a.m. with installing marshal Cari E Starkey and master of ceremonies Herman Collins. Bevers, Humble Oil employee and First Baptist Church member, resides at 403 Hfrey. Other new officers include James A Boyer senior warden Edgar M Bounds junior warden Fred J Simmons treasurer E E Waugh secretary Tom MM Pander chaplain Curtis C Shelton senior deacon Joe D Pape junior deacon Lewis Howell senior steward Roger Laramore junior steward J B Bray tiler.
SLICHAEL SMITH of Baytown, a Texas Lutheran College junior, was named to the spring Dean's List. The list includes all students with a minimum 3.5 GPA on a 4.0 scale.
New York AP profile of arson for profit by a fictional torchman named Manny. Experts from the Fraud and Arson Bureau note fires set to collect insurance payments rose nationwide, with millions at stake and slow legal remedies. The piece quotes Brendan Battle on ongoing fraud and trends since the 1960s.
Austrian reporter Dr. Hugo Portisch says Russians are sealing the border with China along the Amur, reporting public executions of prisoners on ice and rallies that end in beheadings. He cites a Nov 7 1966 event as evidence of intensified border control and anti revisionist sentiment.
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