Capital Improvements Near Three Fourths Complete in Baytown
Baytown reports 75 percent completion of the capital improvements program funded by a 1963 multi million bond issue. Final bond authorization totaled 5,239,000 with five project areas including public buildings streets water and drainage. Public buildings account for about 1,167,535 with most spent on the Community Center. Fire station funds remain insufficient.
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Baytown
J. B. LeFevre
Feneral
Ford
Public Buildings Fund
LeFevre
North Main
Baker Road
Sooy Sr. dies of heart attack in Egg Harbor City
Byard E. Sooy Sr. of Egg Harbor City New Jersey died Sunday night from a heart attack. Funeral services at Atwood-Peterson Funeral Home are pending. Also notes Story Hour at Sterling Library led by Dan Mundinger with Mrs. Hartman and Mrs. Matthews as storytellers. Duplicate Bridge Club meets Monday at Community Building. Obedience trials set for 7:30 p.m. Monday at Culpepper's on Texas Avenue. Birthday wishes go to SP Robert E. Schmadl in South Saigon Vietnam. Baytown area weather calls for scattered showers Monday night and Tuesday with temps in the 70s to low 80s. Galveston tides: high at 6:48 a.m. and low at 9:48 p.m.
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Sacy
Byard E. Sooy Sr
Egg Harbor City
N. J
Byard E. Sooy Jr
Richardson
Atwood - Peterson Funeral Home
Dan M. Mundinger
Service League
Sterling Municipal Library
Bill Hartman
R. W. Mathews
Baytown News Briefs Highlight Local People and Receptions
TOM GALPIN welcomed into Baytown Rotary Club by Dr. Rick Thomas. Clifford M. Sparky Bond helps identify pictures. Diane McBride, Baytown student, competed in state high school rodeo Hallettsville and quarter horse show St Augustine, placing first in pole bending youth and second in pole bending and cloverleaf barrels senior. Sam Alford enjoys new kitten Missy with his dachshund M F Underwood. Dr Wayne Stuckey and family from Torrance visiting sister Mrs Raymond McCullough. Rumors mention Baytown real estate activity and acreage figures.
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Tom Galpin
Baytown
Missy
M. F. Underwood
Colby
Wayne Stuckey
Torrance
Calif
Raymond McCullough
Baytown Teal Estate
Narrow Escape In Houston Ship Channel Tale
Bil Worley and Leo Prochaska faced a perilous incident in the Houston Ship Channel near the Lynchburg ferry crossing. A dying 12-foot skiff motor left Worley adrift as a barge convoy advanced, Worley was sucked under and later ejected by a tug’s reverse gear, then waited 12 minutes in the water before rescue by a tug crewman and Deer Park Emergency Corps. Worley and his wife Betty and daughter Cynthia witnessed the event from shore.
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Beverse
Threadgill
Bil Worley
Houston Ship Channel
Worley
Lynchburg
Leo Prochaska
Prochazka
Norley
Deer Park
Betty
Cynthia
Baytown Sun to Publish The Last American Negro History
The Baytown Sun will serialize The Last American Negro History a D4 illustrated story strip from Newspaper Enterprise Association detailing Black Americans 1619 to present. Writer Don Gakiey and artist John Lane tell of notable figures past and present and the role of African slavery and freedom in U S history.
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Baytown Sun
Plymouth
Martin Luther King
Aout Na
Newspaper Enterprise Association
New World
Africa
Europe
America
Don Gakiey
John Lane
Shaw
U.S
France’s National Assembly favors de Gale after first round gains
President Charles de Gale appears set for a commanding majority as gains in the first round reshape the French National Assembly. The United Steel Workers press for a substantial wage rise while the steel industry warns it cannot fund one. The NAACP opens its 59th convention with vows to return governance to the people. Silver certificates remain legal tender but cannot be exchanged for silver. California endures its first major brush fires torched thousands of acres. Hurricane Brenda weakens as it exits Bermondsey’s vicinity with 74 mph winds over open water.
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Charles de Gale
National Assembly
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Candy Storm Skirts Baytown Flood Risk. Rain Totals Vary
Sunday night’s tropical storm Candy largely spared Baytown from flooding with only low-lying areas prone to rain. City crews closed sections of Ferry Road and Lindberg Street as water topped some streets in Brownwood. Rain gauges registered totals around 3 inches in the region, while officials monitored drainage and debris removal as forecasters predicted scattered thundershowers through Monday night and Tuesday.
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Tinuing
J. B. LeFevre
Fritz Lanham
Corpus Christi
Ferry Road
Lindberg
Brownwood
Jordan Voytek
Highlands
Esso Research and Engineering Co
H. G. Work
Highway 146
V. V. Rasey
U.S. Weather Bureau
Houston
Candy
Weekend Burglary Hits Baytown Civic Center
Baytown saw a wave of burglaries over the weekend with the Civic Center on Market Street hardest hit. Three mainframe machines were damaged and coins valued at 200 dollars taken from a recreation room record player, while machine damage was about 300 dollars per owner J. E Laird. A 10 dollar drawer theft occurred in the same room, and unspecified losses from candy and soft drink machines in the refreshment area were reported. The center’s Ken Persenaire said the break in occurred between midnight Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday after a teenage dance ended Saturday evening.
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Baytown
Baytown Civic Center
Market Street
Mike Jordan
Letiris
J. E Laird
United Amusement Co
Jordan
Civic Center
John Isa
Acs
Ken Persenaire
Center
Fstes Enet
Discovery Motto for Baytown Science Classrooms
A Baytown curriculum shift centers on discovery using Laidlaw Inc. texts for grades 1-6 to foster inquiry. Teachers develop grade level guides, condense plans, and integrate living things, Earth, universe, matter and energy, and human body themes with enhanced audio visual tools and new bioscopes for classroom-wide viewing.
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Johynella Boynton
Pluto
Laidlaw, Inc
Baytown
Wanda Whitley
Burnet
Patricia Miller
San Jacinto
Vera Hartt
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el Dog Obedience School
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California
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Bermndsa
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Beth McDowell
Alamotifie
Harris County Department of Education
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Mina Marie Miller
Austin
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Miss Miller
Jennarie Alexander
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