Free Wash Offers Tornado Victims One Month of Free Service
Tornado damaged homes may receive free use of Maxine's Washateria for one month with an attendant on duty from 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. at 509 Massey Tompkins Road and 3068 Fourth. Rock Club BAYTOWN ROCK CLUB hosts a 7 p.m. Thursday meeting at Werling Municipal Library to discuss a field trip. Attendees include Wilbur W. Cottle B J Davison and M L Watts attending the 10th annual Credit Union Executives Society conference in Houston. The Baytown Stamp Club meets at 7 p.m. Friday in the Bluebonnet Room with a trading session and door prize. Public invited. Baytown Parks and Recreation registers swimming lessons at Roseland Park pool at 9 a.m. Friday for three weeks with time slots for various ages and abilities.
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Maxine
Massey Tompkins Road
Wilbur W. Cottle
B. J. Davison
M. L. Watts
Humble Credit Union
Baytown
Credit Union Executives Society
Astroworld Hotel
Houston
Stamp Club
Baytown Stamp Club
Bluebonnet
Bay Town Weather and Tides Brief Forecast
Partly cloudy to cloudy through Friday in the Bay town area with the high 70s and low 30s. Friday tides at Morgan's Point show high at 7:19 p.m. and lows 5:37 a.m. and 7:25 p.m. Friday sunrise 6:22 a.m. sunset 8:26 p.m. Local notes include events and anniversaries such as Earl Smith aiding a friend, Danny Wade and Cindy Davis celebrating, and the 44th anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. N. B. Bufkin.
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Baytown Area
Earl Smith
Danny Wade
Cindy Davis
Martha Pearce
Carole Isain
Wanda Brunson
Crosby principal confronts board on district problems
Johnella Boynton reports Crosby High School principal H G Harrington, soon departing for Klein, delivered a blunt appraisal of district woes at a Crosby School Board meeting. He blamed community attitudes and internal board strife, urged a business-like approach, and urged unified support for upcoming building plans.
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Johnella Boynton Crosby
Crosby High School
Crosby School Board
Harrington
Crosby Board Rejects High School Double Session Plan
Crosby School Board rejected a plan for five hour double sessions at Crosby High School next fall. Trustees favored studying the idea only, preferring to phase in new classroom additions and possible demolition of the old junior high annex. Superintendent Prochazka noted TEA approval would be needed and cited potential scheduling and busing issues for families. The board agreed to have administrators study the proposal with the district architect.
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Crosby
Crosby School Board
Crosby High School
Ann Nex
Jerry Prochazka
Prochazka
Texas Education Agency
Robert Luquette
Baytown
BOARD
EPA Team Begins Ship Channel Sampling in Houston
An eight member EPA anti pollution team started sampling the Houston Ship Channel for pollutants including oil and grease cyanide phenols arsenic and heavy metals. Results will compare with Texas findings and industry data, with tests conducted aboard the Mariner and at multiple labs.
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Houston
Federal Environmental Protection Agency
Houston Ship Channel
Denver
EPA
Bob Harp
Galveston Bay
Harp
Texas Water Quality Board
Southeast Laboratory
Athens
City Enforces Freight Loading Zone Signs
New freight loading zone signs replaced 15 minute parking in truck areas in downtown. Police say only those loading or unloading for compensation may park in these zones, with signs posted Tuesday and six tickets issued Wednesday. Zones are on Main Commerce Ashbel Gaillard and Jones.
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Wanda Orton
Shirley Turner
Main
Commerce
Ashbel
Gaillard and
Jones
Linda Cassity
Gas storage tank overflow drives 170 families from homes
In north Harris County, a gasoline storage tank overflow at Humble Oil’s Aldine station forced more than 170 families to evacuate Wednesday night. No injuries or fire occurred, with fire crews on scene as a precaution and residents returning shortly before midnight.
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Houston
Humble Oil
Aldine
Harris County
Draft clouded as Senate limits debate on conscription
In Washington AP reports the draft extension faces uncertainty as a Senate vote to limit debate leaves open the chance of a renewed filibuster over a pro draft and Indochina withdrawal amendment. If conference fixes clash, both chambers must again pass identical language before the June 30 expiration.
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Washington
Senate
U.S
Indochina
Mike Gravel
Alaska
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Vietnam
Community Service Award Presented to Mrs Lula Bailey
Mrs Lula Bailey of 2114 Alva receives the Baytown Community Service Award from Mayor Glen Walker for outstanding civic and moral contributions. A 52 year Rebekah Lodge member, she recently earned a 50 year lodge pin. Active Memorial Baptist Church member for over 50 years, she has taught, led departments, and now directs Sunday School outreach. She and husband James Palmer Bailey lived in Petty and later Singa hoo until his 1954 medical retirement from Humble Oil. The Baileys have 17 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Betsy Webber
Lula Bailey
Alva
Baytown
Glen Walker
Rebekah Lodge
Bailey
Memorial Baptistrdren
James Palmer Bailey
Florine Nalley
W. C. Lund
Baileys
Robert £. Bailey
Singahoo
Petty Whenlpore
L. P. Crawford
W. L.fof Highlands
Bayland
Humble Oil
Ex Baytonian joins Texas Air Control Board staff
Sun Austin Bureau Austin Weldon Berry a former Baytonian has joined the Texas Air Control Board as an engineering technician. He will maintain workload control cook functions and write technical bulletins while in training at the Austin office. Berry is a UT Arlington electrical engineering technology graduate and his wife Martha is from McDade. They reside in Austin with a three and a half year old daughter Kimberly.
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Sun Austin Bureau
Austin
Weldon Berry
Martha
McDade
Kimberly
Hotze Named Manager of Real Estate Birmingham Unit
William A. Hotze longtime U S Steel Baytown real estate supervisor since 1966 is appointed manager of the Real Estate Department Birmingham with the office he will head reflecting expanded real estate activity. He was born in Chicago and holds a B S in accounting from the University of Illinois plus studies at Northwestern and the Illinois Real Estate Institute. He joined U S Steel in 1950 and rose to senior financial analyst before moving to Real Estate.
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William A. Hotze
U.S. Steel
Baytown
Birmingham
H. F. McCloy
Chicago
Hotze Holds
University of Ilinois
Northwestern University
Illinois Real Estate Institute
Hotze
Carew's Conviction Is Upheld In Texas Appeal
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals upheld a 10 year sentence for Baytown barkeeper Herbert H. Carew who was convicted as an accomplice in the 1967 murder of Felton. Edward Mullane III received a life term for the killing, Felton found shot dead along Battlebell Road on March 4, 1967.
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Austin
Texas
Court of Criminal Appeals Up
Baytown
Edward David Mullane III
Herbert H. Carew
21 Club
Carew
Mullane
Felton
Sam Davis
Wallace E. Moore
Battlebell Road
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Baytown Rock Club
Werling Municipal Library
N. B. Bufkin
Pat Anthony
Virgil Carlile
A. B. Davis
Sally Lemley
Joe
Ella Herrington
Frances Hues
Ae Oo
H. G. Harrington
Klein
Rudysons
Sikora
Texas A&m University
Gal
Weston Bay
Channel 1
Gan
A&m
Mariner
San Jacinto Monument
Eckman
Freightoading Tokf
Peoples State Bank
Anthony J. P. Farris
Frank W. Sahrp
Knight
Los Angeles Times
Chicago Sun-Times
Nixon
Pentagon
Congress
Saigon
Demilitarized Zone
Washington, Pa
United Mine Workers
Joseph A
Jock” Yablonski
Baytonian Joint Air Board
Baytown State Bank
F.C IC
Wismer Distributing
USS
Arco Car Wash
Alexander A. E. Tous
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