Woman injured as car collides with train in Baytown
Tammy Gordon 24 of Baytown was driving south on Decker near Wade Road when her 1977 Toyota crossed the tracks and was struck by a Union Pacific train. Her car was destroyed and she suffered severe facial injuries and was treated by Life Flight, later listed in fair condition at Ben Taub Hospital. Auto theft suspect 23 year old John Manuel Olachia of Baytown was arrested and charged after being unable to prove ownership of a stolen pickup. Bond set at $5,000. Burglary and thefts included a stolen 1987 Chevrolet pickup, a bicycle and a diamond necklace, two pistols, vending machine break-in, dryer coin theft, and a radar detector taken from a vehicle.
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Baytown
Decker
Tammy Gordon
917
Sunset
Wade Road
Union Pacific
Ms. Gordan
C.E. Dee
Life Flight
Hermann Hospital
Houston
Baytown July events include Heat Wave run and club meetings
The Baytown Heat Wave five mile run opens registration with a July 2 deadline and a July 4 race start at 7 30 am from Bicentennial Park. Contact Pete Cote at 428-2553 ext 217. Rotary Club and Kiwanis Club meetings feature talks by local leaders and UIL sport discussions. Added items include Noah’s Ark Nursery School registration and July 4 holiday closings at Baytown Medical Benefit Association.
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Baytown
Bicentennial Park
Pete Cote
Tom Landgraf
Ross & Sterling High School
Ranger
Kiwanis Club of
Holiday Inn
Highway 146
Noah’s Ark
St. Mark’s Methodist Church
Iran repatriates two American hostages from Lebanon
A Shiite source says the Iranian Revolutionary Guards smuggled two U.S. captives from Lebanon to Iran via Syria and Turkey. The individuals are believed to be Terry Anderson, AP Beirut bureau chief kidnapped March 16, 1985, and Thomas Sutherland, acting dean of agriculture at AUB kidnapped June 9, 1985.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Iran
Syria
Turkey
Associated Press
Terry Anderson
Thomas Sutherland
Anderson
Middle East
Mosiem West Beirut
U.S
Sutherland
Fort Collins
Colorado
AUB
West Beirut
Barbours Cut project funded in energy bill
The energy and water appropriations bill allocates 570000 for maintaining the Barbours Cut Ship Terminal Channel the Bayport Ship Channel and Greens Bayou tributary at 40 feet. It also provides over 6 million for general Houston Ship Channel operations.
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Washington, D.C
Energy and Water
Barbours Cut Ship Terminal
Bayport Ship Channel
Greens Bayou
Jack Fields
Fields
Houston Ship Channel
Alma Miller rites held in Henderson
Services for Alma Miller longtime Baytonian and former teacher were held Monday at Crawford Crim Funeral Home. Died Sunday she taught 42 years including 36 in Baytown. Survivors include brothers Reagan and Aubrey Ashby a sister Bonnie Robertson and niece Jimye Enoch. Burial at Duncan Cemetery.
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Henderson
San Jacinto
Reagan Ashby
Aubrey Ashby
Center
Bonnie Robertson
Jimmye Enoch
Baytown
Baytown Trustees Uphold Teacher Contract Change
Baytown school trustees 5-2 upheld the administration’s recommendation to return teacher Ruby McCoy to probationary status and transfer her from Ashbel Smith Elementary to another campus after closing arguments. The vote ended the board’s sixth session on the matter following her appeal of March 31 decisions.
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Baytown
Ruby McCoy
Ashbel Smith Elementary School
Wanda Ellis
Tom Gentry
Richard Heyen
Tom Mayo
Pete Sultis
Manuel Escontrias
David Smith
McCoy
Austin lobby by LC leaders on state budget plan
Vivian Blevins and other community college presidents lobbied Texas lawmakers in Austin during the special session. They pressed for equity in funding amid broad needs in education health care social services and prisons as conference committees prepare a budget bill.
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Austin — Lee College
Vivian Blevins
Blevins
Baytown
Baytown Area
Tony Palumbo
Ed Watson
Dan Shelley
Mark Stiles
Bill Clements
House
Senate
Reagan narrows list of court candidates
President Reagan trims the Supreme Court candidate pool with Robert H. Bork as the leading prospect and mentions Orrin Hatch Robert A. Posner and J Clifford Wallace as other prominent names Democrats warn of a conservative shift while stressing careful scrutiny by the Senate and prioritizing constitutional philosophy over litmus tests.
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Washington
Reagan
Supreme Court
Robert H. Bork
Bork
White House
Marlin Fitzwater
Oval Office
Firewater
Lewis F. Powell
Sen
Orrin G. Hatch
Utah
Appeals Court
Robert A. Posner
Chicago
J. Clifford Wallace
San Diego
Senate
Alan Cranston
D-Calif
Noor
Cranston
Powell
Patrick Leahy
D-Vt
Judiciary Committee
Sandra Day O'Connor
Antonio Scalia
High Court
William H. Rehnquist
Fitzwater
Edwin Meese II
Chautauqua
Meese
Watergate
Archibald Cox
Richard Nixon
Rummel gets 45 year term for tugboat killings
Charles Phillip Rummell, 36, with no prior record, pleaded guilty to one of three murders on a Houston area tugboat last year and received a 45 year prison sentence. Co defendant Carl Napier was sentenced last month to death by injection for the same crime.
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Houston
Charles Phillip Rummell
Bill Hatten
Jack Carlin
Rummell
Carl Edward Napier
Carlin
Martha
Kitty’’ Carlin
Andrew Carlin
Carl
Doug O’brien
Rummel
O'Brien
Kris Woldy
Napier
Baytown Texas newspaper uses coastal publication imprint
Readable text shows a Baytown edition with 1879 act reference and mailing address at 1301 Memorial Drive. Rates listed include 590 dollars monthly and 4360 annually. Single copy prices 25 cents daily and 50 cents on Sunday. Publisher is Coastal Publications with national representation.
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Baytown
Texas
Tesay
Cartier
Naranatl
Coastal Publications
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Rotary Club
Goose Creek Country Club
Kiwanis Meeting
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American Association of Retired Persons
Wyatt
Market
Bernard Olive
Baytown Medical Benefit Association
Baytown Grandmothers Club No. 346
Market St
Islamic Jihad
Ayatolah Ruhollah Khomeini
Damascus
Revolutionary Guards
Israel
Bekaa Valley
Bill Blake Motor Co
Dutch Holland
Oldsmobile
Veederheen
UCSWU
Sun
Angie Bracey
Alma Miller
Eastern Star
Goose Creek
Miller
St. Mark's United Methodist Church
Woman's Club
Gamma Nu Chapter of
Delta Kappa Gamma
David Williams
First United Methodist Church
Duncan Cemetery
Rick Peebles
Austin
Hearing Aids of
Forrest of Prvett
Bealls
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Baytown Hun
John Deere
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