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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1968
Page
1
Funeral services for Malinda Case 13 of Pasadena were held at 11 a.m. Saturday at Colonial Funeral Home Pasadena with interment in East Bernard. Grandmother is Mrs. Eldon Hues of Mont Belvieu.
C H Stevenson begins retirement amid well wishers. Keith Maystorovich visits from Navy duty. Mary Jane Hodges wears a flowery pink outfit. Nolan and Margeret Schulze enjoy theater. Texas Exes banquet attendees include John and Jessica Sylvester and many others. Melinger tells Aggie jokes. Dan Willson presides. Bil Gidley nominates. Lucy O’Brien and Eva McMarrey decorate. Winnie Brown wins a sweat shirt. John Henderson and Louis Delhomme set records. Joe Halls arrive late. Mike Hull earns praise. Bruce Ramsey is greeted as new president.
Johnella Boynton recounts Hannah Burnet wife of David G Burnet Texas first president. She kept vigil at night with pistols ready to defend him from an assassination plot during turbulent days before Texas independence. Burnet buried at Lakewood near Burnet Bay with a 1936 granite marker.
Don Faust Falstaff beer distributor in Bay town was outbid for the Grand Champion Steer at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. Bill Williams of Houston topped Faust with a final bid of 16700 for the 945 pound steer named Golden Boy, raised by 11 year old Henry Musselman of Shackelford County. Williams' bid was the fourth highest in Livestock Show history.
Mont Belvieu residents struggle to recruit candidates for mayor and three alderman posts in the April 6 election. Only Arthur Davis filed for alderman. incumbents Gill Laughlin Pamykal and Chitty face uncertain plans. Filing closes March 1 at the mayor’s office. election at the Firemen's Hall from 1 to 7 pm.
Fleetwood Construction Co. Inc. of Houston won a 401,097 dollar contract to build 14 classrooms and two instructional media centers at Bowie and Austin Elementary Schools and to air condition Bowie. The bid beat seven other bidders, with Fleetwood the low lump sum bid at 377,300 dollars. The total reflects 23,597 dollars in alternates for re roofing and toilet remodeling at Bowie and for installing educational television jacks at both schools.
Attorney Bruce Ramsey pres ident of the Baytown Chamber of Commerce was elected president of the Baytown Texas Exes at the annual banquet Friday night at Gonser Creek Country Club. Ramsey succeeds Dan Willson. Bill Laughlin Baytown city attorney became vice president and Mrs. Robert Hull was elected secretary treasurer. Perry Simmons joined the board of directors. The banquet was emceed by Al Melinger. Guest speaker was Dr. Leonard Kreisle of UT.
The Goodfellows tradition in Baytown began in 1931 to ensure no child under 12 is overlooked at Christmas. Now discussions release funds to Baytown Opportunity School and the Cerebral Palsy Drive with $2,000 each, leaving $3,347.07 in the fund as a new plan.
Construction on Cedar Bayou will widen and deepen the waterway to serve a new Houston Lighting and Power Co. plant across from Cedar Bayou Methodist Church. A 70 foot diameter pile drive will form the bases for two 750,000 kilowatt units. An intake canal from Galveston Bay and a discharge canal to Trinity Bay will be dug, with dredging extending across land to the plant site.
The filing deadline to place names on the city council election ballot is midnight Saturday. Prospective candidates may file at City Secretary Edna Oliver home, 709 Beecher. Election set for April 2.
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