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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1967
Page
7
The ad touts all electric heating as clean, controllable, and humidity friendly with no vents, suitable for central furnaces, wall or duct heaters, and combined heating cooling units. It promises guaranteed operating cost for three winters and invites readers to call Houston Lighting & Power for estimates.
Rep Joe Allen of Baytown introduces House Concurrent Resolution 42 to require the Texas Highway Department to stop using oyster shells in road construction and House Bill 708 to restrict removing shells from Texas bays. A separate measure, House Bar 667, would raise Parks and Wildlife Commission members from three to six. Groups from Bayshore Rod Reef and Gun Club to Houston Sportsmen back limits on dredging near reefs to protect live oysters, with proposed setbacks of 1500 feet except near parks where 300 feet apply. The status of shell dredging remains unclear with current rules banning closer than 300 feet to live reefs. The bill pushes for dredging limits and shifts to alternative road materials.
A special called meeting of the Baytown Historical Society is set for 7 30 p m Tuesday in the Chamber of Commerce building. Larry Hale, temporary chairman, said the group formed last December but progress stalled. He noted interest after a talk by I M Jones on old Baytown newspapers.
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