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Baytown Sun

Location

Baytown, Texas, United States of America

Date

Mar 08, 1971

Page

2

Funeral Notices for Baytown Area Residents

Obituaries note Thomas Aly Owen 60 of Route 1 Baytown died at Methodist Hospital Houston. Services were at Paul U Lee Chapel with Dr Lamar Clark officiating. Owen survived by wife Laura and children David Terry Charissa, plus siblings and in-laws. Also Larkin Robert Reynolds 74 of Highlands buried Forrest Park East. Byrd Purdy Spain 4 of Crosby memorialized. Ida May Painter 74 of Baytown funeral at Earthman Chapel Cedar Crest. multiple survivors listed.

Thomas A.E. Owen Thomas Aly Edison Owen Baytown Paul U. Lee Chapel Lamar Clark Grae Short Texas Short Methodist Cemetery Owen Laura Owen David Terry Owen Charissa Owen Ephe Owen Lufkin Thelka Bourghs Teneha Vilva Monk Center Blanche Hill J. R. Reynolds Larkin Robert Reynolds North Main Highlands Earthman Highlands Chapel Forrest Park East Cemetery Idam Ida May Painter Stella Hugh Kenneth McFarland Jackie Garrison Ruby Horn K. H. Carroll Channelview Fhe Burns Nat‘chitoches Josie Ashley Houston John Dewey Ashley Sheridan

Water Unit Election In CV Carries

CHANNELVIEW Harris County Fresh Water Supply District No 6 approved a maintenance tax vote 35 to 11 in Saturdays election with about 10 percent turnout. The district will rearrange the tax budget so about 28 percent of tax income funds maintenance and operations rather than debt retirement. The district may now use 20 cents of the 70 cent tax rate for water system improvements and replacements.

Channelview Harris County

Coleman 67 of Cleveland to be laid from Sears Sterling

Funeral arrangements set for Coleman 67 of Cleveland with services at 2:20 p.m. Monday at Sears Sterling Funeral Chapel in Shell Dayton. She was a Baytown native, lived in Cleveland 11 years, died after brief illness in a Dayton hospital. Survived by husband Jessie H. Coleman, two sisters, a daughter-in-law, four grandchildren, and a great-granddaughter. Burial at Ryan Cemetery in Tarkington Prairie under Sterling Funeral Home guidance.

Gulf Gill Gulf States Utilities Gulf West Ind Halliburton KOT Biecuic General Motors General General Tire Georgia Pacific Getty Gillette Gordon's Jewelry Greyhound Corp Harvey Aluminum Hospital Affiliates Houston Light & Power Inland Steel Jones & Laughlin Steel Kerr McGee Kraft Foods SS. Kresge Ling-Temco-Vought McDonald Douglas Magnavox Marathon Mobil Oil Monsanto National Distillers Occidental Petro Peon Central R. Rd Pepsi Cola Phillips Petro ROA la Sob Tad Olaliepe Ope Raytheon Annie G.roan Dayton Central Baptist Church Baytown Jessie H. Coleman Cleveland Evie Gibson Grangerland Tex Elsie Gojohn Edna Coleman Houston Ryan Il Tarkington Prairie Sterling 3 Funeral Home

Houston Doctor To Be Speaker On Diabetes

Dr. Luther B. Travis will speak on juvenile diabetes at 7 30 p m Tuesday at the Sterling Municipal Library auditorium for the Baytown Branch of the Houston Diabetes Association. He is an associate professor of pediatrics at UTMB Galveston and medical director of the children s diabetic Camp at Friendswood. Copies of his book will be available for 1 50. Information on the Children's Diabetic Camp and Baytown branch work will be discussed. Lions Clubs of Texas sponsorship and a group insurance plan are noted.

Luther B. Travis Sterling Municipal Library Baytown Houston Diabetes Association University of Texas Medical Galveston Friendswood Travis Texas Diabetes Association South Texas Diabetes Association American Diabetes Association HDA Luther [Bright Defoe Bright Roland Laird Texas Lions League Lions ' Clubs of Texas

Gates seeks Baytown city office in second bid

Gates, a Humble Oil process technician and Memorial Baptist Church member, announces his second bid for Baytown mayor. He previously ran in 1965, earning a four year process certificate after attending training school, and served in WWII with an ordnance unit. He and wife Willa Deane reside in Baytown and he chairs church activities.

Gates Raymond Donnelly Earl Lively Baytown Humble Oil and Refining Co Willa Deane Memorial Baptist Church Baptist Men Ninth Air Corps Chilton Waco Baylor University

Mayors race candidates named for District 3 runoff

The District 3 race features Joel Lander Humble refinery supervisor Abe Simon insurance man and Alvie Carleton retired Humble employee and ex city councilman. A runoff may be held between April 24 and May 4 with April 6 results to be canvassed April 14 and absentee voting from March 17 to April 2.

Jack Bray Area Chemical Co Jamie Bray Joel KR Jody) Lander Abe Simon Alvie Cecil Carleton Humble Pelly Goose Creek Baytown

Schools Board Faces Labor Department Pay Equity Review

The district negotiates with the Labor Department over job classifications and pay scales for custodial staff amid potential gender pay discrimination findings. The board will set the 1971-72 calendar, accept bids on cafeteria goods, a check signer, typewriters, and business machines, approve bills, accept resignations, and plan Gulf Coast School Board meeting in La Porte. It will also consider sending Sterling High students to a March Texas Interscholastic League event in Austin.

Labor Department Gulf Coast School Board la Porte Sterling High School Austin

Mini Changes Tierra del Fuego Name Origin

Tierra del Fuego translates to land of fire and traces its name to Ferdinand Magellan's 1520 sighting. The Portuguese navigator named the archipelago after native signal fires observed along the southern tip of South America.

Tierra del Fuego Land of Ferdinand Magellen Archipelago South America

Final Rites Are Held For 'Baytonian, 84

Services for Mrs. Byrd Purdy Spain aged 84 of Crosby were held at 1 p.m. Monday at Earthman Highlands Funeral Chapel with Rev. Royce Robb officiating. A former Omaha resident, she died Friday in a Baytown nursing home. Survivors include son Gay Lee Spain of Crosby, three grandsons Thomas E. Spain of Crosby Frank D. Lawrence of Houston and Russell Lawrence of Lufkin, and three great granddaughters. One niece and one nephew also survive. Gardens under direction of Barthman Highlands Funeral Home.

Crosby Frank D. Lawrence Houston Russell Lawrence Lufkin Charles Rodgers Omaha Neb Gene Waring Bellville Kan Byrd Purdy Spain Earthman Highlands Royce Robb Spain Baytown Gay Lee Spain Thomas E. Spain Memory Gardens

Market movers and chemical firms listed with stock figures

The page shows several company names alongside percentage values and stock-related figures, including Std. Oil of Calif Ind NJ Ohio Sun Oil Stauffer Chemical Texaco Texas Eastern Texas Gulf Sulphur Teledyne Transamerica Union Carbide Union Oil Calif and related percentages. Other entries include Taft Broadcasting Technicolor Tenneco Syntex and Perry Rand with varying figures.

Wperry Rand Oil of Tenneco Texaco Texas Eastern Texas Gulf Teledyne Transamerica Union Carbide Union Oil Calif

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Bonner Magness Reynolds Dorothy Brackin Martin R. Reynolds William T. Reynolds Pasadena Phillip H. Reynolds Galena Park Bessie Nichols West Monroe George Reynolds Lee Reynolds Willis Reynolds Arcadia Magnificent Seven Cohen Family Entertainment Alaska N.Y Ichard Orton Genevieve Bujold Hal Wallis Patton Walt Disney Wien Technicocon Lucille Waddell New Texan Avenue Dave Moore Baytown Chamber of Commerce T. W. Lyons Chamber New Business Greeting Committee Wayne Gray Citizens National Bank Underweed Neuhaus and Co United Aircraft John Drug U.S. Steel Westinghouse Xerox Atlanta, Ga Medical College of Georgia Augusta Medical College of Virginia Martin Army Hospital Baylor University College of Medicine University of Texas Medical Branch Faulkner Pruett FORD THE Ida Citizens OF Texas Savings & Loans. It Ed Mast Ed Monk Jack Carpenter U.S Commerce aiKen Reneet Bates Bates Machine Wash and Dry Cooperstown Windermere Fair Charge Pirate BankAmericard Humble Credit Union
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