Baytown Area Retired Teachers Meet at Library
BAYTOWN AREA RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION will meet at 4 p.m. Thursday at Sterling Municipal Library. George Gentry, former Baytown school district superintendent, will report on the annual state meeting in Dallas. Directors meeting for prospective directors at 7 p.m. Thursday at Baytown Little Theater to discuss tenth anniversary plays and set dates.
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Baytown Area Retired Teachers Association
Sterling
George Gentry
Baytown
Dallas
P.m
Baytown Little Theater
Chamber Program JERRI READ at Baytown Chamber meeting
JERRI READ will present a surprise program at the weekly Baytown Chamber of Commerce meeting Friday at noon in the Holiday Inn. COUNTRY CLUB Oaks Civic Association will hold its annual officers election next Tuesday at 7 30 p.m. in Goose Creek Country Club sun deck room. Council candidates are invited to attend and speak briefly. A truck wreck on Alexander Drive in Front of the Holiday Inn left the truck driver uninjured after a 40 foot trailer overturned. The driver, Thomas L Green of Swanee Georgia, said he hit his brakes when a car pulled out while he was en route to Atlanta after loading methylene chloride barrels in Freeport. The cargo was not flammable.
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Jerri Read
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Holiday Inn
Civic Election
Country Club Oaks
Civic Association
Goose Creek Country Club
Alexander Drive
Thomas L. Green
Swanee
Atlanta
Freeport
Weather and Tides for Baytown Area
Scattered showers with little temperature change. Clearing and cooler Friday. Thursday highs in the upper 40s to mid 70s. Morgan's Point: Friday sunrise 1 37 a.m. low 9 00 a.m. Friday sun rises 6 27 a.m. and sets 6 32 p.m.
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Baytown Area
Morgan
Local residents honored and community updates
Jack Lindsay and Mrs Gladys Talley receive commendations for service on Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No 1. Kenneth Searcy appointed fire chief at Highlands Volunteer Fire Department after Bernard Miller resignation. six years in the department. Virginia and others share everyday moments from St Patrick's Day party to birthday celebrations. Bill Morrison family visitors from Oakley, California planned for April. Robert P Moore inquiries about former St Johns student Mike Lonsford.
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Jack Lindsay
Gladys Talley
Harris County Water Control and Improvement District No
Kenneth Searcy
The
Highlands Volunteer Fire Department
Bernard Miller
David Harnsby
Robert Koepke
Velma Duncan
Bonnie Hazel Martin
Ella Edwards
Paul Jacobson
Virgil Carlile
Mont Belvieu
Bill
Alice Butler
Oakley
Calif
Bill Morrison
Robert P. Moore
St. John’s
Mike Lonsford
Mobay HL&P Disagree On Canal Waste Permit
At a Texas Water Quality Board hearing Mobay Chemical Co informed HL&P that no final agreement exists to discharge Mobay effluent into HL&P’s Trinity Bay canal from the Cedar Bayou plant. HL&P attorney Brown urged withholding permit approval until details are resolved as MOBAY's plans foresee about five million gallons daily.
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Alan Erwin
San Austin Bureau Austin
Texas Water Quality Board
Mobay Chemical Co
Chambers County
Mobay
Houston Lighting and Power Co
Hl&p
Cedar Bayou
Trinity Bay
William R. Brown
Texas Water Quality
Mcbay
Brown
FWQB
TWQB
Nicholas Murphy
Hs&p
Hardam S. Azad
Mobay Research and Development
Crosby Urges State Pressure for Highway 90 Crossing
Crosby citizens pressed Harris County Commissioners to push the Texas Highway Department for immediate Highway 90 construction rather than county action. Commissioner Lyons noted the county’s role is limited to right-of-way purchases awaiting 50 percent reimbursement, while Crosby businessman Joe Keating said right-of-way maps exist since 1969 for a freeway segment from Crosby-Lynchburg Road to Uvalde Road and sought a state letter prioritizing the project to build a new Sant Jacinto River crossing.
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Houston
Harris County
Crosby
Texas Highway Department
EB. A. (Squatty) Lyons
Bill Elliott
Joe Keating
Crosby-Lynchburg
Uvalde Road
W. BE. Carmichael
State Highway Department
Sant Jacinto River
CV Trustees Call For Building Steel Probe
Channelview trustees demand a full investigation of steel used in stadium construction at Channelview High School. Trustee Jerry Knox cites an Armco Steel sample lacking a registered domestic brand and notes the contract requires domestic steel. A March 23 meeting will interview architects for future building plans and bids will be sought for junior high roof repairs guaranteed until 1981.
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Muril Hart
Channelview
Jerry Knox
Armco Steel
Armco
Knox
Don Love, Inc
Tom Ramey
Stanley Yarborough
George Perrin
Viola Cobb
Dassie Bruce
DeZavala
Charles Dunn
Dunn
Marvin Lorfing
Jroof
Philip Carey Bonding Co
Baytown Considers 1968 Cost Drainage Study Reprise
Baytown considers reinstating a $90,000 drainage study by Turner Collie and Braden with Harris County Flood Control District sharing half the cost. The plan covers a wide area from Cedar Bayou to the San Jacinto River and includes detailed right of way and ditch locations. A joint proposal with Lockwood Andrews and Newnam will be discussed next Tuesday.
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Wanda Orton
Turner
Collie and Braden, Inc
Houston
R.S
Bob
Braden
Harris County
Tom Langford
Harris
Baytown
Vansickle
San Jacinto River
Cedar Bayou
Interstate 10
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Langford
Lockwood, Andrews and Newnam
Their Day In The Sun and New Baytown Service
ANSWERLINE, a service to the Baytown area, starts in Thursdays Sun. Prepared by the Bay town Human Relations Council it aims to answer various questions about people’s problems. See Page 4. CHINQUAPIN SCHOOL on Tri-City Beach Road is featured with an article and pictures. It is a boarding school for boys from poverty neighborhoods in Houston directed by educator Robert P. Moore, former St. John's School English chair. See Page 8. SPRING FASHION debuts with a tabloid section on home furnishings, men, women and children’s wear. Section II covers skirt lengths, pantsuits and spring colorations.
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SUN
Baytown High School
Donald Martin
Dan Peters
Paul Wiley
Steve Campbell
John Rappleman
Baytown Sun
Harris County
Houston
Theta Sigma Phi
University of Houston
Campbell Titchener
UH Communications
Glenn Pfennig
Answerline
Baytown
Chinquapin School
Tri-City Beach Road
Robert P. Moore
St. John’s School
the Sun
Heavy attacks push South Vietnamese in Laos toward border
Multiple reports from Saigon say heavy assaults push South Vietnamese troops back toward the Laotian border with rising casualties. In the US, a juror in Lt. Calley's My Lai court martial suffered stomach pains and was sent to emergency then released for day two of deliberations. Angela Davis defense moves toward bail as judge recuses. House vote looms on SST support bill amid close party lines. Nixon urges payroll tax hike to fund a Social Security boost after a 10 percent benefit rise. Transportation Dept warns of possible large scale water pollution disaster or city water shutdown any day.
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FT. Benning, Ga
William L. Calley Jr
My-Lai
States Warned Of U S Intervention In Auto Insurance Reform
The Nixon administration sent a state by state reform proposal to a Senate Commerce Committee panel. Volpe urged starting with states and outlined no fault compensation steps, while Magnuson Hart backed a nationwide plan though Hart warned a single system is unworkable. The draft urged gradual shifts to first party, non fault schemes and stricter caps on general damages.
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Washington
Nixon
Senate
Transportation
John A. Valpe
Senate Commerce Committee
Volpe
Warren G. Magnuson
D‘wash
Land
Philip A. Hart
D'Mich
Magnuson- Hart
Congress
Bonds Burned End Long-Term Debt by Highlands District
The Highlands Water Control And Improvement District No. 1 burned $40,000 in Series B-1951 bonds, the district's last long-term indebtedness. Auditor C J Schafer supervised the bond burning and reviewed the revised audit, approved unanimously. A proposed sewer tie-in by RB L Creel was deferred for details and Texas Water Quality Board approval. An out-of-district tie-in for Lennie Johnson was denied 4-1. A bond election was not called. plans for an early program with mutual districts were discussed for possible cooperation with Harris County Fresh Water Supply District 1-B.
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Betsy Webber
RB. L. Creel
E. Wallisville
Creel
Eddie Harvill
Texas Water Quality Board
Highlands Board
Lennie J. Johnson
Wallisville
F. L. Conley
Tni ‘Board
Burleson Hired as Environmental Expert for Galveston Senator
Dan Burleson, deputy executive secretary of the Texas Air Control Board, resigned after a staff shakeup and was hired by State Sen. A R Babe Schwartz as environmental expert. Schwartz said Burleson joined his staff, Burleson citing philosophical differences with board leader Charles R Barden. Meanwhile a battery theft was reported at a church well site, with a meter removed from 308 Graham Street between 7:30 and 7:55 p.m. Wednesday.
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Barden
Walter Askew
Suy
Huffman
Baptist Gested
Temple
Graham
New Highlands Post Office Opens at 608 S Main
The New Highlands post office at 608 South Main will open for business at 8 30 a m Monday announced by postmaster Mrs Clairene R Dunn Patrons may pick up boxed mail Saturday at the new site Boxholders should call for keys now at the old post office and can retrieve them at the new location after the move The official opening will be held later after Dallas Regional Office authorization is received
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Highlands
S. Main
Clairene R. Dunn
Dunn
Dallas
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U.S
Hart
Industry
Highlands Water District
Arnold F. Korenek
Vernon A. Pete Rupp
Darris County
Rupp
District 1-B
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