Crackdown urged on speeding on Sterling and Defoe streets
City council traffic committee hears residents plea for safer control on Sterling and Defoe between North Main and Highway 146 after a child was struck and homes were endangered by drivers. A petition with 104 signatures cites speeds up to 70 mph and wrong way driving on the one way streets. Local residents describe near misses, yard damage, and children crossing hazards as the committee considers action.
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Wanda Orton
Sterling
Defoe
Baytown
Frank Wesberry
Defee
Charles Pool
North Main
Highway 146
Ashbel Smith
Winifred Navarre
Acton Barrientes
E. Defee
Wesberry
Community notices and local event briefs in Baytown area
Regular duplicate bridge meeting invites players to Jack Furbee home 15001 Echols at 2 p.m. Wednesday Annuities talk by Jess Bowman in Houston at 10 a.m. Wednesday Community Building Candidates for April 1 city council speak at 7 36 p.m. Tuesday rally by Baytown League of Women Voters at city hall. Mrs Flo back home from hospital Weldon Newby noted for partner Flo and other items recall old days and local greetings. Precinct 2 Commissioner Fonteno to speak at Rotary at noon Wednesday at Charlie Brown's Decker. Services for Mrs Ruby Sheldon Jacinto City formerly of Baytown 2 p.m. Wednesday Howard Glendale Funeral Chapel Houston. Baseball games Sterling District 2 AAAA rescheduled due to wet grounds Memorial Stadium Wheeler. FT Ames D Peskey in ICU at San Jacinto. Robert E Lee vs Forest Brook rescheduled 4 p.m. Wednesday Forest Brook.
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Echols
Furbee
EXXON
Jess Bowman
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League of Women Voters
City Tall
Bill Hart
Goose Creek
Mickey Jenkins
Georgia Bett
Thelma Hatcher
Weldon Newby
Flo
B. F. Hewitt
Will Myers
Sylvia Kafka
Ken Fuller
Irvin Hester
Tom Seay
John Gay
Reveta Wat Son
Nancy Dickerson
Ricky Torrence
Harold McCarthy
Rubye Anderson
Anita McCarthy
Jimmy Ervin
Ruby Sheldon
Jacinto City
Howard- Glendale
Federal Road
Sheldon
Vernon
North Houston Medical Center
Thien Orders Paratroopers to Bolster Saigon Defenses
President Nguyen Van Thien ordered a paratrooper division from Da Nang to Saigon to reinforce defenses as North Vietnamese forces press their offensive around the capital. Saigon command reports heavy red tank attacks near Dinh Quan district capital.
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Nguyen van Thien
da Nang
Dinh Quan
Wheeler to resign to take Longview post
Anahuac School District Superintendent Henry Wheeler will resign at term end to become superintendent of the Longview Independent School District. He plans to submit his resignation at the April 8 board meeting and move to Longview by mid June, starting his new duties in July. Wheeler, 46, has spent 21 of 23 years in education in Anahuac and has led numerous programs and teaching practices later adopted by other districts.
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Anahuac (Lp
Henry Wheeler
Anahuac
Longview Independent
Wheeler
the Sun
Longview
Selor
Lee School
Onassis Burial Return To Chapel Of His Wedding
The body of Aristotle Onassis is taken by air, land, and sea to the chapel where he wed Jacqueline Kennedy 60 years ago for burial beside his son. Doctors strike shows essential services continued in 22 hospitals nationwide. Five killed in a Carrollton tenant-house fire, four of them children. Kisinger aims to speed Israel Egypt talks with daily shuttle flights. Supreme Court strikes down stage obscenity ban in Hair.
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Greece
Aristotle Onassis
Jacqueline Kennedy
New York
Carrollton
Aswan
Egypt
Henry A. Kissinger
Israel
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Readings Begin On Mont Belvieu Building Ordinance
Mont Belvieu council votes 3 1 to hold the first reading of a building ordinance with Councilman Virgil Carlile opposing. Mayor Goss seeks added inspection provisions and clearer definitions. The panel discusses industry inclusion and postponement concerns amid a sewage plant upgrade with a $14 842 estimate and grant funding coverage.
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SY Betsy Webeek
Mont Belvieu
Virgil Carlile
Carlile
Nonts
Towland
Joe Mathews
Sam Goss
Mat
A. 8
Davis
Matthews
Bob McDaniel
Langford Engineering Co
Texas Water Quality Board
Bicentennial One opens Baytown celebration April 20
Baytown plans an old fashioned Sunday outing at the Bicentennial Festival at Civic Center Plaza. A pageant on the American Revolution, a parade of antique cars, Miss Baytown contestants, and patriotic music will anchor the event with food booths run by local groups and a flag raising by Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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Baytown
USA
Civic Center Drive
Jennial
KJZT
Ray Tickner
Frank
Ession Wiil
Hinds
Frank Curran
Tickner
Cajun Club
Kj2t
Catholic Women's Organization
League of United Latin Americans
The
Young Homemakers Club
Baytown Optimists
American Legionnaires
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Plans Session Sets Brief Record in Baytown
Baytown Planning Commission finished a 7 minute meeting at 7:07 p.m. approving Jack Williams’s plan to build a boat shed in the Cedar Bayou flood plain before adjourning.
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Baytown Planning Commission
Planning Commission
Jack Williams
Cedar Bayou
Ford to propose $2 billion yearly highway fund to states
Washington AP Ford plans a two to three week submission to Congress of a new federal highway program allowing states to spend half of the four cent per gallon federal gasoline tax, about $2 billion annually, for road purposes with no fixed contributions required. Indiana Governor Bowen noted his state diverts funds to others as it builds its interstates. Ford aims to divert half the tax receipts and has already released $2 billion in impounded highway funds for updating and renewing existing roads.
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S0 States
White
House
Congress
Indiana
Otis R. “Bowen
South Bend
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Notre Dame University
Bowen
White House
Feder
Council Panel Seeks Elimination Of Two Traffic Lights
Council traffic committee chair Charles Pool reports gains and losses as votes favor removing the light at Market and Robert E Lee parking lot and the light at Felton and West Texas. Citizens argue safety, while actuated lights draw praise and criticism amid road improvements and negotiations on other removals.
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Charlie
Robert E. Lee
Market
Felton
West Texas
Guy Hayes
Felton and
Texas
Hayes
Rel
Whiting
Carnegie
Fritz Law
Ham
Tromblee
John Hudson
Doug Tromblee
North Gaillard
West Defoe
Gulf and South Main
Carver
Lee Drive
Wisconsin
Louisiana
Cypress
Lee
Notre Dame
Ford Hudson
Indochina
Marret
Cambodia
United Net
Baytown Weather Forecast Warm Days Through Wednesday
FAIR THROUGH Wednesday with warm afternoons in the Baytown area. Mild Tuesday night with lows in the 50s. Wednesday will be sunny with highs mid 70s. Tides: Wednesday high at 4 36 a.m. low at 7 30 a.m.
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Baytown
Texas Avenue Slowdown Proposed Amid Traffic Plan
Baytown traffic committee recommends 20 mph speed limit on Texas Avenue between Commerce and Pruett with left turns banned from Texas to Ashbel Gaillard and Jones. A 60 day trial to remove lights and convert to stop intersections at Ashbel Texas Gaillard and Texas Jones and Texas is set with mid block crosswalks in the downtown area.
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Texas Avenue
Commerce
Pruett
Baytown
Texas
Ashbel
Gaillard and Jones
Asfibel
Gaillard
Jones
Guy Hayes
Central
For Mora Ask Back at Astro Spring Training
The piece profiles writer John Black mid career as he travels with the Astros in Florida for spring training. It notes his dislikes and habits such as avoiding hot drinks, his role with the Houston Baseball Writers chapter, and his editorial duties plus church involvement.
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Astro
Florida
John Black
Atlanta
Houston Baseball Writers National
Astros
Sun Church
First Presbyterian Church
Becky
State Teachers To Honor Sun Writer
The Baytown Sun announces D E va Luthringer will receive the 1974 School Bell Award at the 96th Texas State Teachers Association Convention in Houston. She led a feature series on principals in the Baytown district and will attend the 5 30 pm awards dinner at the Astrohall Convention Center. Her work and The Sun were nominated by the Baytown Education Association.
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Baytown
Sunstaff
D'Eva Luthringer
Texas State Teachers Association
Houston
Texas
D’eva
the Sun
Domino theory cited in appeal over Asian ally risk
In his appeal, he invoked the domino theory warning that the fall of one Asian ally would trigger others and endanger the United States.
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United States
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