Baytown roads plan moves forward with 11 appraisers
District Highway Engineer Wiley E. Carmichael outlines start dates for right of way acquisition on Decker Drive and North Loop as 11 full time appraisers are assigned. With 519 parcels to evaluate and 236 deeds, preliminary work aims to finish by year end. Funds for Spur 230 to relieve bottlenecks will back construction, starting after right of way procurement, shaping two lanes per direction initially and integrating into a future freeway system for Baytown.
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Carmichael
State Highway Commission
Decker Drive
Market Street
Four Corners
North Loop
Airhart Drive
Baytown
SUN Spots and Honors at Baylor University
Harry Clenn Adams son of Mr and Mrs J D Adams now in Manila has been named in the top two percent of his Bay lor University class as a freshman pre medical student A 1960 graduate of Robert E Lee High School Gospel Singing C N CGOK leads a gospel singing at 730 p m Saturday night in City Hall Quartets from Channelview and Greens Bayou expected to perform Public may attend First Aid Course San Jacinto Girl Scout Council sponsors a first aid instructor course for registered adults of the Bayway area First session will be held from 3 am to 12 noon Monday in Ashbel Smith Scout house.
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Harry Clenn Adams
J. D. Adams
Manila
Baylor University
Adams
Robert E. Lee High School
C. N. Cgok
City Hall
Channelview
Greens Bayou
San Jacinto
Urgent plea about stray dog bite risks to boy
Parents of five year old Bill Schrock report a stray rusty colored dog, 16 inches tall, chained and possibly rabid, bit him on the right arm Friday in his yard. Tetnus shot given. doctors urge locating the dog for rabies treatment. Call JU 2-4879 with any information.
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Bill Schrock
CO. K. Schrock
Alford
Schrock
San Jacinto River boat crash probe and search
Emergency crews searched the San Jacinto River near Highlands for a missing boat after a tug on the river struck a floating object near the Mission Pacific Railroad bridge. No wreckage or occupants were found by crews from Baytown Highlands and surrounding areas.
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Blue Beathard
Baytown
Coast Guard
San Jacinto River
Highlands
Small Diabetes Society Iba
Baytown Diabetes Lay Society
G. D. Rosser
Riverside
Missioni Pacific Railroad
W. W. Rosser
Piot
Emergency Corps
Wooster
Ga- Tena Park
Channelview
Deer Park
Gordon Lannon
Weekend Weather Outlook Mostly Mild and Partly Cloudy
Weekend weather predicts partly cloudy skies and mild conditions with moderate variable winds. Temperatures will range from 50 to 68 degrees, with a pleasant weekend feel and light to moderate breezes.
Sunday Tides and Monday Tide Times Report
The Galveston tides for Sunday show highs at 6 31 a m and 5 56 p m with a low at 12 21 p m. Monday tides list highs at 22 21 a m and 1 16 p m and lows at 7 39 a m and 6 22 p m.
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Galveston ‘Ides
Baytown Social Snapshots and Local Notes
Eugene Jenson, Chambers County attorney, visited friends and his mother in Baytown Friday while living in Anghuac. Baylor student Bill Quartz helped supply information for a news item, with roommate George Schmoker from Vernon spending the weekend in Baytown. Nathan McDaniel returns home sick with a cold. Carmen Keene hosts a chicken spaghetti gathering for friends. Bill O Quartz in a green derby was seen on St Patrick’s Day. Bill Duplantis Jr gives up bowling for golf. Sherry Bramlett proves to be a good reporter. Rufus Honey-Cutt anticipates a sneak preview film. The H L Davises show a new car. Mrs. Duhn FE Moore makes an early morning call. Maurine Chaddick found a pair of slaves on the boot of her car after a visit to act at Robert E. Lee High.
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Eugene Jenson
Chambers County
J. J. Jenson
Baytown
Jenson
Anghuac
Billy Quartz
Bill i. Ctman
Baylor
George Schmoker
George
Vernon
Nathan McDaniel
Carmen Keene
Gosh
Begorra
Bill O'Quartz
St. Patrick's Day
Bill Duplantis, Jr
Sherry Bramlett
Rufus Honey- Cutt
H. L. Davises
Duhn FE
Moore Maxes
Maurine Chaddick
Robert EF. Lee
California gunman Surrenders After 18 Day Crime Spree
Douglas Wayne Thompson, 21, accused of two slayings in a week, ended an 18 day crime spree in Poplar Bluff Missouri. A persuasive farmwife talked him into surrendering after three gun battles with Southeast Missouri law enforcement. He was unharmed except for a taped bandage and a grazed bullet wound.
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Poplar Bluff
Douglas Wayne Thompson
California
Max C Thomas Last Rites Set Monday Morning
Funeral services for Max C Thomas 53 will be held at 10 a.m. Monday at Art Simpson Chapel in La Forte. He lived at 1705 E James Baytown and died Friday evening at M D Anderson Hospital Houston after months of throat cancer. He worked over 15 years at Stewart Furniture Co in La Porte and held memberships in multiple Masonic and civic groups. Masonic graveside rites by La Porte Lodge No 859 AF and AM will follow at Forest Park Cemetery Houston. Survivors include his widow, parents, five sisters and two brothers.
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Max C. Thomas
Art Simpson Chapel
la Forte
Thomas
E. James
Baytown
M. D. Anderson
Houston
Stewart Furniture Co
la Porte
Arabia Temple
Scottish Rite Bodies
Global tensions and politics dominate Texas briefing
Secretary of State Rusk and Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko discuss crisis in Las and key issues as Kennedy era tensions ease. Ball heads to Europe on aid push while Laotian army fights pro-Communists. Air Force scrutiny rises over Pentagon space policy amid weather briefings and labor wage proposals for farm workers. Goldwater rallies Texans for Republican candidate Gil Tower as Japan probes Dewey payments to boost exports. Hanford labor dispute nears settlement with GE principle agreement.
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Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Kennedy
County Receives Jet Placed in Park By Ellington Air Force Base
Commissioner V. V. Raney accepts a donated jet fighter for the county after local Horston Jaycees flagged it for placement in OT River Park at Chammiview. The plane, flown by Lt. Col. Robert Tartar in Korea, arrives with many parts intact.
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V. V
Red) Raney
Precinct 2
Ellington Air Force Bose
Horston Jaycees
Robert Tartar
Korea
OT River Park
Chammiview
Baytown A&M Club elects 1961 officers
The Baytown A M Club names John Seligman as secretary treasurer Jane s Bitsy Davin as president and Wade Haynes as vice president for 1961. Outgoing officers W E Duplantis Jr Duncan and Bill Ruezit attend the transition. The group plans its annual mooster for April 21 at the Tower.
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Baytown A&m Club
John Seligman
Janes A
Bitsy) Davin
Wade Haynes
W. E
bin) Duplantis Jr
Dave Duncan
W.J
Bill) Ruez IT
Not The Answer Candidate Swick Opposes Tax Hike
Baytown candidate Glen Swick questions a city tax increase and favors annexing Humble Oil and Refining Co land with a plan to attract new industry. He advocates using city personnel for street work, warns against overtaxing industry, and supports a revaluation program if needed to fund essential services.
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Baytown
C. G.lerest
Peo
Glen) Swick
Candi Ple
Swick
New City Hall
Tians
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Humble
Financial City
Suspects in Murder at Nacogdoches Surrender
A man and wife linked to the beating deaths of two elderly sisters in Nacogdoches Texas telephoned and surrendered to federal agents. Edward Hagans and Marie Milner Hagans face interstate car theft charges and extradition hearings to Texas where they will face murder charges. Local police say the victims were Mrs. C. B. Hagans and Mrs. Beulah Gibson, both widows.
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Nacogdoches
Tex
FBE
Edward Othe Hagans
Marie Jordan Milner Hagans
C.B. Hagans
Beaulah Gibson
Houston
Hagans
U. S
Theodore Hooke
Texas
Nacodoches
Nacondoches
R. HO Fonville
Paleo
Service Set Monday For Mrs. Patton
Funeral services for Esther Josephine Patton 76 a longtime Highlands resident who died Friday in a Channelview hospital will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Earthman Highlands Chapel with John Goodwin and Wallace Burt officiating Burial will be in San Jacinto Memorial Park She is survived by her husband Albert of Highlands five daughters seven sons one sister and many grandchildren and great grandchildren
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Esther Josephine Patton
Highlands
Channelview
Earthman Highlands
John Goodwin
Highlands Church of Christ
Wallace Burt
Crosby Church of Christ
San Jacinto Memorial Park
Patton
Albert
Birdie Jones
Deer Park
Ruby Tyree
Baytown
Nina Ewin
Houston
Lela Galloway
Austin
Josephine Rives
Shamrock
Harold
Guy
Glen
Warren
Barney
Carl
Bernard
Shreveport
Ray Spears
Disney
Okla
West Coast flight routes set for Houston after CAB ruling
The Civil Aeronautics Board approves new nonstop and one stop routes from Houston to Los Angeles and San Francisco with National Airlines American Continental Air Lines and Delta Airlines ready to begin operations. Houston officials hail the CAB move as boosting air traffic and city development toward a future jet center.
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National Airlines
Houston
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Continental Air Lines
Long Beach
San Antonio
el Paso
Phoenix
Tucson
American Airlines
Hourston
City and Chamber of Commerce
CAB
Dallas
Houston Aviation
Joseph A. Foster
Cwo
Delta Airlines
San Franciseo
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Charlie) Bell
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