House Panel Okays Texas Redistricting
A Texas House committee approved a congressional redistricting bill amid protests that it targetted political rivals. The measure shifts districts among East and South Texas and adds a second seat for Dallas County, with the bill now heading to the House floor for debate and amendments.
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Wright Patan
Texarkana
Ray Roberts
McKinney
Texas
Heston
Lindley Beckworth
Gladewater
Texas House
Beckworth
Patman
Roberts
C. Fisher
Union
Fisher
San Angelo
Odessa
Midland
el Paso
Ed Foreman
Harris County
Houston
Henry Stover
Joe Pool
Dallas
New South Texas
Seguin
Gonzales
Eagle Pass
Wayne L. Gregory
Alasked
Zapata County
the Sun
Ray- Gregory
Sun
Gregory
Baytown Sun
Baytown
Taanager
Vase
Baytown hosts Ninth District Medical Society events
Delegates gather at the Baytown home of Johnny Her cal Society for the Ninth District Medical Society convention. A Friday seminar and Saturday banquet are planned at Baptist Temple with James Ingram of Baylor University as preacher and Ivas Montgomery as song leader. Weather predicts 0 degree spring day. tides in Galveston note high and low times.
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District Medical Society
Holiday Inn
The
Texas Medical Association
James H. Sammons
Highands
Robert Mayo Tenery
Waxahachie
George Waldan
Houston
TAA
H. W. Kilpatrick
East Harris
Citizens Banders of
Bayshore
Johnny Hercal Society
Baytown
Medical Society
Baptist Temple
James Ingram
Baylor Univsity
Ivas Montgomery
Northern Hemisphere
Troop 562 ranks honor Arthur Walton and Edward Ferguson
Arthur Walton advances to first class and Edward Ferguson earns the star scout rank under Scout Master F L Jones. Also notes civic and local items including hospital recovery, lost billfold with reward, professional promotions, a mayoral candidate coffee event, and upcoming service league and scouting meetings.
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Arthur Walton
Edward Ferguson
Arthur
Edwards
F. L. Jones
Darwin Gosford
St. Joseph's Hospital
Houston
Ophelia Jones
Henke's
Francis L. Cohagan
Texas Easter Trans- Taission Corp
North Little Rock
Ark
Cohagan
Baytown
Howard W. Laney
Texas Eastern Transmission Corp
Sureveport
Crosby School Tax Board Hearing Dates Announced
The Crosby School District appoints a five member tax equalization board to hear protests this spring or summer. J T Hare H P Seaberg Gordon Martin James Marek and Eddie Glover will hear taxpayers from Crosby School District. A Houston valuation firm was hired to review prior reassessments after last year's protests.
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Crosby
Crosby School Board
J.T. Hare
H. P. Seaberg
Plordon Martin
James Marek
Eddie Glover
Houston
Annexation Measure Tops House Amenda
Texas lawmakers moved toward final action on a controversial annexation bill setting buffer zones around cities and allowing limited annual land expansion. The Senate revised a teacher retirement bill sent back to the House, which may accept the changes or seek a conference committee.
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Austin
Texas
House
Henry Grover
Houston
Senate
Sea House
Contaminated Tuna Probe in Food Poisoning Debate
Health authorities pursue findings on tuna related illness deaths and remaining canned goods in stores. Hearings resume Friday on cotton allotment transfers linked to Billie Sol Estes. Martis Marietta Corp plans 750 plant sales across El Paso Littlefield and Pampa under FTC orders. Mailers Union reaches settlements with eight suspended New York newspapers.
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Billie Sol Estes
Martis-Marietta Corp
el Paso
Littlefield
Pampa
Federal Trade Commission
Mailers Union
New York
Houston Liquor Board Bans Premixed Drinks at Hotels
AUSTLy qarj-Liquor Control Board Administrator Coke Stevenson Jr. ordered his Houston office to stop the serving of premixed drinks at several Houston hotels. He said no new law or altered ruling exists, but a new board ruling requires hotels to stop premixed martinis manhattans whiskeysours and sidecars. Hotel waiters cannot serve these mixed drinks.
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Liquor Control Board
Coke Stevenson Jr
Houston
Steven Small Battles
Stevenson
Spring! A record winter gives way to warming world
The Associated Press reports the 1962 63 winter was among the most severe in a century across the Northern Hemisphere, with record cold in much of the United States and Europe. Alaska saw warmer trends, aiding weather related deaths though crop losses ran into millions. Retail sales rose modestly and industrial output climbed. Tennessee observer Helen Lane called the winter a humdinger.
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Associated Press
England
Japan
Tokyo
Chattanooga
Birmingham
Cleveland
Ausata
New Orleans
Pittsburgh
Alaska
South
Tennessee
Helen Lane
Crab Orchard
Cumberland Mountains
Easter holidays and final exams in Baytown schools
Three fourths of the current school year will be gone by Friday as the third nine week period ends and exams begin. Easter holidays observed April 12 and 13 will impact Baytown schools with holidays before and after Easter Sunday. Final semester exams end March 29. Lee College finals run May 23 to 29 with commencement on May 31.
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Baytown
San Jacinto
Lee College
Bond Issue Study Sound Buildings at Robert E Lee High
Architects deem the Robert E Lee High main building sound though aging. A $790,500 bond plan adds a 10 classroom science block and air conditioning with 503 tons capacity, plus sun screens and lowered ceilings to improve efficiency. Alternate site would place science block west of the main building, not connected.
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Blue Beathard Sun News
Robert E. Lee High School
W. D. Broyles
Baytown
These Phave
Robert E.lee
Kennedy to report on Costa Rica conference tonight
President Kennedy will address the nation on the Costa Rica talks that produced a seven nation accord to speed hemisphere development and curb Cuba subversion. The address follows his San Jose meetings with Central American leaders and Panama officials. Channel 33 at 3 pm and Channel 2 at 5 pm will carry the message, with NBC CBS and ABC radio networks also carrying live.
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Washington
Kennedy
Costa Rica
San Jose
Panama
United States
el Salvador
Guatemala
Nicaragua
Hor Furas
NBC
CBS
ABC Radio Networks
ABC
Pacific
Texas bill targets slant-hole oil wells
The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee approved a bill to curb slant-hole drilling. It makes it a crime to deliberately deviate a well or produce oil from a deviated well, with penalties up to 10 years in prison and $10,000 in fines. Representatives Bill Wollowell and Menton Murray said they will seek quick passage and resist changes.
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Austin
House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee
Bill Wollowell
Grand Salina
Menton Murray
Harlingen
House
Mangum Answers on Advanced Education and School Policy
Murray Mangum, candidate for the school board, discusses advanced education, state control of teaching standards, bond issues for financing, teacher salaries, consolidation duties, tax fairness, and district reevaluation in a multi question interview with The Sun. He advocates a second high school, keeping salaries high, and signals cautious support for federal aid with strings not yet known.
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Murray B. Mangum
Mangum
The
Sun
Harlem
Robert E. Lee
Locals Plan Wage Status Discussion
A meeting to discuss wage negotiations is planned by Local 4333 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union at 7 p.m. Friday. Baytown Refinery employees are invited to attend at the OCAW Hall. Speakers will include representatives from the IAM and IBEW, plus the Independent Industrial Workers of Humble Oil and Refining Co. Baton Rouge delegates will visit Bayton Rouge in February. Bud Marsh and Ferdin Geyer were featured speakers at IIW memberships in Baton Rouge.
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Baytown
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
AH Baytown
OCAW
E. Homan
Internaional Association of Machinism S
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
City Manager Tasks Refunding Program At Breakfast Meeting
City Manager J B LeFevre urged against starting a water deposit refunding plan but provided a memo on its structure if approved. Council to review at next regular meeting. Also discussed retirement age, future vacancies, water line extensions guideline, dog pound relocation, and bank depository advertising. Present were Ansley Bryan Ward Huron and Hansen.
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J. B. LeFevre
LeFevre
Holly Inn
Park Street
Velma Ansley
James M.jimi Bryan
W. L
Dub) Ward
Jack Huron
C. A
Chris) Hansen
Slayer Of 5 Asks To Die: 10 Tonight
Supreme Court was asked to stay the 10 PM execution of Frederick Charles Wood a 51 year old condemned killer who has defied attorneys and called them do gooders Wood awaits the electric chair at Sing Sing as Norman Dorsen NYU law professor seeks a sanity hearing through a petition to Justice Harlan
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Washington
Justice Harlan
The
Supreme Court
New York State
Do Gooders
Frederick Charles Wood
Sing Sing
Wood
Norman Dorsen
New York University
Harlan
To Be Home Tomorrow Night Secret Note
A terse exchange ends with a sigh and a promise of home by tomorrow night. A cryptic line, “To be home tomorrow night,” followed by a trailing “So will 17” hints at an unstated plan or clue in a domestic moment.
Urban Study Sought for Orange and Jefferson Counties
Orange and Jefferson counties seek a coordinated urban transportation study. Delegates asked the Highway Commission for a project costing about 210000 dollars, with cities contributing one percent, covering Beaumont Port Arthur Orange and extending to 165 miles from Waco to Longview. Officials from multiple counties cited rapid industrial growth driving need for four lane expansion and related facilities.
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Petry
Beaumont
Port Arthur
Orange
Texas
Waco
Longview
Hill, Navarro
Henderson
McLennan
Smith
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BEF
Humble OW and Refining Co
Scnecial Products
Comauriee
Setter
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East Harris Bay
Grace Methodist Church
Lown
New Crosby School Tax Board
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Bitsy) Davis
JFK
Channel 2
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Ste Mangum
Baytonius Legates
Societatis Medicinea
Hodie Benigne
Orange, Jefferson
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