Community activities and events for Thursday
Tax Semine Citizens Committee will hold a semibar at 7 30 pm Thursday at the Community Building to discuss two city sales taxes. Open house for Mr and Mrs Raymond Maldonado at 6 30 to 9 39 pm Thursday at 1416 Hawthorne. Crosby High School junior play Aaron Slick from Possum Crick at 7 30 pm Thursday in the junior high auditorium. Governor candidate John Hill appears on TV channels 2 and 13 at 10 30 pm Thursday and on Channel 13 Friday before UH UCA game. American Legion dance at Fireman's Hall on Lee Drive Saturday at 8 pm $2 50 per couple or $1 50 stag.
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Ozona
R. E., Contreras
Hawthorne
Crosby
Crosby High School
Aaron Slick
John Hill
Uh-Uca
American Legion
Charles Kilgore
Baytown
Lee Drive
HemisFair Opens in San Antonio With World’s Fair
HemisFair, the official world’s fair, opens April 6 in San Antonio and is expected to attract over 73 million visitors during six months. It marks the first Southwest world’s fair and coincides with the city’s 250th birthday. Martha Ann Hemphill of the Baytown Sun previews exhibits and attractions in a series beginning on Page 31.
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HemisFair
San Antonio
Martha Ann Hemphill
Baytown Sun- Woman
Cold snap expected in Baytown with 30s at night
Baytown area temperatures dip to mid-30s Thursday night as a second cold front passes. Spring began Wednesday but frigid air lingers briefly. Friday highs should reach mid-50s with no rain forecast. Galveston tides: high at 2 pm Friday and low at 4:48 am.
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Baytown
Weather Bureau
Galveston
Birthday Wishes and Weekend Wellness Notes
Joyful birthday greetings for Jack Piernig and Rita Womack seeks a pass while Marcus Poteet nurses a toe ailment. Diane Herring tracks western party publicity and Jack Kimieons recovers from surgery. Weekend springtime bliss brings aches from yardwork and golf as Mary Ann Hastings visits a nursery. Jimmie and Grace Schiller shop groceries after a sunny afternoon of digging and weed pulling.
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Jack Piernig
Rita Womack
Marcus Poteet
Diane Herring
Jack Kimieons
Mary Ann Hastings
Mun
Jimmie and
Grace Schiller
Baytown Faces Hurdles On New Low Rent Housing Plan
Baytown Housing Authority seeks 250 federal financed low rent units but faces a housing code and zoning law gaps. City council considers an ordinance while federal guidelines tighten. If obstacles clear, 60 day legal notice precedes potential referendum.
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Baytown
Frite Lanham
Lanham
Davis Taylor
Housing Authority of
Federal Housing Authority
Taylor
FMC Bayport plant to produce glycerine and plastics
FMC Corp announces construction of a multi million dollar Bayport plant near La Porte to make synthetic glycerine using a new peracetic acid glycidol route. The facility will also produce epoxidized soybean oil allyl alcohol and acetic acid with capacity above 40 million pounds annually and up to 600 workers during construction.
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Bayport
la Porte
FMC Corp
Organic Chemicals Division
FMC
Kronox-S
Hill to Campaign in Baytown March 28
John Hill, recently resigning Texas secretary of state and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful, will campaign in Baytown on Thursday March 28. He will tour Humble Oil Baytown Refinery in the morning, address the Noon Optimist Club at the Holiday Inn at noon, visit his campaign HQ at 92 West Texas Avenue, and attend a 3 p.m. reception at the Community Building hosted by Lee Brasfield of First National Bank.
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John Hill
Texas
BayTown
Hal
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Optimist Club
Holiday Inn
Hill
Texas Ave
Lee
Twenty-Five Sun Carriers To See Astro Twins
Twenty five Baytown Sun carriers will attend the Mouston Astro Minnesota Twins game in the Astrodome on April 5. Carriers will sample non subscribers to The Sun and by signing three new customers, a carrier will win in the Knot Here Gang circulation contest. They will be treated to refreshments during the outing.
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Baytown Sun
Minnesota Twins
Astrodome
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World News Digest Capsule
Reports from Saigon indicate many enemy troops retreat toward the Cambodian border while forces claim 167 killed near the capital. Soviet warships may visit Indian ports as a sign of broader influence. Cary Grant admits decades of LSD use. Pueblo crew letters appear to seek apology from Johnson, possibly under North Korean supervision. Howard University protest disrupts classes in Washington. An artificial heart pump assists a patient in Houston. Texas endures a deep freeze from new spring storm with snowfall. Everett Dirksen softens financial disclosure push while Kennedy visits Alabama on civil rights history. Britain cuts bank rate to seven and a half percent amid fiscal concerns. A V-year-old dam on the Mississippi River in Massachusetts collapses with no injuries.
Power Cut Triggers Gulf Oil Flame at Cedar Bayou Plant
A 69,000-volt transformer failed at Humble Oil Baytown refinery at 5:26 am Wednesday, triggering a power outage that shut Gulf’s basic ethylene unit and forced dumping of product during an emergency shutdown. Production resumed by Thursday morning.
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Gulf Oils
Cedar Bayou
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown Re- Enery
Gulf
Chamber to hear report on Baytown phone work
Baytown Chamber of Commerce members will hear a report Friday on General Telephone service progress in Baytown. R. B. Shirey, area manager, will speak. The company plans direct long distance dialing on Spirit 7 and is replacing old cable facilities while reducing party line users. Luncheon at noon at the Holiday Inn.
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Baytown
Residents complain dogs run loose in Baytown
Local resident Mrs Johy D Dillahunty complains Baytown pet laws are antiquated and unenforceable. City Manager Fritz Lanham and Assistant Police Chief R Ti Turner defend the humane department noting fewer loose dogs now, but cite nighttime catch challenges and property owner permissions as obstacles.
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Mike Lonsford
Baytown
Johy D. Dillahunty
S. Sterling
the Sun
Dilahunty
Ciy
Fritz Lanham
R. Ti Turner
Humane Department
Turner
Humans Ofiers
Lanham
Texas Battle Shapes Up Over LBJ Support
The Texas scene shows support for President Johnson amid Kennedy and McCarthy moves to block renomination. Governor candidates comment on Texans backing of Vietnam policy. Lt Gov Preston Smith touts early campaign strength as John Hill suggests school age changes. Texas political action groups form to assist Kennedy and McCarthy affiliates in Texas.
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Texas
LBJ
Isy
Associated Press
Robert F. Kennedy
Eugene McCarthy
Johnson
White House
Lamar Tech
Beaumont
Ron Pratt
Texas Liberal Democrats
Usp
Kennedy
New York
Washington
Texas Democrats
McCarthy
Waco
David Copeland
Eugene Locke
Tyler
Vietnam
Sen. Kennedy
Waggoner ‘Carr
Bobby Kennedy
Carr
Mar
Preston Smith
Fort Worth
Smith
Arlington
John Hill
Hill
Rally for candidates in council regent race set
A public rally for candidates in the April 2 city election and the April 6 Lee College Board of Regents election will be held at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 26, in the council chamber at city hall. Candidates will answer written questions from the audience, screened by a committee. The panel includes Mrs J Bryan Stratton Gerald Glahn and J Robert Barnes with Grahn as moderator. Sponsored by the Baytown League of Women Voters, guides will be distributed over the weekend at local stores.
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Lee College Board of Regents
Council Chamber
City Hall
College
J. Bryan Stratton
Gerald Glahn
J. Robert Barnes
Grahn
Baytown League of Women Voters
Voters’ Guides
Baytown
Israeli forces push into Jordan in first intrastate action since 1967
Israeli troops crossed the Jordan River into Jordan along a 20 mile front entering key desert areas. An army spokesman said the raid aimed to strike guerrilla bases and would be followed by a planned withdrawal as part of the police action. Jordan appealed for Arab state meetings as fighting raged with casualties reported on both sides.
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Tel Aviv
Jordan
Jordan River
Israel
Jordans
West Bank
Hussein
Mrs Hutton Rites Set for Friday at Grace Methodist
Funeral services for Mrs Na omi French Hutton 35 a Baytown resident for 22 years will be at 2 p m Friday at Grace Methodist Church. She died Wednesday in a Baytown hospital. Survived by husband W C Hutton two sons Adrian E Hutton College Station and Welford Ross Hutton Baytown three grandchildren mother Bertha Shavers Overton sister Mrs Dorrace Hambie Houston active at Grace Methodist. Rev Asbury Lenox to officiate with burial at San Jacinto Memorial Park Earthman Funeral Home directing.
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Baytown
Naomi French Hutton
Grace Methodist Church
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