SUN SPOTS Back From Africa Missionaries Return on Leave
Rev and Mrs Franklin Mc Corkle and daughter Amanna Sue return from Ghana after three years as missionaries and will be on leave for a year. Rev McCorkle to speak at Trinity Tabernacle 11 a.m. Sunday. Also notes include a funeral and various community notices such as a bridge club game, a soldier completing missile crewman course at Ft Sill, a Gulf Coast Ancestors Club meeting, Bayshore Wagon Wheel Square Dancers events, and Kathy Lounsberry named to Lamar Tech honor roll for fall.
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Africa
Franklin McCorkle
E&. HL Smitherman
4Th St
Ghana
West Africa
Amanna Sue
McCorkles
McCorkle
Trinity Tabernacle
Gulf Coast Ancestors Club
Wilson Hunt
Bayshore Wagon Wheel
Knights of Pythias Hall
Tommy Ward
George Leverett
Lakewood Club
Ron Durkee
Bayshore Dancers
Kathy Lounsberry
Paul Lounsberry
Mayhaw
Lamar Tech
Beaumont
Weekend Baytown Forecast Shows Mild Cloudy Skies
The Baytown area weather looks cloudy and mild with a chance of showers through the weekend. Temperatures range from the upper 50s to mid 70s as conditions linger across the region.
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Baytown
Muckleroy gives pointers on job interviews at event
A local gathering features Mrs Joyce Muckleroy offering interview tips to attendees. Several participants including Bobbie Clark Pat Williams Annette Maroney Becky Verde and Glenda Butler demonstrate acting skills. Other items note social visits and family news such as John David Manley born March 16 and Hodges Garden trip in Louisiana.
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Joyce Muckleroy
Bobbie Clark
Pat Williams
Annette Maroney
Becky Verde
Glenda Butler
Cave Kominek
Bonnie Lewallen
Susan Lynn Wert
H. L. Wert
Angela Cheatham
Kelly Gentle
Peanuts
J. R. Pinder
E. L. Thompson
C. P. Burnett
Thomas Rabins
Amy
David
Hodges Garden
Louisiana
Henrietta
Lester Manley
John David
Gulf Coast Hospital Awarded Reaccreditation Again
Gulf Coast Hospital has been reaccredited by the Joint Commission after a survey on January 17 led by Dr. Kirby Howlett Jr. Administrator Harry H. Miller announced plans for a 10 year expansion including a 200 bed general hospital with convalescent and extended care facilities and new outpatient services. The hospital marks its 10th year with growth from 50 beds to 88 beds and 14 physicians plus a dentist. Dr. John H. Andrews chairs the governing board and Dr. H. W. Kilpatrick TI leads the medical staff.
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Gulf Coast Hospital
Board of Commissioners
Joint Commission On Accreditation of Hospitals
Harry H. Miller
Kirby S. Howlett Jr
Miller
Gulf Coast
Lanhams Tribute Sunday For Baytown City Manager Lanham
Friends and city officials gather at the Community Building in Baytown for Fritz Lanham’s farewell reception marking five and a half years of service. The event on Sunday from 2 to 6 p.m. honors Lanham and his family as Mayor Cravey proclaims Fritz Lanham Day before his April 1 departure to state local relations in Gov. Preston Smith’s office.
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Fritz Lanham
Baytown
Lanhams
Seaborn Cravey
Lanham
Texas
Preston Smith
John Fritz
Leslie
Debora
New School Superintendent To Be Paid $25,000 A Year
The school board set a probable minimum salary of 25 000 a year for a new superintendent and July 1 as the tentative announcement date. Dr E V Huffstutler of North Texas State University advised that 25 000 is needed to attract candidates, with Galveston Odessa and Baytown districts paying similar sums. The board approved a brochure plan to recruit nationwide and outlined a May 23 application deadline with interviews and site visits through June. The maximum age for the post is 55 with no minimum age set. The retirement date for incumbent George H Gentry was not to be listed in the brochure.
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Johnella Boynton
E. V. Huffstutler
North Texas State University
James Ellis
Troy Peterson
George H. Gentry
Gentry
Huffstutter
Galveston
Odessa
Baytown
Karl W. Opryshek
Lite High
Huffstutler
Bob Wahrmund
Fabian Greenwell
Nixon policy on campus disorders eyed for Monday
James Earl Ray's new Savannah lawyer J B Stoner arrives in Nashville to visit Ray at the state pen and questions if Ray killed Dr Martin Luther King Jr. An Illinois congressman vows tougher enforcement of two federal laws as Saigon faces sharp fighting after 30 overnight rocket strikes. President Nixon mulls buying a California home and library while touring Truman. Hubert Humphrey urges delaying ABM action. State Insurance Board projects auto premium rises of at least $2 million for assigned risk drivers.
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James Earl Ray
Nashville, Tenn
Ray
State Penitentiary
Martin Luther King Jr
J. B. Stoner
Savannah, Ga
Richard Nixon
Illinois
Rioters Given Violence Data pamphlet at Penn campus
AP reports a six page pamphlet titled Your Manual distributed to 25 students at the University of Pennsylvania urging harm to police and bystanders during campus disturbances. Police Commissioner Frank L. Rizzo calls the anonymous pamphlet dangerous and says copies were circulated with orders to spread them. SDS denies any connection to the booklet.
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Philadelphia
Frank L. Rizzo
Students For A Democratic Society
University of Pennsylvania
Rizzo
SDS
Laird Faces Senate In Push For ABM Missile Defense
Defense Secretary Melvin Laird defended the Safeguard ABM plan during a five hour Senate hearing, facing sharp criticism from senators who argued the seven billion dollar system would be more sieve than shield. Laird’s televised appearance sparked mixed reactions from a student audience as Gore Fulbright Church and Symington pressed for clearer data and progress.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Senate
White House
Capitol Hill
Laird
Senate Abm
Frank Church
Idaho
Nixon
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Pentagon
Arkansas
J. W. Fulbright
Foreign Relations Committee
Private Negotiations On War Confirmed
Laird told a Senate hearing that the administration seeks peace through Paris talks and privately, with an alternative to current policy if talks fail. Fulbright pressed for details. Ford predicted a possible new military move in Vietnam. Wheeler and Laird denied escalation as critics argued.
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Washington
Melvin R. Laird
Laird
Vietnam
Senate
Vientiane
Laos
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
Paris
Fulbright
Nixon
House
Gerald R. Ford
Earle G. Wheeler
Joint Chiefs of Staff
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Union negotiators eye contracts amid Gulf Coast strike
Galveston AP reports union negotiators discussed Saturday contracts with stevedoring firms hit by the Q1 day West Gulf longshoremen strike. Ralph Massey, president of the union's South Atlantic and Gulf Coast district, said other ports showed several stevedores willing to sign with them.
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Galveston
Tex
West Gulf
Ralph Massey
South Atlantic and Gulf Coast
LC Student Official Visits Governor for Conference
LC Student Government president Barry Reiter accompanied by other college leaders traveled to Austin at the governor's invitation for a Student and Governor Communication Conference. Gov. Preston Smith hosted discussions on student problems and democratic participation with staff, UT students, and legislators during Friday evening and Saturday sessions.
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Barry Reiter
Lee College
Austin
Preston Smith
Reiter
Capitol
Gov. Smith
University of Texas
Guy. Smith
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