Never Stop Building a Refinery at Humble Baytown
Baytown Baytown Refinery and Baytown Chemical Plant expansion drive 1965 1966 projects. Humble managers note large catalytic cracking unit 120 900 barrels per day and 210 000 barrel pipe stills. Hiring rises with 30 new wage workers and 34 professionals, boosting community payroll and employment.
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Baytown Sun
Humble Oi
and Refining Co
Humble
Baytown
Baytown Chemical Plant
Fey
Humble 5Mai
Highlands Library Opens With Ceremony Sunday
The new Highlands Branch of the Harris County Public Library opens at 2:30 p.m. Sunday on Stra ford Street with master of ceremonies Jim Brazzil. Rotary Club planned the program and Highlands Junior Highland may perform. County Commissioner W. Ramsey will speak, followed by ribbon cutting by Mrs. Rex Wolf and Mrs. Adams.
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Highlands
Harris County Pubic Library
Straford
Jim Brazzil
The
Highlands Star
Highlands Rotary Club
Highlands Junior Highland
Highlands Boy Scouts
Tom Holcomb
Highlands Methodist Church
Ruth Adams
Asistant County
Alton Neatherlin
Rotary Club
Alice Noland
Highlands Garden Club
Ber
W. ¥. Ramsey
Rex Wolf
Adams
Harry K. Johnson
Tools stolen from Baytown house under construction
JOE HALE reported the theft of about 234 dollars in tools from a house under construction at 810 Maplewood. He said the tools were locked in a room but the theft occurred despite the lock. Weather: Mostly cloudy with occasional rain through Sunday. Temperature 53 to 70 degrees, 54 at 8 am Saturday. Sunday tides: low at 1 am and high at 9:36 am. Niece’s funeral attended by BIR and Mrs B D Hindman after Rosie Carol’s death in Lufkin last Wednesday. Square Dance club hosts Bayshore Wagon Wheel at Knights of Pythias Hall with Bill Clegg MC. West Baytown Kiwanis to screen film Wild Rivers at noon. film won 1965 National Sportswriters Award. Mart Doughane? Donahoe son Marty, appendectomy Friday. in Lilie Duke Hospital room 19. visitors welcome.
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Joe Hale
Baytown
Maplewood
Galveston
Mmr
Curtis Wisell
Bayshore Wagon ‘Wheel
Knights of Pythias Hall
Bill Clegg
West Kiwanians
Humble Oil & Refining Co
West Baytown Kiwanis Club
Rebeinn
Sportswriters Award
Marty
Marty Doxahoe
Martel Donahoe
Cedar Bayou
Lynchburg
Lilie Duke Hospital
Festive Baytown Social Notes Highlight Local Figures
JANIS ALEXANDER turns 28. Pat Staples joins The Sun advertising. Sam McPhail dines well. Boyd Hill discusses moviemaking. Donnie Herrington and Glenn Fanestiel weekend in Fort Head. Linda Temek and Helen Canna chat with George Jones. Fritz Lanham oversees a $21 million federal office building project in Fort Worth and Baytown earns a new namesake. Tammy Plocheck visits. Suzanne Allison, Baytown native and Robert E. Lee HS alum, plans a Baytown party Sunday honoring Nell Handley and Lynn Mosley.
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Janis Alexander
Pat Staples
Sun
Sam McPhail
Boyd Hill
Donnie Herrington
Glenn Fanestiel
Fort Head
Linda Temek
Helen Canna
George Jones
Baytown
Fritz Lanham
Fort Worth
Fritz Garland Lanham
F. G. Lanham
Texas
Tammy Plocheck
Suzanne Allison
Voting Light In Baytown
An extremely light vote was recorded in Baytown for a special US House vacancy caused by the death of Congressman Albert Thomas. By 11 30 am seven of 17 precincts east of the San Jacinto River reported 243 votes cast. Mrs Lera Thomas seeks her late husband’s unexpired term, along with young Republican Louis Leman of Crosby.
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U.S
House of Representatives
Albert Thomasinst
San Jacinto River
Lera) Thomas
Louis Leman
Crosby
First Graders Next Year Testing Dates Set
The district announces April 25 to 28 for a pre school clinic testing pupils entering first grade. Deputy Superintendent J M Stuart explains eye ear speech readiness exams to identify needs and guide flexible grouping. Mrs Willie Terry and Mrs Jonteze Botkin direct the clinic with nurses and therapists aiding assessments. Locations and times will be published later.
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Supe
J. M. Stuart
Stuart
Willie Terry
Jonteze Botkin
Joan Johnson
Louise Burke
Service League
Sun
Lee College to Administer Draft Aptitude Tests
Lee College will host selective service college qualification tests on May 14 May 21 and June 3 in the college auditorium. The optional test helps Baytown Selective Service Board 63 assess a student’s capacity for continued college work though scores do not determine deferment eligibility. Registrants seeking deferment must apply by April 23 through the Lee College testing office, with materials sent to Science Research Associates for test design.
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Selective Service
Lee College
Wallace Heaner
Baytown Selective Service Board No. 63
Heaner
Lee College Testing Office
Science Research Associates
Baytown GI Featured in World Book Supplement
The 1963 World Book yearly supplement includes a Baytown angle with a photograph of Sgt. Bill Owen, a Purple Heart Viet Nam veteran. The Life Magazine image shows Owen wounded in a helicopter after a Viet Cong engagement. son of Baytown residents Mr. and Mrs. D. G. T. Owen, he now serves in the Marines in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
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World Book Encyclopedia
Baytown
Encyleopedia
Bill Owen
Purple Heart
Life Magazine
Owen
Sgt. Owen
Dg. T. Owen
Jacksonville
N.C
New Postal Rate Hikes In Effect Across Special Services
Baytown Postmaster Mcc Neal announced new postal rate hikes taking effect Saturday. Increases affect money orders, registry, insurance, certified mail, and COD, with overall annual losses from special services about 60 million dollars, but expected to reduce the gap by 36 million based on FY 1965 handling.
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C.O.D
Baytown
Mcc Neal
Neal
U.S
U.S. Treasury
Baytown Soldier Earns Soldier's Medal For Vietnam Rescue
Specialist Ben F Devereux of Baytown earned the Soldier's Medal after rescuing victims following a US Air Force B 37 bomber crash in Nha Trang Vietnam on August 6 He crawled amid wreckage despite bombs exploding and evacuated both Vietnamese and American injured and dead, aided crowd control and remained at the scene until bomb disposal cleared the area The award cited his exceptionally valorous action and credited him with saving lives and preventing a greater tragedy He has served since 1963 with the 560th Military Police Detachment in Vietnam and lives with his wife Zandra Beeman and son David at 2111 Missouri Drive in Baytown
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Nha Trang
Viet Nam
Baytown
Sp. 4
Ben F. Devereux
William C. Westmoreland
Saigon
Westorelanao
Devereux
560Th Military Police Co
Sp. Devereaux
Sp.Devereux
Sp. Devereux
United States Army
560
Body of Robert W. Lamb Laid to Rest in Tutwilder
The body of Robert W. Lamb age 34 who died of a heart attack Friday was shipped from Earth man Funeral Home to Avent Funeral Home in Tutwilder Mississippi for services and burial. One survivor is listed Mrs W M Cummings of Mendenhall Mississippi. Lamb was a maintenance man at San Jacino Methodist Hospital.
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Robert W. Lamb
Earthman Funeral Home
Avent Funeral Home
Tutwilder
Miss
Funeral Home
W.M. Cummings
Mendenhall
Lamb
San Jacino Methodist Hospital
Baytonian Celebrates 103rd Birthday Friday
Nancy Bilello celebrated her 103rd birthday at home with daughter Mrs Ralph Lambright in Bayton. About 40 friends attended a party at the Lambright residence. She has 20 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. Her children include Mrs Lambright Mrs Joe Benardio of Temple and Paul Bileo of Los Gatos California.
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Nancy Bilello
Italy
Humb
Ralph Lambright
E. Adou
Humble
Bilelle Lved
Louisiana
Lam‘bright
Joe Benardio
Jof Temple
Paul Biblio
Los Gates
Cali
California
Burnet Johnson
Jimmy Boyd
Ethel Kilgore
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Ofilm Sales & Scam
H. H. Meier
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John J. Costes
New Highlands Library
B. D. Hindman
Stella
Rosie Carol
Lufkin
Southern Pacific
U.S. Steel
Cedar Baron
Steel
Jones & Laughlin
DS Steel
US. Steel
Ben Devereux J
Ben Devereux
Baytonian
Hwy
Thad Felton
Ays" Ciyze
ONC
Mike Murphy
Baytown Jaycers
Jaycees
Gaytown Sun
Harris County Federal Servings and Loan Assm
Peoples State Bank
F.d.lo
Batiown
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