Civic Night and Scuba Class Notice in City Briefs
Civic Night sponsored by Noon and Evening Optimists in Houston at 7 30 p.m. Tuesday with Dave Moore as speaker. YMCA offers scuba classes starting Monday 6 30 p.m. at 201 Wyte Drive, meeting each Monday and Wednesday for six weeks. Also notes on services for Massey of Caldwell, a Stuart Career Center tour, Fraternal Order of Eagles meeting, Crosby Chamber meeting, highway talks, and Pvt Carl Shirley’s assignment to Fort Polk.
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Houston
Ward Road
Chamber of Commerce
Dave Moore
YMCA
Wyte Drive
Call
Austin Elementary Parent Teacher Association
Stuart Career Center
Sam
Ure
Weather And Tides for Baytown Wednesday
Late night and early morning cloudiness give way to partly cloudy skies. Highs in the mid 70s with lows around 60s. Tides at 2:17 am and 8:42 am Wednesday, with evening tides near 10:31 pm. Sunrise at 6:39 am. Local notes include community names and events.
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Baytown Arena
Baytown
Ilot
Soviets Stall On U S Arms Control Plans
Moscow reports say the Soviet Union failed to reply to a comprehensive SALT proposal as talks resumed between Cyrus Vance and Andrei Gromyko. The day saw businesslike discussions on arms reductions and limits, with U S officials seeking a framework for broader negotiations before Vance leaves Masco. Gromyko indicated support for a Vladivostok style pact but insisted on terms reflecting Soviet positions, including missile and bomber considerations.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Cyrus A. Vance
Andrei A. Gromyka
Europe
Carter
Vance
Cutler
U.S
Gerald Ford
Leonid Rezhney
Vladivostok
Gromyko
Tuss
Munday
Low key city race sees minimal election spending
Final reports due after the election show only one of seven candidates has spent money in the city council race. Incumbent Mary Elizabeth Wilbanks reported 63 in contributions and 14.20 in expenditures for District 6. Campaign treasurers include David Kadjar for Wilbanks and Gladys Leap for Howard Leap. Absentee ballots are above average with 38 votes cast by Tuesday evening.
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Mary Elizabeth Wilbanks
Eileen Hall
Milbanks
David Kadjar
Wilbanks
Hall
Howard
Leap UT
Russell Ralph Band
Leap
Emimell
Hutto
Gladys A. Leap
Ond
Cheryl Louise Bond
Bond
Tom Gentry
George Gentry
Gentry
Collin M. Teague
Michael
Holmes
Peery M. Simmons
Hutti
Pagan
Jody A. Lander
Linder
City Hall
Saytown
Crosby School District sticks with basic education plan
Crosby Director of Instruction Trey Marler says the Crosby School District adopts a basic educational program with three key differences from the proposed fundamental plan. The district uses math textbooks next year, avoids ability grouping, self contained classes, and mandatory parent conferences. The ten point outline of basic education emphasizes reading, writing, math, discipline, and patriotism with compulsory parental oversight and high standards.
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Muriel Scott Crosby
Trey Marler
Crosby
Marler
Lie-school Board
Crashy Waters
Pape
16 Year Baytown Officer Resigns for Industry Work
Merced Oviedo a Baytown Police Department detective for over 16 years has resigned to take a job with an electrical contractor industry citing retirement benefits as a primary factor. He helped probe major cases including the Murders of Paul Cantrell and Mary Cantrell, gaining access to Paula Derese who faced related indictments. Oviedo said he chose early retirement benefits over staying, though he would miss the force and his colleagues.
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Baytown Police Department
Merced Arthur Oviedo
M. Huber
Oviedo
Baytown
Paul Cantrell
Mary
Cantrells
Paula Derese
Derese
Vartan McManus
Vernon Olney
Sylvia McKinney Hawkins Retires from GCCISD Teaching
In Goose Creek in April 1932 the narrator recalls Sylvia McKinney Hawkins, a longtime GCCISD teacher, announcing her retirement. The pair had studied together at Haylor and reflect on a long career begun when she was 12.
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Goose Creek
Sylvia McKinney
Global arms push and Texas county debate spark action
President Carter approved 2 billion in military contracts and arms sales to NATO allies. Austin lawmakers resume debate over a county law enabling commissioners to address public safety and social issues. San Antonio police search for three relatives after a deadly West Side shooting. Pasadena crash kills a man and a woman as a pickup plows into a guardrail and bursts into flames. victims unidentified.
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Washington
Carter
NATO
U S and Spain Airlift Surviving Passengers from Tenerife Crash
In Santa Cruz de Tenerife Canary Islands U S and Spanish officers began departures to fly survivors home. The U S Air Force Burn Center in San Antonio prepared to receive about 60 of the 70 survivors from the Sunday collision of two Boeing 747s on the Tenerife airport runway which killed 575 people.
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Santa Cruz DE Tenerife
Canary Islands
U.S
United States
San Antonio
Santa Crug
West Chambers County Drainage District Favored by Court
The Chambers County Commissioners Court unanimously supported a bill to create the West Chambers County Drainage District. The district would levy taxes to address drainage and water issues, modeled after the eastern Bay Conservation District, with five precinct directors and bond authority if approved by voters.
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West Chambers
Anakuac
Chambers County Commissioners Court
West Chambers County
Monfan
Chambers
Williams
Srmity ‘Bay Conservation’ District
Justice of the Peace
Paul Williams
Ogre Eye
Oscald
Nelson
Douglas Dugal
Ed Watson
Deer Park
Carl A. Parker
Dart
Commissioners Court
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Massey
Caldwell
Melvin Massey
Fleetwood
Phillips and Luckey Funeral Home
Eales
Grdeh of
Eagles
W. Main
Chamber Oe Commerce
Newport Country Club
Shirley
Amy
Carl B. Shirley
LaFerne Wilkerson
Fifth Infantry Division
Fort Polk
Sunger
Laround
Jimmie Morehead
Bunty Sanders
Chambers County
Bennie Rowland
Ernest Ben Winfree
Handy Dickey
Amy Christiansen
Claude Jackson
Lynn Tullos
Karen Doaklite
Bill Porter
Fork Worth
Lee College Managerial Society
Kay Tarris
Jinda
Lee Kaderli
Vicki Rowe
Donnie Atherton
Greg Singletary
Citizens National Bank and Truss CO
Mary Pumphrey
M. D. Pumphrey
Sd Riverbend
Sun
Glenn Folkex
Cyrus Vance
Wanda Orton
Ovieda
California
Liytown Department
Tulare
Ovinds
Irma
Glenn
William
Valerio
Department
Thei
Police
Arthur Oviedo
Dada G
Michal
Our World
Austin
San Diego
Calif
United California
Asso
Immigration and Naturalizes CIA
West Silo
Pasadena
Peoples State Bank
Ira Berrie Choryr
Late’ News
Mcnaua-King's Colony
Exxon Co
USA
Han Warldock
Jerry Thomas
Ie Department
John Far] Lae
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