Mayor and council candidates discuss Baytown government future
At a Baytown League of Women Voters rally, candidates debated a zoning ordinance and a possible shift from a city manager system to a strong mayor government. Responses varied from support with modifications to firm opposition, with several candidates urging study of revisions and others favoring the existing council-manager form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Voters League
Wanda Orton
Jean Froneberger
Baytown League of Women Voters
City Hall
Baytown
Kathy Hall
David Evans
Ronald Roberts
Don M. Hallum
J. W. Thornton
Leonard Stasney
Jim Bailey
Allen Cannon
David Glenn Smith
Lamar Kelley
Abe Simon
A. M
Andy) Braswell
Albert Fanestiel
Glen Walker
Fanestiel
Walker
Andy Braswell
Simon
Evans
Hallum
Daley
Stasney
Bailey
Cannan
William
Trustees oppose early superintendent hiring plan
Two board members Troy Peterson and James Ellis object to advertising a new superintendent a year before Supt. George H. Gentry retires. Gentry will serve as president emeritus with an $18,750 salary and $1,000 car allowance until August 1970 while the brochure outlining the search process is sent to Texas and surrounding states.
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Troy Peterson
James Ellis
George H. Gentry
Gentry
Ellis
Huffstutler
Karl W. Opryshek
Lee College
Board of Regents
Richard Strahan
Texas
Opryshek
Kiwanis and community events in Baytown area
Regular Kiwanis meeting at noon Monday at Wyatt's Cafeteria features Baytown Engineering Co. members Les McDonald and Charles Cody discussing air pollution. Also scheduled are Communion Sunday services for Knights of Columbus at St. Joseph's, a tea by Order of Eastern Star honoring Helen and E. J. Chamblee, a Shrine Club Crippled Children Pageant with a new venue and $1 at door, a coffee for mayoral candidate Glen Walker, and a Civil Air Patrol meeting at North Main Airport with guests invited.
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Kiwanis
West Baytown Kiwanis Club
Wyatt
Les McDonald
Charles Cody
Baytown Engineering Co
Gary Armer
San Jacinto
Goose Creek
Order of Eastern Star
Helen Chamblee
E. J. Chamblee
George W Curtis
Burning Tree
Baytown Shrine Club
Marshall Roemer
Craigmont
Ponderosa
Glen Walker
Paul Price
Walker
CAP
Baytown
Civil Air Patrol
North Main
Weather fair and wind at Baytown weekend forecast
Weather report notes fair and windy conditions with a colder snap from a Canadian front sweeping through the state. Baytown area forecast cites temperatures in the low forties and a shift to cooler air, while local residents and hospital patients are mentioned in light, social context.
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Baytown Area
TV Schedule For Ike's Funeral
New York AP reports networks plan extensive Eisenhower funeral coverage. Sunday spots include casket removal to Capitol rotunda for Nixon eulogy with ABC CBS NBC airing 10:30 to 2. Monday follows memorial services with transfers to Union Station. Tuesday no live coverage during train transit. Wednesday casket moved to Eisenhower Memorial Library for interment beneath Memorial Chapel with midmorning to early afternoon air times.
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NEW York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Constitution Avenue
Capitol Rotunda
Nixon
ABC
CBS
NBC
Washington National Cathedral
Eisenhower Memorial Library
Memorial Chapel
Robert E. Lee High to Get New Gym and Roof Work
Epco Construction Co. of Houston awarded a 477,003 dollar contract to build a new gymnasium with classrooms and remodel vocational shops at Robert E. Lee High School. Roofing for the main building and allied structures funded from the district bond program. The project includes new restrooms offices and a conference room, with space rework for cosmetology and building trades courses.
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Epceo Construction Co
Houston
Robert E. Lee High School
Epca
Baxter Construction Co
Fleetwood Construction Co
Gene B. Hazelwood
Baytown
James A. “Bitsy
Davis
Board
Texas Education Agency
Robert E. Lee
Supt
W. D. Hinson
Hinson
Eisenhower Death Mourned By Millions At Baytown Banquet
Baytown officials plan a tribute at the chamber of commerce banquet while federal offices close for national mourning. Post offices extend Sundays hours but no city or rural mail deliveries. City hall stays open. flags fly at half staff for 30 days. A memorial service is set for 12:05 p.m. at First Methodist Church in Houston with a Lamar Choralettes program.
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Baytown
George H. Gentry
Gentry
J. B. LeFevre
Gen
Eisenhower
First Methodist Church
Houston
Harris County Republican Party
Charles Allen
Robert I. Kahn
Temple Emmaneul
The
American Legion
John Morkovsky
Houston - Galveston
Lamar Choralettes
Hugh Reding
Ceremonial Farewell to Eisenhower Begins Five Day Tribute
Washington mourns Dwight D. Eisenhower as a five day ceremonial farewell unfolds beginning with private services at the Washington National Cathedral. World leaders and U S figures, including Nixon, de Gaulle, Johnson and Truman, honor the former president whose death follows a long illness and who led Allied victory in World War II. The procession to the Capitol and state funeral mark a nationwide observance of his legacy as a popular wartime leader and two term president.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Kansas Plains
Washington National Cathedral
Eisenhower
Europe
Gettysburg
William G. Weaver
Nixon
White House
Camp David
U.S
Charles de Gaulle
France
Ers
Washington National
de Gaulle
Lyndon B. Johnson
Harry S. Truman
Senate
Democratic
Mike Mansfield
George Washington
Body Of Viet War Victim Enroute Home
Army Cpl. Willis C. Cormier 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. J W Cormier of 1506 N 7th, is enroute home from South Vietnam. He was killed March 22 in the demilitarized zone when a grenade attack struck his medical corps truck. Funeral services under Milton Schmidt Funeral Home in Brookshire. He will be buried in Patterson. Survivors include wife Carol Zigo, one son Derek Willis Cormier, three sisters and four brothers.
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Army
Willis C. Cormier
J. W. Cormier
N. 7Th
South Vietnam
Milton Schmidt
Brookshire
Vietnam
Demilitarized Zone
Cpl
Cormier
U.S. Army Medical Corps
Young Cormier
Cps
Horace Mann
Baytown
Patterson
Carol Zigo
Derek Willis Cormier
Lois Johnson
Alice
Geraldine Cormier
Whitney Jr
Cypress
Lee
Houston
Gerald Cormier
U S Steel Buys Baytown Building It Leased
U S Steel Corp buys the Baytown downtown headquarters at 207 11 W Pearce, previously leased for three years. The Matherne interests sold the building, represented by Foxy Matherne. U S Steel Real Estate Division, plus offices of the vice president South, Law Department, and general superintendent of Texas Works, are based there.
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U. S. Steel Corp
Baytown
Norman 0. McElvany
U. S. Steelin Baytown
W. Pearce
Robert Matherne
Foxy Matherne
U. S. Steel
Law Department
General Superintendent of
Texas Works
Loop Highway 146 Link Near Holiday Inn
The Baytown U S Steel Mill loop from Highways 146 to 1405 will intersect 146 near Holiday Inn about 100 yards west of the hotel, crossing Cedar Bayou by Roseland Park. Location in Chambers County unsettled awaiting intersection with 1405 and bridge type plans. Completion likely at least one year after contract. early Spur 201 work possible late 1969 or early 1970 if funds permit.
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Baytown
U. S
Holiday Inn
Cedar Bayou
Roseland Park
Chambers County
Richard Cabot
Sterling High students protest dress code at Ross Sterling
About 25 or 30 students staged a sit-in Friday morning at Ross Sterling High School protesting a dress code approved by the school board Monday night. Spokesmen said they objected to the hair length rule, with hair neatly trimmed and tapered and not touching the collar. The demonstration occurred minutes before classes as hundreds milled in the Commons. Principal Winnie Brown said the students were being talked to. the dress code mirrors the policy in effect since 1966.
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Ross Sterling High School
Winnie, Brown
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Sultis
Glenn Lippman
Peterson
E. ¥. Huffstutler
Walker Coffee
Harris
Lois Ann Guidry
Buddy Guidry
Baytown Hospital
Charles Jackson
Dan Savell
Hawaii
Judy Burnet
Dean Johnston
Sun
Patricia Davis
Jacqueline Perkins
Jocelyn Wesselhoff
University of Houston
Patricia Brian
Glen King
Eddie Huron
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Citizens National Bank & Trust Co
Ike
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Ed Vaught
Gen. Eisenhower
Lyndon Johnson
Dwight Eisenhower
Johnson
Palm Springs
Fla
Cpl. W. C. Cormier
U.S. Steel
Baytown State Bank
Allen Ranft
Wezcome
Cedaria
United Medist Church
Ferry Road
Sterling High
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