Baytown community calendar and notices update
City announces proposed zoning map copies at city hall and Friday deadline to propose changes before May 7. A public meeting scheduled at 6 30 p m Tuesday at Coady Baptist Church to discuss plans opposing a sanitary landfill near Cedar Bayou Lynchburg Road. Community groups urge participation.
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Ross Wilhite
City Hall
Coady Baptist Church
Cedar -Bayou - Lynchburg Road
James Harman
Rag time act tabs in Atlanta and campus politics mix
PAM PHELPS entertains in Atlanta at the Swiss Alps club for a two week engagement. Ken Martin Anne Wahrmund and John Street are veterans of a UT Austin campus political campaign. Royce Smiths host Little League parents ahead of a big season. Ora Mae Harding rallies. Bob Wesselhofts and John Tuckers plan a spring cruise. David Wright makes trips to Galena Park, Albert Fanestiel delivers quick wit, Rufus Honeycutt notes long Harris County tax line for 1969 auto plates.
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Pam Phelps
Atlanta
Ken Martin
Anne Wahrmund
John Street
University of Texas
Royce Smiths
Mike Hull
Dolly McAlpin
Ora Mae Harding
Bob Wesselhofts
John Tuckers
Channelview
David Wright
Galena Park
Albert Fanestiel
Rufus Honeycutt
Harris County
Hungry Crows Raid Store At U Totem Drive In
On Sunday a small group of black crows swooped into the U Totem Drive In Grocery on North Pruett at 4 30 pm. They carried three hamburger buns and later attempted corn chips before customers shooed them away. Mrs Gwenn Hazlett and neighbors watched the birds from nearby as they lingered in a tree across the street, eyeing the store. The Hazletts and others chased the birds off and hoped for another quiet day.
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U-Totem Drive-In
North Pruett
Gwenn Hazlett
Mrs. Hazlett
Baytown Sun Publishes 108-Page Chamber Salute
The Baytown Sun announces a 108-page tabloid salute to the Baytown Chamber of Commerce. The Chamber banquet is at 7 30 p m Monday at the Community Building in the Civic Center with Dr Charles Jarvis of San Marcos as principal speaker. A tribute honors the late Gen Dwight D Eisenhower.
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John Cavaretta
Baytown Sun
Chamber of Commerce
Sun
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
the Sun
Baytown
Charles Jarvis
San Marcos
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Final Tribute Paid to Dwight Eisenhower Funeral
World leaders gathered in Washington for the ceremonial final tribute to Dwight David Eisenhower. Ordinary Americans endured a long night to bid farewell, while dignitaries attended the National Cathedral service. Citizens lined the Capitol grounds and entered the Rotunda to honor the 34th president.
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Washington
Dwight David Eisenhower
United States
National
U.S. Capitol
Eisenhower
REL Student Wins With Hamster Science Project
Shelley Greenwood of Robert E. Lee High School won a grand award at the 10th Greater Houston Science Fair for her hamster skin grafting project featuring lizard skin grafts and hamster cheek pouch tissue. She advances to the International Science Fair in Fort Worth and previously competed in Detroit, aided by a Baylor College of Medicine fellowship.
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Wanda Orton
Harris County
Robert ©. Lee High School
Shelley
Shelley Greenwood
Greater Houston
Fort Worth
Detroit
Houston
REL
Baylor University College of Medicine
Michael DeBakey
Vera Hartt
Baytown Junior High
Don Davis
Hartt
Henry Armstrong
Greenwood
Burnet Drive
University of Texas
Baytown
Global tensions and disasters fill weekend news roundup
Our World Today reports Viet Cong plans reassessed by U S analysts and limited North Vietnam bombing pause. prophets warn of a risky California quake. Sirhan Sirhan defense suite planned if Kennedy murder case proceeds. Israel faces spring tensions amid peace talks standoff. Wilson seeks Ojukwu response. Texas weekend fatalities rise. Prairie View A&M classes resume as search continues for a student killer. Zurich landslide toll six.
Editorial: Baytown candidates answer on zoning and hospital tax
The Baytown Sun compiled candidate responses on zoning capital improvements and hospital taxation ahead of the city election. Most candidates endorse a zoning referendum with few commenting on hospital tax status, urging voters to decide and emphasizing transparency and civic duty.
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Albert Fanesticl
Glen Walker
Andy Braswell
Abe Simon
David Evans
Don M. Hullum
J. W. Thornton
Kathy Hall
Ronald Roberts
Leonard W. Stasney
Jim Bailey
Allen Cannon
William Glenn Smith
Lamar Kelley
Baytown Sun
Baytown
Story Hour at Wooster Branch Library
Preschool story hour set for 10 45 a m Wednesday at Wooster Branch Library with Mrs Bevil Oliver as the storyteller.
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Wooster
Bevil Oliver
Baytown to elect mayor and five council seats in 11 precincts
Baytown voters will cast ballots Tuesday from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. to elect a mayor and fill five council seats across 11 precincts. The race features three former councilmen Albert Fanestiel A M Braswell and Glen Walker. Eleven candidates seek the five council seats and two additional posts. Absentee ballots total 31 with two not returned. Canvass set for April 9 with potential runoff on April 26.
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Baytown
Albert Fanestiel
A. M
Andy) Braswell
Glen Walker
Fanestiel
Braswell
Walker
Don M. Hullum
J. W
Bill’ Thornton
Lamar Kelley
William Glenn Smith
Abe Simon
David Evans
Leonard W. Stasney
Kathleen C
Kathy) Hall
Ronald
Ron) Roberts
James Allen Cannon
Jim Bailey
Edna Oliver
City Hall
Oliver
Baytown Tops Science Fairs With Seven Appearing At Peak
Baytown’s record seven appearances at International Science Fairs highlight a line of prominent students from 1958 onward. Paul Corneil initiated the run. successors included Clinton Snyder Mary Corneil Paul Quinton Richard Ruckman and Shelley Greenwood a two time winner. Ruckman won in 1967 and later earned a Navy science award and a San Francisco trip. Corneil earned a PhD from UC Berkeley Snyder a PhD from Rice. Mary Corneil and Paul Quinton pursue doctorates at Rice. Ruckman is a Rice chemistry sophomore. Shelley, a junior at Robert E Lee High, intends zoology at the University of Texas.
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Baytown
Paul Corneil
Paul
Clinton Snyder
Mary Corneil
Paul Quinton
Richard Ruckman
Shelley Greenwood
Westinghouse
Washington, D.C
Ruckman
San Diego
Navy
San Fancisco
Corneil
University of California At Berkeley
Snyder
Rice University
Rice
Ichemistry
Shelley
Robert E. Lee High School
The
University of Texas
Construction Strike Possible Near Houston Area
A strike may be called Tuesday morning by four building trades unions if a contract settlement is not reached Monday with the Associated General Contractors and the Construction Employers Associations. Ironworkers, teamsters, operating engineers and cement masons would walk out as their contract expires at midnight Monday. Negotiations were ongoing Monday in Houston and the strike could affect work at the new U S Steel plant east of Baytown and other local projects.
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Building Trades
Associated General Contractors
Construction Employers Associations
Houston
U. S. Steel
Baytown
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Sterling Municipal Library
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Highlands
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Archie Hale
Ashwood
Larry D. Wade
Floyd J. Wade
Vietnam
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Roseland Park
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Prophets of Doom
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Pacific
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Robert F. Kennedy
Israel
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Harold Wilson
Odumegwu Ojukwu
Wilson
Texas
Prairie View A&m
Zurich
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Schwyz
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Baytown State Bank
Apell
Citizens National Bank & Trust Co
Peoples State Bank
F.C
Cedar Bayou United Methodist Church
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