Longshoremen Strike Ends with Ratified Contract
GALVESTON TEX West Gulf Longshoremen will ratify a new three year pact retroactive to Oct 1 including a 1.60 hourly wage and container clause. About 8000 workers from Lake Charles to Brownsville may return to work as talks on clerks and checkers resume in Houston.
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Galveston
Tex
West Gulf
Union
West Gulf Maritime Association
Thomas W. Gleason
International Longshoremen’s Association
Afocio
New York
Ralph Massey
South Atlantic and Gulf Coast
Baytown Sets $8000 Goal For Cancer Drive 1969
Baytown aims to raise 8000 dollars in the American Cancer Society Drive for 1969. Dave Sherron chairs the Baytown crusade and seeks volunteers to walk a block for cancer on April 15. Call 528-2877 to help. Eva Wilson is the Baytown residential chairman. The national drive is led by Mrs. Richard Nixon with about 2.3 million volunteers, per Dr. Sidney Farber.
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Baytown
American Cancer Society
Dave Sherron
Society
Eva Wilson
Richard Nixon
Sidney Farber
Lost license plate and Marine trainee posted
Mrs Lois Franklin of 402 N Jones reports a new 1969 automobile plate NLV-402 lost near Center and South Street. She requests callers call 422-4630. Marine Pvt Jimmy D Norris of 7602 Harrison is with the Fifth Marine Division at Camp Pendleton Calif training in infantry weaponry.
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Lois Franklin
N. Jones
Center
South Street
Marines Marine Pvt
Jimmy D. Norris
Harrison
Fifth Marine Division
Camp Pendleton
Calif
Norris
Noon Stock Quotes In Memory Of Eisenhower
Markets closed today in observance of former President Dwight D. Eisenhower who died Friday after a long illness. Financial listings reflect the holiday with no trading activity and standard quotes are suspended.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Funeral rites for Cpl. Willis Cormier in Baytown
Funeral services for Cpl. Willis Cormier 20 of 1508 N Seventh Baytown will be held at Earthman Chapel at 9 a.m. Tuesday with military rites. Interment in Pattison Cemetery follows at 2 p.m. Survivors include widow Carol and son Derek Willis, plus brothers Houston Lee Gerald Whitney and sisters Alice Geraldine Lois. Also notes Manuel Ernest Cantu 40 of 1125 Alchart with services at First Mexican Baptist Church and Earthman Chapel. burial Hill of Rest Cemetery. survivors Clemente and Maria Cantu, five sisters and two brothers. Pallbearers listed.
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Willis Cormier
Earthman Chapel
Cpl
Cormier
Vietnam
E. D. Green
South Main Street Church
Carol Cormier
Pattison
Derek Willis Cormier
Houston Cormier
Lee Cormier
Gerald Cormier
Baytown
Whitney Cormier Jr
Cypress
Alice Cormier
Geraldine Cormier
Lois Johnson
Whitney Cormier
M.be. Cantu
Manuel Ernest Cantu
Alchart
First Mexican Baptist Church
Charles Kelly
Earthmain Chapel
Cantu
Juan Melendez
San Juan
Tex
Guadalupe Salinas
Mission
Edward Wagner
Texas City
George Torres
Mary Lou Cantu
Clemente Cantu Jr
Richard Cantu
Hill of Resto Cemetery
Ray Garcia
Alfred Garcia
George Torres Jr
Clemente Cantu
Guadalupe Salinas Jr
Vernon O Schwenke Rites Set In Baytown
Funeral services for Vernon Oscar Schwenke 49 of 6822 N Main Baytown will be at 10 a m Tuesday at Paul A Lee Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Asbury Lenox of Grace Methodist Church officiating Burial will follow in Memory Gardens of Baytown He died 945 a m Saturday at Methodist Hospital Houston He was a native of Goodwill Oklahoma moved to Baytown five years ago a World War II veteran and an Elks member Survivors include his wife Mrs Veda Spear Schwenke of Baytown a daughter Mrs Louise Czech two grandchildren Charles Willach Czech Barbara Jannine Czech his parents Mr and Mrs Louis Schwenke of Diamond Oklahoma two sisters Mrs P L Bledsoe White Deer Texas Mrs Tom Murphy Ulysses Kansas one brother Cecil C Schwenke Bethany Oklahoma Pallbearers listed: Ted Dunn Les Kasselman Walt Teeter Leo E Schmidt Frank Trotter Edward J Mondero Mel Lockridge.
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Schwenke
Vernon Oscar Schwenke
N. Main
Baytown
Paul A. Lee
Asbury i Lenox
Grace Methodist Church
Flour Corp
Methodist
Elks Lodge
Veda Spear Schwenke
Louise Czech
Charles Wllach Czech
Barbara Jannine Czech
Louis Schwenke
Diamond
Okla
P. L. Bledsoe
White Deer
Tex
Tom Murphy
Ulysses
Kan
Cecil C. Schwenke
Bethany
Oklo
Ted Dunn
Les Kasselman
Walt Teeter
Leo E. Schmidt
Frank Trotter
Edward J. Mondero
Mel Lockridge
Mrs H D Fortinberry Moved From ICU At Methodist
Mrs H D Fortinberry is improving after a severe heart attack and has been moved from the intensive care ward to private room 793 at Methodist Hospital Houston. She cannot have visitors but welcomes cards from friends.
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H. D. Fortinberry
Methodist Hospital
Houston
Baytown Lions State Light Bulb Sale Announced
Allen Rice of the Baytown Lions Club said the annual Light Bulb Sale will run April 11 through 18. The club, which supports sight conservation and local programs, has donated thousands to Baytown causes over a decade. Buyers pay $2 per carton of eight Sylvania bulbs, with orders delivered after phone calls to local numbers.
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Baytown Lions
Allen Rice
Baytown Lions Club
Baytown
Lions Club
Opportunity
iClub
General Telephone and Electronics Corp
Lions
First Ticket Choice for Stallworth Stadium Seats
Season ticket holders dating back to 1950 and earlier gain first seating choice for Stallworth Stadium next fall with selection weeks in May. Those holding since 1951–1960 choose May 19–23, 1961–1968 May 26–30, and new applicants from June 2 to Sept 1. Prices are 1.25 per game before Sept 1, then 1.50.
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New Stallworth Stadium
Robert E. Lee
Ross Sterling
Lee
Sterling
Wooster Baptists to Hear Holiman Lecture
Troy Holiman president of the Howard Pool Co Houston will speak at 730 p m Tuesday at Wooster Baptist Church to the San Jacinto Association of Baptist Men He has traveled across the United States addressing business civic groups and churches about aiding the less fortunate and has done foreign field mission work in Africa and Jamaica speaking to more than one million people about opportunities for the underprivileged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy Holiman
Howard Pool Co
Houston
Wooster
San Jacinto
Lodge Workshop and Sorority Installations Set in Goose Creek Area
Goose Creek Lodge No 1192 hosts an area workshop at 7 30 p m Monday at Goose Creek Masonic Hall. Sorority Delta Beta chapter of Phi Sigma Alpha installs new officers at 7 30 p m Tuesday at Mrs B C Cook 2106 Ivy Lee. Baytown PTA Council to hear Family Ties panel discussion at 9 30 a m Wednesday in the Civic Center.
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Goose Creek
A.M
F.M
Goose Creek Masonic Hall
Sorority Delta Beta
Phi Sigma Alpha
B. C. Cook
Ivy Lee
PTA
Baytown
Parent-Teacher Associations
Civic Center
REL STUDENTS GRAND AWARD WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Ronald Lemmon of Horace Mann Junior School won junior earth science first place for Continental Shelf Drift. Leroy Burkholder of Baytown Junior School took junior match first for photoelectric. Senior biology winner Shelley won first for Histocompatibility in Hamster Grafts, with Paul Seale of AEL taking third. John P. Cook of Baytown Junior earned third in junior physical science and a U S Air Force Award. Penny Lou Sawberger of Highlands Junior received a $25 savings bond from the American Cancer Society. Paul Comeaux of AEL was second in senior math.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Lemmon
Horace Mann
Leroy Burkholder
Baytown
Shelley
Paul Seale
AEL
John P. Cook
U.S. Air Force
Penny Lou Sawberger
Highlands
American Cancer Society
Paul Comeaux
Eisenhower Funeral Rituals Amid Nation Mourns Leader
Palm Sunday rites unfold as Eisenhower lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda with Mamie Eisenhower and son John at his side. Nixon recalls the late president’s words to his wife, and a grand procession grounds the city in solemn military pageantry. John Paul Jones burial at Annapolis is noted.
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Nixon
Mamie Dowd Hisenhower
John
Rotunda
Eisenhower
Dwight Eisenhower
America
Capitol
Constitution Avenue
Raven
Secret Service
National Cathedral
John Paul Jones
U.S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Easter Egg Sale by Rainbow Girls at Bay Fair Area
The Rainbow Girls from Goose Creek Assembly No 80 will sell hard boiled colored Easter eggs this Saturday from 10 a m to 2 p m at Bay Fair Penneys Sears and Kmart for 1 a dozen Advance orders through Susan McPhail at 424 5430
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Rainbow Girls
Goose Creek Assembly No. 80
Bay Fair
Penneys
Sears
Kmart
Susan McPhail
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