Baytown Civic Events Postponed and Local Notices
Emergency Corps will meet at the corps headquarters on South Main at 7 p.m. Tuesday. The Tri-City Beach Civic Association postponed its meeting to May 3 at 7:30 p.m. at the community building. Women of All Saints Episcopal host a luncheon for Women of Trinity Episcopal at 11:20 a.m. Wednesday. Garden Keepers meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at Mrs. Lowell Westerman’s home with a flower arranging demo by Mrs. C. H. Bone. P TA Council officers to be installed at Sterling Municipal Library at 9:15 a.m. Wednesday by Mrs. R. Z. Battarbee. An Eighth-Grade party is set for 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at Robert E. Lee High School cafeteria, hosted by Baytown Parents Council. Edger stolen from 300 W Miriam between April 20 and Saturday. A towel dispenser was stolen from a car wash at 1907 Carolina with no towels or change remaining.
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Tri-City
Trecity Beach Civic Association
ALL Saints Episcopal Church
Woman of
Trinity
Episcopal Church
Garden Keepers
Garden Keepers Club
Lowell ‘Westerman
Pamela
C.H. Bone
Robert E.lee High School
Baytown
Ronnie Berry
Carolina
Tme
Baytown Weather Outlook and Tidal Schedule
Cooler Tuesday with clear to partly cloudy conditions through Wednesday in the Baytown area. Temperature range Tuesday 30 to 80 degrees, Monday values were 70 to 51. Galveston tides for Wednesday: high at 6:06 a.m. 1:58 p.m. and 3:36 p.m. No low tide noted.
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Baytown
Galveseon
Lamar Tech junior named class favorite
Danny Dubose of Baytown, a Lamar Tech junior, is honored as class favorite. The report lists various staff moves and assignments as trustees and others name replacements and duties. Mentions Sam Alford and board president Seth Mitchell, plus absent Ben Shirey at Liberty HQ and other notes.
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Danny Dubose
Baytown
Lamar Tech
Grover Edge
Bebo Waredell
Jack Walker
Sam Alford
Beavers
Seth Mitchell
Ben Shirey
Liberty
Kathleen Alpha
Pearl Boul Jion
Leonard Stewart
Billie Wilson
Ida Griffith
Frances DuPlantis
Dorothy Badgett
Teddy Allen
Virgil L. Allen
Pearl
Houston Port facilities bonds pass in county election
Harris County Commissioners Court canvassed Saturday's $16 million pond project vote. Official returns show 25,343 ballots cast from about 500,000 eligible, with 13,135 in favor and 12,210 against the bonds.
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Houston
Harris County Commissioners Court
Port of Houston
Car hits phone booth injuring Baytown woman
A Baytown woman inside a phone booth was injured when Odis Leval Hathaway 65 of 1623 WillowBaytown struck the booth with his car at Lee Drive and West Main. Hathaway, charged with driving while intoxicated and negligent collision, remained at Gulf Coast Hospital for observation after treatment for contusions and abrasions.
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Baytown
Velma
Lois Tolar
Sam Houston Courts
Lee Drive
West Main
Odis Leval Hathaway
Willow
Glen Rosier
Tolar
Gulf Coast Hospital
Hathaway
Seabrook Woman Hurt In Crash Near Cedar Bayou Road
Pearly Pierson Jacot lost control of her car on Highway 146 around 12 45 p.m. Monday hitting a utility pole near Cedar Bayou Road, knocking out lights. Patro lman Glen Rosier said she was southbound when the light turned red and the brakes were applied, causing the slide.
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Seabrook
Cedar Bayou Road
Red Bluff Hospital
Pearly Pierson Jacot
Glen Rosier
Driving Through a Tornado Like Storm Near Dayton and Baytown
Preston Pendergrass recounts driving into a fierce storm between Dayton and Baytown with Sun staffers Henry Holcomb and Bob Rothe. They chased a funnel for photos, endured funnel clouds, lightning, and winds that pulled at the car as they pressed on toward Mont Belvieu and Baytown, ultimately finishing soaked with no coffee.
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Preston Pendergrass
Sun
Dayton
Baytown
Liberty
Henry Holcomb
Bob Rothe
Norfthermm
Op 1
Mont Belvieu
Harris Senators Propose Ship Channel Toll Bridge
A bill introduced in Austin would create the Texas Toll Bridge Authority to build a toll bridge across the Houston Ship Channel at the old San Jacinto Ordinance Depot site. The authority would sell revenue bonds repaid from bridge tolls, then the bridge would become free. no taxing power is granted. The measure awaits Senate committee action.
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San Jacinto Ordinance Depot
Penn City Road
Harris County
Pasadena
Texas Highway Department
Giant methanol plant slated at Beaumont
The du Pont Co disclosed plans to build the world’s largest methanol plant in Beaumont. It would nearly double current capacity to about 200 million gallons, with completion expected by mid-1969, according to a du Pont spokesman.
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Beaumont
duPont Co
auPont
Dayton area hit by twister and hard rain damage
Severe weather torn roofs from a lumber yard and a barn, downed trees, and power lines near Dayton and Liberty, about 25 miles north of Baytown, with a funnel cloud observed by residents. No serious injuries reported. lightning struck a residence and a slab foundation was damaged.
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Dayton
Dayton - Liberty
Baytown
O. D. Brown
Friery
Brown
Harris
Roger Benton
Benton Farm
Benton
Hardy Polang
Liberty
C. H. Bar‘ula
Sawmill
EL S. Bartula
Leona's
U.S. 90
Vera Cloud
Wilson cabinet moves to apply for EEC membership
Prime Minister Harold Wilson and his cabinet formally decide to seek British entry to the six nation European Common Market. The move follows a wave of political shifts as debate about Britain’s place in Europe intensifies.
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Harold Wilson
Head Start Enrollment Open In Baytown District
Baytown schools open summer Head Start for first graders at Anson Jones De Zavala and Harlem Elementary centers. About 175 children expected to enroll for eight weeks starting June 12. Pennington says funds awaiting approval but letters have been sent to potential eligible families.
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Johnella Boynton
Baytown
L. E. Pennington
Office of Economic Opportunity
Pennington
Anson Jones
de- Zavala
Harlem
Former Baytonian to receive Purple Heart in Vietnam
A Baytown native and grandson of Mr and Mrs J B Hollaway Sr will be awarded the Purple Heart for shrapnel wounds from a mine explosion in Vietnam. The 20 year old Marine medic, a former Robert E Lee student, joined two years ago and served in Okinawa before Vietnam. He is the son of J B Hollaway Jr of Pasadena and Mrs Lawrence Biggs of Kountze.
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Jay Holaway
Hollaway
Robert ©. Lee
Marines
Okanawa
Vietnam
Phu Bai
J. B. Hollaway Jr
Pasadena
Lawrence Biggs
Kountze
U S Plans Major Pullout of Forces From Germany
The United States and Britain along with West Germany announced a plan to withdraw up to 35 000 American troops and four squadrons of combat aircraft from West Germany with redeployment to the United States. The move aims to save about 3100 million next year while NATO commitments continue.
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Washington
United States
Britain
West Germany
Johnson Administration
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO Defense Planning Committee
State Department
London
Benn
U.S
24Th Infantry
Bavaria
Germany
Defense Planning
NATO
Europe
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Glyn
Taylor
Charles D. Fuller
Corpus Christi
Katherine Palmer
Edger
E. H. Ford
W. Miriam
Thad Felton
Tte
Aince
Dayton Lumber
Peoples Lumber
Bob Harris
Fort Payne
Ala
Alabama
Twister
Dayton Area
Asbern
Our World
North Vietnam
Congress
Chung Hee Park
University of Texas
Jim Walker
Providence
Art
Volun-1
Baytonian
Purple Heart
Eugenia Lee
Lane
Harris County Economic Opportunity Organizations
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