Decision Due Today On State's Spending Bill
Legislative leaders weigh a one-year tax relief spending bill that could clash with Gov. Preston Smith. House Speaker Gus Mutscher and Lt. Gov. Ben Barnes seek to raise teacher pay with no new taxes, while Smith questions the constitutionality of any plan shorter than a two-year appropriation. A House Tax Committee meeting was planned to decide on the two-year route if chosen.
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Austin
Preston Smith
Gus Mutscher
Ben Barnes
House
Mutscher
House Tax Committee
Barnes
Smith
Speaker Mutscher Urges One Year Spending Bill
Bulletin reports Speaker Gus Mutscher told the tax writing committee shortly before noon Thursday to draft a one year spending bill. If the House passes it, Governor Preston Smith would likely veto the measure.
College planning committee meets at Moody Center
The LC Planning Committee will meet at 7 30 p m Thursday at Moody Center with guest speaker James Summers, director of Community Services at McLennan Community College in Waco. The Service League meets Friday at 33 a.m. at Goose Creek Country Club. a scholarship winner will be announced. Delta Alpha Sigma and the Lee College Orchestra present Guys and Dolls at 7 30 p m Friday in LC auditorium. tickets are only for students and 2 for adults at the door. Veterans meet at Baytown Barracks 3481 at 2 p.m. Tuesday. refreshments served.
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LIE
Moody Center
James Summers
McLennan Coimmmunity College
Waco
Service League
Goose Creek Country Club
Delta Alpha Sigma
Lee College Orchestra
Guys and Dolls
Baytown Barracks
Auxiliary
Weather Outlook and Tides for Friday
Cloudy to partly cloudy and mild through Friday with a 40 percent chance of rain Thursday, 20 percent Thursday night. Temperatures range from the low 70s to the low 80s. Morgan's Paint tides show high at 11 49 p m and low at 10 43 a m.
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Morgan
Baytown Notes and Local Happenings in Brief
Fr an k Turner notes Corpus Christi golf results while Mollie Nolladay laments ongoing weekend rain. Odessa Chuck Wagon gang travels to Baytown for Humble Day barbecue at the old Community Building near the refinery. Andrea Walker acts as patient waiter. J P Burleson and Harry Truman share a birthday on Thursday. Mr and Mrs Carl Langston, Carla, Mr and Mrs Dean Rawlinson and Kimberly visit Hodges Gardens in Louisiana Ty KR. Kempley reports feeling fine. Lavern Fuller serves as reporter. Elder Statesman Frank Boyle of La Porte is notably absent from the Baytown scene.
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Frank Turner
Corpus Christi
Mollie Nolladay
Gordon
Europe
Odessa
Baytown
Andrea Walker
J. P. Burleson
Harry Truman
Carl Langston
Carla
Dean Rawlinson
Kimberly
Hodges Gardens
Louisiana
T Kemp
Kemplay
Lavern Fuller
Elder Statesman
Frank 8
Boyle al la Porte
Former President HST Marks 85th Birthday
Former President Harry S Truman turns 85 amid frail health and limited mobility. The aging ex-leader, once head of the world’s mightiest nation, now spends his days in a white frame house with short walks and visits from old friends.
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HST
Washington
Harry 8.Truman
Highlights of Truman's Life on His 80th Birthday
The article sketches Harry S. Truman at 80 living in Independence Missouri after leaving Washington 16 years prior. Once a global figure, he now avoids interviews and speeches, preferring intimate friends and books. He and Bess Truman dwell at Truman Road and Delaware, his energy conserved and focused on knowledge amid private health changes.
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Pendence
Washington
Bess
Truman Road
Delaware
Truman
Kansas City
New York
Harris County bill seeks election of hospital board members
Rep. Joe Allen of Baytown indicated no firm stance on Rep. Lauro Cruz bill to elect Harris County Hospital District board members. The measure would create five district seats with five at large, divide the district, and faces opposition from County Commissioner W. V. Ramsey who cautioned about tax rate impacts. The bill was placed on the House local calendar for next Thursday amid reports of committee favorability, with Allen saying he lacked time to study the measure.
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Cruz
Ramnsey
Commissioners Court
Ttwo
Allen
House Committee On
End of the beginning Nixon cites war crime, inflation fight
President Nixon tells Republicans his administration is at the end of the beginning as war crimes and inflation loom. Viet Cong launch new terror push on Saigon. Army plan to drop 27 000 tons of chemical gas bombs into the Atlantic faces GOP opposition. Safeguard missile sites in two states opposed by Democratic governors. Colorado Senate enacts antitrespass law after rostrum seizure. Psychiatrists report promising heroin addiction drugs. Alan B Shepard Jr regains astronaut flight status after an ear infection. Meir says villages on the new danger border with Lebanon will be fortified.
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Washington
Nixon
Army
Atlantic Ocean
Congress
Safeguard
Baytown considers pay hike for police and firemen
Baytown policemen and firemen were to vote on a proposed pay raise via a 4 p.m. meeting Thursday after the city council approved a plan raising starting officers by 25 dollars a month and other grades with staged increases. The plan, opposed by Kloesel and Evans, would also study broader city raises and form a wage committee led by Mayor Glen Walker.
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Albert Fanestiel
Seaborn Crayey
Fanestiel
Cravey
Baytown
Glen Walker
Andy Braswell
Bill Hartman
Ted Kloesel
David Evans
Don Hullum
Allen Cannon
Kloesel
Evans
Houston
Pasadena
Texas City
Jacinto City
Deer Park
la Porte
Delly Voelkel
Hullum
Leonard Stasney
Bil Thamton
Mack Holland
Council Names Committee To Study Levee Building
The Baytown city council appointed a nine member study group to assess a leased temporary levee across the Brownwood peninsula. Members include Thad Fennema Bill Frazier Bill Floyd Charles Umholtz Roper Wylie Mike Larson A H Schoyen Bill Harp and councilman Evans.
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Tax Equalization Board
Charles L. Umholtz
Ronald D. Baddox
Truman Cox
Haddox
Cox
Umholtz
Brownwood Peninsula
Thad Fennema
Bill Frazier
Bill Floyd
Roper Wylie
Mike Larson
A. H. Schoyen
Bill Harp
Countcilman Evans
T. L
Doc) Satterwhite
J. Bryan Stratton
Baytown
Civic Orchestra Sets Second Concert Tonight
Baytown Civic Orchestra presents its second season concert at 8 p m in Ross Sterling High School auditorium. Janet Hall will be principal flutist with Bea Stanley on strings. David Corder conducts a program featuring Stradella Overture Bizet Armas Jarnefelt and Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Op 34. New players have joined since February and five more performances are planned next year.
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Baytown Civic Orchestra
Ross Sterling High School
Stradella Qverture
Friedrich #. von Florous
L'Arlesesiene Hnd
George Bizet
N. W. Rimsky-Korsakov
Janet Hall
Berceuse
Bea Stanley
Lee College Division of Fine Arts
David Corder
Charles Stephenson
Division of Fine Arts
I T
Corder
Sam Houston State College
Huntsville
Roy Beth Blackburn
Texas
Anl
Penny Peavy
Galveston
Rae Solomon
Clear Creek
Brian Seeger
Baytown
Blaine Hunter
Deer Park
Baytown Officer Receives Distinguished Flying Cross
Warrant Officer Richard H. Harbers son of Emory H. Harbers of 1104 Fleetwood Baytown has earned the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism in Vietnam on October 31 1968 while piloting a gunship. After his aircraft commander was shot Harbers stabilized the craft and returned fire then flew to medical aid and landed the ship amid obstacles. He has logged about 26 air medals during nearly ten months in Vietnam and is stationed at Camp Holloway Pleiku. He is 21 and scheduled to return to the United States July 11.
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Emory H. Harbers
1104
Fleetwood
Republic of Vietnam
Harbers
Robert E. Lee High School
Department of the Army
United States Army
Camp Halloway
Pleiku
South Vietnam
U.S
Tower Backs Levee Study In Baytown
Sen John G Tower writes Baytown Civil Defense Director J F Nickerson pledging support to fund a study of flood problems on Burnet Crystal and Scotts Bays He will seek to add 40000 to the congressional appropriation for Corps of Engineers civil works in the current year The Corps reportedly can start the study with the 40000 in fiscal 1970 and no funds are in the administration budget yet.
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John G. Tower
Baytown
Baytown Student Wins Stauffer Merit Scholarship
Frederick L. Jones of Baytown, student at St Stephens School in Austin, has won a Stauffer Chemical Co. Merit Scholarship. He is one of 3,000 national recipients and the renewal is for up to four years. Jones is the son of W. M. Jones Jr. and attended St Stephens as editor, vice president of student body, and math science award winner. He plans to attend Reed College in Portland Oregon.
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Frederick L. Jones
Baytown
St. Stephen's School
Austin
Stauffer Chemical Co
United States
National Merit Scholarship Corporation
Jones
W. M. Jones Jr
Azalea
Stauffer
St. Stephens
Rensselaer Polytechnic’ Institute
Viet Cong advances 10 Point peace plan at talks
The Viet Cong presented a 10 point peace plan to the Vietnam peace talks via Than Buu Kiem. It calls for a coalition government and leaves the fate of Vietnamese armed forces to the Vietnamese people, blending prior North Vietnamese and NL F elements.
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Paris
Viet Cong
Vietnam
Than Buu Kiem
National Liberation Front
Baytown Sees Rise in Inquiries From Prospective Residents
Baytown Chamber of Commerce reports at least 84 out-of-state inquiries since January from 28 states and Canada, suggesting growth in people seeking Baytown homes. The chamber has also shared information with inquirers from other parts of Texas.
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Baytown
Home Sweet Home
Brooks Vo Tech report released after 18 month study
The Senate Committee on Vocational Technical Education released its report and recommendations to the 66th Legislature after a year and a half of interim study. Led by Sen. Chet Brooks, the panel proposed sweeping changes to organization funding and administration of Texas technical vocational training programs, building on SB 261 signed by Gov. Preston Smith and SB 608.
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Murray Watson
Waco
Joe Bernal
San Antonio
David Ratliff
Stamford
Bruce Reagan
Corpus Christi
Bob Heath
M. T. Waddell Jr
Baytown
Len Brooks
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