Ground breaking for Channelview YMCA facility
Sun Correspondent Muril Hart reports Channelview begins YMCA project on 28 acre Bear Bayou site donated by Clare Miller. Ceremony included Metropolitan YMCA leaders, county officials, and Channelview Y board. Initial phase features a 70 by 75 pool with diving boards and lanes. future plans include multiple sports facilities and FFA livestock arena. Membership drive launched with family $35 and single $15 rates.
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Muril Hart
YMCA
Clare Miller
Tulsa
Okla
Future Farmers of America
Channelview
Girl Scouts
Channelview Bank
Metropolitan Ymca Board
FFA
Hershal Workman
Durward Crowder
Albert Redler
R. I
Barret
Harold Bettes
Troy Cooper
Alfred Hanson
Moon Eye Instrument Checks Apollo 10 Descent Engine
An RCA engineer uses a magni fier to inspect the Descent Engine Central Assembly similar to the throttleable Apollo 10 Lunar Module descent engine as the spacecraft orbits the Moon. The unit check is conducted by a trained RCA engineer.
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Moon
RCA
Leap Year Rule Indicates 1900 Not a Leap Year
The rule states that years divisible by four are leap years except those divisible by one hundred unless also divisible by four hundred. Thus 1900 was not a leap year, while 2000 will be a leap year.
U S Cotton Crop Reaches 10.9 Million Bales in 1968
The Agriculture Department final estimate puts last year’s cotton crop at 10,948,000 bales of 500 pounds valued at $2.083 billion, up 47 percent from 1967. Harvested acreage was 10,160,000 with an average lint price of 221 cents per pound and seed price 90.50 per ton. States report varied yields and production led by Texas and Mississippi with notable acreage and yield figures.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
North Carolina
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Alabama
Missouri
Mississippi
Arkansas
Louisiana
Oklahoma
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
California
Mussolini Widow to Draw Monthly Pension in Italy
Rome reports Rachele Mussolini widow of Benito Mussolini will receive a state pension of 200 a month for his years as prime minister. The top administrative tribunal ruled she is eligible after a year of debate and will pay arrears totaling about 23000 dating from 1961. Records show Mussolini received no salary for 18 years. The pension is set at the same rate as the highest paid state employee.
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Rome
Rachele Mussolini
Benito Mussolini
Mussolini
Italy
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Allen Hall
Channelview Ymca
Carl Cooper
Metropolitan Ymca
Fred Saunders
Ronald Patterson
John Holland
Metropolitan “Y
Jimmy Holder
Channelview ‘Y
Baytown Sun
SUN
U.S
and Loan Association
Ertts
Jones
Kresge
United States
Canada
Puerto Rico
Carload Sale
Wan Dan
N. Pruett
Baytown
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