Baytown PTA and Community Groups Meet This Week
Bowie PTA hears Ken Persenaire discuss Bowie Park facilities and summer programs at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday. PTA awards two scholarships and installs officers. nursery provided. Humble Annuitants meet Wednesday at Civic Center. J Vanderheider continues wills and estates talk. Gamma Chi sorority meets Monday night. Masonic Lodge graveside service for S. P. Wright Tuesday. Girl Scout day camp sessions start June 30 and July 28 with bus service. Ophelia Jones and Dan Stallworth honored at reception Tuesday at Robert E Lee Commons. Jones 46 years in district, Stallworth 40. Crosby School Board holds meetings Tuesday and Wednesday about a $2.2 million bond issue before Saturday’s election. absentee voting ends Tuesday. Baytown Art League meets Monday evening. ceramics program by Fern Guest.
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Bowie Pta
Ken Persenaire
Baytown
Bowie Park
James Bowie
Ophelia Jones
Dan Stallworth
Robert E. Lee Commons
Jones
Stallworth
Crosby
Crosby School Board
Crosby Auditorium
Drew Cafeteria
Baytown Social News Roundup Includes Visits and Travels
IN TWN IN TWN ME and Mrs Royc e Wright enjoy Florida coast vacation. Mrs Norman Fidler of Burlington NC returns to Baytown with daughter Dr H C Messerschmidt who traveled to Burlington for illness. Ceci Hollis of Kirbyville spends Mothers Day with Calma and Morais families. Mary Thorpe checks invitations. Grant and Esther Horton plan a holiday including a Grand Bahamas convention. Mrs J H McChintock proud of children. Mrs Byard Sooy returns from A&M Mothers Club meeting.
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Royce
E. Wright
Florida
Phamas
Mike Jordan
Norman Fidler
Burlington
N.C
Baytown
H. C. Messerschmidt
Roy Calma
Ross Morais
Mary Thorpe
Grant
Esther Horton
Grand Bahamas
J. H. McChintock
Byard Sooy
A&m Mothers Club
College Station
Apollo 10 Crew reports minor irritants en route to Moon
Apollo 10 moved toward its moon destination with two complaints from the crew including noisy thrusters during ascent and water chlorine causing mouth burning. Stafford Cernan Young said they slept well and felt fine after about 10 hours. Ground controllers admitted an error in rechlorination procedure led to high purifier concentration in the water tank.
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Air Force
Thomas P. Stafford
Navy
Eugene Cernan
Stafford
Cernan
Juha A. Young
Eorth
Lem
Astro
Apollo
Wives of Spacemen Proud as Apollo 10 Lifts Off
AP reports on astronaut wives awaiting their husbands return from Apollo 10. Barbara Young Barbara Cer nan and Faye Stafford express pride and anxiety as Cal Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan fly. Wives listen to space chatter via loudspeakers while awaiting word on their husbands.
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Eugene Cernan
Snoopy
Charlie Schultz
Navy
Eugene A. Cernan
Cernan
Thomas P. Young
Thomas Stafford
Cindi
Baytown Secretary Wins High Honors in NSA Texas Louisiana
Mrs. Cave Kominek won the Secretary of the Year honor at the NSA Texas Louisiana Division luncheon held at the Sheraton Lincoln Hotel in Houston. Finalists were judged on poise, appearance, and ability to answer three questions, with selection based on background scores by the Southwest District NSA committee.
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Linda Farrell
Cave Kominek
National Secretaries Association
Sheraton Lincoln Hotel
Houston
Kominek
San Jacinto
National Secretaries Association (International
Beatrice Follis
Fulbright, Crocker, Freeman, Bates and Jaworski
Fred J. Wallace
John L. Wertham and Son
H. M. Landrum
Spring Branch Independent
Kominck
Texas
Louisiana
Southwest District Committee
NSA
Draft Near Completion of Tax Bills in Texas
Austin AP reports lawmakers nearly finished a budget after hours of work by the House Senate conference. They struck out controversial riders including a plan to phase out Texas Southern University Law School and set minimum 12 hour faculty loads. TSU rider shelved after talks with TSU and state board.
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Texas Southern University Law School
State College and University
TSU
Multscher
Heatly
Mutscher
Barnes
School Tax Hike Seen By Board
The school board meets Monday night at 7 30 p m in the Administration Building to adopt a higher tax assessment ratio. The proposed ratio of 48 percent would finance salary increases of 11 to over 16 percent and new programs like public school kindergartens, likely pushing district taxes up 20 percent or more. The board also plans to accept resignations and hire new teachers for the 1969 70 school year.
Promise Of Easter Amid War Clamor
A letter from Sp. 4 Robert Pryor in Vietnam describes Easter services held under gunships and artillery. He recalls a profound sense of peace through Christ as the church choir’s singing seemed to drown out helicopters, marking an unforgettable, symbolic victory over destruction.
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Monroe Pryce
H23
Burbank
Robert Pryor
Vietnam
Christ
Mom
Voting Precincts In Zoning Election
Precincts listed with polling sites and judges for zoning election. Precinct 12 Alamo Elementary Bill G. Rogers. Precinct 13 Burnet Elementary Irving St. John. Precinct 99 Courtesy Ford Jack G. Hester. Precinct 100 Ashbel Smith Elementary W. O. Tidman. Precinct 101 Horace Mann Junior School Mrs. G. E. Dabney. Precinct 102 Baytown Junior School Andrey Contreras. Precinct 103 Stephen F. Austin Elementary Mrs. Chiude Tompkins. Precinct 149 San Jacinto Elementary Mrs. Ted Klaecel. Precinct 165 Travis Elementary J. F. McChesney. Precinct 248 Carver Jones Elementary Woodrow Lewis. Precinct 249 Bowie Elementary Wayne McClurg.
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Alamo
Bill G. Rogers
Burnet
Irving St. John
Courtesy Ford
Jack G. Hester
Ashbel Smith
W. O. Tidman
Horace Mann
G. E. Dabney
Baytown
Andrey Contreras
Stephen F
Henderson Named To Mayor's Staff In Baytown
John P. Henderson, a department head at Humble's Baytown Refinery, is named special assistant to Mayor Glen Walker. The new post, effective June 1, coordinates programs for disadvantaged groups and consolidates city efforts. Henderson, a Baytown resident since 1939, holds a UT education degree and has led multiple community roles and service on local boards.
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John P. Henderson
Humble
Baytown
Glen Walker
Walker
Henderson
John Henderson
Frank Turpin
Houston
Humane Officer Position Open at Baytown Police
Baytown Police seek a new humane officer in a four hour weekly, non civil service post. Applicants must be 22 or older and hold a commercial operator's license. Forms available from Chief Blair Mann to fill the vacancy created by Billy Crosbee's resignation effective Wednesday.
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Baytown
Blair Mann
Chief of Police
Billy Crosbee
Mann
Ornshee
Humane Department
Baytown Weather Forecast and Morgan's Point Tides
The Baytown area shows clear to partly cloudy, mild through Tuesday. Monday temperatures range from the upper 60s to the mid 30s, with Morgan's Point tides predicting a high at 6 37 and a low at 6 19 am.
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Baytown Area
Morgan's Point
Wolfson cites Fortas on indictments and legalities
Former Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas allegedly advised Louis E. Wolfson in prison that Wolfson’s indictment for stock manipulation rested on legal technicalities. The Life magazine piece links this to broader U S and international events at the time.
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Life Magazine
Louis E. Wolfson
FHI
Supreme Court
Abe Fortas
Baytown zoning election votes set for Tuesday turnout expected
A record number of Baytown residents about 14 000 in precincts are eligible to vote in Tuesday s zoning election with polls opening at 7 a m and closing at 7 p m Absentee ballots total 37 were cast Results expected between 8 30 and 9 p m The vote on a proposed zoning ordinance by the City Planning and Zoning Commission follows more than two years of study and is open to non owners with valid registration The contest pits Citizens Committee Against Zoning against Citizens Committee for Community Development A series of public hearings and extensive campaign activity preceded the vote The council referred the issue to voters shortly before the April city elections See ELECTION Page 2
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Baytown
Baytown Sun
City Planning and Zoning Commission
Citizens Committee Against Zoning
Citizens Committee For Community Development
Planning and Zoning Commission
Army Eyes Reserves In Study
The Army staff studies a plan to tie about 650000 National Guardsmen and Reservists more closely to emergency war plans. It would likely end the 137000-strong Selected Reserve Force and aims for overseas deployment four weeks after mobilization. Past mobilizations showed delays. one unit reached Vietnam 15 weeks after callup. The proposal gains weight as Nixon considers a possible million-man cut in regular forces after Vietnam.
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Washington
Army
Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Vietnam
Also Mentioned on This Page
Humble Annuitants
Humble Annuitants Association
Civic Center
J. Vanderheider
Masonic Meeting
Cedar Bayou
Masonic Lodge No. 321
Masonic ‘Temple
S. P. Wright
Art League
ART League of
Fern Guest
Mont Belvieu
Baytown State Bank Bay Pisas Center
Lunair
John
Mrs
Caye Kominek
State College Coordinating Board
Peoples State Bank
Humble Employer Credit Union
Charlotte Curtis
Trinity Episcopal Church
John Pr. Henderson
Manned Spacecraft Center
Clear Lake
Texas Welfare System
London
Soviet Union
William P. Rogers
Bangkok
Saigon
United States
Melvin R. Laird
Nixon
Administration
Katrina Brandon
James Walmsley
Service League
Citizens National
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