Baytown Medical History Highlights From Humble Era
A recounting of Baytown area hospital origins from 1919 at Humble refinery through the 1920s and beyond. It covers Baytown Hospital’s evolution from wooden tents to brick facilities, key doctors and administrators, early boards, and the transformation into San Jacinto Memorial Hospital and later Gulf Coast Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Humble
Baytown Hospital
Charles M.aves
Norman Brooks
Culver
Burkhart Hotel
Rice Hotel
Thomson
William E. Marshall
H.O. Sappington
R.W. Pipkins
Theodore
Herbert H. Duke
Lillie-Duke “Hospital
West Pearce
Ashbel Streets
Herbert H. Duke Jr
Lillie
TCU Medical School
Goose Creek
Duke
Ashbel Street
Newton- Lillie Oil Co
Mississippi
Duke Sr
University of Texas At Austin
Ut-Galveston
Robert E. Lee Gander
Jones Street
Lillie-Duke Hospital
Garrett Herring
Herring
Fred Hartman
Baytown Sun
W.T. Jones
Hughes
Humana Hospital
Gulf Coast Hospital
Jones
Gulf Coast
San Jacinto
Insurance Agency of North America
INA
The
Hospital Corp. of America
Rotary, Lions and Kiwanis Club
Baytown
Lowell Lammers
Lammers
Baytown Mutual Benefit Association
Exxon
Lee College Television Workshop
Alan Swenson
Sterling Municipal Library
Consumer price trends show April uptick offset by declines
Consumer costs fell 2.3 percent annual rate for January to April 1986. April costs rose 0.4 percent excluding energy, with food up 0.3 percent and a 0.2 percent rise in grocery food baskets. Fresh fruit costs surged 7.0 percent. lettuce up 26.7 percent, while meats and eggs declined. Beef prices fell 2.9 percent. restaurant meals up 0.4, alcohol 0.2. New car prices down 0.6 after March up 0.2 and February 0.4. Analysts cited weaker dollar boosting import prices as a factor.
City to consider changes in water service policy
City Council debates multiple projects including a $180,000 street improvement plan with one reconstruction and six overlays, a $45,000 concession building at the soccer field, and a $458,950 water line replacement in Eva Maude subdivision funded by the 1981 bond program.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eva Maude
Clothing identified as victim in Juarez canal murder case
In Ciudad Juarez a bathhouse room yielded clothing identified as Rita Guadalupe Lara Melendez, 22, whose strangled body floated in a canal on the Mexican side of the Rio Grande. Pedro Padilla Flores, the room renter, was charged with rape and strangulation of two other women. Raul Antonio Chaparro, linked by Padilla, was released for lack of evidence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ciudad Juarez
Mexico
Rio Grande
Pedro Padilla Flores
Ernesto Reyes
Chihuahua
Padilla
Rita Guadalupe Lara Melendez
Juarez
el Paso
Reyes
Maria Lara
Raul Antonio Chaparro
Reves
Certification hearing set for Baytown murder suspect Fordham
Testimony will begin at 1 p.m. Thursday in the certification hearing of 16 year old Joseph Fordham, held after his Dec 16 detention by Baytown police in the Mary Stiles murder. Attorneys argued over witness access and evidence legality, with Judge Lowry ruling for the prosecution on key points.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louise Shaw
Joseph Fordham
Elizabeth Godwin
Fordham
Baytown
Mary Stiles
Harris County
Ms. Godwin
Frank Panzica
States Question AIDS Funds Favor States With Fewer Cases
Officials from states with many AIDS cases challenge a federal grant plan that distributes funds to states with few cases. Idaho receives 124 885 for an AIDS prevention program, Montana 80 537, South Dakota 62 751, North Dakota 73 244, while New York tops with nearly 750 000. California and Cities of San Francisco and Los Angeles get 922 753 and Florida 360 562. CDC argues 44 million targets states less aggressive in tackling AIDS.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Centers For Disease Control Program
South Dakota
North Dakota
New York
California
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Florida
William Leavy
New York State
Kenneth Kizer
California Department of Health Services Cdc
Don Berreth
Regents to weigh bids for campus roofing and floor refinish
LC regents consider eight site roofing bids from $119,118 to $197,881 and gym floor refinishing bids from $5,180 to $5,541. A one year telephone system maintenance proposal ranges $7,080 to $57,420. The board plans hiring English instructors Marianne Loyd and Gary D. Ervin to fill vacated posts of F. Philip Dignam and Margaret Painter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marianne Loyd
Gary D. Ervin
F. Philip Dignam
Margaret Painter
Claudia Smith
Board of Regents
Also Mentioned on This Page
George Fannett
Coady
Anita Jean Allen
Lynchburg Cedar Bayou
Overseas (San Jacinto) Ltd
Lynchburg
Cedar Bayou
Racoon Drive
Beaumont Street
Ward Road
Wye Drive
Cultural Arts Council
Planning Commission
Baytown Housing Finance Corp
Brownwood
Houston-Harris County Area Agency On Aging
City Hall
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Don Treuhardt
Kesha Castleberry
Robert E. Lee High School
Chuck Brandon
Sherry Wallace
RES
Adam Roy
Ross S. Sterling High School
Bryan Borah
RSS
Diedra Jones
Hardy White
Chamber
Sun
Angie Bracey
Panzica
Ron Moser
P.J. Kuehn
Robert Lowry
Ted Poe
228Th District Court
Lowry
District Attorney's Office
LC Regents
Paget
Robert E. Lee
Alamo Tournament of Bands
San Antonio
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