Baytown and Goose Creek Community Notices and Theatre Tryouts
Rebekah Lodge plans a 7 30 p m meeting at 94 Leavins home. Baytown Museum board to meet 7 p m Tuesday at Community Building. Baytown Little Theater Gypsy continues 7 30 p m Monday at Community Building. male roles sought. Clarence M Thorpe Sr of Emporia Va dies in Virginia. father of C M Thorpe Jr. Dean's List Kay Walker, daughter of N W and Mrs Walker, earns 4 0 gpa at Sam Houston State Univ spring term. Dr Herbert H Duke Sr ill, returns to office at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital three mornings weekly.
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Goose Creek Rebekah Lodge
Noble Grand Club
Lewisl Rudd
Leavins
Baytown
Little Theater
Terry Dopson
Clarence M. Thorpe Sr
Emporia
Virginia
C. M. Thorpe Jr
Ivie Lee
Kay Walker
N. W. Walker
Hawthorne
Sam Houston State University
Herbert H. Duke Sr
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Community notes from Baytown area events
Mary Williams helps a caller as Kyte Hensley celebrates his seventh birthday. John Holland at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital for tests. Helen McMillin receives overseas call from daughter Marky returning home ahead of schedule. Sally Staton sorts keepsakes for move to New Jersey. Terry Dopson hires a piano player. Wayne Gray excited over park land grant. Fire Chief Jim Bland Jr. attends Baytown Chamber luncheon. Pud Wheaton and mother present. Mary Bayliss provides Cedar Bayou background. The Sewell family back from Okinawa. Jim Froneberger trio to return in July from Buenos Aires.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Williams
Kyte Hensley
Sherwood Hensley
Margie Kloesel
Sun
John Holland
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
John
Helen McMillin
Marky
Europe
Sally Staton
New Jersey
Terry Dopson
Wayne Gray
Jim Bland Jr
Baytown
Clean-Up Move Planned For Baytown Beautification
Baytown faces a messy image as visitors and newcomers view the city unfavorably. Larry Hale of the beautification committee urges a long-range, all-community cleanup and a sense of pride, with support from businesses, industries, and city agencies to fund more manpower and equipment.
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Hale
Baytown
Sterling Municipal
Parks and Recreation Department
Terry Dopson
the Realtors
Better America
Chamber
Baytown Sun pressman dies in drowning near Matagorda
Billy Randles 22 of 3418 McKinney Road Baytown Sun press room employee drowned Sunday afternoon while swimming at Matagorda Beach about 25 miles south of Bay City. Thomas Wilder of Bay City pulled him from the water and revived efforts failed. He died at Matagorda General Hospital. Accidental drowning verdict. Funeral at 2 p.m. Wednesday at First United Pentecostal Church Bay City. Survived by wife Neta Carol Randles two daughters Beverly Lonnette and Angelia Deann brother Jimmy Eugene Randles father Jim Randles mother Nellie Delma Randies.
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Billy Randles
McKinney Road
Baytown Sun
Ming
Matagorda Beach
Bay City
Matagorda
Thomas Wilder
Randles
Wilder
Matagorda General Hospital
Matagorda County
D. B. Hinton
Lake Village
Ark
First United Pentecostal Church
Cedar Vale
Neta Carol Randles
Beverly Lonnette
Angelia Deann
Jimmy Eugene Randles
Jim Randles
Baytown
Nellie Delma Randies
Brazoria County
Baytonian Killed In Car Crash
Jose Herrera 31 of 3612 West Road died in a 2:30 a.m. Sunday crash on Old Market Street Road when his car crossed into the westbound lane and hit a guard rail at the old Market Street Bridge over the San Jacinto River. He was pronounced dead at Tidelands Hospital. services 3 p.m. Tuesday at Mount Carmel Catholic Church in Wharton. He is survived by his wife Chana and a son Jose A. Herrera of Wharton.
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Jose Herrera
West Road
Old Market Street Road
San Jacinto River
Harris County Sheriff's Department
Herrera
Old Market Street
Tidelands Hospital
Tidelands Hospital Where He Was Taken By the Cloverleaf Ambulance Service
Mount Carmel Catholic Church
Wharton
Brown and Root
Baytown
Chana Herrera
Jose A. Herrera
Baytown Area Weather and Tides Outlook
Cloudy with a chance of showers through Monday night in the Baytown area forecast. Temperatures range from the low 70s to mid 80s. Morgan's Point tides show a high of 6:01 p.m. and a low at 4:19 a.m. Tuesday. Tuesday sunrise is 6:24 a.m. and sunset 8:13 p.m.
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Baytown Area
Morgan's Point
Woodson Sr. dies at 72 after heart attack in Del Rio
Charles C. Woodson Sr., 72, publisher of Our World, died at his son's home in Del Rio of an apparent heart attack. He had attended LBJ Library dedication in Austin the day before, where he and former president Lyndon B. Johnson were longtime friends.
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del Rio
Tex
Charles C. Woodson Sr
Woodson
LBJ
Austin
Jordan eyes Baytown, Houston district in new Texas map
Texas Senate fights over a new congressional district with Houston at the core and Baytown potentially placed in a neighboring seat. Sen Barbara Jordan leads, seeking a Houston-centered district while backing a version that keeps Baytown with Rep. Eckhardt’s area, aided by Lt. Gov. Barnes.
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Texas
Houston
Baytown
Barbara Jordan
Galveston
A. R
Babe) Schwartz
U.S. Congress
Jordan
Ben Barnes
Congress
Texas Senate
San Austin
House
U.S
Bob Eckhardt
Eckhardt
Sen
Trustees To Discuss Administrative Posts
The Baytown school board will hold a closed session Monday at 7 p.m. to consider recommendations for two new administrators, an assistant principal for Sterling High School and a mathematics coordinator for the district. The agenda includes bids, resignations, board attorney plans, and reports on enrollment, state cosmetology exams, summer schedules, swimming, athletics, and curriculum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnella Boynton
Sterling High School
Johnny Clark
School Board
Sterling
Gilbert Lumpkin
Baytown
Bob Bradford
Highlands Elementary
Humble Oil
Stewart and Park
Rundell Plaque Winner Eyes Medical Career
Manuel Aguirre, the top Lee College graduate and Walter Rundell Plaque recipient, escaped Cuba at 17 and now plans a medical career. A Army veteran and medical technician in Vietnam, he works for Baytown Ambulance Service and er attended Tidelands Hospital ER between college terms. He aims for Lamar Tech and UT Medical School Houston, hoping to become an orthopedic or cardiovascular surgeon. He and wife Paula, a nurse, live with their twins in Baytown.
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Rundell
Eyes Medical
Cuba
Baytown
Lee College
Manuel Aguirre
Walter Rundell
United States
Manuel
Kennedy
Vietnam
G. G. Fraga
The
Mutual Benefit Association
Baytown Ambulance Service
Tidelands Hospital
Lamar Tech
Beaumont
University of Texas Medical School
UT Medical School
Houston
Paula
N. Bend
Derry
Connie
U.S
Explosion Devastates Cam Ranh Bay Aviation Fuel Store
SAIGON AP An explosion likely set by Viet Cong sappers caused a fire at Cam Ranh Bay burning 13 percent of American aviation fuel, enough to keep 850 helicopters flying for 24 hours. Six hours later mortars hit the Army support base 190 miles northeast of Saigon with no casualties.
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Saigon
Cam Ranh Bay
U.S. Command
Army Support Command
Richard Gardner
Charles Johnson
U.S
South Vietnam
Wrthern
Charlie 1
Dmz
Baytown Park Grants Await HUD Final Word
Baytown officials, led by City Parks Director Terry Dopson, await HUD action on park site grants after applying for 126 505 in acquisition funds and 119 000 from the Bureau of Outdoor Recreation. Sen Tower’s telegram announced first HUD approval and BOA preliminary OK.
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Terry Dopson
Sen. Tower
Dopson
Dallas
HUD
City Parks and Recreation Department
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
Sen, Tower
Texas Parks and Wildlife Department
BOA
John Tower
The
Sun
Baytown
Park
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Rebekahs
Baytown Museum Advisory Board
Dr. Duke
Baytown State “Bank
Wanda Orton
Kmart Plaza
Baytonian
Citizens National Bank
Our World
May Cathy McDonald
Old Lyme, Conn
Thomas D. Dodd
D-Conn
Senate
FT. Bragg
N.C
Istanbul
Israel
Ephraim Elrom
VFW
Rhonda Sherman
Glen Walker
Buddy
Lucille Serbe
Poppy Day
Elaine Johnston
Congressional
Harris County
Lee
HONOR
Baytown Due Park Fund
Peoples State Bank
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