25 May 1977
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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 25, 1977
Page
1
Lee College photography students from Jim Boggsley and Mike Sorg display work in an exhibit at Sterling Municipal Library auditorium through the end of May. The display showcases student photography contributions from the two classes.
Larry Doyle Mattingly son of Meerdand-Mrrsin Donald Mat tingly 7411 Crogby Barbers Hill Road received a bachelor of business administration degree in marketing from Lamar University in Beaumont.
Forecast calls for warm conditions through Thursday with mild highs and low temperatures. Tides on Thursday show highs near 13 feet and lows around 2 feet, with sunrise Wednesday at 4 28 and sunset at 8 14.
Hoyt Page visits and passes out free reads while grabbing coffee. Glenn Vickery searches for a Beaumont business office. Lan Williams enjoys learning about travel agency work. R O Pryor checks in on friends health. Bill Hartman warns Pres ton Pendergrass and James Blick Ellis to visit Beaumont before a move. Andy Andrews helps a customer with car worries. George Chandler receives an amusing clipping. Smoky Wood arranges to sub as chauffeur. City Manager Fritz Lanham stops by for a chat. Jim Fonteno and Jerry Raney discuss steak dinners. Betty Metlilvray anticipates a surprise visit from her bow. Handel Dickey helps a stranded traveler. Janet Hansbury suns a summer tan.
Beach City voted to oppose two resolutions targeting the proposed discharge of treated sewage into ditches and Trinity Bay from a new plant by Aylor Homes and Young Plumbing. Alderman Louis Thibodeaux will present at a TWQB hearing June 17, while an intergovernmental letter recalls a $1,500 land sale commission. Residents pressed the council on the public works issue and a requested $360 donation to youth programs, with funds debated and accounting requested.
Charles A. Barden, executive director of the Texas Air Control Board, submitted his resignation at a Houston meeting held at the Sheraton Hotel. The board, after an executive session, expressed regret and appointed Bill Stewart, Barden’s chief deputy, as executive director. It is believed Barden left to join a worldwide consulting engineering firm.
A garbled Saturday incident near Pearce Street involves a resident Hope Siu and a Louisiana Cajun neighbor. The neighbor offered help amid unclear phrases and a tense exchange. No clear outcome or formal actions are documented in the readable text.
Commencement at Robert E. Lee High School set for Thursday at Stallworth Stadium. 389 of 411 seniors will receive diplomas with morning rehearsal at 10 and ceremonies at 2. If rain moves indoors to the REL Auditorium, tickets are issued to each senior. band, processional, and valedictory by notable students and the school board president.
The Baytown City Council plans to pursue grants and aid for traffic signals at Decker Drive and Fairway, no median cuts on Decker between Garth Road and Goode Creek, Harris County paving on Pelly Evergreen Road, and matching funds for park development at W L Jenkins and J C Holloway Parks. It will authorize STEP program forms, expand bookmobile services, acquire three parks sites with Texas Parks and Wildlife, and seek an Emergency Jobs Program Extension Act grant. Executive session on land acquisition after reports.
Twenty one Crosby High School seniors receive awards at the Daughters of the American Revolution ceremony. Harry Duffy and Melinda May named Beat Citizens of the Year by faculty. Duffy and Paulk honored for character and leadership while Melinda May earns Women’s Club Scholarship. Fourteen students named to Who’s Who list for outstanding deeds in and out of school.
President Carter's nominee George Patrick J. Levey of Wisconsin was confirmed by the Senate as ambassador to Mexico. The confirmation occurred without debate or objections. Andrew Young wraps up a tour of eight nations and signals a shift in U.S. African relations after May speeches, while Khartoum reports mixed regional tensions today.
Ethel Louise McKay, 70, retired Barbers Hill School District teacher and Cove resident, died in a head on collision on Highway 321 southeast of Cleveland. The log truck driver Kenneth Caswell was uninjured. Funeral services are pending. a memorial math scholarship fund in her honor is announced by Barbers Hill Homecoming Association.
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