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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 11, 1968
Page
2
Noon Optimist Club urges salute to youth this week
Tommie Jones president of Haytown Noon Optimist Club urges citizens to observe Optimist International Youth Appreciation Week from November. He says youths deserve recognition and notes a fatal and a serious injury from a highway crash three miles east of States Highway 14 on Interstate 10 in Chambers County. Billy J Outehshaw, 37, of Houston, died on arrival. passenger J W Porter, 27, suffered head injuries and was moved to a Houston hospital, listed as satisfactory after transfer from ICU.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommie Jones
Haytown
Optimist Club
Optimist International
Optimist
Jones
Hissner
Tomor
Highway 14
Interstate 10
Chambers County
Billy J. Outehshaw
Aldine Mail Road
Houston
Gulf Coast Hospital
Baytown
J. W. Porter
Houston Methodist Hospital
Porter
Rites Held For Drowning Victim Richard D Reeves
Funeral services for Richard D Reeves aged 2 were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Farmer Funeral Home chapel in Silsbee with burial at Rest Haven Cemetery. Reeves lived in Baytown at Shady Oaks Trailer Court on Highway 14 and drowned after reportedly falling from a Columbia Oil drilling rig moved by two tug boats south of Cedar Point. He is survived by his wife Sylvia and two daughters April Audrey and Lisa, his parents Mr and Mrs Richard Reeves of Silsbee, three brothers David Douglas and Dennis Reeves of Silsbee, and three sisters Joyce Mason of Silsbee Barbara Ann Young and Betty Lou Young of DeRidder La.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard D. Reeves
Trinity Bay
Farmer Funeral Home
Silshee
Rest
Lhaven
Reeves
Baytown
Shady Oaks
Highway 14
Columbia
Cedar Point
Sylvia Reeves
April Audrey
Lisa Reeves
Richard Reeves
Sillsbee
David Reeves
Douglas Reeves
Denniie Reeves
Silsbee
Joyce Mason
Barbara Ann Young
Betty Lou Young
DeRidder
Rush E. Beshears
Ruth Evelyn Beshears
Wiliam G. Beshears Sr
O. W. Kennedy
William G. Beshears Jr
Lakeland
Fla
Wayne W. Beshears
Pasadena
Robert Wilson
Ft. Worth
Paralee Ice
St. Jo
Haze Johns
Cecil Johns
Earthman Funeral
Ed Thiele
Memory Gardens
Bullard
J. F. Phillips
Tyler
Ernest Phillips
San Fernando
Calif
Annie Stanley
Pa Feros
Wash
Earthman Funeral Chapel
Milton Ford
Phelps Cemetery
Saratoga
Sacred Heart Altar Society Garage Sale in Crosby
Sacred Heart Altar Society of Crosby hosts a three day garage sale at Mrs. Frank Mazac’s Maple and Nelson Rd Corner Crosby from 9:30 am to 4 pm. Also notes US Navy airman James T. Strawn Jr aboard USS Yorktown and local service updates. A car stolen near San Jacinto Methodist Hospital is described as a blue 1960 Chevrolet with license NET 63. A puppy found at A and P Food Store is brown and black with a pink flea collar. owners call 424-1003.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sacred Heart Altar Society of
Crosby
Frank Mazac
Maple and
Nelson Rd
Yorktown
James T. Strawn Jr
USN
James. Strawn Sr
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Gloria Jean Edman
A&p
Laura Mims
Foreman May Seek Continuance For Ray Case
Tennessee lawyer to be retained by Ray was unnamed. Foreman planned to ask Battle for a continuance Tuesday morning. Hanes, Ray’s attorney since June, said he learned of developments at 8:20 p.m. Foreman left Ruby’s defense after four days and sent a defiant letter. The case traces back to Oswald’s assassination and prior Florida trials.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee
Morris
Foreman
Battle
Ray
Hanes
Ruby
Dallas
Lee Harvey Oswald
Warren Commission
John F. Kennedy
Messler
Melvin Powers
Florida
London
World War I overview from entry to Armistice era
A concise World War I retrospective recounts U S entry after unrestricted submarine warfare, Zimmerman telegram, and Wilson declaration. It notes battles at Cantigny, Chateau Thierry, Belleau Wood, the Marne, Argonne, and Pershing’s 26 mile front. war costs and casualties. and mentions Adolf Hitler as a German POW guard and the June 16 1919 armistice carriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Arthur Zimmerman
Mexico
Texas
Arizona
New Mexico
Germany
Japan
United States
Woodrow Wilson
Lorraine
Nancy
Cantigny
Chateau Thierry
Belleau
Wood
Marne
Argonne
John J. Pershing
Moselle
America
Adolf Hitler
Hitler
Deweyville Man Killed In 1 10 Crash Near Baytown
A Deweyville man Richard Weatherford aged 59 died in an Interstate 16 crash about 1 000 feet west of the Chambers County line in Harris County. He drove east when his car left the road, rolled down an embankment and landed upside down. No other vehicles were nearby and cause of the accident is unknown.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deweyville
Baytown
Chambers County
Harris County
Richard Weatherford
K. D. Woolsey
Weatherford
the Sun
Baytonian’s Nephew Dies Of Heart Attack
Ralph Stanley, 59, a Humble businessman, died Sunday of a heart attack. He was the nephew of Maggie Smith of Baytown. Rosary recited at 7 p.m. Monday at the Catholic Church in Humble. Funeral services set for 10 a.m. Tuesday at Humble Funeral Home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ralph Stanley
Magzie Smith
Baytown
Bonday
Humble
Humble Funeral Home
Highlandian nurse Mia Jones remembered for service and leadership
Mrs. Jones, a licensed vocational nurse at Reckglen Hospital, active in the Wagon Wheel Square Dance Club of Baytown, and a 1967 San Jacinto vocational nursing graduate, was born in Groveton and grew up in Highlands. She attended Mia Jones Elementary and Robert E. Lee High School and led Highlands Home Demonstration Club as past president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cline
J. BR. Neatherlin
Charlies Davis
Jones
Reckglen Hospital
Wagon Wheel Square Dance Club
Baytown
San Jacinto
Groveton
Highlands
Mia Jones
Robert E. Lee
Home Demonstration Club
Stock Markets Closed For Veterans Day Observance
Markets across exchanges were closed Monday in observance of Veterans Day. Trading desks paused as officials noted a holiday effect on volume and activity. Investment analysts briefed clients on holiday schedules and potential impacts when markets reopen.
Packwood Upset Shocks Oregon Voters In Senate Race
Robert Packwood defeated incumbent Wayne Morse by 405573 to 402005 in the Oregon U S Senate race, becoming the youngest senator in January. The piece contrasts Packwood with Morse and recalls a pivotal debate that shifted public perception prior to the May primary.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Oregon
Robert Packwood
Wayne Morse
Packwood
U.S
Edward M. Kennedy
Dmass
Mark Hatfield
Pampa Superintendent Malone to Speak at Baytown Ed Association
BEA principal speaker James Malone of Pampa will address Baytown Education Association at 7 30 p m Tuesday in Ross Sterling Auditorium. Malone is one of three Texas NEA directors and will discuss The NEAs Forward Thrust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Malone
Pampa
Baytown Education Association
Ross Sterling Auditorium
Malone
Texas
National Education Association
NEA
UDC Meeting At Goose Creek Club With Film Show
The UDC Quincy Goodwin Chapter will meet at 1 30 p m Tuesday in the Brigadier Room of Goose Creek Country Club with Mrs Dempster Heald as hostess A film of the Caro final will be shown Also notes about Baytown Texas postal listings and newspaper masthead appear in the page segment
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
UDC
Qubney-Goodwin
Brigadier
Goose Creek Country Club
Admitted to Gulf Coast Hospital Notes
Hospital brief lists patients admitted to Gulf Coast with limited room and ward details including names Marie Robinson Berta Mae Noman Clyde L Harrison Marilyn Lomica and associated addresses and room numbers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gulf Coast
Marie Robinson
Massey-Tompkins
Berta Mae Noman
E. Wright
Clyde L. Harrison
Baytown
Marilyn Lomica
Ward
Medical Schools To Be Discussed By State Board
The Texas College Coordinating Board will hear staff recommendations on medical and dental schools and the Dallas Fort Worth Denton college needs. A public hearing on the master plan for higher education is set, with a delay of one month at Dallas Fort Worth leaders’ request. The plan includes a multicampus urban university for the Dallas area, consolidating North Texas State University Texas Woman's University and the University of Texas at Arlington under one board of regents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Texas Medical School
Houston
Baylor Medical College
West Texas Medical School
Texas Tech
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