Sun Spots and Art Win at Channelview Show
The Channelview High School Art League Show awarded a door prize to Mrs. E sociation’s dancer A Rose for a painting. The event runs 7:30 p.m. Saturday in the high school cafeteria with continued exhibits 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. through Saturday at the Optimist Building on Market Street. Admission is 1 per person per day. Weather remains partly cloudy and warm. a cold spell fades with temps near 40 to 70 and possible weekend rain. National Secretaries Association will honor executives at a 6:30 p.m. Wednesday dinner at the Tower, naming Executive and Secretary of the Year. Dr Frank Laubach will speak at St Mark's Methodist Church 7:30 p.m. Wednesday in a special service open to the public. Stuart John M. Stuart, retired deputy superintendent, shows improvement after a heart attack last Saturday in San Angelo. he remains in Shannon Memorial Hospital ICU.
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PTA
Anacean
Channelview
Esociation
A. Rose
Mary Glenn Cunningham
Ti Red Entertainment
Admissions Street
National Secretaries Association
St. Mark’s Methodist Church
Frank Laubach
Stuart
John M. Stuart
San Angelo
Shannon Memorial Hospital
Baytown News Snippets Mix People and Hobbies
Names and light notes fill a Baytown page: BOB NIXON and Clint Henley need domino lessons while Suzi Powers shows off a green ensemble. Others mention hunting plans, essay winners, a class reunion, a long commute, and local jokes, with residents hoping jobs, favors, and help arrive.
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Bob Nixon
Clint Henley
Suzi Powers
Ann Saunders
P. D. M. Archie
Sun
J. W. Thurmond
Douglas Gunn
Helen Veselka
Perry Britton
Jim Dinwiddle
A. Stewart
Clem Kovar
Tom Wilkinson
Fayle Street
Davy Moore
Baytown
the Sun
Utah Waldrop
Joe Butrick
Baytown Council Weighs Water System Upgrades And Vehicle Bids
Baytown City Council will consider bids on water system improvements under the 1965 capital program with Joseph V Tantillo Inc of Houston the apparent low bidder at 510 487. Bids will also be reviewed for three half ton pickups three three quarter ton pickups one one ton truck four two ton trucks three dump and rash truck bodies six police cars a fire chief car an aerial basket and a tractor backhoe. Used corrugated iron storm sewer pipe sale also on agenda. The meeting includes an audit covering Oct 1 1967 to March 31 1968 and ordinances amending Daniel Street and Ward Road paving assessments.
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Fritz Lanham
Joseph V. Tantillo, Inc
Houston
Daniel Street
Ward
Thank You Note From Mrs Crider After Hospitalization
Mrs A E Crider of 1206 B Fayle thanks blood donors after a month of illness. She says many people helped her family during her hospital stay and that she is now recovering and able to have visitors.
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A. E. Crider
B. Fayle
GCWU Rebuffs Enjay HORC Wage Offer
Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union representing about 200 Humble Oil and Enjay Chemical workers rejected a 1 cent per hour wage increase offer for the union contract expiring April 14. The committee and board approved the rejection Tuesday night. Electricians union at the refinery to poll members December 1 and BEF weighs an alternate offer after extending the November 1 deadline.
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Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union
Humble Oil
Enjay Chemical Companies
Earl C. Malory
International Brotherhood of Electricians
Baytown ‘Employes Federation
Coal mine blastreported near Farmington WV tragedy
As many as 70 miners are believed killed or trapped after an explosion at a coal mine near Farmington West Virginia Marion County sheriff Robert Tennant said angry parents staged overnight sit ins at three Brooklyn schools in Ocean Hill Brownsville amid a teachers strike settlement. President Johnson faces civil rights gains and Nixon plans a reassessment of international affairs amid nuclear treaty talks. A Sigma Delta Chi report criticizes the Johnson administration as reckless with the truth. A second Ft Rucker Alabama helicopter crash kills four soldiers.
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Farmington
W. Va
Marion County
Robert Tennant
Brooklyn
Ocean Hill - Brownsville
Baytown Freeway Plan Moves Toward Channel Bridge Step
State Highway Commission designates Highway 14 and Loop 31 as controlled access freeways to span the Houston Ship Channel from La Porte to Baytown. Baytown officials hail the move as a long range step toward a two lane tunnel and bridge feeding Baytown's industrial hub with 7,000 vehicles projected within two years.
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Baytown
la Porte
East Harris County
Houston Ship Channel
State Highway Commission
Commission
College Station
Loop 31
West Main
Harris County
Texas Highway Department
Fred Hartman
Chamber of Commerce Highway Committee
Jack Kultgen
Cedar Bayou Loop
Seaborn Cravey
Albert Fanestiel
Dave Moore
W. V. Ramsey
Wiley E. Carmichael
Ed Vaught
Theo Wilburn
Carmichael
Kultgen
Highway Department
Food Stamp Expansion Won for Harris County
Baytown residents soon join a nationwide USDA program expanding to 235 areas. Harris County will administer the plan, with 20 000 people on state welfare. eligible families can trade stamps for groceries, boosting local grocers and shoppers alike. The program will require further procedures and staff pay by the county.
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Baytown
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Bob Eckhardt
Harris County
Texas
County Welfare Department
W. Mainon
State Welfare Department
The
Sun
Donald Graham
Houston
Graham
Rev. Eckhardt
Hep. Eckhardt
LC Regents To Appoint Planners
The Lee College Board will appoint eight special college planning committee members at 6 30 p m in the Technical Building Conference Room. The panel will study expanding services to the community. Other agenda items include bids for a tractor and a Registrar's Office vehicle, enrolment and cash reports, YMCA pool use request with a fee waiver, and progress reports on Moody Center and the academic facility building.
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Lee College Board of Regents
Baytown Ymca
Lee College
Regents
Moody Center
Baytown GI Inspires NASA Christmas Gift
Baytown soldier Sp 4 Tom Lowe Jr sparked a NASA toy drive for South Vietnamese orphans. About 175 NASA employees collected 24744 pounds of gifts including toys clothes books soap and money, shipped as a Santa Claus special at postage of 48.95. Lowe conveyed thanks and hopes to see photos of the orphanage party, likely around Christmas Eve.
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NASA
Vietnam
Baytown
Tom Lowe Jr
Lowe
Thomas E. Lowe
E. Aron
Crew Systems
Manned Spacecraft Center
Cho Lon
South Viet Nam
Step Up Attacks On Da Nang and Cities Reported
Viet Cong gun strikes intensified around Da Nang as rockets and mortars hit the city and nearby targets. American and South Vietnamese casualties were light, with 1 American killed and 12 wounded overall, and 14 enemy bodies found after a three hour engagement north of Saigon. The Mekong Delta base at Dong Tam also faced shelling with light damage. Sixty five rocket rounds pummeled installations, including a U.S. Navy hospital area, while Camlo and other towns near the DMZ suffered mortar fire. Since the November 1 bombing halt, 74 attacks on population centers have wounded 192 civilians and killed 33, according to South Vietnamese officials. Hanoi denies any agreement limiting shelling of provincial capitals and district towns.
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Saigon
da Nang
U.S. 1St Division
U.S
South Vietnam
U.S. Navy
Camlo
Dmz
Mekong
U.S. 9Th Infantry Division
Dong Tam
Jotinson
North Vietnam
Western Europe Exchanges Close Amid Crisis Measures
Western Europe's major foreign exchange markets closed as finance ministers convened in Bonn. France cut its 1969 budget by 400 million dollars to ease a crisis caused by massive selling of francs for marks. Germany maintained a nonrevaluation stance while tweaking imports and export rebates to reduce the surplus. The French assembly approved the cut, with markets closed and Bonn hosting an emergency Group of 10 meeting including Fowler and Schiller. The US took a standby role in the developing crisis.
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London
AFP
Europe
Bonn
Financial Times
French National Assembly
Maurice Couve de Murville
Karl Schiller
Group of 10
Finance Mministers
Belgium
Britain
Canada
France
West Germany
Netherlands
Italy
Japan
Sweden
United States
U.S. Treasury
Henry H. Fowler
Washington
NATO
Brussels
Thigh Spy Finds Fine Thigh Spy Finds Fine
London AP report: Reg Boucher 45 accused of assaulting Jessie Watkins 22 on a commuter train by touching her thigh slapping her face and using offensive language. Watkins testified she sat opposite him as she prepared to leave he touched her thigh called her a harlot and she screamed. He refused plea. Magistrate fined him about 34 dollars. Watkins said the case damaged by mishearing and confusion.
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London
Reg Boucher
Boucher
Jessie Watkins
Sid Mra Watkins
Deaes
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Precinct 2
Mechanical Center
Lee Drive
Art Winnare
GCWU
Enjay
HORC
Our World
America
Hubert H. Humphrey
Johnson
Richard M. Nixon
Czechoslovakia
Sigma Dello Chi
Freedom of Information Committee
Ft. Rucker
Ala
Baytown Tunnel
IU. S. Steel Mill
Hartman
Highway 146
Ward Road
Blair W. Mann
North Main
Commounist
Hanoi
Spy
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