Gas stations shorten hours amid Baytown fuel shortage
Baytown gas stations slash daily hours and close Sundays as a fuel allocation squeeze hits operators. Exxon's Reo Estes, B R Faulk, Baytown Shell, and other dealers report reduced supplies, later openings, and plan to cut Sunday operations with some considering Saturday closings.
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Wandaorton
Baytown
Reo Estes
Exxon
Decker‘ Drive
Estes
Frank D. Jarebet
Alexander Drive
Billy Angel
Harris
Alexander
Endert
Johanny
Johnny Enderli
Enderli's
Phillips’ 46
N.1
Wil Alexander
Johnny
Larry Joe
Larry
Enderli Brothers
Baylown
Spur 330 extension funded to Garth Road
The State Highway Commission allocates $593 000 to extend Spur 330 from Decker Drive to Garth Road in Baytown Texas. A new multi lane Goose Creek bridge will replace the old low county bridge, with four lane access between Fairhart Drive and Garth Road and no additional right of way needed. Design can proceed and contract work may start in about a year.
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Baytown
Harris County Hospital
Airhart
District Board of Managers
Gillette
Houston
John C. Smith
Congressmen Eckhardt to Speak at Stamp Club Meeting
Congressman Eckhardt will address the Stamp Club at 11 a.m. Monday in Room 230 of the Humanities Building at Lee College. The public may read for 7 p.m. Thursday in the Blue Bonnet Room of the Community Building. Henry Austin and James Marony of Lee College contributed to campus publications and a teleconference on American business was held in Houston.
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Bob Eckhardt
Stamp Club
Hu- Brytown Stamp Club
Lee Coie
Blue Bonnet
Henry Austin
Lee College
Houston
Local News Digest Highlights and Social Bits
Melvyn Cochran discusses a close Barbers Hill game last Friday. Twins Grey and Jeff Rhea celebrate a double birth day. Wedgeworths return from Yokota AFP assignment while Wedgeworth Jr. is stationed overseas. Mark Matney becomes a teenager and Joe Kelley explains a long Saturday. Mellina mond and Darlene Chatham shop on a hot afternoon. Kim Williams appears starry eyed Friday night. W. O. Cartwright notes a calm moment. Susan and Harry Haddeston recall a Saturday night football game.
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Melvyn Cochran
Grey
Jeff Rhea
R. M. Wedgeworth
N. Pruett
R. M. Wedgeworth Jr
Yokota Afp
Mark Matney
Joe Kelley
Mell Lenamond
Darlene Chatham
Kim Williams
W. Cartwrigt
Susan
Harry Haddeston
Weather Update for Baytown and Morgans Point
Clear to partly mild conditions through Thursday in Baytown. Wednesday night lows and Thursday highs in the 70s with highs near 70. Morgans Point tides show highs around 1:50 am and 1:15 pm, with weak tides at 2:06 am and 1:13 pm.
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Deely
Baytown Area
Lew
Morgans Point
Plans Presented for First Phase of 1974 Street Program
City Manager Fritz Lanham outlined seven streets to be included in phase one of the 1974 street improvement program with bids expected to open. A second phase draft is due Feb 28 for council approval and phase three plans target April 12. Ferguson Street was nearly removed amid concerns over cost and короткий участок, but an amendment to delete it failed 4-3. estimated cost $1,700.
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Fritz Lanham
Sion
Roseland Park
Councilbers
Parks'and Recreation
Terry Dopson
Ferguson Street
North Main
Donald Wells
Ior
Ferguson
Drainage Upgrades Approved for Goose Creek Drive
City council authorized drainage improvements on Goose Creek Drive to relieve flood problems caused by subsidence and new construction. Easements from property owners are required. Work includes rebuilding inlets, installing a storm sewer between Goose Creek and Pamela, and completing a ditch near Whitehall Apartments with additional priority projects pending. An infiltrating inflow analysis for the West Sewer District was authorized to support a federal grant application.
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Goose Creek
Lanham
Con- City
Fritz Lanham
Goose Creek Drive
Goose Creek Stream
Inwood
Pamela
Whitehall Apartments
Decker Drive
West Sewer
Texas Water Quality Board
Environmental Protection Agency
Exxon workers approve two year contract with pay raise
About 1,800 Exxon employees represented by the Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union vote 1 to accept a two year contract raising wages by 27 cents per hour. The deal runs to April 15, 198? and includes an extensive package alongside the pay hike.
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Exxon
Gulf Coast Industrial Workers Union
GCWU
Pete Brewer
Brewer
Nguyen van Thien
Baytown Family Earns Titles In Debating, Minerals And Deer Hunting
A Baytown family earns multiple local honors. Terry, a Lee College freshman, wins first in a Lamar University debating tournament. Patrick, a 10 year old Travis Elementary student, wins a Gem and Mineral Show prize in Austin. The father shoots a record eight point buck in deer season.
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ALM Consolidated
Terry
Lee College
Lamar University
Patrick
Travis Elementary
Austin
Missing crewmen identified after Trinity Bay capsizing
Chambers County Sheriff Louis Otter named two of the missing men as Larry Holmes 22 of Double Bayou and Rez Allen Davis 21 of Liberty. Divers and Coast Guard resumed search Wednesday for two presumed drowned crewmen after a 30 foot steel hull boat capsized two miles east of Smith Point in high winds. Six crewmen were rescued as the vessel sank in about 10 feet of water near its work barge. The boat was owned by Miller Marine Service of Anahuac.
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Anahuac
Chambers County Sheriff's
Harris County Marine Division
Coast Guard
Trinity Bay
Smith Point
Chambers County
Louis Otter
Larry Holmes
Double Bayou
Rez ‘Allen Davis
Liberty
Otter
Miller Marine Service
Inflation Jump Deepens As Costs Rise In October
The Labor Department said consumer prices increased 7.9 percent from a year earlier and 0.8 percent in October. Energy prices surged for fuel oil and gasoline while meat and poultry prices fell. dining costs and restaurant meals offset some gains. The rise marks the largest 12 month rise since the Korean War era.
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Washington
Cou Lt
Department of Labor
One Dead Wounded After Rye Gun Battle in Liberty County
A noon Tuesday gunfight near Rye in Liberty County left one man dead and another wounded. Sheriff Eckols said deputies recovered a 12 gauge shotgun and reports link Warren James to the incident. Thompson, shot in the chest, died later at Galveston hospitals. Eckols said the suspect stabbed a deputy during the aftermath.
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Liberty
Hryhorchuk
Rye
Thompson
Eckols
Liberty County
Sun Wednes- Liberty County
Buckday
Warren James
Dayton
Galveston
Montgomery
John Sealy
Thomps
Hryhorchak
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Garth Road
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Faulk
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George Watkins
N. Alexander
Watkins
Angel
Bruce
Walter Rossow
Bayway
Rossow
David Selvey
Coroners Gulf Service
Selvey
Bill Tallent
Gus Brinkman
van Hale
James Marony
Expression
Tarrant
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Saigon
Hien
Hoat
Tigr
Wees Charge
Don Nason
Campbell’s
Texaco
Nasen
Sam
Ed Malcik
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