Meeting notices and personal milestones from Houston 1961
Community bulletins list a storm damage meeting at Burnet Elementary led by chairman John S. Blackburn with two attendees per family and state legislators as guests. Other items announce REVIEWER BOOK Club, a San Jacinto Esperanto course, Cub Scout Pack 100 membership drive, a confirmation class led by Bishop Hines, and Tracey Howard Holmes birth at Hermann Hospital with family background.
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John S. Blackburn
Burnet Elementary School
Brownwood
Galveston Tides Preview Late Week Weather
Forecast notes clear conditions and mild warming through night. Thursday looks warmer with coastal tides on Thursday high at 2 22 AM and 12 52 PM, low at 58 AM and 7 50 PM. Temperature trend suggests a slight rise and stable seas for the day.
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Galveston
Local society notes mix birthdays tours and finds gold
Mrs E F Waugh Sr visits son Em Mitt Waugh Jr in Salinas Calif as her husband plans to depart for Europe. Frank Fowler discovers a chest of gold medals and keepsakes at 103 Milner Brownwood. Clifford Conant turns eight, Emory Hallman celebrates a birthday at Baytown Hospital. Lulu hosts a party with nine friends while in hospital since Sept 16.
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Jack Rogers
E. F. Waugh Sr
Emmitt Waugh Jr
Salinas
Calif
Europe
Baytown
Waugh
Jean Koudelka
Frank Fowler
Milner
Brownwood
Fowlers
Clifford Conant
Fred C. Canant Jr
Harold Lane
Taeon Hallman
Lau Ay
Kuro
Emory Hallman
Baytown Hospital
Lula
Cotton Chandler
Winnie Brown
Tom Crawford
Melvin Jordan
Sicn
Ola Aml
L. F. McFarland
Trinity Bay Allotment Session Set With Officials
Three Baytown men, Jack Walker, Taylor Huar, and Grover Midge, will meet the State Game and Fish Commission and Gov. Price Daniels on Thursday to discuss funding for Trinity Bay development. The Bayshore Hud Reel and Gan Club proposes more funds for oyster growth rehab, more conservation officers, marine biologists, and improved marketing of seafood fisheries.
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Baytown
State Game and Fish Commission
Price Danist
Trin
Jack Walker
Bayshore Hud
Reel and Gan Club
Taylor Huar
Grover Midge
Baytown Bank Deposits Rise Over Year
Baytown's three banks show deposits up by 1.67 million from a year earlier, totaling 28.85 million as of Sept 29. East Harris County banks, including La Porte and Channelview, rise to 41.05 million amid two major industrial developments, with Harris County totaling 2.4 billion.
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Baytown
Citizens National Bank
First National Bank
Peoples Bank
State and National Bank
Harris County
la Porte State Bank
Channelview State Bank
Crosby State Bank
Highlands State Bank
Manned Space Flight Laboratory
Clear Lake
Gulf Oil Corp
Dallas County
Citizens National
Dallas
Tex
Houss First National
Cseseeeeeas
Sam “Rayburn
Peoples State
Jon
la Porte State
Baylor Hospital
Channelview
Crosby
Highlands State
Rayburn
Robert F. Short
Habitation on Mars Suspected by Berkeley Chemist
Washington AP reports Wells Alan Webb of Hexcel Products suggested Mars canals resemble a man made rail network and may indicate prior civilization. Webb urged unmanned probes to provoke and detect intelligent life, monitor radio signals, and test surface reactions before any manned mission. He proposed a joint international expedition to establish an artificial society powered by the sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mars
Wells Alan Webb
Berkeley
Calif
Webb
Hexcel Products Inc
Earth
New Lee College Library Architectural Showplace
The new Lee College library, designed by Lowell Lammers, features a striking turquoise and white brick facade with a curved wall, two reading rooms, and a central second story. It will seat over 1000 volumes and serve as a focal campus hub with a nerve center desk, communications system, and shared study and instructional spaces.
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Wanda Orton
Lee College
Ling
Walter Rundell
Lammers
College
Lowell Lammers
Lib
Sherwood elected chairman of East Harris County Scout District
James E. Sherwood was chosen chairman at the East Harris County Boy Scout District annual meeting at the Community House. He succeeds Dr. Ben Thom with new executive vice chairman Bennett W. Burns and vice chairmen George H. Gentry J. C. Holsomback and FE. C. Kimmons. New officers will be installed at the November 7 appreciation dinner at 6 00 p m. with committee chairmen to be announced. East Harris District is organizing 19 new Scout units, said district executive Keely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James E
Jim) Sherwood
East Harris County
Sherwood
Ben Thomas
Bennett W. Burns
George H. Gentry
J. C. Holsomback
FE. C
Jack) Kimmons
Texas Space Efforts Get Boston Blast
Ephron Catlin warned the Apollo moon shot project center in Houston could be harmed by perceived Jim Crow animus in Texas and Oklahoma. He said rivals built a coordinated plot to make Texas the space activity hub, risking years and costs for the program. NASA recently awarded the center to Houston amid other bids nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Greater
Houston
Massachusetts
Syria accuses Nasser influence in sabotaged revolt
Damascus reports saboteurs hired from abroad aimed to infiltrate Syria and topple the government. Gen Zahredin says Egypt aimed to weaken the army and seize arms, while Interior Minister Kuwatly cites thousands of political prisoners and a vast internal security network.
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Damascus
Syria
Tn- Republic
Mustafa Ba
Fism
Radio
Syria Party
Nasser
United Arab Baroodi
Mit
Egypt
Abdel Karim Zahredin
United Arab Republic
Zahredin
Cairo
Adnan Kuwaily
Mamoun Kuzbari
Kuwatly
Soviet Warns Against Action To Upset Talks
Berlin reports say Marshal Ivan Konev warned against any action that might upset East West Berlin talks. U S Army Europe commander General Bruce Clarke confirmed the message from the Soviet Embassy and said the warning related to patrols on the Autobahn linking West Berlin with West Germany. The incident followed patrol resumption after East German police detained two U S soldiers for six hours.
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Berlin
Ivan
S. Konev
East Berlin
Lication
Clarke
Heidelberg
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
U.S
Honev
Cormut
Laenstigig Eine Peerene
West Germany
Konev
Bruce C. Clarke
Europe
East Germany
Oos
Koney
Sovviet
Humble Oil cuts East Texas crude price to meet rivals
Humble Oil and Refining Co lowered its posted price for East Texas Field crude from 3.25 to 3.10 per barrel to align with recent declines by competitors. Prices for six other Northeast Texas fields were raised slightly, including Hawkins and Sand Flat, while an earlier upward adjustment appeared in the Pewitt Ranch and Sugar Hill bands. In Washington, the Soviets reported a large nuclear explosion described by the Atomic Energy Commission as several megatons.
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Houston
Humble Oil & Refining Co
East Texas
Humble
Texas
Hawkins
Hitts Lake
Vahwy
Sand Flat
Sugar Hill
Patuxy
Tales
Pewitt Ranch
Knight to Expose Emissary Proof in Gov Race
Los Angeles AP reports Goodon plans to reveal alleged Nixon emissary pressure aimed at stopping Knight from challenging Nixon for California governor. Knight accuses a Nixon aide of offering any job in the state to prevent his candidacy. Nixon denies involvement while involving other figures in the disputed exchange.
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Los Angeles
Goodon
J. (Goodie) Knight
Emison
Sares
Knight
Richard M. Nixon
Ference
Nixon
William F. Knowland
Edmund G
Pat) Brown
J. Howard Edgerton
Los Angeles Savings and Loan Association
Knight Peampaign Finance
Sid
Edgerton
Dick Nixon
Paul Mason
Sacramento
Altorney
Nix
Trinity Valley Exposition Rodeo Set for Liberty Oct 18 27
Liberty hosts the Trinity Valley Exposition and rodeo from October 18 to 27 with Liberty and Chambers County sponsorship. Baytown contestants will enter events while A B Lawrence presides the 191st exposition. Steve Davis manages the event as stock judging runs four days, with a trail ride on October 16 and a parade opening day.
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Liberty
Chambers County
Baytown
A. B. Lawrence
Tri - City Beach
Sur
Price Daniel
Steve Davis
Davis
Valles
Bethune
Valley Players Theater
MoPac Interurban Hearing Delayed One Week
A public hearing on Missouri Pacific Railroad Co. request to discontinue Baytown interurban service has been postponed to next Tuesday. The line between Baytown Green's Bayou and Houston has operated since June 16 and now carries 1 to 10 passengers daily. The Texas Railroad Commission will conduct the hearing at 9 am in Baytown's city hall with examiners questioning opponents of the discontinuance.
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Missouri Pacific Railroad Co
Baytown
Het
Texas Railroad Commission
Green's Bayou
Houston
Tex
Missouri Pacific
Bayou
Pen
World tension and storms frame a turbulent news day
Reports indicate an East West naming dispute for a new United Nations Secretary General. Fourteen mariners ride out a Gulf of Mexico storm aboard a crippled oil rig barge while a Ford strike awaits lengthy bargaining. In Washington, Pentagon inquiry figures land amid antiwar charges. A civil suit targets a Methodist hospital. Around the globe, arrests, typhoons, and political plots unfold as weather, politics, and industry intertwine.
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Gulf of Mexico
Engineers To Hear Humble Coordinator At Baytown Talk
Nourris Ragland engineering coordinator for Humble Oil and Refining Co. will speak to the Baytown Chapter 1 of the Texas Society of Professional Engineers at noon Friday at Goose Creek Country Club. He will discuss the Texas State Board of Registration for Professional Engineers functions and activities.
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Nourris Ragland
Humble Oil and Refining Co
Baytown
Texas Society of Professional Engineers
Goose Creek Country Club
Ragland
Texas State Board of Registration For
Price Daniel
U.S
San Jacinto
TSPE
Lommittee
Society of Petroleum Engineers
Engineers’ Council
Ain't Fair Judge Hearings Reported In Tennessee
An AP dispatch from HVILEE Tennessee reports a school incident involving a principal and a student named Fred Strength. The article notes that Shramant answered that his mother can spank him for misbehavior, reflecting a local disciplinary case under review.
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Hvilee
Santie Fhaix
Shramant
Kennedy Gromyko to discuss Berlin talks in White House meet
President Kennedy and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko will confer Friday on the Berlin question. White House officials withheld discussion topics, saying only that the talk follows New York talks between Gromyko and Secretary of State Rusk and aims to gauge prospects for East West negotiations on Berlin.
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Washington
Kennedy
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
White House
Errc Salinger
New York
Gromyko
Dean Rusk
Salinger
Trantees
West Berlin
East Gesmany
Moscow
Liewelly
Rusk
Robert §. McNamara
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Norstad
Stock Sale planned by REL opens with student firms
REL opens a stock sale as Lone Star Robert E. Lee High School students form three junior achievement companies. Meetings in the school building outline next week elections for other company leaders while one group will make through the school year. One company will market Care Candles, another will produce a stump spatula for trading stamps, and a third will create a key holder and bulletin board product.
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Lone
Robert FE. Lee High School
Bess
Jonal
Rel
Exeh Company
United Rubber
Humble Oi and Refining Co
Toans Butadiene and Chemical Corp
Crosby to Get New Post Office in Crosby
Postmaster General J Ed ward Day notified Congressman Albert Thomas that a new Crosby post office will be built just north of Crosby State Bank on Avenue B. The 9000 square foot building will have plans released to bidders soon, with Mrs R M Ray of Baytown offering an option to buy the tract from the W Bobyneh estate. A private lease arrangement may fund the project, and Mrs Fred Fantieman is Crosby postmaster.
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U_ 8
J. Edward Day
Albert Thomas
Trouston
Crosby
Crosby State Bank
Avenue B
R. M. Ray
Baytown
Post Office Department
W. Bobyneh
Will Tye
Wiit
Fred Fantieman
Crosby Pest
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Brownwood Meeting
Reviewer Book Club
New College
San Jacinto College
M. M. Flexco
CUB Scout Pack
J. C. McMurrough
Olive
James Bowie
John E. Hines
Episcopal Diocese of
Tracey Howard Holmes
Thomas Holmes
Hermann Hospital
Tracey
Billy Dell Callaway
W. H. Callaway
Howard Holmes
Trinity Bay
Ashwall
England
C. H. Thompson
Center
Britain
Pig Industry Development Authority
J. A. Wilbon
J. White
New Lee College Library
Jim Sherwood
Jerophone
Bulletins
Soviet Union
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Trinity Valley
MoPac
United Nations
Ford Motor Co
United Auto Workers
Pentagon
Makiisanti
Edwhy A. Walker
Family
Jonsten's
Mathodist Hospital
Kwanw Nkrumah
China
South Korea
Revolutionary Cort
Stormy Francis
Miami
Touglas
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