Baytown News Briefs and Obituary Note
Relative dies at 89 in Spickard Mo. Funeral Friday at 2 p.m. Three Baytown grandchildren survive. Public invited to coffee after Sterling High game at Baytown Service League building 1310 Market. Civic Council to meet 7 p.m. Thursday at Cedar Inn with speaker Bing Strickler. William Og. Clements to ship out on USS Cascade to Newport News after visiting wife and newborn daughter Tammie Marie. slated to be stationed in Orange around Feb 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Hammons
Spickard
Pebble Lehde
Baytown
Hammons
Robert Ewing
Dan Moyers
Merl Adcock
Baytown Service League
Sterling
Civic Council
Highlands
William OG. Clements
Charleston
S.C
Newport
Doris Clements
Tammie Marie
Odis F. Clements
Clements
Orange
Columbus Day Celebration At Knights Of Columbus Hatch
The San Jacinto Council No. 2788 Knights of Columbus hosts the Columbus Day event at 2600 W. Main. Barbecued beef dinners run 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. and 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. adults $1.50, children under 12 $0.75. A dance follows, pies and cakes are welcomed. Everyone is invited.
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San Jacinto
N. E. Baumann
Scattered Showers Forecast Through Friday
Weather update shows more scattered showers through Friday with temperatures ranging from mid 60s to around 80. Galveston tides will be high at 10 06 p.m. and low at 12 40 a.m.
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Galveston
Town Notes and Social Roundup
Rufus Honeycutt did not mean to exit near animal experiments. Bob Feinberg recalls the Roaring Xs and his old friends. Belated birthday wishes to D Laine Brooks. Joan Upchurch out with both children for the first time. Audrey Cavanay shops. The Sherman Walkers host out‑of‑town guests. Happy Birthday to Jerri Read Wednesday. Marjorie Wolfean pens a nice note. Mrs. Davis Whitted introduces her new daughter around town. Bob Martin advises interior decorating at the country club before passing leadership to F Schon. Mrs. Paul Meister learns she attended the same Wichita high school as Mrs. J PF HH.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D'Laine Brooks
Joan Upchurch
Audrey Cavanay
Sherman Walkers
Jerri Read
Marjorie Wolfean
Davis Whitted
Bob) Martin
F. Fchon
Paul Meister
Wichita
Kan
LeMay Plans Vietnam Trip for Wallace Run Mate
Retired Gen Curtis LeMay planned a four day fact finding visit to Vietnam to inspect the war scene for presidential hopeful George C Wallace. The trip was to occur around Oct 45 with a report ahead of Wallace's Oct 28 television address. LeMay would be joined by three Alabama aides as Wallace campaigns in Florida.
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Evansville
Ind
Air Force
Curtis FE
LeMay
Vietnam
George C. Wallace
Associated Press
Wallace
Alabama
Vandenburgh
Florida
U.S
Saigon
Strategic Air Command
Korea
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Europe
Paris
Rise in worthless check passing in Baytown alarmed by judge
Justice of the Peace Glenn Vickery reports an uptick in bad checks in Baytown with 60 to 80 cases monthly, fueled by new residents and transients. He outlines bonds, filing procedures, and victim steps, and notes an upcoming Texas forgery seminar in Houston hosted by the Check Investigators Association of Texas.
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Baytown
Justice of the
Glenn Vickery
Vickery
Wanda Jones
Texas
Check Investigators Association of Texas
Houston
Robert J. Kelley
Kelley
Republic National Bank of Dallas
Counterfeit Twenty Bills Detected In Baytown Area
Baytown police warn merchants and residents to watch for counterfeit $20 notes after a real looking bill was found at Citizens Bank. Det. Merced Oviedo says a second bill, reissued by First National Bank, is an excellent replica with two serial numbers GA1807661A and L10459367C. Citizens are urged to report suspicious notes immediately.
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Citizens Bank
First National Bank
Oviedo
U.S. Secret Service
Houston
City Tax Bills Will Go Out Early Next Week
City tax statements for the year ending Sept 30 will be mailed starting early next week and finished by Friday October 18. Tax assessor-collector O M Coe Jr said the statements are prepared by a Houston firm and rechecked for accuracy before mailing. Taxes due upon notification with a payment deadline of October 31. The rate is $1.49 per $100 assessed value on property within city limits and city taxes are collected on a 60 percent assessment basis.
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O. M. Coe Jr
Houston
Coe
New Trustees Plan to Attend School Board Meeting
All three newly elected trustees Fabian Greenwell Philip Dignam and Glenn Lippman were expected to attend a caded school board meeting at 7 30 p m Thursday to canvass last Saturdays election results State law requires canvassing within five days and installation may occur at the same session if present.
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Fabian Greenwell
Baytown Sun
Philip Dignam
Uniersity of
Houston
Glenn Lippman
Feo
Parkinson
Dignam
Troy Peterson
Liberty Sheriff Calls for Next Grand Jury Probe
Liberty County Sheriff W P Red Rose invites the incoming grand jury to investigate his department after criticism from the outgoing panel over prisoner escapes. He says no investigation was requested of his office and challenges the report as one sided noting escapes by Charles Tew and others the same night.
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Liberty (Lp
Liberty County
W. P. “Red” Rose
Liberty- Chambers
Thomas A. Wheat
Rose
Grand Jury
Noone
Liberty County Sheriff’s Department
Tew
Huntsville
Tam
Tewes
Houston Realtor to View Baytown Baytown Talk Friday
Charles Murrell of Murrell and Fontana Associates will discuss A Houston Industrial Realtor Looks At Baytown at Baytown Chamber of Commerce weekly meeting Friday. The noon event at Holiday Inn features Murrell with a background in Houston industry, railroad land transactions, and corporate land deals across Chambers County.
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Charles Murrell
Murrell
South Texas College of Law and Commerce
University of Houston
Stanford University
Chamber For Commerce
Houston Chamber of Commerce
Peru Seizes Oil Field Complex In Major Regime Move
Peru's revolutionary military government takes control of a $200 million American owned oil field complex, a move that could delay recognition of the new regime by the United States and other Latin American nations. The report notes potential regional diplomatic friction and shifting alliances amid upheaval.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peru
U.S
Council To Consider Train Time Limit
Baytown council to discuss a five minute limit on how long a train may block a crossing. The ordinance was written after council members read about crossing delays in nearby Harris County cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnella Boynton
Baytown
Highlands Marine Is War Fatality
Marine Pfc. Larry Jittrett, 19, of Highlands and Marietta, died in action near Da Nang, South Vietnam, after entering service in 1967. Survived by his sister Billie Glidwell and eight siblings in Texas and Oklahoma. services scheduled in Marietta and Gainesville.
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Highlands Marine
Larry Jittrett
Billie Glidwell
Avenue D
Highlands
Mice
Uth Vietnam
Idier
Department of Defense
Kittrell
da Mang
S. Vietnam
Marines
Marietta
Okla
Burg
Inainesville
Tex
Int Highlands
Ruth
Sue
Sulemon
Carolyn
Gainesville
Bonnie
Lubbock
Clarence Ofainesville
Herman
James
California
Apollo 7 Liftoff Planned Friday at Cape Kennedy
Cape Kennedy Florida AP final countdown begins for Apollo 7 three astronauts Walter Schirra Donn Eisele and Walter Cunningham to launch aboard Saturn 1B at 11 am Friday with goal of a half million mile lunar test. If successful Apollo 8 may attempt lunar orbit in December.
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Cape Kennedy
Fla
Navy
Walter M. Schirra Jr
Air Force
Donn E F
Frank Cunningham
Eisele
Schirra
Cunningham
Paul Donnelly
Kennedy Space Center
U.S
Robbery at Robert E. Lee High School Coaches Lose Wallets
A group of Robert E. Lee High School coaches reported their wallets stolen from the locker room between 3 and 5:30 p.m. The seven victims include Ron Kremer, Bobby R. Wright, Gary N. Herrington, Roy A. Hutchum, Jerry T. Brewer, Bill H. Groberg, and Gene Bosse. Value totaled about $175 plus credit cards. Investigators seek a white man about 42, six feet tall, 170 pounds, seen near 4:15 p.m. wearing a gold knit pullover shirt with white at the neck and dark pants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert E. Lee High School
Ron Kremer
Taft
Bobby R. Wright
Gary N. Herrington
Decker
Roy A. Hutchum
Retves
Jerry T. Brewer
Baker Road
Bill H. Groberg
Beaumont
Gene Bosse
Wildwood
Sbort
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Liberty
Probers
Nguyen van Thieu
Allan Shivers
Israel
Canada
Arieh Eshel
NATO
West
Panmunjom
Pueblo
Maine
Ronald Reagan
Senate
PFC
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U.S. Steel
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Schilling Street
Pest Control Commission
William L. Watkins
Citizens National Bce
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