Lee College Students Sponsor Blood Drive to Ease Shortage
LC Student Government backs a Bloodplan drive with two Blood Services units in Moser Hall. From 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday and noon to 8 p.m. Thursday donors receive a pint of blood, with $10 paid previously. The effort aims to boost Houston area supplies and support insured patients who need blood.
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Houston
Raymond Ices
Cleveland
Barry Reiter
Blood Services
Moser Hall
U.S
Fitzsim
Mans
Design Underway for West Pocket Mini-Park in Plumwood
The Baytown Parks and Recreation Department plans a temporary mini park on city owned land at the end of Dale and Sheridan in Plumwood. Estimated development cost bounds are 3500 to 4500 dollars with features such as a basketball pad playground equipment picnic area and shelter.
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Baytown Parks Andj
Plumwood
Dale and
Sheridan
Terry Dopson
Parks and Recreation
Dopson
al Gooa
90 Per Cent Of UF Goal Now Pledged
With the Nov 2 target date near, drive chairman Knox Beavers reports 90 percent of the 265000 goal pledged and total contributions reach 238000. Baytown groups exceed quotas including Baytown schools and McKay Chemical. industrial construction division pledges 104 percent of its 12000 goal.
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United Fund
Knox Beavers
Beavers
Charles G. Caldwell
Baytown Community Chest
Baytown
Don Treuhardt
Drive
McKay Chemical
Rodney Roach
Industrial Construction
Jake Weisinger
Director to visit Walter Rundell Hall for Timbo workshop
MARK ROBSON of Universal Production will discuss directing Timbo at Walter Rundell Hall from 1 to 2 p.m. Tuesday with Ross Sterling and Robert Lee High drama students attending as special guests. Aunt of Gladys Skaggs dies in Kerrville. SHADDIX hospital status. Baytown Wranglers meeting rescheduled. Scout Troop 183 Halloween carnival details.
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Universal Production
Timbo
Walter Rundell Hall
Ross Sterling
Robert £. Lee
Erna Skages
Kerrville
Baytown
Gladys Skaggs
Baytown Wranglers
Civic Center
Elvinia
Election prep and small town notes fragment
J E Jake Rutter carries out an assignment Frances Rogers studies the long general election ballot to avoid exceeding her legal time limit in the booth. David O'Sell Sterling High cheerleader switched uniforms Sunday and broke a collar bone in a sandlot football game. Jennifer Bailey bought a new quarterhorse Sunday. W C Jackson recalls a friend of the family during an introduction. Tom Gentry comments on Dave Moore's new car. Johnny G Jennings attends the Baytown Chamber of Commerce luncheon secretly.
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J. E
Jake) Rutter
Frances Rogers
David O’sell
Sterling High
Jennifer Bailey
W. C. Jackson
Tom Gentry
Dave Moore
Johnny G. Jennings
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Baytown Sees 55 Percent Federal Grant Increase For Sewage
Baytown's first federal grant for sewage treatment facilities in the 1970 bond program rises by 744 430 to 1 980 000 under 55 percent federal funds. EPA announced the boost via a Senate Tower office spokesman. A potential 75 percent share could come with a new water pollution control bill.
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Baytown
Environmental Protection Agency
John Tower
EPA
City Plans First Looks at New Baytown Public Works Barn
Preliminary plans for a 200000 bond funded city public works facility call for an office area for Floyd Adcox and C W, a dispatch and foreman hub, meeting rooms, a meter and sign shop, storage for water and sanitation divisions, and an inside vehicle storage area with outside spaces for garbage trucks. The two acre site on Lee Drive will be fenced with visitor parking and a new radio antenna to be installed.
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Fritz Lanham
Public Works
Lee Drive
Lanham
Baytown Woman Dies In I-10 Head-On Collision
A Baytown woman, Lorene M. Coyer, 56, died after a head-on crash on Interstate 10 three miles east of Garth Road at 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Dessie Mae Thomas, 31, of Houston, and a passenger Willie R. Willie were hospitalized, four Thomas children treated and released at Gulf Coast Hospital.
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Interstate 10
Lorene M. Coyer
Decker Drive
Apt
Gulf Coast
Dessie Mae Thomas
Houston
Department Public Safety
Garth Road
Thomas
Willie R. Willie
Gulf Coast Hospital
City Projects Update On Water Line And Public Works
City manager Fritz Lanham reports progress on water line work on Deckers Drive with an expected three week finish after weather delays tests at a new water well resolved sand infiltration and pumps installed. Brownwood perimeter road 1000 feet graded. parks maintenance building exterior near completion. Sewer lift stations bids forthcoming for 1970 bond program with West Main site excavation underway. Police building on North Main nears completion with interior work and ducting. a Dale Street sewer line collapse noted.
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Fritz Lanham
Lanham
Decker Drive
Brownwood Perimeter Road
Brownwood Drive
Bayshore
Shreck
Park Street
West Main
North Main
Dale Street
Trains Collision Kills Thirty on Chicago South Side
Two commuter trains collided during morning rush hour killing thirty people. The disaster occurred on Chicago's South Side prompting emergency response and inquiries into causes as investigators arrived at the scene.
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Chicago
Viet Cong Warns War Will Continue Over Thieu
The Viet Cong declared it will press on with the war unless the United States forces South Vietnamese President Thieu to accept the peace accord or steps him down. Mrs. Nguyen Thi Binh, head of the peace talks, cited U S efforts to renegotiate as evidence of bad faith by the Nixon administration.
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United States
Nguyen van Thieu
Nguyen Thi Binh
Henry A. Kissinger
le Duc Tho
Baytown Area Warns Of Partly Cloudy Warmer Weather
Partly cloudy skies and warmer temperatures are forecast with a chance of showers and a few thunder showers in the Baytown area. Low Monday night 62 to 72, high Tuesday 85 to 81.
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Baytown Area
County adopts septic rules effective January 1 in Chambers
Chambers County will enforce Texas Water Quality Board septic regulations from January 1. A grandfather clause allows current users to retain septic tanks until a sewer system serves within 300 feet. The Health Department will administer the program as growth prompts better waste disposal.
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Texas Water Quality, Board
Chambers County
Oscar Nelson
Nelson
Chambers County Health Department
Mont Belvieu
Beach City
U S Navy Curtails Operations In North Vietnam
The U S 7th Fleet has sharply reduced naval activity and pulled cruisers and destroyers below the 20th parallel to aid cease fire talks. All bombardment above the line has ended and strikes along the rest of the coast are limited.
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Saigon
U.S
North Vietnam
Israel hits four Arab bases after Munich hijack
Israeli planes bombed about seven camps within a seven mile radius of Damascus. The attack targeted Arab guerrilla bases in retaliation for the Munich Olympics hijacking. No casualty or damage figures were released by the Israeli military spokesman.
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Melvin R. Laird
North Vietnam
Hanoi
Haiphong
Tel Aviv
Damascus
Israel
West
Germany
Officials silent on deactivation of Haiphong harbor mines
Officials declined to comment on any action to deactivate mines dropped in Haiphong Harbor. Other sources say no such action has been taken. The 20th parallel lies near Thanh Hoa port, about 85 miles south of Hanoi and 210 miles north of the DMZ, with U.S. ships active roughly 65 miles north of the DMZ.
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U.S
Haiphong Harbor
Thanh Hoa
Hanoi
Demilitarized Zone
Dmz
Book On Plan For Chambers County Ready Soon
The Comprehensive Plan for Chambers County compiled by Rice University urban design graduate students will be available within two weeks. Judge Nelson says the 24 page document on data inventory and planning will aid local governments and others interested in Chambers County’s future. Rice students were engaged by the Chambers County Commissioners last May.
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Chambers County
Rice University School of Urban Design
Oscar Nelson
Nelson
Rice
Chambers County Commissioners
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