Stolen $405 Recorder Strains City Hall Rift
In Baytown a $405 tape recorder used by Mayor Lee Liggett to record communications was stolen from his car. The device, kept at times in council meetings, became a focal point of council mayor tension as Cravey and others questioned leadership and reporting. A replacement recorder exists at city hall.
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Lee Liggett
Seaborn Cravey
Cravey
Seabomn
City Hall
Liggett
Kennedy
Congress
Baytown Sun
Alayor’s
Counsellman Cravey
Tommy Cook
Bart Lively
Velma Ansley
Sun
Cook
Kenneth Badgett
Ansley
Huron
Lively
Rotary Anniversary and Unity Lecture At Baytown Events
Baytown rotary club marks 35th anniversary with a lecture by Dr. Dan Procter of Houston. Unity students host a dinner and then hear Rev. Dale Newsome at the Holiday Inn. School registrations detailed for Robert E. Lee High and Barbers Hill district ahead of the new term. reception by Retail Merchants Association set at Robert E. Lee High.
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Rotary
Baytown
UNITY
Holiday Inn
Dale Newsome
Jealners
Robert E. Lee High School
Retail Merchants Association
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
Weather outlook with scattered storms and hot temps
The forecast calls for warm conditions through Tuesday with widely scattered afternoon thunder showers. Highs near 95 in Baytown, with lows around 78. Galveston tides rise Tuesday at 4:41 a.m. and 2:33 p.m., with lows at 10:06 a.m. and 9:33 p.m.
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Baytown
Galveston
Mr and Mrs James Bryan celebrate silver anniversary
Around Town notes quietly mark Mr and Mrs James M. Bryan's silver wedding anniversary and mention plans for a vacation. Sea bent Cravey enjoyed a Trinity River fishing weekend, returning Sunday afternoon. R C Stephenson of Baytown remains hospitalized Gulf Coast Hospital with a heart ailment after admission Friday night. Gerald L Huckaby and spouse completed a week long oil coloring course at Winona School of Professional Photography in Winona Lake Indiana. Ronald Glenn Thornton received a bachelor of business administration degree at Tulane University's summer commencement. Mr and Mrs W C Owens attended the funeral of her brother M J Bozeman 63 at Day Funeral Home Madisonville Texas. cause listed as heart attack Friday.
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James M
Jim) Bryan
Seabent Cravey
Trinity River
R.C. Stephenson
Baytown Grocer
Gulf Coast Hospital
Gerald L. Huckaby
Lakewood
Winona
Three Men Arrested in Baytown Narcotics Case
Baytown police arrested Abraham Estrada 25 Ronald Holley 31 and Charles Lash 39 after a car with defective tail lights was stopped at 11 34 a m Sunday. Marihuana was found in a match box and cigarette papers were observed as an item was discarded on the floor. The men, all residents of Pasadena or nearby, were charged with possession of narcotics in Justice of the Peace M M Brown's Court.
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Baytown
M.M. Brown
Abraham Estrada
Ronald D. Holley
Pasadena
Charles G. Lash
Johnson
Texas Library Seeks Valuable Texana Collection
Library aims to build a notable Texana archive named for Ross Sterling with donations from Baytown Rotary Club totaling 540 dollars. Librarian H I Blasick invites Texas history titles, including rare items like an original Anson Jones letter, for research and family histories.
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Wanda Orton
Texas
Ross Sterling
Baytown
Yoakum
Jacob DeCordova
Gaines Mill
Appomattox
Sam Houston
Ben Thompson
Davis Mounts
Santa Anna
Gail Barden
Lower
Rio Grande Valley
West
Little Dixie
Cynthia-Ann Parker
Search Continues For Miner Louis Bova In Hazleton
In Hazleton Pennsylvania AP res crews probe an underground chamber for missing miner Louis Bova 54 after a cave in on August 13 also trapping David Fellin 58 and Henry Throne 28. A television camera revealed loose coal and broken timber while a 22 inch shaft microphone detected no signs of the flue. Officials plan further exploration with possibly a 13th man to descend the 20 foot shaft as rescue work continues amid multiple drilled holes and shifting hope.
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Hazleton
Res
Cuers
Louis Bova
Bova
David Fellin
Henry Throne
Fellin
Throne
Rites Held In Alto For Baytown Woman
Funeral services for Florence Halcomble of Baytown will be at 1 p m Tuesday at Frank Smith Methodist Church in Alto Texas. Burial at Alo Cemetery under Allen Funeral Home direction. She died Sunday in a local hospital. Survived by son H N Tokcomb and sisters Sadie Holcomb Baytown Martha Hindsley Houston.
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Frank Smith Methodist Church
Alto
Tex
Florence Halcomble
Cedar Bayou Road
Alo Cemetery
Allen Funeral Home
Baytown
H. N. Tokcomb
Sadie Hol. Com
Martha Hindsley
Houston
Saigon seeks custody of three Buddhist monks asylum seekers
Saigon military governor Brig. Gen. Thon That Dinh asked the Foreign Ministry to press the United States to surrender three monks who fled to the U S Embassy seeking asylum. The monks include Thich Tri Quang, a top anti-government organizer and leader. The crackdown on Buddhism since August 21 has boosted tensions as guards and police clashed with protesters.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
U.S
Ngo Dinh Diem
Ngo Dinh Nhu
U.S. Marine
World News Briefs Display Turmoil Across Continents
Mounted police in Plaquemine Louisiana use tear gas to break up a demonstration. In Seaside Oregon a holiday beach crowd clashes with high school and college-age youths. Labor Day parades draw throngs in New York and other cities while Americans celebrate. China and the Soviet Union exchange suspicions over weapons knowledge. The US Embassy grants asylum to three Buddhist monks in Saigon amid tensions with the Vietnamese government. Four Americans barred from a Yugoslav project on chemical prints. Former Soviet spy Burgess dies in Moscow. A government official suggests Colombia rethink relations with the Soviet Union. Coast Guard reports icy Arctic waters near Siberia during oceanographic work. Israel establishes 30 farming villages in Galilee to aid Israeli Arabs.
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New York
Tuskegee Desegregated School Opening Delayed by Wallace
Gov. George Wallace ordered a one week delay in the opening of the newly desegregated Tuskegee public school. He overruled Macon County School Board decisions and backed a strong police presence to enforce the start of the fall term.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Wallace
George Wallace
Macon County
Congost
Reapers
Alabama governor orders delay as troops guard desegregation efforts
In East Central Alabama a public school prepares to admit Negro students amid a state executive order citing threats to peace. Troops ring Tuskegee, traffic rerouted, and Huntsville Birmingham and Mobile brace for possible clashes as desegregation begins with Tuskegee and planned entries in other cities.
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Alabama
State of
Huntsville
Birmingham
Mobile
Wallace
Tuskegee
Col
al Lingo
University of Alabama
South
Nippi
Little Rock
Red China Blames Soviet Tattling On Nuclear Aid Pact
Peking radio in Tokyo accuses the Soviet Union of informing Washington about Chinese plans to build nuclear weapons. The broadcast says Moscow scrapped its pledge of aid and calls it a gift to the United States. Beijing’s tirade compares Soviet propaganda to Nazi Germany’s and urges the USSR to stop aiding China’s weapon ambitions.
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Red
Tokyo
Red China
Soviet Union
Washington
Peking
Peking Radio
Moscow
United States
Grovernment
Germany
China
Chin
U.S
Sayiet
West Texas Areas Get Heavy Rain
Thunderstorms dumped up to three inches of rain in parts of West Texas with winds up to 60 mph. Littlefield gauge logged 3 inches in 45 minutes, while Odessa and Alpine reported significant showers. Temperatures fell about 18 degrees to near 50, and a Houston area downpoured with street flooding and wind damage noted.
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West Texas
Upper
Texas
Highway Department
Littlefield
Lubbock
Mercury
Odessa
Houston
Weather Bureau
Baytonians Observe Quiet Labor Day Holiday
Baytown residents spent the holiday mostly at home or traveling for visits and brief vacations. Registration for school begins Thursday and Friday with classes starting Monday September 9. Back-to-school shopping boosted local business as cafes and stations largely stayed closed and offices operated on skeleton crews.
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Baytown
Labor Day toll could set new record in traffic deaths
Traffic deaths over the extended Labor Day weekend neared a record, with 388 killed since Friday 6 p m local time and over 180 on Sunday. The National Safety Council warned the final toll could reach 825 to 630 if the pace continued, far above last year’s 501.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ide
Illinois
Rockville
Ind
Martinsville
First Little Joe Rocket Test Ends in Nighttime Brief Fire
A Little Joe rocket failed during the first test at the White Sands range while attempting to launch three astronauts to the Moon before 1970. The rocket motors detonated after liftoff causing a fuel burn that lasted 19 seconds, and the two Little Joe capsules landed nine miles from the impact site on the mixed range.
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Apple
Suel
Tater
Littie Joe
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