End of Summer School Marks at Lee College Enrollment Peaks
Lee College urges students to register by Sept 11 with registrar Mrs. Bessie Durham announcing. District expects over 300 additional students and adds 10 teachers to a 600-member faculty. Bowie Elementary and Highlands Junior School gain air conditioning, new bus routes arise from school consolidations, and first graders dismiss early during the first week. Lee College enrollment projected at 2,300, up 10 percent.
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Bessie Durham
Robert E. Lee
Ross Sterling
Bowie
iHighlands
Highlands
McLemore
Anson Jones
George Washington Carver School
Main’Street
Carver Jones
Thas
McNair
Cove Road
Carver
Baytown Area Club Meetings and Local Notices
Baytown groups announce a packed schedule with Jaycees meet at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday and Rotary observing its 40th birthday with a noon ceremony Wednesday. Garden Club, Radio Club, sorority chapters, PTA, and garden group gatherings are listed, plus scattered daytime showers and a budget study meeting at city hall. PAUL N. Mears, Highlands, completed Army ROTC camp at Ft Benning.
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Jaycee
Barbers Hill
Baytown Jaycees
Chamber of Commerce
Lergarten
Rotary
Baytown Rotary
Wednes Garden Club
Th Tower
Baytown
will/Pickens
Bayshore Amateur Rain Club
Mike Watson
T Pam
City Hall
Fritz Lanham
Local social notes mix of visits and events
J B Wood visits while shopping and Osie McDaniel hosts sisters. Mrs Lela Muter set for school. Sandra Munson says hello. Pat Ryan and Phillip DePrang plan to visit Astroworld. Dera Ward debuts new hairdo. Mrs Paul Hinton visits ex-student. Judy Burnet prepping for college. C C Parrish to attend a singing convention. Diana Middleton and mother surf Galveston. Waddell family hosts Mike in Army and Don Davison in Chicago. East Harris County Medical Society Auxiliary to meet 6:45 p.m. Tuesday at the Tower with a slide program by Dr and Mrs John Scott.
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J. B. Wood
Osie McDaniel
Lela Multer
Sandra Munson
Pat Ryan
Phillip DePrang
Astroworld
Dera Ward
Paul Hinton
Judy Burnet
C. C. Parrish
Diana Middleton
Galveston
W. E. Waddell
Mike
U.S. Army
Don Davison
Chicago
Ill
East Harris County Medical Society
Tower
John Scott
Humphrey Opens New York Labor Day Campaign Parade
Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey led a Fifth Avenue Labor Day march with AFL CIO leader George Meany guiding a labor coalition. He urged victory in New York, denounced violence, and pressed for peace talks with North Vietnam while facing antiwar protests and a cautious reception from the crowd.
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New York
Hubert H. Humphrey
Fifth Avenue
White House
Broad Avenue
Humphrey
Democratic Party
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Harry van Arsdale
Central Labor Council
26Th Street
New York State
Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
Detroit
Cadillac Square
Burt
Paul O'Dwyer
O'Dwyer
Minneapolis
North Vietnam
Paris
Traffic Council Proposes Crime Spot Program in Baytown
Baytown Citizens Traffic Council seeks to form Operation Crime Spot a citizen crime detection effort. Volunteers would observe report and alert police for crimes fires accidents and suspicious acts. Police would then assume lead role with the council discouraging heroics.
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Jerry Aldredge
Baytown
Citizens’ Crime Detection Council
Feinberg
Lwe
Waffie
Ctizens
Traffic Council
School Zone Warning From Baytown Police Chief
Baytown Police Chief Blair Mann urged careful driving in school zones on Monday. He noted the 20 mph limit and highlighted the Carver-Jones School area on Lee Drive where a zone is in effect. Drivers often forget this area, he said, urging observance as school resumes.
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Baytown
Blair Mann
Carver - Jones
Lee Drive
Baytown Firemen Put Out Two Weekend Blazes
Baytown firemen responded to a Sunday 1 21 p m attic fire at J Don's Beauty and Barber Supply Co 2010 N Main with damage confined to the attic and back room A suspected hot water heater explosion caused the blaze Another fire from trash burning at West Main and Alexander was extinguished at 740 p m on Sunday
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Baytown
J. Don's Beauty and Barber Supply Co
N. Main
West Main
Alexander
Viet Cong Rockets Kill 27 in Da Nang Anniversary Attack
Saigon reports 31 Soviet rockets struck Da Nang killing 27 civilians and wounding 46, with five rockets hitting U S Navy HQ in Da Nang and one Marine wounded. Attacks also hit Dien Ban and Tam Ky, wounding militia. a separate barrage near Tay Ninh wounded soldiers and civilians.
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Ho Chi Minh
da Nang
South Vietnam
U.S. Navy
Daligang
Dien Ban
Tam Ky
Tay Ninh
Labor Day Traffic and Political Debates Across Nations
As millions travel home from Labor Day, traffic deaths edge past last year. UK Labour protests accompany a Trades Union Congress gathering in Blackpool. US figures show diverging views on Chicago mayoral protests and crime concerns. Pope encyclical birth control viewed unfavorably by Gallup respondents. Six Flags Over Texas ends summer season, with violence deaths rising toward Labor Day weekend.
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Six Flags Over
Texas
Entertainment Center
Baytown Colonel Retires After 28 Years In USAF
Hanscom Field Mass Col Henry Dittman base commander and Baytown native retires after more than 28 years of service. A formation parade and flyby capped the ceremony. His successor as base commander is Col Wilbur J Grumbles. Dittman a 1939 Texas A and M College graduate served as pilot and held commands in multiple states before joining Hanscom Field. He and his wife Stormer Huth Aller have two sons Lt Henry Dittman Jr USAF and Ralph Ernest Dittman.
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Hanscom Field
Mass
Henry Dittman
Col. Dittman
A&m College of Texas
Wheeler Field
Hawaii
19Th
Hickam Field
Philippines
U. S
Kansas
California
Greenland
Air War College
Air Force
Texas A&m
Paris
Florida
Texas
Dittman
Stormer Huth Aller
Baytown
Henry Ditttman Jr
USAF
Ralph Ernest Dittman
National Day Of Grief Proclaimed In Iran Earthquake Toll
Iran declared a national day of mourning after a devastating quake in the northeast killed more than 222 people and left about 100,600 homeless in a 750 square mile area. Officials said thousands were injured and water and food supplies were rushed to tent cities as Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi directed relief efforts from Tehran.
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Jeywran
Iran
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi
Tehran
Amir Abuss Hoveida
Ghasvin
Haknak
Bing-Abad
Pollution Hearings Set Across Chambers and Galveston
The Committee for the Study of Land Use and Environmental Control schedules hearings in Chambers and Galveston Counties on September 3 and 5. On September 5 at 2 pm, testimony on local water solution problems will be heard in the District Courtroom of the Chambers County Courthouse in Anahuac. County Judge O F Nelson Jr and other citizens will testify. Invitations go to Trinity Bay Conservation District Trinity River Authority and the Chambers Liberty Counties Navigation District along with county officials.
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Hugh Yantis
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