Lee College inks new two year contract with TDC for prison teaching
Lee College signs a new two year contract with the Texas Department of Corrections to continue teaching academic and vocational courses at prison units through Aug. 31 1977. The program bills TDC per student and per course with regular faculty commuting to units. The agreement requires a minimum class size of 25 and covers travel and instructional costs with the college receiving state reimbursements.
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Lee College
Johnella Boynton
Texas Department of Correct
TDC
Huntsville
Jim
Baytown
John McCormick
Academi
Stu
Academ
Baye
Drive for Funds Like the Sign
Explorer Post No 100 members Kim Taylor Cindy Jacobs Doug Shipley and Janet Taylor host a muscular dystrophy drive on Labor Day from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the HL and P Service Center on Ward Road with a drive through collection option for contributing motorists.
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Kim Taylor
Cindy Jacobs
Doug Shipley
Janet Taylor
Hl&p
Ward Road
Heavy turnout eyed for Oct 6 school trustee and transit votes
In Baytown area elections on Saturday Oct 6 voters will choose two school trustees to replace Peterson and Ellis while Harris County voters decide on creating the Houston Area Rapid Transit Authority with power to levy a vehicle emissions tax. Filing ends Sept 6. 30000 eligible statewide in the district including 21000 in Raytown.
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Harris County
Houston Area Rapid Transit Authority
Baytown
Wayne Hansen
Wes Balentine
Troy Peterson
James
Slick) Ellis
Baytown City
Raytown
City Traffic Panel to Meet Tuesday at City Hall
City officials announce a traffic committee session at City Hall on Tuesday. Separate elections will use separate voting machines in city and school district precincts. Supporters of the Rapid Transit Authority push the proposal as the only solution to mounting traffic.
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Jsaytown City Council
City Hall
Rapid Transit Authority
Baytown Weekend Weather With Tides Forecast
Partly cloudy and warm weekend in the Baytown area with a slight chance of daytime thundershowers. Weekend temperatures dip to the low tens. Sunday highs around Sun day and Saturday night lows. Morgans Point tides show high at 8 25 a m and 3 04 p m with lows at 7 13 a m and 3 4 p m Sunday. Monday tides list high at 4 56 p m and low at 3 68 p m. Denotes weak tide.
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Baytown
Morgans Point
Postal Hike Planned for Newspapers and Magazines
The Postal Service will raise rates for second through fourth class mail, chiefly newspapers and magazines, within two weeks after a Cost of Living Council ruling exempted the increases from Phase 4 controls. First class air mail and packages stay at current rates.
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Washington
Postal Service
Council
Project Save targets Baytown area drivers with extra patrols
Traffic violators face 15 additional highway patrol units weekly from Saturday through December 31 under Project Save ment of Public Safety. Sgt Roy Williams notes the program uses off duty patrols funded by a National Safety Administration grant to crack down on drunk drivers on Interstate 10 and U S 90 in Harris Hidalgo and Chambers counties. The DPS Projects 42 traffic deaths over the holiday weekend.
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Barbara Cleland
Baytown Area
Project Savement of Public Safety
Roy Williams
Baytown-Webster
National Safety Administration
Texas
Harris
Hidalgo
Chambers
Baytown
U.S. 90
Harris County
Williams
DPS
Buckle Up Labor Day Talk Promotes Traffic Safety
Baytown Chamber of Commerce luncheon speaker Robert Feinberg urged seat belt use, arguing 8 000 to 10 000 lives could be saved yearly. He compared traffic deaths to wars, noted Vietnam fatalities and cited Baytown crash stats through July, with one local death this year and total 1972 deaths reaching a record.
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Wanda Orton
Baytown
Feinberg
Football Rivalry Headlines Baytown Season Opener
Baytown braces for Sept 7 as two football powers the Ganders and the Rams begin a season of high stakes and strong hopes. The Sun pledges to chronicle every clash, preserving local gridiron history amid broader national scuffles.
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Baytown
Watergate
Ream
Ganders
Rangers
Britons Rescued From 1375-Foot Submarine Deep Below Atlantic
Two British divers trapped since Wednesday in a midget submarine 1375 feet down the Atlantic were brought to the surface and transferred to their mother ship the Vickers Voyager. They appeared fit enough to play football and sent love to their wives after three days of alternating despair and optimism in the rescue. Roger Mallinson observed his 35th birthday in the sub Friday and Roger Chapman was 28.
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Cork
Ireland
Atlantic
Vickers Voyager
Roger Mallinson
Roger Chapman
Baytown Home Taxes Compared With 14 Texas Cities
A Tax Assessor-Collector survey compares Baytown with 14 Texas cities, showing Baytown's 1.35 tax rate and 50 percent true value ratio yielding lower city taxes for a $20 000 home than most peers. Cities like Lubbock Port Arthur Abilene Mesquite and Denton show higher assessments or rates. Garland Arlington Richardson Denton and Port Arthur led as examples of higher tax loads and shifting assessment practices in 1972 73 with varied value totals.
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Baytown
Texas
O. M
Coe
Longview
Grand Prairie
Port Arthur
Lubbock
Abilene
Richardson
Denton Ck
Denton
Garland
Bay
Lonevier
Baytonian Jo Ann Nichols to study in Lille France
Jo Ann Nichols a 1973 graduate of Robert E. Lee High School will study in Lille France for a year under the Americans Abroad program of American Field Service. She left Baytown August 21 after brief stops in New York and Brussels and will live with the Rose family in Lille.
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Jo Ann Nichols
Robert E. Lee High School
Lille
France
Americans Abroad
American Field Service
Lee College
Arco Refinery
Channelview
Jo Ann
REL
Heather Donaldson
AFS
Australia
Ann
REI
Lakewood Pool
French Riviera
Mediterranean Sea
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