Baytown readies for busy civic week events and traffic toll
A district governor speaks at the Baytown Retay Club. Brownwood Civic Association hosts a picnic at Milner Drive city park. cadet Gerald Teel completes Air Force reserve training. Armando Rios awarded the Bronze Star for Vietnam service. Nationwide holiday traffic toll climbs toward 500 to 630 deaths as crashes mar the Labor Day weekend.
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Gerald A. Teel
Highlands
Air Force
Little Rock Afb
A. H. Teel
Weather and tides report partial cloud and heat
Weather and tides section notes partly cloudy and hot conditions with temperatures from 74 to 93 degrees. Weekend rainfall totals 0.09 inch. Galaxy wind readings show Sunday low around 75, an 8 am 50 degree reading, and weekday tides listed for Galveston with multiple high and low times.
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Sun Weather Station
Breakfast Spot to Pluck Glasses and Luggage in News
A collage of local people including John Busch Paul Lemon and Bob Beverly mark Labor Day routines. Mentions of breakfast calls, travel notes, and social updates from Ber mudas Baytown Galveston and DeQueen with Mrs E H Davis returning home from hospital and Mrs David Rogers earning a private pilot license after flying from Florida.
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John Busch
Paul
Pogo
Lemon
Bob Beverly
Cecil Morse
Bermudas
R. L. Parker
Irving St. John
Vince Romberg
Blair Mann
Rufus Honeycutt
Bessie Brown
Waco
Herbert Herbert
Brendal Cooper
DeQueen
Ark
Searcy Galing
Baytown
South Carolina
Richard Collard Matherine
Warford
Family
Galveston
Johnny Moore
Morton McPhail
E.H. Davis
St. Joseph's Hospital
Houston
Maplewood Drive
David Rogers
Florida
Wanted Alive Posters Go Up in Baytown
Baytown Optimist Club launches its Wanted Alive campaign with posters next Monday September 32. Posters urge motorists to guard children’s safety, noting signs such as a tender age height growing unruly hair and trusting eyes. Posters funded by Optimist Bob Beverly and Jim Carter.
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Baytown
Lester Alford
Bob Beverly
Jim Carter
Two Chicago men charged with ten counts of attempted murder
Robert Sarri aged 22 and George Sajenko aged 19, both of Chicago, face ten counts each of attempted murder following a shooting spree in Chicago in which police say they wounded one person. The World Journal Tribune reports settlement with ITA craft unions and plans to publish its afternoon New York newspaper next Monday. Senator Thruston B. Sforton criticizes Senate Democratic leadership for an embarrassing proposal to reduce U.S. troop commitments in Europe.
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Robert Sarri
George Sajenko
Chicago
the World Journal Tribune, Inc
Ita
New York
Sen
Thruston B. Sforton
Senate
U.S
Europe
Two New Federal Judges Sworn In South Texas District
John V. Smeteton Jr and Woodrow Seals will be sworn as U S district judges in Houston at 1 a m on Wednesday in Courtroom No 6 of the U S Courthouse. A reception and luncheon follow at the Shamrock Hilton Emerald Room with many judges lawyers and officials from Texas attending.
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Allen B. Hannay
James Noel
Joe Ingraham
Renaldo Garza
Hannay
Jack W. Schoule
St. Stephens Methodist Church
Thomas W. Sumners
St. John the Divine Episcopal Church
Singleton and Seals
Emerald Room
Shamrock Hilton
Arthur P. Terrell
The
Houston Bar Association
Houston
W. C. Shaler
State Bar of Texas
Leon Jaworski
Judiciary Committee
American Bar Association
Seals
Singleton
Hyman Judah Schachtel
Congregation Beth Israel
Chris J. Robinson Jr
Mabel Edith Oliver
Adil
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
John R. Brown
Homer Thornberry
Austin
Joe Estes
Dallas
Northern District
Texas
Adrain Spears
San Antonio
Joe C. Fisher
Jasper
Jack Pope
Texas Supreme Court
Joe Greenhill
Ruel C. Walker
Bob Casey
Jack Brooks
Beaureant
Jake Pickle
Ralph Yarborough
John Tower
Greta Grows As Scientists Eye Seeding
Miami AP reports tropical storm Greta, the seventh of the season, expected to intensify toward hurricane strength as scientists at Project Stormfury decide on seeding with silver iodide. Greta lay about 385 miles northeast of San Juan and 1,200 miles east southeast of Miami, moving northwest at 10 mph with 85 mph winds and 130 mile gale extensions.
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Miami
Fla
Greta
South Atlantic
Project Stormfury
San Juan
Sumiay
Leeward Islands
Caribbean Sea
Nation Pays Tribute To Its Work Force Today
Washington AP reports Labor Day observances mark the nation’s labor effort with speeches by President Johnson and officials, noting record employment and rising prices blamed on profit inflation. Meany defends the right to strike while Congress considers airline strike legislation amid labor and economic tensions.
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Awa
Congress
Afl-Cio International Peeraig
Meany
Literature Panel To Meet Tuesday
The Baytown Citizens Committee of Decent Literature will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the K of C Hall on West Main. A nonprofit charter is filed with the Secretary of State. By-laws adoption, permanent officers, and nominees will be discussed and elected. A film titled Pages of Death will be shown. public attendance is invited.
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Baytown
K of C
West Main
Secretary of State
Whites Bayoneted- Guard Maintains Peace In Cicero
National Guardsmen and police used bayonet tipped rifles and billy clubs to separate about 2 300 marchers for open housing in Cicero as 1920s era white residents clashed with mostly black demonstrators CORE led the march with 700 law enforcement keeping order. The event followed a plan by CORE and MLK to press open housing after Chicago officials agreed to a broad program. Guardsmen were ordered to shoot if fired upon and stayed on standby to prevent breakout, while officers protected marchers and restrained hecklers. Elsewhere, security for President Johnson proceeded as 41 000 National Guardsmen dwindle to about 200 on standby, with protests at the Eagles club.
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Associated Press
National Guardsmen
Cicero
Chicago
Ece
Congress of Racial Equality
CORE
Martin Luther King Jr
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Dayton
Ohio
Johnson
West Side
Milwaukee
Order of Eagles
Eagles Club
Heart Pump Patient To Return Home
In Houston Methodist Hospital prepared to announce a discharge date for Mrs Esperanza del Viro Vasquez a 37 year old Mexico City autiatian the sole survivor of mechanical heart pump surgery She neared four weeks since operation with the temporary pump removed and no complications reported while her spirits and activity level improved
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Houston, Tex
Methodist Hospital
Esperanza del Viro Vasquez
Mexico City
Methodist
Vasiquez
McNamara Warns of Possible US China War Per Report
Paris based Enterprise quotes Defense Secretary Robert McNamara saying a war between the United States and Communist China could occur as a byproduct of Vietnam fighting, though he attributes the danger to China. He stresses no justification for China’s involvement and pledges any needed force in Vietnam.
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Paris
Robert
McNamara
China
Viet Nam
Enterprise
United States
Jany
Hanoi
Vet Nam
Johnson urges patience as labor gains unfold
President Johnson campaigned in Michigan on Labor Day urging labor to temper wage demands and not expect all gains at once. He spoke in Detroit and Battle Creek, tied inflation to medical costs, and pledged to push 1967 repeal of Taft-Hartley Section 4B while defending government concern for affordable medical care. He repeated a goal of a guaranteed annual wage and noted pending federal cost studies.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Johnson
Michigan
Detroit
Citadel
United Auto Workers Union
Wil Keith Kellogg
John Harvey Kelloge
Labor Dar
Cobo Hall
Patrick V. McNamara
D-Mich
East Harris County Democrats urge roll back of interest rates
The East Harris County Democrats telegrammed President Lyndon Johnson urging a reduction of high interest rates. Irving St John, chairman, announced the message after a Holiday Inn meeting with Loyal Democrats urging steps to ease rates stifling local prosperity.
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East Harris County
Reds Say U S Sank Small Chinese Boat
Saigon dispatch reports Red China accusing the United States of sinking a small Chinese vessel in the Gulf of Tonkin, with a second boat damaged and nine crewmen killed. U S officials denied detailed comment while confirming other carrier air strikes against North Vietnam and a Vietnamese boat sunk. Meanwhile, U S pilots downed several North Vietnamese aircraft and new losses raised the total. In the Mekong Delta fighting, German-trained troops were reportedly wiped out in a three day operation, as South Korean troops arrived to bolster allied forces ahead of elections. An Army C-130 crash in Vietnam killed four villagers and injured others, and a misfire from a Zuni rocket caused damage at Da Nang airfield.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Red China
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Peking
7Th Fleet
Gulf
Hanphong
Washington
Pentagon
Radio Peking
Mekong
Nha Trang
South
Deng Tra
da Nang
Air Field
Right On Schedule Farm Wage Marchers Reach Austin
In Austin Texas the Rio Grande Valley Sun folk marchers reached the capital after a two month hike for a 125 cent wage, stopping at St Edward’s University for a 55 minute rally led by Father Sherrill Smith. marching from Shiado Creek toward the city limits, the group walked under gray skies, with a burro mascot named 1.23 and plan to press for higher wages at a Labor Day rally.
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Austin
Tex
Rio Grande
Sun- Valley Farm
St. Edward's
Austin Sun-folk School
St. Edward‘s University
Burtro
Shiado Creek
Miss America Contestants Begin Busy Pageant Week
Atlantic City opens the 39th Miss America Pageant with fifty contestants. Aged 19, height 5 ft 6 in, weight 123 lb, with brown hair and blue eyes, each will smile for cameras and answer questions amid autograph seekers. Notables include Miss Texas Susan Logan and Miss Mississippi Robbie Robertson, while Miss Alaska Nancy Wellman stands 5 ft 2 in and 101 lb. A winner will be crowned at midnight Saturday.
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Atlantic City
Nji
Tennessee
Vicki Hurd
Kingsport
Mississippi
Robbie Robertson
Hattiesburg
James Darren
Susan Logan
San Angelo
Susan
Alaska
Nancy Wellman
Fairbanks
Convention Hall
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