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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1967
Page
9
A 28 year old bachelor writes to Kyle confessing several interested girls but no serious commitment. He expresses a desire to marry and asks for guidance or publication of his thoughts. The letter reflects hopes for stable partnership and social expectations of the era.
A reader requests a traditional live-in girl under 25 with money and constant cheerfulness to manage clothes, shine shoes, serve breakfast, wash, yard work, pay bills, sew and can, and be a homebody who visits the farm with his mother. He jokes about poker and hunting. reply warns unlikely match.
Harris County Commissioners Court awarded a contract for remodeling part of the Harris County Civil Courts building in Houston to Homer F Weaver Contractors for 25062 dollars. Weaver was the low bidder after bids submitted Aug 28. Other bids ranged to 329811, 90947, and 32429.
Baytown area lodges Baytown Lodge 1357 and Day Hight Lodge 1288 Houston will be honored during a 9 30 am Saturday September 16 workshop at Goose Creek Lodge 302 West Texas. Grand Lodge of Texas awards honor outstanding Spring attendance. North Houston Morning Lodge 1360 members invited. Clint W Blalock of Houston chairs Area A 7 will present awards and lead meeting.
Channelview elementary school cafeterias DeZavala and Viola Cobb will be air conditioned under a $15,696 contract awarded to Sentinel Mechanical Contractors Inc. Houston. The Channelview school board voted to raise the tax rate to $1.93 per $100 assessed valuation, needed to fund salary increases for teachers and non instructional staff.
Kim Worden has been appointed Baytown schools visiting teacher to work with pupils, parents, and schools on why students miss class. The role, new to Baytown, will involve home visits, referrals, and coordinating with teachers and community agencies to address diverse problems from family issues to attendance.
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