Sign-Up Set For Pee Wee Football Play Baytown
Baytown boys over 60 pounds or under six weeks notice urged to sign up for Pee Wee football for grades three through six. The program, sponsored by the Goodfellow Bowl Club and Optimist Club, benefits underprivileged children at Christmas. Sign-up Sunday noon to 4 pm at Junior Optimist Club building. items may be donated. Season starts Oct 7 with play in November.
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Baytown
Pee Wee Foot
Ball League
Ateliows
Mont Belvieu Welcomes Football Season Bonfire Rally
Mont Belvieu residents joined a pep rally at Busch's drug store to celebrate the football season. Senior girls dressed freshmen in burlap sacks with improvised attire while the band performed and spirits rose. Principal Jardson and the high school band led cheers as tri captains Denton Har Graves, Bobby Steck, and Donald Kennedy were announced. Coach Eugene Sharp spoke of a promising year for the Eagles.
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Helen Leonard Mont
Jardson
High School
R. W. Guinn
Jes Barbers Hill
Penny Orms
Linda Dunman
Belinda Green
Linda Camp
Eugene Sharp
Eagles
Dhe Tri
Denton Hargraves
Bobby ‘Steck
Donald’ Kennedy
Carrell
Rich
Houston Lighting and Power OKs $35 Million Bond Sale
Directors of Houston Lighting and Power Co authorize filing a registration with the SEC to sell up to 35 million dollars of 30 year first mortgage bonds. Competitive bids set for November 20, 1867, as the company funds its Project Enterprise expansion including four new generating units totaling 2,630,000 kilowatts and rebuilding services across its 5,600 square mile area.
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Houston
Houston Lighting and Power Co
Securities and Exchange Commission
Coe
HSPCO
Pollution study proposal eyed by two Texas counties
Harris and Galveston County officials consider a joint program to combat air and water pollution. Harris County Commissioners Court ordered Dr L. D. Quebedeaux and Dr Walter Quebedeaux to confer with Galveston officials. A meeting date was not set. Galveston County Judge Ray Holbrook noted the law allows two counties to proceed, and the Mayors and Councilmen's Association backed the idea at an Aug 30 meeting.
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Houston
Harris
Galveston
Harris County Commissioners Court
L. D
Walter Quebedeaux
Galveston County
Ray Holbrook
Holbrook
Galveston County Mayors and Councillmen's Association
Veterans Pension Act of 1967 expands benefits Oct 1
President Johnson signed the Veterans Pension Act of 1967 raising benefits for Vietnam era and older veterans. Key provisions include full wartime disability compensation, nonservice connected pensions, burial allowances, educational grants, on the job and farm training stipends, flight training aid, auto purchases for severely disabled, extended GI loan eligibility, and survivor benefits. The law affects about 25.2 million veterans with new eligibility and increased monthly payments.
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Houston
Johnson
Vietnam
America
Economic Roles Become Dramatic
New York based analysis outlines economic actors in a developing drama of inflation taxes and spending. It notes potential wage and price controls and the search for new guidepost formulas as policymakers face a uncertain path to curb deficits and stabilize productivity.
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New York
Congress
Gardner Ackley
Council of Eco‘nomic’ Advisers
Ackley
The
Society of American Business Writers
Court Approves Work Program For 200 Youths
Harris County Commissioners Court approved a program to employ 300 youths in county agencies and hospitals through the Concentrated Employment Program CEP. The $416,975 in federal funds plus $77,780 in county services backs the effort run by the Harris County Neighborhood Youth Corps, for ages 16 to 21, at $1.25 per hour through June 30, 1968.
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Houston
Harris County Commissioners Court
Harris Countty Neighborhood Youth Corps
CEP
Braking Power: Worker Drives Car Through Wall
A service station employee in Sandy, Dteh, apparently ignored a work order to replace brake linings and started the car, driving it through the wall. The incident highlights a dangerous mix of haste and oversight at the busy station.
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Sandy
Dteh
LIRR Tests Bright Colored Crossing Gates for Safety
The Long Island Rail Road is testing colored crossing gates at two Main Line crossings. Bright yellow and high visibility red patterns replace the standard black and white diagonals to study safety impacts, with tests to remain in use indefinitely for evaluation by safety engineers and government representatives.
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Mineola
Long Island Rail Road
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Uta Waldrop
Barry
Fee Wee Football League
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Mont Belvieu
HLPCO
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Bayton Hur 5
NAVY
Paul Ignatius
Senate Armed Services Committee
Ignatius
Defense
John T. McNaughton
Texas
Halbert Music CO
Completa Line
Harris County Federal
Harris County Federal Savings and Loan Association
Defee Street
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