Flooding Persists in Beulah Battered Valley
Red Cross volunteers in Brownsville and surrounding areas mobilize to aid Beulah flood victims. Shelters operate for about 200 residents, with 1,800 families receiving food aid and 2,500 displaced to refuges in Harlingen, Mercedes, and across the river. Community support from businesses, unions, and scouts helps sustain operations as officials anticipate continued need.
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Brownville
Red Cross
H. H. Gilliam
Brownawood
Brownsville
Beulah
Dayeens
AFL- 76
Matamoros
Pio Grande
Mexico
Harlingen
Red Cro
Simpson
Hidalgo County
Raymondville
Roma
Rio Grande City
Aransas Pass
Corpus
Beeville
Georgewest
Robstown
Rockport
Poet
Three Rivers
San Antonio Ao
Faraway
Zalez
Karnes
Faliurrias
Mathis
World and World News Digest of Strains and Disasters
A montage of AP items: wage talks amid bus and subway driver disputes in Canada, a maritime rescue off Durban where the Trebinje crew are cared for after the Dutch Schiekerk rescue ship incident, London Bible readings drawing crowds in Trafalgar Square, a Canadian Navy bomb disposal at Expo, Jakarta protests over soaring rice prices, and related regional tensions. The report links labor, maritime, religion, defense, and food issues across multiple nations.
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Durban
South Africa
Trebinje
Schiekerk Sun
London
British and Foreign Bible Society
Soho
Trafalgar Square
Kiwanis Club backs stand on disorder in cities
Baytown Kiwanis Club endorses a resolution urging respect for law and order and support of established policing. The measure mirrors a Kiwanis International stance from Houston and calls clubs nationwide to intensify community safety efforts. Copies are sent to 3,200 Kiwanis clubs for 1.77 million members. Also notes Singapore’s $30 million urban renewal plan to rebuild 1700 acres in Singapore City by 1870.
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Baytown Kiwanis Club
Hiwanis International
Houston
U.S
Kr Wanis
Kiwanis
Singapore
Singapore City
Miss Afro-American Beauty Pageant Set At Harlem School
Area Negro girls ages 16 to 24 are invited to participate in the annual Miss Afro-American Beauty Pageant at Harlem Elementary School in McNair at 8 pm Thursday. Call Mrs. Martha Bell for entry. Scholarships and prizes await winners and runners-up. Public invited.
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Harlem Reetary School
McNair
Martha Bell
Frances Huff Chew
San Francisco
Chew
Carver High School
Charm and Modeling
California
Bell
Chevn
Romney Expected To Announce Plans Soon
Detroit AP report says Michigan Governor George Romney plans a national run. He will return Sept 20 and could announce next week then embark on a European tour to Poland and the Soviet Union with stops in major capitals. His itinerary includes Paris London Berlin and Moscow with travel from Nov 16 to Dec 2.
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Detroit
Michigan
George Romney
Associated Press
Romney
Rormmey
Europe
Poland
Soviet Union
Cass
Paris
London
Brussels
Frankfurt
Berlin
Cologne
Bonn
Moscow
Warsaw
New York
San Francisco
The Scene on NBC paints hippie world with moral tone
AP reports The Scene on NBC portrays a California hippie colony and a complex love triangle. Geraldine Chaplin plays the other woman while Robert Stack’s Angelo pursues painting and romance before a final return to his wife and vineyard life.
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Centhia Lowry
Readio
Dew York
Square City
NBC
Geraldine Chaplin
Miss Chaplin
California
Angelo
Dean Martin
Dick Tracy
Angela
LTV Plans Facility At Gregg County Field
Gregg County Airport in Tex will host a multi million dollar LTV Aerospace plant. Production starts by May 1963 with an annual payroll above 3 million by mid 1969. Facility will manufacture components for the AT Corsair II light attack aircraft for Navy and Air Force programs.
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Gregg- County Airport
Tex
LIV Aerospace Corp
Gregg County
Navy
Air Force
81-Year-Old Mont Belvieu Resident Dies at Home
Albert Vinson Kaler, 81, longtime Mont Belvieu resident and retired carpenter, died at his home. Born in Eagle Lake, he belonged to Mont Belvieu Church of Christ. Services were held Tuesday at Sterling Funeral Chapel in Dayton. Burial is planned Wednesday in Highlands Cemetery at Will\s Point. Survived by wife Bertha, two daughters, one son, two grandchildren, two great grandchildren, and siblings. Pallbearers listed.
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Mont Belvieu
Albert Vinson Kaler
Eagle Lake
Mont Belvieu Church of Christ
Sterling
Dayton
Isaac MM. Jones
Mont Get
Highlands Cemetery
Wills Point
Tex
Birs
Willie Kaler
Bera A Creel
Channelview
Vima Ree Ainsworth
Algie Vo Halter
Johny Creel
Ais
William J. Nunley
William 3. Nunley Jr
James Odell Nunley
Eugene Hocker
Highlands
E. 8. Bird
Graneland
Ester Mee Jancy
Houston
Joe Blythe
D. E. Williams
Jerry Nunley
J. D. Griffith
Willie Kilgore
W. H. Munson
George Afilis
LP High Student Ronnie Marshall Earns Top Honors
Ronnie Marshall of Houston, son of Mr. and Mrs. YT O Marshall of La Porte, tallies top honors after La Porte High School 1958 graduation. He held valedictorian status, led in athletics, music and leadership, attended Rice University as an honor student, and built a career in sales, earning Man of the Year and Million Dollar Round Table honors while directing music at Rice Temple Baptist Church in Houston.
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Mont Belvieu
Bornie Marshall
Houston
Marshall
YT. O. Marshall
la Porte
la Porte High School
Rice University
Appa Week Club
Glenda Sue Hollingshead
Baytown
Randall
Rodney
Rice Temple Baptist Church
Mercantile Security Life
Fall store sale spins skirts into a chaotic rush
Jim Kyle recalls a chaotic fall men’s clothing sale where shoppers surged at 9 and crowded the men’s shirts and slacks sections. He describes being blocked by an older woman claiming the unwritten rule that two hands win, while another woman gauges waist size to fit her husband, ending with a desire to avoid future bargains.
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Jim Kyle
Tse
Baytown YMCA Football Leagues Open on Oct 7
Baytown YMCA football opens its 1987 season on October 7 with junior and senior divisions. Junior players are 10 and under at 85 pounds, seniors 12 and under at 102 pounds. Six Baytown teams join Northshore and Northeast YMCA squads in the six-team junior division. one Baytown senior team faces Houston rivals. Games are Saturdays at Baytown field, Northshore, and Northeast fields.
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Baytown
YMCA
Northshore
Northeast Ymcacs
Houston
Market Street
Uvaide
Tidwell
Justice Norvell Retires From Texas Supreme Court
Associate Justice James R. Norvell said he will not seek re election as term ends December 31 1968. Elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1956 after 17 years on the Fourth Civil Appeals Court in San Antonio he turned 65 Sunday. He will continue in law through writing lecturing and teaching.
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Norvell
High Court
San Antonio
AMC raises prices on 1968 models by 3.8 percent
American Motors announced a price increase averaging 3.8 percent or 89 dollars on its 1969 1968 models. The move makes AMC the fourth among major automakers to raise 1968 model prices. Top Ambassador line adds standard air conditioning, complicating direct price comparisons with earlier models.
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Detroit
American Motors
AMC
YMCA Swim Program To Start Oct 3
The Baytown YMCA will begin a youth swim program Oct 3 at Robert E. Lee pool with coach Ron Middleton. Sessions run Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. for ages under 13 and 7:20 to 8:20 p.m. for 13 and older, costing $6 monthly. A stroke clinic starts Oct 16 with Joe Eresti teaching three hourly classes at REL pool. $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. Participation limited to YMCA members.
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Baytown Ymca
Robert E. Lee
Ron Middleton
YMCA
Joe Eresti
Bousten
REL
New Arrivals and Admissions at Gulf Coast Methodist Medical
New arrivals include Mr. and Mrs. Billy Dickerson of 2008 Louisiana with a daughter born September 25 at Gulf Coast. Several patients and rooms listed: Mrs. Melva Istre 1822 Maryland Room 221, Mrs. Emma Jean Whitfield of 339 Massey Tompkins Room 221, Jim Shoemaker 1510 Cedar Bayou Room 231, Mrs. Fred Jones 416 Rollingwood Room 24, Mrs. Richard Auzenne McNair Station Room 324, Mrs. Eddie Mang 10% N Third Room 246, Mrs. Ellen Berry 5203 Decker Room 230, Kenneth Mitchell 405 Chandler Room 247, Thomas Simpson 104 Market Loop Room 319, Mrs. Clifton Narcisse 1804 Ontario Room 343, Elizabeth James Route 2 Room 332, Debra Green Liberty Room 0n.
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San Jacinto Methodist
Jim Shoemaker
Cedar Bayou
Fred Jones
Rollingwood
Richard Auzenne
McNair Station
Eddie Mang
Ellen Berry
Decker
Kenneth Mitchell
Chandler
Thomas Simpson
Market Loop
Clifton Narcisse
Ontario
Elizabeth James
Debra Green
Liberty
Billy
Dickerson
Louisiana
Gulf Coast
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