Mont Belvieu Considers Telephone Rate Hike
General Telephone representatives pressed Mont Belvieu officials to place a rate increase request on the next city meeting agenda. Homer McBride cited inflation and capital needs as reasons for higher charges affecting business and residential lines.
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Mont Belgieu
Homer McBride
Baytown
General Telephone Co
Goose Creek Country Club
Don McLeod
Andrew Lannie
McBride
Joe Matthews
Mont Belvieu
Douglas Dugat
Matthews
Dugat
Virgil Carlile
McLeod
Lannie and
Larson
David Isaacs
Two Charged In Auto Thefts In Baytown Area
A Houston man Bobby Joe Ford, 21, faces auto theft charges after a 1968 Chevrolet was stolen from O'Brien's Grocery lot in Baytown. Ford was arrested in Westlake, Louisiana, and the car recovered. Dennis Wayne Schuler, 24, is charged with theft by bailee for a 1973 Ford Torino rented from Hugh Wood Ford and not returned. He was arrested in Yakima, Washington, by the FBI, and charged with interstate transportation violations. The vehicle, valued at $3,500 and in good condition, was rented under Schuler's name.
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Houston
Baytown
Washington
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Bobby Joe Ford
O'Brien
N. Alexander
Ford
Westlake
Dennis Wayne Schuler
Hugh Wood Ford
Yakima
Wash
FBI
Arthur Oviedo
Wood
Oviedo
Schuler
Alexander Drive Median Work Cuts City Costs
Texas Highway Department builds median opening on Alexander Drive near Sterling and Defoe for east west city thoroughfare. City Manager Fritz Lanham says work at department expense saves $25,000 on the Brown and Root Sterling and DeFee contract. Sterling becomes westbound to Decker, Defee east to Alexander. merge at Alexander Drive. Limited parking to follow with posted signs.
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Alexander Drive
Sterling
Defoe
Fritz Lanham
Highway Department
Brown and Root
Sterling and
Defee
Alexander
Decker
Icity
City Plans Bids for Drainage Projects in Several Areas
City council will authorize bids for three drainage projects after cost estimates are received. An engineer will prepare plans for Goose Creek Drive Arrowhead in Country Club Oaks Stewart Heights and Bay Way Road and Baker Road near St James House. Budget allocates 50 000 for drainage and 65 000 from revenue funds.
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Arrowhead
Country Club Oaks
Stewart Heights
Bayway Road
Baker Road
St. James House
Lanham
Baytown Students Named to UT Spring Honor Roll
Four Baytown area students in the University of Texas College of Social and Behavioral Sciences earned spring semester honor roll honors. The honorees are Linda Sue Brown Barbara Ann Morgan and Joe Ellen Thorpe of Baytown and Pamela Karol Bettis of La Porte. The oldest stained glass window, dating to 1050, resides in a church in Augsburg Bavaria.
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Baytown Area
University of Texas
College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Linda Sue Brown
Barbara Ann Morgan
Joe Ellen Thorpe
Baytown
Pamela Karol Bettis
la Porte
Augsburg
Bavaria
Today In History highlights for September 30 1973
On this date in history notable events include 1946 war crimes verdicts in Nuernberg 1787 Columbia begins first global voyage 1846 ether first used as anesthetic 1882 first US hydroelectric plant Appleton 1538 leaders approve Sudetenland annexation 1554 Nautilus commissioned 1962 Meredith rioting in Oxford Mississippi Nixon Soviet arms accord signed last year.
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Nazi Germany
Czechoslovakia
Sudetenland
U.S. Navy
Oxford
Miss
James H. ‘Meredith
University of Mississippi
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