Deer Park Council Rejects Referendum on Luella Corridor
Ardent citizens plan action after a 4-3 Deer Park vote rejected a proposal for a referendum on opening Luella Street as a secondary route from Spencer Highway to 225. The controversy drew 100 plus attendees as council later approved a $137,000 THD TOPICS grant with $37,000 local match, prompting debate on safety and traffic impacts near schools.
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Deer Park
Luella
Spencer Highway
City Hall
Texas Highway Department
THD
Council
Walter Hall
James Cook
Jimmy Burke
Bill Chmylak
Bill Black
Bob Staton
Bob Linberger
Cook, Burke
Hail and
Chmulak
Black
Staton
Linberger
Williams Appointed to Senate Occupational Education Committee
Dr. Lebron B Williams superintendent Deer Park Independent School District accepted an appointment to the Citizens Advisory Committee of the Senate Committee on Occupational Education. Chairman Senator Chet Brooks. the panel, in its fifth year, will study funding, coordination, curriculum, training and guidance across vocational education.
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Lebron B. Williams
Deer Park Independent
Citizens Advisory Committee
Senate Committee On Occupational Education
Chet Brooks
Williams
Texas College and University System
Centra Education Agency
Buffalo Savings
Town Plaza
Planning and Zoning Commission
Byers-Fletcher
City of Deer Park
Durant St
John Vann
Committee of Concerned Citizens
Sandra Jane Jordan
L Street
Harris County
Pasadena
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
Shell Oil and Chemical Company
A. C. Moninger
The
Jaycees
W. R. Durland
Chamber of Commerce
Lebron Williams
Deer Park Police Department
Chamber
Two Deer Park Graduates Win Baylor Degrees
Baylor University awarded degrees to 313 students at the end of the 1971 fall semester on December 21. Among the graduates were two Deer Park natives, James M. Corley and Donnie A. Lewis, earning BA degrees in radio TV and religion respectively.
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Deer Park Baylor
Waco
Tex
Baylor University
Deer
Perry Bingham To Have Kidney Transplant Friday
Perry Calvin Bingham of Deer Park enters Methodist Hospital in Houston for a Friday kidney transplant with his mother Martha Bingham as donor. A new technique will implant her kidney as a backup to his functioning own. costs are being raised with about 9000 in a Deer Park Bank fund and Jaycees Blood Bank ready for blood. hospital bills, doctors, and radiology total substantial, with insurance nearly exhausted.
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Perry Calvin Bingham
Deer Park
Martha Bingham
Linda
Methodist Hospital
Houston
Perry
Binghams
Bingham
Deer Park At Risk From New School Financing Ruling
The U S District Court panel ruled Texas public school financing violates both federal and state constitutions. Deer Park ISD faces stakes alongside Harris County districts as differences in per pupil spending and building costs highlight funding inequities. The decision questions local control versus state minimums and whether districts can exceed or must limit spending. Continued on page 3.
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U.S. District Court
Deer Park
Harris County
Houston
Southwestern Bell Plans Record Houston Area Expansion
Southwestern Bell budgets a 1972 capex of 136.4 million for Houston metro communications growth. Don Carpenter, district manager, notes this beats total outlays of 1960–68 and tops 1971 by 10.8 million. The company forecasts 75,000 new telephones in 1972, with most work indoors and underground, including two new buildings in downtown Houston and Klein area expansion.
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Southwestern Bell
Houston
Don Carpenter
Telephone Company
Carpenter
Greater Houston
San Jacinto
Caroline On
Clay
Texas Eastern Transmission Corporation
Klein
San Jacinto Board awards two contracts. regent resigns
The San Jacinto College Board of Regents held a routine meeting Monday night awarding two contracts. A $2,700 contract covered audio-visual equipment and a $2,400 contract bought a pick-up truck for the maintenance department. Dr. Robert Crozier, head of the data processing center, resigned to take a similar post at Purdue University.
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San Jacinto College Board of Regents
Robert Crozier
San Jac Data Processing Center
Purdue University
Deer Park 1971 Street Controversies Review
A condensed Deer Park retrospective notes 1971 began and ended in street quarrels over T Street while detailing other city events. It cites Buffalo Savings opening, zoning debates, a mobile home project halt, and notable local figures gaining or losing roles, including community awards and resignations.
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Deer Park
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Elsie Moore
City of
Deer Park Reserve
ER Park Progress
Dr. Williams
Leella Street
Jesse Meza
Betty Doebbler
Eldon Hughes
Luella St
Perry Bingham
Deer Park Jaycees Blood Bank
By John Black
Crosby
Baytown
By Ann Owen
Janus
T Street
Center Streets
Rudy Wallace
Deer Park Hospital Authority
Shell Chemical
Central Baptist Church
Deer Park High School
D, H. Tolar
Tolar
Tommy Cutter
Shell
Earl E. Dunn
W. E
Bill) Black
D. H. Tolar
James L. Cook
Bonnie Johnson
Jimmy A. Burke
Stanley
April Boll Black
Ed Hawkins
Stanley Young
Patrick E. Kronin
Guy W. Caldwell
John Simmons
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