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Newspaper
Deer Park Progress
Location
Deer Park, Texas, United States of America
Date
May 09, 1974
Page
1
Voters are asked to approve multiple propositions detailing bond issues and tax levies for city projects. Propositions cover a new swimming pool, waterworks expansion, sanitary sewer improvements, public buildings, and street with drainage enhancements, with terms set by the City Council and taxes to pay interest and principal.
San Jacinto College will award 397 degrees at an 8 p.m. May 10 ceremony in Slocomb Auditorium with 152 graduates. Kay Boyd of the Waco Rotary Club will deliver the speech. Degrees include 300 associate arts 88 associate of applied science and nine associate of science. Certificates total 79 in technical and business divisions. Honor graduates announced by Dr. O W Marconi. The registrar Norman Rushing will certify candidates. President Dr. Thomas M Spencer leads the degree presentation with board chair Homer I Longenecker and secretary Dr. William R Davison assisting. Ten-year service medals will honor seven faculty and two staff members. Original Board of Regents members receive honorary LLB degrees. Faculty in regalia will process and a reception will follow in the student center ballroom.
Deer Park mayor Bill Black announced at the April 16 city council meeting that state regulators will increase the local gas allocation within a month. He noted forms will be sent to stations to improve distribution and blamed closures of several stations for bottlenecks that left remaining outlets with the same allotment as when more stations operated.
Funeral services for Albert Henry Bruer age 80 of Deer Park were held at Hawkins Funeral Home Chapel in Sarasota with Rev Luther Willer officiating. He leaves son Alfred Bruer three grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Bruer a retired businessman and Lutheran belonged to the German American Social Club of Sarasota. Interment followed at Sarasota Memorial Cemetery.
South Texas Jr. College announces two summer sessions with courses from accounting to zoology. First term runs May 28 to July 3 with registration May 22 and 23 and late registration May 28 and 29. Second term July 9 to August 15. Courses run Monday through Thursday day and evening at One Main Street downtown.
Carpenter district manager for Southwestern Bell says Houston can expect about 634000 long distance calls this Sunday, 254000 more than Christmas Day 1973, with peak usage between 8 30 and 9 p m. He notes dialing before 5 p m lowers rates and may help ensure calls go through.
Beth I Deforde of Deer Park High School is named 1974 Betty Crocker Family Leader of Tomorrow after high scores on a national written knowledge and attitude exam given to seniors December 4. State winner receives 1500 college scholarship. second-place 500. National awards total up to 5000 for top honors with trips to Washington and Minneapolis.
The Texas Nursing Home Association schedules Nursing Home Week May 12 18 in member facilities across Texas to honor residents in Long Term Care. President Rogers Wilson says the week aims to raise community awareness and highlight nursing homes achievements and roles in health care. Activities include parties picnics art shows and visits begin on Mother's Day. Governor Dolph Briscoe proclaims May 12 18 to urge citizens to visit nursing homes meet patients and staff and learn about services and future potential. Theme is Nursing Homes We Care.
A Rice Field Day and tour for the Western Rice Belt of Texas is planned for June 28 in Katy. The afternoon program includes tours of rice and soybean demonstrations and experimental plots in Waller and Harris counties, followed by a barbecue. Headquarters are at Katy High School. All rice and soybean producers and agri businessmen in the Coast Plains are invited.
Learning is fun in Room 402 as fifth year students study aerodynamics of flight with correlated social studies and science lessons. A gym contest produced paper airplanes, with winners in original design farthest flight longest time in air and race categories. Josie Dillon joins cafeteria staff. manager Mrs. Dilys McDonald plans a summer visit.
Deer Park police report several small thefts over the past week. Two air impact wrenches were taken from an unlocked car at 209 Arbor on May 2. An unlocked car at 118 E. 10th was robbed of tuning tools. Two dirt track racing tires disappeared from a building housing race cars at Catalina and Pickerton. A 1972 Yamaha 360 MX was stolen but recovered when a white male about 14 tried to ride it away and fled. A calico cat was stolen from 1501 Byron on May 6.
April 4 services were held for Mrs. Pawine Irene Lambert 73 of Pasadena a longtime resident and member of Broadway Baptist Church in Houston. Survivors include husband Homer C. Lambert Sr daughters Bonnie Cummings Geraldine Langseth Evelyn Reno sons Homer C Lambert Jr Robert F Lambert brothers C W Edwards W M Edwards 17 grandchildren two great grandchildren. Interment at Grandview Memorial Park with pallbearers Paul Jackson Burt Sparks Louis Poirrier Wayne Kinser W C Bostick Cuyler Thompson.
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