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Newspaper
Deer Park Progress
Location
Deer Park, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 08, 1977
Page
2
The Progress urges Deer Park City Council to table a Planning and Zoning Commission moratorium recommendation to aid growth. It notes damage from the commission’s stance, questions current representation, and calls for broader business input and mindful future planning to restore the city’s image and economy.
Dr Harris sought autopsy after Mr Newton died but Mrs Newton refused saying she did not want her husband's body cut up. The physician then discussed medical knowledge with her to seek consent.
Bryant Berry Jr. notes autopsy gains and past benefits to mankind. Mrs. Newton consented to a limited autopsy but later sued Dr. Harris for trespass, seeking 25000 in damages. The court ruled the widow holds primary rights to the deceased’s body and that mutilation without consent constitutes a legal wrong.
The article outlines funeral cost factors and compares traditional burial with cremation and memorial society options. It urges planning in advance, asks specific questions of funeral homes, and notes consumer protection guidance from state attorneys general offices with toll free help.
Readers may address questions or complaints to the Deer Park Progress and a reply will be published. Send to Answer Line P Q Box 363 Deer Park Texas 77536 or call in questions. Letters to the editor should be signed though names may be withheld on request.
A narrator laments overflowing junk mail offers promising wins from magazines and endless life plans. He recalls near misses with a South Seas cruise and radio prizes, notes money tightness, and jokes about deceased-mail cures while observing seasonal prep and thrift.
In bygone progress files a range of Deer Park items appear including a woman in Asia raped and stabbed in her home, Diane Phelps dying from injuries after a car crash, Deer whip Alvin in a season opener, and 1975 council salary and charter hearing discussions. Other entries note high school architecture, National Merit semifinalists, Dr. Jack Albert headed pathology, Cornerstone placed on a south campus high school, T Street renamed San Augustine, a 1972 open house for a new chamber building, public hearings for two hospitals, the first fair festival in 1971, Vickery named interim bank president, and 1970s zoning changes.
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