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BAYTOWN Where do you live?'' In Baytown. Where is that? When quizzed about the location of our city one could answer ... thirty miles east of Houston, eighty miles west of Beaumont, and forty miles north of Galveston. Many of us simply reply. Near Houston. Baytown is not just a suburb of metropolitan Houston but a town with its own personal identity. That iden- tity can be accredited to Baytown's long slate of historical heritage. The first residents played a major role in the sixth most important military battle in the world, the Battle of San Jacinto. Although this battle was the initial phase of our heritage, the actual history of Baytown did not begin until the discovery of oil along Tabbs Bay in 1916 and 1917. It is the discovery of this oil that turned a small, strug- gling community into an overnight boom town. This boom town flourished rapidly as former Governor Ross S. Sterling organized the loca- tion for the new Humble Oil and Refinery. Little did anyone suspect that this refinery, now known as Exxon, would grow to become one of the largest in the world. Baytown was begun as a tri-city consisting of Pelly, Goose Creek, and Baytown, but on January 24, 1948 was consolidated, adopting Baytown as the name to unify the three cities. Because of its location, only thirty miles from the fifth largest city in the U.S.. we can share in the big city advantages of Houston while simultaneously enjoying the warmth of a com- munity atmosphere. Houston offers us year- round entertainment ranging from the football spectaculars of the Oilers to the grandeur of the Houston Grand Opera. Not only can we share in the cultural enrichment that Houston provides, but by living only forty miles from Galveston, we can indulge in the sandy beaches and salt water in a single afternoon. Looking ahead, Baytonians will enjoy the facilities afforded by one of Texas' largest shopping malls located at Garth Road and Interstate 10 to be completed in the next year. (a) The Sterling Municipal Library, named after former Texas Governor Ross S Sterling, houses over 100.000 books (b) One of the best-cared-for trees in the state of Texas proudly stands on Texas Avenue (c) The eight story Exxon building is the first skyscraper to appear in Bay- town (d) The Bicentennial derrick is another reminder of Baytown's oil heritage (e) The San Jacinto monument is a living memorial to those who lost their lives in the battle (0 Dominating the night view around Baytown is the Exxon plant with its elaborate lighting system 25
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D SttmM Barbara Lawrence, who initiated the idea of person- alizing the bogus gifts by addressing them from famous personalities, labels her gift from Hol- lywood Henderson Students could have easily exchanged roles with postal carri- ers as thoy arrived at school with shopping bags filled with gifts and boxes of Christmas cards After distributing the better part of their load' Allison Mitchell and Jill Adair exchange cards G Normsn The tree, composed of crepe myrtle branches, bows and twinkling lights, represents sev- enty-two hours of work by student council members 'The amount of people that turned out was amazing; over fifty peo- ple were deferred because of certain limi- tations.' stated Mrs Claire Bays Donald Dunn, junior, was one of the 150 that did qualify Student Life
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