The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 212, Ed. 1 Monday, July 6, 1981 Page: 1 of 28
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The Baytown Sun Invites
TOMMY STANDARD
Baytown
To See
“SUPERMAN II”
At The Brunson Theater
(This Pass Good Through July 16)
(This Pass Good For 2 People)
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Volume 59, No. 212
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Monday, July 6, 1981
Baytown, Texas 77520
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LITTLE MR., MISS FOURTH OF JULY
FIREWORKS AND entertainment were only part of
the patriotic festivities available to, the more than
20,000 who celebrated Independence Day Saturday at
"Bicentennial Park. Trey Griffith and Stephanie
Wagner were crowned Little Mr. and Miss July 4.
Stephanie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rudy,
WagneY, and Trey’s parents are Jim and Audrey Qrif-
fith, all of Baytown. Although rain dampened the
grounds, spirits remained high and dry as celebrants
ran for the gazebo, canopies and umbrellas during a
brief afternoon sprinkle. Bobby Rountree, parks and
recreation director, estimates between 20,(XXK and
25,000 enjoyed the event . >
(Son staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
Baytown Service Restored
Rain Leave! 850 Without Phones
ByTIM POTTER
A damaged Southwestern
Bell Telephone Go. cable
that blacked out 95 percent,
■of the long distance calls in
Baytown" Friday was
^repaired Saturday after-
noon, said" Bob Wilson, the
division manager for
General Telephone Co.
But in a separate mishap,
GTE workers Monday were
still trying to restore, ser-
vice to about .850,customers
ijving on the south side of
Crosby.
The** Southwestern" Bell
Pearce Street Journal —
The Way It Was
Wf spent many hours in
our early days here over
50 years ago with real
oldtimers who dated back
to pre-Baytown Refinery
Days. ■——
In those years mer-
chants cashed more
paychecks than banks,
and the least sought com-
pany checks were Humble
.and Brown & Root. • — .
Tempus really did fugit
in Goose Creek and New
'Town.
/ ' * FH
cable was accidentally cut
Friday but workers were
able to repair the damage
by Saturday afternoon,
when all long distance ser-
vice was restored.
According to Wilson, the
GTE cable, which runs
along FM 2100, was damag-
ed Thursday when some
unknown person was “prob-
ing” near the cable with a
steet rod. Apparently the
person was trying to locate
pipe lines, Wilson said.
-He said the cable was
repaired, Friday and, ser-
vice wasv completely
restored. 'But as workers
were finishing up repairs on
the cable Sunday, Wilson
said the line was again
damaged by a sUddep
deluge of rain.
Phone service for the 850
Crosby residents blacked
out once again.
“It just caught us off
guard,” he said. “It’s
something we couldn’t
help.”
Wilson said a 2-inch rain
in less than an hour com-
pletely filled holes where
workers . were' trying to'
complete repairs on the
cable.
Pumps could not keep up
with the deluge of rain, he
said, and the cable was
destroyed.'Workers Sunday
began to lay new cable.
If the rain lets up, GTE-
should be able to replace
the cable Monday and ser-
vice to the Crosby
customers should be
restored Monday'" after-
noon, Wilson said. ■
Natural Gas Bills Could
Jump 54% With Decontrol
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Removing price controls on
natural gas in 1982, three
years ahead of schedule,
could cost consumers up to
$127 billion and raise the
average homeowner’s bill
as much as 54 percent, an
Energy Department
analysis says.
, But 'the report argues
that the benefits would be
substantial.
Full decontrol of the
country’s second most
popular fuel in 1982 is one
option being studied by the
administration, and while
the Energy Department
report made no recommen-
dation, it said President
Reagan “should act soon”
if h*e decides to seek the
change. _____, -
by 1982
The study, ordered
Energy Secretary James
Edwards several monthsjc
ago, is expected to play a
key role in the administra-
tion’s debate on natural gas
prices. It has not been
released, but a draft copy
"was obtained' byN The
Associated Press.
Under a 1978 law, natural
gas prices are gradually be-
ing raised until controls on
most gas are totally lifted
on Jan. 1, 1985. Edward's
has said the administration
is committed to speeding up
that timetable and is study-
ing ways to do it.
The DOE report
estimated t 1} a
homeowners’ natural gas
bills would increase bet-
ween 21 and 54 .percent in
from full decontrol
The cost to all gas
ustamers was estimated
at between $91 billion and
$127 billion.
The department’s study
falls in the middle of
estimates done by groups
on both sides of the decon-
trol issue.
Energy Action, which op-
poses decontrol, estimates
homeowners’ bills would in-
crease 63 percent under full
decontrol. The consumer
group said the average
homeowner would pay $575
for natural gas next year
under current law tout $94i
under full decontrol.
The Natural Gas Supply
t Association, which sup-
ports decontrol, estimates
homeowners’ prices would
The Citizen-Labor
Energy Coalition, represen-
ting unions and consumer
groups, has charged that
immediate gas decontrol
would be disastrous,
costing 3.4 million jobs in
the next four years.
The DOE study termed
the economic impacts
"significant” but gave no
estimate on how many jobs
would be lost or how much
the change would boost the
inflation rate......1______________
It did predict that the loss
to the country’s inflation-
adjusted gross national pro-
0 duct, the'total of all goods
and services' produced,
could be $20 billion over
three years. .
However, it said that im-
pact should be weighed
the benefits from) rising oil
faster decontrol, which it
listed as removing the
“regulatory burden” of
price controls, cutting oil
import levels and stopping
“continued bad press In the
international community,
where we are pressing our
allies to move to market-
based pricing.”
The study said that as an
alternative to full decontrol
in 1982, the administration
ml ght con sid e r so me
method of speeding up the
price increases. It said, that
unless this was done, the
price shock in 1985 from
decontrol could be substan-
tial because the current
monthly increases in
natural gas fall below what
is needed to keep up with
prices. —
No Serious Flooding Is Reported In
Weekend Storms? More RainExpected
“We’re sorry for the in- P*aces
By JIM GOLDING
About U23 inches of rain
has fallen on Raytown since
Saturday, but no major
flooding problems have
been reported here.
The' National Weather
Service is predieting con-
tinued showers and
thunderstorms through ear-
ly Tuesday.
Thundershowers that
moved across East Texas
Sunday caused flooding of
up to three feet in some
convenience to the
customers, but it wasn’t our
fault.”
•Hill’ Council To Study
System To Find Gas Leaks
-By JOAN Me AN ALL
MONT BELVIEU (Sp) —
Development of a program
to test jfbr leakage of ex-
plosive gases will be con-
sidered at the regular
meeting of Mont Belvieu Ci-
ty Council at 6:30 p.m. Mon-
day at City Hall.
The council hds previous-
ly discussed setting up a
surveillance system in
order to prevent future gas
contamination of the city
similar to the incident late
last year which resulted in
KATHY GRIFFITH
returns home from London,
where she visited a friend.
" Chris Hastie helps out his
sister-in-law . . . Keith Hill
back from California.
Bobby Rountree provides
the figures early Monday
morning . .. Lannie Grif-
fith says he’s mad, too.
Judy Chapman returns
from Padre Island where
she had a good time
Formerly of Michigan, Tim
Julson says he enjoys
Texas . . . Kathy McCune
has some good news.
Mike and Shirley Cosio
enjoy a relaxing holiday
weekend at the beach ...
Little David Barrow gets
some spiffy new jeowboy
boots. .
the evacuation *of some 73
families from their homes.
Routine checks of the city
for gas from that leak are council took steps to reach
still being made
The council will also con-
sider a request from Exxon
for potable water, for its
Mont Belvieu Plastics
Plant, which is expected to
go into operation in mid-
1982. The plant is located
along Hatcherville Road.
Before the council can
provide water for the plant,
request from the company-
that the plant be annexed.
At its last meeting, the
(See ‘HILL’, Page 2-A)
On Saturday, heaVy rains
briefly interrupted July
Fourth activities and made
Ap.arts of Bicentennial Park
a quagmire.
Official rainfall Saturday
was .30 of an inch., .07 of in,
inch on Sunday and almost
.86 of an inch from noon
Sunday to 9a.m. Monday
There were some minor
power "outages.
. Houston Lighting &
Power Co. district manager
Jffn Schaeffer . .said the
OPEC Investors Eye
American Refineries
BEAUMONT (AP)
Arab and Venezuelan in-
vestors will soon own at
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it mus^ be within the city’s l t f
IteltlW will half interest
in a fifth refinery in Hawaii,
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Dimension .,....... .6A
Editorial............4A
Fire News...........M
Markets............. 2A
Movie Theaters......4B
Obituaries...........2A
Police News........<2A
Sports............ 1-2B
Television Log.....5B
TUESDAY
SUNRISE: 6:27 a.m.
SUNSET: 8:26p.m.
WEATHER
SHOWERS AND
thundershowers will
diminish Monday night
but will increase Tues-
day. There is a 30 per-,
cent chance of rain Mon-
day night and a 50 per-
cent chance Tuesday.
Low temperature Mon-
day night will be In the
low 70s. Tuesday's high
will be near 90.
TIDES TUESDAY
HIGH: 2:43p.m.
LOW: 7:15 a.m., f 7:40
p.m,
(+ denotes weak tide)
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the*oil exporting group, the
newspaper said
Pacific Resources, Inc. of
Hawaii also says it plans to
sell a 50 percent interest in
its island refinery to
Kuwait, officials of the firm
told the newspaper.
Ray Bragg, executive
director of the American
Petroleum Refiners’
Association, said OPEC na-
tions are not moving into
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outages .were temporary curred southeast
Galveston.
passes with as much as
three feet of water.
Winds of 30 mph. ripped
limbs and toppled trees in
West Houston.
and only affected a few
residents. “We had nothing
major,” Schaeffer
reported.
In Houston, floodwaters
from an afternoon storm
stalled traffic in several
locations and closed
several streets and ' under- The system caused rains
The weather service
reported 1.6 inches of rain
in downtown Houston, 5.5
inches in Katy and 0.8 of an
inch at Houston Inter-
continental Airport.
of street flooding,; 2.14 inches
in Austin; 1.66 inches in Col-
lege Station, 4.30 inches in
Longview, 1.76 inches in
Lufkin , and 1.02 inches in
Shreveport.
Saturday and Sunday from
Dallas to the Hill Country
eastward.
Other rainfall amounts
were 2.45 inches in
Heavy rains are blam^Beaumont-Port Arthur,
Where there was localized
Galveston received 2 in-
ches of rain and was under
a flash flood watch through
Sunday Weather service of-
ficials said*
■r
Broadway, Street tem-
porarily closed because of
high water. ‘
«
In contrast to last sum-
mer’s drought, when no
rain fell for months,
Baytown received a total of
37.5 inches of rain by the
end of June this year..This
is about T1 inches above
normal. •
Civil Defense director
Fletcher Hickerson said 20
inches of rain fell here dur-
ing the month of June. . *-
At the end of May, the ci-
ty received 14.23 inches of
rain for 1981, still about 3.6
inches below normal until
the June rains hit.
Beaumont
says.
But government and oil
industry observers told the
Beaumont Enterprise-
Journal it’s too early to say
whether the foreign in-
vestments represent an ef-
fort to gain control of the oil
processing market.
Since April; four
refineries along the Texas
Gulf Coast-have been sold
to firms headquartered in
OPEC nations, or have an-
nounced intended sales to
companies associated with told the newspaper that the
the U.S.. industry in large
numbers.
“We don’t see that much
in total control." Bragg
said. . He said only five
refinery purchases and in-
tended sales have been
shown to involve OPEC in-
vestors
There are more than 300
refineries in- the United
States involving 200
separate companies, he
said.
“But OPEC purchases of
refineries is something to
watch and something to be
concerned about,” he add-
ed. ^
Michael. Goodwin, an
economist with the U.S
Department of Commerce,
for the collapse of
Firestone store roof
Westheimer.
In Chambers Cpuhty, a
sheriff’s department
spokesman said Smith
Point lostpower due to high
winds.
Liberty County reported
no major rain problems.
Texas City had minor
street flooding, according
to reports.
Pasadena police said
they had no problems at
Gilley’s Fourth of July pic-
nic Sunday because.very
few people attended..
Southeast Texas, in-
cluding Baytown, .was
under a flash flood watch
Sunday and early Monday.
Widespread rain was
reported as far east as Lake
Charles, La., and south into THUNDERCLOUDS CONTRASTED with the harbor lights of Barbours Cut at
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HARBOR LIGHTS, DARK CLOUDS
the Gulf for more than 50 Morgans Point in this stormy scene near Galveston Bay. The chance of showers will
miles. decrease Monday night, the National Weather .Service, but will Increase again
The heaviest rain oc- Tuesday. ' ' ■ ~ - : _
Middle Eastern nation of
Kuwait is involved in
several oil refinery deals in
Texas. He said Saudi Ara-
bian investers also may be
involved in the purchase of
three Texas refineries.
All three refineries were
bought by Peter de Savary,
a British citizen who con-
ducts financial transactions
through Artoc Bank and
(See OPEC, Page 2-A)
~T7~
English Riots
70 Arrested In Two Violent Nights
LIVERPOOL, England
(AP) — Clouds of smoke
from smoldering buildings
and cars hung over this port
city’s Toxteth immigrant
district Monday, after a
bloody night of, riots in
which 185 police were
reported injured and 70 peo-
ple jailed. --
“It is just unbelievable.
I’ve never seen anything
like it,” said Inspector Ken-
neth Hoskisson of the local
Merseyside police, which
of rioters to retake control
of the district after a second
consecutive violent night
A police spokesman gaid
squads of officers arrested
marauding bands of looters report that one officer was migrants, but police said
after eight hours! of riots in speared in the head by . a rioters .'included white and
six-foot iron bar black youths and the
No figures were im- violence was not racially in-
mediately available for in-
which youths smashed
store windows, burned cars
and buildings and attacked
police with stones, gasoline
bombs, bottles and bricks.
Officers with riot shields
and nightsticks entered the
district after being driven
out during seven hours of
violence Sunday.
Merseyside Deputy Chief
Constable Peter Wright told
fired tear gas at hundreds a news conference a total
of 255 policemen were in-,
jured in two nights of1
“public disorder.” He said
none were critically hurt
and denied an earlier
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juries among rioters or
civilians caught in the
violence.
The rioting followed a
five-hour racial melee in
Southall in West London
Friday night, in which 200
white right-wing toughs
with shaven heads known
as “skinheads” fought
Arab immigrants and
police. Authorities said 120
people, including 87 police,
werehurt.
Most of-Toxteth’s popula-
tion are West Indian im-
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spired.- Residents said it
was sparked by police prob-
ing complaints that youths
were stoning motorists.
Youths claim tension had
been high since Friday
when about 50 people, most-
ly blacks, stopped police
from arresting a black
motorcyclist. Five officers
were hurt in the incident
and one youth was jailed.
Police say the violence was
an orchestrated attack by
some black and white
youths.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 212, Ed. 1 Monday, July 6, 1981, newspaper, July 6, 1981; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019511/m1/1/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.