The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 282, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 1987 Page: 1 of 28
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Can we talk?
Chamber series offers
* small businesses help
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Box-office biggie
Life's sweeter now for
movie star Jim Belushi
USA Weekend
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®he Paptoto
Bridge builder
Engineer Dennis Warren
oversees major project
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WEATHER
MOSTLY CLOUDY skies with
a low temperature In the mid
60s are forecast tor Saturday
night Mostly cloudy skies with
a 20 percent chance of rain and
a high temperature In the up-
per 90s are expected Sunday
From 8 a m Friday to 8 a m
.Saturday, a low of 62 degrees
and a high of S3 were recorded
REL Fund
expenditures
contemplated
by officials
Because the school district has
paid the $100,000 insurance
deductible on the Robert E. Lee
High School (ire loss, Baytown
school officials are offering a
few other suggestions for spen
ding money In the REL Fund.
Related photo Page J-A
The fund, established during
May 1987 at Baytown Teachers
Credit Union, totaled $17,210.07
as of Sept 23.
Two Ideas school officials now
offer are purchasing new library
furnishings or buying special
trophy cases for REL
memorabilia, says Superinten-
dent Bill Kennedy
Neither of these items would
be covered by insurance money
and both would provide a tangi
Me opportunity to identify how
money raised in the community
helped reconstruct the school,
Kennedy says.
Maryon Babin and Dr Jeffrey
Tannenbaum gave the first
donations and organized the
REL Fund promotion commit-
tee. which is now disbanded
As of Sept. 23. the list of con-
tributors to the fund is as
follows Mrs Harvey Ashley.
REL Class of 1977. Thelma
Dean. Sarah Ferguson. Rom
Coulter. Mr. and Mrs F E.
■ Rusty" Regan. Betty Darland
and the REL Class of 1975.
Also. Daniel and Jacklyn
Scott. Rainbow Ticketmaster,
Mrs Herman Marquardt, Jim
Mclngvale IASA. J O. Smith.
Baytown Chapter of AB\SA,
Gladys Casey. Foley's and the
REL Class of 1974 '
Also. Frances and Sam
Bethea. Wanda B Hausmann.
William N. Ponder, Delia M.
Mitchell. Patricia May, Ruth
Furbee and Randall’s Food
Market
Tax rate increase
on board agenda
School trustees’ meeting slated Monday
eorce Street Journal -
Pay no mind
A friend reports visiting a
nail coffee shop In a distant
,wn during his vacation and
»mng a sign that said "Please
on’t insult waitresses by tlpp-
ig."
However, on tables were small
ardboard boxes with allta
cross the top labeled1‘Inwl^”
-PLPforFH
Around Town
tNDY SHACKELFORD
lebrates In style ... Bill Ken-
dy has a new nickname and a
Wnvnp Miller
and broken vertebrae. {Sunit*|f photo by Angle Bracey)
‘Guardian angel’
saves woman’s life
Holding her hand agatosther head andwUto
againSlhe pain, Angelina Ybarra carefully raised
lam alive to feel pain," Mrs. Ybarra said In her
room a?Sn Jacinto Methodist Hospital f Hdaythe daya^J
die was pulled from her crumpled car in a ditch on Decker
DlAHighlands resident and nursing student at Lee College, she
was en route to school when the accident occurred.
••There were no cars ahead of me and I looked In the mirror
and saw no cars behind me,” Mrs. Ybarra continued. Then
“JJS Wither vehicle, Mrs. Ybarra's car went Intoa
spin, hit a concrete culvert and then rolled over Into a deep
^Police reported later that a Crosby man had Wa^ed out
bedore his car crossed the center stripe and crashed Into Mrs.
^t^on the brake, but I didn't hit It hard," Mrs. Ybarra
M"Suckierily ^started to spin and the next thing I knew 1 was to
the ditch. I remember screaming ‘Oh my God. Help me
^■1.« ■!» •*> “I )“• ■«* *”d
"gSgyjat'f'*. Prwbymriin cburcb. >i
Ybarra said she has strong feelings that God watches over his
“^Gerald Steven Todd, a Houston man, turned out to be Mrs.
Y^Tdon*1tocw wberete came from -1 guess from up above,"
hMcl above her
m.
where l told him 1 was hurting," Mrs. Ybarra said.
Todd remained with her until paramedics arrived.^
“Thank God he was there,” she said. “He dldn t have to ge
thank him personally.
“I also want to replace his clothing,” she said. “I knew he ruin-
ed them with all that mud and oil that was there.'
Angelina la the Spanish word for angel. Could it be that
AngdtnaYbarra really does have a guardian angel.
By DAVID MOHLMAN
School trustees on Monday will
consider raising the tax rate to
98 cents per $100 property valua-
tion. ,
The board also is expected to
approve hiring a new coor-
dinator of student support ser-
vices and to approve emergency
roof repairs to the Ross S. Sterl-
ing High School girls gym
» The meeting will begin at 7
p.m at the school administra-
tionbuilding, 1415 Market.
The 24-cent tax rate increase
is part of the 1987-88 budget,
passed Aug. 24 by trustees The
present tax rate is 954 cents.
At 98 cents, the owner of a
$50,000 home with no exemptions
would pay $490 in school district
taxes.
The owner of a $50,000 home
who claims the district’s 10 per-
cent and $5,000 homestead ex-
emption would pay $392 this
year
Persia* older than age or
disabled who own a $50,000 home
would pay $147 in school district
taxes if they can claim both their
$25,000 exemption and the
homestead exemption.
The coordinator of student
support services became vacant
last month with the resignation
of Susan Moore. She accepted a
position as special education
director for the Crosby school
district.
The RSS girls gym and Star
Room sustained damage during
a severe thunderstorm the night
of Sept. 18.
Charles “Bud’ Closs,
associate superintendent of ser-
vices, reported in a memo to
Superintendent Bill Kennedy
that the roof rose and then settl-
ed. Minor leaks now exist around
roof edges, but the floor ap-
parently wasn’t damaged, ac-
cording to Closs.
Rawhide Roofing, which fixed
the RSS boys gym roof last June,
quoted a price of $11,800 for the
repairs and began working last
week. The job is expected to be .
finished this week.
The board also is expected to
vote on a request by Cheryl
Meinen regarding her daughter,
who is a freshman at Sterling.
On Sept. 14, Mrs. Meinen ask-
ed the board to consider gran-
ting a transfer from Sterling to
Robert E; Lee High School for
her daughter.
Mrs. Meinen said her daughter
tried out for and practiced with
the REL Brigadiers this sum-
In a memo to Kennedy, Assis-
tant Superintendent Barry Net-
tles reports the Melnens live in
an area that was pocket-zoned
from Lee to Sterling. The move
affected 39 students, according
to Nettles.
In other business, trustees are
scheduled to:
+Conduct an executive ses-
sion to hear an address regar-
ding personnel from insurance
agent Cliff McCleskey and to
consider Lee High School fire
damage.
-(-Approve a long range facili-
ty study for 1987-88.
+ Review the district’s depart-
mental goals for 1987-88.
-(-Nominate a candidate to the
Harris County Appraisal
District board of directors and
another candidate to the same
body for Chambers County.
-(-Award contracts for a com-
puter system, five convection
ovens and track equipment.
-(-Approve on first reading a
board policy change regarding
placement of teachers on the
career ladder.
-(-Accept a teacher resignation
and hire a teacher.
thp REL Brigadiers this sum- and hire a teacner. .
mer after being told at her junior + Approve placing 46 teachers
school she’d be attending'Lee. on level Hof the carwr ladder.
Zhnrf v before school started, + Hear a report from the
they learned she would go to district’s health insurance
Sterling. benefits committee.
Area program one of best
Official updates CAER panel
on county emergency planning
By DAVID MOHLMAN
Although much work remains, Harri* „_orated areas throughout tne cuuiuy, «»*«
t Kr.~,or
emergency piecing and emergency resporae. ac work*, slnce jjgy wlUi Ore
C°CaS?K Ber^deputyC«K>rtilnator for Amenta to bring them into the emerge
SSSSn "SEES eventual P^etitm * tint
S;^pCm«“ommlttee.CAER on J^entt bee*™, me department, will get
County emergency planning officials created 10
local emergency planning committees in unin-
corporated areas throughout the county, said
fire departments now, their members will pa
ticipate In committee planning, he said.
"riTSSmntty Awwm. ami Ej*gency
Response (CAER) program, Introduced in plannlng group Includes Barrett Station, C y
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Emergency Planning and Community Rlght-to coMhlurtniW ^
Title III oi me u.a. wujib» “-r----
Reauthortzatlon Act of 1986 (SARA) forces In-
dustries, state and local governments and com-
munities together to work on emergency planning
andresoonse.
The Community ^ Awareness and Emergency
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Teen-ager dies in car wreck -£=~-KBK=SS=£t -"5TK*-
A Mont Bclvieu youth was kill- T* ^*-*£2
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jured in a one-car accident Fri- ®"d * ris County Judge Jon Lindsay to y approved Baytown Emergency Planning Committee
day night on FM 565 in the Old ed condition a many emergency planning committ^ already e written emergency response
River area of West Chambers lacerations to the head. l8ting ^ the county, including the Baytown plann- county, Chambers County, La PorteJ*each
9&J2Z2ZXLPUb,,C The car was headed south, on ingcommittee.t_ tnoftmopatod ^
y has a new nicxname miu a u_------
i t shirt ... Wayne Miller driver critically injured
ducts a tour. _ t m
like Bargainer says he’s just
ing to keep knees healthy ...
a Rains and family have a
nderful time in Hawaii, thank
, Pete Cote hosts visitors,
tick Peebles declares he’s
idy for anything . . Muriel
ssen and John Britt make a
•sent at ion about a Lee College
>gram ... Priscilla Dowlen
j Dorothy Sutton make an ap-
ntment.
Ida Griffith, recuperating
>m surgery, is missed by her
any friends ... Florence Niell
roes a broken finger
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lacerations to the head ^ __ ^ _
County, a Department of Public headed south on ing committee. t , . , iml_ cUyandMont Belvieu, Hickerson added
Safety spokeswoman said ^car T®8‘“J. M m when But at that time, many incorporated wjl unto- y h mteratate 10, he said.
Seventeen-year-old Gary FM 565 at about WJ# p.m^wnen rgted areas of ^ county, including u flr8t on the scene, it wUl take
Gobert was pronounced dead at the elder Go road Highlands, McNair, Crosby, Barrett Station an ^ another agency with JurisdicUon takes
Hermann Hospital shortly after negotiate a curve J^t the Huffmani weren’t represented on an existing com Hlckerson. _
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 282, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 27, 1987, newspaper, September 27, 1987; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019927/m1/1/?rotate=0: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.