The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 55, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 3, 1999 Page: 1 of 24
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The sports
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Volume 77, No. 55
Telephone Number: 281-422-83Q2
Sunday, January 3,1999
Baytown, Texas 77520
$1 Per Copy
Kick up Your Heels
A rip-roarin’ time
to be had at the
Red Stocking Revue
MA BENGTSON
e Baytown Sun
Members of the Baytown Junior
Forum are inviting folks to kick up
their heels and kick off the 1999
Red Stocking Revue, the organiza-
tion's major fund-raiser scheduled
for Jan. 22 and 23 at Robert E. Lee
High School.
On Tuesday evening at 7:30 in
the Baytown Community Center, a
professional director of the biennial
show, supplied by Catgill Produc-
tions of New York, will describe
the song and dance numbers that
will make up this year’s Revue.
Talent chairwoman Ronda Green
is hoping people will get out these
old tap shoes, tune up their vocal
cords and audition for the 1999
version of Red Stocking Revue
which,will feature all local talent.
“There will be a kick line for
women, singing and dancing roles
for men and women and couples
dance numbers,” Green says. “You
don’t have to be a wonderful
dancer. Some of the routines are
very simple.’3
And, for those who like to sing,
but who worry about just how well
they cafry a tune shouldn’t fret.
There will a chorus of at least 40
other voices to blend in with.
The success of the show is also
dependent on volunteers who can
provide technical assistance or who
can build and paint scenery.
Those interested can sign up to
participate and rehearsal schedules
will be available. Rehearsals will
continue for a couple of weeks with
choices of morning or evening
practices available. Rehearsal ses-
sions are from 45 minutes to one
hour : •
* Volunteers should contact Green
at 281-421-5519. Participants must
be 18 years or older.
The 1997 production raised
$30,000 for Baytown not-for-profit
organizations. Following the revue,
local charitable organisations are
invited to submit specific requests
for funds. -
Organizations that have benefited
from Red Stocking Revue funds in-
clude: Big Brothers and Sisters,
The Chinquapin School, Goose
Submitted photo
Publicity chairwoman Carol Knight, \etifanti Rohcla Green, talent chair-
woman for the Red Stocking Revue; are gearing up for this year’s edi-
tion of the biennial event.
Creek CISD Clothing for School
Children, Bay Area Sheltering
Arms, Baytown Opportunity'Cen-
ter and ARC of Baytown.
Also, Baytown YMCA, Baytown
Senior Center, Barber’s Hill ISD
Dyslexia Program, Communities in
Schools, Goose Creek Stream As-
sociation and the Baytown Family
Service Center.
Baytown Junior Forum is in its
35th year of service to the citizens
of Baytown and the surrounding
area. It was organized in 1964.
It was a quiet start
to the new year
on the local front
ByJIMWEBRE
The Baytown Sun . .'A
All in all, it was a rather civil transition into 1999, with only
five arrests for driving under the influence and only one person
arrested for discharging a firearm within the Baytown city lim-
its.
There were no major accidents in Baytown, andno serious in-
juries reported to police between 11 p.m. Thursday and 7 a.m.
Friday.
Officers were dispatched to the 200 block of Francis 25 min-
utes after the new year began.
A 35-year-old Baytown man was arrested at his residence in
the 300 block of Park on a charge of disorderly conduct after of-
ficers found a handgun with a warm barrel in a shed at the
property, police reported.,
Of the intoxicated drivers arrested during the night, the most
noteworthy was a 19-year-old Baytown man for driving while
intoxicated and evading arrest in his 1993 four-door compact
Ford. ;
Three Baytown men were brought to city jail after engaging
in fights in the parking lot of a bar in the 1400 block of North
Alexander Drive. One of the men also had outstanding warrants
for failure to appear in court on traffic offenses, driving without
insurance and driving without a driver’s license.
Several public intoxication citations were issued, including
the arrest a 38-year-old Baytown man in the 900 block of Cedar
Bayou Road. He is charged with public intoxication, since his
truck was in a ditch and not op the road.
More risky in his stupor was the 18-year-old Baytown student,
who was found running down the center of the 4500 block of
State Highway 146 at about 3:30 a.m. Friday. He was arrested
for public intoxication.
A man walked into a convenience store in the 700 block of Park
at about 5:30 am and began to pay fora pack of chewing gum
According to reports, when the cleric opened the register to
make change, the man grabbed $164 out of the drawer and fled
in a four-door blue or gray Ford sedan.
Smoking debate continues as final decision looms
By JEFF RIGGS
the Baytown Sun ...
Both sides of the divisive Baytown no-smoking or-
dinance issue are waiting in anxious anticipation to see
how city fathers will vote on the measure. The propos-
al puts teeth into a 9-year-old city ordinance prohibit-
ing smoking in city buildings.
The revised ordinance will make smoking illegal in
most public buildings, including businesses.
Councilman Coleman Godwin is still surveying the
issue. . . ‘
“I’ve got to get more input on the issue. I’m in a lis-
tening mode,” he said. “I am listening to my con-
stituents and some national figures on the smoking is-
sue. I just want to listen to people.”
Godwin doubts seriously that a vote will be taken at
the council meeting of Jan. 14. However, he believes a
public workshop, scheduled for just prior to that meet-
ing will provide valuable insight into public opinion bn
the issue. He believes the issue will come to a vote
“within the next two or three meetings.”
Councilman Victor Almendarez also believes the
measure will be resolved by council before the end of
this month. Unlike Godwin, he is definite about his
vote.
He says the calls he has received shows Baytonians
are almost evenly divided on the issue.
“I’ve received a lot of data to show me why such an .
ordinance would be useful,” he said. “Now, I need
more data to prove wjiy (he shouldn’t vote for) such an
ordinance, other than the comment left on my (answer-
ing) machine telling me that (by enacting such an ordi-
nance) we are going Communist,”
Tracey Wheeler, president of the Baytown Chamber
of Commerce, says the feelings among her members
is mixed.
“I don’t really have a feel for how this is going to
come out,” she says. “We believe that council had a lot
of input at the public hearing on the ordinance in order
to make their decision.” ' ...
About 30 residents spoke before council and a
standing-room-only audience at a Dec. 10 public hear-
ing on the issue.
“The ordinance would be extremely detrimental to
restaurants,” Wheeler says. “J am concerned about the
cost to business if such an ordinance is voted in. It
would be a cost in putting in adequate ventilation, and
a problem in enforcement of the ordinance.
“We have lacked. in our choices of restaurants in
Baytown in the past, and just as we are changing
things, there is this ordinance,” Wheeler says.
Wheeler says Baytown’s restaurant community will
lose out if the ordinance passes.
“People don’t have to drive teat far to get to a restau-
rant where smoking is allowed,” she says.
Wheeler believes government should not dictate
whether or not smoking should be allowed in busi-
nesses.,,. 7 . 77 7........:
“You can’t legislate everything,” she says. “You want
to protect the nonsmoker, but you also want to make
the community healthy economically. This (the ordi-
nance) would make it difficult for businesses to be
competitive.”
Julie DeTorre, a board member, of the American
Cancer Society, has contacted both Godwin and Al-
mendarez about a meeting to discuss the ordinance.
“They have been very open and receptive to a meet-
ing,” she said. “They are very open to listening to what
we have to say, DeTorre says.”
Though the meeting is not yet scheduled, DeTorre
and the two councilmen have agreed to meet soon.
DeTorre has sent out at least one information letter
about the issue on behalf of the American Cancer So-
ciety and the American Heart Association. She is a
member of both organizations.
“The people receiving the letter are those who have
participated in bur fund-raisers urging all recipients to
Tracey Wheeler
call their councilmen to let them know how they feel
about the smoking ordinance,” DeTorre said.
Sylvia’s not talking trash' when it conies to issue of incineration
By JEFF RIGGS
The Baytown Sun
Chambers County Judge Jimmy Sylvia
says $10 million is not a. lot of money
when he’s talking trash. 7--
That’s about the amount needed to in-
stall an incineration system which will
bum trash, instead of merely hiding it un-
derground in a landfill.
Sylvia says' under the incineration sys-
tem plan trash “goes from 100 percent
garbage to 5 percent waste in the form of
ash.”
He says the ash, instead of raw
garbage, will be buried in the present
landfill space.
“We’re doing this so that our kids and
grandlcids won’t have to deal with it,” he
says. „
He adds that a scrubber system built
into the incinerator should minimize any
problems with air pollution.
The plan, which has been discussed'by
commissioner’s court for the past six
years, calls for purchase of two 50-ton
furnaces situated in a free-standing build-
ing.
The building will also contain offices
for waste-control personnel. Certificates
of obligation for the project were ap-
proved by the court in i 996.
“It started with visits to o|he’r cities
where incinerator systems were already
in place,” Sylvia said. “I personally went
to the sister cities of Carthage and Center
in east Texas, and also to Georgia. We
also sent another group to Florida to
study a system.”
General contractor for the project is a
Florida firm, Symonds, Inc. The contrac-
tor for the scrubber system is Procedair,
Inc. of Canada.
*4 Plans call for construction to begin
within two months, and to conclude with-
in the last quarter of 1999.
“We’re hoping to take care of not only
Chambers County, but we may take on
other cities as well,” Sylvia says. “That’s
the way Carthage and Center does it jto
help pay for its operation.” & 7^' ' j
Sylvia does not have an exact figure for
the operation costs of the system, but he
does expect to operate it with eight em-
ployees. including an office, staff of two.
“We hope to transfer the employees
from the landfill to the incinerator,” he
said. “We will be downsizing the landfill
operation, but will keep a couple of
workers there to bury the ash” :7‘- . ,
He anticipates no personnel layoffs as-
sociated with the conversion.
Sylvia says the whole idea of the incin-
erator comes as a result of regulations by
the Environmental Protection Agency
that went into effect in 1996. The regula-
tions mandates that plastic liners be
placed in the landfill, and a collection
system for .methane gas the garbage
emits. i .
The increased costs associated with tee
regulation would be 2 1/2 times as much
as the $600,000 the county already
spends each year for garbage disposal.
“One option we had (after the EPA reg-
ulations were put into effect) was to get
out of the garbage disposal business,” he
said. “We could have contracted it out.
But, we chose to take care of our peopte
ourselves.”
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 55, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 3, 1999, newspaper, January 3, 1999; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020495/m1/1/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed June 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.