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Wilt Paptoton Sun
Volume 68, No. 267
Telephone Number: 422-8302
man
Friday, September 7, 1990
Baytown, Texas 77520
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25 Cents Per Copy
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The Elissa sails up channel Globcll effort VS.
Iraq increasing
Photo by Anglo Bracay
The Elissa sails from Galveston to the San Jacinto Battleground. With Capt. Walter Rypka
at the helm, the Elissa made the voyage in five hours. The 1877 vessel will be open for
tours from 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday through Sunday. The historic vessel will share the limelight
with the refurbished Battleship Texas, which will be rededicated in a ceremony at 1Ta.m.
Saturday.
Street bids to be sought
The city will seek bids for the
1990 street improvement prog-
ram in October, said Norman
Dykes, assistant city manager.
Estimated cost is $1,799,920.
Engineering will be done by
the city staff on asphalt' overlay
projects and rebuilding concrete
sections, Dykes said. Plans for
the larger projects are being
prepared by Busch, Hutchison
and Associates.
Streets slated to be recon-
structed are Briarwood from
Fourth to dead end, $70,000.
East Fayle from Highway
146, going 509 feet east, $3,000.
Felton from Lobit to Idlew-
ood, $144,000.
Holly from Wildwood to
Hackberry, $11,000.
Kilgore from James to the
Adams Street ditch, $48,000.
Lakewood from Baytown,
130 feet west, $10,000.
Lincoln from Pershing to Edi-
son, $13,000.
Meador from Burnet to Hack-
berry, $90,000.
Middleton from Decker to the
dead end, $32,000.
Oregon from New Mexico to
Florida, $50,000.
Pershing from Barrymore to
Carnegie, $15,000.
North Pruett from Loop 201
to Riverbend, $124,000.
Scenic from Garth to Wood-
crest, $46,000.
South Second from East
Republic to East Texas,
$62,000.
North Sixth from East Texas
to East Wright, $41,000.
North Third from East Texas
to East Murrill, $60,000.
South Whiting from Texas to
American, $81,000.
Wildwood from Holly to
Meador, $34,000.
East Wright from Fourth to
Main, $130,000.
Projected for asphalt overlays
are Alva from North Main to the
railroad crossing, $18,000.
Arbor from Bayway to North,
$23,000.
Casey from South Pruett to
Massey, $6,000.
Dallas from Alva to Hines,
$2,000.
Daniel from South Pruett to
Dailey, $2,000.
East Defee from Fourth to
Seventh, $18,000.
West Defee from Decker to
Freeman, $8,000.
Elvinta from Center to Loop
201, $7,000.
Hines from North Main to
dead end, $14,000.
West Homan from Jones to
Harvard, $11,000.
East Humble from First to
Fourth, $16,000. f"
Laredo from Texas to dead
end, $16,000.
North and South Main, from
Fayle to Republic, $79,000.
Marvin from North Alexan-
Good Afternoon.
Pearce Street Journal] AROUND TOWN|
, Chances are
Children whose pa-
rents are illiterate are
twice as likely to be lllit-i
erate themselves.
-FH’
EDWINA ARABLE is
at home, recovering
from an illness . . .
Chris McCarthy and
Jennifer McCarthy of
Baytown go on a
space adventure at the
U.S. Space Academy,
Level I in Huntsville
INDEX
WEATHER
Classified............3-6-B
Comics/Crossword .... 6-A
Dimension... ..........7-A
Editorial..............4-A
Markets.............. 2-A
Movies............... 8-B
Obituaries............ 3-A
Police Beat...........2-A
Sports...............1-2-B
Television ............8-A
FRIDAY NIGHT: Mostly
fair skies, low in lower- to
mid-70s. Saturday: Partly
cloudy skies, high in
mid-90s. From 8 a.m. "
Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday,
high of 92, low of 74.
der to dead end, $11,000.
Massey-Tompkins, various
locations, $25,000.
McKinney from Highway
146 to Massey-Tompkins,
$33,000.
Oklahoma from Wisconsin to
Minnesota, $5,000.
West Republic from Laredo
to dead end, $4,000.
Roseland from East Texas to
dead end, $25,000.
Scarlet from Fortner to North,
$15,000.
Sharon from Garth 650 feet
east, $10,000.
Stadium from Market to
Gentry, $24,000.
State from Park to Morrell,
$5,000.
East Texas from Edgewood
to Tri-City Beach Road,
$29,000.
Wildrose from Meador to
Wildwood, $5,000.
Wooster from Bay way to
Douglas, $34,000.
Scheduled for fabric overlay
are Miriam from South Pruett to
South Main, $31,000; Nazro
from Lee to South Pruett,
$32,000; South Seventh to
South Alexander to Republic,
$55,000.
Concrete sections will be
rebuilt on various parts of Fair-
way, Goose Creek, Hemlock,
Ivie Lee, Pooderosa, Saveli,
Somerset and Tamarach, for an
estimated cost of $100,000.
.
The global effort against Iraq
strengthened Friday with more
aid for victims of the Persian
Gulf crisis, and Kuwait’s exiled
leaders promised to help under-
write U.S. forces in the region
after the Saudis pledged billions
of dollars.
Moscow, in an Associated
Press report, said it favored es-
tablishing a U.N. peacekeeping
force in the gulf and might have
its troops participate in the effort
to rein in Iraq’s Saddam Hus-
sein, whose army overran Ku-
wait five weeks ago and massed
nelr the Saudi Arabian border.
Three British minehunters
plied Egypt’s Suez Canal Fri-
day, heading for the Persian
Gulf region where scores of
U.S. and other warships are en-
forcing a U.N.-sanctioned em-
bargo against the Baghdad
government
A U.S.-chartered Iraqi plane
Friday shuttled another group of
Americans from Kuwait to
Baghdad and was to fly on to
Amman, Jordan, a State Depart-
ment spokesman said in
Washington on condition of
anonymity. He said Ik had no
further details.
Hundreds of Western women
and children held by Saddam as
human shields in case of war
have been allowed to leave Iraq
after being delayed by visa
paperwork. Also among a string
of flights since last weekend,
more than 250 arrived in Lon-
don Friday.
More promises of aid were
made Friday for desperate Asian
and Arab refugees from Iraq and
Kuwait stranded in a no man’s
land at the Jordanian border.
Japan said Friday it would
send an additional $12 million
to help evacuees. A day earlier,
Britain earmarked $3.8 million
more in refugee aid, bringing
total British aid to $10 million.
European Community foreign
ministers meeting in Rome Fri-
day planned to consider
emergency aid to Jordan, the Ita-
lian Foreign Ministry said.
The Jordanian news agency
Petra says more than 600,000
people have fled since Iraq in-
vaded Kuwait Aug. 2 in a dis-
pute over oil, land and money.
Most have managed to leave
Jordan, but relief officials said
more than 100,000 Ban-
gladeshis, Pakistanis, Indians,
Sri Lankans, Thais and Filipinos
remain in squalid camps that are
running low on food, water and.
medicines.
Soviet Foreign Ministry ‘
spokesman Gennady Gerasimov;
today said Moscow would be;
willing to provide troops for a;
U.N. peacekeeping force in the *
Persian Gulf if they were under
a joint command that included
Soviet generals.
USX buy on ‘back burner’
By Katherine Feibleman
of The Baytown Sun
With Proler International Corp.’s option having
expired on buying the long-idle USX Texas
Works Plant near Baytown, the company has put
the project on the back burner.
The Houston-based firm had planned a joint
venture with Birmingham Steel Corp. and Danieli
& C. Officine Meccaniche of Italy to develop a
mini-mill to produce flat-rolled steel at the plant
At its peak, the USX plant, which has been
closed since 1986, employed 2,000 people.
The joint venture was to be called Buffalo
Steel. Birmingham Steel was to be the operating
partner, and Proler was to supply much of the steel
from its new de-tinning plant on the Houston Ship
Channel, which separates tin from steel in cans.
The Italian company produces steel-making
equipment.
Birmingham Steel, however, pulled out of the
project in March, and Proler has been unable to
find another partner. Proler had held the option to
buy, which expired Aug. 31, since December.
David Sonnier, vice-president of finance at
Proler, said the number of companies that do
similar work are limited, but “We’re still inter-
ested in doing the project. It’s a viable project. It’s
in a good location, and the equipment is in good
condition,” Sonnier said.
Sonnier said Proler will talk to any company
interested in the doing the project, but the search
for a partner has become much more passive.
Zane Wright, chairman of the Chamber of
Commerce’s Board of Directors, said the project’s
demise is “extremely disappointing. It would have
been positive for Baytown, for the community,
and for economic recovery.”
However, Wright retains hope that the facility
will be operating again one day. “That’s a good
facility, and it has good potential. I think one day
a company will occupy the plant and make good
use of it,” Wright said.
“I’m optimistic it will happen, but when it will
happen I can’t predict.”
Investors apparently were happy with the news
this week. Proler’s stock last Tuesday made the
sixth-largest gain, up 7.5 percent to 1734 , on the
New York Stock Exchange. It basically held that
price in steady trading Wednesday, closing at
1734 .
“It would have been a significant capital
investment for Proler, and in this economic
environment that makes people nervous,” said
analyst Bill Fisher of Raymond, James & Associ-
ates of St Petersburg, Fla.
A filing with the Securities and Exchange
Commission said Proler had invested about $4,2
million, including refundable deposits, in the
project since the end of its fiscal year on Jan. 31.
Sonnier declined to say how much money the
company got back.
Mike Shields, executive director of the Bay-
town Area-West Chambers County Economic
Development Foundation, referred comment to
Mark Tiller, board chairman. Tiller could not be
reached for comment Friday morning.
August building
value $1,048,080
1990 total still ahead of ’89
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By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun
City of Baytown officials
issued 57 building permits in
August for new construction
valued at $1,048,080.
This is a decrease from July’s
total of 59 building permits for
structures valued at $6,057,382.
For the year, however, the
city is still ahead of last year in
construction activity.
The city, through August, had
issued 439 building permits for
$14,077,033 in projects. At this
point a year ago, the city had
issued 472 permits for
$6,816,373 in construction.
The city has collected
$103,913 in fees from all types
of permits and licenses com-
pared to $80,113 at this juncture
in 1989.
New home construction is
running well ahead of last year’s
pace. Last month, the city issued
seven permits for new homes
valued at $524,628.
So far this year, 55 permits
have been issued for new homes
compared to 19 at this point a
year ago.
August building permit reci-
pients included:
—San Jacinto Methodist Hos-
pital, 4401 Garth, for a doctor’s
office valued at $149,500.
—Lee College, for alteration
of existing classrooms at 101 S.
Whiting at a cost of $44,000.
—Goldman Enterprises, for a
$108,000 addition at 6801 Garth
Road, No. 1538, for an amuse-
ment center.
—Bins Wanger Glass Co., for
an $18,000 addition at 6904
Garth Road.
Ptxxo by Betty Clagjefl
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Texas Gatorfest chairman Heather Jenkins and mascot
“Swamper” are ready for the fun to begin Friday. The
second annual Gatorfest will be held from 3 p.m. to mid-
night Friday and from 9 a.m. to midnight Saturday at Fort
Anahuac Park.
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