The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 175, Ed. 1 Monday, May 25, 1987 Page: 1 of 18
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LEST AMERICA FORGETS
FLAGS ARE decorating the graves of veterans Monday on Herb Kincheloe, Vietnam veteran. Memorial Day services
Memorial Day, thanks to efforts of veteran groups in Baytown. were scheduled for 11 a.m. Monday at the War Memorial in
At Cedarcrest Cemetery with the flags are, from left, Roland Bicentennial Parle.
Bowie, who fought in World War II; Jack Wilson, veteran of the (Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
Korean conflict; Bert VanNatter, World War II veteran, and
i own meeting
set to discuss
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future projects
Citizens will have an op-
portunity to voice their opinions
on a list of proposed capital im-*
provements at the "Baytown
2000” town meeting at 7 p.m.
»Tuesday at the Baytown Com-
munity Building, 2407 Market.
Proposed projects include a
marina, a golf course, an air-
port, development of Goose
Creek Stream, a special events
center, land development, a city
master plan, a regional drainage
plan and thoroughfare im-
provements.
These proposed im-
provements, envisioned for com-
pletion sometime before the
year 2000, are aimed at improv-
ing the quality of life in Baytown
and making the city more at-
tractive to new residents and
businesses.
The Strategic Planning Com-
mittee, charred by City Coun-
cilman Fred Philips, formulated
the list of improvements after
several months of discussion.
Mayor Emmett Hutto'will gije
opening and closing remarks at
Tuesday’s meeting.
Other speakers will be Philips
and Kenyata Sullivan, a student
at Robert E. Lee High School.
After a half-hour opening ses-
sion. individual meetings will be
held for more than an hour to
discuss the various projects.
The group will reconvene for a
15-minute general session en-
ding about 9 p.m.
Baytonians will be asked to
evaluate these projects and sug-
gest possible locations and ways
of financing them.
.Citizens will be asked which
projects should be'given highest
priority.
They will also' have an op-
portunity to suggest other pro-
jects.
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SARAGOSA (AP) ^ The
homeless survivors of a tornado
that destroyed this community
prepared to bury their 29 dead
and seek help for themselves as
they wondered how to ret urn to a
town that no longer exists.
•‘People who established this
town were pioneers the people
of Saragosa are pioneers again. ”
said Rep. .Ron Colemtfh, D-El
Paso, who was among the 500
people attending an outdoor
Mass on Sunday in memory of
thosekilled.
More than 120 people were in-
jured, apd six of those killed ;
were children -About half the
deaths occurred at a Head Start
preschool graduation.
The first funeral for the vic-
tims was scheduled this morn-
ing, for a 25-year-old woman and
her son, who would have been a
Pearce Street Journal - -
Eye for an eye?
Texas criminal jurisprudence
needs overhauling, -Vjr-;
A defendant was convicted of
murder and went free on .a
technicality — the jails are too
crowded.
Another defendant went 30
mph in a 20-mph zone and had to
dig up .60 bucks.
Why must the scales of justice
be so tilted?
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year .old, on Sunday. Two mass
funerals are planned for Tues-
day.
Friday’s tornado reduced this
76-year-old farming community.
whpse-tfiHM-esktents were mostly
poor Mexican-Amerieans, to
rubble.
. "j really don't expect it will be
rebuilt. I don’t think .they can af-
ford it,” said' the Rev Ralph
Barranger, who serves Christ
the King Church
Some said they would move
away.
"1 don't like this, place
anymore. Too much has’died,”.
said Frank Ramirez who
escaped serious injury when the
tornado leveled his house,
As front-end loaders and dump
trucks hauled away splintered
houses, crumpled cars and
cracked, adobe, volunteers ’ in
nearby Balmorjiea were being
trained to interview the sur-
vivors in preparation for today’s
opening of a disaster relief
center
AVe'lPbe here as long as it
takes to meet people’s needs,”
said Dan Wagener, director of
the American Red Cross effort m
Balmorhea.
Offers Of aid have been receiv-
ed from as far away as Canada..
Bishop Raymond Pena said he
has asked all 76 churches in hi?1
El Paso diocese* to make a
special appeal for help
- Wagener said that although
response has been gdod; lire '
needs of victims stretched
beyond food.
' You can’t measure a disaster
by the number of houses that are
destroyed. You have to look at
how it affects the community.”
he said.
At the site of what used to be
Our Lady of Guadalupe Church,
about 500 people gathered Sun-
day, some weeping, to hear a
Mass by P^na.
"While'our hearts are heavy,
Godis-stii) w'ltli.us'-hesaid.
standing on a flat-bed truck
"Non-believers now' will ques-
tion our faith in God. But for us,
the word's that Jesus speaks to us
in the gospel today. '1 will hot
abandon you.' ik a sign that God
hears our prayers.
On either side of the’ bishop
stood statues of Jesus and
Joseph that somehow survived
with only slight damage,
"The fact that the statue of the
Lord remained intact was of
great comfort to the people,”
Pena said
MIKE SHIELDS, executive director, of the Baytown Area-West
Chambers County Economic Development Foundation, and Jim
Gerace, a Baytown certified public accountant, review a parks and
recreation department brochure in anticipation of Tuesday’s
"Baytown 2000” town meeting.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
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West Chambers event slated Tuesday
Eight nominated for phamber s
annual ‘Person of the Year’ award
AROUND
TOWN
LARRY AND Grace Ffrench,
Pauline Parker, Margie Har-
trick and Jessie Eike enjoy a trip
to Spain, Portugal and Morocco.
Toni Hale calls to check on a
friend she hasn’t heard from in
some time . . . Mary jyare,
Janice Nettles and Ann Martin
are hostesses at a luncheon in
Huffman. .
Florence Neill looks cool and
crisp in a black and white print
. - . Martha Cooke beautiful in
blue . . . Bessie Durham, Vera
Hartt and Marjorie Hildebrand
Barbara and John McClintock
have excellent slides of their trip
to Thailand ... Harry and Helen
Marie Combs plan a* trip to
Africa , . . Wanda Brown, and
Ruby Ray Flowers each plan-a
trip to the Orient.
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One, o,f eight nominees will
receive the West Chambers
County Chamber of Commerce
s'Person of the Yf*r". award at
the chamber banquet, set for 7
p.m. Tuesday at McLeod Park
on Langston Road.
• • "Nominated for "Person of the
Year" are Jan Ad^lman.
chamber president and past co-~
chairman of the Mont Belvieti
Community Awareness and
Emergency Response (CAER)
committee; Henry Adaii/._
chamber- vice president and a
chamber director; Bill Farmer",
district superintendent: and Chambers County Precihct 3
Fred Miller, Mont Belvieu commissioner.
The chamber also will present
numerous special community
service aw ards.
Featured speaker J ack Yianit-
sas, president of Success
mayor.
Also nominated are C.E.
“Chuck" Morris. Chambers-
County sheriff; Carrell "Pudgy’
Richardson. Mont Belvieu city ^ wi„ talk.ori -Dealing
councilman, a chamber director wjthCh - ..... —*
and past president of the The ev(fning will begin at 6
chamber. Gordon Speer, s p.n! with a social hour at Mont
chamber director; and ma £elvieuStateBank.
Lois Turner, former Chambers - Tickets> which' include the
County ju ge. social hour and dinner, cost $20
.Tlie "Persoq, of the Year” each. They are on sale at Mont
award will be presented by the Belvieu State Bank and Gordon
| retiring Barbers Hill school 1986 winner, Earl Porter, SpegrProperties.
Classes end Friday for Baytown students
FOR REL TEACHERS
CHARLES BEARD, right, president of the Texas State
Teachers Association, and Kirk Warren, Horace Mann Junior
School coach, thank Lucy Garza of La Porte for her donation to
the Baytown Education Association drive to replenish office
supplies for Robert E. Lee High School teachers. Beard came
here from Austin Saturday to show support for the cause.
‘tSun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
.......School days come to an end for
Baytown students this Friday.
For high school students, that
means the scheduling of final ex-
arns.
Robert E. Lee High School
students will take final exams on
Wednesday and Thursday of this
week. First through third period
exams will be given on Wednes-„
day, and fourth through sixth on
Thursday.
The first period exam
from 1 to 2:20 p.m.; pecond
period from 2:30 to 3:50 p.m;
and third period ftom 4 to 5:25
p.m.
Thursday exams will be given
during the same time frames as
Wednesday exams.
Exams for Sterling students
will begin Wednesday and con-
tinue through Friday.
On Wednesday, the first period
exam will be given frWji 7:30 to
8:50 a.m. All other classes on
Wednesday,will be 30 minutes in’
length, and school will be
Second, third and fourth
period exams will be given
Thursday. The second period ex-
am will be from 7:30 to 8:50
a.m.; third period from 8:55 to
10:15 a.m.; and fourth period
from 10:20 to 11:40 a.m.
Fifth and sixth period exams
will be given on Friday. The fifth
period exam will be from 7:30 to
8:50 a.m., and the sixth period
exam from 8:55 to 10:15 a.m.
•. Commencement ceremonies
for both Robert E-. Lee and Ross
S, Sterling high schools will be
held this weekend at Stallworth
Stadium. 4 -—
REL’s ceremony will be held
at 8 p.m. Friday, while Sterling’s,
commencement exercises are
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 175, Ed. 1 Monday, May 25, 1987, newspaper, May 25, 1987; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1051312/m1/1/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.