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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, March 23, 1988
An Ohio man suspected of kill-
ing a Beaumont police officer is
awaiting arraignment in Jeffer-
son County Jail following his ar-
rest Tuesday night on Interstate
10 in West Chambers County,
authorities say.
t Department of Public Safety
officers and Chambers County
deputies arrested the man after
he was spotted around 10 p.m. in
a taxi going toward Houston on I-
10 near Farm Road 3180, ac-
cording to a spokeswoman for’
the Department of Public Safety
in Beaumont.
Patrolman Paul D. Hulsey, 29,
a Beaumont police officer since
1980, died after he was shot in the
chest at a Beaumont motel at
7:10 p.m., a spokeswoman for
the Beaumont Police Depart-
ment said.
Hulsey was on a surveillance
assignment watching a car at
the motel and was shot when he
and a suspect became involved
in a fight, according to the
spokeswoman.
BAYTOWN
Baytown police were called
Tuesday afternoon to investigate
the apparent suicide of Charles
Webster, 45, of 1003 North Bend.
According to police, Webstar
suffered a fatal gunshot wound
to the head.
Police said a note written by
Webster and a pistol were found
next his body on the couch in his
home.
Autopsy: Inmate was choked
CLEVELAND - A black in-
mate who died in the city jail last
week hours after being arrested
was choked to death, an autopsy
report shows.
“Kenneth Earl Simpson came
to his death as a result of
asphyxia due to trauma to the
neck,” Justice of the Peace
Charlie Morgan said during a
Tuesday hearing.
The announcement brought
cheers from the predominantly
black audience, many of whom
carried signs reading, “We Want
Justice.”
Police arrested Simpson, 30, f
March 15 for disorderly conduct.
He allegedly struggled wfth
police officers outside and inside
the Clevejand City Jail.
Officers said Simpson, a police
informant, was found smoking a
marijuana cigarette in the police
holding cell, and became violent
when police attempted to search
him.
Police bound and strip-
searched Simpson, but said no
blows were struck and that he
was never choked, He was found
dead about 4:30 a.m. last
Wednesday.
But the autopsy report says
Simpson died about four hours
earlier, around midnight and the
time he struggled with the of-
ficers.
The autopsy’s conclusion did
not surprise many of Simpson’s
friends and relatives.
“I feel like they’re guilty,”
said Simpson’s mother, Naomi.
“I sure do.”
Cleveland Police Chief Harley
Lovings said he believes Simp-
son’s death was an accident, but
has suspended seven officers.
“We will see justice done
without y’all or anybody in the
community, black or white com-
munity, trying to push,” Lovings
told the crowd.
The two black and five white
officers were suspended with
ppy Monday pending the out-
come of investigations by the
Texas Rangers and the FBI.
City Manager Bill Metropolis
said the city’s nine remaining of-
ficers and reserve officers would
be able to provide sufficient
police coverage for the city.
“We’re not saying anybody did
anything wrong, but we don’t
think they should be enforcing
the laws until this situation is
cleared up,” Mayor Richard
Boyett said.
City expected to OK street program
Baytown City Council Thurs-
day is expected to approve plans
and agree to advertise for bids
for the 1988 street improvement
program.
A total of $195,000 has been
proposed for the program.
Plans call for the reconstruc-
tion of Mayhaw Street between
Burnet and Meador at a cost of
$69,627 and the installation of a
short drainage system on
Mayhaw for $18,000.
The following other streets
would receive asphalt overlays
at the costs listed below:
First between Republic and
Texas, $8,175; East Gulf bet-
ween First and Main, $3,705;
Ammons from Long to Bolj
Smith, $16,575; Long from Am-
mons to Bridges, $16,775;
Airhart between the railroad
tracks and Decker, no cost
listed; Grantham from Garth to
Pruett, $26,152; and West Elvin-
ta between Cedar Bayou and
Elvinta, $8,525.
More than $10,000 is set aside
for miscellaneous items and for
Girl with kite
goes up, up, away
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.
CAP) — Eight-year-old DeAndra
Anrig says she felt like Winnie
the Pooh when an airplane snag-
ged her kite lfne and lofted her
on a 100-foot ricle.
“I read about how Winnie the
Pooh flies in the air on kites, but
I never wanted to try it,” said
DeAndra, who let go just as the
kite carried her toward a tree. “I
wasn’t thinking anything but
how scared I was.”
“She said it was just a big jerk
that lifted her (10 feet) into the
air,” said DeAndra’s mother,
Debby. “It carried her right
over my husband’s head. All he
saw was a shadow going over his
head. I’m just thankful she let
go.”
DeAndra escaped from her
ride with bruises. Sympathetic
neighbors delivered cupcakes
Tuesday to her home in Dublin,
30 miles southeast of San Fran-
cisco, where she rested on an air
mattress surrounded by ice
packs and two of her stuffed
animals.
DeAndra and her parents were
picnicking Sunday with friends
at a park 2 miles from the Palo
Alto airport when the accident
occurred.
DeAndra was taking her turn
flying the 12-foot, glider-type
kite when a twin-engine plane
descending toward the airport
caught the kite’s 200-pound nylon
test line.
contingency purposes.
In addition, $17,000 would be
used for paving of the service
center parking lot on Park
Street.
City Council is also expected
to: '
-(-Approve purchase of a
rebuilt caterpillar motor from
A.C. Collins Ford for $7,200.
-I-Award a $64,050 contract to
Parker Brothers for crushed
•limestone.
-(-Authorize an $8,155 contract
with Mino Micrographics. Inc.
for microfilm reader-printer.
-I-Award a $7,995 contract to
Channel Construction for
digester cleaning.
-I-Approve a $2,848 contract
with Baytown Oil Sales for an
automotive diagnostic tester.
-(-Authorize a $2,500 agree-
ment with Do? Brewer’s Auto
Center for painting and repair of
the emergency preparedness
vehicle.
+Approve purchase of $3,250
in computer software from
Unisys.
+NEW YORK - Taiwan,
uhder pressure from U.S. of-
ficials, has stopped work on a
secret plant that could have pro-
cessed plutonium, a key compo-
nent of nuclear weapons, The
New York Times reported today.
+MEDELLIN, Columbia -
Troops trying to arrest Pablo
Escobar Gaviria tripped a
sophisticated alarm system at
his country estate and the
reputed cocaine kingpin escaped
in an ensuing shootout, the army
said.
+SANTA BARBARA, Calif. -
Coastal residents were jolted
awake by a moderate earth-
quake and aftershock Wednes-
day, prompting worried calls to
police. There were no reports of
injury or damage, officials said.
-(-AUSTIN — State election
laws may have been violated by
an Austin-base,d group when it
U-SAVE MONEY
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U-SAVE Auto Rental
failed to report the source of
$425,000 used to'promote passage
of last fall’s referendum pro-
posal to legalize race-track bet-
ting in Texas, a Dallas
newspaper reported in a
copyright story Wednesday.
+ARLINGTON - A Roman
Catholic priest and four other
people were arrested and car-
ried from an office building after
staging a sit-in at a con-
gressman’s office to protest U.S.
involvement in Central
America, authorities say. >. rl
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+ WASHINGTON - Sup-
porters of a civil rights bill
enacted over President
Reagan’s veto say it will help
cure “an epidemic of
discrimination” that followed a
1984 Supreme Court decision
limiting federal protection for
many groups.
OYSTER FRY-DAY
DENNIS* EICHLER, right, band director at
Sterling High School, buys oyster fry tickets
from Ron Niedziekjo, committee chairman, and
Roxanne Murray, president of the Sterling Band
Parents Association. The oyster fry will be held
Friday at the Baytown Shrine Club building, 110
W. Main. Serving times will be from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. and from 4 to 7 p.m. Donations are $7.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
-(-Award an $11,383 housing
rehabilitation contract to
1 Nolasco’s Carpentry.
+Approve installation of a
stop sign on Mayhaw at Meador.
-(-Restrict parking on West
Wye near North Main.
+Approve a contract to ad-
minister grant funds for the
Baytown Area Women’s Center.
-(-Abandon a portion of an
easement in the 3600 block of
Canterbury.
+Renew a contract with the
Teen-age Baseball Association.
-(-Approve payment of $4,004
to Muellar, Oaks and Hartline
for legal services in the single
member district lawsuit.
-(-Authorize final payment of
$1,200 to Hamm Engineering for
a sludge utilization plan.
+Approve payment of $3,800
to Michael J. Urban for ap-
praisal services.
+Approve payment of $17,999
to Olson and Olson for legal ser-
vices through February in the
Brownwood case.
Officials
to talk dogs
Dogs and other stray critters
are the subject of a meeting bet-
ween commissioners and city of-
ficials of West Chambers County
scheduled for 7 p.m. Thursday at
the Cedar Bayou Community
Building.
The animal control session
was requested by Chambers
County Commissioner Paul Lott
in response to complaints by
residents in Pinehurst and other
areas on the west side of the
county who are concerned about
loose dogs in their
neighborhoods, said County
Judge Oscar Nelson.
Beach City Alderman Dan
Johnson was also instrumental
in arranging the meeting. For
some time, Johnson has
.spearheaded a crusade for
animal control in Beach City.
Beach City currently has an
animal control ordinance but no
method of enforcement.
Mont Belvieu has an animal
control officer and a pound.
Johnson recently met with Mont
Belvieu city officials in an effort
to contract with that city for
animal control.
Mont Belvieu officials said
they would offer advice but
would not provide animal con-
trol because of the liability in-
volved.
Expected at Thursday’s
meeting are officials from
Beach City, Cove, Mont Belvieu,
Old River-Winfree and the
Pinehurst subdivision. Jim
Sandlin, Chambers County
Health Officer, Commissioner
Earl Porter, Lott and Judge
Nelson will also join in an ex-
change of ideas on what to do
about the stray critter problem.
The county is “not in the dog
business,” and does not now
have an animal control officer or
the budget for one, Nelson said.
The only time the county deals
with animals is if someone is bit-
ten and-or an animal shows
symptoms of rabies and has to
be destroyed and tested, he said.
Nelson said commissioners
hope to come out of the session
with some ideas about setting up
and funding an animal control
program for the county, possibly
making room for it in next year’s
budget.
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Wright services
SERVICES FOR John L.
Wright, 74, of Baytown are pen-
ding at Earthman Funeral
Home, Baytown Chapel. Wright
died March 22 in a Baytown
hospital.
Car fire
A FIRE BELIEVED to have
started from an electrical short
did about $900 damage to a 1978
Pontiac in a parking lot at 900 W.
Texas around 7 p.m. March 22,
authorities say.
Workshop set
CHAMBERS COUNTY Commis-
sioners will meet at 9:30 a.m.
March 24 in the courthouse for a
workshop to discuss county pur-
chasing policy.
Filing ends Wednesday
for Beach City election
BEACH CITY - Filing for the
Beach City election closes at 5
p.m. Wednesday.
Terms expiring include that of
Mayor Rusty Senac, Marshal
Bill Reedy and Aldermen Dan
Johnson and Frank Martarana.
City Secretary Margaret
Gainer said Tuesday night that
all four of the incumbents had
filed for re-election but that no
other candidates had filed for
the vacant positions.
The election will be held May 7
at the West Chambers County
Community Building.
At Tuesday night’s council
meeting, council appointed
Malcolm’ Sarria as election
judge and Betty Enderli as alter-
nate.
Webster services
SERVICES FOR Charles E.
“Tony” Webster, 45, of Baytown
are pending at White Chapel
Funeral Home. Webster died
March 22 at his home.
IRS assistance
VITA (Volunteer Income Tax
Assistance), sponsored by the
Internal Revenue Service, will
be available at no cost from 10
a.m. to 2 p.m. March 26, April 2
and April 9 at Sterling Municipal
Library. Trained volunteers will
include a Spanish-speaking
volunteer also.
Kiwanis speaker
ELINOR SCHULTZ, school
nurse at Robert E. Lee High
School, will give a talk entitled,
“Yes, The Nurse Is Here To-
day,” and the REL Key Club will
conduct a “model meeting” dur-
ing the noon meeting of the
Baytown Kiwanis Club March 24
at the Holiday Inn.
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