The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 178, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1989 Page: 1 of 20
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Y our
Hometown
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MORE THAN 70,000 READERS EVERY DAY
Volume 67, No. 178
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Friday, May 26, 1989
Baytown, Texas 77520
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180 Garcia backers sign petition
Disaster declared
One week after torrential rains hit Harris County residents,
the area has officially been declared ei disaster area, according
to a spokeswoman for U.S. Rep. Jack Fields.
A new 800 number has been initiated by the Federal
Emergency Management Agency to help speed up the ap-
plicaton process for assistance. Since the disaster declaration
Thursday, aiffected residents may call il-800-621-8592.
Residents should have their Social Security number, address
or temporary address, and a description of the damages on
hand when making the call.
The number is primarily for uninsured or under-insured
residents, although insured residents who may need extra help
can also call for assistance.
Upfront grants are available to pay for three months rent on
temporary housing. If at the end of three months, a home is still
not livable, residents may apply for up to 18 months of addi-
tional assistance.
CITY CLERK Eileen Hall receives a petition from Remigio J.
“Corky” Garcia with more than 180 signatures.
(Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
A petition on behalf of Remigio
J. “Corky” Garcia, who has
been replaced as Precinct 102
election judge for the June 3
runoff, was presented to city of-
ficials Friday morning.
The petition, bearing more
than 180 signatures, was
presented to City Clerk Eileen
Hall at 8:30 a.m.
It reads, “We, the following
registered voters from Precinct
102 .. . request that Remigio J.
Garcia be allowed to continue to
serve as presiding election judge
for the city runoff election to be
held on June 3.
“We are disappointed that the
city secretary has unfairly
removed him from this posi-
tion,” the petition reads.
Ms. Hall, however, has said
she believes she made the right
decision.
Garcia was replaced as elec-
tion judge in the wake of a con-
troversy over the conduct of the
election at the Precinct 102 poll-
ing place.
In a letter to Garcia, Ms. Hall
writes, “I feel you did not main-
tain good order at the polling
place. Also, some of your actions
have caused you to lose credibili-
ty with the voters of that
(precinct).”
However, Garcia has said he
doesn’t believe there were any
improprieties inside or outside
of the polling place on Saturday.
A total of 264 people voted at
the Precinct 102 polling place on
Saturday.
Two firms from Houston
will conduct school audit
By DAVID MOHLMAN
Baytown school trustees have chosen two firms
from Houston to perform the district’s annual
audit for the next two years.
The board has hired Deloitte, Haskins and Sells
to audit the district’s fiscal accounts. Hein and
Associates will audit the district’s pension plan.
The district mailed requests for proposal to nine
companies and got five responses. Less formal
than competitive bids, requests for proposal don’t
obligate the district to the lowest price as strongly
as competitive: bids, according to purchasing agent
Pete Cote.
Deloitte, Hasskins and Sells’ proposal of $57,000
for the fiscal accounts audit was third lowest.
Ratliff and Jeintho of Baytown offered $41,500 and
Hein and Associates offered $47,500.
On the pensi on plan audit, Hein and Associates’
$10,000 proposal was the lowest received.
Tiller and Co. of Baytown, which performed1 the
entire audit for $18,000 the past two years, submit-
ted the highest proposal for the fiscal accounts
audit and the siecond highest proposal for the pen-
sion plan audit. The respective figures, $82,500 and
$21,500, formed the only proposal that totaled more
than $100,000.
Before the vote, Cote and associate superinten-
Decker project
hearing Tuesday
The Texas Department of
Highways and Public Transpor-
tation will hold a public hearing
at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Council
Chambers at City Hall to discuss
proposed improvements to
Decker Drive, according to
Assistant City Manager Bobby
Rountree.
The improvements involve the
portion of Decker Drive from In-
terstate 10 tci Robert Lanier
Drive (Loop 20:t).
Proposed improvements could
involve the completion of the
center lanes of Decker Drive and
the construction of overpasses.
Pearce Street Journal
Rake and bake
An old Cedl.ar Bayou dirt
farmer, who presently is a
Baytown backward gardener,
fell victim to th< j hi-tech age.
He decided to use an acetylene
torch to dry out the ground so he
could harvest th e crop.
He overdid it. The dirt got so
dry and hot this: potatoes came
out baked.
-FH
dent for business Alan King declined to make a
specific recommendation to trustees. Because the
audit checks their work, it wouldn’t be appropriate
for business office officials to make a recommen-
dation, King indicated.
King did note Deloitte, Haskins and Sells has
done more audits for school districts the size of
Baytown than any of the other firms. Baytown’s
Ratliff and Jentho has done the audit before, he ad-
ded.
Hein and Associates has done audits for seven
smaller districts in east Texas, Cote said.
Answering a question from Trustee Jim Maple,
Interim Superintendent Ralph Pearce said he still
feels the board should go outside the district to pick
an auditor.
King said he feels the proposals this year are in
line with what is normally charged for a school
audit.
Maple made the motion to split the audit, in-
dicating he wanted Deloitte, Haskins and Sells for
the fiscal accounts audit because of their ex-
perience with other districts, as well as the
Baytown district. The firm participated this spring
in an internal investigation of the district, led by
the Houston law firm of Andrews & Kurth.
Tuesday final day
for absentee votes
Through Thursday, 84 in-person absentee votes had been cast
for the June 3 runoff for mayor and two City Council positions.
Friday and Tuesday are the last days to vote absentee for the
runoff. Absentee voting is being conducted between 8 a.m. and 5
p.m. in Council Chambers at City Hall.
There will be no absentee voting Monday because of the
Memorial Day holiday.
All registered Baytown voters, regardless of where they live,
are eligible to vote in the mayor’s contest.
Voters in Districts 4 and 5 will choose city councilmen for
their districts. * ,
Voters who did not cast ballots in the May 20 regular election
can vote in the runoff.
Mayoral candidates are incumbent Emmett Hutto, 70, a
semi-retired developer, and Jean Shepherd, a retired
businesswoman.
Candidates for District 3 councilman are Bobby Credille, 40,
a State Farm Insurance agent, and Dorothy Tyrrell Harrison,
69, a clinical nurse.
Vying for District 4 cduncilman are incumbent Jimmy
Johnson, 59, a teacher in the La Porte School District, and
Michael E. Turner, 32, an attorney.
Hit-and-run driver kills
man’s hearing-ear dog
By RENE MOODY
Jerry Hilton, who is deaf, lost not only his best
friend but also his hearing companion Thursday
night when a hit-and-run driver killed his dog.
The car, running off an Interstate 10 feeder
road near North Main, struck and killed Hilton’s
17-month-old sheltie collie, his hearing-ear dog
for two months.
'Named Gypsy, the dog was trained to alert
Hilton to sounds he was unable to hear. After a
two-year wait, Hilton had obtained Gypsy from
Dogs for the Deaf Inc., a non-profit organiza-
tion.
Gypsy was trained to respond to the
telephone, a knock at the door, an alarm clock
or anyone calling Hilton by name. He rode in the
backseat of Hilton’s car, alerting him to sounds
like sirens by placing her paw on his shoulder
Gypsy had all the legal rights of a seeing-eye
dog and was guaranteed access to public places
by laws in most states.
Not only did Hilton lose something dear to him
and an important part of his daily life, but he
lost a wish, too.
“I hope I die first so Gypsy will be able to help
someone elso who is deaf,” Hilton said in an in-
terview in March.
Gypsy’s death came at about 10:30 p.m.
Thursday about a quarter of a mile from North
Main. Hilton’s car had broken down and he and
the dog were walking on the feeder road to get
help.
Hilton said someone who was driving “like a
drunk driver” went off the road.
JERRY HILTON and his 6-year-old daughter,
Jenny, had just welcomed Gypsy into their
family when this photo was made in March.
“Why did they have to do that?” Hilton asked.
“That dog never harmed anyone. Everybody
loved her,” Hilton said Sjkiday morning as he
mourned the loss of his frisAand helper.
“Tell whoever killed my dog that I will see
them on Judgment Day. There is no reason that
should have happened. ’ ’
Legislators may foe called back
AUSTIN (AP) - With only four days left until
the 1989 Legislature’s regular session is history,
lawmakers have again been warned that they will
be called back if workers’ compensation reform
isn’t enacted.
Gov. Bill Clements says he won’t hesitate to call
a special session if needed.
“The one thing that I have said for sure is that if
we don’t get a proper and acceptable workers’
compensation bill, there will be a special session,”
the governor said Thursday.
Some Republican legislators said they had been
discussing plans for a special session with the
governor.
Clements told a news conference he saw the talks
a little differently.
“I don’t think I said we were making any plans. I
was asking for recommended dates,” he said.
The governor said he doesn’t know whether an
overtime session will be needed, but if one is called
he said it likely would be “sometime after the 4th
of July.”
The House and Senate have passed vastly dif-
ferent versions of the legislation to reform the
system of paying benefits to workers killed on the
job.
Lawmakers — plus business, labor, trial lawyers
and insurance lobbyists — have said those dif-
ferences may be too great to resolve by Monday’s
midnight end of the 1989 regular session.
However, the governor was less clear about
whether he would call such a session if the
Legislature fails to pass a bill to fund AIDS treat-
ment and education programs.
No holiday Monday
for classroom crowd
Around Town
iTRICIA ENSELEK says the
>ather these days is like being
side a hair dryer ... Rachel
esterman says hello... Jerry
ons goes to gelt a long drink of
iter.
Hunter Cunnimgham and Mel
me get kudos i’rom their sym-
onic band stuidlents ... David
•ay wants to shoot some
sketball.
Leslie Wheatoiri attends a sup-
r honoring commencement
ests and graduates of the
liversity Texas Medical
■anchinGalvesston.
Although city, county, state
and federal offices will be closed
to observe Memorial Day on
Monday, it will be business as
usual for students.
All classes will be held on
Memorial Day for the Baytown,
Barbers Hill, Crosby, Anahuac
and Dayton school districts.
Earlier this year, Crosby
School Board decided to hold
classes on May 29 as a makeup
day for time lost during Hur-
ricane Gilbert. .
City offices in jBaytown and
surrounding areas will be closed
in observance of the holiday,
This includes offices at the
police departments.
Harris, Chambers and Liberty
county offices will also be closed
Monday as will most banks.
United States Post Offices will
also be closed in Baytown,
Crosby and surrounding cities.
Baytown residents who have
their garbage collected on Mon-
day and Tnursday, will not have
it picked up until Thursday.
In Mont Belvieu, garbage
pickup will be on Tuesday in-
stead of Monday.
A city of Liberty spokeswo-
man said garbage will be picked
up on schedule and the landfill
will be open.
Sundial
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WEATHER
FRIDA V NIGHT:
Mostly
cloudy with low in upper 70s.
Saturday: Cloudy in morning,
partly cloudy with 20 percent
chance of thunderstorms in
afternoon, high in
low 90s.
From 8 a.m. Thursday to 8
a.m. Friday, high of 87. low of
78.
Hurricane meet June 1
A renowned expert on hurri-
canes will be in Baytown June 1
for the 17th annual hurricane
preparedness meeting._______________
Main speaker will be Dr. Rob-
ert C. Sheets, director of the Na-
tional Hurricane Center.
The meeting will be held at
7:30 p.m. in the Baytown Com-
munity Building.
Sheets has many years of ex-
perience in me-
teorology, da-
ting to 1961-64
when he was an
air weather ser-
vice officer in
the U.S. Air
Foice.
From 1965 to
1980 he worked
in the National
Hurricane Re-
search Laboratory, serving as
chief of the hurricane group and
chief scientist on research
flights.
He was scientific director of
the Project STORMFURY, a
hurricane modification research
program.
During that tenure, he made
more than 200 incursions into the
eye of hurricanes.
Sheets also authored and
published more than 50 scientific
articles on hurricanes.
He became the hurricane
specialist for the National Cen-
ter in 1980, providing forecasts
and warnings and researching
methods on improving forecasts.
After serving as deputy direc-
tor of the National Hurricane
Center in 1985-87, he became its
director.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 178, Ed. 1 Friday, May 26, 1989, newspaper, May 26, 1989; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052097/m1/1/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.