The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1988 Page: 2 of 23
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday, November 25, 1988
A 9-year-old Baytown boy re-
mains in stable condition Friday
at Hermann Hospital after los-
ing his left arm in an accident
Wednesday at 4 p.m., Baytown
police reported.
Allen Paul Pierce was riding
his bicycle on Courtyard nearing
Bayway and ran into the right-
side front door of a 1986 Ford
Bronco, police reports indicated.
His left arm was severed in the
accident, police said. Witnesses
and Baytown EMS personnel
kept him calm until he was flown
via Life Flight helicopter to the
hospital, police said.
ALTERCATION
Police were called to the scene
of a large fight involving at least
25 people Thursday evening in
the 3800 block of West Baker,
Baytown police reported.
No one was seriously injured,
but two people, a 24-year-old
man and an 18-year-old woman,
were arrested for abusive
language, police said.
The altercation — more of a
loud argument than a fight —
broke out when two white
females began arguing outside
an apartment, police said.
They were joined by two black
males who were asked to leave,
and the fight broke out when
they didn’t, police reported.
Then, about 10 people from one
apartment and 15 more from a
neighboring apartment joined in
the feud, police said.
Both groups claimed injuries
and wanted charges to be filed,
and the mob became angrier
when officers told them no ar-
rests could be made at that mo-
ment, police said.
One person claimed he was
stabbed, but police found no
evidence of any stab wounds,
although two kitchen knives
were found on the ground after-
ward, police said.
TOPPERS
BURGLARY
Some jewelry and a few other
items were taken from a home in
the 2000 block of Montana while
the owners were away visiting
family Thursday, police
reported.
A total of $10 in dimes, two
wristwatches, and class rings
from Texas A&M University and
Texas Women’s University were
reported missing, police said.
In addition, a five-inch por-
table black-and-white television
set and a jewelry box were also
taken.
Shots didn’t surprise raft guide
The owners found a back win-
dow and door propped open
when they arrived home, police
said. Loss was estimated at $860.
DRUGCHARGE
A 33-year-old Baytown man
has been charged with posses-
sion of a controlled substance
after police stopped his vehicle
Monday.
Bond on Marcelino Figueroa
of 1209 Willow was set at $5,000.
The case was assigned to the
177th District Court.
After police got information
from a confidential informant,
the suspect was stopped after
police encountered his vehicle
late Monday evening in the 3400
block of Market.
A search of the vehicle produc-
ed 10 small packets of a semi-
white powdery substance that
field tested positive for cocaine.
The substance was sent to the
Harris County lab for further
testing.
FOR LC LIBRARY
HI?!®)’ PENTECOST and Suzanne Blankenship, members of
Phi Theta Kappa, present “Seven Years In Hanoi” by Larry
Chesley to the Lee College library.
ALPINE (AP) — A man in-
jured when he and a West Texas
couple were attacked by snipers
while rafting down the Rio
Grande says he first thought the
gunmen were harmless.
River-rafting guide Jim Burr;
who survived the attack that kill-
ed one man and injured his wife
Saturday, said he really wasn’t
alarmed when he first heard
gunfire in the distance.
“That wasn’t unusual,” Burr
said. “In the past, it hasn’t been
a cause of concern.”
Even when the snipers first
fired on the three, Burr said he
still didn’t think those shooting
were seriously trying to hurt
them.
“When I got hit, I realized they
weren’t kidding,”
Burr, 36, a guide with the
Terlingua-based Far Flung
Adventures, was shot in the
thigh. He remains hospitalized
in Alpine in stable condition.
Michael Heffley, 40, of
Eastland was killed in the at-
tack. His 32-year-old wife,
Jamie, was wounded and re-
mains in stable condition in an
Abilene hospital.
The three were rafting
through the Colorado Canyon
when they were attacked by
snipers who opened fire from
atop 300-foot bluffs overlooking
the Rio Grande, which runs
along the Texas-Mexico border.
The attack occurred about 30
miles southeast of Presidio.
Ex-Baytonian Robert Post
to fill two-year judge’s term
SAN ANGELO — Former
Baytonian Robert Post, 35, is the
Tom Green County judge, hav-
ing won the election to fill the
final two years of the late Judge
EddB. Keyes’ term.
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry L.
Post of Baytown, he graduated
from Robert E. Lee High School
in 1970 and from the University
of Texas Law School in 1975.
For the past seven years he
has lived in San Angelo. In his
law practice there, he has
specialized in estate planning,
real estate, oil and gas and cor-
poration law as well as probate
matters.
In addition to being a lawyer,
Post is a certified public accoun-
tant. He says this will aid him
when dealing with the county’s
budget which now totals more
than $13 million a year.
A Democrat, Post narrowly
defeated Republican Jack Ray
in the race for county judge in
the Nov. 8 general election. He
won by a 376-vote margin.
“It was a squeaker,” Post was
quoted in the San Angelo Stan-
dard Times the day after the
election.
Heffley was fatally shot while
trying to shield his wife from the
gunfire.
Authorities on both sides of the
river joined in the search for the
attackers, but they have not
made any arrests.
Burr said the gunshots he
heard before the attack didn’t
trouble him because hunters and
people “just shooting” have us-
ed the area.
After he was shot, he said, “I
started hollering at them and
running down the river. I’m
hollering, ‘There’s no money on
the boat. Please don’t shoot! No
more! No more!
“They were hollering
something back, but in the
distance it all got wadded up.
But I think it was Spanish,” he
said.
“As far as I can tell, it was
totally without motive,” Burr
said of the attack. “They didn’t
steal anything. They didn’t come
down to the boat.”
At one point, after Burr and
the Heffleys swam about 50
yards against a canyon wall to
elude their attackers, Burr
thought their troubles were over.
But moments later, Heffley was
fatally shot.
“Our fear levels were pretty
‘maxed out’at that point.”
AP news scan
BEIJING — Panic buying has
forced 10 provinces and cities to
impose rationing on salt, the
manager of the China National
Salt Co. was quoted Friday as
saying. The official China Daily
quoted Zhang Tiecheng as say-
ing rationing of table salt went
into effect this month and will
not end until the shortage has
eased.
SIDON, Lebanon — Israeli
warplanes Friday attacked a
base operated by Palestinian
guerrillas and Lebanese
militiamen near this southern
port city, and police said three
people were killed and 10 wound-
ed. The Israeli army confirmed
the raid, saying its planes
destroyed a large ammunition
depot before returning safely.
SEOUL, South Korea —
Radical students and Buddhist
monks demanding the arrest of
former President Chun Doo-
hwan hurled hundreds of
firebombs Friday at riot police
in street clashes after
authorities blocked a protest
march.
JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa — The government says it
will not send black leader Nelson
Mandela back to prison when he
recovers from tuberculosis but
will keep him under guard at an
unspecified location.
WASHINGTON — The special
counsel investigating House
Speaker Jim Wright has sub-
poenaed records on work his
wife, Betty, did for a partnership
between Wright and a Fort
Worth real estate developer and
investor, according to a source
familiar with the case.
WASHINGTON - Resear-
chers report that a plant toxin
combined with a special protein
is able to attack and kill cells in-
fected with the AIDS virus while
leaving healthy cells untouched.
They say the development may
offer a new treatment approach
but not a cure for the deadly
disease.
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Bake sale
THE CHANNELVIEW
Lighthouse Church will have a
bake sale beginning at 9 a.m.
Nov. 26 at K mart to help raise
money for Christmas gifts for
Children at M.D. Anderson
Hospital.
Emergency room closes
THE EMERGENCY room at the
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
Decker Drive location will close
permanently at 3 p.m. Friday.
The emergency room located at
the new San Jacinto Methodist
Hospital, corner of Baker Road
and Garth Road, is now open.
SOS movies
SOS SINGLES Outreach Service
has slated movies at the mall for
Nov. 26. Those attending will
meet at 6:30 p.m. at the water-
fall in The Market at San Jacinto
Mall. Call Vera Campbell at 422-
7946 for more information.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 22, Ed. 1 Friday, November 25, 1988, newspaper, November 25, 1988; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052719/m1/2/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.