The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 289, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1970 Page: 1 of 16
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VFW Post
■VFW POST will inert at I p.jn.
Tuesday Instead of Monday
night as previously printed.
Plans for the annual turkey
shoot will be discussed
Meeting Raet
THE ANNUAL Fellowship Day j j|
of the Baytown Elks IxMige.j %
which was scheduled for Satur-,
day, has been postponed to Sat- X1
urday, Oct. SI, It was an-|
bounced Friday by J. R, Bell,
general chairman •„
Circle K_3
FRESHMAN BOYS at I$ee Col
lege, Interested In joining the
Ctrcie K dub, may contact
Tim Quinton at 427-3371, Gary
Kimmey at 422-6688, or Tom
BWMtt M OMNI.
Church Moving
ALLIANCE BIBLE Church
will move Into Its new building
at 320 Cedar Bayou-Lunch burg
Road near East Road and
north of Sterling High School
for Sunday services For more'
Information call the Rev Cur-
tis L Pace, pastor, st 427-5281
AICHE Meeting
Friday, August 28, 1970
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
Ten Cent* Per Copy
Council Expense Study
Panel Named By Mayor
Total Cost: - ■
City Seeks U.S. Aid In
Signal, Paving Projects
Baytown hopes to obtain fed ) terconnccied with the West would be signalized and traffic
eral funds in the Topics Pro-Main light ' channelized,
gran, for $62,382 worth of naw Number six on the list is East Next is Garth at Baker,
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traffic signals and $407,650 in
paving projects.
The city would pay the cost of
engineering and right-of-way,
estimated at a total of $90,150.
City council Thursday night
UNITED FUND DRIVE P
O. B. LEE AND AL CHAPPELL discusa publicity for the upcoming Community Chest drive, approved a list of priorities in
Lee, editor of Baytown Briefs, is working on publicity aspects of the campaign, while Chappell the project, presented by Ted
Baytown division manager of General Telephone Co., bead* ap the drive among utility com- Kloesel. chairman of the coun-
cil’s traffic sub-committee
panic* and employes.
Texas from Highway 146 to
Danubina. This would be wid-
ened on the north side 12 feet
and extended to the south side
1,300 feet east and south.
where new paving and signals
are proposed. Ninth on the list
if Bayway at Baker, also to be
paved and signalized.
Pruett from Park to Loop 201
At Bayway and Park, lights would be widened to-44 feet of
the pavement in the 10th prior-
ity. »
Garth north of Park would be
widened and channelized for
400 feet. I-ast on the list is Com-
merce to North and South Main
connection, where two connec-
tions are to be paved to provide
a one-way operation.
State May Sue Arvo
Pollution Suit Threat
-! First on the list is a traffic
signal interconnection from
Highway 146 from Texas Ave-.
inue to Cedar Bayou Road.
Traffic signs would be stan-
dardized there
Secondly, the business dis-
North Main Site For
Police Building OK’d
Contingent on provisions of a, the city hall-civic center com-
, ^ previous bond issue, the new1Plex.
trict signals would be mtercon- ^ ^ station'
NEAL P COCHRAN of the
LLS Department of the In- iria signals wouja Deuixercon- jjqo qoo Baytown police station] Kloesel argued that the city
terior will describe four coal f'i’W T /^1 |nected Parkin* would 116 tak' will be built on North Main, hall has an emergency opera-
gaalftcatlon project* under- ^a-* rx m \/ ■ rv wv% rk n ■* rm off TeMS Avenu< *”d Pro- _ j tion center in the basement
SurprisesLV t..(>inpaiiy:-.;-;:;—
2615 Fannin.
Scientific Swi^^ifeding",|**to,t ****** aw®*®**3** "Hew to a major company.,operated as lews Butadienejto(|_____________H_______ifiojlce station glare
1 * plant in Channelview was a one of the world's great cor- Co. prior to its sale a few years The fourth'priority is North if the legality is cleared the
“complete surprise." Herman porations with the engineering ago to Sinclair., which later Mam from Park, south to intends ht the police
Davit, a plant engineer, told capability to do almost any- merged with Atlantic-Rich-rest, This would be widened, to ^ houswj on the city-
Tha Bay town Sun Friday thing, which stnee 1967 has, field . ____________........jxurfacect and Ward and Wil- ownwj ac f m Mam
Davis spidhe had been asked known what their effluent The plant holds a permit, is-iiiams signals would be inter- wording to the action taken
to come toAustin to explain the standards were,” Yantis told sued in 1967, to discharge up to connected. , ^
plant's plans to improve water the board, ‘T think we need 2.6 million gallons of water a: Fifth: Airhapt at Market,
„ .................... day into the San Jacinto River, j where the intersection would
The plant is discharging now be increased to four lanes, and
Weather
And Tides
PARTLY CLOUDY with
Uttle change and tempera
turn ranging from the mid-
Ms to it w Ms Is the Baytown
area forecast for Friday
Policy
Will Be
Reviewed
By WANDA ORTON
Councilman I>eonard Stas-
ney and Ted Kioesel will com-
prise a committee to study the
current policy on expense re-
imbursement to counctlmen
and .to recommend clarifica-
tion of the policy.
Mayor Glen Walker ap-
pointed the committee Thurs-
day night after some debate on
whether this should be a mat-
ter for council committee study
or for the City Charter Com-
mission *
The terminology and method
of carrying out reimburse-
ments need to be cleared up,
said Mayor Walker. He
stressed the urgency for "some
glassification needed now" In-
pat rolling the entire city. 1^ steed of waiting on the charter
also mentioned that most of the study,
arrests are made in the West | B B Williams, a former city
Baytown area. j engineer wbo questioned the
Mrs. Willihqi G. DePierri, • month expense reim-
speaking for the Baytown
/*;
bursement to councilman at a
previous meeting, objected to
the committee named by Ma-
yor Walker "Why Just two
people-”’ be asked. The mayor
League of Women Voters,
asked the council to not vote for
the city hall site. “The League
opposes the police static*, on
. this'site,” 'she said “We don’t told him that was the preroga-
toward North Main, Kloesel [want the tms cut ***?•,__________
nsanaaihed that police are I (See POLICE, Page S) “Why not name someone on
---------------^ jMt chart#r commission’’’
Williams persisted. "They are
still living. They’re all good
man."---------.--------,----------------
Thursday night.
The only dissenter to this de-
cision was Councilman Ted
i* ■ » y't . S'Tt a /• m. t me pi«m uisoiar|sui(5 now oc mtreaseu umout uuics, bj«u ^
• ilCCAA i.hiet jliXpiBlIlS onlrabout 133mimon ftdlons traffic light signal would be in- Kloesel. who favored the site of
|a day, Davis said.
A Texas W^ater Quality!,
£££*£* New Poverty Plan Wayjr ^SBaytown Youth, 19, Is
First Police Trainee
Saturday: high at 1:17 a m ,
tows at 2:44 a m and 4;«7
fc-as^iiyw, -awu,
Arco’s discharge had been im-|Department’s new training
program
United Gas Seeking
Baytown Franchise
at (:$7 a m tad aet at 7:4$
p.m.
board of the Bayshort Commu- M ^ «»*
nlty DevriSmG^hat,Pee Wee Gndpfov*d8fterthf^
they have thMiuthortty^to run o. f[
me anti-poverty progrinn for SlgH-l f) S‘t tajMB .seeding
%rl«)Siid ffi2t Whl ***** teterMteA ta **ni' At tht hearing, Davis blamed
anti-poverty program to area urgHj to C0I1
boards has been the intent of tlastat (Tub
----„------ the Office of Economic Oppor- Markft street from 1 to 4 !^™Uance
MRS. GUY HUFFORD and tunity since Its beginning, but p m Sunday and, register. ‘ - P
daughters of 1 $20 Utah are glad that the prqgram is just now The k«f »e is opbo to boys
PI
K.i-
Anyone interested in parti-
cipating in the Optimist Pee
Wee football program l» slow equipment deliveries and
r to the Op- n^ggary pilot plants for the
building on company’s slowness in coming wUkfom hopes'to have 12
The Arco wn«te_ water con-
tains cooling wider, Uowdoim
a£mTtS5*l^ldivfotoB5S IjSSdteSStowSTThe
tains are pretty high for a flat-i Me. H Up m* JT«.| ^
tains sre pretty high for a Ost-
lander.
■ . . .. . ’*!*"** inmoeal and «** removal
. TttoWmClartohavemoved wtnjscfode 'toys weigh-m t lHoon
to the former ide Trotter hone
on Rollingwood ... Wanda
Brown proudly exhibiting the
- new Stwling Govwnor, which
ishotofftheprees. . Charge
QMdweU getting busy on the
incoming Community Chest
drive ... Mary Nsvil making
A grant of $27,323 was
awarded the department by the
IjOW Enforcement Assistance
Administration, U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice, to recruit and
train 12 police cadets.
By Sept. 1 Police .Chief John
on hopes
^cadets hiredvThe nrtpts will
work 20 hours during the week
gnd carry 15 hours of coUtgs
............
Their 20 hours workt&ne in-
cludes four hours in the departi
meht s pwn formal training j
16 hours of actual
work
^ »d 16 ho
experience.
Would taxpayers benefit! mittee, said at first he
from two gas companies ini "some reservations" but
Baytown? * found, after1 talking to officials
_. . . . in several cities with two gas
This Is Uw question bring companies, that "they thought
weighed by the Baytown City the ^ o( competition was
Council, prompted by a request g0(Kj»»
for a franchise from United Kelley <dded(
Gas, Inc., for the distribution ^ the only advantage,
and sale of natural gas. The frHnkly "
city franchise is with Houston, councilman Allen Cannon
Natural Gas Corp. ^id he could not see how
Earlier .Williams had ac-
cused the council of forming a
charter commission which the
council might think was better
had than the previous charter com-
mission. He said the previous
commission "Worked for noth-
ing.. . good citizens, all htgh-
Saunders Gregg, vice presi- parallel lines would be riimi*
dent of United Gas and division nated if two different compan-
manager of the Houston dlvt- i« operated here,
slon, told the council Thursday -----------» —
it rites are more competi- mittee will nywt at 7 pan. Man-
ly respected
Williams also said the people
voted on the charter before any
changes were made.
Walker commented after the
meeting Thursday night that
Williams was implying that fu-
ture diarier changes would be
made without an election. The
mayor emphasized that the
chart er commiasion would only
Use council's Utility Coro- main iMMaMNitfiai and
K
day with officials from Houston
Natural Gas Corp., who want to
discuss this matter.
months ago. ! I *£*• •
whereby Ire. board.XeCttS 22charge permits along the river.
pofrgnn ratoar than the um- regiror for the foil ! S^blbSytoo tor^ri’ mid should i ^ *r*nt to B*7towri waa
breila-like HOCAA board, the ^ "T" ^ |pFoIrotHy too lenient and «b°uld|
concept of poor people helping i>.....................
Council and is to be
■■PR.
REX ELLIOTT
five when two companies have
franchises, such as in Houston
and lit Longview.
When asked about the possi-
bility of duplication in service
and parallel lines wito lwo gas
companies In the dty, Gregg
_______________ _ Tfxw
todlcated this would not be
■ .'■> JV-
Councilman lamar Kelley,
chairman of the Utilities Com-
that no changes would, be—, »
adopted until voted on fry the X".
people. ^
(See EXPENSE, P«ge I)
■«--4
S’" TT^'^cNair Board Seeks
lot grttit to Bcytown wti<
SSTtgS Water System Grant
Council and Is to be matched *.
with city funds. Federal funds A preliminary application The money will not be avail-
account for 60 per cent of the for a $38,774 federal grant from able for any Improvements this
j program. Baytown’s ihatfis the Department of Housing and season. Another application ,
^?18 218. w ™ ^ Urban Development hap been must now be made to HUD tor
.'....J"..-'.:: •<* approved for
this project will lead toward an jyj™^****
I (jf-We grant, he
lae College. Cadets will take 12
■I
But the money-
of arts degree
iS Will taur li ««•■"•* «.w.v-™»«ito r»HniW
hours of EngUah, six to eight with a matching sum tobejfiro-
hours qf foreign language ■
math; nine hours of govern- *« .
writ and wiU not be sufficient to %
Blisch aid h» (Ira,
tturplhe. It —did lake $370,000 to
vlded by the *eter dietrict-
will only be enough for a water . ln , me*nU,T1<‘_. A. O. Kel-
ment; six hours, of history; well and will not be sufficient to ^ fon^ pcvsktont of thi
Sn&SS- sroasts
sociology Which include the Co. which has assisted the dis-
•tanents of police science, in its application for a, ^
Introduction to sociology, so- *
rial problems, c*-1"'""'—” 1 ['.............................. .
legal aspects of law
tnent, police administration!
and operation. Also
we six hours of psychology and
nine hours of special couraee In
No Service Chargo
Ju- M. '■ * *
Pwoplws Shot* Bank
NO SERVICE
CHARGE
ONLY A TRICKLE
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 48, No. 289, Ed. 1 Friday, August 28, 1970, newspaper, August 28, 1970; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1055490/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.