The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 274, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 27, 1974 Page: 2 of 14
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y, August 27, 1974
"v" 4 win vhj, uicv
home on Au£. 19. ;
She Is survived
nth Ave.,
died at her
ton
is Survived by her
mother, Mrs. Dorris Peterson
of New York City; four cou-
sins, Mrs. B. E. Collins, How-
ard and Norman Brown and
Ira Isenhour, all of Baytown.
Several other cousins also sur-
vive.'
Services will be held at 11
a.m. Wednesday at Paul U.
Lee Funeral Home Chapel with
George Allen, first reader of
for
gation and
human consumption because
we need the water!"
Approval of the project reaf-
firms Clark’s belief in the
American system of govern-
ment.
"I still believe in our govern-
ment’s court procedures and I
believe in our government’s
court procedures and I believe
that right will always win out."
Travis Reed of Beach City, a
member of the board of direc-
tors of the Chambers-Liberty
Counties Navigation District,
said Tuesday it is likely that
First Church of Christ, Scient- another trip will be made to
ist, officiating. Washington to ask for addi-
Burial will be in Cedar
Bayou Masonic Cemetery.
Pallbearers will be Ira and
R.B. Isenhour, Horton
Bridges, Ed Hasty, Robert
Brown and Tim Jones.
Six Hurt In
Two Traffic
Mishaps Here
Six persons were injured in
t&o separate accidents here
Mondayi«eeerdiflf to Baytown
police reports.
At 1:43 p.m. at the intersec-
tion of Alexander Drive and
East Adoue, a two-car accident
sent three persons to Baytown
hospitals,
pjlice said a car driven by
tional funding for the Wallis-
ville Reservoir project.
Reed said Congress ap-
proved $3.6 million this year
after a delegation appeared
before subcommittee meetings
in the House and Senate. “But
this won’t finish the project,”
Reed said. “In all probability
we will have to make another
trip and probably pretty soon.”
Reed, who was elated about
the court order being lifted on
the project, commented that
most people do not realize
"how big a boom" this will be
to both Chambers end Harris
Roberta D. Phillips, 17, of IMP* good recreational facility for
W. Cleveland, was northbound
on Alexander attempting to
make a left turn when she
pulled into the path of a car
driven by Thomas Van Zum-
walt of Dayton.
Counties.
Completion of the project
will be. a benefit to all the peo-
ple, he said.! “The rice farmers
will be assured of plenty of
water and the salt water intru-
sion into irrigation systems
will be halted. And(it will be a
and munii
the area.
This will have a direct i
on the Baytown and
area in efforts to obtain more
surface water and stop pump-
ing ground water wells, the
cause for land subsidence^
Reed pointed out that the
Navigation District has a con-
tract with the City of Houston
to maintain a water level at all
times of 3.8 feet above sea level
in the reservoir. A sufficient
amount of water from Lake
Livingston will be conveyed to
maintain that level, he said.
From i
Pair Charged
In Burglary
And Thefts
Two ' Baytonians were
charged Monday through the
intake division of the Baytown
Police Department with sev-
eral offenses.
Gary Jones and Rex Randall
Williams, both 18, were ar-
rested Friday by Baytown
police.
June 22 burglary of the
Swinging Inn Lounge in High-
Mrs. Phillips was taken to
Gulf Coast Hospital by private
car. Zumwalt and his wife,
Clara, were taken to San
Jacinto Methodist Hospital by
Baytown Ambulance Service.
Police charged Mrs. Phillips
with failure to yield right-of-
way.
Three persons were injured
in a one-car accident at 4:35
p.m. on Massey-Tompkins
Road
According to police, a car
driven by Lorenzo Molendez,
20, of 1116 Massey-Tompkins,
was westbound on Massey-
Tompkins when he lost
of his car in a curve, veered
into a deep ditch and struck an
embankment.
Molendez and passengers in
his car, Albana Solis, 21, and
Elouise Solis, 1, all of 1116
Massey-Tompkins, were taken
to Baytown Medical Center by
Baytown Ambulance Service.
Police charged Molendez
with negligent collision.
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Intruder Who
Threatened
Woman Sought
MONT BELVIEU (Sp) -
Chambers County sheriff’s
deputies continued a search t*ie coun*y la^-
Tuesday for a man who walked
into a home near here about 5
p.m. Monday and threatened
to attack an 83-year-old
land? in which $245 was taken
from a cooler after he
reportedly helped a bartender
close the business for the day.
He was also charged with the
theft of an 18-foot boat from the
NASA boat docks May 13,'
which he later is alleged to
have sunk near La Porte.
Both Williams and Jones
were charged with the June 22
theft of a boat motor from 7511
Decker Drive.
Jones was being held in Bay-
town jail on $8,poo bond. Wil-
liams, who was being held on
$7,000 bond, was transferred to
COURT ROOM DECORUM may be upset by these waitresses' outfits but a Philadel-
phia magistrate wanted the girls to testify in costume in a sex-discrimination suit.
Harry Katz, a Philadelphia nightclub owner (at left) advertised for "beautiful girls
only" to serve as waitresses but the Human Relations Committee protested against his
advertisement. He was fined $300 and ordered to advertise for “beautiful women and
men.”
+ WASHINGTON - The
Egyptian army has built an
extensive system of fortifi-
cations to shield its strip of
Sinai desert from possible
Israeli attack, U. S. intelli-
gence sources report
+ WASHINGTON -
American families will be
able tojnit more beef on the
dinner table next year but
not as much chicken and
pork because of a changing
supply situation, govern-
ment specialists say.
CONVICTS’ ODYSSEY
(Continued From Page 1)
whom he held a grudge.
That man was rancher R. L.
HH Baker. 65, whose testimon;
* Jono* wao ehorged with the RelpecTsen(T Williams to prison
They went to the Baker ranch
house. Williams said, and Wil-
liams shot Baker four times.
He,said he asked the dying
Baker if he recognized him and
Baker nodded “yes.“ Williams
said he told Baker. "I want you
to know why I killed you."
Williams said Ulmer then
Sheriff Louis Otter said the
woman was sitting in a chair at
her home when a man wearing
a cap and gloves walked in and
said, “I want something to
Cat.” ,-rr
Otter said the woman told
deputies the man then walked
to harm her. She ran from the
house, Otter said, and the man
threw a pot of rice at her.
The sheriff said (he woman
was not injured and she
quickly called for help. He said
deputies searched the area
with dogs until lat
but found1 no trace of the man?
Otter said the woman was
unable to give an accurate
description, but indicated to
deputies' that the man
appeared to weigh about 230
pounds. '
‘Paper Sack’
Fire Put Out
A blanket inside a paper
sack was found burning in the
middle of the street in the 600
block of West Defee Street
Monday afternoon
. Firemen n
Crosby Board
Rejects Bids
On Wire, Air
CROSBY (Sp) - School
trustees here refused Monday
to accept bids on wiring and
window unit air conditioners 0f mot
for district schools.
fused to accept a bid. from
Trantham Air Conditioning
and Heating in Crosby, and
asked Supt. Kenneth Pye to
seek clarification of other bids.
The board is expected to take
final action on air conditioners
late Monday; (is gept. 16 meeting. -
“ “* *u In other action, the board
authorized the purchase of a
Turf King mower for $1,250 and
a reconditioned flail mower for
$450. The Turf King is expected
to be used for final trimming tjon
PROJECT
(Continued From Page 1)
Wallisville an evidentiary
hostage of Trinity,” said the
appeals court.
“The Wallisville Project is
miniscule in scope and cost
when compared to the scope
and estimated cost of the
Trinity Project. Its cost will be
less pan two jicr cent of the
estimated cost? of the Trinity
Project.
The Trinity Project is
expected to cost $1.3 billion and
the last estimate m the Wallis-
ville Project was more than
$28.8 million. '
The Wallisville Project is
designed to supply water needs
Medicine And
killed Baker’s dog because
was licking Baker’s face.
Baker's son, Gary, drove up
at that point, so the trio wired SHU At It
Williams said he told Baker’s
son to "tell, everybody in the ,AP) _ Age hasn't f’orced
country I’ve been here. ,j
After the murder Smurda;
they went to Possum Kingdom
Lake, broke into a vacant cabin
and all three raped the women
again
Glasgow said the men then
showed the only sense of re-
morse we know of" by trying to
put the women on a bus
route home.
They instructed the women to
call the police and tell officers
what happened so they would
not be implicated in the con-
victs' crimes.
This the women did and they
were treated at the' Graham
hospital and went home.
At Mineral Wells, the con-
victs got into a running gun
battle With state troopers. JVil-
liams said it was Ulmer who
shot out the trooper’s wind
shield, halting pursuit
Then to Santo, Tex., where
they shot, up a car which Ulmer
believed belonged to .a con
stable against whom he held a
grange' ’
.Later,- Ulmer had second
Jesse Smith Bean into retire-
s'- rpent, even after 70 yean of
practicing medicine.
"I just got in the habit, and I
can’t quit,” said the 96-year-old
general practitioner who spe-
cializes in chronic and nervous
diseases and obstetrics.
“I just can’t make up my
mind to retire and sit around
and do nothing,” said Bean,
who admits his eyesight is fail-
ing him
Nevertheless, his hours are 8
a m. until 7 p.m.
Bean is the oldest practicing
physician in Kentucky and one
of the oldest in the nation.
He has practiced out of the
office at his home for 30 years
and until a hospital was built 10
years ago “I was in the office
all the time,” Bean said. Now
patients number three or four a
day
Bean, a native of Ohio Coun-
ty, graduated from the old Hos-
pital College of Medicine *-
of moreJhan two million peo- thoughts and declared, “Hell, I
pie and isSt kev component of don't even think that’sjiis_car"
thrTTvi^ston-Wanisville 0" to Krath Cour
the Livin&ston-Wallisville
Water System for regional and
municipal waterworks.
The Wallisville Dam and Re-
servoir in West Chambers
County are located off Inter-
state 10 just east of Old and
Lost and Trinity Rivers.
ty of which Stephenville is the
county seat. There they killed
Mrs. Ray Ott and wounded her
husband. She had testified
against Ulmer, charged with
burglarizing the Ott home
The survivors told how they
The dam will have a total m°v*d through the countryside
length of 39,200 feet and will ,from °16 h°use to another,
serve five purposes — supply rnos* ^16m eva?uated by ter-
fresh water, control salinity, ro[j?et! res‘dents,
navigation, conserve fish and ^ were foi-ced.to flee on
wildlife and provide recrea-
while the flail mower will be
used around the school.
Pye told board members the
district has still another
mower for tougher jobs, drouth and about two miles
the flail is safer for school use
He said a vocational agricul-
ture student will be hired tq Sbout 28 million gallons a day.
mow in the afternoons,
Did You Know?
* 16 pm. and spent 10 minutes Baron -Scftrederro Sanders of freezeFon funds.
on the run.
The cause of the fire or how
the blanket got there were un-
known.
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The highest price ever paid tion,- the project had been
St. Albans for an Odontoglos-
sum crispum at an auction by
Protheroe' & Morris of Bow
Lane, London, England, «n
March 22, 1906
HEADY fashion note, is
struck with a Balinese bon-
net at New York Gift's an-
nual Flea Market. The ont-
offering of vintage ob-
ditional oWworld markets
The project was authorized
by the River and Harbor Act of
1962. It will dapi the Trinity
River 3.9 miles above the
south of Interstate 18. The
reservoir is expected to yield
Construction first got under-
way in 1967, Prior to the 1973
court order halting construe-
Firlsf talked about in the late
1940s, the Wallisville project
originally was conceived as a
modest salt-water terrier dam
to protect the lower Trinity,
whic-h is pumped to irrigate
surrounding rice fartns.
In the late 1956s the plan was
greatly expanded to include a
reservoir to complement
Houston’s proposed Lake
Livingston. The-Wallisville
project would capture water
frorh Lake Livingston for
transfer on< to Houston by
canal. .
Cost* of the project has
tripled from $9.5 million in 1962
to more toan $28.8 million.
In February, 1973, U.S. Dis-
trict Court Judge Carl O. Bue
in Houston ordered work to
stop on the reservoir, then 72
per cent complete, A suit had
foot because one stolen car ran
out of gas and
wrecked.
one was
At one point, officers ap-
yards of the officers "and just
stayed hid.—
The three spent four or five
hours moving up a creek ted
and entered two evacuated
70 Years Of
+ CANON CITY, Colo.-
State prison Warden Alex
Wilson has fired two guards
who were on duty the night
three inmates escaped and
began a spree of violence
through New Mexico and
Texas.
not told. .
While most of the trustees
were sympathetic to the prob-
'Jtr,
tional bus runs would be too
expensive. Most felt, however,
that the Brigadiers would have
to be given transportation
since they were inadvertently
scheduled for fifth period. ■
Board President Oswall
Harman pnin.ad aa. ft.,
schools are Having to live
within a tight budget this year.
One mother suggested that
parents of children using late
buses could pay for them or the
students could pay fares each
time they rode late buses. |
Trustee Wes Balentine was
against having parents or stu-
dnets paying bus fare.
“We’re not in the transporta-
said
the
day and
why it begins
ends so early.
Clark said there had been a
in |
lower schools and that high
school students would have to
begin before or after the
others.
A poll of teachers and stu-
dents last year showed they
would rather begin earlier, he
+ CORDOBA, Argentina
— An Argentine executive of
the French-owned DCA-Ren-
ault autoflnn was shot to
death today by an unknown
terrorist, police said. _
ELIZABETHTOWN,
ley, who was blinded during
army service in Kenya, plans
to return there and cycle 500
miles through wild country.
Not alone. He will be on the
back seat of a tandem, with a
partner who can see to steer
the way.
Tetley, 44, lost his sight while
serving in the Kenya Regiment
and fighting the Mau-Mau
rebels in the '50s.
As he lay in hospital in Nair-
obi, a Salvation Army officer
visited him snd„ gave him a
Braille watch. '
He came home to England
and trained as a physi-te:
otherapist at St. Dunstan’s, a
rehabilitation center for the
blind. At the same time he took
up tandem cycling.
Now he is going back to Ken-
Louisville.
towns before he moved to Vine
Grove ,in 1926 and Elizabeth-
town in 1944.
He recalls making only house
calls when he began practicing
because doctors didn’t have of-
fices then. A patient’s kitchen
was the operating room. There
were no hospitals, no tele-
phones. Horses were, often the
mode of transportation.
“In those days, people didn’t
Alt HIVOV V4UJO, pwf/tv U1U1I V *
pay much, Nobody had any- cou^ do a lot of good.”
thing,” he said, adding he once
received a cow as payment
from a patient he treated for
pneumonia
the area where they were con-
live a
- modern; average life,
said.
His wife, died in 1966 at the
age of 81. They were ’married
57% years, and had one sbn
y•IIOU Vi tv OUII
Leonard T. Bean, who became
tion business,” but Clark and P^ram m^itutmg IW-mmute
Harman appeared to think it ***** was tried at REI. and
was a possibility worth Cedar Bayou Junior Schoo
exploring and that about 90 per cent of
Trustee W. D, (Bill) Going parents, teachers and students
didn’t like the idea much liked the longer periods,
either, saying it would be too ®ut many of )^e teachers
expensive for families if buses have changed their minds now
were not full every day and at|d Clark said he thought it
asking what would happen was time for reassessment
with Thosf families wKo He jw wkI a low ul thf
Blinded Vet To
Bike Through
Wild Country
Burton Manne, an REL stu- the shorter periods all along
dent, said it still would be tM that longer ones had some
cheaper than each parent advantages and needed to be
having to transport his own tried.
child every day.
couldn't afford to pay.
Trustee Willie Moreno said it NatUTe C lllb
LONDON (AP) - Mike Tet- had 1)6611 suggested to him that BAYTONIANS ARE invited to
instead of taking each student the SepU-40 meeting of the Out-
on the late run to his home, the door Nature Club of Houston at
children could be let off at cen- 8 p,m. in the Garden Center,
tral points near their homes - 1500 Hermann Drive. The
like schools. This would be less group plans a field trip in the
expensive than taking them Armand Bayou Bay Area Park
home. on Sept. 14.,
Parents and students in the # t 1 ,
audience seemed to approve Jet Training
thatldea’ . NAVY ENSIGN Carson V.
Trustee Wayne Hanson said, Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs.
‘The kids are victims of
circumstances we’ve gotten
them into.” He suggested late
buses be run this trimester and
that schedules be changed next
many high school Students
work after class and they’d
rather get through with school
earlier than last year.
During the bus run and
School time discussion, it was
mentioned that high schools
have 80-minute periods in-
stead of 55-minute ones used
for years.
Clark explained that a pilot
other administrators had liked
1904, now the University of ya to repay his debt to the Sal-
vation Army. He plans to visit
Bean then set up practice in a Salvation Ariny school for the
Olaton,
some .of the things, a tend man
can do — including tandem
cycling with a seeing partner.
“I enjoy tandem riding," Tet-
ley said. "I’ve been doing it for
several years now, and wher-
ever I go on my tandem we at-
tract attention.
“I thought that if we attract-
ed notice in Africa, and it got
around to the blind boys at the
Salvation Army’s school,
Tandem cycling has a long
tradition among sports for the
war-blinded at St. Dunstan’s.
But this will be the first time
Bean says he has no secret any°ne trained at the center
has embarked on such a long
ride. , __
Tetley has a regular cycling
partner in Britain, Dennis
Bray. But in Kenya he will be
partnered by Edwin Rodrigues,
25-year-old teacher who will
meet him on arrival in Nairobi.
They plan to pedal out from
Nairnhi and . ride 7ft miloc
radio and - learned '- tiffough a
newscast that the area, had
been sealed off.
“They decided to go back to-
ward Stephenville and attempt
to steal a car," Glasgow said.
Ulmer disagreed with that
pto and Jater blamed ^ his eel-j
leagues for their capture.
The three deeided if theyj
were to escape- they must cross
the highway (Texas 108), but as
they left the creek bed and
started out, dogs started bark-
ing and the officers’ attention
was drawn to them.
“Jerry Ben (Ulmer) said he
started running,” Glasgow said.
Ulmer'said, he spotted the offi-
cers before they spotted them.”
Williams cried out that he
was wounded, Ulmer related,
and that he was going to give
up. Ulmer said officers arrived
before he could get away.
Ulmer suffered a sprained'
ankle and a shotgun pellet on
one Leg- Williams suffered
small cuts, a scraped nose and
cuts on (Us hands which he at-
tributed to barbed wire fences.
_ ., , ...... . The district attorney said
iSfC " IS
| been filed in 1971 by dnviron-
1 mental and fishing group*
against the reservoir and
against the Trinity River Pro}1
ecL
projects' would inflict massive
environmental damage on the
Trinity River and the fisheries
Galveston Bay. It also
charged that the Wallisville
Reservoir, which will cojjtpin
two of the many locks to be
rare (usedto lift boats dp the river, shootings and would not itiwiiw •
was an integral part of the
Trinity; River Project.,
and "the doctors said he prob-
ably choked 'm death *on his
own blood."
Glasgow described Ulmer as
"reserved” and, would “talk up
to otage but would hedge on
naming the trigger men in the
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Several trustees agreed but
Going felt other special inter-
est groups would be asking for
buses later if the board gave in
this time. F”
school district provides buses
Those studenTs~wKo stay in
school beyond the regula:
school day, shouldn’t it also
provide a second bus run in the
morning for high school stu-
dents who. do not begin classes
until the second period?
Carlton M. Smith of 4811 St.
Andrews, is taking basic jet'^
training in Beeville.
Did You Know?
Apart from cameras built for
intra-cardiac surgery and es-
pionage, the smallest camera
generally marketed is the Japa-
nese Kiku 16 Model II, which
measures 2 and 3-8th inches by
Besides, he pointedout, if the 1 inch by 5-8ths of an inch.
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