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The Baytown Sun Invites
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Friday, March 19, 1971
BAYTOWN. TEXAS. 77520
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Western Dance
ELKS WESTERN Dance will
be held Saturday night at the
lodge at 251S Market. Tickets
are $1 a couple. Music will be
presented by Bud and Bud, the
Hooper twins from Houston.
Hours will be 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Fraternity Pledges
RUSTY HARPER Jr. and
Richard S. Whaley have
pledged to fraternities Atf
tjmar State College of Tech- chasing Robbery Suspects
rnotogy. Rusty, the ton of Mr.
and Mrs. Harold R. Harper of
1200 E. Fayle, pledged Lambda
Chi Alpha fraternity. Richard,
a pledge of Phi Kappa Theta, is
the son of Mr. and Mrs. F. L.
Whaley of 309 Holly.
Engineers Okayed
THE STATE BOARD of Regis
tration for Professional En-
gineers has certified Ralph E.
Christensen, 403 Rollingwood;
C. M. Floyd, 176 Bayshore
POLICE CAR WRECKED ON DECKER DRIVE
Three Men Injured When Heavy Truck Falls to Yield Rlght-of-Way To Police Car That Was
(Sun Photos by Johneila Boynton)
Robbers Escape With
City Loan Firm Cash
Employe
Injured
In Heist*
Policeman, Cadet Hurt
Chasing Two Suspects
A Baytown police officer and
a police cadet were injured at
about 2 p.m. Thursday in
wreck at Decker and Bayway
while chasing suspects in the
Drive; and 0. W. Sorrells Jr., gen Gordon Finance Co:"arm
4902 Country Club View to
practice professional engineer
ing.
ABWA Tea
AMERICAN BUSINESS Wo-|
its annual hand of friendship
tea from 5 to 7 pjn. Sunday at
the home of Mrs. E. V. Bennett,
712 E. Gulf. President Mrs. J.
B. LeFevre urges members to
bring guests. Mrs. Bennett will
present “The History of ABWA
and the Baytown Chapter.”
ed robbery that had occurred
shortly before on Texas Ave-
nue.
Patrolman Gene Parker, 25,
is in Gulf Coast Hospital where
he had surgery on his elbow
men’s ***>'*
minor injuries and released
was Rudy Estrada, 19-year-old
Weather
And Tides
WINDY, FAIR and cooler
through Saturday il the Bay-
town area weather forecast.
Temperature range, upper
30s to low 60s.
MORGAN’S POINT tides
Saturday: No highs. Low at
1:25 a.m.
SATURDAY’S SUN will rise
at 0:20 a.m. and set at 1:33
p.m.
JOE KEATING celebrates a
birthday with a special dinner
. ... Bobbie Hughes manages a
pleasant surprise . . . Marion
Felknor conducts a practice
session for fashion models
Cynthia Moore under the wea-
ther with the “bug" . . . Vera
Hartt completes a big job of de-
corating ... Ruth Richards
looking for a photo . . . Buna
Welbom getting compliments
for a program she presented.
Terry Dopson recalling some
entertainment reviews . .
Mrs. ML. Langston of Mont
Belvieu enjoys a luncheon „. .
Bobbie Sutphin and Dave
Moore meet on an airplane trip
to Dallas,
Baytown Police Cadet Gene
Kinney id at M. tf. Anderson
Hospital f'or a routine check-up
; . Donna Gregersen has a
new found friend.
Mrs. Anna Belle Nations of
Normarj, Okla„ visits her
daughter and family, Mr. and
Mrs. Jimmie Woods. . » Ken-
neth Harman watches as his
sister, Natalie, poses for a
photograph.
police cadet, a passenger in the
patrol car.
Henry E. Davis, 55, of Atlan-
ta, Ga., was charged with fail-
ure to yield right-of-way to an
emergency vehicle by State
Highway Patrolman C. E.
Mott. Davis, who was driving a
huge truck for the Float Away
Door Co. of Atlanta, Ga., also
suffered minor injuries in the
accident. He was treated and
released at Gulf Coast Hospi-
tal.
All three injured men were
taken to the hospital by the
Baytown Ambulance Service.
State Highway Patrolman
Mark Argo, who helped inves-
tigate the wreck, said the pa-
trol car was outbound on Deck-
er toward Houston with siren
on and red lights flashing. The
truck, traveling on Bayway
Drive, pulled into the intersec-
tion of Bayway and Decker,
Argo said' ”
The left front of the patrol
car struck the right front of the
truck, Argo said. The patrol
car then veered into another
car driven by Mrs. Barbara
Wells of BaytoWn. Mrs. Wells
was not injured
The patrol car wreck was the
most serious of a number of
traffic accidents in the Bay-
town area Thursday on slick
roads during rainy weather.
One of these included anoth-
er huge truck also from Atlan-
ta, Ga. This was the Zep Manu-
facturing Co. truck which turn-
ed over in front of Holiday Inn
on Alexander Drive at noon
Thursday. The driver, Thomas
Leo Green of Swanee, Ga., was
not hurt. He told police he hit
the brakes when a car pulled
out in front of him on Alexan-
der Drive.
Other wrecks investigated by
police Thursday included a
three-car collision at 7:20 a.m.
at Bay way and Cabaniss; two-
car wreck at 7:50 a.m. at Com-
merce and Texas; one-car
wreck in which a car hit a
guide wire on a pole at 9:40
a.m. at Decker and Baker, and
a two-car collision at 6:40 p.m.
Thursday in the 2500 block of
Market.
A minor injury resulted in
two-car wreck at 4:20 p.m. in
the 100 block of Shreck. Ronald
Bruce Ford, 16, of 407 Scarlett,
suffered minor injuries id the
collision. The other driver was
Alfred S. Repp of 119 Schreck.
Sam F. McPhail, 163 Crow,
suffered a nose injury in a two-
car collision at Spur 201 and
Missouri at 2:19 p.m. TTiurs-
day. Minor injuries also were
suffered by the other driver
Mrs. Ruth Gregory of 308 Park
and her passenger, Mrs. Rob-
ert Payne, 2108 Montana
County Court OK’s
Industrial Dump Sui
HOUSTON (Sp) - Harris
County Commissioners Court
in a unanimous vote Thursday
authorized County Atty. Joe
Resweber to file a water pollu-
tion suit against French Ltd.,
operator of a chemical dump
off U.S. Highway 90 at Crosby.
The action was taken upon
.the re commendation of county
pollution control director Dr.
Walter Quebedeaux, who said
saw no reason why neu-
tralization of the acid solution
in French’s pit should take a
year’s time to accomplish.
Texas Water Quality Board
Director Hugh Yantis has said
in Austin he will recommend to
the TWQB board meeting later
this month that French be
given a year to clean up
Showers Cool Baytown,
But Drought Remains
It was good ole’ Baytown
weather Thursday — drizzly,
showery, puddles in the street
and folks were glad of it.
The showers, which ac-
companied a March cold front,
were the first good rainfall
LATE NEWS
WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Senate Appropriations
Committee voted 17 to 5 to-
day to restore full funding for
a federally subsidized super-
sonic transport plane.
WASHINGTON (AP)-In-
flation continued at a slack
pace in February, the
government reported today,
with a rise in the cost of liv-
ing of two-tenths of one per
cent.
Cfitbnting our Second Arrtiivor-,
sary this week - Come by and
have i cup with us. ;
Baytown State ‘Banin
Member F 01C
CAIRO (AP) - Egyptian
antiaircraft guns opened fire
on'lsraeli planes this morn-
ing for the first time since the
Middle East cease-fire began
last summer, the official
Middle East News Agency
reported.
nere in some time, but wea
thermen said it wasn’t enough
to break the four-month
drought.
The new cold front dipped the
mercury down to 45 Friday
morning, and temperatures
were expected to go down to
the middle 30s Saturday morn
ing, but the weekend will be
warmer. Skies were clear
again Friday.
Brisk northerly winds forced
the posting of small craft
warnings in the bays Friday
morning, with offshore wave
heights running at 6 to 8 feet.
Winds were expected to dim-
inish Friday afternoon and be-
come light and variable from
the south.
Temperatures were ex-
pected to reach the low 60s Fri-
day and the upper 60s Satur-
day.
H. G. Work said his rain
gauge on Highway 146 measur-
ed .26 of an inch of rainfall dur-
ing the day Thursday. Tfrat
brought the March total to 1.03
inch. The weather bureau mea-
sured .83 of an inch in down-
town Houston, and .51 of an
inch at Houston Intercontinen-
tal Airport.
dump after reaching an agree-
ment with French about what
steps would be taken to neu
tralize the acid.
French Ltd. attorney Lind-
say Walker appeared before
the court to deny that any evi
denpe has been produced to
show that French is contam-
inating near-by water wells
other than “guess work."
“You have a choice,” he told
the court, “Whether you im-
pede the cleaning up process
or file suit, possibly win
the suit and wind up with 12
acres of contaminated water
that no one can do anything
about.”
He said the only incident of a
similar pit being cleaned up
immediately was in Pennsyl-
vania, and he said it took one
million dollars to do the job.
French, he said, does not have
6 million dollars.
Dr. Quebedeaux told the
coikrt the pit could be pumped
out'in a period of six months.
He said there is evidence that
French is polluting nearby
wells. . ___
+SAIGON (AP) - The
South Vietnamese command
has announced that it has
withdrawn between 2,000 and
3,000 of its troops from Laos
in the past two days, leaving
about 18,000 over the border.
+FT. BENNING, Ga.
(AP)-U. William L.Calley
lawyer says there is far too
much rehash of testimony for
the My Lai murder trial jury
and has demanded that the
judge put a stop to it. The
judge has declined to do so
“at this particular point."
+LA SALLE, 111. (AP) -
Government Investigators
are silting the records of
tiny Illinois railroad and
even smaller mystery com-
pany in an attempt to find
how more than $1 million
worth of Penn Central freight
cars disappeared.
+WA&INGTON (AP)
The House has voted to dis
continue federal spending for
a supersonic transport plane,
reversing Its position of last
year. The 215-204 roll call al-
so raises the distinct possibi-
lity the U.S. may leave deve-
lopment of the SST to other
world powers.
MAN STRUCK BY TOE ‘BAND-AID’ BANDIT
Baytown Ambulance Service Employes Glenn Carlton, right, and Mike Marchuk Take John
Sutterfleld To Hospital (Sun Photo by Linda Casslty)
+WASHINGTON (AP) -
A week of public disagree-
ments climaxes today with a
long-scheduled but private
meeting between Secretary
of State William P. Rogers
and Israeli Foreign Minister
Abba Eban. They will dis-
cuss U.S. efforts to modify
Jerusalem’s terms for a Mid
east settlement.
♦WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Nixon has present-
ed his |2.56 billion transpor-
tation revenue-sharing plan,
the fifth of his six scheduled
messages on his revenue-
sharing program. He said the
transportation plan would
encourage alternatives to
auto travel.
Allen’s Dated
Food BiU Hit
By Grocers
AUSTIN (AP) - How much
should housewives be told
about the freshness of eggs,
meat and milk they buy?
Not much, grocerymen and
others in the food industry told
a House committee Thursday.
They testified against a bill
by Rep. Joe Allen of Baytown
that would require retailers to
stfimp egg, milk and meat con-
tainers with the date they are
first offered for sale.
Allen told the House Agricul
ture Committee his bill was
“unworkable" as written and
offered to help rewrite it. The
measure was sent to a subcom-
mittee for more study.
Sim for i string of pNrit
Art us for details.
[Peoples State Bank |
iiMnilitr r.O.l.C.
No lorvlct Clwro*
ieach City To
Jiscuss Utility
Jistrict Issue
BEACH CITY (Sp) ~ A
meeting will be ba^Lgt 7 p.m.
next Tuesday at the West
Chambers County Community
Building here to discuss the
proposed Chambers County
Utility district.
All county residents, whether
for or against establishment of
the district, are urged to attend
the meeting. Opinion is sharply
divided throughout the county
concerning the district. *
Those attending will incMde
Clarence Johnson of the Texas
Water Quality Board regional
staff in La Porte and W. D.
(Bill) Bush, member of the
board of directors of the Gulf
Coast Waste Disposal Author-
ity.
Also, R., R. Herrington, a
representative of Commis-
sioners Precinct 5 and H. H.
McCollum, county commis-
sioner of Precincts 4 and 5.
Invitations have also been
sent to Mayor Dalton LaFour
of Anahuac, the Winnie-Stowell
Area Chamber of Commerce
and Carl Fitzgereld, president
of Trinity Bay Conservation
District.
Beach City Mayor Jimmy
McClellan will preside at the
meeting.
No Help From County - -
State To Get Crosby
Highway 90 Job Plea
By JOHNELLA BOYNTON
HOUSTON (Sp) - Crosby
citizens say they will continue
to press for state and county
action for immediate construc-
tion of a portion of the new
Highway 90 Northeast freeway
after their appearance before
Commissioners Court Thurs-
the present highway himself,
and commented, “It’s extrem-
ely wise to stop your car when
approaching the San Jacinto
River Bridge (on Highway 90)
if you see a truck or bus com-
ing.”
OUR OSCAR
Keating told the court that
money was applied for the
day failed to stir any decision highway back in 1956 and that
from that body.
Joe Keating, chairman of the
highway committee of the
Crosby Chamber of Com-
merce, said his group would
follow County Commissioner
E. A. (Squatty) Lyons’ advice
— follow up their appearance
at the court with attempts to
get a firm commitment from
the state that immediate con
struction of that part of High-
way 90 freeway which crosses
the San Jacinto River has top
priority.
Precinct 2 Commissioner
Jamie Bray, who represents
the Crosby area on the court,
supported the Crosby delega-
tion’s attempt to get commis-
sioners to release all funds
available to start an imme-
diate program of right-of-way
purchases for a six-mile
stretch from the Crosby--
Lynchburg Road to Uvalde
Road (Beltway 8).
“Nothing in
should take priority over High-
way 90,” Bray told the court.
He s?id he avoids driving over
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‘‘Some guy in Dellie
!.his.J°ny ‘Voelkel’s office acci-
dentally dropped the city
budget on my foot.” —
the highway department drew
up the maps in 1964. In 1966, J.
T. Hare, who owns a tract of face was covered with white
BY WANDA ORTON
A foul-talking, taped-face
hold-up man robbed Ben Gor-
don Finance Co. 324 W. Texas,
of an undetermined amount of
money at 1:40 p.m. Thursday
and struck an employe on
the head with a pistol.
John Edward Sutterfield of
Seabrook was taken to San Ja-
cinto Methodist Hospital by the
Baytown Ambulance Service
fof treatment of a concussion
and lacerated ear. He was hit
behind the right ear, police
said. Sutterfield was later re-
leased after treatment and was
reported in good condition Fri-
day morning.
The suspect fled to Jones and
Defee where he jumped into a
car with another Negro man.
Witnesses said the car was
light colored with either a paint
stripe ofT chrome strip be-
tween the top and body.
The man who robbed the fi-
nance company was described
as being about six feet tall and
weighing about 200 pounds. His
land at the intersection of
Crosby-Lunchburg Road and
adhesive tape.
Police said he jumped over
the present highway, was told the front counter and pulled out
not to build a building on his a pistol, telling a woman em-
land because it was going to be ploye, Mrs. Jimmie Green-
purchased for right-of-way, await, to “hit the floor.”
Keating said. He then ran across the room
While Crosby folks have and jerked Sutterfield by the"
waited for the highway, every arm, pulling him out of his
other quadrant of the highway chair and striking him on the
has been given a good diagonal head with, the pistol,
freeway, Keating said. Then he pointed the pistol at
One of the commissioners Jack Stanford, the manager,
pointed out that 1-10-East had and made him lie on the floor
been constructed in the mean- behind his desk. .
time, but Keating replied that “All the time he was using
highway is eight miles from very foul language;” Detective
Crosby, and the motorist has to Sgt. A, W. Henscey said,
travel at 30 miles an hour and The suspect took bills from a
three school zones. cash drawer behind the coun-
Keating said in 1969, the ter and left, threatening to
Houston-Galveston Area Coun- shoot if any of them came out.
cil issued a report showing the “He stood on the sidewalk,
priority of the road. In 1969, waving the pistol and then bolt-
right-of-way maps were turned ed down the walk, running
over to the county by the High- north on Jones Street,” Hens-
way Department, he said, for cey said,
the first phase of construction Police Friday had no “good
of the highway — the six miles leads” in the case. Detective
from Crosby to the Uvalde Henscey emphasized that more
Road. information is being sought
The old bridge across the San from witnesses in the area of
Jacinto is a traffic hazard, the armed robbery or from
We’re killing people there anyone who saw a car that may
every month,” he said, exhibit- fit the description,
ing pictures of several fatal,ac- Anyone who has information
cidents. Some 6,500 cars travel is urged to contact the police
(Set STATE, Page 2) department immediately.
House Gets Liquor Bill
After Senate OK, 22-7
-i
AUSTIN (AP)-For the first prohibition,” said Sen. Joe
Christie, El Paso, Senator
sponsor.
Numerous attempts were
made, some successful, to
amend Christie’s bill but not
one senator arose to oppose
passage of the bill as a whole.
Chances of House passage
are considered good.
Basically, Christie’s bill
would authorize local political
subdivisions, from the precinct
upward, to hold a special elec-
time since prohibition days a
house of the Texas legislature
approved a bill for legalized
public sale of liquor by the
drink.
The Senate passed 22-7
Thursday and sent to the House
a measure that would let mixed
drinks be sold anywhere in
Texas if, and only if, local vot-
ers approved in special com-
munity elections.
The history-making Senate
vote followed the direction giv-
en legislators when voters last
November voted 979,868 to 914,-1
481 to repeal the 1935 constitu-
tional ban against open sa-
loons.
“We are just now having the
opportunity to get away from J
1 BAYTOWN'S PARTNER
' 50 YEARS No
Full Service
, Service Charge
Citizens National Bank
F D.I C
tion on public sale of mixed
drinks.
Even if a community already
has legalized sale of, beer and
sale of liquor by the botlle now,
mixed drinks could not be sold
without a special election.
Private clubs, which operate
under their own special rules,
would not be affected in any supply for the new bars and
way, before or after the special
election.
If the sale of mixed drinks is
authorized by voters, Christie’s
bill would allow taverns and
bars to buy a mixed beverage
permit for an initial fee of $5,-
000 plus an annual renewal
charge of $500.
"Diis makes it a rich man’s
bill,” protested Sen. Don Ken-
nard, Fort Worth. "That cuts
out the people in the low in-
come neighborhoods.’’
Sen. Jim Bates, Edinburg,
was successful in adding an
amendment that would allow
the $5,000 to be paid over a two-
year period - $2,500 each year.
One major change in Chris-
tie’s' bill was Ae source of
taverns. Christie proposed that
only wholesale distributors be
allowed to furnish liquor. An
amendment by Sen. Mike Mc-
Kool, Dallas, allows retail
package stores to provide the
materials for mixed drinks
provided they obtain a special
$50 a year permit.
Christie protested unsucess-
fully that the change would re-
sult in a "retail monopoly.
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