The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 309, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1975 Page: 2 of 19
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Attend church jpower Failure Causes
Sund,y iFire Department Calls
TTie fire department had [ When the power came back
several "check" calls as a result on, th? bread was still in the
of a power failure here Wednes- toaster and burned, causing
day in addition to two grass fires smoke to fill the house, the fire
and smoke in a house department reported.
The smoke call also was Firefighters from Stations 2
and 3 and . volunteers from
district 2 answered the call,
(related to the electrical failure
caused by a Houston Lighting
and Power Co, line pulled downjwhich was made at 10:47 a.m,
jby a truck at the West Texas and were there about 45
!Avenue bridge construction site (minutes
tat Goose Creek Stream. r The grass fires were along
The smoke was in the P. (Massey-Tompkins Road about
Oviedo home at 1701 W, half a block east of the railroad
Humble, where bread had been track and at Jones and Scott.
in a toaster when the electricity 1 Firefighters from Station *
went off and was forgotten.
Wappy
Birthday!
(went to the Massey-Tompkins
" {fire, reported at 11:35 a.m., and
ffi were there about five minutes.
s | Station 3 firefighters answered
§ the other grass fire call, which
BARBARA JACKSON, from left, Kathy Bertsch and Karen
Lewi* share responsibilities in the business office of The
RAINLESS WEATHER
ENDSTORITE
"LINDA LOVELACE
FOR PRESIDENT'
"CENTERFOLD GIRLS"
3910 DICKER ORIVl 4245012
(Continued From Page 11
’T v v ’'"Mi Uiahiaiufa 1
ilcame in at 2:47 p.m^and spentj Baytown Sun. Newspapers.-iike any other going concern, must '
sabout 45 minutes on it. » have sound business operations if thepaper is to remain solvent. re!urned t0
Only grass was damaged in the ; Then* and other Sun employes join in observing National New-
Jimmy Peopseliis wished a (two fires, the department! spaper Week, Oct. 5-12.
Jhappy birthday from his par-:reported. (Sun staff photo by Glenn Folkes)
(grts, Janie and Jim Peopsel, and
."brother JUrtffr-- ■ ■ '
1 Minday Abbey is wished
Ij happy birthday Thursday % her
parents, Mr, and Mrs Ray Swift,
"Sweet 16" wishes goto Karin
fWhittredge
Judy Atkinson is sent Thurs-
day greetings from her ear pool
asd family,-
*■ Belated wishes to . George
MtmjmS;; “ who" celebrated
Wednesday.
Belated wishes to Grace
Parker of Livingston from all
Forged chectiQjjjgpggg £Xpected To OK
Probed Here U.S. Technicians In Sinai
Things were relatively quiet WASHINGTON (AP) - Con-(iron out their difference (technicians if they were in per-
for a change for Baytown police, ,kress- about t0 3 wee*s Sen- ^ubert ^ Humphrey, i anoroved on
who investigated a boat theft (Columbus Day vacation, is ex- Minn., manager of the measure The House also pp on
and forgedX* Wednesday (pected to sump final approval on the Senate floor urged his a voire voterar.amendment^
ArthurPerkinson, 131 Milner on a resolution that will place colleague to adopt the propos- quinng Ford to refwrt to Con-
told officers someone took his (American technicians at dec-al as offered by the House gress on the feasibility of JePfac-
15-foot boat, trailer and a 75 hpitronic detection posts in the Humphrey said time is essen- mg
outboard motor from hts frontSmai desert. tiai, noting that congressional; cians from other nations,
yard Tuesday night or early : The proposal, part of the action on the measure will trig-, Secretary of State Hpnrv A.
Wednesday (United SUtes commitnrent in 'ger final implementation of the| Kissinger. who negotiated the
Pern Crow an emolove at overwhelming approval Before approving the resolu-1 American technicians monitor
O'Bneu's, 704 N. Alexander, told (Wednesday by the House, don, the House passed an| the peace from a demilitarized
officers a man came into the which added an amendment to amendment specifying that theizone in the Sinai
storeSept 24 and cashed a check .'bat the use of U.S. military measure gives the President no,
for $62 |forpes in the region. The resolu-(authority to introduce U.S. mili- D JTT'AT'C _ _ ~
The check, which was drawni don was approved 341 to 69 tary force into the Middle East.j-*111 ^
personal account at President Ford had sought r~ From Pane li
SUte Bank was aPProval o{ the sUtioning of The amendment, introduced th . .
the store as a 'he technicians in the buffer by Rep. Bob Eckhardt, D-Tex., hved mHo^si^thattime
8 zone between Israeli and Egyp- ! won approval of supporters of He died about 12yeareago
in,™ h„ i««( R>i,iou hut,the technician resolution, in- Mrs. Pearces survivors in
| her Baytown friends,
when he recorded 37.64 inches
for the year, compared with his from earlier rains to pose no
average of 45.26 inches.
That year the month
lake level is sufficiently high
problem. It is down about .7 of a
of foot, he said. "We have been real
January had only .19 of an inch fortunate this year,” be said,
of rain and four other months Problems arising in the Trinity
had less than two inches The River area, however, are not so
most rain that year was 8.97 in- light.1
VERNON O. WILLIAMS
ches in September
Exxon’s total rainfall for 1974
was 64,53 inches and for 1973
79.11 inches.
Fog that began rolling in
Tuesday, Oct, 7, h^d little or no
relationship to rainfall, a weath-
er service spokesman said.
They result when the ground
floods off at the end of summer
after cool fronts come through
Doug Sanders, Liberty!
Chamber of Commerce man-
ager, said barge traffic has been
stalled to Liberty industries by
shoals that have built Up in the
river
Earlier rains have washed silt
down stream and shoals have
appeared that block traffic. The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
has a contract to dredge the river
to eight feet, but this year no.
Vernon O. Williams has re-
tired from his duties as machin;
«tst in Exxon Chemical USA’s me-
" Seal department. He is a na-
of lola, and was employed in
the piant in 1941.
blows from, the Gulf over the
cooler ground and makes early
morning and late evening fog.
Sen James Abourezk, D-S.D . Ford from using U.S. military«Powell, both of Houston, and
has moved to scuttle the meas- strength to rescue the "Civilian Mrs. J. T. RoyaUof Austin, and
lire by returning it to the Sen- sistery-law. ^rs, Louis M
ate Foreign Relations Com- ........ Pearce Sr. of Houston ’Many..
mittee for further work. A vote '. ' 'LOW-FAT CATTLE . _(meres and nephews also survive. ^
on his proposal was set for to- NEW YORK (AP) - A poly- Pallbearers will be W. j.
day. / (unsaturated or fow-fat diet for.Buehring, W. A. Sahlen, W. L.—
Senators said they would take cattle may solve the high cho- Jenkins, Jack L Jackson, Curtis
final action-on the issue this lesterol problem in.meat and,1 D. Fudge.,Joe W. Gibbs* Dave
Friday, the day they recess for (dairy products for humans, re-Fortand Britt Braddick
their vacation. - ports Medical World News!1 Memorials may be made to ,
if the Senate does take final magazine. ithe American Gmcer Society,
action
week, it will have to accept the
amendments tacked on to the
proposal in the House and turn
down a dozen others proposed
by senators. Otherwise, final
action would have to await the
end of the week’s vacation,
when the two chambers could
Rummage Sale
CEDAR BAYQU United
Methodist Church'will hold
rummage sale 9 a.m.A p.m. Fri-j
day and Saturday in the Youthjl
Building behind the main churchjj
building, '
with dry days. Then when winds money has been appropriated
Williamc I/w»xJturn Wck tothe south aIter for the work and the Army Corps ltf
W imams. JOlIJSjcool front, warm, moist air has refused to dredge: HOW itetireCl
Retired Ranks
Rain has been scarce,
Sanders said. “We haven’t had a
drop in two months. Current dis-
reeord-breaking cool weather
The low on Sept. 23 was a
record-breaking 50 degrees The
lowest temperature recorded be-
fore on that day ws 57 degrees in
1947, the weatherman said
Williams and his wife Ruth Ida>' £ °j
have two children and six grand- (?®Pteral,er except the 27th and
children! 29th saw record-breaking cool
This year September has seen charges from Lake Livingston
i temperatures, he said
avcft-i
BUT NOT
UNDfNomiorfO,
COVER GIRIi
mODEIiS
IlS WW THf &Wm6iD $MU
9 20 _ ' __
"CANDY STRIPE NURSES"
I
THE
RIDING
PUCE
' VUiniKi JULIE HARRIS
EILEEN HECKART
ARTHUR O'CONNELL
Inlroductfiti •
JEANNETTE CUfT
Brurlson Theater
311 West Texas Ave.
Shows: 6:3069:15
— ’LAST DAY
the weatherman said, is usually i° two miles from the port entry
down stream.”
Sanders said he feared
hurricane would put salt water
up the river. “The salt water
barrier would sure be helpful to
us at times like these,” he said
It would give additional depth
to the river and keep salt water
from coming upstream.’
The weather' bureau spokes-
man said south winds will bring
Port (Uflorte
430 W MAIN 471-3115
STARTS FRIDAY
5;45-7:3Q-9;15
THE HOST HI6HLY
ACCLAIMED HORROR
PHANTASY OF
DM TIME
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8i«v J»C» € PrM*AlM«n
PREMIERE EN6A6EMEIT!
JAY PLAZA II
5:30-7:35-9:40
(Pmdena)
CLEAR LAKE BAYOU Dl
(Ct«rr Lake! tU Marque)
HELD OVER
.fPBia Lift Suspended) • ‘
Check Theatres-for Show Times
Apparently Baytown’s normal Pc^ of Liberty
are 1,000 cubic feet per second
and that small amount doesn't Mi11 and was employed in
register on my-^tewi*hart for
river elevation.
But what, we need is
maintenance dredging. The
Army Corps district office say ,
they arrshort of funds and can’t in9 and gardening. He and his
dredge. We hope to find some “fo n,,,’uin
money for dredging from the
October weather began in
September this year. October,
Throughout the channel
there is shoaling one and a half
dry with 11 clear days, the most
of any month in the year.
November normally has 10 dear
days and September only 5 with
December having eight clear
days.
This year September had 23
days without.....rain. Tempera-
tures. too. for September this
year followed pattern's usually
reserved for October because of
the early cool fronts, ^ :
Bill Healer at Lake Houston
Dam said despite the September
and October, rain shortage, the
Our
World
From AP^ Wires
OPORTO, Portugal
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JtQMING.
JAQtfOT
DRAWING
with opponents overnight, and
hospital authorities said be-
tween 60 and 86 persons were
injured, two with bullet
wounds.’Most of the victims,
including six soldiers, Were in-
jured during rock-throwing
battles between the two
groups, they said.
+ DALLAS — Low clouds
or fog covered much of East
and South Texas early today,
keeping the weather uncom-
fortably warm, while western
areas of the state bad clear and
cool weather behind a nearly !
stalled cool front.
+ CHICAGO - Cloudy, wet
weather continued over parts
of the northern and eastern
United States todfy;- with a
strong low pressure renter that
brought snow to the northern
Rockies moving on to south-
ern Manitoba with its circula-
tion weakening. ’
+ BARCELONA, Spain - {
Police investigating sedition in
the military have arrested,
three army officers, wellin- j
formed sources reported to-
day They were the first mili-
tary arrests stare police dks-
covered an underground cell ef
dissident army officers is Ma- :
drid two months ago And ar-
rested ate officers m sedi
Uou dsirget . .{
Free KiUe&f
MRS CONNER SMITH.
6244 has four kittens two
and two fawh-coidred. Hi
hteeyes to gree ante to good
vf:!.'
Serration ^ front-end expenditures —
REPORT
—(Continued From Page 1)—
i traduced in Congress by U. S,
I Rep. Bob Eckhardt and U. S.
vlA lunl,cu aLFlc
According ter the proposed [)ata processing,
legislation, the project would be
i financed with 80 per cent federal
n .local sponsor,,
Demonstrators supporting mu- Baytown
tinous far-left solders, clashed ^ govemment would buy
and in low parts of Lakewood
and Lynchburg and turn the area
over to the city.
The land would become
public park at a cost of about 53
million. City. Manager Fritz
Lanham said the city’s amount
wili have to come from a city
bond issue.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 309, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 9, 1975, newspaper, October 9, 1975; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1061483/m1/2/?q=%22songs~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.