The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 278, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 25, 1971 Page: 1 of 21
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YOUR HOME
50,000 READERS EVERY DAY
August 25,1971
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
Ten Cents Per Copy
Council Balks At Fire
epartment Upgrading
★ ★ ★
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Request Meets With Mixed Reaction - -
Parks Head Seeks To Drop
LL, Teen Ball From. Budget
SERVICE TO COMMUNITY
BRUCE AND FANNIE Roush are congratulated about their "day” coming up Thursday In
Bay town. Mayor Glen Walker, left, Is proclaiming Thursday as "Bruce and Fannie Roush
Day" In tribute to the years of service to the community. Friends are invited to bring a covered
dish (oa community-wide dinner for ihe Roushesat 7 p.m. Thursday at the Community Center.
I Sun Photo by Linda Casilty)
Vote Due In October - -
25 Highlands Residents
Endorse Sewer Bond Plan
Bv BETSY WEBBER
HIGHLANDS (Sp) - Some
25 Highlands residents pledged
their support Tuesday to
$750,000 bond issue for sewer
collection system improve-
ments proposed by directors of
Harris County Water Control
and Improvement District No.
1.
Some of those attending the
meeting have opposed one or
more of the four bond issues
proposed within the past 2*2
years that have been defeated
by voters in the district.
Among those present were
the former board president.
Jack Lindsey, former Fire
Chief Bernard Miller, Fire
Chief J. W. Searcy, M. W. Har-
grove, Bill Turner, Walter As-
kew, Stanley Beal. Maurice
based on the 1968 tax roll of
$6,478,773, plus estimated new
Construction, to total $7 mil-
lion.
Property valuations, Direc-
tor Oliver Harman said, are 40
per cent of market value.
Bonds are to be sold at an
After lopping off $29,000 from
his proposed hew parks and
recreation department as ret
quested by the city council, Di-
rector Terry Dopson Tuesday
night asked the council to
transfer the city's annual
$5,000 allocation for Teenage
and Little league Baseball out
StjhU account.
Dopson said, he presently has
no control of the baseball mo-
nies and receives no break-
down of how the money is
spent. If the appropriation is to
remain in his department, he
said, he should be able to con-
trol it. „ ,
His recommendation ran into
mixed reaction from city coun-
cilmen.
★ ★★
"You want them to ask you
Instead of us‘,“ asked Leonard
Stasney.
"I think he has a reasonable
request,” said Mayor Glen
Walker
Our
World
..From AP Wires. ...
; f HOUSTON - The three
! member conservative mi-
nority on the Houston School
Board who pitked up a lib-
! eral vote to (ire Dr. George
' Carver as superintendent
j tailed to grill Tuesday night
| to name their candidate as
superintendent. Instead, the
board voted to confirm the
No. 2 man in the distr-ict. Dr.
.1. Don Boney, as acting su-
perintendent.
f AUSTIN r-Gov. Preston
BY JQJJNELLA BOYNTON Smith said todax, that |f the „
Baytown's new fire chief, Ja- estimated 50 tiWfic deaths in
mes Bland, hired to “do some Texas on Labor Day cannot
fflredepartment with police re- out totf frW proposed mer^teaXtTS
the price tag Tuesday night fur! National Guard must be con-
his project, but city council * sidered.
men reacted like the housewife:
Hike In
Budget
$164,000
like the police department and Dopson's $29,0000 cut took
Stasney contended the base-
ball monies is intended as a
grant-in-aid, but Mayor Walker
sakh Tm not sure the city can
legally make a grant-in-aid."
"I hate to see you bulging a
bureaucracy in your depart-
ment," Stasney told Dopson. "I
think it's been fine like it is.
We're making a mountain out
of a molehill."
Councilman Allen Cannon
said other departments have
similar type of appropriations, nies are spent
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serves and volunteers.
"We all recognize it’s some-
thing you can't control," he
said.
Dopson stressed the fact that
he was not opposed to the base-
ball program, pointing out that
•ift.is. state commissioner of
amateur baseball in Texas.
City Manager D. R. Voelkel
said that up until "two budgets
back," the contribution to the
baseball program was under
contributions, gratuitities and
awards in the city council ac-
count. He said the city through
his office does recehie an infor-
mal accounting of how the nto-
new maintenance men in his
department, eliminated a pro-
posed new clerk-typist and
knocked off a proposed $1,900
expenditure for a city green-
house, along with other expen
ses associated with the green
house.____________*__
He said the additional two
proposed maintenance men.
along with his present staff,
cannot keep ip with additional
work required when the city
completes this month final ac-
quisition of 176 acres of new
park land Hie present staff is
maintaining 75-100 acres, of
city-owned land, he said.
Robbins, C. J. Carlisle, Bannis- estimated maximum of eight
ter Bailey, M. N. W. Crawford,
Clifton Adams, Dr! Don Perry
and E. G. Searcy.
•.^(district financial agent,
ould set a 67-cent tax rate
Public Meeting
A PUBLIC meeting will be held
at 7 p.m. Thursday at Coady
Baptist Church on Wade Road
to discuss what action the
Coady community should take
in its protest against the City of
Baytown's plans to use a 55-
acre tract of land in that area
for a sanitary landfill.
Estimates by Norman Palm- ule.
An estimated $30,000 per
year net system revenues are
to be applied to debt service.
_ Palmer said if the bond pro-
gram passes, the earliest date
taxes could be due would be
October, 1972. The latest date
would be October, 1973.
District manager Eddie Har-
vill said any resident-of the dis-
trict who wanted to know his
assessed valuation and esti-
mated tax could call the water
office.
A map showing proposed im-
provements in phases was dis-
tributed. Improvements out-
Dress Code
A MEETING WILL be held at
7:30 p.m. Thursday for stu-
dents, parents and other per-
sons interested in changing the _
school dress code in Baytown 5750,000 bond issue without fed-
schools, Mrs. Howard L. Hunt
announced. The meeting will
be held at the Hulen L. Wilder
home at 121 Mapleton.
who died Sunday. The funeral
was Tuesday under direction of
the Wilkerson-Hatch Funeral
Home in Waco.
GLADYSSTRAHANdoesaiit.Course Finished
tie bit of hair trimming herself
Attend Funeral
MR. AND MRS. Don Settle and
children of 2703 Rosille are in
Waco for the funeral of Mrs.
. . . Maxine Burnett and Mary
Pennington enjoy a dinner and
play in Houston with about 42
other Baytonians ... Mary
Lou Burkett chats with Mrs. A.
D, Anthony during intermis-
’’ sion . . . Polly Beavers and
Louise McCall discuss the play
. . . Thelma Hamilton keeping
everybody happy . . . Lila Ca-
shat, formerly of Baytown, re-
ports they’re moving from
Mineral WeHs to Arlington
Mary Elizabeth Wilbanks
elated over the beautiful
blooms on her night blooming
cereus.
Dana Green has a busy'week
celebrating, her birthday and
beginning her first year at
Sterling High School.
Dennis Pokluda settles down
in a Rice University dorm and
gets ready for classes
Mike Jordan visits old friends
PFC. RONNIE D. Russell, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles L. al
Russell of 103 Tanglewood, has
completed an eight-week auto-
matic weapons course at Fort
Bliss, Tex.
Weather
I And Tides |
FAIR NIGHTS and partly
cloudy days, continued warm
with a chance of afternoon
showers Wednesday and
Thursday. Temperature,
mid-7(ls to low 90s.
MORGAN’S POINT tides
Thursday-: Highs at 7:07 a.m.
and 5:19 p.m.; lows at 6:43
a.m, and 7:37 p.m.
THURSDAY’S SUN will rise
a.m. and set at 7:51
per cent in today's market,
Palmer said. The bonds would
have a 20-year maturity sched-
Temporary Permit For TV
Firm Still In Effect Here
Southwest Video Corp. of
Houston, currently installing
cable television equipment
here under a temporary per
mit, almost lost the permit.
The city council had second
thoughts about it Monday night
when a local group — never
identified—wasmei
being interested in a franchise
too.
The discussion on whether to
cancel Southwest Video’s tem-
porary permit ended in a 3-3 tie
vote and one abstention.
Jim McWilliams made the
ing further connections and
that the tempo, ary permit be
canceled until an agreement
can be worked out. Leonard
Stasney seconded the motion.
McWilliams also proposed
that the “local people” be put
on the agenda at the next regu-
lar-meeti«g-~Sept,--7- —
Clinic On
Emergency
Care Set
canceling it "sure looks wishy-
washy."
"We didn't know about the
other group then,” Mayor
Walker said.
McWilliams wanted to know
how the council committee
could come up with guidelines j
with a company already in or for the course sponsored by
i.™ .................................the -Texas State Denartment of
A six-night training school in
'Emergency Care for the Sick
and Injured" will be held in the
Baytown Civic Center Audito-
rium, Aug. 31, Sept. 1,2, 8 and 9
from 7 to 10 p.m. each day..
Dr. W. O. Finch is coordinate
oppor
and be given equal
tunity.
Mayor Glen Walker pointed
out that "we don’t have the
right to grant an exclusive
franchise to anyone.”
............................. Charley O. Walker said he
motion that Southwest Video I was opposed to granting the
"cease and desist” from mak-j temporary permit but that
lined in red were first priority
and could be included in the
eral aid, directors said.
Improvements outlined in
green were additions that could
be made if current market
values hold and upon receipt of
55 per cent of costs from the
federal government.
Approval by the federal En-
vironmental Protection Agen-
Settle’s father, W. A. Lynch, cy has already been obtained
for the red improvements,
Harvell said.
The district has received
bids on construction of a $100,-
000 addition to the sewer treat-
ment plant to be paid for out of
revenues on hand and addition-
Councilman’s Office
Burglary Is Cleared
(See BOND, Page 2)
? "ito 6:55 a.ir
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Full Service
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F.D.I.C.
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INTEREST TO YOU
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No Service Charge
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cBaytown State Hank^
Member F.D.I.C.
Baytown police have appre-
hended eight juveniles in the
$1,710 burglary at City Council-
man Charley O. Walker’s real
estate office at 6417 Bayway
Drive.
Three boys and five girls,
ranging in age from 10 to 16,
are being referred to the Har-
ris County Juvenile Probation
Department in connection with
the theft of cash and checks
from a desk in the real estate
office. The case was solved by
Juvenile Sgt. James Lankford,
Detective Sgt. Robert .Mer-
chant and Patrolman Gene
Parker.
Sgt. Lankford says two
checks, worth a total of $460,
were recovered, but the re-
mainder of the money was
'disposed of in some manner
|by the people involved.”
Some of the money was spent
for clothing, Lankford says,
but a large portion was given
away by the youngsters.
“On boy spread it around -
about $700," Lankford says.
The burglary, which oc-
curred on Aug. 5, actually
came about "accidentally,”
according to the investigation.
A couple of youngsters were
behind the real estate office
building when one of them
tripped and fell into the door.
“The thing swung open so
they went in,” Sgt. Lankford
said.
operation here.
"The committee
barged with working out a
franchise," said Allen Cannon,
chairman of the committee.
City Atty. Neel Richardson
told the council that if
agreement is not worked out
with Southwest, the problem
will be then telling this com-
pany to “cease and desist”
after it already has done the
work.
Jody lender asked whether
the council would be open to a
charge of discrimination if it
chose the local firm.
The nature of the franchise is
not exclusive, the city attorney
explained. "We’re looking at
the amount of control we have
over either one of these
groups,” Richardson went on.
"We can dictate the terms t-hey
can operate with. You have the
right by contract to set the
rates.”
“If we. give it to the home-
town boys ... Can they
(Southwest Video) operate
anyway9" asked Charley
Walker.
“They can operate without a
franchise," Richardson re-
plied, “but you can tell them
tell other youngsters about the
money. By the time word “got
out," a total of eight young-
sters ha'd taken money and
checks.
Health and the East Harris
County Medical Society.
Instruction and student prac-
tice will be offered in all phases
of emergency care for persons
in ambulance, police, fire, res-
cue and nursing services
Advanced level of training at
the school is tailored to meet
the needs of emergency profes-
sionals and distinguishes "
from a first aid training
course.
Each student satisfactorily
completing the course will re-
ceive a certificate authorized
by the State Board of Health
The certificate will meet the
state requirement for certifi-
cation of ambulance personnel.
A large attendance of those
within 100 miles of Baytown is
expected. .......
Dr. Finch will be one of tje
instructors. Others are Fred
Sonnier, CRNA, and Charles
George, J. J. Burianek, John
Lione, Thomas McGuire, Drew
Williams and John Andrews,
medical-doctors- LegaUmplL
at the supermarket when she! T s-'K50i'i ' ) ser*es ,lf
.sees posted new meat prices.! explosions ripped through an
The proposed new fire de amn’uni,b’n du™P <?,n ai"‘
partment budget would hike ,mmbs a' tbe bl* l'
expenditures in that depart^ baf a'1 ara Rab" Ba>, >«da>
meet bv about $164,000 or 32j a"d eyewitnesses sa d giant
per eeiit more-than the 1970, hli^ sh,wk the installati.in
budget. Bland told city coiiflc'il- am lattf Air Force opera-
men al Tuesday night’s chap-: -,l#ns f"c nm‘‘ bours‘
ter of current 1971-72 budget: + NEW ORLEANS — Re-
hearings that the additional ex- versing the lower court on
penditures would enable the four out of five points, a fed-
-rjtv -Ni meeF otdte. mimmuinj -arat ap[u,<.l. hag ».I»W
standards, Jjut not the best; that 'the American Bank o.f
standards on a nationwide) Commerce in Victoria, Tex.,
basis. discriminated against its
Bland's proposals would in- women employes by paying
crease the appropriation fori them less than men "doing the
salaries by about $93,000,- from: same work.
$441,942 in the 1970-71 budget to: . .
$534,685 in the proposed new + DALLAS -A tornado or
budget. The increase would bej. funnel doud wasspotted in
used to pay salaries of four new Dallas today as thunder-
dispatchers, four additional: showers continued to pelt
firefighters and promote 12j wide portions of North Cen-
firefighters to lieutenants. j tral and Northwest Texas,
- The remaining additions! Dallas police said a company
would come mostly in new : on the city’s north side re-
equipment, including an esti-f ported spotting the fitnnel
mated $43,800 for a new) cloud, which apparently did
pumper toreplacea 30-year old! not touch down,
vehicle. 1
Bland described his program 4- LOS ANGELES — A
as a "catch-up" plan'because
of the fire department's failure
in recent years to keep up with
growth and to replace , aging
equipment on a regular basis
line scrutiny of much of the
proposed new equipment
witness said Tuesday that
Charles "Tex!‘ Watson ad-
mitted he killed actress
■Sharon Tate and that Watson
said it was ••fun."
+ SAN FRANCISCO -
The San Francisco chronicle
penditures, asked Bland to re- reported in its Wednesday
turn to Thursday night's bud-! editions that a woman who
get hearing with' some propo-! accompanied an attorney to
sals about how much new: San Quentin Prison to visit
equipment is needed over the' Soledad Brother George
next five-year period, and sev-j Jackson shortly before an es-
eral councilmen said they want - cape try was Vanetta Ander-
to see a 12 to 15 per cent reduc-j son, a legal investigator for
tion'in Itle budget*- __ an East Bay law firm.
Bland agreed with council-
cations of emergency care will
be taught by Ronn Haddqx,
Baytown attorney.
men that purchase of the new j
fire truck could be financed
over a two-year budgetary!
period, with half of the appro-;
priation being made in the j
coming fiscal year and half the i
next year, it will take about!
nine months, he said, for a new!
pumper to be delivered after
the. order is placed.
Councilmen Leonard Stasney
and Jim McWilliams wanted
more information on what kind
Each took $20 and then left to under what terms can operate
with . . . They have to have a-,
franchise to use public streets
and rightg of way. .
“Another interesting prob-
(See PERMIT, Page 2)
First Nigh ter
FIRST JlfiHTER Bowling
League will start at 6:45' p.m.
Monday, Aug. 30, at Baytown
Bowling Lanes, announced
Jane Young, president.
of return the city can get on its
investment in new personnel.
Bringing up fire department
personnel to state minimum
standards would reduce the
city’s key fire insurance rate
by four cents, Bland had
.pointed;, out, and Stasney and,
McWilliams wanted a dollars
(See FIRE, Page 2)
mm
■
"Why did I get on my
knees to read a street
sign? Because I knocked
it over, Dear.”
- .. ■ ,t
t K.
Baytown Doctor Leading The Way - -
Limit On Amphetamine Prescriptions Sought
Dr. James H. Sammons of
Baytown, president of the
Texas Medical Association, is
giving additional punch to his
call for a limit on prescribing,
amphetamines.
He has sent a letter to each of
the 11,000 members of TMA
making a direct appeal for
their support.
“We must assume the lead-
ership against drug abuse,”
Dr. Sammons said in the letter
to his colleagues. In appealing
to all physicians for their per-
sonal support in the fight
against drug abuse, Dr. Sam-
mons specifically asked that licit drug abuse," Dr. Sarri-
Texas physicians limit the use
of amphetamines and other
stimulant drugs to specific,
well-recognized medical indi-
cations. . v ‘ •
“there is reason to be con-
cerned about the widespread
use of amphetamines. It has
been estimated that 3.4 billion
dosage units of amphetamines
were produced in this country
this past year. Since large
quantities find their way into
the black market, we also
mons said,
Amphetamines rank among
the most widely abused non-
narcotic drugs. When taken
over a long period of time, the
patient might develop-depend-
ence upon the drug,- particular-
ly if he violates his physician’s
precautions, Dr. Sammons
pointed out.
A request by the Harris
County Medical Society for its
members to quit prescribing
amphetamines and metham-
phetamines except in unusual
should focus attention on the il- medical cases brought a 45 per cians to review their prescrib-
cent'droj) in sales of the various
pep pills in less than a month in
the Houston area.
As part of the program to
ing practices on all potentially
habituating drugs, particularly
barbiturates, sleeping pills,
tranquilizers and synthetic
strengthen and expand present-Ptott medications.
efforts to combat drug depend-
ence, Dr. Sammons has also
contacted every county medi-
cal society in Texas, urging
them to establish a drug abuse
committee to implement effec-
tive programs at the commu-
nity level.
While focusing attention on
the dexedrine type drugs, Dr.
Sammons also asked physi-
TMA’s president expressed
appreciation for- cooperation
and support he has received
from the Governor's State -Pro-
gram on Drug Abuse, Texas
Pharmaceutical Association,
Bureau of Narcotics and Dan-
gerous Drugs, Texas Depart-
ment of Mental Health and
Mental Retardation, and the
Texas State Board of Phar-
macy. : 1- )
Bookmobile
Mew Hours
Announced
Sterling Municipal Lib-
rary’s Bookmobile has ad-
justed hours to serve school
children during the- school
yearr Mrs: Ftora~ Wfihttr;
director of the library an-
nounced Wednesday.
Monday, Wednesday and'
Friday the Bookmobile will
follow the same route as dur-
ing the summer, but from 4
to 8patK'From 9 a.m. to 4:30
p.m. on Saturday, the Book-
mobile will cover the area
formerly served on Tuesday
and Friday.
Ann Souby and Mike Mort-
on,.Lee College students, will
operate the vehicle. .Volun-
teer aids are needed for the
new schedule. Anyone inter-
ested in volunteering can call
Mrs. Wilhite at the library.
Encyclopedias and
reference items will be
added to the Bookmobile
with assistance given to
those who need, material for
school assignments. There
will also be plenty of fiction
and non-fiction for the fun
reader. Mrs, vphite said.
Now celebrating our 35th year ,n
Baytown!
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