The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 226, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 2, 1974 Page: 1 of 14
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Hie Baytown Sun Unite*
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Volume 52, No,- 226
Telephone Number: 422-8302
OVER 50,000 READERS EVERY DAY
Tuesday, July 2, 1974
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Baytown, Texas, 77520
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Judge Lifts Press Blackout
For Henley Jury Selection
EMDL RINN, RIGHT, PRESENTS COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT AWARD TO
Mr*. M. A. Enderli As Mrs. Georgia MackreU Looks On
(Sun Photo by Glenn Folkes.)
’5i*Couftfy Competition , K
Beach City Wins Third
In ‘Progress’ Contest
By BETSY WEBBER
BEACH CITY (Sp)
BER Ilex;
— Mrs.fxner
l, chair- fey I
;as Community Improve-
ent Program, cosponsored tended a community-wide pro
M. A. (Betty) Enderli, chair-jby the utility companies and gram conducted by BeachCity the public works department fice on Defee in Baytown will-
„r *i» D u ni*.. ^ 1 *-*«.—*, « ^ those days, but a
clerk; will be oh caii for emer-
gencies.-
All federal and state offices
will observe the holiday and an
man of the Beach City Com:
inunity Development Associa
tion, accepted a third place
regional award in behalf of the
association for progress in the
community at a ceremony
Monday night at Beach City
Community Building
“Hiis is the third award we
have received, but our first
time* to make it in regional
competition,” said Mrs. L. &.' awards
(Georgia) Mackrell, former
chairman, master of ..cere-
monies at the presentation.
Emil Rina, representing
utility companies of Texas,
made the presentation. The trict
award is made through the
the Texas Agricultural Exten- and Chambers County officiate
and civic leaders
Projects of Beach City resi-
dents were on display—arts
Lighting and Power, which and crafts, home-sewn
siori Service of Texas A&M
Rinn is community improve-
ment consultant for Houston
supports the program
District winner in com
munity improvement competi-
tion, Beach City was among
communities in a, 51-county
area to vie for regional
The first year Beach City en-
tered the competition, was in
1972 when it won, third place in-
district. The following year it
won second place. In the dis-
A four-judge panel visited
Cajun Club
BAYTOWN CAJUN Club will
meet at 7 p.m. Wednesday at
Bonanza- banquet room,
Ellington Duty
U.S. AIR FORCE Sgt. Guiller-
mo Juarez, son of Mr. and Mrs
Asuncion Juarez of ,904 Carne-
gie, has been assigned
Boy Injured
MICHAEL WAYNE Aaron, 15,
of 2202 Rosille, was injured at
9:d8 a.m. Monday at the inter-
section of Highway 146 and
Fayle when he lost control of
the motorcycle*he was driving
arid fell at a stop light on High-
way. 146.
Beach City May 15 and at-
clothing
goods.
and hqme canned
(See Related Photo Page 2)
Information was given on
progress in the • community,
including the new water sys-
tem to cost more than $300,000
and new equipment for the
volunteer fire department
Community activities,
growth and friendliness were
emphasized. .
Area industry was' toured
and the judges were'given a
Barbers Hill school
where 168 Beach City yi
ters go to school
itrict
Emergency Work Crem Standby - -
July 4th No Holiday
For All Baytonians
* The Fouth of July.holiday
Thursday will find most area
businesses and ofijces closed,'
stores, although some discount
and convenience stores will be
ipen,
with exception of some service
stations, discount and grocery
stores, and restaurants.
City fall, Sterling Municipal Friday with regular classes
lumiy resum
Summer classes in public
schools and at Lee College will
be dismissed Thursday and
Library and the Comraiim
Building will be closed, Assis-
tant .City Manager Howard
Northcutt said, but garbage
pickups will be made as-
scheduled.
Standby emergency crews in
immunization clinic at the
County Public Health Office,
Wttarlcetr dosed
July 4 and 5. New patients
needing services are advised
to either visit or call the-office
before Thursday or Monday.
Regular patients have already
been told of the closing
The Department of Public
Safety-Office on Park Street
will also be closed July 4. The
post office will not deliver mail
,ing Monday.-
The day isalso a holiday for
banks aS required by state law
Harris County .Commis-
sioners Court has declared
July 4 and 5 county holidays
and the justice of the peace of- to regular routes Thursday but
+ ST. PETERSBURG,
HPte: -‘Phe 6aa*t- Guard
searched today for a 43-foot
cruiser with seven persons
aboard which radioed it was
sinking in the Gulf of Mexico,
will be on duty and police and
fire personnel will work nor-
mal. hours.
Closing for the one-day
holiday will be banks and retail
mail will be. put in boxes.
The Baytown Sun will pub-
lish Thursday and offices will
be open until noon. Classified
ad deadline for Friday’s pa-
per will be noon Thursday.
+ BUENOS AIRES -
Thousands of Argentine^,
weeping and shoutirig “Long
live Peron!” “Long live the
leader!” and ‘.'Goodbye
Peron!” bade an emotional
farewell to (heir leader
today.
Another Summit’ In 75 -
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‘Many Difficulties’ Bar
Nuclear Arms Accord
+ DALLAS - Light rain
spattered the El Paso area
early today while gusty west
winds blew across the reft of
tar West Texas.
+ AUSTIN - Atty. Gen.
John Hill reported today that
his investigation of alleged
abuse of travel expenditures
by the Dallas office of the
Alcoholic Beverage Com-
mission revealed no pro-
vable misconduct.
Threat Of High
Court Test Ends
SAN ANTONIO, Tex. (AP)
— A district court/judge today
reversed his previous decision they would go to the Supreme
and said he will allow m
men and the public in the
courtroom during jury, selec-
tion for the trial jpf Elmer
end the secret proceedings,
lawyers had indicated
t if necessary.-
Dtlring. closed sessions Mon-
day, five women and three, inert
agitato. <*»** HSc|“m-‘',^7
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(Prosecution,will each strike 10
murders: ... ;
Asked why he had changed
his decision to bar newsmen
fr,pm the proceedings, Judge
Preston Dial said, “It seemed
to
to be the appropriate thin ■
do at the time.”
Dial said photographers will
still be barred from the court
riJbm and, the jury room
The only information Coming
out of the closed hearing a. few
hurried comments by Judge
Dial and statements he
relayed through court aides.
4 Judge Dial said Monday tile
jurors would be “con-
Judge Dial barred on tamil,ated” if newsmen were"
description of the “benefits of Leonid I. Brezhnev again next
MOSCOW (AP) - President speech they made progress in
Nixon told the Russian people1 three annual summit meetings
tonight that he will meet with and are “steadily building a
Ellington AFB lor duty as a
medical services specialist:
VFW Meeting
BAYTOWPTYFW Post.912 will
meet at 8 p.m, Tuesday at the
Post Home on Decker Drive.
Newly elected. Post Com-
mander fori 1974-75, W.
(Buddy) Moravits, will con-
duct* the meeting.
Back At Work
KAREN BLACK, daughter of
Mr. and-Mrs. W. B. Black Jr. of
1906 Gillette Drive, has re-
merce Bank in Houston after a
lengthly illness and. surgery
PHILIP and Nadine Revstock
and son Jules,age five months,
have moved to Minden, La.,
where they’ve opened a photo-
HFPA Meet I ,■
commuting to Shreveport as BAYTOWN CHAPTER of
Thomas Sterling of Baytown.
Mrs. Marie KaHcofen and her
daughter, Mrs. Max Huckfeldt,
from Casper, Wye., are-visit-
ing Mr. and Mrs. Norman
Bourgeois over the weekend,
Crosby American Post No,
658 .donated flags to Crosby
schools and to White,Cemetery
in honor ofthe dead of all wars
on Memorial Day.
Mr. and Mrs. George Smith
and “Teacher" Smith enjoying
/ a Sunday buffet in a Baytown
.restaurant ... Jenarie
Alexander explains a perfectly
simple complicated program
... Clyde Messiah gives some
answers
will meet at 7:30 p?m. Tuesday
at REL Agriculture building
NO
CHARGE
First AraoricanBank
Five u6Tr»K*H»ytm
Weather
| And Tides
PARTLY CLOUDY and
warm through Wednesday
with a slight chance of thun-
dershowers is the Baytown
area’weather forecast Low
expected Tuesday night,
mid-70s, high expected
Wednesday, low 90s.
BAYTOWN TIDES Wednes-
day: High at 10:31 a,m.; low
at 2:32 a.m.: “
Cracker’ Law
Violators Face
Fine Of $200
Discharging fireworks with-
in Baytown city limits is illegal
and violators are subject
fines up to $200.
Baytown Fire Chief L. V
Bailey^said the city ordinance
prohibiting fireworks dis-
charging will be enforced. Bai-
ley said the fire department
will answer complaint call's, as
will the Baytown Police De-
partment. ■
He said though firemen ca;
not cite violators, they can file
complaints;.with police and
they can take Action. The fire
marshaihas police powers to
issue tickets or arrest violat-
Bailey said not only are fire-
works illegal, they are dan-
gerous arid can cause costly in-
turned to work at Texas Com- juries and damage to property:
Last July 3, a house at 5009
Fairway was destroyed by fire
that firemen said started when
wooden shingle roof.
year to continue the search for time will reduce the causes of
“a lasting peace” and a better conflict” -
life for them and for the Russians Provided the
American, people, green ;r00m of the Grand
The President also aeknowl- Kremlin Palace and their
edged that he and the Soviet natlonal radl° and television
Communist party leader hookup for the speech. Relay to
“have many difficulties, yet to
be overcome in achieving full
control over strategic nuclear
Services For
— heldAt 2 p.m. Monday at Jack lc
Rowe Funeral Home Chapel in h:
Peoples State Bank
’The People Helpers"
$615 Mirin' St. «$M|31
^ Ha tarrtoa Ctwy
ManfoarFDIC
would last out the year.
The best Answer was,
“You don’t need to-woriy
about wearing out your‘poll
tax.’ They'll take a Cuk
.pepper receipt’-’
Martin R
Kem«riv..B,
Rucker,
aptist
Pearce Street Journal- -
Buckskin Poll Tax?
Some dusty and musty
copies of The Sun in the
1930’s will reveal'that in one
10-day stretch, the City of
Goose Creek had three
municipal elections.
One was a city commission
runoff. Another was a recall.
The third was on whether to
erect a* city-owned electriri
power plant ?,■
This was in the day of poll
taxes, and ft Was suggested
that poU tax receipts for
Goose Creek should be
painted on buckskin so they , .Walker of Texas City. Marvin
Northside Baptist Church of ikmg
reducing the estimated one
Baytown arid Operating Engi-
of Mlio,i “cycle-related injuries
Louisiana.
new relationship that .over
the United-States was also
arranged.
Nixon gave no hint of any
specific results from his on-go-
But he said in a prepared mg talks with Brezhnev in the
nuclear fiejd. He briefly men-
tioned new accords on health
and housing and said, “Triey
TnLtin at WallriPr wil18R’8 the people of both of
jummy n <ukci our countries a ^^6 stake
Ddd Monday " Nixon’s speechl was on the
Services for Johnny L.' «ve of the windup of his third
Walker, 2500 E. James, were summit with Brezhnev and fol-
lowed a new round of talks with
mosphere of crisis, but rather
in an atmosphere of confidence
— confidence that the work we
haVe embarked on is going for-
ward,” Nixon said. ,—7
Nixon did not say where the
fourth summit would take
place and he made no mention
of an impeachment drive in
Congress that if successful
could remove him from office
by 1975.
Presumably, Brezhnev
would come to the United
States since the two leaders
have been alternating as hosts
Monday .newsmen and the
public, including the accused
youth's mother and brother,
from the room where the jury
was being selected
Judge Dial who is trying the
case here on a change of venue
from Houston, called reporters
a “hunch of locusts” Monday
and said he wanted to isolate
the prospective jurors from as
much distraction as possible,
Local and national news, or-
ganizations- bad jsent lawyers
to protest the judge’s ruling
Monday. Thriy were due back
today to file a motion seeking
allowed to see the selection of
the panel.
Bulletin
WASHINGTON *( AP) -
Alexander Butterfield, a star
witness at the Senate Water-
gate hearings last summer,
was the first witness before
the House Judiciary Com-
mittee today as It opened the
final phase of its impeach-
ment inquiry.
1,000 Expected At Sylvan beach - -
Senior Citizens To Observe
‘Fourth’ With Skit, Songs
Residents of St. James tended^he June festival
League City. “We have been able to meet
Walker, 44, was killed in a this year, as we will meet
one-car wreck at 12:30 ajq; [again next year, not in an at-
LATE NEWS
WASHINGTON (AP) - In
a three-month period imme-
diately before the Watergate
break-in, & Howard Hunt Jr.
asked his former CIA bosses
to' direct him to retired
agents skilled In lock-picking
~ - and burglary, a report to the
Senate Watergate commit-
tee said today.
Sunday when driving east on
Farm Road 2094. League .City
d Walkerif small for-
eign car went ‘out of control,
rolled over arid crashed into a
culvert.
™,nct®! wi-11*
jwrtteacter for Ehato, “ S "ll , f !
cL company A g,l"W»l.l*r.'*«'KWl
like Riders Get Safety
aw Effective Jan. 1
ject will be “Why I'm Proud To
House on Hugh Echols Boule- Other such events have beemfBe An American.” All
vard (formerly Baker Road) approved by Commissioners
and other Baytonians will par- Court through December, she
ticipate in a Senior Citizens’ said;
Independence Day celebration St. James residents who will
Wednesday at Sylvan Beach in star Wednesday in an original
La Porte. skit, “Betsy Ross aijd The
The celebration will'begin at Flag, ” written And directed by
11 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. Miss Alice Sweet of St. James
The fete is the third Senior House, are X. "B. Reed’ ,as
Citizens Day to be held at Syl-George Ross, Cleo Huff as
van Beach Pavilion under George Washington, Alma
sponsorship of Harris County Young as Betsy Ross and Elsie
Parks and Recreation Depart- Peterson as flagberirer,
ment. Lorayne Allen of La The same day'a choir, eom-
Porte is volant
chairman of the
She was employed by the Pearl Matteson, A. E. Amer- his Lee College senior citizens
county until Commissioners son and Mabel 'Parker,.pianist, choir are'also expected to at-
Court revised the program and will go to Houston to tape a tend the fete
speeches the contest will be
on the general theme, “Ameri-
ri'. ’: :
Other Baytonians who. will
attend the Senior Citizens Day
are participants in the county
nutrition program at First
Presbyterian Church. They*,
will leave Baytown on a Lee
College-bus after t he noon
meal is served-in the church
fellowship hail. -
'Glen Walker of the Commu-
nity relations office of Lee Col-
discontinued her job which she Dialing For Dollars program
is continuing to fill as a volun- on Channel 13-TV-. On their re-
teer worker. turn they will go to Sylvan
Some 1,000 senior citizens Beach to add a musical-touch
from over the county are ex- to the prograrri
pected to attend. The first Gladys Hall, an Episcopal
the nation’s first bicycle safety
tion. He formerly lived for ^Mons,
f meLv of ^»g -everythiaY-4Mfsj
Walker was a member of performance' to
reflectors, are aimed at
Consumer Product Safety
Commission Safety
Regulations for Bicycles.’
Violators of the regulations Allen said. A total of 420 at-in a speech Contest. Her sub- Houston, Allen said,
could face criminal penalties,
Tramesi Peering’ systems;
project in May, a Golden Age deaconess who lives at St. will be displayed during July
Festival, attracted some 3,000,-James House, will .participate at the Family Law Center in
:» Ira*mmmt
A vyheelchair contest, boxing
exhibition, red, white and blue
costume contest and grand
march arid* a poster contest
will all be features of the day.
Posters entered inathe contest
The Re’
pastor of [ Kem,
Church, officiated in rites
Burial was in Forest Park East
Cemetery in League City,
Survivor^ are a son, Dennis
Walker of League City;
daughter, Mrs. Denise McDon-
Walker pf Galliano, La., and
Bruce* Walker of Oak Grove,
La.; tlii-ee sistri's, Mrs. Sybil
Edwards of Richmond, Mrs
Lurline Gates of Sikes, La.,
and Mrs. Edith Hamniack of.
Texas.City»Ateo surviving are
two grandchildren.
last year.
Although the new standards either” reflectOTized tires
will apply to all-bicycles in-
troduce! into interstate com-
merce after the end of. this
year, those made and dis-
tributed before the deadline
may continue to be-sold.
To reduce consumer con-
fusion, the coimhission
aid of Houston; his father!™’
James J. Walkra- of Texas1d d d hat durinS the next
Qty; three brothers, Bobby
two years new bicycles
meeting the standand should
bear the label: “Meets U.S.
MISS YOUR PAPER?
CALL 422-8302
BEFORE 7:00 PM.
, AND TOUR PAPER WILL '
IE PR0AIPTIY DELiKERED L
wideangle, spok'e-mounted
reflectors for the side,
Other- provisions include,
coverings for protruding nuts
and bolts, protected edges on
metal fenders, chain or
derailleur guards and
adequate assembly, operating
and maintenance instructions.
Racing bikes and custom
“one of a kind” biFes are ex-
empted.
Citizens National Bank
, FOIC
ST. JAMES HOUSE RESIDENTS REHEARSE BETSY ROSS SKIT
Cleo Huff, X. B. Reed, Alma Young Play Principal Roles UriatiFor Seaior Citizens Indepen-
dence Day At Sylvan Beach Wednesday. Elsie Peterson, Not Shown, I* Continental nag
Bearer In The Play (Sun Photo by BetsyWebbo-)
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 226, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 2, 1974, newspaper, July 2, 1974; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1062091/m1/1/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.