The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 69, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 2, 1977 Page: 3 of 26
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says is not fit to be a Texas
lawyer, will be sworn in Sun- opponent in the November elec-
day as an associate justice of
the state's highest court
Chief Justice Joe R. Greenhill
of the Texas Supreme Court
will preside at the 3 p.m. cere-
mony in the historic court
chambers.
Yarbrough, 35-year-old Hous-
ton attorney, was a surprise
winner in■' last June’s Demo-
cratic primary over Civil Ap-
peals Court, Judge Charles W.
Barrow. There was speculation
many voters thought they were
voting for former Sen. Ralph
Yarborough or twice-defeated
liberal * Democratic gubernato-
rial candidate Don Yarborough,
also a Houston attorney, •
Before the "pfimary Yar-
brough told reporters that God
tolrf him to get in the race.
’ Afterwards, he credited God
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Xi^STEFUL ARCHITECTURE is,only to be expected when
the.builder is, Craig Brewer, executive chef at Chicago’s
Jacques Garden restaurant. Brewer’s tuneted temptation
is made of cookies, candy, marshmallows, sticks of gum
and frosting. Construction required 33 hours. Demolition?
Minutes or seconds,‘depending on number and hunger
' . : the crew. X .
Unique ‘Handbook’
Growing In Volume
AUSTIN," Tex. (AP) - in
m / 1952 • Texans. put together, a
--"handbook" about -the; state as his parents.”
that was unique; After 25 years,
'.... the two-vplume book remains
unique, tout -it has a compan-
ion—Volume III.
V 'Editor Eldon Branda started
on the third volume in 1967/, and
^•*t,n ftntt* Ua' IkSKH ’4 kn/1 n Ltnnn
"he says he hasn't had a vaca-
tion or le|t % state sinee-he
III would be 300 pages, but, be
supplement just grew, like a
ihiid who wanted to be as big
The hew volume has 1.145
pages and' will be published lat-
er this month.
The first twg volumes were
biiled as a “dictionary of essen-
tial information.” .Dr. Joe
Frantz, director of the lexis
State _ Historical ‘ Association,
says, in • the third “we have
that Volume tried to produce a volume in
* ' “ ' * the best Texas tradition, not ol
vain, glorious boasting but of
quifit, solid, continuing achieve-
ment."
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SCOn MONTGOMERY
Kirkland, son of Mr, and Mrs.
Larry Kirkland of Baytown,
celebrated his second birthday
Saturday. He has a brother,
Chris, - and a sister, April,
Grandparents are Mr.' and
‘ Mrs. C. W. Kirkland of
Baytown, Mrs, Wanda Parrish
and Mr. and Mrs. F,.F.
Parrish, all of Houston, and
Developments of the past 25
years recorded In Volume III
include heart transplants, the
Dallas Cowboys, the Astrodome
and the assassination of John
F. Kennedy: '
GENERAL OBJECTS
■ Subjects omitted from the.
first two volumes—such, as Nei-
man-Marcus. the Light Crust;
Doughboys, the Eastef Fires at
Fredericksburg and the Gain-
esville “great hanging”~also
are included. *•-
; Also among other ’first-time
items are such general subjects
as integration, history of folk
and popular music and the
Sharpstown and Veterans Land
BoaiiLscandals.
Sen. John Tower, R-Tex.. has
written kbiography,^ Dwight
Eisenhower fort the new vol-
ume; Frantz has/done an ar-
ticle on Lyndon B. Johnson;
and for'tner Sen. Ralph'1 Yar-
borough has writtefr a piece on
would be over." Branda re-
calls, “but one subject would
Mrs.'' Wanda Spangler of
Houston. Great-grandparents
are Mrs. Paula Xrowe of
Baytown, E.-E.Carlson of
Denver, Colo,, and Mrs. Win-
nie Qwen of Arlington.
GET WHAT
YOU PAY FOR
came uncontrollable.” ■ • \_
He has started ■ file for-Vol-
ume IV. But someone else can
edit that, he says. -
i Volume III will sell for $35.
Volumes I and II may be pur-
chased together for-$45; and the.
three-volume set will gojor $75.
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FASHION CLEANERS
300 EAST JAMES
Try Sim
Classified
Yarbrough To Be Sworn In
On State High Court Sunday
'AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) — Don with bringing him-the no'mi-
Yarbrough, who the State Bat. [nation:'
\ Yarbrough had no Republican
tion and easily defeated two
write-in 1 candidates, Houston
lawyer Tom Lorance and Dis-
trict'Court Judge Sam Houston
of Denton.
Yarbrough is a defendant in
15.civil suits including one,by
the.State Bar seeking to take
away his lawyer’s license The
disbarment suit, which has not
been brought to trial, lists 53
grievances including 12 alleged
acts of professional misconduct
and eight violations of state with God’s.woxd,”4ie said,
and federal law. .' Yarbrough's only previ
Yarbrough, said the' State- Bar
prosecutors-are “a bunch of
ego-jerks” and predicts he will gainst Treasurer Jesse . James
serve every day of. his six-year
term.
Yarbrough has1 hired former
state Atty. Gen. Waggoner Carr
to defend him in- the dis-Campus Crusade for Chris,t.
barment proceedings. Carr rep- *
resented, himself in two crimi- i
nal trials in. federal court on
charges - of fraud and con-
spiracy that grew out of the
Sharpstown Bank scandal and
was acquitted at both trials * ,
, Carr; says Yarbrough has
been “abused by people in gov-
ernment”
At one of his few fe»s confer-
ences, Yarbrough toJd.jeporters
that he would ask God to guide
him as a 'supreme court jurist.
“I put you on notice now that
insofar as my vote on any issue
it will be interpreted in accord
political venture was an unsuc-
cessful primary race in 1974
In 1964, he served as general
counsel for the Texas Water
that he was an attorney for the
Big Demand For Petroleum
Products Expected In 1977
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’HOUSTON (AP) - Domestic March. All trends indicate.
however, increased *t explor-
ations and drilling operations
were, not sufficient to offset
demand for petroleum products
in 1977 is expected to exceed
the .record J973 pre-embargo
level '
Crude production is scheduled
to receive i a boost from
Alaska's North Slope but spiral-
ing imports may not be far be-
hind total domestic output.
-Domestic proved crude oiT re-’
serves, excluding Alaska, are
expected to decline a tenth con-
secutive year, 'natural gas re-
serves the ninth year in a row.
, Here is the outlook
.Demand—Average-petroleum
produet requirements fbr the
year may approach 18.000.900
barrels a day- compared with
the 1973 record. of 17,308.000
barrels dairy. - -
Production-Domestic crude
oil output should; drop to about
8,000,000 barrels-g day^tte.low-
est level.since 1965, and-then
rebound a bit the last half of
the year with tlje start of North
dailyJSevere 'weather in recent
weeks, however, caused de-
mand to 'skyrocket in some
areas arid the 12-month
shoqid exceed 17.000,000.
. 17,221,000 BARRELS
line
Imports-Early estimates
dicate imports of crude and
products will average
rels a dav com-
of 7,800.000 barrels a day cdm-
erage of 6,256,000 in 1973.
Reserves-Industry estimates
of proved crude oil and natural,
gak reserves at the end of-1976
will not be released until late
1976 demand growth and will,
fall short again in 1977.
The American Petroleum In-
stitute has not as yet released
its year-end 1970 estimates but
it placed' Janiiary-October de-
mand at 16,847,000 barrels crude and products -at a record
' " '' *' 6.910.000 barrels a dayAffee in-'
weeks, however, caused de- dependents have made a 7.074.-
-'--J '000-barrel estimate tor the full
areas arid the 12-month average year and projected 1977i imports
17«« m ■* at 7,820,000 barrels a day.
The Independent Petroleum
Association of America mean-
day and has forecast 1977 re-
quirements at a record 17,979,:
uuu barrels daily.
The independents also piaqed ed 'ts a11-1'"16 hi?h'in crude oil
o oroduction.
1976 crude oil production at -8,-
150;000 barrels a day. Compared
with -8,156,000 in the Institute’s
10-month report,.-
; ing an all-time-high of 9,637,000 ps.jreserv« have tad a sim-
barrels a,day in 1970 but the’
independents- report some en-
couraging signs.
“The rate of decline, ex-
pared with the pre-embargo'av: (.|uding Nor(h SIope has mod.
crated from 4,ST per cent in 1974
arid 4,7 per cent in 1975 to 2,5
per cent in 1976 and a projected
1.8 per cent decline in 1977,”
the independents report.-
On The Light Side
ilar trend since peaking in 1967
at-292.9 trillion cubic feet.
By the end of 1975, the re-
serves estimates had dropped
to 21,6billionbarrClsfor crude
and 196.2: trillion cubic feet for
natural gas. X'y "
] Alaska’s .reserves, with the
prolific - North. Slope shutin
since its 1968 ‘ discovery, have
been estimated at 10 billion
barrels of cude and 32 trillion
cubic feet of gas.
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I.AS 'VEGAS, Nev. (AP) -
Who says,m(oney chnl buy ev-
erything? Millionaire husiness-
Santa Claus. _.....
John Nance Garner. . Asking price for the.,town of
“Every year -I thought it Santa Claus, Ariz., was $52,500.
man Larry Wilson , just bought bright decide to keep it just the
* ‘ : ' ‘wav it is. or we might decide to
Owners Peter and Mary Sta-
ich put it up for sale on
lead to another.' It almost be.- Christmas Day.
' ....... Included in the package was
a service station, a cafe called
"The Christmas Tree Inn," a
curio shop and four acres of
desert a.iong U.S.- 93 about 85
rnildf southeast of here;— - ;
The StanoviCheS, who love to
VINE GROVE. Ky. (AP)-
State Sens Joe Prather would
rather be governor than watch
the PeachBowl in persoh>“ ,
- Prather, president pro tern of
tJjj senate, harf planned to at11
Wilson. 39, is a real estate in-
vestor m Santa ftbsa, Calif.,
and used to own the town of
Heajdsburg. a , tiny, community',
in the California "wine country. ’
jsmm mmmmmmmmskmmm COUPON ,»- - m- - - \
But when He learned that
four of the five people qualified
to serve as acting governor
■would be areompanyinf Gov-.
Julian Carroll to the Peach
Bowl, Prather, the, fifth, de-
cided to stay home and'assume
the tille of acting governor
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and a New Year’s gift
to thank you for yoqt pi^a .
continued patronage. !
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when purchased at regular price ■
with this coupon thru Jan. 15; 1977. ~ |
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"Everybody should have-a"
town called Santa Claus for
their family," said Wilson.’ “We
do -something with it, or we
might just hang on to it. I can't
really say at this point,”.
To Stay Home
I game on television,
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Not Romance
EAST ORANGE, N J (AP)
- When Lee Buccheri puts her,
hands on a football player's
kriee. -she’s not looking for ro-
mance: It's part of her job as.
an athletic trainer for Upsala
College. ■ jl.
♦ "I was embarrassed, the
guys1 were -embarrassed. A lot
■of them, were against me," said
the 18-year-old freshman,’ Who
tapes knees, wrists rind ankles
of .the footbqll-squad. “But then
(Key .realized I'm not. there just
to get a free look."
Miss Buccheri took the job as
part of a work:study program.
The 5-foot-iO biology major also
plays forward on the girls' var-
sity basketbiill team and is the
trainer for the female squad
She said that first her boy-
friend "didn't like the idea at
all, Now, he tries not to talk
about it.’’, 2 .
Attend Church
, They add. however, that 1977
output will-drop to about 3,000,-
000 barrels a day before North
Slope production after mid-year
starts, an upward swing that is
barrels a day for the yea:
The Institute estimates
January-Oetober . imports of
A 1976 year-end average ap-
proximating 7,000,000 barrels
would-compare with 6,025,000 in
while has estimated 1976 -S
"land at 17.221.000 banfipTa "
1973«TmportraveragS'milf'3;-
419.000 barrels daily in '1970,
when the United States record-
production
Kxlouding Alaska. /domesti>
crude oil reserves have de-
clined steadily since reaching a
-ecord level of 31.7 billion bar-
Sunday, January 2, 1977
THE BAYTOWN SUN
20*Vo off entire stock of bras, girdles.
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Has The Greatest White Sale on Earth.
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Save on every sheet in stock?
Sate 1.96 Twm
Reg. 2.79. White muslin; no-iron
.white cotton/pOlyester sheet*?
Full; reg. 3.59, Sale 2.96
Pillowcases, pkg. of 2; reg. 2.09, Sale 1.96
Sale 1.99
' .Reg.2.99. Floral needlepo'mt print-
on no-iron cotton/polyestermuslin.
Full; reg. 3.99, Sale 3.24 - '
Pillowcases, pkg. of 2, reg. 2:99, Sale 2.24
Sale 4.93-.,. - ;
fleg. 5.99. Manor Garden; bouquets
on; no-irori cotton/polyester percale.' ' XX
Full; reg. 6 99, Sale 5.93
Queen; reg:10.99, Sale 8.93 •
King; reg.,12 99. Sale 10.93
Standard pillowcases, pkg. of 2;
reg. 5.49, Sale 4.03
uj$y
MICHAEL DEAN Barbee, son.
of Mr. and Mrs. Jack Barbee
Jr. ofBaytown, celebrated his
third birthday. He hag , a
brother, Billie. Gr&ndparefits
are Mr. and Mrs. Willie C;
' Austin and Mr. and Mrs. jack
JARED WILLIAM Sorensen,
son of Mr. ahd Mrs. Bob
Sorensen Jr. of Baytown,
celebrated. hfs y second
hjrthday.; <>Grandparents, are
Mr. and Mrs, A, A. Bradbury
of Baytown and. Mr. and Mrs..,
R. A. Sorensen Sr. of Crosby.
Greatgraiidparents are Mr.'
and Mrs. Jim Pelt of Leesvilie,
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 69, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 2, 1977, newspaper, January 2, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074344/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.