The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 83, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 14, 1979 Page: 3 of 28
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1’t know the details yet
ot him or bow many
m hit. We’re waiting
>pey,” Lt. Wade said,
said they recovered
oed amount of money
stolen car. But Lt.
I one suspect jud
portion of it on the
i it had “flown every-
icen canvassed the
i believe most all the
recovered,” he said,
s onlookers stopped
e chase into the rice
ime 200 cars were re-
:ched along the free-
ities said.
land pensioner Clif-
las the answer to a
prayer. It’s an tin-
gle stick. . :
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SING
7 P.M.
VESTHEIMER
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Condition Of The
Is Listed As Satisfactory
L. LOS ANGELES (AP) - John "During the removal of John Wayne, a veteran of Westerns
Waft#■ the durable, veteran gallstones and gallb- and war movies, reportedly hadj
ladder an unusual 4ypp of low- suffered from gallbladder prob-
200 Hollywood movies, has
excellent” prognosis for
grade malignant tumor of the lems for some time and chose
, .covery following the removal of
Ms cancerous stomach, doctors
; said after a nine-hour oper-
,v#tion.
; Wayne was listed in satisfac-
tory condition today at UCLA
Medical Center after surgery P1
Friday.
- . "There are many many
.people in this world without
; stomachs who function very
...well,” said Bemrd Strohm, ad-
ministrator of the medical cen-
ter.
stomach was discovered, and it
required a more extensive op-
eration for its complete re- tal Wednesday. *
moval,” said Strohm.
Strohm added: “His current the star, said the gallbladder
condition, is satisfactory. His
is excellent.” He said
that Wa^e would be hospi-
talized indefinitely.
Details of the operation were
not immediately announced.
UCLA spokesman A1 Hicks said
Church Gym
reported
Joseph
HOUSTON (AP) - Both hotin for final arguments to
stolen from the St. Joseph sides are predicting victory the jury.
Three purses were
elective surgery to correct the
condition. He entered the hospi-
Catholic School gymnasium Fri- when the Cullen Davis murder “I feel good about our case,
day and another one was conspiracy case goes to the better now than three weeks
reported found atop a building Jury here next week after 10 ago,” said Jack Strickland, One
on the other side of town.
A doctor, who is not treating
operation would have been re-
garded as serious in itself due
to Wayne’s age. His 72nd birth-
day is May 26.
Through all his health prob-
lems, Wayne has shown amaz-
ing resiliency. Since his heart
surgeons “may have created a surgery, he has appeared on
pouch with parts of the in- television specials, filmed com-
The possibility of cancer wasitestines to hike the place of the mercials and begun reading po-
tential movie scripts.
not mentioned when the 71-
ir-old actor checked in for
Ubladder surgery, which was
. pected to take two hours.
i&een Pageant
TflAWNE COLE, daughter of Mr.
^Snd Mrs. Milton Cole of|T" ".“e
?Baytown, is a finalist in the 1979
‘teas Natidnal Teen-Ager
* pageant, The winner of the state
Lpgeant will qualify for the
■ rational pageant, whose winner
-will receive $10,000 in cash
Scholarships. The state winner
' Jvill not receive the scholarships.
stomach.”
It was the third major oper-
ation for Wayne and his second
bout with cancer. In 1964, the
tall, lumbering actor had part
of a cancerous lung removed.
Last year, he underwent open
heart surgery for replacement
JENNI JOHNSON, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Jim A.
Johnson of Baytown
celebrates her fifth birthday
Saturday. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Gentry A.
Warrua of Pasadena.
Announcement of the sur-
gery’s success ended a tense
vigil at the hospital by mem-
bers of Wayne’s family, friends
Funeral
Notices
COUCH
Servicei for Alvina Goldie
Couch, 75, of 105 W. Sterling
will be held at 11 a.m. Monday
Earthman Funeral Chapel
and a colorful assortment of Hth the Rev. A.L. Jordan, of-
TAX RETURNS
• INDIVIDUAL Tax
RETURNS
• SMALL BUSINESS
• STATE RETURNS &
FOREIGN TAXES
fans who said they were pray-
ing for “The Duke.”
Wayne’s three sons — Mi-
chael, Patrick and Ethan -
and four»daughters - Antonia,
Melihda, Aissa, and Mapsa —
were at the medical center
throughout the operatidh, which
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RETURNS READY IN j DAYS
CONLEY-HELLER
DONA CONLEY A
VELMA HELLER
817 E. James 428-2416
ficiating.
Mrs. Couch, a Baytown reel-
dent 54 yean, died Friday in a
Baytown hoepital
She it survived by her
hutbandwJoe Couch; and a ton,
Vernon Jacobi, both of
Baytown.
Burial will be in Memory
begini at 9:0Cla.m. and ended Cardeni
shortly after 7 p.m. Arrangement, are under
THE MOST FANTASTIC
BARGAINS OF TOUR LIFE
LATHE S FURNITURE
WAREHOUSE
direction of Earthman Funeral
Home.
After a. week of heavy rioting
g over food price increases,
i Wladyslaw Go&ulka resigned
I in 1970 as leader of the Polish
f Communist Party.
Terry Ann Ussery, 16, of 713
HEATHER NIKOL
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
die Harp of Mont Belvieu,
celebrates her fourth birthday
Saturday. She has a brother,
Lance. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. LF.. Whitney of
Mont Belvieu and Mrs. Juanita
Harp of Baytown. Great-
grandmother is Mrs. Mary
Wood of Van Buren, Ark.
Skin Diver
. jjlj
compft
feted an 11
Victory In
gruelling weeks of testimony.
Ollie Lee Stanley, 49, of 5708 B°Ui defense and prosecution turning point came when Davis
Airline in Houston told police he attorneys rested their cases took the stand,
was working on the roof of an Friday afternoon. More than “We expect to win the case
auto repair shop at 315 N. Mam 100 witnesses were called to because the evidence we pre-
Fridav afternoon when he testify and some 250 pieces of sented justifies a guilty ver-
foundapurse. evidence were introduced. diet,” Strickland added
It contained a driver’s license Davis, 8 Fort Worth in- A defense lawyer, Phil Bur-
in the name of Linda Wilkerson dustrialist, is accused of trying leson, said, "I think the jurors
Englert, 39, of 4900 Crosby- to hire a hit-man to kill "State will find Cullen innocent. I be-
Cedar Bayou and credit cards, District Judge Joe Eidson, who lieve the evidence showed there
pictures and other items. ’ once presided in Davis bitter, were other pople who had
Police could not find the continuing divorce case. something to gam by framing
woman’s number in the phone During the trial, FBI infor- Cullen Davis.”
book to notify her of her purse mant David McCrory, 40, the In the final rebuttal testi-
being found. state’s key witness, testified mony Friday, a golfing instruc-
Three high school students’ Davis ordered him to hire a tor insisted, despite piercing
purses were stolen from the St. professional killer to murder cross-examination, that he met
Joseph gym between 7:45-8:10 Judge Eidson. The prose- McCrory last summer and was
p.m. Friday. cution’s case rests largely on offered money to call Davis
McCrary’s testimony and sup-
E. Gulf said her purse contained porting tape-recordings and cer.
|10 cash, a watch and a Robert videotapes. Harold Sexton, 47, said the
E. Lee senior ring, among other Defense lawyers contend Sambo’s restaurant, where the
items Davis was framed by a con- meeting with McCrary alleged-
Stacy Sallee, 15, of 2103 Cedar spiracy involving his estranged ly occurred last summer, may
Bayou Road said her purse con- wife Priscilla, McCrory and have been one in Arlington in-
tain»H |6 cash and other items, others. Davis testified he stead of in Fort Worth as he
Stefany Bartz, 17, of 4800 thought he was playing along testified earlier.
Country Club View said her with the FBI when he made in- Prosecutor Tolly Wilson, his
purse contained flO cash, a Ross criminating tape-recorded face red and his voice booming,
Sterling senior ring and other statements to McCrory last Au- asked Sexton, "Didn’t you learn
items gust. ' since your earlier testimony
Total estimated value of cash Trial Judge Wallace Moore that the Sambo’s restaurant (in
and property taken from the told the jury Friday afternoon Forth Worth) burned down in
he had several motions to con- May and did not open again un-
“dV» “““ w"vn V«v triuj uau XVIV wv ““t"
of the state prosecutors. “1116 that his financial condition was
- sider and a charge to prepare
during the weekend and the
panel was excused until 8 a.m.
ROGER D. THACKER, son of ^“day.
Mr. and Mrs. J.R Thacker of At ** time, ^ iud*e mU
read his charge to the seven-
week come from Coastal School
to DM, i»(MW. ^ ^ ^ jj.'
til September?”
ii
Art Mart
PICTURE
FRAMING
2 N.Rain
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Sexton answered,
didn’t.”
During the meeting with
McCrory, Sexton said he appar-
ently had left the impression
not in the best shape.
It was then, Sexton testified,! 66 f<
that McCrory made this re-
mark:
“We need someone to place a
phone call to Cullen and repre-
sent himself as a police offi-
Davis testified earlier that he
received a telephone call from
a man who identified himself
as an FBI agent. Davis said he
was instructed to play along
with McCrory in an extortion
scheme.
First Relief
4‘ Wlr
The first practical air con-
„ ditioner to control tempera-
and impersonate a police offi- ture and humidity was in-
stalled in a Brooklyn print-
ing plant in 1902. Air
conditioners are now used in
hen houses, to boost egg
production; bams, when?
ogs fatten faster and cows
give more milk; and sugar
refineries, to keep granules
from lumping together.
ager
million barrels <
1975 and 1977, for a
saving of more than $44
million, enough to heat one
million homes each year. -
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Mach Speed '
The word “Mach” is used
to describe supersonic
speed. It derives from Ernst
Mach, a Czech-born German
physicist who contributed to
the study of sound. When a
plane moves at the speed of
sound it is Mach 1. When
twice the speed of sound, it is
Mach 2.
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School Board
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Saturday, Jan. 20
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 83, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 14, 1979, newspaper, January 14, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074924/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.