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Tunnel Repairs
THE BAYTOWN-La Porte Tun-
nel will operate from 8 a.m. to 1
p.m. Monday through Wednes-
day withpne lane open, officials
said, while the drainage and
lighting systems are cleaned and
repaired.
Supper and Games
BAYTOWN SENIOR Citizens
are invited to join Triple-F by
bringing a covered dish and a
game io First Baptist .Church,
2728 Kentucky at 6 p.m.
day; * V '
Stork Club
SAN JACINTO. Methodist
Hospital will have its obstetrics
orientation and tour at 1:30 p.m
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District 27 . v
BOARD OF directors of Harris
County Water District No. 27
will hold its regular monthly
meeting at 7 p.fn. Monday at
5534 Wade Road. > ;
Me Club
BAYTOWN BICYCLE Club will
meet at 1:30 p.m. Sunday dat
Stallworth Stadium for ’‘a
Highlands ride. The starter will
be Ray Bailey.
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CANDIDATES’RALLY SET
BAYTOWN’S CANDIDATES Tor school board will take the spotlight at the annual League of
Women Voters candidates’ rally at 7;30 p.m- Tuesday in the city council chambers at city hall.
Preparing for the event are, from left, Jan Wristers, who will be moderator for the rally; Dina
Stucker, president of the Baytown League; and Margaret Whalen, publicity chairman for the
League. Questions will be taken from the audience in both written and oral form.
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OUR WORLD
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Electrical Board
ELECTRICAL BOARD mem-
bers will meet at 7 p.m. Monday
in the inspection office at dty
hall to discuss duplicate permits
and review applications for li-
censes.
JROTC Boosters
ROSS STERLING Junior
Reserve Officer Training Corps
boosters will meet at 7 pm
JSSSSittSSSm^ “ **
military science at University of
Houston, will speak. Cadet
promotions^!! also be featured
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Weather
And Tides
CLOUDY AND cool with a 70
percent cjbanqe of rain and
temperature range from the
mid-30s to the low 40s is the
Baytown area weekend
weather forecast.
SUNDAY TIDES* for waters
aytown:
Highs at +1:49 a.m. and 8:25
p.m,; lows at 10:41 am and
+9:35 p.m. Monday tides:
Highs at +2:21 am and 7:31
p.m.; iews at 11:30 a.m. tad
+10:53 pm
SUNRISE SUNDAY ai 7:18
a.m.; sunset at 5:36 p.m.
SUNRISE MONDAiL at 7:16
»a.jn.J sunset at 5:37 p.m.
+ Denotes weak tides
AROUND.
2 Baytown Centers Serve
Area Handicapped People
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the meet the learning needs of se- collected and the child is
first of a three-part series deal-
ing with the problems and
rewards of educating,
mentally retarded,
handicapped and emotionally
disturbed children in the
Baytown area.
By MELANIE KNIGHT
A young girl sits in a classroom
learning her numbers. But it is
not an ordinary' classroom and
she is certainly not an ordinary
verely disabled children and
adults.
The education program is
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rehabilitating and coping with designed mainly for children
schoolwork.
It’s not that she is lazy and
does not pay attention to the
teachers. And she’s not a slow
learner. She has a little difficulty
holding a pencil in her hand. It
has to be strapped on, just as she
has to be s trapped into her chair
to prevent ho* from slumping to
the floor. - ......
She has cfsbjral palsy.»;
Although funds may not be
adequate, the two centers for p.m. each Monday, Jan. 8-Feb,
handicapped children, the Op-
portunity and Cerebral Palsy
Centers, are serving the
Baytown area with exceptional
professional and personal care.
Both serving other school dis-
who are referred through the
school districts. Material con-
cerning tee chfld’s background is
evaluated. The decision to place
the child in the center’s program
is a joint one, made by the
parents, the educational staff at
the center and district represen-,
tatives.
(See BAYTOWN, Page 2-A)
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Drug Abuse Program
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Offers Free Seminar
By D’EVA TURNER
The Palmer Drug Abuse
Program (PDAP) in Baytown
will hold a six-night free seminar
designed to help parents who presenting a psychodrama on
want information on how to deal
with their children’s drug and
drug-related problems.
Open to tee. public, the
meetings will w held at 7:30
tricts besides Goose Creek, the*
lot
children suffering from most
types of brain damage and
physical handicaps. The Oppor-
tunity Center focuses on mental-
ly retarded, autistic and epilep-
tic children wiuletoe Cerebral
PalsyCenterworks with CP,
muscular dystrophy and spina
bifida.. ...
Helping children bom Goose
Creek, Crosby, Galena Park, La
Park and Channel-
view school districts, tee Oppor-
tunity Center has two programs
Grace United Methodist Church,
304 N, Pruett
The adult information series
was announced by John Cates,
director of the Houston-based
The schedule for the senesxs:
• JAN. 8 - Cates discussing
his former days as a drug addict
and tee services offered by
PDA?.
• JAN. 15 A panel of
teenagers discussing their per-
sonal experiences with drugs.
•JAN. 22 - A panel of
parents discussing their personal
experiences iif-dealing with their
sots’- and. daughters’ drug
problems.
• JAN, 29 - Houston
SkSlmd Shop"tolattorn,* WZweroemann dis-
cussing legal problems involved
in teen drug use
• Feb. 5 - Houston
psychologist Ray „ Denson
how teen drug problems affect
the family.
• FEB. 12 — Houston
psychiatrist Jason Baron diicuss
ing the psychiatric aspects pf
teen drug problems
PDAP is a non-profit agency
donations and specializing in
free services to teenagers with
drug problems.
Individuals and groups here
donated funds to create a
satelite center in Baytown and
that center opened recently witi
weekly meetings being held ai
First Presbyterian Church on
Market Street.
Mike Wolpmanh is senior
counselor at the center.
He will soon talk with teachers
and students in this school dis-
trict-about the program. .
Wolpmannfavites anyone with,
questions about the adult infor-
mation series to contact him at
427-0941 and luges anyone
wishing information about deal-
ing with drug problems of their
children to attend the seminar
> HOUSTON - Chi-
nese Vice Premier Teng
Hsiao-ping probably trill
include a side trip to
Houston in his visit to the
United Statesriater this
month, said U.S. Sen.
Lloyd Bentsen, D-Texas.
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+ TEHRAN, Iran -
Prime Minister-desig-
nate Shahpour Bakh-
tiar’s 'new civilian gov-
ernment was endorsed
by Shah Mohammad
Reza Pahlavi today, and
Bakhtiar told reporters
Bernard that “the shah
will maintain his posi-
tion as a constitutional,
monarch.” ,
+ SALT LAKE CITY
— Fifteen-year-old Ra-
chel David, whose moth-
er and six brothers and
sisters Hied when the
family fell from a Salt
Lake hotel balcony, is
out of a coma and re-
sponsive. Doctors say she
probably isn’t aware of
the tragedy. -
+ SAINT FRANCOIS,
Guadeloupe — Presi-
dent Carter and three
European allies are end-
ing their sunshine sum
mit with a show of soli
By WANDA ORTON
Baytown Postmaster Jim
Dupree expects a new post office
- bigger and more accessible to
the customers — will be bullt by
late 1982.
No location has been announc-
ed but it definitely willhe in tee
north part of the dty.
New Record
Upgrading Service Is First Aim
v Speaking Friday at tee
Baytown Chamber of Commerce
luncheon, the postmaster
reported Baytown is fourth in 1980. But the plans were begun
the priority list for new post of-
fices in the Houston area. He
told The Sun after the meeting
that Katy, Pearland and Crosby
are in tee top three on the list, plans to relieve congestion at the
Originally, the preliminary
plans for the Baytown facility
were not “on the block” until
in tee latter part of 1978. “So
we’re ahead of schedule now,’
he said.
Meanwhile DupreC is making
78 Building Permits
Hit $30 Million Mark
sOTporteff cbny although they have
J J '.....evident differences over
arms sales to China and
the future of Iran’s trou-
bled monarchy.
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"Pearce Street Journal - -
Red Ink Weapon
This is local taxpaying time.
We have worked out an al-
ternative to supporting Propo-
sition 13.
We aresigning alltax checks
in red ink, symbolic of blood!
If every one would do like-
wise, perhaps tkofred ink peo-
pie wiB name usthe “Manof
the Year in 1979.”
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Building permits in Baytown soared over the
$30 million mark in 1978.
The record total of $30,116,155 in construction
was paced by $12,546,132 in new homes. Apart-
ment construction accounted for $tf,487,000 in
building activity while $4,203,656 represented
new commercial construction.' -
Additions'to commercial buildings totaled
$990,160. Residents remodeling their homes
added $764,382 to the peabuilding permit tally.
Other categories included additions to
apartments, $4,000; additions to schools,
$238,900; churches, $180,000; additions to
churches, $684,512; swimming pools. $325.640;
garages and carports, $137,424; storage and
utility buildings, $40,082; billboards and sighs,
$134,520; hospital additions, $340,000.
Also, recreation buildings, $669,500; hobby
shop, $8,829; nursing home, $29,600; fourplex
apartments, $197,200; duplex apartments,
$83,018; triplex apartments, $45,500..
Building permit fees amounted to $35,847.40,
compared to $33,261.65 the previous year. Total
fees collected by the city inspection department
were $101,084.77, compared to $98,931.59 in
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Fees for plumbing permits totaled $10,992.40;
electrical permits, $20,156.15; gas inspections,
$660; trailer permits, $9,522.72; moving per-
mits, $555; mechanical permits, $13,952.50;
electrical licenses, $4,433.50 and mechanical
licenses, $4,965.
December building permit? plowed, more
than $1.2 million into the year’s construction
total, setting in motion $546,125 for new homes
and $209,700 in new commercial buildings.
A total of $116,100 reflected the school dis-
trict’s building program. Permits were issued
iifr foundations for five school gyms.
The gyms will be built at Lamar, Travis,
Austin, Bowie and Pumphrey Elementary
Schools. Cost of the foundation for each of these
gyms is $23,220, __________________
Trinity Tabernacle Assembly of God received
a permit for a $250,000 adactivities building at
the church location, 1108 E. Lobit.
Robert Gregory of Pasadena, was granted a
ivuucu uicgui/ ui raaauciifl, waa ffjuucu a .. .
permit for a $73,500 hair salon at 909 Baker aa.
main office on West Defee and
to improve service.
“We are contemplating mov-
ing 10 or 12 carrier routes to Sta-
tion A," he said. This is tee post
office located on Market near
the Exxon Refinery.
Also, Dupree is trying to'make
customers more aware of tee,
other facilities besides the main
office, In addition to the Station
A, there • are four contract
stations at various parts of the
city. - .
To relieve long lines at the
main office, a full service win-
dow is being set up to hapdle
money orders, parcel post, reg-
istered letters and other serv-,
ices. ‘
Also a “speedy line” process
will be established to rope off a
single line of customers. When
the next available window is
open, the first customer in line
will go to that window.
’This will prevent someone
from having to get behind a
customer and stand in line 15
minutes,” Dupree said. “It will
give everyone a chance to get
their transactions tgken care
of”. ■ . ''.
In regard to being courteous to
customers, Dupree said he has
told employees there is np ex-
cuse for inattention or beinf’dlt-
courteous.
“In case it happens, I want to
know about it personally,” he
Road.
Liquid Air, Inc. of San Francisco was issued a
permit for a $68,200 office building at 100 S.
Ashbel in conjunction with its facility that
manufactures liquid carbon dioxide.
Five lease spaces will be provided in a new
building at 3000 N, Main which is being con-
structed at a cost of $9,253. The permit for this
facility was issued to owners, Eddie Gray and
David Ka’djar.
Anahuac Woman’s Body Is
Identified In Texarkana
In response to questions about
getting earlier mail delivery,
Dupree explained the work
starts at 3 a.m. on distributing
mail for the carrier routes. The
camera leave the office between
9 and 9:30 a.m. and work about
surhoura. They start at a point as
possible to tee post of-
fice and end their work at
another point near the office.
If anyone observes a carrier
not at work, Dupree reminds
customers that carriers geHd
minute "breaks in tee morning
and afternoon and a 30-minute
lunch break.
Although there are 95
employees at the main office,-—
rSRK. (8p)
„'Coimty Sheriff V deputies,
i have positively identified a
body, unearthed in a wooded girl’s family.
area south of Texarkana Dec. 24,
teat of Sharpn Elaine
Hargraves, 18, of Anahuac,
Deputy H.L. Phillips
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Phillips said it was through a
Baytown Sun article, published
Dec. 28, about the discovery of
the body, that Miss Hargraves’
the identification process was
begun. . '
Positive identification was
made late Thursday by the
medical examiner in Little Rock,
Ark., through dental andltold officers Davlin was in the
medical records provided by the
Graveside services ” are
pending shipment of her body to
uov, Sterling -Funeral Home in
said Anahuac early, next week. The
sehices will probably beheld at
Anahuac Cemetery.
A^ Texarkani, Tex., man,
Thomas Odell Davlin Jri, 24, has
been charged with first-degree
relatives contacted Phillips and murder in the case, but refused Phillips that i
to give any statement about the
case-er the girl’s identity when
he was arrested.
The murder apparently oc-
curred April 22; when a witness
area where the bqdy was found,
about 70 feet from a small gravel
road off U.S. Highway 71, seven
miles south of Texarkana.
Deputy Phillips' said Miss
Hargraves appeared to have a
small-caliber gunshot wound to
her head.
The Sun printed a description
Dupree said only four or five sell
postage stamps because there
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Church News....... .2-3B
Qassffied ...... ;.4-9C
of the gfrl found and "Miss Comics ..............5A
Hargraives’ family notified
matched that of Miss Hargraves.
They said she had been miss-
ing since the last part of March
(See BODY, Page 2-A)
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Dimension
-Obituaries.
School Lunches .
Sports .........
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JAY WHITAKER spotted
sweeping tee sidewalk i . . Guy
Stutes has a slim new look,
Patterson always has a friendly
hello. • ,
Budder Krenick is mighty
uby Red
Back yard. . . Carrie Owens says
she is going to enjoy the new
year.';. Melinda Barrow shows
off her beautiful new home.
! Natalie ant Max Altman and
Taxes, Traffic Tickets, Mass Transit Help Hike 78 Council Attendance
By WANDA ORTON
With debates developing on
such topics as taxes and traffic
tickets and mass transit, atten-
dance picked up at Baytown City
thanks to his .diet .. . Ronnie ^ percent funding by the federal “waves” at council meeting but
“Involvement” was' tee
password as city hall doors
swung open for citizens express-
proud of the beautiful Ruby Red ^ yjews on these and other
grapefruit he-has grown m Wsj issues ranging from the propos-
ed municipal airport to dogs that
daughters, Carol and Tina, and ^ _ the subjects were all
their husbands enjoy a trip to
Puerto Vallarta, Mexico.
Janice .and Billy Sherman are
proud of their new grand
John Cody Saxton.
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good luck in New York . .,
Lana Burns is a big Houston
telera fan ... Mr. and Mrs.
L.R. DelHomme footing
forward to seetof son^
Baytown bays.
‘Op land, on sea and in the
there for council consumption in
1978.
But mainly it was tee year of
tee tax protest. Sudden jumps in
real estate valuations added fuel
Friends wish Shari Magee, to the tax fires that had beat
spreading from, California’s;
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Proposition 13 to toe Texas
Legislature’s special session last
summer.
to response to citizens’ com-
Equalization froze valuations at
the 1977 level. Meanwhile the
Baytown Taxpayers Association
went to work on petitions calling
for a charter change election on
tax relief. One of tee last actions
taken by city council in 1978 was
STEP - tee potes
department’s Selective Traffic
Enforcement Program - con-
tinued to generate discussion at
council meetings. Council
members beard from citizens
‘ticked off” about tickets and
from police officers concerned
about traffic cases being dismiss-
ed'by Municipal Court Judge
Raymond Donnelly.
The “bottom line” on the
ticket flap was council’s okay for
another year of STEP with 100
government. However, it was
renewed cm a reduced level,
The city’s public hearing on
the proposed municipal 'airport
north of Interstate 10 attracted a
crowd almost as large as the tax
protester?’ gathering. The hear-
ing took up two hours and drew
testimony from )8 citizens,
mostly residents near the
proposed airport.
A bond issue is likely to be
held this year target the “final
say” from the voters of Baytown
whether the airport should be
built.
The infamous buoys kept Bob-
bin’ up in council discussions
last year. Commercial fishermen
fought tee system, objecting to
the buoys {hat posted “no
fishing” signs.
The buoys not drily made
hit the crime news, too. Fifteen
mi ™ u»K iw. - councu s auenuon lasi year
of tee original 19 buoys ins t*Ue# Mth a „eW problem about
in bays around Brownwood and
Lakewood were stolen and lata troi bees by adding a new provi-
recovered in “dry dock” at the
old San Jacinto Ordnance Depot.
A public hearing on the
proposed Metro Transit Authori-
ty last summer at dty hall drew
many comments from dtizens
on what kind of transportation
would suit this area. But it all
came to a “dead end" Aug. 12 at
Baytown area vetoed partidpa
tion in the MTA. -
Lata in the year when
Pasadena Maya John Harrison
(an opponent of the MTA) in-
vited Baytown to join with his
city in a transit study, dty coun-
cil took' no action.
The perennial problem of dogs
running at large was brought to
codncil’s attention last year
bees. Council heard pleas to con-
sion in the animal ordinance
Although no action was Sen
OT the bees, council did
strengthen the rabies control
provision in the animal or-
dinance, ’ ■ j
Anotha controversial subjed
last year- and one that has yet
the polls when voters in the to - be resolved - was the
Anheuser-Busch
operation at WallisviDe Road
and Garth Road. This was the
subject of a twwiay hearing con-
ducted hae by tee Texas Water council and the Planning Corn-
Commission
After a work session on the
matter, city council dedded not
to object to the plans for dispos-
ing of brewery wastewater.
The state agency’s decision on tune cut the tax rate by eight not any dtizens attended they
the permit wifi be made the
latter part of this month.
IMG DECISIONS.
Cound^faced a number of
tough decisions in 1978, many of
them pertaining to ordinances
and amendments of existing or-
dinances.
One with far-reaching effects
is the amended subdivision or-
dinance which establishes a
area one-half mile
beyond dty limits. This means
the designated area must adhere
to dty subdivision requirements.
The amended ordinance Was
bounced hack and forth between
mission before the planning area ! $7,009.
finally was determined.
Council adopted a bigger
budget than ever — more than
$16 million - and at toe same
cents. An additional 60 cents was
added $ toe monthty sewer
charge.
The new budget contained in-
creased benefits on
for dty employees .and raised
their wages by about 9 percent.
In spite of the freeze on
property values, the dty’s
1 tax e
also increased a sewer
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senior citizens to $10,000 from
Paradoxically, public response
to je big budget business was
almost nil. Only one dtizen
spoke at the budget hearing and
numerous wok sessons
budget preparation.
CONTRACTS
A number of contracts were
let in 1978, including the second
phase qf development of
Jenkins-Hollaway Park, the
neighborhood cepter at Baytown
Spots Complex, the street im-
assessed values jumped 20.3 provement program, an assess-
pacent. Assessed values (50 po-ment paving program, police
cent of market value) came to
$427,647,490, compared to
$355,554,485 the previous year.
When the ^ew budget was
I of the Municipal
1 elevated water
storage tank on East James and
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