The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 109, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 8, 1981 Page: 2 of 50
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I SUN
Siimlty, March ». MSI
"r - ,
ob Sizzler
House Of $2,700
female employees at Norma Russell of 409 E.
r Steak House, 400 N.
told police the
was robbed of
more than $2,700 by two
l late Friday
t employees said they
walking to their
cars in the park
i about 10:45
approached
. ut a gun
I and ordered her
m to the business,
! second employee was
•bnb-of the women, put
*W'return to the bus
Adoue. Ms. Russell said the
check had been stolen from
her home during the past
two days.
Police searched the area
and Officer Randy Barton the business early Friday,
said he found Menifee Damage was estimated at
hiding in a tool shed behind
at Sizzler after clos- a home about five blocks
away from the Wilkerson
home.
$250
•An employee at Royal
Screen Processing, 132 W.
Texas - Someone took a
behind by purse
who told
r he had a gun and would
t her if she did not also
gtrback into the business,
; poltee were told.
Both women did as they
vWere told. Once inside the
business, the armed
Suspect forced one of the
]women to take hint to the
office, where he grabbed
If Before fleeing, the
suspects pulled phone lines
out of the wall and warned
both women to stay inside
}he business for at least 10
minutes or they would be
shot, police said.
Thiel Caught
Felony burglary of a
motor vehicle charges have
heenfi
filed by police against
arrell Delano Menifee, 19,
Taft after he
stole a woman’s
from her car Friday
purse froi
fnorning.
j.Rachel Wilkerson, 1304
told police she
her car in her
vay about 11:10 a.m.
I walked to a neighbor’s
» As she was returning to
• home, she said she saw
! inside her car with
purse in his hands. He
with her purse when
sjie screamed at bin).
• j Bobby Wilkerson arrived
|»me and searched the
ttea for his wife’s purse,
lindlng it next to a
Neighbor’s home.
*!lfi addition, Wilkerson
he was identified by
witnesses as the man who
stole Mrs. Wilkerson’s
He was taken to city jail
on the burglary charges.
Car Found
Although police
recovered a stolen 1973 Lin-
coln, owned by Gary
Wolford of 2500 E. James,
tools and car parts were
still missing from the vehi-
cle.
from his home Thursday.
Value of the missing items
was unknown.
•An employee at John’s
Trim Shop, 211 W. Main -
Someone broke a window at
Menifee was returned to radio, 13 shirts and two
the scene of the theft, where jackets from the business in
a Thursday night burglary.
The ifems were worth $113.
•An emplo'yee at
O’Brien’s, 704 N. Alexander
— A man passed a forged
check for $293.60 at the
business Feb. 20. The check
was drawn on a Houston
business account.
Friday Wreck
NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE RATES SKYROCKET
Sei
cents per $100 value on contents located processed recently by the Kalbitz agen- basis, has been instituted. Ms. Sturrock gram borrows from the Treasury. It now
in a second-story area or higher, cy, the savings amounted to $100 and said that would mean homeowners pays aboiift 10 percent interest on the
Minimum premium under the new rates more, Ms. Sturrock said. would pay the $20 preparation fee once in money it borrows,
is $50. The new rates for Zone A homes are: a three-year period, instead of every Since the program began in 1968, it has
But rates for homeowners located in *25-cents per $100 valuation for the year. on the average taken in $1 for each $3
ZoneA,suchastho8einBrownwoodand first $35,000 on a building, and 15-cents In announcing the rate increases, paid in claims, interest and other
other low-lying areas, have dropped this per $100 valuation over $35,000. Content which went into effect last Jan. 1, operating expenses, such as payments to
year. premiums have dropped to 35-cents per Couglin said the flood program was adjusters and agents.
Rates charged those homeowners in $100 value for the first $10,000, and 25- “criticized by the appropriations com- Last year, the program paid roughly
previous years were: emits per $100 over $10,000. mittee for not raising the rates, because $180 million in claims. But the year
•25-cents per $100 valuation fpr the Ms. Sturrock said the government the costs of the program were getting ex- before, the program paid about $350
first $35,000 on a building, and 50-cents dropped rates for Zone A homes and horbitant.” million in claims, $178 million of them
per $100 valuation over $35,000. Content raised those for Zone C homes because He said in addition to rate increases, from Hurricane Frederic victims,
premiums were 35-cents per $100 value flood claims submitted during the past officials are examining other areas The program has $100 billion of
for the first $10,000 and $1.25 per $100 few years have mainly been from Zone C where money can be saved, including,, coverage in force and writes policies in
value over $10,000. areas. tightening controls and operating a more communities and flood- or hurricane-
The new rates will save those In addition, a new option allowing efficient program. prone areas that agree to adopt certain
homeowners money — in some cases homeowners to purchase insurance for When income from policies does not building regulations in hazardous areas.
three years instead of on a year-to-year 'meet the amount paid in claims, thepro-
AUSftN(S]
tlon of ulM
duitrlal poll!
equipment, a
that state agei
in litigation
dants’ court i
quired price
automobile rq
jecti of thre
Move May Come Next Year:
Reagan To Remove Natural Gas Controls
WASHINGTON (AP) -
President Reagan, who
already has wiped out submitted until next. year.
Wolford said the car was about 100 feet north of
stolen Friday from the
apartment complex park-
ing lot.
Police later found it had
been partially driven over a
cliff near the Monsanto Oil
Lease off Evergreen Road.
Missing from the car said witnesses told her Har-
were four tires and wheels,
speakers and various
power and mechanic’s
tools. The items were worth
$1,614.
Warrant Served
A Baytown woman was
arrested Friday on a felony
theft warrant from
Chambers County Sheriff’s
Department, police
reported.
June Marie Carlson, 24,
of 161 Kajthertpe was ar-
rested at her home by Sgt.
Charles Shaffer.
She was taken to city jail
and later released
Chambers County sheriff’s
officials.
Thefts,Etc.
ANAHUAC (Sp)
major crimes were
, ■'***w»™*. W. Wright-^Someone took
found a check belonging to | furniture and kitchen items
I
WWII
ReunionSet
OFFICERS AND
members of the
destroyer-mine sweep USS
Harding Who may be living
$ the Baytown area and Wednesday,
who may be interested in a
reunion are asked to con-
tact G. Taylor Watson, Box
IjS-A, McDanile, Md. The
reunion is planned for Sept
{8-20 in Springfield, Pa.
In Hospital
Y.M. LANNOU of Baytown
is a patient In Methodist
Hospital in Houston follow-
ing open-heart surgery
Scottish Rite
BAYTOWN SCOTTISH
Bite will have Mrs. Wilsons
Hunt as speaker following
the Tjp.rn. meal at Wyatt’s
IfLonday. Mrs. Hunt
will speak on “Women and
the American Revolution.’’
A business session will
tgegin at 7:30 p.m. and the
meeting will adjourn at 9
Hinging Convention
BAYTOWN QUARTERLY
Ringing Convention will
meet from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at Baytown Com-
Building. Lunch
1 be served.
Stork Club
SAN JACINTO Methodist
Hospital will have an orien-
tation and tour for prospec-
tive parents beginning at
1:30 p.m. Sunday in the
hospital’s family waiting
Free Kitty
A BLACK, female kitten,
eight-weeks-old, needs
home. Call 426-5660.
Huffman Bank
Is Target Of
Bomb Threat
I
A Baytown man Was hurt
in an 11:30 p.m. Friday ac-
cident on Garth Road,
Baker.
Gary Harshaw, 29, of 3135
Garth was taken to Gulf
Ambulance Service.
Officer. Maria Aldaco
shaw was weaving across
the road, southbound on
Garth, when he struck the
rear of a car driven by
Stanley Mullins of La
Porte.
The Mullins car, Which
had been stopped at a red
federal controls on oil
prices, is hoping to do the
same for natural gas, a
move that would cost con-
sumers billions of dollars a
year.
Edwin Dale, spokesman
for the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, said Fri-
Coast Hospital by BaytoWn day the Reagan ad-
ministration will seek the
help of Congress in equaliz-
ing prices for oil and
natural gas.
Dale hinted, however, [the government’s role in
that the plan might not be
His boss, David^A.
Stockman, is said to fear
that involving the
lawmakers in such a heated
controversy at this time
might jeopardize action on
Reagan’s program of tax
and spending cuts.
Present law will allow
most controls on natural
gas prices to expire at the
end of 1984. Reagan wants
to accelerate the process as
out of price controls on The administration, by
natural gas would affect acting through the Federal
utUity bUls of the 55 percent Energy Regulatory Com-
The president used that tives for exploration and of American homes heated | mission, could boost prices
business and to spur ex-
ploration for more gas.
reasoning in January to im-
mediately end oil-price con
trols, pushing the schedule
ahead by eight months. He
told a news conference Fri-
move, even though rising
energy prices continue to
feed inflation.
He said only three or four
cents of recent increases in
price decontrol. In return,
decontrol has provided the i
Oil industry greater incen-
production, Reagan said
“We do believe that as
time goes on we’re going to
see increased exploration
and development of oil in
by gas.
But Energy Action,
private group that opposes
deregulation, recently
estimated that abolishing
day that was a proper this country arid ft at is the price controls at once —
which the administration
apparently is not
road toward lower prices
when supply begins to
match demand more,” he templatlng — would cost say now is not the time for
added.
The Department of
$626 billion over the next
five years and raise the
gasoline prices were at- Energy has not estimated average homeowner’s
part of his effort to reduce tributable to expedited oil how speeding up the phase- heating bill $667 a year.
light, was knocked into the £ 0
rear of a third car, driven
by John Feser of Houston.
Harshaw was charged
with failure to control speed pasa(jena bawling alley at
and following too close,
Aldaco said.
Chambers
All Quiet
reported Satuday morning
Anthony McClore, ll5Vfe by a spokesman for garage to a beauty shop,
Chambers County Sheriff’s 52,000; Charles and Donna
office
RICHARD
Jentley Joins
Ratheme’s
FEBRUARY PERMITS SHOW DECLINE. - Trustees To Consider
SS Plan Replacement
Other commercial per-
mits were issued for major
projects to Texas Olefins
Baytown
petrochemical plant control
building at 4604 W. Baker,
$700,000; W.A. Silvery Jr.,
7200 Ward and Beaumont,
$410,000; Bernie Honan,
Baytown, foundation and
shell for a shopping center
at 2911 N. Alexander,
$400,000; National Conve-
nience Stores, Houston,
store at 2301S. Spur 201 and
Missouri.
Also, Blanche Massingill,
406 Gresham, conversion of
Bean Jr., 1901 Montana, ad-
Area Mobile*
Home Burned
small a
$7,500;
dition to their home for a
antique and .gift shop,
Terry Riley, 216
Park, office at 700 Park,
$8,209.
Thirty five permits were
issued for new home starts
at a total value of $1,688,001.
Other permits issued in-
cluded: billboards and
signs, 44; additions to $24,391,95.
homes, 8; swimming pools,
5; additions to businesses,
3; garages and carports, 2;
storage, 2; and curbs and
driveways, 2.
Fees collected for per-
mits and licenses issued in
the inspeciton department
amounted to $18,558 in
February, compared with
Library Microfilm
Book^ Gifts Listed
At their 7 p.m. meeting
Monday, school trustees
will approve new textbooks,
the school calendar for
1981-82 and federal fund ap-
plication assurances.
Trustees will also take up
the old business of approv-
ing a money puchase pen-
In Friday Fire
CROSBY (Sp) - Crosby
Fire Department respond-
ed to three fire calls Friday
involving a mobile home, a Dauphin
two-car accident and
house fire.
At 11:06 a.m., firefighters
answered a«call to a mobile
home fire on Maple Drive
where damage was
reported to have been
minimal.
Memorial book and
microfilm dedications to
Sterling Municipal Library
honored the following per-
^Willie Jim DeBruhl:
The Complete Bonsai
Handbook” from The Clark
Powell Family.
Ralph Futrell: “Good
Housekeeping Family
Health and Medical Guide'
from Mr. and Mrs. Eugene
P.Mackert.
George Morgan La Four
“The United States
Treasury” from Ruth
from Margie and Perry
Lafosse; “The Researchers
Guide to American
Genealogy” from Bill and
Frances Lewis
Genealogitfti microfilm
from Mr. and Mrs. R.P.
Triche, Julie and Elaine,
and Mr. and Mrs. George
Binder.
Presented in honor of Dr.
Robert E. Hill: “Cooking
Creatively for Your
Diabetic Child” from the
Baytown Branch of the
American Diabetes
Association.
Presented in honor of
E.C. Woods, chairman,
Baytown Library Board, in
recognition of service, 1974-
1981: “Books for toe Gifted
Child”, “International
Yearbook of Education in
Transition”, “Basic Hand-
book of Child Psychiatry”
Staff Here
Firefighters were sum-
moned at 3:49 p.m. to a two-
car accident on Highway 90
at Runneberg Road. No in-
juries were reported.
Crosby and Barrett Sta-
tion firefighters went to a
[house fire oh Crosby-
Lynchburg Road at 3:55
a.m. No further informa-
tion was available,
Richard Bentley, native
Houstonian now living in Barrett Station also
Pasadena, has joined the I responded to another hoqse Directors of toe Baytown
office furniture staff of| fire on Melvil with no fur- Branch of the Houston
Faith Lipkin:. “Emily’s
Runaway Imagination”
from Ms. Cornelius’ Third
Grade.
Jesse S. “‘Jabo” Bench:
“I Don’t Care if I Never
Come Back: A Baseball
Fan and His Game” from
A.M. Thomas and Family.
Mrs. John Rogstad, sister
of Mrs. Rubin Kappler:
“Japanese Ceramics of the
Last 100 Years” from Mr.
and Mrs. M.C. Larpenteur.
John M. Shearer:
“Massey Genealogical Ad- ~
dendum” from the (jU-1EAAN:.
Perpetual Fund.
Mrs. Elizabeth Whaley:
Genealogical microfilm
from The Officers and Baytown for supporting our
from Sterling , Municipal
Library.
Presented in honor of the
Youth of Baytown: “Love,
Dad” from Mrs. Virginia
Carter.
replace toe social security
program employees voted
to get out of earlier.
Nominations for the
board of equalization will
be received in addition to a absence.
progress report on the
building program.
Trustees will consider
bids for paving contracts
and football equipment.
Other action items in-
clude cancellation of the
board meeting which con-
flicts with spring holidays,
sion plan for district consider suspension of a
employees. The plan will student, plan attendance to {rench {ries corn jello
the Naitonal Association of
School Boards convention
April 11-14 in Dallas, and
accept one resignation and
approve two leaves
of a portion of toe nation’s
gas supplies without action
by Congress. But it would
be up to toe House and
Senate to decide whether
controls on most gas should
be removed, and even some
supporters of deregulation
such action because of pro-
blems it might cause for toe
Reagan economic pro-
gram.
SCHOOL
LUNCHES
1
MONDAY
BAYTOWN
BREAKFAST - Fruit
juice, cereal, toast, milk.
LUNCH - Texas hash or
ham, green beans, squash,
cabbage, pear salad, corn-
bread, milk, praline
cookies.
ST. JOSEPH
LUNCH - Hamburger,
milk.
What, Where And When
Governmental meetings
for toe week of March 9
are:
MONDAY
Chambers County Com-
missioners Court, cour-
thouse in Anahuac at 9:30
a.m.
Goose Crepk School
Board, school administra-
tion building in Baytown at
7p.m.
Anahuac City Council, ci-
ty administration building
in Anahuac at 6:30 p.m.
CAREER PLANNING
BARTLESVILLE, Okla.
(AP) — After William F.
Martin graduated from the
m-
*0*
—
m
HUFFMAN (Sp) A late-
morning telephone call Fri-
day sent employees and
clients of The Huffman
Bank scurrying from the
building when the caller
told bank officials a bomb
had been placed in the
building
Occupants of other
businesses at toe shopping
also evacuated. The Sun
was told. However, no
bomb was found. '
Further information was
unavailable from District H
Harris County
Materne’s Inc. in Baytown, ther information on toe fire chapter, American
He has spend 28 years in available,
toe office products industry Other area fire depart-
and was with one Houston I ments reported no calls
firm for over 24 years. | were received Friday.
A graduate of Lutheran
r JMW Myers
parents of four and boast of
three grandchildren. Take WillS III
Diabetes Association
‘Massey on Censuses’
from Mr. and Mrs. M.R
Bailey and Mr. and Mrs
M.C. Larpenteur;
‘Biographical and Robertson, Ira Thompson,
“I like the Baytown com-
munity very much and am
impressed with toe poten-
tial in our field," be said,
When not at work,
Bentley pursues bobbies of
Historical Memoirs of
Mississippi” from Mr. and
Mrs. H C. Ball
Genealogical microfilm
Houston Show
BARBS
HOUSTON, (AP) -
Steers owned by Randy
SrtDat25267'FM2100wer^iand8caPin8 and auto Vogel, 17, of Hereford and
^ - mechanics,-:-I his 18-year-old girlfriend,
Tamara Myers, also of
Phil Pastoret
When things go to pieces, a
Did You Know?
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark.
Sheriffs (AP) - Football coach Lou
Hereford, won top honors
Friday night at the Houston
Livestock Show.
junk man.
An optimist picks ’em op and
bolds a garage sale.
Tell it like H is, aad they’ll
The grand champion never hire yoa to write a soap
Bank officials Holtz of Arkansas thfafc* steer is Ty, a 1,279-pound
to divulge details kickers have toe best of all
a 1 at erdataj possible football worlds.
4-
Chiania-Angus and owned
Vogel.
and be reincarnated as
tTOiD place-kicker,
There's one good
aay for TV, says our .
Be doesn’t have to listea to his
wife read it to him, as she
does the newspaper.
Pisaeeriag, $#i
SJ^hig?
projects, both of which will
become annual events.”
Joining; Mrs. Pillow on
toe Go-Texan committee
are Rodney and Norma
Jean Hutto, Thelma and
Hoot Hamilton, Odie
Hamilton, Lee and Peggy
Georgeanne Gray, I.G. and
Rosemary Thompson, Cal
and Jenny Rutherford,
Jody Haggard, Jim Finley
agd Mickey Pillow.
company here at a salary of
$125 a month.
His main impetus ,for
selecting toe company was
its basketball team, toe
Phillips’66ers.
Martin started as a clerk,
and went on to become
chairman of toe company,
which now has annual
revenues of $12 billion.
TUESDAY
Anahuac School Board,
school administration
building at 7 p.m.
WEDNESDAY
La Porte City Council, ci-
ty hall in La Porte at 7 p.m.
Morgans Point City Coun-
cil, city hall in Morgans
Point at 7; 30 p.m.
Library Advisory Board,
Sterling Municipal Library
at4p.m.
Old River-Winfree City
Council, Old River-Winfree
Community Building at 7
p.m.
THURSDAY .
Cove City Council, Cove
Community Building at
6:30 p.m.
Harris County Commis-
sioners Court, county ad-
ministration building in
Houston at 9 a.fn.
Baytown City Council, ci-
ty hail at 6:30 p.m. (work
session on report from in-
dustrial committee at 5:30
p.m.)
Mechanical Board, in-
spection department at city
hallatepjn._
CHANNELVIEW
of BREAKFAST^? Fruit
juice, cheese toast, tater
roundsfccatsup, milk.
LUNCH - Corn dogs,
chicken Vegetable soup,
sliced fruit, crackers,
raisin break, milk.
Secondary
LUNCH - Com dog or
mock filet, baked potaotes,
Italian mixed vegetables,
pork and beans, tossed
salad, relish dish, deviled
eggs, fruit cobbler, bread,
milk.
BARBERS HILL
BREAKFAST - Cereal,
fruit juice, milk.
LUNCH — Seafood, french
fries, mixed vegetables,
green salad, bread, milk,
oatmeal bars.
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