The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 80, Ed. 1 Monday, February 2, 1981 Page: 1 of 24
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The Baytown Sun Invites
MR.* MRS. DAN CRAIG
Highlands
To Sob
"NINE TO FIVE”
At The Brunson Theater
(This Pass Good Through Feb. 12)
(Pass Good For 2 People) 4
file JSaptoton i»un
YOUR HOME
Volume 59, No. 80
Telephone Number: 422-8302
OVER 60,000 READERS EVERY DAY
Monday, Februyy 2, 1981
BaytOwn, Texas 77520
20 Cents Per Copy
RSS Band
ROSS S. STERLING Band
Association will meet at
7:30 p.m. Tuesday in the
band hall.
Planning Panel
BAYTOWN PLANNING
Commission will meet at 7
p.m. .Monday* in the con-
ference room at city hall.
Pearce Street Journal
On Flexibility
A real smart man some
of you may know by the
name of Peter Marshall
said that when anybody Is
wrong, they ought to be
willing to change. He fur-
ther said that when a per-
son is right he ought not'
be so hard to get along
with. '
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Classified..........4-7B
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Dimension.....3A
Editorial.......,.... 4A
Fire News.........,.2A
Markets.............8B
Obituaries........... 4B
Police News..... ...4B
School Lunches......3B
Sports.............1-2B
Television Log....... 5A
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ONE-CAR ACCIDENT
TWO CROSBY youths were Injured, one fatally, in a Sunday night one-car accident
on Newport subdivision’s Dlamondhead Boulevard near Crosby. For details on the
wreck, see page 4-B.
- (Sun Staff Photo by Joan MaAnall)
‘Hill’ Gas Consultant Will
Stick By ‘Return’ Criteria
By JOAN McANALL The city council had originally
y JOAN McANALL
MONT BELVIEU (Sp) - Tim Beyer
of Heath Consultants of Houston, who
was hired by the City of Mont Belvieu,
says his company will stick by .its
criteria for the return home of"
evacuated “Hill” residents, even though
a petroleum engineer jias called part of
the rules unrealistic.
Dr. Paul Witherspoon of the Universi-
ty of California, who has worked on at
least 10 gas storage projects Since 1953,
told a group of about 75 “Hill” residents
The city council had originally set 0
CGIs (in the ground at a depth of 18 in-
ches)" within 200 feet of a home as one of
the guidelines for allowing evacuees to
move back tb their residences
According to Fred Miller, the instru-
ment’s manufacturer says the CGI is not
accurate on readings below four. The ci-
ty has also learned that nitrogen, the gas
being used to push unwanted hydrocar-
bons out of the ground, will cause the
CGI to register.
“Zero gas is absolutely safe but it is
Fed Rules On Bilingual
Education Scratched
Bulletin
Saturday that the guideline requiring no not realistfc for this oil field,” Withers-'
Weather
And Tides
FAIR AND cold weather
is In the forecast through
Tuesday. The mercpry
Monday night is expected
to plunge to the fnid-20s,
and the high Tuesday is
predicted to reach the
mid-50s.
TIDES TUESDAY for
waters fronting Baytown
will be hlghet +4:18 a.m.
and 9:41 p.m. Low tides
will be at +12:47 a m. and
1:38 p.m. (+ denotes
weak tide. ) .
gas whatsoever within 200 feet of a
residence is “too conservative.”
Witherspoon had been hired by the city
to study the criteria. Two other gas
storage experts were also contacted by
the city.
Questions have arisen in recent weeks
about the accuracy of the instrument be-
ing used to detect gas (combustible gas
1 indicator) and whether it would be safe
to okay the evacuees’ return even (vhile
traces of hydrocarbons are Seing found.
A CGI measures gas on a scale of 0 to
100. A reading of 20 indicates that the gas
is one percent of the atmosphere. A
reading of 100 (or five percent of the at-
mosphere) would indicate a combustible
situation.. '■ . '
prion fold the crowd. Twenty CGIs would
be safe “right up to the house,” he add-
ed.
dIf long ago we had been able to make
a profile of the area, we probably would
have found increased amounts (of
hydrocarbons) in the soil,” Witherspoon
said. While researching the area?
Witherspoon found a record of a member
of the city’s pioneer Barber family hit-
ting a pocket of gas at 40 feet while drill-
ing in 1889.
“Mother Nature has hydrocarbons!
just about everywhere. You shouldn’t be
surprised if hydrocarbons are found in
the soil at the 30-foot level or the 200-foot
level. . .
(•See MONT, Page^-A)—.
Baytown police and fire
personnel evacuated
residents on Inverness
and Intrirlachen streets In
Country Club Oaks sub-
division shortly before
noon Monday because of a
gas leak from a pipeline
on th? Baker Road right of
way.
School Supt. Dr. Johnny
Clark said there was no
danger to about 900
youngsters at Pumphrey
Elementary School, also
located in the subdivision,
because the “wind Is in
the right direction and
would have to change
about 110 degrees for
there to be any danger.”"
A fire department
spokesman said two units
were standing by near the
Stop N’ Go convenience
store on Baker Road. The
leak was believed to be
from a Texas Eastern
Transmission and
Pipeline Co. line across
from the store and crews
wei^ sent to cap the line.
Baker Road was block-
ed off to through traffic
while crews repaired the
line.
m WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Department of Educa-
tion is discarding heavily
criticized bilingual educa-
tion rules proposed by the
Carter administration,
Education Secretary T.H.
Bell announced today.
The rules would have
forced the nation’s schools
to teach children who aren’t
native speakers of English
in their native language
and in English. Gongress
already had put a freeze on school districts how and dent Reagan “and he was in
the rules, proposed by
Bell’s predecessor, Shirley
M. Hufstedler, last Aug. 5,
and they never went iqto ef-
fect.
But they ignited an
avalanche of eritlclsm from
school boards and many
education groups, who
claimed that for the first
time the federal govern-
what to teach.
“The policies are harsh,
inflexible, burdensome, un-
workable and incredibly
costly. The rules are fierce
ly opposed by many, sup-
ported by few,” Bell said in
a statement. He called the
rules “an intrusion on state
and local responsiblity.”
Bell told reporters he had
proposed withdrawing the
ment was trying to tell rules a week ago to Presi-
Rise Just Beginning - -
Gasoline Prices Up Here
7 Cents Since Decontrol
By CHUCK YARBOROUGH
Baytonians ' are paying have risen four cents since
mope
for gasoline than
they’ve ever paid before, deregulation begun by
Services For E.R. Hutto,
Mayor’s Dad . Set Tuesday
Our
World
From AP Wires
with the possible exception
of some “black market”
charged during periods of
severe shortages, such as
during the oil embargo.
Across the city, service
station owners Monday
reported price increases of
up to seven cents a gallon
since Jan. 13.
The hikes are one result
of President-Ron.aUt
Reagan’s removal of price
controls last week.
, + MOSCOW -
Soviet leaders today
accused the Reagan
althinistration of
“deliberate political
subversion” in
charging that the
Kremlin was respon-
ServicCs fdr Elbert Ross
Hutto, 87, longtime Bayto-
Before working at the Ruth Hutto of Humble.
refinery, Hutto had been
nian and father of Mayor the maintenance super-
Emmett O. Hutto, will be visor for road and bridge
SUNRISE TUESDAY in
Baytown will be at 7:17
a.m. and sunset at 5:35
p.m.
held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at'construction in Precinct 2
Earthman Chapel. of Harris County Tvhen the
A Baytown resident since late Charles Massey was
1926, he died Sunday in a commissioner.
Originally from
Georgetown, he was mar-
ried. to th,e former Clara
Elizabeth "Jordan on Aug.
29,1915, in Florence, Tex.
He was a member of
Memorial Baptist Church.
Besides his' wife, he is
Isurvived by two sons and
Also surviving are Jour,
grandsons, Rodney,
Richard and Dean Hutto,
all of Baytown, and Mike
Hutto of Houston; two
Houston hospital.
HUttq retired in 1962 from
jExxorfs Baytown Refinery
where he was employed for
23 years. He had been a
superintendent in the labor
department and arf area
supervisor jn the
mechanical and constriic-
and Cynthia Hutto of
granddaughters, Patricia
Hutto of HumWe and Cynda
Hutto of Baytown, and four
great-grandchildren.
Burial- will be in San
Jacinto Memorial Park
Cemetery under the direc-
tion of Earthman Funeral
Home.
Pallbearers will be
survived oy two sons ana * ^
daughters-in-law, Emmett Rodney, Richard, Dean and c 0 d 1 > d £+dI Vdl u
Mike Hutto, H.E. Stegmann
CHUCK PUTMAN goes out
of his way to say “hello”
. . . Becky Clayton and
Alane Edwards talk about
the importance of protec-
tifig yourself these days.
' Bill Floyd talks about
“snowbirds” ... Dave
Sherron is honored by the
Baytown Chamber qf Com-
merce for his*years of ser-
vice as Christmas parade
marshal.
Jo Drewery courteous as
usual ... Jess Navarre is
singled out ... James
Douglas says he always has
the telephone glued to his
ear. ,
Jim and Muriel Scott ex-
cited about a pending move
to a new home ... Towson
Ellis graciously provides
information.____
tion division,
He also had worked in the j}aytowni an(j orvel arid and Perry Simmons,
pipe departmeht and in the
BOR explosives plant in
plant protection during
World War II.
sible for acts of inter-
national terrorism.
+ CAMBRIDGE,
Mass — About 53,000
Americans die each
year from industrial
The Baytown Sun predicted
the rise is just beginning.
Ronnie LaBorde of Bar-
row’s Gulf, 1042 Decker,
said gasoline prices there
Reagan completed the
former President Jimmy
Carter. Kenneth Emory of
Sigmor Shamrock, 605 E.
Texas, reported a similar
boost.
Joe Leatherwood of
James D. Owen’s Exxon,
2310 N. Alexander, said his
prices have gone up three
cents since deregulation.
Glenda Ingham of McGee
Shell, 1600 JS.- Alexander,
said that while her com-
pany has not yet hiked
All those contacted by prices, an increase of bet-
ween two and three cents is
expected before the week is
out.
Dennis Trigg, whose
Hometown Oil Co. is the
Baytown distributor for
Texaco-products, said he
has hiked prices 5Vi> cents
since Jan. 13.
The largest increase was
at the Billups station on
Highway 146. A spokesman
there told The Sun prices
have soared seven cents
above what they were prior
to deregulation.
“I personally feel .the
significant part of the story youngsters English,
should go back two years
when Carter took the price
controls off diesel fuels and
aviation gasoline. The price
(of those fuels) has
escalated disproportionate-
ly to that of gasoline,” said
Trigg.
(See GAS, Page 2-A)
full support of It."
The Education Depart-
ment estimated that enforc-
ing the rules to teach
children reading, writing
and other primary subjects
in'two languages could cost
school districts from $180
million to $591 million a
year.
Bell said that until his
staff can rewrite the rules
to make them more flexb
ble, the department will
revert to guidelines issued
in 1975. Those guidelines,
never put into regulations,
were a response to the 1973
Supreme Court decision
that held schools must in-
struct non-English-
speaking students. The high
court, however, did not
specify how they should be ’
taught.
The Carter administra-
tion rules stipulated that in-
struction in two languages
be the norm for classes of
limi-ted speakers of
English, and that any
variance must get special
permission.
The proposal infuriated
educators using intensive
English-as-a-second-
language instruction, or im-
mersion courses, to teach
LC Alumni Week Is Slated;
4 Ex-Students Due Honor
Four, former Lee College
students will receive
special recognition at the
second Lee College Alumrii
Week set for Feb. 8-14.
The special recoghitiori
will go to four; former
students for attaining
distinction in their respec-
tive fields although all
former students will be
honored during the week.
The special honorees in-
air pollution, and the elude Knox Beavers,
government should "
imposes a multi-
billion dollar pollu-
tion tax to encourage
businesses to clean
up the air as they
switch to burning
study released today
says.
manager of the mechanical
division at Exxon Chemical
Americas Baytown Plant;
Paul J. Edwards, chairman
of the board of directors
and chief executive officer
of ’ )oples State Bank in
Baytown, Dr. Gwenn
Drouett Casey, a Baytown
Hopper, head of the
chemical engineering Hall at Lee College,
department and interim
head ,of the industrial
engineering department at
Lamar University in Beau-
mont.
A steering committee
selected the four alumni
from nominations made by
the Lee Cojlege "faculty,
staff and administration.
Steering committee
members for the week’s ac-
tivities include Robert
McGraw, Dr. Jerry Alston,
Ed Moak, Jack Collum, Sue
Jones, Wanda Orton,
Mamie Reeder, Milton
Johnson, Knox Beavers,
Kim Hullum and Glen
Walker.
A reception' honoring
former students and the
four special honorees will
Friday, Feb. 13, in Moler|extension 3 03 for
But Bell said schools
should not have to get
special permission for such
methods.
“It was like Henry Ford
used to say about his Model
T, ‘You can have any color
you want as long as it is
black,’ because that was
the only color he produc-
ed’’Bell said.
Bell, who was U.S. com-
missioner of education;
when the guidelines were
issued, said school districts
should not interpret his ac-
(SeeFED, Page 2-A).
dance at the Knights of Col-
umbus Hall.
Anyone interested in
planning special activities
such as class or club reu-
nions in connection with
Oil Slick In
Ship Channel
Lee College will be in
charge of the program
which will include the
recognition and honoring of
all former LC students and
the four honorees at the
noon Friday, Feb. 13, lun-
cheon meeting of - the
Greater Baytown Chamber
of Commerce.
All Lee College alumni
will be honored at the Lee
College vs. Laredo Junior ,iSion of an oil tanker and a
College Basketball Game at chemical carrier has been
Is Contained
MORGANS POINT (Sp).
- While most of the oil slick
caused by Wednesday’s col-
7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb. 13,’contained, cleanup crews
followed by an alumni worked around the clock for
five days before ac-
complishing the task.
Despite changeable
winds and a cold front
which eventually pushed
the slick south, by Sunday
lassistance.
Interest On Checkins,
We’ve Got It!
Tru$< Co
FULL SERVO BANK F.D I C
Cedar Bayou Groundhog Has His Day
Or CB’ Predicting Six More Weeks Of Winter
n
nan
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By PRESTON PENDERGRASS
The famous Cedar Bayou groundhog, known for
many years in these parts as “01’ CB,” and his
morning, spotted their shadows and predicted six
more weeks of winter. %
Of course everybody knows you can’t s
predict the weather in Southeast Texas - even if
you are a woodchuck with a sterling reputation as a
reliable meteorologist
But we must give “OI’ CB” and his <
here and elsewhere the
They’ve been right more tha-----
the weather - especially Punxsutawney
eminient woodchuck from Gobbler’s Knob in I
sutawney, Pa.
m ■ ■
So Baytonians and their neighbors over in
Chambers County snickered, knowing that sprit
just around the corner.
*****
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neans an early spring.”
Erhard, dressed in tails and
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Alumni Week may call Ben- night much of the remain-
Shoreacres just north of the
Houston Yacht Club.
Cleanup operations were
expected to continue
through the night here.
Approximately 20,000
barrels of light odorous
crude ,oil leaked from the
Greek Tanker Olympic
Glory after it collided with
a Liberian vessel carrying
a chemical solvent.
Before its course was
checked by northerly winds
Sunday, the slick had work-
ed its way six miles up the
Houston Ship Channel.
By Sunday afternoon, the
slick had been reduced to
one-quarter of a mile long
by six feet wide and con-
tained only 4,000 barrels of
oil. Remnants of the spill
had been left along its trail
up and down the channel.
If the slick pursued the
(See OIL, Page 1-A)
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{ Into his burrow to hibernate for six more
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 80, Ed. 1 Monday, February 2, 1981, newspaper, February 2, 1981; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1095763/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Harris+County%22: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.