The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 68, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 1, 1975 Page: 3 of 26
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Ofsam df Glory and Armbro
Omaha were voted the best-i
year-old harness horses in 1974..
Dream of Glory is a trotter and
Armbro Omaha a pacer . -
Gold? Nothing To It Says Worker In Precious Metal
” , .. V .v_ -ju. u.. o-„h.__i ___Kjiwa ttwv «>r» hired _ liny bit of preacws metal go out
YOUR FULL
SERVICE BANK
BAYTOWN STATE BANK
WELCOME
Great New Tower Room
CARTERET, N.J. (AP) - Now A is gearing its efforts to-
Gold ownership becomes legal ward producing gold wafers
for .American citizens on Dec. and bars in sizes from one-half
31. but for Bob Leatherow and troy ounce to 100 ounces,
his coworkers the precious met- "We’re very careful "about
al is an everydav commodity, what we do here, and we cam
"Its nothing. There’s no lack P!f
jot ofif.’^s Leatherow, an ***■ ,™e
sws aas
3ft ' ■ cstSSSS
In recent weeks the com-
, SPECIAti =
Pifia
SANDWICH
Daily Mon. thru Fri.
11:30 a.m. Id 1:30 pi.
TOWER
ROOM
^ hr
Sfc
woriung around the clock pre-
paring for the day when Ameri- including tin, lead, calcium,
cans will be able to buy andand CTffl ^ of. silver, plati-
sell gold for the first time tee hw„ rhodium ^ other pre-
the Ftenwwsimr Enpplhard
the Depression . EngeOtard cjous metals,
has been fabricating gold lor ^0^ tr
fine:
- --------------= o Armored trucks deliver bull-
decades for industrial uses, in- jon to £- in 400-ounce
sue Unde- one process the
workers squeeze the bar
through rollers until it is
thinned out to 15-foot strips, hi
the other method the gold is
broken down into chunks, melt-
ed and poured into molds. Ber-
ger prefers the rolling process,
but both are used by Engel-
hard.
After to passes Ahrot$i the
rollers, the strips are taken to
a punch press, where Leather-
ow’s job is to unfurl and feed
them into the machine. He
makes $575 an hour.
, A second worker operates the
j- die that cuts the strip into one- .
.....mince wafers known as plaB-; T
”-------------- ....----- ... ^ [0 yjg p[anl U, M
eluding the making of jewelry. bafs ^ ame size 4y _ [jut
much heavier than ^ ordinary
bricks.
There are two ways to bfegk
orkabfe
the gold down into a workab
with the Engelhard name te|b«fas-th^j*weJ“«d
1 insignia number.
The scrap from the .
press is carefully gathoed and] cause
crushed. Eventually it will be
mdteti down" and put through
the process again. *
Many (d the plant workers
are older men and womenfand
Berger says attempted pttfe- ** ta^_____
rage by employes *jm te Special bins are kept for the
“ire Tave very honest
people working for ns.” The
company policy is to prosecute
anyone suspected of theft.
Berger says housekeeping is
important part of the job,
all underwent security checks because he can't afford to let
FUNNY BUSINESS
By Roper Bote
chefs.
* In an adjoining room several
workers check the weight of the
planchets, sending any that are
too heavy or light out to be
reprocessed. Another machine
stamps the accepted planchets
sweeping and refuse from the
are» where gold is used, and
this refuse is sent to another
QjgJehard refinery to recover
any traces of the metal. Berger
says he once tore up a concrete
floor after a spill and had it ~
Hfined.. —~~—
Everyone leaving the plant]
passes-through metal
" that «H
and walks on a grating________
rate to shake any gold dust
the sole of shoe. That
too, is sent to a refinery.
KING GETS A RAISE
MASERU, Lesotho (AP) -
King Mushoeshoe H’s annual
government grant has been in-
creased by $6,220 to $38,610 by
the National Assembly.
STORY
NEW YORK (AP) - to re-
to the sl
____ , swenTu'S. food
manufacturers are taming to a
less expensive sugar, which B
produced from the starch con-
tot of com and other vege-
ibles by a three^tep enzyme
process.
The new enzyme-produced
sugar occurs naturally in many
fruits and honey and is identi-
cal in taste and quality to cane
making it ideal for proc-
of such foods as baked
candy.
NOMINATED TO SUCCEEB Ammey General Wtffitm Sax-
be (right) who reportedly in considering the ambassador’s
post in India, is University of Chicago President Edward H.
Levi. The nomination has come under fire by conservative
senators including James Allen of Louisiana and Roman
Hrcska of Nebraska.
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Priest Moves Between
Chapel, Gambling
Supreme Court To Decide Capital Punishment Issue
— * n . k h mber iaiiaa now that he prommnee; due tea chain of le- No one, except the.- jtfjcaj ...They, will .argue that
manent deata ci^Der wrnui r owier rera r the themselves, know® why Fow- .......
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LOS ANGELES (AP)without a tattoo. .
From the chapel to the class- “I learned a lot about my-
room to the blackjack table; self." the priest said. “I want
Father Thomas Higgins, a Jes- to expand my horizons. I never
pit priest, carries his message want to stop_growing
rant to siopj-rowiiig.
Higgins worked the grave-
iii„ 5 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
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ESTAURANT
Rent for only
s10,00
3iay
. 427-9324
cleans, rinses, and
~ vacuums out dirt
leaving your car;
pats profes- /'
sion ally clean.
RINSE N VAC
does the job ,only
professional stoatn
cleaners could do before .
- cajpets cleaner.. .kaups them
cleaner longer.
......^7--.'r^ jxQj.y'
Higjjinvfl, is assistant chap- yardtiuftatlhe Royal .limCa:
, «, is assisiani cnap- yara sum ai ins lutydi iiui Afl-
lain-anu professor at Loyola sino.- His customers sometimes
Marymount University in sub- would get his good counsel, al
liwknn Wnetohactor riurino thp thmioh thpv Atplflnm found out
North Carolina’s Central Pris-
on, Jesse Thurman Fowler is
waiting. The U S Supreme
Court is going to decide wheth-
er he liv« or dies.
Early qpxt year, Fowler’s
lawyers will argue before the
court that their client’s death
sentence - violates the Eighth
cruel and
uu UIIU urac ouu
you to inhale lethal gas of suf- urey ic 6ui"b
firient. quantity to cause death a minute. Because I hadn t did
to be administered to you and -.r™*hiR» vou know, reallv,
to continue said inhaling of said
lethal gas by you until your
urban Westchester. During the
summer months he works as a
blackjack dealer in Las Vegas.
In a recent interview at the
university, Higgins said: "You
can't preach Christ if your ex-
perience is entirely different
from that of other people.
“If priests were cab drivers
or bus drivers or if they took
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13001 Alexttttltr
!»!’!!!! RtHe has lived in hotels where
iSSWWMp
different jobs, - they would, be
much, more .all kinds, of
people.”
_____________ nuns i
far two tops and ak»t;w !
seemed like I was the only guy
though they’.seldom found out
that the man behind the red
satin tie was a priest.
■Sometimes I tell people:
‘You’re drunk. Why don’t you
go home. You’re going to drop
your whole load,'” 'Higgins
said.
Higgins says that he does not
fit the popular image of a Jes-
uit priest But that, does not
seemAo.bothdr him.
“The image
If the nine justices agree,
their decision would end capital
punishment in this country,
barring a constitutional amend-
ment in the future. If they re-
ject the defense argument,
their ruling would be an histor-
ic endorsement of the death
sentence, Fowler and at least
188 other men in Death' Rows
death.’
idge and jury gal events beginning with the themselves, Kitov® wny row- (jeath penalty, despite me can
said to myself, 1972.U,S Supreme Court ruling ler's case to chosen fte for on jury discretion is stiUcapr-
tell the truth In in a case called Furman vs. review by the Supreme Coiflt, jcjous|y imposed; that dis-
. . . t. _____• Hatoh nr .cn ranital «* nnam lmml rtf
thmiselves, knows why Fow-
d nuiiuic. LA-vuMJv • ■— -
anything, you know, really."
Georgia.
review, uj uiv ‘'“('■'•“•v -> iciousiy imposed; .— —^
from the dozen or so capital cretion exists at every level of
In °tiuit case, a M majority (punishment cases pending be- criminal process,
overturned the death sentences fore the court. Two from Geor - - - • ■
CARNIVAL
an3';'whefr,......."h?......saysr-^it detarited'-and-aleofeMto -rahty.
the country, would find
_ liitk left between them and ex-
ecution.
Or, the court could sidestep
"IfyouYe
are you?"
' Specials Good
Jan. 2—Jan. 8
Because of the court battles
lover capital punishment, there
■hasn’t Been an execution in the
1 United States since 1967. The
I Supreme Court last dealt with
Ithe issue in 1972. That ruling
I said the method of imposing
I the death penalty in the various
y states was unconstitutional, but
lit didn't deal with the legality
lof capital punishment itself.
I Now the Supreme Court has
1 chosen the Fowler case for a
' review of death penalties.
Jesse Fowler, 27, cares little
| that the! court may put his
ill' the history books
“-Gideon, Miranda, and
u.c.vu..^ ______________— -v --------------— Arguing for the state will be
It was po joke. Death was the 0f an 0£ the condensed prison- gfa, for example, deal directly Deputy Atty. Gffl, JemBenoy, ,
only sentence McKinnon could ers in we country at the time, with a state statute designed to a stocky former Marine ser-
They had been sentenced under circumvent the 1972 Supreme geant
statutes which gave juries in Court ruling, white Fowler s ' Those sentenced to death
nearly every state the dis- sentence stems from a state are n„t unlucky. They are the
cretion to grant clemency and court ruling rather than a law. ones who haye so much evi-
a Me sentence instead of Whatever the reason, the jus- aence aplfiSt them te tter ‘
tices have picked a man who is jury has ho choice but to con- j
by Dick Turner
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“I told him I’d forgive him if he'd go to the store for me, but te’s
holding out for unconditional amnesty!"
death. tices have picked a man who is jury ^ no choice but to con-
• ’ aisprotinn in the words typical of all Death Row in- • ■ ■* " ,J —*
mates throughout the country.
He is young. He is Mack. He__________________
ly and Ireakishly imposed” as was born poor and received contet 'crimes and" don’t get
to be arbitrary and capricious little education., caught. But you’d have to have
and thus unconstitutional. He dropped out of school a perfect police state to have
" ““ AiA aft® the ninth gate and en- perfect justice.”
tered the job corps. He got.....Sq Jesse Fowler waits. Hfe
not end capital' punishment
The first state to restore the
death penalty, despite the ban-
when the state Supreme Court of a muscular problem that vowedi not to shave until he
ruled on a death sentence weakens his hands. (eaves Death Row.
=3=01= which had becn givw to man Hc bounced from inenial job He reads th» works of George
*. flamedJtoddellbeioreik la,,meniaJ.Jgb......workyrig,jis_,j, jat.tew.aB(j1.,Eldridge,,aeaver-
man ruling. The state court va-dishwasher and a janitor. In and other imprisoned blacks,
rated Waddell’s death sentence. 1967..he nulled a year in prison whpn he can aet them. Some-
cated Waddell’s death sentence. 1967. .he pulled a year in prison when he can get them. Some-
n.,t .. i.i mamVitu «airl that for assault. The best job he times he reads the Bible.
But a 4-3 majority said that
since jury discretion was un- ever found was his last - driv- He and some fellow inmates
constitutional now, death would ing a truck for a furriiture com- have chess boards with num-
henceforth be the state’s man- pany. “I really dug driving bered squares. They call their
datory punishment for capital trucks. I think I would probably movgls to each other through
lines. try to. get another truck driving ttie bars. Fowler Is the Death
Since Waddell, 29 other states job if I got out," he said in an How champion. * -
intorviour • * ’
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puckish face is shrouded lay a
&
have revised their statutes to interview. ,
provide a - mandatory death That will depend on tl
penalty for certain crimes. The court. Fowler has a new attar
North Carolina legislature, in ney, a 30-year-old black man
April 1974. established a man- named Charles Becton. The U-
datory death sentence for first gal Defense Fund, former
degree murder and first degree courtroom arm of the NAACP,
rape. * ■ js assisting in the-defense.
RENTACAR
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HUGH WOOD
FORD
1801 DECKER DR.
4228121
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JSdya lie JU31 Wtuiuj viiv
i to let him out of. Death
Row.
He is there because he shot a
former foommate, John Emory
~ It was July 1.J873, a
____Jay. There had been a crap
game in the morning, a game
in which Griffin, 38, felt he had
been betrayed by Fowler. Lat-
er, at a bar, they argued, and
fought. Griffin got in the first
punch and broke Fowler’s nose.
Fowler's wif*, Vasti, and her
sister watched his humiliation.
Two hours later Fowler drove
- - housing project where
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Griffin’s ex-wife lived. Griffin,
a laborer, was standing ih the r
street talking to his twoyrottqg Tt'
dauglum, when riiwjer djwe _
He ran up to the car. jerked
the door open, and told Fowler
to move on. The car moved a
little further down the street
and Foyvler got out. He had a
pistol with him.
The two men approached
cairt manage
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each other, exchanged some
words. Fowler pulled his gun
and fired twice. Griffin was
iad before he
, hospital.
The trial lasted three days.
ivHffin’s daughters, aged 9 and
11, wept on the witness stand
as they pointed to the man who
had shot their father, y
A jury of 10 women anti two
four of them black, delib-
erated for tfiree hours They ig-.
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HUNDREDS OF ITEMS
ON THE SHOW HOOm FLOOR
AND IN THE WAREHOUSES
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nored Fowler’s plea .Qf sdf de-,
fense and found him guilty of
murder ’ ih the first degree.
Judge Henry McKinnon pro-
nounced sentence in September,
1973. / .„
“The law prescribes that the
punishment for ^ypur crime is
death. It is ordered that you be
conveyed to the state prison
"'MYiararedlo-tte warden-..-:
"AnffThatsam WarterThere
you, the said Jesse Thur-
fog nar.
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____e you work. It’s a sure way to
get started on a nest egg that you
can depend on in the future.
The amount you designate will
be automatically setaside from your
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 68, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 1, 1975, newspaper, January 1, 1975; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103887/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.