The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 195, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 28, 1974 Page: 1 of 12
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THANK YOU, JOHNELLA!
JOHNELLA BOYNTON, Baytown Sun reporter who is moving to Baton Rouge, La',, was
presented a plaque by Oswall Harmon, school board president, Monday night at the last hoard
meeting she covered for The Sun. The plaque states “acknowledgement and appreciation of
your contributions made in the improvement of public education through the printed word.
Profundity of thought, unique perception and discerning judgment characterized all your
Communications in disseminating news about education of children and youth of this district.”
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7Neiv PR Post Discussed - -
Student-Tailored School
Plan Gets Tentative OK
ByJOHNELLABOYNTON
The school board Monday
night put its unofficial stamp of
approval on a new five-year
district-wide plan for indi
visualizing instruction of pu-
pils but decided, also unoffi-
( lally; that it may take a public
relations person to explain the
program to the public.
. The plan; as outlined by
Deputy Sutp. Bob Holman,
envisions an educational pro-
through his 12 or 13 years it)
public schools-. It would be
implemented in its beginninglungraded school system, or
stages next fall by a program modular • or flexible
of team teaching and team
planning in five elementary
schools, and one junior school,
but it would eventually be
developed throughout the dis-
trict.
The program, Dr, Holman
explained, will actually begin
with some of the organiza-
tional structures already in
use, bat it will offer a methodo-
grarn tailored to each pupil logy for use throughout the dis-
trict.
The plan does not mean an
Government Steps Down In
Strike Raging
der that Nixoij surrender 64
subpoenaed Watergate
tapes.
ment. announced its
resignation today as militant
Protestants bc|an hailing battle (tit the Commissioners Court seat, the outcome of which per cent in the 20 voting precinc'ts east of. San Jacinto River.
essential services in a could affect the direction county government will take during Precinct 98 in Huffman is the only voting box that jgjlLjqjw ______
showdown with British troops the next several years. participate in the FYecinct 2 Commissioner, race. Since . .-The court sgid presidential
sent in to break the BesidmssjjesTaWd'BylFonteTOljreTBray’sxonduct^^rf the boundary-linesMiU^diawn Iasi|year, the Huffinan area is in' lawyer James D. St. Clair
Protestants' two-week-old gen- office and the way he has spent Precinct 2 road and drainage Precinct 4 headed by Commissioner E. A. iSqually I Lytmsr -promised to file a response
eral strike. funds, a broader philosophical difference of opinion about the who handily won re-election in the May 4 primary race. ' “
Northern Irish political cir- way county government should be operated looms over the Two countrywide runoff contests are for' county treasurer
cles said the government’s fall campaign. and judge of Domestic Relations Court No. 2. /
probably would mean the Brit- Bray champions centralization of county government, H.N.McElroy and Hartsell Gray are vying for the treasurer
{in a
1 'Arrangement!
F”®r’1 Beach City
Borne. ’ • BEACH CITY Council
Rotary Meeting
MIKE- YON Afbenslefien,
owner of Baytown Judo and, Supt- Johnny
Karate School, 1741 Kilgore, acknowledged his o
and Conrad Pickens, a third-
scheduling, but a combination
of these and other tools, some
of which are still to he
developed, Dr. Holman told
trustees. V
Trustees, after some wary dead,
questioning, endorsed the pro-
gram as “this is what it is all
about,” but asked that con-,
sideration of a public relations
position and a possible ap-
pointee be placed on the
agenda for the next board
meeting.
“How do we know a par-
ticular child is moving at the
rate he is capable of moving?”
asked Trustee Jerry Don
Smith. "I hate to think when 1
was in school 1 traveled at my
own speed."
Dr. Holman pointed out that
systems analysis will help
measure the anticipated grade
placement of a child, that it is
anticipated testing will be don
on a daily basis rather than at
gear’s end, *
Commencement .
COMMENCEMENT exercise
? .for Ross Sterling graduates
{ ■will be held at 7- p.m. Tuesday
r ’ Stadium.- _________
Rites Pending -* Mexico, will be the featui p u ...........
THOMAS .ALLEN Day, 66, of g®sts at the Baytown Rotary school d^rict 'last year had
1007 S. Shepherd, died Monday Club meeting at noon Wednes- tried to locate the geniuses in
i) See SCHOOL/Page 2)
Clark
own chief
concern about the program is
‘that we do not promote
school district -last year had
1007 S. Shepherd, died Monday
Baytown hospital, day at Charlie Brown’s
;s are to be an- Restaurant.
will
Gardens
Cooking.
Volume 4
189
BEULAH Hanle proud of
I plaque for service at St. Jo-
* I .seph’s School,. . Mr. and Mrs.
Jose Gonzalez help grandson,
Jeremy Unis Gonzalez, cele-
brate his first birthday... The
Steve Halls enjoy a dance,,
Dixie Pechacek and Freda
Balentine enjoy an afternoon
of pizza and golf with their Girl
Scout troop.. ”,
Mrs. Maxine Hatcher proud
of Son Mike Welch, who pitched
a no-hit Little league game
Wednesday:
Karen Yates loves the slip-
and-slide ... B. B. Williams
Warren Singleton is proud of
★ ★ ★
Heated Commissioner’s Race
Bray, Fonteno In Spotlight
One of the most intensive county commissioner campaigns Harris County political observers are predicting a light voter,
ever waged for the Precinct 2post moves into the home stretch turnout in the runoff, basing their prediction on the apathetic
this week as candidates Jamie Brriy and Jim Fonteno push showing at the polls in the first primary when only about-19.8 -.worski's request for prompt
'ast-minute moves to convince voters in the Saturday runoff? 'percent of qualified voters in the couniy went toihepolls.----.review of a. district court or-
Incumbent Bray and challenger Fonteno are locked in a The East Harris County turn-out was better, averaging 30
BULLETIN
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WASHINGTON (AP) -
The Supreme Court said to-
day it has invited President
Ntaon's'lawyer to respond to
special prosecutor Leon Ja-
I
Lakewood Protests Paying
ity’s Pool Drainage Fee
ish would reintroduce direct contending it can better serve the people, while Fonteno wants post while Alfred Hernandez and Herman Mead are ,[n the
rule of Northern Ireland from .tfc streamline the present decentralized Vstom to ifiake it runoff for the Domestic Relations Court No. 2 judge.
4-ondon • Protestant militants more responsive to the people without sacrificing local control. Those who voted in the May 4 Republican primary cannot
have said they probably would Both candidates are makingMuse of traditional campaign vote in the Democratic primary runoff Saturday. There were
call off their strike if that hap- 'tactics - radio , and the news media, posters, handbills and some 200 voterj-in East'-Harris^Cotmty; who cast ballots in the
pens T public appearances and speeches — as they court the voters. Republican primary election.
~Th_e Northern Ireland
gi.'verAihent of moderate
RrotestVnTi,J”ffM^ft«riian-
Cathojicsr called the
Executive, announced its
resignation after a three-hour
meeting at .Stormont' Palace, | V>4.
seat of the provincial adminis-
tration outside Belfast. • The city s
Angry strike leaders ordered charges, based on water
all Protestant workers except usa6e- *s making a “big
those in hospitals to w'alk off splash’ in monthly bills for
their jobs at midnight. It ap- Lakewood swimming pool,
peared most were obeying
their stop-work call. • consider-, this- unfair because
“Let the army bury the P001 water docs not drain int0
I," declared Glen Barr of the city's sanitary sewer facili-
the Ulster Workers’ Council, ®s. Water from the pool "roa
which is coordinating the is discharged into a drainage
strike. “Wp'H eat grass before casement which in turn emp-
we're beaten." ties into Burnet Bay
Manual workers abandoned jn a letter to City Manager
their jobs ,at the only Fritz Lanhain, Lakewood
remaining power station in Swim Club President R. E.
sewer rate pool area is_not serviced by
city sanitary facilities, it months of the summer should
should not -be charged
theiri.,"\
The pool official pointed out
And pool board members that one typical water and
sewer hill late last fall showed
charges of $160 and that $60
was the sewer portion during a
period when the change house
facilities were closed, locked
and the water cut off.
Only the change house and
restrooms are connected to the
city sewer lines. Christensen
aid the pool board estimates
these facilities during the three
‘.Since the water and sewer charges for
approximate those^ of
moderate residential user.
'The board expects these
charges would not exceed $10
per month if the water and
sewer charges were separately
metered," Chris.tensfn said.
To achieve a "more equit-
able and proper billing," the
pool board suggests a rea-
sonable, fixed sewer rate
based on estimated usage and
the installation of a separate
water meter for the change
I See FEE, Page 21
by Thursday.
Jaworski asked the Su-
preme Court late last Friday
to take jurisdiction in the
ease after St. Clair asked the
V. S Court of Appeals here to
overturn the order of I'.S.
District Judge John'J. Sirica
that Nixon surrender the
tapes over to the special pro-
secutor.
If the Supreme Court ac-
cepts the ease, it will bypass
the appeals court.
operation at midnight. ’The Christensen said,
electricity supply, already
down to 25 per cent of normal, r> n . y • ;
was being tapered off and a rVOf^TeSS I\€J)Ort tjlVCH ~ ~
total blackout in the six
counties of the British province
was expected -within 24 hours
unless British soldiers could
keep the plants operating. T^l "I* T y i,
SlitzLessens' flooding In,City
from Britain’s nuclear sub-
aeaf-^s-
Fire House
The city?council has au-
thorized the city to. advertise
for bids for construction of
Fire Station 6 on Massey-
Tompkins Road.
The proposed- buijdiflgTs a
pre-engineered metal; ’sfruc- death toll in Texas at 49. with
ture and estimated cost is 19 of that total coming in
$50,896.' Plans and specifiCa- traffic accidents,
tions were approved at the last ’ + SAIGON. South Viet-
council meeting, nam _ jj,e South Vietna-
City Manager Fritz I-anham mesP g0vernment accused
Our
World
From AP Wires
+ AUSTIN - Early re-
ports Tuesday put the violent
ontinuing Drainage Work
marines, Were expected to Although Baytown generally ready'being realized,
take over control of the power was "awash" in the May-10 Examples of approved
stations. But the army would Bash flood, Iloroe areas that drainage, cited by City Man-
nefconfirm that they had done used toHood badly.farcd much ager Fritr Itanham, are the
so this'morning. better than in previous heavy Holloway Addition, Glerimea-
The council ordered the rains,., • dow Addition, .Fair Park, an
Ctdbwn of essential services This brighter side to-the dark area near. Whitehall Apart-
w*^*erfta(is500 troops took cloudbursts can be attributed ments and St. James House.
IntaolifCTstePoif depop^#»fc Ww*. ^-Streetyot. wi
and 21 gasoline"stations. the city. Drainage crews in re- town- itrthe elgfi
“At first we were soldiers,” cent weeks have been working but fortunately, I-anham said,
said one trooper, “then police- hard to alleviate some of the the water receded quickly in
men, then politicians, and now chronic flood situations in the most areas,
petrol pump attendants." ’ city and the benefits are al- Of course, there is still .much
meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the
Beach City Community
Building for a budget review.
Kiwanis Meeting • |i
‘ONLY THE STRONG” will
be the film shown at the
regular Baytown Kiwanis Club day night, the’school board
neieiviiiK wp pnuiiuw «* v
places where flood waters get
meeting at noon. Thursday at
Holiday Inn, '
Beautify Baytown
BEAUTIFY BAYTOWN Asso-
ciation will meet at 7:30- p.m.
Tuegday at Harris County Fed-
eral Savings and I-oan Asso-
ciation building. Slides will be
shown tan public thorough-
fares.
Weather
And Tides |
PARTLY CLOUDY and
warm through Wednesday is
the Baytown area weather
forecast. Low expected
Tuesday night, low 70s, high
exoected Wednesday, low
Board Saws’Away At Bids
On Transportation Center '••faiSPgjSfr
In a workshop session Mon-portation center, at $29,000. consider remodeling the pres- j,as recommended
Davis said he believed the cost
coujd be reduced, but he and
school •thistees.fCTl.that the
fMtaahouW. be sh%re4 by -the does
city because the improvement
will drain a residential area
rather titan solely selyiol prop-
erty.
wrestled with the problem of
fitting a $$75,<XKMransporta-
» tion service centerih»ts#$275,,-
000 budget, but most of theciits
they were able to approve were
not substantial. '.
Trustees agreed to have a
special meeting, probably next
week, to sep if further cuts can
be made, particularly in re-
ducing the more than four
acres of paving at the proposed
center. -i
School officials and Archi-
tect James A.- Davis will also
discuss with City of Baytown
officials a drainage problem at cost t0 $374,700.
the Lee Drive site. As proposed Trustee Wayne „anson fe|t
now’ flthlinrhbin the board mi8ht *>e wise to
ss
by tin to bUto cn Ibt Irina- 11 1tol1 "J **IMi
Massey-Judge Construction
Co., the low bidder, proposes to
build the transportation cen-
ter, as outlined in specifica-
tions, for $352,000, but alter-
nates, including fencing, light-
ing and'fill dirt to raise build-
ing floors 12 inches are consid-
ered essential, raising the total
the largest item, omitting
bush wash system, did riot re-
ceive endorsement from trus-
tees. Administrators said that
a" **\
Mabry, at the last council
meeting spon aftqf I-anhaj
presented his reporf-on drain-
age." . .
Mabry is a short street north
of Cedar Bayou (toad. Water
alfdosf got s into Mayfield's
home on May 10, he told the
council, and some homes on
said if the bids exceed the
available bond funds the-coun-
cil will have to decide whether
to supplement the amount with
budgeted funds or use revenue
sharing funds for the building.
In other action at the
meeting the,council authorized
final payment of $53,310.85 to
Whitelak, Inc. for construction
of the middle Goose Creek
interceptor sewer in the 1970
capital improvements pro-
gram. The contractor prev-
iously had received-the sum of
$484,741.11 in partial pay
ments.
The council also passed an
ordinance accepting the work1
of improving Tenth Street, a
property owner participation
project irt the bond program,
and authorized the’ issuance
and delivery of special assess-j
oukjs
with the project. tary
North Vietnam, the Viet
Cong, Hungary and Poland
today of trying to sabotage
the already paralyzed inter-
national peace-keeping ma-
chinery in Indochina..
+ WASHINGTON - A
week before the deadline for
withdrawal of all foreign
forces from I-aos. I'.S. intel-
ligence sources say North
Vietnam still has more than
25.000 troops there.
+ DALLAS — More than
100 fewer persons died on the
nation's highways during
this year's *8-hour Memorial'
Day weekend than in 1973.
Unofficial totals show 374
traffic deaths this year,
compared to 486 during the.
'i973 holiday weekend.
flooded as were seven t>r eight Kissin*er postponed his ^
bome&ron Cedar Bayou Road.
(SeeFI-OOD, Page2|
Co. 'was authorized to- receive turn t« Washington again to-
day and headed back to
” ^ascu^instcad. making a
effort to win a djsep-
tractor previously had garment agreement be-
received $29,024.51, tween Israel and Syria.
ent facilities behind Lee High $]W OOO ^ used for drainage
School. Other trustees, howev- work A pubiic hearing on the
building a new center with the -Peop]e keep askjng why we
bond money. . are having more flooding than
Davis presented a list-of pos-usual," Unham .said. “The
sible cuts totaling $65,600, but answer is there has been more
buses could continue to be situation
rain in 1973 and in 1974."
Also, Unham added, land
subsidence and unusually high
tides contribute to the flood
washed by hand, if .necessary,
but they pointed out the diffi-
culty women drivers have in
washing frost and mist off
windshields and windows be-
fore starting out on morning
runs.
Bus sheds, bid as alternates, ^
are already considered out of
the picture because of the
heavy costs in the basic bid,
which includes more than four
acres of paving, an office
the wash facility.
So far this year Baytown has
counted 30.68 inches of rain.
There were 81.18 inches in 1973
and 42.23 inches in 1972, Un-
ham recalled. ■
Flood problems m the Cedar
Bayou Road area were related
James Mayfield, 703 ^||y
Peoplts Still Bank
"the People Helpers"
2815 Market St 422-8231
FOR A JOB WELL DONE
ROBERT E LEE High lehool Principal Hrury Armstrong presents a plaque to Student Coun-
cil President Robert Walmsley and Secretary Libby Beavers, commemorating Lee’s service
during the 1973-74 school year as president school of District 13, Texas Association of Student
Councils. District 13 Includes dll schools in the Greater Houston area.
.. ' I Sun Staff Photo)
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 195, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 28, 1974, newspaper, May 28, 1974; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104116/m1/1/?q=%22Places+-+United+States+-+Texas+-+Harris+County%22: accessed June 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.