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Traffic Council
BAYTOWN CITIZENS Traffic
Safety Council will have
breakfast meeting at 7 a.m
Wednesday at Holiday
Chairman Bob Feinberg
nounced. Another defensive
driving project will be discuss-
REL Meeting
PRINCIPAL Henry Armstrong
will meet with p'arents of stu-
dents who will attend Robert E.
Lee High School next yeanpt"
p.m. Tuesday in the RELaud
torium to discuss the trimester
plan for school next year,
Water Board
HARRIS COUNTY Water Con-
trol and Improvement District
No. 1 board of directors will
Medical Meeting
cal Assistants will meet at 7:30
p.m. Tuesday at Medical and
Surgical Building. Dr. Cieve
Pardue will be guest speaker.
PTA Meeting
THE SAN JACINTO Parent-
Teacher Association will meet
at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the school
auditorium. "Fathers Night1
will be observed
Parade Entries
ENTRIES FOR the'Bayto'
Youth Fair Parade, scheduled
for 6:30 p.m. Thursday, are
still being accepted. Those in-
terested should call either Cyn-
thia Huey at 424-4180 or Dave
Sherron at 427-5538.
Our
World
From AP Wire*
+ NEW YORK - To cut
unnecessary welfare costs,
the city plans to recertify
eligibility and classification
in all of its 500,000 welfare
cases by conducting face-to-
face Interviews. The goal is
to erase an estimated $63
million a year waste.
+ WASHINGTON - A
study by Congress says pro-
grams for the aged, disabled
and needy overlap and affect
each other in ways that pro-
duce inequities, discourage
job-seeking and sometimes
frustrate their purposes.
I’LL DO IT MYSELF
+ SAIGON -As if to em-
phasize President Nixon's
determination to continue
U.S. withdrawals despite a
major enemy offensive, the
U.S. Navy turned* over its
next to the last base in Veit-
nam to the South Veitnamese
navy today.
ciation, like many other merchants who are tired of the debris
and trash in the city, takes on the “do it yourself” project on
Texas Avenue. The manager of Penney’s is sweeping up trash
meetatT’p.m. Tuesday at the at the curb in front of his store, resigned to the fact that ff the
fire station.at 123 San Jacinto, merchants don’t get out and do it themselves, it apparently
Bids on the backhoe for sale won’t get done. The merchants are taking turns in the clean-up
will be opened and trustees will detail. __(Sun Photo by Jim Kyle)
discuss hiring an attorney for
the district.
Rotary Meeting
MEMBERS OF Junior Rotary
Aimes and the Interact Club at
Robert E. Lee High School will
present the program at the
Wednesday noon meeting of
the Rotary Coub at the
Ramada-Tower Center.
Cornelius E. Gallagher, D-
N.,J., was charged with evad-
ing more than $100,000 in in-
come taxes, perjury and con-
spiracy by a federal grand
jury, the Justice Department
announced today.
$21 Million Coverage - -
School District Will Save
$116,000 In Insurance Pay
Both Sides Make Big
Strides In Viet Battles
ILLS. B52s
Wallace Also A Contender - -
Muskie, McGovern Still Close jj)n,in“e
7 Bombings
In Demo Nomination Battle
WASHINGTON (AP)
Sens. Edmund S, Muskie and lice is ir third'place solely on
- George McGovern continue
neck and neck in the race for
delegates to the Democratic
National Convention,
the strength of 75 delegates
won in the Florida primary.
Nixon, meanwhile, has 126
but delegate votes in line for the
President Nixon is streaking Aug. 2f Republican convention
toward a preconvention lockup
of the Republican nomination.
The latest count in The Asso-
ciated Press Delegate Poll
shows Muskie with 99% dele-
gate votes lined up for the
+ WASHINGTON — Rep^ ^
leeded for a presidential nomi-
nation
McGovern, surging after his
primary victofy -in, Wisconsin,
is in second place with 95% ’
By JOHNELLABOYNTON
The school board Monday
night settled most of the details
of the district’s new three-year
property insurance policy by
deciding to buy a $25,000-de-
ductible policy and allowing
the district to become partially
self-insured.
The $25,000 deductible
each insured loss will save the
district about $116,000 in pre-
... V
period as compared to a policy mated value is less than
with a $100 deductible. It is
about $48,000 less (over the
same period) than a pol
with a $10,000 deductible. The
estimates are based on having
a total of $21 million of in-
surance in force. The board
approved the total $21 million,
but the $25,000 deductible may
exclude some of the district’s
miums over a three-year smaller structures where esti-
Vlitchell Eligible For
iducation Board Slate
PAUL MEARS, a former city
councilman who served in the
mid-50s, drops by for a visit.
Paul is 78, but moves about like
he’s‘16 ... Mr. and Mrs. J. L.
Koltfarber, Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Robertson and Clarence and
Evelyn Schime among Bay-
tonians.touring famous Louisi-
ana tourist attractions.
Vernon Michalsky sidelined
bv intestinal flu ... Lynn
Woods does some shopping.
AUSTIN (Sp )—Baytown School Trustee Seth Mitchell is eli-
te to run for a place on the State Board of Education in the
opinion of Randall Wood, who is director Of elections in the of-
fice of Secretary of State Bob Bullock.
Wood said Tuesday he has been researching the question of
Mitchell’s eligibility since last week at the request of Harris
County Democratic Executive Committee Chairman Bill Wil-
liams, who asked that the law be clarified in the matter.
Wood'said that at first he was working with “incomplete
facts” — that originally he did not realize Mitchell's term on
the Baytown School Board expired before the term of office
would begin on the state board.
Mitchell, who has indicated he will not seek re-election, will
end his term of office in October. State School Board members
take office in January.
Wood indicated that if Mitchell’s term of office were not end-
ing before January that he would be ineligible to run for the
State Board post.
$25,000,
Also excluded from the in-
sured buildings is Stallworth
Stadium (but not the stadium’s
floodlights and poles) and
some small structures’like the
bus bams behind Robert E
Lee High School and at Cedar
Bayou Junior School. The
buses themselves are insured
under a separate policy. The
stadium is virtually fire-proof.
The board agreed to set aside
$25,000 in an escrow fund in its
1972-73 budget to handle unin-
sured losses. The fund pre-
sumably will be allowed to
grow over the years if there are
no major losses,
In other action Monday night
on the district’s insurance pro-
cedures, the board approved
the appointment of Bob Kalbitz
to its insurance advisory com-
mittee, but deferred action on a
change in; board policy which
would set a three-year term on
the appointment of the dis-
trict’s agent of record. There is
presently no limit on the term, n
though policy says the appoint-
ment shall he reviewed annual-
In practice, the apppoint-
ment has-not been reviewed
annually because property in-
(See SCHOOL, Page 2i
News Brief
WASHINGTON (AP) ■
The government said today
that an initial survey shows
more than 20 per cent of the
nation’s largest businesses
appear to be illegally in-
creasing their profit margins
under price controls and may
be subject to price rollbacks
by court action. Earlier indi-
cations had been that about
10 per cent of firms were
showing apparent improper
increases and profit mar-
gins. _»
“It didn’t take long to
drive from Dallas to 6
Alabama Gov. George C. Wal-
No other Republican has won
any ■ delegates, although * 22
delegates still remain in the
undecided column..
The current tabulation,
Democrats
Democrats 1,509, Republicans
674,
Humphrey, meanwhile, an-
nounced his opposition to the
Nixon administration's
massive stepup in'the air war
in support of the South Viet-
namese.
I’m not saying We should
stop all bombing” Humphrey
told a news conference in Cin-
cinnati Monday. “I’m in favor
of it to protect our troops in
Gov; George C; Wallace 75
Sen. Hubert H. Humphrey 23
Rep. Shirley Chisholm 7
Sen. Henry M. Jackson-1
Rep. Wilbur D. Mills 1
Needed for nomination
government now has 1.2
million men under arms,
500,000 parttirhe militiamen,
the fifth largest Navy in the
world and massive U.S.
assistance
“Somewhere along the line
Humphrey said, "we’re going
to have-lo tell them it's time to
stand on their own two feet
day’s local Democratic con-
ventions in Kansas still being
tallied, McGovern appears to
have pulled off a coup in the
state which had been consid-
ered until recently fairly solid
for Muskie. Although the pre-
liminary step in the delegate-
_ SAIGON SAP) - South Viet-
namese forces abandoned a
second district town north of
Saigon Monday, but the Saigon
government claimed more
than 500 enemy troops killed on
the northern front below’the
demilitarized zone and
ssm anaia
there by U.S. B52 bombers,
Delayed field reports said
that several hundred rangers
and their families were evac-
uated by helicopter from the
town of Bo Due Because of
heavy enemy pressure and
shelling attacks.
lure the state's national eon-*
ventton delegates, a poll of 60
per cent of the local delegates
showed the South Dakota sena-
tor was favoredby a majority
of those asked.
Pruett Says Work Tripled - -
Morgan’s Point Property
Value Hike Aid To Owners
•Since Barbour’s Cut
started,” Pruett says, “we’ve
about tripled in our work!
By WANDA ORTON
Increases in property values
at Morgan’s Point in the de-
velopment of Barbour’s Cut
will more than compensate
land owners for loss of proper-
ty, Port Authority Commis-
sioner R. H. (Red) Pruett of
Baytown said Tuesday. 6
In response to complaints
from Morgan's Point residents
that the Barbour's Cut de-
velopment has tripled plans for
expansion, Pruett says that
we have tripled the number of
customers we had started out
with for the Port.”
Pruett mentioned that
among other things, a contract Channel. Without this right,
has been signed with Delta Pruett says, the channel could
dredging,
Pruett said the port is
shooting for a total of about
600 acres.”
There are a few pieces of
property'that the Port doesn’t
own,” he says, “and we will
pay the prevailing fair market
price for these.”
Pruett explains that the Port
of Houston has the right of emi-
nent domain in Harris County
This was granted the Port by
the Texas legislature in 1913 to
construct the Houston Ship
Authority plans to continue al-
lowing the city use of that
building for a fire station.
The plans for a cemetery lo-
cated near the development
have not been resolved yet,
Pruett says. It is possible to get f'
permission from state authori-r
ties and the families to move
the graves, Pruett says, or it
may be possible to build a
fence around the cemetery
‘But we’ll cross that bridge
when we come to it,” Pruett
says. “We don’t know yet about
that.”
Steamship. Lines to use Mor-
gan’s Point as its port
Vote Precincts
Highlands
Are Explained
m There may be some confu-
sion among Highlands voters
about where to vote in the May
Democratic Primary, Pre-
Baytown. My wife and I cinct 96 election judge Roy Cut-
made it in
ments.”
three argu-
‘Laughing Stock Of Nation’^ -
Beto Questions State Drug Laws
new pick-up truck .. . Happy
birthday greetings to Elaine
Kotrla who celebrated her
birthday Saturday ... Mrs
Bennie Wallace is a busy
seamstress thesedays
Larry Shanks locates some
white masking tape ... Judy
Orachetf makes darling candle
mushrooms ... Bill Bradley
offers a cordless razor for
BLT’s production of “Plaza
Suite.”
HOUSTON (AP) — The head
of the Texas prison system
Monday told state senators
studying drug abuse that long
prison sentences for drug
issession has made Texas
_ „ _ , -he laughing stock of the
R. X. Turner proud of his natjon "
Dr. George Beto, director of
the Texas Department of Cor-
rections, said he believes the
state should not legislate
against so-called victimless
crimes, which confuse “sins
with felonii
He questioned whether “the
state should concern itself with
fundamentally moral issues,
Beto was a witness before the
Penalties for possession
should be taken out of the
hands of juries, he said, adding
that he has seen long unfair
sentences given to some Viet- habits of drug users.
Committee hearing here, Mon-
day
Referring to “our archaic
and ineffective criminal justice
system," Beto urged that the
law distinguish among dif-
ferent drugs and between
users and sellers.
nam veterans who picked up
their drug habits in the service,
He and other witnesses said
men sent to prison for drug
possession are more middle
class, intelligent, educated,
ambitious and less prone to
criminal behavior than the
usual prisoner.
Sending them' to prison for
rehabilitation is a vain hope,
Beto said, because rehabilita-
tion requires having the desire
to change, and most of these
W. Dee Kutach, assistant di-
rector of treatment for the
prison system, said he believes
prison will not change the
“There are six psychologists
for 16,500 people in the prison
Senate Interim Drug Study people are not convinced they
have done anything wrong.
Peoples State Bank
NO SERVICE CHARGE
Member F.D.I.C,
No Service Charge
Weather
I And Tides |
CLOUDY TO PARTLY
cloudy and continued warm
is the Tuesday weather fore-
cast for the Baytown area.
Temperature range, upper
60s to mid-80s.
MORGAN’S POINT tides
Wednesday: Highs at 12:53
a.m. and 1:44 p.m.; lows at
1:46 a.m. and 2:48 p.m.
WEDNESDAY'S SUN will
rise at 5:59 a.m. and set at
6:46 p.m.
birth said Tuesday. ,
The confusion stems from
the fact that voters living east
of Highlands' Main Street and
north of Interstate Highway 10
who formerly were in Precinct
96 are now living in newly-
created Precinct 387, he said,
Despite the change in precinct
system,” he said. “We can’t numbers, they will vote at the
never have been built
Certainly what we take
away from them will increase
the value of the land. In other
words, the value that we’re
taking away will be more than
offset by the project we are
putting in.”
At a meeting last week Mor-
gan’s Point residents com-
plained, that their city hall was
ineludedon land being taken by
the Port Authority
Pruett says this building is
owned by the Port of Houston
and that it has been used for a
fire station by the City of Mor-
gan’s Point. He said the Port
Another complaint of the
Morgah’s Point residents is portation; field reports said 23
that t le removal of the
panded area from city tax rolls
will adversely affect the city's
of commercial development
later in the Barbour’sCut area
“And land value has already
(See POINT, Ppgel)
Saigon -and about 15 miles
northeast'of hoc Ninh, which
the North Vietnamese cap-
tured last week. Bo Due is deep
in largely abandoned rubber
plantation country, and its
main military function was to
monitor enemy infiltration
across the Cambodian border
five miles away.
Field reports said the pullout
was orderly.
There were conflicting re-
ports about North Vietnamese
troop movements in the border
region north of Saigon An
American general said the ene-
my forces that swept down
Highway 13 had, been’badly
battered and were on the run
back to Cambodia. But other
field reports said the North
Vietnamese were moving
einforcements into South
Vietnam.
The Communists, also in-
tensified their shelling' attack
in the central highlands after a ^
week’s lull, hitting a series of
government bases. In the worst
attack, rockets slammed into
South Vietnamese troops bun-
ched together at the Kontum
field awaiting* trans-
of the troops were killed and
more than a score Wounded.
Delayed reports said the
bonds voted about seven years tank battalion was wiped out
ago to build a water and sewer Sufl(iay in one 0f the most
system
Pruett pointed out that he is
familiar with that $350,000 tend
issue. Pruett made the motion
on the port board to give Mor-
gan's Point the “property for a
sewage treatment plant that
helped put that projeet over:"
Pruett says there is “no and'seven miles below the
question” about the possibility DMZ. 'Die reports'said South
successful B52 strikes of the
war, The reports said waves of
the giant Stratofortresses
destroyed 27 tanks arid three
artillery pieces and kilted 100
North Vietnamese.
The target area was five
miles northwest of Dong Ha
Vietnamese officials con-
firmed the d^jtruetion.
Nearly 60 strikes
(See VIET, Page 2)
train an individual with two
years of college to be an auto
mechanic. His aspiration level
is higher. I think in this in-
stance we’re headed for fail-
B’e"
Scott Valentine, warden of
the Clemens Unit of the TDC at
Brazoria, said, “These people
are not disciplinary problems
There ought to be some other
way we could handle these
prison.”
Indies Night and 26th anniver
sary dinner will be at 7:30 p.m
Thursday at the Ramada
Tower Center. Ben Wilson will
be toastmaster and the Me-
morial Baptist Bell Ringers
will provide entertainment. No
noon Thursday meeting will be
held.
same place as before, High-
lands Elementary. School,
Voters living south of Inter- >
state Highway 10 east to John
Martin Road and the north side
of Craigmont continue to be in
Precinct 96, but they will vote
at a new place, the Lynchburg
Elementary School on Kilgore
Road at Lynchburg, said Cut-
birth.
A. H. Teel has been ap-
w** *»*
cinct -387 and is running for
election yis precinct commitee-
tt. . n. man on the county Democratic
Kjwanis JJinner \ executive committeeman. Cut-
BAYTOWN KIWANIS Club’s birth is a candidate for re-elec-
tion as committeeman for Pre-
cinct 96.
Convenient Bankinf
No Service Chirjt
‘BiftcmnSitUcB*nK.
BUYERS GET TOGETHER
ifeRNARD LOUNSBERRY, center, matter of ceremonies at the annual Baytown Youth Fair
and Rodeo Association's prospective buyers' dinner, chats with William Krenek, guest
speaker, and Tom Stapd, first vice president of the Southern Rodeo Association, who la direct-
ing the Baytown rodeo. The entire affair kicks off with a parade Thursday.
(Sun Photo By Linda Casalty)
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