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Monday, February 10,1975
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ANOTHER ‘GOOD DEED’
MILTON CROW, left, Rifes Cooper, center, and Paul Dowling pitch in to spruce up Westwood Park
as a service project for Boy Scout Troop NoJ34. Duane Lowe and R. A. McCain art scoutmasters
of the troop thattneets at Wooster BaptisCC'hurch. Milton is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Crow;
Ross is the son of Mr. and Mrs. -Ben Cooper, and Paul is the son of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Dowling.
(Sun photo by Glenn Folkes)
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New Elections Demanded - -
- Israeli Opposition Grows
Zoning Vote Due Tuesday
Administrator Pacts On Tonight’s Agenda
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER layed a vote on thf fifth period
The school board has two until the administration could
meetings scheduled this week - provide information on why stu-
a regular meeting at 7:30 p.m! ' dents now take fifth period
Monday and a special one at 7 courses and whether all stu-
p.m. Tuesday — for final discus- dents could get the courses they
sion and a vote on the high need in the regular four-period
school rezoning issue.
The Monday night meeting will
be preceded by an executive ses-
sion at 6 p.m. for trustees to re-
view administrators’ contracts.
They will vote on the contracts
during the open meeting.
Trustees also may vote Mon-
The administration will report
on school-related legislation ex-
pected to come; before the state
legislature this year.
The board also will; .
+ Review its maintenance
contract with Carrier Air Condi-
day on whether to continue the . ^ tioning. ■ ^ -..—-p--—...
“bonus.” fifth period at Ross.......-> Schedule a dinner for.
Sterling and Robert E. Lee and former school board members.
: Plan procedure for ap- .
pointment of the board of
equalization?
* whether school buses shodld be
provided to take fifth period stu-
- dents homer --------: ~
, They decided last month to
continue 55-minute periods in
.junior schools and 80-minute
periods in high schools but de-
The Tuesday night meeting is
, expected to end in an answer to
.the high school rezoning ques-
tion, which Has ten before the .'T!
board almost since school began,
in the fall. t
The administration compiled
data, citizens gave input m a
public hearing "which attracted
about 500 persons and board
members collected information
and opinions.
Trustees spent about 2 W hours
discussing the matter during its
*■ last regular board meeting and
put in about six hours of discus-
sion in a workshop session
Wednesday.
-Tlie, problem is that Sterling
has more students than is desir-
able while REL has 12 empty
classrooms.
tives, trustees agreed last week
the boundary line would have to
be adjusted so about125
Sterling-bound students would
go to REL. j
Trustee Willie Moreno, who
had said earlier he was against
changing the boundary, had to
leave the meeting-early and was
not there when the consensus to
redraw it was reached.
The areas under considera-
tion for moving from the RSS
zone to the REL zone were nar-
rowed to:
+ The country club area in
northwest Baytown from Decker
' Drive to Cedar' Bayou-.Lynch-
burg Road on the north and
Busch Road on the east, which
includes Ponderosa, Craigmont
and Country Club Oaks subdivi-
. sions. the administration also
. - suggested extending- the line
southeast from Busch to the in-
tersection of Garth and Massey-
Tompkins roads
:? .'+ The Cedar Jayou area in
northeast Baytown to include
Eva Maude subdivision and a
porfiffo along Kilgore Road
Fifteen Cents Par Copy
JERUSALEM-(AP) - Secre-
tary of State Henry A. Kissin-
ger arrived in Israel today to
sound out his prospects for ar- new elections before offering to then Rabin should tell Kissin-
. .. .ranging another disengagement
between the Israelis and Egyp-
.tians;-- --------------——
Hours before he flew in from
Israel's main opposition bloc
demanded that the government
of Premier Yitzhak Rabin hold interim agreement with Egypt,
surrender strategic Sinai terri-
tory in talks with Kissinger.
Opposition leader Menahem
Begin said if Kissinger asked
a refueling- stop in Frankfurt, Rabin's government to trade
3m.
Directors Meet
BOARD MEMBERS of Harris
County Water Control, and Im-
provement District No. 1 and
Freshwater Supply District No.
IB, both in Highlands, will meet
at 7 p.m. Monday at Highlands
- State Bank meeting room to dis-
cuss terms of operations con-
tract between the two districts.
Kennel Club
•*ps
Secretaries Meet
BAYTOWN Educational Secret-
aries Association will meet at 7
pan. Monday at the School Ad-
ministration Building. Members
will attend a school board meet-
ing.
Chorus Rehearsal
BAYTOWN Community Chorus
will rehearse at 7 p.m. Monday
the Gidi and Mitla passes and
the Abu Rudeis oilfields for an
ger. “We must go to the people
and hold another general elec-
- thaif ■ ■).....:----------—
Kissinger will be in the
Middle East for 10 days, and
unless he concludes, that the sit-
. uation. is completely hopeless,
he plans to return to the area
about,March 10 to work out de-
tails of an Lsraeli-Egvptian
Thg alternative to his step-by-
step diplomacy is resumption of
the Geneva peace conference in
| grisis atmosphere,, the offi-
cials8 continued. This would
pose the-thorny question of rep-
resentation‘for the Palestinians
and other explosive issues.
Our World
From-AP Wires
+ AUSTlft - Tite number.
weekend was reported at 18
Monday morning, with 10 of
that total coming in traffic ac-
cidents.
+ ANTWERP, Belgium -
An explosion and fire killed at
least five workers and de-
stroyed most of the Union Car-
bide polyethylene plant on the
Schelde, river north of Ant-
werp early today, police said.
An unknown number of wort-
ers were reported missing, and
firemen said they saw dis- ti
membered bodies in the burn-
ing-ruins-of the»plant...... —
I SAIGON = Only small-
scale Viet Cong and North
Vietnamese attacks were re-
ported in the.Saigon area to-
day on the eve of the four-day
Tet festival, the annual cele-
bration of the lunar new year.
+ ATHENS, Greece - A
Ireek air force heiico'pter lo-
cated the wreckage of a West
German military , transport
plane in the snowcovered
mountains of the island of
Crete-today. All 42 men aboard
were apparently killed, a
ts County commissioners
Monday took* under advise-
menCuntikMareh M the low
bid on construction of a coun-
ty golf course totaling $763,441,
submitted by Gus Morgan, a
Madisonville contractor. The
low bid was about $2641,000
Seeks $220,000 Savings -
south from Ward Road plus
some apartments in the country
club area. ____—£-4++
+ The Cedar Bayou area
south of Highway 146 and Ferry
Road.
Trustees talked about ex-
tending whichever area it chose
as far north as Interstate 10, but
decided it would be easier to do
that later if it became needed. In
the meantime,, they feared that
may put too many students at
REL.
They talked about a citizen
suggestion for putting ninth
grade hark into junior school,
thus taking the largest of the
four high school classes out of
The high schools.
Although Trustee Jerry. Don
Smith disagreed, the consensus
was to follow administrattpn
recommendations that this
(See VOTE, Page 2)
Ford Seeks
tecinci
By WANDA ORTON
Harris County Commissioner
Jim Fonteno expects to savfr
SrgffgjfcijS-
man embassy reported. ducillg ttle staff from 213 t0 l~
employes.
"We had more personnel than
was necessary,” Fonteno said,
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------ ---' -- "and Precinct 2 was top heavy in day s work tor. a||ay s pay..........
ANAHUAC (Sp) Chamb- supervisory personnel.” Another change in the new ad-
~ pontoho eliminated 12' super- *- *" —
visory positions, leaving his pre-
cinct 24 ifi'supervisory rank........
more than commissioners had
anticipated.
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BAYTOWN • KENNEL CMS Ssft^e^iSr^e
obedience class orientation Will
be held 7 p.m. Monday on Cul-
pepper's covered parking lot.
Church Dinner •—
LADIES ALTAR Society St.
- Jftseph's Church will have its am
AR0
Feb. 17 concert.
TARS Meeting
THE BAYTOWN-La Porte Cha-
fer of Tee*Aid the Retarded
(TARS), will hold an organiza-
tiopal meeting at 7:30 p.m. Mon-
nual covered dish dinner at 6 day at DeWalt School. 500 Madi-
Lesson For Baytown
Port Arthur Has Formula
For Erasing Urban Blight
These savings can be put into
materials in the road and bridge
fund," Fonteno said.
In his first 15 days in office
Fonteno hired 10 new employes
in Precinct 2. “The rest were
. there when we Jtook over. About
— 75 were hired by former Com-
missioner Jamie Bray and the
others werehired before Bray by
former Commissioner V. V.
Ramsey.”
Fonteno said hb had "no axes
to grind” in cutting the number
of employes'and assisted many
with finding new jobs in the
PORT ARTHUR (Sp)
Arthur beats Baytown
most other, cities :-
Port
and
buildings that are eyesores,
in tackling health hazards and fire traps.
Port Arthur's score last year:
-70oid hduses and 26 non-resi- up with."
dential buildings. Of thetotal 196
blighted areas by tearing down
Tfldftei^tty-stfuctures;:—
CitY'Tst year Me Mooal|struG.tures tore down’ ail but
Leagued? ^Muniripalities. Port wffe removedat
j ^ noz‘tothe city
between officials and citizens in
LEE ALEXANDER brings in a
magazine with a picture of one
of the world's largest tankers on
the cover ... Jean Shepherd Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg Road,
gets ready for a trip to Washing-
ton and an appearance before a
Senate committee.
Ray Helped arrives withapic-
ture of out-of-town visitors who
enjoyed a Baytown dance
Monroe Pryor is in Room 221 at
Gulf Coast Hospital recovering
from surgery and can have visi-
tors.. , ' .
H. H.- (Mac) .ifcCollum {loses
-„ for a picture ... Pat Murray causing the truck to burst into
compares city and country living
.... -Q^qthy Kilgoft always
cheerful... .Will Daniel calls inj1
with a news tip.
PoUce Chief John Wilkinson
comments on the Sentimental
value of a western print..'. Xen
and Genlva Turner enjoy an
afternoon of browsing and shop
ping. « b ‘ -'V'%
Sterling Senior Dies
In Pickup Accident
A' Ross Sterling High- School
senior became Baytown's first
traffic fatality of 1975 at 11:48......
p.m. Saturday in the 1100 block Boucher and Leonard Denena
buildings, Mrs.
employe in the i
of Massey-Tompkins Road.
Baytown police said Vernon
Edward Lamb Jr.,,18, of Rt. 3,
was the driver of a 1971 pickup
truck which was eastbound on
Massey-Tompkins. ______
.The truck pfitaged into a ditch
on the south side of the rqad,
struck at least three mailboxes
and jumped two driveways' be-
fore striking a concrete drive-
way and rolling on its left side.
Police said, the gas tank of the
truck ruptured and exploded.
with alternates Richard Denena
and Venron .Dengia................ .
Honorary pallhkrers will be
members of the auto mechanics
class at Sterling. .
Lamb is also survived by two
sisters, Kanyne Elizabeth Lamb
and Mrs. Benny (Nycea) Aylor
ridding the ’city of dilapidated ticjjlar are steady customers.
How?
By citizens who want to keep
the salvage from the old
Lynn Wiltz, doors
employe in the city’s urban de- J. Earl Whelply is the director
velopinent and inspection.. de-. otthg.urhanjiev£topment.and
vcu^iiKm.- tinu - uuptvuuu w.-
.partment, told The Sun the de
mojishers keep the scrap and-do
They sell the scrap at their junk
yards, Mrs. Wiltz said, and have
"more orders than they can keep
y“Quito a few good bricks are
salvaged,” she said. “And they
often get good lumber. You
know, some old homes have ex-
cellent wood in them. People
also Tike to salvage cabinets,
§fnks, window facings and
inspection department for Port
ArthDr. The process of condemn-
the demolitions for free. After ing structures and having them
and two nieces, Tina and Kristi deJto<j‘SoJE
(See RITES, Page 2)
flames ■■
Lamb, the Tone occupant of
the truck, wSs deadon arrival at}
San Jacinto >lethodist Hospital
where he was taken by Paul 0.
Lee ambulance. His body was.
sent to the Hfcnis County
Morgue.
Lamb, the son of Mr. and Mrs.
LEE BAND HAS.
Norman Brently
3f^ Ws fiute-Feb.
Piopiss Stale Bank
. NuTicMs
no -.
Vernon E. Lamb of Baytown,
was Vmember of the auto me-
chanics ete at Sterling and at-
tended Cedar Bayou Methodist
Church!
Services wilj be held at 2 p.m.
Tuesday at Ettinger Funeral
Homq in BeUyjlle, with burial
at%ak KnoB Lemetery there
VERNON LAMB ^
the buildings are removed, the
people have to clean up the tot
and cut the grass.
. “We have got rid of a lot of
blight in tSe.city ” she.said. “It
rally. Js_ greaCS'ldhSt Jk
number of old structures that
have come, down and the re-
sponse we've had.”
the demolitions were
stepped up" in the past year,
she explained, through efforts of
d are publicized through legal Frost said. ‘
otices and by “word of mouth." demolishers)
Three junk dealers in par-
Pearce Street Journal
Share The Road. Milktoen
Do you remember how Phe-
na Phil and maybe some pres-
ent mUk folks delivered to
your door? That was before
they got so interested in na-
tional politics.
Now you can look for this:
DSU - that’s a direct service
unit, it’s an»o&>etrw*th«t
calls at your house or parking
lot and keeps your car filled.
• l don't know how they get
paid, but that’s} their worry.
Fill ’ar-up, doc. Anything to
be modem.
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demolished is handled through'
Ws department. _____
Leo Frost, city inspector „
Baytown, wishes Baytown “had"1™11'
it so good" when it comes to
MringdownoldbuHdings. ..
For the past seven years Bay- j|:
town has tried to accelerate its”
program of demolitions. Ini-
tially the city had good Juck in
getting the work done for Tittle
or nothing.,
“We had many a house tom
down for as little as a dollar,"
Frost said. "But now they (the
demolishers) have quit and de-
cided it is just not worth it. The
first two years though we did
wonderful. Back then we got 40
buildings torn down.”-
Frost had no exact figures on
the number of demolitions in the
past year but not any big com-
mercial buildings were tom
down. Y
One of the big buildings that
has been condemned is thr<old
Stewart Hotel on Minnesota,
long considered a^fire trap.
(See BLIGHT, Page 2)
county or elsewhere “if they car and gets a $225 monthly ex-
were good, competent people.
The new commissioner be-
lieves the morale and efficiency
of the Precinct 2 employes have
improved witlrthrchanges that
have been made. His main obj'
five, he explained, is to make
surr the-county is getting “a
Tikory personnel and others who
need cars are driving county
' ‘ up trucks or their own cars
reimbursement on mile-
age..
Fonteno also drives his own
pense allowance.
Following is a breakdown on
how personnel was reduced:
Emergency Act Fund, from
one to zero
Downtown office staff, front
five to four.
Roads and bridge staff, from
t24to98;...........-
Bascule bridge employes from
five to four.,
’'Fonteno retained 28 employes
on' the Lynchburg Ferry payroll
and added one employe to the 29
op .the staff at Washburn Tun-
nel. The number of tunnel
(See FONTENO, Page 2)
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HOUSTON (AP) - President
Ford was to seek support today
from ml executives and South-
western governors for his ener-
gy and economic proposals, but
he may run into some differ-
ences. of opinion^
Ford was scheduled to land
at Ellington Air Force Base at
1:45 p.m., a White House
spokesman here said. The arrival
will be closed to the public.
Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe,
the Democratic chief executive
of the nation’s leading oil state,
already has expressed stiff op-
position to Ford's energy pro-
posals.
He has called the President’s
energy tax proposals "dis-
astrous.” “
Involves Game Wardens -
Weather
And Tides
CLOUDY TO partly cloudy
with slight chance of rain Mon-
day niptrind Tuesday.
Southerly winds 5-15 mph.
Low temperature Tuesday
night, near 50, high Tuesday,
upper 60s. Chance of rain, 20
per cent.
BAYTOWN TIDES Tues-
day: highs +6:25 a.m. and
and 2:55 p.m.
+ Denotes weak tides
2 Houston Men To Appeal
Decision In $125,000 Suit
By TOM WELLS
HOUSTON (Sp)-Plaintiffs in
a $125,000 damage suit against a
Chambers County Justice of the
Peace and:, two wardens of the
Texas Parks and Wildlife De-
partment say they plan to appeal
a recent court decision dismiss-
ing the case.
U.S. District Judge James
Noel sustained defense motions
dismissing the case against Jus-
tice of the Peace V. R. Mc-
Manus of WalljsviHe because of r_______
judicial immunity and against ! guaranteed under the U.S. Con-
boat Mariah Dawn berthed at
Morgans Point, and Chris Ros-
prim of Houston , who was on the
boat with Lebedzinski when they
were arrested in Chambers
.County waters Oct. 27,1973, on
‘ charges of possession of under-
sized shrimp.
The pair claimed the defend-
ants deprived them of rights,
privileges and immunities
day: Tups +6:25 a.m. and game wardens Dennis Thomas
10:01 p.m.; lows + 1:11a.m. oLJ3aytown.andYelton Williams
of Crosby because of'"Mure to
state a cause of action on which
reBef ran be granted.
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■ The suit was filed in Decem-
ber^ by David Lebedzinski of
luston. ownerof Jthe shrimp appeal Noel’s decision to the
stitutioii by arrestihglheni again
on Nov, 11 for an undersized
flounder that game wardens had
taken from the boat the same
day as the shrimp.
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SERVICE CHAROe
First American I
1 o - atf fa* Intel
testimony by Houston Post
reporter Phil Hevner at the hear
jng before Noel revealed that
_ McManus’ actions were not in
g^hiS-jtKiimi rapacity. Hevner-said
he testified that McManus said
the second arrest came at the
suggestion of the game war-
dens, while game wardens said it
was instigated by McManus,
The plaintiffs say if they can
raise $4,000 to $5,000, they wiU
U.S. Fifth Circuit Court, of
Appeals.
In dismissing the case, Judge
Noel called the suit “frivolous”
and said everything McManus
did-was within his j
(See §
LATE
NEWS
HOUSTON (SO =_H. J!,,
McElroy was named Monday
as the director of the Man-
power Program for Harris
• County.
Lebedzinski also claimed thatj—McEirey, dr Amsuemifnl
candidate for Harris County
treasurer in the 1974 primary,
succeeds Col. Henry (Pelly)
hjjdtman, executive assistant tp
ftumy Judge Jon Undsay.
Dittman had been serving as
acting director of the Manpow-
er Program untU the position
could be filled permanently.
Exxon Research Gets
Safety Commendation
r •
SOME SNOW
UP TO IjIS EARS in snow, nine-year old Denny Simons plods
through almost low-loot drifts in a Bradlwi R., parting yaht
after a blioard struck the northern section ol the Keystone State,
Employ# at Exxon’s Bay-
town Research Center have been
congratulated by company offi-
ciats for their 1974 safety rec-
In a letter to employes of
ER&E's Research and Develop-
ment Division and Exxon
Chemical's Plastics Technology
Division, Managers Bob Epper-
ly and Jim Porter summarized
accomplishments made possible
by employes' combined efforts.
These highlights Were listed:
There were no disabling injur-
ies in 1974. ~
Of 18 accidents reconled, 12 ,-
v . l ■ r: i r: , i
dssiiiw as nm aw type,
These improvements were ac-
complished even though there
was a 20 per cent increase in per-
sonnel at the site. .'V
Employes were reminded the
next goal on ^ie way to estab-
lishing a new safety record is
achievement of two million em-
ploye hours without a disabling
injury, and that the experience
gained in 1974 was contributed
greatly to this goal
BUOY
24 HR
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