The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 28, 1972 Page: 1 of 14
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Visitation Set
CEDAR BAYOU Junior School
will have a “Visitation Night”
at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. The Par-
ent-Teacher Council will meet
first and the visitation will
follow. ..
Crosby Death
HERBERT C.Yackel of Cros-
by died Monday in a Baytown
hospital. Arrangements will be
announced by Earthman High- £
sus, agreed Monday night that grant the exemptions,
it is generally in accord with a Clark said TEA attorneys
new state constitutional are reviewing provisions of the
amendment that -.allows amendment,jassed byi.Teps
political subdivisions to grant voters on Nov. 7, and are ex-
lands Funeral Home.
Shopper Winner
"MRS. T. G. Lipscomb of 511
ginning Tuesday in Room 229
in the humanities building at
427-5611, extension 214.
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Baytown Is Su
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Trustees Await Guidelines
Action On Tax Break
For Elderly Delayed
The school board, by concern taking any formal action to
don’t, there will have to be a
$3,000 or pected to recommend guide- way of approving their
more on homesteads owned by lines to local school districts,
persons over 8S years of age.j One pi^lciTi- the attorneys
Burnet was the winner of'the dation ofSupt. Johriny Clark to
Monday shopper $10 prize in wait for Texas Education
the downtown merchants’ Agency -guidelines before
Monday specials advertising
promotion in The Baytown
Sun.
Pot-Luck
ART LEAGUE of Baytown will
have a pot luck Christmas,
dinner at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec
4, at the Community Building.
Selling Course
A FOUR-WEEK course in the
psychology of selling will beof-
But the board will appar- may help solve is what kind of
ently follow the recommen- system to establish for ap-
Baseball,
Art Hot
In Hawaii
HONOLULU (Sp) - Mary
Frances Hofheinz went into
five figures to get four Keane
paintings while Spec Richard-
son got outfielder Tommie
65*
INCREASING
with a chance for rain and
cooler temperatures Wed-
nesday is the Baytown area
•weather forecast. Low Tues-
day night 35 to 45; high
Wednesday 52 to 65.
MORGAN’S POINT tides for
Wednesday: Highs at 9:52
a.m. and 11:67 p.m.; lows at Dressecj 5..
11:22 a.m. iiidTI:17 p.m. “ -
WEDNESDAY’S SUN will
rise at 6:51 a.m. and set at
5:22 p.m.
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FORMER BAYTONIAN Max
Souby returns for a visit from
Grand Falls, S.D.
Sandy Antle celebrates
another birthday.
Aggie Wager celebrates
birthday.. . Mrs. t, kSatter-
white follows through on
bazaar .... Mary Pat Conner
works on a student art show
... Hazel Steadham bakes a
delicious Kiwanis apple cake
... Birthday greetings are in
order for Richard Wilson
Ed P. Anders of Texas City is
■rnaitfifeiiwgufemMfe
son, Ronald Wayne Anders,
bom recently in Baytown
Audrey Robertson talks about
some great plays she has
at BLT.
Mrs. W. Angus Bradbury has
returned bran Nacogdoches
where she attended funeral
services for her brother. Dr. D.
Brookshire.
Miss Emma Vickers, ft, is
cheerfully recuperating from a
broken tap in Room 113 at Gulf
Omit Hospital and can have
visitors. _
Baytaura Su
Classified
422-8323
Assessor-Collector John J.
Muth said it is. hoped that Muth, in.office only 30 days,
elderly citizens can make
application for the exemption
when they render their pro-
perty for taxation, but if they vigorously the
later in the year.
Citizens who claim home-
stead exemptions from state
taxation now must file the
April 30 deadline.
made a brief report to
hpprdon tax office operations.
He said he intends to pursue
iployment of
rthe taxof-
a field appraiser I
fice so that new . . .
be placed on the tax rolls be-
ginning Jan. 1, and that he is
now in the process of talking
with several computer firms
(SeeTAX BREAK, Page2>
Rules Not To Be Included - -
Simpler Wrecker Ordinance
To Be Considered By City
Clark said he and his admin- (TiredHousewives) 12.00
istrative staff disagreed with ^lgg g2
some of the data and project- By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
ions of the report but generally It an began in 1931 when
agreed that if its recomnfenda-Chief Goodfellow and other
tiong were implemented, im- interested citizens put their
provements could be made in heads together and decided to
the school system. Cafe up the project oL
Clark said he would prepare providing Christmases for
a formal report for the board Baytown youngsters who
based upon a review he and would otherwise find the dav a
By WANDA ORTON
If the new wrecker ordi
nance is approved by the city
That just about wrapped up ^commended by the police proof,” Richardson said. “How
could someone prove that a
fered from 7™ pnTfe Agee “from the Mets for Rich ** ratin8 ^to wreckers “The other way brought an ceive more than that amount.
violated, according to the new
com-|ordinance.
- The new ordinance also
gives the city manager the
authority to issue special
emergency permits in the
[the day, although the Astros * **
parking fee. To regjgter, call “This will obviate theneces- munity and how the com*
XdSed Chtstad sity of including all rules in the munity will benefit from it?
been in and out of the Astro- ^dinmice,’’. explans City Atty. What we have done here is to
Neel Richardson. propose, that we grant the
The rules and regulations permit unless it would create a holderi indde
-------j —- the city do not have the
(See WRECKER, Page 2)
dome and year before last set
quite a pinch-hitting record. -------- — -------. .... ... „
_____ He fell from favbrhy. being an cannot be inconsistent with the ha^a™ t0 . P™“G.
. ■ ntetinate holdout last sprihg. terms .of. the .ordinance , and lhe t0M..5 ^
Cloudiness Uoncton UnA dim* must hp HppmpH nppp.osjirv fnr
Truthfully, Houston had given must be deemed necessary for
Calendar Countdown
a catcher. These rules will include the-rp
Field Manager Yogi Berra of method of dispatching auto OF LairiStUlHS DCglllS
the Mets said he never saw wreckers, operations of auto ^
Ten days before the big
parade down
Chiles do anything but pinch- wreckers, specifications of Twenty-three shopping days
hit, but his scouts had been im- equipment and supplies, before Christinas,
__________ the youngster’s identification methods for
ability to play everyday. wreCfeFdrivers and the duties Christmas
Mrs. Hofheinz didn’t make of the drivers at the scene of town,
her deal in a smoke-filled the accident. Seventeen days before Santa
room. After approval by the Land at the Community
A gossip columnist in the wrecker committee, the rules Center.
Honolulu Advertiser said MF and regulations as recom- Nineteen days before
was attracted to the art in a mended by the police chief will school’s out for the holidays,
shop off the Sheraton Waikiki go into effect. There - is the So goes - the calendar
right of appeal, however, be- counting for busy Baytonians
fore the wrecker committee this Yuletide season. In addi
and then to the city council.
lobby.
Baseball men predicted the
new Hofheinz paintings had a
better chance of permanency
irrtbe new Hofheinz home than
Agee as an Astro outfielder.
You remember Tommie was
the base runner who once side-
lined erstwhile Astro Joe
Morgan for a full season after
a collision at second base.
-FRED HARTMAN granting the permit.
‘Now the committee has to increased from $15 to $17.50 in
determine that the new permit
will not inconvenience the pub- new ordinance makes it illegal new junior school, he indicated
lie,” Richardson, said.
the new ordinance. Also the addition to construction of
for a wrecker driver to re-
The proposed ordinance events to keep up with, calen-
changes the basic premise on dar counters are also circling
which permits are to be dates for parties and programs
granted. The older ordinance for churches, clubs and indivi-
provides that the wrecker duals,
committee had to determine The downtown Christmas
that public convenience and parade, expected to be the big-
necessity would be met by gestever in Baytown, is slated
Santa Land, which
drawing increasing numbers
each year at the Community
for Dec. 13,14 and 15, featuring
the nativity scene, music and
various programs.
Dec. 15 is the last day of
school until classes resume af-
ter holidays on Jan. 2.
Santa’s Helpers on the first
night of Santa Land, Dec. 13,
will be from the Junior Forum
tion to community and school and Sterling Stars. Pupils from
the Walker Singers will per-
form Dec. 13.
(See CALENDAR, Page2( [(See NEW SCHOOL, Page 2)
Ten Cents Per Copy
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Sterling
High Area
Favored
By JOHNELLA BOYNTON
school, mast likely in the Stei
Clark’s suggestion came in
page University of Texas sur-
vey
needs of the school district
over the next few years.
GOODFELLOW GIFT
SUN REPORTER Barbara Cleland thanks W. B. McGregor.
,u~ hr.fhAh.nl for Hie Goodfellow d«iatloB from Volunteer Firemen of Station
pected to be“needed within the teers’ . . (Su"Phot0)
next 10 years, Supt. Johnny ' ' '
Clark told the school board
Monday night.
Goodfellow Drive
Began Tin 1931
Previous contributions 176.82
THW Club
school district administrators
have made of the survey. In
the report will also probably y,e community. The list of
include recommendations for: needy has risen with the years
A wrecker permit can be .A classroom-addftion at and now the Ghiefand his crew
revoked if thid provision is'Austin Elementary School, apg dealing with hundreds of
‘"I! — crSngSnoticeably each
media aides at each elemen-
tary instructional materials
center probably would be con-
is tinued, he said.)
+ Assistant principals at
each of the district’s junior
Center, is on the Yule docket schools. He estimated most
school districts with junior
schools the sizes of ones here
have assistant principals. The
port noted that junior school
counselors are now improperly
The report recommended in-
San Jacinto Elementary
School will present the nativity
scene,
The Robert E. Lee Band and that covered outdoor space
of getting around to it after the
other gifts are bought, after
the tree is decorated, why
don’t we do it first? After all is
said and done about Christ-
mas,- we always find that the
greatest joy of the season is in
......... , doing tor others. So why don’t
would otherwise find the day a we remember this at the be-
rather meager one.
Since then the campaign has
met with success, because of
interest and eontributions of
+ Curriculum specialists at Christmas season. So each
each of the districts element- year ft becomes necessary to
ary schools rather lhan certi- raise more money than the
fled media specialists recom- christmas bef^
mended in. the survey report. ms ycar the magic amount
(Elementary principals have is 43,000. it will take every bit
placed high priority on toe 0f this and more to accomplish
need tor curriculum speaalists this year’s goal, The donations
who could assist teachers in in- have begun to come in, but the
dividualizing materials for Qoodfellows won’t know a
pupil needs, he said. The use of relaxing minute until all the
money needed is raised.
A good thought this year
might be to let your Goodfellow
ginning of the season, make
our-contributions, and then
have a more rewarding Christ-
mas season ourselves.
And could there be a better
way to give of ourselves, than
to give toward making chil-
dren happy at Christmastime?
Sure, a lot of the season is
overly commercialized. We
nothing commercialized about
the look of joy and wonder on a
child’s face Christmas mor-
ning. In fact, except for a cer-
tain star in the East, nothing
shines quite so brightly, .......
Send your donations to Chief
Goodfellow, Box 90, Baytown.
It will be received with eager
hands. Mail it today!
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World
From AP Wires
+ WASHINGTON -
Administration sources indi-
cated strongly today that
Caspar Weinberger, director
of the Office of Management
and Budget, would be nomi-
nated to succeed Elliott L. ’
Richardson as secretary of
the Department of Health.
m
Education and Welfare,
+ WASHINGTON -
George Romney’s four-year
crusade as secretary of £ |
Housing and Urban Develop-
ment to make the govern-
ment do more for the cities
and A<t it faster, to ending.
+ FREEPORT - Dr. A.
P. Buetel, $0, who headed ef-
torto'to build the giant Dow-
Chemical Co. plant here,
died Monday.
+ WASHINGTON - The
U.S. trode deficit was - • .....
sharply reduced in October, 1
the Commerce; Department
reports, The deficit figures
made public Monday: $415. .
million in October, $5132
million in September. -
+ HOUSTON - The City
of Galveston has no power to
.suspend nine policemen
charged with beating prl- |
soners unless .they are
convicted by the courts, the
city’s Firemen’s and Police- .
men's Civil Service Commis- * A
Sion ruled Monday.
Bulletin.
A cold front moving into
the Gulf Coast area about
mHUgbt Monday dro^juil
overnight temperatures to 47
degrees after an unsea-
sonable 79 Monday.
Weather Service is calling
won’t argue that but there’s for a low in the upper 36s be-
tween 5 and 6 a.m. Wed-
nesday.
Slightly cooler air Wednes-
day will keep temperatures
in the mid 66s.
Throughout the state,
temperatures have ranged
from 31 degrees in the Upper
Panhandle to low 86s in deep
South Texas.
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Tax Relief For Aged Is
On City Council Agenda
used to enforce discipline in will cost the City of Baytown a
the schools — maximum of $70,000 a year,
+ Covered all-weather out- ^ City Manager Fritz Lan-
door space for physical educa- ham-
tion in the elementary schools. Lanham will recommend to
The tax exemption for Bay-
town citizens age 65 and over break,
The exemption would give
residents over 65 a $3,000 ex-
emption on the assessed
valuation of their homesteads
Baytown’s assessed valuation
door space, but Clark said he that This exemption be imple-
and his administrators feel mented. Voters in the Nov. 7
the city council Tuesday night 's placed at 50 per cent of mar-
ket value.
election approved this exemp-
would be more practical. The .
report pointed out the relation- twn m Amendment 6 which
provided that political subdiv-
LIFE GOES ON IN VIETNAM
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Unique Street Ceremony
ByMURILHART
CHANNELVIEW (Sp) -
Danny Stinogle, 36, and Jennie
D. Garner, 30, wanted an
unusual wedding caremoay “to
tell the world we still belie ve
in me sacredness of mar-
riage,” but the horseback
ceremony with about a 100
dusty, trailriders celebrating
the nuptials was more than
they bargained for.
It was a secood marriage for
pened to pass by the wedding N: 0. Morrison, Baytown jus-
scene at 16006 Market and.....
decided to stay for the action
street —iiifu with a westorn
time at 2 p^ Sonday, hot
the bride's and groom's feet
werbtohe firmer on the gnand
not in saddle stirrups.
Wedding plans took
bride was,
(torn when the
hour late. Pre-
la flood her car engine when
tea af fen- fee stetod to the ceremony
and whan fee rafeed back toll
phone for help, she discovered
fee had locked herself out and
the house keys were inside.
Meanwhile, a party of trail-
rfchri—niaiag fe d three-
day horeebnek ride. They hap-
(SeelTCTURE,ftgel)
Waiting for the bride to ar-
rive, tyailriders danced to the
both. Original plans included a tune, “Where Is the Bride,
played in a lively
beat by Dale Over
and Hank Flaimagap’s hand.
Whan Jaaato (arrived at 3
pan., one of the cheering trail-
riders suggested, "Let’s do
this right and get them
married on horseback! ”
Good ^orts through it nfl,
Jeanie and Danny agreed and
said their vows on horseback.
ttlfc
fce af 8m ptm, parfanaed
the ceremony.^^^^^H
The wedding party included,
Mrs. Janie Neman, maid of
honor; Dana Lynn Gamer, the
bride s four-year old daughter;!
Debbie Louise Newman,
flower girls; and John Lee
Newman, ringbearer. The
bride's older children, Richard
[Damei. il, and Ktofeeriy Jeon
-Gamer, H, gave the
may not hare
id but the vows
isions could grant the tax exemption will not have a big
effect on the total tax picture,
city officials believe.
The $70,800 was figured on
about 1,700 pieces of property,
Lanham explained. “We’re us-
ing 14 per cent of our total
number of homes. Fourteen
per cent of our population is
Lanham said the city this about 65 and older.”
year expects to collect an
estimated $2,897,343 in taxes.
The' $76,000 loss from the
Commissioner Jamie Bray
Monday made the motion in
Commissioners Court to im-
plement the Mytetig exemp-
tion for those 65 in the county
and the motion passed un-
animously.
The tax break for semor erti-
City Gives ff
For Ba ker
Road Repair
Harris County has re-
ceived $81,566 from the City
of Baytown for- materials to
improve Park and Baker,
Commissioner Jamie Bray
said feusday.
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zens was approved in the Nov.
7 general election in Texas in
Amendment 6. An exemption
for disabled veterans also was
approved in Amendent 5. This
amendment authorized the
legislature to-give the exemp-
tion, however, instead of pdit-
icai smxii visions.
Pommisfeners Court Jftas-
ter voted to implement the .
resurfacing Baker from
Bayway to Decker aad from
the Gooae Creek Stream to
Garth. Baker w4B he rerop-
straeted to the area tnm
Decker to Goose Creek
(See CITY COUNCIL, Page 21
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 45, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 28, 1972, newspaper, November 28, 1972; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105111/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.