The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 194, Ed. 1 Friday, May 27, 1977 Page: 1 of 22
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Brush Pick-up
CITY CREWS will begin psHunn
up brush and large limbo in Win-
Aasboar. lalaiatoriaa. The other lop II students fa ranking order
lake the helsss and perhaps
By WANDA ORTON
Baytown City Council delayed
Uking another three-month con-
troversial STEP Thursday night
are Bill Edmonds, John Waiter Jenkiat, Kronetk Wayae Ginn,
willing to let wile Roulyoo
have a ton ia the “driver's
Hrliadi (Vtsline Schubert, Vicki Lynn Hiumley, Randal Ray
mewood Tuesday. The week's
WkiUry. Kerri Irlgk Miller sod Loo Am Ferguson. A total of 7t
schedule will continue through
seal."
MaJoy.
Dale
tartan; Matthew Seon
Robert E lee graduated 22
students magna cum laude
Thursday night and another B
cum laude
Principal Henry Armstrong
was master of the honors and
seniors wUI graduate Toeodoy.
Harper Addition. Old Pefly,
JoAnne Griffith, and Oeba Beth
Action was deferred on ex
salutalorun
Glen Arbor. Prueti Addition and
GraywoodH
tending STEP (Selective Traffic
Enforcement Program) through
September. Only four coun-
cilmen attended the Thursday
night meeting and Councilman
Emmett 0 Hutto made the mo-
tion to table the item until the
June 9 meeting to get more
Strickland. Michael Walter
First, he aiked the top 10
$39,750 In U.S. Funds - •
San Jac Grads
IRBY WILFORI) of Mont ^ -
City And State Pact For
Pasadena
3 New Park Sites Okayed
Tboae 10 and 12 others were In
the top 5 per cent of the
graduating dan and were rum-
Amv
Christensen. Kay Lynn Whit-
comb Paula Kay Herring;
They are. in ranking order.
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Pay Raise Discussed For
School Employes On ‘Hill’
The other 12 are Ayst Nihan
views
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Bill Signing
BETTY JONES, a Baytown
member of the Greater Houston
Hemophilia chapter, was in Aus-
tin Friday lo witness the signing
by Gov Dolph Bnscoe of a bill
providing state aid for hemo-
philiacs
Horn Promoted
FI.OYD S. Horn, son ol Mrs
•I.H-kie McKinney ol Crosby, has
been promoted to technical
M igrant in the Air Force
Qiasnoff and Nancy Lynne
seconded his motion but the vote
Williams
Also. Kelly Lyn Dooley. Mike
Oliver Holcomb. Cynthia Gay
Roberts. Lillian Marie Ehlig.
Jesse Harden Power and Celeste
Ann McDonald
The 22 cum laude graduates -
those in the second S per cent ol
the class - are, in ranking
Baytowa police hive caught
bookmobile service of Sterling
Municipal Library The county
will provide $16.98 for this ser-
vice for the county fiscal year
from March 1 to Feb. 28,1978.
Wilh the city buying a new
bookmobile for $33,0000, Coun-
cilman Allen Cannon wondered
if the county was paying enough
for the service outside the dty
limits Librarian Flora Wilhite
indicated the payment from the
county was adequate and that,
without this assistance, the ser-
vice would have to be curtailed
within the city as well as the
area outside Baytown.
The council deferred action on
a resolution asking the county to
pave Pelly-Evergreen Road
because Councilman Ted
Kloesel, who suggested the item
be considered on the agenda,
was absent Thursday night
Two other council members
who did not attend were Mary
Elizabeth Wilbanks and E. C.
(Jack) Kimmons. Present were
Mayor Tom Gentry, Councilman
Jody R. Lander, Alien Cannon
and Emmett O. Hutto.
Baytown City Council Thurs- 1975 through August, 1976 The
new program will provide 100
per cent funding for salaries and
fringe benefits
These positions must supple-
ment and not replace the regular
positions funded by the budget
Another resolution approved
by the council will authorize the
parks and recreation director to
seek matching funds for the se-
cond phase of development of
the W. L. Jenkins and J. C.
Holloway Parks The proposed
development will include two
lighted baseball fields, two
lighted tennis courts, parking
and roadways, hike and bike
trails, play areas, play pads,
press box. restrooms and con-
cessions.
Grant funds amounting to
$175,725 will be requested from
the ^Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation A pavilion similar to
the one at Roseland Park is
proposed but this cannot qualify
for matching funding.
Council members renewed the
city's agreement with Harris
County for assistance in the
i number of motorists "step
ping oa the gns" since Jin
day night approved entering into
an agreement with Texas Parki
and Wildlife Department for
three new park sites
The state agency will supply
$39,750 in federal funds obtained
from the Bureau of Outdoor
Recreation and the city will
match this with 1975 park bond
funds in the same amount
The parks will be located in
the northern, northeastern and
central areas of the dty.
In other action, the round!
approved a resolution authoriz-
ing the dty manager to make
application (or funds under the
Emergency Jobs Program Ex-
tension Ad Harris County Man-
power Agency recently told the
city it will be taking applications
lor grants funded ujkJct this ad.
Ibis program is* designed to
employ low-income, long-term
unemployed persons in special
projects and activities that meet
requirements of the Department
of Labor.
The dty participated in a
similar program from January of
By RICK VERNACI
MONT BELVIEU (Sp) - Barbers Hill school
trustees Thursday night discussed a proposed
eight per cent salary increase for distrid
employes and an additional pay raise for the
coaching staff The action came at a workshop
to set up the proposed budget for the 1977-78
school year
Board President R.J. Austin suggested tbe
eight per cent figure, which would, he said, help
the district keep pace with salary increases in
industry. The across-the-board pay raise would
cost (he distrid an additional $118,000 in the
coming year.
“We have been in the top five districts in the
state (in teachers' salaries) for a long time and
would like to stay there,” School Supt. Bill
Farmer told the board. He acknowledged,
however, an eight per cent increase would have
been his lop figure.
Austin pointed out that the distrid may have
trouble attracting substitute teachers, many of
whom come from Baytown, because of the pre-
sent pay scale of $26 per day for those with
degrees and $21 for those without. It was
suggested to pay $30 per day to degreed and $24
to non-degreed substitutes.
The trustees then took up the question of ad-
ditional pay raises for the coaching staff.
Fanner said that although the district ranks
high ui teacher salaries, its couches receive sub-
stantially less than those elsewhere He said be
nary, resulting in 4,IM traffic
tickets through May 12 in the
couldn't remember the last time tbe conches
city's STEP program
received a raise.
Each of the high school coaches now receive
$1,200 per year for coaching two major sporti,
with the exception of the girls' track conch who
is paid $1,000 for the one sport. It was proposed
to pay $2,250 $2250 to four of the high school
coaches and $1,800 to the girls'track coach next
The program, Selective Traf-
fic Enforcement Program, was
implemented in January under
a grant from the Goveraor'i
Office on Traffic Safety, and is
credited by police and dty of-
order
Cynthia Marie Goree, Timothy
David Bumpass. James Ireland
Meier, Mitchell Ray Pearce,
Lynn Maclin Offerman, Eugenia
Leigh Smith and Richard Clark
Martinez.
Abo. Thomas Kendall Gidley,
John Lee Cezeaux, Cynthia Ann
Adams. Janet Danay Young,
Joan Dee Saunders, Teresa
Nadine Gilliam. Kevin Val
Pearce and Maria Elena Ayala.
Abo, Connie Lee Branscome,
Cheryl Ann Harp, Connie
Yvonne Fielder. Rosemarie
Gladys Kleinschmidt, Vicky
Lynn Pace, Edward Keith
finals with th.- reduced
Pastor Reception
UNITED METHODIST Women
ol Cedar Bayou United
Methodist Church will host a
reception honoring the Rev and
Mrs. Clyde E. Thomas from 3 to
4:30 p.m. Sunday in the Busch
Family Center. Rev Thomas is
retiring from the ministry after
37't years and moving to Atlan-
ta. Tex.
number and seventy of traffic
sear
It was a bo suggested that tbe middle school
head coach be paid $2,250. while the other two
roaches would receive $2,000.
All coaches also serve as teachers and thus
would be in line for the proposed district-wide
eight per cent raise in their base salaries
Supt. Farmer recommended each coach
receive an additional $300 per year for each
minor sport He said these proposed pay raises
would begin to compensate for an estimated 1,»
000 hours each coach works in a year and
provide an incentive for persons to remain in
tbe profession,
Farmer also advised a 1.2 per cent raise (or
the newly-created position of athletic director.
This would be in addition to the proposed eight
per cent salary increase.
There will be a public hearing on the budget
at 7:30 p.m. June 28 at the high school.
accidents in the city since
January and the fact there
have been no traffic fatalities
so far thb year.
Bill Cornelius, director of
traffic and planning for the
dty, said fines have averaged
$29 per ticket, with funds going
into the dty’s general fund.
Renewal of tbe traffic
program b expected to be db-
cussed at the June 9 dty coun-
cil meeting.
Weather
And Tides
Hassell and Lisa Anne Snyder
Armstrong introduced REL's
three National Merit Scholarship
winners and the four who receiv-
ed letters of commendation.
Winners were Mike Bonem,
Amy Christensen and Frank Lee
Thomison.
Commended students were
Matt Maloy, John Sandhop,
Steven Strickland and Kay Whit-
ended in a tie with Mayor Tom
Gentry and Councilman Allen
Cannon voting against it.
When Cannon then made the
motion to extend the program,
however, there was no second.
So it will come up again at the
next meeting.
Cannon, who does not expect
to be present at the June 9
meeting, said he wanted to go
ahead and state his views about
STEP. “I'm most certainly in
support of it. It is one of the
better programs we’ve had and
statistics bear it out.”
He expressed hope the council
will approve extension of the
program at the next meeting.
Funds from STEP are used to
pay police officers for extra
hours in patrolling hazardous
traffic areas. It has resulted in a
crackdown on speeding and
other traffic violations.
Although there have been
(See ACTION, Page 2-A)
Fish ‘Flap’ Makes Waves
At City Council Session
CLOUDY
Two New Buildings Are
Approved At Lee College
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PARTLY CLOUDY and warm
through Saturday is the
Baytown area weather
forecast. Uw expected Friday
night, mid-60s; high Saturday,
mid-XOs.
comb
Amy Christensen also won the
National Council of English
Teachers writing award this
year
The following students receiv-
ed special honors and awards:
• Paula Herring - Echob
Cup. which goes to the most
representative student in the
class and carries a $125
scholarship if the student goes to
Lee College; and the National
Arion Foundation Music Award
in Choir, given for outstanding
accomplishments in choir.
• Mike Bonem
University's Brown Engineering
Scholarship; and a pocket
calculator given by the Texas
Chemical Council for out-
standing work in science.
(See REL, Page 2-A)
information is needed on how Iresidents have complained to the
many man hours would be re- city about the commercial
quired to Install the buoys. fishing boats dominating the
Installation costs could bays and have also pointed out
amount to as much as the cost of those boats cause wakes that add
the materials, the council to flooding problems during high
feared.
In past years, commercial
fishing has never been much of a
problem in the bays because the
water was polluted. In the past
two years, however, the adjacent
ship channel has been cleaned
up considerably, resulting in a
revival of marine life.
While using nets for live bait,
commercial fishermen also have
been hauling in crabs and all
kinds of fish.
Lakewood and Brownwood
When Baytown City Council
tackled the fishing problem in
bays Thursday night, it caught a
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER
Lee College regents Thursday
night accepted two buildings,
two bids ahd two personnel
recommendations.
traded work for the buildings,
$11,850 contracted work to supp-
ly electricity to the buildings and
about $32,850 in work by LC
crews.
By moving maintenance
operations into one of the new
buildings, the college will free
space which will be used for in-
struction.
The vehicle building will allow
indoor parking of LC-owned
vehicles.
The vote to accept the two
buildings from contractors was
unanimous.
Regents accepted low bids for
data processing paper supplies
and AC-DC rectifier-type
welding machines.
* The paper contract went to
Dataquip Inc. for $2,875 and the
welding machine contract went
to IWECO of Houston Inc. for
$2,050.50.
There were six bidders for
each contract.
Regents accepted the resigna-
tion of Mrs. Kathryn Wood and
approved the hiring of Alfonse
Pintor.
Mrs. Wood, an instructor in
the psychology-education de-
partment for 12 years, worked
with the reading program and
was coordnator of the guided
studies program. •
BAYTOWN TIDES for Satur-
day; Highs at 6:26 a.m. and
5:23 p.m,; low at 11:51 a.m. lot of “flak."
Stirring up the waters were a
large number of citizens claim-
ing commercial fishermen were
- sweeping the bays clean. And
protesting the protesters were
commercial fishing folks who
contend what they’re doing is
legal - they’re after live bait.
Meanwhile, the council felt
helpless in settling the dispute
because the city.has no jurisdic-
tion over the bays. These are the
bailiwick of the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department.
The city is looking into the
possibility of installing buoys
with appropriate markers that
prohibit commercial fishing,
however. Game wardens have
said they will enforce this state
law if the city will get the buoys.
No decision was reached on
buying the buoys, pending more
information about costs.
Materials alone are estimated to
cost $10,360 for 20 buoys, ac-
cording to the U. S. Coast Guard
and U. S. Corps of Engineers.
These would be installed at
1,000-foot intervals in the
waterways that surround
Brownwood and Lakewood.
City Manager Fritz Lanham
had obtained one estimate on in- tions
stallation cost - $96 per hour
plus expenses. The expenses
would include renting a boat.
Mayor Tom Gentry said more
President Robert Goud said in
regretfully
acceptance of her resignation.
Pintor was hired as an instruc-
tor in the registered nurse-
associate degree program, filling
one of two vacancies.
His nine-month contract will
begin with the fall semester.
He studied nursing at St.
Phillip's College in San Antonio
and Prairie View A&M in Prairie
View before receiving an
associate degree in nursing at
Galveston College \
He received a Bs degree in
psychology at the University of
St. Thomas in Houston in 1975
and a master of arts in education
degree in psychology from the
University of Houston at Gear
Lake Gty in 1976.
Pintor lias five years' working
experience and one year)
teaching experience.
recommending
SUNRISE SATURDAY at 6:22
a.m.; sunset at 8:15 p.m.
tides
The new maintenance and
Jack Walker, president of the
Lakewood Gvic Association and
a well-known crusader for con-
servation, told the council he
was surprised that buoys would
cost $500 each. He felt the the
city only needed to put up
restrictive markers banning
commercial fishing.
W. P. Vinson, who lives on
Bayway Drive on Scott's Bay,
(See ‘FLAP,’ Page 2-A)
vehicle buildings are located
AROUND
behind the Fine Arts Building
and cost the college about
$125,000.
Rice
This includes $80,300 in con-
MELINDA JENKINS busy with
wedding plans
Barrientes wants to withhold in-
formation about plans
Fontenot spreading Aggie jokes.
Penny Brown will visit her
parents. Mr. and Mrs. Richard
-Lee Cain, for a week starting
Barney Webber is
happy to sing “Adios Amigos”
. . . Walter Wayne Cassity does
a fine job of “babysitting” his
No Mail
Delivery On
Memojaal Day
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Marita
Carol
Holiday Services Are
Set At City Cemetery
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May 28
Pearce Street Journal - -
Members of the Memorial Day
Committee are Bob Chase, com-
mander of American Legion
Post 323, chairman; Serbe; Bet-
Baytown businessman Fred
Bednarski will speak at
Memorial Day services at 4 p.m.
Monday at Memory Gardens
cemetery.
The speech will be part of the
holiday observance
Baytown post offices will op-
erate on a holiday schedule on
Monday, May 30, in observance
of Memorial Day, Postmaster M.
L. Neal has announced.
. No residential, business or
rural deliveries will be made,
but mail will be placed in post
office boxes and special delivery
service will be provided.
Post offices will be closed all
day and no window service will
be available, Neal said.
Royil Philosophy
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Capt. James / (Junior)
Thompson and Jesse Hoke bring
in information
down in the dumps after a tough
loss.
Dorothy Ammons is a little
slow at packet building . . .
Glen Walker may be the "plant
] mah," but he doesn’t know
much about squash blossoms.
Friends send congratulatory
wishes to Tommy and Debbie
Smith for their new son, Jeffrey
Lynn, bom May 19./. . Eileen j
We never realized until now
how much in common we have
with Darrell Royal, tbe great
University of Texas ex-foot-
ball coach and sports figure.
Although we can’t coach
football, play golf or think tip
’ She will retire, effective Aug.j catchy comments about events
18, so she can spend more time I of the day, we do share Coach
with family and friends, LC| Royal’s penchant for country
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ty Mulvihill, president of the
American Legion Eighth District
Auxiliary, and Ken and Sue
Barrow of Memory Gardens.
Bill Elkins
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Area banks and most govern-
ment offices will be closed Mon-
day, bpt most downtown
businesses and discount stores
will maintain normal hours.
Members of Veteran^ of
Foreign Wans Post 912 will
assemble at 6 a.m. to place flags
on the graves of veterans buried
in the Baytown area.
Following Bednarski’s talk,
VFW Comman
will place a
cemetery gate. A firing sqi
will give ;a three-volley sal
taps played by James i
Norman Mulvihill.
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