The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 176, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1980 Page: 1 of 24
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vice in mid-June. With
gratitude to the Galveston
Daily News corps for all its
help, understanding and
cooperation, Sun road-
runners bid goodbye to the
Gulf and settled back in
Baytown.
Use was made of
warehouses, quickly con-
verted to the needs of
newspaper departments at
the North Main Business
Center. The news staff and
composing room combined
forces in one building and
the bookkeeping Employees
in another building up the Sun employees entered
the electronic w6rld of
video terminals. Pretty
soon, they were talking —
and typing — a new
language interspersed with
‘Such terms as enter file,'
call file, scroll up, scroll
down.
The MDT 350 Com-
pugraphic period of adjust; ■/
ment didn’t take long. It
couldn’t — a newspaper
had to be produced each
day, ads had to be sold,
stories had to /be written
(See SUN, Page 6-B)
be stored away in a
warehouse was truck«4,off
immediately.
Work assignments were
reshuffled as all depart-
ments regrouped and pitch-
ed in to help each other. „
Remarkably, few — if
any — stories and ads were
lost in the mass shuffle and
confusion between here and
Galveston.
Get typewriters cleaned
up enough to operate cad
keep tabs on which
machines wire out for
repairs.
Adjust to codes in com-
puter equipment at
Galveston... Size photos in
keeping with new column
widths . , . Phone in an
urgent, last-minute story to
Galveston and relay an
advertising client’s
message.
Department files had to “depressurized” con-
be kept in a semblance of slderably when The Sun
order. Anything that could press was restored to ser-
building as a kind of "cen-
tral control," a whole new
network of telephone com-
munication with direct
lines was geared up at the
West Pearce work site.'
Photographers used the
darkroom at Lee College to
develop their film and print
pictures. <
Staffers were on the road
ddy and night taking news
copy and ads to the Island
while others “held down the
fort” inland preparing the
stories and ads.
Details, details:
By WANDA ORTON
Working conditions,
routine schedules and per-
sonal lives of Baytown Sun
employees one year ago
were in upheaval after a $1
million fire devastated the
building at 1301 Memorial
Drive. * ,.
A blaze, which firemen
say was set by arsonists at
3:30 a.m., raged through
the southwest corner of the
- plant, and there was heavy
smoke damage throughout
* the building.
Understand a h.1 y,
miles away - the
Galveston Daily News plant
where The Sun composing
room and press room per-
sonnel immediately set up
headquarters after the fire.
News, advertising and
bookkeeping staffs
operated out of an office
suite at 207 W. Pearce while
the circulation department
continued to work at the
fire-damaged, smoke-
stenched building oh
Memorial.
Although the switchboard
was maintained at The Sun
newspaper delivery was
late that night of May 2,
with the last’paper
deposited in a subscriber’s
yard at about 10:30p.m.
But The Baytown Sun
never missed an issue.
In hectic days to follow,
customers got their papers
sooner each edition until
The Sun was back on
regular schedule.
Meanwhile, the
newspaper was being pro-
duced in parts “here and
yonder.”
“Over yonder” was 45
alley.
The ad folks remained in
the West Pearce offices
while the press room per-
sonnel were manning the
big machine again at 1301
Memorial.
Because computer equip-
ment was ruined in the
composing room in the fire,
new equipment rolled in for
the news room-composing
room and the classified ad
department.
New and different.
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Arid both paries will voting record has been
have a place on their ballots criticized by Washburn, an
for the uncommitted - engineer and businessman
voters who haven’t made from Spring,
up their minds about the
best man for president.
High on the list of
Baytown Democrats’
priorities will be the two-
way Congressional District oil. * -
8 race in which 14-year in-
cumbent—Ut&t—Repr-r-Bob
Eckhardt is being challeng-
ed by a political newcomer,
Larry Washburn.. ' . .•
In the Congressional
race, Eckhardjjs liberal
Keen interesjjn the com-
petition between Reagan
and Bush is expected to
generate a larger than
usual GOP turnout.
Democrats, facing a
longer ballot than
Republicans, will have a
non-binding presidential
preference referendum
centered around Jimmy
Carter,. Edward M. Kqn?
nedy and Je$ry Brown:
Although Brown |s no'
longer in contention, his
name will nonetheless be on
the ballot.
Presidential politics
Saturday will share the
limelight with ijotly-
contested races for District
8 ..Congressman and
Precinct 3 Justice of the
Peace in the Democratic
primary in Baytown and
East Harris County.
With comparatively few
contested races to contend
with, Republicans will be
concerned mostly1, with
wbgth^r Rqnald Reagan or
George Bush should be
their party’s nominee in
November.
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Eckhardt, who is seeking
his eighth term, has named
inflation as the major issue.
Heblames inflation mainly
on the increasing price of
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THE BAYTOWN SUN- -MAY 2,1979
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Washburn claims the
Houston congressman Is
“out of touch” with thjs
area, and he blames infla-
tion on excessive govern-
ment spending and
dependency on foreign oil.
The winnpr of the
Eckhardt-WaShburn clash
will face Republican Jack
Fields Jn the November
general election. (Fields is
unopposed in the GOP
primary.)
4 voting precincts
Baytown, plus one in Lyn-
chburg, are in Congres-
sional District 8. -
Precincts north of HO in
East Harris County share
Congressional District 9
Not Chairman
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J.W. “JACK” Strickler is
past president of Harris
County Federal Savings
and Loan Association — not
past chairman of the board,
as stated in a photo caption
in Thursday’s Baytown
Sun. Theo Wilburn is board
chairman^
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Jobless Rate Hits 7 Pet.
In April, Report Claims
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J5t. James House
ST. JAMES House, 5800
Baker Road, will observe
its 20 th anniversary at a tea
from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m. Sun-
day, hosted by the St.
James House Auxiliary. .
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THE BAYTOWN SUN - - MAY 2,1980
WASHINGTON (AP) - grew by 825,000 from March
The nation’s unemploy-to 7.3 million, with the
ment rate shot up from 6.2 largest unemployment in-
percent to .7 percent in creases coming in the slum-
April, the highest level in ping construction and auto
214 years and a powerful industries,
sign that the inflation- The rise in the jobless
wracked economy is now rate was the steepest for
being squeezed by the vise one month since January
MOSTLY CLOUDY and of recession, the govern- 1975, when the nation was in
mild thrpugh Saturday Is"’ irantreperted today?-:r-~- the grip of its last reces-
• the Baytown area It also Was the largest sion. Even more startling
weather forecast. Low ex- one-month increase in the was the leap in unempfoy-
pected Friday night, near jobless ^ate among adult ment among adujt men
60; high Saturday, near men in*more than, three from 4,9 percent to 5.9 per-
decades. cent, the largest monthly
The Labor Department increase sjrtce October
SATURDAY TIDES for said the number of 1949. Vf
waters fronting the City of Americans without jobs T h e/i n c-r e a s i n g
Baytown: Highs at 12:55
*■ p.m. and +7:47 p.m.;
lows at 4:48 a.m. and + <
5:02 p.m.
unemployment figures
come at the same time that
inflation is running at an
annual rate orift percent.
Economic analysts, and
President Carter, generally with Chambers County. In-
agree that the inflation rate cumbent District 9 U.S.
will spdn decline, Today’s Rep. Jack Brooks is beirig
jobless figures parallel challenged by W.L. “Bub-
other recent economic in-.b a ” Pate and Jack
dicators pointing to areces- Brookshire,
sion and lend new evidence " The six-way Conti
to revised predictions that Justice of the Peace,
the downturn will bjs
substantially deeper then
Carter i£ forecasting.
The president has
predicted a “short qhd
mild” recession.
Back School Trustees In
Dope Dog Lawsuit: Turner
Our
World
W eather
+ TEHRAN -
Two persons resporb
sible for “events” at
violence-plagued
Ahvaz University-1' in
Iran’s Khuzestan
Province were , ex-
ecuted today, Tehran
Radio said.
+ LONDON-The
takeover of the Ira-
nian Embassy in
London makes
resolution of the U.S.
Hostage crisis “more
difficult,” and Ira-
nians in the British
capital should be
ready to lay down
.their lives resisting
the terrorists, the
militants holding the
Americans in Iran
declared today.
lawsuits saying they want mans to “back the school
prayer in the schools and board” in Its lawsuit over
want the dope dogs there to the use of dope dogs in
protect them from drugs in schools here. "Yeah, the
dogs may be a nuisance
sometimes, but if I'm not"'
carrying dope, what do I
have to worry about?
“If the presence of the ||
dogs cuts down on the dope i
in our schools, I’m for
them.” . 11
,.8-llBl Turner showed club
.....5A members portions of
various drugs that are
popular with modern users,
including burning a small
7B amount of marijuana so the
group could see “what it
Television Log....... 5A smells like."
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By LYNN HUGHES
“The dope.problem in
Baytown is as bad as it ever
w’as, ' but there are
thousands of decent^, kids
here who don’t mess"with
drugs, yet no one ever does
anything for them,”
cording to Baytown Police
Chief R.ft. “Bo” Turner,
who gave Baytown Kiwa-
nians a brief look at drugs
and the overall problem
Thursday. . .
“We have programs and
do things to help ail the hell-
raising, dope-using kids,
but what do we do for the
good kids?” he asked.
“It’s about time some of
those good ones start filing
r for
Precinct 3, Place 1, is an
attention-grabber*, in the
Democratic primary with
two Baytown men in the
running - Marshall
(See BOB, Page 8-A)
the schools,” he added.
Turner also urg?d Bayto-
ac-
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Classified...
Comics.....
Dimension.
Editorial....
Markets.....
Obituaries...
Sports......
: SUNRISE SATURDAY at
Box 456, Dick Cooke pnd
Joy A. Ralls.
Wayne McClurg,
longtime executive com-
mittee in Precinct 249, will
be a w'fite-in carididate
Box 149, San Jacinto
Elementary School, 2602
Kentucky.
Box 165,. William B.
Travis Elementary School.
100 Robin Road.
roil Precht, 907 Clear Lake
Road, highlands. *>
Box 99, Lamar Elemen-
tary School.
Box 248, combined with
Box 101 at Horace Mann
Here are the 22 polling
places for Democrat
primary elections Saturday
in Baytown apaEast Harris
County: , /;
12,' Alamo
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AROUND
School,
• Box
1861 Austin. .. p......■ L...............
Box 13, David G. Burnet School, Lee Drive.
School, 5720 Bay way Drive,
Box 28, Jessie Pumphrey
School, 4901 Fairway Drive,
Box 63, Highlands
Library, 509 Stratford,
Highlands. '
Box 96, Lynchburg
School, 306 S, Kilgore, Lyn-
chburg.
Box 97,
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“Box 250, combined with
Box 387 at Highlands Junior
School. -
There will be no GOP
elections in three precincts
in East Harris County.
These are Precincts 103,251
and 386.
COMMITTEEMEN .
There will be eight con-
tested races for executive
committeeman in
Democrat elections. Can-
lin. Because of^+mjjcup in
the mail, McClurg’s ap-
plication did not meet the
filing deadline. ' v ,
The only Democrat
precinct in which no one fil-
ed for election as executive
committeeman is Precinct Pearce Street Journal s
Judges, DA Aides Hinder
‘Tough’ Justice, Bo Says
Box 249, J^mes Bowie
School, 2200 Clayton.
Box 250, Harlem Elemen-
tary School, 2623 Broad,
McNair.
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Box 251, Drew. Junior
School, Red Oak” prive at
Penn, Barrett Station.
Box 386, Stephen F.
Austin Elementary School,
Massey-Totnpkins Road.
Box 387, Highlands
Junior School,. 1212 E.
Wallisville, Highlands.
Box 414, Cedar Bayou
Junior School, 2500 Cedar
Bayou Road.
Box 456, Harris County
Courthouse-Annex, 701 W.
Baker Road. .
REPUBLICANS
Polling places for the
GOP primaries will be held
in the same buildings as the
Democratic primaries with
the following exceptions:
Box 63, the garage of Car-
M
JOE CAMPBELL finds it
hard to wake up when his
alarm clock breaks .. .
Frances Weiss takes a tour
of The Baytown Sun plant, termediate S
nerberg Road, Crosby
Box 98, Huffman Middle
School, Lakewood Heights,
24403 E. Lake Houston
Parkway, Huffman.
Box 99, Dutch Holland
Oldsmobile, 622 W. Texas.
Box 100, Ashbel Smith
School,-403 E. James.
Box 101, Horace Mann
Junior School, 610 S. Pruett.
Box 102, Baytown Junior
School, 3515Bayway Drive.
Box 103, General
Telephone Co., 8200 N.
Main. < '
103.
Blaming judges and in-
adequate help in the district
attorney’s office for lenient
treatment of convicted
felons, Baytown Pbiice
Chief R.H. “Bo” Turner
told Baytown Kiwanians
Thursday it is up to citizens
to see that justi'*e is done.
“Our dish/+ attorney
has some real young
lawyers who don’t know the
law and that is part of our
problem," he explained.
“There are more than 300
assistant district attorneys
in Houston and we are try- “We need to make sure a
ing to work with our district person is guilty and when
attorney, who inherited a we do, use our jury system
bad situation. _to stiek it to them. Ti
“The judges are also to often, they are reprimand-
biame. They are going to ed and returned to the
have to realize they need to streets to continue thieving
work more than two or and tearing up our proper-
three days a week or it’s ty;”
time for us to get some new ,, . , ,, ,
judges. They need to 5 He c.ted a case m wh.ch a
working five day, 40-hour T?., a.®
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' Turner said juries need t« 5,“The JS giVen
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"slapping them on the ence
wrists and letting them
Wait And See
There will be two con-
tested races for executive
committeemen in GOP
boxes. * • ■ i.......
If candidate John
Anderson keeps a GOP or
a Demo from being
elected president, that job
will go to the House of
Representatives.
If they follow their
usual procedures, they
will probably first vote
themselves another pay
raise because of this ex-
tracurricular assignment
Crosby In-
jtfiool, .{Run-
didates are *
Box 12, Jim Bailey and ^ Precinct 165, Sue
Helbig and Steven Eugene
Gallun have filed for the
Republican committee
post. Candidates at
Precinct 414 are James L.
it
Mr. and Mrs. Richard
Joseph Tholstrup proud of
his adoption of her
daughter, Nisha Nichole
C. Wayne Watson
beams like a peacock.
Glen Hoyt shows off a hat
... Dhvid Hester dreams of
a new -car- ,
James A. “Bitsy” Davis
sports a bright green sport
coat... Pete Sultis “makes
the day” for a serious
dieter ... Clyde Messiah
looks “in the pink,” his
friends claim.__
BiliG. Rogers.
_ Box 99, David Blanton
and Jack Hester*! «-/
Box 101, Charles Lensing
and Mrs. S.L. Robberson.
Box 102, Andy Contreras Hamm andB| Crawford,
and Hortensia Estrada
Box 149, Eva Benavides
andMarjieKloesel.
Box 250, Roland F. Leno
Jr. and Jefferson D.
East Harris Republican
precincts in which no one
filed for executive commit-
teeman are 63,101, 248, 250
and 387, in addition to the
three GDP precincts (103,
251 and 386) that will not
hold primaries.
pinned on them by the
Constitution.
We can only wait and
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to feel.
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thieves. To hell with
we need to do things f
see.
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Walker.
Box 386, D.E. Hamiter
and Charles E. Jackson.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 176, Ed. 1 Friday, May 2, 1980, newspaper, May 2, 1980; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145196/m1/1/?q=food+rule+for+unt+students: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.