The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 174, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 4, 1977 Page: 1 of 34
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did not |o to public kindergarten
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elementary schools at 9:10am
Thursday to preregister children
and Irarn about the program
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Disaster Workshop
AMERICAN RED CROSS nurs-
ing department is conducting a
disaster nursing workshop at Lee
College from 9 a m to 4:90 p m.
Thursday, May 5. Register at
Baytown Red Cross Service
Center. 427-3114 or 422-9319
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PARIS (AP) - The United
Slates has agreed to drop its op-
posrion to Vietnam's admission
to the United Nations, a joint
communique issued by the
United States and Vietnam said
THERE ARE MORE uses (or a driver's Mctnse than as Identification for check-cashing, as
motorists traveling to the 1244 block of Park found out Monday afternoon when they got caught lq a
different kind of “check" Involving licenses. The periodic license checks, conducted by Baytown
police, are usually held at peak traffic hours and often come after police have had several reported
accidents to which one or more of the drivers Involved had no driver s license to thetr possession at
the lime of the ncctdeol. Monday, Officer Res Elliott straddled the center line on Park to check
driver’s licenses about 3:30 p.m.
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Kiwanis Meet
K1WANIS CLUB of Baytown
will meet at noon Thursday at
Holiday Inn Officer Charles
Shaffer ol the Baytown Police
Department's Crime Prevention
Unit will talk on the narcotics
problem in Baytown
CWU Celebration
BAYTOWN CHURCH Women
United will celebrate May
Fellowship Day Friday at St.
Mark's United Methodist
Church A special board of
managers meeting will begin at 9
a m. and members will con-
gregate at 9:30 a m. for a coffee,
program and puncheon
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land — TV Protestant strike
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today
The communique was read to
(Sun staff photo by Glean Fotkesi newsmen by Vietnam's Deputy
- Foreign Minister Phan Hien at
the end of two days talks with
the U S delegation led by Asst
Secretory of State Richard
Holbrooke The announcement
came after four hours of talks on
the second day of the conference
expected to lead to establish-
ment of diplomatic relations
between the two governments
The United States liad
previously vetoed Vietnam's
application to the United
Nations on three occasions. The
last veto was in November 1976.
Hien said the two delegations
would resume their talks in
Paris within two weeks "to seek
a rapid normalization of
relations" between the two
countries.
The communique said Hien
and Holbrooke conferred for a
total of seven hours Tuesday and
Wednesday in the Vietnamese
embassy in Paris to discuss
“matters left behind by the war”
and a normalization of relations.
* The United States delegation
“expressed its appreciation" of
Vietnamese efforts to find the
bodies of American missing in
action in the Vietnam war, the
communique read by Hien said,
It added that the Vietnamese
government would intensify its
efforts to resolve the MIA
problem and would provide ad-
ditional information to the
United States on missing
American servicemen.
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City Not Sure On Double
Role Of Personnel Director
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+ AUSTIN - TV Texas
Suprroe Coort ruled today
that U-Yoca Uttering Co.
sod Coastal State* Gao Pro-
daring Co. do aot owe the Law-
Colorado River Authority
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SAFEGUARDING AGAINST CRIME
MAYOR PRO-TEM Jody R. Lander commends Kiwaniam lor their current observance of
"Safeguard Against Crime Week" after signing a proclamation From left are Glenn Terry, presi-
dent of the West Baytown Kiwanis Club, Lander and Roy Fuller, chairman of the Baytown Kiwaais
Club’s committee lor the observance.
er
maintains the eligibility list and
accepts applications for work.
He makes sure there is com-
pliance with the law in relation
to employment practices
Having the personnel director
handle all this would not take
any power away from the Ciril
Service Commission but would
relieve the members of
necessary paper work, Lanham
said. Firemen and police would
continue to look to the commis-
(See CITY, Page 2-A)
members has served as director,
i know of no other city with that
arrangement."
He recommends turning over
the director’s duties to Larry
Patterson, personnel director,
explaining the personnel direc-
tor already keeps files on city
employes and that duties of the
Civil Service director would fit
in with his existing duties
The Civil Service director is in
charge of the examination
process for police and firemen,
By WANDA ORTON
Should the city personnel
director also serve as Civil Ser-
vice director for police and
firemen?
Baytown City Council is not
sure yet. It tabled action on the
recommendation at the last
meeting in a 5-1 vote. The matter
will come up again at the May 12
meeting
"All through the years,” said
City Manager Fritz Lanham,
"one of the commission
any money because of souring
rate increases since 1973.
(Sun staff photo)
+ DALLAS - One tornado
slammed into a rural acbool
and at least three mare twist-
era menaced otter areai ia
West Texaa before the latest
Bond For Man Charged In
Aiding McManus Changed
Weather
And Tides
siege of nasty weather abated
todiy.
CLOUDY
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+ HOUSTON - A cardio-
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Arraignment for the two was
moved from June 9 to 9 a.m.
May 23 in State District Judge
Allen StiHey’s 228th District
Court,
fcckworth's bond that was
originally set at $50,000 on the
charge, was changed to no bond
during grand jury proceedings.
Mrs. Plaskett will remain free
on $1,000 bond._
The case was originally set to
go to the grand jury June 2, but
prosecutors Mike Hinton and L.
H. (Stu) Stewart took the cue
directly to the juty Tuesday,
which eliminates the process of
having an examining trial, where
the prosecution would have-to
show the defense some evidence
(See NO, Page 2-A)
By LYNN HUGHES
HOUSTON (Sp) - A Harris
County grand jury Tuesday
returned indictments against
Betty Jean Plaskett, 46. and
Lester Beck worth, 43, both of
2500 E. James, on charges of
helping capital murder defen-
dant Vernon McManus flee from
prosecution.
login wu listed in serious coo-
Letters To Explain Need
For New School On ‘Hill’
CLOUDY TO partly cloudy
and warm with a 20 per cent
chance of thundershowers
Thursday is the Baytown area
weather forecast. Low ex-
pected Wednesday night,
upper 60s; high Thursday,
mid-kOs.
BAYTOWN TIDES for Thur-
sday; Highs at 12:15 p.m. and
+8:07 p.m.; lows at 4:22 a.m.
and +4:12 p.m.
SUNRISE THURSDAY at 6:36
a.m.;-sunset at 8:01 p.m.
+ Denotes weak tides
dilion today after beiag shot
at the Veterans Administra-
tioo Hospital,
+ TOPEKA, Kan.-Shaw-
County Dial. Atty. Gene
Olander wu expected to file
today a first degree murder
charge against Mild* J. Sand-
strom, wife of Topeka broad-
cast executive Thad M. Sand-
strom, who was shot to death
early Tuesday in the es-
tranged couple's home here.
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By BETSY WEBBER
MONT BELVIEU (§p) -
Some 1,250 letters will be sent to
registered voters in Barbers Hill
School District explaining the
need for a^,985,000 bond issue
to finance 7 new intermediate
school in the district. A bond
election has been set for May 14.
Trustees signed the letter at a
special meeting at the high
school.
The letter notes an increase of
300 students since the last bond
issue in 1972 and new students
arriving daily.
The bond issue is intended to
cover cost of 12 new classrooms,
a new resource center, conver-
sion of the present library into
science laboratories, enlarge-
ment of the cafeteria kitchen
and dining area by adding a se-
cond serving line, conversion of
the present lobby into commons
area and provision of all-weather
bonding agent, said, will be sold
at competitive bids. Early sale
might bring a favorable interest
rate, he said.
No increase in taxes is ex-
pected because it appears that
valuations in the district have in-
creased enough that the bonds
can be paid without a change in
valuation assessment ratio or tax
bus loading facilities, all at the
high school.
The new intermediate school
for grades four through six will
include 24 new classrooms,
science room, art room,
resource center, multi-purpose
room, cafeteria and kitchen, of-
fices and restrooms.
Cost of high school additions is
estimated at $1,317,400. The new
school cost is estimated at
$1,925,000 with $200,000 set for
furnishings; $226,968 for
architect's fees; $30,000 for legal
and fiscal fees; and $285,632
reserve for inflation and other
unforeseeable costs.
The letter will note that scale
models of both projects are on
display at Mont Belvieu State
Bank.
The financing plan calls for
repayment over an 18-year
period. The bonds, readily
marketable, Harry Cranberry,
Compromise Reached - -
CV Trustees Rescind Dual
Late
News
SEOUL, South Korea (AP)
- North Korean fire Into the
demilitarized zone killed one
South Korean soldier and
wounded another, the United
Nations Command announced
rate.
Rank Systems For Seniors
+ HOUSTON - An Ari-
zona man waa being held here
today in lieu of $1M,0M bond
following his arraignment on
federal kidnaping and gun law
violation charges.
The bonds would, however,
preclude any reduction in tax
AROUND
rate
The election is to be held in
Chambers County Community
Building in Beach City for
Precinct 5 and at the high school
lobby for all others in the dis-
trict.
Persons eligible to vote must
be 18 years old or above, have a
current blue voter registration
certificate obtained on or before
April 13, 1977, and live in the
school district.
By MURIEL SCOTT
CHANNELVIEW (Sp) -
Channelview trustees came up
with a compromise solution
Tuesday to the problem of rank-
and upholds the current policy of
ranking seniors according to
points accumulated.
The district’s one valedic-
torian would be the top student
according to this , ranking and
would receive the state
scholarship.-
Campbell’s motion continues,
“In attempting to recognize our
honor graduates, a list will be
comprised of students with high
scholastic achievement.”
This honor graduate list will
be determined by taking the
current total points each student
has accrued and dividing that
number by the number of
courses attempted. This will
result in a grade point average.
The top 10 per cent of the
honor students will be recogniz-
ed in order of achieved ex-
cellence, with the top student on
this list considered for a
scholarship to a state school
from a private donor com-
parable to the state scholarship.
Both rankings will be noted on
transcripts sent to colleges un-
less students request otherwise.
Campbell emphasized that this
system will only apply to the
Clan of 77.
Trustee Oscar Langston was
the only member voting against
the motion. Though he said it
was a good motion, he added, ”1
don’t think we should change the
rules of the game when the game
is over.”
today.
Filibuster
Record Is
Shattered
It was the first fatality re-
ported in the demilitarized
zone since Aug. 18, when
North Korean guards axed two
American officers to death at
the Panmunjom truce village
during a confrontation over
the pruning of a tree.
The motion, made by Trustee
Joe Campbell, rescinds the dual
system set up two weeks ago,
j.
KEITH CARNES, Tommy
Gidley, Danny Schroder, Craig
Friermood, Jeff Reilly and
Roger Guenther stop the show at
John Henderson Head
Of Community Chest
the Brigadier Follies with their
City Gets $108,386 For
Sports Complex Addition
“rock band
AUSTIN (AP) — Former
state Sen. Mike McKooi of
Dallas wouldn't trade placet
with bedraggled Sen. Bill
Meier - not for all the filibus-
ter records in the world.
In 1972, McKooi set the
world filibuster mark of 42
hours 33 minutes.
A red-eyed, unshaven Meier,
D-Euless, broke it at 9:54 a.m.
today with hit exhauittog pro-
test of a bill prohibiting organ-
izations from compiling com-
puterized lists of workers who
filing injury claims.
McKooi, now a Dallas attor-
ney, subsisted on lemons, wa-
ter, cough drops and % single
package of candy in a losing
battle to gain more money for
state mental health and refer-
Stephanie Jamison thinks its
great that Joni Ralls made the
All-State Choir
Buntin gets off some thank-you
notes. . . Kathleen Miller busy
as a bee with Bible school plans.
Karen Herd envious of Linda
Rice because of a crawfish
dinner... Joe Brymer is nam-
ed to an elite group . . . Janet
Sturtevant cooks her second
dinner after three weeks of
marriage.
Sam Alford complains about
/ the heat. . . Dorothy Ammons
planning a trip to a flea market
. . . Jody Lander checks his
wardrobe before havipg his pic-
ture made; „ .Jgfc; ;
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Bonner
celebrate , 49 years of
/ marriage
is always accommodating.
Richard King gets organized
Pearce Street Journal - -
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Carolyn
Brown is publisher of The Sun
and is involved in many com-
munity activities. Kunz is vice
president of Citizens National
John P. Henderson of 104
Merrilane has’ been elected
president of Baytown and East
Harris County Community Chest
board of directors for 1977.
Other officers are Leon
Brown, vice president, and
Ralph Kunz, treasurer. Alvin
Miles is past president.
Henderson has been retired
since 1972 from Exxon’s
Baytown Refinery where he held
various supervisory positions
during his 83 years’ employment *
there . ' . B
He has served in several *
capacities in the United Fund
program and was chairman of gy
Exxon Annuitants for the 1977
01’ Dm Tried 1
A heckler asked us what was
the greatest failure we ever
witnessed here.
It came one night in Living-
ston in 1940. The Ganders had
run up a big score on the East
Texans by halftime. Dan Stall-
worth, dying to be charitable,
cleaned the Gander bench to
keep down any more scores.
He sent in freshman George
Walmsley at tailback. Before
gou could bat an eye, George
sCSred three touchdowns.
If that wasn’t Dan’s failure,
at least it w«s pleasant frus-
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Bank
Sports Complex is part of the
1975 bond program. The federal
grant will pay for half of those
items eligible for funding.
Busch, Hutchison and
Associates, consulting engineer-
ing firm, has been authorized by
Baytown City Council to proceed
with plans for the sports com-
plex.
Rountree said the city also has
received $40,000 in matching
fundi from the Bureau of Out-
door Recreation for land ac-
quisition. The city plans to buy
about 13 acres and is looking at
three possible park sites.
WASHINGTON (Sp) - The
Bureau of Outdoor Recreation
has approved a grant of $108,388
for the second phase of develop-
ment of the Baytown Sports
Complex, announced U. S. Rep.
Bob Eckhardt.
“I am delighted the federal
agency has approved funds with
which' to provide better
recreational opportunities for
the citizens of Baytdwn,’' said
Eckhardt.
The second phase of the com-
plex will include fhe required
utilities, roadi and parking, a
maintenance service building,
restroom, scorekeeper building,
lighted softball fields, lighted
tennis courts, a play area and
walkway.
A community center also will
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be constructed but it was not
eligible for federal funding.
Bobby Rountree, director of
parks and recreation, explained
tjhe federal funds are' not
available for an enclosed struc-
ture. Cost of the community
center, approximately $138,000,
will, come entirely from? city
funds,.'. /../. J (\
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He had earlier made a motion
to rescind the dual system and
approve the ranking established
under present policy. That mo-
tion died for lack of a second.
Trustees set up a dual ranking
system in April after several
Carole Vanderford
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drive. ;
He has been chairman of the
United Fund drive and president
of the Baytown Community
Chest. He was elected to his pre-
sent term on the board in 1973.
From July 1969 to July 1970,
Henderson was loa
to be special assi
mayor of Baytown
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 174, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 4, 1977, newspaper, May 4, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145433/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.