The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 080, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 2, 1983 Page: 24 of 63
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2-D THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, February 2, 1983
Sun Classified—422-8323 Vote On Clements’ Nominees Delayed.
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Truan, O-Corpus Christi, said
Texas had a low rate of welfare
abuse, and Conner responded,
“One damn case Is too many.”
Conner said Texas might be
49th of the SO states In Aid to
Families with Dependent
Children, but It was No. 1 In many
health care, commodity
distribution to the poor and cen-
tral office management.
Asked which programs he
thought were overfunded, Conner
again mentioned utility payment!
for the poor.
He said foster care payment!
should be wised from $7 a day -
“I’m embartassed by It" — to
$10, and more money should be
spent In other ways to take care of
abused and neglected children.
“I find that I do have certain
priorities in the matter of
welfare, and I adhere to the an-
cient cry of ‘Women and Children
First’ though In these modem
times It may be sexist to say it,”
Conner said.
Conner also said in health care
the state Is being billed for profes-
sional help at the rate of $40 an
hour when patients often are
cared for by untrained personnel,
who earn $7 an hour.
At the request of subcommittee
chairman Ed Howard, D-
Texarkana, the subcommittee
withheld a vote, perhaps for as
long as two weeks.
AUSTIN (API- A lawyer who
has been “rocking the boat'
the Texas Water Commission
an engineering consultant who
“felt the Impulse to do something
useful” by Joining the state
welfare board apparently need
more Senate votes to be confirm-
engineering fees In water pro-
jects, had demanded “straight
answers” from lawyers to his
questions but did not consider
himself “abusive to anyone” and
had not talked to the editor about
his newspaper not being
delivered. He said he had a nice
conversation with the editor’s
secretary, “and the next day I got
my paper
Blake told reporters 12 to 14 of
the 31 senators had been against
Stover’s appointment, but at least
three had changed their minds.
Xs few as 11 senators can block an
appointment.
“He (Stover) was an excellent
witness for himself,” said Blake.
“It’s looking better.”
Conner testified he had sold a
summer home in California,
where he rested each year as a
result of a heart attack, studied
the “origins of charity” and been
tutored by welfare employees for
four months in preparation for
becoming a member of the Board
of Human Resources.
He said he had pledged to
former Gov. Bill Clements, who
appointed him, that he would
spend as much as 25 percent of his
time on the part-time job.
In response to a question from
Sen. Carlos Truan, Conner said
the state is spending 14 percent of
its total budget “to cure the ills of
society” and “that’s getting close
to the celling
discharges from coal-fired steam
electric generating plants, and
voting to deny a water authority’s
request to transfer water from
one basin to another.
The sheet said Stover had ques-
tioned the validity of fees charged
by ‘‘reputable engineering
firms,” abused lawyers who ap-
peared before the commission,
and verbally abused the editor of
the Austin American-Statesman
because his newspaper was not
delivered.
Blake said opposition to Stover
had arisen because his questions
were “rocking the boat.”
“As one person said, maybe we
appointed someone who is over-
qualified,” Blake added. “He’s
asking questions no one else has
asked
Blake said he did not know who
had distributed the “smear
sheet,” but he mentioned an
Austin lawyer specializing in
water matters.
Stover responded that he was
on the job full time, that he was
“extremely concerned" about the
disposal of hazardous waste, that
a massive fish kill had occurred
in East Texas — possibly because
of the trace elements in water
discharges — and that there was
no evidence showing the water to
be transferred from basin to
basin was surplus..
He also said he was “rather
proud” of questioning high
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The Baytown Medical Center Hospital
Is Pleased To Announce
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The Senate Nominations Com-
mittee on Tuesday postponed a
vote on the year-old appointments
of John Stover of Lufkin to the
commission and James Conner of
Marshall to the Board on Human
Resources.
Both men are holdover appoint-
ments from Texas’ first
Republican administration in
over 100 years, which might be
one reason they are having dif-
ficulty getting enough votes for
confirmation in the predominant-
ly Democratic Senate.
In postponing a vote, however,
the subcommittee gave Stover
and Conner additional time to
persuade senators to confirm
them.
Sen. Roy Blake, D-
Nacogdoches, read M charges
from an anonymous “smear
sheet” on Stover and asked him to
respond to each charge.
The sheet accused Stover of
seldom if ever working more than
three days a week, opposing solid
waste disposal facilities, ex-
hibiting “undue concern” about
trace elements in water
Pepito Flores, M.D.
in the practice of
Obstetrics, Gynecqlogy, & Infertility
Baytown Medical Center Professional
Building
1610 Bowie School Drive, Suite A-l 12
Baytown, Texas 77520
Phone 420-2660
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Monday thru Friday
9 A.M.-12 Noon
2P.M.-5 P.M.
By Appointment
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2 French Marines Wounded In Beirut
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BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) »— pocked Holiday Inh at 8:25 a.m. forces in west Beirut was made ty for anyof the attacks and the
Three gunmen riding in a (2:25 a.m. EST), when the last Saturday, when a motorcycle peacekeeping officer, who declin-
speeding car fired into a group of gunmen opened fire with pistols rider tossed an anti-tank grenade ed use of his flame, said: “It ii
French Marines who were jogg- from a blue Renault 12 car and onto a truck carrying six French unclear to us why the French i
Marines to a checkpoint on the have been singled out.” .
On Nov. ?, 19^ a car bomb ex-
ploded about 40 yards from a U.S.
Pascal Garby, a 20-year-old Marine post on Ouzai Beach near
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wounded two soldiers, one of He said he could not release the Tabaris entrance to Christian-
them "gravely, ’ ’, a French names of the wounded Marines populated east Beirut
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until their families were notified
It was the third attack in five Both soldiers were being treated Parisian, suffered a shrapnel* Beirut^ international airport,
days on France’s 1,600-man con- at the French contingent’s field wound in the shoulder just two in- '; One Marine suffered a superficial
ches from the aorta, but is* wound.on the tf&nd from flying
Lebanese police said they had recovering. The assailants are shrapnel— and •«twer Lebanese
civilians were wounded.
The U.S., Frtrfbb and Italian
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peackeeping force here
Lt. Col. Jean-Claude Marchais, no clue to the identity or the still at large
spokesman for the French force, motive of the assailants. Mar- _ _
said we of the two injured chats and other officers in the peace force said a dynamite stick' peacekeepers- '*&. ‘about 4,300
soldiers was “gravely wounded in multinational force, which in- was hurled at a French company strongbaye Unen stationed in
the stomach” while the other suf- eludes U.S., Italian and British headquarters Sunday in west Lebanon in’two .Sages since the
fered a minor gunshot wound in contingents, said they were Beirut’s residential neighborhood Israeli invasion last year forced
unable to provide a description of of Verdun, causing minor damage the bulk of the Palestine Libera-
tion Organization guerrilla army
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About 20 French Marines were the attackers
jogging past west Beirut’s shell-
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No grtrnp claimed responsibili- out of its Beirut powerbase.
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BERLIN, E1 the largest city cap- Farabundo Marti Na- road from Mercedes
Salvador (AJ>) — An tured by the rebels in tional liberation Umana, seven miles
estimated 1,500 .jbeir 39-month-old Front overran Berlin, north of Berlin, while
government Soldiers- civil war against the 70 miles east of San about 300 more had
advanced on Berlin rightist government. Salvador, on Monday been sent from
from two directions “it will be the deci- evening. The two-day Usulutan, the provin-
today but .leftist sion of the FMLN battle left much of cial capital 20 miles
rebels indicated they command whether the City in flaming to the southwest,
may not try to defend we stay in Berlin,” ruins. On Monday the
the agriculture rebel commander Army sources said rebels beat back rein-
center, seized after Ernesto Ramirez told Tuesday that about forcements trying to
two days of bloody about 1,500 townspeo- 1,200 government reach the national
pie at a rally in the ci- troops backed by ar- guardsmen, national
tillery were ap^ police and local
population of 30,000 About 500 guer- proaching on foot militiamen guarding
before the battle, is rillas of the leftist along a mountain the city. The govern-
ment troops assigned civilians
to Berlin were
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ruins. Seven square hesitated to look for
blocks of the victims in the rubble
downtown area were for fear of setting off
bombed and burned unexploded bombs,
to the ground by air
force bombers and here is horrible,”
rehel bazooka and said a resident who; .. . •-
mortar attacks that asked not to be iden- - ‘
reportedly 'killed 40 tified.
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BRIGHT. BRILLIANT: BEAUTIFUL.
For Valentine's, hearts are trumps.
A Winning gift,,oqr 14-karat gold pendant of
hearts forming a heart shape. And of course, a
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ByTHEASSOCIATEDPRESS drive them out of 25 states. One trucker Parkhurst, president and half the nation’s
Gunfire crackled business. was killed and at of the Independent steel,
across highways in 18 While violence and least 10 were injured, Truckers Associa- Federal officials) „ • I
states as more the threat of violence including one man tion, which called the said Tuesday the $
groups of indepen- has reduced truck who was in satisfac- strike and claims to strike was being felt I
dent truckers joined traffic in Jnany' tofy condition after represent 30.000 of from Chicago to NeffiZZx
strike^ states, especially at being shot- in the Uie nanpn*s lw.ooo York, but apparently) v
while the Teamsters night, retailers and chest Tuesday after- independent with “no serious*
union called for the federal govern- noon as he walked truckers, urged disruption’* of in-
police protection of ment reported little from an Indiana truckers to “shut terstate commerce,
truckers still on the effect on shipping, truck stop. down .peaceably, go In Chicago,
road and a strike although some - By midnight Tues- home and stay Teamsters President
teader said drivers grocers warned of day, nearly 100 home.” ' -l Roy Williams,. who ,
cotad help them- spot shortages if the strike-related in- a shot fired from was recently con-
selves by staying strike continues. cidents had been amhUSh Tuesday victed of bribery-
h0T?e’ . ... Officials reported reported to state night fn northern In^ conspiracy charges,
K The; strike which shooting incidents in police in Penn,- EmETtouck called on federal and
began In most areas is states, with acts of sylvania since the but tat avaTcarrvtae state governments to
Monday, was cafled vapddlism»and shutdown began. 11 school chUd^Sf “Provide protection
to protest scheduled sabotage - including More local truckers wounS the dS for drivers and the
increases in the slashed tires, fires, organization joined mShio Mlicesato motoringppblic.
federal fuel tax tod nails on roads, and the shutdown Tues- a twn-to» staffed The Teamsters op-
Wghway user Tees bricks thrown day, notably In Ohio fractieS pose the strike and
that independent through windshields and Massachusetts. Jav STbrS the driver killed by a
truck drivers say will - in a total of at least Meanwhile, Mike boLied off a touck sniPer's bullet late
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 080, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 2, 1983, newspaper, February 2, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153604/m1/24/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.