The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1984 Page: 2 of 25
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THE BAYTOWN SUN ,
Friday, December 7, 1984
2-A
Police Beat
Wots
Man found guilty of bank robbery
decoration from a yard in the
4700 block of Quail Hollow __ . ,
Wednesday night. Snoopy was TwardOWSky services
wearing a red scarf and red cap. SERVICES FOR Stephanie THE BAYTOWN Chapter of the
+ Damage to two tires on a Twardowsky, 16, of Huffman National Association for the Ad-
car parked in the 1700 block of will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday vancement of Colored People
North Alexander Thursday. Loss at Brookside Funeral Chapel in will hold a meeting and election
was estimated at $120. Houston with the Rev. Rodney of officers and executive board
+ Theft of $900 worth of chairs Weatherly officiating. Survivors members on Dec. 8 at the J.D.
and kitchenware from a include parents Charles and Walker Community Center, 7613
warehouse in the 2000 block of Beverly Twardowsky of Huff- Wade Road. The meeting will be
Ward Road between Tuesday man.
and Thursday. ,
+ Theft of !a bicy.de, chair,
sewing machine and wo sleep-
ing bags from a warehouse in the
3400 block of Garth. The items
were worth $655.
+ Theft of a brown 1976 Ford
Clubcab pickup truck from the
3700 block of Garth Tuesday
night. It was worth $1,500.
+ Theft of two .22-caliber
weapons and a watch from a
house in the 4600 block of St. An-
drews Thursday. The items were
worth $875.
+ Theft of a nerve stimulator
from a doctor’s office in the 2800
block of Garth Road last week. It
was worth $800.
+ Theft of food items from a
vending machine and
refrigerator at the SAC Center,
2000 Lee Drive, Wednesday
night. The items were worth
$225.
A Highlands man told officers washateria with the underwear.
Police said seven persons, in-
Baytown Police Detective P.J.
Kuehn “got his man” for the se- he was jobbed of his watch, ring,
cond time in two weeks when a wallet and $500 from his bank ac- eluding a 6-year-old child, were
jury in State District Judge count by two men at a service apparent robbery victims in a
» Mary Bacon’s 338th District station in Channelview Thurs- 7:30 p.m. Thursday incident at
. Court found Thursday that a day.
, Houston man was guilty of the
Dec. 30, 1983, robbery of Lone
Star Bank.
NAACP meeting
an apartment at 1301 Beaumont.
A 23-year-old Baytown man
The victim said he was at a told officers he and two friends
truck stop on Interstate 10 about were standing outside the apart-
The conviction of James 12:30 pm' Thimsday when he ment talking when three
’ Monroe Lucas, 34, of Houston in was aPPr°ached by one of the suspects approached them with
suspects, who he said got into his knives and guns and ordered
car and requested a ride to them to go inside the apartment.
Houston. _ p0iiCe said four others were
held from 10 to 11 a.m., while
balloting will occur from 11 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
■ the robbery case — one of two
i robberies of Lone Star Bank that
, took more than eight months of
* police investigation before they
were cleared — is the second
Toy run
A MOTORCYCLE “toy run” to
"benefit Boys’ Country will take
place at 1 p.m. Dec. 9 starting at
Northwest Mall at U.S. Highway
290 and Loop 610. The Northwest A BAKE sale benefiting the Ross
chapter of the San Jacinto High S. Sterling High School Or-
Rollers motorcycle club is the chestra will be held starting at 10
sponsor of the event. Members a.m. Dec. 8 in front of the Holi-
of the Baytown chapter will .day Food Store, 1700 Garth
leave the VFW Hall at 11 a.m.
The victim said on the way, already inside the apartment
the suspect wanted to stop at a wben the suspects forced the
service station on Sheldon Road lhree men into the apartment.
seven
Orchestra benefit
conviction credited to the detec-
tive’s work in the past week, so he could go to the bathroom. The suspects made all
Last Friday, a jury in State While they were at the station, a people lie on the floor, then went
District Judge Thomas Routt’s second suspect joined them and through their pockets. Nothing
court convicted Larry Scott the two men allegedly demanded was taken from the child, the 23-
Russell of the Feb. 20, 1975, the victim’s wallet. After they year-old man, a 34-year-old man
murder of Floritta Riishing realized there was no money in and a 25-year-old woman. A 29-
Dubose at an apartment com- the wallet, the suspects ordered year-old man was robbed of $800
plex in the 1300 block of the victim to use his bank card at 'n American money and 10,000
Memorial. Kuehn had spent a Baytown automatic teller Mexican pesos, a 65-year-old
more than five years putting machine location,
pieces of evidence together in
that case before Russell was
Road.
HIJACKERS BREAK -
the hijackers are linked to the
• militant Shiit* Moslem terrorist
group called the Party of God,
which is backed by Iran 'and
IRNA claimed Iranian and blamed for bombings of the U.S.
Kuwaiti officials at the airport Embassy and Marine barracks
were trying strenuously to in Lebanon last year.
In Washington, the State
Department said it appeared
man was robbed of $17, and a 20-
year-old woman had two
cassette stereos taken from
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The victim said he got $500
charged from his bank account and the bere
In the Lone Star Bank case, men ordered him to drop them After robbing the victims,
Lucas will be sentenced by at arl'aPartment complex off p0ijce sajd the suspects ordered
Judge Bacon on Dec. 18. He was Decker Drive. an of them into a bathroom
convicted of the Dec. 30, 1983, q<be fjrst suspect was a black before they fled the apartment,
robbery of the bank in which maje about 5 u jncbes tall AH three suspects were
more than $26,000 was taken. and weighing about 170 to 180 described as Hispanic males,
Bank cameras recorded the rob- pounds. He was wearing a dark ®ach wearing a brown cap and
, bery, but it wasn’t until Lucas SWeater, waist-length blue hrown jacket. One was about 24
' pawned a gun stolen from one of ipicket and blue ieans and had a years old, 5 feet tall and with a
: the bank’s guards that police £d wTgrayin it and a slim build and round face. He
turned their attention to him.
their seats.
negotiate with the hijackers
through the control tower ^nd
“to pacify them.”- The agency two Americans employed by the
says there are five hijackers; Agency for International
freed passengers counted only Development “have been
murdered.”
Edwina Hegna of Sterling,
the State Department’s office for Va., wife of U.S. AID official
counter-terrorism and emergen- Charles Hegna, said she had
cy planning, interviewed on been informed her 50-year-old
ABC-TV!s “Nightline” program, husband was the first person
suggested Iran’s government killed by the hijackers,
mav becollaborating with thehi-
four.
Dayton
But Robert Oakley, director of
had collar-length straight black
Kuehn said Lucas pawned the hair and a mustache, wore
' gun at a Pasadena pawn shop in The second suspect was a glasses, and was armed with a
March. A short time later, black male of medium height knife.
Pasadena police, who have a and build. He had a short afro The second suspect, armed
pawn-- shop--detail that-cheeks ba^dn an&a silvecJtwth^toe vie-;
items "pawned at that city’s tim reported. machine gun, was about 25 years
shops, notified Baytown police In another robbery case a old, 5 feet 8 inches tall with a
that the stolen gun had been Baytown man told officers a f1,m b“lld- H„e ,had shouldeJ-
; located. Lucas and a second suspect stole some o{ bis wi{e,s length brown hair, a mustache
suspect, John Phillip Robertson, underwear from a washing and Soatee> and was wearing
j 30, of 35W McKinney Road, were macbjne jn an apartment Slasses and gloves.
, arrested April 2 by Baytown of- washateria at 301 Tri-City Beach , Jhe th‘rd ™an’ aboul 20
; ficers and an FBI agent. Road about 8:30 a.m. Thursday. 0 d-was.31le* 8 inches all with a
; Kuehn said both men were sIim build, He had collar-length
• charged with the Dec. 30, 1983, The victim said he had put straight hair, a mustache*, apd
!; as well as the Aug. 24,1983, rob- several loads of clothes in was carrying a small rifle or
;• beries of the bank. In the August washers at the washateria and sawed-off shotgun.
C robbery, more than $30,000 was when he went to check on them a
short time later, he found the
The . August robbery case is suspect, wearing a wet bra over
C still pending against Lucas, his sweater, leaning over one of
C while Robertson also awaits trial the washers that contained the
\ in both robbery cases.
mustache.
DAYTON — An 18-year-old
Dayton man is listed in serious
condition after being struck by a
car as he rode his bicycle across
Larry Stanford of Alexandria,
Va., said an official told his
“We feel there is a great deal mother, Lorraine Stanford, in
Oliver Rowell Wilburn was jackers.
flown by Life Flight helicopter to
Hermann Hospital in Houston of sympathy, if not support and Karachi, Pakistan, that the U.S.
where he reportedly remained in active collusion on the part of the government was “99.9 percent
the surgical intensive care unit Iranian government, judging sure” his father, William L.
Friday. from the treatment which they Stanford, 52, was slain.
The accident occurred at have given to this particular in- j On Thursday, IRNA reported
about 6 p.m. Thursday as cident,” he said. two men Were pushed out of the
Wilburn attempted to cross to Arab sources in the United plane onto the landing at the top
the west side of Highway 146 in Arab Emirates reported that a of the steps. The agency quoted
front of a southbound car that representative of Iran’s Presi- one of the men, who identified
was stopped waiting to make a dent Ali Khamenei spent three himself as an employee of the
left turn off of the highway, hours at the airport “but only American consulate in Karachi,
trying to talk the Kuwaiti of- Pakistan, as pleading with
ficials there into giving into the Kuwait to meet the demands.
About five minutes later the man
Police said another car, that
driven by Link Brown Jr., at-
tempted to pass the stopped car hijackers’ demands.
on its right side, striking the The New York Times Friday was pushed back out the door
bicyclist. quoted unidentified State and cut down with six shots, IR-
The bicycle reportedly slid 45 Department officials as saying NA said.
The victim said he confronted volving more than $100 worth, of, -feet from the point of impact, r . i a ,
the suspect and asked him what property Thursday. They includ- while the car continued to skid Greytok named tO Appraisal Board
Baytown police investigated he was doing, but the suspect ed: 110 feet on the roadway and
three reported robbery cases pulled a knife, pushed the man + Theft of a 4-foot-tall another 90 feet along the
Thursday. out of the way and fled the plywood Snoopy Christmas shoulder, police said.
•; taken.
Thefts, etc.
Baytown police investigated
several burglaries and thefts in-
victim’s wife’s underwear.
Robberies reported
Taylor Lake Village Mayor
Marta Greytok will replace coordinator at Brown and Root.
Baytown’s Fred Hartman on the
Harris County Appraisal letters were mailed out Thurs-
District Board.
Jones, 34, is a compliance
The county clerk’s office said
After 44 days, XRAL
‘jug well’ burns out
MOSQUITO BREAKTHROUGH - -
day, notifying the candidates of
blackfly larvae,” Yates added. Ms. Greytok finished ahead of the results.
“That’s important, with two other candidates, including Hartman’s term expires this
Chambers County’s marshes'be- Baytown’s Gary ..Jones, • 4n .; n»nth..i.i^t'.
ing a very important marine balloting to‘fepreSenf the coun- The board is expected to ad-, „
nursery area.” ty’s approximately 30 smaller minister the oath of office to Ms.
The toxin B.t.i. is a bacteria cities on the board. Greytok at its regular meeting
that actually “grows” inside The Harris County Clerk’s Of- at 2 p.m. Monday at the ap-
mosquito larvae. As the bacteria fice reported that 16 city coun- praisal district office at 3737
grows, it breaks down the in- cils voted for Ms. Greytok, two Dacoma in Houston.
for Jones and three for Samuel Other business will include the
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■' mm&£esmsws
Department of Agriculture.
Yates said the system is still in
the well, the last of the gas bum- its developmental stages.
“We hope to use it on a limited
In October, XRAL officials basis in Chambers County
said ethane wa$ selling for about ricelands in 1985,” Yates said,
$11 per barrel, creating a “and possibly against salt
material loss in the well of more marsh mosquitoes.”
than$6.3 million. Yates said trials that have
Smith said that allowing the been conducted have so far
well to bum itself out was safer resulted in more than 95-percent
than trying to shut off the fuel control,
supply from the fire.
“We didn’t know how much
ByDAVID BYFORD
MONT BELVIEU - After 44 : ed.
days of continuous burning, the
blaze at an XRAL Storage & Ter-
I minating Co. “jug well” has
finally burned itself out.
Jackie Smith, terminal
superintendent, said the fire
ceased burning at 3:35 a.m. Fri-
day. The jug well fire was touch-
ed off on Oct. 24 by the explosion
of an adjacent well, which was
put out the following day.
Smith said XRAL employees
were glad to see the end of the
smoldering fire.
sects’ gut lining, eventually kill-
ing them. The toxin then disap- Sims, a Spring Valley city coun- selection of a chairman, a posi-
cilman. tion formerly held by Hartman.
pears quickly in the environ-
ment, Yates said.
“Like any other science, it’s a
matter of being at the right place
at the right time,” Yates said.
“When I came here 10 years ago,
we were looking at spraying
adult mosquitoes forever.”
Precinct 4 County Commis-
sioner Carolyn Adair is also op-
timistic about the system.”
“I consider this to be a very
cost-effective system,” she said.
“This ... is obviously beneficial
to the taxpayers, and I’m very
optimistic about this aspect of
mosquito control for Chambers
County.”
Tides
SATURDAY
HIGH: +4:29 a.m.. 10:36p.m.
LOW: +1:49 am., 2:11 p.m.
* f + denotes weak tide)
Tides forecast are
for Baytown area bays
Vfft IBaptoUm &un
“We took technology that
already existed in other areas
damage to the well head there and put it together for a new ap-
was,” he said. “We thought it plication,” Yates said,
was better to let it burn out.” / In part. Yates’ invention
Smith said the cause of the employs a commercially
lIV . . „ c ... Ml<1 first weU fire, which triggered available Becomist tsystem
Tou bet, Smith said, the nearby well fire, still is not (commonly used for aerial
“That’s what we ve been waiting kn0wn. adulticiding) that uses a per-
on- XRAL officials in October said forated sleeve that rotates at
a break in the pipe of an “above- about 10,000 revolutions per
ly contained 580,000 barrels of ground meter run 50 feet from minute. Centrifugul force pushes
ethane-propane mix, was filled the first well’s well head releas-
with water to displace the gas.
As the water reached the top of cidentally ignited,
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SUNRISE: 7:04 a.m.
SUNSET: 5:22p.m.
He said the well, which initial-
out B.t.i. droplets the approx-
ed the gas, which was later ac- imate diameter of human hairs.
“Basically, it’s a means of
distributing larvicide suc-
cessWly in volumes of 1M> $ Iwfc 0 pnf* Q-l. }
ounces; per acre,” Yates said. 2 Ml Id fll ill dll OdlG \
PflCaoatiatifl
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Cove man treated, released
for inhalation during fire
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“This reduces the normal costs
of $5 to $7 per acre down to about
35 cents per acre, in some cases.
“The material is not toxic to
day. Mrs. Rawls said she awoke anything but mosquito and
and found the entire back por- -
tion of the trailer on fire.
She and her children managed
to escape but her father, William
Riegert, who, lived across the
street, kept returning inside the
trailer to remove some belong-
ings.
He was overcome by smoke
and taken to the hospital by Cove
Volunteer Ambulance, White jp&i
said.
Saturday, December 8
10 am-5 pm
Sunday, December 9 ?
2 pm-5 pm
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COVE — A 49-year-old Cove
man was treated and released at
Humana Hospital Baytown for
smoke inhalation he sustained in
a trailer fire Thursday.
According to Jack White,
firefighter for the Cove
Volunteer Fire Department and
owner of the Elm Shadows
Trailer Park where the trailer
was located, Mrs. Ricky Rawls
and her three children were tak-
ing a nap in the living room of
the trailer around noon Thurs-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 32, Ed. 1 Friday, December 7, 1984, newspaper, December 7, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153882/m1/2/?q=j+w+gardner: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.