The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1984 Page: 1 of 24
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Volume 62, No. 100
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Friday. February 24, 1984
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Food Costs
Drive Up
Inflation
More Work OK’d
On Rollingbrook
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Members voted to reappoint E.W.
City Council gave the go-ahead Thurs- Froehner, Marcia Stasney and John
day on plans for improving Roll- Sylvester to another two-year term on
ingbrooK Drive east of Garth Road, part the Urban Rehabilitation Standards
of the city’s capital improvement pro- Review Board. Their terms are due to
gram estimated to cost $68,300.
Council also authorized advertise-
ment for bids on the project and the hir- manager’s reappointment of Mrs. Neal
Richardson and Lynette Relyea to
Plans call for completing the west- another two-year term on the Baytown
bound lanes of Rollingbrook west to Library Board. Lanham also appointed
Garth Road.
Owners of the property had agreed fairs department, to fill the expiring
they would finish the street when they library board term of Vic Glass,
developed the adjacent property.
The owners are not ready to develop McGraw to fill the unexpired term of
the property, but the city wants it paved Dottie Glass, who resigned her position
before the Rollingbrook extension, to on the Clean City Commission,
the west of Garth Road, is completed, Members also reappointed Dr.
City Manager Fritz Lanham told City Clarence A. Riser to another two-year \ yt \ v\ Friday’s Consumer Price Index
In accordance with the original agree health officer. Riser is paid $500 a Vj V t \ telephone bills, largely the result
ment, when the property owners do month. *‘%V o{ the government-ordered
develop the land, the city may be reim- Council also reappointed the certified FEET INC THE 7?HYTHM breakup of the American
bursed for the remaining costs of con- public accounting firm of Gerace- m. uiiyiuij m maitm Telephone & Telegraph Co. Phone
structing the westbound lanes, City At- Hullum-Start & Co. Inc. as the city’s STUDENTS FROM Ross S. Sterling High cing are, from left, Toby Taylor, Sanda bills, the report said, rose an
torney Randy Strong said. auditor for the 1983-84 fiscal year. School display the style that earned them first Lozano, Tonya Thurman and Kesa Anderson, average of 5.2 percent last month
In other action, City Council approved In other business, City Council place In the Spanish Dancing competition at The group is performing the Spanish gypsy
appointments to several boards and authorized a change order amounting to the Foreign Languages Festival at Stephen F. dance, “Flamenco.”
(See MORE, Page 2-A)
By LISA OCKER
■ WASHINGTON (AP)
I biggest food price surge since
I August, 1980 pushed consumer
I prices up 0.6 percent last month,
I their steepest gain in nine mon-
I ths, the government said Friday.
§ Half the gain came from a 1.6
I percent jump in food prices, the
V Labor Department said. Prices
it rose for virtually all foods, in-
II eluding such staples as meats,
B eggs, vegetables and fruits.
,J|j Friday’s bad news had been ex-
pected by analysts who said last
summer’s prolonged withering
heat and drought, coupled with
t'- the severe cold weather earlier
| ^ this winter, made more expensive
\ food inevitable.
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expire in March. <
Council also approved the city
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ing of an appraiser.
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Ron Embry, head of Exxon’s public af-
City Council voted to appoint Barbara
Council in a previous meeting.
Heating oil prices climbed 2.6
percent, the largest one-month
gain in nearly three years, while
gasoline prices, tumbling for the
fourth straight month, were off
1.1 percent. Natural gas prices
* were also down 1.1 percent.
In all, January’s increase in the
CPI was three times the revised
0.2 percent advance of December
-leasing that space, they’re legal, more people use them at one an(l the biggest jump since the 0.7
After discussing the “problem” There’s nothing we can do about time,” Brister said. percent of April,
of itinerant merchants with a it,” Lanham said. “The ordinance deals with safe- Despite the fresh price pickup,
local businessman, City Council “it’s legal by our own or- ty and health considerations on- however, analysts didn’t foresee
gave the go-ahead for more dinance,” City Councilwoman ly,” City Attorney Ron a return anytime soon to the tor-
research on regulation of those Mary Elizabeth Wilbanks added. McLemore said. rid inflation pace of just a few
who operate on the parking lots of Lovell said he does not think it Penalties up to $1,000 may be years ago.
local businesses. fair that itinerants, who may not fined those who violate the or- Forecaster Donald Ratajczak
ad nor sales dinance. of Georgia State University
d to compete Hot tubs used by a single family predicted that most of the
will not be affected by the or- weather-related rapid food price
. “I venture to say nobody is col- dinance, except that they must be increases would slow during the
spring.
Most analysts look for a 5 per-
Currently, itinerant merchants, m other business Thursday, Ci- type of construction allowed, re- cent advance for all of this year,
who do not lease the area where ty Council passed an ordinance to quires proper circulation systems Consumer prices last year rose
they operate, are required to pay regulate public or semi-public and regulates chlorination and 3.8 percent, their best showing
$10 to obtain a permit from the ci- spas and hot tubs. alkalinity of the water. since 1972
ty clerk’s office. City Sanitarian Howard Brister In other action, City Council:
City Manager Fritz Lanham said the “new trend” of hot tubs •Authorized renewal of the con- 1982 after shooting up 12.4 percent
told Lovell that police had told the being installed at apartment com- tract with Harris County pro- in 1980 and 8.9 percent in 1981.
particular itinerant merchant plexes necessitated amending the viding $24,625 in county funds for The department, breaking
operating near Lovell’s business swimming pool ordinance to in- bookmobile service within the ci- down the 1,6 percent overall food
ty of Baytown and certain unin- price gain, said that prices for
“It could be more of a health corporated areas of the county; food bought at grocery stores rose
hazard than pools because (hot ‘Approved the ballot distribu- 2.4 percent, the steepest gain
(See ITINERANT, Page 2-A) since February, 1977.
commissions.
Austin State University in Nacogdoches. Dan-
Itinerant Merchants Discussed
Brewer President Of
Baytown Chamber
City To Research ‘Problem
By LJSA OCKER
Reggie Brewer, president of
Baytown State Bank, is the
new president of the Baytown
Chamber of Commerce.
Officers, elected Thursday at
a meeting of the board of direc-
tors, will assume their duties
April 1. Brewer will succeed
James Cauley as president.
Vice presidents will be Jim
Hosek, president of Lone Star
Bank, and Larry Lucchesi,
manager of Gulf’s Cedar
Bayou Plant.
Joe Butterworth, manager of
the Baytown Olefins Plant, will
be secretary.
Treasurer will be Sid Ander-
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“I think we jieed somebody to be paying any overhe
govern these people,” said Jim tax, should be allowec
Lovell, owner of a local furniture with local businessmen,
store. “I don’t want to say this
man can’t make a living, but. * ; lecting any sales tax,” Mayor fenced as are swimming pools.
The ordinance specifies the
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all I ask is a fair shake.”
Allen Cannon said.
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Prices had risen 3.9 percent in
son, manager of the J.C. Pen-
ney Store at San Jacinto Mall.
New officers will be in* Decker Drive. A social hour,
traduced March 29 at the an- preceding the banquet, is
nual Baytown Chamber of scheduled from 6:30 to 7:30
p.m.
Tickets will go on sale March
REGGIE BREWER
to leave because he did not have a elude hot tubs and spas,
permit or proof that he was leas-
ing the property.
“But, if the one you saw was tubs) are smaller and sometimes
Commerce banquet.
The banquet will be held at
7:30 p.m. at the Royal Inn on 7.
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April 10 Hearing
Set In Hill Case
LC Regents Table
Witness Proposal
Pearce Street Journal - -
Meet HER-ricanes
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We have two young women
friends named Alicia and Carla.
We can’t wait to introduce
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them, saying, “Miss Stormy meet
Miss Stormy.”
By BRUCE GUYNN
Lee College Regents voted 6-2 witness also tends to make the
Thursday to table action on a pro- conference more balanced. “You
posal that would have allowed a don’t have four or five ad-
college employee the right to br- ministrators looking at the
ing a witness to a personnel con- employee,” Mrs. Woods noted,
ference called by a supervisor.
She said the presence of a
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children to remain in school until
the issue is settled. A January rul-
ing by Federal District Judge
Robert O’Connor upheld the
restraining order.
The Scholes family says one of
their children will miss out on an
important special education pro-
gram and another will lose a
year’s football eligibility if -re-
quired to attend Dayton schools.
Trustees fear allowing the
children to remain in-BHSD Will
set a precedent for others living
outside the district, and therefore
not paying BHSD taxes, to attend
the district’s schools.
In other business, trustees
awarded a bid for $22,145 to First
Insurance Agency, Ranger
Lloyds agents, for insurance on
district buildings. The district
will pay $18,638 for insurance on
14 buildings. The city of Mont
Belvieu will pay the remaining
$3,507 for insurance on three older
district buildings it leases for
community use.
Trustees also corrected an or-
dinance naming Bobbie Hamilton
judge for the April 7 trustee elec-
(See HEARING, Page 2-A)
MONT BELVIEU - April 10
has been set as the date for a
Texas Board of Education hear-
ing to decide whether seven
children will continue to attend
Barbers Hill schools.
The children and their families
live on County Line Road near the
district’s north boundary. At a
November 1983 hearing, trustees
ruled James Scholes’ five
children, as well as the two
children of Ruth Singletary,
reside outside the district and are
therefore not eligible to attend
BHSD schools, although the
children were enrolled there dur-
ing the 1982-83 school year.
Scholes filed a federal lawsuit
against the district alleging the
children were denied due process
when they were required to leave
the district in fall 1983. The
families contend it is impossible
to determine whetjier or not the
children live — tti' the district
ithout resurveying the
Chambers-Liberty county line,
wife, Ida, talk about their part of which forms the BHSD
beautiful home . . . Terry Foster northern boundary,
writes a letter . .. Patti Wilson Subsequently, a restraining
calls a friend order was issued to allow the
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Auther B. Davis, a government
Voting to delay action on the instructor and grievance chair-
proposal were Leonard Stasney, man for the Lee College Guild, the
chairman of the board, and faculty union, said the proposed
Regents Bruce Causey, John W. policy is being adopted on a na-
Adams, Claudia Smith, Reggie tionwide basis.
Brewer and Alden Weaver.
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8-9-A
PAUL PATTERSON III pinch-
hits as a photo subject in a feature
. about Sterling’s special services
counselor Micki Rosenberger.
Paul, one of the top students at
RSS, is a student assistant in the
• main office and posed in the photo
to represent students needing
counseling.
Kappa Kappa president Beth
Howell is greatly appreciated . . .
Hugh Howell, Leslie Duvall and
Blaine Friermood have a good
time,
Millie Smith, Barbara Johnson
and Linda Kuhlman look nice ...
Laren Conder likes to interrupt
.. . Joan Griffin is welcomed as a
Kappa member.
N.O. “Pookie” Morrison and
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Davis charged that college of-
Voting against tabling the pro- Octyls “have denied us the right
posal were Laura Woods- and—to bring in an attorney” into a
Gwen Altwein. Regent Mike personnel conference.
Bargainer was absent from Stasney said there is currently
Thursday’s meeting.
RiCk Peebles, attorney for the
college, recommended that the fact that the proposal was not
regents take no action on the pro- presented to the board Policy
posal until two legal cases involv- Committee, which she chairs,
ing similar situations are re-
solved.
One of these cases involves
Rusk State Hospital and the other the phone and call me,” Mrs.
is pending in Bee County, Peebles Smith responded,
said.
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no board policy on this matter.
Mrs. Smith said she resented
WEATHER
BAYTONIANS CAN expect
fair and mild conditions
through Saturday.
Temperatures are forecast
near 40 degrees Friday
night and in the low 70s
Saturday. From 8 a.rh.
Thursday to 8 a.m. Friday, a
low of 52 degrees and a high
of 75 degrees were recorded.
Mrs. Woods said the policy
committee hasn’t met yet.
“All you have to do is pick up
wi
Causey suggested that the pro-
Mrs. Wood recommended the posal is “an administrative mat-
proposal to permit an employee to ter.”
have a witness at personnel con- In other business, regents voted
ferences. (See WITNESS, Page 2-A)
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1984, newspaper, February 24, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154078/m1/1/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.