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Tuesday, June 13,1995
Volume 73, No. 193
Baytown, Texas 77520
Telephone Number: 422-8302
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New dress code will allow
boys (slightly) longer hair
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Wagon load of fun!
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Houston Symphony
at Gentiy Monday
By john McMillan
The Raytown Sun
committee members were parents,
and two of the committee members
were high school students.
In an interview with The Baytown
Sun on Monday, Weatherall estimat-
ed that during the 1994-95 school
year, “fewer than 50 different boys”
at the primary or secondary level
were asked by principals of GC-
CISD campuses to get a haircut in
order to comply with the district’s
hair-length requirements for male
students.
During the school board meeting,
Weston Cotten, vice president of the
school board, expressed doubts
about whether it is appropriate for
the school district to impose restric-
tions on the allowable length of
male students’ hair.
“I’ve never figured out how the
length of their hair had anything to
do with what they were doing in
school, so long as it wasn’t disrup-
tive,” Cotten said. He added, howev-
er, that “if this is what the (advisory)
committee has come up with, I’m
willing to abide by it.”
The dress code policy recommen-
dations presented to the school
board also clarified the restriction
on the minimum allowable length of
shorts worn by GCCISD students.
Under the proposed new policy on
shorts, the bottom edge of any GC-
CISD student’s shorts may not lie
above the the tip of the index finger
when the student is standing and his
arms are extended at their full length
along the side of his body, Weather-
all noted.
The school district’s dress code
regulations are designed to prevent
disruption to the academic environ-
ment at each campus, Weatherall
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The official line of demarcation
for allowable hair length by Goose
Creek school district schoolboys
will probably be lowered by more
than an inch.
Under new dress-code regulation
proposals for the 1995-96 school
year that Goose Creek CISD board
of trustees discussed Monday night,
the hair of the school district’s pri-
mary or secondary-level male stu-
dents would not be allowed to fall
“below the base of the neck,” ac-
cording to the policy.
Asked for clarification on where
the base of GCCISD schoolboys’
necks lies, A1 Weatherall, executive
director of personnel services and
student outreach for the district, cit-
ed the first vertebrae at the base of
the neck.
By contrast, the dress-code regu-
lations for the 1994-95 school year
at GCCISD prohibited male stu-
dents’ hair from falling below the
base of the shirt collar — approxi-
mately 1 1/2 inches above the base
of the neck.
Weatherall, who presented the
proposed new dress code policy to
the Goose Creek school board on
Monday, said the district’s advisory
dress-code committee had recom-
mended relaxation of the hair-length
requirement for GCCISD school-
boys partly to help reduce the num-
ber of male students violating the
district’s hair-length restrictions.
The 12-member advisory dress-
code committee that recommended
the policy change was chaired by A1
Richard, assistant principal of Ross
S. Sterling High School. Four of the
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The Houston Symphony Orchestra will
present a free family concert at 7:30 p.m.,
Monday, June 19, at Gentry Junior
School, 1919 E. Archer, in Baytown.
The symphony, under the direction of
Conductor-in-Residence Stephen Stein,
will present “Dance! Dance! Dance!” The
program features dance music from the
past 200 years, including the minuet,
waltz, ballet and the can-can. A special
story of Alexander and the Wind-up
Mouse, based on the fable by Leo Lionni,
is also on the program. Each child will re-
ceive a free booklet filled with musical
games.
One-half hour prior to the concert, chil-
dren can visit the “Instrument Petting
Zoo" and see the “Living Instruments.”
Ronald McDonald will also be present.
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School board names
assistant principal
A Four-year-old Sheli
Mauck and her year-old
brother, Brett, took advan-
tage of a beautiful late
spring day Monday to play
in the driveway with their
little red wagon.
^ Brett and Shell’s mom,
Sheri, decided her children
were having such fun, she
wanted to join them.
Photos by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Sandra Bell has been appointed assis-
tant principal for Horace Mann Junior
School.
Bell, an instructor for Goose Creek
Consolidated Independent School Dis-
trict for 14 years, will replace Rebecca
Betko in the assistant principal's position.
The appointment was made by the
Goose Creek school board at its Monday
meeting after an executive session in
which the board discussed personnel
matters.
Betko was appointed by the school
board earlier this year to the position of
principal at San Jacinto Elementary
School.
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Youth comm, meets
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The Baytown Area Youth Commission
will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday primarily to
hear updates on several ongoing pro-
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jects.
The Commission members will hear the
latest on the 1995 Summer Recreation
Program, on a Community Development
Block Grant request, Horace Mann pro-
grams and the upcoming YMCA Gator
Race in July and hear a report on a Tran-
sition to Work program, a program of the
Communities in Schools.
Youth Commission meetings are held
in the Tejas Room of the Baytown Com-
munity Center, 2407 Market. Any interest-
ed persons are encouraged to attend.
For information, call the Youth Commis-
sion Coordinator, Barbara Kolaja, at 420-
Christman tells Chamber that
regulation is choking industry
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air pollution levels. Houston
and the surrounding areas,
Baytown included, is one of
those “non-attainment areas.”
Since it is located in one of
these noh-attainment areas,
the Bayer facility already has
a strike against it, Christman
said, because the designation
“makes it difficult for expan-
By CHRISTIAN MESSA
The Baytown Sun
Christman is not complain-
ing about the state and federal
requirements. “We couldn’t
have a strong industry without
regulations,” he said.
But he does take issue with
some agencies that seek the
impossible from companies.
Although he has seen an
overall improvement in the
ways the TNRCC deals with
industry, Christman admitted
the Bayer plant is struggling
to comply with the agency’s
wastewater discharge require-
ments. He said the regula-
tions expect certain chemicals
released in wastewater to be
kept at levels so small (parts
per billion), they are almost
immeasurable.
Environmental agencies
have also encouraged limiting
the use of chlorine in industri-
al operations, a difficult feat
to do when plants like Bayer
rely heavily on it, Christman
said.
One of the major effects of
the Clean Air Act of 1990 in-
volves the designation of
places across the United
States that have unsatisfactory
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Industrial regulations have
become more restrictive over
the years, and they sometimes
place unreachable expecta-
tions on the shoulders of com-
panies, said Gordon Christ-
man, general plant manager of
Bayer’s Baytown facility, at
the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce meeting recently.
In 1971, Christman said his
plant needed only one operat-
ing permit. It was valid for 15
years.
Today, however, the Bayer
plant must now have 18 sepa-
rate operating permits, and
those must be renewed every
five years.
Christman offered a list of
state and federal agencies that
scrutinize the petrochemical
industry, including the Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency
(EPA), Texas Natural Re-
source Conservation Com-
mission (TNRCC), and the
Occupational Safety and
Health
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That, in turn, hurts not just
the plant’s competition with
other companies, but on the
global market as well, he said.
Christman stressed regula-
tions are fine if they are based
on science and technology,
but not on emotions.
He said he wished the fed-
eral agencies would follow the
example of what is occurring
in Bayer’s home country of
Germany. There Christman
said government and industry
work together to protect jobs
and maintain a strong econo-
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Tonight: Clear. Lows in the lower 60s
inland, around 70 on the coast. Light
winds inland., northeast wind 5-10
mph coast.
Wednesday: Sunny. Highs in the up-
per 80s inland, mid 80s at the coast.
East wind 5-10 mph.
Weather art by Julian C. Premutico,
Crockett Elementary.
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Photo by Carrie Pryor-Newman
Sherry Hemmenway of Luna’s demonstrates the fan participation
game the Mexican restaurant is sponsoring during the NBA Finals.
Customers are given a chance to make one of two shots for a dis-
count on their meal.
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“We seem to be more antag-
onistic and more at odds with
one another.”
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