The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 89, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 12, 1995 Page: 1 of 49
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Volume 73, No. 89
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Sunday, February 12,1995
Baytown, Texas 77520
$1.00 Per Copy
IN BRIEF
Rural Baytown home bums to the ground
Running errand tvii>
his mfe means Bubba
Massengale wasn’tfast
asleep when fire started
Classic rock, planes
in park Sunday p.m.
Sunday’s Music in the Park program
will combine classic rock with classic air-
planes.
The classic planes are courtesy of the
Lone Star Flight Museum in Galveston
and will make a flyover during the con-
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By RACHELANN FERRIS
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Despite losing their recently remod- [
e}ed twdLstory home and its contents to ■
fire Friday morning, Baytown’s Mas- E
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cert.
The band, Battle Bell, will perform from
3-4:30 p.m. on Feb. 12, and will feature
various classic rock hits.
The Feb. 12 concert will mark the third
Music in the Park performance, which is
hosted by the Baytown Area Youth Com-
mission.
The concerts, produced the second
and fourth Sundays of each month, are
being held in Bicentennial Park on Lee
Drive at Market Street.
These free concerts were designed to
• bring young Baytonians together, while
giving exposure to local talents.
The next concert, Feb. 26, will feature
. Justin-Time.
sengale family does have a couple of
things to be thankful for.
Chief among those is the fact that
James “Bubba” Massengale was not
fast asleep in one of the home’s bed-
rooms when searing flames engulfed
the house just before 10 a.m., as he
would have been any other day after
working his graveyard shift the night
before.
Despite his wife’s protests that he
should get some sleep, Bubba went
with her to run an errand, and that deci-
sion may have saved his life.
Neither Bubba, nor his wife, Brenda ,... K „ . ,, v ........
Massengale was home when the fire me rural Baytown home of Bubba and Brenda Massengale, 8203 Pine Lake Trail-, was engulfed in flames by the time
began somewhere on the second floor, firefighters from Baytown Fire & Rescue Station 6 arrived Friday. The loss could reach $400,000, fire officials said.
The only near-fatality was the fami-
ly’s dog, which was rescued by Bay- r
town Station Six firefighters just before
flames consumed the home at 8203
Pine Lake Trail, northwest of Baytown. S
Mutual aid was provided by Baytown |
Emergency Medical Services, Mont 1
Belvieu Emergency Medical Services, 1
and volunteer fire departments from 1
McNair, Highlands, Crosby, Barbers f
Hill, and Beach City.
“By the time we could get out there, !
the state of the fire had over-taxed the I
water supply on the truck, so we called I
for mutual aid,” said Baytown Fire and I
Rescue Battalion Chief Ed Russell. I
“When we pulled up, the entire attic I
was involved, and the fire was venting I
through the roof.
“We have to rely on area fire depart- I
ments to carry water (to the location). I
That’s part of why it was as severe as it I
JANE HOWARD
State takes license
from Baytown agent
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A Baytown insurance agent lost her li-
cense, according to a list of disciplinary
actions that became final during January.
Miranda Jane Campbell, who operated
out of A-Atlas Insurance Agency, had her
license revoked for committing “fraudu-
lent and dishonest acts” after the Texas
Department of Insurance investigated
several claims of wrongdoing on the part
of the agent.
The official revocation order said that
“Miranda Jane Campbell has committed
deceptive practices in the business of in-
surance, has misappropriated and con-
verted insurance premiums to her own
use and has been guilty of fraudulent and
dishonest practices."
In a report on the investigation’s find-
ings, the Commissioner of Insurance list-
ed several customers, all women, who
paid for auto insurance, but those pay-
ments and applications were either never
remitted or only sent in to the insurance
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Homeowner Bubba Massengale could do little but
watch the flames as his recently-remodeled home was de-
stroyed by fire Friday. The Massengales had just complet-
ed $40,000 in repairs after the home sustained flood dam-
age in October.
A Firefighter? from McNair, Highlands, Crosby, Barbers
Hill and Beach City provided mutual aid.
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was.
Russell estimated the loss of the
4,500-square-foot home and its con-
tents could run as high as $400,000.
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carrier after considerable aeiay
Attempts to contact Campbell were not
successful, me telephone at the A-Atlas
Insurance office had been disconnected.
pnotos Sy Carrie Pryor-Newman
No further action against Campbell can
be taken by the Commissioner of Insur-
ance, however anyone with similar com-
plaints might file a claim in small claims
Jo Roosa, the woman who helped
beautify Baytown, dies at age 65
Goose Creek trustees seek
extension on health texts
court.
JANE HOWARD
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A longtime city employee who ployed by the city, first as the Bay-
was responsible for many of Bay- town Clean City Coordinator and
town’s beautification projects died most recently as the city’s Special
Projects Coordinator, working close-
Jo Van Gundy Roosa, 65, died ty with state and national beautifica-
Feb. 10,1995. tion organizations. She also played a
A Baytown resident since 1968, major roie in coordinating the devel-
Mrs. Roosa was a native of Peoria, opment of the Goose Creek Stream
111. She attended high school in Qreenbelt
Pittsburgh, Pa., and received a bach-
elor of arts degree in journalism
from the University of Pittsburgh.
After moving to Baytown with her
By AMfTI BARUCH
The Baytown Sun
be held before any health text is
submitted for final approval.
The issue surfaced in January,
Goose Creek trustees, at their as the textbook selection commit-
6:30 p.m. Monday meeting, will tee was reviewing the various
consider submitting a request to texts and supplemental materials
the Texas Education Agency for the high-school level health
which would extend the district’s class. At that time, committee
allotted time to select a health members, teachers and a group of
textbook for the 1995-96 school parents expressed their concerns
that some materials — particular-
If approved, the request would ly in the health supplemental ma-
grant the district 60 days beyond terials — were not only offensive,
the March 1 deadline for selecting but also improper for class discus-
a textbook from a list of four texts sions and contrary to local school
already approved by the state, board policy. At heart were mate-
School administrators and mem- rials in teacher editions which
bers of the textbook selection suggested class discussions about
committee met recently and voted masturbation,
to narrow the list by tentatively This sparked a wave of last-
selecting one textbook. They did minute hearings and discussions
so, however, with the provision as parents and administrators tried
that this was just a tentative selec- to reconcile their concerns while
tion, and that further discussions, still meeting the state deadline for
evaluations and hearings would a selection.
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Thursday.
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Roosa is survived by her husband
of 41 years, Keith; daughter Kathryn
Roosa, of Nassau Bay; son Roger
Roosa, Baytown; son Richard
Roosa, his wife Polly, and grand-
JO ROOSA
City's Special
Projects Coordi-
nator COOrdinat- husband and family, P.oosa was ac-
ed develop-
ment of Goose
Creek Stream
Greenbelt.
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five in a number of organizations. .... .. . ..
She was a past president of the Bay- chUdren Mark, Maegan, and
town branch of the American Asso- M,chael> aI1 pf Baytown; 311(1 Ehza'
ciation of University Women, the Blcartt ancl ber husband John
Country Club Civic Organization, ofLon8Island- N-Y she is also sur‘
and the League of Women Voters, v™*1 bY her sister Carolyn Grimes
She served on the board of directors husband Don of Canton, Ohio;
of the Friends of Sterling Library and by her brother, Dr. James Van
and the Baytown Sheltering Arms. Gundy, and his wife Judy of Elkins,
Since 1979 Roosa had been ac- W. Va.; as well as by numerous
tively involved with Baytown com- nieces and nephews,
munity and beautification projects. Funeral services are pending at
For the last 13 years, she was em- Earthman Funeral Home.
Saturday: Partly cloudy with a high
around 70 degrees. Low Saturday
night in the upper 40s.
Sunday: Cooler with a chance of
showers or thunderstorms. High in the
mid 60s. Low Sunday night in the mid
40s.
Weather art by Casey Robertson,
Bowie Elementary.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 89, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 12, 1995, newspaper, February 12, 1995; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1158064/m1/1/?q=a+message+about+food+from+the+president: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.