The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 242, Ed. 1 Tuesday, August 9, 1994 Page: 3 of 34
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Tuesday, August 9, 1994
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Board members explore tax increase
DEATHS AND FUNERALS i
BEA
Wednesday, Aug. 10,1994, follow.-:
ing the 7:30 p.m. rosary. The Rev.
Lawrence Ebuk will officiate.
Mrs. Meullion died Sunday,'
Aug. 7, in a Baytown hospital. r
She had lived in Baytown for
approximately 45 years. .
Survivors include her mother,.
Lillian Gobert of Baytown; sons
and daughter-in-law, Norman
Meullion and wife, Marie, of Bay-
town, Harold Meullion of Bay-' <
town; daughter, Yvonne Washing-, j
ton of Baytown; eight grandchil-
dren; brothers, Willie Gobert afld‘ ,
wife, Doris, of Barrett Station,'
Nolan Gobert and wife, Geraldine,
of Houston; and sisters, Ruby ;
Arceneaux and husband, Steve, of •
Barrett Station, Mable Auzenne of; ;
Lawtell,La. i
Mrs. Meullion was preceded in J
death by her husband.
Pallbearers will be Harold Meul-
lion, Warren Arceneaux, Darrell 1
Arceneaux, Lawrence Gobert Jr., •
Albert Lee Gobert, Robert Earl j
Gobert. Honorary pallbearers will, j
be Norman Meullion, Patrick* j
Meullion, Donathon Meulliqn j
Willie Gobert. v- ;
Burial will be at 9 a.m. on
Thursday, Aug. 11, at Memory
Gardens in Baytown.
GLASGOW
Services for George (Mike)
Glosgow, 74, of San Antonio were
in May would raise the district’s
tax rate to $1.59, said King.
He added that the current tax
rate average in Harris County is
$1.59 and that Goose Creek
school district currently has a
$1,507 tax rate.
“I anticipate we’ll be at $1.59
and the Harris County average
would be somewhat higher (in
the upcoming year),” said King.
Adding to the budget difficul-
ties for this school year are the
projected revenue losses from a
$30 million reduction in indus-
try value. However, this loss is
somewhat offset by a projected
gain of $29 million in increased
residential values.
By JOHN MARTINEZ
The Baytown Sun
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The final proposal would call for a 6 cent tax
increase and would leave schools working at
WO percent their allocation level. Theproposal
would also give employees a step increase in
salary plus $600, where appropriate.
held on Wednesday, Aug. 3,1994,
at Fort Sam Houston. The Rev.
Chuck Miller, a Baptist minister
from San Antonio, officiated.
Glasgow died in a San Antonio
hospital on July 31.
He was a retired military staff
sergeant. He and his family had
lived in San Antonio since his
retirement a number of years ago.
He was preceded in death by his
mother, Marjorie Petty; father, Jess
Glasgow; and brother, Tony Petty.
Survivors include his wife, Lucy
of San Antonio; sons, George W.
Glasgow Jr. of San Antonio, John
Andrew Glasgow of San Antonio;
daughters, Mary Diane Harris of
San Antonio, Bonnie Carole Find-
ley of Austin, Marjorie Ann Lewis
of San Antonio; six grandchildren;
three great-grandchildren; and sis-
ters, Wilma Petty Bruyere of New
Ulm, Opal Petty Tarver of Deer
Park.
After playing “hot potato” to a
directive requested by Alan
King, assistant superintendent
and business services, board
members finally granted his
request to develop a 1994-95
school year budget with a 6 cent
tax increase.
“My direction (to King’s
request) is that you prepare a
budget of six cents (tax
increase),” said board member
Weston Cotten.
His response came after board
members agonized over any
form of directive that would
label them responsible for a tax
hike.
King brought before the board
four budget proposals with tax
increases ranging from 3 to 6
cents.
Baytown
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allocation budgets to schools for
supplies and other operating
expenses. It would, however,
allow for a step increase in
salary for employees.
A 4 cent increase would leave
allocation of school budgets at a
100 percent level and would
also give employees a step
increase in salary.
Proposal three would ask for a
5 cent tax increase and would
again reduce the allocation of
school budgets to 90 percent but
would also give employees a
step increase in salary plus $600
where appropriate.
The final proposal would call
for a 6 cent tax increase and
wpuld leave schools working at
100 percent their allocation
level. The proposal would also
give employees a step increase
in salary plus $600, where
appropriate.
Also included in the proposals
would be a fluctuating mainte-
nance budget with reductions of
between $456,000 and
$495,000. The maintenance
operations would be handled
through the upcoming bond
maintenance budget.
Asked about his recommend-
ed tax increase, King cited the 5
or 6 cent tax increase proposals teachers retirement plan which
but cautioned trustees that a King reminded trustees was not
reduction in school allocations in last year’s budget.
men then
s to Bay-
Mi work-
iscussing
fficials.
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Also included in the budget
for next year are increased elec-
tricity costs and a state-required
$350,000 contribution to the
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“We’ve asked teachers for the
years that I’ve been here to give
a lot. And they have,” said Cot-
ten. “They’ve been willing to
stay with us, but I’ve seen some
good teachers leave this year.”
Under the budget proposals, a
cent tax increase would
mean 10 percent reduction in
nessap-
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ate what
on the
Glasgow was buried with mili-
tary honors.
Further discussion and possi-
ble adoption of the budget is
would leave the schools working
under strained conditions.
The proposed tax increase scheduled for the upcoming
combined with the 2.22 cent school board meeting. Trustees
debt service on the bond have until Aug. 31 to adopt their
issuance approved by the public budget, according to state law.
MEULLION
Services for Celestine Meullion,
72, of Baytown will be held at the
Holy Family Catholic Church on
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Dallas as an assistant pastor in now, dealing with various issues
in regard to site selection,” Beard
Peebles eventually became a said, “f regard that as the highest
pastor at St. Augustine. He left the hurdle that we need to get over.”
priesthood after three more boys
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AUSTIN (AP) — An investiga-
tion has been launched following
the discovery of a shriveled human
hand inside the glove box of a car
that had been left at an automobile
dealership for repairs, police say.
The woman who left the car for
repairs on Monday was said to
have been visiting relatives in
Austin. The woman, who was not
identified by police, was driving a
car with New York license plates,
officers said.
losses, officials say
It was kind of all wrinkled up like beef
John Webber;
Manager of the body shop thaf found the hand i'
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ODESSA (AP) — Odessa Col-
lege officials claim they have
“broken even” with financial
transactions despite figures that
indicate the college suffered more
than $7 million in losses while
trading securities this year.
The losses from trading activi-
ties in 1994 amounted to $7.3 mil-
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version of Judge
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laybell,
Libertarian senate
candidate says
income tax is
nation’s problem
HOUSTON (AP) — The state’s
Libertarian candidate for U.S.
Senate says the federal income tax
is the nation'^ biggest problem. -
Pierre Blondeau, a 58-year-old
Houston computer science and
business mathematics consultant,
says he would advocate abolishing
the federal income tax, Medicare
and affirmative action if he is
elected this fall.
. “I’m in the enviable position of
being pro-business, pro-labor,
pro-minority, any group you want
to pick, except large government
and pressure groups,” Blondeau
told the Houston Chronicle.
Blondeau got the Libertarian
nomination to run against incum-
bent Republican Kay Bailey
Hutchison and Democrat Richard
Fisher at the state convention in
June.
Libertarians are running for fed-
eral, state and local offices across
Texas this November, but an unfa-
miliar platform and funding prob-
lems make them long shots in
every contest.
; ready
minute
n’t hear
HOUSTON (AP) — The cur-
tain that shades most juvenile
courts from the public’s eye is
about to be pulled back in a new
television show.
Houston Judge Eric Andell will
take his brand of justice to the
small screen where he will dole
out justice to troubled youths on
“Juvenile Justice,” a juvenile-
courf version of TV’s “People’s
Court.”
The syndicated show is under-
going a two-week trial run in sev-
eral markets around the nation,
including Houston.
Andell, 48, said the show is a
good chance to educate the public
about what goes on in America’s
juvenile courts.
“Here’s the anguish, the angst,
the pain, the fear, the poverty, the
alcoholism, the lack of education,
it’s all there and it all needs fixing,
and the juvenile justice system is
a good laboratory for that,”
Andell said.
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spokeswoman Taylor said. He told
them it was a quirky hand-me-
down.
the finger was missing and the
bone was sticking out.
“It was kind of all wrinkled up
like beef jerky,” he said.
“It drew a crowd real quick,”
Webber added. “Everybody quit
working. Pretty soon, I told them
to put the hand back in the glove
box and go back to work. Then we
got to thinking, maybe we better
call the police.”
The hand was being held at the
Travis County morgue where a
pathologist will examine it today
to determine if it is human,
according to Darlene Dunn, a
Travis County medical examiner’s
investigator.
Police investigators initially
treated the case as a possible
homicide until they were able to
contact the woman’s grandfather,
who lives in New York state,
lion, according to college figures.
College officials said Monday
that investment gains from securi-
ties traded in the fall of 1993,
however, brought in about
$750,000, offsetting part of thff
losses. At the same time, officials
count $2.7 million in interest
income from the college’s trou-
bled investment portfolio, bring-
ing the net loss down to $3.85
million.
“He told us that he taught anato-
my 40 years ago and that this hand
has been passed down from gener-
ation to generation and thatb how
this woman happened to have pos-
session of it,” she said.
Webber, who estimated the body
shop repairs up to 140 cars a
month, said he’s never encountered
anything so strange in his 17 years'
as an auto mechanic and manager.
“We’ve had bomb threats
before. We’ve even found piles of
money and different things in
cars,” Webber said. “But this is the
first time we ever found a human
body part. <
“She kept that hand like some
people keep pet rocks,” he said.'
“Strange.”
A relative reportedly told police
the lacquered body part has been
handed down from generation to
generation.
“It’s obviously from a cadaver,”
said police spokeswoman Ann
Taylor. She said police were inves-
tigating to determine what, if any
charges, might be filed. Abuse of
a corpse was one possibility, she
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College president Phil Speegle
and Victoria Chisum, the school’s
chief financial officer told The
Odessa American that the the col-
lege has actually “broken even”
on its investment transactions
since a $3.9 million loss attributed
to the trading of three securities
earlier this year is actually a
“book loss.”
“In terms of real dollars, we are
about even,” Speegle told the
newspaper.
A production manager at
Chevrolet Country who was
searching inside the car to get
information about the car’s exteri-
or paint discovered the hand Mon-
day morning, according to body
shop manager John Webber.
“We thought it was just, like, a
stage prop at first,” Webber said.
“But once you got to look at it, it
was real all right. The top digit of
my
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HUGHES
Diane R. Hughes of Bay-
town proudly announce the
birth of her son, Joseph
Keith, July 21st at Galves-
ton. He weighed nine
pounds and 4 ounces.
MANNO
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas
Manno, Sr. of Baytown
proudly announce the birth
of their daughter, Tiffany
Leigh, July 19th at Bay-
Coast Medical Center in
Baytown. She weighed
five pounds and 11 ounces.
She was welcomed home
by one brother, Thomas,
Jr. Grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. H. C. Smith and
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Manno
all of Baton Rouge, Loui-
siana. Great-grandparent is
Lou Cangelosi of Baton
Rouge, Louisiana.
PARKER
Scott and Kara Parker of*,
Baytown proudly an-.'
nouncc the birth of their *
son, Kade Forrest, July -.
21st at BayCoast Medical..,
Center in Baytown. He
weighed eight pounds and
6 ounces. Grandparents are
Stuart and Donnis Turn-
bull, Roy and Portia Foer-
ster and Will and Gail
Parker all of Baytown. *
Great-grandparents are
James and Helen Biggs..-,
and John H. and Betty %
Parker all of Baytown, So- >
phie Miller of Lissie and' '
Ruby Whitley of Wharton. V
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DALLAS (AP) — At least one
high-ranking Roman Catholic
knew about sexual abuse allega-
tions against a priest but approved
his transfer to Dallas 10 years ago,
according to a published report.
“We made the best decision at
the time in view of the circum-
stances,” said Bishop David E.
Fellhauer, who was the second-
ranking official in the Dallas Dio-
cese at the time.
Fellhauer, now of the Diocese of
Victoria, knew of allegations
against the Rev. Robert Peebles Jr.
before his 1984 transfer, accord-
ing to a copyright story in Tues-
day’s editions of The Dallas
Morning News.
An alleged sexual assault
involving a boy led Peebles to
resign as an Army chaplain.
Church superiors learned of the
accusations and moved him to St.
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ALPINE (AP) — Brewster
County has reopened its trouble-
plagued jail, even as government
officials have initiated plans to
replace the controversial facility.
The jail was housing inmates
again Monday, more than two
months after being closed amid
allegations that prisoners virtually
controlled the facility.
“We’re finally getting back on
track right now,” said Jeff Carter,
chief deputy for the Sheriff’s
Department, which operates the
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PURDY
Paul and Jamie Purdy of 1
Baytown proudly an,-
nounce the birth of their--
son, Trey Tyler, July 23rd
at BayCoast Medical Cen- '
ter in Baytown. He
weighed seven pounds and
11 ounces. Grandparents.,
are Teddy and Suzanne -.
Purdy and Karen Watson
all of Baytown and Mike “
Adams of Bon Weir..,*.
Great-grandparents are Ted . -
and Ethel Purdy of Bay- „
town, Gail Watson of Ana- ’
huac and Homer and Virgi-; '
nia Adams of Bon Weir.
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MULDROW
Gene and Becky Muldrow
of Highlands proudly an-
nounce the birth of* their
daughter, Dianna Eli-
zabeth, July 31st at home
in Highlands. She weighed
nine pounds. She was wel-
comed home by two
brothers, Adam and Ste-
phen and two sisters, Katie
and Melanie. Grandparents
are John and Alliene
Blackmore of Baytown
and Glen and Frances Mul-
drow of Highlands. Great-
great-grandparents are
Horace and Lela Wright of
Carlisle and Tom Irwin of
Highlands.
But County Judge Val Beard
said the lockup will be used only
until a new jail can be constructed,
possibly as early as 1996.
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