The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 9, 1995 Page: 3 of 20
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City Council To Vote On Balanced Budget
Bridge City Mayor John Dubose, interim
city manager, has presented the city council
with a proposed balanced budget. The
proposed budget will be voted on Tuesday,
Aug. 15 following a public hearing at 6 p.m.
The council has tentatively agreed to an
estimated four percent wage increase for
employees and a change in the way
employees contribute to the Texas
Municipal Retirement System
The proposed budget calls for a change in
municipal court operations, including a part-
time judge, and separating court clerk
operations.
The combination of the two positions was
installed on a trial basis in 1991 In 1992, the
council voted to split the positions and
returned to the practice that had been used
since the city incorporated in 1970.
Mayor Don Peters vetoed the majority
vote. The citizens have since voted to take
away the mayors veto powers.
Guy Rascoe had served as B.C. part-time
judge most of the time prior to combining
the two operations. Babette Philpott now
serves as judge and court clerk.
Council members have expressed that the
two operations are not compatible, and that
the citizens would be best served by
returning to the part-time judge/full time
clerk system. Philpott said she has more
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work than she can do as municipal clerk and
judge in a 40 hour week.
Councilmember Pat Kibbe sees the move
as an effort to return to normal. "It's never
been a question of personality. We're
putting it back like it was before," Kibbe
said
Philpott said she has not yet decided if she
will apply for either of the positions.
Bridge City is the only city in the Golden
Triangle with a full time judge, including
Beaumont.
Greenhouse where Grinstead and his father worked at Stark
Grinsfeads lived Avenue At right is carria9a house in which
Affections For The Starks
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the yard, and he bet his buddy he could get a date with one . He
married Miriam Lutcher.
"He was still a sawyer till he got married. Mr Lutcher didn't take
him out till later on."
The W.H. Starks were the best people," he emphasizes. "They
helped a lot of people in Orange County. If you needed
something, you could go to him, and he'd help you out. the
only thing they wouldn't tolerate was stealing. The Starks helped
raise us."
Living in the carriage house with his parents and eight siblings,
Grinstead's playground was the yard (at Sixth and Green) where
a fountain now attracts tourists. At that time, the carriage house
had four bedrooms and a place to store wood upstairs. Of the
ten children, only he and one sister, Louise Halpin, are still living.
His father raised "great big mums and orchids" in the
greenhouse, which was built in 1917. "My dad created four
different orchids of different colors," he says, adding that Victoria
watertillies grew in the yard.
"We had cattle too there, and we used to milk those cattle," he
says, indicating the spot where a barn stood. "We raised
chickens and cattle."
Eventually, the Starks gave his parents their own home on 11th
and Main as a Christmas gift in 1932
Grinstead walked to nearby Henderson School before Curtis
School was built. Later he attended Orange High School
through 11th grade
"Mrs. Carr (the principal) didn't behave well enough for me to
stay longer," Grinstead jokes
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because I didn't send them to the agriculture officer to inspect."
"Orchids grow wild in the South Pacific," says the U.S. Army
veteran whose father worked hard to raise them in Orange.
During the war, his assignment was admitting patients to military
hospitals and dental clinics.
"If there really was no hope for patients, then we passed them
up since there were only 250 beds in the station and field
hospitals and 500 beds in the general hospitals.
Those too badly injured received morphine to keep them out of
pain, but were often not admitted," he explains.
Grinstead's military service as a T-5 corporal took him 27
thousand miles on water, back and forth through the South
Pacific. He worked in military hospitals in Australia, New Guinea,
New Zealand, and the Philippines.
"I spent seven days going from Frisco to Sidney (Australia), and
spent 30 days from Manila to Frisco on a hospital ship," he
recalls.
Remembering "ice-cold water baths" in New Guinea, "a God-
forsaken country with 22-foot python snakes," Grinstead was
stationed on New Britton Island, New Hebrides Island, and with
the 125th Station Hospital at Latte in the Philippines. He also
served in the 47th general hospital in Manila -- in a building built
on a racetrack. Additionally, he served in the 49th general
hospital's dental clinic
His wartime souvenirs include a victory peso issued when the
Philippines were liberated, and his memories include playing
baseball in wartorn Manila with his Army buddies.
Before serving in the U.S. Army, Grinstead had been a paint
and paper-hanging contractor for the government from 1932 to
1941.
Following wartime, he switched from Army life to Navy
employment - doing maintenance work at Navy Park in Orange
from 1947 until the government sold the property to a private
owner in 1971. At that time, he became a painter for the Naval
Station in Orange
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open to discussing their jobs and responeKWee. They had me
chance to hear the Speaker of the House Pete Laney end to
discuss current issues such as abortion, prayer in schoofc, end
animal rights, with Ron Lewie.
Not realty knowing what to expect, at participants came away
with a positive feeling about their state government. For Keith
Huckabay from Bridge City, the trip personated government for
him. "We received an inside view of government and saw that
elected officials are real people who do care about the job they
hold." Selena Hebert, also of Bridge City, said, "We had a
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was a real privilege The trip gave me a good outlook on politics."
Fellow Orangefield student Justin McCullough felt that it was the
best three days he spent this summer. "I was impressed at being
able to be in the company of millionaire lobbyists who, even with
the stress factor of their jobs, seemed relaxed and able to joke
around with us. Also, with Governor Bush, who seemed sincere
in his desire not just to keep his position in office for the sake of
being there, but because the voters want him there."
The group also taken on a tour of the Lottery Studio and
learned that it takes three hours, almost 300 steps, and no less
than a dozen people to get ready for one 90 second drawing.
Another side trip was made to St. Edwards University to the
Dallas Cowboy training camp, where they fought the crowds to
get a glimpse of the team in action.
Representative Lewis spoke highly of this years' exceptional
group of students. "I really enjoyed getting to know each and
every one of these young people. I hope this experience
expanded their understanding and increased their interest in
Texas state government. I feel confident that these young men
and women will be leaders in our local community and in our
great state for years to come."
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Turkel, Arlene. The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, August 9, 1995, newspaper, August 9, 1995; Bridge City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1169836/m1/3/?rotate=90: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .