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Vol. 5, Number 41 November 12, 1980
Shoplifting seminar Monday
"How to Catch a Thief,” a seminar to include discussion of shoplifting and
bad check writing, will be offered to all area merchants free of charge at the
Dobie High School auditorium. 11111 Beamer, from 1-4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17.
The seminar is co-sponsored by First City Bank-Almeda Genoa and the
Dobie Distributive Education department.
Bill Camp, chief of the Houston Worthless Checks division of the Harris
County district attorney’s office, will speak from 1:15-2:15.
From 2:15-2:45, Bob Bond, vice president of Merchants Information
Exchange, will talk on “Some Ways Merchants Can Identify Good/Bad
Checks.”
A representative of the Houston Police Department will speak on "Forgery.
Counterfeiting and Short Change Artists" from 2:45-3:15.
Carl Onofrietti, Foley’s divisional manager of loss prevention, will speak on
"Internal Theft-The Silent Rip Off” from 3:15-3:45.
From 3:45-4, a question-answer session will be offered.
Dobie’s DE students will provide refreshments.
PISD students get off Monday
Students in the Pasadena Independent School District will observe a holiday
on Monday, Nov. 17.
The date has been set aside as a teacher workday.
Basketball sign-up Saturday
Youths desiring to play basketball in the Pasadena Recreation league may
register in the South Belt area Saturday, Nov. 15. This year’s registration
location has been changed to the lobby of the Administration Building of San
Jacinto College South, 13735 Beamer Road.
Registration will be conducted from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
The program is open to boys in the third through sixth grades and to girls in
the fifth and sixth grades.
Cost of the program is $18 per child which includes shirt and team picture.
The draft will be held Dec. 4, with local practices to begin on Dec. 8. (All
local teams will practice at local elementary school gyms.) The regular season
begins in January, but the preseason tournament will be on Dec. 13 and 20.
Those not registering locally on Saturday may register at PAL Gym, 2910 E.
Southmore. Pasadena, on Nov. 22 from 10 a m. to 3 p.m.
Precinct 475 totals wrong
The South Belt Louder regrets it inadvertently transposed the figures in the
presidential election totals for Precinct 475, located at Burnett Elementary.
The vote should have read: 1,390 for Reagan; 709 for Carter.
Annual USA meeting Nov, 20
Election of a new slate of officers is the purpose of the annual general
membership meeting of the United Sports Association which will be held
Thursday, Nov. 20.
Directors to be elected include a president, vice president, secretary,
treasurer and membership chairman.
"The primary function of the United Sports Association Board of Directors
is to ensure that the annual land payment is collected and paid and that
maintenance and field improvements are accomplished as funds and labor
become available,” said Jack Murphy, current USA president.
The USA was organized to purchaae the baseball playing fields on Choate
Road.
Past and present plans of the USA will also be discussed at the meeting.
The meeting will be held at Stuchbery Elementary School. 11210 Hughes
Road, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
MUD 13 meets Thursday
The proposed sale of surplus property to Hou Real Corporation will be
considered by the Board of Directors of Harris County Municipal Utility District
No. 13 at its regular monthly meeting Thursday, Nov. 13.
Other matters to be considered are employing an auditor for the district, the
resignation of Tom Chaney from the board and appointment of a new director,
duties of the district secretary, and discussion of location of sidewalks and
landscaping with Perry Homes.
The meeting, open to the public, will be held at the MUD 13 Building, 11610
Sageyork, beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Beverly Hills sets bazaar
Booth space for the third annual Santa's Corner bazaar to be held at Beverly
Hills Park Dec. 6 is now being rented.
Anyone from the community or surrounding area may rent space inside or
outside on a first-come, first-served basis. Spaces rent for $10. Inside spaces are
8x8, and outside spaces are 10 x 10. Those renting spaces must bring their own
tables and materials.
The park has scheduled to have Santa Claus available for pictures with
children.
For information, contact the park. 10111 Kingspoint. or call 941-2476.
be found on page A 2.
• Also on page A 4 to Leader Libel-ettes
. The sport, calendar to « pagr
Local man protects flag
Following the theft of his 5 x 8 foot Ameican flag Saturday, Kirkmont’s Odie
Asscherick to determined no one will steal his new flag.
His new flag to secured to the 24-foot pole with a lock, and a spotlight shines
on the flag all night.
Asscherick said his original flag, which he purchased on sale from Sears for
$35, was probably stolen early Saturday morning from his residence on
Sagetrail.
Kirkmont UD meets Thursday
The Board of Directors of the Kirkmont Utility District will consider
appointing a replacement for director Paul Hanagriff at Thursday’s regular
monthly meeting. .
In other action, the directors are expected to consider ratifying the consent
to encroachment onto easement at Lot 1, Block 8, Kirkmont Section 11.
Directors will meet at 10 a.m. at 2506 First City National Bank Building
Nov. 13. The meeting to open to the public.
In this week's issue
In this week’s issue of the Smrth Le^*< reader, will find the following
"TVl'.u.nd.r which not only list» South Belt area activities for the next ten
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Over unsanitary conditions at Bayfront
Apartment tenants irate
A group of tenants of the Bayfroat
Apartments in Scarsdale disgruntled
over what they term unsanitary condi-
tions have secured 72 signatures in two
days on a petition calling for the re-
moval of the manager of the complex.
According to Gary Cook, a tenant
who started the petition, the manager
of the complex. Beatrice Medina, has
neglected to rectify numerous unsani-
tary conditions at the apartments.
Cook and another tenant. Jeff Shick,
said the trash dumpsters at the complex
have not been emptied in over three
and a half weeks. Firemen from the
Sagemont station of the Houston Fire
Department were called to the complex
Thursday to put out a fire at the
dumpsters which was apparently start-
ed by an irate tenant.
The tenants also cite numerous inci-
dences of sewage overflowing in the
complex, and they say Medina has
refused to contract for repair of the
sewage problems.
Cook, who is locked into a six-month
contract and would lose his $125 deposit
if he moved, has chosen to battle
Medina rather than move from hi*
$230-a-month. one-bedroom apart-
ment.
And battling they are.
Cook claims he has recorded numer-
ous discussions with Medina in which
she refuses to cooperate with his de-
mands to repair the sewage and pick up
the trash. Cook is now working with an
attorney in his attempt to oust Medina.
Since the petition started circulating
(only two residents had refused to sign
it by Monday). Medina is now attempt-
ing to evict Cook, saying his porch is
unsanitary which is a violation of the
was treated at the hospital for roach
bites incurred as a result of the failure
to clean up the apartment beneath him;
then, he called the Health Department,
and they had the situation rectified.
Cook says the unsanitary conditions
at the apartments are a violation of the
contract, but Medina has denied them.
She also refused to tell Cook how to get
in touch with the company which man-
ages the complex
The petition calls for the removal of
Medina, citing the unsanitary condi-
tions and charging her with not fulfill-
ing contract agreements
Trash al the Bayfront AjiartminU In Scarsdale can-
tinned to pile up Monday (when thia picture was taken)
an It has far the past thru and ■ haff we aha. PtesSo by
Tam I Hall.
Republican anti-Pennington letter
contract.
Medina could not be reached for
comment.
Tenants whose apartments are lo-
cated near the backed-up sewage have
apparently not paid their November
rent, and several other tenants are
threatening to withhold December rent
if the problems are not corrected.
On other occasions recently. Cook
has contacted the city Health Depart-
ment. He claims the apartment beneath
his was vacated, and the previous ten-
ants left behind food and a backed-up
toilet. According to Cook, the apart-
ment became oiwrun with roaches and
maggots. He reported the situation to
Medina, but he said she failed to have
the apartment cleaned. Cook said he
Sagemont
came from Caraway supporter
On the day before election day. vot-
ers in Precincts 417 and 307 received a
letter from the Bay Area Republicans
urging them not to support Randy
Pennington, the Republican candidate
for the District 100 seat in the Texas
house.
Unknown to the prospective voters
was that the Bay Area Republicans
Political Action Committee had just
been formed and that its treasurer was
‘aJchg-time supporter of Bennington's
opponent, Democrat Bill Caraway.
The Secretary of State's office re-
ceived the forms required to grant the
political action committee on Oct. 28.
The forms designated William E.
Schweinlc Jr. campaign treasurer for
said hand cancelling of letters speeds
up delivery by allowing the letters to
bypass having to go through the down-
town station.
No one connected with the case ad-
mits to any knowledge of who mailed
the letters or who handled them at the
post office.
Although the letters did not prevent
him from winning the election, Pen-
nington is angry over them. "Bill
Schweinle deliberately distorted and
misrepresented the facts. In some cases
he made false statements," Pennington
said.
The letter claims the source of Pen-
nington's campaign funds (which the
letter says arc ten times the amount
normally spent on such a race) is
confusing. The letter also disapproves
of Pennington's campaign manager
also serving as a precinct chairman and
of his campaign treasurer living out of
District 100.
The bulk of the letter (it coat 30 cents
to mail) enumerates some 50 lawsuits in
which Pennington has been involved for
the past 14 years
According to Pennington, all of the
suits arc related to the corporation of
which he is president. Control Special-
ties. Incorporated.
In 35 of the 50 suits. Pennington was
plaintiff.
seeking
candidates
The Sagemont Civic Club, which is
the organization overseeing the pro-
posed election of a new Maintenance
Committee for the subdivision, is cur
rently seeking candidates for the com-
mittee who have divergent views, ac-
cording to the civic club president.
Susan McFarland, president of the
Sagemont Civic Club, said she hopes to
see candidates come forth representing
both sides: those who want to maintain
an annual assessment for improve-
ments to the subdivision and those who
Continued on Page 2
the group.
Schweinle. who state records show
contributed to Caraway's campaign in
1977, 1978, 1979 and 1980, recently
chaired a group identifying themselves
as Independent Republicans for Cara-
way.
Schweinle said he and another inde-
pendent Republican who backed Cara-
way, David Frasier, paid for the major
cost of the letter, but both men deny
writing or mailing the letter. Schwein-
le's name is the only Bay Area Republi-
can P.A.C. member named in the let-
ters.
One puzzling aspect of the case is
that the letters were hand cancelled on
Oct. II (three weeks before delivery).
According to a postal official, the
procedure was irregular.
Eddie Kimbrough, director of mail
processing for the Houston post office,
Dobie wins division 1
Firemen kept busy
by emergency calls
Numerous fire and ambulance calls
kept emergency personnel at the Sage-
mont station of the Houston Fire De-
partment busy in the period from Wed-
nesday through Sunday.
On Wednesday, firemen were called
several times to put out a barn fire at
Fuqua and Kingspoint. Someone ap-
parently kept starting it. Also on Wed-
nesday, firemen responded to a false
alarm at Teaneck and Sandy Hook.
On Thursday, firemen put out a trash
fire at the Bay Front Apartments in
Scarsdale. They also were called to a
small roof fire at the Westminster
Village Apartments on the Gulf Free-
way. but they were unable to find the
fire.
The Sagemont pumper also was
called on Thursday to wash down gaso-
line leaking at the Gulf Freeway and
Choate Road and to help dean up
concrete from an overturned truck at
Fuqua and the Gulf Freeway.
On Friday, the ambulance made two
runs. The emergency personnel assist-
ed an injured party at Genoa Red Bluff
and Koenig and at a major accident at
Seaford and Kingspoint where they
gave first aid.
On Saturday, the ambulance was
called to 11500 Beamer on a sick call,
but the patient was transported by
private auto. Also on Saturday, the
ambulance was called to Almeda Mall
to assist a man who fell out of his car
and was hit. The man went on to work.
On Sunday, the ambulance was
called to Easthaven at the Gulf Freeway
to give first aid at the scene of a major
accident.
Also on Sunday, the ambulance
transported a sick call from 11710 Al-
gonquin to the hospital.
15 year old arrested
after fight with gun
Incidences of violence, burglary and
reckless driving have kept local police
officials busy during the past week.
A 15-year-old youth was charged
wtth disorderly conduct Friday night
after wielding a .357 pistol during a
disagreement with another youth in
Wood Meadow.
The incident reportedly began when
the 15 year old and two companions
were fighting with a fourth youth they
claimed got the 15 year old in trouble
with a Dobie teacher.
A neighbor of the other youth at-
temped to break up the fight using a
baseball bat when the IS year old pulled
the gun on him.
At that time, the man's son. coming
from ttic house.nrea s shoegun mro the
air. scaring off the youths.
The youths returned a few minutes
later and were apprehended by depu*
ties of the Harris County Sheriff's
Department who had been called.
In other action, two burglaries were
reported during the past wook.
A Sagemont Park home was burglar-
ised Saturday night while the reaitfents
were out to dinner.
The victims reported jewelry, coins
and a coat were taken.
A home on Sagecanyon was the
target of the theft of a tool box later
found at a nearby home on Sagetrail.
A neighbor to the Sagecanyon victim
apparently saw the man steal the tool
box and was able to identify the bur-
glar.
In another incident Wedaeeday
night. Pearland and Houston police Md.
county sheriff's deputies pursued Ken*:
Tennison. 21. of Sagemoat in a high
speed chose.
Tennison was charged with leading
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