Sun Progress (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1970 Page: 1 of 10
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Leads Pearland Police To
Iving Of Several Burglaries
lions, many burglaries have
been solved, and many more
will be cleared up before this
investigation is completed.
Three burglaries in Pear-
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Doctor’s Office
Ransacked Fri.
The officers of Dr. James
Rau of Pearland were enter-
ed sometime during the night
of Sept. 26. Entry into the of-
fice was made through a back
window in Dr. Rau's office.
The window was jimmied ap-
parently by a tire tool which
was left at the scene.
The breaking was discov-
ered by Dr. Rau’s reception-
ist, snirley Knappe of
Alvin when she arrived at
7:45 a.m. to open the office.
The window is located on the
east side of the building, and
is partially blocked from the
street view by a high wooden
fence, separating the back of
the medical building from the
Bra-Bon insurance parking
lot.
’’It was just a big mess,”
said Mrs. Chris Williams,Dr.
Rau’s nurse, when she.arrived
at 8 a.m. "Apparentlynothing,
at first glance, except some
diet pills had been taken. No
narcotics or drugs are kept
in this office,” she said. The
doctor’s office had been ran-
sacked and medical supplies,
had been thrown all over the
floor.
The doctor’s offices are lo-
cated at the entrance to Re-
gency Park. The breakin is
being investigated by Officer
B. J. Stevens and Criminal
Investigator Joe Bryant.
land have already been clear-
ed up and charges have been
filed against the suspects in-
volved. The three had all ta-
ken place since the beginning
of the year, Norris said. They
were the home burglaries of
the B. L. Ray home, the John
G. Worrall home and the D. L.
Coppinger home. Another bur-
glary. still under investiga-
tion. is the home burglary of
the DeWitt Green home.
Before the investigations
are completed, Norris said,
it is believed that some 25 to
30 persons will be involved.
This seemed to be part of a
gang effort over a three-year
period, Norris said. Some of
the subjects taken into custo-
dy previously had been jailed,
freed, and as soon as they
were released, went back to the
same gang and their burglary
activities.
The burglary ring covered
an approximatey seven county
and city area. The ring oper-
ated in Crockett. Buffalo, Cen-
terville, Madisonville, Free-
port, Angleton and Fort Bend
County.
"It was like a chain reac-
tion." Norris said, "once one
suspect began talking, then
first one and then another
began telling about their ac-
tivities, and implicating o-
thers.”
The ages of those already
in custody ranged from 17 to
23 years of age. Chief Nor-
ris said. "Everything from
stolen cows, saddles, guns,
televisions, jewelry, watches,
food and canned goods were
taken by the suspects. The to-
tal amount of goods taken would
See TIP, Page 4
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Department
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spt- rts from
New C Of C Member
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>< loping a b-o-lot subdivision around the new site of the i#hnioC>K
■ ? fOr bo‘h,‘ow"houses and single family residences are avMUbl^or
; • t prices a this time, Waldrop said. This is the first devel^ment of its
... oria County, offering country club living with all the city conveniences
■ - seven days a week and has three full-time salespersons. The number
. I own with Waldrop is left to right, Jack Idoux, Chamber Pacer member;
■ , Chamber president and Billy Wolff, chamber member.
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ylie Mathis for
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L’ 'heney that had
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P^chool system
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fficer Joe
Irv stiga-
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Office Break-in
o - looks over the mess left by burglars
Officer B. J. Stevens M the entrance
when they entered the offices of Dr. Jame 25.
tiiRegency Park -=e durmg themg^
building had been cl°^ Saturday morning. This
break-in was discovered at 7 *5 ds teh]nd the desk
K6 office. The case is still under investiga-
tion by police.
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Vol. 7, No. 12
10 Pages In One Section
Pearland-Friendswood, Texas, Thursday. October 1, 1970.
Price Ten Cents
Sun Progress
Serving Pearland-Friendswood-Brookside-Manvel
Fair Begins Oct. 6,- Maureen Crowder
P’land Queen Candidate
P’land C Of C To Attend
Oct. Conference In Austin
Idoux Vacates Bank Position To
Accept Office In Baytown
See IDOUX. Page 4
Nothing But The Best
whose job it is to work with
all the communities in the
county ‘similar to a Chamber
"We wish Jack nothing but the best In his new position," says Berry Miller, president of the
Pearland State Bank, when Jack Idoux, executive vice president of the bank on the right, announc-
ed his resignation this week to accept an executive vice presidency at the First National Bank
in Baytown. With Miller and Idoux, Is R. J. Novosad, vice president ot the Pearland State Bank
who will assume the duties vacated by Idoux’s leaving.
Jack Idoux, executive vice-
president of the Pearland State
Bank, announced this week his
resignation from the Pearland
State Bank and his acceptance
of executive vice-presidency
of the First National Bank in
Baytown. Idoux’s resignation
will become effective on Nov-
ember 1.
He has been an executive
vice-president at the Pear-
land State Bank since coming
to Pearland in August 1964.
Idoux had previously been an
assistant vice-president of the
Alvin State Bank in Alvin.
An Alvin native, Jack and
his wife, and family have liv-
ed in Pearland since 1964. The
Idoux’s are the parents ofthree
children. Steve, a freshman at
Sam Houston State University,
Dixie, a senior at Pearland
High School,andGary.afresh-
man at Pearland High School.
Jack's acceptance of the new
position at the First National
Bank in Baytown, did not mean
the family would be moving.
They will continue to make
The Pearland Area Chamber
of Commerce has accepted an
invitation extended by Gov.
Preston Smith to participate
in the third annual Governor's
Conference on Industrial Ex-
pansion to be held Tuesday,
Oct. 13.
More than a thousand per-
sons are expected to attend the
day-long conference from
throughout the state. The pro-
gram will serve two basic pur-
poses. It will allow Texas to
honor expanding industries,
and reveal for the first time
the results of the inter-state
study on plant location incen-
tives being offered by the na-
tion's leading industrial sites.
The major areas of study:
taxes, financing, vocational/
technical training will be dis-
cussed by three panels which
will include a top state Le-
gislative official, a leading
professional industrial devel-
oper and a representative from
the nationally-known consult-
ing firm of Peat, Marwick and
Mitchell, who is making the
competitive studies.
Another highlight of the con-
ference is thedramatlc triple-
screen sound-on-film presen-
ration. The tally showed 5,517
actively participating.
The Fair. Vaughn said, is
a non-profit organization with
no one being paid for their
time or effort, everything is
donated. There are only three
year-round paid employees, a
fulltime office secretary who
is on the job five days a
week from 8 a.m. to S p^
years; International Club, two
years; andshehasbeenatwirl-
er for the Oiler Band for two
years. Her instrument in band
is a clarinet.
Her honors received as a
band member include. State
UIL in Austin for a clarinet
ensemble in June 1970; com-
peted in UIL Twirling three
years and was a four-year
member of the UIL Marching
contest.
Maureen has a brother,
Bruce, who is a freshman at
San Jacinto Junior College. Her
plans for the future are en-
tering Southwest Texas State
University at San Marcos, and
obtaining a degree in Elemen-
tary Education.
The crowning of Miss Bra-
zoria County for 1970 will be
held the first night of the Fair,
their home here in Pearland,
Jack said.
Since coming to Pearland in
1964, Jack has been a very
active member of the Pearland
community. He is a member of
the Pearland Lions Club, is
on the Board of Directors of
the Lions Club and has held
several offices in the Lions
Club; he is a first Vice-pre-
sident of the Chamber of Com-
merce and a member of the
Chambers Pacers; is the trea-
surer of the Pearland Library
Board, and is the Secretary of
the Gulfcrest Country Club.
Jack said he would still be
associated with the Pearland
State Bank on a part-time bas-
Maureen Crowder, 17-year-
old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
J. C. Crowder of Route 1, Pear-
land, will represent the City
of Pearland and Pearland High
School as the candidate for the
title of Miss Brazoria County
at the annual Brazoria County
Fair. The fair will be held at
the Fairgrounds in Angleton
beginning October 6 through
October 10.
Maureen, who also has been
chosen as a 1970 Homecom-
ing Queen candidate for Pear-
land High School, has been a
student in Pearland Schools for
ten years. She has been active
in school activities, being a
member of the Student Coun-
cil one year; Future Home-
makers of America, two years;
Band, four years; Future
Teachers of America, two
Pearland Police Officers B.
J. Stevens and Joe Bryant have,
through investigations,
charged three people in the
break-in at Austin Drug store
on the night of Sept. 9. The
suspects charged were Danny
V. Lowe, Evelyn Wyatt Thack-
ston and a 16-year old juvenile
boy. all from Houston.
Charges of breaking and en-
tering and burglary and felony
theft were filed against the
man and woman, but the juve-
nile has not as yet been char-
ged. All three are presently
being held in Harris County
because ofpriorchargespend-
ing there against them.
The three were charged in
Pearland on the theft of ‘pep
pills' from the drug store.
is until about February. He is
a member of the Board of Di-
rectors of the bank.
"I sincerely feel like I'm
leaving the finest bank in Tex-
as, and it isn’t easy. I have
been offered a fine opportun-
ity in Baytown and I’m look-
ing forward to my new job.
I like Pearland, and I think
Pearland has a great future.
I am happy to remain in Pear-
land as a resident, even though
I shall not be working here. .
Pearland is my home,” he
said.
"To show what a great group
of people there are here atthe
Oct. 6. Maureen’s escort at the
coronation will be David Park-
er.
"The present Brazoria
County Fair has been in exis-
tence for 28 years. It is now
the largest County Fair in the
state of Texas, and is possibly
the largest County Fair in the
nation.” so said L.M. Vaughn,
president of the Brazoria
County Fair Association, at the
Chamber of Commerce meet-
ing held Wednesday, Sept. 23,
in Pearland. Vaughn is also the
Brazoria County Agricultural
Agent.
"Our Fair is growing each
year, this year it has 400 paid
members and lOOdirectors. Of
these 100 directors, an execu-
tive committee of 24 members
is chosen. These 24 have the fi-
nal decisions on what goes on
at the Fair. The officers for
the Fair Association are elec-
ted from the Executive Com-
mittee,” Vaughn said.
Fair Association officers in-
clude a president, first and
second vice-presidents, a se-
cretary and treasurer.
"Our Fair is second to none
and is owned by Brazoria Coun-
ty. Actually most of the buil-
d’-'.gs and the land for the Fair-
g lunds has been purchased by
the Fair Association, but it en-
tirely belongs to the County.”
Vaughn told Chamber mem-
bers and guests that three
years ago a tally was taken,
which involved several months
of effort and time, to check out
just how many people were ac-
tually involved in some way,
whether through time, money
or some kind of support input-
ting each year’s Fair into ope-
ration portraying the expan-
sions of five Texas companies
in 1969.
Jim Rozacky, president of
the Pearland Area Chamber
of Commerce, said that the
chamber is now making plans
for a delegation from Pear-
land to attend the day-long
conference to be held in Aus-
tin’s Municipal Auditorium.
Local manufacturers,
chamber members and profes-
sional industrial developers
■1 ’ u v i t e d to contact the
Chamber at 485-3634 for de-
tails.
P’land &F’wood
Schools Shown
At Austin Meet
Two area school plants had
models of their facilities on
display at the 1970 Exhibit of
Outstanding School Architec-
ture, a part of the 1970 Joint
Annual Convention of School
Boards and Administrators
which was held in Austin, Sept.
27 and 28. The two area school
plants selected were Shady-
crest Elementary School in
Pearland and F riendswood
High School in Friendswood.
The Shadycrest School was
designed by the firm of Gole-
man and Rofle of Houston and
the Friendswood High School
plant was designed by the firm
of McKittrick. Drennan. Ri-
chardson and Wallace, also of
Houston.
Twenty-nine schools were
selected for exhibit by mem-
bers of the Texas Society of
Architects’ School and College
Committee, the Texas Asso-
ciation of School Boards and
the Texas Association of
School Administrators.
Several area Board of Trus-
tees members and Adminis-
trators were in attendance at
the 1970 convention. From
Pearland. Board members
Mrs. Ruby Sandars and Lynn
Armstrong, and Supt. of School
Robert Turner and Business
Manager Herbert Carieston.
From Friendswood, Board
members C. W. Cline, Dean
Anderson. H. K. Speck and
Dick Warren, and Supt. John
Ward and Assistant Supt. Ted
Thomas.
Police Charge
Three In Austin
Drug Break-in
MAUREEN CR0W9ER
of Commerce manager’ and a
caretaker who lives at the
Fairgrounds. Extra peopleare
hired during Fair time for
clean-up, Vaughn said, but o-
ther than that, all workers
are volunteer, unpaid help,
"Our primary interest is
to help the youth of the Coun-
ty," Vaughn said. "Through
the Fair we hope to stimu-
• be r£*s, i. rh- ' ounty;
and offer farmers and ran-
chers a chance tc show what
they are doing. In our youth
work, we need more like the
Pearland groups of young peo-
ple to stimulate youth parti-
cipation in the Fair.”
He mentioned that there are
90 junior and senior mem-
bers of the Pearland4-Hclubs
here. He complimented these
youngsters by saying, “that
some of the best in the Coun-
ty came from Pearland.”
Talking about the annual ani-
mal auction held at the Fair,
Vaughn said that the competi-
tion is great. Only animals
who are good enough to make
or exceed the standards set.
are eligible for the Auction.
He mentioned the Fair As-
sociation would like to have
a survey to find out just how
many Brazoria County young
people have gone on to col-
leges and universities as a
result of their participation
in the Fair; and who have been
able to pay all or part of their
See FAIR. Page 4
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Storrs, A. W. Sun Progress (Alvin, Tex.), Vol. 7, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 1, 1970, newspaper, October 1, 1970; Alvin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1215162/m1/1/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Alvin Community College.