The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 264, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1972 Page: 1 of 26
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Thursday, August 10, 1972
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Registration Process To Begin Next Thursday - -
Excitement^ egret; School Starts HereOn Aug. 21
By JOHNELLABOYNTON
With a mixture of excitement and regret,
Baytown’s 14,500 school-age youngsters are
anticipating the conclusion of summer
vacation and the start-up of a new educational
year. ........™
The kids head back for the first full day of
. classes on Monday,-Aug. 21, but they start
getting involved nexV Thursday, Aug.' 17, .
when most of the>?.-.311 register
Elementary students will register at 8:30
a.m. Times for registration will vary by
grade level in the secondary schools. ;
In the junior schools, sixth graders register
at 8:30 a.m. Seventh graders and. eighth
graders will register at 1:30 p.m.
In the high schools, seniors will register at
8 Jg a.m., juniors will register at 10:30 a.m.,
•and sophomores will register at 1:30 p.m.
High school freshmen will get an extra day
of reprieve. They do not have to register until
8:30 a.m. Ffiday, Aug. 18.. —
• Children who will enroll in either full day of
[morning kindergarten sesSions^will register
at 8:30 atm. Thursday. Children’in afternoon
kindergarten will register at 1:30 p.m.
Parents of children who will be attending
Baytown schools for the first time this fall are
urged to contact the building principals prior
to the scheduled registration dates. The same
advice also applies to families who have
moved from one school attendance zone, to
another. Classroom loads, particularly in the
elementary schools, can become unbalanced
if there is a-unexpected large increase or
decrease at any one grade level.
‘ Students will be-'in classesjfor two weeks
■> prior to having, their .first holiday for Labor
Day-Which.falls this year on Sept. 4. The next,
‘holidayfor students falls on Monday, Oct. 23,
when teachers have in-service work day.
Kindergarten will |?e offered for the first
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NEW AT CEDAR BAYOU
NEW TEACHERS at Cedar Bayou Junior School examine
teaching materials available to them during a pre-service
meeting Wednesday. They are, left to right, front row, Kurds
Leifeste, Marilynn Lee, and Margaret Powell, and back row,
David L. Anders and Shirley Gentry.
Humble City Value
time this fall at Lamar Elementary School. A
declining enrollment at the school has freed
two classrooms for use in the kindergarten
, program. Previously, students who lived in
the Larnar attendance zone had to attend
kindergarten at Ashbel Smith.
Students at Robert E. Lee High School and
at Cedar Bayou Junior School will be under a'
new tri-mester program, rather than the ,
conventional semester division of classes.
t The pilot tri-mester program will affect high
' school student’s schedules more than junior
school students'.
(See SCHOOLS, Page 21
Reduction Denied
MANCHESTER, N.H. yAP) Manchester, a largely sym
- George McGovern today bolic appearance for
kicked off the first major trip McGovern. He says.it was his
m his presidential campaign appearance there last Feb. 18 next president of the Upited on the Humble-Enjay-Esso re-
Mother Dies
FUNERAL SERVICES for
Mrs. John J. Reed, mother of
Mrs. Knox Beavers of 1400 N.
Commerce, were held at 2:30
p.m. Thursday at the Welch
Funeral Home in Starksville,
Miss. She died Wednesday in
Starksville.
Teacher Hosts
DOWNTOWN RETAIL
Merchants will host teachers
at a reception at 10 a.m. Mon- public address system, taken
. day at, % Ross S./sterling taLikrM&hflkfi&Baywpy
High School cafeteria.
Trailer Damaged
FE1.0NY DESTRUCTION
property is being investigated
by BAytown police in a trailer
at 322 Massey Tompkins. The
owner, D. M. Wilkerson
Mont Belvieu, reported that
someone caused damages
amounting to $500 to the doors,
walls, floors and vents.
Console Found
A CONTROL console for
Organ Recital
BYRON E. FRANKLIN
will present an organ recital at
3 p.m. Sunday at Cedar Bayou
Methodist Church on the new
1,690 pipe organ that will be TOOtball forms
Drive, was recovered outside
the school by maintenance em-
ployes Wednesday, police said.
Someone pried a window to
enter the school between Tues-
day and Wednesday
formally dedicated Sunday.
The organ is a gift from Mr.
and Mrs. W. T. Busch.
BOYS interested in playing
seventh or .eighth grade foot-
ball at Horace Mann Junior
JRO
Challenges Record - -
George Begins Drive,
Asks Nixon To Debate
by challenging President
Nixon to a series of televised
debates. *
' If he thinks his own record
during the New Hampshire
primary campaign that he first
fully appreciated his appeal to
blue-collar workers.—----------
"That's the place where it
became apparent to me that
these factory workers were
n® debates’" McGovern said in a sympathetic," McGovern said
^ statement handed to newsmen in .Washington Wednesday.
"I've always seen that as the
turning-point in the cam-
paign."
is better than the changes I
propose, why is he afraid to de-
fend that record in'face-to-face
on the trip here from Washing-
ton.
With a new running mate fi-
nally selected and approved,
the Democratic presidential
candidate began a two-day
swing to Manchester, Hart-
ford, Conn., Providence, R.I,
and New York-City: •
Although no welcome had
been planned at Manchester, a
crqwd of about 100 persons
turned out to watch his arrival
at the airport.
McGovern and his aides de-
scribe the New England jour-
ney as a "listening trip" to find
out what is on the minds of vot-
Nelson New Head Of
Crosby State Bank
But on this trip, he said, "in- Washington,
Tax Board
Upholds
Appraisers
ByJOHNELLABOYNTON
The City of Baytown tax
stead of making a speech to equalization board Wednesday
them I'm going back to listen
to ask them what they think the
States ought to be concerning
himself with, what they’re
worried about
Harris Purvey poll pub-
lished Wednesday showed
McGovern trailing President
Nixon 57 to 34 with 9 per cent
undecided
As McGovern's New
England trip was being
mapped, running-mate
Sargent Shriver was busy in
upheld city tax appraisers in
placing a value of $107,934,940
CROSBY (Spr— O. C. Nel-
son is new president of Crosby cashier, and now president.
State Bank, succeeding Arnold
H. C.arb6 who retired July 31
after 43 years at the bank.
A native of Crosby, Nelson,
51, was employed there Oct. 1,
1959, as a teller. During his 11
years at the bank he has
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CONNIE BEENE spoking
pretty tan... The B. W.Camp
family returns from a week at
Garner State^Park.
Al Dennis oversleeps and
misses an event.
John McCoy stays friendly
.. „ Chris Presley celebrates
his second Nrffiday Thursday
-... Ieigh Johnson excited
about going to UT this fall
Zana Shomber is visiting
friends and relatives In Bay-
town ... Bill Peace, LefeCol-
lege librarian, hosting an in-
service program.
The first stop is the J.F. ___________________
School should come by the McElwain Co. shoe factory in served as assistant cashier,
school between 8 a.m. and 3
p.m. any day before next Wed-
|fl*sda.w-to -pick-
examination forms, Coach
Roger Adams said.
Rock Festival
JESUS ROCK Festival, spon-
sored by several Baytown
churches, will be from 1 to 6
p.m. Saturday at Roseland
Park. "Friends" from Arling-
ton will be the featured group
with several Baytown groups
also participating. No admis-
sion will be charged
cashier, vice president and
Weather
And Tides
CHANCE OF showers and
thundershowers Thursday
afternoon Is the Baytown
area weather forecast. Low
B llliursday 70 to M; high Fri-
Dorothy Ammons making Utot7.
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preparations for the wedding
,i, Birthday greetings to
Tommy Koepke ... Nice to
chat with Charles BUsingame.
Mrs. Shirley Young and chil-
*-.Jren. Donja and Jason, shop
for school clothes ... Cecyle
Hawkins happy that her son is
returning from Vietnam.
.., Mrs. Thelma Albright so
He is a graduate of Crosby
High School and attended the
University of Houston and the
American Institute of Banking
He also graduated from South-
western Graduate School of
Banking at Southern Methodist
University
"We are optimistic about the
future of the bank because of
present growth in the
nity. We hope there are
changes, like the installation'll
iste disposal facilities in the
area, that will change things,
Nelson said.
The Diamondhead project
near Crosby looks like a going*
thing, he said, and he expects
the community to benefit from
Crosby's biggest development
ever.
Nelson and his wife Thelma
have two daughters and one
son, all graduates of Crosby
High School. His daughter will
soon entqr Lee College._______
Before going into banking,
Nelson was a farm equipment
dealer in Crosby. He was in the
U.S. Navy from 1944 to 1946,
An active member of First
Baptist Church in Crosby, Nel-
son is a member of the Citizens
Advisory Committee of .the
Crosby School District and is a
former member of the Lions
ciub. ;•
Two other new officers were
elected Tuesday by directors
of the bank. Miss Doris Henson
fining, Chemical manufactur-
ing and research complex here >
for the 1972 tax roll.
The action was a denial of j.
the company's plea Tuesday
for a $14.8 million reduction in
the 1972 appraisal of plant im-
provements,
The equalization board also
upheld a city appraisal of
$281,153,290 placed on the com-
pany's properties lying within
the city’s Industrial District
No. 1. which the company had
valued at only $233,823,250.
The new figures will require
Humble to pay a tax bill of
$750,417.83 for 1972 on its-piant
properties lying within the
Baytown city limits if the 1971
tax rate of $1.39 Is used again
for 1972. Using the 1971 tax
rate, its industrial district pay-
ment would be $234,481.84.
TEACHERS ARE WELCOMED
BAYTOWN EDUCATION Association honored the school district’s new teachers at a coffee
Thursday morning at the Civic Center. Afterwards, the teachers were taken on a tour of Bay-
town by the Chamber of Commerce. Here, Frank Hutchins, who will teach at Travis Elemen-
tary; Alice Sawberger, Carver-Jones, and Sandy Sheats, Baytown Junior School, are served
refreshments by Jess Miller, BEA president, and Mrs. Alene Bunting, who assisted with the
coffee arrangements. . «,
Area Roundup - - ^
LP Schools Begin Monday,
Others Start A Week Later
School bells have started
ringing throughout the Bay-
town area.
Students in Channelview,
Barbers Hill, Crosby, Deer
Park and Dayton will not start c*enl:’ ,*1's -vear
•attending cTassesuntil Aug/21, ~ * ’
but I„i Porte gets an early
start next-Monday with the
start of classwork Anahuac
will delay opening schools until
Aug 28 because many of its
The 1972 value of $107.9 mil- if'r/'UC‘entS a,re he|Pin^ with
the rice harvest.
lion is $6.6 million less than the
1971 tax value of the com-
pany's plant properties. Most
of the reduction is due to a re-
duction in product inventory at
the plant; but part of it is also
due to a 15.6 per cent reduction
" e plantV process equip-
ment value from 1971.
I See HUMBLE, Page 2)
BULLETIN
HOUSTON i Spl-TheV.V.
Ramsey trial, set in L’.S.
District court for 9 a.m.
Monday, has been continued
until Jan. 8, 1973, at the re-
quest of government at-
torneys.
The case will be heard by
U.S. District Judge Woodrow
Seals. — •
Except for [.a Porte, whose
teachers are already involved
with in-service training this
week, most teachers will be re-
porting back for duty next
Monday. Anahuac's in-service
training for teachers will start
Aug. 22. Barbers Hill starts its
teachers off next Wednesday
teachers Friday. High school
students and students new to
the district registered for
classes this week. The district
expecting about 7,000 stu-
Channelview. preparing for
about 3,750 students, is
registering students this week,
but classes will not start until
Aug. 21. Teachers are due to
report back Monday..
Crosb> School District is
registering beginning and new
students this week. High school
students desiring to make
changes in their schedules aro
asked to come to the school be-
tween 9 a.m. and 3 p.m Fri-
day Crosby anticipates an en-
rollment of about 2.000 stu-
dents for 1972-73.
Dayton Schools are prepar-
„J)eer Park School District ling for an enrollment of about
will have orientation of its new 11.850 students High school stu-
dents and students new to the
district are due to register
Aug. 18. Other students are not
required Jo register ,
Anahuac. which expects
about 1.250 students, was
registering new students this "
week and expects to register
more next week. Junior high
and high school students were
picking up their schedules this
week
Barbers Hill expects an en-
rollment of around 700 students
for 1972-73. Teachers will have
in-service work next Wednes-
day, Thursdai and Friday and
registration for all grades is
set for Thursday. Aug. 17. High
school students will register in
the school library with seniors
scheduled from 8 30 to 9:30
a.m.; juniorsfrom9 45to 11:45
a.m ; sophomores from 12:30
to 1.15 p.m. and freshmen—
from 1.10 to 2 30 p m.
Meteorologists View - -
72 Bad Year For Tides,
111 Winds' In Baytown .
MORGAN S POINT tides for
Friday will be high at 3:41
a.m. and 5:31 p.m.; low at
• HIGHLANDS GRANT
BOARD PRESIDENT V. A. (Pete) Rup|> of Hania Gouty cashier.
Water Control and Improvement District No. I in Highlands
smiles with satisfaction at receipt of a check for $33,700, the
district's first payment on a $00,000 giant from the Environ-
mental Protection Agency for construction of a sewage treat-
ment plant addition. Receipt of the check Is the climax of
months of paper work on applications for the funds. .
6:47 a.m. and set at 1:01 p.m.
Peoples State Bank
NO SERVICE CHARGE
* * Member F.D.I.C.
ByWANDAORTON
When an “ill wind” blows in
Baytown, that means the wind
is easterly and persistent.
That is the kind that pushes
the water in from the open gulf
and floods the low-lying areas
of Baytowh.-
E. C. Volbreeht, meteorolo-
gist with the National Weather
Service.in Houston, discussed
TQda phdictions a nd hurt-
canes when visiting in Bay
town Wednesday,
works closely with Baytown
Civil Defense Director J.
Fletcher Hickerson in provid-
ing UUs afea with the latest in-
formation about tides.
The wind strength and its
direction are the prime con-
Volbreeht noted that Bay- area, he said, with only one
town has been affected much month in the winter bringing a
more by easterly winds this north wind.
year than usual. Normal winds
are south and southeast in this
HMBR tat maldnr Mi pn>
dictions, in addition to thfc as-
tronomical forecast which fol-
lows a set pattern of when the
high and low tides are duell
DA Assistant
Is CC Speaker
Sam Robertson, assistant
district attorney and chief of
Volbreeht Jhe special crime division of
the DA office in Houston, will
speak at nooh Friday at the
Baytown Chamber of .Com-
merce luncheon meeting at t.
Holiday Inn.
Robertson's topic will be
“The Effect of Organized
Crime on the Business Com-
munity.”
Baytown Police Chief John
Wilkinson will introduce the
speaker.
"The b3sic problem is the
east wind brings water from
the open Gulf,” he said. When
a wind keeps blowing from the
one direction it sets up a
"fetch" in the bay. The fetch
gathers a little at a time. Vol-
brecht explains, building'up
water slowly. And it does not
let the water go out quickly.
"It doesn't let up.” Hicker-
son added. "And leaves a
residual effect."
Vdbrecht-pomted out that it
is not just the water on the sur-
face that js building up but the
wfter beneath the surface too;
This is why the momentum
keeps gaining.
He compared it to a car
being pushed down a hill Even
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 50, No. 264, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1972, newspaper, August 10, 1972; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104779/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed May 29, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.