The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 146, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1974 Page: 1 of 14
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+ AUSTIN - The Texas
weekend traffic toll stood at
15 at mid-morning Monday.
- At the same time there were
12 homicides, four drownings
and four deaths from assort-
ed other forms of violence.
„ —(- WASHINGTON - For-
mer presidential aide
Dwight L,Chapin goes on
trial today in federal court
s. on charges be lied to a grand
jury seeking information
about the political espionage
activities of Donald H.
SegrettL
+ WASHINGTON - Steel
industry negotiators are her
ginning two weeks qf hard
bargaining in what is ex-
pected to result in a costly
settlement for the industry
and higher prices for con-
From AP Wires
+ NEW YORK -The bad
old days of gasoline short?
ages may be behind us, but
American motorists may
have to get used to prices
that are higher and fluctuate
wildly from day to day and
station to station.
+ KEY BBCAYNE -
President Nixon says that
because of a ‘‘major drop” in
the country’s welfare rolls,
Congress should immediate-
ly cut federal welfare
spending by $800 million.
+ BELFAST, Northern
Ireland — Hundreds of
troops and police today
sealed off the market area of
Belfast, an Irish Republican
Army stronghold, in a major
search for terrorist explo-
sives.
ILL?, Mexico
States officials, ap-
with no leads to the
iffBtt of missing
American diplomat John
Patterson, plan to distribute
pictures of him to the pubUc
today. ~
v r 4+ WASHINGTON L A
Monday night with fair skies Ford Foundation study says
—
; Weather
And Tides
CLOUDY TO PARTL
cloudy with a chance t
showers or thundershowers
, and /Clearing-and cooler
CHARLESPOOL
Voters Warned Of
Precinct Changes
While most Baytown voters
probably
m Tn«sday’scity council
election, a number of them
may be confused about
“where” they will vote.
to the Precinct 249 polling
Bowie Elementary
School. New boundary lines
form a horseshoe shape for
Precinfct 414 over precinct 249
in the east part of the city.
249 is not# enclosed
1 precinct
will go into effect for
j voters in Boxes 165, .186, .249;
land 414.
Precinct 386 at Stephen F.
ALLEN CANNON
GUSBRADLEY
FRED BEDNARSKI
JACKWAASDORP
on the north. The south boun-
dary line is part of East James
and the east line is drawn on
Narcille and extending up a
Three Council Seats Be Filled -
Austin Elementary will gain drainage ditch to Bowie Drive,
several hundred voters from Precinct 414 is bounded by
Ward Road and part of Easf
. I and mild .temperatures
Tuesday is the Baytown area
weather forecast Low ex-
7 pected Monday night, mid-
/' 56s; high Tuesday, mid40s.
_ MORGANS POINT tides
; ! Tuesday: Highs at 12:58 a.m.
» and 10:40 a.m.; lows at 1:26
a.m. ++ and 12:52 p.m.
• ++ Denotes weak tide.
the government should ser-
iously consider steps to slow
or halt the growth of energy
demand instead of Concen-
trating on full-scale develop-
ment of energy resources.
+ WASHINGTON - The
Senate is entering a second
week of debate on d .con-
troversial campaign reform
bill with no end yet in sight.
Only Two Contests In
Tuesday City Election
Precinct 165 — those who live
in Country Club Oaks and on
the east side -of Garth Road
north of Goose Creek Stream
• Box 414 at Cedar Bayou Jun-
ior School is. getting a number
of voters who previously went
v
James on the south, the rail-
road tracks on the west, Bob
Smith Road and Pond Gully on
the north. The west line Qf Pre-
cinct 4l4 is Cedar Bayou
Stream. , -- ■'
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Two two-way district races (election while another incum-[between Fred Bednarski Jr.,
provide the only contests lues- bent, Allen. Cannon will vie an appointee to the council in
day in the Baytown City Coun- with newcomer Gus S. Bradley 1973, and newcomer Jack J
cil election. Jr. for the District 5 council Waasdorp.
District 1 incumbent Charles seat. Tuesday’s election will draw
Pool is unopposed for re-1 Competition iirflistrict.4 is Ito a_.cpnclusion this year’s
March Marketbasket Cost
Drop First In Five Months
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
dined slightly during March,
the first such' drop'in five
price of a pound of chopped
The family grocery bill d^ chuck dropped from $1.49 to
$1.09,
The bill
k dropped
b bill was t
up in four cities
i.
ifcrS,
?OISu
tmJL
i-o- fi
months, an AP marketbasket ~ Seattle, Wash., New York, 1974 than they were op March
Hill Council
MONT BELVIEU City Council
will beet at 6i30 p.m. Monday
- at City Hall. Permits from
Dow Chemical for new pipeline
and Warren Petroleum for
Ahrine disposal wpll will be
-1Rm .......
Well drilling pymit
committee will feport
AROUND
In Hospital
MRS. ANNIE Louise Beagley,
former Baytonian who cele-
brated her 100th birthd
week, will have surgery Mon-
day at Southmore Hospital
Pasadena. She is in Room 122
survey shows,
More items went up in price
than went down. But sales on
meat and eggs cut the dollar
value of the marketbasket in
nine of 13 cities checked, with
an average decrease of 2.2 per
cant. It was the first month
siftqe Oclpber. that market-
basket declines outnumbei '
increases.
The AP priced 15 food and!
nonfood items in 13 cities on
March 1, 1973, and has rech-
ecked at the beginning of each
| Miami and Philadelphia
with an average increase of 1.6
per cent.
Prices in every city were
higher at the beginning of April
1, 1973.
comparatively quiet election
campaign~'afo;,Tnajor issues'
have been raised in the cam-
paign and the race has been
relatively free of personality
clashes. i
With only two candidates in
each of the contested Elections,
there will be no runoff this
year. . j
Last year’s runoff race drew
a larger turnout than the first
election. A total of 5,361 voters
cast-ballots in the runoff be-
tween Tom Gentry and; incum-
bent Mayor Glen Walker and
between Col. Hen'ry (Pelly)
Dittftian and incumbent, Char-
ley O. Walker in the District 2
race.
.- The first election last year,
drew 4,878 voters out of the
estimated total
tied voters in Baytown
In 1972 only " Ml voters
elected Pool, Car and Gen-
try to Districts . 5 and 4,
respectively. Gentry resigned
from his pistrict 4 council seat
in 1973 after election as mayor.
Historically, only a small
percentage of Baytown voters
participate in city council elec-
tions — a fact lamented at a
recent city council candidate
rally.
This is the first year since
1969 thgt District 5 Councilman
Cannon has been opposed. He
(See CITY, Page 2)
Polling Places In
City Election
succeeding i,
The fetest <
Planners Meet
BAYTOWN PLANNING Com-
mission will meet at 7 p.m
Monday in the conference
room at city hall to discuss
capital improvement recom-
mendations.
‘The Messiah’
RAYTOWN Community
Chorus wifi present “The
Messiah,
at 8 p.m.
Rundell Hall on the Lee
Baytown voters will
cast ballots In the city
council election Tuesday
at a dozen polling places.
Here are the precincts,
polling locations and
election judges.
Precinct 12, Alamo
Elementary School, Bill
-G. Rogers. :
.Precinct 13, Burnet
Elementary School, Irv-
ing St. John.
Precinct 99. Dutch
Holland-' Oldsmobiie
l formerly Lingo’s), Jack
G. Hester.
Precinct 100', A.shbel
Smith Elementary
School, W. .6, Tidmon.
Precinct 101. Horace
Mann. Junior School,
Mrs. S. V. Robberson.
Precinct 102, Baytown
Junior School Andy Con-
treras. .
Precinct 149, San
Jacinto Elementary
School, Mrs/ Ted
KloeseL *
Precinct 165, Travis
Elementary School, J.
Rodger Read.
Precinct 248, Carver-
Jones Elementary
School, Mrs. Woodrow
W. Lewis:
Precinct 219. James *
Bowie Elementary
School, Wayne McClurg.
Precinct 386, Stephen
F. Austin Elementary
- School, Mrs. Sandra
Boothe.
__ Precinct 414,- Cedar
Bayou Junior School,
Charles M, Albright.
Fikes In Hill’ School
Race Despite Transfer
showed
32.3 per cent of thle items in the
survey went up in price during]
March,.1974; 23.6 per cent de-
crease^; 36.4 per Cent were un-|
changed; and 7.7 per cent were
unavailable on one of the twoj
survey dates
The iharketbasket decreases!
ranged from a fraction of a per
centinAlbuqueroue,N;M.,to4 . |Wi JHHPH ..IHHi
per cent in Boston where the WITH THE MIDNIGHT Monday deadline drawing near people-/ten’s stores, Lewis and Cokef, Sears and Tipton’s in Channel-
;__ j started lining up to buy their 1974 car licence plates Monday/ view. None qf the places selling plates will observe extra
morning before the county branch tax office at 307 W, Texas hours. . J/
opened. Plates can also be bought at both Baytown Weingar r i (SunPhotoby/Rick Otto)
MONT BEI.VIEU (Sp)
Jack Fikes, president of the
Barbers Hill School Sard
.dayhew
a candidate for Position 2 on
the board in foe April 6 election
eyen though! he will be trpns-
the school bqard^fterthe elec-
tion can appdtnt a replacement.
Igtil the next election with *
He is employed by Warren
Petroleum Co. 6s> office”""
manager at its Mont Belvieu
ferred by his company to Tub plant and . has served on the
no later than April
THE BEWITCHING HOUR APPROACHES
tent
PEG POWERS and Katherine
Alford discuss clothes over an
early morning coffee break
Police Sgt. Russell Liles looks College campus,
for rain on his off-day ... The c ^
Rev. L. A. Harvey turns photo- Ar o Meeting
grapher on a walk-a-thon
Ray and Judy Anderson host a
“poster party” to prepare for]
upcoming elections
Ask Nita and “Hoss” John-
son or “Bubba” and Doris
Rudder about the Indian coun-
try back in the. woods around
Woodville ... Ralph Milner
helps a neighbor with the loan
wm piesem me
” parts two and thre^, f ete Set Jt OT
i. Monday in Walter
Uoll nn fk« T «« 7T1l • ’ * I
LB Principal
ADULT CHAPTER of REI*
American Field Service will
meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday in
A retirement reception for
:dar BaySirJtintoT School
Incipal Felix Hatchell will
be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Sun-
Family Finds New Cause For Alarm - - / .
Quivering Ground: New Trouble
For Water Threatened Brownwood
referi ?d to reports circulating Fikes’ withdrawal
Community Building, an-
the testing room at the high day, Aprtf 7, at the Baytown
school.
Spring Concert
THE MUSIC Department at
sterling will present its annual
spring concert at 7:30 p.m.
of a trailer ... The Robert Tuesday ip the school audi-
Bounds family enjoy getting torium. The public is invited to
back to the piney woods for a
beautiful spring weekend.
James McKnight and 14
friends at A&M may have set a
Fhfl
foe free concert
faster Hunt
BfoYTOWN PARKS and
worM domino playing record R^creation Department will
sponsor its second annual
of 50 hours straigl
Dick DeSalme returns from
Texas A&M where he spent a
week
Odell Washburn welcome
Jesse Cole back to his stand at
the post office.
Easter egg hunt beginning at 1
p.m. Saturday, April 6, in N. C,
John O. Mitchell and Foote Park. Over 8,000 eggs
will be hidden in the park
which is directly behind the
Baytown Community Center
YOUR FULL
SKRVICM RANK
BAYTOWN STATE BANK
No 9*rwc# Chtrgt FOI C
n-
By WANDA ORTON land sinkage, the ground is
What quivered like a bowl of getting below tide level,
nounced Mrs. Cornelia Grant, j jelly when you walked on it? Thpshaky ground was some
school faculty member. a water bed? se.vPn feet from the garage at-
The reception for the retiring No. . tached to the home and the
seven-year junior school prin-J The answer was a driveway quivering area was enlarging
cipal is being sponsored by thel Sunday at the Lloyd R. Outlaw Sunday afternoon. For-
faculty, Mrs. Grant said, home inside the Brownwood tunately, it was veering away
Friends and students art in- perimeter road at 197 Bay- from the house and there ap-
vited through the press to at- shqre. //, peartd to be no immediate
tend. Police, the city’s’ public (danger to the structure. The
Hatchell, a 27-year veteran works department, Civil De- quivering mass covered an
educator in Baytown, will re-tense Director J. Fletcher area of about 20 feet in diame-
tire at the close of the spring Hickerson and a number of
term. interested Brownwood neigh-
Music will be provided by bors gathered at the Outlaw
Douglas Wallace, band direc- home Sunday to observe this
tor at the school. The reception curious situation,
theme will be carried out in By Monday morning the
school colors of blue and gold ground had hardened some-
and refreshments will be what but thii alarmed Mrs. further,
served. lOutlaw even more. “Now I
SEE what it's doing,” she
one of her neighbored
I. A. Sterling, public works
theorizes that the
ground was caused
ENJOY
24 HA
ever, the quivering pocket
could cause the roadway to
cave in. This would take about
a week to ,happen, Sterling
said, and in the meantime he
knew of jno rheasures that
could be taken to prevent it.
The city employe investi-
gated the whole area around
the Outlaws’ home and the
land across the roadway facing
Crystal Bay. He determined
there were existing or aban-
doned sewer, ^water or gas
mains in the vicinity of the
Outlaws’ driveway.
ground problem at 10 ■ a.m,
Sunday, as shell was being
spread by a tractor to build up
his driveway. The driveway
was badly damaged from flood
sa, Okla
15 1, __ ...... .....
Meanwhile, both of Fikes’
two. opponents, Freddie
Henning and Bobby Ferguson,
issued statements asking
Fikes to Withdraw from the
race.
Fikes sfod he is remaining on
the baM to give voters 5
choice, in “philosophies of
education.” He said his views
board six yeras.
Henning said he did not think
it would be right for the! board
to appoint a member “when we
are having an election.”
“If I were "going to be trans-
ferred from this schooi dis-
trict, I feel it would only be fair
and my duty to the voters to,
withdraw from the trustee
race, I don’t think it is right for
the school board to have to ap-
were different from those sup- point a member when we are
ported by an “organized ef-
fort” in the community.”
Asked if "organized effort”
m Mo d Belvieu that an at-
tempt may be made to replace
Supt. Bill Farmer, Fikes added
“and head coach,” but said he
did not want to get into per-
sonalities. Carrell Richardson
replaced Gene Sharp this year
as head football coach at Bar-
bers Hill High School.
Fikes said he seeks the votes
ter and Mr. and Mrs. Outlaw
were keeping a close watch on
it.
As tidal waters recede,
Sterling predicted the ground
could be stabilized and would sterling recalled a similar
be “sealed off” from spreading situation in the gfround at the
(See Related Photo, Page 2)
If this does not happen, how-
tidal pressure on a pocket of
quicksand. And because of
T
Peoples State Bank
"The People Helpers"
2615 Mirfcal St. 422-8231
M. Strife* OHff,
Mtmbtr FOIC
“Y” on BayshorelDrive where
city crews often have repaired
broken sewer main. Land
subsidence, bringing move-
ment under the ground, has
been blamed for numerous
sewer and water line break-
ages in the Brownwood area _
Outlaw discovered the ground and get us.”
waters in Tropical Storm Delia. jof fo* P^P1® of so
Outlaw dug [several holes in
his driveway, revealing water
close to the surface. “That’s
where the water level is now,"
he showed.
Mrs. Pete Shepherd, presi-
dent of the Brownwood Civic
Association, said the U.S.
Corps of Engine- s should be
contacted about! this latest
problem. *>’
If this starts happening ail
over,” Mrs. Shepherd told The!
Sun, “We can’t live here. If
something isn’t done imme-
diately, there will be nothing to|
salvage in Brownwood.
“It’s frightening. It
like if the water won’t come
iver and get us from tides it’s
going to come up under the
having an election, and I think
the man should withdraw.”
Ferguson also asked for
‘Tam not questioning the
legality of Mr. Fikes’ action,”
he said. “I think he is probably
acting legally. But I think all
this is going to do'is to cause
some hard feelings in the com-
munity. I feel there is no wafy
people who vote for Mr. Fikes
will have any way of knowing
who they are voting for.”
Ferguson said he did not
know of any “organized effort”
in the community but said he
knows that some people are
dissatisfied with “the present
administration’s downgrading
of athletics.”
Ferguson pointed out that
the school supintendent has al-
ready been awarded a three-
year contract and “he will be
there longer than I will.”
The trustee candidate added
that he is opposed to long-term
contracts and a “lame duck”
board acting on contracts prior
to
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 52, No. 146, Ed. 1 Monday, April 1, 1974, newspaper, April 1, 1974; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104908/m1/1/: accessed June 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.