The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 108, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1982 Page: 1 of 24
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REGENT ELECTION ,
CANDIDATES FOR Lee College Board o( Regents drew placet on the
ballot Thursday (or the April 3 election. Leatha Whitaker, left, holds
the plate at Mike Finley. Michael Bargainer. Alden Weaver. Gwen Alt-
weln and David lltebert draw (or positions First place on the ballot
was drawn by Finley, followed by Mrs. Altweln. Weaver. Hlebert and
Bargainer Three regents will be elected (rom the Held o( live can-
didates
(Sun stall photo by Carrie Pryor)
Balrndifi Warned To
Public.Works Post
"1 think our job is to create an
atmosphere where the worker is
challenged enough and the com-
pensation is competitive enough
... he says
But he adds that employees
must realize the "more they put
Into it. the more they get out ol
it."
One ol Balmain's jobs with the
city ol Houston was to solve per-
sonnel problems in the street
maintenance division, which
employs 600 to 650 people.
That experience, he says,
should help him handle personnel
matters in Baytown’s Public
Works Department.
But he says his new position will
enable him to gain broader ex-
perience because it is a "more
responsible job in a smaller com-
munity.
“1 enjoy working in a smaller
ommunlty than Houston.'
By SHAWN BALTHROP
The Environmental Protection
Agency will be spending 1437,000
In Croeby to Investigate an aban-
doned hazardous waste dump
there and study possible clean up
methods.
U S Rep. Jack Fields announc
ed Thursday that the EPA has
allocated the (unds for an In-
vestigation ol the French Limited
disposal site, along with a
feasibility study ol how best to
clean ud it up.
The $437,000 Is the llrst ol the
1982 so-called “supertund"
monies to be allocated (or the
study and clean up ol hazardous
waste disposal sites across the
fount ry *
At present, there are 114 high-
priority hazardous waste sites
which quality for such binding
The French Limited glte la one ol
(our located In Texas
Under the EPA proposal,
$273,300 has been allocated for an
investigation of how serious a
threat the dump poses to the
health and safety of the communi
ty. and whether or not ground
water In the area has been con-
taminated
The remaining $164,300 has
been allocated for a feasibility
study ol how best to clean up the
waste dump, and whose respon-
sibility the cleanup operation
would be.
That study will also project an
estimated eoat and a timetable
for the clean up of the abandoned
disposal site.
The dump, a 13-acre tract cur-
rently owned by the state, was
once one ol the largest hazardous
waste disposal sites in the greater
Houston area. At one time, it took
in about 100,000 barrels of such
waste a year.
At present, the site is a mixture
ol heavy metals, grease, oil and
polychlorinated biphenyls
iPCBsl.
The PCBs are a non*
biodegradable substance used as
an insulator and coolant in some
heavy machinery. According to
the EPA. they can cause skin
disorders, digestive disturbances,
jaundice, impotence, throat and
respiratory Irritation and severe
headaches In humans
The site Is located In a flood
plain, and has Hooded on
numerous occasions. In 1979,
flood waters breached a container
dike, allowing tome materials to
drain Into the area weatersheds.
In announcing the funding (or
the Crosby project. Fields praised
the EPA "for working together
with other Interested parties to
get this clean-up process started
at the french Limited site In
Crosby/
Citizen Panel Proposes New City Park
By TIM POTTER *
Baytown Community Develop-
ment Advisory Committee Thurs-
day proposed spending the bulk of
its 1982 grant money to buy land
for a park in the Airhart-Central
Heights area
The committee, which met at
Mount Rose Missionary Baptist
Church, held a public hearing on
its plans for spending 1982 capital
Improvement funds A regular
meeting was held immediately
after the hearing.
Ol the $583,000 in Department ol
Housing and Urban Development
(unds Baytown has been allocated
for 1982. $250,000 would be used
(or park land acquisition.
Also, $150,000 would go for
street and drainage im
provements, $100,000 would be
spent on housing rehabilitation
and $83,000 would be used to pay
administrative expenses of the
program
About $50,000 ol the $83,000
needed for administration would
pay salaries ol three people, said
Community Development Direc-
tor Jerry Fletcher.
City Council still must approve
the 1982 spending proposals
Community Development Is not*
expected to receive most ol its
1982 funds from HUD until
August
Fletcher said Community
Development would need a
minimum ol 10 acres for develop-
ing a "lull scale" park near
Airhart Addition or Central
Heights "That whole end ol
Baytown has nothing but small
parks." he said.
A new park for the area would
probably include a softball Held
and covered basketball courts.
Fletcher said.
The city's Parks and Recfea
tlon Department would develop
the park, Fletcher said.
But committee member Jean
Shepherd said she is concerned
that it could take the city too long
to develop a park
Fletcher said a park could be
completed within two years after
the land is bough! "Bobby Roun-
tree .(Parks and Recreation
Department directori is as anx-
ious to do something as we are,"
he said
If the city had to buy park land.
Fletcher said, it would probably
be four to five years before it
would have enough money to
develop*the land.
But, committee member Lee
Haywood said Community
Development should not sacrifice
housing rehabilitation funds lot. ■
park development "I think a per-
son's home will come before any
park." he said
Although he said a new park
would be a "tremendous thing."
Haywood added that it's
• something that you don't
necessarily have to have ”
At least $100,000 should be spent
for continued repairs to houses.
Haywood said.
With $100,000. Fletcher
estimated Community Develop-
ment could renovate 10 houses.
Haywood and Mrs Shepherd
said applicants (or housing
repairs should not be turned away
because there is not enough
(SeeCITY PARK, Page2-A)
Fonteno Gets Extra Precinct 2 Park Funds
GARYL BALMAIN
A 3?-'£fcar-old former assistant
or ffoustbn has' become the new
Baytown assistant public works
director.
Gary L. Balmain, who was ap-
pointed by Public Works Director
Norman Dykes, replaces Richard
Hare, who has become the city
personnel director. He will get a
starting salary of $24,624.
Balmain, who oversees about
160 employees in the Public
Works Department, says one of
the biggest challenges ol his job is
keeping talented personnel from
•^leaving to accept higher paying
jobs in private industry.
HOUSTON (Sp) - After -a-
heated debate lasting about 30
minutes, Harris County Commis-
sioners Court Thursday finally
agreed — sort of — on the division
ol county park (unds.
ja]
and Precinct 4 Comissioner E.A.
"Squatty” Lyons, who were ab-
sent from that meeting.
That approval was not for-
thcoming. Both Fonteno and
Lyons gained a number of new
Precinct 1 would receive a total
of $4,503,767 under that proposal.
In Commissioners Court Thurs-
day, Bass asked for approval of
the parks allocations for
Precincts 1 and 2, so that those
lun",
for Lydns' Precinct 4. In the let-
ter, Fonteno said Lyons and
Eckels could decide for
themselves on the proper disposi-
tion of those funds.
Lyons, however, disagreed with
main mutet oversee'daily fftujects
coordinated at the Municipal Ser-
vice Center on Lee Drive!
Superintendents in charge of
streets, drainage, water distribu-
tion, solid waste, waste-water col-
lection and the city garage will be
his "technical arms and legs.” he
says.
Still, he must be on call at all
times to coordinate their efforts.
Balmain lives in Humble, but
says during emergencies he can
organize his assistants from his
residence. However, he says he is
planning to move to Baytown
within a few months.
$4,888,514 In park funds for I9f
The court approved a plan
agreed to by Commissioners Tom
Bass and Fonteno to equalize
park appropriations in their
respective precincts, and set
minimum funding levels for
parks in the other two districts.
At its Feb. 11 meeting, three
court members — County Judge
Jon Lindsay and Commissioners
Bass and Bob Eckels — voted to
divide the new 1982 park funds
•evenly between the four commis-
sioners’precincts..
That vote, however, was made
subject to the approval of Fonteno
both wanted addiflorial “PQri3s to
staff those addditional parks.
Fonteno and Bass worked out
an agreement to transfer from
Bass' park allocation enough
funds to cover the operations of
the additional park, which
tranfered from Precinct 1 to
Precinct 2 in redistricting.
That proposal gave Precinct 2
an additional $550,000 in park
funds at the expense of Bass’
Precinct 1. Bass also agreed to
give Precinct 2 an additional
$175,000 to develop a jogging and
bike trail that Bass had commit-
ted to.
CurreiVtfy’ fidW have been no
new or replacement items bought
for the parks in any precinct since
December. 1981. Those funds
have been tied up because of the
failure of the court to agree on a
division of the park funds.
Fonteno, in a letter to the court,
also asked it to an earlier pro-
posal, prepared by the auditor’s
office, which divided the remain-
ing 50 percent of new park funds
evenly between the two other
precincts.
That plan give Eckels’ Precinct
3 a total of $3,732,102 in park
monies, compared to $3,969,448
equipment from eight parks
which were passed on to Lyons’
precinct in redistricting, taking
even the garbage cans in one in-
stance.
He added that Eckels had re-
quested more than $384,000 tor the
operation of those four parks in
his 1982 budget request — funds
which went to Precinct 3, and not
to the parks.
For a while, claims and
counterclaims flew thick and fast.
Lyons claimed that Eckels had no
right to take the equipment from
the parks. Eckels claimed that he
(See FONTENO, Page 2-A)
Pearce Street Journal-
The Prescribers
Why is it that skinny doctors
are always prescribing diets?
-FH
Contradictions Led To
Mistrial For Inmate
Around
^. Town
BETTY AND OBIE MATTHEWS
enjoy retirement these days ...
Former Baytonian Marla Burt,
now of Huffman, surprised to see
a friend at a seminar.
Karen McLean talks about
weird ailments ... Debbie Cosio
enjoys a day of rodeoing. .. Judy
Richards looks forward to a Mex-
ican vacation ... W.E. Muller
teaches children to loop glass in
circles.
W.C. Moravits remembers old
days at “Buddy’s Mule Barn” ...
Scott Sheley plans to bring wild
animals to school ... Melinda
Barrow catches up with old
friends. __
GALVESTON (AP) - Six
weeks of testimony from 50
witnesses failed to persuade
jurors to pronounce a verdict in
the capital murder trial of Texas
Department of Corrections in-
mate Eroy Edward Brown.
The seven-man, five-woman
panel deliberated four days
before state District Judge Henry
Dalehite declared a mistrial
Thursday. Jurors Were deadlock-
ed 10-2 in favor of acquitting
Brown, who was charged in the
drowning of prison warden
Wallace M. Pack.
Inconsistencies between
physical evidence and testimony
of witnesses led to the mistrial,
one juror said.
“There was just a lot of
evidence that wasn’t submitted,
so all we could go on was the
physical evidence. That’s all we
had,” said A1 Chandler, 47, of
LaMarque. “Inconsistency, in-
consistency. We had to go with
what was consistent with the
scene.”...
Chandler said jurors favoring
acquittal believed there were con-
tradictions in the prosecution’s
story about the scuffle between
Brown, Pack and Ellis Unit farm
manager Billy Max Moore and
the physical evidence.
The jurors also disregarded the
last two weeks of testimony when
defense attorneys paraded
several inmates and former in-
mates to the stand, each saying
Pack and Moore were violent men
who abused prisoners.
Both defense attorney Craig
Washington and prosecutor Mike
Hinton praised jurors for their
persistence in attempting to
reach a verdict.
Brown’s aunt, Eddie Man-
maryland, had predicted earlier
the jury would not reach a ver-
dict.
S":
Williams Claims He Was
Victimized By Prosecutors
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WEATHER
A CHANCE of showers and
thundershowers will end
sometime Saturday. Friday
night’s low will be in the low
30s. Saturday’s high will be
near 50. Chance of rain will
be 60 percent Friday night
and 20percent Saturday. *
WASHINGTON (AP) - Har-
rison A. Williams Jr., fighting to
save his place in the Senate, is
telling his colleagues he was a
victim of “renegade” federal of-
ficials who deliberately pro-
secuted him on false Abscam
charges. ......
The New Jersey Democrat,
defending himself-for nearly six
hours Thursday, termed the
FBI’s Abscam investigation
“ethically repugnant” and vowed
to battle what he called the
“preposterous recommendation
that I be expelled.”
Portraying himself as the vic-
tim of prosecutors who took him
and the galleries packed for the
second day of Senate hearings,
Williams said in his familiar, low- *
key baritone, “L could make
things easier for you by resign-
ing.”
But that, he said, “would be a
betrayal of the trust placed in me ..
by the citizens of New Jersey in
four Senate elections!”
Wearing a black suit and
reading most of the time from a
prepared text, the 23-year Senate
veteran sought to build a point-by-
point refutation of the case
against him.
Flanked by two lawyers, he in-
troduced documents which he
to court on “charges they knew to said show prosecutorial doubts
be false,” Williams described the about the strength of the case
time since the Abscam case broke against him and questioned the
as an “Orwellian nightmare” and quality of videotapes of meetings
a “lonely fight.” he held with a phony FBI sheik.
“My wife and I have been under Williams, 62, was convicted on
some ordeal, I tell you, for over bribery and conspiracy charges
two years,” he said. and ordered to pay a $50,000 fine
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