The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 37, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 13, 1992 Page: 1 of 40
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Volume 71, No. 37
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Sunday, December 13, 1992
Baytown, Texas 77520
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School buildings to cost $30 million
By Josh Daniel
of The Baytown Sun
The Goose Creek school district needs to spend more than $30
million on its buildings — including constructing two new
schools and making major renovations to a third, a committee on
facilities will tell trustees Monday.
The committee’s report was not final Friday afternoon. But Jim
Maple, chairman of the committee, estimated that the committee
would recommend funding about $25 million of the projects
through one or more bond elections.
Such projects include new schools to replace Ashbel Smith and
Lamar elementaries and a new wing and roof at Austin Elemen-
tary. Also included are general rehabilitation of Carver and
Bowie elementaries, new science wings at both high schools and
major roof replacements and repairs on buildings across the
district.
The committee will also recommend funding some additional
projects through maintenance, capital improvements and campus
operating budgets.
Ashbel Smith and Lamar have been plagued by biological con-
tamination. The Ashbel Smith site has been closed entirely, as has
one wing of Lamar.
In addition, a technology committee will recommend spending
$10.4 million on computerized learning systems for math, reading
and writing.
Superintendent Harry Griffith will also recommend reducing
the administrative budget by $360,000 in the next two budget
years.
Trustees will also hear a report on local third- and seventh-
graders’ scores on the Texas Assessment of Academic Skills test.
None of the reports is slated for a vote Monday.
Trustees are scheduled to vote their intent to grant a tax abate-
ment to Miles Inc., which is considering construction in Cham-
bers County. The project would invest $60 million and create 15
to 20 new jobs, according to company officials.
Trustees will also consider updating board policies, hiring one
teacher and accepting four resignations.
The consent agenda contains bids for asbestos removal and
demolition of two wings at Cedar Bayou Junior School; tax re-
funds totaling about $7,500; the placement of additional teachers
on the career ladder; approving five more administrators to evalu-
ate teachers; and scheduling a runoff election for Feb. 13, if
necessary.
In executive session, trustees will discuss the contract-for an
assistant superintendent.
Name of substation
to honor McLemore
By Elizabeth Froehlich
of Hie Baytown Sun
The new Baytown Police Department sub-
station in West Baytown will be named after
the late Ron McLemore, former legal adviser to
the police department.
Council voted unanimously to support the
request of city administrators at a meeting
Thursday.
“Ron was a quiet, unassuming individual
who never cared to be in the spotlight. He was
very dedicated to his job and worked diligently
to provide the police department with carefully
thought-out legal advice,” city officials said in
making the recommendation.
Several Baytown residents had sent letters
and a petition to council asking that the Baker
Road-Rollingbrook Drive connector road be
named after McLemore.
City officials reviewed the request and, with
the support of petitioners, recommended that
the substation bear McLemore’s name.
“He worked very diligently to provide the
police department with sound legal advice,”
said City Manager Bobby Rountree. “We just
felt that naming the substation after him would
be appropriate.”
McLemore served the city of Baytown for
more than 20 years as police legal adviser,
assistant city attorney and city prosecutor. He
had been active in the Baytown Youth Fair and
Rodeo and numerous community service orga-
nizations.
McLemore died Aug. 31 after undergoing
surgery to replace a heart valve. He was 49.
Rountree added that the renovation of the
substation is progressing and that the eight
part-time employees who will work at the
substation have been hired. Those employees
will begin training classes Monday.
It’s official: Hutto Boulevard
The Baker Road-Rollingbrook Drive con-
nector street will now be called “Emmett O.
Hutto Boulevard.”
Council named the road after the former
mayor Thursday, and city officials Friday
agreed the road should, in fact, be referred to as
■ a boulevard since it is divided with an area in
between for landscaping.
City Manager Bobby Rountree said the signs
will be constructed next week and will be
installed as soon as Harris County gives the
nod.
The county provided most of the funding for
the project.
Photo by Carrie Pryor
Trevino, Keith Toledo, Daniel McMurrough and Tera Jackson. y
Let’s never be too busy to help
By Chief Goodfellow
Sometimes we get all caught up in the hustle
and bustle of Christmas and forget that the true
spirit of Christmas is the spirit of good will.
Giving is what Christmas is
all about, but sometimes we
get so busy that the real
meaning gets lost. Through
the Goodfellow drive, you
can revive the spirit of the
season by helping to provide _
toys for needy children in the community who
aren’t on anyone’s gift list.
You may bring your contributions to The
Baytown Sun, 1301 Memorial, or may send
them to Chief Goodfellow in care of The Bay-
town Sun, P.O. Box 90, Baytown, Texas 77520.
Contributions
Previous Balance....................1175.00
Kiwanis Club of Baytown............ 500.00
Mrs. John W. Sylvester...............25.00
“In memory of Gus J. Dauzat from the
family”...............................25.00
Beulah G. Hanle......................50.00
“In memory of my husband, R. Mahlon Hanle
Sr. and son, R. Mahlon Hanle Jr.”
Margaret Boyd........................ 10.00
“In memory of our loving dad Carl E. Boyd”
Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Lanham...........50.00
R.B. and Catherine Jacobs............50.00
Mr. O.R. Watkins.....................50.00
“In memory of my loving wife Ethel”
Herman Attaway......................50.00
“In loving memory of my wife, Frankie”
James and Gladys Kissick.............25.00
Anonymous...........................10.00
Mr. and Mrs. Frederic B. Elliott.....100.00
Anonymous...........................20.00
Susan Jentho..........................25.00
Perry and Bernice Simmons...........25.00
“In memory of Preston Pendergrass”
Total................................2190.00
,, . . . Ptioto by Elizabeth Froehlich
Heroes honored here
Baytown Police Chief Charles Shaffer, center, presents plaques to Texas Parks and Wild-
lif© officer Don Taylor, left, Baytown police officer David W. Alford and Marco A. Rodriguez
Jr. — three of the four men who helped rescue an accident victim whose car was almost
totally submerged in a drainage canal at East James and Kilgore on Oct. 12. During the
presentation, made Thursday at a Baytown City Council meeting, Shaffer explained how
the officers, who were both off-duty, and Marco, 16, and Jason Freeman, 18, rescued the
victim despite the great personal risk involved. Also present at the presentation was
Marco’s father, Marco Antonio Rodriguez, right.
Exxon focus increases on
Baytown, Baton Rouge
With Exxon Co. USA, agreeing to sell its Bayway Refinery
in New Jersey to Tosco Corp., Exxon executive vice president
Joe McMillan expects “better utilization of existing capacity at
our Baton Rouge, La., and Baytown refineries.”
Products will be provided to the Northeast by a combination
of shipments from Exxon’s Gulf Coast refineries, exchanges
and purchases, McMillan said.
“From a Baytown standpoint, the company is in effect ex-
pressing confidence in Baytown and Baton Rouge by saying it
will better utilize our company to allow us to serve any cus-
tomer needs,” said Ron Embry, a spokesman for Exxon Bay-
town Refinery.
Exxon expects to complete the sale on or before April 1.
Exxon Chemical’s Bayway lube oil additives operation and
Exxon USA’s turbine oil operation at Bay way are not included
in the sale.
Good
Afternoon
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 37, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 13, 1992, newspaper, December 13, 1992; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020161/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 6, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.