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Liberty
man di
in wreck
Truck overturns
By BRENT SNYDER
LIBERTY — The Liberty
County Sheriffs Department re-
ported a 31-year-old welder and
crane operator from Liberty was
killed when his pickup truck
overturned on Farm Road 2830
at 2:20 a.m. Sunday.
John Wayne Vogel was driv-
ing north on Farm Road 2830
when his pickup truck went off
the road five miles northeast of
Liberty, according to the sher-
iff’s department report.
After getting back onto the
road, the pickup flipped over,
throwing die driver from the
truck, said a spokesman from
the sheriff’s department. The
driver was not wearing a seat
belt, the spokesman said.
An Air Rescue helicopter out
of Beaumont arrived at the
scene at 3:08 a.m„ and trans-
ported Vogel to Baptist Hospital
in Beaumont. He died in the
emergency room of Baptist hos-
pital at 4:50 a.m., the spokesman
said.
Funeral services for Vogel
will be held at 3 p;m. Tuesday at
Sterling Chapel in Dayton. Bur-
ial will be in Velia Fregia
Cemetery in Liberty.
1965 march
for rights
re-enacted
SELMA, Ala. (AP) — Civil-
rights leaders assessed their
movement’s progress as about
4,000 people re-enacted the his-
toric voting-rights march to
Montgomery and “Bloody Sun-
day” confrontation with police
on a bridge 25 years ago.
“Lord knows we’re not
where we ought to be, but thank
God we’re not where we used to
be,” Hosea Williams said Sun-
day as he crossed Edmund Pet-
tus bridge.
“We’ve come a long way.
But Lord knows we’ve got a
much further way to go,” Wil-
liams said.
From that bridge, named for a
confederate general, Williams
on March 7, 1965, first saw the
state and local police who or-
dered the marchers to disperse,
then used billy clubs and tear
gas to chase them back across
die bridge.
The day went down in civil-
rights annals- as Bloody Sunday.
About 300 people marched to
a point four miles beyond the
bridge and returned to Selma on
Sunday night before resuming
the 50-mile trek this morning.
Marchers plan to cover the dis-
tance in several daily segments,
arriving in Montgomery March
10 for a rally at the Alabama
Capitol.
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Campus cuts
Evolution of a college
student menu:
Freshman-Hamburger.
Sophomore-Hamburger
steak.
Junior-Chopped steak.
Senior-Salisbury Steak.
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AROUND TOWN
NOELLE FIELDS, daughter of
U.S. Rep. Jack Fields and his
wife, Lynn, makes a public
appearance.
Mindy Trevathan takes a
three-wheeler ride ... Jackie
Hooper has exciting innovations.
OFFICIALS OF Houston Raceway Park and
the National Hot Rod Association say an esti-
mated 76,500 spectators attended the third
annual Fram Supernationals during the
weekend — a record-setting total for the
event. Attendance at the finals on Sunday
was estimated at 45,000 — also an event re-
cord. See race results on Page 8-A.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
Super days at Supernationals
By DAVID MOHLMAN
New records for spectator attendance and the
number of cars entered in competition were set
at Houston Raceway Park this weekend.
The third annual Fram Supemationals drew
an estimated 45,000 spectators on Sunday and
an estimated 76,500 for the weekend, according
to track and National Hot Rod Association
officials.
The 700 cars that were entered this year also
set a record, according to Greg Angel, one of
the track owners.
"The event’s growing and growing and the
crowds are getting bigger and bigger every
year,” Angel noted.
Even with the large crowd, traffic flow also
was the best ever for the event, Angel said. The
parking lot at the track was emptied within 45
minutes after the races ended Sunday night, he
said.
Angel credited the Department of Public
Safety, Baytown Police Department and Cham-
bers County Sheriff’s Department for "their
traffic control work. “I think we owe them a lot
for this,” he said.
A “big plus” was the shuttle bus service
started to and from San Jacinto Mall after rains
drenched the track and parking lot last week,
Angel said. Buses left and arrived at 10-minute
intervals.
“The bus deal was really neat,” Angel said.
“The people loved it. I feel we probably bused
Track officials hope to continue using shuttle
buses in future years, he said.
At the track, parking conditions improved
substantially after gravel was brought in and
spread Friday, Angel said. “Only minor prob-
lems” were reported Saturday “and yesterday
we didn’t have any problems,” he said.
Early voting
for primary
ends Friday
Countywide turnout light
Absentee voting for the
March 13 Democratic and Repu-
blican primaries will end Friday.
Through Sunday, 88 in-
person absentee votes had been
cast in the Democratic Primary
in Baytown while 57 had been
cast in the Republican Primary,
according to the Harris County
Clerk’s Office.
County wide, 1,300 have
voted in-person in the Democra-
tic Primary while 2,048 have
voted in the Republican.
In Baytown, the Community
Building is the absentee polling
place. The polls will be open
from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. through
Friday.
Baytown and other Harris
County residents can also vote
absentee at 49 San Jacinto at
Commerce.
Of particular interest to East
Harris County residents is the
contest for Precinct 3, Place 2
justice of the peace.
Candidates for the Democra-
tic nomination are State Rep.
Tony Polumbo, Baytown attor-
neys Roy L. Fuller and Ronald
D. Haddox, Billye Smitherman
of Highlands and Joshua Tho-
mas Sr. of Crosby.
In the November general elec-
tion, the winner of the Democra-
tic Primary will face Gary Jones
of Baytown, the lone candidate
in the Republican Primary.
Statewide, absentee voting
has been significant in urban
areas, but lower than expected in
rural sections.
In Dallas County, more than
6,000 have already voted absen-
tee — 2,479 in the Democratic
Primary and 3,769 in the
Republican.
Turnout has been even higher
in Bexar County where 5,705.
have* voted in the Democratic
Primary and 5,168 in the
Republican.
In Travis County, 2,129
Democrats and 1,422 Republi-
cans have voted absentee.
The governor’s race is
prompting a heavy turnout in
Tarrant County where 1,948
Democrats and 2,123 Republi-
cans have voted absentee.
A new law has made it easier
to vote absentee. Residents no
longer have to provide an ex-
cuse to be permitted to vote
absentee.
This law is prompting heavy
early voting in most urban areas,
said Mark Toohey, executive as-
sistant to Secretary of State
George Bayoud.
Toohey said the Harris
County turnout seemed low in
comparison to other urban
counties.
“That might be a sign that a
lot of people haven’t made up
their minds yet,” said Toohey.
February totals reported
Rainfall less than normal
Rainfall in Baytown averaged
nearly an inch and a half less
than normal during February
1990, according to figures pro-
vided by Baytown Emergency
Management.
The city usually averages
4.62 inches of rain during
February. Last month, the city
averaged 3.20 inches of rain,
which is 1.42 inches less than
normal.
Among the city’s 10 measur-
ing locations, the Central Dis-
trict Sewage Treatment Plant on
West Main led with 4 inches of
rain reported last month. At 319
Harvey, 3.55 inches was mea-
sured.
Fire Station 6, on Massey-
Tompkins at Chaparral Drive;
the East District Sewage Treat-
ment Plant, along Cedar Bayou
near Cedar Bayou Road; and the
West District Sewage Treatment
Plant, on Interstate 10 just east
of the Spur 330 (Decker Drive)
exit; each reported 3.53 inches
of rain for February 1990.
The least rain for the month
was reported from Texas East-
ern, 4227 Decker Drive, where
2.26 inches were measured.
Chevron’s Cedar Bayou Plant
got 2.61 inches of rain, while
City Hall, 2401 Market, got 2.71
inches.
For the first two months of
1990, the Central District treat-
ment plant leads with 10.90
inches of rain. The West District
plant has reported 10.28 inches
of rain.
The least amount of rain so
far this year has fallen at City
Hall, which has measured 7.86
inches of rain.
Average rainfall here for the
first two months of 1990 totals
9.40 inches. Baytown normally
averages 8.03 inches of rain for
January and February together,
meaning the city was 1.37
inches ahead of normal at the
end of February 1990.
Crew marvels
over spaceflight
EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AP) — Atlantis’
astronauts marveled at the joys of spaceflight after swooping
safely to Earth and ending a classified hut not-so-seCret shuttle
mission that put a $500 million spy satellite in orbit.
“As one of the rookies on board, I just say, ‘Wow! What a
fantastic experience,”’ the pilot, Air Force Col. John Casper,
said after the shuttle touched down Sunday on a dry lake bed
runway in the Mojave Desert.
NASA crews today were to prepare Atlantis for a piggyback
jet ride home to'Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.
Preliminary inspection showed 62 of the shuttle’s heat-
shield tiles sustained “dings,” NASA spokeswoman Lisa Ma-
lone said.
The shuttle made a fiery descent through the atmosphere,
touching down at 10:08 a.m. PST in a landing closed to the
public but open to invited guests and journalists.
Graveside rites set
'f.
for shooting victim
Graveside services for a Bay-
town man, shot and killed in an
exchange of gunfire with Hous-
ton police, will be held at 3 p.m.
Monday at White Chapel
Cemetery.
Dennis Ray Thompson, 33,
died of a chest wound at 7:06
p.m. Friday in the emergency
room of Ben Taub hospital.
According to Sgt. J.C. Mosier
of the Houston Police Depart-
ment, Thompson had been act-
ing “real irrational” when he left
the La Carafe bar in the 800
block of Congress in downtown
Houston.
“He started firing his gun
across Market Square,” Mosier j
said.
An undercover officer, who if
had been in the area, ordered the
man to stop shooting and to drop
the gun. Mosier said the man
turned and pointed the gun at the
officer before being shot once in
his small finger.
Officer Monroe Gage came to
assist and was also shot at, Mo-
sier reported. Gage fired one
shot and the man was struck
with a bullet in his chest.
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