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was.
Pharr is commander of the Baytown branch of
Disabled American Veterans and is prominent in
local veteran activities. Along with: his wife Luci,
who heads the DAV Ladies’ Auxiliary, he
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Volume 68, No. 358
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Sunday, December 23, 1990
Baytown, Texas 77520
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Lighting up Lakewood
Benched
Players in basketball fight
can’t play, pending probe
Snow appears to be falling over this nativity scene at tHe
home of Larry and Cindy Botting, 208 Mayhaw, in Lakew-
ood” The Bottings. started working on the scene, com-
plete with a snow machine, last April.
By Bruce Guynn
of The Baytown Sun
The Robert E. Lee High
School basketball players in-
volved in a fight with players
from Clear Lake will be
benched, pending the outcome
of an investigation of the inci-
dent, Alan King, deputy superin-
tendent for non-instruction for
the Baytown school district, said
Saturday.
Other students who became
involved in the brawl and who
can be identified will be “dealt
with in accordance with the stu-
dent discipline management
plan,” King said.
King, REL head football
coach and athletic director Jim
Stroud, REL Head basketball
coach Jim Ledbetter and assis-
tant coach Brad Ingram re-
viewed a videotape of the inci-
dent Friday.
The fight occurred late in the
third quarter of Thursday night’s
game between REL and Qear
Lake at the REL gymnasium.
King said a review of the vid-
eotape showed the fight lasted
about 25 seconds. It also showed
. about eight spectators came onto
the coun during the incident.
However, some of them didn’t
do anything, according to King.
Neither King nor Stroud
could say how many REL play-
ers will benched as a result of
the incident.
The school district’s investi-
gation of the incident is ex-
pected to begin about the first
week in January after the re-
(See basketball, Page 2-A1
Yes, it’s
colder
Baytown’s low of 28 de-
grees early Saturday was
“downright topical” com-
pared to severe cold in
other parts of the country.
Frigid weather held the
nation in a vice grip as
subzero cold refused to
budge, conjuring more
snow, ice, freezing rain, an
ice-jammed river and even
a few twisters thrown into
a barrage unlikely to go
away by Christmas.
The far West got the be-
ginnings of a break as the
arctic deep freeze that
brought rare heavy snow-
fall to Seattle and a light
snow to California’s
seashore started to edge its
way eastward.
No relief was in sight
for the Midwest, northern
Plains and much of the
East and South.
“It will get colder as the
days go on, especially tow-
ard Christmas,” National
Weather Service meteor-
ologist Thomas Helman
said in Wisconsin. “For
Monday and Tuesday,
we’re looking at lows of
10 to 20 below.” . :
The storm system was
blamed for at least 14
deaths since Tuesday, in
Washington, Iowa, Orei
gnn, Montana, California.
Oklahoma and Mississippi.
Van of disabled veteran
recovered but damaged
‘At least they didn’t get the wheelchair lift,’ Pharr says
By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun
Many Baytonians are fatniliar With the sight:
A van pulls up, the side doors pop open, the
wheelchair lift lowers and disabled veteran Clar-
ence Pharr hits the t_
Phaif’s mode of l
Chevrolet Van, c_r
special needs. a
On Dec. 8, the van was stolen from outside the
Pharr apartment.
Houston police found the van qn the same day.
It had1 been damaged in a wreck of some kind and
just about everything of vplue was either stripped
out or damaged.
* “I’m just glad to get it back,” said Pharr. “That
was redly lucky.”
The problem of refitting the van is another
matter.
Pharr Had no insurance to cover theft and
damage tcf the van. On his pension, such coverage
is “just too expensive,” he said.
“We’ll get it back in shape someday though,”
he said hopefully.
Damage and loss amount to several thousand
dollars.
The van’s top was smashed when someone
apparently tried to drive it undersomething it was
too tall for, plus one front fender was damaged.
. The steering column was torn up and’ the dash
and center console were destroyed when the radio
equipment' was pried out. Wiring throughout the
vail was damaged.
Speakers, a radio, table, cooler, CB radios and
many tools were taken from the vehicle.__j_
Even the extra wheels for PharT’s wheelchair
were stolen.
To add insult to injury, Pharr I
get Hie van out of a wrecker’s tt
Houston police had it towed there,
After being towed back to Baytown and v -----
on by Pharr’s son, the vehicle is once again
drivable, but not the comfortable haven it once
lOViU VCLCIiUl c
who heads
volunteers time and ' effort to many i
causes.
The Pharrs attend many events such as l~.
city’s July 4th celebration, Veterans’ Day and
Artxir Day ceremonies and more. {
At many meetings, the Pharrs pull tip in the van
and Clarence holds court from the vehicle as
fellow veterans and vehicles gather to discuss
DAV business or just to socialize.
Pharr served in the Navy during the Korean
Conflict, was wounded in 1952 and given a
medical discharge.
His injuries were the progressive type. By 1973
he was confined to a wheelchair but didn’t let that
slow him down.
He is rated at 60 percent disability by the
government and gets a check monthly, not enough
to live well on but enough to struggle by . with,
The van incident ‘-hit us pretty hard," Phan-
said. “But we’ll make it. . .At least they didn’t
get the wheelchair lift.”
Pharr is perhaps hurt most by the thought that
someone would do such a thing to vehicle
belonging to a disabled veteran, noting the van
is plainly marked on all sides as such.
“I pess
anybody.”
some peopIeTwill just
_____j by Cams Pryor
do it to Clarence Pharr heads the Disabled American Veterans in
Baytown.
Good Afternoon.
Pearce Street Journal
AROUND TOWN|
Best way
Kim Morris Vela, for-
/ ' “ ') • merly of Mont Belvieu
There's just no better and her husband, Ri-
way to say it tojionor phard, return after liv-
The Prince of Peace
than, “Merry Christmas."
-FH
WEATHER
SATURDAY NIGHT:
Chance of rain mixed with
freezing rain or sleet.
Cloudy and cold with high
near freezing. Slight
chance of freezing rain or
sleet. Low in low 20s.
Sunday: Weather much
the same with high near
30s. From 8 a.m. Friday
to 8 a.m. Saturday, high
of 77, low of 28. Rainfall:
.56 of an inch. Christmas
Day: Cloudy and cold with
a chance of rain. High
near 30.
ing in New Haven,
Conn., for more than a
year. '
Phyllis Davjs and
Alan Johnson come
through with the fudge
. . . Patricia Allen
forgets to call an old
friend. j J-
INDEX
Classified-------------- 11-13-B
Comics/Crossword .... 6-A
Dimension........ 10-11-A
Editorial..............4-A
Movies............ 14-B
Obituaries............3-A
Police beat...........2-A
Religion.............7-9-B
Television.........Ac'cent
Rotary goodwill mission
to Mexico — Page 4-B
Goodfellows inching toward fund goal
Previous Balance...................................$15,852.35
Gloria Garson Skelton.and Eva Garson................ 25.00
“In loving memory of Emit and Gregg Garson and Joy Saxon”
Bill and June Farley...^................• *...........•••• 25-jH)
Pat and Rudy Porter...........................39*0u
“In loving memory of our parents, Mrs. Florence Alexander and
Mr. Loey Porter”
Black Women’s Awareness Club Inc...................50.00
Dr. and Mrs. H. Carl Messerschmidt Jr............... 75.00
“In honor of grandchildren, Brian and Anne Messerschmidt and
Eric and Gregory Bacus”
Lesley and Payton Bridges and Emily Sellers.......... 13.00
“In loving memory of our granny, Elsie Barrington”
Sandra and Donald Wright.........■ •••.................4JJ-00
Carmen Martinez.......................................
“In memory of my dear father. Ascension Salinas, and my good
friend and teacher, Miss Jessie Lee Pumphrey”
The Bill Hurst Family.............................•-•••• 25-WJ
Mrs. G.M. Fleming.........".’••••...................•••• „
“In memory^ of G.M. Fleming and grandson, A’lan Cheshire
Marisa C. Duke Brunson............:.................. 50.00
“In memory of Howard E. Brunson and Dr. Herbert H. Duke
Sr” • ........— : -— — ,
John and Bertha Stewart........................V...... 25 00
Anita and Earl Hargis......................,...........25.00
“In lieu of Christmas cards”
Lindsay and Brady Stout................................ 50.00
Norine Rosser..................................... 40.00
“In memory of C. Lewis and Wanda Rosser”
The Graphic Assurance Company Inc.................150.00
“In memory of Geneva Rios and Bob Matherne”
Anonymous......... .a ..✓....:...........................5.00
Anonymous.............1................................ 10-00
“In memory of Gus Richers” * „
Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Burns..............................35.00
“Tn memory of Mother”
Drew and Dan Heyen.................................. 50.00
“In memory of grandfathers, Harold Heyen and Earl Hollis”
Patricia Dodds—......................................50.00
“In memory of Clarence E. Allman”
Anonymous.... — .......... ...................... 2^.00
Bessie Jeanne Matherne................................ 15.00
Mr. and Mrs. John R. Sandhop.................. ... 50.00
“In memory of Jet Thomson”
Horace Mann SADD.................................... 20.00
Ruth Ellen and Richard Hofman....................... 20.00
Freda M. Crow'....................'..........•••;&..... 25.00
“In honor of Remandra Crow’s arrival”
Bob and Sue Campbell................................. 25.00
“In lifeu of Christmas cards”
East Region of the Harris County Community Supervision and
Corrections Department......................••••• 138.50
Judy Hunter.................................V— 25.00
“In memory of Mom, Lillie Bullock”
“In honor of Lee College Faculty”,.................... 25.00
Total...............................................$17,040.85
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
Day by day, we inch closer, and closer to our goal of $20,100.
That money, used to buy Christmas gifts for many needy children in
Baytown, could not be spent on a better cause.
Carmen Martinez, who is listed in today’s list of Goodfellow con-
tributors, sent in a donation in memory pf her father, Ascension
Salinas, and her friend and teacher, Jessie Lee Pumphrey. “Miss
Jessie used to contribute to this fund every year and thought highly
on the work done by the Goodfellows,” she wrote, adding, “P,S. I
do, too.”
You, too, can donate to this year’s fund. Bring your contribution
to the Goodfellows to The Baytown Sun, 1301 Memorial, or mail it
to Chief Goodfellow, in care of The Baytown Sun, P.O. Box 90,
Baytown, 77522.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 358, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 23, 1990, newspaper, December 23, 1990; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044153/m1/1/: accessed July 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.