The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 246, Ed. 1 Monday, August 14, 1989 Page: 1 of 14
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Fields will accompany remains
MICKEY LELAND
By RENE MOODY
U.S. Rep. Jack Fields, R-
Humble, one of U.S. Rep.
Mickey Leland’s close friends,
will be one of four congressmen
who will accompany Leland’s re-
mains home this week.
The congressional delegation
was appointed by House Speaker
Thomas Foley, D-Wash.
In addition to Fields, the group
will include Majority Whip
William Gray, D-Pa.; Ron
Dellums, D-Calif., chairman of
the Congressional Black
Caucus; and Bill Emerson, the
ranking Republican on Leland’s
House Select Committee on
Hunger.
In a telephone interview Mon-
day, Fields said he and Leland
had been friends during the 8V2
years Fields has been in Con-
gress, but especially close the
last couple of years.
“Even though our political
philosophies were 180 degrees,
we were still close friends,”
Fields said.
“He was a very nice, very
jovial and very compassionate
man.”
Fields said since Leland’s and
his families were both in the
Houston area, while other con-
gressmen’s were in Washington,
the two often found themselves
at the same events.
In Houston, friends and col-
leagues of Leland streamed into
his office as news spread that the
wreckage of Leland’s plane had
been discovered.
Rep. Mike Andrews, D-
Houston, said with a breaking
voice, “This is a very difficult
time for Houston. We have lost
one of our most important
leaders, and I’ve lost a very good
friend.”
Maxwell Brown, a U.S. ser-
viceman from Baytown, was a
member of the ground crew dur-
ing the search operation in
Ethiopia, a spokeswoman from
Fields’ office said.
Brown or his family members
could not be reached for com-
ment Monday morning.
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Leland wreckage ‘awesome’
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia
(AP) — Undaunted by bad
weather, rescuers Monday
began the grim task of recover-
ing the bodies of Rep. Mickey
Leland and 15 others who died
when their airplane crashed into
a mountain in southwestern
Ethiopia.
The bodies of the Texas
Democrat and 11 others were
found Sunday in the wreckage of
the twin-engine plane, which
disappeared Monday during bad
weather on a flight to a refugee
camp near the Sudanese border.
The others were presumed
dead in the crash that one U.S.
Air Force pilot described as
“awesome, unsurvivable,” and
the search for the other bodies
began Monday in a steep ravine
below a jagged cliff about 500
miles southwest of the capital.
“The nose of the plane just ran
into rocks,” said Rep. Gary
Ackerman, D-N.Y., who was in
the Blackhawk helicopter that
first spotted the wreckage of his
colleague, who was the chief ar-
chitect and chairman nf the
House Select Committee on
Hunger.
“The wings sheared off -md
the engine and fuselage were
burned,” Ackerman said after
returning to Washington late
Sunday.
Flags were lowered to half
staff at the White House while
President Bush and other
leaders expressed sorrow at the
death of Leland, who was en
route to inspect conditions of
300,000 Sudanese civil war
refugees at a camp in Fugnido,
about 100 miles southwest of the
crash site.
The Twin-Otter aircraft, own-
ed by Ethiopia’s relief agency,
crashed 4,300 feet up the side of a
5,500-foot mountain.
A U.S. C-130 Hercules cargo
plane and two Blackhawk
helicopters carrying 100 U.S.
and Ethiopian recovery teams
was sent from Ethiopia’s capital
Monday morning, but the
helicopters twice were forced
back by bad weather.
John Guerra, a spokesman for
the U.S. Embassy in the capital,
said the weather cleared at mid-
day and the helicopters refueled
and set off again for the crash
site.
The bodies were to be flown to
nearby Dembidola then ferried
by the C-130 to the capital, where
a team of military forensic ex-
perts was standing by.
Pentagon spokesman Navy
Capt. Stan Bloyer said in
mountain at cruise speed. He
said the condition of the
wreckage made the body count
difficult.
The wreckage is in terrain so
rugged that medical teams, in-
cluding two doctors, had to be
lowered to the site from
helicopters, said Haley.
“At the very latest, we have 12
bodies confirmed,” Haley said
Sunday. “It is fair to say the
others are presumed dead. ’ ’
Leland’s party consisted of
two staff members; an aide to
Rep. Ronald V. Dellums, D-
Calif.; a friend of the con-
gressman; three officers of the
U.S. Agency for International
Development (AID); and the
Washington that the plane did wife of one AID official. The
not appear to be attempting an Ethiopians included a U.S. Em-
emergency landing and bassy employee, three govem-
“basically disintegrated” after ment officials and a crew of
apparently hitting the side of the three.
Air crash kills Mississippi rep
NEW AUGUSTA, Miss. (AP) - U.S. Rep. Larkin Smith was found
dead Monday in the wreckage of a small plane that crashed in a
forest, authorities said.
The plane carrying the freshman Republican congressman and his
pilot disappeared from radar screens about 9 p.m. Sunday and was
found early Monday.
Two bodies were taken from the wreckage, said officials of the
Harrison County Sheriff’s office.
Rescuers spotted the wreckage from the air about 8 a.m. and sear-
chers struggled through heavy woods to reach the site 20 miles south
of Hattiesburg, said C.B. Easterling, spokesman for the Perry Coun-
ty Sheriff’s Department.
Pearce Street Joumal-
Ain’t it so
We belong to a growing throng
who think “ain’t” should be
grammatically correct. We
always felt “ain’t” is better than
“am I not” or aren’t I.”
If we ever organize interna-
tionally to carry our point, we
nominate Jerome H. “Dizz;
Dean as honorary president.
One time some English
teachers chided Dizzy for saying
“ain’t” on network radio.
Diz’s classic answer was,
“Ma’am there are many people
who ain’t saying “ain’t" who
ain’t eatin.’”
-FH
The plane carried the congressman and his pilot, Chuck Vierling.
Smith, 45, a freshman who succeeded Republican Trent Lott, now a
U.S. senator, was returning home to Gulfport from Hattiesburg on
Sunday when the plane disappeared from radar screens, said
Charles Busby, Smith’s press secretary.
Dozens of military, civilian and law enforcement rescuers search-
ed for the plane in the DeSoto National Forest.
“He left Hattiesburg at 9:10 p.m. and went off radar at 9:25 p.m.,”
said John Walker, a spokesman for the congressman. Walker said
the weather was clear when the plane took off.
Busby said Perry County authorities got a call about 10:05 p.m.
from a resident who reported seeing a plane go down.
PATROLMAN KM. Williamson and jailer Dennis Wilson, at
the Baytown Police Station, lower flags to half-staff in tribute to
the late U.S. Rep. Mickey Leland.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
Trustees to consider conduct code, including ‘beepers’
y”
Proposed changes in the Baytown
school district’s Code of Student Conduct
for 1989-90 include outlawing paging
devices, known as “beepers.”
Baytown school trustees are slated to
consider the revisions Monday.
Beepers have become common among
illegal drug dealers, who use the devices
to contact their sales people on the
streets.
The proposed addition would prohibit
students from having a paging device
while on school property or at a school ac-
tivity not on school property, unless the
student is an active member of a
volunteer firefighting or emergency
medical service unit.
Another change would expand the cur-
rent rule that prohibits patches or writing
with obscene, vulgar or suggestive con-
notations.
The proposal would ban “any clothing
or decorations on clothing that exhibits
words, phrases or pictures that are either
explicitly or implicitly suggestive of nar-
cotics, alcohol or tobacco products and
other socially unacceptable elements.”
Another proposed addition says hair
must be clean, neat and well-groomed. Agency.
“Hair styles that are clearly unconven- One addition, based on a bill passed this
tional and distract from teaching and year by state legislators, would remove
learning are unacceptable,” according to
the revision. “The hair length of male
students shall not extend below the base
of the neck.”
Principals are responsible for deter-
mining if a student has violated dress and
grooming standards, according to the
code.
Trustees also will consider additions to
the district’s discipline management plan
as recommended by the Texas Education
liability of civil damages for a teacher,
school administrator or employee who
reports a student he or she suspects of us-
ing, passing or selling illegal or
dangerous drugs or alcohol on school pro-
perty.
The other addition calls for expulsion of
a student who sells, gives or delivers
anabolic steroids or human growth hor-
mones on school property or at a school
activity. . .
Around Town
■
SCOTT GRIFFIN enjoys a big
change these days ... Jennifer
Maybin and Debra Cherry are
glad a friend is back ...
Kimberly Louise Travis is miss-
ed by her mother, brother and
sister.
Susan and Dennis Whitted
finally have a place to hang their
hats ... Roy Parker proudly in-
troduces his grandson ...
Wayne and Ann Huddleston have
a great time on their vacation
... Nicole Wright makes
preparations for kindergarten.
Scott and Diana Armstrong
really know how to celebrate...
Frances Lankford still busy buy-
ing groceries . .. Arthur and
Candy Ochoa have some good
news ... Ashlee and Jennifer
Cobb have a great time in New
Braunfels.
Sharon Butler still seeing the
sights .. . Debbie Smith is still
waiting.
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MONDAY NIGHT: Partly cloudy with
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a.m. Sunday
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Barbers Hill schedules
dates for registration
Pearce to propose employee cash awards
Interim Superintendent Ralph Pearce is slated
to recommend a schedule of cash awards for
employees who build good attendance records dur-
ing 1989-90.
School trustees are expected to consider the pro-
gram Monday.
For teachers and librarians with no absences,
the program would provide a $150 reward. Those
employees with only one absence would get $100,
while those with two absences would get $50.
Maintenance and transportation shop employees
would get $100 for no absences, $60 for only one
absence and $30 for two absences.
Secretaries, clerks and aides would get $80 for no
absences, $50 for one absence and $25 for two
absences. The schedule would pay $60, $40 and $25
for bus drivers, operations and food service
workers.
In other action, the board is slated to
—Approve the sale of three surplus school buses.
—Award contracts for athletic accident in-
surance, a computer enhanced learning program,
annual electrical supply needs, restoration of
musical instruments and test scoring services.
—Approve an agreement by which the district
will be reimbursed by Howell Crude Oil Co. for oil
drawn from three district leases.
—Approve an engagement letter for the audit
performed this year by the Houston office of the ac-
counting firm Deloitte, Haskins and Sells.
—Consider guidelines for establishing district
goals and objectives.
—Consider personnel action.
—Approve issuing tax anticipation notes for 1989-
90.
—Approve on second reading policy changes to
the educational advisory council.,
—Approve the teacher appraisal calendar for
1989-90.
—Approve cash disbursements through Aug. 9
and payroll checks for Aug. 18.
The board will meet at 7 p.m. Monday at the
school administration building, 1415 Market.
Primary School will be held
from 9 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday and
Wednesday for kindergarten and
new students.
To register, students must
have proof of residency (utility
bill or rent receipt), official birth
certificate from the state (not
hospital), immunization
records, Social Security
number; and must be age 5 on or
before Sept. 1.
First- and second-grade
students new to the district must
have their report card from
previous school.
Intermediate students?grades
3-5, will register from 9 a.m.-3
p.m. Tuesday and Wednesday.
New students should bring
their birth certificates, im-
munization records, report card
from previous school, Social
Security number and proof of
residency.
-to the district
who need to register for middle
school, grades 6-8, must go to the
middle school counselor’s office
for registration and level place-
ment of academic subjects.
Sixth-graders new to the
district will register Wednesday
at 9:30 a.m. and take placement
tests from 10 a.m.-noon.
Seventh- and eighth-graders
attending the district for the first
time will register on Thursday at
9:30 a.m. and have placement
testing from 10 a.m.-noon.
Middle school students must
have the same items at In-
termediate students to register.
High School students, 9-12
grades, will register from 8
a.m.-3:30 p.m. on Aug. 23. They
need to hiring a transcript from
previous school, immunization
records, Social Security number
and proof of residency.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 246, Ed. 1 Monday, August 14, 1989, newspaper, August 14, 1989; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052291/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.