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Volume 66, No. 200 Telephone Number: 422-8302 Tuesday, June 21, 1988 Baytown, Texas 77520
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Rod Seidel
new San Jac
Hospital chief
By DAVID MOHLMAN
Rod Seidel, former ad-
ministrator of the 225-bed
Rosewood Medical Center in
Houston, is the new ad-
ministrator of San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital.
The appointment of Seidel, 42,
was approved Monday by San
Jacinto’s board of directors. He
will assume his duties here July
5.
Seidel has worked since 1986
as administrator at Rosewood, a
hospital that includes separate
rehabilitation and psychiatric
units.
From 1981-1986, Seidel opened
and made profitable in five mon-
ths the 100-bed Katy Community
Hospital.
As executive director at Katy,
Seidel’s pre-opening work in-
cluded developing the design,
staffing the hospital, recruiting
and organizing the medical staff
and budgeting.
As San Jacinto Methodist
Hospital administrator, Seidel
will oversee the completion, ex-
pected by November, of the new,
148-bed, $16 million hospital at
Independence Plaza,_____
Although San Jacinto’s $35
million commitment to expand
at the corner of Garth and Baker
roads is “a little different” than
the creation and start of the
hospital at Katy, Seidel said he
hopes his experience at Katy will
help him here.
Seidel said he was drawn here
by San Jacinto’s commitment to
a new facility and new services,
as well as the Methodist Hospital
system’s commitment to
Baytown.
“I’ve known the people runn-
ing the Methodist Hospital in
Houston and the Methodist
system in Houston for a number
of years,” Seidel said. “To my
way of thinking, they fun the
best hospital system in this
area.”
Seidel’s previous experience
also includes working as ad-
ministrator of Doctors Memorial
Hospital in Spartanburg, S.C.,
administrative resident and
assistant administrator at
Nacogdoches Medical Center
Hospital and doing project work
for the controller of St. Luke’s-
Texas Children’s Hospital in
Houston.
A graduate of Rice University
with a bachelor’s degree in
political science, Seidel earned a
master’s degree in health care
administration from Trinity
University in San Antonio. ?
After he graduated from Rice,
Seidel served in the U.S. Army,
including 1969-70 in Vietnam. His
commendations include the
Bronze Star and the Army Com-
mendation Medal.
Seidel and his wife, Mercedes,
have two sons, ages 18 and 16,
and a three-year-old daughter.
He said the family plans to move
from Houston to Baytown as
soon as possible.
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JOYCE POSS has a well-fed dog
.. . Marlene Arellano says she’s
usually not that way . . . Bonnie
Mitchell talks tomes.
Bruno Kuchan visits old
haunts . . . Tony Lee takes the
Baytown express . . . Linda
Beckett and son, Monte, bring
along a watchdog.
Joy Melton tries to figure out a
taxing problem . . . Steve Her-
mann and Kathy Bailey choose
the specialty of the house.
Beulah Hanle tells her age.
Hispanics consider town meeting
By BRUCE GUYNN
A Hispanic citizens group is
still considering a possible town
meeting to discuss proposed
plans for electing Baytown city
councilmen.
Ambrose Rios Jr., a member
of the Baytown Hispanic
Citizens Committee, said the
time for holding such a meeting
would be after the choices have
been narrowed to two plans.
But Rios said a town meeting
would be unnecessary if all
segments of the community
were to rally behind one plan.
Rios said his group is still
working on a possible com-
promise plan, but declined to
give details.
Several plans have been pro-
posed to replace Baytown’s at-
large voting system.
After previously defending
the at-large system, City Council
is now supporting a 5-3-1 plan
providing for the election of five
councilmen from single-member
districts and three others and
the mayor on an at-large basis.
Each of the three at-large
councilmen would be required to
get a majority of the vote to be
elected.
The plaintiffs in a lawsuit
seeking to change Baytown’s
election system have said they
will accept the 5-3-1 plan only if it
is modified to provide for the
election of the three at-large
councilmen on a plural basis.
As an alternative, the plain-
tiffs have proposed an 8-1 plan
providing for the election of
eight councilmen from single-
member districts and the mayor
on an at-large basis.
Last month, a resident, Judy
Hardy, proposed an 8-2-1 plan
providing for the election of
eight councilmen from single-
member districts and two others
REAL CRABBY
COLIN HULSART, 7, holds a crab with an 18%-inch span from
claw tip to claw tip. Colin was with his grandfather, Dick
Cansler, at Roseland Park when this and another crab were
caught on one line baited with dove breast. The giant crab
measures 8 Inches across Its back.
(Sun staff photo by Angle Bracey)
and the mayor at-large.
Rios said his group is no longer
backing a variation of the 5-3-1
plan that would have reserved
one of the at-large council seats
for a minority representative.
Attorneys for the city and the
plaintiffs both thought such an
arrangement would be illegal.
Last year, U.S. District Judge
John Singleton ruled Baytown’s
at-large municipal election
system violates the voting rights
act by denying blacks and
Hispanics equal access to the
political process.
A black or Hispanic has never
been elected to City Council
since Baytown incorporated
more than 40 years ago.
On April 1, an appeals court
upheld Singleton’s ruling. The
appeals court also said any new
election plan must be approved
by the U.S. Justice Department.
Safety council
to co-sponsor
hurricane meeting
Baytown Citizens Safety Coun-
cil voted Monday to h§lp sponsor
the city’s annuaf hurricane
preparedness meeting.
Neil Frank, meteorologist for
KHOU-TV Channel 11 and
former director of the National
Hurricane Center in Miami, will
speak at the meeting, set for
Aug. 2.
Mike Pass, meteorologist in
charge of the Houston area Na-
tional Weather Service office in
Alvin, also will be a guest.
The meeting will include a
briefing from Fletcher Hicker-
son, Baytown Emergency
Management coordinator and
safety council president.
As a sponsor, the council will
work to help draw citizens to the
meeting, where they’ll learn
hurricane preparedness in ad-
vance. “Most people don’t start
asking questions until the hur-
ricane is here,” Hickerson
noted.
In other business, Jess
Navarre reported he has become
certified as a mass casualty
mortuary officer after finishing
a course recently in Arlington.
ALICE FONTENEAU, seated left, Is screened
for glaucoma by registered nurse Verna Theiss,
staff nUrse with Baytown Health Center. Behind
them are from left, Alta Power, nursing super-
visor at Baytown Health Center, Diana
Pribilski, of Houston, glaucoma screening coor-
dinator with Texas Society to Prevent Blind-
ness, and Marie Duguay, director of Baytown
Health Center. Free glaucoma screening, co-
sponsored by Texas Society to Prevent Blind-
ness, will be performed from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m.
June 23 at Baytown Health Center, 807 W. Sterl-
ing.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
Crosby trustees
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advised to hire
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demographer
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Districting plan due Sept. 1
ByAMYKEMS
CROSBY — The process of im-
plementing single-member
districts for school trustee elec-
tions here should begin with the
hiring of a demographer to
devise several alternate distric-
ting plans, the Crosby board’s
attorney said Monday.
In a referendum last month,
district voters overwhelmingly
favored a 5-2 board which would
consist of five trustees elected
from single-member districts
and two at large.
A demographer, using 1980
U.S. Census data, would study
the school district to determine
the numerical and racial ■
makeup of the population, at-
torney Arturo Michel said.
Michel, of the Houston law
firm of Bracewell & Patterson,
told trustees that it is vital that a
plan would not violate the 1965
Voting Rights Act, which pro-
hibits dilution of the minority
vote. •
Michel said the U.S. Depart-
ment of Justice will deny ap-
proval to any plan that
“fragments” or “packs” the
minority population in a district.
Fragmenting involves the
division of a small cluster of
minority voters into two districts
to strip them of their bloc voting
power. Packing refers to the
lumping of a large number of
minority voters into one district
when actually two minority
districts could have been
created.
Michel advised trustees to hire
a demographer as soon as possi-
ble and to set Sept. 1 as a target
date to submit a plan to the
Justice Department, after
holding public hearings.
It takes the Justice Depart-
ment approximately four mon-
ths to evaluate a districting plan,
he said.
The 5-2 voting system, if ap-
proved in time, would become
effective in the May 1989 trustee
election. If not, Michel said, the
election would be temporarily
suspended.
Board members will also have
to decide the manner by which
the succession to single-member
districts will occur.
One alternative is that the cur-
rent terms of all incumbents
would be terminated next May,
with trustees to serve staggered
terms of one, two and three
years, determined by lot, Michel
said.
A second alternative is that in-
cumbents would serve out the re-
mainder of their terms, with the
single-member district plan in-
troduced gradually until full im-
plementation in May 1991.
Carlucci reassigns officials
in Pentagon bribery probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Frank C. Carlucci is
reassigning five Pentagon officials under scrutiny in the Pentagon
bribery probe, sources said Tuesday.
The sources, who spoke only on condition they not be identified,
said Carlucci had signed an order directing the reassignments. The
sources said the affected employees were being notified of the deci-
sion by their respective services Tuesday.
The five are:
—James Gaines, the deputy assistant Navy secretary for acquisi-
tion management.
—Dr. Victor Cohen, the deputy assistant Air Force secretary in
charge of buying tactical command, control, communications and
computer systems. His office was searched last week.
—George Stone, a Navy official in.the Space and Naval Warfare
Systems Command.
—Stuart Berlin, an executive with the Naval Air Systems Com-
mand.
—Marine Corps official Jack Sherman, who works in the equip-
ment and service acquisition sectign of the contracts division, in-
stallation and logistics department.
One source called the reassignments “a dicey thing.
“They haven’t been charged or indicted and most of them are civil
service.”
Another source said, “They are being given other jobs; it’s hap-
pening this morning. ’ ’
The action followed a high-level meeting on Monday at which Pen-
tagon officials reportedly studied what actions they could take in the
case. ^
Carlucci may also consider whether to suspend contracts with the
companies involved in the probe, including some of the biggest
military suppliers in the country. The companies’ offices were sear-
ched last week in pursuit of illicitly obtained inside-contracting in-
formation.
Suspension of contracts could be disruptive to the military, ruinous
for contractors who live or die on government busings, and damag-
ing to their employees.
One source said he doubted so dramatic a step would be taken at
this point because the Defense Department itself lacks information
about the dimensions of the affair.
“I don’t think the FBI is sharing much with us yet,” he said.
The New York Times reported Tuesday that “several” people in-
cluding Gaines and Cohen would be transferred to less sensitive jobs.
It attributed its report to Pentagon officials whom it did not identify/.
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