The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 160, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1988 Page: 2 of 36
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, May 5, 1988
A 26-year-old Baytown man
has been arrested and charged
with possession of a controlled
substance.
According to Baytown police,
an officer on routine patrol in
Oak Addition at about 11 p.m.
Wednesday, noticed three men
run when they spotted his patrol
car in the 400 block of Clyde.
Thinking that something was
wrong, the officer gave chase.
The suspect was found hiding in
a vacant house nearby. When the
officer approached the man, he
saw the suspect hide a bottle
under some debris.
According to police, the bottle
contained rock cocaine.
Charges of possession of a con-
trolled substance were filed in
the 338th District Court against
Bobby Ray Short of 2300 Taft, ac-
cording to authorities.
MANCHARGED
Gary Wayne Burns, 33, of 1307
E. Fayle has been charged with
aggravated sexual assault on a
child.
According to police, the
suspect was arrested in Houston
in connection with the sexual
assault of a 12-year-old
youngster.
Charges against Burns were
filed in the 183rd District Court.
Bond was set at $10,000. Burns
has posted bond and has been
released from custody,
authorities said.
HOUSE BURGLARY
Some $5,680 of miscellaneous
items were stolen Wednesday
from a residence in the 300 block
of Danubina.
One dead, 250 injured in
Nevada plant explosions
HENDERSON, Nev. (AP). -
Earthquake-force explosions
from a rocket fuel plant flatten-
ed an industrial park, killing one
person and injuring more than
250, and the governor calls it a
miracle that the loss of life was
not greater,
“This thing could have been
much worse. ... We may have a
miracle on our hands here,”
Gov. Richard Bryan Said late
Wednesday, after midday blasts
shattered windows 10 miles
away in Las Vegas and tweaked
seismographs 200 miles away.
The detonations destroyed or
severely damaged 12 buildings
and left a smoldering crater 400
feet across at the site of the
Pacific Engineering and Pro-
duction Co. of Nevada plant and
an adjoining marshmallow fac-
tory.
The blasts — at least three
powerful concussions and a str-
ing of lesser explosions — peeled
off roofs, upended cars and even
rocked a jetliner in flight. More
than 250 people were injured,
four critically, most from flying
glass.
Fire Chief Roy Parrish said in-
vestigators couldn’t determine if
the tattered body found 25 feet
inside the plant compound was
male or female.
“The logical conclusion is we
won’t find any more bodies,”.
Parrish said. “Everybody has
been accounted for with the one
deceased.”,
Bryan said he was declaring
the blast zone and its environs a
state disaster area, and would
seek federal disaster relief for
this southern Nevada desert
community of 54,000.
“All the windows are smashed
in and the roofs are peeled
back,” the governor said. “In
one shopping center, all the
glass is blown out and the top
part of the building caved in. The
force had to be enormous.”
The explosions also spewed a
5-square-mile plume of toxic
smoke into the sky, but winds
carried the cloud away from
populated areas and ft eventual-
ly dissipated. By nightfall,
evacuated residents were back
at home.
Pacific is one of two manufac-
turers of ammonium per-
chlorate, an oxidizer in fuel for
the space shuttle’s solid rocket
boosters and the Minuteman and
Titan missiles. The other is
Kerr-McGee, also near Las
Vegas.
The explosions and fire were
caused by an equipment
malfunction, said Pacific presi-
dent Fred Gibson Jr. No
monetary estimate of the
damage was available:
The first explosion at 11:53
a.m. measured about 3.0 on the
Richter scale and the second at
11:57 a.m. had a magnitude 3.5,
said Bob Finn, spokesman for
the California Institute of
Technology, 200 miles away in
Pasadena.
“It flipped cars over, knocked
pedestrians to the ground and
windows in the whole town shat-
tered,” said Susan Russo, 37, of
Henderson, who was in her
pickup truck when the blasts oc-
curred.
Vapor release
NO INJURIES occurred
Wednesday afternoon during a
small vapor release at Exxon’s
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» Baytown Refinery, said public
information director Ron Em-
bry.
Mothers of Multiples
, _j MOTHERS OF Multiples will
' meet at 7 p.m. March 5 at
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Walden Oaks School, 3100 W.
Baker.
v Classes available
THE DAY School for Little Peo-
ple of Cedar Bayou United
Methodist Church is now
registering children for the 1988-
89 school year. Classes, are
available for children who are 3
or 4 years old by Sept. 1, 1988.
Please call Karen Roberson at
427-4754 or 427-5001 for informa-
tion.
MB swimming
SIGNUPS FOR the Mont Belvieu
pool summer swim lessons will
.be from 9 a.m.-noon May 14 at
the McLeod Park recreation
center on Langston Road.
Mt. Zion revival
THE. REV. Peter Williams and
his wife, Rosemary Cage
Williams, from the Living Word
Church and World Outreach of
Houston, will minister at the Mt.
Zion Baptist Church, FM 3360
North in Mont Belvieu at 8 p.m.
May 10, 11, 12, 13. Call 576-5449
for more information.
SOS social
SOS SINGLES Outreach Service
will meet at 6 p.m. May 5 at
Red’s, 1249 Uvalde for dancing,
a happy hour and buffet. Call
Charlene Fregia at 452-2103 for
more information.
Daniel to be honored
FORMER GOV. Price Daniel of
Liberty will be honored at the
annual convention of the Gulf
Coast Press Association May 5
at the Galvez Hotel in Galveston.
Its oldest living past president,
Daniel headed the association in
1942-43.
Service League
THE SERVICE League of
Baytown will meet at 9:15 a.m.
May 6 at the home of Kay
Armer, 1518 E. James.
Children’s Day Out
THE CHILDREN’S Day Out pro-
gram of Cedar Bayou United
Methodist Church is now
registering children for the 1988-
89 school year. Spaces are
available for children whq are at
least 6 months old or older by
Sept. 1, 1988. Please call Karen
Roberson at 427-4754 or 427-5001
for information.
Kappa kappa
KAPPA KAPPA chapter of Beta
Sigma Phi will meet at 6:30 p.m.
May 5 at Goose Creek Inn to
discuss regular business and in-
stall 1988-89 officers.
“Wizard of Oz”
HARLEM ELEMENTARY
School grades 3-5 will present
the “WizarcTof Oz” beginning at
7:30 p.m. May 6 at the Baytown
Junior School auditorium. A buf-
fet supper from 5-7 p.m. will
precede the play, Tickets will be
available at the door for $3.50 for
adults and $2 for children.
Accused child killer to be charged
From Page 1
At the time of the slaying, he lived at the Mont Belvieu Apartments
where Carolyn and her family lived. He moved away shortly after
the murder but then returned to live in Mont Belvieu again before
moving to Livingston.
He knew Carolyn and her family and swam with her shortly before
her death, authorities sail.
Clapper said Wednesday that investigators from the district at-
torney’s office were now trying to find out more about Hiser’s
background.
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OFF TO SEE THE WIZARD
THE GOOD WITCH of the North (fourth-grader auditorium. A buffet supper from 5-7 p.m. will
Kelli Ferguson), right, tells Dorothy (fifth- precede the play. Tickets will be available at the
grader April Morill) and Toto (fourth-grader door at $3.50 for adults and $2 for children.
Misti McNeill) to follow the yellow brick road Harlem teachers Joanne Jeffers and Brenda
during rehearsals for Harlem Elementary Odell are directing the play.
School’s production of “The Wizard of Oz,” set
for 7:30 p.m. Friday at Baytown Junior School
(Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
Three French hostages return
home after release by captors
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PARIS (AP) — Three former
French hostages returned to
France Thursday on a special
government plane that landed
near Paris just 14 hours after
they had been freed in Lebanon
by pro-Iranian extremists.
The plane carrying the two
diplomats and a journalist land-
ed at 9:55 a.m. (3:55 a.m. EDT)
at Villacoublay military airport,
southwest of the capital.
“It’s the end of a nightmare, a
nightmare that lasted three
years and then some,” said
Marcel Carton, 62,-former em-
bassy vice consul in Beirut.
Carton, speaking to Radio
RTL reporter Roger Auque —
himself a former hostage releas-
ed last November — said he and
the others during their captivity
“saw other hostages, but we did
not know exactly who they
were.”
Carton, fellow diplomat
Marcel Fontaine, 45, and jour-
nalist Jean-Paul Kauffmann, 44,
were freed on Wednesday even-
ing near the Summerland Hotel
in the seaside Jnah
neighborhood of the Lebanese
capital.
Less then two hours later, they
flew out of Beirut on a private
French government jet, making
stops in Salonica, Greece, and at
the Solenzara military base in
Corsica.
“It’s the most beautiful day of
my life. There are no other
words,” Kauffmann told Auque,
who was allowed to board the
plane. “It’s a rebirth, because
for three years I won’t say we
lived, we survived.”
Interior Minister Charles Pas-
qua, whose aides conducted the
secret negotiations that led to
freedom for the last Frenchmen
known to be held by pro-Iranian
extremists in Lebanon, met the
plane in Corsica.
A medical team also was rush-
ed to Solenzara to accompany
the three ex-hostages to Paris.
Questions arose immediately
about what price Premier Jac-
ques Chirac’s government might
have paid the hostage-holders —
or their Iranian mentors — to
win freedom for the three.
There were reports in Beirut •
that France agreed to repay
Iran’s fundamentalist rulers the
outstanding two-thirds of a $1
billion loan made by the late
Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
AP news scan
+NORCO, La. — An explosion
ripped through a Shell Oil Co.
refinery Thursday, setting off
burglar alarms 20 miles away $
New Orleans, triggering a fife
that could be seen for miles, kill-
ing one person and injuring 19,
officials said.
-FLOS ANGELES - A fire
raged for 3V2 hours in the 62-
story First Interstate Bank, kill-
ing one person and injuring 33
while a helicopter rescued 10
people from the roof of the city’s
tallest building, authorities said
Thursday.
+AUSTIN — Motor vehicle
thefts in Texas are “out of con-
trol” and tighter security con-
trols are needed along the U.S.-
Mexican border to solve the pro-
blem, a non-profit group says.
-(-AUSTIN — Texas con-
gressmen should vote to
reauthorize and strengthen the
federal Clean Air Act because
air pollution remain a serious
problem in parts of the state, en-
vironmental groups say.
+WASHINGTON - The ac-
quittal of mob boss Anthony
“Tony” Salerno on charges he
helped rig the elections of
Teamster Presidents Roy
Williams and Jackie Presser
strikes a crippling blow to
government plans to take over
the nation’s largest union, law
enforcement sources say.
Tides
FRIDAY
HIGH: 3:30p.m.
LOW: 6:05a.m.
(Tides forecast are
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Sun
SUNRISE: 6:35 a.m.
SUNSET: 8:01 p.m.
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DAYTON — Firefighters
assisted the Kenefick Volunteer
Fire Department in ex-
tinguishing a house fire about
four miles north of Dayton short-
ly before 6 p.m. Wednesday, ac-
cording to the fire chief.
Jill Boyett said most of the
damage was to one room of the
double-wide trailer home in
Trinity River Plaza. The rest of
the residence sustained heat and
smoke damage, he said.
The blaze appeared to have
been electrical in origin, said
Boyett. No one was reported in-
jured in the incident.
BAYTOWN
A 1977 MG sustained an
estimated $1,500 damage around
5 p.m. Wednesday in the 7500
block of Shoshone, a
spokeswoman for the Baytown
Fire Department said.
The fire, which appeared to
have started from a backfire in
the carburetor, was extinguish-
ed by a bystander with a fire ex-
tinguisher before firefighters ar-
rived, she said.
Station 5 firefighters and all
volunteers were dispatched to
the scene.
Happy 10th
Birthday Wishes
Sent To:
RAY/BYFORD
Love, Mom,
Pooh Bear, iTweety.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 160, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 5, 1988, newspaper, May 5, 1988; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052869/m1/2/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.