The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 231, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1971 Page: 1 of 20
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Junior School Curriculum Takes New Look In Fall
By JpHNELLA BOYNTON rials have devised completely
Don't think that just because new courses,
you have had a child recently Take, for instance, the sbrth
enrolled in junior school that grade. Instead of one semester
you know what to expect in the; of science and one semester of
courses offered there for a 1 a foreign language, this year
younger, child this fall. sixth graders will alternate
A host of changes will be science with a new course for
made in the curriculum of Bay-
town’s fofir junior schools when
school startpin. August — all -
part of that evolving process
which is education.
New textbooks; yrill contri-
bute to some of the changes,
but in other cases school offi-
all students called “American
Concepts,” with the objective
of helping each student become
a,better citizen of socjety.
The sixth grade’s 18-week
science course, which in recent
years has been totally devoted
to life science, will this year in- ■
elude nine weeks each of life
science and of general science.
Instead of the usual geogra-
phy course on the Eastern
hemisphere, five or six of the
40-45 sixth grade sections in the
school district will be under-
taking a new pilot course, •
“Man, A Course of Study.” Joe
Wood, the school district’s new
social studies coordinator, is at
Temple Buell Institute in Den-
ver this summer getting pre-
pared to lead a teacher train-
ing program marihe course
when he returns. ■
The new course is a socio-
logical. as well as a geographi-
cal, studyjof man's relationship
to his environment. ITie pilot
course may precede -a general
change in sixth grade social,
studies for 1972-73 when new
f state textbooks are to be adop-
ted.
“We are trying to give the
sixth grade a little broader
curriculum,” says Mrs. Mon-
teze Botkin, principal of Hor-
ace Mann Junior School. “We
are also going more and more
proach in all subjects.”
In mathematics courses,
. sixth graders will have a new
Houghton-Mifflin textbook
, called ‘Modern School Mathe-
matical’- ' ■ ,,
..iNon-band students will con-
tinue to rotate art, choral mu-
sic and speech on 12-week perir
ods. The new strings program
will be worked into the elective
periods on a time-shared basis.
Fewer changes have been
made in the seventh grade cur-
riculum than at either the sixth
to an activity or laboratory ap-N or eighth grade levels. Seventh
~ graders will have .new text-
books in mathematics, life sci-
ence aid industrial arts,. The
18-week life science, study will
be alternated with the 18-week
health course, the procedure
for the test- couple of years. r
f At Horace Maim, seventh
grade youngsters who choose
to take industrial arts will have
a full-year’s program, rather
than the one-half year that will
" continue to be "Offered irr the
other, junior schools. The full,
year’s program, called “The
World of'Construction,” Will in-
volve the students in all phases
of construction, from the blue^
print stage throiigh the actual
building. '• •' . •
The course is a prelude to a
full-year course that will be of-
fered at Horace Mann at the
eighth grade level during the
1972-73 school year, called
.-. “The World of Manufactur-
ing.'' - r-
Seventh grade electives will
include choir, band, or, at Hor-
ace Mann, shop for a full year:
, homemaking, typing, -speech, >
art and Spanish, o'r at the’three •
»
^junior schools, shop, for one se-
mester each. ,
Eighth-graders with suffi-
cientreading Skills are going to
get a break next fall in being
able to choose more elective
courses ' than, they heretofore
have been able to.
Students, w.ho on the basis' of
teacher recommendations,
high grade average's and
achievement scores have suffi-
cient skills to.drop the require^
' developmental reading course
! will be able to use that period
; (See NEW, Page 2)
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The Baytown Sun Invites •••
MR. AND MRS. LEE SAUSLEY JR.
202 Bayshore Drive
Good For Two Tickets When Presented
At The Brunson Theater Box Office
This PasXGriod Through July 10.
Now Showing
“BIG JAKE”
fbe f aptofam gum
YOUR HOME
I'r
OVER 50,000 READERS EVERY DAY
■Vol. 49, 'No. 231
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 422-8302
Thursday, July 1, 1971
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
Ten Cents Per Copy
Projects
Here Hit
By Strike
. Baytown construction was
halted Thursday by a strike of
union carpenters, millwrights,
pile drivers and asbestos work-
ers. . /. _
inter picket lines went
POWs For Withdrawal
Is Vietnamese Offer
"Dec. 31
Gulf . Coast Hospital on Garth
Road, thg new Baytown Hospi-
• tal building on Bowie School
11 Drive and at the new Humble
i Building on Decker Ilrive.
~Picket lines also went in nu-
merous other construction
' i v-v sites in a 21-county area around
-. GULF COAST HOSPITAL DOCTORS CLINIC Houston.
Strike Affectg Construction Here The^trikevwas called Jor
• - - "vc»»•**«*>sasi-s
midnight Wednesday. .
They had another meeting
scheduled today with Asso-
ciated Genera! Contractors of
America, Houston chapter, and
sw
jfcjuYlriJ
I
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Hftl'
.Bridge Open
•• • *- .JHE EASTBOUND section of.
./ Interstate Highway 10’s new
7 - San ,Jacinto, River" bridge was
I opened about noon Tuesday by
, the Texas Highway Depart-
..... ment. Opening of the span
, (actually the qld bridge over
the river, now gives motorists
a six-lane bridge-with parking
lanes on either side. --
•Highlands Fete
' '■ THE HIGHLANDS Post Office
the Community Building. A film
on horsemanship will be
Shown.
College Regents
LEE COLLEGE regents will
have a work- session on the col-
lege budget at-7 p,m. Thursday
in the board room at Lee Col-
lege.
Dean’s List
with an open house for the new
Thursday at' the post office.
AROUND
GRACE TIDMON will cele-
brate July 4th in London ...
Ray McCullough fillets some
fish ..'. Luine Hanco'ck serves
iced tea ... Mr. a.nd Mrs.
Bobby Brown Of Dayton dis-
play their .prize tomatoes.
Rough Riders
BAYTOWN ROUGH Riders
will meet at 7: ,30 p.m. Friday at
Association-
r The main dilute apparently
was over wages but the union
would riot say what it was ask-
ing. ' ’
Union carpenters and pile
drivers draw.$6.18 per hour in
wages and benefits, and mill-
wrights dr.aw $8.43. The asbes-
tos vyorkers, with 680 mem-
Ibqrs, draw $9.62 per boyr.
Painters Local 130, with 1,500
members, approved anew con-
tract with the Painting and
Decorating Contactors A'sso-
end of this year. The plan calls
for gradual release of prisoners
simultaneously with the U.S:
withdrawal
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Target
Of Plan
PARIS (API—The Vietnam-
ese Communist leadership of-
fered today to release all pris-
oners taken in the Vietnam war
tf, the United States agrees to
withdraw'all its forces by the: ol * new $600 million tax paek-
Revenue For 1972-1973 Biennium -
Baytonians Reeling Pinch
As Tax Measure Takes Hold
Baytonians began digging a
little deeper in their pockets
Thursday to.pay their share
age to raise more revenue for
the ste te during the 1972-73 bi-
ennium
The ne„ taI napkaPe in.
Emerging from a session, of Jft’crease in the state
_ __j: _____ppnpral sales tux fpnm 3.25 tn 4
the Paris peace talkS, Xuan
Thuy, the chief North Vietnam-
Miss Millie Herbert have been
named to the dean’s honor roll
Franssen is a sophomore Eng-
lish major. Miss Herbert re-
ceived'a bachelor of science in
education, degree from ACC in
May., - -
At Convention
N. K. BRIffi of 2801 V
has been attending the 56th an-
nual convention of Kiwahis In-
ternational in San Francisco,
which ended Wednesday. He
was accompanied by his fami-
ly.
area.
The contract raises painters
wages from $6.18 per hour’ to
$6.75immediately, to $7.34 next
July 1. The contract has a wage
re-opener clause for July 1,
1973. . / *
Painters’ Raises*
AN AGREEMENT giving
about 1,700 Houston area pain-
ters a $M64-an4iour pay raise
over the next two years, does
not affect Baytown painters,
Jess White, business agent for
it,.- .-r Painters Local Union Np. 945
here, said. He hid the Bay-
town painters’ contract comes
up for negotiation on Oct.l
members of the 75th Maneuver
/Area Command.
I
Weather
And Tides
WARM, HUMID weather Is
expected to continue through
Friday. Tenbperature range,
mid-?fe, to tnid-90s.
MORGAN’S POINT tides
Friday: Highs at 1:25 p.m.
and 8:37 p.m.; low at 12:01
a.m. . • /
FRIDAY’S SUN will rise at
6:25 a.m. and set at 8:26 p.m.
Military Duty
COL. ROBERT McGraw and
Sgt. Robert Emanuel, both of
Baytown, are participating
- . ,, „ , . . , during.the next two weeks in a
^/Constable Paul A. person miijtarv fjeid training exercise
. £ Dam f ntwim
looks forward to a week’s Va-
cation at Sam .Rayburn Dam
.-.--Peggy Power, almost
“catches” a snake when she
goes fishing. C. T. Freeman
offers some photo tips.
M. D. Peterson is helpful
Bert Gresham provides some
’strike information “on 'the
run” to a meeting ... Polly
Whitman* identifies a,photo
Mrs. W. E. Johnson talks to an
old friend . . . Thanks to Man-
uel Pease for a news tip.
‘1 Tracy Joe wishing her daddy
Alex -a happy birthday ...
Tammy Halford is a patientiat
Gulf Coast Hospital. She has
been there a week, which is a
mighty long for a 13-year-
old ... Odena Childers being
helpful with a news, story,
Lowell and Laura Herrington
celebrate their 30th anniver-
sary Thursday, July 4. ,
TURN IN YOUR
' ALUMINUM CANS
Saturday 9 i.m. Til 12 Noon
At
WISMER DISTRIBUTING CO.
600 S. Main ... - r-----Warn
N
ciation, also for the 21-county but also for its effect , on the
1 ' * stability of South Vietnam.
They noted that Mrs. Binh’s
plan appeared to be designed to
meet a key condition laid down
by President Nixon-that a .
plan tied to a target date for
U.S.1 withdrawal would have to
cover release of American pris-
oners. - 9
In Saigon, a U'.S. source pre-
dieted that the Viet Cong plan
will “put a lot of pressure on
the Nixon administration and
the American people” to fix a
withdrawal deadline.- He'
doubted, however, that the
United States could withdraw
all its.forces by Dec. 31.
Basic conditions for ending
the war were unchanged from
allpreyious Communist propos-
QUR OSCAR ' (Set POW, Page 2)
general sales tax from 3.25 to 4
per cent; and that means that
levied on a lO-eent purchase
rather, than the present 12
cents. The City of Baytown's 3 to 4 per cent, beer taxes were
one per cent sales tax adds an- ' ’ ' ......
other penny 'Iq the tax toad.
ese delegation. said U.S. Am- the first penny of taxes is
bassador David K.E. Bruce had
agreed to give the peace 'plan
“very careful study.” ‘ ‘
the plan was laid before the
negotiatorsby Mrs. Nguyen Thi
Binh, the chief Viet Cong dele-
gate. Thuy expressed suppbrt
for it. .
In Washington, authorities
said the proposal would be
studied, not only on the terms
for getting both fighting men
and prisoners out'of Vietnam,
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Other new state taxes raised
the price of cigarets 3 cents a
package. Smokers have been
paying 15.5 cents in taxes for
the nation’s- hjghest “tobacco
tax s .
The retail price of cigarets
will be increased from 50-to 55
cents in most vending -ma-
chines.
In addition, the state’s molor
Vehicle sales tax went up from
increased from $4.30 to $5 a
barrel, which amounts to
something less than one-fourth
of a cent' per bottle. and liquor beerrbroadened to cover auto-B^town merchants.
taxes were hiked from $1.68 to
$2-a gallon, or a little under
§event cerits a fifth.
The new taxes also hike busi-
ness. franchise taxes from
about' $3.25 to 'about $450 per
$1,000 of a firm's capital and
Parade Due
To Start
Horse Show
A parade. Thursday will
. help kick off the annual Bay-
to.wn Optimist. Club horse
show scheduled for Satur-
8ay. . '■ ;7 , ■
The parade will begin at 7.
•p.m. Thursday and wlH go
from Albert Thopas Circle
to Fourth Street. The horse
show will begin at 8 a.m. Sat-
,. urday arid is expected to con-
tinue to 5 a.m. Sunday, Wil-
burn Scarborough, co-chair-
mari of the show, said.
The show will have about
450 entries in 38 different'
classes." .,’i
High-polnt winners in four
age groups will receive sad-
dles. Runners-up will receive
a $50 savings certificate and
a wanning blanket.
vate club and liquor.-by-the-
drink license?/ The, new drmk-
ing tax replaces the ,'nickel-a-
drink tax' previously charged to.
private clubs. , 1
Byt that is-not all:
The general sales tax has
days'and monthly newspaper-
subscriptkmsT
But that is still not all'. More count:
is yet to come :.
Beginning Sept. 1, the state’s
No Blue'
July 4th
Monday
. No “blue Monday” is in store
for fplks(with a holiday the day
after July the Fourth this year.
With Independence Day fall-
ing on Sunday this year, many'
people will ;befcelebrating the
day after. Call it a. “red, white
Picnics,, camping trips-.,
swimming andfami'ly reunions
are on schedule for the long
week-enders, i
-City-wise, here is the holiday
agenda;',
'Most, stores will be closed
here Monday, except the.dis- •
copnt stores, according to
'mobiles rented-for less thairtt =^anks willJje closed, along
ith the post office and other
establishments Monday,- City,
have an'official.holiday Mon-
day,"
surtax will be charged on all
courts will begin collecting a City Manager] D. R. V.oelk'el, .
create, a new 10 per cent gross surtax on. traffic tickets and said garbage will be collected
receipts tax for the state’s, pri- other law vio.-iions. The.$2.50 as usual, however,'on Monday ,
..... • •" • ’ •' • morning. Hemged residents to »
put garbage cans out eartyr Af- -
ter the collections are com- t
pleted, these emplSyes will?be
free to go home. ,
Sterling Municipal Library ,
will-close gt jpjun. Friday and
will not reopen until Tuesday
mornirig. The Wooster branch
, (See BLUE, Page 2) . •*
A $5, surtax will be charged for
misdemeanor7convictkins;,and
$10 for felony cpnvictions..
‘Home’ Surety Hike Here
Among Largest In State
Homeowners' and extended rangirigtrom 22.1to.25 per cent
T-
coverage insurance rates went
Up 25 per cent in Baytown
Thursday as the result of state-
wide increases ordered by the
.State.Tnsurance Board.
The board also boosted fire
insurance rates on homes by
7.1 per cent, Baytonians will
continue- to get their five per
cent-good fire record credit on
the fire insurance policies.
Baytown’s increase in home-
owner and extended coverage
rites was among the largest
rate hikes granted by Xhe in-
surance) board because of this
city’s location’ in the second
tier of the seacoast territory
of the state.
An increase in insurance
rates had, been expected, but
the large statewide increases
1.6
“No one in Texas coulfl,
accuse YOU of aiding in-
flation —nofwlth the al-
lowance you give me!”
Acres of Convenient
“TT Pacing
No Service Oi»«e
^Baytown State cBank.
___Mtmbtt F-.0 I.C _
lOOth Birthday Friday -
‘Grandma Sadler’ Is Not
Slowed By Bumps, Bruises
on homeowners policies and
from 19.7-to 25 per cent on ex-
tended coverage were -larger
’than had been anticipated.
higher than those /recom-
mended -by 'the insurance
board's staff.Feb. 18! The staff
had necommehded a 3.5 per
Cent statewide increase in fire
insurance oh homes, and a i7.4
ance coverage on a $10,000
home, .fire insurance three-
year rates go up from $54 to $58
on a brick veneer dwelling and
from $67 to $72,on ri home- with
. The hikes were considerably asbestos siding and fr°m $80 to
• . SR7 nn a hrirk vpnopr Ev-
$87 on a brick veneer. Ex-
tended coverage oil the dwell-
ing goes up from $98 tp $121 "ffn
the brick veneer and from
$114 to $142 on frame homes
with or without' trie asbestos
per cent increase in seacoast This is a policy-jwitji ri
extended coverage
The new rates will affect
Bdytanians like this'- .
ri The three-year: rate for
homeowner' insurance for a
brick .veneer dwelling ii.rthe
$20,000 class will go yp from
$369 to $460; for, ri . home with
asbestos, kiping in the $15,000
. class, the three-year rate will <^ere not iricluded in statistic^
:n5reaself™m.J353 t0.$441' available at the -Feb,'i8 hear-
and for a $12,000 frame house
frorii $348-to $436. The, rates
apply to the most frequently
written Type' fe policy with a
one per cent deductible clause.
For a homeowner purchas-
ing fire and extended insur-| future
$100 deductible clause except
for fire and lightning damage.
G, J. Jones, the board's chifef
property actuary*, said the
board exceeded the staff re-
from Hurricane' Celia that
available at the -Feb, 18 hear
ing, Jones said. ’ ' . ’ '
Inflation also wias* .consid-
ered, he said, and the board
changed, its' rating formulas to
project trends further into the
Opening Of
225. Through
Pasadena Set
Travel-to Houston- via Pasa-
dena and Highway'* 225 will'be
more^convenient next week
when the 225'" stretch ‘through
.old downtown Pasadenri- - is
opened. • ■ .
The si'Xrlarie highway
stretchesfrom Richey Street to
just east of Red Bluff Road,
an'd will, eliminate -several
stops in the old downtown ar^a.
A spokesman at the- Pasa-
dena. Chamber of- Commerces
sajdJhe-.cityJto^
to mark the official opening at
10 a.m.- Wednesday, July 7-
board tool Into .ctornt tees J',R“,, ,he
. '„.....Wednesday date mav be i
Wednesday date njay be a bit
premature for an-offfcial open--
ing, “because the-highway - “
may not’be.ready by then,-
Ranft said ^the rnghway/ is' ; ,
c.ompletedjsrbiit that clean-up *;*"
procedure? are now -underway
“and We may not finish it all
until fhursdav or-Friday” of
next week.
:V By BETSY WEBBER
“I used to be an awful talker
when I was young,” Mrs. Mary
Elizabeth Ejfinkley Sadler of
1901 Beaumont said, her mind
flashing over the decades!
“Grandma Sadler,” who
doesn’t hear so well and can
hardly see, will celebrate her
100th birthday Friday. She is
proud she can walk despite an
artificial limb. .f:.
“If I fall down, don’t y’all
helpmeup,”she|aia. “Let me
get up by myself! I fall a whole
lot, but I get right back up. Last
FREE CAR WASH
With Any Gas Purchase
Plus FREE Gifts
Baytown ARCO Car Wish
100 S. Alexander At E. Texas
week I fell and bi-oke twb ribs,
I think.” ,
Grandma Sadler and her
grandson, E. J. Sadler, have
lived in the house on Beaumont
30 years. One of her sons buys
groceries for her.
In March, 1968, when she was
only 98, i Mrs. Sadler fainted
and fell near the stove. Trying
to move away from the heat,
she fell again, struck her head
and fractured he# skull.
After that she did not move
again. When neighbors found -
her, her lbgs were so badly
burned her right’leg had to be
amputated below the, knee,
The doctor said she’d never
walk, but she didn’t give upand
kept exercising the leg'muscles
and persuaded him to have her
fitted With an artificial leg.
On ah earlier occasion when
a stove exploded, Mrs. Sadler
smothered her flaming dress
by rolling it up and headed for
the sink.
"I don’t panic,” she said. But
her grandson did.
He grabbed her and put her
(See NO, Page 2)
BAYTOWN'S PARTNER
50 YEARS No
Full Service
Service Charge
Cilizens National Bank
F.DI.C.
Now celebrating our 35th year in
Baytowrn!
Peoples State Bank
Member P.D.I.C.
No Strvico Charge
ROTAR Y OFFICERS INSTALLED
DR. HENltY DISMUKES, former president of the Baytown Rotary Club, passes the gavel to
Dr. Alton Laird, new president, at installation ceremonies for new officers at the Ramada-
Tower Wednesday. Other officers Installed are, left to right, Bill Lyons, vice president, Glen
Woods, secretary-treasurer; and Dr. Gerald Smith, director. New directors not shown are Neal
Dickens and Knox Beavers. ________•' ^ '
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 231, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 1, 1971, newspaper, July 1, 1971; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1061613/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.