The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 1975 Page: 1 of 28
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The Baytown Sun Invites
MR. AND MRS.
BUCK FLOWERS
Mont Betvieu
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WORK
House Panel To Drop Chaiges
Of Contempt Against Kissinger
. u«* - T-sac-T, 4 .’■*"* W * t v - > ^ *
heard of Martti* John? it’s a road north of Baytown with the last
name first. HaxTis County Precinct 2 sign-makers painted
Martin John (after the road has been called John Martin Road
for many years) because the road was listed with the last name
first on the road log. Longtime residents in that neighborhood
Jiave complained about it to The Sun, Baytown, and to County,
Harris. (Sun staff photo by Folkes, Glenn)
sh Moslems Back - -
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Parks Board
PARKS AND Recreation Ad-
visory Board will meet at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday in the Pecan
Room at the Baytown Communi-
ty Building.
Kiwanis Meeting
A CHORAL group from Robert
E. Lee High School will enter-
-------tain at the noon , Thursday
Kiwanis meeting at Holiday Inn.
Meeting Set
and Crippled Children’s Treat-
ment tenter board will meet at 7
ment center, 1305 W. Sterling.
Boys Choir
BAYTOWN BOYS Choir has
performances set from 5 to 5:30
p.m. Friday at-First American
Bank; noon to 12.30 p.m. Satur-
day at Baytown Community
Building for a Zeta Tau sorority
event, and 4:30 to 5 p.m. Thurs-
day. Dec. 18, at Citizens Nation-
al Bank'.'
Cove Council
COVE CITY Council will meet
at 6 p.m. Thursday at the Cove
Community Building.
Eagles To Meet ,
FRATERNAL ORDER of
Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary will
meet at 8 p. m. Wednesday at
1609 Jones Road in Highlands
pim. All members are urged to
attend.
THE BAYTOWN CerebralPalsy Sister Dies
BETTY JO. Shugart, sister of
former Baytonian Maxine
itten, died Monday in Califor-
nia. Burial will be Friday after-
noon in Booneville Cemetery in
Bryan.
Services Pending
SERVICES FOR Dave L.
Prather, 74, of 213 N. Fourth in
Highlands, are pending at
Lebanese Array Moves To
Break-Up Beirut Civil War
BEIRUT. Lebanon (AP)
Lebanese army troops captured
much of Beirut’s seaside hotel
district from leftist Moslem mi-
litiamen duritig the night but
were still battling today for the
St. Georges Hotel.
It was the army’s first major
intervention in the eight-month-
old civil war. The Moslems
charged army troops had been
sent in to rescue the Christians.
At least 850 army command-
os with heavy weapons,'tanks
and-armored personnel.carriers
moved into the hotel area and
the city's commercial center.
At first they wedged between
Tjie officers meeting begins at 7 ^ Moslem and Christ night and
tian militias, then pushed them
out of key positions in sharp figures were incomplete
fighting.
The troops took control of the
Holiday Inn, the Phoenicia In-
tercontinental and- the
proaches to the Str George, se-
curity spokesmen said. They
also joined gunmen of the
Christian Phalange party in the
unfinished Hilton Hotel and the
battered Stareo office center.
A fire raged out of control in
the St. George, gutting much
of its once plush interior. Mos-
lems of the left-wing Ambu-
shers militia remained in and
around the hotel, but the drops
at the nearby Phoenicia con-
trolled all approaches to them
and cut them off from rein-
forcements and supplies.
The police said at least 24
The Moslems-captured much
of the hotel district in hard
fighting Monday. Kamal Jun-
blatt, the most prominent
spokesman for the Moslem left ,
wing, charged that Premier ^ move came aper the
wounded
Four more deaths were re-
ported in Tripoli, the northern
port city, and the police said
e weredashes all night hy
Zahleh, in eastern Lebanon.
Rashid Karami, a Moslem, had
“authorized the use of the
army to protect Phalange party
gangs on their way to a mili-
tary defeat.’' But the Syrian
Baath party's Lebanese branch,
a Shiite Moslem party and one
of the country’s several Nasse-
pemons were killed '" Beirut £ for £
and its suburbs during, the Pervention because most £ jts
nfffpnrc-ima tnld
Swayed By Inspected And Accepted - »
Last-Ditch Council Gets Last Bills
8 For Two Street Projects
WASHINGTON (AP) -[
House intelligence committee |
chairman Otis G. Pike said to-'
day he will drop contempt of:
Congress action against Secre-
tary of State Henry A. Kissin-
White House briefed a com-
mittee delegation on State De-
partment requests for covert
U.S. operations abroad. Kissin-
ger had refused to give the
panel documents covering the
covert activities.
Pike said Information pro-
ml that 63 were ^ Christians, told
' Bu h?y sald 111686 Junblatt he had not ordered the
troops into action. He said they
were under the command of In-
terior Minister Camille Cha-
thoun, a Maronite, Christian.
uiJeitJ an at-
'But this
tempt to evade the issue.
Key To Federal Aid - -
Highlands Water District
Gives OK To Development
V:
WWI Veterans
Community Building for
veterans of WWI and their wives
or widows. Each person is to
bring a gift, hot over $1.50, and
women will bring a covered dish
Senior Citizens
SENIOR CITIZENS* Pub will
meet at 2 p.m.-Thursday at the
Sister Visits
MRS. DEANE.C. Griffith of
GreensbUrg, Pa. is visiting in the
Chase. She also is visiting-
brothers, Charles and Bob
Chase, and their families.
Weather
And Tides
FAIR WEDNESDAY, Wt-om- 6to 9 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday
ing partly doudy and warmer
Thursday is the Baytown area Center plaza,
weather forecast Low ex- {Entertainment
pected Wednesday night,,
upper 40s; high Thursday, mid
70s.
BAYTOWN TIDES for Thurs-
day: Highs at 2:57 a.m. and
4:15 p.mi; lows at 9:59 a.m.
and +7:35 p.m.
+ Denotes weak tide ,
AROUND
and Friday at Baytown’s Civic
2401 Market.
by Memorial
Baptist handbell choir;, soloist
Judy Ficklin and cartoons will
be provided. REL Brigadiers
will be Santa’s helpers.
tially complied wit
mittee subpoena
Asked as he walked into the
committee room this monuig if
tie would drop the contempt
vote, Pike replied “Yeah.”
Minutes later, Pike told the com-
mittee, “We have substantial'
compliance on this subpoena
and the issue is moot.”~ ‘
---Ptkfrfflade+he-announcement
-By BETTY WEBBER
HIGHLANDS (Sp). - Grow
and pollute seem to be the twin Construction
Harris 'County Water Control
and Improvement District No. 1
for proposed $2 million sewer
system improvements.
Jack Lindsay, president of the
home of her sister, Miss Edna
rw She also is visitinc £istncts board °f directors and
Pete Lucas, district, manager,
relayed to other directors Tues-
day night information they
gathered on a trip to Austin Nov.
20 to attend a Texas Water Quali-
ty Board (fWQB) hearing on
1976 Municipal" Facility
HAn *l3rarif “
priority
They..
revealed the district is making a
mistake in turning down
applications for more tie-ins to
the wafer and sewer system.
Even its efforts to remove the
blight of citations from TWQB
substandard effluent have
worked against their receiving a
good priority rating the
representatives said.
As a result of their report, the
board unanimously approved an
application that has repeatedly
come before the board from
gafter committee counsel A.
Searle Field said the delegation
! received a “very good assur-
ance” at the White House on
Tuesday that the subpoenaed
State Department documents,
covering covert activities dat-
ing Back to 1961, will be turned
over.
Field said William Hyland,
director of the State Depart-
ment's Bureau of Intelligence,,
briefed the delegation in detail
By WANDA ORTON contractor vail collect eumna.nnrftarmu- qmjpS 1M|>_
Bill-paying time comes up uf the assessment iimMlv from ueaownent:.- ■ur arrinwri' iwnKss
Thursday mght at the Baytown the property owns® and the atv amuuntwfc tu>#Si3tt3D
City Council meeting for two ; will assume collection^ off ttef mmii fife <*■».
sfrcci prujects in the 1070 bond balance il *2.897 43 tm.m» « wmm “be jpfc lta
^ J Hutchison apPtaft t*e mm^™**** ■*^*1%
The big one a the Garth Ftoad t^^aVK^abuur^.(j*<a2;j1tiw ttte ally pdtiir wmte
per cent. Pnman> cause. he said, ‘ienwtment.
was bad weather experienced iteft«*w»<*»«i*IIWop*-
dunng the constructor, 17ns ^ ^vin^pnoeCTimdte lKBic
resulted in an excessive arnuum 3mi?T1(n. ^ tfp
contract which cost $1,174,336.-
55. A balance due the contrac-
tor. Warren Brothers, is $132,-
044.27.
James P Hutchison,
and Associates, consulting
engineering firm, said die Garth
g-ig'sgifrjrrr
tionsand the like Mterilaneous ta> ghe mm* %
and'pliblfC* works departments/ SSSRS"
Garth was rebuilt from Park Jne other street project in the-^ manfag 'Sfcwaiiltette^y
to Baker. The new multi-lane 19'6bunu^program:s the pawn* r^ilac meeanf dhemimfr, dxtt
thoroughfare has curbs andul PostJ;.i”Jn, bakewiMiu 'V :nt! ;8. v
gutters and a new bndge over cost schedule a spasm) tnwan* an
Goose Creek Stream. approximately KWH under the
A total of $131485.03 was ()nginai ««imatB, the consuitmg; ataaL sttimr sevwr .-unttnfe die
assess^ pfoperiy owners“whcie' Jll4|"a4Mis tun. wJ. ~ .swsmfc 'cantiaufittttteikfiatttK
land abutted the roadway The Warren Brothers also was the- fflTS- ttwtpagana_
San Jacinto River, on the south
by the extension of Wallisville
Ftoad, on the west by the George
(See WATER, Page 14)
Lagging Behind 74* *
Anonymous $100 Gives %
Lift To GoodfeUow Drive
on 20 such State Department; Previously Reported S 7S1.01
requests.
Hyland read directly
nendations and from ihi
on highly sensitive National Se-
curity Council 40 Committee
consideration ot the requests,
Field said.
Pike said earlier if the dele-
The* application., approved
abject to a kafisfactory contrac-
tual agreement, is for water and
sewer service for a:l38.44-aere
tract within the water district, ror^ . , ^
bounded partly on the north by S^promS? “ob-
viously that ends the matter.”
“It looks fine,” said-Rep. Les
Aspin, D-Wis. “Everybody went
away happy. Every point that
was raised was accommodated
fin some way"
&MS •
Tapp # Jki , ^ .
Mr. St Mrs. H. C. Than top. Mar*11 Alexander
Con and Clint Harbour
SoteWnsB
ST-
thin-, .
n&.iiifriUMfeii
MAYOR TOM GENTRY has!
joineji another Baytonian, Fred |
Ditfman Jr., on a hunting trip in
Sonora. The mayor is expected,
to return mtime for Thursday!
night's city council meeting.
ffcnrlflll and Rose. Ann Hits,
can stop biting their nails
now-thev fitiajly have their new
roof over their heads
SHOPPING
DAYS TO
CHRISTMAS
%kikip» . kjusi* mm
Mr. St Mn, fitem ..... [ Wfce 1
BUI
Im
— In lieu of local
Christmas cards
Mrs. Joy Blalock
In memorv of
Joy Blalock
★
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
Thanks to the donor
who prefes to remam aflaiy-r to tB» tte anahynmg, aUe mtm. __________
mous..and other contrihuias, in- jgalt aF «B8 cicaiwi Taasiay.. a uth^: (BaatfBBox mi te
duding elute afliff lav' ' (fiaeCMBv. Ite M) -
who donated money in lieu ofjpitth, the taM pah tte *Btf-
fellow drive Tuesday passed the!
$700 mark. 1
- Me.-* Mrs.
$.96 Howard) Mweiev
a*
* *
• will pur tire drive -/ver nucti. ^ dner wtnuic Jte- at- tee
Pearce Street Journal - -
Now Did Yn Fire?
, Thy -foftt pg* boys wired
so much cain about the
amount of space utilized by the
spelling lesson, we are relnc-
Evelyn - Robson talks about in- j tant to do anything besides Hit
volvement of Baytown mathj the words, correctly spelled, as
, teachers . Jenarie Alexander
proves very,.helpful , ...........
Gordon Schulze admires
photo . Pi-Yi Mayo plans a
second trip to Washington jn the
Goseup prepnmwlyflettyear
Tami Queen helps gather
wood (or a wiener fOSft tire
Rhonda Gipson enjoys pizza
Terri Coker goes on a havridr
Kenny Lynd kill* lia first 18-
point buck ' . Chris Hastle
and 40ndv
wtihlthat Rubba Johnsons
get well soon Frsnky (
H restly etited over WP
Umb’i honor
. ’’
foBowr^H
. Asinine; braggadocio, rare-
fy. liqsef), pavilion, vermi-
lion, impostor, moccasin, sc-
commodste, cou*enMii, h>e*-
msyoaudse,
(xulate, supr
. :::.. .
The GwdMows, at g. „ .
w un ircaliv appreciate oil guts, bur i 4 AHUHUw
Caught tqi in ^ ^..... » .
Ihnstmos.thousandiafBhpaJtef ssap towardactoe«in$tt»-I.MteU
Low-Cost
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Housing Said
Key To Crisis
WASpqGTON (AP) - Die slow so far and is about $250 be- worry, about 'aa? •« wur _ SGWAk .s?
ians over the past 44 years have
contributed thousands of dollars
to the Goodfellows
The current drive is a Idtle
U.S. Civil Rights Commission hind the total contributed at this
said today that the federal gov-! time last year, but Chief Good-
goal amt permit
gift. Tight family budgets this ffluiteMg agtfcel
pt,: made wwr aptee Jdtett.
ernment must stimulate pro! fellow and- las helpers remain higher prices of just about ever*- hara ."mstituiiuma anemdnwt
(taction of low-cost housing if! confident that a giving surge dur- thing, mater it piillillriilui ftg'to hm dtdteh apwidt <*Ote
women and minorities an to ing the remaining 12 days .untiliimaF ffmriftw ta (Mtattate «9MM pwonanm aanpt
overcome what the commission dlmag vwBUIte wr amfenR
described as a housing crisis. ^ Mtew 1 , fMpteitas.
o£ Recorder W Births —
wwnen and minorities cat _____y
as well as how they live, is also Hag Klfth I A KffOm
infecting the nation s schools by 103 Ut 1U ^ ^ a-afc ^
segregating the neighborhoods Qty Secretary Eileen Hail A patient ut Boom 32S at Sht suEfrabnaeure
where the schools draw then records all the births in Baytown Jacinto Methodist Hmantai. --—
and citizens won t nun
has a "favorite" vital
this year -
The statistic is Enc
pupils
"Few programs, if any, are
more crucial to the nation's
welfare than the provision of-
it housing for Americans
^e lower end of the mcomcr^^i^ ^^-“3f ^J^‘
it despite seven years of leg-
“ i aimed at providing
housing for low-income
and at challenging do-
nation in renting and
buying, the federal gov-
it has allowed the short-
iower-mcome housing
Uir commission s*uu. follows in fi
commission concluded ^ B ^ to j* t (
She says the la® Ohidren- s
near best thing anni. ^
steBretaseifromihehuapiai; cgii£5»jp.
and can b* wdfr Eta Wayne O* »
* ■* ■» ?*
was dehv-
I in the last of a series ol
from the independent
'board. *
of a respiratory a
I newly Elected OETicERS a
i i.pmideut, sealed. xftdMn I
“ 1 The ue» oWktn win dim
day the baby is “doing just fine Mts Gaos Phrmer and !
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 50, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 10, 1975, newspaper, December 10, 1975; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1061888/m1/1/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.