The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 182, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 1983 Page: 1 of 80
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8
Chemical Co.’s Cedar" B£
Plant, a federal appeals c
panel has ruled, saying the
munity was granted un
duress.
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OVER 70,000 READERS EVERYDAY
Volume 61, No. 182
Telephone Number: 422-8902
Wednesday, June 1, 1983
Baytown, Texas 77520 j
20 Cents Per Copy
Gulf Defendant’s
Immunity Null
LateNews
Bulletin
A Gulf Oil Chemical Co. pro-
pylene pipeline leak forced people
from homes and businesses near
Interstate 10 and Garth Road
Wednesday morning until the line
was sealed off.
Meadowlake subdivision
residents were being evacuated
when workers from Gulf
Chemicals Co.’s Cedar Bayou
Plant sealed off the leak about 30
minutes after it was discovered at
10:p5a.m.
■ ' „ Baytown Fjfe Department of-
— The govern- extortionists were not paid $15 tlcials called off further evacua-
te an agree- million. * tion and closure of 1-10 after the
ment not to try a woman charged Authorities found five bombs in llne ~ north ot HO west of Garth
with planting bombs at Gulf Oil the plant, one of which exploded ~ was s*5®1*1 and the white pro-
Bayou harmlessly. The others were Pylene cloud began to disperse,
court disarmed. V : Propylene is a highly flam-
im- Ms. Bird, McBride, and two mable liquid that vaporizes when
under other men, face a June 13 trial on It contacts air. ‘ ' ’
fourth defendant,? Gulf Cedar Bayou Plant
Timothy JMjSPe, pleaded guilty Manager Larry Lucchesi said
to two co|B and is expected to “Theoretically, it would be possi-
ble for a car to set it (propylene)
off, ” but added it would depend on
concentration and wind.
vm piu.uiBc exienuep io client, his motion said McBride - owicers fron» the Texas
husband’ John agreed to reveal where more
Mf^Mode' bombs were loca|ed if Ms. Bird
etters received last was given immunity from pro-
September warned officials of the secUtion. P •
refinery that bombs in the Cedar All defendants are residents of
Bayou plant would be detonated if Durango, Colo.
judges of the U.S. 5th Cir-
cuit Court of Appeals threw out
Department of Public Safety,
Harris County Sheriff’s Depart-
ment and Baytown Police
assisted in the temporary evacua-
tion of the subdivision.
SEWER WORK UNDERWAY )
= trac-tors are lining 2,000 feet of pipe in the vicinity of ■
Topics Vary
Legislators Pass 29 Bills
m njf n rr XT x is"—™’
New. Mayor Pro Tern Named
srsp: STSis SassaassKB
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president of the Hous^lm ls also anactive civic leader in f_'‘fbS^001 and Southern ®JelaPa"d ™Plei«en‘rulesfof . on the amount accumulated into -t-Polumbo’s HB 1732 provides
Galveston Area Council test y^r. Baytown, She has been a member waste ® hazardous theSecond Injury Fund. state money to match te'cal £
of; the board of directors in . master s degree-at the Universi- UR ... . ' . •*+Watson s HB 2107 also deals any federal money available to
meeting last week. Bavtown Chamber nf taimw ty of Houston. +Emmetts HB 541 requires- with worker’s compensation and provide emergency relief to
needy persons.
+ Watson’s HB 599. : in-
allows (See BILLS, Page 2-A)
In its meeting last week,
Baytown City .Council Unanimous-
ly elected her mayor pro tern.
concerning worker’s wim me
compensation is his HB 2106 election of directors of municipal
which removes-the $750,000 limit .utility districts. ■*
on the amount accumulated into -kPoIumho’s hr vrw
w ^ • r ......“.....' • • ' + Emmett’s HB 491 allows (See BILLS Pa
Chambers County Farm Bureau Supports Tax Reforms
By DAVID BYFORD protecting the lax reforms in the *97s non (>m, k„.____ ____ . n ......
ANAHUAC ,Sp, — Chambers .Economic Recovery Act of H>81 ^rts^mpletioToTthe’eaateTax ?' kefp up T/'th ^ neelis land, machinery and buildings as
can ge right now, said David signal a "significant change of at- into effect on July 1. The farm Seta ^SurSri^dailinstration, nne of the final helped for the short-term good,”
Murrell, president of the farm titude” dn the United States - bureau supports efforts To which’ aSv looks hlnlS alt™ves for farmers, is filled Murrell said. “Without PIK, as
bureau noting that as many as 15 from one that seeks a balanced balance the federal budget by cut- than what it did five m^nfhs -5* Wlth bus!nef - AU of the money many as 60 percent Of the farmers
percent of Chambers County budget to one that is aimed at ting federal spending rfteer than S bad * months ago, ^™xpired. could have been forced out of the
increasing taxes. V■ “And as farms go down, so do tJ ■«£ J^^SSthisyear.”
. . A rePeal of the indexing pro- farm-oriented counties and corn-
visions of the Economic Recovery rrtunities.” Murrell added “The
Tax Act of 1981, planned to go Into situation stems from the fact that
effect in January 1985. Indexing farmers have nowhere to go. The
would prevent “bracket creep,” traditional lending institutions
pciLcm ui iviicuuuers v-ouniy ouoget to one that is an
farmers have left the profession spending more tax dollars.
thisvear ■ . __
this year.
The bureau has written U.S,
Rep. Jack Brooks, as well as
Sens. Lloyd, Bentsen and John
Tower; asking for their support in
. Pearce Street Journal-
As Time Goes ‘Buy'
We sympathize with the credit
manager who sadly .concluded,
• that "It’s not tWyifyf on time that
is so hard. '
“It’s paying.”
-FH
in letters to members of Con-
gress, the farm bureau opposes
the following:
. + A freeze of the estate tax ex-
emption’ at the present level of
luouiypi] UUO ^COl ■
PIK allows farmers to lay out
AROUND
TOWN
THE fARD of Mrxand Mrs. L.L;
McClure, 106 Begonia in
Highlands, wins lots of com-
pliments. Singled out as Yard of
-the- Month by : the.....Highlands
Garden Clubydt has a variety of
l““V plants tad roses.
Gordon and Cheri Black try out
a different kind of dance floor — a
pier .:. Bob and Jo Ann Martin
put oh [an event with style . ..
Mamie Carter enjoys the day out
in Galveston with “ her two
.daughters.
Betty Waters is back on the job
following a Recent illness . . . Kay
Fox hasja visit from a friend . . .
Sammy Jacobs asks for a special
edition.
J.N. Chatfield and Wanda
Brown :ell about Red Cross
disaster aid programs . . . Don
Treuhan t calls about a meeting.
KV MARKET If first
»NOW AMERICAN
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Citi*‘ ^d^nk
Fell Service Trust Co.
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Comics.........•...,.....7A
Crossword Puzzle.......7A
Dimension ..... .. , 5A
Editorial................4A
“ Markets. TTTrtcirr..... , 6D
Movie Theaters...........6A
Obituaries........8A
Police Beat.......2A
Sports................. 1-2B
Television Log, -
'Word Of Mouth::.: /... 1-8C
WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY through
Thursday is the forecast for
the Baytown area.
Temperatures are expected
in the mid-60s Wednesday
night and in the mid-80s
Thursday. From 7 a.m.
Tuesday to 7. a.m. Wednes-
day, a low of 62 degrees apd
a high of 75 decrees were
recorded. At 7 a.m. Wednes-
day it was 63 degrees.
Visits Never Routine
Busy’Typifies Usual
Day For Rep. Fields
just tired of fighting it,” Murrell............ w la) vul
said, “amd the middle-aged up to 30 percent of their acreage
farmers just .don’t want to put up and get back 80 percent of their
the high collateral required by the estimated yield, said Murrell.
len.Thg has helPed a lot of them in
They 11 part with putting up paying their back notes.”
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As the sun rose and residents of
the 8th. Congressional District
started their Monday morning
routine, U.S. Rep. Jack Fields
was up and running — actually
jogging — the first six of 1,500
miles he. would cover in his
rounds that day.
It was pretty much a typical
day he was preparing for as he
read the morning paper. A day of
one end of the district to the Other.
Getting started on a Monday
morning is usually a dreadful one
as people get ready to begin their
weekly routine but Fields really
.doesn’t ha've a set agenda. His
days in the district may be typical
but hot routine.
The days cah range from
visiting with various people to
determine how constituents feel
about congressional issues to tak-
ing care of housekeeping matters
in his district office. -
Depending on the votes schedul-
ed in the House, Fields is normal-
ly in town Friday through Mon-
day. On this particular Monday,
Fields spent the day meeting with
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ministrators. By nightfall, he Was
back in the nation’s capital 'get-
ting ready for a day on Capitol
Hill.
By 8:30 a. m. Monday, Fields ar-
rived‘at the Green Acres Con-
valescent Center several blocks
from his home in Humble.
Residents had gathered to hear ^
and discuss issues such as Social ' ‘
Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
- Residents told Fields It is par-
ticularly hard to find a dentist
who wants to care for them. It
seems the enormous amount of
paperwork required to collect
through the federal Medicare and
Medicaid programs discourages
the dentists.
By 9 a.m., he was on the road
again with his entourage of Jim
Finley, district administrative
assistant, and Barbara Bowes,
district coordinator. It began with
a mini-tour through Humble to
FM 1960, past Highway 59 and In-
terstate 45 to the Northwest
Medical Center. At the Center,
Fields met with Paul Kaufman,
hospital administrator, Dr. Ed
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Gentury Savings
U.S. REP. JACK Fields listens to Harris County Flood Control District
Director Jim Green at the district’s newest maintenance base on Far-
rell Road. Fields stopped at the base during one of his days in the 8th
Congressional Distfict.
___..I V . . . (Sun staff photos by Frieda Beaty)
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 182, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 1983, newspaper, June 1, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063404/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.