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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Wednesday, June 1, 1983
Police Beat
Police Seek Suspect
Carrying Stolen Ring
Police are looking for the man
who ran out of Zales Jewelry
Store with a $5,600 diamond ring
Wednesday night.
An employee said the man
came into the store at about 8:15
p.m. Tuesday and asked to see the
ring. He gave it back to her and
said he needed to get the advice of
his girlfriend, she told police said.
He reportedly returned at abdut
8:30 p.m. and asked to see the
ring again, but this time, grabbed
it, yelled, “I’ve got it!” and ran
out of the store with the ring.
He is described_as being black,
from 5 feet 7 to 5 feet 9 inches tall,
weighing 160 pounds, wearing a
blue baseball cap and blue warm-
up suit. He drove a 1977 dark
green Chevrolet Impala, police
..said.
Shoe Store Thefts
A Baytown man is being held
without bond after being arrested
for stealing merchandise and
cash from a shoe store where he
was employed..
Edmond Z. Juarez, 22, of 4601
Quail Hollow, manager of Hardy
Shoes, allegedly took shoes and
cash totaling $1,794.01 in value
from the store at San Jacinto
Mail.
Police said the thefts took place
ov"er a period of time in April and
May. . .
Man Arrested
Felony criminal mischief
charges are pending against a
Baytown man after he broke a
window demanding to get into a
home early Wednesday.
- James B. Smith, 715
Meadowick, called police after
; the suspect started banging on his
door, finally breaking the antique
stained-glass window valued at
$1,000. . ■■ -
Officer Pam Wenzel arrived at
the scene and also saw the man
outside. He reportedly approach-
ed her “cursing loudly and talk-
ing incoherently.” She grabbed
him and held him until other of-
ficersarrived, she reported.
It took the three police officers
to restrain the man to prevent
damage to a patrol unit, Officer
Wenzel said. » j
Misdemeanor charges pending
include resisting arrest and
criminal trespassing, police
reported! — ■ ’
Burglaries, Etc.
driveway Monday night.
•Linda G, Sch;weers —
Reported the theft of four wire-
spoked wheel covers from her
Oldsmobile Omega while it was
parked at 1 Price St. from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. Tuesday.
•A relative of Randy L. Dunlap
— Reported the burglary of his
house at 420 N. Ashbel in which an
air conditioning unit and coffee
pot were stolen sometime be-
tween Friday and Monday.
•Charles L. Smith — Reported
the burglary of his Cadillac in
which two watches and a socket
set were stolen while the car was
parked at the corner of Murrill
and Commerce at about 2 a.m.
-Sunday. *-
•John R. Pitts — Reported the
burglary and theft of beer from
his convenience store at 2503
Airhart early Wednesday.
•An employee of Club 21, 3515
Market St. — Reported the
burglary and theft of $200 cash
taken early Tuesday.
•An employde at Mother Goose
Day Care, 2200 Busch Rd. —
Reported criminal mischief is
which the gate, fence, benches
and wooden bridge in the back
yard were damaged sometime
between Friday and Tuesday.
Damage was estimated at $350,
police said.
•An employee at American
Homes, 2714 N. Highway 146 —
Reported the burglary in which a
television set was taken Monday
night.
•An employee of Barbee Paint
Co., 1313 N. Main — Reported the
burglary and theft of paint from
the business sometime between
Saturday and Tuesday. Total
damage and property loss was.,
estimated at $1132.95, police said, j
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Chambers County
CHAMBERS COUNTY (Sp) -
Officers from the Chambers
County Sheriff’s Department are
investigating the theft of a
bulldozer from a construction site
at the corner of.FM 565 and FM
1405. ■
The sheriff’s repoFt indicates
the John Deere dozer, which
tagfor it.
“Here at Baytown Medical bet-
ween 40 and 45 percent of our pa-
tients rely on Medicare or
Medicaid.”
Dr. Fleming agreed, saying 30
percent of the patients at San
Jacinto are Medicare patients. He
says elderly patients are normal-
ly more expensive to treat
because they utilize 30 percent
more of the hospitals’ services
than younger patients and their
stay is normally longer a
About one-third of all patients
at Gulf COast are Medicare and
Medicaid dependent, Watson
said.
The acquisition of a Certificate
of Need also creates a problem
for the Baytown hospitals-
“The CON is a dismal failure,”
Fleming said, “It hasn’t con-
tributed to, retarding us from ad-
ding more-beds or facilities but
rather it has increased the cost.”
In order to get a CON the
hospitals have to cut through
bureaucrative red tape which
costs the Hospitals thousands of
dollars. Fields said.
From Baytown Medical it was
off to Highlands and the
Highlands Star for a 2:45 p.m.
talk with Alton Neatherlin, editor
and publisher of the Star
. fields discussed the area’s tox-
ic waste dumps being cleaned up
by the Environmental Protection
Agency’s Superfund and the im-
pact they have on the Highlands
community. The two briefly chat-
ted about the people in the com-
munity and what they expect
from their congressman.
“Alton lets me know what is
happening in the community,”
Fields said. “He supplies me with
rell Road. Fields met with Flood information which helps me to be
Control Director Jim Green to a better congressman.”
From Highlands it was a brief
mula of the federal government,”
Hyslop said, pointing out the ......
result is the patients end up pay- oBlce °i school trustees and coun-
BAYTOWN’S HOSPITAL Administrators gathered to meet with
U.S. Rep. Jack Fields and discuss ways to keep the health care costs to
a minimum. Along with Fields, from left, is Dr. George Fleihlng, ad-
ministrator of San Jacinto Methodist Hospital; Fields; Bill Hyslop, ad-
minstrator of Baytown Medical Center; and Craig Watson, ad-
ministrator of Gulf Coast Hospital.
USUAL DAY--
From Page l
Roberson and Harold Leinweber,
financial director of the hospital.
Fields learned hospital ad-
ministrators in the district are
concerned with the procedure
hospitals mustgo through to get a
certificate of need to add addi-
tional beds in the hospital.
Kaufman says such a pro-
cedure costs, thousands of dollars
which the consumer eventually
pays for.
Leinweber emphasized the pro-
blem hospitals have putting a pap
on hospital cost.
“There is a cap on the hospitals
but not the hospital providers,”
he said. “With that situation it is
hard for a hospital to continue to
operate,”
He added that recouping cost
from the government for
Medicare and Medicaid patients
is also a problem. “Luckily only
20 percent of our patients are on
these programs.”
In an effort to keep hospital
costs down, Roberson suggest a
crack down on those who abuse
government funds. Such a
measure could consist of peer
reviews and monitoring by
hospitals.
Fields is on the Ener^ and
Commerce Committee which
reviews health care legislation
before it reaches the House floor.
“I just want the people to know *
I’m on the committee and that it
is important to get their views,”
Fields said. He said a lot of the
hospital cost is directly related to
the governmental regulations and
more than 120 different entities
hospitals have to deal with.
After leaving the hospital,
Fields made a stop at the Harris
County Flood Control District
Maintenance Base 2 at 4300-Far-
BILLS PASS--
From Page 1 . ,
corporated under HB 1187,
validates any annexation of an-
nexation attempt made before
Aug. 24„ 1980 by an incorporated
city or town with population of 200
or more. All the governmental
acts and proceedings of a city or.
town that occurred after annexa-
tioB and before the effective date
of the bill would also be validated.
The City of La Porte had re-
quested legislative assistance
because the current' law pro-
hibited annexation of less than 500
feet and La Porte had annexed, at
the request of those living there,
an area less than that.
-I-Polumbo’s HB 502 added
“China . White’’ or alpha-
methylfentanyl and other
derivatives of fentanyl in the
Texas Controlled Substances Act.
4-Palumbo’s HB 1020 concerns
election?, positions and terms of
ty board members.
+Emmett’s HB 1967 concerns
the designation of county roads as
farm-to-market roads for the pur-
pose of acquisition of right-of-
way- - ' ' V V
+Polumbo’s HB 1020 concerns
elections, positions and terms of
office of school trustees and coun-
ty board members.
+Watson’s HB 2107 also deals
with worker’s compensation and
clarifies conflicting language con-
cerning lump sum settlements.
+Polumbo’s HB 1725 changes
the name of Harris County Child
Welfare to Harris County Protec-
tive Services.
-i-His HB 1019 deals with assign-
ment pay for firemen serving as
field training officers in certaip
cities.
-t-Poliimbo’s HB 501 relates to
landowner consent for hunting or
target shooting in certain areas.
Senate bills sponsored in the
House by Baytown’s represen-
tatives include the following.
+Senate Bill 925 sponsored by
Watson concerns regulation of
auctioneers.
+The Watson-sponsored SB
1006 concerns worker’s compen-
sation for out-of-state employees.
+Senate Bill 1207 sponsored by
Watson deals with school board
vacancies.
+The Emmett-sponsored SB
231 extends sunset legislation for
the Antiquities Committee.
+Senate Bill 147, sponsored by
Emnriett, establishes a Capitol
Preservation Board.
+Senate Bill 369, also spon-
sored by Emmett, concerns ac-
quisition of right-of-way. *
4-Senate Bill 214, sponsored by
Polumbo, concerns protective
services for the elderly:
Hundreds Of People
Leave Flooded Utah
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) - A
wall of mud and water crashed
through sandbaggeckbanks along
a suburban creek, forcing hun-
dreds of people to stay in shelters
today after another bout of
flooding in Utah *authorities said.
Damage from the overflowing
Stone Creek in Bountiful, a
suburb just north ofSalt Lake Ci-
ty, still was being assessed today.
But no serious injuries were
reported from the flooding late
Tuesday, except for a map who
suffered a broken leg.
Dave Florence, local American
Red Cross disaster director, said
he knew of 600 people who were in
shelters, although some were be-
ing told they could return home
today.
Meanwhile, about 400 residents
of Farmington, 15,miles north of
Salt Lake City, were staying with
friends and relatives as officials
kept watch on a massive
mudslide that smashed a dozen
homes and damaged 30 others
Monday and Tuesday.
Two hundred people were
evacuated Tuesday from a trailer
court along Big Cottonwood Creek
in Salt' Lake County, but no
flooding was imminent and many
had moved back, said Terry
Baker, county flood operations
coordinator.
Gov. Scott Matheson on Tues-
day declared four more counties
disaster areas - Salt Lake,
Willard, Weber and Davis — in
the wake of record flooding and
mudslides that have forced the
evacuation of thousands.
A flash flood watch was in ef-v
feet early today as showers and
thundershowers moved through
northern Utah.
Blood Drive Aids Arrington
name at Gulf Coast condition contact
Evelyn
— Reported the theft of his 1977
Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme
while it was parked in his
Houston, was taken from the site
between 5 p.m. and midnight
Saturday., v- , V
, , . , . . I;, J0™ ueere oozer, wnicn discuss construction progress and From Highlands it was a brief
•John A. James, 3126 Michigan belonged to Hertz Rent-A-Car in cleaning -Of several bayous in the’' drive to Crosby and the Crosby
district. Plaza Apartments, a Housnig and
"‘Fields toured the new
maintenance base which was set
for an open house later that day.
From, there it was down the
Eastex Freeway, around Loop 610
to interstate ,10 and the Woodland
Acres Middle School in the
Galena Park School District. •"
At the school, Fields presented
a U.S. flag to the local chapter of
SUS SPOTS
Medical Practice
DR. DREW Williams, new
member of the Texas State Board
of Medical Examiners, will not be
away from Baytown for two and
three months at a time, as
reported,earlier. Dr.- Williaifts
will be continuing his medical
practice here in addition to serv-
ing on the state board.
X-Ray Unit
THE SULLIVAN mobile X-ray
unit will be at Kmart parking lot „___________________
from 4 to 7 p.m. June 2. Cost of an cafeteria. The 1983 retirees of the and his entourage were off for a
X-ray is $8. schools will-be guests. busy afternoon beginning with a
Grandmothers Club Secret Service Agent SteSutthff‘it
BAYTOWN GRANDMOTHERS BOB ROSEBUSH, United States administrators from the three
Club will hold a business meeting Secret Service agent, will speak Baytown hospitals had gathered
7 n m .Tnnp o at ffie Pnmmimitv at the June 2 Kiwanis Club lunch- gjjj Hyslop administrator of
Baytown Medical Center, along
Urban Development project, for a
3:30 talk with the senior citizens
of the,complex.
The group of about 12 were con-
cerned with Social Security and
whether their checks would be in
the mail.
“Well, I’ll tell you, your best
lobbyist is my grandmother,”
« v.u, uug ,v ui& iwiu umpici ui Fields said. Every Friday at our —— —-----■ —o---
the Veterans of Foreign War to be family meal my grandmother . bums over 50 percent
flown in front of the school always ask me,‘Am I going to get of his body from
ntv Social Securitv check’’, and 14,000 volts Of electri-
Blood donations
are being-sought for
former BaytQnian,
Gerald Pat Arr-
ington, who is in the
bum unit at Hermann
Hospital, recovering
from an electrical ac-
cident in Navasota.
Arrington, the son
of Mr. and Mrs.- C.C.
Arrington Sr., former
residents of—Gedar
Bay o u , w a s'
transported by Life
Flight helicopter to
Hermann' Hospital
after he suffered sec-
ond and third degree
Regional Blood
Center at San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital
The center is open
on Mondays from 2 to
7 p.m. and Wednes-
day’s from noon to 5
p.m. ...
For more informa-
tion on Arrington’s
Wendell
Irish at 576-2531.
Because he can. not
have visitors, friends
are encouraged to
send cards care of
Hermann Hospital
Bum Unit, Room 442,
1203 Ross Sterling,
Houston. Texas 77C30.
1 flown in front of the school
Saying the U.S, government is
the best form of government in
the world, the congressman
presented the flag, which was
at the U.S. Capitol in
Washington.
my Social Security check?’, and
my answer is always yes.”
“You don’t have to worry
because the check will be there,”
the congressman said. “Now
you’re going to have to wait until
January to get you’re cost of liv-
7 p.m. June 2 at the Community
Building, 2407 Market. Members
will discuss a fundraising project
for the year.
Self-Defense ,
RAY HUEY, , a martial arts ex-
pert, will conduct a self-defense
seminar in conjunction with the
Baytown Parks and Recreation
Department from 9 to 12 on June 4
at the Community Building, 2407
Market. For further information,
call 427-7477.
Religious Vocations
ONE OF THE purposes of the
Monsignor J.P. O’Sullivan
Scholarships, presented at St.
Joseph Sciiool, is Jo foster flown
religious vocations. The'scnolar-
ships are drawn from the interest “Many times we take freedom . ,
of a $25,000 anonymous donation, for granted and we don’t think tag adjustment instead of July 1,
PntiroH Tonchore about the VFW- But is men like but if that is going to happen now
neureu lea*. these who gave of themselves for is the time for it to happen
THE BAYTOWN Area Retired this flag. Many times we. don’t because inflation is at 3 percent.”
Teachers’ Association will host a realize how fortunate we are to be - In addition, Fields touched on
“Wefopme to Retirement Junch- Americans.” unemployment, crime and
Following a brief lunch, Fields. .federaljudges. “If someone "com-
'J ^ ‘ " mits a federal offense with a
firearm then they should have ad-
ditional time tacked onto their
sentence,” he said.
He added, “If the federal
judges are going to make the laws
like they have in the'past then
they should be responsive to the
city.
Arrington is
undergoing skin graft
surgery which re-
quires from two to six
units of blood.
The Arrington
family is asking that
blood be donated in
Gerald Arrington’s
eon at 11 a.m June 2 at Wyatt’s
at the June 2 Kiwanis Club lunch-
eon at Holiday Inn. __^ (
LP Council with Craig Watson, administrator
LA PORTE City Council will meet ^
at 7 n m Turn- 1 at I a Porte Citv George Flemlng> administrator
at 7 p.m. Junel at La Porte City o{ San/ Jacinto Methodist
Hau' Hospital, reinterated the feelings
Trash Fire of tbe Northwest Medical Center
FIREFIGHTERS from Baytown off£,ifls'. \ .... j
Fire Station 3 extinguished d . ‘The rise in-the health care is
trash fire in the 1300 block, of due to the reimbursement for-
Cedar Bayou Road at 10:23 a.m.
Tuesday.
• SLIGHTLY WORN
FAMILY CLOTHES
•SHOES
• PAPERBACK
BOOKS
• FURNITURE
(SoMHCWSigNNt)
• DECOR ITEMS
Open Tims.-Sat. 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
’VP.'..-*
fstoefe Street Cfjrift &tjap
117 W. Texas Next jtpTkt Carousel
..OWNER: Nonna teflon Y
people and the public.”
At 4 p.m. Fields was off to his
home in Humble where he said he
.was planning to jog an additional
six miles. Following his jogging
trip, through the family’s
cemetery, the congressman was
on the flight to Washington and
his home in Falls Church, Va.
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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/m1/2/?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.