The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 213, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 6, 1982 Page: 2 of 14
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Out-Of-Town Warrant
90 bond
Satrf
of marijuana
Eugene Harrlaon, 39, and
km Jeter, 28. were charged
Gary Don.
with felony poaseaaion of mari-
juana with Intent to deliver and a
second-degree felony for posses
sion of cocaine
Both men face a penalty of five
to W years or life In prison If con-
victed.
Deputy A.L. Martin and Cap^
tain Ed Vaccaro said they ar
rested both men after stopping
their vehicle at 10 p.m. Saturday
at Interstate 10 and Jenkins Road.
Found In the vehicle, said
Sheriff Chuck Morris, was bet-
ween 70 to 100 pounds of mari-
juana, $15,900 In hundred dollar
bills and $90 In $10 and $20 bills
Also found was an undetermined
amount of cocaine. Morris said.
During a Investigation of
forgeries In Baytown, police
discovered their suspect, 18-year-
old Yvellsse Otero Oevenger of
Houston, was wanted In Brazoria
County on two counts of forgery.
Friday, Detectives Gene
Parker and Gene Lewis arrested
her at her home. She Is being held
on $2,500 bond.
Investigation of the Baytown
forgeries will continue
Services Pending
SERVICES FOR Mildred E.
Milner, 55, of 1711 Bowie are pen
ding at Earthman Funeral Home.
Mrs Milner died Tuesday In a
Baytown hospital. She was a 30-
year resident of Baytown.
Lodge To
CEDAR BAYOU Lodge
No. 321
will have a called meeting at 7
p.m. July 6 for the purpose of
work and F.C. degree. All
members and sojourning
brothers are urged to attend.
Driver Arrested
Baytown Police
Twenty-two-year-old Ronald
Eugene' '‘Bull’’ Jackson, address
unknown, Is being held without
bond in Harris County Rehabilita-
tion Center on felony forgery
charges.
Detective Mike Mueller said
Jackson allegedly cashed a $52
check May 22 at Perry's Liquor
Store on Market Street. The store
owner made Jackson imprint his
right thumbprint on the back of
the check.
When the check proved wor-
thless, police were able to locate
Jackson through the print.
Charges were filed In the 182nd
District Court.
A 33-year-old Crosby engineer
was arrested and charge with
driving while Intoxicated and
unlawfully carrying a weapon.
Officer Bill Turner said he saw
the suspect driving north in the
southbound lane of Garth Road
about 12:04 a m Tuesday
The suspect narrowly avoided a
head-on collision before pulling
Into the correct lane, the officer
said.
During a routine search of the
suspect’s car, officers discovered
a .22-caliber pistol.
stalled by Dale N. Brooke, Zone Chairman of District 2S2. Seated from
left ate Larry Kolarik, president; Dean Hathom, first president; and
Billy Hamblen, second vice president. Standing are Elmer Dennis,
treasurer for his fourth term and named "Lion of the Year;" Ed
Mosley, Tall-twister; Michael Sbortis, Lion Tamer; Charles Lindsey,
secretary. On the Board of Directors are B F "Bo" Christian, M R
"Red" Patterson, W.C. Kuenstler and Immediate past president, Ron
Reeves. Not pictured Is Fred Thompson, third vice presklent.
(Photo by N adine Patterson)
Lodge Meeting
MASONIC LODGE No. 1357 will
meet at 7:30 p.m. at the lodge at
North Main and Baker Road for
work In Master Mason degree.
David Lindsey is worshipful
master and La von McKinney,
secretary.
Feudalism Flourishing
In China’s Countryside
UT Degrees
LARRY LYNN Bailey of 5407
Bayway Drive, Paul Christopher
Klme of 4812 Burning Tree,
Donald Ray Lane of 705 Lloyd and
John Brisco Miller II of 610
Harold Lane were among 1,047
graduates to receive bachelor of
business administration degrees
from the University of Texas Col-
lege of Business Administration
Author To Speak
ELIZABETH SILVERTHORNE,
author of "Ashbel Smith of
Texas," will speak at the annual
meeting of the Bay Area Heritage
Society at 7 p.m. July 6 at Moler
Hall on the Lee College campus
Officers for the upcoming year
will be elected. The public la In-
vited.
Retired Persons
THE AMERICAN Association of
Retired Persons will meet at 11
a m. July 7 at Wyatt Cafeteria
Mike Loader will talk about In-
surance, and members will
discuss the rise in utility rates.
Theft Charges
La Porte
Kimber Ross Baker, 18? of 307
Long Drive has been charged
with felony theft.
Baker allegedly took a $5 gold
piece from David Evans, 307 Long
Drive, In September 1981 and sold
it at a Pearland flea market for
$170, Detective Mike Mueller
said.
Charges were filed in the 182nd
District Court. He Is being held
without bond.
LA PORTE (Sp) - Wayne
Clantort*V 4902 Glen Valley
reported that a big screen televi-
sion, a cassette recorder, a stereo
and speakers and a video camera
and tapes valued at $7,500 were
stolen from his home around 3
a.m. Tuesday.
La Porte police said the suspect
allegedly entered through a
bedroom window and left through
the garage. Police have no
suspects.
Home Computers May
Link To State’s Bank
SAI0EM, Ore. (AP)
1 ; By next year,
anyone with a $500
home computer ter-
m 1 n a 1 and a
telephone will be able
to dial up a wealth of
Information in Ore-
gon’s state computer
system. ,
When the Legisla-
ture is in session, the
state’s computer will
have the latest infor-
mation on every bill
being considered by
lawmakers.
All year long, It will
serve as an informa-
tion retrieval center?
allowing lobbyists
and hobbyists alike to
look up any state law,
administrative rule,
attorney general’s
opinion or appellate
court decision.
Bill Shepard, direc-
tor, of the Oregon
Legislative Informa-
tion System, Is put-
ting the final touches
on the dial-access
,, program. He, sap.
virtually everything
the Legislature has in
print will be avail-
able to anyone with a
personal computer.
He said the pro-
gram would mark the
first time Oregon had
made its computer
system available to
the public on a dial-
up basis.
In Illinois and
Florida, home com-
puter hobbyists can
dial a telephone
number to get the
status of bills before
the House and
Senate, but no other
state is providing the
depth of Information
that Oregon plans to
offer, according to
the National Con-
Legislators.
For a couple of
years, Oregonians
who had an IBM-type
computer and the
budget for a huge
phone bill could get
information from the
state’s computer,
Shepard said. But the
terminals were ex-
pensive — around
$5,000 each — and the
user had to pay for a
permanent telephone
link between com-
puters. The cost was
prohibitive, he said.
Thanks to ad-
vances In computer
technology, the state
has been able to in-
stall a relatively low-
cost device that will-
enable even the most
basic kind of com-
puter terminal to
communicate with
the state’s system.
The device is called
a protocol converter,
said Shepard.
The state’s com-
puter is programmed
to expect a fairly so-,
phisticated level of
communication from
& ths s- c «m p ut-er-
systems. Without the
converter, the state’s
computer analyzes”
the input from a sim-
ple, personal com-
puter and concludes
that something is
wrong. It hangs up
the phone.
The converter ser-
ves as a translator,
said Shepard. It takes
the simple computer
language and con-
verts it into some-
thing the state’s com-
puter can under-
stand. The $3,500 con-
verter works with re^
gular telephone lines,
eliminating the need
for a permanent two-
way liiik.
taken to make sure
that only people who
pay an hourly use fee
will have access to
the state system. The
amount of the charge
hasn’t been deter-
mined, but Shepard
said it wqpld be
modest because it
would only cover the
state’s actual costs.
By LIU HEUNG SHING
FUZHOU, China (AP) -
Thirty-three years after the Com-
munist revolution, feudalism still
flourishes In the Chinese coun-
tryside. Marriages are arranged,
brides are bought and sold like
chattel property, and some are
kidnapped and auctioned off.
Eight hundred million Chinese
live In the countryside, and while
many feudal practices have been
stamped out, many persist and
have even been revived In the
most remote and backward
areas.
Press reports of abducted,
bartered and beaten brides are
not uncommon, nor are stories of
mercenary marriages and
suicidal, star-crossed lovers.
There is a saying among young
people, reflecting not only the
past but the present: “Marriage
Is the tomb oflove.”
In some places, brides are still
purchased by weight —* the
heavier the bride, the better field
hand she makes. Parents force
their daughters to marry
strangers in a “double swap,” so
their sons can find cheap brides.
Peasant women illicitly sleep-
ing with their fiances may even
have to seek abortions if the
bridegroom’s family cannot come
up with the bride price.
Many peasant men cannot af-
ford to buy wives, so they are
forced into city labor to earn their
bride price. In some backwaters,
the men still listen at the bridal
chamber and throngs of boys
parents to find a good “work
horse” for a bride. The bride’s
family demanded a deposit of $110
for the engagement and $550 In
wedding gifts.
In return for her machinations,
the matchmaker herself would
got a “machine gun," a “car-
tridge” and a couple of "hand
grenades” — cynical but
widespread Chinese synonyms
for a whole ham, a carton of
cigarettes and bottles of fiery
white liquor.
After months of scurrying be-
tween households on the lush rice
paddies, the matchmaker’s
scheme fell through. Wei’s par-
ents couldn’t come up with
enough cash to buy gifts like a
sewing machine and a bicycle and
still have enough left over for the
mandatory lavish wedding feast.
Wei himself was earning less
than $110 a year, plus grain.
The bride already had been
chosen, pretty 20-year-old Li
Ding, but the bridegroom’s fami-
ly couldn’t afford her. Her
parents would take no less and
she would have to be auctioned
off, In effect, to a better-off fami-
ly.
“We knew our parents were
talking about the marriage,” the
passed-over bridegroom says
matter-of-factly. “We avoided
each other and wouldn’t even
make eye contact. Of course, we
didn’t date,” he says.
“Too bad; she was quite pret-
ty.”
Everything from the deposit to
Found Dog
A FULLY-GROWN fox terrier
has been found. To claim the dog,
call 427-2873 or 420-1159.
In Panama
PFC. COLINE. Powell has arriv-
ed for duty at Fort Kobbe,
Panama. Powell, a combat
engineer with the 193rd Infantry
Brigade, Is the son of Kathleen
Powell of 5113 Maple Drive.
Fatalities Feared
Soviet Passenger Jet
Crashes On Takeoff
MOSCOW (AP) -
A Soviet Aeroflot jet
carrying passengers
to western Africa
crashed early today
near Moscow’s
Sheremetyevo Air-
port, the government
news agency Tass
reported.
Tass said there
were victims In the
crash, but Soviet of-
ficials refused to give
details about the
number of victims or
their nationalities. A
Western airline
source said the plane
was believed to have
carried about 90
passengers, and
there were no sur-
vivors.
The airliner, Flight
411, was en route
from Moscow to
Dakar, Senegal, and
Freetown, Sierra
Leone, an airport
spokeswoman said.
She said it crashed
during takeoff,
scheduled for 3:10
p.m. Monday.
The Ministry of
Civil Aviation said a
special commission
Is Investigating the
cause of the crash.
“The Ministry of
Civil Aviation ex-
presses deep con-
dolences to the
relatives of the vic-
tims of the crash,”
the Tass report said.
Aeroflot’s official
schedule lists the air-
craft for the flight as
an Ilyushin-62, but it
was not known
whether it was the
186-passenger ver-
sion or the 168-
passenger version.
The airport
spokeswoman refus-
ed to give further
details, saying only
that more informa-
tion may be released
Wednesday.
must first sleep in the conjugal - the number of banquet tables Is
Those who want to
use the system will be
given the telephone
numbers to call and a
.password... The
password will serve
as a security device
and allow the state an
easy way to keep
track of billing.
bed, in the theory that it will help
the couple produce sons.
“The old principles of marriage
remain sacred in the coun-
tryside,” writes researcher Li
Yinghe of the Academy of Social
Sciences. “Buying and selling
marriages Is like a padlock on the
wings of love.”
A typical case in this southern
coastal region concerns Wei
Huamu, a 24-year-old rice-paddy
peasant whose parents were ap-
proached by the familiar, in-
dispensable jigure — the grinning
matchmaker-crone.
Wei says she promised his
negotiable, he says. So is the
bride. “I was not rejected for
myself, but because our house
didn’t have a tile rooftop” -I a
sign of wealth, he says.
Wei’s case is not singular. It is
reinforced by the family-based
rural economy that wants sons for
inheritance and brides to work in
the fields and bear sons. Such
practices are largely untouched
by Communist Party exhorta-
tions against arranged mar-
riages. ’• ”
The Chinese press gives many
such glimpses of feudal wedding
practices.
Tides
TUESDAY
HIGH: 11:37 a.m.
LOW: 3:12a.m.
Sun
SUNRISE: 6:26 a.m.
SUNSET: 8:26 p.m.
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No one using the
dial-access system
will be able to alter
the information. Sen-
sltive and con-
fidential files will not
be accessible, said
Shepard.
Ma|Arial which us-
ed to be printed, pass-
eti“6lit'"and' tfffown
away will be
available in elec-
tronic form. Those
who want it can look
It up on their home or
office computer ter-
minals, store it or
make printouts at
their own expense.
Initially, three in-
iomiiifc telephone
cess to the computed,'
Shepard said. .
Measures will be
Happy birthday
wishe8aresentto:
Lee Atkinson, 16,
from his family and
friends. 1
Geneva Avalos
from the Del Toro
family.
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The
UfHvy rain J
hailstorms rumbled!
ha
across the great
Plains and the upj:
Mississippi valley,|
and tornado sightings
were reported Id
North and South!
Dakota.
Thunderstormsl
also struck north cen
tral Texas, southwest I
Oklahoma ami ttttl
Southeast.
In the Twin Cltlesl
Ol Minnesota, n[
record reading of 100
degrees sent at least
seven heat stroke vic-
tims to a hospltal,[
while hail-accompan-
le.d thunderstormsI
struck central pine]
of the state.
High winds
destroyed several
buildings on a farm
south of Crookston, In
northwestern Min-
nesota, knocking out
power locally.
In North Dakota,
rain and- 80 mph
winds were ac-
Texas
North Texas — Pa!
with widely scattered
Wednesday. Highs 90s.|
South Texas - PI
Wednesday with a slig
and evening thunderl
thwest. Highs 90s. Lof
coast.
West Texas - Parti
scattered thunderstornl
Highs mostly 90s exce
Lows 50s north to mid'
Port Arthur to Port
winds 10 to 15 knots thr|
3 to 5 feet. Isolated thun
Port O’Connor to Br
winds near 15 knots I
Higher gusts near shorq
feet. Isolated thunders!:
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 213, Ed. 1 Tuesday, July 6, 1982, newspaper, July 6, 1982; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063436/m1/2/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.