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ides In ERA
Fight Did Good Job
Militoiu of women who fought valiantly for ratification
of the Kqual Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
only to see it fall three short of 38 states needed to ratify
by the June 30 deadline, have pledged a new start by laun-
ching a drive to raise a $3 to $4 million war chest by fall.
Nationwide victory celebrations were staged by
women's groups opposing ERA ratification, including one
in Houston sponsored by Christian Women’s National
Concerns (CWNC). A spokesman for the group said:
“ERA would have had detrimental effects on our
families and on society. Do you know they would have had
to draft women If the proposed amendment UQ MBS
ratified?”
As the losers pledged there would be no let-up in efforts
to win ERA ratification despite the setback, opponents
vowed to fight harder than ever if it appears ERA sup-
porters are gaining too much ground.
Instead of licking their wounds and resting from a
grueling campaign, ERA backers singled out President
Reagan and Republican conservatives as those most
responsible for blocking ratification.
In the wake of the ERA defeat, President Reagan’s
daughter, Maureen, mildly chided her father, saying he
supported the ERA when he was governor of California,
but later changed his mind, which “distressed” her.
Phyllis Schlafly, the Alton, 111., writer who lobbied
against the ERA in legislatures across the country, told
anti-ERA politicians at a victory banquet such an amend-
ment now “has no conceivable hope of passage in this cen-
tury.”
ERA advocates did not dispute Schlafly’s assessment in
promising a new start and a new tactic — an effort to elect
women to half the seats in the nation’s state legislatures.
That’s a big order, even for determined women. They
may not achieve that goal, but you can bet they’ll be found
trying. More could be accomplished in the continuing bat-
tle for better government if all citizens were as ag-
gressive as women when they decide a cause is worth
championing.
The Baytown Sun congratulates both sides in the ERA
controversy for their determination and hard work. They
all learned valuable lessons about how to achieve a goal.
The Sun believes ERA advocates would have enjoyed
more success had their organizations not been infiltrated
by extremists, whose dire warnings hindered, rather than
helped, the ERA cause.
Extremism rarely ever prevails in this country.
Air Bags Alive, Well Again
When the National Highway Traffic Safety Administra-
tion killed the requirement for the installation of air bags
on 1983-model cars it was more out of pity for the ailing
auto industry than compassion for the nation’s motorists.
Now, the U.S. Court of Appeals has called the action
“long on words and short on reasoned decision-making”
and has ruled the safety regulators acted illegally in drop-
ping the air bag requirement:
The court ordered safety regulators to take a new look
at the issue. “It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that
(the reasoning by safety administrators) has been
distorted by solicitude for the economically depressed
automobile industry,” the court said. It also pointed out
the traffic safety administration is mandated to protect
the public and not stroke the auto industry.
Air bags are designed to fit in the dashboard of autos
and inflate in a split second when there is & head-on colli-
sion. Experts said air bags or automatic seat belts could
save 10,000 lives and prevent tens of thousands of serious
accidents each year on the nation’s highways.
ju
iSSSS SBS&
apparatchiks, zgerald’R
ent officials have 14 years ago He
a Senate Investiga and hounded (or l
permitted to be
separately - a
tlon of Pentagon wrongdoing
The investigation by a
Judiciary subcommittee, headed
by Sen. Orrln Hatch, R-Utah, has
been going on for two years now,
and members of Hatch’s staff are
Infuriated at the Justice Depart-
ment's efforts to stall and derail
the probe.
“Thumbing your nose at a
United States Is an action one
should be made to regret,” an ex-
asperated aide wrote In a con-
fidential report to Hatch. My
under oath to a cong
committee Eventually he was
fired.
UNDER PRESSURE, the Pen-
tagon rehired him, but put him a
dead-end. do-nothing Job where
he couldn't cause the spendthrift
brass hats further embarrass-
ment. It was only two weeks ago
that Fitzgerald was reinstated in
the watchdog Job that would serve
the taxpayers properly.
Yet still the bureaucrts per-
associates Indy Hadhwar and aist in covering up UwjwWwKr
Jack Mitchell have seen a copy of 0f the man who has earned the
the report.
It gives eloquent expression to
the frustration of congressional
investigators who try to dislodge
nuggets of truth from the rock of
bureaucratic obstruction and ob-
fuscation.
“We have been Involved in con-
gressional investigations since
1968, but never saw anything like
this one," the confidential report
complains. “The indecent man-
ner with which the Justice
Department handled this is sym-
bolic of its handling of our re-
quests, and Indicates that the
department does not view our in-
vestigations as serious matters.”
What is the subject of this in-
reputation as the federal govern-
ment's No. 1 whistleblower. Ad-
ministrations come and go;
Republicans and Democrats
follow each other in and out of the
presidency. Still the Pentagon
bureaucrats cover their brass,
with help from the Justice
Department.
Here are some of the petty wap*
Justice officials have thwarted
the Senate investigators:
— Acting on personal
assurances of cooperation from
senior department officials, two
Senate investigators showed up
for a scheduled 9 a.m. appoint-
ment to look at pertinent
documents. They waited an hour.
interviewed
in-
instead,
the
of “four individuals
from the FBI and Justice Depart
ment, who monitored what they
said, corrected them and in-
hibited their statements ”
— One FBI agent, asked about
suppression of evidence, "started
to answer and was cut off" by his
superiors. "We were not able to
pursue this vital avenue of ques-
tioning, ’' the Senate aides wrote.
— Justice withheld crucial
documents and even went so far
as to doctor one key document,
according to the Senate staff
report "The document we receiv
ed was Just plain phony — a clear
attempt to obstruct the work of a
congressional committee,” the
report states.
Hatch's staff recommended
that the senator get subpoena
power and bold hearings on the
“document outrages." The staff
report urged: “If the Justice
Department plays tough, we play
tougher. They have thrown down
the gauntlet Now let us pick It
up.”
Footnote: An FBI spokesman
said that the Hatch aide's report
contained “biased information.*'
Donohoe, a 36-year-old self-
proclaimed "liberal and
American" who worked as a lob-
byist for a Texas energy company
before he rin afoul of Watt. It has
been reported how he wrote the
secretary for "clarification" of
a snide Jape to the effect that Watt
doesn’t categorize people as
Republicans or Democrats, but a^
liberals or Americans.
Watt had Donohoe traced, and
an aide, Stanley Hulett, sent a let-
ter to his boss, who fired him
rather than risk offending the In-
terior Department, from which
the company regularly leases
land for oil and gas exploration.
What didn't come out, though,
was that Watt -*• through Hulett —
then pursued Donohoe with a
vengeance. Copies of the Hulett
and Donohoe letters were sent to
the American Petroleum In-
stitute, the oil Industry associa-
tion in Washington that
presumably might be a source of
Job leads for the still-unemployed
Donohoe.
To his credit, API head Charles
DiBona “considered the matter to
be none of his concern and took no
action whatever,” according to
an aide. > »• -
vestigation that seems to worry No documents. An official, track-
the Justice Department so? ed down by a secretary, relayed
Believe it or not, it is the case of the message that he had been
A. Ernest Fitzgerald, the Air "ordered not to give out any
Force civilian cost analyst who documents.” The bureaucrats
blew the whistle on $2 billion in then said there was only on
overruns on the C-5A transport Senate staffer they would deal
Plane with, like if or lump it.
What makes the Justice - Two FBI agents wefe not
VENGEFUL WATT: In a display
of petty vindictiveness, Interior
Secretary James Watt has tried
to make one of his critics
unemployable fn his chosen field.
But Watt’s temper tantrum may
not be so petty after all: The vic-
tim of his wrath has sued the
secretary for $4 million in
damages and the Department of
Interior for another $i million.
Watt’s antagonist is Timothy
From Sun Files
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State Honors
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From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30 and
20 years ago: •
JULY 6,1942
C.W. Montgomery, 18-year-old
Goose Creek youth, is recovering
from injuries received in a car
wreck on the Goose Creek-Bay-
town Road yesterday. The injured
youth was brought to Goose Creek
Hospital by a Tri-Cities Funeral
Home ambulance.
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Bob Wagman
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Light Shed On Hoffa Murder
WASHINGTON (NEA) - A
self-styled “Mafia enforce?”
did a great deal of writing about" mons had given up control of the
4n(. u n .... . «»«***» 51HW v®i the Teamsters Union, in several union to various regional leaders.
Auto maKers say regular seat Delts provide a sufficient named Charles Allen recently long interviews after his release Under Hoffa, leadership of the
safety factor. Unfortunately, only 11 percent of the driv- received headlines for telling a
ing public uses them. Automatic restraints are the senate subcommittee that he had
answer, and the quicker they are required the sooner ^en ordered by Junmy Hoffa,
highway deaths will be reduced
from prison, Hoffa spoke of his Teamsters had been completely
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Lynn Hughes
Mike Groxiola.
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1 through Fridoy and Sundoys ot 1301 Merfioriol Drive in Boytown, Texas!'PO Box 90,
the former president of the
Teamster Union, to kill his suc-
cessor, Frank Fitzsimmons.
Allen testified that Hoffa was
then killed on orders from Fitz-
simmons and a group of his
mobster supporters after they
learned of the plot.
FBI agents who have worked on
the Hoffa case since the former
union boss’ 1975 disappearance
and presumed murder says that
Allen’s testimony is-a-mixture of
truthj-half-truth-and supposition: ~
This is Allen’s version of the
story: Fitzsimmons promised
Hoffa that he could regain the
union' presidency once he was
released from prison. (Hoffa was
confined to Lewisburg, Pa.,
federal prison from March 1967 to
December 1971 on jury-tampering
charges.) When Fitzsimmons
later refused to step down, Hoffa
became so enraged that he
ordered Fitzsimmons.killed.
But Fitzsimmons was told of
the plan by Hoffa’s foster son,
Charles “Chuckie” O’Brien, who
had defeated to the Fitzsimmons
camp. After someone later
planted a bomb in the car of Fitz-
simmons’ son, says Allen, the
elder Fitzsimmons, with the aid
desire to regain the union
presidency and his bitterness
toward Fitzsimmons for what
Hoffa saw as double-dealing.
But to have ordered Fitzsim-
mons killed would have been both
irrational and self-defeating. Jim-
my Hoffa was not an irrational
man.
While Hoffa was languishing in
prison, the Teamsters Union,
especially Fitzsimmons, was
becoming close to President Nix-
on and his aide, Charles Colson.
It is generally understoodJhat
FitzsimnTDttff“Worked out a deal
centralized. But things had
changed under Fitzsimmons;
many union leaders supported
Fitzsimmons because they knew
that they would lose their authori-
ty if Hoffa returned.
In addition, Hoffa planned to
charge that in New Jersey, where
the union was being run by Pro-
venzano, mob interests had set up
insurance brokerages and were
charging grossly inflated
premiums for Teamsters’ health
and welfare insurance. These
mobsters, were making .mUlions,
and Hoffa was out tp prove that
for Hoffa’s release. But when Hof- union leaders were getting huge
fa received the papers that he had kickbacks
to sign before obtaining his
freedom, he was surprised to find
a new clause requiring him to
refrain from union activities
through 1980.
Hoffa blamed Fitzsimmons —
probably correctly — for that
clause. But he was so eager to get
out of prison that he signed
anyway.
At the time of his disap-
pearance, Hoffa was plotting to
wrest control of the union from
Fitzsimmons. But first he had to
mount a Supreme Court challenge
to the prohibition on his engaging
in union activities.
Within . months after Hoffa’s
These elements tried to per-
suade Hoffa to abandon his com-
eback attempt, or at least to ig-
nore the insurance issue. Hoffa
disappeared when it became
clear that he would not.
The federal investigators
believe that Provenzano ordered
the killing of Hoffa.
Published dfternoom. Monday through Friday and Sundoys ot 1301 Memorial Drive in Boytown, Texas,* P O Box 90, elder f HZSimmOnS, W1U1 me aid mUUM . 1UUI1U1B Slier XlOIia S
Boytown 77520 Suggested Subscription Rotes By cooler. 54 25 per month, $51 00 per year, single copy price, 20 cjpts Qf reputed NeW JetSey mobsters .disappearance federal in-
Doily 25 cents Sundoy Moil rotes on request Represented notionolly by Coostol Publications r * .,rr. ’ ... ..
mmmr of tni MsociAfto piisi Tony Provenzano and Salvatore vestigators came up with a theory
the Associoted Press is entitled exclusively
oth«rwi«# credited in this poper ond locol new __
rtin pre also re»#rved.-to%»own
*KerT?^e^rtt4ies do rlot r
thrown into the swamp." Hoffa was trying to win back his
other matter herein pre a
In the mid-1970s, this reporter old job by showing that Fitzsim-
Bible Verse
“Husbands, love your Wives,
even as Christ also loved the
church, and gave Himself for it,
that He might sanctify and
cleanse it with the washing of
water by the Word; that He
might present it to Himself af
Underprivileged children in the
school district were given more
than 3,000 garments and about
25,000 free lunches during the past
school year by Tri-Cities Parent-
Teacher Thrift Exchange,
according to an annual reported
just released by Mrs. J.S. Palm-
er, chairman. Clothing was sup-
plied mostly by the WPA.
Betty’s Cafe opens at 123 Mar-
ket in Baytown. It will be oper-
ated by Mr. and Mrs. Sam E.
Davis, who operate several res-
taurants in Polk County. The res-
taurant has been constructed by
Elton Fisher, a well-known Tri-
Cities contractor.
The 1942 Gander baseball jack-
ets have arrived, Coach Red Bale
announced. Recipients are War-
ren Patton, Charlie Stout, Phil
Collier, Marlin Buckles, Perry
Lee “Bit” Whatley, Miles Wor-
thy, Patrick Henry “Mickey” Mc-
Hugh, Coy Hahce, Cecil Sutphin,
Ross Smith, Jack Burton and .
managers Burlln Griffith and
J.P. Hawkins.
JULY 6,1952
Crosby Rainbow Girls won hon-
ors at the Grand Assembly in Fort
Worth, including Joyce Ruth Rey-
nolds, grand choir; Cecile Treat,
grand representative from Texas
to Cuba; Marian Adams and the
mother advisor, Mrs. M.L. Doss,
who received the Grand Cross of
Colors.
The Baytown Chamber of Com-
merce tomorrow will be host to
E.H. Thornton Jr. of Galveston,
chairman of the Texa* Highway
Commission. Thornton will be
taken on a tour of highway <pro»>
jects in the area by members of
the chatpber highway committee. _
JULY 6,1962
Members of a 40-man United
Fund Citizens Committee
unanimously adopt a $192,158
budget and pledge their support
in raising that amount this fall to
operate the 34 Red Feather agen-
cies in 1963. Original requests
amounted to $201,678.
A blue-eyed, gray-haired little
woman may be the top sailfish cat
catcher on Trinity Bay. Mrs. W.J.
Dalpes of Baytown entered the
top fish in that category during
the seventh annual fishing contest
sponsored by the Bayshore Rod,
Reel and Gun Club. The fish
weighed a hefty 4 pounds, 13
ounces.
Speaking of fish, Norman and
Royce Battarbee, sons of Mr. and
w
Swis
By SHERRI CARVER
Martina Huonder is
in the United States
again!
After spending a
year in the United
States under the aus-
pices of the American
Field Service, Miss
Huonder, 22, has re-
sumed from her na-
tive Switzerland to
visit friends in Bay-
town ---------AM
Her first visit
began In 1978.
Through the AFS, an
organization which
gives students the op-
portunity to study a-
broad, Miss Huonder
was able to come to
Baytown from her
home near the Alps.
Settling with the
E.W. Walters family,
she attended Ross S.
Sterling High School
Before Teeth Emerq
Dental
Begins
Tootbbrgsjiing end pro|
need trf begin even before I
“After each feeding, a b|
be wiped with a clean wa|
gauze, or the gums shoulc
with a soft toothbrush evl
erupt,” says dental hygi|
Salmon.
Mrs. Salmon is with thd
Health of the Texas Depl
She said brushing is necesd
tal plaque. Plaque is a stlcl
bacteria that attaches to t|
causes dental disease in bol
The primary (baby) tee|
about six to 12 months
begin as soon as two teet
side. By the age of three,
have usually erupted,
primary teeth are not wor
about,” Mrs. Salmon
misconception. A child’s
important for chewinj
pearance, and most impo
space for permanent teeth.
“A child should never b<
bottle containing anything
quids such as milk, juices,:
pool around the new teeth
decay to start,” Mrs. Salt
called nursing bottle mouth
If the parents are livin
fluoridated water, they m
concentrated formula that
the fluoridated water, inst
that is ready to use.
Mrs. Salmon said thui
natural reflex that may
secure and happy.
“Thumb-sucking should
pear after the age of tw
doesn’t, see your family
scold the child since this m
anxiety.”
She said parents may war
thondontic pacifier. “Do not
pacifiers, because they v
shape of the mouth,” she sa
around for the shorter and b
Student h
Catherine M. Hill,
daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. H.M. Combs of
Baytown, was among
64 students grad-
uating from the Uni-
versity of Texas
School of Allied
Health Sciences June
12.
-Hitt, 3”graduate of
Robert E. Lee High
School, attended Lee
College and earned a
bachelor’s degree in
zoology at Texas
A&M University be-
fore attending the UT
University
Children's
As part pf its stu- en«
dent program, the a de
University of Hous- port
ton at Clear Lake Ci- outc
ty Diagnostic Edu-
cation Center ad-
ministers a 'com-, .
prehensive battery of tl,°
tests to children
manifesting school Fo
A parent* confer- cent
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