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Term
four-year terms Thursday.
Out of 31 chances to the draw-
tog, Williams drew the last lucky
one stipulating four years.
“I’ve got a little bit of Irish to
me,’’ Williams said, referring to
his good luck on St. Patrick’s
Day. “Now, if the courts will hold
this district together, maybe we
can get some work done.”
As long as the courts hold the
pointed
key posts within the Southern
Legislative Conference, has
recently passed in the senate a
bill which would make loans
easier for veterans.
The drawing for terms was held
to the Senate chamber on Thurs-
day, after Austin lawyer Steve
Bickerstaff had told senators
there was no reason to wait longer
-year ^
ultimately (te^nd on'^XtM- y^'te'rms, and'those who drew
tog. There is a possibly all even numbers got two years
senators w5uld have to run again
next year.
Fifteen senators drew numbers
for two-year terms.
Avoiding a re-election race to
two years came down to a number
written on a pie^e of paper,
enclosed to a clear capsule which,
The GOP, whose strength fell
from eight to five this session, on-
ly had Don Henderson, John
Leedom and Bob McFarland
drawing four-year terms.
“Members would be happy to
have the luck of the Irish today,”
said Sen. Lloyd Doggett, D-
Austto.
term. His drawing ped Set . Roy *Blake, D-
was .watched with Interest Nacogdoches, after drawing No.
because he wants to run for the 26 for two years.
U.S. Senate in 1984, and a four- There has been discussion
year term would carry to 1986. about those who have so-cajled
Another senator with statewide safe districts swapping four-year
political ambitions, Sen. Ray terms for two, but senators
Farabee, D-Wichita Falls, also disagree over the constitutionali-
drew a two-year term with No. 10. ty of such trades.
Farabee thought of running for Sen. Chet Brooks, D-Pasadena,
state attorney general last year said senators raised the question
but backed out when his friend,
former Sen. Max Sherman, got to
the race.
10 years ago, after the last draw-
ing, and he remembers the
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Food Prices Rise; Oil, Gas Costs Drop
Inflation Rate Edges Up 0.1%
TENDER LOVING CARE
PATRICIA DAVIS, Cedar Bayou 4-H student, proudly shows off the
steer she showed Thursday .at the Baytown Youth Fair and Livestock
Association’s Fair and Rodeo. The animal took 14th plqce to its
heavyweight division. Scott Carr took the grand champion prize at the
show. His animal brought $6,600 at the auction Thursday night. Total
amount raised at the auction was $94,550.
(Sun staff photo by Angle Bracey l
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Wholesale prices rose a slight 0.1
percent, to February as higher
food prices cancelled out fresh
declines in gasoline and fuel oil
costs, the government said today.
The new decline in the Labor
Department’s Producer Price In-
dex for finished goods, coming
after a record 1 percent drop to
January, bolsters economists’
predictions that wholesale infla-
tion might be down substantially
from last year’s moderate 3.5 per-
cent.
Indeed, one economist predicts
the year’s inflation rate could be
as tiny as 0.1 percent, which
would be the economy’s best
showing since the 0.2 percent
decline of 1963.
In the February report, the
department said energy costs
overall fell 2.9 percent, the third
straight monthly decline. Energy
prices fell a record 4.2 percent to
the previous month.
Fuel oil prices were off 7.2 per-
cent, the new report said, after
plummeting 9.7 percent.
Gasoline prices fell 5 percent,
outpacing the previous 3.3 per-
cent drop.
But natural gas, down a record
2.7 percent to the previous month,
rose 3.2 percent in the new report.
Those prices had soared 20.7 per-
cent in all of last year, largely as
a result of congressional decon-
trol of new-gas costs.
The energy price calculations
reported today were actually for
January and do not reflect any
drops brought about by OPEC’s
recent $5 a barrel cut in its base
price for crude oil. Energy price
calculations always lag a month
behind the rest of the index.
In its new report, the depart-
ment provided these other details
on February price changes:
—Food prices overall rose 0.6
percent after falling 0.2 percent to
January. Prices were up for fish,
poultry, dairy products, beef and
veal. Lower costs were recorded
for vegetables and pork.
—Passenger car prices shot up
1.5 percent after falling 0.3 per-
cent to January. Light truck
prices rose,a small 0.1 percent
after being unchanged the
previous month.
—Capital equipment costs mov-
ed up 0.5 percent after decling 0.1
percent to January. Those costs
are for machinery and transpor-
tation equipment used by
business.
All the price changes are ad-
justed for seasonal variations.
February’s overall price in-
crease of 0.1 percent, after
seasonal adjustment, compared
with a 1 percent drop on January
and a 0.2 percent increase to
December.
If prices rose for 12 months
straight at the February rate, the
yearly rise would be 1.7 percent.
In reporting its inflation figures,
the department bases its com-
pounded, seasonally adjusted an-
nual rate on a more precise
calculation of monthly changes
than the figure the department
makes public.
Today’s report said that for Jhe
12 months ending in February,
In all, the unadjusted Producer
Price Index stood at 283.7 in
February, meaning that goods
costing'$10fet Wholesale in 1967
would have cost $28.37 last month.
Donald Ratajczak, economic
forecaster at Georgia State
University in Atlanta, said rapid-
ly falling oil prices could lead to a
scant 0.1 percent increase to
wholesale^ prices for all of this
year, the smallest gain since 1963
when those costs declined 0.2 per-
cent.
“A sharp drop in world oil
prices dramatically alters the ex-
tended outlook for 1983,” he said
to a newsletter to clients.
Thomas Thomson, chief
economist at San Francisco’s
Crocker National Bank, agreed
that a further break in oil prices,
even below the $29 a barrel base
price newly set by the Organiza-
tion of Petroleum Exporting
Countries, could mean a yearly
inflation rate of “something close
Video Screen Sy stem OK’d For Astrodome
wholesale prices rose 2.1 percent. ^ to zero.’
By DAVID BYFORD
HOUSTON (Sp) - Harris Coun-
ty Commissioners Court Thurs-
day approved a $4,203,000 video
screen system for the Astrodome,
awarding the contract to Dia-,
mond Vision Inc.
Two commissioners, Tom Bass
of Precinct 1 and Bob Eckels of
Precinct 3, were not present at
the court proceedings, and
several issues, such as the pro-
posed criminal justice grants,
will be discussed at the March 24
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Hall’s The Name
e
The Sun’s Dave Sorter, who
keeps us posted on happenings to
the Baytown area sports arena,
makes this observation:
The two-time state champion
Barbers Hill girls’ basketball
team ought to market Its cure for
Inflation.
Never has anybody gotten so
much out ofaPennee.
-PLPforFH
AROUND
TOWN
LYNAE CARR wins third place to
St. Joseph's science fair... W.W.
Brawn will be getting his 50-year
Masonic pin soon.
When Molly Bowers Sinclair,
Washington Post reporter, was
typing at a video terminal to The
Sun newsroom the other day, her
former Baytown Sun boss,
Preston Pendergrass, walked in,
did a double take and com-
mented, “That girl is the spitting
image of Molly Bowers!” Molly,
who’s here visiting her family,
wrote a story to phone to
Washington.
Jerry Tilton talks about a most
exciting basketball game.. Gor-
don Speers treats a friend to lunch
Kyle Tilton proves to be a
helpful salesman.
meeting of the court.
The court, with commissioners
Jim Fonteno and E.A. “Squatty”
Lyons Jr. present, also approved
the payment of $66,000 to Morris
Aubry Architects for a master
plan survey of the mechanical,
electrical and plumbing systems
at the Astrodome, Astroarena and
Astrohall.
Commissioners also objected to
the passage of House Bill 396,
which supports the repeal of the
half payment of taxes.
Sectioh 31.03 of the Tax Code
allows a split payment of taxes,
and House Bill 396 seeks to do
away with that provision. Harris
County collects more than $35
million with the separate
payments, which come on June 30
and Nov. 30, and the budgets, set
up as they are, would be hindered
by the passage of this bill, com-
missioners said.
John H. Cummings of the coun-
"i
taxes — said, “With interest rates
as high as they are, it sure makes
a difference.”
In other action, Lynn Davis, a
secretary to Fonteno’s Baytown
office, was promoted to be in
charge of community aid for the
elderly at a salary of $2,324 a
month.
concerning
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WEATHER
FAIR AND COOL is the
forecast for the Baytown
area Friday night. Saturday
will be partly cloudy and
warmer. Temperatures will
be in the upper 40s Friday
night and in the mid-70s
Saturday. From 7 a.m.
Thursday to 7a.m. Friday, a
high of 63 degrees and a low
of 46 degrees were recorded.
At 7 a.m. Friday it was 46
Other action
Precinct 2 projects included:
UU]U1 .............c..________ + The approval of specifica-
ty tax assessor’s office—which is tions and the authorization to seek
supportive of the split payment of . (See VIDEO, Page 2-A)
Jessie Lee Pumphrey Dies
EDNA (Sp) — Jessie Lee Pum-
phrey, 84, retired Baytown
educator after whom Pumphrey
Elementary School was named,
died Friday morning to an Edna
hospital.
Services will be held at 2 p.m.
Saturday at the First United
Methodist Church of Edna with
the Rev. Russel Moon officiating.
Burial will be at Memory
Gardens of Edna.
Miss Pumphrey, who began her
Baytown teaching career at De
Zavala Elementary School to
1928, taught there for 37 years,
gaining vast admiration from the
Mexican-American community.
“Miss Jessie,” as she was af-
tectionately called, began her
teaching career in Lolita. The
next 11 years were spent teaching
in Jackson County schools in the
Edna and Goliad school districts.
She received her bachelor’s
degree from Texas A&I at
Kingsville and her master’s
degree at the University of
Houston in 1947.
(See PUMPHREY, Page 2-A)
Social Security.
siipjSiffe:
Fields Slates Town
Meetings Saturday
Social Security and the
nuclear freeze proposal will be
two issues U.S. Rep. Jack
Fields will discuss during his
Huffman, Crosby and
Highlands town meetings
Saturday.
Fields will begin his
meetings with an update on the
social security issue and will
talk with constituents about the
nuclear freeze movement and
the natural gas bill as proposed
by the Reagan administration.
Fields said he will also give
constituents an update on what
happened during the lame
duck session and explain why
he voted against the congres-
sional pay raise and gas tax.
The first meeting of the day
will be in Huffman from 10:30
a.m. to noon at Hargrave High
School with the second from 1
to 2:30 p.m. at Crosby High
School in Crosby. From 3 to
4:30 p.m. Fields will visit
Highlands area residents at the
Highlands Community Center.
“I look forward to visiting
with the people of Huffman,
Crosby and Highlands and
hearing their opinions and con-
cerns about the many difficult
issues we face today,” Field
said.
In addition, Fields says
members of his district office
will be on hand to help with
problems citizens may have
with the federal government.
Fields will conduct a
Baytown town meeting March
31 in Rundell Hall on the Lee
College campus. For more in-
formation contact Fields’
district office at 451-6334.
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By JOAN McANALL
The Lee College Faculty
Assembly voted Thursday to en-
dorse a petition supporting
renewal of a three-year contract
for Philip Dignam, an instructor
in English-Communications
Department, contrary to the col-
lege administration’s decision not
to recommend him to the Board of
Regents for a new contract.
Dignam, a 17-year faculty
member, has two years remain-
ing on his contract: -----„ — -
In voting for the motion calling petition. Of those, 41 are part of
for Dignam’s endorsement, toe academic faculty that has
assembly members instructed about 53 fuMtae instructors, Ms.
the president of the assembly, An- Tyssen said. Full-time faculty at
nette Harrison, to “forward the toe college totals approximately
endorsement through the proper 85 and includes vocational-
administrative channel to the Lee technical as well as academic in-
College Board of Regents.” The structors.
board is scheduled to take up» “Certainly 1 11 pass it (the petl-
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contract issues at its March 31
meeting.
According to Muriel Tyssen,
secretary of the Faculty
Assembly, the approximately 37
full-time faculty members who
attended Thursday’s special ses-
sion gave “very resounding”
voice vote approval of the motion
to support tiie petition. There
were no vocal dissenting votes,
she added.
As of Thursday afternoon, 44
faculty members had signed the
tion) on to the board, that’s a
standard procedure,” Cloud said,
adding that how the petition is
handled from there is the board’s
decision.
At the heart of the contract
issue is the administration’s
claim that Dignam has interfer-
red in “areas of administrative
concern.”
According to a March 10 docu-
ment that is titled as the record of
Dignam’s evaluation conference
and is signed by Paul Price,
academic dean, “there is no visi-
ble evidence of Mr. Dignam’s
failure to perform satisfactorily
his duties and responsibilities
associated with the instructional
program.”
The document goes on,
however, to express the ad-
ministration’s concern regarding
Dignam’s “attempting to appear
in behalf of faculty colleagues at
personnel conferences called by
the administration.”
According to Ms. Tyssen,
Dignam was involved in an inci-
dent last year in which, at the re-
quest of another instructor, he ap-
peared to b6 a witness for the in-
structor at a meeting with Lee
College President Robert Cloud.
Dignam and the other instructor,
Ms. Tyssen said, had believed the
meeting was called to discuss a
grievance filed by the other in-
structor, a procedure authorized
to the college’s faculty handbook.
When Dignam arrived at the
meeting, however, he was refused
admittance and told the meeting
was called as a personnel con-
ference, Ms. Tyssen said.
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