The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 28, 1979 Page: 1 of 70
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The Baytown Sun Invites
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Volume 58, No. 43
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Wednesday, November 28, 1979
Baytown, Texas 77520
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New Zealand Airliner
Carrying 257 Missing
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N§w Classes
THE PARKS and Recrea-
tion Department is sponsor-
ing classes on how to make
gingerbread houses from 6
to 8p.m. Dec. 4-6. Registra-
tion is open through Mon
day at the Sports Complex
For more information, call
422-6413,
Thursday Speaker
DR. ALFRED V. Dell Ario,
a Baytown psychiatrist,
will speak at 7 p.m. Thurs
day at Sterling Municipal
Library auditorium. Ques
tions will be answered after
the lecture. The public is in-
vited.
In Hospital
MRS. WERDNA Brewer is
a patient at. Gulf Coast
Hospital, in Room 224. She
can have visitors, c
Weather
And Tides
FREEZE PREDICTED
for Wednesday night and
clear and cold Thursday
Is the Baytown area
weather forecast. Low ex-
pected Wednesday night,
near 30; high Thursday,
mld-50s.
THURSDAY TIDES for
waters fronting the City of
Baytown: Highs at 4:43
a4,m. and 5:58 p.m.; lows
at 11:24 a.m. and 11:30
pm. ;
SUNRISE WEDNESDAY
at 6:57 a.m.; sunset at
5:22 p.m.
New Subdivision Planned - -
‘Don’t Add To Water
Woes,’ Citizens Plead
By WANDA ORTON
Baytonians will be ready
to^oll out the welcome mat
for General Homes when
they’re convinced no flood
waters will be spilling into
their own homes from
drainage in the proposed
subdivision off Thompson
Road.
A city council work ses-
sion on this subject Monday
night grew to the proportion
of a public hearing as a
dozen citizens spoke out for
flood protection, asking for
assurance that General
Homes will not add to flood
woes in the watersheds of
Goose: Creek and Spring
Gully. Attendance at this
informal workshop was
larger than that at most
regular meetings of city
council.
The drainage impact
from the proposed subdivi-
sion would be zero if
General Homes provided
impounding basins, Marion
Johnson, a Lakewood resi-
dent, suggested.
In north Austin, Johnson
pointed out, developers are
required to put in catch
basins and ponds so sub-
divisions will cause no addi-
tional runoff in that city.
"That’s a very good
point," responded Coun-
cilman Fred Philips. “I’d
like to make that as a part'
of the record - the need for
impounding basins.”
Ken Belanger, „division
manager of General
Homes, mentioned plans
for retention ponds in a pro-
posed development in
Pearland. Before the com-
pany can invest in retention
systems for the Thompson
Road project; he added, it
must get approval from ci-
ty council for annexing ad-
ditional property for the
utility district.
General Homes wants to
add 260 acres east
Thompson Road to a 180;
acre tract west of Thofflp
son Road to develop a sub-
division. The development,
which would have 1,489
homes, would be served by
the Thompson Road Utility
District.
Dennis Caputo, a Country
Club Oaks resident, recall-
ed General Homes had
estimated it would cost an
additional $5>/2. million
sell lots if the city did not
approve the annexation re
quest. A retention pond
could be built for less than
Tourists .
From U.S.
On Plane
AUCKLAND, New
Zealand (AP) - An Air
New Zealand DC-10 with 257
of persons aboard was miss-
ing today on an Antarctic
sightseeing flight? the
airline announced?
The airline said the 237
passengers included two
big groups of foreign
tourists? some from the
United States and Japan,
who paid $359 for what was
supposed to be an 11-hour
flight from Auckland to the
Antarctic and back.
"We must assume the
aircraft must -be down,”
said Craig Saxton, a
spokesman for the airline*
“But there is considerable
$5>/2 million, he noted,, so -hope for passengers - as
this would result in a sav
ngs for the developer
“Say to them, ‘Show us a
retention pond and we will
save you $5‘/2 million,’
Everybody Wins; nobody
loses. General Homes saves
money and the city saves
homes and families.”
(See DON’T, Page 4-D)
Baytown Police To Have
First Female Detective
AROUND
m
NORMA BEAMAN visits a
sick friend .. . Patsy
Brewer sports around in a
pretty new car ... Co-
workers are happy to see
Jimmy... Antle home from
the hospital.
Joe Fullen and son Joey
make a hit, in the hall
It’s hard to tell whether
Carol Fontenot or Barbara
Schmidt is beaming the
brightest... Clyde Hender-
son, E,C. Wood" Armender
Hayes and Herman Boat-
man make up the back row.
New star material:
Audrey Malone, Darren
Doyle, Chris ..Devore,
Michael Fullen, Michael
Nelson, Linda Torres,
Nicole Phillips, Angela
Cook, Adam Rodriquez,
Fernando Mendoza,. Ally
Mendoza, Michelle Ramon,
Craig Hoffpauir, Quentin
Coryatt, Brennan Dull
Kevin Craven and April
Davis.
The first female detec-
tive, a new sergeant of the
detective division and
several other personnel
changes in the Baytown
Police Department were
announced Wednesday by
Assistant Police'Chief A W
HenS'cfey. i ' ■•
The new assignments
follow the promotions of
three officers in
ceremonies Tuesday.
Henscey, who has been
Org^ized Crime Control
Unit; was promoted to
assistant chief position.-
Bob' Dabney? head of
detectives at the BPD,
.(received his new lieute-
nant’s badge, while James
Glenn, a detective, was pro-
moted to sergeant. .
With the promotions
came a shuffling of person-
nel at the department.
Henscey, said, Detective
Sgt. James Lankford, who
has headed up the juvenile
division for several years,
will also be taking over (he
detective division.
"We nefji.Sbme eoordina
tion between the juvenile
and detective divisions,”
Henscey explained. "There
will be a fine line between
who Handles juvenile and
detective cases.
“The juvenile officers
will be more of ad
ministrators bfecause they
"Most of, the investiga
tion will be handled by the
detectives because they are
specialists in that area
Juvenile officers specialize
more in cases involving
families,” Henscey con-
tinued..,
The detective division
'will have a new addition in
Officer Joyce Diaz, a 13-
month member of the
department ’ who will
are familiar with the family become BPD’s first female
code and can advise detec-detective. •
Mrs. Diaz will be assign
ed to rape cases, as well as
other cases Involving
juvenile females when it is
better to utilize a female of-
ficer during interviews and
investi gatio tr„ He ns cey
tives in that area.
Inside
The Sun
Classified .. ......5-7D
Comics...... . .
5A
Dimension
IB
Editorial.....:.....
4A
Markets............
5B
School Lunches.....
2A
.Sports............. 1-2C
Television Log......
5A
She is well-suited for the
ob, he added, because she
'orked for the Texas
(See POLICE, Page 4-D)
Santa And friends Slated
For Parade Here Th ursday
there are considerable life
support systems onboard.
"We literally have no
idea if the aircraft went
down on the (Antarctic)
continent itself," in the ice
areas or the waters to the
north
However, Saxton said he
Understood the jetliner had
completed its sightseeing
run and was on its way back
north to New Zealand when
radio contact with the plane
was lost at 2 p.m. (8 p.m
EST Tuesday). '
The loss of radio contact
was blamed dn sunspot ac-
tivity and did, not cause im-
mediate concern. But at 8
p.m. the airline announced
the plane was an hour over-
due for a refueling stop at
Christchurch, on New
Zealand’s. South 'Island
The airline announced at
10 p.m. (4 a.m. EST) that
the plane was lost. It said
its fuel would have been us*
ed up half an hour before.
The U.S. Antarctic base
at McMurdo Sound took
charge of the search for the
missing plane, and sent up
five aircraft: two C-130
Hercules, a C-141 Starlifter
and two helicopters. An
Orion from the New
Zealand Air Force was
searching the ..ocean south
of New Zealand.
,<*
BETTY HOPPER PREPARES TAX STATEMENTS FOR MAILING
Sabrina Adams looks over information on new, longer form
(Sun Staff Photo by Angie Bracey)
Texas Works
Not Affected
By Cutback
A spokesman for U.S.
Steel Wednesday told The
Sun the Texas Works Divi-
sion in Baytown is “stable
and is not involved in the
massive shutdown and
layoff that was announced
Tuesday.”
In all, 13,-000 U.S. Steel
employees in 16 plants in
eight states will be thrown
out of work as part of the
cutback;
Mills were to close in
Youngstown, Ohio;
Waukegan, 111.; (New
Haven,,, Conn.; Torrance,
Calif.; Ambridge, Pa.; Pitt-
sburgh; Universal, Pa.;:
Buffington, Ind.; Nor-
thampton, Pa.; Chicago;
Camden, N.J.; McKees
Rocks, Pa ; Joliet, 111.; and
.FairHeld;'Ala;.>;;::;y:;;-:'.j;
The spokesman said
New School Tax Statements
May Cause Some Confusion
By D’EVA TURNER
Some school and Lee Col
lege district property
owners received tax
statements Wednesday and
others should get them by
’the middle of next week
Tax Assessor-Collector
John Muth predicts confu-
sion among people as they
see all the numbers on the
new-looking - statements
apd as some owners whose
taxes are paid by mortgage
companies receive
statements they never got
before.
New state .laws account
Copies of the statements
■also will be sent to the mor-
tgage companies and the
companies will pay the
taxes as usual, he explain
ed. . ■
for the confusion and the^ ,
month’s delay in getting the ^ '
statements to the property
owners,«he said
Muth included a note with
each statement to explain
that owners whose taxes
are paid by their mortgage
ing the ajrlfner’s route back
to New Zealand
time and that those Owners
shouldn’t be concerned.
Texas Works usually
employs more than 2,0i)0 . ....
persons, and the payroll companies are getting tax
The Starlifter was retrac- was close to 2,000 at this statements for the first
time. “The number of
employees fluctuates with
market conditions,” he
said, “and the market is not
extremely strong for -pipe
and plate,s (which Texas
Works produces ) right now
• “But Texas' Works is not
involved in the announced
cutback.” • -
Pearce Street Journal-
Remember The 20s
i
Once again, school bands,
dance groups, drill teams,
boy scouts, beauty queens,
churches, service organiza-
tions and’of course, Santa
Claus will gather to
celebrate the yuletide
season in traditional
fashion at the annual
Christmas parade on Texas
Avenue beginning,at 6:30
p.m. Thursday.
Sponsored by the
Chamber of Commerce; the
parade will move from The
Big Oak Tree to Fourth
Street
agent and security director
for the school district,will
serve as parade marshal
again this year as he’ has
since 1960. ' » '
According to Tracey
Wheeler,. chamber
manager, this year’s
parade should be the “big-
gest ever.” So far, 60 en-
tries have registered to par-
ticipate with about 30 more
expected to sign up.
Decorative floats will be
judged for prizes of $50, $25,
and $15 for first, second and
Dave Sherron,purchasing third place. Judges for the or Sherron at 427-3277
parade, who will watch
from the front of the
chamber building, will be
Judi Craig of the school
district, Spencer Carnes of
U.S. Steel’s Texas Works,
and Jenny Schmadl of the
chamber.
Parade entries may
register at the Chamber of
Commerce- through Thurs-
day morning and should be
prepared to line up in front
of Sears’ store shortly after
5 p.m. Thursday.
For more information,
call the chamber at 422-8359
Working under tremen-.
dous pressure, PSJ
researchers have dug up
the fact that La Porte and
Goose Creek once played
high school football
game In the early 1920s. ‘
La Porte had a great
team because some of
Goose Creek’s players of
the year before had been
induced to enter La Porte
High. Goose Creek won
despite this handicap.
The only two persons we
know for sure who saw
that game were Garrett
Herring and Frank R.
Boyle Sr.
This should set the
stage for a memorable
battle in the Astrodome
Saturday night. Odds
favor La Porte.
-FH
Bulletin
ANKARA, Turkey (AP)
— Pope John Paul II ar-
rived in Turkey today to
advance the cause of
Christian unity, but the
Moslem nation’s press
was hostile and security
was heavy after a death
threat. •
“Love is greater than
danger,” the pontiff said.
As he stepped off his
special Alitalia jetliner
from Rome, the pope kiss-
ed the red carpet that led
from the plane’s ramp to
a military honor guard.
New tax laws dictate that $21,334,806.43, compared
copies of the Statements
also must be sent to proper-
ty owners so they will know
how much tax is being paid
In the past, statements
were slips of paper showing
assessed property values,
tax rate and taxes due but,
because of the” new laws,
■statemeftts now are letter-
sized and c on tain
breakdowns and com
last year’s tax and values
figures and exemptions
The amount of taxes ow-
the statement, once at the
top of the sheet and once at
the bottom- of the columns
of figures.
Because Lee College con
tracts with ’the school
district for the school-tax
office to do its tax work, the
statements show tax in-
formation for both districts,
as usual.
This year, the school
district is levying
with a levy of $19,007,430.52
last fail. Last year’s collec-
tion of that $19 million was
$18,714,609.77.
The college’s, levy this
year is $1,647,486.97, com-'
pared with last year’s levy
of $1,622,585.53. Last year’s
collection was $1,584,049.37.
The districts annually
collect about 98 percent of a
current levy (not"counting
taxes during any given
year) but Muth predicts
.. , ......„ current collections this
” s. 1 m*m beless.
He estimates about 97
percent collection this year
because “things are kinda
tough right now,” he said,
commenting. on the
economy. ' ■ ,
It’s Easy To Become A
GoodfeBow In Baytown
.Laura Kathryn
Brown.......... $10.00
Mr. and Mrs. Paul
E. Weaver.../.. 10.00
Mr. and MrS. CM;
. Dickerson....... 50.00
Lu ther and Alma
Haddick, In
memory of
★
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
It’s onrbf the easiest
organizations to join you’ll
ever find
All you have to do is con-
tribute to the Goodfellow
Christmas Fund Drive -
and immediately you
become a member in good
J.C. Haddick
Sr.andM.M.
McNulty Sr......
20.00
Thelma Dugat....
5.09
Mr. and Mrs. .
L.J.Choate...
10.00
Anonymous.......
3.90
5.00
Mrs. Joy Blalock,
In memory of •
Joy Blalock....
5.00
Anonymous........
Mrs. G.B. Chenault,
In memory of
Guy Chenault.
Mr. and Mrs.
Rayborn Johnson,
In memory of
Leigh Johnson
Total 1
Contributions ...$178.00
10.00
50.00
that has had thousands of
members over the nearly
existence
The Goodfellows have no
charter or bylaws, require
no dues, keep no member
roster. No matter how large
or small your contribution,
standing of an organization it will entitle’ you to
half-century it has been in will continue valid as long
membership.
, And that
membership
as you donate to the
Goodfellows, which stages
its annual drive for funds
between Thanksgiving Day
and Christmas Eve. "
All of the money con-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 43, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 28, 1979, newspaper, November 28, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066075/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.