The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 123, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1976 Page: 1 of 18
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iaytewn, Texas, 77S20
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Nation’s Employment Said
At Pre-Recession Levels -I
March Prospects Good
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Chamber Tickets
THERE ARE STILL
tickets left for the
i few
innut!
City Building Permits
Top 11 Million Again
Chamber of Commerce banquet
By WANDA ORTON represented 133,600 in the
Biytown building permits, for building roundup
\ slated for 7:30 pm Mondayai the mo"th *• "*»• » P*
the Community Building They
are SO each and can be picked up
at the chamber office Gov
Dolph Briscoe will be guest
speaker
Million | mil for an f11,000 warehouse at
Dollar Chib." 1011 Va W. Texas. Alterations to
The February tally on con-the Brunson Theater will cost
struction came to $1,067,757. $17,500, according to another
bringing the year's total to more commercial permit
than $2 9 million
Walter Gray of Baytown
Marine Sales received a permit
for a 8,000 storage building at
4210 N. Alexander
A new office for John Rossi’s
paint shop is being built for $4,-
ISee BUIJlINd, Page !l
Our
World
Fraa Af Wires
+ MOSCOW ~ Leonid' I.
Breshaev was re-elected today
aa general secretary of the
Communist party, but the mu
responsible for the country's
t agricultural faiiuree wts
1 from iht r
February
Jobless
* v
Rate Falls
ousted from the ruling PoUt
bum. Removed from the So-
viet Union's meet powerful
body wet Agriculture Minister
Dmitry S. Polyansky. /
Ballot Positioiu
CANDIDATES FOR city office
in ^each City will draw for
positions on the ballot at 3 p m
Saturday in the West Chamber,
County Community Building
City Secretary Ruth Hoover will
conduct the drawing
Traffic Open
TRAFFIC IS
No Council Contests • -
3 W Trustees
Face Opposition
With 16 permits already issued
for new homes in March, It
ears Biytown will hit
another millioo-dollar mark or
more if the pace keeps up
February brought 19 permits
for new homes accounting for
1636,400 in construction
The largest single permit was
issued to the city for construc-
tion of the $116,032 Biytown
i,»™ • u open on Bicentennial Park.
Rollingbrook between Garth and Church construction ranked
North Main. A four-way stop in- third in contributing to the
tersectwn has been let up at F ebruary total First Church of
a!^LSUnUl tI,"iC U*"411 ?? N W each drawn an opponent Belvieu will precede tocuiftbart
are insulted "edvad , pemut (or a whw m ended at «pm. Joe Blythe on the ballot
. structure for Sunday School Friday A late entrant Into the race,
Tn-Fi Event - classrooms and Alliance Bible ' „ .. ‘
TRI-FI GIRL Scout .Neighbor- Church, 608 W Cedar Bayou-; But Mont Belvieu CltyCoundl
hood will have a Bicentennial Lynchburg Road, it building
event from 10 a.m.-t:J0 p.m. -S56.00D «Alttaon. « rf"* same da\
Saturday at the Community Permits for oew commercial. Candidates in the school board
Building The public ia welcome bulldingi touted $66,350 while election drew for position on the
to view the skits, demonain- additions and remodeling to ex- ballot after the deadline passed
turns and exhibits -mmercul rimetum ta jg*»incumbent W. E.
School Dedication
By BETSY WEBBER
MONT BELVIEU (Spi - In-
cumbents in all three positions
in the Barbers Hill School
(Buddy) Irby will be first on the
ballot. He is opposed by Evelyn
Irish, a Cove housewife
In Position 6, challenger
Trustee race slated for April 3 Douglas Williams of Mont
OPEN HOUSE and dedication ReStTOOTU Facility - -
of the new Dayton High School J
will be held from 2 30 p m. to X ,--v / w-*
fiariViSKi Sterling Boosters
program and torn of the new C7
facility
•HIT Sport*
BARBERS HILL Sports
Association will meat at 2 pm.
Saturday at Barben Hill Middle
School gym to plan the upcom-
ing baseball season Anyone in-
terested ia Little League. Pony
League or a girls softball team
basked to attend Coaches and a
co-ordinator wiU be chosen at
the meetb^
To Tackle Project
John D. FlUgerald, 27, of Mont
Belvieu, an employe at USI in
Deer Park, will appear first on
the ballot oppotang incumbent
M. Q. Bradford.
Irby b leaking hb second term
on the Barbers Hill School
Board. He was tint elected in
April 1973. Bradford has served
two terms, haring been dieted
first In April 1970, and Blythe b
running for his tourui term and
was first elected in April 1917. |
Barben \ Hill Busineaa
Manager C, Wayne Watson
observed that no runoff will be
+ WASHINGTON - Cube,
ram IU battlefield sue-
fresh from Its
cenei la Angela, Is gearing ap
le help Rhodesian nattenalistt
trying to overthrow the white
supremacist regime of Prime
Minister Ian Smith, U.S. offi-
cials believe.
+ AUSTIN - Sute income
from taxes Increased during
January, Comptroller Bob Bul-
lock said, bat suit spending
Increased eves faster Bullock
sold that tax revenues were up
II per cent over last year but
expenditure! Jumped 2$ per
cent
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
nation’s unemployment rata Ml
(or the fourth straight month in
February, dropping to 7.1 par
rent from 7.1 per cant, aa more
Americans found Jobs and total
employment returned to its pre-
recession peak, the government
said today.
The Labor Department said
total employment, which
plunged by 22 million during
the recession, Increased by an-
other 126,000 last month and
has now hilly returned to tfao
July 1074, pnrecMsion peak of
88 3 million,"
Unemployment fell by 160,000
last month to « seasonally ad-
justed 7.1 million, the depart-
ment nld. Progress In reduc-
tog unemployment and the
slowing of inflation provides
+ UNITED NATIONS, New
York - U,N. SacretarMiaar-
al Kart Waldheim b send lag
« savoy to Mosrew and Wash-
ington to leak tor ways it got
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3 OF BAYTOWN’S FAIREST
A SAMPLE OP Baytowa’i sretttoit and most talented young womti will bo latroducod to the
public at (he secoad annual Mias Baytowa-Lee College Scholarship Pagiaat, set for 7;21 p,m. May $
at too Row Sterling High School auditorium. Three of tho first cootosuata to tntor the pageant db-
womaa will bo toirodaced to the
it the Rom Storltog High School auditorium. Three of tho first cobtostants to tutor the pageant (
cum filling out the entry form with Mrs Therein Moore, second from left, pageant chairman. They
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end Mn. Bah Craig aad Mr. and Mrs. Lonnie Dickey. Deadline for onteriag (he pageint b MarchJT.
• iSun staff photo by Glenn Fottts)
Uooe going again, diplomatic
aourets say.
Preiidenl Ford with fresh am-
munition for hb election cam-
paign and efforts to toll hb fo-
llow fiscal 1977 budget to Con-
gnu
The last time unemployment
has been below 7.6 per cant
was to December 1974, when It
was 7.2 per cant It later roM
to l recession high of 1.9 per
cent to May, 1976. ,
February’s two-tenths of
mmjtm peace aegotfa- *per cent drop to the Jobleu
rate, though not u large u the
Paired Sfroof Journtl ■ -
■five-tenths of a per cent decline night
in January, continued a daeSb-J——•
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AUSTIN (CNi-Note to tax-
The Ron Sterling Booster decided to approve the project
Club will work to get restrooms
built at the RSS baseball field
and b expected to have a preaen-
Don Kerr, club president, said
the dub s primary responaibtli-
for next year
Architect Jama A. i Bitty)
Divb told the board it probably
tation ready to give at the school’would take about two months to
board meeting Monday night
complete the project even if
materials and labor were readily
available and even if the board
puvon:
If Gov. Briscoe, U. Gw.
needed with only two candidatM Hobby aad Speaker Claytou
to each position stick to their guns, state ad-
seeking election to hb second tighten their beta to what the
term Councilman A. B. Daria, Aestins call "the next bier
who wiU be elected to hb fifth atom."
two-year term: and Councilman The bureaucrats art com-
C. J. Cotten, seeking his second mtatoa members wed to bar-
irrm‘ aagae the legislator! only
January
tag trend
June
April 3 Election - -
12 Candidates To Contest
Three Seats On LC Board
D EVA LUTHRINGER
■> one candidate missing, II
» others seeking three Lot College
regent positions drew for places
on the April 3 ballot Thursday
expiring
id Dr. I)o
ire Sam
Donald Brun-
which began last
Color Water, Too
Mori of the recovery in em-
ployment
-.iSssSI Hydrant Flushing
low Its peak before the recta- __ __
To Urop Pressure
ty will be to secure the material could find the money
J for the building through
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KENNETH MOORE trying to
locate • backpack for dsugttter
Melanie's hiking trip
Debbie Pond, wife of Uyta
Pond s ion Leon of La Parte, b
pradof berfather-to-bwwfcob
running for Baytown dty coun-
dknan . Bueno Alice Bowa
pirns a big trailer trip wMh
gnndctuldren overflowing . .,
Jane Grayson looking lovely as
usual as she putters around tho
backyard repotting plants
Heavy Moore ay* be b enjoy-
ing the males Masee Shirley
Turner explains wby a fan was
Ml ia tie police department's
dispatching office, but *
Jackson disagrees with the
"■on Terry Ausleybrn-
Jbyteg dririag one of several new
pobre can received by the cby
recently
Sherry Leggett makes a food
"If the-estimated cost - $30.
000 - can be greatly reduced
through the efforts of the dub
hopefully it would influence the
school board in taking action
sooner than ha bom antici
patfd
Kerr asked the school board
last month if the district would
build the facilities so that spec
totors and players wouldn't have
to use restrooms to Dm gym-
Two weeks tstor the board!
That timetable would have
made the restrooms ready for
use about the same time the
Kntnhill inot/tn aaula
Dascoau seaion enai
Supt Johnny Clark presented
plans showing men’s and
women's restrooms, a conces-
sion stand, i ticket office snd s
storage room in one building,
which would be across the fence
from the press bos .’
He estimated it could be built
for no more than $20,000
Since hb appearance before
the board. Kerr began seeing
(Sec ROBB, Pape 2)
Weather
And Tides
COOLER wrm a it per cent
chance ef rala Friday right
and Saturday b the Bnytowa
ana torecast The tow expect
ed Friday right, sear M; Sat-
urday's Ugh usur N.
•bout tocmsH. Nutt yarn
they’ll invoke a lew am level.
appbcuutt will Save to
start at uetUag and fight for
every rime, and the requests
wffl be placed coder • micro-
RCppt. '
Can you knagtee a govera-
meal tryteg to nut tax mtney.
Texas may hi voted out of the
bu-
reces-
sion,
The government said the
February decline In Joblessness
was spread throughout the
work force The Jobleu rate for
heidi of households fell below
the 5 per cent mark lor the
first time since late 1974.
Mike Hedges wasn't there but termi are
a number was drawn for him Bramlett and
Dr. Henry Dbmukes, the onlyiaon.
srirjssir.'sis' a**. «■«■»■»
two regents WeaW[ Wlltef Stric)(Un
Raneri, Roy Kerrin, Joe
fButrtck, Hedges, Donna Oyer,
B. B Williams, Hugh Wood,
Gary Jonas, Jerry Troutman end
Dismukes,
Absentee voting will be-con-
to 15-301
ducted Mirch 15-30 and regents
I will meet April 8 to canvau elec-
tion returns
The jobless rate for married five consecutive nights beginn
men was unchanged last month tog at lp.m. Monday, In all parts
Before the drawing Thursday
There’ll be a good reason for Whispering Pines, bordered by , night, Board Chairman E. L.
low water preuure and rusty-jp ' '
colored water next week.
The city's public works crews
will be flushing fire hydrants for i
at 4.1 per cent, while the rate
for all adult men fell from 6.1
to 5 7 per cent. The rate (or
adult woman remained steady
at 7i per cent Use teenage
Jobleu rate Ml from 19.0 to
19.2 per cent.
Joblessness among white
workers dipped from 7.1 to 6J
per cent, tort the rate for
blacks and other minority races
rose from 12.2 to 1}.7 per cent.
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BAYTOWN TIDES rer Satur-
day: Highs u 1:07 p.m. end
+9:94 p.m.; lews M 1:21 UL
end +4:12 pja.
+ Deneeu week Me.
lp.m
of the city
Following b the schedule:
Monday night-Wooster,
Brown wood, Lakewood,
Country Club Oaks, Pondcrou,
Lantern Park, Crelgmont and
Rollingbrook
Tueiday night-Everything
north of the Southern Pacific
railroad to Baker, bordered by
Alrhart on the treat end Mato on
the east.
Wednesday nigtfit—Everything
wiiiajrei siik » »«■( IAMWWIWv VJ I Iiifgii, uuriiu VsiMgg iimii HP. «,
Highway 146 on the west and Gunn spoke to the candiditei.
Ipips
Ikli includes West Biytown the people
Pel^f and Wynnewood. j -in serving It, you’ll find no
"Dbcotored water can be ex- ((„*, exliti "
pected all next week u we flush
the system and move acrou the
town toward the east," said
Gary Anderson, idmlnstntive
assistant to Public Works Direc-
tor Ivan Langford HI.
Each night the ci
work until dawn
Gunn told the candidates that
since only one to (our of them
could win, those not elected
shouldn't feel their services
aren't needed.
will1
"There are many avenues of
service for the college."
Former City Engineer Ex-LULAC President
Files For LC Regent
Highway 146 on the cut Abo to- n „
ITS tavSTS Enters Council Race
B B Williams, 70, longtime Chamber of Commerce
Biytown engineer usd builder, fought an uphill battle to eel the
wu the final candidate to file to four-lane rotd (Market Street,
the April 3 Lee College regents
gravy (If you like prkc)
Iterate* I -
t.Kidovp nektif i
i to gst arassud toe tote- 1
m
'.ritof*1
FFA
election, rounding the number
off si an even doten
He wd wife Doris live it 106
Forrest They have two children,
Mn Merten Viator* of
Arlington usd Johnny Williams
of Houston
Williams considers himself a
candidate for the taxpayer end
employes, saying he
dkto't mike up hb mind to run
late bacauM otherwise K
would be Just a popularity con-
and the Baytown
Complex ana.
Thursday nigbt-lvavthto|
north of Roseiand Oaks to
between old Gooae Creek and
Baytown."
He said he also was instrumen-
tal to getting moved a road
which once separated Robert E.
Lee from the school i gym-
nasium -
He b a former Sunday School
teacher end. with the late Hugh
Echob. helped financially spon-
dee LC, P«i »
"ft's true
I don't have a I
be said, "brill
oottife degree,
do hew a PhD In experience aad
honesty
"I also took an
He kes kwd her* since 1122
-raws-1
Bridge To Be
Closed For
Joe Gonzales, 50, of 3201 United letln-American Cltiaens)
Michigan, says beta running for lor the past two years He b a
Baytown City Council Ip the P»* commander of the
District 1 race because be would American Legion Post 456 and a
"like to be of service to the; member of FlntBepUit Church
people.’' A veteran of Wofld War II, he
Gonzales b one of four can- served under Gen. George
i didates to the District 1 election; Patton in the Third Army In
n nn . 1 April J. Othen are — Clyde Europe
Snnp 33 Work! P®*1- r w (Bob) Perlwr and The April 3 election will mark
F “ TedKloesel the second time Goruales has
"I see a lot of things that need sought public office here. He ran
improvements in (he dty/'iUMueceiefuUy In the District 1
Gonaxies Mid. "There are a lot' race In 1972.
ommrlb bridge at Park.
Park will be deeed to traffic
frem (he bridge to Decker Drive ^ <Wches thet need to
where the Spur 22 roe tractor
Macwah Censtracttoe Ce., wjli
; three new lanes.
This seettae of Park wiU be
weska, repertod BIU
dhteier ef ptaariag aid
tar toe City of Beytewa
there will be w
traffic tram Garth le
'JOt
to gette the
Le* Cottage," hr arid.
txzx
be cleened out and we need to
be making more road tm-
provementi"
He abo cited the need lor
street llgfc% Mylng km
of the dty are too dark
A Biytown realdent
‘ 1967, Oonales came here
Cl
Tex.. In the I
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Betay Wdbtari
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 54, No. 123, Ed. 1 Friday, March 5, 1976, newspaper, March 5, 1976; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066231/m1/1/: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.