The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 40, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 25, 1979 Page: 1 of 69
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The Baytown Sun Invites
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Volume 58, No. 40
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Sunday, November 25, 1970
Baytown, Texas 77520
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Yule Buying Rush Over
U.S. Eases Slump Fear
Effective Date Is Dec. 1 - -
Frosty Morn
SCATTERED FROST was
reported in the Baytown
area Saturday morning,
even though the
temperature failed to drop
. as low (32) as had been
predicted. At 6 p.m. the
unofficial reading the
Baytown was 36.
Store Name
THE CORRECT name of
the Christmas Store co-
owner is Mrs. Sharon Cour-
. ville Kubeciia. "
more instead of $50 or more 5,aPabIe being driven and
as required by the present !n^have
Work Session
BAYTOWN CITY Council
will have a work session
with representatives of
General Homes at 5 p.m.
Monday ,at city hall to
discuss plans for a subdivi-
sion north of Baytown on \
ThomDson Road
CYO Tickets
TICKETS FOR a Catholic
Youth Organization charity
dance at St. Dominic’s
Center. Saturday night will
be $3 per person, not $13 as
stated in a story, in Friday's
Sun. - •
Defensive Driving
Defensive • driving' instruc-
tion is being offered at 10
a m. Wednesday and
Thursday at- Old River-____
Winfree Comm unit/ Another important an-
Bui riinfi Fnr mnrp An- _____, ... ..._____
Effective Dec. l,
Baytown Police Depart-
ment will have a new
danfage guideline for
citizens to follow in repor-
ting traffic accidents
Citizens will notify police
as soon as possible after an
accident that causes
damages totaling $250 or
This change in the motor
approved by city council at
its last meeting to make the
ordinance consistent with
state law.
. Council made no changes
in the reporting procedures
after reviewing the Houston Lanham explained.
Police Department’s policy
for investigating accidents.
In Houston', motorists
report .accidents ”at the
Houston Police Station or a
substation within 24 hours
if no one is injured or intox-
icated, if the vehicles are
a valid driver’s license.
It would be difficult to in-
vehicle and traffic code was stitigate the same pro-
cedure here, however,
because of the lack of
clerical personnel’on duty
tion at night and weekends.
City Manager/Fritz reported.
“We would need people
experienced in filling out
accident reports (at all
hours),” he said.
Although the station has a.
police sergeant on dyfy
around the clock, the ad
ministration felt his time
should not be consumed by
the clerical tygewvork.
Of the 2f8 traffic ac-
cidents ..that occurred in
September, only 37 of them
would not have been in-
vestigated at the scene if
Baytown had the same
at the Baytown Police Sta- policy as Houston's. Police
Chief R.h: “Bo” Turner
Goodfellows Help Needy
Kids Have A Happy Yule
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
You fnay have .seen a
headline in Friday’s
Baytown Sun proclaiming
the launching of the
Christmas shopping
season, which traditionally
begins/"(Tie day after
Th^pdcsgiying and con-
es through Christmas
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nual event in Baytown
almost coincides with the
shopping season.. It is the
Goodfellow Christmas
Fund Drive, which begins
on Thanksgiving Day and
lasts through Christmas
Eve.
B’aytown is a prosperous
community and most
Baytonians enjoy- the good
things that go along with a
prosperous community.
However, there are excep-
tions.)
_. Each year the Goodfellow.
screening group finds
children whose parents are
far from heing prosperous.
In some cases, they cannot
afford to provide their
children bare necessities.
There are several such
families here who, through
be able to buy gifts and
goodies for their youngsters
this Christmas.
This is where the
Goodfellows come in. Dur-
ing the past 48 years' the
Goodfellows have seen to.it
that.no deserving child in
this community is without
some of the things that
gladden • the hearts of
children.on Christmas mor.-.
ning.
Each year since its incep-
tion the Goodfellow drive
has produced thousands of
dollars contributed by com-
passionate Baytonians who
never deny their support to
worthy causes — especially
no fault of their own, won’t to the Goodfellows, which is*
the only organization in
Baytowp designed solely to
help underprivileged
children at Christmastime.
See NEEDY, Page 2-A)
City Sales Tax Revenue
Hits $1,684,888 For 79
GAYLE GUIDRY sports
around in a new car :..
Wanda Ellis gets into the
Christmas swing of things
early ... Raymond Hardy
— his Thanksgiving din-
Sales tax revenue/ for
Baytown climbed to
$1,684,888.64 this year when
the city received a
$91,471.96 rebate for the
period ending Oct. 25.
Revenue by the end of Oc-
j tober last year amounted to
1 $1,602,056.01.*
In Chambers County,
Anahuac has collected
$43,391.95 in sales tax
revenue so far this year,
compared with $42,157.30 at
the same time last year.
Anahuac’s payment for the
period ending Oct. 25 was
$2,383.88,
Dayton and Liberty, the
two Liberty County cities
that levy the one-cent sales
tax, also show increases in
revenue. To date, Dayton
has collected $145,193.26, in-
cluding” its latest rebate of
$9,479.83. At the same time
last year, Dayton had
gleaned $140,898 from sales
taxes.
Liberty’s total so far is
$438,322.68, a gain of 21 per-
cent over $361,922.11 at the
same time' last year. For
the period ending Oct. 25,
Liberty was rebated
$30,980.79.
TJie, optional city sales
tax is collected with the
four percent state sales tax
by merchants and
businesses and is rebated
on a monthly basis to the
cities by the office of State
Comptroller Bob Bullock in
Austin.
Purchasing
New Damage Guidelines ReP°rte^
"tv •' A.S Brisk'1
Due In City Car Wrecks Startup Of Baytown Olefins
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A recession?,Not so you!d
notice on the traditional
opening day of the
Christmas shopping rush as
money-waving consumers The Baytown Olefins sive energy efficiency people who contributed to
crowded stores and pjant 0f Exxon Chemical features have been in- tile building and start-iip of
shopping centers to buy
jeffectronic games, sport-
swear, jewelry and other
popular gifts.
Retailers, apprehensive
about Christmas business
because of inflation, and
slumping sales earlier this
fall, reported brisk sales
across the nation Friday as
the countdown toward" the
Christmas Day close of
department store in
Philadelphia, spokesman
Reeves Wetherill said,
“We’re, having trouble-on
pie into the elevators, the:
are so many.”
. Shoppers were lined up
outside Filene’s depart-
ment store in- Boston Fri-
day morning.-waiting for
the bargain basement to
open at 8:30. When it did,
spokeswoman Babs Ger-
man said, “The place has
been mobbed. It’s a
madhouse.”
are much .like last year’s,
say sales clerks and store
executives.
“Shoppers are buying
quality merchandise,
something they can make
an investment in,” said
Jack 'Curtis, president , of
the Cain-Sloan depart-
ments tore chain in
Nashville, Tenn. “They are
not afraid to spend money,”'
.In Cleveland, practical
apparel is popular - “The
kjnd of merchandise that
keeps people warm in
winter. Sweaters, coats,
scarves, things that may be
of necessity if the energy
crunch comes to pass,”
said Stephen Thorpe, senior
vice president of the May
Co., which has 10 depart-
ment stores in and around
the city. - :
Thorpe added that adult
electronic games are sell-
ing- well, speculating that
higher gasoline prices are
prompting more people to
entertain themselves at
home.
An aerial-view of the Baytown Olefini Plaat of Exxon Chemical Co. USA.
‘ •" '■/ -i /,)/" rn
Plant Called A ‘Smooth One’
Co. USA is on stream
following five years of plan-
ning, design, construction
and start-up activities.
Plant Manager S.W. Ded-
man said “the start-up of
the plant was a smooth one
with relatively few pro-
blems: This can be at-
tributed to excellent design
and the effective efforts of
hundreds of employees.”.
business began. "Numerous design
At John Wanamaker’s features maketheBaytown
dent" a nd ‘en v i ron men tally and ab°ut ?'00° man years
sound. The plant employs ofeffort-
"Were haymg.trouble-on Axon's steam bracking
the street floor getting peo- technology and has advanc-
ple into the elevators, there ed instrument and com-
puter systems to control the
process. In addition, exten-
corporated.”
Pullman Kellogg was the
primary design firm and
Brown & Root, the. primary
construction contractor.
The plant’s annual pro-
duction capacity is 1.3
billion pounds of ethylene,
900 million pounds of pro-
pylene, 250 million pounds
of butadiene and 55 million
pounds of isoprene. It
represents an investment of
approximately $500 million
“In addition to Exxon,
Brown & Root, Pullman
Kellogg and other com-
panies’ personnel, there is
another special group of ed.
the plant,” Dedman said.
“The Baytown communi-
ty as a whole, and the in-
dividuals living near us in
particular, have been ex-
tremely cooperative,
understanding and patient,
through traffic jams, noise
and flaring. We regret the
occasional inconveniences
and appreciate the en-
couragement and positive
attitude of our neighbors,”
he added.
“As our operations con- > American hostages
tinue to stabilize, we an-
ticipate few future ac-
tivities which will have an
impact upon those living
near us,” Dedman conclud
Pact Let For Concrete Job
At Sewage Treatment Plant
Baytown City Council
This year’-s shopping lists -awarded- a $14,099,contract s"fffgelTe"d' con t a'cTThg
to H.B. Hamilton Construc-
tion for concrete work at
West Main Sewage Treat-
ment Plant and approved
the purchase of $3,460 worth
of epoxy-coated pipe for the
emergency repairs.
One of the supports in an
aeration chamber at the
plant recently collapsed,
City Manager Fritz
Lanham said, and several
other supports have crack-
ed. Because these struc-
tural failures must be cor-
rected as soon as possible to
prevent more from occurr-
ing, bids were taken On an
emergency basis.
Council also asked the ci-
ty staff to try to purchase
some $8,000 worth of pipes
and fittings to correct an
odor problem at the plant
while the structural beam
work is being done.
• City Engineer-Public
Works Director Norman
Dykes explained the pipes
and fittings would be used
Friday at two of Atlanta’s
largest shopping malls.
Their parking lots were
jammed by 10 a.m.
for the blower mechanism
The crush began early which has caused the odor.
rirfav of turn nf Atlonto’c Ilmitmvar o ctmnlior Hoc in.
However, a supplier has in-
dicated it. would take from
four to six weeks for
delivery of those parts.
Councilman Ted Kloesel Isame time because the
another supplier to attempt
to get the parts sooner.
Dykes noted it would be
better to all.the work at the
Weather
And Tides
CLOUDY
T While the structural
repairs are being made on
the supports, the plant will
be operating at about half
its capacity. The city has
notified the federal En-
vironmental Protection
Agency arid State Health
Department about the need
the mid-60s Is the Baytown
area weekend weather
forecast.
SUNDAY TIDES for waters
fronting the City* of
Baytown: highs at 2:06
a.m. and +8:59 p.m.; lows
at+6:26 am. and 6:42 p.m.
Monday tides: highs at 2:46
a.m. and +10:59 p.m.; lows
at+7:29 a.m. and7:49p.m.
SUNRISE SUNDAY at 6:54
a.m.; sunset, 5:23 p.m.
Sunrise Monday at 6:55
a.m.; sunset, 5:22p.m.
+ Denotes weal tides
broWwrep^alreaWwiir re-
quire’shutting down part of second day of pro-
the plant operation.
CLOUDY, WINDY and cool
with a 70 percent chance of
rain Saturday night and
Sunday and a temperature
repairs, and these agencies
are requiring the city to In-
crease the chlorination pro
cess while the work is in
progress.
The emergency repairs
days, Dykes said.
He explained that steel
pipe, placed in beams
above wastewater, was cor-
roded by sewer ,gas. When
new pipe is installed, it will
be coated with epoxy to pre-
vent it from being exposed
to the accumulation of
sewer gas.
Concrete will be repoured
by the contractor, and 12
pipes will be replaced.
The structural-failure oc-
curred in a section of the
plant that was expanded
five years ago._
Our
World
Today
From AP Wires *
+ WASHINGTON-
President Carter
summoned the Joint
Chiefs of Staff to
Camp David today
after warning Iran of
“extremely grave”
consequences if
are Harmed. While
House press
secretary Jody
Powell said he could
not rule out the
possibility that the
situation in Iran
would be part of the
agenda. ./
+ LUSAKA, Zambia
- Britain recalls its
ambassadorafterT
tests by thousands of
Zambian students
outside the British
embassy. The con-
troversy centers on
responsibility for
raids in Zambia by
Zimbabwe Rhode-
ronoirc rnid thncn
Pearce Street Journal -
Time Is Right
We have been moat
slightly in on two church
building campaigns in our
time, and there were
always those In the wings
who said, “This Is the
wrong time to build.”
That brought a laugh to
us the other night u we
caught a late night
evangelist who came up
with this statistic:
“If everyone in the
world went to church Sun-
day, there would be room
for only one percent of
them.”
Maybe it isn’t the wrong
time to expand, after all.
-FH
says
neris delayed
Curt Miller excited about
football playoffs . .. Helen
Sanderson looking great in
a lavendar outfit ...
George Scott drops by for
an after-Thanksgiving
visit.
Elizabeth Burrus really
matches her hew car
both are . No. 1 sellers, ac- State Retirement System
mm
cording to her Cedar Bayou;
Road friends .... Irene
for a vacation.
John McGill takes the
nearest parking space ...
Mrs. E.W., Bruce talks
about the joys of raising you had a job.
children ... John Victor
wear? a new hat to a
basketball game.
$163,167Is Paid Out To Retired Elected State Officials Each Month
(Third Of Four)
ByCHUCK Y ARBOROUGH
AUSTIN (Sp) - Some
$163,167 a month is paid out
to retired elected state of-
ficials, according to
Evarard Davenport of the
Each participating
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Losier wings to Las Vegas, month\in premiums : to
legislator contributes $48 a various and sundry in-
belong to the only retire-
ment program where you
can make more money
retired than you could when
Monthly premiums from
the 170 legislators now
holding office whp par-
Complete Service
BONUS
CHECKING
TrustCo.
hii as aw
tieipate in the prograr
total $8,160. .
Each time a new
Legislature convenes - for
the first time, the speaker
of the House and the presi-
dent of the senate provide
their respective houses :
With packets containing
formation, including data
on the State Retirement
System.
Davenport said that
under the code of the
System, participation is
mandatory for hired
Employees. To belong, they
must pay premiums total-
m
ing six percent of their the state before he becomes ficials who served in the per year of a stat^district
monthly salaries, Daven-
port said.
Participation for elected
officials, specifically
legislators, is optional.
However, premiums
from the regu 1 ar count and are used to pay months he actually served
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employees, the hired
hands, so to speak, help pay
for the retirement benefits
of the legislators, Daven-
port said. ,
As explained by Daven-
port, when an employee
contributes to the system,
the state provides matching
funds.
If the employee leaves
vested, he is paid the total
amount he himself con-
tributes in premiums.
However, the matching
funds remain in the State
Retirement System ac-
retired elected officials!
pensions, Davenport said
Another option open to
elected officials, and this is
often utilized by legislators,
is the practice of paying in
a lump sum to receive
military.
Under the State Retire-
ment System, elected of-
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military during a time of
war, a police action, or a
crisis time can pay the
amount of his monthly
premium as an elected of-
ficial times the number of
in the military, not to ex-
ceed 60 months.
Therefore, if a legislator
wishes to receive credit for
serving two years in the
military, he must pay
$1,152, based on 24 months!
credit for time served in the times the $48- a-month
premium.
For this, he will receive
an additional two percent
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judge’s salary when he (the
legislator) retires.
Using this formula, a 55-
year-ord legislator who
served 12 years and had
four years’ service in the
military, can receive 32
percent of a state district
judge’s $40,500 annual
salary, or $12,960.
Legislators in Texas have
never been paid more than
$7,200 a year.
Is this fair?
One legislator, currently
serving her first term in the
House, said conditionally sa'd’
speaking, it is.
SaRbr
KANHITnS
bn haim amour
MH.M
When you become a there will be a special ses-
representative, you have to
quit whatever other job you
have,” she said,
A teacher before winning
election as a state represen
tative, she said that to do a you can simply lend your
good job as a legislator you
have to be available to the
people at all times.
In addition, with talk of a
special session coming
from Gov. Bill Clements,
legislators have to be
prepared and able to go to
Austin at any time, she
“Clements keeps saying
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"TMIndiNiphtniK"
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mw.TiMi taAni
sion, but he never says
when,” shesald.
She said giving up your
job is a requirement, unless
you have a business where
name, not your time.
This sentiment was
echoed by a spokesman for
Betty King, secretary of the
senate.
The problem with this
type of logic is that no oik
asked the legislators to run
for office; that choice was
made by the legislators
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