The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 49, No. 185, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 2, 1971 Page: 1 of 18
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BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
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‘Hotline’ Installed As City Police Begin ‘Operation Crime Stop’
"Operation Crime-Stop" is
underway in the Baytown Po-
lice Department.
A special phone has been set
up in the police station to re-
ceive calls from persons who
have information about
crimes. The number is 427-
MOO.
Lt. James Taylor and Detec-
tive Joe Huntley r wfio have
. planned this project, explain
that the number is “strictly a
hot line” for obtaining infor-
mation and the calls will not be
taped. “We won’t insist on your
giving your name," Huntley
added, "but we’d Uke to have It
if possible."
-v,. Taylor and Huntley said they
would like to speak to civic
clubs and other Interested
groups in Baytown about the
program to enlist the coopera-
tion of the community.
The police emphasize this is
not a program to advocate citi-
zens "taking the law into their
own hands."
“We just want any in-
formation they may have and
then we will act on it," Huntley
said. "There may be no viola-
tion of the law in some cases
but we need to look and check
on it?’
“Many things happen that
are not reported to us," Hunt-
ley said. Frequently people will
think that the police have al-
ready been contacted about
something and neglect to call.
«. Twenty-two other cities in
Texas have similar programs
to "Operation Crime-Stop" and
all are successful.
In Beaumont, for instance
Police Chief Willie Bauer re-
ports that information from the
‘‘Crime Alert” program has
led to arrests and convictions
on offenses ranging from child
molesting to burglary.
The Dallas Police depart-
ment reports its "Operation:
Get Involved" has helped to re-
duce toe number of major
crimes by 18 per cent.
So far Baytown has not had a
major crime wave. But, Hunt-
ley points out, the city is grow-
ing by "leaps and bounds.” Po-
lice anticipate problems that
may be discouraged by a com-
munity that is concerned.
“We want to let the people
know this is their city and their
police department,” said Hunt- .
ley. Many people in the past
may have wanted to help the
police but were not sure of the
right way.
Each call taken by the
"Operation Crime Stop" phone
will be referred to the proper
authority in the police depart-
ment to check out.
Police hope that "Operation
Crime Stop" will help the citi-
zens of the community recover
much of their stolen property
through clearing the burglary
cases.
The program should reduce
the crime rate in general, po-
lice believe, because “word
gets around" ajpong the crimi-
nals about a community in-
volved in stopping crimes.
Criminals just don’t do their
best work in such communl-
Uer
Music Teachers
SAN JACINTO Music Teachers
Association will have a coffee
M10 a m Monday in the home
of Mrs. W. O. Kubik at 1004 E.
Fayle, area music teachers are
invited to attend whether
members or not
Rough Riders
BAYTOWN ROUGH Riders
will have a practice session at 2
p.m. Sunday at the Baytown,
Fair Grounds.
Cancer Society
BAYTOWN BRANCH of the
American Cancer Society will
meet at 7:30 pm Monday at
San Jacinto Professional
Building.
Academy Member
DR. GEORGE WALM5LEY
has been re-elected to mem-
bership in the American Aca-
demy of General Practice, the
nattooal association of family
phyadans. Dr. Wabniley has
been a member of the Aca
demy since toil and has suc-
cessfully qualified for re-elec-
tion four times
Camping Meet
BUOY AND CUB Camping
Club will meet at 7:30 pm.
Taaaday at the CWc Center.
Program is the election of 1071
72 officers.
Weather
And Tides
CLOUDY TO pertly cloudy
through Sunday is the Bay-
town weather forecast.
Temperature raage, »o-so
degrees.
MORGAN’S POINT tMes far
. Sunday: Low at 10:10 am.;
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12:01 am. and 0:00 am., low
at 1:13 am. aad U:U
SUNDAY’S SUN WO rise at
‘ 0:20 am. aad set at 7:10
p.m.; Meaday’s sun will rise
at 0:37 am. and set at I pm.
Amtrak Rail System
Takes Over; Era Ends
Our
World
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
-♦-WASHINGTON - The
Air Force has grounded all |
its Fill swing-wing fighter-
bombers for the fifth time in
three years.
CB Plant Cited - -
Clash Brewing Over
HLPCO Water Plans
POSTERS FOR “OPERATION CRIME STOP’
Police Lt James Taylor, left, and Detective Joe Huntley
(Sun Photo by Wanda Orton)
Tuesday Target Day - -
Candidates Here Hit
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Final Campaign Trail
Candidates in Baytown's
run-off election to be held
Tuesday went into the final
weekend of election campaign-
ing planning last minute vote-
getting strategies.
Incumbent mayor Glen
Walker and his challenger,
{Councilman Don Hullum, head
toe ticket in Tuesday's elec-
tion, and the other candidates,
ail survivors of the municipal
poll on April 6, are, Abe Simon
and J. R. Lander, in the Dis-
Hulium); incumbent David
Evans and Charley O. Walker,
in District 2, and Jim McWil
liams and E. Q. Camp, in Dis-
trict 6.
Absentee voting in the elec-
tion ended Friday with 54 votes
cut, according to (Sty Clerk
Edna Oliver. .The totoi was
only four votes less than the 58
vofes cast in the April 6 elec-
tion. .
Some of the candidates were
forecasting as good or perhaps
trict 3 oouncll race (to succeed better turnout of voters than
the 5,290 ballots cast in the first
election. _
Mayor Walker, seeking his
second term in the city’s top
elective post, won 42 per cent of
the votes in the mayor’s race in
the first election and is ob-
viously the front runner, but
Hullum, who was certified by
the city council as the runoff
candidate when Tom Gentry
was determined to be in-
eligible, has been attempting to
cut into the mayor’s lead this
(See CAMPAIGN, Page 2)
Revamping Legal Aid May
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-♦-WASHINGTON - The
Columbia Broadcasting Sys-
tem has been asked by the
Federal Communications
Commission to answer com-
plaints that “The Selling of
the Pentagon” was unfair. At
the same time CBS is refus-
ing to show congressmen
material left out of the docu-
mentary. u
+ANEAR‘A .“"llrkey —
Secretary of State William
Rogers launches his Middle
East Trip, today bouyed by
what he believes to be wide-
spread approval of his effort
to promote peace between
Israel and the Arabs.
-(-SEATTLE - Leslie Ba-
con, the 19-year-oid peace
worker arrested in connec-
tion with the March 1
bombing of the U. S. Capitol,
resumes testimony before a
grand jury today.
AUSTIN (Sp) - It appeared erature difference between the
♦SACRAMENTO, Calif. -
Gov. Ronald Reagan’s ad-
ministration, giving up a
long legal fight with Wash-
ington, has-ordered an emer-
here Saturday that another
federal-state clash may
brewing over Houston Lighting
and Power Co. plans to dis-
charge heated water into Tri-
nity Bay from its new Cedar
Bayou generating plant.
Hugh Yantis; executive di-
rector of the Texas Water Qua-
lity Board, told his board of di-
rectors at a meeting here that
officials of the federal Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency
are objecting to a discharge
permit granted by the TWQB to
the new plant last November
The permit granted HL&P
permission to dump an even-
tual 3.2 billion gallons of water
a day into Trinity Bay with the
expectation that the water,
used to cool the plant’s huge
new generators, would raise
1,600 acres of bay water by four
degrees.
bay and the discharge point to
be 1.5 degrees during the summer
months.
"To me this is another ex-
ample of unscientifically
proved federal intrusion into
state powers which have been
quite satisfactorily handled
the past,” Yantis said.
Goal Is
To Aid
Railroad
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
in [Amtrak rail passenger system
went into operation today, kill-
“We would oppose any at- ing nearly half the nation’s rail-
tempt by anybody to overturn
the state's plans for any reason
at this time."
The new opposition from the
(See HLAP, Page 2)
Area Included - -
CWA To Seek
Pay Increase
An official in the Communi-
cations Worker of America
union has indicated here that
CWA employes of General
Telephone of the Southwest will
bargain for a 25 per cent wage
increase when new contract
In a preliminary recommen- negotiations open on May 19 in
dation drawn up for an im-
pending federal enforcement
conference On Galveston Bay,
the Environmental Protective
San Angelo.
Speaking af a union meeting
ers are determined to negotiate
history.
The current CWA contract
with General expires at mid-
night June 27. The contract
covers about 5,200 employes in
the General system serving 434
exchanges in a five-state area.
Agency would limit the temp- General Telephone employes
here, T. O. Moses, chairman of About 200 of the employes are
the bargaining committee of in the Baytown exchange..
MRS. FRITZ LANHAM, wife
of Fritz Lanham, former Bay-
town city manager, is re-
cuperating from surgery in
Austin. r.
Mrs. Ruby Sherlund, former-
ly of Baytown, now of
Though the Baytown neigh- plain the closing of the law
borhoocUaw office is to be clos-
ed here at the end of May, the
area is expected to receive im-
proved legal aid services be-
cause of a reorganization of
cases, according to Hnry W.
McCormick, director of the
Houston Legal Foundation.
McCormick says the one-
man office here has required
the attorney to spend a great
deal of time in Houston at the
Harris County Courthouse
where divorce cases are hand-
led.
Divorce cases will not be
handled through the Houston
Legal Foundation central
office in the Bankerai Mortgage
Building at 708 Main in Hous-
ton, and the attorney in the
office.
Joe Rojo, the first attorney in
the Baytown office and new
field, Mass., stirs up a bit of! Greens Bayou office, who will
neighborhood curiosity when now serve Baytown, will ac-
she jogs down a Greenfield tually be able to spend more
street wearing a ski mask. time with other clients, accord-
Wish seven-year-old John ing to McCormick.
Foster a happy birthday ... The Baytown Neighborhood
Jan Orton arranges the "hair Law Office is one of four to be
styles" for her dog Cotchie for dosed in toe county because
the series of photos on wigs, toe federal Office of Economic
Mrs. Wayne L. Gregory ofl Opportunity has ordered all
3132 Ferry Road is in Room 106 one-man offices closed and cut
in Baytown Hospital and can) bud«et allotments for the Legal
have visitors. Foundation by $50,000, McCor
J. G. Fields does some er- ™ck said
rands... Ella Chase makes a McCormick’s remarks
tennis date ,., State Repre- at a meeting here to ex-
sentative Joe Allen becomes a[
photo bug . . . Hello to the D.
O. Cartlege family from Kil-
gore relatives ... Mary Pat-
tillo brings in a report ..
Jane Henson tries out a I
camera.
deputy director of- the Legal
Foundation; LeRoy Clepper
business manager, Claude
Lilly, volunteer lawyer, and
McCormick, made up a panel
to handle the explanation.
Mike Hodge, attorney for the
neighborhood office, has been
promoted to chief of law re-
form in the central office. Mi-
chael Thibodeaux will be
primiarly responsible for legal
aid for the Baytown area and
will be here at least three days
a week, McCormick said
Baytonians may still call the
number listed in the telephone
directory and will be connected
with the Greens Bayou office.
In 1970, only 179 cases were
handled by the Baytown office,
about the same number the
Pasadena office handled. This
office, too, will be closed.
Most of the other offices have
handled more than 300 cases
per lawyer, McCormick said.
meats to comply with federal
rules. _ " (
+SAIGON - Despite
heavy bombing attacks,
North Vietnamese troops
ambushed a patrol of Ameri-
cas paratroopers to inflict
the first U. S. deaths in the
allied operation in the A Shau
Valley.
WASHINGTON -Adiplo-
matic report said to criticize
U.S. silence of the alleged
massacre of Bengalis in East
Pakistan is the object of a
new tug of war between the ,
State Department and a Sen-
ate committee.
Mental Health
Week Set Here
The Bayshore Mental Health and Mental Retardation Center
will observe Mental Health Week next week with an open houke
and two special-interest seminars.
The open house will be held from 1:30 to 4 p.ni, next Friday
at the center’s main building, 1410 Louisiana, and will honor
members of the center's advisory board. The public is invited.
A drug abuse rap session mil be held at 8:15 p.m. Sunday at
Memorial Baptist Church. Parents and teenagers are
especially invited to attend.
A suicide prevention seminar will be held in Room 109 of
Memorial Baptist Church from 10 am. to noon onWednesday.
It is open to the public, and doctors, ministers,- nurses,
teachers and others who work with people will find the session
helpful, says Don Marler, administrative director of the
center.
Members of the center’s advisory board to be honored at the
open house Friday are Mrs. E. A. Milton, chairman, Mrs. A.
N. Johnson, the Rev. Harold Bomhoff, John Sandhop, Nolan
Schulze, Abe Simon, Mrs. Thad Johnson, Charles Sanders, R.
L. McCullough, Sidney Norwood, the Rev. Harry N. Holmes,
Ralph Kunz, Mrs. Frieda Welsh and Jack Dial.
Moses told workers here
gains won in contract negotia-
tions three years ago have been
“eaten” away by continuing
price Increases and that tele-
phone workers have lost 16 per
cent of their purchasing power
over-the last three years.
road passenger trains in a gov-
ernment-backed effort to re-
store the others to economic
health.
Beginning at 12:01 a.m., the
National Railroad Passenger
Corporation assumed responsi-
bility for operating 182 passen-
ger trains and allowed the 20
participating railroads to drop
178 others.
The corporation was estab-
lished by Congress last year to
establish and maintain a back-
bone national rail passenger
system connecting the nation's
said General Telephone work- principal cities. This came in
toe face of mounting railroad
the biggest increase in their requeststo get rid of passenger
trains being operated at losses
running $200 million a year.
Sporting anew red-white-and-
blue insignia, Amtrak today be-
gan assembling the newest and
best railroad passenger cars
from rts'20 member railroads
for its 182 trains serving 314
cities and towns on 20,600 miles
of track on 21 basic routes.
‘‘We ask your patience and
forbearance,” Secretory of
Transportation John A, Volpe
said in prepared0 remarks,
‘while, with all practicable
speed, Amtrak restores,
years of service working for Other ceremonies were , ‘
planned in Boston, Houston,
Los Angeles and Chicago. - .
Across the nation, there were ' »•
some fond goodbyes, some-busi-
ness-as-usual as the changeover
became effective. * -
General Telephone makes $26 a
week less than his counterpart
employed by .Bell.
The indication that General
workers will seek a 25 per cent
increase was not unexpected.
CWA workers employed by the
Southwestern Bell system are
seeking a.similar increase.
“We are aware,” said Moses,
“that the Nixon Administra-
tion’s economic policies are de-
signed to develop public opini-
on resistance to union collec-
tive bargaining programs so
Five passenger trains left
Seattle for the last time with no
fanfare, "f just hate to talk
about it," said M.A. Reiers-
gard, a 28-year railroad veter-
an and conductor of the
Mainstreeter.
In Boston, the Federal Ex-
that labor organizations may press pulled out for its last
be induced not to seek, much
less achieve, the legitimate
and reasonable demands of our
members.”
ride, carrying 45 passengers in
coaches, 12 in sleepers and 35
postal workers in two mail
cars.
Penalties Studied In Unique Driving Class - -
Ignoring License Suspension Unwise
“My wife is at the post
office stocking up on
cent stamps. Expects to
sell at a profit when the
postage is raised to
cents.”
BAYTOWN’S PARTNER
50 YEARS No
Full Service
Service Cn^rQe
Citizens National Bank
■Now celebrating our 35ik year in
(peoples State Bank
Mtmtar C.O.I.C.
N« kvvlc* Char*
Wheels Stolen
POLICE ARE INVESTIGAT-
ING the theft of four mag
wheels, solid chrome with a ^ lt , .^’thought.”
black ring painted on inside
edge and valued at $125, from
the home of Lester Darwin
8 Knox of 600 Pearl between 9
a.m. and 3:30 pm. Friday.
HELP FIGHT CANCER
WITH YOUR DONATION TO
Tht American Cancer Society
Uaytown State ‘Bank,
Member fC'lC
BY WANDA ORTON
(Second in a series)
If drivers realized the penal
ties involved while driving
under suspension, they might
Patrolman Willie Gore of the
Department of Public Safety
made this remark during his
group interview with drivers
who have had three traffic tic-
kets in the last 12 months.
These are the drivers the DPS
wants to counsel and help to
educate before their driving
records reach the stage of
“habitual violators."
A habitual violator can have
his driver’s license suspended.
And Gore pointed out that
anyone who continues to drive
with a suspended license can
get a jail sentence of a mini-
mum of three days and maxi-
mum of six months. Fines can
range from $25 to $500 plus
“another suspension to add on
to the end of the suspension in
progress” said Gore.
Gore explained the DPS pro-
cedures concerning driving
records.
After the First entry of a tic-
ket on a driving record, the de-
partment takes no action, he
said. “We realize that even-
tually every person is likely to separate driving offenses,
get one ticket. If more tickets
never occur, there is no action.
“After the second ticket the
DPS mails out safety tetters,
telling you to take stock of your
driving habits.
“After the third entry the de-
partment mails out .a tetter
warning the driver.” Also, the
driver is invited to a group in-
torview. ^
If there are four or more
moving violations within a con-
secutive 12-month period, the
driver is considered a “habi-
tual violator.” The four moving
violations are for actual and
Gore explained, and do not in-
clude such things as parking
tickets, loud mufflers and such,
Although there may be sev-
eral tickets issued on the same
accident, it counts as only one judge.”
moving violation.
On the fourth moving viola-
tion within a 12-month period,
the driver improvement con-
the driver to go to court to show
why his (friver’s license should
not be suspended.
Gore explained this is an ad-
ministrative hearing and in-
volves no fine or jail sentence.
In this hearing the driver
“might want to bring informa-
tion to the attention of the
Gore said the judge has sev-
eral options. He can rule in the
affirmative and find that the
driver is a habitual violator
trol section of the DPS will ask suspending the license up to 12
months. The judge can also
probate the case. In the proba-
tion the driver must not get any
The result can be the suspen- more tickets during a certain
sion of the driver’s license not period of time,
to exceed one year. (NEXT: Driver
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