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BAWA Board
BAYTOWN AREA Water
Authority Board will meet
at 9:30 a. m. Thursday at ci-
ty hall. Bids on water
transmission lines will Be
reviewed.
No Meeting
CITY COUNCIL has called
off a budget''seBSiswojJiat
had been-^»eete»fi for
Wednesday night.
UnitedWay
JOHN. SYLVESTER will
present a program on the
United Way to the Baytown
Kiwanis Cii^ at the noon
Thursday luncheon at the
Holiday Inn. -
Mothers Club
TEXAS A&M Mothers Cjub
will have a business
meeting at 7:30 p.m. Thurs
day at the home of Mrs.
Myron Jenson, 2103 Pine-
mont.
Services Pending
FUNERAL SERVICES for
Stinson D. Adcox, 88, of 119
I I -Wooster are pending at
I PaulU. Lee Funeral Home.
The father of' Lillie Dickey
and Lona Hudgeons,- he
died Tuesday in a Baytown
hospital.
Rites Pending
F U.N E R A L A R-
RANGEMENTS are pen-
ding at Paul U. Lee Funeral
Home for Dorris ,K. Peter-
son, 100, of 5701 Bayway, A
five-year Baytonian, she
died Tuesday in a Baytown
nursing home.
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Wednesday, September 12, 1979
Baytown, Texas, 77520
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$362,800 Added To City Budget To Help Curb Drain Woes
By WANDA ORTON
Baytown City Council
Tuesday night solved the
drainage dilemma in the
budget, coming up with an
additional $362,800 in funds
to draip the rain.
This amount will be used
for contracting larger
drainage improvements
while the $205,000 already
budgeted for drainage will
finance materials for city
crews.
When the cost of equip-
cluded.,for the city crews’
projects, the “bottom line”
approaches* a record $1
million fpr drainage work
in the budget.
And that’s not counting
$460,000 remaining in bond
funds for drainage from the
1975 capital improvements
program.
This last bond program
project is earmarked- cannot work vef’
the Alexander Drive-Ward ™e Ca y
Road area.*
budget and bond funds
available- for drainage
work, the city still is look-
ing at more than $4 million
in major projects that will
require another bond issue.
“We ought to "get that
before the public,” Coun-
cilman Fred T. Philip
declared.. “There is at least
$4 million of problems that
City
million estimate only
covers the east side of the
city, and there are many
other drainage needs to
consider in a future bond
election.
Councilman Jimmy
Johnson suggested the star-
tup of bond program, plans
“pretty quickly.”
committee could be ap-
Manager Fritz pointed in the next few
Pearce Street Journal -
Other Needs
We see where Baylor
alumnus Leon Jaworski,
the great lawyer, has
given all of his valuable
papers and tapes to his
alma mater.
Now, If some other
alumnus would send
Baylor an All-America
quarterback who can run,
pass and kick, the
academy on the Brazos
would be In a better posi-
tion to fulfill Its fate,
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ffcienttfiffetu stuuy wwhh-
mendations for a 1980 bond
election, possibly‘in the spr-
ing.
If the city continues to
follow, a five-year cycle on
bond issues for capital im-
provements,v 1980 will be
year for the next election.
In view of the flood pro-
provemefittf “ „ work, she sski,< *tantto provements. • _
Lanham said a citizens’ blems this summer,
f o r d r a i n a g e i m-
While juggling budget
figures to find more funds
for drainage, there was
brief mention of taking
money from the proposed
$425,000 for street
rebuilding. Bift Coun-
cilwoman Mary Elizabeth
Wilbanks fought and won a
battle to keep the street
construction funds in the
Johnson felt the public will budget.
be receptive to a bond issue | While she favored the
•high priority-for drainage year for street im-
hold onto dollars for street
rebuilding.”
Actually, the amount
budgeted for
rebuilding is below
previous levels. Ia recent
years,. the city has been
spending more than
Johnson commented,
“Maybe if we can get the
drainage off the streets, our
street streets wouldn’t be so bad.”
Mayor Emmett O. Hutto
agreed with Mrs. Wilbanks
the city- should not “slip
back" on street rebuilding.
$500,000 in the budget and With Increased funds in re-
supplementing that amount I cent years, the city has
with revenue sharing funds, begun to show some pro-
There are no revenue shar- gress in street rebuilding,
ing funds in the next fiscal he noted.
Frederic Takes Aim
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On Central Gulf Coast
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THE LAST TIME
THERE’S GOOD NEWS FOR drivers inconvenienced by this closing of Baker Road
Tuesday and Wednesday — It won’t happen again. At least, not for this work for the
San Jacinto River Authority, which Is Improving siphons (pipelines) which carry
water from Lake Houston to Exxon In Baytown. The water flows through open
canals along most of Its route but moves through underground pipes to cross under
roads, Dennis Crowley, SJRA engineer, said. (Sun staff photo by Glenn Folkes)
Weather
And Tides
MOSTLY CLOUDY with a
20 percent chance of
thunderstorms Wednes-
day night and partly
cloudy and mild Thursday
Is the Baytown area
weather forecast. Low ex-
pected Wednesday night,
near 70; high Thursday,
near 90.
THURSDAY TIDES for
waters fronting the City of
Baytown: High at 9:34
a m.; lowat9:51p.m.
SUNRISE THURSDAY at
7:03 a.m.; sunset at 7:28
p.m.
9 Percent Pay Increase
OK’d For City Employees
a budget workshop vouchers to defray the cost
of spaying or neutering
pets.
During the discussion on
employees' salaries, Coun-
PHYLLIS MACEK is a new
resident in Crosby. . Judy
Shattuck is enthused about
her work...Mary
Crawford, helpful as usual.
Jeanne Harms taking a
much-needed
rest. . Leslea Sargent
“horrorified” by a weekend
movie.
Worthy and Jody Wornak
celebrate their 27th wed-
ding anniversary. . Nita
Lutz and Jane Guy enjoy
watching a scene from the
movie, "The Urban
Cowboy," being filmed in
Pasadena. . .Nurse Ann
Ellis gets a special birthday
surprise from husband Cur
(Is. . .Les^mpktns'saysit proposed
is a strange'feeling not get-
ting ready for school at
Robert E. Lee.
Tuesday night, gaytown Ci-
ty Council agreefto grant a
9 percent across-the-board
wage hike for city
employees rather than 7
percent as originally pro
posed.
In addition, 400
employees,will get 3,57 per-
cent Increases In their
salary steps. City Manager
Fritz Lanham reported
there are 46 employees who
have reached the top of pay
scales and will not qualify
for the extra 3.57 percent.
The higher wage in-
creases will add $166,000 to
the total budget. Another
$7,500 will be added for im-
proved sick leave benefits,
and car allowances for
employees who use their
own vehicles on city
business will be increased
by $15,600.
Council added $30,000 to
the city subsidy for
Baytown Ambulance Ser-
vice to enable owner-
operator Jess Navarre to
purchase a third vehicle
This will eliminate the
necessity of using a police
vehicle as a backup for
Navarre’s other two am-
bulances.
AlsOr-council agreed to
reduce the work week for
firefighters from 54 hours
to 52 hours, responding a re-
quest presented at a
previous budget session.
A total of $2,300 was in-
cluded in the budget to pur-
chase public official liabili-
ty insurance for council
members and city ad-
ministrators.
An item deleted In the
budget was
$15,000 for animal steriliza-
tion. This was the project In
which citizens were Issued
oilman Ted Kioesel ex-
pressed concern that
percentage Increases do not
really benefit people In the
(See PAY, Page 4-C)
Our
World
From AP Wires
+ COLOGNE, West
Germany — A Luf-
thansa jetliner wlfK
l2l passengers
aboard was hijacked
today on a flight
from Frankfurt to
Cologne, an airline
spokesman said.
+ HONOLULU -
U.S. seismologists
reported the most
powerful earthquake
recorded in two
years occurred today,
in the south Pacific
off Papua New
Guinea, but there
were no immediate
reports of casualties
or damage on land,
Rites Held Here For
Teacher Erna Simmons
Funeral services for Er-
na Simmons of 1407 North
Dakota, longtime school
teacher at San Jacinto
Elementary, were held at 2
p m. Wednesday at First
Presbyterian Church.
The ' Revs. Jerry Souta
and Burnette Dowler of-
ficiated.
A member of First
Presbyterian ’'Church, she
died Monday in a Houston
hospital.
Mrs. Simmons began
teaching in Baytown in.1930
after receiving her
bachelor’s and master’s
degrees from the Universi-
ty of Texas.
She began as a pen-
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ERNA SIMMONS
manshlp teacher who
traveled to all schools in the
district and then later
taught first and second
grades at San Jacinto until
her retirement in 1960.
Mrs. Simmons was past
president of Baytown
Education Association,
Delta Kappa Gamma, the
Faculty Club and the Art
League of Baytown.
She was also a member of
Texas State Education
Association, National
Education Association,
Texas Exes and was a life
member of the PTA.
She Is survived by her
husband, Edgar Simmons
of Baytown; one sister and
brother-in-law, Josephine
and Edward Dorns of Mul-
doon; one brother and
sister-in-law, Uvalde and
Helen Stoepmer of Lone
Star; and two sisters-in-law
and their husbands, Edith
and Harold Mullen of
Baytown and Rosa Mae And
B. P. Hopper of Highlands.
Several nieces and
nephews also survive.
Burial was In Forest
Park Cemetery in Houston.
Pallbearers were Dr.
Jack Mullen, Mike Mullen,
Jo Dorns, Tommy Schuble,
Walter Cook and Leo Gault.
Arrangements
under direction of Ear-
thman Funeral Home.
+ LONDON - Gold
prices -eased from
record levels today
In Europe, and the
U.S. dollar firmed
against most major
currencies.
Mont Belvieu
Courthouse
Annex Pondered
By LIZ CRUTHIRDS
ANAHUAC (Sp) — Ten-
tative plans for a cdiinty
courthouse annex In Mont
Belvieu have been approv-
ed by Chambers County
Commissioners Court.
The 10,840 square foot
structure was included in a
1977 bond issue that failed.
Commissioner Doug Dugat
said construction could be
financed by county funds
and could start “as early as
next spring."
Housed in the annex will
be the library, a meeting
room, justice of the peace
office and courtroom, con-
ference room, office space
for clerical workers and
receptionists, tax office,
sheriff’s dispatch^ office^
Department of Public Safe-
ty office, county health
clinic and waiting i*oom and
commissioners office.
Dugat estimated cost for
the building between
were $350,000 and $400,000. Ar
Could Be
Strongest
Since ’69
MIAMI (AP) - Hur-
ricane Frederic roared
toward the U.S. mainland
today and forecasters
warned it could become the
strongest hurricane to hit
the central Gulf Coast since
Camille whipped up death
and destruction in 1969.
Hurricane warnings were
posted late Tuesday from
Panama City, Fla., to
Grand Isle, La., and schools
were ordered closed in Har-
rison County, Miss.
At 9 a.Wednesday the
coordinates were near
latitude 27.8 north,
longitude 87.3 west or about
Action OfficialSept. 27- -
Garbage, Water, Sewer
Rates Raised By City
Water and sewer bills will I this summer. Heavy rainsinon recommended this
go up 50 cents and garbage had an impact on water “break” for the senior
fees will be raised $1, it was usage. | citizens. On water and
decided informally by city] Expenditures in the
council Tuesday night in
budget session.
Formal action on these
charges, plus all other mat-
ters discussed in budget garbage bills goes into the
(See STORY, MAP, Page 8-B)
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CASH REBATES AT
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230 miles southeast of New
Orleans, moving to the nor-
thwest at 12 to 15 mph.
Winds were up to 130 mph
with gales stretching 150
miles north of its center and
100 miles south of the
center.
Gale warnings were in ef-
fect. from Panama City to
Cedar Key, and the Na
tional Weather Service
Issued small craft warnings
from Key Largo to Grand
Isle.
Tides of 10 to 15 feet
above normal were ex-
pected at landfall near the
center and to 50 miles east
of the center. Tides of 5 to 10
feet were expected
elsewhere in the hurricane
warning area.
In the Galveston area,
tides were two to three feet
above normal Wednesday.
The combination of an
upper-level low pressure
system in the wsern gulf
and the hurricane will pro-
duce showers In Southeast
Texas Wednesday, the
Weather Service said.
In the warning area, peo-
ple living on low land were
urged to be ready to
evacuate today. The warn-
ing meant all residents
should prepare for winds of
74 mph or more and high
water within 24 hours.
Camille, was classified as
a No. 5 - or “catastrophic”
hurricane - on the Na-
tional Hurricane Center’s 1-
to-5 scale when it killed
more than 250 persons in
1969. Early today, Frederic
was rated a No. 3, or "ex-
tensive" hurricane.
The .broadcast,
monitored In Miami, said
the two-^gy deluge.caused
workshops, will be taken
Sept. 27 when council
adopts the budget forJ979-
80.
The administration in-
itially proposed raising
water and sewer^baseTates
by 25 cents each and gar- citizens,
bage fees by 50 cents.
By going the route of the
even higher Increases, the
city will collect an add!
tional $123,500 in water and
sewer rates for the water-
sewer fund.
Citizens will be paying $2
extra on their monthly
water-sewer-garbage bills
as the result of the In-
creases.
More revenue In this fund
ts needed In the new fiscal
not collected the amount
anticipated In water bills
water-sewer fund must be
supported by revenue from
water and sewer bills.
The money gleaned from
general fund. The ad-
ministration had estimated
an additional $81,000 would
be generated by the extra
dollar on the garbage fees,
but this figure will be revis
ed for a deduction for senior
Senior citizens already
receive a reduction of $1.25
on monthly garbage rates If
they use only one plastic
bag or container for the col-
lections. Their current gar-
bage bills are $2.25 corn*
pared with the $3.50 mon-
thly charges for other
residents.
When the new rates go In-
to effect In October, senior
citizens will continue to pay
$2.25 while the regular
year because the city has charges will be $4.50 a
month
Councilman Allen Can-
sewer base rates, they will
pay the regular rates.
The current minimum
water and sewer rates are
$3 each while the current
garbage fee Is $3.50 a
month.
Assistant City Manager
Dan Savage reported 1,506
senior citizens are signed
up now for the garbage rate
reduction.
Since they will be exemp-
ted from the additional $1
charge In the next fiscal
year, anticipated revenue
from garbage bills will be
decreased by 118,000. Coun-
cil has not decided yet
where It find $18,000 In the
budget to offset this loss.
A -significant Increase In
water rates Is expected In
the following budget year
for 1980*81, but City
Manager Fritz Lanham
wants to wait until a water
rate study Is made before
proposing those charges.
"We need to look atposst-
(See CITY, Page 4-C)
Council Is Due Suggestion
On Pact For Water Lines
chltects for the project are Hooding and frequebt thecity depository,
blackouts In Havana.
Bui Buys Anywhere
m Clwn lew
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and trucks1
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Baytown City Council
Thursday night will receive
recommendation from
Baytown Area Water
Authority Board on a con-
tract for water transmis-
sionlines.
These lines will be Install-
ed from the surface water
treatment plant on Thomp-
son Road to the city to con-
nect with existing water
mains.
All contracts negotiated
by BAWA require approval
from city council.
The annual report of the
Board of Equalization will
be presented at the meeting
which will start at 6:30 p.m.
at city hall.
Other items on the agen-
da are:
Authorize an agree-
ment with Baytown Am-
bulance Service regarding
maintenance and repair of
radio equipment.
Award a contract for
Authorize the safe of
city-owned property in
Airhart Subdivision.
- Establish a code of
ethics for city officials,
employees and council
members.
- Designate the tax ap-
praisal district in which the
city will participate.
- Award contracts for
the purchases of concrete to
be delivered and for con-
crete to be bought at the
plant stie.
Purchase the annual
supply of liquid chlorine.
Authorize advertising
for bids for reroofing
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Municipal Service Center
on Lee Drive.
- Consider a request
from Mary McFarland for
water service outside city
limits.
- Consider a request
from the highway commit-
tee of Baytown Chamber of
Commerce to land a
helicopter at 2301 Decker
Drive In connection with
the Oct. 4 visit by Texas
Highway Commissioners.
- Consider approval of a
compromise settlement
and release agreement for
a lawsuit concerning the
supplemental retirement
system.
- Make appointments to
Baytown Area Water
Authority Board, Parks ami
Recreation Advisory Board
and Electrical Board.
- Consider acquisition of
property for Bayway Drive
construction project.
An executive session will
be held to discuss person-
nel, land acquisition and
pending litigation.
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