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PAT KINGSTON READIES FOR TAKE-OFF
Hang gilder at work on the Loop 201 ‘hill’
UP, UP AND AWAY
The ‘Bird Man’ of Baytown
WHAT GOES UP MUST COME DOWN
Kingston#steers back to ground ‘ _
(Sun Staff Photos by Glenn Folkes)
Ultimate Kite Flight - - 1
Baytown ‘Birdman’ Has
The World On A Striiig
By WANDA ORTON
“It's the closest thing to flying
like a bird.”
Pat Kingston, 27, of 610 E.
Hunnicutt, says that's why he's
been hang gliding for the past
two years.
“I’ve been around planes all
my life and* my mother always
said I wished I was a sea gull or*
pigeon.”
A Hughes Tool Co; worker by
night, Pat takes out hu big kite
every chance he gets during the
daytime,'and his favorite spot is
on the elevated Loop 201 area
“A lot of critics run hang
gliders down. But if you can ride
a bicycle, you can fly a hang
glider.”
Pat would like to form a hang
gliding club here. “I’m the only
one I know of around Baytown
that has a kite. There are about
400 in Houston.
“Sometimes I fly around Ad-
dicks Dam west of Houston, is.
Most everybody goes up to
Austin in the summer to hang
“If a hill is not facing into the jumped a drainage ditch and got
wind, you can't fly,” he explains.
“Vou always have to to fly into
the wind.”
So far, the longest Pat has
flown is about three minutes and
the highest he's been is 129 feet.
He says it's possible to stay up
three or four heurs when one
masters the art of soaring. The
world’s record is 10 hours and 45
minutes.
“They say a hang glider can
nut-fly a glider plane.” ........
Pat contends hang gliding is
perfectly safe - if it weren’t, he
wouldn’t do it, Single and with a
young daughter to raise, Pat says
he thought ioqg and hard”
about the safety aspect before hi
ever bought his kite. “I’ve never
■even scratched myself, just
flipped over a few times.
“You have complete control
of it. You can steer left or right
and slow down or speed up,
depending on what the altitude
;»••• • .
Pat recalled he first actually
flew the hang glider in Austin
glide. It's hard to find winter-1 He'd had four or five months of
time flying places.
Pat says his “dream” is to buy
some land in Baytown and build-
a 100-foot hill where he could fly
off from any direction.
running practice with it in a flat
pasture.
“One day I was-at the airport
in Texas City and was running on
the side of the runway when I
about 10 feet off the ground. I
didn't expect to fly then but I
went straight up. The wind pick-
ed me up and set me back
down.”
Pat is not a pilot but he
formerly worked for a helicopter
service in Louisiana, and his
father owned a private plane
here,
When Pat decided he wanted
to try hang gliding, he wanted
J||Bjje|^ttgjU(ai]gble “since my
life would be at the end of a
string.
He ordered the kite from a
California firm that has been in
business longer than any other
hang gliding equipment firm.
The kite is 205 square feet and
rolls up into an eight-inch bundle
that fits into a big canvas holster
that Pat straps on the side of his
pickup truck.
Pat warns hang gliders to not
go out in strong, gusty winds. He
likes winds from 20 to 25 mph in
a straight direction.
Before he flies, he tests the
wind with flag. If the winds
changes direction, he won’t take
the kite out.
*“You don’t want to fly in a
(See BIRD, Page 2A).
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Baytonian Elected
G.C. CARLTON of 800 S. Circle
has been elected junior warden
of the Grand Encampment of
the State of Texas, IOOF, at a re-
cent meeting in Fort Worth.
Carlton is colonel of the second
regiment of the Baytown
Chapter of IOOF.
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The Sun
Classified .......'. 7-1 IB.
Comics .......5C
Dimension ______ _ ,5A
Editorial... AC
Obituaries.—..r.4A
School Lunches ......2C
Sports...........1-2B
MOUND
TERRY DAVID has a new
technique in burning chocolate
chip cookies Robert P.
Moore sends information about
Chinquapin School in Highlands
. . . Albert Tauch “walking on
clouds”, after the big reception,
the Art League gave in his honor
at the Baytown- Historical
Museum. ...
Former Baytonians Jimmy
and Sharrpn Davis are proud of
son Trey for winning second
place in a baby contest. ,. Mrs.
Ann Van Gale home recovering
from hand surgery, '
Pam Sutton looks like an angel
in white . . . Charles and Diana
Shaffer look forward to moving
into their new home
Baytown Sgt, Marshall Williams
getting ready to attend swearing-
in ceremonies in Austin for new
attorneys. He recently received
news he made an 82 on the state
bar exams. ' , j
W. A. and Jerri Read come to
the rescue. . . Margie Kloesel
has a number of projects. . .
Why isfErwin Wilbanks smil-
Dance Time
LISA ANNE Henderson,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul
Henderson of 1904 Kentucky,
will do a tap dance on the Don
Mahoney Show at 9 a.m. Sunday
on Channel 39-TV. Lisa’s
Bowie fourth grader.
Open House Set
MR. AND Mrs. X. B. Reed will
be honored oh their 50th
wedding anniversary with an
open house from 2 to 4 p.m, Sun
day at St. James House.
Camera Club
THE BAYTOWN Camera Club
will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday in
the Mockingbird Room of the
Community Building. “How to
Photograph Insects” will be the
program, The public is invited.
Kiwanis Luncheon
KIWANIS CLUB of Baytown
will not meet Thursday but will
instead meet Mli West Baytown
Kiwanis at noon Monday at
Wyatt's Cafeteria.
McKeegan Selected
AIRMAN RICKY L. McKeegan,
whose wife, Karen, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oma
Robinson of Dayton, has been
selected for technical training at
Sheppard AFB in the Air Force
aircraft maintenance field.
Assistant to Deaif
BENNY MOSKOWITZ is an
assistant to the dean of students
and not assistant dean, as a
headline on the Lee College teen
column said this week.
Killer Given
HOUSTON (Sp). - Formal
ntencing for Randy Glen
Green, sentenced to die in con-
nection with the June 28, 1976,
murder of a Baytown lounge
owner, has been set for Dec. 2.
The penalty was announced by
the jury Friday after more than
eight hours of deliberation and
was the third death penalty
handed down by Harris County
juries in two weeks.
Because the death penalty was
imposed, the Green case will be
appealed automatically and, in
the meantime, Green plans to
write a book about the case, he
told at least one person.
Green was convicted of killing
Harold (Gene) Robinson, 72,
owner of the Apache Lounge,
beating him with a rifle, pool cue
and black jack. 'l
In the same episode, he ad-
mitted he raped the barmaid
and choked her with a_ belt
before stabbing her in the
stomach while she was uncon
scious.' • .. . f
About a month after the
Apache Lounge incident, Green
killed a woman in Yazoo City,
Miss., and was sentenced to life
in prison after pleading guilty to
that murder.
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+ JERUSALEM — Israel la-
bors into the night preparing
for the historic journey by
Egyptian President Anwar Sa-
dat, a trip that has sparked
widespread condemnation in
the Arab world and attacks on
Egyptian embassies in Athens
and Beirut.
+ ATHENS - About 25
Palestinians invade the Egyp-
tian Embassy and are overpo-
wered after a wild, three-hour
shootout that leaves 16 per-
sons wounded.
+ TEL AVIV - The Israeli
parliament that Anwar Sadat
will address is a remarkable
polyglot of cultures, doc-
trines, accents and languages
that makes most other legisla-
tures look as staid as Swiss
banks.
+ WASHINGTON - House
and Senate conferees are tak-
ing a 10-day recess, despite an
appeal by House Speaker
Thomas P,. O’Neill to keep
working on a national energy
bill. v V ,
Cost Of Conversion Facility Is $110 Million
February Start Set
On Coal Plant Here
By MURIEL SCOTT
Construction of a $110 million
Baytonian’s
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2 Brothers
New Mayors
Twin brothers of Baytonian
J.E. (Jack) Pentecost of 225 Ar-
bor have been elected mayors of
their respective hometowns in
Iowa. .
Weston Maury Pentecost was
elected mayor of Jessup, Iowa,
and Wesley Maurice Pentecost
was elected mayor of
Independence,' Iowa.
The twins are both formerly of
Weather
And Tides
PARTLY CLOUDY,
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Nacogdoches.
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PARTLY CLOUDY with a
temperature range from the
mid 60s to the mid 70s is the
Baytown ■ area - weekend
weather forecast.
BAYTOWN TIDES for Sun-
day: Highs at 4:45 a.m. and
5:48 p.m.; lows at 11:19 a.m.
and 11:24 p.m. Tides for Mon-
day: Highs at 5:09 a m. and
6:57 p.fti.; low at 11:58 a.m.
SUNRISE SUNDAY at 6:48
a.m.; sunset at 5:22 p.m.
Sunrise Monday at 6:49 a.m.;
sunset at 5:22 p.m.
+ WASHINGTON - Unit-
ed Airlines, the largest do-
mestic air carrier, and a union
representing flight attendants
reach a tentative agreement
minutes before,a threatened
strike that could have disrup-
ted the Thanksgiving travel
plans of thousands of Ameri-
cans.
+ HOUSTON - Delegates
to the first federally funded
women’s conference begin de-
bate today on a blueprint for
equality in the future. Conser-
vatives protesting the premise
of equality for women and the
conference itself hold a sepa-
rate rally across town.
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Sharon Walter has been, fired
from her job with the VMCA
because she gave only $18 to
the United Way-.
February, 1978, with plant
production in progress by early
1980, Bob L6e, manager of
Carter Oil Co., an Exxon af-
filiate, said Friday.
Addressing the
Baytown
pilot plant to convert coal to oil Chamber of Commerce, Lee said ture of private industry and the aD0Ul M Da
in Baytown should'-begin in the plant will be capable of com federal government to gather h>n of coal
verting 250 tons of coal into oil
each day.
A similar, commercial venture
would probably convert about
25,000 tons a day, Lee said.
The pilot plant is a joint ven-
ture of private industry and the
data so comniercial coal li-
quefaction plants can be built by
the early 1980s.
located on Baker Road, west of
Decker Drive’ will produce
about 2:5 barrels of oil from each
Lee said oil developed by this
process will cost about $30 a
barrel by the mid-1980s, which
The plant, which will be he said may be competitive with
HEAR YE, HEAR YE!
Public Hearing On School Bonds Monday
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER
A public hearing on the
proposed $20.5 million building
program and bond issue for the
school district will be held at 7
p.m. Monday in the board room
at the School Administration
Building. — '" ■ t
After the hearing, school
trustees are expected to call the
bond election, which is ten-
tatively set for Dec. 13.
Trustees believe the $20.5 programs such as the~ Special expected to be in the Highlands
million in bond sales can be done
without a tax increase, at least
for the next five years, and Tom
Masterson of Undefwood and
Neuhaus, hired by the board as
fiscal agent for this bond
program, agrees'.* '
If, however, voters fair to
approve the bond safes, tax-
payers probably could expect a
tax cut next year.
The proposal is to build two p.m. Monday at the Optimist building on Market.
Pearce Street Journal - -
. GOP Peanut Strategy
The Republican Party is try-
ing to make political hay out of
peanuts.
High-placed leaders have
seized President Carter’s pea-
nut symbol and are threaten-
ing to turn it against him every
week.
Congressional Republicans
Have announced inauguration
of the “Order of the Tar-
new elementaries and purchase
a site for another elementary
school for the future, a new
junior school and a new special
education facility.
There also are plans for 11
new classrooms at Ross Sterling,
new......vocational agriculture
buildings at both high schools,
an ROTC classroom-arsenal
building and firing range at
Robert E. Lee, six elementary
gyms,- two junior school gyms
and a swimming pool at RSS.
In ai
at other schools, a regulation
track at RSS and work on the
track at REL, and im-
provements at Memorial,
Stallworth and Cedar Bayou
stadiums.
The old Anson Jones Elemen-
tary building adjacent to Horace
Mann Junior School, Which now
is used as the district’s media
center and houses special
Assignment Clinic for students
suspended from regular
classrooms for disciplinary
reasons, would be torn down to
make way for future building or
program expansion at HMJS.
Land purchases included in
the plan would be for the
elementaries and sites have not
been selected.
One of the new elementaries is
area and the other probably will
be in the north central part of
the district
Site for the elementary which
would not be built at this time
has not been discussed much in
open meetings.
Trustees have the legal right to “j form^ThaTiTwhy ER&E
the price of foreign oil at that
time.
He said it is believed that oil
may be made from coal as
cheaply as other forms of energy
on the market at that time.
Dr. Max Mosesman, senior
research advisor with Exxon
Research and Engineering, told
the chamber that oil and gas
make up about 74 percent of
energy consumption in the U.S.,
but only seven percent of energy
reserves.
Coal comprises about 20 per-
cent of energy consumption and
86 percent of reserves, he said.
In the U.S., there are only
about 35 years left of oil and gas
reserves at the present ratagcf
consumption, while there arel,-
600 years of-coal left, Mosesman
said.
Mosesman said though coal is
the most abundant» energy
source, it has limited uses in its
Price Daniel Jr. To
Be Optimist Speaker
Former Texas , House Speaker and candidate for the
Democratic nomination for state attorney general next year,
Price Daniel Jr., will speak to the Optimist Club of Baytown at 7
The 35-year-old Liberty lawyer is following in the footsteps, of
his father Price Daniel, who is a former state attorney general.
Now serving on the Texas Supreme Court, the elder Daniel also is
a former U.S'. Senator and former Texas governor. <i
Daniel has been practicing law in Liberty and teaching
legislative law and product liability courses at'law schools in the
Houston area since he left the Texas House in 1975 after three
terms. ._....
Daniel was also president of the unsuccessful State Constitu-
tional Convention of 1975.
Daniel is a direct descendant of Gen. Sam Houston, the first
elected president of the Republic of Texas. ' -< >4
His uncle, Bill Daniel of Liberty, is a former, governor, of
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Monday nighr will also be Newspaper Appreciation Night at
session “ Kte 2
call, S in’anas *» «5"£ "M"*
driven artificially high in areas
under consideration and most of
the board’s discussion concern-
ing land has been in - closed
meetings.
Projects c, will appear dri the
(See’PUBLIC, Page 2A)
PRICE DANIEL JR.
In 1976, Exxon joined forces
with the Electric. Power
Research Institute, Phillips
Petroleum Co. and the U S.
Department of Energy to
develop the pilot liquefaction
process and plant for $240
million. •
Of that $240 million, all -but
about $25 million is being spent
in Baytown, Mosesman said.
Making oil out of coal is not
easy, Lee told the chamber.
Lumps of coal will be brought
to Baytown by train from Illinois
and Wyoming; and ground up
into quarter-inch size pieces, Lee
said.
This is miked with a small
amount of hot oil to make a
paste and injected with
hydrogen under pressure and.,
heat. Coal breaks down into oil
molecules and the leftover ash is
separated out, Lee explained.
.. Plant construction will be
done by the South Carolina firm -,
of Daniel Constructs Co., apd -
I an egtimatccj 600 Workers should
" (See COAL, Page 2A)
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up with contradictions be-
tween the President’s prom-
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(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is
the first of a two-part series in
which Channelview school of-
ficials explain the need for
proposals in the $10.28 million
bond election set for Dec. 3.)
CHANNELVIEW (Sp) - A
rapidly growing student pop-
ulation, expected to nearly dou-
ble in the next seven years, is the
main reason given by
Channelview school ad-
nished Peanut” to be awarded m™sfrators for the Dec. 3 bond
election.
Questions about the $10.28
million bond proposal were
answered by school officials in a
meeting with members of the
press Thursday.
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The first of six proposals asks
for $954,880 to renovate existing
schools — DeZavala- Elemen-
tary, Viola Cobb Elementary,
Sohochler'.- Primary and
Channelview High School.
Included in the first proposal replaced,
is $509,603 for DeZavala Ele-
mentary, to construct a new
cafeteria* and replace, buckling
hardwood floors.
Principal D:n. Bruce said a
new cafeteria at DeZavala is
needed because, “our present
cafeteria, built for 180 seating
capacity, is now seating approx-
imately 206.”
Bruce said the proposed facili-
ty wojuld be located adjacent to
the office area and north wing
and -would „,be able to handle
about 300 students and seat
about 500 for programs on the
stage area.
would dli
of students at
| from its currenf
about 800.
The hardwood floors in the
section of DeZavala built in 1942
are “severely warped” and some
have buckled as much as three
inches in places, Bruce said,
adding that they need to be
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Also in the first proposal is ex-
pansion of thy cafeteria in Cobb
Elementary and renovation of
the clinic and office 'area for’
$102,818. 1
Principal Rbger Martin said,
“Student population increases"
demand the development of an
additional serving line.
Built in 1961, Viola Cobb’s
design includes a planned area
«, Martin said since’1961,14 ad-
ditional classrooms have been
added to the building without in-
creasing the cafeteria capacity.
The building now- holds 750
students, and with the expan-
sion, [would be able to accom-
modate 900. I
In addition to the new
cafeteria, the office and cljpic
area needs to be renovated,
Martin said. "Student pop-
ulation, as well as state, federal
and loeal reporting and record
keeping has outgrown the pre-
sent facility. The present six-by-
seven foot lobby area does not
accommodate the needs of
students and parents who have
business to attend to in the office
and clinic area.” -
A new physical Education
facility for Schochler Primary at
a cost of $118,727 is also included
in the first bond proposal.
Principal Been Cooner said’
this structure is needed because,
“Weather, conditions, increased
enrollment and limited space
presently restricts the effective
growth of the, pij
program.’”
Cooner sAid afulltin
activity program is i
young children' "In i
children tend to sit;_______ ^
front of television sets, it is in
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