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Washington Report
Nicaragua Is Holding
American For Ransom
rop
Lines
to good In thr nation'i transportation
l;’Y e^vtj'lAr) "rim
i has focused on the problems and future
the bus Una too have been running into
i-off nearly 20percent In
i have
to a point the Interstate
1 reported "must be view-
teen losing ground to private cars, planet
- the last particularly rankling But
have been
trains
e of heavy federal sub-
l of rail passenger service has been to undercut
which receives no such assistance
spokesman, J. Kevin Murphy, president
ic„ thinks some attention and remedial ac-
should be forthcoming from Washington
ot in the form of direct subsidies, however, but as
to communities to finance new ‘ transportation
The proposed centers - replacements for
irioratlng terminals that Murphy says in some case are
jgh to scare off potential passengers - would bring
together bus faculties, limousine service to airports, com-
muter parking and retail services for the traveling public
fective such centers might be in countering the
Une may be questioned, but not the overall impor-
e of buses to the national transportation network
re alrhnes serve 870 communities and trans some 500.
Murphy notes, itercity buses link 15,000 And In terms of
, trains currently carry some 20 million annual-
fwWnffiffbimTOes are still far ahead
with 350 million :|E?’ - - - t.
Capitol Spotlight - -
Processing Of Nixon
■Papers Long, Costly
1-1* is the
Kory oT an American buwneo-
mu who is being held tor ran-
xn In Nkaragua by Its back-
water dictator, Anastasio
Samoa Ttare Is no otter way
to describe the detention ot
Arthur Chiritoo in s rat-in-
fested Nicarsiuin jail
He ha been held for a yeer
without trial For months, no
former charges were brought
against Mm He wa locked up
merely on the "suspicion" of
one of Somon i judges Appar-
ently. a business associate de-
frauded s Somoza-coo trolled
bunk, so the dictator is holding
Charlton until the money is re-
peid.
Chariton's hesitb deterior-
ated so alarmingly that the
Nicaraguan authorities finally
moved him into a military hos-
pital. He managed to escape
from Mi guards and reach the -
U S embassy. He had been bad-
ly bitten by rats and Inserts. He
needed special medical atten-
tion His rights had been abused
Yet incredibly. Ambassador
Maurice Solaun handed him
back to Somosa's goons.
had a
___ tbyUuUhe dic-
tator would “pay for all costs in
acquiring the yarn. " Nicaraguan
law exempts Samoa from pay-
ing duties on Imports.
On this charge. Charlton was
sentenced to six months in Jail
and fined 63 million, which was
settled (or 114.285. "It was all a
trumped-up charge," his attor-
ney, Sol Levine, told our associ-
ate Larry Kraftowitz
Other notarised affidavits
quote Somoa's own associates
as acknowledging, in effect, that
Chariton was being held for ran-
som until Pataky'i bad checks
were made good. "The only rea-
son Mr. Chariton was in pri- .
son..the asoriates are quoted
as saying, "was the direct result
of sets committed against the
bank by Robert rttaky.' they
said Chariton was held in cus-
tody merely "to recoup certain
funds that Mr Pataky had alleg-
edly embezzled from the bank by
passing checks where there were
no funds to cover them "
THE DICTATOR'S henchmen
repossessed all of Chariton's tea-
tile machinery and supplies,
worth about fl million. They
also called upon his brother
Norman in Miami and coerced
him into, surrendering Chari-
ton's private plane "Things
would go much easier for your
brother," Norman Chariton was
assured, if the plane was signed
over.
The Chariton affair, in
microcosm, is the story of free,
enterprise in Nicaragua
Readers’, Views
Ry MARTHA ANGLE
And ROBERT WALTERS
WASHINGTON (NEA) -
While Richard Nison's memoirs
may not be setting the
publishing world afire, Ml of-
Jktal mien i
In such numbers there is a strong argument for public
attention and action
Back On The Rails
The dismal state of the nation's rail service took a turn
for the darker recently with the announcement of planned
cuts in Amtrak passenger routes,
But now there's some welcome brightening from that
rescue mission - Conrail, the government-aided
on set up to operate freight and commuter ser-
in the Northeast
I Is still In the red - an anticipated 1379 million
this year - and has plenty of problems Substan-
uipment will require the outlay of some
rehabilitation and replacement during the ,apw
---------hwniimH
Mgers are now
.better times may be Just a short distance down the™.
Operations could be out of the red by 1980 and ac- nrwh^^^ildl^liiSd
ly turning a profit of some 1250 million by 1982.
lot of "ifs" go into the optimistic outlook, however, outer,.b in three year. with.
fjvHoht wyfftiw* itmraaia at tha-aatioiMtid rattMF- uoff at uu nm cwimw ww»
can be obtained uTauppF" * *•* "wm to ipeiw mnay on
nest five years.
But OMinU'i mar
government archivists gainfully
employed for yean to come -T
The National Archive* has just
isked Congress for an extra II4
million for the four months
remaining in the current fiscal
year lo speed III processing of
. Ntol material* relating to
Watergate
At the moment, a team of 13
archivists is at work rewinding
and duplicating 980 White House
tapes and lining through 36
million papers of Nixon s presi-
dential papers
While the archivists are hot
listening to the famous tapes,
they are running rlertrarie
checks on each one to deter
mine whether a signal Is present
or shunt on ill parts of the
AggyuiajMaaa
mra pm
tactfully put It More 18-
minute i
• So far. the FEC has looked
into more than 600 cases of alleg-
ed campaign law violations, dos-
ing out Ml of them Only 20
am have actually gone through
a full InveetiaaUon and settle-
mem Tlw remainder, which an
FEC spokesman described
"frivoloui" or "nut ceses," were
screened out at a preliminary
stage
Since almost no attempt was
made to enforce the old Corrupt
Practices Art In the SO yean
before the FEC was established
following the Watergate scandal,
the commission record has to be
WCins an improvement But it
THE DISTRAUGHT Chariton
relisted. The ambassador Sum-
moned several Marine* who
dragged their fellow American,
kicking and screaming, out of
the embassy The next day, we
placed a telephone call to Chari-
ton and were permitted to speak
to Mm at the military hospital.
Dear Editor:
In regards to Mr.
Chmielewski's letter on May 30,
we would like to express our
feelings.
First of all, we hardly believe
his wife got an "ungracious
welcome" from our officer. Our
officers are well-known for their
courtesy and respect for our
citizens. They are well-
mannered men and women.
Also, Mr. Chmielewski stated
that his wife lud arrived in
Baytown “nine days before the
aiieffea violation mat may oe
’, y’all are in a heap of
ible'boy! Best wishes to you
law
trail
and your family
Mr. and Mrs
Philip J.
VanNatter
139 Ashby
Dear Editor:
I read in The Sun the story of
Jimmie Lee Chamberlain
fighting for life for something
he did not do. I, too, am
fighting for life for something I
Hid (fn1
still hasn't gone after a single
sitting member of Congress, an
oversight worthy of further
scrutiny.
From Sun Files - -
State Elks President
In ’48: Carl R. Mann
From The Baytown Sun files,
this Is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
JUNE S. IMS
Aims McNulty is named the
Rosa land, named after Mrs.
Rosa Kilgore, member of a
pioneer Baytown family. But the
deed to the land spells the park
HUH “
most representative student at
Lee Junior Cottage.
reported to believe minute l»P« perhaps?
rt distance down the _ta » M"*1- report to
A new lU-time high produc-
tion record is established at
Humbles Baytown Refinery
when 293,700 barrels of crude oil
arc processed.
.........ipr
meht federal funding, If efficiency Improves and above all
if labor costs can be reduced, the goal should be achieved
The biggest "If' is likely to be the last. Labor costs
itly absorb two-thirds of Corn-all's revenues. The
wl is to bring that down to about half, largely through
)proved employee productivity, ♦
To see it through the next few critical years. Conrail is
asking for an additional $1.28 billion in federal aid. And it
is that if actual performance fails very far short of
ptimislic forecasts, it could be back asking for a lol
w-to spend
the former president, so Uw pro-
ject has inched along with its
skeletal Raft of 13 The new
appropriations request would
permit the hiring of SS additional
sutlers
Two of the current staff
members haw Urn pulled off
the main WatMfyfte project to
process Nixon's pro-presidential
papers, moat of them from his
vice presidential years, and to
prepare them for public inspec-
tion *
Some 940.000 pages, just one-
fourth of the materuls. will be
opened to the public Three are
the papers Nixon donated to the
government in 196849 and took
a huge tax deduction on. later
disallowed . ...
LIBRARY BOOM
The pnsldlMiat library
Top honor students at Lee
Junior College are Vivian Smith.
Alma McNulty, Dorothy Baker
and J F Hickersoo
- Aline Van Meldert, REL
valedictorian, afg pi Kellogg, _ „ „
saluUtomn, creliii at Tmm AIM Collate fee
ndttotego. foe wot* fie
pressed. Bitterly, he accuied the
embassy of failing to protect
US. citizens. Then he broke
down. •
"I'm so depressed ... I’m
just so depressed 1'mjustso
down and out,” he sobbed. He
couldn't believe his own govern-
ment had delivered him to Mi
tormentors. “The way they
carried me out, the way they
poked me. They twisted me.
They tore me apart. They took
my heart out.”
The State Department is full
of excuses. Any refuzal to return
Chariton, aid a spokesman,
would have set a bad legal
precedent. The spokesman con-
ceded that Chariton had been
held improperly without a trial,
but explained blandly: “It's not
the place of the SUte Depart-
ment to pass judgment on for-
eign courts." , '
City Manager Bill N. Taylor is
honored at commencement ex-
THE TRUTH IS that Ambassa-
dor Solaun didn’t want to upset
the coxy relationship, the em-
-velopt
true, but how long had the car
been in Baytown?
Second, if the court suggested
that he register the vehicle so
the charges could be dropped,
why didn’t he? By doing so
would be easier than to fight it.
We are not speaking for the
Baytown Police Department,
but we are sure Mr.
Chmielewski will not find very
many citizens who will bad-
mouth our police department,
ft il a confirmed fact that
Baytown citizens are noted for
the high respect they give the
police department. Baytown
Police Department is among the
test organized, educated and
qualified departments in the
state. If we said “in the United
“Statesr’ we would not be wrong.
We’re sure Mr. Chmielewski
will change his opinion when he
seeks aid from our officers. For
whatever reason he may need
them, large or small, they will be
there to help.
t, we do not think our
Plr many years iluvebeen
guilty rof a very serious crime
which brought down the
wrath, indignation, exaspera-
tion and a desire for vengeance
from the State Board of
Education, Houston Board of
Education and the school
superintendents of Harris
County.
Ftft many years I have been
guilty of what modern
educators consider a very
serious crime! I have dared to „
teach important, educational
basic instructional material to
young, innocent, defenseless,
pre-school tots, advancing
them to a place of no return to
ignorance. ' • ......
Can you imagine such a
wicked, unforgivable crime?
For this very wicked crime I
have brought down the
telephone recievers with a
bang when I begged for one
kind word of hope and mercy.
I have left them no choice
but to hang up on me when I
currently
it's at least reassuring in these times to hear of a
where there actually may be tight at the end of a
‘ tunnel, * '
/V,
Sfr.'i
It’s
A V
Possible
-Kellogg also it named the most
outstanding science student
Motile Stanley, a teacher here,
receives a master’s degree from
the University of Tens.
Buck Bonds and Bob Kalbiti
are back on the Humble Oiler
baseball team after recovering
from injuries.
JUNE J, IMS
The race tor county com-
missioner of Precinct 2 is warm-
ing up Incumbent Hugh A. May
is challenged by S. A. "Tex"
Spates. a Channelview
steelworker ~
' W. T Busch informs the press
the true spelling of the new park
here is Rowland, not Rowland.
Ever since the park was con-
ceived. it has been known as
city Charter: .
Carl R. Mann is elected presi-
dent of the Texas Elks State
Association.
dictator.
JUNE s, ms
Arthur M. Goul, who worked
in The Sun news department
from 1932 to IMS and had not
seen Baytown store 1947, ex-
presses amasement at its
growth. Goul is an editorial
writer for the Oakland Tribune
to California.
Deputy Constable Blair Mann
and Policeman Billy Joe Ausley
leave for Seguin where a
Baytown car theft suspect is be-
ing held.
The David Griffin family will
leave June 9 for Iran. -
Lt--
By Robert Schuller
i to a voice
i the stillness
wounded feet, with tutinful
tends, in the darkness of the
business is abo brisk these days.
Groundbreaking for the Gerald
R fited Library at the Universi-
ty of Michigan in Ann Arbor is
tentatively scheduled for
November, and work on a Part
HEALTH
" medical care, the embassy ar-
ranged for a U S. military p(an to
fly him to Miami. But Solaun
turned away an American-cit-
izen whose health had beqn
broken by the dictator. Increas-
ingly, the State Department has
put its drawing-room relation-
ships ahead of the welfare of the
citizens it is supposed to serve.
The ordeal of Arthur Chariton
began in 197S. He went into part-
nership with Somoza to manu-
facture textiles. It seemed like a
smart business move, since
Somoza has the inside track in
Nicaragua.
Then Chariton’s business
associate, Robert Pataky, was
arrested for allegedly defraud-
ing a Somoza bank, the Banco de
Central America, of $3 million.
Chariton learned about the
arrest while he was in the States
If he had been involved to the
fraud, he obviously would have
stayed away flora Nicaragua.
suspecting traveler from outside
our state" to pick on. They do
not go chasing after out-of-state
license tags just for the heck of
it. We do not have a devious
police department. They have a
reason to stop a vehicle and its
usually "the poor, unsuspecting
traveler" that chooses to stop a
police officer for help. We are
sure that many an officer has
been asked for directions by out-
of-town (state) travelers and are
pleased to help them.
So, for our chief of police and
the Baytown Police Department
we say "Hooray!”
For Mr. Chmielewski we say :
"We are sorry you have come
to our city with such a negative
attitude toward our police
department and community.
Baytown is a fine place to live
and to make it easier for you,
you need to think of it as your
town. It is what you make it to
be. ---------------
for- my rapid tracing
drills and constant repetition
of letters and spelling words,
leaving no child untaught.
Can you imagine anything
quite so wicked as to afflict
young children for life with
cursive writing?
Can you imagine teaching
them to read and burdening ,
them with thought? Everyone
knows cursive writing is con-
demned and outlawed in Tex-
as.
I shall now throw myself on
the mercy of the court and
receive my sentence as
gracefully as possible in view
of the seriousness of the crime.
Mrs. A. L. Bauer
3403 Michigan
By Lawrence E. Lamb, M.O.
d your life can
Many* of you put on a
front, You seem so
ent in the world, yet
i down inside you carry
..... „»; you carry grief; you
edrry resentments; you
carry guilt You don’t know
who to talk to about it.
;My friend, we are living in
a'world, on planet earth,
where people are walking on
hope You are called by
God to be a shining light in a
dark world. You can choose
either to alow or to blow.
Some people tight candles,
some people blow them out.
Some people put light in
another's face amt other
people take the light right
out of a person's face.
It's lime to glow!
wr, next spring
The library and museum are
being built with privately con-
tributed funds, although the
government will wind up main-
taining them. So far, M4 million
of a targeted $7 million has been
raised, rits-rr~
Atlanta. Americas and Plains,
tia are already vying tor the
honor of providing a home for a
future Jimmy Carter Library,
But the presklent has indicated
he does not (dan to make a site
selection anytime soon.
a
Zflt Paptoton &un
i Brown ............................Editor and Publisher
l Hornbergtr......Assistant to Publtaher
i Hartman.___________________________Editor and Publisher, 115*1*74
(Chairman ot Board Southern Newt paper! tree.)
EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
egress........................................Executive Editor
.................................................Managing Editor
i Orton,,,.,.,..,.,.,,,,.,,............... Assoctoto Managing Editor
ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT
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DEAR OR. LAMB - Dur-
ing my four years in high
school! participated in vani-
ty tytorta and cheerleadmg
your natural state. Just get
rid of fat it you already have
year round. From all this ac-
tivity I developed big muse
in my calves and thighs.
there any possible way that I
can get rid of these muscles or
thin our my legs’
DEAR READER - A mus-
cle stays as large as it needs
to be to have the strength to
do the Norit it to required to do
regularly That means if a
muscle to not required to do
strength work it will begin to
.................................Claislflad Manager
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FEC OVERSIGHT
Die Federal Election Com-
mtsskm, which has been more
tabby cat than tiger in its three-
year existence, has finally
started putting the bite on cam-
paign bw noiitor*.
Within the last month, the
FEC has levied fines totaling
331.900 against two mdividuats
Mibatrva
get smaller We usually say
that!
SSai
or rua associareo raws
ituqpesstohai candidate and her
father) and three urge nun boos
ali connected i
IM
; to maintain your muscle
silt and strength you must do
strength exercises at least
once a week.
Apparently if you are not
doing sports now the only
weight war calves end legs
must lift to your own body
Under there circumstances, if
you are not obese and have fat
over your toigis the size of
muactes may be a
I characteristic.
DEAR DR LAMB - My
son to IS months old. The
children’s specialist I take
Mm to thinks he has a heart
murmur which could be inmr
cent My family doctor dis-
agrees with him. What is a
heart murmur’ How can you
cheek it’
My father and father-in-law
both thed young because of
heart failure - my father at
46 and my father-in-law at SO,
I am 37 and my wife is 29 My
btood pressure to not too high
and my wife is in good health
Your opinion on this *
BUT IN ALL innocence, he ra
turned to the country. The bank
couldn't get its money back from
Pataky, so officials began press-
ing Chariton to make good I960,-
000 that the bank claimed
Pataky owned. The incredulous
Chariton, who had nothing to do
with Pataky’s check-kiting,
refused. Suddenly he was ar-
We do not need a Southern
Hospitality vs. Northern
Hospitality attitude among us."
We really are a friendly town but
as the old saying goes, Mr
ChAtelewrid-if you Meak the
The Way
It Was
June 5, 1774 - Publication of
Mass. Merchants' agreement
to boycott British goods
Berry’s World
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that will
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envelope
Box 489
NY 10019
birth sign
CANCER
Somelhinj
earned an
has been
should be i
LEO (July
lime to
project you
undertakm
fleet upon
practical m
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competitive
you're see
play your
day no one
LIBRA (Sep
easily able
today that
mountable
(hs>
• ACROSS
will be
SlIsS
IS
That may not wad like a for-
tune, but it represents neurty
three-quarters of the 942,620 to
fines the commission h» impos-
ed since it set up shop in .April
197!'
we inherit do
r effects That is why
we have beef cattle and dairy
cowi - owe for muscle, the
other for milk. Draft hones
for work are heavy muscular
animals while race horses
have different bodies
Don't try too hard to change
Your opinion
appreciated
DEAR READER-Just as
a murmuring brook is a rapid
stream that makes a noise a
murmur-in the heart to a
sound made from the tore
bulence of btood circulating.
Murmurs to the heart and
foe vibrations of circulation
to young children with rapid
heart bents and thin cheats
these sounds are easily heard
and may have no medical
aLMfAfuyiM ad all
_________
Bible
Following his arrest, Chariton
was summoned to a private
meeting with bank executives
He was accompanied by his fi-
ancee. According to their ac-
counts. the bank’s chairman.
Oscar Sevilto-Secasa, told Chari-
ton: "We know you had nothing
to do with the actual stealing
from our bank, but we have to
get our money and we don't care
how.” Then Sevilla-Secasa add-
SCICNCE
FICTION
ed bluntly: "Your debt to toe
bank to 6860.000."
As Somosa's brother-in-law.
Serilla-Secasa presumably was
speaking for toe dictator. This
was followed by another meet-
ing with a loser bank offidaL
Again, the official acknowl-
edged Chariton innocence hot
warned vaguety that he would be
to trouble if he dhtot come up
. M» mV — - ------
Mble Verse:
FOR BY awe effort* he hath
perfected for ever tkmu theC
are sanctified. Hebrews 19:14
NOT LONG afterward. Chariton
was accused of evadtog import
(tattos on tortile that were
shipped into Nicaragua. Yet he
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