The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 049, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1978 Page: 1 of 14
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The Baytown Sun Invites
MR. AND MRS. KNOX E. DIXON
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To See
"OH, GOD!”
At The Brunson Theater
(This Pass Good Through Dee. 15)
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MORE THAN 60,000 READERS EVERY DAY
Volume 57, No. 49
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Tuesday, December 5,1978
Baytown, Texas, 77520
Twenty Cents Per Copy
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Requirements, Met For
Tax Relief Vote Here
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Report Says All Alive - -
Mrs. Steadham Dies
MRS. LOIS HAZEL Steadham of
Mont Belvieu died in a Baytown
hospital Tuesday morning
following a brief illness. Services
will be held at 3 p.m. Wednesday
at Sterling funeral Home in
Dayton, followed by burial in
« Fisher -Cemetery , in Mont
Belvieu.' • ;.....___
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THE NEWPORT Running Club
_____will meet at 8:30 p.m. Wednes-
: day at the Newport sales office.
The club is open to any in-
terested runner.
Father III
THE FATHER OF Beach City
'^Tesident Mrs. Sandy Tappan —
..... DarrelUMoWs of North Platte ,
- Neb., who has been married only
three weeks - is ill and is in
Great Plains Medical Center
Hospital in North Platte.
Downed Airplane Is
Located In Rockies
WALDEN, Colo. (API. - Search parties development in northwestern Colorado. ■
located a downed commuter airliner before The plane’s pilot, Scott Klopstein of Denver,
dawn today after six survivors walked to a radioed 15 minuses out of Steamboat Springs
Ranger station m the Colorado Rockies,’ that he was having trouble with ice and was
authorities said. Officials of Rocky Mountain turning back, said Heap. . *
Airways said initial reports from the Colorado' When the pilot failed to report in, a military
State Patrol indicated all 22 persons aboard the plane was sent to fly over the route, Heap said,
plane survived. - ___^ .U&Mgphl from-an emergency locator transmitter
The six Walked info a Ranger station near was picked up a short time later by high flying
Buffalo Pass, about 15 miles east.of Steamboat' aircraftf Heap said, but it was not positively
Springs, according to a radio report received at linked to the missing aircraft." "
a search command post. The search was concentrated in an area west
Stephen Biucher, commander of the Colorado of Walden 110 miles northwest of ^ and
lvd Air Patrol, also reported that the plane had 25 mites sbuth of the Wyoming border. A range
been found 17 miles southwest of Walden. o{ 10,000-foot-plus mountains separate Steam-
No details were mmediatelyayailableon the boa[ S j f^om Walden and aHbroad vaUey
condition of the aircraft or the fate of the other caned North Park
Snowmobiles and -four-wheel-drive vehicles It was just before midnight wften search
had carried searchers into blizzard-like con- crews set out from Walden. Gale-force winds
(jitipns today in the hunt for the plane. lowered the wind chill factor to well below zero
snow warning for the search area. Forecaster remote cattle ranches and moved west into the
Bob Wvckoft said a foot or more of snow was mountains
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Workshop
Session
Scheduled
By WANDA ORTON
All requirements for the city
charter amendment election on
tax relief have been met by the
petitioners, City Clerk Eileen
Hail said Monday after the
petitions were returned to her
•office ’
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AARP Party
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION of
Retired Persons will meet at 11
Cafeteria for theannual Christ
mas party. Each member should
bring a gift for someone-of the
same sex to exchange at the par-
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predicted today, and temperatures were ex-’ The number of searchers was not immediati
pbcted to plummet. .. * ly known.
Officials said one group of searchers picked Jackson Count-v Sheriff Ervin Swayze led calling the city charter amend'
deputies across the North Platte River into an
area called Delaney Buttes, while Alpine rescue
up an emergency locator transmission early this
morning and were setting out to track the -----------------------------• ..
signal. The locator is the type designed to send crews from several Colorado mountain towns voters in the city must sign The
signals automatically and.no conclusion could t Ahe w fiSlf^ ar*
southern end of the valley, about 80 searchers
were assembled.
Weather
And Tides
FAIR AND warmer Tuesday
night and partly cloudy with a
20 percent chance of
thundershowers Wednesday is^
the Baytown area weather*
forecast. Low expected Tues-
day night, low 40s; high
— Wednesday; tew-TOs.! -
WEDNESDAY TIDES for
waters fronting the City of
Baytown: Highs at 2:22 a m;
— and +11:23 a.m.; lows at
+6:53 a.m. and 7:37 p.m.
SUNRISE WEDNESDAY at
7:01 a.m.; sunset at 5:20 p.m
^Denotes weak tide
the passengers.
The Rocky Mountain Airways plane took off
at 5:55 p.m. CST Monday for what should have
been a 55-minute flight across the Continental
Divide to Denver. Aboard the plane, a de
Havilland DHC-6 Twin Otter, were the pilot and
co-pilot. 19 adult passengers and an infant.
With the exception of the pilot, the names of
those on the plane have not been released. An .
airline spokesman, Dennis Heap,* said a agents and discipline two other supervisory em-
passenger list had been compiled and relatives , Payees hi connection with breakins and other
were being notified........- • - - ...... allegedly illegal * surveillance directed against
The Steamboat Springs ski area is a major the+adical Weather (Underground-in the early
resort attracting skiers from throughout the ““
country. It is also a center for energy-resource
Names of 5 persons designated
as a “committee of petitioners’!
were provided as requested by
the city clerk. This was done to
meet a charter requirement con-
cerning petitions.
The committee members are:
Lamar Kelley; 3505 Wood-
crest; Gloria Kelley, 3505 Wood-
crest; Lloyd Garrett, 1701 Mc-
Farland; W.N. Lofton, 1700 Mc-
Farland; Lou Jeannene Kelley,
1800 Clayton. —---—
A total of 1,911 names were
____ verified on the petitions by Mrs.
red' Hall as she ehaked sigiiatures
with names of registered voters
in the city.
A BIG CONTRIBUTION
EXXON’S BAYTOWN employees exceeded their United Fond Chemical Co. USA’s Baytown Chemical Plant; Mark Brentzel of
drive goals by eight percent and Set a new record for Exxon this Exxon’s Baytown Marine Division; Richard Pabst of Exxon
year by contributing $150,569. With employees’ contribution of Research and Engineering; and Leonard Stasney of Exxon’s
$44,500,Baytown Community Chest Director John Sylvester Sr., Baytown Refinery. More than 90 percent of the employees pir-
center, accepts checks totalling $195,069 from, left to right, Exx- ticipated in the drive,
on’s General United Fund Chairman Dick Moravek of Exxon " _—
It was necessary to have a Anonymous
minimum of 1,907' signatures for
ment election. The charter states
10 percent of the registered
Late News
WASHINGTON (AP) - FBI Director Wil
liam H. Webster moved today to fire two FBI (ion at its Dec. 14 meeting.
____j __♦_______it..________:_____— • Thinno tho urnrL-e/accinn r
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in a letter that came to Chief
Goodfellowjs desk. Also in the
session at 5 p.m. Dec. 12 to
review* the request for the
charter change election Two letter* WaTAcheck.fwWO To
possible dates for the election
are Jan. 20 and April 7.
If the election is held Jan. 20.
city council must take formal ac-
1970s.
Previous ;
"Contributions
$780.00
In Memory of Joe
THW Club .....____$ 24.00 and Mose Sumner . $ 25.00
Guy W. Boyd.......$ 50.00 - Clara and
Christmas
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Story To Be
Sun Feature
Citizens & Trust, Jesse \L Cole--------Christmas Almost
In Memory of Joe; h « inon u/™* o___
Give Hope To Children By
Giving To Goodfellows
Mr, and Mrs.
C. McCteskey Sr.
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* By CHIEF GOODFELLOW
“Children need Christmas to
Andrew G. Koestner . $ 10.00
Memorial Baptist
rch Countint______
Class .............$ 15.00 “I
*——Mr. and Mrs.
$ 5.00 Archie A. Walkef . $ 5.00 Total Contribution:
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$974.00
help -get the Goodfellow drive
started;”
This contribution, along with . .
an earlier one for $10. came see to it that underprivileged
a message that is centuries old in which children will have no
but is still fresh and challenging, source of Christmas gifts except
R'is.HOre'.TheTuture"oTman- from the Goodfellows.
kind is built on hope and faith. Bags of toys and goodies will
To deprive a child of the joy of be packed, tagged and delivered
Christmas would be like depriv-on Christmas Eve to several hun- ■ , .
ing him of hope, which sustains dred children whose parents are ,a (*iaus a“sn ‘ have hls for'
him throughout his life. not able to provide presents for wardmg addres?f--=— - -’- -
That's where the Gqodfellows them. ; King Ling qfjweenkle and his
come in. It is their purpose ta-ft* iarroughif estimat®'lhatjtirtfje®’dbn’t know what Christ-
During the worksession, coun-
cil members vnfl receive infor-
mation from, the city administra-
1105 on the effect the,,tax relief
measures would have on city
revenue.
The petitioners propose to
change Section 82 of the. city
charter to limit the amount of ad
valorem taxes that would be
assessed property owners.
A total tax wourd not exceed
six-tenths of T percent of
appraised valuation; no in-
creases in property valuation
would be permitted until all
property had been revalued; a IQ
percent limit on tax increases
would be set each year. . -
An Exception on the 10 per-
cent limit would be valuations
increased, as the result of prop-
erty improvemehts. ~
The tax relief measures are be-
ing pushed by the newly organiz-
ed Baytown Taxpayers Associa-
tion.
‘Several other cities in Texas
are looking at similar elections,
including Houston which will
(See TAX, Page 2-A)
from longtime . Goodfellows
Clara- and Mervin-Dickerson of
2210 Morning Drive-
After sending the .$10 check a
few days ago, the Dickersons de-
cided that wasn’t enough and
sent $40 more.
Clara said it better than we
cqiild when she wrote: “Chil-
dren peed Christmas to look for-
ward to."
Wasn:t." an enchanting story-
strip by Jack Kent designed for
our younger leaders and toned
.especiallyTolheholiday season,—“
will start in The Baytown Sun
Wedhesday.
The fanciful, tale in 20 parts
features a modern-day space-
man named Topo, who crash. -
shortly before Christmas. Topo
fears he- will not receive his
Christmas presents because San-
children in the Baytown com- year to pay for the big party,
munity do not hope in vain at Prices continue to advance and
Christmastime. : there are more children to care
Efforts are being made to 06- for.'
tain enough money through the The Baytown Sun .has been
Goodfellow drive to make cer- sponsoring the drive for -more
tain that every deserving child than 45 years. Why don’t you
has a bag of gifts on Christmas stop by the office at 1301 Memo-
morning. rial Drive and make a contnbu-
School and public welfare of- {ion or„mail your checkto Chief
ficials will furnish the Goodfel- Goodfellow, in care of The Sun
about $6,000 wHI beiteeded thisj mas is. or who Santa is,-but are
r.
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MAUREEN ANDERSON has
trouble telling colors apart. . :
Minnie Peterson is a wonderful
- hostess at a Christmas party
Anne . Sulfivan arranges
publicity.
. : Bobby. Rountree:’ takes his
medieinelike the ehampionhe is
,v, Chris
into his own hands ... Supt.
Bill Farmer treats a couple of
friends to coffee and chocolate
milk.
.PhyffiJ Hester
some interesting figures . .
, Gary-Thomas ponden makinga
trip to Houston’to see a football
game-. . . Owen Stewart fells of
his stay in a hospital.
Rachel Walker isn’t Rachel
Walker anymore—she’s Rachel
Krenick *■-., Dr. Riclurd
Scheurich describes an^X-ray
picture ... Bob and Connie
Inside
The Sun ~
Classified .........11-13A
Comics ..;. . 5A
DimenslM.::.. .TTHTUff “
1A
DR. EUGENE PRATT DR. JAMES STRANGMEIER DR. MARTIN ARISCO
delighted to meet the merry old
man when he finds Topo on their ■•*.
planet.
However, other, problems -:1
arise, since Santa will not leave
presents unless there is a Christ-,
mas tree to leave them under,1
the enemy, the Woofers, who
live on the other side of the
planet, try to -upset the whole
celebration, and Santa, and his
reindeeraBstdonTmakeitto'
Earth en dristmas Eve. -
The suspense in “Why Christ-
mas Almost Wasn't” builds up
throughout the 20 chapters and
you and your young ones will
love the story as it develops.
The comic strip was created
i Jack Kent, author, artist, and
imor and cartoon contributor
to major magazines, from
Humpty Dumpty to Playboy, in-
cluding Mad, The Saturday Eve-
ning Post, This Week, Parade,
Xfce New Yorker and others.
His first children's book, "Just
Only John,” was published ear-
ly last summer by Parents'
Magazine Press, and two more
' are “in the’works” with other
publisher. 1^^^, “K-
1950 and 1965:
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Officers For San Jacinto
Low 40s
Seen Here
School Lunches ... .
Sports ............
TV Log ...........
Medical Staff Are Named For Tonight
A native Baytonian and sur-
geon, Dr. James ‘Strangmeier,
SHRINE OYSTER FRY SET
Pearce Street Journal - ■
4
-will serve as president of the
medical staff at San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital in 1979.
In addition. Dr. F. Eugene
PrattTias been named president- orderly at the hospital while he que.
ORLANDO, Fla., (CN) - elect, and will serveas president
MAYOR EMMETT O. Hutto proclaims Friday, Dec. 8, “Shrine Oyster Fry Day” in Baytown as
Lynn Woods, Doug Lunceford and LD. Bishop, standing left to right, look on. The fry will be held
from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. it the Baytown Shrine Club’s new building, 110 W. Main. Woods and Joe
Leatherwood are chairmen of the ticket sales committee. For tickets, call either woods at 422-5111,
or Leatherwood. 422-5932. Tickets can also be bought at the oyster fry.
(Sun Photo by Glenn FoUtes)
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HEADQUARTERS
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Wynne
BAYTOWN
BOATS
SKfFTES-MEBCUHY
518 W TEXAS 427-4702
TRUCK HEADQUARTERS
nl
BAYTOWN MOTORS INC.
700 W. Tub 422-8161
There are problems waiting
for solution, but hi the base-
ball world they are in a state of
suspense until Pete Rose de-
cides where he’s going to play
and ipake those mBHoM. -
Best bets u hour or two be-
fore a decision Ire that it will
be Philadelphia.
What a display of brotherly
love on Pete’s part and mav-
behfwiOtteWtowe&the
in 1980
Other officers are Dr. Alfonso
Gonzalez, vice president;- Dr.
Fernando Sarti, secretary; Dr..
Frank L. Jaubert, chief of
medicine: Dr; . Willjam E.
Bridges, chief of obstetrics and
gynecology; Dr. t- James
McKinnon andDr, Domingo E.
Cabinum will continue as chief
and vice chief of surgery.
A graduate of Robert E. Lee,
Dr. Strangmeier worked as an
College of Surgery, ho-also has
served two yjars in the Army in-
you un buy
WSWt-
BAYTOWN MOTORS INC.
7001. Toss ’ 422-0K1
eluding one year in Vietnam as a
major,
Outgoing president. Dr.
for his outstanding leadership
with the presentation of a pla
attended high school.
He later graduated from. Lee
College, the University of Texas
and completed medical school at
Tulanein 19*4.
A fellow in the American Medicine and is a fellow in the
Martin J. Arisco, was recognized there is warmer weather, on
Jack Frost paid a visit to
Baytown Monday night, leav-
ing in his wake a chill in the air
and iced-over windshields, but
the way, says the National
Weather Service. ^ .
Officially, the tew is the
Baytown-Houston area was a
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Ift; ArBco liT.Mdw af the _________________
American College of Ophthal-’ crisp 33 degrees' three'degrws
rhology. * short of the bone-rattling
Dr. Pratt is a graduate of Rice recofti of 30 set in 1950.
University and Baylor College of still it was cold enough
American College of Otolaryn-
gology.
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. N«W, tte weatherman says
we can look forward to fair
skies and a temperature'wop
to “only” tee low 40s over-
night Tuesday. *
Wednesday
- It’s either feast or famme!
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 57, No. 049, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 5, 1978, newspaper, December 5, 1978; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074528/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.