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Hill Band
IARBERS HILL High School
as announced there will be no
and practice until further
otiee
Attending Funeral
1R. AND MRS. C.J. Contella
re in Bryan attending the
ineral of his- brother-in-law,
’.W Scardino, which will be:
eld at Hilliers Funeral Home at
0 a m. Saturday.
Strahans Return
)R AND MRS. Richard Stra-
tan have returned from the fu-
teral of his mother, Mrs. Oscar
Elizabeth Dobbs) Strahan of
Austin. Services were held in
7ort Worth. Other surviving chil-
Iren are Mrs. J. 0. Strahan of
Fort Worthand Mrs. Mary Eliza-
aeth Bayliss of Austin
Jobless Rate Drops
To 6.9 Pet. In July
Number
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THE STATE OF STATE STREET
All is "oiT before asphalt is laid oh State from Morrell to Schilling
(Sun staff photo by Glenn Folkes)
Employed
Stable
Pick Up Sticks
CITY CREWS will pick up
brush and large limbs in Glen
Arbor Monday. They will con-
tinue the week in Morrell Park,
Pruett Addition, Graywood
PeJIy, Oak Addition, Lee
.Heights, BrittonCravens Ad-
dition, Old Baytown, Central
Heights and Busch Terrace.
1977 Street Improvement
Work Nears Completion
Stork Club
SAN’ JACINTO
Hospital Will have its OB orien-
tation and tour Sunday. Prospec-
tive parents are asked to meet in
the board room at 1:30 p.m. for a
The city's 1977 street improve1
ment program will be complete
in another two months, says City
Engineer Ken Powers.
Fifteen residential streets are
being rebuilt in the $310,395 con
tract let to Able Services, Inc., of
Houston.
Work began June 1. “The con-
tractor is making good time,"
Powers noted, but there have gase work has Been completed
been delays at times in regard to j
Methodist water, sewer or gas line
problems that we didn’t know
about."
On Eighth street, for example,
wdrk was delayed because
“The contractor is now back at I tent showers that havi^slowed
wort on Eighth and installing work, expeeially on Jones and
the new base. It will be com-1 Eighth,
pletely overlaid from Lobit to
Ward Road. This is one our
longer streets in the program.,'
” city is lowering some
water lines on North Jones from imPI?vf;™en*
Sterling to Lobit where the con-
tractor is pouring new curbs and
gutters and doing the base work.
Francis from Wilburn to
North Main and on .State from
Morrell to Schilling.
Because of good weather, the
contractor has been able to get a
might be better to “save that”
and add those funds to the 1978
lot of work done this summer. In program. “We'd rather do this
Powers said the engineering
department will begin plans and
specifications for the next streett0
probably Oct. 1
budget is approved.’
The city has $100,000 remain-
ing in federal revenue sharing
funds that could be used for
another phase of the 1977
program but Powers said rt
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
nation’s unemployment rate fell
to 6.9 per cent in July, resuming
its downward course after rising
the previous month, the govern-
ment reported today.
Unemployment had risen
from 8.9 per cent in May to 7.1
per cent in June after declining
from a 1976 high of 8 per cent
last November.
•Labor Department analysists
said that with the rate hovering
close to the 7 per cent level for
the past several months, the
growth in the economy appears
to have slowed temporarily
program following the sharp expansion
when the earlier this year.
Some economists were ex-
pecting another rise in the
jobless rate last month, but a
sharp decline in the civilian
labor force brought the rate
Requests Total $590,000
Revenue Sharing $$?
Yes, We Can Spend It
EDITOR’S NOTE: Follow-
ing is the first in a series of ar-
ticles on federal revenue shar-
ing fund requests In the City 6f
Baytown.
By WANDA ORTON
At a public hearing Thursday
night, ideas on how to spend
$522,139 in the city’s next allot-
ment of federal revenue sharing
funds pushed the adding
machine tape to $590,000.
Actually, it’s $590,000-plus
because not all requests came
with a price tag.
City Manager Fritz Lanham
coffee, orientation and tour ofj water line had to he lowered the lasl’ two ’ weeks, however, I than go out for bids on just a
the hospital. _■ -from Lobit to Aron._j there have been some intermit-Ismail program .”
Weather
And Tides
/Partly
j’Kloesel’s Crossing’ Is
Stirring Talk . . . Again
PARTLY CLOUDY with a 30
per cent chance of
thundershowers Friday night
and a 50 per cent chance Satur*
day is the Baytown area
weather forecast. Low ex-
pected Friday night, low 70s;
high Saturday, low 90s.
i "Kioesel's Crossing" is com-
ing up for consideration again at
the Baytown City Council Traffic
Committee meeting Wednesday.
That’s the nickname for Coun-
rilman-Ted Kioesel’s pet project
- a walkway on the. West Main
Bridge over Goose , Creek
Stream. ,
Kloesel has been prodding the
city to build that walkway since
BAYTOWN TIDES for Satur-
day: Highs at 4:21 a.m. and
+ 11:56 a.m.; lows at +6:lj
a.m. and 9:36 p.m.
time around in the early 1970s,
He represents District 1, the
territory on the west side of the
j bridge. If a walkway could be at-
jtached to the bridge, he,cpn-
SUNRISE SATURDAY at fi:44 j tends, it would be a safe connec-
a.m.; sunset at 8:11 p.m. | tion for Robert E. Lee students
7 Denotes weak tiffed—‘ --^Uo. lidfi-iicydejo^rtqofjfrorm
___ ! West Baytown and for many I
the duration of the Market
Street Bridge construction.
Extension of Beech Street
across the Houston Lighting &
flower Co. and Southern Pacific
Railroad rights-of-way to
Lynchburg Road will he dis-.
cussed' A representative of
South Pacific will attend.
Lynchburg Road is a street that
intersects with Market and
he served on the council the first Airhart and runs parallel to the
railroad tracks
Wyoming and change to a yield
sign on Wyoming at Missouri.
This is a tee intersection where
Wyoming from S. Highway 146
meets Missouri.
Remove stop signs on
Austin, at I lines, Austinat East secutive months
Homan; Kentucky at Georgia;
Kentucky at Carolina; Jones at
Clayton at Mockingbird;
Danubina at East Fayle; Oak at
Carver.
Other items to be considered] + Acitizen s request for mov-
at the 4 45 p m. meeting ing a median cut on North Main
down in July.
Civilian labor force, which in-
cludes those working and look-
ing for work, declined by 340,000
last month with nearly all of the
reduction occurring among teen-
agers. The government said it
was likely that the redaction in
the labor force was tlue,to the1
lateness of the survey week
when the July figures were
gathered.
"Thus, some youths who
otherwise would have been
recorded as July entrants were
counted in June," the govern-
ment said.
conducted the first of the jwo terested citizen
public hearings that must
precede city Council’s final deci-
sion on expenditures,
The council will hold the next
hearing, probably during the an-
nual budget hearing in
September. Meanwhile the city Kloesel.
administration will be studying
WASHINGTON (AP) - Pres-
recommendations to present to tor of planning and traffic; Flora
council.
About 20 persons showed up
Municipal Library. R H (Bo)
for the first hearing and most of Turner, police chief, V. H, (Bud-
dy) McBride, fire chief;
OUR WORLD
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them were city department „7,
heads, two city councilman ftamer. chief inspector;
attending were Emmett 0. "
Hutto and Ted Kloesel
Of the 14 persons who
testified, 11 were city staffers.
The three others were Max
Beckmeyer, Dr. C. A. Riser and
Kloesel
As the city health officer, Dr.
Riser also works for the dty on a
Savage, assistant dty manager,
Gary Anderson, assistant direc-
tor of public works; Pete Cote,
utility office manager;
Katherine Morin, public works
administrative assistant; J. B
LeFevre, finance director.
Among the dty staffers,
Anderson asked for the most
request for bikeways as an in-
grew are railing for inveiti*
gallons following a govern-
ment report that nueieor fuel
plants cannot account for thou-
sands of pound* of weapon*-
grade nuclear material,,.
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+ DALLAS - Thunder,
storms, including some reach- *
ing aevere proportions, roam-
‘‘ in.- Panhandle due
parttime basis, but he made htojmoney - $182,000 for the sake of «f the feus
ing the night while most of the
state had dear skies and ran*
Bikeways, by the way, claimed
much of the hearing with
testimony onthatnubjeet com-
ing also from Max Beckmeyer, a
citizen; Bobby Rountree, direc-
tor of parks and recreation, and
Other requests were presented
requests and will compile! by Jim Sanders, assistant diree-
drainage,
Anderson said $82,000 is need-
ed for a new piece of drainage . , - Irmntr.,.rf,
eguipment and IIOO.'OQO for}Hlwa w*rm temperatures,
drainage materials,
Mcilcjde asked for second
largest allocation, saying $115,-
000 is needed to replace two fire
trucks. A new, 1,000 gallon per
(See SHARING, Page 13-A)
Carter Signing To Signal
Start Of Jobs Program
+ WASHINGTON - Can-
err victims, emotionally vul-
nerable to hucksters, are “e*>
plaited skillfully” by promot-
ers of Laetrile, the Food and
Drug Administratfon main-
tains in its strongest state-
ment yet on the underground
ramfer treatment.
last month, as total
employment, at 90.6 million,
was little changed from June
after advancing for eight con
Over the past year employ-
,, ... . _ _ ment had grown by 2.8 million,
Harvey; Ivie Lee at Clayton, with a 2,9 million increase in
1*7-; T- ■■''A&S
AROUND
hty^j V
Wednesday are
+ A citizen's request to
change the maximum speed
limit on New Jersey [q.20 mph.
'Raising'- the1'
Albright. Albert'4?«n$stief and
Thom Beckwith
i hikes front the cas&sMis of
the bridge to Norman C. Foote'*+ Changing yield signs to stop:
Park on West Main. signs on Durain-Ferry Road at
Committee members also will [Maryland at Missouri: Carolina
consider, temporary traffirton+at Missouri
trol measures in the vicinity ofj + Delete a stop sign for west-
1 Robert E. Lee High School for]bound traffic on Missouri at
between Bob Smith Road and
Wve Drive
Councilman Allen Cannon is
chairman of the traffic com-
Councilman E. C.
ribnagriculturaf industries and a
140,000 decline in agriculture.
With the jobless rate falling fj
back to 6.9 per cent last month, aj
the total nurqber of unemployed high school ^ dropouts.'
declined by 220.000 6.7 million.
Most of the drop occurred
among teen-agers and adult
women.
cans to work under a H-billion
program that includes park and
lorestry jobs like those‘'in the
Depression-era Civilian Con-
servation Corps.
Carter scheduled a ceremony
today in the Rose Garden at
the White House to put his sig-
nature on the bill, intended to
complement his economic stim-
ulus plan. The program in-
ejudes training, and part of it is
aimed at cutting the rate of
The labor Department said
efTanzania,
the teen-age jobless rate-fell Mile House Pres* Secretary The meeting wattv reporters will
since Qctober, 1974 However it P.rove re*af
planning and traffic," serves as
secretary and the staff advisor
BILL HUNTINGTON has a good
idea. .. Linda Burrell has all
the answers. . . Mrs. Raymond
Torres organizes a photo.'. . Pat
Kane is busy with a tennis tour-
nament
Mr and Mrs George Chan-
dler. son Steve and daughter
Nita left Friday for a vacation in
Argentina.
Willie Moreno says he'd like to
play ball with youngsters at
Pumphrey. but the little kids are
too fast for him.
Georgia Suitis accompanies
husband Pete on his public rela-
tions rounds . Susan Curty
brightens everyone's day with
some good jokes.
Mrs. Lee Alexander brags
her neighbors for helping to look
after and feed her husband while
she took a trip to Yuma. Ariz., to
see her daughter. Mrs W. M.
Harrison, and traveled to Mexi-
co and California Her son. W. J.
Stokiev and his fafnily of Carpus
Christ!, wait with her.
after discussing the possibilities
teen-agers reniof bringing black mljo# rule
roonrand are open to the public.
Biff Cornelius, director of high '”at 40.7 per cent, the!» Rhodesia without “an escala-
tion to massive bloodshed and
civil war
the labor force, the government Afte' hj* S€SSIon with N^i
gave the following breakdown rere' a r
government said
Among other major groups in
SOMEWHERE IN BAYTOWN there re children *r tftlts without bicycles. »»d at tbe Baytowi
25% OFF
MY CLEANING
wants m
Thru A«§trS‘
FASHION CLEANERS
MOf J»(S 427 21 It
1
Poliee Departmeat, i kraefy iiae of bomdrai bieycia has beea forariag staet their twicn hive fwB-
jKMf wf ownership M tvaBabie tad poms caw ewwtact Soiieww betweew lun mi i poL Mwaday
thnragh Fridiy at the PD Ow weekewd*. eowtaet the desk KrgeMt tw data* a bryde.
The jobless rate for adult
men increased to 5.1 per cent in
July from 5 per cent in June
-The rate for adult women
declined to 6.9 per cent last
month from 7.2 per cent.
-Among whites, the un-i
employment rate dropped from
6.3 pet cent to 61 per cent.
—Unemployment among
blacks and other minorities was
unchanged at 13 2“per cent
The administration has fore-
cast a jobless rate of about 6.5
per cent by the end of the year
The President set aside time
for the signing before meeting
for the third time in two days
with President Julius Nyerete
said the two lead-
turning
relations
ind the
to efforts fo fm-
between Tan-
zania and the United States ter are expected to, attend sere
oath-taking ceremony for
James R. Sehlesinger, the na-
tion's first feretary of eftergr.
The Senate confirmed Schlesi-
nger’s nomination Thursday a and going over proposals
few hours after Carter signed 11 -
into being the Department of
his tax program.
Energy Mich Sehlesinger will lyo^^^Tto
h<?,ad . , . „ ,. persistent high rates of unem-
Later today, the President
and Mrs. Carter planned to fly
home to Plains, Ga., where
they will return to the Method-
ist church in which they were
married to be guests at thearound,§percent.
wedding tonight of Mrs. Car-
ters brother, Murray Smith.
Carter will announce his wel
fare program Saturday at a
+ WASHINGTON - An
amendment by Sen. tfojrd
spend's few*days vacationing,] torwtwjM-
The President will spend most «*l eriMrol over dredgtng awl
of the time relaxing at home
for
persistent high
ployment among the nation’s 23
million young workers. In re-
cent years, the unemployment
rate for persons between 16 and
24 years old has’ hovered
be available for live radio and
‘television coverage. ^
The President and Mrs Cair-
witnessing an
ices Sunday gt th? Methodist
church. The Plains Baptist
Church, where they used to at-
tend services, is bitterly di-
vided over the proposed mem-
bership of blacks.
Afterward, the Carters, in*
Wednesday Dance To
Launch Crosby Rodeo
Teen-age
even higher. For blacks and
other minorities, it ranges from
35 to 40 per cent. The national
news conference in a small, unempioyme„t rate Is 7.1 per
oji e-story agricultural ex-;
periment station near Plains.
filling in waters
Ptarct Str$et Journal ■ ■
Aifitt Biwii|
The sweetest words of
toogwe or pea ia Baytown this
hot Aagnst is:
b’s raining.
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CROSBY (Sp) - The Crosby
Fair and Rodeo will get off to a
fun start Wednesday with the an-
nual street dance from 8 p m. to
midnight. • ,
Between 2,000 and 3,000 peo-
ple are expected to attend the
dance, according to Tom Hen-
ley, head of Crosby Sports Asso-
ciation
Dancing will take place on the
parking lots of Baker's FoodlfiortT"atone with trophies
Store and the Clay Pot, located
on Avenue B. the main road
through Crosby
Musk will be provided by
Dick Allen and the River Road
Boys.
Admission is $2. with children
wder 12 admitted free.
A parade will begin ,at 51
Thursday and weave its
through Crosby.
Anyone interested in entering
a float in the parade should con-
tact Luther Brady Jr Of Crosby.
Other persons interested in par-
ticipating in the parade are
welcome to do so.
Cash prizes of $50, $30 and 80
will be gven for the top three
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CITIZENS NATIONAL 8AM(
MPTBgTQp.raifc
th thf .judging and
auction of livestock, othei
Along with
other ac-
tivities at the Crosby
Fairgrounds will include conces-
sion stands and rides
A rodeo kill be held at 8 pm.
Thursday through Saturday
422-4231
at
NEW OFFICES
THE BAYTOWN OFFICE at the State Depot** af ftMk U
Welfare ha* been relocated ia new quarters .4 lit Park. Siper
«i^nitii* Mtiatrn a im j
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sereMg and ptnafog praH
Eleven empteyn man the 1
I qwarten a* of Mw*y The new t
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 255, Ed. 1 Friday, August 5, 1977, newspaper, August 5, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074556/m1/1/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.