The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 264, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1985 Page: 1 of 67
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Volume 63, No. 264
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Coal to replace
gas dependence
Painter: Costs lower
By DONNA PURDY
Lignite coal will replace
dependence- on natural gas,
Graham Painter of Houston
Lighting & Power Co. told the
Baytown Rotary Club Wednes-
day.
By the year 1994, natural gas
will comprise only 28 percent of
the company’s energy source,
compared to the 80 percent it
now supplies, said Painter; a
public relations official and
native Baytonian.
Natural gas prices are low and
will continue to spiral
downward, he predicted.
After hitting rock-bottom, the
prices will soar again, he said.
And this could bring back the
horrors faced in 1973 during the
energy crisis because natural
gas prices are tied to world
market prices.
The company’s attention now
is turning to lignite coal mined in
East Texas. The largest user of
qoal in the Southwest, HL&P
now transports 30,000 tons of
coal a day from Wyoming. ...
Even after the cost of
transportation. Painter noted,
the coal is cheaper than the
natural gas. Right now the cost
of coal is one-third the cost of
natural gas.
•. Mining coal closer to home
will mean an even cheaper
source of fuel, especially when
the anticipated price rise occurs
in natural gas, Painter said.
He added the cost for the same
amount of energy produced by a
nuclear power plant would -be
one-half the cost of the^coal.
However, Painter said, the
future in nuclear power plants
will continue to look bleak until a
standardization of construction
can be accomplished.
He emphasized it is “not that
we don’t know how to build
them” — Americans were con-
tracted to build nuclear power
plants in France and China.
The problem occurs during
contruction when changes are
made in regulation and con-
struction codes. These changes
cause the overruns in cost and
time.
Lignite coal offers a “reliable
source of power not tied to world
market prices,” Painter said.
“HL&P has the mining rights
to 45,000 acres of lignite coal in
East Texas. This is a 30-year
supply.”
By the mid-1990s, HL&P will
be saving the company and con-
sumers about $2 billion that they
would have been spending on
natural gas.
Locally, Painter said, the
Cedar Bayou Generating Plant
would not be affected, because it
is new. It will be the older
natural gas plants that will be
retired and will not be replaced,
he said.
The new coal plants HL&P is
(See COAL, Pagell-A)
Space weapon
testing near
Date remains a secret
HERE COMES THE RAIN
DUSTIN AND Misty Lancon, children of Tony and Maysel Lancon of
1700 N. Sixth, make sure they are prepared for rainy weather as they
wait for the school bus to take them to Ashbel Smith Elementary.
Baytown’s dry spell was broken Thursday as heavy thunderstorms
rolled into the area. The National Weather Service predicts the rain
will end by Thursday night.
(Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
WASHINGTON (AP) - The
Air Force says it has met a 15-
day waiting period requirement
and now plans to conduct the
first test of its anti-satellite
weapon against an object in
space this month.
Some congressmen had been
told to expect a test Wednesday.
It was postponed, however, ap-
parently because of timing and
not because of a warning by the
Soviet Union that it would feel
free to step up its own anti-
satellite efforts.
The new test date remains a
secret. All that is known about
the target is that it is an older
satellite, in orbit but no longer
functional.
Pentagon officials declined to
discuss the ASAT test or to con-
firm that it had been scheduled
for Wednesday. Under rules set
by Congress last year, the
Defense Department must wait
15 days after the president cer-
tifies that an ASAT test is crucial
to national security.
That certification was submit-
ted Aug. 20.
According to the Pentagon
sources, the Air Force proceed-
ed to plan the test for late
Wednesday, only to discover at
the last moment that Defense
Department lawyers weren’t
starting the clock until midnight.
“I don’t know how the legal
notification was handled, but
somewhere people just
* miscalculated,” said one source
who spoke only^on condition of
anonymity. “The judgment now
is that the 15-day period doesn’t
expire until midnight. So to test
today wouldn’t fulfill the re-
quirement.”
In a statement Wednesday, the
Pentagon said simply that the
period would expire at midnight
and “the first test of the U.S.
anti-satellite system against an
object in space is planned for
later this month.”
Officials said they were reluc-
tant to identify the target
satellite or its orbit because that
would help the Soviets monitor
the tests.
The exercise will take place
over the Pacific Ocean, one
source said. An F-15 jet fighter
will leave Edwards Air Force
Base in California and launch
the rocket when the satellite sw-
ings by overhead.
If the test succeeds, the ASAT
rocket will then home in on the
satellite and destroy it by
crashing against it. The rocket
consists of a short-range attack
missile, a second stage and a
miniature homing vehicle
warhead without explosives.
The Soviet warning came from
the official news agency Tass.
“If the United States holds
tests of anti-satellite weapons
(See SPACE, Page 11-A)
Students, teachers rave about the new-look REL
By BRUCE GUYNN
Students and teachers return-
ing to Robert E. Lee High School
this week undoubtedly noticed
that the building had been spruc-
ed up over the summer.
“To me, it almost looks like
brand new,” said Manuel Escon-
trias, president of the REL
Parents Association.
Back in April, the newly-
formed REL Parents Associa-
tion toured the school and listed
about 50 items for improvement.
Pearce Street Journal - -
Breaking news
. Bulletin from television news
network:
President Reagan has sneez-
ed.
Television correspondents are
rushing to the scene for further
—" ..
ABOUND
TOWN
TIM AND Babette Crlbbs have
their drive home from Florida
disrupted by Hurricane Elena
. . . Pam Bemick’s wait is over
.. .Joan Linares calls with some
good news . . . Stuart Lipkin ar-
rives early.
Ronda Smith is a new member
of The Sun’s advertising staff
while David Mohlman has joined
the newsroom staff as a
^reporter. _________ =■==-—-
Jim E. Long misses a phone
message . . . Maxine Duke is a
good’ hostess . . . Shannon
Crawford gets a hug ... Glenda
Bunce works on a fund-raiser.
Jeanne Sapp tries to place a
face . . . Paul Golding h£lps plan
a busy October .. . Lana Price
stops by.
Escontrias estimated 85 to 90
percent of these improvements
have been made.
Sectipns of the building have
been repainted and replastered,
Escontrias noted.
In particular, the appearance
of the cafeteria, the Commons
area and the Brigadiers hall has
been upgraded, he added
The improvements were tne
result of a joint effort by the
parents association and school
officials, according to Escon-
trias.
He explained that the object of
the project is to instill more
pride in the school and so far, the,
plan seems to be working.
“The kids are really proud of
the face lift that has been done,”
Escontrias said.
The parents who form the
nucleus of the REL Parents
Association began meeting in
February.
In April, the group was for-
mally organized w$h the object
of portraying a more positive
image of REL and supporting
the school administration.
Escontrias said the group has
been positively received by
Superintendent Bill Kennedy
and Henry Armstrong, REL
principal.
Right now, the group has
about 50 members. Escontrias
described them as “a good, hard
working grouP”
In addition to encouraging ef-
forts to improve the appearance
of the building, the group held a
teacher appreciation luncheon
last week.
At an orientation session for
freshmen, the group presented a
30-minute slide show, tracing the
history of the more than 50-year-
old school.
Escontrias said students “gig-
gled and laughed” when they
saw the outfits worn by their
predecessors in past decades.
The REL Parents Association
has numerous other projects
planned, including studying the
tutorials.
State-mandated reforms re-
quire school districts to offer
tutorials for students failing a
subject. Last year, attendance
at these tutorials was poor.
Escontrias said his group
wants to look into possible ways
of improving attendance at the
tutorials. He also indicated the
group wants to look Into their
(See REL, Page 11-A)
Fight for comparable
worth will continue
SEATTLE (AP) - The fight
for equal pay for equal work will
“just take longer,” said leaders
of the “comparable worth”
movement after an appeals
court overturned a ruling that
could have cost the state $1
billion.
In reversing the nation’s first
comparable worth ruling, the 9th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on
Wednesday said employers can
use prevailing market condi-
tions in setting wages, and need
not follow surveys jpey commis-
sion.
“Neither law nor logic deems
the free market a suspect enter-
prise,” a three-judge appellate
panel said, overturning U.S.
District Judge Jack Tanner, who
had held the state liable for
damages to 15,500 workers.
Tanner, in a ruling that could
have cost the state $1 billion,
cited a study commissioned by
the state showing a 20 percent
salary gap between workers in
predominantly female and male
jobs that required similar levels
of skill, mental demands, ac-
countability and forking condi-
tions. *
"We are profoundly disturb-
ed,” Mary Terry, president of
the Washington chapter of the
National Organization for
Women, said Wednesday night
after meeting with six womens’
group leaders representing
25,000 women.
“The language of the court
decision makes no sense in the
context of present-day working
women’s lives,” Ms. Terry said.
“It was taken to the federal
court so everyone could benefit
from It. Now we’re going to have
to do it (enact comparable worth
laws) by state by state by state,
by city and by county and by
burg. It will be done. It will just
take longer.”
But she said strides already
made in comparable worth
would not be rolled back and that
the national movement would
continue. “Forty state
legislatures looked at com-
parable worth last year, in one
way or another,” she said.
Business leaders and the
Reagan administration have
strongly opposed the theory of
comparable worth, with the
president himself being quoted
as calling it a “Mickey Mouse ...
(See FIGHT, Page 11-A)
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WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY skies
are forecast for the
Baytown area through Fri-
day. Temperatures are ex-
pected to be in the mid-70s
Thursday night and in the
mid-90s Friday. From 8
a.m. Wednesday to 8 a.m.
Thursday, a low of 70
degrees and a high of 95
degrees was recorded.
During that time, 1.15 in-
chesvfrain fell.
Jose Morfeno services
scheduled for Friday
Services for Jose R. Moreno,
82, of Baytown will be held at 10
a.m. Friday at Navarre’s Paul
U. Lee Funeral home with the
Rev. Jimmy Hedges officiating.
The owner and operator of
Baytown’s first Mexican
restaurant died Tuesday at a
Baytown hospital.
He was born in 1903 in
Michoacan, Mexico, and clme to
the Houston area In 1916. In 1926,
he married Virginia Zamora and
moved to Baytown.
In 1938 the couple opened the
Cuauhtemoc Mexican
restaurant at 3507 Dayton. In
1952, they moved the restaurant
to 500 E. Texas, and renamed it
Moreno’s Finest Mexican Foods.
They did business at that loca-
tion until 1962 when Moreno
retired from the restaurant
business for health reasons.
After regaining his health,
Moreno worked for a time at
Moreno’s Construction Co., own-
ed by his son, Louis William
Moreno. ,
Mrs. Moreno said that the
restaurant she and her husband
operated began slowly, but grew
to be a success. The Morenos did
{experience a temporary setback
JOSE R. MORENO
in 1939 when fire destroyed the
business and, according to a
report in The Sun, left the family
with only the clothes they were
wearing. With the help of
relatives, however, the family
soon rebuilt and reopened the
restaurant.
Moreno was a member ®f
Wooster Baptist Church and a
(See JOSE, Page 11-A)
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