The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 294, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 20, 1977 Page: 1 of 14
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Volom* SS, No. 294
Tolophono Numbor: 4254302
MORE THAN M.BN READERS EVERY DAY
Tutsdoy, Soptombor 20, 1977
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Baytown, Toko*, 77J20
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Gander Boosters
ROBERT E Lee Booster clubj
will hold its weekly meeting at 7 j
pm. ‘Tuesday in the RELi
cafeteria The sophomore foot-'
ball team will be honored
Exxon Annuitants
EXXON ANNUITANTS
A»o-
, elation will meet at 10 a m. I.]
; Wednesday at the Baytown Com-1L
munity Building. City Manager
Fritz Lanham will be guest
speaker
Coin Club Meets
BAYTOWN COIN Club will
meet jt 7 p m Tuesday at 3UW.
Texas. The program will include
“4W aueUunr--------
Bowie PTA Plans
JAMES BOWIE Parent-Teacher
Association will meet at 7:30 at REL and RSS respectively,
■‘•p.m. Tuesday in the school'
auditorium. Plans for the Oct. 8j
carnival will be discussed
tarter s tas-tu:
Tax Is Turned Do
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4
■ Issue Is I D Basis
Not Dead,
However
ON TO COLLEGE
p^’Tp.m Vs pm. Thursday at Robert E. Lee. REL senior DebbieSpears, seaffieft. daughter
seated ^gbt w^o/m" 342^CJeJk^^oks over co,le«e brochures with Jay Johnson,
two students are, from left, standing, Kathy Standefer and Mrs*Robb!eL^kuauw^cduulon
•"HOUSTON rSpt - Them- nrart; Beckworth’i
Crosby Correction
THE DREW JUNIOR High
School Open House will be held
6:30-8:30 p.m. Tuesday. Prin-
cipal John David urges all
parents to attend and visit with
their child’s teachers
PTO Open House
ASHBEL-SMITH Parent-
Homestead Exemption For
Crosby ‘Seniors’ $20,000
By MURIEL SCOTT
CROSBY (Sp) — Responding
to another plea from senior
citizens, Crosby School Board
5=35*. - =
000 to $20,000 for the 1978 tax
year.
an- open house at 7 p,m.
Tuesday. The fourth and fifth
grade choirs will perform.
District Tax Assessor-
(Collector Bobbye Miller said the
$20,000 exemption will totally
Appearing Monday with about
25 other Uenior citizens, Mrs.
Gilbert, 76. said such an increase
places a burden on senior
citizens who live on fixed in-
comes.
.She asked the board for a com-
plete exemption on the
homesteads of senior citizens.
“If you set a limit, they go and
raise values on your house, so it
San Jac PTA
SAN^ JACINTO Elementary exempt 75 per cent of the 293 doesn't do much good," Mrs.
Parent-Teacher Association will
meet at 7 p.m. Tuesday in the
school cafeteria. Parents will
have an opportunity to visit
classrooms. A nursery will be
provided,
taxpayers over age 65 now on tax
rolls.
Trustees increase the tax ex-
emption from $5,000 to $7,000
last month for the 1977 tax year
after Mrs. E.W. Gilbert Sr. of
Crosby complained of rapidly in-
creasing taxes.
Gilbert said.
Stating that some elderly
residents have had to sell land
and furniture to pay school tax-
es,"Mrs. Gilbert said, "Some of
our residents are just existing. I
didn't realize that until I got out
to talk to them." _...
“I think the $20,000 exemption
would be good — just as long as
you don’t go up on tax values too
much, " she said. “It’s better
than nothing. We will still have
to pay some taxes, but it will
help some."
Trustees discussed granting
the total exemption, but ruled it
out, fearing Crosby would
attract large numbers of retired
people into the community,
diluting the tax base.
- -Noting that many well-to-do
people retire to Newport Sub-
division to live, Trustee Cled
Painter said, “Just because a
party to bail jumping
against Mrs. Betty Jean
Plaskett. 46. of Baytown, has
been reset by State Dist. Judge I
D McMaster on a day-to-day
basis, after one of the state's
witnesses, Dinah Strapps, failed
to show up in court Monday
morning.
Mrs. Plaskett and Lester
Beekworth, 43, a Baytown con-
struction worker, were charged
with allegedly helping convicted
capital murderer Vernon E.
Beards For Teachers At
Crosby Okayed By Board
WASHINGTON i APT - The
Senate Finance Committee
after approving President
Carter s proposed tax rtpdit tor
home insulation, today rejected
his tax on gas-thirsty
automobiles
The surprise vote against the
tax was 11 to 5 Several com-
mittee members said they voted
against the Carter tax because
the Senate already has voted to
ban the manufacture of fuel-
inefficient car* beginning in
1980
Today's vote was even worse
for Carter than it appeared on its
face. There are growing in-
dications (hat the committee
will vote to kill the other two
major taxes that make up the
President's energy tax program.
Despite the committee's vote,
the gas-guzzler tax is not dead.
The full Senate will consider it
next month, as will as a
HouseSenate conference com
mittee.
As passed by the House, the
bill would impose a tax of upto
$553 on any 1979 model car that
gets less than 13 miles per
gallon. In 1985, the maximum
tax would climb to $3,856.
Whatever the fate of the tax, it
I will have no effect on an easting
person is 65 years old and law which penalizes mahufac- afternoon on Baytown’s
retired, doesn’t mean he should turers if their fleet of cars-fall Hurricane Anita emergency.
iSee CROSBY, Page 2-A) below a minimum efficiency rw«ic« rn™
standard. For 1978 models that
McManus Bail Case
Rfcset; Witness Gone
By LYNN HUGHES by an earlier motion filed in her apartment wtth a boyfriend
Mike Donahue, said Monday
said by agreement betw
himself and attorney Ellis
attorney. The tw»-<
today. He to Alaska,
»« nwwma, »ui piv*>wuiu«« Niu
they feel she could still be In (be
HwNBB MW. Baytown pobce
McCullough, who represents are anistlng In the search for
Mrs Plaskett. it was derided
Mrs Plaskett’s case would be
tried first.
A motioh for writ of attach-
|mhti was filed by prosecutors
Mike Hinton and L. H (Stu>
Stewart Monday morning, and a
warrant for the arrest of Miss
Strapps, a North Shore bar-
maid, was issued Bond was set
McManus flee from prosecution at $8,000. Miss Strapps, a ma-
last April by providing him Mrs terial witness in the case, has re-
Plaskett’s car.
Strapps
fltPI*
May trial of McManus that she
helped McManus smear his I960
Ford compact with his blood and
the pair abandoned the vehicle
on Gulf Pump Road near
Barrett Station on the night of
April 23, the Saturday before
McManus was set to go to trial
on Monday for the July 24
murders of Baytown electrical
ias*eu s car, poneoiy neen missing since contractor Paul Cantrell and his
The two cases were separated Sept 1, when she allegedly left! ISee McMANUS, Page t-AI
Closer Contacts Cited As
City Civil defense Need
Ftm AP Wires
+ >4111011. Katya -
rerndem Mi 4min today
banned 24 Christian argatha-
lions and Ike Baha’i faith fr*
operating in I gnnda.
+ HARWELL HALL. Eng-
land - Vietar. the spreadea-
gled giraffe died today appar-
ently sf aback during an at*
tempi lo winch him la his fret
in a canvas aling made by the
Royal Navy.
+ AUSTIN — Far ibe first
lime in five years — since ill
oul oil production began in
Texaa in 1972 — the Texas
production dropped below
three million barrels a day in
M?, Railroad
chairman Hark Wallace said
today.
FAIR AND mild Tuesday
night and sunny and warm
Wednesday is the Baytown
arga weather forecast. Loh ex-
pected Tuesday night, mid-
60s; high Wednesday, near 90.
BAYTOWN TIDES for
Wednesday: High at 6:25 a.m.;
low at 18:S5 p.m.
SUNRISE WEDNESDAY at
7:09 a m,; sunset at 7:20 p.m.
By MURIEL SCOTT
CROSBY (Sp) - A long-
standing unwritten ad-
ministrative policy that teachers
in the Crosby School District not
wear beards was dropped with
barely a struggle.
Crosby trustees formally
adopted a policy that personnel
“should display appropriateness
of personal dress and grooming
hSLan example. Jo the student
should be maintained at all
times with emphasis
modesty, neatness, cleanliness
and good grooming; Extremely
informal attire is
professional attire”
policies of this nature are legally idea of passing-a dress code for
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indefensible.
Also appearing before the
board was a regional consultant
for Texas School Teachers
Association asked, “What effect
does a beard have on this man’s
teaching ability?’’
In fact, he said a neat beard
may help students relate more to
a teacher.
* wears one now am
Trustees will have a second my wife lets me.”'
ALBERT TAUCH busy on a
gigantic, artistic project for
history's sake . .. N. B. (Doc)
Culver's memories of high,
starched collars are‘stirred by a
museum display”. . . Sophie
Rivera wears an attractive gau-
cho outfit ... The Rev. An-
thony Hemdel shares his en-
thusiasm about the new St. John
Catholic Church with a devout
Episcopalian.
Bob Wright recalls some[
background on a Morgan's Point
mailbox ... W. C. Jackson
fascinated by the museum dis-
plays on early medical history
here. J. L. J. Weiler commends
I. M. (Deacon) Jones on his
oratory at the museum dedica-
tion ceremony.
F’Lois Martin runs an errand
for a friend . . . Marie Dilla-
htinty didn’t have to fry fish over
the weekend because husband A.
D.’s angling proved unfruitful.
reading on the policy at their
regular October meeting.
Challenging the policy against
beards was high school English
teacher James ,Mick, who has
been with^ the district about
seven years and is president-
elect of the Crosby Teachers
Association (CTA).
Though he shaved off his
beard before appearing before
trustees, Mick asked, “Are we
going to try to defend or try to
acunyare professional people “ “
and should be. treated as such.
We should expect them to dress
and appear as professionals;”
Jake McAllister voted against
the new policy, noting he has
nothing against beards and
wears one “now and then when
professionals.
“I don’t feel we could even
dismiss someone for a shabby
beard. I’d father have the type of
voted against the motion
Mrs. Luquette, Shyrel Barrett,
Jerry Prochazka and Cled
Painter supported the motion.
absent.
Civil Defense
........................__t Fletcher. Hickerson sought
minimum is 18 mpg; in 1985 it opinions from various volunteer
By WANDA ORTON land Red Cross,” he said.
A need to improve com- Rev. Lindsey also auggested a
rnumcations keyed the Baytown'quicker method of getting passes
Civil Defense critique Monday|for ministers into the evacuated
area.’Some time was lost In
getting proper identification, he
Director said Hickerson said a perma
elevation higher than 5 feet was
in danger during the threat,
Hickerson said. ~
Larry Patterson, city per-
sonnel director, suggested the
elevation marks throughout the
city be published in the new-
rises to 27.5 mpg.
On a 9-7 vote the committee
rejected a House provision that
would have repealed the existing
income-tax deduction for state
ant) local gasoline taxes. The
repeal, supported by the Carter
administration, would have cost
consumers an additional $1,4
billion a year by 1985.
Votes on two other key
proposals are likely later this Cross shelter.
TCarb. i a ratrier nave fneType ot w?ek wjth results also expected Clevenger also felt security
employe wecould discuss the & unfavorable for Carter’s should be stepped up for the Red
problem with and come to an engrgy p|an> — • -
agreement, McAllister said. ()ne panel member predicted
Trustee Rudy Sikora said he that nd more than four of 18
members wopjd vote for a
proposal to tax industrial use of many calls from people who
natural gas and oil so heavily.............
that utilities and factories would
switch to coal.
And committee aides said
there is virtually no chance the
workers during the meeting at
city hall in an effort Jo avoid
problems in a future emergency.
“Mo# of our problems can be
solved by talking to each other,"
he said. “And many can be solv-
ed on the spot"
Ollie Clevenger, disaster ser-
vice chairman for Red Crbss, in-
dicated radio communications
need to be improved for the Red
Cross shelter,
The Rev. H.
nent identification system for spaper during the emergency,
the ministers could be worked'
out.
Before the next storm season,
Hickerson said, the elevation In-
Mrs. Jean Shepherd, president formation will be updated He
of ' Hmwilwood Civic ..........—*C=-Je=™"
Association, reported 75 per cent
of the 90 per cent of the people
,who evacuated Brownwood left ure ,llwlj v,
their temporary addresses at the hurricanes, only three have hit
High Water House. This is the of-
fice on Bayway Drive that serves
as Brownwood headquarter
during emergencies
The emergency marked the
first time the new Brownwood
wjwpvaas. « UclaJ WIICII
Church, said his church received passes were needed.
wqre evacuating Brownwwood received many call* from other
but church members could not parts .of the city about flooding
answer all their questions/"We
need to know a little more about
what's going on so we can
Trustee Curtis St. Julian was panel will accept Carter’s Cooperate with Civil Defense
proposal to force energy comer
Trustees agreed principal g“Jggojg* “M*8*0"
However, be said he hates the appeals to be made to the board, f
People Are Divided
On Lance, Poll Shows
Bert Lance sought to judge his
case, are sharply divided over
come up with a code which is whether Lance should keep his
___jisl.__i inh ac hiirfopt Hirwlnr in Hu*
RADNOR, Pa. (AP) — Thejexpressed no opinion, despite
American people, the jury that wide publicity about the case.
legally indefensible? The opi-
nion of the legal community is
job as budget director in the
Carter administration, an
Inside
The Sun
Classified ...........1M3A
Comics 5A
Dimension ........... 7A
Editorial...........4A
Markets................3A
Obituaries— ,.,.,11A
School Lunches ,..... .<» JA
Laura Woods enjoying her as- SST?* ............
mmpnt with the Gitv of Hnus- ,v .......’ ?.......*A
Associated Press public opinion business dealings
poll shows. ”
The nationwide survey of 1,548
adults, taken Monday evening,
image bad been dented by the
The
LanCe’s vigorous, self-defense
during three days of nationally
televised Senate committee
hearings into his personal and
ClosinglnOn
Robert E. Lee
also found President Carter’s focus on allegations that Lance
Lance affair, particularly in formation during his Senate con-
-M- M.....firmation hearings in January.
The impact of Lance’s 20-plus
hours of testimony last week
regard to Carter’s oft-repeated
campaign pledge to enforce high
moral standards in government.
The AP survey showed that before the Senate panel is dif-
nearly 38 per cent of those inter-
viewed felt Lance should resign
his position as director of the Of-
fice of Management and Budget,
while about 35 per cent said tie
Carnegie will be closed at
the Market Street intersection
starting at 7 a.m. Thursday, an-
nounced Mike Weaver, city
transportation planner.
, „ The intersection will be
AP survey JoUowed closed ontil the ^
November fpr construction
connected with the Market
Street Bridge project. The
road on both approaches Jo the
bridge is being rasied to an
elevation of 16 feet.
“This will leave only one
way to get to Robert E, Lee
High School," Weaver said.
“The access will be from
Stadium Street or from Gentry
Drive."'
He said arrangements have
been worked out with the
school for adjusting the school
bus loading procedures.
Access win be provided td
the meat market across the
street from REL for the dura-
The hearings before the
Senate Governmental Affairs
Committee were intended to
withheld^personal financial in-
ficult to measure, sinice the
television audiences for the
hearings were believed to be
very small. National television
ratings for last week are not
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 294, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 20, 1977, newspaper, September 20, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074699/m1/1/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.