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Crime Said Down In
Strike-Tom Memphis
OTS
Emmett Coffee
A COFFEE for Ed Emmett,
state representative candidate
7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the home
of Jay and Kathy Keeler, 16410
New Bedford, Crosby.
To Save A Life
CLASSES IN CPR (car-
diopulmonary resuscitation) will
be sponsored by the American
Heart Association, Baytown
Unit, from 7 to 9 p. m. Tuesday
and Wednesday at the Lillie-
Duke Annex at Pearce and
Ashbel. Interested persons may
phone 427-5494 or 427-3015 after
5 p. m.
Exxon Annuitants
EXXON ANNUITANTS mil
meet at 10 a.m. Wednesday at
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Baytown City Councils?
Eileen Caffey will speak.
EaglesoMeet
FRATERNAL ORDER of
Eagles Aerie and Auxiliary will
have a special meeting at 8 pun.
Wednesday at the old Wooster
fire station on Bay way Drive.
Knights Meet
BISHOP CHRISTOPHER E.
Byrne Assembly will meet at 8
p.m. Wednesday at Knights of
Columbus Hall, 2800 W. Main.
New ‘Hill’ Kids
NEW ELEMENTARY and
kindergarten students in Barbers
Hill School District will register
from 9-11:30 a.m. Aug. 29 in the
elementary school.
Tax Rate Approved - -
$38.4 Million School
Budget Gets Final OK
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER
For the second time in two weeks, the school
board Mumluy night held a publieheartngon
the budget without getting any citizen response
and adopted a budget and tax rate for the 1978-
79 school year.
The.first hearing and adoption were held July
31 but, because of a legal problem, were
again during the regular board meeting Mon-
day.,
The motion to set the tax rate in the first
meeting didn’t specify the amount of the-tax,
merely referred to the fact that the new rate
will be the same as the old.
But, according to a legal opinion, the amount
must be specified.
And, since the tax rate must be adopted at the
same meeting at which the budget is adopted
and public hearing is held, it all had to be done
again. _ ,
The tax rate will be $1.64 per $100 of assessed
value, the assessment based on 48 percent of
the $38,362,614 budget for 1978-79.
Trustees Monday night also adopted an
amended 1977-78 budget of $26,193,900, which is
$1^,563,526 more than the original budget
adopted this time last year.
Supt. Johnny Clark explained that $1 million
of the money added to the 1977-78 budget was
for building program expenses which arose
before the $10.5 million in bonds were
delivered.
The remainder of the addition was for pro-
jects approved individually by the board
■ through "the year and for federalprograffis
rested for violating a dusk-to-
dawn curfew as Memphis waited
out its latest round of labor
strife.
But despite the dual strikes by
The motion to adopt the 1978-79 budget was P01"® and firefighters, crime
approved 4-1 with Trustee Gay Brock voting was reported down in the
against it.
approved through the year.
The votes to adopt the tax rate and the
amended budget were approved unanimously
with two trustees — President Wayne Hanson
and Willie Moreno - absent.
Police And
Firemen
Stand Firm
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -
Rifle-toting National Guards-
men protected non-striking fire-
fighters, and 39 people, mostly
striking police officers; were ar-
Though she did not explain her vote Monday
night, Mrs. Brock earlier had objected to the
budget because it didn’t contain as much salary
increase for teachers as she wanted.
In other business Monday night, the board:
BONDS RECEIVED
Learned that $10.5 million in bonds sold July
1 have been deposited in the district’s account
at Citizens State Bank and Trust Co. in
Baytown.
Along with the deposit of (he bond money was
•r95$S6 pi-fiioim "ami£x~
accrued since July 1.
The total on deposit as of Aug. 1 was
$10,341,832.44.
LUNCH PRICES
Increased school lunch prices by 5 cents and
to pass along price increases for snack bar.
novelty items such as ice cream bars.
There will be no change in breakfast prices
Purpose for the increases is to bring in about
(See SCHOOL, Page 2-A)
Legal Consultant Hired
For City-HL&P Battle
Baytown City Council has
agreed to hire a legal consultant,
Don Butler of Austin, to repre-
sent the city in the Houston decision to the commission.
Weather
And Tides
PARTLY CLOUDY and warm
with a 20 percent chance pf
thundershowers through
Wednesday is the Baytown
area weather forecast. Low ex-
pected Tuesday night, mid-
.....W»l hjgh Wednesday, mkMOr-
WEDNESDAY TIDES for
1 waters fronting the. City of
Baytown: Highs at 9:19 a.m.
and +5:15 p.m.; lows at 1:21
a.m. and +1:01 p.m. *
SUNRISE WEDNESDAY at
6:47 a.m.. Sunset at 8 p.m.
+ Denotes weak tides
(Lighting & Power Co. rate case.
Butler has been employed by
the Texas Municipal League to
work with Its member cities that and the cities the company and cost of service.
together in an effort to end the
walkout. f
Mayor Wyeth Chandler said
the strikers were trying to close
down Memphis and that the city
was* taking applications for their
However, a utility company dis- crease of about 19.6 percent in jobs. He said the personnel of-
reported
curfew-quieted metropolitan
area of 800,000 and fire officials
said there was little sign of the
widespread arson that marked a
firemen’s strike five weeks ago.
Most of the 18 fire runs made
Monday by fire department
supervisors and non-striking
members of the International
Association of Firefighters were
described as minor. During a
normal weekday, Memphis
in 9 a.m. and 9 p.m.
Guardsmen accompanied the
firefighters,- as well as standing
watch over fire houses and
police precinct stations.
The wildcat firefighters’strike
showed signs of weakening late
Monday, but there was no in-
dication of a quick end to the
police strike, now in its fifth day.
A federal mediator failed
Monday to get city officials and
SCHOOL DAYS JUST OVER THE HORIZON
AS THE LAZY days of summer dwindle down to a precious few,
and sefiool days loom large on the horizon, youngsters throughout
the school district are squeezing in a lot of livin’. Folks are
doin’their own thing in their own way. Like Chris Sutphin, 9, left,
and Frank Edward Marron, also 9, who enjoy wetting a hook off
the Adams Pier. Chris is the son of Mrs. Bobby Sutphin and Cecil
Sutphin and Frank is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Marron of
1122 Cypress. (Sun staff photo by Glenn Folkes)
2nd Victim
Of Accident
The second victim of a fatal
motorcycle accident died Mon-
day at Hermann Hospital
Houston.
Mark Wayne Harris, 15, of 119
«r*=-v. -- o" -y -—r 7- Tanglewood, died at 12:20 p.m.,
the Memphis Police Association apparently of head injuries
satisified with the rate granted
by a city can appeal the city's
HL&P filed a request for a
rate increase July 14 with the
Texas Public Utility Commission
serves. Increases were asked for
all rate classifications, including
commercial and industrial as
well as residential. Total amount
of the increase requested was
:$175 million annually.
are served by HL&P. Each city
is paying a pro rata share of the
cost of Butler’s services, and
Baytown's maximum cost will
be $2,200.......
Butler will represent cities
when the Texas Public Utiiity
Commission holds a hearing on
re rate increase. .........-......-........jbiii for 2,000kilowatt'hours from jim980.~""~~'‘
Texas law allows cities to set $64.18 a month to $76.79, ex-
the rates of utilities within their elusive of sales tax, based on
borders while the Utility Com- June fuel costs,
mission sets rural rates.
average residential bills.
The last rate increase of 000 applications.
HL&P went into effect in
December, 1975. Monthly bills
have fluctuated, however,
because of adjustments in fuel
The increase in the base rate is
needed, HL&P officials have
id, in order to obtain the
Fire department officials said
13 of the city’s 48 fire stations
were fully manned with both
supervisor personnel and non-
striking firefighters.
Fire Director Robert Walker
said a steady stream'of firemen
had called in offering to report
As an example, the rate $492 million this year; $642
change would raise a residential million in 1979, and $649 million
capital required for its construe- ipr duty. "They called in and
tion program. The construction °°iA ‘Wa *- —'■ ’
program is estimated to cost
This would amount to an in-lgenerate electricity.
It’s A Natural: Police
To Host ‘Ticket’ Meeting
when it will have a work session
about warning tickets but
knows where it will meet.
it enforcement (of traffic viola-
tions). I never hear of anyone
Council members will go to getting a warning ticket -1 only approach the problem
a it.. t. ~ .___L__.x it. j:______i____ti TnkncAn InAlrinn of 1
ALLISON COONCE does some
modeling in Houston. . .Donnie
Sharp warms up a tennis
player. . . Mr. and Mrs. Garlen
Gillen Sr. celebrate their 34th
wedding anniversary.
Bert Allman and grand-
daughter Jana Nicholson have
returned from Lymon, Wyo.,
where they visited her mother
and his daughter, Mrs. Herschel
Vallee and her family .". . Lois
Barnes says house-hunting in
Austin is taking longer than she
expected.
Ross Sterling teacher Terry
Ryals reports the new Ranger
mascot will be ready fofthe first
football game . . . Donna
Mazzetti is snowed under with
work on a Monday morning. . .
Randall and Rose Ann Pitts en-
joy a movie.
the source of the subject - the
Baytown Police Station.
At the last council meeting,
Police Chief R. H. "Bo” Turner
offered to host the work session
at his own working place. He
thinks it will be a good idea for
council members to get a
firsthand view of the record-
keeping system in the police sta-
tion and adjoining municipal
court.
“I’d like to ease the pain on rigid that separately."
“I’d like to have the city judge
there, too,” he said.
Turner added, “We have no
objections to warning tickets if
they can be fair. The problem is
one person may get 10 warning
tickets while another gets 10
tickets. That’s the reason we’re
not doing it now.” . '
Earlier in the. discussion,
Turner noted the Department of
Public Safety used to issue warn-
ing tickets but has eliminated
Dave Cotder is smarter these
days and has a brand new doc-
torate degree to prove it ..
Glen Walker talks about his Cor-
pus Christi vacation . . . Gwen
Pillow checks on “Shindig”
publicity;
>V ■
BOB HAMHIC
hear about the discourtesy.”
“Hie insurance thing irritates
the devil out of me,” com-
mented Councilman Jimmy
Johnson, referring to insurance
rates going up as the result of a
traffic ticket.
Councilman Allen Cannon
said, “The insurance aggravates
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fice had received more than 2,-
said ‘We want to come to work,’
and we said ‘Come on.’ It was
the greatest message I’ve had all
day"
— ~1!8Wg7ffpQiaridler said strik-
Officials said the company is ing policemen and firefighters
striving to reduce is reliance‘on
natural gas as a boiler fuel to
received in an 11:40 p.m.,Satur-
day motorcycle wreck at Bayway
and Honeysuckle, His body was
taken to Harris County Morgue,
where an autopsy was to be per-
formed Tuesday morning.
Another Baytown youth, Eric
Aalund, 14, of 310 Holly, was
dead on arrival at Gulf Coast
Hospital following the accident, year 1978.
Officer Tracy Snipes said
Aalund was operating a 1975
Honda dirt bike, registered to
Jeff Ranis of 119 Tanglewood,
when it was struck in the rear by
a car driven by Luis B. Loya of
Baytown.
The motorcycle was stopped
on Bayway, waiting to make a
left turn onto Honeysuckle,
when the Loya car struck it.
Tentative City Budget OKd
On Hffl\ Hearing Is Set
By MURIEL SCOTT
MONT BELVIEU (Sp) - Blessed with a
nearly 50 percent increase in property values,
Mont Belvieu City Council has tentatively
agreed on a 1978-79 budget of $825,619, and will
hold a public hearing on it next Monday.
The budget is up substantially from the $559,-
972 approved last year, with the most of the in-
crease going for either water and sewer projects
or, if a proposed water and sewer bond issue
passes, to pay off bonded indebtedness.
In a budget workshop session Monday, coun-
cilmen learned that the assessed property value
of Mont Belvieu would be $96,429,060 for the tax
This represents an increase of about $32
million over 1977, according to officials of
Pritchard and Abbott, Houston valuation con-
sultants.
were trying to talk sanitation vehicle .
workers, City hospital employees The death of the Harris boy
and workers of the cityowned makes the fifth motorcycle
Most of the increase is for industrial property,
which was assessed at $92,816,360. The city has
an assessment ratio of 20 percent.
Councilmen determined Monday it would
take an estimated $336,000 for general operating
funds and contributions to community services,
such as the Barbers Hill Volunteer Eire ____, ____ _____________
Harris was a passengE^onthe Department, senior cittzens and -the Barbers -l September^trtaxestofinance#don’tcome1ir^
™“ ® Sports Association. until January.
Funding for these organizations was ten- "We need to look at a charter change,” Goss
tatively set at $6,000 for the fire department, said
motorcycle. Snipes said. The
Aalund boy was thrown from the
light, gas and water division to
join them on the picket lines."
The president of the Memphis
AFL-CIG Labor Council
fatality in Baytown this year,
Police Chief R. H. "Bo” Turner
said. - - f-
__ ^ Saturday night’s accident was
suggested late Monday 7 city- the secondi fatality involving dirt
wide strike in support of the
striking police and firemen.
“Our unions are prepared to
City council doesn’t...know! Councilman Ted Kloesel said,[all ofus. But we need to attack start withholding from
Kloesel thought warning
tickets would be one way to Tommy Powell, head of the
Johnson, looking at July's traf-
fic ticket figures, noted 883
speeders with 590 of them
getting tickets for going 15 mph
over the speed limit. "I think
some discretion could have been
used, there on tickets. If it was
the first ticket of the year for the
driver, he could have been given
a warning ticket.”
At the outset of the discussion,
City Manager Fritz Lanham
said, “I don’t think you can com-
pletely remove discretion from
the officer. If we had warning
tickets, what would be some
considerations? Would we check
to see if the drivers had warn-
ings in the past and then decide
whether to issue a warning tick-
et or a regular ticket?”
Lanham also wondered
whether the disposition of a
previous ticket would be taken
into account. In some cases, the
(See POLICE, Page 2-A)
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60,000-member labor council.
Pearce Street Journal - -
Ttojf Main You Proud
- HOUSTON (CN) - If you
were one of the 50,009-plus
fans in the Astrodome Mon-
day night, you are bound to
have had that certain feeling
running up and down your
spine when the Robert E. Lee
Band and the Lee Brigadiers
made what probably is their
1978 debut.
One thing over the pnblic ad-
dress system gave me a catch
in my throat. It was the reve-
lation that the Brigadiers and
band are #w over 49 years
old. What gets me is l ean re-
member the first unit — the
then Maroon Brigadiers. V
And nobody ever enjoyed
trips with the boys and girls
more than the late M.M. (Fats)
P0NTIACS
WE SELL FOR LESS
CARRELL-01TTMAN
426-3524 Htfta
Brown arid longtime officer
George Scott, who handled the
kids as if they all belonged to
them.
The youngsters made us
proud to be from Baytown.
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bikes ridden
Turner said,
on the street,
NowYou Can
Read Speed
And Heed?
Baytown’s suddeh changes in
Speed zones — a pet peeve of
many drivers - won’t be so
sudden anymore,.
Qty council has paved the way
for warning signs to let drivers
know when they are approaching
a speed zone change.
At its last meeting, council
voted 6-1 to install 32 warning
Signs on majpr thoroughfares.
Cos{ of materials wijl be $670.
Councilman Jimmy Johnson,
while he favored the warning
signs, objected to the many
changes in speed zones. Along
Highway 146, for example, he
said the speed limit changes
from 55 to 45 to 35 mph within a
stretch of .7 Of a mile.
With warning signs along the
way, Johnson predicts that sec-
tion is going to “look like Burma
Sfiave signs.”
sion .was expected to be |l40,000, but the con-
tract was let for about $207,000, Goss noted.
Construction of a swimming pool and
recreational facilities at Eagle Park was suppos-
ed to cost about $414,000, but is actually costing
more than $500,000, Goss said-. •
Another cost overrun was moving an oil
derrick to a roadside park. That cost estimate
was $6,000, but the actual price tag was $16,000.
Council authorized City Administrator Jay
Jorden to, make inquiries about the availability
of short-term loans.
As Goss said, “We need to get ahead of this
and line up money before these people ask for
their money, and we say, “Sony, we can’t pay
you right now. We have to go borrow it,”’
Council also discussed delaying purchase of
significant capital improvements until after tax-
es come in next January, or delaying the sale of
bonds several months to reduce bonded in-
debtedness requirements in 1979.
The subject of changing the city’s fiscal year
to correspond more closely with the receipt of
taxes was brought up once more.
“We have a built-in deficit every year,” Goss
said, noting that the budget year starts in
$3,000 for senior citizens and $2,500 for the
sports association.
Another $120,000 is pegged to pay back loans
which the city expects to borrow in the next two
months to cover operating expenses until taxes
begin coming in next January.
Mayor Sam Goss said the need to borrow
some money to tide the council over until new
taxes come in partially resulted because plann-
ed projects cost more than anticipated this year,
but the council went ahead and completed
them.
For example, the estimated cost of the hearty
completed water line to Cherry Point subdivi-
Council discussed changing the fiscal year to
run from Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, thereby
eliminating the three-month gap before taxes
start to roll in.
Under capital outlay in the proposed 1978-79
budget, council tentatively agreed to set aside
$20,000 for a new ambulance for the fire
department, $30,000 for drainage projects, $15,-
000 for playground equipment, $5,000 for
engineering costs, $35,000 for water and sewer
equipment and
projects.
The $230,00 would be used to pay off bonded
___(See HILL,’ Page 2-A)
Five Percent School Tax
Hike In Crosby Official
By CINDY HORSWELL
CROSBY (Sp) - Crosby
school trustees made a five per-
cent tax hike official Monday.
By a unanimous vote, trustees
raised the tax rate from $1.15 to budget is divided into broad
Miksch told the board
He said that he’d steered away
from the “Christmas list”
approach to budgeting. Specific
items aren’t listed, instead the
$1.21 based on 80 percent of
assessed valuation.
The additipnal funds were
needed to support a $3.3 million
budget which is approximately
eight percent larger'than last
year, according to Supt. Tom
Miksch.
“This year I’m rather in the
dark in some areas until I get the
feel of the amount of revenue we
can expect. The budget will be
Councilwoman Mary Elira-imore predictable next year,"
beth Wilbanks, who cast the only ^
vote, wondered
whether additional signs would
distract motorists
Mayor Emmett O. Hutto
responded; “It's pretty dis-
tracting to see a red light in your
rearview mirror.”
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“There may be items that
must later be cut, so I don’t like
to name them here,” he said.
However, he acknowledged
some funds had beep included
for tennis courts at the high
school and a public address
system at the elementary school.
Major areas of increase in the
1978-79 budget were highlighted
■ thuck hhdoumterS
Sbii
largest jump, some $88,087, was
in employee benefits. -
These benefits included free
health insurance and incentive
payments for longevity in the
distrik , . . ■»,
Citing other jumps in the
budget, Miksch. said contracted
services/for maintenance and
transportation would increase
about lKpercent. -C *
Supplies and materials were
also budgeted 10 percent higher,
Miksch noted. j=:<
"I’m going to ask' for more
principal involvement on re-
quests for supplies,” Miksch
said. “This is something that
by Miksch. He indicated the may not have been done in the
past. I want them to reyiew re-
quests and make sure there’s a
valid reason i
materials.”
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for the upcoming year were
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