The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1988 Page: 2 of 18
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Police beat
-DAYTON A preliminary Reports indicate that a check
autopsy report released Tlftirs- for about $14 and not much more
day by the Harris County than $12 in cash were taken in
Medical Examiner’s .office the robbery. — nrr-
that the anther and The suspect got into a car and
[half-brother of Edward Lee left the area, police said.
Rouse Jr., who was charged Witnesses got the license
Wednesday with two counts of number of the vehicle and the
capital murder in connection suspect was stopped and ar-
with the deaths, died of gunshot rested in the 500 block of Fayle,
•andstab wounds. ' according to police reports.
7 ‘ Investigators believe that a 12- TWO HURT
[gauge shotgun #nd a large sword Two Baytowh women were in-
;«rere used in the slayings. jured in a two-vehicle accident
-Urban Valentine, Liberty in the 3200 block of Garth shortly
County acting chief deputy, said before 1:40 p.m. Thursday,"
feat Rita Porter, 38. died of one police said,
dr possibly more gunshot Bertha CleO Ward, 75, of 1601...
wounds to the throat and upper Garth Road, No. 3409, and Renee
[chests and that her 9-year-old Deane Cassman, 19, of 1601
[son, Matthew Porter, had been Garjh, were taken to Gulf Coast
stabbed several times in the Hospital, police said,
back ----!J"-
Police said Ms. Ward was ad- TWO VEHICLES met unexpectedly at the corner RoBingbrook and Harold Larie until repairs could
of Garth Road and Scenic Drive Thursday after- be made,
noon. The crash damaged a light pole and a power
pole causing traffic to be rerouted from Garth to
(Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
^ Authorities said the shotgun mitted while Ms. Cassman was
and sword were found in the bur- treated and released,
ning house, seven miles north of Ms. Cassman was a passenger
Dayton, where the mother and in a pickup truck, driven by Vin-
. child were killed. son Edward Bull, 19, of 2010
Complete laboratory results Woodlawn in Baytown.
Will not be available for a few The Bull vehicle was north-
Weeks, Valentine said.--bound onGarth when it was in- -—--------. . —-—- - tT ,,.^
• The i7-year-oid Rouse has ad- voived in a collision with a south- Gospel meeting Winter classes Heart patients
jnitted involvement in the slay- bound vehicle, driven by Ms. RONALD G. Nuce, praise leader BAYTOWN PARKS AND MENDED HEARTS, a group for
jugs, but authorities have not ward ... J____at Bethcsda Christian Recreation Department wiil people who have had bypass
elaborated on specific details or Officers said the Ward vehicle Fellowship, will speak at the register participants for its surgery and for their families,
if the boy has revealed a motive. was attempting to turn onto January meeting of the Full winter classes Jan. 4-8 at the will meet at 7 p.m. Jan. 5 at San
Larry Porter, Rouse’s step- Scenic Drive whemthe accident Gospel Men’s Fellowship set for Baytown Community Building. Jacinto Methodist Hospital’s
♦ t/x K/. ~i « .i ii. . fT-li t ClnnnAO Ton 11 DnumArn UlQilFf'lQCCr/Uttn Thfl nilhllf* IS
6 p.m. Jan. 2 at the Holiday Inn, Classes begin Jan. 11. For more Plaza Classroom. The public is
300 S Highway 146. information call Wanda Brunson invited to the meeting, during
at 427-7477. which the group will plan
speakers and activities for 1988.
_ • For information, call 424-3297.
________________ SOS movies Drived
[Allegedly sustained in a struggle the accident late Friday morn- SOS SINGLES Outreach Service _ rOAST H . it . 28nn .
with Rouse. - ing, police said. will meet for movies at San GULF COAST Hospital, 2800 SAN JACINTO Methodist
• Valentine said that Brent Jacinto MaH at 6:30 p m. Jan. 2 Garth, will have its monthly Hospital. 1101 Decker, will host a
at the waterfall/elevator area of hlood drive from noon to 2:30 blood drive from noon to 2:30
The Market. For more informa-. pm. and from 3:30 to?p.m. Jan. p.m. and from 3:30 to7 p.m. Jan.
tion call Chariene Fregia at 452- U- Call Louise Talen at 425-9296 6. To make an appointment to
2103.' for an appointment. donate call 420-8663.
father, was to be interviewed by occurred,
investigators Thursday1. Sorter, The impact of the crash knock-
AVho ran to a neighbor’s house for ed the Bull vehicle into a utility
help during the killings, is in pole at the eorner of Scenic
Methodist Hospital receiving Drive, police said.
Treatment for injuries he Hesitations had been issued in
Porter, son of Porter and step-
son of Mrs. Porter, who happen- Liberty LoUIlty
nd to be staying with a relative
on the night of the killings, would
tranquilizer, haloperidol,
could be/fatal, especially to
childrettfif taken in the amounts
normally 'safe with over-the-
counter cold medicines.
The FDA said My-K
Laboratories of Morton Grove,
111., is recalling all four-ounce
bottles of its cold medicine bear-
ing lot number 15718 with an ex-
piration date of 12-88.
The bottles, all 105,000 of
which bear the same lot number
and expiration date, were sold
under the following brand
names:
—Myfed Syrup, distributed to
military and civilian stores.
distributed by Life-Line Phar-
maceutical of Hayward, Calif.
-URL Uni-Fed Syrup,
distributed by United Research
Laboratories of Philadelphia.
—Walgreen Wal-Act Syrup,
distributed by Walgreen Co. of
Deerfield, 111. >
—Osco Aphedrid Syrup,
distributed by Osco Drug Inc. of
Oak Brook, 111.
The mixup was discovered
when a. 6-year-old boy became
lethargic after taking what he
believed to be cold medicine at
Fort Bragg, N.C.
also be questioned.
Details on the interviews were
not available Friday morning.
mm
jrfroiw
Baytown
A man was arrested in connec-
tion with the robbery of a Pizza
[Rut delivery woman in the 1500
[block of,Olive shortly before 7:40
[p.m. Thursday, Baytown police
said.
[[According to Harris County
Court records, Garry Cleofoster
Randolph, 509 N. 7th, has been
charged with robbery in connec-
tion with the incident. The
Charge was filed in the 185th
District Court and bond was set
'at $5,000. •
[[Police said the victim,had
delivered a pizza and was retur-
ning to her car when she was
[grahhedand robbed.
A 19-year-old Dayton man and
a 16-year-old youth from
Nederland were killed in a two-
vehicle .head-on collision at
about 5:45 a.m. Friday on State
Highway 146, six-tenths of a mile
north of Moss Hill, according to
a Department of Public Safety
Trooper M.CJVIalone.
The drivers of the two cars
were injured.
Jerry Wayne Hollingsworth,
Box 13, Dayton, and Charles
Lewis Sanders of Nederland
were declared dead at the scene
by Justice of the Peace Phil Fit-
zgerald, Malone said.
Sanders was a passenger in a
1985 Nissan driven by Robert
Dwain Hart, 16, of Batson, that
was headed south on Highway
146, Malone said. The vehicle
crossed the center line and col-
lided head-on with a 1977 Ford
pickup in which Hollingsworth
was a passenger. The pickup
was driven by Juanelle Anne
Hollingsworth, 18, same ad-
dress.
Hart and Juanelle Holl-
ingsworth were taken to Charter
Hospital in Cleveland, Malone
said.
DPS is investigating the acci-»
dent, he said. •—• - —
Liberty boy shot in head with airgun pellet
or bipod vessels in the
boy’s brain. The injury, he said,
could prove fatal.
LIBERTY (AP) — An 11-year- day. The pellet, about the size of determine if the slug damaged
old Liberty boywasiiospitalized -a sugar cube, penetrated four to
with an airgun pellet lodged in six inches into his brain and was
his brain after being shot by a not removable,
friend, authorities said, The victim was in good condi-,
The shooting was the sixth in tion, conscious and complaining
Texas and the fifth in the that he was not allowed to play,
Houston area since Christmas doctorssaid.
involving children playing with The child’s physician, Dr.
firearms. Three of the victims Michael Miner, director of the
died.
Doctors said the boy, whose
name was withheld at his
Huntsville, shot in the abdomen
with a .38-caliber revolver
neurosurgery division of the
University of Texas Health
Science Center in Houston, said
parents’ request, was shot the boy is being treated with an-
beneath the left eye by a tibiotics to prevent infection,
playmate about 9 p.m. Wednes- He said doctors will attempt to
Wednesday morning, was in fair
condition after surgery.
Dr. Richard McElroy said the
slug punctured the child’s lower
intestine, severed-a major vein
in his leg, then came to rest in
the capsule of hfebip.
Police said the' child was play-
ing with two companions, ages 5
and 6, about 9 a.m. Wednesday
when the shooting occurred.
Eric Banks, 13,ref Beaumont,
died Wednesday after he was
shot in the face by a 16-year-old
friend. Paul Duane Cooper, 15, of
Rosharon, and George Wilburn
Lawson III, 11, of Houston, also
died of gunshot wounds suffered
in separate incidents.
In Arlington, a 9-year-old boy
was shot in the shoulder Wednes-
day with a .32-caliber pistol,
which had been mistaken for a
toy, authorities said.
Smokers revolt against
ban on airplane smoking
:
, : LOS ANGELES (AP) - A
•Trans World Airlines captain
had to leave the cockpit to face a
[revolt of disgruntled smokers
who lit up in defiance of a tobac-
co ban and scuffled with flight
[attendants) officials said.
; There were no injuries during
the incident, which occurred
toward the end of Flight 853’s
six-hour nonstop journey from
Boston to Los Angeles on
Wednesday night.
[ “There wereg verbal ex-
changes, booing* and it got
enough into a physical pushing
and shoving on a flight attendant
so the captain wSs called,” TWA
spokesman Robert Blattner said
Thursday in St. Louis._______
“He came back, realized he
was in a pretty volatile situation,
so he called ahead and asked
that the police be waiting when
he landed.”
[ Four passengers who alleged-
ly lit up were placed under
Citizen’s arrest by one flight at-
tendant, Blattner said. Eleven
people were involved in the
fracas at one point, he said.
Los Angeles International Air-
port police interviewed three or
four people after the plane land-
ed at about 10:30 p.m., but made
no arrests, said Sgt. Wanda
Alford.
?’ However, airport police turn-
ed th<*case over to the FBI for
further investigation, and Blatt-
ner said one flight attendant in-
dicated she would file battery
charges against a passenger.
Smoking had been prohibited
in the coach* and business sec-
tions of the Lockheed L-1011
jumbo jet because of the large
number of non-smokers on the
flight, Blattner said. Smoking
was allowed in first Class.
■ “We had so many requests
from non-smokers that it ex-
hausted all the non-smoking
seats on the airplane,” Blattner
said. Federal regulations re-
quire that airlines put any
passenger who requests a non-
smoking seat in a row where
smoking is prohibited, he said.
Upon boarding the aircraft,
the plane’s 273 passengers were
informed it would be a no-
smoking flight, Blattner said.
■ The TWA spokesman said the
trouble began during the last
hour of the trip when the
passengers “decided to light up
their cigarettes in some kind of a.
protest,” arid were ordered by a
flight attendant and flight ser-
vice manager to put them out.
A federal law banning smok-
ing on all flights shorter than two
hours takes effect April 22.
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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Ac-
tress Ann Jillian, whose story of
a battle with cancer will be
shown on television next week,
needed to summon up some
more real-life bravery to come
to the rescue of a robin.
Walking outside of her home
last week, she saw a hawk at-
tacking the small bird. She
managed to drive the hawk
away. Meanwhile, the stunned
robin flew onto the roof of Miss
Jillian’s backyard dance studio,
the Daily News of Los Angeles
reported. —
The actress, whose portrayal
of Mae West once earned her an
Emmy nomination, climbed to
the roof to rescue the bird before
she recalled that her fear of
heights makes her dizzy. Her
husband and .manager, Andy
Murcia, cameio her rescue.
Jillian’s fight With' breast
cancer, and recovery fronj a .
mastectomy performed in i985 is
the subject of Monday night’s
NBC television movie, “The Ann
Jillian Story.”
TALLAHASSEE, FlhfAP) -
Gov. Bob Martinez fully expects
to collect a bushel of pecans
Saturday by > prevailing over
Gov. Henry Bellmon of
Oklahoma in an Orange Bowl
wager. -; —^
Martinez, ' although cocksure
that second-ranked Miami will
defeat No. 1 Oklahoma for the
national championship on New
Year’s night, has pledged to give
Bellmon a carton of citrus fruit
whatever the outcome.
As to whether the guber-
natorial gamble violates
Florida’s laws against illegal
wagers, Martinez’s press
secretary Jon Peck said: “The
term gambling irriplies an ele-
ment of risk and Since the gover-
nor is convinced Florida pro-
duces the best teams in the coun-
try, there is no apparent element
of risk involved.”
And if Oklahoma wins? money winner, Was reported in
“Unthinkable. But if the un- stable condition at a hospital
thinkable happens, then Gov. following a tumble on thei track.
Martinez will of course be Cordero was transferred from
gracious and turn over the the intensive care unit to a
citrus, wh.eh he is going to do private room at- Arcadia
anyway,” saidPeck. Methodist Hospital, nursing
In any event, the two supervisor Flo Van Meter said
Republican governors plan a Thursday night,
fishing trip ip Polk County Satur- The 45 year old jockey, with
day afternoon. more than $121 million in purse
--- earnings, was injured when
ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) - No Forkintheroad, his mount in the
pun intended, but jockey Angel $49,500 EasadcnaTourriamerit of
Cordero, Jr., thoroughbred rac- Roses Association Purse, fell ap-
ing’s second leading career preaching the final turn.
An electrical short in- the
motor was the apparent cause of
a fire that caused an estimated
$15,000 to $20,000 damage to an
18-wheel flatbed truck being
driven east on Interstate 10
Thursday, according to a
Baytown Fire Department
spokesman.
Station 3 firefighters resporid-
ed .to the 8:55 a.m. call. The
spokesman said the driver notic-
ed smoke coming from the hood
of the truck and stopped about a
half mile east of Main Street.
The cab of the truck was
engulfed when firefightersarriv-
ed. Flames were extinguished in
about 10 minutes, the spokesman
said.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 53, Ed. 1 Friday, January 1, 1988, newspaper, January 1, 1988; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1074822/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.