The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 72, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 5, 1977 Page: 1 of 23
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MORE THAN 60,000 READERS EVERY DAY
Volume 55, No. 72
Telephone Number: 422-1302
Wednesday, January S, 1977
Baytown, Taxfes, 77520
Fifteen Conts Par Copy
Absentee Vote - . .
SEVEN ABSENTEE ballots
have been cast so far in the Jan.
15» surface water election.
Absentee voting will extend
through next Tuesday in t^e con-
ference room at city ball. Week-
day hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
’‘-including the noon hour.
Rites Pending
SERVICES for John P. Krolc-
zyk. 68, of 401 Gresham are
pending at Earthman Funeral
Home. He died Tuesday
■St. Joseph School
THE IN-SERVICE session for
teachers at St. Joseph School,
planned for Friday, has been
canceled and classes will be held
, that day. v
Atttntfer"r'
CHAMBER OF Commerce
Director Dave Moore has been
released from the hospital and is
, at home where he can receive
•visitors:1'**—-Sa
Crosby PTA
CROSBY ELEMENTARY
Parent-Teacher Associatiop will
meet at 7:30 p.m.. Thursday in
the elementary school cafeteria.
Schilling Building
‘THE EYES OF Texas” will
feature the story of Nicholas T.
Schilling’s late 19th century
medical office, restored ..by
Chambers Countians for the.
nation's Bicentennial. The
program will.be aired at 6:30
p.m. Saturday op Channel 2;;
Rice Growers
AMERICAN RICE Growers
Association will- meet at 7:30
p.m. Thursday at its office in
Katy. Art Gerlow, extension
“coflonjist, Will be the speaker..
OUR WORLD
+ WASHINGTON r Army
Secretary Martin R. Hoff-
mann said today he will not
permit the early readmission
of West Point cadets ousted in
Leaders
Of GOP
the worst seanRiD in the jiis- v
tory of the U.S. Military Acad- JJl|nn|0
Ford Wants Last Say
On Party Boss Choice
+ VATICAN CITY - The
Vatican took issue today with
press reports linking the Holy
See and religious orders with
real estate speculation in
Rome.
+ DALLAS — Snow fell in
the Texas Panhandle and
South Plains today, and motor-
ists' were warned that accumu-
lations up to 3 inches were
making travel hazardous, v
WASHINGTON (APT - Pres
ident Ford wants veto power
over- the selection of a new
chairman of the Republican
Natijjnal Committee, but prob-
ably'won’t push his own candi-
date for the post. White.House
' aides'say,
The problem of filling the key
GOP post is one of the topics
likely to be discussed when
Ford meets today with top par-
ty leaders
Vice President Nelson Rock-
efeller, former California Gov.
Ronald Reagan and former
Weather
And Tides
KEEPING DRY
REMEMBER LAST summer when* folks in these parts went
through a dry spell and we all wanted rain? And surely you recall
that in late fall it began raining almost every weekend and
sometimes into the week? Well, it hasn't stopped, And this scene
has become commonplace. Wade Hicks and Donna Lostak share
an umbrella to escape the elements. They may need it again. The
weatherman says there is a 30 per cent chance of rain Wednesday
night and a 40 percent chance Thursday.’(Sun staff photo by,
Glenn Folkes) -• • ' . J
Pearce Street Journal,
r Ihw Dr Yw uwr
A newspaperman used to be
known as a newspaperman,
but now he is known as a print
journalist. That’s the 1977 ‘‘in”
way of* sSying it.
You have heard all your life
the old saw that a picture is
worth a thousand words.
that has been changed too,
in the minds of print journal-,
ists. They now maintain a
printed word is worth a thou-
sand pictures.
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Texas Gov. John Connaily were 3udge MarJrellus K Snow
scheduled to attend today’s,
White House meeting, their sec-
ond in a month:
'^.he Republican leaders
planned talks Ion the GOP’s fu-
ture and Ford’s role in the par-
ty after he leaves office Jan.
20.
Ford is known to have some
favorities of his own for nation-
committee chairman, but
has declined to make his pref-
erence public.
the committee itself has got
30 Days In Jail? - -
$1 Million Lawsuit By Widow
(Could Delay Gilmore Death
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) —Isuit, is the widow “of -Max
Lawyers fof tbp widow of a man Jensen, 25, shot to death last
shot to death last summer are (July 1$ during a robbery of an
trying to gather evidence in a 51 Orem gas station. Gilmore, 36,
million lawsuit against con-has admitted the shooting, but
Gary Gilmore
cuted by a firing
.demned killer
before he is execute
squad Jan. 17.
Attorneys for Colleen H.
Jensen and her daughter Monica
were to take depositions from
Gilmore today under an order
granted by 3rd District Court
Mrs. Jensen, who filed thejfor-
has not been tried for it.
He was convicted and sentenc-
ed to death for killing Bennie
Bushnell,-a Provo motel clerk.
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Gilmore attorney Ronald
Stanger said Snow has indicated
there is a possibility Gilmore
could beplacedm jaiHor.30days- probaply Wot
refuses to cooperate.
That, attorneys speculated,
raised the possibility of
Gilmore’s death sentence being
delayed again. His previous ex-
ecution dales have pas
because of court-ordered stays of
execution. The stays angered
Gilmore, who has said he wants
to die.
order a jail sentence for Gilmore
under a contempt charge.
Mrs. Jensen also seeks $50JKJO
in punitive damages and said she
hopes to collect at least a portion
in revenues from the sale of the
rights to Gilmore’s life for films
and books.
Debra Bushnell, widow of the
slain motel clerk, has filed law-
Warden Samuel W. Smith of suits against Gilmore, as has the
the,Utah State Prison saii
Wootf&ac’kn attorney
Hnioir Assurance
Co.,-which paid workman's com-
linion should Snow pensation for Bushnell's death.
Pamphlets In Circulation
Urging Water Vote Passage
UF Officers
Nominated *
Until Jan. 24
Pamphlets are being , dis-
tributed in Baytown by the
to make the decision,” a White P pusMng.Jfr
House official said; “As to
whether the President will
come out hard an-' endorse a
particular individual, that's still the committee and says it will be
Citizeni Committee to Stop Sub- surface caused by withdrawal of
passage of the Jan. 15 -surface
water election
Willie Moreno is chairman of
The pamphlet explains sub-
sidence is the sinking of the land
New Sample Textbooks To
Be Available Here Soon
CLOUDY.
CLOUDY AND cooler with a
30 per cent" chance of rain
Wednesday night; increasing to
40 per cent Thursday is the pie sets, J
Baytown area '*. weather
forecast. Low expected
Wednesday night, near 40;
high, Thursday, mid-40s. -i „
BAYTOWN TIDES for Thur-
sday: Highs at +5:49 a.m. and
U p.m.; lows at +1:58 a.m.
and 3:03 p.m. ;
SUNRISE THURSDAY at 7:18
a.m.; sunset at 5:37 p.m.
+ Denotes weak tides.
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER
Samples' of textbooks approv-
ed by the State Board of Educa-
tion and offered for adoption
here will be received soon and
will be available for public
scrutiny
enrollment, is entitled tol6sanF
Texas Education Agency will
begin shipping samples op Jan.
3, J. Henry Perry Jr., TEA text-
book divisioi/director, said in a
letter to Baytown Supt. Johnny
Clark-
' A set.wili be on display af the
Media Center, 200 Stimpson near
Horace .Mann Junior School
This district,, because of its _ Other • books will be dis-
tributed to yariousschoob and
Clark said; persons wishing to
review them may call the Media
Center or -administrative offices
to determine a location nearest
where the person lives.
Though the books will not be
checked out to anyone for
lengthy review’at home, some
arrangement may be made for a
person to keep;a book overnight,
he'said in a, recent school board
meeting- :v- -■
•After tlje 15-member local text-
book: committee,, composed. of
(See NEW, Page l-A)V
an open question
Another aide said Fflrd prob-
ably* would prefer'to exercise a
proposed candidate, rather than
voicing his oyvn preference.
The Republican National
Committee will gather in Wash-
ington ,for its Jan. 14-15 reorga-
nization meeting. Ford will en-
tertain th,e committee at a
White House reception Jan. 14,
Ford has ruled himself 6ut as
a candidate for the committee
chairmanship being vacated by
Mary Louise Smith. And Con-
naily, once considered a good
possibility fbr the post, said
after the Dec. 9 White House
strategy meeting that he was
not interested. '
provide speakers to interested
groups wanting more informa
tion about the election. The
veto if he doesn't approvetof a committee was appointed by the
Baytown'Area Water Authority
Board. ;
Questions and answers are in-
cluded in the pamphlet in addi-
tion to,photos illustrating the
ravages of land subsidence.
water from subsurface water-
bearing formations.
From 1943 to 1973, land in
some parts of Baytown sank
from five to seven feet.
-Also, subsidence will continu
as long as water-is removed from
underground, formations. At the
current -rate-ef subsidence, tend
will sink five more feet in 14
years in west Baytown, 18 years £
be severely limited, the
pamphlet points out. Millions of
dollars of property will be
destroyed by continuing sub-
sidence.
Converting to surface water is
the only way to stop land sub
sidence. If the BAWA election is
approved Jan. 15, surface water
will be available here in about,
twoand a half years.
The pamphlet also points out Perry Smith,
in east Baytown.
If 'land subsidence is not
stopped, Baytown’s growth will from sub-surface formations
Written nominations for new
officers and directors of
Baytown and East Harris County
Community Chest will be receiv-
ed until Jan. 24 by members of
the nominating committee,
George Gentry, chairman of the
Council of Members, said.
Members of , the nominating
committee are John P, Hender-
son, chairman; Leon Brown;
Charles Closs, Jerry Brewer and
Nominations may
Die lack of alternatives to con- a*s0 ** lo ^ Uommuni-
verting to surface water, saying [7 Ch®1 <«!«*• p- °- Box 425’
unlikely the Harris- Baytown^
in central Baytown and 22 jearsGa|veston Coasta] subsidence New officers and directors will
District will permit continued 'be elected at the annual public
unlimited water withdrawal meeting at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Feb.
Pact For New CV School
OK’d After Union Debate
lirlU
Allen Names Baytoi
New Administrative Aide
GARY THOMAS gets ready for a
; trip to Houston. . . Clyde Alex-
ander seeks information
Herbert Bishop finishes a pro*
ject. , •• .«*
Oz Hughes and Henry
Armstrong attend,an important
meeting . . „ Steve Moorman
talks about lifting weights , .
- Dollie MeAIpin pays a visit,
Barry Harvey has fun over a
football ticket.
Tammy Plocheck looks sharp
in a new pair of- bodjs . Dale
Schimming get;
shear. . . Charlie Cowan balks
' ‘ at giving a quart of blood
Jack Conway opens the door for
visitors to church.
A1 Hawthorne waves
while driving down, the SI
.:. . Fat Grandy has a good time
at a baby shower' ^7]rJton
Ummel attends a service .
Charles ShaFfeir gives Bob!
Dabney a recipe for making
biscuits
Don Martin has been .- ap-
pointed to succeed -Steve
Underwood as administrative
assistant to Rep. Joe Align of
Baytown.
He will bein. charge of^he
Baytown and Austin offices and
Mrs. Betty McGilvray wiUcon,-
tinub 40 managerhe; Baytown of-
fice. ■ ' ' . . . .
.Alien alstfis assembling a staff
■ Wwork in nis Austin office dur-
ing theTegislative Session which
begins Jan. 4. ‘
Underwood, of" 308'-z W.
31 to complete his last semester
at the University of Houston law
schpoL ’ ‘ ‘ ) '
Son of Mrs, Annie K,
Underwood of 1202 Jefferson
and thedate .Dennis Underwood
he has worked for Allen sinc%
I9?3" when he was a student at
the University of Texas, and
became administrative assistant
in 1975. ' ' ; ,,r
Martin, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert L. Martin of 460 S. Bur-
pet, has worked for Allep sipce
Humble, resigned, effective Dec, tion- with the exception of last
1;...’ " ,'.n ’ '
summer when he interned in
U.S. Rep. Bob Eckhardt's office
in Washington. .
He is a journalism and govern-
ment major .at *UT and will
graduate With a bachelor of jour-
nalism degree in May. *'.'
* Active in local politics-Martin
has been a delegate to several
district conven&onstond the 1974
state Democratic convention,
He also attended the 1976
national Democratic convention
%rMURIEL SCOTT
CHANNELVIEW (Sp) -
took three votes and nearly two
hours of discussion before
Channelview School trustees
reached a unanimous decision will be to:
Tuesday to accept the bid of
TOS, Inc., of Houston to-con
tract Alice Johnson Junior High
School
The., controversy centered
whether to go with the
shop TOS, the apparent
low bidder with $3,389,200, or
with T. D. Howe Construction
Co: of Houston, which uses un-
ion labor but bid $13,500 mote.
Complicating the issue was. the
threat of picketing from the
International Brotherhood of
Electrical Workers Local 716,
which sent noticekrtotoach board
member stating that one of the
subcontractors listed by TOS did
not belong to IBEW,
- ’V ‘ ‘ ~~ L
that We -are hereby requesting
permission to post our pickets on
your premises at a safe place,
immediately close to the work
being performed. Otherwise, we
¥
got to be tt)is way or else. Asa
board member, seeing what is
being put before’me, I’ll be do-
ing wrong if I don’t go with the;
low bid. 1 don’t like people say-
do this, and l'H do that.”
The first vote to accept Howe
failed 2-3, with Schumacher and
Charlie Parker voting for the
motion, and Campbell, Bill Neai
and Hersehel Tate voting,
against. , * ’ < •*
The second vote to accept TOS
failed 2-3,1 with Tatp and
Campbell voting for the motion,
and Neal, Schumacher" and
Parker opposed, '■
After a break''and' tnore dis-
cussion, trustees learned that
Howe has used open-shop eon-
tractors in (hb Jjasj and might ■
again in by tiding the junior high
public streets as . close to the
work being performed
feasible.” -
In the early discussion, Board
President Oscar Langston said
;;Our community is made up
primarily of working people. I
feel if they could vote on it, they
would vote union."
Trustee Karl Schumacher
said, "About 75 to 80 per cent of
the people in Channelview are
union people. Right now arepad
times, and these people are
affected by. layoffs.” """
Disturbed by the polities in- ...
volved in the decision;*Trustee vV®01 - „
Joe Campbell said, "When I was « apf*ars:now thaft whoever
elected, it was to sit on the board Iwe, use‘ *' ™uid sbll be non-
the 1975 Constitutional Conven-lin New York, though not as a
delegate.
The message stated j and do as I feel shouldbe done. un*on'^^andomlhat basis, Id go
DON MARTIN “Therefore, please, be advised! It bugs me that people say it has! (See PACT, Pagb2-A)
8, at the Chamber of Commerce
building. ' *
Reports of Community Chest
agencies covering their activities
and finances during 1976 will be
received at the annual meeting.
Everyone who contributed to
the-United 'Fund during the past
year is a member in good
standing and (s urged to attend.
Officers whose terms expire
are. .’Gentry, chairman, and
Tracey Wheeler, secretary of the
Council of Members.
. Retiring directors of the Com-
munity Chest are Bill Duplantis,-
Quin MeWhirter, Alvin1 Miles
and Don Treuhardt.
Holdover Community Chest
directors are Bruce M. Causey
Jr.’, John P. Henderson, Dr.
James i Lewis,. Randy Smith,
Mary Elizabeth Wilbanks, Leon
Brown, Ike D. Hall, Ralph Kunz,
Clyde Messiah and John $.
Sylvester JY.
Retiring directors of the
Welfare League are Charles
Closs, Marilyn Ferguson, -Victor
lonzales qnd M. L. Watts. . *
Hojdover Welfare League
directors are Shirley Andrews,
James 'A. Davis, Mary Brown,
Wallace Heaner, Martha Sooy,
Fred Adams, Bruce Baughman,
Robert C. Cloud, Dari SaVage
and Flora;Wilhite.
Controversy Often Paid Call On Beach City In 76
By LYNN HUGHES
BEACH crr¥:(Sp) -.Frustra-
tlckwing ■” that votes McCleHan withdrew-his
Betty McGilvray is ca
witehg name-ifr > +lip'
tongue-. .. Mrs. F.
■ mistaken for her
sister . j . Kevin
pays a visit. 1;
OATH-W OFFICE.
......-\,.h ..
NEWLY ELECTED'Chambers ( ounty Commissioner Lee G.
Mendenhall, left, takes the oath of office to begin serving his first
term as .commissioner from grepipet 1 (Winnie-Stowell)
UtaidenhaB. tte son____
Mendenhall; won election over 1
who served on l
Nelson Jr.
ap
i
d on thei court for eight yefara-.
aditiinftters the oath, if
-X...... (Sub S«B
sometimes turned into heated1
arguments marked 1976 for bdth
the Beach City Council and
residents of the Bayridge Sub-,
both croups worked
and .reduce increased
water and sewerage rates in the
hpusing addition of 56- homes
. The year saw a new mayor,
Iferschel Scott, 50, take over the
small “West
sis
Chambers County community,
amidst a growing controversy
over the building 3 i
water and sewerage systoi that
,woQld .serve residents of the en-
tire community, (most of which
uses septic tanks.
'■ w?lls. “"T ’
office 1
rAliWwnir
tounne^;
County Judge Oscar F, L Scott took ol
/ i. • slim victory of 106 to 103
Photo by Muriel Scott) incumbent MdVbr Jimmv^
m
McClellan, who later pietitioned
the council for a recount of the
petition four days after it was
delivered to the council,
Other new- council members
elected 'in the April- 3 election
late Beach City real-
tor Z. B- (Bill) White, who
unseated incumbent Madge
Labit, Frank Martarana, a
retired barber, and-Gus Dauzat,
city marshal.
There Were several controver-
sial items facing council
members during 1976; One, of
financial records by a~three-
member committee, appointed
by* Mayor Seott. -tutfled ifito
shouting match between
members of the committee and
counciiWoman Georgia Mack?
rell, who had been city treas-
urer several years,
Tempers flared in the May'23
meeting, when the committee,
composed of Mrs. Perry Bartow,
chairman; Mrs. W. W. Pfistner
and Jack Elder, criticized the
way records of the city were be-
ing kept. ;
JTTtlFMS NATIONAL BANK
AND TRUST CO. f oi e
Peoples Stale B^nk
ly kept, the auditing committee
found most of them of little
Mrs Barrow told the council.
She said several of the records
were not available for examina-
tion and others were “packets
secured with rubber bands and a
box of clutter." -
division of LeMesa Properties in
Houston. • >
realizing a ,15 per cent profit on
its operation?. ' .
come, up at least once ia every1. A1, •%; Mar^i ^ council similar Tecords from Robert
council meetirig this year is the meeting. Mayor McClellan tolct Naismith, owner of Sunflower
increase in water and sewerage
bills for Bayridge homeowners,
hi January, a resolution was
passed asking then.City Atty
Eugene Jenson-to draw up a city
ordinance allowing the city to
regulate private utilities within
the city limits. .
The action stemmed from an,
increase of 500 to 800 percent to
Bayridge homeowners, who are
on k private system-owned by
the council ' Jenson had
withdrawn from participation in
the Bayridge Homeowpers
‘Association’s efforts, saying "iie
felt his services were not heeded
in the matter. McClellan told the
council Jenson had not writteh
an ordinance, as, requested in
.January
TZ\
2616 Markat a. 422-8231,
Ma ttnrkt Chtrgt
Mtmbaat-D IC
lir
September; when, - copies of
records pertaining to the opera-
tion of'toetyewerage tf^tment
plant were presented to the
couflcil by John Zipprich, at-
torney for Bayridge
Maintenance §0. Zipprich said
although rates hap jumped
following the December 1975
rate hikfe, the company was only
East Mobile Home Park here,
and owner of 55 per cent of the
sewerage treatment ftcilityfwas,
unsuccessful, making thetasko!
trying to set a fair rate of return
for the two companies more dif-
ficult. ,
LAND PURCHASE
Another issue that brought
The matter dragged on until a ^ _ ™“"c“ V,
:pterrtbef|i when, - copies of V
Miuiiuvia, su new
was the late 1974 purchase of a
(SteBEACH CiTY.TtgcfeM
Rent-A-Car
Hvgh U!oo<d K*d
180! Decker 422-8121
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