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Three arrested in
Liberty drug raid
By BRUCE GUYNN
LIBERTY - Liberty County
sheriff’s deputies Friday raided
an alleged methamphetamine
lab, believed to be the major
supplier for drug dealers in the
county, Sheriff E.W. “Sonny”
Applebe said. v
Three persons were arrested
in connection with the 6:45 Am.
raid and were awaiting arraign-
ment in the Liberty County Jail
Friday morning.
Applebe said the suspects are
a 34-year-old Hardin area man
and his 28-year-old wife and a 27-
year-old Liberty area man.
The Liberty area man is on
parole from the Texas Depart-
ment of Corrections, according
to Applebe.
Officers arrested the three
suspects in a trailer house in a
relatively secluded section of the
Knights Forest subdivision
about 11 miles north of Liberty.
The house and a shack behind
the building are believed to be
the site of the lab. Applebe said
the operators of the lab were tak-
ing in about $1,500 per day from
the sale of illegal drugs.
Applebe said pistols and equip-
ment believed to be used in the
manufacture of metham-
phetamine . were found in the
house.
A small quantity of a
substance, believed to be
methamphetamine, was found
at the house. The substance will
be sent to the Department of
Public Safety lab for analysis.
Investigators believe metham-
. phetamine was being
tured at the home on a per order
basis.
The suspects offered no
resistance. Two of the defen-
dants were still in bed when Of-
ficers arrived at the house, Ap-„
plebe said.
Applebe said the raid was the
result of an undercover opera-
tion that began in March.
As part of the operation,
undercover officer made buys
from various dealers, according'
to Applebe.
Investigators believe the lab
has been in operation for several
months.
Applebe said he didn’t expect
any additional arrests to be
made in connection with the
raid.
property values has been ex-
Deadline for value
protests extended
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WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY skies
and warm, humid weather
is forecast for the Baytown
area. A 50-percent chance
of thunderstorms is
forecast for Friday with a
high in the upper 80s and a
low Friday night near 70
degrees. Saturday there is
a 30-percent chance of
thunderstorms with a high
near 90 degrees forecast.
Rainfall totaled Ik inches
in the 24-hour period en-
ding at 8 a.m. Friday mor-
ning.
tended to July 19 or 30 days after
the valuation notice is postmark-
the Harris County Appraisal
District has announced.
The original deadline for filing
a complaint was July 1 or 30
days af|er the notice was
postmarked.
But the Harris County Ap-
praisal Review Board extended
the deadline recently at the re-
quest of new Chief Appraiser
Kenneth Graeber.
Graeber requested the exten-
sion to avoid taxpayer confusion
about a new state law that
became effective June 12.
This new law requires protests
to be filed before July 1 or within
30 days after the taxpayer is sent
a value change notice.
“We believe the new" uniform
protest deadline will be helpful
to taxpayers statewide, but feel
the change needs to be phased in
for 1985 to avoid a situation
where .one or more property
owners might lose their right to
a hearing,” said Graebet.
The new state law provides far
an extension of the deadline if it
is approved by the” appraisal
review board.
The review board has also* ex-
tended the deadline, for tax en-
tities to protest their values from
July 8-4
Graeber explained, “The
tag upits* Harris QLtwj
received their preliminary ap-
praisal rolls on June 21 and we
want to give them additional
time to check these documents
for errors.’/
The appraisal district has
mailed valuation notices to
about 250,000 property owners,
less than one-fourth of the total
in the county.
Notices were mailed for
business property, land being
taxed for the first time this year
and for property that increased
in value by more than $1,000.
gAINY4TH
HIGHLIGHTING AN other-
wise rainy Independence Day
was the naming of Little Mr.
and Miss Jute 4, 1985. Taking
the titles 4&re C&ssie Ann
Eberly, 5, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. David Eberly of 1007 S.
Shepherd, and James Edward
Morris, 3, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Morris of 4407 Lariat,
pictured at left. Children’s
spirits are rarely dampened by
rain even if they have to watch
a parade from inside their
grandmother’s car, as was the
case Thursday for Leanne Vin-
son, 4, and her brother, Gary,
6, pictured at bottom. The
children’s parents are Mr. and
Mrs. Larry Vinson of 4605
Chaparral Drive and their
West firefighters
want cool weather
Pearce Street Journal - -
Questioning kids
Children at a certain age begin
asking questions and not really
listening to the answers.
_ Later they give their parents
answers without ever listening
to the questions.
AROUND
<town
JOE LEE has lots of ideas for a
new singles department after
returning from Glorietta, N.M.,
... Terry Adams is finally per-
suaded to attend his class reu-
nion.
Lila Janick gets help fixing
her glasses ... Marie Reed en-
joys hearing some “backwoods” ,
tales ... Pat Kind has mixed
feelings about a very long test.
Julie Zeglin wins more ribbons
... Suzanne Hooper looks good
in her new dress . .. Vickie Gib- *
son works toward her master’s
degree in physical education at
the University of Houston ...
Lisa Morgan and Gary
Southerland attend a celebra-
tion.
Jean and Sarah Wood are
issued special thanks... Wayne
and Nancy Hanson decorate
well. #
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Armies of battle-hardened
firefighters struggled Friday to
control stubborn blazes that
have laid waste to more than
150,000 acres of brush and
rangeland in 10 parched Western
Reagan’s ranch..
Resources had been stretched
so thin by the Ojal fire that the
Forest Service offered civilian
truck and van owners $7 an hour
and up to 35 cents a mile to haul
’Supplies. The response triggered
states, forcing the evacuation df a traffic jam of 'trucks and vans
MARKING THE first anniversary of a triple addi-
tion to the Brock family of Huffman are, from left,
Donald Brock, holding one of his triplet sons, Eric
David; younger sister, Melissa; Donald Langdon
III, being held by his mother, Karen: and older
sister, Amanda, holding Joseph Bryan. The three
boys, born July 5,1984, at a Baytown hospital, keep
their parents and sisters busy, having transformed
the Brock household into a site of non-stop activity.
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HUFFMAN - Buying two'
gallons of milk per day, 120
diapers a week antj four dozen
eggs every time they turjp
around has become standard
operating procedure for Donald
and Karen Brock of rural Huff-
man.
On July 5, 1984, Mrs. Brock
gave birth to triplet sons, Donald
Langdon III, Joseph Bryan and
Eric David. Since that date
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nothing in the Brock household
has been simple or ordinary.
The instant addition of three
babies to the family was as
much of an adjustment for the
Brock’s daughters, Amanda and
Melissa, as for their parents.
Big sister Mandy, who will be 8
soon, said she enjoys playing
with her three brothers, but isn’t
quite so overjoyed about becom-
ing an expert diaper changer.
Brock said she is. really a “big-
time helper” to the couple who
have managed to take care of
the triplets without any outside
help, apd he jokingly refers to
her as ‘ ‘his little Cinderella. ’ ’
For Missy, nearly 3, the addi-
tion of three new babies to the
family has primarily meant hav-
ing lots of baby bottles around
the house and the chance to
revert to a habit her parents
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thousands of people.
Thousands of firefighters bat-
tled blazes Friday in Arizona,
Idaho, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon,
Washington, Wyoming, and
California, which has been the
hardest hit since the waves of
fires began June 27.
Encouraged by reduced winds
and temperatures that dropped
into the 90s after days in triple
digits, 2,700 firefighters worked
for a fifth day Friday to control a
blaze that has charred 78,000
acres in Southern California.
“If the weather holds, we
should be in pretty good shape,”
said U.S. Forest Service
spokesman Max Reed. “The
winds have laid down.”
The fire,'which was about 40
percent contained Thursday
night, rolled into coastal Santa
Barbara County after threaten-
ing Ojai in Ventura County and
forcing cancellation of area
fireworks displays.
The’Santa Barbara fire, in the
Los Padres National Forest, was
a few miles from the outskirts of
Carpinteria, a beach town 12
miles east of Santa Barbara and
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headed toward the ranger sta-
tion and the offer was canceled
two hours later.
“It was just overwhelming,”
said spokesman Steve Beck.
“We really appreciate what peo-
ple did.”
Numerous other fires burned
across California, including a
1,600-acre blaze in Yosemite Na-
tional park that was about three-
fourths contained Thursday,
said park dispatcher Darlene
Hales. It started Sunday with an
unattended campfire.
„The state’s worst damage was
done by suspected arson fires
that destroyed or damaged a
total of more than 140 houses in
Palo Alto; San Diego’s Normal
Heights; and Baldwin Hills in
Los Angeles, where three people
were killed.
Damage in those three fires
has been estimated at more than
$31 million.
In Nebraska, firefighters from
dozens of towns Friday fought
lightning'spawned blazes that
have charred 11,000 acres of
grass, crops and forest since
Wednesday. One, in the Pine
Ridge area of northwest
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 211, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1985, newspaper, July 5, 1985; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1075137/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.