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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday. July 5, 1985
Police beat
Five injured in
two-car accident
. Five Baytonians were injured
in a two-car accident in the 1000
block of Market Street about
11:10 p.m. Thursday, Baytown
police reported. '
Ira Nita Johnson. 19, of 1213
Yupon and his passengers,
Jessie Hewitt, 19, of 405 Schill-
ing; Ivy T. Johnson, 22, of 441
Clyde and Lela Warren, 16, of
1301 Yupon, were taken to
Humana Hospital Baytown by
•f Navarre’s Baytown Ambulance
Service.
The driver of the second car,
Aldagiza Garcia, 42, of 609 For-
tinberry, was taken to San Jacin-
to Methodist Hospital by
Navarre’s Baytown Ambulance
Service.
Officer D. Edmondson said
Garcia, whose car’s emergency
flashers were turned on, was
driving slowly in traffic west-
bound on Market when his car
was struck by the Johnson vehi-
cle, also westbound.
Johnson was charged with
failure to control his vehicle, Ed-
mondson said.
Thefts, etc.
Baytown police investigated
several burglaries and thefts in-
volving more than $100 worth of
property Thursday. They includ-
ed:
+; Theft of a spare tire from a
truck parked in the 4000 block of
Garth Road Tuesday. It was
worth $316.
+ Theft of a pistol from a
truck parked in the 2300 block of
Decker Drive Wednesday night.
om'
It was worth $445.
+ Theft of a gray 1981 Datsun
200 SX from the 6800 block of
Garth Road Wednesday. It was
valued at $13,000.
+ Theft of a set of T-tops from
a car parked in the 1600 block of
Garth Road Wednesday. They
were worth $1,300.
+ Damage to a table and
chair at an apartment in the 4200 •
block of Baker Road Wednes-
day. Loss was estimated at $425.
+ Damage to a glass door at a
business in the 2500 block of
Park. Loss was. estimated at
$120.
Citations issued
During the July 4 holiday,
police answered “numerous”
calls about fireworks being
discharged and wrote citations
to three people who allegedly
discharged fireworks within the
city limits, Assistant Police
Chief R.H. “Bob” Merchant
said. No reports of injuries or
damages caused by fireworks
was received by police, he add-
ed.
Search for
escaped man
HOSTAGE SUSPECT CRITICAL
MEMBERS OF the press gather on the front porch
of a mobile home near Odessa, Mo., Friday morn-
ing at the conclusion of a hostage situation. Robert
Allen, 25, is suspected of holding six law enforce-
ment officers in the mobile home Thursday. After
Americans celebrate July 4
* Fireworks, swimming, parties highlights
Revelers celebrated
America’s 209th birthday Thurs-
day with outdoor Independence
Day parties from the
Washington Monument to a rain-
soaked Texas hoe-down to the
beaches of tinder-dry California.
The nation also reveled in hav-
ing the 39 hostages of TWA
Flight 847 at home, and for many
of them the Fourth of July was a
day for fyomesgun pursuits —
precious legacy of the Declara-
tion of Independence. ’ ’
Crowds gathered early at the
Mall between the Washington
Monument and the Capitol in
Washington, D.C., with 200,000
people flocking to the area by
afternoon for a concert feature
performers ranging from Mr. T
to LeonardBernstein.
Rock concert enthusiasts
began cat
continues
CLEBURNE (AP) - A man
condemned to life in prison in the
kidnapping of an Alvarado girl
was still at large Friday after he
scrambled over a barbed wire-
tipped fence to freedom,
authorities say.
James Wesley Foote, 34, scal-
ed an eight-foot fence around the
Johnson County Jail Thursday
after being transferred there
earlier this week for questioning
in a robbery, Johnson County
Chief Deputy Malcolm
Southerland said.
Before that, Foote had been
held in a Texas Department of
Corrections unit after receiving
a life sentence March 28 in the
kidnapping of 13-year-old Amy
McNiel.
Southerland said Foote, clad
in orange TDC trousers and no
shirt, climbed over the fence
about 2 p.m. as he and about 50
other prisoners were in the jail’s
exercise yard.
“He had to be cut up pretty
bad," he said. “We had a guard
there but the guard was unable
to stop him.” ’
Roadblocks were erected
throughout (ige'"are3 as more
than 100 lawmen searched for
Foote, but he was^still at large-
Algonquin, IU., and Isabelle Car-* after midnight,
pio of Aurora, 111., spent the day
releasing five of the six hostages, Allen reportedly
stepped out on the front porch and was met with 75-
100 rounds of gunfire from officers surrounding the
mobile home. Allen is currently in critical condi-
tion. • ' . (APphoto)
mishap with go-cart
Walter Cassity of Baytown will
observe his 11th birthday Satur-
day in Room 106 at Gulf Coast
Hospital, where he is being
treated for a leg injury suffered
in a go-cart accident Thursday.
His mother, Linda Ferguson,
said the mishap occurred when
because of this. What happened
yesterday wouldn’t happen
again in a million years. ” *
Mrs. Ferguson said Walter
and her husband, Toby
Ferguson, went to the emergen-
cy room at Gulf Coast Hospital
in a van driven by one of the
and quiet times with family.
But in California, winds whip-
ped brush fires over tens of
thousands of acres, prompting
officials to postpone some
fireworks displays and to urge
that Independence Day celebra-
tions feature only professional
fireworks.
A half-million people flocked
to beaches in and around Los
Angeles, where the air
temperature was in the '60s ana
spots for the musical bill of fare
that included the Beach Boyss
Joe Ely, Jimmy Page, the Four
Tops, the Oak Ridge Boys, and
Christopher Cross.
The Beach Boys performed
at Wrigley Field in Chicago,
where Lazansky tossed out the
first ball in the game between
the Cubs and Giants.
One former hostage spent part
of the day in a barber’s chair.
Pilot John Testrake got a haircut
Thursday. He had felt “like a
woolly bear” in captivity, his
said../
picnic m outdoor Austin,
Texas, amphitheater, where
one-half inch of rain fell Thurs-
day, sending cars . and people
sliding around in the muck.
The Fourth was also a celebra-
^ter mature,.in the
President Reagan’s message
earlier for a crowd of about 1 tion of the offbeat
million people in Philadelphia, Folks rode inner-tubes down
where the Declaration of In- the Chattahoochee River in
dependence was signed on July Georgia for the Second Annual
4, 1776. “It’s pretty cool and Tube Parade,
awesome, ” said Bob Widman, A 61-year-old man water-skied
11, watching the dancing crowd 43 miles down the Maine coast
that stretched for seven blocks from Boothbay Harbor into-
another go-cart during the city’s
July 4 celebration. The races
were held on the Lee College
parking lot across the street
from Bicentennial Park.
“It wasn’t anybody’s fault,”
Mrs. Ferguson added, calling
the incident a freak accident. “I
wouldn’t want the city to discon-
tinue having the go-cart races
didn’t get her name but she was
driving a blue van and I really
would like to thank her,” she
said.
The accident had happened
just shortly before Mrs.
Ferguson arrived at the scene.
The boy.was in surgery for
about V/z hours Thursday after-
noon.
to the nation asked citizens to
“pray for God’s blessing and his
help in safeguarding the
from the Philadelphia Art
MUseum to Logan Circle. “I’ve
never been to anything so big.”
Former hostages George
Lazansky and his wife, Joann, of
Falmouth, duplicating a similar
trip he made in 1953.
Edgar Reed II did it “to prove
that you don’t slow down, ever, if
you’re in good condition. ’ ’
Conweli: U,S. should retaliate
Houston delays vote
on chili cookoff law
HOUSTON (AP) - City of-
ficials put off a, vote oh a con-
troversial city health code
amendment that would exempt
from certain health regulations
charitable operations including
chili cookoff participants.
The Houston City Council
voted Wednesday to delay action
for a week on the proposed
amendment until another one
4&tan be prepared that would ex-
empt “charitable operations of
411 types and street vendors”
from certain health regulations.
“There must be a full moon,”
Councilman John Goodner said
after the overheated council ses-
sion.
Caught in the middle of the
simmering controversy is city
health director James* E.
Haughton who is trying to en-
force city health regulations.
The disputed rules require
each charitable group to Obtain a
$20 permit, place a three-sided
barrier, such as tables, between
the cooking areas and the public,
and place a roof or a tarpaulin
The requirements had not
been enforced until recently
when a cookoff participant ap-
plied for a permit.
Councilman Jim Greenwood,
who has embraced the chili
cause as his own, insisted there
is no need to enforce the rules for
the cookoffs since there haven’t
been reports of health problems
and aren’t enough health inspec-
tors to adequately monitor the
city’s restaurants and^ im-
munization programs.
Greenwood grilled Haughton
at length on such points .as the
correct cooking temperatures of
chili ingredients.
Haughton told Greenwood,
“You can change (the regula-
tions) any way you want to, bat
don’t try to make me the heavy
for trying to enforce what you
passed.”
Cookoff devotees have
tirelessly pressed council
members in recent weeks to
grant the exemption, saying the
rules could put many of them out
of operation.
over the cooking area.
h‘ -
1 LP firefighters stay busy
LA PORTE — La Porte Fire
Department was called to two
vehicle fires afld a house fire
Thursday, officials reported.
The first vehicle fire occurred
at approximately midnight
Thursday in Morgan’s Point.
pU ^Destroyed was a Ford pickup
m trtck that had been stolen at
~ Crystal Beach.
No loss estimate was _
available.
The second vehicle fire oc-
curred in the 3600 block of Sum-
merton Avenue in La Porte. A
Chevrolet pickup truck was in-
volved in the fire, which happen-
ed around 1:30 a.m. Friday.
No other information was
available.
A house fire was reported at 11
p.m. Thursday at a residence in
the 10,000 block of Avenue L.
A stereo overheated and
caught a wall of the residence on
fire, the fire official said.
The blaze was put out by the
owner of the house before
firefighters arrived.
There were no damage
estimates available.
CROSBY
A trailer fire was reported at
about 6:30 a.m. Thursday to the
Crosby Volunteer Fire Depart-
ment. V
No other
available.
information was
HOUSTON (AP) - Former
TWA hostage Allyn Conweli says
he is in full accord with the
United States wanting to
retaliate against the Shiite hi-
jackers and those who murdered
Navy diver Robert Stethem.
Conweli, 39, told reporters at
an invitation-only press con-
ference Thursday, he totally
supports .the Reagan ad-
ministration’s efforts to seek
retaliation.
j_“I have absolutely no sym-
pathy for and I have absolutely
no understanding of the act of
murder. I have no compassion
for, understanding of, and I have
never voiced any compassion,
sympathy, understanding or
tolerance for murderers or tiie
hijackers,” Conweli said. '
He said the comments he
made at a Damascus press con-
ference, which were construed
as being sympathetic to the
Shiites, dealt with only one
group — the Amal militia.
“They entered this situation
reluctantly,” Conweli said. The
other Shiite groups consisted of
the hijackers and supporters of
the hijackers, he said.
Conweli said the Amal were
wrong in holding them hostage,
but he said he understood how
they would consider the holding
of Americans equal to that of
Israel holding 700 Shiites as
prisoners.
“(Nabih) Berri and the Amal
were acting against the law,”
Conweli said. “I also think the
Israelites were working against
the law.” -
As elected spokesman for the
American hostages, Conweli
said he was used to a certain
degree by the Amal.
Conweli has been the target of
much criticism by former
hostages for the “sympathetic”
comments he made about his
captors and for the apparent
special treatment given him by
the Amal. .~ -,;v:
“Apparently, after reviewing
tape there is tremendous
amount of confusion over my
role as spokesman — perhaps
some debate over my political
affiliation. I want to clear this up
as soon as possible,” Conweli
said*-as his wife, Olga, and ,
brother, Ron, sat next to him.
Several former captives have
said they didn’t agree with Con-
well’s statements about the
cause of the Amal, who held the
passengers and three crew
members of TWA flight 847 for 17
days.
Some hostages also have said
Conweli received special treat-
ment compared with the rest of
the 38 hostages. Criticisms made
about Conweli included that he
had a separate room, had his
laundry done for him while
others did theirs in a sink, had
better food and was privileged to
drive a car.
Conweli, however, said that he
was treated no differently than
any of the other hostages. The
oMy exception, he said, was that
he ate a few slices of watermelon
once.
“There were no special con-
siderations * afforded to me,”
Conweli said. “I slept with and
lived with my fellow hostages
when I was able to sleep.”
His role as spokesman called
for less sleep because he was
taken by the captors to visit all
the hostages,during the night,
Conweli said. He wasn’t allowed
to visit the others during the day
because of security reasons, he
said. ■„ .
Conweli said he drove a car for
about five to seven minutes but
that it wasn’t his idea.
The eloquently-spoken Con-
well said he had seen the
“slanderous remarks” made by
fellow hostage Peter Hill of Hoff-
man Estates, 111., accusing him
of being naive about the Amal.
He said the allegations made by
Hill caused him a great deal of
concern.
“He (Hill) contributed to the
statement I read and at no time
did he or anyone come to me and
voice objection to what I had
said,” Conweli said about Hill.
Conweli, an oil services
representative for Enterra Com-
pany, said the fact that he is go-
ing back to the Middle East to
work does not frighten him. He
said that because he worked in
the region from his base in
Muscat, Oman, he was more
familiar with the political sur-
roundings than some of the other
hostages.
He said a transfer is in the
works for him but wouldn’t
elaborate on why he was being
transferred or where he would*
be located in the Middle East.
On future plane trips Conweli
said he would take a closer look
at fellow passengers. He also
urged airlines to step up pre-
boarding security.
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Bryan and Eric David Brock
from Donald, Karen, Amanda
and Melissa Brock. 1
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Southerland said.
Foote, of Arlington, and
Michael Lynn Mills of Dallas, 28,
were convicted of aggravated
kidnapping in the Jan. 11 abduc-
tion of Miss McNiel. The ab-
ductors were demanding a
$100,009 ransom from her,
businessman father until she
was rescued 2M> days later after
a high-speed shootout
life. -.....' v.-
Others accused in the kidnapp-
ing were Daniel Walter Necker
Jr., 21, of Mesquite, who was
convicted and sentenced to 30
years; George ThomasJBarpes,
21, of Dallas, who is undergoing
mental observation to determine
if he is competent to stand trial;
and Lisa Anne Bouvier, 19, of
Balch Springs, who is awaiting
trial in the Johnson County Jail. '*
Southerland said.
At the trial, Miss McNiel
described how Foote pushed her
up against the back window of a
car during a running gun battle
with authorities.
“I tried to get down on the
floorboard, but James Foote
said that if . they jaw me. they
might stop shooting,” Miss
McNiel said.
After a chase of speeds
reaching 100 mph, the shootout
ended in East Texas with a
Texas Ranger and a deputy
sheriff racing through a hail of
gunfire to rescue the girl.
All five defendants face addi-
tional charges of attempted
capital murder in Hopkins Coun-
, ty, where they were arrested at
the end of the gunfight, and in ‘
Titus County. —
The people of Lovington, N.M.,
set up a lizard race down a 16-
foot ramp at Chapparal Park.
The defending champion was a
common field critter .named
Bob.
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