The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 5, 1985 Page: 9 of 20
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THK B41TOHN ^ >
Tuesday. Wafer 5,
F^I searches for Baytown girl missing since Halloween
Fran Page i
1 a balloon in the
- Drtvf
According to Gary StUes the
JHprt** father she was wa
C aer parents to come home and
lake her tnck-or treating She
was wearing her Halloween
r'jBeatume — a pair of peach col
ored Care Bear pajamas and
' bad her hair In pigtails
£■' Mary's playmates told the
Stiles they left her on the porch
; Shortly after 5 pm and returned
«f§ IhtMi ! turner
Police were called at about 9
pm after a neighborhood
•earch by (amtiy members' -
- An extensive air ami ground
search of the complex and sur-
rounding woods Thursday mghl
and Friday morning reveafed
nothing to officers
Shortly after noon Friday, of-
ficers called off the’ search and
concentrated their efforts "on
following leads supplied by
citizens who might have seen the
£ r
Lankford said hundreds of
leads have been called to police
and officer*, have checked all
leads hut haven t been able to
,
There were a lot of kids runn
ang_ araund_iiL iasmme* < -HaUo-_
yw.een ni^it and Mary w asn t the
only one- m Baytown wearing
something similar referring to
her Care Bear pajamas
Lank! >r 1...
.. ■. Lankford rrient ><>«♦*'! ,
• Bay ton police received -Sunday
2 missing
after blasts
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* .®ekerson Bavtow n s ernergen
* ,ffx ' iri.ig«
* B j r‘ c-. H i 11 Sfhooi
Z Superintendent Bill Farmer said
: achoois would remain open
> v Ked Cross station was set tap
r at Cedar .Bayou Baptist Church
. at. H gh i *6 •
1' . Chevra a Cedar Bayou and
* Qrange plants and a. unit at -its
P»" \ He finer, ’..id
* Ween shut down Hooper said
.Those plants are supple l
V! t Belvieu terminal
■'There- are 25 wells that'the
pipelines go down .to Hooper
■'aid T>. ■ tuve-fieen"
Shut off he said
F .
rw ■-•■ r I- pr ■ lem new > the
!* ■ ’ tge 'links ibove ’the
ground he said Each one of
Vann t
Chemicals he -aid Firebghterv
roof. Hooper said
The decision now is whether
or not to 4*i,'those ■ lines burn.,
’hemsefves out or to try and shut
■ them off he .said ;There •
real danger to let the lines con
tinue to hum he. u.se of the her
and the above ground st
. tanks. besatd
- But nght now no one can get
— near them to shut them of!
Z -laid I don't know how long tie
jf are going to have to bat
C Booper said
Contributing to this story was
Kris Isaacson
MARY STILES "
night about a girl, fitting Mary s
description seen in a car driven
bv a black man- and traveling
near Dayton
Dayton police immediately
began a search for the vehicle
but were unable to locate it
Lankford said
It might have been her or not
* ole to locate
the car *' Lankford said
i e gotten reported
gs.. of her everywhere
from here to Austin Lankford
pm down every one we get I
can t say these people didn't see
her out we didn t f ind her
The sergeant said such calls to
police''., have; -decreased -. con
siderably it. number since the
nsappearance but said
that was normal for this time
period in the case
Lankford said the police are
now going to retrace their efforts
in locating Mary We are still ftt
square one
We have started at the front
door and will re do what wc have
done he added
He said Monday detectives
and officers once again' inter
viewed residents in the complex
in hopes' of turning tip a clue
which might have been overlook
edin previous interviews
A second air search which
revealed nothing was conducted
Monday by a Texas Department
of Public Safety helicopter
Officers are replacing
photostatic copies of the girl s
picture which was’distributed to
cab drivers and Baytown
businesses with flyers bearing a
color photograph of the girl
Lankford said officers also
mnterviewed the Stiles family
• •n hopes the-, 'might rememf*-r <
new piece of information which
will lead them to 'he g:r
He said there. were three
detectives working fulltime on
the case and other detectives
and t'pa.troi officers are being
called in when they are needed
to check a case If they are
needed they drop what they are
dome to help l^nkford ■van: ____
We are not sparing any 'man-
power on this case he added..
The sergeant said '.Man s
disappearance is not the first n
Baytown
About 15 years'ago., a 16-year-
old Baytown youngster vanished
from the steps of Sterling
Municipal Library
Police found ber aboul three
weeks later in North Carolina
She had left tow n with a man she
knew about one hour1 Lankford
said
He said there has only been
one case involving missing
juveniles which turned out
negatively '
That was several , years ago
and the girl had run away
several times. Lankford said
Police located her body behind a
pet store near Highlands
Lankford said ponce will con
tmue to search far Mary as long
as it takes to locate her -
She is gone and I don t khow
why Lankford said
The disappearance of Mary
has so frightened other parents
in the complex that they have
called”a meeting at 7 p m Tues-
day m the dub house to discuss
starting a neighborhood watch
program
■L Mary is i feet j inches tail
»•' *b> ■«’ .«■ .v!> has
;hair blue eyesand a fair com
plexion
Anyone thinking they might
have »e*n ber are asked to call
the Baytown Police'Department
a t 422 «T1
SALVADOR CERVANTES was working on a cherry picker near the
explosion site His brother Pepe had not been located by noon
Tuesday Sun staff photo by Jim Kyle)
()nlookers describe horror of blast"
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explosion erupted
-.....Shesald she saw two men
climb over the fence *urroun
ding the plant and two or three
other, men along the road at
tempting to hitch a ride to
s ■ - ’ • i i• z — i ■
Miss Barnett a freshman at
Lee College and editor of the
Lantens, the college newspaper
said flames from the explosion
shot w ay up into the am —
I was afraid I was shaking
Miss Barnet! said'
i ontributtng to this story
were Kris Isaacson and Jim-
K v le
j Officials investigate barge blast
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; (fie tank .was put out quickly
• Removal of the bodies
afeanup of benzene marking of
d*> sunken barge and movement
~ M another barge and a tug. both
heavily damaged in the expto
tr Aon. kept Coast Guard person
w qgi busy Monday slid Officer of
tie Day Pierre Delusenet
CTI 1 Delusenet said the San Jacinto
^•jjlvw was opened to one-way
•^'traffM as of 7pm Monday
river wlli
two-way traffic after Hollywood
Manne ini of Houston the
owner of the sunken barge com
pl«es its salvage of the barge
said Delusenet H* did not know
how long salvage operations
would take
The Houston Ship Channel re
mlined open all day Monday
said Delusenet
An official at the Lynchburg
Ferry said Monday sfternoon
the ferry began operating again
at about 11am Monday
Two county employees Simon
Coverson III and Tad Wheeler
Mosmu -ywxm
LjFr fcfetlt4 by I
n ^
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Irfkff *»**•*
r> is minor
vour<MTu
Baytonians offer rewards
Fran Page 1
I m asking every mother to give their child a hug. feeling so
grateful to have them safe in their arms, and then send us *1. '
shesald
The woman said if the child is net found alive the funds will
be given to Children s Keepeeta of Houston and the National
Center for Missing and Exploited Chtktren
Perrons wishing to donate monies to this fund can do so by
wrttin* e check to the Mery LoraJne StUes Fund, care of
■nm.
Maze vest Corp of Baytown, owner of the apartment complex
where Mery three, has put up a *2.000 reward
The manager of the complex said persons with any Informs
turn should can 422 5M3 or the Baytown Police Departnsent at
OMS71
were injured at the time of the
explosion
Coverson pilot of the Ross S
Sterling, suffered cuts to his
arms and was treated and
released from San .Jacinto
Methodist Hospital
Wheeier it work on the
William P Hobby, sustained
minor abrasions and did not re-
quire hospital treatment
Gloria Waldrop a secretary at
the ferry office, said Monday the
explosion blew out windows on
the ferryboats and in the tarry i
office and warehouse
Cars on the ferryboat Rom S
Sterling were damaged, said Ms
Waldrop She said the ferryboat
William P Hobby was docked
near the north ferry landing and
was not In operation at the time
of the explosion
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 4, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 5, 1985, newspaper, November 5, 1985; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1075186/m1/9/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.