The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 301, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1980 Page: 1 of 28
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San Jacinto Mall Spurring Business Boom Second To None Here
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By WANDA QI*TON |up in the vicinity of the, Restate appraisers and the Ford Co. real estate the center already." jWolfean and Tillman architect. Is drawing plans Harris County Federal Sav-ibranch office open by spr-
lenwolHnc. has for Brienwolf Center. ings & Loa& Association onjing," Duplantis told The
San Jacinto mil, thelmall. At the northwest cor-[landowners,
multimillion dollar shopp-iner of Garth Road and *We're shooting for an
Ing center, is a magnet1 Baker Road another shopp-[opening in March - same
drawing new development ing center, including a se- time the mall is finished ”
along Interstate 10 and cond Kroger store in ........
Garth Road in the biggest
business boom in
Baytown’s history.
Hugh Wood Ford Agency,
a branch office of Harris
County Federal Savings &
Loan Association, Ander-
son Western Wear and a
new bank are among
businesses that will spring
Baytown, is being planned
by Brienwolf Inc.
says Hugh A. Wood, whose
Ford dealership is
relocating on eight acres
north of MO at Garth Road.
Announcements are ex-Ground was broken "We’ve
pect$.about a number ofjWednesday for the new.response
itnin "U/a'ha
department
NEW CENTER
Jim Spoonts of Houston,
executive vice president of
Brienwolf, told The Sun
there will be 25 stores in the
A lease has been signed jo’Brien. Brienwolf inc. has
with Kroger for a 34,000- 6 $ acres for Phase I with
square-foot store in the an option to buy additional
acreage for the second
phase.
"If Phase I goes well,"
SpoOnts said, "then we can
do a second phase which
ing range of the "mall
magnet" when negotiations
are firmed up. The Sun
learned when contacting
shopping center and
negotiations are under way
for a drug company to oc-
shopping center at Garth cupy 10,000 square feet,
Road and Baker Road The total of 75,000 square______________________
had a lot of i feet in the first phase in- will be about the same size.
, , . - -.......|—t—. Spoonts said ! eludes 25,000 square feet of Hopefully, we will be break-
othen^rojects in the widen* building that will contain i“WeTe very enthusiastic! additional retail space plus ing ground on Phase I
41,000 square feet. It is be- about this area. The cor-j reserves for ' fast foodi within 30 to 60 days. The
ing constructed by Utley- ridor along Garth Road is restaurants and parking,plans are in the architect’s
James Inc. of Pontiac, showing so much strength lot, Spoonts continued. 1 office now,"
Mich., under direction of [There’s talk of expanding | Owned by Spoonts, Rickj Leroy Hermes, Houston
"The mall Is pulling the
people up the Garth Road
area," Spoonts said, "We
wanted to be near the mall
but not in it."
This will be the second
the southeast corner oflSun. "We are locating a
Sharon Lane and Garth branch there simply
Road across from San because of the mall. We
Jacinto Mall. saw a need there that will
W.E. “Bill" Duplantis, be created by the mall."
president of the firm, says! WESTERN WEAR
Brienwolf Center here.[about 10 new employees Wllmer Anderson, owner
There’s, one on Alexander) will be hired for the full ser- of Anderson Saddle Shop on
Drive and there are lOlvlce branch facility. The East Texas, said construc-
Brlenwolf centers in theibullding will contain about
Houston area. 5,000 square feet. The tract
BRANCH OFFICE {acquired by the association
Construction 1$ under covers 1.84 acres,
way for the branch office of "We hope to have the
tion will start during the
first quarter of next year on
the new Anderson Western
Wear Store to be located on
' (See SAN, Page 2-A)
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Record Heat ■
A HIGH of 95'in the.,, , .
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was 94 degree? recorded m
1956.
Regents Meet
LEE COLLEGE Board off
Regents will formally set
the college district’s tax
rate at its regular meeting
at 7 p.m. Thursday inf
Moody Center of Rundell
Hall.
Brother Dies
DON' ROBISON, 77-year-
old brother of Estonian
Mrs. Ethel Pruett, died
Wednesday in Houston. He
had lived in Baytown about
a year.
Fish Fry
AREA KIWANIS clubs’
second annual fish fry to
benefit the Ronald
McDonald House will take
place from noon to 6 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday, at
the Anheuser-Busch
Brewery, I-lfl east at
Gellhorn. Tickets are $5 for
adults and $2.50 for children
under 12.
V The Baytown Sun Invites
MR. AND MRS. ERWIN E. TILTON
Baytown
To See
“SMOKEY & THE BANDIT II"
^ At The Brunson Theater
(This Pass Good Through Oct. 5)
(Pass Good For 2 People)
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Iraq Claims Capture
Of Iran Border Area
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Methodist Men
CEDAR BAYOU Methodist
Men will meet at 7 p.m.
Thursday at the Busch
Family Center at Cedar
—Bayou Methodist Church.
Patrolman Bill Giles from
the Crime Prevention Unit
of the Baytown - Police
DeparTmentwlirspeakand
show a film.
A TIME FOR RELAXING
AFTER A HARD day of readin’ and ‘cipherin’ at school, Xavier Duarte, left, and
Ignacio Reyna Jr., both six years old, relax at-Bergeron Park." Xavier is the son of
Jose and Lupe Duarte of 1318 Magnolia. Ignacio is the son of Ignacio and Etna Reyna
of 3128 Michigan. ___ _ (Sun staff photo by Audrey Ueckert)
Some ‘Spruced Up’ City
Our
World
From AP Wires
+ MIAMI - A
weakening Tropical
Storm Hermine stall-
ed over Mexico’s
Gulf Coast today,
dumping heavy rains
along the southwest
Bay of Campeche.
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -
Iraq today claimed the cap-
ture of 115 square miles of
Iranian border territory, in-
cluding four towns, as Ira-
nian jets hammered Iraqi
oil installations near
Baghdad and to the north
again on the fourth day of
the war at the head of the
Persian Gulf.
tiodl' oil exports through
the Persian Gulf, but the
flow from Saudi Arabia and*
other gulf oil states con-
tinued.
The Iraqi command said
its troops and tanks seized
the Iranian border town of
Iraqi forces raised the flag
over Mehran, 90 miles to
the south*
Iraqi troops and armor
took Mehran Wednesday
after completing the cap-
ture of the'major Iranian
border town of Qasr-e-
of Tehran, taking 351
prisoners and pursuing communique said Iranian
fleeing Iranian soldiers to
Sar-e-Pol-Zahab, about 20
miles inside the border, a
communique said.
It said the fall of Sar-e-
Pol-Zahab was imminent,
Naftshah today while other and that other forces were
advancing eastward after
taking Mehran.
Iran conceded its troops
retreated in the Mehran
area and said the Iraqis
also seized nearby
Salehabad. It said the
town’s defenders withdrew
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Weather
And Tides
By SUSAN CUMMINGS-HASTIE
Baytown city parks have-
been'’‘spruced up” during
the summer and some are
still awaking finishing
touches, according to Bob-
PARTLY CLOUDY and
warm with a 30 percent
chance of thundershowers
through Friday is the
Baytown area weather
forecast. Low expected
Thursday night, low 70s;
high Friday, mid-90s.
it, by Rountree,, headof the ci- Wildlife might also be an playground equipment.
FRIDAY TIDES for
waters fronting the City of
Baytown: Highs at 10:22
a.m. and 11:46p.m.; lows
at4:41 a.m. and4:54p.jn.
SUNRISE FRIDAY at
ty’s Parks and Recreation
Department.
Although an historical
and commemorative pla-
que donated by Baytown
Service League was install;
+ 'HOLLYWOOD
- Negotiators for
striking television
| and film actors
reached a tentative
j contract agreement
-features woodemfeatures large metali
ers, walkways, picnic shelters as well as oicnic! 10 . y ’ d UI?...on
Parks Await Final Touches
STJT-r "“'I spokeswoman said.
colored lighting and is land-
scaped) Mth.crape myrtle, has also been added to the
juniper and perennials. a 1 r e a <fy "exist I n 1
attraction at Goose Creek
Park. Rountree says he in-
spected the park and spot-
ted a blue heron.
The remainder of that
$66,000 grant has gone into
ed Wednesday at Goose the development of Tejas, sports a complete
Creek Park on Texas Newcastle and the League
Avenue behind Sterling
Municipal Library, dedica- Most of the landscaping have also been added. - ^
tion ceremonies are still be-
ingplanned, he said.
The recently completed Youth Conservation Corps,
park beside Goose Creek ” ' ~ ’
Stream was developed
through $37,005 of a $66,000
Beaumont Street through
7:11 a.m.; sunset at 7:15 Texas Parks and Wildlife the addition of four acres
P-m.
| grant.
of Women Voters parks
work done on these parks
was accomplished by the
A practice baseball field
However, construction of
the parking lots for Tejas
and Newcastle parks have
yet to be started.
Newcastle Park in Glen
Meadow subdivision' now
iketual
play pad. Picnic tables
Rountree says his depart
ment is constructing
+ BOSTON -
Rose Kennedy,- 90»-1
year-old matriarch
lorps. another basketball play pad
Tejas Park on Hater and has a basketball stan-
Street has been extended to dard on order for the park.
Playground equipment
has been added to N.C.
(See CITY, Page 2-A)
Rountree reports. The park
O-
AROUND
WN
SUZANNE MATSIAK,
. Lauren Friedberg and Don-anything but a long, , hard
na Jackson get stuck In the struggle from high school.
Success Of New Alternative
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School Here Is Outlined
are In the process of being
By LYNN HUGHES
“As a musician in the
field of ‘long-haired hippie
Fortunately, Mike
Madison, director of the
district’s accreditation and
music,’ I never expected special programs, came in-
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mud.
Mrs, Laura Gentry, a
newcomer to the game,
manages to maintain her
usual ranking in her bridge
group . . . Mr. and Mrs.
Bob Chase gradually get-
ting back to normal after
becoming ill while visiting
“problem” youngster.
In the three-page essdy,
given to school trustees ty to adjust and fit into a
Pennsylvania.
J.J. Burney is making a
And of course, I wasn’t
disappointed,'’ begins the
essay by a 17-year-old
during a discussion of the
district’s. new Alternative
Learning Program, the
friends and relatives in youth described the “cons-
ume.
Madison recognized the
youth’s problems, his at-
recovering from her
second intestinal
operation in a year.
+ MOSCOW-The
Soviet Communist
Party daily Pravda,
quoting from the
works of V I. Lenin,
today criticized the
“bourgeois” concept
of ‘‘free” trade
unions and said
unions in a socialist
country must be
The Iraqi air force
retaliated by attacking and
heavily damaging six air-
ports and military installa-
tions inside Iran, the
Baghdad command said.
The air war cut off both na-|Shirin, 350 miles southwest to the hills.
Voice Identified On Tape -
Joe’s Name Is Mentioned
Again In Brilab Trial
jVIoore introduced Allen to C l ay to n, Moore and
Hauser and two FBI under- Hauser,
cover agents in an Oct. 17, It is around that meeting
Rep: Joe Alien has surfaced 1979, meeting as one who that the prosecution will SiSllT wmiid
in connection with the “knows where all the wires use tts hiooMt otm< 90ainc+ 0 . . -*-•1 ou a
estate run.”
In the air war, an Iraqi
HOUSTON <Sp) - For
the second time, the name
of former Baytown State
in._ connection with the
Brilab triaY of House
Ray and Randall Wood
ol the political clan
that produced a -
president and two
senators, was
reported in satisfac-
Allen reportedly told FBI the following day.
informant Joe Hauser and
Deer Park Labor leader
h.cnif,, . , „ could be counted on for help
nospuai iouay, |nobtaining the state’s in-
surance contract
Prudential.
According to the tapes,
Jets hit the Doura oil
refinery on the outskirts of
Baghdad today, oil installa-
tions and airports in the
northern cities of Kirkuk
and Mosul and residential
areas and economic in-
stallations in the northern
Kurdish town of Irbil.
The communique claim-
ed Iraqi ground-to-air
missiles and anti-aircraft
guns downed 13 Iranian
planes, bringing the toll
reported by the Iraqis since
Monday to 134, almost «
third of Iran’s air force.
Iran reported 34 Iranians
killed and 134 wounded in
Abadan, where the war has
knocked out the big Iranian
dll refinery; the nearby
port of Khorramshahr, and
Ahwaz, capital of
Khuzestan province 80
miles to the north, but it
said the toll in Abadan did
not include casualties
among personnel of the Na-
tional Iranian Oil Co.
In Washington, President
Carter spoke.of the grave
use its biggest guns against
Clayton - a veteran of 20
the insurance contract on
tapes indicate Alien years in the Legislature
was to talk to Clayton about and House speaker the past
six years - who for some
time has reportedly been
making plans 4o run for the
Democratic gubernatorial
nomination in 1982. —
It was last Nov. 8, the pro-
secution contends, that
Clayton accepted a $5,000
bribe to use his influence to
(See JOE’S, Page 2-A)
Allen, currently serving
as a Lee College regent, ap-
peared briefly at the trial
Wednesday to be identified
as the voice on the Oct. 17
tape.
The he'art of the case is a
Nov. 8 meeting among
gj
&
L([ HIGH
COW'
desired"for Vtudents IZ\ ^dership.
did not fit the traditional
mold of the regular high
school program. Basic
titude of being "over- characteristics include
TIlkinlrvinAl’i Lit ikn ___il...
whelmed” by the massive achievement significantly
school system - his iftabili-
certainmold.
It is that type of young
person t.he ALP attempts to
help. Since the beginning of
tant, nine-month nightmare foe fall term, 32 potential
of tedious assignments,
comeback after being vague social handicaps and referred and 10 were found school, Madison explained.
sidelined by illness . .Bob ensnaring dlHlftAds,1----"
Grant makes another itiove fraught with the usual
. . . Herbert Zimmerman home and family problems
uses his free time on Sun- that all young persons must
day afternoon to visit folks endure ”
in hosDitals . . . Michael Sri h
in hospitals . . . Michael
Dilling enjoys his job and
raising turkeys on the side.
urrowN'S
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Citi^w ^nk
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He had little interest in
graduation, planning to quit
Movies * Sports • Specials
TelePbompTer
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ALP students have been
to be eligible for inclusion
in the program.
Of that 10, seven are
enrolled in classes, two had
One of the great
- . .----------—• coaches in the country is
repeated assignment to. silver-haired John McKay
SAC or resistance in follow-
ing school policies. Most of
youngsters who attend
foe ALP would probably
otherwise drop out of
* LIE HIGH ^
CIIMMHNS
exm , ** ’■ k
, ms sin.
Pearce Sti
i‘!TK
Great Coact
of Tampa Bay.
mg scnooi policies. Most ot And Mrs. McKay must
the youngsters who attend also be a tremendous per-
the ALP would nrnhahlv '
no transportation and one missed three days of school
was not placed in the pro-
gram at the request of his
school early in the year.jparents. The remaining 22
Rsnt-A-Car
HvghUJoodtod
1801 Qacker 42?-8121
Of the seven currently
enrolled in ALP classes, six
have perfect attendance
records and the seventh ching stadium clocks that
because he was injured in
an automobile accident. All
(See SCHOOL, Page 2-A)
son.
The other day, while
Tapipa was playing in
Dallas, Mrs. Me was
quoted as saying;
“I’ve spent my life wat-
ran either too fast or too
slow.”!'
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result should the war cut off
the shipment of oil through
the Persian Gulf from
Saudi Arabia and the
West’s other major sup-
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Winners In
Sun Football
Contest Told
Winners of The Baytown
Sun’s weekly football con-
test have been announced,
They are Travis Daven-
port of Crosby, Margaret
Elms of 514 W. Pearce and
Don Brewer of 2902 Ronson
Lane.
Winners will each receive
two tickets to the Ross S.
Sterling — Northshore
game at 7:30 p.m. Friday at
tallworth Stadium.
Tickets may be picked up
at The Sun advertising _
department at 13.01
"emorlal Drive.
All winners of the weekly ■
(contest are eligible for the- - I
grand prize — foiir tickets,
to the Bluebonnet Bowl r-
which will be awarded at
the end of the regular
ftfta.onn
COL
LLEGEN
IGHT
COLLEGE IS A big step in a person's life, but high school seniors planning to con-
tinue their education will get a taste of what higher learning is all about during
“College Night," which will be held from 7 to8:90 p.m. Tuesday in the Robert E. Lee
commons. REL counselor Don Smith, center, goes through college catalogues with
David Coughlen and Stephanie Acosta, seated, and Vonclel Cook and Eugene Riley, ,, wwol ......^
standing. Representatives from colleges, vocational schools and the armed forces Sports............ mb
will be available to discuss educational opportunities with students from area high ~
schools and their parents.
(Sun staff photo by Audrey Ue
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 301, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1980, newspaper, September 25, 1980; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1095367/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.