The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 31, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 7, 1980 Page: 1 of 68
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The Baytown Sun Invites
MR. & MRS. WESTON COTTEN
Highlands
To See
“PRIVATE EYES"
At The Brunson Theater
(This Pass Good Through Dec. 17)
(Pass Good For 2 People)
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Volume 59. No. 31
■Baytown. Texas 77520
Sunday. December 7, 1980
Baytown. Texas 77520
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BAWA Board
BAYTOWN AREA Watf
Authority Board will meet
at 5 p.m. Monday at city
hall. An executive session
will be held afterward.
Community Chorus
BAYTOWN COMMUNITY j
Chorus will present two_ 1
aufc-j-
day. Concerts, will be at 5 !
p.m. at St. Mark’s United !
Methodist Church and 8 i
p.m. at St. Johhs Catholic
Church. Admission is free.
Seniors Shop
SENIOR CITIZENS can
come to The Fair in Bay
Plaza Shopping Center
from 8:30 a.m. to noon
Tuesday for a senior
citizen? courtesy shopping
hour. Senior citizens will
get 10 percent off every
item in the store, a Fair of-
ficial said.
Kurdish Area In North
Iraq Attacked By Iran
FOR THE BIRDS
BIRDS OF A feather fly together over the landfill located off Highway 146 iri the
Cedar Bayou area. The massive flight of seagulls brings to mind a scene from Alfred
Hitchcock’s, "The Birds,” the movie about birds that attack a town. But there’s
nothing so "foul” about these fowls. They’re just scouting the landfill for a free
meal. See the seagulls in a cioseup view in the photo on page Page 2-A.
(Sun staff photo by Audrey Ueckert)
Plant Sale
STUART CAREER Center
will hold its annual
Christmas plant sale from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday,
Wednesday and Thursday
at the center. Poinsettias.
hanging baskets and other-
plant’s will be available.
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Weather
And Tides
Goodfellow Gift Will Give
You The Christmas Spirit
Previous W.M.Knowles ..$ 10.00
Contributions... $717.00 Mrs. J.B. Carter,
Anderson Shoe and In Memory Of
Saddle Repair... $ 15.00 j.b. Carter......$ 25.00
Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin W.Deen.S 25.00 Mrs. Kate Fleming,
Mrs. W.M. Knowles, In Memory Of
In Memory Of > G.M. Fleming
* ★
and Alan
Cheshire.
.1 10.00
Mr. and Mrs.
J.G. Baldridge,
In Lieu Of Local
Christmas Cards! 20.00
TOTAL.....$822.00
★
By CHIEF GOODFELLOW gifts for these children, contribute enough to pay
weather, Baytonians are
getting the Christmas spirit
PARTLY CLOUDY and j as they join the happy shop
mild with a 20 percent ping throng.
ir i ciiM/ifit?” to iUrv idsys remaining until the
Everywhere you look in numbering in the hundreds
Baytown there are signs of because the- family has
Christmas Despite!been stricken-by illness or
unseasonably warm the father is unable to earn
weather forecast.
there isn’t really much time
left. It will be gone before
SUNDAY TIDES for waters you reallze 1
•fronting the city of If you're already doing
Baytown: High? at +5:08 your Christmas shopping or
a.m. and 10:15 p,m.; lows
at +1:13 a.m. and 2:13 p.m.
Monday tides: Highs at +
5:29 a.m. fund 1(^55 p.m
if you plan to begin soon,
take a moment to consider
the plight of underprivileg-
ed children in our corn-
lows at+1:56 a.m. and 2:47 munity, whose parents
p.m, .[won’t be among the happy
shoppers.
SUNRISE * SUNDAY ' and There’s not enough
Monday will be at 7:04 imoney
a.m;: sunsetat5:22p.m
enough to meet expenses, for the gift bags are going
leaving no money for
presents.
•It won’t take much of
your Christmas shopping
budget to help these deserv-
ing youngsters. The
Goodfellow drive has been
successful over the past 49
years because it was sup-
ported by a large number of
people making small con-
tributions. •'■■■■ j
Why not earmark a gift
for the Goodfellows as part
of the monfcy you intend to
for the Goodfellow party
this year. There are several
hundred youngsters tq^buy
for this year, and the items
get the check in the mail?
You and your family will
have a happier Christmas if
to buy Christmas you help other Baytonians
to cost more
Chief Goodfellow and his
helpers hope you will res-
pond to this appeal as
quickly as possible so they
can go ahead with plans to
buy gifts and goodies for
distribution on Christmas
Eve.
What is provided by the
Goodfellows will be all
these deserving youngster?
will get in: the way of gifts
this Christmas. So be sure
you do your part.
Bring or mail yOur con
Our
World
Today
From AP Wires
+ WASHINGTON
- A presidential
mission was heading
for El Salvador today
to look into the cir-
cumstances of the
murders of three
American nuns and a
Catholic lay mis-
sionary earlier this
week.
+ BOSTON -
Thousands of shop-
pers and commuters
were left Without a
way to get around
metropolitan Boston
today as state
legislators failed to
meet a court-
imposed midnight
deadline for pro-
viding funding for
the bankrupt
regional
.tion system
$1,520,226 In November
spend this Christmas and trlbution to Chief
Goodfellow in care of The
Baytown Sun, 1301
Memorial Drive (P.O. Box
90), Baytown,
+Denotes weak tides
Firefighter Is Promoted
On Civil Service Appeal
j Supply
Building-Permite Top JRoutes
$31 Million For 1980
By JIM GOLDING
Total value of building
permits issued by the city, department attributed the
in November was
$1,520,226, bringing the
year’s total to $31,340,865.
October’s dollar amount
was $2,822,805.' ‘
Last year’s total for all
permits issued through
November was $26,541,586.
Building permits and fees
slumped overall in
November — down to a
record low for the year and
dropping by about 36 per-
cent and almost 50 percent
respectively from Oc-
tober’s figures.
However, a spokesman
for the city’s inspection
decreases to colder
weather and said lower
figures are normal for
November and December.
And total permits issued mits issued.
and fees collected for 1980
are still running ahead of
1979 totals.
Commercial building fees
jumped , almost 15 times
from October’s $40,000 to
$598,000, Five commercial
permits were issued in
November, bringing the
yearly total to 41. There
were 47 commercial per-
mits issued by this time in
1979.
Forty-nine permits were
issued for the month, br-
inging the 1980 total to 856.
August was 1980’s second
lowest month with 68 per- Kurdish insurgents in nor
New home starts dropped
by from 24 permits in Oc-
tober- to 14 in November.
But additions to existing
homes jumped from seven
permits in October to 16 last
month.
The total number of per-
mits to date for 1979 was
721.
(See PERMITS, Page 2-A)
thwesterfi Iran.
City To Lease Land From
Exxon For Wooster Park
The city will lease land Iperty taxes on the property, [(plans for the lease agree
from Exxon for a [This currently amounts tojment). This is a densely
Target
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP)
— Iranian warplanes
struck Kurdish-populated
northern Iraq today, Iraq
said, in attacks apparently
aimed at cutting supply
routes to autonomy-seeking
neighborhood park in the i approximately $500 a year
Wooster area. “I’m curious,” com-
trarisporta- Authorizedby city coun- mented Councilman Fred
cil, the 15-year lease agree-
ment calls for the use of 9.77
acres. Access to the proper-
ty will be from the east end
of Fortner just off Bay way
Drive,
The pact also provides
George Chandler, who that either party-the city
practices law and UT foot- or Exxon " may cancelrtthf
ball, has what he con- agreement after giving a
Pearce Street Journal - -
George’s Theory
siders a most logical and
legal explanation for
Baylor’s 1980 SWC cham-
“It’s a resurgence of the
Moral Majority,”" he
claims.
> -FH
one-year notice
The city will pay -Exxon a
rent equal to all annual pro-
popuiated area cut off from
the rest of the city and other
parks
“We’d like, to develop a
neighborhood playground
and picnic facilities. We
don’t see a significant im
pact on the budget. I per- battlefront as the Iran-Iraq
Philips before council took
action on the agreement.
“How did this get Started?
... And what will be the
budget impact?”'
City Manager Fritz sonally feel it’s a good deal war finished its llth week.
The Iraqis claimed they,
shot down five U.S.-built
Iranian warplanes, war
communiques reported.
Each nation claimed
fresh helicopter raids
against the other’s posi-
tions in Iran’s embattled
southwestern oil province
of Khuzistan as their major
oil installations on the nor-
thern flank of the Persian
Gulf remained ablaze.
Group troops fought in
Iran’s western highlands
that command the closest
highways to the Iraqi
capital of Baghdad, some
100 miles to the west, ac-
cording to Iraqi and Iranian
communiques.
But despite rival claims
of gains on the major
theaters of combat, there
were no major changes in
positions along the 300-mile
Lanham recalled council
had suggested there was a
need fqjr a park in that area.
Bobby Rountrfeer director
of parks and recreation, ex-
plained, “We’ve been work-
ing six months or so on it
for us with land values in-
creasing as they are.”
Rountree pointed out
The main targets of Ira-
nian air strikes were the
cities of Suleimaniyeh and
there is only a 90-day notice Darbandikhan, which were
required to cancel the city ’s
contract with the school
(See CITY, Page 2-A)
ETHEL BABIN enjoys
By DELLA HODSON
Richard Alpha, an equip
ment operator - in the
Baytown Fire Department
will be prompted to lieute-
honors 6n her 84th birthday
at a family dinner at the
home of Mr. and Mrs. B A.
DeShong... Carolyn Dahl-
quist makes her. debut as a j
television” celebrity ... I
question No. 5 on the test as
ambiguous,_ He contended
that it could have been in-
terpreted in such away that
it could be answered either'
tion and the material it was
drawn from and decided
the- question was poorly
constructed and am
biguous, "Patterson said.
But the. commission:
When the question was
Service discarded, Alpha lost credit
for his answer and Davis
became the high scorer.
Of the 10 persons who
of action Thursday by the
Baytown Civil
Commission.
Alpha appealed a deci
sion by Civil Service Direc-
tor Larry Patterson to| took the test, six said the
Jessica Foley sports her! discard a question on a re:| answer Was false. That was
Paris fashions. [centpromotional examina-j considered the correct
Beth Howell has a new jtion. Discarding the ques- answer when the test was
way of wearing her bangs j tion would have given the; prepared.
Betty O’Sullivan (promotion to Darrell Davis.: “I met with the parties in
tackles the game of bridge iThe commission overturn- j volved, reviewed the ques
.Terri White makes led Patterson’s ruling and"
plans for a new addition. reinstated the question
Helen Kluck and Bertie The controversy arose
over the promotional ex
amination givenv to 10
firefighters on Nov. 21
When the test scores were
posted.^ Alpha and Davis
report off. were lied for, the highest
Leroy Stevens is hard to score. Under Fire Depart
get in touch with — he’s jment procedures, the pro-
Carpenter get together over
cake and reminisce about
their days as Girl Scout
leaders .. . Steve Lowery
'“fires” another .daily
either sleeping, at work or
out taking ct^e of business
. Doyle Niemtschk keeps
motion would have gone to
Alpha who has seven mon-
ths more service in the
U T
tabs on all the fires in his department than Davis
neighborhood. ; But Davis .challenged
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agreed .with Alpjia that bas-
ed dh the reading materials
the question was rightly
answered false. The com
mission’s action, restored
the tie. Alpha’s longer ser-
vice will give him the pro-
motion.
Alpha, 30, will assume the
position of .lieutenant
sometime next week, Fire
Chief V.H. ‘‘Buddy’
McBride said.
Alpha joined the Baytown
Fire Department in
January 1974. He lives with
his wife and three children
at 3410 Massey-Tompkins.
In another appeal, the
Civil Service Commission
upheld Patterson’s actions
in conducting the test an
grading the papers.
Firefighter Richard
Bailey had appealed,
charging several violations
of Civil Service regulations.
(See CIVIL, Page 2-A)
Optimist Club
Yule Trees
Now On Sale
’Tis the season for
Baytown Evening Op-
timists to become Santa's
helpers as they continue
their Christmas tree sale
from 9 a m, to 9 p.m. until
Rent o New ford * BOB HAMRIC A
*19.95 A OAT
WiUMPvt]
1601 Otcktr 422*8121 | preview
, all trees are sold from their
lot across from Robert E.
Lee dn Market Street.
Proceeds from sales help
fund club youth spprts pro-
- grams, as well as com-
munity service projects
such as Welcome Stranger,
Respect For Law and Bicy-
cle Safety..
The club also sponsors
four college scholarships
;j and helps support Boys
Harbor in LaPorte.
The club also supports
the Goodfellows at
Christmastime with pro-
ceeds from the Goodfellow
Peewee Football Bowl.
According to Billy Mit-
chell, club-president, sup-
id port of the Christmas tree
program ^‘makes you a
partner; in the Optimist
Friend qf Youth’ : pro-
grams,” the plub motto
throughout the United
States andCanada
bombed and strafed in six
raids Friday and today,
Iraqi communiques said.
The two cities control
cross-border highway and
railroad track routes to
Kurdish areas in nor-
thwestern Iran.
The latest report from
. Iran’s official Pars news
80 Kur-
dish rebels were killed near
the city of Mahabad, where
Kurds declared a short-
lived breakaway republic
during World War II.
It’s Time
For Letters
GET OUT THE TINSEL, WE’LL TAKE THIS ONE
Six-year-old Chris and his parents, Dewey and Becky Maris of Mont Belvieu, make
theirchoice., .
(Sun staff photo by Audrey Ueckert)
To Santa
Hey, kids, it’s time to
start writing those letters
to Santa Claus!
With less than 20 days
remaining until
Christmas you’ll, have to
hurry and get your letters
in the mall so they will
have time to reach Santa
at his North Pole head-
quarters before he begins
bis annual trip to deliver
presents.
If you are too young to
write a letter to Santa, ask
mom to do it .for you. The
main thing is to get the
letters in the mail.
Address them to Santa
Claus in care of The
Baytown Sun, P.O. Box
90, Baytown, We will for-
ward them to Santa's
headquarters.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 31, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 7, 1980, newspaper, December 7, 1980; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1095753/m1/1/: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.