The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, December 13, 1976 Page: 2 of 24
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THg BAYTOWN SUN Monday, Poctmbor 13» 1974
Cigarette May Have
Caused Cassidy Death
ABOUT SO SHOTGUNS, RlfLES AND PISTOLS RECOVERED
Detective Sam Montemayor checks serial Dumber on rifle.
(Sun staff photo by Rick McCauley)
LOS ANGELES (AP)
smoldering cigarette may have
sparked the fire that killed ac-
tor-singer Jack Cassidy, sweep-
ing his penthouse apartment
after,a party and charring his
body beyond recognition, a fire
official says.
Our World Today
From AP Wires
+ JOHANNESBURG, South
Africa — Rhodesian Prime
Minister lan Smith said today
he considers llut-tbe Geneva ^
tails on a transition to black"
rule in hit country are now
< “further away frtm the objec-
tive than when we started.”
+ STOCKHOLM, Sweden —
Writers of today fail to tee
spite a show of radicalism and
innovation,” is a conservative
who yearns for the- “simple
and true,” novelist Saul Bel-
low uid in his Nobel lecture.
The body was discovered ear-
ly Sunday in the West Holly-
wood apartment belonging to
the dimpled, silver-haired per-
former. It was several hours
before the coroner’s office said
that dental charts had , Con-
firmed the victim was Cassidy,
49, father of onetime teen-age
singing idol David Cassidy and
ex-husband of actress-singer
Shirley Jones.
An autopsy was scheduled for
today, but the spokesman said
there was no evidence to
dicate anything but an acciden-
tal death.
Investigators said his fourth-
floor apartment was littered
with cigarette butts apparently
left from a Saturday night par-
County -Fire Department Bat-
talion Chief Rod Smith said
Cassidy was known to be a
heavy smoker and said that the
fire might have started from an
unextinguishedcigarette,
Sheriff's Deputy Stuart Hel-
ler, 28, who was trying to evac-
uate other residents from the
apartment complex, was over-
come by smoke and was report-
ed in serious condition at Ce-
dars-Sinai Medical Center.
Cassidy, a singer, comedian
and dramatic actor, starred on
Broadway and in movies and
made frequent television ap-
pearances. Most recently, he
played John Barrymore in the
movie "W.C. Fields and Me.”
In 1964, he won a Tony
Award for his performance in
the Broadway musical “She
Loves Me." Television specials
in which he appeared included
The Andersonville Trial,”
The Boston Spy Party,” “High
Button Shoes" and • “George
M!”
David Cassidy, who starred
the television series “The
Partridge Family," was his son
by actress Evelyn Ward. Jack
Cassidy later married and had
three children by actress Shir-
ley Jones, who also starred in
the series. Their marriage end-
ed in divorce in 1975.
Bom in New York City, Cas-
sidy sang as a youth and made
his Broadway debut at 16 in the
musical “Something for the i
Boys."
Apartments Full After
Experiment In Austin
AUSTIN, Tex. (AP) - The
Canyon Villa apartments were
half-empty and losing money
earlier this year when the resi-
dents were still swimming with
their bathing sijits on
Now the apartments are all
occupied by residents who can
swim au naturel if they desire,
and manager Terry Parker
says he hopes to open another
clothing-optional complex Jan.
J-,'T
Parker - who started the
nude living concept at Canyon
Villa in June -+ said the owners
of Manor Villa have promised
if it works there, “We can do
anything we want to with any
of their other apartments.”
This led to speculation by a
reporter who interviewed Park-
er that half of Austin’s apart-
ment residents may be going
nude to the pool within a year
11 Six months after Parker in-
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DURING THE PAST several months, the Baytewn Pottcc Depnrtmeit has hired 11 new officers to at q^o,, villa, the H
replace those who resigned in 1975 and 1176. Four of the new officers now working on the street are, ^ complex is full <
from left, Gary Martin, Albert Solis, Johnny Erickson and Robert Clement. Seven more new of-. ^gj, Parker ^ raised
fleers are needed to bring the department up to the allowed quota and a police entrance test will be rent iq per cent.
side for a second, you can go
out the door without anything
on and not stop to put anything
on.”
To get rid of “nuisances," the
residents can call meetings,
Parker said, and evict the of-
fender, He said there had been
only one meeting at Canyon
Villa and that wan to advise a
woman that some'of her guests
might be thieves. She stopped
inviting them, he said.
given Dec. 21 at the Community Building.
(Sun staff photo by Glenn Foikes)
Accountants*
Meet Slated
On Tuesday
The Texas Bay Area Chapter
of the National Association of
Accountants will meet at 6:30
p.m..Tuesday at Nassau Bay
Motor Inn on Nassau Boulevard.
Dale Elam of Price-
Waterhouse will speak on
guidelines for open or closed
companies.
. To join the association, call
John J. Johs at 422-7620.
+ WASHINGTON - The
Supreme Court today refused
to review James Earl Ray's un-
successful attempt^ to with-
draw his guilty plea is the as-
sassination of Or. Martin Lu-
; - .
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+ MADRID, Spain
obscure ultraleftist group has
demanded that IS political pri-
soners be flown to freedom in
Algeria in exchange lor the re-
lease of a kidnaped adviser to
King Juan Carlos,
| People In The News
MARTINEZ, Ga. (AP)- One States, said he and his wife,
+ DALLAS — An unpub-
lished report ol a Texas legis-
lative aommittee criticises the
state bank holding company
act as not adequately serving
the interests ol the state, ac-
cording to the Dallas Morning
News
member of the Georgia Mo-
torcycle Rights* Organization
plans to use her political con-
nections in an upcoming lobby>
ing effort for repeal of mo-
torcycle safety laws.
She's Gloria Spann, 50-year-
old sister of President-elect
Carter.
I intend to advance the
goals (of the organization) by
contacting local legislators.
gjIspeakTngTfCely'
fdf the Carter administration
and with my brother, especial-
ly, on the rights of-riders,'
Mrs. Spann said Sunday.
Mrs. Spann and her husband,
Walter, a Plains, Ga., peanut
farmer, own five motorcycles
She's been riding for
years
She said' many people have
bad images of
from watching certain movies
which don't show the “beautiful
bikes and the brotherly love the
riders have for each other.
Kathleen, had been baptized in
Southern California Oct. 10.
"When 1 began to talk to my
old friends about the way that
things were looking to me I be-
gan to lose them, at first one
by one, and then by the dozens,
and then, just in droves
Cleaver is Tree on $100,000
bail.
.Carter To Get Unfinished
Energy Business From Ford
’WASHINGTON tAP) - The and budget, said offshore oil Carter has publicly favored
Happy
Birthday!
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___ Gayle Lansford is sent Mon-
eight day birthday greetings from the
congregation of Gospel
Lighthouse Assembly of God
motorcycles Church-_
departing Ford administration
is handing the incoming Carter
team a raft of unfinished ener-
gy business, ranging from fuel
taxes to the fate of the nuclear
breeder reactor
President-elect Carter prom-
ised Northeastern governors
last week that he would develop
a unified energy policy by April
1 RMHg
pose major policy questions for
the Carter administration
He said the Carter adminis-
tration will have to decide
whether to
staffers got
briefing.in a recent marathon
session at the Interior Depart-
ment, where Ford adminis-
jenr trt o n officials skimmed
through major issues facing the
new administration.
Summarizing the briefing in Interior Secretary
an interview, Stanley Doremus, L
deputy assistant interior secre-
tary for program development
and Western coal development greater emphasis on deveop-
schedule of offshore petroleum
leasing and will face other,
more substantive issues dealing
with the Outer Continental
Shelf.
A group of Carter's transition Doremus said the new admin-
taffers got their first full-scSlg istratio also-will have to-think.
meat of Appalachian coal in the
East.
Doremus said other Interior
Department issues outlined for
keep the present Carter's team included
—Plans need to be prepared
to develop Naval Petroleum
Reserve No. 4, in Alaska, being
transferred tom the Navy to
the Interior Depa
about a host of questions under
the coal-leasing program, be-
ginning with the issue of wheth-
er to proceed with coal leasing
in the West.
After a five-year moratorium,
S.
Kleppe has adopted fH§ regu-
lations to resume the leasing of
Western federal coal lands.
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Win Awards >
LECCE, Italy (AP) - Gloria
Swanson and James Mason
have been awarded this year’s
Golden Valentinos, given
memory of actor Rudolph Va-
lentino
The awards were presented
two in ceremonies Satur-
day night in this town in the
heel of Italy. It was the fifth
year the ceremonies were held
The night was an occasion of
protest for a small group ^of
leftists who demonstrated out-
side the theater where the
awards were presented. Author-
ities turned down their request
to read a statement asking for dent
Electoral College Members
To Make It Official Today
•partment
CHOICE DUE,
—A presidential recommen-
WASHINGTON (AP) - This
is the day that Walter Minch of
Parma, Ohio, and 537 ptber
relatively unknown Americans
are going to elect a president of
the United States.
Minch and his colleagues are
Friends Lost
TAKES YOU ALLTHE WAY!
—I;*B-11 :BB——
STEWARDESSES'
MONA URSULA Oviedo,
daughter of Mrs. Rachel
Herrera of Houston and
Michael E. Oviedo of
Baytown, celebrates her fourth
birthday. Grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Rudy Oviedo of
Baytown and Mr. and Mrs.
( Mike Cantu of Houston. Great- Jtul m ,„auOTll
grandmother is Mrs. B. Oviedo j den's FelV Forum
bousing and jobs.
Two crude firebombs
ploded during the night,
Minch is one of the majority
of electors pledged to Jimmy
Carter, who has been acting as
eluding one near the hotel President-elect since Nov. 2 in
where the award-winners anticipation of today's formai-
of Baytown.
NEW YORK (AP) - Fortner
Black Panther leader Eldridge
Cleaver says that his turn from
militantism to Christianity has.
cost him dozens of friends.
Speaking at an evangelical
rally at Madison Square Gar-
” Sunday,
| Cleaver, who lived in exile sev-
en years to avoid trial for at-
tempted murder in the United
SIDE GLANCES
In 50 state capitals and the
District of Columbia, 538 presi-
dential electors will meet to
cast their, ballots. A state’s
electoral total is equal to the
number of congressmen and
senators from toe state, plus
three for toe District of .Colum-
bia. The man who gefs 170
votes wins.
If all goes.predictably. Carter
will get 297 votes and President
Font will get 241. The reSflts
officially announced Jan. 6 by ertarian party presidential can-
Vice President Nelson Rock-
efeller.
Only then will Carter official-
ly by declared the president-
elect. The drawn-out schedule
members of one of the nation's travel and communications in
oldest and most exclusive col-
the electoral college
Under the Constitution, toe
electoral college, and not the 79
million persons who voted last
month, selects the, next presi
is a relic of the slower pace of ical party discipline, not the t0 divert some of ERDA’s funds
RULING SOUGHT
But all. does not always go
predictably. In Ohio, a group of
Republicans is seeking a ruling
tom a federal judge that would
block Minch and Ohio's other 24
Carter electors from voting in
Columbus. They claim vote in "The Federalist,
fraud fainted Carter’s 11,000-
vote victory there last month.
by Gill Fox
Even if their suit succeeded,
Carter would stand a good
chance to be elected, since he
didate. MacBride himself was
the Libertarian candidate this
year.
Actions like MacBride’s are
rare. But it is custom and polit-
dation to Congress is due by
next Sept. 1 on the choice of a
transportation system for Alas-
kan natural gas.
—A decision is needed on
whether to authorize a pipeline
system to pump Alaskan oil
from a California tanker port to
Texas. In the meantime, what
should be done with surplus
Alaskan oil reaching the West
Coast?
—The new administration
needs to develop a position on
congressional proposals for
nationwide strip-mining control
law.
The Carter team also was
briefed in back-to-back sessions
in a single day 'by the Energy
Research and Development Ad-
ministration (ERDA) and the
Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA).
Carter may consider whether
Manor Villa has 78 units
Rather than trying to con-
vince the owners “to do this be-
cause it’s the right thing to do
or anything like that,” said
Parker, ‘1 just told them I
could double their profjts "
In apartments managed by
Parker, former chairman of the
Travis County Libertarian Par-
ty, there are no rules and regu-
lations. “We just encourage
people to get along," he said,
‘to think before they do some-
thing: 'How will this affect the
other people who live here?”’
“Everybody here eventually
winds up swimming in the nude
or something like that,” Parker
said of Canyon Villa, “It goes
beyond that, too, to the little
things. If you have to go out-
Did You Know?
STAFF OF LIFE takes hun-
dreds of shapes around the
world, some depicted In this
display by Austrian
designer-architect Hans
Hollein. It’s on view at New
York's Cooper-Hewitt
Musenm as part of “Man
Transforms”, a design ex-
hibition spon sored by John-
son Wax.
The largest marine disaster
in the United States was toe ex-
ploding of the “Sultana" on the
Mississippi River on April 27,
1865.
Joe Cronin, chairman of the
board of the American League,,
served as player, manager,
team executive and league should call 427-4354
president during his 45 years in
baseball.
□ass Ring
A MAN’S ROSS Sterling senior
ring with blue stone and the in-
itials GWR has been lost.
Anyone finding this 1978 class
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About 6000 B.C. man had set-
tled in the Near East in rich
valleys and had learned to do-
mesticate plants and animals.
uavci duu tu3i3J3iuiiiv<uiuii3 333 force oflaw, that prevent ma-
1787, when the plan was writ- verick votes tom negating the
will of the people as expressed
in the popular vote.
The framers of toe Con-
stitution, in fact, did not envis-
ion direct election by the peole
of the president. In an age of
monarchies, direct election
smacked too much of anarchy. ( by the Federal Energy Admto-
As Alexander Hamilton wrote
„ “The Federalist,” it was
peculiarly desirable to afford
as little opportunity as possible
to tumult and disorder.
The Hamiltonians felt that
the election of a president was
would expect to receive 272 fw important to leave directly
votes, two more than the neces-envistoned
sary majority.
There is no constitutional re-
quirement that the electors
vote for toe candidate to whom
they are pledged. In 1972, for
example, Virginia elector Ho-
ard Nixon,- voted instead far
from the costly breeder reactor
project — aimed at developing
a nuclear power plant that pro-
duces new fuel — into solar
power development research
on clean ways to burn coal, or
nuclear fusion.
Finally, still more issues
were thrown at Carter's team
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wise men who would select a ni
leader in the best interests of
the nation
The system has given toe na-
tion three presidents who did
not get the most popular votes
istration. They included
Whether to try for Wei
taxes to encourage energy con-
servation, an idea that got no-
where with President Ford or
Congress earlier.
—Whether multinational oil
companies should be broken up.
And whether tfiey should be re-
[uired to report their inter-
national oil negotiations,
FEA has proposed.
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Liberty County Vote
On Ambulances SlaJed
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LIBERTY (Sp) - April 2 has of framing personnel and out-
been set as thedate that Liftrty fitting ambulances to meet
County residents will vote
decide if a countywide am-
bulance district should be
created, according to action by
Liberty County Comipissioners
Court.
If approved by popular vote,
to federal regulations
Meanwhile city governments
in the county continued their ef-
forts to achieve a public am-
bulance service (torn for their
communities.
Cleveland Mayor Quay Doyle ;
power to raise taxes to pay for
equipment and training of am-
bulance personnel, said County
Judge Harlan Friend. B would
be managed by elected
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the district would have toe announced publicly that toe am-
bulance needs of bis city are be-
ig met by three pirate am-
ilance services operating there.
Dayton is reported to be
negotiating a short-tom co-
tract with a private firm.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 52, Ed. 1 Monday, December 13, 1976, newspaper, December 13, 1976; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1103988/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.