The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 147, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 1973 Page: 1 of 24
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1801 N. PRUETT IN BAYTOWN
49 PO
Released
In Hanoi
The Baytown Sun Invites
MR. AND MRS. MIKE BARGAINER
2414 Morning Drive
This Pass Good Through April 7
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Vol. 51, No
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146
Wednesday, March 28, 1973
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 422-8302
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
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Cheek ‘Serious’
FORMER BAYTONIAN the '
Rev. R. M. (Bob) Cheek was
listed in serious condition Wed-
nesday in Dickerson Hospi-
4aT 4b--Jasper following-a
heart attack Monday. He
pastored First Baptist in Bay-
town and is now pastor of First
Baptist in Jasper. He cannot
have visitors.
Noon Optimist
BAYTOWN NOON Optimist
Club will meet at noon Thurs- .._______________
day at Holiday Inn. Members ' ' .....
are invited to bring guests. ' -* ......
Reserve Unit PAVING PERIMETER ROAD
KEITH BANNON of the Texas HOT MIX, coming up! It’s paving time for the Brownwood raised perimeter road. Pictured on
Commission on Law Enforce- Crow Road are Adam Chavey with rake, Ruben Villarreal, standing beside truck, and James
ment will speak at a Reserjve Hogan, driver. The roadway is being constructed by Skrla, Inc. Elevation of the road has been
Constables dinner at 7:30 p.m.
Wednesday at Holiday Inn.
Eight reserve officers will be
sworn in for Constable. Jim
Douglas' Precinct 3.
In Hospital
DAN KING, 703 E. Humble, is
in Room 326 in Baytown Medi-
cal Center Hospital recovering
from surgery. ’He can have
visitors.
Wins Contest
- MARY IiE Thomas, 216 W.
Republic; is the winner of this
week's Monday Morning My-
stery Shopper Contest, spon-
sored by many of the down-
town merchants. Mary receiv-
ed $10 for winning the contest.
completed for several weeks and proved a great help in the past weekend’s high tide situation,
keeping flood waters from inundating homes bn the inside of the perimeter.
„ (SunPhotobyEdMalcik)
School Schedule Gets A-Plus - -
Longer Class Periods Win
Staff OK In Trimester Plan
ByJOHNELLABOYNTON
the district goes into a trimest
er program.
Brothpr n.’pc Deputy Supt. W. C. Herring
rOIlier pies told the school board Monday
CHARLES^ H. Boucher of night of the decision when the
schools and four junior schools
have ail elected to go to longer
Rosenberg, brother of Bay-
tonians Milton and W. H.
Boucher, died Tuesday at his
home Arrangements are
pending in Rosenberg with
burial to be in Karnes City,
Tex.
I Weather
I And Tides |
CONSIDERABLE cloudi-
ness and mild through
Thursday with some early
morning and night, drizzle is
the Baytown area weather
forecast. Low expected
Wednesday night 55 to 65;
high Thursday 63 jte 74.
board received a report on the
trimester schedule from Rob-
ert E. Lee High and Cedar Ba-
you Junior School, both of
whom have piloted the pro-
gram this year with longer
class periods.
Teachers and administra-
tors from the two schools,
along with a couple of enthu-
siastic students from Cedar
Bayou, gave the trimester
schedule, along with the longer
class periods, an A-plus score.
Under the plan, the high
school program has been di-
vided into five 80-minute pe-
riods each day, rather than the
sixtt-minute periods under the
familiar semester scbfdule.
The junior school program has
completed in 18 weeks is com-
than
teachers sending out grade re-
ports' every six weeks instead
CLARK AIR BASE, Philip-
lines (AP) — The Communists
reed 49 more American POWs
Hanoi today, including
charter pilot held longer than
any other U.S. civilian
prisoner in the war.
Ernest C. Brace, 41, a char-
ter pilot who had been a Com-
munist captive longer than any
other civilian in Indochina, ap-
peared on the verge of tears as
he moved down the red carpet
shaking hands with the
" welcoming officials,
smiled, and several of his front
teeth were missing.
Brace, whose wife lives
Atlanta, Ga„ was captured on
May 21, 1965..
Among the men freed were
nine Americans captured
Laos. A young Canadian mis-
sionary captured in Laos also
Cedar Bayou Principal Felix was handed over.
Hatehell, whose teaching staff Two big flying hospitals
class periods next year when of everv nine weeks, .the tri-;
““ *-»»»> - *-*---’ mester schedule will have little
effect next year on elementary
schools. Class periods will not
be lengthened for the younger
students, he said.
favored the trimester schedule brought the freed men from
with longer periods in a 48-2 the North Vietnamese capital
vote, said the aims of the tri- to Clark Air Base, the first stop
mester could not be realized on their trip home,
without the longer periods. - The 10 prisoners of the Corn-
Young Preston Antonini, a munist Pathfet Lap arrived ing errors partly to corn-
student at Cedar Bayou, called first, to midafternoon. The oth-pefitive pressure, on both
the trimester plan and longer er 40 Americans, who had been di
(See CLASS, Page 2) (See CIVILIAN, Page 2)
East Harris Democrats'0®«* Serving
Oppose Court Raises
East Harris County Demo-
crats will write a letter to Har-
ris County Commissioners
Court in protest of the ‘ large
salary increase" the commis-
sioners recently gave them-
selves.
MORGANS POINT tides for been-divided into six 6#to 70-
Ted Kloesel made the motion
to show disapproval of the
salary hikes wherl East Harris
County Democrats met Mon-
day night at the Electrical
Workers Union Hall
Commissioners' salaries
were raised from $19,800 to
the record $84.6
1:13 a.m.++and 11:58 a.m. both levels, work normally Feb, 1.
++ JJenotes weak tide.
AROUND
E W FROEHNER does an
important favor for a postal
patron . Note to Seaborn
Cravey A friend of yours left a
book at The Baytown Sun of-
fice you wanted to read.
Frances Lumus puts her in-
terior decoration talents to
good use these days.
Pat Buckley and Mrs. Den-
ton Dilling and Sheryl enjoy
the. Welcome Wagon lunch-
eon ... Col. and Mrs. Henry
Dtttman organize a St. Pat.
rick's Day dance ... David
Fenton proves extremely help-
ful . Terry Dopson pulling
his hair over two plays. “Dou-
ble Solitaire" and "Last of the
Red Hot Lovers."
Mary Katherine Butler dis-
cusses buying interesting in-
sects for her garden... Andy
Braswell gives some tips on
"hot" fishing spots.
BUI Burge stops to lend a
helping hand .
.... .....-V—.
Solutions Offered Vary -
tlm ■ T1 (
City Problems Aired
At Candidate Rally
Our
World
ByBARBARACLELAND
Candidates in the April 3 city
To a crowd of approximated prohibiting loose dogs on pub:
________________r_____115 Baytonians, the four mayor lie streets and possible-means
election touched on everything candidates and eight council of controlling them,
from the much-discussed land candidates gave their views in Incumbent Mayor Glen
one-minute answers to ques- Walker explained that the city down,
tions submitted by the audi- pound is improved, and while
ence. the city has a workable ordi-
One of the first questions nance, it lacks manpower and
directed to ail candidates by equipment to enforce it.
moderator Richard Halter However, mayoral candi-
concerned a city ordinance date Donna Kay Cryer said the
ordinance was “simply not
subsidence and street prob-
lems to reasons mobile home
owners pay taxes and apart-
ment dwellers don’t at the an-
nual rally sponsored by the
League of Women Voters at
city hall Tuesday night.
Military Hit For
•* : '
Weapons Costs
WASHINGTON (API— Con-
gressional auditors today
blamed $19.1 billion in weapons
costs overruns on military ef-
forts to get too much too fast,
inflation and cost-estimating
They attributed the estimat-
lefense contractors and the
military, to estimate low.
Comptroller Gen. Elmer B.
Staats, head of Congress’ Gen-
eral Accounting Office,
presented a report with those
and other conclusions to the
House Armed Services
Committee r, probing cost
overruns.
Staats said the $19.1 billion is
a 20 per cent cost overrun on 45
This resulted in a 46 per cent
pay raise for the four commis- . The Harris County Veterans
sioners. County Judge Bill El- Service office at 3308 Minne-
liott’s present salary of $34,000 sota will move next Monday to major weapons that have risen
was not raised. He received a a new location in the R. L.
salary hike in the 1972 budget Ixtng building, 2815 N. Main,
as the result of legislative Baytown Veterans Service
approval of an increase. Officer Walter Queen an-
Mrs. Ron Roberts, secretary nounced Wednesday,
of Easi Harris County Demo- Queen said the present office
crats, a liberal group, will secretary, Mrs. Leslie Koltfar-
write the letter to Commis- ber, will work on a full-time
sioners Court. basis in the new office instead
Officers were; named at of part-time as she did at the
Monday night’s meeting. Minnesota Street location.
Bobby-Baenes was re-elected Harris County Commis-
chairman: Mrs. Irvine St. sioners Court authorized the
John. ilmiiuiun:
M. W Hargrove, re-elected secretary .to . the Baytown
treasurer, and Mrs. Roberts Veterans Service officer when
was named secretary.
Ray Heinrich spoke out budget,
against the $40 million bond Queen, a 3aytown attorney
issue proposed in Harris Coun- and former Precinct 3 justice
ty in the April 14 election, of the place here, maintains a
Heinrich also paid tribute to law office in the I>ong building,
the memory of the late Wood- He said new office hours, ef-
row Lewis, longtime active fective after the move, will be
Democrat and precinct chair- from 9 a m. to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
being enforced. There is plenty
of manpower to-do the job,”
she declared.
Taking the opposite view,
mayoral candidate Tom Gen-
tly said enforcement has in-
creased during»tjie first quar-
Flll, F15 and F14 swingwing ter of this year' but the loose
jet fighters; Minuteman mis- dog problem is one requiring1
siles; Paseidon submarines, citizen cooperation through
and M60 Army tanks. adequate fencing or keeping
Tt is these widely publicized {he animals Jeashed.-
overruns,” he said, “that have And while District 2 council
From AP Wires
+ WASHINGTON-AFL-
CIO President George
Meany said today the ad-
ministration can forget
about holding down big wage
settlements this year unless
food prices are brought
shaken public confidence in the candidate Col. Henry Dittrtan
ability and credibility of both supported Gentry's view that
government and Industry citizen cooperation is neces-
managements.” sary, District 3 candidate Leo-
Staats said the 45 weapons on nar^ Morgan and District 6
which he has cost overrun fig- candidate Mary Elizabeth Wil-
ures are part of 116 weapons banks suggested that enforce-
systems currently being devel- mer*t could be the problem,
oped at an estimated cost of In a second question directed
$153 billion. to all candidates concerning
The report blamed 45 per the poor job being done by the
cent of The cost overruns on county on city streets that are
changes ordered by the mili- supposed to be maintained by
tary during development; 30 county agencies, nine of the 12
per cent on inflation, and 25 per candidates suggested that the
cent on cost-estimating errors, j (See CITY, Page 2 )
+ NEW YORK - John B.
Conftally was on the brink of
switching to the Republican
party last week but.stopped
short due to the growing
furor over possible -White
House involvement in the
Watergate break-in, sources
said today. . .
+ WOUNDED KNEE,
S.D. — Hopes for a peaceful
settlement, of the seige of
Wounded Knee hinged today
on two negotiating sessions
150 miles apart.
-I- SAIGON - As 19 more
planeloads of American
soldiers left Vietnam today,
President Nguyen Van Thieu
laid thfe cornerstone for a 60-
foot-high monument to the
U.S. and South Vietnamese
fighting men “and the un-
breakable bond of friendship
between our two nations.” -
NEW UNIFORMS
BATT0WR STATE BANK
"TOW FAMIIT IMH"
■OKIVFlic .
BAYTOWN FIRE Department driver Jim McCtrele model*
the aew Mtfonn beta* *ported by flremea. Coaiiftia* el a
charcoal gray wtt wttfc a* Etoenbower Jacket, the worktag
■form spears arater tea the oMer oBve greea, khaki ad-
ftnas, laid a departBMnt tpakemaaa. TV met wffl wear cap*
ia making toipecttoa* or leavta* the itattua.
A Taste Of Cocoa - -
PinehiHitting Beats
Working For Living
By FRED HARTMAN
COCOA, Fla. (Spi - It took nearly four decades and a long
weekend in Florida to find out what my Baytown Sun job really
was, or is.
I am a designated pinch-hitter.”
A day or two after Bob Matherne hired me, he said he was
going to Beaumont to see his mother and would I do so and so?
I would.
Next. Editor W. L. Pendergraft had to cover some NLRB
hearings, and would I sit in for him on the desk? I would.
The Sun had a great reporter named A. M. I Brick) Goul,
who left early to take a WWII job in New York on the UP cable
desk. I sat to for Brick. X ;.
You name it from that day to this. I djtj.it.
Truly the world's first unrecognizedJdeawnated pinch-hitter
- the kind they will have to the 1973 American League base-
ball race.
looking backward, however, I don't recall anybody ever
asking me to pinch hit for either Beulah Mae Jackson or Ann
Pritchett. You see. they always handled the money
Things have changed during the years, just as they have in
baseball I am still The Sun's designated pinch-hitter, but now
I get to do the designatin'
I don’t know how it will work this summer in baseball, but
I'm not kickin'. It sure does beat working for a living!
an estimated $112.7 billion
cost from development esti-
mates of $93.6 billion.
The 45 weapons include the
C5A super cargo plane; the
City Due To
Get $.238,175
In Sales Tax
soon receive $238,175.23 in
sales tax*revenue for tffc quar-
it adopted the 1973-74 county en(bnK Dec. 31,1972.
City Finance Director J. B.
LeFevre said this amount was
"running a little bit short" of
what was expected. Total pay-
ments for the current fiscal
year amount to $472,338.22.
This represents what was col-
lected beginning with the fiscal
year Oct. 1 Jrom the third
quarter of 1972 and the final
quarter at the end of the year.
For the fiscal year, LeFevre
said, the city had expected $1
million to sales tax revenue.
“So these two payments are
not quite half of that."
The payment for the quarter
ending Sept. 30 was $234,162.99.
LeFevre had anticipated that
the collection ending Dec. 31.
however, would have been lar-
ger due to Christmas shopping
sales in Baytown.
Statewide, $50.1 million will
be sent to cities from the state
comptroller's office as their
shares to sales taxes. Another
$52,394 will remain to the state
treasury because one city
could not be identified and thus
will not get a check, according
to the state comptroller’s of-
fice
The checks represent the 1
per cent sales tax which is re-
bated to cities whose voters
choose to levy It.
tss
BAYTOWN FAIR AND RODEO SIGNS GOING UP
Committee Members Jimmy Detro, Robert Harman Tack Up Sign
(Sun Photo by Ed Malcik)
Western Week Is April 16-21 - -
13th Annual Baytown Fair,
Rodeo Set For April 19-21
By CUBA FERRELL liege division, and a commer-
Citizens Ritiowl
* fine
April 16-21 has been pro-
claimed Western Week by
Mayor Glen Walker in con-
junction with the 13th annual
Baytown Youth Fair and
Rodeo slated for April 19-21 at
the fair grounds on North
Mato.
The Baytown Youth Fair and
Rodeo Parade on April 17 will
kick off western activities.
The parade will begin at 6:30
p.m. at Albert Thomas Circle
on West Texas and will end at
Fourth. Organizations, clubs
and businesses interested in r
participating to the parade
may contact Mrs Sylvia
Ludtke. parade chairman.
Trophies will be awarded in
three divisions, public school
division, high school and coi-
cial division for entrants other
than schools.
The auction dinner will be at
7:30 p.m April 9 for prospec
tiv£jfvestock buyers. The
stejr auction lias been
scheduled for 2 p.m. April 21
with Chairman Hit Bishop
heading the auction. Business-
men. companies and indivi-
duals are sponsors and buyers
at the auction.
Carnival entertainment with
the addition of several new
Peoples State Bank
NO SERVICE CHARGE
Mimlr F 0.1 C.
% hwu i* tm
rides will be provided by Rob-
ert Wagner of Spring.
The fair and rodeo will start
at 8 p.m. April 19-21. Wayne
Barrett of Palestine will pro-
duce the Texas Rodeo Associa-
tion Rodeo. Events will include
saddlebronc riding, bull riding,
bareback riding, tie-down calf
roping, steer wrestling and
girls' barrel races.
«, New events this year will be
wild cow milking for business-
men and a calf scramble for
children under 12. A calf
scramble will also be held
nightly with *-H or FFA buys
participating.
Indoor exhibits will include
20 to 25 exhibitors in the
Exhibition Building. Exhibits
will be judged in junior and
(See RODEO, Page 21
+ HOUSTON - A report
prepared by the City of
Houston for the Texas Air
Control Board indicates the
automobile is not the main
source of Houston air pollu-
tion.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 147, Ed. 1 Wednesday, March 28, 1973, newspaper, March 28, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104032/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.