The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 2, 1973 Page: 1 of 18
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The Baytown Sun Invites
MR AND MRS. GLENN A. STANlklS
717 Grantham
This Pass Good Through Jan 10
At The Brunson Theater Boj Office
now Showing
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NEWSPAPER
Vol. ,51, No. 74
TELEPHONE NUMBER; 422-8302
Xissa Martinez ~ ■
1973 First Baby ^
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OVER 50,000 READEf Y DAY
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Tuesday, January 2,1973
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daughter bom, to Mrs.
viges Martinez of 420
Granville is the first baby tote
born in 1973 in the Baytown
area and is the winner of Bay-
annual New- Year’s
Contest. *
baby girl was named
her parents. Weigl
three ounces,
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The contest is limited to
babies bom within the Goose
Creek School District of par-
ents who live within the area.
The birth must have been re-
tried to The Sun by 9 a.m.
resday.
Prizes in the contest include
a baby bed from Culpepper’s, a
$10 savings account from Har-
14 a.m. Monday ris County Federal Savings
Jacinto Methodist Hos- and Loan, a crib mattress,
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cer-
of table transistor radio3 from i
in Gene’s Hi-Fi, a baby set from
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leather Dies
’J&SERAL SREVffifcjk
Ben Wray will be held at2:30
p m. Wednesday at Hatch Fu-
neral Home in Waco. Wray,
father of Mrs. Joyce Rawe^ of
Baytown, died Monday in Mar-
Jin veterans Hospital to Mar
lin, Tex. . * ”
PTA Meet
- BAYTOWN COUNCTl
Scarborough’s Drugs, a gown.-J
Tor prother from Beall’s;
Also, a silver duck bank
from Laufman’s Jewelers,
silver babppoon
’jtoiprt, a silver baby cup
from Robson's Jewelers, a
baby rocker from Willcenfeld,
babyts first shoes from
Moore’s, an AM-FM radio-
jhonograph combination from r-
Merchant's TV, two packages
disposable diapers from r
and Coker and a seafood
for Mom and Dad from
the Ramada-Tower.
BAYTOWN. TEXAS. 77K0
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Ten Cents Par Copy
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MISS NEW YEAR OF 1973
Mrs. Eduviges Martinez And Baby Daughter ,
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Congress Opens Wednesday
Demos Organize To Fight
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Arson,
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ail’ 11
I CHICAGO - Hie holi-
day death toll on the nation’s
highways for the three-day
New Year’s, weekend
reached 424 today.
+ SAN JUAN, PR
Puerto Rico’s governor-elect
canceled festivities for his
PTA's will meet at 9:30 a.m
Wednesday in the Pecan Room
. M~rln£> Lommunuv i enter -
School Supt . Johnny Clark will
speak on "A Changing Picture
v* Texas Education.” A film on
Project Kaleidoscope will fol-
low the meeting.
‘End The War’ Struggle
WASHINGTON lAPl
House" Democrats gearing
for renewed battles with Presi-
dent Nismjnee divisive strug'
gles of their own today as they
Booster Meet
THE ROSS Sterling,-Ranger
booster Club will m&t at 7
agenda, but may be put off un-
til a later meeting.
The Democrats will elect
their leaders for the new Con-
gress.’but Speaker Carl Albert noon opening of Congress. So
faces only token opposition and will Senate Republicans, who
Congreesopentog Woitooodoy.lRep. Tbono* P. 07WB of have two leadership petition!
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meet to organize for the 93rd
p.m, Tuesday in the cafeteria
at Sterling High.
Rites Held
FUNERAL SERVICES for Ira
Fudge wereto&heid at 2 p.m.
7 ty position on the best means of for majority leader
bringing the Vietnam war to an
end is (he major problem to be
resolved at a pre-session
caucus | of all House
Democrats,
New attacks on the seniority
Tufcdayjn Three Rivers. Tex. system and other proposed
He was the brother of Mss,
Willie Sutton, Mrs Eula
McMurrty and Raymond
Fudge, all of Mont Belvieu,
and J W. Fudge of Baytown.
AFS Meeting
ROBERT E< LEE adult chap-
ter of the American Field Ser-
vice win meet at 7:30 p.m.
Tuesday in the testing room of
the high school. Heather Don-
aldson of New Zealand wiH be
Kennel Club
BAYTOWN KENNEL Club
will fhcet »t 7:30 pm Tuesday
in the Friendship Room at the
Community Building. Match
plpns will be discussed
HouseRepubitcans.witb
fewer problems, will hold their
organizing meeting Wed-
nesday morning , before
inauguration today as the is-
land joined the U. & sports
world in mourning
burgh Pirate
berto Clemente.
+ ST. PETERSBURG,
Fla. — A federal flight sur-
geon saysrihe eyesight of the
-EStern Mr Uses
crashed into the
Tast""'1
deteriorated from *M0
toJSPlII hi a six-mouth
period, the St. Petersburg
Times reports.
Suspected
yMUBILHAKT--
NNElVIEW.lSp) -
Father laumer Schoppe, 41,
who to 1970 pioneered the first
tMic f>arish tobe estalk
lished here, Monday.night was*
found dead with two bullet
wounds in his chest when fire-
men entered the fire-gutted -
pacsonaee of S’. Andrew’s
Catholic Church. */
New Harris County Sheriff
Jack Heard said a special
team of investigators would"
be assigned to investigate the
. suspected murder and arson of
the church parsonage.
Channelview Fire Chief Ed
Smith said the fire was ob-
viously, the result of arson.
Four gasoline cans still* wet ,
with fuel were found in the ga-.
WVKFHGATOM CHECK 8TERW WHERECHUKUH MONEY WAS HIDDEN-2 The^Chabnehiew Volunteer
' ' CV Fire Chief Ed Smith and Arson Investigator Pete Cooper ' Fire Department received the
> . - (Sun PhotoByMuril Hart) fire call at10:15 p.m. It was 45
- ■ -1---*-------—’-*-minutes before firemen could
get the blaze under control to
enter the parsonage, Chief
Smith said. t
Wearing smoke masks, Fire-
men David Henson and Ronnie
Nix found Father Schoppe’s
body lying face up on t
of a combination den and
A hot fight is developing,
however, over ■ proposal to
make (lie third job in the party
hierarchy—that of Democratic
whip-elective rather than ap-
+ ATLANTA — Sen. Her-
man Talmadge, D-Ga., says
his Senate Agriculture Corn-
Sens. Norris Cotton of New
Hampshire and Wallace F*.
Bennett of Utah are vying for
the chairmanship of the Senate mittee is investigating perilous by the hour, the Na-
Republican Omtownce. John F*«kfc8tNixOn’sdectofettlo toinal Weaiher-.Servfce pre» i«Uedj)ver
G . Tower of Texas and Robert
Ram Predicted Here As
Bad Wead^r^overs Texas
Whife a 'death-dealing storm
piled snow and ice across vast
reaches of West Texas Tues-
day, with travel growing more
pointive, as it is now. If the Taft Jr. of Ohio are seeking the
move succeeds, a wide-'pen’chairmanship of the Senate
rules changes are also on the battle for the job is in prospect iGOP Policy Committee.
freeze tow - interest loans
and $208 million in congres-
sional!) approved conserva-
tion funds for fanners.
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j laytown’s Deputy Reassigned - - -
Better Protection Is Aim
Of Sheriff Office Changes
, . , ■ .'Assnwnted Pro.yy. TWW nnxed
-ii- iqptnikaioffice-arme po- “w»-»e getttog mmr Nm erage with the same amounts fimfew or sleet glazed areas
the term resident deputy,"
Klevenhagen continued. “This
will enable us to give people of
and East Harris County.
The new changes under
the administration of Sheriff
Jack Heard directly affect
George Scott, who has been as-
| POLICE CHIEF John Wiikia-
-son
j^gallA Btwimeg AirAttacks
Below Viet 20th Parallel
Wish Carol
Wilks Opryshek a happy birth-
day. Caro! was Baytown’s first
baby of 1938.
--La-Ann Sutphin celebrates a SAIGON i APi
birthday.,.. Jon and Glena warplanes resumed attotka on
Pfennig take n hoMny trip to North Vietnain’a southyn pit-
Kilgore and to Tememee . .1
Linda Cassity geto a Mbd start
on -m annual end-of-year
project ... Bob Tyler drums
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parade Jan. 16 -
Vivian Gtdles sending sea-
son’s greetings to her former
students S Baytown via * long ordered by President Nixon on
distance telephone call to
Carol Wesselhoft Vivian and
husband John are now at home
inHamson. Ark . The Bart
" c Johnston family bit by the flu
The Harris County_.S(ieriff> Bee station here, and C, E, El-
‘Department, by eliminating
the okf concept of a resident
deputy, believes it will triple
its patrol coverage.
This is what Maj. J. J. Kiev
enhagen told The Sun in regard
to the reorganization of deputy
sheriff’s schedules,in Baytown
signed as Baytown's resident the past
dudes Baytown, Channelview
and Ctoverleaf ’’ —
Eldridge also will be as-
signed to the broad area in-
stead of being confined to one
port-of East Harris County in
ikidge, formerly assigned as
resident deputy in Highlands
About Scott’s Work Specifi-
cally, Maj. Klevenhageh ex-
plained that “he lias definitely
not left the Baytown area."
“He yScott) will be working residCTt ^ worked ^ht
East Hams Counfy - that m- ^ and thertthe area would
East Harris County better and ~iv eteht hours No* there
greater reverse arouirf tlte -- - • “
clock.”
will be three men aligned to _________ .. ___________
the some car. using it on a ro- western areas and kept small was sported tobe 1.35 inches
He said that in the past a] toting shift around the clock
not be covered the remainder
of the time
In the new organization each
officer is assigned to a shift in-
stead of a district. <
“Thu will give us better cov
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WtrX ftp VX CM-
handle below the 20th parallel
today after.a S64war-hak tor operations were resumed to
South Vietnam at dwk Monday
after a 24-hour holiday halt
The pattern was the same
during the Christmas cease-
fire. and agaii| there was no
| The bombtog halt above the
Mth upraBei which inctodes
Hanoiy and
southernmost province R did
not mention the tolc of the
to effect, ft was exphaotten wky the halt in crew The US: Comnaod said
Satarto^topreparatimfir the
resumption of secret I
Mowtay *'v j
ations over North Vietnam re-
wmed at I fyn. ft gave ao de-
State Bank “dthe,lwDMZ
NOSCtmCEOMKC
JMtortHit
liMCteekte
were
mSaiuiaSm^m
parallel to slow the annual *7-
season putoi sf war materiel MM te toe lb Dj
through Laos into Southfmain supply route southward,
UtrUA Cbntoanili&o re- M
ported that ‘ bombing
North Vlelaam Meted 11 how* tthadnopianeloaiesto repor
tongto. • ^ ■ i
The Cornmnd mid that.
negotiations in, Ptois next from dusk Monday mtil dawn
, U5 pUnes made 44
mk to ttoto.
but two of them to ttonthernl
quarter of the country below
During the bombing
rtaeattee ip Setoh art North
Vietnam. U.S air
U.B. RASC reconnaissance
plane was shot down Sunday in
battlefield actmty but one ma.
j°r fight about 40 miles north-
mat ef ategou ftk anig A ■
militia and ranjnle about Ml «rtlpinmt
enemy troops, and fighting
was reported conttnuing at
rmdaftemoon
■First rapsrts itod at teat
tur rtltatop WtoH
but there was no report
equipment involved
In the past a patrol car of a
resident- deputy was driven dprshowers nearly everywhere [trie. predicts a dryTear For
adjacent to the .\Yest, Texas
snow belt and there were thun-
else across the state.
Bitter north winds raked the
It .was in that area that a car in a belt from around San
skidding off Interstate 10 about
12 miles west of Van Horn car
ried its driver, David R. Gar- freezing drizzle • mixed with
rett, 24. of Austin to death as it
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ley hills forced the closing of
some streets in El Paso.
Lighter snow fell from
around Dalhart anif Amarillo
southward past Ldbbock in the
Panhandle-Plains sector, and
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Angelo toward Hobbs. N.M.
In addition there was
snow around Midland in the
Permian -Basin, and-Sleet was
mixed with rain during the
night and eaTly morning
around Aspermont in
Stonewall County ’and east
ward into parts of North and
CentralTexas.
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dieted more rain in the form of
showers and thundershowers
for the Baytown area
Cloudy and cold was the offi-
cial word for Baytown. A
spokesman for National
Weather Service did say, how-
ever, that a warming trend
would send the temperature to
the In* Ms Tuesday night after
a high in the upper 40s during
the day light hours.
He said the rainy weather
should end on Wednesday ________, ................ ............ ^
Meanwhile, according to The first day of 1973* with an inch nnei; 40.21 for 1969 : 57°33 for
Despite Early Rain,
"73 Seen As Dry Year
Although heavy rain fell thevlMT: 67.20 in 1968 ia real wet
'St day of 1973 with an inch nnei; 40.21 for 1969 : 57.33 for
measured-bstween 5-and4fr3» -fWO: 3r$Mormi: Tn3'52.&3
a.’ ., H, G. Work, who keeps a
rain gauge here for Harris
County Mosquito Control Dis-
for 1971. Work said.
In the past seven years 353-
kitchen at the rear of the build-
ing
If burglary was the motive, •
the thieves failed to get four
Large sacks of money , hidden ^
m a record player near Father #
Schoppe's body.
A church source said the
money, estimated at about
$2,000, was apparently mostly
a special collection taken at .
three church masses Sunday
and Monday for-relief of earth-
quake vietims in Managua.
Nicaragua.
Heard said the sheriff’s de-
partment had' answered a
burglary call from Father..^
Schoppe. at the pacm»Si»*>i3.--
cated on Sheldon Road, at 8
jm, abouf tw IffitfR before
the fife was observed Sheriff’s
deputies who investigated the^
1973
Total rainfall for Monday.
When asked about Scott's of-
fice in the Baytown Police Sta-
tion, Kiev,
flee will be liuwd by all ef the
sheriff's officers.
When more manpower and
equipment is obtained;
Klevenhagen added, “we hope
to use this as a complete sub-
station.
What we are doing now is
bpikiugtowardJhoae plans.'
Klevenhagen said that in the
past it has been “one man, one
car.” ......
Now we have people as-
signed around the clock.”
He said the sheriff’s office
craft warrupgs up along the
coas',
Some of .' the heaviest
said tois of-l5"0^311 blanke,ed far West
'Texas from around El P-as*
toward the northwnd eas'. and
forecasters looked for more
than 6 inches to collect west of
a line from Snyder to the
mouth of the Pecos River One
to 4 inches were predicted in
other areas
For Birthday Edition „ e>
realizes Oiittoere « rtot*h|"ThiHSj4bwn Srn tm Jan: B A city councU-appomlrtp^ ^s 37 64
bridges" to cron and that "a
lot of people are resident to
change
The: purpose of the reorgani-
Quang Binh, North Vtotiwn’s totion is to get officers away
from their desks and out on the
road, be said
This is being done m all parts
of the couity. be added. Hi
| The South Vietnamese com- Klevenhagen indicated tort
—inprtUptorrtylrtd tortog county bwtorttortp
in February the sheriff's office
will request more fundi far
Her art
Past trends, he -said,, show
tha! a dry year usually follow s
a wet one and 1972 watf pretty
wet Total rainfall for the year
was 52.53 inches, according to
Work -- records.
Hjs average rainfall for the
past seven years-is 50.45 in-
ches. The almanac!? 30-year
average for Texas is 45.26.
Totals for the past seven
years are 54.10 in 1966 : 44.60 in
plus inches of rain have fallen, burglary call, apparently found
he said, equivalent to almost 20 no'h'n^ *rnf® . . J u r -
Chief Smith said he first no-
ticed the blaze in the §outhwest
window at the back of the par-
sonage when he-arrived on the
The most ram in 1972 fell ml*™ a' 10:20 PnV- ['Fe dam;
■ptember when 12 l(f inches ^ wasgreatest in this area 0 .
feet of water
Intleceuiber thisyear, rain-
fall, totaled 3.75 inches. Work
said
Sun Needs City Data
September when 12 10 inche:
were recorded, September was
1971s wettest month, too. with
8.97 inches of rain
February brought- the least
ram of any month in 1972 with
inly 1.02 inches: October was
the second driest month with
T 75 inches
.No month in 1972 had as little
rainfairas January, 1971, when
i ItmR Itr # ail inch Was
recorded by Work
The second wettest month of
1972 was May with 8.2 inches of
rain
will publish a special historical
supplement-commemorating
the 25th anniversary of con-
solidation of the TriCKie&rfif
Felly, Goose Creek and Bay-
town into one city - the City of
Baylowrr-.— ...
Thetoth birthday edition will
contain historical information
before andstncf the consoiida-
tion; which became effective
on Jan M. 1948
The Sun invites Baytown and
area residents to submit pic-
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Hires ana qptr resuincai qiui
pubfication from
mitted
14.89 ipches.
committee is at work on (dans
for observance of the city’*
25th birthday, which is sched
uied on Jan. 19.20 and 21, Bay-
town historian I. M. i Deacon t
Jones is coordinating the com-
mittee^-efforts--,^ ^ - ^— CLOUDY AND eaM wtto
Mayor Glen Walker will is- shawenaadthanderohawei^
leather
And Tides
the house and in the hall and
attic Smith’said it appeared
that someone had dumped
gasoline' in these'areas of the
parsonage.
. The room where Father
Schoppe was found was heavi-
ly damaged by smoke. Smith
said ' . _
Firemen entered the build-
uw through » front window
after finding the front door
locked. -------- • —
The blaze was reported to
the fire department by a night
employe of the convenience
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sue a proclamation calling on
Bpytortns to join in the birth-
day observance, and The Sun
witt pubiish the schedule of
events doing the observance
as, soon as the historical com-
•’ Ytei miy king .whoever
tlwongh Itoldto sight Is the
Baytown area weather fore-
cast.’Low Taesday night io
the low Ms; high Wedaeoday
to the upper 56s.* j
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 74, Ed. 1 Tuesday, January 2, 1973, newspaper, January 2, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104063/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.