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Thursday, July 6,' 1972
BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
TerTCents Per Copy
Weather Key - -
City Water Supply
Will Hold Up If..
By WANDA ORTON
Baytown’s water supply the
remainder of the summer de-
j pendsjm a couple of “ifs.”
If the rains come and if all
the wells are working proper?
ly, Baytown will have no water
I worries. Repairs presently are
underway for two of the city’s
13 water wells, the largest and
most urgent work being done
cials do not expect a shortage
of water,
The demand for water, of
course, largely depends on the
weather. In a dry spell, people
are out watering their, lawns
and.are generally using much
Our
World
more water than in normal or rising any effective pres
wet weather conditions,
,One of the highest records of
water pumpage, in Baytown’s'
at the James Street well that history occurred on June 19,
WORK AT JAMES STREET WELL
Raymond Ellis, Charles Ferdinantsen Repair Broken Shaft
(Sun Photo by Ed Malcik I
produces in excess of a million
gallons of water per day.
• A much smaller well at
Cleveland and Carlton also is
eing repaired.
In the meantime, if,Bay-
town's demand for water does
not strain the supply, city offi-l
1969, when 9,138,000 gallons
were pumped. The .peak
reached last year, was 9,070,000
gallons on July 18.
In 1970, however, the water
pumpage never got as high as 8
million gallons because there
(See WATER, Page 2)
ots Hutto, Simmons In
Suit Against TipcoIn 60 Da^
“ J. Baytown s new 19721
Niece Dies ..........
MRS. VICKI LYNN Gowin, 22,
of Emory, Tex., niece of Mrs.
I^ee Munson, and Mrs. Verna
Mrs. Velma Munson of Bay-
town, died at 8 p.m. Wednes-
day in Greenville, Tex.
City Council
BAYTOWN CITY Council will
,LABOYNTON
STON ,iSp) — Emmett
Huttp I and Perry Simmons,
long-time feStAurarTt' "and Federal District Judge John V. KahtagCo. in Loveland, Colo.,
motel operators in Baytown
have filed suit in Federal Dis-
trict Court against Texas In-
come Propertied, Inc, charg-
ing violation of the U.S; Securi
tierand Exchange Act -——
Hutto and Simmons seek to
recover $167,710. Hutto said he
was issued 14,771 shares of
Tipco stotk the company
meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in purchase ^eement for his
f ho nnnn/M r>h omKor of 4 i • 1
the council chamber of city
hair.Uidswillbeconsideredun ^ he id $20,000 for 2,000
rnnctriirhnn nf Rrna-nivftrtH , r . • • ■ L:
shares when he became mana
construction of Brownwood
perimeter Roads
Driver’s Licenses
BAYTOWN OFFICE of the
- Texas Department of Public
Safety has moved to 120 Park
St. All applicants for driver’s
licenses should go to the new
address rather than the old of-
fice at city hall.
Playground Treat
A FREE SWIM will be held at
Roseland Park pool from 2 to 4
p.m. Friday for all youngsters
participating in the Bowje Ele-
mentary School playground
program, The swim is spon
sored by the City Parks and
Recrea tion Depa rtmenT ’
Services Pending
SAM. J. Guarino, 61, of 505 E
Wright, died Wednesday
morning while on vacation in
Bar-Harbor, Me. Services are
pending at Earthman Funeral
Home-in Houston.
Tower Restaurant-Simmons
ger of Tipco's Ramada Inn.
Also framed in the suit are
Selman Kuehn, identified as
president of Tipco, and H. H.
Kuehn, both of Baytown; Ron-
ald Marshall, identified as vice
president and treasurer; I-eo
Meyerson and Robert Silver-
man of Nebraska; Owen L.
son of Iowa
The suit will be heard by
City Directory
Here Is Due
From AP Wires
.+ LONDON -t Western
diplomats representing
countries with missions in
Moscow, Peking and Hanoi
reported today they have
seen absolutely no evidence
to- suggest that the Russians
or Chinese in fact are exer-
sures on North Vietnam to
end the war.
Support Pledged To Castro - -
Soviets Demand End Of
-
i I
Cuban Blockage By U.S;
' + REYKJAVIK, Iceland
— Bobby Fischer cleared the
way today for the start of the
world chess championship,
match with a written apolo-
gy to Boris Spassky for his
“disrespectful behavior.”
'+' HOUSTON - Houston
Police Chief Herman Short
says personnel increases and
merchant cooperation have
helped the city to show a de-
crease of fonr per cent
armed robberies, over the
first six months of 1972.
Baytown’s new 1972 city dir;
eyerson and Samuel Meyer- ectory is due to te ready
circulation in about 60 days,
spokesman for Johnson Pub-
+ HOUSTON-The Texas
Turnpike Authority meets
here today to discuss three
proposed toll roads for the
Houston-Gulf Coast area.
Singleton Jr. A jury trial has
been requested,
The suit says that Tipco, Inc
listed properties valued at
million' in a news release
told The Baytown Sun Wed-
nesday.
'The spokesman said
$5 company is now rechecking its
to listings before final printing
incorporated in 1969. The prop-
erties included Apartment
Center, a 174-uriit complex on
Tri-City Beach Road; White
valued at $147,710.as part of the Hall Apartments on Ward cal listing, a spokesman said
Road with 116 units com-
pleted and 86 mere under con*
struction; a number, of. resi-
dential lots primarily in Cedar
Cove Addition, east .of Rose-
land Park ; a 40-acre tract on
the Southeast corner of Garth
and Baker, and a building at
1212 East Texas.
Hutto-contends in the suit
that he had* made inquiries
about availability of Ramada
t See SUIT, Page 2)
Services Held For Two
MB Air Crash Victims
ABBEVILLE, I-a iSpr -
The bodies of two members of cipating in the search
the L. S. O’Brien fpmily
Mont Belvieu whose light plane
crashed -mHr-Vermillion Bay deputy said Thursday high
Had Surgery
near here, Tuesday have been
recovered and identified, ac
cording to the Abbeville Sher-
iffs Department
Members of the O'Brien
family came here to identify
the bodies.
Graveside services for Mrs
- Helen O'Brien, 39, and her
daughter, Kay, 13, were to be
held at 3 p.m. Thursday at
MARY.ELIZABETH Shook
recovering from surgery
Gulf Coast Hospital. She is in
Room 159 and can have Visi-
tors.
AR0<
celebrating a birthday Sunday
... Nice to chat with Dr. John-
nie Punchard . T. A. Day
sends a delicious surprise.
Mrs. J. C. Brewer furnishes
looking for eight-inch brass
candlesticks for BLT's produc-
tion of “Fiddler on the Roof"
' Frtd R. Treadway la recov-
ering from hip surgery in
Room 417 of Herman Hospital
in Houston,... Hippy 13th
birthday greetings to Patti
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Bean Cemetery in Kirbyville time as the flight,
under the direction of the Cau-
seryices will be held later for
other ^embers of the family
The - family, including the
father, Iiipbrick S. t-Dfekt
O'Brien, 41, pilot of the plane
the wife and three children
Kay, I-ori, 8, and Gaylon, 9, left
Cannon, £a., at 8 a.m. July 4 to
Orleans Coast Guard are parti-
Both land and water are be-
ing searched, but a sheriff's
seas in the bay are causing dif-
ficulty in dragging procedures.
A part of one wing with a
wheel attached were found
early in the search, the deputy
said.
The Federal Aviation Ad-
ministration, investigating the
case, said there was a heavy
thunderstorm in the Vermil-
lion Bay area about the same
.The O'Briens had lived in
sey Funeral Home. Memorial Nfont Belvieu five years, raov-
the Chambers County Sheriff's
" They were last heard from By WANDA ORTON ’ building permits issued in $9,850. Jones 7-11-7 Store is the
when they refueled at 10 a m As evidence of an increasing May. owner and Gulf Coast Equips
MRS. DORA WARD will be Tuesday at Mobile, Ala., the na^o^.fLLSsdotora iirfrai iir lLaL of Houstori'« con-
Tr . .nokesman said Baytown s mtllion-plus dollars generated 1498,000 worth of tractor.
John Landry, chief deputy of bu'*d|n* permits in June in- construction in June, with the *'^rj** ]"■«* ™ner of
the Abbeville Sheriff's Deoart- clHdes two new restaurants, permit for the new police sta- Whlte Supply, wt
Hoot crew boat saw an’object
r*' It
Jimmy Detro Jr. had sur
gery Wednesday in Gulf Coast Nee
Hospital and can have visitors.
. Happy belated birthday
wishes to Margie
« -- - - -
ing there from Kirbyville. The
father was employed as a
wgldeaw.
Sim
and binding of the directory.
Some 5,000 copies of the new
directory are expected to
circulated. It will contain
19,587 entries in its alphabeti-
+ WASHINGTON - The
federal government reports
encouraging progress in its
efforts to—combat heroin
traffic in 33 U.S. cities.
+ WASHINGTON - The
soft contact lens should be
pulled off the market until it
can be tested more’ tho-
roughly by impartial scien
Johnson Publishing Co. is tists. a health researcher
publishing Baytown's direct- told a Senate subcommittee
ory for the first time this year
Recent directories have been
published by Baldin Con-
survey of Ohio..
Jbhnson Publishing is the
second largest directory pub-
lisher in the United States
having published directories in
44 states, from towns of 7,000
population to Phoenix, Ariz
with a population of 1,500,000.
Baytown’s last city directory
was published in 1970.
today.
+ BANGKOK - Rein-
forcement of the U.S. Air
Force in Thailand has
brought troop levels here to
approximately that of L’.S.
forces in South Vietnam.
MOSCOW (APi-The Soviet
Union today' demanded the
unconditional withdrawal" of
the U.S. naval- base at Guan-
tanamo Bay and pledged to
frontinue supplying.' massive
economic and military aid W
Fidel Castro's Communist
regime.
The "Kremlin demand was
made in a 4,000-word joint So
viet-Cuban communique pub-
lished today as Castro left the
Soviet Union for home after an
11-day visit.
“The Soviet leaders have
“once again stated that 4he So-
viet Union resolutely con-
demns the economic and
political blockade -of Cuba
conducted by the United
States,'.’ .the communique
declared.
$400,000 Is
Approved For
Housing Here
U. S. Sen. John Tower Thurs-
day announced that $400,000
has been awarded by the Hous-
ing and Urban Development
Agency for modernization
180 low rent units in the Bay-
town Housing Authority
This amount is in addition to
an original grant of $1.^ million
for modernization of 180 exist-
By KIM MC MURRA Y
Sun Austin Bureau
AUSTIN i Sp) — Baytown
-Rep. Joe Allen was one of 13
House members voting against
resolution calling for a na
tional convention to write an
antibusing amendment to the
U.S. constitution.
The resolution, sponsored' by
Seguin' Rep. John Traeger,
approved two years ago but
costs exceeded the original
estimates
The Housing Authority then
asked for the-additional $400,
000. With the additional funds
approved, the Housing Autho-
rity will,readvertise for bids
this month
LATE
NEWS
HL&P Said Gratified’
With Judge’s Decision
,A Houston Lighting and state's growing power needs.
skid
WASHINGTON (AP| -
Secretary of Defense Melvin
R. Laird said today Sen.
George McGovern’s propo-
sal to slash defense spending
by $30 billion “would signal
to the world a drastic decline
in America’s will and ability
to contribute to international
stability.”
Leading the Nixon admin-
istration attack against the
Democratic presidential
nomination front-runner on
the eve of the Miami Beach
convention, Laird again
characterized McGovern's
defense program as.“tanta-
mount to a white flag of sur-
render."
Power Co. spokesman said
Wednesday that i the power
company "is gratiher) ' at the
refusal of U.S. District Judge
Owen Cox to grant a prelimi
nary injunction against con-
tinued construction and use of
the company's cooling pond for
Cedar Bayou generating
plant.
The spokesman said the
company also welcomes the
scheduled Oct. 10 trial date of
the suit on its merits as well as
hearing on two related suits
filed by the company and. En-
vironmental Protection
Agency against each other
over the samp plant.
The Cedar Bayou plant,
representing over 20 per cent
of the company’s total gen-
erating capabilities, is essen-
he skid. “Early resolution of
the issue of the plant's opera-
tiOn ispgtiiy desirable.la the1
company
Judge Cox ruled'in a suit
•brought by- .the U.S.' govern?
ment at the request of the
Army Corps of Engineers. The
suit sought to enjoin thfcqjqw
company from constructing
dams and dikes and from per
forming other work that would
allegedly alter navigable wa
ters.
Judge Cox said that the in-
take and discharge canals and
other structures were autho-
rized by the U.S. engineers in
1968. He said there was ho con-
vincing testimony that the
marshlands covered by • The
cooling pond alone-constitute
navigable waters
There must be an “uncon-
ditional withdrawal <of the
American Guantanamo'naval
base, which, contrary to the
sovereign will - of the, Cuban
people, exists on Cuban
territory,” it added.
The statement was imme-
diately followed by a Soviet
declaration to continue “all-
round assistance to Cuba in the
construction of a Socialist
society, in strengthening the
country's defense capacity and
defending .its revolutionary
gains." • ' —
The 44-year-old Cuban
leader boarded a plane in the
Byelorussian-capital of Minsk
after an overnight visit there.
He left Moscow Wednesday.
Communist Sources said
Castro would make a short] of the capital
stopover in Morocco today en
route'to Havana.
■The 44-year-old Cuban
leader returned to Havana
early today He was greeted at
the airport by cheering throngs
of workers, students, peasants,
housewives and members of
the armed forces before set-
ting out, on a long, ...slow
motorcade through the sti eets '
Bill Passes With 107 Votes - -
Rep. Allen One Of 13 Voting
Against ‘Busing’ Resolution
•passed-the-Heuse by-a 107 to 13 must pass it before a conven-
vote Wednesday afternoon af-
ter numerous points of order
and a move fa postpone con-
sideration failed
Most of those who opposed
the resolution did so because
delay is a vote for busing.
The amendment itself states
that children shall not be as-
signed to a school solely on the
basis of creed, color or nation- sessions on'Uppoiniments b
al origin. The' resolution now
goes to the Senate^ for con-
sideration. If it passes there'
Texas would become’“the fifth frrivate
state to approve such a resoly
tion. Two-thirds of the states
"' 'An TS^IJ vote'Tin’a motion Tn
Austin Sen. Charles Herring
eliminated a proposed
provision to make c lose'd-do
the governor public affairs
unless a majority of the Senate
votes' to conducT "tTTeiiT iTT
Ing units here. The project was ^ d<) ^ f«*l that the U.S;
constitution should
everytime an emotional
idsue is framed."
They also expressed concern
over the fact that a constitu-
tional convention could, if it
desired, amend the entire con-
stitution, and would not be
limited only to the antibusing
proposal.
The word “busing'’ is not
mentioned in the resolution,
but Traeger said during debate
whether -to postpone con-
sideration that “a vote for a
tion would be called
In other legislative action
Wednesday, the Senate made
two major changes in the 53-
page package of "reform'
wiles, cutting out provisions to
-open secret sessions to the could destroy the man
press and public, and to give
p.,1 »,*
committees.
After a 20-11 vote defeated an
attempt to clamp a time
limit- probably just over 24
hours—on filibusters, the
Senate broke off l-1; hours of
debate until today.
Herring's amendment re-
stored the current secret' ses-
sion. which cannot be .opened
unless two-thirds of the 31-
meinber Senate votes to do so
Herring said-if the public and
press were allowed to listen to
the Senate' debate an ap-
pointee's qualifications, it
reputation and hurt his family.
and friends."--'---------------------
House members approved a
resolution Wednesday whi^h
pponents claimed was an at-
tempt to reverse the trend to-
ward integration. Sp/msors
said the issue was mer?ly
whether a legislator was for or
against busing.
Max Souby Will Head
College Coal Project
MAXSOUBY
Max Souby, Veteran Humble
research associate who retired
-about a • year ago, has beert
named manager of a Univer-
sity of North Dakota coal re
search project and will go to
Grand Forks immediately to
take over the assignment.
Mrs.-Souby and their three
daughters now at home will
continue to live in Baytown un
til after daughter Margaret
has graduated from Ross Ster
ling High next. year.
The North Dakota school has
entered into a research project
with the'U.S. Department of
the Interior, Office of Coal Re-
search, to study possibilities
of a lignite refinery project in
North Dakota. Souby will head
this effort. His last work at
Humble was in coal research.
Souby came to Baytown in.
1939 and became associated
with Humble after graduation
from Vanderbilt Mrs. Souby,
the. former Elizabeth Walters
of Way nesboro. Miss., came to
Bay town and also became an
Humble emplove after World
War II
The Soubys live at 5101
Goose Creek Drive Their
other daughters are Miss Sus
an of Austin, Miss Anne, a stu
dent at the University of Tex-
as, and Miss Myra, a freshman
at Ross Sterling
The Souby family has long
paf Church, and Souby resit
ed as Sunday School superin
tendent when, his assignment
took him out of Baytown
Two New. Restaurants On
tialto supply the area and the ,
. '.-‘hat
the cooling pond will have "a
minimum sort of effect on the
June Building Permit Lht
ssrSitsSFisaSisa!^
T" •S^™-thoh~7J JT--" are being constructed here, tion q,. of Hoi«ton -June Pewits include seven
cam*. tlPy, will, a ww »
W9'a0° by Fr*ncW* R«l*y of 2?L,t|CSjSl b2 Fm collec,ed by ^ cltYfor
wit wjWfaMs M m CMmf mm M?NW buUding permits in
shortly nfter the report was re- contractor Is McKittrlck Con-
several deputies along with the 2713 N. Alexander
tha New contractor Is Lqftln Construc-
tion Co, of Houston.
So ter the building permits
standing and patient wit
someone who doesn't have a
good fnemory.
Citizens National link
Peoples State Bank
0.13,406, second highest con-
struction total for the year.
The peak so far Is 12.8 worth of
Member F.0J.C
No Service Charge
was issued a
ecology of the marshlands be-
tween now and the October
trial date." adding that the do-
Tabbs Bay Levee Is ;
Ok‘d By Port Group
wer company would be “put to
Considerable expense to dds-
Houston commissioners* Wed-
nesday approved two pernfit
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troy the cooling pond now. and quests from Baytown
aHriitinnal »»vn*»rKP in thp fn. ki r n___
SKSSSas
sg ;*** »S525SI
sUtlon will be conMructfd si at the same time last year. 1
Perth Roed and North wood for So far. this year, through
June, the city has collected a
total of $23,421.45 In feesfc the
additional expense in the fu
ture to rebuild it, should the
defendant finally prevail <5n
the merits." .
The company contends that
its discharge may have a bene-
ficial effect on Trinity Bay
M. C. (Buddy) Bray, repre-
near the Baytown-La Porte
Tunnel, asked for a permit to
construct earthen levees up to
17 feet high along the north
-J,
shore of.Tabbs Bay and the
east shore of BL
are to be five feet wide and 20
feet Idng, located at either side
of an existing boat ramp. They
will be a* minimum of 119 feet
senting a group that owns land from the center line of the 100-
non- _____f ___I L.
Weather
And Tides
Black Duck Bay
un materials excavated from
le applicant’s property.
The material^, will come
from a bar pit on the land side
adjoining the levee and will be
used to prevent encroach-
ments by bay waters and as an
aid to Ailing the land to com-
PARTLY CLOUDY and a
little warmer through Fri-
da? with widely scattered
showers is the Baytown area ■HMHRIP
Thursday hIThJZ ^
ihirs.da>',.7* «■- filed forTpermit with the
pected Frida y of 95.
MORGAN S POINT ti(fi|«
* VI
Corps of Ei^Mt.r 1
The‘.City of BaytoWn's
psrtdtappllbation to construct
**** •''*r
foot wide channel dredged by
Houston Lighting and Power
Co.
The city has also filed with
the Corps of Engineers. *
Commissioners alst^ opened
bids Wednesday for a new fire-
boat but will take a long look at
alternatives before awarding
the job W a shipbuilder.
The only technically proper
bid, submitted by the Grafton
Boat Co. of Illinois, was 1557,-
000 for designing and building
the boat to meet the Port
Authority's specifications.
But two other firms indl-
rated an interest in the project
heads
tevitev.
various nwkneh as in*nue I ® fcSteW U» flttlii 3e8C«^[nR fwiWWV W'Htch<k)g8, tFglSr-'
ALAN LANDRY, son of-Mr.
and Mrs. Gerald Landry of
Baytown, is in the top live
per cent of his class at West
Point, finishing his second
dent. After thre^wwkf^of 1
•irtorne training at Fort
Bcnnlng, Gn,, he is teaviag
■ww^pmss isstvs wi in »are |/i ujvvl, 4tH,t U% III ICAVtlljf
Port Authority department ter Bremerhaven, Germany,
ads wffl meet at 7 30 p.m, lor a month of Army officer
been active in Trinity'Episco-
, leiwf
Alan has coniistently been
on the dean s list. * •
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