The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, January 8, 1973 Page: 1 of 16
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He Baytown Son Invites
MR. AND MRS. CARROLL ADKINS
138 Woodall Lane
This Pass Good Through Jan. 18
At The Brunson Heater Box Office
Now Showing
V "THE NEW CENTURIONS”
BAYTOWN. TEXAS, 77520
" I!® now carries some 7,500 vehicles i day right of way were purchased. A;
along U.S. Highway4ft^^ . tentton of the deadline was
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file Paptohm £>un
YOUR HOME
NEWSPAPER
OVER 50,000 READERS EVERY DAY
TELEPHONE NUMBER: 422-8302
—
Ton Cents Per Copy
because of the.condition of the present bridge.
scares the daylights out of y«i,” Sf.
John says. Texas has more than 1,400 bridges
in its .state highway system thit are no more ~ ■
than 20 feet widejMt tiiatmostofthemare tot 1
ever since
Bass lej$-heavity traveled farro-twngrket roads,;;.
_ trucks groan
across the bridge every day. So does a Crosby
school bus taking students to vocational
cWi£8€$ at rh
Last Sept Z8t a bus loaded with about 40
■—tWMfflw Drew - -in IH tillril
pep squad returning froma football game,
had its side rearview mirror clipped by an
oncoming truck.
Shattered glass flew through the open
windows of the bus, cutting into the faces of
medical attention for eye injuries. Even so,
driver Mildred Shepherd felt Ipcky. “I
His week, County Comraiasianer Jamie
Bray, imrietter to Crosby Chamber of Com-
merce President W. D. Carjeton, explained
why the county has not been buying the re-
quired right of way.
“Itboilsddwnto: right now there just is not “
enough money," said Bray.
"In the meantime, I am going to do my best
to obtain funding, and I will continue to give
full supporftothe completion of Highway 90,”
ftfay CPflUPUfti. ~~ v rrrr
Bray’s letter was thick with enclosures
aaaBB.^5»a
coura see myself aown m that water.
A resident engineer of the Texas Highway He estimated cost of right ofwi
Department calls the bridge one of the most <«* Hve-mile section of Highway 90 from
dangerous crossings in the .state. “
A very wide load strilsmg the bridge’s por-
tals “could drop Itinihe river,” says Richard
St. John, supervising resident engineer of the
Highway 90 project. ’
Crosby-Lynchburg to Sheldon Roads is
$1,438,300, Bray pointed out. M-
Ali the 1900 funds are committed to spe-
cific projects'. From the 1956 funds.the
county has existing right-of-way commit-
THROUGH THESE 20-FOOT PORTALS PASS 7,500 VEHICLES DAILY
No Money Pbf Right Of Way To Construct NewHighway90 Bridge
propose a new bond elec- He tragfe acddem ia New Me^
issues since 1966. onHighway SO/’S^John'agre^He San
the reporter he expected a means Jacinto River bridge is 1.000 feet long, as
Highway 90 right of way to be well as being only 20 feet wide, and it is a
!y by July. Reminded that any new legis- natural thing lor a driver to try to stay
lative bill would not be effective that soon, he. away from the supports on either side and
stretched the period to next Jan. 1 but never- crowd toward the center stripe,
theless remained optimistic. St. John says there is no other similar
Crosby citizens first appeared before bridge in the e^rotmty area of Region 10
commissioners court asking that right of carrying the same volume of traffic as the
way be purchased for the new section of Highway 90 bridge. —
Highway 90 in March of 1971. At the time. State Highway Engineer J. C. Dingwall
-ft^Mt^od^feBow eommlssimtcro tore- - toys theNewMexiro'^
lease all funds available to start an im- federal funds to replace obsolete bridges in all
mediate right-of-way purchase program. states.
Other commissioners however, suggested * “I look for the new federal aid Highway bill !
to carry a substantial sum which would be
. state to buiki the bridge and access section, made available , to the states for a bridge-
Iii the meantime, St. John, the highway en- widening and replacement program*" Djng-
gineer on the Highway 90 project, explains ..walls says.
that the highway district office is considering ■ The anticipated federal funds would appar-
a more immediate, though less satisfactory eritly not cover right of way costs, however,
solution. . and Harris County for the time being-is still
“We are considering building another stuck with the .Solution.
1
Eleven Wounded In Attack
U.S. Admits Error In
Da Nang Air Base
SAIGON f AP) — An Ameri- that about half a ddien U.S. bombs at
can flight leader mistakenly
guided five U.S. fighteHtomb-
ers into an accidental attack on
the Da Nang Air Base today.
Ten Americans and one
Vietnamese were reported
wounded by shrapnel or in-
jured while running for cover.
No deaths were reported. The
western part of the base where
the bombs hit is thinly
populated.
He U.S. Command t
Rites Pending ^
FUNERAL SERVICES for
Maudie Stevens of 227 Wild-
wood. who died Sunday in a
Baytown hospital, are to be an-
nounced by Earthman Funeral
Home.
Meeting Set
BAYTQWN CHAPTER of the
American Cancer^Society will foUowing surgery Tuesday,
meet at 7:8# par Monday at She can have visitors.
W W I Veterans
WORLD WAR 1 Veterans and
Auxiliary wifi meet at 2 p.m,
Tuesday at the Community
Center
Harris County Federal Savings
and Loan Association building
on Alexander Drive. A flhn win
be shown.
AC119 gunships and one heli-
copter were lightly damaged
by flying shrapnel and four
fuel tanks were destroyed.
"rtie command first
the explosions at 8:»s.m. as
an enemy shellingarttack. Sev-
en hours latent announced
that an irjvdstigation showed
five Air-Force, Navy and Ma-
-bombers “flying
a heavy overcast acci-
mand reported! dentally dropped 34 500-pound
Council "Meets
Air Base.”
„et wassus-
Vietnamese and
Viet Cong portions near Da
Nang. The flight leader report-
edly ordered the bombs
dropped at the wrong map
coordinates.
The planes - an Air Force
F4 Phantom, two Marine F4s
and twoNavy A7 Corsairs
came from two bases* in
Thailand and from a carrier
off the coast, and the pilots
may havr beCT tmfeMfar
with the Da Nang area.
The U.S. Command reported
continued heavy aerial
assaults on North Vietnam’s
southern panhandle with the
object of slowing war material
moving down to South Viet-
nam, Laos and Cambodia.
Forty-five B52s dropped
about 1,300 tons of bombs, and
ifesro wen lU sUiltes bjv/iglit-
Ir-bombers during the 24-hour
MONT BELVIEU City Council period ending at 8 am today,
will meet at 6:30 p.m. Monday North Vietnamese and Viet
at the ndWly remodeled City
Hall at 1111 Avenue A.
In Hospital
^RS JANIE PEQUENO is in
Room 263 in Gulf Coast Hospi-
JOHN FIELDEN, an employe
in He Baytown Sun composing
room, is a patient at Baytown
Medical uenier. —
Flo Anderson proves helpful
...Mr and Mrs . John H.
Parker pleased with the addi-
tioo of a granddaughter
theirsevejigrandson., Mrs
A. H. Bypum celebrates
birthday ... Peggy Clark is
extremely patient wiui a cus-
LC Registration
REGISTRATION FOR ttie
spring semester at Lee College
will be held from 9 a m to 1
p.m. and from 4 to 8 p.m.
Wednesday and Thur:
Permits*to register are'
issued Monday and Tuesday
from 8 a m. to 9 p.m. each day
*u ^
Accountants Meet
THE TEXAS Bay Area Chap-
ter of National Association of
Cong attacks in South Vietnam
dropped from an average of
lOOper day during the past five
days to 77 for the 24 hours end-
ing at dawn today, the Saigon
command said. Sixty of the at-
tacks were carried out by
rockets and mortars and in-
volved no infantry assaults.
headquarters said
jOur
World
, From AP Wires
+ LOS ANGELES - Pa-
cifist Joan Baez told an anti-
war rally here Sunday she
was “relieved’’ to hear the
sound of communist antiair-
craft weapons firing. at
American bombers while she
was on a recast hip to Hanoi,
the North Vietnamese capi-
4.1 —•*&-*.
- >
+ PINE MOUNTAIN, Ga.
— Veteran cowboy movie
star John Wayne says that
senators who voted recently
to cut aft U,& funding of the
Vietnam war were in effect
New Orleans Police
Try To Oust Snipers
NEW ORLEANS(AP)
massive cordon of heavily
armed paUcewei warfiy
their circle around a down—,
hotel today, watching for two
surviving snipers whose mara-
thon shooting spree left 7 dead
and 17 injured. But the
shooting had stopped.
The men were believed still
rine Corps helicopter, with po-
lice sharpshooters at the
ready, hovered a few feet over
roof shortly after dawn,
and again at rnidmorning, but the men.
there was no gunfire, or
movement of any kind.
He two passes were among
the few by the big Chinook
the type used in
riot draw
sortie irichided close-up photo- up and perilous to even eheck
graphs of the bunker-like out.
enclosures used as cover by
A Marine lieutenant said one making it impossible to shoot pocks from the thousands of
rounds of high-ppwered am-
munition were viable on the
Police said they did not know ]
the identity of the three men a
who began their siege from the
hotel Sunday morning.
■ sharpshooter,.watching the i
gunmen’s movements with a !
The enclosures, five-inch
thick concrete-slab rooms at
the end of the roof, are cov-
erings for the steep stairs from
the 18th floor to the roof. Offi-
angle elbows in the stairway.
the enemy."
+ AUSTIN-Bad weather
contributed to the Texas vio-
lent death toll over the week-
end. By mid-morning Mon-
day, 31 persons were dead. 17
of them killed in traffic acci-
dents. f '
+ WASHINGTON - He
Nixon administration today
authorised increased im-
ports of beating oil to help
alleviate shortages in var-
ious parts of the nation.
+ TEL AVIV - Israeli
planes raided Syrian army
and guerrilla bases twice to-
day and shot down five Syr
ian planes, the Israeli mili-
tary command announced.
Program Needs Also Due - -
School Board To Hear
Building Proposals
ByJOHNELLABOYNTON
The ;
will recommend to the school
board Monday night-construe,
tion of a new
to be sfiiriMhy Baytown's high
schools and a field house at the
Rep. Price Daniel Jr.
Ready For House Job
used jointly by the schools for
basketball and other large
school Snd » community
gatherings
,No site for the new voca-
tional facility is suggested
Additional classrooms will
tant principal in each eiemen-
.....ith an enrollment
of 750 students or with 25 or
more classroom teachers. He
il would be a
curriculum or materials spe-
cialists. Cooperative units
site of Stallworth Stadium to be would be provided for smaller
, * sts8*u?~T4esifiiiieitded ■
AUSTIN (Sp) - Texas
House -Speaker candidate
Price tmnier Jr,
said Monday he will appoint
Itetut committees Friday if he
is elected and his new
operathtg rules are adopted on
the opting day of the state
legislative session beginning
Tuesday.
Daniel made the announce-
Arcountonts will meet at 6:30 ment as the 63rd Legislature
p.m. Tuesday at Newby’s
Restaurant in Bay Plaza. Lou
Habenak of U.S. Steel s Hous-
ton office will’be the speaker.
.Ken Tuck
. . . Monica PatiUo answers a
call for http. . Bill Adams, a
auhind, mto
IMS. .
DEER HIDES are needed by
Bayshore Rod. Reel
Gun Club to raise money for
the Cerebral Palsy Center
umm may tfMfc
Abe and Huron, 4224«».«
makes plans to give voters a
I "fall 140 days' work' Daniel,
[was assured his electiora/
speaker six months agoH
■However, he mat iffll be
elected after Amae^H
take the oath of office.
anticipated in lii election
■”Fd Urn to beNIr orgufaed
r Hi'serauk.-andTatB
to consider the nine proposals
on which he campaigned as
Among the reform package
the House to one term in office,
require them to report cam-
paign expenses and contribu-
tions, strengthen controls on
legislative lobbyists, limit
legislative conference com-
School campuses.
The recommem
tion projects arri
number of program
are bill* -to himt speakers of building recommendations
upon a recent sur
vey completed by the Univer-
sity of Texas Division of School
Studies.
Other proposals include:
Dpt n-iMPHig vacwtlDMdiB
Mexico aty, the**m %*>
•_ •
lbey met the Dick Mamas «
an elevator ... Jewel Girar-
dree getting rowdy *«r ■ bridge
I ---r**
give the people of Texao a M
Ml day 's wort," Darnel pad.
He added that the Opening
day’s aeamon, wUch mdndes
the ewenrtog in and go ebe-
tion,ixadd take no loafer tH
mittees, setup an ettifea eow * 4-providing a fulltime aoms-
mission to oversee the conduct
of public officials and
strengthen the state's open
"tSoielect William P.j
Hobby
ftim-ton If lire pint tube-
gih wort immediately on adop-
of new Senate rules and
committee assignments
Legislators are set to hear
ito.'WWLi
joint seamona of the House and
Thursday when he will online
IfSiTsmith will pre-
■t Na budget and tax recom-
Midattam for the next two
Weather
I And Tides |
MOSTLY CLOUDY aid con-
tinued ctod wttk a light
freeze Monday night is the
Baytowa area weather fore-
cast Law Monday sight to
MORGAN'S POINT tides for
TPtaday: Hgho at 6:68 a.m.
and ft46 pirn.; laws at l:«
a.as. aid 6:19 p.m.
TUESDAYS SUN wMifoe at
7; llaJL and aet at fell pan.
campuses.
+ Providing fulltime traihed
counselors and guidance per-
sonnel for all elementary chil-
dren with the units allocated on
the basis of one per 750 stu-
dents.
struction at the junior school |,
level but future planning for
additions to the existing
schooi on the Sterling campus
He administration now favors
additions to the present
campuses over the new facili-
ty
.. + Providing all-weather out-
door physical education areas
for elementary schools and up-
grading the indoor physical
education program by
remodeling or redesigning
T -.....* in in
^ vocational course offerings,
, including building trades, off-
set printing, electronics, air
_ conditioning and refrigeration,
campuses. d
-1- Constructing a baseball h
stadium on Stallworth Stadium Ti
site. A baseball stadium had di
been planned for the site in the x
+ Remodeling and reno-
vation of the Robert E. Lee
High School {dant.
+ No immediate new con-
1867 bond program, but was fo
eliminated because of other
priorities at the time. . uf
(See SCHOOL Page 2) «
Deputy School Boss
Elected To State Post
Barry Nettles, deputy regulations in personnel ad-
20-power telescope, described
them asTtfack men.
In the daylight, the chips and
Cold Weather
Is Here To
Stay Awhile
Although you still can't ice
skate over Goose Creek stream
or .build a snow man in your,
front yard, you are neverthe-
less COLD.
Aren’t you?
face of the building, especially
at the. back of the bunkers.
At one place could be seen
A the holes, hammered out of the
concrete by persistent police
fire. A three-foot opening was
torn in the side of th^ concrete;
bunker 'used’as a base by the
snipers. It came from repeated
aboard
Hirty-six degree weather, through.
campuses or for a new junior Gulf Coast style, seems colder
than the lower temperatures in
dryer, higher climates.
Expect more of the same
Monday night and Tuesday,
says the National Weather
Service.
The spokesman for the ele-
ments advises a light freeze
and continued cold.’
Northerly winds from 8 to 18
M_per.
;dip.intothe __
I-ook fgr the mercury to ease
weapons
helicopter.
Police used extreme caution,
and did not explain why there
was no attempt to use fire,
chemicals or explosives to
force the men out.
As the drama continued,
most of the city’s business dis-
trict was paralyled, with
streets blockaded around the
hotel. Officials allowed nO one
At rnidmorning there was
only speculation about what
prompted the shootings Loui-
siana Atty. Gen. William Guste
said he would ask for a federal
investigation..
Police were moving
cautiously in an effort to-,
prevent further fatalities He
Monday night, • mostly cloudy 18-floor hotel was deserted !
nnrf'rtnntintMiH mW 11 I____i■ ' . \ .
except for police and
surviving snipers
Sunday night, gunned down by
policemen riding the big M-
rine Sikorsky chopper
When asked if a snow was
expected, the weather man
responded. ‘1 hope not
superintendent for personnel
in schools here, has been elect-
ed second, vice president of the
Texas Association of ^ School
Personnel Administrators.
Nettles was elected to the.
post in the TASPA meeting in
He TASPA was organized in
1154 and has as its goal the
clarification, development and
advancement of professional
administration. It also advises
and assists the Texas Educa-
tion Agency and the Texas
Legislator? in setting up tors.
ministration
President of the association
for 1973 is Alex Koerth, assis-
tant superintendent in Port Ar-
thur. President-elect is Dr.
John Santilk) of Dallas; first
vice president Is William Nel-
son of Northeast San Antonio,
and secfe&rTTreasurer’ts TffrT
Beckett of Dallas.
Netties is abo a member of
the newly-appointed State
Commission of Professional
Competencies and chairman of
the recognitions committee of
the American Association, of
elXdmirtfca-
BARRY NETTLES
.Bulletin
chase of reed vettog
Peoples State Bank
HO SERVICE CHARGE
NmbarFD.lt
■wMCrea are
HOUSTON (Spi - U.S.
District Judge Woodrow
Seals said Mdhdav selection
of jurors in the trial of for-
mer Hanis County Commto-
sfoper V, V. (Redt Ramsey
was to begin at 1:46 p.wrfe
hij court. .
Ramsey is on trial in the *
government's mail frand-
bribery rase against him. He
has denied charges of cow
spiring wnn officials of
Sboup Voting Machine Co. ia
1968 to use the mails to de-
frond. He charges allege
that be accepted money by
■afl to I—
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 79, Ed. 1 Monday, January 8, 1973, newspaper, January 8, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104240/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.