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+ VIENNA - The 13-na-
tion oil cartel met today to dis-
cuss proposals designed to
minimize the loss of revenue
due to the declining value of
the dollar and the reduced de-
mand for oil. But Iran’s dele-
gate aid he would <
price increase.
+ DALLAS — Cool, dry air
enfolded Texas today and sides.
were clear throughout the |
state.
+ WASHINGTON-A con- If
gressional delegation em-
barked today on a week-long
fact-finding trip to Vietnam
and possibly Cambodia at the
request of President Ford,
who is seeking additional mili-
tate aid for Indochina. The
eight-member delegation in-
cludes two of the most, out-
spoken House opponents of
U.S. involvement in Indo-
china,-Reps. Bella A. Abzug,
D-S1.Y., and Donald M.
FraSer, J)-Minn.
U.S. Dollar Drops To
New Low In Europe
TRAVEL WiTHCiRE
WITH THE CHANGE to Daylight Saving Time, school children now face the hazard of leaying for
school in darkness. Baytown motorists are urged to take extreme care and be on the lookout for the
children boarding buses or walking to school- (Sun staff photo by Glenn Folkes)
Ex-Russ
Premier,
79, Dies
Awaits Legislature - -
Court Delays Action
On Election Judges
MOSCOW (AP) - Nikolai
Bulganin, premier of the Soviet
Union from 1955 until Nikita
Khrushchev dumped him in
1958, has died after a “protract-
ed serious illness,” Tass report- County Commissioners Court
BY WANDA ORTON
HOUSTON (Sp) — Harris ture is expected to act on House
' ed. He-was--79 - ' Monday voted 3-2 to delay ac- Texas Elettion Code. This bill
Bookmobile Operation -
Same Name
THERE ARE two James Du-
Boses in Baytown, The Sun has
been told. James i
DuBose lives at 157 Linwood in .... , ...
Lakewood and James Edward hemoney tousefor:its
DuBose lives at ljife Memorial. e
Apartment 15.
In Hospital
CHARLIE MAE Unger is in
Room 131 at Baytown Hospital,
she may have visitors.
. Regents To Meet
LEE COLLEGE regents will re-
view administrative structure,
instructional program, counsel-
ing servjces and the Texas De-
partment of Corrections con-
tract in a workshop at 6:15 p.m,
Tuesday.
Koffee Klatch
A KOFFEE klatch for expec-
tant mothers will be held from
11 a.m, to 1 p.m. Wednesday at
Gulf Coast Hospital woman’s
Pavilion. Husbands are wel-
Reunion Plans
MEMRERS OF THE * ..
graduating Class of Robert E.
’ Lee are invited to a meeting at
7:30 p.m. Wednesday at Sterling
”-'-“1 Libi ‘ -1
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$16,337 Fonteno Request
For City Library Tabled
(Sp)- — Com- brary was able to expand its
l?nninn/\V fn UnnlrmAkiln in iMnltiilA
HOUSTON
missioner Jim Fonteno’s
quest for 816,337 for Sterling
Municipal Library was tabled for
action Monday by Com-
missioners Court.
The City of Baytown
under the impression the money
was in the 1975 budget. “But it
it back in.”
Last year the county appro-
priated $12,744 for bookmobile
service at Sterling Library.
With this money, explained
Librarian Flora Wilhite, the 11-
bookmobile service to include
St. James House, Linus, McNair,
King’s Colony (near McNair) and
the Chinquapin School at High-
lands.
across the street from Sterling
High School, Mrs. Wilhite sug-
gested the county could help the
city in expanding its book-
mobile service.
In Mrs.. Wilhite’s opinion, a
The brief report by the offi-
cial Soviet news'agency said
Bulganin died on Monday. It
did not report where he died
nor did it give the nature of his
illness.
: One of the last of the Old Bol-
sheviks, -Bulganin joined thJ
Communist party in, 1917,. the
year of the Bolshevik Revolu-
in’s defense minister after
World War H. “*
Khrushchev m^de him pre-
tion on a policy for choosing
election judges.
Mrs." Nancy Palm, Harris
told the court the state legisla- election precinct and the, alter-
nate judge will represent the
Bill 593 which would amend the Iparty whose candidate won the
says an election judge will be
named from the party whose
gubernatorial,candidate polls the
County Republican chairman, largest number of votes in the
gram at First Presbyterian
Fontenu told The Sun he was Church, senior citizens at Vii-
Bull
THE ASvSOCI
etin
•lage Apartments, Morrell Park,
Stewart Heights and Isla, a
sh-speaking neighborhood
id Central Heights, Other
stops by the bookmobile in the,
expanded program are on
Travis, Pine, Gulf, Fortinber-
ry and Avenue K.
Mrs. Wilhite said the $3,593 in-
crease was requested from Har-
ris Coiiqty this year because of
the 40 per cent raise granted city
employs Oct, 1 and for more
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Syria and the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization appeared
today to be making another at-
tempt to block a new Israeli-
Egyptian agreement unless it
provides for an Israeli with-
drawal on the Syrian front and
agreement to the establish:
ment of a Palestinian stole.
ance cost of the bookmobile van.
If the request is not granted
this year by the county, she said,
the bookmobile service to those
areas added last year will be el-
iminated. She expects those ser-
vices would have to be “phased
out” beginning in late March.
Also, one fulltime and two
parttipie employes would have
TOM BERTRAMand Gay Chen- '
ault get together for a reminisc-
ing session marking their 50th
year in Baytown;.. T. W. Lyons
discovers his wrist was broken
instead of badly sprained.
Jack Jacobs (Ret.) does some
•the health of Larry Huddleston,
who works so much be has tittle
time to visit nowadays.
Burney, that he (Chappell) is
really not from that neck of the
woods. He just went to A&M
{fonL.AJfoEflf WfflFF tftlinifi
shoes around town undected by
his wife who was visiting out of
town over the weekend.
Mary Beth Holt proud of a
consumer marketing presenta-
tion prepared by her Sterling dis-
tributive education students..
Emmett Hutto drops by for
quiet these" days.
Jean
stop at thepost office ..
Mrs. Sam Bramlett.
Mary Bowen’s, flight home
from daughter Cindy's wedding
in Norfolk, Va., proves to be
quite an experience
Tammy Halford and Christie
Vowell rail to thank the people
.who came to their aid in an acd-
dent Saturday night at Bakerabd
Busch.
Arafat, leader of the PLO, pro-
posed that President AnWar
Sadat of Egypt and King Hus-
sein of Jordan meet with Syr*
Arafat to “coordinate joint ac-
mier in February 1955'and for
two years he was the party
chief’s traveling companion
abroad and closest associate in
public at home. But Khrush-
chev ousted him in March 1958
because he failed to back his
^ sos it ssrBliS iSsr**1**
nursing home? and deprived
neighborhood?.
“Our staff is totally orientedto
serving the deprived,” she said,
“and we always have a Spanish -
speaking person going to LinuS
(a Mexican-American. com-
munity) and we have both Span-
ish-speaking people and blacks
going to diinquapin School
which has a large percentage of
(See LIBRARY, Page 2)
of the Soviet State Bank, a job
he had held two decades be-
fore, then demoted again five
months later and exiled to the
provinces as head of the eco-
nomic council in Stavropol
province.
Bom in 1895 in Nizhni Novgo-
rod, now Gorky, Bulganin was
the son of a’ white-collar worker
and was given a commercial
education.
Ssgjfs
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Heavy Traffic Key - -
CouncU Asked To
StSSii
secondhighestiramber oftotes:
Commissioner Bob Eckels,
who withdrew his previous plan
for eaclr commissioner to name
election judges, within his pre-
cinct, said next week he will
recommend a new policy, under
May Be
Banned In
Gil Trades
VIENNA, Austria (AP) —
The U.S. dollar sagged to new
lows in European exchanges to-
day as ministers of oil produc-
ing nations met to consider sev-
eral proposals. to exclude (he
doliar from oil trading
It reached record lows in ear-
ly trading in Amsterdam and
Brussels, a 17-month low in
Paris and a 1974-75 low in
Frankfurt. It was only slightly
above its historic floor in rela-
terms of the pending bill. Voting tion to the Swiss franc.
with .him were Commissioner
Jim Fonteno and Harris County concerned teat their petrddol-
Rebuild Sterling
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A change order' in the east- east-west thoroughfare, a proj-
west thoroughfare contract for
Defee and Sterling will be'con-
sidered Thursday night by the
Baytown City Council. Esti-
mated cost is $2,570.
City Manager Fritz Lanham
said there is “such an increase in
traffic that the old base is not
standing up” in a-two" block area
on Sterling between Fourth and
Sixth. In the'original contract
ect in the 1970 bond program. -
Die council also will consider
an initiation ordinance on im-
proving, Texas Avenue from, the,
Thomas Circle to Airhart This
ordinance is the first step in the
legal procedures for assessing
property owners for part of the
the improvement of a section of
this road section Was resurfaced Post Qak near Bayway Drive. 1
over its-existing base.
We need to go in rebuild the
The council will set the date for
the hearing on benefits for the
old base," Lanham said, “and Pf^fty omiers on Post Oak.
resurface the road there.
Lanham will recommend the
city reopen the contract and ex-
ecute a change order. Brown and
Root was the contractor for the
ferASZaS Council Has Final ‘Say -
Traffic Committee Votes
Demise Of Last 7 Meters
;h Famine employes wouiq nave get a traffic committee reeom-
"STS?*:* aseiaaa
bookmobile service was given
joint branch library in the new
courthouse annex building..te-be,
built on Baker Road. X 1
The date for a public hearing
on annexation of certain proper-
ties owned by Gulf Oil Corp. will
be set at-the meeting. This an-
nexation pertains to the 20 per
cent of Gulf’s Cedar Bayou Plant
that will be annexed by the city'
in connection with tjie indus-
trial district contract. A
Judge Jon) Lindsay and dis-
im ra'ss ana"
Lyons.
Eckels on Feb; 3 had named
Republican,;Mrs. Betty Madoie,
to fill the unexpired term of a
Democrat, the late Don Reed
election judge in Precinct 204.
“I acquiese on my first feeling
that the commissioners should
Several oil exporting states,
there needs to be a better way.
At the onset of the discussion
Bass protested Eckels' naming
lars are being lost through in-
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price ml Currency dealers said
such a move would be „a blow
to the dollar and that specula-
tion about it caused a large
part of recent dollar selling. -*
Iranian Interior Minister
Jamshid Amouzegar told news-
men before the meeting in
Vienna that one possibility was
tying the price of oil to special
drawing rights - SDRs - of
the International Monetary
cost of The improvements, . ^s proiesieo MKeis naming Fund SDRs m based on ^
Another assessment project is a Republican to replace a va]ue 0f j6 currencies.
Democrat election judge in Box
etion judge i
204. disap-
pointed that Eckels at the
MPVHPH „ _ ... ... mef
first opportunity in 1975 pulled
such a blatant partisan move,”
Bass said.
Mrs) Palm expressed surprise
at “so violent a reaction" from
Bass, pointing out that Box 204
voted Democrat in the last pri-
mary for the first time in years
Concerning the collecting bar-
gaining election for Houston
firemen in Match, Mrs. Palm
The Baytown City Council wiii tee, told The Sun he doubted ac-
tion would be taken by the eoun-
cil Thursday night'because it was
per, cent basis are U.S. Steel's
Texas Works Plant and Huber
Corp. The initial industrial dis-
trict contracts for the three in-
(See (XIUNCIL, Page 2) ■
Amouze^r said, however, be
would oppose any move within
the Organization of Petroleum
Exporting Countries to raise oil
prices.
‘We have already decided to
freeze tiieprices until the end
of September, and we are not
going back on that promise,”
he said.
Other OPEC proposals in-
clude one from Kuwait to in-
crease prices in proportion to
the dollar's decline in relation
Two other industries that will ratoinded the commissioners the ^ uullal ^ utvluIt ul la<uull
be m i-> •>» 2”^ *555
yen. Algeria and Iraq propose
scrapping the dollar for a
stronger, unspecified single
currency:
Gaillard and West Defee near
for the first tone la?tyear upon [thp „ S P^ mirv
The committee Monday voted
toun^onerJanueilray,, who to remoue.ihe meters but final Assistant Police Chief R. H. (Bo)
ftaa asked Baytown to operate a actjon js necessary by the city Turner, who contended it would
council. The meters were estab-
Instead of operating a library chairman oii the traffic^commit-
fust Be *Resident\ Officers - ■
Commissioners Firm On
New Deputy Constables
HOUSTON (Sp) - Constable Baytown working iniero$by or
Jim Douglas of Baytown was in-
structed by Commissioners
Court Monday “to get the word dgnt deputy is that betas with
back” to other constables in the ,ho arra h» ”
county that the new deputy con-
an old North Zulch native. J. J. serve- , ' j
- - - Douglas told comfflislbners
that “resident " was his under-
standing for the new deputies
stables had other ideas.
“It has to be a resident de-
puty;” Commissioner Bob aroLthe deputies:
Eckles responded.
Commissioner Jim Fonteno
said if the person hired does not
line in the area, he will have to
move there.
Pearce Street Journal -
Brand New Opener r~
There fas a man ever to
North Carolina who sakMairy
tales used to start “once upon
a time.” »-'t
Now, he reports, the best
fair tales start “if I am
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Bfciea. . - - _
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Channelview,” Fonteno em-
’ * ’ "My definition of resi-
he serves:
„ s said it is difficult to
find an experienced officer fora
certain area.
“With the salary we are pay-
ing, I’d think he' woiild more, to
where he’s assigned," Fonteno Commissioner Tom,Bass ag“- bioved once before, she. re*
said.. xgqd,.4mtingo!jttbatisa1 low. mindedtoe.cQmmittee.-and.was
Fonteno acknowledged it may
take six months to a year tehire
price to pay for the visibility” of
the patrol cars
Fonteno commended Douglas
for his help in planning file new
And any deputy with a blind program for the increased) eon-
phone number is going to get a
bellyache from me,” declared
Commissioner E. AV (Squatty)
“And from mg,” Fonteno re-
have got to. be listed.”
Douglas was asked by the
court to meet with the other con-
stables to work out details on pa-
il cars. They will pick a cer-
%jn rotor fw the m and decide
ton the make of the vehicle by
consulting wiflr the county
purchasing agent on standards
for cqunty cars. The constables
also will make recommenda-
tions for the equipment needed
in the cars.
Lyons said the patrol cars
should be standard police car
And wedordt wanftosee the:
public relations at Lee. College,
aboutJhe parting on Whiting in
TonfliT 'the" atHletfc ‘dwin
too late to get the item on the Walker said the coflege would
agenda. encourage visitors to use a park-
TheonJy dissenting vote at the ingtot^jrovided at. the dorm.
Die commititee approved a re-
Turner, who contended it would
be impossible to enforce 15-min-
ute parking without the meters.
“ We would tave to keep some-
nn^ere jpHtaeQ^said.
The committee
on items related to downtown
Tekas Avenue. These are recom-
mendations that traffic lights be
loved at -the intersections,
rr-to be reduced tq,28itlp.h and
left turns from Texas be pro-
hibited. .—*? .
, The Texas Avditue .Me
lights were on a list of 14 inter-
sections where traffic light re-
movals were recommended. All
were tabled, pending more in-
brmation and drawings from
John Hudson, consulting traffic
engineer.
limit on the south side of Market
toroWiseonsiB toF7riey;hutde“
nied a no parking request on
East Republic in front of the
Houston Natural Gas-ware-
house and’ a loading zone re-
(See METERS, Page 2)
Houston City
Council.
Normally, municipal elections
use' the election judges, ap-
(Ser JUDGES, Page t)
Chambers Commissioners
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........ By TOM WELLS ........
ANAHUAC (Sp) ~ Chambers
County Commissioners Monday
hired the accounting firm of
county funds.
'Die audit was authorized last
year upon the motion of former
Harris. Robertson and Co. of Commissioner H. H. (Mac)
Smton to conduct an Audit okill I McCollum of Mont Belvieu who
said the move jffijQt intended ;
to cast doubt on any county offi-
cials. He indicated that an occa-
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get second hand cars.
The deputies, Fonteno added,
cars with
on call 24 commendation that the traffic
uld keep the light be removed from Teas and
stable deputies.
And Tides
FAIR AND MILD through
Wednesday. Southwest winds
6-16 mph becoming northwest
Wednesday. Low tempera-
ture, near 40 Tuesday sight;
high is upper Wednesday.
BAYTOWN TBra WedKS-
day highs 9:20 a.m. and 10:25
p.m.; tows 3:37 i.m. aid 3:59
p.m.
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Mrs. Clyde Spear, who lives at
5 S. Whiting, protested the re-
put back again because “it was
needed.
She also feit it would be a mis-
take to remove a traffic light at
Felton and Texas, another
recommendation :on the list.
Mis. Spear protested against a
request for no parking on the
west side of South Whiting from
Texasto Gulf. The-committee
apeed with her and denied the'
request that had been made by
another resident on Whiting
Cornelius said he had con-
tacted Glen Walker, director of
r Peoples State Bank ;
■ The peo/Ve Helpers '
mi mm 9. clot
COff
sional audit is desired.
In voting to hire the Robert-
on the audit is ekpected to begin
immediately.
County Commissioners also
voted Monday to name all three
banks in the county as county
depositories. Commissioners
: uo0er advisement a deci-
sion on which county accounts
will tie in which banks.
*L.,.
UNCOVERING THE PAST
WHEN NORTH WINDS blew bard enough and long enough, water is Mown out of area creeks,
bayous, bays and rivers and surprising things appear. Monday water was blown far enough out to re-
veal the originarpedoFGooseCreelS6eamaiFarkgtregChridge.L&rtmg5euth downstream, oat
could not only see the brick pillars marking the original entraaee to Busch Ranch, bat remnants of a
bridge over toe creek that was part of toe roadway in front of toe pillars. Upstream, one could see
toe former high bank of toe stream. A wide area is now marsh, partly because of subsidence, and
carbe seen oulyon rare oerastoa, ^ vjSnn stall ijhoto by Betsy Webberf
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SERVICE CHARGE
First American Bank
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Citizens National m
A. P. Plaia. president of Gulf
Coast State Bank in Winnie, ask-
ed the court to be more equit-
able in the division of funds than
in recent yean. A '*
Plaia said that although Gulf
Coast was nam^f a county
average of only 15 per cent of the
county's funds were'on deposit
in that bank. Die remaining
funds were on deposit at Securi-
ty State Bank in Anahuac, be
said. This is the first year Mont
Belvieu State Bank has been
eligible as a county depository
since in past years County Judge
Oscar F. Nelson Jr. has ometi .....
stock in the bank. Law prohibits
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a bank, which has stock owned
by the county judge, from being
a county depository. \ '
Twoother rommissiooen, C.
C Courtney of Winnie and E. B
(Booster) Stephenson of Waflis-
ville. own stock in county banks,
but those banks are not disquali-
fied. However, toe two commis-
sioners may not partidpite to
I the decision naming a bank.
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