The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 162, Ed. 1 Monday, April 21, 1975 Page: 1 of 16
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In Hospital
JOANN Is JONES, wife of Sun I
pressroom foreman Buddy
Jones, is in Room 507 at San Ja-
cito Methodist Hospital follow-
ing Hrgerv She can have visi-
tors.
‘Hill’ Council
MONT BE1.VIEU Cdy£ounoiJ
wilHrmsMer prppline and stor
age well permit requests at the
6:30 p m Monday meeting at
city hall A Cherry Point sewer
Mtitipn ajjl. be received and
representatives from Entex Gas
and General Telephone'will be
heard
^Senior Citizens
UaiMjflini
p in
m'unity Building; Men will turn
ish barbecued chicken, Toffee
and tea. and women will pro-
vide salad and dessert. Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Baker will entertain
UT Honor Roll
STEVEN OLAFSON of 1505
Size Of Voter Turnout Big
City Election
Vaetnamese forces pressed
'rtwentoward Sai
He said South Vietnam could
BIRTHDAY’HELPERS
STACI AND SHERI Jones, 19-month-old twin daughters of Mr.
and Mrs. Stanley Jones, 114 Timber Lane, helped celebrate their
H Eavle. Virginia E Tim- country's 200th birthday Sunday at the Bicentennial Festival at
Shoes
Family"
427-1811
mons of 708 Inwood: Robert
Kinsey of 805 Rosewood and
Donald Martin of 460 S Burnet,
were named to the fall semester
honor roll of the School of Com
muni< ation at the l-niversily of
Texas it Austin
Scout Project
PHOJECT Mobilize f« Bur
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Seniors’ Trip
»K)R CITIZENS will attend '
Qie Thursday night perform-!
ance of Holiday oh Ice as a part
of the Lee College continuing
education program for senior
citizens Buses will leave the
campus Gulf Street parking lot
at 6:15 .p.m
Civic Center Plaza. Officials described the event as an "astound
iag sdccess." More than 1,800 people joined in the flag-waving
festivities._ (Sain staff photo by.Wanda Ortonl
WASHINGTON (API-Feed
the dob Go to school
Being the President’s daugh
mains
roonB
At:-
Weather
And Tides
CLOUDY AVI) into with
■fe&sj;
day is the Baytown area
forecast. Low temperature ex-
pected Monday night low 60s,
high expected Tuesday upper
70s. ( ham* Of rain 30 per cent
Monday night and Tuesday.
BAYTOWN TIDES Tuesday:
Highs 6:48 a,an. and2:04 p.m.,
lows 12:47 a.m. and 1 pan.
follows in another car and re-
fighting that has swept closer sistance.
President’s Daughter
Has ‘Drudgery,’ Too
ins just outside her class- forces‘that it is doubtful they
ims. through-out thmdau-— would be-wifling to negotiate
gy Conservation" will begin in
Baytown Saturday. Scout En-
vironment Day, when BovScout ...... - . ...__....
Bpf launch a..drjve to collect Being the President’s daugh- , Other times she rides to schiiol
m y iblc aluminum. -lor doesn't let 12-year-old Susan lns.;', ''nhlU'
Ford escape the daily routine
-by- millions of teen-agers
across the country
Each day she feeds the fami
ly's golen retriever, Liberty,
ibefore heading for classes at
Holton Arms, a private school
for girls ill nearby Bettiesda, Md
Often, long-time friend Bar
bara Manfuse stay overnight
With Susan at the White House
and drives hefto school the next
morning. A Secret l&ervTce agent
■ sautl, « senior *»y« her fal
vorite courses are English and
biology but admits, ‘Tin not
mueh of a student unless I really
want to be, . . It all depends on
what we’re doing in class."
In addition to her school work
Step Towards Peace? - ■
Tearful Thieu Quits,
Attacks U.S.* Henry
.SAIGON (APi -With fears in I Xuan Loc, the gateway to the I "While the assistance is in-
fos eyes, President Nguyen capital 40 miles east of Saigon, sufficient and the 300,000 North
Van Thieu announced his resig-jand still another province on V ietnamese still in South Viet
■ -
not win militarily and blamed Thieu said. "I told President
the United States for its failure,
saying Secretary of State Hen
ry A. Kissinger was unable to
perceive that the 1973 Paris
agreement led the South Viet-
namese people to death
Although Thieu s ouster had covered patient an*if I am giv
been demanded repeatedly by
the Viet Cong as the first step
toward a negotiated settlement
there was no indication it would
bring an immediate halt to the
and closer to Saigon.
. Despite -Jhiew* decision to
resign, some U.S. experts say
that fighting in South Vietnam
so favors the Conimunist-ied
even with Thieu gone,
JiimsdL-.
There will be more challenges
and; fieri* fighting in the near
future' '
He named Vice President
Tran Van Huong, ?1; to succeed
to the presidency.
Thieu. 52. who has headedrihe
There was no immediate re-
-ViOr^rmg
In his televised . address
Nixoq and the U.S. Congress
that I did not demand an in-
definite assistance but only as-
sistance for five, years so we
can develop our economy
1 said I was like a newly Te-
en enough medicines soon. I
will be strong enough But late!
the internal affairs of the U.S
prevented the Republic of Viet-
nam from getting sufficient as
lish more jnfanfry divisions
South Vietnam stands under a
defensive position; unable to do
much, unable to bomb North
Vietnam because of the lack of
military aid. ■
Half a million i American i
troops and $300 billion can't win
over the Communists The
ARV’N (Army of the Republic
of Vietnam'Tack of B52s and
others means let (South Viet-
namese! soldiers dS*' It is an
inhumane act." * 1';
9 VS. Ships
Moving Into
Susan has developed an interest Saigon regime for two terms,
in photography and also is writ
inf-* column called “White
House Diary” for Seventeen
magazine. —2-----------
Next fall she wilt attend
Moilnt Vernon College, a Wom-
en's school in Washington, '
nam, However, The government
or nearly, eight years, stepped
ddwn as 10 North Vietnamese
add Viet Cong divisions threat-
ened Saigon. Radio contact was necessary
lost with Smith Vietnamese
forces oujder. heavy -attack at
help in PvacOaTlfig South Viet- paid for the Graffl Champion Baytown New Car Dealers" Assp-
* ★ A
U.S. Officials: Action Too
Late, Saigon Ripe To Pluck
WASHINGTON iffl - Five
U*S. aircraft carriers and four
amphibious ships are sailing in
the western Pacific Ocean but|
their destination is unknown
ships as the Dubuque, the Fred-
erick. the Blue Ridge tfod the
.Durham
WASHINGTON (API - The
resignation of President Ngu-
yen Van Thieu removes the one
publicly stated obstacle to
Thieu gone.
"It sounds like a cliche," one
State Department official sal<L
negotiated peace in South-Viet-. ^BuL -Saigon is
nam, but some U.S. officials
think it may have come too
Viet Cong and North Viet-
namese leaders’ have said they
would ,never ,.Jingt)Ualfi...Viattl
Thieu. pUing him a bandit and
muntaer.
willing to negotiate even With' wilf1ia|fpni *ug. zLOfedeeteed,Secretary of the
Thieu gone. to he specific, but appeared to Army Howard H. Calloway de-
thcrc. ripe for; the picking.. I
can t see uh\ they would wait
“ gnd let the fruit fall when they
can just reach for it now*" ’
Secretary of State Henry A.
Kissinger headed for; the White
House for
with President Ford to discuss
the implications of. Thieu's ml
to be specific, but appeared to
refer to at least some bright
!!»ng.of prospects fowja’nego-
Initial congressional reaction
anticip,rted the possibility flf a
.negotiated settlement but no in:
crease in the. prospect of any
mas,>ne new military .aid
T- iaiming iRcpuiyiu.au un
uieetillg Tfie fioUse International Reb
tions Committee, Rep. William
he does not think Thieu's “resig-
nied J|at an armed ' forces)
trafninfj exercise involving 22
A possible real situatiorTin Viet-
nam During' the -sgpkkmg
maneuvers at Ft. Bliss m West
tOfdis, taiife 1
Soviet Union and Red China.
fcfnrr "ftirtrtifrfirMirniltf1 WM'In
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21,000 Are
Where Tq Vote In Eligible In
' City, Slate Elections Ballotillg
Here are polling places in the HaHowriN in Council runoff and < .
slate constitutional amendment elections ttusday , j (jv \y ANDA ORTON
Bmrttr Alamo Eiepientnrv School -......- - —--Wltt kiyrirWAlTmurgfftcn5r"
Box 13, Burnet Elementary School. patriotism, apparent Sunday in
Box 28, J’umphrey Elementary School. ... the big Bicentennial celebration.
Box 99, Dutch Holland Oldsmobile, • I carry over'irito.the voting polls
Box 100, Ashbel Smith Elementary School. T
Box 149, San Jacinto Elemental^ School ■ temire theu,right tO'vole - the
-’TWt-niW' ‘ti-iKl'i ftfi'Ym'TilwTv'ifWCTOOT 11 "tr iimiW"iTrn»rrTiim-«irjH.......- - ~
Box 248, Carver-Jones Elementary School.
Box 249, Bowie Elementary School.
Box 386, Stephen F. Austin Elementary SchoOl;
Box 414, Cedar Bayou Junior School.
Other voting precincts in East Harris County lor the state eon
stitutional amendment election are:
Box 63, Harris County Library, Highlands
Box 96, Lynchburg Elementary School. . ‘ ’
Box 97, Crosby High School.
Box 98. Huffman High School. s ‘
Box 103, General Telephone Co, Building on North Main
Box 250, Harlem Elementary School, McNair
Box 251, Drew Junior School, Barrett Station.
Box 387, Highlands Elementary School.
Grand Champion Steer, $1,800 - -
Youth Fair Auction Brings
Exhibitors
By MARTI ALLYN
Baytown Youth Fair arid live-
stock Association's anriuaf»auc-
A Pentagon- spokesman de- lion Satprday brought $22,720 in serve Champion capons tamed
cliried io say if the vessels are (o sales with the top price of $1,800
steer, a 935-pound Charola.is
has been considering The use of Cross, owned by’ Carl Bates of
carriertTfor this purpose if it be- Sterling FFA and bought by Dr
conies necessary, R E Hill.
was an 855-pound" Char-Angus
Cross owned by Bobby Fonte-
not of Sterling FFA and sold (of
- $1,050 to Ronnie s Food Market
*in Highlands ‘,J:
Operation and I can't fell you
any more about it than that
the spokesman, sakDJfe. identi-
Ued the carriers as the Enter
prise, the Cwral^a^The^Mid
* ............... . ..----- ------------——T _______—.
cock. He listed the amphibious ion harrow went to Citizens Na- Champion flirkey. owned by Ter
tionaf Bank for $375, and the Re-
serve Champion Barrow, owned
by Vicki Ramsey, sold for $300 to
Lynchburg Feed*and Hardware,
JajjWn Furniture Outlet
ltfW.
bought the two Gfand Champ,
ion capons owned by Junior I
Forrest for $275. and the two Re-
by Jeff Maxwell Jr, went to. the
ciation for $150
Junior-Forrest's three Grand
Champion broilers sold to C A
Harlan for $175,’arid Jimmy's
three Reserve Champion broil-
ers owned by Kenneth Forrest
for*$tj)0'
j die Gray, Theo Wilburn and
. . B ri ’ .......--..... .....j
ry Butcher. Reserve champion
turkey, owned by Junior For-
rest, sold .for $160 to the ('on
stable's Association.
.Andy Simpson's tbc.ee Grand
lought for and won’ 200 yedrs
ago
More than 21.000 voters are
eligible to cast ballots in the city
ouncil runoff and the statewide
onstitutiona! amendment elec-
tions An additional 10,000 voters
are qualifiedtovote in precincts
in fiist Harris County outside
Baytown in the statewide elec-
tion~ :
The city runoff race will
decide the winner for the
District 2 council seat Emmett
0 fjutto is challenging incum-
bent Henry (Pcllyi Dittman,
| who is seeking 3 second term.
A total of 3.136 ballots were
counted in the April I city elec-
tion which returned to office '
Jody R Tender and Coun;
iiwoman Mary Elizabeth
Wilbanks Lander, the senior
member of the council and
mayor pro-tpnL was the top vote •
gt-iior ufthe contested races.
Only 36 votes divided Hutto
Champion rabbits sdkl to Dr
Gene Richardson’for $250. and
the three .Reserve Champion and Dittman in their mp-and
tuck cnee* for the District 2 seat
April I. •’* *" ‘ ■
bought tlie Gran* Champion
rabbits owned by Dorenda Gunt
er went to .Joe baev for $175.
TflmiHPT^int arinTRiily Shop is. yFaFs' council election
drew only 1,555 voters. In 1973 a
wether for $250 from David Total of 4,878 voters participated
Brock, and the Reserve Champ
ion- wether owned by- Denise
tortf, Tommy Kimmev andTIohn
ny Ludtke
Other owners and buyers -of
in the first city election and 5,361
m a iunoff .larger numbers for
turn could'have
reflected interest in a school
borid^ote held the same day. *
.........j. -The "double election". Tues-
A total of $250 ww paid by Ed-steers and sale pneeare —r^day .with statewide amend-
'
gjjglgKnSg and B^^op iM^Sue Me- eftM ‘ a Drger
simulated the rescue of a U.S.
The .'ranking" Republican on urpd'b' ™*"''
ligtime Baytoman
Heads Heart Group
A .nian ^o knows from .per- thousands of lives-each .vear.,
sdnai .-experience, the value of Standing committee chairmen'
IIFatT rekbiiiraH llh’dTheTn'CdrtSf named tor (h<MU/:)-/h term were
•j technology to.conqiler heart dis- Mrs Wanda Orton, public
SlHpin) Glint Rouses
GRADY COOK says it's difficult
to run a business on 1-10, es-
pecially at night, when burglars
and' robiJers pfowi. Ceasar Cue!
ler takes a group to see the As-
tros play ■.!..■ John Waller
. proves to a patient “dentistry is
painless". . . Henry Armstrong
runs erjands jor the Lions-Club.
Mrs James “Grassland re-
ceives a dozpn rose? for her
birthday fronj husband Jim ., .
Gordon Wayne Speer describes
the beautiful countryside near
LaGrange
*”’■ Junior Thompson waves hello
from bis anitque car in the
parade.
Nelda Faylc wishes husband
Bobby a happy Sixth anniver-
sary on Saturday
Betty Joe Epperson describes
Tf^rdarrr: Carmel Brtton
is . so engrossed in conversation
she fails to seqa friend wave,
£ Frankie Chaloupka admires
cute Twin girls waving the
Aril ’
Same
■A—'— —— - —1^- ----;------- •—
' There wls a time when La
Porte was not quite as Cosmo-
politan arid sophisticated as it
now is. That was back in the
old summer resort days when
they took up the Bayshore
J?
kept them irt storage until Eas
ter.
Bank in La Porte hired a new
officer in 1934 (soon after we'
goi thurel. ” ‘' j
He retired 30 years later in
1964. and the story around
town was the “new man at the
bank retired.”
La Porte was a feasting
ground fbr real estate promot-
ers’ in-the last detade"8j.thc
R,C Sfephensdn Jr . longtime TAxvard^. rhigfiest awards in the
Baytonian and businessman who unit, were presented to Mrs,
has successfully undergone heart Padgett. John S II ml clouds
surgery: was elected-the. unit Blackburn and Mrs. Eileen
president at the annual meeting Caff^y Awards of Merit went to
Wednesday night at Newby's 1> Francis Alrcher, Mike Maloy,
Earlene Riser. Frank Turner.
Glenda (kje, Lucy Guidry arid
Wanda Orton
And a man who can vouch for
the value of medical checkups is
trie new vice president -Jesse
]Tavar8e> He .’is another
successful heart surgery patient
after. an electrocardiograph
make as part of a h^art, rrpiitor-
ing course-he ^yaVlakirig.
. Other new .officers are Mrs,
’’ Lucy Gurdrt; seiffetary. and Stan
Wallace-, treasurer
^'-Stephenson said
of the Baytown Unit will
(lanabart Raytqwn Police Asso-
ciation: $Y50, RScky McNulty.
Baytown Slate Bank. $675; Loii-
fSee YOUTH, Page 2)
turnout than usual One of the
propositions in the state elec-
tion would raise retirement pay
(See ELECTION, Page 2)
Our World Today
. ' From AP Wires
: + WASHINGTON - Presi:
deni Ford appears on (B>
television tonight m an hour
IfiUti infuniau: Kumo krnori
r>i“« nf inp nrfirtfi-
cast froria the White Hi
The live program begins at 9
p.m. '
| ?T)ALLAS -Iho^TiS
Three Distinguished Servacei sometimes -scvtcc^"Tmnider-
storms surged through-parts of
Southeast Texas today as
covered the easPhall art
the stole. It was dear and
wardler in West Texas. Offi-
riul’observers bfamdd a weak
weather*front stalled from
artossgSoujfi Texas into the
fiorthwftrpart ot the Gulf
SSL ;\
4 WASHINGTON-;|J|n- *
id 'Patrick Moynihan, former
ambassador to India, probably
wttt lwnanwd toreplltt'aJtohn . »
dor to the l nited Nations, ae-
eording to dri administration
soiirce.T'
♦ MOS( OW - Egyptian
Foreign Minister Ismail
Fahmy says his government
will rio’t take, part in any furth-
er Middle East peace bid by
Secretary; of State Henry A.
JsisSingef and is ready for re'
sumption uf fhe Geneva con- 1
lerence in June, according to
Egyptian news reports
a bad cold
LIONS GIVE AID TO AMIGOS
HOME
IMPROVEMENT
LOANS
irsi American Bauk
BARNEY WEBBER, left, training director for the Havtmvn diaptet,el,A^!i^ljW , ,.....
TtfS^Mli'difrlr from Rick Peebles, president of Baytown Liohs Club, and a $200 check from
George Curtis, right, president of Wooster Lions Club, to help finance nine Amigos from the Bax
town area. The youths will participate'in the children's immunization program in Central and South
America this sumifiW. - ........* : .
' ' ' ■ iS;un staff'photo by Glenn’FotkfisU
SUPPORT BAYTOWN'S
Peoples Stale Bank
26l5,Markel.Sl , 422 8231
No Sfvlco Chmgp „
19th and the iirst pari o) the. du cd.oj fowm'dTdniatlonal and
20th century. ' ' community-,service programs
Even the wildest dreams of "designed to help -our fellow
the wildest promoters could citizens know about the ways to
-never* have envisioned present rut down the risk of heart attach,
(lay Morgans Point and Bay-
port. ^
We lived in I.a Porte from
1931 to 19.44, arid afways ’joid yn%ewbmunily, Rtt home and
is we ''ieFf' (Tieschoril-undAri-ihdMH and-fo
Citizens National Bank
MEET THE-GC SPEECH WINNERS
. -MCWWRTER. chamber of commerce vice president, right, presents awards to winners of
the ehamber’4 speech contest. Winners are, from left. Pat McDonald of Robert E. Lee, fourth
place; Brenda Southall of REJ., third place; Sherrie Dickey of Ross Sterling, second; and Melissa
Turner «.l KN\ first. Miss Turner received a plaque arid J25 -avings bond and other winners re-
“ ' M Sv. (bun Staff Photo)
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