The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 140, Ed. 1 Monday, April 12, 1982 Page: 1 of 22
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Ducking Confrontation
Argentine Ships Withdraw From War Zone
LONDON (AP) - Britain’s war
zone around the Falkland Islands
was in force today but there were
no reports of confrontation. The
British Defense Ministry and a
Buenos Aires newspaper reported
Argentina’s ships had left the
area, patrolled by Royal Navy
submarines.
U.S. Secretary of State Alex-
ander M. Haig Jr., and Prime
Minister Margaret Thatcher ex-
tended their talks on the South
Atlantic crisis into lunch. Their
talks, joined by British Foreign
Secretary Francis Pym and U.S.
Assistant Secretary of State of
Inter-American Affairs Thomas
Enders, are the second round in
the American efforts to head off a
war over the islands, inhabited by
1,800 English-descended
sheepherders and seized by
Argentine marines April 2.
Argentina's ambassador to the
United States, Estaban Takacs,
said on the NBC-TV “Today”
show that Argentina might
observe a temporary truce and
keep its warships in port while
• talks are on. “We have troops,
anyhow, on the island,” he noted.
He said Argentina still con-
siders the blockade and Britain’s
dispatch of a 40-ship armada to
the Falklands an "act of aggres-
sion” but added:- ‘‘I am still very
hopeful, because the trip of
Secretary of State Haig himself
means that there are very active
talks going on.” Haig first met
with Mrs. Thatcher on Thursday,
then flew to Buenos Aires where
he held 12 hours of talks before
returning here with a proposal.
Britain’s ambassador to the
United States, Sir Nicholas
Henderson, said on the "Today”
show that Britain’s blockade re-
mains in force and that the Royal
Navy fleet will not turn back
while Argentina maintains its
troops on the Falklands.
The Buenos Aires newspaper
La Nacion reported that Argen-
tine warships were patrolling the
coasts of the mainland, which is
250 miles from the nearest
Falkland island — and that the
rest of the navy’s ships were
docked in.their home ports “until
they are needed to face the adver-
sary.”
La Nacion said officials it did
not identify told it Argentine
naval aircraft were “in action”
monitoring ship traffic and mak-
ing preparations for attack.
LP Man's Call From Falklands ‘Misinterpreted’
TREE FOR TWO
ANNA ORTEGA, left, and Lisa Oliver prove that climbing trees is one
of the “fun things” to do on a pleasant spring day. Anna, 13, is the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Ortega. Lisa, 11, is the daughter of
Mr. and Mrs: Tom Oliver..
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
LA PORTE (AP) - An oil rig
worker from this Houston suburb
says his family misinterpreted
his two phone calls from Argen-
tina last Week and contacted a
congressman and the State
Department, believing he had
been placed under arrest by
Argentine authorities.
Michael Martinez Jr., who
worked on a British oil rig near
the Falkland Islands, said-that
Argentine authorities cut off com-
munications and shipments to the
rig for three days ?fter Argentina
invaded the islands April 2.
“We had plenty of food and
went about our jobs,” said Mar-
tinez, who returned home Sunday.
Martinez called his wife Friday
and Saturday. He said his wife,
Marion, contacted the State
Department after the first call,
believing he was under arrest in
Argentina. _ ; ■;.....
Martinez’ mother, Mary Mar-
tinez of Amarillo, also contacted
Rep. Jack Hightower, D-Texas,
whose office got involved.
Mrs. Martinez told The
Associated Press she understood
her husband to say the military
was monitoring the conversation
and that “the company did not
know where he was for two days. ’ ’
Martinez said the company
always knew where he was and
that he believed a telephone
operator listened in pn,the pJbone
call.
Martinez, 31, was working for
Sonat Exploration Co. on the
British drilling rig InterOcean 2
about 500 miles west of the;
Falkland Islands.
“That was the extent of it,”
Sonat official Aubrey Cornelius
said when he heard what Mar-
tinez said Sunday. “There are no
problems down there now.”
Martinez said that when flights
from the land base resumed April
5, each helicopter carried an arm-
ed Argentinan soldier.
“But were never threaten-
ed,” he said.
Martinez, said the , qrew
members were “about 80 percent
British” but declined to specify
how many workers operated the
rig. He said he was not the only
American aboard but also refused
to give an exact number.
Martinez arrived in the coastal
town of Rio Gallegos on April 9,
four days after he was scheduled
to leave for the United States.
Communication Mayor Obstacle For Deaf
Co-Op Opens Doors To ‘Hearing World’
hired through the school district nelview, Sheldon and Baytown at-
here and have to meet district tend the site at Highlands
standards, with the exception of Elementary School.'
teachers involved with the Junior school students are hous-
Parkview Annex in Pasadena. ed at Horace Mann, and high
This site serves students who school students are housed at
have additional handicaps on top Rnhert E Lee
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world and imposes order and
meaning on life.
In order to give children with
severe hearing impairments a
better chance of grasping the han-
dle of communication, the East
Harris County Cooperative for
Deaf Education was organized in
1975. The co-op serves 125
students from nine neighboring
school districtsv The eo-c
Baytown’s school district.
(EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the
first in a series of articles about
deaf education).
By CHUCK RAISON
On first thought, deafness
seems its own greatest tragedy.
And yet it is not the loss of hearing
itself, but the loss of com-
municative skills associated with
hearing impairment that poses
son’s possibility of leading a nor-
mal life in a hearing world.
“The main handicap for the
hearing impaired person is not
the loss of hearing itself, but what
this ' does to that person’s
language capabilities,” said
Marlis Hodges, supervisor of the
East Harris County Cooperative
for Deaf Education. “Deafness
severely interferes with a per-
son’s education and with a per-
son’s interpersonal relation-
ships.”
People with normal hearing
often take language and the abili- -co-op are Barbers Hill, Chan-
ty to talk for granted, not realiz- nelview, Crosby, Deer ...Park,
ing that we need 'language to - Galena Park, Baytown, La Porte,
think. Language is the handle by Pasadena and Sheldon,
which the human mind grasps the Personnel for the program are
lay
“Before the Deaf Co-op was
organized, students from this
area usually attended county-
wide schools for the deaf in
Houston,” Ms. Hodges said.
“Baytown was chosen to house
the program because the school
district here already had minimal
services for deaf students and had
an administration and school
board that were very supportive
of the idea. Baytown is also a cen-
tral location.”
School districts involved in the
such as meningitis, often 'Cause
some type of physical or brain
damage, too
Funding for the project comes
from State Senate Bill 803 and is
supplemented by Title I money.
“But with the financial crunch
going on these days, local
districts have assumed respon-
sibility for many extras
associated with the program,
such as transportation and sup-
plemental costs,”' Ms. Hodges
said.
Elementary age students from
Deer Park, Galena Park, La
Porte and Pasadena attend the
Deaf Co-op site at San Jacinto
Elementary School. Children
from Barbers Hill, Crosby, Chan-
native,” Ms. Hodges said. “If a
child’s problem is not severe
enough, we put them into a
regular' classroom, or
mainstream them, as we say.
“If children need a little more
help, but their hearing impair-
ment hasn’t caused them to lose
too much language processing
ability, we place them in regular
special education resource
classes.”
The third alternative is the self-
contained deaf education co-op
class for students with an impair-
ment severe enough to require
special communicative and
language methodology. These
classes are taught by teachers
(See DEAF, Page 2-A)
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ELIZABETH WHITLEY, a teacher with East Harris County
Cooperative for Deaf Education, shares a thought or two in sign
language with Robert E. Lee students Maureen O’Keefe, left, and
Lynda Shaw. (Sun staff photo by Chuck Raison)
Pearce Street Journal --
Speck Of Wisdom
Through the years funeral man
Joe Speck has become famous for
his hobbies as a Little League
backer and as a cake baker.
Joe has turned author and has
accepted a temporary PSJ job.
His first effort:
“Old morticians never die.
They just spade away.”
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ABOUND
TOWN
PAM CHANDLER provides Some
helpful information ... B. Don
Skelton’s predictions come true
... Berthie Piekert tells of a good
Arkansas trip.
Sandy Burgess and daughter,
Stephanie, drop by The Sun ...
Glena Pfennig keeps on winning
awards ... Marie Alderman
returns from a business trip in.
Dallas.
Sue Carpenter does not answer
her phone .. Fire Department
Capt. Jessie Hoke explains how to
keep score in a baseball game.
Entex Bills
Go Up May 1
City Council* has voted unani-
mously to adopt an ordinance
authorizing Entex to increase gas
bills by 95 cents beginning May 1.
The increase, described by
Entex as an “annual cost of ser-
vice adjustment,” will raise the
minimum monthly charge for
about 13,537 residential users
from $5.67 to $6.62, Said Richard
L. DeSalme, district manager.
The additional 95 cents will
equal a 2.6 percent increase in the
average monthly residential bill
of $36.35, DeSalme said. It will
mean an increase of less than 4
cents per day.
Also, with the increase, the
minimum charge for 882 smaller
commercial users will rise from
$6.17 to $7.12.
In past years, the council also
has approved the annual in-
creases.
Entex says this year’s increase
is needed to compensate for rising
operating expenses from 1980 to
1981.
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Weather...........
WEATHER
BAYTOWN WILL have
partly cloudy weather
through Tuesday with a low
Monday night in the mid-60s
and a high Tuesday in the
upper 80s. ^
Trustees To Discuss Moving SAC
School trustees Monday will
coftsider moving the district’s
Special Assignment Class from
the Media Center, 220 Stimpson,
to Sam Houston School on Lee
Drive.
Concurrent with this move, the
board will consider relocating the
Alternate Learning Center from
its present location at Sam
Houston Campus to the David G.
Burnet campus on Bay way Drive.
The total cost of this double
relocation would be approximate-
ly $78,000.
The school administration is not
in favor of demolishing the old
Anson Jones campus, site of the
Media Center. This possibility
had been discussed by the board
at its March 8 meeting.
Johnny Clark, superintendent,
rejected demolishing the Media
Center because the program
there is not objectionable to near-
by Horace Mann Junior School
and because the extra campus
space the junior school would
gain from tearing the building
down is inconsequential.
Clark said in a memo to the
board that the cost of necessary
remodeling to prepare David G.
Burnet and Sam Houston cam-
puses for the relocation could be
spread across two budget years if
the total cost could not be absorb-
ed in the 1982-83 budget.
Also under consideration is a
new sick leave policy that would
delete the district’s current policy
of providing five days of local sick
leave a year on top of the state
minimum and would change the
policy for personal illness, reten-
tion of benefits and leave for a
serious illness inthe family.
(See SAC, Page 2-A)
Israeli Territories Swept By Riots
JERUSALEM (AP) - Israeli
troops shot and wounded four
Palestinian demonstrators today
as the worst Arab riots in years
swept Israeli-occupied territories
after a Jewish gunman’s killing
spree on the Temple Mount
shrine.
President Reagan will send
Undersecretary of State Walter
Stoessel to the Middle East this
week in an effort to head off
fighting between Israel and
Palestinians in southern
Lebanon, the White House said to-
day.
The military command said
troops opened fire on a mob that
assaulted them in the West Bank^
town of Nablus. One youth was hit
in the leg and the condition of the
other three was not immediately
known, a spokesman said.
Police and troops stopped
Arabs marching down main
business streets of Jerusalem’s
Arab sector and arrested 15 peo-
ple, Israel radio said.
In Beirut, a rocket grenade hit
the third floor of the U.S. Em-
bassy at 4:30 a.m. today. An em-
bassy spokesman said no one was
hurt,
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