The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 140, Ed. 1 Monday, April 12, 1982 Page: 2 of 22
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the Baytown sun
Monday. April 12. 1982
Police Beat
Webster Man Charged In Attempted Murder Of Baytonian
A BaytoWn man was transfer-
red to Ben Taub Hospital by Life
Flight late Saturday for surgery
to repair a bullet wound in his up-
per left chest, Baytown police
reported.
Junior Gaagan, 31, of 4700 Rlp-
plecreek, was shot during an
argument at his home shortly
after 10 p.m., investigators said.
Charged with attempted
murder in the case was Wendly
Petionlo Pleternelle, 25, of
Webster. He was held under
$10,000 bond on the charge, filed
in 208th District Court.
Police said Gaagan told them
Pleternelle came to his home and
demanded that he come outside to
talk. Witnesses said Pleternelle
grabbed Gaagan, pulled him out-
side and shot him in the chest,
near the neck.
One of Gaagan's friends called
police and was taking Gaagan to
the hospital when he flagged
down Officer Alvin Holomon, who
was responding to the shooting
call.
Stolen Cars
Three vehicles, reported stolen
to Baytown police during the
weekend, were recovered after
being involved in hit-and-run ac-
cidents, officers said. .
George Sanko of La Porte told
officers someone broke into his
business at 2201-A Lynchburg Fri-
day night. Taken from the
building were three intake
manifolds, three carburetors, two
tires and wheels, worth $1,166.
Also stolen were a 1974
Volkswagen, owned by Timothy
Qualkenbush of Baytown; and a
1976 Pontiac, owned by William
Oneil of Pasadena. Both vehicles
were recovered Saturday after
they were Involved In accidents,
police said.
In a third case, Gale Muhs of
Baytown reported the Sunday
theft of his 1970 Ford pickup truck
from the Woolco parking lot.
Police later found the vehicle
overturned off Spur 55. The driver
of the truck had fled the scene.
Thefts, Etc.
•Dixie Smock, 3201 Garth — So-
meone stole her 1973 Honda
motorcycle from the complex
Saturday. It was worth $400.
•An employee at Mainland Sav-
ings, 1308 W. Baker — Someone
threw a rock through a window at
the business Friday night,
damaging a desk and gaining en-
try. Stolen were a television set
and video recorder, which were to,
be given as prizes during the com-
pany’s grand opening celebration
Saturday. The Items were worth
$1,098 and damage was estimated
at$650.
•George Bennevendo, Baytown
— Someone stole tools and a
citizen band antenna from his
truck, parked on Evergreen Road
Saturday. The items were worth
$275.
•Craig Rasberry, Baytown —
Someone stole an equalizer and
booster, cassette player, clock
and knife from his truck, parked
on Atcld Lane Saturday night.
The items were worth $430.
•An employee at Hebrew
Academy, Houston — Someone
stole 120 boxes of drink can covers
from a warehouse at 12 N. Main
during the past three weeks. The
covers were worth $10,000.
•Mark Starkey, Highlands —
Someone stole his 1979 Triumph
from 1917 Garth Saturday night.
It was worth $8,000.
•Irving Smedley Jr., 2211 Loui-
siana — Someone stole a
lawnmower and two bicycles
from his garage last week. The
items were worth $436.
•Glenda Hughes, 2700 Ward —
Someone took a .38-caliber pistol
frpm her van. It was worth $300.
•An employee at Holt’s Car
Wash, 100 N. Airhart — Someone
broke into two coin-operated
machines at the business Sunday,
taking about $100 change.
Damage to the machines was
estimated at $800.
Three Hurt
Three persons were hurt in
three accidents investigated by
polijce during the holiday
weekend. , '
Officer Robert Huron said Har-
tls, who was on foot, stepped off a
curb in the path of a westbound
car driven by Michael Hudgins of
506 W. Francis.
Roy H. Johnson Jr., 44, of 2204
Viking was taken to San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital by Navarre’s
Baytown Ambulance Service
following an 8:15 p.m. Saturday
wreck in the 5400 block of Garth.
Officer Larry Lewis said
Johnson was attempting a left
turn onto Cedar Bayou-
Lynchburg Road when his car
was struck by a vehicle driven by
Mahlon Labln of Highlands.
Johnson was charged with
failure to yield the right of way,
Lewis reported.
Bobby D. Smith, 6, of 605 S. Cir-
cle, was taken to Gulf Coast
Hospital by private car following
a 5:10 p.m. Sunday accident at
Briarwood and South Circle.
Officer Ken Williamson said the*
youngster rode his bicycle into
the intersection, striking a car
driven by Galen Thompson of 1012
Parkway.
Harris County
A 19-year-old Baytown man was
killed In a traffic accident at 4
p.m. Sunday at 5900 Cedar Bayou
Lynchburg.
Rex Hensley was a passenger in
a westbound vehicle when the
driver lost control, striking a
ditch and culvert.
Hensley was dead on arrival at
GuH Coast Hospital.
Harris County Sheriff’s officers
investigated the accident.
The body has been taken to Jen-
nings, La., for burial.
SPOTS
Spe
LP
Chambers County
Volunteers Needed ,
VOLUNTEERS ARE needed for
the disaster exercise to be con-
ducted April 17 by the Emergency
Management and Preparedness
Office. About 100 to 150 volunteers
are requested. Call Fletcher
Hickerson at 422-8281 to
volunteer.
Navy Reunion
ANYONE WHO served on the
U.S.S. Laffey naval destroyer
may call Richard McKinney at
426-5987 about plans for a reunion.
John Ray Hartis, 31, of 115
Milner was taken to Gulf Coast
Hospital by Navarre’s Baytown
Ambulance Service following a
9:14 p.m. Saturday accident in the
1200 block of Park.
ANAHUAC (Sp) — Chambers
County Sheriff’s Department is
investigating the burglary of
Precinct 3 County Commissioner
E.B. “Booster” Stephenson’s
home inWallisville.
A spokeswoman for the depart-
ment said items totaling $18,000
Free Dog
A SMALL WIRE-HAIRED terrier
will be given away. It has been
vaccinated. Phone 426-4293.
Optimist Club
U.S. REP. Jack Fields, R-
Humble, will speak to the
Baytown Optimists Club at 7 p.m.
April 12 in the Optimist Building
on Market Street.
SAC RELOCATION - -
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were taken.
DEAF EDUCA TI01S - r
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who have been certified for deaf
education.
children to school related extra-
curricular activities, such as
Future Farmers of America
meetings or the recent Baytown
Youth Fair.
“Lots of hard, tough scheduling
is involved In getting interpreters
to all the students who need
them,” Ms. Hodges' said.
“Sometimes we’ll give a single
student an interpreter and
sometimes one interpreter will go
to class with a group of students
“Our services go all the way
from self-contained classes
taught by language specialists to
kids on campus with minimal aid
from a travelling deaf education
teacher,” Ms. Hodges said.
“Many kids stay on home cam-
puses, and a special teacher
conies to them on a regular basis who are studying the same
to give them the extra help they thing. It’s hard to work it all out
need to keep up ” sometimes, but we’ll bend over
Ms. Hodges is especially proud ggSK
of the co-op’s interpreter system. JP" wllen tney need
“We’re way ahead of other pro- The Deaf Co.op works with
grams in the state,” she said. familles of deaf infants and
.The co-op has seven inter- preschoolers through a parent/in-
preters on staff who accompany fant trainer who works with
hearing impaired children to parents in their home, providing
hearing classes and translate, the orientation and skills necessary
teacher’s discussion into sign to begin their child’s education in
language. the most successful way possible.
‘Interpreters go with our . “We have a program for hear-
, ding of child to parent. When we
meet with parents for the first
time we start with non-
emotionally loaded things. We try
to answer the one million ques-
tions parents will have, and let
them internalize the fact that they
have a deaf child.”
When a child is very young, and
in fact throughout the program,
the co-op tries to work closely
with parents, teaching them ways
of communicating with their
children and ensuring the speech
program being taught in school is
followed through and re-inforced
in the home.
Teachers orient parents of very
young children to the use and im-
portance of wearing a hearing
aid. . “
“We try to put aids on children
as soon as we can,” Ms. Hodges
said.
“Our work with young children
and their parents revolves around
developing language. With some
this means developing sign
langauge, with others it means
making sure parents have their
deaf children look at them when
they speak to them, so the
children can develop lip reading
skills.”
, The board will consider approv-
ing a burglar-fire alarm system
for the new San Jacinto Elemen-
tary School and a number of addi-
tions to the burglar alarm
systems at other campuses.
In other action, the board will
consider approving the 1982-83
calendar of holidays for
maintenance, operations and
transportation personnel.
Also the contracts will be
awarded for athletic trainers’
supplies for 1982-83 and physical
education supplies.
The meeting will be held at 7
p.m. in the board room of the Ad-
ministration Building.
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said. “They serve as liasons bet- “A teacher goes to* the child’s
ween mainstream education and home and works with the parents,
the. co-op. With an interpreter, a showing them how to corn-
hearing impaired kid can do municate and relate with their
many things that regular kids can child.
d®- _ ' ■ “This program is crucial, since
“They can help a student learn the earlier we can get our hands
a skill and go Into vocational on a deaf child, the better chance
training. They are the student’s he or she will have of developing
eaYs, and can often be a safety at a normal rate,
faptor, too, because they Mar “it can M very devastating to
things like alarms and warning haye a chlid you can’t corn-
commands. % municate with. Many timea this
Interpreters also accompany inability interferes with the bon-
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Relative
Dead At 64
WEIMAR -
Funeral services for
B.V. “Jeff” Novak,
64, of Weimar were
held at 10 a.m. Mon-
day at St. Michael
Catholic Church.
Novak,' a Weimar
native, died Satur-
day.
Survivors include
daughters and sons-
in-law, Kathy and
Jim Bertsch of
Baytown, Mary and
Br.ad .Wooten of
Crqsby, and Pat and
Herbert Ulbrich of
McFarland, Wiscon-
sin', and Jeanette
Noyak of Austin.
Six grandchildren
also survive.
Burial was in the
church cemetery.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 140, Ed. 1 Monday, April 12, 1982, newspaper, April 12, 1982; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104369/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.