The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 95, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 2, 1975 Page: 1 of 14
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The Baytown Sun Invites
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Baytown
This PaSs Good Through Feb. 11
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5 Die, 11 Injured As Plane
Crashes In Fog At Houston
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Deputies Is Pending
+ WASHINGTON
President Ford announced to-
day a $349 billion federal bud-
get for fiscal 1976 and said it
would require a whopping $52
billion deficit. Addressing a
news briefing on the budget, to
be formally sent to Congress
'on Monday, Ford warned that
the deficit will rise to nearly $7
billion if Congress does not
adopt his recommendations
l for cuts in some programs.
+ BEAlIMONT - A Beau-
mont school teacher, wife of a
coach, was found dead in a
pool of blood late Friday night.
The victfoi wasAlzena Ray tie
+ BELFAST, Northern Ire-
land — Slim hopes for a re-
newed cease-fire in Northern
Ireland were set back when a
policeman was shot to death
and two Belfast clothing stores
were bombed.
(I ¥>Pa^Vt'’J
Hebert High School.
iet Union today opened full-'
By T8M WELLS
HOUSTON (Sp) - Harris
County Sheriff Jack Heard says
+ WASHINGTON — With his plan to have 15 men put un-
vthe first part of President der control of the sheriff’s office
Ford’s energy program al- rather than under area con-
ready in effect, congressional stables is better and would pro-
Democrats continue to criti- vide better police protection for
cue his policy and suggest rural areas. “ ’'*■
alternative proposals. Heard, in a lettej to Harris
County Commissioners, said foe
+ GENEVA, Switzerland — “the sake of unity” and “har-
The ynitdi States and the SoV- monious relations” with other
law enforcement agencies in the later what fc
county, the men should be given
to the sheriff’s department.
Heard had asked commission-
ers for 42 new patrolmen, but he
was only given 27. The other IS
were assigned to the constables
able to give back up support to safe landing today. Paul Carr,
the men if they were under the spokesman for the rescuers,
sheriff’s department. While he' said five persons were killed
said sheriff’s deputies would and 11 injured. Five other per-
enforcement.__________________
However, only minutes be-
fore the'budget was passed in
final form Thursday, commis-
sioners removed the 15 men en-
tirely. saying they will decide
Heard said the sheriff’s de-
tective bureau would be better
and were to help with mraLlaw work with constgbl®, “the pro-
5 Others
Hurt In
Rescue
HOUSTON (AP) - A private
airplane, groping through dark-
ness, rain and fog for Houston
WELCOME TO BAYTOWN, COACH
Intercontinental
Airport,
THERE WAS A TOUCH of old home week at the Baytown Chamber of Commerce luncheon Fri-
rday, and just a whole lot of baseball. Here, former School Supt. George Gentry, left, welcomes H.
K. Dodgen, president of the Texas City Managers Association and now city,manager at Temple, as
Astro outfield prospect Mike Easier looks on. Dodgen once coached at Temple, and the school prin-
cipal W8S n°ne °ther tha" Gentry, For other details of the CC meet, see Page
sons were seriously overcome
blem is we wouldn’t know what by fuel fumes. V
cases they are handling.” ' Carr said there were 16 per-
As for the relation between
the sheriff’s office and the Bay- JJJ J* StW
cuppiirF PM„ „ ried W names but Carr said
Sr
+ SUVA, Fiji - Winds of
cane Val .-destroyed several
army patrol clashed with a
villages in the Lau islands in band of Arab guerrillas on the
eastern Fiji today. The hurri-
'eane was centered.near Ogea
south of the Lau islands.
' Lebanese border during the
night, the high command said
today.
mz
(Sun staff photo)
$49 Million In Funds
Officials In County OK
ran sit Flan
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fsons apparently boardedduring ByTVAlYDA ORTON
a stop at Lawton, Okla. - rnoni/anA lap/ — twayw wiue aumumy uiciuues a ihikj- wvuiu uc uaacu uu uk taicai *cu-
Rescuers said it was a mir Tom Gentry’s proposal to en- member board appointed by -era! census unless certification^
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Favors Delay In Zoning
Bridge Closing
BAKER ROAD Bridge will be
. closed from Countiy Club Drive
to Goose Creek early Monday
and traffic will be blocked in'
JMJ1 for two weeks while a
temporary bridge is built.
Goals Committee
GOALS FOR Baytown steering
c- -----eemBtitte^ good-report, -he.saiti41e-iii!on-..
^ •«• - —■ valescipg • at home' and web
Monday, Feb. 3, at city hail.
PuMie-safety and p
goals will be discussed.
Golf Scramble
THE MONTHLY golf scramble
at Goose Geek County Club will the noon Mondgy meeting .of
In Hospital
JAMES D. Poskey of 121 E. blem and is not sufficient to’nec-
Schreck is in intensive care unit essitate redrawing foe line,
at San Jacinto Methodist Hospi- -f don't think it will be a pro-,
tal. / ' blem until there are 200 stud-
Clyde Doing OK "
clyde jones of 708 idle-1 uesday- IotI tiursdsy ’
wood is home from foe hospital "t __ ' _
-L'sLb.'ssw Public Invited To Visit
ijcomes visitor:-
Kiwanis Meeting
COUNTY CommSsioner Jim
Fonteno will be guest speaker at
begin- at 1 p.m. Sunday with a
shotgun-start
IDA Griffith proves helpful..
. Joy Woods does some
at Sterling High School... Mrs.
J M Bryan. Mrs .1 C. Retch
and Mrs: RobeH Tatt pose for a
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER
Willie Moreno, school trustee,
does not believe rezoning of
Robert E. tee and R6SS Sterling
is necessary now!
He agreed with other trustees
who have said optimum (de-
sired! enrollment figures should
be foe basis for deciding
whether a new boundary line
should be drawn..
Even though Sterling has 122
students ‘over optimum this year,
he said, the overage is not a pro-
ents over^optimum,” he said, changed until necessary.
'and foatis probably a couple of
Til® probably' Will have to
be redrawn several years from
now, he said, but it should not be
Bulletin
ADDIS ABABA (AP) -
House-to-house fighting broke
out today between govern-
ment troops and. well-armed
Eritrean ^ separatists in
Asmara, according to reports
from the northern provincial
capital. , - v 1
" In the meantime, he -said, sonnej. He did not appear to be Some $49 million in federal
mlunterv transfers from Stef injured fundstorifomaIWdycouWbo
voluntary transfers , from Ster-
ling to REL should keep down
overcrowding; at Sterling.
Moreno proposed enriched
coarse offerings at REL to pro-
vide students with incentive to ton, Okla., en route.
transfer there. The plane belonged to
zon Land . Development Go. of
J-We, cduld offer professional
courses there, foe type not of-
fered at either of the school or
Stuart Career Center now. Some-
thing along the lines of fine arts,
like a nursing program, other
tedieal-type courses.
“There probably are quite a
(See SCHOOL, Page 2)
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St. Joseph s Classrooms
Citizens are being invited to
visit classrooms at St. Joseph’s
School from 9 to 11 a.m. Tues-
con-1 ‘
West Baytown Kiwanis Club.
ELqC . I day through Thursday in con-
Keumon rlans junction with foe school’s
MEMBERS OF foe Robert E. observance of National Catholic
Lee classes of 1941 and 1942 will Schools Week, which starts Sun-
have a planning session for a day; ——Junior school studen
reunion of foe two graduating st. Joseph’s has 320 students posed homilies, based i
classes at 3 p.m. Sunday at Sterl- in kindergarten through eighth St. Joseph's means to them^and ,f
gradS,
REL ADULT- Chapter of Amen- ness of what cathohe schools
can Field Service will meet wifo offer the'eommunity and the na-
the student.chapter at 7:30 p.m. (jon sister Mary Smith, princi-
Monday in the school librafl) to
hear a Japanese student from
The Catholic school is.at once directed by Mrs. Kay Tarski and
contemporary and traditional” Sister Dorothea: .... . r
she said. + “Through our study of reli-
“The knowledge it transmits is gion, I have come to understand
the most up-to-date. The'values the things God wants us to do1
it fosters, belong to a unique jand how Jesus lived.”
spiritual tradition.”
Junior schoot students cont- have to acceptfofras fou pw
masses.
This was done to emphasize
foe spiritual tradition and spot- don't like the teachers some-
iight the week. — tr ■ times, but we learn to love thetn
€ "We are so much like a
plode or bum. ,5;-
One man was found in foe
divided into nine equal districts,
fuselage three hours after foe City Couneilmen’s Association at according to population, and one
. .. -- -- " -* member would be -named from
each district.
Each incorporated city-in the
crash and Was brought out
amid cheers from rescue per-
Carr quoted a corporation of-
ficer as saying the plane had
prospective clients from Tulsa,
Okla.. and had stopped in La
rri
to Hori-
Houston and was .used among
other tijings to carry possible
land buyers to the site of devel-
epmpents, Carr said, quoting
company officer, Don Hall.
Ainong projects under develop-
ment is Waterwood, leading ini-
tial reports f to indicate foe
plane was owned by Water-
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Between 1,000 aiul 1,500 per-
sons were evacuated from
‘a| their homes at Nacogdoches
today, and at least one person
is dead and five unaccounted
for as seven inches of rain in a
12-hour period sent creeks car-
isjyi&Srsinmk God
persons were taken to hospitals
but some of those were res=
oilers overcome by fumes. Two
* of those hospitalized from in-
haling fumes were sheriff's offi-
ce*,/..,.. ______;
•'?1fefimwrehaving'ajot
of problems out there, the
weather’s so bad,” said Carr.
Burt said officials were noti=
fied by witnesses who said they
“heard an explosion and called
later saying they had heard a
lot of people screaming and
that’s where we found them”
The plane flipped over on im-
pact in, a field.
ways get over it because we port i; very flat for hundreds of Philadelphia: -
grow in love and friendship. We and no hills were in- he not been on
again, just ike we do our par-
brings in a report
Bob Stone finishes his grand-
mother wall clock.and wife Chris
shows signs of relief.
■ Zula Bonham' of Sulphur
Springs visits in Raytown . ; .
Melbr SBelioh proves helpful
Kathleen Brown gets some
new elefoes ,. <Tim McLean
keeps an early appointment.
Patsy Sharp says it’s really
buggin' her not knowing who
gave her the beautiful floral ar-
rangement but she thanks who-
ever it was... Herman Steele
takes a breather from police
class.
Mrs. Vivian Whatley keeps
busy wifo her new job . .. Mrs.
Dan Cervenka has the answers
to-a lot of questions ... Mrs.
Dorothy Willis has lunch out
wifo two young friends.
like weather.
seats and in foe cockpit”
The DC3 apparently first
struck a power transmission
tower. A part of.fi wing still
hung on foe tower when res-
cBSs arrived. _”“r\
authority was approved Friday Court. The county would be population is greater,
by Harris County Mayors and
a called meeting at Pasadena
City. Hall-
allocated through the National
Mass Transit Act of 1974, Gen-
try told The Sun.
coumy jwwtd- cflMrtbufo ft; * thority. The authority would be
year per person. The county
would contribute $2 per person
in all areas that are not incor-
Late News
eening over their banks in the
East Texas city. • - —
National Guard units equip-
ped’ with high-wheeled ve-
hicles joined police, firemen,
Red Cross workers and Coast
Guard auxiliary personnel in a
search of the flooded area.
... ___________ - The proposal for a county- porated. The^iopulaiioii nguies
PASADENA (Sp) — Mayor wide, authority includes a nine- would be based on the latest fed-
The authority would have no
taxing authority. AH state, fed-
eral or any other mass transit
funds available.to the cities or
foe au-
county would go to
mpowered to charge fares, sell
revepue bonds, hire personnel
and negotiate contracts.
Routes would have to pass
through each, city of 5,000 or
more and other routes would
have to pass in at least one mile
of cities less than 5,000.
The transportation would be
motor bus for foe first three
years and then could expand to
other kinds of transportation as
deemed necessary.
The election calling for crea-
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Vacationing Gty Seaman
Misses Tanker Collision
By BETSY WEBBER
”!1 thank Gal I wasn’t there.
I’ve been so nervous since I
heard aobut foe accident.”
Aaron H. Taylor, 45, of 1802
W. Gulf is a crewman on the Ed-
gar M. Queeny that collided ear-
ly Friday morning with a super-
tanker at a British Petroleum
refinery'dock on foe Delaware
1 on vacation,
volved.
7TR-'TBR-W19U .. .... -
trppBedJn foe open-fuselage-
a large wl killed and at least 35 injured.
iver at Mre and explosions resulted
the scene. The ones we fouhd
trapped wtre stuck between foe Lfoajan supertanker Connfous
425,000 barrels of oil at the BP
dock. It still held about 300,000
barrels. *
The U.S. Coast Guard said a
team
pollution strike
standing by. —......
At least 21 of, the 43 persons
aboard foe Connfous were unac-
counted for Saturday morn-
ing'. All aboard the American
tanker Queeny were accounted
for and reported unhurt.
There were three rapid explo-
sions. Both ships were set afire.
was back into foe river after the colli-
sion andfoi1 blaze aboard put out
about 3 am.
Taylor said he tried to call the
shipping agent in Philadelphia
several times Friday to find out
if any of his shipmates were in-
jured, but was not able to get
through. None of foe otter men
were from Baytown, but some
its center superstructure and ex-
plosions, shattered glass in
Taylor would have been on the homes-and other buildings in a
iWau n,iu» Ik. .w. laHsfoick area-of-foe refinery together sinee the ship first
town of. some 3,500.
make a steering change, but fail-
ed and collided, Harry Schaefer,
BP general superintendnet, said.
lenthol from a Monsanto Co
chemical plant near Paulsboro,
N.J., across the river.
The ship was maneuvered
There were 43 crewmen regu-
larly on the ship who have been
f| The. Queeny was trying, to 5totar.^^te8°sS,PS
er, tsj 1
was one of these.
The 30,000-ton ship carries
^explosive cargo iike benzene,
It had picked up30.000barrels of stfrene. vinyl acetate and
~ phenol, deadly if inhaled and
also explosive”
“It is owned by Monsanto
(See SEAMAN, Page 2)
fuse the Texas Air Conirol
Board (especially the
scientific public members)
with facts.
TACB held its January meet-
ing on the Lamar University
campus, br. Eads, a great
chemist and teacher, attest-
ed te progress of foe program
since foe Texas Clean Air Art
of 1965.
Back then, he said, co-ed ny-
lons evaporated w&en touched
by caustic emission. It’s not
that way now. They walk foe
way aroundCora Daniels
take advantage of foe summer-
acidy particulate come back.
-FH
LEE BAND HAS
Norman Brently
and his flute-Feb 21st.
People Slit* Bint
Tickets
ENJOY
24 W
BANKING
Citizens National Bank
CATHOLIC SCHOOL WEEK
EVERYONE GETS into foe act when it comes to reviewing plus for Catholic School Week at St
Joseph’s. Gathered around Sister Dorothea Marool. assistant principal and Unit m team leader, in
her office are, from left, Mrs. Dorothy Girior, secretary: Annette DePtima, 12-year-old studeat,
and the Rev. Jim Rainosek, associate pastor at SL Joseph's Church.
^____ . ”____”__ ...... (Stiff Photo by Glena Foftes)
CLOUDY WITH showers and
thundershowers likely Satur-
day night and Sunday, turning
cooler Sunday afternoon, is the
Baytown area weather fore-
cast Low Saturday night in foe
Biid-60s; high Sunday in foe
upper 60s.
BAYTOWN TIDES for Sun-
day: Highs at 3:81 p.m. and
+11:64 p.m.; lowsat 7:21 a.m.
and +5:54 p.m. Tides for Mon-
day:'Highs a! 5:04 pm and
+ 11:23 p.m.; lows' at 8:31 a.m.
and +7:32 p.m. • ]
+ Deaotes weak tides.
„ NO
SERVICE CMB6E
l€ J
First imerfeasBank
ro c wHilrilMf
TANKER CREWMAN POINTS TO ACCIDENT SITE
Aaron H. Taylor, crewman on Edgar M. Queeny. was on vacation la Baytown at time of ship coBi-
sion, explosion and fire in Philadelphia river port
_ *■ _ «Sun st^ywto by Betsy Wetter)
-utyfoalrbjr Betsy Webber)
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 95, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 2, 1975, newspaper, February 2, 1975; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104530/m1/1/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.