The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1973 Page: 1 of 14
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BAYTOWN, TEXAS, 77520
Vol. 51, No. 83 ~ *' TELEPHONE NUMBER: 422-8302
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Friday, January 12. 1973
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Counc
announced Deputy Supt. W. D.
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StayOnJOs
Heart Surgery
M RS* BITHA-Wilson ..oLMont
Behietf has had hearfSurgery
.... ByWANDAORTON
Douglas Lunceford, 40-year-
a second lime and is in the in-
tensive care unit at Methodist
HIGHWAY SIGNS WARNING OF ICE PONT ALWAYS HELP
Wrecker Pulls Pickup Truck Back Onto Decker Drive After ASM
aker
nbsk-ox from the
rd, aged three, to
were installed on
t for them on,Jthe
Old Fort Chimo.
found it difficult
ir new home and
s died shortly
s going well, dr„
. In 1971 five
Hemales were
! another ■
e females, wefeB
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The Baytown Sun Invites
MR. AND MRS. CLYDE E. TIPTON
1200 Madison
This Pass Good Through Jan. 22
At The Brunson Theater Box Office
Now Showing
“PORTNOY’S COMPLAINT”
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Hospital in Houston.
Services Set
Lincoln. Neb, Funeral ar
Lrangemehte are to* he "an-
nounced.
.....Drive Canceled
PLANS OF the Robert E.-Lee
and Ross Sterling Data Pro-
cessing Club to man ia bucket
brigade Saturday to collect
' money for 'Managua, Nicara-
jua. earthquake victims has
Iteen canceled; according to
Jackie Scott, club sponsor. 1
EDWARD M. KNIGHT, father
of Mrs. Gayle Moak of "Bay-
&& Acres Near Sterling - -
Saturday at Heights Funeral
Home in Houston.
Rites Pending
HAROLD D. MARTIN, a
■; the late Kenneth R. Martin of
Baytown, died Thursday in
Hearing To Be Gallec
On City Annexation
A public hearing will belage easeirient between East
called on the proposed annexa-
tion of 235 acres near Sterling
High School, the city council
-At its regular meeting Jan.
25 the council will consider an
and West Roads and then along
the easement to Lynchburg-, includes-residences that are
Cedar Bayou Road and the city
! limits.
Feed The Birds
commercial firms in
area: Estimated assessed val-
MRS. DOROTHY LefkoviU. a properties
The area is bounded by-
North Main to the intersection
member of the Houston Out-
door Nature Club. suggests
that residents of the Baytown
area put out feed for birds
since snow and ice prevents
them from obtaining their
foods. . .......,.....
St. Joseph *
ST. JOSEPH Homeand School
Association will .meet at 7:30
p.m. Monday in the school au-
ditorium The first grade will
present a program
Football Memos
ROSS STERLING Stars and
•cheerleaders are now selling
State finalist pins and decals.
They can be bought at 'Bay-
town banks.
New Director
of South Road, along South
Road to the center of a drain-
A* M--gswgLma
maintenance at U S. Steel s
Texas Works here, is serv-ing
' as a director of the Association
of Iron and Steel Engineers.
Sorry , Kids,
We Couldn't
Take Them All
It was hard to tell who en-
joyed the Baytown area s
rare snowfall the most -
youngsters and their pets or
grownups. ' -
The Baytown Sun switch-
board was swamped by
scores of calls from over, the
city and adjacent communi-
ties - from youngsters and
adults — asking that pictures
The proposed annexation
was prompted, by earlier coun-
ordinance setting the date tar cil .discussions on providing
the hearing. J
Estimated population of the
proposed annexed .area is 273.
There, are 92 residences, and
water and sewer service to the out in the council discussiort.
Baytown Sports Complex, a
major park to be developed
this vear by the city north of
~ ’ Esti-
mated ebst of eitending water the city, CityManagerFntz
jlan<* sewer {ac^*ties to die Lanharo told the council. .
sports, complex isJ151,5ML
The proposed annexed area
now served by a septic tank
system.Rawsewage flows in a
ditch near Sterlirig High School
from the septic tank system in
Dent Addition, it was pointed
Citizens now served by sep-
tic tanks will be required to
connect with the sanitary'
sewer system if annexed
Rep. Joe Allen Named
Head Of House Pane
By KIM McMURRAY
Sun Austin Bureau -
AUSTIN iSp) - Baytown
Rep. Joe Allen was named Fri-
day atxMDMtLfiiLyiefioww-
TOM GENTRY calls about a
potential snow skiing photo .
Mrs Jean Fuselier plans to do
some modeling
Diane Wopdbox talks about a
trip Carol and Tom Keating
if ToratglL formerly of Bay-
own, make plans to attend the
uper Bowl,, Nancy Neavel
lakes a request .. Becky
latthews of Crosby wins an
mor... Chuck Guffey takes
me early morning snow pic-
res Jean Evans wins a
ize.. . theN B. Bufkins still
joying their Christmas lights
.Mabel Voyles gets out oh e
twy day.
Itepham Ray does some re-
. and son Eric return from a
iday trip to Pennsylvania
Nancy Davis checks on a
■ort ... Toni and Cheryl
tell prove helpful
„un , Willi
wa tiding try.
igloos.
One caller said his igloo
was strong enough to stand
on-and another said that
sjww fort on . Felton Street
was strong enough to with-
stand the heaviest kind of
snowball attack.
And so it went — from
shortly after daylight until
temperatures forced happy,
cold, wet kids indoors.
Many Baytown children
had never seen rear snow.
Neither had their surprised
doggies, who cavorted with
the kids and tried io catch
the falling snowflakes in
their mouths.
Because ol the large
number of rails requesting
pictures. The Baytown Sun
was unable to get all of the
pictures. Thus a decision had
to be made to take the most
picturesque and unusual
ones.
his fourth
ful House. Administration
Committee, and promptly told
The Baytown Sun that the pan-
el would 'cease beiiig a politi-
cal arm of the speaker."
The appointment of Allen
and the other 20 committee
chiefs was made by new House
Speaker Price Daniel Jr.,.who........ ,
took oyer the post Tuesday. * va**on ami Reclamation Com-
Allen, an early backer of
Daniel s reform-oriented
speaker campaign, also exer-
cised his four-term seniority to
gain a seat on another key
House committee. Revenue
and Taxation
Committee chairmen, .under
new House rules which Daniel
got approved Tuesday, serve
on only.one other committee so
that they can devote more time
tq the pane! they head.
The House Administration
Committee, which m effect
runs’the House, is taking on
more duties and powers under
Daniel 4- duties and powers
which
have
This committee will imple-
ment much-needed reforms in
the way the House is run,
Allen told The Sun. "We will
make House operations more
responsive to the members and
the people. "
The House Administration
Committee chairman is the
only major committee head
who serves at the will of the
I speaker, an indication of
Allen's close ties to the
speaker
The committee has the
authority to hire and fire hun-
dreds of House employes and
oversees a multimiliion-dollar
budget for operations of the
lower chamber
Allen, starting
past served as chairman of the
House Data Processing and
Printing Committee and
vice chairman of the Conser- ty.
mittee. -
This will be his third time to
serve on the Revenue and
Taxation CofWnfttee' "®5 ■ *•
Under the new House rules,
been reduced from 45 to 21.
ICI — UUJ
h vast House speakers
kepHor themselves
RSS Mid-Term
Examinations
Rescheduled
Sterliag High mid-term
examinations scheduled for
Thursday and Friday and
^postponed because of bad
weather will be given Tues-
day and Wednesday of next
Council Districts "‘TX *'"-
On Tuesday morning, Jan.
More People Added
T
Weather ..
And Tides
FAIR AND COID with a
hard freeze Friday night is
die Baytown area-weather
forecast. Low Friday night
20: high Saturday in the 50s.
MORGAN’S POINT tides (or
Saturday: High at 7:11 a.m.;
tows at itii21 a.m. and 11:52
p.m, ++
++ Denotes weak tide.
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HIGH SCHOOL LOYALTY COMES OUT
Snowman Was Dubbed “Sterling Man”
LEE SUPPORTERS HAD THEIR OWN VERSION
“Blue In ’72, But Lee In ’73” Said This Snowman,
Jpy Surface
Water Plan
Edward J. Ueckert; a direc-
tor on the hoard for the Bay-
town Junior Chamber of Com-
merce, commended the Bay-
town City Council Thursday
night on its action ’ toward
JCsCommendWorst Seems Over - -
Hard r reeze 1 omght
Again Forecast Here
creating -the -Baytown Area storm since 1960 appeared to Travel conditions, extremely outside for the second day to
Water Authority,
The council approved the
publication of a notice of inten
tion to introduce a bill in-the
legislature to establish the wa-
ter authority through which a
surface water treatment plant
term in the House, has in the would be built and operated.
Ueckert read a statement
from Baytown Javcees sup-
porting ere, *' ~ "*“■ *”“
ByJOHNELLABOYNTON
The best and the worst of'the
Baytown area’s first-snow*
be over Friday^ though a
travelers warning was still in
effect and another hard freeze
was'KrecasnorTrlday^hlghiT
with two to four inches of snow
Friday morning, but some
tional Weather Service saying another holiday Monday be-
the thermometer would rise to cause of a teachers' workday.
the upper 30’s.
dangerous Friday morning
with a glaze of iee covering
roads and streets, were ex-
pecteil to improve 'Saturday
with the thermometer climb-
ing into the 50's.
Most schools in the area
thawing was expected to occur remained closed Friday*, and
later in the day with the N'a-1 Baytown students will have
Qn ^ f
•We encourage the imme- _ ^ .
diate curtailment of ground ~
water usage by municipalities
and. industries in the Gulf
Uoast- area.' Ueekert said;
We feel this approach is the
the number of committees has only solution, to land subsi-
•In acommunitysurvey this
fgB the Jay^s fouhifthat land
subsidence is one of the major
concerns to the.citizens of this
area, and we want to congratu-
late the City of Baytown on its
direct and timely action.
--Webope this approaclhwill
large consumers of sub-sur-
face water.”
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Elderly To Be Made
. iMay-or Glen .Walker will ap-.
point a committee of seven
persons to study needs and
problems of elderly citizens
here, the city council agreed
Thursday night.
Names will be submitted to
the council at a later meeting.
When suggesting the study
panel, the mayor specifically
mentioned transportation
sen e as a precedent for other decided, however, that the of the revenue sharing funds
committee would not neces-
sarily be limited to that need in for the elderly.
be abandoned along major
arteries after sliding into
ditches.
Sunny skies turned tlje .area
into a winter wonderland. Ice
and snow glistened on the trees
and utility wires. Goose Creek
Stream had patches of ice.
Hospital emergency rooms
if the study committee came
back with that request.
Earlier Thursday night the
council took no action on City
Manager Fritz .Lanham’s
problems of senior citizens. It [recommendation on using pai
for increased library services
particular.
City Council Districts 4 and 5
grew in popqjation Thursday
decided to give
iples State Bank
NO SEJWICE CHARGE
Mm^k FOIL
newly annexed area north of
the dfy and add 145 people to
District 4 from a newly an-
nexed area northeast of the
city
“*• has7.fM; AflenG—wa’sDie
The average number of
•eple for a aty council dte-Jfederti
tnct is 7,331.
According to the latest cen-
sus records Charley O. Wal-
ker s District 2 contains 8,375;
Jim McWilliams’District (has
8,311; Charles Pool’s District 1
trid 5 has 8.8W; Tom Gentry’s
District 4 his 7^58 and Jody
Lander’s District 3 has 7.833.-
The city charter says the
equalise populations after ewer
fedni ceans aad at ottw
times when necessary
M. third aad fourth petted
exams wfll be givea, aad oa
Wedteesday, fifth aad sixth
petted testo wffl be givea.
report, AtLiieobmei wB re-
•port for the tesU. Mrs. H
Brewa said.
Moaday M ia-service
■* dmm wfl be hrii »at
«y.«rsA
City Seeks Prospect
For Municipal Judge
Help wanted: .stating qualifications and
Baytown Municipal Court backgrounds — to the mayor's
judge. [office at city hall
Although the city couneil is
not going to phrase it quite that
way. it still wants to 'spread
the word" somehow that the
city is looking for a successor
to Ken DeHart, municipal
court judge whose resignation
becomes effective Jan. 31.
During a brief discussion of
the matter Thursday nighL.
councilmen mulled over the
procedure of publicizing the
fact that applications are being
taken
The
■word"’ has already
when the bulki ng will be
fnmtakt* the exams dsart Councilman Allett Cannon
obviously referring to die news
COuncilmen’ decided that
Jan. 33 would be the deadline
for receiving applications of the p^ee station efloatruc-
Interested persons may sod tion that tus name would be on
• applications - letters [the plaque
Tlie council wiltemeet as a
committee of the whole to go
over the applications.
The city manager and
municipal court judge actually
are, the only two city officials
who are hired directly by the
council.
DeHart 's tiamq will go on the
plaque wiBi the fesl of the cur-
rent city officials for the new
police and'court building, by
the way. It was pointed out that
DeHart would not be here
tor occupancy- is March 15. *
Councilmen agreed, how-
ever. that because DeHart had
been hoe from the beginning
Councilman Charles Pool
said he had "no hang-up
about buying materials for the
library because the service
was good and needed. "But I
am opposed to additional
personnel."
The library has increased Exxon's
28.7 per cent in personnel in the "
past three years, Pnol claimed.
If the additional personnel
were approved this time, the
increase would be 41.3 per
cent.
Pool prefaced his remarks
with praise for the library,
spying that the library has
done a "wonderful job.
Additional personnel could
be hired on an hourly basis
While school children rushed
play in the snow, most workers
crept to work Friday over the
ice-slick streets. Because
ihotorislsr eaufronrt^
town Police Department had
no unusual number of traffic
accidents to investigate in
view of the weather conditions
though a number of cars had to,
- -Directing his remark to the
city librarian. Flora Wilhite,
who was in the audience; Coun- reported a number of persons
oilman Jody Lander said he being treated for injuries . ...
w ould approve * increasing sustained in falls on the ice. here he wtil be responsible for
library services for the elderly Most of the injuries apparently the water dlY1slon- sewer dlvl'
... ' ___________sion. street division and mum-
involved dislocated and
sprained arms arid fractures.
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engineering firm of Turner,
Collie and Braden, will become
■n’s new public works
director Feb. 1, announced
City Manager Fritz Lanham.
The council approved Lan-
ham’s recommendation on
hiring Lunceford late Thurs-
day’ night in an executive ses-
sion following the regular
council session.
Lanham announced a re-
organization of departments,
ing department from public
works. '
Jack Morton, who has worn
two hats” as public .works
director and city engineer, will
be relieved of the public works
supervision.
"Jt has gotten too much for
one man,” Lanham said, ex*
plaining that the city engineer-
ing duties alone have in-
creased tremendously in re-
cent years. -
Because -of increased street
improvements with revenue
sharing funds, Lanham said
these projects will be an espe-
ialiy time consuming for the
city engineer in coming
months.
Luncefotd was a construc-
tion inspector here for three
years on a contract job handl-
ed by Turner, Collie and Braderr
on water and sewer improve-
ments. He worked here on the
projectsthat werelinancedby____
the 1965 bond issue.
As the result of His experi-
ence in Baytown he is already'
familiar with utilities in Bay-
town," Lanham said.
Lunceford has worked-for
the City of Groves as a public
works director and also has
[worked for the City of Port Ar-
thur. \
A graduate of Van High
School, he attended Tyler ' 'i
Junior College and L
Tech.
ic will
ilic works director
sion. street division and muni-
cipal garage. His salary will be
314,600 annually.
I' Services Set Sunday
For John S.Cook% 60
John S. Coak, 60, «f 2106 New
Mexico, died Thursday night in
Baytown hospital
Petroleos Espanoles in Castel-
londe la Plana, Spain, in Janu-
ary of 1965, and when he re-
Cook, head of the Business turned here in October of that
Services Department at
Manager Fritz Lanham
reported. This would not be
inconsistent with the hiring
procedures in the past with the
library
year he was named assistant
mechanical superintendent.
Cook served in such positions
as fireman, laborer, process
fireman, inspector, and me-
chanical superintendent in the
more than 38 vears he has been
with the company.
„ Cook was ’a member and
former director of the Ameri-
can Welding Society, and was
n.n.rtrnmt^tKor^j011 the botnl o< stewards and
Services Department at tbe Y^j{,nance committee of St.
Baytown Refinery,
had been with the company
more than 38 years.
Services will *be at 2 p.m
Sunday at St Mark's Metho-
dist Church under direction of
Earthman Funeral Home
Burial will be in Cedar Crest
Cemetery
Cook had been recently
named head of the Business
« finery after returning from a M ,. n „ . .
withjl* revenue^ funds^CUv special assignment with Esso olilh jiere ' ^ *
Chemical in France
A graduate of Auburn Uni-
versity with a BS degree in
mechanical engineering. Cook
joined the company in July of
P, Walker com-11934 m New. York ,
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id in 19fi. then to Baytown
later that same yew.
He had a six-year stav m
from 1ST until 1943.
Hit
Cook is survived by his wife
Bonnie of Baytown; two
daughters. Jo and Julie. Cook,
both students at the University
of Texas: a son, John Paul
He transferred to Harbor Is- Cook, wfio is atteriSi^TKt
tn Ravtiwn UiBvertitv: and two brothers
and two sisters. aB of Alt-
bmpa
In lieu of other remem-
Bay- branCex. the family reqaitia
refinery. - that donations be made to the
.Cook transferred to Emo Sterling MmiripaJ library.
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Hartman, Fred. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 51, No. 83, Ed. 1 Friday, January 12, 1973, newspaper, January 12, 1973; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105202/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.