The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 170, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 30, 1975 Page: 1 of 26
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Volume 33, No. 170
MORE YHAN 60,000 READERS EVERY DAY
Tolophono Number: 477-0302
Wednesday, April 30, 1975
Baytown, Texas, 77320
Fifteen Cents Par Copy
13.3 Million Bond Issue Goes
To Voters For Decision May 27
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Unconditional Surrender
Viet War Saigon
Government Gives Up
‘Straw’
Vote
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SAIGON (API - The §aig<
government surrendered uncon-
the South Vietnamese stood in
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try came late.Tuesday.
YOl’ MIGHT SAY Albert Couch of 1604 Yupon has a way with
words — especially When it comes to writing letters. His 21-foot
masterpiece is the result of a recent trip to visit former Bay-
tonians Roy and Nell Jones, who now live in Llano. Couch said he
was so impressed b> the hill country, homes and buildings in the
S°Manyformer government sol- noisiest aiui happiest city in their former occupants were
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area, that he returned home and began writing a letter to the
Joneses, illustrating it with drawings of the sights he visited. A
says he plans to mail the letter in a tube and made a copy of it to
keep for himself. (Sun staff photo by Robert Bradford)
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In Hospital
CHARLES BONNER.of Bay-
town is a patient in Room 851 at
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. Methodist Hospital in Houston
and can have visitors.
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Tefry Dojison ;
FRIENDS AND co-workers of huac.
Terry Dopson. who has resigned
:., his Baytown post as director of
park’s1 afid recreation- to take a
similar job in Corpus Christi, are
invited to a farewell party at
■ ' Baytown CCommunity building
from 3 to 5 p.m, Friday*
Fisheries Meet
FOUR SPEAKERS will present
a special program at .a marine
fisheries meeting at 8 p.m.
Wednesday, May 7, in the ’Dis-
trict “Courtroom of .the Cham-
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have a covered dish supper at 7
p'm. Thursday at the.Baytown
Fairgrounds, where Don B.rady
will speak, on "Corrective
Shoejng." Each family is asked
to bring a casserole, salad and
dessert.
Service League
BAYTOWN SERVICE League
will have its regular meeting at
9:15 a.m. Friday at the Service
League houpe on Market* A sal-
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MILDRED LITTLE, of Bay-
shore Community Develop-
ment, has called a special meet-
ing on transporation for senior
citizens at 1 p.m. Thursday at the
Baytown Housing Authority, 805
Meeting Set ■
other in a "a general explosion
of joy,”Mhe Yugoslav news
"jug reported. Flags
diers turned in their arms and
tried to lose themselves amid
Ite—civilian-- population—But
there were periodic outbursts of
gunfire — some from pockets
oi; rislstah& M 6UKR Mm
celebrating Viet Cong and
North Vietnamese firing into
the air.
A police colonel shot himself
in front of the National Assem-
bly building after walking up to
an army memorial statue and
saluting. He died later in a hos-
pital.
Some South Vietnamese pilots
continued today ta fly plan-
eloads of relatives and other
members of the armed forces
to neighboring Thailand. ’Sev-
eral thousand South .Vietnam-
ese fled the country by this
' route Tuesday.
And U S. officials struggled
with the logistics of resettling
the estimated 45.000 South Viet-
namese . tt helped evacrute
surrender. The end of official
American presence in the coun-
Late News
Kiwanis Program
GLEN WALKER and Dr. Jim
Stprgeon of Lee College will pre-
sent the program at the noon
Thursday meeting of the Ki-
wanis dub of Baytown at the
Holiday Inn. Debbie Martinez,
Miss Baytown-Lee College, will
be introduced
WASHINGTON (API - Ini-
tial claims for regular state un-
lamlaunaU
5»rtfurf3g
week ending April 19, the
Labor Department reported
today. This was the lowest
number of first-time claims
since mid-November when
456,000 such claims were filed
as unemployment spread
rapidly across the country.
the world.’’
BY BETSY WEBBER
Voters will decide the fate of a
(13.3 million city bond issue,
Loud explosions were heard packaged In nine seperate pro-
in the late afternoon in Saigon, positions with
drtionaliv- today and Viet (one J’voph1. >n Hanoi raced into The) vs. n -ported aboard an straw vole attached Tuesday
and -North Vietnamese troops the streets and embraced eaefi ammunition barge burning in[^Byl?~T)y iinammoui ajtMh (ff
occupied the capital. At.first
the Saigon River, but no dmage Baytown City Council Wednes-
was reported in the city except
at the U S, Ebassy and other
Sfljjbfiese" cTftffh
evacuated
reduced what was a 10-proposal
election to nine proposals and a
straw volrbmuse of a legalj
/}f- jIfnv—IQ -s-[ City Manager Fritz Lanham-j-
-T"‘v ** *.» said he learned after the council
__ _ decided to include a proposition
Northcutt Named SSStfSS
forbids issuance of bonds for fire
equipment only Bonds can be:
used for buildings, however, he
said;
He suggested the council
either issue certificates of
obligation for the $250,000 on
their own or add a straw vote to
To Liberty Post
Assistant City Manager How-
ard F. Northcutt has accepted
the position of city manager of
Manager Fritz Lanham an-
of his-departure Northcutt said,
“Working with you lias been
both a pleasure and an honor. It
Liberty, effective May 19, City has also been a.pleasure to work, ibe ballot.
with various staff members, the
nounced at an early morning city mayor and members of city
council meeting Wednesday
Northcutt has been employed
by the City*of Baytown fqur and
a half years.
Ini letter informing Lanham -stnh. Bavtown -wiil surelv con-
tinue ToTirogres" —
Northcutt and his wife Samjra
live at 3911 Tumbleweed. They
havr.tr son.. Bnan.- tr tir-first-
... HOWARD F. NORTHCUTT
council.
With the continual leader-
ship of the mayor and council
and the expertise of the city
grade at Harlem Elementary
and a daughter, Beth Ape. 7, a
secondVader there
masters degree in public ad-
ministration at the University of
Houston.
Before coming to Baytown,
new granddaughter, Whitney
Lynn Ward, who made her de-
but Monday in a Houston hos-
pital \ Frank Fulljpright makes
use of a clever and original idea
. . Sgt. Herman Steele reports
he is not retired, contrary to a
recent Houston newspaper ac-
count which said he was.
Gertrude Langston gets out-,
fitted for a trip to San Francisco
... Sarah Savage checks onjhe
bean crop .. Marcel
likes good literature
garet and Sambo Johnson take in
the Big Thicket fete
Dick Wilson. Keith King, Utah
Waldrop and Elbert Barringer
deserve chef of the year
awards, i Charles > McMorrow.
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To Dedicate Office Here - -
Retired Senior VlSfinieerf
~ as v-.'i£i£
Seven Baytonians will be
among senior volunteers to re:
eeive recognition at a Retired
Senior Volunteer program
(RSVP) fete at 1:30 p.m. Friday
PEGGY POWER brags about a ln the cafeteria at Lee College.
To Honor Seven Baytonians
The opening of the Baytown
RSVP office will be celebrated
at the event. Reservations
should be made by calling the
Baytown RSVP office at 427-
5611, extension 215, between 10
Pearoe Street Journal- -
Perry A Good Choice ^
ing named Baytown Optimist
of the Year.
I have known Perry since he
was a child and best remem-
ber him as one of the best kid
athletes this town ever pro-
duced.
Kswrtxon, “George Hart- peffy has always been a
good athlete, but it was as a lit-
tle kid that I remember him
most. Ail the other youngsters
his age and younger looked up
to him,
a.m. and 2 p.m. before Friday"
IRS Will ‘ '
KelreshfnAlRs Will Ik* serv«t|.
Those who will be honored in-
clude Baytonians HenryZJpph
nors, Jimmie Day, Ray, Km-
eron. Doris Treybig, Viqpria
Walker. Blanche and Ijwhence
Weiler and 47 others, inch Ding
residents from Channelvieuf, La
Porte and Highlands.
(See Related-Photo, Page 4 B)
Awards^will be presented by
Baytown- Mayor -Tom Gentry.
Precinct 2 Commissioner Jim
Fonteno will help with th| pres-
entations;
RSVP c
been open since
lice manager Jerry Dic|
but has not had its officii
ing. ...
Phones at the office at 1
RSVP is an effort to channel
ergiest time and abilities of re
tired citizens into useful and pro-
ductive service.
The program keeps-abreast of
needs for hospital volunteers,
drivers for the Red Cross sta-
tion wagon, to provide transpor-
tation for other senior citizens or
needy medical patients, school
or day' care center help and
many other avenues of service
Falls, as administrative aide afid
administrative assistant
He was in the U,S Army al-
most three years before going to
Canyon.
Weather
, And Tides
CLOUDY AND WARM with
Baytown area forecast. Low
BAYTOWN TIDES Thursday:
High at 4:05 p.m., low at 7:22
jun.
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Newly elected Councilman
Emmett O. Hutto was sworn
into office by Municipal Judge
Steve Hebert at an early morn-
ing council session Wednesday
after votes in the April 22 run-
off rtwlton were canvassed.
First item of business for
Hutto to participate in was tbe
.unanimous call of a $13.3:mfl-
■Hot city bond eieetiowferMay -
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A native of Cincinnati, Ohio,
Northcutt was reared in Galves-
ton and attended public School
there, He has a bachelors de-
gree in government from North
guided by its outcome in future
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Nine proposals in the bond is-
sue include issuance of:
READY TO-WALK FOR CANCER
MRS. AILEEN BANKS, Mrs. E. C. (Jack) Kimmons and Mrs. L. D. Wilburn look over a map of
Baytown in preparation for the house-to-house canvas of the Cancer Crusade. Mrs. Kimmons and
Mrs. Wilburn are assisting Mrs. Hazel Echols, residential chairman of the drive. Approximately 20
area captains attended the kick-off coffee Tuesday at the Houston Lighting and Power Serv ice Cent-
er on Ward Road. The canvas is set for Tuesday. (Sun stiff photo by Plena Pfennigs
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Barry Nettles Gets Job
Trustees Create Post Of
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Assistant Superintendeilt
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER
School trustees this week
TH? council -unanimously
accepted the straw vote alterna-V position-assis-
tive and boundthemseivesTo be ^ supermten^and in-
with other employes.
This week he clarified his no-
increase statement, telling The
Sun that deputy superintendents
dicateqj.t will require a salary have been secnnd-line ad-
structure change
Trustees seemed to consider
+ Proposition 2 — $650,000
traffic signal improvement
bonds.
,+ Proposition 3 — $2.35 mil-
first experience in city manage-
ment was two years at Wichita
ment bonds.
-f Proposition 4 — $850,000
waterwortayptpffi bondk
4 Propoaftion 5 - $3 million
sanitary sewer system bonds.
+ Proposition 8 - $1.3 mil-
lion park bonds
+ Proposition 7 - $1,095 mil-
| lion library building bonds.
J“’T*Pfopnsttiqn ♦tKWB
museum building bonds.
-r Proposition 9— $1.3 mil-
lion golf course park bonds.
Council To Complete
Traffic Panel May 8
chance of thundershowers .... .
through Thursday is the The straw Vote on (ire equip-
temperature expected
Wednesday night upper 60s, paper ballots provided at .the
high expected Thursda;
80s. Chance of rain 40 per cent
The council voted to go ahead:
through Thursday. , with calling the election despite
legislative hang-up that may in-
validate the whole thing.
(See ELECTION, Pag 2)
Supt. Johnny Clark had told
The Sun earlier there would be
lary increase connected
with the promotion, although
ministrators but with the new
position existing, the assistant
superintendent would be the
It could be, he said, that when
trustees are considering next
year’s salaries they will deter-
mine what a second-line ad-
ministrator should receii
raise in the next budget along give that to Nettles.
|2e5469|-App<MUm«nU for. the newly, or his designee. 04- inspector,
organized fcytown City Council
Traffic Committee will be made
at the May- f meeting , of ’the
aJinlriKlUhet"^r - Two <’iti»n-members will be
named in addition to the
city manager and director of
1 planning and tra|fic. “Trvf
There will be five voting
members, including thq coun-
cilmen and citizens! Previously ’
the city staff members have
been voting members. In the
future they will act in an adiv-
sory capacity. * •
Fred Bednarski. co-chairman,
are the council representatives
on the committee. Ex-offieio
members, according to the new
. makeup of the committee, will
be.the police chief, city attorney
; Family A^ain
said,
(open-
men and Bert Allman round out
the Optimists' kitchen crew:
Earl and Sandra Fudge and
Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Schiller
family
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Peoples Stale Bank
■The People Helpers", '
2615 Market Si 8231
Mosaic. Omwf.
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was the day he first attracted
my attention, but apparently 1
he’s stUI got it! | |
You show me a town full of
Perry Beauchamps, and I’ll
show you a good town.
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[oody
Center at Lee College ar<f mann-
ed from 10 a.m. to 2 p.rji. Mon-
day; WedneSdSy! Thursday and
Friday by senior citiwns.
They receive calls from senior
citizens who are interested in do-
ing volunteer work arjd who
want to find out about (he pro-
gram of helping many agencies
fifKi i j fisfitan
Leukemia
Strikes Davis
imrnmimmUi
:nt 1
HOME
IMPROVEMENT
LOANS
First American Bank
In an ironic twist of fate,
leukentja has .struck Archie
Davis, longtime Baytown man
whose son, Fred, died of the
same disease in 1962,
Since Fred's death, Archie has
Setff^rTiMesFT^Tfker in
leukemia society .drives in the
area.
He was admitted to M.D.
Anderson Hospital iri Houston
last week and was informed Fri-
day he, was suffering froi
leukemia
years. He lives at 1 Sam Houston
Courts,
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Archie 4s weii known here.’ ROTARY AIDS AMIGOS’ PROGRAM
, . .. a . . jnarjy R0BKRT WHITMORE,'from left, and Jeannie Estrada, Baytown volunteersrn the Amigos deias business administraiion degree: ^
rurts Americas program accept a $500 check from Leon Brown and Frank Terry, directors of Baytown froI11 The Ur- versity c.’ Houston ,
He can have visitors and his Rotary Club. The money will be used to help cover expenses of eight Baytown Amigos in a summer il? Austin, attended Military -WWMS-WtKMiai Bank
om number Is 504-R ' immunization program in Latin America. (Sun staff photo by Glenn Koikes) Police Academy in Fort-Gordon. ^ '
matters, to the city council
If that method is used, the
other deputy superintendents,
who would have become third-
line administrators, probably
Would receive raises also, but .
not to the level Nettles would
receive. „
There are several ways of
wever, i
trustees to decide, he said.
In approving the organiza-
tional chart, trustees also
eliminated two deputy super-
by Nettles and one which has not
been filled since the retirement
last August of Bill Hinson.
That leaves two deputy
superintendent, posts, one for
curriculum held by Curtis Herr-
ing and one for research and
development held by Dr. Bob
Holman
Hinson's responsibilities for
plant operations and Nettles’for
personnel and records will be
delegated to administrative
assistants. ' ,. '
Charles (Bud) Gloss has been
doing plant operations work
since Hinson left and will con- j
tinue to do so under the new
organization
Don Treuhardt has been work-
Tbe cbfflmittee TTrjkes .
recommendations on traffic in«Wlth‘vttles,n and
(See NEW, Page 2)
75 LC Graduates To
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Hear Walter Mengden
State Sen. Walter H. Mengden
of Houstoh will be commence-
-jf-7:........rrrrr ment" speaker at Lee College ancf received a law degree from
V” ceremonies at 7 p.m. May 16 in UT-Austm
ceremonies at 7 p.m. May 16 in
the LC gymnasium
His topic lias not been deter-
mined, a spoke§man:Jor . the
teoUegesaid.
(See Related Photo, Page 4-B)
Mengden. 45’. represents
District 13.
He is a petroleum consultant
Ga. and Army Finance School
in FortBenjamin Harrison. Lnd..
UT-Austm.
He served as a seaman first
class in the U. S. Navy during
Jforid, War,. lL.:and as aYfint *
lieutenant in the U.S. Armydur*
Mengden was elected to the
House of- Representatives .from
District 22. in 1976 and to the
Senate from District 13 in 1972.
with. the...firni Mengden and ue wife june daughter of
Mengden and has worked with jU4jge and IVfrs temple Houston
Exxon, Pure^ Oil Co. - and ^ 0f wjchita Falls have four
Trunkline Gas Co. children, daughter Eugenia, 16,
Matagorda Co.unfy in, 1842,and John’9. ...' ■
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Mengden was graduated from
Kinkaid High School in Houston.
He .eceived a bachelor Of
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 53, No. 170, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 30, 1975, newspaper, April 30, 1975; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1105331/m1/1/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.