The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 188, Ed. 1 Friday, May 20, 1977 Page: 1 of 24
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reporting to Newport, RI, for a
10-week Navy Education Service
ITogram course He has been
stationed in Agana. Guam, for
two years and will enroll at
University of Texas at Austin in
(he fall
Brush Pickups
BRl'SH AND heavy limb
pickups will begin next week in
the Eva Maude Addition, follow-
ed by Plumwood. Hoseland
Oaks, Stewart Heights, Hill
Terrace, the following roads -
Cedar Bayou. Nolan, Beaumont
and Mabry - and the area
bounded by Ward Road. North
Main. Highway 146 and East
Republic
Minor Surgery
BECKY ELLIS, wife of David
Ellis, has undergone minor sur-
gery at San Jacinto Methodist
Hospital David says she is doing
fine and is due to go home this
weekend
‘Hill’ Commencement
BARBERS HILL commence-
ment exercises will be held at 8
p m Saturday in the high school
auditorium. Former Sun
publisher Fred Hartman will
deliver the commencement
address to 43 graduating seniors.
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Cost Of Food Is Reason - *
Consumer Prices In U.S.
Are Up Slightly In April
Penalty
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ANGOLA, lad. (API-Gea.
Lewis Blaine Henfeey, who su-
pervised Ike draft of MS mil
TOP HUFFMAN graduates far this year art ndedktariaa Briaa
Miwahng. ••• af Mr. sad Mrs. K.T. Moaratag of 28K3 Flaming
Arrow, and valuta tonal Dianna MeDenaatt, daughter af Mr. and
Mn D JL Eppley af mil Gieacreek Drive. Other lap graduates,
ia rtakiag arder, are Doris Prichard, Kathy Bode, Keith Beriiag
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By LYNN HUGHES
HOUSTON (Spl - A Houston
woman said in court Friday that
Vernon McManus threatened to
kill her husband if she (hdnl pay
Angola, lad. He was 83.
WASHINGTON (API - An-
other big jump in the cost of
food pushed consumer prices
up eight-tenths of 1 per cent in
April, the third big monthly
rise in consumer prices this
year, the government reported
and energy items, prices rose
six-tenths of I per cent m April,
about the same as in February
and March and less than in
January
In addition, commodities
prices other than food in-
creased four-tenths of 1 per
cent, matching the March fig-
ures and considered by econo-
mists to be an acceptable in-
crease
Economists look to prices of
nonfood commodities for evi-
dence of the underlying rate of
inflation in the economy, since
food prices are volatile and
subject to wide swings from
month to month
annual rate of nearly 10 per
cent, showed inflation will con-
tinue to be a major economic
problem for the Carter admin-
istration in the months ahead
However, administration
economists remain confident
that spiraling food costs will
slow down later this year, eas-
ing the over-all pressure on
consumers' pocketbooks
The Labor Department said
its consumer price index for
April sjood at 179.6 of the 1967
average of 100, meaning that
goods priced at 8100 10 years
ago cost $179 60 last month.
Consumer prices last month
were 68 per cent higher than in
April of 1976
The April surge in consumer
prices followed a six-tenths of 1
per cent gain m March, when
food prices also increased by
six-tenths of 1 per cent. The
April increase put the price
rises back at the worrisome
levels of February when they
rose I per tent and January
when they rose eight-tenths of I
per cent For the year, con-
sumer prices have increased
32 per tent.
But the Labor Department
saw some good news in the re-
port. It said that excluding food
Exxon Meeting ‘Like A
Reunion’ For Baytonians
and that the murder was
thwarted because a highway
patrolman was at the freeway
reststop where McManus intend-
ed to commit the mme
Joyce St Clair and her
husband. Don. were called by
the state to testify in the punish-
ment phase of McManus s trial
for the slayings of Paul and Mary
Cantrell in Baytown last
summer
The jury found hun guilty of
capital murder in the Cantrell
rase Thursday afternoon
Defense attorneys rested their
case without calling any
witnesses and attorneys on both
today.
Food prices rose 15 per cent
during the month, more than
twice the March increase of
six-tenths of I per cent. A ma-
jor cause of the food price rise
was the 13.1 per cent increase
in the price of ground coffee,
the government said.
The April increase in con-
sumer prices, equivalent to an
Garvin on the telephone to TV cameramen
HOUSTON (Spi - Houston Music Hall Thun- refusing to put her on TV
day vibrated with the sounds of a corporate ver-
sion of a town hall meeting, and the source of coverage but said he would talk to her on the
energy was the annual meeting of Exxon phone
shareholders
More than 1,000 Exxomans attended, in-
cluding a large number from Baytown There when she got up to leave, announcing she had to
were so many Baytonians. in fact, that the catch a plane back to Washington
But other questioners were reasonable people
and the chairman of the board made everyone
■‘It’s like a reunion. ' commented a Baytown feel their views were important
It was "Big E" democracy in action.
Following are some of the questions raised by
(he shareholders
On divestiture. Garvin said he hopes it 's dead
and "senses" that it is. He credited its demise tb
people - like those in the audience — who
made their views known to their legislators.
(hi the company’s contributions to the fine
arts and charitable institutions. The questioner
commented Exxon had good "energy engineers
but not social engineers." Garvin responded
meeting everyone has a chance to ask questions that many problems today have resulted from
and make comments In other words, let not enough attention to society,
management know what the people are
Bv WANDA ORTON
Chairman Garvin couldn't promise her TV
Every time this woman spoke, there were
boos from the audience. And there were cheers
meeting might as well have been held at the
Baytown Community Building
2nd Phase Of
Bayway Water
Main Slated
sides were to begin final
No Rate Hike Expected For
Added Surface Water Funds
arguments at 1 p m
Then the jury be asked to will
punishment
Joyce St. Clair testified that
McManus threatened to'kill her
husband in January 1976
Weather
And Tides
(See RELATED STORY.
PICTURE, Page 7-A)
housewife visiting with fnends in the lobby
before the meeting began
Main business at hand was to elect directors,
consider resolutions and hear about bow
everything's going in the company from the peo-
ple running it.
But there's more to it than that At the annual
She and her husband were
separated when she first met
McManus ui January 1974. she
said, and she dated McManus
"off and on about two years un-
til she and St. Clair were
reunited in late October 1975
On Jan 5,1976. she said, she
heard from McManus again at a
hospital, where she was visiting
her sister
She found the note and. the
next day. her sister told her
McManus had been to her room
and wanted to see Mrs St Clair.
McManus called her that day
and. when she told him she
wouldn't see him because of her
husband, he threatened to loll
Don. she said.
"You've got to stay away from
that SOB," she told
McManus told her
By BETSY WEBBER
No increase in water rate structure is ex-
pected despite an additional $2 million on the
preliminary cost estimate for a surface water
treatment system presented to Baytown Area
Water Authority board of directors Thursday.
The new estimate of 115,370,000, including
non-construction costs, will increase annual
revenue required from the sale of water from an
estimated $2,572,050 to $2,635,000 to break even.
The last cost estimate was $13,6 million.
Rick French of Lockwood, Andrews and
Newnam, Inc., of Houston reviewed a 29-page
engineering report that contained a preliminary
site plan for the proposed plant to be financed
by revenue bonds sold by the authority.
City Manager Fritz Lanham said proceeds of
the first bond sale, $1.25 million, are due to
arrive by next week and will be placed in
Citizens National Bank at 5.85 per cent interest,
the depository selected by the board,
A motionrthat Lanham, who is also general
manager of the authority, and one officer of the
board be authorized to sign checks for the
authority passed unanimously.
In reviewing the report French said the plant
has been designed to treat 13 million gallons per
day of Trinity River water to be purchased from
Coastal Industrial Water Authority. This
amount is expected to be sufficient until the late
1980s when a 13-million-gallon expansion is en-
visioned. A second expansion will bring total
capacity of the plant to 39 million gallons per
day, French said.
Negotiations on purchase of a 60-acre site for
the plant north of Interstate 10 should be com-
pleted within 10 days, Lanham said.
Water demand projections for BAWA were
based on a 115-gallons-per-day per capita usage
increasing to 180 by 2000. Design peak capacity
is expected to be reached before 1990 with
BAWA and outside customers being served.
In developing the treatment process, French
said both raw water quality and desired finished
water quality must be taken into consideration.
He presented a chart showing Trinity River
water chemical analyses made in 1976 and
another showing standards for finished water
proposed by the Texas Department of Health
and American Water Works Association.
A conventional lime softening method of
(See NO, Page 2-A)
The city is looking at a June 15
starting date for the second
phase of the Bayway Drive water
main, a 1975 bond project es-
timated to cost $373,980.
This will be the final link in
the water main loop around the
city and will involve 13,000 feet
of 16-inch line.
The line will start at Arbor
near Burnet School and end at
Wisconsin where it will connect
with a water line installed in the
last bond program.
First phase of the Bayway
Drive water main extended from
Decker Drive to Arbor. The se-
cond part will follow Bayway
Drive to the vicinity of Bay Villa
and then veer left toward Exx-
on’s Research Center and run
parallel to the Missouri-Pacific
Railroad tracks.
From the refinery property,
the line will go down Market and
end at Wisconsin.
Jim Hutchison, vice president
of Busch, Hutchison and
Associates, told the city council
bids will be advertised May 23
and opened June,7. The contract
could be avyarded at the June 9
council meeting.
Exxon has granted the right-
of-way for the portion of the line
to bej installed on company Dr Kenneth H Ashworthi
property south of the MP tommissioner of highef
Railroad Tracks. tion {or (be coordinating Board
Besides giving the go-ahead o{ tbe Texas Allege and Univer-
for bidding on the water nuta, sjt s tem ^address the 108
the city council authorized ^ students at ^
Busch, Hutchison and Associates “ommencement at 7
to prepare-fma! pte for the Friday in the LC gym-
Ktlgore Road drainage project. aasjum
Estimated cost of the drainage R E (Bob) Pet Lc
improvement is $248,000, in- regents board chairman, and Dr.
eluding engineering, surveying ^ c aoud Lc president
and inspection as well as con- wj|| give the welcome and
struction. recognize guests.
In other action, the council student honors will be award-
authorized Langford Engineer- ed b cloud; Dr ^
ing Co. of Houston to prepare a ffl 'dean of student personnel
prelimtnaty study on the promos-service3; and Dr. Roy Dohald
ed East Distort sanitary sewer Perry Chajrman of the
trunk line. The 1975 bond mathematics-engineering de-
program includes $1,051,000 for partment.
this major P1^1- Awards will be for highest '•f
Final paymentwas approved scholastic graduates, hrfll of jtjk
for the Bob Smith Road storm fame members m$t , .presen. m
SnrcCri aI!oher projem, in, tative student and the Walter
197f bt°"lpr?f,acm' Jh? °tal Rundell Scholar, which is given ■ .
cost of $295,746.75 reflected an ' *
underrun of some $3,000. The 7
work was done by Utility fl
CLOUDY
MOSTLY CLOUDY, warm
and humid with a 30 per cent
chance ol showers Friday
night and a 40 per cent chance
Saturday is the Baytown area
weather forecast. Low ex-
pected Friday night, upper
60s; high Saturday, low 80s.
BAYTOWN TIDES for Satur-
day: High at 1:11 p.m.; low at
4:49 a.m.
SUNRISE SATURDAY at 6:25
a.m.; sunset at 8:11 p.m.
On solar energy Technology for converting
homes to solar energy is known but costs are
"very, very high, " said Garvin, and it would still
be necessary to have a backup system.
However, he said this country will have to go to
solar energy and he predicts it will be one of the
One noisemaker in the crowd complained major sources of energy by the end of the cen-
fSee EXXON, Page 2-A|
Clifton C. Garvin Jr . chairman of the board
of Exxon Corp . won wide respect for his
straightforward answers and for his aplomb in
dealing with questioners
about everything from not being able to talk to
City Council May Buy Buoys
To Ban Baiters In The Bay
the court
AROUND
"I'm going to have him killed
I don't want you hurt so don’t
get in the car with him and stay
away from him." she said he
these would cost $12,000 in
materials alone.
Flags would be place on each
buoy to indicate where commer-
cial fishing is not permitted. If
the buoys are installed, state
game wardens then would en-
force the law against commer-
cial fishing.
Insulting the heavy buoys will
not be an easy Usk. Lanham in-
dicated
“Everyday, ram or shine,
there's commercial fishing in the
bays." commented Councilman
one mile from the city limits Emmett O Hutto, whose home
With 24 buoys needed, he said is on Burnet Bay in Lakewood.
Oh buoy'
A heavy problem is bobbing
up in the city. To ban commer-
cial fishing in bays here, the city
will have to buy 24 buoys and
each one costs $518 and weighs
500 pounds
City Manager Fritz Lanham
launched the discussion at the
last city council meeting, ex-
plaining the sUte has the
authority to regulate bays where
commercial fishing is banned
but requires the city to to buy
the buoys These would be plac-
ed m the bays no further than
Hutto mentioned the bays also
are dosed to commercial crabb-
ing but this is going on in addi-
tion to commercial fishing.
"They keep everything they
catch in a net," he added, “They
don t throw anything back unless
it's dead."
Hutto wondered why the city
could not just post signs instead
o/ having to install buoys in the
bays.
Councilman Ted Kloesel asked
the administration to prepare
cost estimates on installing the
buoys. The matter will be dis-
cussed again at the next council
meeting May 26.
said
He told her he had a hit
man" coming in from Dallas
108 To Get Diplomas At
LC Graduation Tonight
that day.
Later the same day a man.
Whose voice she didnt
recognize, called her. chewed
her out for the way she had
treated McManus and said he
would kill her and her family if
anything happened to McManus.
Mrs. St. Clair told the jury
(See WITNESS, Page tAl
JO GRAVES spotted at the Exx-
on shareholders' meeting in
Houston. He planned to attend
the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce luncheon Friday.
Some of the busiest people in
town are Jewel Ziriax, "Sam”
Bailey. Alla Mae McDowell
and Julia Felton,.. Frank Mar-
tinka tries to please a group of
kids . . . Scott Finley enjoys a
visit at granddad's .
Assistant Drew Junior
Principal Robert Johnson seen
fer degrees and award diplomas.
The processional and
recessional will be played by the
LC Brass Choir under direction
of David Corder, the invocation
given by Carol Bruce Diliing and
the benediction given by Dana
Green. Diliing and Green are
graduating students.
Graduates will be honored
with a reception in Moler Hall
. following the commencement
program and family and friends
k may attend.
m Reception hosts will be the LC
regents, administration and
1L1 faculty.
r Graduates will receive
I associate in arts diplomas,
■ associate in arts degrees,
* associate of science in
s, technology degrees or associate
W of applied science degrees,
r J Graduating students include
J Janet Adams, Terry Adcock,
J Gregory Angel, Bernadette
■ Auzenne, James Bailey, Verla
jfl Beebe, Nick Boyette and
■ Deborah Briggs.
fl Also, Pheby Brown, Dwight
■ Brownlee. Linda Buchanan, Joe
■ Carothers Lfr.,« Connie Caijr,
LC, Page 2-A)
each year to the highest ranking
male graduate receiving an
associate of arts degree.
Mrs. Mamie Lea Reeder, 1976
recipient of the Excellence in
Teaching Award, will bestow the
award — revised this year and
called Excellence in Education
- to two LC personnel.
Cloud and Peterson will con-
Pearce Street Journal - -
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View From 69th Plitna
AUSTIN (CNl - This is a
very sober and somber day .
This day, 365 days hence —
driving around Crosby in a new
School Bond Vote At
Anahuac On Line Saturday
car. . . Oscar Langston and Bill
Neal discuss embrasure.
Mildred Sandlin lends a book
on energy and home designs, and
Melonie Sullivan waits to read it
... Becky Pena enjoying
“Washington and her work as
staff assistant for Rep. Bob
Gammage.
the good Lord willin' — we
will have reached that vener-
able three score and II.
There are more usoived
problems hereabouts than at
any time in previous history-
If we can ever get today’s
"musts" brushed aside, we in-
ANAHUAC (Spi — Anahuac
School District residents will, go
to the polls Saturday to decide
the fate of a $6.3 million bond
Imk.' f ,
The bonds would increase tax-
es by more than 40 per cent for
1979. but would rail for decreas-
ing taxes for the following 15
years.
Styor items in tbe proposal in-
! chide a new 1.200-pupil elemen-
tary school which would double
present capabilities: additions to
and remodeling of the present
elementary school for middlel
remodelimg of the high school;
demolition of the olid junior high
school and additions to the ad-
ministration building.
Theresa Munger as judge and"
Mrs. Carrie Silva as alternate
judge.
Precinct 2 — Anahuac High
School Administration Building,
with Mrs. Lucy McAlister as
judge and Mrs. Joe H. Bonin as
alternate.
Precinct 3 - Hankamer Com-
munity Building, with Mrs. R.V. , I |
" ■’/ as judge and Mn. J.B.
Colley as alternate.
Precinct 4 - Pine Island
Shelly Higginbotham excited
t about her first piano recital.. .
„ Pondarosia Griggs is happy
about a second place pen-
• manship award ... Ray
Heinrich prepares for a trip to
Cape Cod and Portugal.
tend to spend the remainiag
hours in appropriate reveby.
But believe it or aot, things
sure look much different from
the 69th plateau.
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Voting will take place
am. to 7 p.m. at: N
Precinct 1 - Wallisville Com-
from 7
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inunity Building, with Mrs.
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Norville H. Phillips, painting
contractor, received a final lump
sum payment of J$4,610 for j
paintirtg the city ‘ * ' '
NEW0W'<£R
in Double Bayou with
Mrs. W/J. Hawkins as judge and
NEW OWNER
FASHION CLEANERSl
300 E. JAMES 422-2411
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