The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 11, 1980 Page: 2 of 28
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Sunday, May II, 1980
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Police Beat - -
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Our World Today Ba’',own Is Featured In
Book Chronicling Hofheinz
Robbery At Fried Chicken
Place Nets Thieves $65
From AP Wire*
Guarantee Board
hoped to learn
Canada’s plans for
aiding Chrysler to-
day before making a
final decision on
whether to approve
$1.5 billion in U.S.
government financ-
ing guarantees for
the automaker.
+ EGLIN AIR
FORCE BASE, Fla.
- While the flood of
Cubans coming to the
United States con-
tinues, refugees have
begun to trtdcle out
of a Florida Panhan-
dle tent city for new
homes around the
country.
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+ NORCO, Calif. -
Heavily armed
police special
weapons and tactics
teams scoured the
rugged San Gabriel
Mountains early to-
day for a group of
men who robbed a
bank, killed a
sheriff’s deputy and
wounded several
other persons.
-I- WASHINGTON -
The Chrysler Loan
Hartman household all of
my life. For years I
couldn’t put a face with the
name, but I knew it meant
“power" and “success”
and “politics.”
One of my clearest
childhood recollections of
living in La Porte was the
drive down Bay Ridge Road
to my grandparent’s house.
The drive took us past
“Huckster House,” the
Hofheinz summer living
compound. I always felt
like exciting and important
things were happening
behind the fences which lin-
ed the property.
It was impossible to grow
up in Harris County during
the past several decades
and not feel closely sa*d
associated with the Judge.
He was vital to so many
things that were happening.
All of this history is
recapped once again in the
pages of this«biography,
making alive again the ac-
tive Hofheinz years. Details
of all areas of. the Judge’s
life are covered, including
his close relationship with
family and friends, political
battles, business dealings
and even candid accounts
of conflicts and clashes en-
countered in his many
years of front page atten-
The name Hofheinz
means many things to
many people. Some
remember him best for his
political years)' others for
his ventures into showman-
ship, including being a key
figure (n bringing major
league baseball to Houston
and the building'of the
fabulous Astrodome.
I’m no exception. I can
remember hearing the
name “Hofheinz" in the
By MARYH. BROWN
The flamboyant life story
of Houston’s Judge Roy
Hofheinz, genius of the
Astrodome, is now
available to Hofheinz’s
friends and admirers.
Edgar W. Ray’s "The
Grand Huckster” tells the
Hofheinz story from the
Judge’s earliest days in
Beaumont into the retire-
ment years in Houston
some 68 yean later.
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Officer H.F. Sims said dent.
Mrs. Stoddard was riding a A Dayton man was hurt
bicycle north on Garth in in a 12:35 a.m. Saturday
the outside lane when she wreck at Highway
Struck by a westbouncf Boulevard and Lafayette.
Craig A. Houghton, 18,
was taken to San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital by
private car.
Officer Randy Barton
said Timothy Radich of 4601
Quail Hollow had stopped
his car to talk to someone
when Houghton, on a
motorcycle, pulled around ,/*
the vehicle.
Radich started forward
after finishing his conver-
sation and struck
A clerk at Pennington’s
Fried Chicken, 2915
Market, told police she was
robbed of about $67 by three
men who pulled up to the
drive-up window about
10:42 p.m. Friday.
The clerk said the man in
the back seat of the car ask-
ed for 12 pieces of chicken,
but she told him, she had on-
ly nine pieces cooked.
She said he agreed to take
that amount, so she boxed it
up and as she returned to
the window, the man pulled
a gun and demanded
money.
After she gave him the
$67, the vehicle fled, she
icated in connection with
Friday’s traffic stop, Sims
said
was
Thefts, Etc.
car on Pamela driven by
Rhonda B. Keeling of 7905
•George Dickson, 2032 Highway 146.
Georgia — Someone stole
his 1978 Harley-Davidson
motorcycle and an
unknown amount of tools
from his garage early
Saturday. The motorcycle
was worth $4,500.. /
•Elton O’Quinh, 163
Cabaniss — Someone stole
a 1974 Kawasaki from his
garage Thursday. O’Quinn
said the bike was the third
one stolen from his home
during the past week. It
was worth $1,000.
•Ann Neetriht. ink Cmwjerilanes and lost control, j In 1953. the United States
Ainsworth was charged and Britain reached trade-
with failure to control his agreement measures with
vehicle to avoid an acci- Communist China.
Ms. Keeling was charged
with failure to yi^lcl^the
right of way, Sims said.
Ralph Ainsworth, 26, of
Houston was taken to San
Jacinto Methodist Hospital
by Baytown Ambulance
Service following a 10:35
p.m. Friday wreck on
Decker Drive in front of
San Jacinto Hospital.
Officer C. White said Houghton, Barton said,
witnesses told him Radich was charged with
Ainsworth was riding his
motorcycle when he chang-
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— Someone took a camera,
amplifier, two speakers, a
revolver and silver dollars
from her home Friday. The
items were worth more
than $360.
•Ronny McGee, owner of
McGee’s Shell Service Sta-
tion, 1600 N. Alexander —
i Someone broke a window at
the station and took an
Unknown amount of money
Thursday night.
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A Baytown man, wanted
on charges of unauthorized
use of a motor vehicle and a
city traffic warrant was
also charged with carrying
a prohibited weapon follow-
ing his arrest by Baytown
police Friday.
Russell Lee Jeffries, 38,
of 8700 Ward remained in
city jail early Saturday
under a total of more than
$23,500 in bonds on the
charges.
Officer H.F. Sims said he
arrested Jeffries for mak-
ing an illegal turn Sttd
found he was wanted on a
262nd District Court war-
rant for auto theft and a ci-
ty warrant for speeding.
In Jeffries’ car, police
found a 12-gauge sawed-off
shotgun, they said.
Jeffries was also charged
with driving while intox-
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(AP) — Divers
return to Tampc
to look among ti
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Lunch Served H ».ni.-3 p.
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more victims
down with part
shine Skyway B
a huge freighter
during a blindini
At least 32 pe
killed, alfhou
Guard officials
% death toll could
higher.”
Only 18 bodie:
recovered befo
operations were
bad weather am
Friday night. K
victims were j
aboard a Grey
that plunged ini
when the 1,400 fi
gave way?
Only one mai
the fall. His pit
bounced off th
“ freighter Summi
then bounced
water. He swan
forehead gashed.
“There are a
vehicles under
entangled in thi
said Coast Gu,
: L Marshall Gilber
are bodies in at li
them! We think
additional vehicle
As divers pr<
resume their set
foot piece of t
span, the only p;
- stretch still lef
bridge supports,
over the water
bus, with 23 pers<
had fallen.
Divers said the
Chicago-to-Miam
numerous stops
lay upside down
atop a heap of d(
feet of water in
main shipping
Both the char
; bridge will be (
definitely to all tn
The 33,912-ton
Venture struck ti
which spans the
ween St. Peters!
Bradenton, during
hour Friday mor:
vessel was chur
. port from Housto
up a load of f
bound for Korea,
SUN PRESENTS “The Grand Huckster” to Sterling
Municipal Library. Librarian Flora Wilhite, left, ac-
cepts new book fron^ary Hartman Brown.
(Sun staff photoby Angie Bracey)
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Three Wrecks
Three persons were hurt
in three separate wrecks
Friday and early Sdftrday,
Baytown police reported.
Peggy M. Stoddard, 21, of
919 Northwood was taken to
San Jacinto Methodist
Hospital by Baytown Am-
bulance Service after she
was struck by a car at
Garth and Pamela about
3:33 p.m. Friday.
ThejERK1
tion
I hit ki ll Vi
Of particular interest to
Baytonians are sections in-
volving the years he served
as county judge of Harris
County. The youngest coun-
ty judge in the county’s
history, Hofheinz at 24 was
elected in a surprising
upset and took the oath of
office on Jan. 1,1937. In the
years that followed, much
happened in the area that
affected Baytown.
Judge Hofheinz and my
dad, Fred Hartman, re^
main today very close
friends. Frequently in the
early years, the Judge and
The Baytown Sun would
join forces in political cam-
paigns and strategies. Ac-
counts of these early team
ups are recapped in the
biography. v
Particular attention is
given to the Judge’s strug-
gle to keep the Baytown-La
Porte Tunnel from being a
toll tunnel as some early ef-
forts intended.
That Judge Hofheinz’s
history powerfully affects
the growth and far reaching
influence of Houston and
Harris County is in-
disputable. It’s good to
have this thorough study of
his life as reference for the
future to draw from'
Today, the Judge and his
wife, Mary Frances, con-
tinue to live in Houston.
Although incapacitated in .
past years from a stroke, I
the Judge remains keenly I
interested in the communi- I
ty and outlying areas he did I
so much for in past years of I
service. I
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pickup schedule for May 12-
16 has been released by the
city’s public works depart-
ment.
The pick-up starts in
Wooster, then Brownwood,
Lakewood, Craigmont,
Ponderosa, Country Club,
Lantern Park, Quail
Hollow, Allenbrook,
Parkridge Bend and Dent
Addition.
Also, Massey-Tompkins
Road, Chaparral Village,
Whispering Pines, Kings-
bend, Bob Smith Road,
Holloway Addition, Glen
Meadow, Fair Park, Cedar
Bayou, School Courts,
Bowie Addition and Kilgore
Road.
Also, Eva Maude,
Milbydale, Plumwood;
Roseland Oaks, Jones Addi-
tion, Stewart Heights and
Hill Terrace up to Ward
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 183, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 11, 1980, newspaper, May 11, 1980; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145170/m1/2/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.