The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 201, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 5, 1977 Page: 1 of 26
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from Southwest Texas State
University in San Marcos. He
received a bachelor of business
administration degree.
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Services Pending
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NEW DELHI, India (AP) -
Flood waters that drove more
than 200,000 persons from
their homes in the Brahma-
putra River Valley of north-
eastern India were reported
receding today.
India's national news agen-
cy said it had no new casualty
reports from the stricken area
of Assam State since Friday.
At that time, the official
death toll was 7£
ENID, Okla (API - Gov.
David Boren said that President
Carter should unveil a study
which reportedly indicates abun-
dant natural gas resources.
Boren told a 25-state energy
congress that Carter "owes it
to the American people to re-
lease that report and to release
it now. It’s time we were told
the whole truth."
He referred to a report as-
sembled in January by the
Market Oriented Program
Planning Study (MOPPS) of
the Energy Research and De-
velopment Administration
(ERDA).
Since Wednesday, when 106
delegates representing energy
producers and consumers be-
gan their meetings, a reprint of
a May 27 Wall Street Journal
article entitled ERDAgate’ has
been circulating.
It says the study “estimated!
that at $2.25 per thousand cubic
feet (MCF) the nation would be
awash in natural gas. From
$2.5043.00 we'd be engulfed in
Story Hour
SERVICE LEAGUE story hour
for- children ages four to seven
will be held from 10 a m. to
10:45 a m. Tuesday at Sterling
Municipal Library.
REPRESENTING BAYTOWN at Texas Bluebonnet Girts State, from left, are Sandy McGee,
daughter of Mr. and Mn. E. L. McGee of 4807 Burning Tree Drive and a student at Ross Sterling;
Laura Murphy, daughter of Mr. and Mn. H. L. Murphy Jr. of 1802 E. Fayle and a student at Robert
E. Lee; Molly Mayo, daughter of Mr. and Mn. T. C. Mayo of 406 Post Oak and a REL student; and
Kenda Ernst, daughter of Mr. and Mn. A. D. McManus of 3103 E. Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg Road
and a RSS student. Sponsored by the American Legion Auxiliary, Girls State will be held June 14-24
at Texas Lutheran College in Seguin. Its purpose is to educate the girls about the privileges and
responsibilities of U. S. citizenship. * '
(Sun Staff Photo by Chris Hill)
Baytown area in view of the coal
research being carried on at Ex-
xon, Joe was a floor leader for
the bill.
Also successful was a com-
promise bill that included the
“sunset" law. "Sunset" refen to
the termination of certain ageg-
cies which have outlived their
usefulness.
"The sunset bill is aimed at
bureaucrats,” Joe says, "and
will over the next 12 yean make
the 175 state agencies have to
justify their existence from the
standpoint of economy, ef-
ficiency and number of
employes. It encourages con-
solidation and discourages
overlapping."
And speaking of consolidation,
three water agencies are to
become one. Merging are the
Texas Water Rights Com-
mission, Texas Water Quality
Board and Texas Water Develop-
ment Board.
One of Joe’s pet projects,
House Bill One, missed the boat
in the Senate as the result of a
last-minute filibuster but Joe
believes the governor will in-
clude it in the special session.
This is the bill that removes
sales tax on utilities and raises
the inheritance tax exemption.
meeting two hours a day.”
Joe was responsible for some
major legislation in the 65th, in-
cluding one bill that has been
called the most important piece
of energy legislation to be
passed. This is the coal slurry
pipeline bill which grants right
of eminent domain to builders oft
coal slurry pipelines. It is of par-!
ticular importance to the
By WANDA ORTON
Baytown State Rep. Joe Allen
is optimistic about working out
the school finance bill in a
special session of the Texas
Legislature in late July.
That is the major unfinished
business from the recently ad-
journed 65th session. Joe says
the House version of the school
finance bill would have reduced
local taxes and increased the
state's allocations to districts.
"After the Senate got through
with it, it didn’t look good at
all," he told The Sun in an inter-
Pioneer Club
HUMBLE PIONEER Club will
have a banquet at 6 p.m Monday
at the Community Building.
Members are asked to bring
cakes and pies
Ex-Baseball
Star Speer
Dies At 73
Exxon Expansion Project
Runs Late, Under Budget
Weather
And Tides
Water District Meeting
THE BOARD of Supervisors for
Harris County Fresh Water
District 27 will meet at 7 p.m.
Monday at 5534 Wade.
view
“It boiled down to an urban-
rural thing. The House version
was based on productivity of
land while the Senate version
was more on market value.
"But I think in the next month
and a half we can come up with a
good bill.”
The 65th was Joe’s sixth
legislative session and he
believes the House "worked
harder than ever before.”
“We sent the major pieces of
legislation to the Senate early.
For example, the school finance
bill went to the Senate April 20
but the senators did not take it
up until May 21. This year the
appropriations bill got to the
Senate a lot earlier than before.
While the House was meeting
eight hours a day, the Senate was
MONT BELVIEU (Sp) -
Aubrey E. (Bill) Speer, 73, who
gained fame as one of the
greatest semi-pro baseball
players in Southeast Texas in the
1930s and '40s, died Saturday
morning in a Baytown hospital.
Services for Speer, a Mont
Belvieu resident 42 years, will be
at 10 a.m. Monday at Earthman
Funeral Home Chapel with the
Rev, G. W. Strickland of-
ficiating.
A native of Central Texas and
a fine all-round athlete as a
younger man, Speer was a
member of the famous Barbers
Hill Gusher team that captured
Joe is proud the Texas Redfish the Houston Post Tournament
Conservation Act passed by a championship in 1936.
Later Speer went to work for
Exxon’s Baytown Refinery and
was a mainstay as a member of
the Baytown Oilers, playing the
infield and catcher.
Speer had earlier played for
Conroe.
He is survived by his wife,
Mrs. Myrtle M. Speer of Mont
Belvieu; two sons, Bobby E.
Speer of Houston and Gordon
Speer of Mont Belvieu; and four
sisters, Molly Cohagen of Italy,
Pearl Gardner and Hazel
Neuman, both of Dallas, and
Lela Johns of Heame.
Six grandchildren also survive.
By D’EVA LUTHRINGER
With the Exxon Baytown Refinery expansion
project almost finished, John Racz, project ex-
ecutive, Friday told the chamber of commerce
the project is behind schedule but below
budget.
Projected to cost about $500 million, the new
process and transportation facility is now ex-
pected to cost about $470 million, he said.
The delays in construction were caused
primarily by problems in getting materials
delivered on schedule, Racz, who has been on
the project almost since its birth four years ago,
said. •
But the only real disappointment, he said, is
some problems with the reactors, which are be-
ing cooled off so the trouble can be located.
There is a lot of new technology in the reac-
tors, he said, and problems could be expected.
This is the first such system in the United
States and there is only one other in the world
- in Japan.
The new process facilities here and similar
ones in Antwerp, Belgium, are the largest in the
world and Racz said it should be able to produce
263,000 barrels of crude oil per day.
In addition to process facilities, the project in-
cludes storage tanks for oil and oil products
brought to Baytown and produced here, he said.
There also is a pollution control facility which
Racz said “is going to be a pain in the neck to
operate but it is a sign of the times.”
PARTLY CLOUDY with hot
afternoons and warm nights
and a temperature range from
the mid-90s to the upper 60s is
the Baytown area weekend
weather forecast.
BAYTOWN TIDES for Sun-
day; Highs at 1:48 p.m. and
4-9:46 p.m.; lows at 5:49 a.m.
and 6:02 p.m. Tides for Mon-
day: Highs at 2:31 p.m. and
4-11:09 p.m.; lows at 6:41a.m.
and 4-7:05 p.m.
SUNRISE SUNDAY at 6:21
a.m.; sunset at 8:19 a.m.
SUNRISE MONDAY at 6:20
a.m.; sunset at 8:20 p.m.
4- Denotes weak tides
MOUND
it
Interstate gas now is con-
(See GAS, Page 2-A)
CHAD DENNIS a tired young
man after a visit to Lake
Anahuac. . . Frances Pettigrew
enjoying her summer vacation so
Barbers Hill Supt. Bill
Farmer and son Cliff drop by for
/ a visit. ,
Merla Kramer works hard
preparing fish . . . Darlene
Barnett seeks advice, and gets it
... Lou Waddell spotted at the
Pearce Street Journal - -
Sense Of Comfort
HOUSTON (CN) - Johnny
Goyen’s testimonial was a gala
night of banter. Just about
every one-liner ever uttered
made an SRO crow laugh at
themselves and everybody
far
Ex-Baytonian To Autograph
New Book Here Monday
(See ALLEN, Page 2-A)
Flushing Of Fire Hydrants
In City Begins On Monday
else.
It was our good fortune to be
at a table with Weldon Week-
ley, original partner in the
famed ad firm of Weeldey and
Valenti. Weldon even served a
brief tour in marketing at Bay-
town while with the late Uncle
John.
We will continue in the same
once over lightly vein and say
this about now famous Jack
Valenti’s principal speech.
We always sleep better just
knowing Jack is on the dais
and at the mike.
movies.
Dick Dickerson talks about a
shrimping trip
Richardson looking at an in-
teresting prospect . . . Delores
Carroll looking forward to an up-
coming student nurses capping
ceremony.
industry is documented by
camera. «
The earliest photo shows a
tripod rig used in the Oil Springs
field 12 miles east of
Nacogdoches in 1866.
Various chapters in the book
concern oil development in Cor-
sicana, Spindletop, Saratoga,
In his history of the petroleum
industry here, Rundell relates a
good deal of municipal and
school history as well.
The large pictures of the
Goose Creek oil field will bring
back memories to many pioneer
residents and they may
recognize a face or two among
the oil field workers.
. . Neel
Dr. Walter Rundell Jr., former
Baytonian and histofy professor
at the University of Maryland,
will be honored at an informal
reception and autographing parr
ty Monday in recognition of his
new book, “Early Texas Oil: A
Photographic History.”
Hours will be from noon to 2
p.m. at the Book Sellers, 2107
Bay Plaza Center.
Rundell's book will be of
Henry Armstrong says the last special interest to hjs hometown
days of school are hectic eve
For five consecutive nights
beginning Monday, crews from
the Public Works Department
will flush fire hydrants from 8
p.m. until dawn.
’ water pressure will be ex
perienced during the periods the
hydrants are being flushed. Also,
discolored water can be ex-
pected all next week as the
j Sports Complex.
Wednesday: The area north of
East Republic to Chaparral
Village, bordered by North Main
on the west and Highway 146
the east. / - -
Thursday: The area north of
Roseland Oaks to Whispering
Pines, bordered by Highway 146
on the West and Cedar Bayou on
the east. I ■
Friday: The area north of
Highway 146 tp Southern Pacific
railroad, bordered by Nevada on
the west and Alexander Drive on
the east; This includes Old
Baytown, Pelly, Britton-Crav-
mH|ens and Winniewood. -
Ponderosa, Lantern Park, Craig-
mont, Rollingbrook and Quail
Hollow.
Tuesday: The area north of
the Southern Pacific railroad to
Baker Road, bordered by
Airhart Drive and Goose Creek
Stream on the west and Main
Street on the east. Also included
is the Dent Addition and the
Belated happy anniversary
greetings to Barbara and Don
Jackson . . . Former Baytonian1
Jo Hargraves of San Antonio
prepares for a trip to Europe.
Sour Lake, Batson, Humble,
Burkbumett, Ranger, Deisde-
on
Low
Burial will be in Memory
you’re interested in Texas
history and waht to know all
about oil, tl)is book will hold
your interest throughout the 254
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Gardens of Baytown Cemetery.
Funeral arrangements are un-
der the direction of Earthman
Funeral Home.
Lake, the Perminan Basin, pan-
handle, tan, and East Texas.
Rundell gained firsthand ex-
perience with the oil industry
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and text are demoted
4 development of the Goo:
oil field and Exxon Refinery.
| ‘‘(A distinctive feature of the
11 Goose Creek field was that it en-
compassed both land* and
water,” Rundell writes. Goose
Creek was a first for offshore
the
year.
pages.
.Creek
Flushing is expected to relieve
problems (with dirty water thr
city has been experiencing.
The schedule for flushing will
when he was a Lee College stu-
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 201, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 5, 1977, newspaper, June 5, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1145398/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.