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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, May 5, 1938
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very material factor of con-
fusion ^because of Bob
Smith’s name. Some voters
might have felt they were
voting for the incumbent
Bob Smith, when in fact,
they weren’t.’’
R.L. “Bob” Smith, who is
nows justice of the peace in
the Precinct 3, Position 1
seat, won the Democratic
domination for Judge of the I
165th Judicial District and!
will; face the incumbent, I
State District Judge Lynn
Hughes, a Republican, in j 8
the November general elec-11
Mon; j
- McLemore said he felt |
die "low turnout” in Satur-!
day’s elections was “one of!
the biggest factors in the i
race."
' “In areas L believed i!
Would do well, the turnout j
was low. I was very pleased
♦1th the overall percentage!
leasable to muster in spite i
m (he turnout. I started] ............ ,............................__............_____________
from the ground up in REPUBLICAN U. S. District Eight candidate Jack Fields, center, wiUflpetl Stato-, , aoDointed to their
Jis race, and my people pajgn headquarters at 122 E. Texas here at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday. Baytonian Houston \FolIoWS State nowerfuUwsts bv former
WorKed ve^ hard.” Schweitzer, left, heads the Fields camp here. With Schweitzer and Fields is Fields' f gotMoSKcS
W Poerner
nout “had a lot to do with ____ (Sun staff photo by Ian Martin) rancher, had campaigned
niv loss ” __ ~ 7^ an An u ac op) - for a proposed high speed
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'"I want to thank all who Saturday’s Democratic •Precinct 98 - Democrat, Johanna received ^
Supported me and urge my and Republican primaries Democrat Bill Planter;-Wilson; GOP, no election mitted^otes were cast 3? as Texas
jupporters to vote for and saw the election of ex-GOP, Robert H. Ash. held. S sumUlance and in- Z M
support Bob Smith in the’ecutive committeemen .Precinct 99 - .Precinct 249 - itiative ^referendum g^Tuchcontro from the
runoff election. from area precincts to the Democrat: Jack Hester 158 Democrat, Wilyne were aDDrovea on the
; “Mr. Smith is not an at- Democrat i c a n d votes; David Blanton 40 Laughlin; GOP, Jane- B. ballot. /total of 105 votes 7nSd state
torney and he is not the Bob Republican executive com-votes. GOP: M.S. Lundy. Roberts. were for cast f o r fh!
Smith who was the incum-.mitteesof Harris County.; . .P r e c i n t 100 - .Precinct 250 -surveillance whe?e KPhLJI??
bent, but between the two More than half of the Democrat, W O Tidmon; Democrat: Jefferson 0 suspected drug dealers are ninnhlSanhnfrAt^nii a?
remaining candidates I Democratic candidates ran GOP, Jack Henderson. Walker 137 votes; Roland inv0Wed and 27 were cast fDemScra?^ „9™ and
feel he is, by far, the better unopposed while only one .-p.r e c I n c t 101— Leno Jr. 32 votes. GOP: no aeainst "
Choice. ” IGOP candidate faced op- Democrat: Mrs. S.V. Rob- candidate filed; no write-in initiative and referen- tnrm a
5 Smith was unavailable (position. berson 126 votes; Charles votes. dum wTannroved t fhe
for comment. ---; Tltotte elected, end (Mr Lensing 29. GOP: no e.n- • P «c I mV 251 - m.,f S^SSSSumeS
Lions Luncheon (Opponents, are.
..BAYTOWN . UONS.-Club * P r e,c ‘ n..cJ 1 2 “
will meet at noon Tuesday Democrat : B. Rogers 160
w J {votes; Jim Bailey 109 votes.
GOP: John J Reed
1 ‘Precinct 13 —
Democrat, A1 Rieck; GOP,
Sherwood Hensley
•Precihct 28-
Democrat, J.F, Mc-
Chesney; GOP, Ed McGee.
Railroad Panel To Have New Face In January
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the difference.
Once an ai<& to former
Sen. Ralph Yarborough, the
37-year-old Hightower
stumped the East Texas
lignite country, railing at
what he called environmen-
tal destruction.
Nugent, at 57 a successful
Kerrville attorney and once
a power
Legislature, said a railroad
commissioner must be a
judge and not an advocate.
red to the Texas Triangle as
a “boondoggle,” and said
the commission has too
long been a "private club"
for special interests.
Poerner and Temple had
favored decontrol of oil and
AUSTIN <AP) - There .year role. Nugent had been
will be a new face on the appointed in 1978 to serve
Texas Railroad Commis-1 until11118 general election,
sion when it convenes next
January — e 11 h e r I senator from Houston who
ran a good race for gover-
nor six years ago on the
Republican ticket, had little
trouble defeating Austin
real estate broker John
Thomas Henderson and
Weatherford auto dealer
E.W. “Billy" Kidd.
Grover will face Temple
in the general election.
Nugent’s opponent then
will be former State Sen.
H,J. “Doc" Blanchard, an|
Austin lawyer and lobbyist,
who had no primary opposi-
two years of that unexpired
term in 1978.
Temple, member of a
wealthy East Texas family
with interests in timber and
publishing enterprises,
joined the Texas House in
1973. .
But now Temple, 38, says
he is more of a moderate
conservative
He termed Poerner a
lackadaisical commis-
sioner who "did little to in-1 Temple said early Sunday
fluence things.” He refer-1 morning. “I think that was
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Jack Fields
“I just feel very, very
happy and very proud of all
the people who embraced
my candidacy early and all
the work they’ve done,”
Both won nomination
Saturday for a full six-year
term oh the three-member
commission,, with Temple
upsetting incumbent John
Poerner and Grover swam-
ping two opponents. ,
Incumbent Democrat
Jim Nugent beat back a
strong showing by Jim
Hightower, running for of-
fice for the first time.
Hightower resigned as
editor of the liberal Texas
Observer magazine and ran i
pulist candidate. The! Wallace, was not up for re-
pair fought for the two I election.
Poerner, 48, was commis-
sion chairman, a job passed
among the three members.
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ABG Makes A Decision:
‘Family’Is Canceled
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The third member of the
commission, Mack
n
we were told they were not
going to go ahead with it,
“And, suddenly, there
was a turnaround and they
said they were going to do
it. Those first six episodes
(in spring 1976) did very
well. Then the network pro-
crastinated endlessly
before finally ordering fa-
full season’s! 22 episodes.
ABC programming ex-
ecutives, who axed “Fami-
ly" earlier this week, were
unavailable for comment
on the matter. Doubtlessly,
weak ratings will be offered
as the reason for "Fami-
ly’s” cancellation, although
it looks an awful lot like a
set-up. • ■_
apparently felt that'why.
Despite critical praise and
an audience that promised
to grow, ABC seemed bent
as
By PETER J. BOYER
AP Television Writer
LOS ANGELES <AP).-
“F.amiiy” fans, your strug- . . .. 1(l,__.. „
gle is finally over, the battle ion undermining Fami y*- -,
is lost.. ABC has won. Hwere
“Family," the drama that which disrupted the most
was too good for prime important factor m corn-
time, is canceled* - mercialtdevision, viewer
From the beginning, hablt, Ihere Were me
“Familv” has bad ’s dif- Period changes,
ficult time of it gJappiing And ABC refosed to renin
to stay alive in the face of “Family” du™8 thesum;
network ambivalence that JjM?"’ robblng the senes o
stunted -its growth and!.‘he chan^to attract new
eventually killed it. ' viewers, ^ifnmer reruns
The show first appeared have sav<?d the lives of
as a limited series in the severaI marginally, suc-
spring of 1976, a diamond in S,®s*fu^,lIshow®’ ‘"eluding
the rough at ABC, a quiet ®S JLou Grant and
thing of quality in a WbiteShadow
schedule thick with cops ^hy . , , .
and robbers and bouncy I think quite Rankly The World Almanac
fluff. “Family,” with its that the people at the net-
classy cast and thoughtful w°rk just didn t like the
writing, didn’t seem to fit in ® w> suay s N18 e 1
at ABC, the network whose McKeand, who as producer
success was owed to the of the-show until last year,
likeS of “Happy Days” and has reasdn to resent its be-
“Starsky and Hutch” and mg submarined.
“Welcome Back Hotter.” The people at ABC who
At least, ABC executives were pngmally responsible
for‘Family,’ one of whom
was Fred _ Si 1 verman
(ABC’s chief programmer
when the show began, now
president of NBC), left, and
their successors were just
left with the show. »
MoKeand and his wife,
writer Carol Evan
McKeand, were brought in
to .make a series of the Mike
Nichols-Jay Presson Allen?
pilot in 1975.
“ABC said they were
very unsure about it,”
McKeand recalls. “We did
six episode^ and there was
a lot of-epthusiasm from the
network about the scripts:
Then, at the last moment,
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years remaining on a six- ;
Chambers GOF
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Houston,
• Precinct 98 - Democrat, Johanna
Democrat, Bill Planter; Wilson; GOP, no election
GOP, Robert H. Ash. held.
• Precinct 99 — ‘Precinct 249 —
Democrat: Jack Hester 158 Democrat, Wilyne
votes; David Blanton 40 Laughlin; GOP, Jane- B.
votes. GOP: M.S. Lundy. Roberts.
. * Pr ec i n t L00 • Prectnct 2 5 0 —
Democrat, W.O. Tidmon; Democrat:, Jefferson D.
GOP, Jack Henderson. Walker 137 votes; Roland
»-P*r 6 c I n c t 101 - Leno Jr. 32 votes. GOP: no
Democrat: Mrs. S.V. Rob- candidate filed; no write-in
berson 126 votes; Charles votes.
Lensing 29. GOP: ho can- • P r e c i n c t 2 51 —
didate filed ; no write-in Democrat, Janies Mills; no
votes. ______
•Precinct 102
Democrat: Andy ContrerasiDemocra t: Charles
60 vbtes; Hortensia Jackson 99 votes; D.E.
Estrada 26 votes. GOP: Hamiter 81 votes; GOP:
Mary Pleasant. , Gary Jones, nine write-in
• P r ec i nc t 103 - votes.
Democrat, Mrs. W.A. ‘Precinct 307 -
Goodrich; GOP: no election Democrat, Adron Teel;
held. GOP; nocandidatefiled.no
• Precinct 14 0 - write-in votes.
Democrat: Marjie Kloesel • P rec i n c t 4 14 -
T57 votes; Eva ROriavides Democrat , Charles
30 votes. GOP: John Paul Albright. GOP; Bill
Crawford 58 votes; James
:‘Preclij-ct 16? 1'-fL.Hamm20votes.
Democrat, Troy Peterson; • P r e c i.n c t 4 5 6* -
Democrat: Joy A. Ralls I2l |
• Precinct 24 8 — votes; Dick Cooke 48 votes.!
"1 GOP, Michael McWilliams
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_________election held,
- ‘Precinct 3 86
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Stephenson Takes Chambers
Commissioner’s Victory .
at the Holiday Inn. Gene
Thomas of the Texas
Alcohol and Beverage Com-j
mission will speak. _____
Thiele Honored
MARK THIELE, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frederick W.
jThiele of 3603 Tompkins, • P r e e i n c t 6 3
ias been elected to the Tati
iBeta PJ^atienal Engineer- GOP.Busmjfrqcht
3ng Honor Society. He was • P r e c i net 96 -
judged on his distinguished Democrat, Roy Cu'tbirth;
'scholarship and exemplary j GOP, Harry Cier.
seharacter as an; •Precinct 97 -
^undergraduate at an Democrat, Robett Allen;
Engineering col'ege
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Bettis garnered the most
votes, 414, and Mendenhall
got 395. -
The breakdown of the
vote in the Precinct 3 race
was as follows:
—Precinct 1, Wallisville:
Stephenson 127, Knupple23.
-Precinct 2, Hankamer:
Stephenson 113, Knupple
., ANAHUAC (Sp) - E.B-
“Booster” Stephenson, in-
cumbent Chambers County
commissioner for Precinct
3. soundly defeated
challenger H.L. “Bull”
'Knupple in Saturday’s
Democratic Primary, by a
425-252 margin.
. In the east precinct com-
missioner’s race, incum-
bent Lee G. Mendenhall
will face challenger Ken-
neth GT Bettis in a runoff.
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Democrat, Dora Sciacca;
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Highlands, the two candidates tied with
15 votes each. „ , *
In the city, Bush netted 1,166 votes, 348
better than Reagan’s 818 ballots. There
. ; are 13 GOP'boxes in Baytown.' .•
Bush’s vote total corresponded to 58.1.
percent of the Baytown Vote to Reagan’s *
40.7 percent. Twenty-one Baytown
Republicans cast their ballots uncom-
mitted. - •
"In East Harris County, Bush dropped / 'X
to 54.9 percent with 1,592 votes, while .
Reagan’s 1,277 ballots upped his total to
44 percent.
Slightly more than one percent of East
Harris County Republicans cast their
ballots for uncommitted.
Slightly less less than a quarter of the
registered voters in Baytown cast
ballots in the two primaries. Figures in- ,
dicated 4,952 of the city’s 20,590 qualified
votersactually participated.
The city’s 24 percent turnout averaged
live percentage points better than that of
East Harris County. Some 7,128 of this
region’s 37,490 voters went to the polls
GOP, Sue Helbig
131
GOP. Gloria Holmelin
—Precihct 3, Double -
Bayou: Stephenson 96, j
Knopple39.
-Precinct. 9,i-
Stephenson 66, Knupple 48.
-Absentee: Stephenson,
23; Knupple, 11.
The final tally for the
other three candidates who
ran against Mendenhall
and Bettfs-m the Precinct 1,
race was as follows:
-Precinct 7, Winnie-
Stowell: Kenneth Crone
218,”C.C. Courtney 185 and
Rose C. Dubose 83.
-Absentee: Crone 1, Court-
ney 5, Dubose 2.
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wishes to announce the opening of
his office for the practice of ear
nose & throat & related head, neck
& facial plastic surgery.
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thnt they were going in
strictly to vote against
Eckhardt, reflecting the
feeling he is out of step with
the mainstream of this
district. People don’t want
a congressman who votes
against tax cuts, against
the control of energyv
against’voluntary prayer in
schools and for forced bus-
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Jolley’s strongest show-
ing was iq his hometown
box, Precinct 7, Winnie-
Stowell, but Morris shone
even there. Jolley got 480
votes to Pounds’ 166, but
Morris led with 601.
Morris said he was disap-
pointed in the turnout froth
the west side of the county
where he had had a strong
base of support throughout
the campaign. “Beautiful
weather. They went fishing,
I guess,’’ie said.
He said he was sure a
large turnout in the runoff
would be beneficial to him.
To the voters,, Morris
said, “I will be in contact
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We think our prospects
in November are excellent.
We have been running hard
♦ and full time since mid-
August and this was one of
the milestones. I believe the
focus in the Houston area
will be on our race.”
Eckhardt, who is seeking
his eighth term, has served with as many of you as
as the District 8 Con-
gressman for 14 years.
| Congressional District 8
♦ encompasses precincts in
East Harris County south of
HO in addition to North
I Harris County,
f East Harris voters in
♦ Congressional District 9
J Saturday reaffirmed their
! • Confidence in incumbent
^ U S. Rep. Jack Brooks of
Beaumont, giving him 685
ballots to the 263 for W.L.
“Bubba” Pate’ and 222 for
f JaCkBrookshire. —
4 I Brooks was the victor in
6 all East Harris boxes ex-
♦ cept Box 103 where Pate led
J by one vote.
In Chambers County Pate
shone with 1,835 votes to
Brooks’ 1,396. Brookshire
managed to get 302 votes
there. -
^ Brooks won his party’s
nomination to district-wide
votes without going into a
! runoff, and he has no
Republican opponent in
November.
The long arm of Congres-
sional District 9 extends out
from Jefferson County and
Chambers County into the
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