The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 266, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1986 Page: 1 of 16
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Volume 64, No. 266
Friday, Augunt 8, 1986
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Oil leaders
disagree on
impact of
OPEC cuts
Lanier vows to fight
By BRUCE GUYNN
Previously, when federal . plan and Lanipr said he would be
State highway commission funds for a project haven’t been ’* working on this plan Friday,
chairman Robert Lanier vowed immediately available, money Lewis may be harder to win
Friday to fight to save the has been borrowed from the over, according to Lanier "He
Baytown-La Porte bridge pro- state. However, this option is no (Lewis) still .Seems to be of the j
ject in the face of a proposal to longer available with the state point-of view that there stiouid be
trim $327 million in highway facing its current financial no new taxes,’’said Lanier
department funds. crisis, Lanier indicated. <■■■► * Lanier has indicated he sup-
“I’m going to push ft The Texas Legislature began a ports Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby’s plan
though,” Lanier, a Baytpwn ’ 30-day special session Wednes- to increase the motor fuels tax
native, said Fri-day to try to come up with ways by five cents to make up lost
day morning. of making up a $3 billion short- highway department revenue -'
L a n i e r fall in the current state budget Moreover. Lanier belief yes it kj
believesjhe pro- Speaker of the House Gib would cost' the»state's motorists
posed $ 1 Lewis has proposed to transfer in car repairs and traffic delays
million bridge is m-jbMK. VI *327 million from the highway if the scheduled projects are not
one of the safer department to the general fund started,
projects. But^BjE^^Hf Gov. Mark White has proposed The Baytown-La Forte bridge,
the start of to divert $301 million away from to be name^afte^onner Sun
project could be Hr .^1^ ™ the highway department.
delayed if both tAWIE* Lanier*,said he talked with replace the 30-year-old tunnel on|
state and federal funds aren’t White for about two hoursThurs- Highway JL46, _ .
imhiediately available, ac- day night and the governor in- A contract for the projec| is ‘
cording to Lanier. dicated he doesn’t want to expected to be awarded * in
He indicated federal funds Tor jeopardize any major highway November
a portion of the project are being projects,
held up while congressmen com-
pete for revenue for their chairman said White asked him said Friday hre has been working
favorite projects. aVto come up with an alternative (See LANIER, Page 7-A)
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DALLAS (AP) - Gasoline
prices at the pump have begun
rising as a result of the OPEC
agreement to cut production, but
oil industry leaders differ sharp-
ly on how much impact the
agreement will have.
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See related story, Page 8-A
CITY AND COUNTY officials urge Baytonlaos to clean areas
such as this and to remove items which hold stagnant water
and, therefore, aie good breeding grounds for Culex mos-
quitoes. Laboratory testing by the Harris County Mosqultg Con-
trol District has confirmed Culex mosquitoes In Baytown are
carrying St. Louis encephalitis. Officials also urge Baytonlans
to restrict early evening outdoor activities. The peak biting
period of the Culex mosquito is during the first hour or so after
(Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
Vic Rasheed, executive, direc-
tor of the Service Station
Dealers of America, an industry
group, said the move could
result in gasoline prices return-
ing to $1 levels by the end of
August.
“This could have a far-
reaching and very sharp effect,”
Rasheed said.
However, in Houston regular
leaded gasoline is selling as low
as 61 cents a gallon, and industry
analyst Russell Heinen said
gasoline prices wi(l .be slow to
respond to any increase in world
crude oil prices.'
The price of crude oil is a big
factor in the price of gasoline,
but other supply and' demand
factors must be considered, he
said. •
publisher Fred Hartman, will
dusk.
Encephalitis in local
mosquitoes confirmed
State Sen> Gene Green, who
The highway department represents the Baytown area,
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EPA gives Sikes solution
Incineration of toxic waste recommended
By DAVID MOHLMAN
Final confirmation tests on Thursday showed St. Louis ence-
phalitis, also called sleeping sickness, was present as suspected
among mosquitoes recently trapped in-Baytown storm sewers.
Three litters of newborn mice became sick Wednesday after
being injected Tuesday with liquid produced from Culex mos-
quitoes taken from Baytown. Final confirmation came Thurs-
day when further tests on the sick mice showed positive results, •-
according to Norm Gruenzner, Harris County Mosquito Control
administrative assistant.......
Each litter of mice wds injected with liquid produced from
particular sample of Culex mosquitoes, which can carry SLE.
Two litters were injected with liquid from mosquitoqe trapped
at the corner of Illinois and Oklahoma, said Gruenzner. The
other litter became sick from the liquid of mosquitoes taken
from the corner of First and Hunnicutt, he said,
, Samples from the intersections of Maryland and Louisiana,
West Gulf and South Whiting and East Gulf and Fifth also, dur-
ing preliminary lab tests, indicated the likelihood of St. Louis
(See MOSQUITO, Page 7-A)
“I would be surprised if
gasoline moved up more than a
few cents,” Heinen told the
Dallas Times Herald. •...•
Ben Brockwell, editor of a
Washington-based industry
___newsletter, the Oil Price In-
formation Serviee, said Thurs-
day that gasoline will cost
a nickel'io 10 cents more by
Labor Day. depending upon the
region of the country.
‘You stand a chance to see a
'uniform 75 cents to 80 cents, with
prices below that becoming ob*
(See OIL, Page 7-A)
By DONNA PURDY 1983,1084 and 1985, said Alex On- est imated i i7 m illion gallons of "
CROSBY — On-site incinera- janow. project officer for the® surface wafer 70 000 cubic
tion of contaminated soils and TWC at the Sikes site yards ol sludge 80.000* cubic
a sludges on . the Sikes Waste Jhe TWC reports revealed yards of soil and and 600 drums
Disposal Dump at a cost of $90 th’at a number of dangerous con- o; waste exist on the site, to
million was recommended by taminants were located within said
the. Environmental Protection the boundaries of the 20-acre plot Companies that used t he Ian ;
Agency at a public meeting of land in the 1060s and-early 70s as a
Thursday night in Crosby. Styrenes, PCBs and a number chemical dump site have.been
Approximately-20 of the 150 of organic tars were identified identified by 'the EPA. and are
citizens at the meeting address- on the site bordered by the San being approached about pro-" „ .
ed the panel, which included Jacinto River and U.S. Highway viding for the funding of the
EPA officials,1 a h.ealth and 90 — one mile from the Crosby cleanup, Ediund said
disease specialist and members Middle and High schools Details of the six alternative''
of the Texas Water Commission. “You can taste it, You can ,, were presented with.positive and
who conducted the environment smell it when you drive by it,” a negative points, but all took into
tal studies of the site. ~ ; man commented in the au- consideration that the site was a
9 The projected cleanup time for dience. - flood-prone.area
the total incineration of the con- ’’The contamination includes \ Although Ediund made it clear '
taminated materials was four specijic. areas of soil, that it was no! a formal hearing
0 estimated at five years by sludge, overflow area and a tank or a courtroom for cross-exami-
Marilyn Piitnik, engineer, and lake, Onjanow said An (See EXPERTS, Page 7-A)
project manager for EPA on the -
BEIRUT, Lebanon (AP) — An 110 pounds of explosives and had Firefighters controlled the Sikes site,
explosive-packed brown Fiat left been parked in front of Al- blaze in the two apartment A final decision on the cleanup
behind by a young blonde Bashaer apartment building by buildings after two hours. Twen- alternative selected by the EPA
woman blew up today at a a woman about 25 years old, who ty cars were reduced to piles of.....can be expected by mid-,
crowded shopping area ‘ in apparently left the scene before charred and twisted metal. September, said Carl Ediund.
Moslem west Beirut, killing 17. the bomb went off. Detached utility cables dangles chief of the Superfund program
people and wounding 83, police Hospitals broadcast urgent ap- from poles. » for the Dallas regional branch of
peals for bjpod donations to treat Four charred bodies were the EPA.
The attack, for which there the casualties. * brought out of a burned car,
responsibility, was the third The blast, which came just, among them a baby. Onlookers given, Piitnik recommended the
deadly car bombing in the before noon in Tarik Jedideh sobbed when the infant’s body, on-site incineration for its com-
Lebatrese capital in less than two district, scarred the facades of fists clenched, was laid on a pleteness and future finality to.
Al-Bashaer and another seven- stretcher. eliminating toxic waste
Police had earlier reported 25 story apartment building: A Glass Jjishards littered the Recognized as- a priority
people killed, but issued the cor- dozen shops on the buildings’ streets aWash with water from cleanup site for the federally and
rection after double-checking ground floors were demolished, fire engine hoses. privately funded Superfund, the
with various hospital morgues. their contents strewn over a 100- Syrian and Lebanese troops, Sikes site was tested by the
They said the Fiat contained yard radius. , (See CAR, Page 7-A) ........Texas Water Commission in
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Gar bomb explodes, kills 17
wounds #3 in west Beirut
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Reverse psychology
Dailas philosopher and great
writer Blackie Sherrod remem-
bers that when a child ysed to be
out of sorts his parents dished
out a through of purgatives.
Nowadays they hire a $100 an
hour psychiatrist.
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Committee to recommend usage of grant funds
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By BRUCE GUYNN development planner for the ci- these funds to start an economic ~ been supported by the Area v
The Baytown Community ty, said 22 homes of low and development loan program. Agency on Aging and the city's
Development Advisory Commit- moderate income families would After a lengthy discussion, the federal revenue sharing fundi'* *
tee Thursday agreed to recom- be rehabilitated with $250,000 in committee voted to table action However, these two funding
mend the expenditure of $663,000 funds. on this proposal until the 1987-88 sources are no longer available
in-Community Development Applications for housing funding year. Fletcher described the taxi
block grant funds for housing rehabilitation iunds may be sub- Committee members Lee Drogram providing reduced or '
rehabilitation, street and milted to Fletcher’s office on the Haywood and Ruben DeHoyos free rides for senioucitizens as 1
drainage improvements and the second floor of-the City Hall An- said they didn’t have enough in- .. popular ” ' I
senior citizens’ taxicab prd- nejeat 220 W. Defee (old post of- formation about the program to " . . . . , . ^ ^ I
fiee*building) between 8 a m. approve it at this time. senior cSns aT^ransDOTted !
.. Fletcher said similar pro- ^ cjtlzens are transponea i
to the doctor, to the grocery -I
store or some, other location I
under
noted.
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The committee is recommen- and 5 p m. weekdays,
ding the expenditure of $250,000 The streets being considered gr$£is have been successful in
Northeast and on the West
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GENE LEBLANC II and Joey
Weiblen work hazardous duty
Jeff Hutchins limbers up his
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for housing rehabilitation; for improvement with block “
another $250,000 for street and grant funds are Oak. Yupon and Coast;
drainage improvements; and Elm. The program would involve
$60,000 for the taxi program. A decision on which of these making low interest loans The city was allocated $801.000
A total of $94,000 would be streets will be upgraded with available to individuals wanting lrl Community Development
designated for program ad- these funds will be made later. to establish businesses in Block Grant f unds for the cur-
ministration while $9,000 would Fletcher indicated Oak is the Baytown. rent funding veai
be placed in contingency. street most urgently in need of For the first time, community Baytown is receiving less fun-
These recommendations will improvement. development funds have been ding for the coming year
be submitted to Baytown City The committee chose to use proposed to fpance the senior because of cuts in the program
Council for approval, • $250,000 for street and drainage citizens* taxi *
Jerry Fletcher, community improvements rather than use
--WEATHER--
MOSTLY FAIR skies with a
low in the mid-70s are predict-
ed for Friday night. Satur-
day’s forecast calls for partly
cloudy skies with a 20 percent
chance of thundershowers and
a high in the low 90s. In the 24-
hour period ending at 8 a m
Friday, the recorded low was
75 degrees and the high was 95
degrees. «
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Willadene Hines views the
Statue"mf Liberty celebration
from a Smithsonian Tour Ship
.. . Jessie Bender visits in New
Jersey and New York the week
of July 4 .. . Katherine, Yates
does some redecorating ...
Mark and Mack Meigs conduct
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 266, Ed. 1 Friday, August 8, 1986, newspaper, August 8, 1986; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1152751/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.