The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 133, Ed. 1 Monday, April 6, 1987 Page: 1 of 16
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OTTAWA (AP)
President
Reagan and Canadian Prime
Minister Brian Mulroney are
showing little sign they’ll reach
quick agreements on trade, en-
vironmental and defens! issues
u while renewing ties at their third
annual summit. " \
“We like each other,” Reagan
■ beamed Sunday when asked the
significance of.4the meeting,
scheduled to keep Reagan in the
Canadian capital for a little over
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AMSTERDAM, N.Y. (AP)
Resellers recovered three he said
bodies, but swirling, muddy
water Monday kept-them from through extensive rehabilitation
.reaching an unknown number of about $wo years ago and was
others missing after an in- deemed in good condition in its
terstate highway bridge cojlaps- last inspection, in April 1986.
ed, spilling gt least four vehicles
into a rain-swollen creek.
“It’s too high, too fast and too Thruway, is expected to have a
dirty,” state police Maj. Edward major impact on the area’s
Vanderwall said Late Sunday
span, and that’s disconcerting,’
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Officials said the span went
The collapse, which forced the
closing of a bout 25 miles of the
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——On the issues, however:
—Reagan warned that it will*
take “much hard bargaining” to
reach a free trade agreement
between the two countries, and
that “setting the goals is ...
easier than achieving them.”
—The president’s spokesman.
Marlin Fitzwater, said the ad-
ministration has nothing new to
offer on the acid rain issue in
response to Mulroney’s proposal
that the two countries try ham-
mering out a treaty to reduce
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—Mulroney said, Canada will
, stand by .its insistence on
sovereignty over the Northwest
. Passage, declaring. “W„eown it,
lock, stock and icebergs.” The
United States seeks the right of
transit for its warships through
the passage.
Spokesmen for both sides said
no substantial agreements were
expected.
But Reagan and Mulroney met
for 35 minutes Sunday, longer
than had been expected, ig front
of a crackling fire ih thedrawing
room of Rideau Harll, the
T- residence of Canadian Governor
General Jeanne Sauve.
trucking industry. Drivers will
The search was to resume at have to take detours of up to 20
miles on secondary roads
Up to 400 feet of the New York throughrolling countryside.
State Thruway bridge collapsed Thruway spokesman. Ray-
Sunday near this town 35 miles mond Makay said replacement
west of Albany. At least, three of a bridge usually takes two
cars and a tractor-trailer plung- years but that authorities would
ed 80 feet Into 4he Schoharie try to speed up work on a new
Creek. span.
“I saw a-big monster splash, a
thunderous ’’’roar,”*' said B^f
King, a volunteer firefighter.
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About 25,000 vehicles cross the
BEEF COOKOFF CHAMPS
■j*ge in a typical 24-hour period
of meavy traffic, a thruway of-
“This is something totally ficial said. The thruway. runs
beyond the scope of what you from the New York City area
think of,” said state police north to Albany, then west to the
spokesman Robert Armet. ‘‘You Buffalo area,
can’t believe this would hap
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DOUGH BELLY and the Dough Boys, spon- Fair and Rodeo Grounds., Representing the
sored by Baytown Oil Sales, are the winners of team are, Terry Scarborough, left, and David
the beef division of the second annual Baytown Smith, head cook.
World Championship Barbecue Cookoff. The
event was held Saturday at the Baytown Youth
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
State police late Sunday said
water was being held back at a
dam 30 miles upstream ih hopes
of lowering the water level so
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Results from area school
board races tabulated
Barbers Hill voters elect Henry Adair,
Charles T. Joseph to trustee posts
Rescuers have located three
vehicles. Victims’ identities . „ . ......
were withheld Spending notifies- hat rescue workers could spot
the vehicles at daybreak and
sencLdivers and helicopters in a
search for bodies. '
tion of relatives, said Mon
tgomerv County Sheriff’s Depu
ty Fred Overrocker
Armet said there
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were no Cadillac, and two smokestacks
signs of survivors and the believed that of the tractor-
possibility of finding any “would trailer cab could be seen above
seem very remote.” water about a quarter-mile
.Gov. Mario Cuomo, who went downstream, said^ Vanderwall. .
to the scene Sunday afternoon, whose unit patrols the roadway
said there was no evidence of as part of Interstate 90. ^ ■ r
any defect-in the 31-year-old, The collapse prompted an im-
concrete and steel girder bridge, mediate inspection of the .819
“We don’t know precisely bridges on or,over the 559-mile
what1 caused the collapse of the Thruwav. 1 .
Reagan was to meet Monday
with John Turner, leader of „ • ....
Mulroney’s parliamentary op- Barbers Hill School Board, as terms on the board for a total of Thomas, 46. a self-employed
position, and then resume his the result of Saturday’s election. 18'years. businessman, lost with 693 votes,
meetings with the prime has a new trustee along with a A total of 417 votes were cast. ■> ANAHUAC
minister before delivering a veteran board member return- CROSBY " In the Position 4 race,, Joe
speech to Parliament and flying ing for another term. Voters cast .a total of 1.874 Martin. 44,-postmaster at the
back to Washington. -;— ballots to re-elect both in- Nederland branch of the U.S
_ . . , See related story, Page 5-A cumbents. Postal Service, defeated incum-
1 ruck plunges into —--— -—t— Position 1 incumbent Earl bent James D. Matthews, 54, of
In elections in the Crosby and Boykin} 54. purchasing manager E&M Greenhouses Inc., who was
river* niissTnff Anahuac school districts, -IU|'in- for Mustang Tractor and Equip- seeking his sixth tefm on the
live ? . 8 cumbents were the victors. ment Co., was re-elected tp a board. ' ’ •/
i , , BARBERS HILL third term with 1,195 votes. Martin received 234 votes to
driver SOUgtlt Henry D Adair. 46. a self- Challenging Boykin, was Matthews^,205.
HIGHLANDS — Harris Coun employed businessman, won former trustee Sharon Also in the Position 4 race. 85
ty sheriff’s deputies are search- Position 4 with votes. Ale Bamberger 42, a housewife,- write-in votes were cast for-Mike
ine for the driver of a DickuD defeated incumbent Bruce E. with 665 vqtes: Ms. Bamberger Kubik and 10 for Gene Nelson,
frock that nlnneed into the San Ernst, 51, a welder for Romar was defeated in April 1986 in a Unopposed Position 3 incum-
Jacinto River afthe dead end of Pipe and Rail Co. Ernst, who bid for a second term on the b^t^ie ^D. Fohtenot 40,
Waiiisvilie Road was seeking hissecond term in , board. -■ v. ‘ manager of safety and health at-
nenntip<5 said thp truck was office, received 205 votes. A total of 1.181 votes' gave Barojd^rqducts. was returned
eaSvndrinthe road about 1-30 Incumbefft Charles T. Joseph Position 2 inc«mbent } .Mike to a^#i^erm with 368 vote?.
i riceTarmer,. ran unop-;-Hargrave, 41,;a job^uperinten- G|n|
occurred ^ posed for Positioij 3, receiving dent at Brown and Root. a. se- invotes
Two passengers, a 23.year-old 323AVOtes- He has served six cond term on the board. Joshua
r man and a 17-year-old woman,
escaped from the truck and
swam to safety, deputies said.
•, The truck was later located in
about 25 feet of water but the
driver was not found.
Divers were called in Sunday
to assist in the search. The Baytown Parks and The name of the subject, and
.Names of the driver and the Recreation Department' will' the name, address and phone
passengers were not available begin accepting entries for the number of the photographer
from the sheriff’s office. city’s seventh annual Mother’s must be • attached to the
Day photo contest on April 20. photograph.
According to Mary .Kay jrirst; second- and third-place
Fischer, 'recreation specialist winners Will be awarded gift cer-
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MOSTLY CLOUDY skies are
expected«for both Monday
night and Tuesday.- A low •
temperature in the row 40s is
forecast for Monday night and
a high in the low 60s is forecast
for Tuesday. From 8 a m. Sun-
5-A * day tg Sa-.fn. Monday, a low of
46 degrees and a-'high of 7$ ■"
degrees were recorded.
Recorded rainfall was .34 of an
inch.
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- WJtlr aH the extended—Department, entries will he ac-
guarantees and warranties on cepted through May S and win-
new cars, now all you have to ners will be published in The
worry about are the monthly Sun’s Mother’s Day edition on
payments. . May 10. -
The eontest is open to all
amateur photographers. Color
slides and prints, and black-and-
white prints of any sizefare eligi-
ble for entry. Contestants may
enter as many timesr a? they
wish, Fischer said.
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the City of Baytown, Parks and
Recreation Department, P.0,
Box *24, Baytown 77520 or
delivered in person between 8
a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays to the
parks office at the Baytown
Community Building, 2407
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CHAMBER HONOREES
BOB ECKHART, former . . . ,
Democrat congressman, is nep. Jack Kemp to seek nomination
retorted to b^ improving after ■
.suffering a stroke. He is a pa- ■, WASHINGTON (AP)- Rep. leading advocate of federal tax
tient in George Washington Jack Kemp, declaring “There cuts, opened his campaign with _.m_ chamnan of the Baytown High School; Becky Barrios,RSS; ’Anja Graewe
, University Hospital in are no limits to our future, pledges to resist any tax in- chamber of commerce environmental commit- and Gudnrn Haas, Robert E. Lee High School
Washington, D.C. Monday entered the race for the creases and to deploy a missile tee center Dre^tsawunteM excellence to joint project
Peggy Mitchell complimented 1988 Republican presidential defense system as soon as possi- * * v^n^fromi^District Science Fair. Winners
* on a pretty dress ... Dr. Ralph -wanination! Me.-„ ......... ^ from left, Stacy Clancy, Roes S. Sterling
Dittman busy making a The former professional foot- y
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 133, Ed. 1 Monday, April 6, 1987, newspaper, April 6, 1987; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1152869/m1/1/: accessed June 22, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.