The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 056, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 4, 1984 Page: 3 of 59
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Wednesday, January 4, 1934
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Chambers Can ‘Operate’ Despite Cuts
Three Boys Drown In
Partially Frozen Pond
By DAVID BYFORD »
ANAHUAC — Despite a reduc- realistically,” said Mrs. Turner
ed budget, which is intended to
bring about tighter constraints on
departmental spending,
Chambers County’s judge says
the county “will continue to pro-
vide services for the people.”
“I feel Chambers County will be
able to go ahead and operate but
there cannot be any excessive
spending,” said County Judge
Alma Lois Turner Tuesday after-
noon.
I’ve tried to hold our budget down year period, ending in 1990, ac- “We implemented federal
cording to a survey compiled for floodplain regulations,” she said,
the Houston-Galveston Area “and although we did have
Council by Rice Center, a damages from Hurricane Alicia,
research group affiliated with we came out in pretty good
shape.”
The county’s loss of revenues in
1983 stems from three factors: the
GRAND PRAIRIE (AP) -
had been wet and was frozen,”
Two sixth grade boys and an Anderson told the Dallas Morn-
eighth grader, described by ingNews.
one of their teachers as
inseparable,” headed for a Prairie fire department
neighborhood frozen pond on recovered the bodies of the two
their last day of freedom other boys from about five feet
before returning to school after of water. A spokesman for the
the holiday break. Dallas County medical ex-
By late afternoon Monday, aminer’s office said the two
they still ' hadn’t returned, boys had drowned,
however, and parents of both An autopsy was scheduled
boys began a hunt. Theyt were Wednesday on Barnes’ body,
found dead the nextday. Police said Kevin Barnes ap-
Kevin Barnes, 12, was found parently escaped from the
frozen to death on the bank of pond, but was too cold to crawl
the 35-foot-wide pond, about for help and died on the bank.
5:30 a.m. Tuesday.^ An hour Gaylord Hayes, Grand
later, a helicopter pilot flying Prairie crime analysis officer,
over the pond spotted the said the ice had begun to thaw
bodies of Woody Anderson Jr..
12, and Eddie Ray Thomas, 14,
who was Barnes' stepbrother,
under the ice.
depletion of oil reserves on
county-owned lands, the
disastrous atmosphere of farming Continued growth is expected to
in the county and stressed West be seen in West Chambers County
Chambers County industry, said because of its proximity to heavi-
Mrs. Turner. ly populated and industrialized
Mrs. Turner said, “It’s a sound Harris County and in East
county, though, with not so much Chambers County because of its
unemployment because much of nearness to Beaumont and Port
the county remains independent Arthur,
from the industries.”
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Rice University
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A scuba diver with the Grand
Other important occurrences in *
1983 included the hiring of an in-
dependent auditing fftm,
Lawrence, Blackburn and Cavett
and Co., to audit county records
and the beginning of a renovation
program in the county courthouse
which will include using the old
Mrs. Turner mentioned several jail area in the courthouse for ad-
However, industry does figure points that marked 1983, which in- ditional office space. Also, an
in the county’s expanded growth, eluded the completion and dedica- elevator shaft will be built to com-
, “We did have a tax increase (as with the population expected to tion of a new jail and a newly built >ply with laws requiring access for
called for in 1984’s budget) but rise about 36 percent over a 10- community building in Winnie. the handicapped.
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“We’re still a very fortunate
county with a good, sound tax
base. We will continue to provide
services for the people.
Informal Consent Granted
Liberty Wants To Lease Building For Police
at the edges of the pond, but
was >4 of an inch to 1 inch thick
at thecenter. / ;■■■ ' -;
The boys apparently were
“They were playing on the playing about 15 feet from the
ice and fell through,” police bank when they fell through,
dispatcher Debbie Ware sai
said his officers don't have posing to lease its first floor for five-year lease on the building
$12,000 annually, providing the ci- with an option of extending it five
The Liberty Police Department ty pays for the remodeling of the more years after it expires.
By BRUCE GUYNN
LIBERTY — Liberty City Coun- enough space to work
cil Tuesday informally consented
to pursue plans to lease a building currently has 11 officers, four interior
for the police department
Hayes said
Since the Liberty Police
_ , . , Department confines criminal of-
Councilmen are expected to ror- humane officer and a clerk, acr estimated it would cost the city fenders in the nearby county jail,
mally approve the proposal at . cording to Chief Fred Clements. between $20,000 and $30,000 to no provision would have to be /
their regular meeting next week. *’Councilmen are considering renovate the interior of the macje for prisoners in the
City officials are considering moving the police department to building to suit the needs of the building,
leasing a building at the intersec- the first floor of 3,500-square-foot police departmenC
tion of,-Sfim Houston and Main building at Main and Sam The building would serve as
streets to alleviate crammed con- Houston streets. City Coun- quarters for the police depart- ^modeling work could begin in
ditions in the police department’s cilwoman Sandra Pickett said the jnent until funds are availabla4o about two.xnontns and the police
present location. building is the former site of Grif- provide other accommodations. ^»aePartment could be in its new
The department has been fin’s Drug Store and is about 60 “This is not a time we want to 9ua“ers ln S1X months, said
located in a 1,400-square-foot years old. get involved in a capital' im- Farker-
building adjacent to City Hall for City Manager Roy N. Bennett provements program,” said
the past 12 years. said First Liberty National Bank, Parker.
Police Chief Fred Clements the owner of the building, is pro-
"He (Barnes) was crawrfhg ^Anderson said Tie. had never
across thejield. He did freeze warned his son about playing
to death. ” on the frozen pondf because he
Police said the pond is in an didn’t know one was in the
undeveloped area that is fields, which are about ‘4 mile
overgrown, with weeds and south of the neighborhood both
brush. families live in.
‘They just went out to play. I
one of the victims, said he and didn’t know there was a pond
his wife searched for hours there. Woody had never men-
Monday night without finding tionedit,"Andersonsaid. ‘
any trace of their son. Kevin Barnes and‘Woody
“We went out walking all Anderson Jr. were in the §ixth
night. We went to his friends' grade and Eddie Thomas was
houses. I drove the car through in the eighth grade of Robert
the fields but couldn't see E. Lee Middle School in Grand
anything. The other boys' Prairie, a suburb west of
father left work, and we drove Dallas. Speech teacher Bill
to the pond. There, we found Bunch described the three boys
his baby boy on the bank. He as inseparable.
Mayor C.. Scott Parker
dispatchers, two, seeretarles, a
new
If councilmen approve the plan,
Woody Anderson, father of
“I’m excited about the idea of
getting them out of the sardine
City officials are proposing a can,” said Parker.
Dayton Hires Law Firm To Collect Late Taxes
By LOUISE SHAW Upon the recommendation of members that the proposed
DAYTON — Council voted City Attorney Neal Iverson and J.
unanimously to hire the law firm Rice, administrator for the city’s
of Gates, Steen and Associates of Community Development funds,
Austin to collect the city’s delin- council voted to sign a contract
quent taxes. with the Texas Department of
City Manager Louis Neumeyer Community Affairs to receive
told council members Tuesday $415,000 in federal monies for im- with about $150,000 more
night the city has about $80,000 in., .-pravement-projects in the city. —
outstanding taxes. The city
‘What I’m saying is that we
sewage-treatment plant would might have to adjust the rates to
cost the city, approximately pay for it, ” Neumeyer said.
$223,000 per year. He said the city
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Deaths & Funerals
“We don’t have a choice ac-.
was paying a yearly figure of cording tQ the state lVs that or
$78,000 and would have to come up face a fine,” Councilman Gene
Bartholomew said.
*RACIA
Services /or Blunco ai Lee College.
An com -Gracia,--IS, of—--.-Sw vivmg are kgrpar-
Buyrown, . will be ai I enls, Mr. and Mrs. Fron-
years end was a student Burial will be at
Cedarcresl Cemeiery.
The proposed plan calls for the
Pallbearers will be should be able to collect about upgrading of the Beauty Street
p.m. Thursday at Our cisco E, Gracia of Bay. ' Frank Gracia Jr., Joe $50,000 without putting an ex- area, which will affect 562 people.
Lady of Guadalupe town, two sisters, Martinet, Jerry' San- cessive burden on property Tentative plans call for installa-
eburch with the Rev. Guadalupe Garcia and =chet. Bionico De La Pat owners, Neumeyer said. tion of 7,300 linear feet of 6-inch
N icolas Gomez of- Mary Jane Martinez, and Ricky and Jerry ..... The city manager aaidthe firm—9Cwer line, 26 manholes and~66
both o/ Baytown; “a Galvan. had agreed to collect the past-due service connections and the lay-
brother, Francisco revenues for 15 percent of collec- ing of 1,900 linear feet of 3-inch
water line. The program also
He said the law firm was highly calls for concrete streets with
recommended; with Hardin, vopen ditches to be constructed on
Lee Funeral Home Liberty and Anahuac school Beauty and West Linney streets,
districts using the firm
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/iciating.
Miss Gracia died
Tuesday in a Baytown-
hospital.
A rosary will bt con
ducted at 8 p.m
Guadalupe Espinoza of Wednesday ,at Raul U
Baytown; and two
Gracia Jr. of Baytown; a
grandmother, Mrs.
tions
t ~ A native of Kingsville,
she lived in Baytown 19
Neumeyer said to council
aunts.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 056, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 4, 1984, newspaper, January 4, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153209/m1/3/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.