The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 166, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 12, 1992 Page: 1 of 19
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Parent/teacher groups meeting throughout month
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Volume 70, No. 166
Tuesday, May 12, 1992
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Baytown, Texas 77520
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Creel named RSS principal
By Betsy Ciaggett
of The Baytown Sun
; Native Baytonian
Jimmy Creel — who
left the Goose Creek
'school district less
than a year ago to
accept a job as prin-
cipal at Barbers Hill
High School — will
be returning to Ross
S. Sterling High
School.
; Trustees Monday agreed to hire
Creel to serve as principal of Sterling,
education specialist at the Region II
Service Center in Corpus Christi. Her
estimated annual salary will be about
$57,600.
Dr. Ann Weiss, who works with Re-
gion IV, has been hired to fill the newly
created position of director of student
acceleration. With 20 years experience,
her estimated annual salary will be just
under $60,000.
Kenneth Emery, who has served as
director of vocational education in Paris
for the last eight years, will serve as
vocational administrator. His estimated
annual salary will be about $51,000.
succeeding Ed Wachtel who is retiring School, and from 1989 to 1991, was as-
at the end of the 1991-92 school year, sistant principal at Sterling High
Creel, 40, has a lengthy history with School,
the Goose Creek school district. A gra- He left Goose Creek last July to suc-
duate of the Robert E. Lee High School ceed former principal A1 Dennis, who
Class of 1970, he later began his career had been promoted to superintendent at
in education as a life science teacher Barbers Hill. Dennis and Creel had
and assistant coach at Horace Mann Ju- worked together for nearly eight years
nior School. in the football program at Sterling.
From 1976 to 1987, Creel was em- "I’m real excited about the opportun-
ployed at Sterling High School, work- ity, but I regret leaving a fine student
ing his way up to varsity offensive line body, a fine staff and my good friend
coach and to chairman of the science A1 Dennis,” Creel said.
He added that he will finish the
From 1987 to 1989, Creel served as school year in Mont Belvieu and tie up
assistant principal at Baytown Junior loose-ends before starting at Sterling.
Salary information was not available,
according to Jerry Roy, Goose Creek
personnel director.
In other personnel action Monday,
trustees approved Superintendent Harry
Griffith’s recommendation to promote
teacher Brenda Dykes to principal at
Travis Elementary. She will succeed
Jepp Busch, who is also retiring at the
end of the school year.
Ruby Payne, an elementary school
principal in Illinois, has been hired to
serve as director of staff development, a
new position in the district.
Ms. Payne has 18 years of experience
in education, including two years as an
Jimmy Craal
department.
Dutton to serve
as MB judge, too
Nettles
battin’ a
thousand
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Mayor’s dual roles questioned
Barry Nettles brought
his baseball bat to the
school board meeting
Monday night, saying he
was ready to beat “the two-
headed snake” into the
ground.
The monstrous creature
; to which he was referring
was the proposed 1992-93
i school calendar.
Several versions of the
calendar had been brought
forth and revamped over
the last few months be-
cause of rain delays in the
construction of the new
elementary school. Also,
school officials needed to
work in eight days for staff
development.
Trustees voted 6-1 to ap-
prove the calendar. Trustee
Lowell Hildebrand voted
against the approval, citing
his opposition tQ the trade-
off of instructional days for
staff development.
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By Greg Kahn
of The Baytov/n Sun
Council needs to
move very quickly
on this separation
MONT BELVIEU
sun set Monday evening, Joe
Dutton began the Mont Belvieu
City Council meeting as the new of powers issue,
mayor, he left the new city
complex in the waning hours of
the night as municipal judge as
well.
As the
Neal Iverson
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this separation of powers issue,
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That unusual development he said,
was the highlight of an eventful
four-hour meeting.
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In other business, council
decided not to advertise for
Dutton will serve as acting employees to operafe the new
municipal judge because K.P. city driving range. Both Coun-
Tumer is no longer qualified to oilman Arthur Barrow, who
serve in this position because he voted to approve the range, and
fives in Pasadfina, according to Councilman Vernon Kemp, who
f documents produced by the cast the only dissenting vote at a
i'J - mayor and City Administrator previous council meeting,
Ruthie Sager. Turner, who was expressed concern about the
not available for comment, has location of the range,
been living 25 miles from Mont Dutton said he supported the
Belvieu since at least Feb. 11. idea of a golfing facility but
In office since May 1990, “had a problem” with the cur-
Turner’s appointment was rent location next to the mainte-
effective through the end of nance building. After Dutton’s
former Mayor Fred Miller’s comments, Richardson pre-
term in office. Miller’s term sented a motion to advertise for
ended this week. employees to operate the range
Upon the announcement of but it never received a second.
Dutton’s new duties, Council-
man Carrell Richardson said he
would like to “advertise (the
position) like any other job” in
the hopes of getting as many
qualified applicants as possible.
City Attorney Neal Iverson
then expressed concern over „ . , . .
Dutton assuming both executive wefi approved last month, but
and judicial .-duties. “Council now we’ll just have to wait and
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Gerry Kelley does some gardening in her yard on Kilgore Road. According to Mrs. Kelley,
who has lived at this home for 50 years, she works hard to keep up her yard, even though
she admits, “I don’t have a green thumb.”
Controversy ends in compromise
“I think it’s something we’re
not going to give up on,” Dutton
said after the meeting.
“Well, I’m not about to go
out and buy me a driver,”
Richardson said later with a
laugh. “(The range) was pretty
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Brig officer dispute settled
Around town.
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instead of the updated form. . ...
Those older forms indicated a slightly different needs t0 move very quickly on
method for officer selection and led to some • j • a. '
A controversy over procedures used in the confusion, Griffith said. 11AUC GQ1UO QTTOT1
selection of officers to the Robert E. Lee High After the officers for the 1992-93 school year JL UolWUllo iSUlllv CtltCl
School Brigadiers was settled Monday in a were announced, a dispute arose. The dispute was —#
compromise. compounded when Lee High School officials IVI ft [\] o i y» VniP rPPPIIll l
Trustees unanimously supported Superintendent offered a compromise. 1 dll. VUbv 1 vvUUllb
Hairy Griffith’s recommendation that the original
slate of Brig officers be confirmed and that two process used to select officers would have com- McNAIR — Vernon Doucet, Phillip Fretty and Bessie Pa*3 re-
feature twirlere be appointed for the 1992-93 pounded the situation. Therefore, he recom- tained their new positions on the board of Harris County Fresh Wa-
school year. mended the addition of two feature twirler ter Supply District 1A after a recount Monday, but several McNair
“I feel the Brig has an opportunity to pull positions for the 1992-93 school year only. residents have vowed to continue their fight against the way the
together,” Griffith said. He urged Bng officers About 50 to 75 members of the Brig showed up election was nandled.
^members to pull together in support of the at ^ Monday night meeting, dressed in day According to water district administrator Debora Thomas, nearly
STW« Vfo „„ai Pcmntriac that outfits and maroon ribbons in a show of support 150 votes were cast in the election and 19 candidates received votes
“wSVSrf mfsSie iSrheSldS for ^ ori8inal slate of officers chosen. About20 m *e election, wh.ch was conducted on an entirely write-in basis,
we re all part of the same team, he told the .. . attend Bennie McGrnty, a member of the board, admitted yesterday the
students. auo attended. polls did not open until approximately 11:30 a.m. May 2, four and a
Griffith explained that the controversy arose The students had also submitted two petitions half hours after they were supposed to open. McNair residents Char-
after an application used several years ago was — one signed by students and the other by ies ePPs and Adolphus Williams have lead a challenge to the elec-
mistakenly sent out to some potential Brig officers parents. tion because of alleged improprieties in the way it was conducted.
By Betsy Ciaggett
of The Baytown Sun
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WEATHER
TUESDAY NIGHT: Partly
cloudy with 20 percent
chance of rain, low In low
70s. Wednesday: Mostly
cloudy, high near 90.
From 8 a.m. Monday to 8
a.m. Tuesday, high of 82,
low of 73.
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County treasurer to be guest
Murder trial resumes
more and
more difficult to support
the government in the
style to which it has be-
come accustomed.
It is
HIGH-
LANDS —
Harris
County Trea-
surer Katy
Caldwell wifi
Ms. Caldwell is a board mem-
ber and vice chairwoman of the
Harris County Women’s Politi-
A former financial analyst cal Caucus. She is also a mem-
and manager of an investment ber of the Public Affairs Corn-
department at a financial institu- mittee for Planned Parenthood, a
tion, Ms. Caldwell has also been board member of the Montrose
a junior high school science Counseling Center Permanent
Endowment and the Bellaire
Area Democrats.
She ft, a volunteer at the Bel-
the Greater Highlands Chamber science degree from the Univer- laire Recycling Project and the
of Commerce, scheduled to be- sity of Houston. Juvenile Diabetes Foundation.
gin at noon in the Highlands
ommunity Center.
HOUSTON — The trial of Hardy, 31, in the 100 block
a 19-year-old Baytown man of South Airhart Drive,
accused of the Jan. 18 mur- Owmby did not mention the
ders of two men in Baytown race of the victims, who were
resumed at 9 a.m. Tuesday in both black, in his opening
the 338th District Court statements, but law enforce-
The trial opened Monday ment officials speculated in
with prosecutor Joe Owmby January that the crime may
accusing Martin Hernandez have been racially motivated,
of the murders of Alton Ray Judge Mary Bacon is pres-
Anderson, 39, and Carl Ray iding over the trial.
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 166, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 12, 1992, newspaper, May 12, 1992; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153237/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.