The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 35, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1984 Page: 4 of 28
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Tuesday, December 11, 1M4
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was 40 and 30
and 20 years ago:
DEC. 11,1944
Lt. Robert L. Farra, war hero
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As it always^ is, the State Legislature will be con- I Butler’s Goose Creek Airport,
fronted with a raft of “must” legislation when it meets - M.* mgmm* jBfHBw / a returns home on a wing and
in January, some of which has been pre-filed. . prayer after participating in
One of the most pressing problems the Legislature l bombing raids over Germany,
must tackle concerns mentally ill persons, many of p2«cg Ster^S
them untreated. They either cannot afford treatment or AuTlflff Vi I 1 narrow escapes in battle,
facilities equipped to treat them are inadequate or If IJf Harry Wiess, president of .
underfunded, or both. ^ W I ,\WA\ j ? I# Vi Humble Oil & Refining Co. lauds
Part of the problem of caring for the mentally ill was jj, ^^7, I VW&" 11/ /3L M L workers at the Baytown
graphically illustrated when it was revealed the Austin (ii JL^nllLf Larf * //^F II ?.f,fineryf?r pro?u?™°n °f 8
State Hospital was sending van loadsof mental patients Wu Ji fQ.. I war ptaes.
to Houston each week and leavmg them downtown to of 111 ■ j/* tl \ k*f,j | un The Baytown Refinery has pro-
shift for themselves. iJliOwil.'JR/lluf duced more critical war
Soon after this practice became public knowledge, of- j mVrmW " v a x ]■£- . -Tlyjhtgwfwl/ ” materials than any other single
ficials of the Texas Department of Mental Health and. ^ 1 jfu plant in the nation. ^
Mental Retardation said they would assign a case 7..... Harvie Thom;s Gre€n, a
worker to accompany the discharged patients. The case ' T» iJH ", ,rf/ Baytown plumber, died of a
worker will help persons who are not met by friends or y-'"' heart attack yesterday. He was
relatives to find shelter. employed at Fulkerson Plumb- '.
Too often, there has been too much complacency and . , a__i______ in|1?0- „
neglect as far as caring for the mentally ill is concerned. ^^ ^ndsrson chhTho^at M7 w brighty F
Granted, it is a tremendously complex problem and | m • I I i Mrs. Gordon Kin8 resigns as
demands study and planning, as well as adequate finan- T* ** I \ IQ N t t O SU6 StQt0 IO C 01 educational director ^of ^ the
There are no half-way houses to handle mental pa- ~~~ A _
tients discharged from Austin state hospital, but such |Sv| aOVemmentS in ieODOrdv field. R^rt" Atnertoo, Jota
facilities are available to career prisoners discharged 1,11 yv-fVCIMIIIdltO III JCUpuiUy Adams and Raymond Porter are
from state prison facilities. _ - at Baylor University at the
Both these groups deserve consideration and the WASHINGTON - The Justice the story. But states’rights ac- paign is no exception. Though it Texas Junior Academy of
public must insist it be adequate. Because Of the tragic Department has mounted a quiet tivists reacted with horror, had more than $37 million in the Science meeting where they are
aspects Of the mental health problem, it is incumbent ass31111 on die individual's right claiming that the decision kitty, it refused to pay the presenting scientific papers for
UDon the Legislature to give it too nrioritv before it sue state 311(1 local 8°vern' disarmed teachers and school $16,812.67 it cost to arrange judging. All are seniors at REL
upo ne eg Stature to give It top priority peiore it ments for violating due process administrators in their uphill security for the president’s ap- except Adams, a junior.
becomes much worse than lt IS. of law. sturggle to maintain, discipline, pearance at Cupertino, Calif., on Ethel Bush is “bushed” after
As justification, department A Gallup Poll last year showed Sept. 3. answering Santa’s calls. It so
officials have cited the lack of that fewer than one teacher in According to Philip Johnson, happens her phone number is
old-fashioned discipline that has five nationwide thought lack of then-mayor of the city of 40,000 similar to the one for kids to call
New Yorkers, or Others, Who Sit idly by and do nothing suppo^y tun^ the nation’s discipline was a major^ school outside San Jose Reagan-Bush Santa Claus; and she’s getting
.... ’ . ’ . „ J ^ schools into blackboard jungles, problem. But President Reagan, headquarters made no effort to many of Santa s calls,
while human beings are brutally murdered should do Using this bogyman, the of- in a pre-campaign sop to his con- discuss security for the visit Baytown, so far this month, §
some soul-searchihg. ” *s ficials hope to scare Congress in- servative support base, launch- beforehand, though large has counted 5.70 inches of rain.
A woman was kicked and beaten before being shot to to amending a 113-year-old law ed a publicity campaign for crowds were expected. And Joiner Oil Co. will build a plant •
death bv a 14-year-old bOV and an adult accomplice in a that guarantees the right of-an more ‘‘good old-fashioned afterward, the committee main- north of the city.
injured citizen to sue local discipline in school.” tained that it was legally pro- Sandy Presnail, Barbers Hill
authorities who misbehave. It was about this time that the hibited from paying for the basketball sweetheart, is chosen
. How the Justice Department Justice Department quietly got security expenses. the all-tournament sweetheart
The tragic incident shocked veteran New York got from fractious school kids to into the act. ExacUy why is not Cupertino, which has no police atAnahuac.
policemen who have heard and seen just about a legal shield for highhanded of- clear. Maybe it was from an department of its own,
everything. The latest murder was similar to the Kitty ficials is a weird and frightening ideological conviction that the traded with county authorities senior, is a state finalist in the
Genovese case in Which the woman was raped and stab- lt02- ass^i3tf l*6y anti-Klan law was fundamental- for security arrangements and National Council of Teachers of
bed tn ripafh in 1064 3<; hpr Ouppnc npitrhhnrc watrhpri Badhwar has pieced it together ly wrong. Maybe it was simply sent the bill to Reagan-Bush. English Achievement Awards
mu■ oe , nu n ; j as ner '*l‘ee‘ls n®6nDors waicnea. from various sources, including from bureaucratic irritation Faced with the lawyerly rebuff, program for 1964.
This celebrated case made headlines across the na- a telltale memo the Justice over a law that had, over the the city asked the Federal Elec- —
tion. It was one Of the most Shocking instances Of public Department refused to release years, forced the Justice Depart- tion Commission for an advisory
apathy ever recorded up to that time. Now it has a rival under the Freedom of Informa- ment to do battle with state and opinion stating that the cam-
tionAct. local governments. paign committee can legally pay
In 1871, Congress passed 42 Whatever the motivation, a 10- for the services rendered.
, . , ... . ,, , USC 1983, known as the Anti-Ku page memo written by Roger There were no immediate
people standing by while a neighbor is assaulted and Klux Klaff Act, to protect in- Clegg, director of the depart- hard feelings from the con-
murdered and not making a move to help the victim, dividuals from the excessess of ment’s Office of Legal Policy, troversy. President Reagan car-
One theory is fear of involvement that might call for state and local governments, suggested using the hue and cry ried Cupertino with 64 percent of By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
court aDDearances or other inconveniences Since then it has been the prin- over school discipline as a tool to thevote. Today l&JTuesday, Dec. 11, the
This and other exDlanations are inadeauate There cipal legal vehicle for citizens to dismantle the 1871 anti-Klan 346th day of 1984. There are 20
inis ana otner explanations are inadequate, mere claim ta {ederal court mat ^ law diplomatic grapevine: days left in the year.
have been instances Of angry crowds forcibly taking a constitutional rights have been Sources who have seen the Turkey is quietly trying to in- Today’s highlight in history:
prisoner from police even after witnessing a crime, violated by local authorities. It memo say it includes proposals crease its. influence with the On Dec. 11, 1936, Britain’s
Why, then, would bystanders not try to help a person be- was under the anti-Klan law, for to make state and local officials Arab world it once ruled. I’m King Edward VIII abdicated to
ing beaten or stabbed7 The odds are iust as great example, that Brown vs. Board immune from lawsuits that arise told that under a secret agree- marry an American divorcee,
aeainst the victim as thev are against a nrisnner o{ Education was brought, from their “discretionary” ac- ment with Saudi Arabia, the Wallis Warfield Simpson. In a
against tne Victim as tney are against a prisoner. lending to the Supreme Court- tions; to require that citizens fil- Turks sent 50 fighter planes and radio address, Edward said “I
Two people eventually called police in the latest New ordered desegregation of the na- ing suit demonstrate that viola- pilots last summer to the Saudi have found it impossible to carry
York killing, but that didn’t help the woman who was tion’s public schools. tions of the constitutional rights base on the North Yemen fron- the heavy burdenofresponsibili-
beaten and shot to death. Her life could have been saved Ear more than a century, by local officials were’’knowing tier. Later a Turkish paratroop ty and to discharge my duties as
if her neighbors had intervened ultraconservatives have fought and willful,” and to increase the unit was dispatched to train King as I should wish to do,
What else but cowardice can this kind of apathy be S?Udi SS5 “l?*1 h,av? ™thout helP 311(1 suPP°rt of
r»alloH9 K J judicial activism they claim it try to take government officials also pledged to help protect the woman I love.” George VI
caiiea- encouraged. The Brown decision to court. Saudi oilfields. In return, Turkey ascended to the throne.
was a bitter defeat. Then in 1975 The 1871 law has served the is being paid more than $1 billion
another school-based Supreme nation well. It is often the only in oil and cash.
Court case brought under the remedy available to protect an
1871 law galvanized the conser- individual’s constitutional has learned to its dismay that
vatives anew. In Goss vs. Lopez, rights. Yet the Justice Depart- the two men sent from Moscow toolt P,ace in New England.
In 1776, George Washington
crossed the Delaware River,
traveling from near Trenton,
N.J., to Pennsylvania.
In 1872, America’s first black
governor took office as Pinckney
Benton Stewart Pinchback
became acting governor of Loui-
siana.
In 1941, Italy and Germany
declared war on the United
States.
In 1946, John D. Rockefeller
Jr. offered to donate a six-block
piece of Manhattan real estate
as the site for a United Nations
headquarters.
In 1961, a U.S. aircraft carrier
carrying Army helicopters ar-
rived in Saigon. It was the first
direct American military sup-
port for South Vietnam’s battle
against communist guerrillas.
Ten years ago: Police in South
Boston, Mass., clashed with a
crowd of whites outside a high
school where a white student had
been stabbed by a black student.
The violence was in the wake of
Boston’s school busing con--
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Brooklyn housing project while neighbors listened to her
screams and failed to come to her aid.
Patricia Ann Moore, REL
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in the Brooklyn case.
Psychologists have tried to explain the phenomenon of
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the high court ruled that a stu- ment is trying to eviscerate the to implement the Kremlin’s pro-
dent facing arbitrary suspension law by drumming up hysteria mise of modest development aid
or expulsion from school was en- over the issue of school were both KGB officials. They
discipline.
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titled to due process.
The decision, written by
moderately conservative Justice
are Valeri Tkanov and his depu-
ty, Dmitri Ryabovalov — both
EXPENSIVE HONOR: The known espionage agents.
Byron White, simply gave rich didn’t get that way by
students facing disciplinary ac- throwing their money around,
tion the right to tell their side of and the Reagan-Bush ’84 cam-
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To The Sun:
The members of the Baytown
Area Coalition for Child
Passenger Safety (KISS) wish to
thank you so very much for the
picture, Sun Spot, and excellent
article covering the sale of in-
fant and toddler seats at cost to
the people in the Baytown area.
The sale was certainly given fine
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cess in spite of the inclement
weather. We are now in the
“Loaner Program” at several
locations in the community: The
Advertising Director American Red Cross, Gulf Coast
Hospital, and San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital.
Your cooperation with our pro-
ject to get the safety seats to the
public was certainly appreciated
by our group, and we thank you
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O Lord, thou art my God; I will
exalt thee, I will praise thy
name; for thou haat done
wonderful things; thy counsels
of old are faithfulness and truth.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 35, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 11, 1984, newspaper, December 11, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1153395/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.