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Volume 62, No. 281
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Sunday, September 23, 1984
Baytown, Texas 77520
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School board
to discuss
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Baytown School Board Mon-
day will again discuss ethnic
trends at the district’s two high
schools.
Trustees are also expected to
adopt a teacher salary schedule
at the 7 p.m. meeting at the
school administration building,
1415 Market.
Board members are studying
ways of correcting a growing
ethnic imbalance at Robert E.
Lee High School.
REL currently has a minority
student population of 44 percent.
But this figure is expected’to in-
crease to more than 56 percent
by 1988, according to projec-
tions.
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ByBRUCEGUYNN
Baytown’s unemployment
rate dropped to 9.6 percent in
August as students and seasonal
workers withdrew from the job
market, the Texas Employment
Commission reported Friday.
The unemployment rate in
Baytown had risen from 9.9 per-
,, , cent to 11 percent between June
. »‘f and July with the influx of
■ " .ji*; students and others into the
. workforce.
’ But between July and August
j the labor force in Baytown
declined from 33,402 to 32,655.
B The number of jobless workers
also dropped from 3,688 to 3,148
* for a decline in the unemploy-
ment rate of 1.4 percent.
The drop corresponded with
state and area trends.
.. In Harris County, the
have used to rectify racial im- Jackson Ranch in South Chambers County by the son of Mr. and Mrs. Wayne McDaniel of Oak unemployment rate fell from 7.2
hunter Leonard Bishop of Oak Island, waits to be Island. See related photo, Page 2-A. percent in July to 6.3 percent last
processed at a seafood firm in Oak Island. Taking (Sun staff photo by Lisa Ocker) m0nth
August work force of 1,026,435
for a rate of 6.7 percent. .
A total of 80,605 were
unemployed out of a labor force
of 1,044,994 for a rate of 7.7 per-
cent in July.
In Liberty County, 1,610, were
unemployed out of a work force,
of 29,304 for an August!
unemployment rate of 5.5 per-
cent, compared to the previous
month when 1,788 were out of
work out of a labor pool of 29,676
for a rate of 6 percent.
In Chambers County, the rate
dropped from 6.2 percent to 5.4
percent. The labor force decline
ed from 8,800 to 8,684 while the
number of unemployed fell from
549 to 468.
Statewide, the unemployment;
rate dropped from 6.3 percent to
5.6 percent while nationwide, it
fell from 7.5 percent to 7.3.
A total of 450,200 Texans went
out of work in August out of a
labor pool of 8,072,200 compared
to July when 516,000 were
unemployed out of a work force
of 8,186.400.
The MeAllen-Pharr*
Edinburgh area in the Rio \
Grande Valley had the state's M
highest unemployment rate —
19.9. Still, the rate fell 1.2 per-
cent between July and August.
Austin had the lowest
unemployment rate — 3.4 per-
cent. This figure was down from
3.6 percent in July.
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Ross S. Sterling High School
currently has a minority enroll-
ment of 24 percent. By 1988, this
figure is only expected to in-
crease to 25 percent.
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Trustees have been studied
methods other school district NEARLY A TON of alligator, taken from the a look at the grisly carcasses is Brian McDaniel, 3,
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balances
Board members earlier ap-
proved a 6M> percent pay raise
for district employees, but
haven’t made any decision on
how many teachers should
receive bonuses under the so-
called “career ladder."
About 620 of the 944 teachers
are eligible to be placed on the
career ladder. State-mandated
educational reforms require the
district to set aside at least
A total of 95,162 Harris County
residents were out of work in
August out of an estimated labor
pool of 1,512,307.
July figures estimated the
Harris County work force at
1,538,583 With 111,497
unemployed.
something we ve been waiting by dangling chunks of meat (live The unemployment rate fell 1
for a long time.” pigeons are Bishop’s favorite percent in the city pf Houston,
Alligator hides are bringing bait) on a large hook hanging o.5 percent in Liberty County
about $20 per foot, with meat, over a bayou or marsh pond. The and 0.8 percent in Chambers
considered a delicacy by some, higher the bait dangles, the County,
being sold by state-licensed larger the alligator must be to in the city of Houston, 68,764
alligator meat dealers for as reach up and snatch it. Shooting were unemployed out ’ of ’ an
much as $5 per pound, depending is allowed only to “finish off” a
on the cut and the age of the snagged alligator
alligator. As with cattle,
‘Stout, ’ ‘smart’ alligators prove
profitable game for fishermen
By DAVID BYFORD
OAK ISLAND — The center of
attention was a fish packing
room at Kreuzer’s Seafood.
$475,000 to provide bonuses for . , . . ..
qualified teachers. . 1f»nard Blsh°P a,"? J!mmy
M . ..... . .. Lott, two young Oak Island com-
To be eligible for these mercialfishermen,were“skinn-
bonuses a teacher must have a , out„ two big chambers
bachelors degree and three county alligators - a 12-footer
year sexpenence or a masters and n^-g-incher - as
degree op two year’s ex- friendSt neighborSi
wives and
peerience. fellow fishermen helped out
A $475,000 appropriation would Wednesday afternoon
provide 200 qualified teachers
with a $2,000 bonus or 300 in-
structors with a $1,500 bonus.
The Baytown Education
Association and the Baytown
Classroom Teachers Association
have requested that eligible
teachers be placed on the career
ladder. School district officials
estimate this would require an represented the fifth and sixth
additional $440,000. gators he has taken from the
Trustees are also expected to marshy Jackson Ranch in South
review district values and Chambers County. So far, his
discuss a tax levy, set the salary largest catch is a 12-foot-7-
lncher.
Sometimes it’s like catching
younger alligators produce a big fish on a handline,” Lott
higher-praised meat. said. “But most of the time you
Southeast Texas’ first can ieac| them right out of the
alligator season since 1969 open- water.”
ed Sept. 7 and will last until Sept.
23. Texas Parks and Wildlife De-
partment official Floyd Pot-
ter said 760 permits were given
to landowners along the Texas
gulf coast, with permit numbers
based on alligator populations in
biologist-surveyed tracts. ‘ Right now, we’re not even
Rural Chambers County, potting a dent in the alligator
where many claim there are population,” he said. “They just
won’t give us enough permits.
I’m only doing it this year to
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“They some stout son of a
guns,” Bishop grunted as his
knife deftly separated the
valuable hide of one of the
alligators from its twitching car-
cass. “Smart too. A lot of people
don’t realize they’re smart.”
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Bishop expects alligators to
become a more commercially
important species when the
state, which monitors all gators
caught, begins to allot more per-
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mits
Bishop’s Wednesday catch
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more alligators than people, got
its share of permits, Potter said.
Landowners must pay $5 for a the lan“ *or next year
permit, and then they may give HI
or sell their permits to alligator then looked up and smiled,
hunters, who must buy a $25
alligator hunting license from about time I had me a pair of
gator boots made. Couldn't ever
Hunters must catch alligators afford ’em before."
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Bishop resumed his cutting,
of Superintendent Johnny Clark
and receive a report on student
enrollment.
The board is waiting for a cer- hours to properly skin out a
tified tax roll before setting a tax gator. “But we’re making good
(See ETHNIC, Page 2-A)
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“It’s a lot of work,” he said,
adding that it takes about three
Yeah,” he said, "I guess It’s
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money out of them. It’s
UNITED WAY AWARD
Houston port big job provider
GULF OIL Co.'s Cedar Bayou Plant has raised $35,354 for the United
Way of Baytown’s 1985 campaign, exceeding its goal of $31,000. Plant
Manager Larry Lucchesl, left, holds a certificate of award as plant
United Way chairman Charlie Lenderman and United Way cam-
paign chairman John Schlobohm look on. Lenderman said the fact
that this is the second year In a row that the plant has achieved more
than 100 percent of Its goal "Is Indicative of the dedication and loyal-
ty of the employees." All solicitors and participants are to be com-
mended for their efforts in accomplishing this goal in record time.
Contributions to this year’s drive so far amount to 41.5 percent of the
$783,633 goal. I
Pearce Street Journal
Counter-productive
This actually happened in an
old Arizona WWII Army post.
An order came down to re-roof
By LISA OCKER
in its 70th year of existence,
the Port of Houston is generating
an old decrepit temporary 30 percent of the economic ac-
buildtng. Later, the post com- tivity in the Houston area, an of-
manding officer countermanded f|C|a] with the port authority told
the order and directed that the
building tom down.
The countermanding order
Houston has become the “no. 1"
port in terms of foreign cargo
handled and the "no. 3" port in
the nation in total tonnage, he
facilities and cutting back per-
sonnel.
One of the new facilities in-
cludes a newly constructed ter-
minal at Barbours Cut, near
Morgans Point, which will be
ready for use in November, he
said.
“Barbours Cut proves we’re
doing something right," Scorcio
said, adding that such container
terminals are necessary to meet
(See PORT, Page 2-A)
said
“We re a young port, but we’re
a growing, dynamic port," he
Baytown’s Chamber of Com-
merce Friday.
Mike Scorcio, director of com-
was late arriving, so they put on rnunlty relations, said the port
the new roof and demolished the
building
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said
(Sun staff photo by Carrie Pryor)
The Port of Houston is doing
better this year than the past
three years, having “taken ad-
vantage" of the economic reces-
sion. Scorcio said, by upgrading
provides 40,000 Jobs locally and
_FH 160,000 Jobs statewide.
wmm Since It opened, the Port of
WEATHER
THE NATIONAL Weather
Service predicts scattered
thundershowers with a 30
percent chance of rain (or
Saturday. The high will be
In the mld-SOs with a low
near 70 Widely scattered
thundershowers with a 30
percent chance of rain are
forecast for Sunday, with
temperatures In the high
80s. From 8 am Friday to
8 am Saturday a low of 75
degrees and a high of 83
degrees were recorded
Rainfall totaled 1.23 In-
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AROUND LC's Cloud, Alston to remain on campus
Lee College President Robert
Cloud and Dean of Instruction
Jerry Alston say they have no
BUDDY DAVIS thrills a 5-year- Immediate plans to leave their
old neighbor by taking the child positions, even though they were
on his first airplane ride
Mary Jane Bordelon is proof dent's position at Austin Com
that a mother of three young munity College,
children can succeed In college
Muriel Tyssen provides some Austin American Statesman
assistance to a friend
Geneva Turner, Shea Gish and the more than 100 applicants and
Josh Hughes enjoy an Alabama nominees being considered for
the president's position,
Roland Smith, acting presi-
dent of Austin Community Col-
lege, confirmed that the two Lee
College officials were among the
list of applicants and nominees
for the post.
to have been rv minated for the
president's position at Austin
Community College.
He noted the Austin school has
an enrollment of 17,000 and a
nearly $30 million annual
budget. I.*e College has an
enrollment of about 4,000 and a
budget of slightly more than $14
million,
Austin Community College has
been without a president since
trustees fired Cecil Groves about
« year ago_ .
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the Austin
American Statesman reported
on Sept. 8 that the field had been
narrowed to six candidates and
neither Cloud nor Alston are
among the finalists.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 281, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 23, 1984, newspaper, September 23, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154021/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.