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Volume 61, No. 275
Sunday, September 18, 1983
Baytown, Texas 77520
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Council Approves Budget, 5-Cent Tax Hike
By USA OCKER
City Council adopted a $30,674 million
budget, it did not call for a tax increase.
Extra money received as part of the would face a “budget shortage this year year to another, Lanhamsaid
The City of Baytown is recovering hurricane refund will be transferred into of $l million to $1.4 million which will re- Of the $1.37 million spent on hurricane
budget for fiscal year 1983-84 Friday and rapidly from the physical damage, ... the general obligation interest and sink- quire a significant increase in taxes and cleanup, $900,000 will go for debris
unanimously approved a 5-cent tax rate but we will be in a period of financial ing fund and the city will be in a position or reduction in city services. removal along streets and in parks
increase. recovery for several months,” he told for a bond sale. Debris clearance in the flood-prone
The increase from 57 cents per $100 council. “I think with economic conditions as “NO ONE LUCES to raise taxes,’’Can- Brownwood subdivision where 300
valuation to 62 cents will generate addi- they are, tax valuations the way they are non said before the tax rate vote in the homes were rfamapnH destroyed is
tional revenue of about $776,000. Increas- “DURING THE NEXT several mon- and with the hurricane coming on. it meeting Fridayr-He called the now- estimated at $200,000
ed industrial district payment is ex- ths, regardless of what actions we take, would not be a good time to sell bonds,” approved 1983-84 budget a good budget Lanham said there is a “good chance”
we’ll be walking on a financial tightrope. Lanhamsaid. and commended council members for the city will have to borrow money to
Hurricane Alicia’s punch to the city, There will be a lot of unknowns,” he said. Mayor Allen Cannon pointed out, if work done in work sessions. Undergoing cover operating expenses due to reduced
estimated at $1.37 million, necessitates City officials do not know yet how much funds hold up as they are, there will be 2 tests in a local hospital, Cannon missed . cash flow during the first months of the
the increase in taxes, City Manager Fritz the city will be reimbursed by the federal cents of the increased tax rate available the work sessions. 1983-84 fiscal year before tax revenue
Lanham explained. government for eligible hurricane-, for the general obligation interest and Emergency expenditures have reduced starts coming in.
Although his original “austere, bare- related expenditures. The city could sinking fund. anticipated carry-over funds from As recommended in the original pro
bones” budget submitted to City Council receive as much as a 75 percent reim- Before the April mayoral runoff in almost $1.29 million to about $300,000. posed budget, city employees will receive
about two months ago represented a 2.6 bursement. The budget is based on a 50 which he was elected, Cannon predicted Traditionally, the city has carried for-
percent reduction from the 1982-83 percent refund. in a paid advertisement that the city ward about $1.25 million from one fiscal
pected to total $195,000.
a 3 percent cost of living adjustment in
(See BUDGET, Page 2-A)
Mont Belvieu
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By SUSAN HUMPHREY
HOUSTON (Sp) — Testimony will resume
Monday in a federal trial to determine
whether flammable gas that escaped during a
1980 leak caused permanent damage to some
Mont Belvieu property.
A three-man, three-woman jury is expected
to issue a verdict around the middle of next
week, said defense attorney Tom Coleman Jr.
Coleman is representing 98 Mont Belvieu
residents and property owners seeking
damages from Warren Petroleum Co., a Gulf
Oil Corp. subsidiary.
Federal District Judge George Cire-is hear-
ing the case, in which testimony began on
Sept. 13.
Plaintiffs have charged that volatile gases
leaked from an underground storage well us-
ed by Warren permanently damaged (heir
property and reduced its value.
Mont Belvieu is located atop a salt dome in
which several companies store propane,
ethane, methane, butane and other products.
In 1980, it was discovered that volatile
hydrocarbons had surfaced in the city after k
875 million cubic feet of ethane-propane gas
leaked from Warren Well No. 3. The leak
eventually led to the evacuation of more than
70 Moht Belvieu families, some tor as long as
Sik months.
Property owners have testified that theleak
and subsequent gas purging efforts caused
swollen doors, shifting foundations, cracked
concrete and bubbles rising on their property.
One witness said the leak has made it difficult
for owners to sell or rent their property.
But consultants called by Warren attorney
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in 1961; Tracey Wheeler, executive direc-
tor; and Fred Hartman, president in 1960.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
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members prepare to cut an anniversary
cake in commemoration of 20 years of
weekly luncheons. Pictured, from left to
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By SUSAN HUMPHREY
They said it would never work, but they
didn’t seem to mind that 20 years had prov-
ed otherwise. ,
Three former presidents of Baytown
Chamber of Commerce admitted Friday
that 20 years ago they thought weekly
chamber luncheons would never succeed.
But they joined more than 100 other
_ chamber members in celebrating the an-
niversary and success of the luncheons.
- Former Chamber President Fred Hart-
man said that when manager Dave Moore
......first proposed the luncheons, “I laughed in
his face. ‘It won’t work,’ I told tnnyV
Nor did former President Jack Strickler
believe the luncheons would succeed, as he
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AN INCREDULOUS Jim Cauley, president of Baytown Chamber
of Commerce, reads a 20th anniversary greeting donned by
Kemala Thompson, the bearer of a singing telegram. Ms.
Thompson roller-skated into the midst of Friday’s celebration
and led Chamher members in song.
(Sun staff photo by Angie Bracey)
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By MELISSA LESTARJETTE and throat doctor.
About 25 percent more Bayto- She said most of the new pa- “In our area, most people suf- Hargrave said, it means coming
nians than usual are suffering tients are suffering because of fer from respiratory problems, into the office “a little more
from general allergy symptoms tree and building-material debris -They’re allergic to grass and often” for cortisone shots. ..
since Hurricane Alicia visited the piled on city streets. trees — general hay fever symp- The problem is not contained to
citylast month, in the estimation “Most people are complaining toms,” Ms. Hargrave said. ......’ just achats, area' doctors say.
of a local allergist. about runny noses and itchy, First-time patients receive an Some schoolchildren are also be-
“We’ve gotten a lot of new pa- watering eyes,.” said Ms. anti-inflammatory cortisone in- ing affected,
tients who don’t ordinarily suffer Hargrave. jection, she said. The drug helps But most of the physicians ex-
from allergies but are showing She said that along with the , shrink nasal passages swollen . pect the symptoms to subside and
signs of allergy symptoms,” said rain, wind and destruction, Hur- from the pollutants and relieves regular sufferers to get relief
Spring Hargrave, a nurse who »ricane Alicia also brought to itchiness. , once city crews have disposed of
works for a Baytown ear, nose Baytown “many pollutants and For veteran patients already on the Hurricane-related debris.
germs in the air.
allergy medication, Ms.
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WEATHER
PARTLY CLOUDY skies
and a slight chance of
thundershowers are
forecast for the Baytown
area through Sunday with
fair and mild weather ex-
pected Saturday night.
Daytime temperatures in
the low 90s are expected
through the weekend with a
low Saturday night in the
mid 70s. From 7 a.m. Friday
, to 7 a.m. Saturday a high
temperature of 93 degrees
and a low temperature of 74
were recorded. At 7 a.m.
Saturday the temperature
was 76 degrees
Indictment Clouds Mattox Political Future
ELIZABETH BURRUS misses
the excitement when the West
Baytown alligator crosses her “
yard ... Kathy Herrin works AUSTIN (AP) — Attorney General Jim victories, none has won elective office since,
hard in preparation of Alpha Zeta Mattox insists he will “fight to the last Clayton and Carr did not seek public office
Phi’s Saturday barbecue... John breath" and win acquittal on charges of com- after their successful trials, although Clayton
Rosamond offers second helpings mercial bribery. But even if he wins in court, did win an unprecedented fourth straight term
the mere fact that he has been indicted may as House speaker in a post decided by a vote of
Virginia Holcomb makes already have cost Mattox a future career in House members. Connally sought the
brownies . "t\ Ida Griffith makes public life. 1
an announcement ... Alma “Regardless who you are, indictments are
White forgets she’s a grand- not good. But they’re always more damaging Thursday he was not worried. “I don’t know
mother. . t.,, to a public official,” said former House what all this good publicity is going to manage
Alma Kissick receives com- Speaker BUlClayton. to do for me, politically. I’m frankly not con-
pliments on her sewing ... Clayton is one of three top Texas politicians cemed about it.
Marion Felknor discusses her trip indicted and then acquitted in the past decade. Clayton said the law presumes you innocent
to China . ... Frances Picket The other two are former Texas Attorney until you are proven guilty. But if you are a
makes a dynajmite hummingbird General Waggoner Carr and former Gov. well known public official, the law doesn’t say
* John Connally, and despite their courtroom people have to vote for you after the trial,
even if you were acquitted, as Connally found
out in 1980.
He spent $11 million in a bid for the GOP
presidential nomination and won only a single
delegate at the Republican convention. Other
factors were involved, but press accounts of
Connally’s campaign reminded readers again
and again of the 1974 indictment. *•’
Connally declined to discuss the topic when
approached by a reporter at the conclusion of
a special ceremony for the University of
Texas’ 100th anniversary on Thursday. But
for Carr, who has written a book on his ordeal,
it has become a personal crusade.
“If a charge of wrongdoing is made against
(See MATTOX Page 2-A)
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 275, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 18, 1983, newspaper, September 18, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154236/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.