The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 053, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1984 Page: 3 of 67
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THE BAYTOWN
Sunday, January 1, 1984
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Lucas, a drifter who dairy* to as the third biggest story of the ment o! Attorney General Jifh the largest independant bank in killing 21 and leaving 750,000 ......
Tornadoes. drought and a hur- have killed as many as m people year in the state. - Mattox was voted the fifth biggest the state — was eighth, followed without-electricity. The storm
ncane that battered Texas with during his vagabond travels, Texas’s death penalty as the story of the year. : \ by the fatal fire at the state caused an estimated $1.2 billion in
deadiy force in m3 topped news pleaded guilty to one slaying, was No. 4 story. Phil Gramm’s resignation’froip Capitol. The fatal amusement damage, and its 115-mph winds
in the Lone Star State, according convicted of another and thus far Death Row inmate Thomas An- the U S. House of Representative's ride accident on the midway of eroded . Galveston beaches and
to Associated Press newspaper faces eight other charges m dy Barefoot remvedim nth-hour and re-election as a Republican the State Fair of Texas in Dallas: shattered Houston skyscraper
and broadcast editors. Texas. ^ L stay from, the U.S. Supreme placed sixth in the balloting. rounded out the top ten. ' .__t glass.
^As the AP members "voted. If his claims^prove true, Lucas Court, which reviewed the pro- The panel ranked the Throughout the year, the Drought in West Texas led to
Mother , Nature continued her would become the worst mass cedure for death penalty appeals “suspicious deaths” case in Kerr- weather in Texas seemed to have the declaration of more-than 20
reign of destruction, icing much murderer in recent history. with-the Texas case. In October,, ville and San Antonio seventh, litfle mercy. <* counties as disaster areas, and to
of the state in December and Editors and broadcasters James David Autry was strapped. Nurse Genene Jones, suspected of * In May, three waves of tor- a battle between federal and state
dropping temperatures to record selected the woes of the airline int to a gurney m the deathchamber, injecting a dangerous drug into nadoes swept through the'officials for emergency ' '
low levels durjng the last two dystry-most notably, Braniff Inf' an intravenous needle ip his arm, hospitalized infants, was indicted Houston area and killed 11 people, assistance to farmers and ran-
weeksof 1983. . y;- ternationid’s struggle to climb out and a stay was issued less than 30 on charges of murder and injury injured more than 100 and left chers.
The tales^and trials of Henry of bankruptcy and Qontijient^l , minutes before a deadly solution- to a child. 1,000 families homeless” • Before the year was out, an ear-
Lee Luca^w^e designated as the Airline’s labor problems and “was scheduled to be injected. The financial collapse of the In August, Hurricane Alicia ly snow storm blanketed the
N<x-2 -story of the ypar in Texas, ^plunge into bankruptcy court - The commercial bribery indict- First National Bank of Midland— -ravaged Galveston and Houston, northern half of the staffi.
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WASHINGTON (AP) - Visitors to holes drilled fot iron rods needed to Motorists, once permitted to park-
the Capitol thesedays may*be in for a hold up the wall. * : . for freein front of the building when I
surprise: the entire west front of the Although the work won’t be finished Congress was in a recess, now aw I
historic building, is wrapped in untn mVd IMT the scabolds wi be turned back by police. Even taxicabs '
plasllc and ^ a"rd “ ",a<*ana
It's 111 p.rt of .H9 million restora- jg ^!sWenllil Car'
•. Uon -project, begun last October, to rQl1 saidr~ And alt enterinB the building except
repair the crumbling sandstone ...... ... . , .,, .f, members and their staff must pass (
facade thabates to 1829 - the'only . 'Vhlle ^ wes^ront of the Capitol through airport-like metal detectors +
' remaining portion of the .original belongs ts thf? .cons ™ct,<» wfke-rs v. often 'be!n8. required, to remove I
building s exterior • this season, the east front - facing outergarments before being allowed I
Right now were in the Drocess of* - toward the Supreme Court —looks to pass, a process that produces‘large |
removing 35 layers of paint from the lik" arr™11^ with barricades ■ backups outside the building during
sandstone. 'said Elliott Carroll, depu- and patrolling po^ officers. some the holiday season,
tv -architect of the Capitol: The sand- wlth German shePherd dogs
Stone had been painted beige to match The extra security, of course,-is an Security will increase even more j
the gray marble elsewhere on the outcome of las I month-s bomb blast when Congress returns next month ;
building.. . near the.Senat; chamber and the re- and .will be unusually high for the I
; Once the-sandstone is laid bare, cent rash of terrorist bombings State of the Union address, tentative- j
damaged stone will be replaced and around the wor d.
NOTICE
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should show a single pair of Tube ,
Socks. The price and description arfe
correct. We sincerely regret this error.
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To Go Back
To Lebanon.
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TOTAL LIQUIDATION of over*200,000 Worth of Fine Furniture
and Bedding Involving Top N«pe Brands As:
Broyhill • Lone • Stratford* Singer • Riverside * Dixie
More! Rick's Furniture is Over-Stocked And Must Sell At Fractions
Of The Original Amount In Order to Make Room For New Goods.
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LOS ANGELES
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holiday! tour for U.S.
troops in Lebanon/
Bob Hope says he’s-
willing to do it again
—next Christmas -- but
hopes it won’t be
necessary.
The 80-year-oid
c o me d i an was
greeted By cheering
military personnel
and friends as he
stepped off . .an Air
Force - plane at a
California Air Na-
tional Guard base in
Van Nuys.
‘It seetns like we
just left here a few
minutes ago," quip-
ped Hope, who was
accompanied' by ac%
tresses Ann Jillian.
Cathy Lee Crosby
and Brooke Shields,
Miss USA Julie
Hayek, singer Vic
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RATTAN SWIVEL CHAIR
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Getting serious.
c^jHope tbld the crowd,
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/C -'citing." The seven-
day tour was his first
visit to troops
overseas in, 11 years,
and the 31st of* his
. .career
Asked if he would
"•T&ke a show to
Lebanon next year,
he replied, "I hope
we don’t have to go
again, but if they’re
there, we’ll fg.” '
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BROYHIU
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DINING ROOM
NOTHING HELD BACK
NOTHING LEFT OUT!.
BOISE, Idaho (AP)
— Commercial
buildings in Boise are
expected to reduce
their gas space-
heating bills by near-
. ly! 40 percent by con-
necting to the city’s
geothermal district.
_/' heating system, says
Energy User News.
The journal says
the new district,
heating system con-
sists of nearly three
miles of underground
piping that
transports 176-degree
Fahrenheit water
from four geothermal
wells in the city to the
. downtown area. The
hot mineral water is
pumped from depths
_ of 800to 3,000 feet.
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RULES OF SALE
All items priced F.Q.B. store-slight charge for
Delivery-No Sales to Employees. All items sold
strictly on a first come, first serve basis-No
phone orders or lay aways pleate! Special
orders & prior sales exempt from this event.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 053, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 1, 1984, newspaper, January 1, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154440/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.