The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 64, No. 77, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 30, 1986 Page: 2 of 44
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for Arthur A. Draeger
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societies of Tau Beta Pi, Phi
Lambda Upsilon and Sigma Xi
and was a Tau Beta Pi research
jellow in Chemical engineering.
He was a member of the
HOUSTON - Memorial ser-
vices for Arthur A. Draeger,
retired Exxon executive and
former Baytonian, will be at 2
p.m. Friday at St. Luke’s United
Methodist Church, 3471 West-
heimer, Houston.
Graveside services were
scheduled for 3 p.m. Thursday at
Forest Park Westheimer
Cemetery.
Draeger, 74, died Monday.
A well-known civic and church
suspect sought
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Markum services
GRAVESIDE SERVICES for
Beatrice Davis Markum, 67, of
La Porte will be held at 2 p.m.
Jan. 31 at Grandview Memorial
Park with the Rev. C.E. Rhyne
officiating. Mrs. Markum died
Jan. 29 at a Waco hospital.
Red Stocking tickets
TICKETS TO Baytown Junior
Forum’s 11th Red Stocking
Revue, {scheduled for Feb. 7-8 at
Robert E. Lee High School, will
be sold from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Feb. 1 at the community booth at
San Jacinto Mall. Tickets are
also available by calling 424-1173
or 421-2665.
Pruett files
R.J. PRUETT filed Jab. 29 as a
candidate for District 5 Baytown
city councilman. Pruett, 55, a
native of Baytown, is a semi-
retired owner-operator of a
small business.
Petroleum Club, Briar Club,
Pioneer Oil Producers Society,
the Mainstreamers and the
Longhorn Club.
A1927 graduate of Seguin High
School, Draeger received a
bachelor’s and master’s degree
in chemical engineering in 1932
and a doctorate in physical
chemistry in 1935, all from the
University of Texas.
The university , gave him
special recognition in 1977 as a
distinguished graduate of the
college of engineering.
Survivors include his wife, Bil-
ly Bob Draeger of Houston; a
daughter and son-in-law,
Carolyn Draeger Rhoads and
David J. Rhoads of Adelphi,
Md., and a daughte
Draeger McCulley
two grandchildren, Linda and
Draeger was a member of S$* Josh Rhoads; and two brothers,
of the Baytown Chamber of Luke-S United Methodist ChUrch Sidney S. Draeger of Edinburg
Commerce at noon Jan. 31 at the and was on the administrative and Kenneth E. Draeger of
Baton Rouge, La.
Memorial donations may be
Baytown police are looking for emergency numbers for
a man who robbed at gunpoint emergency calls only,
the Exxon service station at 1602 . Merchant said a number of
„ N. Alexander Drive Wednesday non-emergency calls have been
made on the emergency lines.
An employee of the station told tying them up for citizens who
police she was putting money in really need them,
a safe at approximately 8 p.m.
Wednesday and when she looked department can be made
up, she saw a man standing at through the new 911 system by
the window holding a small simply dialing those numbers or
by calling 422-3530. All other
The man told the woman to calls should be made to 422-8371.
give him all the money. The
employee did as the man asked.
He stuffed the money in his
pockets and left. Approximately
$150 was taken. _ .
The suspect is described as be- p.m. Wednesday, someone broke
ing black, 25 years of age, 5 feet, into his home in the 3500 block of
7 inches tail, of stocky build and Crosby Cedar Bayou Road and
having a deep voice. He was took a video cassette recorder,
wearing a purple stocking over video tapes, a tape case, a .357-
his head, a long-sleeve dark gray caliber Smith and Wesson gun
or faded black sweat shirt and and a gun case. The items were
royal blue jogging pants.
night
Softball registration
REGISTRATION FOR the leader when he lived in
Baytown Girls Softball Associa- Baytown, he started to work as
tiori will be held from 10 a.m. to 2 an engineer at Exxon’s Baytown
p.m. Feb. 1 at Wayne Gray Refinery In 1935. He became
Sports Complex for girls ages 7- Division head of research and
18. A fee of $20 per girl or $30 per development in Baytown in 1947
family will be charged. Mso \ and served as& marketing
available will be a petition to manager in Dallas, New York
help promote girls softball in the and Houston during 1958-1962.
He became manager of cor-
porate planning in Houston in
1964 and served as executive
___ _______„ assistant to the president in
THE BAYTOWN Police Depart- Houston from 1974 until his
ment will present the program retirement in 1975.
at the weekly luncheon meeting
Emergency calls to the police
black gun.
Burglaries and thefts
•A Baytown man told police
that between 6:30 a.m. and 2
school district.
Retirement party
DON ROBINSON will have a
retirement party at 12:30 p.m.
Jan. 31 at the Harris County
Courthouse on Baker Road.
Robinson is retiring after serv-
ing 18 years with the Harris
County Precinct 3 Justice of the
Peace office. All friends are in-
vited.
Country dance
KNIGHTS OF Columbus will
have a country and western
dance at 8:30 p.m. Feb. 1 at the
K. of C. Hall, 2600 W, Main. The
cost is $4 ja couple and the band is
TCxas Brew.
Candidate coffee •
DAN SHELLEY, candidate for
the District 127 state represen-
tative position being vacated by
Ed Emmett, will meet citizens
at a coffee at 7 p.m. Jan. 30 at
1606 Ivie Lee.
Chamber luncheon
adeleine
Austin;
valuedat $1,620.
•Between 8 p.m. Tuesday and
Pharmacy burglarized 6 a.m. Wednesday, someone took
a rod and shackel from an oil rig
in the Goose Creek Oil Field. The
items were valued at $3,500.
•A tool box with assorted tools,
as well as a radio, a pen and pen-
cil set and a pillow were taken
between Jan. 21 and Jan. 25 from
a motor home parked in the 1500
block of Dallas. The items were
valued at $785.
•A four-ton central air condi-
tioning unit, valued at $1,141,
was taken sometime in the last
two weeks from a mobile home
in the 2300 block of Crosby Cedar
Bayou Road.
•A Baytown man told police
that between 6 p.m. Tuesday and
7:20 p.m. Wednesday, someone
broke into his truck parked in
the 1300 block of Cypress and
took an echo sounder with ear-
phones, an antique blood
Between 11:30 p.m. Tuesday pressure kit, a birthing kit and
and 6:40 a.m. Wednesday, so- an AM-FM radio. The items
meone ransacked a number of were valued at $602.
buildings at Robert E Lee High
School, 1809 Market, police said.
Holiday Inn.
board at the time of his death. i
He was involved with the Cub
Qfr«irn Scouts, Girl Scouts, and United made to St. Lukes ymted
Stroke support group v Fund, was a member ,of the Methodist Church or the Retina
A SUPPORT group, aimed at the board of directors and treasurer Research FdUndation, 6560 Fan-
resocialization of stroke victims 0f the Retina Research Founda- nin, Suite 2200, Scurlock Towers,
and their families, meets from tion and was a member of the ex- Houston, Texas, 77030.
10:30 a.m. to noon Fridays in the ecutive committee of Moody Services are under the direc-
Fellowship Hall of First Church House Inc. " tion of Forest Park Westheimer
of God, 112 Bob Smith Road. For
more information, contact
registered nurse Carolyn Craig
at 425-9288.
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Guest preacher
Police are also looking for two
men who burglarized Eckerd’s
pharmacy, 4226 Decker Drive,
early Tuesday.
Police said two witnesses
noticed a car parked in front of
the pharmacy at about 12:30
a.m. Thursday. They said the
"car1 was occupied by one man. /
The witnesses watched and
saw another man, carrying a.
large brown trash bag, exit from
a broken front door of the phar-
macy. The witnesses told police
the man got into the car, which
then drove away.
Store managers report that 20
cartons of cigarettes, valued at
$197.20, were taken along with an
unknown amount of cameras.
He belonged to the honorary ^Funeral Home.
Daughter testifies in trial
Fleming disappeared from the
Liberty County school April 12. *
His body was found 10 days’ later
logging road in Polk County.
He had been shot twice in the
back of the headi.
Prosecutors allege Fontenot,
who is free on $50,000 bond, and
Fleming were rivals for the af-
fections of Laura Nugent. 36. the
school secretary: “
Ms. Fontenot, an Austin finan-
cial clerk, told the ranger and
jury panel last year that her
father called her between 8 a.m
and noon on April 12.
But on Wednesday she said she
remembered her father called
her about 5 p.m. on the day in
question.
The
LIVINGSTON (AP)
daughter of a high school prin-
DR. CHARLES L. Allen will be cipal accused of murder testified
the guest preacher at St. Mark’s that two statements she made
Methodist Church at 7 p.m. Feb. contradicting her father’s alibi
were incorrect.
Vanessa Fontenot, 25, testified
Wednesday about "statements
she made to a grand jury and to
a Texas Ranger concerning her
father’s activities the day
murder victim Billy Mac Flem-
ing disappeared.
Her father, Hurley Fontenot,
I. drove back to Houston.’ he former principal of Hull-
said. "We were .eating breakfast Daisetta Woodson Junior High
and watching the 'launch on School, is on trial for the
television Tuesday morning.” shooting death of Fleming, 3jB,
"We were all jumping up and wjj0 coached and taught math
down and chanting ‘Go El. Go and science at the school.
El,” he remembers. ‘‘Then all of
a sudden we saw the explosion
and couldn’t believe it.”
Buckner and his wife met
Onizuka about a year ago
through their friends, the
Spencers, who live next door to
the Onizuka family. “Be was a
fine person.” Buckner said. “He
on a
9-11.
Chris Buckner can’t
believe friend dead
High school ransacked
By KRIS ISAACSON
Chris Buckner still can’t
believe that his friend, Ellison
Onizuka. is gone. Ohizuka was a
mission specialist on the ill-fated
Space Shuttle Challenger.
Buckner, a former Baytonian.
is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J.R.
Buckner of Baytown.
Buckner and his wife,
Suzanne, were misidentified in
an Associated Press picture that
ran in Wednesday’s Baytown
Sun. In the picture, they were
preparing’to put a wreath on the
door of thejrfjiend.
finer said that he. along
Frank \and Barbara
of Onizuka,
•A 26-inch crome Murray bicy-
cle, valued at $100. was taken
Police said the girls’ gym, the between 5 p.m. Tuesday and
Brigadier hall, band hall, boys’ 12:30 p.m. Wednesday from a
gym, and the homemaking house in the 1800 block of North
building were broken into and Sixth Street,
ransacked. »A Baytown man told police
Two video cassette recorders, that between 7:30 p.m. Tuesday
two auto-focus cameras, an elec- and 7:30 a.m. Wednesday, so-
tric converter, a battery, video meone entered his two vehicles
cassette recorder case and a paFked in front of his house in
the 3200 block of Michigan and
A numberof windows in the of- took tools valued at $300.
•A 1971 Oldsihobile. valued at
5 $850, was taken between 6 and
6:30 p.m. Tuesday from the 500
block of Arori.
Leading indicators rise
rtte.
the Reagan administration’s op-
timistic view that the economy
has finally rebounded from a
period of sluggish growth.
The ^December advance-mat-
ched a 0.9 percent August gain
and followed revised increases
of just 0 2 percent in November
and 0.6 percent in October. The
changes left the indexvat 173.6
percent of its 1967 base
Many private economists cau-
tioned that the bijg December
rise was overstating the current
the economy. - T
WASHINGTON (AP) — The
government’s main gauge of
future economic activity rose a
sharp 0.9 percent in December,
Hie best showing in 11 months,
the Commerce Department
was the most unpretentious per- reported Thursday,
son I had ever met,” Buckner
fondly recalls.
Buckner said that he hasn't
camera case were taken.
fices of the buildings were, also
broken, police saidit
B
The December performance
for the Index of Leading In-
dicators marked the eighth con-
secutive increase and the
Onizuka family since the strongest gain, since January
tragedy. 1985. when the index surged 1.3
“El was very enthusiastic percent,
about this flight.' he said. “He The good showihg was certain
was finally able to invite friends to be cited as evidence to support strength of I
and family members to come to --v:
the launch site and watch the ac- TT/^lnxic linn ltiriipf
tual launch,” Buckner said. “He -1-jCICd.S U.IItier 1I1Q1CI
was excited that everyone was
going to be there watching.”
Buckner said that he is still County Commissioner Bob
numb over the tragedy. “I can’t Eckels on two felony and one
believe it really happened,” he ° misdemeanor charge, a
said. “I keep thinking that I’ll spokesperson for the Harris
wake up and find out that I’ve County District Attorney's Of-
had a bad dream.”
Buckner said that he and his
wit
Thieves stopped
Spencer, neigh
had been in Florida to w’atch the
launch of the space shuttle.
“We had been invited by El
(Onizuka) to go down and watch
the actual launch,” Buckner
said.
, “We drove down last Thurs-
day, so that we could be there for
Sunday’s launch” he added.
“We got there Saturday and
the four of us had been invited to
a brunch that was hosted by El’s
family along with Judy Resnik’s
family,” Buckner said.
Buckner said that after Sun-
day’s flight had been scrubbed
by NASA officials, he had to take
his wife to the airport because
she had to be at work Monday
morning. Mrs. Buckner is the ex-
ecutive secretary to the. director
of the city of Houston’s Civic
Center.
“After Monday’s launch was
^jostponed,-Frank. Barbara and
* *A Baytown woman told police
Police have arrested a that between 10 and 10:30 a m.
Houston man and woman in con- Tuesday, someone took a video
nection with the theft of some cassette recorder from her
$2,000 in merchandise from pickup truck parked in the 1200
stores at San Jacinto Mall.
been able to visit with the
block of Magnolia.
Police said they received a »A bicycle, valued at $200, was
call at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday of a taken between 10 p.m. Monday
suspicious vehicle outside the and 4:15 p.m. Tuesday from a
block of McKin-
me
house in th
mall.
Police arrived to find the car ney.
leaving the mall. Officers said
they stopped the car at In- and 7<
terstafe 10 and Garth Road and brojee
found some new clothing in the console of
vehicle. -
They also found a handgun ?in Texas,
the car. x ' A resident in the 1300 block of
The driver of the car told Pine told police that between
police that some other people 9:30 p.m. Monday and 6 a m.
had stolen the clothes and had Tuesday, someone broke into
paid him to drive them from two vehicles parked at his home,
store to store. He said he decided he said a citizen’s band radio, a
to take the clothes himself and fire extinguisher and a tqol box
left the others at the mall.
Police Said a search of the taken from one vehicle. The face
mall did not turn up any more plate and knobs of a AM-FM
stereo and a pair of western
boots were taken from the other
HOUSTON - A Harris County
grand jury Wednesday indicted
Harris County, for hterown per-
sonal use in October last year.
•Between 6y:3(T pym. Monday
y, someone
and dipped out the
rraSw car at Dutch
Holland Oldsmobile, 622 W.
A second indictment alleges he
misapplied the services of a
county, employee' in January
a.m.
1981.
The last indictment claims
Eckels failed to file an affidavit
with Commissioners Court,
showing his financial interest in
a matter before the court.
Eckels has been a county com-'
missioner for the past 13 years.
His case has been assigned to the
179th District Court. \
ficesaid, 4
Eckels, who represents the
wife haven’t decided if they will western part of the county, was
attend a memorial service for indicted on felony charges of
the astronauts to be held on Fri- theft and theft of service and a
misdemeanor charge of official
day.
“El was a good friend and a misconduct,
good person;” Buckner said,
“and he will be missed.”
One indictment claims Eckels
used timber pilings, belonging to
with more than $300 in tools were
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THURSDAY
HIGH* 12:00 am.. 11:10 a.m.
LOW: 5:46 a.m., 5:36p.m.
(Tides forecast are
for Baytown area bays)
t.
Cfjc jBaptoton &tnt
suspects.
Wrong number used vehicle.
•A 1980 Chevrolet pickup
Robert Merchant, assistant truck, valued at $3,000, was
chief of the Baytown Police taken between 10 p.m. Monday
Department, is reminding and T a.m. Tuesday from the
citizens to use the police 2700 block of Ward Road.
Baytown firefighters called
to blaze in vacant house
A two-bedroom, wood frame In a fire Wednesday evening
house at 5411 N. Reddell Road on Interstate 10 near the Garth
was heavily damaged in a fire Road exit, a five-ton, 1980 Inter-
Wednesday, said Terry Byrd of national Harvester cargo truck
the Harris County fire marshal’s sustained an estimated $4,000
damage, said the spokeswoman.
The truck is owned by
time of the fire, said a Baytown Gearhart Industries Inc. and
.fire department spokeswoman. was j^g driven by James
The owner’s name was not Brown
■SSbMaf
icSSi Ma T- ^ “0“ overheated and caught
mglSnds Volunteer F.re fire, aatd the spoheswom™
Department assisted and all Firefighters from Station 5
vn volunteers were dispat- responded to the call, which
said the Baytown came in at 9:17p.m,
woman. Tbe fire was put nut with a fire
cause©! tbe fire is still be- extinguisher before firefighters
estigated, said Byrd. arrived, said the spokeswoman.
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