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Baytown, Texas 77520
Friday, August 12,1994
Telephone Number: 422-8302
Volume 72, No. 245
Parents can
be charged
for truancy
Council divides
block fund pie
Getting ready.
City asking for $1372 million
Parents not enforcing the state’s
school attendance law may face
criminal charges for their children’s
repeated violations according to a
recent legal opinion given by Texas
Attorney General Dan Morales.
Currently, Goose Creek school
district’s policy calls for the prose-
cution of a parent or guardian who
“intentionally, knowingly, reckless-
ly and with criminal negligence
fails” to make his child go to.
school after being notified by
school officials of a truant prob-
gram — which provides eight one-
By AMU Z. BARUCH
The Baytown Sun
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city for approximately 650 Baytown
residents.
Another $51,000 in Public Ser-
vices money will be allocated to the
Adult Literacy Program to increase
the current level of service and
expand the program. Other parts of
this budget include $10,000 for the
Low Income Transportation Pro-
gram, $12,000 to contribute to the
salaries of police officers working
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City Council Thursday unani-
mously approved a more than
$ 1.372 million budget for allocations
of Community Development Block
Grants from the federal Housing and
Urban Development agency.
But council members were quick
to point out that most of the budget
allocations were harmonious.
The allocations include $149,350
for the program’s administration —
which includes funds for the salary
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The opinion requested by Gov.
Ann Richards asked whether police
officers have the authority to
enforce truancy laws.
“This should put parents and
school children on notice that our
truancy laws can and will be
enforced and it gives our police
officers the authority they need to
keep kids in school where they
belong,” said Richards.
additional patrols in the crime pre-
vention program known as Opera-
tion Valdez, and $10,000 for a Youth
Activities Program.
Council also approved a $47,546
budget for economic development,
which provides small business loans
to augment the creation of jobs for
low and moderate income residents.
of a full-time planner and clerk, as
well as 25 percent of a salary for an
assistant planner, and supplies. The
administrative expense represents
some 13.4 percent of the total bud-
ABOVE: Maria Cortes,
Elvia Quinones and Mary
A. Lopez, secretaries at
San Jacinto Elementary
School, sort school
records Thursday in
f 1 preparation for the first
1 day of school Monday.
S i The secretaries said they
IM had been working until
/I midnight every day this
f I week to prepare for the
I beginning of school in
Goose Creek CISD. AT
LEFT: San Jacinto teach-
ers Hazel Nixon, left, and
Janice Vincent, make
sure they have records
for each of their students.
Photos by Carrie Pryor-Newman
get.
The largest area of expenditure,
some $410,000, is targeted toward
operating the housing rehabilitation
program, as well as the rehabilitation
of 16 structures in the area.
Another $160,639 is aimed at
demolishing 30 dilapidated struc-
tures, with a majority of the funds
($141,650) going toward meeting
federal regulations in the removal of
Of the final $72,000, $45,000 is
aimed at completing the second
phase of a park in the Central
Heights area, as well as for the
acquisition of land to construct a
park in the Lincoln-Cedars area.
Those funds also allocate $27,900
for the rehabilitation of 10 units at
the Sam Houston and Lincoln
Courts Housing Complexes to be
used as emergency shelters for the
homeless who do not qualify for
temporary residence at either the
Bay Area Womens Center or Shel-
tering Arms.
Baytown Sun
announces
rate changes
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tion.
The Public Services budget repre-
sents $173,100 of the total budget,
with $90,000 of that money going
toward the Senior Citizen Taxi Pro-
The Baytown Sun announced
today that suggested retail rates
for home delivery, mail, student
and military subscriptions will
increase by $1.00 per month,
effective Sept. 1, 1994. Home
delivery will be $7.75 per month,
while mail subscriptions will
increase to $10. Student and mili-
tary rates will be $6 per month.
This is the first rate adjustment in
nearly three years.
Publisher of the Sun, Gary
Dobbs, said continued rising costs
of newsprint and other operating
expenses have made this adjust-
ment necessary. “We’ve done
everything possible to hold down
the rate of our newspaper, howev-
er, this adjustment of less than a
nickel per day is required.”
Customers will be able to take
advantage of a limited time offer
and delay the rate adjustment by
pre-paying their subscription at
the office. Payments may be made
for three, six or 12 months and
must be received in the office no
later than Monday, Aug. 29.
House kills president’s
crime bill on rules vote
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By AMU I BARUCH
The Baytown Sun
Democrats who could not garner
“racial fairness” provisions which
By a 15-vote margin, opponents of would have allowed death row
inmates the defense opportunity of
using minority execution statistics to
fight their own death sentence.
“This has effectively killed crime
legislation for this Congress,” said
Jeff Patterson, spokesman for Bay-
town-area Rep. Mike Andrews, D-
Houston, who voted in favor of the
legislation. “This defeat was a real
liberal Democrats, and anti-gun con- set back for those people who want
effective crime control in this coun-
try,” Patterson said, while blaming
which House Republican leader the defeat on the NRA’s “full-court
Robert Michel of Illinois called an
“unholy trinity of pork, posturing
a $33 billion crime bill refused to
approve the rules letting the matter
come to a floor vote in the House,
“effectively killing” the legislation
before the scheduled Congressional
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angry Clinton Administration vowed
to bring the issue back.
Crime rate down, but chief says he’s
concerned about robberies, assaults
press” on assault weapons provi-
sions. He added that some law mak-
ers and House leaders are working to
bring the issue back, but said he did
not see how it would happen.
Weather
By AMU L BARUCH
The Baytown Sun
Baytown Police Chief Charles
Shaffer said Wednesday that
down 16.7 percent from last year.
Sexual assault rates are down 3.2
percent, robbery down 16.9 per-
cent, and aggravated assaults
down 8.1 percent. All told, that
President Clinton attacked the
Republicans and NRA, while
defending the black lawmakers for
their “principled opposition” to the
death penalty. He also rallied against
die Congress in general.
“A majority of the House attempt-
ed to take the easy way out, but they
have failed the American people,”
Clinton said after lawmakers surpris-
up 8.6 percent from 1993, with
the rate of traffic-related injuries
up 4.5 percent. At the same time,
the number of traffic citations
issued is down 9 percent from
1993.
Green, D-Houston, also voted for die
procedural rule bringing the bill to
the floor — and incurred the NRA’s
and home town voters’ wrath. Calls
from his district came pouring into
his office as voters angrily decryed
the first time Green had ever voted
for any legislation which included
comprises a 9.8 percent decrease
in July 1994 were down com-
pared to last year’s figures, the
in the violent crime rate from the
“There seems to be a direct
correlation between tickets issued
and crime reduction,” Shaffer
said. “Ticket (or violator con-
tacts) decreases could also con-
The overall property crime rate
is down 16.3 percent Comprising
that total is a 24.9 percent
decrease in the burglary rate, a
13.9 percent decrease in thefts,
and a 15.9 percent decrease in
auto thefts.
So far for the year, total crime
is down 15.7 percent But Shaffer
said there are other areas that
“The major offenses reported
in July 1994 were 6.49 percent
below the number reported in
July 1993,” Shaffer wrote in his
monthly report. “Although the
total number was down, sexuai
voting on the legislation itself. “And
Green said he still does not favor
the assault weapon ban, but added,
Tonight: Mostly fair with a 20
percent chance of showers
and thunderstorms toward
morning. Low in the mid 70s
inland, lower 80s coast.
Saturday: Partly cloudy with
a 30 percent chance of
showers or thunderstorms.
High in the tower 90s inland,
upper 80s coast. Weather art
by Emily Vavrin, Crockett
Elementary.
Shaffer attributed part of July’s
is not an option.”
The legislation calls for 100,000
additional police officers, a ban on
19 assault weapons and other
weapons which look like assault
weapons, and calls for night basket-
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city youth. The legislation also fed-_
“There are too many good things in
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this bill to let it die.
“Manpower shortages due to
Jack Brooks, D-Beaumont, the
House Judiciary Committee chair-
man who fought hard in the early
vacancies, officers being in the
academy and mandatory penal
code update training took a toll
on our pro-active efforts in July,”
Shaffer said. “Hopefully we can
return to pro-active efforts this
month.”
assaults were up substantially
from both the preceding month
and July of 1993.”
Shaffer said die totals in crime
categories for 1994 are very
good. So far, the murder rate is
“The (rate of) major offenses
cleared is down 13.6 percent from
1993,” he said. “This category
definitely needs to be improved.”
Also, Shaffer said traffic acci-
weapon ban from die other legisla-
tion, also voted in favor of the rule to
bring it to the floor. He was not
immediately available for comment
Friday.
die federal death penalty to some 50
crimes. This point angered black
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