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Baytown, Texas 77520
50 Cents Per Copy
Wednesday, April 22,1998
Volume 76, No. 148
Telephone Number: (281) 422-8302
Annexation tops council agenda
At the Baytown City Council’s Thursday
meeting council members, will hear public com-
ment on the proposed annexation of 30 acres
abutting Raccoon Drive, and the proposed adop-
tion of an ordinance regulating sexually oriented
commercial enterprises in the city of Bay town.
The regular meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m.,
and will be preceded by a special executive ses-
sion at 5:30 p.m. during which council members
will discuss pending litigation.
The executive session will be followed by a
work session at 5:50 p.m. during which the
council will discuss the proposed ordinance reg-
ulating sexually oriented commercial enterpris-
es.
The work session and executive session will
be held in the Don M. Hullum Conference
Room at Baytown City Hall, and the regular
council meeting will be held in the council’s
chambers.
Hispanic Chamber awards dinner set
The Hispanic Chamber of Commerce of
Greater Baytown will host its 14th annual Schol-
arships and Awards banquet Thursday night at
the Goose Creek Country Club.
This year’s banquet is themed, “Honoring the
Leaders of Tomorrow,” and will begin with a
cash bar at 6 p.m. and dinner buffet at 7 p.m.
The guest speaker will be NASA astronaut
Franklin R. Chang-Diaz.
The banquet will recognize student scholarship
winners and chamber members, with awards go-
ing to the member of the year, business person of
the year and corporate member of the year.
Tickets for members are $30 each and $38 for
non-members. Student tickets are $10.
To make reservations, call (281) 422-6908.
Wreck
Don Maloney of the
Baytown Emergency
Medical Services
talks to a woman
about to be taken by
helicopter ambu-
lance to Houston.
She was involved in
a two-car accident
that tied up traffic on
Massey-Tompkins
Road around 3 p.m.
Tuesday. The wreck
happened when a
blue Chevy Camara
was hit by a Chevy
Lumina. Two pas-
sengers in the Ca-
mara were injured:
Photo by John Rowland
CAMPAIGN '98
Forum Fas-of
City, school, college candidates stake out positions
By JEORGE ZARAZUA
The Baytown Sun
Candidates for the Goose
Creek school board were flooded
with questions Tuesday night by
participants who drilled them on
wide range of issues — from a
third high school to year-round
schools to sex education.
The school board races drew
the most interest Tuesday, as ex-
pected, at the League of Women
Voters’ “Candidates Forum” held
at City Hall that also featured the
challengers in the Baytown City
Council and Lee College Board
of Regents elections.
Questions posed to those candi-
dates were routine compared to
the ones launched at the five
school board challengers who at-
tended Tuesday’s forum.
Absent were Margarita Cano,
who is seeking the District 2 seat
on the school board; and Lon Au-
gust Duguay and incumbent
James Lewis, who are running for
the school board’s District 4 seat.
Lee College Board of Regents’
candidate David Lewallen was
also missing from the forum, as
was District 6 City Council can-
didate Joan M. Dubiel.
Dubiel, however, did send an
opening statement that was read
at the forum by moderator,
Tracey Wheeler, president of the
Bay town Chamber of Commerce.
Goose Creek school board can-
didates were the last to be ques-
tioned Tuesday and were also the
ones who spent more than one
hour answering questions submit-
ted in writing by he audience.
Answers were not clear-cut
among the challengers, especially
on the issue of building a third
high school.
District 4 candidate Tom Had-
not said he wouldn’t be support-
ive of a third high school when
studies indicate a decline in the
district’s student population.
“We need to look at a long-
range plan for the district,” Had-
not said.
His opponent, the Rev. Henry
Carr, was also unconvinced of the
need for a new campus.
“I don’t think we can do it now,
but I think we need to put it on
the agenda as a long-range plan,”
Carr said.
District 2 candidate Michael
Clement said a third high school
is needed because it was some-
thing the voters wanted.
Clement acknowledged the
money allocated in the 1994 bond
election was not enough, and pro-
posed another bond package to
pay for its funding.
His challenger, Jose Pena, said
the board’s attention needed to be
directed to other more pressing
problems in the district.
“If we can’t, at this time, meet
(teacher’s needs) how can we
meet the needs of new employ-
ees?” Pena asked.
District 2 candidate Raymond
Alexander Edwards was more re-
ceptive to a third high school,
saying the Bayer Chemical Co.’s
expansions will increase student
enrollment.
“We’ll have 2,000 students with
no place to go,” Edwards said.
Differing views were also
voiced by the candidates regard-
ing .year-round schools for stu-
dents.
Clement opposed the idea. Ed-
wards was for it. Pena was against
it, as was Carr.
Hadnot stressed his support for
year-round schools.
“I am all in favor of year-round ’
schools,” he said. “I think the
world evolves around everything
being year-round, except our
schools,” he said.
. On sex education, all candi-
dates agreed education is the
remedy to rising pregnancy rates.
Edwards was more critical, say-
ing the district is failing to pro-
vide proper sex education for stu-
dents.
He said sex eduction programs
should be more widely available,
including those that make con-
doms accessible.
Henry Carr,
left, and Tom
Hadnot were
among the
candidates
who squared
off on Tues-
day night at
the League of
Women Vot-
ers Candi-
dates’ Forum.
Photo by John Rowland
Edwards’ challenger Pena, said
his work as a family social work-
er who often deals with HlV-in-
fected clients has taught him’ that
abstinence is the best policy.
Despite some sharp differences
between school board candidates,
they expressed similar views on
several issues.
They all agreed morale among
teachers was low. They all agreed
raising teacher’s salaries would be
beneficial to the district. And,
they all agreed the district could
improve.
In all, the school board candi-
dates answered about 20 ques-
tions before the moderator called
for closing remarks.
Exxon announces three new Baytown refinery managers
from Ohio University and a master
of science degree in industrial en-
gineering from Texas Tech Univer-
sity.
Porrazzo, formerly coordinator-
Blake Leon
Ethylene Plant in Scotland. rector, Singapore Chemical Com-
Blake has a chemical engineer- plex, Exxon Chemical Asia Pacif-
ing degree from Birmingham Uni- ic.
Exxon announced recently that
three new site managers have been
named at the Baytown refinery
complex. .
Del Blake was named Baytown
Olefins Plant manager; Jose Leon,
Exxon Chemical Plant site manag-
er, and Pete Porrazzo, Engineering
Services U.S. manager.
Blake was formerly an execu-
tive with the Exxon Company
Worldwide Manufacturing Com-
petitiveness Project in Brussels,
Belgium. -
Before his Belgium assignment, versity (England) and a post-grad- Leon, who is returning to Bay-
he served as manager of the Fife uate business administration de- town after assignments in Houston
gree from and Baton Rouge, succeeds Ray for technology at Exxon USA Re-
Manchester Floyd who became Manufacturing fining Headquarters in Houston,
Services manager, Exxon Chemi- has also worked at Baytown
cal Company. Exxon.
Floyd will continue to be located
in Baytown.
Bom in Cuba, Leon was former-
ly Basic Chemicals Americas op-
erations manager, located in Hous-
His international experience in-
cludes serving as Planning and En-
gineering Services manager at the
Fawley Refinery in England.
w , He has a bachelor of science de-
ton. He has a bachelor of science gree in business administration
degree in mechanical engineering from Fairleigh Dickinson Univer-
sity in New Jersey.
Porrazzo succeeds Charlie
Maguire who transferred to the
Baton Rouge refinery as a techni-
cal manager.
Business
School (Eng-
land).
Blake suc-
ceeds Doug
Walker who
has been ap-
Porrazzo Pointed
ufacturing di-
Tied!
Chambers
County
race still
knotted
By BRIAN BROCK
The Baytown Sun
A recount of the ballots for a
Chamber’s County Commissioners
seat on Tuesday revealed a mis-
count — but even with the new
votes, candidates Judy Edmonds
and Bubba Abernathy are still tied.
The two faced each other in the
Democratic party runoff on April
14th, with both candidates receiv-
ing 667 votes each.
The tie meant that the votes had
to be recounted, a process that be-
gan on Tuesday at 10 a m. in the
county courthouse in Anahuac.
The candidates are running to re-
place retiring Precinct 2 Commis-
sioner Sid Desmoreaux and are un-
opposed by a Republican candidate.
The recount committee, overseen
by representatives of both candi-
dates and Guy Jackson, Democrat-
ic chairman of Chambers County,
found four uncounted votes evenly
split between the candidates, brin-
ing the totals to 669 votes each.
State law says that in the event of
a tie, any means that gives the can--
didates an equal chance may be
used to break the tie.
Jackson said that the tie will be
broken by a “casting of lots” to be
held in the Chambers County
Courthouse at 11 a.m. on Monday.
But the candidates say that they
don’t want to have the election go
to a “casting of lots.”
“That’s just no way to end this
thing,” said Abernathy, owner of an
Anahuac meat market.
He said that he hopes that further
investigation of voting irregularities
will break the tie.
Jackson said there were irregu-
larities in several precincts includ-
ing one less vote in the Precinct 2
ballot box than there were on the
poll list.
In addition, it was discovered that
at least one person voting in the
Republican primary voted in the
Democratic runoff, who, if the
election is contested, could be com-
pelled by state law to testify under
oath who received that vote. That
vote would then be invalidated.
Weather
Wednesday: Mostly sunny
with highs in the 70s.
Thursday: Mostly sunny,
cooler in the morning.
Art by Carol Leoke
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 148, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 22, 1998, newspaper, April 22, 1998; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1176583/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.