Journal (Newspaper) - January 3, 1980, Friendswood, Texas Texas 836820 published by Flo Publishing 317 Stoond elm It at a Send address to Box Exod 200 quit most taking option vT i going up mark progress on expansion of the wood Public Board member Ken Gilbreath looking forward to a grand opening on June funded by tax bonds voted last will add square feet to the present by Steve Weaver squeak under old rules riA ENGEL a year end a hall ago city council stiffened ding code for multiple BS to require fire f walls from the foundation I between each separate IB more the council pro any electrical or other 1 services within or I those here are 154 new apart f its presently under con in which city official Don Rives ao ged are planned to con lithe citys former code for code required only in slain tiff th wife Nassau Bay man and killed by his wife Nay after the couple had called Nassau ceat AM Sunday to fiat she had shot her hus n with 22 caliber was taken by ambulance t Uka Hospital where he gunshot wound In I at occurred at the townhouse In the Queens at 1783 Sax lEnsey claimed the shoot T saying she to hit her husband red the to police that her husband had been before the Bailor has been referred a grand Jury to decide W charges should be i chief Jim Bowen said the would probably con within 10 fire resistant walls be tween permitted serv ice lines In these walls and allowed a maximum of square feet of open space In the attic above the ceilings of the Rives explained that the city Is not enforcing Its present code because the new apartments are being built under a permit he originally Issued almost four years ago and which he has been extend ing from time to time at the Instructions of city manager Billy Rives said building permits expire after a year unless the city grants an It was certainly not the intent of the city council at the time the code was changed that the city See 10 BY PHILIP TYSON 200 people left the employ of Johnson Space Center at the end of most of them exercising an early retirement option provided by the space At least 180 of them stepped out under retire ment whereby employees who reach age 50 with 25 years federal service and those age 55 3 nabbed in armed robberies Officer Larry Collins arrested three Friendswood men as sus In two gunpoint store The Friendswood patrolman said he arrested the men at AM Friday on FM 528 Just outside the Harris County Collins Identified the men as David a construction worker of 303 Stratmore Kurt a cook of 711 and Jon a cook of 16339 Forest They C were all charged with aggravated The first Collins took place at AM Friday at a convenience store at 1101 Pine Drive In Dickinson the at AM at the 711 store on FM 528 near Sun The robbers made away with from the Dickinson store and from the Sun Meadow Collins In both he one of the robbers wielded a caliber Both convenience store clerks gave police a detailed description of the suspects and the vehicle they Collins The Friendswood trio matched this he and they later gave written statements admitting their role In the Police later recovered a revolver and a womans stock Ing that they believe the men used during the The suspects were transferred later Friday to the Galveston County Jail where each faced a As of only had not posted bond and remained In Officer Bruce Doughty assisted Collins during the with 20 years service can retire and still receive close to a full Normal for federal workers Is age 65 with 30 years of which can Include military service end years with other Although the JSC personnel office denies any surprise at the mass some of the retirees said NASA had been only expect ing around 50 or 80 people to exercise the option by the 31 the space agency In made retirement an attractive option for some of Its longtime workers In an effort to partially revamp Its work Hayes of the personnel office said the plan Is a tool that has been used by several federal Including that are undergoing re Hayes said JSC was changing Its mission from the development and engineering for the space shuttle to the actual operation of the He said this change would Involve either many of the present employees or hiring new people with new The plan Is one way of See 10 There was business as usual or for volunteer emergency crews In the waning hours of Here Friendswood technicians are rescuing Douglas who was trapped In his car after It veered off FM 2351 and struck a power pole near Beamer A Nassau Bay teenager and a Dickinson baby died In other yearend traffic accidents In the See a roundup on Page 1 Stolen mail recovered police recovered an assortment of Including more than In which apparently had been rifled out of mall boxes in the Green Tee Terrace Police arrested five suspects and charged them with criminal Officer answering a call at 1 AM Sunday about suspicious vehicles In Green said he saw two parked vehicles on Country Club Drive and noticed a stack of mall In one of Police also found more mall strewn along Country Club Drive and Green Tee Detective Mark Humphries said the attorneys office refused to file mall theft The five all from were put under They are Gene John Morales Robert Buddy Ca and Samuel Willis Also over the New Years holiday Dennis Burl Bailey of 3400 East Walnut re ported that his 1979 Ford valued at was stolen from the apartment complex parking lot sometime between Saturday night and Sunday Bailey said the vehicle was locked and that he had the keys In his Only one traffic accident was reported during an otherwise very quiet New Years Eve In David of Pearland was taken to Community Hos pital to have a head laceration stitched up after a collision on East Dispatcher to rise above squabbles While many of his fellow citizens were re covering from their New Years Eve fes Pearland tax Jim DeShazer was out bright and early Tuesday armed with a camera and looking for goodies for the citys 1980 tax Under state taxes are levied on the basis of the taxpayers property as of Photo by Selma Engel BY STEVE WEAVER The Friendswood city dispatch system long the frazzled rope In a tug of war between the fire and police departments will be getting an administrative facelift this City manager Jim Morgan said that he will be hiring a chief dispatcher in January who will have the status of a department head and report directly to him rather as in the to the police Whoever gets the new city job will be responsible for supervising the daytoday operation of the dispatch and with training new Morgan said that police chief Mitch Wright and fire chief BUI Wllcox will sit In on Interviews with applicants for the new dis patch but that the final choice for the post will be The city manager acknowledged that this administrative change was being made with an eye toward giving the dispatch office a more independent For some the operation of the office has been an underlying source of tension between the fire and police On the one the fire department has long maintained that dispatch personnel need to be better and to have a closer working relationship with fire and ambulance Firefighters In the past have pointed to dispatching errors during fires as evidence of the need for On the other dispatchers do spend most of their working time handling police and some policemen feel that the dis patchers present close relation ship with the police and the dispatch offices location within the police department Is en tirely For their dispatchers often express frustration at their mid dleman role In this and confide that they have been un fairly made the whipping boy for both Some say they feel torn between unrealistic demands for perfection
