News, The (Newspaper) - August 4, 1977, Friendswood, Texas Win License To page B The News Pearland And Leading Weekly i library 416 Side Toxas 01 01 Sop 5 OTHER EDITIONS SERVING HARRIS COUNTY SECOND POSTAGE TEXAS AUGUST 1977 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 33 FIFTEEN CENTS FWD Minimum Gas Rate Going Up conn In certain areas and the natural gas rate will Increase for Friendswood At Its Monday night meet the city council approv ed the ordinance decreasing the speed limits along FM 628 and PM An engi neering and traffic study I revealed that because of an I increase In traffic along roads a decrease la speeds Is 518 range from For along 618 from 60 feet north of Lottie Lane to 168 feet north of Echo Lane wO be 40 mph It Is now 46 At one 168 feet north of 2361 to 174 feet north of Echo It Is now 45 It wul be SO The new speed ranges on FM 628 be from 4546 and on from 20 school tone to 65 The council also passed an ordinance authorizing to Increase gas The minimum monthly residen tial will be and commercial wul be Under resignations and Clyde Raney resigned his council seat effective He Is being transferred town by his tUze was appointed to the planning vacancy left by Ken The council appointed as surface water In other the council held an open hearing on annexation of Polly Following the a notion was made and passed to post the annexation bid on the first A report was given by the Street and Bridge Bono Committee concerning the It was reported that a be submitted by September concerning areas of 628 needing Improve Traffic engineers have that 528 at Briar Creek would need to be straightened because then have been 20 accidents there In the last two The committee Is also looking Into the intersection of and Briar Creek and Its to FM It was also stated that concerning the pro posed Improvement of certain streets would be sent out to an voters next The funds would come from the bond money to be voted on August Bids wen opened for a garbage tuck at Mondays Council Two wen and were referred to the city Police Beat Maybe Its The Heat Pear lander Charged In Friendswood Theft PEARLAND Last a flasher struck This week it was A Pearland woman reported to police that a man described as a heavyset In his 20s pulled behind her house and exposed himself Sunday The man was driving a car described as a TOs model blue and white Plymouth This matches the description of a vehicle which tried to pick up a 7 yearold girl in last Police Chief Glen Stanford said the department has some leads in the FRIENDSWOOD A furniture mover turned himself over to police Tuesday afternoon after being charged earlier with stealing an expensive hand gun from the home of and Joe 604 Charged with theft Is albert Dale Box Detective James Sprague said he hopes at least one other person be charged with theft In the which began shortly after the Carpenters moved to Friendswood from Houston In The the gon apparently had gone un noticed until police called the Carpenters on July 21 and told thorn a gun with their Identification on it hsd boon recovered Croin man arrested for having MM Biina and two other men moved the Carpenters to their new He said a valuable camera and perhaps in cash wen also listed as missing from the Womans Car Shot UP A Ticket Thief PEARLAND No one is immune from even the Pearland Police A small entry in the police report shows that last between and a notebook and a ticket complete with were taken from a patrol car parked in front of the Then an no Husband Just Wanted His Thats All PEARLAND Assault charges have been brought against two Pearland men after one of them allegedly fired at a moving car with a According to Pearland Angela Burk of Pear land had earlier told her husband Reuben that she did not want her around the Burk reportedly told Burk to leave the house or ho would blast her Burk told police she took all of the guns from the put them in the trunk of her and When she returned to the house later to get a phone her husband and cno of his Randy wore at the Burk asked his wife to open the trunk so he could get some When he saw the she he tried to grab She said she imped into the ear and as Why Does This Doggie Have The Blahs See Page 2 she drove away she said she heard two loud Later examination by Houston and Pearland police showed two bullet holes in the back of the Police went to the Burk residence arrested Burk and They also arrested his and daughter inlaw Gary was charged with burglary of a Mary was re leased to Houston police on a traffic Photo by Louis Ifs 563 Proof wen In order last week when the City of received a from of taxes collected oo drinks during May and A total of was paid to the state by local operators who serve mixed Pearland got Houston was given 1523460 from la tax Friends wood City James says hes not exactly ton how the city wm spend the No party Is Photo by Louis Resident Seeks earand Traffic To Halt Erosion Deaths Increase Rowland Bellard spoke to City Council Monday night concerning the maintenance of Wilderness He requested that the dty put shell on that section of toad by Creek and the city or the Before the area was annexed by Amoco put shell on the road because they used According to William dty once the road Is it is Tn n k d El the He TS the first dty to explained that the erosion Wether to begin a nance or not on ine council asked the city manager to look Into the problem and suggest tive Hal of Tower Estates asked the council to Install speed limit signs on Estate and Mandell He said that an Increase In traffic and has left only one foot of ground outside his when It rains I am In who la an area City Manager Jim Morgan told the council that the portion of the road In question Is used only by Bellard and la o county dedicated not being maintained by either 20 mph The request was referred to the dty Also at the the dty presented a check to the University ting Boards Exchange Pro The check made dty In the The dty has been partici pating with the University of Lake City in the program In which law enforcement students spend an Internship with the Police Depart ment to get experi The interns work PEARLAND Two weekend deaths caused by traffic accidents have raised the number of 1077 traffic deaths In to compared to only one during Kathleen of Des died early Sunday morning In She was Involved In a headon don Thursday morning on Five other people wen Injured In that Castillo also died Sunday of Injuries sustained in a July 20 at the Intersection of 618 and Winding Floras was a City of Pearland Police Chief Glen Stanford said then is no cause for concern at the Increase In traffic When youre talking about such small statistics dont make a lot of ho The chief did say that the police department was being tough with traffic meeds along the road have under Lou Loud In Commu made it a necessity to post The Pearland Senior AllStars beat El Campo 24 Tuesday night In the first round of the state finals in John tossed a and Rene Resales slammed a two run double to pace the
