News, The (Newspaper) - September 22, 1977, Friendswood, Texas The News Pearland And Leading Weekly Public Library Texas 01 01 Sop 7 5 OTHER EDITIONS HARRIS SECOND CLASS POSTAGE PAID TEXAS SEPTEMBER 1977 VOLUME 7 ISSUE 40 Casual Dress Is But There Ye Limits Pearland Police Arrest Two Houstonians Flaunting Dress Code PEARLAND A local was booming late Saturday night after a Yellow Cab out of Houston pulled in with a nude girl in the front According to investigating Jules a motorist flagged him down and said the cab had nearly forced him off South Main a few minutes Bertothy looked in the cab and saw a nude female and a partially nude man behind the Bertothy was assisted by officer Tommy LeClere who had getting the woman to put her clothes back on and getting She wanted to get out with out her clothes according to their A man eating a hamburger in a nearby car got choked on it and had to be taken away in an The man was helped by the who tried to get him to swallow some according to The capper to the wild evening came after police had charged the Tommy Lynn of Continued on pace 2 Teen Charged In Fatality va m I Si Ij DETECTIVE Sargent Jimmy Sprague poses with stolen CB by the original which the police department hopes PEARLAND Houston was charged Tuesday morning with failure to stop and render aid in a accident Saturday night that took the lite of Lyle Gregory also from was struck Saturday night around midnight on Main near the ceme Robinson was pronounced dead on the Death was attri buted to massive head Robinsons body was tound by Automobile Kills Man Saturday Tuesday After she and her lawyer came Judge Henry JP Precinct read her her rights and then she made a According to the girl said the man suddenly jump ed right Into the outside northbound The girl said she swerved to the left but was unable to miss the Immediately after strik Ing the the girl said she pulled to the shoulder and The passengers In the car were some yelling for her to i Going Gone I Police Eyeing Fire Sale FRIENDSWOOD Police Department B may be going Into sales business The merchandise stolen items the police have but the owners have not R We are drowning in Hall this Police Chief Mitch Wright CB and even some junk cars are among the items gather Ing dust at the police Wright said the City of Houston disposes such material by selling It If it is not recovered after ninety Wright Is asking City Council here to pass an ordinance permitting the department to do The price of the items would be determined to a large extent by their condi tion and buyer The policy of the Houston Police Depart ment is to find the item In a retail If It is In good they price it at about onethird to one halt of Its retail Wright The proceeds from the sales would go Into the Citys General Wright The Police Chief could not say when the Items would go on the An ordinance Is not something you pass over he It could take two weeks or two There were four Houston Juvenile pas sengers in the run vehicle besides the One of these youths went into the Pearland Police station Monday and made a statement to Detective Ron Coleman went to the home of the The girl was not there but Coleman found the CAT and bad it towed to the An attorney for the young girl called Coleman on Monday and said the girl would surrender Pot Bust At Local Drive At Local FOREST BEND Houston police raided a home Tuesday night and arrested two residents for having estimated to tie worth around Charged posses sion of marijuana were Gary Hugh and both of 16631 Bond has been set at for Curtis and for Taylor in District Court according to Officer Martinson of the Houston Curtis and Taylor were arrested after a search of their home uncovered 107 pounds of Martinson estimated the street value of the marijuana to be be tween and go she Others urged her to One youth tried to get out of the car to help the man but the door was jammed The girl panicked and drove The 71 Ford Galaxy was heavily Coleman said the girl told a relative someone had hit the ear at the VFW Coleman said other officers bad talked with the girlfriend of the dead The woman told the officers that she and Robinson had been arguing prior to the and that he had gotten out of her car at Toms Self Service which was only a few blocks from the scene of the The case has been referred to Juvenile The girl has been released to her parents pending further Juvenile court Funeral services were held Tuesday at 2 for Robinson at Funeral Inter ment was at Forest Park Clark May Miss Game FRIENDSWOOD Mustang Running Back Brad Clark suffered a slight concussion after Friday nights win over He may see limited or not action at all In the Mustangs game Rice Con tomorrow at Mustang who also plays began feel Ing bad Saturday and underwent tests which uncovered the He couldnt remem ber having been hit head coach Henry Winston told the NEWS Clark played tne entire game Friday and gained 38 yards in 13 Morgan Suggests Friendswood Contract For Street Sweeping Along Curbs and Gutters FRIENDSWOOD City Manager Jim Morgan has recommend ed that the City look into the possibility of contracting a company to clean the streets peri Morgan told The There Is getting to be quite an accumula tion of debris along curbs and It Impedes drainage and is Morgan said he was going to find out how o street cleaning service would cost and relay this Information Continued on pace 2 Pearland VFW Commander Is Dead 14 Wrecks In One Year And Edgewood Said Accident Prone PEARLAND Johnle past commander for VFW Post 7109 in Pearland and long time city employee passed away at Wed Hall had been 111 over a year and had been hospitalized for approximately two Hall was commander of VFW Post 7109 for many years and was loved by all who knew He was a member of the Military Order of the pup tent Hall worked for many years as a mechanic for the City of After being stricken with cancer In early Hall had taken an extensive sick leave and only recently had re turned to Hall had pneumonia mately two weeks ago and was admitted to Diagnostic Hospital where he died Flags will fly at half mast in the City of Pearland for the re mainder of the Hall Is survived by his wife Ann sons Hall Gary Lyn Hall grandchildren Troy and Kelly Hall all of Funeral services will be held Saturday at South Park Funeral Home at 10 LOREN WOOD Seeks 4 Wood Says He City Post FRIENDSWOOD Loren a member of the citys original Charter told the NEWS Monday that he plans to run for City Council Position vacated In July by Clyde who has lived In since sold he will for mally file be fore the 8 filing Wood has been In civic affairs since coming serving not only on the Charter in which wrote the present city but was a member of the Charter In He has served on planning com of the Friends wood Independent School District a team and ad ministrator In local Little League and or the first kid football leagues in Pearland and was the first president of the Colts Booster Wood works at TRW Defense and Space Sys tems as manager of ad systems Woods and his wife live at 905 Cowards Creek He has n 19 yearold attending Alvin Junior College a 19 yearold at Texas and o 21 yearold daugh at Wheaton He also has a married John of Friends Church Is the church of his and he Is one of the founders and leaders of the Friends wood Community Pray er Breakfast and i Interim study report by Traffic Engineers of Houston shows the corner of FM 618 and Edgewood the most likely spot to have an auto i The conducted at the request of Pearland I and covers a period from July to June Fourteen auto colli sions happened at the double the number of those at three other dangerous inter at Briar Contract To Revalue PEARLAND In a special meeting of the Pearland School board Tuesday the board accepted the bid of Ad Velorum to re valute property In Pear land for the 19771978 school 618 at 628 and Sunset at Falling According to City Manager Jim the study Is not com but in two or three weeks the final segment should be In the hands of city The study is mainly funded by the Federal The cities have contributed or 10 percent of the Main State Highway 35 at Orange was the biggest auto accident site in the with 26 during a 12 month peri od beginning August 1976 through July 31 of this The study also showed that over a threeyear from there were five and four acci dents hi Two pedestrians were struck at South Friends wood Drive near the only location to have more than The study recom mends the city consider the use of Community Development Funds or other sources for financ ing walk paths wherever suffi cient exists or can be acquired for pedestrian The study shows there were three fatal auto accidents thus far this all on either FM 618 or F all were caused by driver Widening of both roads and construction of either a twoway left turn lane or median was recommended by the In to help prevent fatal auto the report suggested widening and constructing a twoway left turn along both State Highway 35 and FM Four fatal accidents hove been recorded in Pearland during the first six months of this Except for an crash on Knapp all have been on 35 or A oar plowed into this unoccupied damage to a homeon Creek Line Road In Forest Bend Tuesday afternoon doing extensive
