La Marque Times (Newspaper) - September 2, 1987, La Marque, Texas tp Baytown LM football opens at home against Lee See Page IB Pickles cool off thi See Page IB Neil Frank to speak in See Page 4A class of See Page 5B On the soapbox again Lloyd Criss speaks in favor of wagering See Page lOA Bank HOAG 30(MS BUCK Great Great Great Cars Warranty Prices DON'S CARS 938-1234 YOUR NEWSPAPER SINCE 1947 THK LA 2. BFI to collect LM contract saves The cost of residential and light commercial garbage collection will fall a year under a contract awarded to Inc. at a special City Council meeting The will drop proposed city spending for 1987-1988 to the lowest level in four BFI will begin picking up the city's trash Sept. 28. The company plans to use two new with three workers to do the A seventh employee will drive a The city now uses three with three men on to pick up A three-man crew is responsible for brush which handles refuse that can't be loaded into a truck by two To collect trash and brush with five fewer BFI plans to start a six-day work week and make route The company has prepared the new routes and would like to run them on its first work Bob BFI marketing changes must be approved by and customers notified through the newspaper and before they can go mto Mayor Carlton Getty said it was but not that route changes would be accepted and notices sent out in time for a Sept. 28 The city will continue to hill residents for trash but BFI will post a local phone number for customers with questions about their Under the terms of the BFI must offer jobs to displaced Sanitation Department employees who meet their See Contract Page 9A Council ups pay for city Staff Writer City Council decided unanimously Monday to use of the savings contracting for residential garbage collection to boost iah across-the-board pay raise from 2 to 5 That combined with a decision to reserve the Jaua Sea a 5iftJ|U}�r- balance for emergency think the employees deserve Mayor Carlton after council's special haven't had an out-and-out raise for five Some benefits were cut three years so city employees have lost Getty La Marque employees received a cost-of-living raise in 1986. Last the city began a step plan which raised some salaries while freezing others in a city produces are Getty By showing the people who provide the services that City Council is behind the raise will boost making the money spent worth he When asked how council justified higher city salaries in light of La economic hard Getty said he was sorry for the truly but that didn't mean who are employed oughtn't be paid commensurate with the talk about a he might be a strike against Higher city pay would mean more money running through the local he Getty said the larger raise wouldn't cut too deeply into the fund Conservative estimates for revenue from sales municipal court fines and property tax collection in the final mean reserves will exceed he Councilman Pete Rygaard said City Council was united in supporting the pay was a general consensus that we were not precarious as a he The proposed in its final meets the goals set by Mayor Pro Tern Jack Neuner See Pay Page 9A Timei photo by La Marque resident Capt. Karl Fanning how bearings are taken on the S.S. Ruth Sights set on 7 seas Times to follow LM captain as he sails the world By JAMES HARTSFIELD Managing Editor Karl Fanning could be like any La Marque homeowner and except that when Fanning heads to he checks in for a And before he clocks out this he'll have logged 25,000 miles and circled the Fanning is the captain of a Lykes Steamship Lines the S.S. Ruth in the merchant As of he should be churning out of the dulf ' 8A_^ into the Carribean His voyage will take him around the Cape of Good across the Indian through the Java and China across the Pacific Ocean and through the Panama Canal before re-entering the And Fanning plans to take a part of his hometown with by sending a narrative of his voyage back to La His journies will be featured in The Times as he writes them while his trip hopefully one article every other The world encircling voyage is a rarity for Lykes Fanning said This is the first of its kind he has taken m 20 years in the merchant Most Lykes vessels run on regularly scheduled much like the trucking industry but on a global When not sailing the seven Fanning lives on Carriage Lane in La with his a teacher at St. Michael's Episcopal and three His is a varsity cheerleader for the Cougars this and his twin Trevor and are students at Bayou Road Elementary His job is Fanning but for every day he he has a day off - though most of his trips last for once in a I miss things like It's just part of See Captain Page 8 A Schools OK tax base gains Staff Writer Increased property values represent a pleasing new La Marque Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Mike Moses said Thursday before the Board of Trustees approved the 1987 Galveston Central Appraisal District tax rolls for the school The district experienced a million gain in property values this worth about in new The larger tax base is mainly due to a new power Northern Cogeneration with an estimated value of Without the power the tax base would have primarily because of million in lost value at Union Moses the highest percentage jump in property values was in real farm and ranch Moses As a single and residences increased slightly in he After the Moses said the district was lucky to have benefitted from the new power Without a smaller tax base and higher residential values might have signaled a tax Trustees also approved an effective tax rate calculation of about per of appraised The effective tax rate is the rate needed to generate last year's revenue from this year's tax Since the district intends to maintain its tax rate of per of appraised 7.2 percent over See Schools Page 9A Police pop 3 in wine burglary photo by Jim Kleit Cedar Dr. closed stopped last week as workers replaced a 6-inch iron water line on Cedar Drive with a 12-inch PVC the line should up the flow and improve the quality of the area's La Marque police arrested three Texas City teenagers Aug. 26 in connection with a burglary at Texas Super Foods at the intersection of Texas 3 and Cedar Officers found about 15 bottles of wine in the back seat of a car being driven by one of the Police Chief Larry Crow The wine had been taken from a storage building beside the grocery Two 16-year-old boys and their 14-year-old female companion were charged with burglary of a The three were released the store from Aug. 12 through 20. The crime was reported to police Aug. 27. Police Beat Burglars Friday may have gained entrance to a house in the County juvenile 3900 block of Texas Avenue by prying open a front reports reports last A microwave oven and toaster oven were the estimated of items reported missing from the to Galveston In other police Texas Super was also the victim of a who passed six bad amounting to kt
