Times In La Marque (Newspaper) - August 15, 1974, La Marque, Texas Ex-convict prays for gets job answers By CATHY GILLENTINE Times Managing Editor have learned to pray for what I and I want God tells me 'the way to earn said Artis ' Darden Is an with New Directions telling about his work around the He spoke to members of the La Marque kiwanis Club giving a blow-by-blow account of how he got into how he now stays out of It. I was 17,1 was sent to I spent most of the 20 years And 1 learned a lot about how to tap tills and get pot and all kinds of evil believe if first offenders would be released after the first 90 days or so of before they get over being a lot wouldn't come I know I wouldn't But when I finally decided they weren't going to kill or make a out of I settled down to learning all the things the sharpies had to I am trying to keep people out of and help those who have served time settle Into the main thing they have to know is their own I go to Graves and to tihe and I try to instill In each person who feels sorry for himself that there are millions of job op- for those who will take are plenty of low-level skills to be and a man who can do the best yard who can polish windows so that they have to put tape on them so no one will talk through man will always have a have learned about the power of God within me and the voice that tells me to do and to do I have learned not to listen to that voice that tells me to do That's not God work with the Gulf Coast Retardation helping people in seven and we have a record of rehabilitation here In the Only one man has been back to And I hope he have a house on Nine-Mile Road in and we have people on parole working here in La Marque and another ready to leave the They are all holding jobs and doing who are working with New Directions are all graduates of the Retrieve Unit of the Prison called the Black Maximum Security Prison at one were sent there to one way or We were the hopeless But one day I saw a toothless and walking down the way and he was couldn't read or write and his wife hadn't come to see him and he suspected that she had a boyfriend and that the man who had been writing letters for him had been telling So I wrote for him and he got an answer and found out she had tried to come and the man she had paid to bring her for the visit didn't show never forget the look on his I don't want to ever forget that was the turning I found out that I could help and that It made me feel good to help And I did a turn All the Bible stories I had decided weren't true came back and I believed began to help each and to form a club to get the work have the best the cleanest the quietest And the warden heard about it and decided to help went from maximum security to and we saved Uie state a lot of The warden took me out of the fields and gave me a job inside as a And five of us began working in New Directions as we got hear a lot about prison but prison Is not a bad Nothing is really there needs to be more people to go in and provide hope for these It is set up to provide security training people in good work used to think there was no I was a con and an and there was no hope for got out and went home to find a job and I walked the streets all day with 64 Then I asked a lady if I could wash her I did hers and then all her got a job in a belt and I didn't try to be as fast as their best but I tried to get more belts out of the same piece of And 1 got needed extra a week for a ride to work and 1 asked the Lord and he to the newspaper office and ask for a job as part-time this editor was the kind who would write a frontpage editorial on the to But I and I and he gave me a ream of yellow paper and put me to And they had never even had a black I became the porter who covered City My first story was published on October 19, 1967 and was called Plight of the I. was the and only black employee they ever read a Success System that Never by W. Clement It taught me to pray for what I need and to listen for the works all the OUT f UN AT BENITO'S PRIVATE DINING ROOM ORDERS TO 60 935-9018 Read by more than 5,000 families in LaMarque CO. V 1225 Linton 935-6981 we process insurance Claims complete glass service 24 HOUR Vol. No. 2 La Texas 77568 Thursday August 15, 1974 Sicond dm paid at La Poil Undar an Act qI March Council hears pleas OMER POORMAN of the Texas Highway work in the county to members of the Council of Chambers of Commerce and the Commissioners by CATHY GILLENTINE Times Managing Editor Several citizens from the St. area appeared at city council last night to ask council aid in something about the noise and mess at Roosevelt Taylor construction Mrs. Lois Arthur and were protesting In behalf of sick and elderly people who are disturbed by the heavy construction equipment being moved Cohen diesels sound like jets taking and it would take a half-acre for him to die in if somebody put this stuff near his home Mayor George Freeborn suggested that the objecting neighbors go to Taylor with their petition and If they couldn't get any that they go to health departing regarding the noise other - City Attorney Allen Lemer said as best there were no deed restrictions on with which Cohen Councilmen Dennis and both commented on the fact there was no zoning and the city could do unless there were violations of the Another this one for street was presented by Poorman probes paving plans R. M. representing the property owners on Sunset McDonald said all the property owners would in the cost and that the street had not been paved In 20 Mayor Freeborn promised to put the petition on the priority list for next year's street Alex representing the homeowners of Lake asked that something be done about an unfinished house on that He reported construction was begun and then stopped about 18 months ago and that the house is an attractive nuisance to children and an to the He also said It would be dangerous in a as the house only of framing and a plywood He was asked to confer with City Manager Jack Treaster steps to take toward condemnation The house is owned by Bayshore Sayings in who are asking for is. On the recommendation of the park the park on Magnolia St. was officially named Jaycee Park and the park donated by the Catholic church was named Lagana Treaster made a report of efforts to clean up wrecking stating that charges had been filed on 12 owners or renters of In corporation nine were two cases were dismissed and one has been Treaster further stated that another check by health department would probably result in further charges if wrecking yard owners are unable to qualify for He also stated the wrecking yard permit is the only city permit which does not presently carry a He recommended that no study of the ordinance be made until a follow-up of enforcement Is Commenting on a letter from the Federal Communication Councilman Feddersen said the city should seriously consider accepting the three percent of gross offered on the cable television Representatives of Bayou Cablevision will be invited to the next Questions about work on 1765 and on 911 emergency dialing will be looked into by the city manager for later Speed zones of 45 mph on the freeway and 35 mph on frontage roads were passed to be effective during construction on IH 45. The Texas Highway Department also reported a traffic light will be Installed by them at the Intersection of IH 45 and Main St. The firm of Guynes and were for the annual to the Planning Board were tabled until the next with Councilman Pyne abstaining from A for was paid to Paving for ditch work on Johnson and Cherry Treaster reported that trash Is being Wednesday and Friday at the park and restrooms cleaned those He also reported he was checking the park every day and was planning the installation of a street light near the He also reported the engineering firm of Charles R. Halle and Associates was preparing cost figures toward the Step I EPA By CATHY GILLENTINE Times Managing Editor Omer District Director of Texas Highway filled in members of the Galveston County Council of Chambers Commerce and of the Commissioners Court on the status of projects in the The report had been as several members felt work in the county was not progressing as it are suffering from the same inflation you have at said of our prices have and much of the income from the gasoline tax has people who had put off taking vacations are beginning to so we may catch up with the gasoline tax Some of the work has been delayed and many of the nonessentials have been cut out this We have not painted guard posts and we have done less mowing and trash And we've had of we have avoided leaving out important maintenance of road surfaces and safety Galveston County from 1958-1973, we spent some million on construction and We collected million in the county in fees and the present we have 15 projects under construction at a cost of close to million and If we keep on in the next months we will let other contracts for So we will have done more in the last year than we have in the last 15. Industrial Boulevard is now in the planning stages and we hope to do it. 518 from League City to Friendswood is under construction and about 41 per cent We hope to complete it in 1975. plans for 518 are In the with environmental statements and hearings being set 270, which is from Clear Creek to Clear started as a rush job and we have stubbed our We have people wanting hearings and so we have to have but it is for the High Island Bridge are being done in we know we need 1765 real And that project is We were ready to and then the federal commission asked for an environmental which we are in the process of clearing We think we are about four months from letting Highway 197 plans should be finished in but we have outfalls and utility lines to be worked road from College of the Mainland to Highway 6 has been designated FM 2399 and we are working on Surveys have been mostly from the 3 south of League City to 146, now must have an air quality with a public hearing later this are completing acquisition of way on 1764 and studying the bridge needed over Clear hired a consulting engineer to work up costs for a bridge to replace the ferry to and his figures showed which we couldn't face up I talked to him the other and he said it would probably cost million excepit you couldn't get anyone to bid It. So we have nautical architects drawing plans for improvement of the ferries or for building new but with all the navy yards full and steel hard to come that may take a long have plans to let two more contracts on IH 45, one in September and one in December and will do million worth of Asked about SH 517 in Poorman not much chance of getting that on the program for a long with all the work we have to Police nab auto theft suspect A La Marque Fred Douglas was charged by police with theft of an automobile following a chase from FM 1765 to just outside At 5:50 p.m. La Marque officers were alerted that a car had been stolen from the parking lot of James Crowder Funeral Home on Texas Ave. Larry Crow spotted the car at FM 2004 and the West frontage The subject was heading north on IH 45 at the Crow pursued the vehicle and stopped it just south of Dickinson where Holloway and the car were taken into of 2407 Boss in La was charged in Judge M. E. Leonard's court and bond was set at The vehicle was then released to the Charges of attempted murder were filed against a La Marque woman following a shooting incident at a residence Charged with attempted murder was Etta Butler of 118 Brown Drive in La According to police Thomas of No. 40 Astor Place in Jersey New suffered a wound in the right Police stated that Mrs. Butler had a pistol in her hand when they arrived at the She was charged and bond set at in Judge M. E. Leonard's The shooting was investigated by Sgt. Larry patrolmen David and J. W. Sgt. Frank Walker and Patrolman Glen Volkman Investigated a burglary at 1808 this After about an hour of searching in a nearby field the officers recovered all of the items The items included a tape and an AM-FM clock Chamber seeks listing The Texas Marque area wants off the of the Environmental Protection and sent a statement to that effect to EPA offices in The area has been designated by the Texas Air Control Board as an Air Quality Maintenance Members of the Chamber of Commerce feel that the designation is not as it is Schools get reach more Tims Topics n La Happy birthday to LEROY CAREY on August 16; CATHY GILLENTINE on August 17 and MRS. DON RODIE on August 18. Congratulations to MR. and MRS. J. C. MANNING on August 17 when they will celebrate their 40th wedding Also wedding anniversary congratulations to MR. and MRS. ORLANDO BLACKBURN on August 18. SCOTT LINSCOMB of U. returned home this after a with his brother and HOWARD LINSCOMB SR. and other FREEMAN of Los Angeles was the house guest of his EMMA He also visited with relatives and friends in La. RACHEAL WADE has returned home after a visit with and friends in and MRS. L. J. BROWN are in Nacogdoches visiting his who is ill. By CATHY GILLENTINE Times Managing Editor in 1961 when we first came out with a printed curriculum I said it would take a student about 12 to IS years to take all the courses at La Marque High said Dr. Eugene ' assuming that none of them changed in the time it would take more like 30 or 40 he that would never because courses are added too We 225 different courses scheduled this Superintendent of the La Marque School spoke to members of the La Marque Rotary Club about the opportunities and goals of the local have heard you are not like they used to and I can agree with you They're not even like they were five years The rules and regulations you are now learning to follow we have been following for six or eight So you can appreciate what we have put up have made great strides in La even with all the We think more students are getting a better education now than ever has been but I can prove It. In the past few years we have worked hard to reach every improving the curriculum at the high school and Junior as well as the younger know we are now on the quarter When this was first and then foisted upon the we were told that it would be a proposition to have schools open year after surveying students and teachers we have found that everyone's idea of when to take a vacation is different and we would probably have to place We will probably not go into a true four-quarter system for a long so we schedule three quarters from mid-August to the last of 1961-62 we published a course and had requests from 30 states and several foreign countries for a copy of it. Members of our staff have also been guest speakers at state-wide meetings to explain our methods of setting up high schools are weighed by the recognition of their athletic program and while we are proud of our we are also proud of our programs in math and we built the high schooli we installed a big trophy If you will go you'll see we already need another the English which is now called we have ail sorts of the and several advanced placement and premium courses designed for those who really want to get down to work and have classes for the because of a new teacher with special and are taking students from neighboring school courses include analytical probability and statistics and many students get college credit for have 23 different vocational subjects ranging metal and wood co-operative homemaking to radio repair and office Our three-year DB and VOB programs have students working all over the based on air samplings taken in 1971 and 1972. The Environmental Concern Committee of the chamber drafted the substantiated by four statistical to show that 1973 readings are well below the maximums for emissions of particulate matter and sulphur This report was made to the Chamber of Commerce Board meeting Monday by Manager Les who further stated that the maintenance area designation hampered the expansion of present plants and the growth of new ones in the Presiding in the absence of president Harvey Preston Temple also appointed a committee to nominate new board composed of L. B. Ed Lucy R. E. Foster and Dr. Jerome New members accepted included National Southern Instruments and Betty Kadlicek yy OPEN m DRIVE CAREFULLY \1
