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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1971
Page
1
Baytown City Council will meet at 6:30 p.m. Thursday at City Hall with the annual audit report and a consultant's report on water quality on the agenda. Also, the Baytown Planning Commission will meet at 7 p.m. the same day.
FAIR AND continued mild through Thursday is the Bay town area weather forecast. Temperature range from lower 50s to upper 60s. MORGAN'S POINT tides for Thursday show highs at 3:01 a.m. and 1:49 p.m. and lows at 3:00 a.m. and 3:25 p.m. Thursday sunrise at 6:36 a.m. and sunset at 6:27 p.m.
Nancy Neaver helps distribute Human Relations Council tickets. Mrs J R Read calls in a meeting change. Edward Arable Sr. celebrates a wedding anniversary. Patricia Arable near 13th birthday. Hob Feinberg improving but visitors not allowed at San Jacinto Hospital. Herb Campbell mayoral candidate poses for photos. Frank R Boyle describes Kerrville trip. Stephen and Karen Thomas welcome a newcomer.
County Commissioner Jamie Bray and Baytown council pledged joint action on Baker Road and Park Street improvements and a lease for new justice court and jail facilities. Langford outlined $400,000 flood projects funded by a $6 million bond, including drainage along North Main and ties to Highway 146. An engineering firm will start a long delayed flood central study for Baytown.
A Texas House bill proposes taxing industrial water under the state sales tax while exempting residential and agricultural use. The Texas Water Resources Act of 1971 would charge industry about three and a quarter percent of their water bills, aiming to conserve water and raise revenue. Definitions differentiate agricultural use as crop or livestock, residential use as housing occupancy, with apartment buildings exempt while hotels and motels would not be.
A three judge panel of the 5th Circuit orders Pasadena former mayor Sam Hoover freed from state prison or granted a new trial within a reasonable time. Hoover, convicted in 1964 as an accomplice in a torture robbery, has a 60 year sentence and faces admissibility concerns for evidence. Other AP updates cover fog in the Laotian Panhandle hindering Ho Chi Minh trail fighting, the My Lai coverage at Ft. Benning, and a Senate probe of military corruption with a witness stand appearance scheduled for Lt. Calley and a general involved in the inquiry.
In Austin Rep Don Cavness backs a competitive auto liability system to replace the state board rated plan. The measure, deemed radical, would let a competitive market set prices and was sent to subcommittee. A second bill by Rep Lanny Jones suggests nonbinding rates to guide pricing. A separate note states Sen Mike McKool proposed funds for a new governor's interim staff, with specifics left undecided.
Crosby officials hear that $3344 million is needed to buy right of way for a new four lane Highway 90 and a San Jacinto River bridge. Harris County has about $1 million for such purchases, with none earmarked for Highway 90. Bray urged efforts to secure funds and a bridge, noting only 11 of 128 parcels bought so far. Residents critique an industrial dump on Highway operated by French Ltd. and seek action from lawmakers and the commission. He also discussed possible federal sewer funds for Crosby Barrett Station area.
State Rep Joe Allen of Baytown will introduce a bill to replace bail bonds with a court deposit equal to 10 percent of the bond, minimum 25, returning 90 percent after discharge and keeping 10 percent as bail bond costs. If bondsmen are used, the debtor pays 10 percent interest. Allen argues the current system harms the poor and hurts families.
The League of Women Voters will hold its annual city council rally at 7 30 p m Tuesday March 30 at city hall. It will be broadcast live on KWBA with a call in line 422 6488 from 9 a m to 9 p m rally day. Written questions collected and screened for duplication and taste.
High winds hail and rain battered Baytown Channelview and Beach City overturning house trailers and injuring occupants. Elsie Palmer 21 and children Archie six months and Ressa 21 months treated at Tidelands Hospital. Palmer’s father Sam Collins also treated for cuts. Mrs M A Hirsh and Mrs J D Holland injured. Marina area damaged. power cut by fallen tree. four telephone poles broken along Wade Road. rainfall totals .77 inches this month.
Baytown Young Men's Christian Association appointed George Chandler as president with Jon Pfennig as vice president and Don Faust as treasurer at the Ra Mada Taower Center in a meeting attended by 65. New board members include Adams Brewer Gentry Giddings Gleason Hansen Hughes Jenkins Moreno, with holdover members named. Dr Westerman retired as president and received a plaque. Century Club memberships were announced to fund youth memberships, while donor honors were given to Mrs Johnson and Don Faust. Mike Bergus introduced Ron Kinnamon as speaker.
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