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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 20, 1973
Page
1
An appeals court ruling in Houston upholds a $50 filing fee for city council candidates. The decision notes petitions may replace fees if enough voters sign, requiring 3,000 signatures or 1 percent of last mayoral election voters, while Baytown remains unaffected. Judge Edward Coulson emphasized equal protection concerns and the petition alternative.
In Houston an estranged husband Ronald Brandt 21 killed his wife Terry 20 and traffic officer David Huerta 27 then shot himself after a reported argument sparked when she returned from a divorce hearing. A restraining order had been said to exist.
Robert Glen Fikes, 1973 Barbers Hill graduate of Mont Belvieu, earns a $500 Alice G. K. Kleberg Trust Fund scholarship via the Texas Interscholastic League Foundation for 1973. He excelled in the UIL Slide Rule Contest, earning state titles in 1972 and 1973 and earned NHS and tennis honors. He will study chemical engineering at the University of Texas at Austin. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Jack Fikes, whose father chairs the Barkers Hill school board.
The Justice Department plans to dismantle a 178 year tradition by challenging the minimum fees recommended by hundreds of bar associations in a move that could reshape the legal profession nationwide.
Three Baytown obituaries and funeral notices outline the deaths of infant Gregory L. Merkel, 12 days old, James Walter Repp, 78, and Mrs Ivy Ivoria President. Merkel with family in Cincinnati and Baytown. services at Paul A. Lee Chapel and St Josephs Church. Repp, long-time Baytown resident, to be buried in Duncan Oklahoma. President, Baytown resident and Golden State Mutual employee, to be buried at Coaxberry Cemetery.
A Texas state official panel plans to salvage sunken Liberty ships for artificial reefs near Galveston but lawmakers say funds are not appropriated for the project and cannot be used for it. Senator Babe Heflin notes it may take more effort to raise money and proceed.
In Houston next month hearings will decide where ships should be sunk as part of the artificial reefs project. Real estate and realtor activity continues with the BAY AREA Board of Realtors hosting its annual meeting at the Holiday Inn and a 10 a.m directors session with a $2.73 per person buffet. Navy Seaman Apprentice Herbert D. Alexander, son of Mrs. Tenova B. Alexander, Lincoln Courts, serves aboard the guided missile destroyer Unitas XIV in South American waters after graduating from Robert E. Lee High and Lee College.
DuPont de Nemours agrees to pay 8000 dollars in penalties and install anti pollution devices at its La Porte plant to settle a Harris County pollution suit filed in 1974. A March 1 1974 deadline required a chemical oxidation system for treating industrial waste and controlling emissions to protect the surrounding community.
Crosby Texas July Sun reports chairman Louis Leman of the Committee on Mass Transit corrected the story. He said he did not single out Houston attorney Leon Jaworski for a debate on the Harris County vehicle emissions tax to fund the Houston Area Rapid Transit Authority. He invited any speakers from the Community Improvement Committee to a public debate.
Baytown registered nurses may enroll for a management principles course sponsored by Texas Woman's University College of Nursing Houston Center. The class meets 6 30 to 9 30 p m Tuesdays Oct 2 through Dec 11 at San Jacinto Methodist Hospital.
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