Run-off Set After Saturday City Elections
Voters 2242 cast ballots in rain. Burke re-elected Position 2 with 1511 votes. Tavel won Position 1 with 1165 to Fox 983. Linberger leads mayoral race with 37 percent, Tolaz 825 and McDonald 271, Hall 312. Run-off to determine Position 3 and mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bob Tavel
Frankie Fox
James Cook
Tavel
Fox
Jimmy Burke
Bob Linberger
Glen Tolar
Linberger
Tolaz
Bill McDonald
Walter Hall
McDonald
Hall
Tolar
School Board Special Meeting Agenda And Runoff Results
A special school board meeting is set for 6 pm on Wednesday April 6 to discuss House Bill No 284 and proposed tracks acoustical treatment for the boys gym pupil teacher ratios and coordinators for major subject areas plus the Deer Park Education Association items. Runoff results show John West leading with 883 votes 4 percent and Ken Caffey 765 votes 36 percent. they will face off in the runoff.
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P. B. Dover
Deer Park Education Association
McDonald
Linberger
John West
Ken Caffey
Tommy Thompson
West
Caffey
Deer Park
Run-off City Elections Slated For Saturday April 30
Linberger led the recent city election but carried only one precinct. Ken Caffey led with 663 votes to 765 for Caffey in the run-off. Absentee voting to begin after ballots arrive. positions chosen Wednesday. Bob Tayel and Jimmy Burke, winners of Positions 1 and 2, took oaths. outgoing councilman James Cook received a plaque for service.
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Linberger
Tolar
Ken Caffey
West
Caffey
Bill McDonald
Walter Hall
Tommy Thompson
Bob Tayel
Jimmy Burke
Dabbs Elementary Renamed In Honor Of Late JP Dabbs
The Deer Park school board voted 6 to 1 to rename the new Heritage Elementary to Dabbs Elementary honoring JP Dabbs, a longtime San Jacinto Elementary principal who died last fall. Patron petitions and faculty pleas supported the change. Reginald Knowles opposed, apologizing to Dabbs’s widow Freida. The board also approved renting Gaines Y Mason Auditorium to the Chamber of Commerce for the Miss Deer Park Pageant at half price.
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Heritage Elementary
Dabbs
Reginald Knowles
Freida Dabbs
Deer Park
Dobbs
Carpenter Elementary
San Jacinto Elementary
Gaines Y. Mason
Chamber of Commerce
Industries Honored At Chamber Luncheon
More than 100 Chamber of Commerce members attended Tuesday's luncheon at the Community Center honoring area industry. The featured speaker was Allison Peirce, director of Harris County Pollution Control.
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Chamber of Commerce
Allison Peirce
Harris County Pollution Control
Lawther to Challenge Parks Ordinance in Deer Park
W D Lawther, Deer Park builder, told Planning and Zoning Commission he will challenge the park land ordinance requiring developers to donate five percent of acreage or five percent of raw land value for parks. He urged a legal opinion on its validity, noting inequities in land versus cash takings and potential future expansion of the city’s power to seize property for parks.
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Deer Park
W. D. Lawther
Planning and Zoning Commission
Park
Subadivision
Lawther
P&i
Parks and Recreation
Doug Burgess
Concord Trace
Regency Park
P&z
Vinyl Chloride Emission Waivers Allow Delayed Compliance
Three Deer Park area vinyl chloride plants fail to meet the 10 PPM limit as EPA grants waivers to extend deadlines to October 1978 for Tenneco Pasadena Diamond Shamrock and Shell seeks one. Emissions linked to PVC production face tighter rules as EPA plans a 5 PPM standard.
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Deer Park Area
Tenneco
Pasadena
Diamond Shamrock
Environmental Protection Agency
EPA
Shell
Planta
Occupational Safety and Health Association
Progress Gossip Roundup of Local Names and Notes
DIANN FLOYD visits the PROGRESS leaving a note. JERRY GARNER seeks help on a program. LISA DECKERT and PATRICIA KINSEY sign on with the Progress. PAM SEAUX aids a friend in need. BILL HANDRICK and JOE FIELDS at odds Saturday night. KESTERSON photographed in Florida training. LINDA GARNER notes a friend’s pregnancy via HAROLD DUDLEY. CAUDLE and ZUBER plan a big debate. RANDY SHRIEVER stops by the PROGRESS office. MRS PERRY BARNES in hospital. DONALD BROOKS resembles a TV character. BUTCH BARNES appears sleepy. LYNETTE MASON HANDRICK calls results. BILL BLACK buys an ad. JOHN SARRIS jokes about becoming a Greek god. JOE’S name shown so KARL and PAM won’t giggle. FRANKIE FOX proud of 46 percent. FRANCES WEISS coordinates es Saturday night. CHARLES GARRISON asks related Happy Birthday to JIMMY BECKHAM. Several new PROGRESS subscribers listed this week.
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Diann Floyd
Jerry Garner
Lisa Deckert
Patricia Kinsey
Pam Seaux
Bill Handrick
Joe Fields
Bob Tavel
David Biehl
Florida
Barrell Kesterson
Linda Garner
Harold Dudley
Loretta Caudle
Linda Zuber
Randy Shriever
Perry Barnes
Donald Brooks
Butch Barnes
Lynette Mason Handrick
Bill Black
John Sarris
Joe
Karl
Pam
Frankie Fox
Johnson
Frances Weiss
Charles Garrison
Jimmy Beckham
Mr. L. Alley
Richard Barnes
D. R. Bernard
John Adcock
Leo Anderson
Wayne Pennington
Leon Hickok
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Burke
First National Bank of Deer
Plaza Music
The
Living Palms
Gary Bradford
Kingdom Seekers
Billy Johnson
Houston Oilers
Chamber
San Jae Employment Agency
Center Street
City Hall
Center
15Th Streets
Thompson
Tiy
Bor Tavel
n-Podton
John West End
Cook
Council
Cloud Nine
Gor
Don Robb
New Elementary
JP Dabbs
W. J. Knox
Corpus Christi
Lavither
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