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Newspaper
Deer Park Progress
Location
Deer Park, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 12, 1970
Page
6
Danny Battarbee has been appointed Administrative Assistant to Deer Park's City Administrator on a part time basis. He is a University of Houston junior majoring in Behavioral Management Science and lives at 2300 Red Bluff Road.
Local police scrapbook project begins as Around Town reports. Rotary club members Harrell Kesterson and Dr. Harger note top bids. College Park Women’s Club to assist Lan ge Library with foyer planting chaired by Trena Whitaker Kay Navarett and Kay Urban. Community groups schedule meetings and Easter activities including Mothers March and Easter Seal drive. Revival services run nightly at Deer Park Assembly of God with Evangelist Elbert R. Smart.
A revival led by evangelist Bob Thrift will take place at San Jacinto Baptist Church from March 15 to 22 with daily services at 10 am and 7 30 pm and a nursery provided.
Deer Park Police Chief Keneth Gage warned against the I Dare You craze at a Deer Park Bank event with a capacity College Park Women’s Club audience. He outlined juvenile narcotic activity locally, noting 96 juvenile arrests last year and identifying marijuana, glue sniffing, and synthetic pills as common among those taking the dare.
San Jacinto College will merge its sewage system with Pasadena rather than join the Clear Creek Water Basin Authority. Negotiations, on an emergency basis, follow March 23 permit compliance deadlines set by the Texas Water Quality Board. Dr. Thomas Spencer and W. M. Newton will consult Pasadena officials on routing treated or untreated sewage to Galveston Bay and report at the next board meeting.
Carol Lane, travel director for Shell Oil Co., will speak at the Deer Park Rotary Club Ladies Day meeting on March 18 at the Hickory House. A noted authority on vacation travel, Lane covers about 70,000 miles yearly lecturing to clubs and researching family outings. Her travels include camping in Utah, hiking in the Black Hills, and canoeing a recent week.
The Deer Park Rotary Safety Committee urges travelers to plan ahead and rest often during trips through the Connecticut River white-water rapids. At the club meeting a travel expert will discuss adding imagination to vacations and packing a two week wardrobe into a fourteen pound suitcase. Her speech titled Its What’s Inside That Counts emphasizes light packing.
Mae Bannister performs at the Chantilly Room serving Wednesday through Sunday. The venue is listed as La Porte with hours or date details partially obscured.
Deer Park City Council approved selling 1.5 million dollars in bonds to First National Bank of Dallas as the low bidder at 5.31353 effective interest. Bonds fund building lands water sewer extensions street paving and waste disposal with Phase 1 Center Street four lanes esplanade and related projects. The meeting also considered baseball lease details and field sharing with the Girls Softball League and Men's Slow Pitch League with park director Mike Black to report back after a school board decision.
Deer Park voters face six candidates across three city posts in the April 7 election. Harrel Kesterson and Bill Black, with Robert Linberger, lead Positions 4 5 6 respectively, while William Chmylak Fred J. Brown B. R. Payne also seek seats. Filing closed March 7. incumbent Lehr not seeking reelection.
Billy R. Payne, 43, seeks Deer Park City Council Position 6 in the April 7 election. A 17 year Shell Oil employee and current number one operator, he lives at 4205 Dahlia with wife Bernice and four children. A Jefferson Davis High graduate, he has eight years in Deer Park and serves as vice president of the Deer Park Girls Softball League and is a member of Local 4367 of the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union.
Fred J. Brown, 32, a Deer Park high school counselor, filed for Position 5 in the upcoming city election. A seven year Deer Park resident, he lives at 833 Harvard with wife Katherine Elaine and three children Gina Cheri and Britton. He holds degrees from Sul Ross State University and the University of Houston and has life certificates as a teacher, counselor, and principal. He is a member of St Luke's Epis.
Charles "Buster" Ballard, Deer Park city engineer and owner of Bayshore Engineering, has driven major projects as the city approved 1.5 million dollars in bonds for Center Street widening and water and sewer extensions. A longtime regional consultant, he also serves Seabrook, Lomax, Smithville, Navasota, Fairfield, and Giddings, and has held key roles in Rotary and the Deer Park Chamber of Commerce. Ballard, a University of Houston civil engineering graduate and Texas registered professional engineer, belongs to multiple engineering and water associations.
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