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Volume 69, No. 195
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Sunday, June 16, 1991
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Fathers and sons
Site proposed for
treatment facility
Preferred location on Tri-City Beach Road
By Jane Howard
of The Baytown Sun '
Baytown City Council has voted unanimously
to accept a committee’s recommendation on a
preferred site for a proposed substance abuse
treatment facility.
Jim Entringer, chairman of the Baytown Com-
munity Alcohol and Drug Abuse Committee, on
Thursday told council, “We strongly recommend
putting such a facility in die area. This will put
money in the area.”
The committee, appointed by the city to identify
sites that would meet the facility’s needs while
still meeting approval from residents, looked at six
locations that seemed to-meet its criteria. Factors
taken into consideration included proximity to
utilities, which the facility will need, and distance
from schools, churches and residential areas.
Hearings will be held to gather public opinion
on the proposed locations for the facility, which
will offer in-patient treatments to non-violent drug
or traffic offenders on probation.
The committee’s recommendation lists a loca-
tion on Tri-City Beach Road near . Bay Oaks
Harbor as the preferred site.
Questions were raised concerning whether this
site is close to a location where the Baytown
school district plans to build a junior school and
an elementary school. But Entringer said the two
locations were more than three miles apart.
“It’s just about impossible to find any location
in Baytown that’s more than three miles from
cither a school, a church or. a densely populated
residential neighborhood,” he said.
Council members noted that acceptance of the
recommendation didn’t mean the site selection
was etched in stone.
Baytown in Precinct 4?
Fishing buddies Roy
Waldrep and Travis,
114 , make a big catch in
the Father's Day photo
contest. Winning first
place, Lynette Waldrep
took this photo of her
husband and son. In
photo at right is Merrie
Decker’s second-place
entry, showing 2-year-
old son David helping
his dad, Robert Decker,
work on his truck. On
Page 11-B are photos of
the third-place entry and
runners-up.___■ ■
By Helen Nenov
of The Baytown Sun
.Under a redistrictihg proposal, most of Bay-
town would be in Harris County Commissioner’s
Precinct 4.
Baytown is in Precinct 2, represented by
Commissioner Jim Fontcno for the past 14 years.
At a Baytown Chamber of Commerce meeting
Friday, Fonteno discussed a redistricting plan,
proposed by State Rep. Roman Martinez, D-
Houston. Redistricting is conducted every 10
years following the federal census to make sure
there are approximately the' same number of
people in each of,the four precincts.
Martinez’s proposal shifts most of Baytown,
Highlands, Crosby, La Porte, Seabrook, Clear
Lake and Pasadena to Precinct 4.
There will be a hearing on Monday to discuss
redistricting. Fonteno indicated he will present an
alternative redistrieting plm—
T-'dhteho also : idSTencied THcT
down in criminal cases in Harris County. “Tile
state-lias -accused us of being foo vigorous in our
prosecution. I was of the opinion* we were
supposed to put thieves, murders and rapists in jail
and keep them there, but instead they’ve told Us
we give excessive, harsh and punitive sentences,”
he said.
Fonteno said that for every 29 prisoners sent to
the state penitentiary, 33 parolees are sent back to
Harris County.
“Parolees from other parts of the state are
coming into Harris County because it is prosper-
ous and there is more tp steal here. You can’t put
these people in a prison, give them a 35-year term,
let them serve four, five years and expect to
correct their problem,” he said.
One reason for overcrowding at the Harris
County Jails is because it is housing state
prisoners, Fonteno said.
“We have built a jail that cost us about $92
million to take care of Harris County prisoners up
to the year 2010. The jail will be opened in
prisoners. That is just not
Harris County,” he said.
GTE expanded calling scope pleases local officials
By Betsy Claggett
of The Baytown Sun
GTE Southwest’s decision to offer its custom-
ers the option of expanding their calling scope will
lead to an improved quality of life in the Baytown
area, according to several local officials.
GTE has announced plans to offer expanded
metro service after July 8. Through this service,
customers in Baytown, Mont Belvieu and High-
lands can pay a higher base rate for an unlimited
number of toll free calls across a wider area.
Expansion of the calling scope is the result of a
team effort between GTE Southwest and local,
state and city officials, said Spencer Daniels,
regional manager of GTE Southwest.
Information on extended metro service will be
sent to GTE customers along with their next
phone bills, Daniels said.
“(The limited calling scope) has done more to
impede the growth of the economy in east Harris
County than any other singular thing,” said Justice
of the Peace Tony Polumbo.
Polumbo became involved in the move to widen
the calling scope of the Baytown-Highlands area
as a state representative in 1989.
He introduced legislation to force uniformity of
rates and service within counties and began to
work with representatives of GTE to reach a
compromise.
Ultimately, the goal, is to offer the extended
service as part of a basic package so that
customers will have access to the larger calling
zone with standard service, Polumbo said. This
service is known as extended area service.
“Once we fully have extended area service, that
one singular thing will do more for economic
development than any other single thing,” Polum-
bo said.
In the meantime, area residents will have the
option of paying a higher rate for extended metro
service.
The basic flat rate for the service is $29 for
residential customers and a minimum of $79.10
for commercial customers.
Mike Shields, executive director of the Bay-
town Area-West Chambers County Economic
Development Foundation, said the foundation was
supportive of the effort since lowering long,
distance costs lowers the cost of doing business.
“ “Anything we can do to help lower the cost to
our citizens and businesses will enhance the
growth potential of the area,” Shields said.
Since 1985, Mont Belvieu City Administrator
Ruthie Sager and Councilman Carrell Richardson
worked with a committee to expand the extremely
limited calling scope in Mont Belvieu.
The committee members made several trips to
Austin to meet with the Public Utility Commis-
sion to clear the way for the change, Ms. Sager
said.
“A lot of businesses felt the phone, service w,e
had-was an economic disadvantage,” Ms. Sager
said.
“Motels on the Mont Belvieu side of Interstate
10 were losing customers because they couldn’t
call into Houston,” Richardson added.
“Certainly it will give our businesses the same
advantages businesses get on the other side qf the
freeway,” he said. “As far as residents (are ~
concerned), it will be an advantage to some and
some will stay the same.”
Statistics don’t tell whole AIDS
story, health clinic staffer says
By Jane Howard
of The -Baytown Sun
Statistics from the Texas
Department of Heath show there
are 40 full-blown cases of AIDS
in Baytown.
Of the communities in Harris
County outside
of Houston,
Baytown has
the highest
number of
reported AIDS
cases per capita.
Sally Stalter
of the Baytown
We’ve tested everyone from prostitutes
to professional people — all Baytown
people who thought they might be at
risk.
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health clinic’s
AIDS program
believes the 40
reported AIDS cases in Bay-
town are just a portion of the
actual- number of people
infected with the virus here.
She believes there’s 50,000
people in Harris County who are
HIV positive and don’t know it.
Baytown alone may have sever-
al thousand people infected with
the virus and capable, of passing
it on to others.
Most people don’t know they
have AIDS until they actually
get sick, she said. This can be
years after they contract the
virus. In the meantime, they can
pass the virus on to-others.
A full-blown case of AIDS is
one where the person is already
exhibiting symptoms of one of
the four diseases associated with
AIDS.
Many people never know
they have AIDS, Mrs. Stalter
added.- It is -discovered
--------- only
after their deaths.
They die from one of four
related illnesses — pneumonia,
a type of cancer, dementia or
wasirng. ■ —..... —
Often, the fact that AIDS
killed those people isn’t
recorded on the death certifi-
cate. Because of the AIDS Stig-
ma, doctors and families cover
the facts so those deaths don't
show up in statistics, according
to Mrs. Stalter.
Once exposed, there is a
three-month incubation period
when the vims can’t be detected
in the blood. Even after these
three months, the vims can only
be discovered if a test specifi-
cally for AIDS is conducted. A
routine health examination will
NOT reveal the presence of the
AIDS vims.
contracting the vims.
AIDS kills. People know that.
But what they don’t realize,
according to Mrs. Stalter, is that
medicines exist that can prolong
the lives of people with AIDS.
For adults, medical treatment-
can extend their lives up to 20 or
even 30 years, researchers be-
lieve. And those same research-
ers believe a cure will be found
by the year 2000.
“This vims does not discrimi-
nate,” she said, .‘‘It attacks peo-
ple in all walks of life, (and) all
economic groups.
“We’ve tested everyone from
prostitutes to professional peo-
ple— all Baytown people who,
thought they might be at risk,”
she said.,,
“I remember something one
mother told me,” said Mrs. Stal-
ter. “Her daughter tested posi-
In men, the average time tive for AIDS 311(1 3111)131 mom
between exposure and develop- could lalk aboul W3S how many
ment of symptoms is six to 10 yeare she H*111 teaching her
years. For women) it’s a little daughter how not_tQ_gcL_pre-_
quicker, usually two to six S113111-never laughl her how
years. Children usually die 1101 10 Sel A)DS, she said.
within four to 18 months- after Related story on Page 2-A
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To borrow a note from
the musical scale of life:
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Never B too sharp.
Just B natural.
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Jimmie Woods is a
patient at Hermann
Hospital in Houston.
Wesley Blackburn
spends his vacation
time fishing. In the can-
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chance of showers or ,
thunderstorms. Low in
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Sunday: Partly cloudy with
40 percent chance of
thunderstorms, low in
mid-70s, high in low 90s,
From 8 a.m, Friday to 8
a.m. Saturday, high of 87,
low of 79T
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