The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 210, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1999 Page: 6 of 20
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PAT ON THE BACK
...to Natashia Devore, a senior enrolled in the Alternative Learning
Program, who is working with Bay Area Women’s Center to gain experi-
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The Baytown Sun is published Monday through Friday and Sunday at
1301 Memorial Drive in Baytown.
Gary Dobbs Edwin Henry
Editor and Publisher „ .__., Managing Editor
* Richard Nelson n
Asst Managing Editor
K is time to make
sfenfficant cutbacks
*^he federal Clean Air Act of 1971 was die first major step in this
I country toward ensuring the air we breathe would be safe and
I clean. ^
This landmark piece of comprehensive legislation established strict
guidelines and called for the permitting and regulating of the amounts of
pollutants industrial plants could release into our atmosphere.
One practical and compassionate component of that legislation was
the grandfather clause which exempted older units from the rigid limits
being imposed. Those allowances were put into place in order to avoid
having a crippling economic effect on the plants being addressed.
The rationale behind grandfathering was that those older units would
wear out and eventually be replaced by newer, more efficient and
breather-friendly technology.
Now, 28 years later, comes the disturbing news that grandfathered
plants in the state are responsible for releasing nearly 900,000 tons of
pollutants into our airsheds. *
Equally disturbing is the revelation that - one year after they signed on
with Gov. George W. Bush’s voluntary emissions reduction program -
three dozen companies have a combined decrease of a paltry 3,000 tons.
Some of the state’s biggest contributors to the pollution program are
situated within our very own airshed.
Nearly 30 years after begin granted a pardon and ample time for many
of these grandfathered units to live out their useful lives, plants are still
relying on them, and they are still spewing trash into our environment.
The legislating of good behavior has always been a distasteful, albeit
effective method of remediation. However, it is our hope that the worst
offenders will take the initiative, shed the covers of grandfathered status
and, literally, clean up their acts.
It makes sense. It makes for good corporate neighbors. It makes life
better for us all.
Do moral principles stop at 15,000 feet?
Sun Files
From The Baytown Sun files, here are the headlines from.
10 years ago:
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Flood conditions along the Trinity River in Liberty County continued to worsen
due to the remains of Tropical Storm Allison. The Continued rains caused many
families in the Dayton area to evacuate their homes when the news came that the
Lake Livingston dam would be opened to ’67 feet.
25 years ago:
Betty Enderli, chairman of the Beach City Community Development Associa-
tion, accepted a third place regional award on behalf of the association for progress
in the community at a ceremony at the Beach1 City community building.
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50 years ago:
Police Chief H.E. McKee accepted a check for $650 from the Council of
Knights of Columbus for the Baytown Police Department sickness fund.
Today in histoiy
Today is Friday, July 2, the 183rd day of 1999. There are 182 days left in the
year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 2,1776, the Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that “these
United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States.”
— The Associated Press
Cardinal John O’Connor of New York
was a chaplain with the Marines during
the Vietnam war — sometimes under
fire. He wrote a book, “A Chaplain Looks
at Vietnam,” justifying that war. Years
later, he told me: “That was a bad book. I
regret having published it. I didn’t take
enough account of the enormous cost in
lives, resources and the brutalization of
some of the American troops.”
During the bombing of Yugoslavia, the
cardinal, writing in his weekly column in
the newspaper Catholic New York, ques-
tioned whether this war had been a “just
war.”
It is not enough, O’Connor said, to
argue that “one must come to the defense
of those being brutalized. But can we say
with integrity that this kind of bombing
includes only ‘surgical strikes,’ without
serious-danger ofjndiscriminate destruc-
tion, including the deaths of innocent
- human beigs?”
The most remarkable source of moral
objection to the bombing was Henry
Kissinger, architect of the Christmas
bombing of Hanoi during the Vietnam
war—an air attack that took place during
die celebration of Mass in the city ’s
Catholic cathedral.
“Pounding away on a civilian popula-
tion day by day,” Kissinger recently told a
forum at the New York Post, “is, in effect,
saying our moral principles stop at 15,000
feet. I find this very difficult to accept.”
During a discussion of the bombing on
National Public Radio’s “Talk of the
Nation,” Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for
Policy Studies noted that although Milo-
sevic has unquestionably committed “ter-
rible war crimes... the NATO bombing
violated specific rules of war. Our gov-
ernment has committed war crimes by
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ended. Because of the submunitions’
appearance —some are orange-yellow
soda can-sized objects and green base-
J * ■* balls -1- children are particularly drawn to
the volatile live remnants.
“On April 24, five children playing
with colorful unexploded submunitions
were reported killed, and two injured, near
Doganovic in southern Kosovo.”
Also not sharing the general satisfac-
tion in the success of the bombing is
Richard Haas of the Brookings Institu-
bombing civilian infrastructures.
“Things like water treatment plants, ___________________________
sewage treatment plants and the electrical tion. “It’s hard to feel good about a
grid certainly have military capacity, but humanitarian mission in which (so many)
they also have civilian necessity...The of the people you’re trying to help are
United States is responsible, along with , now homeless”
its NATO allies for having deliberately Dr. William Schulz, executive director
chosen those targets — knowing what the of Amnesty International USA, also
effect would be on the civilian popula- points out, “Those who act in the name of
tion.” human rights bear a responsibility to see
But “a well-placed Clinton official” has that their own actions scrupulously
told Thoipas DeFrank, Washington accord with human-rights standards.”
bureau chief of the New York Daily But The New York Times, in a lead edi-
News, “We fought a (more than) 72-day torial last month, declared that “the most
air war ahd nobody died. That’s the boh dangerous Military conflict in Europe
tom line for us.” since the Second World War will eon-
DeFrank noted that this White House
elude as a victory for the principles of
democracy and human rights.”
Meanwhile, a federal district court has
dismissed a lawsuit by 26 members of the
war.” House charging that the president has
No American was killed, but our use of violated the War Powers Act, let alone the
cluster bombs involved not only immedi- Constitution (“The Congress shall have
assessment “skims over the deaths of
thousands of Serb troops, ethnic Albani-
ans and Yugoslav civilians during the
ate but long-term “collateral damage”
below 15,000 feet.
Steve Goose, program director of
Human'Rights Watch’s arms division,
points out that “the submunitions inside
Power to declare War”). But Clinton has
already shown that the Constitution has
little to do with him. Having escaped con-
viction on, in my view, clear serial viola-
tions of the Constitution, he has justifi-
cluster bombs have a high failure rate and able confidence in his immunity from
can leave unexploded ordnance over wide such serious charges.
areas, ready to detonate on contact — in -——— -- -■ -
effect becoming land mines and killing Nat Hentoff is a nationally syndicated
civilians even years after the conflict has columnist.
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Thought for today
“The American Revolution was a beginning, not a consummation.”
—Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president of the United States (1856-1924).
Bible verse
So you should realize that, as a man punishes his son, the Lord punishes you to
help you.
- Deuteronomy 8:5
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Governor ,
George W. Bush (R-2002)
State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711
800-843-5789
Lieutenant Governor
Rick Perry (R-2002)
State Capitol
Austin, Texas 78711
800441-0373
Attorney General
John Comyn (R-2002)
800-337-3928
Comptroller of Public Accounts
Carole Keeton Rylander (R-2002)
800-531-5441
Land Commissioner
David Dewhurst (R-2002)
512-236-9798
Cohimissioner of Agriculture
Susan Combs (R-2002)
512463-7435
Railroad Commissioners
Charles Matthews (R-2000)
Michael Williams (R-2002)
Tony Gaiza (R-2004)
Texas Legislators
Senator District 4
David Bernsen (D-2002)
409-839-4444
Senator District 6
Mario Gallegos (D-2000)
P.O, Box 41
Galena Park, Texas 77547
512463-0106 713-678-8600
Senator District 11
• Mike Jackson (D-2002)
1109 Fairmont Parkway
Pasadena, Texas 7750£
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Senator District 15
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803 Yale, Houston, Texas 77007
512463-0115 — 713-864-8701
Representative District 20
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P.O. Box 2050
Liberty, Texas 77575
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Representative District 127
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P.O. Box 2910
Austin, Texas 78768
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Representative District 128
Fred Bosse (D-2000)
885-A Uvalde Road
Houston, Texas 77015
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 210, Ed. 1 Friday, July 2, 1999, newspaper, July 2, 1999; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1019168/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.