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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Friday. July 2. 1999
State Supreme Court rules
on affirmative action case
AUSTIN (AP) — The Texas
Supreme Court ruled Thursday
that a Houston anti-affirmative
action activist can sue the city for
changing the wording of a ballot
initiative designed to end prefer-
ence policies.
Edward Blum and the Houston
Civil Rights Initiative accused the
city of trying to ensure the refer-
endum’s defeat and have demand-
ed a new election.
The case now heads back to the
trial court, which has indicated it
would grant Blum summary judg-
ment and declare the election
void, said Alan Magenheim,
Blum’s lead attorney.
“I believe that the Supreme
Court has now cleared the way for
the trial court to enter its final
order on behalf of Mr. Blum,”
Magenheim said.
The referendum could be put on
the ballot as the Houston Civil
Rights Initiative originally desired,
Magenheim said. When city offi-
cials substantially changed the
wording of the amendment, they
made it vague and misleading, he
said.
City, officials stressed that the
Supreme Court ruled that the city
has the discretion to write the lan-
guage describing the charter
amendment for the ballot.
The court said “the city is not
required to use the language set
forth in a petition,” said Mayor
Lee Brown, Houston’s first black
mayor, who argued to keep affir-
mative action Mien he ran for the
post in 1997.
Whether the ballot language
was “vague or misleading” is still
pending in state district court and
will be decided later, Brown said.
The ballot initiative was defeat-
ed 54 percent to 46 percent in
November 1997. The referendum
asked voters if they wanted to
abolish the city’s special rules for
hiring and awarding city contracts
to minorities and women. The city
tries to distribute 20 percent of its
contracts to women and minori-
ties.
Blum and his allies say the bal-
lot language didn’t reflect the
wording of a petition that more
than 20,000 Houston residents
signed.
“The most important thing,
regardless of the subject matter of
the election, is that when a voter
signs a petition that they can
expect that their elected officials
will follow their will by holding
an election consistent with that
petition, so that politics cannot cir-
cumvent the electoral process,”
Magenheim said.
The language originally submit-
ted for the ballot came from feder-
al civil rights legislation and said:
“The city of Houston shall not dis-
criminate against, or grant prefer-
ential treatment to, any individual
or group on the basis of race, sex,
color, ethnicity or national origin
in the operation of public employ-
ment and public contracting.”
But the City Council, at the
urging of former Mayor Bob
Lanier, altered the language, say-
ing voters needed to be told it
would end the affirmative action
programs.
INS to intensify agent recruiting efforts
DALLAS (AP) - With U.S. Border Patrol,
hirings still well below a federal mandate, the
Immigration and Naturalization Service
announced Thursday it has begun an intensified
effort to recruit new agents nationwide.
The initiative, which officials hope will help
the INS comply with a 1996 immigration law
that calls for 1,000 new agents each year,
involves a national recruiting program led by
specially-trained Border Patrol agents.
One hundred of those agents completed their
week-long training Thursday in ttallas, and 100
more will join them after a session in San Diego
on July 15.
INS Commissioner Doris Meissnef said using
agents in recruiting will pay big dividends.
“They, above all, understand the job of the
Border Patrol, as well as the challenges and
rewards,” Meissner said. “I’m confident the
people on the front lines will become our best
selling point.”
The INS projects it will only experience an
overall increase of 300 to 400 agents this fiscal
year. About 8,000 agents work for the Border
Patrol now, but a recent University of Texas
study shows about 16,000 agents are necessary
for the agency to be effective in the Southwest.
In May, a group of congressmen led by U.S.
Rep. Lamar Smith, R-San Antonio, and U.S.
Rep. Silvestre Reyes D-El Paso, sent a letter to
President Clinton criticizing his administration’s
lack of commitment to bolstering the Border
Patrol.
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lies for the year 2000 were
meeting.
director, $1,600,487 was
directors.
consisted of 50 community volun-
, who studied the needs of the dif-
ferent United Way agencies in order to make judgments and deter-
mine how the money should be distributed,” Lanham says. “The
committee then gave the board of directors their recommendations
fbr approval. The agencies will receive the amount of money
approved if the United Way reaches its campaign goal.”
Panel members were Fred Pack, city of Baytown; Martha Mayo,
Sterling'Library; Frank Griffin, Goose Creek Consolidated ISD;
and Pam Burton, Exxon Mont Belvieu Plastics.
Funds were allocated to the following United Way Agencies:
American Red Cross, $124,092; Bay Area Homeless Services,
$52,334; Bay Area Rehabilitation Center $232,500; Bay* Area
Womens Center, $103,500; Bayshore Alcohol and Drug Abuse
Program, riunity Center $110,022; Bay-
town Senior Center, $31,000; Big Brothers Big Sisters, $41,000;
Boy Scouts $53,000; Child Care Center. $38,000; Clothing for
School Children, $45,000; Communities in Schools, $28,000;
Community Council on Alcohol and Drug Abuse, $45,862;
DePelchin Children’s Center, $68,095; Family Service Center,
$102,500; Girl Scouts, $53,000; Gulf Coast Legal Foundation,
$3,150; Habitat for Humanity, $37,500; Lighthouse of Houston,
$5,000; Mental Health Association, $6,000; Sickle Cell Associa-
tion, $3,600; UH Speech, Language and Hearing, $3,600; USO,
$3,742; Visiting Nurses Association, $10,000; Baytown Resources
and Assist MCA, $85,000; United Way
According to Lanham, the funds allocated for the year 2000
increased $48,556 from the funds allocated in 1999.
The goal for the campaign is $1,675,000.
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JEAN marie westerman
Jean Marie Westerman, 70, of
Baytown passed away Wednesday,
June 30,1999. /
She was born in Almirante,
Republic of Panama, where her
father, Henry Joseph Ellingson, and
mother, Marie Brandenburg Elling-
son, were residing due to her
childhood, she lived in Panama,
Honduras and Costa Rica, and later
moved to New Orleans and attend-
ed elementary and high school
there.
She attended Southwestern at
Memphis (now Rhodes College)
where she majored in biology. At
Southwestern, she was a member of
Zeta Tau Alpha sorority and was
president of her chapter. She gradu-
ated from Southwestern with a B.S.
in biology in 1949. She then trained
at Charity Hospital of Louisiana at
New Orleans School of Medical
Technology, obtaining certification
as a Registered Medical Technician.
She worked at Oschner Clinic in
New Orleans as a medical techni-
cian for seven years. She married
Lowell Westerman on May 9,1957,
and moved with him to Baytown in
January 1958, where Lowell was
employed by Humble Oil and
Refining Company.
She was an active member of the
First Presbyterian Church in Bay-
town where she was a deacon and
an elder in the church, as well as a
church school teacher and Stephen
Minister. She actively participated
in the life of the church and was
chairman of the blood drive for
eight years.
She was a member of P.E.O.
where she twice served as presi-
dent of her chapter. She also served
on the board of the Women’s Cen-
ter in Baytown. She was a member
of the Dirt Gardeners garden club.
She was preceded in death by her
father, Henry Joseph Ellingson,
and mother, Marie Brandenburg
Williams, and by her granddaugh-
ter, Mandy Westerman.
She is survived by her husband of
42 years, Lowell Westerman; broth-
er, Henry Joseph Ellingson Jr.; chil-
dren, Cheryl Jean Westerman,
William Lowell Westerman, David
Alan Westerman, James Robert
Westerman and' Judy Lynn Marks;
son-in-law, William Marks; daugh-
ters-in-law, Susan Westerman, Deb- '
bie Westerman-and Lisa Wester-
man; grandchildren Alyssa and
Jake Marks, Kathryn and Taylor
Westerman,-Christopher Wester-,
man, Daflyd, Griffyn and Patryck
Wales; nieces, Susan Marie Elling-
son and, Della Ann Oros; and by
special friend, Claretia Ramey.
Memorial services were to be
held at 10 a.m. today at First Pres-
byterian Church. In lieu of flowers,
memorial contributions may be
made to First Presbyterian Church
memorial fund, 1715 Market
Street, Baytown, Texas, 77520, or
to the American Cancer Society.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Earthman’s Baytown
FuneralHome.
Saturday at Earthman Baytown
Chapel with the Rev. Billy Joe Tate
officiating.
Interment will follow at Memory
Garden Cemetery.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Earthman’s Baytown
Funeral Home.
BARGER
Viigie Lee Barger, 89, of Mont
Belvieu, passed away Thursday,
husband, Clyde A. Edgley; and
brother Lawrence Ray Strauch.
She is survived by her son, John
Lawrence Edgley of St. Croix, Vir-
gin Islands; daughters and sons-in-
law, Jean and Ernest Stoemer of
Baytown, Joyce and Earl Smith of
Mont Belvieu, Beulah Mae and
Roy Gillespie of Calgary Canada,
Sylvia and Leo Wotipka of Over-
land Park Kan., 14 grandchildren,
PACE
Walterine Pace passed away Fri-
day July 1, 1999, in a local hospi-
tal.
Services are pending at Frazier
Funeral Home. /
MARRON
Alford Matron of Baytown died
in a Houston hospital, July 1. He
was 60 years old. Services are
pending at Earthman’s Funeral
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She was bom Sept. 16, 1909, in Services are at 2 p.m. Sunday at
the Chapel at Cedar Bayou United
Methodist Church with the Rev. E.
Reg Madison officiating.
Burial will follow at Cedar
Bayou Masonic Cemetery.
The grandchildren will serve as
pallbearers.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Navarre Funeral
Home.
La Porte.
She was a former, resident of Van
before returning to Mont Belvieu
following the death of her husband.
She was preceded in death by her
husband, Richard Barger.
She is survived by brothers and
sisters-in-law, Perry and Jo Dicker-
son of Mont Bel vieu and Tracy and
Joyce Dickerson of Colorado City,
Colo.; sister's and brother-in-law,
Doris Knighton of La Porte and
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r- SIMPSON
Myrtle Ann Simpson, 95, of
Baytown, died at a local hospice
Friday, July 2,1999.
Visitation will be today from 6 to
8 p.m. at Earthman’s Funeral
Home. Services are set for Satur-
day at 3 p.m. at Earthman’s Chapel.
Burial will follow at Memory Gar-
dens.
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Visitation will be from 6 to 8
p.m. Thursday at Navarre’s.
Graveside service will be held at
2 p.m. Friday at Grace Memorial
Park in Hitchock with Kenneth
Epperson officiating.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Navarre Funeral
Home.
MAY
J.C. “Jake” May, 88, passed away
June 30,1999.
He worked his entire life in the
oil field until his retirement from
Harrison Interests in 1982.
He is survived by his wife, Geor-
gia May of Baytown; daughter,
Kay Martin of Houston; son,
James May of Bandera; grandson,
Justin May Of Baytown; sister,
Marg May; and several nieces and
nephews.
Funeral Service will be at 1 p.m.
EDGLEY
Bessie Mae Edgley, 87, of Bay-
town, passed away, Thursday, July
1,1999, at her residence.
She was born July 5, 1911, in
Cedar Bayou, and lived here all her
life. - ••
She was a homemaker, and for-
merly worked at T.G.&Y. where
she retired.
She was preceded in death by her
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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/m1/8/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.