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PAT ON THE BACK
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...to the Anahuac High School girls track team, who won the District
24-3Ameet to qualify for the regional meet in six events.
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Wanda Gamer Cash
Editor and Publisher
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Established 1922
Taylor B. Camp
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Doucette Richard Nelson
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Cheers to persistence of
animal control officer
. f|| heers to Baytown Animal Control officer Rudy Gallardo for
I m going above and beyond the call of duty to catch a run-away Chi-
UP huahua-mix dog Wednesday. The pet escaped from its yard and
ran about two miles down traffic-heavy state Highway 146 before Gal-
lardo spotted it He got out of his truck and chased the dog on foot,
"finally apprehending it Gallardo’s reward? The understandably terrified
dog relieved itself on Gallardo.
After handing the animal over to fellow officer Terry Brooks, who had
helped in the rescue, Gallardo gave his itinerary for the rest of the after-
noon —fill up his truck’s empty gas tank, respond to a call about an ani-
mal on Wfest Baker Road and go home to take a shower, in that order.
Jeers to Arizona teacher Kathy Morris. According to police, she sent
threatening letters to herself, then shot herself in the shoulder last Mon-
day to highlight the lack of security at the school where she worked.
With the anniversary of the Columbine shooting on Thursday, it’s hard
to imagine why a teacher would take such irresponsible measures to
make a point
:: Jeers to U.S. businesses that were not willing to sponsor the United
State’s pavilion at the Expo 2000. Due to lack of funding, even from For-
tune 500 companies, the United States will not be represented at the
world’s fair for the first time in the 149-year history of the fair. Instead,
the United States will build a Web site highlighting American culture.
Today’s editorial was written by Richard Nelson and Nyree Doucette,
assistant managing editors of The Baytown Sun, on behalf of the news-
paper’s editorial board.
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California Democrat weighs in on Elian
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WASHINGTON — The four-month
custody dispute over Elian Gonzalez has
exhibited the anti-Castro passions of the
Cuban-American community centered in
Miami.
It has also revealed the strength of pas-
sions on the other side.
Rep. Barbara Lee (D-Calif.), who rep-
resents Berkeley and Oakland in Con-
gress. wants an end to the 40-year U.S.
embargo against Castro’s Cuba.
After a trip to the island nation in
1999, she said that American policy
“continues to serve as an impediment to
understanding and dialogue” between
the two countries.
Lee is also among the many Americans
who have called for Elian Gonzalez to be
returned to his Cuban father, Juan Miguel
Gonzalez. She was on a very short list of
Americans who were allowed to visit
with Elian’s father this week.
That list was highlighted by such
strong opponents of the United States’
Cuban policy as Rep. Maxine Waters (D-
Calif.), Rep. Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.), Joan
Brown Campbell of the National Council
of Churches and another group demand-
ing an end to the U.S. embatgo.
This was not Lee’s, nor Waters’, first
meeting with the senior Gonzalez. The
two were part of a delegation that visited
Cuba in February, and they were allowed
to meet with Juan Miguel.
It was a rare event in the months-long
standoff over Elian’s custody, as for much
of the time Gonzalez was, for all practi-
cal purposes, invisible.
Lee holds a master’s from Berkeley,
and despite the university’s well-earned
reputation for having its own foreign pol-
icy — it’s been called the People’s
Republic of Berkeley by its conservative
critics - she resists any effort to tie the
issue of Elian to the question of U.S.-
Cuban relations.
While it has been clear long before this
week that Fidel Castro sees the issues as
closely intertwined, Lee insists that from
her perspective, the international politics
and the human concerns are totally separate
from Gonzalez’s desire to regain his son.
“1 talked with (Gonzalez). I’m a trained
social worker. He loved his son and he
wanted him back, and he was very gen-
uine. He was apparently very upset that
he did not have him.
“He’s an ordinary man, a working man..
It is wrong to politicize this. It’s really an
issue of parental custody. It’s very simple.
That has nothing to do with a child being „
returned to his or her parent.
“No parent needs to be coerced into
wanting his or her child with him.” -
Though there is nothing “simple” :
about this case, from the perspective of
both those who see Castro as a gutsy
opponent to imperialism and those who
see him as the last Communist tyrant,
that last point is irrefutable.
Chris Matthews, chief of the San Fran- J
cisco Examiner’s Washington Bureau, is
host of “Hardball ” on CNBC and
MSNBC cable channels.
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Editorial cartoon on NRA cries out for response
Today in history
Today is Monday, April 17, the
108th day of 2000. There are 258
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On April 17,1961, about 1,500
CIA-trained Cuban exiles
launched the disastrous Bay of
Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed
attempt to overthrow the govern-
ment of Fidel Castro.
On this date:
In 1861, the Virginia State Conven-
tion voted to secede from the Union.
In 1970, the astronauts of Apollo 13
splashed down safely in the Pacific,
four days after a ruptured oxygen
tank crippled their spacecraft.
Today’s Birthdays: Acta Lon
McCallister is 77. Rock promoter
Don Kirshner is 66. Composer-musi-
cian Jan Hammer is 52. Actress
Olivia Hussey is 49. Actress Teri
Austin is 41. Actress Lela Rochon is
36. Singer Liz Phair is 33.
— The Associated Press
Sun Files
From The Baytown Sun-files, here
are the headlines from...
A written public apology from Don
Hendrix, Crosby school district
superintendent, was released for the
families of two students who were
falsely accused of intoxication.
25 years ago:
To stay within a $1.3 millbn budget,
the Capital Improvements Study
Committee cut the proposed size of
the expansion of Sterling Municipal
Library and kept the original proposal
fa a museum building.
50 years ago:
Humble Production Co. was
spending more than $250,(XX) to drill
a 10,000-foot test well on the banks
of Cedar Bayou near Devil’s Elbow.
Thought for today
“A cynic is not merely one who
reads bitter lessons from the past;
he is one who is prematurely disap-
pointed in the future.”
—Sydney J. Harris, American
journalist (1917-1986)
BUe verse
God is faithful, by whom you were
called into the fellowship of his Son,
Jesus Christ our Lad.
1 Corinthians 1:9
1 was incensed at the cartoon run on the
editorial page of The Baytown Sun on
Wednesday, April 5. the cartoon portray-
ing the NRA as worshipping a revolver as
the false god is so wrong that it cries out
for a swift and true response. I can no
longer stand by silent while my fellow
Americans and NRA members are
demonized.
What the NRA holds sacred is free-
dom, and the Constitution that guarantees
it for all Americans.
There are few, if any organizations in
this country that are more dedicated than
the NRA to the preservation of the Con-
stitution that protects all of our God
given rights.
It seems of late, the current media pas-
time is to beat up on the NRA and blame
it for this nations’ social ills. I pity those
of you who fail to understand that as we
turn over more and more of our rights
and freedoms to the government, we lose
them forever. Yesterday it was “Big
Tobacco,” today it’s guns and Microsoft.
What comes next? When will it affect
you? When they tell you what car to
drive? When they tell you how to raise
your children? When they tell you when
and where you can pray? Will it take you
being marched into concentration camps
like sheep to the slaughter? Then you will
be awake, but it will be too late?
When Hitler moved the Jews to thfe
ghettos and had mentally handicapped
people murdered, citizens complied
because it was for the “good” of the
country. These were people who obeyed
the law and had no reason to suspect their
government’s motive. We all know what
happened in Nazi Germany. How much
longer will the American people standby
and watch as their freedoms fall as they
are told, “it’s just for the children.” If we
don’t stop the madness of government
intrusion into our lives and God-given
rights, the only legacy we will leave the
children of this nation is a police state!
Many folks say it can never happen
here. TTiink what you want, but history
tells a different story. Gun registration
and licensing of gun owners is guaran-
teed to lead to confiscation! It’s happened
in Russia, China, Cuba, Nazi Germany,
Italy, Greece, Poland, Romania, Great
Britain, Australia, and many third world
countries, as well as New York City!
We must learn from these examples.
People of many nations have suffered and
died over the years because they were
tricked into trusting a government that
progressively limited and usurped the
rights of the people they were sworn to
protect!
Slaves do not keep and bear arms. The
Second Amendment of our Constitution
is the guarantee that all our God-given
rights will not be denied by this or any
other government. In this day in time it
seems politically incorrect to be patriotic.
I say, “Woe unto you America! It’s not
about guns, it’s about freedom!
David O’Banion
Baytown
Sylvan Rodriguez will
be missed to many
Sylvan Rodriguez, a man of true char-
acter, will be missed by so many. I had
the pleasure of meeting him in 1994 and fi
can truly say again that he will be missed--
by many. He gave so much ofhimself. "
He was totally dedicated to his Catholic
faith and is assureda place in Heaven 2
So long, Sylvan. You will be missed 2
by so many. May you rest in peace with ~
our Lord. Thank you for being a part of J
our lives. Z12
Phil Prated
BaytoWTC
Godwin has done
an excellent job
I will vote to send Coleman Godwin
back to city hall on May 6 as our District
6 councilman because of the excellent
job he has done in his first term.
Today, the public is looking for some-
one who can bring trust and character to .
elected office.
Having known and worked with Cole-
man for 40 plus years 1 know him to be a,
man of high morals and high values.
It is an honor to have him as a friend „
and an added bonus to have him as my v
councilman.
Coleman is a veteran of World War II
who served at Okinawa and is a devoted
family man.
He refuses to take the SI50 monthly .
expense to help make Baytown abet- „
ter place to live and raise our children ,
and grandchildren. This 1 find, is
refreshing.
You cannot go wrong with a vote for j-
Coleman Godwin on May 6.1 ask you to
join me in my support of an outstanding
man and public leader.
Edward P. Kenney
Baytown
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