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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday. September 30. 1999
NAACP claims to have new murder evidence
• GREENVILLE (AP) -
NAACP officials said Wednesday
they have new evidence that an
East Texas black man killed in May
was the victim of a hate crime.
Officials say it was a drug deal
•gone bad.
* Bill Glenn, Greenville* NAACP
representative, said an affidavit
from somebody who says he was
told by a suspect in the death of
H.W. Walker said the 53-year-old
victim ivas murdered for his
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money. And Glenn says the way
Walker was killed makes it a hate
crime.
“They took a man to a secluded
area of the woods, they tied him,
they burned the man to death and
they laughed while he begs for his
life,” Glenn said. “What are we talk-
ing about here? That’s not hate?”
Walker, of Greenville, disap-
peared May 3. His remains were
.found June 2 in a heavily wooded
|#rea near Lone Oak, about 15
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militia vie
ikes Accusations
Indonesian military
onesia — De
Indonesian
nst civilians
se Secretary William Cohen
of “aiding and abetting”
East Timor. After meetings
ith Indonesia’s top leaders he
id he was encouraged that
ey understand the corise-
guences of failing to cooperate.
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:Be success of the peacekeeping
ft talks with Gen. Wiranto, the
President B.J. Habibie. On a
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y note, however, Cohen said Washington will watch to
see hP%e Indonesians carry through on their expressions of good
will fey disarming the militias in West Timor who ravaged East
Timor after an Aug. 30 vote for independence from Indonesia.
Afterward Cohen told reporters Vnranto had promised to investi-
gate the military’s role in the East tfeior violence and to take Jill
necessary steps to ensure the success of the Australian-led peace-
keeping mission there. .
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Kosovo Serbs want NATO soldiers to leave
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PRISTINA, Yugoslavia — Claiming international peaci
protect only ethnic Albanians, a group of Kosovo Sei
NATO soldiers to leave their village, Mere a grenade attai
three people and injured more than people.
The demand was issued by Serbs in Kosovo Polje, site
day’s attack, according to a statement-carried by Yugoslavi;
jug news agency. Four Serbs were’^lighfly injured Tuealay ip
another grenade attack in Gnjilane in^ie^merican sector.- j J
“i)u promised us peace and well«i^but instead you brought
us killings, pain, suffering and hop*Wra!ltW®S Serb community
leader, Aleksandar Jovanovic, said. “Have a conscience —’leave
your posts... so you won’t be party to the extermination of (Serb)
people” in Kosovo. - '
British and Russian peacekeepers are stationed in the town, five
miles southwest of Pristina, the provincial capital, and the appeal
will doubtless, Ije ignored, , ,
Beatty avoids answer on presidential bid
BEVERLY HILLS, jpalif. (AP) — Actor-director Warren Beatty
says he won’t let “momed, honeyed voices of ridicule and reaction”
stop him from considering a presidential bid.
In a speech to Hollywood’s liberal elite Wednesday night, Beatty
drew several rounds of applause, but didn’t deliver what the crowd
came to hear: A yes or no about his presidential intentions.
That will come later m the campaign season.
He did promise to champion the causes of American liberalism
whether he runs or not. He criticized the Democratic Party for
looking Republican, and questioned whether Democratic presi-
dential candidates Ai Gore and Bill Bradley are true to the party’s
tradition.
“Is there no protest anymore?” Beatty told a celebrity-studded
audience of several hunmted people during a speech to the South-
ern California Americans for Democratic Action “Are we comatig
to the point where the Democratic Party has to have a Republican
president to find its Voice again?”
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miles southeast of Greenville.
A 16-year-old boy, who is white,
pleaded guilty on Aug. 16 to a
juvenile charge of murder in Rains
County as part of a plea bargain
that kept him from being prosecut-
ed as an adult.
He was sentenced to up to 40
years in prison. As part of the deal,
he agreed to testify that Brian
Long, 24, approached him a few
days before Walker disappeared,
claiming Walker^ nephew cheated
him on a drug deal and that two
people needed to be killed in
return.
The juvenile told officers he and
Long tied Walker to a tree and set
him on fire the evening of May 3.
Long, who also is white, remains
at the Rains County Jail with bond
set at $1 million. Both Long and
the teen-ager lived in Lone Oak.
Texas Rangers investigated the
case and said the slaying was the
result of a botched drug deal.
worn
In lawsuit, Davidians.weave
fire theories beyond tear gas
WASHINGTON (AP) — For
all the recent furor over the FBI’s
use of potentially incendiary tear
gas canisters on the final day of
the Waco siege, a lawyer suing the
government on behalf of Branch
Davidian survivors and relatives
contends the inferno may have
been triggered by other causes.
Cult leader David Koresh and
some 80 followers perished during
the fiery climax to the siege on
April 19,1993.
Michael Caddell, the lead
lawyer in a wrongful-death law-
suit against the government, is
wary of tying his legal case to the
military canisters lobbed by feder-
al agents. Alternate theories under
examination include the po: sibili-
ty that the fire was caused by con-
tact between exhaust from mili-
tary tanks used in the assault and
the flimsy wooden walls of the
Davidians’ compound, he said,
adding that the exhaust could have
reached 1,200 degrees Fahrenheit.
“There are a number of possible
explanations and I don’t want to
get sucked in too much into the
whole pyrotechnic issue,” Caddell
said in a recent interview. “It may
turn out to be a red herring.”
Federal officials have always
sai‘d the fire was set by the Davidi-
ans, not agents — a position
maintained after the FBI acknowl-
edged last month that its agents
fired a few pyrotechnic tear-gas
projectiles on the siege’s final day.
There’s no evidence those canis-
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the fire, ignited the flames, they
say.
That view is shared by an
arson expert on the team that
investigated the tragedy as part
of the Justice Department’s 1993
Waco probe.
“I still say what we came to
the conclusion on at the end of
our investigation down there
still holds today, regardless of
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Notice of Public Hearing on Tax Increase
The Chambers County Municipal Utility District Number 1 will hold a public hear-
ing on a proposal to increase total tax revenues from properties on the tax roll by
37.44889 percent. Your individual taxes may increase or decrease, depending
on the change in the taxable value of your property in relation to the change in
taxable value of all other property and the tax rate that is adopted.
The public hearing will be held on Wednesday, October 6, 1999 at 8:30 AM at
10303 Redwood, Baytown, Texas. 77520
FOR the proposal:
Ann W. Olson
Otis Graham
Dennis P. Winham
AGAINST the proposal: ,
None
PRESENT and not voting:
NONE
ABSENT:
Larry Bell
The following table compares taxes on an average home in this taxing unit last
year to taxes proposed on the average home this year. Again, your individual
taxes may be higher or lower, depending on the taxable value of your property.
Last Year
This Year
Average residence homestead value
General exemptions available
(Amount available on the average
$ 108.680
$ 110.825
homestead, not including senior
citizen’s or disabled person’s exemptions)
$ -0-
$ -0-
Average taxable value
$ 108.680
$ 110.825
Tax rate
$ 0.82
$0-82
Tax
$ 891.18
$ 908.77
Under this proposal, taxes on the. average homestead would Increase by
$17.59 or 1.9737 percent compared with last year’s taxes. Comparing tax
rates without adjusting for changes in property value, the tax rate would
increase by $0.00 per $100 of taxable value or 0.00 percent compared to
last year’s tax rate. The tax rate figures are not adjusted for changes in the
taxable value of property.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 287, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 30, 1999, newspaper, September 30, 1999; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1020644/m1/6/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.