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The Baytown Sun is published Monday through Friday and Sunday at
1301 Memorial Drive in Baytown.
Gaiy Dobbs
Editor and Publisher
Nyree Doucette
Acting Managing Editor
IPs time for GCCISD to put
an end to Carver situation
The time is far past due for the Goose Creek CISD to release Exxon from
being held hostage for the Carver Elementary School site.
As a good citizen, Exxon donated the southern two-thirds of the property
nearly 60 years ago for a new school; the district purchased the northern third
where the bus bam is now located. GCCISD was not forced to accept or pur-
chase the property. A school was operated on the site for almost 50 years.
It has been nearly three and a half years since a tar-like substance was discov-
ered coming to the surface of the school’s playground. When brought to the
attention of Exxon, the company immediately undertook clean-up procedures
and developed a remediation plan for the TNRCC.
Plaintiff attorneys representing families claiming to have suffered from the
tar-like substance in suits against Exxon were unable to find any court to' hear
their cases due to lack of credible evidence.
The district continued without interruption to allow employees to work at the
bus bam that is located within a few feet of an area being monitored by Exxon
and TNRCC.
To date, no evidence of harm to any student, district employee, or other indi-
viduals has been proven due to exposure to the Carver site. The only harm is the
damage to what had been a good relationship between Exxon and the district.
We still find it difficult to believe the district treated the taxpayer that provides
about 50 percent of local district money in such a shabby fashion. Unfortunate-
ly, GCCISD continues to treat Exxon in the same fashion as evidenced by the
plaintiff attorneys hired by the district to settle the matter.
Plaintiff attorneys visually get paid only if they are successful in getting the
other party to pay. Unfortunately for the company and community, there is little
incentive to settle quickly or reasonably. This situation could continue indefinite-
ly under present circumstances.
There is a solution. If the district abandons the donated portion of the site, that
property reverts back to Exxon. Very simply, the district should abandon the
southern two-thirds of the property so it can revert to the company. Since school
districts for the most part cannot be sued, GCCISD should not be at future risk
from abandonment. Then if the district chooses, the northern third of the proper-
ty could be placed for sale and purchased at fair market value removing any dis-
trict presence from the Carver site.
It’s a pretty safe bet that district taxpayers will not favor passing a bond issue
to build a new Carver on a new site until the company is released from the cur-
rent intolerable situation. Interestingly enough, Exxon will pay for half of the
new site and school. It’s time to settle this matter quickly.
Today in hisloiy
Today is Thursday, Oct. 8, the 281st day of 1998. There are 84 days left in the
year..
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Oct. 8,1871, the Great Chicago Fire erupted while another deadly blaze
broke out in Feshtigo, Wis.
On this date:
In 1869, tiie 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, died in Con-
cord, N.H. Cf
In 1918, Sgt. Alvin C. York almost single-handedly killed 25 German soldiers
and captured 132 in the Argonne Forest in France.
In 1934, Bruno Hauptmann was indicted for murder in the death of the infant
son of Charles A. Lindbeigh.
In 1985, tiie hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Laura killed American
passenger Leon Klinghoffer, dumping his body and wheelchair overboard.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Paul Hogan is 59. Rhythm-and-blues singer Fred
Cash (The Impressions) is 58. Rev. Jesse Jackson is 57. Comedian Chevy Chase
is 55. Sigourney Weaver is 49.
— The Associated Press
Thought for the day
“If a thing is old, it is a sign that it was fit to live.... The guarantee of continuity
is quality.” •
■ Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973)
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The smearing of Kenneth Starr
By now Bill Clinton’s technique in deal-
ing with people who need to be discredited **
so that he can be believed is all too famil-
iar. He developed it in the rancorous local
politics of Arkansas and brought it with
him to Washington.
The man himseif has a boyish sweetness
that many women find irresistible. But
anyone who gets in his way is, quite sim-
ply, destroyed. I am not speaking here
about the rumors of mysterious deaths that
have surfaced in scores of books and arti-
cles published by conspiracy theorists. I
am talking about the barrage of denuncia-
tion and assorted billingsgate that descends
upon anyone who presumes to describe his
behavior in ways that contradict that'altar-
boy image.
The American public’s first introduction
to the technique came in 1992 when Gen-
nifer Flowers told the world about their 12-
year affair. Poor Miss Flowers was
drowned in a sea of epithets, of which
“slut” was one of the more printable. It was
’ not until January of this year, when he was
under oath in his Paula Jones deposition,
that Mr. Clinton admitted to having had
sexual relations with Miss Flowers “once.”
(Presumably their other contacts during
those 12 years fell in the oral category that,
We now know, Mr. Clinton doesn’t regard
as “sexual relations.”)
Then there was Paula Jones. She was
swiftly dismissed, by Mr. Clinton’s all-pur-
pose apologist James Carville, as “trailer
trash” and became the butt of a million
jokes about her “big hair” and prominent
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WILLIAM
RUSHER
nose. As late as last month, Mr. Clinton
snarled to the grand jury that her charges
were “bogus” — though he is now report-
edly considering paying her a million dol-
lars to drop them.
But the target of Mr. Clinton’s biggest
campaign, naturally enough, has been the
person in America whom he fears most:
Kenneth Starr.
Until he accepted appointment as inde-
pendent counsel to investigate Whitewater,
and his mandate was subsequently expand-
ed' to include Travelgate, Filegate and
Monicagate, Mr. Starr was a widely
respected attorney — solicitor general of
the United States and a judge of the United
States Court of Appeals for the District of
Columbia. But almost two years ago he
was targeted for destruction by the Clin-
tonistas, and today polls indicate that they
have done their work superbly well.
Once again the attack was led by James
Carville, but soon he was joined by the
whole phalanx of White House spinners,
followed by the usual rabid Democratic
partisans in Congress and the media. Starr
was “out of control.” He had spent four
years and $40 million and come up with
only a tawdry liaison (forgetting a whole
series of convictions and guilty pleas,
including such notables as the governor of
Arkansas and the deputy attorney general
of the United States). Above all, he was
“sex-obsessed.”
But what choice did Kenneth Starr have,
save to go into the unsavory details? Mr.
Clinton chose to hide behind a definition
of “sexual relations” under which Ms.
Lewinsky had had them but he (he swore)
had not. Yet Ms. Lewinsky told the grand
jury of a dozen occasions on which Mr.
Clinton’s conduct fitted the definition.
Apparently, the argument is that Mr. Clin-
ton cannot be impeached and removed for
committing perjury and obstruction of jus-
tice because the subject of his concealment
was a series of acts so unfit for discussion
that any investigator who brings them up
must be sick.
It isn’t Kenneth Starr who is sick. He is
an honorable man who has been smeared
mercilessly by a conscienceless goon
squad in the White House. And I believe
that some day the American people will
come to recognize the quiet indomitability
and thoroughgoing professionalism he has
displayed while undergoing a hurricane of
lies.
William A. Rusher is a Distinguished
Fellow of the Claremont Institutefor the
Study of Statesmanship and Political Phi-
losophy.
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II, S. Officials
President
Bill Clinton (D-2000)
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
(202)456-1111
Vice President
A1 Gore (D-2000)
The White House - West Wing
Washington, D.C. 20500
(202)456-7045
Senator
Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-2000)
283 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-5922
(713)653-3456
Senator
Phil Gramm (R-2002)
370 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202) 224-2934
(713)718-4000
Representative District 9
Nick Lampson (D-1998)
417 Cannon House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-6565
1-888-838-0061
1-800-252-9600
Representative District 25
Ken Bentsen (D-1998)
128 Cannon House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202) 225-7508
(713) 667-3554
Baytown - (281) 837-8225
Texas Offices
Governor
George W. Bush Jr. (R-1998)
State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78768
Lieutenant Governor
Bob Bullock (D-1998)
State Capitol,
Austin, Texas 78711
(512)463-0001
Attorney General
Dan Morales (D-1998)
Comptroller of Public Accounts
John Sharp (D-1998)
Land Commissioner
Garry Mauro (D-1998)
Commissioner of Agriculture
Rick Perry (R-1998)
Railroad Commissioners
Barry Williamson (R-1998)
Charles Matthews (R-2000)
Carole Rylander (R-2002)
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