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Friday, December 7,2001
Governor
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needed, the governor told his
staff to contact the city," Alfaro
said. "The conversation was
between the governor and myself.
His aide was not involved."
A week ago, after no statement
had appeared, Alfaro again made
contact with the governor's repre-
sentatives and was told they
would check on it.
On Thursday, a call by The
Baytown Sun to the governor's
press secretary, Kathy Walt, gen-
erated the following response:
“Right now, it (a response)
would be limited," Walt said. "The
governor is confident and has
faith in the TNRCC board and in
fair and open hearings on what is
In the best interest of citizens.
"It's a contested case so it
would not be appropriate for the
governor to make a statement
while it is a contested case,"
Wfelt said. "It's also illegal for the
governor to comment on a matter
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that is contested.”
When asked if Perry could or
would urge the TNRCC commis-
sioners to adopt rules governing
the permitting of non-hazardous
waste industrial landfills, rules
that would apply to all cases, not
just TSP's, Walt said, "He is con-
fident that the commissioners will
make decisions in the best inter-
est of Texas and that includes the
rule-making process."
Alfaro said, “The governor told
me he could not advocate
because he might have to make
the final decision in the case: he
might be involved in the process."
However, Walt, after checking
with policy staff, said "The gover-
nor does not have the final word
in that decision. The mayor must
have misunderstood."
Contacted late Thursday, Alfaro
said he is standing by his state-
ment.
"That is what I heard," Alfaro
said.
Gift tree allows Baytonians to adopt a needy child
By MATTHEW COOK
Staff writer
BAYTOWN — Baytown res-
idents still have the opportunity
to adopt a child for Christmas
through the Salvation Army
Gift Tree at Lee College.
The gift tree is adorned with
angels which represent children
that are in need of Christmas
presents. Each angel contains
the name of a child and a
Christmas wish list for that
child.
“This is the Salvation Army
Fallen Angel program,” Woods
said. These are children that the
Salvation Army has identified
and screened. We get these tags
from the Salvation Army and
we put them on the tree for peo-
ple to sponsor the child.”
Project coordinator Dana
Woods said Lee College had
hoped to help 150 children. The
school is close to its goal.
Woods said about 13-15 chil-
dren remain to be adopted.
The Salvation Army will pick
up all toys Wednesday, so inter-
ested parties need to sponsor a
child and get their shopping
done by then. To find out how to
sponsor a child, visit Lee
Colleges counseling office in
Moler Hall.
The project is sponsored by
Phi Theta Kappa.
“We need people, even if they
can’t donate toys, to donate
money,” said James Nelson,
vice president of historical
records for Phi Theta Kappa.
Woods said this is about the
fifth year Lee College has par-
ticipated in tiie program.
“I just thought it would be a
wonderful idea for us to do at
the college,” she said.
Contact Matthew Cook by e-
mailat matthew.cook@bay-
townsun.com or by phone at
(281)425-8031.
Anthrax Leahy letter identical to Daschle letter
TNRCC
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affidavits from TNRCC staff
that reviewed the solid waste
permit guidelines.
"It appears what they used
was guidelines, guidance docu-
ments and both state and federal
rules that relate to either munic-
ipal solid waste landfills or haz-
ardous waste landfills,” said
made up of the Galveston Bay
Foundation, Citizens for a
Better Baytown and Informed
Citizens United, represented by
Cynthia Pickett and Lisa Brun
Gossett. The Citizens Group is
represented by Matthews with
Blackburn and Mary Carter as
co-counsel. TSP is represented
by Paul Seals and Eric Groten.
The TNRCC Special Interest
Renbarger, who is ffte attorney *Co£
for Chambers, Harris and ' :; ’
Liberty counties, the city of exPecte^t0 ie’
Baytown and Beach City.
"There certainly isn’t any-
thing in these that shows sub-
stantive rules relating to non-
hazardous industrial landfills,”
Renbarger said. “Each of the
aligned groups of protesting
parties will be filing these
briefs. Each group will file sep-
arate briefs.”
The other protesting parties
mentioned by Renbarger, in
addition to the Government
Entities Group and the Citizens
Group, include the
Oiganizations Group and TSP
itself.
The Oiganizations Group is
OtrruARiES
“Each group will present sep-
arate briefs,” Renbarger said.
“They will be addressing the
applicability and the sufficiency
of the rules listed by the execu-
tive director of the TNRCC and
the issue of whether the solid
waste permit hearings can go
forward” Renbarger said.
Of the briefs being filed
today, Renbarger said all parties
will receive copies of the filings
and will have until Dec. 12 to
respond.
Contact M.A. Bengtson by e-
mail at ma.bengtson@baytown-
sun.com or by phone at (281)
425-8023.
WASHINGTON (AP) - A
newly opened letter to Sen. Patrick
Leahy contained suspected anthrax
and handwriting that appear identi-
cal to an earlier letter to Senate
Majority Leader Tom Daschle, the
FBI disclosed Thursday.
With the letter and the powder
undergoing laboratory analysis,
Pearl Harbor
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expecting a war to break out
pretty soon.
“But we got mad and we
knew we would be fighting
against the Japs.
“Just sitting there, I did get
the worst stomach-ache I’ve
ever had,” Harris added. ”1 was
so really disgusted about the
attack.”
Harris ended up as a corporal
in the U.S. Army Air Corps,
later the U.S. Army Air Force,
working as a ground crew
member in India during WWII.
“Sept. 11 was a little different
for me,” Harris added. “I was at
home watching television when
the news came on. It was bad
but not like Dec. 7 had been for
me. I was sorry for those people
but it was different because we
weren’t at war.”
Edward Thurston, originally
from Needham, Mass., and now
a Baytown resident, said that as
“Wfe hope to learn... who did this
and hew they did it,” said FBI offi-
cial Van Harp.
The suspected anthrax in the
Leahy letter “appears to be consis-
tent with that found in the letter
sent to Senator Daschle,” Harp
said.
The Leahy and Daschle letters
a 14-year-old boy, he got into
an argument with his father
after hearing about the Pearl
Harbor attack.
“I was reading the Sunday
paper when the news broke in
on the radio station we were lis-
tening to,” Thurston said. “Dad
said the war would last six
months and I said, No way.'
You can say I was tee’d off —
you can use that word in the
paper, I think — and I was
aggravated by the attack.
“Well, I had to wait until I
was 17 to enlist, which my
father said OK — my mother
had died by then — and I
served in the South Pacific,
ending up in an amphibious
unit on Guam. I also was in the
Korean War.”
When the Sept. 11 attacks
occurred, Thurston and his wife
were gambling in the Soaring
Eagle Casino on an Indian
reservation in Michigan.
“We didn’t know what was
stateinpart, ”09-11-01 Y)ucan not
stop us. VW have this anthrax” and
conclude, “Allah is great.”
It will take weeks to complete all
testing, because “there is a finite
amount of material in that letter ” to
Leafy, necessitating “a very cau-
tious analytical approach,” Harp,
assistant director in chaige of the
happening at first,” Thurston
said. “Then the casino’s securi-
ty put the television feed on all
the security monitors and we
could see what had happened. It
was a dirty, rotten trick that they
did to us. People were pretty
shook up and we left immedi-
ately the next day to come back
home.
“‘They’ could have started
tossing the big ones. We didn’t
know” Thurston said. “We had
to drive to the next town to fill
up because everybody was get-
ting all the gas into their cars
that they could.
“Coming down from
Michigan, everybody was
doing 85 or better. The cops
were not stopping anybody,
they were just watching.”
Curtis List, a retired USAF
colonel from Highlands, who
flew everything from P-39
prop-job fighters during WWII
to F-102 jets in peacetime
American in the early 1970s,
FBI's Washington field office, said
in a statement.
Also, a batch of mail being
processed at a mail-handling facil-
ity set up in a courtyard of the
Federal Reserve’s headquarters has
tested positive for exposure to
anthrax, officials said late
Thursday.
says he decided to enlist as
soon as Pearl Harbor occurred
and did in March, 1942.
“I heard about Pearl Harbor
on Dallas radio and got really
tee-d off. I was working for the
Post Office at the time, 21 years
old, out on my own. Mother
was all for it, So I signed up,”
List said. “And 1 stayed in,
making a career out of it.
“When Sept. 11 came along,
I was out walking, exercising,
in Highlands where 1 live and I
heard it over my earphone-
radio.
"I got tee d off again. I was
shocked. I got niad. I was still
mad when I got home and
turned on the television. Out-
going into Afghanistan? We’re
doing the right thing.
“That’s a big time ‘right
thing.”’
Contact Jim Lid Jell at
jim. liddellCPbaytownsun. com
or (281) 425-8024.
Sister Maeula (Mary)
Menifee Brooks
Sister Maeula (Mary)
Menifee Brooks, 84, of
Baytown, passed away, Tuesday,
December 4,2001 in a Baytown
hospital.
Maeula was bom on July 24,
1917 in Richards, Tx. She lived
in Baytown 60 plus years. She
was a member of the
Washington Chapel M.B.C.,
founding member of the Gospel
Singing Group, The Traveling
Echos, and a former member of
The Logan Chapel U.M.C.
She is preceded in death by
her parents, husband, a sister
and three brothers.
She is survived by her daugh-
ter and son-in-law, Jennifer
Holmes and Leroy Johnson of
Baytown; sisters, Stella
Baldwin and Essie Allen both
of Baytown; three grandchil-
dren and 11 great-grandchil-
dren, two Godchildren, Evelyn
Allen and Eugene Allen and a
host of nieces, nephews, rela-
tives and friends.
A special thanks to
Bridgehaven Hospice, The
Hodge family and Mrs. Norton
may God bless and keep you.
Visitation and wake will be
from 7-9 p.m. today,
December 7, 2001 at
Washington Chapel M.B.C.
Funeral services will be at 11
a.m. Saturday, December 8,
2001 at Washington M.B.C.,
2207 Jones Rd„ McNair, Rev.
Earl Alexander Pastor with Rev.
John L. Bates officiating.
Interment will follow at
Pineywood Cemetery,
Richards.
Pallbearers will be Deharard
Allen, Leon Dennis, Earl
Johnson, Edgar Johnson, Frank
Smith and Troy Smith.
Honorary pallbearers will be
Garlan Holmes, Deshawn
Allen, Ethan Allen, John Allen,
Rodirick Menifee and Garlan
Menifee.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Frazier Funeral
Home, 7623 Harrison,
Baytown, 281-426-5579.
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Vicky Lynn Davis-
Oelfke
Vicky Lynn Davis-Oelfke,
35, of Baytown, passed away,
Saturday, December 1, 2001.
She attended Lee College in
Baytown and was a member of
the American Studies Honors
Program and a member of Phi
Beta Kappa. She won first place
in the Walter Prescott Webb
Society’s Caldwell Contest for
the best undergraduate research
and paper on an aspect of Texas
History. Her paper “Slavery and
Cattle Ranching in Liberty and
Chambers Counties” was later
published in Touchstone, the
Journal of the Walter Prescott
Webb Historical Society, spon-
sored by the Texas State
Historical Association. She
served an internship at the
Smithsonian Institute. She later
transferred to the University of
St. Thomas in Houston with the
intention of pursuing her love of
history and historical research
and writing.
She is survived by her loving
family, her husband, Douglas E.
Oelfke, Jr., her four beautiful
children, Shanna Shantel
Lewis, 17, Samuel Faulkner
Oelfke, 7, Margaret Judith
Oelfke, 5 and Harper Kate
Oelfke, 3, parents, Frankie
Lynn and Doris Davis, brothers,
Randy and Charley Davis and
sister Kelly McIntyre.
A memorial service was held
in her honor at Trinity
Tabernacle @ 1008 E. Lobit,
Baytown, at 2 p.m. Thursday,
December 6, 2001.
Instead of flowers donations
in her name can be made to The
Friends of Lee College at Box
1313 Baytown, TX 77521 or the
Joseph McFadden Scholarship
Fund at the University of St.
Thomas, 3800 Montrose Blvd.,
Houston, TX 77006.
Beatrice Martin
Beatrice Martin, 84, a home-
maker, passed away, Thursday,
December 6, 2001 in Dallas.
Beatrice Martin was born
October 4, 1917 in Nolan
County to William and Dora
Knox.
She is survived by her son
and his wife, Glendol Martin
and Patsy of Pasadena; daugh-
ter and her husband, Becky
McHenry and Lawrence of
Arlington; grandchildren,
Kevin Martin and his wife
Janetha, Steve McHenry and
his wife Cindy, Susan and her
husband James Holman, five
great-grandchildren, sisters-in-
law, Myrde Knox of Texas City;
Annette Knox of Baytown; sev-
eral nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be from 6 - 8
p.m. today, December 7, 2001
at Earthman Funeral Home.
Graveside services will be at
11 a.m. Saturday, December 8,
2001 at Cedar Crest Cemetery,
Baytown.
Arrangements are under the
direction of Moore Funeral
Home-Bowen Chapel,
Arlington, 817-468-8 111.
Christopher Leo
Volbnan
Christopher Leo Vollman was
born on October 21, 1949 in
Columbus, Ohio and passed
away, Tuesday, December 4,
2001 in Baytown.
He graduated from the
Illinois Institute of Technology
in Chicago with a Bachelor of
Science degree in Fire
Protection Engineering and
held a MBA from Murray State
University in Kentucky. Chris
was a member of St. Andrews
Catholic Church where he
served as a Eucharistic minister
and Sacrastant, and he enjoyed
teaching youth in C.C.E. Chris
served 5 Councils as a District
Deputy and Fourth Degree
member of the Knights of
Columbus and was actively
involved in many oiganizations
including the Squires and
Cursillo. When he wasn’t work-
ing for his church, the Knights,
playing golf or bowling, Chris
enjoyed Spending time with his
family.
Surviving family members
include his loving wife of 30
years, Karen Sue Gordon
Vollman of Houston; sons,
Nicholas Joseph Vollman II and
William Christopher Vollman
of Houston; daughter, Angela
Christine Muras of Houston;
granddaughters, Laura
Christine Muras and Ivy Rose
Vollman, daughter-in-law,
Jessie Clark Vollman, father,
Nicholas Joseph Vollman and
his wife, Helen, mother,
Marilyn R. Bailey Vollman
Jenkins, brother, Nicholas Leo
Vollman and his wife, Leslie of
Columbus, Ohio, nephew,
Michael Vollman and niece,
Lindsey Vollman.
Visitation and Rosary were
held Thursday, December 6,
2001 at St. Andrew Catholic
Church.
Mass of Christian burial will
be at 10 a.m. today, December
7,2001 at St. Andrew’s Catholic
Church, 827 Sheldon Rd.,
Channelview, with Rev.
Stephen Zigrang, celebrant.
Interment to follow at San
Jacinto Memorial Park.
Fourth Degree Knights of
Columbus will serve as pall-
bearers.
Arrangements are under the
direction of L.A. Crespo
Funeral Directors, 6123 Garth
Rd.,"Baytown, 281-839-0700.
Della I. "Gene"
McDonald
Della I. “Gene” McDonald,
87 of Buffalo, died Tuesday in a
Fairfield, TX hospital.
Visitation was hold on Thursday
at Sterling Funeral Home in
Dayton. Funeral Services will
be held today at 1 p.m. at the
Sterling Funeral Home Chapel.,
Burial will be at Pals Memorial
Park in Dayton.
Gene was born in 1914 in
Jeffersonville, Indiana. She had
been a resident of Baytown for
30 years before moving to
Buffalo, Texas in recent
months. She was a member of
the Pythian Sisters and a Life
member of The Order of the
Eastern Star in Grand Rapids,
Michigan.
She was proceeded in death
by her parents, Arthurs and
Mary Helen Bostock, her hus-
band, Morris Dale McDonald,
her daughter Paddy Peloquin,
her sister Betty Thompson and
her brother Arthur Wilbur
Bostock. She is survived by her
son Morris James McDonald of
Wimberly, Texas and her sister
Mae Burden of New Salisbury,
Indiana. She is also survived by
10 grandchildren and 13 great-
grandchildren.
Brenda Benevides
Brenda Benevides, 62, of
Baytown passed away Thursday,
Dec. 6, 2001 in a Baytown hos-
pital.
Services are pending at
Earthman Funeral Home, 3919
Garth Road, Baytown, 281-422-
8181.
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