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Sunrise — 6:24 a.m.
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High tide — 4:19 p.m. High tide — 4:28 p.m.
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Today In History
Today Is Sunday, July 6, the 187th day of 2003. There are 178
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 6,1923, the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was
formed.
On this date:
In 1535, SirThomtaS More was executed in England for treason.
In 1777, during the American Revolution, British forces cap-
tured Fort 'Rconderoga.
In 1917, during World War I, Arab forces led by T.E. Lawrence
captured the port of Aqaba from the Turks.
In 1928, a preview was held in New York of the first all-talking
feature, "The Lights of New York.”
In 1933, the first All-Star baseball game was played, at
Chicago's Comiskey Park; the American League defeated the
National League 4-2.
In 1944,169 people died in a fire that broke out in the main tent
of the Ringling Brothers and Bamum-and-Bailey Circus in
Hartford, Connecticut.
In 1945, President Truman signed an executive order establish-
ing the Medal of Freedom.
In 1957, Althea Gibson became the first black tennis player to
win a Wimbledon singles title, defeating fellow American
Darlene Hard 6-3,6-2.
In 1989, the U.S. Army destroyed its last Pershing 1-A missiles
at an ammunition plant in Karnack, Texas, under terms of the
1987 Intermediate-range Nuclear Forces Treaty.
Ten years ago: On die eve of the Group of Seven summit in
Tokyo, President Clinton and Japanese Prime Minister Kiichi
Miyazawa expressed optimism about resolving a contentious
bade dispute between their countries.
The Associated Press
Thought for Today_
"Freedom is always and exclusively freedom for the one who
thinks differently.”
— Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-German revolutionary
(1871-1919)
Bible Verse
But the meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight them-
selves in the abundance of peace.
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Sunday, July 6,2003
Families pick up pieces after fireworks blast
Today Tomorrow
Partly cloudy. A chance of show- Partly cloudy. A slight chance of
ere and thunderstorms. Highs in showers and thunderstorms in
the lower 90s. South winds 10 to the morning then a chance of
15 mph. Chance of rain 30 showers and thunderstorms in
percent. the afternoon. Highs in the upper
80s. Chance of rain 30 percent.
Qy BOOBY ROSS JR.
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Since a series of
powerful explosions tore
through a fireworks warehouse
. across the street from her
I Kilgore home, Annetha Kenney
repeatedly has, told friends,
“Wake me up! Wake me up!”
For Kenney and her Edit
Texas community, the night-
mare that claimed three lives is
no dream.
After a second night spent in
a motel room provided by the
American Red Cross, the 41-
year-old mother of three awoke
again Saturday to harsh reality:
It may be weeks or even months
before she can move back into
her home, vyhich sustained
heavy damage:
But at leastshe and her fami-
ly survived. ]
“That could have been us,”
Kenney said of the workers who
died in Thursday’s blast at
Pyrotechnics by Lamb Co.’s
warehouse. "The only thing
between me and them was the
street. We're just thankful to be
alive.”
Kenney and her husband,
James, hoped to meet Saturday
with an insurance adjuster and
salvage a few personal items,
...
• Tyler Morning Telegraph/Tom Worrier
JAMES KENNEY, BACK, receives an embrace from cousin Mildred
Rossum in front of his home Saturday in Kilgore. Kenney's house was
heavily damaged after a fireworks explosion at the Pyrotechnics by
Lamb Co.'s warehouse located across the street Thursday. Three
warehouse employees were killed and five people suffered minor
injuries. ’ ■
such as clothes and important
papers, from amid shattered
glass and strewn insulation.
Relatives of the dead began
making funeral arrangements as
investigators started compiling
reports on what went wrong.
“We’ve finished investigating
the scene,” Clay Alexander, a
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms agent, said Saturday.
“It’s our belief, as a result of the
investigation, that it was an
accidental cause."
Alexander said Kilgore offi-
cials will make the final ruling
on the cause of the explosions.
Kilgore public safety director
Ronnie Moore has said a spark,
perhaps from static electricity,
probably caused the explosion
that shot fireworks and other
debris several blocks in the city
about 115 miles southeast of
Dallas.
The warehouse and six near-
tty houses were damaged or
destroyed. Five people suffered
minor injuries.
Police identified the dead as
Marvin Lamb, 70, father of the
warehouse’s owner; Melinda
Edmundson, 25; and Martin
Dormer, 58.
Funeral services are sched-
uled Tuesday for Lamb and
Edmundson and Wednesday for
Donner.
Fourth of July fireworks dis-
plays planned in 12 East Texas
cities, including Kilgore, had to
be canceled after the explosion.
“Under the circumstances,
everybody pretty well under-
stood,” said Jerry King, mayor
of Athens, where a holiday cele-
bration proceeded with food
and music.
Annetha Kenney said she
knew the nearby warehouse
dealt in fireworks, but she did-
n’t realize the extent. Lamb’s
business was appropriately
registered and had no prior
problems, according to the ATF.
“We thought it was Roman
candles and stuff like that,”
Kenney said. "I didn’t know
they had those kind of explo-
sives over there. I was really
surprised that they would let
something like that go in right
across the street.”
Police believe shooting
deaths drug-related
HOUSTON (AP) - The
murders of three Hispanic men,
who last week were each found
shot repeatedly in the stomach,
are probably drug-related,
according to police and family
members.
The bodies of the three
friends were found Wednesday
bound in the back of a pickup
parked along a Houston freeway
ity a tow truck driver. They were
last seen leaving their homes to
make a business deal, said
homicide investigators.
Two of the men were identi-
fied as Oliver Amilpas, 23 and
Eladlo Trevino, 24. The third
victim remains unidentified.
Investigators won’t say wlty
they think drugs were involved
in the slayings, but Houston
homicide detective Sgt. Mike
Peters told the Houston
Chronicle for its Saturday edi-
tions it is unclear whether rob-
bery or another dispute sparked
the shootings. The slayings
could have been prompted Ity a
theft or a conflict over drug ter-
ritory, he said.
Amilpas' mother also believes
the deaths were drug-related.
“There is no other reason it
could be,” said Oliva Wences,
57, speaking through a transla-
tor and weeping as she held her
son’s picture at her southeast
Houston apartment.
His older sister, Maria
Moreno, 28, said “money was
probably what drove him into
doing that.” Amilpas, who
worked as a tile layer, was one
of 13 children.
Police first thought the truck
could have been stopped on the
freeway for several hours before
the bodies were found, but
investigators now believe the
shootings happened after 9 p.m.
on Wednesday.
Amilpas had left his south
Houston trailer home around
8:30 p.m. or 9 p.m., saying he
would return in about three
hours, family members said.
Investigators said they are
having trouble finding the own-
ers of the truck in which the
bodies were found. The vehicle
is registered in Roma, a town
west of McAllen just across the
border from Mexico.
No arrests have been made in
the case.
FormerTexasA&M player shot
during attempted carjacking
HOUSTON (AP) - A for-
mer Texas A&M football player
is recovering after being shot
during an attempted carjacking
at a southwest Houston mall
parking lot.
Terrence Kiel, 22, was in his
1983 Buick Park Avenue at
Sharpstown Mall Friday after-
noon when he was approached
tty a man in his late teens, early
20s, said Houston police
spokeswoman Sandra Aponte.
The unidentified suspect,
who was on foot, "said some-
thing to the victim and shortly
thereafter fired numerous times,
striking him in the abdomen
and leg,” she said.
Kiel was taken to Ben Taub
General Hospital, where he was
in stable condition Saturday.
He was shot three times, once
in his ankle, once in his knee
and once around his stomach,
said his grandmother Martha
Kiel, who lives in Lufkin. None
of the wounds were serious, and
he was expected to only have
minor surgery, she said.
Today’s Obituaries
For obituaries and funeral service
information, see Page 8B.
Obituaries: Althea Antoinette Robey, Travis Loring Sisco,
Lilly C. Thompson, Raymond H. Cunning.
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