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State & Local
Tuesday, July 8,2003
Weather
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Partly cloudy. A 50 percent Partly cloudy with a 50 percent
chance of showers and thunder- chance of showers and thunder-
storms. Locally heavy rain Is pos- storms. Highs around 90.
slble. Highs around 90.
Southeast winds 10 to 15 mph.
Sunrise — 6:25 a.m.
Sunset — 8:23 p.m.
Sunrise — 6:25 a.m.
Sunset — 8:23 p.m.
Low tide — 8:36 a.nf. Low tide — 9:45 a.m.
High tide —4:28 p.m. High tide — 4:31 p.m.
— Tides for Point Barrow, Trinity Bay
State and national temperatures
Temperatures Indicate Sunday's high
Grand Rapids
86
66 .16 cdy
and overnight low to 7 p.m.
Great Falls
80
43 cdy
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Helena
84
54 clr
Amarillo
88
67
cdy
Honolulu
88
78 clr
Atlanta
84
71
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Houston
92
77 rn
Atlantic City
92
68
.36 m
Indianapolis
89
73 cdy
Austin I
91
70
.01 cdy
Kansas City
91
75 clr
Baltimore
90
69
.45 cdy
Key West
87
83 .04 cdy
Boston
93
69
cdy
Las Vegas
107
80 clr
Brownsville
91
75
.01 cdy
Little Rock
90
75 cdy
Buffalo
84
66
.18 cdy
Los Angeles
83
66 clr
Charleston,S.C.
90
76
cdy
Louisville
88
74 .02 cdy
Charleston,W.Va. 88
67
.46 m
Lubbock
84
70 cdy
Charlotte,N.C.
86
72
m
Memphis
85
75 .03 cdy
Cheyenne
93
56
cdy
Miami Beach
89
77 .39 cdy
Chicago
88
70
.57 m
Mldland-Odessa 80
69 .96 cdy
Cincinnati
88
67
.20 cdy
Milwaukee
83
64 .98 rn
Cleveland
85
69
.71 m
Mpls-St Paul
84
71 cdy
Columbia,S.C.
92
75
m
Nashville
84
72 cdy
Columbus.Ohio
89
66
.12 m
New Orleans
86
73 .62 cdy
Concord,N.H.
93
61
cdy
New Vbrk City
92
74 cdy
Dallas-Ft Worth
91
75
.04 cdy
Oklahoma City
92
73 cdy
Dayton
86
64
.61 cdy
Omaha
95
72 cdy
Denver
91
58
clr
Orlando
93
73
Des Moines
91
77
.17 cdy
Pendleton
89
56 clr
Detroit
84
67
.03 cdy
Philadelphia
93
72 .13 m
Duluth
72
53 1.06 cdy
Phoenix
110
86 clr
El Paso
99
72
cdy
Pittsburgh
84
66 rn
Evansville
90
75
.02 clr
San Antonio
89
74 .21 cdy
Flagstaff
87
47
clr
Seattle
76
53 clr
Today in History
Today is Tuesday, July 8, the 189th day of 2003. There are 176
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On July 8, 1950, Gen. Douglas MacArthur was named com-
mander-in-chief of United Nations forces in Korea.
On this date:
In 1663, King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode
Island.
In 1776, Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the
Declaration of Independence, in Philadelphia.
In 1853, an expedition led by Commodore Matthew Perry
arrived in Yedo Bay, Japan, on a mission to seek diplomatic and
trade relations with the Japanese.
In 1889, The Wall Street Journal was first published.
In 1891, Warren G. Harding married Florence K. DeWolfe in
Marion, Ohio.
In 1907, Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies,” on the roof
of the New York Theater.
In 1919, President Wilson received a tumultuous welcome in
New York after his return from the Versailles Peace Conference in
France.
In 1947, demolition work began in New York to make way for
the new permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
In 1975, President Ford announced he would seek the
Republican nomination for the presidency in 1976.
In 1994, Kim II Sung, North Korea’s communist leader since
1948, died at age 82.
Ten years ago: Leaders of the Group of Seven, in the second
day of their Tokyo summit, warned against the dismembering of
Bosnia, but backed away from a threat to use force. A jury in
Boise, Idaho, acquitted white separatist Randy Weaver and a co-
defendant of slaying a federal marshal in a shootout at a remote
mountain cabin.
— The Associated Press
Thought for Today_
"History must stay open, it is all humanity.”
— Wiliam Carlos Wiliams, American author and poet
(1883-1963)
Bible Verse
The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from
Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but the
Lordwill be the hope of his people, and the strength of the chil-
dren of Israel. —Joel 3:16
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Barbers Hill to issue laptops to students next M
By BETH GUUETT
The Baytown Sun
MONT BELVIEU -
Barbers Hill Middle School stu-
dents will have technology at
their fingertips, inside and out-
side of the classroom, by
August 2004.
I In a year, Barbers Hill ISD
plans to begin issuing wireless
laptops to students beginning
with middle schoolers. } i i
James Banks, technology
director for Barbers Hill ISD,
said the district has not ^et cho-
sen a vendor for the program,
but the pilot program completed
this past school year was
successful.
“Right now students have
access to technology on a ran-
dom basis. Tremendous
resources are available as long
as students have technology in
their hands to enhance their
learning and increase their
enthusiasm,” Banks said.
Banks plans to implement the
program campus-by-campus
beginning with the middle
school because the high school
has just bought new computers.
This way when the time comes
to update the middle school’s
technology within the next year,
the district will purchase laptops
instead of desktop computer
systems. When it’s time to
update computers at the high
school, laptops will be used
instead of desktop computers.
The cost of the initial 750
wireless laptops it will take to
start the program is estimated at
$1.5 million.
“Using the wireless laptops,
educators can expand the cur-
riculum," Banks said. “There’s a
lot of resources available for sci-
ence and social studies, plus
there’s etectrorilfttesting and
students can e-mail their teach-
ers! whenever they need
assistance:”
Banks said the obvious con-
cern was' how well a student
would trek a $2,500 laptop, but
the 40 sotine students issued lap-
tops this past year proved to be
responsible.
Half of the students used Dell
laptops and half of the students
used Compaq laptops. A high
school social studies class and a
middle school science class par-
ticipated in the pilot program.
The district studied the differ-
ence between the way students
treated laptops meant to stay at
school and the way students
treated the laptops when they
were allowed to take them
home.
“The kids who got to take
them home were real excited
and treated them very well. The
ones that stayed in the classroom
were less secure,” Banks said.
The district had been looking
at the technology that textbook
companies are beginning to
implement. Several textbooks
can now be found online as well
as in print.
“We’ve been talking about
this for three and a half years,
and feel like it’s a good time to
ll Vk had online activities
that extended learning
a little more. The kids
would see a historical
character and they could
click on it and get a
biography, ff
Tyler Thames, Barbers Hil HS
implement the program because
the textbook manufacturers are
finally ready for the technolo-
gy,” Banks said.
Tyler Thames, a high school
World History teacher who par-
ticipated in the pilot program
with one class, said the online
textbooks worked well for his
class.
“We had online activities that
extended learning a little more.
The kids would see a historical
character and they could click
on it and get a biography,"
Thames said.
The textbook used in
Thames' classroom was
McDougal Littell’s Patterns of
Interaction.
As far as disciplinary prob-
lems with the laptops were con-
cerned, Thames said the biggest
problem was students checking
e-mail in the beginning of class.
But with the district’s technolo-
gy, Thames can block students
from looking at certain Internet
sites.
“In the district everything is
done through a filter so we can
monitor what sites a student vis-
its,” Banks said.
From a teacher’s standpoint,
Thames said he could give tests
online. The students work one
question per page at a time.
“This (one question per page
at a time) I think makes it more
difficult to cheat,” Thames said.
When students are finished
with the test they submit the test
electronically, and the objective
portions of the test are graded.
While Thames said there wa
not a difference in grades
between the class that used lap-
tops and the classes that didn’t,
he said class discussions were
better in classes where students
had access to the laptops.
“I just felt they (students with
laptops) had more knowledge
on the subjects,” Thames said.
The district modeled the pro-
gram after research based on
Marshall ISD and Houston ISD
programs.
Banks said during the next
year the district will use the
information they learned from
the pilot program to work out
some of the problems they
might incur.
One problem, Thames said
was that working on some of the
computers took away from
teaching time.
“Not all of the students were
computer savvy, and there were
a few computer problems,”
Thames said. “A few of the CD
drives would go down, but we
had substitute computers so
none of ,the students ever went
without a laptop.”
Foam punches big hole in shuttle wing panel during test
By MARCIA DUNN
The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO — A chunk of foam
insulation fired at shuttle wing parts
Monday blew open a gaping 16-inch hole,
yielding what one member of the Columbia
investigation team said was the “smoking
gun” that proves what brought down the
spaceship.
The crowd of about 100 watching the test
gasped and cried “Wowl” when the foam
hit — the impact so violent that it popped a
lens off one of the cameras recording the
event.
The foam struck roughly the same spot
where insulation that broke off Columbia’s
external fuel tank smashed into the shuttle's
left wing during launch. Investigators had
speculated that the damage led to the ship’s
destruction during re-entry over Texas in
February, but Monday’s test offered the
strongest proof yet.
“We have found the smoking gun,”
Columbia Accident Investigation Board
member Scott Hubbard said of the panel’s
seventh and final foam-impact test.
The 1.67-pounfl piece of fuel-tank foam
insulation shot out of a 35-foot nitrogen-
pressurized gun and slammed into a carbon-
reinforced panel removed from shuttle
Atlantis.
The countdown boomed through loud-
speakers, and the crack of the foam coming
out at more than 530 mph reverberated in
the field where the test was conducted.
Sixteen high-speed cameras captured the
impact, and hundreds of sensors registered
movements, stresses and other conditions.
The impact was so strong — packing a full
ton of force — that it damaged some of the
gauges.
“There’s a lot of collateral damage,” said
Hubbard, a high-ranking NASA official.
Hubbard said the test results showed it
would have been extremely difficult, if not
impossible, for Columbia’s astronauts to
have repaired such a large hole in orbit. He
stressed that the actual gap in Columbia’s
wing may have been a bit smaller — or pos-
sibly a bit bigger.
“We know that almost surely there was a
breach on the order of 10 inches in diame-
ter,” he said. “Here we’ve got one 16, so
that’s in the same ballpark in my book.”
He added: “The board’s goal was to con-
nect the dots between the foam-shedding
event and the proximate or the direct cause
of the accident, and that's what this whole
test program has been about. I think today
we made that connection.”
Monday’s test at the Southwest Research
Institutute best replicated the blow from
debris that occurred 82 seconds into
Columbia’s liftoff in January.
Nonetheless, Hubbard expressed surprise
at the results.
“It was in here,” he said, smacking his fist
into his belly. “It was like, ‘ah,’ like that. It
was a visceral reaction. It was shortly fol-
lowed by 'Oh, my God.'... I felt surprise at
how it appeared, such a dramatic punch-
through. But it is the kind of damage, type
of damage, that must have occurred to bring
down the orbiter.”
State briefs
Retests confirm DNA
results in three cases
HOUSTON — Retesting has
confirmed DNA results first
returned by the Houston Police
Department's troubled crime lab
in three more cases, including a
death row case, the Harris
County District Attorney’s office
said Monday.
So far, retesting has been con-
ducted and returned in 24 of the
369 cases sent by the police
department to an independent
DNA lab. The private lab,
Identigene, has confirmed results
in five of the 17 death row cases
submitted for new testing.
The latest death penalty case
involved John Reyes Matamoros,
condemned for breaking into his
70year-old neighbor’s home and
stabbing Edward George Goebel
25 times as he slept in 1990.
Harris County assistant district
attorney Marie Munier, who is
overseeing the case review, said
DNA from blood at the crime
scene submitted for retesting
was matched to Matamoros.
Appeals attorney Stanley
Schneider dismissed the retest
results as less significant than
other appeals in his client's case.
TWo bodies recovered
from Sabine River
BEAUMONT — The bodies of a
man and a teenager were recov-
ered from the Sabine River
Monday after the pair tried to
help rescue a group of girts who
were swept from their rafts into a
strong current near a bridge this
past weekend.
Authorities located the bodies
of Alphey Kimmey, 42, of Jasper
and James Edward Smith Jr., 15,
after they went missing during the
rescue attempt on Saturday, the
Beaumont Enterprise reported
Monday.
Divers spent Sunday searching
for the pair.
“Had the guys not been there
and helped the girls, they would
not have survived," Newton
County Chief Deputy Larry Folmer
said. "They didn’t even think
twice, they just went in and
helped them."
The girls got into trouble about
2 p.ra. Saturday near the Bon
Wier Bridge.
Folmer said it is not a safe
area for swimming.
Peny signs bill creating
construction committee
WAXAHACHIE —A law to pro-
tect home buyers from faulty work
and to hold home builders to a
higher standard with the help of
the New Home Construction
Commission has been signed by
Gov. Rick Perry.
The nine-member panel will pro-
vide oversight of the Texas home
building Industry while protecting
consumer interests.
"We’ve been working on this
legislation for the past year and a
half. It’s finally come to fruition,
and will go Into effect Jan. 1,
2004," said Waxahachie home
builder Gaylord Hanes, who
served on the task force that
helped draft the legislation.
The panel will be appointed by
the governor and will include four
home builders, three members
from the general public, one engi-
neer and one architect.
“Right now, do you know what
it takes to be a home builder in
the state of Texas?” Hanes
asked. "A pickup truck and a
sign.”
The panel's Jobs will cover six
basic areas of responsibility,
Including registering all home
builders in the state of Texas;
overseeing the state-sponsored
inspection process, preparing and
adopting building standards to be
implemented statewide; setting
criteria for inspections: oversee-
ing three task force groups; and
providing a certification process
for arbitrators and filing of arbitra-
tion awards.
Conservation deal aims
to make forest public
DALLAS — A conservation
group and a company that buys
and sells timber announced
Monday their purchase of
33,000 acres of private forest
along the Neches River near
Lufkin in a $26 million deal
believed to be one of the
largest of its kind in Texas.
The Conservation Fund and
Renewable Resources, a private
forest investment firm, bought
the tract last week from
International Paper as part of a
long-term strategy to protect
forests in East Texas.
"This is by far the largest
transaction that we have done
in timber land in the state of
Texas. It may be the largest
period,” said Larry Selzer, The
Conservation Fund’s president.
The fund will work to protect
the river corridor and oversee
Renewable Resources' harvest
of the timber until the state can
afford to buy the land and open
it to the public, a process that
officials say could take three to
five years.
Bob Cook, executive director
of the Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department, said the acquisi-
tion is the largest of its kind in
the state's history.
The Associated Press
Correction
It was incorrectly reported In Sunday’s edition of the Baytown Sun
that San Jacinto Methodist Hospital's newest president and CEO Dr.
Jeffrey Ackerman had worked at San Jacinto for the past three years.
He has worked in the Methodist Hospital System for the past three
years, but has only worked in Baytown since October 2002.
The Baytown Humane Society's phone number was listed Incorrectly
in Sunday's edition of the Baytown Sun. The correct number is 281-
424-3103.
Today’s Obituaries
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For obituaries and ftineral service
Information, see Page 6B.
Obituaries: Glenda Yvonne Laramore, Ruby Bernard
Caldwell, Kathleen Crawford, Kenneth Sims, Daniel Thomas
Hernandez.
Pending: Grace Rowe.
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