The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 183, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 1994 Page: 3 of 16
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Wednesday, June 1, 1994
THE BAYTOWN SUN
DEATHS AND
FUNERALS
TEXAS DIGEST TEXAS
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Scholarship winners
lawyer representing the ser-
vants, didn’t object to the State
Department’s intervention.
The State Department didn’t
challenge the fact that the gov-
ernment of Saudi Arabia is
named as a defendant.
In the lawsuit, Josephine
Alicog of the Philippines and
Sryani Marian Fernando of Sri
Lanka allege the late Prince
Saad Bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
and his former wife, Princess
Noora, forced them to work and
abused them before they
escaped from Houston’s Ritz-
Carlton Hotel in late 1991.
Forecasters ready
for’94 Atlantic
hurricane season
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MERRITT
George W. Merritt, 79, died
Wednesday, June 1, 1994, at a
Pasadena hospital. Services are
pending with Frazier Funeral
Home.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP)
— New equipment is expected
to help forecasters better predict
the paths of major storms dur-
ing the Atlantic hurricane sea-
son that begins today.
A new satellite will be work-
ing by the season’s end in
November to provide a national
weather picture every 15 min-
utes, twice as often as before.
And more Doppler radar units
have been erected on the ground
to measure wind speed and
thunderstorm activity.
But all this won’t help emer-
gency planners gauge what peo-
ple are going to do, said Bob
Sheets, director of the National
Hurricane Center.
Sheets said he worries about
complacency among people liv-
ing in coastal high-rises.
Only 30 percent of those liv-
ing on Florida barrier islands
evacuated before Hurricane
Andrew slammed into South
Florida in 1992, he said.
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PATERSON
Services for Lois Paterson, 90,
of Baytown were held at 10 a.m.
Tuesday, May 31,1994, at Grave-
side Garden of Gethsemane with
Rev. John Nijenhuis officiating.
Paterson died Friday, May 27, at
a nursing home in Baytown.
A resident of Baytown for many
years, she was a member of St.
John the Evangelist Catholic
Church.
She is survived by local niece,
Nita Pender of Baytown; numer-
ous nieces, nephews; and many
great nieces and nephews.
A rosary was held Monday,
May 30, at Earthman Chapel with
burial held at Garden of Gethse-
mani in Houston.
Donations may be made to the
Center for Hospice Care or St.
John the Evangelist Catholic
Church.
Arrangements were under the
direction of Earthman Funeral
Directors.
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BROWNSVILLE (AP) — A
mystery man in cowboy clothes
is the focus of a $30 million
money laundering case now
before a jury.
At issue is whether two
bankers for an American
Express Co. subsidiary inten-
tionally helped “clean” mil-
lions of dollars in tainted
money by running it through
elaborate international transac-
tions.
The jury deliberated for three
hours Tuesday over a 73-page
indictment charging Antonio
Giraldi and Lourdes Reategui
with conspiracy, money laun-
dering, bank fraud and misap-
plication of bank funds.
In closing arguments Tuesday,'
prosecutors portrayed Giraldi
and Reategui as willing partici-
pants in a scheme to launder
‘ money.
But defense attorneys said
their clients were tricked by
Ricardo Aguirre Villagomez, a
Mexican gas station manager
who funneled millions of dollars .
through a series of accounts set
up by Giraldi and Ms. Reategui.
ca-
for
Winners of the Baytown Exxon Employee Club’s 1994 scholarships, from left:
Ernest M. Garza, the club's scholarship chairman; Shawn D. Catoe of La Porte
High School, planning to attend Sam Houston State University; Batrisha
Franklin of La Porte High School, planning to attend San Jacinto Coliege; Gil
Martinez IV of Ross S. Sterling High School, planning to attend Lee College;
Alejandro Bedia of Ross S. Sterling High School, planning to attend Lee Col-
lege; and James McCauley, the club’s president.
for
Window washers rescued after
being stranded on the 12th floor
Judge: King Fahd
not a defendant in
slavery lawsuit
WILSON
Allen Dewitt Wilson, 66, of
Baytown died Sunday, May 29,
1994, in a Baytown nursing home.
He lived in Baytown for 35 years.
Survivors include his sons,
Danny Wilson of Utah, David
Wilson of California and Darrel
Wilson of Houston; grandson,
Tyson Wilson of Houston; broth-
ers, Louis Wilson, Herman Wil-
son, Gene Wilson, Jimmy
Meacham, Billy Graham and
Gaylon Graham; sister and broth-
er-in-law, Mabel and Wilson
Chandler; and a number of nieces
and nephews.
Wilson’s body was donated to
Baylor University’s medical sci-
ences department.
HOUSTON (AP) - Since
he’s a head of state, King Fahd
of Saudi Arabia won’t be a
defendant in a lawsuit alleging
members of the royal family
enslaved two domestic servants
at a Houston hotel, a judge has
ruled.
U.S. District Judge Lynn N.
Hughes dismissed Fahd from
the lawsuit Tuesday after the
U.S. State Department said for-
eign heads of state are immune
from such a civil action.
Jerry Payne, the Houston
HOUSTON (AP) — Two win-
dow washers are back on their
feet after they were stranded 12
stories up during a thunderstorm
in downtown Houston.
slammed Tuesday into a law
office window in the Lyric Center
Building.
“I was sitting at my desk, and I
heard this humongous boom, and
I looked out and saw one of the
cables,” said Chris Pancheri, 20, a
law office employee. “The next
thing I knew, I heard this tremen-
dous crash, and there were the
window washers swinging out
about 10 feet from the window. I
was like, ‘holy schmoly.’ ”
Screaming at a secretary to call
911, Pancheri watched the scaf-
fold move in and out, crashing
through windows of the Benton
Musslewhite firm. The washers
remained tethered to the scaffold.
“It was like a swing, and they
just came ramming through the
window,” said Pancheri. “And
then they’d go back out again. The
next time it came back in, I
reached out that window and
grabbed on.
One washer, Randy Conn, 33,
was treated at the scene for the
cuts on his arm, Houston Fire
Department spokesman Rick
flanagan said. The other, Jeff
Brack, 22 or 23, was not injured.
The duo’s scaffold, buffeted by
high winds and torrential rain,
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Safety also received a major empha-
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 72, No. 183, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 1994, newspaper, June 1, 1994; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1157756/m1/3/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.