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Friday, February 5, 1993
THE BAYTOWN SUN
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Congress delivers leave bill
DEATHS AND FUNERALS
York; daughters, Linda Hoffman Lonnie Biyce, Jim Ford, Ricky WASHINGTON (AP) — childbirth or adoption. Compa- would hurt businesses com-
of Riverside, N.J., Michelle Lumus and Wayne Ligon. All President Clinton, in office for nies with fewer than 50 woikers plained that Democrats were
Reese of Pemsonken, N.J., and were co-woikers at Brown and just 16 days, won a bill from would be exempt. Workers ramming the bill through wifo-
Robin Milewski of Hainesport, Root Congress granting woikers un- would be guaranteed to get their out allowing for a free debate.
N.J.; 10 grandchildren; mother, Arrangements are under the paid leave for family emergen- same job back or irn equivalent In defeating the GOP bid to
Frances Duncan of Groesbeck; direction of White Chapel Fun- cies, the first mqjor social legis- post. block Clinton s plan to lift the
sister, Joyce Rucker of Groes- eral Home. lation of the new Democratic The bill takes effect six military s ban on gays, the Se-
beck; a very special and dear era. months after Clinton signs it. nate instead adopted a non-
uncle, William J. “Uncle Bill” SPANGER The Senate, after finally push- Democrats who'd seen the binding resolution that approves
Books of Groesbeck; niece, Canales Spanger, 87, died Fri- ing aside a GOP attempt to at- family leave bill twice vetoed by Clinton's compromise tcmporar-
Roberta Walters of Groesbeck; day, Feb. 5, 1993, in Dallas, tach a gays-in-the-military the ousted Republican admi- ily suspending the formal di
and a great-niece and great- Services are pending with Earth- amendment, overwhelmingly nistration hailed it as a beacon charge of homosexuals,
nephew. man Funeral Home. passed the bill Thursday even- that legislative gridlock was Throughout debate in both
Visitation is scheduled for 3 mg, 71-27. over. chambers, Democrats repeatedly
p.m. Friday, Feb. 5, at White CLOPTON The House, which passed its Democrats said its speedy turned back Republican-led ef-
Chapel in Baytown. Ben M. Gopton, 77, died own version earlier in the week, passage in the new 103rd Con- forts to soften the bill's impact.
The body will be cremated Thursday, Feb. 4,1993. Services accepted minor Senate changes gress showed that Washington Republicans predicted the bill
following the service. are pending at Marrs-Jones in the bill shortly before mid- was tuned in again to the needs would be so burdensome it
Honoraiy pallbearers will be Newby Funeral Home in night and sent the measure on its of everyday Americans. would cause more layoffs or
Porfirio Pruneba, Cary Storic, Bastrop. way to Gintoa That vote was Republicans who opposed the force employers to trim other
247-152. family leave bill on the ground it benefits.
Clinton signed the bill into
law at a mid-morning ceremony
Friday.
Under the family leave bill,
workers would be allowed to
take up to 12 weeks of unpaid
leave for a family sickness,
WEIGHT
Services for Frank Irwin
Weight Jr., 53, of Anahuac will
be held at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Feb.
5, 1993, at White Chapel Fun-
eral Home in Baytown with
Monsignor Francis Weaiden
officiating.
Weight died Thursday, Feb.
4, in a Baytown hospital.
He had lived in Anahuac for
the past year and a half, and
worked for Brown and Root at
Chevron Chemical Co.’s Cedar
Bayou Plant.
Weight is survived by a spe-
cial friend, Dorothy McLaughlin
of League Gty; sons, Frank I.
Weight III of Rancocos Woods,
N.J., and Joe Weight of New
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found that state Rep. Robert Talton, R-Pasade- law, but to make sure the laws are legal and if
na, is eligible to serve in the Legislature. necessaiy change them to where we have a
Reps. Ken Yaibrough, Fred Bosse and Kevin system that we can operate on."
Bailey, all Democrats from Houston, had The committee’s recommendation to allow
challenged Talton’s status as a House member. Talton to keep his House seat will be consid-
They charged that his judicial term as an ered by the full
associate municipal court judge in Pasadena Rep. Robert Junell, D-San Angelo,
overlapped with his legislative term, which On Wednesday, the committee struck down
would violate the Constitution. an election contest by Talton’s Democratic
But a committee, composed of five Demo- opponent in the Harris County representative
crats and four Republicans, voted unanimously
Thursday that Talton’s terms did not overlap. Donald Fogo had charged that illegal votes
Talton’s district includes a portion of Baytown, were cast in the Nov. 3 election and that a new
Yaibrough said the charge against
was not a matter of partisan politics.
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AUSTEN (AP) — Opponents of an education Waving a newspaper editorial that criticized the
funding plan were criticized by Lt. Gov. Bob Bui- House committee’s redistribution plan, Bullock
lock, who accused them of looking after only their said, “I’m not mad about it. I’m just disgusted."
own local interests. Bullock said the bottom-line issue should be
“This type of thinking was good 20 years ago. It statewide funding equity,
will not solve the problems of school finance in It is unfair, he said, for children to suffer un-
Texas. We must have a larger perspective of all of equal funding just because of where they were
our state,” Bullock said Tliuisday. bom. He said some school districts have 900 times
Lawmakers are trying to meet a June 1 Texas more property wealth to produce taxes than other
Supreme Court deadline for a constitutional plan districts.
to equalize funding among property-rich and He noted the Senate quickly passed a school
property-poor school districts. finance proposal this session, as it did in the spe-
On Tuesday, the House Public Education Com- cial session late last year,
mittee recommended a proposed constitutional “I sat here for weeks in the special session wait-
amendment that would allow some local property ing for a handful of people in foe Texas House to
tax money to be redistributed among school dis- move, and they didn’t. I suppose I’m going to
tricts statewide. Republicans on foe panel voted have to sit here again and tie up, like the boll
against foe measure. weevil bill, while Rome is burning,” Bullock said.
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By the Associated Press
NEW YORK — The stock maiket surged to an all-time high,
lifted by falling interest rates abroad and positive news about foe
economy at home. The Dow Jones average of 30 industrial stocks
rose 42.95 points to close at 3,416.74 in heavy trading Thursday,
breaking foe record of 3,413.21 set June 1.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — A U.N. negotiator left Haiti after
three days of talks with foe military-backed government ended in a
shower of insults, according to one prominent government foe. U.N.
representative Dante Caputo’s intensive but fruitless talks with
Prime Minister Marc Bazin and the army command ended Thursday.
WASHINGTON — Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy plans to ask
for more inspectors and more laboratory testing of foe nation’s meat
supply, a pair of recommendations he acknowledges will be expen-
sive. Appearing Thursday night on CNN’s “Larry King Live” prog-
ram, Espy appeared to endorse recommendations from both foe meat
industry and consumer groups. But “it is expensive,” he said.
NEW YORK — New Yoik City’s welfare chief went undercover
as a welfare applicant to get a look at foe bureaucracy from the
bottom up and found herself being scolded, misdirected and “deper-
sonalized.” Barbara J. Sabol, commissioner of foe Human Resources
Administration used a fake identify and wore jeans and a sweatshirt
as well as a wig or scarf to keep from being recognized.
NEW YORK — President Clinton’s chief economics adviser
urged former Wall Street clients to keep in touch with him at foe
White House and continue dealing with foe investment bank where
he was co-chaiiman, it was reported Friday. Robert E. Rubin, who
heads foe new National Economic Council, told The New Yoik
letter sent in December to clients of
Goldman, Sachs & Co. was riot intended to encourage any improper
contacts.
; WASHINGTON — Despite an outpouring of good economic
pews in recent weeks, President Clinton says he’s not convinced that
foe country has turned the comer. And economists say he’s right to
be wonied.
Both Clinton and the private analysts say foe problem is jobs.
WASHINGTON — The Justice Department is investigating pos-
sible redlining by homeowners’ insurance companies, a discriminat-
ory practice that an advocacy group says makes it harder for black
city residents to buy homes. The department’s disclosure Thursday
that it was investigating a number of cases of alleged housing discri-
mination by property insurance underwriters came just hours after
foe release or a study that found evidence of redlining in five large
cities.
ATLANTA — A jury awarded foe parents of a teen-age crash
victim $105.2 million in a verdict consumer advocates and others
say increases foe pressure for a recall of millions of older General
Motors Coip. pickup trucks. The state juiy found foe world’s biggest
automaker negligent Thursday in foe fuel-tank design of a pickup. It
ordered GM to pay $101 million in punitive damages and $4.2 in'
compensatory damages to foe parents of Shannon Moseley, a
17-year-old killed when his 1985 truck burst into flames in a crash
iin 1989.
; WASHINGTON — The Mafia blackmailed the late FBI Director
J. Edgar Hoover with photos allegedly showing him engaged in
homosexual acts, which effectively delayed a crackdown on organ-
ized crime by decades, a new book contend,
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 71, No. 84, Ed. 1 Friday, February 5, 1993, newspaper, February 5, 1993; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1157990/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed June 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.