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WEATHER
Mostly cloudy with a
50 percent chance of
rain, high in the 90s,
low in the mid-70s
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BUSINESS
Around town
HealthSouth schedules
open house Thursday
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COMMUNITY
Finley
Reporting to governor
on old products
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SPORTS
Runnin’ Rebels
Champagne signs
two recruits
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Baytown slates hurricane readiness meeting on Thursday
At a glance
Baytown’s annual hurricane preparedness workshop
and town meeting will be at the community center, 2407
Market St, at 10 a.m.Thursday.
Experts to discuss
Carla, challenges
of evacuating
By MJL BENGTSON
Staff writer
Remembering Hurricane
Carla and the challenges of
evacuating thousands of people
from the coastal areas will be
the focus of Baytown’s annual
hurricane preparedness work-
shop and town meeting.
Experts from the National
Weather Service, the Texas
Department of Public Safety
and the city’s emergency pre-
paredness staff will be at the
community center, 2407
Market St., at 10 a.m. Thursday
for the 30th annual workshop.
Officials will give residents
firsthand information on how
to prepare for the hurricane
season, which opened on June
1 and continues through Nov.
30.
Guest speakers are Bill Read,
meteorologist-in-charge at the
Houston-Galveston Office of
the NWS, and Clay Kennelly,
regional liaison officer for
District 2B of DPS.
Read will reprise the devas-
tation of Hurricane Carla 'in
1963 and Kennelly will outline
the traffic management plans
for hurricane evacuations.
Mayor Pete Alfaro said he is
encouraging Baytown citizens
to attend the free workshop and
town meeting to gain informa-
tion that will help them protect
their families and homes.
“The presentations will help
our residents recognize the
risks inherent with living in a
coastal area,” Alfaro said. “The
risk of loss of life and property
is especially great in Baytown.
Through proper planning and
by taking precautions, the risks
can be greatly reduced.”
Vendors will be present to
show residents how to sebttfe
their homes and property, how
to manage such things as insur-
ance claims if they incur dam-
age and where to go for emer-
gency assistance.
Participating will be repre-
See HURRICANE on Page 3
Senate
power
about
to shift
Prosecutors ask
A walk at the fair
See MCVEIGH on Page 3
See TEXAN on Page 3
By REX W. HUPPKE
The Associated Press
Justice Department:"
http://www.usdoj.gov
Bombing material:
http://www.oklahomacitynationalmemorial.org
escaped the death chamber in
December amid concerns that the fed-
eral death penalty is racially or geo-
graphically biased. President Clinton
ordered the Justice Department to
review die government’s use of capital
punishment.
Now, just weeks away from Garza’s
lethal injection, there has been no
word from the department, and offi-
cials there will not comment on
whether the review will .be completed
in time. ,
TERRE HAUTE, Ind. — At the
same prison where Timothy McVeigh
awaits his fate is a lesser-known figure
who faces execution June 19 in a case
that could have a far greater effect on
the future of the federal death penalty.
Juan Raul Garza, 44, was convicted
of running a marijuana smuggling
operation, killing a man and ordering
the slayings of two others he thought
were informants.
The Texas drug kingpin narrowly
Photo by Alison Ashworth
Sunny Michalsky takes her goat Speckles for a walk Monday at the Crosby Fair and
Rodeo. The festivities continue throughout the week at the Crosby fairgrounds. For a
schedule of events, see Page 5.
On the Net
Portion ofgovemment’s
response to McVeigh’s request:
http://www.co.uscourts.gov/di
ndex.htm >
judge to deny
McVeigh request
mentis brief.
U.S. District Judge Richard Matsch
has scheduled a hearing for Wednesday,
five days before McVeigh’s scheduled
June 11 execution.
Matsch sealed a portion of die govern-
ment’s filing, which contained some
documents previously sealed by the
courts.
Last week, McVeigh asked Matsch to
delay his execution, accusing the govern-
ment of withholding evidence that
denied him a fair trial. He alleged feder-
al prosecutors committed a “fraud upon
the court,” and contended some evidence
Attorneys say it would be
mistake to halt execution
By STEVEN K. PAULSON .
TheAssociated Press
DENVER — Federal prosecutors
asked a judge Monday to refuse to delay
Timothy McVeigh’s execution, saying
- newly released FBI documents have no
bearing on his conviction and sentence
for the Oklahoma City bombing.
“Timothy McVeigh does not and
could not suggest he is actually innocent
of the charges of which the jury convict-
ed him,” prosecutor Sean Connelly
wrote. “He does not and could not sug-
gest the death penalty is unwarranted for
his exceptionally aggravated crimes.”
He said it would be a mistake to delay
the execution so his attorney may contin-
ue a “post-conviction, publicly funded
investigation that contradicts McVeigh’s
own recent admissions that he and Terry
Nichols acted alone.”
“McVeigh is undeniably guilty and :
there is no case in which the death sen- >
tence can be more appropriate than this ;
one,” Connelly wrote. i
He declined additional comment.
McVeigh attorney Nathan Chambers
also declined comment on the govern-
Brownsville man could go
before Oklahoma bomber
By ALAN PRAM
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Patients’
rights will surge past President
Bush’s energy plan to the top of
the agenda when Democrats
grab control of the Senate on
Wednesday.
Investigators will probe why
gasoline prices have soared.
Hearings will be held on rising
electricity rates and on the FBI,
too.
Democrats are also contem-
plating putting their imprint on
the chamber with early efforts to
boost the minimum wage, cre-
ate prescription drug coverage
for Medicare recipients and
revamp election procedures.
But their power will be held
in check by their paper-thin
majority and the Republicans’
ability to use filibusters to hin-
der legislation. So the
Democrats will be unable to
shove their priorities through
the Senate at will when they
become the majority
Wednesday morning.
And as far as enacting law,
Democrats will still have to con-
tend with a Republican-domi-
nated House—not to mention a
GOP White House under
President Bush.
“There will be a different
agenda and a different focus,”
Marshall Wittmann, senior fel-
low for the conservative Hudson
Institute, said Monday. “But
there won’t be a radical lurch to
the left because Democrats are
in charge.”
Senate Minority Leader Tom
See SENATE on Page 3
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Sports............6
Television .........2
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FAA plan targets flight delays
Goose Creek school board
reviews applicants today
By JONATHAN D.SALANT
flight delays.
The FAA plan makes a
series of adjustments to allow
more planes to land, take off
and fly from place to place.
The plan was developed with
the airlines, the air traffic con-
trollers’ union and others in
the aviation industry. The
improvements are projected to
cost $11.5 billion.
and members of Congress are
holding hearings and introduc-
ing bills to try to reduce
delays.
“They have the cooperation
and collaboration of the users
of the system, the air traffic
controllers who are the man-
agers of the system and the
flying public’s undivided
attention about the need for
change to the system,” said
John Can, president of the
National Air Traffic
Controllers Association.
“Until now, everything the
FAA did was under the radar,”
See FAA on Page 3
From staff reports
Goose Creek trustees con-
tinue today to review applica-
tions for the superintendent
position.
The meeting is one of three
special sessions this week to
consider 14 applicants for the
job vacated by Jerry Roy.
Trustees will meet today at
5:50 p.m. in the administra-
tive building at 1415 Market
St. The meet again at the
same time on Thursday and
Friday.
Roy left the district on May
31 position to head up
Lewisville schools.
Trustees said they plan to
name a finalist for the posi-
tion at a meeting on June 11.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Federal Aviation
Administration plans to spend
the next decade introducing
new equipment, new runways
and new air routes to reduce
The plan comes at a time
when passengers are com-
plaining in record numbers
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