The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 76, No. 37, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 14, 1997 Page: 4 of 79
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PAT ON THE BACK
... to Sterling High School students Amy Braselton and Eddie Huang.
The duo was recently invited to perform with the Greater Houston
Youth Orchestra.
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Opportunists jump
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tor.
Zeb Zbranek(D-1998)
P.O, Box 2050, Liberty 77575
(512)463-0488 or
1-800-438-6202
Representative District 127
Joe Crabb (R-1998)
2240 North Park Drive No. 101
Kingwood, Texas 77339
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Today in history
' Today is Sunday, Dec. 14, the 348th day of 1997. There are 17 days left in the
jear.
J ;. Today’s Highlight in History:
1 On Dec. 14,1799, die first president of the United States, Geoige Washington,
-died at his Mount Vernon, Va., home at age 67.
Onthisdate:
; In 1819, Alabama joined the Union as the 22nd state.
.; In 1911, Norwegian explorerRoald Amundsen became the first man to reach the
; .’ South Pole, beating an expedition led by Robert F. Scott.
• In 1939, the Soviet Union was dropped from the League of Nations.
; In 1946, the United Nations General Assembly voted to establish the U N. head-
quarters in New York City.
In 1962, the U.S. space probe Mariner 2 approached Venus, transmitting infor-
mation about the planet.
In 1981, Israel annexed the Golan Heights, seized from Syria in 1967.
In 1985, Wilma Mankiller became the first woman to lead a major American
. Indian tribe as she took office as principal chief of the Cherokee Nation of Okla-
homa.
Today’s Birthdays: Jazz musician Clark Terry is 77. Don Hewitt, “60 Minutes”
executive producer, is 75. Actor Hal Williams is 59. Actress Patty Duke is 51.
Actress Cynthia Gibb is 34. Rhythm-and-blues singer Brian Dalyrimple (Soul For
.Real) is 22. Model Bridget Hall is 20.
Governor
George W. Bush Jr. (R-1998)
State Capitol, P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78768
1-800-252-9600
Senator District 6
Mario Gallegos (D-1998)
P.O. Box 41, Galena Park, 77547
(512)463-0106 or (713) 678-8600
Senator District 11
Jerry Patterson (R-1998)
1109 Fairmont Parkway
Pasadena, Texas 77504
(512)463-0111
(713)948-0111
Senator District 15
John Whitmire (D-2000)
803 Yale
Houston, Texas 77007
(512)463-0115
(713)864-8701
President
Bill Clinton (D-2000)
The White House
Washington, D.C. 20500
(202)456-1111
Senator
Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-2000)
283 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202)224-5922
(713)653-3456
Senator
Phil Gramm (R-2002)
370 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20510
(202)224-2934
(713)7184000
Representative District v
Nick Lampson (D-1998) ,
417 Cannon House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20515
.(202)225-6565
1-888-838-0061
Representative District zo
Ken Bentsen (D-1998)
128 Cannon House Office Bldg.
Washington, D.C. 20515
(202)225-7508
(713)667-3554
Baytown-(281) 837-8225
Of course, my own two grandchildren
never, ever misbehave ——that’s not a prob-
lem — but it is difficult to carry on a
meaningful conversation with them in the
car. While they’re back there, all belted and
buckled, securely locked up, I am immobi-
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rider withmeatthe wheel.Tlmescliahge
and I no longer use “armed force” to pro-
tectpeople.
Everything’s different now.
Some day I’ll tell the grandkids what it
was like the old days — life on the front
line.
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Hie Baytown Sun is published Monday through Friday and Sunday at
1301 Memorial Drive in Baytown.
Gary Dobbs David Eldridge
Editor and Publisher Managing Editor
in at shoulder and waist.
It’s a safe, but not very flexible, arrange-
ment.
My grandkids don’t know it, but their
mom—my daughter—was a Front-Seat
Kid.
When I was at the wheel, she usually
was right by my side, graduating from the
recliner-infant seat to child’s seat to the use
of the regular seat belt.
often would reach over and honk the horn.
Times like that, I wanted to disappear.
And there must have been times when
Jan would have gladly given up her front
seat to get out of “arm’s way.”
To shield her in a sudden stop, I’d fling
my right arm out in front of her. I felt that,
although she used a seat belt, she still
needed that barrier (my arm) between her
and the dashboard.
This arm-jerk reaction eventually affect-
ed other front-seat passengers, causing
some hard feelings — literally. Once, I
nearly clobbered a good friend and co-
worker, Bobby Sutphin, when I had to
apply the brake suddenly. Bobby was quite
startled when The Arm came swinging
over in her direction. You’d have thought a
train was coming and I was the track gate.
Apologizing, I explained it was a habit
I’d developed to protect my child. “I’d
rather hit the dashboard if you don’t mind,”
Bobby said. After that, she was an uneasy
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Credit the Rev. Jesse Jackson for a refreshing bit of common sense in the
wake ofthe Latrell Sprewell controversy last week. Sprewell, you’ll
remember, is the National Basketball Association player who lost con-
trol in practice and attacked his coach, P.J. Carlisimo, choking him and threaten-
ing to kill him. After players separated the two men, Sprewell stalked off, only to
return 20 minutes later to attack and punch-Carlisimo for a second time.
The NBA, acting swiftly and decisively for a change, suspended Sprewell from
■the league for a year, and Sprewell’s team, the Golden State Warriors, went even
further, canceling the remaining years on the All-Star’s $32 million contract.
The incident might have faded from the headlines from now, save for two
facts.
The first: Sprewell is black. The second: Carlisimo is white.
The race angle, apparently, makes the controversy ripe for opportunists like
Johnnie Cochran and Willie Brown, the mayor of San Francisco and the self-
; ‘ appointed West Coast champion of the impoverished (never mind that Sprewell
; earns considerably more per year than his boss, Carlisimo).
Don’t judge Sprewell until you know all the facts, Brown said. “Maybe the
coacii deserved choking,” Brown told the San Francisco Examiner.
Maybe the coach deserved to be choked?
Brown, Cochran and the others playing the race card in the Sprewell incident
; Ought to be ashamed of themselves.
“Every time there’s a fight between a black person and a white person, that
cannot be held up as the state of race relations,” said the Rev. Jackson.
Amen, reverend.
Sprewell and his sympathizers have said the penalty he’s been forced to pay for
his actions is too harsh, and that he’s been singled out.
He’s been singled out, all right, but it’s not for punishment and it’s not because
he’s black. He, like other coddled superstar athletes, is being given a break that
would not be afforded most ordinary Americans — black or white.
In almost any other workplace setting, attacking and threatening to kill your
boss would not only get you fired, it would likely get you jailed.
The attempt to cast this hot-headed young man as a victim is almost as repul-
sive as the incident itself.
Thought for today
“Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills.”
Precinct 6
Robert Barrow (D)
(281) 573-1948 or(281) 383-2011
Goose Creek CISD
Goose Creek Ministration Bfog.
1415 Market Street
P.O. Box 30
Baytown, Texas 77522
(281)4204800
Board of Trustees
District 1 - Olivia Messiah
(281)843-5420
District 2 - Ben Basquez
(281)837-9096
District 3 - Weston Cotten ~
(281)426-5384
District 4 - James Lewis
(281)428-7360 . ,
District 5 - Clarence Albus
(281)421-5896 j
District 6 - James Jeffrey |
‘ (281)837-198^
District 7 - David Havel
(281)420-19
Fred Bosse (D-1998)
885-A Uvalde Road
Houston, Texas 77015
(512)463-0660
1-800-388-3359
(713)453-6336
Commissioners Court
neanctz
Jim Fonteno (D)
(713)755-6220
Baytown Office- (281) 427-7311
Justice of the Peace Precinct 3
Place I
Mike Parrott (D)
(713)450-2409
Place 2
TonyPolumbo(D)
(281)427-7449
Constable Precinct 3
Place 2
James Douglas (D)
(281)4274791
Chambers County Sheriff
P. Burkhalter (D)
1(800)645-5047
Chambers County Constable
When it comes to travel, kids nowadays
take a backseat. It’s safer, especially with
the possibility of air bags zooming into
front-seat occupants in the event of a traffic
mishap.
No doubt about it, the younger genera-
tion belongs in the back.
The disadvantage is not being able to see
them fully and offer such suggestions as:
“Leave the door handle alone”... “Take
that gum out”... “Don’t pull your sister’s Unlike the sturdy, jail-proof inventions
hair”... of today, the kids’car seats back then were
To monitor children’s “activities,” one rather flimsy and, I might add, simple to
would need eyes in the back of one’s head use. We clocked many a mile.
or a whirl-around neck like that girl had in Jan’s pediatrician, dentist and eye doctor
“The Exorcist.” were in Houston and her twirling teacher
was ip Highlands. In addition to school,
ballet lessons and numerous other activities
and events, we personally inspected every
shopping mall in the Houston-Galveston
region. Miles and miles of malls, when
you’re raising a girl-child.
As for all that time spent on the road, I
admit there were some problems with the
young sidekick. She was always turning
the radio dial to her kind of music. (Ugh.)
And if she brought along a young friend,
the mischief and merriment increased
twofold. You’ve seen those embarrassing
bumper sticker signs, “Honk if you’re...
(whatever)”
When we passed a vehicle with such a
statement, my daughter and accomplice
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Bible verse
We are all the work of thy hand.
— Isaiah 64:8
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