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Volume 76, No. 81 Telephone Number: (281) 422-8302 Tuesday, February 3,1998 Baytown, Texas 77520 50 Cents Per Copy
Women’s Center
director
ByJEORGEZARAZUA
The Baytown Sun
The executive director of the Bay Area
Women’s Center in Baytown resigned late
last week, according to officials.
Kaycee Hill submitted her resignation
which was accepted by the center’s board
of directors during a meeting Friday.
Hill had been with the Bay Area
resigns
Women’s Center, a United Way agency, for
about 2 1/2 years.
Fritz Lanham, executive director of the
United Way of die Baytown Area, said he
was aware Hill was resigning for another
position in Liberty.
Officials at the Bay Area Women’s Cen-
ter said they have appointed two interim
directors while they seek a replacement for
Hill.
execution
scheduled
for tonight
■Texas Board of
Pardons and
Paroles unanimous-
ly refuses to recom-
mend clemency for
Tucker.
-See Page M
Fake bills show up at high school
By JANE HOWARD
The Baytown Sun
Funny money that showed up in Robert E. Lee
High School’s cafeteria Monday was only the lat-
est in a rash of counterfeit bills being passed in
Baytown.
According to police spokesmen, the counterfeit
bills, mostly $20 bills, have been showing up
1 around town but mostly in the high schools.
Police believe students are responsible.
The bills are computer generated and printed on
color printers.
While some are actually made of two pieces of
paper glued together, the latest bills were printed
on both sides and were of an excellent quality.
The police department’s property room manag-
er, Chuck Ganze, added the two bills from Mon-
day’s case to a growing collection that will be
turned over to the U.S. Secret Service, which in-
vestigates all cases involving counterfeit money.
He commented on the counterfeit bills’ quality,
but said anyone holding them up to the light could
see the watermark was missing.
“They’ve got good color and everything,” he
said.
Printing or passing counterfeit currency is a fed-
eral offense.
Former Baytonian Earns Wings
U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Esther
Julicher, a former Baytonian, earned
her wings Friday.
Julicher, granddaughter of Bayto-
nians John and Connie Hooper, re-
cently completed two years of jet
training and received her wings last
week at Naval Air Station ,
Kingsville. |
According to Mark Malinowski, I
with public affairs at NAS |
Kingsville, she is the second female
Marine Corps aviator to receive her
wings as a jet pilot.
Julicher is a graduate of Masoutah
Community High School in Ma-
soutah, Hl., and a 1996 graduate of Rice Uni-
versity.She considers Houston home.
She is the daughter of retired US'. Air Force
U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Esther Julicher, a former Baytonian, earned her wings Friday and became the
second woman in the Marine Corps to become a jet pilot.
Lt. Col. Mark and Kathleen Julicher of Mariet- The pilot’s next assignment is in Yuma, Ariz.,
ta»Ga- where she will train to fly AV8-B Harrier Jets.
She is also the granddaughter of Bud and According to Connie Hooper, Julicher will be
Fran Julicher of Gaithersberg, Md. the only female in the world with this training.
Julicher is
second female
jet pilot in U.S.
Marine Corps
By BETSEY ENNIS
The Baytown Sun
Area UIL athletic districts realigned
By ROBERT GEIGER
The Baytown Sun
The University Interscholastic League handed
down its bi-annual athletic district realignment
plans Monday morning.
Pending a brief period for potentially unhappy
schools to protest the changes, the reshuffling
will go into effect this fell and continue through
the spring of2000.
Local sports fens will notice several changes
in all of the school districts in the Baytown area.
The biggest difference involves Lee and Ster-
ling high schools that will now be anchoring a
new-look, six-team District 22-5A that will in-
clude Beaumont Central, Beaumont West Brook,
Humble and Kingwood.
Old 22-5A rivals La Porte, Deer Park and
North Shore will now join Pasadena’s four 5A-
level schools in District 23.
Port Arthur Jefferson dropped down to 4A.
Barbers Hill and its District 24-3A contempo-
raries will be joined by Hardin Jefferson, which
has moved down from the 4A level, and Port
Arthur Austin, a perennial 3A powerhouse. The
addition of the two schools will make 24-3A an
eight-team district.
Other notable changes include Beaumont’s
newest school, Ozen, moving into Dayton’s dis-
trict. Crosby will be one of six teams in 21-4A
and will add Smiley and New Caney to its list of
district foes.
I For more coverage and complete details,
see Sports, Page 6-A.
prices since theoretically the
stronger purchasing power
generated by those higher
salaries could increase prod-
uct demand and, therefore,
prices.
But Wagher discounted that
speculation, saying times have
changed.
“Now with a world market,”
he said, “it’s not just our prod-
ucts we’re chasing after.
We’re also chasing after Asian
products.”
As a result, Wagher consid-
ered the onslaught of rapidly
soaring prices as being exag-
gerated.
Wednesday the jobless num-
bers in January would gradu-
ally increase.
“Sometimes we see it go up
because those seasonal jobs
(created in November and De-
cember) have ended,” he said.
Because wages and benefits
in this country grew 3.3 per-
cent last year, some econo-
mists are saying consumers
steady decline
By CHRISTIAN MESSA were 1,826 residents (6.8 per-
The Baytown Sun cent) searching for work in
December compared to the
Unemployment in Baytown 1,935 (7.2 percent) the month
. continued its descent in De- before.
cember, dipping to 4.7 per- The unemployment rate
cent from 5.2 percent the across Texas dropped to
month before, according to 444,471 (4.5 percent) from
Texas Workforce Commission 491,236 (4.9 percent).
records. Joel Wagher, a TWC labor
The 4.7 percent rate, which market analyst, predicted
hasn’t been seen since the ear-
ly 1980s, continues to reflect
a steady decrease in the num-
ber of Baytonians looking for
work.
There were 1,817 unem-
ployed residents in November
out of the city’s labor force of
34,657, and that dipped in
December to 1,608 among a
labor force of 34,566. , „
The number off jobless resi- could begin paying higher
dents in the Houston metro- ~~-------**"—i-’—
politan area fell to 81,400 (3.9
percent) in December from
91,800 (4.4 percent) in No-
vember.
During that two-month pe-
riod, unemployment in Harris
County plummeted to 70,500
(4.0 percent) from 78,951 (4.6
percent).
The drop in Chambers
County job seekers was more
pronounced, as there were
445 (4.0 percent) reported in
December as opposed to the
547 (4.8 percent) in Novem-
ber.
In Liberty County, there
Unemployment
rate in Baytown
continues on a
Brock seeking GOP nomination for 25th Congressional District
Bill Brock
By CHRISTIAN MESSA
The Baytown Sun
He has been campaigning as a candidate
favoring “common sense” government that
features term limits in Congress and a yearly
requirement for a balanced budget
Brock, who favored limiting those serving
in the House and Senate to no more than 12
and 18 consecutive years in the same office,
respectively, said he believed the country’s
forefathers never intended “career politi-
cians,” but rather congressional representa-
tion that was relatively short lived to ensure a
healthy influx of congressmen from different
chemical industry.
“All you have to do is check (the employers
in) the phone book — especially in Baytown
Republican Bill Brock has been down this and Pasadena—ith all technical,” Brock, 41,
political road before, said.
having sought the GOP
nomination for the 25th
Congressional District
two years ago.
Then, as now, the
Pasadena mechanical en-
gineer considers himself
the best choice in the
March 10 primary, citing
his empathy with District
25 residents, many of
whom either work for NASA or the petro-
to taxpayers.
He favored a flat tax approach over a na-
tional consumption tax, saying such a sales
tax could harm the economy.
Having lived in Great Britain between
1981 and 1985 while helping build a chemi-
cal plant there, Brock said the consumption
tax in place at that time did reduce the de-
mand on goods.
Given the recent media coverage involving
who has found God
Brock was critical of the news coverage
that attempt has attracted
“The victims had no such appeals in the
press or any other way to obtain mercy,” he
said
Those interested in learning more about
Brock’s political platform can hear pre-
recorded messages on his campaign hotline
Brock has been married to his wife, Lou
Ann, since 1980. He has two children.
the planned execution today in Huntsville of at (281) 286-3434.
convicted murderer Karla Faye Tucker, Brock
said he supported the state’s death penalty. *
backgrounds.
Regarding the current income tax system,
Brock advocated redesigning the IRS to
make it more accountable and less aggressive
Tucker, condemned for her involvement in
the slayings of two people more than 14
years ago in Houston, has attempted to have
her death sentence commuted to life in prison
by claiming herself to be a changed person
Tuesday: Mostly sunny
and breezy, highs in 60s.
Wednesday: Mostly sun-
ny, highs in low 60s.
Art by Allison Dunman
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