The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 79, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 19, 2004 Page: 8 of 16
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the Wisconsin primary Tuesday but
nonetheless stung by Edwards’ closer-
than-expected second-place finish.
Kerry, winner in 15 of 17 contests
and still the undisputed front-runner,
In Wisconsin, Edwards’ debate per-
formance Sunday and his criticism of
The Texas Department of Health has advised people not to consume fish or crabs caught in the Houston
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Hudgins said the city has pre-
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criticisms Wednesday after allowing
them to go unanswered in Wisconsin.
“He wasn’t in the Senate back then,’
Kerry said in Ohio, coolly alluding to
Edwards’ relative lack of experience: “I
don’t know where he registered his
vote, but it wasn’t in the Senate.”
The 19-year Senate veteran said he
and Edwards have similar trade
records, a reference to the North
Carolina senator’s support for a China
trade deal.
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T However, the city says the
owners of all 41 parcels of prop-
erty on Ferry Road south of
Hayes should get a vote, concur-
ring with the opinion of Roger
Armstrong, the traffic engineer.
Armstrong’s plan, presented
at a Jan. 29 meeting, would
mean building a raised traffic
island on the northbound lane of
Ferry Road north of Hayes
Road, forcing cars attempting to
get onto Highway 146 to take a
The figures apply only to the
first phase of the project, which
Wal-Mart will fall under the was announced Tuesday. IfWal-
borrowed a line from one of their com-
edy sketches, saying that people are
Strategists said trade could be a always asking him about taxes.
US. SEN. JOHN EDWARDS, CMM.C., addresses the crowd at the American Serb Hall make-or-break issue in Ohio, a state ‘Tknowa great deal about taxes. I’ve
wearing hats to the ceremony in children got their education.
her honor. From foreign exchange stu-
object. He said die residents’
team is following policy and
will not change.
“We will not violate city poli-
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us to violate city policy, and we
have stated we will not”
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teft to onto a northwestbbimd Hudgins is not a member of
street, also called Ferry Road,
which intersects with Highway
146 at a traffic signal. The right-
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lated into Spanish. The signs, ing alone on a pier over Burnet
written in both English and Bay, which is connected to the
Spanish, are made of the same ship channel.
Collins, a Shell refinery
employee, said he never eats any-
At the Baytown Nature Center thing he catches there, but instead
as a leader in Boy and Giri
Scouts, Shannon said his wife, teacups and puppy chow trail
“Everything about today’s “found kids one way or another.” mix to snack on, Ybarra said
Kluppel’s career as a teacher much of what Kluppel enjoyed
was spent in the classrooms at in her life was in the room.
Ashbel for 14 years. She taught
Their rivalry engaged, Democratic
presidential contenders John Kerry and
John Edwards unveiled distinctive
strategies Wednesday for a 10-state
showdown March 2. The challenger
will attack Kerry’s free-trade policies
and special interest ties, targeting Ohio,
New York and Georgia.
The front-runner will battle Edwards
on one front and President Bush on
another, airing TV ads in general elec-
tion battleground states while counting
on arcane Democratic Party rules to
protect his lead in nomination delegates.
• “Every race is going to be contested.
Every race,” Kerry said in Ohio, the
focal point of his plans to beat Edwards
in March and Bush in November.
“We’re fighting for every vote.”
“I just do it for the heck of it,”
Collins said. “I love fish, but I
get all of my fish at restaurants.”
He said the fish weren’t biting
Thursday.
houses when pursuing the traf-
fic calming policy, which has
served as the guidelines for the
process. He said Armstrong and
planning and development
director Gregory Stubbs
changed the policy verbally
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Baytown Sun photo/Ken Fountain
NORTH SHORE RESIDENT ARTHUR COLUNS fishes off-a pier in the Baytown Nature Center Wednesday.
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The constable’s jursidiction
encompasses Mont Belvieu and
Old River.
leave his job at ExxonMobil and
make late-night trips to fulfill
duties as a constable.
“It is a lifestyle,” Evans said of
the constable position,
Lunas
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Bobby Joines, 67, has been after reading two Houston
self employed since 1976 and Chronicle stories examining why
owns Bob’s Wrecker Service. i. . -
Joines has lived in Mont Belvieu
like I have done that here in the
; constable’s office,” Evans said.
; There is a large misconception
among the public about the con-
; said the position requires a lot of
civil service training as officials need to get every dime you put
are responsible for repossessing out, and I believe I can fulfill
cars and boats and for serving that obligation,” Joines said. “I Continued from Pag* 1A
divorce papers and lawsuits. F“ ~J TT *~
Evans said he takes his posi- give them their money’s worth as
tion seriously and has had to far as a constable.”
metallic material used for stan-
what Joines said would be part no cost is too much,” Garcia said, dard road signs.
stable’s duties, Evans said. Evans of his duties as a constable. The language used on the signs / -
“If you are a taxpayer, you ______ _____
for been working for the past couple the health department, then trans- resident Arthur Collins was fish- and trout that he catches,
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; needed to be upgraded, and I feel He has also volunteered services $2,000, which came from the
for the Mont 1*
Emergency Medical Service.
Being available all the time is
Evans
Carl Evans, 47, was elected
constable in 2000. He was certi-
fied as a peace officer 17 years for 36 years and has been a resi-
dent of Chambers
County for 45 years.
Joines has worked
closely with the offi-
cers in Chambers
County and Mont
Belvieu, riding with
officers in some patrol
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He also served as a
security officer for
Mont Belvieu in 1980
when about 100 fami-
lies were evacuated
during a gas leak in the
area.
action and by accepting a previ-
”“I can’t imagine any traffic ous petition on which he was
engineer designed this plan listed as a team member,
without taking other residents in I *-- -
Kluppel graduated from the
University of Houston with a
1 Ashbel teacher Eloisa Ybarra master’s degree in elementary
have been very honored by the gave a remembrance speech education. She was also a mem-
. The crowd also kept ceremony and that the most from the days she taught with
residents had always used the 11 Road and west of Reddell Road. Kluppel’s tradition going by important thing to her was that Kluppel and even shared a Church.
next week in Hawaii, Idaho and Utah — 1 Ith-hour upswing. The first-term sen-
where just 61 delegates are at stake — ator assailed Kerry’s 1993 vote for the
classroom with her at one time.
“In my heart I felt like Lynn
Sanders said the teacher had a dents and the Big Brothers and was with us,” Ybarra said. “This
hat for every occasion and always Big Sisters program to serving would have been her cup of tea.”
wore one that tied into her lesson as a leader in Boy and Giri With pink table linens,
plans with the students.
Development Foundation in one of the city’s three industrial “ballpark figures” based on
September, the facility is pro- districts, not within the city estimates provided by the eco-
jected to annually have $16 mil- limits, Wal-Mart will enter into nornic development office dur-
lion in “personal property,” $5 an industrial district agreement ing die year-long negotiation
million in lease hold and $80 with the city and will make process,
million in inventory, for a total payments to the city in lieu of ~
of $101 million. ad valorem property taxes.
Charlene Piggott, tax office f f
director for the Goose Creek city Is standard industrial district Mart decides to build the sec-
school district (which also col- agreement for new companies ond phase, the payments to the
lects taxes on behalf of the Lee that enter the city after July city will be different, Jackson
College District), said that 2003, which was enacted by city said.
based on those values, the council last year, Jackson said.
Wal-Mart can elect to enter plans to build the facility fol-
million annually, and the col- into one of two forms of the lowing a Tuesday vote by the
spark, including the creation of le8e district could expect new IDA, Jackson said. Under School Land Board of the Texas
- - - approximately $211,000 per the first option, the agreement General Land Office. The board
year. would take effect while the voted to provide $80 million
Chambers County Tax- building is still under construe- from an escrow account to pur-
r_ r _r_ Assessor Collector Margie tion. Under the second, the chase the land and building
ny will contract with a third Henry said that because she agreement would take effect after completion, then lease the
party to actually operate it. hasn’t yet seen any firm fig- upon completion of the facility, facility back to Wal-Mart.
While a certain number of ures on the inventory that Depending on when the — • -
While a certain number of ures on the inventory that Depending on when the Charles lupe, one of the prin-
emplqyees at the center will be would be in the distribution agreement takes place, the city cipal owners of the Cedar
Wad-Mart employees, most will center, she could not estimate could expect to receive pay- Crossing Industrial Park, said
be employed by the as-yet how much the county would ments totaling between Wednesday that die contract for
collect in revenues. $900,000 and $2.4 million over the close of the land should be
Baytown City Manager Gary the seven-year term of the completed by early next week,
up by the Baytown-West Jackson explained that the agreement, Jackson said. He said he did not know what the
Chambers Economic facility will be located within He stressed that these were actual purchase price would be.
the residential traffic team
because he is not a property
owner. Hudgins said he is acting
llnr'of'the^ northwTst- for his parents, who are proper-
bound Ferry Road would be ty owners.
designated as right-turn only. Hie team listed on the petition
Fred Pack, director of public consists of property owners
works, said all the people on Wilburn Grigsby, Earl Foxworth
Ferry Road would be affected Myrtle Hudgins, who is
because they would have to Alan Hudgins’ mother,
change the route they take.
: “People should have a say
because they’re impacted,” he
said.
Commission
. agreed.
Teacher
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_ Smith said she kept the three
team member in a July 2003 let- fig01®8 “ window the same
ter from City Manager Gary s*ze h®031186 children were so
Jackson instructing him to take important to Kluppel. - -
Smith said she had to make 1S reflective of who she
sure Kluppel was wearing a hat *s»” Sanders said. ‘ Her whole
in the display since that was one life was poured into children.”
In other business’ the com- of the things she enjoyed. Her husband, Shannon for 17 years,
mind,” said commission mem- mission approved a new subdi- “We couldn’t have Lynn Kluppel, said his wife would
ber Carole Opryshek. vision for Palomos Place, south without a hat,” Smith said.
Hudgins, however, said the of Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg The crowd also
Edwards focuses on Kerry, front-runner eyes Bush Record:
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That game also took place on a
Saturday. The school planned to break
the record that night, but tragedy struck
„ that morning when the Columbia shut-
tle disintegrated over the Texas sky.
They waited more than a year for the
same rivalry game before giving it a
.try. Following Guinness instructions,
they took names and documented the
crowd by taking photos and video.
Local dignitaries showed up to give
their support. Mayor Pete Alfaro kept
h*s speecl1 short because the mous-
~ Edwards, a trial lawyer who shines in difficult, he said,
debates, may demand a series of one- State Rep. Wayne Smith, R-
on-one forums with Kerry, aides said. Baytown, amused the crowd with his
On Wednesday, he chastised Kerry for knowledge of the Marx brothers. He
accepting donations from lobbyists. v
“Records matter,” he told reporters.
ago through the Liberty
County Reserve
Academy.
Evans served as a
reserve officer for 10
years with the
Chambers County sher-
iff’s office and also
served as a reserve offi-
cer investigator for the
. Federal Narcotics Task
force in the area.
From 1987 to 1997
Evans was a Chambers
County reserve deputy
and then served as the
Precinct 6 Deputy
Constable until his elec-
tion in 2000.
1 “Chambers County
‘1 know a great deal about taxes. I’ve
- . - , v Tuesday’in MilwaukeeWis’. Sen? John Kerry," DMass"Mbattled hardchaS'jo'hn narrowly won by Bush in 2000 but been to Dallas, taxes Houston taxes
The rhetonc reflected a get-tough E^aejs jn the Wisconsin primary Tuesday, a surprisingly close contest that estab- among the hardest hit by job losses.
|jshed North Car0|jna gg^Qj. as S0|e ^1 Greg Haas, a Democratic strategist in -
Ohio, said Kerry holds the advantage Board of Regents, urged people to
because of his winning streak and come back when they do not have to
momentum. wear “silly glasses.”
“But NAFTA could pay dividends No matter the final count, Benoit
auu sun me uumspuicu nuin-iuwici, ------- - . ° - for Edwards here,” said Haas, an advis- saidthetumoutwasthebiggestsofar
failed to push his chief rival from the before turning to March 2 and the moth- North American Free Trade Agreement er t0 Columbus Mayor Michael this year. He attributed most ofit to the
He settled for the departure of erlode of 1,151 delegates, more than half and also aired an ad condemning the Coleman, who is being courted by basketball game but said the Groucho
Howard Dean, the former Vermont the total needed to claim the nomination, treaty, without mentioning Kerry’s Edwards. “He wouldn’t need any ads Marx halftime event drew a few peo-
govemor who quit Wednesday after In Wisconsin, Edwards’ debate per- name. — just saying the word NAFTA in pie in.
failing to win a single contest. formance Sunday and his criticism of Kerry also took a hit from Bush’s re- northeast Ohio is like raising a red cape “That was awesome,” he said.
The Democratic race makes a pit stop Kerry’s free-trade policies fueled his election team. in the face of a bull.” “People were pumped about it.”
the health department, while
issuing the advisories, was not
placing signs at places where
people like to fish.
The Health Department says
placing signs along a dozen con-
taminated waterways across the
state would cost too much
money. A bill that would have
funneled money to the depart-
ment tq post signs didn’t pass
during the 78tb session of the
Texas Legislature.
“I sent a quick e-mail to my
staff and said this is unaccept-
able, and we’ll put the signs in
our precinct that are affected. Let
me know how quickly we can do
“ In the 1960s he this,” Garcia said.
served as an outside .
bill collector i
Culpepper Furniture.
Belvieu precinct’8 funds normally used
for routine maintenance.
“With a health hazard like this,
“Our key concern when we
do a deal like this is a positive
return for the Permanent School
Fund. We look for low-risk,
high-retum things. That’s our
No. 1 factor. But there were
some other factors that worked
on this one,” Suyman said.
In particular, Suyman said,
one of the key factors in the
decision was the economic
without allowing for Hudgins to development the^ center will
hundreds of new jobs.
Daphne Moore, a Wal-Mart
spokeswoman, said once the
cy,” he said. “The city is asking center 1S comPleted. the compa-
Gregory
She said precinct employees was written after consulting with Thursday afternoon, North Shore throws back the flounder, redfish
of weeks, at a total cost of around
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