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THURSDAY
Baytown, Texas
www.baytownsun.com
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See ALFARO on Page 7A
See SHAFFER on Page 7A
All stars
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Raymond
fields. The runner, Taylor Powers, isn’t on the 9-year-old team but helped the team during practice.
See TSP on Page 7A
See EXXONMOBIL on Page 7A
Photo by Matthew Cook
See RUNDELL on Page 7A
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ExxonMobil
shareholders
dodge
protesters
November. Those schedules
have been scrapped, said attor-
ney Bob Renbarger, who repre-
place.
Attorney Guy Matthews,
who represents several Beach
City.
Renbarger said the order
essentially leaves things up in
the air.
“We're definitely on hold,’’
Renbarger said. “All the sched-
NATION
Missed clues
FBI chief says if they were diligent,
they may have uncovered terrorist plot
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If re-elected, Alfaro admits ‘work Shaffer says he’s confident he can
work with City Council if elected
By ALLYSON GONZALEZ
staff writer
WORLD
Operation Buzzard
British begin mission to keep Taliban,
al-Qaida out of Afghanistan
PAGE 3A
Avid fisherman
Rafael Lerma Jr., 36, of Baytown, spends Wednesday morning
fishing in Goose Creek, despite the bad weather that rolled
through town.
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"We’re definitely on
hold. All the scheduling
orders — all those
. things are pretty much
thrown out right now.
We're just going to wait
and what the federal
court does.”
Bob Renbarger
Attorney for
landfill opponents
BAYTOWN — Wednesday
afternoon during a building
committee meeting, adminis-
trator Dennis Topper told
regents that to renovate
Rundell Hall correctly would
cost the school $3 million.
"We can also build a new
Rundell Hall for $3 million,"
BAYTOWN -
Shaffer expects no difficulties with City Council
if elected mayor Saturday.
Shaffer described the mayoral job description
as an ambassador for the city, and said his pro-
investment, no-cost-to-taxpayer initiatives
shouldn’t cause problems with the council.
“How can I be afraid of council’s position
Photo by Jonathan Cooper
Shortstop Emmanuel Torres turns a double play in Wednesday’s all star practice at the Baytown
Central Little League. The all star tournament begins Friday with games being played at the North
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needs to be done’ to unify city
By ALLYSON GONZALEZ
Staff writer
BAYTOWN — With three days left until the
runoff, Mayor Pete Alfaro is preparing with an
eye on next years budget and the June 13 City what j’m focusing on ” Alfaro said.
leave, Alfaro expects a summer of challenges.
Then, there's the election.
With more than 2,200 ballots cast for early
voting, and with the results of the May 4 prima-
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WORLD
Mighty dollar
Dollar faltering after 7 years
as the world’s supercurrency
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May 30, 2002
Volume 80 No. 185
contract — ExxonMobil is
Baytowns largest employer.
Crude oil capacity at the
refinery is currently 508,000
barrels a day, making it the
largest of ExxonMobil’s world-
wide. More than 7 billion
pounds of petrochemical prod-
ucts are manufactured each
year by the three local chemical
plants. The combined taxes
paid to local and state govern-
ment is over $74 million a year.
ExxonMobil chairman Lee
R. Raymond attributed the
increase in support for the mea-
sures to endorsement from
Institutional Shareholder
Services, which advises pen-
sion funds and other large
investors. He said the proposals
would hurt ExxonMobil’s busi-
ness.
On the question of oil prices,
Raymond said he expected the
improving economy to give
prices a lift, especially because
oil companies saw profit mar-
gins erode early this year. But,
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when ultimately it means millions of dollars of
investment for the community?" Shaffer said.
_ , , “I do not anticipate any opposition by anyone
71 ,|ire iC,e.C|e S af in the council; I did not seek council endorse-
ment."
Five of six councilmen have publicly support-
ed Mayor Pete Alfaro in his re-election bid.
Councilman Scott Sheley is supporting Shaffer.
Shaffer has stated a dissatisfaction with the
wash the outside of the build-
ing and $263,000 to put in non-
operable windows.
Board chairman Keith
Topper said. "But, it will be Cobum said that Topper was
INSIDE
Business ........3B
Classifieds .......4B
Comics..........7B
Community -------.6A
Obituaries........3A
Opinion..........4A
Police Beat.......6A
Sports ..........IB
Television........6B
LOTTERY
Wednesday drawings
Lotto: 44-39-1-8-14-25
Pick 3 Day: 5-50
Pick 3 Night: 13-6
ry as a constant reminder, now is not a time for
extreme self-evaluation, the mayor says. That
will come later.
“It’s going to be a tight race, and we have to
focus on what’s best for the community, and
Council meeting. With the city manager soon to Alfaro trailed former police chief Charles
Shaffer Jn 39 votes or ^y jess
than 1 percent of total votes cast. Seven-hundred
By DAVID KOENIG
The Associated Press
DALLAS — Shareholders of
ExxonMobil Corp, backed
management Wednesday on a
series of contentious issues but
signaled surprisingly strong
support to pro-
mote renew- I
able energy |
and explicitly I
ban discrimi- |
nation against |
gays.
The energy I
and anti-dis- 1
crimination
resolutions
had polled less than 13 percent
support other years but pulled
20.3 percent and 23.5 percent
of the shares voted Wednesday,
according to the company’s pre-
liminary results.
With employment base of
6,560 employees — regular and
Renovation plans for Lee’s Rundell Hall
likely to go back to planning stage due to cost
By LIA MARTIN half the square footage as we throwing all kinds of options at
Staff writer have now.' the board.
Topper also gave the board a Previously, Coburn said, they
"bare bones" approach to had reserved $550,000 in out-
sprucing up Rundell Hall that of-revenue bonds to work on
would only cost taxpayers mechanical and heating prob-
$338,000: $75,000 to power iems jn the building, but only
one contractor gave them a bid
because of the lateness of the
project in the school year. And,
SPORTS z
Raceway Park
Drag racing to feature!
compact cars
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are pretty much thrown out right
and what the federal court
does.”
TSP Development of
Commission Kingwood has applied for the
necessary permits to construct a
The Texas Natural Resource non-hazardous industrial waste
Conservation Commission has landfill to be located on Spur
30 days to appeal the May 9 55/Fisher Road, east of FM
order. Agency spokeswoman 1405 in West Chambers County.
Adria Dawidczik said the state Kent based his ruling on the
agency has not made a decision fact that there are no formal reg-
regarding the appeal. ulations governing the permit-
“A decision has not been ting process. Since there are no
made as to how we’ll proceed regulations, citizens do not have
from here,” she said. any means for fighting the
A hearing will be scheduled process. Kent said the permit
at a future date to establish a hearings could not go proceed
permanent injunction. The until regulations governing the
TNRCC could appeal either the permitting process were put into
temporary injunction.
The State Office of
Administrative Hearings had
established a schedule for the City residents, said it is
permit hearings, with the actual unknown how long the
hearings expected to begin in injunction will be in place for.
TL— “We're looking at whatever
officially halted
By MATTHEW COOK
Staff writer
BAYTOWN - The State
Office of Administrative
Hearings has officially halted
the permit hearings for the pro-
posed TSP Landfill in compli-
ance with a federal judge s order
earlier this month.
The State Office of
Administrative Hearings had
been overseeing the permit
hearings in the case, but issued
an order last week bringing the sents the government entities in
hearings to a close, said Tommy the permit hearings, including
Broyles, assistant director of the cities of Baytown and Beach
hearings.
“They’ve abated it because of
a injunction from federal court,"
he said. “WeTl just do whatever
the court tells us. It's really out
of our hands.”
.^Earlier this month, U.S. uling orders — all those things
^District Judge Samuel Kent *«♦' —"
granted a temporary injunction now. We’re just going to wait
against the State Office of
Administrative Hearings and
the Texas Natural Resource
Conservation
commissioners.
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Permit hearings
forTSP landfill
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 185, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 30, 2002, newspaper, May 30, 2002; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1185413/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.