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BAYTOWN — The water
dripping from the hall ceiling
didn’t seem to phase Viola
Motton as she waded through
water that was a few inches deep
to move a table from her bed-
room late Sunday afternoon.
But, her voice quivered.
“It was scary,” said Motton
about the tornado that hit part of
Baytown Saturday night.
Motton was one of the 16 ten-
Bayou Methodist Church member
Jeanette Hardin was moved to tears
Baytown Sun photos/Meredith Darnell
were placed in Royal Place apartments in a different building at the same
site. Five tenants from the nearby also received temporary housing.
games. ,
“When I was at the Astrodome at
one of the biggest games of the
century ... everyone cheered, ‘El’
CHILDREN LOOK AT THE DAMAGE Sunday left by a tornado that hit the
Royal Place complex the night before. Sixteen tenants were vacated and
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The Baytown Sun
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MARITZA MEDRANO, 4, of Baytown gets some pointers as she hunts
for eggs at the third annual East egg hunt at Rocky’s Pelican Junction
Sunday. Because of the rain, the egg hunt — which included 3,000
plastic eggs filled with candy and a total of $800 — was held inside.
women.
The Fallujah violence spilled
over to the nearby western
Tornado ruins residents’
belongings, no one hurt
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MICHELLE ALEXANDER helps her friend Veola Motton move from an
See STORM on Page 6A apartment on the first floor of Royal Place in Baytown Sunday.
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“It took the whole roof off in
the seventh building,” said Viola
Anderson, office manager. “It
was a disaster. Everybody was
upset about it. But no one got
hurt.”
Anderson moved the tenants to
vacant apartments and five ten-
ants from the adjacent Sunshine
Apartments. Two tenants were
out of town, according to
Anderson.
Anderson did not have a cost
estimate of the damages as of
, Sunday.
ants at Royal Place on Baker who
had to evacuate because the roof
of the building had been tom off.
Baytown Sun photo/Meredith Darnell
Easter sunrise message one of respect
were probably insuigents.
Fallujah residents took
is open to a negotiated solution advantage of the lull in fighting
in its showdown with a radical to bury their dead in two soccer
FALLUJAH, Iraq—A fragile Shiite cleric in the south. fields. One of the fields had
Most of the Iraqis killed in rows of freshly dug graves,
1 some marked on headstones as
Sunday in the besieged city of last Monday were women, chil- children or with the names of
Fallujah, where Iraqis said more dren and elderly, the director of
than 600 civilians were killed in the city hospital, Rafie al-Issawi,
the past week. Near Baghdad, told The Associated Press. A
gunmen shot down a U.S. attack U.S. Marine commander disput-
helicopter, killing two ed that, saying most of the dead
Gunbattle interrupts tenuous Fallujah cease-fire
crewmembers.
Also, the military suggested it
Hayes said people should praise
Jesus like the way sports stars are
Church. ing him fourth on the NBA’s all- cheered on and introduced at
Among the service highlights time rebounding list.
was the Easter story read from the But, most of his message was
Advocacy groups warn
against ‘dealer reserves’
By KRISTOPHER BANKS
The Baytown Sun
Car buyers who finance their new cars through
the dealership might be sending a significant por-
tion of their interest payments to the dealer — and
in Texas, the dealers don’t have to tell the car buyer
about it, charge consumer groups.
Public Citizen and Sacramento-based Consumers
of Auto Reliability and Safety are protesting a Texas
law, signed in 1999 by then-Gov. George W. Bush,
which gives dealers the right not to tell car buyers
the portion of their interest rate that is going to the
dealer.
“Basically, if the auto dealer gets a kickback, the
have no duty to disclose it,” said Tom “Smitty”
Smith, executive director of Public Citizen’s Texas
office.
The protest follows an April 6 report on CBS’s
“60 Minutes” about dealer reserves, the cut of the
interest rate dealers receive for handling the financ-
ing of cars bought at their dealership.
In dealer reserves, the auto dealers arrange for an
auto loan with a bank, and then increase the interest
rate they receive on the loan and collect the money
for themselves. In a lawsuit filed in 1997, a LaRue
man claimed he was charged a 17.9 percent interest
rate from a car dealership when a bank had
approved a loan for 11.15 percent.
The lawsuit was dismissed after the 1999 legisla-
tion passed.
Three Baytown dealerships contacted refused to
comment locally or did not return phone calls.
However, the auto dealer industry’s response to the
national story has been that the dealers are doing a
service for their customers, and deserve to be com-
pensated for it.
The 1999 Texas law, sponsored by then-state Sen.
David Sibley and then-state Rep. Kip Averitt, both
Waco Republicans, states that no one who acquires
a retail installment contract has any duty to reveal
any differences between the original interest rate
and the rate they give consumers.
The consumer groups have announced their
protest between sessions, limiting the waves they
can make in Austin. State Rep. Wayne Smith of
r Elvin Hayes gave, at the Easter
Baytown Sun photo/Meredith Darnell Sunrise service Sunday.
ELVIN HAYES, a former Houston Rocket basketball play- “It’s good that a successful per-
er and Christian, delivered the Easter message at the son like Elvin Hayes ministers to Bible, Richard Reique of Memorial about finding his relationship with
sunrise service Sunday at Cedar Bayou Methodist people,”, she said. “I wish more Baptist singing “How Great Thou God and encouraging others to
Church. The service was not held at Stallworth Stadium people could have heard what he Art,” Patti Denise singing “I Know establish one.
as planned because Of inclement weather. had to say. It was a good way to My Redeemer Lives” and Hayes ‘‘‘I had all the accolades... I had
start Easter morning.” presenting the morning message, all the honors ... but 1 was still
—The pastors organizing the fifth Hayes, nicknamed “The Big E,” is empty inside,” said Hayes. “I tried
annual event expected a crowd of a former Houston Rockets basket- Jesus, and he is real. He completed
^e^ar about 8,000, with past crowds esti- ball player who ranks sixth in all-
matec| at 4 000. But with Sunday’s time NBA points. In 16 seasons, has to be a personal relationship.”
when she spoke about the sermon the pews at Cedar Bayou Methodist points and 16,000 rebounds, rank-
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