The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 133, Ed. 1 Monday, April 12, 2004 Page: 3 of 12
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and still looking sporty!
Happy Birthday
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rest my child until we see Jesus pH
face to face.
Police beat
167 calls
would most surely have died,” 11 minor accidents.
Man jumps into pond
to save man's life
A 23-year-old Baytown man
helped save another man’s life
said Shannon.
Police did not have a cause of
.the accident. Sgt. Dennis
Hughes said the inclement
weather could have played a fac-
tor.
“When it rains, that part of
the highway is always treacher-
ous," he said.
Efforts to reach Dittman were
unsuccessful.
From 6 a.m. Saturday to
6 a.m. Sunday, Baytown police
responded to 167 calls, including
18 alarms, two assaults, one
auto theft, six burglaries, 26
disturbances, one forgery, one
robbery, two shots fired, 12
thefts, four major accident and
after he collided with a highway
guard rail near Wyoming and
Missouri, fell off his motorcycle
and landed in a pond.
Jonathan Dittman did not see
the accident on "Saturday, but
saw a motorcyle in the middle Of
the road and stopped to look for
the motorist, according to
Baytown police.
Dittman saw the, motorist —
Jerald Wood — and jumped into
the water that was about 15 feet
below the roadway. He pulled the ChllFCll bUldarized
ridar tn tha knnlz
A church in the 300 block of W.
Cedar Bayou-Lynchburg Road
reported items — including com-
puter hardware and software —
totaling $1,700 stolen Saturday
at 9:24 a.m.
rider to the bank.
Dittman began CPR on the
rider who regained then con-
sciousness, said police.
"Upon emergency services
arrival, there was an eight-foot
long alligator waiting and watch-
ing from approximately 30 feet
away from the rider and
motorist," said Officer Hedger
Shannon. "The alligator watched
the rescue work and was still
present when emergency ser-
vices left."
Wood was taken by LifeFlight
to University of Texas Medical
Branch.
“If not for the selfless act of
the motorist, the motorcyclist
Highlands man shot
while playing soccer
Jose Estrada, 28, of Highlands
was shot while playing soccer at
Unidad Park, 2510 J. B. LeFevre,
on Saturday at 4:10 p.m.
According to Baytown Police
Sgt. Dennis Hughes, Estrada
went off the field to retrieve a
soccer ball and was shot on the
left side of his chest by one of
two men on the side of the road.
The men fled in a vehicle,
which was later recovered by
police.
Estrada was taken to Ben
Taub Hospital and was listed in
fair condition on Sunday night.
Police, who interviewed
numerous witnesses, have
obtained a warrant, but no
arrests had been made as of
Sunday night. The warrant is for
aggravated assault, a second
degree felony that carries two to
20 years in jail.
Texas district
The Associated Press
sees jump in
bankruptcies
Saturday’s results
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HOUSTON — Three years
ago, Adrian Gaspar made as
much as $100,000 a year work-
ing as a police officer and moon-
lighting as a security guard at
local construction sites.
But the 39-year-old from
Manvel, near Houston, found
himself fighting off creditors last
year as new construction dried
up in the economic slump, leav-
ing Gaspar without a second job.
He drained his savings, sold his
two extra cars and a motorcycle
and sold his gun collection to
pay his bills.
He resorted to bankruptcy
when he ran out of things to sell,
becoming one of 25,210 individ-
uals to file for personal bank-
ruptcy in the U.S. Southern
District of Texas.
The judicial district saw a 23.2
percent increase in bankruptcy
filings between 2002 and 2003
—- the highest increase in the
nation. Personal bankruptcy fil-
ings increased 5.3 percent
nationwide and 15 percent in
Texas, the Houston Chronicle
reported Sunday.
“I'll have a bad mark on my
credit report for several years,
but at leas't 1 can feed my fami-
ly,” Gaspar said. “Family
comes first.”
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Response to Perry’s education plan lukewarm
nals and changing the caps would
between the residential and com- ing hurdle on any issue.
nesses and homeowners be
nals at racetracks.
Perry said he intends to call
ments. That nieans two-thirds of
both houses of the Legislature
mercial rates.
Eventually, both rates would be
But, the statewide business
By APRIL CASTRO
The Associated Press
AUSTIN — After debuting
his long-awaited school finance
plan, Gov. Rick Perry received
a lukewarm reception from a
potential key ally: state busi-
ness leaders.
While business leaders have
applauded Perry for making the
only formal proposal since the
regular legislative session, they
are slow to endorse an integral
part of the proposal, a “constitu-
tionally linked” property tax.
Perry’s plan “ought to be in the
mix” for consideration. Heflin,
who leads the budget-writing
process in the House, said he
the
Legislature remains uncertain.
“We’re studying it, we are
looking at the constitutional
linkage that Governor I
proposing,” said Jeff Clark, islative session this month, but
state director of the National has yet to set a date.
Federation of Independent Perry is proposing that busi- because of the built-in links have to approve them —a daunt-
Business. nesses and homeowners be between the residential and com- ing hurdle on any issue.
Hammond, president of Texas
Association of Business.
Hammond praised Perry’s pro- moves up more quickly than the favors the property tax buy-back
Final passage of the plan in P083' t0 ra’se additional money other,” Clark said. “With consti- part of the plan because it “helps
Republican-controlled f°r public schools by legalizing tutional linkage, we’re studying restrain growth in the budget.”
state-taxed video lottery termi- whether that will keep business-
es from carrying an unfair share property tax, video lottery termi-
Perry is lawmakers backTor a special leg- ' Perry has emphasized that his require constitutional amend-
“constitutionally linked roll” is
different from a split roll tax
Legislature to develop an equi- in proportion to residential
table plan for all Texans,” said property owners.
“Our fear always has been
with a split-tax roll, that one
Bill Hammond, president of charged different rates, both
the state’s largest business lower than the current $ 1.50 cap
group, has signed a letter per $100 in appraised land value, lowered to 75 cents, using a per-
opposing the idea of splitting Under his plan, taxes on home- centage of future surpluses in the
business and residential proper- owners, capped at $1.25, would state budget to “buy down” prop-
ty taxes, but on Thursday issued continue to be levied by school erty tax rates.
a statement endorsing other districts. Businesses, however, Rep. Talmadge Heflin, a
aspects of Perry’s plan. would be taxed $1.40 by the state. Republican from Houston who is
“We are excited to work with Both would be linked to chair of the House
the Governor and the Tepas ensure that businesses are taxed Appropriations Committee, said
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of attacks on New York and
Washington, “I would have
’moved mountains” to prevent
it, Bush said during a visit to
Fort Hood in Texas.
But he said the document,
which the White House
released Saturday night, con-
tained “nothing about an
attack on America. It talked
about intentions, about some-
body who hated America —
well, we knew that.”
Should the memo — a lead-
ing topic of the Sunday talk
shows — have raised “more of
an alarm bell than it did? I
think in hindsight that’s proba-
bly true,” said Sen. John
McCain, R-Ariz. He said the
Clinton and Bush administra-
tions bear responsibility for
Sept. IL
The existence of the presi-
dent’s briefing memo was dis-
closed to the public at a news
conference in May 2002. The
“overwhelming bulk of the
evidence” before Sept. 11,
Rice declared, was that any
terrorist attack “was likely to
take place overseas.”
Most of the CIA reporting
during the summer of 2001
did focus on possible overseas
targets. But the memo specifi-
cally told Bush that al-Qaida
had reached American shores,
had a support system in place
into” and had any "specific sistent with preparations for
intelligence pointed to threats hijackings or other types of
*• ■■ ’ ' • attacks.”
In May 2002, Rice said
“there was specific threat
reporting about al-Qaida
attacks against U.S. targets.”
She did not mention that it
was in the report sent to the
president.
To accentuate the potential
domestic threat, the memo
told Bush the FBI had 70
investigations related to bin
Laden under way.
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years, national security adviser
Condoleezza Rice left the
impression that. President
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information dating to 1998 and
that any current threats mostly
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