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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Thursday, February 7, 1991
Opinion
Sun editorial
Flood study
worth cost
Asa result of the disastrous floods which ra-
/\ vaged Trinity River in the Liberty County reg-
ion for two years in a row, in 1989 and 1990,
a-much-needed federal study will be conducted.
The hardship on home and business in the path of
the flooding has taken a tremendous toll, net just
financially, but physically and emotionally.
U.S. Sens. Lloyd Bentsen and Phil Gramm were
instrumental in securing an appropriation of $900,000
for the study, and we applaud their successful efforts.
This is an example of federal dollars well spent be-
cause1 such a study is likely to lead to saving many
millions of dollars in the future.
The purpose of the study is to identify the major
areas of flood damage and describe corrective
measures.
Called the Lower Trinity Reconnaissance Study,
the area to be investigated encompasses the main
stem of the Trinity from a spot near Seagoville in
Dallas County to the mouth of the river near Ana-
huac in Chambers County. r
The study will be accomplished jointly by the Fort
Worth and Galveston Engineer Districts.
From Sun files
’71: Jaycees honor
Reber, McWilliams
From The Baytown Sun files, this is the way it was:
50 YEARS AGO
Leaving today for the Army recruiting office in Houston are Roy
Warner of Goose Creek; Harry W. Case, Alphonse M. Gomez,
Lewis T. Dickerson, all of Pelly; Carl E. Ewell and Joe W. Thom-
brough and Frank Zalesak, all of Crosby; J.J. Kana and Hascal Ro-
binson, both of Baytown. *
20 YEARS AGO
Bill Reber receives the Baytown Jaycees Distinguished Service
Award and Dr. James McWilliams is the named the Outstanding
Young Man-at the 32nd annual awards banquet. Main speaker is
Texas Lt. Gov. Ben Bames, who is pictured with State Rep. Joe
Allen and Davis Kadjar. Jaycee President Rick Peebles is pictured
with McWilliams and Reber.
Mrs. Thad Johnson is the area chairman for the Heart Fund drive.
Humble Oil and Enjay companies tell the Baytown City Council it
is not economically practical for the companies and the city to deve-
lop a joint treatment plan for the use of surface water. Bob Payne,
refinery technical manager, explains the additional steps required in
treating water for municipal use are not needed for industries.
A man who says he was “raised on a fire truck” is likely to be
Baytown’s nev? fire chief. He is JamgrA, Bland Jr., 38, the choice
of City Manager D.R. Voelkel to head the fire department. L.V.
Bailey has been serving as acting chief since he resigned from the
top position several months ago.
. r 10 YEARS AGO
Services will be held Feb. 9 for Katherine W. Rizzuto,61, of La
Porte. She was the. .wife-of Leo A. Rizzuia Sr. of La Potte.-------
are David Wayne Alford, Barry Leroy Armer, Michael Wayne Ar-
mer, Sus,an A. Nelson, Robyn Denise Tucker and David A.
Westerman.
Berry's world
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Pay-back time will come
That green-eyed monster called sibling
rivalry has just begun to show itself in our •
household. Our grandson Jeremy has finally
.discovered that ’he has jo compete for
attention from his parents and grandparents.
He has also learned the meaning of the word
“mine” and is using it more and more.
His baby sister Sarah is no longer the tiny
infant who interrupted his world only when
she was hungry or uncomfortable. She now
wants to be included in the family’s activi:,
tics and can voice her displeasure when
she's ignored. She can roll arbund in her
play pen and will be crawling and pulling up
in a shon time. Then, he better watch out.
Jeremy still only occasionally pays any
real attention to her and calls her Sis or Emi
(for Emily) if pressed to acknowledge her
presence. She, in turn, worships him, never
taking her eyes off him when they are in the
same room and grinning at him incessantly.
As far as she’s concerned, he’s the greatest
thing since sliced bread.
In a few years, of course, this will
probably change. There will come the time
when she will want to know how he took her
coming into this world and upsetting his
Buck
Young
domain. She will want to know' how he
treated her in that first year or two they were
together. It will then be pay-back time.
That’s why we decided to keep a list of
the things he has done to her, intentionally
or not, that might call for retribution. Since
'he will not be able to say to him, “do you
remember when you did so and so to me?”
she can dig out a yellowed clipping of this
story and use it.
For example, she could say, after hearing
the chilling scream come from the bath-
room, “That, Bubba, was for the time you
turned the shower knob on just before Mama
started to bathe me. I got a shot of cold
water in my face and reacted, I’m told, like
you juSt did.”
Or, dfter shaking him awake after a very
short, but much needed sleep: “That’s for all
the times you walked by my play pen and
poked at me through the mesh and disturbed
my naps.”
Or, while taking from him a toy, record,
game, or such say, “for all the times you
snatched an object from my little hand, this
one’s fo'r you, Bud.”
What she will do about the open-hand
slap he gave her when she was just a month
old, I’m afraid to even guess. It will
probably be like waiting for the other shoe
to drop.
All this, of course, is mere speculation. If
they are normal, healthy kids, and I’m sure
they are, they will, grow up together fussing
and fighting with each other, but uniting
against anyone who might make the mistake
of picking on one of them. At least that’s the
way it was in my family and I have the scars
to prove it.
Buck Young is a retired Air Force major.
Does law protect lawbreakers?
Sometimes it’s difficult to understand the.
workings of the law. %
It’s supposed to protect us from crooks
and sometimes from ourselves but on certain
occasions, the law — or people representing
the law — just don’t seem to do their jobs.
Take a rcccfit Baytown DWI case. Let’s
call it the drank that got away.
Early one recent morning, Baytown
police found a man passed out in the
driver’s seat of~a car..
The car, with engine still running and
transmission in drive, was nosed up to a
curb, which is apparently the only thing that
kept it from running into, a building.
Though obviously passed out, the man
still had his foot on the accelerator pedal and
his hands orT'the steering wheel..
The vehicle reeked of alcohol, as did the
man in the driver’s seat, according to
officers on the scene.
They awoke him and look him to jail,
where he failed all the alcohol-related tests.
Running a che.ck on the man, they found
he had two previous.convictions for driving
while intoxicated?
Jane
Howard
In -this state, the first two DWI convic-
tions are carried as misdemeanors while
anything after that is considered a felony
charge. That charge can result in stiffer
punishment, even prison time.
Since this was the third go-around for the
particular driver, the police officers had
hopes of getting him off the roadways
before he killed himself or someone else.
The arresting officer telephoned Harris
County District Attorney’s office, expecting
to get a DWI charge. He was told, however,
that because no one saw the.car moving, the
man could not be considered to be driving.
The only xharge that assistant DA would
take was on public intoxication which is a
misdemeanor.
So who did the law protect in this case?
Certainly not the public.
This was one of the many cases in which
the law seems to protect the lawbreakers.
Now, don’t jump on the district attorney’s
office for this. I’m sure that assistant DA
felt he couldn’t get a conviction on the
evidence available or he would have taken
the DWI charge. It’s the law that’s at fault
here. ‘;“J ,. v- " - '.
I’m a great believer in civil rights and
observing the letter of the law but too often
the law goes too far protecting the rights of
criminals. -
So be sure to wear those seatbelts while
driving on the streets of Baytown. We know
there’s at least one guy out there that’s
bound to cause an accident some day.
Jane Howard is a Sun reporter' and
oclumnist.
From Baghdad to battle of budget
WASHINGTON (AP) — A< federal
budget is a book full of numbers without a
plot, but the new one, does have a villain:
Saddam Hussein. - —
The budget that President Bush sent to
Congress on Monday holds the Iraqi dictator
largely responsible for the U.S. recession.
That economic slump and the cost of the
war to drive Iraq out of conquered Kuwait
are the two great uncertainties in the Bush
Administration assumptions that the
recession will be a mild, short-lived ofte and
that war -appropriations can be held to 'a
minimunT both ran into Democratic skeptic-
ism. -
“If. you believe those assumptions, I’ve
got a dream vacation in Baghdad I’d like to
sell you,” Rep. Bill Richardson, D-N.M.,
told the House. V .
A year and a war ago, the peace-dividend
was the catch phrase at budget time —
everybody wanted a piece of the bonus.
There is none. Actually, it vanished before
Operation Desert Stprm, into a deficit
reduction deal that would have forbidden
tradeoffs between defense cuts and domestic
spending even if there had been money
available.
Under the revised rules, spending is
divided into categories — defense, interna-
tional and domestic — and savings in one
can’t be used to offset increases in another.
That holds until 1993, and it means that
advocatesof increased spending on domes-
tic programs are going to have to choose
which items to boost, competing with one
.another if they can’t agree. i
Today in history
Walter
Mears
. In order to make their deal, the 1990
budget negotiators agreed that they wouldn’t
count the cost of the Persian Gulf crisis
against the defense share of the budget.
The budget forecasts a deficit of $318.1
billion during the current government year,
which ends Sept. 30. Next year’s forecast is
$280.9 billion — more than 10 times as
much as the administration predicted in the
last budget. *.
Furthermore, those numbers are based on
a brief, mild recession, with a return to
economic growth in the second half of 1991,
and on an early end to the Persian Gulf War,
now in its third week.
The administration has avoided forecast-
ing a time frame for the war, saying it will
be waged until Saddam surrenders Kuwait.
The budget seeks spending authority of $30
billion for the war and provides $15 billion
in actual outlays:
But the administration says those are only
interim figures with the real numbers due
later, when costs and offsetting allied contri-
butions can be foreseen. The separate war
appropriation bill is to be sent to Congress
late this month.
Congressional estimates of the cost of the
war nm to about $1 billion a day. The
Congressional Budget Office has projected
$86 billion for a three-month conflict. The
administration says other nations have
•- ^pledged more than $51 billion in contribu-
tions, but those are promises, not cash. And
not all of-them are direct payments that
would defray U.S. war expenditures, .
The war appropriation won’t really be an
issue; with more than -500,000 American
troops in the war zone, Congress will,vote
what the Pentagon deems necessary. The
differences will be; over its impact on other
spending needs, on the economy as a whole,
and on how to pay for it.
The outlook is worse titan expected, a
situation that budget director Richard G.
Darman blamed largely on $105.5 billion in
extra outlays for the savings and loan crisis
and an $87 billion decrease in tax revenue
because of the economic slump.
Darman said the economic downturn was
caused “perhaps most significantly” by the
crisis that followed Saddam’s invasion of
Kuwait on Aug. 2.
Oil prices went up at first, lenders put “a
risk premium” into long-term interest rates
and consumers and investors held back,
Darman said in the budget.
‘The resulting economic slowdown has
taken its toll,” he said. “And the problem of
the fiscal deficit has thus been compounded
by the effects of the crisis fin the gulf.”
Ike quit as Army chief of staff in 1948
On Feb. 7, 1948, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower resigned as Army
chief of staff and was succeeded by Gen. Omar Bradley.
On this date: ,»
In 1812, author Charles Dickens was bom in Portsmouth,
England. *
fin 1904, a fire began in Baltimore that raged for about 30 hotirs
and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings. . «
In 1931, aviator Amelia Earhart married publisher George P. Put-
nam in Noank, Conn. j
* In 1936, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized a flag for the
office of the vice president.
In 1944, during World War fLJie Germans launched a counterof-
fensive at Anzio, Italy.
In 1964, thousands of screaming fans welcomed the Beatles at
New Yoric’s John F, Kennedy International Airport as the Fab Four
began^ their first U.S. tour. ^ ^ t t
In 1974, the island nation of Grenada won independence from
Britain.
.In 1983, Elizabeth H. Dole was sworn inas the prgt.female secret-
ary of transportation by the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme
Court, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor.
In 1984, space shuttle astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert
L. Stewart took the first untethered space walk.
In 1984, David, a 12-year-old boy bom without immunity to dis-
ease, touched his mother for the first time after he was removed
from a germ-free bubble enclosure at Texas Children’s Hospital in
Houston. •
In 1985, a court in-Torun, Poland, found four security officers
guilty of the murder of pro-Solidarity priest Jerzy Popieluszko, and
handed but prison sentences ranging up to 25 years.
In 1990, the Soviet Union’s Communist Party agreed to let alter-
native political parties compete for control'of the country, thereby
giving up its monopoly,on power.
BIBLE VERSE
“Bumble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and
he shall lift you up.” ■"/...... . .. / /
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