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Obituaries
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Wanda Flewellen
Wanda “Flew” Flewellen,
72, went to be with the
Lord on June 30,2003.
Bom the daughter of
Autley & Wllle Watson on
Jewel Schepp
Jewel Schepp of Cove
passed away June 28,2003
at a local hospital at 87-
years-old. Schepp was bom
February 4,1916 in Cove.
James Godwin
James A.D. Godwin, 79,
of Baytown, passed away
Sunday, June 29,2003 in a
local hospital. Born to
Alfred and Polly Lee
Godwin on October 2,
1923 in Sand Flat, Texas,
he married the former
Vergie Marie Johnston of
Providence, TX. Shortly
after joining the Merchant
Marines during World War
II, he came to Baytown and
went to work at Humble
Oil. He retired after 35
years of service, and
enjoyed his retirement fish-
ing, hunting, and raising
English Pointers. He loved
to cook, especially BBQ
and frying up the fish he
caught. He and his wife
were active members of
Missouri Street Church of
Christ.
He was preceded in death
by his son, James Stephen
Godwin last August, sisters
Ruby Hataway and Hazel
March 5,1931 in Waco,
TX.
Wanda became a RN'in
1952 working for Gulf | j |
Coast Hospital of
Baytown, TX. She retired
after 41 years. Wanda
enjoyed bowling, and
going to gambling casinos.
She also loved watching
softball games & when at
home her pets were her
world.
Wanda was predeceased
by her mother Willie Jewel
Watson & father Autley
Douglas Watson. 6ne sis-
ter Sylvia Lee Taylor.
She is survived by a son
Charles Douglas Flewellen
of League City, TX. One
daughter Brenda Kay
Flewellen of Houston,
TX. One brother Paul
Alan Watson of Red Oak,
TX.
Visitafion will be on j
Wednesday July 2,2003 /
from 5 to 9 PM. At
Sterling White Chapel.*
Graveside Services will
be held on Thursday July
.3,2003 at 10:00 AM. At
White Cemetery
Highlands, TX.
Services are under the
direction of Sterling
White Funeral Home
11011 Crosby Lynchburg
Rd. Highlands, TX
281-426-3555.
Contributions can be
made to the Baytown
Humane Society P.O. Box
2772 Baytown, TX 77522-
2772
She was a homemaker and
a member of the Seventh
Street Church of Christ.
Her husband, E.J. Schepp;
eight brothers and sisters
precede her in death. Her
sister Mrs. L.H. Dunn of
Baytown and 12 nieces and
nephews survive her.
Funeral services will be
held at 2 p.m., today,
Jutyl, 2003 at Navarre
Chapel. Visitation was
from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Monday, June 30,2003 at
Navarre Funeral Home.
Adrian Bowers will be offi-
ciating. Services, are under
the direction of Navarre
Funeral Home, 2444
Rollingbrook, Baytown,
281-422-8111.
Smith, he is survived by
his loving wife of 59 years,
Marie Godwin; daughter
and son in-law Debbie and
Zeb Warren of Baytown;
grandchildren Collin
Warren & his wife, April
of Beaumont, Stacia Laird
& husband, Kelly, and
great-grandson Conley
Laird, all of Baytown; and
sister-in-law Murl
Yarbrough of Victoria, TX.
The family will receive
friends from 5 to 7 PM,
today, July 1,2003, at L.A.
Crespo Funeral Directors.
Graveside services will be
held at 10 AM,
Wednesday, July 2,2003 at
Cedar Crest Cemetery,
with Rev. Bill Ehlig and
Rev. David Smith of
Missouri Street Church of
Christ, officiating.
Arrangements entrusted
to L.A. Crespo Funeral
Directors, 6123 Garth
Road, Baytown,
281.839.0700, www.lacre-
spofunerals.com.
Juanita Goodwin
Dickey Teaff
Juanita Goodwin Dickey
Teaff, 95, of Orange,
Texas, passed away,
Monday, June 30,2003 in
Baytown.
Funeral services will be
at 11 a.m. Thursday, July
3, 2003 at Claybar Funeral
Home in Bridge City,
Texas. Entombment will
follow at Greenlawn „
Memorial Park in Port
Arthur, Texas,
Visitation will be from 5
- 9 p.m. Wednesday, July
2, 2003 at the funeral in
Bridge City.
Mrs. Teaff is survived by
her son and daughter-in-
law, Lonnie and Norma
Dickey of Baytown;
grandchildren, Bridgitt
Ayers and her husband
Ben of Houston; Lonnie
H. Dickey and his wife
Terri of Austin; L. Craig
Dickey and his wife Diane
of Baytown; Sherri Dickey
of Baytown; eight great-
grandchildren and five
great-great-grandchildren.
Arrangements are under
the direction of Claybar
Funeral Home, 504 North
5th Street, Orange, 409-
886-4445.
James Arthur TantHIo
James Arthur Tantillb, 74,
of LaPorte, passed away,
Monday, June 23,2003.
Services are pending with
L.A. Crespo Funeral
Directors, Baytown,
281.839.0700, www.lacre-
spofunerals.com.
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I Say Thank You to alTthose who have sent cards, \
prayers and food during your time of need.
Call for more information, 281-425-8037.
By ROBERT DINNER
The Associated Press
Identity thieves will be pur-
sued more aggressively in
Indiana, the wrongfully con-
victed will get free educations
in i Montana and seniors can
expect price breaks on prescrip-
tion drugs in a smattering of
othjer states.
As July begins Tuesday, new
laws in more than two dozen
states go into effect.
State legislators nearly every-
where have, struggled to find
cash for their budgets this year,
and some measures address that
problem. Taxes on gasoline will
go up in Maine (2.6 cents per
gallon), and Washington state
(5 cents), for instance.
A wide assortment of fees are
increasing, too: trout anglers in
New Mexico must pay $3 for
an extra tod, out-of-state sncw-
mobllers will pay more in
Montana, and drinkers in Idaho
must pay 2 percent more to die
state-run liquor stores.
But lawmakers and gover-
nors went for beyond dollars
and cents to alter the rules for
many facets of public life, from
health care to crime, education
to imprisonment, computers to
cars.
In Hawaii, insurers must now
provide coverage for the men-
tally ill just as they do for the
physically ill. The change was
personal for Gov. Linda Lingle,
whose mother has suffered
from bipolar disorder for years.
“This has been something in
my life since I was 8 years old
— it's not something that goes
away,” Lingle said when she
testified before legislators. “It’s
a sickness, it’s an illness."
Health care increasingly
topped legislative agendas.
Nevada will track medical mal-
practice more closely and will
also toy to better investigate so-
called cancer clusters; Illinois
and Montana created prescrip-
tion drug programs for seniors.
Florida banned smoking in
the workplace, with lawmakers
agreeing it would make people
healthier. But the ban stretched
to restaurants, leaving many
people angry.
States tried to untangle issues
involving health care insurance.
Connecticut is allowing small
businesses to offer medical sav-
ings accounts to employees
when regular Insurance would
be too expensive; Nevada and
Oklahoma are dying to keep
States start new laws July 1
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A wide range of new laws and taw wi begin Tuesday In mom than
two dozen states. Some of the new laws Include:
H Increase in gas tax
Lower blood alcohol content level
from 0.10 to 0.08 percent tor drunk driving
Maine, Washington
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PM Discrimination
Ewi Outlaw discrimination based
on sexual orientation
l^aw Mexico
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programs « services
Montana, n^Qig
Require Insurance compenlee to to treat
mental Iness toe same as physical Oness
Identify cancer clusters mdre quickly
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Smal businesses to offer medtal
savings accounts when regular *
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Connecticut
Cap of $300,000 for non-economic Nevada, Oklahoma
damages in malpraclloe insurance
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iSJ Internet companies that have
S593B been hacked into are required
to notify their customers
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Identfy type of spam to subject to of emails
Indiana
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pfr* Fishing and hunting fees double
Oklahoma
Higher fees tor out-of-state snowmobHers
New 1 percent state tax In motels
Montana
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Increase in alcohol cost by 2 percent
Idaho
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malpractice insurance afford-
able, with steps like a $300,000.
cap on non-economic damages.
The emerging online world
seemed to cry out for regula-
tion, and Indiana responded by
requiring those who send spam
— unsolicited e-mails sent to
hundreds or sometimes thou-
sands — to clearly identify the
message as an advertisement or
an adult-oriented ad.
Old technology, too, drew
attention. In a three-year exper-
iment in North Carolina, speed-
ers in Charlotte can now be
caught by camera; drivers will
be considered drunk with less
alcohol in their bloodstream
under new laws in Iowa, New
York and Tennessee.
Legislators didn’t ignore
crime, responding to the latest
worries about hate crimes, sex
offenders and terrorism.
Indiana broadened the defin-
ition of identify theft, and will
allow judges to send written
orders to creditors on behalf of
victims. New Mexico estab-
lished a hate crimes law, allow-
ing a judge to add prison time
for a crime motivated by hate;
the state also banned dtoaiml-
, nation based on sexual orienta-
tion and gender identify.
Lawmakers also sought to
address cases in which the
criminal justice system broke
down. Montana agreed to pro-
vide a free college education for
former state inmates exonerat-
ed by DNA testing, although no
funding was provided for foe
program. New Mexico will give
convicted felons three years,
rather than one year, to try to
prove their innocence with
DNA evidence.
In Kansas, lawmakers took
time to honor the 103-year-old
story of a little girl, a dog named
Toto and a land over the rainbow.
Now there's a new name for
Lincoln Avenue In the city of
Vtamego and 50 miles of high-
way that lead to it from Interstate
70: “The Road to Oz.”
Still, there’s no wizard in
Waraego — not yet, anyway. A
new attraction in the city
between Topeka and
Manhattan, Kan. — The
Marvelous Land of Oz
Museum — doesn’t open until
October.
Tobacco production continues to drop
By EMny GERSEMA
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - It was
the nation’s first export and the
collateral for financing the
American Revolution. But with
lawsuits, less smoking, import
competition and a soon-to-be
dismantled system of govern-
ment controls, farmers are
planting the smallest tobacco
crop this year since Gen.
Ulysses S. Grant was president
Tobacco will cover just
413,710 acres this year, 3 per-
cent fewer than last year and foe
smallest crop since 1874, foe
Agriculture Department said
Monday., Farmers in Florida,
Kentucky, North Carolina,
Tennessee and Virginia have cut
back on planting.
“It’s tough times for tobacco
growers,” said Thomas
Capehart, an economist for foe
department
Lawsuits against cigarette
manufacturers are just one rea-
son that growers are cutting
back. Demand is dropping as
states and cities raise taxes on
cigarettes and Increasing nulff-
bers of cities and businesses
ban smoking, Capehart said.
But one of the biggest prob-
lems facing foe tobacco grow-
ers is government quotas, he
said.
While corn and soybean
growers get help from the gov-
ernment in subsidies, tobacco
growers are given quotas aimed
at protecting them from over-
production and low demand. If
prices fall below a fixed level,
growers can qualify for govern-
ment loans.
Demand for U.S. tobacco is
shrinking fast because
American manufacturers of
cigarettes and other tobacco
products are buying more leaf
from Zimbabwe, Brazil and
other countries, Capehart said.
Last year, the United States
imported $715 million in tobac-
co, up from the $676 million in
2001 and $628 million in 2000.
Meanwhile, the quotas
decrease annually. This year,
foe effective quota for flue-
cured tobacco is 540 million
pounds, compared with the 582
million pounds allowed last
year. That’s a decline of 9,5 per-
cent for every tobacco farm.
For hurley tobacco, this
year’s effective quota is 320
million pounds, down from last
year’s 324.2 million pounds.
Rqger Queries, a grower in
Georgetown, Ky„ said formers
try to work around foe quota by
leasing foe rights of other form-
ers, but % year it became more
difficult for them to stay afloat
“Quite frankly, there’s Just
not enough to gp around any-
more,” he said. “At some point,
people say: 'I have to quit and
go get a Job in town.’ Thatii
kind of foe short story on foe
euect or tne quota,
Quarles paid $30,000 to
increase Mi selling rights fay
leasing from other formers.
Tobacco harvest
expectations low
The tobaoooT&hreaUn the
United States ie dwindling, This
year’s crap for the 16 states that
produce tobacco is expected to
be the lowest ever.
Acreage of tobacco fleide
harvested. In thousands
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Statistics Ssrvtcs.USDA
“That’s $30,0001 didn’t have
to pay about four years ago.”
He continues to grow buriey
tobacco because he earns about
$1,000 per acre on Ms 30 acres
of it The return on Ms com and
soybeans, which cover 180
acres, doesn't even come dose.
“I would expect to have to
grow 2,000 acres of com and
soybeans to be able to maka a
living,” he said.
Quirts hopes Cotyraas win
approve a tagout of foe quotas
so dm aome growers wifi quit
and gMa others a dance to
Ircvggdd production.
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