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The evening had a somewhat humorous
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LOUISIANA AU^STAR PLAYERS begin eating their meals at the Bayou
Bowl pregame banquet Friday night at the Goose Creek Country Club.
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
TITUSVILLE, Fla.. - Former
astronaut Daniel Brandenstein, a resi-
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Astronaut Hall of Fame
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Shortly after noon Friday,
Blockbuster Video In the 4500
block of Garth Road was robbed
by two Baytown residents. Police
arrested the suspects a short
time later.
According to police reports, a
35yearold man and a 20yearold
woman entered the store to look
around and asked some ques-
tions about video games.
The store clerk recognized the
couple as suspects described in
thefts from other Blockbuster
Video stores.
The couple left, but returned
approximately 15 minutes later.
At this point, police said, the
store clerk wrote down the
license plate number of the vehi-
cle the couple arrived in.
Police said the couple grabbed
about 20 PlayStation 2 video
games, valued at a total of $310,
from a display rack and walked
toward the front door without pay-
ing for the games.
When the clerk confronted the
couple, the man asked her if she
had ever been shot before. The
couple then left. No weapon was
displayed or found during their
arrest
• Using the license plate,
Baytown police were able to
locate the vehicle at the Intersec-
tion of Wright Boulevard and
Sixth Street, where they arrested
the couple. , ,
As of deadline Friday, police
were still taking statements and
charges had not been filed.
However, police said the entire
Incident was recorded by a store
security camera.
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Comptroller certifies state budget,
avoiding showdown with governor
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BILOXI, Miss. — Nancy Moss
Is a woman who understands the
old adage of sharing the wealth.
So does Natalie Johnson.
Moss, of Crosby, Texas hit a
$1 million jackpot earlier this
week while playing a slot
machine at the President Casino
In Biloxi.
Moss’first jackpot payment
was $50,000 and she gave half
of It to Johnson, a cocktail wait-
ress who was on duty while Moss
wasplaying.
Johnson, In turn,'shared
$6,000 with her coworkers, said
President Casino spokesman Joe
Giardina.
Giardina said MoSs told casino
' officials that she gave Johnson
the gift because Johnson made a
point of talking to her while she
was playing.
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Sponsors regale players at banquet
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Master of ceremonies Oliver Luck,
- start when, as the Louisiana players and chief executive officer of the Harris
’ other attendees were already digging into County-Houston Sports Authority,
terback for the Houston Oilers for the
young players (many of whom may not -
remember the Ollers) and how then-head
coach Bum Phillips often made his players
run six laps around the field of the
Astrodome (a distance of a mile and a
half).
Star running back Earl Campbell, never
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their salads, Tim Teykl, vice president of recalled his playing days as a backup quar-
the Greater Houston Football Coaches U““*~ **“
Association (one of the game's sponsoring
organizations), announced that the Lone
Star State squad was going to be a little
late.
“Looks like the Texas boys needed a lit-
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can be redeemed for prizes.
In a June 12 letter, Baytown
Police Chief Byron Jones gave
owners of such machines notice
that after 10 days, the Baytown
police department would begin
to inspect and investigate sudi
operations.
In the letter Jones warns, “tf it
is determined that you are using
these machines in an Illegal
fashion, you and anyone udio
promotes these illegal activities
may be subject to a ... search
and seizure of aB machines....”
The Texas Constitution pro-
hibits gambling but has been
amended several times to allow
for bingo, charity raffles and the
state lottery.
State law currently allows die
operation of games that award-
ed non-cash prizes, such as toys
or novelties, as long as those
items do not have a wholesale
value of more than 10 times the
amount charged to play or $5,
whichever Is less.
In April, Baytown police sent
out a similar notice based on a
Supreme Court ruling that said
tickets could not be redeemed
for gift certificates.
Jones said the gaming opera-
tions changed their ways after
the first notice. However, police
are now receiving complaints
that parlors are again violating
the law.
“Since that date, different
ones have tried to figure out dif-
ferent angles where they can
circumvent the law,” Jones said.
“Some are trying to circumvent
the law by giving out cash.
Some are trying to say they're
running the games like a bingo
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capable of bringing the crew safely
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FOUR FORMER ASTRONAUTS, from left, Hoot Gibson, Story Musgrave, Daniel Brandenstein of Beach City, and Sally Ride pose
for a picture at the Astronaut Hall of Fame in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Friday. The four will be Inducted into the Hall of Fame today.
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Brandenstein a veteran of 4 shuttle missions
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Brandenstein flew aboard four space will attend the ceremony is Fred Haise,
shuttles, Including Challenger and the lunar module pilot aboard the near-
Columbia, both of which were disastrous Apollo 13 mission to the
destroyed in subsequent missions. moon. During the transit to the moon,
Perhaps Brandenstein’s crowning an explosion in the service module
dent of Beach City, will be one of four achievement as an astronaut was as caused the trip to the lunar surface to
space travelers inducted in the commander of the 1992 mission STS- be scrapped, as NASA ground con-
Astronaut Hall of Fame at the Kennedy 49, his last spaceflight, in which he trailers and the three-map
Brandenstein, a former U.S. Navy Endeavor while three fellow astro- “Aqt
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The Baytown Sun
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BAYTOWN - Beginning
Monday, Baytown could begin
inspecting game parlors and
convenience stores containing
gaming machines known as
“eight-linos” to ensure that foe
operations do not violate state
gambling laws.
Eight-liners are gambling
devices, similar to those found
in casinos, that offer tickets that
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By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
BAYTOWN—Texas and Louisiana all-
star high school football players received
their game souvenirs and bulked up with
steak dinners in preparation for todays
Bayou Bowl game during a Friday night
banquet.
. The event, held at the posh Goose Creek
Country Club, capped off a week of stren-
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are participating in the first all-star match dative laughter of the Pelican State known as a distance runner, would usually
between the Sabine River neighbor states players. But really, Teykl explained, the ,
in decades tonight at Stallworth Stadium, team’s bus.was Just running a little behind Soe BOWL on P<e BA Th®y 8 h®ad start on the Texas players, who arrived late.
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and participated in four space shuttle shuttle’s remote manipulator arm, back to Earth. The mission was deplct-
missions between 1983 and 1992. snagged by hand the INTELSAT VI ed in the hit 1995 film "Apollo 13,” in
After retiring from spaceflight duty, communications satellite. The unusual which Haise was portrayed by actor
Brandenstein served as the chief of the spacewalk was devised after three pre- Bill Paxton.
Astronaut Office at Johnson Space vlocsatlmppblhbd.'foilttL ' ''- ’ ’ ' I The Astronaut Hall of Fame was con-
Center in Houston. Since retiring from NASA, ceived in the 1980s by the six surviving
The other Hall of Fame inductees in Brandenstein, 60, has worked in vari- members of the original seven-member
this weekends activities, all veterans ous capacities in the aerospace Mercury astronaut corps. The facility
of the space shuttle program, are: industry. He now works for Lockheed Opened in 1990. With today's induction
Robert “Hoot” Gibson, Story Martin in one of its space program iceremony, there will be 52 members of
Musgrave and Sally Ride, the first contract units. this exclusive selection of an already
American woman in space. Another Beach City spacefarer who exclusive group.
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