The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 13, 2004 Page: 1 of 12
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forum scheduled for tonight.
See STORM on Page 6A
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million in assets and $18.3 million
in liabilities.
During the last fiscal year, the
city had a total of $13.2 million in
revenues and $10.5 million in
expenditures, leaving a surplus of <
$2.8 million. In its general fund,
Civic association hosting
mayor candidates tonight
BAYTOWN — Cool weather and
dark skies hovered over Baytown
Monday as some apartment resi-
dents returned to their homes for the
first time following tornadoes that folded part of a carport cover and
lifted off a portion of the roof at the
complex.
Winds from the tornado dropped
a i on the build-
ing, causing some apartment win-
dows to shatter and bricks to fall at
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Auditor presents city report
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
| MONT BELVIEU — A repre-
sentative of the city’s accounting
firm presented its report on the
city’s financials for the 2002-2003 „
fiscal year at Monday’s council however’ the city'had’a deficit of
meeting.
Robert Belt of the firm
Sandersen, Knox & Belt told
council members that, as of Sept.
30, the city had a total of $73.3
Baytown residents recover
from weekend rain, storms
By LAUREN SALLEE Sunshine resident Elicia Ledesma
The Baytown Sun said she was visiting a friend while
her daughters and a few of their 11-
to 12-year-old friends, stayed at the
apartment.
Before Ledesma returned, the
storm ripped through the apartment,
hit the area Saturday night.
The Sunshine Apartment complex
in the 4500 block of Hemlock was
one of two apartment complexes in the roof back in p|ace
the area that received damage to its
building from weekend storms.
One family is calling their relative- foe front of four units of the complex
a hero after he left his home during a’few doors down from the Ledesma
the brunt of the storm to bring his residence,
two nieces back to his apartment for
safety.
Mayoral candidates will be sion on the next mayor of
answering questions at a public Baytown.
forum scheduled for tonight. Missouri Street Church of
The Southwest Subdivision Christ is at 3400 Business
Civic Association will meet at Highway 146. For more infor-
7 p.m. today at Missouri Street mation, call Wallace at 281-
Church of Christ with mayoral 422-0723.
candidates, Mercedes Renteria The last day to register to
III and Calvin Mundinger. vote in the May 15 municipal
Lawrence Wallace, president election is Thursday.
of the association said candi- Applications to register to
dates would have an opportu- vote can be found at libraries
nity to make a three to five and at Department of Public
minute opening statement Safety offices. Harris County
before answering questions voters can visit www.hcvot-
from the audience. er.net and download an appli-
Wallace said the forum cation or request that one be
would be an opportunity to sent to them.
help the public make its deci- —Lauren Sallee
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Rios
photo lineup.
Rios is described as a Hispanic man,
Estrada was taken to Ben Taub
Hospital in Houston, where he was
listed in stable condition Monday
afternoon.
On Sunday detectives Steve Jones
and Chris Rymer filed charges of
aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon against Rios.
Anyone with information on the
whereabouts of Juan Rios is asked to
call Baytown Police at 281-422-8371
or Crime Stoppers at 281-427-TIPS.
Police seek assistance in locating suspect
Special to The Sun pounds with black I'giggM exchanged words with the suspect.
Witnesses have identified a man want-
ed for aggravated assault with a deadly
weapon after he allegedly shot another
man at a soccer field on Saturday.
hair, brown eyes and a
mustache.
At 4:10 p.m.,
Baytown Police offi-
cers were called to a
Sgt. Lisa Rynearson, spokesperson shooting at Unidad
for the Baytown Police Department, said park at 2510 J.B.
witnesses to the shooting positively LeFevre Road where
identified Juan Rogel Rios, 38, in a they found Jose Estrada with a single
gunshot wound to his chest.
Estrada was playing soccer with a
5 feet 6 inches tall, weighing 180 group in the park when he savy Rios and
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whether TSP
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expire. The filing automatically
extended the option for 60 days.
Since then, TSP and Cedar
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Contributed photo
Michael Grant (Kyle Martin) and Gerald Lee (John Meiners) present opposing views of the Civil War in "Surrender” by Jim Wadzinski.
The play is part of Baytown Little Theater’s Mary Lou Burkett Texas Playwright’s Festival, which will feature 10 short plays by area
playwrights. Production dates are Friday through Sunday and April 23,24,30 and May 1. For information, call 281-424-7617 or visit
www.baytown.littletheater.org.
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
The judge in the TSP
Development bankruptcy case pany manages the property
will conduct a May 3 hearing to on behalf of USX (now U.S.
determine whether the steel), have filed dueling
Kingwood-based firm has a legal motions in the Houston bank-
claim on the West Chambers ruptcy court arguing whether the
County property on which it has option remains viable. U.S.
sought to build a nonhazardous Bankruptcy Judge Wesley W.
- ^industrial waste dump since Steen has yet to rule on the mat-
1995. ter.
The ruling will also determine On April 5, James Jameson,
whether TSP can sell the land to TSP’s bankruptcy lawyer, filed a
a Denver company in exchange new motion seeking Steen’s
for an option to buy it back later, approval of a tentative agreement
TSP filed for federal bankrupt- made between TSP and Denver-
cy protection Dec. 30, two days based real estate company J.
before the option it held to pur- Herzog & Sons by which TSP
chase the approximately 797- would purchase the land (using
acre site from Pittsburgh-based
USX Corporation was set to
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Chambers County GOP runoff for sheriff today
Sigers receiving 685 votes (or 35 per-
between April 5 and 8.
Kreuzer
Sigers
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The winner of the Republican runoff
sergeant Hugh Sigers in the April 13
See RUNOFF on Page 6A
TUESDAY
excellent turnout” in
last week’s early vot-
By KEN FOUNTAIN
The Baytown Sun
Serving all of Baytown, Lynchburg, Highlands, McNair, Barrett Station, Crosby, Mont Belvieu, Anahuac and West Chambers County
Volume 82, No. 134 Telephone: 281-422-8302 April 13,2004 www.baytownsun.com 50 cents
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Kreuzer said he 27 years, 12 of them as a patrol super- j
was visor. He retired from the department had 425 votes (or 21 percent),
record in 2000. He is a 25-year resident of the has publicly endorsed Sigers.
turnout for early vot- county. :f
The characteristically taciturn Sigers wjn face Democratic Candidate Joe
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runoff.
Kreuzer, 51, was
the longtime head of
Both candidates in today’s runoff transportation for the
election for the Republican nomination Anahuac school dis-
for Chambers County Sheriff said trict as well as a for-
Kreuzer said that even though he In the March 9 primary, a total of
„ won’t know until the polls close who 1,940 votes were cast, with Kreuzer
ing. More ■ than 600 would win, “I think we’re going to pre- receiving 830 votes (or 42 percent) and
people cast ballots vail.” Sigers receiving 685 votes (or 35 per-
Sigers, 56, served with the DPS for cent). Third place finisher Fred Dodd,
a former Mont Belvieu police chief,
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Monday they had no indication who mer Anahuac city
would win. councilman * and
Incumbent Monroe Kreuzer Jr., mayor. He is a life-
elected in 2000, faces former long resident of ing in a Chambers — ■
Department of Public Safety patrol Chambers County. County race, not only for a runoff but said Monday that he had “no ciue”
sergeant Hugh Sigers in the April 13 Kreuzer noted that there was “an also a primary. which way the vote would turn.
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 82, No. 134, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 13, 2004, newspaper, April 13, 2004; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1184945/m1/1/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.