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Tuesday, April 13,2004
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Cheney promises U.S. help in Japan’s hostage crisis
TOKYO — Vice President
ipal emergency services depart-
Specialized Billing Services to
contract, accoi
Cheney
on
nient, J. Herzog agreed to pay
carried out.
Daniel Sanford, Ledesma’s
The family made it safely
its option has expired.
1
Mother’s Day photo Baytown Nature Center Journal Runoff:
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contest begins today Tj
extend the option for another
year, at which time the repur-
chase price would be upped to
S 14,000 per acre, or approxi-
mately $5.6 million, according
to the letter.
The. agreement is only tenta-
tive, and there is an April 30
deadline for TSP and J. Herzog
to enter into a formal written
Cash Five:
5-15-25-26-33
Pick 3 Night:
2-6-0
in the federal courthouse at 515
Rusk in downtown Houston.
Saturday before The American served about 15 families per
Red Cross opened a shelter for meal.
disaster relief at' the Wooster All the residents Parent said
"We have consulted closely
with the prime minister and his
government to make certain we
crowned night-heron, yellow-
crowned night-heron, white
ibis, roseate spoonbill, black-
bellied whistling-duck, gadwall,
told "wrong message to Taiwan t
independence forces,” Chinese peacefully by China
Kong Quan told the official
Xinhua News Agency.
The act has "infringed
Flowers: Texas dandelion,
pink primrose, southern dew-
berry, deer pea vetch, sweat
Pick 3 Day:
9-3-3
Baytown Sun photo/Lauren Sallee
THE ROOF ON FOUR UNITS at the Sunshine Apartments was lifted off
By LAUREN SALLEE
The Baytown Sun
ByTOMRAUM
The Associated Press
ima-
over increased
near the Crystal Bay Butterfly
Garden. Black-necked stilts
announced our presence. Blue-
TSP:
Continued from Page 1A
funds provided by J. Herzog) and
sell it back to the Denver compa-
ny in exchange for a two-year
option to repurchase the land.
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or a story idea?
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Storm:
Continued from Page 1A
Windows in at least three cars
with his wife when the storm hit
around 9:30 p.m.
Sanford said his wife started
price would then be increased to Chambers County Property.”
$12,430 per acre, or approxi- ^’J-
mately S5 million.
or c
Market Street in Baytown.
For more information call
ed today until May 4, and mem- 281 -420-6590.
cel” by the end of the two-year January 1.
period, it can pay J. Herzog
. . t no
. as its territory. It has threatened indication the threat has been
Under the Taiwan Relations war should the Taiwan govem-
Associated Press photo/ltsuo Inouye
ruiwu ui vnciicy» auivai U.S. VICE PRESIDENT Dick Cheney, left, speaks to Japanese Prime
China urged the United States Minister Junichiro? Koizumi during their meeting at the likura guest-
,4 , „ 1 a call on
Emperor Akihito before a
’i on U.S.-Japanese rela-
of all liens, encumbrances and tions and a flight to Beijing.
In her report to council, City Japanese hostages.
' * . • After Tokyo, Cheney was
“My goal today is to make
contact with all of the families
about food,” Parent said.
Monica Lopez, property
manager at Sunshine said, at
least three families were not
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Meeting:
Continued from Page 1A
$427,065 from its general operat-
ing fund to help cover the operat-
ing deficit of the city-owned
Eagle Point Golf & Recreation
Center. Conversely, it transferred
$191,021 from the Economic
Development Fund to the general
fund.
Belt said that the city could
expect the complex to lose money
again this fiscal year.
Council members voted unani-
mously to accept the report.
In other business, Emergency
Medical Services Director Bruce
Oliphant recommended that the
able to move back into their
apartment, but were relocated to
other vacancies within the com-
plex.
“At the moment everybody
was really hostile and upset,”
Lopez said. “But, Sunday
everybody linked together as a
team to get everybody situated.”
Viola Anderson, office man-
ager for the Royal Place apart-
ments said tenants displaced
from the storm where relocated
in the complex and contractors
where in the midst of covering
up the holes in the roofs.
No injuries were reported
from the storms and no damage
estimates have been released.
Some areas of Baytown
received as much as 1 1/2 inch-
es of rain during the weekend.
Baseball-sized hail and more
than 3 inches of rain battered
Houston and its suburbs in the
weekend storms, flooding some
low-lying areas. Winds gusted
up to 50 mph, damaging store-
fronts and resulting in downed
tree limbs.
High winds and heavy rains
disrupted electrical power
throughout the area. More than
85,000 electrical customers lost
power during the storms,
according to CenterPoint
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and held on tig!
reassurance that e
was real.
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ing up to the scor
National’s 18th ■
Mickelson’s 18-f
dramatically over
all that remained
for him to sign ho
Hundreds of
roared their a
Amanda Micke
father’s eyes, and
“Can you belie
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an answer.
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Mickelson slippc
simultaneously s
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sports. For the re
after 42 straight
tournaments. It v
had won the Wo
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Super Bowl.
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has been dealing
say failure — bu
after time. It get
said. “Youjuste
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the first coming
in college. That
that he strugglei
the final round
were spectacular
collapses. But
Mickelson playe
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came at Pinehur
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Stewart did air
Mickelson that
Masters to Emit
nail down the w
Mickelson ha
that week at th
Scottsdale, Ariz
was in the last d
with Amanda. H
emotions. After
shook Mickelst
“Good luck witl
like being a fath
The moment
Mickelson strug
emotions.
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very similar. W
last hole, similai
was very prop!
thought about
Amanda.”
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else in his life, j
for Mickelson,
seemed to be wi
Early in his ■
too hungry to c
enormous talen
tures in the
Mickelson tried
sible shots, son
prove it could b
rity and the exj
and costly def
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and fortune had
tented.
In between, r
Vijay Singh sw
likely heirs to tl
established by
Jack Nicklaus
ment begin formal moves toward
pledged to defend the island off independence.
southeastern China if, it is . On Iraq, Japan has refused to
attacked from the mainland, bow to demands that it with-
do everything we can to be of United States is sending the on]y one china exists but wants troops performing humanitarian
accwfonno ” ‘’wrons» message to Taiwan ♦>,<»
fishing with their children, get- at P.O. Box 424, Baytown, TX winged teal red-breasted iner-
ting them dressed for recitals or 77522 or dropped off at 2101 ganser> osprey( black-necked
enjoying some leisure time. Market Street in Baytown. black-bellied plover
Contest photos will be accept- For more information call kindeer> long_biiied dowitcher,
greater yellowlegs, lesser yel-
lowlegs, spotted sandpiper, wil-
A number of other municipal!- let, western sandpiper, least
ties in the greater Houston area sandpiper, ring-billed gull,
have recently cancelled contracts laughing gull, gull-billed tern,
with the firm, he said. Forster’s tern, common tem,
Council members voted unani- mourning dove, white-winged
mously to cancel the contract, dove, belted kingfisher, red-bel- tailed rabbit,
then took up a discussion of the lied woodpecker, great crested
city staff’s recommendation to flycatcher, tree swallow,
hire Houston-based Intermedix, Carolina wren, sedge wren,
“lackadaisical attitude” toward Secretary Phyllis Sockwell point- ; ; ~ ,
billing, with some accounts more ed out changes in the state’s elec- turning his attention to China,
than eight months old. '
BAYTOWN — Make
Mother’s Day picture-perfect
and show Baytowii the favorite
side of your mom in an upcom-
ing photo contest.
Sylvia Rodriguez, from the stamped envelope so they can be great egret, tricolored heron, lit-
Baytown Parks and Recreation returned to contestants’ homes, tie blue heron, snowy egret, cat-
Department, said residents can First, second and third place tie egret green heron black-
"one of the greatest achieve-
ments of modem history.”
In prepared remarks, Cheney
recalled then-President
Reagan’s speech to the
Japanese Diet 21 years ago in
which he cited an "old
Chinese proverb: ‘A single
arrow is easily broken, but not
three in a bunch.’”
‘ ’The unity of America, Japan
and like-minded nations saw us
through the dark days of the
Cold War, and with that same
unity we will overcome the tri-
als of today,” Cheney said.
Ahead of Cheney’s arrival,
on Monday to stop adhering to a ,^ouse Monday in Tokyo.
:opy of a commonly violence and the holding of for- 'aw ^at requ>res Washington to ^ct, unjted states is
Continued from Page 1A
detective, in the November 2
general election. LaRive was
the only Democrat to run for
the office.
Voting in Tuesday’s runoff will
be held from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. at
the following locations:
■ Wallisville Community
Building; 524 No. 9 Road;
Wallisville
■ Hankamer Community
Building; 9511 JS.H. 61;
Hankamer
■ Pine Island School
Building; 9310 FM 562; Double
Bayou
■ West Chambers County
Courthouse Annex; 10616 Eagle
I Drive; Mont Belvieu
g Beach City Community
Baytown Sun photo/Dwayne Litteer Building; 12723 Tri-City Beach
A KILLDEER SITS near its eggs. It may be seen throughout the year Road; Beach City
at the BNC.
northern mockingbird, logger-
head shrike, blue jay, European
starling, Savannah sparrow,
swamp sparrow, northern cardi-
nal, red-winged blackbird,
great-tailed grackle, conmion
grackle, brown-headed cowbird.
Animals: Eastern cotton
sell defensive weapons to
Taiwan.
By remaining committed to
the Taiwan Relations Act, the The U.S. officially agrees that draw its roughly 530 ground
I he Baytown Nature
Center Journal is a
guide to birds and ani-
mals recently spotted at the
bers of the Senior Center will center. The Journal is submit-
judge the submitted pictures. ted by Dwayne Litteer and
Rodriguez said 50 to 150 pho- Ron Ummel and appears
tos have been submitted for con- Tuesdays in the Baytown Sun.
tests in the past. Birds: American white peli-
There is no fee for this mom can, pied-billed grebe, double-
pleaser, and pictures should be crested cormorant, neotropic
sent with a self-addressed cormorant, great blue heron,
Baytown Parks and Recreation returned to contestants’homes.
First, second and third place tie egret, green heron, Hack-
submit any photo they consider and two alternates will be fea-
a favorite picture of their mom tured in The Baytown Sun on
for the contest. Mother’s Day.
Picture criteria is unlimited; Photos can be mailed to
photos can range from moms Baytown Parks and Recreation mallard mottled duck,’blue-
winged teal, red-breasted mer-
a.m. May 3 in Steen’s courtroom them know they were not
harmed.
Ledesma said officials from Baptist Church on Sunday.
the Fire Department later “I appreciate the (Red Cross)
pounded on resident’s doors and giving us somewhere to get out
said they had 10 minutes to of the rain,” Sanford said.
evacuate the building. Fitin Parent, American Red
Some residents evacuated Cross North Bay Area Branch
from their homes stayed at the director, said the shelter opened
Royal Place apartments on around noon on Sunday and
ks j
the dispute to be resolved missions, part of an eventual
and deployment of 1,100 noncom-
bat troops.
Kidnappers holding three
’ nieces were home alone a few
Cedar Crossing intends to doors down from his apartment.
develop and market the property Rain was coming down side-
At the end of that period, TSP (which >s near the site of the ways and the carport started to
can pay another SI 50.000 to recently-announced Wal-Mart lift off the ground when Sanford
distribution center, set for com- made a dash to his sister’s house
pletion in summer 2005), Elder only to find out he had to make
wrote. two trips back home so he could
Because TSP’s motion creates bring his nieces and their visit-
a “cloud on title” implying that ing friends back to his apart-
its option on the property ment.
remains valid, Elder wrote, “it all happened so fast,”
Cedar Crossing requested that Sanford said. “There were shin-
the judge issue an order denying gies and limbs flying over us,
the proposed sale agreement it’s lucky we didn’t get hit.”
and finding that TSP has no The family made it safely
interest in the property because through the storm Sanford said
- “i----------—j.—— and he was able to contact rela- ., , . . , . 4 4
The hearing is set for 9:30 tives of visiting girls to let complex after a tornado npped through parts of Baytown on Saturday
------------- e® night. Four families in the apartments were relocated within the complex
on Monday after city officials determined the units were uninhabitable.
she talked to did not have Energy officials.
renters insurance. Red Cross The Bay Area branch services
staff, Parent said, spends a lot of East Harris, Liberty and
time educating residents on the Chambers counties. The
importance of renters insurance. Baytown office is located at
“xa, <,««! t/wio,, u tn 5309 Decker Drive.
Parent said the best way to
help disaster families is through
donations to its office. For more
information contact the local
office at 281-424-1300.
than eight months old. tlon C0(le made during the last the next stop on a tour of Asia
He said he felt the city, being legislative session that voters that also will take him to South
one of the company’s smaller should be aware of before the Korea.
clients, was being treated like a May 13 elections. Cheney met with Prime
“poor stepchild.” Of particular interest, Sockwell Minister Junichiro Koizumi in
He said when the contract was said, is that first-time voters wish- an atmosphere of rising intei
initiated, Specialized Billing ing to early atfe now required to tional tension c “_ :-----
Services was “almost the only provide a cc~- -----
game in town. Now they’re not, accepted form of identification if eign captives in Iraq.
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erty. or approximately $8,594 attorney David Elder wrote that
per acre. The sale is contingent “TSP does not own (or have any
on Steen’s approval of the deal, rights to) the real property that it
according to the letter. proposes to sell. The Court can-
After the deal is closed. TSP not ‘authorize’ a debtor to sell
would hold a 24-month option property that it doesn’t own.”
to purchase approximately 400 The filing states that the orig- parked at the complex were
acres of the property at a price inal option TSP held on the shattered during the storm.
ofSl 1,000 per acre, or $4.4 mil- property had already been
lion, according to the letter. extended three years, but that brother said he was at home
If TSP has not completed its TSP had failed to exercise the
purchase of the “repurchase par- option when it was set to expire
cel” by the end of the two-year January 1. -----— ------
period, it can pay J. Herzog “The Option has now lapsed,” moving the family into the bath-
$150,000 to extend the option Elder wrote. “TSP has nothing room as the storm got more
by another year. The repurchase left to sell; it has no rights in the severe, then she told him his
Inc. to take over the billing func-
tion for the department.
Financial Services Director
John Iles said that one of the fea-
tures Intermedix offers that
impressed him was that it would
provide “real-time”^ information
about how many billings were
being processed at any given time.
Oliphant said that the firm had
city cancel its contract with been hired by nearly every mimic- ojck Cheney thanked Japan’s
Specialized Billing Services to ’Pa* emergency services depart- prime minister Monday for not
perform the department’s billing ment *n area 0^er t*ie giving in to Iraqi insurgents and
services. Houston Fire Department. kidnappers who are demanding
“I’m not happy with the ser- Council members voted unani- withdrawal of Japanese troops
, . excFange for reiease of
and they’re certainly not the best they did not do so when they reg-
deal.” istered to vote.
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contract, according to the letter.
In his April? 5 motion, assistance,’
Jameson requested that Steen reporters,
issue an order approving the sale Ending a three-day visit to Foreign Ministry spokesman Taiwan,
and finding that the title for the Japan, he paid a call on Kong Quan told the official China’s nationalist leaders fled 1
property will transferred to J. Emperor Akihito before a Xinhua News Agency. to Taiwan at the end of China’s hostages have threatened to
Herzog will be “free and clear speech on U.S.-Japanese rela- The act has "infringed on civil war 55 years ago, but the bum them alive unless the
of all liens, encumbrances and tions and a flight to Beijing. China’s sovereignty and inter- Communist Party-controlled Japanese troops leave, but the
In a March 26 letter of agree- c]aims.” Before leaving for China, vened in China’s internal mainland still claims the island deadline has passed with
In an April 6 objection to Cheney told a symposium that affairs,” Kong said.
TSP $6.85 million for the prop- TSP’s motion, Cedar Crossing the relationship with Japan was I'
Houston Fire Department.
Council members voted unani-
vice,” Oliphant told council mem- mously to approve the contract,
bers. He said the company had a I '
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