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February 2, 2006
DEATHS 8A
Terri Chisum, Charlotte
Wiilfeee Bollinger, Tommye
Harris, Thomas G. Lipscomb
• and Annie Olive Lindstrom
Ericson. .
man of a House committee in only
his second term in office.
State Rep. Wayne Smith, R-
Baytown, was announced the. new
chairman of the Committee on
County Affairs on Wednesday by
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SEE ELECTION • PAGE 5A
Four days of registration
remain to vote in primaries
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NATION 6A
House clears budget bill
The House narrowly
approved Congress’first
attempt to slow the growth of
benefit programs.
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House offers hamburgers, hot
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Local state representative
named committee chair
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austin.kinghorn@baytownsuti.com
Baytown’s representative in the
Legislature has been named chair- . House in January.
Smith had been serving as the
committee’s vice chairman. Rep.
John Otto, R-Dayton, was tapped
to fill the vice chairmanship.
SEE SMITH • PAGE 3A
B A Y T
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Remembering war
, A month-long exhibit of
-photographs of what Russians
call “The Great Patriotic War”
against Germany ends this
weekend. : ,
BY KEN FOUNTAIN
ken.fountain@baytownsun.com
With the deadline for registering
to vote in the March 7 party pri-
maries, less than a week away, area
voters have a number of ways to
register.
Numerous local, countywide,
statewide and federal offices are up
’ for grabs during this year’s Nov. 7;
general election. However, in many
burglar bars.
However, the report states, that
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areas where one party holds Sway,
party members in the primaries ' •.
effectively decide some elections. ,
The deadline for'submitting an
application to vote in this year’s pri-
mary, or to submit a change of
address form if the voter has moved
to a different voting precinct, is
Monday.
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Thomas’ possessions had beei
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Thomas was in his first week of with the maj ority of New
college and preparing for the sec
afternoon of Aug. 23, few people Son. Little did he know that five
along the Gulf Coast could have ---i.—
imagined how much their lives
would change.
Among the thousands of lives ‘
uprooted tty Hurricane Katrina
was 14 points per game sopho- ...... ...
more basketball player at Delgado had nothing when he arrived on
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. ' dependency on
j, foreign oil. say-
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oil imported -*1
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UNREPRESENTATIVE- ; . world but shied
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expressly calling for expanded domes-
j tic drilling. A proposal to open the
Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to
drilling has been blocked by Congress.
Bush proposed the Advanced Energy
Initiative, which would boost spending,
on clean-energy research by 22 per-
, cent. Most of the alternative energy ■ >x
sources the President advocated, how- /
ever, are the same he has supported for
, years, such as zero-emission coal fired
power plants, ethanol, solar, wind and
nuclear technology.'
The ultimate goal, flush said, is to ’
replace 75 percent of oilimports-frorn
the Middle East by 2025. .
“By applying the talent and technol-
ogy of America, this county can dra-
matically improve our environment,
move beyond a petroleum-based econ-
omy, ahd make our dependent on mid-
dle Eastern oil a thing of the past.” .
SEE SPEECH • PAGE 6A
Signing day
Local athletes sign national
letters of intent.
Partly cloudy
and windy
High 79
Low 54
of Baytown firefighter Nito R.
Guajardo Jr. found a number of fac-
tors, including the blocking of exits
by burglar bars,, contributed to the
Dec. 20,2004 tragedy.
Guajardo, 24, died after becoming
separated from fellow firefighters
shortly after they entered and then .
retreated from a burning one-story
Country Club Oaks house. A rookie
just a few weeks shy of his first
anniversary with Baytown Fire &
Rescue, Guajardo was the first
Community College in New
Orleans. K‘
New Orleans native Kevin
college and preparing for the sea-
months later,- he would be playing
for Lee College in Baytown.
Thomas wears the number ‘0’
for the Runnin’ Rebels, and that
is fitting, considering — other
than shirt, shorts and shoes — he
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BY AUSTIN KINGHORN
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With the nation’s energy policy hav-
ing big ramification on the industrial
‘Baytown landscape, local lawmakers
reacted to the President’s proposals in
his State of the Union address, the day
after members of a site selection com-
mittee for the nation’s first clean-coal
burning power plant — a hallmark of
Bush’s clean air energy plan —- paid, a
. visit to the area.
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Baytown Sun photo/Mike Kercher S ' ■. '
House Speaker Tom Craddick.
Smith replaces former chairman
Ray Allen, a Grand Prairie
Republican who resigned from the
Lee College guard Kevin Thomas, shown here playing against San Jacinto, found a home in Baytown in the after- ’
math of Hurricane Katrina. ' •
Katrina evacuee lands on
his feet at Lee College
BY MICHAEL PINEDA . Community College in New bus at the Astrodome. AlTof
michael.pineda@baytownsun.com Orleans. r - Thomas’possessions had been
-r • m ■ n New Orleans, native Kevin lost when the 7th Ward, along
When Tropical Depression 12 wls in his f jrst week of with ma|0,lty of New
formed over the Bahamas on lhe c0|te and n.eparimr for the sea- J de’,oyed by w J .
and water. .
When Hurricane Katrina hit on
Aug. 29, Thomas, along with his
mother, Susie Jones, and eight
family members were at his
SEE THOMAS • PAGE 5A
a division of the federal Centers for
division of the Texas Department of. the state report’s incident description by dispatch to the firefighting and
r .... 4..^ —j—. ..j.x.-._t . - EMS units that initially responded to
the fire within five minutes of the
report released in September. initial call.
The report notes that the first per- The report notes that winds were
son to report the fire, a telephone blowing out of the south-southwest
. , . . company employee, told dispatchers at 14 mph with gusting to 31 mph,
detailed' account of the incident that firefighters would have difficul- which played a large part in the
i ty entering the house because its f
conducted by the National Institute doors and windows were covered by SEE FIRE • PAGE 3A
Guajardo state investigation complete
ken.fountain@baytownsun.com Blocked exits, burglar bars cited as contributors to death
The state investigation of the death Baytown firefighter to die in the line for Occupational Safety and Health
of duty m nearly 30 years.
The State Fire Marshal’s Office, a
Disease Control and Prevention. But information
Insurance, launched an investigation and recommendations Largely
of the incident as required by a 2001 aligned with those of the NIOSH
law. The state office released the
' final investigation report on its Web
site Tuesday. -
The 23-page report provides a
morec’ ■ ' ' '
than that of a similar investigation
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 55, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 2, 2006, newspaper, February 2, 2006; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191829/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.