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SATURDAY
September 24, 2005
Vol. 92, No. 208; © 2005
STORM
STORIES
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Published in Clute, Texas
County spared the worst
Busloads
of evacuees
find room
By Michael Wright
and Bridie Isensee
ritastories@
thefacts.com.
[email protected]
born resident finally evacuated
Friday afternoon. Police ventured door to door throughout
the day Friday to force the lingerers to leave town, he said.
About seven residents had
bunkered in their homes,
despite a mandatory evacuation that went into effect nearly 48 hours earlier. Some even
Brazoria County officials
received word Friday morning
that 150 county residents who
left on school buses Wednesday
had found shelter in Austin.
The residents were taken to
College Station through gridlocked traffic, only to be told
there was no room there. They
were set up in a temporary shelter in Bryan while officials tried
to find a place.
Kent Burkett, administrative
assistant to Brazoria County
Judge John Willy, said the group
will leave Bryan at 2 p.m. today
with sandwiches and water and
go to the Hutto Center in
Austin.
Meanwhile, a group of about
50 residents who were turned
away from College Station and
Conroe on Thursday were making their way to San Antonio’s
Randolph Air Force Base.
They were among 127 people
in seven school buses that left
Thursday and ended up returning via southbound access roads
on Interstate 45, arriving at
Angleton High School just after
midnight. They left for San
Antonio about 3 a.m. Friday.
The seven school buses left
Brazoria County at noon
Thursday bound for College
Station, but they were refused
shelter there.
At that point, county officials
made the call to bring them
back to Brazoria County because
of concerns some of the passengers with health problems had
been sitting in the buses —
which do not have air conditioning — for too long.
Before coming home, the
buses traveled to Conroe, where
they were told all the shelters
were full. It is unclear who
instructed the drivers to go to
Conroe. The buses made much
of the return trip on a southbound access road on I-45,
which has traffic flowing north
on all lanes.
Five of the buses are from
Angleton, one is from Clute and
one is from Lake Jackson. The
people got off the buses at
Angleton High School shortly
after midnight Friday and were
tired, hungry, hot and angry.
“Nobody is telling us anything,” said Melanie Mooney of
Clute, who took the bus because
she thought her truck wasn’t
safe. “I want to go home. I’ve
■ See EMERGENCY, Page 2A
■ See BUSES, Page 2A
WHAT TO
EXPECT
Saturday
Tropical storm
conditions are
likely, especially
east of Highway
288.
After the storm
passes, officials
will begin damage
assessments as
soon as it’s safe.
DPS troopers will
set up roadblocks
at all entry points
to the county to
keep people from
coming in.
Workers from utility companies will
be let in immediately to begin
restoring power.
Employees from
the county’s Road
and Bridge
Department will
be out clearing
roads and assessing damage.
National Guard
units could begin
to arrive, depending on the severity of the damage,
and DPS troopers
will continue their
patrols of neighborhoods and
streets.
Sunday
Brazoria County
residents might
be able to return
to their homes,
depending on the
extent of the
damage and
weather conditions. Evacuees
should monitor
media reports and
weather conditions before
attempting to
return home.
The National
Weather Service
is predicting a 40
percent chance of
showers and thunderstorms. Roads
could be clogged
with traffic or
impassable.
County officials
will work to bring
home people without transportation
of their own who
evacuated on
school busses.
Monday
The Angleton and
Brazosport school
districts will be
closed Monday,
but essential personnel for both
districts should
report to work. A
decision on
whether schools
will be open
Tuesday will be
made Monday.
The districts will
not have to make
up the missed day
later in the school
year, officials
said.
TODAY’S
WEATHER
DAN DALSTRA/The Facts
Waves wash over the Quintana Jetty on Friday afternoon as Hurricane Rita approaches the Texas-Louisiana coast.
MOREINSIDE
Brazoria County
relatively quiet
■ New Orleans
levees let go
■ Lake Jackson
restaurant
open for business
Page 3A
By Michael Wright
[email protected]
ANGLETON — Hurricane
Rita was coming ashore in
western Louisiana on Friday
night as Category 3 storm,
sparing Brazoria County the
worst of its damage.
Rita was hammering southeast Texas and western
Louisiana while winds in
Angleton were sustained at
about 20 mph.
Power outages were reported in Surfside Beach, parts of
Rosharon and parts of Lake
Jackson, said Caroline
Rickaway, the county’s director of adult probation who
was helping man the emergency operations center in the
Brazoria County courthouse.
One man suspected of looting was arrested, Freeport Fire
Chief John Stanford said.
Police saw the man walking
down Cherry Street pulling a
wagon with an air compressor
and stopped him because he
was violating the city’s curfew,
Stanford said.
Power also was out in parts
of Freeport earlier in the
night, but by 11:20 p.m.
power was on throughout the
city, Stanford said.
Things were quiet at the
Emergency
Operations
Center.
“The most calls we’re getting are people wanting to
know if they can come on
back,” said Deputy P.J. Trotta,
who was also manning the
EOC. “We’re trying to get
them to call us back tomorrow afternoon.”
The storm’s effects will last
most of Saturday, said
Gene Haefle, a National
Weather Service meteorologist, though the county is
expected to get less than four
inches of rain.
Haefle was speaking during
the 4 p.m. National Weather
Service conference call
update.
Surfside Beach was beginning to flood Friday morning
as Rita made its approached.
The weather service’s 10
a.m. briefing focused on
Chambers, Jefferson and
inland counties. He said
DAN DALSTRA/The Facts
With his feet propped up on a picnic table and
drink in hand, a resident of Surfside Beach remains
behind Friday, even though a mandatory evacuation
is in effect. The resident was talking to Surfside
Beach Mayor Larry Davison about why he had not
left the area despite the mandatory evacuation.
■ Tempers running short at
shelters
■ Katrina evacuees greet
Rita with defiance
Page 4A
■ Bus explosion
kills 24 evacuees
■ Fires rage in
Galveston
Page 8A
Emergency crews work
to clear out stragglers
By Bridie Isensee
[email protected]
Waves ripped between the
jetties and water bathed yards
Friday in the deserted village of
Surfside Beach as Hurricane
Rita prepared to make landfall
along the upper east Texas
coast.
The village’s Police Chief
Randy Smith said the last stub-
■ See RITA, Page 2A
Brenham extends hand to
Brazoria County evacuees
Dry pumps, gridlock
hamper evacuations
By Lucretia Fernandez
By Chris Robinson
[email protected]
[email protected]
CONROE — Parking lots in Conroe looked
like a storm already hit Friday.
Gatorade bottles among flowers, plastic bags
traveling with the wind and overflowing trash
cans were the result of two days of bumper-tobumper traffic along Interstate 45.
All of the highway lanes were traveling north
and cars pulled into the median, but nothing
seemed to help. Many cars were running near
empty, but gas stations’ pumps were dry.
Almost every business, including grocery stores,
were closed Friday as Hurricane Rita prepared to
make landfall early Saturday.
BRENHAM — There has been little breathing
room for Brenham these past few weeks as it
rushed to secure the needs of strangers, one disaster after another.
A couple thousand Hurricane Katrina evacuees
came through about three weeks ago, said Gene
Herrmann, a Brenham volunteer police officer.
And last week was the Washington County fair,
“which makes the timing of all this pretty interesting,” he said.
As Hurricane Rita drew steadily closer to the
Gulf Coast, Texas communities further inland
began to swell with the rising tide of
■ See GRIDLOCK,
TODAY:
Rain
Hi: 86
TONIGHT:
Rain
Low: 79
Extended forecast, Page 2A
LUCRETIA FERNANDEZ/The Facts
Two-week-old Nabida Yu is held by her aunt in the
Conroe High School gymnasium that was opened
Thursday by the Red Cross in response to congested
traffic on Interstate 45. The shelter’s manager, Paul
Rigali, will open the high school’s doors to anyone
once Hurricane Rita’s winds begin, although the
Page 8A shelter is at capacity, he said.
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“I cried. I
was so sad
to see
families,
children,
people
sleeping
on the
ground.”
— Carla
Prnka,
Brenham
resident
2A SATURDAY
TOP STORIES/WEATHER
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
Angleton officer loses battle with cancer
LOCAL FORECAST
Sunday:
Chance of
thunderstorms
Hi: 88
Low: 80
Monday:
Chance of
thunderstorms
Hi: 88
Low: 77
Tuesday:
Chance of
thunderstorms
Hi: 88
Low: 77
WEATHER ALMANAC
Readings taken at 6 p.m. daily
at the Brazoria County Airport
Yesterday’s high/low
91/75
Average high/low
85/71
Record high/low 94 (1985)/55 (1994)
Sunrise/set
7:11 a.m./7;15 p.m.
Moonrise/set
11:11 p.m./1:59 a.m.
Precipitation:
Yesterday
0.01 inches
Month to date
0.96 inches
Year to date
20.42 inches
Tides at Freeport:
High:
12:40 a.m.
2.2 feet
Low:
2:59 p.m.
Moon phases:
Last
Sept. 25
New
Oct. 3
First
Full
.2 feet
Oct. 10
Oct. 17
GULF FORECAST
Today:
West winds 30 to 40 knots with gusts to
around 60 knots
Tonight:
West winds 15 to 25 knots. seas 6 to 9
feet.
AROUND TEXAS
Temperatures indicate yesterday’s high and
overnight low to 7 p.m.
Hi
Lo
Prc Otlk
Abilene,Tex.
95
Amarillo
89
Austin
101
Brownsville
102
Corpus Christi 100
Dallas-Ft Worth
99
El Paso
92
Houston
96
Lubbock
92
Midland-Odessa 92
San Angelo
94
San Antonio
93
Waco
99
Carter’s family reciprocated the
appreciation they have for the police
department and city officials who ralAngleton Police Lt. John Carter, 60, lied around Carter when they heard
about the cancer’s resurgence.
died early Friday morning at
“They sent cards and food and
Methodist Hospital in Houston after
mowed our lawn,” Carter’s daughter,
living with cancer for six years.
Shannon Carter, said Friday. “I can’t
Carter, who was diagnosed with
cancer of the esophagus in 1999, start- put into words how much we appreciate everything they have done.”
ed chemotherapy when the disease
Many police officers and city offireturned in November. He worked for
cials shaved their heads out of respect
the Angleton Police Department for
for Carter, who lost his hair during
more than 25 years and oversaw its
chemotherapy treatments.
patrol division, said Lt. Mike Jones.
“John was a wonderful guy,” said
“He was an outstanding officer,”
Angleton Mayor Matt Sebesta, who
Jones said. “We have already missed
donned a buzz cut along with several
him through the time he has been
council members in November. “He
not here. He was always there when
we needed him.”
was respected by everyone around the
By David Doerr
[email protected]
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Temperatures indicate yesterday’s high and
overnight low to 7 p.m.
Hi
Lo
Prc Otlk
Atlanta
90
70
cdy
Atlantic City
86
71
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Baltimore
89
69
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Birmingham
95
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Boston
76
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Charleston,S.C. 88
74
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Charlotte,N.C.
91
66
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Chicago
83
56
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Cincinnati
80
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Cleveland
76
67
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Denver
91
54
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Detroit
80
63
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Hartford Spgfld
79
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Honolulu
87
72
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Indianapolis
76
65 1.25
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Jackson,Miss.
97
70
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Jacksonville
88
71
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Kansas City
89
65
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Las Vegas
81
78
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Little Rock
102
73
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Los Angeles
74
63
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Memphis
98
76
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Miami Beach
84
76
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Milwaukee
82
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Mpls-St Paul
83
59
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Nashville
91
67
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New Orleans
96
78
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New York City
84
74
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Oklahoma City
95
69
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Orlando
88
77
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Philadelphia
84
69
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Phoenix
105
82
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Pittsburgh
75
68
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St Louis
83
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Salt Lake City
89
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San Diego
77
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San Francisco
67
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Santa Fe
88
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Seattle
67
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Shreveport
102
76
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Tampa-St Ptrsbg 91
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Washington,D.C. 90
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HISTORY
By The Associated Press
Today is Saturday, Sept. 24, the
267th day of 2005. There are 98
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 24, 1789, Congress passed
the First Judiciary Act, which provided for an Attorney General and a
Supreme Court.
On this date:
In 1869, thousands of businessmen were ruined in a Wall Street
panic after financiers Jay Gould and
James Fisk attempted to corner the
gold market.
In 1896, author F. Scott
Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul,
Minn.
In 1929, Lt. James H. Doolittle
guided a Consolidated NY2 Biplane
over Mitchel Field in New York in the
first all-instrument flight.
In 1934, Babe Ruth made his
farewell appearance as a regular
player with the New York Yankees in
a game against the Boston Red Sox.
(The Sox won, 5-0.)
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police department. He was a hell of a
fighter. He was one of the toughest
men I have known.”
Carter had stayed at Methodist
Hospital for the last three months
when cancer began spreading to his
lymph nodes and bones, his daughter
said.
Carter’s wife, Wanda, had been staying at the hospital when other family
members decided to evacuate the area
to East Bernard, fearing Hurricane Rita
would strike Brazoria County,
Shannon Carter said. She got a call
from her mother at about 10 p.m.
Thursday about her father’s condition. He died at about 2:15 a.m.
Friday, she said.
The family decided to return to
Rita
Buses
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Galveston should expect tropical storm conditions all day Saturday.
By 4 p.m. winds were blowing about 30
mph out of the northeast in Brazoria
County.
In Surfside, Beach Drive was flooded, and
water had come up almost to the Stop and
Go on the Highway 332 beach entrance.
The beach side community was deserted,
with only Surfside Police Officer Curtis
Adams and national media visible.
Brazoria County was under an eerie
silence with streets deserted.
The weather service briefing in the commissioners courtroom presented surreal
scenes as county officials joked while a giant
muted television screen on the wall showed
television reporters on Surfside Beach.
Outside, Angleton’s streets were empty.
The few cars on the roads treated stoplights
as yield signs and all businesses in town
were closed.
The county remains without medical service, gasoline or food stores as tens of thousands of people have evacuated.
Sheriff’s deputies, Department of Public
Safety troopers and city police were
patrolling throughout the county.
“We’re still answering calls,” Sheriff
Charles Wagner said.
Officers will remain on the streets until
the onset of tropical storm winds reach 40
mph.
“We’re just looking for looters and stranded motorists,” DPS Sgt. Randy Jones said.
Troopers will be carrying gasoline cans for
those who run out of gas in the county.
A 7 p.m. to 7 a.m. curfew remains in effect
for Freeport indefinitely and police have
blocked off Surfside Beach and Quintana.
Angleton also had put a 7 p.m. to 7 a.m.
curfew in effect.
got a 14-month-old baby. I’ve got
a 9-year-old daughter.”
Mooney was one of several people who worried they were coming
back into the path of a Category 5
hurricane, unaware that Rita had
weakened slightly and changed
course since they left.
Ralph Adkins fled his home in
the Ninth Ward of New Orleans as
Hurricane Katrina approached. He
was staying at a hotel when a call
for mandatory evacuations came.
He took the bus because he didn’t
have his own ride.
Adkins said the trip through
gridlocked traffic was miserable.
“We couldn’t get nowhere,” he
said. “It looked like the end of the
world.”
Adkins was traveling with his
brother, Bruce, who had hernia
surgery a week ago. As he spoke
Ralph kept glancing over to
Angleton Area Emergency Medical
Corps workers examining his
brother.
Bruce Adkins had staples from
his hernia removed Wednesday.
“Right now I don’t care what
happens to us,” Bruce Adkins said.
Charles Wilkinson, 77, of
Freeport, exited the bus weary and
thirsty. He didn’t understand why
the bus was rerouted back to a
danger zone on the brink of a
Category 4 hurricane.
“Why take you out of a storm
and bring you right back,”
Wilkinson said.
But after officials announced
some school buses would take
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hid cars in their garages to
shirk the order, Smith said.
Police secured hotel rooms
for several indigent people so
they would be out of harm’s
way, he said.
As Rita edged away from
Brazoria County late Friday
afternoon, Smith hoped for
the best.
“If nothing else, this was a
real good drill for everybody
to get on the same page,” he
said.
Police stopped drivers at
roadblocks on Highway 332
at FM 523 and the Highway
332 bridge over the
Intracoastal Canal and monitored the bridge at San Luis
Pass, Smith said. About a
dozen people, including
surfers, slipped through the
entrance linking Brazoria
County to Galveston Island,
he said.
There were no reports of
any water rescues, Smith
said. Even if there were,
Surfside Beach police had few
resources to pluck swimmers
from angry waters. The village’s patrol boat had been
sent to Alvin, and the U.S.
Coast Guard evacuated its
Surfside station Thursday.
Surfside police were teaming with Freeport police and
EMS to protect their coastal
cities.
“We’re better merged in
working as a team than
everyone on their own bandwagon,” Smith said.
In Freeport, the mandatory
evacuation remained in
effect, despite calls from
weary travelers wanting to
return home, said Freeport
Police Chief Henrietta
Gonzalez. Police turned
around people at the city
limits, she said.
Phone calls from travelers
anxious to return home also
streamed into the Lake
Jackson
Emergency
Operations Center at the
police department Friday
morning. The incoming torrential rains and winds
forced operators to advise
them to wait out the storm at
their present locations. If residents return, there will be
no groceries, fuel or hospitals
open.
The hurricane possibly
could degenerate, stall and
cause flooding of Tropical
Angleton to ride out the storm after
news of Carter’s death and the change
in Rita’s anticipated path away from
Brazoria County.
Carter is also survived by his son,
John, and two grandchildren, Trey
and Daeovion. Memorial service
arrangements are pending with Palms
Funeral Home in Angleton.
The police department was his life
other than his family and God, Cpl.
Derrick White said.
“As far as a man there for his
troops, meaning his workers, he was
there 250 percent,” White said.
“Literally, you could not find a better
officer.”
people to Randolph Air Force Base,
Wilkinson decided to reevaluate.
“I’m going to San Antonio. I’m
going to get out,” Wilkinson said.
Tracy Trammell, 34, of Clute
also decided to go to San Antonio.
She sat crying on the curb, waiting
to board a bus.
“We’re confused. They’ve told us
about six different things already,”
Trammell said.
Angleton Police Capt. Katherine
Davis said she had great concerns
about the bus passengers’ health.
“You’ve got sick people. You’ve
got people throwing up. You’ve
got diabetics. You’ve got to get
them out of there,” Davis said.
Tiffany Brantley of Freeport said
passengers were helping other
people on the bus.
“One of the ladies, she needed
an oxygen bottle and people were
helping her change the bottle
out,” Brantley said.
Angleton Police Lt. Mike Jones
said two nurses were on the scene
to greet the buses and a doctor
was on call but wasn’t needed.
Brazoria County Sheriff Deputy
Phil Tolbert, who drove one of the
buses, said despite the travails he
was impressed by how calm and
polite his passengers remained.
County and city officials were
frustrated as they tried to find a
shelter for the people. During a
10:30 p.m. conference call
Thursday, a state emergency management official instructed cities
not to turn anyone away, but to
call the state if they didn’t have
room.
Shortly after that, state officials
specifically told Angleton police
not to turn the bus around, Davis
Storm Allison proportions. If
residents returned it “would
be dangerous as hell,” said
Lake Jackson City Manager
Bill Yenne.
The only evacuees allowed
to return were ones trapped
in gridlock on school district
buses who returned early
Friday morning at Angleton
High School, Gonzalez said.
Police also continued
Friday to compile lists of residents determined to ride out
the storm, Freeport Police
Capt. Richard Miller said.
Freeport police and rescue
workers still prepared to hunker down for the storm,
despite Rita’s downgrade to a
Category 3. Emergency crews
continued treating it as a
worst-case scenario, said Fire
Chief John Stanford.
If the storm hooked toward
Freeport as a Category 3 or
above, they would evacuate
to Angleton, he said.
Brazosport
Memorial
Hospital’s closure didn’t pose
any threats for Freeport EMS
crews since dispatch had no
serious health calls, Stanford
said. Emergency workers
planned to perform triage in
the field because there was
no emergency room to take
David Doerr is a reporter for The Facts.
said. But by then it was already in
Brazoria County. They had left
Conroe at about 10:30 p.m.
Thursday.
The passengers were greeted
with food and water that Angleton
police officers and staff put together when they learned the buses
were coming back, then loaded
back on the buses for trips home if
they wished.
Some weren’t planning on testing Hurricane Rita.
Darnell Williams of Angleton
said he was going to catch a
Greyhound bus if he could.
“I want to get out of here,”
Williams said.
The seven buses of Brazoria
County residents originally headed north at 1 p.m. Thursday, said
Brazoria
County
Sheriff’s
Department Capt. Randy Rhyne.
With thousands of motorists
stranded on Interstate 45, 36
hours after the mandatory evacuation was called for Brazoria
County, the shelters were filling
up quickly, said Beth Traxler, an
operator for the Montgomery
County Sheriff’s Department. The
Red Cross opened the doors of
Conroe schools and churches to
anyone fleeing from Hurricane
Rita late Thursday.
“All of the shelters are full here
and only two are left in Magnolia,
one in Porter and some in
Huntsville,” Traxler said. “By the
time anyone stranded in Conroe
reaches them, they will probably
be full too.”
Facts reporter Lucretia Fernandez contributed to this story.
patients, he said.
Freeport EMS also had the
foresight to take about six
bedridden patients to
Brazosport
Memorial
Hospital in Lake Jackson
before it shuttered for the
storm, Stanford said.
Boarded up stores and
empty parking lots were the
only thing in sight on the
Lake Jackson’s main thoroughfare.
Ceasar Marroquin wandered along the Highway 332
feeder Friday morning in a
fruitless search for food and
water. Marroquin’s cousin
evacuated to Mexico without
waiting for him, and his
truck ran out of fuel
Thursday.
“Nothing, it’s completely
empty,” he said.
Brazoria County officials
were the only people able to
stockpile supplies at Lake
Jackson stores, said Lake
Jackson Police Capt. Jim
Dunlap.
The county’s emergency
operations center was running out of food, he said.
Lake Jackson officials had
made arrangements to get
into stores as needed, he said.
Joe Gonzales, 58, of Lake
Jackson still hadn’t left town
Friday morning. He would
decide whether to leave
when he found Luna, a collie-mix belonging to his common-law wife’s mother.
When his common-law wife
died in December, Gonzales
vowed to look out for her
mother. “I promised my girl I
was going to take care of her
dog,” he said.
Gonzales cruised the
deserted streets in his pickup.
“I hope I find her because
then I’ll decide,” he said.
“We might end up staying,
probably ride it out.”
Meanwhile, the Coast
Guard station in Surfside
Beach evacuated Thursday
night. About six officers
planned to shelter at Lake
Jackson’s
Emergency
Operations Center, and the
rest would stay at the
Angleton High School,
Dunlap said.
After forecasters predicted
Chambers and Liberty counties would bear the brunt of
the storm, Lake Jackson city
officials scrambled to help
them. They sent four rented
satellite phones to the eastern Texas counties so they
could have communications.
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1421 Front Street, Angleton
By Bridie Isensee
[email protected]
LAKE JACKSON — News
crews covering Hurricane Rita
flocked to the Cajun Greek
restaurant Friday afternoon,
the only restaurant open in
town in the last 48 hours.
Restaurant owner John
Karageorgos clapped his
hands, announcing hot food
was on its way out. The businessman tried to evacuate,
but after 14 hours on the
road, he turned around at
Splendora.
“I decided to leave,” he
said. “To tell you the truth, I
was gone.”
In the storm’s approaching
hours, Karageorgos fired up
the grills and started cooking
for Clute police officers and
others desperate for a hot
meal.
The menu was limited to
hamburgers, cheeseburgers
and gyros, but the news
crews from the Austin ABC
affiliate and Fox News
Channel were not complaining.
KVUE news anchor Tyler
Sieswerda gave a flattering
one-word food review.
“Incredible,” he said.
The seven-person Austin
crew planned to eat tuna fish
and crackers for the duration
of their hurricane coverage.
The Cajun Greek’s plats du
jour were the first hot meals
since they left Austin on
Thursday
afternoon,
Sieswerda said.
At the other end of the
restaurant, a group of Clute
policemen chowed hamburgers. Clute police and emergency workers were eating
well, but an open restaurant
restored a sense of normalcy
to the largely deserted
Brazosport area.
“Things seem a little bit
normal when you can come
into a restaurant, sit, relax for
a little bit,” Clute Patrol Sgt.
Bill Rose said.
Pete Klentsch of Texas City,
who was taking meals to go,
was
impressed
with
Karageorgos’ generosity. The
restaurant owner didn’t
charge the evacuee who
found himself stuck in
Brazoria County after spending 16 hours trying to evacuate to Beaumont.
“It’s nice to see somebody
will set up like that and help
people when they’re really
needing help,” Klentsch said.
The Texas City man tipped
the restaurant owner $20 for
his generosity.
Karageorgos planned to
serve meals as long as there
was power, and customers
couldn’t be too picky, he said.
Eventually, pita bread would
have to be substituted for
hamburger buns, Karageorgos
said.
Bridie Isensee covers Lake
Jackson for The Facts.
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DAN DALSTRA/The Facts
Mike Emmanuel, left, and Moira Hopkins, both from Fox News in
Washington, D.C., interview John Karageorgos at the Cajun Greek
Seafood Grill in Lake Jackson on Friday afternoon. After fighting
traffic in Houston while trying to evacuate, Karageorgos decided to
return home and open his restaurant. Doing away with the menu,
Karageorgos served cheeseburgers and gyros to news crews and
Clute police for lunch, taking only donations for payment.
Flooding returns to New Orleans
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New Orleans
levees let go
Rita’s rains bring
new flooding to
devastated city.
By Allen G. Breed
Associated Press Writer
NEW
ORLEANS
—
Hurricane Rita’s wind-driven
storm surge topped one of
New Orleans’ battered levees
and poked holes in another
Friday, sending water gushing
into already-devastated neighborhoods just days after they
had been pumped dry.
An initial surge of water cascaded over a patched levee
protecting the impoverished
Ninth Ward, flooding the
abandoned neighborhood
with at least 6 feet of water.
“Our worst fears came
true,” said Maj. Barry Guidry,
a National Guardsman on
duty at the broken levee.
Leaks beneath another levee
that was repaired with rock
and gravel after Hurricane
Katrina flooded homes with at
least a half-foot of water.
Meanwhile, wind-whipped
waves pushed water from Lake
Pontchartrain over a seawall,
and rain runoff with no outlet
pooled in city streets.
The rain in New Orleans
was expected to continue
throughout the night, but
meteorologists were already
turning their attention west
to the communities in the
storm’s crosshairs such as
Lake Charles and Cameron.
“I know we’re all concerned
about New Orleans, but I’m
more focused on these other
communities right now,” said
Max Mayfield, director of the
National Hurricane Center in
Miami. “That’s where people
are going to die.”
Evacuees from the miserystricken city learned of the
new flooding with despair.
“It’s like looking at a murder,” Ninth Ward resident
Quentrell Jefferson said as he
watched the news in
Lafayette, 125 miles west of
New Orleans. “The first time
is bad. After that, you numb
up.”
The flooding came as Rita
began lashing the Gulf Coast
with rain and wind, and up to
500,000 people in southwest-
ern Louisiana headed north.
Some who fought hours of
gridlock to get out of Texas
were frustrated to find they
had to keep going to stay out
of the storm, which was
expected to make landfall
early today.
Late Friday, southwestern
Louisiana was soaked by the
storm’s outer bands. Ranches
and marshlands were under
water in coastal Cameron
Parish. Empty coastal highways and small towns were
blasted with wind-swept rain.
Lake Charles, not far from
Rita’s predicted path along
the Texas-Louisiana line, was
a virtual ghost town. Before
nightfall, squalls were flattening sugar cane fields and
knocking over trees near New
Iberia, about 110 miles west
of New Orleans.
There were fears the storm
would stall after coming
ashore, dumping as much as
25 inches of rain over the
next several days.
In New Orleans, water
poured through gaps in the
Industrial Canal levee, which
engineers had tried to repair
after Katrina’s floodwaters left
80 percent of the city under
water. The rushing water covered piles of rubble and mudcaked cars in the Ninth Ward,
rising swiftly to the top of
first-floor windows. It spilled
east into St. Bernard Parish,
where ducks swam down
Judge Perez Drive.
The storm surge was both
stronger and earlier than
expected, apparently coming
through waterways southeast
of the city, said Col. Richard
Wagenaar, the Army Corps of
Engineers’ district chief in
New Orleans. Water poured
over piles of gravel and sandbags in the damaged
Industrial Canal levee despite
efforts to build it up.
“We believed the 8-foot elevation was sufficient” to protect the Ninth Ward,
Wagenaar said.
Farther north, water 6 to 8
inches deep was streaming
into homes south of Lake
Pontchartrain, spouting from
beneath two gravel-and-rock
patches on the London
Avenue Canal levee. Corps
engineers said they expected
the leaks.
DAN DALSTRA/The Facts
Burt Bure, right, and Brazoria County Sheriff’s Deputy P.J. Trotta, sit Friday night in the Emergency Operations Center in the Brazoria
County Courthouse in Angleton. Bure is representing industry and monitoring industry conditions during the storm for the Community
Awareness and Emergency Response organization.
Relaxed and relieved
Dominoes, DVDs help
pass time at Brazoria
County Courthouse.
By Michael Wright
[email protected]
ANGLETON — Capt. Richard
Foreman sat down in the Brazoria
County Courthouse’s Soda Shoppe
with a plate of cheese dip and looked
at his boss, Charles Wagner.
“Sheriff, have you ever had someone
start a conversation with, ‘Did I ever
tell you about the time I wrestled a
bear?’” Foreman said.
And so the waiting for Hurricane Rita
began.
As the winds began whipping out of
the north, the courthouse evolved into
a courthouse square, complete with a
barbecue buffet, games of dominoes
and stories about the old times.
The commissioners courtroom, the
center of so many somber briefings the
last four days, was converted into a
movie theater. Stacked on a table were
more DVDs than could be watched in
three hurricanes.
No doubt influenced at least in part
by Rita’s projected landfall near Port
Arthur, sparing Brazoria County the
worst of the storm, the mood was
relaxed, at time even jovial.
As the clouds started rolling in Friday
afternoon, so did Department of Public
Safety troopers, most of whom were
wearing shorts and T-shirts rather than
their usual crisply starched uniforms.
They joined sheriff’s deputies and
county employees helping answer
phones and cook.
County-Court-at-Law Judge James
Blackstock brought his family, as did
Pct. 2, Place 2 Justice of the Peace
Wayne DuBose. At least 50 people were
planning to bed down, though the
building didn’t seem crowded at all.
The hallways outside the courtrooms
on the upper floors were filled with
mattresses and duffle bags, while a
table outside the emergency operations
center was filled with snacks.
In the EOC itself, calls were slackening as the wind was picking up.
A flow chart showed the storm’s
effects, including a loss of power in
Surfside Beach.
Caroline Rickaway, the county’s
director of adult probation, planned to
SHELTERED LIFE: JACKSONVILLE
work a crossword puzzle and read a
biography of Thomas Jefferson.
“I’m not nervous because I’m up
here doing something,” Rickaway said.
“If I was at home, I would be nervous.”
On the fourth floor, a group of DPS
troopers killed the time playing dominoes. “Dominoes, movies and lots of
coffee,” Robert Dornak said of his
plans.
Rick Perry, who has been at the center of the storm, so to speak, as the
county’s emergency management coordinator, had simpler plans.
“Sleep,” Perry said. “I haven’t slept in
two-and-a-half days.”
But when he learned some of the
courthouse deputies were considering a
card game later Friday, he said he
might have to sit in for a few hands.
Most of all, people were thinking of
their families.
Sheriff’s Deputy Andy Kutch, standing at his regular post next to metal
detectors, said the important thing was
his family got out. “My father’s safe,
my fiancee’s in Dallas,” Kutch said.
“We’ve got plenty of food, we know
we’re in a good spot and we know
we’re going to be OK.”
Habitat readies
house for Rita
By Michael Smith
[email protected]
VAL HORVATH/The Facts
Alicia and Jose Diaz Sr. of Lake Jackson watch the television news Friday evening
for the latest updates on Hurricane Rita at a Red Cross shelter at Central Baptist
Church in Jacksonville.
ANGLETON — Habitat for Humanity volunteers are hoping the group’s 51st house,
under construction, stands up to Hurricane
Rita’s fury.
Volunteers boarded the windows on the
house, at Columbia and Locust streets,
Wednesday, said Mary Ruth Rhodenbaugh,
executive director of Southern Brazoria
County Habitat for Humanity.
All new homes are required to be protected as best as possible during storms,
Rhodenbaugh said. The boards used already
had been cut and stored in the attic for the
family’s use later, she said.
Volunteers also removed the canopy that
covered their rest area, she said. Overall,
Rhodenbaugh said, the house is secure.
“We’ll be back to work as soon as Rita
blows over, and we’ll start right where we
left off,” she said.
4A SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
HURRICANERITA
STRIKESCOUNTY
Katrina evacuees greet Rita with defiance, humor
By Michael Smith
[email protected]
ANGLETON — Kenneth Rivers
has been settling into Angleton for
the last three weeks and likes what
he sees, he said.
Rivers and 11 family members
have lived at the corner of
Columbia and Locust streets in the
house, provided by the First
Missionary Baptist Church, since
abandoning their homes in New
Orleans after Hurricane Katrina laid
waste to the city Aug. 29.
Surrounded by empty, boarded
up homes on the block he called
“Ghost Town Central” Friday
morning, Rivers said he was frustrated but defiant in the face of
Hurricane Rita.
“This is round two. I ain’t going,”
MICHAEL SMITH/The Facts
he said.
Shena Lacks, left, Diane McAllister, Lee Horton and Sterling McAllister enjoy the
Rivers said he and his family have
breeze Friday outside the McAllisters’ apartment in Angleton. The group planned enough food and water to last them
the next several days. No matter
to ride out Hurricane Rita.
Tempers
running
short at
shelters
what Rita might do, Rivers said it
can’t be as bad as what happened
in New Orleans.
He might return to get some
belongings, but after Katrina he
plans to make Angleton his permanent home, Rivers said.
“I’m not going back to New
Orleans. Ever,” he said.
Unlike the Rivers family, thousands of Angleton residents fled in
advance of Hurricane Rita.
Commuting through the city has
become as swift as the first gusts
that began sweeping the area Friday
afternoon.
Traffic signals danced and swayed
in sync above once-congested intersections as trees swayed and curtains of dust swirled through the
parking lots of boarded-up storefronts.
Beneath the pine trees lining the
1300 block of Buchta Road, Sterling
and Diane McAllister and friends
Shena Lacks and Lee Horton chat-
ted next to a smoldering barbecue
pit fire as the breeze picked up
Friday morning.
The foursome said they plan to
ride out the entire storm and aftermath there, and they’ve got
enough food and water to last a few
days.
Even with the possibility of days
without power, water or other services, the group found a way to
laugh in the face of Rita.
Sterling McAllister set up a fishing pole from the pine tree in front
of his apartment and attached a
crab trap with a duck-shaped floater
on top to the manhole on the sidewalk.
He doesn’t expect to catch anything, but the pole and trap are for
assurance, he said.
“I told them we ain’t going to go
hungry,” he said.
Michael Smith covers Angleton for The
Facts. Contact him at (979) 849-8581.
Evacuees
turn back,
try again
SHELTERED LIFE: COLLEGE STATION
By Michael Wright
[email protected]
Frustration
mounting in
College Station,
police say.
By Melissa Sullivan
Bryan-College Station Eagle
COLLEGE STATION —
Few problems have been
reported in area shelters as
more than 7,000 evacuees
from the onslaught of
Hurricane Rita sought safety
in Bryan-College Station
this week, officials said.
Bryan Police Lt. Choya
Walling, who is in charge of
security at shelters in the
city, said one incident was
reported Friday at the
Central Baptist Church shelter on FM158.
A group of people from
Houston was disruptive and
asked to leave, Walling said.
The group obliged and left
for an unknown location,
he said.
“Everything seems to be
running real smooth,”
Walling said.
Assistant Bryan Police
Chief Peter Scheets said
more than 20 officers and
about
40
National
Guardsman were providing
security around the clock at
the city’s shelters.
Most of the arriving people have been in their cars
for more than 12 hours, and
are tired, hungry and just
want to rest, Scheets said.
“We have been dealing
with a whole bunch of people who are in a stressful situation,” he said. “They were
forced to evacuate, and now
they are placed in a place
not familiar to them.”
Once they arrived, many
became upset as they realized they first had to register
and then be assigned to a
shelter, Scheets said.
“That’s the biggest thing
we have had to deal with so
far,” he said.
Tempers and frustration
levels have been mounting
among evacuees and shelter
workers since Wednesday,
Scheets said, but no fights
have been reported.
Scheets said he saw frustration in the faces of evacuees Thursday night when a
busload of 150 people
arrived at the Brazos Center
from Houston, only to find
the shelter full.
“They were completely
exhausted,” he said. “At one
point you could see the
frustration in the driver and
the frustration in the citizens who evacuated.”
The shelter ended up
housing them for the night
before sending them to
Austin in hopes of them a
place to stay, Scheets said.
No significant problems
were reported at the College
Station shelters, police
spokesman Lt. Mark
Langwell said.
BUTCH IRELAND/Bryan-College Station Eagle
Berta Galarsha of Houston cooks up a pot of discada Friday afternoon in the College Station Wal-Mart for herself and 20 relatives who
spent 30 hours traveling from Houston to escape Hurricane Rita.
Freeport family’s trip ‘pitiful’
Fresh images of Katrina
led to early evacuation.
By Laura Hensley
and Arena Welch
Bryan-College Station Eagle
COLLEGE STATION — Wearing
bright yellow wrist bands that identified
them as evacuees, Betty Pinkney and
her family sat Friday under a shade tree
outside the Brazos Center, trying to
escape the chilly air and large crowds
inside.
The temperature inside was too cold
for the Freeport residents, who had no
blankets to keep them warm.
The family arrived at the shelter at
about 11 p.m. Thursday, securing the
shelter’s last cot for Pinkney’s sister-inlaw and spots on the floor for Pinkney
and her grandchildren. Her husband
and nephew slept in their truck in the
parking lot.
The 20-hour drive from Freeport left
the 14-member family exhausted but
glad to finally have a place to sleep,
Pinkney said.
“(The trip) was pitiful,” she said. “Just
going and stopping, moving so slowly.”
Without the mandatory evacuation
order, Pinkney said her family probably
would have waited until Thursday afternoon or Friday morning to leave
Freeport, waiting to see what Hurricane
Rita might do.
“They kept talking about Hurricane
Katrina,” she said. “That’s what it was,
fear of Katrina.”
The 61-year-old Freeport resident said
experiencing a hurricane evacuation
made her more sympathetic to the victims of Katrina.
“What goes around comes around, in
a sense,” Pinkney said. “And you know
exactly what it’s like because you’re now
in that situation.”
The family planned to stay in the
Bryan-College Station area until the
storm passes and they can return home.
LUNCHTIME: Jose Romo and his cousin
Liliana Estrella slept on a patch of grass
outside the College Station Wal-Mart on
Thursday night.
They laid down cardboard and then
covered it with blankets, trying to make
the ground more comfortable for themselves and 18 family members who had
driven from Houston.
PAUL ZOELLER/Bryan-College Station Eagle
Volunteer Bob Kilpatrick gives directions to members of the Law family from Sweeny on
Thursday at the Texas World Speedway exit off Highway 6. It took the family 16 hours to
reach College Station.
After being on the road for 30 hours,
they were happy just to find a place to
sleep, the two teenagers said.
“It didn’t matter, as long as we had
somewhere to stay,” said Estrella, 15.
The smell of barbecued meat floated
through the air in the Wal-Mart parking
lot Friday morning as the group prepared lunch using supplies they had
brought with them, offering in Spanish
food and drinks to passersby.
The caravan began with four vehicles,
but when the transmission went out in
one truck, it had to be left behind as the
family piled into the remaining three
vehicles to resume their trek.
“We didn’t know what was going to
happen — if we had to go back or if
someone might have to stay behind,”
Romo said.
The heat was the worst part of the
trip, he said, because the group turned
off the air conditioners in their vehicles
to conserve gas.
But despite such trials, the family was
in good spirits as they ate lunch, laughing around the barbecue pit. They
planned to try to find a shelter and wait
out the storm in the Bryan-College
Station area, Romo said.
“It’s an experience we’re never going
to forget. We saw a lot of things we
never expected to see,” he said, remem-
bering an evacuee with a fever on the
side of the road, being fed through a
tube in his stomach by paramedics.
“You see the family crying, and you
feel so bad because you can’t do anything.”
SHARED EXPERIENCE: A pair of blownout tires brought the Thomas and
Herbert families together Thursday.
The Thomases, from Texas City, and
the Herberts, from Conroe, met on the
side of the road in Shiro after the
camper trailers they were pulling both
lost tires.
The strangers, fleeing Hurricane Rita,
bonded because of their predicament.
They exchanged cell-phone numbers
and promised to help each other down
the road. The Thomases said they had a
generator and the Herberts could use it
if they wanted.
Later that day, the two families met
again, this time in the Bryan Wal-Mart
parking lot. There, they parked their
trailers next to one another and shared
what they had. The Thomases snaked
an extension cord over to their new
neighbors’ trailer so the Herberts could
enjoy air conditioning.
“I try to help everybody,” Phillip
Thomas said. “We are in the same situation, and we don’t have anywhere else
to go.”
SURFSIDE BEACH — After
15 hours in a car without air
conditioning Thursday,
Cathy Lowry found herself
closer to Hurricane Rita on
Friday than when she started.
The Clute resident evacuated with family and friends in
a three-car caravan, heading
toward Louisiana. The trip
was an excruciating combination of gridlock and frustration as she sat in traffic
and crawled past closed gas
stations.
They finally gave up and
turned around to come
home.
“We couldn’t find food,
gas, nothing,” Lowry said.
Lowry said the tension on
the roads was palpable.
“You could feel it when
people started to panic,” she
said.
At one point they had to
siphon gasoline from an
abandoned car and at another they had to siphon gas
from one of their trucks to
another.
In the end, they finally
bought gas at Beach, Bait
and Tackle on Highway 332
within sight of the Gulf of
Mexico.
Milca Rivera of Clute, who
was in Lowry’s caravan, said
they waited in line for 90
minutes at one gas station
only to have the pumps run
dry two cars ahead of them.
Richard Lowry said the
scene was horrible.
“There were people with
kids standing out on the side
of the road,” he said as he
held his 2-year-old son,
Richard Jr.
After gassing up here,
Richard Lowry said, they
planned to head out again,
this time toward Victoria.
Michael Wright is a reporter for
The Facts. Contact him at (979)
849-8581.
No classes
Monday in
Angleton,
Brazosport
The
Angleton
and
Brazosport school districts
will be closed Monday,
Angleton ISD Superintendent
Heath Burns said Friday.
Burns, who met Friday
morning with Brazosport ISD
Rudy Okruhlik, said only
essential personnel should
report to work in both districts. A decision on whether
schools will be open Tuesday
won’t be made until Monday,
Burns said.
The school days will not
have to be made up, Burns
said, after the state education
commissioner waived the
requirement.
— Michael Wright
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5A
SATURDAY
September 24, 2005
More agents needed
to stem flow of guns
World again avoids
arms control issues
A
G
ssault weapons purchased in the United
States are flooding into high-violence areas
along the Mexican border and contributing to the wave of crime across the border. A large
amount of violence has been centered in and
near Nuevo Laredo, where about 128 murders
have been recorded this year.
Many of the slayings are believed to be related
to the fierce battle between rival drug cartels
fighting for control of drug-trafficking routes into
the United States. A unified effort by law enforcement agencies on both sides of the border is
needed to reduce the flow of guns. That effort
would be helped immensely by assigning more
federal agents to the border.
Until three months ago, Laredo lacked a permanent office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
Firearms. The city was being managed through a
satellite office staffed with a couple of agents
deployed from the McAllen headquarters.
In June, the Laredo office was assigned three
permanent full-time agents, but this is woefully
insufficient, said ATF Resident Agent-in-Charge
Rick Serrano in McAllen. The office could use at
least 10 agents, a supervisor and an investigative
analyst.
For the time being, the skeleton staff is being
supplemented with five agents from the San
Antonio, McAllen and Houston offices.
During the past several months, Serrano said,
the agency has seen an increase in cases involving Mexican residents who can’t legally purchase
guns in the United States paying American citizens to buy the weapons so they can take them
back across the border. The violence among the
drug cartels can’t be stopped overnight, but if
their access to high-powered weapons and
ammunition is hindered, it will stem some of the
bloodbath. More funding for additional ATF
agents in Laredo is essential. This is an urgent
matter that must be addressed promptly.
San Antonio Express-News
cess in keeping voters away from the
polls.
Still, there’s a lot of hope now in
Afghanistan that the nation is finally
moving forward.
Afghanistan has been a shining
example of what can happen when the
people, once oppressed, are free to participate in the process. On Sunday, eligible voters cast votes in schools,
mosques and even desert tents from
ballot papers that had to be transported
over rough terrain by donkey or camel.
An Afghanistan that stands up for
itself not only will help its own people,
it also will help to ensure the nation
never again is used by al-Qaida and
other groups as a staging ground for
worldwide terrorism.
iven the U.N. Oil-for-Food fiasco, world
leaders’ plans to lay groundwork for serious
management reform at last week’s summit
in New York seemed not just necessary, but
mandatory. Ditto for plans to devise a workable
definition of terrorism and come up with a replacement for the dysfunctional U.N. Commission on
Human Rights.
Yet the gathering didn’t deliver on any of these
agenda items. What a colossal disappointment.
And that wasn’t the end of the inaction.
Worse was the impasse on nuclear nonproliferation and disarmament issues. After months of legwork, this subject didn’t even make the summit’s
final agenda, an omission Secretary-General Kofi
Annan rightly called “a real disgrace.”
Amassing a global accord on nuclear non-proliferation was never going to be an easy task. Some
early drafts contained strong language that would
have committed nations to serious arms control.
But other drafts included empty language that
would have yielded little consequence. The initiative cratered after U.S. Ambassador John Bolton
lodged major U.S. objections.
Some of Bolton’s proposed changes made perfect
sense, such as the United States’ demand for a
more serious commitment from the world to keep
nukes from terrorists. But other changes continued
to distance the United States and, in effect, the rest
of the world from trying to seek an arms control
consensus.
In short, Bolton delivered a poison pill to a proposal already on life support. The bottom line is
that world leadership represented at this summit by
more than 170 nations again failed to breathe life
back into a global effort to limit nuclear weapons.
By their very nature, treaties and global declarations are imperfect creations, subject to willful violations and other difficulties. Yet sidestepping the
challenge only makes the road to consensus that
much longer.
The Leaf-Chronicle, Clarksville, Tenn.
Dallas Morning News
FILE/Associated Press
A worker looks at a ballot paper Tuesday at a counting center in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
Afghan election a proud moment
A
fghanistan had a good turnout in
elections for its new parliament
Sunday and has made substantial
progress toward becoming a representative democracy. About half of the 12.4
million Afghans who were registered to
vote did, despite calls by the Taliban to
boycott the elections.
That’s not to say everything went
smoothly. There were reports of security
incidents at some polling places. And
some conservative mullahs tried to
intimidate female candidates for the 59
assembly seats reserved for them that
could give women unprecedented
power in the government.
The fact that the election turnout was
below last October’s rate of 70 percent
for the presidential election also indicates the Taliban had some limited suc-
Views of whites, blacks
on racism not surprising
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Democrats seeking to benefit from
Hurricane Katrina’s political fallout
W
ASHINGTON — The
dip in President Bush’s
popularity has
Democrats dreaming of a
brighter future, but only if they
show voters clear leadership.
Democrats say they believe
Hurricane Katrina might be a
tipping-point event, intensifying the yearlong decline of support for the
war in Iraq and
RON
raising doubts
about Bush.
Already worried about jobs, GUEST COLUMN
financial security and the nation’s future,
many Americans watched in
horror as relief came slowly to
Katrina — and chalked it up to
across-the-board government
failure. If their anxiety and cynicism translates into a throwthe-bums-out mood,
Republicans could suffer.
“I think there’s a lot of anger
and we’re gaining because of
that,” said Rep. Rahm Emanuel,
chairman of the House
FOURNIER
Democratic campaign committee. “Democrats just have to be
clear about what the choice is
between us and Republicans,”
he said, “and be clear about the
decisions we will make for
America.”
That’s a tall order when the
party has no single leader or
message. “You can’t just be the
one who criticizes; you have to
be the one who offers a new
road,” said consultant Chris
Kofinis.
Who is the party’s leader?
Former presidential candidate
Howard Dean is chairman of
the Democratic National
Committee, but that is traditionally a fund-raising position.
Senate Minority Leader Harry
Reid and House Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi are often
overshadowed by presidential
prospects Sen. Hillary Rodham
Clinton and the 2004
Democratic nominee Sen. John
Kerry. Former President Clinton
can still command center stage.
Several Democratic governors
are emerging figures.
It’s no wonder the party’s
message is muddled.
“No congressional party is
ever going to speak with one
voice. It’s not possible,” said
Democratic strategist Steve
Elmendorf. While polls show
Bush’s job approval is at its lowest ever, more than eight in 10
Republicans still back him. Still,
several senior Republicans said
privately that they expected to
see some GOP candidates distance themselves from Bush.
On Katrina, Democrats concede they need to be careful
about attacking Bush.
“In politics, tone and modulation matter,” said Democratic
strategist Jim Jordan, a veteran
of congressional and presidential campaigns. Paul Begala, a
longtime Clinton adviser, paraphrased Napoleon: “Never
interrupt your opponent when
he’s destroying himself.”
Ron Fournier covers politics for the
Associated Press.
n the name of promoting
both unity and tolerance,
and fostering more racial
harmony in America, I’d like to
propose that, in the aftermath of
Hurricane Katrina, we adopt a
new rule:
From this point on, when an
allegation of racism against
blacks comes up, whites should
try to be humble and deferential, and
accept the fact
they’re in a
poor position
to judge
whether such
racism exists
since they’re
not directly
affected by it
one way or
another. To be
fair, when the
issue becomes
RUBEN
alleged racism
against
whites, blacks
should behave the same way.
It’s a simple concept. A locker
room full of men probably isn’t
the best judge about the existence of sexism. A group of nonJews isn’t equipped to determine
if something is anti-Semitic.
Heterosexuals probably aren’t
the ones to assess homophobia.
Now Americans are wrestling
with what is perhaps the thorniest question to be washed ashore
by Hurricane Katrina: whether
race and poverty played a role in
who got saved and who got left
behind, and how quickly aid
was rendered.
There was never any hope of
escaping the race question — no
matter how eager some Americans were to short-circuit the
debate by ignoring it, or casting
it in terms of poverty instead of
race.
Not in this overly race-conscious country. Not when a natural disaster levels a U.S. city
where two-thirds of the population is black. Not when those
being criticized for an inadequate response include a president who, in his re-election last
year, won just 11 percent of the
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black vote — up from a pathetic
8 percent four years earlier. And
not when people like hip-hop
superstar Kanye West are going
around insisting “George Bush
doesn’t care about black people.”
Personally, I think West is 180
degrees off the mark. The evidence suggests Bush cares about
all sorts of people whether
they’re black, white, brown or
purple. But now what the
administration should start caring about is the perception in
some elements of our society
that, had Hurricane Katrina left
homeless hundreds of thousands of white people, the federal reaction would have been
much swifter and much less likely to become entangled in red
tape.
Bush has a good line of
defense — or rather a good line
in his own defense. He insists
that the storm “didn’t discriminate” and so neither will the
federal recovery effort.
But, good line or not, black
people aren’t buying it.
According to a Washington
Post/ABC News poll, when asked
if race was a factor in the slow
response by the federal government, 60 percent of blacks said
“yes” and only 37 percent said
“no.”
Interestingly, though, a lot of
white people are buying it.
When whites were asked the
same question, 86 percent said
race was not a factor and only
12 percent said that it was.
For a decade, those who
believe that blacks and whites
see the world differently have
pointed to O.J. Simpson. Now
they point to Katrina.
This isn’t to say the opinions
of whites are irrelevant. Only to
point out the obvious — given
this country’s history of race
relations, the fact whites refuse
to acknowledge that blacks are
being treated unfairly isn’t
exactly news.
Ruben Navarrette is a syndicated
columnist based at the San Diego
Union-Tribune. Contact him at
[email protected].
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RELIGION
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
District’s biology lessons evolve into court case
By Martha Raffaele
Associated Press Writer
HARRISBURG, Pa. — The latest chapter in a long-running
debate over teaching evolution
in public schools is about to
unfold in federal court. In a civil
trial set to begin here Monday,
the Dover Area School District
will defend its policy requiring
ninth-grade students to hear
about “intelligent design” in a
preamble to biology lessons on
evolution.
Intelligent design, a concept
advanced over the past 15 years,
holds that Charles Darwin’s theory of natural selection causing
gradual changes over time cannot fully explain the origin of
life or the emergence of highly
complex life forms. It implies
that life on Earth was the product of an unidentified intelligent force.
Critics say intelligent design is
merely creationism — a literal
reading of the Bible’s story of
creation — camouflaged in scientific language, and it does not
belong in a science curriculum.
EDITOR’SNOTE
Because of the
mandatory evacuation for Hurricane
Rita and The Facts
working out of
temporary offices
in Seguin, Buddy
Scott’s weekly religion column was
unavailable this
week.
Religion
Calendar also does
not appear today
because of the
uncertainty of
when residents will
be allowed to
return to Brazoria
County.
We hope to
return both features next
Saturday.
AP file photo
Clarence Darrow, left, and William Jennings Bryan sit side by side at the
Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tenn., in 1925. Darrow was sent to
Dayton by the American Civil Liberties Union to defend John T. Scopes, a
biology teacher, in his test of Tennessee’s law banning the teaching of
evolution. Bryan testified for the prosecution as a Bible expert.
Eight Dover families are suing
the school district, alleging that
the policy violates the constitutional separation of church and
state.
“Our objective is to demonstrate that the prior (legal)
precedent, which forbids the
teaching of creationism, applies
here as well,” said Eric
Rothschild, a Philadelphia attorney representing the families.
The state American Civil
Liberties Union and Americans
United for Separation of Church
and State are assisting the parents, including lead plaintiff
Tammy Kitzmiller.
“The school board has no
business instructing children
about religious matters,”
Kitzmiller said at a December
news conference on the lawsuit.
The history of evolution litigation dates back to the famous
1925 Scopes Monkey Trial, in
which Tennessee biology
teacher John T. Scopes was fined
$100 for violating a state law
that forbade teaching evolution.
The Tennessee Supreme Court
reversed his conviction on the
narrow ground that only a jury
trial could impose a fine exceeding $50, and the law was
repealed in 1967.
In 1968, the U.S. Supreme
Court overturned an Arkansas
state law banning the teaching
of evolution. And in 1987, it
ruled that states can not require
public schools to balance evolution lessons by teaching creationism.
The issue has become a priority for many religious groups,
which accuse scientists of stepping outside their field into the
realm of theology with some of
their pronouncements.
Dover is believed to have been
the first school system in the
nation to require students to
hear about the concept under
the policy adopted in October
2004. But the clash over intelligent-design is evident far
beyond this rural district of
about 3,500 students 20 miles
south of Harrisburg.
In August, the Kansas Board
of Education gave preliminary
approval to science standards
that allow intelligent designstyle alternatives to be discussed
alongside evolution.
President Bush also has
weighed in, saying schools
should present both concepts.
Richard Thompson, president
and chief counsel of the
Thomas More Law Center,
which is defending the school
district, says Dover’s policy takes
a modest approach.
It requires teachers to read a
statement that says intelligent
design differs from Darwin’s
view and refers students to an
intelligent-design textbook, “Of
Pandas and People,” for more
information.
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MISSOURI SYNOD • 849-2223
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1601 Henderson, Angleton
Youth / Women’s Group
Rev.
Dean
M.
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www.goodshepherdangleton.org
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BRAZOSPORT BAPTIST TEMPLE
Pastor Alan Stovall
Sunday
1203 CR 205 • Angleton
10:45 AM
979-849-3602
6:00 PM
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Sunday School (ages 3 –18)
10:00 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship
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Sunday Evening Worship
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Wednesday Evening
7:30 p.m.
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St. Jerome Catholic Church
107 North Lazy Lane • Clute, TX • 77531-4000
Diocese of Galveston - Houston
Mass Schedule (Horario De Misas)
Saturday Vigil 6:00 pm (English)
7:30 am (English) 8:45 am (Spanish) • 10:30 am (English) • 12:15 pm (Espanol)
Are you interested in learning more about the Catholic Church?
Call (979) 265-5179 (parish office) Fr. James F. Lynes, Pastor
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TRUE HONOR BAPTIST CHURCH
713 ROBERTSON ST., CLUTE, TX. 77531 • 265-2218
Wesley Hicks Pastor
Sunday School......................8:30 AM Choir Rehearsal .....................Wed. 8:00 PM
SundayMorning Worship....9:45 AM Youth Ministry .....1st, 2nd, 3rd Mon. 6:30 PM
Prayer & Bible Study ....Wed. 6:30 PM
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ANGLETON
NEW HOPE MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
1039 WILSON ROAD, CLUTE
YOU’LL NEVER
BE THE SAME
Interim Pastor
Services:
10:00 AM................................................Sunday Worship Services
8:30 AM....................................................................Sunday School
7:00
PM............................................Bible Study each Wednesday
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Your New Life in Christ...
WESLEY FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH OF ANGLETON
#1 WESLEY DRIVE, CLUTE,TX 77531-3742
Worship .......................8:45 and 11:00AM
Sunday School ............................9:45 AM
Between Hwy. 288-B and Old Angleton Road
Fellowship (Sunday) ............................................................9:15 AM
Sunday School (Nursery Provided) ....................................9:30 AM
Morning Worship (Nursery Provided) ..............................10:30 AM
Wednesday
Bible Study ....................................................10:00 AM
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Come Join Us For A “Fresh” Start
201 N. Velasco (Corner of Velasco & Myrtle) • Angleton
www.fpcangleton.com
Sunday 10:45 am Worship
Youth & Children’s Ministry • Nursery Available
979-849-5722
SAINT JOHN
LUTHERAN CHURCH
Sunday School..........8:45AM
Worship Service ....10:00 AM
849-7253
Pastor: Preston Weatherly
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Pastor: CERE MUSCARELLA
501 KARANKAWA
ANGLETON, TEXAS 849-9438
FOURSQUARE
Sunday Morning Worship .................9:00AM
Sunday Morning Worship ...............10:30AM
Wednesday Evening Worship ..........7:00 PM
Church of Angleton
Quality care for children of all ages.
Come as you are you’ll be loved
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CHRISTIAN TABERNACLE U.P.C.
405 W. HENDERSON - ANGLETON
Pastor: J. Mark Rabun
849-8649
Sunday School and Worship....................................................10:00 AM
Evening Worship ........................................................................6:30 PM
Wednesday Worship ...................................................................7:30 PM
KIDZ DEPOT DAYCARE - 864-3998
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BASTROP BAYOU BAPTIST CHURCH
6201 So. Hwy 288-B • Angleton • 979-849-2573
Pastor: Duane Alcorn
Bible Study ...........................................................................9:45 AM
Sunday Morning Worship...................................................11:00 AM
Wednesday
Prayer Meeting .................................................7:00 PM
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WE WELCOME YOU TO
FRONTIER BAPTIST CHURCH
3133 N. Valderas
Angleton, TX 77515
Regular Service Hours
(Sunday) Classes ................................................................................................9:45AM
Morning Worship ..............................................................................................11:00 AM
Evening Classes .................................................................................................6:00 PM
Evening Worship .................................................................................................7:00 PM
Wednesday Service ............................................................................................7:30 PM
For more info. Call-849-5464 Followers of Christ ... For Life.
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Most Holy Trinity Catholic Church
1713 N. Tinsley, Angleton 77515-3598
❖ 979-849-2421
Mass Schedule:
Saturday Anticipated - 5:00 P.M.
Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8:00 A.M. (Spanish)
Sunday
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00 A.M (English)sh
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Emmanuel
Baptist Church
FRESH SPRING BAPTIST CHURCH
Reverend Steve Floeck, Pastor
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265-2362
Pastor: Rev. Janet Blackburn
(Corner of Arcola and Hwy 35)
2227 North Downing
Angleton, Tx 77515
265-5358
979-549-9813 Church Office
Brannon Revel, Pastor
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BRAZORIA
BRAZORIA
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH, BRAZORIA
Pastor: James Doyle
979-798-2340
Corner Hwy. 36 & FM 521
Sunday Early Worship...................8:00 AM
Sunday School.......................9:15 AM
(includes Bible Study classes for deaf, special education, and new readers)
Sunday Morning Worship ................................................................................10:45 AM
Sunday Evening Worship...................................................................................6:00 PM
Wed. Children’s Activities ..................................................................................6:00 PM
Wed. Bible Study & Prayer ................................................................................6:00 PM
Youth Activities...................................................................................................6:30 PM
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Brazoria First Assembly of God
Pastor Dale Frankum
601 S. Market Street • 798-7585
Sunday School ..................9:30 AM
Sunday Morning Worship....10:30 AM
Sunday Evening Worship......6:30 PM
Wed. Youth Service . . . . . . . . . . . 7:00 PM
Wed. Prayer & Bible Study. . . . . . . 7:00PM
Wed. Missionettes & Royal Rangers . 7:00 PM
“A Church For All Nations”
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WILD PEACH BAPTIST CHURCH
County Road 353 - Blacksferry Road
PASTOR - MILTON RAWLES
798-2256
Sunday School....................................................................................................9:45 AM
Morning Worship ..............................................................................................10:55 AM
Evening Worship.................................................................................................6:00 PM
Wednesday Worship..........................................................................................7:00 PM
“Our God Is Able!”
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UNITY CHURCH OF CHRISTIANITY
B R A Z O S P O R T (Hwy. 36) Brazoria,TX
Church Telephone: 798-4171
Bookstore Hours: 11-1 Monday
A Course in Miracles: Call for Time
Sunday Worship: 11:00 AM
GOD IS ALL GOOD & EVERYWHERE PRESENT
Pastor Rodney Coates
& wife Diana
“Where you are part of the family”
509 Stratton Ridge Rd., Clute,Texas
P.O. Box 1055-C
265-4084
WEEKLY SERVICES
Sunday School ............................................................9:30 AM
Worship Service........................................................11:00 AM
Evening Worship .........................................................6:00 PM
WEDNESDAY
Worship................................................7:00 PM
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131 W. Fourth 233-2511 Freeport Pastor : Rev. Dr. J.V. Williams
Sunday School & Nursery .....................................................................9:00 AM
Sunday Morning Worship....................................................................10:00 AM
Sunday Evening Worship ......................................................................6:00 PM
Monday, Men and Women’s Dept. ......................................................7:00 PM
Tuesday Bible Study .............................................................................7:00 PM
Wednesday Youth Activities “Youth Survival Kit”. ..............................5:30 PM
New Midweek Service w/lunch following service......................12:00 -12:30PM
“Where The SON Always Shines!”
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NEW JERUSALEM BAPTIST CHURCH
“A Church Where Love Abides”
226 East 7th, Freeport, Texas
979.233-5613
www.newjerusalembaptistchurch.org
Dr. Sandy K. White, Pastor Sunday 9:00 AM
Sunday School .............................................................................
Sunday Morning Worship ..........................................................Sunday 10:00 AM
Youth Activities ...............................................................Wednesday 6:00-7:00 PM
Family Bible Study ..........................................................Wednesday 7:00-8:00 PM
Choir Rehearsal ...................................................................Wednesday 8:00-Until
Community
Prayer Team ................................................Thursday 12:00-1:00 PM
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ST. MARY, STAR OF THE SEA CHURCH
1019 West 6th St., Freeport, Texas 77541
Saturday...............................................................................5:30(English)
Sunday.....................8:30a.m.(English).....................11:00a.m.(Spanish)
Tuesday.........................................................................8:30a.m.(English)
Wednesday...................................................................6:30p.m.(English)
Thursday......................................................................6:15p.m.(Spanish)
Friday............................................................................
8:30a.m.(English)
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VELASCO BAPTIST CHURCH (SBC)
“TAKING PART IN THE MINISTRY OF JESUS”
800 N. Avenue F, Freeport, TX 233-2302
Pastor: R. Chris Moore
Sunday School .......................................................................9:45 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship Services .....................................11:00 a.m.
Choir Practice........................................................................5:00 p.m.
Sunday Evening Service........................................................6:00 p.m.
Wednesday Bible Study & Prayer Service ............................6:00 p.m.
NURSERY AVAILABLE
www.velascobaptist.org
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FIRST CHRISTIAN CHURCH
(Disciples of Christ)
226 W. 4th, Freeport 233-4124
Sunday School ........................................9:30 AM
Sunday Worship ....................................10:30 AM
“A
Warm Christian Fellowship” - JOIN US!
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ST. PAUL LUTHERAN CHURCH
919 W. 5TH, FREEPORT
Sunday School .........9:15 AM
Morning Worship....10:30 AM
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ST. PAUL’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
1307 West 5th Street-Freeport
Sunday Bible Study ...............................................9:30 AM
Sunday Worship...................................10:45 AM, 6:00 PM
Wednesday Prayer Service .................................6:30 PM
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Clute First Assembly of God
“Where Love Touches People”
540 E. Plantation Dr., Clute, TX 77531
Pastor: John A. Braten
*Sunday School .............................9:30 AM
*Morning Worship ........................10:30 AM
K.I.D.S. Church..............................10:30 AM
*Evening Worship............................6:00 PM
*Wednesday Family Night.............7:00 PM
*Nursery is provided for all services.
Church Phone (979) 265-2118
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Worship Service .................................8:00 AM
Sunday School (all ages)....................9:00 AM
Worship Service ...............................10:00 AM
Thursdays Communion ....................10:00 AM
233-3673
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Jones Creek Assembly of God
7134 Hwy. 36 (between Brazoria & Freeport)
Pastor Ken Murray
Sunday Services.......................................9:45, 10:45 a.m. & 7 p.m.
Wednesday Services..........................................................7:30 p.m.
“A church with a Destiny”
233-4937
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AGAPE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH
1302 West Broad Street, Freeport Tx, 77541
(979) 233-3341 Church (979) 233-4745 Fax
Overseer Hannis J. Prince, Jr.
Sunday Worship. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00am
Tuesday Women in Unity Fellowship 7:00pm
Tuesday Men in Unity Fellowship . . . 7:00pm
Wednesday Youth For Christ . . . . . . . . . . . . 6:00pm
Wednesday Enriched Word Study. . . . . . . . 7:30pm
“Where Everyday Is A New Beginning”
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FREEPORT CHRISTIAN CENTER
“Where the Spirit of the Lord is Moving”
Pastor: Janette Aluiso
1717 Yellowstone • Freeport, TX
239-1606 or 233-5123
Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00am
Sunday Praise & Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11:00am & 6:30pm
Prayer Mon.-Wed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00am
Wed. Praise & Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:30pm
Sr. Pastor: Reta J. Evans, D. Min.
798-4585
1210 South Hwy 36, Brazoria.
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Sundays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00 am Intercessary Prayer
10:00 am Bible Institute
11:00 am Morning Glory
1st and 4th Sunday Evenings 6:30 – 7:30 pm Hour of Power
Tuesday 7pm Bible Study
Wednesday 7pm Prayer 8pm Wednesday Night Live
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MY FATHER’S HOUSE
DOWNTOWN FREEPORT, LOCATED ON THE SQUARE
Welcomes You
Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30am
Non Denominational - PASTOR RICK & CINDY HESTER
“Going To The Next Level In Jesus”
Elder Roland K. Hendricks, Pastor
(979) 798-8362 (979) 798-8377
Morning Worship . . . . . . . . . . . .e-mail:
. . . . . [email protected]
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a.m.
Wednesday Night Bible Study . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 p.m.
Men, Women, Youth Ministries, BTU . . . . . . . . . 3rd Sundays - 3 p.m.
Couples,
Singles, Young Adults, Youth Ministries. . . . . . 4th Sundays - 3 p.m.
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FIRST MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH
265-2008
Strait Gate Gospel Church
2924 CR 520 (off FM 521 West)
Brazoria, TX 77422
Senior Pastor: Reverend Chris A. Volz
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406 E. MAIN CLUTE
Pastor: David A. Taylor
e-mail: [email protected]
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Greater Mt. Zion Baptist Church
First United Methodist Church
1600 West Broad St. Worship.........................11:00 am
Freeport, TX 77541 Sunday School:.....9:45 am for all ages
979-233-3602 office Children’s Church: ............11:00 am
979-233-3783 fax
MYF: ......................5:30 - 7:00 PM
www.fumcfreeport.org
FREEPORT
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
1402 W. BROAD, FREEPORT
Welcomes You!
233-2852
INTERIM PASTOR: Rev. Lounsbery
Traveler’s Service ....................................................................8:30 AM
Services: Sunday: Church School .........................................9:30 AM
Worship ..................................................................................11:00 AM
Wednesday: Choir Rehearsal.................................................7:00 PM
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The Bridge Church and Innercity Ministries
Helping those hurting, addicted and those wanting a new beginning.
230 E. 5th, Freeport, TX 77541
979-233-1007
Pantry. . . . . . . . Tues.-Fri. 1:00-4:00(Temporary help in a time of Crisis)
Services & Meal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Sunday 6:00pm
Practical Life Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Mon. & Wed. 7:00pm
SATURDAY
RELIGION
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
7A
American Baptist churches to leave national organization
COVINA, CALIF.
Leaders of 300 churches in the
Pacific Southwest plan to break from
the American Baptist Churches USA,
claiming the national denomination
has failed to implement its declaration that gay relationships are
incompatible with Christianity.
The Pacific
Southwest Region said NEWS FROM
some churches with
liberal stands on
homosexuality have
From wire reports
not been properly disciplined. But a top committee of the
denomination said Monday the
national church does not set policy
for any of its 5,800 congregations
because each is autonomous.
Associated Press
The Rev. Glenn E. Layne, pastor of
First Baptist Church in Temple City, Pope Benedict XVI receives a soccer ball as a gift from children Wednesday at the
who favors a split, said the move “is end of the weekly general audience in St. Peter’s Square at the Vatican.
not a gay-bashing issue. This is an
authority-of-Scripture issue.” The
Catholic Archdiocese of Dubuque
West Virginia said last week that he
Pacific Southwest board of directors
and his allies also were preparing to has banned a Chicago-based reliplans to stop contributing to nation- split from the national organization. gious community from meeting in
al headquarters as of Dec. 31.
any of the diocese’s facilities after
“This is not a happy day,” Layne
DES MOINES, IOWA
some families accused the group of
said. “But I have to believe that God Dubuque archbishop
using “cult-like” tactics.
is preparing us for something betArchbishop Jerome Hanus said
bars religious order
ter.”
last week he no longer could
A conservative Baptist leader in
remain silent about Love Holy
The archbishop of the Roman
RELIGION
Trinity Blessed Mission. The diocese
said it was concerned about the
secretive nature of the group, its
leader’s authoritarian approach,
possible harm to families and evidence of “characteristics of a cult.”
He could find no evidence of
“appropriate formation in Catholic
theology” in the mission leader’s
teachings, which he said are “close
to fundamentalism.”
Dick Vogt, a mission member
who donated a 400-acre farm near
Bellevue where the community
plans to create a retreat center,
denies the accusations. He said the
group’s leader, Agnes Kyo
McDonald, is unavailable for comment “because of the persecution”
of her group.
few months while they try to get
their lives back to normal. The
Grahams often use the empty
house to accommodate visiting
Christian missionaries or members
of their large family.
“We knew that the money we
had given was only a drop in the
bucket compared to the need, and
we began to feel burdened to invite
a family that had lost everything to
come and stay in the small house
where we lived when we were first
married,” Graham said. “If every
church in America adopted a family, it would solve the problem of
how to house and help so many
evacuees.”
He was moved to help Jose
Medrano, 52, and his mother,
Ernestina Martinez, 78, after they
met Graham’s son, the Rev.
MONTREAT, N.C
Franklin Graham, in a shelter in
Grahams loan house
Shreveport, La. Franklin Graham is
to Katrina survivors
president of the Samaritan’s Purse
aid agency.
The Rev. Billy Graham and his
wife have loaned a spare home they
Medrano’s sister, Gladys
own to a New Orleans family left
Medrano, 55; her husband, Ruben
homeless after Hurricane Katrina
Medrano, 58; and the couple’s son,
more than two weeks ago.
Ruben Isaac Medrano, 15, have
The extended family of five
joined the mother and son at the
Graham house.
expects to stay in the home for a
DIRECTORY
LAKE JACKSON
Recovery Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Tues. & Thurs. 7pm
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FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
Hwy.332 & Yaupon in Lake Jackson
297-3046
www.ljfumc.org
Traditional Worship. . . . 8:00 (Chapel) & 11:00am (Sanctuary)
Contemporary Worship . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9:00am(Sanctuary)
Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:00am
Youth Jr.Hi & Sr.Hi (U-TURN) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5:00 – 7:00pm
Club & Sub’s (1st-6th grades).........2nd & 4th Sunday Evenings 5:30-7:00pm
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LAKE JACKSON CONT.
Wednesday & Friday .................................................................8:30 AM
SHADY OAKS ASSEMBLY OF GOD
128 FLAG LAKE DRIVE-297-9541
Christian Education-Sun . . . . . . . . . .9:30 AM
Morning Worship-Sun . . . . . . . . . . .10:30 AM
HeirForce/Children’s Ministry Sun . .10:30 AM
Evening Worship-Sun . . . . . . . . . . . .6:00 PM
STAFFED NURSERY AVAILABLE
“Where Christ is building Oaks of Righteousness that He might be glorified”
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CORNERSTONE WORSHIP CENTER
“A Full Gospel Church”
Pastor: Charles Logan
Sunday Morning Worship.......................................................10:15 AM
Sunday Worship and Intercession .........................................6:30 PM
Wednesday Christian Education for the Entire Family .....7:00 PM
Home of Day Spring Christian Academy
East
of Richwood Between 2004 and CR 223 in Dome Facility ....
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Grace Community Bible
Church
Sunday School . . . . . . . . . . . 9:30 AM
Sunday Worship . . . . . . . . . . 10:45 AM
Lake Jackson
Church of
Christ
402 CENTER WAY AT YAUPON
LAKE JACKSON CHURCH
“Enjoying the Most of Life’s Journey ”
Pastors: Blyn & Linda Brown
Lake Jackson Civic Center
333 Hwy 332 E.
Services
Sunday 10:00 AM
www.lakejacksonchurch.org
Non-Denominational
Spirit Filled
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Sunday School(all ages) Nursery Provided .........9:30 AM
Morning Worship ....................................................10:30 AM
Evening Worship.......................................................6:00 PM
SWEENY
SWEENY
REBECTOR MEMORIAL
C.O.G.I.C.
304 Willow St., Sweeny, TX • 979-548-0285
Pastor:
James Rebector
Sunday School.......................................................10:30 AM
Worship Service ...................................................12:00 PM
YPWW - Wednesday
PM
WEST..............................................6:30
COLUMBIA
979-345-4642
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Morning Prayer ......................................................7:30 AM
Contemporay Worship...........................................8:30 AM
Sunday School (All Ages) ......................................9:30 AM
Worship Service ...................................................10:45 AM
Sunday Youth Fellowship ......................................5:00 PM
(Nursery provided at all services)
www.stimothy.org
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SUNDAY-Gaylan Jones
Bible Study, 9:30 a.m. , Praise, 10:30 a.m.
Evening Service, 6:00p.m.
WEDNESDAY NIGHT 7:00p.m.
Praise, Prayer Bible Study
Church Office Hours 8-12 Monday - Thursday
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Praise and Worship .....................................9:00 AM
Sunday School .............................................9:45 AM
Morning Worship.......................................10:45 AM
Growing Together in Christ Transforms Lives
Pastor: Rev. Marty Vershel
Associate Pastor/Student
Ministry: Shannon Hahn
123 Surf Dr., Surfside, Tx 233-9562
315 South 16th Street - West Columbia, TX
200 OYSTER CREEK DRIVE, LAKE JACKSON 297-6003
www.gcbcob.org
300 Willow Dr. Lake Jackson
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Columbia United Methodist Church
Wednesday Bible Classes for All Ages ................. 7:00 PM
Preschool Mon., Wed., Fri. ..................................... 9:00 AM
ST. TIMOTHY’S EPISCOPAL CHURCH
For More
information call
979-265-3407
SURFSIDE
surfside
WEST COLUMBIA ....................................
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Meeting at
Lake Jackson
Civic Center
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Youth Service-Wed....................7:00 PM
Adult Bible Study-Wed...............7:00 PM
Missionettes-Wed ......................7:00 PM
Royal Rangers-Wed ..................7:00 PM
LAKE JACKSON CONT.
Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:00 PM
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Senior Pastors Bob & Candy Hankins
Pastor/Elder Velma Hankins
297-7991
Worship Celebration - 9:15 & 10:50 AM
Sunday School - 9:15 AM
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CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
2004 and THAT WAY, LAKE JACKSON • 297-5433
ELCOME
Pastor: Rev. Ken Christoffersen
TO THE
Student Ministries Pastor: Jimi Halliburton
CHURCH OF
Sunday School.........9:15-10:15 AM
Fellowship..............10:15-10:30 AM
THE NAZARENE
“The Church On His Way”
Nursery Provided for Sunday Activities
Awana (for children) - 6:00 PM - Wednesday
200 Lake Road
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979-297-8356
Corner of This Way and Lake Road
An Evangelical Free Church
Worship Service ...............10:30 AM
Evening Service .................6:00 PM
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Vineyard
Church
Christian Science Church
207 Dahlia at FM 2004
Sunday Service..........................................................................10:30 AM
Sunday 9:30 am
Sunday School...........................................................................10:30 AM
Reading Room Mon., Tues., 3-5 PM
120456
Silverbell
Circle
Plantation
Lake Center)
Jackson
(HEB
www.spirituality.com
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(979) 297-4648
Great Music
Home Groups
Casual Atmosphere
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CHRIST LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Services on Channel 17, 18 or 19 depending on your cable choice.
86 Plantation *(near Hwy. 332)
Lake Jackson, 297-2013
Service.........Sunday 8a.m. & 10:30a.m.
Sunday School....9:00am
SECOND BAPTIST CHURCH
201 Garland Dr., Lake Jackson 297-6469
Gary R. Thornton, Pastor
Sunday Morning Bible Study ..........9:15 AM
Sunday Morning Worship ............10:30 AM
Sunday Youth Bible Study .............4:30 PM
Sunday Evening Worship...............6:00 PM
Wednesday Fellowship.................6:30 PM
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First Presbyterian
Church
102 YAUPON, LAKE JACKSON 297-3049
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“Reaching, Growing,
& Serving All of
Southern Brazosport”
“Celebrating the Risen Christ”
Sunday Morning Services....................................................8:00 & 10:30 AM
Sunday School & Bible Classes for all ............................................9:15 AM
501 WILLOW DRIVE, LAKE JACKSON • 297-2667
MISSOURI SYNOD • MINISTER, REV. STEVE LARSEN
www.stmarklj.org
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ST. MICHAEL’S
CATHOLIC CHURCH
100 OAK DRIVE (Corner of 332 and Oak Drive)
WEEKEND MASS SCHEDULE
Saturday .....................................................................................5:30 PM
Sunday ............................................................8:00, 9:30, and 11:00 AM
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL 979-297-3041
WEEKDAY SCHEDULE
Tuesday & Thursday..................................................................5:30 PM
Pastor: Alan Trafford
“The purpose of First Presbyterian church is to
Know, Proclaim and Serve Jesus Christ.”
Sunday Church School .............................. 9:45 a.m.
Sunday Morning Worship ..........8:30 a.m. & 11 a.m.
www.fpc-lj.org
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FLAGLAKE DRIVE CHURCH OF CHRIST
312 Flaglake Drive
Lake Jackson, Texas
Restoring the old paths of New Testament Christianity!
Service Time:
Sunday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10:30 AM and
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Call the Facts
Retail Department
at
979-237-0130
The Welcome Place
Pastor: Paul Geisler
www.christlutheran-lj.org
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Translation in Spanish 11:00 a.m.
Traduccion en Espanol 11:00 a.m.
Ministry to the hearing impaired provided on Sunday, 11 a.m. services
HURRICANERITA
8A SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
24 evacuees die
in bus explosion
By Sheila Flynn
Associated Press Writer
WILMER — A bus ferrying nursing home residents
away from Hurricane Rita
caught fire and exploded
Friday while stuck on a gridlocked highway south of
Dallas, killing as many as 24
people.
Early indications were that
mechanical problems, possibly with the vehicle’s brakes,
sparked the fire, which was
then fed by explosions of
passengers’ oxygen tanks,
Dallas County sheriff’s
spokesman Don Peritz said.
Authorities believed 24
people were killed, but that
number could change, Peritz
said. The medical examiner’s
office was still working to
determine the number of
fatalities.
The bus was carrying 38
residents and six employees
of the Brighton Gardens
nursing home in Houston to
another home in Dallas
owned by its parent company, Virginia-based Sunrise
Senior Living.
Sheriff’s deputies and the
bus driver tried to rescue
passengers but could not get
everyone off the bus as it
became engulfed in flames.
The vehicle was reduced to a
blackened, burned-out shell,
with large blue tarps covering the bodies.
Tina Jones, a nurse, pulled
over and helped treat the
injured after witnessing the
explosion. She said she saw
at least six dead bodies.
“I’ll probably go home
and have a good cry,” she
said.
Fred Witte, 74, said he
heard three explosions from
his property about 150 yards
from where the bus caught
fire.
“I was right there at the
corner, and I felt the pressure,” he said of the first
blast.
The fire caused a lengthy
backup on Interstate 45,
which was already congested
with evacuees from the Gulf
Coast. The interstate was
shut down for about four
hours but reopened after
authorities made the unusual decision to move the
wreckage so hurricane evacuees could get through.
Sunrise Chairman and
Chief Executive Paul Klaasen
said in a statement that the
company’s “primary concern is for the safety of our
residents, and we are
shocked and saddened that
this event occurred during
our evacuation.”
Associated Press
Three buildings burn in the historic Strand District of downtown
Galveston as Hurricane Rita approaches the coast Friday.
Fire sweeps historic
Galveston district
By The Associated Press
GALVESTON — At least
three buildings caught fire
Friday in this island city’s
historic Strand District, with
at least one engulfed by
flames whipped higher by
strong
winds
from
Hurricane Rita.
It was not immediately
clear what caused the fire.
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Firefighters were moving
people away from the area.
A fallen electric pole was
lying on one of the buildings and was burning.
One of the buildings that
caught fire was built in
1905, just after the hurricane that destroyed most of
Galveston and killed at least
6,000 people.
Galveston was initially at
the center of forecasters’
fears as Rita churned in the
Gulf of Mexico.
Authorities worried a high
storm surge could overwhelm seawalls and submerge the island.
Who Then Can Be Saved?
What’s In A Name?
All of us are familiar with the importance of names. We are
especially proud of our own, we have it on all that belongs to us;
bank documents, mail, home ownership papers, driver’s license,
Social Security documents, etc.
Jesus is just as proud of his. He has attached it to what belongs
to himself. Ephesians 1: 17 - 23 tells us the church is the body of
Christ. If this is the case, then why shouldn’t it wear His name,
alone? In Matthew 16: 18 Jesus says, “I will build my church.”
Today there are well over 2,000 different church names in the
USA. Where does man find “authority” for all those names in
scripture? They don’t! If so, where? Bible: Book, Chapter, and
Verse; Please!
Jesus said in Matthew 15: 9, “But in vain they do worship me,
teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.”
Is the name of the church where you worship found in the Word
of God, or in the mind of man?
Since we are so proud of our name, shouldn’t we honor Christ by
worshipping in His name alone? Think about it!
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hour of Rita’s wrath
approached.
“When the winds start
picking up we’ll open up the
other gymnasium but we
can’t provide them with food
because we don’t have
enough,” Rigali said. “At least
they’ll have a roof over their
heads because I’m not going
to let people just stay out
there.”
Rigali spent Thursday afternoon and evening opening
three of the seven shelters in
Montgomery County. Conroe
ISD bus drivers worked in six
to eight hour shifts picking
up evacuees who were stranded in the Wal-Mart parking
lot and at St. Luke’s Hospital
then took them to the Red
Cross shelters, said Ofelia
Cardenas, a bus driver.
Although chaos appeared
prevalent on the highway,
the shelters held a quiet calm.
Hundreds of people from
south or east of Houston laid
on blue foam mats covering
the wood gym floor. Many
were trying to sleep after 14to 20-hour drives.
“We were trying to get to
Dallas but it’s impossible,”
Raphael Guerrero said as his
2-year-old son waddled
toward him. “There is no
more fuel.”
Guerrero was lucky because
he was with his 15 family
members at Conroe High
School.
Entering Texas at 7 a.m.
Thursday, Efrain Touar tried
to beat Rita and make it back
to Sealy to be with his wife
and 2-month-old daughter.
He was forced to take back
roads because when he
reached I-45, traffic was being
forced north, he said.
“I had gone to visit my dad
and he came back with me,”
Touar said. “At least we have
a place to stay during the
storm.”
Galveston native Nancy
Conner and her son, Richard,
decided to continue their
journey to Austin on Friday
after one night on the gym
floor. Richard Conner is a diabetic and Conner couldn’t
take sleeping on the mats at
her age, she said.
“I’ve got to call my pastor
to tell him where we are
going to now,” Conner said
as she struggled with her
small suitcase up the stairs.
Numerous people staying at
the school came to her aid
and carried her bag up two
flights of stairs.
Despite the messy situation
on the roads, people volunteered their help everywhere.
Local residents passed out
water and sandwiches to
those stranded on the highway. Car after car drove to the
shelters and dropped off
water and food, Williams
said.
“We are taking everything
because we really don’t know
what our needs are right
now,” Williams said. “It’s
wonderful because we have
all kinds of people asking us if
we need help.”
Traffic began to clear
around Conroe about noon
Friday. Traffic was still heavy
Friday afternoon north of
Conroe on I-45.
Weisinger from C-BISD
Assistant Superintendent
Martha Buckner that Wagner
CONTINUED FROM COVER
decided buses from school
evacuees. According to official districts should meet at
tallies from Friday afternoon, Angleton Middle School and
provided by Brenham Police
go to Bryan-College Station
Sgt. Daniel Gaskamp, nearly
from there instead of having
2,000 people have found
the buses go to evacuation
refuge in Brenham’s 14 shelsites on their predetermined
ters. Brenham’s average popu- routes.
lation is about 1,900.
While Weisinger said she
Though Gaskamp could not appreciated Wagner’s suggesgive an estimate of the numtion and knew he was making
ber of additional evacuees
it in their best interest, she
unable to find shelter, particu- deviated and held to the inilarly because there are many
tial plan to go to Brenham.
being taken in by Brenham
“I’ll tell you it was difficult
residents, he said locals like
keeping 14 buses in a convoy.
Carla Prnka suggest there are
I can’t imagine how hard it’d
hundreds still stranded in
be with up to 23 buses, espeharm’s way.
cially with everybody trying
Initial plans called for four
to break in,” she said. “And
shelters because Brenham was these people (evacuees)
intended only as an evacuaalready told their family
tion overflow center,
about where they were going.
Herrmann said, but as the sit“I think we needed to stick
uation grew increasingly dire, with our original plans … and
more places were opened.
we’re very glad we stuck with
Many of the locations are
our decision,” Weisinger said.
public schools or church
She also said they were iniactivity centers, like St. Mary’s tially instructed to go to the
Catholic Church, which also
Brenham Convention Center.
served as the evacuee hub
However, no such place
after Hurricane Katrina.
exists. The information was
Several shelters have
provided to them by the
exceeded capacity allowed by Brazoria County Emergency
the fire code, by 70 people in Management.
one case. Some volunteers are
Instead, they followed road
quick to shrug and say,
signs posted in Brenham
“You’ve got to do what you’ve directing them to the Walgot to do to help people.”
Mart parking lot where a cenAll 14 of the Columbiatral evacuation command
Brazoria ISD school buses car- center, staffed by Brenham
rying evacuees from West
police, pointed them to St.
Columbia, Brazoria, Wild
Mary’s.
Peach and surrounding areas
Charles Keese, St. Mary’s
along with one bus from
shelter director, estimates
Sweeny found refuge at St.
about 75 percent at the shelMary’s. They arrived in
ter are from Brazoria County.
Brenham late Wednesday
But for the drivers, 14 Cnight, a significant distance
BISD volunteers and one volahead of Brazosport ISD’s
unteer who was a former
buses arrival in Bryan-College Angleton ISD bus driver,
Station on Thursday mornWilliam Gadrey, the trip
ing, according to C-BISD
didn’t end when the last
Transportation Director
engine was killed. Each of
Marisa Weisinger.
them worked alongside Red
Weisinger attributed their
Cross volunteers at the shelearlier arrival to straying from ter, taking out trash, cleaning
last-minute changes in evacu- and preparing food. Weisinger
ation plans presented by
winked while confiding the
Brazoria County Sheriff
shelter’s pasta dinner Friday
Charles Wagner after an
was made with a secret recipe.
emergency evacuation planShe said the performance
ning meeting Tuesday night.
by these drivers has been
The word came to
nothing short of amazing.
“I’m proud that they work
for me,” Weisinger said.
Besides, “We can’t just sit still,
can we?”
Meanwhile, resources are
dwindling rapidly. Gladney
said Wal-Mart is one of the
few stores in town still open
Friday, let alone one with supplies. When he was there
Thursday, there was only one
register open, the line snaked
on for what seemed like miles
and the cashier looked ready
to cry, Gladney said.
Like many other places in
Texas, gas lines also were gridlocked in town, often requiring up to 30 minutes before
touching the pump. As of
Friday afternoon, fuel was still
flowing at four Brenham stations, Gaskamp said, and he
was confident there was
enough to go around. The
abundance brought incoming
evacuees further north in
search of open shelters, he
said.
Ralph Dahkkani, manager
of Fuel Depot, explained gas
stations are typically running
only two pumps at a time
because if everybody gets it at
the same time, then it comes
out much slower.
Dahkkani said the first supplies to run out were milk and
bread, but ice also has
become scarce. He’ll let the
ice machine, normally suited
for cooling soda, fill a cup,
but not a bag.
It’s a conservation effort,
Dahkkani said, and there has
to be enough to go around.
At the Fluff Top Roll café in
historic downtown Brenham,
where locals greet one another with a hearty, open-palm
wave, the door might as well
be rotating. Despite posting a
wait time of two hours, mostly due to being short-staffed,
the customers kept arriving.
The employed waitresses
couldn’t fight the traffic and
one volunteer waitress,
Donna Barber of Matagorda,
was more accustomed to serving medicine as a nurse’s aide
than food.
Not that patrons had much
of a choice. Fluff Top’s name
is derived from its renowned,
delicious biscuits. Many of
the town’s restaurants ran out
of food by Thursday afternoon, Gladney said. He was
sitting in a Dairy Queen on
Thursday when they
announced the dinner bell
had given its last twang, but
soda and ice cream were still
available.
Nevertheless, the third
most vital resource, next to
food and water, remains
steadily dwindling, despite
the last-minute inclusion of
10 shelters.
Prnka said she wept after
seeing hundreds of people
sleeping on the side of the
road Thursday morning
because they had run out of
gas and had no place to go.
She would offer them to stay
with her, except she isn’t sure
her place is suitable as is — “It
sways in 40 mph winds,” she
said.
“So many people are
stranded here. I can’t believe
all of this,” she said. “I cried. I
was so sad to see families,
children, people sleeping on
the ground.”
Like many, Prnka said this
particular mess could have
been eased, if not avoided,
had mandatory evacuation
began earlier and if there had
been better communication
between areas with shelters.
Angie Lopez of Brazoria was
among the presumed hundreds left without shelter
Friday. She and her five relatives slept in a Brenham park
Thursday. After being turned
away from about six shelters
Friday, she feared they’d be
on the way back to the park
or the Wal-Mart parking lot,
even as winds rose to twice
their speed since earlier in the
week.
But even the Brenham
police command center for
evacuation direction, which
was set up in the Wal-Mart
parking lot, had been taken
down before nightfall Friday
because the winds were too
strong for their canvas tent,
Gaskamp said. On their way
out, Gaskamp said the officers
saw several similar tents set
up in the lot by evacuees.
“We’re urging people to fill
up and move north,” he said.
Gaskamp, a fifth-generation
Brenhamite who outlasted
Hurricane Carla when its eye
rolled over this city, said it’s
incredible that Brenham has
drawn so many resources
together in a short time span.
“Considering what we had
to work with, looking at the
influx of all that’s come
through here, I think we held
our on pretty well,” he said.
CONTINUED FROM COVER
The Red Cross began opening shelters Thursday in
Conroe and along Highway
59, FM 1960 and Highway
290.
“We filled up when we
opened our doors,” said John
Williams, Conroe High
School’s assistant principal.
Seven buses carrying about
120 Brazoria County residents
were sent back to Angleton
after the shelters in Conroe
reached capacity. The buses
were then rerouted to San
Antonio.
The Conroe High School
gymnasium became a resting
ground for almost 400 people, despite the limit being
300, said Paul Rigali, Red
Cross shelter manager. The
majority of the people in the
shelters ran out of gas and
others took a break from the
road Thursday night and got
back onto Interstate 45 on
Friday morning, he said.
Rigali became nervous as the
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September 24, 2005
Embarrassing losses have Texans reeling
“We aren’t satisfied with where we are and we’ll do whatever
it takes to get to where we want to go.”
By Kristie Rieken
Associated Press Writer
— Dom Capers, Texans head coach
HOUSTON — The Houston
Texans have fired their offensive
coordinator and benched two of
their starting defensive players. And
its only two games into the season.
The team that has always prided
itself on slow and steady growth
appears in the midst of a slide.
Chris Palmer, the offensive coordi-
nator since the team’s inception,
was replaced Monday with offensive
line coach Joe Pendry.
Later in the week, cornerback
Phillip Buchanon and linebacker
Jason Babin were benched in
favor of Demarcus Faggins and
Shantee Orr.
Now the question is whether the
shake-ups will help the team or create even more turmoil within the
struggling organization?
So far, the mood of the team
seems better in the wake of the
Tiger keeps
Americans
in running
changes, but the Texans will have to
wait another week before a test
comes on the field.
Capers said he thought this was
the logical time to make a change
because the Texans have a bye
Sunday before facing Cincinnati on
Oct. 2.
“We aren’t satisfied with where we
are and we’ll do whatever it takes to
get to where we want to go,” coach
Dom Capers said.
Houston has scored just one
■ See TEXANS, Page 2B
Indiana
players
sentenced
A LOSS IN CHICAGO
By The Associated Press
GAINESVILLE, Va. — Tiger
Woods finally found the secret
to winning a better-ball match
at the Presidents Cup.
Play with a back so sore that it
has to be iced between shots.
Play with a partner who has
sore ribs.
And most of all, make lots of
birdies.
Woods birdied
seven of his first
12 holes, then
relied on Jim
Furyk to make
the
decisive
birdie that delivered the world’s
No. 1 player his Woods
first
victory
Friday in a better-ball match —
and one the Americans desperately needed.
The International team, trailing in only one match at the
turn, got more great play from
Retief Goosen and Adam Scott
to keep their slim lead after two
sessions, 61⁄2-51⁄2.
It looked like it might be an
even larger lead until the Dallasborn duo of Scott Verplank and
Justin Leonard rallied to win
their match and remain undefeated, and Michael Campbell
and Vijay Singh failed to capitalize on great opportunities at
the 18th hole, both of them settling for halves.
Campbell’s wedge to the 18th
hit the pin and rolled back into
the rough, then his belly wedge
rimmed in and out.
Singh, playing with Tim
Clark, stuffed a wedge into 3
feet for birdie on the 17th to
square their match, then had a
chance to beat Fred Funk and
Stewart Cink when he hit a towering shot out of the rough to
15 feet.
But the birdie putt never had
a chance, dipping well below
the cup for a halve.
Still, it set the stage for what
should be a pivotal third round
today with five alternate-shot
matches in the morning and
five better-ball matches in the
afternoon.
The fans were far more vocal
in the afternoon, as loud cheers
rang out at Robert Trent Jones
Golf Club, with only murmurs
and grudging applause whenever the International team made
a putt.
touchdown en route to going winless in its first two games. David Carr
has been sacked 13 times and he
and the offense seem lost.
The team had two practices with
the new offensive coordinator this
week before canceling Thursday’s
practice as the Texans evacuated
ahead of Hurricane Rita.
Carr said there is a new optimism
surrounding the Texans since
3 Pacers involved
in November
brawl given year
of probation.
By The Associated Press
Associated Press
Houston’s Jason Lane, left, greets Craig Biggio after he scored Friday on a Lance Berkman single to deep center in the fifth
inning against the Cubs at Wrigley Field. The Cubs held off a rally by the Astros and won 5-4.
Cubs club Astros, 5-4
Houston rally comes
up short.
By Nancy Armour
AP National Writer
CHICAGO — Trailing by a run
with the bases loaded and only one
out, the Houston Astros were confident they’d pull this one out like
they have so many other times this
year.
Nope.
Derrek Lee helped the Chicago
Cubs play spoiler Friday, making an
impressive defensive play to stall
Houston’s rally and preserve a 5-4
victory over the NL wild-card leaders. Lee also was 3-for-3 with an RBI
at the plate.
Ryan Dempster got his 30th save
and Nomar Garciaparra drove in a
pair of runs for the Cubs, who handed the Astros their second loss in the
last 10 games.
“We had a chance, but we didn’t
execute well and that’s why we
lost,” Jose Vizcaino said. “We’re still
confident. We just have to come
back tomorrow and learn from our
mistakes.”
The Astros began the day two
Associated Press
Chicago’s Nomar Garciaparra singles
Friday, driving in Derrek Lee in the
fourth inning of the game against
Houston at Wrigley Field.
games ahead of Philadelphia and
four in front of Florida in the wildcard race. The Phillies played at
Cincinnati later Friday while the
Marlins were in Atlanta.
“We weren’t going to win the rest
of them,” said Lance Berkman, who
was 2-for-5 with an RBI. “Nobody
expected us to go 9-0 over the last
nine games. It would have been
nice, but these guys are getting paid
to play, just like we are. They’re a
tough team. We certainly have our
hands full. We just have to regroup
and come back tomorrow.”
But they’ll have to do it without
Roger Clemens. The Astros’ ace was
scratched from today’s start with a
strained left hamstring that has been
bothering him since Sept. 3.
Ezequiel Astacio will start in his
place in the 1:20 p.m. start.
“We just need a good performance,” manager Phil Garner said.
“Nine shutout innings would be
nice.”
So would some timely offense.
The Astros trailed 5-1 after four
innings before they finally started
clicking, thanks to Craig Biggio and
a defensive gaffe by Corey Patterson.
Biggio, who hit a solo homer in
the third inning, got things started
with an RBI double in the fifth.
Berkman hit an RBI single one out
later and advanced to second on a
■ See ASTROS, Page 3B
ROCHESTER HILLS, Mich.
— Indiana Pacers players Ron
Artest, Jermaine O’Neal and
Stephen Jackson were sentenced
to a year’s probation Friday, plus
60 hours of community service
and $250 fines
for their roles in
one of the worst
brawls in U.S.
sports history.
The three — all
of whom entered
pleas of no contest — were also
ordered to underArtest
go anger management counseling, although
Oakland County
assistant prosecutor
John
Pietrofesa said
Artest
had
already completed the counseling as part of his Jackson
NBA suspension.
“We’re very satisfied with the
resolution today,” Pietrofesa
said. “They decided to take
responsibility and to move forward, and that’s probably the
best thing for everyone
involved.”
The brawl took place Nov. 19,
during a game against the
Detroit Pistons at The Palace of
Auburn Hills.
Before sentencing, Judge Julie
Nicholson reminded the players
that whether they like it or not,
they are seen as role models and
owe it to their fans to behave
appropriately.
O’Neal said he was looking
forward to putting the brawl
behind him and moving on,
and that the community service
would not be difficult because
he already enjoys volunteering.
Jackson did not respond to
questions from reporters as he
left the court; Artest said only, “I
just want to go home.”
A no-contest plea in Michigan
is not an admission of guilt but
is treated as such for sentencing
purposes.
Martin hoping for ‘old-school racing’ at Dover
By The Associated Press
DOVER, Del. — Mark Martin is
hoping his version of “old-school racing” will be the order of business
Sunday at Dover International
Speedway.
Martin wants less squabbling, fewer
cautions and more hard racing. He
agrees with the position of NASCAR,
which issued a series of fines, point
reductions and threats of even greater
punishment for future indiscretions
after several drivers lost their cool on
and off the track last weekend at New
Hampshire International Speedway.
“First and foremost, we need as a
group to stop wrecking all the time,”
Martin said Friday before qualifying
seventh for the MBNA 400. “There’s
no point in that and, hopefully,
maybe we’ll make some headway
with that.”
Martin, hoping to become the only
active driver with five career victories
on The Monster Mile, figures to benefit from a clean race. He’s seventh in
points — 54 behind leader Tony
Stewart — with nine races remaining
on the schedule.
Seeking his first championship after
nearly two decades on the circuit,
Martin hopes cautions can be held to
a minimum. He knows bunching the
field for restarts causes more yellow
flags than anything else.
“The amount of cautions that we
have to start with is ridiculous,” he
said. “Some are for drink bottles and
rollbar padding, which we shouldn’t
be having, but the others are because
parts are falling off these race cars
because they’re wrecked.”
Martin would like the younger drivers to show a little more patience,
but understands why they’re so anxious to succeed.
“Most of the wrecks are not with
veteran drivers,” he explained. “At
the same time, believe me, there’s a
lot of pressure in this business, and I
think people are feeling the pressure
and think that taking the risk on
wrecking is worth the reward.”
■ See NASCAR,
Associated Press
NASCAR driver Brian Vickers, left, talks through the window of his teammate Jeff Gordon as crew members work on their race cars Friday during
Page 3B a practice session for the MBNA 400 at the Dover Speedway.
2B SATURDAY
SCORECARD
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
Duval
makes
cut in S.A.
By The Associated Press
SAN ANTONIO —
Dean Wilson shot an 8under 62 on Friday to
take the lead at the
Texas Open and David
Duval made his first 36hole cut this year.
Wilson, best known
for playing with Annika
Sorenstam at the 2003
Colonial, had a 12under 128 total after two
rounds at the LaCantera
Golf Club, one stroke in
front of Jeff Maggert and
John Senden and nine
in front of Duval, the
world’s former No. 1
player who had missed
18 straight cuts and broken par just once this
year before shooting a 1under 69 on Thursday.
“It was a cycle that
needed to be broken,”
said Duval, whose previous cut was in the
Michelin Championship
last October. “I’ve been
No. 1 and No. 1,000, but
I’ve hit bottom and I’m
coming back up.”
Wilson, who had
Friday’s lowest round,
finished third in this
tournament last year.
“I had the best finish
of my career (here) last
year, so I certainly have
some good memories of
this place,” he said. “The
last month or so I’ve
had a good round and
then a bad round, but
this is certainly a good
one.”
Wilson had eight
birdies, closing with
ones on his last three
holes.
“That’s nice to have
the three birdies to finish up, hopefully that
will give me some
momentum,” Wilson
said.
Maggert, a Houstonarea resident, was
exhausted at having his
infant twins, young son
and wife in one hotel
room after fleeing
Hurricane Rita. He was
content with the second-round 66 that kept
him in the hunt for his
first PGA Tour title in six
years.
“Hopefully we can get
an extra room for the
weekend,” Maggert said.
“I’m just glad we’re all
together.”
Maggert got off to a
fast start with birdies on
three of the first seven
holes.
Senden had a 66 on
Friday.
Noble’s Forecast
Great days are identified by small black dots
and represent a predicted flood tide of at least
1.5 knots and the time the current is running at
a maximum. Prime Time begins at maximum
flow.
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Friday. Check our Web site at thefacts.com and
follow the Associated Press link for baseball
scores and standings.
Football
NFL STANDINGS
AMERICAN CONFERENCE
East
W L
Buffalo
1 1
Miami
1 1
New England
1 1
N.Y. Jets
1 1
South
W L
Indianapolis
2 0
Jacksonville
1 1
Tennessee
1 1
Houston
0 2
North
W L
Cincinnati
2 0
Pittsburgh
2 0
Cleveland
1 1
Baltimore
0 2
West
W L
Kansas City
2 0
Denver
1 1
Oakland
0 2
San Diego
0 2
NATIONAL CONFERENCE
East
W L
N.Y. Giants
2 0
Washington
2 0
Dallas
1 1
Philadelphia
1 1
South
W L
Tampa Bay
2 0
Atlanta
1 1
Carolina
1 1
New Orleans
1 1
North
W L
Chicago
1 1
Detroit
1 1
Green Bay
0 2
Minnesota
0 2
West
W L
St. Louis
1 1
San Francisco 1 1
Seattle
1 1
Arizona
0 2
T
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.500
.500
.500
.500
PF
25
41
47
24
PA
26
27
47
34
T
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0 1.000
0 .500
0 .500
0 .000
PF
34
29
32
14
PA
10
24
44
49
T
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0 1.000
0 1.000
0 .500
0 .000
PF
64
61
39
17
PA
21
14
51
49
T
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0 1.000
0 .500
0 .000
0 .000
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50
30
37
41
PA
24
51
53
48
T
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0 1.000
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0 .500
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69
23
41
52
PA
29
20
38
17
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0 .500
0 .500
0 .500
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32
47
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16
31
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.500
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45
23
27
21
PA
15
41
43
61
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0
0
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.500
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42
31
35
31
PA
40
67
44
59
Sunday’s Games
Chicago 38, Detroit 6
Tennessee 25, Baltimore 10
Pittsburgh 27, Houston 7
Tampa Bay 19, Buffalo 3
Indianapolis 10, Jacksonville 3
Cincinnati 37, Minnesota 8
Carolina 27, New England 17
Philadelphia 42, San Francisco 3
Seattle 21, Atlanta 18
St. Louis 17, Arizona 12
N.Y. Jets 17, Miami 7
Cleveland 26, Green Bay 24
Denver 20, San Diego 17
Kansas City 23, Oakland 17
Monday’s Game
N.Y. Giants 27, New Orleans 10
Washington 14, Dallas 13
Sunday
Carolina at Miami, Noon
Atlanta at Buffalo, Noon
Cincinnati at Chicago, Noon
Cleveland at Indianapolis, Noon
Tennessee at St. Louis, Noon
Jacksonville at N.Y. Jets, Noon
Tampa Bay at Green Bay, Noon
Oakland at Philadelphia, Noon
New Orleans at Minnesota, Noon
Arizona at Seattle, 3:05 p.m.
Dallas at San Francisco, 3:05 p.m.
New England at Pittsburgh, 3:15 p.m.
N.Y. Giants at San Diego, 7:30 p.m.
BYES: Baltimore, Detroit, Houston,
Washington
Monday
Kansas City at Denver, 8 p.m.
NFL CALENDAR
Oct. 18 — Trading deadline.
Oct. 25-27 — NFL fall meeting.
Jan. 1 — Regular season ends.
Jan. 7-8 — AFC and NFC wild-card playoffs.
Jan. 14-15 — AFC and NFC divisional playoffs.
Jan. 22 — AFC and NFC championship
games.
Feb. 5 — Super Bowl at Detroit.
Feb. 12 — Pro Bowl at Honolulu.
Feb. 22-28 — Scouting combine,
Indianapolis.
March 26-30 — NFL annual meeting,
Orlando, Fla.
April 29-30 — NFL draft.
May 23-25 — NFL spring meeting, Denver.
NFL TEAM STATISTICS
Through Week 2
TOTAL YARDAGE
AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
OFFENSE
Yards
Rush
Cincinnati
924
315
Pittsburgh
812
341
Cleveland
764
150
Kansas City
743
323
New England
667
112
Oakland
665
163
Jacksonville
665
247
Miami
661
217
New York Jets
661
155
Denver
643
168
Indianapolis
608
232
Tennessee
593
194
Baltimore
583
91
San Diego
504
182
Buffalo
463
199
Houston
341
208
DEFENSE
Yards
Rush
Buffalo
438
286
Pittsburgh
524
210
Miami
583
168
New England
588
196
Jacksonville
590
243
Tennessee
606
220
New York Jets
624
264
Baltimore
630
183
San Diego
632
207
Denver
639
230
Cincinnati
677
172
Indianapolis
704
205
Houston
704
287
Kansas City
717
128
Oakland
733
198
Cleveland
872
264
NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
OFFENSE
Yards
Rush
Philadelphia
884
191
Seattle
750
260
New Orleans
713
173
St. Louis
702
197
Arizona
697
113
Washington
669
268
Green Bay
668
162
Tampa Bay
663
337
Dallas
652
199
Carolina
600
245
Minnesota
552
110
Atlanta
542
315
New York Giants
532
213
Chicago
502
228
Detroit
488
131
San Francisco
359
92
DEFENSE
Yards
Rush
Tampa Bay
395
80
Pass
609
471
614
420
555
502
418
444
506
475
376
399
492
322
264
133
Pass
152
314
415
392
347
386
360
447
425
409
505
499
417
589
535
608
Pass
693
490
540
505
584
401
506
326
453
355
442
227
319
274
357
267
Pass
315
Philadelphia
Washington
Detroit
Chicago
Arizona
Carolina
Seattle
St. Louis
New Orleans
Dallas
Green Bay
Atlanta
New York Giants
Minnesota
San Francisco
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LOTTERY RESULTS
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Date: 9/23/05
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258
131
233
193
229
140
234
116
233
207
157
214
103
313
229
AVERAGE PER GAME
AMERICAN FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
OFFENSE
Yards
Rush
Cincinnati
462.0 157.5
Pittsburgh
406.0 170.5
Cleveland
382.0 75.0
Kansas City
371.5 161.5
New England
333.5 56.0
Oakland
332.5 81.5
Jacksonville
332.5 123.5
Miami
330.5 108.5
New York Jets
330.5 77.5
Denver
321.5 84.0
Indianapolis
304.0 116.0
Tennessee
296.5 97.0
Baltimore
291.5 45.5
San Diego
252.0 91.0
Buffalo
231.5 99.5
Houston
170.5 104.0
DEFENSE
Yards
Rush
Buffalo
219.0 143.0
Pittsburgh
262.0 105.0
Miami
291.5 84.0
New England
294.0 98.0
Jacksonville
295.0 121.5
Tennessee
303.0 110.0
New York Jets
312.0 132.0
Baltimore
315.0 91.5
San Diego
316.0 103.5
Denver
319.5 115.0
Cincinnati
338.5 86.0
Indianapolis
352.0 102.5
Houston
352.0 143.5
Kansas City
358.5 64.0
Oakland
366.5 99.0
Cleveland
436.0 132.0
NATIONAL FOOTBALL CONFERENCE
OFFENSE
Yards
Rush
Philadelphia
442.0 95.5
Seattle
375.0 130.0
New Orleans
356.5 86.5
St. Louis
351.0 98.5
Arizona
348.5 56.5
Washington
334.5 134.0
Green Bay
334.0 81.0
Tampa Bay
331.5 168.5
Dallas
326.0 99.5
Carolina
300.0 122.5
Minnesota
276.0 55.0
Atlanta
271.0 157.5
New York Giants
266.0 106.5
Chicago
251.0 114.0
Detroit
244.0 65.5
San Francisco
179.5 46.0
DEFENSE
Yards
Rush
Tampa Bay
197.5 40.0
Philadelphia
230.5 129.0
Washington
258.5 65.5
Detroit
276.0 116.5
Chicago
278.5 96.5
Arizona
286.0 114.5
Carolina
289.5 70.0
Seattle
292.5 117.0
St. Louis
298.0 58.0
New Orleans
303.5 116.5
Dallas
318.5 103.5
Green Bay
322.5 78.5
Atlanta
364.5 107.0
New York Giants
370.0 51.5
Minnesota
424.5 156.5
San Francisco
494.0 114.5
203
386
319
364
343
439
351
480
374
430
488
515
637
536
759
Pass
304.5
235.5
307.0
210.0
277.5
251.0
209.0
222.0
253.0
237.5
188.0
199.5
246.0
161.0
132.0
66.5
Pass
76.0
157.0
207.5
196.0
173.5
193.0
180.0
223.5
212.5
204.5
252.5
249.5
208.5
294.5
267.5
304.0
Pass
346.5
245.0
270.0
252.5
292.0
200.5
253.0
163.0
226.5
177.5
221.0
113.5
159.5
137.0
178.5
133.5
Pass
157.5
101.5
193.0
159.5
182.0
171.5
219.5
175.5
240.0
187.0
215.0
244.0
257.5
318.5
268.0
379.5
COLLEGE SCHEDULE
Today
EAST
Dartmouth (1-0) at New Hampshire (2-0), 11
a.m.
East Carolina (1-1) at West Virginia (3-0), 11
a.m.
Albany, N.Y. (0-2) at Cent. Connecticut St.
(1-2), noon
Duquesne (2-1) at Columbia (1-0), 11:30
a.m.
Towson (2-1) at Northeastern (0-3), 11:30
a.m.
Brown (1-0) at Harvard (1-0), noon
St. Francis, Pa. (0-2) at La Salle (0-3),
noon
Fordham (0-3) at Lafayette (2-1), noon
San Diego (3-0) at Princeton (1-0), noon
Robert Morris (1-1) at Rowan (2-0), noon
W. Michigan (1-2) at Temple (0-3), noon
Marist (2-1) at Wagner (3-0), noon
Cornell (1-0) at Yale (0-1), noon
Youngstown St. (3-0) at Pittsburgh (0-3), 1
p.m.
Iona (1-2) at Stonehill (2-1), 1 p.m.
Georgetown, D.C. (1-2) at Stony Brook (1-1),
1 p.m.
Hampton (3-0) vs. Morgan St. (1-2) at East
Rutherford, N.J., 3 p.m.
Rhode Island (3-0) at Massachusetts (2-1), 5
p.m.
Holy Cross (2-1) at Delaware (2-0), 6 p.m.
Penn (1-0) at Villanova (1-1), 6 p.m.
SOUTH
Boston College (2-1) at Clemson (2-1), 11
a.m.
Colorado (2-0) at Miami (1-1), 11 a.m.
North Carolina (0-2) at N.C. State (1-1), 11
a.m.
Arkansas (1-2) at Alabama (3-0), 11:30 a.m.
Butler (0-3) at Jacksonville (0-1), 11:30 a.m.
Bethune-Cookman (2-1) at Norfolk St. (0-2),
noon
Lehigh (1-1) at VMI (1-2), noon
Liberty (1-2) at William & Mary (1-2), noon
Tenn.-Martin (2-1) at Gardner-Webb (2-0),
12:30 p.m.
Charleston Southern (1-2) at North Greenville
(0-3), 12:30 p.m.
Hofstra (2-0) at Furman (2-1), 1 p.m.
Jackson St. (1-2) at MVSU (2-1), 1 p.m.
W. Kentucky (2-0) at Auburn (2-1), 1:30 p.m.
Tennessee Tech (1-2) at E. Kentucky (0-3), 2
p.m.
W. Carolina (2-1) at Nicholls St. (1-1), 2 p.m.
Florida A&M (1-2) vs. Tennessee St. (1-2) at
Atlanta, 2 p.m.
Florida (3-0) at Kentucky (1-2), 2:30 p.m.
Duke (1-2) at Virginia (2-0), 2:30 p.m.
Georgia Tech (3-0) at Virginia Tech (3-0),
2:30 p.m.
Maryland (1-2) at Wake Forest (1-2), 2:30
p.m.
Appalachian St. (2-1) at The Citadel (1-1), 3
p.m.
N. Carolina A&T (1-2) at Elon (2-1), 5 p.m.
Howard (1-2) at Savannah St. (0-3), 5 p.m.
Marshall (1-1) at UCF (0-2), 5 p.m.
Louisville (2-0) at South Florida (2-1), 5:45
p.m.
Delaware St. (2-1) at Coastal Carolina (2-1),
6 p.m.
Chattanooga (2-1) at Georgia Southern (1-2),
6 p.m.
Wyoming (2-1) at Mississippi (1-1), 6 p.m.
Dayton (3-0) at Morehead St. (3-0), 6 p.m.
Texas Southern (0-2) at Northwestern St. (12), 6 p.m.
Richmond (1-2) at Vanderbilt (3-0), 6 p.m.
Allen (1-0) at Alabama A&M (2-1), 6:30 p.m.
Georgia (3-0) at Mississippi St. (2-1), 6:45
p.m.
Alcorn St. (1-0) at Alabama St. (2-1), 7 p.m.
NW Oklahoma (1-1) at McNeese St. (1-1),
ccd., hurricane
Troy (1-2) at South Carolina (1-2), 7 p.m.
Albany St., Ga. (3-1) at Southern U. (1-1), 7
p.m.
Texans
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Pendry took the reins of the
offense. He also likes that his new
coach holds each player responsible for their successes and failures.
“He is really into everyone
knowing what everyone is
accountable for,” he said. “You
definitely go out to practice with
a different feeling because you are
accountable to these other 10
guys, so you’ve got to make sure
you’re on top of your game.”
Carr, who has thrown for 247
yards with one touchdown and
three interceptions, said another
morale boost has been the way
Pendry treats the players.
“He doesn’t treat me differently,” Carr said. “I think that’s
something that I always wanted
is someone that would treat me
like the other guys. You get more
respect from your teammates that
way.”
He brushed off the notion that
making such a personnel move
so early in the season was a sign
the team was panicking.
MIDWEST
Michigan St. (3-0) at Illinois (2-1), 11 a.m.
Purdue (2-0) at Minnesota (3-0), 11 a.m.
Penn St. (3-0) at Northwestern (2-1), 11 a.m.
Iowa (2-1) at Ohio St. (2-1), 11 a.m.
E. Michigan (1-2) at Cent. Michigan (1-2),
noon
Davidson (1-2) at Valparaiso (1-2), noon
Austin Peay (1-2) at Drake (1-2), 1 p.m.
North Texas (1-1) at Kansas St. (2-0), 1 p.m.
Kent St. (1-2) at Ohio (1-2), 1 p.m.
Samford (1-2) at E. Illinois (1-2), 1:30 p.m.
N. Illinois (1-2) at Akron (1-1), 5 p.m.
Michigan (2-1) at Wisconsin (3-0), 5 p.m.
Jacksonville St. (0-3) at SE Missouri (0-3), 6
p.m.
Iowa Wesleyan (1-2) at W. Illinois (1-2), 6
p.m.
Murray St. (1-1) at Illinois St. (2-1), 6:30
p.m.
Cal Poly-SLO (2-1) at S. Dakota St. (2-1), 7
p.m.
SOUTHWEST
Fla. International (0-2) at Arkansas St. (1-2),
2:30 p.m.
Tuskegee (3-0) at Ark.-Pine Bluff (0-3), 4
p.m.
Southern Miss. (1-1) at Houston (1-2), ppd.,
hurricane
Indiana St. (0-3) at Texas Tech (2-0), 6 p.m.
Memphis (1-1) at Tulsa (1-2), 6 p.m.
Missouri St. (2-1) at Sam Houston St. (1-2),
6:30 p.m.
Navy (0-2) at Rice (0-2), ppd., hurricane
Tulane (0-1) at SMU (1-2), 7 p.m.
New Mexico (3-0) at UTEP (2-0), 8 p.m.
FAR WEST
TCU (2-1) at BYU (1-1), 2 p.m.
N. Dakota St. (3-0) at Montana St. (1-2), 2
p.m.
Notre Dame (2-1) at Washington (1-2), 2:30
p.m.
E. Washington (1-1) at Idaho St. (2-1), 4 p.m.
UC Davis (1-2) at Sacramento St. (0-3), 4
p.m.
Nevada (1-1) at Colorado St. (0-2), 5 p.m.
Southern Cal (2-0) at Oregon (3-0), 6 p.m.
N. Arizona (2-1) at Weber St. (1-2), 6:30 p.m.
Stephen F.Austin (2-1) at S. Utah (0-3), 7
p.m.
San Jose St. (1-1) at San Diego St. (0-3), 7
p.m.
UNLV (1-2) at Utah St. (0-1), 7 p.m.
N. Colorado (2-1) at Portland St. (2-1), 8
p.m.
Hawaii (0-2) at Idaho (0-3), 9 p.m.
Arizona St. (2-1) at Oregon St. (2-1), 9 p.m.
Monday
SOUTH
Tennessee (1-1) at LSU (1-0), 6:45 p.m.
Basketball
NBA CALENDAR
Oct. 4 — Training camps open.
Oct. 10 — Start of preseason schedule.
Oct. 28 — Preseason ends.
Oct. 31 — Rosters set.
Nov. 1 — Start of 2005-06 season.
Jan. 5 — 10-day contracts signed.
Jan 10 — Contracts guaranteed for season.
Feb. 17-19 — All-Star weekend, Houston.
Feb. 23 — Trading deadline, 3 p.m. EST.
April 19 — Regular season ends.
April 22 — Playoffs begin.
April 28 — Early entry eligibility deadline,
11:59 p.m. EST.
May 23 — NBA draft lottery.
June 6-10 — Predraft camp.
June 6 — Earliest possible start of NBA
Finals.
June 17 — Early entry withdrawal deadline.
June 22 — Latest possible end of NBA Finals.
June 27 — NBA draft, New York.
NBA TRANSACTION
CHICAGO BULLS — Signed F Darius
Songaila.
Ice hockey
NHL TRANSACTIONS
DALLAS STARS — Assigned F David Bararuk,
F Ned Havern, F Marius Holtet, F Jamie
Johnson, F Mike Siklenka, F Janos Vas, F
Francis Wathier, D Brian Fahey, D Niklas
Grossman, D Matt Nickerson and D Mario
Scalzo to Iowa of the AHL.
Auto racing
NASCAR NEXTEL LINEUP
1. (12) Ryan Newman, Dodge, 158.102.
2. (9) Kasey Kahne, Dodge, 157.074.
3. (5) Kyle Busch, Chevrolet, 156.849.
4. (8) Dale Earnhardt Jr., Chevrolet,
156.617.
5. (48) Jimmie Johnson, Chevrolet, 156.569.
6. (2) Rusty Wallace, Dodge, 156.501.
7. (6) Mark Martin, Ford, 156.494.
8. (32) Bobby Hamilton Jr., Chevrolet,
156.406.
9. (01) Joe Nemechek, Chevrolet, 156.399.
10. (97) Kurt Busch, Ford, 156.182.
11. (17) Matt Kenseth, Ford, 156.114.
12. (19) Jeremy Mayfield, Dodge, 155.972.
13. (77) Travis Kvapil, Dodge, 155.965.
14. (40) Sterling Marlin, Dodge, 155.756.
15. (88) Dale Jarrett, Ford, 155.695.
16. (22) Scott Wimmer, Dodge, 155.628.
17. (29) Kevin Harvick, Chevrolet, 155.568.
18. (16) Greg Biffle, Ford, 155.480.
19. (42) Jamie McMurray, Dodge, 155.480.
20. (21) Ricky Rudd, Ford, 155.339.
21. (43) Jeff Green, Dodge, 155.305.
22. (38) Elliott Sadler, Ford, 155.192.
23. (41) Casey Mears, Dodge, 155.118.
24. (07) Dave Blaney, Chevrolet, 155.105.
25. (24) Jeff Gordon, Chevrolet, 155.065.
26. (25) Brian Vickers, Chevrolet, 155.045.
27. (15) Michael Waltrip, Chevrolet,
154.945.
28. (18) Bobby Labonte, Chevrolet, 154.912.
29. (10) Scott Riggs, Chevrolet, 154.872.
30. (0) Mike Bliss, Chevrolet, 154.798.
31. (20) Tony Stewart, Chevrolet, 154.777.
32. (99) Carl Edwards, Ford, 154.772.
33. (7) Robby Gordon, Chevrolet, 154.692.
34. (45) Kyle Petty, Dodge, 154.513.
35. (66) Kevin Lepage, Ford, 153.958.
36. (31) Jeff Burton, Chevrolet, 153.859.
37. (11) J.J. Yeley, Chevrolet, 153.629.
38. (4) Mike Wallace, Chevrolet, 153.439.
39. (37) Tony Raines, Dodge, 152.989.
40. (95) Stanton Barrett, Chevrolet,
152.866.
41. (00) Carl Long, Chevrolet, 152.400.
42. (49) Ken Schrader, Dodge, 151.483.
43. (78) Kenny Wallace, Chevrolet, 151.725.
Failed to Qualify
44. (89) Morgan Shepherd, Dodge, 150.905.
45. (92) Hermie Sadler, Chevrolet, 150.816.
46. (08) Ryan McGlynn, Dodge, 150.413.
47. (34) Joey McCarthy, Chevrolet, 150.025.
48. (75) Wayne Anderson, Dodge, no speed.
Baseball
AL CAPSULES
White Sox 3, Twins 1
CHICAGO — Jose Contreras gave the struggling Chicago White Sox what they needed
most — a strongly pitched game and a victory.
Contreras pitched a six-hitter for his first
career complete game, and Jermaine Dye hit a
three-run homer in the first inning to lead the
White Sox over the Minnesota Twins 3-1 Friday
and stop Chicago's slide for at least one night.
Chicago, which won for just the fifth time in
15 games, entered with a 1 1/2-game lead in
the AL Central over second-place Cleveland,
which played at Kansas City.
Chicago has been in first place every day of
the season and led by 15 games on Aug. 1.
Yankees 5, Blue Jays 0
NEW YORK — Shawn Chacon kept up his
“Panic? I don’t think we’re in
panic mode,” Carr said. “I think
if anything this was a good time
to do something like this. I’m
going to get an extra week before
we have to play a game to get
used to what his ideas are and
what his thoughts are and hopefully move on.”
While the passing game has
stalled, the running game is barely sputtering along. Through two
games Domanick Davis is averaging 53.5 yards and has a fumble.
One of Pendry’s goals is to get
that component running
smoothly. He said his entire philosophy centers on “doing the little things well.”
“It’s got to get better,” Pendry
said. “In the long run it’s been
proven in this league that you
have to be able to run the ball.
You have to be able to run the
ball when you want to, not just
when you have to.”
Despite all the rosy chatter, the
Texans know these changes aren’t
a magic potion that will cure all
of their ills.
“You can’t change an offense in
a week,” Carr said. “But I think it
will help.”
mastery of Toronto with eight dominant innings,
Derek Jeter and Robinson Cano hit back-to-back
homers leading off the first, and the New York
Yankees opened their final home series of the
season by beating the Blue Jays 5-0 Friday
night.
Hideki Matsui and Tino Martinez also drove in
runs in a four-run first, sending the first-place
Yankees to their fifth straight win and 11th in
12 games. New York began the night a game
ahead of Boston as the Yankees chase their
eighth straight AL East title.
Chacon (6-3) improved to 3-0 with a 1.17
ERA in three starts against the Blue Jays this
season. After pitching eight innings of four-hit
ball in Toronto last Saturday, he allowed three
hits in eight innings Friday, running his scoreless innings streak against the Blue Jays to 20.
Ted Lilly (9-11) handed New York its most
recent loss Sunday in Toronto, but the formerYankee was gone after 11 batters Friday. He
allowed four runs and five hits in the shortest
start of his career.
Mariners 2, Tigers 1
DETROIT — Ryan Franklin won for the first
time in eight starts since July 30, leading the
Seattle Mariners over Detroit 2-1 Friday night
and extending the Tigers' losing streak to
eight.
Franklin (7-15) allowed one run and five hits
in seven innings, struck out five and walked
none. Eddie Guardado, Seattle's fifth pitcher,
got three outs for his 34th save in 39 chances,
striking out pinch-hitter Marcus Thames with a
runner on second to end the game.
Seattle is 3-6 on its season-high 11-game
trip. Detroit dropped to 4-19 in September.
With the score 1-all, Rene Rivera led off the
eighth against Chris Spurling (3-4) with his third
single of the game. Vic Darensbourg relieved,
and Ichiro Suzuki's single moved pinch-runner
Jamie Bubela to third.
Jeremy Reed grounded back to Darensbourg,
who appeared to have a chance to trap Bubela
off third, but he turned to second to start a 1-63 double play as the go-ahead run scored.
THE SIDELINE
From wire reports
BOSTON
Red Sox DH to have plane in his name
BOSTON — No matter whether the Boston Red
Sox reach the postseason or not, David Ortiz is
about to take off.
The Red Sox designated hitter, one of the leading candidates for the AL MVP award, will have an
airplane named after him on Tuesday by low-fare
carrier Song. The plane, a Boeing 757, will be
named “Big Papi No. 34.”
The carrier, an affiliate of Delta Airlines, is christening the plane in Ortiz’s honor as it expands
flights out of Logan Airport. Song has an affiliation with the Red Sox in which it flies patients
from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, a cancer
treatment center for children, to spring training to
see the team play.
Ortiz, a popular player on the defending World
Series champions, was batting .300 heading into
Friday night’s game against Baltimore and was
leading the AL with 46 homers and 140 RBIs.
NL CAPSULES
HORSE RACING
Braves 4, Marlins 3
ATLANTA — The Braves moved a step closer
to their 14th straight division title, their rookies
coming through in a four-run eighth inning that
sent Atlanta to stunning 4-3 over the Florida
Marlins on Friday night.
Josh Beckett extended his scoreless streak
against the Braves to 19 innings this season,
leaving after the seventh with a 3-0 lead. The
Florida bullpen couldn't hold it.
Rookie Jeff Francoeur, Ryan Langerhans and
Brian McCann had RBIs in the decisive inning.
McCann brought home the winning run with a
two-out single off Todd Jones (1-5).
The rally reduced the Braves' magic number
to five for winning the NL East. They came into
the night with a four-game lead over
Philadelphia, which played at Cincinnati.
The third-place Marlins, with only two wins in
their last nine games, dropped seven behind the
Braves and are nearly eliminated from the division race with eight games remaining. Florida
remained three games behind Houston in the
wild-card race.
Carlos Delgado drove in all three Marlins runs
with an RBI single in the first and a two-run
homer in the third off John Smoltz.
Mets 5, National 2
WASHINGTON — Carlos Beltran's three-run
homer in the 10th inning lifted the New York
Mets past the Washington Nationals 5-2 on
Friday night in a game played pretty much for
fourth place and pride.
The Mets blew a 2-0 lead with two outs in
the bottom of the ninth when pinch-hitter Carlos
Baerga hit a two-run homer off reliever Roberto
Hernandez, who has blown six of seven save
opportunities this season.
But New York came right back to take the
lead, with Beltran driving a 3-2 pitch into the
visiting bullpen off Gary Majewski (4-4) with
two outs in the 10th for his 16th homer. Before
that, Majewski had walked pinch-hitter Marlon
Anderson, and Jose Reyes reached on an error
by shortstop Deivi Cruz, making the runs
unearned.
Beltran also had a single and double, and
Cliff Floyd had three hits, too, including a 380foot single off the wall that drove in the Mets'
first two runs.
Floyd also threw out Nick Johnson at third
base in the fourth inning for his league-leading
15th outfield assist.
Hernandez (8-6), who gave up a single to
Ryan Zimmerman before Baerga's homer,
earned the win. Aaron Heilman pitched the 10th
for his second save.
Jockey wins sixth-straight race
MLB TRANSACTION
MLB—Suspended Mickey Hatcher, Los
Angeles Angels hitting coach, for one game and
fined him an undisclosed amount for his inappropriate actions and comments during a game on
Sept. 8 against the Boston Red Sox. Suspended
Jay Bell, Arizona Diamondbacks bench coach,
for one game and fined him an undisclosed
amount for his inappropriate actions and comments during a game on Sept. 9 against the
Colorado Rockies. Suspended Jose Guillen,
Washington Nationals OF, for one game and
fined him an undisclosed amount for arguing
and making inappropriate comments from the
dugout and throwing numerous pieces of equipment onto the field during a game on Sept. 14
against the N.Y. Mets.
SOCCER
Brothel to be complete in time for World Cup
BERLIN — A four-story brothel complete with a
pool and movie theater is set to open in time for
the 2006 World Cup.
The Artemis brothel near the Olympic Stadium
will accommodate up to 650 men and 100 women,
said Norman Jacob, the lawyer representing its
backers.
Germany legalized prostitution in 2003.
“I think people will want to come here because it
has a very nice atmosphere,” Jacob said.
Some of the rooms, with titles like Toscana and
Cleopatra, were displayed on Thursday. Alcohol will
not be served.
Jacob denied the brothel was built to capitalize
on the crowds that will flood Germany for the soccer showcase that begins in June.
FOOTBALL
AL TRANSACTIONS
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Named Ellis Burks
special assistant to baseball operations.
DETROIT TIGERS — Agreed to terms with OF
Cameron Maybin.
WILD-CARD GLANCE
American League
W
L
Cleveland
90
63
Boston
88
64
Oakland
84
68
Friday's Games
Boston at Baltimore, late
Cleveland at Kansas City, late
Texas at Oakland, late
NEW YORK — Jerry Bailey guided Quahada to
victory in Thursday’s third race at Belmont Park,
running his winning streak to six races.
He joins fellow Hall of Fame jockeys Jorge
Velasquez (July 9, 1981) and Steve Cauthen (Dec.
10-11, 1976) and Jeffrey Fell (June 18-19, 1980) as
winners of six straight in New York.
Bailey’s run began on Saturday, when he won
the Grade 2 Futurity with Private Vow, and ended
in the sixth race Thursday when Code Book ran
off the board.
Towering Escape was scratched at the gate in
Sunday’s second race, and there was no racing
Monday and Tuesday. Bailey won the eighth race
Wednesday with Connie Belle and the ninth with
Elizabul, completing a $2 daily double worth $22.
Bailey won the first race Thursday with Misto
Quente and the second with Strummer, who finished in a dead-heat with Building New Era. He
did not ride in the fourth and fifth races, and his
streak ended when Holiday Tune won the sixth.
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Remaining Schedules
Boston
HOME (7) — Sept. 26-29 Toronto
30-Oct. 2 NY Yankees.
ROAD (3) — Sept. 23-25 Baltimore.
Cleveland
HOME (6) — Sept. 27-29 Tampa Bay
30-Oct. 2 Chicago.
ROAD (3) — Sept. 23-25 Kansas City.
Oakland
HOME (7) — Sept. 23-25 Texas
26-29 Los Angeles.
ROAD (3) — Sept. 30-Oct. 2 Seattle.
Chiefs featured in NFL spot
NEW YORK — Kansas City Chiefs tight end Tony
Gonzalez and Hall of Famer Anthony Munoz are
featured in the first Spanish NFL spot with English
subtitles.
They’ll encourage young fans to play football in
the public service announcement that will debut
this weekend on ESPN’s Sunday night and ABC’s
Monday night telecasts.
The commercials will also air during Sunday
games in Week 4, including the San Francisco
49ers-Arizona Cardinals matchup in Mexico City.
Gonzalez led the NFL with 102 receptions last
year and played in his sixth Pro Bowl. Munoz, an
11-time Pro Bowl selection, is the first player of
Mexican ancestry elected to the Pro Football Hall
of Fame (1998).
National League
W
L
Houston
84
70
Philadelphia
83
71
Florida
80
74
Friday's Games
Chicago Cubs 5, Houston 4
Philadelphia 11, Cincinnati 10
Atlanta 4, Florida 3
Pct
.545
.539
.519
GB
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1
4
Remaining Schedules
Houston
HOME (4) — Sept. 29-Oct. 2 Chicago.
ROAD (4) — Sept. 24-25 Chicago
27-28 St. Louis.
Philadelphia
HOME (3) — Sept. 26-28 New York.
ROAD (6) — Sept. 23-25 Cincinnati
30-Oct. 2 Washington.
Florida
HOME (6) — Sept. 26-28 Washington
30-Oct. 2 Atlanta.
ROAD (3) — Sept. 23-25 Atlanta.
As for the defense, the decision
to take the flamboyant Buchanon
out of the lineup has definitely
gotten the team’s attention.
Buchanon was a prized offseason acquisition after being traded
from Oakland for second- and
third- round picks in this year’s
draft.
“During the course of the
game, if we see something that’s
not up to the standards we
expect, we won’t hesitate to make
moves,” Capers said. “There’s
nothing guaranteed in this business.
“Our job is to perform at a certain standard and if it’s not that
standard then we’re going to look
for the combination that gives us
that standard.”
Even if former first-round picks
Babin and Buchanon aren’t making plays, its a big move to
replace them with Faggins, a
sixth-round pick, and Orr, an
undrafted free agent.
Capers said Babin and
Buchanon will still see playing
time, with Buchanon scheduled
to play Houston’s nickel back
position. But they didn’t acquire
Buchanon to not have him start.
TODAY ON TV
AUTO RACING
11:30 a.m. SPEED — Formula One, qualifying for Brazilian
Grand Prix, at Sao Paolo, Brazil; TNT — NASCAR, Nextel
Cup, Happy Hour Series, final practice for MBNA NASCAR
RacePoints 400, at Dover, Del. (same-day tape)
Noon TNT — NASCAR, Busch Series, Dover 200, at Dover
2 p.m. SPEED — Rolex Sports Car Series, Crown Royal
250, at Watkins Glen, N.Y.
8 p.m. SPEED — NASCAR, Craftsman Truck Series, Las
Vegas 350
BOXING
9 p.m. HBO — Champion Miguel Angel Cotto (24-0-0) vs.
Ricardo Torres, (28-0-0) for WBO light welterweight championship; heavyweights, Wladimir Klitschko (43-3-0), vs.
Samuel Peter (24-0-0) at Atlantic City, N.J.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
11 a.m. ABC — Regional coverage, Iowa at Ohio St.,
Colorado at Miami, or, at 4 p.m. Pacific, Southern Cal at
Oregon; ESPN — Purdue at Minnesota; ESPN2 — Penn
St. at Northwestern
11:30 a.m. ABC — Regional coverage, teams TBA
2:30 p.m. ABC — Regional coverage, Georgia Tech at
Virginia Tech or Notre Dame at Washington; CBS —
National coverage, Florida at Kentucky
5 p.m. ESPN2 — Michigan at Wisconsin
8 p.m. ESPN2 — Georgia at Mississippi St.
9 p.m. TBS — Arizona St. at Oregon St.
GOLF
7 a.m. USA — PGA Tour, The President’s Cup, third round,
at Prince William County, Va.; TGC — European PGA Tour,
Seve Trophy, third round, at Billingham, England
8 a.m. NBC — PGA Tour, The President’s Cup, third round,
at Prince William County, Va.
3 p.m. ESPN — PGA Tour, Texas Open, third round, at San
Antonio
4 p.m. TGC — Nationwide Tour, Boise Open, third round,
at Boise, Idaho
MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL
1:20 p.m. KNWS — Houston Astros at Chicago Cubs
6 p.m. WGN — Minnesota at Chicago White Sox
SATURDAY
SPORTS/ENTERTAINMENT
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
3B
Month closes with top teams facing tough tests
By Ralph D. Russo
AP Sports Writer
The final Saturday of
September has the potential
to reshape the race to the
Rose Bowl.
Three of the nation’s top
four teams — all
prime contenders
COLLEGE
to play for the
national title in
Pasadena on Jan. 4
— play ranked
opponents, including No. 1 Southern California
at No. 24 Oregon.
No. 3 LSU finally plays a
home game — and it’s a big
one. The Tigers host No. 10
Tennessee, with the
Volunteers looking to bounce
back from a loss at Florida.
No. 4 Virginia Tech has
won its last two games by a
combined 90-0. The Hokies
will have to work much harder this week with No. 15
Georgia Tech coming to
PICKS
Blacksburg.
The Trojans haven’t played
Oregon while winning
national titles the past two
seasons. The last time they
visited Autzen Stadium,
Carson Palmer was the quarterback, USC scored 30
straight points in the second
half and gained 608 yards in
the game, and the Trojans
won 44-33.
Expect a similarly highscoring affair with Heisman
Trophy winner Matt Leinart
making his first start in
Eugene, and quarterback
Kellen Clemens and the
Ducks going against a USC
defense missing two injured
starters.
Oregon (3-0) is unbeaten,
but the Ducks allowed 34
points to Fresno State and 24
to Houston. The Trojans,
meanwhile, have scored 133
points in two games.
“I don’t know that we want
to match touchdowns with
USC,” Oregon coach Mike
Bellotti said.
“At this point I think the
lower the score the better
that is for the Ducks and I
think that we have the ability
to move the football and we
can score points. I am just
not sure we can do it quite as
fast as USC has shown they
have done it the past two
games.”
USC’s winning streak is 24
games. One more ties the
school record set in 1931-33.
Because of Hurricane
Katrina, LSU has played only
one game — a dramatic 3531 victory over Arizona State
that was supposed to be
played in Tiger Stadium but
ended up being moved to
Tempe, Ariz.
The Tigers are eager for a
home game and the Vols,
who began the season with
national title hopes, are desperate for a win to keep those
aspirations alive.
Virginia Tech gutted out a
win at North Carolina State
to start the season then
pounded Ohio and Duke.
Georgia Tech could be forced
to play without quarterback
Reggie Ball, who is recovering
from viral meningitis.
The picks:
No. 13 California (-30) at New
Mexico State: Winless Aggies
allowing 37 points per game
... CAL 48-14.
No. 22 Iowa State (-17) at Army:
Second meeting; Army won
9-7 in 1964 ... IOWA STATE
34-13.
No. 1 Southern California (-211⁄2)
at No. 24 Oregon: Trojans have
lost just once since teams last
met in 2002 ... OREGON 4643.
No. 10 Tennessee (+61⁄2) at No.
3 LSU: Last meeting was 2001
SEC title game won by Tigers
... LSU 24-16.
No. 15 Georgia Tech (+11) at No.
4 Virginia Tech: First meeting in
Blacksburg was canceled by
lightning in 2000 ... VIRGINIA TECH 19-15.
No. 5 Florida (-23) at Kentucky:
Gators have won 18 straight
against Wildcats ... FLORIDA
30-14.
No. 7 Georgia (-15) at Mississippi
State: First meeting since
1997 ... GEORGIA 35-10.
No. 21 Iowa (+7) at No. 8 Ohio
State: Hawkeyes outgained
Buckeyes 448-177 in win last
year ... OHIO STATE 24-14.
No. 9 Louisville (-201⁄2) at South
Florida: Big East newbies open
conference play ...
LOUISVILLE 50-20.
No. 11 Purdue (+31⁄2) at
Minnesota: Joe Tiller 6-0
against Glen Mason’s
Gophers ... MINNESOTA 2423.
Colorado (+14) at No. 12 Miami:
Last met in 1993, ‘Canes
won in Boulder ... MIAMI 2614.
No. 14 Michigan (-3) at
Wisconsin: Badgers RB Brian
Calhoun has eight TDs in
three games ... MICHIGAN
27-26.
No. 16 Notre Dame (-131⁄2) at
NASCAR
Astros
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Martin, who last won here in June
2004, also has finishes of second and
third in his last three starts on the highbanked concrete oval. His toughest competition Sunday should be from Stewart
and Ryan Newman, the winner in New
Hampshire who also took the pole here
Friday.
Defending race champion Newman
has won three of the last four events at
Dover. But he knows there are no guarantees here.
“Tires can be a real issue at Dover due
to aggressive setup combinations,” he
explained. “It’s not rare to see some right
front tires go down throughout the race.
Once a tire goes down there, your car is
headed towards the wall and it’s not
going to be pretty. Dover just has a way
of eating you up.”
As expected, Newman is upbeat after
moving from 10th to a tie for third after
the first of 10 races in the Chase for the
Nextel Cup — NASCAR’s playoffs, limited to the top 10 drivers.
“Winning at Loudon was great,”
Newman said. “There’s no better way to
start the Chase off, especially when
you’re 10th in points.
But he’s not about to relax despite
moving within 40 points of Stewart.
single by Jason Lane.
Chris Burke then hit
what looked like a playable
pop to shallow center field.
Patterson sprinted in to get
the ball, but it hit his mitt
and fell to the ground for
an error, allowing Berkman
to score to pull the Astros
within 5-4.
The Astros loaded the
bases with only one out in
the eighth when Scott
Williamson plunked pinchhitter Jeff Bagwell on the
forearm.
“We had a couple of
chances. We couldn’t get a
run across the plate, but we
got back in the ballgame,”
Garner said. “We did a
good job fighting to get
back into the ballgame. It
looked like we were going
to turn it and win it.”
Roberto Novoa relieved
Williamson, and Vizcaino
hit a grounder to Lee. The
first baseman grabbed the
ball and rifled it home to
catcher Michael Barrett to
Associated Press
NASCAR driver Mark Martin, left, talks during a strategy meeting Friday with crew members during a practice session for the MBNA 400 at the Dover Speedway in Dover, Del.
Cell-phone users starve
table of conversation
DEAR ABBY: I saw something
today that broke my heart. A
woman who appeared to be
in her late 30s was sitting in a
restaurant with a woman who
looked to be in her mid-70s. It
may have been her mother.
The entire time I was in the
restaurant — about an hour
— I saw not one sign of verbal
or visual contact between
them.
The reason? The
younger
woman was
on a handsfree cell
phone,
talking
office talk
from the
moment
their orders
were
placed. The
older
woman sat
DEAR ABBY
eating her
meal, clearly with little interest and no
animation. When they were
finished eating, the younger
one paid the server, and then
gestured “let’s leave” by
pointing toward the exit. She
got up quickly, motioning for
her mother to hurry.
I found the episode upsetting, and I hope she reads
this: Life is so short. Take your
mom to lunch whenever you
can, but talk with her, laugh
with her, connect with her.
Show her the respect and
kindness she’s due. Your cell
phone will be around long
after your mother is gone,
and there will be no memories to bring you comfort.
ABIGAIL
VAN BUREN
— Always made time for Mom
DEAR ALWAYS: I wish what
you saw was an isolated incident, but it isn’t. For years, I
have seen what appears to be
an entire generation of people
behaving similarly. It seems
fewer and fewer people are
connecting with the people
“We’ve looked at the schedule and
said, ‘OK, these are tracks where we’ve
had success in the past,’” the 2002 series
champion said of Dover and some of the
other remaining venues. “It definitely
makes you feel better, but at the same
time, every week is a different week and
you’ve got to take it one week at a time.”
“We need a string of nine top-five finishes to win this thing,” Newman said.
“So, that’s what we’re trying to do.”
Stewart, who qualified 31st Friday, is
seeking to break a tie with Greg Biffle,
who won here in June, with a sixth victory this season. Stewart swept the races
here in 2000.
they are with. And this
includes parents who are out
with little children. How sad.
DEAR ABBY: My husband and
I were recently vacationing at
a hotel resort with our young
daughters. In the pool with
our children one afternoon
was a father and his two
young daughters, both under
the age of 10. After about 30
minutes the father left the
pool and went back into the
hotel, leaving his daughters
playing alone in the water.
I stayed in the pool with
my children for another halfhour before telling them it
was time to go back to our
room. There was no lifeguard
on duty; signs had been posted everywhere that said children younger than 16 needed to be supervised at all
times. Worried about the
girls’ safety, I told them they
needed to get out and get an
adult to watch them if they
wanted to swim some more.
Back in our room, my husband informed me that I was
being intrusive by saying
anything at all. He said that
if the father thought they
were safe, I shouldn’t have
interfered in his parenting
decision. Abby, I would have
felt horrible if something
happened to the children.
Was I being intrusive, or did I
do the right thing?
— Caring mom in Green Bay
DEAR CARING MOM: Unless
both of the little girls were
knowledgeable enough about
water safety to understand
exactly what to do in case of
an emergency, they should
not have been left in the
pool without adult supervision. You did the right thing.
The father was guilty of child
endangerment.
Write Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or P.O. Box
69440, Los Angeles, CA 90069.
Universal Press Syndicate
Washington: Irish lead series 50 ... NOTRE DAME 36-13.
No. 17 Michigan State (-101⁄2) at
Illinois: Last three times
Spartans beat top-10 team,
they lost next game ...
MICHIGAN ST. 44-24.
No. 18 Arizona State (-61⁄2) at
Oregon State: ASU’s Sam Keller
leads nation with 12 TD
passes ... ARIZONA STATE 4121.
Indiana State (no line) at No. 19
Texas Tech: Another meaningless win for Red Raiders ...
TEXAS TECH 90-14.
Arkansas (+15) at No. 20
Alabama: Razorbacks have won
five of eight vs. Tide, including last two ... ALABAMA 3013.
Duke (-241⁄2) at No. 23 Virginia:
Four out of next five opponents for Duke are ranked ...
VIRGINIA 37-7.
Last week: 16-4 (straight);
13-4-2 (vs. points); Season: 4314 (straight); 32-18-3 (vs.
points).
beat a sliding Charles
Gipson.
Novoa then struck out
Willy Taveras to end the
threat. Dempster gave up a
single to Biggio, but struck
out Michael Lamb to end
the game and get his 30th
save in 32 chances.
“The bullpen did a great
job. They deserve the win
today for holding those
guys down,” said starter
Glendon Rusch, who
allowed four runs — three
earned — and nine hits in
five innings to even his
record at 8-8.
Wandy Rodriguez (10-9)
gave up five runs and eight
hits in just four innings, his
shortest start since going
five innings Aug. 30.
“I wouldn’t say he
pitched poorly, I’d say that
they did a good job of
putting the ball in play,”
Garner said. “They are a
good hitting team. They’re
going to get some hits on
you.”
They didn’t waste any
time doing it, either, tagging Rodriguez for three
runs in the first inning.
HOROSCOPES
BRIDGE
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© 2005, Newspaper Enterprise Assn.
Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005
the amount that’s in contention.
By Bernice Bede Osol
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) —
It isn’t likely to be the average
run-of-the-mill year for you in
the year ahead. A number of
opportunities to better your lot
in life are coming your way, but
be discerning as to which you
get involved in and which you
turn down.
When working together with a
colleague today, make sure
there’s harmony of purpose
before you start the job. It’ll be
easier to lay out the ground
rules first than when in the
midst of things.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) —
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) — I’m
Avoid going shopping today
unless you really have to get
some things, and then have a
list ready. Otherwise you could
have a tendency to purchase a
lot of useless items you’ll never
use.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) —
Watch your P’s and Q’s today
when it comes to diplomacy
with others. If you’re not on
guard you could thoughtlessly
make a faux pas that would
leave your image in shreds.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21)
— As an archer you’re always
on the hunt for interesting situations, but today take care not
to stumble into a clandestine
affair. When exposed, and it
will be, it’ll cause you a heap of
trouble.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) —
Unless you plan your day wisely
today, you could meander all
over the place and become
engaged in a lot of frivolous
activities, yielding you little to
show for your time.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) —
Getting involved in some kind
of futuristic endeavor today
may be quite attractive to you,
but take care that you don’t
waste a lot of precious time on
a dream that holds empty
promises.
sure you can think up all kinds
of excuses as to why you
should not do a distasteful job
today, but you’ll save yourself a
lot of energy and grief if you
simply get it over with.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) —
Treat your business affairs with
the seriousness they deserve
and your social interaction as
footloose as you’d like. It won’t
work to attempt to mix the two
together today.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) — If
you’re planning to make some
changes around the house
today, be they cosmetic or
have to do with relationships,
better get the consensus of
other members first to spare
yourself a fight.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) —
Don’t make assumptions that
others will let you know what
the gang is planning on doing
today. Check with them or
when you’re ready to get
together with them, no one
may be around.
ARIES (March 21-April 19) —
Trouble is in the offing for you
today if you allow money to
become an issue with friends. If
there is some confusion as to
who pays for what, cough up
Saturday, Sept. 24, 2005
Several bridge books
describe how to handle various single-suit combinations.
But sometimes the right play
is affected by knowing something about the lie of the
opposing cards and the possibility of benefiting from a
ruff-and-sluff. For example, if
you were the declarer in this
six-heart slam, how would
you play the spades? West
leads the diamond jack to
dummy’s ace.
North could not find out
about South’s spade holding
— could you?
At first glance, six hearts
seems impossible: you have
two spade losers. At second
glance, West could have the
spade king and queen, but
that is unlikely because then
he probably would have led
the king at trick one, not the
diamond jack.
Play a trump to hand, cash
your three minor-suit winners, pitching two spades
from the board, and lead a
spade. If West puts in the
queen or king, play low from
the dummy, planning to win
with dummy’s ace if he next
leads a low spade. You succeed when West’s honor is a
singleton or from honor-
third. If West has doubleton
queen or king, he just defended accurately, giving you no
chance to make the contract.
If West plays a spot card,
win with dummy’s ace. If East
also plays low, continue with
another spade, making the
contract whenever an opponent started with doubleton
queen or king. Here, East
must concede a ruff-and-sluff.
You pitch the last spade from
one hand and ruff in the
other.
If East plays the king or
queen under dummy’s ace,
return to hand with a heart
and lead a spade toward
dummy’s jack.
Board Elections
Lake Jackson Youth Baseball Association
PEE WEE LEAGUE
PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) —
That marvelous imagination you
have may not be so wonderful
today if you use it to be suspicious of everyone and everything. Have a little more faith in
people that they mean well.
By Phillip Alder
FLIGHTPLAN
CRY WOLF (PG13) NO PASSES
(PG13) SS NO PASSES 1235 305
520 745 1000
ROLL BOUNCE (PG13) SS NO
PASSES 1215 240 500 725 950
1240 310 515 735 955
THE TRANSPORTER 2 (PG13)
1220 230 445 715 930
JUST LIKE HEAVEN
(PG13) SS NO PASSES 1230 250
510 740 1000
THE BROTHERS GRIMM
(PG13) 1225 710
THE MAN (PG13)
255 455 940
THE EXORCISM OF EMILY VALIANT
(G) 1255 300 730
ROSE (PG13) SS
105 405 705 955
THE UNDERCLASSMAN
CORPSE BRIDE (PG13) NO
(PG13) 505 935
PASSES 1245 245 435 720 925
LORD OF WAR (R) NO PASSES
100 400 700 945
Lake Jackson Pee Wee League will hold annual
board elections for all positions to govern the 2006
season. Voting members that should attend are
citizens of Lake Jackson with children of playing
age (5-8 yrs. Old - T-ball, coaches pitch and
machine pitch).
Date: Monday, September 26, 2005
Time: 6:30pm
Place: Jasmine Hall
4B SATURDAY
NATION/WORLD
Frist stock
sale under
federal
scrutiny
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
By Jonathan M. Katz
Associated Press Writer
Associated Press
Palestinians shout as they tend to a wounded man after an explosion during a demonstration by the
militant group Hamas, in the Jebaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip, on Friday. The blast
killed at least four Palestinians and wounded more than 80.
Explosion at Hamas rally kills 10
By Sarah El Deeb
Associated Press Writer
JEBALIYA, Gaza Strip — A
pickup truck carrying masked
Islamic militants and homemade rockets blew up at a
Hamas rally Friday, killing at
least 10 Palestinians, including children, and wounding
85, hospital doctors and witnesses said.
Hamas blamed Israel, but
the Israeli military denied
involvement and the
Palestinian Interior Ministry
said the blast was set off by
the mishandling of explosives.
Ten of the wounded were
in serious condition, hospital
doctors said.
The rally was held in the
Jebaliya refugee camp, one of
the last military-style parades
before a ban on flaunting
weapons in public — agreed
to by all militant groups —
takes effect this evening.
Witnesses said participants,
including children, crowded
around the pickup just before
the explosion.
The witnesses said the
truck carried two homemade
rockets.
One man, who only gave
his first name, Hussam, said
he helped pull three men out
of the pickup, two of them
dead and one still alive.
The side of the pickup was
charred.
The witness said he saw
five dead children nearby.
Dozens more were wounded.
The Hamas military wing,
Izzedine al Qassam, is popular with youngsters and
when the pickup with the
gunmen arrived at the rally,
many crowded around the
vehicle.
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Iraqis shout, holding pictures of radical Shiite claric Muqtada al
Sadr after Friday prayers in Basra, Iraq.
7 perish in Iraq attacks
By Tarek El-Tablawy
Associated Press Writer
BAGHDAD, Iraq — A suicide bomber detonated hidden explosives on a small
bus in Baghdad on Friday,
killing at least five people,
and two American soldiers
died in separate attacks.
One of the Americans died
in a roadside bombing
between the cities of Fallujah
and Ramadi, while the other
was killed by small arms fire
in Ramadi, the U.S. military
said.
The deaths raised to 1,912
the number of U.S. troops
killed in Iraq since the war
began in 2003, according to
an Associated Press count.
President Bush, briefed at
the Pentagon on Thursday,
acknowledged the loss of
American lives and said,
“We’ll honor their sacrifice
by completing the mission
and winning the war on terrorism.”
He added that withdrawing American forces from
Iraq would make the world
more dangerous and allow
terrorists “to claim an historic victory over the United
States.”
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From wire reports
of 44 patients given Avastin
had the problem, a known
possible risk of using the
drug, but that was a higher
than expected number. The
trial was expected to enroll 53
patients with ovarian cancer
who had not responded to
other drugs.
Patients already enrolled in
the trial can choose to continue the treatment or drop out
of the study. Genentech
decided to halt enrollment
after talks with the Food and
Drug Administration. Its
shares fell nearly 4 percent.
MOGADISHU, SOMALIA
5 al-Qaida suspects
detained after gunfight
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WASHINGTON — Federal
prosecutors and the Securities
and Exchange Commission
are looking into Senate
Majority Leader Bill Frist’s sale
of stock in HCA Inc. at a time
when insiders at the hospital
operating company were also
selling
off
shares.
HCA, based
in Nashville
and founded
by the Frist
family, said
Friday it had Frist
received a subpoena from prosecutors for
the Southern District of New
York, asking for documents
the company believes are
related to Frist’s stock sale.
Prosecutors also have contacted the senator’s office, Frist
spokesman Bob Stevenson
said. He said neither the senator nor his office had received
a subpoena. Frist, a Tennessee
Republican, has been considered a potential presidential
candidate in 2008.
Police in the breakaway
republic of Somaliland raided
houses in the capital where alQaida militants were believed
holed up Friday and captured
four suspects after a shootout,
officials said. A fifth suspect
was arrested 20 miles away.
Three police officers and
one suspect were wounded in
the overnight clashes at the
houses in Somaliland’s capital
of Hargeisa. Police chief
Mohamed Ige Ilmi told The
Associated Press the suspects ODESSA
were trained in Afghanistan Ex-border agent given
and possessed assault rifles,
anti-tank mines and a large prison term in drug case
A former border patrol
cache of ammunition.
agent in El Paso has been sentenced to 101⁄2 years in federal
SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF.
for letting drug couriPromising ovarian cancer prison
ers go through a checkpoint.
drug testing stopped
Aldo Manuel Erives pleaded
The maker of a promising guilty in May to conspiracy to
ovarian cancer drug said possess a controlled substance
Friday it stopped enrolling and was sentenced Wednesday.
women in a study because He admitted that he, his
several patients developed brother and another agent
took more than $5,000 to let
gastrointestinal holes.
Genentech Inc. said five out more than five kilograms of
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cocaine go through the Sierra
Blanca checkpoint.
U.S. Attorney Johnny
Sutton said four other defendants, including Erives’ brother, Jose Lehi Erives, also pleaded guilty in May.
WASHINGTON
Bush administration
fences with Saudis
The Bush administration,
fencing with Saudi Arabia on
Iraq, says U.S. policy is working to bring the Iraqi people
together politically for the
benefit of a united country.
“What they deserve is our
support,” State Department
spokesman Sean McCormack
said Friday while urging Arab
countries to give Iraq the
diplomatic and political backing it seeks. Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Saud alFaisal, told The Associated
Press on Thursday the Bush
administration did not heed
some Saudi warnings on Iraq.
BERLIN
Conservatives fail to win
over Greens in Germany
Opposition leader Angela
Merkel failed Friday to persuade the Green party to join
talks on forming a coalition,
closing another avenue for
Germany to escape its postelection stalemate.
The center-right opposition
edged Chancellor Gerhard
Schroeder’s Social Democrats
in the Sept. 18 vote but fell
short of a majority for its economic reforms and closer ties
with Washington.
THE MARKET IN REVIEW
STOCKS OF LOCAL INTEREST
STOCK EXCHANGE HIGHLIGHTS
d
NYSE
7,518.90
-.96
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name
Delphi pfA
vjLeDAL26
vjLeDAL29
BrasilTele
GlobPay
NL Inds
Delphi
PXRE Grp
vjDelta39
Montpelr
Last
10.75
3.70
4.04
13.90
76.03
16.02
3.46
15.95
3.95
25.25
Chg %Chg
+2.20 +25.7
+.54 +17.1
+.50 +14.1
+1.60 +13.0
+8.52 +12.6
+1.67 +11.6
+.34 +10.9
+1.32
+9.0
+.31
+8.5
+1.88
+8.0
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name
NwCentFn
StarGsSr
ECC Cap n
JLG
AlonUSA n
TNT NV
GoodrPet
Alcan
Fremont
BrillChina
Last
35.00
2.12
3.58
32.46
23.30
24.40
22.50
30.37
21.21
13.55
Chg %Chg
-3.95 -10.1
-.18
-7.8
-.27
-7.0
-2.44
-7.0
-1.72
-6.9
-1.80
-6.9
-1.60
-6.6
-1.97
-6.1
-1.33
-5.9
-.84
-5.8
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name
Vol (00)
Pfizer
272320
TimeWarn 235692
Alcoa
217594
Lucent
208801
WalMart 181989
ExxonMbl 181671
GenElec 155536
Motorola 150738
Genworth 146642
TexInst 141355
Last
24.87
17.98
24.42
3.09
43.20
63.83
33.40
22.79
30.50
33.90
Chg
-.38
-.20
-1.48
+.05
+.01
-1.15
+.10
+.64
+1.00
+1.17
u
1,699
1,567
166
3,432
51
87
1,978,688,940
+2.96
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name
Milestone
FlightSaf
TutogenM
Rentech
Halozyme n
OneTrav rs
GoldRsv g
HomeSol
BlondT
ComSys
Last
2.02
2.22
4.35
2.69
2.20
6.45
2.29
5.24
2.23
11.92
Chg %Chg
+.22 +12.2
+.23 +11.6
+.45 +11.5
+.27 +11.2
+.20 +10.0
+.56
+9.5
+.19
+9.0
+.41
+8.5
+.15
+7.2
+.78
+7.0
u
NASDAQ
2,116.84
+6.06
GAINERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name
Last
MSGI s
6.42
StgeS wtA s 17.00
StratgDis 11.80
Synergx
2.73
HayesLm
4.67
UtdAHlth
2.90
WorldGate 2.44
DynMatl
40.16
NavgGp
36.00
Glbl ePnt
5.78
Chg %Chg
+1.88 +41.4
+2.68 +18.7
+1.83 +18.4
+.40 +17.2
+.57 +13.9
+.35 +13.7
+.29 +13.5
+4.76 +13.4
+4.10 +12.9
+.61 +11.8
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name
Last Chg %Chg
EnNth g
2.51 -.38 -13.1
SeabGld g 4.50 -.48
-9.6
MexcoEn 11.05 -1.03
-8.5
Tarpon n
4.20 -.30
-6.7
Recom n
3.44 -.21
-5.8
TgtAA07
7.51 -.46
-5.8
Cytomed n 2.31 -.14
-5.7
Cambior g
2.10 -.12
-5.4
ATechCer 10.65 -.58
-5.2
MeMarit
21.16 -1.08
-4.9
LOSERS ($2 OR MORE)
Name
Last Chg %Chg
GeneLgc
4.62 -1.04 -18.4
Palm Inc
28.69 -6.28 -18.0
SptChal rs 55.01 -9.99 -15.4
PressurBio 4.98 -.77 -13.4
StrchMb
4.21 -.65 -13.4
AmrSvFin
4.30 -.61 -12.4
Dectron
4.41 -.59 -11.8
Consulier
7.00 -.73
-9.4
Arcadis
25.20 -2.34
-8.5
SavientPh lf 3.41 -.31
-8.3
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name
Vol (00) Last Chg
SPDR
560683 121.44 +.10
iShRs2000 s23679065.18 +.45
SP Engy 160053 52.56 -.94
iShJapan 132030 11.72 -.04
SemiHTr 126539 36.20 +.27
OilSvHT
59767 120.00 -2.29
Crystallx g 52651 1.70 +.31
RetailHT 52553 92.13 -.12
DJIA Diam 49335 104.10 +.06
Intermix n 36771 12.30 +.39
MOST ACTIVE ($1 OR MORE)
Name
Vol (00) Last Chg
Oracle 1704912 12.45 -1.07
JDS Uniph1041168 1.95 +.19
Nasd100Tr665766 38.75 +.11
Microsoft 659359 25.27 -.07
Intel
387128 24.38 -.18
Cisco
379524 18.05 -.06
SiriusS
244316 6.70 +.11
AppleC s 198953 53.20 +1.30
SunMicro 198200 3.87 -.02
eBay s
196951 38.78 +1.06
DIARY
DIARY
Advanced
Declined
Unchanged
Total issues
New Highs
New Lows
Volume
AMEX
1,723.46
Advanced
Declined
Unchanged
Total issues
New Highs
New Lows
Volume
DIARY
471
491
74
1,036
18
21
264,497,031
Advanced
Declined
Unchanged
Total issues
New Highs
New Lows
Volume
1,855
1,154
147
3,156
46
61
1,618,347,851
Name
Ex
Albertsn
Alcoa
AppleC s
ApldMatl
BASF
BP PLC
BkofAm
BemaGold
BenchEl
CenterPnt
Cheniere s
Chevron
Cisco
ConocPhil s
Crystallx g
DJIA Diam
DellInc
Delphi
Dillards
DowChm
DowJns
eBay s
Edwards
ExxonMbl
FordM
GenElec
Genworth
GreyWolf
Hallibtn
Harken
HewlettP
HomeDp
HomeSol
iShJapan
iSh EAFE s
iShRs2000 s
Intel
Intermix n
JDS Uniph
Kroger
LowesCos
Lubys
Lucent
Merck
MerrillLyn
NY
NY
Nasd
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
Amex
NY
NY
Amex
NY
Nasd
NY
Amex
Amex
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Amex
NY
Amex
NY
NY
Amex
Amex
Amex
Amex
Nasd
Amex
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Div Yld PE Last
.76
.60
...
.12
2.27
1.98
2.00
...
...
.28
...
1.80
...
1.24
...
2.38
...
.12
.16
1.34
1.00
...
.64
1.16
.40
.88
.30
...
.50
...
.32
.40
...
.04
.80
.84
.32
...
...
...
.24
...
...
1.52
.80
3.0
2.5
...
.7
3.2
2.8
4.7
...
...
2.0
...
2.8
...
1.8
...
2.1
...
...
.8
3.2
2.6
...
1.5
1.8
4.1
2.6
1.0
...
.8
...
1.1
1.0
...
.3
1.4
1.3
1.3
...
...
...
.4
...
...
5.5
1.3
YTD
Chg %Chg
19 25.61 +.13
+7.2
17 24.42 -1.48 -22.3
45 53.20 +1.30 +65.2
20 16.94 +.04
-.9
... 71.46 +.01
-.8
14 70.48 -.89 +20.7
10 42.23 +.04 -10.1
...
2.84 -.02
-6.9
17 29.30 +.64 -14.1
... 14.33 +.27 +26.8
... 38.62 -.38 +21.3
10 63.27 -.50 +20.5
21 18.05 -.06
-6.6
9 68.29 -1.47 +57.3
...
1.70 +.31 -52.6
... 104.10 +.06
-3.2
25 34.09 +.10 -19.1
...
3.46 +.34 -61.6
15 21.20 -.08 -21.1
9 41.78 +.38 -15.6
56 38.44 -.31 -10.7
57 38.78 +1.06 -33.3
17 43.77 -.23
+1.3
14 63.83 -1.15 +24.5
8
9.79 +.07 -33.1
20 33.40 +.10
-8.5
12 30.50 +1.00 +13.0
27
8.01 -.18 +52.0
70 65.01 -.19 +65.7
...
.74 +.01 +42.3
27 28.47 +.46 +35.8
16 38.53 -.22
-9.9
37
5.24 +.41 +233.8
... 11.72 -.04
+7.3
... 56.80 -.24
+6.3
... 65.18 +.45
+.7
17 24.38 -.18
+4.2
95 12.30 +.39 +117.7
...
1.95 +.19 -38.5
... 20.38 +.10 +16.2
21 65.39 +.09 +13.5
40 12.68 +.21 +69.1
13
3.09 +.05 -17.8
13 27.62 +.02 -14.1
13 59.65 -.30
-.2
DAILY DOW JONES
Name
Ex
Div Yld PE Last
YTD
Chg %Chg
Microsoft
Monsnto
Motorola
Nasd100Tr
NortelNet
OcciPet
OilSvHT
Oracle
PNM Res
Penney
Pfizer
Pier 1
PlumCrk
ProspBcsh
Qualcom
ReliantEn
RetailHT
RexStrs
Rhodia
SBC Com
Sanmina
SearsHldgs
SemiHTr
SvceCp lf
SiriusS
Solectrn
SouthnCo
SwstAirl
SprintNex
SPDR
SP Mid
SP Engy
SP Fncl
StewStev
SunMicro
Symantec s
TXU Corp
TexInst
3Com
TimeWarn
UnionPac
Utdhlth s
WalMart
Walgrn
Yahoo
Nasd
NY
NY
Nasd
NY
NY
Amex
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Nasd
Nasd
NY
Amex
NY
NY
NY
Nasd
Nasd
Amex
NY
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
Amex
Amex
Amex
Amex
NY
Nasd
Nasd
NY
NY
Nasd
NY
NY
NY
NY
NY
Nasd
.32
.68
.16
.41
...
1.24
.50
...
.80
.50
.76
.40
1.52
.33
.36
...
3.95
...
...
1.29
...
...
.20
.10
...
...
1.49
.02
.10
2.39
1.34
.57
.69
.34
...
...
2.25
.12
...
.20
1.20
.02
.60
.26
...
-.07
+.60
+.64
+.11
+.02
-1.53
-2.29
-1.07
+.04
+.48
-.38
-.11
-.17
+.70
+.76
+.65
-.12
+.10
+.01
-.06
+.31
-.91
+.27
+.09
+.11
+.11
+.20
+.25
+.05
+.10
+.31
-.94
+.10
+.57
-.02
+.01
+.13
+1.17
+.36
-.20
+.52
+1.37
+.01
-.33
+.09
1.3
1.1
.7
1.1
...
1.4
.4
...
2.8
1.1
3.1
3.5
4.1
1.1
.8
...
1.0
...
...
5.4
...
...
.6
1.2
...
...
4.2
.1
.4
1.7
1.0
1.1
2.4
1.4
...
...
2.1
.4
...
1.1
1.7
...
1.4
.6
...
23
49
20
...
...
9
...
22
22
17
19
67
20
18
38
38
...
5
...
17
...
13
...
...
...
...
17
28
...
...
...
...
...
67
...
25
...
28
...
37
29
24
17
28
30
25.27
59.99
22.79
38.75
3.14
85.93
120.00
12.45
28.12
47.20
24.87
11.38
37.28
30.00
44.76
14.27
92.13
13.93
1.61
23.77
4.36
121.00
36.20
8.58
6.70
3.70
35.74
14.53
24.36
121.44
127.85
52.56
29.35
23.55
3.87
21.20
106.06
33.90
3.98
17.98
69.83
55.00
43.20
42.51
32.13
-5.4
+8.0
+32.5
-2.9
-9.5
+47.2
+41.1
-9.3
+11.2
+14.0
-7.5
-42.2
-3.0
+2.7
+5.6
+4.5
-6.6
-8.3
-40.4
-7.8
-48.5
+22.3
+8.5
+15.2
-12.1
-30.6
+6.6
-10.7
-2.0
+.5
+5.7
+44.7
-3.9
+16.4
-28.2
-17.7
+64.3
+37.7
-4.6
-7.6
+3.8
+25.0
-18.2
+10.8
-14.7
Stock Footnotes: g = Dividends and earnings in Canadian dollars. h = Does not meet continued-listing standards. lf = Late filing with
SEC. n = New in past 52 weeks. pf = Preferred. rs = Stock has undergone a reverse stock split of at least 50 percent within the past year. rt
= Right to buy security at a specified price. s = Stock has split by at least 20 percent within the last year. un = Units. vj = In bankruptcy or
receivership. wd = When distributed. wi = When issued. wt = Warrants. Gainers and Losers must be worth at least $2 to be listed in tables
at left. Most Actives must be worth at least $1. Volume in hundreds of shares. Source: The Associated Press. Sales figures are unofficial.
10419.59 Dow Jones Industrial Average Friday, September 23, 2005
d
Daily Chg
-2.46
Daily %Chg
-.02
Daily High
10455.81
Record High
11,722.98
Jan. 14, 2000
Daily Low
10372.06
STOCK MARKET INDEXES
52-Week
High
Low
10,984.46
3,889.97
432.44
7,667.64
1,752.21
2,219.91
1,245.86
725.02
688.51
12,478.34
9,708.40
3,166.94
291.92
6,493.18
1,186.14
1,852.59
1,090.19
580.67
558.36
10,696.28
Name
Dow Industrials
Dow Transportation
Dow Utilities
NYSE Composite
Amex Market Value
Nasdaq Composite
S&P 500
S&P MidCap
Russell 2000
Wilshire 5000
Last
Net
Chg
%Chg
YTD
%Chg
12-mo
%Chg
10,419.59
3,623.06
419.14
7,518.90
1,723.46
2,116.84
1,215.29
700.77
655.46
12,126.92
-2.46
+12.48
+.76
-.96
+2.96
+6.06
+.67
+2.88
+4.30
+20.03
-.02
+.35
+.18
-.01
+.17
+.29
+.06
+.41
+.66
+.17
-3.37
-4.61
+25.14
+3.71
+20.16
-2.69
+.28
+5.65
+.60
+1.30
+3.71
+13.15
+43.06
+15.12
+36.25
+12.63
+9.47
+19.08
+15.81
+11.89
MUTUAL FUNDS
Name
Vanguard Idx Fds: 500 x
American Funds A: GwthA p
American Funds A: ICAA p
American Funds A: WshA p
Fidelity Invest: Magelln
Fidelity Invest: Contra
PIMCO Instl PIMS: TotRt
Dodge&Cox: Stock
American Funds A: IncoA p
American Funds A: CapIBA p
Total Assets
Obj ($Mlns)
SP
74,406
XG
67,792
LV
66,081
LV
63,153
LC
53,890
XG
53,436
IB
52,708
XV
48,634
MP
47,439
MP
41,232
NAV
111.93
29.38
31.40
30.70
104.85
62.28
10.70
134.37
18.50
53.45
Total Return/Rank
4-wk
12-mo
5-year
+0.4
+11.5/A
-9.5/A
+0.6
+18.3/B
-1.7/A
+0.4
+12.2/C
+18.4/C
0.0
+8.0/E
+31.1/B
+0.5
+9.9/D
-17.8/D
+2.2
+21.4/A
+20.5/A
0.0
+3.9/A
+44.6/A
-0.1
+18.8/A
+82.9/A
+0.2
+10.8/B
+56.5/A
+0.5
+14.4/A
+66.6/A
Pct Min Init
Load
Invt
NL
3,000
5.75
250
5.75
250
5.75
250
NL
2,500
NL
2,500
NL 5,000,000
NL
2,500
5.75
250
5.75
250
BL -Balanced, GL -Global Stock, IL -International Stock, LC -Large-Cap Core, LG -Large-Cap Growth, LV -Large-Cap Val., MT -Mortgage,
SB -Short-Term Bond, SP -S&P 500, SS -Single-State Muni, XC -Multi-Cap Core, XG -Multi-Cap Growth, XV -Multi-Cap Val.Total Return:
Chng in NAV with dividends reinvested. Rank: How fund performed vs. others with same objective: A is in top 20%, E in bottom 20%. Min
Init Invt: Minimum $ needed to invest in fund. NA = Not avail. NE = Data in question. NS = Fund not in existence. Source: Lipper, Inc.
5B SATURDAY
SEPTEMBER 24, 2005
DILBERT
GARFIELD
Jeff MacNelly’s SHOE
ARLO & JANIS
BLONDIE
BEETLE BAILEY
ROSE IS ROSE
FRANK & ERNEST
BORN LOSER
SNUFFY SMITH
COMICS/PUZZLES
TODAY’S CROSSWORD
Scott Adams
ACROSS
Jim Davis
Chris Cassatt and Gary Brookins
Jimmy Johnson
1 Baby soother
5 Overalls front
8 Auction site
12 Emmy’s relative
13 Pique
14 Curly-leafed cabbage
15 Techie
16 Slanting
18 Crawl with
20 Delhi honorific
21 Zilch
22 As if in a trance
25 Caught ya!
28 “ER” medic
29 McClurg or Brickell
33 Roman orator
35 City near Syracuse
36 Jolly
37 Makes sense
38 Perfect place
39 Faction
41 Scrutinize
42 Lawyer’s honorific
45 Bottom line
48 Not just my
49 Explains further
52 Grungier
55 Close tightly
57 — spumante
58 Participate in a
slalom
59 Is, in Avila
60 Quilt stuffing
61 Crone
62 Gave false testimony
DOWN
1 Freight unit
1
2
3
4
5
12
13
15
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18
19
22
25
26
27
33
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8
9
10
11
31
32
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17
20
21
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24
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30
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44
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49
53
54
50
55
57
58
59
60
61
62
09-24
2 Help a thief
3 Trevi Fountain coins
4 Yielded territory
5 Proposal
6 Orchid-like flowers
7 Razor targets
8 Kind of system
9 Port on the Rhine
10 Tien Shan mountains
11 Bellow
17 Hodges of baseball
19 Get hitched
51
56
© 2005 by NEA, Inc.
23 Collection of fauna
24 Abominable
Snowman
25 Highest point
26 Sped off
27 Unit of land measure
30 Gambler’s cubes
31 Yucky
32 Alleviate
34 Ocean-going bird
35 Very
37 201, to Claudius
39 Wet-sneaker sound
40 Archimedes’ shout
43 Grassy surface
44 Ford lemon
45 Result of an injury
46 Pliny’s bear
47 Stray dog
50 An Arnaz
51 Satisfy completely
53 Morse signal
54 Outfit
56 Highland youth
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS
CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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122K
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or cell (979) 799-7539.
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979- 236-2009
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extras. $2500 obo. Call
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798-6535/979-709-8085.
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979-849-5709.
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CD. $14,988.
849-8584/265-4411
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Contour.
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979-549-8491.
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good. Sounds great!
$3100 obo. No ac or radio. (979) 922-8268
NISSAN SENTRA ‘97
4dr, auto, pw/pl/cd, low
mi. exc. cond. $2900
979-549-8129.
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PONTIAC ‘96
‘94 CAMRY Wagon LE,
3.0 L V6, well maint., all
pwr, auto,
seats 7.
150K mi. (979) 297-4192
FIREBIRD, custom rims
& stereo system, red, V6
Looks & runs good.
$2500. 265-1583 after 5.
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auto, alloy wheels.
$10,988.
849-8584/265-4411
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EXPLORER XLT 2 door,
4.0L, 5 speed, 4x4,
power windows & locks,
camouflage, 5inches of
lift, 4.10 gears, rear
locker, Warn manual
hubs, new brakes, bearings & clutch slave,
Centerforce dual-friction
clutch. Good for lease,
trail or beach. Emissions
OK.
$1899
obo.
979-417-6564.
FORD ‘93 F-350
Cab. 7.3L diesel,
miles. $3,500. Call
798-8164 or cell
799-7539.
Crew
143K
(979)
(979)
FORD VAN
‘88. 1 Ton. Good work
van. $1500. 388-9831 or
236-2009
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05 Dodge Ram 1500 Quad Cab 05 Dodge Ram 2500 SLT Quad Cab
#25201
#25183, Air,
Auto., PW,
PL, CD
Base MSRP . . . . . . . . . . $28,010
Employee price . . . . . .$24,201
Cash allowance . . . . . .-$4,000
CFC finance . . . . . . . . . .-$1,000
Extra discount . . . . . . . . .-$224
$
9000
IN
SAVINGS
Base MSRP . . . . . . . . . . $36,660
Employee price . . . . . .$31,478
Cash allowance . . . . . . . .-$500
CFC finance . . . . . . . . . .-$1,000
05 Dodge Durango SXT
#25232, Auto., Air,
Tilt, Cruise
Base MSRP . . . . . . . . . . $28,465
Employee price . . . . . .$25,424
Cash allowance . . . . . .-$3,500
CFC finance . . . . . . . . . .-$1,000
CUMMINS
DIESEL
18,977 29,978 20,924
$
$
$
OVERSTOCKED: PRE-OWNED MEGA CLEARANCE!
98 CHEVY BLAZER 2 DR LS
6,988
$
02 FORD EXPLORER SPORT 2 DR.
00 SATURN LS2 4 DOOR
4.3L V6, AUTO., A/C, PW, PL,
PWR. SEAT, CRUISE,
TILT, ALLOY WHEELS,
CD, #U923A
3.0L V6, AUTO., A/C, PW,
PL, PWR. SEAT,
CRUISE,
TILT, ALLOY
WHEELS,
CD/CASS., #25264B
00 CHEVY S-10 BLAZER 4 DOOR
3.7L V6, 5 SPEED, A/C, PW,
PL, CRUISE, TILT,
ALLOY WHEELS,
CD, #25248A
7,988
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2000 CHEVY S10 BLAZER 4 DOOR #25324A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $9,988
1999 CHEVY TAHOE LS #25015A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,988
1999 CHEVY 1500 REGULAR CAB LS #U912 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $10,988
1998 CHEVY 1500 EXTENDED CAB LS #25187A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,988
2004 DODGE NEON SXT #25321A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,988
2001 FORD F150 SUPERCAB XLT #25217A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $11,988
1999 CHEVY 1500 EXTENDED CAB SILVERADO #25239A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,988
2002 TOYOTA CAMRY LE 4 DOOR #25190A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $12,988
2001 DODGE 1500 QUAD CAB SLT 4X4 #25326A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $13,988
1999 GMC 1500 EXTENDED CAB SLE Z71 4X4 #25229A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,988
2001 NISSAN XTERRA XE #25148A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,988
2004 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER TOURING EDITION #U906 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,988
8,988
$$
00 FORD RANGER SUPERCAB XLT
V6, AUTO., A/C, PW,
PL, CRUISE, TILT,
ALLOY WHEELS,
CD, #25324A
3.0L V6, AUTO., A/C,
CRUISE, TILT,
ALLOY WHEELS,
CD, #U916A
9,988
10,988
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2004 NISSAN FRONTIER KING CAB XE #25241A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $14,988
2005 CHRYSLER PT CRUISER TOURING EDITION #U921 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $15,988
2003 FORD EXPLORER XLT #24322A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $16,988
2002 DODGE 1500 QUAD CAB SLT #25029A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,988
2002 CHEVY 1500 EXTENDED CAB LS #25268A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $17,988
2001 DODGE 2500 QUAD CAB SLT #25230A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $18,988
2002 CHEVY 2500 HD CREW CAB LS #U902 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $19,988
2005 CHRYSLER TOWN & COUNTRY LX #U847 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $21,988
2005 CHRYSLER 300 4 DOOR #U897 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $22,988
2002 DODGE 3500 QUAD CAB DUALLY SPORT 4X4 #U903, DIESEL . . . . . $28,988
2003 FORD F250 CREW CAB LARIAT 4X4 #U899, DIESEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $29,988
2003 FORD F250 CREW CAB 4X4 XLT #U871, DIESEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . $33,988
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JEEP GRANDE
CHEROKEE 94’. 150K,
6 Cyl, 4.0 L, Cold A/C,
pw/pl, Exc. Cond. $3800/
979-849-5155 after 4pm.
JEEP GRANDE
CHEROKEE ‘94. Red,
80k miles $5500. Call
979-345-6336
or
979-236-9083.
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HONDA ‘05
VTX 1300C. 2700 mi.,
perfect condition. Extras.
$7995. (979) 297-0600
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848-1569 or 864-0294
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your business. If you
want to stop, it’s our
business. 979-265-8066.
KEYSTONE ‘01 30.5
foot bumper pull. Exc
cond. $12,000 obo. Call
979-798-4841.
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KAWASAKI
‘04.
4
wheeler, 700 V Twin,
camouflage,
4-wheel
drive, with winch. $5500
obo. Call (979) 549-0461
CARRI LITE ‘97. 32’, 1
slide. Exc cond. Garden
tub, w/d hookups, sleeps
6. (979) 848-0529
HOLIDAY RAMBLER
‘88 IMPERIAL 34’ motor
home. a great coach with
many nice features at a
great price only $9500
obo. (Oyster Creek) Cell
1-808-351-8014
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CARPENTERS
NEEDED BY local Cooling Tower Contractor.
Call 713-645-3323.
LIC. PLUMBERS
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Good
wages & benefits. Call
233-3551 7:30am - 5pm
weekdays or 798-4646
after 5 pm weekends.
LOCAL NDE
COMPANY
SEEKING
Level II Industrial Radiographer. Must have
State
card.
Call
713-224-2047 ask for
Mike Phares
MAKE-READY/
MAINTENANCE
MUST BE AC Certified.
Carpenter skill preferred.
For Apt. complex. Call
979-297-0594.
TANK
CONSTRUCTION
COMPANY
NEEDS NCCCO Certified Operator for Conoco
Phillips Sweeny Job. Call
1-800-736-6422.
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GULF COAST MEDICAL CENTER
Attn: Human Resources
1400 Highway 59 • Wharton, TX 77488
REGISTERED NURSES - Sign-On Bonus available *$3,000 to $7,000
•ICU: CRITICAL CARE NURSE: RN, Full-time, 7P-7A, (Experienced Preferred)
•MED/SURG: STAFF RN, 11P-7A, Full-time, Relief Charge
STAFF RN, 7P-7A, Full-time, every other weekend required
STAFF RN, 11P-7A, Full-time, every other weekend required
WOMEN’S SERVICES
•STAFF RN: 11P-7A, Full-time, weekends required
•STAFF RN: 3P-11P, Full-time, weekends required
•STAFF RN: 3P-11P, Full-time, labor & delivery experience a must, weekends required
POST ACUTE
•POST ACUTE CARE CLINICAL COORDINATOR RN: Full-time, 7A-3P
REGISTERED NURSES - PRN
Several PRN program packages available, contact Human Resources for further details
•PRN PLUS PROGRAM: $35.00/hr. flat rate
•PRN EXTRA PROGRAM: $30.00/hr. flat rate
LICENSED VOCATIONAL NURSES - PRN
Several PRN program packages available, contact Human Resources for further details
•PRN PLUS PROGRAM: $19.50/hour flat rate
•PRN EXTRA PROGRAM: $17.50/hour flat rate
ADMINISTRATION
•MEDICAL STAFF COORDINATOR: Full-time, 8A-5P, High School Diploma.
Preferred college degree and certification with NAMSS. Previous experienc ein medical
staff credentialing required. Knowledge of CMS requriements which pertain to
evaluating and credentialing physicians.
CARDIOPULMONARY
•RESPIRATORY THERAPIST: (CRT OR RRT) Full-time & PRN, Rotating Shift,
Weekends required. Sign-On Bonus available
THERAPY SERVICES
•OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST: Full-time, 8A-5P, Sat. 8A-12P, weekends required
BUSINESS OFFICE
•COMMUNICATIONS OPERATOR: Full-time, 2P-10P- or 3P-11P, weekends required
Our competitive benefits package includes tuition reimbursement, relocation
allowances, and much more. If you would like to find out more about GCMC, give us
a call at 979-282-6051. Come by our Human Resource Department between the
hours of 9am-4pm to complete an application. Call our job line (979-282-6050) to
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Control Mgr.
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Jeff
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James
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’03 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER LTZ
’02 CHEVY TRAILBLAZER
’04 FORD EXPLORER
’05 FORD EXPLORER
’02 FORD EXPEDITION
’05 NISSAN MURANO
’02 FORD EXPLORER
’05 F0RD EXPEDITION
’05 NISSAN XTERRA
’02 CHEVY TAHOE LS
’05 FORD EXPLORER
’04 FORD EXCURSION 4X4
’05 FORD ESCAPE
’05 JEEP LIBERTY 4X4
’05 FORD ESCAPE
’00 FORD EXCURSIOIN
’02 TRAILBLAZER LT
’03 MURANO
’03 GMC ENVOY
’00 EXPLORER SPORT
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50k
29k
12k
58k
12k
70k
20k
210 MILES
35k
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20k
29k
15k
16k
99k
50k
20k
26k
49k
• TRUCKS •
’03 TOYOTA TACOMA DOUBLE CAB
’04 FORD F350 CREW CAB LONG BED
’05 NISSAN TITAN CREW CAB
13k
P741A
5EA11258A
5KD80210A
5NB52880A
P1170
P960
P885
P1082
P1080
5KD81697A
P967A
P1016
P954
4PB46745A
5EB58504A
55192530A
5ED101390A
5EB229952
P1033
5N498548A
P1173
5Z360024A
5C295145A
5N518239A
P664
5NB24298A
4NA51124A
45450024A
P956
5W218295A
P643A
P885
P845
P696
P1016
’00 GMC SONOMA SLE EXT. CAB 54k
’02 FORD F150 SUPERCREW XLT 61k
’03 CHEVY QUAD CAB
40k
’0FORD F150 SUPERCAB
39k
’02 DODGE 1500 REG. CAB
’04 NISSAN TITAN SUPERCAB
14k
’05 FORD F150 SUPERCREW
12k
’05 NISSAN FRONTIER 4 DOOR
4k
’05 NISSAN FRONTIER 4 DOOR 10k
’02 FORD F150 SUPERCREW XLT 49k
’0GMC REG. CAB 4X4
20k
’05 FORD SUPERCREW
15k
’03 FORD F250 CREW CAB DIESEL 28k
’04 FORD F250 DIESEL
7k
’03 FORD F250 CREW CAB 4X4 DIESEL 54k
’03 FORD F350 CREW CAB DUALLY DIESEL 42k
’03 FORD F350 CREW CAB DUALLY DIESEL 54k
’04 FORD F250 CREW CAB DIESEL 21k
’04 FORD F250 CREW CAB 4X4 DIESEL 19k
’00 CHEVY SILVERADO LS XCAB
80k
’04 FORD F150 XL
17k
’03 TOYOTA TACOMA SR5 XCAB
71k
’03 F150 SUPERCAB
40k
’04 TOY. TUNDRA SR5 V8
28k
’0F150 REG. CAB XL
’03 CHEVY 1500 REG. CAB
35k
’02 F150 XL REG. CAB
52k
’99 F150 SUPERCAB XL
122k
’03 F150 SUPERCAB FX4
41k
’03 F150 SUPERCAB XL
54k
’02 RAM 1500 CREW CAB
90k
’05 F150 CREW CAB XLT
12k
’05 F150 CREW CAB XLT
16k
’05 RAM 1500 CREW CAB
14k
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15k
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propane.
Must have Class A or B
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in person at 112 W. FM
521, Brazoria.
Seeking:
Individuals at least 18
years of age for a research study involving
an investigational medication to treat High
Blood Pressure. Qualified participants will receive study related procedures and study medication at no cost. Compensation up to $580.00
to qualified participants.
Please
call
979-297-3535 or toll free
1-866-297-4032.
SURVEY HELPER
ASSITANT
MAINTENANCE/
MAKE-READY
NEEDED. Must be 18
years and drug free with
good driving record. Call
(979)265-3622 ext. 100.
TJ’S LUBE STOP
COMPUTERIZED. Exp
helpful but not necessary.
Ann’s
Monogram¡ing 979-233-5988
EXTRA MONEY!!!
WAITRESSES, HOSTESSES, & entertainers.
Top $, most fun, best
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line 281-238-0000.
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needed for Brazoria,
Clute/Surfside & Swny.
Must have economical
car & ins. Call 265-7456.
Now hiring Lube Tech for
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Suite 110, Lake Jackson.
Wanted:
Individuals 18 years and
older for a Fibromyalgia
research study. Muscle
Aches, Joint Pain, Stiffness, Tiredness, Sleep
Difficulties, Difficulty with
daily tasks. Study related
procedures and medication provided at no cost.
Compensation up to
$400.00 for qualified participants. Please call
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1-866-297-4032.
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drug test.
All applicants must
apply in person at
EOE
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NOW HIRING
INDUSTRIAL
SANDBLASTERS
AND SPRAY
PAINTERS
3 Years Verifiable Experience
MUST PASS:
• BACKGROUND CHECK
• DRUG SCREEN & PHYSICAL
• CRAFT TEST
• CONTRACTORS SAFETY COUNCIL
APPLY IN PERSON
PROTHERM SERVICES GROUP, L.L.C.
6406 EAST HWY. 332,
FREEPORT, TEXAS
TAKING
APPLICATIONS
FOR
PIPEFITTERS
RIG WELDERS
NCCCO OPERATORS
IRONWORKERS
MUST BE ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE.
ALL APPLICANTS MUST
APPLY IN PERSON AT
5550 E. HWY. 332, FREEPORT, TEXAS
NO PHONE CALLS!
WANTED:
Individuals ages 18 to 80
with Type 2 Diabetes for
a research study involving an investigational
medication for diabetes.
To be considered, you
cannot currently be on
an
oral
anti-diabetic
medication. No charge to
participants for study-related
procedures
or
study medication. Qualified participants will also
receive compensation for
time and travel. Call
979-297-3535
or
1-866-297-4032.
WANTED:
Volunteers ages 18-65
with anxiety (worrying
excessively,
restlessness or unable to relax,
trouble sleeping) for a research study involving
an investigational medication to treat anxiety.
Compensation up to
$425.00 for time and
travel for qualified participants.
Call
979-297-3535
or
1-866-297-4032.
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Office/Clerical
INVENTORY
COORDINATOR
MINIMUM 5 yrs experience managing automotive, trucks, hydraulic
electrical
inventory.
Flexible self-starter with
computer
experience.
Send
resume
to
[email protected]
OFFICE MANAGER
IMMEDIATE
opening.
Must know QuickBooks
& all aspects of accounting. Apply at Chem Fabrication in Clute.
-
Professionals
CAD & PARTY chief positions now available.
Call 979-297-3051 for
more information.
-
Restaurants
CHICK-FIL-A
NOW HIRING for night
time positions. Apply in
person, only. No phone
calls please.
WAIT PERSON
MUST BE at least 18 yrs
of age or older. Apply in
person Tues-Sat. after 4
pm at Mother Teresa’s
Fine Foods, 6 Circle
Way, LJ.
-
Local Company Now Taking
Applications For:
•Crane Operator
NCCEO Certified
•Pipe Fabricators
•Single Hand Welders
•Iron Workers
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Wanted
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What is 1” tall
and can move
a truck???
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Ad!
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Individuals 18 years &
older with Osteoarthritis
of both knees for a research study of an investigational
medication.
Compensation for qualified participants. Call
979-297-3535
or
1-866-297-4032.
OPEN SATURDAY 9AM - 8PM
CALL
PRE-OWNED
JAY SHAW
SUPER
713-422-6103
CENTER
or
Mon.-Fri.
MIKE CEBULESKY
1-888-828-7200 3100 N. 288 FREEWAY @ FM 523 9AM - 8PM
NEEDED WEST Columbia area. Experience
preferred. Must have
maintenance skills. Salary DOE. Fax resume to
979- 832-8452.
MANAGER
FOR 200 Unit complex
in Clute experience
with AMSI. Fax resume
to 979-265-3435
• Vessel Fitters
• Sub Arc Welders
• Flux Core Welders
911 South Hwy. 288B
Clute, Texas 77531
Miscellaneous
EMBROIDERER
NO PHONE CALLS!
2005 MERCEDES BENZ C240
PARTY CHIEF
EXPERIENCED
SURVEY. Excellent salary &
benefits. Must be drug
free. Call (979)265-1071
ext. 100.
AC CERTIFIED.
Fax Resume to
979-265-3435.
MUST BE ALCOHOL AND DRUG FREE.
for 3 months with any
vehicle purchase*
LINNCARE
APT. MANAGER
Apply in person at 5550 Hwy 332 E,
Freeport or fax resume to
979-233-7033
FREE GAS
1160 Help
Wanted
LEADING
NATIONAL
Respiratory
Company
seeks Healthcare Specialist. Responsibilities:
Disease
Management
Programs,
Clinical
Evaluations, Equipment
Setup & Education. Be
the Dr.’s eyes in the
home setting. RN, LPN,
RRT, CRT, licensed as
applicable. Great personalities with strong
work ethic needed. Competitive salary, benefits &
career paths. Drug-free
workplace. EOE. If interested please fax resume
to 409-621-1185.
-
1160 Help
Wanted
www.gulfcoastautopark.com
Sales
AREA
MIKEN
SPECIALTIES, ltd.
Interviewing:
EXPERIENCED
SCAFFOLD BUILDERS
WITH TOOLS
Must pass pre-employment drug
test and Safety Council tests.
ENGLISH REQUIRED!
Apply in person at
431 Commerce St., Clute
EOE
AUTOCAD DRAFTER
We are looking for an industrious quick learner
who is interested in taking up a challenging
position in a team environment, based in
Sweeny. The skills we are looking for are:
Document Management Skills
(knowledge of SAP DMS would be helpful)
Proficient in AutoCAD (Instrument/Electrical
disciplines would be beneficial)
Good general Desk Top computing skills.
Willingness to learn
Interested candidates should forward copies
of their resumes to:
[email protected]
REPRESENTATIVES
FOR PHYSICIANS
MUTUAL INSURANCE
COMPANY to Market
Health Insurance Products.
409-832-8150.
PMA-195
SALARIED SALES
40-44 HRS/WK.
Includes
cleaning
&
stocking of merchandise.
Ability to lift & carry
weight up to 60 lbs. Typing req’d. Will train on
computer. Testing. Competitive
salary.
Call
979-265-9595 for appt.
between 9-5, Mon-Sat.
1250 Services
Offered
CHILDCARE. THE Best
place to drop off your
child. Very exp’d mom.
Also after school care offered. (979) 297-5786.
MOVING?
LIKE to take your trees
with you? Call Us!
409-682-0695
Wagner
Tree Farm.
DO YOU HAVE A
BUSINESS?
Call About Our
Business
Directory
Facts Classified
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1160 Help
Wanted
LOCAL INDUSTRIAL CONTRACTOR
HAS AN IMMEDIATE OPENING FOR:
SINGLE HAND WELDERS
TIG & STICK
6711 Hwy. 332, Freeport, Texas
(NO PHONES CALLS PLEASE)
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1330 Articles
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1410 Miscellaneous
1410 Miscellaneous
1410 Miscellaneous
1460 Hunting
For Sale
For Sale
For Sale
& Fishing
PALLETS. We will buy
your old wooden pallets.
Wanting large quantities.
979-245-7770.
32’ WOOD ladder. Paid
$350 will take $150.
Good condition. Call
(979) 292-0107
WANTED
Bumper Pull
18 ft. Low boy
979-964-3261
ALMOST NEW!
WE BUY REPAIRABLE.
Used Washers & Dryers.
Also sell. $149-$169.
A & H Sales 798-4050.
1410 Miscellaneous
For Sale
DO YOU need a hay
pasture?. Call Randy at
(979)864-0610.
PBR ‘05
BUILT FORD World Finals tickets. Las Vegas.
Oct 28-30 Mandalay Bay
4 tickets per performance Call (281)369-3085
for price & details
RESTWOOD
BEAUTIFUL WHITE mirrored & glass display
case.
Measures
18”
deep, 38” tall, 48” wide.
Has 2 glass shelves.
Lighted & locking. Paid
$650. Will sell for only
$300.
CEMETERY Dble crypt
in the Garden of Peace
mausoleum. Make offer.
979-297-7072.
979-299-1249
after 6:00 p.m.
75TH
ANNIVERSARY
Top 2 bottom with mechanic tools. $8000.
281-585-5769.
www.thefacts.com
SNAP ON
TOOL BOX
VERY SOPHISTICATED
Oak computer armoire.
Many features, 2 mos.
old. pd. $2300 will take
$1300 obo. 549-8967
WANTED:
RESPONSIBLE party to
take on small monthly
Payments on High Definition Big Screen TV.
1-800-398-3970.
WEDDING
DRESS,
$430 firm. Never worn,
Alfred Angelo, size 6,
strapless V-back. Call
(979) 848-0813.
WOOD BUILDING
10X12 $999 2x24 $1999.
Set up included. Built on
your lot. 713-480-6403.
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BUSINESS DIRECTORY
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1480 Pleasure
Boats
FORD ‘92 Explorer XLT,
2 door, 4.0L, 5 speed,
4x4, power windows &
locks, camouflage, 5inches of lift, 4.10 gears,
rear locker, Warn manual hubs, new brakes,
bearings & clutch slave,
Centerforce dual-friction
clutch. Emissions OK.
$1899obo. 417-6564.
1480 Pleasure
Boats
‘04. Tunnel Hull center
console, 19’ 150 HP
Mercury Salt Water Series motor, electronics,
marine
radio,
Eagle
GPS/fish/depth finder, 2
live wells, Rip Tide trolling motor w/low hrs &
hydraulic tilt, galv. trailer
w/all new LED light kit.
Many extras. $18,500
979-297-1710
or
979-482-7513.
Air Conditioning
BLOCK “H”
R-T CABINETS
Formica.
979-297-5811
or 979-239-8117.
AIR
CONDITIONING
“WE’RE HERE to satisfy
your cooling or heating
needs”. Complete service and installation. Free
estimates. 979-798-9338
mobile# 979-235-0818.
TACLB# 015890E.
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Appliance Repair
APPLIANCE
REPAIR
$10 TRIP/ check charge.
Same day service. Refrs/
washers/dryers. 23 yrs.
exp. Selling rebuilt washers & dryers. 849-5331.
APPLIANCES - Repair
all makes & models & air
conditioners.
Howard Cain - 265-6445
WASHER &
DRYER REPAIR
A&H SALES. Specializing in Kenmore & Whirlpool. 979-798-4050. Alton Fortner
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Carpet Cleaning
CARPET DEEP
CLEANING SPECIAL
3 RMS $48 incl. Spotter
& deodorizer. Walton Co.
1-800-750-2443 or cell
979-877-8137.
-
Child Care
NOW TAKING
ENROLLMENT for daycare.
Breakfast,
hot
lunches & snack. CPR &
First Aid cert. 864-3837.
-
Cleaning
EXPERIENCED
HOUSEKEEPER.
With refs. Call Gale,
979-849-0900, Will travel
EXTREME CLEANING
Services res/comm. Free
est. Reasonable rates.
Braz Co area. 849-4324.
HOUSE CLEANING
$45 FOR 4 hours. $55
for 5 hours. References
available.
Call
979-848-3567 Angela.
HOUSECLEANING
RESIDENTIAL, Reasonable Rates, References
available. 979-849-0984.
PRO CLEAN
COMMERCIAL & New
Construction.
Professional, Free Estimates,
Insured. 979-265-4192.
TOWN &
COUNTRY
COMM/RES
CLEANING
$10 OFF 1st Cleaning,
$55/3hrs, Carpet Cleaning, Senior % Insured &
Bonded, Visa/MC. Office
979-265-4198.
-
UNLIMITED
REMODELING
RESIDENTIAL/Commercial Cabinets, tile, granite, additions, painting.
Free est. 979-480-9817
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Defensive Driving
ANGLETON +
DEF. DRIVING Sat. classes 8am-2:30pm. 15074
S. Hwy 288B near Ang.
$25. Call 979-849-3292.
-
DirtWork
BULLDOZER
WORK, tractor work,
mowing boxblade & disc.
$55/hr, 4 hour min. Call
979-236-5972 for details.
DOZER WORK
PONDS & dirt work.
Land
clearing,
pads
backhoe. Free est. Terry
Stewart,
266-7559
(Clute), 979-481-3205.
-
Electricians
A-ARC ELECTRIC
LICENSED & INSURED
Residential/Comm. New
construction, additions &
repairs. 979-297-9577.
TECL 17357.
-
Fencing
AAA
FENCING
WOOD, CHAIN Link,
Rod Iron, Barbwire, Also
Lawn Care. For free est
239-8151 or 415-4328.
ALL-RITE
FENCING. Privacy &
wood fencing. Wooden
decks, ext. siding etc.
Call (979) 285-3500.
-
Flooring
FLOORING
INSTALLATION
CARPET WOOD
Laminate ceramic tile
showers vinyl Kenny @
979-482-6256 -373-6363
HARDWOOD FLOORS
REFINISHING REPAIRS
Installation
&
Sales
Kenny 979-482-6256.
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Home Maintenance
ANGEL
CONCRETE
WORK
CONSTRUCTION
979-297-1970
CONCRETE
CO.
DRIVEWAYS, PATIOS.
Sidewalks, Parking Lots,
Etc. Free estimates.
979-233-2470.
AFFORDABLE
GONZALEZ
CONCRETE Driveways,
patios, sidewalks, etc.
Comp. prices. Free est.
Senior %. 979-709-1338
MATAMOROS
CONSTRUCTION, parking
lots,
driveways,
brake out concrete, &
tractor work. 233-9478.
ROBERTO’S
CONCRETE WORK
PARKING LOTS, Driveways, Patios, Etc. Free
estimates.
979-2330862 or 979-215-6025.
-
Contractors
I AM TIRED OF
BEING
RETIRED!!
LET ME remodel your
kitchen or bath. I specialize in Custom Cab’s,
bathroom vanities & ent
ctrs. Call Dan Talbot
979-848-2879.
REMODELING
INT. & EXT.
PAINTING
FREE ESTIMATES
ALL WORK
GUARANTEED
Sheetrock, texture,
paint, ceramic tile,
Ask for Marco,
979-373-8776.
SMITH’S
REMODELING
& PAINTING
INSURED/BONDED
WHEN YOU’RE tired of
not getting the service
you deserve, call us.
We’ve been doing the
job right since 1969. No
job too lg or too sm. All
exterior & interior remodeling, emergency repairs, etc.
CLASSIC
COUNTERTOPS
WHITE 20’ cuddy, ‘90
Yamaha 200hp, ‘03 aluminum trailer $4900
[email protected]
409-925-6007.
‘97. 23’. 135 hp Mercury,
trolling mtr, recorder.
Very good cond. Call
(979) 285-5415.
YAMAHA 20’
YOU DON’T have to be a
big spender to advertise
in The Classified. Call
today and let us help you
get the results you want!
‘01. LS2000 Twin 135hp
jet engines, cover, skis,
tubes & life jackets, galvanized trailer, like new,
$12,000
obo.
Call
970-409-9928.
Help
Wanted
Help
Wanted
QUALITY
FOUNDATION
REPAIRVA/FHA
approved. Slab/Pier &
Beam. Lifetime warr.
avail Since 1979. Mike
Hall 979-285-2662.
ARS
CONSTRUCTION
HOUSE LEVELING
979-345-5266
979-481-0686
REMODELING
ADDITIONS
DRIVEWAYS, PATIOS.
Free estimates. For discounts visit us at
ARShouseleveling.com
BAKER
HOUSE
LEVELING
ALL KINDS. VA/FHA
approved. Free estimates. Work guaranteed. 40 yrs. exp. Call
979-345-4980, 236-2009
D-SQUARE
FOUNDATION
REPAIR
HONESTY
EXPERIENCE
Free Estimates
BBB MEMBER
DANIELS
HOUSE
LEVELING
979-266-8802
979-709-8965
WORK GUAR. Free Est,
Foundation
Repair,
VA-FHA Appr. Slab Specialist, Pier & Beam.
JC’S HOUSE
LEVELING
VA/FHA approved. Work
guaranteed. Free est.
979-388-0188 or (979)
557-9548 or 265-6722
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Lawn Care
A&M REMODELING
F&J BUILDERS
BATTS LAWN &
LANDSCAPE
RESIDENTIAL
COMMERCIAL
Maintenance & Design.
Beds & Mulching.
Call 979-482-3140
G&G
CARE FREE
LAWN SERVICE
REMOVES COCOONS,
dirt, unsightly mold &
fungus. Also we clean
roofs, patios & driveways. MC/Visa. 979-2978223, 979-709-8388.
Building new & redesigning existing flower beds,
hedge trimming, lawn
mowing, flagstone patios, Free Ests. 265-6960.
-
FREE
EST
Mowing
small yards to 10 acres.
Tree trimming & landscaping David Haseloff
215-9027 or 849-0635.
LAWN
CARE
NEW FLOWER beds
built. shrubs, soil, mulch,
flagstone patios. Free
est’s. 979-265-6447.
Painting
ANGORA
PAINTING
INT/EXT, Hardi plank,
wallpapering, pwr washing, door installations &
refinishing. Free quote.
MC/Visa. 979-297-8223;
979-709-8388.
CERTAPRO
PAINTERS
CUSTOM TOUCH
PAINTING
QUALITY WORK At a
better price. Interior &
Exterior. Very clean work
Call 979-297-2194
HOUSE
PAINTING
By
“Eu-Neek”
Int/Ext, drywall repair,
texture, cabinet refinish,
wallpaper removal, pressure clean, carpentry repairs. Bonded/Insured
Visa, MC AMEX
866-4-EUNEEK
Painting
The TownSince
1982.
PAINTING
INT/EXT QUALITY work
reasonable prices. Free
estimates. Call Mark
Diehl at 979-201-1901.
Pets
DOGWALKING, Pet Sitting, Puppy & Cat visits,
cageless daycare. Call
(979) 248-8773.
SKS
PET RANCH
BOARDING KENNEL.
Owner on site 24/7.
Call 979-964-4438.
Roofing
A-ENTERPRISE
ROOFING &
SKYLIGHTS
NO MONEY down. Free
est. BBB goldstar member. Windstorm specialists. Call 979-864-6686.
DIAZ ROOFING
RESIDENTIAL
& COMMERCIAL
BONDED. FREE est.
Work Guaranteed. Comp
pricing. No pymt till job is
complete. 979-239-2341.
Tree Services
BRAZOSPORT
TREE SERVICE
INSURED/BONDED
COMPLETE
TREE
Care. Stumps, fertilizing,
trim, takedowns. 25 yrs
exp. Free est. 849-6982.
-
WHITE
gentle,
heads.
DO YOU need a hay
pasture?. Call Randy at
(979)864-0610.
ROUTES ARE NOW
AVAILABLE IN THE
LAKE JACKSON
AREA
BRAZORIA
1630 Free
Pets
CATS...............233-5761
KITTEN...979-709-6464
KITTENS.........233-5761
KITTENS.........297-0400
KITTENS.........388-9560
PUPPY.....979-997-2731
Homes
1670 Mobile
For Rent
ANGLETON 2/2. Appliances. Good condition.
No pets. $460 mo. Call
(979) 849-1516
JONES CREEK 2br
$299-up.
Nice
area.
Rent/Sale.Fin.979-2391395 832-868-8566.
LUXURY APARTMENT
HOMES!!
514 That Way, LJ.
979-299-1074
ONE MONTH
FREE!
Plus we pay your electric
deposit. Big 1, 2 & 3
bedrooms. $199 movein.
979-233-3155.
www.PortVapts.com
VILLA BRAZOS APTS.
850 N. Avenue J
Freeport, Texas
979-233-6148
WASHER/DRYER
IN EVERY APT
AT THE LANDING
1, 2 & 3 BR apts
In wooded area.
Free cable. Pool, hot tub
& exercise room.
NO RENT TIL NOV. 1ST
On select locations
w/12 month lease.
Mon.-Fri. 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
EAR N EXT RA
INCOME
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979-265-2999
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1 MO. FREE
App. fee waived with
canned good donation
Thru September 30
Call for details.
Oyster Creek Apts.
979-297-1283
ANGLETON
Cranbrook Court Apts. 1
B/R - $325/m. Ceiling
fan, vanity area, large
windows, walk-in closet,
freshly painted, on-site
laundry, water FREE BASIC CABLE paid, one
month free rent with m/i
by 09/30/05. $100 dep
979-849-5937.
BRAZORIA. NICE quiet
2-1 duplex apt. $450/mo
& $200 dep. 979-2990099 or 979-239-7783.
NEW ARRIVALS
Saltwater Strategies
Wadefish TEXAS
Excerpt from Chapter 3:
One thing is certain in fishing:
fish swim.They move from guts,
to sand flats, to mud, to shell, to
back lakes, to the pass, to channels, to bars, to spoil islands, to
grass, to the first gut, to the second gut, and to the short rigs, not
necessarily in that order.
Water temperature, hours of daylight, tide levels, moon phases, the
presence of bait, and many other
undetermined factors figure in
when and where to wade-fish.
Fish like constants: too cold, and
they retreat to warmer, deeper
water; too hot, and they retreat to
cooler, deeper water. More often
than not, fish frequent the same
areas as they did a year ago, give or
take a few weeks.
The simplest advice for deciding
where and when to fish is simply
“simplify.” Here is a game plan to
get you started.
14.95
$
RESID./COMM.
Free
est. Mowing, bedding,
tree
trimming,
etc.
979-742-3377; 248-6473
SMALL LOT specialists.
Estimates no charge.
979-265-2344 or 4825555. LIC#64 Class 2.
ANGLETON
505
BRYAN
3-1-1,
ch&a, carpet, blinds,
stove. Owner will be at
house
9-2 each day.
$595mo + $200dep. No
pets.
900 N. Arcola. 2-1, ch&a.
$595/mo & $350 dep.
Call (979) 297-1970.
DEMI JOHN, 4522 C.R.
459A. Newly remodeled
2-1-1, new bulkhead.
$750/mo. 979-233-7443.
CUSTOM
HOMES
& HOMESITES
AVAILABLE in
College Park Estates
CUSTOM BUILT HOME
“LOTS FOR SALE”
on your lots or ours! Lots
available in Lake Jackson and Pearland.
Thermal Tech Homes,
297-9499
LARGE FAMILY to
Empty Nester Homes
979-299-1041
thebenchmark
builders.com
NEW CARPET & vinyl,
well kept 3-2-2. Lake
Jackson. $174,900.
PROPERTY SERVICES,
979-297-3072.
New Custom Homes &
Home Lots available in
Lake Bend subdivision
979-849-2552
sales/design/build
ALFORD
WEST COL.
BRICK 3-2-2, ch&a all
tile, walk in closets, large
patio
$770/mo.
954-856-8446, 417-7934
WEST COLUMBIA
BRAND NEW home
2/2/carport, country living, large wooded lot,
appliances, $850/mo +
$850/dep. Avail 1st week
of Oct. 979-345-2400.
649 KYLE 3/1, CH&A,
big backyard w/patio,
$795/mo. 716 Lorraine.
3/1, CH&A, $800 + dep.
281-701-2046.
4BDR, 3BA home! Must
sell. Buy $22,500! For
listing 800-749-8124 ext.
1942.
RICHWD, 208 Audubon
Woods Ct 3/2/2, privacy
fence, lots of upgrades.
979-266-7950.
CLUTE
AMERICAN
AMERICAN
EXPRESS
EXPRESS
DISC
OVE
R
720 S. Main, Clute or 700 Western Ave., Angleton
WEST COLUMBIA
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY
home on 4 restricted
acres w/huge oak trees.
2002, 3/2 call for appt.
713-882-5915 cell.
308 YAUPON. 3-1-1 with
a fenced backyard, hardwood floors & built-in
bookshelves. This home
sits on a corner lot and
comes
almost
completely furnished! This
home has been newly
reduced to $62,000.
979-548-3351
or
979-482-2785.
www.alford-realty.com
103 SINGLETON, JC.
3-2-2 brick, CH&A, carport, many extras. Corner lot. (979) 233-1065
Purchase your
copy at:
VIEW OVER 700
HOMES FOR SALE
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Multiple picture tours.
Birdsong Real Estate
Call 297-4200 for appt.
LJ DUPLEXES
1810 Houses
For Sale
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1-1 at 121 Trumpet Vine,
$300/mo, 2-1 at 107 Ivy
Ct, $300/mo. , 3-1 138
Trumpet Vine, $350/mo.
+ 200 dep. Call (979)
798-7889
OYSTER CREEK 3/1/1
CH&A, fenced yard, new
paint, $580 mo. Must
see Call 979-849-1516.
RENT TO OWN Remodeled Ang 3-2-2 $1150mo
owner/agent 709-1512
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The Texas Gun Owner’s
Guide gives you the
straight scoop on gun
ownership, possession
and use. The actual laws
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but more important,
all the key laws and
regulations are spelled
out in plain English.
This book is a MUST if
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ANG. 2-1-1, Northside,
ch&a, W/D conn, fenced,
carpeted. $595/mo &
dep. 979-549-6412 or
979-849-6056.
3/2 ON water, 60’
bulkhd, deck, kitchen.
Berber carpet, storage,
$925mo, 265-8010 or
265-2694.
SEPTIC REPAIR
& INSTALLATION
ANG 3/2.5/2 brk 2 story,
fenced yard, ceramic tile,
appl. Good neighborhood $825mo. 849-1516.
HIDE-A-WAY
+Tax
MasterCard
4BDR, 3BA home! Must
sell. Buy $22,500! For
listing 800-749-8124 ext.
1942.
215 S. AVE D. Fenced
yard, central air, appl.,
new ceramic tile. Water
& gas paid. $595mo +
$350 dep. 233-6039.
THE TEXAS GUN OWNER’S GUIDE
14.95
1710 Unfurnished
Houses
FREEPORT 3-2
IF YOU OWN A GUN
YOU NEED THIS BOOK.
$
HERITAGE
COURT.
1-1. $300/mo. On-site
laundry. Ask about our
rent special. 849-3305.
ANGLETON
Where, When and How to
Water Services
LAWN/LANDS.
COLDWELL BANKER
UNITED REALTORS
202 This Way, L.J.
297-1226
Serving The
Brazosport Area
With Fine Homes!
1BR-1BA, $375 per mo
+ $200 deposit. Background check. No pets.
979-285-3600.
1620 Pets
& Supplies
CKC REG Dachshund
puppies $250 (females)
Call 979-647-7004 or
979-548-0707
1810 Houses
For Sale
1690 Unfurnished
Apartments
BARKING ALONG
-
1160
For more information call
our Circulation Dept:
979-237-0137 Ask for TARA
INT/EXT. Free estimates
Drywall repair, texture &
carpentry. Call Russell
Burnett, 979-481-2988.
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BRANGUS
Faced, fancy
bred.
10
832-595-4781.
RESERVE YOUR New
Home TODAY.
Brentwood Apartments,
510 That Way, L.J.
1-888-533-3259.
Equal Housing
Opportunity
$100 MOVE IN
INT & Ext Painting, Resid & Com. New & Remodels. Jorge Acevedo
Owner. 979-480-3398.
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1610 Livestock
& Supplies
Merchandise Sales
ACEVEDO’S
PAINTING
David David - owner
979-265-1042
979-848-2810.
REMODELING IN Brazoria County for over 40
years. Any type add ons,
repairs, decks, painting,
roofing, etc. Free estimates. 979-285-2819.
HI & LOW
PRESSURE
WASHING
REYES
LANDSCAPING
Lifetime warranty
WOOD/CERAMIC
flrs,
sheetrock/texture, int/ext
paint, pressure washing,
most repairs. 799-5355.
HOME REPAIR
LAWN CARE
Landscaping & Pressure
Washing. 979-297-4572
or 979-373-8604.
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ALL WORK
GUARANTEED
C
A
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R
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R
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NEW LIFE
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House Leveling
1160
ASK ABOUT
OUR
SPECIALS
RED FIN 230 TE
GRADY ‘86
Flower beds clean up &
redesign, hedges, mulch,
soil. Free Estimates.
979-236-3667.
J LLOYD’S. Deer stand
chairs, $15-$25. Frpt &
L.J. Homecoming mums,
$4.99 & up. 849-4421.
12+ YRS Serving Braz.
Co Free est Formica/Wilsonart
Judd
Brown
292-6394 or 297-2780.
Hardi Siding, painting,
room additions, decks,
piling replacement All
work done to windstorm
code George 233-1636.
LAWN
MOWING
BATHS & KITCHENS,
Hardi siding, floors. Work
guaranteed. Free ests.
Call 979-299-6766.
QUALITY FENCE
Wood, Chain Link, Ornamental Iron & Free Est.
Angleton. 979-849-4841
1-800-235-0161.
BRANSON
FIVE J’S
HOME REPAIRS,
Remodeling & Painting.
Home 979-265-0464,
Cell 979-299-8940.
MASTER
TOUCH
ConcreteWork
PARKING LOTS driveways, patios, sidewalks,
Free est 979-480-3136,
265-9733, 239-9530.
Leroy J. Breaux Jr.
1690 Unfurnished
Apartments
WANTED
Bumper Pull
18 ft. Low boy
979-964-3261
KENNER VISION
GREAT FOR
LEASE!!
Call 979-265-7401 • 800-864-8340 To Place Your Service Directory Ad
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1510 Heavy
Equipment
231 W. ORCHARD 2bdr
1 ba, pool, brick, $55k
obo. no owner financing.
Call 979-709-9192.
1840 Commerical
Prop.For Sale
BAIT CAMP 4BDRM
house & shrimp boat, license & gear $75K obo.
Call 409-355-2308.
JONES CREEK. Excellent metal building, 4
overhead doors, with
apt., on large lot. ReMax
1st Team 979-297-5747.
Call Peggy 979-2350397 or Bonnie, 979236-0146.
Estate
1860 Real
Wanted
ABC REALTY 297-9900
CASH FOR HOUSES
Fast Cash, Fast Closing
Fixer Uppers Welcome!
WE BUY HOUSES!!
Fast cash any condition.
Call Steve or John at
WE WILL buy your
house today, any condition. Since 1954. Call us
first! 713-817-1101.
Homes
1980 Mobile
For Sale
HOME FOR BUS.
FLEETWOOD ‘91
3/2.5/2 double brick on
2.5 acres. Approx. 4,000
sq. ft cinder shop.$195K.
Call (979)233-3229
16X56, 2BR-2BA, CH/A,
refrigerator, washer &
dryer.
$9,000
Call
970-409-9928.