Galveston Daily News (Newspaper) - October 23, 2000, Galveston, Texas WEATHER Mostly cloudy 50 percent chance of rain Highs near 80 Forecast on Page A2 SPORTS NO CIGAR Ninth inning Mets rally isnt enough Yankees win Game 2 65 Page Bl WORLD HISTORIC Secretary of State Madeleine Albright is the first such official to visit North Korea Page All mny O U N T Y MONDAY October 23 2000 Vol 158 No 196 com Barak calls peace timeout I Israeli Palestinian leaders far from agreement as Yasser Arafat tells Ehud Barak to go to By RON The Associated Press JERUSALEM Ehud Barak called for a peace timeout and Yasser Arafat told him to go to The Israeli and Palestinian leaders seemed further than WORLD lurtner ever Sunday from the peace their and Egyptian sponsors have tried so hard to salvage The violence in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip showed no signs of abating and the ceasefire called during last weeks peace summit was little more than a memory In the fiercest fighting in the Jerusalem environs since clashes broke out on Sept 28 Israeli heli copter gunships rocketed the village ol Beit Jalla Some Palestinian homes were leveled Electricity and phone lines were down and Pales said the power plant had been hit The three hours of fighting started when Pales tinian gunmen in Beit Jalla and in Bethlehem opened nre on residential apartment buildings in Gilo a Please see 50 cents A masked Pales tinian boy holds up a picture of Al mosque in Jerusalem the third holiest mosque of Islam during a demon stration fn Gaza City on Sunday Clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinians continued Sunday in the Gaza Strip and the West Turning over a new Resorts maintenance director Dick Meisinger is sil white inspecting the progress of the construction on the The resort is being developed by a company that owns or operates 22 resorts nationwide By CARTER THOMPSON The Daily News GALVESTON Sales of timeshare con dominiums on the West End are going so M VI jt owners pressing forward on a second phase The developer of Seaside Resorts this month got the planning commissions approval of for the second phase The resort is being developed by Resorts which owns or operates 22 resorts across the country 8 first phase planning second S ales are going exceptionally Kathy Thomas Barr Seaside Resorts But construction of the new section will not begin until late 2002 said Kathy Thomas Barr a spokeswoman for the Galveston resort The construction evident from FM 3005 is of the resorts first phase Two buildings con 24 units already are open Barr said new buildings will be constructed as the re maining 126 units in phase one are sold Sales are going exceptionally she said We are offering this to our existing members as an upgrade We have more than members The estimated value of the resorts first phase is million and the second phase which consists of 136 condominiums is valued at million Barr said The time share arrival in town invited a fair share of controversy especially from tha neighboring Kahala Beach vision Neighbors said the resort originally pitched as containing 750 units ran counter to the citys plan for the West End as being filled with homes They feared the timeshare condominiums would strain the ecology and city services on the West End Please see PAGE A full list of early voting sites and times The Daily picks for state na tional races Early voting for the general election end Nov 3 From staff reports Early voting for the Nov 7 General Election starts today at sites throughout Galveston County Registered voters will get a chance to vote for president and vice president along with state district and county races Galveston County will have a bond elec tion with three propositions Galveston County Navi gation District No 1 which operates the Pelican Island Bridge has called an elec tion to choose one member of the board of directors Also on the ballot will be a special election for the Galve ston school board position vacated by Walter Syers and an election to decide whether the communities of Bacliff and San Leon will form the new village of Early voting will end Nov 3 ENRIC Associated Press Bank Workers claim discrimination in Texas City A local union chairman claims the city has allowed workers to be passed over for promotions on a regular basis a charge the mayor denies By GOODEN The Daily News TEXAS CITY union workers in Texas City say they are the vic tims of systematic discrimination In April several police officers also claimed they were being dis criminated against in the police depart ment Were not feeling very AllAmerican right said James Daniels chairman of PACE Union Local 4449 Our rights have been Mayor Carlos Garza said the claims were unfounded I can tell you that we do not nate against anyone he said Dis crimination is not Daniels said that the city which was named an AllAmerican City by the Na tional Civic League in 1997 had allowed workers to be passed over for promotions on a regular basis They also claim that supervisors have referred to them using racial slurs that they had to fight to get a Confederate flag removed from a city and that they have been unfairly punished and fired Were not publicizing this to hurt any Daniels said All were asking is that we get treated The workers believe their white counter parts receive larger salaries for the same work Leon Harper works for the citys sanitation department He said the department has specific pay discrepancies For instance he said black heavy equipment operators make an hour White workers he said make Garza said the differences in pay had nothing to do with discrimination The pay scales are different because some workers advance to higher positions Its the same way if in a private he said Some people will al ways get paid more when others are not as accomplished The same is true in every city depart ment Not all firefighters and policeman are paid the Joe Mose said he hadnt been allowed to advance Mose works as a laborer for the city He applied for a job as a heavy equip ment operator However when no openings were avail able in that position he said the city hired him as a laborer and told him when the po sition was open again hed be hired Please see PAGE Correction Texas Lottery We make every effort to ensure the accuracy of the information we report and it is our policy to correct errors promptly Readers may bring mistakes to our attention by telephone at 409 6835200 or 800 5613611 or by fax at 409 7403421 Saturdays drawings Pick Lotto Next Lotto drawing Wednesday Estimated Jackpot million I Read the latest local news and readers forums onthe Galve ston County Daily News Web site at The County Daily News J
