Texas City Sun (Newspaper) - January 8, 1994, Texas City, Texas Attacked skater withdraws from p. 5 Tors edge 77-76; Clear Brook downs La p. 10 Texas City Sun Good it's Jan. 8,1994 Serving Texas La Santa Fe and Dickinson 50 cents 75 cents Sunday Who'll pay the County's failed appeal of attorney's fees in lawsuit leave it owning By DALE DIMITRI Texas City Sun Reporter - A federal appeals court has rejected Galveston County's attempt to overturn U.S. District Judge Samuel B. Kent's decision forcing it to pay legal fees to a Galveston attorney who successfully represented the NAACP in a lawsuit against the county government The fees - now up to - are the byproduct of 1992's battle that created districts for county constables and justices of the On commissioners court is scheduled to pay the county's remaining debt to attorney Anthony who has already collected in legal fees from the county The expected payment to Griffin brings the lawsuit's total including fees paid to the county's up to more than County Commissioner Wayne who aided the plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the blamed other members of the commissioners court for pursuing what he called an unnecessary expense to Johnson said the court's insistence to pursue an appeal cost the county resources could have gone for health care or for helping senior himself has been accused of the same thing in the past on several issues involving county Messages left by the Sun for County Judge Ray Holbrook and County Commissioners Eddie Barr and Billy Jack Pegues were not returned by press time Attempts to locate County Commissioner Eddie Janek for comment proved unsuccessful as Kent originally ordered the county to pay to various lawyers representing the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in the successful voter rights lawsuit Out of that the commissioners court at the time agreed to pay the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in a 3-2 vote in February 1993 the commissioners court decided to pay Griffin only out of the more than owed GRIFFIN and Janek maintained that Griffin's fees were unjustified and extravagant - mentioning his charging of hundreds of dollars for faxing papers and for having simple The majority decided to appeal at the advice of the county's despite an by Griffin to settle for Johnson and Barr dissented because they predicted an appeal would be Kent's ruling was affirmed by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals three weeks Griffin is reportedly charging the county approximately in legal fees stemming from the plus more than in His total earnings now stand well above for the Griffin could not be reached for comment In the county's lawyer - Dave more than for the The redistricting has resulted in the historic election of several black county including Justice of the Peace Penny Pope - the first black ever elected judge in Galveston County - and constables Terry and Earl Quick hands Reno denies GOP claim of political interference By CAROLYN SKORNECK Associated Press Writer WASHINGTON - Attorney General Janet Reno denied Republican suggestions Friday that there is political interference in a Justice Department probe of President Clinton's role in an Arkansas real estate She refused once again to appoint a special really is in the Justice Department's Is it the White House or is it the Justice Department's career prosecutors as you Senate Republican Leader Bob Dole asked in a Reno fued off a response to 'The answer is that the investigation is being conducted by career prosecutors of the Department of Justice and that as attorney general I have ultimate responsibility for all matters in this Reno's defense came as White House counselor David Gergen decried in the Republican attacks on who was co-owner of a real estate company enmeshed in a probe of a failed Arkansas savings and loan operated by a longtime Clinton Gergen took issue with tactics and timing in their suggestions of wrongdoing in the investment in Whitewater Development Corp. and its links to Madison Guaranty Savings & just have to tell you as the president goes home to bury his to have the political opposition on the hammering raises all sorts of questions about what has happened in this Gergen said on Republicans have criticized the administration for letting Clinton's private David negotiate the for Whitewater covering many to make it more difficult for Congress and others to obtain The Republicans have questions concerning the relationship with the Arkansas businessman whose savings and loan There have been allegations that some of its funds were diverted in the to help pay personal and political debts of prominent including The Clintons were also partners with the S&L James McDougal and his wife in Doris a Postal Service distribution puts mail from boxes at the Meskill Station into new boxes at the city's new post office Friday The new facility is located at the Trade winds Center and is scheduled to open Monday by 0*0*0. Andrews) TC Post Office gets new address starting Monday By CATHY GILLENTINE Sun News TEXAS CITY - Local letter carriers will start their rounds today from one post office building and come to according to Postmaster Oscar The long-awaited move to new quarters in the Tradewinds Shopping Center at 21st Street and Ninth Avenue actually began Friday afternoon with the closing of the old Meskill Station Postal employees were putting mail from the downtown boxes in new boxes Friday The new post office has more than double the number of and almost everyone gets to keep his old box if he box holders will be able to pick up mail at the new station after 1 Escamilla Customer service will begin at 8 a.m. Monday at the new As letter carriers run their movers will be transporting all kinds of furniture and files from 14th Street to the new At some time during the postal employees will also nave a police escort to transport cash and stamps from one vault to Escamilla said postal patrons he's talked to are ecstatic about the many additional parking spaces are certainly a lot more than the 10 we he the Baptist church had not been so generous with their I don't know what we would have He said customers will also be glad to know there will be more employees available to man the front The markers are at least New containers in the lobby hold all sorts of postal which customers can fill out ahead of More excited than postal are postal most of whom will see the interior of their new post office for the first time when they come off their spaces are all marked off and so the movers will know exactly where to put the work Escamilla The building has at least double the space in the will house equipment and personnel to handle mail for La Santa Fe and They will also be handling payroll records for La Marque and in addition to Texas Escamilla Letter carriers will park their jeeps in a lot secured by a combination locked Mail will be received from a back loading while local bulk mailers will have an adjacent postal inspectors can see and hear everything going on from a catwalk dotted with one-way glass we get all the bugs worked Escamilla have an open house and let everybody come paraphernalia arrests keep local police busy By DALE DIMITRI Texas City Sun Reporter TEXAS 25-year-old Texas City man was arrested for cocaine possession The incident occurred near the intersection of Anderson and Lincoln at about 5 when police observed some near a suspected crack Police said a search of James Fitzgerald Taylor yielded five small pieces of crack a crack pipe and a reports show that Taylor was only charged with drug He was released from county jail after posting a according to a county Crack charge TEXAS CITY - Two brothers stopped for a traffic offense Thursday afternoon ended up in city jail on The traffic stop was made near Westward at 2 p.m. Reports state 34-year-old Kenneth Earl Bibbs was charged with crack while his 43-year-old brother was charged with misdemeanor narcotic paraphernalia The younger Bibbs was released from city jail after posting a His brother was also freed after posting bond on the police Teens arrested TEXAS teenagers stopped by police for not wearing seat belts Friday morning were arrested for possession of drug When the young 17 and 19, were first the officer said he smelted the strong scent of burnt marijuana in the According to both men allegedly admitted to having just smoking a A search of the 17-year-old netted two red pills with a pink band around He was charged with drug but that charge was later The two have since been released from reports Theft TEXAS CITY - Approximately worth of tools were stolen from a chemical warehouse building between 2 p.m. Wednesday and 1 p.m. The storage building is located in the 5000 block of Highway 146. There were no suspects at press time Scot looking for ride killed by homeowner By MICHAEL Associated Press Writer HOUSTON - One of two visiting Scottish businessmen winding up a night on the town was shot to death ly Friday as he and his companion pounded on doors in an upscale Houston neighborhood and were mistaken for police Jeffrey 40, a homeowner who feared the men were trying to invade TRAGIC is a general view of the home where the visiting Scottish businessman was shot his house from his back yard opened fire on the fatally wounding one of Andrew Peter 28, of authorities The other Sidney 42, also of was not injured and was being interviewed Friday by homicide were believed to be highly said police spokesman Alvin who added that the two apparently were going door to door seeking assistance to get them back to their the intoxicated state they were in it scared the added Larry a police He said while seeking help in the middle of the night by knocking on doors may be common in it is not common Houston in recent months has seen numerous instances of home invasions by criminals known as kick who beat down the doors of homes in the middle of the then tie up the residents and assault or rob the it was a home Hoffmaster ' was just an unfortunate Police said the two had been in Houston for only a Reports from Scotland indicated that Devries worked for an oil service based in Police said the pair had been drinking and made friends with a couple of other men at a bar who offered to return them to their On the trip one of the Scotsmen became afraid for his safety in the Devries leaped from the car while it was still in motion and who was holding onto Devries tumbled out behind said John a Houston police News key I m index local iff DISD Superintendent Borgers makes his case for year-round PAGE 4 Democratic Chairman David Jameson discounts any significance in a Republican assuming the county surveyors PAGE 2 weather Sunny and cool today with a high in the mid 50s and an overnight low in the upper 40s. 82, issue 8 Ann II PAUSE TO PRAY Dear direct the paths of those who go preaching the that those whom you would choose for your kingdom today will be reached in a timely fashion by your Amen
