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Newspaper
Texas City Sun
Location
Texas City, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1995
Page
2
Mostly sunny and hot with a heat advisory in effect. Thursday overnight dropped to 84 tied a state record for Galveston area in 1953. Bay waters slightly choppy with south winds 15 knots and gusts. Low tide 9 58 a m and 8 12 p m high tide 4 44 a m and 11 07 a m.
A Texas heat surge lifted record highs in Houston College Station Galveston and Corpus Christi on Friday. North Texas issued a heat advisory through Saturday night with highs near 100. Saturday night should be mostly clear with temperatures in the upper 70s to near 80 as Friday skies were partly to mostly cloudy and western parts saw scattered showers. Air quality data from the Galveston County station showed readings in the good to moderate range with sulfur dioxide and ozone levels noted.
Wet weather from tropical storm Cosme heads toward Arizona and New Mexico while Pacific patterns collide across the Northwest. Strong storms raked Montana to Oregon, with winds, rain and hail. Temperatures range from upper 60s in San Francisco to low 80s inland, Cosme moving about 11 mph with gusts to 57 mph.
Yesterday saw extreme temperatures with highs reaching 112 degrees at Lake Havasu City Bullhead City and Coolidge. Overnight lows fell to 37 in Truckee California as heat persisted across regions.
Obituaries list Alfred West Jr 66 of Texas City and Virgel Smith Sr who died at home, Paul A Stewart 89 at Mainland Center Hospital. J D Irwin 74 memorial service at Emken Linton. he served 27 years with Galveston County Sheriff and fought in Normandy. Mary Helena Price Bobbitt 83 of La Marque died July 21 1995. services at First United Methodist La Marque. Virglean Singleton 57 of Texas City memorial at Kingdom Hall Jehovahs Witnesses. Memorial services in Huffman at Lake Houston United Methodist Church. Funeral home listings and obituaries from Emken Linton Mainland Crowder Hayes Malloy Augustus. A fee per inch for obituaries and mailing notes with publication discretion.
Robert H. Speer Jr. 70 of Santa Fe died Wednesday at Clear Lake Regional Medical Center. Services will be held at 10 a.m. today in the chapel of James Crowder and funeral rites will follow at Grace Memorial Park Cemetery in Hitchcock. Freddie Louis Kooi, 79, died.
Former Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen testified under tough GOP questioning that he did not know about the February 1993 raid on the Branch Davidian compound near Waco until it ended and had no role in the decision to use tear gas. He said the Justice Department made the call and that he discussed no memo with Clinton or Reno.
About 80 homes in a California Avenue neighborhood lost power for 80 minutes when a cutout burned and auto shut off a line between 32nd and 33rd Streets. Texas-New Mexico Power Co spokesman Tim Gerdes cited a fused device failure possibly from a prior lightning strike or line debris. Outage began at 10:50 a.m. and crews replaced the cutout by 12:10.
Gaston Earl Scranton, 48, is in good condition at John Sealy Hospital with fractures to his calf and thigh after a tow vehicle accident on Texas Avenue. A 46-year-old woman in the Toyota was treated for high blood pressure and cited for failure to control speed. Police say the man fled but was identified.
Texas City officials approved an $84,067 bid from BAKO Construction for sidewalk work on the south side of Palmer Highway from 21st Street to Highway 146. The contract was awarded in a 6-0 vote with Commissioner Carl Sullivan absent. Construction is expected to take three to four months. The commission also hired Olson & Olson to draft the ballot for the November 7 charter amendment election at hourly rates of 125 to 175 dollars.
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