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SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

VOL.CXXVIII, NO. 325 THE ADVOCATE FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS SINCE 1880 50 Cents

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Kelly Bulldogs try to getused to playing footballagain: Sports, Section C

Average price of agallon of regular gasin Southeast Texas:

As of Wednesday morning Sources: AAA, Oil Price Information Service

$3.59

County wants bug war aid

FEMA:Mobile

homeson wayAgency wont say whentemporary housing unitsfor Ike victims will arrive

By RYAN MYERS

THE ENTERPRISE

After frustrating days of finger-pointing and delay, FEMA officials

told local leaders Wednesday thatmobile homes finally were on the

way for Southeast Texans displacedfrom their homes by Hurricane Ike.

Mobile homes and park modeltrailers have been staged outsideof the state and will begin shippingtoday, said Albie Lewis, a Federal

HOUSING, page 4A

Ike scatterscattle, saltsgrazing landRancher rounds up whathe can and sends livestockto feed elsewhere in Texas

By KYLE PEVETO

THE ENTERPRISE

In six generations, Bill Whitescoastal Southeast Texas ranchingfamily has not faced a greater chal-lenge.

Hurricane Ikes storm surgeflooded the grasslands of southernJefferson and Chambers counties

where the White Ranch has grazedcattle since 1819.

Cattle lie drowned in marshes,every fence and cattle pen for milesis blown down and saltwater hasruined thousands of acres of graz-ing land for several months.

Youre at natures whim. I dont

CATTLE, page 7A

Those who wantto stay know bigtask lies ahead

By KYLE PEVETO

THE ENTERPRISE

Bolivar Peninsula propertyowners gathered in droves

Wednesday afternoon for thefirst in a series of meetingsthey hope will lead to thespeedy reconstruction of thearea hit hard by Hurricane Ike.

Most in the standing-room-only crowd of about 350 at theJefferson County Courthouse

jury impaneling room hadseen their property only in aer-ial photos, but everyone knewa long rebuilding process liesahead.

Crystal Beach and BolivarPeninsula was created anddeveloped by Southeast Tex-

REBUILD, page 4A

By CHRISTINE RAPPLEYE

THE ENTERPRISE

GILCHRIST Susan Shafercame prepared. She had blackrubber boots, gloves and a cam-era. Her friend, Gerry Lang, hada bag and shovel.

Shafer, of Houston, also hadno expectation of finding any-

thing from her home on FourthStreet after Hurricane Ike sweptthrough more than a week ago,

washing away all but a dozen orso homes.

She let out a cry as she walkedup on where her house oncestood. Next to one of theremaining pilings was a man-gled pile of some of her things,including a few of her piano-keypattern dishes and one cuckooclock from her collection of sev-eral hundred.

I had just moved everythinghere, Shafer said.

Officials were allowing those

BOLIVAR, page 6A

State not seeking military planes to spray mosquitoes, but local officials say region needs big guns

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INSIDE

Veterans wait hours for chari-ty cash that doesnt show: 3A Homeowners wrangle withinsurers: 1B Customer traffic picks up atParkdale Mall: 4B Disaster loans available: 4B

By SARAH MOORE

THE ENTERPRISE

Gulf Coast mosquitoes are sobad, itll take a military force tocombat them, Jefferson Countyofficials say.

Or at least, military planes for

spraying.

Despite the states decision notto seek the Department of

Defenses assistance in fighting theGulf Coasts mosquito plague, Jef-ferson County has not given uptrying to get C-130 planes to tacklethe problem.

The Texas Department of StateHealth Services on Wednesdayannounced aerial spraying will be

done by private contractors, ratherthan the C-130 planes used effec-tively after Hurricane Rita.

WAR, page 7A

Gone home

Bolivar folks look, leave; will they want to return?

Gary Kent looks at the scant remnants of his neighbors bayside home on Bolivar Peninsula on Wednesday.

Residents allowed brief visit to see what disaster took from them

Entergy chiefexec assertsutility is not

giving up onthe Bolivar

Peninsula: 4A

Photos by Guiseppe Barranco/The Enterprise

Enterprise file photo

A backhoe moves logs as a military

C-130 aircraft sprays insecticide outside

Beaumont after Hurricane Rita in 2005.

Allan Maniha

retrieves his

Texas flag from

under debris at

his bayside cabin

on the Bolivar

Peninsula on

Wednesday. Res-

idents who live

east of theRollover Pass

bridge were

allowed to check

their homes on

Wednesday.

Those who live

west of it will be

let in on Friday.