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Enterprise file photo
A backhoe moves logs as a military combat them, Jefferson County
C-130 aircraft sprays insecticide outside officials say.
Beaumont after Hurricane Rita in 2005.
FEMA:
Mobile
homes
on way
Agency won’t say when
temporary housing units
for Ike victims will arrive
By RYAN MYERS
THE ENTERPRISE
After frustrating days of finger-
pointing and delay, FEMA officials
told local leaders Wednesday that
mobile homes finally were on the
way for Southeast Texans displaced
from their homes by Hurricane Ike.
Mobile homes and “park model
trailers” have been staged outside
of the state and will begin shipping
today, said Albie Lewis, a Federal
HOUSING, page 4A
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Ike scatters
cattle, salts
grazing land
Rancher rounds up what
he can and sends livestock
to feed elsewhere in Texas
By KYLE PEVETO
THE ENTERPRISE
In six generations, Bill White’s
coastal Southeast Texas ranching
family has not faced a greater chal-
lenge.
Hurricane Ike’s storm surge
flooded the grasslands of southern
Jefferson and Chambers counties
where the White Ranch has grazed
cattle since 1819.
Cattle lie drowned in marshes,
every fence and cattle pen for miles
is blown down and saltwater has
ruined thousands of acres of graz-
ing land for several months.
“You’re at nature’s whim. I don’t
CATTLE, page 7A
Kelly Bulldogs try to get
used to playing football
again: Sports, Section C
THURSDAY
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
 THE ADVOCATE FOR SOUTHEAST TEXAS SINCE 1880   50 Cents
County wants bug war aid
State not seeking military planes to spray mosquitoes, but local officials say region needs big guns
By SARAH MOORE spraying. The Texas Department of State
THE ENTERPRISE Despite the state’s decision not
to seek the Department of
Health Services on Wednesday
announced aerial spraying will be
SpeakUP
Gulf Coast mosquitoes are so Defense’s assistance in fighting the done by private contractors, rather ◆ Should the state use C-
than the C-130 planes used effec-
bad, it’ll take a military force to Gulf Coast’s mosquito plague, Jef- 130s to combat our mosquito
ferson County has not given up tively after Hurricane Rita. problem? Take our survey at
trying to get C-130 planes to tackle BeaumontEnterprise.com
Or at least, military planes for the problem. WAR, page 7A
Bolivar folks look, leave; will they want to return?
Photos by Guiseppe Barranco/The Enterprise
Gary Kent looks at the scant remnants of his neighbor’s bayside home on Bolivar Peninsula on Wednesday.
Gone home
Residents allowed brief visit to see what disaster took from them Those who want
Allan Maniha
retrieves his
By CHRISTINE RAPPLEYE
THE ENTERPRISE to stay know big
Texas flag from
under debris at GILCHRIST — Susan Shafer
came prepared. She had black
task lies ahead
his bayside cabin
on the Bolivar rubber boots, gloves and a cam- By KYLE PEVETO
Peninsula on era. Her friend, Gerry Lang, had THE ENTERPRISE
Wednesday. Res- a bag and shovel.
Shafer, of Houston, also had Bolivar Peninsula property
idents who live owners gathered in droves
no expectation of finding any-
east of the Wednesday afternoon for the
thing from her home on Fourth
Rollover Pass Street after Hurricane Ike swept first in a series of meetings
bridge were through more than a week ago, they hope will lead to the
allowed to check washing away all but a dozen or speedy reconstruction of the
their homes on so homes. area hit hard by Hurricane Ike.
Wednesday. She let out a cry as she walked Most in the standing-room-
Those who live up on where her house once only crowd of about 350 at the
west of it will be stood. Next to one of the Jefferson County Courthouse
let in on Friday. remaining pilings was a man- jury impaneling room had
gled pile of some of her things, seen their property only in aer-
including a few of her piano-key ial photos, but everyone knew
Entergy chief pattern dishes and one cuckoo a long rebuilding process lies
exec asserts clock from her collection of sev- ahead.
eral hundred. “Crystal Beach and Bolivar
utility is not “I had just moved everything Peninsula was created and
giving up on here,” Shafer said. developed by Southeast Tex-
the Bolivar Officials were allowing those
REBUILD, page 4A
Peninsula: 4A BOLIVAR, page 6A
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