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PAT ON THE BACK
... to local organizations and individuals who have generously donated:
to the Goodtellows program. Your generosity brings the hope ota
brighter Christmas for area children. Thank
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The Baytown Sun is published Monday through Friday and Sunday at
1301 Memorial Drive in Baytown.
Gaiy Dobbs Edwin Henry
Editor and Publisher „ _ .. Manaans Editor
Nyree Doucette
Asst Managing Editor
Community reaches
out to those in need
I ■ f hile most Americans sit down to a table of family and friends each
If If Thanksgiving, some find it in their hearts to reach out to those in
m m need. Such generosity was seen Thursday in Baytown as many came
together to make the second annual Friends Serving Friends Thanksgiving Din-
ner a success.
Several individual volunteers and organizations turned out to serve up turkey
and all the trimmings at the event.
It’s generosity like this that reminds us what we have to be thankful for—a
community that is here to help in times of need.
This special bond is prevalent throughout the city; not just on holidays, but
during the year as well.
Several area organizations rely on volunteers year-round to help provide vari-
ous services to members of our community.
It’s volunteers like those who read to children at Harlem Elementary School,
build houses for Habitat for Humanity, volunteer to be a Big Brother or Big Sis-
ter and others who donate their time to worthwhile causes that make this com-
munity rich.
Volunteering is a worthwhile effort that brings a sense of joy and satisfaction
to those who help others — and for all those who willingly donate their time to
help make Baytown a better place, we say thank you. V
America by the numbers
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Today in history
Today is Friday, Nov. 27, the 331st day of 1997. There are 34 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Nov. 27,1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Super-
visor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death inside city hall by
former supervisor Dan White.
On this date:
In 1839, the American Statistical Association was founded in Boston.
In 1901, Army War College was established in Washington, D.C.
In 1910, New York’s Pennsylvania Station opened.
In 1939, the play “Key Largo,” by Maxwell Anderson, opened at the Ethel
Barrymore Theater in New York.
942, during World War II, the French navy at Toulon scuttled its ships
bmarines to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.
In 1953, playwright Eugene O’Neill died in Boston at age 65.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI, visiting the Philippines, was slightly wounded at the
Manila airport by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest.
In 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice presi-
dent, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.
In 1983,183 people were killed when a Colombian Avianca Airlines Boe-
ing 747 Crashed near Madrid’s Barajas airport.
In 1985, the British House of Commons approved the Anglo-Irish accord
giving Dublin a consultative role in the governing of British-ruled Northern
Ireland.
Ten years ago: The United States was hit by a flood of worldwide criticism
for its refusal a day earlier to allow PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to address
the United Nations. Actor John Carradine, known for his roles in horror
films, died in Milan, Italy, at age 82.
Today’s Birthdays: Broadway producer David Merrick is 86. Former Trea-
sury Secretary William Simon is 71. Actor James Avery is 50. Caroline
Kennedy Schlossberg is 41. Rock musician Charlie Burchill (Simple Minds)
is 39. Rock musician Charlie Benante (Anthrax) is 36. Rock musician Mike
Bordin (Faith No More) is 36. Actor Fisher Stevens is 35.
— The Associated Press
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The television documentary tells histo-
ry as never before. Consider some recent
PBS programs: -
The new episode of “The American
n Experience,” which aired last week, was
entitled “America 1900.”
The three-hour documentary told the
story of harsh coal strikes, ethnic hatred
among the miners, Americans fighting in
China during the Boxer Rebellion, the
incredible Galveston hurricane that killed
6,000 people, Scott Joplin’s “Ragtime,”
the assassination of president William
McKinley, the ascension of roughriding
President Teddy Roosevelt, the argument
between Booker T. Washington and
WE.B. DuBois about whether economics
or politics would be the best route for
African-American progress.
The historical footage is sensational,
transporting viewers back to the turn of
the century. Historical documentaries,
done right, are an art form that uses
archival visuals to serve as Jtithe
machines. When the time'period exam-
ined follows the advent of photography
and moving pictures, the effects can be
particularly enlightening.
By my lights — surprise! — I only
wish these documentaries had more sta-
tistics and fewer anecdotes. By 1900, sta-
tisticians, sociologists and anthropolo-
gists were already hard at work. Some
historians were beginning to feast off
their product, just as some do today —
while too many continue to ignore or
misuse data in the service of grievance
theory. Others still go mostly by Edward
A. Freeman’s myopic dictum: “History is
past politics, and politics is present histo-
ry.” (Full disclosure: I am working on a
PBS series that looks at American history
principally through the lens of data, not
anecdote.)
One such early data-oriented historian
was Frederick Jackson Turner who took a
single line from the 1890 Census and
turned it into a monumental interpreta-
tion of American history. The data
showed that the American Frontier had
cally? Ongoing white immigration. From
1880 to 1924, America witnessed the
largest migration in human history: 26
million legal immigrants arrived, mostly
• -A ‘ from Southern and Eastern Europe, and
WATTENBERG that on an 1880 base population of 50
million — half again as many! By con-
trast, the current immigration wave, from
1961 to 1995, amounts to 20 million, ' ’
mostly non-Europeans, on a 1961 base
vast and contiguous mass of free and population of 184 million — about one-
open land to be settled. That, Turner said, ninth. The earlier wave makes the current'
would change the American character, situation look like a ripple,
and perhaps not for the better. He won- As “America 1900” reports, during the
dered: What would become of us? Presidential election of 1900, the incum-
In 1900, about two-fifths (41 percent) bent President, William McKinley, did '
of Americans lived on working farms. In not actively campaign for re-election.
2000, that rate will be around 2 percent. That was regarded as beneath the dignity
Yet we produce more and better food per 0f a sitting President,
capita, about a third of which is exported, In 1996, by contrast, the sitting Presi-
makmg America the world’s largest agri- dent, was, uh, campaigning quite actively,,
cultural exporter. and running Motel 1600 for fat-cat
Americans liked the cities; they also guests, oozing soft money. Bill Moyers’ . •
liked the open spaces. Census Bureau PBS program “Washington’s Other Scan- .
data measure the beginnings of a some- dal,” which aired in early October, is
what unique American blend called sub- much more recent documentary history,
urbs. In 1910, following trolley tracks, This time the archival footage includes ’ ;
about 12 percent of Americans already candid White House videotaped record-
lived in what would today be called sub- ings of high-stakes money grubbing,
urbs. By the mid-1990s that rate was 52 offering a devastating presentation of i
percent. It’s official: America is a majori- how the Clinton-Gore campaign engaged •
ty suburban nation, the first in history. in a fiscal feeding frenzy. Moyers con- » •
Another recent and splendid PBS doc
umentary, about Frank Lloyd Wright,
shows how American architecture
accommodated the ongoing residential
eludes that the activity was certainly
immoral, and quite possibly illegal. *
An equal opportunity scourge, Moyers
also takes off after the Republicans. The
change. The horizontally-oriented ranch- program should be seen again if Attor-
style house could only become popular in ney-General Reno approves any one of
a country with plenty of land available, the three current requests for independent
no longer on the wild frontier, but just
outside of cities bursting at their seams.
counsels to investigate the 1996 Presi-
dential campaign. (What might an inde-
In 1900, a huge proportion of African pendent counsel have turned up about
Americans lived in the South — 90 per- President McKinley’s financing?)
cent. Today, 53 percent of blacks live in
the South. But blacks today make up
about 13 percent of the American popula-
tion, not much change from the 1900 rate
In this instance, present politics is
fiiture history.
Ben Wattenberg, a senior fellow at the
of 12 percent. In 1800, however, the pro- American Enterprise Institute, is the
Thought for the day
“Nothing is more despicable than a professional talker who uses his words as
a quack uses his remedies.”
— Francois Fenelon, French theologian (1651-1715)
portion was 19 percent.
Why did the share of blacks in the
author of "Values Matter Most” and is
the host of the weekly public television
Bible verse
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
-Proverb 15:1
“closed” — that is, there was no more American population shrink so dramati- program “Think Tank”
Area Officials
County Clerk
B.F. Kaufman (R)
PO.Box41
Galena Park, Texas 77547
District Cleric
(713)755-6405
(512) 463-0106/(713) 678-8600
Charles Barcarisse (R)
County Treasurer
Senator District 11
(713)755-5711
District Attorney
Don Sumners (R)
(713)755-5120
Jerry Patterson (R-1998)
1109 Fairmont Parkway
John B. Holmes (R)
Senator District 6
Pasadena, Texas 77504
(713)755-5800
Mario Gallegos (D-1998)
(512)463-0111/(713) 948-0111
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 77, No. 24, Ed. 1 Friday, November 27, 1998, newspaper, November 27, 1998; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1023744/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.