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The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints
Sunday
May 29, 2016
WBVtjW who staked out all of those US. flags?
Memorial Day
On Monday, we honor the memory of more than a half
million Americans who have given their lives for our
country.
Memorial Day is the day the United States has set
aside to remember those who gave that “last full mea-
sure of devotion,” as Lincoln put it, so that their country
might live. It is fitting that today’s Americans, who enjoy
the peace purchased at great price by the nation’s fall-
en soldiers. Marines, sailors and pilots, should pay heed
and respect to those sacrifices.
Memorial Day was originally called Decoration Day.
It was established in 1868 so that May 30 would be a
day for citizens to place flowers on the graves of both
Union and Confederate soldiers to honor their service to
our country.
After World War I, Memorial Day was expanded to
honor all Americans killed fighting for our country. Then
in l %8, Congress fixed the celebration of Memorial Day
as the last Monday in May, creating a three-day holiday
weekend — for most.
In the greater Baytown area, there are many ceremo-
nies Monday honoring the fallen.
We hope you will pause and remember. Take just a
minute or two and give thanks for all our service men
and women who, through the years, have sacrificed all.
From the American Revolution to now in Afghanistan,
they put themselves in harm’s way to defend our free-
dom.
The words that adorn the entrance to Arlington Na-
tional Cemetery speak volumes about the men and wom-
en of the military.
“Not for fame or reward, not for place or rank, not
lured by ambition or goaded by necessity, but in simple
obedience to duty as they understood it, these men suf-
fered all, sacrificed all, dared all and died."
Memorial Day is about freedom and remembering to
not take it for granted.
Editorial written by David Bloom, managing editor \
of The Baytown Sun, on behalf of the editorial board.
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Transgenders, bathrooms
Kudos to you, Mark Dolecki. Your letter is right on tar-
get. If the restroom of choice isn’t a big deal, why can’t
the transgender be satisfied with his own?
It is apparent that the transgender want? to use the re-
strooms of the gender of which he is not, regardless of
what he thinks he is. And, Ms. Trapp, the minority is so
over-protected that the majority has now become the mi-
nority. And another thing, Ms. Trapp, do you have chil-
dren? If so, you should kfiow that children are not mean;
they only express their childhood curiosity.
One more thing; you speak of the gender being a “mis-
take." Let me tell you one thing you apparently are not
aware of: God makes no mistakes. He gave these folks
their gender for a reason; and that reason was not meant
to be changed by man. The truth is that these folks can’t
get along as they were bom, so they opt for something
different. It seems that you, Ms. Trapp, left your common
sense in the restroom stall along with Mr. Marshall’s.
Judy Eudy
Baytown
Baytown Sun Survey
This week we asked readers what they liked nest
about Baytown, with a choice of six options from the
city’s Imagine Baytown survey.
Shopping & dining 14.0%
Parks & recreation 27.9%
Employment
opportunities 30.2%
Sense of community 9.3%
Educational
opportunities 14.0%
Reputation and image 4.7%
This week’s question: Do you think the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency should require that toxins in the
San Jacinto Waste Pits be removed or be permanently
capped?
TODAY IN HISTORY
On this date;
In 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act be-
fore Virginia’s House of Burgesses.
In 1790, Rhode Island became the 13th original colony
to ratify the United States Constitution.
In 1932, World War I veterans began arriving in Wash-
ington to demand cash bonuses they weren’t scheduled to
receive until 1945.
In 1943, Norman Rockwell’s portrait of “Rosie the
Riveter” appeared on the cover of The Saturday Eve-
ning Post. (The model for Rockwell’s Rosie, Mary Doyle
Keefe, died in April 2015 at age 92.)
In 1961, a couple in Paynesville, West Virginia, became
the first recipients of food stamps under a pilot program
created by President John F. Kennedy.
In 1999, Discovery became the first space shuttle to
Thought for Today: “What makes us discontented
with our condition is the absurdly exaggerated idea we
have of the happiness of others." — French saying
For old times' sake, here’s another
local quiz. The questions are;
1. Every Memorial Day, Flag Day,
July the Fourth, Labor Day and Vet-
erans Day he placed U.S. flags in
yards. Who was this patriotic citizen?
2. What was the original name of
Burnet Bay?
3. What was Tabbs Bay called
when Moseley Baker built his plan-
tation at Evergreen?
4. Who was Bill Strickler?
5. Before Stallworth Stadium was
built, where were high school foot-
ball games played in Baytown?
6. Who was largely responsible for
the establishing the first public hous-
ing project here?
7. Who was Julia Pierson?
8. What was the original name of
Bayway Drive?
■ - , 9. Name the drive-in on Bayway
where carhops wore glamorous Uni-
forms.
10. Where was Baytown Elemen-
tary School? w
And the answers are;
1. D.E. “Gene" Coker, who lived
on Elmwood in the Graywood sub-
division, used to place flags in yards
over his neighborhood and at oth-
er locations. A veteran of the U.S.
Army, he worked at ExxonMobil.
2. Burnet Bay originally was called
the Bay of St. Mary before David G.
Burnet, first president of the Republic
of Texas, settled in Lynchburg. Most
WANDA
ORTON
likely the name of
Bay of St. Mary
came from the same
Spanish mission-
aries who named
a river Saint Hya-
cinth, now known
as San Jacinto.
3. Moseley Baker,
a San Jacinto battle
hero, built a planta-
tion overlooking a bay on the south-
ern edge of Baytown. He called his
home place Evergreen and the bay —
guess what — Baker Bay. Dr. Ashbel
Smith later bought the property.
4. W.J. “Bill” Strickler owned and
managed the Credit Bureau of Great-
er Baytown. He also served as pres-
ident of the Baytown Chamber of
Commerce and vice president of the
Lee College Board of Regents.
5. Memorial Stadium turned on
the Friday Night Lights before Stall-
worth Stadium — named for Coach
Dan Stallworth — was built. Before
Memorial, there was Elms Field,
named for Coach Roy Elms. Elms
Field stood in back of Robert E. Lee
High School. Cedar Bayou’s school
district, then separate from Goose
Creek, also provided a football stadi-
um. By the time Stallworth Stadium
etnetged. Goose Creek and Cedar
Bayou districts were one.
6. Pelly pioneer C’.H. Olive, who
served as mayor, city judge and a
leader in the volunteer fire depart-
ment, trail-blazed the Public Housing
Authority, creating the first public
housing units called Sam Houston
Courts. His grandson, Bernard Olive,
is Baytown’s fire marshal.
7. Julia Pierson worked as a public
health nurse in Baytown.
8. Market Street Road gave up part
of its identity when the name Bay-
way Drive became effective, start-
ing at the Wisconsin intersection and
extending through the Wooster and
Lakewood area.
9. Pretty girls in pretty uniforms
served drive-in customers at the Yel-
low Jacket Inn on Bayway Drive.
Back in the day, such glamorous
attire was the norm for carhops at
drive-ins over the Houston area. Yel-
low Jacket Inn customers could stay
in their cars or could go inside to eat.
Either way, the food was great.
10. Bayway Drive, again: School
bells rang at Baytown Elementary
School on Bayway across the road
from the Baytown Refinery Docks.
One of the first schools built in the
Goose Creek system, Baytown Ele-
mentary bit the dust in the late 1960s
—at which time the property reverted
to the original owner, ExxonMobil.
Wanda Orton is a retired manag-
ing editor of The Sun. She can be
reached at viewpoints@baytownsun.
com. Attention: Wanda Orton.
This column like manna from heaven, etc
OK, admittedly, this column is a
little abnormal.
But so are Congress, Justin Bieber,
and edible beets.
(NON-EDITOR’S NOTE: In a
recent trillion-dollar study autho-
rized by your United States House of
Representatives, beets were found to
be smarter than Bieber and tied with
Congress in intelligence.)
Believe me, then, when I publicly
proclaim that I’m smarter than most
beets.
Therefore, I present today a col-
umn that covers several subjects,
which, if misread or falls into the
wrong hands, could have serious
worldwide implications.
The first item focuses on some Re-
turned Mail we received recently. It
involves a Christmas card we most
likely mailed in December, which
is our preferred month to send out
Christmas cards.
Your United States Postal Service
(formerly known as the “post of-
fice”) was letting us know, fry way of
a yellow label stuck on the envelope,
that this returned card was “not de-
liverable as addressed.”
That happens. People move. Peo-
ple die.
What stumped us was, the Christ-
mas card was returned to our stylish
home in the highly religious neigh-
borhood bordering Saint Andrews
Drive on — ready? — MARCH 28.
Counting with just a few fingers
on my left hand, 1 came to the scien-
tific yet indisputable conclusion that
the card came back to us a full three-
plus months after we placed it in our
upscale brick mailbox.
At first I was puzzled as to why
it took so long to get it back. Three
months is kinda slow.
JIM
FINLEY
Then it dawned
on me.
Had to be that an
alert United States
Postmaster Gener-
al Megan Brennan
heard about our
plight and swung
into action.
“Hey, this is
Jimbo’s card we’re
dealing with here,”
she snapped. “Find that addressee,
and do it now!”
Unfortunately, the meticulous,
weeks-long search failed, and they
sent the card back to us three months
litter.
Thanks, anyway, Ms. Megan. We
appreciate your effort.
Phase 2 of this column deals with a
phrase I used recently in a Mother’s
Day tribute. Or, as I typed it, “manna
from heaven.”
To be honest, I wasn’t complete-
ly sure what that term meant. So I
looked it up.
Manna is the “edible substance”
that The Big Editor In The Sky “pro-
vided for the Israelites during their
travel in the desert.”
Thusly, when something good
comes along at the right time, peo-
ple often refer to that event as LIKE
manna from heaven.
Makes sense.
I also figure “manna from heav-
en” could turn into a powerful new
H-E-B commercial starring grocery
store bigwig Scott McCelland, J.J.
Watt, and Craig Biggio.
H-E-B already has some of the
best commercials on TV, and my
suggestion could be dynamite for
them.
No charge. Just saying ...
Phase 3 is where 1 make an open
confession to an error I made in a re-
cent editorial 1 did on the sensational
Bay Area Relay for Life.
Because I’ve written close to a
million words since returning to The
Sun in 2000, and have made only
eight boo-boos (that I can recall),
this was so unlike me.
But 1 goofed. Bigtime.
In the editorial I made reference to
the heartwarming Luminaria Cere-
mony which honors those living and
deceased who have fought cancer.
Except, like MSNBC’s Brian Wil-
liams, I misspoke and called it the
Luminary Ceremony. Embarrassing.
A “luminary,” of course is “a per-
son who inspires or influences oth-
ers.” (Like me and J.J. Watt.)
My bad.
Luminaria. Luminaria. Luminaria.
Finally, this.
Virginia’s Democratic governor,
the Honorable Terry McAuliffe (yes,
THAT honorable Terry), has raised
the hackles of Republicans every-
where since he signed an executive
order granting some 200,000 convict-
ed felons the right to vote this year.
The move drew high praise from
presidential candidate Hillary Clin-
ton, a longtime friend and ally of the
Honorable Terry.
The GOP is miffed, fearing the
felons won’t Republican. I have one
question:
What makes GOPers and the Hon-
orable Terry SO SURE these con-
victed felons will vote for Hillary?
Just asking?
Jim Finley is a retired managing
editor of The Sun. He can be reached
at viewpoints@baytownsun.com, At-
tention: Jim Finley.
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