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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Monday, July 24, 1989
SUN
EDITORIAL
Guest column
All-American drug store
By BUCK A. YOUNG
It was more than a place
where you had a prescription
filled, bought patent medicines,
cosmetics, and greeting cards,
or grabbed a quick sandwich and
a coke. It was more than a social
characters like Kill-A-Bear Jeff,
a large, simple-minded man who
hung around the drug store. He
wore over-sized, slouchy
overalls and carried a toy pistol
in a holster. When you met him
on the street, you asked, “killed
security in the drug store when
she and Eddie married in 1945,
the year Eddie became mayor of
Pelly. When the Tri-Cities merg-
ed three years later, Eddie
became the first mayor of the Ci-
ty of Baytown and Sally, the
gathering spot for me and my any bears today, Jeff?” and he first, first lady, a title she
friends; it was the very heart always replied, “killed two.” already had with us.
and center of our downtown Most of all, though, I
world. It was Leggett’s Nyal remember Eddie and Sally
Drug Store in old Pelly; to us it Cleveland, the owners and
was the all-American corner operators of Leggett’s for man-
drug store. And, it still exists, at ny, many years. That couple
least its successor does, just one was, at least partially, responsi-
door down from its original loca- ble for raising several genera-
tions of Pelly youngsters. We
were not just their customers,
we were their kids, and they took
an active interest in us.
Sally got a headstart in the
raising business since she went
to work in the drug store in 1938.
It was then owned by Mr. and
tion.
Images of strawberry ice
cream sodas, cherry
phosphates, root beer floats, and
that wonderful hand-packed,
store-made vanilla ice cream
they put in those square card-
board containers with wire
Congress toughens
sanctions onXhina
President George Bush’s “measured response” doc-
trine as applied to Communist (Wa for its bloody
crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators that in-
cluded many young students was jnot enough for Con-
gress.
Overruling administration objections, the Senate join-
ed the House in voting to levy new sanctions against
China. The 81-10 vote was more than the two-thirds ma-
jority needed to nullify a presidential veto. The House
vote of 418-0 was even more decisive.
Provisions in the Senate bill imposing more sanctions
than the administration felt necessary matched those in handles> run through my mind Mrs. Olds. Eddie bought Leg-
the House measure, and in several instances gave the when 1 think of Le§Sett’s-1 also 8ett’s. named after the first
force of law to actions the administration had taken.
A new theory now being advanced by some political
observers and Chinese scholars holds that the Com-
munist government’s slow reaction to the pro-
democracy marches was designed by highly-placed
authorities to draw out principal leaders of the student
rebellion, a$ well as to identify adult leaders involved in
the events that eventually culminated in a bloody
massacre at Beijing’s public square on June 4. It is a
reasonable but improvable theory.
Demonstrators were mowed down by machinegun fire
and many were killed. Figures given by the government
as to the number slain have not proved reliable. Scores
more than the government estimate were killed.
The administration’s response included suspension of
military sales to China and a halt to high-level official
exchanges.
The congressional measures would suspend insurance
and financing of American business in China by the U.S.
government’s Overseas Private Investment Corp. for
six months; Bar foreign aid funds for China-related ac-
tivities by the U.S. Trade and Development Agency;
continue suspensions of export licenses for munitions
sales, including helicopters and parts; suspend issuing
licenses for export of crime control or detection equip-
ment; suspend licenses for U.S. satellites to be launched
by Chinese rockets; and bar nuclear exports to China.
From Sun files
see racks of “funny books”,
those ten-cent adventure comics
we read so avidly. We seldom
bought them, we just read them
and put them back in the rack.
I remember the town
owner, in 1941, after working in
Fortinberry’s Drug Store in old
Baytown. He received his phar-
macy degree from Baylor
University.
Sally obtained permanent job
They continued operating Leg-
gett’s at the corner of Edna and
West Main until 1962 when they
moved next door to the W.F. Hall
building, former home of the
Eat-A-Bite Cafe. There they ex-
panded their business, while still
retaining the same folksy
atomosphere as before. Indeed,
when I came home on leave from
the Air Force in the late 1060s,
the place looked the same,
although the ten-cent “funny
books” had jumped in price to a
quarter and a nickle coke cost a
dime.
During the visit, I noticed my
son rummaging through the
comic books and cautioned him,
seeing my spreading grin as I
remembered, added, “then
leave the kid alone.”
Eddie even acknowledged that
a “Pelly Rat,” the name the
playfully tagged all of us boys
with, could do all right outside
the old hometown. It helped, of
course, that I was in the uniform
of an Air Force major at the
time.
Eddie Cleveland died in 1971
and a former classmate of mine,
A1 Price, bought the store’s mer-
chandise in 1972 and took over
the operation of the drug store.
In 1984 Sally sold him the
building. The Prices now have
an antique store upstairs in addi-
tion to running the drug store.
The lunch counter is still there
where you can get a soft drink or
a cup of coffee while having your
prescription filled and it is still a
place where you’re called by
your first name. The sign on the
front door may read Price’s
Pharmacy now, but to a lot of
“if you’re not going to buy them, people it’s still Leggett’s,
don’t handle them.”
“Did you buy them when you
were his age?” Eddie asked, and *"*
Norman Adams wins
punt contest in '49
From The Baytown Sun files,
this is the way it was:
55 YEARS AGO
Humble Oil A Refining Co. of-
fers to give 1.7 acres of land bet-
ween the Baytown ball park and
Market Street Road in downtown
Baytown for the site of a post of-
fice. There is one stipulation —
that the? government must start
construction of the post office
building within three years.
Mrs. John GaiBard is hostess
to 11 guests at a house party in
her summer home in La Porte.
40 YEARS AGO
Norman Adams wins a foot-
ball punt contest at a sports
meet in the summer recreation
program at Horace Mann. Win-
ners are Rodney Masterson and
Mac Tompkins. Cookie Gerber
takes table tennis honors while
Kenneth Norris captures the
baseball throw title.
30 YEARS AGO
REL Band Drum Major Paula
Stricklin wins first place in a
contest for drum majors at Sam
Houston State College.
Baytown City Council OK’s a
request by the Baytown Housing
Authority to name Clyde Drive
in honor of the late Clyde H.
Olive, longtime chairman of the
housing Authority Board.
20 YEARS AGO
Platoon Sgt. Ronald Fredrick
Wilder, 23, of Baytown, is killed
while on patrol southeast of
DaNang, Vietnam
Delores Marie Watson, 33, of
Baytown, dies of injuries in a car
wreck in Hobbs, N.M.
Ralph Ernie Dittman, son of
Col. and Mrs. Henry Dittman,
graduates from Harvard.
Bill Nethery will take a two-
year assignment with Esso
Libya as technical superinten-
dent of the Liquid Natural Gas
Plant. He and his wife, and two
children, Bryan, 4, and Susan, 2,
will leave Aug. 3. The family will
live in Marsa el Brega near the
Mediterranean Sea.
10 YEARS AGO
Marshall Sprigg, manager of
Exxon’s Baytown Refinery, is
pictured without a tie and in
shirt sleeves. Casual attire is the
order of the day since the office
thermostats have been turned up
to 78 degrees in compliance with
the U.S. Energy Department’s
conservation policy.
With Tropical Storm Claudette
Wavering in the Gulf of Mexico,
Brownwood residents on the
News analysis
Special session ends with
frustration over reform
By MICHAEL HOLMES
AUSTIN (AP) — In the end, it
ended.
That’s about all that can be
said for the special session of the
Legislature that lurched to a halt
Wednesday night after 30
fruitless days of bickering over
workers’ compensation reform.
This failure followed the 140-
day stalemate of the regular ses-
sion, which ended May 29 with no
workers’ comp solution. And
that impasse had followed a
$450,000 study of a workers’ com-
which demanded beefed-up job propriate in mid-debate,
safety provisions and said the The checks had another ef-
House proposals on litigation feet: they made it almost im-
would make it difficult for an in- possible for any senator to
By the ASSOCIATED PRESS
Thirty years ago, on July 24,
1959, during a visit to the Soviet
Union,* Vice President Richard
M. Nixon entered an impromptu
debate with Soviet leader Nikita
Khrushchev on the merits of
’American capitalism versus
Soviet communism. The con-
frontation became known as the
“Kitchen Debate” because it
took place in a model kitchen at
a U.S. exhibition.
On this date:
In 1783, Latin American
revolutionary Simon Bolivar
was bom in Caracas, Venezuela.
In 1847, Mormon leader
Brigham Young and his
followers arrived at the Great
Salt Lake in Utah.
In 1862, the eighth President of
the United States, Martin Van
Buren, died in Kinderhook, N.Y.
In 1866, Tennessee became the
first state to be readmitted to the
Union after seceding during the
Civil War.
In 1929, President Herbert
Hoover proclaimed the Kellogg-
Briand Pact, which renounced
war as an instrument of foreign
policy.
In 1937, the state of Alabama
dropped charges against five
black men accused of raping two
white women in the Scottsboro
Case.
In 1946, the United States
detonated an atomic bomb at
Bikini Atoll in the Pacific in the
first underwater test of the
device.
In 1967, French President
Charles de Gaulle stirred con-
troversy during a visit to Mon-
treal, Canada, when he
declared, “Vive le Quebec
libre! ” (Long live free Quebec!)
In 1969, the Apollo 11
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jured worker to receive fair change his vote without inviting astronauts — two of whom had
judicial review.
The two chambers negotiated.
And negotiated. Then, they
negotiated some more.
When the final gavel fell, they
still hadn’t settled the three big-
gest differences — how to
resolve disputes between the in-
surance carrier and injured
questions about motive. been the first men to set foot on
The House and Senate did find the moon — splashed down safe-
time in 30 days to repeal a law ly in the Pacific.
they created in the regular ses-
sion — one that allowed police
departments to withhold the
names of felony crime victims.
That law, which had taken ef-
fect in mid-June, caused havoc
bayfront side of the perimeter ’ H ' te that almost worker when there is a disagree- and left at least one newspaper
roa.d,yeAterlay w.e[eJ;wa_dlng and everyone said needed help. ment over benefits, devising a with blank space where its police
Two days before the special
watching. The subdivision was
put on alert by a mobile loud-
speaker system when Claudette
was 100 miles south of Galveston
yesterday afternoon. Since then,
those
session ended, Gov. Bill
Clements judged the session har-
shly.
“We met here for one purpose
blotter had been. Clements has
indicated he will sign the repeal
bill.
veering westward but Baytown Iorw°rKers compensation... it
can expert no reprieve from
rains or high tides.
Zi)t Paptoton £§>un
we don’t tend to that, then I
would term the session an ab-
solute failure,” Clements said.
It was the governor who has
insisted since January that an
overhaul was needed of the
Lawmakers, following Presi-
dent Bush’s signal, voted to
make flag burning a crime and
called on Congress to propose a
constitutional amendment doing
the same.
They voted to make the
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benefits, and job safety.
Maybe the special session was
ill-fated from the start. *■;"
At first, Clements said he
would wait to convene the
special session so lawmakers
would have time to hear from
the grassroots. But he changed
his mind, calling the special ses-
sion only three weeks after the University of Texas at Dallas a
regular session had ended. four-year school and West Texas
If there was public opinion for Slate part of the Texas A&M
system that pays benefits for lawmakers to hear, more time system,
workers killed and injured on the might have helped. They passed a bill to give
job. Then, just when some House physicians clear authority to
It is the governor who says and Senate negotiators said a prescribe narcotics to relieve
lawmakers will be back in solution might be in sight, an patients’ “intractable” pain.
November to try, try again. East Texas businessman stroli- " ' ......
“The problem is just what it’s ed through the Senate chamber
always been,” Clements said. with a fistful of $10,000 checks.
So is the impasse. Chicken magnate Lonnie “Bo”
Business says the system is Pilgrim told senators about his
too costly. The House agreed. It workers’ comp costs, said he
wanted to reduce the amount of might have to move jobs to
court involvement in the process Arkansas; then offered nine
of resolving workers’ comp senators $10,000 checks with the
disputes between insurance car- payee’s name left blank. They
riers and employees. were campaign contributions,
Lawyers and organized labor Pilgrim said,
said the system doesn’t pay The checks also were a public
relations nightmare.
Once the news leaked, nearly
all the senators returned the
money. Many of them said they
found such a contribution inap-
In 1974, the U.S. Supreme
Court unanimously ruled that
President Richard M. Nixon had
to turn over subpoenaed White
House tape recordings to the
Watergate special prosecutor.
In 1983, a two-run homer by
George Brett of the Kansas City
Royals was disallowed after
New York Yankees manager
Billy Martin pointed out pine tar
on Brett’s bat was too far out on-
to the bat barrel, away from the
bat handle. (However,
American League president Lee
MacPhail reinstated the home
run.)
Today’s Birthdays: Broadway
producer Alexander Cohen is 69.
Former U.S. Representative
Bella Abzug is 69. Political car-
toonist Patrick Oliphant is 54.
Comedian Ruth Buzzi is 53. Ac-
tor Chris Sarandon is 47. Actress
Lynda Carter is 38.
enough, that injured workers
have a right to gp to trial, and
that worker safety in Texas is a
disaster.
Their cause won the Senate,
Supporters had said the old law
was ambiguous on the point. Lt.
Gov. Bill Hobby said that bill
was of major importance.
And legislators approved a
measure to tighten standards for
Medicare supplement policies
and protect elderly customers
from ripoffs. “This bill
should make the marketplace
less bewildering by limiting the
number of policies that com-
panies may offer for sale,” said
Paul Wrotenbery, State Board of
Insurance chairman.
So workers’ compensation
wasn’t the only topic lawmakers
debated. Just the biggest.
Bible verse
Let no man say when he
is tempted, I am tempted
of God: for God cannot be
tempted with evil, neither
tempteth he any man: But
eveiy man is tempted,
when he is drawn away of
his own lust, and enticed.
Then when lust hath con-
ceived, It bringeth forth
sin; and sin, when it is
finished, bringeth forth
death.
James 1:13-15
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 228, Ed. 1 Monday, July 24, 1989, newspaper, July 24, 1989; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1052173/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.