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THE BAYTOWN SUN
Tuesday, October 22, 1991
Opinion
Sun editorial
jTremendous gift
to library at LC
j'WWT’hat a wonderful gift — $100,000 for the Lee
; ^m/ College library. The anonymous pledge of that
T ▼ huge sum could not come at a better time, with
the college planning to automate the library’s card catalog
and circulation system during the next few years.
Keyboards and monitors that will access the automated
system will be placed throughout the library.
‘ The Lee College library, since its inception, has been
ran asset to the community. Already an outstanding facil-
ity, it continues to get better.
| Baytown also is blessed with the excellent Sterling
Municipal Library. Dolores Owens, Lee College public
(services librarian, says, “We already like to think of
jourselves as Baytown’s other public library.”
I The staff at Lee College is eager to spread the word
;that its library is not for the colelge only but also for the
^community.
The city and college libraries, in fact, work closely
together and the cooperative spirit between the two facili-
ties further enhances Baytown’s library blessings.
On the way to fight a war
Berry's
world
© 1991 by NEA. Inc.
Forty-one years ago during the summer of
1950, the Korean War began. A few months
later I was recalled to active duty in the
Navy.
It was a swift transition for me — one day
being a civilian and the next day being
flown to San Diego, Calif., where I was
processed, issued clothing and given a series
of inoculation shots.
A week later, I was transferred to Trea-
sure Island in San Francisco Bay. Again I
received another round of shots. I remained
there for several days waiting for a ship to
transport me to the Far East.
I remember watching a few games of the
World Series on television. Although I was
aware of television, this was the first time I
had been able to watch it The sight boggled
my mind, realizing the images on the screen
were showing a ball game that was being
played at that moment.
Shortly afterward, I went aboard the troop
transport USS General Brewster. My bunk
was located three decks down from the main
deck and in the bow of the ship. The bunks
were stacked about four high and each had
an occupant. It was really crowded.
We had barely cleared the Golden Gate
bridge when the men began to get seasick. If
one was not sick, he soon would be. I could
no longer stand the stench of foul odors and
remain below deck. I grabbed my blanket
and headed to the main deck and fresh air,
vowing not to return to that hell hole that
surely was as bad as the Black Hole of
Calcutta.
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It was daylight as I wandered about the
main deck loolung at the ocean. I heard my
name being called from above on the super
structure. Turning to look, I saw Raymond
Grimsinger waving at me. He was from
Greens Bayou and we had met on our way
to the West Coast.
Raymond, like myself, was a World War
II veteran. He was studying for his doctorate
in communications when recalled to service.
He was assigned to the ship’s communica-
tion shack, where they played music on the
ship’s intercom. They also printed a daily
newsletter for the several thousand passen-
gers.
Learning of my plight, he invited me to
get my mattress and stay above deck with
them for the trip across the Pacific, He
jokingly said he needed a Texan with him
since he was surrounded by a bunch of
“Yankees.”
One day we were bantering each other
about the merits of the North and South, and
Yankees and Southerners. One of the more
vocal Yankees turned to me and said that
Southerners were "really dumb.” ~t
He then asked me if I knew the difference
between a Southerner and a bucket of
manure. (He was expecting me to answer
no. Then he would inform me that the
difference was the bucket.) I fooled him by
answering that the difference was the
Mason-Dixon line.
Grimsinger became unglued at my
answer, and we all had a good laugh at the
Yankees’ expense. Did his face turn red!
There was a lot of poker playing on the
trip across. It started with almost everyone
playing penny-ante.
During the following days, the game got
more concentrated as the losers dropped out.
The pots became larger, and by the end of
the trip only a few were playing. The stakes
were very high, and the few winners
pocketed several thousand dollars.
We passed through the edge of a typhoon
while we were a few days out from the
island of Okinawa. The storm was very
rough and caused a lot of seasickness. It was
difficult to eat in the galley. The food trays
would slide all over the place making quite 'a
mess.
The trip ended like it began, with almost
everyone sick. I was lucky not getting sick
on the crossing.
The ship docked at Naha, Okinawa, and I
debarked to join my shipmates on thie
Salisbury Sound. ,
Native Baytonian Gene Erwin is employ-
ed at the Exxon Chemical Plant.
No final chapter to mystery
From Sun files
U.S. Steel chairman
hits imports in 1981
From The Baytown Sun files, this is the way it was:
In 1931
The Tri-City Dairy Association is formed at a meeting at Cedar
Bayou school. R.B. Wame, president and manager of the San Ja-
cinto Creamery, says his company will cooperate with the dairy men
in every way.
A committee composed of E.R. Couch, C.H. Miller and Johnny
Brunson will be in charge of a banquet plans for the Baytown Cham-
ber of Commerce.
In 1971
State Rep. Price Daniel Jr., speaking at the Baytown Optimist
Noon Club meeting, savs Texas voters must elect representatives
■who are committed to reform and will stand up for it under pressure.
David Paul Smith Jr., 38, died yesterday after suffering an appa-
rent heart attack.
Byron “Eddie” Franklin, pianist, will be featured in a concert at
Carnegie Hall in New York with clarinetist David Snively. His
mother, Mrs. B.E. Franklin, and Mrs. J.D. Giddings, both of Bay-
town, plan to attend the concert.
In 1981
Layoffs of about 650 workers at U.S. Steel’s Texas Works Plant
are a direct result of record-high levels of imported steel brought
into the Port of Houston, said David Roderick, chairman of the
board. “We think our Texas (Baytown) mill is a very low-cost mill
It’s a very efficient mill. But regardless of how efficient it is, we
can’t compete with a foreign government that subsidizes steel
plates.”
Contestants for Miss Highlands 1981 are Angie Henry, Helen
Denson, Paula Pogue, Cathy Smith, Theresa Pogue, Brandi Barnes,
Monica Hopkins, Amanda Elliott, LaDonna Dixon, Melinda
O’Sullivan and Leah Stasney.
New clerks in Constable Jim Douglas’ office will speed the pro;
cessing of civil papers and arrest warrants. Pictured are Irene
• Hoover, Jeanie Lucas, Corlene Barnwell and Tommie Region. Head
! clerk is Eva Whitfield.
Pictured rehearsing a scene from the Baytown Little Theater’s
production of “The Oldest Living Graduate” are Pat Ruyle and Lee
Steven Ashcraft.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Investigations
into government scandals usually unfold
slowly, in dry detail.
This was instant drama. Often, the
charges involved are complex, legalistic,
hard to grasp.
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This one was sex, lies and video, on
holiday weekend television. Frequently, the,
accusing witness is a bureaucrat, an auditor,1
a federal investigator.
Walter
Mcars
This time it was an outraged woman
denouncing her former boss, with accusa-
tions he said were concocted for a lynching.
And all in the span of three days, a 30-
hour miniseries rivaling standard prime-time
fare, adding heat on a volatile issue.
No wonder the encore confirmation hear-
ing in the case of Anita F. Hill versus
Clarence Thomas boosted TV ratings, domi-
nated conversations, and became an instant
national fixation.
There was no final chapter to the mystery;
the plot ended without a solution. Her
charge of X-rated sex talk and harassment a
decade ago stands, and so does his denial,
total and unyielding.
So it’s left to the audience to decide who
lied.
Thomas said he’d never be able to fully
clear his name because he could not prove a
negative. Nor did that come with the Senate
decision to confiim him as an associate
justice of the Supreme Court, 52-48.
“I know of no system of government
where, when you add the kerosene of sex,
the heated flame of race and the incendiary
of television lights, you are not going to
have an explosion,” said Sen. Joseph R.
Biden Jr., D-Del. “I know of no institution
that has been created by mankind that can
contain that conflagration.”
His, the Senate Judiciary Committee,
certainly did not.
While Biden, the chairman, defended his
handling of the Thomas proceedings and
said there had been no screw up, the
consensus is that something certainly went
wrong.
But there’s no consensus on the way to
repair it
One proposal is that a president consult
with senators of both parties in advance on
the people he is considering to fill a
Supreme Court vacancy.
Sen. Paul Simon, D-Dl., a Thomas oppo-
nent, introduced a resolution on Wednesday,
recommending “informal, bipartisan con-
sultation” before nominees are chosen. His
measure, which wouldn’t be binding on
anybody, also says the president should
consider “philosophical balance” when
selecting a justice.
To Democratic liberals, that means Presi-
dent Bush shouldn’t keep appointing conser-
vatives.
He will, of course.
That deals with selections, not with the
procedure by which nominees are consid-
ered and confirmed.
Sen. Sam Nunn, D-Ga., who voted to
confirm Thomas, spoke more directly to that
point, saying there should not be public
hearings on confidential charges raised
against a nominee, not even if they are
leaked and become public, as material from
an FBI report on the Hill accusation did.
Bush said Thursday that the Thomas
hearings should have been conducted behind
closed doors.
"I wish the country had been spared some
of the detail,” he said.
“Now we have seen the consequences of
fulfilling the momentary desire to accommo-
date the public’s right to know and ... 'a
trial-type public hearing,” Nunn told the
Senate. “... The appetites that we have
struggled to control in the past were not
suppressed and the Senate now faces public
. revulsion, rather, than accolades Tor our
indulgence.”
Nunn said the White House had told hifii
that during the past two years, more than 25
potential nominees to government positions
were dropped because of adverse informa-
tion turned up by confidential FBI reports.
But the other side of the argument erupted
in protests that the Senate wasn’t taking sex
harassment seriously when it seemed headed
toward action on Thomas without a full
investigation. That outcry led to the delay
and the televised hearings.
Until then, the accusation had been held
in confidence by the judiciary committee;
Senate leaders had been briefed on the
charges and the inconclusive, two-day FBI
investigation, but other senators had not.
There’s a case to be made for private
proceedings. But maintaining secrecy about
what goes on there is another question.
The problem is what to one man or
woman is proper confidentiality can, to
another, look like a coverup.
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REL Band Alumni Night
On Oct. 11, I was privileged to participate in the second annual
Robert E. Lee Band Alumni Night at the homecoming game against
Deer Park. It was a thrill to relive “the good old days” of being in
the stands cheering on the Ganders, as well as enjoying the
camaraderie that exists among band alumni of all ages. It was worth
the trip from San Antonio!
Thanks especially to Al Peoples, Cathy Funderburk Ickes and the
Band Boosters for their work in making Alumni Night a reality.
Hopefully next year more alumni will learn of the event in time to
make plans to attend, and it will become a new tradition of the Fam-
ous Robert E. Lee Band!
Lee Band rules!
Cyndi Johnson
San Antonio
Class of 1970
Special edition praised
What a wonderful surprise. Thank you for including me in the
‘Today’s Woman” special edition. I am still amazed that so many
women (your staff and mine) could keep such a big secret for so
long. And, it truly was an honor to be featured with such role mod-
els as Pat Johnson, Edna Gray and Cheryl Evans. :;
Again, I would like to express my appreciation to you and
reporters Nancy Hefner Hawks and Lois Rodriguez for all of the
Hospice articles this past year. Nancy and^Tois have conveyed the
meaning of Hospice to our community, always professional with
tremendous sensitivity. Also, I am very impressed with Tracy
Connell’s photographic ability.
‘Today’s Woman” was a very special ending to the first year of”*
very special way of caring for people in our community. I;
___________ Priscilla Dowleiji
School vandalism
I enjoyed the write-up Jane Howard wrote about the vandalizing
Tools in Baytown. It’s too bad parents don’t know
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Today in history
Sam Houston president of Texas, 1836
of one of the schools
where their I5-year-olds are at night.
I think the parents of both the younger boys and the older ode
should have to pay the bill to replace all that was destroyed. -.'
I believe parents would see that their sons didn’t do such again if
they had to pay.
Leta Strickland
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On Oct. 22,1836, Sam Houston was inaugurated as the first con-
stitutionally elected president of the Republic of Texas.
In 1746, Princeton University in New Jersey received its charter.
In 1797, French balloonist Andre-Jacques Gamerin made the first
parachute descent, landing safely from a height of about 3,000 feet.
In 1928, President Hoover made a speech in New York in which
he spoke of the “American system of rugged individualism ”
’ In 1934, bank robber Charles “Pretty Boy” Floyd was discovered
and shot to death by federal agents at a farm in East Liverpool, Ohio.
In 1954, West Germany joined the North Atlantic Treaty
Cuba, following the discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island
Kennedy demanded the Soviets dismande the rocket sites. %
In 1967, the Apollo VII spacecraft returned safely, spiashing
down in the Adantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 timev
In 1973, Spanish cellist, conductor and composer Pablo Casals
died in Rio Piedras, Puerto Rico, at age 96.
In 1978, negotiators for Egypt and Israel announced in Washing;
ton they had reached tentative agreement on the main points of la
peace treaty. * - . ;
Today’s Birthdays: Actress loan FnntaW ie ha e~-
In 1962, President John F. Kennedy went on radio and television
to announce he had ordered U.S. air and naval forces to blockade
£-R.L) is 69. Actor Christopher Lloyd is 53. ActoSSS
53. Actor Tony Roberts is 52. Actress Annette Funicello is 49 Ac-
tress Catherine Deneuve is 48. Actgr Jeff Goldblum is 39
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 69, No. 305, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 22, 1991, newspaper, October 22, 1991; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1061803/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.