The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 199, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 20, 1982 Page: 4 of 50
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THE BAYTOWN SUN
8und«y, June M. 1W
fEDITORIAL
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• Editorials
• Features
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• Other Views
• Letters
By PB
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• Sun Files
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e Thankful War Over
alklands Contained
.:tical flak generated by the undeclared war over the
Ikland Islands can be expected to fall for some time
before Argentina seized the Falklands, said to have
onged to Great Britain for many years, Prime
nister Margaret Thatcher s conservative government
s in trouble Her decisive moves to.counter Argentine
WLWRI
iam
wrr
Marti Made
News In Golf
20 Years Ago
tression turned the tide of Bri
in her
!E 1942
•tritons unanimously supported her pledge to retake the
tklands at all costs, which was done, and the cost in
•s and military equipment to both sides was heavy
n Argentina. Army Gen Lepoldo Galtieri’s ruling
jtmta was^sotfcpoiUH^aitroubteThtscHlled for
• versionary tactic and the Falklands seizure appeared
vtitle to be w hat the junta needed
: was indeed a critical time for Thatcher and Galtieri
itcher faced the likelihood of a long war some 8.000
•' from England as harsh winter came to. the South-
mtic. and Galtieri knowing, as he must have that
country was no match for Britain
• he war has ended with relatively heavy casualties on
h sides and the loss of costly war .materiel but Mrs
richer is In much better political shape than Galtieri
.•use her forces were \ ictorious
Argentines had not been prepared for the inevitable loss
' e war Instead they were led to believe their forces
re winning in the Falklands It was only when it
a me impossible to keep the truth from the people that
govemment.admitted the Islands had fallen
eaction was swift and almost simultaneous with an-
ncement of Argentina's surrender Riot police routed
'ry Argentines who gathered to curse Gen Galtieri
•he same plaza where they cheered him two months
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Sideline Slants
Lots Of War Stories Told
About 'Machine Gun Kelly'
Mice dispersed the angry throngs, but U S officials
ressed belief their success in doing so was only tern-
ary and the junta would eventually be ousted
altieri. in an effort to calm the storm, blamed the U S
the war’s loss, praised Argentine soldiers for fighting
H in a • righteous war’ and vowed that ‘sooner or later
Malvinas 1 Falklands> willbeours "
the Baytown Sun is not.persuaded that Argentines are
bitter against the U S for having sided with Britain in
Falklands struggle as they are against Galtieri and
junta for deceiving them
m any rate, Ihe most important thing to be thankful for
* is that the Falklands war did not spread as it almost
: cl> would have had it continued
romotions Deserved
GIs called him Machine Gun
Kelly tor the underworld
character of the 1920s and 30s,
and his fame spread during World
War II battles m France
Some of Kelly's exploits were
related by GIs who swore they
were ey ewitnesses They said his
only weapon was a Browning
Automatic Rifle t BAR), which he
allegedly ftred from the hip
much provocation Hence
the appeiatlon Machine Gun
The soldier s real name so thd
stories went, was Paul Kelly He.
hatted from Kansas, weighed
about 300 pounds and was over six
feet tall which qualified him to
ffrea BAB a* if it were a lighter
weapon
All I remember about the BAR
was a brief demonstration of its
use during Army basic As I
recall K was a rapid fire por
lwo important promotions in the Baytown Police
partment have been announced by Chief Wayne
*?iscey ,
t Robert1 Merchant, who has been in the department
• ears, is the new assistant chief He was selected from
oup of three officers, all of w hom made high scores on
* il Service examination
Merchant has had extensive experience in police work
- most recent assignment was project director-of the
•ms County Organized Crime Control Unit head
.irtered at Greens Bayou
Merchant has also served in other capacities during his
• ire m the department including a stint in the detec
. and patrol divisions He is qualified to fill this impor
it post after having rendered exceptional service in
er assignments
arles Cowan, a 28-year veteran in the depart
at, has been named project director of the crime con
.unit, succeeding Merchant Cowan, too, is weil-
.aiified to serve in thi§ new role He is responsible for
••ntifying and working on organized crime cases in the
intv He has had broad experience in all areas of police
rk ’
The City of Baytown administers the crime control unit,
inch has been in existence 10 years and is staffed by of
ers from eight police agencies in the county
< ine of Lt Cowan’s jobs in the unit will be to handle fun-
ng and to see that the organization follows established
sidelines.
5 and
ever carried a story on Kelly sa-
lable weapon and was mounted on
a tn pud 1 did not handle or fire
one It was all I could do to keep
up with an M tor carbine
I don t recall that the Army
newspaper, Stars and Stripes
ploits The editors may have been
skeptical about this one-mar, ar
my as 1 w as w hen tales of his dar
mg feats filtered through the
rumor mill ...
1 believe though that at least
one story 1 heard about Kelly
w as t rue because 1 got ’ he d'*pe
from a GI who was there at the
time the following event took
• ' '
A rifle company was pinned
down by machine gun fire during
a skirmish in the Normandy cam-
paign m Northern France The
Germans were dug in behind
hedgerows w ith machine gun bar
rels barely protruding "
Each time infantrymen tried to
advance they were stopped by
withering fire from hedgerows
Under pressure to advance by
rear echelon command in a flank
closing operation rifle company
squad leaders huddled in an effort
to plan an alternative to frontal
'assault 1 .
Before they, had time t. reach
a decision or so the story went
Kelly with BAR blazing jumped
up and dashed toward the
hedgerows cursing and
bullets in a wide sweep
He must have achievi
the most effective «f mil
ties - surprise bet
German machine gunm
mow him down Thev ri
been too stunned by his
move to (treat Kelly
- Needless to report Kelly v,vn<- •
«d the machine gun motioned his:
comrades to follow and whistled
Jt NF
didn
hav
'
jpy My
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ouidr ’
<fy- to keei
his way to the company objectiv*
lor which he was said t» have
been decorated
There were other stories .ihoui
Kelly's > apers ! >re s» if h . ■
fit pulled out of the line into a rest
area. Keity couldn! stand the
boredom He would wander off to
another sector and rejoin the
fighting
The last and on .
heard about K*-i,s sn. -*.*,• ,
the war ended in Europe was that
he had plunged to hts death m a
salt mine while searching for a
cache of French cognac allegedly
hidden to escape seizure by occu
py log German forces
Kelly was said to be especially
fond of French spirits
repairs are fine
travels to Hous
week for meeti
Jim Kyle
There's More Fun Around
If I were given a choice of stan
ding out in the ram all day or
returning to the 82 World's Fair
in Knoxville Tenb I'm afraid I
would have no choice but getting
Here Than 890 Miles Away
choice
M live year'ore
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H.iuMoi! Ths-,
Bavtown
A typhoid fever case
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reported
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ille Baytown Sun congratulates these of
lies them well as they assume their new duti
Get something straight - the
people in Tennessee are as friend
iy as a banker you owe money
but when it comes to money -
look out They know how to get it
* When I first plunked down my
10 bucks to gel Into the gate. 1 felt
like I was. going to a football
game, ■
Right next to the gate is the
University of Tennessee fooUtal.1
stadium, and 1 dofl't mind saying
it s big '
On the Wednesday I walked into
the 72 acre Fair site there were
82,160 people in attendance
Now if you subtract 45 acres
for Expositions and eating and
drinking places you have 82 000
people on 27 .ores
In other words the place is
packed Every thing to be done at
the Fair you stand inline
You stand and stand and stand,
because there is no place to sit
Every available bench or chair
anywhere always has someone in
it
i got m a line about two blocks
long thinking when I got to the
end a cold beer would be waiting
Whoops, wrong line Urn in the
men s restroom line When I got
to the end, I dare not pass up the
opportunity
I knew by noon I would want to
eat so t got In a pizza line at 11
a m. The line moved pretty fast
v rag I felt
and I had a pizza and .
by 10 minutes to 12
Here 1 am standing with a pizza
in one hand a drink in The other
and a camera around my neck
There was no place to s» dow
and eat so I struggled through it
mess I don I mind
like the star on Y
It "
My camera still has cheese
drippings stuck on the lens From
then on I thought someone w as go
mg to tell me to go take a shower
I had it all over me
Six hours of this constant
pushing, shoving and getting
knocked around was about "ait 1
could stand 1 w as ready to get out
of there and head back to my
miserable campground
Take It from me folks there's a
tot more fun right around here
than driving the 89w miles to the
Knoxville 1982 World s Fair
And, the ones of you who go.
don t forget Hold you so
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the N'CAA coaches
New officers ■
Rotary Hub, will
meeting dt Bum
tin John Martin R
Broyies wilt assume th
president of ^he club
ficers to be installed a
. Beavers, vice presider
R -. Coker secretarv
and new directi
Jack Keyes and 1
Holdover directo
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Alvin Mil
ward Herd-
J L Wismer
Sparky Bond George Bennett
and Albert Nelson are off to
Europe to attend the Lions Inter
nationat Convent ion in N ice They
will join Mr and Mrs Milton
Kelley, who are currently touring
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 199, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 20, 1982, newspaper, June 20, 1982; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063385/m1/4/: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.