The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 119, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 20, 1983 Page: 6 of 86
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hat*won’t year. ur ;
from the An Old red brick house where
ivsaxss .sims-m
•bran^es for the giost of the setting for many of his essays,
has beeA:«acquired by the
Metropolitan Learning Communi-
ty, a private agency which hopes
to develop a campus of non-profit
organizations in the arts and
human services in the
! wh0 wov^- ,v^characters and .. ^ Addition,
. scenes and more into 30 years of The 110-year-old - house the Thurber fans recognize the
: drawing cartoons, writing books, Earning Community has bought "
; essays and plays. ; is on a short boulevard of once-
<The humorist was bom and got : Stately homes, now a rundown in-
i'; his professional start in Co- ner city neighborhood struggling
; lumbus, where only a tombstone with rehabilitation. The house,
uggs, the Airedale who bit peo-
ple—but only once,
y > The metaphors are pure James
i Thurber, one-time newspaper
l reporter turned author, humorist,
| cartoonist, playwright„and actor,
, academy and center for
displaced homemakers into other
.houses on Jefferson Avenue,
, where the Thurbers rented No. 77
snarasir
grandfather sometimes
s his writing seem-
e#effortless. But he and Robert
A; Tibbetts, curator of special col-
lections at the Ohio State Univer-
Vickers is the force behind a sity Library, agree that Thurber
drive to raise $200,000 to fihanCe . worked hard at his light-hearted
the restoration. Toward that end, humor.- r
in what was then East Park Place The New Ydrler magazine, His typical character was a
mftfe wh0 8eem'
house number used in some of his
essays, although he renamed the
street Lexington Avenue. It was
there, Thurber fans will recall,
where the author told of being in
its formative stages, pledged to
omote the project in an ad-
in its!
promote the project in
vertisement.
In addition, the restored, , old
house is to be home and work-
a world he did not
create, perhaps hounded by a
strong, frowning woman. Such a
wontanfrequented his cartoons. Jvai a ^ luuoircu U} luo —,
Thurber twice attended Ohio Helen, was published under the ti-
State, but never was gradu- - tie “Credos and Curios.” _
university
By 1924 he was off again, to New
York, Paris, and back to New
York where he was hired by The
New Yorker in 1927 as managing
editor. It took months for Thurber
to convince publisher Harold
Ross he was a better writer than
editor.
Thurber died in 1961, a month
before his 67th birthday. The next
year a book finished by his widow,
Chambers Youth Show Policy Changed
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ANAHUAC (Sp) -
jOhapibers County
; Commissioners have
| decided to seek
• health insurance bids
' in June but.no action
has been taken re-
garding public liabili-
ty insurance for coun-
ty officials.
A change in Youth
Project Show policy,
okayed by the court
at' its meeting Mon-
day, will allow the
top selected projects
and exhibits to be
Isold through the auc-
tion. Also, commer-
•cial livestock will sell
u g h t h e
Chambers County
Agriculture Commit-
tee, with a 3 percent also gave their ap- tive Humane Depart-
sales commission proval for the mos- ment, an idea of in-
quire control depart-; creasing county-wide
ment to make appli- interest,
cation for a United
States Department of RC°Pinchbeck
Agriculture grant.
The three-year study {SKf £
grant of’ approxi- the court m which he
charge.
The court authoriz-
ed acceptance of a
$1,000 grant from the
California-based San-
doz Chemical Corp.
to the Chambers
County Mosquito
Control Department.
Mosquito Control
Director Matt Yates
said the grant was
given because “we
nf^dTn1n?ilHftU; which resulted in the
nique application Sandozgrant
suits 2?’big savings The court decided
suits in a Dig savmgs tQ waft ^ ^ next
per acre in the a-
mount of chemicals
needed.
estimated $8,300 for
repairing the Cove
boat ramp, if the
county did the work.
No action was taken
at the meeting.
Six bids have been
received for ag-
gregate for surface
treatment, crushed
limestone and oyster
meeting to appoint a shell base material,
committee to study but the court de-
the feasibility of es- ferred action until the
mately $75,000, from
the .Mosquito Re-
search Lab in Lake
Charles, La., would
allow Yates’ depart-
ment to further de-
velop their findings
Commissioners tablishing a coopera- next meeting.
A resolution was
passed concerning a
construction agree-
ment with the Texas
Parks and Wildlife
Department for a
boat ramp facility on
the Trinity River at
Interstate 10.
Commissioners
took no action on an
ordinance allowing
agricultural aircraft
to use county roads
for takeoff and land-
ing operations.
Jean Abshier, from
Coirfmissioner Sid
Desormeaux’s Pre-
cinct 2, was appoint-
ed to the library
board, and Jerri K.
Tweekrem was hired
as a dispatcher in the
sheriff’s office.
In other action the
court:
‘•Passed an order
halting any further
landfill within the
floodway of Cham-
bers County.
•Authorized an ex-
tension to the shed at
White’s Park for ad-
ditional hog space.
• Appiroved the
claim docket.
•Authorized Phase
II of Chambers House
restoration.
•Decided to pay
registration fees for
Historical Commis-
sion officers to the
historic preservation
conference.
Lawrence Lamb, M.D.
Lifestyle Can Affect Hernia Symptoms
£; DEAR DR. LAMB The doctors have the normal hole in the degree of a hiatal ing helps eliminate dressed envelope for
I have been diag- said this is the only "
• posed as haying a hi- thing wrong with me.
^tal hernia.LWffip dfit They told me&t is not '
rfio'many people have serious, but as a re- through the chest,
jihis? Is it a weakness suit of it I am a very
tjmd does it ever get nervous and unhappy the hole J® rather
.‘better? I’ve been told Derson. lar8e or allows a
dominal cavity is de-
creased, the pressure
to force the stomach
through the hole is di-
help yourself; your Station, New York,
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sears
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ness of breath. If I get
Ja virus my stomach
‘fcdtS very weak so I
lean hardly breathe. I
Save to stay in bed
Sntil I’m completely
fetter. The Same
thing: ppppens if I do
loo much housework..
taking vitamiS?bI to a sense of breath-
get a B-12 shot once a lessness-
week and that seems Anything that in-
to help my nerves. creases pressure
DEAR READER— within the abdominal
Many people have a cavity may force
hiatal hernia and more of the stomach
have no symptoms at through the hole,
all from it. It is usual- About 80 percent of
jy an enlargement of women have some
very size of the stom- even exjst
ach in the chest can That is why js jm.
ant^lP for * P®»°“
with a hiatal herhia
to get rid of any ex-
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which outlines the
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 61, No. 119, Ed. 1 Sunday, March 20, 1983, newspaper, March 20, 1983; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1063789/m1/6/: accessed June 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.