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The Baytown Sun
Viewpoints
Tuesday
September 29, 2015
OUR VIEW
Baytown’s
Night Out
on Oct. 6
We urge residents in Baytown to step out into the street
and meet your neighbors next week for National Night
Out, a coast-to-coast program in the United States in
which neighborhoods organize block parties, visit with
police and city officials, and hold parades, contest and
games.
National Night Out, scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 6, is
an important event for both law enforcement agencies
and the community.
It is a night for neighbors to stand together to promote
awareness, safety and neighborhood unity. It is an event
that showcases the vital importance of law enforce-
ment-community partnerships and citizen involvement to
build a safer community.
We all lament the fact that children cannot play in the
streets like they could in the good ole days. We don’t dare
let them go trick-or-treating without us. But we often
don’t bother to wonder why this is. Perhaps if we knew
each other a little bit better, we would all feel safer.
But whether you’ve been renting your apartment for
just a few months, or have owned your home for 20 years,
if you don’t take time to get to know your neighbors, we
think you’re missing out. And the city suffers for it.
National Night Out is designed to:
• Heighten crime and drug prevention awareness;
• Generate support for, and participation in, local anti-
crime efforts;
• Strengthen neighborhood spirit and police-communi-
ty partnerships and;
• Send a message to criminals letting them know neigh-
borhoods are organized and fighting back.
The Baytown Police Department is accepting applica-
tions until today for those individuals or groups wishing
to have police, fire or city official represented at your Na-
tional Night Out party.
To fill out an application, go to the City of Baytown
website (Baytown.org) or the Community Service Bureau
at 220 W. Defee. Also, you can contact Cpl. Steve Ocanas
at 281-420-6661 for more information.
One of the best deterrents to crime is a close-knit com-
munity.
Get to know your neighbors and do your part making
crime prevention a part of your neighborhood.
See you on National Night Out.
Drop us a line..
letters@baytownsun.com or
sunnews@baytownsun.com
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verify your letter. Letters are subject to editing.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, September 29, the 272nd day of
2015. There are 93 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On September 29, 1965, President Lyndon Johnson
signed the National Foundation on the Arts and the Hu-
manities Act of 1965, creating the National Endowment
for the Humanities and the National Endowment for the
Arts; during the signing ceremony, the president said the
measure would create an American Film Institute.
On this date:
In 1789, the U.S. War Department established a regular
army with a strength of several hundred men.
In 1907, the foundation stone was laid for the Washing-
ton National Cathedral.
In 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower and Italian
Marshal Pietro Badoglio signed an armistice aboard the
British ship HMS Nelson off Malta.
In 1955, a one-act version of the Arthur Miller play “A
View From the Bridge” opened in New York. (Miller later
turned it into a two-act play.)
In 1962, the musical “My Fair Lady” closed on Broad-
way after 2,717 performances.
In 1978, Pope John Paul I was found dead in his Vati-
can apartment just over a month after becoming head of
the Roman Catholic Church.
In 1982, Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with
deadly cyanide claimed the first of seven victims in the
Chicago area. (To date, the case remains unsolved.)
In 1990, the Washington National Cathedral, begun
in 1907, was formally completed with President George
H.W. Bush overseeing the laying of the final stone atop
the southwest pinnacle of the cathedral’s St. Paul Tower.
Ten years ago: John G. Roberts Jr. was sworn in as the
nation’s 17th chief justice after Senate confirmation.
Thought for Today: “Nobody knows enough, but
many know too much.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Austrian author (1830-1916)
For the record: Chance encounter
After my short stories began to
appear in The Sun earlier this year,
my favorite barber, Johnny, at the
American Barber Shop told me he
had been reading them.
He said another regular con-
tributor to The Sun, Mr. Malcolm
Murray, was a customer of his too.
Johnny explained that Mr. Murray’s
current health required the use of a
walker, but that he was still able to
drive.
A few weeks later as 1 was leav-
ing Gray’s Gifts on Alexander Drive
I had the pleasure of meeting Mr.
Murray.
Since he fit Johnny’s description,
I asked if he was Malcolm Murray;
He said yes; I introduced myself and
told him I read his stories and that I
had recently written a few. He said
“yes, I know.” End of that meeting.
Last Sunday as I entered a local
pharmacy, I met Mr. Murray again.
He seemed to have more time to talk
this time. I told him Wanda Orton’s
story in the Sunday Sun brought
back an old childhood memory of
Peily.
When 1 was about 12 years old 1
WINSTON
GARDNER
spent one day and
night at my Aunt
and Uncle’s home
in Peily on Gulf
Hill in the middle
of the Peily oil-
field. I remember
that day as if it
were yesterday.
There were pro-
ducing oil wells,
storage tanks and
brine pits every where, some very
close to their home. There was no
grass to be seen, just red sand and
grass burrs. The whole area had
the smell of oil and gas, the kind
that was putting a paycheck in my
uncle’s pocketbook. He worked for
Grace Oil Company.
As we began to part ways, I said
“nice to see you again Mr. Mur-
ray.” He stopped suddenly and said,
“don’t call me Mr. Murray, call me
Malcolm.”
This started more storytelling. He
related that he worked in Aruba for
18 years and there were men in man-
agement with the last name “Mur-
ray” and that he didn’t want to be
confused with them so he asked his
friends and co-workers to address
him as Malcolm.
Not to be out done, 1 told Malcom
my “Mister Story” as follows.
1 have many friends in a nearby
East Texas town that always address
me as “Mr. Gardner.” I believe they
were taught to address their elders
this way. Occasionally I’ll ask them
to drop the mister that it makes me
feel too old.
I have one local friend that ad-
dresses me as “Mister” about one
half the time. I’m working on the
other half.
I have other friends who address
me as “Mr. Winston” or “Mr. Gard-
ner;” it really doesn’t matter.
I’m just glad to be here to answer.
Ironically these same friends ad-
dress my wife by her first name or
first initials B. R.
Just remember, “No Mister” for
Malcolm.
Winston Gardner is a native Bav-
tonian of 75 years., Gardner retirea
from Exxon 20 years ago after com-
pleting 33.5 years of service.
OUTGOING :
!
IHCOAing
>--------
Speaker Boehner meets Pope, then quits
John Boehner, the Republican
Speaker of the U.S. House of Repre-
sentatives, sat tearfully behind Pope
Francis on Thursday (Sept. 24),
during the first-ever papal address to
a joint session of Congress.
Nothing, it seemed, could trump
the popular pope in the news media,
on his first visit to the United States.
But on Friday, as the Pope was
preaching and parading in New
York City, Boehner announced he
was resigning as speaker, and from
Congress, at the end of October.
It caught everyone, includ-
ing Democratic President Barack
Obama, by surprise.
On Saturday, Boehner’s sudden
adios ranked even higher than the
Pope’s New York activities in many
newspapers.
Many credited Boehner’s “Take
This Job and Shove It” to the Re-
publican right wing being such a
thorn that Boehner didn’t want to try
defending his speakership while the
House was agreeing to a continuing
budget resolution without defunding
Planned Parenthood.
Boehner’s delight, and relief,
were obvious.
Besides, what better time to end
a 25-year congressional career than
the day after the revered leader of
his Catholic faith, honored his in-
vitation to address Congress while
Boehner sat on the podium behind
- and then shook his hand, compli-
mented his tie, and actually asked
the speaker to pray for him?
Boehner was also worn out from
the Tea Partiers and their self-anoint-
ed Kamikaze spokesman, Texas
Sen. Ted Cruz, and his pound-on-
the-floor, “do-what-I-demand-or-I-
will-hold-my-breath-until-you-do-
or-I-tum-blue” approach to public
service.
Boehner at least would compro-
mise on governmental decisions
with Obama, rather than give in to
DAVE
MCNEELY
Cruz and Compa-
ny’s threat to shut
down the govern-
ment.
That is why,
despite questions
about Boehner’s
ability to lead his
fractured caucus,
there is nervous-
ness, on both sides
of the aisle, about the choice of his
successor. Those who appreciate
enough consensus to actually run
the government worry the next per-
son won’t be able to pull that off.
The next few weeks should be in-
teresting, if not pretty. And Boehner,
65, will be off to rest and play golf
in Florida, before perhaps taking a K
Street lobby consulting job.
> A couple members of the Bush
family are in the news in Texas.
Since former Texas Gov. Rick
Perry folded his campaign for the
GOP presidential nomination for
lack of cash, fellow Texan Jeb Bush
(the former Florida governor was
bom in Houston) hired Perry’s for-
mer spokesman and top aide.
Ray Sullivan, who headed a Super
PAC that was trying to aid Perry,
said he took the job because “the
next president must come from out-
side Washington from the ranks of
effective conservative governors.”
Not only did Bush create jobs as
governor, “Jeb is pro-life, pro-ed-
ucation reform, and pro-growth,”
Sullivan said in a statement. “He
has detailed plans to secure the bor-
der, shrink the size and scope of the
federal government, defeat ISIS and
rebuild America’s military and dip-
lomatic strength.”
And, he might even follow his
father and brother into the White
House.
Republican nomination and win in
November,” Sullivan said.
Meanwhile, Jeb’s son, George P.
- the latest Bush to hold elective of-
fice, as Texas land commissioner -
shows his skin is rather thin when it
comes to what he reads as criticism.
There have been stories lately
about George P. being absent from
the land office to campaign for his
dad in places like Iowa, and replac-
ing several staff members.
George P. and his spokespeople
say the principal stories, by Houston
Chronicle reporter Brian Rosenthal,
are wrong or misleading. He’s ac-
tually been on land office business
90 percent of the time, and new of-
fice-holders always build their own
office time.
But, knee-jerkingly, P. says any
inaccuracies must mean the report-
ers are “liberal.” And that must
mean he’s doing a good job.
“If we needed more proof that
we are making a difference for the
people of Texas, we got it when the
liberal media started attacking me
last week,” P. said in a Sept. 24 cam-
paign office letter.
“You may have seen where The
Houston Chronicle wrote a story
that accused me of not being in the
office ... even though the records
clearly indicate that I have been
working diligently for the people of
Texas,” P. wrote.
“My question to the liberal media
is simple: is that all you got?
“The real story is that the media
doesn’t like that I am getting things
done for the people of Texas,” P. -
or someone - wrote. “They are try-
ing to distract from my conservative
record.”
Sound like P. channeling a thin-
skinned Donald Trump?
“I believe Jeb Bush is the proven
conservative best able to win the
Contact Texas political writer
Dave McNeely at davemcneelyl 11@
gmail.com.
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