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Wednesday
February 5, 2014
BUCK HISTORY MONTH
A tribute to
Coach Richard
Samuel Lewis Sr.
THE SEAHAW/KS
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BY J. WARREN SINGLETON
Special to the Sun
While continuing to honor African Americans who
played a significant part in Baytown’s black history, we
recognize Richard Samuel Lewis Sr.
Coach Lewis was bom in Brenham on March 8,1928 to
the late Arthur and Addie Lewis. He was raised in Cam-
eron, Texas and attended 0. J. Washington High School
where he excelled in the sport of football.
He received a football scholarship to attend Prairie
View A & M College of Texas, where he started college
in the fall of 1949. He played the position of quarterback
for the Prairie View football team and was an elite golfer.
Richard graduated from Prairie View A & M College of
Texas in August of 1954 where he earned a Bachelor of
Science Degree in mathematics. He later earned a mas-
ter’s degree in administration from Prairie View A & M
College of Texas in August of 1981.
He started his teaching career in
Corpus Christi, teaching mathe-
matics and later coached for a to-
tal of thirty years (1951-1981). He
coached at the Baytown George
Washington Carver High School,
Fidelity Manor High School in
Houston, Conroe High School and
Willis High School. At Baytown
Carver he was very active and
was the president of the classroom
teachers.
One of his proudest moments
was being one of the assistant foot-
ball coaches at the Baytown Carv-
er High School which won its third
PVIL Football State Championship in.1961. He had an
opportunity to coach two high school athletes who played
in the NFL. One of those players was the elite high school,
collegiate and professional athlete, Gene Washington.
He was a member of the Mt. Calvary Baptist Church
in Conroe.
He was married to Irma Jewel Lewis and he has five
children, Zenobia Jones, Richard Lewis, Jr., Ann Ruth
Thompson, Herb Lewis and Guy Lewis. He have 12
grandchildren, Rhobia Solmon, Courtney Busby, Chris-
topher Jones, Karonica Casey, Chemitra Kyle, Soinkne
Lewis, Richard Lewis 111, Ericca Tucker, Erinn Thomp-
son, Frederick Thompson, Jr., Zenobia Lewis and Mya
Lewis. He has fourteen great-grandchildren, Chandler
Solomon, Chase Soilomon, Reagan and Morgan Busby,
Richard Casey, Sean Casey, Reginald Casey, Christen
and Cayden Kyle, Richard S. Lewis IV, Randy and Alani
Tucker, Dakota and Jeremy Simpson.
His hobbies were golf, math puzzles, reading, jazz and
being a community activist.
Coach Lewis died on May 23,1982 at the age of 54. He
was buried in Conroe,
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^Bullish’ on Chambers County
RICHARD SAMUEL
LEWIS SR.
Royal Purple Raceway had a
Great Bull Run not long ago.
And Solomon Barrow had bull-
fights long, long ago.
Crowds cheered both of these
bullish events, 21st and 18th cen-
tury respectively, in western Cham-
bers County, a region largely settled
on Mexican land grants by Barrows
and their kinsmen.
At Royal Purple Raceway on FM
565, bulls charged after adrena-
line-charged adventure seekers on a
quarter-mile track.
If remindful another bull run
that’s been going on since the 14th
century, the comparison was intend-
ed. The famous running of the bulls
- with people on fast feet leading
the way - started it all in Pamplona,
Spain.
As far as I know, pioneer settlers in
Chambers County and the Baytown
area never gathered for a Great Bull
Run but they took great delight in
the bullfights hosted by Sol Barrow
at his place on Trinity Bay.
On today’s map, his property
would encompass McCollum Park
and Point Barrow.
For the bullfight^ Barrow brought
in matadors from old Mexico, and a
bueno time was had by all.
In general, bullfight or no, ol’ Sol
was known as a gracious and gregar-
WANDA
ORTON
ious host. He liked
to party.
Historian Var-
una Hartmann
Lawrence wrote:
“Barrow was an
exceedingly hos-
pitable man and
many visitors were
entertained. Col.
Ashbel Smith was
a guest who came
for two or more days’ visit at a time.
Many others were frequent guests in
his home for the latchstring was ever
out, and food and drink was ever
ready. A barrel of whiskey was kept
on tap and cups to help one’s self
were above it at all times. Gen. Sam
Houston was a friend and neighbor.”
Highly successful in farming and
ranching, Barrow set up one of the
first land drainage systems in the
He was an expert horseman, a fact
best illustrated by his escape from
Anahuac, where he had been jailed
on a murder charge. Previously he
had obtained a saddle horse, and
his brothers, Reuben and Benjamin,
brought the horse to Fort Anahuac
for him to inspect.
Col. Juan Bradbum, comman-
dant at the fort, granted permission
for Solomon to ride the horse up
and down the parade ground while
armed soldiers watched.
When he reached the end of the
parade ground, Barrow put the horse
to full spur and took off.
That was the last the armed sol-
diers saw of their prisoner.
Barrow made his way across the
bay to his home and hid out for
some time.
He didn’t need to hide, though,
because authorities never bothered
to come after him. Apparently they
didn’t care whether he was guilty or
not.
Anyway, life as he knew it re-
sumed and soon he was farming and
ranching as usual - and staging bull-
fights.
Barrow and his wife, the former
Elizabeth Winffee, had 10 children
and lived in a large two-story house
on the bluff overlooking Trinity Bay.
A devoted family man, Barrow
loved animals, too. Would you be-
lieve he even had a raccoon and a
black bear that he domesticated like
a cat and dog.
And then there were those bulls.
Ole!
Wanda Orton is a retired manag-
ing editor of The Sun. She can he
reached at viewpoints@baytownsim.
com. Attention: Wanda Orton.
STATE VIEW
Retirement savings
plan isn’t perfect, but
it’s worth something
Obama secures $750M in pledges to get kids online
Details are short on the “myRA” retirement savings
plan that President Barack Obama rolled out in his State
of the Union speech, but we’re with the president on this
one: We need to do something to get people to save more
for their later years,
The plan, which is short for “my Individual Reti
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irement
Account,” would encourage businesses to automatically
enroll employees into a savings plan that would likely put
their money in U.S. Treasury bonds at first.
There are already plenty of good retirement savings op-
tions out there, from company 401 (k)s to Roth IRAs, and
in the long run the stock market has proven to provide a
much better return than Treasury bonds (which are cur-
rently paying less than 3 percent interest). The problem
is, way too many Americans either don’t know how to get
started in the existing savings plans or don’t believe they
can spare even $25 a month out of their paychecks.
That has led us to the situation in which we find our-
selves. Roughly half of Americans have no retirement
plan at work, and study after study shows that most of
us in the workplace are not anywhere close to where we
should be, as far as our long-term savings are concerned.
The old three-legged retirement stool (Social Security,
pensions and personal savings) has lost one of its legs, as
few businesses offer pensions anymore, and Social Secu-
rity cannot be counted upon to make up the difference.
That leaves personal savings, but too many people are
likely to find themselves coming up short when it comes
to their retirement income.
For that reason, we believe Congress should get behind
the president’s simple first step toward a solution — or
come up with something better that he can support. The
government already has a forced retirement savings plan
in Social Security, but it has become clear that workers
must have an active investment plan of their own it we
have any hope of maintaining a decent lifestyle in our
golden years. MyRAs may not be the best idea, but
they’re something.
— The Sentinel of Nacogdoches ;
WASHINGTON (AP) - Claiming
progress in his goal to put the world
at the fingertips of every American
student, President Barack Obama on
Tuesday announced $750 million in
commitments from U.S. companies
to begin wiring more classrooms
with high-speed Internet.
Apple is pledging $100 million
in iPads, computers and other tools.
AT&T and Sprint are contributing
free Internet service through their
wireless networks. Verizon is pitch-
ing in up to $100 million in cash and
in-kind contributions. And Micro-
soft is making its Windows software
available at discounted prices and
offering 12 million free copies of Mi-
crosoft Office software.
“In a country where we expect free
Wi-Fi with our coffee, we should
definitely demand it in our schools,”
Obama said at a middle school in the
Washington suburb of Adelphi, Md.
Students there are assigned iPads that
they use in class and at home.
Beyond the promise of millions in
donated hardware and software, the
Federal Communications Commis-
sion also is setting aside $2 billion
from service fees to connect 15,000
schools and 20 million students to
high-speed Internet over two years.
Obama last year announced his
goal of bringing high-speed Internet
to 99 percent of students within five
years. He used Tuesday’s announce-
ment as another example of how to
act without waiting on Congress.
“We picked up the phone and we
started asking some outstanding busi-
ness leaders to help bring our schools
and libraries into the 21st century,”
the president said.
The average school has the same
Internet speed as an average home,
but serves 200 times as many people,
Obama said. About 30 percent of stu-
dents have true high-speed Internet in
their classrooms, compared with 100
percent of South Korean students.
He said the pledges would put
the world and outer space at every
child’s fingertips
Before the speech, Obama visited
a seventh-grade classroom and noted
one benefit of their Internet access:
lighter knapsacks because they don’t
carry as many books to and from
school.
“Sasha’s book bag gets too big
sometimes, hurts her back,” he said
of his younger daughter.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 5, the 36th day of 2014.
There are 329 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt
proposed increasing the number of U.S. Supreme Court
justices; the proposal, which failed in Congress, drew
accusations that Roosevelt was attempting to “pack” the
nation’s highest court.
On this date:
In 1783, Sweden recognized the independence of the
United States.
In 1914, “Beat Generation” author William S. Bur-
roughs was bom in St. Louis.
In 1919, movie studio United Artists was incorporated
by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, D.W. Griffith and
Charles Chaplin.
In 1922, the first edition of Reader’s Digest was pub-
lished.
In 1940, Glenn Miller and his orchestra recorded “Tux-
edo Junction” for RCA Victor’s Bluebird label.
In 1953, Walt Disney’s animated feature “Peter Pan”
was first released.
In 1967, “The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” pre-
miered on CBS-TV.
In 1971, Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard and Edgar
Mitchell stepped onto the surface of the moon in the first
of two lunar excursions.
In 1973, services were held at Arlington National Cem-
etery for U.S. Army Col. William B. Nolde, the last offi-
cial American combat casualty before the Vietnam cease-
fire took effect.
In 1994, white separatist Byron De La Beckw'ith was
convicted in Jackson, Miss., of murdering civil rights
leader Medgar Evers in 1963, and was immediately sen-
tenced to life in prison. (Beckwith died in 2001 at age 80.)
One year ago: President Barack Obama asked Congress
for a short-term deficit reduction package of spending
cuts and tax revenue that would delay the effective date of
steeper automatic cuts scheduled to kick in on March 1.
(The president and congressional leaders failed to reach
an agreement, and the $85 billion in federal spending
cuts, known as sequester, went into effect.)
Thought for Today: “The greater the philosopher, the
harder it is for him to answer the questions of common
people. — Henryk Sienkiewicz
Polish author (1846-1916)
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