The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1979 Page: 6 of 18
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‘Recipe Exchange’ Set
Monday At CV Library
By NADINE PATTERSON
Sun Correspondent
Phone 452-2977
C'hannelview branch of
Harris County Public
Libraries will have a recipe
exchange at 10:30 a.m
Monday. Good cooks in the
area are invited to share
their favorite recipes,
samples are optional. Index
cards will be provided,
Are you bored with the
same holiday dishes? Be
daring and try something
new. Both men and women
Houston-Galveston Area
Council. The final step is
submission to Austin for ap-
proval by Bill Kopp, chief of
Grants-In-Alds branch of
the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department. Final
say will be up to the Texas
Wildlife Commission.
Entrances to the park
will face Wallisville Road
so that Rio Villa residents
will be spared the noise and
traffic of park users. In ad
dition to ballfieids and pic
nic areas, a 61-acre mar
will have fun. sharing shland.at the east end will
recipes and cooking tips.
The library is at
Crockett, across the street
be preserved as a wildlife
habitat with well-planned
trails similar to those in the
frpm Old River Methodist Everglades in Florida
Church. The telephone
number is 452-0181.
RIOJVILLA PARK
A public hearing was he!
LEADERSHIP CONTEST
Three teams from the
FFA (Future Farmers of
d America) department air
while daughter-in-law is
hospitalized. Husband
Gabe and son David “bat
ching,” ** 1
FFA members sell citrus
fruit.. . Vicki Mills elected
FFA Sweetheart. . . Trina
Wheat out of hospital
following an appendec
tomy.
Clarence Philpot carries
a big package for a friend
. Remember the Lions Club
barbecue Dec. 8 in front of
Ronnie’s and Weingarten’s.
The Ladies Auxiliary to
the Greens Bayou Frater-
nal Order of Eagles will
host North Channel area
senior citizens for
Christmas dinner at the
Eagles Hall on Dec. 8. CV
seniors have made place
mats.
r^,
'child
U
WITS ENP, POCTOR-HE
THROWS THESE TANTRUMS
AIL OF THE TIME
WE’VE RECENTLY HIT ON A
NEW APPROACH TO THIS
SORT OF THING
VOU SHOULP GIVE HIM
TENNIS*LES50NS
WHEN HE GROWS \}?t HE
CBN TURN PRO
Etta* .. .....
HtltME Port wok™ STAR-TecEoe.^rw n.e.iv
TIRED BUT DETERMINED, Jtimoine Hall is completing
the Iasi leg ol a t«ur■ vcar journey-by horse across the Unit- the KimVilla sithdi vision on Baytown,
ed States and bark. "It's hern damn nice,” says the grand-
mother of her trip ''It's, like opening a new book every
day." H'hoiii tw isin skin.
Touring Old-Time
Way — By Horse
by Rirk Bolton
I IDAHO FALLS, Idaho
fNKA) • "People are afraid to
4<l out' of their house, but
there s nothing to be afraid of
but there . "
• So says .leanmnr Hall
grandmother who set out to
see America the old-fashioned
!»av By horse
She is on the last leg itf a-
four year journey from Cali
forma to Maine and back
?gam
Saddled atop her old horse
Rosie. Mrs Hall steers a
steady eonrse along eountry
roads pa,si bright pl.ist ic
Signs advertising gasoline fin
sale
1 Every 20 miles or so she
Slops lo make camp II she's
lucky eamp is near a small
town where site tmds her
favorite kind nl people
- The old ones tell me what
(1 used lo he Hie young ones
tell mc'whal il will he and the
middle ones tell me. wlial il
is she commented dining a
recent slop in Idaho Falls
• Although .sealing gasoline
lean nothing to--Mrs--
palL she does worry aboul
- l.lllillllgaoniiuli walei aml4ooU
fin Rosie who carries hei
passcngUMiid 140 pounds oi.
gear Wyoming was (he
toilghesl stale Mi - Hal! ays
because no one woubiAell'Irei'
. gram lor Rosie
. Police tend To ignore hoi
she continues - while voting,
men often hoot out the win
dows of their vehicles And
she goes months without
•sleeping in a tea I bed ;
Fot tin* most pari though.
•Che road has been goodie hot
Its I teen damn in. e ' she
savs It s like opening a new
;hook every day
■ ' Mis Hall sits snugly .mini
;hor packs on 14 year old
• Rosie chaps and * cowboy
"boots piessed close ag.imsl
-the horses, sides, .a longi
halted t’hilniahua on her lap
*t)n her hands are turquoise
ami silvoi rings temimleis at
)her home uHlu'Jyest
Mis Hall started hot trip in
JM,ay I9"li Irani Watsonville
Calif She says she handled the
toughest leg ol her journey
first
A pool player though not a
RICK BOLTON is a stall writer
loi the Idaho Tails Idaho Post
.Register
hustler, she won the hearts ot
a railroad section crew in a
bar at the edge of the desert
The crew sketched her a map
of the watering holes along
the railroad tracks
T followed the Santa Ke
'Railroad across the desert."
she says "1 figured. If I make
it through the Mojave Desert.
Ican.makejt anywhere
So.la.r-. she lias.
From the Southwest
through the Southern plaids,
inio the Deep South, up the
Appalachian Mountains am
finally into New England shi
and Rosie traveled across the]
United-States.
After 15 months that]
included a slay in Tennessee
she reached her destination of]
Lewistim. .Maine where her
brothers sisters and then
children greeted her
' 1 just went back to visit."
she says I liadn I been back
Ioi III years They all thought
I;Was. ban.iii.e- but l it! a wise
banana ",
Wise and -il age 45. in a
position lo, follow her lire
husband died nine years ago.
anti-hoi- -<.woi-4iauglUo4-s-4<4C
last week at Viola Cobb the high school brought
input from citizens about
propsed 220-acre park
Leadership Contest held
irt Nov, 13 at Lee College in
the border of Chtjnnelview
Mike Parrott, director
parks for Precinct 2, and
Tylor Probasco, the new
Hafrls County parks plan
ner, brought a plat for com]
rtent and suggestions
Funds for; the $440,000
cost will be divided by the
Department of Housing and
Urban' !)evelopment■
IHHD i American Heritage
The senior chapter con
.oi ducting team won a first
entitling it to enter area
contest Nov. 27 at Blinn Col
lege.. ip\,Brenham. On the
team are. Milton Saunders
Debbie Hoffman, Patty
White, Greg McKee, Dean
Hay, Tommy Hammond
and Mike Mulligan
A second place was won
by the Junior Farm Skills
program and park bond team made up of Delton
funds approved
voters in 1076
the Brown, Wallace' White
Robert (fallen This team
The hearing met most will also complete in area
of (he requirements of the
federal agency so that
grant application can befit
contest
Fifth place went to the
Senior Farm Stulls team of
ed Parrott said the next Archie Henry, Keith
step, a formality, would be Phillips and Ray Parkin
resubmission to
home when they reached !H
Mission setibun unhurried
pace hul she gets where she is
going Sin- o-.o.illy ralt-s ;(oi‘
three ilavs I hen i.-sl. tor two.
mostly camping beside two
lane highways., orrasionaliy
resting at campgrounds
11 S haul to tell you where
I went because 1 .‘an I read
English, she explains i She
grew up m a Freneh 11111111;
grant family in Maine where
everyone spoke French ) She
handles maps well enough lo
distinguish small towns and
small roads from lug one’s
’ Mrs Hall manages to live
on $1,500 a year, eating only
.one meal a day She takes odd
tolls along, the way- lo earn
food foi heiSetf-and Rosie
- "I've killed chickens, done
rooting pul up ceilings and
slopjM'd hogs sbevns
lief1 hat is adorned with
trinkets tli.it spark memories
of a person here, a place
I hen- Not much space is letl
for. the: add I dona!souVen its
she will rotted while finishing
her journey
When I'm old and gray and
; V'-'-i *'*>>„/ < I//I >/>/'• fin
bet I'll have a grin from ear to
ear.
MOTHER, TERESA SAYS
she has received no peace
Irom reporters and well
wishers since she was
n;imed the winner ol the
1871 Nobel Peace I’pr/e She
plans lo personally pick up
her $ 193.0IIB in prize moneX ,
which she will use to lurlhei
hei service to the pool and
sick ol Calcutta that she
began i.i ve.ns ago
t/itl You know?
The old adage.ol- "Pull
out one gray hair ami Hi will
grow in its place" is untrue
sime only out* flair can
grow Iron) each Itatr bulb
Hie Magell;^1 penguin
son
EMT CLASSES
C’hannelview Volunteer
Fire Department fire mar
shall Sonny Olson has com
pleted instructing an EMT
(emergency medical
technician) course for 22
students at San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital in
Baytown These taking the
course Were firefighters
and ambulance attendants
from (ha nne I view.
Highlands Oloverleaf, Huf
fman and the North Chan-
f Emergency - Medica’t
Services
The course takes Ip
hours In addition to Olson,
doctors lectured and Life
Flight helicopter personnel
and representatives from
the Harris County medical
examiner’s office gave
demonstrations
Those from CV were Tim
Kroeger Joel and John
Moore, Ronnie Alien and
Ken Berryman.
POTPOURRI
( fare nee and Jos ic
Philpot visit daughter and
in-Jaw, Clarissa and
Charlie Parker and
children near Dallas on
Mother in Law Day Three
family birthdays were
celebrated "
Fran Childers calls with
exciting news
Mike Snyder crawls out
of bed at 4 a m to go duck
hunting C\ populated
11 h deer hunting
widows" as husbands
I look at this hat,' she savs I f'vo months of the year at
0! the SouChj Atlantic spends head in droves for deer
sea. mAer once; touching) Irene Linn in Brenham
land
'taking care df grandkids
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. ..and we thank you!!
. Start-up is now officially completed and the
Baytown Olefins P'ant is in normal ODerdt.cn pro-,
ducmg ethylene propvlene butadiene-*soprene
and beoref'e ' ■ 'V \ -
' Jhe plant’s employees would 'ike -to thank
members of the Baytown community fpr their, in-
terest and encouragement these past-three years
The - eonstruction.and'start-up of tb'S major petro-
chemical plant involved some inconvenience to
our neighbors and we appreciate your patience
and understanding . - ’
- ? h It’s been a major challenge to get the olefins
here;, bpt now that they've "arrived" we believe;
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 58, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, November 23, 1979, newspaper, November 23, 1979; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1066470/m1/6/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.