The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 189, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1977 Page: 7 of 28
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Here’s How Rooster Bridge
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entrance lee The sale would be
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the mighty Tombigbee River
Spanning this river Is a sturdy,
•ne-wiy bridge with a traffic
tight at either end to let driven
know when it is their turn to
cross Also at either end u iron-
TMMoafthoaltwMMthr own* by a cwwd mHmM al
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from 10.000 to 40,000 They came
Demopolu in everything from ox-wagon to
After a big kickoff dinner on automobile Three special Inin
Jima SI, Derby began to win sup- came from Montgonwy,
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he went He got AJahamaiThe lO.OOIMeat grandstand was
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familiar as Bmident Woodrow
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The bridge is known far and
wide as Rooster Bridge If you war. and William S Benton ad
ask why you get morl. merry mir4, * the Navy in the ' folk,
answers like. Oh, they had a tsen tn Alabama
row These high-ranking •(BdaU
Tuscaloosa tntetested and Oliver
was able to interest Josephus
Unueli, secretary of the Navy,
Newton D Baker, secretary of
of the inonung was the sale of a
giant, coal black Tuskegee
rooster entered by , the
Demopolu Colored Rooster
Road Committee for 8.000
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had access to President Wilson
President's roaster went to the;
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and other top officials in governblock ■!
The story starts in 1914 when a men! and somehow they were all IV first bids totaled 110000. W
little group of mer in Georgia raughl up In the spsrst of th< but in a community effort the
f.irmed the Dixie Overland vile price finally reached $55,000 - M
Highway AssocuUon with tV w.bon was meeting with the lop price for anything sold at tV F
obje.1 ol building a hard surface n,g Four al VenaiHW Jbwr tMs auction
foghway from Savannah. Ga , to time and spread the word toi An afternoon drizzle scattered j I ^
San Diego. Calif. Lloyd George of England, the crowd, but not before land,
By ISIS, the project had been Ourgess (Vmenceau of France donations, entry fees, button i I
included in road syttems in eight I aM| Vittorio Orlando of Italy, sales and bids totaled <140.000 In 11_
dales and 75 counties through
which it passed and there were
prospects for millions in federal
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Helen Keller s Lttle Blue Ren
sold for $15,000, Clemenceau s
enlry wenl for $10,000, Lloyd
George's, for $10,000. and Orlan-1
do's. $6,200
Between $200,000 and $300,000;
was raised on paper, but only
$65,000 was collected Expenses)
totaled $20,000
In terms of his contract, this i
meant Derby got nothing He
even had to pay his own ex
penses
But with $45,000 in hand, plus
promised federal aid, citizens
wenl to the Slate Highway
Department and finally got an
agreement for the slate to pay
the remainder of the cost out of
All lour agreed to send
roosters, but President Wilson
would not allow them to send
gamecocks because he felt that
would be a poor symbol from the
peace table
hatch rooster was given the
name of the great man he was to
represent and the four were sent
on a naval vessel to New York
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assortment of styles and colors.
Choose from cotton/polyester, pre-
washed denim or polybster
Dish up appetizing savings with
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The Dixie Overland Highway
( fussed the Tombigbee 14 miles
south of Demopolu It was the
only major stream between
Savannah and Vicksburg. Miss,
that had no adequate bridge
i »n!> an antiquated unsafe terry From Vre they traveled to
gave travelers a route over tV Washington where President
Wilson presented them to a
Hut there was no money Htnt\ Alabama delegation at 2
available lor a bridge State and p m jujy 31
'.•deral aid would provide halt Twenty seven prominent
the cost, but halt a bridge is no Alabamians were named bv the
belter than no bridge at alt
A Demopolu Good Roads
Committee was formed to
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governor to be in the delegation
The presentation was sen-
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President Wilson stood on the
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(Kinder the problem One of the
iti/ens of the area, Frank Der-
by had gained a reputation by
promoting a sale of registered
bulls in 1918 to raise money for
the Red Cross
He was interested in roads and
decided the next year to try a
rooster sale in the little town of
York to raise $4,000 to build a
stretch of road in Sumpter Coun-
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White House steps dressed in a
double-breasted blue coat and
white flannel trousers, flanked
by gilded cages containing the
Big Four roosters.
From Washington the roosters
went in a special rail car to Bir-
mingham. arriving Aug. 1 A dis-
tinguished honor guard accom-
panied them and the bridal suite
of the TutWTIer Hotel was reserv-
ed for them
In Montgomery, the Alabama
Highway Improvement Associa-
tion. the governor and otherifinally in 1959 on Frank Derby's
politicians joined a 1.000-car pa- 78th birthday, the name was of-
rade through the downtown. Af- ficially changed to Rooster
ter the parade the roosters Bridge by state legislators,
stayed at the Gay Teague Hotel. B won t be there much longer.
Going through Selma, they The Tombigbee is a navigable
met by a Boy Scout brass river and the old bridge must
band, fire engines and trucks for come down when a new $5
a parade to a Hotary flub million, four-lane bridge is con-
luncheon where the roosters strutted some 2 '2 miles
feasted on June bugs.
The entourage ended in
Demopolis in time to be among
600 roosters and one hen in the
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a state road bond issue.
The contract went to a New j
Orleans firm for a concrete and
steel drawbridge 988 feet long, to!
cost $237,000. It was to be built:
on a 50-foot right-of-way donated j
by a resident.
The Soldier War Memorial
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Bridge opened for traffic in 1925.
but local citizens never called it
by that name. Rooster Bridge
was far more appropriate and
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sticks or
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The success of these sales won
Derby the name 'Expert Cock
,md Bull Salesman of Sumpter
County."
The committee contacted
Derby and he agreed to promote
an auction to "Bridge the
Bigbee with Roosters."
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names transferred to the new
bridge. And that just might be
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A four-car accident near the
intersection of South Felton and
West Texas Avenue Friday night
sent three people to the hospital.
A car driven by Mildren
Westbrook Fuller of 1715
Missouri collided with a car
driven hy Matilda Kolarik
itm-hta of Channelview at 6
pm . police reports state.
The Buchta car then struck a
car driven by Evelyn Real
Potters of Elkhart which struck
a parked car owned by Louis
Keith Sharp of 600 W. Lobit.
Mrs. Buchta, Mrs. Petters and
Wilbert Petters were taken to
San Jacinto Methodist Hospital
and Petters was admitted,
where he is listed in good con-
dition.
Mrs. Fuller was charged with
failure to yield right of way, the
report shows
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BRUSHING UP ON.DOG CARE
Jan Beck will be one of instructors in class at Baytown
Community Building
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ANAHUAC (Sp) - Chambers
County commissioners will have
a short agenda awaiting them
when they meet at 9:30 a.m.
Monday.
Only seven items are on the
agenda, including approval of a
subdivision plat for Olsen
Estates, a report from Civil
Defense Director Jack
Chambliss on a radiological
monitoring course and easement
lor pipe extension of a grazing
lease on Crockett County land
owned by Chambers County.
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grrrrrrrooming class at Baytown
Community Building.
A course’ on dog eare and
grooming will be taught in the
summer sessipn of the city#
parks and recreation depart-
ment. Baytown Kennel Club will
provide instructors, including,
Jan Beck, Elaine Gomez, Tim
Don Hahn-of the. New Yfltt IjfoiffiSk Ann Mwnpaojfelte.
Me(s holds the record for times Sowder! and Hope Harris,
at bat in a World Series. He The class will be geared for
had seen official times at |bat ages 10-18 and eight sessions will
in the second game of the 1973 beheld.
«-» classic against Oakland. Basic grooming of dogs, basic
obedience and general dog care
will be taught. Students also will
learn emergency first aid treat-
ment to give dogs before taking
them to a veterinarian.
^Starting June 9, Classes will be
held from 6:30 to 8 p.m. every
Thursday for eight weeks.
.This will be the first time this
class has been offered by the
parks and recreation depart-
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Club will sponsor an obedience
training class but it will not be
part of the city’s program.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 55, No. 189, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 22, 1977, newspaper, May 22, 1977; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1144855/m1/7/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.