The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 234, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 2, 1987 Page: 4 of 24
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THE BAY1WN SI >
dHAPPY BIRTHDAY, JH TJ . . T
* DEAR CONSTITUTION.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
To YoU!
Jim Kyle
It's not easy to
skirt this issue
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iTQRIAL
Super choice for
DP superintendent
Several womeh shopping
around the area looked up and
smiled that sneaky-looking
smile women have when they
are looking suspiciously
“Hey, wait a minute
declared
skirt!"
And the clerk snapped back.*
“Mister, we didn’t think it was*
"He's got a receipt, go ahead
and give him his money back."
That’s what the clerk told the
lady at the cash register when I
did a favor for my wife that was
supposed to be so eaiy.
See, it was like -this. My wil
bought a blouse and skirt at this
store and the skirt didn’t fit her
like she thought it should
I asked her. if she had the
receipt a’nd when she told me she
did. I volunteered to take it back
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This is my wife’s
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The Baytown Sun rejoices with the community of Lyn-
>ut Lynn Urban Hale’s promotion to the top
Deer Park Independent School District: On
0
chburg
job in t
Jan. 1 this member of a well-known Lynchburg family^
will become the first woman to be named to that post
Veteran Sun staffers can say ”we knew her when
that is, when Lynn Urban wa^a teen reporter for The
Sun. providing weekly accounts of Deer Park High
School news. . r * ;
She’s a graduate of the class of 1956 at Deer Park and
the daughter of Nell Urban of Lynchburg and the late
A.E. Urban. I-'. '■ , r
Mrs. Hale has been serving as assistant superinten-
dent of education in-Deer Park for the past 18 months.
She will replace’David Watkins, who is retiring as
superintendent, effective first of the yeai
Newcomers to this region may not realize th^ta chunk
of territory near Baytown belongs to the Deer Park
school district. The Deer Park district takes in all of
Lynchburg, the historic neighborhood that nestles near
Baytown’s Lakewood subdivision and along the shores
of Burnet Bay and the Houston Ship Channel.
The Deer Park district also includes a
yours,
The-audience came out now
with an open chuckle'
We finally got doWn to the
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for her during myluneh break
When I got out of the car to go nitty gritty of refunding the
into the mail, the skirt slipped money for the skirt
As I stood there holding my
WIFE’S skirt, a man walked by
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200
out of the sack onto the pave-
ment.
That wasn't so bad What was with his wife and really gave me
bad was seeing two guys heading the once-over
toward me. looking at the skirt
then each other; then me
c)1ejn
’8?
BpCkM ere* EA
7-8
I
1 was afraid to be friendly to
him He was looking at me like
They, shickered and said some he wanted to bust me in the nose
..The clerk took my reeeipt and
the skirt, got in the cash register
and refunded mv money The
Wanda Orton
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See local Links
to book listings
stuff to each other I’d rather not
repeal..——-J------- — ■-
1 put a deatfrgripTm^haFsoek-
. -reason 1 teymv.....money is
< because I Bad no intention of
w ife’s money
When 1 walked into the store, a . .ever giving this money back to
nice lady said, ;L>an 1 help you. myuwife 1 earned every penny of
sir." to which 1 answered in a it ,
lowT low tone of voice “1 want to
get a refund on this skirt
, She then asked, “What’s the like^etuming'an electric razor
matter w ith if’
I fired back
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Page 18 of the catalog The’ sub-
ject is “Seven Pines." writteaby
newspapering is all about, and Cg/piilla Davis Trammel,
it’s not hard to do w hen vou work member of a pioneer Liberty
at The Baytown Sun At times family. She write;! about the
it's as easy as picking up a copy Hardin. Davis and Berwick- ,
In search of the local angle. .
That’s what hometown
One of these days I'm going to
ask her to do me a little favor.
ction Of
v or a can of shaving cream or
It just doesn't some jdckev shorts or something,.
’ • like that ^ ' *
Highlands north of 1-10
So. with that geography lesson, it Should be clear why of a "Texas A&M University O’Brien families, basing her
we’re interested in the Deer Parfcschool system and ail p^sfi,vl<>e ,no_ . .. research, on letters that were
those good neighbors in theLynchburg-Highlands area. p ing ' lssue' or ev *Xre^ R^^3water’s
Theonlv ~ ~ " i mbhmhb
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Here we go again
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Jm Kyi* a f**t*r* editor of Tbt S**
Karen Perry
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channel is Lynchburg Elementary School. That’s whefe described.in the catalog, and i a Calvert compiled selections
the superintendent-elect started her education
,u Congratulations. Lynn Urban Hale
_ Foreiqn policy
tions. „ Historical Quarterly for the J viw.yi r /
\ In order of appearance? on book. "Texas Villas *. A ... T
Page 16. we find a review of member of the pioneer Wooster j. : _J .rr-_ * - ,-|* n j-.
“Coastal Texas: Water, Land family. Ralph-was a charter M00OS Ml 0 M Q I I 1 C_J
and Wildlife." bv John L. Tveten member of the. Historv Club at
p counted five with local connec- front the Southwestern
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Sideline Slants
Peel off road to
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of Baytown—The
, scientist -is a professional 'ed author.’ historian and Lamar
. w ildlife photographer and writer University professor
with many books and articles to
his credit .I Coastal Texas. " con-
Being stuck aUty
mg from surgery left me time to was both protected and inform
,, „ do some things that! seldom do -ed
And. Ralph's son takes after pushed tw0 needlework pro
him Robert Wooster was a Jf„.rs n,ari*quite a lew booksfdid
Tfawr-' some sewtackled- giJrThg,Tm1r~^',''ttw‘--’govttfnin^—».
the mending - , '’^process that allowed the deal , .
Mending i' a v>re spot in our >ngs to be undertaken in the first
house because I do.it so infre- place No person should have
quenily that/ my husband had that much power'
sometimes forgets that he owns ... . „ , . .
; ■. . , • The whole ball of wax is like
whatever hasto be mended - . • , ,r., ,
,, . . L . , mv mending rhe hole ~m the ,
■V M\ husband is greal in an il ....., .. , •
begins That’s oneajf William A ^ Maryland professor grew up |ri|,sv situation lies j»ood kn'ernmei.tal prottss that. „
Owens books here and wrote a r.umtter iiT mana(jer and a great cook Sol “]**M*!I'* .
Those of you who weijit to books and articles was able io sit back and just needs mending,
And he was- a friend of recover without‘worming aboig 1 think the hearings were a
potatoes for home festival is. held, ypu can hear the 1930s may remember Owens, an Williams A Owens His father, housework and related things ’ revelation of _a-problem that
dfhemarkef.lt music of the Premiers. New English teacher He went on to the retired dean of Lee College. Alone with trie other activities "hm w.ith iho preai<>si_^—
Would be h^rd io find a home Sounds of Blue Grass.. DaMF fight in World War II. teaejh at was teaching at REL when ;^al *No^walting until
everyone forgets what it s alt
about. w e nets! to do it now
The men who engineered the
arms dealings may he hones! ’
and have onlv the, t>est interests
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'Potato Capital'
/ . . / ed into thre^ ,sections
Bv PKEStpN PENDERGR.ASS nesota and Wiscoiisin ’■ The beach, the dunes and the mar
Henagar. a small, close-knit festival, combined with- thf- sbes
jeommunity of hardy farm-folk Fourth of July celebration.
atop historic Sand Moiintain in reunites long-separated spills oyer onto Page IT, ending history of. the U S Army
North Alabama, for many years* relatives and affords Sand where "The Natural World of the overseas m World Wat. 11
let! the most-prolific Mountain natives an opportunity Texas Big Thicket" -review Rundell. a Universitv of
potato-producing areas iii the to spend the.daywith friends and
neighbors*
Long before you reach
Henagar City Park where the Robert E Lee High Schcgil in the
The one thing that is obvious
from all the testimony is the
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the Micberier for Texas
A’“book by the late Walter
HPI Rundell Jr ,is described on Page
The review of Tveton s book . 39 “Militarv Money" is a. fiscal
has
nation
Everv boihf—who farms or
makes a garden on Sand Moun
tain grows
and that was
rounTv"
good manv da vs of the Iran
yje-begtnmng of Owens lasting ; Contra,coverage on T\
friendship with the Rundelt
familv
ceiran without an adequate st
of potatoes (at ibe-rnd of the Sharps. The Dixie Outlaws and
Country Flickers.
write a, bushel of books on
folklore and nature
Owens lives in Nyack. N V
Helen Hayes is a neighbor
See the Liberty connection on
growing sea4on * ..... ■
Probablv because its residents
Ollie North was truly awesome
; If y ou don’t w ant to participate
or watch the square dancers,
you can see an arts and crafts
show or take a’ trip back into
.in his testimony. It is easy to see
why he became an instant media
personality He came/across
very honest and sincere
Admiral Poindexter was al
produce more potatoes per
capita than some other Sand
Mountain *cirmlftjinit'ies.
Henagar has-been dubbed the ’*’ automotive history- at an antique
car display - ’ ’ - '
■The festival begins with a
parade that features- local
bands, school! cheerleaders and
ball teams from-ovef the moun-
» Onox a m*n*i*t ttuor 0/ Tkt Sun—
the
a-
fad remains that they operated
outside the laws of the United
honest and sincere and seemed '/Slates without proper authprua
willing to shoulder all the blame tion They re not, really heroe-
for the affair" just part of the Tib be
George Shultz s testimony was bureaucracy liVashington,
also interesting He came out of
Today in history
!
Potato CapitaLofthWSoiifh
During ■ fhp past four years.
Henagar has staged Us Potato
F^stiCal. on Jirty 4 One of the
highlights oi the celebration is
the serving of free helpings of
the lowly—'spudV booked several'
different ways
Bv THE .ASSOCIATED PRESS States begirt an atomic w eapons
On Aug 1. 1876. frontiersman/ 'researchprogram" _
Wild .Bill' Hickoh was shot
l) C >**... I
*;am and down in the valley
Major credit for organizing from behind and killed while
the Potato Festival -in 1988 goes •
to the. Henagar FloVi'enng
The festival is- also enlivened DogvVfaoe^GjafdemClttb. a lively shat Hickok. Jack Met"alll was
b\ country n^fSkic varous
ch ,'njs horseshoes.
Iri 594.7 Navy Lt John F Ken.; the hearings as A hero Who
nedy became a w arr hero bv -res- ’
playing... jxiker at a saloon in cuingmembers of hts crew
l)eadw(»xl N D The man?-wh« "their I”! tioat was sheared
by ^Japanesedestroyer '/
groupAif women who don't hnnd later hanged | ln !983, 137 people we,re killed *
, working frogi can.’til can’t If When he_died. HicKokH was when a iyita Air L-nesihm'bty,j|gj
.bUbteniilhjhg, .mo ■ hoidmeawo aces and twr-eights "'crashed as it- attempted trrt3nd ~
denorst;^ ' s t ^ te.-fv a you tl know tfittn oo\ a ^omb nation tint ns.amt -at U.dla' Fur’ Worth In’erfa
plenty of good country. vitUes" them^ colorfu!; hind-made“ bon- known as the " Dead ManV - tiona! A’lrport ' -
Other than potatoes . nets * Hand ’ 1 Ten years ago, President Jim
my Carter asked Congress to
abolish federal criminal
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after
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Berry's
World
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rn two
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games sq
v/il ‘
if is a signal honor to serve on
On this date
In 1776.- members of tl
While, visiting relatives on
aid. the Sand Mountain.- Laskep an eider-
exviusiy^ group that plans and iy man at a gas statfon how long '.mental Congress
stages ihe annual shindig-that' he‘d lived around there and why tach their signatufes
1 dav and attracts people he liked mountain living --
(tom the far reaches of the His reply T llhe yti in March
niountain as weltarHIatlanders and Uve lived here all mv life. I .dictator of Germany
along the banks of tht'i Tennessee
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Con-
gan Ip at, penalties fqr the possession of
smajl amounts of marijuana.
Todays birthdays actress
ame M-yrna Loy is 82/ Actor Gary
upewythe' Merrill is 73 Actress Beatrice
ke it because l don t have to death of President Paul von Straight is 69 Former Sen Paul
ii (in God to heui mo when t~ Hindenbufg ~ 'T Laxalt. R Nev.. uActw Car
In 1939. Albert Einstefn wrote roll O'Connor ts 83 Author
a letter to President Franklin D. James Baldwin is jB, Actor
Roosevelt, urging the . United Peter O'Toole is 55
the
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Adolf Hitler
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Now then we are ambassadors
for Christ, as though God did
beseech you by us: we pray you
in Christ’s stead, be ye reconcil-
ed toGod.
Hargrove elected
:: Bib!
president 20 years aga^
CH.
union
verse .
• t frnri t irl R tri
II Corinthians 5:»
Jr and,J-ato»an Ashmore create,
a bike trailer to transport
Glenn sdoR. Blaze, while they go
bike ndine
” v a nee of the city--charter -as- w oi !■
als the laws of the state of
Texas
--------Pronr-’The Bay ow-n-faiiv f-ties;
’I this is ihC wav it) was ■
55 YEARS AGO -
AtwgailFr*
the Baytown Draft Board,
receives state rivognituKi for su*
perior pt'rformance Of official
dutv . . ‘‘/iS . r* 1
(Dje MtoUm s>un
arter says in the let
J Justin Jenson, former ter
superintendent of Crosby Estha Krentck entertains tjbe
schools, assumed his duties yes- Lions Club with a song she com
terday as superintendent of the posed in the club s honor
Pelly Board of .Aldermen ap-
fanyly moved to Mont Belvieu prove a budget of $1552.; tor the
v fast week Classes/w ,;T start ciiv's new fiscal year.
Z 50 YEARS AGO
The Sup adds 125 to the rew art
tioose CreeCCitv Attorney $ark (or informal ion leading to the sor.
40 YEARS AGO
or
Cora Dodge Bridges, mother
if Dr W H ‘ Bridges dies at the
of 69
Lmr-
C T Shewed is in* New Hamp-
shire at the Gorton Research
Conference on Statistics He is a
senior research sptviahst at
Humble s Restvirch and. Devel-
opment division of the Baytown
Refinery
Asimw
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Barbers Hill district He .and his
MPMTMtn
■■ The first l»47_ rtce crop
Jt.. hanesled in Harris County. 30
days earher than usual is grown
at Sheldon bv Rov Dudley and
VtoWteOear
AIV,
Sept 12
In a letter >of resignation
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mow
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20 YEARS A
rtva«Oqr XtanOgiV
>» W y ■ e ,
for
CaruHt" laMies out against the driver of dre car that kitted
manner in wmch the contract Vtindrow Wooley whv *a?
Plans
15 million
under the
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( H Hargove is
t presi-
dent of the Gulf Coast Industrial
Workers Union
represents 2 two members at
Humble > Baytown Kefinery and
Enjay t'hemical Co Plant
Pasadena, tunm
Houston Ship Channel are filed
* h the U S l Engineers
Was let several days ago to the »knocked from a runninghoart of
Municipal Utilities a’o tor she a car a weVW-'ago His father,
purchas** of a municipal power HW Wmdey has offered a 125 inGA!vesto
plant at tl cant of OOo mo Had
I. M your (ity attorney been J H McKinney of (knarCiraaK
censultexf about the matter 1 becomes foreman of the Auguat ctl trims not) in frills from Robert Schtuudvr t« of
would ceriamh ..have adytled *vimrat t'H*rm'Co«My Grand the Bavtowm Ptoammt Commre Baytown is kiiusi in a/ar wreck
- stOtTapirt^daedlS 6 million civic on I H> between I tiompson and
W.uleroad*
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Ben Ed Stovall tilenn Barber improvement program
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 234, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 2, 1987, newspaper, August 2, 1987; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154255/m1/4/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.