The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 83, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 5, 1984 Page: 4 of 72
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Sunday, February 5, 1984
BAYTOWN SUN
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Jim Bob Kyle
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DITORIAL
[ Action Needed On
^Highway Funding
cTH never forget the early my brothers,and sisters to have of us to be ready to pull out the mother for a woman of 16. She
spring of 1860 back on Kyle’s ’em. next mornln’. "We’re goln’ up looked Just like Cousin Bessie’s
Mountain In Tennessee. Ma and
Pa had worked so hard that Win- kissed Ma and Pa goodbye. They bloomin’ Yankees!” he bellered.
ter that they had dwindled down were too weak to come out. Ma
to 125 pounds — Ma 25 and Pa tip- sat right straight up in bed and Charleston or Atlanta so I could big war.
ped the scales at a 100. smiled when I told her I was goln’ see Clark Gable In person.
It was mighty hard to scratch to brln8 her home a case of snuff In two weeks we were nearln
t. One Of Congress’top priority items during the current out a livin’on Kyle’s Mountain. When the war was over. enemy lines. I had overheard to win the Congressional Medal of
’ session should be a plan to resolve the dispute over $5.5 My 12 little brothers and 16 sisters I would like to have brought her someone talkin’about a couple of Cowardice. -
’ billion in new hi eh wav funds that is stalline nroieots in' were Just to° y°un8 and frail to a ye»ow ribbon, but her hair guys named Mason and Dixon Pa wanted to go to Nashv lie
DHlion in new nignway tunas tnai is Stalling projects in help with any of the chores. never did grow back. Pa cut it off and off In the woods you could with me to watch me ride In the
; Texas and across the nation. , Ma and pa had t0 d0 all the while she was holdin’ wood for hear Johnny Cash singin’ “I’ll big parade so’s he could watch
More than $425 million in Texas interstate highway work around the mountain Pa him, when his ax slipped.
/. projects, including $4 million in Gulf Freeway improve- woke me up one day at noon and u ™er,™ 2,0°f us Rebs ln the ,uTh?,re ,we *eure fd,hert,com® , „
ments, are affected by Congress’ failure to act on this told me I was goln’ to have to help back °!that old wagon drawn hy tbe Yanks. The bugler blowed log three-bedroom outhouse and
. J 6 him whon i ant tn hp 9s six mules. charge and for a few seconds I half - wood heat and breezeway
£ vital issue _ . , . him when I got to be 25. When we got about 25 miles th^ght the Astros had the bases air.
Former Baytonian Robert Lanier, chairman of the when it dawned on me that i from the mountain i tried to loaded
Tfexas Highway Commission, deplored the impasse. “It’S was goln’to be 25-years-old in a break the monotony by playin’ When the first cannon shot away from Kyle’s Mountain was a
Certainly an unfortunate Situation. It’S not doing anything couple of months, I started to my french harp. The only thing I blasted out I took olf. Three newspaperman from Cleveland,
but holding UP projects Congress needs to resolve the W0ITy pretty heavy about goin’t0 could play was the “Battle Hymn weeks later I realized I had ran Tenn. His name was Preston
■ ntohlpm miirklv nrwsihlp ” worK' of the Republic,” and when I lit 700 miles, swam three rivers and Pendergrass, and last I heard he
| t * u . puasiuic. Luckily the Civil War broke out into that tune I almost got my pole vaulted the Swanee.
fK ;4>1CK Kabat, Houston spokesman for the lexas Depart- and they came up from Nashville arms broke by battle-crazed- I, ended up stayin’ with some ln Texas named Fred Hartman.
i llWht Of Highways and Public Transportation, painted a and put me in a fancy gray suit lookin’Rebs. Apaches on an Indian reservation People here and yon say
Marker picture Of the funds dilemma. and stuck a rifle in my hands. After four days, we finally got ln Southern Florida. I stayed on Pendergrass has been writin’
S “Unfortunately that (state and locaf lack Of funds) I gave each one of my brothers to Nashville. I never did see so the reservation’til the war ended stories about Tennessee ever
J nHahi nnlv hp thp hptrinnina pf nrnippfc that hnvp tn hp nut and sisters a chicken feather and many soldiers in one place in my and headed on back to Kyle’s since the war ended.
, ^ >> k / ! mai nave 10 ue pin got in the wagon with the rest of whole life. Mountain. \ Top that Tennessee story,
' On hold. Rabat said. He listed Otner projects tnat will them there goiters, All I owned After a couple of days, thjfre Ma had pasSfed away while I Preston!
SOOh be ready for beginning Of contract work, and said in the world was 28 chicken was this General rode out on a big was gone and Pa had remarried.
|M these, too, would be in jeopardy unless funds become feathers and “by golly” I wanted white stallion and told a thousand She was a mighty pretty step-
i>' available soon.
|jj| Projects being delayed, Rabat explained, are those in
| ■ which construction contracts were to be awarded on or
' after last Oct. 1, the day federal highway funds stopped.
: The money was cut off because Congress failed to pass
the fiscal year 1984 Interstate Cost Estimate, which in the
past was,routine legislation that detailed budgeted in-
terstate improvements for a fiscal year.
The estimate was drafted6y the Federal Highway Ad-
ministration and historically left alone by Congress. But
this fiscal year, some congressmen filed amendments to
the estimate calling for addition of several billions of
dollars worth of projects in their districts. This sparked
the funds fight and caused the legislation to be delayed.
Instead of trying to help resolve the dispute as Speaker
of the House, Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill pushed one of the
I most coritroversal amendments. It would pay for a major
road and tunnel project in Boston at an expected cost of $2
| billion to $3 billion.
Senate leaders quickly responded; vowing to fight the
O’Neill amendment to the finish, and the Reagan ad-
> ministration indicated a bill containing this project would
s be vetoed.
j Whatever the reason for postponing action on the
highway funding bill, it is not good enough to continue
“ delaying positive action that would restart much-needed
highway improvements.
I ran back ln the cabin and north and whip the tar out of those daughter.
Pa told me he was might proud
I was hopin’ we’d go through of me for winnin’ a medal In the
You see, I was the only Con-
federate veteran of the Civil War
Walk the Line.”
people throw stuff at me. *
I got a GI loan and built me a
The only friend I ever made
went to work for a newspaperman
Jim Kyle U circulation director 0/ The Sun.
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Most of you have suffered the layout around Houston shows.that
heavy traffic on the freeways dur- almost any route could be used
ing rush hour, and probably have for commuter rail. For example
uttered words you never thought - with a little bit of spending —
existed while trapped on the the Southern Pacific or Missouri
Southwest Freeway at 5:30 p.m. Pacific could strike a deal with
with dinner waiting at home in the state or Metro, build a ter-
minal in Baytown and start a
Obviously, the folks in power commuter line stopping in La
feel that the best way to alleviate Porte, Deer Park and Pasadeffa
the traffic problem is to build and going to Houston. Same thing
more roads and expand bus to the other spokes of the city,
routes.
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That way, the only expenses
It will help. But even busways W0Uld be the building of the sta-
above and in the middle of tions and the purchase of the cars,
freeways won’t help the people No clearing right of way for
living in Baytown Or Katy or tracks and no expensive and time-
Missouri City or Manvel or The consuming laying of rail.
Woodlands — any j>lace beyond
the limits of transportation plan-
ners’ scope.
What’s needed is a commuter
rail system.
Throughout last year’s failed
referendum on subway-elevated
railway in Houston, no one men-
tioned, the possibilities of using
tracks already in place to run
commuter trains.
True, Houston is to spread out
of a city to realistically hope a 17-
mile, one-corridor line would do
the trick.
Even in a city like New York,
the magic of the subway is over-
rated. Only in Manhattan, where
the streets are l-20th of a mile
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A potential problem might be *'
freight traffic, but it might be .
possible during non-peak com-
muting hours to use one of two
tracks from commuters, the other
for freight, and build a stretch of
“waiting track” in case an east-
bound train is close to a west-
bound one.
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By PRESTON PENDERGRASS pocketknife by his side and half-
When I was growing up my sole shoes for a couple of hours,
family couldn’t afford to buy He would then have each boy
clothing for us when we needed it. try on the shoes to make sure no
There were no dry goods stores sharp tacks were sticking up in-
nearby, as they were called in side.. As long as “uppers” held
thoge days. Even if there had out, shoes could be haif-spled.
been, money was scarce. Brogans were tougfi/'Mm soles
Clothing purchases had to be to uppers. Dad made them
anticipated, along with an ap- tou8ber by putting on cleats and
proximate time of need and cost 1°e strips to minimize scuffs and
estimate, so plans could be made sole wear,
in advance. For example, if a
family member was to graduate, and thdr clothing didn’t require
get married or go on vacation, as much patching ;as boys’
Mom and Dad knew what they overalls. Mama said wearing pat-
had to buy. cbed clothes was all right as long
as they were clean.
I wore patched overalls and
half-soled shoes from an early
age until I entered high school,
and I’m nqne the worse for the ex-
perience.
Few folks in our community
could afford to buy their kids
clothes every time they were
needed, so there were more pat-
ched outfits than new duds most
of the time.
Today In History
| By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS peep show machine.
Q Today is Sunday, Feb. 5, the In 1900, the 1952 and 1956
,f 36th day of 1984. There are 330 Democratic presidential can-
Tdays left in the year. didate, Adlai Stevenson, was born
: Today’s Higl^QSt in History: in Los Angeles.
£ On Feb. 5, 1937, President In 1901, Edwin Prescott of Arl-
$>■ Franklin D: Roosevelt sparked a ington, Mass, patented the loop-
bitter controversy when he prp- the-loop roller coaster,
posed adding six new justices to Five years ago: Hundreds of
jljthdSupreme Coprt. farmers and their families
ffi On this date: descended on Washington in trac-
K;.ln 1644, Connecticut enacted a tors, vans and pickup trucks to
S|«iw requiring cattle and swine press their demands for higher
Itttir six months old to be ear-
ifc'irked or branded, with’ ’ One jpfear ago: President
Bjkialators fined five shillings — . Reagan complained about
Bra^bfthe shillings going to the describing his economic program
■mftth. as “Reaganomics,” saying it
ft ittfl8^L Samuel GOodale of Cin- “sounds like a fad diet or an
■Mflititi'patented a motion picture aerobic exercise.”
And if there are still some areas
unserved, Metro could lay some
track in the median of freeways
— for example an Interstate 10
line serving Galena Park, North
Shore and Channelview and ter-
minating at San Jacinto Mall.
Add this to the expanding bus
routes, and perhaps make a
package combining train and bus
fare that would total less than the
two fares separately, ‘and the
Houston area would finally have a
transportation system worthy of
its status as an important
American city.
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Girls weren’t as rough as boys
apart, can you really walk to a
subway station from anywhere.
In other boroughs many people
have to take, a bus to the train.
In New York, commuter trains
take passengers to Long Island,
Westchester County, New Jersey
and Connecticut. All share track
banks with freight traffic. In fact, Special, stopping at the
the freight railroads used to run Astrodome^ Telephone Road,
commuter lines. In Chicago they Pasadena, Deer Park, La Porte
still do. and Baytown.
A quick glance at the track
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rts.
They usually made a couple of
trips a year to a nearby city to
buy clothing for the family. Boys
got only one pair of “everyday”
shoes a year anda pair of dress
pants and slippers that had to last
two or three years.
Mama was a good judge of
clothing material. She knew what
price to pay for girls’ clothing and
Dad knew how to buy for boys.
Each boy got two pairs of heavy-
duty overalls and a pair of brogan frodj a newspaper route a couple
” of years before I went to high
Although brogans were tough, school. Dad said if I didn’t save
they wouldn’t last boys a year some money he didn’t know
without being half-soled. One of whether he could help or not when
Dad’s home chores was half- time came for me to go.
soling, and he did it very well. He when the time arrived, I was F’rom Tbe Baytown Sun files, with a party on his sixth birthday
used an old-fashioned iron last getting old enough to hold down a this is the way it was 40 and 30 and at the home of his parents, Mr.
with three shoe sizes, large, summer job that paid more than 20 years ago: and Mrs. Y.M.Lannou.
medium and small. A the newspaper route. From then .. FE'.B,5,11M4TI! Mrs. J.W. Peet presents a bro-
Dad bought strips of leather on, until I gbtigrnwn, I wa&pretty—Tbe ^ 11; - - -
and tacks from the community independent stolen., the other night,
store. After supper he would sit on mysteriousiy reappears at the of-
the living room floor with a o*Th«B«y.ownSun. fice of the water district. Edith
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1954: Bouillion Became
President Of Pioneer Club
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TV
Demonstration Club.
Gayle Ellender is'the new presi-
Young finds the siren at the door den^ °i ®irl Scout Troop 11,
of the office when she starts to
work.
Staff Sgt. Bennie Westmore- fantry Division,
land, veteran of 287 combat hours
in the Pacific, will speak at the
Pvt. Ted F. G’Sell Jr. is serving
in Germany with the 43rd In-
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FOR ALL TN'STUfF DISAPPEARIN'
FROM AROUND TO1 HOUSE/ 1
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‘Vote for Hollings. He has ihe best sense of
humor!"
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FEB. 5,1964
East Harris County’s biggest
war bond rally In La Porte. The industrial expansion since con-
program is being arranged by struction started on the Baytown
Rpfus Honeycutt arid Mrs. Frank Refinery more than 40 years ago
Anderson. is announced today by Humble Oil
Pvt. Jim Stanley, 19, has been & Refining Co. Development of
killed in action in Italy, his sister, Bayport between La Porte Sea-
Mrs. M.L. Bishop of Highlands, is brook will Include a deepwater
notified. channel and will be a complex
Mrs. M.E. Swick’s three sons, providing 25,000 new jobs in the1
C.G., E.B, and Paul, ‘are ln the area,
service. She also has a grandson,
Doyle Evans, in the service.
FEB. 5,1954
C.L. Bouillion becomes presi-
dent of the Pioneer Club. H.A.
Halsey Is vice president; J.F.
Alcorn, secretary; W.B. Klllough,
treasurer.
Kenneth Gene Lannou is feted
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 83, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 5, 1984, newspaper, February 5, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154431/m1/4/?rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.