The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 125, Ed. 1 Monday, May 5, 2008 Page: 2 of 12
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SUNRISE
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Monday, May 5,2008
THE BAYTOWN SUN
Town
Goose Creek Crime Stoppers sponsors
HARRIS
65 Years of Wedded Bliss
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perfecting breeding trends of many tropical fish.
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
SEE TOWN • PAGE 3
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years. Her interests encompassed almost every any
own Ceramics shop in their home. She poured over
Baytown Lions Club mem-
bers Carl and Jonnie
Brandon will celebrate 51
years together on May 10.
On May 3, Donald and
Becky Motley will dance their
3^th Anniversary Waltz.
Love in bloom
Billie and Eugene Johnson
celebrated their 52nd anniver-
sary. on April 30.
Heather Ann Martin, 2003
graduate of REL, will graduate
from the University of
Houston on May 9. Heather
has worked very hard to get
her education. She is the
daughter of the late Archie
Martin, Jr.
Frank Butcher, 281-424-
1230 or Keith Mixon, 281-
424-7188.
Baytown Optimists
meet at 1724 Market at 7
QUOTABLE
“Great minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
small minds discuss people.”
—Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
"father " ofAmerica s
nuclear navy (1900-1986).
BIBLE VERSE
Let every thing that hath
breath praise the Lord. Praise
ye the Lord.
at Highlands Community
Center. Laura Dean, 281-
426-5210.
Hispanic Educational
Access Committee of Lee
College meets at 6 p.m. in
the Bayer Conference
Room on the second floor
of the new student center.
Theresa Blanchard, 281-
425-6390.
Basic Ballroom dance
lessons are taught by Mr.
Raul Alaniz at the
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Sponsors of the Campus Crime Stoppers programs at Goose Creek CISD schools were honored at the annual Sponsor
Appreciation Banquet hosted by the Baytown Crime Stoppers Board of Directors. Each campus sponsor was presented
with a gift card in recognition of their efforts over the past year. In front are Shawn Dolezal, left, Gentry Junior School;
Roxie Brown and Tami Gallop, Cedar Bayou Junior School; and Camille Burt, Baytown Junior School. In. the second row are
Weaver Foster, Baytown Citizens Police Academy Alumni Association volunteer; Lindsey Rodriguez, Horace Mann Junior
School; Donna Bernard, Highlands Junior School; Amy Kaminski and Sheryl Ferguson, Baytown Junior School; Cherissa
Crawford, Highlands Junior School; and Mary Spellings, Cedar Bayou Junior School. In back are Baytown Police Chief Keith
Dougherty, Officer Larry Aldrich, and Captain David Alford. Not pictured ard' Lisa Hodges, Lee High School, and Connie
Gentry and Lisa Huntley, Sterling High School.
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Lions clubber Carl
Brandon is recuperating from
knee replacement surgery on
May 5th. We wish him a
speedy recovery.
Municipal Library.
Sterling Municipal
Library offers free Spanish
Language Computer
Classes from 1:30-3:30
p.m.
Community Duplicate
Bridge Club meets at 6:30
p.m. at the Community
Center, 2407 Market.
$3/player. 281-427-3031.
Overeaters Anonymous
meets at 7 p.m. at San
Jacinto Methodist
Hospital-Alexander
Campus. Call Pam, 281-
420-2184, or Johnny, 281-
420-2315.
Baytown Community
Chorus hosts rehearsal 7-
9:30 p.m. in Cobb
Auditorium at Lee
College.
The Monarch Alateen
Group meets 6:30-7:30
p.m. at the San Jacinto
Methodist Hospital
Alexander Campus in
Room Alex 1,2610 N.
Alexander Dr. .
Calvary Temple hosts
Power & Prayer night at
7:30 p.m. at the church, ‘
7319 Breda. 281-839-
3009.
Nativity scene
Kelli Motley Tull will be
celebrating her 30th birthday
with family and friends on
May 11.
Belated birthday greetings to
9-year-old Krista Paige
Motley, who turned 9 on April
26 from Nonny, Poppy, Sissy
and Cuzzis.
Belated birthday greetings
go out to David Block, who
turned 50 on April 28, and
Josh Block, who turned 26 on
May 2,
A happy Cinco de Mayo to
Michael Johnson, who turns
26 on May 5.
Best birthday wishes are in
order on May 5 for Dane Listi
from Susan. Mom, and Clete.
Bryce Thomas Huckaby
will celebrate his 5th birthday
on May 6.
Baytown Lions Jerry
Gainer blows out the candles
on May 7, and fellow Lion
Carl Brandon will do the
same on May 10.
Fannie Beth Davis marks
another tnp around the sun on
May 10.
James Eames will be cele-
brating on May 12. and wife
Elsie will be celebrating two
days later on May 14.
Happy Birthday to Virginia
Broussard, who is blowing
outher candles on May 8.
Also, celebrating a birthday on
May 27 is grandson Blaien J.
Friermood. who will be grad-
uating from A&M on May 10
with a Business and Finance
Degree.
Tori Cauthen Perran is
appearing on a Channel 2
commercial for Dr. Fustok of
Houston.
This and that
Lakesha
Harris, for-
merly of
Baytown, has
been listed in
the 2nd edi-
tion of Who’s
who in Black
Houston.
Harris is an
associate attorney for
Thompson & Knight, LLP, and
focuses on oil, gas, and miner-
al law. Harris received her
juris doctorate degree from the
Texas Southern University
Thurgood Marshall School of
Law. Harris is married to
Anthony Holmes, and they
have one child, one-year-old
Christian Miles Holmes. Her
parents are Sylvester and
Charlene Shelvin.
0543.
Card games are played
at the Seniors Room, 10
am -4 p.m. at the
Community Center, 2407
Market.
Bab) Time, for up to 18
Chambers County
Library hosts GED prepa-
ration classes at 5 p.m. at
the Anahuac Branch.
Precinct2gether is from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at J.D.
Walker Community
Center, 7613 Wade Road.
281-426.3551.
Crosby Community
Center offers a free oil
painting class at 9:30 a.m.
and artist Anne Vandagriff
teaches free watercolor
classes at 1 p.m. 281-462-
0543.
Chambers County
Library hosts Basic PC
classes at 9 a.m. at the
Winnie Branch.
The Senior Bowling
League meets at 10 a.m. at
year at 6:30 p.m. in the
band hall. Call Paula
Harman, 281-420-2183.
The Anahuac Library
hosts a GED prep-class at
5 p.m.
Baytow n Area Quilt
Guild meets at 6:30 p.m. at
St Mark’s United
Methodist Church.
Refreshments provided.
281-424-9966 or visit
www,baytownareaquilt-
guild, com.
Disabled American
Veterans. Chapter 126.
meets at 6:30 p.m. at the
VFW Post on Main St All
eligible veterans welcome.
The Pilot Club of
Highlands meets at 7 p.m.
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Charles and Dorothy Fobbe and their two daughtt
The Baytown Nature Center
is seeking some folks who
might want to add their name
to a brick on the new nature
path. Merle and Howard
Hunt will be hosting a recep-
tion Tuesday at their home to '
start paving the way toward
this new Nature Path.
Today
The Dayton Athletic
Booster Club Sports
Banquet will be held at
6:30 p.m. in the high
school cafeteria. $10 per
person. This event honors
all Dayton High School
athletes.
REL Project
Graduation will meet in
the Lee High School
library at 6:30 p.m.
The Bay town Lee Band Baytown Community
Boosters will have the Center, 2407 Market, from
final meeting of the school 7-9 p.m. $35 per
couple/per month.
Senior softball games
are played on Mondays
and Thursdays, 5:30 and
6:30 p.m;, for ages 50+.
New players welcome. Call Max Bowl East, 720 Ward
Rd. Call the seniors pro-
gram at Lee College, 281-
425-6416.
Crosby Community
Center offers a ceramics
p.m. Call Pi-Yi Mayo. 281- class at 10 a.m. 281-462-
421-5774.
Highlands Community
Center offers seniors inter-
mediate line dancing at
8:30 a.m., quilting at 9
a.m.. beginning line danc-
ing at 9:45 a.m.. and game
day at 12:30 p.m. 281-426- months, is from 10:30-
7561. 10:50 a.m. at Sterling
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Monday, May 5, the
126th day of 2008. There are
240 days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in
History:
On May 5, 1961, astronaut
Alan B Shepard Jr. became
America’s first space traveler
as he made a 15-minute sub-
orbital flight in a capsule
launched from Cape
Canaveral, Fla.
On this date:
. In 1818, political philoso-
pher Karl Marx was bom in
Prussia.
In 1821, Napoleon
Bonaparte, 51, died in exile on
the island of St. Helena in the
South Atlantic.
In 1891, Carnegie Hall (then
named “Music Hall”) had its
official opening night in New
York City.
In 1904, Cy Young pitched
the American League’s first
perfect ganjp as the Boston
Americans defeated the
Philadelphia Athletics, 3-0.
In 1925, John T. Scopes was
arrested in Tennessee for
teaching Darwin’s theory of
evolution. . y .
In 1945, in the only fatal
attack of its kind during World
War II, a Japanese balloon
bomb exploded on Gearhart
Mountain in Oregon, killing
the pregnant wife of a minister
and five children.
In 1958, the Arkansas
Gazette received the Pulitzer
Prize for its coverage of the
Little Rock Central High
School integration crisis;
James Agee was posthumously
honored for his novel “A
Death in the Family.”
In 1981, Irish Republican
Army hunger-striker Bobby
Sands died at the Maze Prison
in Northern Ireland in Ins 66th
day without food. •*.
Ten years ago: An exasperat-
ed Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright called on
Israel to agree to hand over an
additional 13 percent of the
West Bank to the Palestinians, .
on top of the 27 percent
already relinquished; Israel,
however, continued to balk at
the proposal.
Five years ago: Walter
Sisulu, the quiet giant of South
Africa’s anti-apartheid struggle
for five decades, died in
Johannesburg at age 90.
One year ago: Street Sense
roared from next-to-last in a
20-horse field to win the
Kentucky Derby.
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Charles and Dorothy Fobbe of Baytown celebrated
their 65th wedding anniversary on Friday, May 2.
Their two daughters, Marilyn Wissmann of Conroe,
and Lee Ann Adams, and with husband Butch, and
Rico of Baytown joined in the celebration at the
Fobbe’s Baytown home.
In 1943, Charles received his military orders, two
families made a mad dash to arrange, their marriage.
The couple exchanged vows at 5 a.m. on a Sunday
morning, May 2,1943 in Norwood, Ohio. Charles
left just hours later for military duty with the Navy,
in WWII. They resided in Washington, D C. during
the war, and returned to Northern Kentucky after his
term of service.
Charles purchased a grocery in the 1950’s, and was
the butcher; Dorothy ran the cash register. He later
sold the grocery and joined the Post Office in I
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moonlighting as a professional photographer for
weddings and other formal functions, and raised
tropical fish in his spare time. He was President of
the Greater Cincinnati Fish Association during the
_ ters,
Marilyn Wissmann, Lee Ann Adams and Rico toast the
Cincinnati, where he retired in 1970’s. He enjoyed Fobbes’ 65th wedding anniversary.
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weddings and other formal functions, and raised
SUN HISTORY
In 1937, a baffling series of
burglaries in schools of the
Goose Creek system was
believed ended with the sen-
tencing of a 14-year-old
Horace Mann Junior High stu-.
dent to five years in the
Bayland Home for boys.
According to authorities, he
admitted to burglarizing the
Horace Mann and Ashbel
Smith buildings and smashing
about 50 windows over a peri-
od of several months. /
In 1950, George Chandler
was named city attorney for
Baytown.
In 1989, Exxon hosted its
70th annual Exxon Club picnic
at Lenox Ranch near Sheldon.
Hosted by Baytown Exxon
Employees Club, the event
featured new events such as
hot-air balloon rides and an
antique car show.
One year ago,with only a
week until Election Day,
Baytonians were leading the
way in early voting turnout in
Harris County with close to
300 ballots already cast.
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Island, New York; Kathy Smith and husband Ed of
Washington DC; Rick Mursinha and wife Kelley,
with their little darlings, RJ, Cecelia and the “little
1960’s, and had over 150 aquariums in their home, boy on the way” of Cincinnati, Ohio; and Matthew
perfecting breeding trends of many tropical fish. Mursinna and wife Michele with Emma Lee, sta-
Dorothy was active as a Girl Scout leader for over 15 tioned at Katterbach AFB in Ansbach, Germany,
years. Her interests encompassed almost every any Adding to their joy in this years anniversary cele-
kind of arts and crafts project, eventually opening her bration is having both their daughter Army
own Ceramics shop in their home. She poured over Lieutenant Colonel Lee Ann Adams, and her son,
.1,000 of her own ceramic molds and “threw" clay” for Sgt. Matthew Mursinna safely home from Active
her own personal creations. Duty Service in Iraq.
The Fobbe’s family includes their 2 daughters, 6 The Fobbes currently reside in Baytown where.
grandchildren and 5 1/2 great-grandchildren includ- they regularly picnic with, and enjoy the company of
ing: Scott Wissmann with daughter Amber and Joe their family and friends. They are active at the ”
Wissmann with son Alex, all of Covington Kentucky; Baytown Senior Center, The Keenagers at St John’s
Jean Wissmann and her beau Michael of Long Church, and the Baytown Quilt Guild.
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