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COMMUNITY SNAPSHOTS
Baytown Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association
The Baytown Citizen Police Academy Alumni Association newly elected officers for 2006-2007 are from left to right, Terry
Sain, treasurer; Lavon Heintsahel, secretary; Eugene Farek, vice president; and Linda Blevins, president. Not pictured is
Garland Huey, sergeant-at-arms.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Friday, June 23, the
174th day of 2006. There are
191 days left in the year.
On this date:
In 1836, Congress approved
the Deposit Act, which con-.
tained a provision for turning
over surplus federal revenue to
the states.
In 1868, Christopher Latham /
Sholes received a patent for
his “Type-Writer.”
In 1947, the Senate joined
the House in overriding
President Truman’s veto of the
Taft-Hartley Act.
In 1972, President Nixon and
White House chief of staff H.R.
Haldeman discussed a plan to
use the CIA to obstruct the
FBI’s Watergate investigation.
(Revelation of the tape record-
ing of this conversation led to’
Nixon’s resignation in 1974.)
One year ago: Former Ku
Klux Klansman Edgar Ray
Killen was sentenced to 60
years in prison for the 1964
Mississippi slayings of three
civil rights workers.
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COMMUNITY CALENDAR
from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
American journalist (1894-1961)
school students enrolled in
Spanish classes will hold
a car l ' "
on Garth Road from 9
a.m. until 2 p.m. to raise
mopey for a class trip to
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A-3D Archery
Tournament will be at
Cedar Bayou Archery
Sunday
Any child who brings
another child, who does
Main St. For more infor-
mation, call 281-422-
2747.
Mont Belvieu Assembly
of God is registering now
for enrollment for fall
Classes. Classes are
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and concessions are pro-
vided. For more informa-
tion, call 713-253-2472 or
713-825-9155.
meets at 6:45 p.m. at
Remington Park, located
at 901 W. Baker Road.
Players pay $2 each for
three hours of entertain-
ment. For more informa-
tion, call 281-427-3031.
Don't let the Monday
blues get you down. Come
to the Seniors Room from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday
through Friday in the
Community Center, 2407
Market St. Card games are
played on Mondays.
Monday
The Baytown Shrine
Club w ill have a stated
not regularly attend to the meeting and ladies night
10 a.m. worship service at at 7 p.m. at Shrine club-
St. John’s United house, located at 110 W.
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has given you.
- Romans 12:3
ship to Spencer Ferguson. Spencer recently graduated from gram. The check is earmarked for Christine Russell,
Robert E. Lee and will be attending Brigham Young University, deserving advanced nursing student at Lee College.
plays to aid in your child's
development.
A quilting class is held
at 9 a.m, at the Highlands
Community Center, locat-
ed at 604 Highland Woods
Drive. For more informa-
tion, call 281-426-7561.
The Community
Seniors at the Highlands Duplicate Bridge Club
Community Center can
learn intermediate line
dancing at 8:30 a.m. or
quilting at 9 a.m.
Beginning line dancing is
at 9:45 a.m. Game day
starts at 12:30 p.m. For
more information, call
281-426-7561.
Come to Sterling
Municipal Library with
your infants up to 18
months old for Baby Time
from 10:30 to 10:50 a.m.
Learn songs to sing, sto-
ries to tell, and finger
Pilot Club
Kay Eshbach, right, Pilot Club safety and security area
leader, presents a $600 scholarship check to Bonnie
mines whether liberty itself
survives.”
— Dorothy Thompson,
ToddV Methodist Church, may go
J to the balcony and ring
The Robert E. Lee High the church bell.
Members of all faiths
are invited to an "old-
wash at Burger King fashioned hymn singing
arm frrvrr, O and preaching" 3t 10 3.01.
and 5, p.m. in the meeting Mondays and Wednesdays
room of the Comfort from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Suites at Interstate10. For and include computer
more information, call
281-422-7949.
VFW Post 912, located
Park. Sign up is from 8 to at 8204 N. Main, has
11a.m. All ages eligible bingo at 2 p.m. every
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12:30 p.m. For more
information, call 281-421-
1257.
SIN HISTORY
In 1937, a parade, barbecue
and dance were planned for the
new $280,000 Chambers
County courthouse, replacing
the one that burned down the
year before.
In 1950, A game between
the Baytown Oilers and the
Shell Oilers was declared a
success after it raised more
than $300 for the Robert E.
Lee band. The band used the
money to travel to Chicago.
In 1953, the Humble Oil and
Refining Co. granted an across-
the-board 4 percent raise to the
4,715 Refinery employees.
In 1975, Goose Creek
trustees approved a “moonlight-
ing” policy that denied employ-
ees an outside job that “deters
from the employee’s assigned
duties and responsibilities.”
One year ago, following an
order from the U.S. Supreme V
Court, Gov. Rick Perry com-
muted the death sentence of
Robert Aaron Acuna of
Baytown to life in prison.
Acuna shot his elderly neigh-
bors, James and Joyce Carroll, .
to death in their Country Club
Estates home in 2003.
QUOTABLE
“It is not the fact of liberty
but the way in which liberty is
exercised that ultimately deter-
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For by the grace given me I
say to every one of you: Do ’
not think of yourself more
highly than you ought, but
rather think of yourself with
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AARON BARBEE
Apple’s
stroke
Aaron Barbee owns Texas
Computer Guru, a local com-
puter services company for on-
site business and residential
needs. He can be contacted at
281-628-5099.
E-mail questions for Aaron to
sunnews@baytownsun.com.
Last week 1 talked about
how Bill Gates got a second
chance at starting his empire
all because of a game of golf.
It’s only fair that 1 talk about
how Xerox taught Apple how
to design the first Graphical
User Interface (GUI), how to
use a mouse, and other things
common to computers these
days.
A GUI is just a fancy term
for what we see today on
Macintosh and Windows com-
puters. Before the GUI, it was
all a black or green screen
with letters and words. A GUI
lets us have icons, windows,
pictures, and lets us use a
mouse to point and click.
Let’s head back to the mid-
to-late 70s. This is when a
huge groundbreaking develop-
ment took place, and a larger
blunder in corporate manage-
ment let it slip through their
fingers.
Xerox had come up with a
new design in personal com-
puting which would use the
GUI instead of that ugly black
DOS screen. They named the
computer the Alto, after
Xerox’s Palo Alto Research
Center, which developed it.
Proudly the Xerox research
team took the revolutionary
design to the presidents and
vice presidents of the compa-
ny. Immediately the team was
chastised for wasting time and
was told that the general pub-
lic would never accept the
design. The fact that there was
a device called a “mouse” was
just atrocious and they were
told to throw it in the trash.
So, against orders the research
team shoved the Alto on a
back shelf and that’s where it
grew dust for quite some time.
Somehow Steve Jobs caught
wind of this fantastic design
and incredibly convinced the
Xerox presidents into ordering
a viewing of the computer.
Against the wishes of the
research team they gave Jobs
and a large number of his
engineers a peek at the inner
workings of the groundbreak-
ing computer.
In the early 80’s Steve Jobs
unveiled the Lisa. It was the
first commercial use of the
new GUI and the mouse.
However, Lisa was a huge
flop. It was grossly overpriced
(at about $10,000), and IBM’s
PC was already starting to
gain momentum. The release
of the Apple Macintosh only
made things worse for the
Apple Lisa as it was widely
more accepted and more com-
petitively priced.
So today we have Apple
Macintosh and Microsoft
Windows. These are two giants
that got a tremendous amount
of help from others to get their
empire going. It’s easy to for-
get the little tidbits of history
that changes our lives. After a
huge stroke of luck early on,
these two were able to help
revolutionize the world.
Check out my web site
www.TexasComputerGuru.co
m for supplemental informa-
tion and previous articles as
well.
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FRI, SAT 11am -9pm
SUN & MON CLOSED
Lee College holds
welcome back
fair today
The Lee College Office of
Recruitment will host a
Welcome Back Fair
Saturday, June 24, begin-
ning at 11 a.m. in the col-
lege’s Student Center. The
fair is an opportunity for
students who have previ-
ously attended Lee College
to learn how the college
can help them finish their
degree. Contact the Office
of Recruitment at 281-425-
6260 for more information
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Cash, Wanda Garner. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 225, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 24, 2006, newspaper, June 24, 2006; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1191915/m1/2/: accessed June 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.