The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 178, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 5, 2017 Page: 4 of 10
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4 The Baytown Sun
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Those people 56 years ago had
no such luxury. All they were of-
fered afterwards was a low-interest
loan to replace everything: floors,
furniture, clothes, books, photos
(irreplaceable), appliances, and all
that they lost And they had to pay
it back to the govemment-imagine
that! No free rides.
We lived through it back then, as
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I would like to send a BIG thank you to the Sterling High
School students and staff that helped clean up homes in |
the Wispering Pines neighborhood. Fortunately our home
did not get water and on Friday we were helping friends
in the Wispering Pines area clean out their home.
As we were starting to clean up and move things to the
curb several students and staff from Sterling came in and
started to help in our cleanup effort. They moved heavy
Bert Marshall is the oh ner of Our Bay ton n <. ow. th
has been a Baytown resident since 1974. Reach Mar-
shall at baytownberta gmail.com
What Baytown Houston is about |
i to see is an inexhaustible amount I
i of love offerings and Federal State |
i County supplies rolling in that will I
stagger the imagination. The over- I
! flow must be taken to shelters and I
churches to stock their pantries, or it
will go to waste. Sorry, but the gov-
On this date:
In 1774, the first Continental Congress assembled in
Philadelphia
In 1836, Sam Houston was elected president of the Re-
public of Texas.
In 1957. the novel “On the Road, by Jack Kerouac, was
first published by Viking Press.
In 1975. President Gerald R Ford escaped an attempt
on his life by Lynette “Squeaky" I romme. a disciple of
Charles Manson. in Sacramento. C alifornia.
Thought for Today: “History may be divided into three
movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and
what appears not to move at all.”
•• Fernand Braudel French historian (1902-1985)
BERT
eminent just operates that way. When MARSHALL
something becomes so big that stuff
has to be movcd to make way for most stuff', it w ill get
dumped overboard. Many of us witnessed this when
we left Vietnam. Every program that is operating to
feed the homeless will benefit with this monumental
cornucopia of goods. ()f course there w ill be parasites
that take advantage of the generosity, hut we must not
focus on that.
( hutches and not-for-profit organizations need to
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Mont Belvieu
Make US stronger
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protect Dreamers’
Although we have pressing problems m Baytown and
the surrounding areas because of the recent flooding,
there is another pressing problem for many of our young
people: the continuation of the Deferred Action for ( hild-
hood Arrival program.
President I rump promised to show “great heart" when
dealing with “Dreamers,” young immigrants who came
to the U.S. as children who have been vetted and granted
DACA protection. Instead, according to news reports. the
DACA program is on the chopping block.
I hat would be terrible, not just for DAC \ recipients
and their families, but for American businesses and com-
munities. American citizens working at Dreamer-started
businesses would lose their jobs, and Social Security and
Medicare would lose billions in potential contributions.
I’m calling on Congress, specifically Representative Bri-
an Babin and Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn to move
legislation forward that will protect Dreamers and make our
country stronger. I encourage President Trump to not shoot
himself (and the United States) in the foot by ending the
DACA program. If we lose the valuable resources that are
our “Dreamers,” we all lose
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never be forgotten
As one who was spared the ravages of Harvey, my w ife
and I. along with many other volunteers from 2nd Baptist
( hurch. have had the distinct privilege of working at the
l ee ( ollege Disaster Relief (. enter located in the old I ee
( ollege gymnasium.
I have been amazed at the outpouring of love, concern,
volunteers, food, clothing, water and basic needs brought
to (he center from all over the U.S.
Dr Brown, president of Lee (. ollege. stepped up and
volunteered the Lee gymnasium, l ee ( ollege security
and housekeeping personnel went above and beyond with
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and even climb into an ordinary-sized wine bottle.
I he theater was packed, even people outside waiting to
get in. At this time the audience was told that the magician
had not turned up and they could get their money back. A
riot occurred when it dawned on them that they had been
made fools of.
Shades of P.T. Barnum There's a sucker born every min-
ute.
January 1919 an iron tank containing two-and-a-half mil-
lion gallons of crude molasses (for rum manufacture) ex*
ploded one warm night in Boston, Massachusetts.
Probably its contents expanded during an unusual over-
night rise in temperature. A fifteen-foot high wall of molas-
ses, thick and sticky, ran through the streets, at a speed of
35 mph.
It destroyed buildings, drowned horses and engulfed peo-
ple who tried to run. Twenty-one people were killed and
150 injured Cleaning up the tsunami took weeks and for
decades afterwards the locals claimed they could distinctly
smell molasses in hot weather. Sound like Harvey!
in 1908 an aiderman in New York sponsored the Sulli-
van Act banning women — only women •— from smoking
in public. The Christian lobby identified tobacco with im-
morality. Katie Mulcahey was arrested the day after it was
passed.
Hauled into court she told the (male) judge. “No man shall
dictate to me. 1 have as much right to smoke as you do.” The
case was hailed as a strike lor women's rights, but it wa>
years later before the ladies won the right to vote Katie was
lined five dollars.
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you will now. It will not be easy.
However, there are some who did
not; those who lost their lives as a
result of the storm. That was the ul-
timate cost of this hurricane. Slop
a minute and thank God you and
yours are alive and well.
So now' there is only just putting
one foot in front of the other and
“genin' her done." There is no lack
of people who want to help. Area
churches are sending out teams to
work. Some are offering shelters as
well as clothes and food. You just
have to inquire and let them know
of a need. Most friends and family
will help, but you have to reach out
to them.
Of course, strength to persevere
can be found in our awesome I ord
and Savior, who tells us. in Matthew
11:28, “Come unto me all that labor
and are heavy laden, and I will give
you rest.” And he will.
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reasonable cost. Hope it you don't
have it. you didn’t find out too late
storm: Hurricane ( aria, whose 56th that you should have.
anniversary is on Sept 11. Anyone in our low-lying lands
Our family came back to 6 feet of should have it. whether you are
waier in our home and a whole sub- beside a body of water or not. ()ur
division coveted with it That would drainage (or lack of it) demands it.
be. of course, the Brownwood sub-
division, which now has mostly
been claimed by the bay. I he part
that hasn’t is now a beautiful nature
park, which stands in testimony that
something good can be made from
something thought to be lost.
We don’t know yet how the sta-
tistics el Harvey will compare to
( aria, but it doesn't really matter.
Way back around 1650. John Wilkins be- j
lieved that the moon and planets had life and I
we should arrange to meet them. After all.
people were anchored to the earth by some
type of magnetism. How hard could it be?
Travelers could escape that magnetic force
w ith “flying chariots.” If they sailed through
space to an aliunde of nisi 20 miles, they
would access the purer air breathed by the
angels
Some years later, Wilkins came to the
conclusion that space travel was much more
complicated than he had expected.
In 1749 the I )uke of Montague w on a bet with 1 .ord Ches- i
terfield that he could fill a theater by promising the public <
the impossible. He advertised in a London newspaper that
an amazing magician would play music on an ordinary i
or alive, ; be'prepared 7o~heip disseminate this.'as the gmem-
I ment w ill not be flexible enough to adjust “the rules.”
We saw this right here in Baytown at the tax office
< w hen Harris County set up their containers and would
not give out a da#n thing until 10 a.m. and cars were
lined up for a mile each way. Mayor DonCarlos swore
to me that Baytown would never allow this to happen
again.
I Over in Mont Belvieu, civilians were handing out
food, water, and ice as fast as cars could move. It was
} a tiling of beauty.
It you are not part of the clean-up effort and have
money to buy your food, you should feel ashamed to
I be in a food line unless there is more than enough to
feed the workers or you are invited We cut down a di-
saster forest one tree al a time and everyone can con-
tribute somehow. It may be small, like mowing your
neighbor’s yard, or setting their trash cans out because
they are starting up a plant or tearing out Sheetrock at
: another's destroyed home.
If you hate the way the country feels divided, then
prove them wrong by helping anyone out in need, re-
gardless of their color, ethnicity, religion, or station
in life. You will feel better about yourself and make
a friend for life. We are I'exans and understand that
all across this great country, Americans arc praying
and putting their money and goods to get us back on
our teet. I say we ask the governors to make e\ery one
who contributes an honorary Texan. (iod bless.
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i The strength to persevere
Many never saw it coming.
They stepped out of bed that
morning into ankle deep water. Oth-
ers were warned and had to leave
or be rescued from their homes and
leave their possessions to the creep-
ing, insidious demon-rising water.
As I visited some of the homes of
friends and family that were inun-
dated by Hurricane Haney, a sick
feeling persisted, not just because
of their heartache, but also because
furniture, appliances, etc., to the curb. 1 am not sure what of the memories of another deadly
we would have done with their help and I can’t say thank
you enough to those students and staff They were just
going from house to house helping people. I irsl respond-
ers get a lot of credit for being heroes but on Friday in
Wispering Pines neighborhood the Sterling students and
staff became our heroes. I hanks again.
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their assistance. City of Baytown Mayor Don( .trios. ( ity
Council representatives Charles Johnson, l.aura AI vara- z *
do. Bob Hoskins, city employees S<<>u lohn-on. Mike
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Tester. Chief Bernard ()live, and City Manager Rick Da-
vis have all stopped by to work, deliver supplies and otter
assistance A e have had supplies delivered from Walmart.
Dallas. Uvalde, Kentucky, a truck load of supplies from
\rkansas directed through state Representative Briscoe
( ain's office and delivered by Mrs. ( ain, who also stayed
and assisted in unloading the truck. We have had multiple
individuals who have walked in wanting to donate many
needed items. We have had numerous other volunteers,
including local high school students by the dozens, who
have shown up at all hours of the day and night to volun-
teer tor whatever (hey could do. We had two brothers. Al-
fonso and Jose, and their friend Jonathon, who have prac-
tically lived at the shelter since it opened, taking charge of
the most menial tasks, giv ing of themselves to assist those
in need and asking nothing in return.
I am reminded of the verse in Matthew 25:40 that
speaks of selfless acts of giv ing when it says “ \s you did
it to one of the least of these my brothers, you did it to
me." Thank you to all who gave and continue to give and
my apologies ill may have left anyone out. Your kindness
will never be forgotten'
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