Birthday column celebrates aging writer and Texas music deaths
The Baytown Sun columnist marks his birthday with reflections on musicians from Texas who died young, including Mozart, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Buddy Holly, Janis Joplin, and Selena. He shares moving to Arkansas, tax free weekend rituals, family life, and aging while joking about fashion and aging milestones.
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Baytown Sun
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Mozart
Austria
Stevie Ray
Texas
Arkansas
Glenn Miller
Baytown Olefins Plant welcomes new manager Darrin Talley
Darrin Talley arrives as Baytown Olefins Plant manager after long Exxon Mobil career across the world. At a Baytown Historical Museum reception he stresses safety and “mode of constant improvement.” He notes three integrated plants give competitive edge and aims to keep the firm in the news for employment, not incidents.
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Exxon Mobil
Humble Oil and Refining Co
New Baytown Olefins
Darrin Talley
Baytown
Talley
Bop
Bob Bailes
Exxon Mobil Chemical Co
Exxon Mobil Chemical
Paris
University of Missouri-Rolla
Mobil Corp
Detroit
Bogota
Columbia
Mexico
Fairfax
Exxon
Mobil
Singapore
Irving
Denver
Anna
Clear Lake
Exxon Mobil Public Affairs
Jeanne Miller
Exxon Mobil Baytown
Margie Hartrick
Hartrick
Baytown Sun
Jessica Robertson
Baytown Community Activities Calendar Highlights
Baytown groups meet at various venues including McDonald 1770 Decker Baytown Highlands Center and Exxon Mobil for networking homeshoolers and line dancing. Activities span OA meetings bingo story time library hours senior center crafts and a Crosby business breakfast with calls and RSVP info.
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Baytown
McDonald’s
Decker
Garth Road
Highlands Community Center
Baytown Toastmaster Group
Exxon Mobil
First Westminster Presbyterian Church
Call
Highlands
San Jacinto Community Center
Highlands Woods Drive
Market St
First Christian Church
Fecbtx.org
VFW
N. Main
St. John's United Methodist Church
S. Alexander Drive
Sterling Municipal Library
S. Main St
Crosby
R.S.V.P
Yahoo.com
Today in History August 2 2006 notable events list
Today in history marks August 2 with events across centuries. Highlights include signatures of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the first U.S. census in 1790, Hallidie’s cable car test in 1873, Wild Bill Hickok’s death in 1876, Harding’s death in 1923, Einstein’s letter in 1939, PT-109 sinking in 1943, Tonkin Gulf incidents in 1964, Roy Cohn’s death in 1986, and a 1996 note on rising unemployment and slipping spending.
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Continental Congress
Andrew S. Hallidie
San Francisco
Wild Bill” Hickok
Deadwood
Dakota Territory
United States
Warren G. Harding
Albert Einstein
Roosevelt
John F. Kennedy
Amagiri
Solomon Islands
Pentagon
U.S
Gulf of Tonkin
Roy M. Cohn
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Wall Street
Associated Press
Baytown Sun History Highlights Through Decades
The Baytown Sun compiles local milestones from 1945 to 2004 including Goose Creek bond approval, the 1952 Gulf Freeway opening linking Houston to the sea, a 2002 West Nile positive Blue Jay finding near North Main Street and Dent Drive, and 2004 plans for the Sun's region’s largest Wal-Mart distribution center expansion in Baytown. It also cites the State School Land Board acquisition in Cedar Crossing Industrial Park and closes with a note on photo submissions and a Bible verse.
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C.Q. Alexander
Goose Creek
Galveston
Houston
Gulf Freeway
North Main Street
Dent Drive
Baytown
Wal-Mart
Chambers County
Austin
Public School Fund
Cedar Crossing
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Deana Wall
Olefins
Yaytownsun.com
SUN History
Friedrich von Schiller
the Sun
David
Bloom
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