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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Aug 10, 2016
Page
4
The Baytown Sun lists the week’s top articles by page views led by From radio to TV and now print. Other high performers include Baytown man shoots alleged burglar outside home and BPD denies allegations of raiding wrong house.
A reader endorses Hillary's America as a factual political history film from founding fathers to today. The letter praises its engaging style and patriotic ending with America the Beautiful and the Star Spangled Banner, urging all Americans to see it. Jerry L. Jones, Baytown.
A reader writes to Maureen Holecek denouncing Democratic leadership and calling for a return to a prosperous free America. The letter argues current leaders contradict themselves, urges opponents to depart, and extols past American strength and freedom.
Baytown links emerge in the WWII end story. Bombardier Kermit Beahan, Nagasaki duty, later life in Baytown. USS Indianapolis crewmen Marvin Baker and Zeb Wilcox from Baytown faced shark infested sea after the sinking. Beahan’s memories and local memory include Baker Road and Kern brothers’ deaths, with Beahan later dying in 1989 near Clear Lake City.
JoAn Martin muses on media prose and political rhetoric noting abstract phrasing and dangling participles. She cites examples from George W. Bush and Molly Ivins, urges clearer language, and ends inviting readers to explore her novels.
On this date in history the Smithsonian Institution was established by President James K. Polk in 1846. The 31st president Herbert Hoover was born in West Branch, Iowa in 1874. In 1949 the National Military Establishment was renamed the Department of Defense. In 1969 the LaBiancas, Leno and Rosemary, were murdered in their home.
Highlights include the murder of actress Sharon Tate and four others by Manson followers. Also notes 1988 Reagan signs WWII Japanese American internment redress measure for living internees. 1995 McVeigh Nichols charged in Oklahoma City bombing case with lifelong sentences.
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