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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 22, 2001
Page
2
Tomorrow brings mostly sunny skies with highs around the mid 50s and lows near the mid 40s. Sunrise is at 7 13 a.m. and sunset at 5 27 p.m. There is a low near 28 p.m. and a high at 4 55 p.m.
Highlights of historical events on December 22 include McAuliffe’s iconic reply Nuts in 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, Embargo Act passage in 1807, Sherman’s Savannah gift in 1864, Dreyfus conviction in 1894, Churchill’s 1941 visit to Washington, Waldheim’s UN election affirmed in 1971, Goetz subway shooting in 1984, Ceausescu's ouster in 1989, Beckett’s death in 1989, Walesa’s 1990 oath, and the 2000s discovery of Lt. Col. Higgins’s body in Lebanon.
The charm of a succinct reflection on time from the American poet Phyllis McGinley who lived 1905 to 1978. A timeless line notes time as a thief one cannot banish, echoing daily life insights.
Oak Ridge researchers report a four-decade decline in Christmas Day snowfall of at least an inch across 16 cities. From the 1960s to the 1990s the number of white Christmases per decade dropped from 78 to 39. Cities like Seattle and Washington DC show no snow in recent decades, while Tahoe City Salt Lake City and Minneapolis still record multiple white Christmases.
SAN JOSE CALIF AP A Ringling Bros trainer Mark Oliver Gebel 31 was acquitted on a charge he abused an elephant outside a summer performance. The jury deliberated two hours. Gebel faced up to six months in jail and a $1000 fine. He smiled as the verdict. The case drew animal rights attention to circuses.
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