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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1973
Page
13
The Big Oak in Baytown, tied to the Pruett family, was saved in 1951 by Red Pruett’s intervention. He funded bark removal, root cleaning, and soil renovation, earning the tree landmark status as the city’s guarder of this ancient live oak.
Baytown Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 912 began a flag raising rite at Films Field in 1929 to curb post game trouble. The ceremony moved to Memorial Stadium and Stallworth Stadium, with Elks Lodge donating a 1946 flagpole and local workers constructing the original pole at Humble Baytown Refinery.
The Municipal Yearbook reports 52.8 percent of U S cities with 25 000 to 50 000 residents use the council manager system such as Baytown while 10.4 percent employ a commission form and 36.1 percent have mayor council government in the same population range.
Baytown residents recall the Hill of Rest Cemetery site where D A Wiggins family lived about 65 years ago near Market Street Road separating the cemetery from Robert E. Lee High School. The 346.5 acre tract was purchased in 1879 by David Alexander Wiggins from Mary Jones of Montgomery County.
W. M. Knowles, longtime Baytown railroader and head of the citys first Charter Commission, recalls the charter fight that produced a council-manager form. He retired in 1962 after 43 years with Southern Pacific and now spends time with grandchildren and daily soap operas.
Oil well Gaillard No 1 near Goose Creek struck oil on June 12 1908 starting Bay Towns rise. Johns Gaillard led 1905 1908 drillings drawing large crowds and workers to build a vast earthen tank to store pumped oil.
Baytown touts a rapid parks program with 227 acres of park land, 30 acres city owned, and 177 undeveloped sites. The 33,000 square foot community building aims to open by December 1975, adding two new pools by June and multiple district and neighborhood parks on the development agenda. Mayor Bussey notes Goose Creek’s first mayor in 1919.
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