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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 2021
Page
4
President Biden signed the Juneteenth National Independence Day Act establishing June 19 as a federal holiday. The move marks the first new federal holiday since MLK Day in 1983 and commemorates the 1865 arrival of Union troops in Galveston and Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation.
A reader laments Fauci's vaccine oversight and Trump era policies linking China to the pandemic and vaccine mandates. The letter contrasts media coverage and alleged long term risks with current Biden administration silence, ending with a jab at crickets.
Baytown Sun poll asks readers if Goose Creek CISD should move spring graduation ceremonies for Lee Sterling and Goose Creek Memorial back to Stallworth Stadium. Readers invited to vote at the Baytown Sun website.
Wanda Orton recounts Sylvan Beach in La Porte as a 20th century seaside hub drawing crowds from Houston and Baytown. From 16 coach trains in 1916 to ferries at Morgan's Point and Lynchburg, park life included bathing beauty pages, sodas and 10 cent hamburgers. Diversions, concerts, and famous bands followed until WWII and a 1943 hurricane paused the fun, with the site repeatedly rebounding as a cultural beacon in Harris County.
Jim Finley recounts a long life shaped by crooked fingers that hindered military enlistment and sparked a defining career in journalism. He recalls early attempts to join the Air Force being blocked by his fingers and a later Memorial Day talk that drew a hostile, inaccurate recall from a local reporter.
On this date in history, Congress approved the Great Seal of the United States featuring the bald eagle. A 1893 New Bedford jury found Lizzie Borden not guilty of the ax murders of her father and stepmother. In 1921 Alice Robertson became the first woman to preside over a House session. In 1944 Japanese retreat at the Battle of the Philippine Sea. In 1947 Truman vetoed Taft Hartley Act, veto overridden. In 1967 Muhammad Ali convicted for refusing draft. later overturned.
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