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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 2019
Page
4
Our View argues bullying affects all involved and lauds Goose Creek CISD for forming a stakeholders committee including students, parents, staff, and a trustee candidate. It cites StopBullying.gov data on prevalence and urges ongoing community cooperation to educate, prevent, and address bullying for safer schools.
Guest View praises Lee College for 85 years as a community cornerstone and notes Baytown’s strong partnership. The piece highlights local support enabling cutting edge certificates and degrees, and endorses the college’s positive impact on residents and regional growth.
Wanda Orton recalls the 1950s polio era in Baytown, describing crippling cases, iron lungs, and the 1955 Salk vaccine turning summers from dread to healthier times. She notes local deaths in 1952, reporting by Johnella Boynton, and Eisenhower’s White House gratitude for the breakthrough.
The GOOTs or Gathering Of Old Toots marks 19 years of activity with weekly meetings at Luby's in Baytown Texas. Founder Gary Herrington is credited with the idea, joining members include George Crow Leo Hechler and others. The group has met over 950 times, widely admired for its casual dress and humorous annual reports.
On this date in 1868 Christopher Latham Sholes secured a patent for the Type-Writer, introducing the QWERTY keyboard and marking the first commercially successful typewriter. In 1972 President Richard Nixon announced policy shifts and the watergate crisis deepened.
The report cites a taped conversation in which H R Haldeman spoke of using the CIA to hinder the Watergate investigation, a disclosure tied to President Nixon’s 1974 resignation. The piece also notes a May Sarton quotation on loneliness and solitude.
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