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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 2014
Page
4
The Baytown Junior Forum leads the annual Goodfellows appeal to ensure every child has a present. Donations accepted now through year’s start at The Baytown Sun or by mailing to Goodfellows C/O BJF PO BOX 8116 Baytown TX 77522. Checks should be made out to Goodfellows.
A letter to classmates reports strong response for an April 24 spring mini reunion, 86 confirmations, a $60 per person payment to cover expenses, and a $500 non refundable deposit to hold the date. Details include hotel options, a possible dinner cruise on Clear Lake, golf, and cash bar exclusions. Payments due by January 15 to Regina Harlan, with checks made to Robert E. Lee Class of 1963.
On this date in history notable events include the opening of Federal Reserve Banks in 12 cities in 1914, Fort Washington captured in 1776, Oklahoma becoming the 46th state in 1907, US USSR diplomacy in 1933, Capone's release in 1939, The Sound of Music opening in 1959, Clark Gable's death in 1960, Skylab 4 launch in 1973, and Condoleezza Rice named secretary of state in 2001. Thought for Today by Alexis de Tocqueville.
In the 1975 Baytown Association yearbook a Baytown firefighter recounts the August 5 1974 Oiler Theater blaze on North Commerce West Defoe that destroyed the frame building once housing one of the area’s first cinemas. Firefighters arrived at 1 20 am to find the structure fully involved and spread to nearby buildings in the largest call in years. The era also notes other 1974 fires at Morrison Furniture United Jewelry West Main Café Mount Rose Baptist Church Jet Set Lounge El Toro Bayway and a Craigmont shopping center with many stopped before total destruction. The piece lists new Fire Station 6 construction progress and hires for Baytown’s fire and police ranks plus yearbook photos of staff managers and officers led by L V Bailey and W H Buddy McBride Jr with Bill Taylor as fire marshal. It preserves local fire service history and honors associated clubs and personnel including the Baytown Firefighters Association officers. Wanda Orton of The Sun is identified.
Jim Finley recalls his mother Vera Nell known as Gigi who would have turned 100 this Tuesday. He details family dynamics with father J P, their divorce, and Gigi’s later years in West Columbia. He shares humor, diary keeping, bird-watching joys, and a final note on her passing on her 87th birthday, ending with his contact at the Baytown Sun.
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