Favorite memories: ExxonMobil Baytown
The Sun collected reader essays for the 100th anniversary of ExxonMobil in Baytown. A memory recounts a 1941 Humble Oil Community Building dance where a naval officer danced with the writer’s mother. later they married in 1942 in Baltimore. The writer, born in 1947, credits Humble Oil for enabling their family’s connection, including siblings.
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ExxonMobil
Baytown
the Sun
Humble
Exxon
Humble Oil Community
Linnie Cooper
Bethel
Humble Oil
Hillard Kozlowski
Catherine
John Opryshek
Dad
Georgia Tech
Arthur Murray
Baltimore
Leona Englert
Karen
John Philip
Harvey Emanuel A Baytown Oil Foreman With A Hidden Name
Robert and Carolyn Emanuel recount Manny H Emanuel who joined Humble Oil in the late 1920s in Baytown. He used the alias Harvey H Emanuel after swapping his middle name to hide walking off a prior job. He remained a foreman until his death in 1961, though many knew him by Harvey.
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Humble Oil
Moscow
Texas
Houston
Baytown
Manny H. Emanuel
Manny H
Harvey
Harvey Emanuel
Robert and
Carolyn Emanuel
From Alabama coal to Texas oil in 1928
A reminiscence of Vernon Jones leaving an Alabama coal mine for a Humble Oil and Refining Company job in Baytown Texas around 1928. The narrator recalls family pride, life on Michigan Street, and a 1939 move to Highlands with Interurban trolley transit to the refinery.
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Alabama
Texas
Baytown
Humble Oil and Refining Company
Vernon Jones
Michigan Street
Bubble Gum Project Sparks Class Clean Up
A Texas springtime scene centers on a student’s educational bubble gum project. After cleaning desks revealed gum wreckage inspires a poster board survey and questions about gum while the class adapts when gum is banned. JoAn Martin, retired teacher and author, is noted.
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Texas
Dollar Store
JoAn Martin
Josbook
Mindspring.com
Josbooks.com
Proposition 4 Would Keep Texas Income Tax Out of Reach
Proposition 4 would add a two thirds supermajority hurdle to remove the ban on an income tax, while Bullock once pushed for a state income tax. Opponents say the measure clutter the constitution and that Texas already lacks an income tax despite high property and sales taxes. The piece cites editorial doubt, expert critique, and political drama around Speaker Dennis Bonnen and Sullivan recordings.
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Texas
Bob Bullock
Texas Senate
Texas House of Representatives
Dallas News
Bullock
Ann Richards
Richards
House
Senate
Dick Lavine
The
Progressive Center For Public Policy Priorities
House of Representatives
Dennis Bonnen
Michael Quinn Sullivan
Empower Texans
Sullivan
Bonnen
Pretty Boy Floyd Shot Dead in Ohio Farm Farmyard Capture
On this date in 1934 federal agents and local police cornered bank robber Charles Pretty Boy Floyd at a farm in Ohio and fatally shot him. In 1962 President Kennedy announced Soviet missile bases under construction in Cuba and declared a quarantine of offensive military equipment.
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Charles “Pretty Boy
Floyd
Ohio
John F. Kennedy
Cuba
History Notes And Policy Highlights Across Decades
The timeline recalls Reagan signing a sweeping 1986 tax overhaul, a 1998 Fisher-Price Power Wheels safety advisory urging battery removal, and a year-ago Trump pledge to reduce aid to three Central American nations over migrant pressures. Jean de La Fontaine offered a reflective thought on destiny.
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Reagan
Fisher-Price
Donald Trump
U.S
Jean de la Fontaine
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