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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 26, 2011
Page
4
Wanda Orton recalls growing up amid heavy smoking, the social pull and health warnings, and her eventual quit in November 1984 to end bronchitis, wasted clothes, and near disasters from ash and fire. She reflects on progress in rights versus health.
Events recap the Continental Congress adjournment in 1774 and the O K Corral gunfight in 1881. It notes Kissinger’s Vietnam peace claim in 1972 and Bush signing the Patriot Act in 2001, plus birthdays of Mahalia Jackson and Hillary Clinton and other figures.
Baytown native Chris Buckner recalls Dr. John H. Andrews, lifelong ophthalmologist and Tuskegee Airmen pilot, who mentored him from aviation to local ranch building. Buckner recounts helping build a Crosby corral with Andrews and friends, plus a vivid crash of a tough cow through five rails.
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