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Newspaper
Baytown Sun
Location
Baytown, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 2015
Page
4
The Charter Review Committee urges Baytown voters to approve all 23 amendments including compensation for mayor at 1000 dollars a month and council members at 500 dollars per month. It argues salaries encourage civic participation and align Baytown with nearby Galveston and others. Polls open before November 3, 200.
A reader argues against Prop 24 linking bond funds to sales tax and warns that failed bonds would free taxes for other uses. The letter cites college audits, criticizes obfuscation, recalls S J Hayakawa, and urges readers to join in anti meat industry stance and public health concerns.
Baytown radio KRCT opened 1947 in a frame building by Cedar Bayou and aired San Jacinto Memorial Hospital's 1948 opening. It later moved to Pasadena in 1957 became KIKK in 1961 with new venues, and grew under Dixie Howell and partners. The station boasted school assembly broadcasts and community ties.
The Baytown Sun presents the week’s top ten most read articles from October 2026 led by a Baytown man arrested after shooting a friend on his ride home. Other popular items include a $50,000 catch for a young Baytown angler and a city error over a $3,300 water bill.
After mass at St John a friend mentions the Sun's report on Lee College hiring auditors. The estimated $80,000 price sparks disbelief as the spokesperson’s remarks appear to the writer as blather, signaling concern about necessity and clarity of the auditing contract.
On this date in 1886 the Statue of Liberty was dedicated in New York Harbor by President Grover Cleveland as a gift from France. In 1914 Jonas Salk, who developed the first successful polio vaccine, was born in New York. In 1964 the two day rock concert titled the T A M 11 Show opened in New York.
The speaker contrasts Halloween fears with the meat industry, accusing it of cow and pig mutilation, worker injuries, slave wages, farmer exploitation, unlawful pricing, and heavy water pollution. The critique targets systemic abuses while noting undocumented workers and harsh conditions.
A thinker links Martin Luther and October 31 to today’s Halloween culture. He questions reinterpreting the day as fall festival while praising Luther’s legacy and the message of grace. The piece urges sharing unconditional love and recognizing Psalm 118:24 as the day the Lord has made.
The record lists performers in a Santa Monica film context and notes the 1991 storm known as The Perfect Storm forming east of Nova Scotia. It mentions the Andrea Gail, a Gloucester Massachusetts swordfishing boat with six crew members lost at sea. Also includes a Thought for Today quote by John W. Gardner.
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