The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 136, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 13, 2011 Page: 4 of 8
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Tampa and turning right
across the bay to Pinellas
County and Clearwater to find
• jaty pool. The judge in the
caw graduated from the
Thargood Marshall Law
School at Texas Southern.
From what I saw, tee judge did
an excellent job at maintaining
decorum in his court. I wished
he had the same porter to
maintain teat decorum in tee
media
When tee verdict was read,
it immediately set off protests
and arguments both on and off
camera and the Internet. Toot,
or Twtet(y), -| taut I taw a
puddy tat!" To me, it was
fintny teat tee TV commenta-
tors were actually arguing
with each oteer on the air
about the verdict and its rami-
fications. After teat came the
specials with Barbara Writers
«nd tee like joining in on the
ftay. I read tec ABC network
paid for a Disney world trip for
four of tee jurors to get their
stories, and other jurors were
offering themselves to the
highest bidder for theirs.
Whatever your personal
feelings about this case are,
keep in mind that what's right
and fair in our world is not
always legal; and what is
legal is not always right and
fair.
We still have the best legal
system anywhere on the plan-
et and outcomes are deter-
mined by your peers who
have more information from
inside the courthouse than tee
commentators do in front of
their cameras. Facebook. on
the other hand, is for those
who were not there.
Chris Buckner, a Baytown
native, is a former radio broad-
caster and a retiree of Houston i
Public Works Department. He is
a professional in both
Emergency and Disaster Debris
Mmpnwsf planning. He can
be reached by e-mail at
chris.buckner51@gmail.com
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of 2011 and tee 23»d day were killed or wounded.
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Northwest Iterfeary. concerts were broadcast to
to 1803. the New Ytek more tens I billion people
City teaft riots began: aa m 110 countries to raise
money for African famine TODAY'S SPORTS: In
1930, France defeated
TODAY'S BIRTHDAYS: Mexico and tee United
Jack Kemp (1935-2009). States defeated Belgium in
football pUyerpohtkian, tee first World Ctip soccer
Patrick Stewait (1940- f matches, held in
actor; Harrison Ford Montevideo, Uruguay.
(1842* k actor, Cheech TODAY’S FACT:
Mann (1946- k actor/ Presidents Washington,
comedian; Cameron Adams, Jefferson and
Crowe (1957- k screen- Madison all proposed teat
'•viler. Congress pass some form
of mandatory military con- TODAY’S NUMBER:
scription or registration. 688,621 - approximate
but none of the proposals area, iu square miles, of
succeeded. the Northwest Territory
TODAY’S QUOTE: (later divided into Ohio,
"Pro football gave me a Indiana, Illinois, Mich-
good sense of perspective igan, Wisconsin and
to enter politics. I’d parts of Minnesota),
already been booed, TODAY’S MOON:
cheered, cut, sold, traded Between first quarter
and hung in effigy.* - Jack (July 8) and foil moon
Kemp (July 15).
We are sailing along...on Black Duck Bay...
la aa eMail exchange trite
Bev Bergeron, regarding focal
history columns I fomented
the fact that I've never done
the definitive Black Duck Bay
story.
"Don't know why I fed such
a strong attachment - almost
mystical - to that polluted
pond bat I love Black Dock
Bay," I told Bev. adding I
woaM welcome Ms input on
the subject
Bote of ns pew up a short
distance from tee bay. but after
tending Bev s response. I rval-
ue he and hts running buddies
knew tee waterfront better than
(did.
“We. tee Bulb-Eye Club of
America, were Ml over that
area," Bev responded. "...
Ditty Craig (now Rev. Engene
Cratgk Charles Smalliag.
Johnny Optyahek, Caaaie
Bergeron. Jackie Carpenter
and n few others joined at the
fan. "The hay was voy shal-
low. which created a problem
fer most boats tent traveled its
waters. People
who used sail-
boats te tee
[ bay had center
boards that
I moved up and
I down so that
they could get
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Several people
tofro bad piers teat
went out into
tee bay, bat most of them were
te dire need of repair. The
»*» one teal we all played on
was owned by Joe Huggins,
who owned tee lumber yard
and bad a borne on tee bay."
(Bex is referring to tee two-
stoty borne at tee end of
Hoggins Street, formerly
called Texas Street.)
Next to tee Huggins property
wns a forge, concrete box-
IroaiilrlaMM w tU ||ft ten.
wRIItRR^ Inav III* DMT*
two that carried sewage into
tee bay “Hopefully." Bev said.
The tides twice a day would
cany tee waste of Baytown out
of tee bay and into tee forger
Galveston Bay.... We swam in
these waters always wondering
just was around us.
"Some of us would ‘borrow’
a sailboard once in a while and
sail around the bay, always
returning tee boat to the same
location we found it. I became
a very proficient sailor without
my family ever knowing.
"The shores of the bay woe
covered with wild cat-tail
weeds that were great for mak-
ing 'punks' out of them to light
firecrackers for the 4th of July.
Abo, tee banks were covered
with old boats teat had seen
better days and were felling
apart. We kids would play
around these boats and tell sto-
ries of pirates leaving them
there with hidden treasures.
About the only thing teat they
hid was hundreds of wafer
moccasins. As crazy kids
would do, we killed scores of
team.
"Our ventures up and down
tee shores earned us around to
one of tee fer ends that we
called The Peninsula. It wi
foe land part that separated fo
bay from foe Houston Shi
Channel..,. On foe other sid
of foe bay was an area that w
loved to play in most. I
included an area we called Re
Hill. On foe extreme edge 0
foe area was whore foe watc
left foe Black Duck Bay an
rushed into the ship chanm
that led into the Galvestoi
Bay."
In a clump of trees and bushe
Bev and his friends thought foe;
had discovered foe remains of i
fort bin learned later it had bee
a children's orphanage. "Up 01
foe hill a good 300 yards away it
thick underbrush, we fount
gravesites of foe ‘pirates.’ Yes
they were foe graves of the chil
dren who died in foe orphanage.’
(Bev is describing the BaylaiK
Orphanage. I knew this arm wel
as a GW Scout day camper anc
as a collector of pinccones fo
Christinas decorations. Yean
later this was where foe Johr
Wayne film, "The Hcllfighters,’
was filmed.)
Bev recalled the hurricane that
hit Baytown in 1943 with virtu-
ally no warning.
“The war was on, so they did
not want to tip any enemy ships
to storms. We were in foe eye.
When the canter went over us -
it was calm. We all ran down to
foe bay to seat an empty bay -
no water. In a few minutes of
viewing, the wind started to pick
up again and we watched the
water start to return to foe bay.
“We went home until foe
storm had passed. I remember
mother driving up around to see
the bay and the water was up
over foe 15-foot banks and onto
the road. Today those banks
have dropped way down as has
foe entire area."
(A professional entertainer,
magician and author in
Orlando, Fla., Bev is closer
now to foe Atlantic Ocean and
Gulf of Mexico than Black
Duck Bay.)
Wanda Orion is a retired man-
aging editor of The Sun.
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Gray, Janie. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 136, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 13, 2011, newspaper, July 13, 2011; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1029296/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.