The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 270, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 10, 1996 Page: 4 of 12
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A PAT ON THE BACK...
... to Lee High School student LaRhonda Smith, who was one of 200
students selected to attend Lamar University’s Seventh Annual Texas
Governor's Honors Program this summer. I/Vay to go!
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The Baytown Sun is published Monday through Friday and Sunday at
1301 Memorial Drive in Baytown.
Gaiy Dobbs David EkJridge
Managing Editor
Editor and Publisher
Reading; A precious
gift for our children
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f Baytown and other communities are to address the problem of illiteracy,
there’s no better place to start than with our children. Here are five sugges-
tions for encouraging youngsters to turn off the television and pick 15) a
book:
1. Encourage your child to keep a reading log. Record the author, the name of
the book and leave space for comments.
2. Set aside time for the entire family to read together. Make sure you have a
variety of books, magazines and newspapers available — a teen who isn’t inter-
ested in a novel might be happy to curl up with the sports section.
3. Read aloud with your child every day.
4. Encourage gifts of wnling. If your child is stuck for what to give a favorite
aunt or grandparent, encourage your youngster to write a poem or letter.
5. When you know a popular movie is based on a book, encourage your child
to read the book in addition to watching the film or video. Talk about the differ-
ences in pacing, plot and characterization.
If you would like more information about the joys of reading—and how to
share that magic with others, please join us Friday for the first annual Baytown
Literacy Clinic.
The clinic, sponsored by The Baytown Sun and Sterling Municipal Library as
part of a celebration of National Literacy Week, is designed to intmHpre volun-
teers to the world of tutoring and teaching.
Interested volunteers can attend one of two hour-long sessions, with the first
starting at 11:30 a.m. and the second at 12:30 p.m. at Sterling Municipal
Library. Lunch and refreshments will be served. For more information, call Jane
Brody at 427-7331.
Democrats discover the family
Today in hfetmy
Today is Tuesday, Sept. 10, the 254th day of 1996. There are 112 days left in
the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Sept. 10,1813, Oliver H. Ferry sent the message, “We have met the
enemy, and they are ours,” after an American naval force defeated the British in
the Battle ofLake Erie in the War of 1812.
On this date:
In 1608, John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in
Virginia.
In 1846,150 years ago, Elias Howe of Spencer, Mass., received a patent for
his sewing machine.
In 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000
soldiers who’d served in the U.S. 1st Division during World War I.
In 1939, Canada declared war on Germany.
In 1945, Vidkun Quisling was sentenced to death in Norway for collaborating
with the Nazis.
In 1948, Mildred Gillars, accused of being Nazi wartime radio broadcaster
Axis Sally, was indicted in Washington D.C. for treason.
Today’s Birthdays: Actress % Wray is 89. Movie director Robert Wise is 82.
Golfer Arnold Palmer is 67. Retired CBS newsman Charles Kuralt is 62. Actor
Greg Mullavey is 57. Jazz vibraphonist Roy Ayers is 56. Singer Danny Hutton
(Three Dog Night) is 54. Singer Jose Feliciano is 51. Actress Judy Geeson is 48.
Rock musician Joe Perry (Aerosmith) is 46. Actress Any Irving is 43. Director
Chris Columbus (“Home Alone”) is 38. Actor Colin Firth is 36. Rock singer-
musician David Lowery (Cracker) is 36. Rock musician Robin Goodridge
(Bush) is 30. Rapper Big Daddy Kane is 28.
— The Associated Press
One of our better TV comedians has
suggested that President Clinton’s whole
campaign strategy this year maybe based
on a ghastly misunderstanding.
You will recall that Sherry Rowlands,
the girlfriend of Mr. Clinton’s “family
values” guru Dick Morris says that, when
the president phoned during their trysts at
Washington’s Jefferson Hotel, Morris
would hold the phone between them so
she too could hear the president talking.
According to the comic’s theory, when
Morris said, “Turn to the right,” he was
talking to Sherry, not to Mr. Clinton.
Misunderstanding or not, it is indis-
putable that President Clinton has
swerved sharply to the right, prompting
several commentators to list die Democ-
ratic Party itself as one of the “major
losers” at the Democratic convention.
The Democrats have known for years
that the Republican Party has a better
reputation for protecting “family values”
than they do.
This is a major disadvantage, and the
president has done (presumably under the
guidance of Mr. Morris) a brilliant job of
at least sounding like an advocate of
“family values.”
For months Mr. Clinton has been
unveiling one small — a critic might say
trivial — idea after another to help the
American family. On his train trip
through Ohio and Michigan en route to
Chicago, he dribbled out one a day, and
in his lengthy acceptance speech in
Chicago, he released such a flood of
them that they seemed almost to outnum-
ber the balloons descending from the
ceiling.
Typical of the rest was Mr. Clinton’s
proposal for “flexible time,” under which
a worker could demand time off to attend
PTA meetings. One would be hard put to
find a clause in the Constitution making
such a law the business of the federal
government, but who dares challenge the
deep devotion to “family values” implied
by such a proposal?
The paralyzed movie actor Christopher
Reeve was wheeled onstage to suggest a
subtly different interpretation of “family
values” — one with rather more possibil-
ities from the traditional Democratic
point of view. According to Mr. Reeve,
“It means that we’re all family... (and)
we have to recognize that many members
of our family are hurting.” How many
billions of dollars in governmental hand-
outs do you suppose that gauzy notion
could be used to justify?
But the highest prize for family
exploitation at Chicago — the trophy for
hypocrisy of truly Himalayan dimensions
— went by common consent to Vice
President A1 Gore. Aware that personal
accounts of grief are all the rage these
days, he treated his listeners and viewers
to a lachrymose description of his sister’s
death from lung cancer in 1984, after
many years of smoking.
“I knelt by her bed and held her hand,”
he told America. “And in a very short
time her breathing became labored and
then she breathed her last breath.... And
that is why until I draw my last breath, I
will pour my heart and soul into the
cause of protecting our children from the
dangers of smoking.”
Four years later, however, in 1988, run-
ning for the Democratic presidential
nomination, Mr. Gore bragged to a North
Carolina audience that “Throughout most
of my life I’ve raised tobacco. I want you
to know that with my own hands, all of
my life, I put it in the plant beds and
transferred it. I’ve hoed it. I’ve chopped
it. I’ve shredded it, spiked it, put it in the
bam and stripped it and sold it.” Since
1984, moreover, he has accepted $14,640
in tobacco industry donations, and voted
against raising cigarette taxes.
Asked to explain the incongruity, all
Mr. Gore has been able to come up with
is, “It takes time to fully absorb the
lessons in life.”
One lesson he apparently hasn’t
absorbed yet is that there are limits to
what even the smoothest faker can get
away with.
William A. Rusher is a Distinguished
Fellow of the Claremont Institute for the
Study of Statesmanship and Political Phi-
losophy.
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Thought for today:
“The authentic and pure values, truth, beauty, and goodness, in the activity of a
human being are the result of one and the same act, a certain application of the
full attention to the object.”
— Paul Tdlich, American theologian (1886-1965).
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Bible verse:
The glory is departed from Israel: for the aric of God is taken.
—/ Samuel 4:22
U.S. Elected Officials
PRESIDENT
Bill Clinton (D-1996)
The White House
Washington, DC 20500
(202)456-1111
VICE PRESIDENT
A1 Gore (D-1996)
The White House — West Wing
Washington, DC 20500
(202)456-7045
SENATOR
Kay B. Hutchison (R-2000)
283 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
(202)224-5922
(713)653-3456
SENATOR
Phil Gramm (R-1996)
370 Russell Senate Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20510
(202)224-2934
(713)229-2766
DISTRICT 9 REPRESENTATIVE
Steve Stockman (R-1996)
417 Cannon House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-6565
(409) 838-0061
DISTRICT 25 REPRESENTATIVE
Ken Bentsen (D-1996)
128 Cannon House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515
(202) 225-7508
(713)229-2244
DISTRICT 29 REPRESENTATIVE
Gene Green (D-1994)
1024 Longworth House Office Bldg.
Washington, DC 20515
(202)225-1688
(713)923-9961
Texas Elected Officials
GOVERNOR
George W. Bush (R-1998)
State Capitol
P.O. Box 2136
Austin, TX 78768
1-800-252-9600
(512)463-2000
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR
Bob Bullock (D-1998)
State Capitol
Austin, TX 78711
(512)463-0001
ATTORNEY GENERAL
Dan Morales (D-1998)
COMPTROLLER OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
John Sharp (D-1998)
LAND COMMISSIONER
Garry Mauro (D-1998)
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Dobbs, Gary. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 270, Ed. 1 Tuesday, September 10, 1996, newspaper, September 10, 1996; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1104179/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.