The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1984 Page: 4 of 24
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FEB. 24,1944
Len Edgar, navigator in the
U.S. Air Force in England, is pro-
moted to captain. A graduate of
Robert E. Lee High School, he
worked at Humble’s Baytown
Refinery before entering the ser-
vice.
Lynn O’Hagan of the Lee Col-
lege faculty is serving as coordi-
nator for concert pianist Egon
Petri’s two-day visit. He will pre-
sent a concert here tonight.
Pvt. M.A. Hulme, son of Mr.
and Mrs. W.T. Hulme, is serving
with an ordnance unit in England,
inner. REL student, he worked
Baysftore Bus Lines before f
entering the service.
Ace Shepherd is feted with a
party on his 10th birthday by his
mother, Mrs. A.E. Shepherd.
FEB. 24,1954
A restraining order temporari-
ly banning all oil drilling in
"Wynnewood Addition has been ex-
tended until all property owners
in the addition can be made par-
ties to the suit. Shannon Morris is
the attorney for Dallas Holmes,
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The newly elected democratic government of Nigeria,,
under pressure to repay its foreign debts, fell to a military
coup on New Year’s Day. It was a blow to those who
believed Nigeria was Africa’s greatest hope.
In other African countries, native economies disrupted
by European colonialism have been disrupted even more
dangerously by independence. There is a flight from the
countryside to the cities. Food production is falling, and
Africans are depending upon imports to stave off hunger.
The incessant increase in population has meant a steady
decline in per capita income. Socialism is failing to im-
prove the lot of the people in those African countries in
which it is being tried. Tribalism threatens the stability of
regimes built without true nationhood onJboundaries dic-
tated by European empires.
An extraordinary food crisis — read that “famine” — is
reported in at least 22 African countries this year.
Drought is blamed for the poor harvests, but that is only
one factor. Other factors include official mismanagement
and corruption. _
The United States, as the world’s big giver of emergen-
cy food aid, is gearing up to give more than a quarter
million tons of food, $100 million worth, and even more tagon is stuck with another high
will undoubtedly be needed. There is a limit to the amount priced lemon: the Navy’s fa-18
of help that the pipeline can handle, even if there were no fighter plane,
limit to our generosity. Already Africa receives $20 per
capita in foreign aid, more than any other region in the suspects to share the blame for
v ° J ° this multi-billion-dollar boondog-
gle: brass hats who kept adding
Undoubtedly, there was famine and starvation on the „n too many expensive extras,
African continent for centuries before the arrival of the bureaucrats who have a profes-
first European colonists. But the effect of colonialism, sionai stake in continuing the
followed by the collapse of colonialism, has been to make half-baked project, and influen-
tial members of Congress who
want lucrative Defense contracts
for their home-state factories.
Of course, there is liberal guilt in the minds of many "Navy Secretary John Lehman
Europeans and the pangs of conscience are shared by has repeatedly recommended
some Americans. But more foreign aid in large quantities mercy killin8 the FA-1*, but
is not the answer. It only postpones the day of reckoning ttTSov’S’
and delays the fundamental changes that will have to be priced weapon has built up over
made. “* the past six years. So the spen-
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Navy's Hornet Fighter Plane
Ought To Be Named 'Turkey'
Smith at the controls, broadcast
an alert and called for volunteers.
Several men broke out their the resident who filed the petition
canoes and evacuated more than to obtain the restraining order.
City officials continue to study
Navy test pilots Were even
more critical in later evaluations.
Another confidential report in
November said starkly: “FA-18 is
not operationally suitable. Provi- 100 homes in the' dead of night in
sionai approval for service use is temperatures 20 degrees below the problem of drainage on
not recommended.” zero. The evacuees were quickly Minnesota, commonly called
Two serious deficiencies are lodged in the homes of neighbors “Lake Minnesota during heavy
and relatives. A few checked into rains,
a local motel, which lowered its
rates to $5 for the night to cover
bare expenses.
After the last person was safely munity Chest.
rescued from the icy waters, two________James Ellis, president of the
volunteers, Curt Rosin and Mike REL 1944 class, tells plans for a
Blodgett, were about to leave the class reunion,
flooded area. Then in the Nancy Cauldfield is chairman
distance, they heard the plaintive of arrangements for a formal
barking of a dog. They probed the dance to be held by the REL
darkness with their flashlights, Future Nurses Club,
and a beam caught the head of a
German shepherd poking above
the ice in a flooded field that had Mike Gillette, Ann Leesemann
and Connie Thomas are pictured
WASHINGTON - The Pen-
You can round up the usual
Third World.
maintenance and repair. Internal
Navy records show that from July
1981 through June 1982 each
Hornet required seven man-hours
to get the plane back in shape.
Those were Navy tests. When the
contractor, General Electric, ran
tests on the engines, it reported
only a fraction of the repair time.
During a six-month period en-
ding last May, the Hornet was
“fully mission capable,” that is,
able to perform all its combat
functions, only 42.6 percent of the
time. The percentage fell steadily
over the next five months, and
during the first week in
November, the Hornet was fully
mission capable only one-third of
the time.
The Hornet has other fatal
flaws. It uses too much fuel to be a
good attack plane. To make it
back to base, it must climb to
fuel-conserving high altitude im-
mediately after attacking its
target, making it vulnerable to
enemy detection and counterat-
tack.
School Board President A.R.
Stark is elected chairman of the
Council of Members of the Com-
the African people less self-sufficient and greatly to in-
crease their suffering.---——-——--—
FEB. 24,1964
REL students Kathy Leach,
Private investment in the development of African ding goes on.
resources has been resented as a perpetuation of col- Thempl®ne ® nanl® Is “Horn®f”
onialism. But, if the African countries want to participate, tf£
in the industrial revolution, they have more to gam by en- Ho„et has proved capable of
couraging the private sector than by stifling their stinging is the taxpayer. The fa-
economies with socialist dogma.
What is needed is a shakeout, not a bail-out.
We must stand ready to give emergency aid. Public
health and education assistance, the encouragement of
appropriate technology, Peace Corps help on small-scale
projects — these are the directions we should take.
Africa cannot use and we should not provide huge sums more costly fighters. But by the
for ambitious projects to build an infrastructure for an in- tiine its mission was expanded
mistrial snriptv on thp Wpstern mnripl Whprp snrh invpst- and a11 the fancy doodads loaded 11 has vitually no all-weather
austnai society on tne western moaei. wneresucn invest it became the m0st expensive capability, even though a likely . ......
rnents are economically justified, there will be private tactical aircraft ever made: The area of combat is the stormy for these vignettes of Americana days left in the year,
money available to finance them. current price tag is about $30 North Atlantic off Norway. and to report them to me at P.O. Today s Highlight in History:
We must be prepared to'let the Africans decide their million per plane. And the Navy. Taking all this into considers- Box 2300, Washington, D.C. 20013. _ 18®°- the' House of
own future. If they wish to return to a village culture of 84 »' ““ 11,15 intelligence digest: The *ew Jeheson - ihe only time
small farmers, that IS their choice We cannot require ^stupidest mistake ol all was leg the next year, examine the Israelis are preparing to pell J"’5 been done to a prest-
them to follow our democratic, capitalistic model. If they combining two incompatible pur* possibility of developing a new at- hack their forces to stronger e!~' ,
wish to do SO and seek our aid, it should be given prudent- poses in one plane. The FA-18 was tack aircraft for procurement in defensive positions in southern
designed strictly as a fighter the 1990s.” In other words, the Lebanon. But they’ll leave behind ln V71’ Jaine* ,0tls of
plane to shoot down enemy air- Navy admits the Hornet is a dud. Lebanese guerrilla units, which Massachusetts coined the saying
craft and protect the Navy’s they’re now arming and training, . a man s home is his castle ’ as
ships. Then it was given the se- HUMAN SIDE of the news: Not - West German Chancellor h« protested the English system
cond role of its FA designation: far from the Continental Divide, Helmut Kohl has decided to go 0 sea^,ai~se™®\
Many people in Baytown are not aware of the fact the attacking enemy targets on land the small town of Salmon, Idaho, ahead with the sale of arms to ln 19W> the United States ac-
Citv has an Official tree It is the CraDe mvrtle and sea. , rises out of the mountain slopes. Saudi Arabia. When a delegation quirea a naval station at Guan-
Some people call it the redbud tree. By whatever name, ™e result is that the plane does It is a semi-isolated, unto-itseif K In^o^the Nazi Party was
it is a beautiful tree and, because of its official state spU,-personality S,XSmo?a“mtu‘S organ,red'mGe™™, J
here, deserving Of special attention. shortcomings were pointed out rivers. he assured the delegation. And in 1972, the Supreme Court
Lee College Horticultural Department is going to give early, in an “initial operation In the winter, the temperatures - There was concern in declared unconstitutional vagran-
the crape myrtle such attention Feb. 27 when it sponsors a evaluation” dated June 16, 1981, often plunge below zero and ice Washington over the election of cy lawa ,at Puni®hed people for
two-hour seminar on the general care and maintenance Of and stamped “Confidential.” The flows fom on the rivers. Last Felipe Gonzales, a confirmed a“aidi as 03 ing and
nG«tmrn>u yyffiy.ioi appraisal expressed “serious con- month the floating chunks caused socialist, as premier of Spain. But avowing worn,
uaytown S OIIiCWI tree. . cem” over the Hornet’s fighter an ice jam that backed up waters there’s no cause to worry. He has . Ten years ago: Leaders of 30
The seminar will be held from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. in the performance, including close air and flooded the town. antagonized the Kremlin by Islamic nations wound up a
college’s West Texas Building, Room 121. That’s the Old support and interdiction of enemy But this was just a passing in- declaring, “I would rather die on me®Hng in Lahore, Pakistan with
Sears Building on Texas Avenue. planes. As for its attack functions, convenience for the hardy in- a subway iq New York City than agreement to aid developing
General background on the tree, new varieties, plan- “many limitations to air-to- habitants who keep the tools of live in Moscow.” T™ 2
ground weapon employment were survival near at hand. The local jqckAndmon ^column*/or umied a y® ag°- decamp
identified.” radio station, with owner Dale J. Fwiuresyndicate uavid negotiations were reported
to be at an intensive stage, and
the delegates from the United
States, Egypt and Israel were
said to be determined to reach a
solution.
One year ago: The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closed above
the 1,100 mark for the first time,
amid expectations of lower in-
terest rates and confidence that
the recession was ending.
Today’s Birthdays: Actor Abe
Vigoda is 63 years old. And actor
James Farentino is 46.
Thought for Today: “There are
two kinds of people who blow
through life like a breeze. One
kind is gossipers and the other
frozen solid.
Rosin and Blodgett skidded on the front page as they discuss
their canoe over the ice. They petitions backing a new commu-
found the dog frozen into it, with nity center. They represent REL
just its head and paw above the clubs in favor of the project,
surface. Painstakingly, they chip- Services are held today for Josh
ped away and lifted the 150-pound Wells, 66. He was one of the first
animal into the canoe. They haul- employees to be hired at Hum-
ed it to a fire station where the We’s Baytown Refinery.
18’s serious shortcomings in both
concept and execution are spelled
out in a series of classified and in-
ternal Navy reports seen by my
associate Donald Goldberg.
The plane was originally in-
tended as a cheap alternative to
volunteers were thawing out.
Footnote: The story of America
unfolds every day not only in the
big events that make headlines
but in the small incidents that go
unheralded. I invite the millions
who follow this column to watch 55th day of 1984. There are 311
Today In History
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Today is Friday, Feb. 24th, the
ly, cautiously and conservatively.
The Tree Of Baytown
ting, pruning, feeding, pest and disease problems will be
discussed, and a demonstration with pruning equipment
and techniques will be included.
If you don’t know much about how tc take care of
Baytown’s official tree, this sounds like a good opportuni-
ty to find out. T
The Baytown Sun hopes attention will continue to be
paid to the crape myrtle and that one day it will become
as well-identified with Baytown’s landscape as the
* oleanders are with Galveston.
Tef ushopeits fame will bloom all throughout the city.
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Brown, Leon. The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 100, Ed. 1 Friday, February 24, 1984, newspaper, February 24, 1984; Baytown, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1154078/m1/4/?q=1966+yearbook+north+texas+state+university: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sterling Municipal Library.