The Baytown Sun (Baytown, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 353, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 21, 2004 Page: 2 of 26
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Community calendar
information, call 281-426-7561.
Weather watch
I at 281-420-5300.
FSDO/FAA. For more information, con-
tact squadron commander Lt. Col. Don
Fisher at 281-383-1443.
Prayer vigil — Westminster
Presbyterian Church, 7600 Bayway
Drive, invites the community to partici-
pate in a prayer vigil anytime from
4 to 9 p.m. to pray for the success of
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vice Nov. 23 at Memorial Baptist Church.
Participants are also encouraged to pray
for their own person concerns, for prob-
lems facing the community and for the
men and women serving in armed
forces around the world. For more infor-
mation, call 281-424-5314.
Optimist club — The Baytown
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Today
Prayer vigil — Westminster
Presbyterian Church, 7600 Bayway
Drive, invites the community to partici-
pate in a prayer vigil anytime from
4 to 9 p.m. to pray for the success of
the community Thanksgiving worship ser- ____________
vice Nov. 23 at Memorial Baptist Church. tpe community Thanksgiving worship
Participants are also encouraged to pray
for their own person concerns, for prob-
lems facing the community and for the
men and women serving in armed
forces around the world. For more
information, call 281-424-5314.
Art league — The Art League of
Baytown meets at 2 p.m. at its regular _r__________
location, the Baytown Community Center, optimist Club meets at 7 p.m. every
Monday at their clubhouse, 1724
Market St. This week is the club’s
Thanksgiving meeting. The meal is pot
luck. For more information, contact Joe
Donnelly at 281-427-3594.
Shrine meeting — The Baytown
Shrine Club meets at 7 p.m. for a stated
meeting and election of officers. For
more information, call Elton Rodgers at
281-422-2747.
Singles outreach — All singles includ-
ing those widowed and divorced are invit-
ed to attend a singles outreach service
at 6 p.m. the second and fourth
Mondays of every month. Meetings are
at Triumph Hospital, 2610 N. Alexander.
Enter through the emergency room
entrance. For more information, call
281422-0247 or 281-385-2492.
Support group — The Compassionate
Friends, a support group for bereaved
parents and grandparents, meets from
7 to 9 p.m. the fourth Monday of every
month at Remington Park, 901 Baker
Road, on the second floor. Call Lois
Walstead at 281424-5760.
Seniors — Seniors at the Highlands
Community Center can learn intermedi-
ate line dancing at 8:30 a.m. and
Baytown has been working
with Union Pacific Railroad to
upgrade and repair a number
I of grade crossings in
Baytown. As a result, Union
Pacific Railroad has asked
the city to close a portion of
i Ward Road to allow repairs to
the grade crossing Monday.
Ward Road, between Fifth
Street and Houston Street,
will be closed at 8 a.m.
Monday.
City officials said the work
should be completed by
midafternoon.
“The public is encouraged
to plan alternate routes of
travel on Monday,” said Mike
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Goodfellows drive
still needs donations
The 73rd annual Goodfellows
drive sponsored by The Baytown
Sun and enhanced greatly by the
Baytown Junior Forum, will pro-
vide gifts to needy children — I
ages 2 to 12 — on Christmas
morning.
Last year, gift bags containing
toys for about 3,000 children
were distributed by Baytown area
Goodfellows, who donated more
than $25,000 to the drive.
But because the number of
children in need has increased,
this year’s goal is $35,000.
Those wanting help from
Goodfellows need a Texas-issued
identification card along with their
children’s Social Security card or
birth certificate. They also need
proof of Medicaid, WIC, CHIPS or
a letter from school saying they
receive free lunches.
The Goodfellows program in s
Baytown was founded in 1931 by
Bob Matherne, who was then
owner and publisher of The Sun.
Anyone who wants to contribute
can write checks to: Goodfellows,
P.O. Box 90, Baytown, Texas
77522, or delivered to The
Baytown Sun newspaper office on
1301 Memorial Drive. Money will
be collected from now until
Christmas.
Family registration with
Goodfellows continues from 9
a.m. to 2 p.m. Nov. 30 , and
from 4 to 8 p.m. Dec. 9. Toy dis-
tribution will be at the community
center on Dec. 16 and 17.
For more information, leave a
message on the Goodfellow hot-
line at 281-425-8020.
in Baytown Little Theater’s production of “Godspell." Set in an abandoned urban play- I Pacific representative, can be
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go on sale Nov. 29. For more information or reservations, call 281-424-761,7 or visit the the^Public Works^Department
theater’s Web site at www.baytownlittletheater.org.
2407 Market St. The meeting is in the
senior room. Robin Scales, will demon-
strate her gourd art. For more informa-
tion, contact Priscilla Hopkins at
281424-2743.
Thanksgiving service — Antioch
Missionary Baptist Church, 2502 Harris
St., in Baytown will have a Thanksgiving
service at 11 a.m. The theme is
“Bountiful Blessings — the First Fruits,
Tithing and Thanksgiving.” For more
information, call 2814266565.
Hymn Singing — Members of all
faiths are invited to an “old-fashioned
hymn singing and preaching” at 10 a.m.
and 6 p.m. every Sunday in the
Conference Room of the Hampton Inn,
7211 Garth Road at Interstate 10. For
more information, contact W. F.
McCorkle at 281-422-7949.
Bingo — VFW Post 912, 8204 N.
Main, has bingo at 2 p.m. Sundays.
Doors open at 12:30 p.m. There is a
non-smoking area. Fbr more information,
call 281421-1257.
Monday
Aviation safety — The CAP Liberty
Senior Squadron is hosting an FAA
Aviation Safety meeting from 7 to 9 p.m. advanced line dancing at 9:30 a.m.
at the Community Building, 7711 Game day starts at 12:30 p.m. The
Highway 146, in Baytown. The topic is community center is at 604 Highlands
“New Sports Pilot Rules” and will be pre- Woods Drive in Highlands. Fbr more
sented by Paul Downs with the Houston information, call 281-426-7561.
See ORTON on Page 3A
Another ferry
remembered
Wanda
Orton
part of the state fleet in 1939.
The first Morgan’s Point ferry-
boat was named in honor of
Charles D. Massey of Cedar Bayou,
who served on the Harris County
Commissioners Court for Precinct
2. Massey deserved the honor. He
had worked diligently for construc-
tion of the ferry and causeway.
The reported cost of the cause-
way, a paved road on Hog Island,
ferry slips and ferry was $222,466.
(Can you imagine what all that
would cost today?)
When it was all was done and the
first vehicles traveled over the
causeway and rolled onto the
Charles D. Massey feny, a free bar-
becue was held. This big celebra-
tion lasted two days and was cen-
tered near the causeway entrance. I
hadn’t been bom yet but my parents
were there, and I bet a number of
longtime area residents remember
the festive occasion.
You know how you tend not to
appreciate some things until they
are gone? That’s how many of us
. eventually came to feel about the
Morgan’s Point ferry, after it no
longer existed.
Oh, how I used to gripe about
having to wait in a long line on Hog
Island to board the ferry, and I
looked forward to the cure-all —
the opening of the Baytown-La
Porte Tunnel. There would be no
more waiting, no more traffic con-
gestion. I thought the tunnel would
solve all our problems in crossing
the channel.
Well, it didn’t. Eventually the
lines at the tunnel became longer
and more frustrating than those at
the Morgan’s Point ferry landing '
ever were.
Looking back, I realized it was
more fun waiting in line at the
ferry.
I’d get out of my cars, throw
rocks in the water and visit with,
friends in other cars. And if I was
hungry, I could always munch out
on delicious, homemade hot
tamales. Freshly made, perfectly
seasoned, the tamales were
wrapped in newspaper and peddled
by a man who went from car to car.
Since then, I’ve compared all
tamales to the Morgan’s Point ferry
line tamales and not any have mea-
sured up.
As I waited for the ferry, I also
could buy a newspaper. The paper
boys were out there, hawking,
“Extra, extra, read all about it!” The
extra editions arrived hot off the
press from the old daily newspaper,
the Houston Press.
In last week’s column about
growing up in “ferry land,” 1 failed
to mention the Morgan’s Point ferry
and, certainly, 1 rode that one as
often as the Lynchburg ferry.
History lesson for young folks
and newcomers to the area:
The Morgan’s Point ferry sailed
the low seas between Hog Island
and — you guessed it — Morgan’s
Point. A narrow causeway connect-
ed Hog Island with the mainland of
Baytown.
Drive down Lee Drive to the
shoreline of Tabbs Bay and look
south. There’s little old Hog Island,
or what’s left of it. Subsidence
through the years has taken a toll
on this once-popular beach.
When the Morgan’s Point ferry
first sailed in 1933, it was the new
kid on the channel. Upstream, the
Lynchburg ferry service had been
in operation since 1822. Initially
operated by Harris County, the
Morgan’s Point ferryboats became
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Rock of our salvation. Let us
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song.
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Sun to correct errors in a timely
manner. Corrections and clarifi-
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space. To inquire, readers should
call Sun managing editor David
Bloom, at 281-425-8016 or
david.bloom@baytownsun.com.
An editorial on Page 4A in
Friday’s edition should have stat-
ed that Lisa Urban is a former
campaign treasurer for Mayor
Calvin Mundinger.
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Georgia law enfor
investigating a man wil
ties as a possible suspe
in the gruesome mun
people last week that
family of three adults
and their housekeeper.
Officials with the
Bureau of Investig
tightlipped about detai
ble suspects, but accc
published news repi
Atlanta Journal-Co
police are investigati
who stole a truck fre
auto dealership and h.
driver’s license with ■
address.
The man provide
Motors in Moultrii
license with the n
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truck. The man neve
with the truck and
County Sheriff’s D
Chief Investigator I
confirmed with the
Constitution they si
theft in relation to the
Owners with Merc
declined to commei
theft, at the instructior
but said they have not
the truck, and the man
it verbally gave a diffe
than what was on tl
license.
Suber also decline
firm the investigation
with the Baytown
license, and Ronnie ’
with the Georgia I
Investigation declined
the case.
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the Moultrie Police C
details the theft and
man claiming to be
arrived at the dealei
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license plate. Celedc
wanted in Woodstocl
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