The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 13, 2001 Page: 3 of 24
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before he was to depart for combat
duty, he was in a shelter on bivouac.
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girls brought lunches, and the boys
bid on them, each boy hopefully win-
ning an opportunity to eat lunch with
the girl whose lunch he had won.
Morris had lunch that day with
Dorothy Ray, but he swears she was-
n't the girl he was after; it was her
lunch.
Dorothy Ray had told Morris in
advance she packed ham, lettuce and
tomato sandwiches, his favorites.
"We used to ride our bikes down-
town to the picture show," he said.
"I'd run the garbage, dump for bot-
tles. A man who made ant syrup, a
poison, would buy 'em from us. We
dug for scrap iron too. “
"I'd Just like to find those kids that
were kids with me," he said.
Bishop Jr. urges anyone who may
know some of the children in his pic-
ture to cal) him at 886-2226 or write
him at 715 Sherrill, Orange, TX
77630.
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Joy Itylor
Acres. It helps her "keep in
shape” she said.
"My brother and his friends
started a Cajun Band." Joy said.
"It's Aaron Chesson and the
Triangle Ramblers. I went out
to Larry's and started dancing
"I ran for Jr. Cajun Queen and when they played there and just
didn't get it," Joy said, "But
Nov. 4, 2000.1 ran for Senior
Queen dnd I won."
Taylor accompanies
Morris Bishop Jr. discovered this photo of an unfinished destroyer
being side launched Jan. 25, 1944, In a former Consolidated Steel
office. Bishop said the boxes were going to be thrown out when he
found them In the early 1950s, and ho kept the negatives for about
50 years. Bishop said the destroyers would be launched before they
were completed, and construction crows would finish the vessel
while It was afloat.
Orleck opens tours
as the shipboard operating room complete with
special overhead lighting used by surgeons when
the ship was serving on active duty. On a table
that ordinarily served for meals, Depwe per-
formed the "emergency appendectomy" neces-
sary to save his young volunteer's life.
Invited to an awards ceremony at West
Orange-Stark Intermediate School a week after
the field trips, Depwe discovered that his living
history lesson had left an impression when
Principal Wayne McCamey presented Depwe
with a plaque while the children gave him a
standing ovation.
Monday, volunteer marine electrician Red
Bellair acted as docent (o a group of pre-school-
ers, ages 4 and 5, who came to see the fabled
"Gray Ghost of the Vietnam Coast."
Bellair told his young charges about the heli-
copter deck and the gun turret, the kitchen and
the sleeping quarters.
"They asked pretty intelligent questions, too,"
Historical photos of Orange WWII effort found
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Most people think of Cajun
Queens as dark-haired, bright-
eyed and mysterious. Joy
Taylor is blonde, 5'4" tall, 125
pounds with eyes the green of
the Atlantic Ocean, but the
Cajun French Music
Association Pageant named her
Cajun Queen, and she is every
inch a queen in their eyes.
On her birthday, Sept. 23, the
15-year-old daughter of Mickey
and Sheryl Taylor and grand-
daughter of Joy and Dalton
Woodard, all of Bridge City,
will be headed for the National
Finals at the' Northeast
Community Center in Eunice,
La., representing the Golden
Triangle area.
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ing spent almost a year in the Army
but never seeing combat, but pic-
tures he discovered only a few yean
after the war reveals how instru-
mental the Orange shipyards were
in those early war efforts.
After the war. Bishop returned to
the shipyard where he had been not cover his 6 foot 4 inch frame,
working before going into the
Army. He spent 25 years there start-
ing with Consolidated Steel before
his one-year Army tour, and then
for U.S. Steel after the Army. Later
the company became American
Bridge, he said.
He worked his way to a supervi-
sor position and found old boxes in
an office at the yard sometime in
the 1950s. The pictures brought
back memories of those war years
when he found negatives of
destroyers being launched for the
war effort.
The boxes were to be thrown
away, he said, but today he is glad
he retrieved them for their historical
significance.
and he acquired double pneumonia.
The Army shipped him to a hos-
pital while his comrades shipped
out. He still recalls being told that
his fellow soldiers were all killed
by suicide Japanese planes.
"The planes would just fly right
toward the light when it spotted
them," he said noting that he never
knew the exact location where his
unit deployed. He only assumes
now his friends died on an island in
the South Pacific.
"I've had nerve damage that even-
tually got me out of the service," he
said. "Since then, I've had several
heart surgeries, and they haven't
killed me yet. I'm still going."
lowed them around."
The last pageant was a rough
one for her, she said. She was
In the Bridge City High hungry, so when the time came
School band, she plays bass for the girls to talk during the
clarinet and clarinet. Taylor has pageant, all she could think or
been a member of the band for talk about was food. She was
eight years serve in both the
concert and marching bands.
She also plays tennis, and loves
to bake. She spends most of her
spare time at the fire station
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running against senior girls, so .
it was particularly hard, she
said.
Sponsors for the Cajun
Queen to go to the Nationals are
where her brother, Joshua Mary and Bobby Derise of
Taylor, 17, senior at BCHS, is a
volunteer fireman. But her
favorite pasttime, she said, is
going to Larry's French Market
in Groves every week to dance
and tank up on some good
Cajun food. She started Cajun
dancing at the market.
She also dances at the family
oriented Roadair Club in Port
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haven't stopped. It's what I do
as talent in my pageants. Aaron
is not just my brother's best
Taylor accompanies her friend, he's like another big
chapter of the association often brother to me. They've even
to festivals and nursing homes played in Austin and I've fol-
where she dances and entertains
audiences. Her chapter is one of
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he said.
Members of the Southeast Texas War
Memorial Association will participate as Orange
County hosts the American Veterans Thiveling
Tribute, which includes a replica of the Vietnam
War Memorial, this week at the county airport.
They'll offer copies of an ode to fallen soldiers
written by Orange resident Linda Hanks. Visitors
may use the document to obtain rubbings names
included on "The Wall^gnd the association will
laminate it for a memento. Proceeds of the sale of
the memoriam will help fund the Orleck restora-
tion.
With $300,000 worth of labor already done,
Depwe said volunteers continue their work on
the ship and aim to put a new coat of paint on her
hull by summer's end. *
To contact i.the association, e-mail .
orleck@pnx.com or visit the web site at ussor-
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Local teen named Cajun Queen
Groves, but she is looking for
more. Expenses for costumes,
travel expenses and food get
pretty high, she said.
Anyone wanting to con-
tribute or serve as a sponsor is
asked to call her parents at 735-
4304.
"1 have loved doing this," the
teen Queen said. "It would be
great just to get to be at
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