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4 The Baytown Sun VlCWpO^tS
Tuesday
May 6, 2014
OUR VIEW
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
Cheers
& Jeers
Cheers and Jeers is a collection of quick hits of
praise and comments on local, state and nation-
al issues. Cheers and Jeers is published every
Tuesday.
Cheers
• To those who came together as a community on the
National Day of Prayer to pray for the nation, lead-
ers, our community, community leaders and all other
prayers said to better the community. An additional
cheer for Houston Methodist San Jacinto hospital for
hosting the event and to all participants and organizers.
• To Baytown Youth Fair participants, judges, orga-
nizers and family. Cheers to your efforts, preparation
and most importantly, learning. An additional cheer to
all who made it possible for Baytown youth to exhibit
their knowledge and the continuous support given.
• To our four teams advancing in the playoffs: Goose
Creek Memorial baseball, Crosby baseball and Barbers
Hill baseball and softball.
• To Baytown city dispatcher, Carol Sellers who
earned the 2014 Silent Hero Award. Our silent hero
went above and beyond for a young woman going
through a traumatic time. Sellers made sure this wom-
an received immediate help instead of pushing her call
to a different department to deal with the sensitive mat-
ter. Thank you Carol for setting such a great example
for this community.
• Another to Arbor Day organizers who adopted out
all 1,600 trees. Thank you for bettering this community
with your generosity!
Jeers
• This week’s jeer is addressed to the dismissed
charges against a pair of Baytown brothersinvolved in
the 2012 boating death of a 34-year-old Baytown man.
The boat’s driver got 10 years probation. The charge
against his brother was dropped. Chambers County
District Attorney Cheryl Swope Lieck said “I think
when there’s a dead body involved, I don’t think pro-
bation should be on the table.” We agree with her.
Cheers and Jeers is compiled by Baytown Sun
City Editor Christina Martinez. The Sun encourages
readers to submit their own cheers and jeers. Send
submissions to sunnews@baytownsun.com.
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Where to wr te your lawmakers
Governor
Building, Washington, D.C.,
Rick Perry (R)
20515; 202-225-1555
P.O. Box 12428 Austin, Texas
78711-2428; 512-463-2000
Texas Senate
U.S. Senate
Sylvia Garcia (D—Dist. 6)
P.O. Box 12068, Capitol
John Cornyn (R-Texas)
Station, Austin, TX 78711
517 Hart Senate Office Build-
512-463-0106
ing, Washington, D.C., 20510
5425 Poik Street, Suite 125,
202-224-2934
Houston TX 77023
Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
185 Dirksen Senate Office
713-923-7575
Texas House of
Building, Washington, D.C.,
Representatives
20510; 202-224-5922
Wayne Smith (R-Baytown)
U.S. House of Representatives
P.O. Box 2910 Austin, TX
78768; 512-463-0733
Steve Stockman (R-Texas, Dist.
909 Decker Drive, Suite 104,
36)
Baytown TX 77520; 832-556-
326 Cannon House Office
2002
Column brought back good memories
Thank you, Mrs. Wanda Orton, for capturing the life inspiring figure in the lives of those who knew him.
and legacy of the late Tamp Hardeway, my Sunday On behalf of the individuals who hold Tamp Harde-
school superintendent and teacher at Thompson Chap- way in memory, thank you, Mrs. Orton, for reminding
el Christian Methodist Episcopal Church in Baytown, us that Tamp did not struggle against the odds, but rath-
many years ago. er conquered the odds of independent living in spite ol
“Tamp’s Life Story Inspiring” in the April 30 edition of physical handicap.
The Sun brought back memories of Brother Hardeway, Bobbie Richardson
a devout and faithful Christian, who was and remains an Baytown
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There is an ad on TV that says
something like this: “Did you know
that at five o’clock many people
don’t know what they will have for
dinner?”
So what?
In my case, I hardly ever know
what I will have for lunch either. I
go to the pantry or the freezer to see
what I have. Not much, I discover.
If I’m in luck, I’ll have a frozen mi-
crowave dinner.
Or I fall back on my old standbys,
a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.
Food for one is a problem.
About once a week I cook stew,
peas, or beans.
Then I make cornbread. My corn-
bread is a treat by itself. It goes very
well with whatever else I cook. At
night I may even have cornbread
and milk. I used to laugh at old peo-
ple who like cornbread and milk. I
guess it grows on you.
Although I cook well enough, I
rarely do so.
Whenever I can find someone to
go with me, I eat out. I am glad that
Mont Belvieu now has several plac-
es available for lunch.
We get to those
places early. It
seems that work-
ers at the plants
in our city no lon-
ger take lunches
to work. Instead,
they fill up all
the eating places,
especially along
highway 146.
Even the eateries along Eagle
Drive get their share of workers at
noon. And out at Eagle Pointe, the
dining room is full at noon.
When I lived on the hill next door
to the Halls, they invited me for
lunch at least once a week. Frances
cooked for her family every day.
Those were the “good old days.”
Since I enjoy eating, I love the
pot-luck “dinners on the ground” we
sometimes have at church. I’m pull-
ing for more of those. There I may
contribute one or two items, and I
am able to eat all the best dishes of
my fellow members.
Everybody always tries to do their
best. For dessert, I pig out on sev-
eral kinds of pie, cake, or cookies.
I know who the best cooks are. If
not, I can consult the cookbook that
was put out at our 80th anniversary
celebration.
Our church gives older people an-
other advantage. We have been en-
joying a free meal once a month on
the second Tuesday.
A lovely lady cooks for what she
has begun calling her “elderberries.”
Sandra Langlinais now has Cheryl
Hughes for a helper and sometimes
Jackie Mulkey.
For entertainment Rusty Fuller
will lead us to sing hymns from an
old song book. Our voices have seen
better days, but we enjoy making a
joyful noise.
I won’t make any conflicting ap-
pointments on senior lunch day ... It
is too good to miss.
If I skip a few meals, it won’t hurt
me, but I haven’t lost my appetite
yet. Meanwhile, I’ll be sure to keep
peanut butter and jelly on hand.
Elizabeth Gill is a retired Barbers
Hill ISD English teacher and teach-
es Sunday School at First Baptist
Church in Mont Belvieu.
ELIZABETH
GILL
'Click It or Ticket’ campaign starts May 19
Motorists who don’t buckle up in compliance with
state seat belt laws face fines and court costs up to $200
as stepped up enforcement gets underway this month
during the Texas Department of Transportation’s 13th
annual “Click It or Ticket” campaign, May 19 to June 1.
“Seat belts save lives,” said John Barton, TxDOT
deputy executive director. “That’s a fact. Buckling up
will keep you from getting a ticket, and more important-
ly, it could save your life. Whether you’re the driver or a
passenger, everyone in the vehicle is required by law to
wear a seat belt for every trip. The cost of not using one
just isn’t worth it.”
The “Click It or Ticket” campaign is credited with
motivating millions of motorists to always use their seat
belts. Only 76 percent of Texans used seat belts when
the campaign began in 2002. Today, 9 out of 10 Texans
buckle up. The National Highway Traffic Safety esti-
mates that since its inception, the “Click It or Ticket”
campaign in Texas has resulted in 3,962 fewer traffic
fatalities while preventing 66,823 serious injuries and
saving more than $15 billion in related economic costs.
In 2013, there were 943 fatalities and 5,383 serious
injuries in Texas resulting from crashes in which driv-
ers or passengers were not wearing seat belts. Wearing
a seat belt increases the chances of surviving a seri-
ous crash by 45 percent. In pickup trucks, that number
jumps to 60 percent as those vehicles are more likely
than cars to roll over in a crash. In roll-over crashes,
seat belts help keep occupants from being ejected from
the vehicle.
Texas law requires everyone in a vehicle to be buck-
led up, including back seat passengers.
TODAY IN HISTORY
Today is Tuesday, May 6, the 126th day
of 2014. There are 239 days left in the
year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On May 6, 1954, medical student Rog-
er Bannister broke the four-minute mile
during a track meet in Oxford, England,
in 3:59.4.
On this date:
In 1863, the Civil War Battle of Chan-
cellorsville in Virginia ended with a Con-
federate victory over Union forces.
In 1935, the Works Progress Adminis-
tration began operating under an execu-
tive order signed by President Franklin D.
Roosevelt.
In 1937, the hydrogen-filled German
airship Hindenburg burned and crashed in
Lakehurst, N.J., killing 35 of the 97 peo-
ple on board and a Navy crewman on the
ground.
In 1942, during World War II some
15,000 Americans and Filipinos on Cor-
regidor surrendered to Japanese forces.
In 1962, in the first test of its kind, the
submerged submarine USS Ethan Allen
fired a Polaris missile armed with a nu-
clear warhead that detonated above the
Pacific Ocean.
In 1981, Yale architecture student Maya
Ying Lin was named winner of a compe-
tition to design the Vietnam Veterans Me-
morial.
In 1994, former Arkansas state work-
er Paula Jones filed suit against Presi-
dent Bill Clinton, alleging he’d sexually
harassed her in 1991. (Jones reached a
settlement with Clinton in November
1998.)
Ten years ago: President George W.
Bush apologized for the abuse of Iraqi
prisoners by American soldiers, calling it
“a stain on our country’s honor”; he re-
jected calls for Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld’s resignation.
One year ago: Kidnap-rape victims
Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus and Mi-
chelle Knight, three women who’d gone
missing separately about a decade earlier
while in their teens or early 20s, were res-
cued from a house just south of downtown
Cleveland. (Their captor, Ariel Castro,
hanged himself in prison in September
2013 at the beginning of a life sentence
plus 1,000 years.)
Thought for Today: “The people no
longer believe in principles, but will prob-
ably periodically believe in saviours.”
— Jacob Christoph Burckhardt
Swiss historian (1818-1897)
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