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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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That may be true, but the recycling manufacturing firms.
and subject their workers to terrible
Unfortunately, trade talks with working conditions.
China have fallen apart. Trump sub-
could be next.
Steve Showalter is a government
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TODAY IN HISTORY
Jackie “Moms”Mabley (1894-1975)
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dinals. He did the same transistor ra-
dio trick I had done. Only he didn’t
get caught.
We stared at each other and just
shook our heads. Could it have been
the same game, the same afternoon?
the movement is gaining momentum
every day.
China deserves a trip to the wood-
shed, but Trump needs the support
of other nations to strengthen his
hand. Tariff reductions on Canada
and Mexico are helpful, but it needs
to go one step further with Europe.
European nations are friends of
the United States, and they play by
the rules of fair trade. They are not
going help us isolate China unless
we claw back tariffs on European
goods.
Like it or not, the Gulf Coast needs
China, but America needs its friends
to win the trade war with China.
My three amigos...
Most cities or towns have volunteers who regularly vol-
unteer for the betterment of their community but I picked
up my pen today to give some special thanks to Billy Bar-
nett, Mike Wilson and Guido Persiani.
Billy is the only native of the bunch. Bom and raised
here and I don’t know anybody that loves his hometown
more than Billy. He is all things Nature, City Parks, Peo-
ple, crape myrtles and dogs.
I can’t tell you how much I respect Mike Wilson for his
never ending passion and dedication to tackle any issue
that might improve the lives of greater Baytonians.
Last but not least is Guido Persiani who comes to us
from Chicago. His impact on Beach City, Chambers
County and parts of Baytown is appreciated by countless
area residents.
The common thread among these guys is that regard-
less of where they were bom or where they came from
is their deep love and devotion to their respective com-
munities.
What sets them apart is the fact that they have given
countless hours of community service for over 30 years.
When you need help on most any issue they are the first
ones to raise their hand and say what can I do to help.
I am proud to refer to you guys as an Amigo and on
behalf so many area residents,
We thank you for being you.
On this date:
In 1934, bank robbers Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker
were shot to death in a police ambush in Bienville Parish,
Louisiana.
In 1939, the Navy submarine USS Squalus sank during
a test dive off the New England coast. Thirty-two crew
members and one civilian were rescued, but 26 others
died; the sub was salvaged and re-commissioned the USS
Sailfish.
In 1984, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop issued a re-
port saying there was “very solid” evidence linking ciga-
rette smoke to lung disease in non-smokers.
Ten years ago: Charles Donald Albury, co-pilot of the
plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki, Japan,
died in Orlando, Florida, at 88.
Five years ago: A 22-year-old anned with knives and
a gun went on a rampage near the University of Califor-
nia, Santa Barbara; Elliot Rodger killed six students and
wounded 13 other people before taking his own life.
Thought for Today: “Life is like a game of poker: If
you don’t put any in the pot, there won’t be any to take
I thought I knew almost every-
thing about my younger brother.
Something fell through the cracks,
as the saying goes, and that some-
thing happened over 50 years ago.
Here’s the short version.
My brother and I grew up in Lou-
isiana with a passion for baseball
and the St. Louis Cardinals. It was
the early ‘50’s. We listened to their
games coming over KMOX from St.
Louis. Two young boys on the floor
in front of one of those three-foot
high console radios. Stan Musial,
Red Schoendienst, Solly Hemus,
Vinegar Bend Mizell and so many
as we knew our own.
Fast forward to an October after-
noon, 1964. My brother is in high
school. I am in the Navy, attend-
ing Hospital Corps School at Bal-
boa Naval Hospital in San Diego,
California. (Sometime back in the
Baytown Sun I included the follow-
ing few words in an article I wrote
about listening to baseball on the
radio. I must repeat this particular
story again as it is central to what I
am relating about my brother.)
It’s important to note that in 1964
World Series games were not played
at night. They were all day games.
I’ll tell my side of the story first.
That fall the St. Louis Cardinals
were playing the New York Yan-
kees. I had a problem. I was in a
classroom situation at the naval hos-
pital in classes taught by Navy nurs-
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Last week produced good news
and some potentially bad news for
the local economy.
On the good side, Gov. Abbott will
sign a bill into law that will promote
plastic recycling in Texas. Hopeful-
ly, this will be good for the environ-
ment and protect local industry.
The bill allows plastic recycling
plants to be classified under man-
ufacturing, not under solid waste
disposal. Manufacturing plants
will still have to comply with envi-
ronmental regulations, but not the
stricter regulatory regime imposed
on waste disposal sites.
Environmental groups are crying
foul, arguing that the technology for
recycling plastic is unproven and
bad for the air.
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ear plug and wire He was in study hall in the library,
leading to the radio were undetect- Like me, he wasn’t going to let be-
ed. ing in a school classroom setting
Sitting slightly half-turned in my interfere with a World Series game,
chair, I listened (or pretended to be After all, this was the St. Louis Car-
Do not dis- hitched their wagons to future de-
miss this trend, mand from China. Drilling in west
It is not a fringe and south Texas produces more nat-
movement of Cal- ural gas than Americans can con-
ifomia granolas sume. This gas surplus has to go
and Austin hip- somewhere, and China is the biggest
pies. Plastic bans market in the world.
could upend the If China gets their gas and plastic
entire industry, so from somewhere else, this will have
plastic recycling a ripple effect. Less drilling in Tex-
technology is ab- as will reduce jobs at the wellhead,
solutely critical and there will be less need to build
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too often? All the exciting sounds of Two brothers listening surreptitious-
a baseball game over the radio came ly to the same World Series game
blaring forth in that classroom. roughly 1,400 miles apart. Amaz-
The lecture stopped, of course, ing! It certainly makes for a good
All eyes turned in my direction. I story.
got in so much trouble! I thought My tale ends there. Two brothers,
I would be kicked out of hospital each with a love for a game and a
corps school and sent to the fleet, team, who settled on the same solu-
Peeling potatoes and chipping paint tion (albeit with different results) to
on a ship seemed to be in my imme- not miss the play-by-play of a World
diate future. Series baseball game.
I received quite a dressing down. One last thing. My brother knows
I can attest to the fact that Navy today I bleed Houston Astros or-
nurses do not take kindly to their ange and blue. He also knows, like
classroom lectures being interrupted him, I still find something magical
by a baseball game, in that iconic image of two redbirds
The years have dulled exactly perched on a yellow baseball bat.
for the sustainability of the Baytown pipelines and LNG export terminals,
economy. I really do sympathize with the
On the tariff front, there is good President’s position. China has
and bad news. flouted fair trade rules for decades.
The Trump administration has They manipulate their currency to
lifted tariffs on steel and aluminum make their exports cheaper. They
from Mexico and Canada. This will steal American technology and in-
lower production costs for local tellectual property, suppress unions,
it will start out slowly and get better sequently bumped up tariffs on Chi-
over time. Industry is not promising nese imports from 10% to 25%.
a magic solution tomorrow, but it The impact on American consum-
needs a predictable and stable reg- ers will probably not be too severe,
ulatory environment to get the ball The Chinese currency has fallen in
rolling. value against the American dollar,
This is important for Baytown, which has offset the impact of the
Industry has made absolutely mas- price increases, and corporations
sive investments in plastics, and it like Wal-Mart have not yet passed
has to be ready to manage the politi- along the full price of tariffs to con-
cal headwinds. sinners.
Across the nation, state and local However, the Chinese have re-
governments are either banning or taliated with tariffs on American
considering bans on plastic contain- exports like liquefied natural gas
ers, straws, and grocery bags, and (LNG) and farm products. Plastics
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to miss a single cause of the aptitude I was showing
pitch. for being a Navy corpsman. If my
I had a plan, radio was returned to me, it was not
Hidden under the until after the World Series was over,
top half of my I was telling my brother this sto-
Navy uniform was ry recently, and I could tell he was
a small transistor patiently (well, not that patiently)
radio. I cleverly waiting until I finished. Then his
positioned my- words came pouring out. “You were
self at the rear of listening to one of the games. I was
the class so that listening to one of the games.”
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ficer Navy nurses. It was the World reason, I was allowed to remain in Ken Bredehoeft is a retired school
Series, though, and I was not about school. I’d like to think it was be- teacher who lives in Mont Belvieu.
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Alabama abortion law
Women who get pregnant in Alabama through rape,
incest, or unwanted ways have little control over what
happens to their embryo/fetus. When women seek to end
their pregnancy, criminal charges will be filed if a new
law goes into effect. Felony abortion charges won’t be
filed against the women or men involved with the preg-
nancy, though. Only doctors who perfonn or attempt to
perform an abortion will face up to 99 years in jail.
Abortion is something I’ve never agreed with due to
the lifelong impact it has on most women. But I don’t
feel the government has any right to dictate religious be-
liefs into laws that regulate a woman’s body. Evangeli-
cal Christians believe an embryo/fetus has rights in the
womb while other religions say a fetus has none...rights
start only after a live birth. (Definitions of a viable fetus
also vary by religion.)
Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey signed the abortion law and
said, “Every life is a sacred gift from God.” If that’s what
she believes, then why does Alabama still have capital
punishment laws that put criminals to death? And with
the exceptions to Alabama’s abortion law making some
abortions legal, doesn’t that contradict the governor’s re-
ligious doctrine of “every life is a sacred gift from God”?
I’ve always found it confusing as to why Evangelicals
accept miscarriages as divine abortions and then insist on
outlawing human intervention to end pregnancy except
when the embryo/fetus is defective, etc. Isn’t that kinda
sorta hypocritical?
A woman’s decision to choose/not choose abortion
should happen privately between herself and God, the
guy, and her doctor. Government regulations should never
be used to impose strict religious beliefs upon a woman’s
body. Any such law should be held unconstitutional under
the Establishment Clause found in the First Amendment.
How do Evangelical politicians justify abortion excep-
tions, wars, school shootings and death by lethal injection
after passing this religious law called the Human Life
Protection Act? Or does “Every life is a sacred gift from
God” only apply to an embryo/fetus?
Alan Hudgins
Baytown
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