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Yesteryears
Published November 15, 2009
70 years ago
Rev. E.H. McKenzie has been returned to Freeport for another year as pastor of the Methodist church here. This is Rev. McKenzie’s second year with the Freeport church. His return made glad the members of the Methodist church as well as the people of Freeport generally, who hold the Methodist preacher in high esteem.
The Methodist church is the second in size here as to membership, and was the second to enter this field about 16 years ago, when Rev. Clark was pastor.
Rev. T.C. Sharpe, who was here the year prior to the coming of Rev. McKenzie, has been returned to the Humble church, where he labored last year.
Rev. A.W. Gordon, who was the shepherd of the flock here ahead of Rev. Sharp, has been returned to Pittsburg, in the Texarkana district. Pittsburg is away over in the corner of East Texas.
50 years ago
Parked cars were damaged in accidents in Freeport and Lake Jackson over the weekend. An accident on Saturday morning in Freeport involved a truck, two parked cars and a light pole. It was reported to police at 11:14 a.m.
A Freeport man was driving a white truck-trailer unit from the Weingarten parking lot onto Yaupon Street when the right back side of the trailer caught a Houston Lighting & Power Co. light pole, according to the police report. The light pole fell on a parked 1956 Chevrolet belonging to a Jones Creek man, doing about $150 damage.
The pole also damaged a parked 1955 Chevrolet belonging to a Freeport woman, doing around $65 in damage. Damage to the light pole was estimated at $150 and to the truck about $25. Police issued a ticket to the truck drive on a charge of failure to hold a commercial driver’s license. About $70 damage was done in an accident in Lake Jackson at 7 p.m. Sunday. According to Police Chief J.S. “Cap” Brown. A resident was backing out of his driveway when he backed into a parked 1959 Mercury belonging to a Baytown man. Damage to the parked car was estimated at $65 and about $5 to the other car. The Lake Jackson man got a ticket for failure to grant right-of-way from private drive.
30 years ago
A public hearing held Thursday in Angleton brought out a good-sized group campaigning for more effective services in Brazoria County to cope with alcohol-related problems. The hearing was sponsored by the Houston-Galveston Area Council and is part of a continuing effort to get funding from the Texas Commission on Alcoholism (TCA) for outpatient alcoholism services in this county.
The project review committee of H-GAC has already given unanimous approval for the program and the executive board is expected to follow suit with approval in the near future. Funding for the program is the stumbling block, say H-GAC officials.
The TCA is faced with dozens of grant applications and will probably only choose two programs to fund from the 13-county region which includes Brazoria County.
Strong support from area residents may give the application a better chance for funding approval, and that support was shown Thursday.
Those who appeared to testify in favor of extended alcohol services in the county included county and city judges, a chaplain in the Brazoria County Jail, a student at the University of Houston studying chemical abuse counseling and a number of alcoholics who told of their need for such programs.
Five Sweeny High School students, concerned about the drinking problem in their school, also attended to ask for educational programs to inform students about alcohol and drug dangers, beginning as early as the fifth grade.
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