The
Baytown Sun was founded in
Goose Creek, Texas, as the weekly publication,
Goose Creek Gasser, in 1919. By 1928, the paper was operating under the name
Daily Tribune. Due to the economic pressures caused by the
Great Depression, in 1931 the
Daily Tribune merged with newspapers in the nearby communities of
Pelly and Baytown. The new newspaper was named the
Daily Sun and was published in the
Daily Tribunes hometown of Goose Creek. During the mid-1940s the towns of Baytown, Goose Creek and Pelly voted to
incorporate into one city, with Baytown being the surviving name. In an unusual request, the letters also demanded the answers to the riddles be printed on front page of the Baytown Sun. When the Baytown police approached then Sun publisher Leon Brown with the request to publish the answers on the front page, he agreed, stating: "Police Chief Wayne Henscey said their publication could very well save a life. I was convinced, as were my editors, that the Sun's cooperation was a life or death situation..." == See also ==