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FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2015
Police
Multi-County
Search continues for murder suspect
Some burglaries may be
cleared with arrest of pair
From Staff Reports
Sulphur Springs police detectives are
still looking for 20-year-old Tilton Joshua
“Josh” Mapps in connection with a
shooting early Monday at Pacific Park
that resulted in the death of Jonathan Trahern Young, 26.
Detectives said a murder warrant was
obtained during the noon hour Monday
for Mapps.
Det. David Gilmore said Friday that
anytime there is a murder, there is a lot of
work for investigators, even if the suspect is not a fugitive.
In this case, Gilmore says the suspect
is still a fugitive and still at large.
“We've got that work and we've got the
added issue of getting him in custody,” Gilmore said.
“Clearly, he is hiding out and he is
getting help from
associates and some
family members.”
Investigators have
still not identified
Mapps’ motivation
in shooting Young.
Josh Mapps
As for the investigation, Gilmore
said he feels he has a good, solid case in
which witnesses all tell the same story
“Witness statements match what the
crime scene shows,” he said. “That's
what we've got here. We are doing some
things that are technically involved in this
investigation. We are hoping to get him
in custody in short order but, so far, we
haven't had success on that.”
Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County
officers have been in Greenville working
with officers attempting to locate the
murder suspect and more agencies are
becoming involved in the search.
“We've got a pretty large group of law
enforcement helping us try to locate
him,” the detective said. “We've got the
U.S. Marshal's Service, Hopkins County
Sheriff's Office and Ranger John Vance.
We have Greenville police actively
—» See SEARCH, Pg. 5A
SSISD
School
trustees
approve
more
personnel
moves
By KERRY CRAIG
News-Telegram Staff Writer
[email protected]
Hopkins County Sheriff's investigators continue to try to clear up a
rash of burglaries throughout the
county over the past several weeks,
and Chief Investigator Lewis Tatum
said that three different groups of
burglars have been apprehended but
not all the burglaries have been
cleared.
“On the third of this month, two
subjects were caught inside a residence in Collin County and arrested
by officers there,” Tatum said. “A
search warrant was run on their
vehicle in Collin County and a pistol was identified as one taken from
a residence on FM 71 west, along
with more documentation that may
be related to another burglary
here.”
Tatum said there were about seven burglaries that have the same
method of operation as the burglary in which the handgun was
stolen.
“Stanton Yates, 29 years old, and
—» See BURGLARIES, Pg. 5A
Make-A-Wish
Wish Upon A Star
By FAITH HUFFMAN
News-Telegram News Staff
[email protected]
Trustees approved nearly
two dozen personnel items
as recommended by Sulphur Springs Independent
School District administrators Monday night, including a summer contract,
four resignations, a dozen
new hires and six staff
changes.
A number of the changes
involve special services
positions, a few others
were for physical education and coaches, and other
technology and teaching
positions.
Resigning were Jennifer
Raulston-Galvin as district-wide educational
diagnostician, Misty Brock
as special education
teacher at Sulphur Springs
Elementary, Ana Ramirez
as district bilingual/English
as a second language director and Jordan Cruz as
physical education aide at
Douglas Intermediate.
Johnnie Freeman was
approved as a district educational diagnostician.
Andrea Rodriguez was
approved as a Title I aide
at Early Childhood Learning Center and Ryann
Cathey Sachs as a Title I
aide at Sulphur Springs
Elementary. Carrie Cherney got the nod as as special education teacher for
the self-contained classroom at Bowie Primary,
and Tandee Moody as special education resource
teacher at SSES.
Ana Aguilar wil be moving from her bilingual
kindergarten classroom at
ECLC to become districtwide bilingual/ESL director. Cheryl Vickery will
transition from being a district-wide special education instructional aide to a
special education aide at
SSES. Joanna Foster wil
transition from teaching
third grade at SSES to the
literacy support staff at
ECLC.
Amanda Fenton will
move up from being literacy support staff to academic specialist at Lamar Primary.
—» See SSISD, Pg. 5A
Emery Brown received the surprise of a lifetime when she was granted a weeklong trip for her and her family to Disney World in Florida by the Make-A-Wish FounStaff Photo by Jon Lance
dation. To sweeten the deal even more, she was picked up in a limousine and greeted by her favorite star, Hannah Kirby.
Upcoming Schedule
Friday, June 12
n 5K Milk Run, 7 p.m. at Shannon
Oaks Church.
n Hot air balloon rally and glow, 6
p.m. to 9 p.m. at Shannon Oaks Church
(weather permitting).
Just Moo It
The 2015 Hopkins County Dairy Festival officially began Friday with the opening ceremony and ribbon cutting at Celebration
Plaza. The weeklong festival will continue this evening with the annual Milk Run beginning at 7 p.m. at Shannon Oaks Church
and continue with various events Saturday, including the parade and ice cream freeze off.
Staff Photo by Isabel Reyna
Saturday, June 13
n Hot air balloon rally and flight, 6:30
a.m. at Shannon Oaks Church (weather
permitting),
n Parade, 10 a.m., starting at Buford
Park.
n Junior Dairy Show, 10 a.m. at Civic
Center.
n Milking contest for queen candidates, parents and balloon pilots, 3 p.m.
at Civic Center arena.
n Texas Championship Ice Cream
Freeze-Off, 4 p.m. on the Civic Center
grounds.
n Hot air balloon rally and glow, 6:30
p.m. at Shannon Oaks Church.
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THIS WEEK IN TEXAS HISTORY
Colonists butt heads with American-born bully
BARTEE
HAILE
Tales From The
Colorful History
Of Texas
T
aking advantage of a lull
in the “disturbance” at
Anahuac on June 13,
1832, riled-up colonists compiled a list of grievances against
the U.S.-born bully whose
heavy-handed methods had
caused the confrontation in the
first place.
John David Bradburn was a
veteran of at least three filibuster attempts to wrest Texas
from the weak grasp of Spain.
The Virginian stuck around to
fight for Mexican independence
serving as aide to future emperor Agustin de Iturbide and earning citizenship along with a
commission in the new army.
Marriage into an aristocratic
family and influential friends
helped Juan Bradburn, as he
now called
himself, to
weather
the storm
after Iturbide's abdication in
1 8 2 3 .
Over the
next few
years, he
went completely native absorbing the anti-American prejudices of his adopted country. As
a result, he brought to Anahuac
not a trace of sympathy or compassion for his former countrymen.
Upon his arrival in October
1830, Col. Bradburn put his
detachment of 43 men to work
building a garrison. Many of the
troops were convicts, a common
occurrence since prisoners often
chose military service in Texas
over confinement. As might be
expected, this practice was
unpopular with the colonists,
who were frightened by the
presence of armed inmates and
blamed a rise in the local crime
rate on the Mexican remedy for
overcrowded jails.
The inhabitants warmly welcomed the commanding officer
as a fellow American but soon
came to curse the day they laid
eyes on him. Criticism of the
troops' shameful conduct and all
other protests were dismissed
by the arrogant colonel, who
was reviled as a traitor and hated with a passion.
Bradburn jumped into the
middle of the slavery controversy in early 1832 by taking in
two runaway slaves. Refusing
to release the pair to Patrick
Jack and William B. Travis,
attorneys for their Louisiana
owner, he defiantly added the
fugitives to his roster.
The plot thickened in April
and May, when Bradburn
refused to hand over for trial
two soldiers accused of attempted rape. Patrick Jack responded
to this infuriating intransigence
with the creation of a citizens
militia.
A phony note claiming the
Louisiana slave master was on
his way with 100 armed supporters to recover his property
threw the colonel into a panic.
Learning Travis was responsi-
ble for the false alarm, Bradburn locked the lawyer and his
partner Jack in the guardhouse.
William Jack, Patrick's
brother, sought the help of
Stephen F. Austin, but the sage
of San Felipe was on a mission
to Mexico. Without the empressario's reasoned restraint, the
young firebrand mobilized the
militants of the community.
Augmented by contingents from
Liberty, Harrisburg and Brazoria, an instant army 130 strong
headed for Anahuac.
Bradburn sent his cavalry to
intercept the ragtag band on
June 9, 1832, but the horse soldiers chose capitulation over
combat. The next day, the confident colonists entered the tiny
town.
Following a fruitless peace
parley, the two sides spent the
10th and 11th taking potshots at
each other. Serious negotiations
on the 12th produced a ceasefire and an agreement. If the
Anglo-Americans withdrew to
Turtle Bayou and released the
19 cavalrymen, Bradburn
promised to turn loose his prisoners.
But on the morning of the
13th, the colonel reneged, and a
full-scale skirmish ensued with
both camps sustaining casualties. Recognizing the urgent
need for more firepower, the
rebels retreated to the bayou
and sent to Brazoria for a cannon.
The Texans whiled away the
hours by drafting the Turtle
Bayou Resolutions, which contained a laundry list of complaints against Bradburn and a
pledge of allegiance to the
democratic constitution of 1824.
Heads cleared, adrenalin ebbed
and the insurgents paused long
enough to consider the consequences of their actions.
Would the Anahuac incident
provoke Mexican retaliation?
The thousand government
troops stationed around Texas
and another 700 at Matamoros
could easily annihilate the
Anglo-Americans. Sobered by
this chilling prospect, most
colonists hurried home fearing
the worst.
The Battle of Velasco on
June 26 pushed the province to
the brink. A relief column en
route to Anahuac with artillery
and reinforcements defeated the
Mexican force at the port.
Events seemed to be spiraling
out of control, and full-blown
hostilities appeared inevitable.
To the Texans' rescue came
the Mexican fondness for civil
war. Another violent power
struggle suddenly erupted and
like an irresistible magnet
attracted the troops to the interior. By August, not a single uniformed Mexican remained in
Texas.
Travis and Jack were freed,
and Col. Bradburn resigned his
command. Although still on
active duty during the Lone Star
Revolution, the infamous expatriate saw no action against his
old enemies and died of natural
causes six years after the Battle
of San Jacinto.
■
Bartee welcomes your comments and questions at
[email protected] or P.O. Box 152,
Friendswood, Texas 77549 and
invites you to visit his web site
at barteehaile.com.
Search for escaped murderers enters 7th day in northern NY
DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP)
— Squads of law enforcement
officers on Friday began a seventh day of trying to track down
two murderers who escaped from
a maximum-security prison in
northern New York and could be
hiding out in swampy terrain
swarming with blood-sucking
insects.
Armed officers in body armor
boarded New York state prison
system buses soon after dawn in
the village of Dannemora, where
David Sweat and Richard Matt
used power tools to cut their way
out of their neighboring cells last
weekend.
Meanwhile,
suspicions
swirled around a female prison
employee believed to have had a
role in the escape last weekend.
The hundreds of state, federal
and local officers spent Thursday
searching a swampy patch of
woods just east of Dannemora
after investigators received tips
that the convicts were in the area.
Tracking dogs had picked up the
scent in the morning.
Search teams slogged kneedeep through marshes and steams
and endured the Adirondacks'
biggest warm-weather nuisances:
swarms of black flies and mosquitoes.
State Route 374, the main
road leading into Dannemora,
remained closed for a second day
Friday, as did the local school dis-
trict.
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said the law will come down
hard on any prison system
employee who crosses the line.
"If you do it, you will be convicted, and then you'll be on the
other side of the prison that
you've been policing, and that is
not a pleasant place to be," Cuomo said. He also said investigators are "talking to several people who may have facilitated the
escape."
Investigators believe the
prison employee had agreed to be
the getaway driver, but she never
showed up, a person close to the
case told The Associated Press.
Sweat, 34, and Matt, 48, cut
through steel and bricks and
crawled through an underground
steam pipe. They emerged from
a manhole outside the 40-foot
walls of the maximum-security
Clinton Correctional Facility,
about 20 miles south of the Canadian border, and were discovered
missing early Saturday, authorities said.
The person close to the investigation said authorities believe
Joyce Mitchell — an instructor at
the prison tailor shop, where the
two convicts worked — had
befriended the men and was supposed to pick them up Saturday
morning.
The person said that was one
reason the manhunt was focused
so close to the prison. The person
was not authorized to discuss the
investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
Mitchell has not been
charged. Her son Tobey Mitchell
told NBC on Wednesday that she
checked herself into a hospital
with chest pains Saturday. He
said she would not have helped
the inmates escape.
Former
wrestler
Dusty Rhodes
dead at 69
(AP)- WWE says Virgil Runnels, a former professional
wrestler known by his fans as
Dusty Rhodes, has died. He was
69.
The company said Runnels
died Thursday, but a spokesman
declined to say where or how,
saying the family had not authorized the release of that information.
Runnels, who also went by
the nickname "The American
Dream," was a member of the
WWE Hall of Fame, and held the
NWA championship three times.
He became famous during the
height of wrestling's popularity in
the 1970s and 1980s, appearing in
signature yellow polka dot tights
with his sidekick "valet" Sapphire.
In a statement, WWE offered
condolences to Runnels family,
calling him "a caring husband and
a creative visionary who helped
shape the landscape of WWE
long after his in-ring career had
ended."
Runnels remained a fixture
with WWE after retiring from the
ring and was working at WWE's
Performance Center in Orlando,
Florida.
Throughout his several
decades in the ring, the Austin,
Texas, native endeared himself to
fans as an everyman with a less
than stellar physique, but a gregarious gift of gab behind a
microphone.
THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, June 12, 2015 — 3
COMMUNITY CALENDAR
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Friday, June 12
JOURNEY OFF the Map Vacation Bible School continues from
6 p.m. to 8 p.m. for ages four years
to fifth grade students at Posey
Baptist Church, located 4 miles off
State Highway 19 north on FM 71
west. For additional information,
call 903-348-7285.
BETTER LIFE Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.
and Saturdays at noon at Wesley
United Methodist Church, 614
Texas St. Call Gary or Lillie at
903-473-3329.
“YOGA FOR the Rest of Us,” a
free step-by-step yoga workout for
with Peggy Cappy, will be held
every Monday and Friday from 1
p.m. to 2 p.m. at the Senior Citizens Center, 150 Martin Luther
King; all ages welcome. Bingo is
played at 9:30 a.m. every Wednesday and Friday at the center.
Phone: 903-885-1661.
CHRISTIAN
RECOVERY
Group meets Fridays at 7 p.m. at
New Beginnings Fellowship Baptist Church, 155 North Jackson St.,
for anyone with addictions, broken
emotions or broken relationships.
Saturday, June 13
LIP SMACKIN', Good
Eatin'/Dutch Oven Program begins
at 9:30 a.m. at Honey Creek
Amphitheater in Cooper Lake State
Park/South Sulphur Unit. Bring a
fork and bowl to sample the food.
A Nature Hike/Discover The Trees
Of The Park begins at 2:30 p.m. at
Pelican Point Group Pavilion at
Doctor's Creek Unit of CLSP.
Bring water and cap.
"SUMMER SING" 2015 featuring The Talleys, plus House of
Prayer Band "Grace for Grace,"
begins at 6 p.m. at House Of
Prayer, located 2 miles east of
Emory on FM 515. There is no
admission charge. For more information, call 903-612-4025 or 214499-6972.
MLK CHURCH of Christ Community Outreach Free Lunch and
Food Pantry will be open from 11
a.m. to 1 p.m. the second Saturday
of each month at the church, 154
MLK Jr. Drive. For more information, contact Sequita Mosley or
Jackki Moore at 903-885-8511.
Song leaders practice and order of
service practice will be held at 2
p.m. the second and fourth Saturdays of each month.
UNITED DAUGHTERS of the
Confederacy meet at 11:30 a.m. the
second Saturday of each month at
the Senior Citizens Center, 150
Martin Luther King Drive.
CAPTAIN DAVID Philips Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution meets at 2 p.m. the
second Saturday of each month at
the Senior Citizens Center, 150
Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. Visitors are always welcome.
BETTER LIFE Group of Narcotics Anonymous meets Tuesdays,
Wednesdays and Fridays at 8 p.m.
and Saturdays at noon at Wesley
United Methodist Church, 614
Texas St. Call Gary or Lillie at
903-473-3329.
COW COUNTRY Carvers Club
meets on Saturdays in the Grist
Mill at Heritage Park, 416 North
Jackson St., from 8 a.m. until noon.
Sunday, June 14
THE REVELATORS, a men’s
quartet from Alabama, will be special guests at 10:30 a.m. at Grace
Family Church.
EMBLEM MEMORIAL Day
Service and cemetery meeting will
be held at 10:30 Sunday, June 14,
at the Emblem Cemetery Chapel
on FM 71. The special speaker will
be Rebecca Hathcoat, and music
will be presented by Zack Ferrell.
A covered dish lunch will follow
the morning service.
83RD SHOOKS Chapel Homecoming will begin at 11 a.m. A
cemetery business meeting will
begin at 10:30 a.m. Marynell
Bryant will present the program
and music will be provided by Bill
Owens. Dinner will be catered by
Big Smith’s Barbeque at a rate of
$11 per person.
WOODLAND
CEMETERY
Association’s annual memorial day
meeting will begin at 2:30 p.m. in
the Fellowship Hall at Tabernacle
Baptist Church in Pickton, located
on FM 269 north, one block north
of State Highway 11. Visitors are
welcome.
CROSS COUNTRY Cowboy
Church, located 1 miles south of
Interstate 30 on State Highway 19
south, will host Play Day Buckle
Series events including Cloverleaf
barrels, poles and flag race June 14,
Sept. 13 and 27, and Oct. 11 and
25. Any play day following a cancellation will be a double event.
Books open at 1:30 p.m. Play Day
starts at 2 p.m. for the following
age groups: Lead Line for ages 7
years or younger, Peewee for ages
7 years or younger, Junior for ages
8-12 years, Intermediate for ages
13-17 years, Adult for ages 18-39
and Seniors for ages 40 and over.
Requirements: $35 per family or
$25 per person membership fee,
plus $25 per Play Day entree fee.
Contestants must attend seven of
10 Play Days and all three events
to be eligible for year-end prizes.
Negative coggins required for all
horses. Call Carol France at 903243-1239 before you haul. Concessions available. For more information, visit www.crosscountrycow-
boychurch.net or Facebook, or call
903-885-4222.
DIVORCE CARE, a 26-week
session/support group featuring
weekly nondenominational biblical
teachings for people recovering
from separation or divorce, will be
held from 9:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.
Sundays in the basement of First
United Methodist Church. Childcare will be provided. Each self
contained session covers topics
related to separation and divorce
utilizing a video seminar and discussion group so people can join
any time. For information, contact
Shelia
Lunsford
at
[email protected] or
682-557-2702. *Ends Aug. 2
ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
New Life Group meets at 9 a.m.
for open discussion in First Presbyterian Church Epicenter (the old
white Color Blind Ministries building), just east of the church. No
smoking. Call Mike at 903-4402218 and Gary at 903-335-8152.
Monday, June 15
VACATION BIBLE School will
be held from 8:30 a.m. to noon
June 15-19 at First Baptist Church
Sulphur Springs for children entering kindergarten through those who
have just completed sixth grade.
They can register online at
ssfbc.org.
REPUBLICAN
WOMEN’s
Group meets at 6:30 p.m. the third
Monday of each Monday at First
Baptist Church’s The ROC on
Gilmer Street.
YOUNG AT Heart meets at
10:30 a.m. with a covered dish
lunch served at noon at First United
Methodist Church, 301 Church St.
Everyone young at heart welcome.
Meets the third Monday of the
month.
NEW LIFE Group of Alcoholics
Anonymous will hold an open 12
& 12 study meeting beginning at 7
p.m. in First Presbyterian Church
Epicenter (the old white Color
Blind Ministries building), just east
of the church. No smoking. Call
Mike at 903-440-2218 and Gary at
903-335-8152.
CHRISTIAN INITIATION Sessions are held Mondays at 6:30
p.m. at St. James Catholic Church,
297 Texas St. All are invited to
“come and increase your knowledge about God and the Catholic
Church.” For more information,
call Diane Ames at 903-648-2345.
PRAYER ON the Square, a
community-wide praise, worship
and prayer service, will be hosted
Mondays at 6 p.m. on the downtown square. Prayers will be
offered for city, county, state and
federal officials, as well as the military, schools, businesses and others. There will also be singing and
music. All are invited to the weekly
prayer and praise fellowship.
Motivational
Quote of the Day
“When I look back on all these worries, I
remember the story of the old man who
said on his deathbed that he had had a lot
of trouble in his life, most of which had
never happened.”
A recipe for years of misery
HOLIDAY’S HOROSCOPES
For Saturday, June,13
TODAY'S BIRTHDAY. (June 13). A
minor adventure will lead to a more
substantial journey in the weeks to
come. Your stellar attitude will make it
so. You'll recognize a juicy opportunity
in July and make the most of it. Street
smarts, practicality and financial savvy
will help you turn a profit in September. Aries and Virgo people adore you.
Your lucky numbers are: 4, 11, 20, 45
and 16.
ARIES (March 21-April 19). Putting it
off until later will only compound the
problem. Make this your mantra: "Do it
now!" For bonus points, you might add:
"Before someone else does it."
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Do you
want control? Do you want to feel you
have control? Those are two different
things, but what they have in common
is that they are both mostly illusions
today.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). When
you try to make a difference, you get
the same rush of satisfaction as when
you actually do make a difference. So
why not just try? That's the cosmic les-
son of the day.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Sweat
and breathe heavy. Make your physical
fitness a top priority. This will be purifying. You'll feel like a new person afterward. Lucky exercise partners are
Pisces and Virgo.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You are
easy to talk to, and you'll make friends
whenever you reach out. If you're in
sales (And, on some level, who isn't?),
this will be the day you cash in.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). It may
be impossible to understand where a
loved one is coming from, but don't
give up. Answers will come. Be patient.
In the meantime, take care of you.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Stay
focused on the realm of "now" instead
of worrying about the realm of "then."
News media and stories from friends
could cause a vague sense of dread.
Who needs it?
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). The
manual work is a mixed blessing now.
While folding clothes or sweeping the
floor, your mind will work on the more
perplexing tasks. You could solve it all
with one load of laundry.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21).
The more energy you pour into a relationship the stronger the bond. This is
not always the case, but you're lucky
enough to be in a mutually satisfying
relationship. Of course, you created a
lot of that luck.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19).
The challenge is bigger than you are.
That's the kind you like the best. You're
not one to let opportunities slip by
when you could be rising to the occasion.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You
would push the "easy" button on your
life if you could. You're still searching
for it, though. It has something to do
with repeating a successful action 100
times.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). You
don't think of yourself as having more
creativity than others, but that's not the
point. It's the kind of creativity you have
that makes you special. Your "art" will
surprise people.
~ Winston Churchill
CONTRACT BRIDGE
Bidding Quiz
You are South, both sides vulnerable, in each of the following three
hands. What would you bid at the point
where the question mark appears?
1. Double. You start by assuming
partner has at least 13 high-card points
for his opening bid. Even if he has only
12, you still outnumber the opponents
22 to 18 and are likely to score many
more tricks than declarer in one
notrump. Accordingly, you double and,
if everyone passes, lead a low heart,
expecting to collect 500 or 800 points
and possibly more.
2. Pass. It is tempting to double
four spades -- which seems likely to
fail -- but there is too much to lose and
too little to gain by doubling. Assuming
your opponents are not completely off
their rockers, they're unlikely to go
down more than one, in which case
you'd score 200 points if you doubled
instead of 100.
But if declarer made the contract
because your double told him where
the missing high cards and trumps
were located, you would be minus 790
points instead of plus 100, and your
partner might have a word or two to
say at the end of the hand. Silence is
sometimes golden!
3. Double. Whether your side has
a game is uncertain, but whether you
can defeat two clubs is not, assuming
partner has the normal complement of
high cards for his opening bid, in which
case you'll probably collect a sizable
penalty. Of course, if partner's opening
bid includes freakish distribution, he
has the option of overruling you by taking the double out.
Your double is based largely on
the "bird in the hand" principle, as you
are practically certain to wind up with a
plus score by doubling, but might end
up with a minus if you pressed on
toward an uncertain game.
If you happen to play "negative"
doubles, as many now do, your best
action would be to pass East's overcall around to partner, who is very likely to reopen the bidding with a takeout
double, which you plan to pass for
penalties.
Tomorrow: A precautionary measure.
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Dear Annie: Two years ago, I ANNIE’S
loves his house and money more.
married "Will." We were both
I told him if he doesn't make
widowed. I had a good job, a nice MAILBOX
some changes, I am leaving. All I
home and a car. Will was retired
want is some security. Am I
Advice
From
and wanted someone to travel
wrong? -- Stay or Go?
with, so I chose to retire in order Kathy Mitchell and
Dear Stay or Go: Please go.
to spend time with him. He didn't Marcy Sugar
You will never feel secure with
like my home, so I sold it. He
Will. He is not trustworthy and
already had three cars and said
considers the marriage a power
we didn't need a fourth, and
struggle that he has to win. He
because he preferred his cars to mine (even though will threaten to disinherit you every time you have a
mine was newer and paid for), I sold that, too. All I disagreement. He will say he is sorry because he
asked was that he provide lifetime rights to his doesn't want to lose control over you. This is a
home if something were to happen to him. He recipe for years of misery.
agreed and had a will made to reflect that.
See a lawyer and find out what you need to do to
Here's the problem: Two months after the mar- protect yourself financially. Then pack your bags. If
riage, we had a disagreement, and he threatened to your sister will take you, we recommend letting
change the will. He told me to leave because it was her help until you get back on your feet. And please
his house. He has since made the same threat don't ever put yourself in such a vulnerable position
numerous times. I am not allowed to make any again.
changes to the house without his approval, which
Dear Annie: I read the interesting responses for
he rarely gives. I found out he was cheating on me, the nickname Dick. However, what has me more
and when I confronted him, he hid the car keys and perplexed is how Peggy came from Margaret. Can
told me to get out. I called my sister to pick me up. you help? -- Perplexed
Of course, as always, he was sorry and begged me
Dear Perplexed: Margaret is a popular name in
to stay.
many countries, but the shortened forms "Meggie"
I have asked Will to sell this house so we could and "Meg" are specifically Scottish.
buy something that belongs to both of us. I told
"Peggy" is a variant nickname for "Meggie," and
him it would make me feel more secure. He "Peg" is the same for "Meg." Margaret, in fact, has
absolutely refused. I asked that he add my name to a huge number of nicknames, including Madge,
the deed, and he refused that, too. Now he yells at Maisie, Marge, Megan, Margot, Molly and some
me that I only married him for his money. Annie, that seem less closely connected, such as Rita and
there isn't enough money in the world to put up Greta (from Margarita or Margaretta) and Daisy
with this.
(from the French Marguerite, which is also the
Will says he loves me, but I get the impression he French name for the oxeye daisy).
6/12/15
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TSA FAILURES
Changes must happen
W
e would like to think that airport security in
this country has reached a high level, some 14
years after terrorists used our airports as a
launching pad for their attacks. Seeing how it is basically impossible to pass through the security lines at U.S.
airports with a bottle of water, U.S. flyers should feel
fairly safe.
If only bottles of Ozarka were our biggest worry.
An alarming report by the Department of Homeland
Security’s Inspector General suggests that the nation’s
skies are hardly safer in 2015 than they were in 2001. An
audit by the DHS of the Transportation Security Administration, which was created after 9/11 to handle airport
security, found some 73 individuals with terrorismrelated security concerns managed to obtain credentials
at U.S. airports. These individuals were employed by
major airlines, airport vendors and other employers and
many were cleared for access to secure airport areas
despite representing a “potential transportation security
threat,” according to the DHS audit.
Just as alarming, the DHS also reported that undercover investigators posing as passengers were able to
smuggle mock explosives and banned weapons through
TSA checkpoints 95 percent of the time at dozens of the
nation’s busiest airports. In one instance, an undercover
agent was flagged by TSA screeners after setting off a
magnetometer, but was let through when screeners patting him down failed to discover a fake explosive
device taped to his back.
We’ve seen TSA screeners haggle with a mother over
his baby formula, but they can’t find a fake bomb on an
undercover agent - even after the screening machine
sets off warning bells? Something is terribly wrong.
So far, TSA acting administrator Melvin Caraway has
been “reassigned” as a result of the DHS report. But
that isn’t enough. A new chief won’t make very much
difference. Instead, the TSA must be re-shaped and
maybe even re-born. There must be more stringent hiring procedures and the training must be better. The terrorists don’t get lax, so neither can the defenders.
Terror attacks are difficult to defend against. If a terrorist is willing to die, he or she can find a way to carry
out the desired attack. But the ultimate failure on our
part would be to let a terrorist use the same plan as
before to carry out a mass attack. That cannot be
allowed to happen.
We know “what” to look for and, in many cases, we
know “who” to look for. There is no reason the TSA
finds itself in this kind of mess, outside of pure laziness
and incompetence.
Today in History ...
Today is Friday, June 12, the
163rd day of 2015. There are 202
days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History:
On June 12, 1965, the British government announced that The Beatles
would each be made an MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire)
by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham
Palace later in the year; the selection
sparked criticism, with some MBEs
returning their medals in protest.
On this date:
In 1776, Virginia's colonial legislature became the first to adopt a Bill of
Rights.
In 1920, the Republican national
convention, meeting in Chicago, nominated Warren G. Harding for president on the tenth ballot; Calvin
Coolidge was nominated for vice
president.
In 1924, President Calvin Coolidge
was nominated for a term of office in
his own right at the Republican
national convention in Cleveland.
(Coolidge had become president in
1923 upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding.)
In 1939, the National Baseball Hall
of Fame and Museum was dedicated
in Cooperstown, New York.
In 1942, Anne Frank, a Germanborn Jewish girl living in Amsterdam,
received a diary for her 13th birthday,
less than a month before she and her
family went into hiding from the Nazis.
In 1956, the Flag of the United
States Army was officially adopted
under an executive order signed by
President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
In 1963, civil rights leader Medgar
Evers, 37, was shot and killed outside
his home in Jackson, Mississippi. (In
1994, Byron De La Beckwith was
convicted of murdering Evers and
sentenced to life in prison; he died in
2001.)
In 1964, South African black
nationalist Nelson Mandela was sen-
tenced to life in prison along with seven other people, including Walter
Sisulu, for committing sabotage
against the apartheid regime (all were
eventually released, Mandela in
1990).
In 1967, the Supreme Court, in
Loving v. Virginia, struck down state
laws prohibiting interracial marriages.
In 1987, President Ronald Reagan,
during a visit to the divided German
city of Berlin, publicly challenged
Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to
"tear down this wall."
In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson
and Ronald Goldman were slashed to
death outside her Los Angeles home.
(O.J. Simpson was later acquitted of
the killings in a criminal trial, but was
eventually held liable in a civil action.)
Today's Birthdays: Banker/philanthropist David Rockefeller is 100. Former President George H.W. Bush is
91. Singer Vic Damone is 87. Songwriter Richard M. Sherman is 87.
Actor-singer Jim Nabors is 85. Jazz
musician Chick Corea is 74. Sportscaster Marv Albert is 74. Singer Roy
Harper is 74. Actor Roger Aaron
Brown is 66. Rock singer-musician
John Wetton (Asia, King Crimson) is
66. Rock musician Bun E. Carlos
(Cheap Trick) is 64. Country singermusician Junior Brown is 63. Singersongwriter Rocky Burnette is 62.
Actor Timothy Busfield is 58. Singer
Meredith Brooks is 57. Actress
Jenilee Harrison is 57. Rapper Grandmaster Dee (Whodini) is 53. Actor
Paul Schulze is 53. Actress Paula
Marshall is 51. Actress Frances
O'Connor is 48. Actor Rick Hoffman is
45. Actor Jason Mewes is 41. Actor
Michael Muhney is 40. Blues musician Kenny Wayne Shepherd is 38.
Actor Wil Horneff is 36. Singer Robyn
is 36. Actor Dave Franco is 30. Actor
Luke Youngblood is 29. Country
singer Chris Young is 30. Actor Ryan
Malgarini is 23.
Condolences and outrage
V
ice President Biden, I am considered a conservative columnist,
and to most of your admirers I am
thus "the enemy." I ask my loyal readers
to indulge me in hopes that these words
speak for many of you who may not
appreciate all of the vice president's politics, but who share in mourning his recent
personal loss.
As a father, I don't have adequate
words to comfort a man whose son has
passed away. Particularly a man who lost
his first wife and daughter to tragedy at
early ages. But I know the sadness that I
and many others felt for you as you
painfully bade your son farewell. He was
an American hero, and I, we -- those with
both mind and heart -- grieve with you
for your loss.
I remember you from years ago, Mr.
Vice President. I watched as you would
enter the floor of the U.S. Senate in the
early 1980s as I served as a lowly aide to
a then-new Republican Sen. Mack Mattingly.
Mattingly was a fresh-faced new generation man of his party, as were you.
You had such a vibrant, youthful and ohso-hard-charging look. You gave all of us
political wannabes something to shoot
for, regardless of party.
And your son was a hero who had the
guts to go to Iraq even as you were running for, and were sworn into, the vice
presidency. And because he had the
courage to serve our nation, several mal-
MATTHEW
TOWERY
contents from a so-called church decided
to protest outside his funeral. They like to
protest anyone's sacred burial if the
deceased ever served our nation in conflict.
Shame on them. Disgraceful shame on
them.
I don't care if you are as liberal as the
day is long, as we say in the South. Your
politics means nothing to me right now.
What I do care about is that you raised
two boys, who could have been shattered
from being part of a tragic car accident
that robbed them of their mother and sister. The fact that you were a fine father
while serving our nation is a credit to you
that goes far past politics of partisanship.
I have often heard from several of your
former colleagues in the U.S. Senate how
funny, kind and down to earth you were.
And yes, my GOP friends would usually
add how devoted you were to a more liberal agenda. But not in some mean or disdainful way. To them you were just being
"Joe."
And I mean no disrespect by calling
you by your first name. In so many ways
what Americans crave today is an honest
Mack or a plainspoken Joe in politics.
While your plainspoken nature may
have brought you a derogative nudge or
two, this conservative writer not only
appreciates it but respects it. You see, a
world in which people can't be funny -can't be human -- is a mixed-up one.
And a world in which good men, such
as your late son Beau, are vilified for having served their country in dangerous
lands and dangerous times, is even more
distressing. Have we no dignity, honor or
respect left in this nation? To travel many
miles, as this "religious group" did, to
line hometown streets of a hometown
hero during his funeral, in order to jeer
his service to our nation, reaches the lowest levels any of us could imagine.
We have little in common, Mr. Vice
President. I'm a Southerner, and you are a
"Yankee." I was a Republican, and you
are a Democrat. You're a vice president,
and I am ... nowhere near that. But I'll be
damned if I'll stand by and watch a family that served this nation, overcame
tragedy and served it in the next generation be denigrated by misguided souls
who protest service to our nation even as
the brave are being mourned.
I am outraged by their behavior. But
so proud of what your son stood for.
Your son Beau has now been laid to
rest, and life moves forward. But for me,
politics be damned, I'll fly a flag this Flag
Day in Beau Biden's honor.
Perry: From ‘oops’ to hopes
R
ick Perry's official kickoff in Addison on June 4 for his most recent
presidential race was meticulously
planned, right down to having a C-130
transport plane like he'd flown while in
the Air Force.
He had several former Navy SEALs
with him – the gung-ho brand of soldiers
noted for such daring accomplishments
as taking out Osama Bin Laden.
Perry even had Tara Kyle in tow, the
widow of Chris Kyle, the American
sniper who had taken out more enemies
than any other sniper in history, only to
be gunned down by a guy he was trying
to help.
Clint Eastwood directed a movie about
him.
It was a fairly obvious effort to underline that, among the dozen and a half
probable contenders for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, Perry has
some military credentials, and is ready
for the country to stand toe to toe with
anyone.
One thing that apparently hadn't been
quite so meticulously planned by the Perry team, or was disregarded given all that
toughness, was the Texas heat.
The announcement press conference
was held close to high noon, in an airplane hangar, so the C-130, emblazoned
with "Perry for President," was the dominant backdrop.
However, a metal hangar that isn't airconditioned, that is out in the sunlight
when it's 90-plus in the shade, and there
ain't no shade, is about as comfortable as
a barbecue pit.
Everyone there was sweating, including former Texas First Lady Anita Perry.
She noticed.
"Welcome, and thank you, to a hot
hangar on June 4th," she announced.
Former Texas Governor Perry presumably noticed, too, since he was sweating
DAVE
MCNEELY
like he'd just run a mile in his suit.
This is Perry's second chance to make a
first impression – if folks will give him
the chance. He had announced his candidacy for president the first time in
August of 2011, after insisting for months
there was no way he'd run for president.
Up until then, Perry had led a charmed
political life. Elected to the Texas House
of Representatives as a Democrat in
1984. Re-elected in 1986 and 1988 –
when he was one of the Texans chairing
the presidential campaign of Democrat
Al Gore – before Karl Rove recruited him
to switch to the Republican Party in 1989.
He did so to run in 1990 against Jim
Hightower, the popular two-term populist
Democratic Agriculture Commissioner.
Perry narrowly won, and was re-elected
in 1994.
In 1998, he was elected lieutenant governor over his old Aggie buddy, Democratic state Comptroller John Sharp. Perry
had the good fortune to be on the same
ballot below Gov. George W. Bush, running for re-election.
Perry got almost 700,000 fewer votes
than Bush, but still had about 68,000
more than Sharp – a lead of 1.85 percent.
Then in 2000, Bush won the presidency, Perry became governor – and stayed
for 14 years. Some of his re-election
races are closer than others, but he still
wins.
It wasn't until he announced in August
of 2011 that he would seek the 2012 GOP
presidential nomination -- something he'd
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repeatedly promised he wouldn't do -that his unbeaten record encountered
trouble.
Though he started out as a hot property,
leading the polls even before he'd
announced, he committed enough blunders that onlookers began to think he
might not be ready for prime time.
For Texas political columnists, even
before his "Oops!" debate pratfall, Perry
became the gift that keeps on giving. In a
slack time politically in Texas, he got a
lot of ink, but not so much skillfully
applied as splattered.
He finished fifth with 10.4 percent, in
the first state, Iowa. A week later, he ran a
poor sixth in New Hampshire, with 0.7
percent. On Jan. 19, he announced he was
quitting the race.
This time, he has gone to school on his
mistakes, and taken coaching on how to
channel his swagger and go beyond the
cowboy persona. He has been briefed a
lot on what presidents actually do, and
the lay of the land in world-level politics.
A lot of onlookers don't think it will
take – particularly with an indictment for
coercion hanging over him. But you never know; Perry may have gotten his political mojo back.
Ric Williamson was elected to an
adjoining House district the same year
Perry as Perry. Williamson, who eventually was named chairment of the Texas
Transporation Commission by Perry, died
in late 2007.
At his funeral, another from that freshman class, Cliff Johnson, told a story.
Williamson hated small planes. He
would fly in one – but only if Perry was
at the controls.
Why make an exception for Perry?
"Because," Williamson responded,
"he's the luckiest SOB in the world."
We'll see.
512-463-0102
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P.O. Box 2910
Austin, Texas 78768
512-463-0880
Gov. Greg Abbott
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711
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THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, June 12, 2015 — 5A
FOR THE RECORD
Law enforcement and emer- into a ditch and did not know if
gency services activity in Hopkins there were any injuries.
County from 7 a.m. Thursday to 7
n Disturbance family violence
a.m. Friday included:
was reported on State Hughway
154 south about 8 p.m. The caller
said that people were in the midPolice
n A passenger in a car dle of the road yelling at each
stopped for a traffic violation in other.
n A County Road 4725 resithe 100 block of Gilmer Street
just before 7 p.m. went to jail dent called just before 9 p.m.
after officers found warrants for complaining of people drinking
possession of drug paraphernalia, and shooting in the back pasture.
expired inspection, expired
n Dispatchers answered 162
license and another for possession calls, including 51 calls for serof drug paraphernalia. Total fines vice and 23 emergency 911 calls.
associated with the municipal Five people were booked into and
court warrants were in excess of nine were released from the coun$1,000. Another passenger in the ty jail, which held 88 inmates at 6
car accompanied his companion a.m. Friday. Eight additional
to jail on a county warrant for inmates were held in Franklin
violating probation on a marijua- County jail for a total of 96 peona possession charge with a bond ple in custody.
recommended at $2,000.
n Officers were notified by
letter from the owner of a ware- Fire
Sulphur Springs Fire Departhouse on Jefferson Street of a
ment
responded to two alarm
theft that occurred sometime in
the past six months. Missing was calls in the 1100 block of East
a hammer drill and a variable Industrial Drive, the first at 11:42
p.m. Thursday and the second at
speed grinder.
7:24 a.m. Friday, along with a
medical call in the 1000 block of
Sheriff
n After watching a Cooper South League Street at 11:42 p.m.
man, 39, driving a Dodge pickup Thursday and with paramedics to
on Moore Street about 4 a.m., the 400 block of Airport Road at
deputies made a traffic stop after 5:06 a.m. Friday.
they confirmed the man was driving with an invalid license. The Hospital
man was taken to jail and his dog
There were 52 patients,
was taken to the animal shelter.
including eight babies in the nursn A $2,500 cash bond was set ery, at Hopkins County Memorial
for a 42-year-old Sulphur Springs Hospital Friday morning. On
man after he was arrested on a Thursday, there were 50 emerWood County warrant for failure gency room patients, 97 outpato appear on a child support case. tients, six day surgeries and four
n Laci Deanne Lile, 29, was births.
picked up at Hunt County jail and
transported to Hopkins County on
a warrant for violating felony EMS
Hopkins County Emergency
probation on a conviction of
Medical Services responded to 14
engaging in organized crime.
n Investigators went to Com- emergency calls in the city and
merce
Thursday
morning county, one Delta County emerattempting to help locate property gency call, one stand-by call and
stolen from a Commerce address. one transfer.
n A traffic hazard, large
pieces of metal in the roadway, Birth announcement
was reported on Interstate 30
Klint, Whitney and Judd King
about 10:30 a.m.
of
Lindale
announce the birth of a
n Deputies responded to a
Pickton area residence after a daughter and sister, Grant Klaire
caller said a neighbor said her King, at 10:43 p.m. Monday, June
1, 2015, at East Texas Medical
brother had assaulted her.
n A traffic stop just after 2 Center in Tyler. She weighed 7
p.m. held a surprise for deputies. pounds, 6 ounces and was 20 1/2
The driver and his passenger inches long. Grandparents are
were both 10 years old. The chil- Jackie and Deanna Grant and
dren were turned over to their Chuck and Lynette King, all of
Sulphur Springs. Great-grandparparents.
n A traffic accident was ents are Vaden Richey and Edna
reported on State Highway 11 Earle Grant, both of Sulphur
west just before 8 p.m. The caller Springs, and Hollis and Charlotte
said a vehicle had run off the road Davis of Farmers Branch.
SULPHUR GRAPHS
Elvis impersonator Josh
Davis will make an appearance
at the Reilly Springs Jamboree
Saturday, June 20, just before he
heads to the Ultimate Elvis International Finals in Memphis,
Tenn., this summer. Also performing will be The Haystacks, a
youth choir on summer tour. Reilly Springs Jamboree will begin at
7 p.m. Saturday, June 20, at Reilly Springs Community Center,
109 County Road 1439. Later this
summer, at the July 18 and Aug.
15 jamborees, will be the Hard
Times Country band. For more
information, call Enola Gay at
903-438-3568.
n
The 2015 Juneteenth Emancipation Celebration in Sulphur
Springs will be held from 10:30
a.m. to 8 p.m. Saturday, June 20,
in Pacific Park. The celebration
includes a parade and food along
with a celebration of heritage.
Louisiana flooding: 'Dirty red
water was too much for some'
NEW ORLEANS (AP) —
The flooding Red River in rural
northwest Louisiana is reaching
levels not seen since the 1940s,
sending people scrambling to
protect their homes, property
and livestock.
Along the river on Friday,
family, friends, neighbors and
volunteers pitched in to build
sandbag walls. The effort has
been going on for about a
week, as the river has swelled
from massive rains that hit
neighboring Texas and Oklahoma.
The river had receded only
an inch since Thursday. That left
residents faced with the prospect
of continued sandbagging of
homes and property. The National Weather Service predicts the
river will slowing fall over the
next week.
In a new gated community in
southeast Shreveport, homeowners said an army of people has
showed up to help.
Floodwaters had traveled a
half-mile to reach the new
homes in the area, called Les
Maisons Sur La Rouge subdivision.
"I met my neighbor for the
first time as we both worked to
save our homes," Jasen Bragg
said.
Nearby, in Bossier Parish,
officials said two or three dozen
houses and about the same number of mobile homes were flooded.
Lt. Bill Davis with the
sheriff's office said Friday that
he was at the River Bluff subdivision, just north of Bossier
City, where 14 of the 24
homes had 3 to 7 feet of water
in them. Homes range in price
from $500,000 to $1 million,
he said.
Davis said many homeowners put up a good fight, but the
"dirty red water was too much
for some."
Davis said it would be
awhile before the water recedes,
but that's when the real work
starts in cleanup and rebuilding.
Bucky Croach said his 4-foot
wall kept his home in Les
Maisons Sur La Rouge dry.
"The water came within a
few inches from my wall's top,"
Croach said.
Croach said he was thankful
for all the help.
"People brought food, water,
pumps and even a generator," he
said. "These are people I have
never seen before."
Mary McDaniel stood
inside a home that her father,
Curtis Lofton, was building.
She's been using a boat to get
to the house.
"My father was a week
away from getting this 6,000square-foot home ready for this
weekend's home show," she
said.
One of Lofton's workers,
Marces Carter, said, "We'll clean
up when the water goes down
and finish up this house."
OBITUARY
Donnie E. Massey
Funeral arrangements for Donnie E. Massey of Cumby are pending with Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
Mr. Massey died Thursday, June 11, 2015, at Hopkins County
Memorial Hospital.
The online register can be signed at:
www.murrayorwosky.com
Tonight/Saturday
Forecast for Saturday, June 13
Amarillo
60° | 81°
N.M.
Midland
73° | 95°
Funeral arrangements for Billie C. Waters, formerly of Sulphur
Springs, are pending with Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
Ms. Waters died Thursday, June 11, 2015, at Golden Acres Nursing
Home in Dallas.
The online register can be signed at:
www.murrayorwosky.com
involved in this.”
Mapps is described as being
about five feet, nine inches tall
and weighing about 135 pounds.
“He has a mustache-goatee
type deal,” Gilmore said. “He has
a tattoo on the left side of his
neck, he has numerous tattoos but
the one that will be most visible
ARK.
Dallas
74° | 91°
El Paso
67° | 100°
LA.
Austin
74° | 92°
Houston
78° | 85°
San Antonio
75° | 92°
Search continues for suspect
in murder of Jonathan Young
will be the one on the left side of
his neck.”
Police Chief Jay Sanders is
asking that anyone with information about Mapps' whereabouts to
either call the Sulphur Springs
Police Department at 903-8857602 or Crime Stoppers at 903885-2020. Do not approach the
man; alert law enforcement
instead.
OKLA.
Wichita Falls
73° | 92°
Billie C. Waters
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City/Region
Low | High temps
MEXICO
Laredo
77° | 100°
Brownsville
78° | 90°
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Flurries
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Snow
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Burglaries linked to Hunt Co. pair
Continued from Page 1
a Perry Yates, a 31-year-old, and
both from Hunt County are currently in Collin County jail,”
Tatum said. “I think there may be
federal charges in connection
with the weapons they were stealing.”
Investigators are going to all
24-Hour Period Ending
southeast wind 10 to 15 mph.
at 8 a.m. Today
Sunday: A 50 percent chance
the pawnshops the duo may have High........................................92 of precipitation. Mostly cloudy,
Low........................................76
frequented in an effort to see if Rainfall................................0.00” with a high near 86. South southmore cases can be cleared.
east wind 5 to 15 mph.
Tatum is asking that anyone
Sunday Night: A 30 percent
with information about any burchance
of showers and thunderTonight: Mostly cloudy, with a
glaries in the county to call Hopstorms.
A low around 72. South
kins County Sheriff's Office at low around 74. South southeast
southeast
wind 5 to 10 mph.
903-438-4040 or Crime Stoppers wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday:
A 50 percent chance
at 903-885-2020.
Saturday: A 40 percent
Local Forecast
SSISD board OKs contracts
Continued from Page 1
A summer contract was extended to Travis second grade teacher
Hannah Carrington, due to her
mid-term hiring date.
At Douglas Intermediate, Sarah
Blazier was approved for hire as
a special education aide, and
Melissa Johnson and Kristin
McKinney as fifth grade teachers.
At high school, Christa Neal
was approved to join the faculty
as a special education teacher,
Alec Bryant as a technology
teacher and coach, and Tarvaris
Abron as a campus police officer.
Also at high school, Jennifer
Carter will transition from nurse
to health science and technology
teacher.
Cameron Warren will move
from middle school, where he
served as a physical education
teacher and coach to high school,
where he will teach PE and
health, and serve as a coach.
Anthony Henry was approved to
fill the physical education teacher
and coach slot at middle school.
SSISD Assistant Superintendent Randy Reed also noted that
July 9 is the official 45-day con-
tract release date for resignation
notification. He explained that
school law stipulates that districts
do not have to release employees
from contracts if their resignation
or request to resign is made within 45 days of the start of classes.
Reed noted that SSISD administrators do try to work with staff
if any request release from contract after that date, and if a suitable replacement can be found
agree. However, they have to
ensure that students are not
placed at a disadvantage in the
instance a suitable replacement
isn’t found, especially in critical
shortage areas. In that instance,
the employee would likely be
held “accountable to their contract until a suitable replacement
can be found.”
At the beginning of the meeting, prior to the invocation,
SSISD Board of Trustees President John Prickette asked those
present to observe a moment of
silence for the family of Zina
Young for the tragic death of
Jonathan Young Monday morning. He also asked that those present keep the family in thought
and prayer.
Mesquite man charged with
lying about Islamic State
DALLAS (AP) — A federal shooting last month outside a
grand jury has indicted a subur- controversial Prophet Muhamban Dallas man, accusing him of mad cartoon contest in Garland.
lying to federal agents about
whether he supported the leader
of the Islamic State group.
The grand jury in Dallas
charged Bilal Abood, 37, of
Mesquite, on Wednesday with
one count of making a false statement to a federal agency. He has
remained in federal custody since
his arrest last month.
The indictment alleges that
Abood, after being denied boarding of a March 29 international
flight at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, lied when he
said he was traveling to Iraq to
visit family. A search of his computer revealed he had posted an
online oath to the leader of the
Islamic State, a pledge he denied
making.
The U.S. government has designated the Islamic State a terrorist group. It controls parts of Iraq
and Syria and has taken responsibility for attacks, including a
chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly after 1 p.m. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 86.
Southeast wind 5 to 15 mph.
Saturday Night: A 30 percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms. A low around 74. South
of showers and thunderstorms. A
high near 85. South southeast
wind 5 to 10 mph.
Monday Night: A 30 percent
chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy, with a low
around 72.
6A — THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, June 12, 2015
LOCAL CHURCH NEWS
Posey Baptist wraps
up VBS June 11
Journey Off the Map Vacation
Bible School continues from 6
p.m. to 8 p.m. Friday, June 11, for
ages four years to fifth grade students at Posey Baptist Church,
located four miles off State Highway 19 north on FM 71 west.
For additional information, call
903-348-7285.
the annual session with a staff
meeting at 5 p.m. Sunday, June
14, at 901 Como St. All district
church choirs will participate in
a welcome program at 6 p.m.
Sunday.
The congress will then meet
daily starting at 8 a.m. TuesdayFriday, June 16-19, at 901 Como
St. in Sulphur Springs.
St. Mark Baptist
Pickton celebrates
VBS set June 15-19 at
123rd Church
FBC-SS
Anniversary, 53rd
First Baptist Church of Sulphur
Springs will hold Vacation Bible Homecoming June 14
School from 8:30 a.m. to noon
Monday-Friday, June 15-19, for
children starting with those who
will be entering kindergarten
through students who have just
completed sixth grade.
The theme is “Lifeway’s Journey Off the Map,” based on Isaiah 30:21 — “Unknown to us,
unknown to him.”
Families can register their children online at www.ssfbc.org.
First Baptist Church is located
at 116 Oak Ave. in Sulphur
Springs.
St. Mark Baptist Church will
be hosting a celebration in honor
of its 123 year anniversary Sunday, June 14. The church was first
organized under a “brush arbor.”
After two years, the members
became more focused on a more
permeant place to worship God
and began to search. The settlers
built a building that family members still worship in.
The celebration begins at 10:15
a.m. June 14 with Sunday school,
followed at 11:30 a.m. by morning worship. A meal will be
served at 1 p.m. During the meal,
musical selections will be perCypress District
by Cherry Grove, Greater
Congress of Christian formed
Emmanuel and Morning Chapel
Baptist churches. The Rev. D.L.
Education annual
Winkly of Holy Tabernacle
session scheduled
Church International, special
June 14-19
guest, with speak at 3 p.m. SunCypress District Congress of day, June 14
Christian Education will begin
All churches are invited to
attend.
Central Baptist VBS
June 15-19
Central Baptist Church will
hold “Game Plan Mega Sports
Camp” Vacation Bible School
Monday-Friday, June 15-19, for
kids in first through fifth grades.
Sports activities will include soccer, basketball and cheer. Children may be registered online at
http://atcentral.org.
Contact CBC Children’s Director Melinda Henderson at 903885-3660 for more information.
Central Baptist is located at
840 Connally St., located at the
corner of League and Connally
streets, across from Kids Kingdom in Buford Park.
Great day expected
June 14 at Grace
Family Church
Grace Family Church members
invite all who “enjoy a good
gospel music” to their 10:30 a.m.
service Sunday, June 14. Lunch
will be serve afterward.
The Revelators, a men’s quartet
from Alabama, will be the special
guests.
“They are a very spiritual
group with beautiful harmony.
We are sure you will receive a
blessing. Also, Grace Family
members will be blessed to have
you worship with us. Then,
please stay and have lunch with
us. We will enjoy having you vis-
it us anytime,” church members
stated in a press release.
Grace Family Church is located
at 1901 East Loop 301 in Sulphur
Springs.
Summer Sing 2015
scheduled June 13 at
House of Prayer
House of Prayer presents
"Summer Sing" 2015 at 6 p.m.
Saturday, June 13. Featured performers will be The Talleys and
House of Prayer Band "Grace for
Grace.”
Pastor Matt Miller and Senior
Pastor Kenneth Ishmael invited
everyone to attend.
House of Prayer is located 2
miles east of Emory, on FM 515,
cross from the water tower. No
admission free will be charged.
For more information, call 903612-4025 or 214-499-6972.
Play Day Buckle
Series events set June
14 at Cross Country
Cowboy Church
Cross
Country
Cowboy
Church, located 1 miles south of
Interstate 30 on State Highway 19
south, will host Play Day Buckle
Series events including Cloverleaf barrels, poles and flag race
June 14, Sept. 13 and 27, and
Oct. 11 and 25. Any play day following a cancellation will be a
double event. Books open at 1:30
p.m. Play Day starts at 2 p.m. for
the following age groups: Lead
Line for ages 7 years or younger,
Peewee for ages 7 years or
younger, Junior for ages 8-12
years, Intermediate for ages 1317 years, Adult for ages 18-39
and Seniors for ages 40 and over.
Requirements: $35 per family or
$25 per person membership fee,
plus $25 per Play Day entree fee.
Contestants must attend seven of
10 Play Days and all three events
to be eligible for year-end prizes.
Negative coggins required for all
horses. Call Carol France at 903243-1239 before you haul. Concessions available. For more
information, visit www.crosscountrycowboychurch.net
or
Facebook, or call 903-885-4222.
Support group for
separated/divorced
people meets Sunday
at FUMC
Divorce Care, a 26-week session/support group featuring
weekly nondenominational biblical teachings for people recovering from separation or divorce,
will be held from 9:30 a.m. to
10:30 a.m. Sundays through Aug.
2 in the basement of First United
Methodist Church. Childcare will
be provided. Each self contained
session covers topics related to
separation and divorce utilizing a
video seminar and discussion
group so people can join any
time. For information, contact
Shelia
Lunsford
at
[email protected] or
682-557-2702.
Woodland, Emblem,
Shooks Chapel
schedule cemetery
day for June 14
Woodland Cemetery Association’s annual Memorial Day
meeting will begin at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, June 14, in the Fellowship Hall at Tabernacle Baptist
Church in Pickton, located on FM
269 north, one block north of
State Highway 11. Visitors are
welcome.
Other groups who have notified
the News-Telegram they will be
holding annual cemetery memorial and homecoming days Sunday, June 14, include:
■ Emblem Memorial Day Service and cemetery meeting will
be held at 10:30 Sunday, June 14,
at the Emblem Cemetery Chapel
on FM 71. The special speaker
will be Rebecca Hathcoat, and
music will be presented by Zack
Ferrell. A covered dish lunch will
follow the morning service.
■ 83rd Shooks Chapel Homecoming will begin at 11 a.m. Sunday, June 14. A cemetery business
meeting will begin at 10:30 a.m.
Marynell Bryant will present the
program and music will be provided by Bill Owens. Dinner will
be catered by Big Smith’s Barbeque at a rate of $11 per person.
Salvation Army to benefit from Polar Bear Challenge
(AP)- The Salvation Army of
Kerrville will be the beneficiary
of the 2016 Mo-Ranch Polar Bear
Challenge on New Year’s Day.
Sliders who are brave enough
will make a splash into the New
Year, riding down the famous 35foot-high, 116-foot-long slide
straight into the icy waters of the
Guadalupe River to raise funds
for the Salvation Army.
“The Salvation Army of Kerrville is so honored and blessed
to be chosen as the beneficiary of
the 23rd annual Mo-Ranch Polar
Bear Challenge,” said Caitlin
Probandt, director of development and public relations for the
Salvation Army of Kerrville.
“This money will benefit all the
programs that our social services
department offers to those in the
community.”
Funds raised during this event
will go toward the Salvation
Army of Kerrville shelter, food
pantry, rent and utility assistance,
the Reconnect Program and more.
The public can sign up now to
slide for a cause, raise funds and
show their support of the Salvation Army.
Awards will be given to individual and team competitors who
are the largest fundraisers. Additional awards will include the
crowning of the Polar Bear King
and Queen and event awards for
the longest slider, biggest splash,
slider farthest from home, oldest
polar bear and best costume.
The Polar Bear Challenge was
established as a way for MoRanch to support nonprofit organizations in the Kerr County
community. More than $175,000
has been raised to date from this
event.
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History and descriptions of selected early Christian symbolism
From ancient-symbols.com
Christian symbolism invests
objects or actions with an inner
meaning expressing Christian
ideas. Christianity has borrowed
from the common stock of significant symbols known to most periods and to all regions of the world.
Religious symbolism is effective
when it appeals to both the intellect and the emotions. The choice
of suitable acts and objects for
symbolism is narrow enough that
it would not be easy to avoid the
appearance of an imitation of other
traditions, even if there had been a
deliberate attempt to invent an
entirely new ritual.
Elemental symbols were widely
used by the early Church. Water
has specific symbolic significance
for Christians. Outside of baptism,
water may represent cleansing or
purity. Fire, especially in the form
of a candle flame, represents both
the Holy Spirit and light. The
sources of these symbols derive
from the Bible; for example from
the tongues of fire that symbolized
the Holy Spirit at Pentecost, and
from Jesus' description of his followers as the light of the world; or
God is a consuming fire found in
Hebrews 12. The cross, which is
today one of the most widely
recognised symbols in the world,
was used as a symbol from the earliest times.
Among the symbols employed
by the early Christians, that of the
fish seems to have ranked first in
importance. Indeed, from monumental sources such as tombs we
know that the symbolic fish was
familiar to Christians from the earliest times. It can be seen in such
Roman monuments as the Capella
Greca and the Sacrament Chapels
of the catacomb of St. Callistus.
The fish was depicted as a Christian symbol in the first decades of
the second century.
Ancient people believed that the
flesh of a peafowl did not decay
after death, and it so became a
symbol of immortality. This symbolism was adopted by early
Christianity, and thus many early
Christian paintings and mosaics
show the peacock. The peacock is
still used in the Easter season especially in the east.
Here are some of the most popular christian symbols.
Chi Rho
The Chi Rho is one of the earliest cruciform symbols used by
Christians. It is
formed
by superimposing
the first
two letters of the
w o r d
"Christ" in Greek, chi = ch and rho
= r. Although not technically a
cross, the Chi Rho invokes the crucifixion of Jesus as well as symbolizing his status as the Christ.
The earliest evidence of the Chi
Rho symbol is Constantine's use
of it on the labarum, the imperial
standard, in the early fourth century CE. Lactantius, a fourth century Christian apologist, reports
that on the eve of the Battle of the
Milvian Bridge in 312 CE, Constantine had a vision of God in
which he was commanded to mark
his men's shields with the Chi Rho
symbol. After Constantine's success at the Milvian bridge, the Chi
Rho became the official imperial
insignia. Archaeologists have
uncovered evidence demonstrating
that the Chi Rho was emblazoned
on the helmet and shield of Constantine as well as those of all of
his soldiers. Coins and medallions
minted during Constantine's reign the disobedience of the old Adam
also bore the Chi Rho. By the year and became our Savior as the
350 CE, the Chi Rho began to be “New Adam.”
used on Christian sarcophagi and
frescoes. [A.E.M.]
Latin Cross
The Latin Cross, also know as
Ichthus
the Protestant Cross and Western
Ichthus or ichthys is the Greek Cross Latin cross.
word simply meaning “fish”.
The Latin cross
The Greek spelling for ichthus (crux ordinaria) is
is — Iota, Chi, Theta, Upsilon and a symbol of ChrisSigma.
tianity
even
The Engthough it was used
lish transas a pagan symbol
lation is
for
millennia
IXOYE.
before the foundaThe five
tion of the ChristGreek
ian Church.
letters stand for the words meanIt has been found in China and
ing, “Jesus Christ, Son of God, Africa. It appears on Scandinavian
Savior.” The Greek rendering is, Bronze Age stones depicting the
“Iesous Christos, Theou Uios, Sot- hammer of Thor, their god of thuner”.
der and war. It was regarded as a
This symbol was used primarily magical symbol. It brought good
amongst Christians of the early luck and diverted evil. Some peochurch years (first and second cen- ple interpret rock carvings of the
tury A.D.) The symbol was intro- cross as a solar symbol, or a symduced from Alexandria, Egypt; bol of Earth with its points reprewhich at the time, was a very senting north, south, east and west.
heavily populated seaport. It was Others say it represents the human
the port in which many goods form.
were brought over from the European continent. Because of this, it
Lamb
was first used by the peoples of the
The Lamb is a symbol of Christ
sea as a symbol of a familiar deity, as
the
in this case, Jesus Christ.
Paschal
After his commission at the foot Lamb and
of the San Damiano Cross, Saint also a symFrancis chose a more ancient sym- bol
for
bol of redemption as his standard: Christians
the Tau cross.
(as Christ is
In commenting on the scriptures our Shepof Israel, the early Christian writers herd
and
used its Greek translation, the Sep- Peter was told to feed His sheep).
tuagint, in which the last letter of The lamb is also a symbol for St.
the Hebrew alphabet, the tau, was Agnes (Feast Day 21 January), virtranscribed as a “T” in Greek. Pre- gin martyr of the early Church.
figured in the last letter of the
Hebrew alphabet, then, the stylized
Tau cross came to represent the
Dove
means by which Christ reversed
The Dove is a symbol of the
Holy Ghost
which
and used
are said
especially
to symin represenbolize a)
tations of
the fiv e
our Lord's
wounds
Baptism
of
and the Pentecost. It also symbol- C h r i s t ;
izes the release of the soul in and/or b)
death, and is used to recall Noah's the four Gospels and the four cordove, a harbinger of hope.
ners of the earth (the four smaller
crosses) and Christ Himself (the
large Cross). This Cross was a comRose
The rose is a the Holy Faith, Our mon symbol used during the wars
against Islamic aggression.
Lady, martyrdom, the
secrecy of
Baptismal Cross
penance.
Baptismal Cross: consisting of
Five roses
the Greek
grouped
C r o s s
together
with the
symbolize
Greek letthe
five
ter "X",
Wounds of Christ.
the first
initial of
Anchor
the title
An Anchor is found in the first "Christ,"
century cemetery of St. Domitilla,
this Cross
the second
is a symbol of regeneration, hence,
and third
its association with Baptism
century
epitaphs of
the cataPeter’s Cross
combs, and
Peter's
Cross was used after he
especially
was martyred and chose to be cruciin the oldfied upside-down out of respect for
est parts of
Christ,
the
the cemeupside-down
teries of
Latin Cross has
Sts. Priscilbecome
his
la (about
symbol and,
70 examples in this cemetery alone), Domi- thereby, a symtilla, Calixtus, and the Coemetari- bol of the papaum majus. See Hebrews 6:19.
cy. Today, this
cross has been
co-opted
by
Jerusalem Cross
The Jerusalem Cross is also Satanists whose purpose of "invertcalled the "Crusaders' Cross," it is ing" Christianity during their Black
made up of five Greek Crosses 'Masses' ceremony.
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SULPHUR SPRINGS
NEWS-TELEGRAM
June 12, 2015
N-T Sports
PHONE: 885-8663
FAX: 885-8768
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High School All-Star game
Three players in FCA football tilt
Wildcats Jenkins,
Carpenter; Cumby’s
Anderson play
Saturday in FCA
Heart of
a Champion
all-star football
game set
Saturday in
Longview
By DON WALLACE
News-Telegram Sports Editor
[email protected]
While Sulphur Springs and Cumby did not
have a long playoff run, three players from
those teams can now have a happier ending to
their football memories.
They will be playing Saturday in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Heart of Champion
All-Star game set for a 6:30 p.m. kickoff at
Longview’s Lobo Stadium.
Some 200 players were nominated by their
coaches. He said the coaches not only consider
their achievements on the field, but also their
off the field actives in helping their communities and their academics.
Tenaha‘s Terry Ward will serve as head
coach of the Blue team. His staff will include
Tracy Blankenship of Ore City,
John Berry of
Gladewater, Jeff
Cleveland
of
Commerce,
Chris Edwards
of
Hughes
Springs,
Josh
Furlow of Tenaha and Mark
Sartain of Spring
Hill.
Bishop
Gorman’ s Coby
Gipson will be
the Blue team
consultant.
The Red
squad will be led
by head coach Adam Cook of Whitehouse and
two of his Wildcat assistants Brad Cook and
Brian Dunn. Other coaches for the Red team
are Roger Adams of Union Grove, Jay Brown
of Palestine, Whitney Keeling of Waskom,
John King of Longview and Heath Ragle of
Eustace. Lindale‘s Mike Meador will serve his
second term as the Red team consultant.
Cumby standout running back/linebacker
Cody Anderson will be on the Red team along
with Sulphur Springs offensive lineman Jess
Jenkins. Sulphur Springs wide receiver/tight
end Dillon Carpenter will be on the Blue team.
Cumby head coach Tom Dracos said he was
proud of Anderson. “I’m glad he will get a
chance to play and represent Cumby. We’d like
to have someone in this game every year. Cody
was great on both sides of the ball for us. In the
last two years have made more than 450 tackles
on defense while on offense, he averaged seven
yards a carry. He was voted the athlete of the
year in Cumby. He was all district in basketball
and football. He qualified for regional in powerlifting and track. He was also the offensive
MVP in district baseball.”
Anderson said, “I will get play with and
against players from larger programs. Some of
them are all-state players from very good programs. I am ready, I believe I can play on their
level.”
Anderson, at 6-foot, 210-pounds is a player
Top photo
Jess Jenkins (left) and Dillon Carpenter of Sulphur Springs work out in preparation for Saturday
Fellowship of Christian Athletes all-star football
game in Longview. The Heart of a Champion
game will be played at 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Lobo
Stadium.
Left photo
Cody Anderson, Cumby standout linebacker/running back, will be in action Saturday in the FCA AllStar game in Longview. Anderson hopes to see
playing time on both sides of the ball.
Staff photos by Don Wallace
who has earned all-district honors while at
Cumby. To get ready for the game he’s been
lifting weights and running for his final chance
at high school football.
“I’ve been out in the heat some cutting hay
and doing other work. So I am in pretty good
shape,” Anderson said. “I plan on playing some
in the game on offense and defense.”
Anderson often played the entire game while
suiting up for Cumby, on the field even for spe-
cial teams.
“I really like defense and I hope I get to play
some Saturday,” Anderson said. “I’m happy
with playing some offense as well. I have been
practicing catching and running. I think I have
pretty good speed.”
Anderson said, “It will be my first football
game on turf, I did play in some 7-on-7 on turf,
so I know what to expect. I just want to go and
do my best and meet some new players and
coaches. I’m probably one of a few players
from a 2A school on the roster. So this is a big
honor for me. I’m playing in an all-star game
and may get a chance to play college football
because of Coach Dracos. He’s pushed me to
do my best and I got better this year. I feel like
under him I was able to make the most of my
ability and I also got strong under our conditioning program.”
Anderson could sign with Henderson State,
but all the details have not been worked out at
this time.
Jenkins, a 6-3, 310-pound offensive lineman
from Sulphur Springs is also looking forward
to the last high school game of his career.
Jenkins said, “I have been doing as much as I
can- lifting and training. I will probably be losing some weight since we have two practices
this week at 4 p.m. But I think will be a good
experience. I just want to have fun. We’ll be
going up against the best players around in East
Texas.”
Jenkins will be playing on the offensive line
in the fall for Texas A&M-Commerce. In the
all-star game he will be at his familiar spot of
left guard.
“I will be right where I like playing, left
guard, my spot,” Jenkins said with a grin. “I
See FCA, Page 9A
Texas Rangers
Gonzalez solid, but Rangers lose
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Chi Chi Gonzalez's
string of scoreless innings to begin his major
league career ended in the first inning of the Texas
pitcher's latest start.
It didn't take long for the Rangers' rookie to start
another one.
Gonzalez bounced back nicely from his opening stumble but Texas couldn't get anything going
offensively against Scott Kazmir and lost 7-0 to
Oakland on Thursday afternoon.
"He gave up that run, settled in and threw the
ball very well," Rangers manager Jeff Banister
said. "You can't take anything away from him. He
was in control out there."
Gonzalez (2-1) gave up one run, eight hits and
three walks in seven innings. He had entered with
14 2-3 scoreless innings in the major leagues and
was trying to become the first Texas pitcher to win
his first three big league starts.
The Texas right-hander allowed Ben Zobrist's
RBI single in the first but shut the A's down from
there despite pitching with runners on base in all
but two of the innings he worked.
"It's been a great ride throwing up zeros," Gon-
zalez said. "The first inning I was only working
one side of the plate but when I got back to using
both sides, it worked out."
Gonzalez definitely made an impression on A's
manager Bob Melvin, who spent part of his
postgame press conference praising the Rangers'
young pitcher.
"Every time we got some traffic out there, he
seemed to get better," Melvin said. "I know they
like him a lot."
Kazmir (3-4) allowed one hit in eight innings to
end a nine-start winless streak. He retired 13 of
his first 14 batters around a second-inning walk
by Adam Rosales and didn't allow a hit until Elvis
Andrus' one-out single to center in the fifth.
Texas' only other runner was Prince Fielder, who
walked leading off the seventh.
The Rangers have been shut out three times this
season — all in Oakland and twice in games started by Kazmir.
"For some reason Kazmir always seems to pitch
well against us," Banister said. "He was able to
use his cutter, and his secondary pitches were giving us fits."
Stars sparkle tonight
Sulphur Springs all-state softball players Kasey Moore (left) and Makayla Glosson will be in action today
at 7 p.m. They will be participating in the Fellowship of Christian Athletes Heart of a Champion all-star
Staff photo by Don Wallace
softball game at the UT-Tyler field.
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Sulphur Springs Softball
38 attend two softball camps
Ripping a hit
Left photo
Carter Page, 13, of Sulphur
Springs gets ready to pound the
ball thrown by Hailey Dixon to waiting fielders during recent camp
action.
Sulphur Springs recently held a
softball camp divided into two
groups. The students in grades two
through five were in one division
and older students, entering grades
six through nine were in another
bracket. A total of 38 campers participated. The camps were held
indoors at the high school’s multipurpose building. Dixon, a former
Lady Cat player, now on a pitcher
at Texas Woman’s University,
assisted high school coaches at
the camp.
Staff photos
by Don Wallace
Slip sliding
safe at home
Left photo
A Sulphur Springs softball
camper is observed going through
a sliding drill at the recent camp.
Looking on are coaches Kevin
Tanton (left) and Chris Valdovinos.
FCA grid game Saturday
Continued from Page 8A
haven’t played in a while. But by
Saturday I will be ready to go.
The offensives will probably be
pretty simple and easy for us to
learn since we have such limited
time.”
Carpenter, a 6-3, 207-pound
wide receiver/tight end, said he
looks forward to catching some
passes in the all-star game.
“I’ll be fun and it’s a good
chance to represent our school,”
he said. “I’ve already been hearing how the defense is pretty
skilled. But the offensive guys
have some skills and we’re not
too worried about it.”
Carpenter added, “The heat in
the practices will be tough. But
we will also have time to learn
and prepare. They probably want
us to memorize some plays.”
Carpenter will also be playing
football in college, lining up for
the Lions at A&M-Commerce.
Sulphur Springs head football
coach Greg Owens said, “This is
a big honor of Jess and Dillon to
represent the school. It’s a great
opportunity for them to play
another high school game. The
FCA is a great organization and a
great cause. I think it’s a neat
game because the best players
from this area are all playing
against each other.”
The FCA in Northeast Texas
includes some 65-plus school districts in 17 countries, director
Robert Bardin said, along with 10
to 12 colleges and universities.
Blue Team All-Stars
QB Keese Kosko, Wills Point
QB Grant Hanks, Brook Hill
C Trevor Still, Henderson
C Raul Campa, Athens
OL Johnathan Hubbard, Kilgore
OL Chett Munden, Marshall
OL Blake Guthrie, Kilgore
OL Jacob Rowland, Wills Point
OL Wyatt Santos, Van
OL Kyle Adams, Waskom
OL Sonny Russell, Chapel Hill
OL Josh Brittain, Spring Hill
RB Cobe Caraway, Tenaha
RB Matt Savis, Van
RB Zach Tatman, Grace Community
RB Marquies Hunter, Longview
WR Connor Hobbs, Bishop TK Gorman
WR Chase Tate, Gilmer
WR Trevor Carr, Tyler Lee
WR Chris Weaver, Palestine
WR Kolton Pierce, Lindale
WR Matt Brunson, All Saints
WR Dillon Carpenter, Sulphur Springs
TE Jarod Wood, Kilgore
TE Emmanuel Gordon, Longview
Video man
David Carrillo, Sulphur Springs
head softball coach, takes photos
and videos of campers during
Thursday workouts in the multipurpose building at SSHS.
FRANK and ERNEST by Bob Thaves
ZITS ® by Jerry Scott and Jim Borgman
MUTTS by Patrick McDonnell
ALLEY OOP by Dave Graue
THE BORN LOSER by Art Sansom
GARFIELD by Jim Davis
B.C. b
PEARLS BEFORE SWINE ® by Stephan Pastis
BUCKLES by David Gilbert
BABY BLUES by Kirkman & Scott
DL Trevor Keener, Mineola
DL Sean Bixler. Rusk
DL Trey Valentine, Marshall
DL Tanner Tunstall, Elkhart
DL Tyler Trussell, Athens
DL Kenneth Ainsworth, Gladewater
DL Malik Alley, Brook Hill
LB Hunter Smith, Hughes Springs
LB Daniel Willner, Caddo Mills
LB Kris Haynes, Kilgore
LB Hagen Tucker, Spring Hill
LB Hunter Redmon, Van
LB Zack McGuire, Ore City
LB Cody Anderson, Cumby
LB Keyshawn Smith, Tatum
LB Ranger Wilcoxson, Wills Point
DB Stephen Tucker, Mabank
DB Calvin Ainsworth, New Diana
DB Darien Redd, Commerce
DB Jaylon Kerby, Hallsville
DB Daylon Gordon, Gladewater
DB Jordan Owens, John Tyler
DB Jonny Spitzer, Grace Community
K/P Edgar Sanchez, Henderson
Holder Garrett Plumlee, Spring Hill
Red Team All-Stars
QB Jamikel Roberts, San Augustine
QB Peter Maddox, Van
QB Chaston Brooks, Tatum
C Dane Jesters, Gilmer
C
Gonzalo Arrequin, Chapel Hill
OL Thorn Berry, Gladewater
OL Broderick Washington, Longview
OL Jess Jenkins, Sulphur Springs
OL Kendall Holmes, John Tyler
OL Trey Gillespie, Hallsville
OL Justin Willoughby, Tyler Lee
OL Travion Nebon, Longview
OL Colton Moore, Lindale
OL Charlie Rowden, Troup
RB Kevin Johnson, Waskom
RB Damien Thomson, Brownsboro
RB Randy Davis, Henderson
WR Sir Charles Perkins, Pittsburg
WR Loguen Wesner, Beckville
WR Mason Hays, Pine Tree
WR Jake Pullen, White Oak
WR Junebug Johnson, Waskom
WR Brent Wells, Mineola
WR Vay Davis, Palestine
WR Lleyton Myers, Van
WR Eric Munoz, Whitehouse
DL James Bowery, Union Grove
DL Omar French, Longview
DL Ja vieontae Mumphrey, Alto
DL Tyrone Brown, Brook Hill
DL Dakedrick McMorris, Palestine
DL Joseph Gipson, John Tyler
DL Zach Hughes, Eustace
LB Jaylan Jackson, Longview
LB Tyarius Hackett, Alto
LB Trace Carter, Waskom
LB Jaylon Reese, John Tyler
LB Grant Key, Sabine
LB Anthony Washington, Marshall
LB Tim Carr, Maud
DB Markell Spigner, Rains
DB Jessie Biles Jr., Daingerfield
DB Isaiah Porter, Paul Pewitt
DB Ozzie Buckner, Frankston
DB Jakoriyan Walker, Longview
DB Tre Staples, Whitehouse
DB Connor Mebane, Bullard
DB Cameron Prize, Tyler Lee
DB Nate Brooks, Whitehouse
K Colby Crim, Whitehouse
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Notices
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Business Services
012
Help Wanted
021
Help Wanted
021
Help Wanted
021
Help Wanted
021
SCOTT'S LAWN SERVICE
need someone you can trust to
mow lots, storage units, etc Call
Scott 903-850-3466
DOZER SERVICE. LARGE or
small. Ponds and brush. 903-3351735.
CARPENTER ENTERPRISES
ASPHALT and concrete, maintenance and repairs, seal coating,
striping, crack filling, patching,
overlays, power-washing 903439-7666.
THE HOUSE SURGEONS, all
types painting, sheet rock repair,
and remodeling. Mark Gafford
903-468-2026.
Business Opp.
019
ATTENTION!! FOR YOUR
FLEA MARKET AND Antiques PROTECTION,
PLEASE
Open Wed-Saturday 10-6p.m. 800 INVESTIGATE ADVERTISERS
Jefferson. We have everything.
UNDER THIS CLASSIFICATION BEFORE INVESTING
ROSEMARY IS BACK!!!! On MONEY!
Coleman Spillway, Main Street.
Yantis produce. Tomatoes, sweet IT'S ILLEGAL FOR companies
onions & etc...
doing business by phone to
promise you a loan and ask you
Automobiles
006 to pay for it before they deliver.
FOR SALE 99 Ford Crown Vic For more information, call toll
77K Great Shao $2,300 Cash free 1-877-FTC HELP. A public
service message from The News
940-224-2719
Telegram and the Federal Trade
FOR SALE, 2005 Chrysler 300, Commission.
Excellent condition, new Miche- Help Wanted
021
lin tires $6,000 Firm. Can be
seen at 123 West Oak circle.
Robert Mercer 903-885-4152.
ATV/Motorcycles
EXPERIENCED CERTIFIED
BOOKKEEPER needed for an
East Texas Homeowners Association. Accredited in the use of
Quickbooks (Desktop and Online
version) Flexible hours but minimum 1-2 days in POA office per
week. Experienced in transition
from Desktop to Online Quickbooks an asset. Contact Allan
Rogers
at
[email protected]
007
2009 H-D ROAD King Classic
w/eleven spoke chrome cast
wheels, detachable tour pak, passenger back rest, luggage rack, &
riders back rest. $13,500 903335-5058
Trucks
008
2005 DODGE RAM Diesel
2500, 4x4, 4dr, shortbed, new
transmission 903-335-0316.
Trailers
APARTMENT LEAD MAINTENANCE POSITION OPEN
Applicants must possess HVAC
certification and prior apartment
maintenance experience, tools and
a working vehicle. We offer a
competitive salary and benefits.
Come join the WINNING
TEAM! Apply now … at
Canyon Creek Apartments, 601
Industrial West.
009
16 FT FLAT bed tandem built
stong. $950.00, 903-335-8320.
Boats
010
BOAT STORAGE: 24 hour
access. Self Storage, 885-6111.
Business Services
012
TILL GARDENS, MOW lots DRIVER NEEDED CDL. Hazemat/Tanker endorsement. Benefits
and pastures,
package, excellent pay, regional
Robert Mercer 903-885-4152.
work, stable family owned busiSHAWN
CARPENTER ness, new trucks. 903-485-3095.
HOMES, Inc. New homes &
remodeling for 22 years. 903-439- CAREER OPENINGS AT
8697
or
shawncarpenter- Northeast Texas Child Advocacy
Center located in Winnsboro
homes.com
For application instructions:
NEALS HANDYMAN SER- www.netcac.org
VICES. Specializing in small
remodeles, painting, drywall, DRIVER WANTED $500 signtape, bed, texture, ceramic tile, on bonus, if already carded at
custom ADA wheelchair ramps Delek.Class A CDL, Haz Mat
and decks, tear outs/ haul offs. and Tanker endorsement a must.
Free estimates in area. Call OTR and fuel tanker experience
preferred. Family owned and operJeramiah 903-439-7009.
ated. Great pay and home time.
H & S HOUSE Leveling: Foun- 214-577-3048. 903-488-3150.
dation repair. 25yrs. Experience.
Free Estimates. 903-784-1849, DRIVER WANTED CLASS A
CDL, freight OTR Good pay &
903-782-4347.
home time. Gary 903-488-3150.
PORTABLE
BUILDING
MOVING Company & Local
Moving Company, All size
buildings. Move any distance.
903-439-7666.
JANEEN'S COUNTRY COTTAGE, Now Hiring a hair dresser. Call 903-885-8123 ask for
Janeen.
HELP WANTED: MANUAL
POOLMAN: EQUIPMENT labor for fencing company, must
REPAIR, pool cleaning year have clean driving record. 972round. Call 903-268-3489.
310-8129.
JS CONSTRUCTION DECKS,
Docks & Fencing, Pier remodel/extensions, porches, boat
house repair. Free Estimates. Joel
903-440-3422
LOCAL CLEANING SERVICE hiring for 5-10pm and
A.M. shift. Sunday-Thursday.
Industrial experience required, able
to lift over 50lbs, payscale above
minimum wage.
WHEN YOU NEED Something 903-466-3802.
Done, call Ken & Son's. Free
Estimates. Have junk to haul? BUSCANDO PERSONA A
Trees to cut? We'll remove almost tiempo completo para ayudar a
Anything! 903-885-5115, 903- cuidar niños, trabajo doméstico,
438-9533.
y cocinar. 903-885-8882.
SUMMER IS HERE!!
AUTO BODY MAN needed,
contact Darrell at 903-886-2188.
WENDY'S IN SULPHUR
Springs, Now Hiring Managers,
Apply
online
at
www.pleaseapplyonline.com/wen
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NEW KWS. CLASS-A CDL
drivers needed in Mt. Pleasant,
TX to haul live chickens and/or
protein. Tanker End, 1yr verifiable exp, and good MVR req.
Night Shift, Paid per load. $3000
sign-on bonus. F/T & P/T. Call
903-563-2396 or 804-784-6166.
SUNNY SPRINGS NURSING
& Rehab has openings for CNA
2-10 & 10-6, LVN 6-2 & 2-10,
Certified Dietary Manager, PRN
CNA'S & LVN'S. Apply in person @ 1200 N. Jackson. Sulphur
Springs. EOE.
CITY OF WINNSBORO Seeks qualified applicants for
Wastewater Treatment Plant Operator with minimum Class “D”
license; Class “C” or “B” is preferred. Must possess strong communication skills with public/state agencies, computer
knowledge preferred. Applications are available at City Hall
weekdays 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or
at www.winnsborotexas.com.
Resume should be returned to the
City Secretary, City Hall, 501 S.
Main Street, Winnsboro, Texas
75494. Salary DOQ with good
benefits. Position open until
filled. City EEO Employer.
DEDICATED,
QUICK
LEARNERS needed for busy
office. Great communication
skills, MS Office. Full and part
time.
Send
resume
to
[email protected].
BUSY OFFICE LOOKING for
part-time receptionist. Must be
proficient with MS Word &
Email. QB, Excel & Web experience a plus but not required.
Must love people, be very patient
and give good directions. Please
send resume to P.O. Box 347,
SS, TX 75483.
Garage Sales
Hay & Grain
029
ROUND BALES 4X5 $35.00
,fertilized square bales coastal
$5.50. 214-533-2549
903-945-2153
903-438-0807
COASTAL AND TIFTON 85,
Square bale $8, round bale $40$80, 3X4X8. Jim Russell 903485-4460.
031
1000 S. DAVIS St. Sat only
8am-? Home decor, jr & women's
clothing and shoes.
110 7TH ST. SAT & SUN
lots of newborn, girls 3/4T, size
6 boys clothes. Home decor,
changing table, lost of knick
knacks, baseball equipment, lots
LOOKING FOR A federal job? of purses, scrubs, 22" rims, xbox
The Career American Connection WII and PS3 games & movies.
is the government's official list- To much to list.
ing of federal job vacancies. For
free current information on 12109 ST. HWY 11 west Cumemployment opportunities, call by, Friday12th and Saturday13th
Career American Connections, 7:30a.m.-6p.m.
478-757-3000.
1215 MOCKINGBIRD LANE.
PART TIME DISHWASHER Across from Juan Pablos. Little
needed. Apply in person at Red bit of everything. Name brands.
Indoors Thurs-Saturday, 7-?, Fri.
Barn Cafe. 903-885-3332.
7-2.
DOWNTOWN
BUSINESS
ALLIANCE is needing trolley 1704 POSEY LN, SAT 9am-?
driver. Contact Tiffany 903-466- Having sale again due to Rainy
Weather. Selling Menudo $8.00.
2096.
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Garage Sale
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Mobile Home
033
Advertise Your
Services!
Call 885-8663
1999 FLEETWOOD. 16X76
mobile home. 3BR/2BA. All
electric $14,000. Call 903-8854056.
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Dozer Service
DOZER,
TRACKHOE,
MOTOR Grader, Land clearing
& development, Lagoon, Lake,
Pond construction, Demolition,
Site Preparation, Roadwork.
Elwin Strawn - Since 1959. 903885-6658, 903-243-1001.
Foundation Repair
Land For Sale
053
2-3 ACRE TRACTS restricted to
New Double Wide or New Construction. Extra acreage available. South part of Hopkins
County. SSISD $18,750. Owner
Financing Available! 903-3481052.
Homes For Sale
S.S.S. ROOFING, FREE Estimates, residential and commercial. All work guaranteed.
Call Glenn 903-243-6310.
Tree Service
MIKE'S TREE SERVICE
bucket truck, tree trimming, and
stump removal. Free Estimates.
903-485-2442
MERCER TREE SERVICE:
Complete tree & stump removal,
trim trees, bucket truck. Free estimates. 35yrs experience. Robert
Mercer, 903-885-4152.
COMPLETE TREE & stump
LAWN MOWING, WEED eat- removal, trim trees, bucket truck.
ing, edging. Big or small we can Free estimates. 15 years experience. 903-438-6503.
do it! Free Estimates.
903-885-4903
MS TREE SERVICE: We spe903-689-8079.
cialize in dangerous removal and
Painting
trimming. Bucket truck, Stump
removal. References. 20 yrs expeRAMIREZ PAINTING- INTErience. Insured
Owner Mike
RIOR, exterior, commerical, resStory. 903-439-7340.
idential, remodels, drywall, new
texture or repair deck&pressure Weddings
washing. 903-335-5195
WEDDINGS, RECEPTIONS,
Free Estimates
CATERING, Flowers, Wedding
Plumbing
Equipment. Tuxedo's. Melba's
Kreations, 512 South Jackson.
NET PLUMBING CO. Repair
903-885-7025, 903-885-9272.
& Remodeling 50 years experience. Low Prices. 903-885-3259
Visa/MasterCard M-9249
Printing Service
CARROLL FOUNDATION
REPAIR. Slabs, pier and beams,
blocks. Since 1971, member of
BBB, member of Chamber of
Commerce. Gary Carroll. 903885-3051.
CarrollFoundationRepair.com.
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FOR SALE MULTIPLE homes
2/1, 2/2. 3/2, 903-243-7080
Joshua Gange Agent,
Branding Iron Realty.
www.brandingironrealty.com
PRICE REDUCED, 1724 Sq.
Ft., brick on 1.42 acres with
40X60 shop, chain link and pipe
fencing. Dead end street. 507
Bamboo,
Cumby
Texas.
$87,000. Realtor 903-439-8985.
PINE MEADOW APARTMENTS. Very Nice 1-2BR,
1BA, small and large efficiency.
Lots For Sale
058
All bills paid plus cable. Social
1 TO 2 ACRE lots suitable for
Security recipient no dep.
Doublewide. Call 903-885-8866.
required. Ark Tex welcomed. 539
Bellview St. 903-365-2764. 903YARD SALE 99 CR 1173 June 951-1404.
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
11-13 Thursday 7a.m.-5:30p.m., 903-335-0615.
FOR lease. 685 Sq Ft. $925/mo.
Friday 7a.m.-8p.m., Saturday
I-30 Frontage Rd - high traffic
BRITTANY
SQUARE
APART8a.m.-noon, Misc tools, antique
count. High speed broadband
wardrobe, antique washstand, MENTS
included. 903-348-5832. westQuiet Garden Style Living
computer desk, lift chair, oak
Walk to restaurants, shopping etc. shannonrd.com.
jewelry armoire, oversized reclinMove-In Specials for 1BR and
er, misc clothes, shoes, etc WE 2BR
PROFESSIONAL OFFICE
ACCEPT ALL MAJOR CRED- Call us at 903.885.7041
SPACE for rent, $300/month
IT CARDS
includes all utilities except teleVisit www.brittanysq.com
phone. Located in Windsor Plaza,
No Rental Application Fee!!
YARD SALE SATURDAY 700
101 Bill Bradford Rd, Ste#25.
Bird Circle. coffee table, dresser, CALL NOW FOR Spring Spe- Call 903-885-2480 for more
clothes, shoes, toys, and etc.
cials!!! Bentley Park Apartments information.
1BR and 2BR. 817-706-4302.
Farm Equipment
032
467 JD ROUND Baler. String
tie, one owner, $7,500. Currently THE CORNERS APTS
in use. 903-488-0068, 903-951- 2/1 & 2/2 Available
Water, Sewer & Trash Paid!!
3344.
Call us today 903.439.3683
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TOPSOIL 8-YARDS FOR
$100, compost already mixed,
ready to plant $45/yard Mike Story, 903-439-7340.
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INTERIOR & EXTERIOR
Repaint specialist. Drywall
repair, textures, carpenter repairs
& residential cleanings. Call
Steve or Kimberly. 903-4737245, cell 903-268-2967.
Dirt, Topsoil, Sand
Apartments
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AVENT CONSTRUCTION
30YRS experience. Remodel/Build/Design
replacement windows, vinyl siding, metal roofing. 903-348-9523
903-885-3083.
HOUSE FOR SALE 326
Weaver Drive. 3acres. 4/BR
2/BA, $65K owner fincancing
available
$4,000
down.
$650/month
903-736-5003.
YARD SALE SATURDAY only
1021 Mulberry st. off Park St. .
Furniture, kids toys, clothes, 2
bars and stools. plus size womens
clothes
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Home Repairs
Duplexes
047
MULTI-TENANT COMMU1BR
APARTMENT
IN
PeerNITY YARD sale @ Trinity
TOWNHOME.
less, Tx. Totally private, all util- 2BR/1BA
Oaks Apts 600 Woodlawn St. Fri
COMES
with
w/d,
and Carport.
ties paid including Direct TV,
& Sat. 8am-?.
$600/ month, $300 deposit,
W/D included. 903-440-4148
Como. 903-348-6263.
SAT 8AM-5PM GIANT yard 1BR/ 1BA REMODELED, all
sale, Hwy 11 E (5miles towars appliances, including w/d. $550/ CAMERON SQUARE 2 bd 2
Como). Clothes for all ages, month $250/ deposit. westoakvil- ba w/d hookup $750 $500
deposit 903-348-2625
Rock Revivals, shoes, electric lageapt.com
guitars, lap tops and more. 903-885-3505
Business Property
048
CHEAP.
EFFICIENCY APT NEAR
Cooper Lake. Large efficiency.
Washer/dryer
connections,
water/trash paid. No elec. deposit.
$395. 903-945-2420.
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Construction
MCCORMICK CONSTRUCTION AND Roofing. Residential, Commercial, Free Estimates,
Inspections, Add-ons, painting,
gutters. Shane Mccormick All
work guranteed. Over 16yrs experience. 903-348-1829.
2BD/1BA MOBILE HOME on
1 acre w, storage building.
$30,000. Reilly Springs. 903488-0068, 903-951-3344.
SAT ONLY 7AM-? Hwy 19 N
turn right on CR 4508, 1st house
on right. Lots of boy's & girl's
baby clothes, toddler clothes,
toys, swings, furniture. ETC.
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ROGER SEWELL SEAMLESS GUTTERS. 36 colors aluminum & copper, galvalume.
Quality work, affordable price.
903-885-2627.
ARK-TEX APARTMENTS:
Apartments for rent. 1BR efficiencies. $475/mo, utilities paid.
972-369-0177.
3 HOUSES AVAILABLE. 3/2
brick, $750, 3/2 mobile home
$700, 2/2 mobile home $650.
EVERYTHING MUST GO ! 903-243-2318.
Misc items, young men and Apartments
046
womens clothing, and shoes.
QUIET, PEACEFUL LIVING!
1004 N. Davis. Saturday 8-1
1Bedroom; w/d connections,
MOVING SALE, 223 McCann, kitchen appliances, water paid,
books, movies, household decor, on-site manager. Call 903-8851077, Mon-Fri 9-6, Sat 9-12.
clothes, furniture.
Easy Street Apartments.
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AREA WIDE PAVING. Asphalt
paving & seal coating. New construction, repairs, maintenance.
Owner Paul Pogue, 903-8856388.
34 ACRES IN sandy south Hopkins county, 8 miles south of
Wal-Mart. Mature trees, open
meadows, small pond. SSISD
$3250 per acre. Call 903-3481052 Owner Financing available
3/BR 1/BA SINGLE carport,
ch/a, w/d , connections. Sulphur
Springs
903-439-5708.
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Roofing
QUAIL RIDGE APARTMENTS
1bd/1ba $350-$375
2bd/1ba $450-$475
2bd/1.5ba $525
2bd/2ba $525-$550
3bd/2ba $625-650
Water, Trash,
and Sewer
paid.CH/A. Refrigerator, Stove,
and Dishwasher included.
Mngr and Maint on site, 24hr
maintenance. Pet Friendly. Call
or visit us today 903-885-4231
or check us out online @
www.quailridgecommunity.ne
HUGE GARAGE SALE 4162
I-30 E, formerly The Marble
Shop! Nice office furniture, mirrors, counter tops, commercial ice
machine, commercial heat/serve
etc. Saturday Only! Everything
Must Go!
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Gutters
JAMIE'S DOGHOUSE. ALL
sizes, all breeds, off College
Street. Appt. available. 903-2434903.
!! NORTHSIDE SELF-STORAGE. Affordable & Clean. 5
blocks south of hospital. 1113
Church. 903-885-1400 email
[email protected].
39
Asphalt
D M - C O N S T R U C T I O N . Lawn Care
REMODELING & Handyman
services, Free Estimates. 903- SCOTT'S LAWN SERVICE
243-3473 David
need someone you can trust to
mow lots, storage units, etc Call
Cleaning Service
Scott 903-850-3466
MAGGIE MAE'S CLEANING
Service. Houses and offices, con- LAWN MOWING, WEED eatstruction, move-ins, or move- ing, edging. Big or small we can
outs.
903-335-3181. do it! Free Estimates.
www.maggiemaes.com
903-885-4903
903-689-8079.
Dog Grooming/Training
!!! SELF-STORAGE !!! Manager living on premises. All
sizes, climate control units, concrete, fenced. 24 hr. Boat & RV
storage. Southside of I-30 at RR
track. 885-6111.
625 BETH LN, Friday & Satur- B&B RENTALS. TWO locaday 7am-12pm.
tions to serve you. Fenced, locked
entrance. Manager on-site. 903707 KASIE, FURNITURE, kids 885-7490. 1st full month free!
clothes, upright freezer, dishwasher lots of everything. Friday FOR SALE OR lease: 4100sq ft
and Saturday 8:30-?
dock high building, 1600sq ft
office. 12 Dock doors, wash rack.
FLEA MARKET AND Antiques Ten foot overhang, roof each side
Open Wed-Saturday 10-6p.m. 800 of building. Rock Parking area.
Jefferson. We have everything.
Fenced Lot. 903-243-4090
903-438-9397.
FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
Rain or Shine tools, skeeter boat, AVAILABLE DAILY. I-30
appliances, kids clothing, toys, STORAGE. (I-30 West.) Lighted
and locked, gated with code entry.
and lots more!! 626 Pampa St.
903-243-3324, 903-885-0770.
GARAGE SALE FRIDAY and
LANDMARK SELF-STORSaturday 1805 College St
AGE. CLIMATE & nonclimate
GARAGE SALE, COOPER units: gated & coded access. 275
1311 SW 9th St. electronics, Hillcrest S. 903-885-0033.
furntiure, and household goods.
Houses For Rent
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506 CRANFORD, 7-? baby
items, name brand clothing, boys
newborn -18month, junior girl,
2x women, housewares, quilting
material, tools, etc. to much list.
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4 FAMILY GARAGE Sale at
524 Vonda Friday and Saturday
8am to ?. Lots of baby things,
household items and clothes for
all sizes.
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COVERED RV PARKING,
2-PARTY GARAGE SALE manager on duty, gated facility,
Saturday Only 7a.m.-4p.m. 1845 electric available. Landmark StorFM 1567 E. (going towards age. 903-885-0033.
Como) 2 Christmas trees),
Christmas and fall decor, baby 2010 WILDCAT 5TH Wheel
bed, antique wooden high chair, 29RLBS, 2-Slides, large fridge,
vintage dishes, glassware, boys, electric jacks, stored inside, used
men & womens clothing all little, 903-439-7846.
sizes, toys, custom drapes, etc
BOAT/RV
STORAGE.
EXTENDED length for fifth
200 E. SPENCE ST,
wheel hook-ups. Manager on
Sat 7am-? (by Fix & Feed). Furduty. Dog on duty at night. Self
niture, clothes & household Storage 885-6111.
items.
Pets
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2106 S. BROADWAY, (on left
past Sale Barn) SAT only 7am-? LOW COST SPAY & Neuter
Men's, women's & kid's clothes, Program & Vaccination Clinic.
Call HCAPL 903-439-2953.
toys & lots of other misc.
Land for Lease
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4 FAMILY GARAGE Sale at
524 Vonda Friday and Saturday QUARTER ACRE LOT on
8am to ?. Lots of baby things, Lake Fork. $5,900cash price or
household items and clothes for $91/month. 903-878-7265.
all sizes.
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12 — THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, June 12, 2015
A boy’s father becomes a woman
on ABC Family’s ‘Becoming Us’
Ben Lehwald poses with his father Carly, who is transitioning to being a female.
Photo from abc7.com
Pray for Peace in Sulphur Springs
Children from Ashley Robinson and Christina Clark’s classes from Little Texans Learning
Center, along with directo, Remona Hynson, put up their large peace sign made with colorful
paint footprints for their walk of peace. Their “Pray for Peace” sign was made to encourage
peace in the community and beyond.
Staff Photo by Isabel Reyna
From ‘Star Wars’ to ‘Star
Fox’ — 5 expectations for E3
LOS ANGELES (AP) — At
this year's Electronic Entertainment Expo, video games alone
won't soak up all the attention.
Besides the usual laundry list of
sequels and new titles coming to
gaming consoles, next week's
annual interactive extravaganza at
the Los Angeles Convention Center will also play host to
exhibitors from around the world
pushing augmented and virtual
reality systems, video streaming
services, as well as games specifically created for PCs and mobile
devices.
"We have a tradition of being
open to new technologies, new
game companies and new
approaches," said Michael Gallagher, president of the Electronic
Software Association, which organizes the industry trade show. "We
have more than 270 exhibitors at
E3 this year showing over 1,600
products, including 100 of them
that haven't even been teased. It's
meant to be a very diverse environment. This will probably be
the most diverse E3 in the show's
history."
Here's a look at what's likely to
unfold during gaming's biggest
week:
Virtually head over
heals
With virtual reality systems like
the Oculus Rift, Project Morpheus
and HTC Vive scheduled for
release throughout the next year,
game creators are expected to
heavily tout their VR experiences
in an effort to wrap the immersive
technology around consumers'
noggins. Microsoft might similarly use its presence at E3 to hype
HoloLens, the augmented reality
headset it unveiled earlier this
year with a rendition of
"Minecraft" set amid the real
world.
Deeper dive
year's E3. In the case of "Star
Fox," Nintendo hasn't released an
all-new mission for the vulpine
fighter pilot in nearly a decade.
The force is strong
Speaking of "Battlefront," the
"Star Wars" franchise will be in
full force at E3. Electronic Arts is
hyperdriving into the Los Angeles Convention Center with that
multiplayer blast-'em-up, while
Disney is landing with the latest
installment of its "Disney Infinity"
toys-to-life series, which will
introduce such characters as Yoda
and Han Solo to its toy-game
empire. EA could also unleash
more details about another interactive "Star Wars" episode that's
being created by Visceral Games.
NEW YORK (AP) — "This
family would make a great TV
show!"
That's what Evanston, Illinois,
teen Ben Lehwald told his mother
a couple of years ago.
Clearly, Ben was on to something. "Becoming Us," the show
that resulted, follows him as a 16year-old dealing with the usual
challenges of high school and
encroaching adulthood — plus
the recent news that his father is
becoming a woman.
The family went on camera
between October and February
after Ben's idea reached Ryan
Seacrest, who signed on as executive producer of the ABC Family unscripted series airing its second episode Monday at 9 p.m.
EDT.
"We're just regular people,"
says Suzy Crawford, Ben's mother.
The 58-year-old fitness instructor is divorced from Ben's 49year-old father, an information
security analyst now named Carly
Lehwald but who, as Charlie,
began taking female hormones
years before sharing the plan for
transition with the family. Suzy
continues to work through feelings of betrayal and bitterness
even as she and Carly remain a
team in parenting Ben.
Ben's half-sister, Sutton Crawford, is now a New Yorker, but
she's back in Evanston as she and
her mother plan her upcoming
wedding, which comes laden with
protocol issues. (Should Carly
walk the bride down the aisle?)
Finally, Ben's girlfriend,
Danielle, also has a father who is
transgender (and who, on the first
episode, accepted bra-shopping
counsel from Carly, with Danielle
and Ben tagging along).
Unconventional, maybe, but on
"Becoming Us" these folks reveal
The looming reality of VR is
projected to take center stage at
E3. However, there are still plenty
of other upcoming interactive
experiences that won't need to be
strapped to consumers' faces.
After being teased at last year's
E3, many developers are planning
to provide further details on
updated versions of popular series
due in just a few months, including 343 Industries' "Halo 5:
A new breed
Guardians," Konami's "Metal
Star Fox, Master Chief and
Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain" Lara Croft are making their way
and Crystal Dynamics' "Rise of onto the latest generation of conthe Tomb Raider."
soles, but what about the Prince
of Persia, Marcus Fenix or Samus
Out of retirement
Aran? If history is any indication,
While the E3 show floor is it's likely a few publishers will use
always littered with the latest edi- E3 as an opportunity to publicly
tions of long-running series, a few
entries anticipated at this year's announce the resurrection of such
show haven't been seen in at least long-gone protagonists. Could a
five years. "Doom," ''Fallout," higher-definition revival of
''Mirror's Edge," ''Just Cause," "Prince of Persia," ''Gears of War"
''Guitar Hero" and "Star Wars: or "Metroid" be forthcoming for
LOS ANGELES (AP) —
Battlefront" are among the fran- the PlayStation 4, Xbox One or
When Pixar artists were conchises being dusted off for this Wii U consoles?
ceptualizing the character of
Anger for the upcoming film
"Inside Out," writer-director
Pete Docter suggested they consider the voice and movements
of comedian Lewis Black.
"I used him as an example of
the fun we could have with
casting," Docter said.
Then, he invited the rant-tastic comic to actually play the
role.
"I think I would have been
insulted" had they not, Black
themselves as authentic and relatable, which makes the series an
illuminating glimpse into the
world we all occupy, a world
Time magazine earlier this year
declared was at "the transgender
tipping point."
The timing of "Becoming Us"
seems perfect, therefore, having
arrived just days after Caitlin Jenner's grand unveiling on the Vanity Fair cover and with her own
series, "I Am Cait," premiering
next month, along with yet another reality show that will star Jazz
Jennings, the 14-year-old transgender activist and YouTube star.
No one could have anticipated
any of this a decade ago, least of
all Carly as she started the transition to become who she had
always known she was, and, in
the process, turned the family
upside down.
Ben, in particular, was left reeling. It wasn't the news as much
as when his father delivered it
that threw him for a loop: "Right
before you're about to start your
freshman year of high school.
You're just lost. That was how I
felt."
So why would Ben choose to
let TV viewers witness what most
people would insist on keeping
private?
"That's why I did it: for people
who do it privately," Ben, now
17, replies. "I thought if they saw
it from a child's point of view and
saw how the child is dealing with
it, they'll understand that it happens and they're not alone."
Ben's use of the term "child" is
curious. He is no child, but
instead every bit a typical teenager — bright, wry-witted, hot-andcold in temperament, and, of
course, prone to clashes with the
'rents. With so much going on, he
seemingly was prompted by some
hope that admitting a camera
crew as an intervening force
would yield answers otherwise
beyond his family's reach. He
needed, not wanted, a reality
show.
"On the show, you HAD to
deal with the problems," he says.
"It was like going to family
therapy on camera," agrees Carly.
"That aspect of it wasn't easy."
"But the producers were
thoughtful and kind and listened,"
Suzy says, explaining that the
family never felt manipulated.
"Numerous times I said, 'I'm
not comfortable doing that,' and it
was off the table immediately,"
recalls Sutton, 30, who as a rising
actress found her biggest challenge wasn't being on camera but
being herself. "I said 'no' a lot,
and they adapted to us so beautifully."
Virtually everyone key in the
family's social circle was an eager
participant (with the exception of
Carly's girlfriend, who declined
to take part, and a few of Ben's
friends, whose parents refused
permission).
"If you get offered a ride on a
rocket ship, you don't ask which
seat, you just get on," says Sutton, who became Charlie
Lehwald's stepdaughter when she
was six but during the show discovered "Carly makes a lot more
sense to me than Charlie did
when I was growing up. I understand Carly. Before, Charlie was
hiding her."
On the premiere, Carly had a
heart-to-heart with Ben to say she
soon would be getting "the bottom surgery. The boy parts are
going to be my girl parts."
"The person that made me will
not have the thing that made me,"
Ben glumly responded. "That is
weird."
Comic Lewis Black personifies
Anger in Pixar’s ‘Inside Out’
said.
The 66-year-old comedian,
known for his angry, ranting
delivery style, said he's an obvious choice to play the Pixar
character: A squat, blockish red
man whose head lights up in
flames when he's mad.
Black's Anger stars alongside
Fear (Bill Hader), Disgust
(Mindy Kaling), Sadness (Phyllis Smith) and Joy (Amy
Poehler) in the much-anticipated animated feature out June
19.
But the comic said he didn't
learn much from getting inside
of Anger.
"It gave me a sense of the
nuances of anger, but I've spent
a lot of time doing anger," he
said. "I mean, my mother was
angry. My grandfather was
angry. I've been around anger
all my life."
In fact, he had to take things
down a notch to play the Pixar
role.
"There was a tone-down of
it," Black said. "It's more like
office anger as opposed to I'vehad-it anger."
THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, June 12, 2015 —13A
Obama
makes
appeal
on trade
in House
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is making
an 11th-hour appeal to Democrats to rescue his landmark trade
bill just hours ahead of showdown votes in the House.
The president's rare last-minute
visit to Capitol Hill Friday morning suggested the legislation was
short of votes and in jeopardy.
With many Democrats in open
rebellion against their president
on this issue, Obama sought to
stave off a humiliating defeat at
the hands of his own party on a
top second-term priority.
The outcome was uncertain
and the drama was intensifying
heading into afternoon votes. In
frantic last-minute maneuvering,
liberals turned against a favored
program of their own that retrains
workers displaced by trade.
Killing the program would kill
the companion trade bill, and
many Democrats and labor leaders advocated just that.
The move caught the GOP offguard. House Republicans,
already in the awkward position
of allying themselves with Obama, found themselves being
asked by their leaders to vote for
a worker retraining program that
most have long opposed as
wasteful. Many were reluctant to
do so, leaving the fate of the
entire package up in the air, and
Obama facing the prospect of a
brutal loss — unless he can eke
out what all predict would be the
narrowest of wins.
"If we have to pass something
that's a Democratic ideal with all
Republicans to get the whole
thing to go," said Rep. Tom
Rooney, R-Fla., "we could be in
trouble."
The main trade bill at issue
would give Obama so-called "fast
track" authority to negotiate trade
deals that Congress could
approve or reject, but not amend.
Coast Guard,
Cuban
migrants play
deadly
hide-and-seek
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Staff Photo by Isabel Reyna
[email protected].
TEXAS NEWS BRIEFS
Bear cub caught in
Oklahoma hog trap
gets new home
CORINTH, Texas (AP) — A
wild black bear cub rescued from
a hog trap in Oklahoma and kept
in a chicken coop in Texas has a
new home at a wildlife sanctuary.
The 3-month-old cub was safely captured Thursday in Corinth.
Police in Corinth, 25 miles
northwest of Dallas, received a
call Wednesday from someone
asking about keeping a bear as a
pet, but the caller hung up.
An officer on Thursday spotted
the wandering cub, later captured
by animal control officers.
Scott Edwards with Sharkarosa
Wildlife Ranch welcomed the
when it rolled Thursday afternoon.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused the accident
near Mont Belvieu (BEL'-vyoo)
that left a 5-year-old boy dead at
the scene.
Three other children were
transported to hospitals for treatment of unspecified injuries. Offi1 child dies in ATV cials say the other two children
the ATV were not hurt.
rollover near Houston onThe
name of the boy who died
MONT BELVIEU, Texas (AP) wasn't immediately released.
— Authorities say one child has
Mont Belvieu is 25 miles northbeen killed and three hurt when east of Houston.
their all-terrain vehicle crashed in
a Houston-area wreck.
Texas deputies fatally
The Chambers County Sheriff's
shoot man
Office says six children, ages 5 to
16 years old, were on the ATV SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A guntree-climbing bear. The 6-pound
cub was later moved to the International Exotic Animal Sanctuary
in Boyd.
Edwards says a Corinth man
found the bear in a trap in
McAlester, Oklahoma, and kept
the animal in a chicken coop. The
cub at some point escaped.
man accused of wounding his
father has died after being shot by
officers responding to the domestic dispute northeast of San Antonio.
Bexar (bayr) County sheriff's
deputies on Thursday night
received a report that a man in his
20s shot his father at a home near
Windcrest. The father ran to a
neighbor for help.
Deputies arrived, entered the
second floor of the home and then
the son fired at them — wounding
one officer. Two deputies returned
fire, killing the suspect.
The injured deputy was treated
for an arm wound. The suspect's
father, who was shot in the upper
body, was also taken to a hospital
for treatment.
FLORIDA STRAITS (AP) —
With a shift in the relationship
between Havana and Washington, many Cubans are now
attempting a risky sea crossing
out of fear that the U.S. will
change its "wet-foot, dry-foot"
policy allowing any Cuban
reaching U.S. land to stay and
pursue citizenship.
Without it, they'd be treated
like other foreigners caught illegally in the country — ineligible
for citizenship and subject to
deportation.
The U.S. Coast Guard returns
any Cuban migrants caught at
sea to the communist island.
Authorities have captured or
intercepted more than 2,600
since Oct. 1, and that tally is
expected to match or surpass last
year's total of nearly 4,000.
"It's fair to say that this is the
'Wild West' of the Coast Guard,"
said Lt. Cmdr. Gabe Somma,
spokesman for the Coast Guard's
Miami-based 7th District, which
patrols the Florida Straits. "We've
got drugs, we've got migrants
and we've got search and rescue,
and we've got an enormous area,
approximately the size of the
continental United States."
The steady hum of a Coast
Guard aircraft flying low loops
over these swift, dark blue waters
broadcasts a distinct message to
migrants: Nothing has changed.
The Coast Guard planes are
equipped with sensors that pick
out shapes on the water's surface
miles away. From a patrol altitude of about 1,500 feet, cruise
ships look like smudges on the
horizon and sailboats are white
dots with long wakes.
A migrant vessel appears the
size of a buoy. Pilots look for
something suspicious: waves that
don't break quite right, a dark
speck in a cloud's shadow, the
glint of something tossed overboard or the ripple of a blue tarp.
"I've seen two guys on a Styrofoam sheet with two backpacks,"
Lt. Luke Zitzman said from the
cockpit of a recent patrol.
14A — THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Friday, June 12, 2015
COMMUNITY NEWS
BRASHEAR NEWS
By DEBBIE YOUNG
[email protected]
I first want to start out with an
apology. I forgot to remind everyone that Saturday, June 6, was
Brashear Homecoming. There
were about 50 people there and
had a great program. Robin Jordan sang two beautiful songs for
us and Billy Bob Stewart took us
on a “Remember When Brashear
had ...” Then, of course, there
was the food. Thank you to
everyone who brought food and
came to support Brashear.
Well, it has gotten hot. I hear
that Saturday it may be a little
cooler, 85. Do not forget Dairy
Festival kicks off this week. Balloon Glow and 5K run at Shannon Oaks on Friday night and
then the parade on Saturday
morning. Ice Cream Freeze-Off
is on Saturday afternoon and that
is just the beginning. I love our
town festivals.
I love seeing all of the hay
being baled, a true sign of summer. The rain is supposed to
come again this weekend. It is
needed if you can believe that. It
is dry. We are seeing a few
grasshoppers but not the usual
numbers. They are mostly the
green ones with the strange looking body.
Brashear Free Library has
some new books. Thanks to the
people who are sharing their
books with everyone.
The new additions, a sidewalk
cover and new parking lot, to
Brashear Baptist look nice.
Sulphur Springs showed why
it is such a great community. This
past week 300 youth and 50
adults helped paint houses for
those who were unable. It doesn't
just happen either. Our local
churches came together to make
this happen. Thank you for everyone who was involved and helped
this to happen.
Thank you to the newspaper
and radio for publishing my little bit of Brashear News. Please
continue to contact me if you
have something you want to
share. Call me at 903-612-8806;
email
me
at
[email protected]; or just updates and changes to contact
drop by County Road 1119, information.
The Tira City Council meeting
where all the barns are located.
was held on Tuesday, June 9, at
We love to have visitors.
the Tira Community Center.
J. R. Durst was appointed to
TIRA NEWS
the council for the unexpired term
By JAN VAUGHN
of former member, Malcolm
[email protected]
Joslin, who is no longer living in
The 2015 Hillis Reunion is Tira.
coming up on June 20 and 21, at
The group discussed routine
the Tira Community Center.
business. They also voted to look
Minnie (Hillis) Reagor reports, into purchasing a playground sys“Any Hillis descendent from any tem for the Community Center
branch is welcome! Our branch grounds and they are checking on
descends from Andrew ‘Jackson’ replacing the gutters on the buildHillis (1815/17 - 1878) who mar- ing.
ried 1) Aliza Elizabeth Hawkins,
Councilman Powell Vickery
and 2) Mary Ann Shelton, gave a report on the Tira Volunbranching out from the Laud- teer Fire Department. He shared
erdale County, Ala., and Giles that John Martin has moved into
County and Lawrence County, the position of chief, which was
Tenn. regions... spreading out vacated by Malcolm Joslin.
across various states.”
Shawn Martin is serving as assisFor more information about the tant chief. Darrell More is capHollis Reunion, contact Minnie tain, Gwen Webb is secretary and
Reagor at [email protected] or Powell Vickery is treasurer. The
visit their reunion web page at department is planning to particihttps://www.facebook.com/hillis- pate in the Hot August Night
familyreunion. She would also fundraiser on Aug. 15. Make
like to receive any family tree plans to attend and support the
area fire departments.
Kim and Lee Beck got their
“little old white house” painted
finally! Kim says, “We now
match the shop!” Jackson Dailey
is home from college for the summer and has been voted to be the
president of The Chancellors Student Advisory Council of all the
Texas A&M branches. He will
continue to be the president of the
Student Government when he
returns to Texas A&M University-Commerce in the fall.
The Tira Homecoming is
scheduled for July 5. The program and business meeting will
begin inside the Tira United
Methodist Church at 11 a.m., followed by a covered dish luncheon at the picnic tables on the
grounds. We hope that current
and former Tira residents and
those with connections to community and cemetery will make
plans to come and share memories and a meal together. Contributions toward the upkeep of the
cemetery are welcome and appreciated and can be given that day,
or mailed to Tira Cemetery Asso-
ciation, c/o Floyd Payton, 1601
County Road 4612, Sulphur
Springs, Texas 75482. If you
want to be added to the mailing
list, please send your address to
Floyd Payton, at the address
above.
Close to 50 people gathered at
the Aiguier Cemetery on Sunday
for a potluck lunch and the annual meeting of the association.
Grace and Linda Ellen Vaughn
visited with us on Sunday afternoon, after attending the Aiguier
meeting.
Our daughter, Tiffany, celebrated her birthday on Monday, June
8, with dinner at our house. On
Saturday, she had an enjoyable
day with her friend, Stephanie
Weaver, of McKinney.
I always need and appreciate
input from my friends to help
keep me informed of news in our
community. If you have any news
pertaining to Tira residents, past
or present, please contact me, Jan
Vaughn, at 903-945-2190 or 903438-6688
or
[email protected]
Prolific British actor Christopher Lee dies at age 93
LONDON (AP) — Christopher Lee, an actor who brought
dramatic gravitas and aristocratic
bearing to screen villains from
Dracula to the wicked wizard
Saruman in "The Lord of the
Rings" trilogy, has died at age 93.
Lee appeared in more than 250
movies, taking on memorable
roles such as the James Bond
enemy Scaramanga and the evil
Count Dooku in two "Star Wars"
prequels.
But for many, he will forever
be known as the vampire Count
Dracula in a slew of gory, gothic
British "Hammer Horror" thrillers
churned out in the 1950s and
1960s that became hugely popular around the world.
He railed against the typecasting, however, and ultimately the
sheer number and range of his
roles — including Sherlock
Holmes and the founder of Pakistan — secured his place in film
history.
"I didn't have dreams of being
a romantic leading man," Lee
told The Associated Press in
2002. "But I dreamed of being a
character actor, which I am."
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea in London on
Thursday issued a statement confirming that Lee died June 7.
Lee's agent said his family
declined to comment or provide
more details.
Christopher Frank Carandini
Lee was born in London on May
27, 1922. His father was a British
army officer who had served in
the Boer War and his mother was
Contessa Estelle Marie Carandini
di Sarzano. His parents separated when he was young, and his
mother later remarried Harcourt
Rose, the uncle of James Bond
creator Ian Fleming.
Lee attended Wellington College, an elite boarding school,
and joined the Royal Air Force
during World War II. Poor eyesight prevented him from becoming a pilot, and he served as an
intelligence officer in North
Africa and Italy.
After the war, the 6-foot-4
(1.93-meter) Lee was signed to a
contract with Britain's Rank studio, and spent the next decade
playing minor roles in a series of
formulaic pictures. He also
appeared briefly in Laurence
Olivier's "Hamlet" in 1948 along
with his future Hammer co-star,
Peter Cushing.
He launched his horror career
in 1957, starring as the monster
in Hammer's "The Curse of
Frankenstein." In 1958, Lee made
his first appearance as the famous
vampire in "Dracula," opposite
Cushing's Van Helsing.
Film critic Matthew Sweet said
Lee brought a sensuality to the
role that fit with the newly permissive times. While Bela
Lugosi, the definitive 1930s
Dracula, "postures and glides,
Lee is rough and muscular,"
Sweet wrote in 2007.
"Lee's performance convinced
a generation of scholars that
Dracula was a book about sex,
and not about vampires," Sweet
said.
Lee went on to play the Transylvanian vampire in sequels
including "Dracula: Prince of
Darkness," ''Dracula Has Risen
From the Grave," ''Taste the
Blood of Dracula," ''Scars of
Dracula" and "Dracula A.D.
1972" — an ill-advised attempt
to update the series to 1970s London.
Lee was wary of being typecast, and later said the studio
practically blackmailed him into
continuing to appear.
He held out for eight years
after the first Dracula film before
appearing in "Dracula: Prince of
Darkness," in which he stars but
has no lines.
In 2006, Lee told the BBC that
his reaction to reading the script
for the film was, "I'm not saying
any of these lines. It's impossible. They're ridiculous."
"That's why I don't speak in the
film," he said.
During this period, Lee played
non-vampiric roles in Hammer's
"The Devil Rides Out," ''The
Mummy," ''Rasputin, the Mad
Monk" and "The Hound of the
Baskervilles," and starred as mustachioed master criminal Fu
Manchu in a series of low-budget thrillers.
Christopher Lee