The Lindale Times (Lindale, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1993 Page: 1 of 14
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Coronation Photos
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Lindale, Texas 75771
Permit #155
AS SOON AS POSSIBLE: East Texas Medical Center EMS paramedics
carry an accident victim to the emergency helicopter with the help of the
Your Hometown News
Lindale VFD.
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18,1993
VOL. II, NO. 23
25 CENTS
WITH THE UTMOST CARE: East Texas Medical Center paramedics
and Lindale Volunteer firemen carefully move Rufus Fleming to the
ambulance. (L-R) Jeff McClenny, Paramedic Stacey Bateman, Chris
Bellar, Paramedic Keith Albritton (inside truck).
Lindale: The City and its history
Lindale politics and life—1884
BY CARL MILLEGAN
EDITOR’S NOTE: "Lindale: The
City and its History” is a continuing
community service column using
information and research compiled
by the staff of The Lindale Times
and contributions from area citizens.
The following information was
obtained from an article by Henry
Edwards, publisher of the Troup
Banner and the Tyler Journal in
1936, printed in the Feb. 27,1936,
Lindale News and Reporter.
Henry Edwards, publisher of
the 1936 Troup Banner, was just
a child the day he went to the
Smith County Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee meeting in
October, 1884.
Yet his recollections of that
day paint a colorful picture of
politics and life in Smith County
and Lindale.
“I went that day, in Oct. 1884,
in anticipation of the biggest thrill
of my life,” Edwards wrote. “I
saw the brass band, the first I’d
ever seen—but the “big Demo-
cratic cannon” was not in evi-
dence, for the reason that the
wicked Republicans had slipped
out one night while the gun was
parked in Tyler and had spiked it
with a rat-tail file.”
The County Democratic Ex-
ecutive Committee met in
Antioch that day, about 9 miles
east of Tyler, and their purpose
was to make a “grand, united and
vigorous effort to sweep out of
public office the last vestige of the
old carpet-bag reconstruction
hangover.”
Cone Johnson from Georgia
was the featured speaker, and
Edwards’ recalled how he turned
the crowd toward the purpose at
hand.
“I remember how handsome
and eloquent and witty he was as
he indicted the Republican County
administration, alluding to the
bellwether among its leaders as
old scrambled eggs,” Edwards
wrote.
The county was then repre-
sented by John S. Jackson, a big
farmer residing in Browning and a
Republican of large influence on
many voters in this section of the
county.
“The next speaker was Dr. H.L.
Tate of Lindale,” Edwards wrote.
“The doctor was a candidate for
the legislature, and I recall that he
made a speech that caused all the
voters to lean forward in theirpews
and cheer him with vigor.”
By the way, Dr. Tate was elected
that year, as was the whole Demo-
cratic ticket from Grover Cleve-
land on down to the local constable.
“Dr. Tate, whose name and
fame I have ever since associated
with Lindale, was a capable, con-
structed and influential legislator,”
Edwards wrote. “Under his spon-
sorship, the Gatesville Reforma-
tory was established.”
Edwards was so impressed that
someone from his county could
stroke a crowd as well as a “big
name” politician from Georgiathat
he wanted to see what Lindale was
like.
So, after urging his father for
some time, Edwards was allowed
to visit Lindale a few years later.
“In 1888,1 took my first ride on
a railway train, going from Tyler
to Lindale to deliver a message to
Mrs. Elzy Howard, whose father
was atthe pointof death,’’Edwards
wrote, adding that there were no
telephones at that time. “It so hap-
pened that Mr. J.W. Ogburn had
been my Sunday School Superin-
tendent at old Antioch and his
wife, the Beloved Miss Lula, was
my teacher.”
So, when Edwards arrived in
Lindale, the Ogburns were there
to collect him, and after he deliv-
ered his message, Edwards was
given a grand tour of the Lindale.
“I had never seen any other
town except Tyler and Bullard,
and so I came away from Lindale
feeling that I was much traveled,”
Edwards wrote. “And I also came
away feeling that Lindale, with all
its evidences of progress, was
assuredly a fine place to live in.
“I think I urged my father to
sell out his plantation and move
to the ‘progressive, up-and-com-
ing’ city of Lindale. I think it fair
to the memory of Dr. Tate and
Mr. Ogburn to say that Lindale’s
progress at that time, if indeed
not at most of the time since, was
due to their head work and due to
the teamwork which they in-
spired.”
* Another impression which
Lindale made on Edwards was
the amount of influence Lindale
had on county politics.
“Lindale was able to wield
political influence in county af-
fairs for two reasons,” Edwards
wrote. “First, her citizens
are...above the average in intel-
ligence (not to discriminate
against those of other communi-
ties). And second, they rather
think as a unit. That means, of
course, that they act as a
unit...because back in the long
gone years they learned the art of
fellowship because they had good
leadership.
“So when old Lindale’s vot-
ing box is heard from, we usually
hear something drop. Sometimes
that dull, sickening thud is the
drop of somebody’s political
plans.”
EMS works wrecks
Wednesday, Feb. 10, Lindale
had more than its share of excite-
ment.
At approximately 12:20 p.m.
one and two tenths miles from
Lindale, an eighteen-wheeler filled
with new cars swerved off the
interstate onto the grass median
and overturned coming to rest on
its right side.
"The driver (James Russell of
Euless) was being pulled out the
left hand window when the ambu-
lance arrived," East Texas Medi-
cal Center Paramedic Stacy
Bateman said. "It was an assumed
cardiac arrest when we got there."
"We began CPR and started an
IV but due to the situation we
called for the Air One helicopter,"
Bateman said. "We gave him ev-
ery chance we could."
"Russell was taken to a Tyler
hospital where they tried to revive
him, but he was later pronounced
dead." DPS Trooper Gale
McMullen, who worked the wreck,
said, "The autopsy revealed it was
a cardiac arrest."
Another accident occurred ap-
proximately one-and-a-half hours
later at the comer of Highway 69
and Eagle Spirit Drive in Lindale.
"A Medical Center EMS am-
bulance enroute from Mineola to
Tyler collided with a truck caus-
ing extensive damage to the am-
bulance," East Texas Medical
Center EMS Representative Char-
lotte Davis said. "The driver of the
truck (Rufus Fleming) was sent to
East Texas Medical Center for
treatment, and the driver of the
ambulance was treated and re-
leased."
"He's in good condition, but
he's very sore" Mrs. Fleming said.
"He's getting very good treatment
and the doctors and nurses are
very friendly."
A Mother Frances EMS unit
assisted with the cardiac patient
who was in transit to Tyler in the
ETMC ambulance from Mineola
when the accident occurred.
"The patient in transit was not
injured in the accident," Davis said.
"We (the EMS units) work to-
gether if we need to," ETMCPara-
medic Bateman said. "Our main
concern is the safety of the people
in this area."
SENIOR QUEEN NOMINEE
Toni Humphries; Escort Jeff Moore
JUNIOR QUEEN NOMINEE
Robin Alexander; Escort Chris Gilbert
FRESHMAN QUEEN NOMINEE
Cami Lyons; Escort Jonathan Tipton
SOPHOMORE QUEEN NOMINEE
Heather McLeod; Escort Tim Spence
'A Coronation Cruise' docks at Lindale High
BY JOANNA TUCKER
When the Coronation Cruise
ship docks at Lindale High School
Saturday night, those attending the
Coronation can expect some first-
class entertainment as students
sing and dance their way along the
shores of sand and sunshine.
The Coronation Dancers “Rock
A Hula” in the beautiful Hawaiian
Islands and dance on the beach in
the “California Sun”
From there they head for Florida
to dance to the “Mickey Mouse
Club Theme” representing Walt
Disney World.
Studio “C” Dancers perform
“Itsy Bitsy Spider.” Rod Edwards,
Walter Glaizier and Matt Rinlee
entertain the audience with “More
Than Words.”
Introduction of the royal court
takes place throughout the cruise.
Queen nominees include senior
Toni Humphries and escort Jeff
Moore; junior nominee Robin
Alexander and escort Chris Gil-
bert; sophomore nominee Heather
McLeod and escort Tim Spence;
freshman nominee Cami Lyons
and escort Jonathan Tipton.
Duchesses and escorts include
Brittany Allen and J.T. Luper, kin-
dergarten; Randi Warren and
Dustin Wilkinson, first grade;
Ashley Parker and Casey Adams,
second grade; Stacie Gentry and
Larry Nance, third grade; Brooke
White and Rob Shipley, fourth
grade; and Leigh Ann McClenny
and Creighton Cope, fifth grade.
Cassie McLeod and Aaron
Smith, sixth1 grade; Rindi
Etheridge and Jared Guthrie, sev-
enth grade; Crystal Smith and
David Bryant, eighth grade;Ginger
Dunlap and Jay Tjoelker, fresh-
man; Brooke Alexander and Ja-
son Marshall, sophomore; Aimee
Alexander and Todd Johnson, jun-
ior, and Amber Pless and Nicky
Johnson, senior.
Katherine Rinlee and Phillip
Barron, Art; Amber Dintelm an and
Aaron Poskey, Band; Jennifer
Bateman and Steven Purl, Base-
ball; Heather Brown and Jake
Seale, Basketball; Julie Harvey
and Shawn Jeanes, Choir, Alana
Vaughn and Robert Shockley,
DECA; Amy Thrasher and Ricky
Kincaid, D-FY-IT; Brooks Ann
Camper and Chris Tarbet, Drama
Club; Lydia Cummins and Greg
Lyles, French Club; Michelle
Rodriguez and David McClung,
FHA; and Laura Berry and Andy
(See CORONATION...Page 4)
Label collection aids sports
The 1992-93 Campbell’s Labels
For Education Program at Lindale
Primary S chool received a boost from
Brookshire’s.
On Friday, Feb. 12, Assistant
Lindale Brookshire’s Store Manager
Warren Martin presented gift certifi-
cates equaling40,000labels to Denise
Rust, the teacher in charge of the
Labels For Education Program (LFE)
and Lindale Primary School, and Prin-
cipal Carolynn Todd.
The LFE program is used to pro-
vide physical education equipment
for student use.
Rust says she plans to redeem the
labels for batting tees, Safe-T-bats, a
fitness tape, World Cage ball and
Pillo Polo set for the physical educa-
tion classes.
The monetary savings to the school
is approximately $600.
“We want to thank Brookshire’s
for their tremendous help,” Rust said.
“We also would like to encourage the
people of Lindale to help save the
following labels for the school:
Campbell soups (or other Campbell
products), Franco American products,
Swanson canned and frozen items,
Prego spaghetti sauces, Pepperidge
Farms sauces, Mrs. Paul’s frozen
packages, Le Menu frozen dinners.”
This years drive ends March 1 and
abox is provided in the Lindale school
office.
BROOKSHIRE’S Warren Martin presents gift certificates equaling
40,000 labels to teacher Denise Rust and Lindale Primary School
Principal Carolyn Todd.
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Sheppard, Anita. The Lindale Times (Lindale, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 1993, newspaper, February 18, 1993; Lindale, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1207670/m1/1/?q=%22John+S.+Jackson%22: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Smith County Historical Society.