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HENDERSON
DAILY NEWS
86TH YEAR, NO. 131 © 2015
THURSDAY, AUGUST 20,2015 • HENDERSONDAILYNEWS.COM
50 CENTS
HISD bus routes set for
storms knock
out electricity
SPECIAL TO THE DAILY NEWS
Area residents will hear
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schedules and
drivers included
NWS reports 1.37
inches fell at Rusk
County Airport
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BLOOD DRIVE spon-
sored by Henderson Daily
News 9 a.m.-i p.m. Friday, at
1711 U.S. Hwy. 79 S. Donors
have a chance to win FOX
Sports Southwest tickets to
see their favorite hometown
pro-sports team in action.
Call Brian Brown: (903) 657-
2501.
By RYLEIGH SALMON
HENDERSON DAILY NEWS
By LES LINEBARGER
HENDERSON DAILY NEWS
By RYLEIGH SALMON
HENDERSON DAILY NEWS
SHELLEY MRAZ PHO-
TOGRAPHY will be taking
HHS senior yearbook por-
traits at HHS through Friday.
Call Mraz at (903) 657-2888
to schedule your appoint-
ment.
LANEVILLE ISD meet
the teacher night 5-7 p.m.
Thursday. Hot dogs, drinks
will be provided in the cafete-
ria. Brief meeting and intro-
duction of teachers will take
place at 5 p.m. in the gym.
HENDERSON ISD is
seeking volunteers to serve on
the district and campus site-
based decision making com-
mittees. Interested parents,
community members and
business representatives may
contact the campus principals
to be considered for nomi-
nation. Contact Terrianne
Stanley at the HISD Admin-
istration building. Deadline is
3:30 p.m. Aug. 28.
See BRIEFS, Page 7
YATES PARK SCHOOL
Supply Train 8 a.m.-i p.m.
Friday at Henderson Civic
Center. Children must be
accompanied by an adult.
Bring identification and proof
of income. For information,
call Betty Elder (903) 657-
4061.
RUSK COUNTY DEM-
OCRATIC CLUB meeting 6
p.m. Tuesday at Henderson
Federal Savings Bank Com-
munity Room, 130 N. Mar-
shall.
BRIEFS
FARMER’S MARKET is
located at Fair Park and South
High Street. For information,
contact Pat Olson (903) 863-
5691 or (903) 404-3913. 7
a.m. until sold out on Satur-
days and 1 p.m. until sold out
on Tuesdays.
POSTSCRIPT
Led Zeppelin lead singer
Robert Plant turns 67 today.
How time changes. Once
the front man for one of the
bands expected to be respon-
sible for the end of civiliza-
tion as we know it, Plant now
spends about half his time liv-
ing in Austin. A few years ago
he recorded an album with
bluegrass star Alison Krauss.
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Staff photo by Les Linebarger
Stage closing stores
Operates Bealls,
Goody’s, Palais
Royal, Peebles
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Glazer says the closures involve
stores representing 4 percent of
total sales. Company officials
did not immediately say which
locations will close. Glazer says
the company was challenged by
the impact of a weaker peso
and economic softness in parts
HOUSTON — Stages Stores of Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma,
Inc. plans to close about 90 and New Mexico,
underperforming locations. Stage Stores has about 850
The Houston-based retail- locations in 40 states, with more
er made the announcement than 14,000 employees. It oper-
Thursday. ates as Stage, Bealls, Goody’s
President and CEO Michael Palais Royal and Peebles.
and 30 percent chance tonight.
On Friday, the forecast calls for
a 40 percent chance of rain.
After an expected high of
83 degrees today, hot weath-
er returns this weekend with
highs expected to reach into the
mid 90s, which is about normal
Widespread rain returned during August, according to the
Wednesday to East Texas, soak- NWS.
ing parched yards and provid-
ing the first extensive precipita-
tion for Rusk County since the
end of June.
The storms also knocked out
power in Henderson for about
45 minutes Wednesday evening
along U.S. Highway 79 South
and East Main Street.
At its peak, there were 1,246
customers without electricity in
Rusk County, according to a
website operated by Southwest-
ern Electric Power Co.
The National Weather Ser-
vice reported 1.37 inches of rain
at Rusk County Airport located
west of Henderson on Farm-to-
Market Road 13.
Two other NWS co-op sites
reported higher rain totals
Wednesday. A location just
off U.S. 259 on the north side
of Henderson measured 1.56
inches, and another site six
miles northwest of town report-
ed 2.81 inches of rain.
Wednesday’s line of storms
came in advance of a summer
time cold front that lowered
temperatures in Oklahoma and
West Texas.
Lows in Henderson reached
69 degrees early Thursday. In
North Texas, lows this morn-
ing reached the mid 60s, and
in Oklahoma City the mercury
dipped to 50.
Rain chances remain in
Henderson’s forecast through
at least Saturday. There’s a 50
percent chance this afternoon,
The Henderson Daily
News will host a Carter
BloodCare blood drive from
9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday.
The Carter BloodCare
bus will be stationed in the
parking lot for residents who
would like to donate.
The bus is air conditioned
and there is an entrance in
the back and an exit in the
front. Operations Manager
Jacque Decker said donors
will first register in one of
two private screening areas.
“Both areas have doors
for privacy, so all confiden-
tial information stays where
it needs to stay,” she said.
“Something that some people
find interesting about the
whole donation process, is
we do a mini physical. We ask
See DAILY, Page 3
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SHOPPING FAIR 9
a.m.-2 p.m. Friday at Mount
Enterprise Library Communi-
ty Room. Tables available for
vendors. Call Patty Sprague
(903) 822-3351.
EAST TEXAS FLAG
FOOTBALL registration
deadline is Friday. For boys
and girls ages 5-12. Games
start Sept. 5. Games played on
Saturdays at Henderson Lion
Stadium. For information,
(903) 617-3495 or <www.
prostarproductions.net>.
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Rain returns,
Jimerson, Crater speak at Crimes
Against Children meeting in Dallas
School supply train rolls
out Friday at civic center *>oll: M°st want gov’t
Starts at 8 a.m.;
uniforms, supplies,
available
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HISD photo by Flo Williams
Wylie Elementary School hosted it annual Meet the Teacher Day on Monday. Shown
is first-grade teacher Kelley Medford and her new student, Jaxon Dickey.
ney Micheal Jimerson and office.
Jacob Crater presented a pro-
gram last week at the Crimes
Against Children Conference
in Dallas. The 27-year-old
gathering of law enforcement
officials and child advoca-
cy groups had nearly 4,000
people in attendance, Crater
told Henderson Lions Club on
Wednesday.
The subject of the pair’s
presentation involved the !
horrifying murder of Amora
Carson, the 13-month-old tod-
dler brutally beaten and killed
in December 2008 by Blaine
Milam and his girlfriend - who
was Amora’s mother - Jesseca
Carson.
Milam was convicted in
2010 of the murder and is on
death row. Jessica Carson was
convicted in 2011 and is serv-
ing a life sentence without a Rusk County District Attorney Micheal Jimerson (left)
chance of parole. and CPS caseworker Jacob Crater visited Henderson
Jimerson prosecuted both Lions Club Wednesday.
cases. Crater is a Child Protec-
tive Services caseworker and in Dallas involved the inves-
former victim assistance coun- tigation of Amora’s death and
Rusk County district attor- selor in the district attorney’s prosecution of the case against
See DA, Page 3
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to control drug costs
ASSOCIATED PRESS President Barack Obama’s
5-year-old law expanding cov-
WASHINGTON — Regard- erage for the uninsured, the
less of political affiliation, latest Kaiser Family Founda-
Americans strongly support tion survey suggests the public
government action to control is shifting to other health care
prescription drug costs, accord- issues.
ing to a poll released Thursday. Overall, 72 percent said the
While the 2016 presidential cost of prescription medica-
candidates continue to debate See MOST, Page 3
OUR TOWN
Happy birthday, Pat
Boyd, Charles Dansby,
Collyn Keitt, Janet Legg,
Randy Lemmon and
Michael Roberts.
SCRIPTURE
0 and do likewise.
I -y Luke 10:37
a.m. Eastern. The Standard &
Poor’s 500 index lost 23 points,
NEW YORK — Another sell- or 0.9 percent, to 2,056 and
off in Chinese stocks spread to the Nasdaq composite fell 64
global markets Thursday. points, or 1.3 percent, to 4,954.
The Dow Jones industrial Oil prices continue to fall,
average fell 210 points, or 1.2 giving up 8 cents Thursday to
percent, to 17,137 as of 10:05 See CHINA, Page 3
start of school on Monday
day, as they roll on the first 414 East, CR 420 D, CR 438,
day of classes for Henderson CR 442D, (Deer Trail, Melanie
and other Rusk County school Lane and Dogwood Forest),
districts. 2500 and 2700 Block of 79 S.
The Henderson Indepen- Route 2 — Tina Johnson:
dent School District bus routes Isaac, Wilson, Wood, Brown,
for the new school year are as Zion, Robertson, Honeysuckle,
follows: Cherry, Plum, Marie, Reedy,
Route 1 — Lynn Winfrey: Redbud, Parkview, Emma St.,
the familiar rumble of school CR 401, CR 409 D, CR 411, CR Holoman
buses bright and early Mon- 411 D, CR 413, East end of CR See HENDERSON, Page 7
first day of school next week, boxes and others for students
the School Supply Train will from kindergarten all the way
be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. up to 12th grade.
Friday at the Henderson Civic For parents who want to
Center. pick up free uniforms and sup-
Uniforms, supplies and plies for their children, they
monetary donations can be will need to bring their kids
given until the day of and with them to the civic center as
even after the event. Organizer well as proof of income, such
Rain or shine, the annual Betty Elder and her team col- as a current Medicaid Card,
School Supply Train is coming lect basic supplies like lead current Women’s Infants and
to town. and colored pencils, markers, Children (WIC) card, food
To help kids prepare for the pens, paper, folders, pencil See SUPPLY, Page 3
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Linebarger, Les. Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 131, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 20, 2015, newspaper, August 20, 2015; Henderson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1237274/m1/1/?q=led+zeppelin: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rusk County Library.