The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 86, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 25, 1995 Page: 4 of 18
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Wednesday. October 25, 1996
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honor to be a Texas Ten nominee,"
said Richard Ford, chairman of
Free Market PAC, the organization
honoring Nixon. "His consistency
in voting pro-business and pro-
family is a reflection of his char-
acter, integrity, and willingness to
stand on principle rather than play
politics."
A panel of six, including four
former state legislators, two Re-
know that to be a fact when 1 really
think about it, but when I am
hunting that little gadget, I some
times forget.
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hang loose person. I should be, I
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THE PANOLA WATCHMAN
Dear Editor.
Proposition 5, which would au-
thorize state bonds to continue the
Texas veterans housing program,
deserves public support
Voters deserve to know that this
program helps the community by
giving veterans a chance to own
homes and pay property taxes.
They also should know that bonds
sold to finance the programs are
repaid entirely by the veterans,
with not tax money required.
Lets keep one government pro-
Steven Ficociello
Higgins Middle School
Mr. Bucey's Room 34
1 King St Ext.
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On Saturday, October 7, Senator
Drew Nixon (R-Carthage) was rec-
ognized by the Free Market PAC
and U.S. House Majority Leader
Dick Armey as one of the most
conservative Texas Senators of the
1995 Legislative Session. Senator
Nixon's voting record was given an
impressive 88 percent. Legislators
in the Texas Ten scored in the top
twentieth percentile.
"Senator Nixon deserves this
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The prayer in one of my favorite
inspirational books for this morn-
ing was. "God grant me the sense
of proportion to judge the differ-
ence between an incident and a cri-
sis."
I sometimes lack that sense of
proportion to judge. I am pretty
much persuaded to believe that a
life and death situation is a crisis
and just about everything else is an
incident. I know a driver getting off
a little slow at the red light is not
enough to raise my blood pressure.
I also know a potato peeler put in
the wrong drawer is no big deal. I
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Dear Editor
Last Friday afternoon, someone
at the high school gave themselves
a present at my expense. They saw
my Mead zipper notebook and took
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wasn't theirs. If he didn't, he
learned that it wasn't when he
opened it Inside was all my work
for this six weeks in Algebra I. En-
glish, and a research paper on the
Great Smokey Mountain National
Park for my GT History class. My
Mom and I went to the high school
at 7:30 Monday morning in the
hopes that the person that picked
up my notebook had turned it in.
He did not.
I don't think the person that took
it realizes what she has done. I
spent all day Monday trying to re-
construct my research paper and
make a new journal for English. I
will spend time this week re-doing
papers for my math folder because
my final grade depends on having
this work in my notebook. 1 am an
Honor Roll student, and I want to
slay there. So the person who took
my notebook cost me much time
and worry.
That person is also teaching
himself a bad lesson. The person
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fully analyzed Senator Nixon's
conservative voting record in order
to calculate his rating.
"1 am truly honored to be a part
of the 1995 Texas Ten," said
Nixon. "Throughout the legislative
session, I consistently voted my
conscience, while carrying the con-
cerns of East Texas to the Senate
Floor."
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publishers by Ckrishaas. Hb
Ga£ghters. oae of his first boots,
was recently accepted by a Genaaa
publisher and wil be his first
foreign Mnsfahon.
And ONetfs ofaer htenry love,
minor league baseball, earned him
the opportunity to write several
articles far the souvenir program
published far this summer's major
league Al-Star Game, hosted by
The Ballperk at Arlington. He has
authored several books on the
Texas League, the Pacific League,
and others; that experience
contributed to five articles in the
extensive program.
"So I've finally made it to the
big leagues." O'Neal jokes.
Ghost Towns of the American
West will be on sale soon at
bookstores throughout the west. It
will be priced at $29.95.
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Sincerely,
Frank Lee
8th grade help of your readers. If any of your
thinks that he has gained a really gram that works, vote Proposition
nice (and free) notebook complete 5.
with a fine set of marker pens, pen-
cils, pens, paper, folders, and a
great research paper. I don't think
that person realizes that, as
wonderful as all that may be,
nothing that one has not worked for
themselves has much meaning. I
earned what I lost. The person who
took my things gained little. I think
that person has lost a lot more than
I did.
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farOTfad.
"They nearly wore me ous." he
said. Wuh storms and faMw* on
four towns due each week, be bud
to work fast to make toe doadhnes.
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Jade EHiott, Olivia Harrison, Katy Davis and Alex Smith were among pre-schoolers from a
local day care who raised more than $650 for the St. Jude's Children's Hospital. The trlke-a-
thon, held recently at Carthage Junior High, Is an annual event for the day care center.
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many years. Once in a while I try to
find a molehill to make a mountain
out of.
My life is so much more enjoy-
able when I can take one thing at a
time. Do what I have to do, and go
on to the next thing. I really try not
to let my yesterdays nor my tomor-
rows get in my today's business.
Our Bible says, "Do not worry
about tomorrow, for tomorrow has
enough troubles of its own."
Lord, I have a day here that 1
can use however I sec fit. Stay near
me that I might also use it as you
see fit.
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Dear Editor:
I am an eighth grade student at
the Higgins Middle School in
Peabody, Mass. Our social studies
class is doing a project on "Small
Town America," and I have
Carthage as my small town.
I would really appreciate the
Carthage Junior High School readers would be willing' to send
me postcards, photos or any other
information about Carthage, it
Panola
Watchman
Publisher Bin Holder
Typesetter Anita Shahan
Editor Ted Leach
Business Manager. .Ann Lange
News Editor. Daniel Humphries
Classifieds ... Minnie Lee Bush
Lifestyles Editor... Laura Negri
. .Debby Griffin
Sherry Koonce
.. Tracy Sartor
Advertising Lynette Jeans
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Silver City, Metro Leaser-known
ghost towns—Bannack. Montana,
whose most notorious ouninai was
its own sheriff; Tascosa. Ttexas, the
Cowboy Capital of the Ptafoendte,
and Bodie. Cahfonea. a two of
13.000 with a bank, a church. force
and adventurism, with whole
communities booming into
existence in a matter of weeks.
Hotels, newspapers, saloons and
general stores sprang up virtually
overnight to serve the men and
women who claimed the Western
territories.
But when the railroads foiled to
come through, when the mines ran
out, aad when the adventurers
moved on. many such towns were
abandoned to the elements, with
only a few empty shacks left
behind to testify to their past glory
— or infamy.
Those towns are the basis of a
new book by Panola College
instructor Bill O'Neal. His Uth
solo work. Ghost Towns of the
American West, will hit book stores
this fall in time for Christmas
shopping.
O’Neal is pleased with the new
book, a coffee-table edition of
stories and photos of 32 ghost
towns throughout the Western
states.
"If s really the best looking book
I've had," O'Neal said of the
volume, his second work with
also profiled.
A few, like Deadwood. South
Dakota, aren't true ghost towns as a
flourishing tourist industry trades
on the town's history.
Spacing up the tales of frontier
towns are profiles of souk of their
better-known residents, such as
Wild Bill Hickock. Bat Mateeraon
and Calamity Jane.
There were no Texas towns on
_ the initial list when the publishers
Publicationslntemational Ltd. lite
other authors on Legends of the PO®‘«1 «*< nadvc state has its
Wild West, a series of profiles on share of the reminders of past
more than 50 of the most famous glory.
and notorious men and women of It was after the success of
the west. Legends of the Wild West that the
The new book features such publishers asked O'Neal to work on
Ghost Towns. But the fast-paced
schedule set out by the company
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Leach, Ted. The Panola Watchman (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 86, Ed. 1 Wednesday, October 25, 1995, newspaper, October 25, 1995; Carthage, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1280190/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sammy Brown Library.