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Student Poetry Contest open to high schoolers
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Crashed Taiwan plane hoisted from river; 26 confirmed dead
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any student in grades first
through twelfth from all
of northeast Texas; public
school, private school, and
home-schooled students are
welcome and encouraged
to participate, according
to contest organizers. The
top three poems in each
grade will be included in
the 2015 Northeast Texas
Poetry in Schools Anthology
and published in the May/
June issue of County Line
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first workers will get word
this week. The majority
of the workers affected
are at plants in Chicago;
Kansas City, Missouri; and
Louisville, Kentucky.
Ford, General Motors
Co. and Chrysler Group
— now Fiat Chrysler
Automobiles — established
separate wages and benefits
for new employees and
veteran ones as part of
their 2007 contracts with
the United Auto Workers
union. Initially, there
were caps on the number
of lower-wage workers at
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Medical Center, Tyler
Friday, Jan. 30, 2015.
The family will receive
friends between 6 p.m.
Habitat work day Saturday
Mount Pleasant Habitat for Humanity has scheduled a work
day Saturday, Feb. 7, beginning at 8 a.m. at 912 E. 9th St.
Volunteers will be installing hardiplank to the exterior of the
Church serves up chicken stew
The First Presbyterian Church, at Fourth and Madison streets,
is serving chicken stew on Thursday, Feb. 12, beginning at 11 a.m.
Charge is $7 for a meal. Take outs and quart servings will also be
available. For more information, call the church at 903-572-8832.
100 Women in Red Sunday
The Unity Missionary Baptist Church is hosting 100 Women
in Red beginning at 3 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 8.
Special guests include evangelist Sheba Griffin from Mount
Olive Baptist Church and the Rev. Kirthell Roberts.
The church is located at 1048 Richardson Road.
DETROIT (AP) — Ford
Motor Co. is moving
several hundred U.S.
hourly workers into a
higher pay bracket after
surpassing a cap on the
number of lower-wage
workers it can hire.
Ford said Wednesday
that up to 500 workers will
transition from an entry-
level wage of $19.28 per
hour to a top-tier wage
of $28.50 per hour over
the next two months. The
each of the companies,
but the caps at GM and
Chrysler were suspended
in 2009 as part of those
companies’ bankruptcy
reorganizations.
Ford still has a cap of 20
percent, and it will surpass
that this quarter with
the hiring of 1,550 new
workers to support pickup
truck production in
Kansas City and Michigan,
according to Bill Dirksen,
Ford’s vice president of
labor affairs. Ford has a
total of 50,000 hourly
workers.
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP)
— Rescuers used a crane
to hoist the fuselage of
a wrecked TransAsia
Airways plane from a
shallow river in Taiwan’s
capital late Wednesday
as they searched into the
night for 17 people missing
in a crash that killed at
least 26 others.
Flight 235 with 58
people aboard — most of
them travelers from China
— banked sharply on its
side shortly after takeoff
from Taipei, clipped a
highway bridge and then
careened into the Keelung
River.
Rescuers in rubber rafts
pulled 15 people alive
from the wreckage during
daylight. After dark, they
brought in the crane, and
the death toll was expected
to rise once crews were
able to search through
submerged portions of the
fuselage, which came to
rest a few dozen meters
(yards) from the shore.
Dramatic video clips
apparently taken from
TCHPS meets Feb. 10
The Titus County Historical Preservation Society’s monthly
meeting is scheduled for 11 a.m. Tuesday, Feb. 10, at Bob Sandlin
State Park headquarters building. Park Superintendent Paul
Harris will present a brief overview of the park and all the
activities that are available to the public. The meeting is open to
the public.
The lake park headquarters is located at 341 State Park Road
2117, Hwy. 271 South, Pittsburg; approximately 12 miles
southwest of Mount Pleasant on FM 21.
house.
Coffee, water, Gatorade and a light lunch will be provided.
Stew and chili benefit February 7
A stew and chili benefit for LaDonna Holt will be held
Saturday, Feb. 7 at 5 p.m. at the Sugarhill Community Center to
help with expenses incurred during her recent medical illness.
There will be a pie and cake auction along with a silent auction
and raffle drawings for a Yeti cooler and a handmade quilt. Raffle
tickets can be bought prior or during the event.
Chili and stew for adults will be $6. Charge for children, ages 6
to 12 will be $3, and children ages 5 and under are free.
Young Audiences of
Northeast Texas is taking
submissions for the
Northeast Texas Poetry in
Schools Contest, 2015.
This year, Young
Audiences is joined by
the following community
and educational partners:
Region 7 Educational
Service Center, County Line
Magazine, InSpiritry and
Lady Mujaji Banquet Feb. 28
The 9th annual Lady Mujaji Heritage Scholarship Banquet is
set for 6 p.m. at the Mount Pleasant Civic Center.
Individual tickets are $10 each. Hosting a table is $100 per
table. For more information, call 903-577-0458.
Magazine.
In addition, winning
students will be invited to
read their poems at the
awards ceremony in April
at Region 7 Educational
Service Center in Kilgore.
One $500 scholarship,
funded by the Rusk County
Poetry Society, will be
awarded to the twelfth-grade
student whose poem takes
first prize.
The contest continues
and 8 p.m. Thursday, Feb.
5 at Erman Smith Funeral
Home in Pittsburg.
Funeral services are set
for 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 6
at Erman Smith Funeral
Home Chapel with Bro.
Scott Darby officiating.
Pall bearers are Charles
Kaiser, Jeffery Matthews,
Matt Murphy, Danny
Carrney, Bobby Smith and
Kerwyn Williams.
Interment will follow
at Rose Hill Cemetery in
Pittsburg.
She was employed by
Pilgrim’s. She attended
Daingerfield High School.
Her family remembers her
as a devoted mother and
wonderful daughter.
She is survived by
her father and step-
mother, Richard and
Kim Higginbotham of
Daingerfield, her mother
Patsy A. Zammora of
Naples and friend Jerrel
Cato, one son Bryden
Williams of Pittsburg and
two daughters, Breana
Williams and Jolene
Carrney, both of Pittsburg;
grandmother Bobbie
Higginbotham of Pittsburg
and numerous aunts,
uncles and cousins.
Online condolences
may be made at www.
ermansmithfuneralhome.
net.
some were expected to
arrive Thursday, including
some flying from Beijing.
The plane’s wing hit a
taxi on the freeway, and
the driver and a passenger
were injured, Chen said.
Taiwan’s Ministry of
National Defense said it
had sent 165 people and
eight boats to the riverside
rescue scene, joining fire
department rescue crews.
Another ATR 72
operated by the same
Taipei-based airline
crashed in the outlying
Taiwan-controlled islands
of Penghu last July 23,
killing 48 at the end of
a typhoon for reasons
that are still under
investigation.
ATR, a French-Italian
consortium based in
Toulouse, France, said
it was sending a team
to Taiwan to help in the
investigation.
The ATR 72-600 that
crashed Wednesday
is manufacturer’s best
plane model, and the
pilot had 4,900 hours
of flying experience,
said Lin Chih-ming of
the Civil Aeronautics
Justin, Melissa Stevens
and husband Russell,
and Emily Cameron; and
nine great-grandchildren:
Carrigan Honeyfield,
Keaton and Braxton
Emrick, Corey Edwards,
Camden Plowman, Easton
Plowman, Kaiten Hughes
and Kinsler and Kressley
Roach.
Other survivors include
a brother and sister-in-law
Roland and Micki Cox of
Odessa, two sisters and
brothers-in-law Peggy and
Donnie Miller of Alvin,
and Margaret and Jimmy
Hobbs of Independence,
Mo.
She was preceded in
death by her parents,
William and Mamie Lee
Humphries Cox, a husband
Charles Kent Emrick, an
infant daughter Charlene
Emrick and sister Barbara
Williams.
Online registry
is available at
batescoopersloanfuneralhome.
com
Emrick
Patricia “Pat” Emrick,
83, died Monday, Feb. 2,
2015 in Mount Pleasant.
Funeral services ae
scheduled for 2 p.m.
Saturday, Feb. 7 at Bates-
Cooper-Sloan Chapel,
with the Rev. Mike Kessler
officiating.
Burial will follow at
Nevills Chapel Cemetery.
Pallbearers are Jason
Emrick, Evan Honeyfield,
Russell Stephens, Jared
Emrick, Justin Roach and
Dale Nichols.
No visitation is
scheduled.
Survivors include a
daughter and son-in-
law, Carolyn and Dale
Honeyfieldof Wellsboro,
Pa.; another daughter,
Cindy Cameron of Mount
Pleasant; two sons and
daughters-in-law, Charles
Alan and LaDon Emrick,
and Spencer and Denny
Emrick, all of Hobbs,
N.M.; grandchildren,
Kalen Honeyfield and wife
Kelly, Evan Honeyfield
and wife Anita, Tyson
Honeyfield, Alanna
Emrick, Jared Emrick
and wife Emily, Jason
Emrick and wife Amber,
D’Lisa Edwards and
husband Bobby, Amy
Roach and husband
Rusk County Poetry Society.
The contest submission
deadline is Sunday, March
1. All poems must be
submitted online by a
teacher or homeschool
parent. Instructions for
submitting poems can be
found by visiting www.
yanetexas.org and following
the poetry link at the bottom
of the home page, according
to contest organizers.
The contest is open to
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celebration of the poetic
artistry of Northeast Texas
students,” McCrady says.
“With its affirmation of
creative language arts and
self-expression, this heart-
warming event has become
a favorite memory of past
participants.”
For more information,
email Young Audiences of
Northeast Texas, Tyler, at
education@yanetexas.org or
call 903-561-2787.
Rusk County Poetry
Society’s forty-year tradition
of a poetry contest for
students, which expanded
last year when poet and
contest Artistic Director
Anne McCrady joined forces
with Young Audiences.
This year the contest also
merges with County Line
Magazine’s annual poetry
contest which has run for
the past eight years.
“Poetry in Schools is a
Administration.
Greg Waldron, Asia
managing editor at
Flightglobal magazine
in Singapore, said the
ATR 72-600 is the latest
iteration of one of the most
popular turboprop planes
in the world, particularly
favored for regional short-
hop flights in Asia.
It has a generally good
reputation for safety and
reliability and is known
among airlines for being
cheap and efficient to
operate.
While it’s too early to
say what caused the crash,
engine trouble or weight
shifting were unlikely to
be causes, Waldron said.
Other possible factors
include pilot error, weather
or freak incidents such as
bird strikes.
“It’s too early now to
speculate on whether
it was an issue with the
aircraft or crew,” Waldron
said.
The accessibility of the
crash site should allow for
a swift investigation, and
an initial report should be
available within about a
month, Waldron said.
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cars were posted online
and aired by broadcasters,
showing the ATR 72
propjet as it pivoted onto
its side while zooming
toward a traffic bridge over
the river. In one of them,
the plane rapidly fills the
frame as its now-vertical
wing scrapes over the road,
hitting a vehicle before
heading into the river.
Speculation cited in
local media said the crew
may have turned sharply
to follow the line of the
river to avoid crashing
into a high-rise residential
area, but Taiwan’s aviation
authority said it had no
evidence of that.
Taiwanese broadcasters
repeatedly played a
recording of the plane’s
final contact with the
control tower in which the
crew called out “Mayday”
three times. The recording
offered no direct clues as
to why the plane was in
distress.
It was the airline’s
second French-Italian-
built ATR 72 to crash in
the past year. Wednesday’s
flight had taken off at
11:53 a.m. from Taipei’s
Fire Department official
who was coordinating the
rescue, said the missing
people were either still
in the fuselage or had
perhaps been pulled down
the river.
“At the moment, things
don’t look too optimistic,”
Wu told reporters at the
scene. “Those in the front
of the plane are likely to
have lost their lives.”
Rescuers could be seen
pulling luggage from an
open plane door to clear
the fuselage. Ten inflatable
dinghies also searched for
the missing.
As a drizzle fell around
nightfall, military crews
took portable bridges to
the scene, where rescue
workers were building
docks for easier access
to the wreckage. About
300 rescue personnel and
members of the media
stood along the banks of
the narrow river.
Part of the freeway
above it was littered with
debris and was closed after
the crash.
Relatives of the victims
had not reached the scene
by dusk Wednesday but
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downtown Sungshan
Airport en route to the
outlying Taiwanese-
controlled Kinmen islands.
The crew issued the
mayday call shortly after
takeoff, Taiwanese civil
aviation authorities said.
TransAsia director Peter
Chen said contact with
the plane was lost four
minutes after takeoff. He
said weather conditions
were suitable for flying and
the cause of the accident
was unknown.
“Actually this aircraft
in the accident was the
newest model. It hadn’t
been used for even a year,”
he told a news conference.
Thirty-one passengers
were from China, Taiwan’s
tourism bureau said.
Kinmen’s airport is a
common link between
Taipei and China’s Fujian
province.
Taiwan’s Civil
Aeronautics
Administration said 26
people were confirmed
dead, 15 were rescued with
injuries and 17 were still
missing. It said two people
on the ground were hurt.
Wu Jun-hong, a Taipei
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