The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 8, 1998 Page: 4 of 38
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Oliver, 68, of Rt. 2, Diana. . Col
Chris Casper, NASA astronaut,
addressed a dinner meeting of
the Rotary Club at Gilmer Coun- -
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A daughter was born on the 4th
to Mr. and Mrs. Bobby Maberry
... Larry Willeford’s calf was the
winner in the Chamber ofCom-'
merce Spring show.
FIFTY YEARS AGO
Bob Gates was elected mayor,
Gilbert Warrick and John D.
Goolsby, aldermen ... The Rev.
Robert Stegall of Pritchett died,
age 75... Miss Grace Lawrence -
of Clarksville was named
Upshur County Home Demon-
stration agent. . . Local candi-'
dates for Scottish Rite Masonic
Degrees in Dallas were Futrell .
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The Gilmer Mirror welcomes
letters to the editor on subjects
of interest to readers
All letters must bear the
handwritten signature of the
writer and include address and
phone numbers) for verifica-
Tucker He said at that time that he did not feel ha should
overturn thedecision/ajury hadmade
There was no by-line on the story.
An Associated Press report of April 3 said that many
Texans were taken in by the Observers little April fool joke.
The writer of the Mirror editorial. Publisher Sarah
Greene, said she thought briefly of gnootinaong the
Observer’s story, but there was no April date connected
with it And as a longtime reader of the dead-serious liberal
journal, which normall
separate from its postil | _
limited humor space for such byHined writers as Molly Irins
and Jim Hightower.
Some newspapers have put out entire “April foo editions,
stirring consternation among some readers. Publisher
Greene promises that The Mirror wiknot do that not on her
an apology to Governor Bush. She said she was relieved to
know that our gomernor had not actually gone “round the
bend" in the way the Observer painted him. And she said she
realizedthat she may be drummed out of her profession for
skepticism failure. - h
In her oln defense she said, weakly, that it may be
measure of these imimoderate times that no political stance
norms too outrageous to be believed.
The two scariest words
___ THERE WAS no mention of
tion purposes. A signed letter atmospheric re-entry problems
carries more weight with read- or landing sites in that quiet
er residential neighborhood where
Send letters to “Letters to the cult has purchased property,
the Editor"; do The Gilmer Mir- One would presume that the
ror, P.O. Box 250; Gilmer, TX Deity will not require NASA or
[Rear Vision Mirror]
TEN YEARSAGO
Some 66 families experienced
property damage and some of
them were left homeless when
an April 1 tornado ripped
through East Mountain... Fire
destroyed the planing mill op-
erations at Dean Lumber Co...
Union Hill School Board hired a
former superintendent, Weldon
Snodgrass, to serve as superin-
tendent on a 2-year contract. -.
Taken by death were Irvin
Henry, 76; Aubrey Hamilton, 68;
Dr. Lowell Edison Rutledge, 67,
Editorials.
Dead wrong
Wherein the Mirrorwriter admits being taken
in by hoax and apologizes to Governor Bush
Now they tenusTheTeas Observer story on which The
Mirror's April 4 editorial about the late folk singer Leedbell,
Chunkin Rocks a,
happening this week. Even the President wants a "debate."
According to Horace B. Deets, AARP Executive Director,
“The time has come for a Social Security reality check.
People are being misled by a constant stream of msinfonn&- "
tion about the economic health of Social Security."
However, he admits, “Although the system does not face
an immediate crisis, it does have a long-term solvency
problem. It’s important that Americans come to understand
the problem, the proposals being put forward to solve it and
the tradeoffs involved in those possible solutions."
Deets also admits that under current funding mecha-
nisms, those retiring after 2029 would only receive 75 per-
cent of the benefits retirees currently take for granted.
Another little-known fact is that most Americans under
age 40 will not be able to receive full benefits until they
reach age 67, not 65. And politicians seem to want to raise
that age ever higher, in hopes that potential recipients will
die off in greater numbers before they qualify for enrollment
Deets says AARP has just launched a nationwide effort to
counteract the “misinformation” being circulated about
Social Security, aiming at a constructive dialogue that
enables Americans to distinguish between what’s truthfill—
and what’s not.
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TOUR GROUP from Japan looks at an aeral photo of Pearl Harbor at foe Pearl Harbor Museum as their TWENTYYEARSAGO
guidedescribes how Japanese dive bombers came in during the Dec. 7,1941 attack on the Pacificfleet. Gilmer Mayor Harry Lucas
won re-election to a third term
face of my traveling compan-
ion, Marjorie MeLaughlin of FROM HONOLULU our
Overland Park, Kana , whose group of 38 flew to Kauai for a
late busband had served in the delightful stay described in
World War II Navy. And I had. this space last week -The third
joined her. island on our itinerary, Maui,
Bruce said we could expect was two 20-minute flights
to see groups of tourists from away in an Hawaiian Airlines
Japan at the Pearl Harbor DC-9, time enough for the busy
Museum and at the Memorial. flight attendants to serve two
Who knows what motivates rounds of tropical juice.
them? Our guide didn’t at- “Blame it on El Nino" has
tempt to explain it, except to become a byword on the main-
say the Japanese have great land, but in the islands it has
respect for our military. I was a precise meaning. Gusty
reminded of the Nimitz Mu- winds during the week of our
seum at Fredericksburg, where tour, according to the Hono-
Japanese volunteers spent lulu Advertiser, signaled the
months building a garden to weakening of El Nino condi-
honor that hero of the Pacific tions in the Pacific that had
War, Admiral Chester Nimitz. caused a devastating drought
. . , throughout the islands.
We took a number and
waited to be called for the film THE RETURN of trade
by a 3-1 margin /r^Don and
(Continued firom last week) tional Park Service, I saw a
Lees rtmxmber Peart Har- group of Japaneze.withyear-
' ==at SSJH
j The20-minutefilmincluded
Waikiki Beacheaswerplied footagetakenbythe Japanese
through beautarul downtown “
Honolulu, Guide Bruce Reifel pilots during the attack, and
hemm his rotation of the fa- concluded with that almost-
miliar events hading up to forgotten World War II fight
naremhar 7,1941. song that ends,
THE SNEAK attack of the re^^ber Pearl Har
Japanese Navy on the U. 8. bo^andgo onto victory.
Pacific Fleet, which bombed The memorial itself is de-
theU.s.into‘WorldWari,is sixnedinarutrvednsharewit WE HAD A LUNCH break
commemorated by a curving “ JOW cenxer • SymDonze.tne .nina
white memorial over the low point for America that Dec at theporttown ofLahaina
annkanhattUahin thaU S R 7 represented, rising to each where the worlds second larg-
‘Social Security’ leaves pols heading for tall grass Ancona endfortheexpectation offinal : Banzan ree takes upat
v • "vj -a . 7P °s Since it had taken me 56 victory- Each boatload of visi-
The American Association of Retired Persons now has 32 years to get there, I didn't ex- tors is given 20 minutes to gaze
million members. Sheer numbers send a powerful message to - pact to be so moved. But as down into the wreckage where
Washington, D.C., politicians wanting to stay in office. AARP Bruce talked, I noticed that all but about 300 of the
doesn’t reliah hearing the word “change” associated with that tears were streaming down the Arizona’s crew of 1,177 lie
. near-sacred term "Social Security” and that’s what’s been of mv traveling cnmnan- entombed.
AMONG DISTURBING tion state and city permits) to calculations were off a bit. I was
turns of events that worry me land or blast off for the heavenly petrified with fear. NASA said it
are two predictions; one by a return journey. This could pose would come within600,000miles
Chinese religious cult from Tai- something of a traffic conges- of earth. What a relief! For a
wan that recently moved to Gar- tion problem, especially during while there I thought they said
land, Texas to await what the rush hours. Security and safety within 500,000 miles.
cult leader claims will be the for the launch site will certainly JUST THINK of the things
eminent appearance of God in require extra police and much an asteroid hit would delay or
that busy, prosperous Dallas- overtime for crowd control. Be- even postpone. Like for instance,
area suburban city and the other lieve me, it’s not every day that the Miss America pageant, the
one is that a huge asteroid may one can watch landing and Cowboys’Super Bowl dreams in
hit the earth in the year 2038. launching of a divine space ve- about 20 years, Dennis
WHAT MAKES the appear- hide. There was, of course, no- Rodman’s hairstyles and colors,
ance of the Deity somewhat dif- body so crass as to mention TV Oprah, Days of Our Lives, Gen-
ferent from conventional predic- or media coverage of any food, eral Hospital, the Muppets, the
tions of promised coming again drink and souvenir concessions. ERA’s pollution control projects,
as told in the Good Book is that A PREDICTION by the cult mini skirts, bikinis, Al Gore’s
cult members believe He will that God would appear on a program to save everything not
kind of swoop down, apparently Dallas-area TV channel to cult already saved, Ken Starr’s in-
from an unknown ethereal loca- members last week was sadly a vestigations, IRS income tax
tion in outer space and carry no-show. Apparently, not deadlines and audits, NAFTA,
cult members to heaven in a enough commercials and spon- food stamps, Newt Gingrich’s
spaceship which must be a sors could be signed up for the presidential hopes, the Republi-
rather large craft. Apparently, appearance. The Deity’s subject can Party’s dreams of keeping
Russia’s Mir space jalopy was matter was likewise not mn- their House majority. Heck, the
ruled out. Oddly enough, there tioned. Interviews by Larry King asteroid hit may even crowd
was no mention of special astro- or Sam Donaldson were not, White House scandals off TV
scheduled. Viewer ratings were and the front page of The Na-
not considered a factor. tional Enquirer.
SOME ASTRONOMY
people recently predicted an ONE THING seems certain
asteroid or some kind of huge if the
rock from outer space may hit hits: The Democrats are sure
the earth in 2038 with world- to blame it on the Republicans
ending or cataclysmic effects, who will appoint a Special Pros-
like blocking out the sun, tidal ecutor to investigate the Demo-
waves and earthquakes, killing cratic Party’s well-planned con-
off just about everything and spiracy to secretly arrange for
generally upsetting everybody, the asteroid to hit conservative
Then NASA scientists an- and heavily GOP areas. It could
nounced the asteroid prediction happen.
Odom, P.K. Williams, Henry
Stropp, Ray Sorrells, Frank'
Turner, Everett Dean, J.W.
Manns, and Tom Ed DeBerry.
SIXTY YEARS AGO
Mayor L.N. Coe'and aider-
man Croley Cook, Fletcher
Lovell and Neil Buie were re-
elected without opposition . . .
Mrs. Martha J. Smart died in ;
her 84th year . . . Mrs. O.J. :
Banning, 63, died at West Moun-
tain ... The 20th Century Club
announced prizes for the best i
kept yards . . . Ma. W.C.
Barnwell had the first bluebon- t
nets ever seen growing here in «
her yard
SEVENTY YEARS AGO
Gilmer Rotary lub’s dance
for benefit of its crippled
children’s clinic was a success..
. R.I. Dedman, Dr. T.E. Mar-
shall, and John Mack Brooks
See REAR VISION, Page 5A
_-L Upshur County’s Outstanding
strong enough to bring . re-
turn of dry weather, the Na- of Commerce banquet. Bright,
tional Weather Service new faces joined the tried and
warned. Wildfires had raged truetomakethe 1978Firemens
on several islands and water Minstrels a rollicking success w
use had been restricted. ; Local deaths ingluded C.E
In Maui as on the other is- Light, Isaac Tucker ndLJ. Bell
lands, brown hillsides looked - • V. Senate ca
Part where the lao Needle, a THIRTY YEARS AGO
cone-shaped nugget of hard Services were held for H.P.
volcanic rock rises 1,200 feet Mcaughty,89,longtimeGilmer
from the rain forestfloor in the banker... Upshur County Wa-
West Maui Mnains. ter District got $27,000 from fed-
WE HAD A LUNCH break eral planning funds . . . Two
state historical markers were
dedicated in separate ceremo-
nies; one for Pritchett Normal
least halfofa city block. It was Institute and the other for early
planted in 1873 and has 20 Upshur Sheriff Capt Alex Earp
trunks. My traveling compan- at Hopewell Methodist Church.
ion, Marjorie McLaughlin of ., Joe D. Jones became Gilmer
Overland Park, Kans, and I Church of Christ minister... A
had lunch a the nearby Pio- wreck injured three Gilmer-
neer Inn, started in 1901 by a Kilgore College students, Mike
Canadian “Mountie” who pur- Thigpen, Linda Morris and
sued a criminal to Maui and Ronnie Turner ... April began ’
liked it so much that he stayed. witha3-inchrainoverthecourtty l
The Four Seasons Resort at #. Major John Pickitt of Gilmer'
Wailea Beach was our more- completed 100 missions with the
than-comfortable home for the Air Force over Viet Nam
next three days. Stephen Jones and Ben C.
I was one of only four mem- Shepperd were named to the .
bers of our tour group who SM honor roll... Deaths in-
chose to make a whale-watch- eluded Alex T. Gillies Sr., 71;
ing tour on the 92-passenger Mrs. Emma Maud Sharp, 84;
Prince Kuhui. Twelve years Eddie Martin Harris, 74; Dr.
ago Sally and I had gotten a John Dial, 76; and w jj Bul-
close-up view of a pod of hump- lock, 80.
back whales in Glacier Bay, ~A‛- VCAQC A~A
Alaska, from the Holland- FUnTY YtAHb A-
America liner Noor dam. Surry Turner, who had repre- .
IT SEEMS counter-intui- sented Upshur County in the
tive, but the whales find their state legislature, died of a heart
food in the cold northern wa- attack at 67 ... J.N. Shepperd,
ters and, after piling on the B.C. Sorrells and Ralph Byman
blubber through non-stop eat- wereelected to the Gilmer School
that precedes the short boat winds that normally bring ing of plankton and other small Board . . . Sylvia Poole was
trip to the memorial. In the moist air to the islands could crowned basketball queen at
museum operated by the Na- help, but El Nino was still See SIDEGLANCES, Page 5A Harmony “H" Club bangnef
Surveys show younger Americans are not confident of
receiving what the current generation of retirees does from •
the system, and they also are quite upset at the exorbitant
and regressive payroll taxes ("FICA”) theyhave deducted
from their paychecks.
American workers, even during the current "boom,” still
don’t earn as much, adjusted for inflation, as they did in
1988. The “global economy” has seen to that Yet, their
payroll taxes have continued to rise. About 80 percent of
workers have more money withheld for FICA than they owe
on April 15 in income taxes. w
AARP doesn’t seem to want to discuss lowering the regres-
sive payroll tax rate, but Deets says it does recognize that
personal savings and private pensions must be considered in
this dialogue.
He wants to explore way of encouraging more people to
save and to build a more secure retirement, saying that each
person has a responsibility to plan for the fixture. Certainly
no one can disagree with that concept in general.
The problem with that is this; Since wages are stagnant
and taxes are rising, how is the average American household
supposed to save enough to retire on now, much less make it
to 70 or 75 or whatever the new eligibility age is eventually
going to be?
Deets encourages AARP members to talk to their children
about their retirement That’s a good idea. Unfortunately,
their children and certainly their grandchildren don’t vote
in near the numbers that they do. The “dirty little secret” is
that AARP likes it that way, because it gives the organiza-
tion even more clout in the halls of Congress and the corri-
dors of the White House.
Politically, it seems to us that not much is going to
change. We just have to pray that this country never has
another economic recession and that we gradually get rid of
our self-imposed imperial military obligations to police the
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world-
The old “guns versus butter” debate is going to rear its
ugly head again as the demographic time bomb represented
by the Baby Boomers begins to retire. •___
Sideglances in The Mirror
The March 27 edition of the sem-monthly Austin poblica-
ton devoted tea back page to astory datelined Austin, Maerh
1o, which said that Gar. George W. Bush had annoqnced ha »
was revoking the 19M pardon the late Gov. Pat Neff had
granted to Buddie Leadbelly) Left otter.
The governor’s “prepared statemen" at a supposed Austin
press conference indicated he was simply reinforcing the
statement he made in February when he rejected demency
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Overton, Mac. The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 121, No. 28, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 8, 1998, newspaper, April 8, 1998; Gilmer, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1479192/m1/4/?q=deberry: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Upshur County Library.