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By JIMMY BROWN
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That is what is wrong with
Parish. They are a wonderful
that people of
group of people who went all out this country is
to make that year great for my faith haven’t stood up for what
is right. Rep. Glaze’s comments
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Patsy Fails of Gilmer.
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flew home after her visit’ “Yes.
She had to break in her new
broom.” Or this golden oldie
about mixed emotions: How
would you feel if you saw your
mother-in-law drive your brand
new Lincoln off a clif?
IVE TRIED to express my
admiration for women; to tell
them in my own humble way
that the hand that rocks the
cradle probably voted for
Clinton. Most are unimpressed:
“Listen, you. you especially
nasty, sexist, dirty old man. we
women don’t need you (ugh) men
anymore We have the power,
prestige and skills to run the
world,” growled one determined
lady.
“If you don't believe it, ask
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Gloria
Steinem. Oprah Winfrey, Rosie
O’Donnell, Whoopi Goldberg.
Janet Reno, Monica Lewinsky,
Paula Jones and Madonna. All
we need are credit cards, law-
suits. Slim Fast and Wonder
Bras.”
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On April 23, 1938, Ernest
married Clovis Smith, daugh-
ter of John Bunion Taylor and
Bessie Alvenne Bailey. Clovis
was born Dec. 22, 1922 in
Kelsey. In 1939, they moved to
Utah. Ernest was drafted into
the service, engaging in some
of the bloodiest fighting in the
European front as a para-
trooper of the 101st Airborne
Division. In the Battle of
Bastogue, Ernest was one of
six men in his company to.sur-
vive.
Dear Editor:
The past few weeks I have
read so much about Union Hill
ISD in the paper. I want the
people ofUpshur County to hear
my opinion of this school dis-
trict.
This past school year was the
first year each school in the
county was responsible for their
district’s special education stu-
dents. Before this the county
was in a co-op and the disabled
. children were bused into Gilmer
ISD.
I have a severely disabled son
Stories from the
Sesquicentennud
EDrTORS NOTE: The
lowing is one of a series tf
selections from the Sesquicen-
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Larry
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Gilme
who started Union Hill this past proud to say that my son goes to
year. This was new to him and I such an understanding and car-
was leery of him attending ing school.
Also, the staff that we dealt should pray daily for those
with always had our needs first caught up in this “alternative
on the list, Mrs. Richardson, Mr. lifestyle,’ we should not be put-
Manley, Cathy Smidth, and Ms. ting them up on a pedestal.
Sex? Ive always had trouble with
this one. Which is which’ Those
timeless mother-in-law stories
would be impossible without
women who usually claim no
was submitted by Stanley Bom
en.
Ernest Nathan Bowers’ par-
ents were Benjamin Burley
Bowers and Octavia Viola
Peebles He was born July 4,
1918, at Lone Mountain one of
seven children. They are as
follows: Roy, Ida, Mariam,
Bennion, Echo, and Otto.
Ernest attended the Enoch
School, which was across the
road from the Enoch Church
and Cemetery.
Ernest was always active in
the Church of Jesus Christ of
• Latter-day Saints. He also took
an interest in cars and began
to work on them to see what
made them run. When he was
17 years old, some of the boys
merer and Hutant Upshur
Muna at $50.
This excerpt, about the
Ernest Nathan Bomen and
In 1950, the family moved
to Arizona. They had eight chil-
dren: LeGrande, Melville,
Stanley, Kathleen, Carolyn,
Tonita, Denise and Donna.
The family moved back to
East Texas in 1963. Here, their
children finished school, mar-
ried and all but one daughter
lived here until LeGrande
started a migration to Arizona
about 1985.
Ernest died on Oct. 25,1989.
and is buried in Kelsey Cem-
etery. In July of 1994, Clovis
moved to Arizona where most
of her children were living.
Stanley is the only one of eight
children still residing in
Upshur County.
Stanley Dee Bowers was
born Nov. 4,1946, in Salt Lake
City, Utah. When his family
moved to Arizona, he was al-
ways active in the Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints and in the scouting pro-
gram. He worked hard on his
scouting achievements and
earned his Eagle Scout Rank
when he was 13.
In 1962, Stanley’s family
made a trip to East Texas to
visit family. In the summer of
1963, when Stanley was 16,
the family moved to Gilmer.
Stanley graduated from Gilmer
High School in 1965.
While in high school,
Stanley and Lana Gail
Hardman began dating. He
attended Kilgore College and
was called to serve a mission
for the Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter-day Saints in Cali-
fornia. After returning from his
mission, he and Lana were
married on Aug. 26, 1969, in
the Salt Lake Temple in Salt
Lake City, Utah.'
Lana Gail Hardman was
born Feb. 27,1943, to Rhaunal
Arthur Hardman and Effie
Fayrene Hamberlin in Gilmer,
the oldest of five children. Lana
and her parents moved a lot
because of her father’s job.
When it came time for her to
state school, they moved back
to Kelsey.
Lana attended Gilmer
schools and graduated in 1966.
She attended Kilgore CoUsge
and Brigham Young Univer-
sity in Utah, majoringin cloth-
ing and textiles.
Stanley and Lana lived in
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Question who is the Opposite could help his family finan-
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BECAUSE
I would also like to thank the shouldn’t surprise anyone con-
person who worked with him sideri ng his liberal voting record
the most, Ms. Hartsell McCellon. in Austin or matters of this na-
She is a wonderful person that ture. I, for one, support the SBC
God has blessed with a special decision, and I don’t think it
talent for working with people would be a stretch to say the
like my son. The world would be majority of people in Upshur
a better place if more people County do as well.
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Christy Fails announces the dairy husinras, later awing
birth of her daughter, Michelle his own dairy, “Promised Land
Lynn Fails, on June 8. She Dairy* He worked for Gilmer
weighed 5 lbs., 10 oz. Potteries for nine years, and
Grandparents are Dale and . then returned to school and
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the typical pattern. Usually, the commander in chief basks
in the glow of victory. Medals are handed out, parades
organized, speeches given to the masses. Veterans are
heralded as preservers of freedom. Th national soul swells
in patriotic fervor. The merchants of death gain a new lease
on life.
Not this time. This is no victory glow, no parades, no flag
waving. Outside the mainstream media, there is a curius
lack of any bragging at all. There are no yellow ribbons
adorning trees. Indeed, veterans of thia war are more pitied
than praised. Veterans of past wars are rushing to repudiate
the whole mess. As regards the "national soul," it is pretty
much what it was before and during the \war: skeptical of
any pronouncement from D.C. Meanwhile, Congress has
moved on to the usual civic pieties: promising to reform a
smattering of failed programs, dreaming up new ways to
regulate our lives, and celebrating Rosa Parks. Even Clinton
seems to be backing away from the topic of the war.
What gives? This war never enjoyed wide or deep public
support, and for good reason. It was an attack on a faraway
sovereign country that never did anything to any American.
No interests of this country were threatened, or even af-
fected, by the 600-year-long struggle between Christians and
Muslims over Kosovo. The U.S. bombing was simply an
aggression of the sort the Russians used to accuse us of.
Even now, it is difficult to know the real reason for interven-
tion, since no one believes that the Clinton administration
cares about human-rights violations. You can't take anti-
brutality sermons seriously when the preacher is simulta-
neously bombing hospitals, schools, and water systems, and
killing innocents as a war tactic. Far from giving rise to
nationalist pride, U.S. behavior forms a pit in your stomach.
Clinton tried to draw on antique war myths and accuse
his opponents of appeasement in the face of evil. But it
didn't fly. His poll ratings actually declined during the war,
an astounding fact in light of the tendency of war to unite a
country behind the ruling regime. And these numbers are
from phone polls that dramatically under-assess the level of
dissatisfaction with existing government policy. The war was
supported with intensity by very few, mostly those who had
something to gain from it. Even .according to NATO's own
stated aims, the war was not a success. The final treaty
steps away from the absurd demands made in the
Rambouilett talks. And from a humane point of view, the
war was catastrophic, with thousands dead and an entire
society in ruins. The lack of public celebration of victory
reflects a widespread acknowledgment of this. The truth
about this war was not being spread by mainstream organs
of opinion, of course. But thanks to the Internet, this was the
first war in which a sizeable number of Ameritans had
access to alternative media. News from anti-war sites was
just as accessible as that from pro-war sites (again, the
mainstream media). So there was no need to rely on the
warfare state's spokesmen, and those who parrot their
opinions.
The contrast between truth and propaganda was so dra-
matic that we all received an education in how war
disinformation works. Even NATO was sometimes forced to
admit it had lied about its own iniquities. It was either
confess, or lose all credibility. One of the few reporters to
deal somewhat frankly with NATO atrocities was Steven
Erlanger of The New York Times, though he waited until the
NATO occupation to unburden himself fully. Writing in the
New York Times Magazine (June 13, 1999), he points out
that no one, Serbian or Albanian, believed "that this was
anything but Washington s war." All the prattle about allies
was just a fig leaf.
He further confirms that the U.S. was, perhaps out of
frustration," deliberately targeting civilians. One month into
the war, no Serb believed that the bombs were not aimed at
them or that NATO hit anything—even hospitals or the
Chinese Embassy—by error."
He tells a horrifying story about the massacre at
Aleksinac. Reporters were invited to view the death inflicted
on civilians by NATO. As they walked, Western reporters
joked to inure themselves to the bloody human remains on
which they were unavoidably stepping. But Serbians stand-
ing nearby said, "listen to the bastards, speaking English
and laughing." Serbians wept, says Erlanger, not only at the
loss of life and property, but also "for the death of their own
misconceptions of America."
And now, we hear of individual Serbs being run out of
Kosovo, 80,000 at last count, frightened ol terrorism directed
against them that NATO is either powerless to stop or de
facto encouraging. When a handful of Serbs refuses to col-
laborate, and dares to resist the foreign occupiers with guns,
can anyone really say they are wrong? As Erlanger notes,
even Serbs "have a right to their patriotism, and to their
own national myths, and to their grief."
There’s a scene in Godfather when Michael Corleone tells
his new girlfriend how his father once offered a contract to a
man at gunpoint. His father said, "either your brains or your
signature are going to be on that paper:" His girlfriend
freezes in horror, but Michael quickly assures her, "that's my
family, Kate, it's not me.
It is difficult for Americans to consider the immense
human suffering inflicted on Yugoslavia with weapons built
by our tax dollars. Far from celebrating, there is a wide-
spread tendency to avoid even thinking about it. But for
those who do think, this war makes them want to Cry out to
the world: that was the government’s war, not mine.
---Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., President
Ludwig von Miseo Institute, Auburn, Ala.
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Editorials |
What a mess
Peacekeepers now assigned to ‘mission impossible’
The aftermath of the war on Yugoslavia is not following
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to me. This means so much to a in once again putting party
parent to know that your child is over principle. Glaze has shed a
being taken care of and is happy, negative light on the commu-
when you have to leave them. nity he purports to represent.
I would like to thank the stu- No country in which homosexu-
dentsforacceptinghim Wehave ality was allowed to run ram-
been in town and kids will come pant has ended in anything but
up and say hi. This means a lot utter destruction.
Thomas Wood, Gilmer
Dear Editor:
I’m just writing this letter to
say thanks to all of you back
home who have supported,
prayed and just been there for
school, because they weren’t ex- Sherry Tisdale, Gilmer me and my family the last two
perienced in dealing with chil- { years. Yeah, it s been two years
dren like my son. He is non- Dear Editor: already, but with all of your
verbal, but will use some ges- 1 was surprised to read in last prayers, letters and support it
tures to communicate. Thursday’s edition of the Tyler sure has made it easier
Morning Telegraph of the com- I can’t even begin to express
The way the year went, 1 only ments of our local State Rep. just how much it’s meant to me
wish this change would have Bob Glaze (D-Gilmer), concern- and my family to have friends
taken place years ago I couldn’t ing the Southern Baptist Con- like the friends we have in
have asked for a better school. vention. Gilmer. To be honest with you-
This was the first time in all the Glaze said he disagrees with I never realized we had that
years, he has been attending the SBC’s decision to rebuke many friends.
school that he actually wanted President Clinton for appoint- If it’s the Lord’s will I will be
to stay. , i ,, ing an openly homosexual man, home soon and hopefully I can
In the past when I would come James Hormel, as an ambassa- bejust as good ofa friend to each
to the school for any reason dur- dor to Luxembourg as well as of you as all of you have been to
ing the day, and he would see declaring June “Gay Pride us
me, he would want me to take Month.- Thanks again and we appre-
him home. Now he will wave bye _ v date all of your concern and
__prayers.................
Jason Barber 791346,
Powledge Unit, Palestine
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SOME FRIENDS, a mixed well-balanced women learn of
group, got to talking about their somebody’s romance, engage-
marriages and marriage in gen- ment or announcement of mar
eral recently. They all described riage, they seem to lose most of
their state of wedded bliss as their cool prospective and com-
something resembling welding posure Most appear to gush
blisters. As I listened intently to excitedly as schoolgirls about the
their dreary tales of marital woe, romance at hand even if they
the truth of my very own pro- know little or nothing about the
found personal evaluation came lucky lady (men are rarely men-
sharply into focus: “Marriage is tioned at this point). It doesn’t
a great institution. But who matter, they’re talking romance,
wants to live in an institution?’ the stuff of True Love. After all,
THE ANSWER to this is love makes the world go ‘round,
clear: virtually all women of right? So what if the guy hap-
marriageable age. The truth is pens to bea loser’ Romance is
that women are better, stronger (They’re such a cute couple" )
and able to bear pain that romance,
crumbles men like used Dixie THE MAGIC sometimes
Cups. Women have such fasci- lasts until the honeymoon is
’ nating minds, project their per- over. Try telling females all the
sonalties, needs, wants, ideas romantic stuff is mostly hokey
and other things in most de- soap opera. They become furi-
lightfully feminine ways. They ous and begin to rip off some
are clearly ever-victorious and unladylike expletives, many of
have the upper hand in the these graphic and colorful: “Lis-
never-ending battle of the sexes. ten, you blankety-blank unro-
The trouble is that the upper mantic male chauvinist pig-
hand frequently is an iron fist in creep, I hope your mother runs
a velvet glove that can swat men out from under the front porch
rather severely and men usu- and bites you on the leg!”
ally deserve it. THE BATTLE of the sexes,
YOUNG AND old, married long ago won by women, has
or single, women fervently be- created many questions through
lieve and often go into ecstacies the centuries along with mil-
over brides, love, courting, ro- lions of jokes and stories. Like
mance, engagement/wedding the one where a healthy, ruddy,
rings—all the trappings of mar- tanned and fit old man was asked
riage. What fascinates me is the how he did it. “Well, my wife and
moment that perfectly charm- I decided when we were first
ing, intelligent, completely ra- married that I would go outside
tional, businesslike, capable and the house every time she got
to both of us, for the kids to If we can’t stand up for basic
recognize him and care about norms such as these, then this
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