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Page4A—THEGILMERMIRRORGilmer, Texas January 25,1997
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a raw nerve. Let he who is
. without sin cast the first stone.
It is titled “Worst That Could
Happen.” My sister bought the
plugback to 10,878. Production
is from five sets of perforations
ranging from 10,646 to 10,811
feet in the Cotton Valley Sand.
play Bach compositions on the
piano, which she also did in-
cessantly. It shows what an
uncultured hick I am that I did
not really enjoy what her
teacher, Jo Denson, taught her
on the piano. Mrs. Denson is
someone I truly failed. She
tried to bring me up in the
same way she was tutoring
Sally musically, but I decided
football was more important
to me when I was about eight
years old.
By the way, my crystal ball
is a little fuzzy, but I have
discerned the first two letters
of the team which will win the
Super Bowl tomorrow. The first
letter of the team’s name is P
and the second is A. I also see
Auntie Em and she is worried
sick about Dorothy, but from
with them. (See Matthew 19:4-
6; Mark 10:6-9.)
HAVE YOU ever thought
about the fact that there are so
many tens of millions of people
in this country who have not
only “had sex” with more than
one person, but with dozens or
maybe even hundreds, that the
God of the Bible which so many
of us in this community pro-
fess belief in must be getting
pretty peeved by now at the
disobedience of His creation?
I sense I have really struck
there the images all fade to
black. Now I’m worried about
her also and Toto, too.
At least I can almost read
music. It comes in handy in
the choir I’ve just joined. Thank
you, Jo. What a “stiff-necked”
student I was.
One of my theme songs (you
might even call it my personal
anthem) is a song by a group
called “Brooklyn Bridge” (lead
singer’s name was Johnny
Maestro).
I HAVE TO admit I listen 1
to the local “Oldies” station, 1
which makes me old, I guess. I
It is located at 95.3 on the FM
dial and sometimes claims to :
be a Gilmer station. •
I believe this is because Mr.
J.R. Curtis bought the license
from Jack Daniels, who did
* actually start an FM station
that did actually serve Gilmer
in the 1980s. But this station
does not. Its studios are on
Loop 281 near Sam’s C’ub and
Wal-Mart Supercenter. It is
The best popular music ever
produced was when I was grow-
ing up. And I have another
advantage in that I had a sis-
ter who was buying all the
great 45 rpm singles (which
are now getting more valuable
in the era of CDs which have
done away with vinyl records)
and playing them at a loud
volume in the room next door
to mine in our house.
SALLY had good taste in
music. She turned me on to
rock music. I would much
rather have listened to her
heartwarming.
Wehayenumerquspsople
groups to thank. Some are:
The Gilmer Mirror, for great
news coverage and the bulle-
tins; First National Bank, for
the reception following the
burial; Gilmer Rotary Club, for
hosting the reception; Upshur
County Civic Center, for the use
of the facility; Upshur County
Chamber of Commerce, for their
help and support; Magnolia Ca-
tering, for arranging the recep-
tion.
Mayor Everett Dean and
Judge Charles Still, for partici-
pating in the ceremony; Steve
Dean, for arranging and leading
the flyover; Scott Thompson, for
traffic diversion and control;
Chief James Grunden, for traf-
fic control and support; James
(Butch) Ragland, for the Civil
Air Patrol color guard.
Croley Funeral Home, for
helping throughout the week;
the Texarkana Delegation, for
I CANNOT seem to commit
to anyone but Jesus. And I’m
not even sure about that at
times. Thank God my moments
of doubt are becoming fewer
and farther between.
I went from scoffing at Him
to wondering about Him to
being humbled by Him to ac-
cepting Him as a “great
teacher” and then finally wor-
shipping Him as the Alpha and
Omega in terms of any mes-
sage the Eternal has for us
pitiful human beings.
And He has some pretty rig-
orous standards about not only
marriage and families, but also
about the process leading up
to the formation of families.
The Lord said at one point
during His ministry as a fel-
low human being among us
here on earth that you were
married for life to whichever
Gilmer Junior High and High
School Bands, for great music;
First Baptist Church, for their
hospitality and support; Dr.
David Jenkins, for his partici-
pation; Steve Vogl, for his par-
ticipation.
Chaplain (Major) Ben Collins,
III Corps, Ft. Hood, for the in-
terment service; First Lieuten-
ant Taylor, 1st Squadron, 12th
Cavalry, First Cavalry Division,
Fort Hood, for the firing squad,
bugler, and pallbearers; veter-
ans who stood vigil at the fu-
neral home, acted as ushers, or
participated in the ceremony,
and those who attended.
We also thank the general
public for their attendance and
encouragement. If we have omit-
ted any person or group, it was
certainly not intentional.
today’s Zion Hill Cemetery is
not my scene.
“But a girl like you needs to
be married. I’ve known all
along you couldn’t live forever
any wealth. It defines people by class as being less worthy.
There are millions of decent folks who live in mobile
homes all over this country. Some of the elite types “talking
trash” about those less fortunate (a kind of reverse “class
warfare”) who now are easily able to afford luxurious homes
may one day be reduced to such straitened economic circum-
stances that they, too, will have to experience the joys of a
“double-wide” or even something less accommodating than
that. They may rue the day they slammed the poor.
What goes around comes around.
‘Trailer park trash’
The one slur that is still ‘politically correct’
The First Assistant District Attorney of Dallas County,
Texas, just issued a slur upon many of the residents of
Upshur County and many of the loyal readers of this news-
paper, just by virtue of what kind of dwelling they live in.
On Tuesday in Kerrville, Norm Kinne referred to the
mother of a capital murder defendant whose case he is
prosecuting on behalf of the state as “trailer trash.”
This is not the first time this phrase or a variant thereof
has been uttered. When Mrs. Paula Corbin Jones filed her
sexual harassment case against the President of the United
States, one of his “hired guns” named James Carville imme-
diately labeled her as “trailer park trash.”
That designation in and of itself was intended to destroy
any credibility she might have as a witness against the
President. And maybe it did. But it shouldn’t have.
The mobile home industry is a huge one. It provides
affordable housing to millions of Americans who, for what-
ever reason, cannot afford to buy the conventional single-
family homes, such as those located in the Patterson Addi-
tion of Gilmer, for instance.
It would be nice, in an ideal world, if everyone could live
in a neighborhood like that or, let’s not stop there, in River
Enserch drilled to a 10,600-
ft. bottom and plugged it back to
9,010. Production ranges from
7,377 to 8,072 feet into the
wellbore.
OXY U.S.A, has filed first
prodrction data for the No. 1
Rogers “B” in Gregg County’s
part of the Glenwood Field.
Location is inside the city lim-
its of Clarksville City.
I know I’m not.
Forgive me, Father, for not
being able to commit. I am a
“stiff-necked” soul who cannot
seem to go the extra mile and
forgive “seventy times seven”
of those I meet who have not
obeyed and have even laughed
at the Word in terms of this
all-important arena of life.
Impress upon me how sinful
my own life has been at times
whenever I am tempted to de-
cry the sins of others.
Give me the gift of forgive-
ness and heal our families
which have been broken by our
failure to heed Your Word.
ally sure.
“And this is the one, they
say you really mean it, this
guy’s the one who makes you
feel so safe, so sane and so
secure, and if he loves you more
than me, maybe it’s the best
thing, maybe it’s the best thing
for you, but it’s the worst that
could happen to me.
“I’ll never get married, never
Oaks or Highland Park. But that’s not the reality now and it
is likely that it never will be. In fact, the middle class is
nessman and leader, active in
both community and church.
E.F. was the first person to
drive a school bus in the Long
Pine Community, creating the
route by first working one year
for free. He also pioneered the
first mail route in Long Pine
and taught the first public
school in the community,
known as the Fannie Grant
School.
E.F. and his sister, Saleda
Fluellen, acquired the school
from Fannie Grant and oper-
ated it for years. He also was
the founder of the first Ma- ,
sonic Order in Long Pine.
E.F., with the late Saul
Harper, worked as a team to
get the first electricity to Long
Pine. They also organized the
first road construction in Long
Pine and worked hard for the
right to vote for all people. E.F.
and his brothers, A.E. and H.M.
Fluellen, were sectional land
owners.
E.F. had sharecroppers for
years and as many as 15 to 20
families worked and lived on
his farm. He purchased his first
land at the age of 17. E.F. and
his brothers once owned the
property in Gilmer now known
as the Ervin Hill Projects,
which they conveyed to a very
close relative, Shelton Ervin.
He owned and operated sev-
eral stores for years on his
the Willow Springs Field, Gregg
County, three miles northeast
of Longview.
Enserch Exploration is the
operator.
The firm’s No. 20 Horton
Dickson showed ability to flow
831,000 CF gas daily on a 1.25-
in. choke. The open flow rating
came in at 1,247,000 CFD.
Y
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record and I heard it on the
AM radio (there was no FM to
speak of back then; what was
on the air was called “easy lis-
tening” and was not at all ap-
pealing to us rebellious kids).
It is all about a guy whose
supposed girlfriend tells him
that she is going to get mar-
ried to someone else.
LET ME quote copiously
from this song’s lyrics at the
risk of being sued:
“Girl, I heard you’re getting
married, heard you’re getting
The well potentiated at located. Also, the first church
1,415,000 CF per day on a 1.5-
Dear Editor: ’ their support and involvement;
Re: Lindsey ceremony and
burial.
“hveAebfF put it in quotes
because I’ve never liked that
term; most of us sinners often
use much more crude terms to
describe this process, don’t
EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol-
lowing is one of a series of
selections from the Sesquicen-
tennial family history book,
"Upshur County,. Texas* on
sale at the Chamber of Com-
merce for $50, tax included.
The following are excerpts
from three contributions of
Lewis D. L. Fluellen, one on his
father, the late E. F. Fluellen;
one on his mother, the late
Lizzie Mae Fluellen, and one
on his maternal great-grand-
parents, Joe and Sarah Fort.
E,F.Fluellen, 1885-1980,
was a noted politician, busi-
giving only “lip service” to
Gilmer.
But I still like the format. I
am old enough to have lived
through the golden era of Rock
and Roll (or Rock, for short)
which was not the ’50s, which
■ I don’t recall, but the mid- to
I late-’60s and the early 1970s.
I I don’t care how much you
a loved the music of the period
d.; in which you were growing up.
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( MARIUANA
MAY HAVE
HELPGD
WITH YOUR
GLAUCOMA,
CMOLESTSOOL'S
20T
new production when the No. 2
D.A Porter Unit was completed
about one mile south of East
Mountain.
The Cotton Valley Formation
well flowed 1,012,000 CF gas
per day on a 1.25-in. choke open-
ing. It received a 2,090,000-CFD
rating on absolute open flow.
With CW Resources of Long-
view as the operator, the well
bottomed at 11,045 feet. It was
perforated to produce at 10,762
to 10,900 feet into the hole.
FLOWING 915,000 CF gas
daily on a 1-in. choke, the No. 14
Rubey Estate Unit has been com-
pleted in the Glenwood Field,
Upshur County, 3.5 miles north-
east of East Mountain.
The well was evaluated at
in between.
“And girl, I don’t really
blame you, for having a dream
of your own. And girl, I don’t
really blame you; a woman like
you needs a house and a home.”
At a fairly early age, I real-
ized .that that song was about
me. After being jilted a few
times along the way, I adopted
it as my own.
As I have watched the un-
folding tragedy of American
family life in terms of the bro-
ken homes in the last 20 years,
I have thanked God repeat-
edly that I am the way I am.
I am -like the mythical man
portrayed in that song.
evaporating as we polarize into those who are millionaires
and those who still have quite a bit of “month left at the end
of the money.”
There are a lot of reasons for that One of the main ones
which is hardly ever mentioned is the fallout from all these
supposedly wonderful “global free trade” deals our huge
corporations push all the time. Why do you think they
. continually “downsize” Americans? They’re “upsizing” in
some Third World country at the same time.
The point we wish to make is that, as long as. we are
singling out “right-wing” types for their racist, sexist and
homophobic slurs, we might ought to add “trailer trash” to
the list of forbidden terms. It is a term that seems to be
employed by those all across the political spectrum who have
The officers and members of
VFW Post 6715 wish to thank
the citizens of Gilmer and Up-
shur County for their assistance
and cooperation during the week
of the Lindsey ceremony and
burial. This event was planned
on short notice and the response
to our call for assistance was
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. fellow soul of the opposite sex .
with whom you first decided to. Property, was a self-styled land
--------- — surveyor and was nicknamed
Vernon Nobles,
Commander, VFW Post 6715
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- - >n Long Pine was built on the
• in. choke. It claimed a sturdy same property where the Zion
3,153,000-CFD rating on abso- Hill Cemetery is today. Across
from the Zion Hill Cemetery,
also called the Joe Fort Cem-
etery, there was a schoolhouse
on his land known as the Rocky
Node School.
Joe Fort was noted for hav-
See STORIES, Page 5A
UPSHUR COUNTY’S part 1.311,000CFDonabsoluteopen
of the White Oak Field gained • flow.
It probed to total depth 11,266
feet and will produce from a per-
forated interval in the Cotton
Valley Formation, 10,906 to
11,028 feet into the wellbore.
Amoco Production Co. of
Houston is the operator.
A TRAVIS PEAK Formation
gasser has been completed in
lute open flow.
OXY took the hole to an
11,001-ft. bottom with a
t
“Lawyer” for his quick think-
ing and mathematical ability.
E.F. was instrumental in con-
solidating the Long Pine Pub-
lic Schools with the Gilmer
I.S.D. He believed very
strongly in the right to vote
and in exercising that right.
He was an advocate for liberty
and justice for all.
Lizzie Mae Fluellen, 1909-
1995, graduated from grade
school as an outstanding
scholar from the Canny and
Rocky Node Schools in the Long
Pine Community. She also at-
tended school in Pittsburg and
received honors.
Lizzie was the second
woman in Long Pine to pur-
chase land individually. Dur-
ing the time she purchased
land, it was very rare and un-
popular for women to do so.
She instilled in her late daugh-
ter, Sarah Christine F. Sum-
mers, that women had a right
to and should own land just as
well as men. She influenced
Christine to purchase her first
land in Tyler, located on 806
West M.L.K. Boulevard.
One of Lizzie’s strong be-
liefs was that everyone should
own his or her own home. She
once told me, “Lewis, even if
you have to buy land on the top
of a mountain, do so. Always
own your own home.”
Joe and Sarah Fort: Joe Fort
was born in 1846. He was nick-
named “Red Joe” because of
his fair and reddish skin com-
plexion.
Even though he had no
schooling, he owned more prop-
erty than any one person in his
lifetime. He owned land from
Long Pine Community continu-
ously to Bettie. From Lone
Mountain in the Long Pine
Community, he once owned
both sides of the now Poppy
Road all the way to FM 2263.
He donated the land where
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Dear Editor:
gWe have a
running around
hood helping t
whatever they see. Lastyearmy
10-year-old granddaughter got
a 15-speed Huffy bicycle for
Christmas and someone stole it
right out of our yard. My 5-year-
old grandbaby also got a bike,
and it was stolen too.
This year, again they got bi-
cycles for Christmas and today
my 10-year-old’s bicycle was sto-
len from our front porch.
If you read this letter and you
are guilty of this crime, I hope
you feel as bad as my grand-
daughter does. She loved her
bike.
Next time you get ready to
take something that doesn’t be-
long to you, think about what it
does to the child you steal from.
May God help you because you
need help.
Mad on Allen Street
Neil Varner, Gilmer
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