Panola County Post (Carthage, Tex.), Vol. 10, No. 29, Ed. 1 Sunday, October 30, 1983 Page: 4 of 32
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A LOOK AT IMPORTANT ISSUES FACING PANOLA COUNTY TODAY
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Meomwhille. Ponola Countys own ossistont district at
tomney. Mike Parker has been holding down the fori here.
And he has been relying on investigators in the sheriff’s
office and Carthago Police Dsparin ini instead of Davis to
do much of the legwork requred to get coses ready far
grand juries and trials.
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Panola County Commissioners got into an informal
discussion Thursday morning in which they seemed to
agree that expenses for District Attorney John Walker and
his investigator should be cut back and a visiting judge
should be requested to conduct additional criminal trials in
Panola County.
Although no official action was taken commissioners
Roland Davis Carl Hendrickson Leonard Jones and L.O.
Mail all appeared in agreement with Davis suggestions that
County Judge Ruff Wall officially request the visiting judge,
and that he write Walker and tell him the expense sup
plement for the DA and his investigator will be terminated
Dec. 31.
The action is somewhat ironic coming the day after the
conclusion of two trials which seem to us to be good eviden-
ce that the local judicial system is functioning exactly like it
is supposed to do.
Davis and other commissioners said Walker the DA and
Furman Davis his investigator have not been spending as
much time in Panola County lately as they used to so
Ponola County no longer should hove to pay as much of
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By Earl Chetther On one Halloween in particular I
1 seriously considered not remember doing very well. This
writing something about was during a time when we didn't
Halloween for this column but have to mince each bile of apple or
g0vein to the occasion and did so such, like it was fish. just to make
anyway, sure there were no needles or
Not that I particularly remember razor blades inside.
anything that imaginative about it was also during a time when it
the annual event. I was always a was relatively safe to stay out most
bit too enterprising to worry about of the night, at least until the mid-
how much fun I could have night hour, and pull little pranks
Instead, I tried to figure out There was always the danger of
ways to make money, some of the big kids making us
miserable. But nobody went out of was a sucker for the peppermint the sun for a week or two in order around and toss his own yet.
their way to try and kill us kids. stuff. • to be ripe enough for Halloween When reports of all the havoc
And, if we got a treat that was We didn't hassel dad much on use, wreaked reached adult oars the
home-wropped we didn't have to the peppermint but mom had quite following day I usually got some
bury or burn it because it might a time getting all the caramel I spent my allowance and other evil looks from the folks. They
contain arsenic, acid or cyanide, chewies. Kids didn't go for things sources of revenue stockpiling figured if I was staying out so late.
All we had to do was worry about that made their mouth smell good, these items. Pretty soon the kids in didn't have egg on my face or wet
having something on hand for a they wanted stuff that lasted a my area know just where to come clothes and never returned with
perfectly normal stomach ache of long time and made their teeth when they ran out of ammunition. any candy, then I must be involved
tor eating all the good stuff. stick together. And the stuff I sold didn't come with tho aggravation antics of my
The bad stuff like licorice, gum- cheap. older constituents.
drops, marshmallow goblins and And didn't matter if we fur- If I bought a roll of toilet tissue • never let go with the in-
such used to last for years. In fact nished our own transportation, for a dime, it cost the older kids a formation concerning my business
the stuff was so full of sugar it mom and dad always managed to quarter. If the eggs were 59 cents enterprise, especially when it was
usually lasted until the following collect their fair share from the a dozen I sold them for 50 cents possible mom would discover I d
Halloween - provided it was bag. Usually they grabbed them as each. padded my investment with a few
properly stored - and the folks soon as we were in the house. But Sometimes it was difficult to get extra rolls of tissue from the family
would use it first passing it own to that was okay, mom and dad didn't those older kids to realize what supply.
the next household get to trick-or-treat so we kids they were getting for their four- And, when I got older, the habit
The discards were probably figured they had some coming. bits. I had to explain that the eggs stuck. I still hoarded up on tissue,
passed on like that for years until But I didn't take long to disap- were guaranteed rotten, that they eggs and balloons. Only instead of
some dumb kid who liked it turned point the folks. Instead of trying to hod been sitting in the sun long selling them, I used them. Then I
up and devoured it ridding future see how much candy I could enough to make them stink worse understood why those older kids,
parents from having to recycle the collect. I began stocking stuff like tMn a dead skunk with a fan when I was younger, were so
junk toilet tissue old eggs and balloons behind it, and they would coat willing to pay extra for Halloween
Most of us normal kids went for and selling them to the big kids. anything they hit with something supplies.
the chocolate kisses peanut butter Like most kids biqor small the very difficult to wash off after 10
bars chewy caramels and suckers
in my house mom and dad equiprm
claimed their own transportation whole r
Like most kids big or small the
big ones never planned for enough minutes. I also didn’t tell the folks about
‘ tent to get them through a I usually got the sale, my business because I was afraid
—----night of Halloween pranks Balloons were the biggest item. I they would insist on picking out the
tax by extracting the goodies they By the time they ran out there would buy a bag of 50 balloons for best stuff from my bag of money,
liked best before we had a chance weren't many stores open which around 39 cents then sell them for And that bag contained a lot of
to count our booty Mom always carried the basic commodities a quarter each Quite a profit for a half-dollars I didn't want to port
confiscated the caramels and dad Besides eggs needed to sit out in kid who wasn't old enough to drive company with.
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Porker got comvicfioms in both of the jury triols with
jurors grontfing one man a Rio jeer proboned sentence for
olermpted murder in a case corplicaed by emotfions of a
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(fditars Mote - TALK Line is commissioners will appoint regords to our lenient and inef- and the individual could not get to
published as a public sorvico to somoono to serve until the Novem- fecient judicial system we have in work without his Ilicense, we
provide a locum lor free ex ber election. Ponola County in regard to second wouldn. need an adult day care
pression of public opinion Tho third and fourth-time DWI of center lor our jolt
comments expressed in the column unDADAVIS fenders Your article spooks os if a Another roller .
ara tha vtawt of thcaa wha call our point .10 breathalyzer isn’t mvuch About the idi situolion
rocording phono at 693 8255 and fm colling about the recent more than a sip when in reality a you can ’ pul over 1 2 people in jail
do not ropratont the mn at this write-up on entertainers of our maned 185 pounds would have to at one time and,thj new low o2
newspaper The "Reply comments recent Potlatch I wondered why consume five beers in two hours in DWI penoltiee, if it's where that
ore propacod by tho nomspapor vacant there moco cd a write-up order to blow this. I would say his you arest people for g10ng
stall to try to ansmor questions and more than one picture in the reflexes would be hampered As drunk.i s usably people like me
roisod in tho readers' comments newspaper of Linda Davis Lindo far os the jail excuse of holding everyday people And if you d put
We reserve the right to adit or Davis has lived in Panola County only 12 prisoners, I have two usaround the square clearingitiP
delete comments udueh cannot be all of her life up until the limo she thoughts: one if Judge Wal and a^d let people know that we got
substantialod or appoor to bo un mound to Nashville. During that our county attorney would be hor cough* for drumtnett. we d quit O.
tar or in poor taste J time she was very active in dd sher with their prosecution there So shame us that way by putting us
ferent occasions plus she was Miss would be fewer people who would out on the street and let us work.
wonceomuau Fanote County and Miss Fast Texas drudt while driving for fear of We re everyday people We're not
and she was in the top 10 both punishment Two W bet the going to run off except to get
in reference to the paper about years in the Miss Texas Pageont. average daily attendance in the drunk
the Jehovah s Witnesses buliling a Now she is a recording artist in county iow runs under three Gen-
church 1 would Rhe to toff you that Noshillle and Tm sure it would daman that means you could get
they do no* consider their buddings make her feel redly good 4 Fonolo nine more people off our roads un-
a church W is a Kingdom HoR County showed her the kind al op- dor the infloence it.
where they boil meetings. In no preciofiom she reaRy deserves reolly boils down to is DWVs are a I’m coW 9 about the Bus 21
way should it be coRed a church Reptya As Linda weR knows we Lucrative business for our locat at- weupi fhepoperthis "
The Jehhovah's WUinesses do no* at Fanoto County Newspapers are tomneys and good of Joe wosv't D. Cowfodww check he wi find
behove in churches They behave some rd her biggest fans and we radd<f drmdt - he just had a few fhot he go* 'm two 66 passenger
in meeting hallis and that is why hove foohired her m maev articles boors Flease wake up Fanoto byse* fov know V have seen on
they call their strucfave e Kingdom and photos Vite know she ahuoys is County before any more cd oer thevoodThebosmhotweggvevevy
HoR a hit with the crowds here and we own are lost to the individool wh yed is passed down. The day Aar
•qfta The author of Ao article <*d no* moon to underptoy her acoholinhsbody. mhe children was comeldining
was carotol not to mdat to Ao Fortatch povfevmance It was just a (Another calller) about being coM on the bus 21
Kingdom Wall to he erected this case o so much great am Im not at al ready impressed was <n Ao shop being worked on
weekend as a church" but the tevrvammew at Polomeh Ais your witth Judge Waffs concern for Ae <md32 woeon Aeroute
Aar «• toed to cover everybody DWI offender rother Atm Ae (Anothevcollev)
and no* josse focus on one sour people drat ora his victims. bt Vm calling aboo who* Dr.
days’ was unaware od Ae* mho so volant shead; is weR regards to his concern for Ao of- Criwt^xd sod about Bus 21, Am
phiosoply o Ao Jehhovaws Wie known tooer veadevrs Im Ar wiAout his license and nmt attorn buses and tail 21
wnesses We apolagetor mheuor- bomg Ale to drive to wo* ond Ao danrt tamp 71 possangers on i* i
detg RHBBHMHHB resuming havrdship. what kind of know *** bus dp because is full
hardship does he thnkk tha in- evevy (wry since our bus
muunuuus .seethe arieleprintediw the dividodi pllaces ow his familly whew bean coming Anau* wo have
“ - - in Ao cor wiA novar had a new bus. Me better dp
woman at Center
W was Ao oeuimem penalty alllowed by law since the
death penalty was removed hem the rope stamote
Tho tegetatore ireqares that Shellby and Pammollo coufies
share the services of Ao dnSnc# jjodge and Ao dWrict am
tonmey and his invouKgpter m Ao l ZM Judicial OfcsWct
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