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Sweetwater Reporter
Sunday, March 28, 2010 ■ Page A3
Obituaries
RODNEY GALE
HALLMAN
RODNEY GALE HALLMAN
1935-2010
Rodney Gale Hallman died on March 1, 2010, from
the effects of Frontal Temporal Dementia. Memorial
services were held in Tucson, Arizona on March 14,
2010.
Rodney was born Jan. 24, 1935, in Mitchell County,
Texas. He attended Roscoe High School, graduating in
1953- He attended Hardin Simmons University where
he was a member of the football
squad. Upon graduation from
Hardin Simmons, Rodney entered
the U.S. Army and served until
1980 when he retired with the rank
of Lt. Colonel.
In 1990, Rodney purchased a
seed company in Nogales, Arizona.
Under his leadership, Sierra Seed
Company grew into a successful
international business.
Rodney is survived by his wife of
51 years, Phyllis Hallman; daugh-
ter Sabrina; son Kyle and four
grandchildren. He is also survived
by brothers Jerry Hallman of Big
Springs, Texas, Royce Walker of
Roscoe, Texas and Billy Hallman
of Sweetwater, Texas; and a sister,
Bobbie Dever of Lubbock, Texas.
Memorials may be made to the Santa Cruz Community
Foundation, 825 N. Grand Ave., Suite 104 B, Nogales,
Arizona 85628.
CLARENCE "Sparky" CONNER, III
HAMLIN — Clarence 'Sparky" Conner, III, 47, died
Thursday, March 25, 2010, at an Abilene Hospital.
Services will be at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, March 30, at
Weathersbee-Ray Funeral Home Chapel with Curtis
Wallace officiating.
Visitation will from 6-7 p.m. on Monday, March 29, at
the funeral home.
ROY JENNINGS
Roy Jennings of Sweetwater, Texas died Thursday,
March 25, 2010, in Abilene, Texas. He was 88.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 29,
2010, at McCoy Funeral Home in Sweetwater. Graveside
services will be held at 4 p.m. at Blair, Okla.
Visitation will be from 5-7 p.m. on Sunday, March 28,
2010, at McCoy Funeral Home.
Roy was born June 9, 1921, in
Blair, Oklahoma to James and
Dovie Jennings. While he was still
in school, Roy's family moved to
Texas and he graduated high school
in New Home, Texas.
Roy served in the U.S. Army Air
Corps during World War II, receiv-
ing his discharge in 1946. He mar-
ried Mavis McNeil in 1944, and at
the time of her death in 1974, they
had been married 30 years.
In 1975, Roy married Evelyn Van
Horn Farris. They would have cel-
ebrated their 35th wedding anni-
versary this year.
Roy worked in road construc-
tion prior to joining the Army and
following his discharge, he again ran heavy equipment
on a construction crew and helped to build the runways
for Altus Air Force Base in Oklahoma. He also spent a
couple of years in the oil field and worked in the farm
equipment business.
In 1954, Roy and his family moved to Sweetwater
where he went to work for Davis Truck & Tractor, an
international harvester dealership and later became a
partner in that dealership. In 1980, when Davis Truck
& Tractor was sold and Roy retired, he opened a saddle
repair shop and tack store, which he operated until his
death.
Roy has been involved in the horse industry for more
than 60 years. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he rode-
oed competitively, roping calves. In later years he trained
and showed horses in both American Quarter Horse
Association and American Paint Horse Association com-
petition. He was very interested in youth and through
the years has helped numerous kids with their horses.
Roy was a charter member and former president
of the Nolan County Sheriff Posse and was a former
member of the TSTC Mechanic Board, the Bitter Creek
Water Board, the Nolan County Coliseum board and
the American Boer Goat, American Quarter Horse,
American Paint Horse and West Texas Quarter Horse
associations.
Roy was preceded in death by his parents and his first
wife, Mavis.
He is survived by his wife, Evelyn of Sweetwater;
his son, Jim Jennings and wife Mavis of Amarillo;
his daughter, Sandy Williams and husband Charlie of
Spicewood; step daughters, Marie Owen of Hurst ad
Carolyn Farris of Wichita Falls; step son Allen Farris
and wife Verna of Bedford; three grandchildren; seven
step grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and eight
step great-grandchildren.
In lieu of flowers, the family has requested memorials
be made to the American Quarter Horse Foundation,
P.O. Box 32111, Amarillo, TX 79120; Hendrick Hospice
Care, P.O. Box 1922, Abilene, TX 79604; or First
Christian Church in Sweetwater.
Pallbearers will be Arthur Maberry, Kirk Maberry,
Richard Neil, Steve Hill, Louis Brooks, Jr. and Jeff Lay.
Honorary pallbearers will be Frank Davis, Dr. George
Lindsey, A.J. Scoot and Bob Duncan.
ROY JENNINGS
Ag
Continued from pagoAl
one integrated pest man-
agement).
Also, persons need-
ing a Texas Department
of Agriculture pesticide
applicator's license can
receive the necessary train-
ing from 9 a.m. to noon
with the testing to follow
at 1 p.m. For this training,
RSVP by March 25 by call-
ing 325-573-5423-
Individual registration
for the conference is $15 at
the door (includes lunch).
For more information
and to register, call the
AgriLife Extension offices
in Mitchell County at 325-
728-3111; Nolan County at
325-235-3184; or Scurry
County at 325-573-5423;
or call the integrated pest
manage mententomolo-
gist's office at 325-236-
9011.
AgriLife Extension
offices involved with con-
ducting the program are
in Borden, Fisher, Garza,
Mitchell, Nolan and Scurry
counties.
New health insurance
requirement... was GOP idea
RICARDO ALON SO-ZALDIVAR
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans were for
President Barack Obama's requirement that Americans
get health insurance before they were against it.
The obligation in the new health care law is a
Republican idea that's been around at least two decades.
It was once trumpeted as an alternative to Bill and
Hillary Clinton's failed health care overhaul in the
1990s. These days, Republicans call it government
overreach.
Mitt Romney, weighing another run for the GOP
presidential nomination, signed such a requirement
into law at the state level as Massachusetts governor in
2006. At the time, Romney defended it as "a personal
responsibility principle" and Massachusetts' newest
GOP senator, Scott Brown, backed it. Romney now
says Obama's plan is a federal takeover that bears little
resemblance to what he did as governor and should be
repealed.
Republicans say Obama and the Democrats co-opted
their original concept, minus a mechanism they pro-
posed for controlling costs. More than a dozen GOP
attorneys general are determined to challenge the
requirement in federal court as unconstitutional.
Starting in 2014, the new law will require nearly
all Americans to have health insurance through an
employer, a government program or by buying it
directly. That year, new insurance markets will open
for business, health plans will be required to accept all
applicants and tax credits will start flowing to millions
of people, helping them pay the premiums.
Those who continue to go without coverage will have
to pay a penalty to the IRS, except in cases of financial
hardship. Fines vary by income and family size. For
example, a single person making $45,000 would pay
an extra $1,125 in taxes when the penalty is fully phased
in, in 2016.
Conservatives today say that's unacceptable. Not long
ago, many of them saw a national mandate as a free-
market route to guarantee coverage for all Americans
— the answer to liberal ambitions for a government-run
entitlement like Medicare. Most experts agree some
kind of requirement is needed in a reformed system
because health insurance doesn't work if people can put
off joining the risk pool until they get sick.
In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon favored
a mandate that employers provide insurance. In the
1990s, the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think
tank, embraced an individual requirement. Not any-
more.
"The idea of an individual mandate as an alternative to
single-payer was a Republican idea," said health econo-
mist Mark Pauly of the University of Pennsylvania's
Wharton School. In 1991, he published a paper that
explained how a mandate could be combined with tax
credits — two ideas that are now part of Obama's law.
enaska
Pauly's paper was well-received — by the George HW.
Bush administration.
"It could have been the basis for a bipartisan compro-
mise, but it wasn't," said Pauly. "Because the Democrats
were in favor, the Republicans more or less had to be
against it."
Obama rejected a key part of Pauly's proposal: doing
away with the tax-free status of employer-sponsored
health care and replacing it with a standard tax credit
for all Americans. Labor strongly opposes that approach
because union members usually have better-than-aver-
age coverage and suddenly would have to pay taxes on
it. But many economists believe it's a rational solution
to America's health care dilemma since it would raise
enough money to cover the uninsured and nudge peo-
ple with coverage into cost-conscious plans.
Romney's success in Massachusetts with a bipartisan
health plan that featured a mandate put the idea on the
table for the 2008 presidential candidates.
Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton, who failed in
the 1990s to require employers to offer coverage,
embraced the individual requirement, an idea advo-
cated by her Republican opponents in the earlier health
care debate.
"Hillary Clinton believed strongly in universal cover-
age," said Neera Tanden, her top health care adviser in
the 2008 Democratic campaign. "I said to her, 'You are
not going to be able to say it's universal coverage unless
you have a mandate.' She said, 'I don't want to run
unless it's universal coverage.'"
Obama was not prepared to go that far. His health
care proposal in the campaign required coverage for
children, not adults. Clinton hammered him because
his plan didn't guarantee coverage for all. He shot back
that health insurance is too expensive to force people
to buy it.
Obama remained cool to an individual requirement
even once in office. But Tanden, who went on to serve
in the Obama administration, said the first sign of a
shift came in a letter to congressional leaders last sum-
mer in which Obama said he'd be open to the idea if it
included a hardship waiver. Obama openly endorsed a
mandate in his speech to a joint session of Congress in
September.
It remains one of the most unpopular parts of his
plan. Even the insurance industry is unhappy. Although
the federal government will be requiring Americans to
buy their products — and providing subsidies worth
billions — insurers don't think the penalties are high
enough.
Tanden, now at the Center for American Progress, a
liberal think tank, says she's confident the mandate will
work. In Massachusetts, coverage has gone up and only
a tiny fraction of residents have been hit with fines.
Brown, whose election to replace the late Democratic
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy almost led to the collapse of
Obama's plan, said his opposition to the new law is over
tax increases, Medicare cuts and federal overreach on a
matter that should be left up to states. Not so much the
requirement, which he voted for as a state lawmaker.
"In Massachusetts, it helped us deal with the very real
problem of uncompensated care," Brown said.
Continued from page A1
Tenaska Trailblazer Partners, LLC has applied to
the TCEQ for the issuance of State Air Quality Permit
No. 84167, Hazardous Air Pollutant Major Source and
Prevention of Significant Deterioration Air Quality
Permit which would authorize construction and opera-
tion of a coal-fired electric generating unit at the Tenaska
Trailblazer Energy Center. The proposed plant will be
located on CR109, approximately 1.5 miles west of Stink
Creek Road near Trent in Nolan County. The proposed
facilities will emit volatile organic compounds, nitro-
gen oxides, sulfur dioxide, sulfuric acid mist, hydrogen
fluoride, carbon monoxide, particulate matter includ-
ing particulate matter less than 10 microns, ammonia,
hydrogen chloride, lead, mercury and other products of
coal combustion and emission control.
Before work is begun on the construction of a new facil-
ity or modification of an existing facility that may emit
air contaminants, the person planning the construction
or modification must obtain a permit or permit amend-
ment from the commission. The permit application
from Tenaska was received Feb. 25, 2008, and other
announcements requirements were met by Tenaska. At
the public hearing, many spoke in favor of and against
the coal plant being built in Sweetwater. TCEQ released
detailed responses to 38 comments made at the pub-
lic hearing held in Sweetwater. The responses may be
viewed at ftp://ftp.tceq.state.tx.us/pub/LegalServices/
Legal/rtc/TenaskaRTC.pdf.
Dr. Greg Kunkel, Tenaska Vice President of
Environmental Affairs, said "The Texas Commission
on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) response to com-
ments was detailed and strongly supports Tenaska's
position that the application and draft air quality permit
meet all requirements of law and that the project will be
protective of public health and the environment. We are
one step closer to getting the permit necessary to make
the Trailblazer Energy Center, which will be among the
cleanest conventional coal-fueled power plants in the
world, a reality in Nolan County."
"Can't" never did do nothin
"Let's wait till tomorrow or some other time"
Never did do nothin
So Give me a call and together
we will get it done!
Kenneth Frymire, Realtor
MORGAN REAL EGTSTE
Office: 235-1762 Cell: 514-0337 Home: 235-5369
The Sweetwater Jaycees would like to say
Thank You to the Roscoe State Bank,
John Davis & Gary Conway for their
continuous support of the Sweetwater Jaycees
and The Rattlesnake Round Up!
We Really Appreciate the Support
you have given us.
Sweetwater Jaycees
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