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tant to look at who has the
best qualifications for the job.
“After all, voters will have
to live with this person for
four years,” she says.
Early voting for the elec-
tion is scheduled from Feb. 23
through March 8.
The last day for register-
ing to vote is Feb. 11.
Voter registration cards
may be picked up at the office
of the Department of Public
Safety or at the Jefferson
County Courthouse.
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Yolanda Poullard, a Lamar graduate, is the youngest person
to run for the Jefferson County Commissioners Court.
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he became the first black athlete to play in
the Rose Bowl with the Brown Bruins.
“He was also the first black player to
make the All-American Team in a backfield
position,” Carroll said.
When the National Football League was
organized in 1920, Pollard became the first
black athlete to put on a NFL uniform. He
played from 1920 to 1926, and even coached
during that time.
“He played and coached at the same
time while in Milwaukee, Wis., from 1921 to
1922, and while he was in Hammond, Ind., in
1924. Basically what he would do was organ-
ize practices and put plays into action. It
wasn’t anything like NFL coaches today, but
in that day and time he was considered to be
in a coaching position.”
In 1924, Pollard achieved another land-
mark in his pro career, as he went from tak-
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of dollars that they should never have received,”
William Powers, the dean of the University of Texas
Law School who headed an internal Enron investi-
gation, told a House Financial Services subcommit-
tee Monday.
Powers was to be questioned Tuesday by the
House Energy and Commerce investigations sub-
committee on his findings, while the president of
Arthur Andersen LLP, Enron’s former accounting
firm, was expected to be grilled by a Financial
Services subcommittee.
The internal investigation, according to
Powers, found that there was a “systematic and per-
vasive” attempt by senior Enron mangers to “mis-
represent the company’s financial condition”
through the use of partnerships that had no eco-
ing handoffs to taking snaps.
“He became the first black quarterback
to play in the NFL,” Carroll said.
When 1934 rolled around, segregation
temporarily put an end to black players in
the NFL. But segregation couldn’t stop
Pollard.
“He organized the Brown Bombers, an
all-black football team, in 1935,” Carroll
said. “He wanted to disprove all the talk that
black players were not good enough. With
the Brown Bombers, he fought segregation
in the NFL.
Pollard also started the ‘Independent
News,’ the first black tabloid in New York, in
the mid 1930s and also started the first black
investment firm in the 1920s, he said.
“But for his athletic achievements, ...he
belongs in the Pro Football Hall of Fame,”
he said.
nomic value to Enron except to hide debt and arti-
ficially inflate profits on Enron’s balance sheet
Powers said Lay approved the arrangements
under which Enron’s chief financial officer,
Andrew Fastow, created the partnerships and that
the Enron chairman “bears significant responsibil-
ity” for not preventing the abuses that this “inher-
ent conflict of interest” created.
The internal report also chided Enron’s board
of directors for allowing the partnerships — espe-
cially one headed by Fastow — and for not pursu-
ing more aggressively questions about their opera-
tion. While the board was misled about some of the
activities, others “should have raised red flags,”
Powers, who was named to the Enron board in
October, told the lawmakers.
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“It helps me remember why I was excited
about it when I first started,” he said.
Many Lamar students attended the festi-
val, but members of the community also came
out for the panel discussions.
A bus load of members of Faith Temple
Church of God in Christ in Jasper came to the
festival to support Jasper native Tommy Lewis.
Lewis wrote a book about his experiences in
Jasper. The book was adapted into the film
“The Tommy Lewis Story” and was screened at
the festival.
Timothy Livingston, chief editor for PM2
Productions Inc., the company that produced
the film, said that the film the company created
was “intended to capture Mr. Lewis’ original
meaning.”
“The film is about one man enduring racial
abuse in a small town, called Jasper.... He
endured more abuse than most black people in
that community because he wouldn’t be bro-
ken,” Livingston said.
Lewis experienced pain, chaos, confusion
and trauma, Livingston said.
“Mr. Lewis is a man who had gone through
so much pain that he couldn’t even tell the
story in a way that really had a plot or solution.
The story was still going on.
“So the story that we tried to tell was a
story that had no beginning, had no end.”
The producers sought to create something
that was as hard for the viewer to put together
as it had been for Lewis to live it himself,
Livingston said.
“This film is intended to say to the viewers
that we shouldn’t forget our past — that our
past is a key to learning from our mistakes and
using our strength to become somebody that is
better.”
The short film is almost completed. Plans
for the completed film are not definite, he said.
“We may produce a larger version,” he
said.
“This film has had a life of its own.... I
imagine that it will grow on its own from here
on out.”
Lewis would like to see the film used as a
teaching tool, Livingston said.
PM2 is “constantly seeking out projects
that promote good and right in this world,” he
said.
“The Tommy Lewis Story” was not the
only nearly completed film screened on
Saturday.
On Saturday evening, the festival contin-
ued with film screenings in the Lamar Theatre.
The theatre was filled with an audience eager
to see products by local people.
A major draw of the evening was the
showing of “Searching for Wooden Watermel-
ons,” a feature-length film shot locally and
written and produced by Wendy English.
English is a 1992 graduate of Lamar. »
“I’ve been writing it (“Watermelons”) for-
ever in my head,” she said.
“I absolutely consider it a universal story,” *
she said.
The film is about a Lamar graduate who is
tom between staying in Beaumont and leaving
to pursue her dreams in Hollywood.
English said the Texas audience on Sat-
urday laughed at all the inside jokes. Her out-
of-state friends do not always catch all the
humor, she said, but she feels that “everybody
understands the struggle (the main character
faces).”
The film includes shots of local landmarks
such as the Jefferson Theater in Beaumont and
the Nederland Lunch Counter. It also includes
local talent in bit parts and major roles. English
plays the lead character.
The film will be completed in about two
months, she said. She is now trying to find a dis-
tributor and someone to buy it.
After “Watermelons,” the festival moved ^
to the Art Studio on Franklin in downtown
Beaumont. Attendees could choose between
watching “The Last Hope,” a documentary,
about fans of “The Phantom Menace” and
watching screenings of the festival. Or they
could wander back and forth between both,
stopping to chat with friends.
Die-hard fans may not have slept much if
they stayed through all the screenings, which
continued into the wee hours of the morning
on Sunday.
At 11 a.m. on Sunday, the festival contin-
ued with movie screenings at Tinsletown.
On Monday afternoon, O’Brien Stanley,
Lamar assistant professor of communication,
was enthusiastic about the festival. Stanley co-
coordinated the festival with Chris Castillo,
who works in the university advancement
department at Lamar.
“This year we had about 140 to 150
entries,” Stanley said.
Entries came from individuals and colleges
all over the country, he said.
They also received films from high school
students across Texas.
“We’re an international festival,” he
laughed when he mentioned an entry from
Canada.
He said that the attendance at all the
events was up from past years. He is already
beginning to plan next year’s festival.
“We see areas we want to improve on right
now,” he said.
“We are pumped and excited for next’
year.”
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