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Opinion
Page 4 * Jacksboro Gazette-News_WWW.IACKSBORONEWSPAPERS.COM_Tuesday, Novebmer 6, 2012
Last chance to vote
Tuesday
What beautiful Fall colors we can see every-
where! Enjoy God’s paint palette on this earth
in this season.
It is also a season for Thanksgiving. I see
Facebook posts where friends are posting
each day something they are thankful for. This
is a good thing to do, because it reminds us
of freedoms, loved ones, blessings. We really
have so much to be thankful for in America.
I appreciate the freedom to worship freely
in the church of my choice. Many do not have
that. I appreciate the freedom to vote on the
candidates of my choice.
This will be my last column on voting for
the year, but I read a Facebook post the other
day that really grabbed my attention, and I
wanted to share. I thought it was good food
for thought. It is posted with permission, but I
do not know who penned it.
“Who Will I Vote For? I will vote for the
most pro-life candidate, because God hates
the shedding of innocent blood (Prov. 6:17).
I will vote for the most pro-Israel candidate,
because God blesses those who bless Israel
and curses those who don’t (Gen. 12:3).
“I will vote for the most pro-debt reduction
candidate, because the borrower is servant
to the lender (Prov. 22:7). I will vote for the
most pro-work candidate because God says
if a man not work, let him not eat (2 Thess.
3:10).
“I will vote for the most pro-marriage candi-
date, because God is for marriage as defined
in Gen. 2:24 .1 will vote for the candidate who
most closely believes government’s purpose
is to reward the good and punish the evil (Ro-
mans 13).
Pam's
Perspective
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By Pam Hudson
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Managing Editor
“I will vote based as close as I can on God’s
Word (2 Timothy 3:16). Knowing that who-
ever gets elected, God is the one who puts all
men in authority (Dan. 2:21). May God have
mercy on America. I will vote.”
Some have told me that the popular vote
won’t make any difference. That attitude
could affect national and local races. I be-
lieve my vote does make a difference and I’m
thankful to be able to vote and therefore pro-
claim my choices freely.
I heard this comment the other day and it
also provokes much thought. “Whomever
God allows to take office, there is a reason.
Maybe this will be the start of times which
will lead to the Rapture (the great ‘catching
away’ of Christians), and eventually the Sec-
ond Coming and Tribulation.”
I can look in some directions and definitely
see signs that would support this belief. I can
look in other directions and see God’s bless-
ings and wonder if we are given some more
time to win as many souls to Christ as we can
before the Endtime s.
That thought of the Rapture has caused some
Christians to think their vote doesn’t make
difference because they won’t be here,
part of the reason some laws have been
passed that have affected American morals.
More than ever, it is time for Christians to
stand up for what is right and work until we
can’t anymore. Regardless, I can’t help but
rejoice, because I know God is in control. Go
vote, people, and let your voice be heard.
Suffering in silence
I am generally in good health, and for that,
my friends are very happy. You see, I don’t
like to suffer in silence. When I hurt, I feel
it my responsibility to share. Before I real-
ize it, I’ve moaned or groaned or complained
enough to call attention to myself.
Being the middle child in a large family,
I learned early to be vocal. If one did not
speak up, one could have a completely healed
scab before a Band Aid was offered. I could
be sound asleep before anyone offered me a
drink of water.
It came in handy during junior high school
when my athletic prowess was in public de-
cline. Before that time, I’d spent my soft-
ball years resting in right field, sitting on my
glove. But with junior high came a coach who
noticed and called me to task.
If one had a runny nose, an ingrown toenail,
or some other terminal disease, she got to
keep score ... standing in the shade ... visit-
ing with the teacher. I was good at that.
It’s not that I was lazy. My sister said that
was the reason she found herself with the
dishes in the evenings, but it wasn’t true. My
stomach hurt ... right after the evening meal
... for about an hour.
And I didn’t ever do much yard work. You
see, I was allergic to Bermuda grass and
couldn’t help mow. If I did, I might not even
be up to taking out the trash or making beds
for weeks.
I’ve always been one to share ... my joys
and my sorrows ... sometimes with complete
strangers. Actually, complete strangers are a
little more understanding. I’ve got a wealth
of knowledge for which I’m sure others are
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Beggs
searching, and when I find myself in the over-
the-counter-medication section of store, I like
to help people out. After all, I’ve had head-
aches, digestive issues, and teething babies.
They need me.
I’m in a program at church where we are
reading the Bible. Recently we were cruising
through Proverbs, and I took special notice.
Not once did it say anything about Suffering
in Silence. It did not say, “Conceal the pains
in your joints, for those who hear will roll
their eyes.” It didn’t say, “It is better to live
in the dessert than to be in the house with an
arthritic spouse.” It also didn’t say anything
about not fixing things.
You see, I’m not sixty-five, yet, and I’m al-
ready falling apart. I need shoulder, knee, and
hand surgery. If I wait until May, “the govern-
ment” will help with the bills.
Until that time, I just hope that those who
have already made it to Medicare Age will
not use up all the money. I’m also hoping that
my friends don’t get sick and tired of listen-
ing to me.
I got a steroid shot the other day which hurt
worse than the arthritis, so I’m not sure what
to do. It seems that every time I turn around
there’s something else to fix, and I have to
add that to my list. By the time May gets here,
I hope modem science will have methods to
fix me or just have a pain pill strong enough
to keep me from driving my friends crazy.
In the meantime, I’ll just have to complain.
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Fort Belknap in
Young County
Gen. Capt. R.B. Marcy and Indian agent
Major S. Neighbors were wondering where to
put a military outpost in North Texas as early
as 1949.
The settled East needed a strong barrier be-
tween the unsettled West. Marcy had explored
North Texas to find the best location, scouting
along the headwaters of the Brazos river.
Neighbors planned to establish two Indian
reservations, one for friendly Indians, such
as the Tonkawas, and the other for the pre-
dictable, raid-loving Comanche s. Neighbors
knew that in order for the experimental Bra-
zos Indian Reservation to be successful, the
future Fort Belknap must separate the two
opposite tribes of Native Americans.
But the biggest need for a fort in this area
was the critical need to protect settlers who
were already trickling in. Military officers ex-
pected fierce resistance and pondered the best
location, so they knew a military outpost had
to soon be established.
They also knew the Comanches and Kiowas
right across the Red River would not give up
the lush grassland of buffalo and deer without
a fight to the death.
True to the officers’ predictions, Kiowas
and Comanches waged relentless attacks, op-
erating from a natural advantage because of
where they were located. They could swoop
down from the Red River to North Texas and
return to the safety of their camps before the
military or rangers came to the rescue.
Comanches planned night-time attacks dur-
ing a full moon when settlers feared the ap-
pearance of the Comanche moon. Many set-
tlers were not willing to risk being burned
North
Texas Tales
By Gay Sehlittler
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out, killed, tortured or see women and chil-
dren abducted.
A company of troops and officers of the U.S.
Fifth Infantry camped on the left bank of the
Salt Fork of the Brazos in February 1851. The
original site for the fort was near the location
of the Newcastle water tower.
After the commanding officer, Capt. C. L.
Stephenson, Fifth Infantry, found no water in
shafts dug 66 feet deep, he moved the fort two
miles south, where adequate water was found
in springs by the Brazos River.
The final location for Fort Belknap was lo-
cated near the growing village of Belknap.
Five years before Young County was es-
tablished, Fort Belknap offered protection in
an area that was essentially an unsurveyed
wilderness. The fort became the northern an-
chor of a chain of forts founded to protect the
Texas frontier from the Red River to the Rio
Grande.
The fort gave peace of mind to Young Coun-
ty citizens who came in such numbers that
surrounding counties began to be organized.
It was a post without the defensive barriers of
a fortress, but it served as a critical outpost to
North Texas and northward to Kansas.
Troops pursued raiding bands of Indians and
sent out mounted expeditions.
Fort Belknap eventually became the hub of
a network of roads stretching in every direc-
tion. The most famous of these was the But-
terfield Overland Mail route from St. Louis to
San Francisco.
Who Hath God
Wrought...
World-class sports writer Blackie Sherrod
described columnist George Dolan thusly:
“Before God made George, He broke the
mold.” In those few words, Sherrod pegged
the late columnist whose 30 years of daily
columns in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram are
legendary.
Maybe the broken mold was used again later
when another inimitable communicator was
bom. His name is Bob Lewis, but he’s known
by that moniker mostly by kinfolks, closest
friends and Rotary buddies.
The rest of us know him as Tumbleweed
Smith. He’s now in his sixth decade regaling
us with rich stories on his daily radio show,
The Sound of Texas, and in his weekly news-
paper column. His work is featured by doz-
ens of Texas radio stations and newspapers;
it invariably makes us smile. On top of that,
he—as was Dolan—is a favorite lectern per-
sonality throughout the Lone Star State....
Likenesses common to both Dolan and
Smith are many. Suffice it to say both learned
much from life’s school called “hard knocks,”
but Tumbleweed has impressive academic
credentials as well. He holds degrees from
Baylor University (BA, English) and the Uni-
versity of Missouri (MA, Journalism), with
additional work at Drake University Law
School and language study in two foreign
countries.
“Every man” fits ‘em both. They both put
Overalls ahead of tuxedos.
Lewis, as was Dolan, is a great listener, let-
ting interviewees “tell their stories.”...
I’ve known Tumbleweed casually—but ex-
tremely favorably—for more than four de-
cades. (Once we were scheduled to address
the same event on the same night in the same
town, but that’s another story.)
It was fun to interview him recently. When
I thought we’d finished, he whipped out his
Idle
American
By Don Newbury
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recorder and I became the interviewee. Roles
were seamlessly reversed!
We joked about the 750 or so words I’d
write, and what he’d choose from a half-hour
of my rambling to “fit” his 2.5-minute broad-
cast. (It was Lincoln, wasn’t it, who apolo-
gized for writing such a long letter because he
didn’t have time to write a short one?) Indeed
he “boils it down,” spending about an hour in
production for each minute of air time____
Nearly everything interests him and Susan,
his wife of 49 years. She provides technical
assistance at speaking engagements and is
alongside for travels that measure some two
million miles to date on Texas highways and
byways. (Put another way, about four round-
trips to the moon.)
In 1969, a narrow-minded radio boss in Big
Spring gave Tumbleweed the heave-ho, one
reason given was disapproval of Tumble-
weed’s mustache.
Bob, rich in experience in all areas of ra-
dio, had 23 job offers. Instead, he began The
Sound of Texas, juggling it with 34 years of
teaching at UT-Permian Basin. His instruc-
tion—like his radio productions—have gar-
nered more than 120 awards at state, regional
and national levels. His walls won’t contain
all the recognitions....
His website (tumbleweedsmith.com) is
rich with Texas characters. He’s retired from
teaching, but remains active with interviews
and speaking engagements. (He and Susan
also find time to visit their two sons and four
grandsons.)
His more than 11,000 interviews and 1,000+
columns provide fascinating material.
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Hudson, Pam. Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 133, No. 22, Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 6, 2012, newspaper, November 6, 2012; Jacksboro, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth707606/m1/4/?q=Simon+P+Holmes: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gladys Johnson Ritchie Library.