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TMI DENISON KBS, DOBSON. TEXAS
fMSl TWO FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1957
EDITORIAL
A gentleman’s appeal
In a letter of appeal addressed to Lt. Gov. Ben Ramsey, of
Texas, Thad Hutcheson, lone candidate for U.S. Senator from
the Republicans, makes an appeal in the interest of fairness in
his candidacy in the race for the Senate replacing the former
holder of that office, the now Governor Price Daniel.
The appeal of the candidate from Houston will strike a
responsive note in the ranks of many Texas voters. Thad points
out that "to change the rules long after the game has started,
after the vacancy occurred, after the election has been ordered
and after candidates had filed and commenced campaigning,
breaks with all history and tradition in providing run-off in a
non-party, non-primary election."
As pointed out last week by an editorial in The Denison
Press, it compares with boys back in school days who would
not let a fair fight with the bare fists go to the end. Such boys
who wished to supply knucks, sticks or rocks, received the scorn
of the boys in the circle watching the fight.
The motive of the kind of politics that caused those 13
representatives to change overnight to where they supported
the bill to estop a fair and open race for the successor to Daniel
might furnish some interesting things. When party loyalty, so-
called, upsets the rules of fairness and unafraid honesty, we have
an admixture in politics that makes for distrust in those who
practice such devices.
Are the fines strong enough?
Some of the voters are asking why there are so many re-
peats in the drunken-driver class? Every once in a while, seem-
ingly matching with paydays, the same names appear in the
court records as naming them guilty of "driving while intoxicat-
ed," or "violating the liquor law."
What some are asking why not repeaters be given still
greater penalties, rather than the same number of days in jail
and the same number of dollars as a fine?
Evidently the business must be paying off, else the guilty
ones would soon be down to 1 heir last dollar. That seems axiom-
atic. Also as long as this state of affairs continues, it is practically
a case of condoning the violations.
If the law is not to be enforced, why not call an election,
vote the beverage in and let it be sold under police regulation
and permit the state and county to benefit by the tax which
comes from legalized sales?
As it is, we get all the bottles scattered over our streets and
on our lawns as the drinkers fling the empties from their cars.
It seems no trouble to get any amount of intoxicants one desires
as it is. The manner in which the law is flaunted, and the con-
comitant seeming indulgence of the court by handing out the
same old fine is not conducive to respect for the law. Rather
than applying a padlock as did the late Roy Finley while he
served the county as its prosecuting attorney, or at least keep
steadily increasing the penalty to where there will be a fear
of the law in such cases, Grayson county seems in the same
rut as to violators and their penalties.
M*ST
SMe CAPITOL
would roqulrod to nrtgn thoir
post to run for Mother one un-
der « blU proposed by Rep. L.
DeWitt Hole of Corpus Christ!.
The new form of council-manager for Denison is getting in
stride and before long the efficiency of same and the lower cost
of operating the city will be patent. There are some die-harders
who can t take it, and don t seem to give the system a fair chance
to carry on. The Press stood for the new way of conducting
the business of the city of Denison, and will continue to do so
until it proves to be a failure. And that we do not expect, nor
do we in any way desire. If all of us will give hearty support
we shall see our city on a solid basis and operating like a well-
conducted corporation.
TH£ DENIS0N pREss
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at Denison, Texas, under the act of March 3, 1879."
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AUSTIN—Gov. Price Daniel’s
proposed reorganization of the
Insurance Department provides a
brand' new “big issue” for the
Legislature.
Daniel asked the lawmakers to
give emergency status to a plan
to abolish the present commission
and substitute a set-up similar to
the Highway Commission, but
full-time. This would mean a
three-man policy board appointed
by the governor and an adminis-
trator of the entire operation by
the board
Present three-member Board
of Insurance Commissioners is
charged with both policy-making
and administrative functions. In-
dividually, each is an administrat-
or of regulation for one segment
of the industry — life, casualty
and fire. Collectively, they act
as over-all policy-makers.
It’s an inefficient operation,
says Daniel. He said now is the
appropriate time to change it be-
fore new commissioners become
wedded to the old way. He asked
Atty. Gen. Will Wilson to draw
up a bill.
Only Fire Commissioner Mark
Wentz has a “definite seat" at
present. Casualty Commissioner
Morris Brownlee’s term expired
Feb. 10, but he is being kept on
temporarily until a successor is
named. Life Commissioner John
Osorio was appointed late last
year by Gov. Shivers, but has not
been cqnfirmed by the Senate.
Daniel said he made his decis-
ion “long before" the recent in-
solvency proceedings against ICT
Insurance Co. of Dallas.
Industry groups, nevertheless,
were taken by surprise. Most
were unable to decide immediate-
ly whether to oppose, endorse or
take a “hands off” attitude.
Allred Returned
Renne Allred is hack on the
job as attorney in the Insurance
Department liquidation division.
Allred was fired as the divis-
ion’s chief attorney by the In-
surance Commission in 1954. He
protested at the time before leg-
islative committees that he was
responsible only to Travis Coun-
ty’s district judges, who handle
insurance liquidation.
His new appointment was made
by Dist. Judge Charles 0. Betts,
Allred is a brother of former
Gov. James V. Allred.
Water Program Goes Forward
Both House and Senate con-
stitutional amendments commit-
tees have okayed the $200,000,-
000 Water Development Fund.
Under the plan a state bond is-
sue would raise money to assist
local governments to finance wa-
ter conservation construction—
up to $5,000,000 per project.
House committee made some
changes which would require a
special Legislative appropriation
to pay principal and interest
when necessary. House Sponsor
Leroy Saul of Kress protested
that this would make the bonds
a less attractive investment, re-
sulting in a higher interest rate
for the state.
Local Legislation Fought
Local vs. state control battles
have assumed almost the propor-
tions of the more usual state vs.
federal government controversy.
At least a half-dozen bills now
before the Texas Legislature are
being opposed on the grounds
that they represent unwarranted
legislative interference In local
matters.
House constitutional amend-
ments committee voted down a
proposal by Rep. John Crosth-
wait of Dallas to allow the Leg-
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By the year .................................................................................. IS.50
One year in advance ...................................................................12.00
Six months in advance ................................................................... 11.00
(Outside county add 25c each six months)
DENISON and GRAYSON COUNTY
Grayson county, accredited by Texas Almanac 1955
of having the "most diversified economy of any Texas
county, with income from crops, livestock, manufacturing
and trade, oil, tourisrs and recreation seekers."
Blackland soils and terrain in the southeast, grand
prairies characteristics in the southwest, gray lands on
divide in central section; sandy lands and hilly topo-
graphy in north part along Red River. Drains to Red
River on north, Trinity on south. Post oak, walnut, hickory,
pecan, elm, bois d’ arc. Oil, brick clay, cemenf material,
silica.
Lake Texoma has six million acre feet capacity, many
bays for fishing, boating on large scale, lake 1300 miles
around perimeter, and declared the ninth ranking in
capacity among the world's reservoirs. Lake four miles
north of Denison.
County has population of 70,000; 53.4 per cent urban;
90.9 per cent Anglo-Americans; 8.7 per cent negro; .04
per cent Latin American. Annual rainfall 37.55 inches;
temperature averages Jan. 43 deg., July 84 deg., mean
annually 65 deg.
islature to pass bills applying to
specific counties. It would do
away with local self-government,
said opponents. Crosthwait said
it would eliminate the present
practice of passing laws applying
only to counties with a certain
population.
Several bills by which firemen
and policemen seek better hours
and pay are being labeled "legis-
lative dictation” by the League of
Municipalities.
Two bills to give the State
Highway Department greater
powers to condemn land for
right-of-way met similar protests.
“Too much power,” said Sen.
George Parkhouse of Dallas.
“They’ll take your courthouse
and anything else they want."
Senate Jurisprudence Committee
approved them anyway.
Oil Imports Hit
President Eisenhower was ask-
ed to take “immediate steps to
curb foreign oil imports” in a
resolution passed by the State
Senate.
Resolution was proposed by
Senators Dorsey Hardeman of
San Angelo and William Fly of
Victoria.
Railroad Commission Chairman
Olin Culberson quickly congrat-
ulated the Senate. That's always
been the fly in the buttermilk,”
said Culberson, “those excessive
imports.”
Pay Bills Advance
Plans to give teachers and
lawmakers better pay are mov-
ing forward in both Houses of
the Legislature.
House members approved, 115
to 29, a proposed constitutional
amendment providing for annual
sessions of the Legislature and
$4,800 annual salaries for mem-
bers, Original proposal was for
$7,500 a year.
No one appeared to oppose the
Senate Education Committee’s
unanimous vote for a bill to give
teachers a $399 a year boost.
Busy Panels
1. Protests against Sen. George
Moffett’s proposal for a study on
diverting lease and bonus income
from school lands from the per-
manent to available school fund.
“A foot in the door” would be
fatal, said opponents. Resolution
went to provable subcommittee
grave.
2. An appeal from National
Democratic Committeeman Byron
Skelton for Rep. Tony Korioth’s
bill to require voters to register
by party preference 30 days be-
fore each primary. Sent to sub-
committee for one week.
3. Tentative plans by the
House Committee on State Hos-
pitals and Special Schools to visit
the Alabama-Coushatta Indian
Reservation near Livingston the
latter part of this week. Admin-
istration of the reservation has
been in a state of confusion, re-
sulting in resignations, audits,
law-searching and a committee
suggestion that they “give it back
to the Indians.”
4. Rejection by a Senate com-
mittee of a bill to strike the word
“knowingly”, from law forbid-
ding sale of liquor to minors.
Proponents contended liquor sell-
ers used it as a loophole. Oppon-
ents said it would make dealers
liable for innocent mistakes.
Short Snorti
Sen. Arbaham Kazen Jr. of
Laredo has introduced a bill to
set up a Texas Council on Mig-
rant Labor to improve conditions
for “Texas citizens who are mig-
rant laborers.” Federal govern-
ment has control of braceros in
interstate commerce . . . County
Other Eds Thoughts
•-----•
HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSED
(Fort Worth Pros*)
The basic purpose of all our
labor legislation is to protect the
right of the worker to organize
and bargain with his employer
through agents of his own choos-
ing.
In practice this fundamental
principle often is blandly violated.
Take the case of the 51 em-
ployes of a sand and gravel com-
pany in Corvallis, Ore., just call-
ed to public attention by the re-
port of an examiner for NLRB.
Teamsters Local 324, seeking
to organize this business, didn’t
bother to consult the employes.
It simply threw up a picket line
and asked the boss to sign up,
which he did.
He thus agreed to hand over
$588.80 the fiist year out of the
pay of each of his men, in dues
and fees.
These 61 employees had the
spunk to resist this high-handed
procedure with a complaint to
the NLRB. The examiner upheld
them and presumably the Nation-
al Labor Relations Board will al-
so.
But over the country vast
numbers of workers have not had
the courage, or the information
to protect themselves. They have
been unionized against their will
or forced into one union when
they wanted to join another,
through deals which had for their
sole purpose keeping their boss
out of trouble with a union or-
ganizer.
This isn’t maintaining the
“rights of labor,” It is a form
of slavery.
Xu Klux Klan.'u'wJuTot by
ntrprixing if the lewiewneaa of
tho NAACP is met with lawless-
ness oh tho part of the Klan or
if other organisations are form-
ed and also resort to lawlessness
to meet lawlessness.
Parenthetically, it is not
against the law of Texas to or-
ganize or be a member of the
Ku Klux Klan or to burn a cross
if one is silly enough to do that.
I make this observation for the
benefit of headline-hungry dis-
trict attorneys who may be in
need of a refresher course.
More violence may be expect-
ed. President- Eisenhower's so-
called civil rights bill now before
Congress, referred to by Edward
Sheidt, a former FBI agent, in
his testimony before a congres-
sional committee as a “Pandora’s
box which threatens to shake the
foundation of law enforcement
in the United States,” invites this
NAACP, or any member of it,
or any fellow-traveling friend to
ibake complaint, oral or written,
unsupported by affidavit or doc-
ument, and require any individ-
ual to answer for any act claim-
ed by the complainant to "violate
his civil rights.”
If you don’t see the certainty
of violence in all of this, you
have your head in the sand.
J. W. HASSELL.
738 Gibraltar Life Building,
Dallas 1.
NOTE—Judge Hassell was a
former resident of Denison and
practiced law here for several
years before moving to Dallas.
The northernmost point of the
U.S. is located in Minnesota.
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NAJMON A L EDITORIAL
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EDITORIAL PAGE BACKBONE
GOOD WEEKLY NEWSPAPERS
(In Publishers' Auxiliary)
By EDMUND C. ARNOLD
The stature of a weekly news-
paper can be raised immeasur-
ably by a strong editorial col-
umn. There’s plenty of proof for
this statement and—to advance
only Exhibit A, leaving B, C and
the rest for future columns—
take the Oakland (Neb.) Inde-
pendent.
Nebraska is a state of darn
good weeklies and editors who
still have the old frontier urge
to stand up and be counted on
important issues. Bob Bogue, who
with his wife, Shirley, publishes
the Independent, is one of that
breed.
Bob has the same problem that
most weekly editors do; he can’t
devote a whole page to an ed i-
torial section. But that doesn’t
daunt him. He can and does
keep two columns open and those
lie uses with great effectiveness.
He sets his editorials double
measure, leads them generously
and uses an extra slug between
paragraphs.
He gives them big heads. The
theory is that if you need a big
display to attract readers to ma-
jor page one stories, you sure
as shooting need it to build read-
ership for your editorials which
have less built-in reader attrac-
tion. Bob keeps plenty of air
around the heads, too.
It should be pointed out that
the rule under the kicker is Ben
Dayed and on the original page
doesn’t look as black as it does
in reproduction.
Another problem that Bob
shares with all weekly newsmen
is a shortage of working hours.
Rather than spread himself thin,
he concentrates on one good edi-
torial and makes that a good,
punchy one. Then he fills the
column with an editorial from a
neighboring weekly and a
Thought of the Week.”
There’s no crime in scissoring
a neighbor’s editorial. In fact, it
not only flatters the clippee but
gives your readers a fresh view-
point. The only trouble is, with
the current debilitation of the
editorial page, you may have a
little chore in finding an editor-
ial worth clipping.
Even if you have time to write
a full column, it may be that
there just isn’t anything that you
fee] strongly enough about writ-
ing in any given week. That’s
where a good editorialist on your
exchange list is a valuable friend.
I know editors who exchange
with papers several miles away,
primarily to reprint editorials.
You needn’t confine your ex-
changes nor your clipping to geo-
graphical neighbors. A commun-
ity of thinking is more import-
ant than physical proximity.
Your paper ought to hftve an
editorial page. You. too, can have
one like Bob Bogue does, even
if your page, like this one, has
to run some 60% advertising.
TEXAS
~pggSS~j| ASSOCIATION
m&r&srl
The pony express was estab-
lished between San Francisco and
St. Joseph, Missouri on April 3.
1860.
John Bunyan wrote “Pilgrim’s
Progress” while he was in prison.
Monrovia, Liberia is named for
U.S. President James Monroe.
A dead person may vote, legal-
ly, if he mails an absentee ballot
and then dies before elcc ion day.
“Nixie” is a postal term mean-
ing mail which for some reason
cannot be delivered.
Three birds which cannot fly
are the emu, kiwi and ostrich.
MORE UNLAWFUL
ACTIVITIES
To The Dallas News:
The lawless activities of the
National Association for the Ad-
vancement of Colored People
havt called, u might hm boon
DUVAL COUNTY. USA
STORY NO. 10—in a series ol articles on Duval County by Frederick Hodgson and Frans
Rosenwald, New York newspaper and magazine writers who visited Duval County and
wrote the series exclusively for Texas readers.
People Take Over in Duval County;
County Government Has New Look
to 60 miles to their jobs in Oilton
and Falfurrias and Alice because
nobody would hire them in George
Parr’s county There are many in
this category—exiles from sunup
to sundown, six clays a week Now
they’re coming home
Life, business, government,
even love—they've all been hay-
wire in this haywire county, and
are getting back to normal. Boys
and girls who couldn't date each
other and fall in love because one
family had Parr’s blessing and an-
other his curse, now can give
Cupid a free rein. The invisible
barriers of hatred are falling
down. Romeo and Juliet have
come into their own.
In the schoolrooms the distinc-
tion — the discrimination — be-
tween the kids of “Parr people”
and others has pretty well van-
ished. You don't have to be the
child of an “Old Party” family
to go to the fair now and sell
your 4-H Club calves and lambs.
If you’re poor, you don't have to
be a Parr follower in order for
By-FREDERICK HODGSON
SAN DIEGO, Tex.-Things are
different in Duval County.
No matter how brightly the lust
for liberty bums, it takes a little
know-how to jump in and operate
a government according to the
Constitution. Before the "clean-
up,” Duval County leaders had
had their government run for
them since before World War
One, and unashamedly admitted
they were rusty as the nails in
the Ark. They obtained and cir-
culated elementary textbooks on
county government and read them
like dime novels.
As a result, Duval County be-
came a textbook on democracy.
It would have made any county
in the United States ashamed of
itself to see Duval citizens relig-
iously attending every meeting of
the school boards and the com-
missioners court in such numbers
that crowds had to stand out on
the courthouse lawn.
This is the courthouse, here
in San Diego, Texas, where Parr’s
non-supporters say they were nev-
er allowed to enter unless they
were summoned. They never saw
the inside of the district court-
room, they say, “unless we were
being tried for something we did
not do.” The meetings of the
commissioners court and school
boards were always held in secret,
if at all.
After "Operation Cleanup” an
invisible line developed down the
middle of the courtroom, dividing
the Parr people from the non-
Parrists. Many of the Parr people
had relatives under indictment.
Every day was a big day in court,
with overflow crowds. One day
the Duke himself appeared to
answer an indictment. Another
day a handful of school trustees
arrived, with a motion to quash
an indictment. The next day half
a dozen lawyers tangled with Dis-
trict Attorney Sam Burris and the
“State men.” Now and then a
Ranger stood up or shuffled his
feet to remind the participants
that "It’s peaceful here, and we
aim to keep it peaceful.”
The courthouse is the Sanctum
Sanctorum from which all but
Parr’s “Old Party” members were
excluded. There are other places
besides the courthouse that used
to be rigidly off limits to Parr's
opposition, but not any more The
San Diego Community Center, a
public building, now is accessible
to any group of citizens, no mat-
ter how they vote. And that's
new in Duval County
No sir, you wouldn't know the
old Duchy with its new look
People stand around in the drug I selves with senseless wars
stores and talk about whatever I But tho rest of the people in
they please without whispering, Duval County have just come into
without looking over their should- their Golden Age. They have a
ers to see who is near. This is new dignity They have a new
already have written their copy
for the morning edition.
What does the Duval story
mean to the State of Texas?
My colleague, Franz Rosenwald,
has seen more than one dictator-
ship rise, flourish, fizzle and die.
He says there are two things to
remember about dictatorships.
First, they don’t just fizzle by
themselves. They have to be
helped along by people who are
fed up with them Second, there’*
not much hope for people who get
rid of one dictator and fail to
lock the door against the next one.
And there is always a next one
Under the Texas Constitution
there's not likely to be a dictator-
ial governor, nor even a Legisla-
ture that gets too far out of line.
The old state charter was written
in 1875, when carpet-baggers
were crawling all over the cap-
ital, and the men who wrote it
made provisions against abuses of
power on the state level. They
made Texas counties relatively
autonomous, letting them retain
much authority which ordinarily
belongs to a state. This is espe-
cially true of the criminal law.
This local autonomy is a good
thing, provided you have safe-
guards against its misuse. But
once a county boss loams enough
your kids to get free milk at the ] law to take advantage of the
school cafeteria. Giving milk to loopholes, you’ve got
one child and withholding it from -........ 1 - J-
another for reasons of politics is
just one of the many quaint prac-
tices condemned by Duval County
grand juries that have been look-
ing into tilings since the State of
Texas moved in on the stronghold
of the Duke
Tho changes in Duval County
don’t mean that Parr isn't still
fighting. Those who know him
best say he’ll he fighting when
the iron doors rlang behind him.
The men who hang around the
courthouse, the ones who couldn't
hang around there before, will tell
you that George Parr’s ghost will
walk those dim halls fifty years
after he has fought his last fight.
You don't get rid of 40 years
of Parrism quickly. A whole gen-
eration of men and women in one
Texas county have been horn and
brought up in a climate of fear,
hatred and distrust. There are
those who have always eaten at
the public trough, always had the
protection of a Big Boss, and al-
ways helped him elect his candi-
dates. spy on his enemies, destroy
his opposition. In Duval County
there are still many of these, and
they have children. Their Golden
Age has passed away, and they
will mourn for it because they,
like the Duke of Duval, have been
born in the wrong century. They
are a part of feudalism, part of a
day when little kings dominated
a few hundred square miles of
earth, overtaxed their impover-
ished serfs, and amused tliem-
maybe the biggest, the most strik-
ing change.
Business has picked up in the
Duke’s domain. Manuel Marro-
qnin, whose tortilla bakery was
put out of business by Parr,
started over again before he be-
gan publishing his newspaper, the
New Duval He had to set up his
cafe across the line in Jim Wells
County, just outside San Diego
But all the old customers who had
quit trading with him on the
Duke's orders came back They
bought his tortillas and his milk,
and now they read his newspaper
A lot of Duval residents are
coming back home to work from
the surrounding counties where
they sny Parr drove them by for-
bidding their employment in Du
vat. Some have been traveling 20
hope They have a County Audi-
tor, an impartial grand jury, su-
pervised elections, and police pro-
tection As one Duval rancher
put it, the clouds have parted
and the sun has broken through
To be sure, the sharp crack of
legal conflict is still heard There
is still .tumult and shouting in
Judge Woodrow l.aughlin’s dis-
trict courtroom But the roar of
the big legal artillery that has
rattled the whole State of Texas
for three years, while George
Parr and his friends fought ditch
by ditch to hold their fortress
intact has died out The final
score has yet to be tallied, but
the trend is clear Tho watchers
in the grandstand are picking up
their pennants and going home,
nnd the boys In the press box
a dictator
on your hands This is the way
former Attorney General John
Ben Sliepperd explains it-
"By controlling elections
through threats, bribery or the
miscounting of the ballots, you
control the sheriff, the county and
district judges, and the county
and district attorneys Your pup-
pet district judge appoints the
grand jury commissions, and they
appoint the grand and petit juries.
Since you control the offices, you
can lock up or destroy the rec-
ords, thus removing the evidence.
You cannot he arrested, indicted,
tried, convicted or sentenced. You
are the law in your county."
If you steal or misapply the
county funds, nobody will know
it because you ran just refuse to
let them see the records. There
are few penalties for such sc-
rretiveness. Besides, whether you
are accused of hiding records or
stealing money, or both, you have
to he indicted in the county of
the offense. And, remember, the
grand jury is in your own po.cket
along with the judge and the
prosecuting attorney.
In most cases you can’t even
be sued for the money you have
scooped out of the till, because
recovery suits can only be started
with the permission of the gov-
erning body of the agency you
have stolen from. When Shcp-
pord's office and District Attorney
Sam Burris filed a suit to recover
money misapplied by the Duval
County Commissioners Court, the
Commissioners effectively stalled
it by refusing to go along with it.
It took a couple of dozen court
hassles in three different coun-
ties and several changes in coun-
ty commissioners to straighten
tho mess out,
Back to those secret records.
There is no adequate law under
which you can be removed from
office for refusing to show them
And you can always do as the
county auditor of Duval County
did. He stood on the Fifth Amend-
ment nnd refused to say where
his records were kept on the
grounds that it might tend to in-
criminate him There's no law
against that, either
Texas needs many new laws to
protect its citizens against an-
other “Duval County" Fifteen
corrective measures have been in-
troduced in the Legislature, by
the Texas Press Association. Each
of these “Better Government
Biltt" merit* public support.
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Anderson, LeRoy M., Sr. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 36, Ed. 1 Friday, February 22, 1957, newspaper, February 22, 1957; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth737456/m1/2/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.