Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1993 Page: 3 of 14
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$2,097,000 flrant
Awarded to
Emory lor water
System
Improvements
WASHINGTON The city
of Emory has been awarded a
$2,097, ()()() grant and a
$750,(MX) low interest loan to
finance improvements to its
central water system, U S
Senator Phil Gramm an
nounccd today.
Ihe funds are provided by
the Rural Development Ad
ministration, an agency of the
U S Department of Agricul
lure
Specifically, the senator
said, the project will include a
new booster pump station, a
ground storage tank and clc
; valed storage lank The funds
will also be used to upgrade the
water treatment plant
"I am pleased that the funds
which lexas taxpayers send to
; Washington are being returned
by the federal government to
make permanent improve
; ments which will greatly en
liancc the quality ol life for
’ many Rains County resi
dents," Gramm said.
The loan is lor 40 years at 5
percent interest
RDA opetales a broad range
of low interest lending and
grunt programs designed to
■ protect and develop water
sheds, to finance waste dis
• posal projects and to improve
■ the economic climate ol rural
communities.
*****
Eddie Skidmore, Dallas,
and Tiffany Treadway, Hous
Ion, visited their grandparents,
Mi A Mis Lxld 1‘ielcher.
*****
Douglas Micuh Vail ol
flower Mound was a visitor
here Iasi week
Mrs Ixiis lirown of Dallas
was a visiior here last week to
Mines Pearl Wilson, Opal
Garreil and Kathryn Warren
CARDS OF
THANKS
Thanks
Thanks for the phone rails,
cards, visits and food while I
was hospitalized and since
I've hern home. I pray (iod
will richly bless each and ev-
ery one of you. Thanks anain.
Sincerely,
Versa Shedd
Thanks
Many thanks to Hubert A
Nancy Wilson, Mr. A Mrs.
Self, Hro. A Sandra Parker,
Pat Underwood, and everyone
who brought food or flowers
duriiiK the burial of l.orene
I Ml rick. May (iod bless you
all.
Kaly Thedford
& Family
Thank You,
Friends
We sincerely thank all of our
neighbors and friends for all
the prayers and support dur-
inn our time of need. We espe-
cially appreciate the benefit
supper and all who helped.
May (iod bless you.
The Saldivar Family
Special Thanks
We appreciate so much the
hard work of Thelma Cason
and Hetty ( ason in orKanlzjnp
and nromotinif the very suc-
cessful benefit supper. We are
thankful for such nood
friends. May (iod richly bless
them always.
The Saldivar Family
Thank You!
Shady drove Haplisl
( liurch would like to thank all
those who came out do non
our recent slew supper and
showed their support for our
huildhiK fund. The slew was
Kreal and everyone had a nood
time. Over $1,000 was ((Iven
in donations for this nood
cause.
A special thank you goes to
those who brounht items for
the slew, the cooks, and to
Hrenda McLeroy for donation
an oil puintinn-Johnnie lloll
was the recipient of the paint-
ink
Also, another special thank
you to JoAnn and Wall Stoll,
who cash in cans every month
to add to our huildinn fund.
Thank you all anain far
your love and support. Huild-
inn plans are in the prepara-
tion slanes rinhl now. We
hope to have a new huildinn
sometime this year!
City Grant
continued
the Rains County leader on
Thursday from Phil (iruinm’x
office (see article elsewhere in
this week's louder).
The project will include a
new booster pump station, a
new 100.(MX) gallon ground
storage tank, u new 150,(MM)
gallon elevated storage lank, as
well us numerous major reno-
vations ut the water plant
These improvements arc being
made to bring the city into
compliance with the Slate
Health Department's capacity
requirements. The city's water
system serves 658 users in
Emory, 483 users at East
Tawukom, and 702 users on
the South Ruins Water Supply
Corporation’s system
’ The $750,000 loun. which
will be at 57f interest for 40
years, is one of the reasons the
city raised Us water/sewer
rates effective March 1st
Mayor Ruhyc McKeown ex
pressed her thunks to Giles,
and added that the city is in
dehled to him lor all Ins efforts
in securing the grant and loun
The council voted to adopt a
resolution authorizing and pro
viding lor the incurrence ol in
debtedness lor the purpose of
providing u portion of the cost
of acquiring, constructing, en
larging, improving and/or ex
tending its water system m the
amount of $750,(MM) and uc
cepting the grant not to exceed
5>2,0*>7 ,(KK)
The council then voted for
the city's engineer, Hayter En
gineering of Paris, to proceed
with project planning and spe
cilicutions pending official up
provul ol the loun/grunl
The council then passed a
resolution issuing Order of
Election to lx- held May 1st I'm
Place I, Cay House; Place 1,
Charles Kovar; and Place 5,
Mill Hart, all for 2 year terms
The council selected Mcverly
Marlon as election judge, Mat
lie I vie* foi one of the election
clerks, with the second clerk to
Ik- chosen by the election
judge.
Public works director Rob
cii Gordon reported that the
waler samples and ic|>orts
were good this month, but the
sewer rcpoits were oil due to
infiltration from heavy rains,
lie reported 14 water turn oils,
5 turn ons, 4 sewer stoppages,
one water leak and one sewer
lap Gordon ulso reported they
have been working on the sand
Idlers at the water plant and
had completed most ol tile-
stale's list ol items that needed
correcting.
Councilman Scott Jaeger
gave a report on the Extended
Area Service. They are still
woikmg on it, lobbying in
Austin and making progress
He pointed out that in Okla
homn, one phone call Irom
then governor got statewide
extended area service within
one month
Mayoi McKeown informed
the council ol u sexual harass
menl seminar being conducted
by LI ( OG, il any of the conn
cil members wished to uttend.
Aflei adjourning, comments
were made about the new bus
kcthull goals the city installed
at the old tennis courts at City
Park already being damaged by
vandals, to the point ol being
nearly unuseable.
Services for
Melvin Corley
Services for lame Oak
native Melvin V. Corley Sr.,
97, were held at 10 a.ill. I ues
day at First Christian Church
in lame Oak with Rev Robert
Ptiesl officiating. Murial was in
lame Oak City Cemetery.
Mr Corley died Saturday at
Citi/ens General Hospital.
Morn in lame Oak on Oct.
28, 1805, lie was the son of
David and Anna Eaura DuMose
Corley. He married Jo Muck
aby in Greenville. He was u
World Wai I veteran and a
retired runcher and cattleman.
Mr Corley was a 32nd degree
Mason and member of Shiloh
laalge No 307. He was assis
taut county school superinlen
deni for many years.
Survivors include his son,
Melvin Corley Jr. of Mesa,
Ari/., three grandsons und
three greut great grand-
daughters.
He was preceded in death by
his wife on Nov. 22, 1981.
Pallbearers were Harvey
Dorman, Fred Trimble, Jack
Cason, Deruld White, Charles
Hunt and Juck Elmore.
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BAINS
COUNTY
LEADER
Eatery, Tmi 7k»n4ay,
r•turnery 21, IHI-Pt«« 1
African-American History Month
Set Free, Without Justice
In his second inaugural ad
dress Abraham Lincoln said
that at the beginning of the
Civil War, "One-eighth ol the
whole population were colored
slaves, not distributed general
ly over the Union, but locul
ized in the Southern part of n
These sluves constitute a pecu
liar and powerful interest All
knew that this interest was,
somehow, the cause of the
war..." President Lincoln’s
Emancipation Proclamation ol
1863 had been issued during
the war as a military edict af
feeling only the slaves in those
portions of the commonwcalh
then in rebellion.
Il was the Thirteenth A
mendment to the Constitution
which finally abolished slavery
everywhere in the United
Stales. He fore his death, l.m
coin had urged Congress to
take such action On January
31, 1865, the Thirteenth A
mendment passed the House* ol
Representatives, was ratified
during the year by the required
number of stales and on Do
comber I8ih, was proclaimed
in effect. Slavery was now no
longer legal anywhere in
America The long light ol the
while abolitionists, the black
runaways, the Negro and while
underground railroad workers
had at last reached ns fruition
The Thirteenth Amendment
dec lured, "Neither slavery not
involuntary servitude, except
as a punishment for crime
whereof the party shall have
been duly convicted, (There is
no requirement in the 1.3th
Amendment to the Constitution
to he guilty, only that a judge
or jury convict. Under the
wording of this Amendment,
slavery continues to this day,
under color of law.) shall exist
within the United Stales, or
any place subject to their
jurisdiction Congress shall
have power to cf)force this art■
clc by appropriate
legislation."
The struggle that had begun
ostensibly over stales' rights,
and only secondarily over
slavery, had culminated in the
freedom of the slave at first
partially, during the conflict at
aims, then finally, through po
III teal action, thus vindicating
the faith ol l-iederick Douglass
m the American Constitution.
As for the slaves them
selves, newly set free, a new
world came into existence and
a new loim ol slavery began
Eventually, each man had to
stand on lus own and there
were grave problems in the
South for both former master
and former slave "What I
likes best, to be slave or free?”
said one old Negro. "Well, it's
this way. In slavery I owns
nothing and never owns
nothing. In freedom I owns the
house and raise the family. All
that causes me worriulion and
in slavery I has no worriation
bui I takes the freedom "
The truth is there is no free
dom or justice m America for
all the people And there never
has been not from the Ik*
ginning.
We search for |usticc in all
places in cities full of crime,
m the workplace where people
are mere units or the produc
lion line, in a world where pis
lice, i‘ it exists, has become
only another commodity lor
sale. We huddle behind barred
doors, wired to expensive
burglar alarms, und when the
wind blows and rattles the door
m the night, wt awaken, our
heurts in our throats, because
nothing can make us feel safe
anymore. Yet fiercely we cling
to old myths that give comfort
justice is out there. Some
where.
What is justice? There is no
such thing as justice. In fact,
the word cannot be defined.
Justice, like life, cannot be
adequately defined. Justice is
the divine mist, and is some
thing inexorably connected to
the stale of being. The meaning
of injustice is clearly under
stood. The African American
child begging for lus supper
knows the meaning of the
word, and so d<K*s this innocent
man rotting in prison Even the
coyote chained to a stake near
the gas pumps to entertain the
tourists understands the mean
mg of injustice.
Yet justice usually fails
without law. for il is the office
of the law to rest rain the
powerful. The African Ameri-
can child, given power, may,
in turn, starve the children of
his oppressors, and the inno-
cent. once freed, may. given
power, kill those who have
wrongfully imprisoned him.
Justice is not a willow in the
wind, justice is the great tree of
life that stands immutable
against unjust forces, und the
law. the massive trunk of the
greut lrce of life, must resist
the tempests that storm upon n
Whether ut the hunds of man
or God, the depreciation of
justice drives human beings to
insane places. In each of us,
there is a smoldering terror
that injustice will descend upon
us.
Justice requires atonement,
und justice demands reform. It
leaches its lesson and insists
that we change.
Elgic Clayton
Rt I Mox 58
Emory. Tx 75440
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Sarvlcat H#ld For
Proston Latham
The leader is carryinn Mr.
iMlham's obit anain ut the re-
quest of the family as a nrand-
child's name was left out last
week.
Services for Preston 1*
tham, 65, of Princeton, who
died Saturday at his residence,
were held at I0;3() a m. Mon-
day, al Dunbar Cemetery in
Emory. Bob Herod officiated
Horn Harris-Crouch-Belew
Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements
Mr. luitham was bom in
Emory, May 14, 1927, the son
of Buck luitham and Emma
Northcutl Latham He married
Elsie Bolton. After their di
vorce, he later married Jean
Whitux
He was a carpenter, metal
worker und farmer. He was a
veteran of the U. S. Army and
was a Baptist.
Mr laithum is survived by
one son, l-arry of Princeton;
one daughter, Judy of Blue
Ridge, two stepAjuughtcrs,
Rantha und Paula; six grand
children, Jeff, Melony, John,
Jacob, Starla and Camron, and
one great grandchild, Chelsea
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Becknell, Kathleen Hill. Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 1993, newspaper, February 25, 1993; Emory, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth765010/m1/3/?q=music: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Rains County Library.