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PACE4A .THE POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE, SUNDAY, JUNE 28, IMS
EDITORIAL
THE POU COUNTY ENTENPMSE
Weekly Special
Industrial revolution in China
By JACK ANDERSON
mi JAN MOLLER
BEIJING - Few people know
rcvofetioa like Liao Sui Fcna.
Tke 93-year-old woman left her
kmbmi aatf child to help font
the Chine sc Communist Party in
the 1920s. Her husband was later
execaied by Nationalists for her
treason.
Forty years later,
through her thin apartment walls
yet another revolution.
apartment. They had to lake her
away.
When President Clinton arrives
at Being's special airport for
foreign diplomats this week, he
will find a country in the throes of advertise the movie “Titanic,”
Letters to the editor
Just about given up
To the editor:
Speaking to John, regarding his
question, "Do they like garbage?"
Sure, John, they like to look at it
aa they pass by. Maybe they keep
their own road clean and just like to
throw their garbage and little dead
animals on outs. But somehow I
cant believe people that do this
keep anything dean.
For years, we ladies in our area
did our two mile Adopt A; High way
bit, picking up other people's trash
so our highway we travel to and
from would loci dee to us and to
others. Now most or* # are too old
or physically unable to pick up, and
really have lost the heart to do so.
My neighbor and I still try to keep
the road and entrance to our subdi-
vision clean. We even stop on our
STOCKING STUFFERS - Of-
ficials at the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency’s Chicago office
a few
courtesy
of $1.5 million in “free” taxpayer
money.
As the 1997 fiscal year was
drawing to a close last Septem-
ber, the EPA's Chicago office had
still not spent $1.5 million of the
$5 million it had been allotted to
enforce the Superfund law, which
holds polluters responsible for
cleaning up the toxic waste they
spew into the environment
Government agencies that don’t
way to town and pick up pash jus,
to by and keep it halfway decent.
that those budgets are likely to be
I alwavs felt it was a slam on CUl thC following ^ thcir
JJSTCSr .u .k ? bosses win fig*11® that ‘bey didn’t
the people that bve in the area that . ., J A' werc
iwwtc rlpanino tin enmphnu; f Hnn't * *
needs cleaning up, somehow I don't
think that's the case anymore. It's
given.
Officials at the EPA’s Chicago
jusl that most of the good people. * « to
to you. Jota Hat have med so ^ ^
& to go on a BtlJe shopping spree.
“ ■1, 7 So brazen were these bureau-
? n ‘"ts ‘but they passed a binder
little ketchups, napkins they for- 9mn .
nish, then they just toss them out
the window, like scattering them to
the wind. Go figure.... Are they
young people who were never
laughtt 'or older people* who don't
give a damn? I'd love to know.
Peggy Moffett
2105 Wilson Lake
Not men-haters
To the editor:
I am so thankful we still have
freedom of speech and a newspaper
that will give us a chance to ex-
our opinions.
1 got a good response from my
article, more from men than I
expected; one person told me they
taped it on their refrigerator. Only
lone negative. My answer to them
was "if the shoe don't fit, don't wear
it. " I try to talk and write so anyone
understand what i say. There is
a saying, "A stuck pig always
squeals."
As I talk to women who are or
ve been in a violent or abusive
ily situation, I would say at
;t 95 percent of them have made
statement that the husband used
term that the Bible said they
the boss. Now where do you
that comes from? It has been
handed down through the years. A
large percentage of the women had
talked to different ministers and
church leaders; they were told to try
to be a better wife and mother and
things would be different My opin-
ion is the ministers and leaders
should try doing things differently.
You would think they would team
you keep doing things the same
way over and over you will get the
results. Remember the rule of
thumb, the chastity belt, when
women and black people couldn't
vale If you will read the history of
these things you will find out it
was never the white religious lead-
ers that made the change. In fact,
they were the ones who drug their
feet, saying it fras God’s will. Why
would these Promise Keepers want
all that money I read about. Why
don't they spend it on their wives
and children, or pay the back child
support they owe? Could it be for
some politician to further their con-
trol? God is our true leader, He
leads, does not drive, His people.
You cannot force salvation, it
comes from loving people. One
lady told me when she was growing
up she would argue with her mother
about things, but wouldn't dare
with her father; she just kept her
mouth shut then did what she
wanted to. Is that called a good
leader or a dictator of a family? To
answer one person's question: Why
would I want a monument erected
in Washington, D.C. in memory of
women and children killed on the
battlefield of family violence? More
around the office, complete with
a cover sheet trumpeting the
“FY97 Superfund Enforcement
Dollars Spending Spree: Christ-
mas in September." It shows
compiler equipment being show-
ered with money, with a large
Christinas tree in the background.
Among other things, Chicago
1 "T 0«r*c EPA officials bought top-of-the-
tvings on j.ne |apt0p compute extra-large
computer monitors to reduce em-
ployee eye strain, multiple
$20,000 scanners, $55,000 worth
of Xerox equipment and approxi-
mately 200 high-powered Zip disk
drives.
EPA official Tim Fields made
no excuses for the spending spree:
“It was obviously a mistake,”
people visit Washington D.C. than FieWs m ^ no't m ^
anywhere else. It would be a con chases were illegal, but it was a
Unuing reminder and, no, God didn't mistake. We obviously have a
use a man in the birth of Jesus. In
fact, she and her husband had not
had sex and when he found out she
was pregnant he was going to get
rid of her, but he wanted to do it
quietly. While he was trying to fig-
ure a way out, an angel came to
larger responsibility to spend Su-
perfond money on cleanup proj-
ccts.*
MINI-EDITORIAL - A short
item in the paper this week ex-
plains why campaign finance re-
k- •• „ . . ,. r. , form will once again die a grue-
nun in a dream, told him to keep
* *■ *■ - i**»■ K.4? to
son, to name him Jesus, he would
be the savior of the world. My an-
swer to a comment I heard: No, we
are not men haters, but we hate
what some men do to their wives
and children.
My opinion is, if more people
would "promise" to love everybody
in word and deed, quit worrying
about control and let God be the
leader for a change, we would see
different results. 1 Corinthians 7:3-
4, ] Corinthians 11:11-12, would
be good for wives and husbands to
read.
Yes, I volunteer for lots of jobs,
not for money, but because it is a
calling from God and I lift m^His
name everywhere I work.
Bobbie R. Shaffer
P.O. Box 1686
Onalaska
week.
It seems that House Republi-
cans, while “dialing for dollars”
recently, were able to raise up-
ward of $10 million in record
time, much of it in the form of
“soft money” contributions. And
these are the folks who are sup-
posed to turn off the lucrative
spigot of special-interest graft that
gets incumbents re-elected?
House Speaker Newt Gingrich,
whose GOP majority is in serious
jeopardy this November, has
seemingly made a cold calcula-
tion: The voters may get mad at
us for killing campaign finance
reform, but we can buy them back
the money we’re raising from
our friends in the business world.
We’ll know in November if his
trick worked.
CowrMU 1 WE. Unlit* Ftoti IwEkto. It.
POLK COUNTY
ENTERPRISE
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which has sold out many theaters
. , ._ . . f* "China's going through an In-
fahmng themselves for another Revolution, but it’s 100
** *nd times what happened in the
are wekJmng ch^aLd^vi” UniJ* Sul“’. “ Nichols-
ing Americans to participate. *« American who operates a coa-
Climon won't see tanks rollmg ^lungbusine-s tn die Chinese
down Beijing's streets and chas- c,ty of Zhengzhou. there are no
ing after dissidents And he is answers- and "f?* llkcs *
l ian listened unlikely to find throngs of protest- i°^s ®ut “
ers filing Tiananmen Square. ha,s‘° ** dcJf'e '
as the girls next door denounced But a relatively quiet shift from '' f*1* oWcr Ch“^se timid
their father as a counter- central planning to a market- ®bout chan8cs- Chinese youth
revolutionary during the Cultural bused economy has started bub- havc mostly embraced them as an
Revolution When miliury sol- bring to the surface People walk opportumty t0 ,ind private-sector
diers executed the man, his chil- along the streets of Shanghai w,th h,ghe/ pty4nd. <jaK*er
dren look the body and had it shops such as Cartier and advancement man offered by the
cremated, Hushing the remains Esprit, talking on tiny cellular government bureaucracy. But that
down the toilet phones. In Beijing, foreign luxury message hfs ***" 00 sor"e
“Their mother went mad,” Liao cars have almost completely re- P*"?115’ ^ su ^ 1 111151 1116
says malter-of-factly while sitting placed the horse-drawn carts that c
amid the squalor of her liny once filled the streets.
Even more remote cities such
as Chengdu, in China’s south- . . .
western Sichuan province, have cc'ebrated Christmas
changed. High-rise hotels are un- monlhs ^ ‘
der construction and billboards
Wyman Smalley
CORRIGAN - Graveside services
for Wyman Devoe Smelley, 78, of
Corrigan will be held at 2 p.m.
Sunday, June 28, 1998, from Hoi-
hausen-Darby Cemetery, with the
Rev. Royce Pennington and the
Rev. Donnie Crump officiating.
Mr. Smelley was bom Nov. 11,
1919 in Cushing, Nacogdoches
County, and died Thursday night,
June 25, in Methodist Hospital,
Houston.
He retired as a maintenance super-
visor from W.T. Carter/Champion
International after 35 years. He
served in the U.S. Navy during
World War II and was a member of
the First Baptist Church of Corri-
gan. His son, Allan Ray Smelley,
preoeded him in death in July of
1971.
Survivors include his wife of 39
years, Vera Smelley of Corrigan;
sons and daughter-in-law, J.R.
"Rex" and Sherry Smelley of Garri-
son, and Devoe Smelley of Hous-
ton; daughters and sons-in-law,
Shirley Smelley of Houston, Susan
and Hal Hubbard, Ann and Gerald
Standley, and Debbie and Jerry
Cockrell, all of Corrigan, and Dol-
lie and Gary Maske of Meridian;
brothers and sisters-in-law, Alton
and Bill Smelley of Willis, and
Kenneth and Loy Nell Smelley of
Corrigan; sister, Loleta Manry of
C«rigan; 22 grandchildren and 15
great-grandchildren.
His grandsons served as pallbear-
ers.
Corrigan Funeral Home is in
charge of arrangements.
Victoria Fisher L
LIVINGSTON - Funeral services
for Victoria Cain Fisher, 83, were
held Friday, June 26, 1998, from
Stroud Ftmeral Home in Cluie,
with Bid. Daniel Baugh Jr. officiat-
ing. Interment followed in Magno-
lia Gardens Cemetery, Segno.
Mrs. Fisher died Wednesday, June
24, in Brazocport Memorial Hospi-
tal, Lake Jackson.
She was bom Feb. 19, 1916 to
Pete Cain and Mary Elizabeth War-
ren Cain of Segno. She was a resi-
dent of Village on the Creek Nurs-
ing Home in Qute and was of Bap-
tist faith. She was preceded in death
by her husband, LZ. Fisher.
Survivors include one brother, ha
Cain of Segno; four children, David
Fisher of Snyder, Mary Qualls of
Angleton, Peggy Catlett of Midland
and Elsie Brock of Campwood; nine
grandchildren and five great-
grandchildren.
Ryan Riddle
LIVINGSTON - Funeral services
for Ryan Riddle, 22, of Livingston
are pending from the Cochran Fu-
neral Home Chapel.
He died following an automobile
accident near Sugarland Friday
night.
PLAN YOUR ESCAPE
A Fire Can Happen
to Anyone at Anytime...
Elma Wall McMichael
■ffl
• Install smoke detectors outside
every bedroom and on every
level of your home. Test them
monthly and replace the batter-
ies at least once a year.
• Know two ways out of every
room.
• Practice crawling low, to avoid
smoke and heat.
• Feel doors with the back of your
hand before opening them. If
hot, use your second way out.
• Identify an outside meeting
place, and never return toa
burning building for any reason.
LIVINGSTON - Funeral services
for Elma Wafl McMichael, 96, of
Livingston were held Friday, June
26, 1998, from the Cochna Fu-
neral Home Chapel, with Dr. Ben
Welmaker officiating. Intameat
followed in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Mrs. McMichael died Wednesday,
June 24, in Memorial Medical Cen-
ter, Lufkin.
She was bom Jan. 15. 1902 in
Pollock. La., the daughter of Sam-
uel Releford Wall and Willie Ottilic
Thames Wall. She was a long-time
resident of the Livingston area and a
member of Central Baptist Church.
She mamied Arve Robin McCants
in Lake Providence, La. on March
9, 1922 and moved to Weslaco,
where she reared her family. She
was known for having a tender heart
for the less fortunate and helped out
where she could. Mrs. McMichael
had been employed as a secretary for
American Fruit Growers. She was
preceded in death by her husband
and one son, Dan Wall McCants of
Lufkin.
Survivors include her daughter and
son-in-law, Robbie and Henry '
Foreman of Livingston; daughter-
in-law, Virginia McCants of '
Lufkin; granddaughters, Dana
Heathcoteand husband BJ. of Liv- >'
ingston, and Kathleen Adams and
husband Robert of Conroe; grand-
sons, Scott Jones and wife Pamela
of Conroe, and Bret McCants and -
wife Tammy of La Grange, Ga.;
sister, Adeline Couch of Seattle,
Wash.; 10 great-grandchildren aid
five great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were J.C. Fentcr, Paul
Poe, Lester Oliver, Charles Hamil-
ton, Boyd Jackson and Bradley
Welborn.
Joseph Rise Battise
LIVINGSTON - Funeral services
for Joseph Rise Battise, 72, of Liv-
ingston were held Friday, June 26,
1998, from the Indian Village Pres-
byterian Church, with the Rev.
Milton Williams and the Rev.
Hugh Klodzinski officiating. Inter-
ment followed in the Indian Reser-
vation Cemetery.
Mr. Battise died Wednesday, June
24, in Memorial Medical Center,,
Lufkin.
He was bom April 3, 1926 in
Livingston, the son of Tom and
Hazel Pierre Battise, and had worked
as a log cutter. Mr. Battise was a
member of Indian Village Ptesbyte-
nan Church.
Survivors include his wife, Helen
Battise of Livingston; sons, Clifton
Battise, Claudie Battise and Darrell
Braise of Livingston; daughter,
Olivia Williams of Livingston;'
brother, Lawrence Battise of Liv-
ingston; sister, Venice Johnson of
Houston; 17 grandchildren and nine
grett-gomlchiidren.
Pallbearers were Floyd Poncho,
Bradley N. Battise, Gene Williams,
Deivin Polile, Thomas Johnson,
Don Sylestine, Patrick Battise and
Travis Sylestine.
Cochran Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
TommieLester
LIVINGSTON - Funeral services
for Tommie Lester, 67, of Goodrich
were held Friday, June 26, 1998,
from the Pace Funeral Home
Chapel, with the Rev. Don Casper
officiating. Interment followed in
Peebles Cemetery, FM1988.
Mr. Lester died Tuesday, June 23,
in Livingston.
He was bom Jan. 21, 1931 in
Diboll, the son of Bert and Callie
Ellison Lester. On May 8, 1954 he
married Delma Ray Lester.
Survivors - include • his wifop
Delma Ray Lester of Goodrich;
daughters, Callie Etheredge and
husband Henry of Romayor, Betty
Jones and husband Roy of Living-
ston, and Joan Pierce and husband
Larry of Shepherd; sons, Bruce Dale
Lester and wife Mandy of Goodrich,
Bryan Lester of Goodrich, Dennis
Lester of Abilene, Raymond De-
wayne Lester of Goodrich, Robert
Glenn Lester and wife Jessicf of
Goodrich, Roy Lavon Lester and
wife Sharon of Goodrich, and
Tommie Lester of Goodrich; 29
grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Roy Lester,
Mark Jones, Bryan Lester, Tommie
Lister and Robert Pierce. Honorary
pallbearers were Bruce Lester, Roy
Jones, Raymond Lester, Roy Sea-
groves Jr. and Dewayne Wright.
He was preceded in death by his
parents; and three daughters, Delma
Ray Lester, Kimberly Renee Lester
and Patsy Ruth Watkins.
J.R. Cox
LIVINGSTON - Graveside serv-
ices for J.R. Cox, 69, of Living-
ston were held Saturdaym June 27,
1998, from Boldsprings Cemetery,
with Bro. Frank Hood officiating.
Mr. Cox died Wednesday, June 24,
in Methodist Hospital, Houston.
He was bom Oct 20, 1928 in
Leggett, the son of Mil ledge Cox
Sr. and Pearl Davis Cox. He was a
retired construction worker for the
City of Livingston.
Survivors include his sister, Lois
Cox Smith of Texas City; daugh-
ter, Sherri Lynn Cox of Living-
stem; friends, J.W. and Nola Re-
neau, and Ed Roden of Livingston;
and friend, Agnes Reeves of Liv-
ingston, who has been like a
mother to him for years.
Cochran Funeral Home was in
charge of arrangements.
James Madison Wolfe
HUNTSVILLE-James Madison June 26, from the First Christian
Wolfe was bom Sept. 24, 1914 in Church, with interment following
Greenville and died June 23, 1998 in the Mayes Addition of Oakwood
in Huntsville. He was the son of Cemetery, Huntsville.
Floy Little Wolfe and Madison Survivors include his wife,
Louis Wolfe, and the oldest of Martha Me Whiner Wolfe; his son,’
seven children. He graduated from Jim Wolfe and his wife Randy Rae
Greenville High School and became and two granddaughters, Jamie mi
a master photoengraver at the Dusty, of Livingston; daughter,
Greenville Morning Herald and the Marjean Creager and her husband
Tyler Courier Times. Rowe of Huntsville; brother, Har-
During World W* ff, be was W?l5 ff?1 wife Rubye
staff photographer for Genenft 3™* Hden Cartcr
Douglas Mac Arthur and was on the ““her husband Wayne of Dallas;
first plane into Hiroshima after the many ruccfs “J ncPhcws “d great-
dropping of the atomic bomb. He mcccs “d a special
filmed the signing of the Japanese "SCC\£ar?1 W,lder of Sc*
surrender on the Battleship Mis- *’wasn-
souri at the end of World War D. * 5*“ “ death by his
During the war, he received a Pur- Pa^cnts; Hubert Wolfe; and
pie Heail and the Bronze $UT-
He came to teach at Sam Hous- <*s Wolfe Scarborough,
ton State Teachers College follow- Pallbearers were Paul Mendes,
ing the war, and founded the photo- Emmett Jackson, Tom Rogers,
engraving department Sam Hous- Stephen Ulmer, Jack Parker, Dana
ton State University became the Nicolay, David Smith and Clyde
only college or university in the Murray. Honorary pallbearers were
world offering a degree in that field, members of Eula Maye^Crusadeis
During this time, he completed his Class, Dr. Mary Ella Montague,
education, receiving a bachelor's and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Johnson, Mr. and
master's degree from SHSU and a M15- Charles Darby, Mr. and Mrs.
PhD from A&M Commerce in Dell Speer, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Long,
Commerce. He chaired both photo- Mr. and Mrs. Howard Griffin, Mr.
engraving and photography depart- Mrs. J.D. McLeod, Dr. aid
ments during his tenure at Sam Mrs. Thomas C. Cole Jr., Mr. axl
Houston State University before his Mrs. Luther Laskie and Minnie Lou
retirement in 1983. Clark.
Mr. Wolfe was a member of the &i lieu of flowers, donations may
First Christian Church and served ^ mode to the Madison Wolfe
as building chairman during the Scholarship Fund at Sam Houston
construction of the present sanctu- State University, Department of
ary. He also served as deacon and Photography, or the First Christian
eider and for many years as chair- Church, Huntsville,
man of the board. Huntsville Funeral Home was in
Funeral services were held Friday, charge of arrangements.
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