The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 66, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 12, 1994 Page: 4 of 26
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PAGE 4, Srinnlf (Texas) Sentinel, Sunday. June 12.1994
Three dollar bill
_by M. Gene Do* Publisher
FROM THE SCRIPTURES—"If it seems good to
you, I will give you Us worth in money." / Kings
21:2
• • •
There’s never been a three dollar bill in the U.
S. currency. Hence, the well known statement:
"Queer as a Three Dollar Bill."
But now there is one that’s in v£S«*c3
rapid circulation.
Pictured above is President
Clinton with a zipper in his mouth. 1
naturally. The front of the bill '
states that it is a "Queer Reserve
Note" of "The Disgruntled Stales
of America.” It also has its own
meaningful serial number and
comes from the "Q" federal depository. It is
counter signed by Truman Capote.
The back side of the bill (below) shows the
White House with a "For Sale" sign in front with
the statement "In 3 Dollar Bill We Trust Not!"
Who knows. As worthless as money is getting
these days, it might be worth something...if
nothing else, for a good laugh.
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THE OLD INDIAN CHIEF SAYS-"Money is
what you’d get on beautifully without if only other
people weren’t so crazy about it.
• * *
Out of all the observances last week marking
the 50th anniversary of the D-Day landing of allied
troops on the beaches of Normandy. France, the
one we liked most was reported by Dalton Wood
in The Lynn County News:
The First Methodist Church of Tahoka marked
the observance last Sunday by having everyone
sing. "This is D-Day, this is D-day that the Lord
hath made," etc.
* * *
DID YOU KNOW-The "D” in D-Day really
did/ft stand for anything. It was merely a
- designation of the date for the secret military
operation. Had the invasion come a day later than
June 6. Ip44. U would have been D+l-Day.
A person commits a crime if he possesses a child
younger than 18 years of age or has the custody,
conservatorship, or guardianship of a child younger
than 18 years of age, whether or not he has actual
possession of the child, and he offers to accept,
agrees to accept, or accepts anything of value for the
delivery of the child to another person for the
possession of the child by another for purposes of
adoption; or offers to give, agrees to give, or gives
nothing of value to another person for acquiring or
maintaining the possession of a child for the purpose
of adoption.
LEGAL MATTERS
This law does not apply to the following
situations:
-A fee paid to a child-placing agency as
authorized by law;
—A fee paid to an attorney or physician for
services rendered in the usual course of legal or
medical practice; or
—A reimbursement of legal or medical expenses
incurred by a person for the benefit of the child.
A person convicted of this crime may be sent to
the penitentiary for a term of two to 10 years and may
be fined up to $10,000.
Stopping Patient Dumping
Attorney General Dan Morales
Days Past...
From the Files of the Sentinel
FIVE YEARS AGO -1989
Gaines County, with its huge cotton acreage,
produced a bale count of314,800in 1988, topping all
others for the third consecutive year.
* * *
Melissa Lambert of Seminole was named to the
Class AAA All-State Academic Basketball Team.
Twenty-three girls were selected from around the
state for the honor. Requirements were to maintain
a four-year grade point average of 90 or better,
graduating in the top 10 percent of their class, and
earning at least All-District honors.
• * *
TEN YEARS AGO-1984
Dave Fisher, former news and program director at
KKZ Radio has joined the Seminole Sentinel staff.
* * *
Gaines County produced 164,800 bales for 1983,
leading the area in total production.
* * *
Marsh Day of Seminole tied for second place in
the 12-13 year old division of the West Texas Junior
Golf Tour which stopped at the Gaines County Golf
Course on a segment of the annual summer schedule.
* * *
-The M. S. Doss Youth Center swimming pool
officially opened Wednesday, June 13, after a seven-
month construction period.
* * *
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO • 1969
Ronald Henderson has been hired by S J.S.D. as
head basketball coach at a salary of $8,370. Also
hired were Mary Wesley as high school girls physical
education teacher, Sheila Darlene Bevel, junior high
girls P.E. teacher, and Kathleen Long, elementary
girls* P.E. teacher.
* * *
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Jo Beth Tumlinson of Seminole and Dana Wicker
of Seagraves finished "near the top" in the State 4-
H Round-up, according to County Home
Demonstration Agent Elinor Harvey. The girls were
competitors in the Horse Demonstration, and won the
trip by defeating teams from 2C counties in District
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FIFTY YEARS AGO -1944
William T. Jones, M. D. has purchased the
Davidson Clinic-Hospital building in Seagraves
where he will have his office and use Gaines County
General for surgery and other hospital cases.
• • •
The much publicized, comparatively new drug,
penicillin, was used for the first time in Gaines
County last week when the Gaines County General
Hospital was able to secure some of the scarce drug
for use in the case of a severe, otherwise fatal, face
infection.
People in need of emergency care have the
right to bC examined and treated in a hospital
That’s* the* law. Sbtne emergency rooms,
however, have been known to refuse treatment to
people with no health insurance and to "dump"
them on another treatment facility. That’s called
patient dumping, and it’s against the law.
Unfortunately, those most affected by this
practice are least able to afford the consequences
of this harsh and illegal treatment. Our office is
committed to guaranteeing that any person who
arrives at an emergency room in the State of
Texas will be treated and cared for, regardless of
whether they are rich or poor, insured or
uninsured.
What the Law Says
The law is quite clear. A hospital must
determine if a patient’s condition requires
immediate medical attention. If so, the hospital
must treat the patient. If the hospital is unable to
provide sufficient treatment, then it may arrange
to transfer the patient to an appropriate medical
facility.
Moreover, a hospital can transfer a patient for
medical reasons only—lack of health insurance or
an inability to pay are not sufficient reasons for
transfer. By the same token, a hospital must also
be prepared to receive patients in emergency
condition from other hospitals. Only when the
patient’s condition is not an emergency can a
hospital refuse treatment
Patient Dumping: A Case Study
Recently, our office filed suit against a
Houston hospital for turning away a seriously ill
man because he could not pay for the treatment
right away. After complaining of severe chest
-pains?-the patient was takerito the hospital’s
emergency room one evening by his wife.
A hospital employee asked the couple if they
had any insurance, and was told they did not. At
that point, they were told they had to pay a $200
examination fee. They didn’t have the cash.
Instead of determining the ailing man's
medical condition, the emergency room clerk told
him to wait until the next morning and to seek
treatment at either a public hospital or a free
clinic. Instead, the sensible couple went to
another hospital, where the man was diagnosed
with pneumonia. He was admitted and
hospitalized for a week.
What You Can Do
If you feel that you have been denied
emergency treatment because of your economic
or health insurance status, please contact the
Hospital Licensing Director, Texas Department
of Health, at 512-458-7538. Or you may write to:
1100 West 49th Street, Austin, Texas 78756.
Bits ’n Pieces
A young fellow, who was cutting up in the
library, was approached by the librarian. "Please be
quiet," she said, "the people around you can’t read."
"They can’t?” said the boy. "Thqp what are they
doing in the library?"
***
A MESSAGE TO THE PRESIDENT:
When our household is faced with a financial
emergency, an operation, a new boiler, a roof that
must be replaced, we do not hopelessly wring our
hands and say, "There is nothing before us but
debt!" We pinch a little harder. We trim. We get
along without a new car or a maid or a summer
vacation. It could be done in the national household
too. Remember that, sir, and tell it to your cabinet
and Congress.
There must be a good many things the
government can get along without, to stave off
bankruptcy-“
*** Phyllis McGinley
There are two kinds of people at parties -
those who want to go home early and those who
want to be the last ones in the place. The trouble
is that they’re usually married to each other.
***
JUDGE a man by his questions rather than by
his answers.
Voltaire
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Letters policy: Letters to the Editor are welcsaird, A0 letters
should he kept aahriefaapoaaible. They must he signed with name,
address aad telephone number, la can aaad hr verification arises
(addraas aad phone number wfl not be printed). The Seatintl re-
serves the right to edit letters to prevent libel, Invasion of privacy
orhatoetaftal language without changing the desired contort. If
requested, editors wgl use initials only, bat only rarely aad tor
compelling rsamne. A signed letter carries mere weight with
readers. Letters do net aaremeriy reflect the editorial paUriea ar
he! kft of this newspaper. No letters about candtdatm seek lag elec-
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MEMBER 1994
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
WEST TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
Talk of Texas
Copyrighted by Jack McGuire
Texas governor
absent from state
during term of office
rr TAKES ALL KINDS—Texas onec had a
governor who didn’t bother to come to the state
during one of his terms as chief executive.
He was Andrew Jackson Hamilton. He served
in the Legislature and as Attorney General before
Austin residents elected him to Congress in 1859.
He was serving when Texas seceded from the
Union.
When he returned to Texas, he again was
elected to the Legislature. He refused to serve
under the Confederate government and moved to
New Orleans. In 1862, President Lincoln named
him military governor of Texas with headquarters
in Brownsville. However, he remained in
Louisiana and never assumed duties as governor.
Pendleton Murrah became governor in 1863
when the Civil War was raging and Texas was in
a stale of anarchy. When the Confederacy fell in
1865, Murrah, fearful for his life, walked out of
the office and fled to Mexico. President Andrew
Johnson appointed Hamilton provisional
governor of Texas again. This time, he assumed
the office on June 17, 1865, and stayed until
August 9, 1866.
Hamilton accomplished much toward restoring
civil government while cooperating with the
Union military. Texans encouraged him to run for
the office when post-war elections were allowed
in 1866, but Hamilton lacked funds for a
campaign. He supported former Governor E.M.
Pease, who lost.
Hamilton, twice governor of Texas by
appointment, retired and practiced law in Austin
until his death in 1875.
* * *
WHERE THE GIRLS ARE—Fort Worth is
the new home of the National Cowgirls Hall of
Fame and Western Heritage Center.
Located in Hereford since its founding, the
museum decided to move to a larger city in
order to attract more visitors.
DID YOU KNOW—That it’s not easy for a
member of the Texas or House of Representatives
to quit?
If a legislator resigns during his term and a
special session is called, the law requires the
member to continue serving anyway.
Not if the member has taken a job with a state
agency, however. Texas iaw prohibits anyone
from serving in the Legislature while holding any
other state job.
Otherwise only death or the election of a
successor allows a legislator to give up the
elected office.
* ♦ *
JEERING SECTION—-Creating new
prisons apparently is more important than
funding health insurance premiums for 10,700
employees of the University of Texas Medical
Branch of Galveston.
The Legislative Budget Board has
reallocated $3.5 million originally
appropriated to the medical school to help
create 15,000 new prison beds!
Under state law, UT System schools are
required to pay employee benefits out of
locally generated funds. Diversion of this
money to other purposes requires the schools
to find funds from reserves and by increasing
on-campus activities.
• * *
THE PASSING PARADE—The oldest
American—a Texan—died May 7.
Guinness Book of World Records listed
Margaret Skeete, bom in Rockport in 1878, as the
oldest. She celebrated her 115 birthday last
October 27.©
How to contact your
Representatives
have questions, and want answers, to any subject
that involves our elected lawmakers, both state and
national, here is how to get in touch with them:
how to get
1)3. SEN
ATORS:
Kay Bader Hutchison, Rep. Phi Gramm, Republican
Room 703, Hart Bldg. Room 179, Russell Bldg.
Washington. D.C 20510 Washington, D.C 20510
Telephone: (202) 224-5922 Telephone: (202) 224-2934
U3. REPRESENTATIVE
Larry Com best, Republican
19lh Congressional District
1511 Long worth HOB
Washington, D.C 20510
Telephone (202) 225-4005 - FAX « 202-225-9615
STATE SENATOR STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Tart Birina jim Rudd
31st Senatorial District District 77
P.Q. Box 12068 c/o House of Representatives
Capitol Station Capitol Station. Room 305
Austin. Texas 7*711 Austin, Texas 71711
?lq^:£l2,tS34)131 Telephone: (512) 463-067*
Fm: (312) 463-1094
Box 1673-Fh. (915) 6*2-0455
Midland, TX 79702
GOVENOR ANN RICHARDS
Room 200. State Capitol. Austin. TX 78711
(512) 463-2000 or 1-800-252-9600
LT. GOVERNOR HOUSE SPEAKER
Bob Bullock, Box 12068 Pete Laney, Box 2910
Austin. TX 79811 Austin, TX 78769
Ph. (512) 463-0001 (512) 463 1000
Attorney General Comptroller
Dan Morales. Box 12847 John Sharp, LBJ Bldg.
Austin TX 78711 Austin. TX 78774
(512) 463-2100 1-800-252 5555
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Dow, M. Gene. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 66, Ed. 1 Sunday, June 12, 1994, newspaper, June 12, 1994; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth804467/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.