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Opinion
4 - THE OLNEY ENTERPRISE
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THURSDAY, MARCH 7, 2013
The art of “bye-bye”
Mindi’s Message
ByMindi Kimbro
It never ceases to amaze me how contrary
my daughter is already at 9 1/ 2 months
old.
We try and try to teach her new “tricks”
and things to do, to no avail. Or so we
think...
Recently, the “trick” has been waving
bye-bye as someone leaves, or as we take
her from the room. For weeks now we’ve
done the “bye-bye” game. We say goodbye
to her dad in the morning as he leaves for
work, to her uncle when he visits, to her
nana and to the folks who watch her dur-
ing the day.
Not a single wave. Just a blank stare.
One of the great privileges we have as
your Olney Police Department is to serve
you and protect you from crime. We have
recently been giving an all out effort to
crack down on drugs in our community.
I made that one of my goals when I be-
came the chief of police in June 2011. We
have made great head way in fighting the
drug problem. We have locked up and filed
charges on several dealers.
We have put a lot pressure on known drug
houses and forced three dealers to move to
another city. We have made drug raids and
work vehicle drug traffic.
We have caught minors in possession and
filed on students bringing drugs in our
Back in December the wife and I were
driving down our street and I noticed an
odd sight. Driving slowly in front of us
was a smallish car covered in all manner
of video equipment.
It was the “Google Car” taking pictures
o f o ur streets to be put o n the Internet. (So,
it is conceivable that you could “Google”
our town looking for the video locations
to addresses and see...my truck! Well,
that’s not as exciting as half price drinks
at Sonic, but it would pass the time if you
were bored.) The “Google Car” sees only
what the cameras catch at a glimpse, but
it can’t capture the spirit of a community
like ours.
It might show the new light poles
downtown put up by the Revitalize Ol-
ney Committee and the Junior Altruistic
Club, but it couldn’t communicate the
hours of meetings, and effort given to
bring a clean, quaint welcome to visitors
and shoppers downtown.
It might show the new gym at the school,
but it couldn’t tell the stories of young
athletes representing the Cub spirit be-
fore adoring crowds.
We continued, though, saying bye-bye to
the dogs in the morning and to her stuffed
giraffe every time w e get o ut of the car. Still
nothing.
We finally decided that maybe it just
wasn’t time.
This past Sunday we loaded up and made
a trip to Buffalo Springs to visit Laney’s
great^granny. We go each month, and I was
excited because this time around Laney
was finally big enough to eat some of Gran-
ny’s homemade mac and cheese.
Laney, her daddy and I arrived a little be-
fore noon, and Granny talked some with
Laney while we waited on everyone else to
school system. We have had the heartache
of arresting adults using and providing
drugs to our children. We worked hard to
place two drug K-9 officers on the streets
to sniff out drugs in buildings, parks and
vehicles.
I am very proud of our officers and the
work done to fight drugs in our city. Let’s
not forget this is an ongoing battle and we
must never let our guard down. We need
you, our great citizens to continue being
eyes and ears in the community and work-
ing with us to fight the war on drugs.
Thank you for all you are doing and keep
up the go o d w o rk. It is team w o rk that wins
the war.
It would certainly show the new Clinic/
Wellness Center, but it would lack the
ability to put into perspective the mo-
mentum generated by everyone who
shouldered the project through to a beau-
tiful addition to the health, and well be-
ing of not only our community, but the
whole area.
I read recently that Google was allowed
inside of North Korea and citizens used
their cameras to document their country
for Internet browsing.
The pictures were sketchy, and incom-
plete. I wonder what that Google Car
looked like? (Maybe a KIA with a video
camera strapped to the bumper?) A pic-
ture is worth a thousand words I’ve been
told, and following the Google Car here
at home was fun. What I really wanted
to do was stop the driver and tell them
the stories of the houses and families, the
buildings and history, the spirit and de-
termination of this community. He didn’t
stop, his loss, not ours.
Make no mistake when it comes to being
a great place to live... we are, well, picture
perfect.
show up. She asked if Laney was waving
yet, and then waved and said, “Bye-bye!”
We said no,butlo and behold Laney made
liars of us both, right then and there.
As Granny said, “Bye-bye,” Laney lifted
her little hand up and wiggled her fingers.
A little later she did it again, and even said
“bye-bye” on her own!
Since then we’ve been working on it more
and more, and sometimes she’ll cooperate
and other times she just looks at us as if to
say, “lm not a trained monkey!” before go-
ing on about her business.
Situation can be resolved
Dear Editor,
As a new member of the Cemetery Board,
I would like to clarify one thing.
When it was brought to a vote to disband
the Cemetery Board and let the city of Ol-
ney take over, I did not vote yes or no. I did
not feel qualified after attending only two
meetings. I feel that this situation can be re-
solved. The cemeteries have never looked
Dr. William Pope was the first doctor to
establish a medical practice in Belknap in
1875.
If anyone was prepared for whatever the
Texas frontier could dish out, Pope was
the man. The adventurous Virginian had
lived in Texas since 1865. The 22-year-old
adventurer first enlisted in the U.S. Army
in Pennsylvania.
He received his orders in San Antonio
and was assigned to Troop F, 4th Cav-
alry. Pope and fellow troopers helped
protect settlers around Fort Chadbourne,
Fort Griffin, Fort Belknap and Fort Rich-
ardson. He was honorably discharged in
1868.
Apparently, Pope thrived upon excite-
ment because he re-enlisted and was
again assigned to the Troop F, 4th Cav-
alry — this time under Brigadier Gen-
eral Ranald S. Mackenzie. The renowned
commander whipped the 4th Calvary
into shape and kept it on the move for
five years. The insubordination or muti-
ny which happened under some officers
certainly was not tolerated by “Perpetual
Punisher” (Mackenzie’s nickname in the
Civil War).
Pope was actively engaged in Indian
wars over 30 days from March to April
1874, according to research by Barbara
Ledbetter.
After he returned to Fort Griffin, Pope
transferred to hospital duty and became a
hospital steward.
While at Fort Griffin, he also cared for
soldiers and civilians in the area. In 1874,
Pope was asked to examine a young
17-year-old named Henry Williams from
the Belknap area.
Williams had an arrow buried in the
muscle of his back.
Pope performed the surgery successfully
and decided to accompany his young pa-
tient back to Young County. Williams was
the son of Harry Daniel and Sally Jane
Williams, one of the few families who re-
mained in Belknap during the Civil War.
During his short stay, Pope decided that
after his military discharge, he might re-
turn to Belknap to live. He was further in-
fluenced by Henry’s father who told how
badly Young County needed a doctor.
Pope established a practice in 1875 and
served in Belknap and the entire Young
County area.
He married Blanche Williams, the
16-year-old sister of his young patient,
I think there’s just something about Gran-
ny’s house Laney likes. The last big mile-
stone action she picked up was clapping
her hands, and that happened during our
early February visit to her granny’s house,
as well.
For her next trick, we’ll be working on
blowing kisses - or just giving them, since
she refuses to do that about 90 percent of
the time.
We may have to wait a month until Gran-
ny can teach her, but she will get there
eventually!
as nice as they do now. I feel that the city
of Olney has enough to do without the bur-
den of having the care of both Restland and
Pioneer at this time.
I now regret not saying that I abstained
from voting when it was brought before the
Cemetery Board at the last meeting. I strong-
ly feel that the people of Olney will not find
to better kept cemeteries than they do now.
Sincerely,
Barbara Walker
Henry Williams. Pope adjusted to a much
calmer life than his life in the U.S. Cav-
airy.
However, he retained the rough edge
of his cavalry days and didn’t hesitate to
stand up for himself. Dr. T.S. Edwards,
who became an associate physician with
Pope when he later moved to Knox City,
wrote several letters in which he related
favorite stories about his mentor and
friend. Edwards said that Pope devel-
oped a reputation in Belknap as a “cool,
fair fighter (who) — always left his six-
gun in the scabbard.”
“Pope was a newcomer to the area; one
of the cowboys called him a ‘d... Blue bel-
lied Yankee.’ In a moment, and before
anyone could turn around, the cowboy
was flying flat on his back in the floor of
the saloon. Before his crony could draw
his six-gun, one punch from Dr. Pope’s
right hand, and the crony was limp on
the floor.”
Pope’s powerful right fist was all he
needed to take care of any ruffians. Sher-
iff Harry D. Williams took the cowboys’
guns. Then the good doctor gave the
sheriff a prescription for pain for the
cowboys’ headaches after they woke up
in jail. Edw ards w rote abo ut another hu-
morous story illustrating the wonderful
marriage the doctor had with his wife,
Blanche.
Edwards said that one night while mem-
bers of the Masonic Lodge were talking,
one fellow asked Pope how his marriage
to a much younger woman had worked
out. Pope said:
“Gentlemen, I fell in love with Blanche
when she was a schoolgirl and married
her when she was 16, carefully trained
her do just exactly as she d.... well pleas-
es, and I like it.”
Records show that Pope was a practic-
ing physician and was delivering babies
in the county as late as 1903. He spent
the last years of his life in Knox County
where he became a favorite doctor. Ed-
wards, who became the town surgeon,
remembered that Pope was an expert an-
esthesiologist.
The colorful doctor made his mark upon
Knox City just as he had done in Belknap.
Pope, the transplanted Virginian, fron-
tiersman, cavalryman and doctor lived a
full, happy life in Texas. He died at the
age of 77 at Knox City and is buried in
Benjamin.
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Kimbro, Mindi. The Olney Enterprise (Olney, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 7, 2013, newspaper, March 7, 2013; Olney, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth837148/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Olney Community Library.