By GREG COLLINSHenderson daily news

The Rusk County Commis-sioners’ Court had a packed courtroom and plenty of activ-ity on a fairly large agenda dur-ing a regular meeting Monday morning.

By GREG COLLINSHenderson daily news

LAIRD HILL — Leverett’s Chapel Independent School District will have four new classrooms next year for addi-tional expected students after

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RC Bar honors Patterson

By GREG COLLINSHenderson daily news

A lasting honor to the late J.R. Patterson and his 53 years of law practice in Rusk County was presented. Mon-day morning members of the

Rusk County Bar Association revealed the honor to county commissioners.

Pud Patterson, wife of the honoree, and Ben Patterson, the couple’s son, were also present to see the honor, an 1861 map of Rusk County, be presented to the Rusk County Commissioners.

“It is a great pleasure to speak to the county commis-sioners this morning about J.R. Patterson and what he

meant to this community,” Jamey Holmes with the Rusk County Bar Association said.

Patterson was a practicing attorney in Rusk County for 53 years and passed away last year. The Rusk County Bar Association, with the permis-sion of the Patterson family, secured the 1861 map of Rusk County and is memorializing his lifetime of work with the framed map being hung in the

Longtime area attorney passed

away in 2013

New policy may allow voters to cast ballots countywide

By MATTHEW PROSSERHenderson daily news

OVERTON — Overton Independent School District recognized its staff and students for their accomplishments dur-ing Monday night’s regular meeting.

Campus principals presented “Teach-er of the Year” awards. Seth Drennan (social studies) was the high school selection, Subrina Bryant (special edu-cation) was chosen for middle school honors, and Tammy Baker (first grade) was the elementary honoree.

OISD superintendent Stephen

DuBose also reminded trustees this is not the only honor Baker has received of late.

“Mrs. Baker was chosen for the same honor at the Overton/New London Chamber of Commerce spring banquet last week,” he said.

OISD board president Shane McCasland praised each candidate for being chosen.

“We have some special people here at Overton ISD, and each of these education professionals bring uniquely impressive skill sets to our district,” he said. “As a board, we’re proud of the honor they’ve received from their peers, and as a par-ent I’m thankful for the hard work and long hours each of these people put into their job.”

Overton student Jordan Davis was

OISD trustees praise staff,students for accomplishments

HCT photo by Rick ZulloKenneth Orr, Kit Maddox, Kelly Johnson, Jason Martin and Travis Driver rehearse a scene from Hender-son Civic Theatre’s production of “The Odd Couple,” opening May 2 at the historic downtown Opera House.

‘Exemption’ for Terra Nova in 2004

By RACHAEL RILEYHenderson daily news

The rocky third phase to Terra Nova’s

roads started as early as 2004 when the second phase of the subdivision was being completed.

According to a February 2004 Hen-derson Daily News story, council mem-bers voted to allow an exception to the city’s subdivision ordinance for Terra Nova developer R.J. Kelley.

Former council member Grace Kin-nebrew was the only one to vote against

granting Kelley a maintenance bond exemption for the second phase of con-struction.

“We’re not a bank, not a savings and loan, not a realty company,” Kinnebrew previously said. “We have laws and rules and everyone needs to abide by them.”

At the time, city attorney David Brown said the ordinance stated a maintenance

Former council member Grace Kinnebrew only

one to oppose deal

LCISDtalksfacilitiesPurchasing portable building for added

classroom space

Deadline to register for HISD foundation ‘fun run’ coming

By LES LINEBARGERHenderson daily news

There’s still time to register for the Moving Minds Fun Run.

The 10-kilometer, 5-kilo-meter and 1-mile run/walk benefits Henderson ISD Edu-

cation Foundation and will be held at 8 a.m. April 26. The races will begin and end at Lion Stadium behind Hender-son Middle School.

This year’s route is new. The 5K and 10K races begin on the Lion Stadium track and will move west on Richard-son Drive, south on Evenside Street before looping back on Westwood and Slaydon Street, returning on Stadium Drive to the finish line. Runners in the 5K will make one trip around the route; runners in the 10K

will make two loops.Upon returning to Lion

Stadium, all runners will make one lap around the track before crossing the finish line.

Walkers and runners on the one-mile route will leave the stadium on Lion Street, turn right on Slaydon then return on Stadium Street.

Proceeds from the races benefit the foundation and help fund grants awarded to teachers for use in classrooms. Over the past 14 years, the foundation has awarded more

than $400,000 in grants to HISD teachers.

In addition to the class-room grants for teachers, Henderson ISD Education Foundation awards schol-arships to Henderson High School graduates from an endowment established sev-eral years ago by James Hale in honor of his father, L.L. Hale, a former HHS principal.

Entry fees for adults are $45 for the 10K and 5K. The registration includes a good-ies bag provided by Hender-

son ISD Education Founda-tion and a t-shirt (supplies limited).

The fee for the 1-mile run/walk is $25. Children under 12 can run the races for free and receive a T-shirt for $5.

To register online, go to <https://secure.getmeregis-tered.com/MovingMinds>. For more information, con-tact Jana Wylie at (903) 655-5048.

Publisher Les Linebarger can be reached via e-mail at <lesline-barger@hendersondailynews.com>.

Annual fundraiser 5K has new route for area runners

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ALL HHS BASEBALL “Farm Team” kids are invit-ed to the last home game, Senior Night 6:30 p.m. Tuesday at the dugout. Raf-fle prizes will be drawn.

PRESCHOOL STORY-TIME 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Rusk County Library. Theme: Easter craft and Easter egg hunt.

RC FAMILY AND CONSUMER SCIENC-ES Committee is sponsor-ing the annual egg deco-rating contest Wednesday at Rusk County Extension Office meeting room, 115 E. Fordall St. Entry fee is $1 per entry. Entries are due by 11 a.m. Contact Rusk County Extension Office (903) 657-0376.

RUSK COUNTY RETIRED TEACHERS ASSOCIATION will meet at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the South Main Church of Christ multipurpose room. Chairperson Doris Ross said the program will be about “planning ahead.”

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK through Thursday. Rusk County Library and all branches will celebrate with “Food for Fines.” Fines will be forgiven with a donation of canned goods to be given to Henderson Interfaith Ministries (HIM) or local food drives.

OVERTON ELEMEN-TARY Kindergarten/Head Start round up 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Thursday. Head Start inquiries require an appointment with Estelle Post Overshown at (903) 834-3585. For information, (903) 834-6144.

UNITED DAUGH-TERS OF THE CONFED-ERACY Centennial 2321 monthly meeting 1:30-3 p.m. Thursday. If interested in visiting or becoming a mem-ber, call (903) 561-0851.

As days go, April 15 has not been a particularly happy date in American history. Looking beyond the fact it’s the deadline for filing federal income taxes, on this day in 1865 President Lincoln died the morning after being shot; in 1912, the Titanic sank after striking an iceberg; and, a year ago, bombs at the Bos-ton Marathon killed three and injured hundreds.

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Happy Birthday, Austen Benningfield, Barbara Brown, Neal Holland, Alan Mayton, Sara McClelland, Parker Moody, Jordan Stephens and Erica Suarez.

The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether

… sweeter also than honey and the honeycomb.

Psalm 19:9-10

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The Odd Couple

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Localsportsaction

Staff photo by Matthew Prosser

For any-one will-ing and able to stay up well after mid-night, Tues-day’s lunar eclipse was a ‘heav-enly’ display. It is nick-named a ‘blood moon’ because of the reddish hue.

Drennan, Bryant, and Baker selected as OISD‘Teachers of the Year’

See OISD, Page 10

Staff photo by Greg Collins

Pud Pat-terson thanks Rusk County Commis-sioners and the Rusk County Bar Associa-tion for a memorial in honor of her late husband, J.R. Pat-terson.

‘Blood Moon’

In March 2012, volunteers spent four days looking for a 2-year-old boy who wandered away from his home outside Houston.. They

found him only after volunteers reviewing imag-es captured by a drone-mounted aerial camera saw a flash of red in a pond that had already been searched. It turned out to be a shirt worn by the child, who had drowned.

That was not the first time members of Texas EquuSearch had used these small model planes to help locate a missing person. But if the Fed-eral Aviation Administration has its way, it won’t happen again.

In February, the group got a letter from the FAA demanding that it stop using unmanned aircraft in search-and-rescue efforts, which it says violates its ban on the commercial use of drones. It’s a perfect example of government regulators using imaginary problems to justify sweeping restrictions.

The agency fears that without its benevolent intervention, small drones will endanger com-mercial airliners, private jets and people on the ground. It is ignoring its own history, which indicates that tiny flying machines are no par-ticular cause for worry.

Remote-controlled model planes have been around longer than the FAA, which was created in 1958. The International Miniature Aircraft Association has 155,000 members around the world.

Over the years, a handful of people have been killed in accidents involving these devices. But the FAA has never seen the need to regulate them. Its only gesture in that direction is a 1981 advisory encouraging “voluntary” observance of guidelines keeping the planes away from popu-lated areas and airports, below 400 feet and clear of manned aircraft.

But with the advent of more advanced ver-sions, the agency decided it could forbear no longer. In 2007, it decreed any use of drones for commercial purposes is forbidden. Last year, it imposed a $10,000 fine on Raphael Pirker, who used a five-pound radio-controlled plane to take footage of the University of Virginia for an advertising firm. His sin? Defying its regulation against “reckless operation” of an aircraft.

If anything was reckless, it was the FAA’s use of its power to enforce fictitious obligations in a manner that served no evident need.

Pirker challenged the penalty, and last month,

an administrative law judge told the agency to go fly a kite.

Pirker couldn’t violate the rule against reckless opera-tion of an airplane, said Judge Patrick Geraghty, because that rule doesn’t apply to his machine. The agency, he noted, has exempted model planes, and the “unmanned aerial system” used by Pirker was indistinguishable from those.

In asserting control over any “device that is used or intended to be used for flight in the air,” the FAA grossly overreached. By its logic, the judge marveled, launching “a paper aircraft or a toy balsa-wood glider ... could subject the ‘operator’ to the regulatory provisions.”

The only applicable FAA policy on drones and model aircraft is purely advisory, he said, and you can’t be fined $10,000 for choosing not to follow its friendly suggestions.

The regulators’ intrusion into search-and-rescue efforts is even harder to justify. In the first place, the 2007 decree against commercial use of drones has no relevance to a humanitar-ian organization that doesn’t charge or accept payment for its work. Nor has anyone alleged that Texas EquuSearch flew its devices in such a way as to put bystanders in peril.

An FAA spokesman says that though it some-times grants emergency authorization for search operations, nobody has requested one for Texas EquuSearch. That option, however, is avail-able only to government agencies, and the FAA acknowledges it can take “a day or so.”

Why should the group have to get approval to do something that offers considerable promise and does no visible harm? Why should a local police department dealing with an emergency have to waste time pleading for federal permis-sion to do its job immediately?

In this instance, the FAA is throwing its weight around, not protecting the public. The next time someone wants to use drones for search and rescue, the FAA should do us all a favor and go missing.

Steve Chapman blogs daily at <newsblogs.chicagotri-bune.com/steve_chapman>. The Chicago Tribune colum-nist is distributed by Creators Syndicate Inc.

© 2014, Creators Syndicate Inc.

Q: In m a j o r league base-ball, what player has been hit the most times by a pitch? — H.J., Watervliet, N.Y.

A: That record goes to Hughie Jen-

nings of the Baltimore Orioles, who was hit 287 times in his career. Jennings, who played and managed from 1891 to 1925, was hit 51 times in 1896 alone.

In close second is Craig Biggio, who was hit 285 times before he retired in 2007. Biggio, who spent his entire 20-year career with the Houston Astros, played second base and is one of 28 members of the 3,000-hit club.

DID YOU KNOW? Actor Richard Burton was born Richard Jenkins. He adopted his stage name at 17 in honor of his school-master and tutor, Philip Burton.

Q: We live in southern Florida. My daughter asked where the name of the town Hypoluxo originates. Do you know? — P.C., Florida

A: The town of about 2,500 residents was named after a Sem-inole term for Lake Worth, loose-ly meaning “water all ‘round — no get out.”

DID YOU KNOW? Singer Faith Hill had the role of Mel Gib-son’s wife in “We Were Soldiers” (2002), but left the film and was replaced by Madeleine Stowe.

Q: I enjoy watching “Law & Order” reruns on TV. Fre-quently, the detectives are instructed to pull “LUDs,” the record of phone calls. What does “LUD” stand for? — P.C., Kerrville, Texas

A: The acronym stands for “local usage details,” which is a list of a person’s incoming and outgoing phone calls over a speci-fied period of time.

Q: When confronted with an offensive odor, we might say “P.U.” What do the ini-tials stand for?

A: No one knows. Actually, no one even knows how to spell it, since P.U. is not an abbreviation. There are several explanations; the one I like best is that it’s a shortening of the word “puteo,” Latin for “to stink.”

Q: What can you tell me about the incredibly funny radio show “The Bicker-sons”? — P.A.P., Coventry, Conn.

A: The radio comedy program “The Bickersons” began in 1946 and continued until 1951. The show’s married protagonists, por-trayed by Don Ameche (1908-1993) and Frances Langford (1913-2005), spent most of their time together squabbling.

Q: What can you tell me about the actress who plays Flo in the Progressive Insur-ance TV ads? — S.A.I., Read-ing, Pa.

A: Flo first appeared on TV in 2008; she is played by actress and comedian Stephanie Court-ney. Courtney has appeared in radio and print advertisements, web banners and more than 50 commercials. She has appeared in movies like “The Brothers Solo-mon” and “Blades of Glory.”

Q: I recall reading about an old sailing ship that was discovered and raised about 40 years ago. It is now on display in England. Can you tell me more about it?

A: It sounds as if you are talk-ing about the Mary Rose. The ship was built between 1509 and 1511 and served in Henry VIII’s navy for more than 30 years until it sank off the south coast of Eng-land on July 19, 1545, during a battle with France. Its resting place was discovered in the early 1970s, and it was raised on Oct. 11, 1982. More than 20,000 artifacts were found in or near where the ship had rested for more than 400 years. The vessel and artifacts are on display near where it was built in Portsmouth, England.

Oh, Henry named the ship after his favorite sister, the 13-year-old future queen of France.

Send your questions to Mr. Know-It-All at <AskMrKIA@gmail.com> or c/o United Feature Syndicate, 200 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016.

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Factions among and within the right and left disagree about immigration, but nearly all Americans can agree that foreign terrorist shouldn’t step foot on our

shores. Thanks to Rep. Doug Lamborn, a Colorado Repub-lican, and Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, Iran won’t be shipping a former hostage taker to the United States to serve as that country’s ambassador to the United Nations.

“It will give the president the power to prevent an Ira-nian terrorist from entering our country with diplomatic immunity,” Lamborn said of the Cruz-Lamborn bill.

Lamborn and Cruz pushed the bill through the House and Senate this week with unanimous support from both chambers. It was crafted in response to Iranian President Hasan Rouhani’s naming of Hamid Aboutalebi as ambas-sador to the U.N., based in New York. Aboutalebi was among terrorists who held 52 Americans hostage in Iran from 1979 to 1981.

The bill awaits the president’s signature. White House spokesman Jay Carney this week called the Aboutalebi appointment “not viable.”

“It is great to see Congress send a strong, bipartisan message that Iranian evildoers will be treated like terror-ists, not tourists,” Lamborn said in a written statement after House passage of the bill Thursday.

“Terrorists, from Iran or elsewhere, should not be allowed to walk the streets of Manhattan with diplomatic immunity.”

The bill even obtained support from archliberal Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who typically opposes all things Republican.

“It may be a case of strange bedfellows, but I’m glad Sen. Cruz and I were able to work out a bill that would prevent this terrorist from stepping foot on American soil,” Schum-er said in a statement. “We ought to close the door on him, and others like him, before he even comes to the United States, and that’s exactly what this bill will do.”

For baby boomers and others old enough to remem-ber, the Iranian hostage crisis was an event that forever changed this country. Americans were so attuned to the crisis ABC launched “Nightline” as a means of providing nightly, in-depth updates.

Allowing the likes of Aboutalebi in this country would serve as an insult to great Americans. It also would serve as a major sign of weakness. We thank Lamborn and all mem-bers of Congress for helping him and Cruz send a message of strength to Iran and the world. If you’re an enemy of this country, don’t tread on our soil.

— Colorado Springs Gazette

Today is Tuesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2014. There are 260 days left in the year.

Today’s Highlight in History: On April 15, 2013, two bombs packed with nails and other lethal metal shards exploded at the Bos-ton Marathon finish line, killing two women and an 8-year-old boy and injuring more than 260 people.

On this date: In 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died, nine hours after being shot the night before by John Wilkes Booth at Ford’s Theater in Washington.

In 1874, an exhibition of paintings by 30 artists, including Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Paul Cezanne, opened in Paris. (A critic derisively referred to the painters as “Impression-ists,” a name which stuck.)

In 1912, the British luxu-ry liner RMS Titanic foun-dered in the North Atlan-tic off Newfoundland more than 2½ hours after hitting

an iceberg; 1,514 people died, less than half as many survived.

In 1947, Jackie Robinson, baseball’s first black major league player, made his offi-cial debut with the Brooklyn Dodgers on opening day. (The Dodgers defeated the Boston Braves, 5-3.)

In 1974, members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up a branch of the Hibernia Bank in San Francisco; a member of the group was SLA kidnap vic-tim Patricia Hearst.

In 2009, tens of thou-sands of protesters staged “tea parties” around the country to tap into the col-lective angst stirred up by a bad economy, government spending and bailouts.

Today’s Birthdays: Country singer Roy Clark is 81. Columnist Heloise is 63. Actress-screenwriter Emma Thompson is 55. Rock musi-cian Patrick Carney (The Black Keys) is 34. Actress Emma Watson is 24.

— Associated Press

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Chuck Stone... ‘We shall not see his like again’Black journalist Chuck Stone was one of those

people whose passing makes us think, “We shall not see his like again.” He was passionately interested in racial issues but he was never a race hustler. He followed nobody’s party line but called the issues as he saw them.

Chuck Stone was a three-dimensional man, not like the cardboard cutouts with standard-issue liberal talking points that we see too often in the media today.

He was with the liberals on many issues, but he did not hesitate to advocate the death penal-ty, and he said: “We have got to stop apologizing for the self-destructive little savages in our com-munities.” He called the defense of such people “committing genocide against ourselves.”

Journalism was just one of his careers. At various times and places, Stone was a navigator for the Tuskegee Airmen during World War II, and later an official of CARE, distributing food to the hungry in India. With a Master’s degree from the University of Chicago, he sometimes taught at colleges.

Newsweek called Chuck Stone “an unpredict-able political pundit and modern-day Renais-sance man.”

Stone picked up many honors and awards along the way, but perhaps the greatest honor was that accorded him by a foundation president who said simply, “people trust Chuck.”

Armed and dangerous criminals surrendered to him, rather than to the police, trusting that he would try to get them a fair trial, or at least spare them a beating by the police.

By the same token, Stone was so respected by the governor of Pennsylvania that he was asked by the governor to go into a prison where armed inmates were holding hostages, in order to try to negotiate a peaceful end of the crisis.

Though widely praised later for his courage in going into this deadly situation, Stone said: “I was so scared I thought I was going to cry.”

But courage does not consist in a lack of fear.Only a fool has no fear. Courage is the ability

to get the job done in spite of fear. He got the job done.

When Chuck Stone was editor of The Chi-cago Defender, a black newspaper, his editori-als attacking the Daley machine caused him to be fired. The powers that be at the newspaper

apparently feared that these attacks could cause them to lose the advertising money they received from Mayor Daley’s election campaign.

After he was fired by The Chicago Defender, Stone received a phone call from legendary Harlem Congress-man Adam Clayton Powell, who knew him from his days as a reporter in New York. Powell offered him a job as

his special assistant, saying: “Come on home to Big Daddy.”

Chuck Stone’s favorite career may have been serving as legislative aide to Congressman Pow-ell, whom he admired but never canonized. He enjoyed being at the center of the political action, especially when Powell was at the peak of his political power and influence, and was considered to be “Mr. Civil Rights.”

Among Stone’s tasks was issuing “clarifying” statements after some off-hand remark by Pow-ell had set off a furor. Stone later wrote a novel titled “King Strut,” about a character much like the flamboyant Congressman.

What I most remember from my own brief contacts with Chuck Stone, years ago, was his comment after we exchanged views on racial issues.

“You are a black nationalist,” he said. This was one of the few names I had never been called before.

“Come on, Chuck,” I said. “I don’t even own a dashiki.”

“You are still a black nationalist,” he insisted.The term would certainly apply to Chuck

Stone himself. He advocated self-help.“Before there were food stamps,” he said,

“people fed their families. Before there was fed-eral aid to education, black kids went to college.” As for “black English,” he called it a “cop out” from rigorous standards.

We shall not see his like again. And never was someone like him more needed.

Thomas Sowell is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institu-tion, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305. His website is www.tsowell.com.

© 2014, Creators Syndicate Inc.

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Monday’s weatherHigh: 72Low: 41Source: National Weather Service

Funeral services for Mr. Sulsa Windom, 74, are pending

at Southern Funeral Home.Mr. Windom passed away

Monday, April 14, 2014, in Waco.

Police ReportHENDERSON POLICE

DEPARTMENT• Responded to 26 calls,

including four 9-1-1 calls in the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today.

Arrests

• 31-year-old male arrested for public intoxication; and

• 19-year-old female arrest-ed for public intoxication and a HPD warrant.

Misdemeanors• One count of Class C public

intoxication; • One count of Class B theft

greater than or equal to $50 but less than $500;

• One count of Class B harassment; and

• One count of Class B harassment.

Accidents• One wreck was reported.

HENDERSON FIRE DEPARTMENT

• Medical call reported at 3:40 p.m. Monday near South Main Street and U.S. Highway 79 South;

• Structure fire reported at 5:20 p.m. Monday near the 400 block of Broadway; and

• Fire alarm reported at 8:38 a.m. Tuesday near the 500 block of Austin.

RUSK COUNTYSHERIFF’S OFFICE

• Responded to 83 calls, including 37 9-1-1 calls, in the 24-hour period ending at 5 a.m. today.

Arrests• 28-year-old, arrested for

theft of property, greater than or equal to $20,000 and less than $100,000, and credit card or debit card abuse;

• 29-year-old, arrested for possession of a controlled sub-stance, Penalty Group 1, less than 1 gram;

• 31-year-old, arrested for public intoxication;

• 31-year-old, arrested for public intoxication;

• 19-year-old, arrested for public intoxication and no driver’s license;

• 39-year-old, arrested for possession of a controlled sub-stance, Penalty Group 1, great-er than or equal to 4 grams and less than 200 grams;

• 48-year-old, arrested for aggravated assault with a deadly weapon; and

• 34-year-old, arrested for driving while intoxicated, 3rd offense or more and posses-sion of a controlled substance, Penalty Group 2-A, less than or equal to 2 ounces.

Misdemeanors

• Four counts of miscella-neous theft;

• Two counts of reckless driver;

• One count of telephone harassment;

• Four counts of criminal trespass;

• Two counts of terroristic threat;

• One count of criminal mis-chief; and

• One count of simple assault.

Felonies• Narcotics reported at 10:10

a.m. Monday near 101 Charlev-iox in Easton;

• ID theft reported at 2:11 p.m. Monday near 8715 County Road 468 W.; and

• Robbery reported at 4:07 p.m. Monday near 9433 N. County Road 137.

Jail Population• As of 5 a.m. today, there

were 121 inmates housed in the Rusk County Justice Center.

If you have information that might lead to the solv-ing of a crime, call Crime Stoppers at (903) 655-TIPS or (903) 655-8477. You will remain anonymous, will not have to testify in court and could receive a reward up to $1,000.

McQuiston honored

HISD courtesy photoWylie Elementary Gifted and Talented Teacher Sharon McQuiston was honored at the March meeting of the HISD Board of Trustees. McQuiston was recognized as a teacher who is a great motivator and makes learn-ing fun and exciting for her students. She serves as the Wylie UIL coordinator and successfully organized the UIL academic speaking and writing event held in Hen-derson. Shown are HISD Board President Clay Wilder and Sharon McQuiston.

Obituaries

ArraignmentsAccording to the office of

Rusk County Pct. No. 5 Jus-tice of the Peace Judge Joe Sorrells, the following persons were arraigned on April 12:

• Cody Duncan McCraw, 30, Bullard, driving while license invalid, Class B misdemeanor, $1,000 bond;

• Patrick Joseph Calley, 29, Troup, evading arrest/deten-tion with vehicle, 3rd Degree felony, $15,000 bond; and

• Jerry Wayne Ross, 54, Dallas, three counts of man-ufacture/deliver controlled substance in drug free zone, each count a 1st Degree felony, $25,000 bond each count.

*** According to the office of

Rusk County Pct. No. 5 Jus-tice of the Peace Judge Joe Sorrells, the following persons were arraigned on April 13:

• Michel Marie Emerson, 26, Longview, possession of con-trolled substance in correction-al facility, 3rd Degree felony, $5,000 bond; Gregg County: injury to child/elderly/disabled with intent of bodily injury, 3rd Degree felony, bond denied;

• Geonna Briann Gray, 22, Marshall, Dallas County: theft enhanced, no bond;

• Cory Austin Jacobs, 20, Overton, public intoxication, Class C misdemeanor, $750 bond;

• Dakota Sterling Guinn, 20, Overton, driving while intoxi-cated, Class B misdemeanor,

$1,000 bond;• Cornelius Charles Sim-

mons, 32, Timpson, driving while license invalid, Class B misdemeanor, $1,000 bond;

• Ruben Corrillo Naranjo, 27, Kilgore, no driver’s license, Class C misdemeanor, $750 bond; failure to identify fugi-tive, Class B misdemeanor, $1,000 bond; theft of firearm, State jail felony, $15,000 bond; and

• Michael Keith Hamilton, 36, Overton, assault family vio-lence, Class A misdemeanor, $1,500 bond with emergency protective order.

*** According to the office of

Rusk County Pct. No. 5 Jus-tice of the Peace Judge Joe Sorrells, the following persons were arraigned on April 14:

• Erasmo Escobedo, 25, Henderson, assault causes bodily injury family violence, Class A misdemeanor, $2,500 bond;

• Jesus Adrian Hernandez, 36, Houston, driving while intoxicated with child under 15 years of age, State jail felony, $5,000 bond; and

• Cornelius Charles Sim-mons, 32, Timpson, Rusk County Justice of the Peace Pct. 4: no driver’s license, Class C misdemeanor, $500 bond; vio-late promise to appear, Class C misdemeanor, $500 bond; no liability insurance, Class C misdemeanor, $500 bond.

Artificial reef for oysters completed on Matagorda Bay

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MATAGORDA — An artificial reef that conservationists hope will repopulate Matagorda Bay with oyster beds was completed over the weekend by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

The 250-foot-long, 50-foot-wide structure was completed Saturday, Corps spokesman Isidro Reyna said.

“The oysters need a place to land and settle,” Corps project manager Byron Williams said. “We’re going to monitor the reef for five years, but this is a long-term plan that could be deemed a success in year one.”

The reef could cultivate as many as 60 acres of oyster beds, the Corps said. Though a frac-tion of the size of the natural reefs found a century ago in the bay, new oyster beds could play a dramatic role in restoring an ecosystem severely damaged by pollution, overfishing, dredging and higher salinity levels.

Army contractors used bucket tractors to move the final blocks of concrete and limestone off a barge and into the water to build the top layer of the reef. The Corps added six rows to the 26 rows already installed by the Nature Conservancy that together form an underwater Coliseum-like structure rising in a semicircle from the seabed.

The rows sit on the backbone of what used to be the histor-ic Half Moon Reef — home to oysters and hundreds of fish, shrimp, clams, crabs and other sea creatures — are staggered 30 feet apart. Oysters filter 50 gal-lons of water daily, and each acre of reef that the oysters cling to filters another 24 million gallons of water daily.

Texas’ oyster industry brings in about $30 million a year, according to state statistics.

The reef will also provide a barrier from hurricanes and could teach scientists whether reefs can rebuild in drought con-ditions.

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WASHINGTON — People with old Social Security debts are getting a reprieve — for now.

The Social Security Adminis-tration had been participating in a program in which thousands of people were having their tax refunds seized to recoup over-payments that happened more than a decade ago.

On Monday, Acting Social Security Commissioner Carolyn W. Colvin said she was suspend-ing the program while the agen-cy conducts a review.

Social Security recipients and members of Congress com-plained that people were being forced to repay overpayments that were sometimes paid to their parents or guardians when they were children.

The Social Security Admin-istration says it has identified about 400,000 people with old debts. They owe a total of $714 million. So far, the agency says it has collected $55 million, mainly by having the Treasury Depart-ment seize tax refunds.

Colvin said she was suspend-ing the program “pending a thor-ough review of our responsibility and discretion under the current law to refer debt to the Treasury Department.”

“If any Social Security or Supplemental Security Income beneficiary believes they have been incorrectly assessed with an overpayment under this program, I encourage them to

request an explanation or seek options to resolve the overpay-ment,” Colvin said.

The program was authorized by a 2008 change in the law that allows Social Security and other federal agencies, through the Treasury, to seize federal pay-ments to recoup debts that are more than 10 years old. Previ-ously, there was a 10-year limit on using the program.

In most cases, the seizures are tax refunds.

The Washington Post first reported on the program.

Democratic Sens. Senators Barbara Boxer of California and Barbara Mikulski of Maryland complained about the program in a letter to Colvin.

“While this policy of seizing tax refunds to repay decades-old Social Security overpayments might be allowed under the law, it is entirely unjust,” the senators wrote.

After Colvin’s announcement, Boxer said in a statement, “I am grateful that the Social Security Administration has chosen not to penalize innocent Americans while the agency determines a fair path forward on how to han-dle past errors.”

There are several scenarios in which people may have received overpayments as children. For example, when a parent of a minor child dies, the child may be eligible for survivor’s benefits, which are often sent to the sur-viving parent or guardian.

If there was an overpayment

made on behalf of the child, that child could be held liable years later, as an adult. Also, if a child is disabled, he or she may receive overpayments. Those overpay-ments would typically be taken out of current payments, once they are discovered. But if dis-ability payments were discontin-ued because the child’s condition improved, Social Security could try to recoup the overpayments years later.

“We want to assure the pub-lic that we do not seek restitu-tion through tax refund offset in cases when the debt in ques-tion was established prior to the debtor turning 18 years of age,” Social Security spokesman Mark Hinkle said in an email. “Also, we do not use tax refund offset to collect the debt of a person’s relative. We only use it to collect the overpaid benefits the person received for himself or herself.”

Hinkle said the debt collec-tion could be waived if the per-son was without fault and repay-ment would “deprive the person of income needed for ordinary living expenses or would be unfair for another reason.”

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LOVINGTON, N.M. — Around two dozen ranchers have expressed their frustra-tion to U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce over the federal government’s decision to list the lesser prairie chicken as a threatened species.

The Hobbs News-Sun reports that the Republican congress-man met with the ranchers in Lovington on Monday for what is a series of planned meetings over the rare grouse. Meetings are also scheduled in Roswell on Tuesday and Portales on Wednesday.

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been sentenced to four years in prison after firing a shot that rico-cheted off the ground and struck and killed a bystander during an altercation outside a Texas City convenience store.

The Galveston County Daily News reports 25-year-old Char-mon Leon Smith was sentenced Monday. He had been charged with murder in the April 2012

death of 50-year-old Marion Glenn Hines but was convicted by a jury of the lesser offense of manslaughter.

Police say Smith argued with a 17-year-old outside the con-venience store and tried to hit the teenager with a pistol. But the teen blocked the blow and Smith’s gun fell to the pavement. The weapon fired and a bul-let struck Hines, who was not involved. Hines died from a gun-shot wound to the stomach.

ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN ANTONIO — An

83-year-old woman has died almost two weeks after being mauled by a neighbor’s dog while feeding her cats in her backyard.

The Bexar County medical examiner’s office said Petra Agu-irre died Friday from dog bite complications. She was attacked

March 31.Animal Care Services spokes-

woman Lisa Norwood says Agu-irre the dog got past Aguirre’s fence.

Aguirre had bites to her head, neck, arms and legs.

The American Staffordshire terrier mix was surrendered to Animal Care Services and eutha-nized. The dog’s owner was cited

for the bite.That dog and two others were

involved in an attack in May when a 13-year-old boy was bit-ten.

Chris Aguirre tells the San Antonio Express-News that his mother, a devout Catholic, taught religious education at St. Gabriel’s parish for many years.

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DEAR ABBY: I read your Jan. 8 column about the warning signs of an abuser. Would you use your influence to say that men are also victims of abuse?

My son was in a three-year relationship with a woman who scored 15 out of 15 on your list. We knew it was a toxic relation-ship, but he couldn’t see that.

The night he came to us for help, battered and bloody, I finally took a stand. It took six months to get her out of his life. My son was ashamed to be a bat-tered man, and she had told him that men who call 9-1-1 go to jail. It kept him from calling.

Please, Abby, help to change that. If you use this, please keep me anonymous. He thinks I’m an “interfering mom,” but at least

he’s not being abused anymore. I love him and miss him terribly. — INTERFERING MOM

DEAR MOM: I’m glad you wrote so I can emphasize that abusers can be members of both sexes, from every economic level and sexual orientation. I received a TON of mail about this:

DEAR ABBY: Thank you for including both “he and she” in the warning signs of abusers. My second marriage was a sad and unhealthy rebound affair. My ex was attractive, talented and host to multiple addictions — risky sexual encounters with men and women, cocaine, alcohol and marijuana. I became aware of her blackouts and outrageous behavior just before our wed-ding.

I finally left after two years to avoid committing a crime in response to her physical abuse, chronic infidelities, psycho-logical cruelty and pathological intoxication. Please urge men to report their abusers, file charges and flee bad situations. I had no way of knowing what lay ahead for me back then.

Do you have advice for other men contemplating marriage to a pretty party girl? Today I’m hap-pily married to a deeply beautiful and noble woman, and grateful to have found her. — SET FREE IN NORTH CAROLINA

DEAR SET FREE: I think you’ve stated it well. All I can add is that men who suffer physical abuse at the hands of a partner should go to an emergency room

for treatment so their injuries can be documented, then file a formal complaint and end the relationship.

DEAR ABBY: Gay people need to read those warning signs because abusers abound in the gay community, too. I have gay and lesbian friends who were involved with abusers. Gay and lesbian centers offer counseling for this. LGBT people face the same problems as straights do. — MIKE IN DAYTONA

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our meeting, was jealous and controlling, shut my friends out, cursed and hit me on more than one occasion and, when I pro-tested, she’d say she was “just trying to get my attention,” or “I only got what I deserved.” When I finally told her I was leaving, she threatened to kill me.

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PAge 4 — Henderson daily news — Tuesday, april 15, 2014

By HUGHES ELLISHenderson daily news

PRICE — Carlisle senior pitcher/outfielder Zach Bright-well has committed to play baseball for Tarleton State Uni-versity in Stephenville.

Brightwell informed the Henderson Daily News of his decision following his complete-game 1-hitter against Beckville Friday.

“I think Tarleton State is a good place to play, and they gave me a pretty good offer,” Brightwell said. “The fact they’re about the be a Division I school is just an added kick.”

Tarleton State is an NCAA Division II program currently playing in the Lone Star Confer-ence. However, the Texans will be transitioning to Division I status in the near future.

Brightwell had also received interest from Odessa Junior College, Frank Phillips Com-munity College in Borger and Trinidad State Junior College in Colorado.

He helped the Indians to a 29-1 record as a junior in 2013.

Brightwell’s biggest contri-bution came when he struck out seven and allowed one run on three hits in a 6-1 victory over Stamford in the Class A state championship game.

He was named the cham-pionship-game MVP for his efforts.

This year, Brightwell is 7-1 on the mound — the Indians are 14-3 overall and 10-0 in district

play.He has 76 strikeouts and a

sub-1.00 earned run average in 42 innings pitched on the year. He’s allowed seven hits and six

runs on the year.Brightwell said it feels nice to

have his future plans decided. Now he can focus on the game, he says, as the Indians try to

defend their first-ever state title.“I’m relieved to have made

that decision,” he said. “I can focus on the season and the postseason.”

From daily news staFF reports

Tonight’s senior night is a big night for Henderson’s base-ball and softball teams.

The Lions need a win to stay alive in the chase for the post-season. The Lady Lions can move into a tie for first with a victory.

Both teams host Bullard. The softball game begins at 6 p.m. Baseball will get started around 7.

The Lady Lions and Gilmer are both one game back of Bul-lard with two games to play. A Henderson win would split the regular-season series and would force the teams to play a seeding game should they fin-ish tied.

Gilmer and Bullard meet Thursday on the final night of the regular season. Henderson visits Kilgore for its final con-test.

The Lady Buckeyes and Lady Lions also split their season series should they wind up tied

for first or second.The Lions, meanwhile, are

staring up at five teams in front of them in the district stand-ings. Four of those will advance to the postseason.

Bullard has a two-game lead on Henderson and beat the Lions the first time the teams met. A loss tonight would elimi-

nate any chance the Lions have at making the playoffs.

Gilmer, Kilgore and Spring Hill occupy the top three spots in district. Chapel Hill is fifth.

The district’s baseball season still has three games remaining, including tonight’s contests.

In other area contest, Carl-isle travels to Harleton in a Dis-trict 20-A baseball game.

The Indians are 10-0 in dis-trict and are in first place. They are one game up on Harleton, which is second.

Beckville is three games back of the Indians with three to play.

Carlisle shutout Beckville 4-0 Friday behind a 1-hit, 12-strikeout performance from senior Tarleton State commit Zach Brightwell.

The Indians can’t lock up the district title with a win tonight, but they’d move to within need-ing one win or a Harleton loss of clinching the top seed head-ing into the postseason.

The Lady Indians, the third-

place team in District 21-A, host first place Alto tonight. Carlisle is 19-4 on the season and 8-3 in district.

This is the season finale for both teams.

Tatum hosts Elysian Fields in a District 17-2A doublehead-er.

The Lady Eagles (18-6, 9-3) are in third place, one game back of Elysian Fields. The Lady Yellowjackets beat Tatum in the teams’ first meeting.

The Eagles are 5-4 in district. One of those losses was 4-3 set-back to Elysian Fields the first time the teams met. Tatum led 3-1 going into the bottom of the seventh before the Yellowjack-ets came back with three runs to take the win.

Overton hosts Beckville in a District 20-A baseball game, and West Rusk welcomes Har-mony.

The Lady Raiders also enter-tain Harmony, and the Lady Mustangs play their season finale at home against Cushing.

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(Listed below are the team standings and Tatum’s indi-vidual results from the District 20-2A track meet in White Oak.)

Varsity BoysTeam Standings1st Tatum 1932nd Jefferson 1203rd White Oak 884th Elysian Fields 765th New Diana 476th Union Grove 307th Waskom 28Individual StandingsLong Jump2nd Devon Boyd 21 2-1/44th Martin Ingram 20-9Shot Put2nd Dylan Moore 47-11Discus3rd Ryan Hyde 132-3Triple Jump1st Jordan Nelson 47-22nd Devon Boyd 44-03rd Donovan Centers 42-10High Jump2nd Martin Ingram 5-11100-meter dash2nd Denarius Earl 11.18400-meter dash2nd Dey ante Robinson 50.903rd Chris Jenkins 52.374th Jahee Johnson 52.87800-meter run3rd Robert Jackson 2:13.43110-meter hurdles1st Jaylen Shans 14.772nd Martin Ingram 15.774th Brandon Hawkins 16.51300-meter hurdles1st Martin Ingram 41.192nd Jaylen Shans 41.664th Brandon Hawkins 43.46400-meter relay2nd Tatum 42.81800-meter relay

2nd Tatum 1:31.451600-meter relay2nd Tatum 3:29.23

Varsity GirlsTeam Standings1st Tatum 1692nd White Oak 1103rd Jefferson 994th Union Grove 895th New Diana 596th Waskom 527th Elysian Fields 23Individual StandingsLong Jump1st Ro’Neshia Simpson 16 4-1/23rd Ryshaneek Starling 15 5-1/2Shot Put1st Olivia Bryant 34 1-1/24th Leandra Allison 29 3-3/4Discus1st Leandra Allison 99-82nd Olivia Bryant 98 9-1/24th Rider Armontee 89-9Triple Jump3rd Daziah Adams 31 7-1/4High Jump3rd Ro’Neisha Simpson 4-8200-meter dash3rd Ryshaneek Starling 26.94400-meter dash1st Ro’Neisha Simpson 1:00.51800-meter run2nd Vanessa Tirado 2:35.991600-meter run1st Vanessa Tirado 6:08.323200-meter run3rd Meagan Swartout 14:37.59100-meter hurdles4th Aylin Vazquez 18.40300-meter hurdles4th Aylin Vazquez 50.47400-meter relay2nd Tatum 49.25800-meter relay2nd Tatum 1:47.231600-meter relay1st Tatum 4:18.19

District 20-2A Track Meet Results

District 16-3A StandingsBaseballGilmer 16-4 7-2Spring Hill 12-10-2 7-3Kilgore 10-9-1 6-3Bullard 5-4Chapel Hill 5-5Henderson 8-13 3-6Gladewater 0-10

Softball*Bullard 18-4 9-1*Gilmer 21-9 8-2*Henderson 15-12 8-2*Spring Hill 16-13 7-4Chapel Hill 14-16 2-8Kilgore 8-15 2-8Gladewater 0-11

(Listed below are the team standings and West Rusk’s indi-vidual results from the District 18-2A track meet in Troup.)

Varsity BoysTeam Standings1st Arp 183-1/22nd West Rusk 1033rd Sabine 914th Winona 845th Troup 63-1/26th Harmony 587th Hawkins 188th Frankston 16Individual StandingsLong Jump1st Dakota McCoy 20-11Triple Jump1st Breyon Thurman 42-0Shot Put1st George Anthony 45 5-1/2Discus3rd George Anthony 127-0200-meter dash4th Dee Hardee 24.26400-meter dash3rd Crawford Bobbitt 53.54800-meter run2nd Devin Hardee 2:20.823200-meter run4th Eric Hernandez 12:21.76300-meter hurdles4th Kevin Jones 44.14400-meter relay3rd West Rusk 45.06800-meter relay

3rd West Rusk 1:32.621600-meter relay2nd West Rusk 3:31.94

Varsity GirlsTeam Standings1st Sabine 167-1/22nd Arp 1083rd Winona 923rd West Rusk 925th Harmony 696th Hawkins 627th Troup 248th Frankston 1Individual StandingsHigh Jump4th Tara Copeland 4-6Long Jump3rd Alison Nutt 15 9-1/2Shot Put2nd Tierra Wilson 34-11Discus2nd Tierra Wilson 92-8200-meter dash3rd Alison Nutt 27.23800-meter run4th Darian Farquhar 2:45.13100-meter hurdles3rd Ashley Meador 17.454th India Willett 18.43300-meter hurdles2nd Indian Willett 50.46400-meter relay3rd West Rusk 52.52800-meter relay2nd West Rusk 1:51.84

District 18-2A Track Meet Results

Senior night a big one for Henderson

Area Baseball/Softball

Brightwell commits to Tarleton St.

Staff photo by Hughes Ellis

Carlisle senior pitcher Zach Brightwell rares back to deliver to the plate during his complete-game 4-0 shutout of Beckville Tuesday. Brightwell, last year’s state-champi-onship game MVP, has committed to Tarleton State University in Stephenville.

Area Track & Field

Mariners hammer Lewis in Rangers’ return

Overton High School power-lifters Briegh-Ann True and Kayla Phil-lips returned home after attending the Texas High School Women’s Powerlifting state champi-onship meet in Corpus Christi. OHS powerlifting coach Rodrick Portley said he was proud of his athletes for all their hard work in advancing so far.

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ARLINGTON — Seattle had a six-run outburst in an inning that included three Texas errors and an overturned call

that led to the ejection of Rang-ers manager Ron Washington during the Mariners’ 7-1 victory Monday night.

Roenis Elias (1-1) allowed one run and struck out five over 6 2-3 innings for his first major

league victory. The left-hand-er, who defected from Cuba to Mexico in 2010, has a 2.16 ERA in three career starts.

The Mariners went ahead to stay on Mike Zunino’s solo homer in the fifth off Colby

Lewis (0-1), who made his first big league start in 21 months after elbow and hip operations.

Zunino added an RBI single in that wild sixth that started with Robinson Cano’s leadoff single.

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Q: Did Jesus know in advance that He was going to be put to death? If so, why didn’t He just back away or try to escape? — Mrs. N.H.

A: Yes, Jesus did know in advance that He would be arrested and brought to trial before the Roman governor , and that this would lead to His execution.

In fact, long before His final journey to Jerusalem, Jesus repeatedly warned His disci-ples that He would be executed by the Roman authorities, but then would be raised to life by the power of God. His disciples, however, didn’t understand or believe what He was saying until afterward. But Jesus had no doubt what the future held for Him; the Bible says, “From that time on Jesus began to

explain ... that he must be killed and on the third day be raised to life” (Mat-thew 16:21).

Why didn’t He flee, or at least try to avoid this? The reason was because

He knew God had sent Him into the world for one reason: to become the final and complete sacrifice for our sins through His death on the cross. Sin is an offense to God, and it separates us from Him and His blessings. The eventual outcome of sin is death and Hell and judgment.

But God loves us, and He doesn’t want us to be poisoned

by sin’s hold on us. That’s why He came down to earth in the person of His Son, Jesus Christ. Jesus was without sin, but on the cross all our sins were placed on Him, and He died in our place. Have you ever thanked Jesus for not dodging the agony and shame of the cross, but instead giving His life for you? By faith open your heart and life to Him today.

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RUSK COUNTY CHAPTER OF TEEA monthly meeting 2 p.m. April 17 in the Rusk County Extension meeting room, 113 Fordall St. Visitors welcome. Call (903) 657-0376 for more information.

EASTER EGG HUNT 4 p.m. April 17 at the Mount Enterprise Community Center. Special guest, the Easter Bunny.

19TH ANNUAL ANTIQUE TRACTOR & ENGINE SHOW April 18-19 at the Rusk County Youth Expo on FM 13.

EASTER EGG HUNT 10 a.m. April 19 in Overton City Park. Pictures made for one can food item to be donated to the Good Samaritan.

KING CEMETERY annual homecoming 11 a.m. April 19 at the cemetery. Busi-ness meeting followed by covered dish luncheon. Donations may be mailed: P.O. Box 481, Mount Enterprise, TX 75681

PINE HILL LODGE No. 95 Stated Meeting 7:30 p.m. April 19. Covered dish supper at 6:30 p.m.

GARDEN TALK “Growing a Vegetable Garden” 1:30-2:30 p.m. April 21 at the Rusk County Library. Program to be pre-sented by Glenda Curry and Lilly Smith.

SIGN AND PLAY 3:30-4:30 p.m. April 21 and 28 at Morrow Branch Library in the back. Teaching sign language to ages 3-5. Register with the library. Parents are encouraged to stay.

OVERTON MIDDLE SCHOOL eighth grade parent meeting to discuss House Bill 5 and scheduling for next year will be 6 p.m. April 21 in the auditorium. There will also be door prizes available to those that attend.

RUSK COUNTY CHAPTER of Texas A&M former students annual Muster ceremo-ny 6:30 p.m. April 21 at the new Hen-derson Driving School, 1910 FM 3135 which intersects with the Carthage Hwy. RSVP to (903) 646-5351.

HENDERSON CIVIC THEATRE annual membership meeting, open to all cur-rent and future members of the com-munity theater 6:30 p.m. April 21 at the Opera House, 122 E. Main St. Annual reports, board elections, 2014-15 sea-son announcement, door prizes. For information, call (903) 657-2968.

HHS CHOIR booster club is having a tamale sale through April 22. Choices are beef, pork, chicken, vegetarian black bean and cinnamon raisin apple. $15 a dozen or $8 1/2 dozen. Contact Gina Hughes at (903) 738-0113 for orders.

ESSENTIAL OILS Dr. Mom free class, 6 p.m. April 22 at the Rusk County Recre-ation Center, 1900 U.S. Hwy. 259 S. For more information, call (903) 657-9622.

“YARN WORKS” 1:30-3 p.m. April 24 at the Rusk County Library. For anyone interested in learning to knit and/or crochet.

ROAR, an after school program for stu-dents in kindergarten through fifth grade.

TRI-COUNTY BEEF, FORAGE Workshop April 25, Tri-County Livestock Market Inc., 23733 U.S. Hwy 79 N., New Sum-merfield. Three CEU hours. RSVP by April 21 for meal planning, to (903) 683-5416. Registration fee of $10.

MOUNT HOPE CEMETERY ASSOCIA-TION annual business meeting and lun-cheon 11:30 p.m. April 26 at 5560 Hwy. 64 West. Call Jim Stroud at (903) 392-8786 for more information.

OVERTON POLICE DEPARTMENT, Over-ton ISD Crime Stoppers basketball schol-arship fundraiser April 25-26 at Overton Middle School Gymasium. If interested in playing, contact Janice Bagley (903) 714-3557 or Clyde Carter (903) 987-2791.

LANEVILLE SCHOOL “OLD-TIMERS REUNION” 10 a.m. April 26 at the Lan-eville High School Gym. Covered dish luncheon at noon. Drinks, paper goods, ice and serving utensils furnished. For more information: Sylvia Moore (903) 863-5511 or Ginger Gage (903) 657-5262.

SUPPORT GROUP meeting for parents with special needs 6:30 p.m. April 29, 500 N. Marshall St., Calvary Baptist Church Education Center. Speaker Anthony Key from Lufkin will be discuss-ing Special Olympics.

NEW PROSPECT PICNIC May 3. 11 a.m. program, 11:45 a.m. lunch, 1 p.m. busi-ness meeting.

GARRETT CEMETERY first Memorial Service 6:30 p.m. May 3 at West Holly Spring COLG, Laneville. Following the program, there will be a candle light-ing in memory of all who were interred at the Garrett Cemetery. Contact Cas-sandra Baxter at (903) 571-5205 or Carolyn King at (903) 822-3520 for information.

Leverett’s Chapel ISD is accepting transfer applications for 2014-15 yearLeverett’s Chapel ISD is now accept-ing transfer applications for the 2014-15 school year. Deadline for applying for a school transfer is May 2. Application forms may be picked up in the elementary or high school offices weekdays from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. All new applications must bring a report card when applying.

Tragedy fund opened at CNB for Joanie Skelton-NationsA fund has been opened at Citizens National Bank for Joanie Skelton-Nations. Donations can be accepted at any Citizens National Bank loca-tion.

Laneville ISD opens pre-registration for 2014-15 Head Start/Pre-KLaneville ISD has opened pre-regis-tration for 2014-15 Head Start/Pre-kindergarten. For more information please contact Laneville ISD (903) 863-5353.

Volunteers needed at Autumn Leaves Nursing & RehabVolunteers are needed to assist with activities for residents at Autumn Leaves Nursing & Rehab. Contact Laura Wilkerson at (903) 657-1923.

GED, ESL, Adult Education, College Prep classes offered in HendersonFree GED, ESL, Adult Education, and College Prep classes for adults

ages 18 and up offered in Hender-son through Kilgore College. Day classes meet at Boys and Girls Club 8:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. every Tues-day-Thursday. Night Classes meet from 6-9 p.m. at the Montgomery Achievement Center, 308 Smith St., Henderson. New student registration is the first Tuesday of each month. (903) 236-2004.

Domino tournament to be held weekly at Henderson Health42 Domino tournament to be held weekly at Henderson Health and Rehab. For more information, contact Myrtle Lacy or Kay Endsley at (903) 657-6513. Tournament will continue weekly until further notice.

Gaston Museum re-visits life in the East Texas Oil FieldGaston Museum re-visits life in the East Texas Oil Field from the early 1930s-late 1960s. Located at 6562 Texas Hwy. 64 W., the museum is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Thursdays and Fridays and 10 a.m.-1 p.m. Sat-urdays. Visit <www.gastonmuseum.org>. Call (903) 812-1794 or (903) 863-2108 to schedule a tour.

Rusk County Meals on Wheels, senior activities weekday lunchesRusk County Meals on Wheels and senior activities weekday lunches 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at Hender-son Activity Center, 302 Fair Park Drive. Reservations required by 9

a.m. the day before. $3 donation is requested. Bingo Fridays. For more information, call Mary Grimes (903) 657-4227.

Friends of Mount Enterprise Library to hold luncheonFriends Of Mount Enterprise Library will be holding a luncheon from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month and the fourth Tues-day in March at the Mount Enterprise Community Center. For more infor-mation, contact Donna Newman at (903) 822-3221.

Memorial fund has been opened at CNB for Kayden Drake MooreA memorial fund has been opened at Citizens National Bank for Kayden Drake Moore. He was the son of Kenzie Orr and Darien Moore born Dec. 27, 2013 and passed away Dec. 31, 2013. Funds will be used to assist family with medical and funeral expenses.

Support group sponsored by The Hospice of ET meets each monthA monthly suppport group spon-sored by The Hospice of East Texas meets 5:30-6:30 p.m. on the sec-ond Tuesday of each month at the Hospice Shoppe, 114 Richardson Drive. This is an ongoing support group which is open to anyone cop-ing with the loss of a loved one due to death. For questions, call (903) 399-8600.

Bulletin Board

HENDERSON CEMETERY BOARD regu-lar meeting 10 a.m. April 16 at City Hall, 400 W. Main St.• Consider and act upon rules and regulations at Lakewood Memorial Park Cemetery• Adjourn.

RUSK COUNTY EMERGENCY SERVIC-ES DISTRICT NO. 1 regular meeting 7 p.m. April 17, at the Henderson Fire Department Training Room.• Approve minutes of previous meeting• Financial report• Payment of bills• Old business: (none)• New business: a. Consider and approve ‘Agreements for Fire Protection Services’ with fire

departments b. Consider and approve request from Laneville VFD for reimbursement of insurance cost of $1,035 c. Consider and approve request from Crims Chapel VFD for cost of two new SCBA facemasks at $2,196• Adjourn.

MOUNT ENTERPRISE CITY COUNCIL regular meeting 5 p.m. April 23 at the Council Chamber of City Hall, 103 W. Gregg St.• Consent agenda: a. Approval of minutes for the regular meeting of March 26 b. Approval of monthly reports (March) for court, clerks, police, wastewater and financials

• Regular agenda: a. Discussion and consideration of Texas Hunger Initiative Outreach Pro-gram (HLG) b. Discussion and consideration of removing light pole No. C3519 by fire department and update on light pole by Chapman Grocery (HLG) c. Discussion and approval of cer-tificate of construction completion of 2012 Street Improvements Grant (HLG)• Convene into executive session a. Discussion and consideration of Deputy Marshal position (HLG)• Reconvene into regular session and consider action, if any, on items dis-cussed during executive session• Discussion items• Adjourn.

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Drivers in fiery California crash had clean records

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ORLAND, Calif. — Both driv-ers in the fiery Northern Califor-nia crash involving a FedEx truck and bus full of students had clean driving records.

FedEx driver Tim Evans and the driver of the chartered bus, Talalelei Lealao-Taiao, were killed along with eight passengers Thursday when the truck veered across the median of Interstate 5 and smashed into the bus.

California’s Department of Motor Vehicles said neither driver had a moving violation, although Lealao-Taiao’s license was briefly suspended in 2004, The Sacramento Bee reported.

The Glenn County coroner has not released official identifi-cations, but the Bee spoke with a member of Evans’ extended fam-ily, and Lealao-Taiao’s employer,

Silverado Stages Inc., confirmed her name.

Other than an expression of grief, the company declined to comment, citing the ongoing investigation. The bus was car-rying 44 students from South-ern California for a free tour of Humboldt State University on the state’s far north coast. Many were hoping to be the first in their families to attend college. Five students and three adult chaper-ones died, along with the drivers.

Federal and state investigators expect to take months to deter-mine what caused Evans to lose control of his truck, which side-swiped a sedan and collided with the bus. Dozens of injured stu-dents escaped through windows before the vehicles exploded into towering flames and billowing smoke in Orland, 100 miles north of Sacramento.

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Courtesy photo by Gay AllenMaster Gardener Sharon Smithers speaks about “Herbs” during last month’s Garden Talk at the Rusk County Library. This joint program with the library is scheduled for the third Monday of each month and free to the public. A question and answer period follows each session.

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Adopt A Highway

Courtesy photoThe Henderson Lions Club had a two mile Adopt A Highway section on U.S. Highway 79 on Trash Off Day. They collected around 25 bags of litter along with some other large items. Shown in the photo, from left, are Matthew Trichel, Kathryn Armstrong, Jason Foster, Darla Cloutier, Peggy Rogas, Steve Higginbotham, Tommy Goode and Brian Fisher. Not pictured are William Brown, Joe Sorrells, Pat Dailey, Michelle Dai-ley, and Hannah Trichel.

TexasOfficer uses stun gun on Central Texas student

ROUND ROCK (AP) — Police are investigat-ing after a resource officer at a Central Texas high school used a stun gun on a student after being called to break up a fight.

Round Rock police Cmdr. Jim Stuart says the 16-year-old wasn’t injured after being shocked Monday at Stony Point High School.

Stuart tells the Austin American-Statesman the fight involved two students, but when the offi-cer arrived there were up to 10 students around them.

Stuart says a student trying to break up the fight had grabbed one of the aggressors in a bear hug and the officer mistakenly thought the fight was between them. He says the officer told the boy restraining the other to get on the ground but he balled up his fists, so the officer used the stun gun.

Two Texas firefighters hurt when fire trucks collide

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Two firefighters have been injured when two San Antonio fire trucks col-lided while responding to an emergency call.

A fire official says the firefighters were taken to a hospital for treatment but not seriously hurt when the collision occurred late Monday morning.

A fire engine was descending an exit ramp when it struck a ladder truck while both were en route to a structure fire. There was also a related report of an electrocution.

Fire Chief Charles Hood tells the San Antonio Express-News that it’s not clear whether rainy conditions contributed to the accident.

The trucks will be inspected to assess the extent of the damage.

Reserve firefighters will be called to replace the two injured ones.

Very obese cats saved from neglect up for adoption

SAN ANTONIO (AP) — San Antonio animal welfare staff members say a 26-pound tomcat faces a long road to recovery after his rescue from a neglectful home. City Animal Control Services is offering Melvin for adoption, along with 20-pound Marvin, who also was rescued from the home.

Dr. Marilyn Gotbeter, the agency’s chief vet-erinarian, tells the San Antonio Express-News the cats “were cruelly confined, didn’t have enough room to roam around and had no form of exercise or activity.”

She says the animals gained weight from lack of exercise until becoming too fat to exercise. Melvin and Marvin worked out with doctors but quickly grew exhausted despite barely moving. In Got-beter’s words, “They basically pass out.”

Student killed when struck by school bus

UNIVERSAL CITY (AP) — Officials say a 6-year-old student has died after being struck by a school bus in Central Texas.

Officials with the Judson Independent School District say the student was struck early Tuesday morning in northeast Bexar County.

Universal City police say the girl was with a male relative when she was struck. Police say she was then taken back to her apartment where she later died. Authorities said the victim was a stu-dent at Coronado Village Elementary School. She was hit about half a mile away from the campus.

Investigators are expected to review the bus’ surveillance cameras to figure out exactly what happened. Police say no charges are expected against the bus driver.

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Strahan’s ‘GMA’ side job confirmed with his visit

NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Strahan has made good on reports that he’s joining “Good Morning America” by paying a visit to the ABC breakfast show on Tuesday.

The former football star and current co-host with Kelly Ripa of “Live With Kelly and Michael” got a red-carpet welcome from the “GMA” team.

Anchor Robin Roberts expressed excitement that Strahan will be there “a couple of days a week.”

Then the cast presented him with an alarm clock and a huge coffee cup.

His brief appearance ended with promises he’ll be back “next week.”

Strahan joins Roberts, George Stephanopoulos, Amy Robach, Lara Spencer and Ginger Zee on tele-vision’s top-rated morning show.

Goucher student dies after hit-and-run crash

TOWSON, Md. (AP) — Police in Maryland say a Goucher College student from Texas has died after a hit-and-run crash over the weekend.

Baltimore County police say 19-year-old Mat-thew Gabriel of Austin, Texas, died Monday from his injuries a day after he was hit by a car as he crossed Dulaney Valley Road in Towson. Police say Gabriel was not in a crosswalk when he was hit and the driver of the car did not remain at the scene of the crash.

College officials say Gabriel, was a sophomore business management and economics double major and a member of the men’s lacrosse team. Police say they later found the driver, 23-year-old Kayla Wise-man of Middle River, and charged her on citations with hit-and-run and driving under the influence.

Talk to your kids early about cyberbullyingDEAR DOCTOR K: My

daughter will be starting mid-dle school this year. How can I protect her from cyberbul-lying?

DEAR READER: Bully-ing can be particularly diffi-cult during middle and high school, when popularity and peer acceptance feel like the most important parts of life. Adding technology to the mix makes it worse still.

Cyberbullying is not sim-ply bullying that takes place through electronic means. There are two unique prob-lems with bullying through text messages or social media. First, if the bully keeps quiet about it, the bullying can be invisible to others. Just your child and the bully know about it. And if your child has trouble talking to you about it, no one else will know — not teach-ers, school counselors or your child’s friends.

Second is the opposite prob-lem made possible by modern technology: The bully can hurt your child by spreading false and hurtful stories very easily to large numbers of people, including most of your child’s classmates. Once something is out in cyberspace, it’s very hard to control it.

For these reasons, cyber-bullying can be particularly

d a m a g i n g . It can lead to anxiety, d e p r e s s i o n , s u b s t a n c e abuse — even suicide.

It’s not easy to pre-vent cyber-b u l l y i n g . Probably the most impor-

tant thing parents can do is talk to their children about what they do, see and experi-ence online. Start these con-versations early — as soon as your child starts using the Internet or a cellphone.

Your child may not come to you if she experiences cyber-bullying. For clues that it might be going on, watch for changes in behavior. Ask lots of questions if you notice this occurring.

If she does encounter any cyberbullying, report it. Some of it could be illegal and should be reported to the police. This includes threats or sexually explicit content.

Even if it’s not illegal, all cyberbullying should be called out. After years of neglect, the problem of school bullying is being taken increasingly seri-ously. Ask your school’s advice about who the best person

to help would be. It may be a guidance counselor, or the parent of the bully.

There are two sides to cyber-bullying, and you should also talk to your daughter about not becoming a cyberbully herself. Let her know that comments and posts, even offhand ones, can make people feel bad.

Tell her that bystanders also play an important role. Some kinds of bullying, particularly cyberbullying that involves widespread distribution of hurtful information, involve the actions of a group. Help your daughter understand that she will become part of the bullying if she passes on hurt-ful comments, or laughs at or talks about the victim. But if she refuses to participate, stands up to the bully and stands up for the victim, she can help make things better.

By being mindful of behav-iors that indicate your daugh-ter is bothered by something, and by gently inquiring, you may be able to detect bullying and work with your daughter to do something about it.

(Dr. Komaroff is a physi-cian and professor at Har-vard Medical School. To send questions, go to <AskDoctorK.com>, or write: Ask Doctor K, 10 Shattuck St., Second Floor, Boston, Mass. 02115.)

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State to take over Southeast Texas school districtASSOCIATED PRESS

BEAUMONT — The state is taking over a troubled South-east Texas school district that has been investigated over its finances and its handling of ser-vices to disabled students, state officials announced Monday, the same day two former district officials pleaded guilty to fraud charges.

The Texas Education Agency will appoint a board of managers to oversee the Beaumont Inde-pendent School District, which has nearly 21,000 students, Texas Commissioner of Educa-tion Michael Williams said. Wil-liams said he also plans to name a new district superintendent, and both should be appointed by June 15.

The TEA also announced the Beaumont school district’s accreditation status will be low-

ered to “accredited-probation,” which means the district must fix its problems in order to avoid revocation of its accredi-tation status. But the change in accreditation status won’t affect how students and parents see a school’s day-to-day operations.

“This is a critical time for the district and its students, as well as for the community as a whole,” Williams wrote in a let-ter sent Monday to the current Beaumont superintendent and board president. “The magni-tude of the findings, the seri-ous nature of the ongoing and systemic operating deficien-cies facing the district, and the importance of preventing fur-ther harm to the welfare of the Beaumont ISD’s students and to the public interest compel me to appoint a board of managers at this time.”

In a statement, the district

said it is considering its options.“The current Board and

Superintendent are still manag-ing the day to day operations of the district,” the district said.

The district reiterated TEA statements that the lowered accreditation status will not affect the validity of its high school diplomas or graduates’ ability to gain college admission.

William’s decision comes after two recent TEA investi-gations. A financial review released this month conclud-ed that the district in the past five years has lost the public’s trust and acquired a reputation tainted by multiple incidents of fraud, waste and abuse. The report cited a continuing lack of internal controls over finances and operations despite 2013 reviews and recommendations for improvement.

On Monday, former district finance director Devin McCraney and former comptroller Sharika Allison pleaded guilty in federal court in Beaumont to fraud and conspiracy charges. The charg-es are related to schemes they devised in which they embezzled more than $4 million from the school district. McCraney faces up to 10 years in federal prison, while Allison faces up to five years.

In February, the TEA issued a report that substantiated numerous complaints related to special education services for students with disabilities. As a result of this report, the TEA appointed a monitor, Fred Sha-fer, over the district’s special education department.

Three GOP governors blast Medicare Advantage rates

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Three Southern Republican governors are writing President Barack Obama to complain about newly announced Medi-care Advantage payments.

Florida Gov. Rick Scott, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed the April 15 letter that says changes to Medicare Advantage pay-ments will harm “America’s seniors.” The changes are blamed on the nation’s health care overhaul.

The letter contends an announcement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services that payments will increase “amounts to little more than political theater.” CMS earlier this month said 2015 payments should increase less than 1 percent overall. Analysts expect actual funding to fall when many other variables are considered.

Woman, 75, pleads no contest in vehicular death

LAKE CHARLES, La. (AP) — A 75-year-old Ten-nessee woman pleaded no contest to an amended charge in the 2013 death of a 92-year-old woman on Highway 109 in Vinton, La.

The American Press reports Millie Adams Pow-ell, of Michie, Tenn., entered her plea Monday to a charge of negligent homicide, amended from vehicular homicide, in the death of Port Arthur, Texas-woman Rubye Jones.

State District Judge Robert Wyatt sentenced Powell to three years probation and deferred impo-sition of jail sentence pending Jones’ successful completion of probation. Wyatt said he did not believe jail time was appropriate in the case. Police say Powell’s car rear-ended a vehicle that was stopped to turn left on March 1, 2013.

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NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Notice is hereby giventhat original LettersTestamentary for theEstate of GERALDWAYNE ALLMON,Deceased, were issuedon April 7, 2014, inDocket No. 14-042P,pending in the CountyCourt of Rusk County,Texas, to:Lynn Eric Allmon.

The Executor requeststhat all claims be pre-sented in care of theExecutorʼs attorneywhose Post Officeaddress is:

c/o David P. BrownP.O. Box 1688

Henderson, Texas75653-1688

DATED the 9th day ofApril, 2014.

MINTON & BROWN,PLLC

BY David P. BrownDAVID P. BROWN

Attorneys for the Estate

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CITATION BYPUBLICATION

THE STATE OFTEXAS

COUNTY OF RUSK

2013-390

TO: Nelson Green-wood, Defendant(s)

GREETINGS: Youhave been sued. Youmay employ an attor-ney. If you or yourattorney does not file awritten answer with theclerk who issued thiscitation by ten oʼclock(10) a.m. on the Mon-day next following theexpiration of forth-two(42) days from thedate of the issuanceof this citation, a de-fault judgment may betaken against you.

You are hereby com-manded to appear byfling a written answer tothe Plaintiffʼs OriginalPetition at or beforeten oʼclock (10:00) a.m.of the Monday nextafter the expiration offorty-two (42) daysfrom the date of theissuance of this cita-tion same being Mon-day the 19th day ofMay, 2014, before theHonorable 4th JudicialDistrict Court of RuskCounty, Texas, at thecourt House of saidCounty in Henderson,Texas.

Luminant Mining Com-pany, LLC,(Petitioner(s), filed insaid Court on the 26thof November, 2013,against Deborah D.Johnson, MichelleDade, Wilfred Cooksey,Gerald Toney, NicoleToney, Howard Story,Marion Carol Story,Nelson Greenwood, Jr.,Marjorie H. Williams,Wilmer Forrest Trimble,Jr., Marjorie H. Williamsa/k/a/ Wilmer ForestTrimble, Jr., SharonTrimble Donaldson,Selia Trimble Shawkey,and Billie J. MurphyTremble, Defendant(s),and said suit beingnumbered 2013-390 onthe docket of saidCourt, and styled:

LUMINANT MININGCOMPANY LLC,

vsDEBORAH D.

JOHNSON, MICHELLEDADE, WILFRED

COOKSEY, GERALDTONEY, ET AL

A brief statement ofthe nature of this suitis as follows, to wit:

**Plaintiff andDefendants are all ofthe undivided interestowners in a tract of landin Rusk County contain-ing 25.326 acres. Plain-tiff and Defendants arethe undivided interestowners of the surfaceestate in the propertyincluding all coal, ligniteand other near surfaceminerals, but excludingthe oil, gas and all otherliquid and gaseous hy-drocarbons producedwith oil and gas. Plain-tiff hereby seeks a par-tition by sale of the sur-face estate in the prop-erty, including all coal,lignite, and other nearsurface mineral, but notof the oil, gas and allother liquid and gase-ous hydrocarbons. (Thepropertydescription is all thatcertain tract lot or par-cel of land, a part of theDelores Corrinas Sur-vey A-160 and a part ofthe Thomas WilliamSurvey A-833, RuskCounty, Texas and alsobeing all of that certaincalled 26 acres tract ofland (Share No. 1 toBessie Barr) describedin a Final Decree ofPartition, Case No.19143, styled AmeliaBolding, et al vs. WillieBarr, et al, that is re-corded in theDistrict Court Recordsof Rusk County, Texas)

More fully shown byPlaintiffʼs OriginalPetition on file in thissuit.

Petitioner isrepresented by:DAVID E. JACKSON711 W. 7TH STREETAUSTIN, TEXAS 78701

If this citation is notserved within ninetydays after the date ofits issuance, it shall bereturned unserved.

The officer executingthis writ shall promptlyserve the same accord-ing to requirements oflaw, and the mandateshereof, and make duereturn as the law di-rects.

Issued and given undermy hand and seal ofsaid Court atHenderson, Texas, the31st day of March2014.

COURTNEY TERRY,Rusk County District

ClerkP.O. Box 1687 -Henderson, TX

75653-1687115 N. Main St., Suite301 - Henderson, TX

75652Phone (903) 657-0353

BY: Laurey Martin, Deputy

NOTICE TOCREDITORS

Notice is hereby giventhat original LettersTestamentary for theEstate of GERALDWAYNE ALLMON,Deceased, were issuedon April 7, 2014, inDocket No. 14-042P,pending in the CountyCourt of Rusk County,Texas, to:Lynn Eric Allmon.

The Executor requeststhat all claims be pre-sented in care of theExecutorʼs attorneywhose Post Officeaddress is:

c/o David P. BrownP.O. Box 1688

Henderson, Texas75653-1688

DATED the 9th day ofApril, 2014.

MINTON & BROWN,PLLC

BY David P. BrownDAVID P. BROWN

Attorneys for the Estate

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CITATION BYPUBLICATION

THE STATE OFTEXAS

COUNTY OF RUSK

2013-390

TO: Nelson Green-wood, Defendant(s)

GREETINGS: Youhave been sued. Youmay employ an attor-ney. If you or yourattorney does not file awritten answer with theclerk who issued thiscitation by ten oʼclock(10) a.m. on the Mon-day next following theexpiration of forth-two(42) days from thedate of the issuanceof this citation, a de-fault judgment may betaken against you.

You are hereby com-manded to appear byfling a written answer tothe Plaintiffʼs OriginalPetition at or beforeten oʼclock (10:00) a.m.of the Monday nextafter the expiration offorty-two (42) daysfrom the date of theissuance of this cita-tion same being Mon-day the 19th day ofMay, 2014, before theHonorable 4th JudicialDistrict Court of RuskCounty, Texas, at thecourt House of saidCounty in Henderson,Texas.

Luminant Mining Com-pany, LLC,(Petitioner(s), filed insaid Court on the 26thof November, 2013,against Deborah D.Johnson, MichelleDade, Wilfred Cooksey,Gerald Toney, NicoleToney, Howard Story,Marion Carol Story,Nelson Greenwood, Jr.,Marjorie H. Williams,Wilmer Forrest Trimble,Jr., Marjorie H. Williamsa/k/a/ Wilmer ForestTrimble, Jr., SharonTrimble Donaldson,Selia Trimble Shawkey,and Billie J. MurphyTremble, Defendant(s),and said suit beingnumbered 2013-390 onthe docket of saidCourt, and styled:

LUMINANT MININGCOMPANY LLC,

vsDEBORAH D.

JOHNSON, MICHELLEDADE, WILFRED

COOKSEY, GERALDTONEY, ET AL

A brief statement ofthe nature of this suitis as follows, to wit:

**Plaintiff andDefendants are all ofthe undivided interestowners in a tract of landin Rusk County contain-ing 25.326 acres. Plain-tiff and Defendants arethe undivided interestowners of the surfaceestate in the propertyincluding all coal, ligniteand other near surfaceminerals, but excludingthe oil, gas and all otherliquid and gaseous hy-drocarbons producedwith oil and gas. Plain-tiff hereby seeks a par-tition by sale of the sur-face estate in the prop-erty, including all coal,lignite, and other nearsurface mineral, but notof the oil, gas and allother liquid and gase-ous hydrocarbons. (Thepropertydescription is all thatcertain tract lot or par-cel of land, a part of theDelores Corrinas Sur-vey A-160 and a part ofthe Thomas WilliamSurvey A-833, RuskCounty, Texas and alsobeing all of that certaincalled 26 acres tract ofland (Share No. 1 toBessie Barr) describedin a Final Decree ofPartition, Case No.19143, styled AmeliaBolding, et al vs. WillieBarr, et al, that is re-corded in theDistrict Court Recordsof Rusk County, Texas)

More fully shown byPlaintiffʼs OriginalPetition on file in thissuit.

Petitioner isrepresented by:DAVID E. JACKSON711 W. 7TH STREETAUSTIN, TEXAS 78701

If this citation is notserved within ninetydays after the date ofits issuance, it shall bereturned unserved.

The officer executingthis writ shall promptlyserve the same accord-ing to requirements oflaw, and the mandateshereof, and make duereturn as the law di-rects.

Issued and given undermy hand and seal ofsaid Court atHenderson, Texas, the31st day of March2014.

COURTNEY TERRY,Rusk County District

ClerkP.O. Box 1687 -Henderson, TX

75653-1687115 N. Main St., Suite301 - Henderson, TX

75652Phone (903) 657-0353

BY: Laurey Martin, Deputy

Legals

CITATION BYPUBLICATION

THE STATE OFTEXAS

COUNTY OF RUSK

2013-390

TO: Nelson Green-wood, Defendant(s)

GREETINGS: Youhave been sued. Youmay employ an attor-ney. If you or yourattorney does not file awritten answer with theclerk who issued thiscitation by ten oʼclock(10) a.m. on the Mon-day next following theexpiration of forth-two(42) days from thedate of the issuanceof this citation, a de-fault judgment may betaken against you.

You are hereby com-manded to appear byfling a written answer tothe Plaintiffʼs OriginalPetition at or beforeten oʼclock (10:00) a.m.of the Monday nextafter the expiration offorty-two (42) daysfrom the date of theissuance of this cita-tion same being Mon-day the 19th day ofMay, 2014, before theHonorable 4th JudicialDistrict Court of RuskCounty, Texas, at thecourt House of saidCounty in Henderson,Texas.

Luminant Mining Com-pany, LLC,(Petitioner(s), filed insaid Court on the 26thof November, 2013,against Deborah D.Johnson, MichelleDade, Wilfred Cooksey,Gerald Toney, NicoleToney, Howard Story,Marion Carol Story,Nelson Greenwood, Jr.,Marjorie H. Williams,Wilmer Forrest Trimble,Jr., Marjorie H. Williamsa/k/a/ Wilmer ForestTrimble, Jr., SharonTrimble Donaldson,Selia Trimble Shawkey,and Billie J. MurphyTremble, Defendant(s),and said suit beingnumbered 2013-390 onthe docket of saidCourt, and styled:

LUMINANT MININGCOMPANY LLC,

vsDEBORAH D.

JOHNSON, MICHELLEDADE, WILFRED

COOKSEY, GERALDTONEY, ET AL

A brief statement ofthe nature of this suitis as follows, to wit:

**Plaintiff andDefendants are all ofthe undivided interestowners in a tract of landin Rusk County contain-ing 25.326 acres. Plain-tiff and Defendants arethe undivided interestowners of the surfaceestate in the propertyincluding all coal, ligniteand other near surfaceminerals, but excludingthe oil, gas and all otherliquid and gaseous hy-drocarbons producedwith oil and gas. Plain-tiff hereby seeks a par-tition by sale of the sur-face estate in the prop-erty, including all coal,lignite, and other nearsurface mineral, but notof the oil, gas and allother liquid and gase-ous hydrocarbons. (Thepropertydescription is all thatcertain tract lot or par-cel of land, a part of theDelores Corrinas Sur-vey A-160 and a part ofthe Thomas WilliamSurvey A-833, RuskCounty, Texas and alsobeing all of that certaincalled 26 acres tract ofland (Share No. 1 toBessie Barr) describedin a Final Decree ofPartition, Case No.19143, styled AmeliaBolding, et al vs. WillieBarr, et al, that is re-corded in theDistrict Court Recordsof Rusk County, Texas)

More fully shown byPlaintiffʼs OriginalPetition on file in thissuit.

Petitioner isrepresented by:DAVID E. JACKSON711 W. 7TH STREETAUSTIN, TEXAS 78701

If this citation is notserved within ninetydays after the date ofits issuance, it shall bereturned unserved.

The officer executingthis writ shall promptlyserve the same accord-ing to requirements oflaw, and the mandateshereof, and make duereturn as the law di-rects.

Issued and given undermy hand and seal ofsaid Court atHenderson, Texas, the31st day of March2014.

COURTNEY TERRY,Rusk County District

ClerkP.O. Box 1687 -Henderson, TX

75653-1687115 N. Main St., Suite301 - Henderson, TX

75652Phone (903) 657-0353

BY: Laurey Martin, Deputy

Legals

CITATION BYPUBLICATION

THE STATE OFTEXAS

COUNTY OF RUSK

2013-390

TO: Nelson Green-wood, Defendant(s)

GREETINGS: Youhave been sued. Youmay employ an attor-ney. If you or yourattorney does not file awritten answer with theclerk who issued thiscitation by ten oʼclock(10) a.m. on the Mon-day next following theexpiration of forth-two(42) days from thedate of the issuanceof this citation, a de-fault judgment may betaken against you.

You are hereby com-manded to appear byfling a written answer tothe Plaintiffʼs OriginalPetition at or beforeten oʼclock (10:00) a.m.of the Monday nextafter the expiration offorty-two (42) daysfrom the date of theissuance of this cita-tion same being Mon-day the 19th day ofMay, 2014, before theHonorable 4th JudicialDistrict Court of RuskCounty, Texas, at thecourt House of saidCounty in Henderson,Texas.

Luminant Mining Com-pany, LLC,(Petitioner(s), filed insaid Court on the 26thof November, 2013,against Deborah D.Johnson, MichelleDade, Wilfred Cooksey,Gerald Toney, NicoleToney, Howard Story,Marion Carol Story,Nelson Greenwood, Jr.,Marjorie H. Williams,Wilmer Forrest Trimble,Jr., Marjorie H. Williamsa/k/a/ Wilmer ForestTrimble, Jr., SharonTrimble Donaldson,Selia Trimble Shawkey,and Billie J. MurphyTremble, Defendant(s),and said suit beingnumbered 2013-390 onthe docket of saidCourt, and styled:

LUMINANT MININGCOMPANY LLC,

vsDEBORAH D.

JOHNSON, MICHELLEDADE, WILFRED

COOKSEY, GERALDTONEY, ET AL

A brief statement ofthe nature of this suitis as follows, to wit:

**Plaintiff andDefendants are all ofthe undivided interestowners in a tract of landin Rusk County contain-ing 25.326 acres. Plain-tiff and Defendants arethe undivided interestowners of the surfaceestate in the propertyincluding all coal, ligniteand other near surfaceminerals, but excludingthe oil, gas and all otherliquid and gaseous hy-drocarbons producedwith oil and gas. Plain-tiff hereby seeks a par-tition by sale of the sur-face estate in the prop-erty, including all coal,lignite, and other nearsurface mineral, but notof the oil, gas and allother liquid and gase-ous hydrocarbons. (Thepropertydescription is all thatcertain tract lot or par-cel of land, a part of theDelores Corrinas Sur-vey A-160 and a part ofthe Thomas WilliamSurvey A-833, RuskCounty, Texas and alsobeing all of that certaincalled 26 acres tract ofland (Share No. 1 toBessie Barr) describedin a Final Decree ofPartition, Case No.19143, styled AmeliaBolding, et al vs. WillieBarr, et al, that is re-corded in theDistrict Court Recordsof Rusk County, Texas)

More fully shown byPlaintiffʼs OriginalPetition on file in thissuit.

Petitioner isrepresented by:DAVID E. JACKSON711 W. 7TH STREETAUSTIN, TEXAS 78701

If this citation is notserved within ninetydays after the date ofits issuance, it shall bereturned unserved.

The officer executingthis writ shall promptlyserve the same accord-ing to requirements oflaw, and the mandateshereof, and make duereturn as the law di-rects.

Issued and given undermy hand and seal ofsaid Court atHenderson, Texas, the31st day of March2014.

COURTNEY TERRY,Rusk County District

ClerkP.O. Box 1687 -Henderson, TX

75653-1687115 N. Main St., Suite301 - Henderson, TX

75652Phone (903) 657-0353

BY: Laurey Martin, Deputy

Legals

CITATION BYPUBLICATION

THE STATE OFTEXAS

COUNTY OF RUSK

2013-390

TO: Nelson Green-wood, Defendant(s)

GREETINGS: Youhave been sued. Youmay employ an attor-ney. If you or yourattorney does not file awritten answer with theclerk who issued thiscitation by ten oʼclock(10) a.m. on the Mon-day next following theexpiration of forth-two(42) days from thedate of the issuanceof this citation, a de-fault judgment may betaken against you.

You are hereby com-manded to appear byfling a written answer tothe Plaintiffʼs OriginalPetition at or beforeten oʼclock (10:00) a.m.of the Monday nextafter the expiration offorty-two (42) daysfrom the date of theissuance of this cita-tion same being Mon-day the 19th day ofMay, 2014, before theHonorable 4th JudicialDistrict Court of RuskCounty, Texas, at thecourt House of saidCounty in Henderson,Texas.

Luminant Mining Com-pany, LLC,(Petitioner(s), filed insaid Court on the 26thof November, 2013,against Deborah D.Johnson, MichelleDade, Wilfred Cooksey,Gerald Toney, NicoleToney, Howard Story,Marion Carol Story,Nelson Greenwood, Jr.,Marjorie H. Williams,Wilmer Forrest Trimble,Jr., Marjorie H. Williamsa/k/a/ Wilmer ForestTrimble, Jr., SharonTrimble Donaldson,Selia Trimble Shawkey,and Billie J. MurphyTremble, Defendant(s),and said suit beingnumbered 2013-390 onthe docket of saidCourt, and styled:

LUMINANT MININGCOMPANY LLC,

vsDEBORAH D.

JOHNSON, MICHELLEDADE, WILFRED

COOKSEY, GERALDTONEY, ET AL

A brief statement ofthe nature of this suitis as follows, to wit:

**Plaintiff andDefendants are all ofthe undivided interestowners in a tract of landin Rusk County contain-ing 25.326 acres. Plain-tiff and Defendants arethe undivided interestowners of the surfaceestate in the propertyincluding all coal, ligniteand other near surfaceminerals, but excludingthe oil, gas and all otherliquid and gaseous hy-drocarbons producedwith oil and gas. Plain-tiff hereby seeks a par-tition by sale of the sur-face estate in the prop-erty, including all coal,lignite, and other nearsurface mineral, but notof the oil, gas and allother liquid and gase-ous hydrocarbons. (Thepropertydescription is all thatcertain tract lot or par-cel of land, a part of theDelores Corrinas Sur-vey A-160 and a part ofthe Thomas WilliamSurvey A-833, RuskCounty, Texas and alsobeing all of that certaincalled 26 acres tract ofland (Share No. 1 toBessie Barr) describedin a Final Decree ofPartition, Case No.19143, styled AmeliaBolding, et al vs. WillieBarr, et al, that is re-corded in theDistrict Court Recordsof Rusk County, Texas)

More fully shown byPlaintiffʼs OriginalPetition on file in thissuit.

Petitioner isrepresented by:DAVID E. JACKSON711 W. 7TH STREETAUSTIN, TEXAS 78701

If this citation is notserved within ninetydays after the date ofits issuance, it shall bereturned unserved.

The officer executingthis writ shall promptlyserve the same accord-ing to requirements oflaw, and the mandateshereof, and make duereturn as the law di-rects.

Issued and given undermy hand and seal ofsaid Court atHenderson, Texas, the31st day of March2014.

COURTNEY TERRY,Rusk County District

ClerkP.O. Box 1687 -Henderson, TX

75653-1687115 N. Main St., Suite301 - Henderson, TX

75652Phone (903) 657-0353

BY: Laurey Martin, Deputy

LegalsCITATION BYPUBLICATION

THE STATE OFTEXAS

COUNTY OF RUSK

2013-390

TO: Nelson Green-wood, Defendant(s)

GREETINGS: Youhave been sued. Youmay employ an attor-ney. If you or yourattorney does not file awritten answer with theclerk who issued thiscitation by ten oʼclock(10) a.m. on the Mon-day next following theexpiration of forth-two(42) days from thedate of the issuanceof this citation, a de-fault judgment may betaken against you.

You are hereby com-manded to appear byfling a written answer tothe Plaintiffʼs OriginalPetition at or beforeten oʼclock (10:00) a.m.of the Monday nextafter the expiration offorty-two (42) daysfrom the date of theissuance of this cita-tion same being Mon-day the 19th day ofMay, 2014, before theHonorable 4th JudicialDistrict Court of RuskCounty, Texas, at thecourt House of saidCounty in Henderson,Texas.

Luminant Mining Com-pany, LLC,(Petitioner(s), filed insaid Court on the 26thof November, 2013,against Deborah D.Johnson, MichelleDade, Wilfred Cooksey,Gerald Toney, NicoleToney, Howard Story,Marion Carol Story,Nelson Greenwood, Jr.,Marjorie H. Williams,Wilmer Forrest Trimble,Jr., Marjorie H. Williamsa/k/a/ Wilmer ForestTrimble, Jr., SharonTrimble Donaldson,Selia Trimble Shawkey,and Billie J. MurphyTremble, Defendant(s),and said suit beingnumbered 2013-390 onthe docket of saidCourt, and styled:

LUMINANT MININGCOMPANY LLC,

vsDEBORAH D.

JOHNSON, MICHELLEDADE, WILFRED

COOKSEY, GERALDTONEY, ET AL

A brief statement ofthe nature of this suitis as follows, to wit:

**Plaintiff andDefendants are all ofthe undivided interestowners in a tract of landin Rusk County contain-ing 25.326 acres. Plain-tiff and Defendants arethe undivided interestowners of the surfaceestate in the propertyincluding all coal, ligniteand other near surfaceminerals, but excludingthe oil, gas and all otherliquid and gaseous hy-drocarbons producedwith oil and gas. Plain-tiff hereby seeks a par-tition by sale of the sur-face estate in the prop-erty, including all coal,lignite, and other nearsurface mineral, but notof the oil, gas and allother liquid and gase-ous hydrocarbons. (Thepropertydescription is all thatcertain tract lot or par-cel of land, a part of theDelores Corrinas Sur-vey A-160 and a part ofthe Thomas WilliamSurvey A-833, RuskCounty, Texas and alsobeing all of that certaincalled 26 acres tract ofland (Share No. 1 toBessie Barr) describedin a Final Decree ofPartition, Case No.19143, styled AmeliaBolding, et al vs. WillieBarr, et al, that is re-corded in theDistrict Court Recordsof Rusk County, Texas)

More fully shown byPlaintiffʼs OriginalPetition on file in thissuit.

Petitioner isrepresented by:DAVID E. JACKSON711 W. 7TH STREETAUSTIN, TEXAS 78701

If this citation is notserved within ninetydays after the date ofits issuance, it shall bereturned unserved.

The officer executingthis writ shall promptlyserve the same accord-ing to requirements oflaw, and the mandateshereof, and make duereturn as the law di-rects.

Issued and given undermy hand and seal ofsaid Court atHenderson, Texas, the31st day of March2014.

COURTNEY TERRY,Rusk County District

ClerkP.O. Box 1687 -Henderson, TX

75653-1687115 N. Main St., Suite301 - Henderson, TX

75652Phone (903) 657-0353

BY: Laurey Martin, Deputy

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Once-conjoined twins to leave hospital ASSOCIATED PRESS

DALLAS — The conditions of conjoined twins separated last summer have steadily improved, and officials say they’ll be released this week from a Dallas hospital.

Officials at Medical City Chil-dren’s Hospital announced Mon-day that Owen and Emmett Ezell are expected to be discharged Wednesday. They were born in July joined at the abdomen.

The boys are no longer being fed through an IV but continue to be fed through tubes in their abdomens. And instead of being hooked to breathing machines,

they now need only the assis-tance of a trachea tube, officials said. The boys will move from the hospital to a rehab center.

Owen and Emmett were sep-arated at the hospital in August after being born joined from just below the breast bone to just below the belly button. The babies shared a liver and intes-tines and had an approximately 3-by-5-inch area on their lower stomach that wasn’t covered by skin or muscles.

Dr. Clair Schwendeman, a neonatologist, said in August that once the boys were born, tests were done to determine exactly how many connections

they had. During the nine-hour surgery, a team of surgeons sep-arated the liver and intestines, with the most difficult part being the separation of a shared blood vessel in the liver.

Conjoined twins are rare, occurring in about one in 50,000 to one in 200,000 deliveries, the doctor said.

Dave and Jenni Ezell discov-ered the twins they were expect-ing were conjoined on March 1, when Jenni Ezell was 17 weeks pregnant. The couple, who now live in Dallas but lived in Okla-homa at the time, said their doc-tor there gave them little hope the babies would survive.

Fit for a king

Staff photo by Matthew ProsserSven Randullson, King of Ansteorra, looks over his guards Saturday while being attended to during weekend festivities held by the Society of Creative Anachronism at the Kilgore College Demonstration Farm in Overton.

Dear Readers: Recently, we asked you to send in your hints on all the ways you reuse those small, brown, plastic prescription bottles. Here are some of the many ways you reuse and recycle these bottles:

• Rosanna D. in Kentucky wrote: “Use for travel storage of used diabetic fingerstick pins and test strips. Once home, seal the bottle for trash disposal.”

• Mary G., via email, said: “After collecting and drying seeds from my garden, I store them in empty prescription bottles. Just be sure the seeds are completely dry, or they will mildew.”

• Charlotte F., via email, said: “As a Cub Scout den lead-er, I taught my Scouts to use empty prescription bottles to keep matches dry. In a sepa-rate bottle, store tinder (cot-ton fibers and other dry plant material) for kindling fires (under strict supervision only, of course).”

• Marty B. in Arkansas wrote: “My hunting buddies and I use these bottles to store cotton balls saturated with deer

scent. Take the lid off and place on the ground. When finished hunt-ing, put the lid back on.” — Heloise

SCREEN CLEANING

Dear Hel-oise: Do you

have a hint on how to clean an LED screen? — Julie M., via email

Yes, and here is the Heloise information: Wipe the screen gently with a microfiber cloth.

There are cleaners made specifically for these screens, but you do not want to use any harsh liquid cleaners. A little splash of tap water on the cloth will help if the screen is really dirty. — Heloise

BOXED BREADDear Heloise: Our daugh-

ter and her family travel a lot with our grandson’s wake-boarding team. She is like everyone else who hates to have their loaf of bread squashed, so by accident she found a way to

keep it intact.After emptying a 12-pack of

canned drinks, she decided to try to see if her bread would fit at the end of the drink box, and it did.

Now, wherever we go, we use this idea to keep our bread from getting mashed. — Mary S. in Louisiana

ATTRACTING TISSUEDear Heloise: If you put a

microfiber cloth in your clothes dryer with every load, it will pick up tissues left in a pocket. The microfiber cloth will come out of the dryer with the entire tissue on it. I keep a microfiber cloth on top of my dryer just for this purpose. It picks up threads as well. — A Reader, via email

Send a money-saving or timesaving hint to Heloise, P.O. Box 795000, San Antonio, TX 78279-5000, or you can fax it to 1-210-HELOISE or email it to <Heloise@Heloise.com>. I can’t answer your letter per-sonally but will use the best hints received in my column.

(c)2014 by King Features Syndicate Inc.

New roles for prescription bottles

Hintsfrom Heloise

Storm topples RVs near Mississippi’s Gulf coastASSOCIATED PRESS

GAUTIER, Miss. — A storm barreled through Mississippi Gulf Coast communities, damag-ing or destroying about a dozen RV trailers at one campground, downing trees and power lines and cutting electricity in some areas.

The storm blew through the Santa Maria RV Park in Gautier at around 8 p.m. Monday, knock-ing some trailers off their blocks and overturning or destroying others.

The roads leading up to the RV park were littered with debris, and none of the street lights were working. Despite the destruction in the park, only two people were injured, nei-

ther seriously, according to the Mississippi Emergency Manage-ment Agency.

Park resident Harrold Rob-bins said he and his girlfriend Debbie Dales were getting ready for bed and he was at the front end of the camper they share when the wind hit.

“The front end flipped,” he said after returning from a hos-pital where he was treated for bumps and bruises and Dales got stitches to her head. “It launched me back into the back end. Then it flipped over on the other side and came back up in the air and landed on our car.”

Jessica Cook told television station WLOX she looked out her window after getting the alert that the storm was approach-

ing and said to herself, “Well, that looks a little bad.” She said that when the debris hitting the trailer got bad, she grabbed her son and they huddled together with his father.

“We were just holding each other and telling each other we loved each other because it was that bad,” she said.

Cook said her home was knocked off its blocks, but her next-door-neighbor’s was com-pletely destroyed and he was pinned under it. She said the fire department managed to free him and he was taken to a hospital.

The National Weather Service doesn’t think it was a tornado, meteorologist Robert Ricks told Biloxi newspaper the Sun Her-ald.

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the board purchased a por-table building during a regular meeting Monday night.

Last month, the board dis-cussed purchasing a portable building which will allow them to have four additional class-rooms. The district is experi-encing some growth, a good problem for them to have, and needs more space.

Board members discussed parameters of a portable build-ing and instructed Superinten-dent Donna Johnson to get quotes for them. They also said the project needed to be start-

ed before the end of this school year so the classrooms would be in place and ready for the start of the next school year.

Monday night, board mem-bers went with Ramtech out of Mansfield for a 56 x 62 porta-ble building which will feature four classrooms and a hallway. They did not expend the addi-tional $70,000 it would have cost to put restrooms in this building, saying that cost was just too great.

The company will visit Lev-erett’s Chapel and decide with the board where the best place to put the portable building will be. Then, they will build the pad, construct the building and have everything ready to go for the start of next school year.

Board members said they would have liked to have rest-rooms in the new building, but the cost was just too high. The initial place where the build-ing is proposed to be placed is between the current buildings and adjacent to the parking lot.

Board members visited with several other districts and sev-eral other companies before deciding to recommend Ram-tech to the board as a whole. That company has had suc-cess with its portable build-ing construction, they said, and checked out on references, price and customer satisfac-tion.

Officials from LCISD’s high school and counselor’s office were also on hand to discuss graduation plans through House Bill 5. Basically, they said the plans will not change that much at the school but the language will.

Instead of minimum, the graduation plan will now be called foundation. And, instead of recommended, that gradua-tion plan will now be called foundation with endorse-ments.

The students who are now ninth graders as well as incom-ing ninth graders will be put on the new plans, while those who are incoming juniors and seniors will not since they are already so far along.

There are five potential endorsements for students, and LCISD will offer four of those. They include Science, Technology and Math, Agricul-ture, Arts and Humanities and Multi-Disciplinary.

Staff Writer Greg Collins can be reached via e-mail at <gcollins@hen-

bond should be furnished for one year.

“This is to ensure if any-thing happens to the improve-ments that the maintenance bond will be able to fix it rather than the city having to bear that cost,” Brown said.

Officials allowed Kelley to put up a $150,000 note along with an area of undeveloped land.

“He had enough to put up as security and give the city a note for $150,000, which is the amount of the original maintenance bond that’s pay-able on demand,” Brown said. “So if something happens we can demand payment if some-thing goes wrong, so the city is protected either way.”

Former city manager Greg Smith said as long as Kelley paid for repairs in the event of an emergency, there was nothing for the city to worry about.

A couple of weeks later, in early February of 2004, coun-cil members voted accept-ing the streets, water and wastewater improvements to the subdivision’s second phase, with Kinnebrew voting against the improvements.

According to the city’s min-utes, a preliminary plat for the subdivision’s third phase was approved by both council members and the city’s plan-ning and zoning commission Oct. 27, 2009.

On Feb. 9, 2010, a final plat with 30 lots was pre-sented to council members, though former councilman

Mike Smith said there were concerns a street wouldn’t be able to hold drainage.

Council members approved the final plat of the project.

In January of 2011, former Community Development Director Paul Duncan said council could approve the plat but withhold any building permits until improvements were complete.

City building inspector Claude Reese asked the coun-cil to not set a warranty date until the improvements were complete.

On March 13, 2012, former city manager Mike Barrow said a one and a half inch of asphalt overlay was needed for the roads in Phase III of the subdivision.

Kelley hired Apex Geo-science engineers who said adding the asphalt would be sufficient to meet the city’s standards.

“If Mr. Kelley can sell these two lots and get permits, he can get his (money) to do the streets,” the minutes state.

During the council’s March 27, 2012 meeting, Kelley’s attorney at the time, Jamey Holmes, said testing indicat-ed an overlay with asphalt and correction of the “crown” was needed for the streets, which received an $87,000 bid.

He said the lots would need to be sold to pay the con-tractor for the overlay work, according to the minutes.

Barrow said there wasn’t much road to fix for the lots and he wanted to see a con-

tract of the work to be done.Council members approved

issuing the building permits for the lots near Penbrook Street once a copy of the pave-ment contract was produced.

On April 9, 2013, Barrow said Kelley requested $15,000 from the city to bring the streets up to requirements.

“Mr. Kelley didn’t accept our offer, and other lots have been sold,” the minutes state.

On April 25, 2013, coun-cil members tabled approv-ing Phase III of Terra Nova. Barrow said there were con-cerns with Kenswick Street and Penbrook streets.

On Oct. 22, 2013, Reese said building permits for Terra Nova were purchased, but he was concerned with issuing permits until Kelley repaired the streets.

Brown said Kelley should convey to people interested in purchasing the lots that the ordinance authorizes with-holding building permits.

“Unfortunately the council didn’t require Mr. Kelley to make a bond or put up a letter of credit,” Brown said.

Brown mentioned the pos-sibility of getting a judgment for the streets.

Staff Writer Rachael Riley can be reached via e-mail at <rriley@hendersondailynews.com>.

recognized for his efforts at the Rusk County Youth Project. DuBose said Davis won Grand Champion in Creative Arts for his baked goods, placed with his roasters, and was presented with an Ag Mechanics project of a cedar dining table.

“We’re proud of all of our students who participat-ed in the project show,” he said. “Our buyers club raised approximately $10,000 for our students, so we really thankful to have such support from our community.”

The board also met in a pre-liminary budget workshop to look at the early numbers in the budget, discuss when more information would be available and to discuss the timeline for approving a budget and tax rate.

“It’s still early in this pro-cess,” he said. “But we’re ahead of where we were at this point

last year, so I’m encouraged by that.”

OISD technology director William Mansfield presented a job summation for his position. DuBose said board members have received job summations from many OISD employees “in order to keep the trustees informed of the many facets of the district.”

The board accepted two gifts to the district, a $100 donation for trees from the Overton Gar-den Club and a $28,000 dona-tion from Clary E&I Services for lights at the softball field.

“It’s always helpful when individuals and businesses step up and lend a hand,” he said. “We’re very appreciative of their support.”

DuBose then told trust-ees the site-based committee report included the assigning of a “Recognized” rating to the district and each campus for the Community and Student

Engagement element of the state accountability system.

After a brief executive ses-sion the board returned to the open meeting and accepted the resignation of high school teacher Brittany Button, approved the hiring of Nick-ie Rhea and the contract of returning employee Brittany Batten.

In other business Monday, board members:

• NOMINATED OISD superintendent Stephen DuBose to the Executive Com-mittee of the Regional Advi-sory Committee.

• APPROVED selecting Tyler-based Henry & Peters, PC as the district’s auditors.

• APPROVED the calendar for the 2014-15 school year.

• APPROVED the financial report for March 2014.

Managing Editor Matthew Prosser can be reached via e-mail at <mprosser@hendersondailynews.com>.

Besides accepting an 1861 map of Rusk County in honor of the late J.R. Patterson, a long-time attorney in Henderson, the county also heard reports from the Depot Museum, the Rusk County Library, Elections Administrator Kathie Wittner and from several other county officials in a busy morning.

Patterson, represented by his wife Pud and son Ben, were on hand as the Rusk County Bar Association presented a framed 1861 map of Rusk County to the court in his honor. That framed map now hangs on the wall of the courtroom.

Vickie Armstrong with the Depot Museum presented a detailed report on the activity of that venue in 2013, saying attendance was down from the year before because the Discov-ery Center, now opened again, was closed for part of the year. She did say that, in 34 years, nearly 500,000 people have visited the facility in Hender-son.

Pam Pipkin with the Rusk County Library also presented her report as well as a request for new board members, and the county approved all with-out a lot of questions.

Pipkin said the library is looking at an online program which will enhance usage of the facility, and she said that in the last year the library has started other new programs that have caused an increase in requests for library cards as well as usage of the four Rusk County library branches.

Wittner presented informa-tion on countywide voter cen-ters, a proposal she is looking into which would allow county voters to go to any one of 14 designated places on Election Day to cast a ballot.

As it stands now, voters can only go to their desig-nated polling place on Elec-tion Day, something that is, at times, causing people not to vote because they do not have

the time or the inclination to go to that polling place. With the new program, should it be implemented, they will have 14 different locations across the county to choose where they vote on Election Day.

Wittner said this proposal right now is information only but could, if it is backed by the county and the voters, be implemented by the time the November election occurs this year.

Per a request by Kilgore College, the commissioners approved April 29 as Gerald Stanglin Day in Rusk County to honor the college adminis-trator who is retiring this year after 17 years at Kilgore Col-lege. Stanglin was in charge of curriculum and that type of thing during his long career at Kilgore College.

The lawmakers also declared a tape drive, monitors, and computers as surplus to be recycled by STS Electronic Recycling Inc. in Jacksonville.

Also, they approved the re-advertisement of sealed bids for flooring in the County Clerk’s Office in the courthouse, the Tax Assessor-Collector’s Office and Elections Administrator’s Office. Sealed bids are due by 10 a.m. on May 5 in County Auditor’s Office.

Good Springs Water Supply Corp. was approved to place a 3/4-inch waterline in a 2-inch casing under the right of way of County Road 414 in Pre-cinct 4, while Forest Oil Corp. was approved to place an above ground temporary waterline across the right of way of Coun-ty Road 481 in Precinct 4.

The Indigent Health Care and Public Assistance report, the Auditor’s monthly report, the treasurer’s monthly report and the public health coordina-tor’s monthly report were all unanimously approved during the meeting.

James Pike, Rusk County Emergency Management Coor-dinator, presented information

to commissioners during the public comment portion of the meeting.

“Tammy (Honea) is doing a good job with licensing, the restaurants and other health related things,” he said.

Pike also discussed the county health rating, calculat-ed on a state level among 232 counties.

“Last year we were 171,” he said. “This year we are 159, an improvement over last year.”

Pike said Rusk County’s rat-ing was better than Henderson County, Anderson County and Cherokee County, counties that are similar to Rusk County in geography.

“We have improved in the areas of premature death, dia-betes, violent crime and air pollution among other things,” Pike said.

The areas where Rusk Coun-ty can improve, he said, were adult obesity, uninsured people in the county, and children who are living in poverty.

“Now, we can take all of this with a grain of salt, but there are areas where we can improve that no one can disagree with,” he said.

Kamila Brown is working with several coalitions, includ-ing LEAN, WORC, ETCADA, NEXTET and PAET, groups who are diverse in their efforts to make Rusk County a health-ier place to live. Regional coali-tions she works with include SALT and PAET, groups who are working to save lives through different programs.

Pike also said Brown has designed a brochure for PAET as well as the fact she has updated the County Resource Guide and put it on the county website.

“This guide looks at the county health rating and breaks it down into specific areas where we can improve,” he said.

Staff Writer Greg Collins can be reached via e-mail at <gcollins@hender-sondailynews.com>.

commissioners’ courtroom.“He started practicing law

six years before I was born,” Holmes said. “Like a lot of peo-ple in Rusk County who stayed in the same job for a long time, he had a quiet pride about what he did, and he knew he had made a difference for this com-munity with the job he did.”

Holmes said Patterson was always a gentleman, always nice and, to his knowledge, Holmes never heard anyone say a negative word about Pat-terson or his practice.

“And, he was always at Her-schel’s, with Pud by his side, talking and laughing with peo-ple,” Holmes said.

Holmes said it was impor-tant for the Bar Association to allow people to remember Patterson for his longtime ser-vice to Henderson and Rusk County.

“His lasting tribute is that he made a positive difference in this city and this community, and it is the honor of the Rusk County Bar Association to leave this lasting honor to him here in the commissioners’ court-room,” Holmes said.

His wife and son were hon-ored to be in the meeting to see the map unveiled, and Mrs. Patterson had just a few words of thanks to the Bar Associa-tion, to the commissioners and to the people who showed up to

watch the presentation.“We are grateful for the

honor,” she said.Also attending from the Bar

Assocation were Judge Clay Gossett, Judge Chad Dean, Dis-trict Attorney Micheal Jimer-son, Henderson City Attorney David Brown, Darryl Bennett, Holmes and a host of other attorneys and friends of the family.

County Clerk Joyce Lewis-Kugle helped Holmes unveil the map before the packed courtroom, which erupted in applause when the framed map came into view.

Staff Writer Greg Collins can be reached via e-mail at <gcollins@hender-sondailynews.com>.

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Staff photo by Matthew ProsserOverton ISD board of trustees honored the 2013-14 teachers of the year during Monday night’s meeting. Shown with their awards are Seth Drennan, Overton High; Tammy Baker, Overton Elementary; and Subrina Bryan, Overton Middle.

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