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The man who put the life back into anEast Texas town died Sunday.

Brooks Gremmels, 70, was responsiblefor putting Ben Wheeler in Van ZandtCounty back on themap by refurbishingrundown buildingsand bringing in artists,entertainers and festi-vals.

He died at 9:10p.m. at HomePlaceHospice in Tyler frompancreatic cancercomplications, ac-cording to a statementreleased by the Gremmels family. He wasdiagnosed with the disease in April 2012.

When Brooks Gremmels, a retired oil-man, decided to retire with his wife Rese,they landed in his hometown of BenWheeler. Seeing the state of the town, thecouple decided to stay.

“I got down here and was shocked tosee what had happened,” he said in a 2009

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uge” doesn’t quite seem to encom-pass Kacey Musgraves’ night Sunday as the newcomer sin-ger/songwriter from Mineola twice

won Grammy gold, a sentiment that is sharedamong her friends and family back home in EastTexas.

Barbara Musgraves said you could haveheard her screaming across the region she wasso excited when they called her granddaugh-ter’s name as she won best country album for“Same Trailer Different Park.”

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The Texas Department of State Health ServicesMonday issued a fish consumption advisory forportions of the Neches River Basin, including SamRayburn Reservoir and B.A. Steinhagen Reservoir.

The advisory covers six species of fish caughtbetween the Texas Highway 7 bridge west of Lufkindownstream to the U.S. Highway 96 bridge nearEvadale and both reservoirs. It was issued after lab-oratory testing of fish samples found elevated levelsof mercury and dioxins.

DSHS recommends people limit or avoid con-sumption of these species because eating contami-

Fish consumption advisory issued for Neches River

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A Smith County fire official said theJan. 17 fire that injured Lindale firefighterJoe Yeakley and Dixie firefighter CalebSnider when the garage roof collapsed, issimilar to another fire at the same resi-dence in August 2002.

While the investigation into the firecontinues, Yeakley remains hospitalizedin Parkland Hospital in Dallas where heunderwent several surgeries and will re-main for up to five months, Smith CountyAssistant Fire Marshal Oren Hale said.

Hale said during the most recent fireinvestigation at 5922 Childress Drive, thehomeowner told him he had been smok-ing in bed while reading a magazine be-fore he got up to watch television.

Lindale firefighterstill hospitalized, to remain in Dallasfor up to 5 months

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The flu season may have seen its peak,but the virus still lurks in the community,health officials note.

East Texas Medical Center announcedMonday that they had another flu-relateddeath, bringing the count to two at thehospital and a total of three for SmithCounty. There have also been four flu-re-lated deaths in Gregg County this season,

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Don’t rush deal toprivatize hospitalProcess matters. That’s why Texas Health and

Human Services Commissioner Dr. Kyle Janekshould heed state Sen. Robert Nichols’ call toput a halt to the privatization of Terrell State

Hospital (see our article on Page A1 of this edition).There’s no cause to doubt Dr. Janek’s commitment

to providing the best care possible for our state’s se-verely mentally ill residents. But as he proceeds with acontract with the GEO Care group to take over the Ter-rell facility, there’s cause to question how the processworked. There’s also room to explore whether privati-zation is really the answer for our budget-strapped statepsychiatric hospitals.

First, process. Dr. Janek contends that the 2013budget (“General Appropriations Act”) requires him to“create a 10-year plan for the state hospital system andthe delivery of inpatient mental health care.”

And he should do so — but when that 10-year plancontemplates something as major as privatizing one(and perhaps eventually more) of the state’s 10 psychi-atric hospitals, such a decision should be made by theTexas Legislature, not by an unelected appointee. It’s aquestion of accountability; voters prefer that big deci-sions be made by legislators, who can be held directlyaccountable.

The second issue is privatization. In many cases, pri-vatization can work well — because in theory, it’ssound. Free market forces usually cause private sectorcompanies to operate more efficiently.

But often, when contracts with private companiesare drawn up, those very free market forces are stifled— on purpose.

For example, competition drives the free market to-ward more efficiency and higher quality. But many pri-vatization deals include non-compete clauses; in otherwords, the private firm is giving exclusive rights, for a

specified length of time.The exclusive nature of a privatization scheme can

also work against cost savings. One example is thearrangement Texas had with the data analytics com-pany 21CT.

That firm had a $110 million no-bid contract with thestate to ferret out Medicaid fraud. Even as a criminalinvestigation was launched into the company’s deal-ings, the firm was asking for more money from thestate.

And then there’s accountability. When state agenciesare doing the work — whether it’s building a road orproviding a service, they’re on the hook for the results.When agencies contract with a private firm to do thework, there’s another layer added, which reduces ac-countability.

Of course, good contracts can mitigate many of thedrawbacks, and privatization has worked in many spe-cific instances in the state of Texas.

But the bottom line at Texas psychiatric hospitalsisn’t the bottom line — it’s the care of patients. Somecorners shouldn’t be cut. The last time GEO Care madea bid to take over a psychiatric hospital, it pledged tosave the state 10 percent over the prior year’s budgetat Kerrville State Hospital.

But Dr. David Lakey, head of the Department ofState Health Services (a division of HHS), rejected thebid, because savings would be “achieved primarilythrough reductions in staffing and benefits to a degreethat would put both our patients and the state of Texasat risk,” he said.

With too many unanswered questions, and the Leg-islature about to convene, we agree with Sen. Nichols’assessment, that the process should be halted so theLegislature can have the appropriate time to review thematter.

Barack Obama has made a geopolitical irrelevancy sud-denly relevant to American presidential politics. Fordecades, Cuba has been instructive as a museum of

two stark failures: socialism and the U.S. embargo. Now,Cuba has become useful as a clarifier of different Republicanflavors of foreign-policy thinking.

The permanent embargo was im-posed in 1962 in the hope of achiev-ing, among other things, regimechange. Well.

Fidel Castro, 88, has not beenseen in public since January and maybe even more mentally diminishedthan anyone — including his 83-yearold brother — who still adheres toMarxism. Whatever Fidel’s condition,however, Cuba has been governed bythe Castros during 11 U.S. presidencies, and for more yearsthan the Soviet Union dominated Eastern Europe. Regimechange — even significant regime modification — has nothappened in Havana.

Some conservative criticisms of Obama’s new Cuba pol-icy — which includes normalizing diplomatic and commer-cial relations, to the extent that presidential action can —seem reflexive. They look symptomatic of Cold War Nostal-gia and 1930s Envy — yearnings for the moral clarity of thestruggle with the totalitarians. Cuba’s regime, although to-talitarian, no longer matters in international politics. Asbankrupt morally as it is economically, the regime is intel-lectually preposterous and an enticing model only for peoplewho want to live where there are lots of 1950s Chevrolets.

Eleven million Cubans, however, matter. Obama’s newpolicy is defensible if it will improve their political condi-tions by insinuating into Cuba economic and cultural forcesthat will be subversive of tyranny.

Sen. Rand Paul, a potential Republican presidential can-didate, evidently considers this hope highly probable. He iscorrect to support giving it a try. But he may not understandhow many times such wishes have fathered the thought thatcommerce can pacify the world. In 1910, 40 peaceful Euro-pean years after the Franco-Prussian War, Norman Angell’sbook “The Great Illusion” became an international best-seller by arguing that war between developed industrialcountries would be prohibitively expensive, hence futile,hence unlikely. Soon Europe stumbled into what was, essen-tially, a 30-year war.

Angell’s theory was an early version of what foreign-pol-icy analyst James Mann calls “the Starbucks fallacy,” the the-ory that when people become accustomed to a plurality ofcoffee choices, they will successfully demand political plu-ralism. We are sadder but wiser now that this theory hasbeen wounded, if not slain, by facts, two of which are Chinaand Vietnam. Both combine relatively open economic sys-tems with political systems that remain resolutely closed.

Sen. Marco Rubio, a potential 2016 rival of Paul’s, is prop-erly disgusted that Obama, in striking his deal with Cuba, ac-complished disgracefully little for the country’sbreathtakingly brave democracy advocates. There are tworeasons for questioning whether Obama really tried. First,he is generally congruent with, and partly a product of, aca-demic leftism. Hence, he might be tinged with the sentimen-talism that has made Cuba a destination for political pilgrimstoo ideologically blinkered to see the extraordinary sadismof Cuba’s treatment of its many political prisoners. Second,Obama is so phobic about George W. Bush’s miscarried“regime change” in Iraq, that he cannot embrace, or at leastenunciate, a regime change policy toward Cuba. Regimechange, however, must be, at bottom, the justification for hisnew approach.

Cuba Derangement Syndrome (CDS), a recurring fever,accounted for the Bay of Pigs calamity, the most feckless useof U.S. power ever. After this, the Kennedys, President Johnand Attorney General Robert, continued to encourage hare-brained attempts to destabilize Cuba and assassinate itsleader.

Today, CDS afflicts those who, like Rubio, charge thatU.S. diplomatic relations and economic interactions “lead tolegitimizing” Cuba’s regime. America’s doctrine about legit-imacy has been clear since the Declaration of Independence:Governments derive their “just powers” from the consent ofthe governed.

What makes Rubio uncharacteristically shrill, saying Paulhas “no idea what he’s talking about”? And what makes Paultoo clever by half when saying Rubio wants to “retreat to ourborders” and hence is an “isolationist”? CDS does this. Asthey brawl about Cuba, a geopolitical irrelevancy, neitherseems presidential.

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Misleading CIA report failed to examine important factsThe needle already was in the

haystack. That essentially isthe message em-

bedded in the Democ-rats’ Senate SelectCommittee on Intelli-gence report on CIAinterrogations and de-tentions, approvedwithout a single Re-publican vote and re-leased by committeeChairwoman DianneFeinstein of California.

Three former CIA directors con-tend that enhanced interrogationtechniques, approved under Presi-dent George W. Bush and prohib-ited by President Barack Obama,yielded key information that savedlives and led to Osama bin Laden’scompound in Abbottabad, Pak-istan. These claims go againstDemocratic rhetoric about whatPresident Obama calls “the falsechoice between our security andour ideals.” Democrats need to be-

lieve that what Feinstein calls “tor-ture” doesn’t actually yield infor-

mation. So in 2009, theSenate IntelligenceCommittee voted tostudy CIA interroga-tions.

Feinstein has urgedcritics to read the re-port. I read the 500-page executivesummary and finishedwith more questions

than answers. It was like reading abureaucratic version of Mad maga-zine’s onetime cartoon “Spy vs.Spy.” Clearly, there are rifts in theintelligence community. There wasthe FBI vs. the CIA — part turf war,part mission divide. Within theCIA, there were officers who be-lieved in rapport building and offi-cers who believed that shows offorce deliver the goods. My guessis that both methods work, al-though one can be faster. Each sideof that divide thinks its approach

teased out the information that ledto bin Laden.

The committee, to its discredit,chose to tarnish the tough guys.The CIA, the report notes, “deter-mined from its own experiencewith coercive interrogations, thatsuch techniques ‘do not produceintelligence,’ ‘will probably resultin false answers,’ and had histori-cally proven to be ineffective. Yetthese conclusions were ignored.” Ifinformation was gleaned withoutthe now-banned techniques andlater a detainee offered it up duringor after a harsh interrogation, thereport deliberately ignored theharsh-sourced tidbit. The commit-tee waded through 6.3 million doc-uments. You could see how a CIAofficer working in a warehouse ofdata might not see a phone num-ber’s significance until a detaineelied in a way that signaled its im-port. The committee deliberatelyignored any breakthrough revela-tions.

The summary dismisses en-hanced interrogation techniquesbecause detainees subjected tothem were known to provide fabri-cated information. Hello, Republi-cans counter, detainees not subjectto harsh measures also fabricateanswers. The CIA mocked thecommittee’s credulity in generallyaccepting “at face value detainees’accounts that they lied under en-hanced techniques and told thetruth” afterward.

The GOP minority report slamsthe committee’s failure to inter-view anyone at the CIA.

The report cost taxpayers $40million — for which Team DiFiblames the CIA. The outcome waspredetermined. Feinstein main-tains that waterboarding and sleepdeprivation are “torture” that failedto produce crucial information ob-tainable by other means. CIA chiefJohn Brennan wouldn’t use thatword.

He told reporters last week it is

“unknowable” whether the CIAwould have learned what it neededto know without harsh measures.“But for someone to say that therewas no intelligence of value — ofuse — that came from those de-tainees once they were subjectedto EITs?” Brennan said. “I thinkthat lacks any foundation at all.”

“If it were not clear before, theFeinstein report shows that De-mocrats do not have the stomachfor the tough policies necessary toprevail,” John Yoo, the formerBush lawyer who wrote memos au-thorizing the use of enhanced inter-rogation techniques, opined inNational Review. “Because theycannot deny their involvement,they must claim that the CIA lied.”

For all the many offenses cata-loged in the Feinstein report, theJustice Department investigationconcluded in 2012 without findingany prosecutable offense. Thattells me the wrongdoings alleged inthe report aren’t remotely solid.

Presidential politicsmakes Cuba relevant

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ike the fiery-eye of Sauron beckoning ring-bearers to Mordor, celebri-ties, cosplayers and nerds of all ages will descend on Tyler for the sec-ond Rose City Comic Con.

Comic Con will feature celebrities, vendors, gaming areas and ques-tion-and-answer sessions that will draw from a wide array of popular

culture, such as science fiction, fantasy, comic books, tel-evision and gaming.

“It’s great fun,” said Michael Stewart, a former Tyleritewho will be taking part as a video game designer. “Peopleget to come out and have a good time.”

Stewart, who lived in Tyler 1990 to 1994, said he is look-ing forward to being part of Rose City Comic Con.

“I was involved in a couple of cons (conventions) outhere — mostly gaming and fan conventions — in the late‘80s, and the attendance (at those events) was nothing

compared to last year’s con (Rose City Comic Con),” Stewart said. “The recep-tion the con has gotten has been great. Last year, people kept saying, ‘isn’t itamazing that we got something like this in the Tyler area?’”

He noted that before then, fans had to go to either Dallas or Houston to at-tend a serious comic con event.

Stewart said that Rose City Comic Con is different than comic cons in othercities.

“You get a good mix of a large attendance, a large variety in the dealer rooms

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WHO WILL BE THERE■ Colin Baker, the sixth“Dr. Who”■Kris Holden-Ried, “Under-world Awakening” and “The Tudors”■Ksenis Solo, “Black Swan” “Lost Girl”■Mike Grell, comic book authorand artist “Green Arrow” and“Green Lantern”■Neil Napier, “300,” “Immortals,”“Riddick” and “Helix”■ Jennifer Spence, “StargateUniverse” and “Killer Instinct”■Peter Kelamis, “Stargate Uni-verse,” voice of Goku in “DragonBall Z,” and Yoda in “Star Wars:The Yoda Chronicles”■ James Ward, the “Godfatherof Gaming;” instrumental in“Dungeons and Dragons”■Theo Crane, Big Tiny of “TheWalking Dead” ■Erin Marie Hogan, “paranor-mal Entity” and “Hold YourBreath”

Event organizers predict about 8,000 people will attend

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THE DETAILSWHERE: Holiday Inn, 5701 S. Broadway Ave.

WHEN: 9 a.m. to midnight Saturday9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday

TICKETS: Adults: $20 each day; $30 two-daypass; Children: $10 each day; $15 two-daypass; VIP Ticket: $50, fast-pass through lines

and priority seating at events

DID YOU KNOWMany participants come dressed

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Zombie ShootoutSaturday at TylerPublic Library

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“You get a good mix of a large atten-dance, a large variety in the dealer roomsand the symposiums, but it still kinda’ hasa feeling of small time because you don’t

feel like you’re lost in the crowd.”

MICHAEL STEWART

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yler Public Library, 201 S.College Ave., will host aZombie Shootout from 6 to 7p.m. on Saturday.

Hunters armed with Nerf gunswill have six shots in the first roundto hit as many zombies as possible.The highest scoring participants willadvance to the second round thatwill take place on the second floorof the library.

“This is a fun event to bring peo-ple into the library so we can letthem know what we have availableto them, sign them up for librarycards, and support our children’sprogramming,” Access LibrarianLori Fregoso, said in a news release

The event is open to all ages. Ad-mission can be either a bag of Hal-loween candy or a $2 donation tothe Friends of the Library, the an-nouncement said.

The library is also accepting vol-unteers to act as zombies. Those in-terested in volunteering can call903-531-1100.

FOOD, MUSIC

Palestine, BenWheeler holdannual feststhis weekend

Staff Reports

alestine and Ben Wheelerhold their annual celebra-tions this weekend. Bothoffer food, live music and

family-friendly activities.

HOT PEPPER FESTIVALAt the Palestine Hot Pepper Fes-

tival, events include a barbequeand chili cook-off, a peppers andpatriots parade, a veterans tribute,live music, beer gardens, arts andcrafts, food vendors and a “kid’szone.”

“This festival is ideal for allages,” said Heather Hrebec, eventcoordinator for the city of Pales-tine. “There will be hands-on ex-hibits, great food, Texas music andwe will also be honoring our veter-ans on Saturday evening.”

The barbeque and chili cook-offstarts today at The Hollow in OldTown Palestine with live music byKenny McCann, Gary Kyle, MattBegley and Bitter Whiskey, andBackseat Molly, according to thecity.

The festival will continue at 10a.m. Saturday with the “Peppersand Patriots” parade downtown.The Main Street District will befilled with entertainment, activitiesand an extreme trampoline show atnoon, 2 p.m. and 4 p.m.

Live music on Saturday willbegin at 10:45 a.m. and includesLarry Hooper, Paul Ruark, The PatRyan Band, Jarrett Zoch and TheBigsbys.

Headliner Cody Johnson Bandwill take the stage at 9:30 p.m. fol-lowing a salute to veterans.

FERAL HOG FESTIVALThe Feral Hog Festival pokes

fun at the expanding wild hogpopulation.

Activities begin at 7 p.m.tonight with tongue-and-cheekFall Feral Follies and Hog Queen“Coronation” at Moore’s Store.Clay Thrash and Jeff Allen alsoare set to perform.

The Forge Bar and Grill willpresent Guthrie Kennard andJulie Bonk in concert from 7 to 11p.m.

Activities on Saturday include aparade, games, outdoor market withvendors and live music at multiplevenues around downtown.

The World Championship WildHog Cook-Off also will be takingplace on Saturday.

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MARK TERRILL/APBAYLOR FORWARD RICO GATHERS dives for a loose ballThursday during the Bears’ game against Wisconsin in theNCAA men’s college basketball tournament regional semifi-nals in Anaheim, Calif.

Badgers bounce Bears, 69-52BY GREG BEACHAMAP Sports Writer

ANAHEIM, Calif. — Frank Kaminskyscored 19 points and blocked sixshots, and Wisconsin romped into theWest Regional final with a dominant69-52 victory over Baylor on Thursdaynight.Ben Brust hit three 3-pointers and

scored 14 points for the second-seededBadgers (29-7), who jumped to a 14-point lead in the first half and never letup on the overmatched Bears (26-12).

The 7-foot Kaminsky and his disci-plined teammates shredded the Baylorzone defense that played so well in thefirst two games. Wisconsin also me-thodically shut down Baylor’s talentedoffense while moving into its secondregional final in 13 years under BoRyan, who has never reached a FinalFour in a 700-win coaching career.Cory Jefferson scored 15 points for

the sixth-seeded Bears, who did littlewith their third Sweet 16 trip in fiveyears.Isaiah Austin and Kenny Chery

scored 12 points apiece for Baylor,which made two of its 15 3-point at-tempts while trailing for the final 39minutes. The Bears needed a late rallyjust to match their lowest-scoring per-formance of the season in the finalseconds.Wisconsin advanced to face the

winner of top-seeded Arizona’s meet-ing with San Diego State in the re-gional final Saturday at Honda Center.The Badgers won by countering

SOCCER | PLAYOFFS

John Tyler shuts out Texas High, 3-0

BY KRISTIE RIEKENAP Sports Writer

COLLEGE STATION — JohnnyManziel’s NFL pro day had a formerpresident, lots of swag, a Drake

soundtrack and even some football, too.The 2012 Heisman Trophy winner

threw for 75 officials from 30 teams onthe Texas A&M campus Thursday.He also had some special guests, as for-

mer President George H.W. Bush and wifeBarbara — and her two dogs — rolled intothe facility on golf carts about 10 minutesinto the workout.The always flashy Manziel was

true to his over-the-top JohnnyFootball persona, trotting intothe facility with his receivers asa tune by his buddy Drakeblasted through the building.

Manziel’s skilldelights elder Bush,others at pro day

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TEXAS A&MQUARTERBACKJohnny Manzielpasses the ballduring a drillThursday at proday for NFL foot-ball representa-tives in CollegeStation.

BY TRAVIS YOESTINGtyoesting@tylerpaper.com

LONGVIEW — John Tyler strikerLuis Duran missed his team’s bi-dis-trict playoff on Monday.Back for Thursday’s area match

against Texas High, the Lions leadingscorer showed his team just whatthey’ve been missing.Duran set up two goals and scored

the final one in John Tyler’s 3-0 vic-

tory in the Class 4A playoffs at LoboStadium.“I think he was excited to get

back,” JT coach Howard Story said.“He wanted to contribute and so hecame to prove something tonight andhe did. He set up some great plays.”The Lions (21-2-3) advance to the

sectional round next week against ei-ther Mount Pleasant or Pine Tree,who face off at 7 p.m. Friday at Trin-ity Mother Frances Rose Stadium.

Mount Pleasant gave JT one of itstwo losses on the season while PineTree knocked Lindale out of the play-offs on Tuesday, the other team tobeat JT.Ernesto Hernandez scored in the

fourth minute for JT before the Dis-trict 16-4A champs scored two goalswithin two minutes late in the secondhalf to put Texas High (16-9-2) away.

HERB NYGRENJR./STAFFJOHN TYLER’SLUIS DURANbrings the ballpast a fallenTexas Highplayer LuisMoreno duringThursdaynight’s 4a soc-cer playoffgame inLongview.

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