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half the excrement he’s already
put up with. So why would he
leave us without anyone to feel
our pain in our moments of
crisis and psoriasis, even if his
term were “officially" up?
license in this area, KLTV Channel 7 in Tyler, has even
turned the tables on the proposition that a broadcast outlet
must constantly merchandise death through highlighting
murder and mayhem, Hood and gore, to boost ratings.
It has instead been concentrating its efforts in recent
Thomas Loyd Dacus came to
Grice from Alabama in the later
part of 1911. His second wife,
Anna Viola, and children came
with him. He had lost his first
wife in Menlo, Ga., in 1909. His
children were: Willie, Anna,
Mable and Loyd Thomas, Jr. His
second wife’s child was Paul
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standably panic-stricken if Age of Aquarius, but I can’t
there were no IRS to collect think of even one at this time.
And he will proclaim, “We state of Israel, unaware that law which will be required,
have triumphed in the Battle Saddam may be about to enact
of All Motherboards.” a the “abomination of desolation”
EDITOR’S NOTE: The fol
lowing is one of a series of
selections from the Seequicen
tennial family history book,
"Upshur County, Texas," on
sale at the Chamber of Com-
merce and Historic Upshur
Museum at $50.
The following excerpt about
the Thomas Loyd Dacus fam
ily was submitted by Donna
Kouba.
Vwmen watched the man set himself ablaze in his car, then
strip off his pants in pain, and finally, naked from the waist
down, blow himself away with a shotgun to his mouth. Two
local LA stations had cut away from children’s programming
to document the event far future video historians.)
Thankfully, it doesn't happen often around these parts.
tragic events.
We have actually seen television reporters thrust a micro-
phone into the face of a surviving family member in the
immediate aftermath of some fatal tragedy. As the camera
crew looms in for a closeup, they ask, “How do you feel?
(Thursday afternoon at approximately 5:46 we witnessed
: cable channel MSNBC televising a suicide live from a Los .
: Angeles freeway. It involved on allegedly HIV-positive num
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Cameljockeya. An indignant Israelis are asking earnestly.
Jerry Jones will then be Carted “Millennium crisis? What cri-
away from Valley Ranch kick- sis? Indeed, what millennium?”
ing and screaming to be ad- According to their calendars,
ministered a “Babylonian bap- we’re now in the year 5758.
' tism" (by which all skins are And what about Gates? He
washed away) in an Olympic- got us into this mess by wiring
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hannel 7 joins a prestigious list of recipients in this
year’s “Ahgel Awards.” Also honored were Touched By An
Angel” for Most Inspirational Series, “Dr. Quinn, Medicine
Woman” for Best TV Drama, media personalities Paul
Harvey and Fred Rogers, and golfing great Tiger Woods. )
Television may destroy this country yet, but not all sta-
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Willie, Annie and Mable all
enrolled in the Grice school, and
all attended church in the Methr
odist church building before the
Baptist church building was
The Gregorian calendar may built. At Grice, for years, the
be jettisoned anyway. We may people of the Baptist faith and
not ever make it to Jan. 20, the Methodist faith shared one
2001. Joseph Farah reports church building,
that a computer programmer
in Sacramento, Calif., says a
partial solution is changing the
calendar to the Year Zero.
FARAH, who publishes an
Internet newspaper called
WorldNetDaily, writes, “It’s a
plan I would expect to be em-
braced by radical secularists
determined to eradicate any
evidence of the power of Chris-
tianity as a civilizing force in
the world.”
“Most people in the world
are not Christian,” says Alan
Dechert. “(A) numbering sytem
that is not based on any reli-
gious event would be more rea-
sonable and fair.”
Dechert want A.D. (which
stands for Anno Domini which
is Latin for “the year of our
Lord”) replaced with N.E. (for
“new era”),
Paul Kurtz, a leading “hu-
manist” thinker, agrees: “Hu-
man consciousness is now glo-
bal. We need a new planetary
ethic expressing this and tran-
scending the chauvinistic
(read: Christian) divisions of
the past.”
Farah (who can be found at
www.worldnetdaily.com at
least for the time being until
all hell breaks loose) also
quotes Chris Stamper of World
Magazine who wrote: “Year
zero sounds like a fringe move-
ment, but 'so is every other
piece of political correctness.
Christmas break is now win-
ter vacation. The traditional
calendar makes Jesus the cen-
tir-point of human history, but
the new calendar would erase
s
in our part of the world, I on the Temple Mount, cel-
predict one of his first actions ebrates its 50th anniversary,
will be to rename the Dallas The corks are being popped on
Cowboys the Saddam the Manischewitz. Exultant
dignant Israelis are asking earnestly.
Love and Hate! What is it like
to be loved and hated at the
same time? Jesus knew. Our
president knows. Any leader
knows.
As their acquaintance with
Jesus grew, their love for Him
increased. They proved their love
by submitting to abuse by the
enemies of Jesus rather than
giving up loving Him.
We all enjoy being loved and
suffer the pangs of being hated.
But it is really the one who ex-
with the data variables.” i-tatinom "uL-TIr of our •tends love or hate that under-
Wall Streeter Edward Dra»renlncedwLNE(or goes the greatest benefit or dam-
Yardeni of Morgan Grenfell era)," age.
predicts economic depression. Paul Kurtz, a leading “hu- In our society it is considered
Forifimwerenotforbigh-now- —«• thinker, agrees: “Hu- normaltlovetoursfriendsand
ing billion. of cafclhtion in manonnciousnsgwipnntloy hat your enemies, but Jesus
tiny increments of time, the ethic expressingthisandtran said, “love your enemies and pray
nations of the world would not ecmPre til chauvinistic for those who persecute you, so
be able to manage the chaos of 5. Christian) divisions nf that you may be the sons of your
the floating currency system. t dist » father who is Heaven" (Matt.
Remember, there is no gold Farah (who can be found at 5:43-45).
standard anymore. www.worldnetdaily.com at it is easy to follow this tench.
' If computers disapreared," least for the time being until ing-tStssyeingiwsthitstoch-
Wanniski matter-of-factly 011 L-.1 1X 01.. ing until someone insults you or
states, “global commerce would allthel.breakslonsetalso slanders your reputation or
come to a grinding halt as guotesehrisStamper of World lashes out at you in a way you
banking intermediation lost Magazine.who.w rote:, mm feel is unjust. What will you do
track of who owed what to ment but "so is every other then?
W omtw: att meandrlace." piece of political correctness. Why do we have this very
i An oweyes,here come the Christmas break is now win- difficult command to follow? How
lawyers. They thrive on disas- ter vacation. The traditional about these reasons: (1) “Love,
ter. Im hearing commercials calendar makes Jesus the cen- that you may be the sons of your
alreadyonDaflasradiosta tir-pointofhumanhistory,but father in heaven." (2) “Two
tions for law firms warning the new calendar would erase "nmAt LIt. nna "nntL,
potential clients that lawsuits the past and start history from peoPlescannothatet neanothe
worth $1 trillion will be filed scratch. The new beginning of andsstiuleveGd(John2i11.
bydisgruntled-to-the-point-of- human history would be the 3Haehurtsthehatermore
being “hot” links in the broken advent of the computer age." than the hated (4 Hatred is
chains of commerce soon after Yeah, right. And then we “ , “ n“® With a Piugged bar-
the millennium bug begins to know what happens next. You . ’ the backfire can be more
bite. (Talk about a mixed meta- know the drill. Report to your dangerous than the shot. (5) If
phor! But this is scary, folks. I Social Security office and they you want to damage your health,
can’t think all that clearly in implant the next generation of your personality, your peace of
these circumstances.) the Pentiunf chip in your right mind, just hate somebody and
The good news is that the hand or your forehead. keep on hating them. (6)1 ove is
IRS may go under. The bad Aarrgghh!!! Stop the world, j worth more than all this world’s
news is that enough of us out I want to get off. I’m sure there goods. Yet any one of us can
there depend on government must be 666 good reasons to possess it. Remember, hate is a
checks that we’d be under- welcome the dawning of the luxury you can’t afford.
I would love to have a ques- feel they weren’t the only ones
tion and answer session about to escape alive from the crash
anything that happened at any in the New Mexico desert,
time at the school or commu- The other “grays" which
nity. Write the question down have purportedly been held
and answer ifyou know it, so we ' captive for many years several
can get some answers to some miles beneath. Wright-
questions that some of us old Patterson AFB, Ohio, gaveonly
timers have forgotten. For ex- sketchy information, of their
ample, what yearwas it that the superior alien intelligence to
S . 1 .. . . .. Ross Perot when he interro-
mad dog went through at the gated them 30 years ago and
that was only because they
thought he was one of them.
That’s why Ross was only able
to accumulate $3 billion
whereas Gates is now worth
$40-$50 billion.
In the last decade alone,
computers have been becom-
ing obsolescent/obsolete within
months after they hit the store
shelves as continual “up-
grades” are made at speeds
approaching the speed of light.
People wear wristwatches
vith more computing power
an was needed to land men
and prayer.
The Excellence in Media Foundation, baaed in Hollywood,
Calif., has selected Channel 7 News to receive two of its \
prestigious 1998 International “Angel Awards.”
The “Angel Awards' honor works of high moral, spiritual
or social impact in the fields of motion pictures, television,
The East Texas station won in the category of Television
Dnrunwwitery for ita prndnrtfon of “Power of Prayer Mission
to Manaus” and in the category of Television News Story for
its production of “Power of Prayer. Baby Moses.”
Anchorman Clint Yeatts is the reporter and host at the
Tower of Prayer” news series and documentaries on KLTV.
Photojournalist anad co-producer is David Berkley, an
award-winning news photographer. Together, David and
Clint have won a number of special honors and awards for
their news and documentary work. .
The International ‘Angel Award* is certainly one of the
greatest honors I could receive as a journalist,” said Yeatts.
To many television news departments around the country
“Spirituality and prayer play such an important part in
the lives of so many members of our community. How can we
ignore reporting on the common threads that bind all people *
of all religions?”
KLTV was one of the first stations in the U.S. to begin an
ongoing spiritual, religious-based series of local reports on its
Y2K? You hear that ques- on the moon. I knew something our sustenance from the rest
tion everywhere you go these like this was bound to happen, of us. The really bad news is
Haya And te that, I ask in re- All-night radio talkmeister Art millions of you are not going to
turn, “YNOT2K?” In fact. Bell years ago dubbed it The take that lying down as people
that’d make a great personal- Quickening.” did in the 1930s when this He was a very resourceful
ized license plate. I CALL IT The Deaden- country feared God and man and, in no time at all, he
As you are probably aware, ing" and maybe even The thought of FDR as His spokes- owned all of Grice: sawmill,
mainframe computers all over Deadending.” man during the fireside chats. shingle mill, gristmill, gin and
the world Eave the potential to Doomsday scenario artistes The good news/bad news (de- the Grice store,
go the way of ol’ HAL (of2001: such as Dr. Gary North and pending on how you look at it)
A Space Odyssey fame), the Don McAlvany are painting is that the feds have been prac- Thomas L was one of the men
first computer movie star who prophetic masterpieces for ticing for this one. You saw that gave lumber to build the
also made the original their fans in strokes as easy to what they could do at Waco, first Baptist church budding at
“unplugged” video way before understand as the ABCs- You saw what the “other side Grice. In a few years, he became
MTV was on the air. anarchy bedlam and chaos. (i.e ifyouMieve McVeigh tired ofbeing a storekeeper and
On or before the arrival of After listening to all this, and Nichols’acted alone; I sondthestore He turned his vin
the witching hour on Dec. 31, I’ve been imagining such “in- don’t) cando back at Oklahoma 80m tt5horymungygn Aw&i
1999, binary systems which convenient’ events as airlin- City. We may be on the verge yng Snr" th .
haven't been reprogrammed ers falling out of the sky, car.' of a Hobbesian “war.of all Dacusbuthekeptsrunningthe .
out of such antiquated com- engines stalling out at major against all. sawmill and shingle mill for a
puter languages as FORTRAN intersections, electrical power CAN YOU SEE our current 1" more Years
and COBOL will go “Tilt” and grids failing and even nuclear President as the new FDR? After 1926 he was unable to
all of Western civilization will power plants melting down. That’s okay because he can. run the sawmill because of an-
grind to a halt - Yes, friends, I’m afraid we There’S a whole passel of pre- Therefore he was one of
Saddam Hussein will then may have to gird ourselves for cisely-drafted “executive or- ., h . . IIMeLI Mnt,
declare that he is indeed the the battle of “Cybergeddon.” I ders" awaiting only his signa- thelirs,nenI“Pu gIr
Antichrist and set up his consider myself one of the ture. He may well claim that 4 run 8 p
temple in Jerusalem while his voices cryingin the wilderness, he is the only public official in sno":
secretaries type away on their but I believe in letting the chips the United States popular Soon after the traveling ven-
manual Arabic keyboards as fall where they may. enough (and everyone says he ture, his sickness returned and
he dictates new marching or- “RePentium, the end is near!" is; it’s the media they don’t he moved to Marshall. , ’
ders for the world. Meanwhile, the tiny nation- like) to administer the martial .
- - - -‘i" He returned to Upshur
One thing I know for sure. County, Grice, to his daughter’s
This fellow really, I mean, re- home, Annie Cross, in about
ally likes being President or 1950. He died in 1954 and is
he wouldn’t have gone through buried in the Grice Cemetery.
tions and not all programs are bad. It is important, though, - The “Great Satan” will have years. We were all doing just
for all of us to be highly selective in our viewinghabits.This been transformed into the fine. with our rotary phones,
is particularly true if you are currentiy in the process of sereafaSantt sewoMaiod ahataxmaenestsure,enings
raising children. / der allies
are forced to give were a little slow. The pace
its been said “you are what you eat” and it could also be • away all their state secrets in and flow of events back then
added that “you are what you watch.” exchange for basic commodi- compared with now can be lik-
We congratulate KLTV Channel 7 for renewing the minds ties from the “less-developed ened to Kelsey Creek during a
of those who have watched their award-winning series. countries” of the Third World, drought compared with the
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Dear Editor: Mike wanted to strike back and thatthiscomputerglitshisnot economist, Widhiscikents ted
. LastweekonChannelTs"The just throw up his hands or throw goingtobe.debugged"intime cently, “If only Bill Gates
View” the question of the day in the towel, but he took none of forPiskcarkshipart in stayed awake nights, the prob-
_ was “Outside of your immediate these actions. Instead he did his . . 03 men . Ym, 1,. lem could be solves with some
family, who do you consider to job to the very belt of his ability . . fancysoftware. Alas, Bill Gates
be a hero?” I suppose most people with dignity and grace (as has a boutcomPu i prosramming: advises that even if he could
would immediately think of po- his staff). That is why I am proud . once nad11 earn the Da81C8 find the perfect software, he
lice officers or firefighters, and to call Mike Smith my friend incollege-Infa ct,thelangrage will be unable to provide the
they definitely deserve the title, and my HERO! Since then, however, trx requisite hardware and deal
..Attersivingtheguestionsome 80 the next time you are in traterrestrial lifeforms taken
thoughtsonesname popped into the tax office or you run into into custody from the Roswell
my mind, MIKE SMITH!!! Mike somewhere else, take time crash have apparently finally
Over the years, I have seen to tell him what a great job he is divulged all the secrets of the
our Upshur County Tax Asses- doing and what an asset he is to advanced intergalactic civili-
sor and Chief Election Official Upshur County. - zation whence they came to
attacked, harassed, maligned, Jacqueline Timmons, such icons 88 Bill’Gatesand
slandered and accused of all sorts Gladewater other in the geekfraternity,
ofmisconduct. This last election Dear Editor: avincoldnaralatanaahabout
being the .worstbyfarIknow ramtrying to get the atten- mendable public seryicethy,
theremusthavebeentimesthat tion of ali Union Ridge School have rendered as the
kids that went to school there at “crash test dummies” for odr
any time. federal government. But I now-
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