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Smart case reminder to parents:
Love ‘always hopes, always perseveres9
Oncor uses
workforce in!
Last week, I watched a family as
they were reunited. Granted, I wasn’t
the only one who watched the miracle
of Elizabeth Smart’s return to her
family, but it reminded me of several
people I’ve met during my career as
a newspaper reporter.
I saw the pictures of Elizabeth
Smart in the arms of her family, de-
fying the odds that say the first 24
hours are critical, and the longer a
child is missing, the less likely she’s
alive. I saw those pictures of Eliza-
beth Smart and thought of Morgan
Nick - the first time I helped cover a
child abduction as a reporter.
Morgan Nick was stolen in the
nanosecond it took her mother, Col-
leen, to turn her head. Snatched from
a baseball field in Alma, Ark., Mor-
gan was a few feet from her mother,
emptying sand from her shoes. Mor-
gan was six, and she’s been missing
since June 9,1995.
Morgan was taken in the days be-
fore America’s Most Wanted, before the
Amber Alert. Who knows what would
have happened if her picture had been
flashed immediately on every television
screen minutes after her abduction?
Who knows if she would have been
found, scared and shaken but otherwise
unharmed, in the seat of her abductor’s
old red Ford truck?
I remember watching Colleen Nick
as she went from terrified pleas for infor-
mation to the steadfast hope she has now.
Her website, www.morgannick.com,
quotes 1 Cor. 13:7, which points out that
love “always hopes, always perseveres.”
Graphic
Remarks
Beth
Anderson
Assistant Editor
Louise Kinslow, her mother, said a few
months ago before echoing the senti-
ment of Colleen Nick, “I will never stop
looking for Sarah.”
When I read of the fact that the
Smart family continued to set a place
at the dinner table for Elizabeth, it made
me think of Colleen’s statement about
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website devoted to finding her, her par- never giving up. Recalling that state-
ents write, “We feel cheated every day ment, I also thought of another set of
that goes by that we do not see your parents who have uttered those words -
smile, hear your bubbly laughter or lis- those with the children who are, for lack
ten to your thoughts and ideas ...don’t of a better term, problem children. I
ever give up. We will find you.”
thought of the mother I interviewed a
I also think of Sarah Kinslow’s fam- couple of weeks ago when working on
ily in Greenville, who wonder every day a story about methamphetamine abuse,
if they’ll ever hear from her again. Her and how she had to walk away from
mother continues to post flyers request- her children and let them fall - but still
ing information on her whereabouts, but never gave up the hope that the child
the trail gets colder as the months go she remembered would one day return.
by, Sarah, who law enforcement officials
Louise Kinslow, Colleen Nick and
believe may have run away, left with- the Smart family - and countless oth-
out clothes, makeup or even a purse - ers who must wait and hope for their
things a teenage girl would never be children to return to them - give us
without, especially for a long trip.
all a most important lesson in one of
Sarah, now 15, has been missing the most basic, but also the most dif-
since May 1, 2001. “I’ve got a million ficult, of parental duties: Never give
questions for her when I find her,” up hope.
Amber Alert,
As part of the public service efforts
of Oncor and parent company TXU
Corp., I am writing to provide details
about our participation in the statewide
Amber Alert Network. The Network is
the centerpiece of a state strategy to
immediately notify the news media and!
the public about child abductions in an
effort to identify a child’s location and!
potential abductors.
At Oncor, we have taken a leader-!
ship role in this network by agreeing to!
relay all alerts to our field employees!
along with,any information available!
such as a description of the alleged ab-1
ductor, vehicle description or other in- j
formation. In the event an Oncor em-|
ployee identifies a child, adult, or ve-1
hicle fitting the Amber Alert descrip-
tion, the employee will immediately call
a special telephone number and provide
authorities with as much information as |
the employee knows.
On any given day, about 1,300 |
Oncor employees are in and around |
Texas communities maintaining |
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On the first anniversary of Morgan’s ■
disappearance, a reporter asked Colleen
if she thought Morgan was alive.
“Yes,” she said. “I have to. How
could I ever tell her that I gave up on
her?”
In a letter to Morgan posted on the
Oops!
Yes, this used to be the land of cotton, but old times they are often
forgotten. Look away, look away, we called it hay. Last week’s issue
said this picture was taken to commemorate the first bale of HAY,
but it was actually the first bale of COTTON. The staff really does
know the difference, but what the hay? This picture, taken around
1960, is of Joe Gaulden, pharmacist, and Houston Hurst, manager
of the local light company, handing Frank Crawford a check for
their bale of cotton, which was the first premium bale of the season
from the J.D. Davis Cotton Gin in Leonard. In that era, Leonard
merchants purchased the first bale of cotton from the owner. Also
pictured is Robert Martin, grandson of Frank and Lillie Crawford,
sitting on top of the bale of cotton, and Lillie Crawford standing to
her husband’s left.
Thank You 104,000 miles of transmission/distribu- |
The Family of Hilda “Dot” the beautiful service. Thanks to Dana tion power lines and 30,000 miles of
Alexander would like to thank all the Clark and Donna Blackstock for the natural gas pipe ines. is inc u es
. 1. about 112 employees in our area,
family, friends, church family, neigh- beautiful music. Also, thanks to _ ,
bors and hospice for all the thoughts, Martha Frederick for the interpreta- . ese emp oyees spen a great e
1 ,of time in local communities and their
prayer and help given in Hilda s re- tion for the day. . . . .j u u 1
cent illness and death. Thanks for all May God bless each and every one participationwi e P provi e o o
j cal and state law enforcement agencies
the flowers, cards and calls. of you! .. , .
Thanks to Bro. James for all his , with additional eyes and ears during
prayers and support to the family and The Hilda Alexander family emergencies: i e we ope at is
system will never have to be used, we
L 1 $ want to be prepared to help when prob-
Thank You lemsdooccur.
Morgan Nick (shown at left in after photo-aging), was abducted I would like to thank all the par- eryone enjoyed your donations. A spe- If you have any questions or if I can :
from Alma, Ark., in 1995. Sarah Kinslow, right, was last seen on ents who brought cookies and cakes cial thanks goes to Mrs. Haas for her be of further assistance, please feel free
May 1 in Greenville Tfvon think von have seen either child f°r the hospitality room at the Leonard help in coordinating this project. to call me at 903-583-1420.
May 1,2001 in Greenville.lt you thinkyou have seen either child, Junior High District UIL Meet. Ev- Jeannie Craton Troy Sellers .
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Reader shares photo of old school, needs info
Dear Editor:
Charlie Jones must have been a
names: Albright, Allison, Blackburn, Wright.
Blanton, Brown, Broyles, Casey,
Some families lived in neighboring
happy little boy when he was in the first Caskey, Chadwick, Chapman, Clark, communities and did not attend the
grade in the Leonard School in 1897 or Clymer, Collins, Crabb, Cunningham, Leonard School. I do not know when
1898. Someone rang the bell for recess Davis, Diggs, Dillard, Dodson, Dotson, all early families came to Leonard,
the first day of school, and he went Evans, Ewing, Ferguson, Gentry, Giles, Many of you in this community have a
home; his mother, my grandmother, did Golden, Grider, Grimes, Grisham, Hall, greater knowledge than I do of this.
not send him back to school that day. Hallam, Hasty, James, Johnson, Jones,
The picture is of the school my fa-
She must have missed him. Kurykendall, Latimer, Lucas, Lyon, ther attended. I am hoping that some or
His older sisters, Ruth, Donnie and McCorstin, McLarry, Markham, Man- one of you will have this picture in bet-
Elizabeth, attended the school, too. Most ning, May, Meador, Mitchell, Owens, ter condition than my family does.
likely, his cousins, Texas, Lota and May Pendergrass, Rigney, Roberts, Sadler,
I am intrigued with the teacher (?)
Allison, were pupils as well. A portion Shiels, Smith, Stapp, Suddath, with the baseball bat.
of the student body would probably have Sudderth, Taylor, Teague, Tu cker,
included some of the following sur- Watkins, Williamson, Wilson and
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