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Sweetwater Reporter
Friday, February 13, 2009 ■ Page 3
OBITUARY
High winds cause of damage
BARNEY TOLAND
Barney Toland was born May l, 1919, in Capitola Community,
I'is nor County, to the late J.L. and Etta Stevens Toland. He
had an older sister, the late Clara Toland Crump, and a younger
brother, .).L "Frog" Toland, Jr. Barney passed away on Sunday,
Feb. 8, 2009 at Ins residence in Sweetwater, Texas.
Funeral services for Barney will be
Saturday, Feb. 14, 2009, at the McCoy
Chapel of Memories at 10 a.m..with
Reverend Jeff Pritchard officiating.
Interment will follow in the Sweetwater
Cemetery.
Barney attended Capitola High School
and graduated in 1937. Barney married
his high school sweetheart, Frankie lee
Kidd, Sept. 29, 1937, and to this union
came one daughter, Janet Toland Smith.
Barney is survived by his wife, Frankie,
his daughter Jan, and his son-in-law,
Steve Smith all of Sweetwater. He is sur-
vived by six grandchildren, Stephen
Smith of Washington D.C., Callie Smith
Davis and her husband, Paul Davis, of
BARNEY TOLAND Geneva, Alabama, Toland Smith and his
wife Kirstin of Sweetwater, Kirbie Smith
and her fiance James Bo Compston of Sweetwater, Zachary
Smith and McC Smith of Sweetwater. In addition he is sur-
vived by three great-grandchildren, Braxton Poland Smith of
Sweetwater anil twins Foster Grace Davis and Smith Idle Davis
of Geneva, Alabama.
Barney spent his entire childhood and most of his adult life in
West Texas, lie was a roughneck in the 1940s during the oil
boom in West Texas. I le owned several car lots in Odessa in the
late 1960s and early 1970s, he owned Barney Toland
Volkswagen in Big Spring, t ie retired and moved to Orlando,
Florida, in 1998.1 Ie returned to Sweetwater eight years later to
manage the Double S Ranch in Maryneal, Texas.
Barney was passionate about ranching, horses and bis fami-
ly. I Ie was a member of the Nolan County Sheriff posse. I Ie was
a great example for his family and will be greatly missed bv all.
Barney's sprit, determination and love will guide his family for-
ever.
Pallbearers will be his grandsons: Stephen Smith, Toland
Smith, Zachary McC Smith, Paul Davis, James "Bo" Compston
and Craig Diddle.
Honorary Pallbearers: Dr. Bud Alldredge, Sr., Homer
Grimes, Keith Gill, Dr. Jerry Sniola, Jack Kennedy, 11.1). "Bud"
Bunn and James Staton.
High winds were the cause of damage to several signs
around Sweetwater including the large Jack in the Box sign.
Photo by Brian McCormack
Gasoline
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plies are abundant. Oil today has been trading on the
NYMEX Exchange around 35 dollars a barrel, clearly in
the lower range of the $30 to $50 pattern it's been in for
the past several weeks. AAA National and the Oil Price
Information Service continue to point out what’s driving
retail gasoline prices higher are the reductions in capacity
many refiners are making to cope with less demand for
gasoline and the recession,” said AAA Texas Corporate
Communications Manager Dan Ronan.
According to OPIS, even with the recent increases in
gasoline, Americans are saving hundreds of millions of
dollars on fuel costs. In January 2008, consumers spent
$1.12 billion daily on gasoline. Today we’re spending $671
million a day on gasoline, about the same amount it was
2005 at $685 million.
Peanut
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and no information regarding the Texas action was posted on the
company's site.
The Lynchburg, Va.-based Peanut Corp. is already under federal
investigation in connection with the salmonella outbreak that has
sickened boo people and may have caused at least nine deaths nation-
wide. More than 2,000 possibly contaminated consumer products
had already been recalled in one of the largest product recalls ever.
Federal investigators last month identified a Georgia peanut pro-
cessing plant operated by Peanut Corp. as the source of the salmonel-
la outbreak. The Plainview plant, run by Peanut Corp. subsidiary
Plainview Peanut Co., had not had a state health inspection until after
problems arose at the Georgia plant.
Officials at the Plainview plant had voluntarily stopped production
Monday after initial lab tests showed likely salmonella contamina-
tion. Further testing was needed to confirm the results, but the health
department said Thursday that its orders are not contingent on find-
ing salmonella.
Calls to the home listed as the residence of the plant manager went
unanswered late Thursday . No one answered the door.
David YV. Evans, executive director of the Hale County Industrial
Foundation, said the company was lured to the area with tax breaks
and incentives for maintaining an employee quota. He said that quota
wasn't met.
1 lowever, the plant's presence in Plainview was small. About 1,000
people work at a nearby Wal-Mart distribution plant, and a Cargill
meatpacking plant a couple of miles away employs nearly 1,500.
Kenneth Kendrick, who worked as an assistant manager at the
plant for several months in 2006, said Thursday that he had sent as
many as six e-mails to the state health department while he worked
there.
He said his complaints chronicled a leaking roof, which he knew
could be a problem because of bird excrement.
"Anything nasty you can think of comes from water off a roof," said
Kendrick, who said he left the plant voluntarily .
Kendrick said his initial complaints about the plant spurred no
action. Last month, he complained again to state officials after his
grandchildren became sick after eating peanut butter crackers.
The federal government has opened a criminal investigation into
the company, and its president, Stewart Parnell, repeatedly refused to
answer questions Wednesday before the House Energy and
Commerce investigations subcommittee, which is seeking ways to
prevent another outbreak.
A message lett seeking comment from Parnell Thursday wasn't
immediately returned.
State law allows the Department of State Health Services to issue
such recall orders when it finds conditions that it savs pose "an imrne
diate and serious threat to human life or health."
The C.S. Food and Drug Administration, which sent inspectors
back to the plant after Monday's test result, said in an e-mail that its
investigation there was continuing.
Mam companies hadn't waited for state or federal officials to take
action. Robert Grauer, president of In a Nut Shell, a San Leandro,
Calif., said his company decided to hold back about 200 cases of
peanuts from the Texas plant before the order was issued.
"We're not going to take a chance risking our customers not over
some peanuts," he said.
A handful of Whole Foods Market supermarkets in northern
California that received products containing peanuts from the Texas
plant pulled from them from shelves two day s before the Texas recall
"in an overabundance of caution," said Libba Letton, spokeswoman
for the Austin, Texas-based company.
Associated Press writers Jamie Stengle. Linda Stewart Ball and
Danny Bobbins in Dallas contributed to this report.
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over iTTesofvaWe conflicts'
WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New
Hampshire abruptly withdrew his nomination as Commerce
secretary Thursday, the third Cabinet-level nick scuttled and the
latest political stumbling block in Barack Obama's young presi-
dency.
"I said yes. That was my mistake," Gregg told reporters at a
Capitol Hill news conference. He said he'd always been a strong
fiscal conservative. "It really wasn't a good pick."
The alxiut-face left Obama without a full team to lead the gov-
ernment.
Obama's first choice for Commerce secretary , New Mexico
Gov. Bill Richardson, took his name out of consideration amid a
federal investigation dealing with state contracts in New Mexico.
Citing tax problems, Tom Daschle backed out as secretary of
Health and Human Services and Nancy Killefer, whose job is not
Cabinet level, withdrew as the government's first chief perfor-
mance officer. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner was confirmed
despite revelations that he had not paid some of his taxes on
time.
Gregg was one of three Republicans Obama had put in his
Cabinet to fulfill his campaign pledge that he would be an agent
of bipartisan change.
Gregg gave Obama credit for reaching out to him. But, he
cited "irresolvable conflicts" with Obama's handling of the eco-
nomic stimulus and 2010 census.
Key lawmakers bargain into
overtime on tax cuts and
spending in $7908 stimulus bill
WASHINGTON (AP) Reluctant to call it quits, kev law-
makers bargained into overtime Thursday on the $790 billion
economic stimulus legislation, dickering over tax cuts and fed-
eral spending before reaching an apparent final agreement more
than 24 hours after announcing a deal.
Lingering controversy over school-modernization money, a
scaled-back tax break for businesses and other issues forced a
delay in final votes on the legislation. But Democratic leaders
still hoped for final passage by the weekend.
Republicans, lined up to vote against the bill, piled on the
scorn. "This is not the smart approach," said Sen. Mitch
McConnell of Kentucky, the Republican leader. "The taxpayers
of today and tomorrow will be left to clean up the mess."
President Barack Obama delivered what nas become a daily
call for congressional action, this time from the industrial heart-
land. With approval of the bill, he said in Peoria, 111., companies
"may be able to start growing again. Rather than cutting jobs,
they may be able to create them again."
He spoke at Caterpillar Inc., the heavy machinery giant that
has announced 22,000 layoffs but says it will rescind some of
them once the stimulus passes.
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Rodriguez, Tatiana. Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 75, Ed. 1 Friday, February 13, 2009, newspaper, February 13, 2009; Sweetwater, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth576864/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Sweetwater/Nolan County City-County Library.