Coleman Chronicle & Democrat-Voice (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 4, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 25, 2017 Page: 4 of 14
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Coleman Chronicle & Democrat-Voice
Wednesday, January 25, 2017
Page 4
Opinion & Ideas
J
TOMMY WELLS
STAFF
Editor
.Tommy Wells
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Dr. Don Newbury
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The 4-A organization is supposed
to work to bring businesses and jobs to
Coleman. Instead, under Roy Poage’s
leadership, their time and YOUR MON-
EY are spent trying to break their con-
tract with Kim.
PLEASE - call the 4-A board offi-
cers and tell them to STOP WASTING
YOUR TAX MONEY.
Roy Poage 325-625-1200
Monte Merriman 325-625-1449
Gary Payne 325-625-3140
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Coleman
thusiasm, and hard work for our town.
But Roy Poage (who voted to hire
Kim around 2 years ago) wants to break
4-A’s contract with Kim. To break that
contract, Roy and his board members
have hired a law firm from Fort Worth.
So Roy is going to spend THOU-
SANDS of dollars of YOUR TAX
MONEY to try to get rid of someone
who is GOOD FOR COLEMAN and
who works hard for this town.
And he is using an out-of-town law
firm to do it - WITH YOUR TAX MON-
EY!
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IDLE AMERICAN
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radios were BIG? No, not in size; they
were small, but BIG in popularity.
Cleburne’s George Marti, who died
about a year ago at age 95, was a broad-
casting legend, longtime mayor, a grand
visionary and much more. When he
added an FM station in Cleburne, TX,
he was aware many listeners didn’t have
FM receivers. So, he handed ‘em out to
locals who stopped by the station.
Establishing the Marti Foundation
which made higher education possible
for hundreds of Johnson County citi-
zens, he “put his money where his faith
was.” An inventor who made remote
broadcasts possible, he made a fortune,
most of which he gave away....
Don’t worry. They say it will be de-
cades - maybe longer - before FM radio
is abandoned in the USA.
We old-timers remember our par-
ents limiting use of home radios. “Turn
the radio off, or you’ll run the ‘battry’
down.” My dad (and many other fa-
thers) could spell “battery,” but verbal-
ly, it always came out “battry.”
Late comedian Grady Nutt (Remem-
ber him on TV’s Hee Haw?) told about
the old fellow who bought a radio for
a single reason: to hear the Grand Ole
Opry every Saturday night. Upon ini-
tially tuning in Nashville Radio Station
WSM, he pulled the knobs off the ra-
dio.
I’m at that place, desiring access to
limited technologies.
Dr. Newbury is a speaker and colum-
nist. Inquiries comments to: newbury@
speakerdoc. com.
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An open letter to Coleman
County residents
Dear Editor,
Again, the 4-A Economic Develop-
ment Board is WASTING YOUR TAX
DOLLARS.
Roy Poage, the 4-A president, is
STILL trying to get rid of Executive Di-
rector Kim Little.
Ms. Little is one of the best things to
happen to Coleman in a long time. The
4-B Board gives her A+ on everything
she does for them, and the downtown
store owners love Kim’s competence, en-
this topic) was a big hit in the U.S. - 20
years ahead of the Norwegians - but
now, they think new digital technology
will make FM obsolete. Is everything
‘going digital’?”....
It’s easy to conjure negative images
about “what if’s” should the US take a
hard stance on FM radio. Shucks, in the
1950s, FM radio gave us reason to “save
up” money to buy transistor models that
picked up both AM and FM signals.
Never mind these newfangled “dig-
its” may offer better quality. I dunno.
I always wonder what younger folks
are listening to with their “ear buds.”
I’ve no clue as to the sounds’ origin or
content. Mostly, I just smile, with my
silence a lame admission that whatever
they’re hearing doubtless is more wel-
come than what I might have to say....
Do you remember when transistor
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the people in North Dakota are protest-
ing. Now, the Russians are hacking our
elections ... The next thing you know,
someone is going to say Forrest Gump
isn’t real Don’t be judgmental ... I
just haven’t had the opportunity to tell
her yet. I mean, she saw it on ABC, CBS
and BET so it’s gotta be true right?
Being the calm husband that I am,
I patted her on the back and muttered
something soothing ... (like it will all be
better if you make me a sandwich). Note
to fellow men ... that line doesn’t work
worth a flip. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’m
going to need a rib removed from my
spleen at some point in the near future.
“Don’t worry dear, even as we speak,
I am working on a plan to correct the
world’s problems. Being a part of the
media, I’m going to take drastic mea-
sures. I’m going to start a radical move-
ment based on the political teachings of
Sir PB. Anjelly.
“Who is that?” my bride asked.
“Probably the greatest dude that ever
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lived!,” I said. “I can’t believe you have
never heard of him. He’s practically
made Elvis what he was.”
“So, what’s your plan to solve the
world’s problems?”
“I’m going to send each of them
some peanut butter in a jar like this one,”
I said, showing her the jar I had been try-
ing to disassemble. “The Russians will
try forever to get into it so they won’t
have time to bother us. The North Dako-
tans can smear it on the lutefisk. Heck,
if I can get enough of the jars, we could
send them to The Donald and he could
build a peanut butter jar wall that no one
could enter.”
“Why can’t you take anything se-
rious?” she demanded. “The pipeline
companies and Big Money are trying
to take their land in North Dakota. The
Russians may have compromised our
election system, and the new president
wants to do away with Obamacare
“Serious? I am being serious!” I said.
“If I don’t get this peanut butter jar open
soon, I may have to go to wherever they
make peanut butter and riot. This IS seri-
ous,” I said. “I’m afraid if I put a piece
of bread on top of my head my tongue
would beat my brains out.”
“Are you that hungry?” she asked,
taking the jar and whacking it against the
side of a cabinet and easily twisting the
top off - because I totally had loosened it
up with all of the hard work I had done
before.
“Uhhh ... it’s hard work trying to pro-
tect my e-mails from the Russians, and
feed the rioters in North Dakota.
(Tommy Wells is the editor of the
Coleman Chronicle & Democrat Voice.
Everything in this column is true, except
for the parts that have been fabricated,
exaggerated or just plain lies.)
OFF THE
BEATEN PATH
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Excuse me while I work on this jar
Just the other day, I was sitting in my
man cave looking for ways to protect my
e-mails from Russian hackers and, more
importantly, trying to break open a jar of
peanut butter. Not just any jar, mind you.
This was the mother of all sealed jars. I
twisted, turned, stomped on it and threat-
ened to send it to a Reese’s Pieces plant,
but nothing worked. It was shut tighter
than Hillary’s lips at a Senate hearing.
Just before I was about to get serious
and cut the top off with my handy-dandy
Swiss Army knife. She-Who-Must-Not-
Be-Made-Mad stormed into my top se-
cret alcove and ordered me to stop what
I was doing. If I had actually been doing
anything, I can assure you I would have
stopped.
“Do you realize that people in North
Dakota are rioting?” she asked.
“All five of them?” I said quite
shocked. I wasn’t aware that they had
thawed out that much. I’ve lived in
North Dakota, and I can tell you there
isn’t anyone rioting outside in January ...
unless they ran out of hockey pucks and
lutefisk. OMG! If that happens ... Katy
bar the door cause all hell will break
loose. Listen, if they run out of lutefisk,
the North Dakotans will swell up so
much, it pushed South Dakota right into
the middle of Nebraska.
As a guy who has withstood almost
30 years of wedded bliss (I know it has
been “bliss” because SWMNBMM told
me it has been and she is never wrong),
I can pretty much tell you that when her
eyes rolled back in her head like that girl
on the Exorcist and her hands flew past
her hips and toward my throat... I might
have said too much.
“This is no time for wise cracks!” she
said. “I just want you to know, our coun-
try is going to hell in a hand basket. First,
The knobs can be pulled off all the rest
Church marquees all over Arkansas
touted the Razorbacks in the 1969 sea-
son’s so-called “game of the century.”
Many messages were something like:
“Football is only a game. Eternal things
are spiritual. Nevertheless, beat Texas.”
(The Longhorns and the Razorbacks
were ranked #1 and #2 nationally.)
UT prevailed, 15-14, thanks to a
couple of fourth-quarter touchdowns. It
took years for Arkansas fans’ breathing
patterns to be fully restored, and for life
grips to reach pre-game condition.
Only days have passed since the
Dallas Cowboys’ heartbreaking loss to
Green Bay, and many tears remain un-
dried. It’s difficult for non-fans to fathom
how the hardest-of-core Dallas backers
are finding it difficult to carry on with
usual workday assignments. For them,
not much matters these days....
They might not truly perceive the
impact of current real-world news. Per-
haps it would be helpful - particularly to
spouses indifferent to football - if they
break news gently, and not too much at
once.
Starting points might be on topics
considered obscured, like puddles in
great oceans of concerns of life as we
know it. For example, who can imag-
ine the future without Ringling Brothers
and Barnum & Bailey Circus? After the
month of May, this “big top” will fade
to memories of what once was.
Less gentle is the news that FM radio
is under threat, albeit in Norway. FM
(frequency modulation, just so you’ll
know I’m not totally wood-headed on
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