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OPINION
DAILY NEWS
Sunday, April 16, 2017 PAGE 4A
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In 1963, Martin Luther
King, Jr. wrote his “Letter
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2 million passengers hurtling through space,
trapped in 17-inch-wide seats, yapping their
innermost thoughts.
MARK
SHIELDS
Transportation
Administration
JOEL HALE, Rusk County Judge,
at a special meeting in March
where commissioners decided not
to take action on the change order
with Berry & Clay Construction on
finishing construction of the Tommy
McDaniel Youth Expo Center.
JAMIE SUGG, Rusk County
Extension Agent, while teaching the
history about Texas A&M AgriLife
Extension Service to Henderson
Kiwanis Club.
JEFF PRICE, the Rusk County
Sheriff, concerning spikes in some
categories of criminal activities
around the area in March.
Joy Slaymaker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Nancy Harris
BOOKKEEPING
Hughes Ellis
SPORTS EDITOR
Wes Beall
PRESS ROOM
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ELIZABETH BARAJAS, the
mother of a student who witnessed
the murder of her teacher and
classmate, saying through tears
after waiting outside the school to
see that her daughter was safe.
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| don’t know what to tell her.
-1. As soon as she saw the guy
with the gun, she went under
the table. She keeps telling me
‘My teacher got shot, my friend
got shot.’”
Crim held on to the building itself.
Crim had started his funeral business in 1914
operating out of the family’s hardware store,
something that was common in those days, Scott
One (restrained) cheer for Washington, D.C.
We’ve all heard the tiresome and discourag-
ing refrain: Washington, our beautiful capital
city, is broken. Dysfunctional D.C. does not
work.
Even with majorities in both the House and
the Senate, congressional Republicans could
not pass a resolution commending Mother’s
Day.
But wait. We do have an actual example of
the heeding of the people’s voice and the pre-
vailing of their will in our national government.
Here is the evidence: Cellphone calls will
continue to be banned on airline flights. This
is one small step for sanity and civility, but it
deserves to be celebrated.
f"1his is something that
Stephen is going to pay
for and is something that
wasn’t going to cost us any
money. All we had to do was
forget the liquidated damages
and that in my mind was a rea-
sonable exchange to get it done
right the first time.”
he first thing you need to
know is that we’re from
the government and
we’re here to help. People kind
of walk backward when you tell
them you’re from the govern-
ment, but the truth is I guess
the extension is an exception to
that rule, we are here to help,
we are a resource.”
They Said It
his seems to happen a lot
in the spring. Our crimi-
X» nal mischief number was
the same so usually those two
go hand in hand.”
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Lots of memories from old funeral home
said. In fact, nearly all the old
funeral homes got their start
associated with hardware
operations; the lumber and
tools were already on hand to
build caskets.
In some instances that
continued well into the 20th
century, said Scott, who can
LES remember as late as the 1980s
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Security
would have to hire three
times as many air marshals
to deal with the fistfights.”
My libertarian friends
may argue that this cellphone
ban is just one more example
of the federal government’s
encroaching on individual
freedom and imposing a bur-
densome regulation on citi-
zens and business.
OK, put me down on the side of regulation,
just the way I was when the feds imposed the
You don’t have to be a frequent flyer to know ban on smoking on flights and when the federal
that American air travel has become increas- government decreed that airplane wings, before
ingly miserable for the public. attempted takeoff in subfreezing temperatures,
For paying passengers, there is the discom- would first be de-iced.
fort of ever less legroom and ever smaller seats. United Airlines — having ordered airport
The luggage space shrinks, while the cost of it security guards in Chicago to forcibly remove a
climbs. If farm animals were this crammed, the seated paying customer from a flight (because
PETA people would be picketing. United had overbooked), which resulted in the
The continuing mistreatment of passengers passenger’s suffering a concussion, a broken
must somewhere have been outlawed by the nose and the loss of two teeth — inflicted a dam-
Geneva Conventions. aging body blow on the commercial air travel
The flawed case for increasing the already industry.
high tension and stress of airline passengers — As was noted, United put the “hospital” back
by encouraging your seatmate to invade your into “hospitality.”
privacy by boasting interminably, in your ear, One U.S. carrier that does treat its pas-
on his cellphone about the biggest deal east of sengers with respect and professionalism and
Yorba Linda he’s just about to close or how irre- whose employees often seem even happy to see
sistible he was to that sweet young thing from you is price-conscious Southwest Airlines. One
accounting last night — was that cellphone use customer went so far as to create a new slogan
in the air no longer poses any safety problem for Southwest in response to United’s stupidity
of interfering with pilots’ communications with and cruelty: “Southwest: We beat the competi-
ground control. tion. Not you.”
Bipartisanship, so sadly lacking from our Admittedly, it’s only a small victory in a big
national conversation, was temporarily revived struggle.
by the possibility of cellphone calls in the air. But the feds’ decision to continue the ban
Sen. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee spoke on cellphone calls in flight is a win for common
for both sides of the airplane’s aisle: “Imagine sense, civility and American peace of mind.
Mark Shields is a veteran political commentator and
columnist distributed by Creators Syndicate Inc.
© 2017, Creators Syndicate Inc.
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cott Crawford has fond memories living
above a funeral home. While you let that
sink in, bear in mind it was the family busi-
ness for Scott and his brother, Gary, while they
were growing up.
Still is. Along with Pat Murphy, the Crawfords
own and operate the same funeral home their
dad once owned.
Gary and Scott spent the first few years of
their lives living upstairs in the old Crawford-A.
Crim Funeral Home that was once located on _____________
South Marshall Street. Rusk and pulling around
That building’s now owned by Celia Flowers behind the adjacent hardware
and serves as offices for Arnold Abstract Co. It’s store to pick up a body.
due for demolition nearly two years after being In 1925, Crim moved his funeral home to a
damaged during the Memorial Day tornado. Ear- location on North Marshall Street before build-
lier this month, the city’s preservation committee ing his own in 1934 on South Marshall.
OK’d demolition but sent architects back to the Billy Crawford went to work for Crim as a
drawing board to refresh plans on a new design. 14-year-old in 1938. A few years later, Crawford
The storm damaged the building’s roof, allow- left Henderson for World War II, then came
ing rain to seep in. Tyler architect Steve Fitzpat- home and worked in his father’s clothing store,
rick, who’s designed a number of buildings in When Crawford took over in 1950, the funeral
Henderson, called the structure unsalvageable home still provided ambulance service, another
during a city meeting earlier this month. (The practice that was once common. Crawford-A.
adjacent chapel built later by Randol Bryan will Crim continued to operate its ambulance until
remain.) 1966 or ’67, Scott said, shortly before moving to
Crawford hates to see the building go... under- their current location on South Main Street.
standably, there are a lot of cherished memories The South Marshall building was designed
there. But he also doesn’t want to see it aban- with ambulance service in mind. On the top
doned, where it wastes away until no one can floor, at the back of the building, there was a
afford to do anything with it. screened-in porch (the porch is still there today),
“It’s a shame,” Scott said. “But I don’t know Scott said, and a large pole like what would be
what else you can do.” found in a firehouse. When a call came in for an
It’s not the oldest building in town, not by a emergency, someone upstairs could quickly get
longshot. But it is the first structure in East Texas to the ambulance below by sliding down the pole,
designed and built solely as a funeral home. After Safeguards were installed around the pole to
the Crawfords moved to their current South keep kids from sliding down it, Scott said. “You
Main location in 1968, Bryan Funeral Home con- had to try it.”
tinued to operate at the South Marshall location Scott said his dad’s last ambulance, a 1957
for several more years. Chevrolet Panel Wagon, is still around town.
When Scott’s and Gary’s dad, Billy Crawford, He’d like to buy it back and restore it.
first bought A. Crim’s Funeral Home, the Craw- By 1986, when Billy Crawford sold the family
ford family moved to the top floor for a few years business (Murphy and the Crawfords bought it
until later settling in more conventional accom- back in 2009), he was as well known in Hender-
modations. There was a living room, kitchen, son as just about anyone. More than seven years
three bedrooms and two baths upstairs; the after his death, Crawford’s exploits in Lions Club
funeral home operated below. are still marveled about by longtime members.
Billy Crawford had bought the A. Crim Funer- Scott’s right; it’s unfortunate the building’s
al Home in 1950 when Crim, who was suffering coming down.
from cancer, put it up for sale. Scott said his dad But like he said, there aren’t many options
borrowed the money to buy the business, but left.
Les Linebarger is publisher of the Henderson Daily
News. His e-mail address is <leslinebarger@henderson-
dailynews.com >.
© 2017, Henderson Newspapers Inc.
Congress must have say in
war-making decisions
resident Trump’s decision to order 59 Tomahawk
1-^ cruise missiles into Syria last week does nothing
X. to bring stability to that country, protect American
national security or strengthen our position in the world.
It does, however, continue an unfortunate trend of Amer-
ican presidents committing acts of war with hardly even the
pretense of legal protocol or long-term geopolitical strategy.
Ostensibly in retaliation for the Syrian government’s use
of chemical weapons which killed upwards of 100 people,
American cruise missiles were fired on the airbase believed
to house aircraft that carried out the chemical weapons
attack. Undoubtedly the use of chemical weapons is repre-
hensible and the pictures which surfaced in the aftermath
were simply heart wrenching.
Trump argued that the strikes were in the “vital, national
security interest of the United States to prevent and deter
the spread and use of deadly chemical weapons.” That
means the American response to appears to have been more
symbolic than anything practical.
But whatever the impact of the strikes, President Trump
ought to recall the words of candidate Trump: “The presi-
dent must get Congressional approval before attacking Syria
— big mistake if he does not!” he tweeted in August 2013.
“President Obama, do not attack Syria,” he warned on Sept.
7, 2013. “There is no upside and tremendous downside.”
If there is anything we should have learned from our
prolonged involvements in the Middle East and North
Africa in recent decades, it’s that toppling governments and
bombing sovereign nations without an overarching strategy
doesn’t serve our national interests. Fighting and instability
continue to plague Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Syria
and Yemen, despite — and in part because of — our aimless
interventions.
As convenient at it might be for the Congress to leave
war-making to the whims of whoever is president at the
time, such abdication only minimizes accountability while
facilitating perpetual war abroad. In order to prevent fur-
ther, unchecked escalation of American involvements in
Syria, any future actions against the Syrian government
must be authorized by the Congress.
— Orange County Register
Today In History
Today is Easter Sunday, of the Cleveland Indians
April 16, the 106th day of pitched a no-no against the
2017. There are 259 days left Chicago White Sox, 1-0.
in the year. In 1945, during World
Today’s Highlights in War II, a Soviet submarine
History: On April 16, 1947, in the Baltic Sea torpedoed
the cargo ship Grandcamp, and sank the MV Goya,
carrying a load of ammo- which Germany was using
nium nitrate, blew up in the to transport civilian refugees
harbor in Texas City, Texas; and wounded soldiers; it’s
a nearby ship, the High estimated 7,000 people died.
Flyer, which was carrying
ammonium nitrate and sul-
fur, caught fire as a result from Birmingham Jail” in
and exploded the follow- which he said, “Injustice
ing day; the blasts and fires anywhere is a threat to jus-
killed nearly 600 people. tice everywhere.”
On this date: In 1912, In 1972, Apollo 16 blasted
American aviator Harriet off on a voyage to the moon
Quimby became the first with astronauts John W.
woman to fly across the Eng- Young, Charles M. Duke Jr.
lish Channel, leaving Dover, and Ken Mattingly on board.
England, and arriving near In 1986, dispelling rumors
Calais, France, in 59 min- he was dead, Libyan leader
utes. Moammar Gadhafi appeared
In 1917, following the on television to condemn the
abdication of Czar Nicho- U.S. raid on his country and
las II, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin to say Libyans were “ready to
returned to Russia after die” defending their nation,
years of exile. Today’s Birthdays:
In 1937, the Laurel & Basketball Hall of Famer
Hardy slapstick comedy Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is 70.
“Way Out West” was released NFL coach Bill Belichick is
by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 65. Actor-comedian Martin
In 1940, Major League Lawrence is 52. Actor Jon
Baseball’s first (and, to date, Cryer is 52. Actor Peter Bill-
only) opening day no-hitter ingsley is 46.
took place as Bob Feller — Associated Press
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XX REV. DANIAL MAHER,
of an Egyptian Coptic Christian
church, after the loss of his 23-year-
old son, Beshoy, who was among
six deacons killed in an attack by
Islamic State suicide bombers dur-
ing Palm Sunday services.
Staff
Les Linebarger
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
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