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opinion
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the 199th day of 2016. There
are 167 days left in the year.
coup attempt against the
Second Spanish Republic.
CRYSTAL BEACH - You can’t miss the flags.
Outside of the fact there was no seaweed
to be found on the beach for a second straight
summer, that’s what stands out most about the
thousands of folks on Bolivar Peninsula around
the Fourth of July holiday.
We spent a few days down there earlier this
month. I wouldn’t suggest going during the big-
gest holiday of the summer unless you really
enjoy being around a lot of people.
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They say you can tell a lot by how a man treats
his... inferiors, animals, tools, etc.
Flags should be in there somewhere, yet I
don’t know how much we learned based on the
MARK
SHIELDS
GARY KING, East Texas Auto
Task Force member, providing statis-
tics on vehicle theft in East Texas.
TIM KELTY, Henderson city
manager on the zoning workshop
designed to receive citizen input on
an ordinance overhaul.
Joy Slaymaker
PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR
Ryleigh Salmon
SOCIETY EDITOR
Nancy Harris
BOOKKEEPING
Hughes Ellis
SPORTS EDITOR
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA,
on open-carry laws in the U.S. pos-
ing challenges for police.
J.W. “BUZZ” FULLER former
mayor, speaking about his long-
time friend, Landon Alford, during
a celebration of his legacy on what
would’ve been his 81st birthday.
MARY SUE WOLFE, HISD Trust
ee, hoping for more of a pay raise
for teachers next year, should the
district’s finances improve.
Staff
Les Linebarger
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Daily news
Sunday, July 17, 2016 PAGE 2A
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5 A Te celebrate Landon’s
1/%/ birthday with just a
V V few tidbits of what he
did for the city. Landon was all
about politics. Landon was all
about the city.”
and FDR lost to the Republi-
can team of Sen. Warren G.
Harding of Ohio and Massa-
chusetts Gov. Calvin Coolidge
by the widest differential
in any presidential election
since 1820, 26.2 percent.
Twelve years later, after two
terms as NY governor, FDR
was elected president.
Still, it can be really excit-
ing to be the vice presiden-
tial nominee. In 1984, when
President Ronald Reagan
won re-election in a 49-state
landslide over Democrat
Walter Mondale (a former
from a guy flying a doobie flag on his truck.
Les Linebarger is publisher of the Henderson Daily
News. His e-mail address is <leslinebarger@henderson-
dailynews.com >.
© 2016, Henderson Newspapers Inc.
olice have a really diffi-
cult time in communities
.1. where they know guns
are everywhere. And as I said
before, they have a right to
come home, and now they have
very little margin of error in
terms of making decisions. So
if you care about the safety of
our police officers, then you
can’t set aside the gun issue
and pretend that that’s irrel-
evant.”
won the presidency after having lost the race for
vice president, Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1920,
the Democratic ticket of Ohio Gov. James M. Cox
I
0, if we get some of this
big money back next year,
I’d like to go on record to
see it put into salaries.”
Cartoon Roundup
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They Said It
he zoning ordinance,
more than any other
-A. ordinance the city
adopts, affects anyone that
owns property or lives in the
city of Henderson...We want to
make sure this effort is reflec-
tive of what the community
wants to see in an ordinance.”
Our Opinion
Some positive news from
Texas prisons, jails
T ast week the Associated Press reported that a
group of inmates in Parker County, located on the
1- -J other side of Fort Worth, broke out of their cell to
help a jailer that passed out.
The prisoners called for help, more guards arrived
and eventually the jailer was revived and rushed to a
hospital where he survived.
That unexpected bit of good news came after last Sun-
day’s dedication of a new chapel at Bradshaw State Jail
here in Henderson.
Prison Chapel Ministries of East Texas coordinated
the effort, including a large fundraising drive to come
up with the money to build the chapel. Henderson busi-
nessmen and area churches also joined in to help.
Ken Hale, a longtime member of the group’s board,
said during last week’s dedication service there was
not an area large enough in the jail’s facility to handle
the number of inmates interested in attending church
services.
Why is that important? Hale told the Henderson
Daily News earlier this month since volunteers began
going into Texas prisons more than 20 years ago, the
recidivism rate - inmates that will re-offend within
three years and go back to prison - has dropped to 22
percent from 70 percent.
“Everything the Department of Corrections has done
- from social work to education to you name it - what-
ever they’ve tried has not worked and the only thing that
has worked is what Texas is doing now,” Hale told HDN
reporter Ryleigh Salmon. “It’s allowing huge numbers,
the count is now over 25,000 volunteers, going into
Texas prisons to share Jesus Christ.”
The folks with Prison Chapel Ministries of East Texas
deserve a well-earned pat on the back for seeing the con-
struction project to its fruition.
But the real work — providing positive influence in
the lives of Texas inmates — goes on. The story from
Parker County reminds us their lives are worthy, too.
I bout 10 to 15 percent of
/ 4 vehicles stolen in East
XA.Texas are never recov-
ered... Half of all stolen vehicles
have the keys in them...People
leave spare keys in the console
or glove compartment.”
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Being VR.. A steppingstone to oblivion?
The first very first “presidential” test in public
for every nominee for the White House is the
selection of a vice presidential running mate.
Right after the 1968 Miami Beach convention
where he had won the Republican nomination,
Richard M. Nixon explained why he chose his
running mate: “There is a mysticism about men.
There is a quiet confidence. You look a man in
the eye and you know he’s got it — brains. This
guy has got it. If he doesn’t, Nixon has made a
bum choice.”
Thus did Nixon explain his unfortunate choice
of the man who would become the only U.S. vice
president in history to be forced, in order to
escape certain criminal conviction and incarcera-
tion, to resign the office — Spiro T. Agnew.
In spite of the immediate celebrity, the media
attention and the Secret Service protection it vice president), Richard Wirthlin, Reagan’s
brings, the honor of a vice presidential nomi- trusted pollster, told me their campaign, which
nation often turns out to be a steppingstone to polled nightly, showed Reagan behind only one
political oblivion. Think about recent VP can- time all year. That was when Mondale made his-
didates who, encouraged by the inflated poll tory by making Rep. Geraldine Ferraro the first
numbers attributable in part to their elevated woman on a major-party presidential ticket,
name recognition, tried to run in the next cycle Mostly forgotten today is after the 2008
for the White House and failed even to compete Republican convention in St. Paul, Minnesota,
for their party’s nomination — Democrats John where he selected, to mostly positive reviews,
Edwards in 2008 and Joe Lieberman in 2004. Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate,
Earlier, the 1968 Democratic VP nominee, Republican Sen. John McCain actually took
Sen. Edmund Muskie, had been the front- the national lead over the Democratic ticket of
runner for the 1972 nomination and lost. The Barack Obama and Joe Biden in polls by Gallup
1972 VP candidate, former U.S. Ambassador to and CBS News. But by Election Day, 67 percent
France Sargent Shriver, ran unsuccessfully for of voters believed that Biden possessed “the
the 1976 Democratic presidential nomination, personality and leadership qualities a president
Republican Sen. Bob Dole, the losing 1976 VP needs,” whereas 63 percent of voters judged that
nominee, failed badly in his bid for the 1980 Palin did not.
GOP nomination. (Although, Dole, who humor- Richard Nixon knew firsthand from being
ously described the VP job as “indoor work with one of only two Americans (along with FDR) to
no heavy lifting,” after another failed run for the be nominated five times for national office that
Republican nomination in 1988, did eventually “the vice president (in a national campaign)
capture his party’s nod in 1996, some 20 years can’t help you; he can only hurt you.” More often
after his VP run.) than not, running for VP remains a stepping-
in fact, only one American in history has ever stone to political oblivion.
Mark Shields is a veteran political commentator and
columnist distributed by Creators Syndicate Inc.
© 2016, Creators Syndicate Inc.
Today In History
Today is Sunday, July 17, summit of World War II.
In 1955, Disneyland had
its opening day in Anaheim,
Today’s Highlight in California.
History: On July 17, 1996, In 1962, the United States
TWA Flight 800, a Europe- conducted its final atmo-
bound Boeing 747, exploded spheric nuclear test to date,
and crashed off Long Island, detonating a 20-kiloton
New York, shortly after device, codenamed Little
departing John F. Kennedy Feller I, at the Nevada Test
International Airport, killing Site.
all 230 people on board. In 1975, an Apollo space-
On this date: In 1821, ship docked with a Soyuz
Spain ceded Florida to the spacecraft in orbit in the first
United States. superpower link-up of its
In 1918, Russia’s Czar kind.
Nicholas II and his family In 1981, 114 people were
were executed by the Bol- killed when a pair of sus-
sheviks. pended walkways above the
In 1936, the Spanish Civil lobby of the Kansas City
War began as right-wing Hyatt Regency Hotel col-
army generals launched a lapsed during a tea dance.
In 1998, Nicholas II, last
of the Romanov czars, was
In 1944, during World formally buried in Russia 80
War II, 320 men, two-thirds years after he and his family
of them African-Americans, were slain by the Bolsheviks,
were killed when a pair of Today’s Birthdays:
ammunition ships exploded Actor Donald Sutherland
at the Port Chicago Naval is 84. Camilla, Duchess of
Magazine in California. Cornwall, is 69. Actor David
In 1945, following Nazi Hasselhoff is 64. German
Germany’s surrender, Presi- Chancellor Angela Merkel is
dent Harry S. Truman, Soviet 62. Contemporary Christian
leader Josef Stalin and Brit- singer Susan Ashton is 49.
ish Prime Minister Winston Country singer Luke Bryan
S. Churchill began meeting is 40.
at Potsdam in the final Allied — Associated Press
Fly those flags... for a variety of reasons
and take it” banner first flown
by Texas settlers in Gonzales
during the state’s revolution.
Don’t think it was only
four-wheel drive trucks. Con-
federate flags were attached
to four-wheelers, buggies and
more than one golf cart rolling
up and down the beach.
LES (Those folks have every
Regardless, it was a great time. By the morn- LINEBARGER right to fly their flag... it’s pro-
ing of July 5, a vast majority of visitors had tected speech, thanks to the
already pulled up stakes and headed for home. First Amendment to the Con-
While the beach wasn’t deserted, neither was it stitution. But you can’t help but wonder if any
shoulder-to-shoulder as far as the eye could see. of those 20-year-olds understand it represents
For one thing, there was room for wiffle ball, a a failed rebellion against this country that cost
favorite game of ours. Somehow, standing ankle more than 600,000 war dead? That represented
deep in the surf of the Gulf of Mexico makes a staggering 2 percent of the population based on
striking out on my son’s pitching enjoyable, as the i860 census that, at the time, counted 31.4
opposed to just being in our backyard. million people living in the U.S., including states
One of the fun things about visiting Bolivar that eventually seceded from the union.)
Peninsula is driving on the beaches. A permit’s Additionally, there were derivatives of “Come
required - $10 - and you’re asked to place it on and take it” that featured an AR-15 instead of a
the bottom right-hand corner of the windshield. 19th century cannon. Then those were combined
(We’ve left it there as a souvenir... a reminder with the features of the State of Texas flag. For
from a fun trip.) good measure, throw in some “Don’t tread on
Still, what caught our attention most were the me” flags that date back to the American Revolu-
flags flown by nearly everyone visiting the pen- tion.
insula. In fact, we felt a bit conspicuous thanks The winner, hands down in my book, was
to the absence of any flag attached to the back of the 6o-something-year-old couple that pulled
our vehicle. up in a gold pickup towing a travel trailer. They
I first noticed it shortly after arriving at Crys- parked on the beach for a couple days, and the
tai Beach, when visitors showed up at the beach entire time flew a “Come and take it” flag from
house adjacent to ours. Up went an Alabama the pickup.
Crimson Tide flag... even though the van next Except, it had a green field and the cannon
door had Texas plates. was a lit marijuana cigarette. To top it off, they
There wasn’t just a Crimson Tide flag. Some appeared to have with them what could only have
folks across the way ran up a Texas A&M banner, been grandchildren. I kid you not.
and there was a usual smattering of support for Ironically, the couple seemed pretty surly
other schools, most notably LSU. Surprisingly, much of the time. If television has taught us any-
there were no Texas Longhorn flags. thing, aren’t pot smokers pretty laid back about
On the beach itself, flags were more numer- things, e.g. Cheech and Chong? If so, maybe the
ous, not to mention more diverse, oftentimes couple wasn’t smoking enough... or, too much,
reflecting some of the debate going on today in Or the wife wouldn’t let him light up with the
the country. grandkids present. But then, why did she let him
There’s nothing new about using a vehicle to fly that flag? There was also no evidence of a bag
advertise what’s most important to you. There of Doritos or box of Twinkies.
are bumper stickers galore to choose, ranging
from the proud to the profane.
Just the other day, it was pointed out there’s
a BU, Razorback and Henderson “wicked H” on
the back of my wife’s car. (C’mon, one of those sheer number of banners seen on the Bolivar
three is going to have a good football season this Peninsula. But I will say you expect a bit more
fall, right?)
As for Crystal Beach, the display of choice was
a Confederate battle flag. Most were attached to
jacked-up pickup trucks and oftentimes paired
with flags of similar opinions, such as the “Come
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