The Bogata News (Bogata, Tex.), Vol. 78, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 20, 1989 Page: 1 of 10
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This time it appeared that the dog
stove. She screamed, the dog barked.
Happy Jack" to come by on his way
anxiously awaiting his return.
managed to squeeze in between the
f
But just as my mother turned to go
back into the house, she saw the tail
MARTHA WOOD demon-
strated china painting, her work
with china dolls, and her oil
mer Program Tuesday, July 18.
(Staff PhotobyMoIHe Williams)
paintings to the children attend-
ing the Bogata Library Sum-
Canine Orphan Earns Home
By Mollie Williams
For several months before the death took shelter from the night in the searching for the intruder.
of Jack Lapsey, better known as bam behind my parent's house. Dur- This time it appeared that the dog
"Happy Jack”, two of his dogs began ing last winter's icy weather, one of had issued a false alarm for there was
to follow his vehicle a she left for the dogs died. My mother called nothing in sight.
work each day. The dogs always several people trying to find a home
ended their chase at the home of my for the other dog, but no one was ________ __________ _
parents. There they would wile away interested. Although they did not ofa huge snake as it slithered into the
the day chasing cats and napping, really want the dog, my mother and door andtook refuge behind her cook-
Each evening around the time for dad continued to feed it each day. stove. She screamed, the dog barked,
"Happy Jack" to come by on his way One afternoon my parents heard and daddy headed for the telephone,
home, they would sit beside the road die dog barking ferociously. They They secured the aid of my husband
anxiously awaiting his return. ran to see what was happening and and with a rifle and rat shot, he
A few days following the death of found that die dog had cornered a managed to squeeze in between the
Happy Jack, the dogs found their way frog. Sometime later, the dog found a cabinets and the stove and get two
to the Roach home again. My mother grass snake and again got the atten- good shots. To the horror of them all,
felt sorry for the dogs and put out lion of my parents by barking. Then, he pulled out a huge copperhead,
food for them. Each evening at the during the month of June, the dog My parents rewarded the dog with
usual time, the dogs would take their became alarmed and began barking a good meal and promised her a home
place beside the road, and listen for again. My parents knew from the as long as she lives. "Lapsey Lou" as
the familiar sound of Happy Jack's previous experiences that there had she is now called, has ceased to wait
vehicle. After a white, the dogs real- to be a reason. They rushed out the beside the road and seems to be quite
ized their master wasn't coming and back door, leaving it open, and began content in her new home.
My parents rewarded the dog with
again. My parents knew from the as long as she lives. "Lapsey Lou" as
vehicle. After a white, the dogs real- to be a reason. They rushed out the beside the road and seems to be quite
ment to be out directing motorists
through or around the deeper areas.
Damage to gravel roads and drive-
ways was severe as the runoff carved
new paths through them, and fields
suffered some damage from the
pounding rains.
Speculation as to whether this trend
towards an extremely abnormal
summer continue, but only time will
tell whether more of these intense
thunder storms are in store.
In a year noted for severe thunder
storms, the area suffered one of the
worst so far Tuesday night Accord-
ing to an offical rain gauge 4 and one
half inches of rain fell in Deport, four
of those inches in one hour. Similar
amounts were measured at Bogata
with Talco coming out a little lighter,
and Blossom about the same.
Lightning had power out for as
little a time and thirty minutes in
Intense Storms Dump 4.5 Inches
Of Rain On Area Tuesday Night
some places, but out for six hours in
others, andTexas New Mexico Power
Company had linemen working as
fast as they could replacing burned
out transformers, lines and resetting
thrown switches, all the results of a
tremendous electrical display.
Several large trees succumbed to
high winds, and water was over roads
in places that it doesn't normally get
over, prompting the highway depart-
The Bogata Lions Club will meet
Thursday night, July 20 at the Com-
munity Center at 7 p.m. Don't forget
you canned food item.
The Johntown Missionary Baptist
Church will have Vacation Bible
School July 24-28 at night from 7 to
9 p.m.
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Th l-n g s
Softball
Tourney Raises
Funds For Two 5
A softball tournament was held at
Johntown on July 6,7 and 8 to raise
funds for Jared Huddleston of Bogata
and Mike Gandy of Ml Pleasant. *
Jared is the son of Rex and Sherry
Huddleston of Bogata and is under-
going treatments for leukemia.
Mike Gandy lives in ML Pleasant
with his wife and two sons. He is
suffering from Lou Garrigs disease
and is taking treatments in houston.
According to reports, Gandy is one in
a million to be stricken with the
disease at his age of 26.
Mark and Jerry Beers and Don
Shovan of the Lone Star Methodist
Church were the organizers of the
tournament.
Thirteen teams (5 teams were made
up of men who are employed by
Texas Utilities) participated in the
evenL Men from Bogata, Talco and
the surrounding areas played on the
teams.
Barbecue and fish were sold
through the concession stand and
about $3,500 was raised to help the
two families.
The regular meeting of the Bogata
VFW Post 8187 and Ladies Auxil-
iary will be Monday night, July 24
at 7 p.m. •
John L. Ragsdill
Bogata, TX
wM IIM Editor
Letter To The Editor:
It appears that after nearly five
years, we may get a resolution to
one of the worst decisions to come
out of the Supreme Court in my
lifetime.
How did this group of judges
come to the decision that burning
the American Flag could in any
way be tolerated, much less pro-
tected by the First Amendment.1,
as many Americans feel that Gre-
gory Lee Johnson should have paid
for this crime in 1984 immediately
after this display of anti-Ameri-
canism.
All Americans should have the
right to disagree with any policy
made by anyone from the Presi-
dent on down, but that should not
include theright to burn an Ameri-
can Flag.
Our faith in the judicial system
can somewhat be restored by the
fact that already Judiciary Com-
mittees are correcting this terrible
decision made by the Supreme
Court
Why did it take five years?
Can you imagine American
farms being operated by politicians,
cows milked every three or four
days, hay baled only if everyone
agreed, and I don't feel the peas
would ever get picked.
The Bogata Lions Club would
like to send a clear message to
everyone from President Bush on
down that this small part of Amer-
ica has a deep respect for the
American Flag and all that we feel
it stands for.
Our obligation to friends and
relatives who lost their lives pro-
tecting our country and this flag,
demands that we put all our effort
into this issue.
Please sign one of the petitions
you will find at our local mer-
chants.
who were instrumental in assisting
the Texas Bankers Association in
accomplishing their legislative ob-
jectives in the Texas House of Repre-
sentatives most recent session.
Ronald E. Abbott, Chief Execu-
tive Officer and Chairman of the
Board of Peoples National Bank of
Bogata was named by the Texas
Abbott Named To Legislative Honor Roll
Bankers Association in the July issue
of Texas Banking to their Legislative
Honor Roll.
The Legislative Honor Roll was
made up of bankers throughoutTexas
Paris received $158,391.97 for a
nomic growth are beginning to show Deport received $635.52 for this
Bogata received $1,412.58 for a
9.28% increase over last July's pay-
ment whil Clarksville received
$4,001.70 for a 2.19% decrease.
Detroit received $688.60 for this
' 'Editor's Qjiotes
Tfu wtafat find of
fruit, drops quickest
to tfa ground.
\^fuiktsptan
lock said.
The state's six metropolitan transit
nomic growth is becoming apparent authorities and one city transit de-
in almost every sector of the econ- partment received $34.5 million, an
increase of 16.1%, according to Bui- crease.
lock. July's checks represent taxes col-
Blossom received $706.85 for this lected by monthly filers in May and
bottomed out. And some of the areas period, for a 19.69% increase over reported to the Comptroller's office
in Texas that lagged behind in eco- last year's payment for the same date, by June 20, Bullock said.
Rebate checks totaling $68.7 mil- last July's paymenL
across the state continued to climb lion were sent Monday to 939 cities
this month, increasing by 12% over that impose local sales tax at either 7.27% increase,
last year's July payments.
"National economic indicators
seem to be showing a slowdown, but
the trend in Texas remains upward,"
Bullock said. "Our diversifying eco-
Local Sales Tax Shows Upward Swing
State Comptroller Bob Bullock said signs of improvement," Bullock said, payment for a 21.91% increase over
Monday that local sate stax rebates
one or one and one-half percenL
Bullock siad.
Houston's allocation of $ 11.2 mil-
lion was the largest in the state. Dal-
las' check was the second-largest,
nomic base should ensure that we with apayemtn of $7.6 million, Bui- period, marking a 34.38% decrease
continue to do well." lock said. from last year's payments to date.
Bullock added that Texas' eco- The state's six metropolitan transit Talco received $1,347.24 for a
19.96% decrease. Mt. Pleasant re-
ceived $83,998.29 for a 10.31% in-
omy.
"Oil and gas, construction, bank-
ing and real estate appear to have
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Summer
Library Program
Rescheduled
MUDDY, MUDDY-Mud didn't
stop the fun, or the funds when
softball teams played ball to help
raise funds for Jared Huddles,
leukemia victim, and Mike Gandy,
a victim of Lou Gerrig's disease
recently. The men playing just
wiped the mud from their faces,
laughed and went on! (Staff Photo
by Nancy Brown)
Mrs. Nancy Nelson was unable to
be at Bogata Elementary Library on
July 11 as previously announced to
demonstrate a spinning wheel. She
will be there on Tuesday, July 25.
All participants in the summer
library program are encouraged to be
there on Tuesday for Mrs. Nelsons'
demonstration and on Thursday, July
27 for a party.
All books should be turned in on
July 27.
By Nanalee Nichols
h
I suppose it's been a awhile
^hsince I crawled up on the old soap
" Hxjx and really began a lecture .
(My grandma always said I
should have been a lawyer or a
preacher, I liked to talk so much).
Over the years I've heard a lot
of lectures that we shouldn't
fly...not only in big commerical
airliners, but most especially in
those little bitty two seater planes.
I've been painted pictures of
gloom and doom when we flew
gliders, and when we took up
white water rafting...well! Going
down in caves, up in balloons,
out on the ocean, all seem to be
things that are considered dan-
gerous.
On insurance policies they ask
^kquestions about "hazardous"
" ^hobbies or pursuits such as
rodeoing, hang gliding, scuba
diving, all those things that most
of us think of as dangerous, and
life threatening. And they are,
there's no doubt about it, the
chances of getting hurt or killed
doing these things DOES exisL
It's more dangerous than sitting
home watching tetevision...thats
a fact
But the single most dangerous
thing ANY of us do is gooutonto
the highways in an automobile!
Now, I know lots of folks are
going to disapgree with me.
But each and every one of us
has lost a friend or family in an
auto accident. Each and every
one of us knows people who have
been badly injured in wrecks.
I counted it up the other
day...between Blossom, Patton-
ville, Deport, Bogata and Talco
in the past five years I have been
to accidents that claimed the lives
of fifteen people. Several of
those were children or teenagers.
We long ago lost count of the
number of wrecks that tore ve-
hicles up without seriously injur-
ing the occupants, or even lost
count of the accidents in which
people were badly hurt, but sur-
vived.
Every day, across this nation
more people die in auto accidents
than in a massive plane crash!
i But because the body count isn't
presented allatonce, and we never
hear a national total, the impact
isn't so great.
I know that driving is a neces-
sary, and pleasurable part of life.
I know we have to do iL. .and on*t
have to indulge in dangerous
hobbies...but the odds are still in
favor of car accidents getting us
instead of one of those other
pursuits!
Lots of folks aren't going to
agree with me that seat belts help.
But I've never seen adead person
in a seat belt...and I've never seen
Abut one live one that was hurled
W>ut of their vehicle. Yes, I know
that seat belts can't save
every one...but they do
help..especially in preventing
injuries in less serious accidents.
But even more helpful is re-
sponsible driving. And that's what
my whole point is... that we ALL
need to drive more carefully.
Check twice before passing,
make sure there's enough room.
Look very, very well before pull-
ing out. Don't turn off or onto
roads without making sure there's
enough room,or that it'sclear...we
all know the rules. We just don't
always follow them as carefully
as we should.
Defensive driving is important
too. There an old line about "here
» liesJoe,hewasright,buthe'sjust
as dead as if he were
wrong"...that's the whole idea
behind defensive driving, watch-
ing out for the ocher fellow.
Please folks, don't add to the
horrendous statistics about car
wrecks., .drive carefully, courte-
ously, defensively..and lets all
stay alive!
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