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Thursday, March 25, 1971
Page Four The Sanger Courier
LETTERS"- EDITOR
BY DANETTE MOREDICK
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Sanger Courier
Dear Editor:
We appreciate your recent
article in the paper about some
questionable textbooks which
the school board adopted.
We want to sound our voices
of protest against them being
taught in our public schools.
We are proud of our country,
one nation under God.
J.H. Anthony
Mrs. J.H. Anthony
warm season prennial, and it
spreads from both seed and
rhizomes.
McBay names three other
forbs that are showing up favor-
ably at Knox City: Bushsun-
flower, western indigo and half-
shrub sundrop.
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ARREST...
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a 1970ChevroletChevelle order-
ed a tank of gas and then drove
off without paying for it.
Mitchell stopped the caf be-
tween Sanger and Denton and on
a routine Check of the license
plate discovered the’ car had
been reported as stolen. Bob
Westberry of Durant, owner of
the car. had just minutes before
discovered the car gone and re-
ported it to the Oklahoma High-
way Patrol.
The youth was taken to the
Denton County jail where he is
awaiting extradition to Okla-
homa on charges of Grand Lar-
ceny, Mitchell said.
Members of the Sanger In-
dians football team, led by
Coach David Frazier, will be
stationed on streets downtown
and in stores to pin Easter
lilies on lapels of shopfiers.
Football players conducting
the sale will be identified by
the Easter Seal coin canisters
they will be carrying.
Bob Lilly, defensive tackle
of the Dallas Cowboys football
team, is serving as State Cliair-
man for the Football Boy’s
Lily Day for Crippled Children
in Texas.
The-Easter Seal Appeal is
conducted by the Easter Seal
Society for Crippled Children
and Adults of Texas, wliich last
year provided treatment and
services for 21,563 crippled
children and adults in Texas.
Ninety per cent of the funds
contributed during the Easter
Seal campaign remain in ! exas
to finance rehabilitation ser-
vices for handicapped Texans.
The Easter Seal Society annual-
ly spends more money for direct
services to the handicapped in
Texas than is collected in the
Easter Seal Appeal.
enterprises into the country-
side have resulted in increas-
ing amounts ofnew capital need-
ed by the rural electric sys-
tems in order to meet their
growth requirements.
Brazos Electric Power Co-
operative, Inc., is a member.
Miss Alma Schulkey and Miss
Mary Sue Driver of Dallas were
guests of the Paxton Crays
Wednesday.
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minimum, 90-day penalty on with-
drawals prior to maturity; dividends
compounded or paid quarterly.
When you promised
to share and share alike,
did that mean your wife
could use up all the hot water?
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Dear Sir:
i am surprised and much
disappointed at the recent de-
cision of the school board to
adopt three text books in parti-
cular.
Two books being literature
books written by mostly modem
writers with no reference to
eighteenth century writers,
which, as pointed out in The
Sanger Courier, was the time
our country was founded. I
understand these modern au-
' thors promote riots and violent
protest as a means of solving
our country’s social ills.
The third book in question,
a seventh grade science text
book, teaches with the assump-
tion that evolution is a fact
rather than a theory. The local
text book committee could have
chosen one of two other books
which better explained and had
a more objective view of evolu-
tion as a theory.
I fail to understand why the
board and the text book com-
mittee, who reviewed these
books, could not have met with
these interested parents who
objected to the adoption of
these particular books. Was
it possible that this text book
committee, with all their other
duties, did not have adequate
time Io read fifteen books in
thirty days? These parents had
made extensive reviews for
several months of all the books
up for adoption. Was it neces-
sary that these books in ques-
tion be adopted that very night
wihtout exploring the possibility
of a better choice?
As a mother of five children,
three of whom are in the Sanger
schools, I find it most difficult
even in the best atmosphere,
to raise my children with a
healthy respect to God, our
country and our fellowman. Will
_ text books such as these make
the parents task even more
awesome?
I am writing this letter be-
cause I am concerned not only
for my own family but for all
other children in our community.
With this same concern I know
that vou must share, since you
give your service to our com-
munity through the school board,
is it possible for you to re-
consider your decision and meet
with the committee and together
evaluate the books?
Sincerely,
Arleeta Anthony
Their children were;
Sallie R„ 1868-1930,
married Slaton Smith;
Mize, 1870-1947, who married
Laura Jane Harmon In Denton
Co. They are buried in Belew
Cemetery. L.Z. Harmon of
Aubrey is working on a family
DISTRICT ATTORNEY IS OPPOSED
TO NEW PROPOSED REVISIONS
Denton County District Attor-
ney John Lawhon said today he
is opposed to immediate pass-
age of the proposed revisions
to the Texas Penal Code, and
indicated that the changes would
reduce penalties, introduce new
defenses, add appeals, and allow
easier parole.
He thinks that the proposed
Penal Code is the greatest thing
imaginable - that is, for crimi-
nal defendants and defense attor-
neys representing them, and he
is not surprised that those peo-
ple advocate passage.
These changes are being pro-
posed at a time when Texas
law endorcement is battling and
making progress against the
highest crime rate in history,
he said. He asked the legisla-
ture to delay action on the re-
vised code to give the people
of the state a chance to find
out what it contains.
Lawhpn believes that the peo-
plei&lDapton County do not want
the proposed Penal Code in its
present form. He cited con-
victions in Jury Trials in which
he has participated in Denton
County this year for sale of
drugs. These trials resulted
in punishments of 20 years,
11 years, 5 years and 11 years
in the penitentiary. Under the
revisions the maximum for
these same sale offenses would
have been 6 years.
He stated that under the pro-
posed revisions mini mum penal-
ties for crimes would be re-
duced. The proposed penalty
for felonies could be as little
as a $1 fine. Under the pro-
posals the punishments for
murder with malice, aggravated
rape, aggravated robbery, sale
of heroin and other felonies
could lie by a fine of $1„
Maximum sentence for most
serious crimes would also be
substantially reduced. For ex-
ample, rape by force (wliich
could involve threat of death
that is not imminent but no
serious bodily injury or use
of deadly weapon) would carry
a maximum of 12 years as
opposed to life or death at pre-
sent. Thus, Harris County
D.A. Carol Vance has pointed
out that the injury to the 25-
year old housewife who is raped
in her home in front of her
three small children at knife-
Mro and Mrs. Reagai^ An-
drews of Dallas were guests
of Mr. and Mrs. Paxton Gray
Sunday afternoon.
FIRST GRADE ...
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need to know the names of stu-
dents who will enter school
for the first time next year. *-
beauty and utility of
plants is one of the topics
being stressed during National
Lawn and Garden Week March
20-26.
Raymond McBay*, district con-
servationist for Soil Conserva-
tion Service at Denton said the
event is being sponsored by
the U.S. Department of Agri-
culture and the national offi-
cers of garden clubs. Lawn and
garden trade groups are also
behind the effort.
This year’s theme ‘ Country
Green for City Living” stresses
the special values of rural
plants which enhance outdoor
beauty and imp rove the environ-
ment for rural and urban resi-
dents.
‘•Conservation farmers who
plant grasses on depleted range-
land or idle cropland in the
Denton areas do a lot for out-
door beauty,” McBav said. “In
fact, sound soil ami water con-
servation on the landscape is
the key to a beautiful country-
side. Any well managed grass-
land or farmland adds to the
country green concept.”
McBay said Soil Conserva-
tion Service officials are using
the occasion to invite the pub-
lic to visit the SCS plant mate-
rials center at Knox City. Hun-
dreds of plant selections are
being evaluated at the center
to. try to find improved strains
that will solve several conser-
vation problems. He said the
best time to see the plants is
in late summer when most are
in bloom or producing seed.
“Several new grass strains
are now in use across the coun-
try because of our plant mate-
rials work,” McBay said.
“Some of the ones being used
in Texas include King Fanch
bluestem; Greenville switch-
grass; El Reno, Uvalde and
Vaughn sidecats grama,
Selection 75 Kleingrass. ’
The kleingrass selection was
released two years ago and has
proven so popular that more
than a million dollar’s worth
of seed was planted last year
in Texas.
The Denton-Wise Soil and
Water Conservation District
and SCS are sponsoring a “se-
lection 75 kleingrass” planting
field day to be held April 22,
on the James Renshaw farm
southeast of Decatur. The pri-
mary purpose is to inform peo-
ple in the methods of planting
and management of kleingrass.
“However, some of the most
fascinating work underway at
Knox City is our work with
plants for wildlife,” McBay said.
“Since wildlife and livestock
co-exist in the same land, they
use many of the same plants.
We are trying to select plants
valuable to livestock and wild-
life which can be grown profit-
ably for seed.”
McBay said that his office
gets questions nearly every
week from people wanting to
know what plants to include in
grass plantings tLat will have
special value for wildlife. Un-
MARGII 20-26 IS NA TIONAL
LAvVN AN I) GAR DEN WEEK
points would be punished by a
minimum of as little as $1
and a maximum of only up to
12 years.
The vicious muggings com-
mitted sometimes without wea-
pons are inexcusable crimes
of violence which have made
many of our Texas streets un-
safe to walk at night, he said.
For this type of robbery the
proposed maximum penalty is
reduced from life to 12 years
and the minimum reduced from
5 years to $1 fine. Robbery
should not be made more attrac-
tive by a reduction of the penal-
ty which is currently imposed,
he added.
Lawhon described how theft
of personal property valued at
$50 or less would show a dras-
tic reduction to a maximum of
a $200 fine with no jail time.
The present maximum Is 2
years in jail. A person who
thinks about a $45 item know-
ing that if caught he can only
receive a $200 fine is not going
to be deterred, he said.
Also, under the code as pro-
posed, criminals would be eligi-
ble for parole even more quick-
ly than under present files.
Insanity defenses would be
easier to claim.
He did not say that all of the
proposed code is bad, but that
there are enough serious de-
fects in the proposals to be
reason for not passing them at
this session of the legislature.
The Texas Law Enforcement
Legislative Council has asked
for additional time to study
the matter and opposes passage
at tliis session of the legislature.
District Attorney Henry Vade
of Dallas has said that “Enact-
ment o£ this bill would result in
severe reduction of the length
of criminal sentences and would
permit the possibility of much
earlier parole than is now avail-
able.” It is Lawhon’s opinion
that such a reduction of criminal
penalties is an open invitation
to heightened criminal activi-
ties.
I HERITAGE f
& By HAZEL SHELTON 1J
tree of the Harmons; Robert T.,
1873-1943, who married Willie
-?-; Geo. Albert 1876-1953,
John W., 1878-1949, who marri-
ed Beulah Simpson; Eliza Wood,
1880-1882; Noah, 1883-1883.
Children of Wood and Laura
Harmon Goin are: Infant, buried
Belew, 1892; Geo.Carlton, buri-
ed Belew, • 19L1-; James Wil-
liams who married Reina Jones;
Lillian Ruby who married Hor-
ace D. McKinney; Archie Har-
mon, buried Belew, 1905; Joe
Bayless who married Mattie
Lee Crawley.
We are endebted for this
family tree to Weldon Goin of
Aubrey. He married Jackie
Cogburn and they are also com-
piling a Cogburn family tree.
Levi Cogburn, 1854-1929,
married Nancy Virginia Moore,
1860-1940. Their children are:
JOhn David; Wm. Ernest; Albert
Ezekiel; Mattie Estell; Jessie
Stirn; Tom; Travis Sidney; Ro-
bert Lee who married Vertie
Leona Doyle.
Their children are: Bettie
Irene, married James L. Young;
Opal Virginia, married Elbert
B. Fortenberry; Elsie Mae,
married C. Herbert Sullivan;
Alva Lee, married Thelma L.
Palmer, Leona Beatrice, mar-
ried Lee Douglas Skinner; Clara
Pearl, married W.W. Stinnett;
Mary Jo, married F.L. Linker;
Roller t Doyle, married Anna
Frances Hinzman; Jacobina,
married Weldon Goin; James
Ray.
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John Williams, born in 1805
in Georgia, married Eliza Wood,
bom 1807 in Georgia and buried
in Gadston, Alabama.
Their daughter was Eliza
Wood Williams, born 1842, died
1883. On Sept. 20, 1866, she
married Geo. W. Goin, boro
1843, died 1882. They are
buried near Weatherford,! exas.
VISITORS OF MR. AND MRS. KEITH KEMPLIN WEDNESDAY
through Monday were Mr.and Mrs.George McCubbinof Omaha,
Nebraska.
NANCY KEMPLIN SPENT THE WEEKEND WITH HERPAR-
entsj. Mr. and Mrs. Keith Kemplin.Nancy is working in Arlington,
MRS. GERTRUDE BUFFINGTON WAS ADMITTED TO THE
Gainesville Memorial Hospital March 5 where she was treated
for lacerations. She was released Monday.
. SATURDAY AFTERNOON GUESTS OF MR. AND MRS.JOHN
Bunday were Mr. and Mrs. Bayne Fortenberry and granddaugh-
ter of Slidell, Mr. and Mrs. Billy Davis and Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Bundy of Waco. Sunday guests were Mr. and Mrs. Leon
Calhoun and daughter of Sherman and Mr. and Mrs. Ruel
Bundy of Era.
SUNDAY EVENING GUESTS OF &RS. Q.G.CALHOUN WERE
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Bennett and Robin and Randy of Sherman
and Mr. and Mrs. Leon Calhoun and daughter of Sherman.
WEEKEND GUESTS OF THE LEWIN MILLERS WERE MR.
and Mrs. Ray Rushing of I 'allas, Mrs. Joann Bennett of Sadler
Southmayd, Mrs. Girdie Calhoun, Mrs. Opal McCollum and
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Doss.
MRS. MORRISON’S DAUGHTER AND SON-IN-LAW, MR. AND
Mrs, George Wilson, of Odessa visited with here Tuesday.
. MR. AND MRS. DON GARNER OF GRAND PRAIRIE VISITED
with Mr. and Mrs. Tony Hacker Friday evening.
FRANK BARTHOLD WAS ADMITTED TO GAINESVILLE
Memorial Hospital Thursday for treatment.
SUNDAY GUEST OF MRS.DORTHEY CHISAM WASHER SON,
Bobby Chisam, of Fort Sill, Okla.
SUNDAY GUEST OF MR. AND MRS. HERBERT HOBBS WAS
Mrs. Bishop of Dallas.
SUNDAY GUESTS OF MR. AND MRS. FREI) MASK WERE
Connie Mask of Sanger and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Mask and family
of Celina.
MRS. T.J. HUDSPETH SPENT LAST WEEK WITH HER
daughter, Mrs. H.T. Schaffer, and her sister-in-law, Mrs. V.D.
Aston in Gainesville.
SUNDAY GUESTS OF MRS. HARRY LOWE WERE MR. AND
Mrs. Hugh Sparks and James, and Mr. and Mrs. Larry Ellis
and Nikke, all of Arlington.
THE DANIEL MOREDICK FAMILY ATTENDED A DINNER
at the home of their daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
James Bryan.
RICHARD PEDERSEN PILOTED A JET TO VIETNAM. HE
will return home in a week.
MISS CHERYL NESBIT! WENT TO DALLAS TO VISIT WITH
relatives Sunday.
THE HENRY SANDMAN FAMILY ATTENDED A DINNER
in the home of the Lewis Sickings of Muenster.
GUESTS OF MRS. RUTH SPARKMAN TUESDAY WERE
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Johnson of Houston, Fred Lawrence of
Mesquite, Gladis Sparkman of Denton, and O.D. Sparkman
of Rio Grand Valley. Her guest Sunday was Ed K. Sparkman
of Dallas.
SUNDAY GUESTS OF MR„ AND MRS. E.M. ASTON WERE
Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Potts and son Stephen of Dallas.
JAMES HOGAN AND MOTHER VISITED WITH THE WAYNE
Hogans in Sherman and the Weldon Hogans in Van Alstyne.
Beverly Hogan spent Saturday and Sunday in Hurst with Mr.
and Mrs. Tommy Smith. They are the proud parents of a
son, Jason Todd. Sunday guests of Mrs. Opal Hogan were
Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Hogan, Mr. and Mrs. David Hogan and
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Hogan.
Mrs. Ida Knight has return-
ed from a trip overseas.
She flew to NewYorkMarch2
and from there to Telaviv,
Jeruselem. She stayed at a
hotel in Telaviv and toured the
city. Some of the places she
visited while there were the
Garden of Gethseihane, the
Mount of Olives and the Jordan
River.
She then went to the Dead
Sea and was right by the spot
where J esus walked on the water.
She also visited Galilee and the
Holy City wliich she said was
the most interesting.
On the eighth day she went
to Rome, Italy, where she spent
two days. She visited a museum
. and a large Catholic Church.
She also met the Pope and took
several pictures.
She left Rome on a 747 jet
to New York and then on to
Dallas.
Vincent P. Slatt, manager of
the Inland Power and Light
Company. Spokane, Wastiington,
was re-elected president of the
National Rural Utilities Co-
operative Finance Corporation
(CFA) at a regular meeting of
the institution’s Board of Direc-
tors Tuesday, March 9. The
three- day Board meeting.
March 8, 9 and 10, was held
in Washington, D.C.
Slatt has served asCFC °re-
sident since July 31, 1970, when
he was named to succeed J.K.
Smith, who resigned to accept
the position of Governor of CFC.
CFC is the independent, mem-
ber-owned, member-controlled
financing institution organized
by its member rural electric
systems for the purpose of
providing supplemental financ-
ing for the rural electrification
program.
Incorporated as a non-profit
organization under the laws of
the District of Columbia, CFC
has as its purpose to fill the
capital gap that exists between
Congressional appropriations
for Rural Electrification Ad-
ministration loans and the
actual needs of the program.
People moving from urban to
rural areas and the movement
of industry and commercial
Ivilu..aldy, the number of
plants he can recommend for
Is limited. If? not
because there is a shortage of
plants that wildlife like - the
problem is buying seed for these
plants.
McBay explained the 53 selec-
tions ofjorbsand shrubs thought
to have value for wildife are
being evaluated at Knox City.
This is in addition to more than
400 strains of grasses, many
of which are also useful to
wildlife, which are being grown.
Several legumes are also lieing
evaluated.
He pointed out that many
forbs (broad leafed, herbaceous
plants) are not only goixi wild-
life food but are equally useful
to cattle, horses, sheep and
goats. If ways can lie develop-
ed to grow these plants profit-
ably for seed production, it will
make it more feasible to plant
them.
Selections from two such
forbs - englemanndaisy and
Maximilian sunflower - have
shown up especially well at
Knox City, McBay said.
Englemanndaisy is especially
desirable as a wildlife food
because it is a cool season
plant. A selection made in
the Texas Hill Country has done
so well that it is now lieing
grown for seed increase at Knox
City. Field plantings at seve-
ral Texas locations will be made
this year.
“Another plant we have ad-
mired a long time is Maximilian
sunflower,” the district con-
servationist said. “We call
this forba climax plant, meaning
it was present in the natural
environment when the grass-
lands were settled. It is so
well liked by deer and livestock
that it’s hard to find except
in well managed pastures. If
given a change, it thrives in
mixtures with other choice
plants and produces a lot of
forage.”
The plant is native to a wide
section of the state, it is. a
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The Valley View Baptist
Church will have a revival meet-
ing starting Wednesday.
The Evanglist will be Danny
Vance of Kansas City, Missouri.
He is a student at Southwestern
Baptist Theological Seminary
in Fort Worth. The music
director will be Wayne Ander-
son of Hobbs, Texas. He is a
senior atNdrth Texas State Uni-
versity. Wayne is the regular
music director at the church.
The meeting will start at
7:30 p.m. with emphasis on
Sunday School Wednesday night
Family night on Thursday ana
Youth night on Friday.
A nursery will be provided
and everyone is invited.
fortunately
is limited.
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