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addressed the Texas Legislature on
subversives.
porarily paralyzed by the bullets, he the First Baptist Church of Fort
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Federal CHIP will help Texas
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hard-hitting preacher out of town.
A few months later, a suspicious
fire burned the church to the ground.
Convinced by the district attorney
that Norris had committed the crime
to obtain new accommodations, a
grand jury indicted him for arson. The
evidence was weak at best, and as
expected the trial ended in an acquit-
Norris refused to mend his maver-
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ilished letters
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cattle that are on the county roads.
If the proposition passes, the Sheriff's
Department could write tickets to the
owners of cattle who continue to allow
By TRAVIS J. KOEHN
Criminal District Attorney
Austin County
Established 1887
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Norris combined Scrip-
ture with sensational
attacks against leading
citizens suspected of
wicked conduct A 1911
sermon entitled “The Ten
Biggest Devils in Fort
Worth. Names Given”
provoked an unsuccessful
attempt by local officials
to run the hard-hitting
preacher out of town.
U.S. Senator
Phil Gramm
203 Cannon House Office
Building
(202) 224-2934
Washington. D.C. 20515
U.S. Congressman
Kevin Brady
(R) -1531 Longworth
Building
Washington, D.C. 20515
202-225-4901
281-895-8892
By Charles Jenos
State Rpiesentative
District 13
U.S. Senator
Kay BoNey Hutchinson
District: 214-361-3500
CHIP is a federal progral
Texas to receive matching funds if the
A major concern is that the federal fund-
ing runs out in five years. This could leave
the State with the obligation to fund a
large and inefficient program if it is not
set up carefully.
Accordingly there are proposals to
require families to make some payments,
and to encourage them to obtain private
insurance as their income rises.
The income from the tobacco settlement
and the federal matching fonds giyes at
an opportunity to provide health insur-
ance for the youngest members of our soci-
ety.
Do we want to use a free market
state established a health insurance pro-
gram for children. The Texas Legislature
plans to contribute matching funds of
about $151 million per year from the 1997
Tobacco settlement.
One proposal is to cover all children
below age 18 in families below 200 percent
of the federal poverty level, ($32,900 per
year fer a family of four).
The problem is that it is unknown how
many children would be covered and
whether the money would be available to
cover them all.
If more children than expected enroll, do
we want to see babies on a waiting list
while 17-year-olds are receiving services?
I hope this lays
the origin of the municipal building of San
Decades before prime-time evange-
lism, the Fort Worth-based Baptist
was the most controversial preacher
in the country. Shuttling between two
huge churches in Texas and Michi-
gan, Norris still found time to hold
record-breaking rallies, host a nation-
wide radio show and lead zealous
EarLuedecke
Jim Grimes
Billy Dragoo
Joanie Griffin
Helen Mas
Shonda Galvan
Opal Kovar
Claudia Janeceli
Jackie Sweat
Vicky D. Page
Frank‘Bo Krampitz
plan the Texas Healthy Kids Corporation This new program, however, could take
(THKC) would enroll children and manage six-12 months longer to get the first chil-
the program. dren enrolled.
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etc. should be at The Sealy News’office for the Tuesday edi- t
tion no later than noon Friday prior to the date of publica- ’
tion. Items for the Area Britfit section are to be turned in by
noon Wednesday for the Tuesday edition and noon Thursday
for the Friday publication. Photographs brought in for publi-
cation must be in the office by noon Friday for the Tuesday
publication.
The News uses articles and stories and pictures on a space
available basis and cannot guarantee they will be printed in a
specific issue. The News also reserved the right to edit all
copy turned into for publication.
coast audience.
In 1934, Norris began commuting
between his Fort Worth church and
another in Detroit, Mich. When the
total membership topped 25,000 a
dozen years later, he boasted that he
presided over “the largest congrega-
tion ever under a single pastor in the
history of the church.”
As the Cold War heated up after
World War II, Norris concentrated on
the communist menace. In his April
1949 speech before Lone Star law-
makers, he argued that academic
freedom was “a dishonest thing” that
gave cover to commie professors on
college campuses.
With politics taking more and more
of the aging evangelist’s time, the
Detroit church voted 3,000 to 7 to hire
In The Sealy News last week, there appeared
a very misleading article. Let’s set the record
straight about the municipal building in San
Felipe.
The municipal building was a project of the
Kenneth Currens’ administration with the
efforts of councilmen Hover Hintz, Alfred Hall,
Robert Bradshaw, Joe Barcroft and Gerald
Holder.
When Diana Boring became mayor, the
groundwork was done, the foundation was
poured and all the contracts let, an engineer
hired, a Mr. Smith, to oversee all the construc-
tion.
In fact, Mrs. Boring tried to stop the project
through a lawsuit in district court. She also
tried to get the county judge to intervene using
the historical group.
Even after taking office, she tried to get the
paraded monkeys and apes past the
pulpit so the faithful could meet their
-kinfolk’
-------—------------------ approach as much as possible, or do we
THKC is already screening and want to set up a new Medicaid style gov-
enrolling children for the program set up emment program? Should we rely on an
A solution is a program which would be two years ago and already reports to the easily defined poverty limit to establish
designed to give first priority to younger Texas Health and Human Services Com- eligibility even if that means waiting peri-
children. If there is no unexpected influx mission Others believe that THKC should ods for some youngsters, or should we
of children, the plan could also cover chil- be left out since they are a private/public focus first on the youngest children, in
dren up to age 18. partnership and that a new program need and bring in older teens once we
Another issue is how the plan will be should be set up to administer CHIP have an accurate count of the number of
administered. Under the Averitt/Janek funds. enrollees?
If you would like additional information
on this or other legislation, please contact
my Austin office at (512) 463-0600.
April 20, 1949. The militant minister
called for cutting off state funds to
' any institution of higher learning that
his father. an Alabama sharecropper impulsive act cost him his job.
who moved to Central Texas in 1888. Obtaining degrees from Baylor and
At 16, he risked his life to help his a Kentucky seminary, Reverend Nor-
dad fight off several attackers, who ris began his ministry in Dallas. In
shot the brave boy three times. Tem- 1910, he got his big break, a call from
Norris combined Scripture with
sensational attacks against leading
citizens suspected of wicked conduct.
A 1911 sermon entitled “The Ten
Biggest Devils in Fort Worth. Names
Given” provoked an unsuccessful
attempt by local officials to run the
political crusades. _______________
Despite harsh and often brutal -----------------J
treatment, Frank Norris worshipped animal out a third-floor window. The
suescrpnON PNICE: a Austn County. $30 fa year, outside Ausin County, a Tam m
outade Texas M per *w
NOTICSS OF CMANGf Of ADDMSS should be mailed to The Sealy News, '
During the baptism of a famous
cowboy, his horse watched from the
_______Opinion ■ Editorial_______
Popular preacher pulled no punches
a network of 27 radio stations broad-
cast his weekly message to a coast-to-
The News welcomes expressions of all viewpoints from readers. Letters
I should be kept as brief as possible and err nApet to condensation. They
must include signature and valid mailing addreis Pseudonyms and initials
wi not to used Because of the volume ol mail
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Twenty-two years after beating a
murder rap, J. Frank Norris
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Do you know what the Austin County their animals to get loose.
Sheriff Department can do with loose The hope is that tickets will be a fur-
cattle on the roads? ther incentive for owners to take care of
Have you ever seen livestock walking their fences and keep their cattle in the
on the road and wondered who is pasture.
, responsible if it gets hit? Under the current law, the Sheriff’s
Austin County voters can change the Department can only round up the cat-
1 answer to these questions depending on tie and take them to an auction bam.
! the results of the election on May 1. The owner can reclaim the cattle by
The ballot language may be confus- paying the cost.
ing, but the question is really simple - Propositions 3, 4, 5, and 6 on the bal-
should Austin County have more con- lot concern letting animals run at large,
trol over loose livestock. Vote “for” the proposition and these
Proposition 2 on the ballot concerns animals can run loose on the highways.
the adoption of a stock law, voting “for” Voting “against” proposition 3, 4, 5 and
the proposition gives the Sheriffs 6 means these animals should be kept
' Department greater power to control inside a fence.
a replacement. This public repudia-
tion cut Norris to the quick.
He also resented the 1951 invasion
spent two long years in a wheelchair Worth, and at age 33 became the ick ways and in 1926, charged the
before finally walking again. highest paid preacher in the South. mayor with participating in a sinister of his home turf by a popular young
The generosity of the family doctor Norris’ spellbinding sermons and conspiracy “to elect a Catholic presi- fired the fatal shot in self-defense. Baptist, whose revivals attracted
enabled the poor youth to attend Bay- unorthodox methods offended some dent and overthrow this government.” The jury believed him and deliberated large crowds. “I am very happy over
lor University at nearby Waco. He churchgoers but hundreds more He later added juicy accusations of less than an hour before returning a Billy Graham’s coming,” Norris said
hpmed the candle at both ends as a packed his Sunday services. misappropriation of city money and verdict of not guilty. spitefully, “because he is preaching
full-time student and pastor of a rural By 1928, membership had increased sexual shenanigans Utilizing his own tabloid newspaper the same gospel I preached before he
congregation. ten-fold from 1,200 to more than The next week, a close friend of the and radio program, Norris extended was born.”
Norris spearheaded a student upris- 12,000. mayor stormed into Norris’ church his influence far beyond the borders of The next year, J. Frank Norris
ing that forced the Baylor president to No one ever knew what to expect at study. The confrontation climaxed in Texas. dropped dead from a heart attack at
K Fort Worth First Baptist, where Nor- gunfire and the death of the intruder. By the mid-1930’s The Fundamen- 74. Followers mourned the loss of the
_ __ . , ris regularly resorted to theatrics. At The following year, after a change talist had the largest circulation of Almighty’s right-hand man, while
the angry administrator threw the the height of the evolution debate, he of venue to Austin, Norris testified he any religious publication in Dixie, and critics breathed a sigh of relief.
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