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Page Two-The Wylie News-Thursday, March 2, 1972
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EDITORIALS
Public School Week
Loc al schools will join again this year
in observing Public School Week. Open
House will be held in all od Wylie's
schools and the date aid hours will
be found in a story elsewhere in • this
issue.
The occasion gives excellent oppor-
tunity for patrons to view their scnools
first hand and to see the type of work
being done by the teachers and stu-
dents alike.
The News urges residents of the school
district to mark their calendars and
make plans to attend the open houses
at the respective schools. Your
presences will encourage your chil-
dren as well as faculty members and
indicate your interest in today's edu-
cation at the local level.
Best wishes
observance.
for
successful
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especially when it comes to
assisting you with a finan-
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Our Country
The rumbling in the distant hills.
The breathless hush that fills the air
Grave doubt and fear our bosom fills
Portending danger everywhere-
Beneath this darkening cloud of gloom
We must not cringe; we must not cry,
We must combat impending doom-
O Lord our Cod, stand by, stand by!
Through lack of proper leadership
Our priceless, hard-won heritage
Could through our faltering fingers slip
And vanish from this human stage.
We've seen great empires rise and fall,
We've seen great wealth take wings and fly;
Lest we be swept beyond recall
O Lord, our God, stand by, stand by!
Our country is in peril now
From foes within, foreboding ill
From foes without that would devour,
Hyenas that await the kill.
From all the evil powers that be,
From traitor, turncoat, ingrate, spy,
Shield and defend us is our pies -
O Lord our God, stand by, stand bv !
Frank W. Hooper —,
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The Town Of Wylie
by Beb Fulkerson
Ninety-three years is a
long time to call one place
home, but George Long
is proud of the Fact that
he can make this state-
ment come June 12ti con-
cerning The Town of
Wylie, the hometown he
loves.
Last week I had a lovely
visit with Mr. Long and
his daughter, Mrs. Ola
Mitchell, with whom he
lives. Several times be-
fore 1 had wanted to talk
with him but he had been
"under the weather."
This visit resulted from
a letter written by Paul
Russell, who gave many
details on the life of Mr.
Long, Plus the picture
shown above.
The story of Mr. Long
goes back to Arkansas,
when his father, James
Allen Long, came to Texas
to work. He liked it here
and returned to marry
Miss Lucy Jane Williford.
They came to Texas and
settled in Dallas County,
just south of Wylie in the
late 1870's. Both were
strong in the Baptist
faith. There George, the
eldest of six children was
born.
The other children born to
this union were Eliza, who
married Bob Evans; Rita,
wife of Bob Cogdtll and,
later, Jimmy Swaner;
Johnny married Ora Wal-
ters, and Tommy married
Ethel White. George
was the eldest.
In the early 1880's Elder
Long moved his family on
a farm closer to Wylie
near the vicinity of the
Tobe Lee place. There
his children were reared,
and to the Kreymer school
went his children. Prof.
Hutchins was the teacher.
Although Mr. Lone could
neve r swim ana never
cared to learn, he said,
"I would see a fish, go
down with my hands and
get it and take it home to
Mother to cook."
"I loved to pick cotton'
as a boy, but 1 didn't like
to gather it. Once a man
tola me to get on that
cotton truck and trample
down that cotton. I
stomped it so hard, he
got twice tha amount ex-
pected on it," exclaimed
Mr. Long.
He told of his conversion
while a boy of 12. The
cultivator needed fixing and
his father had gone to
get the team, I". loured
get the team. It looked
to him like he saw Je-
sus in the sky, it was so
beautiful. He asked the
Saviour for forgiveness
and placed his trust in
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PET POPULATION CONTROL
Believe it nor not — man's best friend, the dog, has
become a major social problem. It is virtually impossible
to avoid encountering one or more roving strays during
any day of the week. What the public may not know is
that these animals are killed by the millions each year
in an effort to control the pet population explosion.
So that the reader may have a glimpse of the daily
activity in a Society For The Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals Animal Shelter, excerpts from a letter written
by a female SPCA Animal Shelter worker are para-
phrased as follows: I put on old clothes and receive from
the public terrified, vomiting pets and adopt pets to
them. I spend seven 10-hour days hosing out runs, feed-
ing the animals and gaining their trust; and select the
20 or 30 cats and dogs that have to be killed each day
in order to make room for the 20 or 30 newcomers. In
addition to killing the day's quota of perfectly healthy
animals I have to dispose of their bodies.
The California Humane Council reported recently
that during the fiscal year of 1969-70, California counties
and cities spent a combined total of $23 million on ani-
mal control. They estimated that private citizens and
humane societies spent an additional $30 million to board,
feed, and eventually destroy millions of homeless cats and
dogs. The Council believes the figure for 1970 may have
reached $100 million if all costs were known. And that
is for a single state: California!
The long term solution to the problem may be both
privately and publicly owned low cost spay and neuter
clinics. Edward Newman, President, California Humane
Council, states: "We pioneered in getting low cost spay
clinics in Los Angeles when we originated a petition in
the winter of 1969 advocating the establishment of such
a municipally owned and operated clinic in Los Angeles.
The fees set by this pilot clinic booked up months in ad-
vance. ... If the fee is moderate, the public, as proved
by the Los Angeles spay clinic program, will take ad-
vantage of it."
The publicly owned low cost spay clinic may solve
two problems: (1) resolve the pet population explosion,
and (2) reduce the expanding governmental bureaucracy
required to cope with current methods of animal control.
WHO WILL PAY THE CLEAN-UP COSTS?
The greatest stumbling block on the road to a solu-
tion of our environment dilemma is the reluctance of the
general public to face up to certain unpalatable, but un-
avoidable, choices.
If improvement of the environment is actually the
Baugh and Percy Long high national priority that recent polls suggest, then we (
ton ThTsrunionlaiasteRde66 should exPect t0 find. a §eneral willingness to share the
years until her death on cost. Regrettably, this is not the case. Upwards of 85
December 12, 1967. As percent of the Americans interviewed in one recent poll
Mr. Long boasts, That , , '
was my darling compan- expressed the opinion that pollution is our country s num-
ion." ber one problem. But of the same sampling, fewer than
very few people can com- one in four were .realistic enough to face the clean-up
ment at the age of 93 cost, if any part of it had to come out of their own pockets.
years of age that all >r
their children live in or If we are to make certain that the costs of pollution
doOUannddthgeoS^eth0eWnsame abatement are kePl a minimum and allocated fairly,
church with them, but Mr. 's £°'ng 10 require a much better understanding of the
Long pointed with pride economics of pollution than we now have as well as a
more hf^son leads the coordinatcd agreement among all those involved—design-
singing at the Shlloh Bap- ers, manufacturers and consumers.
tist Cnurch, where Mr.
Long is a lifetime mem- Despite the fact that popular indignation has made
5roundai9o8. J°lned Pollution preeminent among the nation's crises, far too
many individuals still cling to the simplistic notion that T
Forty years ago Mr. Lang don't cause pollution—'thcy' do. Conversely too few
went to a dentist who told nr„n„„j .u • j- • , , ... v .
him he'd live to be 120. prepared to make the individual sacrifices in comfort
The end result was false a°d convenience that will have to be made. . . . The ques-
teeth. He must have been tion we should all be asking is not 'Who will pay the
costs?' but rather, 'What is my fair share?'
A second and to me even more disturbing question
has been turning up with regrettable frequency lately. It
T his gentle Christian aPPears to be an outgrowth of the environmentalists' at-
farmed until he was 90 tat'k on modern technology. The question is- Whv not
y'erertfred^Ung ^ ^ S,°P P°lluti°n ^ sl™ing^down production? '
What a real priviledge to ,, somc,'mes tend to forget that for every benefit
? As there is a corresponding cost. When unemployed workers
n no npf nv l.in.ln.l * r
go up. When juries award
Jesus right there in the
field. When his dad came
back, he told him of this
marvelous experience,
and, he, too, was elated.
"We just sat and clapped
our hands, we were so
happy, i was baptised be-
low the northside of the
old Shiloh Baptist Church.
Daddy often said he never
worried about me after
that."
In 1901, George Long and
Nora Gunter were united
in matrimony. She was the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Gunter from Tennes-
see who was a sister of
Mrs. Nannie Martin. They
had three children, Mrs.
Ola Mitchell, Mrs. Vera
a good dentist as well as
talker because Mr. Long
asserts, "Those teeth
don't bother me and
never did."
know
Paul
"After
Alter a conversation inropr cn,,. t-
with Mr. Long one always ' ® settlements to plaintiffs in accident
usual way. No doubt
... cases, msur-
feels enriched in an un- ance rates go up. When society demands and gets pollu-
It, he is' a lover of gS| P"wcr f "««<>«. Ihe clectric bill goes up . !
and the world is much bet- 1 nere ,s no such thing as a cost-free benefit And this
ter because he's passed applies to environmental benefits as well
this way.
David Rockefeller
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