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Page 2 • The Kerens Tribune • October 16, 2003
Editorial/Opinion
Letter to the Editor
Dear Donna and Staff:
Just a note to let you know, as a long time reader of the Tribune, all my years of
living in California and now back home. I still enjoy and can rest assured of my Tri-
bune coming.
Keep up the good work.
Lutha Jones
Kerens. Com
By Tom Darby
Tribune Columnist
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age of pop to advertise real time
music. The progress as the facility was
problem is being built. There is still a
that music library of photos out there
companies showing the building con-
are becom- struction from day one to the
ing increas- very end when we raised the
ingly strict Six Flags of Texas. I still
We will soon be working
on the fifth year of the*
Kerens.Com web site and it
has been an interesting ex-
perience keeping this entity
working and doing the about allowing free down- look at those from time to
weekly maintenance. It loads and are promoting time,
seems like forever since I sat their own web sites where In fact it seems photos of
down during the Christmas you must pay for a down- what is happening in Kerens
holidays, scratched my load of a digital recording, is one of the most requested
beard a couple of times and Oh well. Some things have items I get from my email
began building this internet to change. inbox. I have a large stash
web presence for the com- Many of the emails I re- including those of our most
munity. ceive are for people looking recent downtown fire that
I looked at the visitor for long ago friends. I usu- need to be incorporated into
counter on the home page ally ship these off to Robert Kerens.Com somewhere. I
this weekend and see that Ivey and Ottis Ray Spurlock think during the next itera-
Kerens has had right around since they know everyone tion of the web site I will
60,000 visitors. That's a fair that has lived here since the make photo galleries a more
visitor count for a town of a 1800's. It is a good feeling integral part of the facility,
population around 2,000. though when you can con- The other section that
The web site is showing a nect these people up so they needs some improvement is
little age now and is due for can visit each other once the Community Forums
a face-lift which I hope to again after being lost for so area. In the early days of the
get started on during these long in the winding trails of site we saw a fair amount of
coming holidays. Nothing life. postings and interaction but
like a little web work to get Once I got an email in this has dropped off to vir-
lost in when the weather is bold blood red letters from tually nothing. Especially
cold outside and all of those someone that claimed they since I put in the require-
leaves have been raked into lived in a basement in New ment that people register
a few hundred trash sacks. York City and liked to eat before posting anything
The question is what lessons people. I got that one late at new. It seems the registra-
have been learned from the night and it scared me. I also tion requirements scares
past few years and what woke the dog up and re- people off due to the corn-
needs to be changed. minded her it was her duty plexity and needs to be sim-
The most popular area to guard the house. plified. I will see what I can
where I get the most emails I think the best experience do to make this easier,
is the Kerens Alumni email from the web site was when In any case, by the begin-
listing section. We have those two girls from Bel- ning of the New Year we
email listings for virtually gium discovered Kerens on should see some improve-
every class from 2001 to the Internet and ended up ments. If you have any ideas
1923. A fair amount of coming to visit for a week, of other things you would
work goes into keeping this They spent their time here like to see at Kerens.Com,
updated. with our Mayor and I got to please send me an email to
The second most popular eat lunch with them and hear webmaster@kerens.com.
part and one that will prob- stories from a land far away. Tell me what it is you think
ably go away is surprisingly That was a fun time. would be interesting to add
the music section. I suppose The best fan von it has to the web site and I prom-
there are a lot of people that served for the city was when ise you will get a reply,
like all of those tunes from we used it to help raise funds
the sixties and the golden for the Alumni Center and
"The Idle American”
By Dr. Don Newbury
the main cabins.
The ad campaign ended
Quick now, when you soon after a Braniff plane
think of this magical month crashed during a storm near
and the baseball play-offs, Buffalo, Texas. Without
what name comes to mind? fanfare, they removed
Yes, the answer is “Mr. Oc- clocks from the remaining
tober,” Reggie Jackson, a fleet, and the “We’re Going
hero from another era. Give to Be on Time” slogan w ent
yourself a gold star. silent.. Weather and safety
For us Texas Ranger fans, should never be trivialized..
we’d settle for a “Mr. Mid- *****
May.” It’s all we can do to Why are we not surprised,
manage a faint smile on the part I? The Feds are spend-
marquee near The Ball Park ing in excess of $50 million
in Arlington. It reads: “Wait on an advertising campaign
‘Til Next Century..” to make sure that all of us
October also brings the understand that we now
State Fair of Texas and the have new, improved $20
annual Cotton Bowl football bills.,
battle between the Univer- Train robbers on the sil-
sities of Texas and Okla- ver screen years ago bran-
homa. Some years back, a dished pistols while reliev-
die-hard fan was deter- ing passengers of jewelry
mined to attend the annual and their “greenbacks.” To-
spectacle. He arrived in day, they would need aero-
Dallas at mid-day on Friday, bic preparation for their rob-
ready to be a full participant bery spiels. “Give us your
in the revelry. He partied credit cards, debit cards,
until hours were wee.. Upon photo ID’s, ‘greenbacks’
waking in his hotel, he and the new multi-colored
called room service to order $20 bills that have changed
breakfast and a Saturday designs, texture and appear-
moming newspaper. Dis- ance, and are virtually im-
gusted that his order still had possible to duplicate..” I’m
not arrived an hour later, he not sure robbers could say
called back, asking if it took all that in one breath..
an hour to cook eggs. “No,” Not surprised, part II: In
was the answer, “But it takes earlier years, we were
an hour to find a Saturday shocked about riots after
morning paper on Sunday..” soccer games in Brazil. It’s
***** much closer to home when
Another question: What several dozen hoodlums-in-
do ABC News “Good eluding a majority who are
Morning America” and now current students—create
defunct Braniff International havoc during homecoming
Airlines have in common? weekend at Minnesota State
Both are guilty of University-Mankato! Dam-
trivializing. age was estimated at
GMA has comedians $250,000, 16 people were
“yukking up” national injured, 45 were arrested
weather reports, and 35 and legislators are outraged,
years ago Braniff blundered Stiff new penalties are being
with its inane “We’re Going considered. One bill calls
to Be on Time” advertising for cancellation of financial
campaign. They empha- aid and a year’s suspension
sized timeliness by placing for students convicted of ri-
large clocks at the front of oting. That’s a good start;
how about some jail time,
too?
One weak-kneed response
was, “Homecoming allows
them to take a moral holi-
day. They can account for
their behavior by saying, ‘I
was drunk/
Questions, always ques-
tions: What do ousted Cali-
fornia Governor Gray Davis
and the University of Colo-
rado football team have in
common? Both feel termi-
nated; the Buffaloes will,*
however, rise to fight an-
other day..* Davis may feel
as “unlucky” as the guy who
said if he invested his life
savings in pumpkins, they’d
outlaw Halloween..
*****
Dr. Don Newbury, long-
time university president, is
now an author/speaker/col-
umnist who lives near Fort
Worth, a few miles south of
senility. His new book, Life
by the Seat of the Pants, is
available by phone (817-
447-3872) or by e-mail:
cross@speakerdoc.com His
column now appears in
some 100 Texas newspa-
pers.
*No, Dr. Newbury does
NOT agree with most con-
spiracy theories, nor does he
attach any significance to
what he believes is sheer co-
incidence-that Baylor beat
Colorado in football the
very same weekend of the
annual meeting of the Na-
tional Association of Blind
Hogs..
For those who care: Yes,
we did find tickets for Gar-
rison Keillor’s live radio
broadcast of “A Prairie
Home Companion” in St.
Paul, MN, Oct. 4. It was all
that we expected, and much
more. E-mail me at above
address for observations
concerning the show.
Bazette Girls Basketball Team
BAZETTE GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM-taken around 1930. Left to right, Opal Hilhouse,
Viola McQuary, Hazel Tarkington, Ora Wasson, Fern Walts, Marie ???, Willie Fay
Upchurch and Maxine Green. Photo courtesy Byron Vernon
Old Testament Personalities
The rod that bloomed
By James Vannoy
leader questions in the religious
picked up world today. One of the
the rod main reasons divisions ex-
which had ist in religion is because of
his name on disagreement about what
it. Nothing authority should be used to
happened determine the truth. What
The children of Israel
were always complaining
about one thing or another,
and one of their favorite
complaints was that Moses to eleven of the rods, but the is the correct authority to
and Aaron did not truly have rod of Aaron had sprouted, determine God’s will for us
the authority to rule the Is- put forth buds, produced today?
raelites. This murmuring blossoms and brought forth Jesus answered this ques-
arose from those who lusted ripe almonds, and all of this tion very clearly in Matthew
for power and wanted to run happened in one night! 28:18, just before he as-
things their own way. (Numbers 17:8) Like all cended back to heaven after
To remedy this problem, miracles of the Bible, this being raised from the dead.
God gave the following in- one was obvious and quick He declared, “All authority
structions: “Speak to the to occur, and it established has been given to Me in
children of Israel, and get the fact that the tribe of Levi, heaven and on earth.” Since
from them a rod from each led by Aaron and Moses, Jesus has all authority, there
father’s house, all their lead- was to lead the children of is no authority for anyone
ers according to their fa- Israel through the wilder- else to have. No person has
thers’ houses-twelve rods. ness. the right to usurp the author-
Write each man’s name on God commanded that this ity of Jesus,
his rod. And you shall write rod be kept as a permanent But how does Jesus de-
Aaron’s name on the rod of reminder to those who clare His authority on the
Levi. . .Then you shall place would rebel against the au- earth? Jesus said to his
them in the tabernacle of thority of Moses and Aaron, apostles, “However, when
meeting before the Testi- The Hebrew writer spoke of He, the Spirit of truth, has
mony... And it shall be that the ark of the covenant and come, He will guide you
the rod of the man whom I its contents in 9:4. He spoke into all truth; for He will not
choose will blossom; thus I of “the ark of the covenant speak on His own authority,
will rid Myself of the com- overlaid on all sides with but whatever He hears He
plaints of the children of Is- gold, in which were the will speak.” (John 16:13)
rael, which they make golden pot that had the The Holy Spirit inspired the
against you.” (Numbers manna, Aaron’s rod that apostles to deliver the New
17:2-5) The children of Is- budded, and the tablets of Testament of Jesus Christ,
rael all descended from one the covenant.” This pre- and it is our authority for
of the twelve sons of Jacob, cious ark contained the tab- today. Jesus said, “Sanctify
and they were divided ac- lets on which the Ten Com- them by Your truth. Your
cordingly into twelve tribes, mandments were written, a word is truth.” (John 17:17)
God told the leader of each golden pot of manna, which The New Testament is the
of the twelve tribes to write evidently never rotted, and will of Jesus for us, and it is
his name on a rod, a simple Aaron’s rod. This showed the only authority we should
straight stick used by shep- the significance God gave to use to determine the truth,
herds. These twelve rods this event which established We should not rely on our
were then placed in the tab- Aaron, Moses and the tribe own ideas or feelings or on
emacle and left overnight, of Levi as the authority rec- decisions of church confer-
The next day, Moses ognized by Him to lead the ences, especially when they
brought the rods out of the Israelites. contradict the teachings of
tabernacle for all of the The question of authority the New Testament. E-mail:
people to see, and each is one of the most important jwvannoy@yahoo.com
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