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The play‘Tombstone’ tells the story of the famous 1881 ‘Gunfight at the O.K.
Corral’ shoot out in Tombstone, Ariz.The Ram Theater Company performed
the play, making all its own costumes and sets, and now has a chance to per-
form the play at a state acting festival.
THEATER
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infamous 1881 shoot out at the O.K.
Corral in Tombstone, Ariz., Ram
Thespians not only learned their lines
and cues, but students handmade the
set and period costumes for the play,
MWHS students are on a dramatic
roll. Last year, Ram Theater reignited
the University Interscholastic League
One-Act Play stage, reaching Class 3A
regional competition for the first time
on 14 years. For this, the performed
'The Beggar's Opera" and had two stu-
dents named all-star cast and another
as honorable mention all-star cast.
To be able to perform at the four-day
state festival, high schools submit their
plays for adjudication, according to Ram
Theater Director Kris Allen. The ITS
Troupe No. 4607 from Mineral Wells
was one of 13 schools submitting their
plays for review, with MWHS being the
only 3A school in the mix.
After adjudication, Allen said,
"Mineral Wells ranked in the top four
selected to perform their play."
If they get to the state festival, Allen
said the MWHS company will be adju-
dicated again with the chance to take
"Tombstone" to the International
Festival in June, which draws troupes
from across the nation as well as from
Australia, South America and Europe.
In order to present "Tombstone" at
the state festival, Williams said the stu-
dents need public support.
"Some of the kids have paid their
registration, but some families are just
not able to afford the cost," Williams
How to Help
To contribute or find out more
information on how to help send
the Mineral Wells High School
Ram Theater Company to the
state festival in late November,
contact Theater Director Kris Allen
at kallen@mwisd.net or theater
sponsor Beth Williams at (940) 325-
1344 or (940) 327-7159. Checks can
be made payable to MWHS Theater
and mailed to 3801 Ram Blvd.,
Mineral Wells, TX 76067.
said. "We have one family with two
children in the play which makes it even
harder."
While at the four-day event, Allen
said students will watch plays, take four
workshops each day and learn from col-
lege and professionals in the theater
business.
"They get to intermingle with about
3,000 theater students," he said, adding
that the festival is an intensive learning
experience, focused on different aspects
of the theater.
Ram Theater hopes to be able to take
the entire "Tombstone" company of 29
students.
"Two years ago we took eight [stu-
dents] and last year we took 14 to the
state festival. For us to double that is
pretty exciting, but also very expen-
sive," Allen said. "This is quite an
honor. There are only four high schools
representing the state of Texas and we
are one of them."
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Re-elected, Obama heads
back to divided government
WASHINGTON (AP) — One day after
a bruising, mixed-verdict election,
President Barack Obama and Republican
House Speaker John Boehner both
pledged Wednesday to seek a compro-
mise to avert looming spending cuts and
tax increases that threaten to plunge the
economy back into recession.
Added Senate Majority Leader Harry
Reid, D-Nev.: "Of course" an agreement
is possible.
While all three men spoke in general
terms, Boehner stressed that Republicans
would be willing to accept higher tax
revenue under the right conditions as
part of a more sweeping attempt to
reduce deficits and restore the economy
to full health.
While the impending "fiscal cliff"
dominates the postelection agenda, the
president and Republicans have other
concerns, too.
Obama is looking ahead to top-level
personnel changes in a second term,
involving three powerful Cabinet portfo-
lios at a minimum.
And Republicans are heading into a
season of potentially painful reflection
after losing the presidency in an econo-
my that might have proved Obama's
political undoing. They also have fallen
deeper into the Senate minority after the
second election in a row in which they
lost potentially winnable races by field-
ing candidates with views that voters
evidently judged too extreme.
One major topic for GOP discussion:
the changing face of America.
"We've got to deal with the issue of
immigration through good policy. What
is the right policy if we want economic
growth in America as it relates to immi-
gration?" said former Republican Party
Chairman Haley Barbour. Obama drew
support from about 70 percent of all
Hispanics. That far outpaced Romney,
who said during the Republican prima-
ries that illegal immigrants should self-
deport, then spent the general election
campaign trying to move toward the
political middle on the issue.
The maneuvering on the economy —
the dominant issue by far in the cam-
paign — began even before Obama
returned to the White House from his
home town of Chicago.
After securing a second term, the presi-
dent is committed to bipartisan solutions
"to reduce our deficit in a balanced way,
cut taxes for middle class families and
small businesses and create jobs," and he
told congressional leaders as much in
phone calls, the White House said.
Boehner, whose anti-tax Republicans
renewed their House majority on
Tuesday, said GOP legislators were "will-
ing to accept new revenue under the
right conditions."
TURNOUT
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many elected officials
who switched parties
when they filed almost a
year ago, there were no
county contested races.
However, each county
candidate received differ-
ent numbers of votes.
While taxes were a hot
topic in so many races up
and down the ballot, it
seems ironic that Palo
Pinto County Tax
Assessor-Collector Linda
Tuggle - the person who
has been collecting coun-
ty taxes for several years
- gained the greatest
number of county wide
votes. Tuggle, an incum-
bent, had 7,911 votes.
Palo Pinto County
Republican Party Chair
Barbara Upham noted
that many people com-
mented on Tuggle's pop-
ularity in the May prima-
ry election, when she also
drew more votes than
other candidates.
"It's unusual, but the
tax person has always
been a popular person
and candidate. They've
all been very likeable
people," she said, adding
that this includes Tuggle's
predecessors Sandra
Long, Max Wheeler and
John Winters.
Following Tuggle in
local voter support were:
incumbent County
Attorney Phil Garrett,
with 7,845 votes, or just
over 83 percent; new 29th
District Judge Mike
Moore, with 7,581 votes,
or 80.4 percent; incum-
bent Sheriff Ira Mercer,
with 7,528 votes, or 79.9
percent; and incumbent
29th District Attorney
Michael Burns, with 7,407
votes, or 78.6 percent.
Incumbent District 60
State Rep. Jim Keffer, who
was unchallenged, gar-
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nered 7,597 votes from
Palo Pinto County citi-
zens; meanwhile, State
Sen. Craig Estes, who had
a Libertarian challenger
in Richard Wells Forsythe
Jr., received 7,056 Palo
Pinto County votes.
Presidential support
In the presidential elec-
tion, 5,672 citizens, or just
over 60 percent, selected
straight-party voting. Of
the local straight-ticket
voters, nearly 79 percent
(4,480 voters) went
Republican, close to 20
percent (1,130) voted as
Democrats, 0.86 percent
(49) voted for the
Libertarian Party and 0.23
(13 citizens) supported
for the Green Party.
Based on the number
of individuals voting for
president and vice presi-
dent, over 62 percent of
Democrats voted straight
party, whereas slightly
more than 60 percent of
Republicans voted
straight party.
From Palo Pinto
County voters, 70 didn't
cast a vote for president,
and 147 voted for third-
party choices. Libertarian
presidential and vice
presidential candidates
Gary Johnson and Jim
Gray received 106 local
votes, Green Party candi-
dates Jill Stein and Cheri
Honkala gained 27 coun-
ty votes and 14 voters
chose write-in candidates.
"There are more Green
Party and Libertarians on
the ballot," Upham noted.
"They both seem to come
pretty far down the bal-
lot."
She said one year the
Libertarian Party
announced a local prima-
ry election and conven-
tion, all to be held at
Woody's Bar and Grill.
While Gov. Mitt
Romney and Sen. Paul
Ryan received 79 percent
of the votes, numbers
show that Republican
support for U.S. Senator
Ted Cruz in Palo Pinto
County wasn't quite as
high. With over 75 per-
cent of the local votes and
56.6 percent among
Texans, Cruz beat
Democrat Paul Sadler to
take outgoing Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison's seat.
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