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THURSDAY 7 DECEMBER 2000
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5 p m., TOPS Meeting, Fire Hall.
Varsity Boys Highland Park Tourney.
Varsity Girls Samnorwood Tourney.
12 noon. Lions Club Meeting, Fire Hall.
I pm, AA Meeting. United Methodist Church, 6th & Main.
Varsity Boys Highland Park Tourney.
Varsity Girls Samnorwood Tourney.
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Varsity Boys Highland Park Tourney
Varsity Girls Samnorwood Tourney.
10 a m . Commissioners Court meeting. Courthouse.
12 noon. AL-ANON meeting. United Methodist Church. 6th & Main.
5 p m Middle School against Wellington. Girls-There, Boys-Here.
DARK, Chamber o( Commerce Christmas Light Contest
12 noon, Rotary Club Meeting. WCTU.
6th 6 Mam
S pm. JV Girls & Varsity Girls against Highland Park. Here
10am.-2 pm, Sagebrush Painters. Fire Hal.
School Board meeting
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8 30 a m . First United Methodist Church Early Worship Service, Sunday
School9 30 a m., Morning Worship 10:30a m., Evening Worship 6:30pm.
9 a m, Sunday Mass, Sacred Heart Catholic Church. 10 a.m., CCD
Classes
9 30 am , First Christian Church Sunday School, 10:30 a.m., Morning
Worship. 6 p.m, Evening Worship
9 30 a m , Church of Christ Sunday Bible Class, 10:30 a m,. Morning Wor-
ship, 6 pm. Evening Worship, 7 p.m., Wednesday Bible Class.
9 4$ a m . First Presbyterian Church Sunday School, Worship Service 11
a.m
9 30 a m., First Baptist Church Sunday School, 10:45 a.m., Morning Wor-
ship. 6 p m , Training Union, 7 p.m.. Evening Worship
10 a m . Assembly of God Christian Education. 6:30 p.m.. Evening
Worship
10 a m . Pentecostal Church Sunday School. 11 am, Morning Worship, 7
pm, Evening Worship.
10 a m . Central Baptist Church Sunday School. 11 a.m , Morning Wor-
ship. 6pm, Evening Worship
10 30 a m , Believer's Covenant Sunday Worship
1 30-5 p.m . Silent Auction in CHS Foyer.
2 30 p m . Christmas Concert, 6th, 7th, 8th & Wildcat Bands. High School
Gym
DARK, Keep your Christmas lights on for pictures.
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8:15-9:15 am., Senator Teel Bivins, Town Hall Meeting, FSB Community
loom
5 p m, AA & AL-ANON Meetings. (Separate), United Methodist Church,
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Sana Night at the stores for pictures, 5:00-6:30 p.m. at the Canadian
Pharmacy, 7 0<V8:30 p.m. at True Value
Sharing is Caring food pantry and clothes closet. Saturday 9 am.-noon,
irst A Elsie Donations through local churches or directly.
Canadian Boy Scouts Call Gary BUbrey. 323-8883.
American Cancer Society services. Wayne Baker, 323-6519 or Agnes Ad-
ams. 323-6258.
Canadian Girl Scouts. Local service unit. Call Karri Snyder, 323-8920.
AL-ANON. Mondays. 12:00 noon. Hood Abstract. AA/AL-ANON,
Thursdays. 7:00 p.m, Courthouse. AA, Fridays, 1:00 p.m. Courthouse. Call
23-8481 or 323-5137.
Panhandle Transit, rural transportation service runs Monday, Wednesday,
riday to Amarillo. Contact Uptcomb County Judge at 806-862-4131.
National phone line to report child abuse: 800-4-A-CHILD
800-422-4453)
Tralee Crisis Center for Women: 800-658-2796.
IIaYBE IT TAKES a place as big as Texas to
ITImake giants. Sam Houston. James Stepnen
Hogg. “Cactus Jack” Garner. “Mr. Sam” Rayburn.
Oveta Culp Hobby, ^yndon Johnson. “Big John”
Connally. Barbara Jordan. Ann Richards. Names
that will live in the history books for generations to
come.
There’s just something about the Lone Star State
—big, brassy, blessed, blustering, braggadocious,
brazen and, yes, bigoted at times—a unique combi-
nation no other state can quite match that makes gi-
ants not only possible, but indeed inevitable.
Today, Texas mourns a fallen giant. “Henry B.,”
they called him in San Antonio and across the state.
No last name needed to know who they meant, nor
will it be for generations after his death Tuesday at
age 84.
Henry B. Gonzalez was the first Texas Latino to
win election to the U.S. House of Representatives —
back in 1961, before the Civil Rights Act, before the
Voting Rights Act, when bigotry didn’t have to hide
its ugly face in shame or embarrassment in Texas or
across the rest of the South. Before he went to
Washington, Henry B. served on the San Antonio
City Council, then in the Texas Senate.
The young lawyer earned notoriety in the Texas
Legislature when he filibustered for a record 22
hours against a segregationist bill backed by Gov.
Price Daniel and most of the state’s overwhelmingly
Anglo Democratic Party leaders.
In those years, Texas Republicans held their
state conventions in broom closets, with room to
spare. The state GOP subsequently grew partly by
recruiting the Anglo children and grandchildren of
Daniel-era segregationists.
When Henry B. took the oath of office for his first
term in the U.S. House—where he served for 37
years—he held in his hand a copy of a draft bill to
abolish the poll tax. The Southern white establish-
ment had long used that Jim Crow-era relic to dis-
franchise millions of African Americans and
Hispanics who could not afford to pay to vote—a
right most other Americans took for granted.
One of the proudest moments in the San
Antonian’s time in Washington came less than a year
into his first term, when Congress sent the proposed
24th Amendment to the states for ratification. It be-
came part of the U.S. Constitution in 1964, prohibit-
ing the use of the poll tax to prevent any American
from voting.
Throughout his 45 years in public life, Henry B.
never retreated from the struggle for full equality
and civil rights for all Americans. And it wasn’t dis-
crimination based only on race and ethnicity that the
San Antonian vehemently opposed.
In his final years in Washington, he was one a
handful of members of the Texas congressional dele-
gation to support passage of the still-stalled Em-
ployment Nondiscrimination Act, which would
outlaw workplace bias based on sexual orientation.
“In my time, I have had the honor to be vilified for
standing up against segregation,” Henry B. once re-
counted. “I have had the privilege of being a thorn in
the side of unprincipled privilege and the great joy of
being demonized by entrenched special interests.”
For that, he received the John F. Kennedy Pro-
file in Courage Award in 1994. Presenting the presti-
gious prize to her late father’s friend and political
ally, Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg called Henry B.
“a constant voice for the voiceless and battler for the
embattled."
Civil rights was not his only nationally important
crusade. As a member of the House Banking and Ur-
ban Affairs Committee, the San Antonian repeat-
edly warned in the early ‘80s that lax regulation of
the savings and loan industry would result in a finan-
cial catastrophe for the country.
From 1989 to 1995, he chaired that House panel
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