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WEDNESDAY, JULY 13, 2016
KILGORE NEWS HERALD
1 SECTION, 12 PAGES
VOL. 85, NO. 56
AMERICA’S NO. 1 SMALL CITY
CAPITAL OF THE EAST TEXAS OIL FIELD
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Done With Division
Groups bridge gaps with prayer, fellowship
By CHELSEA KATZ
[email protected]
“We’re not white or black,
conservative or liberal, privileged
or oppressed. We’re not officials
or private citizens. We are the
church,” First Baptist Church of
Kilgore pastor Glenn Young said
during a Sunday evening prayer
service hosted by First Baptist and
New Birth Fellowship Church.
The service was a continuation
of what Young and New Birth
Fellowship pastor Eric Love began earlier this year, an effort to
bring their two congregations
together.
Sunday’s was a special meeting
of the two churches as the congregations invited the community and sent a special invitation to
law enforcement officers to join
in prayer.
Scott Watts (center) prays with Kilgore Police Chief Todd
Hunter and his wife and fellow officer, Sherri, during
Sunday’s community prayer service at First Baptist
Church of Kilgore.
NEWS HERALD photo by CHELSEA KATZ
“We have met on two different occasions just to worship,”
Young said Friday. “After the
events in Dallas [Thursday], I
called him and said, ‘Now that
something’s happened it’s time
to get together and pray.”
The 170-plus people who
gathered in the First Baptist
Church chapel did just that.
After opening prayers from
Love and Young, there were
two microphones on either
side of the pulpit for people to
come forward to pray openly
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KILGOROUND
BILL WOODALL
“If you are a normal,
white American, the truth
is you don’t understand
being black in America
and you instinctively underestimate the level of
discrimination and the
level of
additional
risk.”
– Newt
Gingrich
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TEXAS
Railroad
Commission reports it issued 13
drilling permits for the East
Texas field in June. During the month, producers
completed seven oil wells
and 19 gas wells. Last
month, Commission staff
statewide processed 700
oil, 165 gas, 31 injection
and four other completions compared to 1,416
oil, 225 gas, 64 injection
and five other completions in June 2015.
Total well completions
for 2016 year to date
are 6,429 down from
11,542 recorded during
the same period in 2015.
ACCORDING to Baker
Hughes, there are 201
See KILGOROUND, Page 4
INDEX
Classified ................. 8
Crossword ................ 9
Daily Digest ............. 4
Horoscope ............... 9
Obituaries ............... 4
Sports ............... 10-12
The 2016 Rangerette hopefuls watch the sophomores perform the classic Kilgore College Rangerette kick routine during pre-training tryouts Tuesday morning in the Deana Bolton Covin Rangerette Gym.
Rangerette hopefuls work toward the 77th line
By CHELSEA KATZ
[email protected]
For some young dancers, Sunday
marked the first day of the most
difficult week of their lives: Kilgore
College Rangerette Pre-Training.
Although the characteristics Rangerette Director Dana Blair looks
for in her new freshmen dancers has
not changed since she took over the
team in 1993, the demands on the
dancers has increased.
When the team Gussie Nell
Davis founded first performed in
1940, they were the only group
doing high kicks and the kicks
have only gotten higher over the
last 76 years.
In addition to the ability to
kick, Blair said, she and Assistant
Director and Choreographer Shelley Wayne look for hopefuls who
have “nice dance skills,” can “project” while dancing and can handle
the athleticism that comes with
being a Rangerette.
“They need to be fit,” Blair
said. “They need to be rule followers, hard workers. That’s re-
ally not changed. The dance style
and the difficulty of what they
have to learn has gotten harder.
What we’re looking for really has
not changed.”
The kick involves quite a bit
of ballet, though, so each dancer must be well versed in studio
See RANGERETTES, Page 3
Attorney general says
county school tax works
under state constitution
Mike Brooke
activates a
Poké Stop on
the World's
Richest Acre
Sunday night,
using the
historical
site to gain
extra items
in Pokémon
Go, a new
augmented
reality app
surging in
popularity.
By JAMES DRAPER
[email protected]
Dale Hedrick has his answer. It’s not a simple
one, but it’s a start.
No, the Texas Attorney General’s Office says,
Rusk County’s ‘school equalization tax’ does not
violate the state constitution. Not, at least, Article
VIII, Section 1-E, Attorney General Ken Paxton
concluded in a July 6 opinion.
Beyond the context of Rusk County & District
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by JAMES DRAPER
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KILGORE NEWS HERALD  PAGE 2
County DA publishes
historical novel
By JAMES DRAPER
Hearing the tale again years
later, Jimerson gained new
insight on the incident from
fellow history buff James
Holmes.
“It was really the 9/11 of
their generation,” the DA said.
“They thought Green Herndon was an abolitionist and
he had burned the town down
with this slave with a purpose,
as a way to punish the South
… These people thought this
was Pearl Harbor – they had
been secretly attacked.”
The fire became a catalyst
that ultimately helped thrust
the community into the Civil
War.
“We had more soldiers serving in the Confederacy than
any other town in Texas,” Jimerson noted. Blazes in Dallas
and Henderson were cited in
the Articles of Confederation.
Locally, “This is what they
were avenging. That’s the recruiting tool they used – you
were defending your home
against these terrorists that
were setting things on fire.
“It was one of the reasons
we seceded. Of course, there
were a lot of people that didn’t
want to secede. There were
some counties that it was a
real close vote. This was kind
of used as a tool to really encourage people to do it.”
The actual cause of the fire
is hotly-debated: Jimerson accepts the conclusion phosphorus matches, new at the time,
spontaneously combusted in
the record heat of the summer
of 1860.
“That’s what started these
fires,” he said. Herndon and
the slave women were innocent victims, and “All these
guys went off to war very likely believing a lie.”
Herndon was apparently
dragged by a horse around the
courthouse square until the
accused abolitionist’s death.
The alleged accomplice, pregnant, was tried by a ‘Vigilance
Committee’ and sentenced to
death – the punishment delayed until she gave birth.
“We’re dealing with a very
unjust period of time. She’s
property, and her offspring is
property,” Jimerson lamented.
The baby’s fate is unknown,
[email protected]
“Whoever sows injustice
will reap calamity,” and the
characters in Micheal Jimerson’s debut have to face the
truth of Proverbs 22:8.
Justice is his profession and
his passion, and the Rusk
County & District Attorney
took another axiom to heart
when he sat down with a
word processor: Write what
you know.
It took 17 drafts to get it
right, but Jimerson was finally satisfied he’d built a good
story in “The Seeds of Injustice” to illustrate some his core
principles and ideas.
“Most of the book is really
an academic discussion about
justice. I used a lot of the trials I’ve done over the years,”
Jimerson explained, grafting
true-to-life scenes into the
novel while careful to trim
identifying details. “That’s
one of the reasons I wanted
to write fiction: I feel like I’ve
got something to say about
justice.
Granted, at first, “I was just
writing to make these points
and get them on the page. It
didn’t occur to me to make
them real readable. I had to go
through it and write it more
like I was writing to read it.”
Ultimately though, seeding
the pages with historical figures and actual events, pruning at points and bending
details at others, Jimerson had
his story.
“I had an idea in my head
for a novel for a long time,”
he said. The historical account
of the 1860 fire in Henderson became the jumping off
point for Jimerson’s yarn. “I
remember hearing about that
as a kid – the teacher told us,”
including details about the
fate of Green Herndon, an
activist blamed for the blaze
alongside a slave woman, both
sentenced to death.
“It burned 43 buildings in
downtown Henderson … I
remember (the teacher) said
he was such a terrible individual they wouldn’t let him be
buried inside the gates of the
cemetery.”
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“These are learned men.
Surely some of them had to
have doubts.”
Whether intentional
wrongdoing, negligence or
the mother killed unjustly. ignorance, such questions
“That got me thinking. We haunt Caleb, Jimerson’s prodeal so much with actual in- tagonist.
“That’s the opening scene,
nocence issues in prosecution.
There are prosecutors that that sets the story in motion,”
have made these terrible mis- he said, defining and affecting
takes. A lot of time it’s because his main characters throughout the novel, including his
they get this tunnel vision.”
What of the members of history-inspired antagonist,
that Vigilance Committee General Mathew Ector. Motithat sentenced an innocent vated to do justice but split by
other considerations, the forpregnant woman to death?
mer Confederate leader tries
to protect his authority with
Caleb Philips returns from the murderous action. “He’s got
carnage of the Civil War to find these other motives. There’s a
lot of dramatic license taken
his wife dead, his teenage son
with Ector.”
rebelling, and his native East
Caleb becomes an everyTexas in turmoil. Before he
man character, layered with
can begin to rebuild, another
emotion. Ector is no one-direturned veteran, ex-Confedmension villain: “He’s shrewd
erate General turned Judge
and he’s calculating. He sort
Matthew Ector deputizes him
of gets redeemed.”
to hunt down the cold-blooded
The story plots a long journey, interweaving true and
killers of several newly-freed
slaves. In the meantime, Ector entirely fictional events across
East Texas and other parts of
himself must deliver justice
the state.
in a courtroom for an Indian
“If you’d had maybe a little
chief and former rebel general,
less
fervor, maybe from these
under the hostile gaze of the
vigilance committee findings
Union occupying authorities.
and the idea that terrorists
In a rip-roaring tale stretching had come to burn our towns,
from the Piney Woods of East
maybe Sam Houston would
Texas to the barren desert of the have held us in the Union,”
Comancheria in New Mexico, Jimerson suggests. But most
author Micheal Jimerson
of his tale is set during Reweaves a powerful story of love, construction, which brought
loss, vengeance, and forgiveness. its own opportunities and in-
justices. “You kind of have the
pendulum swing real far one
way and real far the other way.
The book took a couple of
years, Jimerson said, a little bit
at a time, a lot of research. His
writing “team” included his
wife, Mona, with help from
former Assistant DA Robert
Smith and Leverett’s Chapel
teacher Kim McNeel.
“I’m embarrassed to say
how incredibly bad the grammar was,” Jimerson joked.
“She literally marked up every sentenced in the draft. It
went through several drafts.
I ended up rewriting it about
17 times altogether.
“I get tickled to death when
somebody says they read it.”
With a faith message at its
core, John Cunyus’ Searchlight Press published the
book. Copies are initially
priced at $17 each, but the
paperback is available for
$15.99 on Amazon and
$9.99 on Kindle. Barnes &
Noble began selling copies
July 4.
For more information, log
on to Facebook.com/TheSeedsofInjustice.
“I always say justice is the
reasoned application of the
law to the evidence,” Jimerson
said. “That is what it is, but
it takes a book to explain that
one sentence.”
TSF prepares for Talent Showcase
in midst of record-breaking season
By CHELSEA KATZ
[email protected]
Over the 30 Texas Shakespeare Festival seasons, many songs have been performed on the Van Cliburn Auditorium
stage, but there are still many that have
never – and may never – be performed.
That is until this year’s TSF Talent
Showcase.
“We tried to choose shows that we
most likely won’t be able to do in the future just because of technical demands
of the show or the cast size or something
about it that we think the audience will
probably never get to hear these songs
unless it’s in this showcase format,” TSF
Artistic Associate Matthew Simpson said.
Last year’s show was dedicated to the
shows TSF has produced since its inception in 1985 and its first production season in 1986.
While brainstorming ideas for this
year’s talent showcase, Artistic Associate
Meaghan Simpson said, they decided to
go in the opposite direction.
“A lot of it too is what would be fun,”
Matthew said. “What would be fun for
the audience; what would be fun for
the company because in many ways the
evening is a celebration of approaching
the end of the season and just having a
good time.”
Meaghan will host the show again and,
she noted, other company members will
have some surprises throughout the show.
“One of my favorite things is you get
to see them playing their instruments
and things,” she added. “People are just
showcasing their talents, truly, in a different light.”
In addition to being a fun – and shorter – night for theatergoers, she said, the
show also serves as a fundraiser for the
festival with a reception afterward.
The night of the showcase (July 26)
will also be the final Chili’s Gives Back
event at the Kilgore Chili’s location during which a percentage of the night’s
checks will benefit TSF.
Tickets are still available for the Talent
Showcase at www.texasshakespeare.com,
but with less than one week left, the online purchasing tool showed one house
seat left for the show. In total, Matthew
said Tuesday, there were 17 seats left, including those on the padded bench.
The nearly sold out show reflects the
norm for this year’s season, which started
out with the highest first day of ticket
sales in TSF’s 31-year history.
Matthew gave the TSF Guild and
Foundation credit for the ticket sales, as
well as the added programming and increased popularity of the Wednesday evening performances.
As of Tuesday morning, the festival’s
ticket sales were about $12,000 ahead
of last season, Matthew said, reading a
note from Festival Managing Director
John Dodd.
NEWS HERALD ARCHIVE PHOTO
Visiting Chinese actors perform during Texas Shakespeare Festival's 2015 Talent Showcase. The event returns July 26, the night
after this year's visiting actors perform their free show.
“In many ways last year was a more
blockbuster season as far as titles,” he
said, with Meaghan noting last year’s musical of “Man of La Mancha.”
The promotion of this year’s season
and the increased visibility of the festival
has been the main difference, though,
Matthew said.
This season has followed the trend of
previous seasons with the musical – “Carousel” by Richard Rodgers and Oscar
Hammerstein this year – recording the
best ticket sales.
The other three shows of “The Merchant of Venice,” “Blithe Spirit” and
“Henry V” are each selling equally well,
Matthew said.
“Normally one show is less than all
the others, but it’s very even, and that’s
something we’ve noticed being on stage
looking out in the audience. Every house
seems to be very comparable in size,” he
said.
A special five-show production of “The
Belle of Amherst” is poised to sell out its
run, which begins July 19, in the smaller
Black-Box theater space on the second
floor of the TSF Festival Center.
This is the third year TSF will put on
the one-woman show, featuring TSF Vocal Director Jennifer Burke, but Meaghan
said, there are still a mix of people seeing
the show for the first time and those seeing
it for the second or third year in a row.
A Dallas-based reviewer also traveled to
Kilgore for the festival this year and, although the review is not in yet, Meaghan
said, it could draw more state and national attention to the festival.
“Already over half of our audience
comes from over 50 miles away, so to add
Dallas to that list is not too many more
miles for them to make that trip,” Matthew said.
The Roadshow, which the two artistic
associates brought back for the first time
last year, and the high school workshops
have helped engage a younger generation
of thespians and artisans, who are attending the shows this summer from across
the state.
“Our enrollment in our high school
acting workshop is twice as much as last
year and we have a waiting list,” Matthew
said. “We can’t even accommodate everyone that wants to be part of the workshop
this summer, and we believe that’s in large
part due to the Roadshow.”
Getting the Roadshow and some other
educational ventures going took the first
three years of the Simpsons’ time on staff.
Now, their focus is to maintain those programs and to build upon them.
“The growth of those programs, as
we’ve already seen, correspond to growth
in ticket sales, Guild memberships, donations,” Matthew said. “Those are all related together… Starting those programs
was about a three-year project, and now
for the next three to five years we’re going
to really nurture those programs, so that
then you start another cycle.”
The Chinese Theatre Night will also return this year with Shuzhi “Steve” Zhang
and Yuxiaozi “Angelina” Gao’s SummerTime Theatre troupe of 10 students representing four different schools in China.
Tickets are available by phone at 903983-8601, online at www.texasshakespeare.com or at the TSF Box Office in
the Anne Dean Turk Fine Arts Center
at 1200 Highway 259 South. Tickets to
the four main shows are $30 for a house
seat and $25 for a padded bench seat and
tickets to the Talent Showcase are $20
each. Wednesday evening performances
are student discount nights with $10
tickets available to students of any age
with a valid student ID. Although the
Chinese Theatre Night is a free event, the
staff recommend reserving seats through
any of the ticket purchasing options.
LOCAL
Residents speak out at Sabine ISD meeting
By JAMES DRAPER
[email protected]
In a meeting notable for its lack
of infighting on the dais, Sabine
ISD trustees heard from three critics during the group’s regularlyscheduled monthly session Monday night.
Following an almost half-hour
closed session – which ended with
two new teacher hires – the board
member’s main meeting got underway with an Open Forum.
Allotted five minutes each, first
up was first grade teacher (and
mother of two students) Dee Ann
Gerbine.
“The kids are why you guys are
all sitting here,” she reminded the
seven trustees, chiding the group
for ‘miscommunications’ during
their open meetings and for not following recommended procedures
for school boards. That’s partly to
blame for the recent fury of audience members, Gerbine said: “The
outcry that you’re hearing comes
from the fact that there are proper
procedures to follow that are not
being done correctly.
“When (trustees) come into the
meetings with a decision already
made it is very concerning to people in the audience who are expecting you guys to have a discussion
and collaborate on your decisions
and we’re not seeing that. I feel like
the district is starting to suffer, and
it makes me very sad as a parent.”
Public officials are limited in
how they can responded to public
speakers, effectively restricted to
statements of fact.
The night’s second speaker was
Pam Sondol, Gerbine’s mother,
who recently retired to the district
with her husband.
Sondol apologize for an emotional outburst during the school
board’s last session.
“I had just reached the end of my
rope with that meeting,” Sondol
said, one that saw the board break
with one set of attorneys and hire
another in addition to a venomous,
ranging debate about closed session items.
According to Sondol, she and
her husband chose Sabine for its
high athletic achievements, its FFA
awards, its higher than average test
scores and other accolades, moving
closer to one daughter and grandchildren and encouraging another
set to move as well.
“We were really impressed. Kudos to the superintendent, the administrators and teachers who we
entrust our children and grandchildren to. When we found the home
that we purchased … we truly felt
blessed.”
Since moving here in early April,
though, Sondol said she’s found
the district in an uproar, its open
meetings split by strife over politics.
“I have not heard anything about
our students or what our students
need or what we need to do to
help our teachers,” she said. “Isn’t
the purpose of our school board to
put our children’s best interests at
heart?”
Running over her time, Sondol
criticized the deep split on the
board and a hunt for controversy.
“It’s obvious to a new person that
there are four of you against three,”
she said. “It’s sad that you are so
divided and that our children and
grandchildren are going to suffer
for this.”
The final speaker, Benji Maxwell, echoed those concerns in a
more pointed critique, calling out
multiple trustees.
“I was given a great foundation
at this school district. It saddens
me to see what progress, or lack of
progress, that we’re making. It is
critical to my family’s future that
this board makes responsible and
conscious decisions when it comes
to this school,” Maxwell said. He
criticized recent hot-button issues
– including the sale of a portable
Sunday
wreck
kills two
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dance technique as well, she
said.
“Dancing is more athletic
than it used to be,” Blair
added. “They’re leaping and
landing on the ground and
there’s just a lot of athleticism. They have to prepare
for that to be able to hang
with the athleticism. It’s just
a tough tryout.”
Blair, who returned to the
Rangerettes as assistant director and choreographer
under Deana Bolton Covin
30 years ago, said the tryout
process has gotten shorter
also with only one week to
work with the dancers instead of two.
Each of the 80 dancers trying out will know by Friday
afternoon if their efforts this
week were enough for them
to don the iconic red, white
and blue uniform.
The process has been even
more than Kilgore High
School graduate Drew Bates
was expecting, noting she
kicked every day to prepare.
“It’s not as much physical
effort as it is mental,” she
added.
Although she had experience being a member of the
KHS Hi-Steppers, she said,
the process also means learning how to do things the
“Rangerette way,” which is
different “in a good way”
from the Hi-Stepper way
and includes smiling all the
time and not talking.
By CHELSEA KATZ
[email protected]
Two people were killed
Sunday morning and a third
person seriously injured after
a one-vehicle wreck just east
of Kilgore.
Stephanie Ann Ramon,
41, and Jamie McGowen,
45, both of Longview, were
pronounced dead at the
scene after the truck they
were in flipped while traveling southbound on the
Highway 259 loop. A male
passenger, Jason Ray Tubbs,
41, of Henderson, was transported to Good Shepherd
Medical Center in Longview.
The call came in at 10:07
a.m. Sunday, Kilgore Assistant Fire Chief Mike Simmons said.
According to reports, McGowen was ejected and Ramon, who was driving, was
pinned inside the truck during the wreck.
Simmons said Monday the
last update he heard about
Tubbs was he was in critical
condition.
Texas Department of Public Safety conducted the investigation, but Simmons
said witnesses reported the
driver of the truck lost control, drifted into the northbound lanes and overcorrected, somehow causing the
2003 Ford F-150 they were
in to roll across the southbound lanes of the loop.
One engine from the
Kilgore Fire Department responded, along with Kilgore
Rescue Unit, Champion
EMS and DPS. A justice of
the peace responded as well
and Rader Funeral Home
transported the two deceased women.
Kilgore High School
graduate Drew
Bates performs the
contemporary dance
in her group of four
during Rangerette
pre-training Tuesday
morning to receive
“marking” or grading
of her performance.
The 77th line members
will be revealed Friday
morning in Dodson
Auditorium.
building, arguments about mileage reimbursement and others – as
trivial and irresponsible. “Instead
those discussions, why doesn’t this
board talk about what it can do
to improve the future of students
within this school district?”
Maxwell contends the board’s
majority is wasting his tax dollars,
years’ worth, on a looming fraud
audit. Board president Martha
Wright and trustees John Kenna,
Patty Pickle and Rusty Taylor often
vote as one on split decisions opposed by board vice president Tony
Raymond, Secretary Andrea Bates
and trustee Paul Franklin.
Condemning the majority for
“what appears to be a witch hunt
on our superintendent,” Maxwell
said tax dollars are being spent on
an agenda rather than students.
“Where is your transparency?
What are your motives? What is
your agenda? Why are we doing
this? When are y’all going to start
acting like leaders?”
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BARBARA PHILLIPS
Barbara Phillips, affectionately called “Barbo,” was born
August 25, 1926, and passed away in Denver, Colorado,
on July 9, 2016, shortly before her ninetieth birthday. Her
graveside service will be held at 1:30 p.m. Thursday, July
14, at Gladewater Memorial Park Cemetery with a memorial service following at 3 p.m. at First United Methodist Church of Longview under the direction of Rader
Funeral Home.
She was born in Amarillo and was the only child of
Floyd “Bugs” Wampler and Goldie Roden Wampler.
She had an engaging and independent personality that
captivated and endeared her to all she met. Her skills in
the kitchen were legendary, and she generously shared
her creations with her family and large circle of friends.
The blooms from her cutting garden graced the homes of
many grateful admirers.
She graduated high school at age sixteen as salutatorian of her class in Gladewater and entered the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated the University in December of 1945 with a BS in bacteriology.
On December 21, 1946, Barbara married Jack Phillips,
also of Gladewater. They remained in Austin until Jack received his degree in 1949, at which time they moved back
home to Gladewater. While Jack pursued a career in geology, Barbara made a home for their two daughters. She
served as a Camp Fire Girl leader, taught Sunday School
and Methodist Youth Fellowship at the First United Methodist Church of Gladewater where she and Jack were
members for seventy years.
Barbara traveled extensively through Europe with her
friends from the Stockpot, studying with such famous chefs
as Julia Child, Simone Beck and Ann Willan. For many
years, she and Jack were members of the Kitchen Kabinet,
a group of close friends who gathered weekly for food
and fellowship and who enjoyed offering their talents in
the kitchen to numerous fundraisers and local charities.
Barbara and Jack also enjoyed many safaris throughout
Africa with their family where they made lifelong friends.
Barbara served her community as a board member
of the East Texas Treatment Center and as an advisory
board member of the Longview Museum of Fine Arts.
Barbara’s first love was her family. She was an active participant in every aspect of the lives of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, oftentimes directing,
guiding, and cheering their accomplishments from her
kitchen table with the assistance of her telephone. She
attended as many plays, programs, sporting events and
grandparent programs as possible, and in doing so, garnered the praise and admiration of both her grand and
great grandchildren’s friends and their parents. She was
fondly recognized as the surrogate mother, grandmother
and great grandmother to a multitude of children from
Denver, Tyler, Longview and Africa.
She is survived by her husband Jack; their daughters
Gail Mizer of Austin and Nancy Abernathy and her husband Mark of Longview. She is also survived by Gail’s
children, Ashley and her husband Justin Morris of Tyler,
Stephen Mizer and his wife Alex of Tyler, Whitney and her
husband Mark Land of Tyler and Sutton Schoonover-Mizer
of Kingsville; Nancy’s children, Leslie and her husband
Burke Johnson of Denver, Clay Abernathy and his wife
Jaclyn of Longview, and Claire and her husband David Henry of Longview. Her 11 great-grandchildren who
adore her are Hyde and Styles Morris, Stephen Jack jr.,
and Clay Mizer, Stella and Mark Land jr., Anna and Kate
Johnson, Jack Madison Abernathy and Eloise and Sarah
Henry.
Pallbearers are her grandsons, grandsons-in-law, godchild Jack Walker of Houston and adopted South African grandson Phillip Kelly-Maartens. Honorary pallbearers are Howard Coghlan, Bruce Faulkner, Jerry Harris,
Charles Thomas, Stephen Charles Mizer, Lloyd Bolding,
Roy Briggs, Kent Abernathy, Brent Abernathy, Elmer Ellis
and Roger Chapman. She and Roger started kindergarten
together in Gladewater.
The Phillips family would like to thank Loevijilda Rojas, Norman Aguillon and Beverly Small for their years of service and love.
A memorial guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com.
ANNA BELLE “BOBBIE” WYLIE
Memorial services for Mrs. Anna Belle “Bobbie” Wylie,
81, of Kilgore will be 10 a.m.. Wednesday, July 13, at
the First Presbyterian Church with Reverend Robert Phillips officiating. Mrs. Wylie passed away Saturday, July 9,
2016 in Longview.
She was born December 13,
1934 in Minden, Texas. Mrs. Wylie
was a graduate of Henderson High
School and Kilgore College where
she was a cheerleader. Bobbie was
a longtime faithful member of the
First Presbyterian Church of Kilgore.
She served as a deacon, taught
children’s Sunday School for many
years, and was active in the Presbyterian Women’s group.
Bobbie served on the board of Helping Hands and the
Kilgore Community Concerts. She was the past presi-
dent of the Evergreen Garden Club and was a docent
for the East Texas Oil Museum. Bobbie enjoyed doing
for others including delivering Meals on Wheels.
She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Lisa
and Matthew S. Moore III of Mt. Pleasant, S.C.; her
daughter, Lori Wylie of Dania Beach, Fla.; sister-in-law,
Lywane Davis of Longview; brother, Wallace “Dud” Davis of Lufkin; step grandson, Matthew S. Moore IV, of
Charleston, S.C.; childhood friend, Lavelle Jenkins of
Kilgore, and special friend, Sarah Garasic of Kilgore.
Bobbie was preceded in death by her husband, Jim
Bob Wylie; parents, Edward and Nancy Davis; brother,
Bill R. Davis; sister-in-law, Doris Davis, and nephew Kelly
Davis.
The family asks that memorials be made to the First
Presbyterian Church P.O. Box 1216 Kilgore, Texas.
Please leave online condolences at www.raderfuneralhome.com
KILGOROUND
active rigs in Texas, representing 41 percent of all
the active rigs in the U.S.
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BINGO! Julie Beck and
Carrie Jackson will again
host their monthly bingo
to benefit Boys and Girls
Club – dinner at 6 p.m.
next Thursday, July 22 followed by bingo at 7 p.m.
in the gym at St. Luke’s.
$12 per person ($7 for
children 12 and under)
gets you dinner including
drinks and dessert; cards
are $10 each or three for
$20.
IN ADDITION, BGC
youth are hosting a car
wash tomorrow at 1 p.m.
in the parking lot of Aaron’s Rents on Hwy. 259.
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MARATHON for the rest
us:
EAST Texas Cornerstone
Assistance Network, A
Tyler-based organization
which “partners, in Christian love, with churches,
businesses and other nonprofit agencies to assist
people in poverty with life
transformation” is sponsoring its second No Run
Run.
THEY urge you to NOT
run a marathon August 8
and to get sponsors who
will contribute 50 cents
or more for each mile of
the marathon (26 miles)
you don’t run. Registration
began Monday at www.
etcornerstone.org. Your
supporters can make online contributions at that
same address.
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welcometokilgore.com
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THIS WEEK'S BIRTHDAYS
include:
July 13 - Arlene McDonald, Virginia Long, Mrs.
A.P. Merritt Jr., Betty Jo
Jeter, Blair Phillips, J. Phillips, Sylvia Bolding, Eva
Mae Mills, Jack Coombs,
Nicole Kidwell, Gloria
Jones, Jenna Warlick,
Jennifer Johnson, Sammy
Henley Sr., Sam Mallett,
Michell Fout, Bret Hedrick,
Kelly Brown, David Pentecost Jr., Sara Lugeanbeal,
Mrs. Denny M. Smith, Michelle Daniels, Chad Lundgreen, Angela Price
July 14 - Dr. John C.
Austin, Addie B. Smith,
Fannie Smith, Jason Shafer, Kara Camille Lacy,
Mary Ann Russell, Linda
Melton, Cecilia Johnson,
Lindsey Waldrop, Jill Harton, Catherine Collins,
Martha Rorschach, Kathy
Morgan, Karen Patterson, Kenny Nail, Denise
Camp, Randall Clark,
Johnny Walker Sr., Donald Badger, Jamar Murphy, Charles Kellingsworth
July 15 - Johnny Eth-
Now! Two Great Radio Stations!
ridge, T.H. English, Gene
Fout, Laurie Thrower
Day, Natalie Harris, Mrs.
Melvin Spruill, William
G. Stovall, Leana Laws,
Glenn Wood, Iva Elam,
Jamie Johns, Tonya
Shelly, Kim Faulkner, Teresa Audas, Betty Thrower,
Edna Jones, Tess Riley,
Mary Nell Douglas, Robert Wilson, Gary Boyd,
Kindred Fortson, Daniel
Decker, Gerald Cubine,
Mrs. A.J. Phipps, John Nations, Traci Ruston, Matthew Compton, Sonia Levingston, Deana Hutson,
Zion Jackson, Justin B.
Shires, Lee Kellingsworth
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THIS WEEK'S ANNIVERSARIES include:
July 13 - Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Graham, Chris
and Melissa Kirbow
July 14 - Albert and
Scarlet Chitwood, Mr. and
Mrs.Billy Billingsley, Mr.
and Mrs. Willie Sanders
July 15 - Mr. and Mrs.
Maurice Harvey, Mr. and
Mrs. Bill Rhodes, Mr. and
Mrs. Dan Ballenger, Alain
and Jill Gee, Sanford and
Nelda Stein
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FRANCES M. ARPS
Funeral service for Mrs. Frances M. Arps, 93, of Winona
is scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, July 16 at New Zion
Baptist Church with Dr. S.L. Curry Jr. as eulogist. Burial will
be in Tyler Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Community Funeral Home of Tyler. Mrs.
Arps died July 9, 2016 at Watkins, Logan VA Facility.
She was born January 1, 1923 in
Winona and remained a lifetime resident. She attended Winona public
schools and was a graduate of Emmett J. Scott High School.
Mrs. Arps worked in the food service
department at the University of Texas
at Tyler and retired from Winona ISD food service department. She was a member of New Zion Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Frank and
Lessie Bell; husband, Will Oscar Arps; 16 siblings, and one
great-grandchild.
Survivors include a son, Roy Taft Arps of Winona; daughters, Lessie Porter, Saundra (Leslie) Walker, both of Tyler,
Mattie (Larry) Cuba of Longview and Ruth (Dennis) Williams
of Kilgore; 14 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren and
one great-great-grandchild.
Family will receive friends at 11960 Paula Drive, Tyler,
from 5-8 p.m. Friday, July 15.
TINA KARLENE SMELLEY
Services for Tina Karlene Smelley, 48, Overton, were
Monday, July 11, in the Cottle-Pearson Funeral Home chapel with Reverend James Henderson officiating. Private
burial was in Overton City Cemetery.
Mrs. Smelley died Friday, July 8, 2016 at her residence
in Arp. She was born November 17, 1967 in Dallas to the
late Carl and Matilda Perryman Clinton. She was a lifelong
resident of Arp and married Carroll Smelley February 14,
1987 in Arp. She worked at Bradshaw Prison, Henderson
and she was loved by her children and enjoyed bowling
and reading.
Survivors include her husband of29 years, Carroll Smelley, Arp; a son, James Smelley, Arp; a daughter, Carleen
Smelley, Arp, a daughter and son-in-law, Nicole and Daniel Shane, Kilgore; a brother, Bo Clinton, Betty; two sisters,
Carla Clinton, Betty, and Crystal Fowler, Overton; sistersin-law, Debbie Richardson, Carthage, and Shelia Whitaker, Troup; mother-in-law, Shirley Smelley, Arp; stepmother,
Mary Clinton, Leverett’s Chapel; four grandchildren, and
many other loving relatives and friends.
Pallbearers were Cody Whitaker, Rocky Richardson,
Brandon Richardson, Chase Brewer, Dalton Brewer, and
Shane Daniel.
Online registration and condolences are available at
www.cottlefuneralhome.com.
DAILY DIGEST
WEDNESDAY
KILGORE SENIOR CITIZENS club meets the second and fourth
Wednesday of each month in the Lions Club Building at 307
Rusk St. All seniors 55 or older are eligible for membership.
THE REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF GREGG COUNTY will meet
Wednesday, July 20, at noon at Barrons, 405 W. Loop 281,
Longview. Speaker will be Rachel Sikes talking about her trip
to Washington, DC. The public is invited. Contact information:
903-987-3477.
FRIDAY
KILGORE CHURCH WOMEN will meet Friday, July 22 from
11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Kilgore Bible Church, 3810 County
Line Rd. Stephen Wright be be singing for the program.
OVERTON/NEW LONDON
WEDNESDAY
MCMILLAN MEMORIAL LIBRARY hosts Baby & Me Fun Time,
preschool story time for infants thru pre-k and their parent or
caregiver. Wednesdays at 10:30 a.m. For more info, call 903834-6318.
THURSDAY
ROTARY CLUB DISTRICT 5830 meets each Thursday at
noon in Overton Community Center. Phyllis Starnes is the club
president for 2014-2015 and can be reached on Facebook at
overtonrotaryclubdistrict5830.
FYI
LONDON MUSEUM tells the story of the 1937 school
explosion that killed many students and teachers, wiping out a
generation. Located on Hwy 42 across from West Rusk High
School in New London, the museum is open 9-4 M-F and
10-3 on Saturday. Also, check out the daily lunch specials and
old-fashioned fountain service at the museum cafe. Visit www.
newlondonschool.org or call 903-895-4602.
WANT TO ADD AN ITEM TO THE
DAILY DIGEST? Email Charlotte at
[email protected].
OBIT POLICY
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guidelines. The News Herald also publishes photographs for a
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per word. The deadline to submit obituaries is 3 p.m. on Tuesday for the Wednesday edition, and 3 p.m. on Friday for the
Saturday edition. Obituaries must be paid in advance, unless
the funeral home has an established credit account.
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LOCAL
DPS urges Texans
to be cautious
in extreme heat
Press Release
NEWS HERALD photo by JAMES DRAPER
Gregg County Sheriff's Office personnel secure Samples Road while investigating a suspected pipe
bomb Sunday evening. The object was not an explosive device, GCSO reported.
GCSO: Mystery object not explosive
By JAMES DRAPER
[email protected]
Despite appearances, an object found
Sunday on the side of a road in Sabine
was not an explosive device.
Taking no chances, local law enforcement cordoned off the area for several
hours as they investigated the suspicious item discovered on Samples Road
west of FM 3053.
At the very least, it looked like a pipe
bomb. From one initial description, the
object was about a foot long, made of
PVC pipe and capped at both ends. A
sparkler was attached as an apparent
fuse.
According to a social media release
from the Gregg County Sheriff ’s Office, its personnel responded to the
scene at approximately 5:08 p.m.
GCSO Lt. Josh Tubb said the sheriff ’s office wouldn’t be providing much
information about the incident beyond
the handful of facts in Sunday night’s
brief statement. He had no information about the purpose of the object.
“I can tell you, it was something
that appeared to be a device that could
have been an explosive device that was
enough it caused concern and someone
called the sheriff ’s office,” Tubb said.
The object was found on the side of the
road, he confirmed. “We’re not going
to put out any details or description.”
According to the online summary,
Sunday’s response included the Gregg
County Sheriff ’s Office’s Patrol Division as well as the Criminal Investigations Division, the Fire Marshal/Emergency Management Coordinator and
personnel from the Tyler Field Office
of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco
& Firearms.
Sabine Volunteer Fire Department
also responded to the incident.
According to GCSO, once the investigation determined it was not an
explosive device, “The roadway was reopened and all responders safely cleared
the scene at approximately 8:48 p.m.”
TAX
Attorney Micheal Jimerson’s
question about the ‘county
school district,’ though, the
AG doesn’t say. For Hedrick,
that means there’s plenty left
to discuss.
A Kilgore ISD resident
living in Rusk County, Hedrick maintains the decadesold tax isn’t fair. Collecting
a bit more than 2 cents per
$100 valuation from Rusk
County residents, it means
those residents who live
in a regular school district
that crosses county lines are
bearing a heavier tax burden
than their neighbors in other
counties, he says.
Established by county voters in 1940, the tax has collected and distributed about
$9.25 million between 13
school districts in the past 10
years. Tax revenues, minus a
small set-aside ($2,000) for
the county school board’s
operations, are allocated to
the various school districts
according to the average
daily attendance of students
who live in Rusk County –
for example, KISD gets revenue for each student who
lives in Rusk County and
attends Kilgore ISD but not
for those students who live
in Gregg County; Henderson receives an allocation
for every student as the district is wholly-located within
Rusk County.
Writing to Jimerson, “You
ask whether it is problematic
article VIII, section 1-e that
tax proceeds are being used
to support an independent
school district that serves
students in a neighboring
county,” Paxton writes.
In his January request for
the AG’s consideration of
the county school tax (reportedly, just six of 254 Texas counties have one) Jimerson cited the Texas Supreme
Court’s 1992 decision on
Carrollton-Farmers Branch
ISD vs. Edgewood ISD. In
that opinion, county education districts were ruled unconstitutional.
In his letter to the OAG,
Jimerson noted multiple
school districts benefiting
from the current tax cross
county lines, “resulting in
the tax being used to subsidize another county’s rates.”
For example, a Rusk County
resident living in Kilgore Independent School District
pays the county’s school
equalization tax on top of
Kilgore ISD’s rate – a stone’s
throw away in some cases,
a Gregg County resident in
KISD would only pay the
school district’s rate.
Taking Jimerson’s request and inviting others
to weigh in on the issue
about six months of consideration, Paxton’s office
released its conclusions on
deadline July 6.
In summary, “In Carrollton Farmers Branch Independent School District
v. Edgewood Independent
School District, the Texas
Supreme Court determined
that an ad valorem tax by
county education districts
was unconstitutional under
article VIII, section 1-2 of
the Texas Constitution because the levy, assessment
and disbursement of revenue
was so directed by the State
and that tax amounted to
a state ad valorem tax,” according to Paxton and other
officials. “A county equalization tax under former
chapter 18 of the Education
Code appears to provide a
county school board operating thereunder meaningful
discretion with regard to the
tax such that a court could
determine that the tax is not
similarly constitutionally inform under article VIII, section 1-e.”
Put simply, Hedrick accepts, that’s a ‘No.’
“I’m disappointed, but I
understand the process,” he
said. Granted, reading over
the AG’s opinion, “I don’t
quite understand it because
there’s so much legal mumbo jumbo in there.
“Education funding in
Texas is difficult at best, even
to understand. I want these
people to know what’s going on here. It’s such a rare
thing. Understanding this
is like asking someone for
the shortest route between
Kilgore and Henderson and
they send you through Europe and South America.”
Without offering an opinion on the ruling, Jimerson
said he was gratified by the
nature of the OAG’s response.
“This did seem to have
some respect for the question,” he explained, “seemed
to consider the argument,
but at the end found that it
wasn’t unconstitutional.”
That’s not necessarily the
final word on the subject.
“It depends on a lot of
things. It’s either right or
wrong, and it depends on
who you’ve got on the supreme court,” Jimerson
added. As for the end result,
“It may not be right, but it’s
consistent with what we’re
seeing out of the Texas Supreme Court right now.
“I think it was a good
question and a good argument, and it was proper for
us to question it.”
According to Hedrick,
he’s reaching out to both
Rep. Travis Clardy in Texas
House District 11 and Rep.
Bryan Hughes, currently in
House District 5 and poised
to assume the Texas Senate
District 1 post.
“I think the next step is
getting with the legislators,” Hedrick said. He’s
considering launching a
petition on the matter: “It
might call for an election
to do away with it,” but
he’s not optimistic about
the measure’s chances.”
Rusk County Judge Joel
Hale says he gets the concern.
“He’s paying an extra tax
that the people in Gregg
County aren’t paying,”
Hale said, simply. “I see
where he’s coming from.”
If Hedrick talks to the
legislature, Hale added,
then that’s the next step,
and he’ll watch things
progress.
“Other than that, I don’t
know that I have much of
an opinion one way or the
other.”
In the meantime, in the
coming year the County
Common School Board
will have three seats up for
election. Historically, Hale
said, the biggest challenge
is finding volunteers to fill
the seats, since they’re so
rarely contested, one for
each Rusk County precinct
and one at-large trustee.
“They really just serve,
really, to help out with the
process,” Hale said. Most
of the trustees donate their
$20 travel stipend to the
county’s child advocacy
fund. “They’re all just good
people.”
Unchallenged and willing to serve another term,
Worth Whitehead was
recently re-elected as the
board’s at-large member,
and Robert Vinson was reelected to the Precinct 1
seat. For the next election
cycle – May 13, 2017 –
seats 2, 3 and 4 are in the
rotation, currently held
by Darlene Wright, Jack
Hammett and Steven Gelwicks, respectively. The
filing deadline will fall in
March.
Meanwhile, Hedrick says
he’ll continue pursuing the
debate about whether the
tax should stay or go.
“I’d love to give personal
testimony to somebody in
Austin,” he said. “It’s not
a dead issue on my part. I
promise you that.”
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AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety is
warning Texas residents to be prepared for hotter than
normal temperatures and to take precautions to stay safe
as temperatures and heat indices may hit 100 degrees and
above in many parts of the state. Extreme temperatures
increase the risk of heat-related injuries or deaths.
“Although hot conditions are expected during Texas
summers, we want to remind Texans that high temperatures can be deadly and should not be taken lightly,” said DPS Director Steven McCraw. “In many cases
heat-related deaths and injuries are preventable, and
DPS urges residents to take the necessary steps to protect themselves and others against extreme temperatures – whether they plan to be outside or indoors.”
Warmer weather places children at greater risk of injury or death if left unattended in a vehicle. Every year
children die from heat-related injuries after being left
in a vehicle or by entering a vehicle unnoticed. A child
should never be left unattended in a vehicle.
Temperatures inside a car can rise more than 20 degrees in only 10 minutes; and even with an outside
temperature of 60 degrees, the temperature inside a
car can reach 110 degrees, according to the National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Leaving windows partially rolled down does not help. Young children are particularly at risk since their bodies heat up
faster than an adult.
According to the Center for Disease Control and
Prevention (CDC), extreme heat events or heat waves
are one of the leading causes of extreme weather-related deaths in the United States. Periods of severe heat
and high humidity tax the body’s ability to cool itself
and can lead to heat exhaustion and heat stroke, which
can be fatal. DPS offers the following tips for staying safe and managing the heat:
- Check on the elderly, sick or very young, especially if they don’t have air
conditioning.
- Drink plenty of water and avoid caffeine and alcohol during prolonged
outdoor exposure. Start consuming water before you head outdoors; you may
not realize you’re dehydrated until it’s too late.
- Pay attention to your body. Heat exhaustion and heat stroke can develop
quickly. If you start feeling ill, immediately find a shaded or cooler area and
slowly drink fluids. Seek medical attention if necessary.
- Monitor weather radios and newscasts for information on current conditions
and weather alerts in your area.
- Stay indoors as much as possible, and limit exposure to the sun. Consider
indoor activities this summer at places like shopping malls, the library or other
community facilities.
- If possible, avoid strenuous outdoor activity during the hottest part of the day.
For additional tips, visit http://dps.texas.gov/dem/Preparedness/tips/hotWeatherSafetyTips.htm.
For more information about heat alerts, heat safety and tips for staying safe,
visit http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/heat/.
Notice of Finding of No Significant Impact
The USDA, Rural Utilities Service has received an application for
financial assistance from the Cross Roads Special Utility District
to construct water production, storage and distribution system
improvements to serve customers in Gregg and Rusk Counties. The area
under consideration is generally southeast of the City of Kilgore, Texas.
The proposal consist of the construction of two (2) Pump Stations (with
disinfection, storage and pressure system), two (2) 120 GPM CarrizoWilcox aquifer Water Wells, approximately 47,200 L.F. of 6–inch PVC
water distribution lines and approximately 18,100 L.F. of 4–inch PVC
water distribution lines. The two (2) Pump Stations with water wells will
be constructed on 2 separate sites owned by Cross Roads SUD.
As required by the National Environmental Policy Act and agency
regulations, the Rural Utilities Service prepared an Environmental
Assessment of the proposal that assessed the potential environmental
effects of the proposal and the effect of the proposal may have on historic
properties. The Environmental Assessment was published on May 4
and May 11, 2016 for a 30-day public comment period. No comments
were received. Upon consideration of the applicant’s proposal, federal
and state environmental regulatory and natural resource agencies,
and public input the agency has determined that the proposal will not
have a significant effect on the human environment and for which an
Environmental Impact Statement will not be prepared.
The basis of this determination is the beneficial impacts outweigh any
adverse impact. There are no feasible alternatives to the locations of
the project, and mitigation measures will be enacted to minimize any
adverse impacts. These measures include avoiding any cultural materials
found.
Copies of the Environmental Assessment can be reviewed or obtained at
the USDA Rural Development Office, 1520 E Denman, Suite 104, Lufkin,
TX 75901. For further information contact Ms. Sabrina Glenn, 903-6349900, Ext 113.
A general location map of the proposed improvements is shown below.
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LOCAL
Happy Hunting
Pokémon craze catches Kilgore smartphone users
By JAMES DRAPER
[email protected]
Chances are, there’s one
right next to you. It could be
hovering over your computer.
It could be trilling at you from
the other side of the newspaper. There might one right
beside your foot or, perhaps,
floating in your coffee cup.
Maybe it’s a Weedle – Kilgore’s lousy with them. There’s
a veritable plague of Rattata
scurrying about. It might be
a Pidgey, though. A Dodrio
turned up at the Kilgore News
Herald Tuesday morning.
If it’s Mew, best keep it to
yourself unless you’re ready
to be inundated by Pokémon trainers wandering
through the world of Pokémon Go through the windows of their smartphones.
Less than a week since it was
launched, the new app has
almost instantly brought the
“Gotta catch ‘em all” fandom
of Pokémon back into headlines more than two decades
after it first reached the United States from Japan.
Of course, it never went
away, Hunter McDaniel insists.
Celebrating his capture of
a Snorlax in front of Kilgore’s
Snap Fitness, the 22-year-old
oilfield worker says he’s excited to see the fantasy of his
childhood – video games,
cartoons, movies, collectible
cards, toys and more – evolve
into an ‘augmented reality’ for
the modern world.
“I think it’s kind of cool
how many people are actually playing, even people who
have never played Pokémon
before,” he said. “It’s just kind
of nostalgic thing.”
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Hunter McDaniel and Kailey Ashby and Ace
stop their Pokémon-hunt on the World's Richest
Acre Sunday evening. (Left) Recent Kilgore High
School graduate Ben Simpson uses his smartphone to search augmented reality of Pokémon
Go for new targets.
It’s not yet a worldwide phenomenon – the game simply
isn’t available in every country right now, but just wait.
Americans got in on the fun
almost immediately. With
skyrocketing downloads for
Apple and Android devices,
the free app has been rivaling Twitter with its usage
statistics as players trek the
physical world in search of
the virtual creatures that now
inhabit it.
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Richest Acre: looking through
the augmented reality of a
smartphone screen, one of
the game’s gyms pulses like a
beacon on Commerce Street,
drawing players for training or
battle.
There are two others nearby
in downtown, at the Texan
Theater and at First Church
of the Nazarene. In the virtual world, another gym
towers about First Presbyterian Church on Main Street.
They’re in good company: the
e-arenas can be found at both
the White House and the
Pentagon as well, they’re just
harder to reach.
Mike Brooke joined a steady
crowd of Pokémon trainers
under the derricks Sunday
evening, taking advantage of a
multiplayer module that was
attracting the game’s monsterquarry to the Acre.
A Longview resident,
Brooke said his night initially started at a Pokémon Go
hangout of about 40 people
there. The lure of the module – one of numerous items
players can purchase with real
dollars through microtransacations in the app’s market –
drew him to Kilgore in search
of new critters.
“I got some stuff I was looking for,” including a Poliwag
and a Squirtle, he said. “They
move around, so you have to
walk around to find where
they are.
“Pokémon’s been out since
1998. It all started out with
the video game then it became
an anime (a cartoon show)
that’s been out ever since. It’s
got long-lasting popularity.”
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Using the app, “everyone
is basically getting to go out
and do what everyone’s done
in the show. It’s augmented
reality … you get to go out
and you get to catch Pokémon,” Brooke said, a next step
in gaming that has added an
estimated $9 billion to Nintendo’s market share in a matter of days. “It’s not something
you can just sit there and play.
It’s the only game I’ve ever
played that you can’t be stationary. You have to actually
move around.
“Yesterday I was running into people that were probably
in their 30s, 40s hunting.”
Across the United States,
including Kilgore, Pokémon
trainers have quickly become
ubiquitous: singles, couples
or groups of people walking along roadways, running
through parks, tramping
through fields and pausing
at virtual Poké Stops tied to
actual places of significance,
like historical markers and
architectural elements. With
its heritage and architecture,
downtown Kilgore is rife
with them.
Jerred Sosa, who inherited
his love for Pokémon as a child
from his older brother, is capitalizing on his summer break
to get ahead in the game. The
recent Kilgore High School
graduate plans to begin classes
at Kilgore College in the fall.
He downloaded the game
as soon as it was available
Thursday.
“I’ve been playing it about
six- to eight-hours a day,” he
said. “The thing that keeps
me hooked is if you get all
of your friends to play it, it’s
kind of a great experience: to
see all your friends wanting
to level up. To spend quality
time with each other, that’s
what I like.”
The game seemed to blow
up overnight, Cpl. Joshua
Sims wrote in a memo to
Kilgore Police Department
personnel.
“With the release of Pokémon Go over the weekend
I have spotted numerous
people out running around
town at all hours of the night
playing the game,” he noted.
Sims included a primer for the
department: “The game is an
augmented reality game using
your smartphone’s GPS and
camera. Players are presented
with an avatar that they control by walking around a map
of the city in real time.
“To be clear, the in-game
map is a full-scale representation of whatever city you are
playing in complete with all
the same buildings and streets
that exist in the real world.
There are spots in the game,
called ‘Pokestops,’ mapped to
specific geographic locations
in the city where players can
travel to and get items to use
in the game for free.”
There are stops around the
police department, Central
Fire Station, City Hall and
numerous other buildings,
Sims noted.
The patrol division officer
added a caution to his note.
Stories abound of players in
multiple countries getting
themselves into risky situations because of the game,
whether by dashing across
roads, training-while-driving, wandering into dangerous areas or, in a widelyreported case, falling prey to
armed robbers who used an
in-game lure to draw unsuspecting gamers.
“There have already been
several armed robberies associated with the game. Criminals having been locating
out of the way ‘Pokestops’ in
larger cities to set up on and
wait for unsuspecting players
to walk by trying to access
the items. They then rob
them of their belongings and
phones. There have been
several assaults and even a
stabbing so far. Just something to be aware of.”
For Sosa, all the more reason to hunt with groups of
friends, and Brooke’s not
going to let shady characters
wreck his fun.
“It’s something I’ve been
waiting for since I was 8
years-old,” he said.
McDaniel, meanwhile,
is hunting with a pack: his
girlfriend, Kailey Ashby, has
caught the bug and she’s
bringing her husky, Ace,
along for the fun.
“He got to go on his adventure, so he liked it,” Ashby
joked. In the meantime, as of
Monday afternoon, she has
54 Pokémon to show for her
troubles. “He got me into it.
I like the game a lot, I do. It’s
actually pretty fun. I was surprised that I did like it. I’m
try to get that Pikachu.”
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A group of people attending a community prayer service at First Baptist Church of Kilgore pray over Kilgore Police Officer Angela Burch. The service,
hosted by FBC-Kilgore and New Birth Fellowship Church, brought the two church congregations together with police officers and other members of the
community, including Dr. Charles Whiteside (below) who prays with Danisha Gray during the service.
PRAYER
with the group.
“I stand before you and
my brothers and sisters tonight and I confess that too
often I have been complacent in the face of injustice
because injustice was not on
my doorstep; injustice was
not inside my home. My
children did not face injustice, and so too often I have
been silent. Too often my
church has been silent,” one
woman – a mother of sons,
she noted – prayed. “God,
we want to confess that tonight to you, and we want to
say when a brother or sister
suffers, we suffer. We want
to be your agents of love
and of grace in this world…
God, tonight it’s pretty easy
to love likeminded people in
this building, but to win the
lost we need to love the angry young man; we need to
love the bigoted spirit shouting loudly and we can’t do
that in our own strength.”
Young told the group he is
a “white conservative Southern Baptist pastor,” which
most already knew. Sunday,
though, the important as-
pects of Young and everyone
in the room was they are all
Americans and brothers and
sisters in God.
“I love you and our nation
needs our prayer,” he said,
met by applause.
Young considers himself
a reasonable person, but, he
said, elevated voices from
reasonable people give unreasonable people an excuse
for their actions.
“The challenges facing us
are not going to be solved by
reasonable people,” he continued. “They’re going to be
solved by loving people and
they’re going to be solved by
God.”
Before congregants departed the church, Love said,
he was excited to be able to
say these meetings are a continuation and had been going on for months before the
shootings this month.
“God has given us the
authority,” he said. “God’s
word in our mouth is just as
powerful as God’s word in
his mouth.”
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someone of a different skin
color and ask them to ask
each other or others in their
group how they can all pray
for each other.
“We don’t know what we
don’t know,” he said. “We
don’t know how to pray for
each other… We’re just two
different cultures; we need
to admit that, and we need
to humbly say how do I
pray for you? Don’t analyze
it. Don’t question. Pray. Do
that, then together, black
and white, we’re going to
pray for our officers.”
After these breakout sessions of prayer amongst the
group, including large prayer
circles surrounding law enforcement officers in attendance, Kilgore Police Chief
Todd Hunter addressed the
group, acknowledging he did
not have the answers either.
“The reason our nation
has unrest is Satan. That’s it.
He would love to divide us
as he would love to divide
our homes… We have to
remember that. We have to
have discernment when we
see all these things out there
on social media, in the media; those things may not be
from God. We have to look
through them. I can tell you
as your police chief that if
something like that was to
happen here, we’re going to
investigate fully.”
He asked the community
to trust him and the officers serving Kilgore and the
East Texas area. There are
nearly 1 million law enforcement officers in the country,
80,000 in Texas alone, he
said, noting when situations
such as those last week or in
Ferguson, Missouri, occur,
all law enforcement is put
into one category together.
“I ask that you judge us
on our behavior. There are a
lot of things that are going
on… We have to pray for
all those that are involved.
We have to pray for their
discernment. We have pray
that things will come out. If
there is something that has
been wrong, it needs to be
corrected. If there is an officer who has done wrong,
he or she must face the con-
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sequences. But if it was not
and it was justified, we need
to stand behind them. We
do a tough job.”
Although he can understand the reasoning to a
point, he said, he does not
agree with it.
“How can you let the behavior of one person sour
you for the rest of them?” he
asked the group, recounting
a conversation he had with
a community member who
had an emotional reaction
to being pulled over in the
weeks following the officerinvolved shooting in Ferguson. “We have to remember
that. I’ve been bitten by a
dog, but I don’t hate all dogs.
In fact, there’s one laying on
my couch right now. We
have to be careful. And me
too. I will peruse social media all day long. I will look
at the news and it sickens
me sometimes, and I need to
stay away from it because I
don’t want to become sour.”
He keeps up with the news
and what people are saying,
though, because he needs to
have that understanding.
“Believe me I don’t want a
Ferguson incident or a Baton
Rouge incident or a Minnesota – and I’m not getting
into the right and wrong, I’m
getting into the aftermath – I
don’t want that to occur here
in Kilgore,” he said. “We’re
better than that.”
Trust is going to be key
to making sure an incident
such as those mentioned do
not occur.
“I know that in each one
of those situations and every one that I’ve read about,
they’ll interview people and
they’ll talk about trust. We
need to have trust for one
another. In the event that
something like this happens, you have to trust your
police department,” he said.
“Trust comes from relationships. We have to have relationships, and relationships
come from communication
as we’re doing now.”
With more community
policing than some other
departments and increased
community interaction,
Hunter said, KPD has
“made a lot of strides” in
developing communication
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“In the end it’s us together. It’s not us and them,”
he said. “We can’t be a
divided nation. I just ask
that hopefully we maintain
these men and women that
we have who are so good,
and they develop this community policing and they
get to know you and they
have that relationship.
And if it’s your son who’s
involved in something later maybe they call you first
at night and let you deal
with it because they have
that relationship. That’s
what I’m looking for.
“This is small-town
America. The things that
are happening in many of
these cities are not happening here. We don’t need to
let them happen, but Satan
would love for Kilgore to
be torn up just like the other cities. We can’t allow it.
I just ask that you understand that trust has to be
there on our end, on your
end, and it begins with relationships.”
Hunter could not speak
much about the incident
in Ferguson, but he said,
he could spot there was not
relationship between the
community and the police
department or else the aftermath would not have
been what it was.
“I want to have a relationship. I work for you.
I’m your police chief, and
it saddens me to see what
goes on in those other cities that are being divided
and the time that it will
take to bring those cities
back together,” he said.
“No one outside of Kilgore
really cares about Kilgore,
so it’s up to us to have these
relationship with our men
and women, our people in
government to work together towards one goal.
I want our children to go
to the best schools, I want
them to have the best education. I want them to
grow up without the things
that they’re seeing in these
other cities.”
Love said he was thankful
for what is happening in the
city with these meetings.
“I believe God is going
to take little, bitty Kilgore
Texas and I believe God’s
going to use us as a beacon
of light for this world, as
a beacon of light for East
Texas,” he said. “When
people ask where are
churches coming together
in Texas, somebody’s going to say, ‘Wait a minute, I
heard about this little town
called Kilgore.’”
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ADVICE
TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH
DR. KEITH ROACH
HOROSCOPE JACQUELINE BIGAR
FORECAST FOR WEDNESDAY, JULY 13
ARIES (March 21-April 19)  Close relating marks your interactions. You know how
to get others to open up and reach a new level
of understanding. Whether discussions surround
business or personal matters, your impact remains the same. Your creativity emerges and
cannot be denied. Tonight: Be a duo.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)  Defer to
others if you want a clearer picture of what is
going on with them. A friend could be unusually
vague, but know that he or she means well. Be
caring as you seek out more information. You
don’t want to make others feel challenged. Tonight: Go along with an offer.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20)  Pace yourself
and accomplish as much as possible. You might
note that you have a tendency to let your mind
drift if you lose your focus. Maintain a sense of
direction. Communication could be full of information and quite enlightening. Tonight: Take a
midweek break.
CANCER (June 21-July 22)  You’ll
see life through different eyes after you have a
discussion with someone who is somewhat passive and not actively involved in your life. This
person has a unique perspective, and probably
has known you for a long time. Tonight: Be nice.
Make it your treat.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)  Stay close to
home, especially if you are concerned about a
particular relationship. How you state your worries could define the response you receive. Don’t
put the other party on the defensive. Laughter
will surround a conversation and lighten the
mood. Tonight: Order in.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)  You might
need to rethink a personal matter more carefully. You could misinterpret someone else’s comments and/or be afraid of saying something and
having it be misread. You know what to do; just
be diplomatic. Tonight: Hang out with a friend or
loved one.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)  Your possessiveness might cause a problem at the last
minute. Be more in touch with your insecurities,
and work on eliminating them. You will find that
relating to others will become much easier as a
result. Listen to what someone has to share. Tonight: Where the crowds are.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)  Take a
stand, if need be, but be ready for some flak.
Others want to understand you better and get
to the bottom of a problem. You might project
a very self-assured front, which could intimidate
those around you. Are you sure you want to do
this? Tonight: Paint the town red.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)  You
might need to pull back and take some time off.
Get some extra R and R. Make it OK to schedule
a day just for you. A long-distance call or news
from a distance will help you relax and could encourage you to take off even more time. Tonight:
Kick back and relax.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) Focus on what you want, and don’t be distracted.
Try to convince others that what you want is a
good idea, and perhaps you will gain their support. One-on-one relating is highlighted. A
friendship might play into your love life. Tonight:
Be with the people you enjoy most.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) Oneon-one relating takes you down a new path. You
might wonder whether you are being too open
and forthright. Others seem to gravitate toward
you. Maintain some distance right now, before
you say something you might regret. Tonight:
Say “yes” to an older friend.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20)  Reach out
to someone you care about who is evasive or
who does not reveal as much as you might like.
Your desire to pull this person out of his or her
shell is likely to work. Keep in mind that he or
she has a quiet facet to his or her personality.
Tonight: Be open to a new pastime.
CROSSWORD EUGENE SHEFFER
Multiple myeloma is a type
of blood cancer
DEAR DR. ROACH: My 72-year-old husband was
diagnosed with multiple myeloma recently, and we
have been told that he will need chemo treatments. He
also has anemia, which I think is probably normal. He
had a back injury in early February and a kyphoplasty
in May, with a bone biopsy done routinely. After tests,
we now have the diagnosis of multiple myeloma. What
can be expected from this diagnosis? I understand that
he has elevated kappa light chains. -- I.F.
ANSWER: Multiple myeloma is a type of blood
cancer coming from plasma cells, the cells that make
antibodies. As in any cancer, the cells reproduce uncontrollably. Damage from the cancer can come from
what cancer cells produce, or by the fact that they take
up necessary space and nutrition from the organs they
occupy. In the case of multiple myeloma, the myeloma
cells usually secrete immunoglobulins (antibodies, or
parts of antibodies). Kappa chains are a component
of antibodies (so are lambda chains, the other type
of “light” chain protein). High amounts of myeloma
protein can damage the kidneys.
Unfortunately, these antibodies aren’t helpful in
fighting off infection, despite the fact that antibodies
are an important part of the immune system. In fact,
the myeloma cells can grow so much in the bone marrow that they can push aside the cells that normally
grow there, including red blood cells (which is why
anemia is a common sign), other white blood cells
(making infection more likely) and platelets (bleeding
can become a problem).
Like many cancers, myeloma can progress from a
more benign condition -- in this case, monoclonal
gammopathy of uncertain significance. Not all people
with MGUS progress to myeloma, but the condition
needs to be carefully watched. Once it becomes myeloma, treatment, usually chemotherapy, is recommended. Multiple myeloma is a highly variable disease, and its prognosis depends on many factors; some
come from blood testing, some from the bone marrow
biopsy, and some are based on your husband’s overall
health. Your husband’s hematologist/oncologist can
give a better estimate of his prognosis based on these
factors.
DEAR DR. ROACH: My doctor ordered a hemochromatosis gene test because I had a borderline-high
iron level. Here’s the result: “This person has inherited
two defective copies of the HFE gene -- one from each
parent. Each defective copy has the H63D mutation.
Homozygous H63D genotypes (H63D/H63D) rarely
show symptoms of hemochromatosis. There is a 100
percent chance that this patient will pass a copy of the
defective HFE gene to the next generation.” Is there
anything to worry about here? I have been donating
blood every four to six months, and my ferritin is now
between 50 and 100. -- A.N.
ANSWER: Hemochromatosis is a condition of iron
overload. It can be caused by a genetic defect that prevents the body from being able to regulate iron absorption (primary or hereditary hemochromatosis),
or it can be caused by excess blood transfusions (secondary hemochromatosis), especially in someone with
sickle cell disease or another condition that requires
frequent transfusions.
The body has no way to get rid of excess iron normally, and donating blood is one way of doing so. This
is obviously not possible for people who need transfusions, so chelation of iron is the only treatment for
secondary hemochromatosis.
Several different genes are involved in hereditary hemochromatosis. The gene you have is a low-risk gene.
Only about 1 percent of men and 0.5 percent of women with this gene will develop iron overload. Giving
blood at regular intervals will reduce the risk to zero,
while benefitting others.
I’m surprised you didn’t meet with a genetic counselor, who has expertise in providing and interpreting
this kind of information.
***
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whenever possible. Readers may email questions to
[email protected] or request an
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KILGORE NEWS HERALD  PAGE 10
YOUTH BASEBALL / ALL-STARS
Machine pitch all-stars can reach World Series
Face Texarkana in a best-of-three this weekend; 14-year-olds in state tournament in Center
By MITCH LUCAS
[email protected]
The all-star teams are dwindling,
but the Kilgore Boys Baseball Association still has a pair of them in
the hunt for something big.
Both the 7-8-year-old machine
pitch Red all-stars and the 14-yearold all-stars will be in key games
this weekend that will determine
whether or not the baseball portion of their summer continues.
The 7-8-year-old Red all-stars are
playing for an opportunity to reach
their age group’s Dixie Youth Base-
ball World Series in Laurel, Miss.,
in a few weeks. The Red all-stars,
coached by Danny Henry, will go
to Longview on Friday for a 7:30
p.m. start against Texarkana.
It’s a best-of-three-game series to
determine who goes to Laurel, so
game two is Saturday morning, also in Longview, at 10:30, and game
three, if needed, would follow.
Henry’s team: Grant Adcock,
Colt Barnhart, Tanner Beets, Kayson Brooks, Cason Edney, Kolton
Hale, Kason Henry, Kody Hines,
Jaxon Rich, J.T. Mercer, Jaxon Warner and Brayden Williams.
The 14-year-olds will go to Center for their own state tournament,
and they’ll have to face the home
team. That’s Saturday night at 8
p.m.
This year’s 14-year-old KBBA allstars are Donovan Adkins, William
Bennett, Ben Donham, Jose Espinosa, Blaise Hayden, Bryce Long,
Jackson Rosas, Kaden Thrower,
Trevor Tinney, Trey Williams, and
Sam Witt. They’re coached by
Kevin Tinney.
A pair of KBBA all-star squads
were eliminated over the last few
days in their state tournaments.
The 10-year-olds were defeated
over the weekend, and the 12-yearolds were beaten Monday night,
ending their run.
This year’s 10-year-old all-star
team changed a bit over the last
couple of weeks, and here’s the
team’s roster from last weekend’s state tournament: Demarian
Brown, Carson Bynum, Eduardo
Espinosa, Derek Domorad, Austin
Franco, Carson McCarthy, Brayden
Nelson, Jordan Pierce, Zaylon
Stoker, Kai Tucker, Jacory Walton, and Derrick Williams. Derek
Domorad Sr. is their coach.
The 12-year-olds, coached by
Wade Silvey, are Ryan Beddingfield, Raymond Espinoza, Colby
Grimes, Landon Gough, Kain
Hogue, Gage Nichols, Jared Rich,
Jason Silvey, Dalton Smith, Nathan Thomure, Izzy Vasquez and
Brayden West.
Editor’s note: In Saturday’s all-star
update, the News Herald incorrectly
stated that the 7-8-year-old all-stars
were in action last Saturday. The
information in this story is correct. The News Herald regrets the
error and is happy to set the record
straight.
LOCAL SPORTS
IN BRIEF
FOOTBALL
Youth sign-ups
continue Thursday
Registration for the TriCounty Youth Football
League, including cheerleaders, continues Thursday at
the Kilgore Boys Baseball
Association’s complex on
Harris Street. It will be from
6 p.m. until 7:30 p.m.
This is the Kilgore area’s
youth football league, which
forms teams here to face
teams from nearby communities.
Flag football (kindergarten
and first grade) is a $75 registration fee. Registration for
second grade through sixth
grade players is $100. Players
should bring a copy of their
birth certificate.
Additional registration
dates are next Tuesday, July
19, and next Thursday, July
21, from 6 p.m. until 7:30
p.m. each day.
SOFTBALL
TSWA recognizes
Sabine's Mount, two
from West Rusk, and
Kilgore's Cailon Palmer
Sabine’s Jayden Mount and
West Rusk’s Maegan Davis
have been named to the Texas Sports Writers Association’s Class 3A second-team
all-state for the 2016 season.
Mount was named secondteam shortstop and Davis
second-team outfield. West
Rusk’s Makana Morton was
named 3A honorable mention at utility player.
Kilgore’s Cailon Palmer
was named an honorable
mention outfielder on the
Class 4A all-state team.
-- BY SPORTS EDITOR
MITCH LUCAS
Photo by MARK REBILAS
MOVING FASTER THAN IT LOOKS -- Kilgore's Steve Torrence brings the Capco Contractors/Rio Ammunition Top Fuel dragster up to
speed at 330 miles per hour. Torrence was out in the first round in Chicago, but remains in third place in the Top Fuel standings.
NHRA RACING / TOP FUEL DIVISION
No win for Torrence, but still third in standings
By DAVE DENSMORE
Special to the News Herald
CHICAGO, Illinois – Steve Torrence’s second round exit from Sunday’s 19th annual K&N Filters Route
66 Nationals at Route 66 Raceway
left the talented Texan once more
pondering what might have been.
The 33-year-old’s Capco Contractors/Rio Ammunition Top Fuel
dragster performed pretty much as
he and his team expected in round
two, negotiating the 1,000 foot
course just as quickly as it had in
the first round in 3.786 seconds,
the third quickest time of the entire
round.
Unfortunately, rival J.R. Todd
threw up a 3.771, quickest of the
round and good enough to get the
win light.
“When your car runs like that,
you don’t expect to be going home
early,” Torrence said, a reference to
the fact that his 10,000 horsepower
dragster qualified second and didn’t
make a run all weekend slower than
3.786 seconds.
He snatched up nine qualifying
bonus points, just three shy of the
maximum possible, by putting up
the quickest time in three of the four
qualifying sessions. Unfortunately,
he couldn’t translate qualifying performance into race day success.
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GOLF
Tee times set for this weekend's annual ETOGA-ETTC tourney
By MITCH LUCAS
[email protected]
The East Texas Oilmen’s Golf
Association tournament, which
benefits the East Texas Treatment
Center located here, will be played
at Meadowbrook Golf and Events
Center this Friday and Saturday.
It’s the 54th annual ETOGA tournament, which has benefitted the
treatment center the last several
years.
The East Texas Treatment Center is a non-profit rehab facility off
Dudley Road, which provides therapy services to its patients, regardless of their ability to pay. Proceeds
from the tournament help fund
those services.
The tournament is a two-person
scramble, two rounds (36 holes),
with a shotgun start beginning Friday afternoon at 1 p.m., then again
Saturday morning at 7:30.
Going off on hole one on both
days will be the Patterson Chevrolet team, and two teams from
Mobbs Builders. Going off on
hole two will be a Denny Smith
team, a team from Made-Rite, and
a team including Terry Thrower.
On hole three, it’ll be two teams
from Ward Agency, and a team
from Laird Insurance.
American Piping Inspection and
Blackaller Engineer will go off
on hole four, and a Citizens Bank
team, a Frank Brown family team,
and a team from Gladewater National Bank will go off on five.
Another Frank Brown family
team and a team from ETOPSI
will begin on hole six, and the Al-
len Lottman Kimmel team, a team
from All-Star Ford and an ABC
Auto Parts team will all start on
seven.
Another All-Star Ford team, an
Armstrong Safety team and a team
representing V. Fred Rogers estate
will go off on eight, and a third
Frank Brown family team, as well
as two teams from Fastsigns of
Longview, will begin on nine.
79th Energy Weldfab Meadowbrook Classic
(July 8-10, 2016, at Meadowbrook Golf and Events Center)
CHAMPIONSHIP FLIGHT
Brent Akins
68-68-72-208
Bryan Baker
67-71-71-209
Andrew Koonce
69-70-70-209
Devin Jackson
71-72-70-213
Alan Clark
70-73-71-214
Matt Gandy
73-70-72-215
Clay Vance
77-68-70-215
Adam McClain
73-71-73-216
B.J. Waters
76-71-71-218
Andrew Bloch
72-74-73-219
Chad Dunaway
73-73-74-220
Lance Dunaway
72-76-72-220
J.R. Ault
74-73-75-225
Blaine Weiterman
76-72-77-225
Kirk Hale
74-73-78-225
Rick Maxey
75-75-75-225
Hagan Wood
75-77-74-226
Chris Beall
77-78-72-227
Ryan Slaughter
77-78-76-231
Chapman Herwood
79-76-77-232
Adam Renfroe
79-77-78-234
Travis Crietzberg
81-78-78-237
Corey Ritzma
74-80-84-238
Photos by MITCH LUCAS
RISING TO THE OCCASION -- Brent Akins (foreground), the eventual Meadowbrook Classic champion,
executed this key putt on the tournament's final hole to seal the win. Below: local Ryan Oden (second
from left) won the Masters, or first, flight. Also pictured: Bobby Beane, John Dickerson, and Mike Beane.
CLASSIC
as a way of honoring the
game of golf. The first
flight, for instance, is called
the Masters flight; the second is the St. Andrews
flight; the third, the Pebble
Beach flight; the fourth, the
Pine Hurst flight; and the
Colonial the final flight.
A local golfer, Ryan Oden,
brought home the Masters flight trophy. Oden,
the grandson of longtime
Kilgore High School basketball coach Donnie Oden,
shot a three-day 220. John
Dickerson finished second
(222) and Rob Wilbanks
third (229).
Another local, Tom Watson, claimed the St. Andrews flight (230), with John
Patterson finishing second
(231) and Todd Chappell
third (233). Bill Fisher shot
a 238 to claim the Pebble
Beach flight, repeating
as champion after shooting a 240 to win it in 2015.
Jess Stephens was second
(243) and Gary Park and
Ken Plunk, Jr. tied for third
(244). Wes Skeeters shot a
249 to claim the Pine Hurst
flight; Zane McDonald and
David Plunk tied for second (253 each). And Josh
Spalding shot his way out of
trouble late in his round on
Sunday to fire a 262 threeday total to win the Colonial
flight; Joe Elwood also shot
a 262 and came in second;
Greg Holmes’ 265 was good
for third. It was Spalding’s
second Colonial win; he did
so back in 2012, as well.
The team of Clark, Elwood, Long and Barton
MASTERS FLIGHT
Ryan Oden
John Dickerson
Rob Wilbanks
Jimmy Sawyer
Ross Taylor
Joe Ray
Curtis Crabtree
Mark Greene
Will Hale
Jacob Mobbs
Ed Leal
Chance Fitch
Alan Harwell
Jacob Grubbs
Logan Russell
Jared Russell
Bryan Maxey
ST. ANDREWS FLIGHT
Tom Watson
John Patterson
Todd Chapppell
David Powers
Scott Clark
Matt Russell
Vance McDonald
Gregg Ayers
Heath Mills
Mike Beane
Mike Osborne
Ken Rhodes
Taylor Campbell
Michael Clements
Bobby Beane
Joe Don Hill
Ronnie Pate
won the team competition
(with a 242 final score).
See complete scores with
this story.
Had Baker been able to
catch Akins, he would’ve
made history. Baker won
his second classic championship last year, becoming
only the third man to win
in back-to-back years – Rick
Maxey pulled off that feat in
1974-75, and Seane Richardson in 1998-99.
Baker sought to become
the fourth man to win at
least three classic titles. Mike
Mayo (who won in 1978,
1981 and 1987) also has
three. Maxey and Raleigh
Selby are the kings of the
classic. Each man has four.
Selby, who has passed on,
won in 1941, 1945, 1950,
and 1964. Maxey’s four
came over a longer span: he
won the two in the mid-70’s,
then won in 2000, and again,
incredibly, in 2008.
And Maxey looked on
from his own cart on Sunday, as Akins wrapped his
own second championship.
Akins and the other golfers had to sit through about
an hour and a half, total, of
weather delays on Sunday,
but that was the only real
hiccup in the tournament,
which ended around 8:50
p.m. Sunday night with the
trophy being presented by
Beane to Akins.
Energy Weldfab was the
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Gold sponsors were
Kilgore National Bank,
Laird Insurance Agency,
Meadowbrook Golf Asso-
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the Plunk family (who won
the team title in 2000, 2010
and 2012), Terry Stembridge
and the Ward Agency.
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Beane, Mike Bean, Alan
Clark, Scott Clark, Mike Clements Jr., David Cline, Greg
Collins, Will Hale, Melvin
Jordan, Harvey McClendon,
Daniel Nichols, Kenneth
Plunk, Josh Spalding, Ross
Taylor, Jack Ward and Tom
Watson. Joan Barthelemess
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INSIDE SPORTS TODAY:
The East Texas Oilmen's Golf Association tournament, benefitting
the East Texas Treatment Center, is this weekend; and a pair of
KBBA all-star teams are still swinging at the state level.
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Photo by MITCH LUCAS
ONCE AGAIN THE
CHAMPION -- Spring
Hill's Brent Akins (third
from left) brought
home the trophy from
last weekend's Energy
Weldfab Meadowbrook
Classic, the 79th playing of the tournament,
which dates back to
1937, and has been
played every year but
one since then. From
left: tourney chair
Bobby Beane; Michael
Clements Jr. of Energy
Weldfab; Akins; Bryan
Baker and Andrew
Koonce; and Devin
Jackson. Baker had
won the previous two
classics, and he and
Koonce pushed Akins
hard this year, finishing
in a second-place tie.
Jackson was fourth. It
was the second classic
win for Akins, who was
also the 2006 champion.
GOLF / ENERGY WELDFAB MEADOWBROOK CLASSIC
Akins holds off Baker to claim 79th Classic
Seeking threepeat, Baker falls a stroke short, finishes in second-place tie; Akins wins second championship
By MITCH LUCAS
[email protected]
It was almost enough to make a
grown man cry – until that grown
man redeemed himself.
Sunday evening, the sweltering
East Texas heat having subsided in
Kilgore thanks to some showers,
Brent Akins approached the final
green of his pursuit of theEnergy
Weldfab Meadowbrook Classic
trophy – and watched as his second shot smacked off the nearby
cart path and landed on the hill just
above the green, a long way from
the pin.
Akins stopped a moment to
make sure members of the crowd
were ok; the ball missed them completely, however, and nestled into
the grass. But the tournament’s
leader knew he had his work cut
out for him. As his fellow competitors looked on, though, Akins took
one shot to get the ball onto the
green, and then made an excellent
putt, a putt that allowed him to become the champion of the 79th
playing of the tournament, at the
Caring.
course now known as the Meadowbrook Golf and Events Center.
“I was (worried) when I hit the
one shot,” Akins laughed, as he secured the rather large crystal trophy afterward. When did he calm
down, he was asked: “When I hit
that putt,” he smiled.
With that, Akins, from Spring
Hill, becomes a two-time champion, one of 15 men in the tournament’s long history to win more
than one championship, and one
of 12 to claim the title twice. Over
the three-day, 54-hole tournament,
Akins set a blistering pace. He shot
68 on Friday, another 68 on Saturday, and then finished with a 72
on Sunday, just enough to edge his
closest competition.
In winning, Akins had to hold
off Tyler’s Bryan Baker, who was
the two-time defending classic
champion, seeking to become the
first man to “three-peat,” and win
three. Baker’s quest ended by the
narrowest of margins: he and Andrew Koonce finished tied for second, at 209 each, just one stroke
behind Akins.
“It was another great, great tournament,” chairman Bobby Beane
said. “We’re so proud of the way
these guys played and competed.
And what a championship flight.”
Devin Jackson shot a 213 to finish fourth and Alan Clark a 214 for
a fifth-place finish.
Organizers began back in 2000
to call the other flights – typically
simply referred to as the “first,”
“second,” and so on – by names
of famed courses, or tournaments,
See CLASSIC, Page 11
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