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Friday, September 15, 2006
Capitol Comments
days in Senate
These are busy days in the
United States Senate.
Following August recess,
members of Congress
returned to Washington, D.C
armed with comments pro-
vided by our constituents.
During the :past month, I had
the opportunity to visit with
Texans throughout our state.
In the remaining weeks
Congress is in session before
November's elections, I will
continue my work on issues
important not only to our
state but vital to our nation.
We must ensttre our armed
forces have the equipment
and support needed to proper-
ly secure our nation. The
Senate recently passed a
Department of Defense
appropriations bill that pro-
vides our soldiers, sailors, air-
men and Marines with critical
supplies necessary to prose-
cute the ongoing war against
terror. It is essential that we
give our servicemen and
women everything possible
to do the job of protecting
freedom. This bill increases
benefits, delivers a much-
deserved pay raise for mili-
tary personnel, upgrades
equipment, and funds key
readiness programs critical to
America's natiolml security.
As Chairman of the
Senate's Military Construc-
tion and Veterans Affairs
Kay
Bailey
Hutchiso,q
defense is the security of our
nation's ports. Texas is home
to 29 ports, including tbur of
the 10 busiest in the country.
We are working to secure our
ports and improve our meth-
ods for inspecting containers
and materials at the point of
origin before they enter U.S.
water. For years I have
focused on more stringent
port security. Key parts of my
legislation, the lntermodal
Shipping Container Security'
Act, will be incorporated into
a comprehensive port securi-
ty bill making its way' through
Congress this month.
America's strength is drawn
not only from our military,
which is the finest in the
world, but from the participa-
tion of our citizens. Every,
two years, federal elections
provide the American people
with an opportunity to
express themselves and have
their voices heard.
Through writing weekly
Capitol Comments, I enjoy
sharing with Texans my
views on important issues
facing our state and counW,
of
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By Britt Thompson
From The MalakoffNews
Friday September 15, 1944
Jim Hunt Evans, forme: iR [ ag, Q
man, received recognition in "The
Eagle," official publication of
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft Corpora-
tion in their issue of August 24, for his
perfect attendance record for the fifteen
months he has been employed at the
Fort Worth plant.
The plant newspaper said, '% Navy.
veteran of World War ! is now doing his
part in this war plant's engineering. J. IJ.
Evans has a perfect attendance record
for the 15 months he has worked at the
Consolidated Vultee plant. Evans
sewed aboard the only cruiser the U. S.
lost in the last war, making 18 trips
across the Atlantic and 15 journeys
across the Bay" of Biscay before his ship
was sunk He also saw service in
France."
Mr. Evans, who is well-known here
Jim Hunt Evans
and who resided in Malakoff for many
years, moved his family to Fort Worth
fbllowing the closing of the Malakoff
Fuel Company, with which concern he
lind been employed as maintenance man
fbr a number of years. He is a son of
Mrs. Adele Evans of Malakofl: His
only son, James H. Evans, Jr is now in
service "overseas," serving as a Master
Sergeant with the Army Air Force.
The accompanying photograph, simi-
lar to used in cormeetima with the
sto m supplied to
this newsp through the courtesy of
the Public Relations Department of the
Consolidated Vultee Aircraft
Corporation.
CONTRIBUTE TO LOOKING
BA~CK: If you have photographs, arti,
Ci~0r family histories that you would
like to see in the Looking Back column,
#ease contact Britt Thompson at the
following email address: rbtnyu-
81~sbeglobal net. Thompson can also
bcreached by mail at Britt Thompson,
7033 Blalock Drive, The Colony, Texas
75056. Photographs and text can be in
any- format.
DOWN MEMORY LANE - Click on
the Down Memory Lane link at
wv nv.malakoffnews.net. Share your
memories as new pictures from
Malakoff's past are posted regularly.
Cedar Chest
The residents here at Cedar
:Lake Nursing & Rehab
enjoyed a special visit from
the eighth grade Campus
Leadership Class from
Trinidad on Wednesday, Sept.
6. The students and their
CxTa
Harmon
have been a couple of meet-
ings with the activity direc-
tors in the area to put all the
details together and many
thanks to Park Highland
Nursing Center for sponsor-
ing the meeting this past
held at the Methodist Church
on Lover's Laae in Athens.
We all certainly appreciate
them offering their facilities
to us for our events.
The Activity Director
Association is holding a rat-
Appropriations Subcommit- as well as commenting on teacher, Lisa Colman, along week. Karen Ford, AD tbr fie this year to raise money to
tee, lbel~veJt is importantto, topics that are truly Texan. I with Principal Corey Jenkins,~ Shelby Davis, :Brittany Kile, Park Highlands was a won- purchase trophies for the resT,
r" i usin,fo}families also conduct surveys to ba ar 0rganizedthetriptoVisii0url Vanc i0 ;Womac Sasha derful hostess and we all. 1dents The r ffle'ucket ar "
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an dl, rastruEt l'e dtofl2 i yoult{. "a $100 gift card from Wal-
We are planning ther Mart. Please contact
armed forces deserve our will be my final Capitol
continued support once they Comment until after
leave military' service, and November's elections, as
this includes resources to Federal Election Commission
rules prohibit this form of
ensure proper care for those
communication within 60
who have proudly served our
nation, days of Election Day, which
An integral aspect of this year falls on Nov. 7.
Reader Letters
You can't have my home
You've been seeing letters about the Trans Texas Corridor,
the massive superhighway that is set to be shoved through
Texas from the Mexican border to Oklahom'a. 1i is then going
to be pushed through to Canada and ultimately to Anchorage,
Alaska and down through Mexico.
.tfyou wonder why this is being done and who is behind it,
it is master-minded by an international group of bankers and
corporations who plan to create the North American Union,
like the European Union. They are "one-worlders," working
t.br "globalization," and they are only interested in their own
profits. There are five large deep-water ports in Mexico cur-
munity, meet people and offer
community" service
"The group of 15 students
are outgoing and looking for-
ward to more visits to Cedar
Lake," said Ms. Colman.
The residents and staff of
Cedar Lake are certainly
looking forward to another
visit!
The students visiting were:
Amy Ayala, Veronica Ayala,
Ray, Leah Lundy, Courtney
Gibson, Brittni Murray,
Chelsea Tart and William
Jackson. Thank you so much
to the Trinidad School
District for allowing the stu-
dents to visit us!
The annual Senior
Olympics for area nursing
facility residents is planned
for Oct. 13 this year, and we
are gearing up to go! There
meeting to coordinate more
details on the 20th mad the
27th, with Green Oaks spon-
soring the meeting 0rt the
20th and Cedar Lake spon-
soring on the 27th. Park
Highland will sponsor the
final meeting in preparation
for the Olympics on Oct. 4.
This year the Senior
Olympics will once again be
any
nursing facility in the imme-
diate area arm ask for the
activity director if you would
like to purchase a chance to
win the gift card and to help
the Senior Olympics.
Until next time
Cam Harmon
Activity Director
Cedar Lake Nursing &
Rehab
It's been years since I even
had these feelings of mistrust,
or misguidance about anyone
enough to wTite about any-
thing anyway, let alone even
mention it to friends, but in
the past few weeks rve been
noticing some things that I
rently being made ready to receive goods to ship on this giant just thought everyone, or
abomination with the first customs stop in Kansas! And that
customs portal will be considered Mexican territory, like an
anbassy!
: These people are super-rich, super-powerful, and super-
eedy, and all they care about is getting richer and more pow-
erful. They don't care how theyget it, they just want it. They
#an to take hundreds o:f thousands of acres of Texas by' emi-
nent domain for their own profit, no matter who it hurts,
because to them they are the only real people.
Here's a personal message from me to that gang of thieves:
i:i My grandfather homesteaded in Texas and worked lbr his
l nd.
This is my home.
This is my Texas.
: And YOU CAN'T HAVE IT!
some anyway, might be inter-
ested in; might help in future
situations.
You know with things
being the way they are in
today's world, people just
seem to be a little more cau-
tious than we were in days
gone by; it's true for just
about everyone, including
me. And then there are the
ones who trust everyone, no
matter what. No matter how
much pain they have been
through with others, the3,"
continue to go to the type of
people who have hurt them in
Pat Mabry
Athens
Judy
Greenlee
the past. It seems they are
unable to break this cycle.
Men and women gripe
about finding the right per-
son. The person that will
make them happier than they
have ever been in their lives,
or they' brag about the ones
they have.
In talking to people of all
ages I've learned a lot
throughout the years and one
of the most important things I
have ever heard or took to
heart was this one message:
"We have to get to know each
other before we commit to
each other in marriage or in a
committed relationship."
Well, when I heard that I
thought, "Yeah right, that
takes years to get to know
someone. I'll be far too old
for a relationship before that
happens." But it's not the case
at all.
But we really need to look
at it realistically. There are so
many young people out there
who start dating someone and
before you know it they are in
bed with that someone, and
then that someone is gone.
We need to be teach,3hat
relationships begin as g nds,
not as bedfellows.
If you are caught UP in a
relationship, with someone
and they are-fi6t the
you thought they were: the
beginning then there is a rea-
son for that, people. It's
because you did not get to
know them before you slept
with them.
A lot of people say, "Go to
church with them and you'll
see just what kind of person
they really are. If they pray
and congregate with others,
then most likely they will be a
caring person. A caring per-
son is not going to club you
with a frying pan in the mid-
dle of the night."
But then there are some-
who just haven't let you see
that mean or evil side of
them. But when you do see it,
you better run; run as fast as
you can in the other direction,
because it will eventually
come back to hurt you, and
hurt you bad.
Don't be a statistic in the
newspapers or TV. Get to
know each other before you
commit to anything; I mean
anything. Give that relation-
ship time to grow.
ahhrff
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