60.8 Howe Enterprise July 4, 2022

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Howe Librarian retires after ‘Loving it all’ Everyone has a 4th of July. Only America celebrates it as Independence Day. ***** Representatives from most of the local churches were in attendance on Wednesday for the planning of the sesquicentennial celebration. Lots of laughs were had when the Methodist in the room said she wouldn’t be surprised if the watermelon was turned to wine during the bonfire.

The Baptist had to clarify that we were planning to serve ice cream in the concession stand and not the “confession stand.” ***** Recently, Austin Haley, an entering senior at Howe High School, was named All-Texomaland in baseball by the Herald Democrat. It marks the fourth time he’s earned that status and now in three different sports—all this before reaching his senior year. We had a chance to sit down and interview Haley and discuss many topics including the honors, the ups and downs of Bulldogs sports during his time, coaches, family, youth sports, and his trick shot video from his childhood. The one thing we failed to even discuss was that he is the all-time leading passer for Howe.

We’ll release the interview in a couple of weeks. What a great kid. ***** The Howe Athletic Booster Club is selling ads in the football program. See page two for details. It’s the biggest fundraiser of the year for the boosters. Email for form.

EDITOR’S NOTE—This column is reserved as an editorial column and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

Bulk Trash Pickup 2nd Friday of each month in Howe.

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Booster Club Program, pg. 2 Photos of the week, pg. 3 Mark Your Calendar, pg. 5 Substitute Training, pg. 5 Obituaries, pg. 6

1889 Sheriff killed in Howe, pg. 7

Hot Jobs, pg. 8

Declaration of Independence, pg. 9 Baseball, pg. 12

History/Parenting, pg. 13 Christian, pg. 14 Patriot Pony, pg. 15-16

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Lone Star Hoops Camp continues to pack kids into the Howe gym during the summer Melissa Atchison It seems like only yesterday that Melissa Atchison was hired for the position of Librarian at the Howe Community Library. But, in fact it has been six years since she traded in her Van Alstyne blue for the Howe black.

But Thursday was her final day, and she now joins her husband Jim in retirement as he retired

Lone Star Hoops Camp in Howe had 78 campers last week. The camp has been a staple in Howe for over 20 years now. The “Top Gun” award went to Clay Tuttle while the “Most Valuable Camper” was awarded to Carter Butler.

Bella Bennet received “Coaches Choice.” Reid Beavers was “Ace Defender.”

Elizabeth Schilling received “Most Improved” and Jackson Duncan received the “Team First” award. Photos of the award winners are on page 3.

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Howe officerfoils store burglary Two Dallas residents are in the Grayson County Jail for their role in the burglary of a gas station in Howe early Tuesday morning.

At approximately 4:05 a.m., a Howe officer saw a gray Infiniti sedan parked outside the Valero Passport gas station in the 100 block of North Collins Freeway after store hours and individuals outside the vehicle.

When the officer pulled (Continued on page 2)

Howe Sesquicentennial planning underway forSeptemberweek-long celebration of Howe’s 150th birthday

Kids touch trucks at the library

Members of the Sesquicentennial planning committee met Wednesday evening at Summit Gardens. Staff photo.

Howe will celebrate its 150th birthday with a week-long schedule of events beginning Monday, September 12.

On Monday, the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce will host an “1870’s style oldfashioned gunfight” that will be produced by Tin Star Entertainment thanks to the sponsorship of Tomlin Investments.

The comedy gunfight will begin at 6:30 pm in Downtown Howe with four entertainers. There will be time after the show for photo opportunities.

Kids gathered at the Howe Community Library last Monday for the “Touch a Truck” event. One of the machines on site was a Kubota tractor from a local dealership that we’d love to have advertise with us. Staff photo.

The Howe Community Library concluded their June summer schedule last week with two big events including their first “Touch A Truck” which was very well at(Continued on page 6) tended. The highlight

Following the gunfight on Monday, the chamber will host an 1870s style murder mystery at Summit Gardens which will feature five actors in a 90

perhaps was a helicopter that landed on “Bulldog Hill” between the Howe Intermediate School and Collins Freeway.

Some of the vehicles included a bucket truck

from GCEC, Howe Fire Trucks, City of Howe Public Works trucks, Hope Concrete, US Mail Jeep, an ambulance, a semi from Norman Farms, and a Waste Connections trash truck.

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into the parking lot, the Infiniti sped away south on the west control road of southbound U.S. Highway 75 and the officer gave chase when he saw the front door of the gas station had been shattered.

The pursuit lasted approximately three miles and reached speeds of up to 105 miles per hour before the Infiniti crashed into a field south of West Farmington Road. The officer detained passengers Barry McNeal, 33, and 32year-old Antoinette Armstrong, both of Dallas, while the driver of the vehicle fled on foot. Officers from the Van Alstyne Police Department and Grayson County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the search for the driver but did not locate her.

McNeal and Armstrong were arrested for Burglary and Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity and booked into the Grayson County Jail. McNeal was also arrested on a parole violation warrant.

The driver, also from Dallas, has been identified and faces charges for Burglary and Engaging in Organized Criminal Activity as well as Evading Arrest in a motor vehicle.

No one was injured in the incident and the items stolen in the burglary, rolls of scratch-off lottery tickets, were recovered.

Armstrong, McNeal, and the driver face up to 20 years in prison if convicted.

HoweAthletic Booster Club releases cover of Black & White 2022 Gameday, seek sponsors The Howe Athletic Booster Club’s biggest fund raiser of the year has officially begun. They are now opening up sponsor opportunities for their annual football program. Last year’s edition was 92 pages and is filled with not only rosters and schedules, but is filled with stories, stats, and photos of all fall sports teams.

Businesses that want to place an ad in the program have several options. A full page ad comes with a banner hung at the stadium and is moved to the high school gymnasium after the season. Full page ads with a banner are $475.

Half page ads are $200, Quarter page ads are $150 and 1/8 page ads are $75.

Student ads are a very popular item and a full page student ad is $150, half page $100, Quarter page is $75, and 1/8 page is $60.

To place an ad, send an email to programsales.habc@gmail.com

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Hoops Camp

Clay Tuttle

Blake Edwards

Reid Beavers

Landry Cherry

Carter Butler

Bella Bennett

Reid Beavers

Elizabeth Schilling

Jackson Duncan

Touch a Truck

Chemistry Demonstration

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two and a half years ago.

“You hear stories of people retiring and getting set back and unable to travel, so we have things we want to do,” said Atchison.

Atchison’s husband Jim is the mayor of Van Alstyne which means she could spend more time at Van Alstyne community functions. Although she admitted that her Saturday is her day and wants it to stay that way.

Some will still see Atchison at the library on occasion and maybe even some Saturdays because she’s signed up to volunteer and actually served in that capacity as early as Friday.

Her final week was very busy as she coordinated a Touch-a-Truck on Monday and a chemistry demonstration on Thursday, her final day. Hundreds of kids attended those events during her final week.

“It’s a fun last day, for sure,” said Atchison.

She says coming from Van Alstyne, where she was a teacher prior to coming to Howe, she thought they had cornered the market in small town friendly communities, but says Howe is just an extension of that and the people of Howe are just as friendly and compassionate as those in the nearest city to the south.

On her mini-refrigerator in her office was a decal that stated, “love it all” and she says it’s a reminder to love all the bad things as well as the good things.

“That’s what I do. I love the challenges. The challenges are fun too,” said Atchison. “If you know how to do everything, it becomes boring pretty fast. I like the challenges.”

One of those challenges is the unique library that Howe is which is shared between the school and the public.

She says loves seeing the students’ progress and grow up and figure out who they will become. As a 12-year sixth grade teacher, she says that in middle school, they’re still trying to figure it out.

Torrey Stricklin has been hired as the new librarian and will start August 1.

She’s been a kindergarten teacher in Trenton most recently and lives in Van Alstyne.

But as librarians come and go, there’s one constant which is Joyce Park who has been a staple at the Howe Community Library for many years.

“I came up on a Saturday before I officially accepted the job on Monday and when I walked in the door, she immediately knew who I was and I had never met her before,” said Atchison. “She had the biggest smile on her face. She is the face of the library.”

Atchison remarked that Park now reads to the children of the children she once read to in “Wee Readers Storytime.”

As far as volunteering, Atchison sees herself being the person who repairs the books as that’s a growing issue of stacks of books need a little tender loving care and placed back on the shelves.

“I just think it’s a great place to be and a great place to hang out. It’s a valuable part of the community and it’s going to be more and more so. The library can be so many things these days,” said Atchison.

It’s evident by all the summer program success and it’s evident the library has been in good hands over the past six years.

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July 4, 2022 August *JV/V Scrimmage at Whitewright, August 12 at 6 pm *JV/V Scrimmage vs. Scurry Rosser, Bulldog Stadium, 6 pm.

July *Howe Chamber Board Meeting, July 11, 6 pm, 100 E. O’Connell St. *First United Methodist Church Howe Vacation Bible School, July 17-21, 810 N. Denny St. *HISD Board of Trustees, July 18 at 6 pm, 415 W. Tutt St. *City Council Meeting, July 19 at 6 pm, 700 W. Haning St. *Volleyball Camp, July 18-20 at Howe High School, 200 Ponderosa Rd. *Football Camp, July 25-28 at Bulldog Stadium, 607 N. Hughes St.

Howe ISD releases substitute training information Howe ISD is currently accepting applications for substitute positions for the 2022-23 school year. To be eligible for substitute placement, applicants must be at least 18 years old and have a high school diploma or equivalent.

All new applicants who meet the above criteria are required to attend a mandatory training on Tuesday, July 26, 2022 from 9 am to 11:30 am at Summit Hill Elementary Cafeteria before being placed on the district’s

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Donnie J. Neill, August 3, 1966 - June 21, 2022 Donnie J. Neill, 55, passed from this life to his eternal one on June 21, 2022 at his vacation/retirement home in Phoenix, Arizona.

Donnie was born on August 3, 1966 in Van Alstyne, Texas. He was raised and attended school there and in Tom Bean. He briefly attended Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, and lived in San Angelo for a while as well. But he spent the majority of his life in Sherman, where he was very active in the community, ministry and local politics.

Donnie’s occupations include stints as a boot salesman, where his amiable personality won him many awards; a truck driver, where he loved seeing much of the country; owner and operator of Cowboy’s Bar-B-Que in Sherman and Whitesboro; Pastor, and for the past several years, Realtor.

In 1992, Donnie met Darla Goss Lackey, who had recently relocated to Sherman from Dallas. The two were instantly inseparable. They married in 1994, blending their families. Theirs is a true and inspiring love story, spanning decades. You rarely saw them apart.

Early in their marriage, Donnie attended and graduated from the Police Academy, but decided on a different path. While operating his barbecue business, where he did as much counseling and donating as he did cooking, he answered a call to ministry and became ordained and set in as Pastor of Dixie Baptist Church in Whitesboro.

He went on to pastor or serve leadership roles in several other churches throughout the years.

Eventually, Donnie felt he would be better used outside the church and organized religion and indeed he served the Lord faithfully for the remainder of his life. Never meeting a stranger, he

impacted the lives of everyone he met, with his ready smile, friendly personality, quick wit and cowboy sayings. He was always available to friends, Donnie Neill family and strangers who needed encouragement, counsel or advice.

His greatest passion was helping others. He would often say, “The best investments you can make are in the lives of others,” and he did just that.

He was a fierce protector and loyal friend to many and was known and loved far and wide. He loved his Lord, his wife, his kids and grandkids so much and so well, and leaves a huge void among his family, friends and community.

Donnie is survived by his wife, Darla Neill, and his four children, Cody Lackey of Denison, Brandi Gray and her husband, Jezy, of Boulder, Colorado, Nathan Neill and his wife, Laura, and their sons, Drew and Tyler, of San Angelo, and Natalie Neill and her daughter, Sara, of San Angelo. He is also survived by his parents Donald Neill and his wife Cindy of Bells, his mother, Peggy Craig of Sherman, and his brother, Jason Neill, as well as three nephews and several great nieces and nephews.

The family received visitors at Scoggins Funeral Home in Van Alstyne on Friday, July 1 from 6–8 p.m. Donnie’s Celebration of Life was held on Saturday, July 2 at 11 a.m. at Victory Life Church, 4100 N. Travis in Sherman, with burial following at Van Alstyne Cemetery.

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-minute program. Those that donate a dessert item for the Murder Mystery will enter for the title of "Mr. and Mrs. Sesquicentennial King & Queen" to be announced on Thursday evening.

On Tuesday evening, a Sesquicentennial Parade will begin at 7 pm and will travel along Highway 5 from Duke Street to Bulldog Stadium. At 8 pm on the Bulldog Stadium grounds, a bonfire will begin. Also, a watermelon feast will take place during the Tuesday night celebration at Bulldog Stadium.

On Wednesday evening at 7 pm at Bulldog Stadium, a community worship service is scheduled with each

local church invited to participate.

Community Bible Fellowship will bring their band which will begin the hour long service.

On Thursday night at 6:30 pm, the chamber will host a dinner at Summit Hill Elementary which will also feature a Howe Historical Theater with Howe ISD students of all ages performing or reading biographies of some of the most important people in the history of Howe. There will be a fee for this event.

Friday night is the homecoming football game with Tioga which begins at 7:30 pm at Bulldog Stadium. Tioga was Howe’s first ever opponent on Sept. 20, 1935. This will conclude the week-long celebration.

Betty Sue Elwood (Babers) June 15, 1938 - June 23, 2022 baby boy, Lewis Mark Saltzman and step sons: Danny Elwood, Larry Elwood and Terry Elwood.

Betty is survived by her loving husband Floyd Elwood, son Robbie Saltzman, daughter Debbie Freeman and husband Joe of Howe, Texas, step daughters, Diane Vellotti and husband Danny of Denison, Texas and Darlene Holland and husband Lee of Pottsboro, Texas; sister Mary Alice Wood of Gonzales, Texas; 16 grandchildren (28 if you count their spouses, which she insisted on), and 31 greatgrandchildren with 2 more on the way.

Betty Sue Babers Elwood, 84, of Howe, Texas, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on June 23, 2022, in Denison, Texas.

Pallbearers will be Joe Freeman, Bobby Freeman, Kaanon Freeman, RonDale Freeman, Rusty Henley, and William Henley.

Betty Sue was born in Bonham, Texas to Robert Emmett Babers and Rollie Cassie Miller Babers on June 15, 1938. She attended school at Bonham High. She married the love of her life, Floyd Elwood, on March 8, 1985, in Sherman, Texas. Over the years, she worked several retail jobs and worked as a seamstress. In her free time, she loved to sew, paint, make handmade gifts and care for her flowers, but more than anything she loved to spend time with her family. Betty loved Jesus and was always actively involved in her church, Fairview Baptist and most recently First Baptist Church in Dorchester.

Memorials may be given to JDRF Team Helen in memory of Betty Elwood 8140 Walnut Hill Lane Suite 810 Dallas, Texas, 75231 or to Dorchester First Baptist Church.

Betty is preceded in death by her parents, brothers: W.T. Babers, and Robert E. Babers, sisters: Madeleine Ross, Juanita Wigley, Bennie Jo Glover, her

The family of Betty Elwood wishes to extend our sincere thanks to all of the medical staff who so lovingly cared for her.

Funeral services were held at 11:00 AM Tuesday June 28, 2022, at the Dorchester First Baptist Church with Pastor Zach Poling and Dr. Kevin O’Brien officiating. Burial followed at Moore’s Chapel Cemetery in Bonham, Texas, with arrangements by Dannel Funeral Home. The family will greet friends on Monday, June 27, 2022, from 5:00 PM until 7:00 PM at Dannel Funeral Home in Sherman.

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Sheriff murdered in Howe in 1889 The Sunday Gazetteer Sunday, June 2, 1889 pg. 3 SHERIFF MAY KILLED While in the Discharge of His Duty The Assassin of a Young Man from Kentucky - Full Particulars of the Heartrending Tragedy One of the most heart-rendering tragedies enacted in Grayson county took place last Sunday near the village of Howe, on the line of the Houston and Texas Central railway. Bob May, twice elected sheriff of Grayson county, a valued and fearless officer, was shot down in cold blood while in the discharge of his duties. The assassin was a Kentuckian who had arrived in the state only a few days previous. It is opportune to remark here that the most blood-thirsty villains who have brought reproach upon the fair name of Texas came from other states. The most famous outlaw was Sam Bass, an Indianan, and a number of others, equally as notorious as Bass, have come to Texas as a field of operation.

The following account of the killing of Sheriff May is compiled from the Sherman correspondence of the Dallas News: Just one week ago to-day two young men arrived in Howe from Elliott county, Kentucky, and were visiting at the homes of D.H. Hanna, John Hanna and John Eads, distant relatives of theirs, preparatory to starting on a prospecting tour through Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas. The young men were first cousins, named Isom - the eldest, Mandrew Isom, aged 24 years; the younger, Benjamin Isom, aged 21 years.

On Friday of last week, preparatory to the trip they were intending to take, the two Isoms went to Sherman and purchased a full supply of fire-arms - pistols, Winchesters, ammunition, etc.

These they took to Howe and left at the house of John Eads. That evening the Isoms, who had spent much of their time since their arrival, drinking about town, got into a game of marking for the treats, which ended in a slight row. The following afternoon they were "marking" for the cigars at Simpson's saloon, when Ben Isom and J.M. Culver got into a difficulty, Isom accusing Culver of having swindled him, which ended in Isom drawing his pistol, with the evident intention of using it on Culver. He was disarmed

by Mr. Simpson and another man.

Soon after, he in company with his cousin, Mandrew Isom, left the saloon, went to the house of John Eads, secured their weapons and went east to a dense thicket a mile or so from Howe.

After an ineffectual attempt to capture them by the town marshal, of Howe, a messenger went to Sherman early Sunday morning and filed a complaint before State's Attorney C.H. Smith, charging Ben Isom with carrying a pistol.

A warrant was issued and placed in the hands of Sheriff May for execution.

Summoning to his aid deputies Scott Creager and James May, the Sheriff left for the scene of action at an early hour of the morning, arriving at Howe about 8 a.m.

After learning all necessary particulars, Sheriff and posse set out for the hiding place of the Isoms. Having reached an eminence overlooking the thicket in which the fugitives were supposed to be concealed, the Sheriff and his party stopped to reconnoiter. Seeing two men skulking across a field in the direction of the thicket, who were recognized as John Hanna and John Eads, the officers dismounted, leaving their horses at Capt. Burke's, and followed the men into the thicket, where they came upon them in conversation with the Isoms. Before reaching the men, however, the Sheriff and his deputies had separated. James May being some distance off, while Scott Creager was behind the Sheriff, perhaps 25 steps, Sheriff May fired one shot with his pistol, then sank down in the path, and the Isoms fled into the thick undergrowth and were lost to view. Creager sent an an ineffectual shot after the fugitives. Hearing the shots James May dashed through the thicket to find Creager bending over the dead body of the murdered Sheriff, who expired almost immediately after Creager reached him. Thus died a brave, true man in the discharge of his duty. As soon as the news of the tragedy reached Sherman hundreds of brave men tendered their services to aid in the captures of the murderers, and the wildest excitement prevailed. A delegation of officers and others left immediately for Howe.

At 10 o'clock Mandrew Isom came up to the depot at Howe and surrendered to Deputy Creager. John Eads was arrested at the home of D.H. Hanna by Officers Spencer and McKinney.

About the same time David Hanna, son of John Hanna, was arrested at the residence of his brother, by J.H. Culver.

All of these, connected with the Isoms, are new-comers to Howe, except D.H. Hanna, who is an old resident of Texas, and who tried to prevent the lawlessness of his visiting relatives by taking away from them their weapons,

but it seems without much effect. The capture of Ben. Isom was effected later in the day by means of a picked posse under the charge of Sheriff Chaney, of Bonham, and a pack of blood hounds.

After a considerable chase Ben. Isom was driven from the thicket, where he had taken refuge, into a corn field, where he was overtaken, and taken in charge by Messrs. Simpson, Holt, and Tackett. He was turned over to Officer Mahoney, placed on a special train and taken to Sherman jail. He was perfectly cool and collected, not seeming to realize the gravity of his crime.

The body of Sheriff May was also placed on a special train, and taken at once to his home on Houston street.

Thus ended the life-tragedy of one more brave man.

The funeral took place Monday from his residence, the remains being taken to Whitesboro by train and from there to Gordonville and laid to rest by the side of loved ones in the family burying ground, a large crowd attending the funeral. The Gazetteer extends its heartfelt sympathy to the heart-broken widow and orphans in this, their saddest of all bereavements.

THE VERDICT The wound, which caused the death of Sheriff May almost instantly, is fully described in the verdict below, and which is as follows: I, J.G. Campbell, Justice of the Peace in and for precinct No. 1, county of Grayson and state of Texas, sitting as a court of inquest upon the dead body of R.L. May having examined into the cause, time, manner, and place of the death of the deceased, do find as follows, to wit: That the said deceased came to his death about one and a half miles northeast of Howe, on or about the hour of 10 o'clock a.m. on the 26th day of May, A.D. 1889.

That the death of the said deceased was caused as follows and in the following manner, to wit: That on the 26th day of May, 1889, Ben Isom and Mandrew Isom, of their malice aforethought, in said county and state did shoot the deceased with guns, inflicting upon the body the following wounds, caused by the ball from guns, entering the abdomen in the right diac region, close to the ilium, ranging diagonally through and passing out on the left side if the pelvis, near the junction of the sacrum and ilium, probably severing one of the iliac arteries, from the effects of which

wounds the said deceased died at the time and place heretofore stated.

The Whitewright Sun Thursday, November 15, 1928 pg. 6 KILLING GRAYSON COUNTY SHERIFF 40 YEARS AGO IS RECALLED Seeing this item, "Sheriff May was on our streets Tuesday," in the Whitesboro News "Local News As Told Forty Years Ago," column recalled to the writer the tragic death of Sheriff Bob May not a great while after this item appeared.

Two young fellows whose name was Isom, if our memory serves us right, came to Howe, 9 miles south of Sherman, from Tennessee. These men seemed to think Texas was a wild and wooly state and that one here was not properly costumed unless he wore a big pistol. These fellows donned the pistols and supplemented this defensive artillery with a couple of Winchester rifles.

In a game of marbles on the streets one day the Isoms lost and it devolved upon them to pay for the drinks at a local saloon. In the saloon a disagreement arose between the Isoms and J.M. Culver, who is still a citizen of Howe. One of the Isoms attempted to draw his gun, but was prevented. After the trouble the two men went the home of a relative with whom they were stopping, got their Winchesters and departed, going into a strip of woods nearby.

That was Saturday about noon. They stayed in the woods all night. The next morning Sheriff May and his deputy, Scott Creager, who died in Dallas not many months ago and who was said to be the first white child born in Grayson County, came down to arrest the two men. While talking with Capt. Tom Burk at his home near the strip of woods they observed a relative taking (Continued on page 8)

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Response to “Howe’s That” question from last week

Sheriff

We had an individual ask us what our beef was with Woodrow Wilson in last week’s “Howe’s That” column. Our take is that Wilson was so weak that his advisor Colonel Edward House (who never served in the military and gave himself that title) led the Confederate into globalist ideology such as signing the Federal Reserve Act to name one important one. Thomas Jefferson warned us that a private central bank issuing the public currency was a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We now begin to understand why such a lengthy campaign of planned deception was necessary, from the secret conference at Jekyll Island to the identical "reform" plans proposed by the Democratic and Republican parties under different names. The bankers could not obtain control of the issuance of money from the citizens of the US, to whom it had been designated through its Congress by the Constitution, until the Congress granted them their monopoly for a central bank.

Therefore, much of the influence exerted to get the Federal Reserve Act passed was done behind the scenes, principally by two shadowy, nonelected persons: The German immigrant, Paul Warburg, and Colonel Edward Mandell House of Texas. But it was on Wilson’s watch and pen. It is interesting to note how many assassinations of Presidents of the US took place following their currency concerns. Lincoln and Garfield come to mind. Globalist bankers don’t play.

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something middle of the afternoon, by which time many officers and the local military organization had come down from Sherman. The bloodhounds were put on the trail of the fugitive and when they began to bark he ran from the wood into a cornfield and came up with his hands up, a badly scared man.

The men were tried and sent to the penitentiary, one of 9 years and the other for about 40, as we remember it.

There was much excitement and talk about lynching immediately after the tragedy but nothing was done. Bob May was a fine man, an excellent peace officer. He probably had no idea the men would shoot and was caught off guard.

Lee McAfee, deputy under May, succeeded May as sheriff. - - - Celina Record

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Declaration of Independence In Congress, July 4, 1776 The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, -That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed.

But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.-Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary for the public good.

He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly neglected to attend to them.

He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large districts of people, unless those people would re-

linquish the right of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them and formidable to tyrants only.

He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual, uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with his measures.

He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of

He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation: For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us: For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:

scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.

He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.

He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.

In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people.

the people.

He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.

For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world: For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent: For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury: For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences

He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners; refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.

For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these Colonies:

He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.

For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:

He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.

For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.

He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harrass our people, and eat out their substance.

He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his Protection and waging War against us.

He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures.

He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.

He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and destroyed the lives of our people.

He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy

Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our Brittish brethren. We have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity, which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.

We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor.

ADVERTISING/MARKETING Howe Enterprise P.O. Box 595 Howe TX 75459 howeenterprise.com 903-339-0100 news@howeenterprise.com AGRICULTURE Norman Farms 4871 Mackey Rd Howe TX 75459 903-815-5545 ajnorm4@aol.com Renfro Farms 1589 Harrell Rd Howe TX 75459 renfrofarms@gmail.com ANTIQUES

BUTCHER Don’s Smokehouse 111 E. Haning Street Howe, Texas 75459 Donssmokehouse.com (214) 881-8377 DonsSmokehouse@gmail.com CHILDCARE The School Zone Academy 105 Doyle Street Howe TX 75459 theschoolzoneacademy.com 903-532-9663 haleenparrish@yahoo.com CHURCHES Bethel Baptist Church 905 Ponderosa Rd, P.O. Box 458 Howe TX 75459 bethelbaptisthowe.com 903-532-6032 First Baptist Church Howe 100 W. Davis Howe TX 75459 http://www.fbchowe.org/ 903-532-5504 info@fbchowe.org First United Methodist Church 810 N. Denny St. Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Church@fumchowe.org https://www.fumchowe.org/

Howe Mercantile 107 E. Haning St Howe TX 75459 facebook.com/Howe-Mercantile1639767196252428/ (817) 313-2168 georgiacaraway@aol.com AUTO Bob Utter Ford 2525 Texoma Parkway Sherman TX 75090 bobutterford.net 903-892-3555 BANKING Independent Bank 100 South Denny Howe TX 75459 independent-bank.com (903) 532-5521 aanderson@ibtx.com Legend Bank 201 W. Grand Whitewright, TX 75491 legend-bank.com 903-532-4778 Brandon.grooms@legend-bank.com First United Bank 2011 Texoma Parkway Sherman TX 75090 firstunitedbank.com 903-813-5760 sarah.whitt@firstunitedbank.com BUSINESS & PROFESSIONAL SERVICES Provider Business Partners 106 W. Young St. Howe TX 75459 providerbusinesspartners.com 903-487-2248 sharla@ providerbusinesspartners.com Smith-Garner, PC 609 N. Denny St., P.O. Box 1019 Howe TX 75459 http://www.howecpa.com/ (903) 532-1040 amanda.garner@howecpa.com LegalShield 1548 Timbercreek Dr. Howe TX 75459 http://JLALEXANDER. WeAreLegalshield.com 214-549-4474 jlalexander@ legalshieldassociates.com)

New Beginning Fellowship 910 S. Denny St, PO Box 295 Howe TX 75459 http://www.nbfhowe.com/ (903) 532-6828 wallace@nbfhowe.com CONSTRUCTION/BUILDING SERVICVES TLD Design Consulting LLC 103 E. Haning St. Howe TX 75459 http://www.tld -dc.com/ 903-436-4601 tdefrange@tldconsulting.net American Efficiency Solutions 2917 Wolf Front Rd Van Alstyne TX 75495 americanefficiency solutions.com/ 214-284-6309 mike@aes-llc.net Carl Seay Construction 3787 Texas 289 Dorchester, TX 75459 469-288-1965 ceseay10@gmail.com DENTAL Howe Family Dentistry 100 S. Collins Freeway, PO Box 960 Howe TX 75459 howefamilydentistry.com 903.532.5545 EDUCATION Howe Community Library 315 S. Collins Freeway Howe TX 75459 www.howeisd.net/Page/83 903-745-4050 atchison.melissa@howeisd.net Howe Independent School District 105 W. Tutt St. Howe TX 75459 howeisd.net/ (903) 745-4000 ELECTRIC Rapid Electric, LLC (903) 421-8100 http://www.RapidElectricCo.com/ brent@rapidelectricco.com

ENTERTAINMENT Chill Out Shaved Ice Howe, TX 75459 Chillout903@hotmail.com 903-436-0708 FIREARMS Guns N More 281 Celtic Road Howe, TX 75459 GunsNMore.net (903) 267-1091 jared.c@gunsnmore.net FUNERAL HOME Scoggins Funeral Home & Crematory 637 W. Van Alstyne Parkway Van Alstyne TX 75495 scogginsfuneralhome.com 903-482-5225 tommywscoggins@hotmail.com HAIR SALON Good Fellas Barber Shop 105 E. Haning St. (972) 502-0559 goodfellasbarbershoptx@gmail.com HEALTH Angels of Care Pediatric Home Health 8001 S. U.S. Highway 75 Sherman TX 75090 angelsofcare.com 903-532-1400 jriggs@angelsofcare.com Core Fit Nutrition 300 W. Haning St Howe, TX 75459 469-337-1053 C.culton@icloud.com ER OF TEXAS 115 W. Travis St Sherman, TX 75092 http://oroftexas.com/ 903-770-9099 tiffanyr@eroftexas.com NURSE C.E.R.T.S. 505 Castlegate St. Howe, TX 75459 90.-821-3392 loavamccarthy@msn.com DEBBY EDWARDS/PINK ZEBRA 1403 S. Travis St. Sherman, TX 75090 debbyedwards2@gmail.com 903-820-8914 HEATING/AIR CONDITIONING Baker A/C & Heating, Inc. 215 N. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 903-532-6225 bakerac.mark@yahoo.com HOUSING Bainbrook Apartments 511 S. Collins Fwy Howe, TX 75459 (469) 712-4082 bainbrook75459.com Pradera Manufactured Home Park 709 N. Collins Freeway Howe TX 75459 http://praderamhp.com (903) 532-0014 pradera@havenparkmgmt.com M&M Properties 901 N. Denny St Howe TX 75459 903-815-8355 mariecurtis16@gmail.com.

INSURANCE Ed Meacham, State Farm 2624 Loy Lake Rd., Suite B Sherman TX 75090 https://www.statefarm.com/ agent/US/TX/Sherman/EdMeacham-3TGY5753JAK 903-892-3923 ed@mredinsurance.com

Kathy McGarry, Mayo Agency 215 S Ray Roberts Pkwy, P.O. Box 519 Tioga TX 76271 940-437-2378 kathy.mayoagency@gmail.com Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Darren Foster – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfbins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 32707/darrenfoster 903-436-2470 dfoster@txfb-ins.com Texas Farm Bureau Insurance, Loretta Anderson – Agent 1363 S Waco St Van Alstyne TX 75495 https://www.txfb -ins.com/ insurance/agent/grayson/ 23242/lorettaanderson 903-819-1041 landerson@txfb-ins.com Aflac Agent Chyna Vincent 1671 Taylor Rd Dorchester TX 75459 940-641-1714 chynakv@live.com INTERNET TekWav 223 N. Walnut St. Sherman TX 75090 http://www.tekwav.com 903-375-9787 jj@tekwav.com LEADERSHIP The Iku Organization http://theikuorganization.org/ 214-392-6218 soga.aralola@gmail.com

REAL ESTATE Bill French Properties 315 N Travis Suite B-3 Sherman TX 75090 billfrenchproperties.com 903-893-BILL (2455) bill@billfrenchproperties.com Sheryl Bentley, REMAX REALTORS (903) 821-7653 yourrealtorsheryl@gmail.com Michael Taylor – Keller Williams Realty P.O. Box 575 Howe TX 75459 mtaylor@kw.com The Llama Realty Group Dana Thornhill 204 Tate Circle Sherman, TX 75090 903-821-6890 llamarealtygroup@gmail.com RESTAURANTS El Patio Escondido Mexican Restaurant & Cantina 495 W. Van Alstyne Pkwy, P.O. Box 637 Van Alstyne TX 75495 elpatioescondido.com 903-482-5538 williampacheco519@yahoo.com Palio’s Pizza Cafe 303 W. Haning St. Howe TX 75459 https://www.palioshowe.com/ 903-532-0390 paliospizza@att.net ROOFING

NON-PROFIT Goodwill Industries of Northeast Texas 2206 E. Lamar St. Sherman, TX 75090 goodwillnorthtexas.org spierce@goodwillnorthtexas.org United Way of Grayson County 713 E. Brockett P.O. Box 1112 Sherman, Texas 75091 903.893.1920 PLUMBING Brother Plumber 708 Maple St. Howe, TX 75459 469-968-4487 trent@brotherplumber.com http://Brotherplumber.com/ Torque Plumbing 102 S. Collins Frwy Howe TX 75459 (972) 658-1515 torquemayes@yahoo.com PUBLIC UTILITIES Atmos Energy 5111 Blue Flame Rd. Sherman TX 75090 http://www.atmosenergy.com/ 1-888-286-6700 (Main) 1-866-322-8667 Natural Gas Emergency Jan.Rugg@atmosenergy.com Grayson -Collin Electric Cooperative, Inc. P.O. Box 548 Van Alstyne TX 75495 www.grayson-collin.coop 903-482-7100 mmcginnis@gcec.net Cavender Home Theater DISH 6202 Texoma Parkway Sherman TX 75090 http://www.cavendertv.com/ 903-892-3499 chris@cavenderht.com

HIT Exteriors, LLC Howe, TX 75459 972-977-1523 sergio@hitexteriors.com STORAGE Howe Mini-Storage 609 N. Denny St. Howe TX 75459 903-532-7867 amanda.garner@howecpa.com TOWING Adams Automotive & Towing 85 Redden Rd Van Alstyne TX 75495 adamsautotow.com 903-482-5784 Pristine Towing & Roadside Assistance 135 Hodgins Rd. P.O. Box 1672 Van Alstyne TX 75495 (903) 814-8064 WELDING Robertson Welding Service 1716 Baker Rd. C Sherman, TX 75090 903-328-6588 carobertson1975@yahoo.com

City of Howe SECONDS COUNT IN AN EMERGENCY! That's why the City of Howe has instituted the CodeRED Emergency Notification System - an ultra high-speed telephone communication service for emergency notifications. This system allows us to telephone all or targeted areas in case of an emergency situation that requires immediate action (such as a boil-water notice, missing child or evacuation notices). The system is capable of dialing 60,000 phone numbers per hour. It then delivers a pre-recorded message describing the situations to a live person or an answering machine in the affected area possibly including instructions requiring action on the part of the recipient.

Once the situation is remedied, another call will be placed to the area signaling that the issue has been addressed and that normal activities can be resumed.

The following information is required to add a telephone number into the "CodeRED" database: first and last name; address (physical address, no P.O. boxes); city; state; Zip Code; and primary phone number. The system works with cellular phones but requires a valid street address. When entering information, please fill out all of the screens because the newest data entered will replace the old data. Sign up by visiting http://www.co.grayson.tx.us/page/ oem.cred

2021-22 Local taxation State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Ad valorem reduction Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation) City of Howe Budget

6.25 % 1.00 % 0.50 % 0.50 % 8.25 % $0.55 $1.33 $0.34 $0.17 $2.39 $4,038,045

Cityofhowe.org City Hall 116 E. Haning St., 903-532-5571 Mayor: Bill French City Administrator: Jeff Stanley City Secretary: Kerri Pruitt Utility Billing and Municipal Court 116 E. Haning St. 903-532-5571 Utility Clerk: Beccy Roberts Court Clerk: Gina Jones (After hours night drop available) Public Works 317 S. Hughes St. Public Works Director: Mickey Phillips Code Enforcement 317 S. Hughes St. Code Enforcement Officer: Benjamin Fuhr Howe Fire Department 118 E. Haning 903-532-6888 (nonemergency) Fire Chief: Robert Maniet Howe Police Department 700 W. Haning St. 903-532-9971 (non-emergency) Dispatch 903813-4411 Police Chief: Carl Hudman Police Sergeant: Keith Milks Economic Development 100 E. O’Connell St. 903-532-6080 EDC Director: Monte Walker City Council meets third Tuesday at 700 W. Haning St. at 6 pm.

Planning & Zoning Commission Meets third Monday as needed Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation Meets as needed For more information visit the city website www.cityofhowe.org

2021-22 City of Howe Water, Sewer, Refuse collection rates - one bill WATER RATES Base (Minimum) Rate: $28.51 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $7.82 p/ 1,000 gal. for 1,001-4,000 gallons $8.77 p/ 1,000 gal. for 4,001-20,000 gallons $9.76 p/ 1,000 gal. for 20,001-45,000 gallons $10.40 p/ 1,000 gal. for all consumption over 45,000 gallons CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES Deposit: $150.00 Service Charge: $10.00 Connection: $20.00 Reconnect: $50.00 Tap Fees: (3/4” – 1”) = $900.00 (2” – 6”) = $1,500.00 Impact Fee: N/A New Meter Installations: 3/4” = $2,060.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 1” = $2,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 2” = $4,475.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 4” = $4,550.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) 6” = $6,110.00 (Tap Fee, Meter Installation, Deposit) Hydrant Meter Deposit: $2,000.00 SEWER RATES & TAP FEES Base (Minimum) Rate: $35.28 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $5.51 p/ 1,000 gallons Tap Fee: $900.00 Impact Fee: N/A OUTSIDE OF CITY LIMITS WATER RATES Base (Minimum) Rate: $42.76 (uniform rate) Volume (Gallons): 1,000 Volume Charge: $11.74 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 4,000 gallons $13.16 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $14.65 p/ 1,000 gal. for next 20,000 gallons $15.59 p/ 1,000 gal. for all over 45,000 gallons CONNECTION, WATER TAP & METER INSTALLATION FEES **SAME AS INSIDE CITY LIMITS** SEWER RATES N/A

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Baseball season comes to a close with all Howe teams eliminated in state tournament play

Howe’s 14U All-Stars ended their season with a 13-0 loss to Frankston in the state tournament over the weekend. Courtesy photo.

Readership Howe’s 12U lining up for their game in the state tournament. Courtesy photo.

All Howe teams were eliminated over the weekend in their respective state tournament. The baseball season has come to a close. The Howe Youth

Baseball program had a great season with most levels qualifying for the state tournament.

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Texas History Minute He was one of the most famous gunmen of the Old West; but in the end, he was felled by a bacteria rather than gunfire.

Certainly as the Ken Bridges 1870s and 1880s on the western frontier became years filled with unforgettable characters who became legends with tales of their exploits echoing across the wideopen plains and into the American imagination, only a handful of names stand out. Doc Holliday became one of the most famous of these figures, and his journey into legend began deep in the heart of Texas.

John Henry “Doc” Holliday was born in central Georgia in 1851. His father was a veteran of the Mexican War and the Civil War. The future gunslinger and gambler became an expert shot while a youngster, not unusual for that time period. When he was a teenager, his mother and stepbrother both died from tuberculosis, a widespread and deadly lung infection that was often called the “white plague” that left thousands dead each year.

Holliday was an ambitious young man with a brilliant mind. He reportedly absorbed languages such as Greek, Latin, and French. In 1870, he enrolled at the Pennsylvania College of Dental Surgery, the most prestigious dental school in the country at the time, though few such schools were to be had. In just over a year, at the age of 20, he completed his doctorate.

He soon established a dental practice in Georgia and was on his way to a quiet, respectable career when he also came down with tuberculosis. While the disease is curable today – and easily prevented with vaccinations -- it was a death sentence in the 1870s.

Little was known how tuberculosis spread and no treatments existed. Patients could die in a matter of months or linger on for years or die from any accompanying infection. The common belief at the time was that the warm, dry climates of the West could slow the deterioration of the lungs. So with little left to lose, Holliday moved to Texas.

He established a successful dental practice in downtown Dallas in 1873, initially working with a friend of his father’s. Within a few months, he set up his own practice at Main and Lamar Streets. However, his coughing fits during examinations and news of his contagious illness frightened away many patients. He could keep his diagnosis a secret no longer. As a result, the gambling he once enjoyed for recreation and the occasional thrill became an important source of income.

As Dallas leaders attempted to tame the wild frontier city into a respectable

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center for business, gambling became a crime to deter troublemakers. Wellknown gamblers like Holliday were targeted, and he was indicted in 1874 for illegal gambling. The situation grew even worse in 1875 when he got into a shootout with a Dallas bartender. While he was acquitted in the incident, Holliday realized his days in Dallas were numbered.

Shortly afterward, he left Dallas and headed north to Denison. He attempted to restart his dental career in the small community, but his increasing complications from tuberculosis and his spreading reputation from Dallas made it difficult to stay in business.

Within a few months after his 1875 arrival, he left for Fort Griffin, northeast of modern-day Abilene. His Grayson County office was the last known time he had a regular dental practice.

At Fort Griffin, Holliday began gambling full time and moving from place to place and picking up odd jobs in a curious assortment of adventures. For a time, he worked as a card dealer in Colorado. Periodically, he ran afoul of the law in some cities and quickly had to make his departure. On a trip back to Fort Griffin, he met Wyatt Earp, who was then working as a Deputy U. S. Marshal in pursuit of a suspected train robber.

The two became close friends and that loyalty itself became a legend. Holliday saved Earp’s life on several occasions and fought alongside him and his brothers, Morgan and Virgil, at the notorious shoot-out at the O. K. Corral in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, in 1881.

Holliday found himself in several gunfights over the years but survived them all. He was never injured in any of the confrontations. But his time ran out. His disease caught up to him, and he checked himself into a tuberculosis sanitorium in Colorado Springs, Colorado. He succumbed to his lingering illness in 1887 at the age of 36.

Holliday’s fame rose in the years after his death as tales of his exploits and the famed gunfight at the O. K. Corral spread and eventually found their way into the movies. While many variations on the story have appeared, from such actors as Victor Mature, Kirk Douglas, and Dennis Quaid, many depictions gained acclaim for the portrayal of the legendary figure who was as quick with a one-liner as he was with his guns. Val Kilmer’s performance as an unflappable and quickwitted Holliday in Tombstone (1993) has by itself won a legion of fans.

Arrested more than a dozen times and responsible for shooting an untold number of men, Holliday was never convicted of a crime. Each April, Denison celebrates the Doc Holliday Festival in honor of its one-time resident.

Living with children Correlation does not prove cause, drummed my grad school statistics professor. For example, a rise in the rate of American John Rosemond children who regularly consume lox and a concurrent rise in Type 2 diabetes among American children does not, in and of itself, prove lox consumption increases the risk of diabetes. Proving the contention would require a control group. Nonetheless, a correlation hints at the possibility of cause-effect and is grounds for further study.

The lox-diabetes correlation is fanciful, but the following is not: Since the early 1990s, there has been a dramatic increase in ultrasounds per pregnancy (as well as a significant increase in ultrasound wave intensity) and a parallel increase in autism. This relationship has been the subject of several studies, none of which have settled the obvious question.

The lack of a conclusion stems largely from the fact that no body of research has unequivocally established autism’s cause. That, in turn, is further complicated by the fact that the diagnosis, rather than being determined empirically (e.g., brain scan), is based on subjective assessment of behavior. Finally, the parameters of psychological diagnoses tend to expand over time, capturing ever-increasing numbers of individuals.

An answer to the ultrasound-autism question is further muddied by scientists who seem to have a “that’s my answer and I’m sticking to it” conviction concerning the harmlessness and benefits of ultrasound. Studies which have concluded an ultrasound-autism link, however small, have consistently been followed by vehement denunciations of the data, methodology, and analysis.

One highly respected scientist beseeched a journalist, “Please don’t cause any undo fear in the minds of pregnant women” and went on to say that the equivocal study in question “should give expectant mothers confidence that ultrasound will not cause autism spectrum disorder or delayed development.” Given the inconclusive state of the existing research plus the strong ultrasound-autism correlation, the use of the definitive “will not” seems unwarranted.

Most moms, I find, are requesting or accepting ultrasounds for three reasons: (in no particular order) first, to determine gender; second, to make sure the fetus has ten fingers and ten toes, so to speak; third, just to “take a look” at their babies. Respectively, gender and many genetic issues can be determined with amniocentesis (which involves minimal risk) and/or a simple and reliable blood test, and the potential risks involved with ultrasound mitigate against requesting the procedure out of curiosity. In short, advances in medical technology over the past fifty years have rendered ultrasounds largely unnecessary.

I know that in certain facets of mom culture, ultrasounds are the “thing” to do (thus, “gender reveal” parties), but do the risks justify bombarding a fetus with high intensity sound waves that several researchers have said might interfere with the proper migration of cells within the developing brain? I know my answer, and I’m sticking to it—at least until further research is done.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: johnrosemond.com, parentguru. com.

John Rosemond has worked with families, children, and parents since 1971 in the field of family psychology.

In 1971, John earned his masters in psychology from Western Illinois University and was elected to the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society.

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Whose report will we believe?

Whatever we are concerned about today, faith and discernment are key components of our prayers. Without spiritual sensitivity, we Dr. Billy Holland do not understand God’s will and faith is what empowers and activates our communication with Him. We believe in miracles because we know that God listens and is the only one who has the authority to restore and provide. If someone is having a health crisis, the Bible declares that He is the Great Physician and our healer. This is exciting truth until doubt and fear sneak in the back door and Satan repeats the same strategy to deceive as he did with Adam and Eve in the garden. His favorite temptation is to plant seeds of uncertainty and confusion in our minds to question whether faith is real or our imagination. In our times of trouble, we are bombarded with speculations and opinions, but we must become unmovable in knowing that the report of the Lord cannot fail.

Josh Christmas once said, “I do not believe what I see, but I see what I believe.” Basically, it means that followers of God are not to place their trust in what others say or how things appear. Since we are filled and guided

by God’s Spirit, we place our confidence in Him alone. Faith is the substance of things hoped for and the evidence of things not seen which means the answers are ready to be manifested but conditional on us knowing His plans and believing with all of our hearts. For example, when a doctor says there is no hope, we must realize this is not the final decision because God is more than able to accomplish His plans. Our daughter and our daughter-in-law were both told by the experts they would never have a child.

This was not true as God always has the final word. Today, our daughter-inlaw has an amazing son and our daughter just gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. My wife and I prayed about this for years and we know that He is our source for everything. My new book about healing and miracles contains true accounts of God miraculously intervening.

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Jesus told the people to remove him from his tomb and unwrap his grave garments. They said his body was starting to smell and according to natural thinking, this was disrespectful and even insane. However, they were not understanding the reality of who God is. Christ commanded Lazarus to live again and he did! Ezekiel describes a valley of dry bones and God asked the prophet if he believed the bones could live. The Lord told Ezekiel to speak to the bones and the flesh came back upon them and they were restored back to life. The reason these stories are recorded in the Bible is to teach us to not always accept what we see in the natural world as being impossible to change. Christians are to live with an expectation of the supernatural, to walk in the constant awareness of God’s power as they listen and obey His voice.

It’s common for the average person to build their worldviews on what they have been told instead of researching for themselves. Beware of listening and trusting the world’s opinions more than listening to God. If we absorb what the culture tells us, we are vulnerable to being brainwashed to believe what society wants us to embrace.

Who do you suppose decides what is broadcast as truth and what is censored as disinformation? Satan is the father of all lies and just so happens to control the airwaves? Our decision to seek God and know what He is saying, or believing the report of this natural realm is the difference between thinking clearly and falling into a delusion.

You see, faith is not limited to only being activated in positive thinking, it also can enforce negative attitudes. If we believe and accept the worst, we are joining forces with dark energy that will make the problem worse. I assume we all know where this dark energy originates. The Bible says that we must not be conformed to the pessimistic way the natural world lives but be transformed by the renewing of our mind in Christ, which means we know He is who He says He is. Every moment we are faced with the choice to absorb the light and life of God, or the deception and hopelessness of a fallen world. What we perceive is our reality.

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Local church calendar A Christian Fellowship 150 Fellowship Ln, Sherman, TX 75090 (903) 815-1333 Wednesday 6:30 pm – Potluck Meal 7:00 pm – Worship Service 7:00 pm – Jr & Sr High Youth Sunday 9:30 am – Sunday School (all ages) 10:30 am – Worship Service 10:30 am – KidZone Children’s Service (5yr – 12 yr.)

Community Bible Fellowship 415 S Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Food and Fellowship 7:00 pm - Community Kids (ages 3 6th grade, nursery available) 7:00 pm - Youth and Adult Bible Study Sunday 10:30 am - Worship Service First Baptist Church Dorchester 11831 FM 902, Dorchester, TX 75459 903-476-5525 Wednesday 6:00 pm - Meal (Donations for adults and kids eat free) 6:30 pm - Praise service 7:00 pm - Youth Bible Study 7:00 pm - Adult Bible Study 7:00 pm - RA's/GA's/children's group Sunday 9:00 am - Men's Prayer Time 9:45 am - Sunday School 10:45 am - A.M. Worship Service 5:00 pm - Adult Choir Practice 6:00 pm - Evening Worship First Baptist Church Howe 100 E. Davis St., Howe, TX 903-5325504 Tuesday 7:00 pm - Bible Study Wednesday 5:30 pm - Kids Choir 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30 am - Kids Church 10:30am - Worship Service

First United Methodist Church of Howe 810 N Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6718 Monday 9:30 am - Care Team Meeting 10:30 am - Pastor's Bible Study Tuesday 9:30 am - Women's Bible Study 11:30 am - Out and About with Pastor Stephen 6:30 pm Boy Scouts Wednesday 9:00 am - Wednesday Workers 6:30 pm - Jr. High and Sr. High Youth Saturday 9:00 am - Feed My Sheep (1st and 3rd Sat each month) Sunday 8:40 am - Fellowship and Donuts 9:00 am - Sunday School 10:00 am - Worship service 3:00 pm - Cub Scouts Howe Church of Christ 1205 N Collins Fwy, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6441 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Bible Classes (all ages) Sunday 9:00 am - Bible Classes (all ages) 10:00 am - Worship Service 5:00 pm - Worship Service Howe Church of the Square 100 E. O’Connell St., Howe, TX 75459 Sunday 10:00 am—Worship Service Summit View Church 910 S Denny St, Howe, TX 75459 903-532-6828 Wednesday 7:00 pm - Radiate Youth 7:00 pm - Sanctuary of for prayer Sunday 9:30 am - Sunday School (kids, youth, women, men) 10:30 am - Worship Service 10:30 am - Kids Church

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After battling bureaucrats throughout presidency, Trump gets last laugh against 'deep state'

By John Solomon EDITOR’S NOTE—This section is reserved as an editorial and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.

The overturning of Roe v. Wade was a big turning point in American history as the rule of law has been placed back with the states instead of the federal government.

In keeping with that theme, the Supreme Court ruled on Thursday in the West Virginia v.

Environmental Protection Agency that the federal government cannot regulate carbon emissions. This has placed the climate change cult into a frenzy. But this session of the Supreme Court has boldly embodied the founding principles of the US Constitution. For anyone reading this in today’s time, our entire lives have been overrun by government infringement. Had this ruling gone the other way, there is a great chance we, or our descendants, could have faced a “carbon tax” which could have controlled our purchasing power. This ruling also opens the door to stripping back all federal government overreaching measures. This could have a major implication on federal agencies such as deregulating the federal health agencies, federal housing and development agencies, etc. Conservatives want each state to operate as its own entity free from federal government agencies.

The globalists operate not from sovereignty, but from a controlled state by federal and global initiatives that rule over mankind. ***** A young lady on Tik Tok released a video that has recently gone viral. Her words: “I never dreamed that I would have to face the prospect of not living in the United States of America. At least not the one I’ve known all my life. I’ve never wished to (Continued on page 16)

Donald Trump accused the "deep state" of trying to ruin his presidency from Russia collusion to two impeachments, but the 45th president may have gotten the last laugh 18 months after leaving office when a Supreme Court infused with three of his appointees drastically reined in the powers of alphabet-soup federal bureaucracy.

Thursday's ruling in the case of West Virginia v.

Environmental Protection Agency significantly confined the ability of unelected federal bureaucrats to make law or policy outside of Congress.

In the decision written by Chief Justice John Roberts, the court held 6-3 that under the so-called major questions doctrine, judges can strike down federal agency regulations that have substantial economic effects when Congress did not give explicit authority to the agency to make such decisions.

The federal bureaucracy "must point to clear congressional authorization for the power it claims," Roberts wrote in a ruling that shook Washington on Thursday.

You can read the ruling here: File 20-1530_n758.pdf While the court decision involved the Environmental Protection Agency and its efforts to restrain coal-fired electric plants, experts warned it could have vast impact on regulatory agencies across the nation's capital, forcing them to prove Congress gave them explicit powers before they impose new federal rules.

Leah Litman, a University of Michigan law professor, tweeted the decision is "a cudgel against administrative agencies" and their powers to control industries.

The ruling reaffirms the Founding Fathers' belief that "any limits on freedom be passed by Congress, not by kings and exchequers and bureaucrats and ministers," J. Christian Adams, a former U.S. Justice Department attorney, told Just the News.

"Unfortunately, the EPA is full of ministers and exchequers, and they decided that they didn't like coal," Adams said in an interview with the John Solomon Reports podcast.

Bureaucrats "love to control everyone's lives," he added. "And the Supreme Court said, "Look, we're a republic, because we put power with the people, with Congress, where ... if we want to do something, they have to go through a process.'

"In Washington the number of people involved in issuing this edict, there might have been 30 or 40 people, and those 30 or 40 people were responsible for basically ruining the jobs and employment and welfare of so many people across West Virginia and Kentucky, Colorado, because of their edict that got rid of coal."

For many observers, especially conservatives, the ruling also was a marquee legacy for Trump and his efforts to shape a more conservative Supreme Court with the appointments of Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett.

"I guarantee you that [Trump] is enjoying some of these decisions being made by the Court," said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, a longtime ally of the former president. "Look, you know our country was set up with three branches of government.

And we've developed a fourth, and it's all of these federal agencies that really go way beyond anything that could have ever been met by our founders."

Added Patrick Morrisey,

the West Virginia attorney general who brought the landmark case against the EPA: "I think President Trump did some amazing things with the federal judiciary, and he doesn't get enough credit for that.

And I really applaud the court for the decision that they made because this has the opportunity to be kind of transformative, and ensuring that the administrative state understands that it has to live under the same Constitution that we all do."

Even before his presidency began, Trump was assaulted by the federal bureaucracy, which launched a sincediscredited Russia collusion investigation, leaked his private conversations with world leaders, resisted his orders and allied with Democrats to pursue two impeachment cases that ended in acquittal.

Trump emerged from those skirmishes to remain as popular as ever with his base — and now more popular than his successor Joe Biden — while federal bureaucrats now will see reduced powers and influence as a result of the court's ruling Thursday.

"It was such a win for the American people, but also for Donald Trump," former presidential spokesman Hogan Gidley told "Just the News, Not Noise" television show on Friday. "I mean, how many times did he have to fight the deep state? How many times did he have to fight the bureaucrats up here in Washington?

"This ruling means Congress gets to make up what those emission standards are going to be and not some bureaucratic agency like the EPA. So another win for the American people. Another win for those who've been fighting against the bureaucracy, chief among those being, of course, the former President Donald Trump."

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By John Solomon While U.S. intelligence has been unable in two years to determine for sure if COVID-19 leaked from a Chinese lab, Congress has decided it no longer wants to take the risk of funding medical research at labs controlled by Beijing or other American adversaries.

With little fanfare and in bipartisan fashion, House appropriators quietly amended the 2023 federal budget for health and science agencies on Thursday to ban any funding to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which U.S. intelligence fears may have been the origin point for the coronavirus pandemic, and other labs like it.

"None of the funds made available by this Act may be made available to the Wuhan Institute of Virology, or any other laboratory located in a country determined by the Secretary of State to be a foreign adversary, including China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran," reads the amendment approved by the House Appropriations Committee.

You can read the amendment here: File HoueAppropsAmendments6-3022.pdf The vote is the latest official government action to acknowledge that the theory that COVID-19 leaked from the Wuhan research lab — once panned as preposterous and censored by news organizations and social media giants — is viable enough for the government to vote with its pocketbook.

After more than a year of

ridicule, the lab leak theory was officially recognized by the Biden administration's intelligence apparatus as one of the two most viable explanations for the appearance of coronavirus, with the other being natural evolution.

The lab leak theory got even more credence last month when the World Health Organization, the United Nations body that first dismissed the lab leak theory, admitted there was "new evidence" supporting the theory that needed investigating.

WHO said on June 10 that "key pieces of data" to explain how the pandemic began were still missing and that it must "remain open to any and all scientific evidence that becomes available in the future to allow for comprehensive testing of all reasonable hypotheses."

The announcement by WHO led House Republicans to cheer.

"Americans were smeared as 'conspiracy theorists' for asking whether #COVID19 came from a lab leak," they tweeted. "Now, the WHO is asking the same questions."

The Appropriations Committee action on Thursday was praised by Rep. Lisa McClain (RMich.), a member of the House Education and Labor Committee who sponsored the amendment over national security concerns and the fact that many foreign labs conduct abusive experiments on animals.

"Our tax dollars should never go to countries that threaten our national security," she said. "We've seen how dangerous it is (Continued on page 16)

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live anywhere else. This is my home, and I was privileged to be born here.

Today I woke up and as I had my morning coffee, I realized that everything is about to change. No matter how I vote, no matter what. I see something evil has invaded our nation and our lives are never going to be the same. I’ve been confused by the hostility of family and friends. I look at people I’ve known all my life so hate-filled that they agree with opinions they would never express as their own. I think I may have well entered the Twilight Zone. We have become a nation that has lost its collective mind. You can’t justify this insanity. If a guy pretends to be a woman, you’re required to pretend with him. Somehow, it’s un-American for the census to count how many Americans are in America. Russians influencing our elections are bad, but illegals voting in our elections are good. It was cool for Joe Biden to blackmail the president of Ukraine, but it’s an impeachable offense if Donald Trump inquires about it. Twenty is too young to drink a beer, but 18 is old enough to vote. People who have never owned slaves should pay slavery reparations to people who have never been slaves. People who have never been to college should pay the debts of college students who took out huge loans for their degrees. Immigrants with tuberculosis and polio are welcome, but you better be able to

July 4, 1776 When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

prove your dog is vaccinated. Irish doctors and German engineers that want to immigrate to the US must go through a rigorous vetting process, but any illiterate gangbangers who jump the southern fence are welcome. Five billion dollars for border security is too expensive but $1.5 trillion for free healthcare is not. If you cheat to get into college, you go to prison, but if you cheat to get into the country, you go to college for free.

People who say there’s no such thing as gender are demanding a female president. We see other countries going socialist and collapsing, but it seems like a great plan to us. Some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born, and other people are not held responsible for what they’re doing right now.

Criminals are caught and released to hurt more people but stopping them is bad because it’s a violation of their rights. In pointing out all of this hypocrisy, somehow makes us racist. Nothing makes sense anymore.

No values, no morals, no civility. People are dying of a Chinese virus, but it’s racist to refer to it as Chinese although it began in China. We’re clearly living in an upside-down world where right is wrong and wrong is right. Where moral is immoral and immoral is moral. Where good is evil and evil is good.

Where killing murders is wrong, but killing unborn babies is a-okay.

Wake up America. The great unsinkable ship Titanic America has hit an iceberg. It’s taking on water, and it’s sinking fast. Speak up.”

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Adams, the former Justice Department official, said Trump's legacy years from now may very well be that he clipped the wings of Washington elites.

"I think that's the big story is the regular people finally have a voice of the Supreme Court instead of the elites," he said.

Political left revives calls to pack Supreme Court following Roe reversal

By Aaron Kliegman In the wake of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, journalists, liberal activists, and Democrats in Congress are renewing calls to increase the number of seats on the nation's highest court to achieve a liberal majority.

An expansion of the high court would mark a tectonic shift in the judiciary — one that hasn't been attempted in nearly a century. But with the Supreme Court last week striking down Roe, the 1973 ruling that established a constitutional right to an abortion, progressives have been pushing for action, especially in Congress.

"Mitch McConnell and Donald Trump stacked the court," tweeted Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), referring to the Senate confirming three Supreme Court justices when Trump was president. "It is time to unstack it — expand the court."

Schiff also said that expanding the court would "move America forward again." He's hardly alone in the House.

Rep. Alexandria OcasioCortez (D-N.Y.), for example, has said it's time to "expand the court," adding that the Supreme Court "has very few checks and balances."

Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D -Wash.) expressed similar sentiments on Twitter.

Many lawmakers on the Senate side also pushed for big changes to the high court.

"I ask my colleagues in the Senate what other judicial outrage must we endure from the illegitimate, far-right majority on the Supreme Court before we act?" tweeted Sen. Ed Markey (DMass.). "Fight back and expand the Court now."

Fellow Massachusetts Democratic Sen. Elizabeth Warren had the same message during an appearance on ABC.

"I believe we need to get some confidence back in our court, and that means we need more justices on the United States Supreme Court," said Warren, claiming the high court "lost legitimacy" and calling on President Biden "to make abortion as available as possible with the tools he has."

Weeks earlier, before Roe was overturned, Warren and other Democratic senators sent a letter to Biden outlining several steps they believe he should take to increase access to abortions.

Calls to expand the Supreme Court weren't limited to the halls of Congress. In Georgia, Democratic gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams recently told CNN that "there's nothing sacrosanct about nine members on the United States Supreme Court."

Democrats hope to move on expanding the court while they still control the White House and both chambers of Congress, allowing them to tilt the Supreme Court further to the left. It's widely expected that Republicans will regain control of at least the House in this year's midterm elections, if not the Senate as well.

Nothing in the U.S. Constitution explicitly states that a certain number of justices should sit on the Supreme Court, but a national consensus has formed over decades not to tweak the current figure of nine — largely over concerns of delegitimizing the court by adding new seats for purely political reasons.

The last serous effort to expand the Supreme Court — a practice known as "courtpacking" — came in 1937, when thenPresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a Democrat, was frustrated with a conservative high court rejecting components of his New Deal agenda and introduced a proposal that would have expanded the court to 15 justices.

The idea was for Roose-

velt to be able to fill the court with additional leftleaning justices who would be more likely to let his proposals stand in court. But the plan was widely panned by both political parties and easily defeated in the Senate.

"It was a bonehead idea," Biden said of Roosevelt's proposal as a senator in 1983. "It was a terrible, terrible mistake to make. And it put in question, for an entire decade, the independence of the most significant body — including the Congress included in my view — in this country, the Supreme Court of the United States of America."

Biden still appears to oppose an expansion of the Supreme Court, according to White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.

"That is something that the president does not agree with," she said last weekend. "That is not something that he wants to do."

While campaigning for president, Biden said he was "not a fan" of courtpacking. Once in office, however, he established a commission to examine potential reforms to the high court, including increasing the number of justices. The commission failed to reach a consensus on steps to reform the court.

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to fund research at the Wuhan Lab in China.

I've been leading efforts to defund animal labs in China, Russia and other foreign adversaries and I'm proud that the House Appropriations Committee adopted an amendment supporting my efforts to prevent taxpayers' money from being sent to labs in these countries.”

Also applauding the action was the nonprofit group White Coat Waste Project, which earlier this year revealed that 32 animal labs in Russia and China were eligible to receive taxpayer dollars via the National Institutes of Health and that one in Russia was involved in a cruel experiment on cats.

"A majority of Americans agree that taxpayers shouldn't be forced to pay white coats in foreign labs to torture animals in dangerous and wasteful experiments," said the group's Senior Vice President Justin Goodman. "Having first exposed NIH funding for animal labs in China and Russia — including the notorious Wuhan Institute of Virology — we applaud Republicans and Democrats on the Appropriations Committee for their historic move to defund wasteful spending in dozens of animal testing labs run by our enemies."

But while the president doesn't appear to back adding justices for now, that hasn't stopped journalists at mainstream media outlets from either advocating an expansion of the court or raising the idea in news stories following the decision on Roe.

Left-wing groups have also been vocal about expanding the court, launching a campaign to add four more justices.

Leading the charge are Demand Justice, Stand Up America, Indivisible, Take Back the Court Action Fund, and the People's Parity Project.

Indeed, columnists at the New York Times and elsewhere have pushed the idea, while numerous other publications have published stories on the potential for implementing it.

"We know that change this big will not be easy," Stand Up America Executive Director Christina Harvey said at a press conference announcing the campaign. "We know that it will not happen overnight. But if our lawmakers want us to send them back to Washington this fall, they need to give the American people a roadmap not just for codifying Roe v. Wade but

The argument has also made its way into popular culture, with comedian Whoopi Goldberg, a cohost of ABC's "The View," even suggesting she supports courtpacking.

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