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Howe Methodists vote to disaffiliate HHS Robotics team qualifies for UILstate with United Methodist Church What a trail Carrie Waller blazed for the City of Howe. She was the embodiment of service to her community and a great example of what we all can do for our villages. For this, she was inducted in the initial class of the 2015 Howe Hall of Honor. Prayers for the entire family. ***** Speaking of citizen involvement, it appears we’re going to have a mayor election for the first time in nearly two decades in May as at least two that we know of have picked up packets to challenge Howe Mayor Bill French.

Those would be Karla McDonald and Cort Myrick. We also know of at least two challengers have signed up for the two city council seats up for election—Michael Hill and Billie Ingram. ***** For those complaining about the trucks and trash at FM 902 and Ponderosa, City Administrator Jeff Stanley told the council that there is a plan to get that fixed with an ordinance and signs.

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

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Bulldogs Basketball, pg. 3 Lady Bulldogs B-Ball, pg. 4 Soup Scoop, pg. 7 HHS Students of Month, pg. 7 HISD Board photos, pg. 7 Youth Sftbll/Bsbll info, pg. 9 FBC XYZ, pg. 10 Should we play God?, pg. 11 City info, pg. 13 Christian, pg. 14 Texas History/Parenting, pg. 15 Patriot Pony, pg. 17-18 Past front pages, pg. 19-26

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

All over the country, churches are struggling with the growing liberalism in America which has entered even the church congregations. The United Methodist Church released a statement allowing churches to disaffiliate under limited rights due to deep conflicts surrounding human sexuality. On Sun-

day, January 15, 2023, Howe’s Methodist congregation voted 53-17, above the two-thirds threshold needed, to disaffiliate with the United Methodist Church. Those disaffiliating can opt to join another denomination or join the Global Methodist Church being formed

Citizens voice transparency concerns overwaterissues, public works gives full recap of timeline and procedures

Billie Ingram stands to address the city council over Howe’s recent water issues. Staff photo.

Anyone who lives within the City of Howe understands there has been a situation with the water since November. The Howe Enterprise has covered the root cause in previous editions. At Tuesday’s city council meeting, citizens from the community rose and spoke about their concerns. Karla McDonald, who resides on Cassandra Street, was well researched on the topic and wondered why the new developments on the west side of US Highway 75 could have received the new surface water instead of the older

infrastructure on the east side and asked if relief could be provided to citizens who had to flush their lines.

Howe’s City Engineer Nolan Harvey commended McDonald for her knowledge of the topic and after recapping the historical contract with Collin Grayson Municipal Alliance (the water agreement from the source of Lake Lavon between Melissa, Howe, Van Alstyne, and Howe), he stated that the existing well water supply is insufficient for the upcom-

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The Howe High School Robotics team took the Wolfe City Tournament Championship on Jan. 14.

Team A consisted of junior Logan Smith, senior Ethan Duer, and junior Gracie Max. Team C is comprised of junior Gage Troxtell and senior Mary Sorflaten who qualified to compete in the Left to right: Gage Troxtell, UIL State VEX Com- Robotics President Logan petition February Smith, and Mary Sorflaten.

11.Team C has also Courtesy photo. qualified to compete in the Texas VRC Re2023 VEX Robotics gion 2 Championship in World Championship in Southlake March 4.

Dallas in April.

There they will have the opportunity to qualify for

Howe’s first city councilwoman dies CarrieWallertook a fiery approach to leadership, but her volume of service to Howe is overwhelming There are times when more of an aggressive approach is needed in an apathetic town such as Howe. And aggressive Carrie Waller was. One didn’t have to wonder how she felt on a certain subject. She left no gray area. But there is also no question the City of Howe benefited from her cantankerous approach.

Originally from Van Alstyne, she stormed through Howe becoming the first female city council member in 1972, helped reorganize the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce multiple times, and even created the city’s flag which gave her the nickname by the Sherman Democrat of “The Betsy Ross of Howe.”

In 1972, Howe was celebrating its 100th birthday and Waller helped with the re-organization of the Howe Chamber of Commerce so that it could

Carrie Waller holding the Howe City flag that she designed in 1972. The flag was used until 2014.

Photo by Bob Walker. sponsor the activities of the week-long celebration from September 2330 of that year. That year she created Howe’s first city flag which was centered around Howe having the highest elevation between the Red River and the Gulf of Mexico.

The top stripe was red representing the Red

River and the bottom stripe blue to represent the Gulf of Mexico. It was joined together by a black stripe representing the railroad with the white background representing the cottonfields.

It was centered with a gold diamond which represented Howe.

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Carrie Waller introduces Texas State Representative Ron Clark at a Howe Founders Day Festival. Photo courtesy of the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce.

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Waller also designed the Centennial Seal which both were approved at the regular city council meeting on July 6, 1972. The first flag cost $5.24 and was first flown on Sept. 23, 1972 in the Centennial Parade. The flag for the city was replaced in 2014, but the Howe Area Chamber of Commerce still uses Wallace’s 1972 flag as the Founders Day Festival flag which is on all marketing material for the event.

Waller became the first city councilwoman and served for 11 years, of which was mayor pro-tem for nine of those years. She was inspired to run for city council by Lucille Thompson, a city employee.

“I was told by a lot of people that I would never win because I went to the wrong church,” said Waller in a 2014 interview with the Howe Enterprise.

“All the school board and everything were Baptist, and I was Methodist.”

Waller was elected in 1972 along with Dwain Roberts, and Ralph G. Muse.

Her time on the council spanned inconsecutively for several decades.

“Each meeting I ever attended, I learned something,” said Waller. “And

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you had to keep up with a lot of the procedures. I enjoyed working with Ray (Bledsoe), but we had our difficulties. If I didn’t like something, I said so and if he didn’t it, he said so.

Yes, there were some (council members) on there that could be terrible because they were on there for their own benefit. And if you’re running for city council for your own benefit, that’s not right. If my opinion agreed with Ray, okay. If it didn’t agree with him; that was fine. We didn’t have any grudges against each other. If you have a grudge against somebody in town, you don’t need to be on there.”

After a bitter and ugly public attack on then-Mayor Jimmy Haynes, she became the acting mayor for three months after his resignation. She then ran for mayor in 2002, but was defeated 145 to 85 by Diane Walsh who became Howe’s first female mayor.

“When I didn’t get it, I was very disappointed and I resigned on Monday (from the council),” said Waller. “I had one more year left and that’s why I served 11 years instead of 12. I knew after she got mayor, I could never work with her.”

Later in years, Waller came to the defense of Ray Bledsoe who saw the

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Streaky Bulldogs beat Bonham, stay in playoff hunt

Howe’s Jacob Campbell (33) gets tangled with a Warrior guard in Bonham on Friday night. Photo by Michelle Carney.

The Howe Bulldogs (11-8, 3-3) trailed for the last time midway through the second period. From that point, Howe put the foot on the throat of the District 11-3A winless Bonham Warriors (06). Howe took home a 39-27 road win which makes 3-straight wins in district play, this after losing 4-straight games.

Howe now sits currently as the fourth seed of the playoff hunt, but is only a game behind Bells and Gunter for the number two and three seeds, respectively.

Howe was led by Jacob Campbell’s 21 points and Cooper Jones’ 10 rebounds. Jones also added 10 points.

Other scorers were Noah Riley (5), Austin Haley (2), and Kaleb Taylor (1).

Howe at Bonham 11-3A Standings Pottsboro 6-0 Gunter 4-2 Bells 4-2 Howe 3-3 Blue Ridge 2-4 Leonard 2-4 Bonham 0-6 Howe will host district leading Pottsboro Tuesday night at home and will travel to Bells Friday for a clash to move up in the standings.

Howe junior Cooper Jones (32) had 10 points and 10 rebounds in Bonham Friday night. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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Lady Bulldogs sit as the fourth seed in District 11-3Aafter tight win over Bonham

Howe’s Tori Williams leaped on the scene Friday in Bonham to lead Howe with nine points. Photo by Michelle Carney.

The Howe Lady Bulldogs (11-14, 4-3) continue their steady improvement and got a shot in the arm from JV callup freshman Tori Williams as she led Howe in points at Bonham Friday night in Howe’s 25-23 win. Williams had nine points and four rebounds to lead the Lady Dogs. Howe’s typical leading scorer Kendall Griffin finished with eight points and five steals.

Full stats: Tori Williams 9 points, 1 assist, 4 rebounds, 2 steals; Jordan Brunner 1 point, 1 rebound; Presley Shockey 1 assist, 5 rebounds, 2 steals; Teagan Stubblefield 2 points, 6 steals; Kendal Griffin 8 points, 2 rebounds, 5 steals; Brynn Riley 1 rebound; Jentri Doty 3 rebounds, 1 steal; Aubrielle West 5 points, 5 rebounds.

Howe vs. Blue Ridge 11-3A Standings Pottsboro 8-0 Gunter 6-1 Bells 5-3 Howe 4-3 Leonard 3-5 Blue Ridge 1-7 Bonham 0-8 Howe will host Pottsboro Tuesday night and will travel to Bells Friday to attempt to move up in the district seeding.

Howe junior Kendall Griffin (12) drives to the bucket Friday night in Bonham. Photo by Michelle Carney.

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name Bledsoe Road stripped away and renamed L.B. Kirby Avenue. She hotly blamed Howe’s current Mayor Bill French for leading the charge to strip the name from Bledsoe.

“I don’t like it. I think it’s a slap in the face. You don’t rename a street when someone is still living,’ said Waller in an upset tone. “You rename a street, maybe, after they die. I think it was because of a grudge from way back years ago and that’s not right.”

But local politics weren’t all she was involved with. Her leadership in Howe represented a number of organizations including her work with the First United Methodist Church acting for a time as church treasurer and Sunday school teacher. She was also very much involved with the United Methodist Women, serving as president, secretary, reporter, and in recent years as a member of the Wednesday Workers.

She authored the “Pledge of Allegiance” to the Grayson County flag.

She was instrumental in organizing the Howe ISD Band Booster Club, the Howe ISD Athletic Booster Club, the Howe former student’s organization, the Howe Community Library, the Howe Historical Society, the Howe Chamber of Commerce, and the Cannon Cemetery Association, and she served on the boards of all these organizations. She also participated in and

Carrie Waller was inducted into the initial class of the Howe Hall of Honor on April 24, 2015. Staff photo. served on the boards of the Howe Founders’ Day Parade, the Howe XYZ Senior Citizens Club, the Howe Community Facilities Development Corporation, the Howe Transportation Policy Advisory Committee, the Grayson County MHMR, the Texoma Coalition “Shots across Texas for Kids” campaign, and she served on the boards of the Grayson County Centennial, Bicentennial, Sesquicentennial, and Millennium Committees. She directed the Grayson County Historical Commission and the Grayson County Cancer Society. She was also a member of the Howe Sesame Club, the (Continued on page 6)

Carrie Waller (second from left) in a ribbon-cutting ceremony with thenMayor Ray Bledsoe (middle). Courtesy photo.

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Howe ISD PTA, the Howe Young Homemakers, the Howe Snap Center’s “Meals on Wheels” program, and the Howe Friends of the Library. She volunteered at the Grayson County Fair and in Wilson N. Jones Hospital’s Auxiliary “Pink Ladies” program. She was a lifelong member of the Loy Lake Livestock Show. She wrote and edited the Howe Centennial Book in 1972 and, together with her husband, she authored the Hall Cemetery Record Book. For her service, she was named Howe’s Citizen of the Year in 1996 and 2002 and received the Howe Chamber of Commerce’s special award for “Showing us Howe” in 2003. She was also named in the 1975 -76 edition of the “Who’s Who of American Women.” At the time of her death, she continued to compile information for the Hall Cemetery Association.

Carrie Waller Joe Russell McLain and wife Inez, baby Amos Dine McLain, and John Henry McLain and wife Pinky. She is survived by one son, Joe Henry Elliott, of Montreal, Canada, by a nephew, Carry Dine McLain and his wife Lauren, of Arlington, Texas, by a great nephew, a great niece, and two great grandnephews.

Waller gave the clear advice for those seeking to enter city council or mayor, “Do it to benefit the city and not themselves. A lot of people get on there to say ‘I’m a city councilman’ and they don’t do nothing for the city. But if you're going to run for the council and expect people to vote for you, you should be for the town. You get on there to benefit the town and not yourself.”

In lieu of flowers, donations may be made in Carrie’s honor to the Grayson County Crisis Center (4200 N. Travis St., Sherman, TX 75092; graysoncrisiscenter.org) or the Hall Cemetery Association (P.O. Box 664, Howe, Texas 75459).

Carrie was preceded in death by her husband, J.C. Waller, Jr., her parents, and by three brothers and their wives:

Funeral services were held at the First United Methodist Church of Howe on Friday, January 20, 2023, at 10:30 a.m.

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Soup Scoop

Howe ISD Superintendent Kevin Wilson told the Board of Trustees Monday night that the enrollment at the end of last month was 1,293 students and are close to a record number 1,300 students and he expects that number to be reached in another month.

He received resignations from Twana Stubblefield effective at the end of the school year and Jennifer Hix, a nurse at the intermediate school.

Wilson informed the board that election day is May 6 with the first date to file for a place on the ballot is January 18.

The annual tax collection report showed $5,263,007 for 2021 with collections being $5,210,756 including delinquent taxes which is a 97.9% collection rate. With fees plus delinquents, the ISD collected 100.36%.

He stated the campuses are still going through strenuous safety measures with constant checks of locks on

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doors . He said each school has to invest in window film and have it established by the summer. Wilson said a panic alert system needs to be integrated with the doors of the campuses which Howe ISD would automati- Superintendent cally trigger a lock Kevin Wilson on the doors and notify administration and integrate with 9-1-1.

Texas Education Agency (TEA) does provide funding for the upgrades but Wilson was not optimistic that the funding would cover the balance of the required upgrades.

The board members were notified of an email from IT for cyber security training. Wilson said the program took 25 minutes and was good information and important.

Howe High School Students of the Month—December

Mrs. Duncan’s first graders gave a demonstration of “Flip” a learning app.

Staff photo.

Top (left to right): Gage Troxtell, Alex Huerta, Hunter Shaw, and Logan Smith. Bottom (left to right): Grace Randall, Bettye Delavan, and Aubrielle West. Not pictured: Jailyn Devore. Courtesy photo.

Ms. Richardson’s kindergarteners gave a demonstration on a coding learning program entitled “OSMO.” Staff photo.

Summit Hill Elementary School teacher Donna Weir was recognized in front of the council by SHES Principal Clarissia Doty. Staff photo.

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ing developments.

“Anna and Melissa are going to be the heavy drivers and take on a strong part of that portion at least for the next fiveto-10 years as population grows and the water demand hits Van Alstyne and Howe.”

Up until Howe started taking water, the debt allocation was divided on a 25% shared portion between Melissa, Anna, Van Alstyne, and Howe. Howe’s projected annual debt allocation, as part of the agreement, is $344,775.93 without taking any of the surface water. With Howe taking the surface water, the projected annual debt allocation is $79,746.48 by taking the surface water which Howe now is taking.

Harvey stated Howe is on pace for that savings now of approximately $265,000 per year.

Harvey said the blending of surface water and well water is not a true blend.

“If you do end up blending well water with surface water, there’s a potential for disinfectant byproducts which is not what we’re doing,” said Harvey.

“You either have to convert your surface water to something that can mix and blend with well water—or vice versa. You take well water and treat it with chemicals that can blend with the surface water. And the latter is what we’re doing with two well sites.”

Harvey went on to discuss the scaling in the pipes of city lines and in older homes which is a buildup of natural minerals over time from well water.

As the direction flow of water has reversed from north-to-south to south-to -north, the new water is peeling away (scaling) the sides of the water line which is causing the discoloration.

City of Howe’s Public Works Director Mickey Phillips addressed the citizens and council to recap the situation that began on Nov. 15 when the city made alterations to the water system and treatment processes by introducing the surface water that uses a treatment disinfectant of chloramines which is less common but longer lasting than free chlorine.

January 23, 2023 “The changes were made to meet contractual duty as well as to rectify an ongoing active Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) violation of storage capacity,” said Phillips.

“Those were two of the main reasons we put the surface water online.”

He said Howe’s water system was isolated into two systems which made east of US Highway 75 a blend of both well and surface water sources using identical treatment sources. The west side remained on free chlorine and the existing well water source.

The public works department then began to flush the east side of the water system from south-to-north.

On Nov. 28, public works began to receive the first water quality complaints.

“After responding to each complaint and investigating all of the possible causes, it was determined the heaviest affected areas were isolated areas serviced by two-inch steel water mains with low water demand usage,” said Phillips. “Some of these areas consisted of West Haning Street, North Hughes Street, King Street, Beatrice, Elm, Pecan, just to name a few heavier in those areas.”

Phillips said quality issues were much improved with several hours of flushing the water main, but the discoloration would reappear within 24-to-48 hours after the flushing. After an investigation by public works, they determined the issues were being caused by the change in the water source from well to surface water.

On Dec. 2, TCEQ initiated a comprehensive compliance investigation based on the volume of complaints received from citizens. A records request was submitted by TCEQ and no issues or violations were found by TCEQ. On Dec. 8, as a precautionary procedure, bacteriological samples were taken from Howe Middle School and a resident on the 800 block of N. Hughes Street to verify that the issues were not associated with any form of bacterial growth or contamination of the water system. Those samples were passed and shown to be free of any disease-causing bacteria or contaminants.

Public works continued to field water

quality complaints and respond to each case. They flushed the system for a 1224-hour period or until clear. They also advised residents to do the same in those cases.

On Dec. 20, they performed their routine monthly bacteriological samples for TCEQ monitoring with all samples passing.

In January, the city brought in representatives from TCEQ and Texas Rural Water Association in which both organizations stated the City of Howe was responding correctly and the water system is showing signs of stabilizing and there is no need to critically consider infrastructure replacement in those affected areas.

“It is just a matter of time until the water system is fully stabilized and the water quality issues will become very few and far between,” said Phillips who stated the public works department has purchased automated flushing stations that are scheduled for installation this coming week and have installed temporary flush points until that time.

Howe resident Billie Ingram of W. Tutt Street addressed the council and said he submitted an open records request on Nov. 17 and said the city waited until Dec. 8 to collect the first water sample.

“They’ve had three weeks and numerous opportunities to address the city and there’s over 40 complaints in this open records packet not to mention the social media outlets,” said Ingram.

“The optics of the abject failure of this water situation could have been avoided if the transparency was open and honest from the beginning. Nothing was given to the citizens.”

Ingram then added that City Administrator Jeff Stanley told KXII that he wouldn’t drink it, but it’s safe.

8 ter notice as long as once you make the repair, you’re able to reinstate the water pressure back to normal operating pressure which is above 35 PSI. As long as you’re able to reinstate above minimum chlorine residuals which is 0.2 on free (chlorine) and 0.5 chloramine. And as long as you take a sample after repairs and it shows negative, then there are no calls for boil notices.”

Ingram then asked why those samples were not in his open records request to which Mayor French said they were not available at that time.

“Even though your public outcries that you were challenging all to take a drink, I would gladly done that with you because I grew up in a house that had a well and the water tasted like iron all the time, “said Mayor French.

“It’s minerals that were in it. It was ugly and it smells bad, and not only was it coming from the city mains, at the beginning which were very shortlived, but also we find that folks in older homes suffered from this because they had in their water heaters or in their metal lines. This is not a unique problem to Howe alone. The cities of Anna, Melissa, Van Alstyne all suffered from the same thing. After a time, it cleared itself.”

French responded to McDonald’s question of reimbursement of flushing lines to citizens by saying anyone that calls the city and are specifically having water problems can be placed on flat-rate billing until it clears.

“One of the cost of growth is that we need more water. We have inherited a program that far outlives all of us,” said French of the water contract with CGMA. “This agreement started 23 years ago but it’s like the crazy uncle.

We have to live with it and we grow to live with it and it will eventually become the norm. We will never have the sweet water we had before.”

“The water coming out of the faucets looked like urine,” said Ingram.

Ingram then stated his main complaint was the lack of communication and transparency.

He then went on to question the city for not issuing a boil notice throughout the process which drew a response from Phillips who said there is a lot of misconceptions on boil water notices.

“When I did my open records request, I had to actually contact the District Attorney’s Office to get them to contact the city to even turn over the records,” said Ingram.

“When you shut the water off, it doesn’t automatically mean a boil wa-

French then cut him off and asked if he

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were there to talk about the water problem or the compliant with the open records request.

“It all plays in together,” said Ingram.

“No sir, it does not,” said French. “No one in this room is complaining about open records but you.”

“I’m probably the only one that submitted one,” said Ingram.

French then said Ingram’s threeminute time limit was up.

First United Methodist Church at Denny Street and O’Connell Street stood from 1909 to 1977. Photo by Bob Walker.

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by the disaffiliating congregations. The official split won't happen until the summer of 2024, the next gathering of the church's General Conference. But Howe’s congregation’s vote was placed ahead of the March deadline.

In a recent article published by Vicki Hyatt in The Mountaineer in Waysnesville, NC, it states a church split has been simmering for years over samesex marriage and the ordination of gay pastors. Although the official stance of the United Methodist Church does not endorse either, the church has turned a blind eye to congregations accepting gay marriage and gay pastors anyway — leading some traditional congregations to fear the church is headed that way.

A tentative agreement was worked out whereby congregations wishing to continue along a more conservative path could begin negotiations to separate and still retain the church facilities constructed on land held in trust by the UMC.

The national merger in 1968 of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church brought the name, “The United Methodist Church,” to Methodism.

This is not just an issue with the Methodist Church as churches of all denominations have gone through similar scenarios. The Baptists have had similar experiences with the Southern Baptist Convention. In 2009 a new Lutheran organization, the North American Lutheran Church, left the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America as the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States. The chief reason for the split was the ELCA's shift in policy toward homosexual members and clergy. The NALC regarded the shift as being unbiblical and symptomatic of growing liberalism of ELCA.

Cassie Montgomery of Duke Street then spoke and said the explanation from public works was helpful but

was too late.

“It’s a mishandling to wait until people have to go to social media or news outlets to make this seem like a more pressing concern that finally we’re getting the water tested at the middle school on the eighth,” said Montgomery. “That seems like that should have been occurring when the water was the color of the yellow tassels on the flag. I’m in medical and I know that there’s a lot more than meets the naked eye and I’m not happy or comfortable with the fact that the water samples that were taken only checked for E. coli and total coliforms.

The following day, Ingram picked up a packet to run for city council as well as Michael Hill. Karla McDonald and Cort Myrick picked up packets to run for mayor of Howe.

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The church released the following statement to the Howe Enterprise: “The FUMC-Howe held a Church Conference on Sunday, January 15, 2023, and the congregation voted to disaffiliate from the United Methodist Church. After much deliberation over

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941 Calder Street, Howe, Texas. Courtesy photo.

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the past 4 months during the discernment process, the church ultimately decided to join many other churches throughout the area and state and leave the United Methodist Church because of deep conflict within the UMC regarding issues of human sexuality.

Although FUMC-Howe has voted to disaffiliate, several steps must occur before the action becomes final, including approval from the North Texas Conference, which is the United Methodist governing body for the region.

The NTC will hold a Special Conference in March to consider approval of the churches within the NTC region wishing to disaffiliate at that time.

In the interim, FUMC-Howe will consider its options moving forward, which could include joining a different Methodist affiliation or operating as an independent church. First and foremost, we intend to remain a faithful church at 810 N. Denny St. and

continue to worship, evangelize, and serve God as we have done for the past 100+ years in Howe. Our worship service is 10:00 a.m. on Sunday mornings, and we welcome anyone who wishes to join us for worship.

Howe’s Methodist Church dates back to 1877 when a group began meeting in a home in west Howe. That same year, the First Methodist Church was built in Howe on East Haning Street, the first block across from the railroad on the southside of Haning Street.

In 1909, the church relocated by building a new structure on the corner of Denny and O’Connell Streets. It consisted only of the sanctuary, which housed all the activities of the church, including Sunday School classes.

In 1977, the First United Methodist Church of Howe relocated. A new facility was built about one mile north of town on Denny Street which included a sanctuary, classrooms, kitchen, and fellowship hall. Additional buildings were constructed in 1987 and 1991.

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Submitted—XYZ Senior Group at First Baptist Howe met recently in Fellowship Hall of the church. Misty Adams Humphries with Reliant At Home Home Health and Hospice Services presented information about services provided, about the people who provide those services, and about the difference between those two services.

Humphries’ extensive experience in the Health field was evident as she confidently answered questions about Medicare, insurance, oncology, caregiving, rehab vs. palliative care, and advance directives and Do Not Resuscitate papers. Being a woman of faith, Misty was helpful with her comments on when hospice is appropriate for a patient. The group appreciated her wisdom.

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Weather modification—should we be playing God?

It seems like less and less people are outdoors these days. And when they are, they often are looking down at their phones instead of enjoying the beauty of God’s creation. It seems not too many people are concerned with the constant weather modification planes leaving streaks in the sky on a near daily basis. We have questions.

What if this technology fell into the hands of the wrong people—people that didn’t particularly like Americans? What could these weather modifications do to our ecosystem, or even yet, our bodies? If they can control the weather, why are there more hurricanes now more than ever? What happens if you continually block the sun with these hazy man-made clouds?

Why do they create such gorgeous pink and orange sunsets? Why does someone want to manipulate a creation made by a perfect Creator? How much money might be involved in this operation? Who is ultimately funding it? What are these chemicals doing to our water, soil? With “climate change” being such a scary topic from so many on the left, why are they not up in arms about this man-made climate change? Can this create climate change? Could this be the tool to initiate a much-needed crisis for funding a Green New Deal or instituting a carbon tax? There are so many questions and most people don’t look up to see what’s going on.

We won’t call them chemtrails or we’d be called a crazy conspiracy theorist. But we’re not calling them contrails either (condensation trails). We know they are not contrails because of the information from actual cloudseeding companies that admit they are putting salt and other products in the air.

According to the website of the Texas Weather Modification Association, the first “hint” of the potential of human activity to alter the behavior of clouds came just after the Civil War, when civil engineer Edward Powers made the observation that rainstorms often occurred where major battles between Union and Confederate troops were waged. The immense smoke, dust, and other particulate matter put into the air during conflict seemed to invigorate clouds to rain more.

Weather Modification has been tried since 1891 in Texas, the first attempt by patent attorney Robert Dyrenforth, who was given a $2,000 grant by the U.S. Congress to do a series of rain making experiments near Midland.

Severe droughts have driven the need for weather modification since it’s beginning, and the current attempt is no exception. Ground based generators have been used in several parts of the state over the years; then airplanes were tried, delivering dry ice, and then flares, and generators producing silver iodide particles.

Entrepreneur C. W. Post, founder of the Post cereal company, established a “beach-head” along the Caprock, at present-day Post, Texas during the early 1910’s to experiment with explosives to disturb promising rain clouds.

Post and his team of researchers conducted numerous trials during 19111914, using dynamite strategically placed just below and along the Caprock. While rain fell on some days, the results of the experiments were never conclusive.

Numerous “rain-making” endeavors sprouted in Texas during the terrible drought of the 1950’s. Some of the

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projects used ground-based generators to dispense agents such as silver iodide, while others featured aircraft that released various hygroscopic and glaciogenic seeding materials, including dry ice.

The 1950’s drought, and subsequent droughts in the early 1960’s, prompted so much cloud-seeding that the Texas Legislature was led to enact the Texas Weather Modification Act in 1967.

That act required any individual, or organization, attempting to modify the weather to obtain a weathermodification license and permit from the State’s water agency. In 1997, the State of Texas made its initial commitment to sponsoring rain-enhancement projects by devoting $550,000 to costshare, with four political subdivisions, for cloud-seeding activities using aircraft. Subsequent legislative sessions increased funding for these, and other projects, first through the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) and then to Texas Department of Agriculture.

Companies such as Seeding Operations & Atmospheric Research (SOAR) dedicated to provide weather modification operational services and atmospheric research technologies.

SOAR, according to their website, prides itself in being an elite group of researchers and operators with a mission to conduct sound scientific weather modification research and cloud seeding operations efficiently, professionally and safely. SOAR’s goals are to continue researching precipitation processes and atmospheric aerosol interactions, and to improve the capabilities of atmospheric research aircraft with new and modern instrumentation.

At the center of SOAR’s operations are new frontiers in weather modification. SOAR has conducted operational and research weather modification programs worldwide using the most technologically advanced instrumentation available.

Seeding at cloud base with hygroscopic material to produce precipitation increases is predicated on the assumption that the rain-producing process evolves in the following manner: (1) the introduction at cloud base of large and giant cloud condensation nuclei (CCN) produced by burning hygroscopic flares in racks mounted to the wings of the seeder aircraft; (2) preferential activation of the larger CCN from the flares, leading to a broadening of the cloud droplet distribution; (3) growth of the large cloud droplets into raindrops via natural coalescence processes, in clouds which could not otherwise have grown raindrops through warm-rain processes; (4) the

In the 1960s, an experimental weather-modification operation was underway. Called Project Stomfury, the military deployed pilots (pictured here) armed with silver iodide in the hopes of weakening damaging tropical storms. NOAA transport of the raindrops into the supercooled portion of the cloud where the raindrops freeze due to their larger size; (5) invigoration of the cloud due to released latent heat and growth of the frozen drops to large graupel by accretion of the cloud water; and (6) increased radar-estimated rainfall at cloud base and presumably more rainfall at the ground, when the enhanced water mass moves downward through the cloud (Mather et al., 1997).

Planned research with hygroscopic seeding in Texas was conducted in 2005 utilizing the SOAR research aircraft and its crew. Prof. Daniel Rosenfeld and Dr. William Woodley identified a patented means of processing common salt (NaCl) to virtually any desired size as verified after production by analysis with an electron microscope.

The Texas Weather Modification Association lists their programs on their website such as the Panhandle Groundwater Conservation District (PGWCD) in Whitedeer, TX as well as SOAR in Plains, TX, South Texas Weather Modification Association (STWMA) in Pleasanton, TX, the West Texas Weather Modification Association (WTWMA) in San Angelo, TX, and the Trans Pecos Weather Modification Association (TPWMA).

According to the Texas Department of Licensing & Regulation, seven cloud seeding projects today cover about 31 million acres (or about one-sixth of the land area of the state). When a severe drought was a greater threat at the end of the previous century, as many as 51 million acres were included in cloud seeding “target” areas in the state.

Texas’ present-day cloud seeding efforts are much more than wellconsidered responses to drought, however. They are also concerted efforts, using the latest technological tools and understanding, to replenish freshwater supplies in aquifers and reservoirs as well as to help meet the growing needs of agriculture, industry, and municipalities for fresh water. Political subdivisions like water conservation

A plane leaving a trail over the eastern skies of Howe early one morning last week. After flying back and forth throughout the day, the sky becomes filled with a haze. Staff photo.

districts and county commissions have embraced the technology of rain enhancement as one element of a longterm, water-management strategy designed to ensure a growing population has enough water to meet its future needs.

Each of the cloud seeding projects uses specially-equipped aircraft designed to place seeding materials (in the form of pyrotechnic devices, or flares, containing silver iodide and other compounds) into convective towers (turrets of growing thunderstorms) to induce them to expand and process more atmospheric water. The seeding is achieved by burning flares either mounted on the wings of single and twin-engine aircraft or held in racks, and dropped (ejected), from the underside of the aircraft fuselage. Pilots in the aircraft are directed to convective clouds believed by the meteorologist to be treatable with the seeding agent. Timing and targeting are the two critical factors in successful seeding of young thunderstorms. The concerted efforts of both pilot(s) and meteorologist are designed to give the growing cloud a “nudge” to enable it to be more efficient in the way it uses available cloud droplets to grow raindrops.

As each of the rain enhancement projects became established in recent years, state matching funds were allocated to the sponsoring groups to enable them to procure needed hardware such as specially-equipped aircraft and ground-based radar systems. Each project initially constructed its program, either leasing or purchasing aircraft, at a cost of 8 to 9 cents per acre, with the state assuming up to 4.5 cents of that cost. Eventually, the state share of the cost declined, such that today no residual state funds are used to sustain these programs. From the time the state began paying in part for the programs (1997) until state funds were exhausted (2004), the state contributed about $11.7 million. An additional $1.5 million in State funds was spent during that time to assess the projects’ performance.

No state funds are available for the current biennium (which began on September 1, 2022) for any cloud seeding operations in Texas. Rain enhancement projects this year are being funded exclusively by underground water conservation districts and other local political subdivisions like county commissions and aquifer authorities.

Each year an independent analyst at Texas Tech University uses Doppler weather radar data from the National Weather Service network to assess the impact of these rain-enhancement projects on seasonal rainfall within the projects’ target areas. The analysis of cloud-seeding operations conducted by these projects in 2019 showed that, on average, individual seeded thunderstorms lived 22 minutes longer (or 41 percent) than untreated storms in the vicinity and covered some 44 percent more area than the unseeded ones.

Rain output from seeded storms, on average, was 24 percent more than that from nearby untreated storms. The total number (101 in all) of single, isolated thunderstorms that were seeded produced an estimated 101,031 acre-feet above and beyond what could have been expected without intervention.

More complex thunderstorm clusters that were seeded were observed, by

12 radar, to have yielded an estimated 956,657 additional acre-feet of rainwater. The cost to produce this additional rainwater was estimated at less than $11 an acre-foot.

According to Scientific American, on Jan. 19, 2017, a research plane roared through the gray skies above Idaho’s Payette River Basin, spewing silver iodide into the air. Assembled on the snow-capped peaks below, snow gauges and portable radar machines were poised to measure the snow that scientists hoped would follow.

It was the beginning of an experiment that would turn cloud seeding science on its head. Known as the SNOWIE project—short for “Seeded and Natural Orographic Wintertime Clouds”— the study provided some of the first quantitative evidence that cloud seeding actually works.

For three days that January, weather conditions would align to set up the perfect cloud seeding experiment. The sky was cold and cloudy—but no snow was falling. Over the course of these three days, the research plane would make more than a dozen trips over the mountaintops, releasing the same amount of silver iodide each time.

“For three days there was cloud cover, but no snowfall, no natural precipitation,” said Katja Friedrich, an atmospheric scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who helped lead the SNOWIE project. “We put the seeding material into the supercooled liquid cloud, and we were able to generate precipitation. And that was very revolutionary.”

Thanks to high-tech radar equipment, the scientists were able to monitor the response of the clouds from the moment the silver iodide was released into the air until the moment snow began to fall. Over the course of those three days, the scientists estimated that around 286 Olympic swimming pools’ worth of snow fell from the clouds they seeded.

Friedrich and her colleagues, including scientists from Colorado, Wyoming, Illinois and Idaho, published their findings in a groundbreaking paper last year in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

SNOWIE came in the midst of a kind of a renaissance for cloud seeding research in the United States. After years of relatively little scientific interest in weather modification, a series of projects over the last decade have paved the way for new insights.

We can understand the need for water for a growing population on the planet.

But we still don’t have answers to the major questions. We, again, will refrain from calling the trails chemtrails even though they readily admit that silver iodide in the sky. What we would like to know is what the effect of sliver iodide-produced precipitation does to the natural water ecosystem as well as the soil. We would also like to know why so many people have had bronchial ailments recently when the skies have been peppered since New Years Day in North Texas. There are so many questions and the still the most basic one is, should we be playing God?

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

2022-23 Local taxation State Sales Tax General Revenue Sales Tax Ad valorem reduction Sales Tax Economic Development (Type B) Sales Tax Total

6.25 % 1.00 % 0.50 % 0.50 % 8.25 %

City of Howe Tax Rate Howe I.S.D Tax Rate Grayson County Tax Rate Grayson College Tax Rate Total (per $100 valuation)

$0.54 $1.27 $0.31 $0.15 $2.27

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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

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They hear His voice, and follow Him Life is changing all around us.

With technology providing an opportunity for every person on the planet to speak and listen, we are surrounded by so Dr. Billy Holland many opinions about everything, it’s becoming more difficult to discern what is right and wrong. Not only is this massive amount of information chaotic and much of the time unnecessary, but it has reached a point where many people no longer think for themselves.

It’s concerning when individuals become so addicted to the lives of others, they ignore the responsibility to develop a meaningful life of their own.

Some might believe there is no harm in using communication as a constant entertainment, but Christians have been warned to not be consumed with the spirit of the world as evil imaginations will attempt to distract and build strongholds of dark attitudes. Ever since the human race could speak and write thoughts, motives and intentions have been to teach and explain. While a portion of instruction can be beneficial, there is also the danger of receiving contaminated information that comes from the desire to control and deceive. This is the snare trap of our day. Romans 12:2 says, “Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.” There is right and wrong, just like there is truth and error. God is always right while we mortals struggle in the quicksand of deception as the result of a lack of spiritual wisdom and understanding. Life contains a specific purpose for each person and it can be discovered, but our earthly journey also gives us the freedom to do whatever we want and unfortunately this is what we usually choose. Every minute we are either doing God’s will or our will and they do not agree. I believe we can say with confidence that if a human ever accomplished anything worthwhile; they were being guided under the inspiration and direction of God. In the book of Philippians the third

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chapter, we find an analogy that is used to describe how dedicating our lives to Christ is like participating in a marathon. “I press on toward the goal for the prize of the heavenly call of God in Christ Jesus.” We also see this idea of running in II Timothy chapter 4, “I have run my race I have finished my course” and in Hebrews the twelfth chapter, “laying aside every weight of sin as we run with patience the race that is set before us.” This does not sound like the traditional idea of salvation where a person raises their hand, repeats a prayer, and that’s it, but rather the concept of running denotes constant participation and relentless determination to accomplish whatever God is telling us to do.

We have the potential to know the meaning of life and our unique destiny, but generally speaking, we would rather not be bothered with such things.

We desire to live to the fullest, have amazing experiences, and enjoy everything we can while we have the chance. However, when confronted about the consequences of making wrong decisions, we become hostile as we dig in our heels. Those who rebel against God become like fugitives that are always on the run. They become very uncomfortable when confronted with anything that reminds them they are going the wrong way. The beautiful thing about God’s amazing grace is that He does not stop intervening and convicting the conscience of those who are His children.

In the book of Luke chapter 15, we find a few parables, and one in particular Christ talks about a man who has 100 sheep. A good shepherd (which represents God), watches over every sheep and never takes their eyes from them. Verse four declares that if the shepherd loses a sheep, he will leave the ninety-nine and go search for the one until he finds it. When the sheep is found he places it on his shoulders and carries it home where he calls his friends and neighbors saying rejoice with me for I have found the one that was lost. Jesus goes on to make the point that there is joy in heaven when a sinner repents and God brings them back to His presence. The Great Shepherd watching over us today but there is a strong temptation by the world to lead us astray. Are you lost? Can you hear Him calling for you?

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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 Wednesday 6:30 pm - Team Kid 6:30 pm - Youth Ministry 6:30 pm - Adult Bible Fellowship Sunday 9:15 am - Bible Fellowship 10:30am - Worship Service 6:00 pm—Potluck Fellowship and Bible Study

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

Times are subject to change.

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Philippians 4:13 I can do all this through him who gives me strength.

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Texas History Minute

Success in business is often a combination of timing, determination, and imagination. One Houston businessman, Jesse H. Jones had all Ken Bridges these qualities and an innate sense of enterprise to build a fortune that changed the landscape of Texas’s biggest city. Jones became a giant in Houston business circles, leading what became some of the state’s largest and most influential companies.

While Jones became one of the most important businessmen in Texas, he also became one of a handful of Texans to ever serve in a presidential cabinet.

Jesse Holman Jones was born in Tennessee, near the Kentucky state line, in 1874. The family had worked the land for several generations as successful tobacco farmers. His mother Laura, however, died when he was six. By the time he was nine, his father, William, moved the family to Dallas to join his uncle, M. T. Jones, with his successful lumber business. After making a tidy fortune himself, Jones’s father soon brought the family back to Tennessee where he expanded the farm and built a luxurious new home for his five children.

William Jones gave his three sons a small plot on the farm where they could grow their own tobacco and manage the profits any way they sought. Jesse, the youngest, worked hard at his three acre plot but also proved quite adept at trading it and came into a partnership where at age 14 was allowed to manage a small factory that processed his partners’ tobacco. He proved so able that he quit school.

By 1891, Jones returned to Dallas and eventually landed in Hillsboro to work with his uncle’s lumber business where he worked with keeping the lumberyard’s accounts and debt collections. Soon, he was transferred back to the company’s main headquarters in Dallas where he became a manager within six months. When his uncle died a few years later, Jones was named general manager of his lumber business.

Jones moved to Houston in 1898.

Soon, his already bright fortunes accelerated. He started the South Texas Lumber Company in 1902 and built it into a million-dollar business within a few years. He also began dabbling in real estate and construction. He won a contract to build an extensive addition onto the Bristol Hotel in 1906 and won the contract to build the new headquarters for Texaco. The TexacoBuilding would become a 17-story building completed in 1915 and a dominant presence` in downtown Houston.

In 1906, Jones bought a 50% stake in the Houston Chronicle from founding editor Marcellus Foster. Jones and Fos-

ter built the paper into one of the largest and most influential newspapers in Texas. Foster convinced Jones to build the Chronicle Building in 1908 as a new home for the growing journal, which became another landmark in the growing downtown area.

By 1911, he bought the Rice Hotel from Rice University, tore down the old building, and built a new 13-story structure by 1916. Jones was already a millionaire in his own right and continued to invest in new construction projects and new businesses.

Interested in increasing Houston’s reach as a port city, Jones led a campaign in 1911 for a bond election to create what became known as the Port of Houston Authority, which included improvements in the waterways leading to the city, expanding its port facilities, and starting what became the Houston Ship Channel. Jones was asked to lead the board of the new organization, which rapidly increased shipping into the city, soon surpassing Galveston as the most important port in Texas.

His business acumen and success gained respect across the country. After President Woodrow Wilson was elected in 1912, he offered the new position of Secretary of Commerce to Jones.

Jones, though intrigued, decided to stay in Houston and tend to his growing business interests instead.

He became known for giving back to the community as well. Through the Houston Chronicle, he started the Goodfellows program, which helped disadvantaged children in the city.

During World War I, he gained new acclaim for his efforts to raise money for the American Red Cross as American troops fought overseas.

Jones married Mary Gibbs in 1920, and marrying late in life, he never had children but helped raise one of his wife’s granddaughters.

The Houston Chronicle in the meantime continued to gain influence. In the 1920s, he actively supported Foster’s editorial crusade against the Ku Klux Klan. When Foster retired in 1926, Jones bought his remaining half of the paper’s ownership and named himself publisher. His influence was so great that he was able to convince Democratic Party leaders to hold the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, the first time a major political party had held its national nominating convention in Texas. And by 1930, Jones expanded into radio. He began broadcasting radio station KTRH from the Rice Hotel, where Jones had long occupied the penthouse suite as his main residence.

Now in his late 50s, the challenges of the Great Depression would lead him to take on new roles in Washington, DC, where he would go to serve two presidents.

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Living with children

A fellow psychologist says I paint with too broad a brush concerning the devastating effect mental health professional John Rosemond advice has had on children. He claims that some of the changes in parenting practice since the 1960s have been beneficial and gives more involved fathers as an example. Hold that thought.

In the 1960s, American parents turned from elders to professional “experts”—people such as yours truly—for childrearing advice. The new experts cut from whole cloth a childrearing philosophy that was 180 degrees removed from tradition. The centerpiece of this new point of view is the notion that high self-esteem is a good thing and that parents should do all in their power to ensure their children acquire it.

Mind you, the supposed merits of high self-esteem were sold on rhetoric, not evidence. People with high self-regard, says the evidence, generally possess low regard for others, are manipulative, and often become abusive when they don’t get their way.

People with high regard for others seek opportunities to serve. People with high self esteem want to be served. It’s the simple difference between wanting to do for others and wanting others to do for you—obligation versus entitlement.

Because high self-esteem has become what I say on the subject doesn’t go over well with some folk. The most common protest: “But I want my child to be self-confident!” There is no evi-

dence that people who are humble, modest, and possess high regard for others lack the belief they are capable of dealing with life’s challenges.

Self esteem doesn’t pass the commonsense test either. Ponder this question: Would you rather (be employed by, work alongside, be close friends with, be married to) a person with high self-esteem or a person who is humble and modest?

See what I mean? Your commonsense knows the truth. (And make no mistake, high self-esteem and humility do not and cannot coexist.) The problem is that America’s childrearing commonsense has been all but asphyxiated by the big wet blanket of parenting psychobabble that came out of the 1960s.

So, since belief in high self-esteem is essential to believing in the whole of what I call Postmodern Psychological Parenting, I maintain that the latter is completely devoid of value. It is a sham that has damaged children, families, schools, and culture. I propose, therefore, that we begin the long haul of finding our way back home.

Back to more involved fathers. Are we talking here about the all-too-typical post-1960s dad who wants, most of all, for his kids to like him? If that’s the case, let us all praise the father who is a husband first and lets his kids know it.

Family psychologist John Rosemond: parentguru.com, johnrosemond. 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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The Patriot Pony Federal agencies withholding data Hunter Biden’s extended access to behind pilot heart condition change, father’s home where classified COVID vax stroke reversal memos found alarms investigators FAAsays"newscientificevidence"justifiedwideningacceptablerange forheartrhythms.Medicalexpertsdisagreewhetherchangeis "shocking"or"benignandpractical"givenpilotshortage.CDCcalled outforchangingmethodologyto"gettheresultyouwant."

HunterBidenroutinelylistedhomeaddressin2018-19asdad's Delawareresidence,siteofclassifieddocfindsclassifieddocuments fromPresidentBiden'stenureasvicepresidentwerediscoveredathis Wilmington,Del.,residenceearlierthismonth.

COVID vaccines safe for pilots, the FAA said, claiming it had "seen no evidence" of vaccinerelated complications that caused "aircraft accidents or pilot incapacitations."

cerned President Biden stored classified documents at the same location his son resided while engaging in international business deals with adversaries of the United States," Comer wrote in a Jan. 13 letter demanding more information from the White House.

By Greg Piper Federal agencies are withholding the data behind recent decisions that relate or may relate to COVID-19 vaccines and severe adverse events, fueling speculation that they are putting both vaccinated and unvaccinated lives at risk.

The Federal Aviation Administration told Just the News it widened the acceptable range of heart rhythms for commercial pilots, who were initially subject to industry-wide vaccine mandates, in light of "[n]ew scientific evidence" that it has yet to specify.

The Oct. 26 update to the heart arrhythmias section of the FAA Guide for Aviation Medical Examiners made two key changes.

The agency raised the maximum so-called PR interval for first-degree atrioventricular block to 300 milliseconds, with no regard to age, on the list of "normal variants" that don't require deferment in the absence of "symptoms or AME concerns."

For intervals longer than 300 ms, the FAA will make the call based on evaluations by examiners. The previous maximum PR interval for AV block was 210 milliseconds, but only in pilots under age 51.

FAA spokesperson Ian Gregor provided a modified version of the statement the agency released last spring after American Airlines pilot Robert Snow blamed his inflight cardiac arrest on coerced vaccination.

Federal Air Surgeon Susan Northrup has deemed all U.S.-authorized

The agency followed "standard processes based on data and science" to determine it could "safely raise the tolerance used to screen for a certain heart condition" and notified AMEs of the change. Gregor didn't respond to queries for the specific evidence.

Such representations may not assuage those who have more flight options. U.S. Freedom Flyers cofounder Joshua Yoder, whose group collects and analyzes adverse event reports from pilots, tweeted that "wealthy businessmen" have contacted him "looking for unvaccinated pilots."

Yoder started getting requests in fall 2021, "a mix of charter companies and private individuals who own personal jets," he wrote in an email.

"I've spoken to 30 plus individuals myself and have also heard from an aircraft broker recently who told me he's receiving similar requests."

Sheumas McGonnegal, a self-described veteran in London, claimed his charter company had received such requests.

He didn't answer Just the News requests for more details.

Vaccine-skeptic philanthropist Steve Kirsch, once courted by Democratic presidential hopefuls, called attention to the three-month-old FAA change Tuesday, claiming it showed the agency has conceded "the EKGs of pilots are no longer normal." He interviewed cardiologist Thomas Levy, who pointed Just the News to his Jan. 5

essay.

The FAA change is "arguably a shocking one, as many pilots are in the age range when heart attacks occur without any early symptoms but with a normal ECG, the ECG being the only mandatory heart-related test," Levy wrote. "A fatal heart attack from very advanced coronary artery disease could occur 10 minutes after the normal ECG was recorded."

The FAA declined to provide the "data and science" when Tucker Carlson asked for it in response to Kirsch's essay, the Fox News host said.

Military flight surgeon Theresa Long, who blew the whistle on a spike in possibly vaccine-related adverse events in a military medical database in 2021, told Carlson the expanded interval "does not improve safety" and called on Northrup to release the data.

She said the military requires annual EKGs of pilots regardless of age, in contrast to commercial pilots, who get EKGs at age 35 and then annually starting at 40, a problematic "five-year gap."

Other medical experts who are concerned about COVID vaccine side effects pushed back on the portrayal of the FAA change.

Former Ivy League epidemiologist Andrew Bostom, who was slated to lead a threatened classaction lawsuit against Twitter before Elon Musk's purchase, provided an "unhysterical review" Wednesday.

By Natalia Mittelstadt Fom online purchase orders to official government documents, Hunter Biden routinely listed the Delaware home that his father owned — the same one that housed recently unearthed classified documents — as his official residence during a turbulent time in 201819 when the president's son suffered through addiction and pursued a controversial Chinese energy deal.

Hunter Biden's connection to the Wilmington, Del., home where three separate tranches of classified documents were found starting on Dec. 20 is already raising concerns among congressional investigators like House Oversight and Accountability Committee Chairman James Comer.

Congressional investigators are acutely aware that some of the players Hunter Biden was seeking business from had connections to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and that one business associate tied to the CEFC energy firm in China — Patrick Ho — was convicted of making foreign bribery payments in a case that federal prosecutors alleged also involved efforts to help Iran evade nuclear sanctions.

According to multiple reports, at least one classified document found in Joe Biden's Penn Biden Center office in Washington involved Iran and another dealt with Ukraine, a country where Hunter Biden enjoyed a He cited a "classic" anal- lucrative business arysis from 2009 in the rangement with Burisma decades-old Framingham Holdings energy compaHeart Study, where he ny. once worked as a cardio(Continued on page 18) "The Committee is con-

File 2023-01-13-LetterWHCO-Bidenconfidential-docs.pdf The White House has steadfastly refused to comment on the classified documents scandal since Attorney General Merrick Garland appointed Special Counsel Robert Hur to investigate the discoveries of classified material on Nov. 2 at the office Joe Biden used at the Penn Biden Center in Washington and in December and this month at the Biden residence in Wilmington.

The president himself downplayed the controversy on Thursday, predicting there would be "no there there."

Records found on a laptop the FBI seized in 2019 — including receipts for online orders and hotel reservations with billing information, in addition to banking and legal correspondence — show that Hunter Biden listed his father's Delaware residence as his home address.

File BarleyMill2_Redacted.pdf File BarleyMill4_Redacted.pdf File BarleyMill5_Redacted.pdf File BarleyMill6_Redacted.pdf For instance, a receipt from 2018 shows a hotel reservation at The RitzCarlton Georgetown, Washington, D.C., billed to the Delaware address, and a 2018 Wells Fargo email has updated banking information for the same address. Receipts from Apple in 2019 have

the Delaware address listed as the billing address.

File BarleyMill7_Redacted.pdf File BarleyMill9_Redacted.pdf File NOTARIZEQuitClaimDeedtobesigned1hJzDC5j5Mh8Ctkg_Re dacted.pdf In a legal document regarding Hunter and his ex-wife, his residential address is listed as the same Delaware address. Hunter's driver's license issued in 2018 — a time when he was struggling with drug addiction — again lists his father's Delaware address.

In his memoir, Hunter wrote that he had quarantined with his family at the Delaware home on Election Day in 2020.

Kash Patel, a former National Security Council Senior Director, told the John Solomon Reports podcast Thursday that the national security implications of Hunter staying at his father's house while the classified documents were there are cause for concern.

Cover Image John Solomon Reports Fraternal Order of Police VP slams Biden police speech: Rhetoric is ‘extremely harmful,’ erodes public trustFraternal Order of Police VP slams Biden police speech: Rhetoric is ‘extremely harmful,’ erodes public trust SHARE SUBSCRIBE Amazon Music Apple Podcasts Stitcher RSS DOWNLOAD DESCRIPTION 00:00 / 01:07:34 Listen on Listen on Apple Podcast Listen on Stitcher Privacy Policy "[I]f these documents talk about China, Ukraine, Russia, and Iran, that's some of our most sensitive intelligence collection reporting," Patel said. "And

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The Patriot Pony COVID stroke reversal (Continued from page 17)

vascular epidemiologist.

Starting from a mean age of 46 and tracking pilots for 35 years — past their FAA-mandated retirement at 65 — the study suggests a 90millisecond increase is associated with small annual increased risks for all-cause mortality (1%), atrial fibrillation (1.5%) and permanent pacemaker placement (3%), Bostom said.

A PR interval over 300 ms could be "a benign finding in isolation" that requires "clinical correlation," without which it "makes even less sense to revoke flight privilege," he wrote. Normal PR intervals rise with age, but a short-term rise above 350 ms could be cause for concern, Bostom told Just the News.

"The most likely explanation [for the change] is very benign and practical: the airlines are losing pilots by attrition," both before COVID and since vaccine mandates pushed them out, and the FAA "wanted to liberalize these unreasonable criteria," he wrote in an email.

This is "much ado about nothing."

"The rate of progression to more advanced heart block is slow enough and rare enough that it would seem reasonable to allow pilots to fly with mild PR prolongation if you’re doing an annual Ecg,"

tweeted Philadelphia cardiologist Anish Koka, who has highlighted research finding heart scarring in children after COVID vaccination but not infection.

Shortly after the CDC and FDA told the public Jan. 13 they found a signal for ischemic stroke in elderly recipients of Pfizer's bivalent vaccine, unidentified officials told The Washington Post the signal disappeared after the CDC used a "different methodology" to analyze the data in its Vaccine Safety Datalink system. "[Y]ou can't just run different stat tests until you get the result you want," Johns Hopkins medical professor and National Academy of Medicine member Marty Makary wrote on Twitter. "Make the data public."

A CDC official told the Post that non-CDC officials, "including at the FDA," argued against publicizing the stroke signal because it could "fuel anti-vaccine sentiment and scare older Americans into avoiding the boosters." Makary blasted the FDA for "working so hard to sup [p]ress data."

The CDC didn't answer requests to respond to Makary's allegations or explain why it's withholding the VSD safetysignal data. The FDA didn't respond when asked to confirm the Post's reporting.

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then you have to ask the question, 'Why were those documents taken?

Did Vice President Biden take them to, you know, ensure the deals that his son had with the CCP and affiliated companies were going through so that he would get paid?

Did he take them to prevent his son from ever being prosecuted with stuff related to Ukraine?

And most importantly, do these enemies of ours now have leverage over our sitting commander in

chief?' That's the one that, you know, for me is the most important."

If reports are accurate that one of the classified documents was an Iranian intelligence report, then "it's one of the most damning indictments of recklessness by a commander in chief in modern history," Patel said.

"I mean, we're talking about Iran," he stressed.

"It's the world's largest state sponsor of terror.

Their [Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps] is responsible for more civilian casualties to Amer-

Biden scandal intensifies as FBI finds six more classified memos in search of his Delaware home Thediscovery is thefifth sinceNovember.

By John Solomon The Justice Department found six new classified documents inside President Joe Biden’s Delaware home during a search by FBI agents, the president’s attorney announced Saturday night.

The discovery during a day-long search Friday marked the fifth time since November that classified materials have been found in an office or home of the 46th president.

“DOJ requested that the search not be made public in advance, in accordance with its standard procedures, and we agreed to cooperate,” Biden personal attorney Bob Bauer said in a statement.

“DOJ had full access to the President’s home, including personally handwritten notes, files, papers, binders, memorabilia, to-do lists, schedules, and reminders going back decades,” he added. “DOJ took possession of materials it deemed within the scope of its inquiry, including six items consisting of documents with classification markings and surrounding materials, some of which were from the President’s service in the Senate and some of

ican service members than any one group on planet Earth in history.

And our sitting commander in chief, when he was vice president, decided to take extremely sensitive intelligence, classified documentation because his son was involved in dealings with these guys and the CCP? "It doesn't add up ... it really just doesn't make sense as to why anyone would take this documentation except to cover something up, which is extremely problematic."

which were from his tenure as Vice President.

DOJ also took for further review personally handwritten notes from the vice-presidential years.”

George Washington University law school professor Jonathan Turley said the latest discovery undercut Biden’s defense of an inadvertent mishandling of documents and required more than his stated lack of remorse.

“It becomes increasing implausible that dozens of documents were distributed to at least four different locations by pure ‘inadvertence,’” Turley tweeted Sunday morning, “At what point do the mounting stacks of classified documents

produce a modicum of regret?”

The six memos found Friday are in addition to 11 classified documents found at the Biden home in Wilmington, Del., beginning on Dec. 20.

In addition, more classified documents were found at the Penn Biden Center in Washington back on Nov. 2.

The discoveries have transformed the politics of a scandal that first started with the discovery of documents with classified markings in former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida, which prompted an FBI raid.

Biden slammed Trump as irresponsible, only to see the controversy boomerang around on him with the discovery of classified materials in his own possession at insecure locations.

As recently as Friday Biden was trying to minimize the discoveries, saying there was “no there, there.”

But after the new search on Friday, congressional Republicans immediately seized on the revelation that even more documents had been found.

“I guess there wasn’t nothing there there, Mr. President,” Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., tweeted Saturday night in mocking derision.

Treasury Secretary Yellen calls House GOP 'irresponsible' for demanding spending cuts amid shutdown SomeDemocrats,suchasSenateMajorityWhipDickDurbinofIllinois, havesaidthatBidenshouldnotnegotiatewiththeGOPonthedebtceiling.

By Madeleine Hubbard Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that House Republicans are being "very irresponsible" and risk creating a global economic catastrophe by demanding spending cuts in return for raising the U.S. debt ceiling.

During her diplomatic trip to Africa, Yellen said during an interview Saturday with The Associated Press that she believes Congress will vote to raise the U.S. debt limit, but making the increase conditional on spending cuts is "a very irresponsible thing to do."

Yellen said late last week that the Treasury is implementing "extraordinary measures" to avoid defaulting after the U.S. hit the $31.38 trillion debt ceiling.

A U.S. default on debt "would impose a selfimposed calamity in the United States and the world economy," she said Saturday.

"Congress needs to understand that this is about paying bills that have already been incurred by decisions with this and past Congresses and it's not about new spending," Yellen said. She stated that she believes in the importance of responsible government debt levels, "but it can't be nego-

tiated over whether or not we're going to pay our bills."

Some Democrats, such as Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin of Illinois, have said that President Joe Biden should not negotiate with Republicans on the debt ceiling.

West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin said he is in support of discussions with the GOP and thinks spending needs to be reined in. During a CNN interview Sunday, he said: "Every American has to live within a budget. If they don't, they're in trouble financially. ... Shouldn't the federal government have some guardrails that say, hey, guys, you're getting (Continue reading…)

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