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Halloween Treats for Tricksters, Goblins, and Witches...

Eerie Scary Halloween Treats

Every season of the year offers an opportunity to create special culinary delights. And Halloween is certainly no exception. When the hot days of summer are over, the nip of autumn is in the air, and leaves of red and gold carpet the forest floor, ghosts, ghoulies and goblins will soon be making their nightly rounds.

Be prepared for this onslaught when October 31 rolls around with these treats guaranteed to delight even the most demanding tricksters.      

             Ghoulish Gravestones             

To make gravestone cookies, use a sugar cookies recipe and a gravestone cookie cutter. Since the gravestone shaped cutter may be hard to find, you may have to improvise, or settle for a simple inverted "U" shape. A simple sugar cookie recipe that works well is included in "Grandma's Recipes" on this page.

Bake & cool the cookies completely. Coat with royal icing, tinted gray by adding a small amount of black food coloring. Add just enough corn syrup to make the icing level itself when spread.

Wait a full day for the icing to harden before lettering the gravestone cookies with food coloring pens. 

            Eerie Eyeballs       3 oz lemon gelatin
1 cup hot water
1/2 cup miniature marshmallows
1 cup pineapple juice
8 oz cream cheese
            

In a double boiler dissolve lemon gelatin in 1 cup water. Add marshmallows and stir until melted.

Remove from heat. Add pineapple juice and cream cheese and beat until well blended. 

Cool slightly. Spray a truffle candy mold or round ice cube trays with non-stick cooking spray, and then pour the mixture into the molds. Place in the refrigerator.      

To decorate, you may use liquid food coloring and an old detail paintbrush. Use black food coloring for the pupils. You may dip the ball into a shallow pool of food coloring to create the iris... or paint it on if you prefer.   Rubber ice cube trays work fine, just put the gelatin mixture in the refrigerator to set, and then pop the little globes out when you're ready to paint.            

This recipe should make about nine dozen squishy (and tasty) eyeballs!

At Last, Our Say on the "Pandemic"

(Articles are being edited at this time.)

Pandemic Definition by Merriam Webster Dictionary

 Noun 

pan·dem·ic | \ pan-ˈde-mik

 An outbreak of a disease that occurs over a wide geographic area and affects an exceptionally high proportion of the population : a pandemic outbreak of a disease.

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Rockport Texas, Pittstop for Hummers  

The big crowds go to Cape Canaveral for space shuttle launches, but folks around Rockport and Fulton, Texas celebrate their own launch each fall.

These twin coastal towns fuel up thousands of hummingbirds to help them on their way across the Gulf of Mexico to a warm winter home in the tropics.

In fact, Rockport and Fulton celebrate the annual southern migration the weekend after Labor Day with bus and boat trips, self-guided tours, educational seminars and many other activities.

Just a few years ago the hummers' pickings were slim. There were few feeders and not many nectar producing plants in the area, which serves as a funnel for huge numbers of the little birds getting ready for the long flight over open water.

Anyone who has put out a hummingbird feeder knows that the tiny flyers need to stoke up often. Anna Reemsnyder, a hummingbird lover and resident of Fulton, explains that the little creatures must eat at least 5 to 8 times per hour.

"Not so long ago in the grand scheme of things, fields of wildflowers and sprawling forests carpeted much of North America," she explains. "Hummers counted on a trail of nectar-rich, tubular blossoms. But, from a bird's-eye view, today's landscape must be frightfully disappointing."

In mid to late August, hummers start guzzling food and tiny insects so fast that their weight nearly doubles in just a few days. They need the groceries. The rufous hummingbird, for instance, travels as many as 5,000 miles from its summer home in Alaska to winter digs in South America.

Large numbers of the little birds congregate in the Rockport-Fulton area to take on fuel and build strength for the 600-mile trip across open water to the Yucatan Peninsula. Aside from hungry sea gulls, the trip is even more dangerous because scientists estimate that hummingbirds have a range of only about 650 miles without food and rest. At the end of the flight, the gas tank is almost empty.       

So before this challenging trek begins, the Texans tank 'em up. Just a few years ago, the area had few feeders and not many nectar producing plants. But now, there are feeders and flowers everywhere. Even local shrimpers have taken to putting feeders on their boats so they can prepare hummingbirds for the journey.

 Other people come to the area, too. Thousands of visitors came this past year, and the number increases as more folks find out about the visual treat that awaits them. And quite a show it is, Anna reports.                  

"The trees and bushes are filled with exhausted or satiated, resting birds. Others hover in a blur of wings, then dart in like sunbeams as vacancies occur on feeders and blooming plants," she adds. Most of the hummers are ruby-throated, the only species native to the eastern United States and southern Canada. But sharp eyed observers can spot other types. Bird fanciers can see many other species... including rare whooping cranes... at the neaby Aransas National Wildlife Refuge.

The hummers are smart little birds... they wait along the Gulf Coast until they can catch the southerly tail wind of a Pacific or Canadian weather front, explains Diane Probst of the local chamber of commerce.

 "Neither the hummers nor the climate go by our calendar, so each year will be different in numbers or birds and weather conditions," she points out.                  

  "You'd think that after all these years we've thrown a party for them, they would RSVP,"

 If you want to visit the Rockport-Fulton area during the Hummer/Bird Celebration in September, you can call a toll-free number, 1-800/242-0071, for current information.      

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Serra Pelada, Hell on Earth... 1986

STORY COMING...

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The "Epoch Times"--- What Is It?

FROM THE EDITOR:

A few days ago we discovered The Epoch Times,  a "new" publication which may merit your close attention. This is a nationally circulated newspaper which purports to publish unbiased news. The copy which came into our hands is a full sized, broad sheet newspaper of about 48 pages.  If it does what it says it does, it deserves to be read by every American.  More, as information becomes available to us.

SINCE THE ABOVE PARAGRAPH WAS WRITTEN, more information has become available to us.  A part of that information is  contained in the following article.

What Is “The Epoch Times”

The one word which best describes “The Epoch Times” is “foreign”. The “catch-phrase” for this print publication which is currently distributed by free and paid circulation throughout the U.S. is “Truth and Tradition”.  But upon close inspection of its past several issues, I find it short of both.

But in spite of that, it is refreshing to see anything which purports to be a newspaper supporting President Donald Trump. And the “Epoch Times” certainly does.

Upon examining the first issue to come to my attention, I came away feeling a bit confused.  It was unmistakably an instrument of propaganda. But what newspaper nowadays isn’t?  Whose propaganda, and for what purpose? Could it be that it was founded by the Trump organization to counteract some of the negative coverage he has received from establishment media?  

That consideration was soon put to rest. No. The “Epoch Times” just didn’t fit. And advertising. Where was the advertising? It was almost non-existent.  The cost of publishing and distribution has to be enormous. Without advertising revenue, who pays the bill?

As the months passed and as a result of considerable research, the somewhat murky image is becoming clearer. Here’s the picture as we now see it (subject, of course, to correction as new information becomes available).

(1) The “Epoch Times” had its origins in China.

(2) It appears to be the implacable foe of the Chinese Communists.

(3) The “Epoch Times” is closely associated with and possibly an instrument of the Chinese religious movement, Falun Gong.  Falun Gong has been the subject of severe persecution by the Chinese Communist government.

(4) The “Epoch Times” is not a 501-C3 nonprofit corporation. They informed us by phone that as far as they know, the money you spend for a subscription is therefore not tax deductable.

(5) First U.S. edition was in 2000.

(6) Headquarters is in New York City.

(7) Founder was John Tang.

(8) Owner: Epoch Media Group.

(9) Non-audited circulation is 1,314,375

(10) Although it touts “traditional American values” The Epoch Times does not have its roots in America. It remains essentially foreign.

Coming next…  What is The “Epoch Times” position regarding the current virus “pandemic"?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             More...

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Halloween as Viewed By a Neopagan  ( Entered 11-9-2020 )

For more information on Halloween from the Neopagan perspective you may write Mr. Bonewitz  or visit any of his numerous highly educational websites.

Wikipedia Has More Halloween Info'

Halloween (Samhain) marked the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or the 'darker half' of the year. Like Beltane, it was seen as a time, when the boundary between this world and the Otherworld thinned. This meant  the 'spirits' or 'fairies', could more easily come into this world and were particularly active. Most scholars see the “spirits” as "degraded versions of ancient gods whose power remained active in the people's minds even after they had been officially replaced by later religious beliefs".

 They were both respected and feared, with individuals often invoking the protection of God when approaching their dwellings. At Halloween it was believed that the spirits needed to be propitiated to ensure that the people and their livestock survived the winter. Offerings of food and drink, or portions of the crops, were left outside for them.  The souls of the dead were also said to revisit their homes seeking hospitality.

Places were set at the dinner table and by the fire to welcome them. The belief that the souls of the dead return home on one night of the year and must be appeased seems to have ancient origins and is found in many cultures throughout the world. In 19th century Ireland, "candles would be lit and prayers formally offered for the souls of the dead. After this the eating, drinking, and games would begin".

Throughout Ireland and Britain, the household festivities included rituals and games intended to foretell one's future, especially regarding death and marriage. Apples and nuts were often used in these divination rituals. They included apple bobbing, nut roasting, scrying or mirror-gazing, pouring molten lead or egg whites into water, dream interpretation, and others. Special bonfires were lit and there were rituals involving them. Their flames, smoke and ashes were deemed to have protective and cleansing powers, and were also used for divination. In some places, torches lit from the bonfire were carried sunwise around homes and fields to protect them.

It is suggested that the fires were a kind of imitative or sympathetic magic – they mimicked the Sun, helping the "powers of growth" and holding back the decay and darkness of winter. In Scotland, these bonfires and divination games were banned by the church elders in some parishes. In Wales, bonfires were lit to "prevent the souls of the dead from falling to earth". Later, these bonfires served to keep "away the devil". (Wikipedia) to be continued.

Did Witches Get a Bad Rap?

More to Come...

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Home | Wire | In March, US Deaths from COVID-19 Totaled Less Than 2 Percent of All Deaths

In March, US Deaths from COVID-19 Totaled Less Than 2 Percent of All Deaths

Originally Published: 04/06/2020

Ryan McMaken

About 2.9 million people die in the United States each year from all causes. Monthly this total ranges from around 220,000 in the summertime to more than 280,000 in winter. 

In recent decades, flu season has often peaked sometime from January to March, and this is a major driver in total deaths. The average daily number of deaths from December through March is over eight thousand.

So far, total death data is too preliminary to know if there has been any significant increase in total deaths as a result of COVID-19, and this is an important metric, because it gives us some insight into whether or not COVID-19 is driving total death numbers well above what would otherwise be expected. 

Indeed, according to some sources, it is not clear that total deaths have increased significantly as a result of COVID-19. In a March 30 article for The Spectator, former UK National Health Service pathologist John Lee noted that the current number of deaths from COVID-19 does not indicate that the UK is experiencing "excess deaths." Lee writes:

The simplest way to judge whether we have an exceptionally lethal disease is to look at the death rates. Are more people dying than we would expect to die anyway in a given week or month? Statistically, we would expect about 51,000 to die in Britain this month. At the time of writing, 422 deaths are linked to Covid-19—so 0.8 per cent of that expected total. On a global basis, we’d expect 14 million to die over the first three months of the year. The world’s 18,944 coronavirus deaths represent 0.14 per cent of that total. These figures might shoot up but they are, right now, lower than other infectious diseases that we live with (such as flu). Not figures that would, in and of themselves, cause drastic global reactions.

How do these numbers look in the United States? During March of 2020, there were 4,053 COVID-19 deaths according to Worldometer. That is 1.6 percent of total deaths in March 2019 (total data on March 2020 deaths is still too preliminary to offer a comparison). For context, we could note that total deaths increased by about four thousand from March 2018 to March 2019. So for March, the increase in total deaths is about equal to what we already saw as a pre-COVID increase from March 2018 to March 2019.

As Lee notes, total COVID-19 deaths could still increase significantly this season, but even then we must ask what percentage of total deaths warrants an international panic. Is it 5 percent? Ten percent? The question has never been addressed, and so far, a figure of 1 percent of total deaths in some places is being treated as a reason to forcibly shut down the global economy.

Yet, as a CDC report recently noted, pneumonia deaths have often been far more common than COVID-19 deaths are right now: "Based on National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) mortality surveillance data available on March 26, 2020, 8.2 percent of the deaths occurring during the week ending on March 21, 2020 (week 12), were due to [pneumonia and influenza]."

Meanwhile there is a trend t of attributing more of those pneumonia deaths to COVID-19 rather than influenza, although this doesn't actually mean the total mortality rate has increased. The CDC report continues: "the percent of all deaths with Influenza listed as a cause have decreased (from 1.0% to 0.8%) over this same time period. The increase in pneumonia deaths during this time period are likely associated with COVID-19 rather than influenza." This doesn't necessarily represent a total increase in pneumonia deaths, just a change in how they are recorded.

This reflects an increased focus on attributing deaths to COVID-19, as noted by Lee:

In the current climate, anyone with a positive test for Covid-19 will certainly be known to clinical staff looking after them: if any of these patients dies, staff will have to record the Covid-19 designation on the death certificate—contrary to usual practice for most infections of this kind. There is a big difference between Covid-19 causing death, and Covid-19 being found in someone who died of other causes. Making Covid-19 notifiable might give the appearance of it causing increasing numbers of deaths, whether this is true or not. It might appear far more of a killer than flu, simply because of the way deaths are recorded.

Given this rush to maximize the number of deaths attributable to COVID-19, what will April's data look like? It may be that COVID-19 deaths could then indeed number 10 or 20 percent of all deaths. 

But the question remains: will total deaths increase substantially compared to April 2019 or April 2018? If they don't, this will call into question whether or not COVID-19 is the engine of mortality that many government bureaucrats insist it is. After all, if April's mortality remains "about the same" as the usual total and comes in around 230,000–235,000, then obsessive concern over COVID-19 would be justified only if it can be proven April 2020 deaths would have plummeted year-over-year had it not been for COVID-19.

Update:

Meanwhile the CDC is instructing medical staff to report deaths as COVID-19 deaths even when no test has confirmed the presence of the disease. In a Q and A on death certificates published by the CDC on March 24, the agency advises:

COVID-19 should be reported on the death certificate for all decedents where the disease caused or is assumed to have caused or contributed to death. Certifiers should include as much detail as possible based on their knowledge of the case, medical records, laboratory testing, etc. If the decedent had other chronic conditions such as COPD or asthma that may have also contributed, these conditions can be reported in Part II. [emphasis in original.]

This is extremely likely to inflate the number of deaths attributed to COVID-19 while pulling down deaths attributed to other influenza-like illnesses and to deaths caused by pneumonia with unspecified origins.  This is especially problematic since we know the overwhelming majority of COVID-19 deaths occur in patients that are already suffering from a number of other conditions. In Italy, for example, data shows 99 percent of COVID-19 deaths occurred in patients who had at least one other condition. More than 48 percent had three other conditions. Similar cases in the US are now likely to be routinely reported simply as COVID-19 cases.  

Source: Total death and flu/pneumonia death data via National Center for Health Statistics (www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/weeklyarchives2019-2020/data/nchsData12.csv). COVID-19 totals via Worldometer COVID stats.

Unfortunately, because total death data is not reported immediately, we have yet to see how this plays out. We do know historically, however, that deaths attributed to flu and pneumonia over the past decade have tended to make up around five to ten percent of all deaths, depending on the severity of the "season."  Last week (week 14, the week ending April 4) was the first week during which COVID-19 deaths exceeded flu and pneumonia deaths, coming in at 11 percent of all death for that week. (Using a 2017-2019 average as a baseline.) The prior week, (week 13, the week ending Mar 28) COVID-19 deaths made up 3.3 percent of all deaths.  These numbers are likely to rise throughout the month. Yet, until we have reliable numbers on all deaths in the coming weeks, it will be impossible to know the extent to which COVID-19 are "cannibalizing" flu and pneumonia deaths overall. That is, if the COVID-19 totals skyrocket, but total deaths remain relatively stable, then we might guess that many deaths formerly attributed simply to pneumonia, or to flu, are now being labeled as COVID-19 deaths. Potentially, this could also be the case for other patients, such as those with advanced cases of diabetes.

UPDATE, April 8:

White House COVID-19 task force member Dr. Deborah Birx has confirmed that it is now standard practice to count all death of persons "with" COVID-19 as deaths caused by COVID-19. At  an April 7 briefing, Birx explained:

We’ve taken a very liberal approach to mortality. I think the reporting here has been pretty straightforward over the past five to six weeks. Prior to that, when there wasn’t testing in January, and February, that’s a very different situation and unknown….[Now] if someone dies with COVID-19 we are counting that as a COVID-19 death.

The above article was originally published in "The WIRE", from the Mises Institute. More to  come.

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From: The Tyler Chronicle, Spring, 2020 and Previous Editions

EDITOR'S  NOTE: The following is a copy of one of many such ads currently appearing on the internet. We publish it in this edition of the Tyler Chronicle for information purposes only. For more information read the serious article by Egon von Greyerz on page 22!         

ANNUAL DYANNA DAWNN TRIBUTE SHOW  Robert Graebner presents the second annual Dyanna Dawnn Fan Club tribute show in memory of the late and great Miss Dynamite herself, Dyanna Dawnn. We invite you to enjoy an hour of great musical entertainment featuring Elvis stylist, Bobby Moore. Door prizes will be awarded and refreshments will be served. It's all taking place at Taylor Auditorium in the Tyler Public Library building at 201 South College Street at 1 pm on November 8, 2019.  And, it's free!  NOTE: Show cancelled due to illness and death of Mr. Graebner.

DYANNA DAWNN COLLECTIBLES  No longer available.

SEE & HEAR BOBBY MOORE LIVE  Free show second Tuesday of each month at Waterton Inn, 2885 Shiloh Road, Tyler. The big, hour long show starts at two pm sharp in the dining area. You are invited to come and bring a guest. The show features 50s and 60s Elvis hits, and even a little Country Western and Gospel. Bobby's voice is now heard around the world on the BMCN radio network and on the internet at https://www.bobbymooreshow.weebly.com. To see and hear Bobby on You Tube, just go to You Tube and then type in BMCN TELEVISION. That's all there is to it!

THE NEXT RECESSION WILL BE THE LAST!

*** THE FIAT MONETARY SYSTEM IS FALLING APART – GETTING DESTROYED ***                                                           

"We're well past the point of no return. On a scale of 1 to 10, we're over 1,000 at how unsustainable this economic regime is.

The next step will include such desperate measures, such as Helicopter Money, Universal Basic Income and Income Tax Credits that we anticipate more than $10 trillion in equity loss this next downturn, more than in 2008!

You must take into consideration the risk of a system RESET, a catastrophic recession that changes everything we know about the financial system.

Society will never be the same, and we must prepare immediately. Every day counts."

Neck Deep in Trash!

    According to a recent article in the "Atlantic", although Americans are finally making an effort to recycle, things aren't going as planned. And it appears that the country is accumulating an incredible  tonnage of  cardboard, plastic, glass and other "recyclables" that... aren't!   Several causes are blamed  for the situation, a principal one being economic.  A case  in point is the 400,000 tons of plastic trash piled high by the "Keep Northern Illinois Beautiful" nonprofit.  The  mountain of bales continues to grow with no profitable sale in sight.  China, which was once a market for countless boatloads of mixed plastic discards and waste paper from the U.S. no longer welcomes these materials from us.

    We produce about 267.8 million tons of municipal solid waste annually (2017 figures). That amounts to about 4.5 pounds per person per day. And that does not include demolition waste or sewage sludge. Any way you look at it, that's a lot. Percentage-wise a breakdown of our municipal solid waste looks  like this: textiles 6.3%, rubber and leather 3.4%, wood 6.7%, food 15.2%, yard trimmings 13.1%, paper and cardboard 25%, metals 9.4%, and plastics 13.2%.  What about glass?

    You can expect more updates on  recycling and related topics in The Tyler Chronicle, and on BMCN (The Bobby Moore Communications Network).  Following are links if your computer uses windows media player. For complete directory, go to www.bmcndirectory.com

*NOTE: The following stations are undergoing maintenance and may have unannounced interruptions during the next thirty days.

 BMCN FLAGSHIP

https://control.internet-radio.com:2199/tunein/bmcn.asx

 BMCN ARCHIVE

https://control.internet-radio.com:2199/tunein/bmcnarchive.asx

BMCN MUSIC

https://control.internet-radio.com:2199/tunein/bmcnmusic.asx

BMCN SHOW

 https://control.internet-radio.com:2199/tunein/bmcnshow.asx

BMCN TALK

https://control.internet-radio.com:2199/tunein/bmcntalks.asx

BMCN TYLER

https://control.internet-radio.com:2199/tunein/bmcntyler.asx

BMCN GOSPEL

https://control.internet-radio.com:2199/tunein/bmcngospel.asx

Is Atomic Radiation Killing You and Your Children?

      "Depleted" uranium ammunition has been extensively used by the United States in the middle east conflict. The result, above and beyond the fatalities caused be the exploding shells, is thousands of acres of land contaminated by radioactivity and a legacy of birth defects which will extend for many generations to come. The Abrams tank pictured above not only fires rounds of depleted uranium, but utilizes this very dense metal for armor. American soldiers who have been exposed to the inhalation of depleted uranium dust are at  risk of producing deformed offspring, cancer, and many other related illnesses.  The use of atomic weapons by the United States did not end with the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945.        

      Munitions utilizing "depleted" uranium are available in a wide range of calibers; ranging in size from rifle ammunition (a favorite of snipers) to the cannon-sized rounds fired from tanks. An atomic bomb utilizing "depleted" uranium, (small enough to be carried on a backpack) was developed and tested by the U.S. as early as the 50s. "Depleted" uranium is in plentiful supply since it is a byproduct of the uranium enrichment process used to produce the "enriched" uranium used in many atomic reactors.  In fact, there is so much of it available that safely storing it has been a real problem. The storage problem is compounded by the fact that this radioactive material has a half-life of about two billion years.      

Gentleman Jim Thigpen,  "Master of the Telecaster"          

A retired industrial engineer has been named to the Tyler Chronicle's Rock-N- Roll Hall of Fame. Jim Thigpen is the first, in fact, to receive the award. Jim, a native of Danville, Virginia, grew up in the 50s when the likes of Elvis and Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins were laying the foundations of the greatest popular music revolution in America.  Jim played in the high school band and his musical group, The Teen Age Rockers, performed regularly at country club parties and other local events.

During Jim's adolescence the great cotton textile mills were in operation in Danville, producing goods that were the pride of his state and the nation. "Industry" had not yet become a dirty word in America. And great railroads in the twilight of steam served the mills over shining ribbons of singing steel.

The era left in indelible impression on the man, which he carries with him to this day. It is impossible to play 50s rock-n-roll unless you feel it, some would say. And there can be no doubt in anyone's mind when they hear him play, threat Jim feels it... deep in his bones. And as a result, so does his audience.

As Jim left the high school scene, other obligations left him little time for the music he enjoyed so much; an air force career, raising a family, a position in finance, and finally his years of work for Trane Mfg. Company as an industrial engineer. Then, a chance meeting resulted in Jim's renewed interest in 50s rock-n-roll; an interest which has blossomed beyond everyone's expectations.

Veteran 50s rock-n-roll stylist, Bobby Moore was searching for a lead guitarist who could "play the 50s tunes the way they should be played." "The search was not successful until we met Jim," Moore said. "There are lots of good guitarists out there, but not many who can play this music right. Either you have the feel for it, or you don't."

"Jim is a perfectionist... maybe to the point of being obsessive", Moore asserted. "He has never been late or missed a gig. Never." Jim now owns a collection of more than fourteen guitars, many costing thousands. Jim's wife, Ruth Ann is a solid supporter of his musical efforts as are his five children; James Jr., Sheila, Shelley, Jimmy, and David.

Jim has deep spiritual roots and is a deacon at Willowbrook Baptist Church in Tyler. "Gentlemen Jim Thigpen is indeed the "Master of the Telecaster!"

OBITUARIESRobert Graebner Dies at Local Hospice

Robert Charles Graebner, manager and husband of the late Dyanna Dawnn was pronounced dead at the Tyler Hospice at approximately 4:00 PM Tuesday, December 3, 2019. Graebner had been suffering from  pneumonia, and  undisclosed other infections. He  had been hospitalized in Tyler's Medical Center for several weeks prior to his death.  His wife (see separate article)  died December 6, 2017, almost exactly 2 years before his passing.  Funeral arrangements are pending.

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Lethan Alan Barnes

Dr. Lethan Alan Barnes 77, died on October 2 at Tyler's Trinity Mother Francis Hospital. He was born September 13, 1942 in Abilene, Texas, the son of Hoyt and Nettie Barnes.

He was a graduate of Texas A & M University and taught at Tyler Junior College for almost half a century. He is survived by his current wife, Nan, his children and grandchildren. Burial was at Cathederal in the Pines in Tyler , October 8, 2019.

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The Tyler Chronicle Entertainment Hall of Fame

Local Performer Dies During Surgery    

Singer, Dyanna Dawnn, born Diana Lois Fountain, died during heart surgery at Tyler's Medical Center Hospital on December 6, 2017.  Dyanna was born March 15, 1946 in San Augustine County, Texas.  She was one of fourteen children born to James and Jessie Fountain and grew  up in the deep East Texas piney woods, where many of her family members still live.  She is survived by her husband and manager, Robert Charles Graebner and an adopted daughter.

Throughout her long career as a country and gospel singer, Dyanna made many personal appearances and recordings. Her first CD album of note was Touch of Country released in 1990. She hosted her own worldwide network radio show of the same name on the BMCN radio network. She also promoted numerous special "benefit" performances. Dyanna performed and recorded in Nashville, Tennessee

Her biography, Dynamite, was being written at the time of her death, but as yet has not been published. Following her death, the Dyanna Dawnn Association was formed to discover and promote musical talent in co-operation with the Dyanna Dawnn Fan Club. " Our purpose is to maintain the Dyanna Dawnn legacy and to help launch the careers of up and coming performers", Graebner said.  If you would like more information or to arrange a free audition, write: DD Association, Post Office Box, 130174, Tyler, Texas, 75707.

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Terry Teene
Terry Teene (born 1942) was a musician, vocalist, songwriter, and entertainer, most commonly known for the early 1960's novelty hit, "Curse of the Hearse". According to the Rockabilly Hall of Fame, he has recorded over 300 distinct songs and played on 100 or more released recordings, performing as a "major artist" on 25 of them. He has recorded under 70 names and appeared in over 500 nightclubs, by his own count.

Born Terence Blaine Knutson to Keremit Knutson, Terry Teene began taking piano lessons at four years of age and later sang in the high school choir. A local DJ, hearing him sing in church, suggested that he audition to perform on a local television program. He performed on TV for eight weeks in a row and put together the band "Terry and the Pirates".

In 1960, in Clovis, New Mexico, he cut recordings of his first two songs, "Just Wait Til I Get You Alone" and "Orchids Mean Goodbye", under Norman Petty. Of the 300 songs in Teene's discography, "Curse of the Hearse" is perhaps his most famous, being played by Dr. Demento on the majority of his Halloween shows. "Pussy Galore" was originally written for the James Bond film "Goldfinger", but was not featured on the film or soundtrack. Other songs include "Happiness Is Coming" (under the name of Blaine Bel Aire), We're Going to Put Iowa on the Map," "Fun To Be With", and "Perfect 36". When the Fireballs ( a rock group with which he was performing at the time) disbanded, Terry began a second parallel career as a clown. He has performed under the names of "ToBo the Clown" and "Clownzo"; and was one of the creators and originators (with George Voorhees) of the costume, likeness, and name and character of Ronald McDonald, one of the world's most recognizable trademark characters.

Teene was president of the Cavalcade of Clowns, an association of professional clowns and related entertainers, from 1978 through 1980. He also helped edit the Cavalcade of Clowns magazine. He has appeared with: Circus Vegas (for six years), Big John Strong Circus, Mexican International Circus, the Safari Circus (as Producing Clown), and the Emmet Kelly Jr. Circus.

In April, 2012, Terry Teen was involved in a traffic accident in Tyler, Texas from which he never regained consciousness.

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    Karl Ries                                               A memorial service for Karl Ries, 73, of Tyler, will be held at 10 a.m. on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2009, in the chapel of Stewart Family Funeral Home with Father Dan Daugherty officiating. Mr. Ries passed away on Jan. 8, 2009, at Hospice of East Texas in Tyler.

He was born on May 1, 1935 in Germany to the late Karl and Maria Ries. He was raised in Germany, moving to Canada in 1958 and then to America in 1961. Mr. Ries was a self-employed automobile mechanic in San Diego, Calif., and Virginia. In 1987 he moved to Tyler and became a freelance writer. He has since published a book and written for several newspapers. Mr. Ries enjoyed fishing, square dancing, and German folk dancing. He also was a pilot, had his own seaplane and loved to travel.

Mr. Ries is survived by a loving family including his wife of 53 years, Gisela Ries of Tyler; four sons, Thomas Ries and wife Karen of Tampa, Fla., Andy Quaye and wife Wilma of Canada, Jim Ries and wife Lauren of Atlanta, Ga., and John Ries; a daughter, Irene Ries of Atlanta, Ga.; and seven grandchildren, Collin, Phillip, Trevor, Lisa, Alexander, Carter and Olivia.

Memorials in honor of Karl Ries may be made to Hospice of East Texas, 4111 University Blvd., Tyler, 75701; or Prince of Peace Catholic Church, Troup Highway, P.O. Box 456, Whitehouse, 75791.                                                                                                                                 

  Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on Jan. 9, 2009                    

IN MEMORIAM

 Karl Ries 
Karl Ries, 73, passed away on January 8, 2009 in Tyler, Texas. He was born May 1, 1935 in Germany to the late Karl and Maria Ries. He was reared in Germany, moved to Canada in 1958 and then to America in 1961. He was a self-employed automobile mechanic in San Diego, California, and Virginia. In 1987 he and his wife moved to Tyler, Texas where he became well known as a freelance writer. He wrote for several newspapers including The Tyler Chronicle and authored the well-known book, Mom, What Is Peace? 

Mr. Ries enjoyed fishing, square dancing, and German folk dancing. He was a pilot, had his own seaplane, and loved to travel. On his last trip around the world, he served as traveling correspondent for The Tyler Chronicle.

Survivors include his wife of 53 years, Gisela Ries of Tyler; four sons, Thomas Ries and wife Karen of Tampa, Florida, Andy Quaye and wife Wilma of Canada, Jim Reese and wife Lauren of Atlanta Georgia, and John Ries; a daughter, Irene Ries of Atlanta Georgia and seven grandchildren. Collin, Phillip, Trevor, Lisa, Alexander, Carter and Olivia.

 The Bobby Moore Communications Network Honors Paul Williams

According to Bobby D. Moore, founder of BMCN, Paul Williams was the greatest Rock and Roll disk jockey to ever spin a record.  Paul, "Wild Child" Williams was one of a kind. Teenage girls went crazy over him, local preachers accused him of leading the town's youth toward the burning pits of hell, and the sponsors of his after-school radio shows smiled all the way to the bank. 

The year was 1958 and Paul Williams was a senior at Tyler High School in the last graduating class before the name of the school was changed. And that's not all that was changing in Tyler, Texas about that time. In fact, you might say, "Change was in the air!"  The town had supported two AM radio stations; KGKB, the older of the two at 1490 kilocycles which signed off at sunset, and KTBB with the more favorable frequency of 600 kc. Both stations were well accepted by the highly conservative and very fundamentalist population. They played a lot of country music and each had its share of Sunday morning church services.

But then, about the time "Tall Paul" graduated, the radio "airwaves" of a new and very different station signaled "change" for Tyler radio!  Broadcasting. From their new studios on the 13th floor of the Peoples Bank Building, KDOK began spreading the musical gospel of "rock and roll". It was the "real deal" featuring the original recordings of the greats; Fats Domino, Elvis, The Everly Brothers, and all  the rest. For some Tylerites, entrenched in their ways, it appeared that the "end of time" had come!  But for many of the younger set, it was a breath of fresh air.  

The timing was perfect. The new station arrived at exactly the right time to  capitalize on the rock and roll wave that would soon be sweeping the country. And Paul Williams was there; his show was an immediate success. The effect this young man had on his listening audience was phenominal. Included in this article is a poem about the "new" station written by a Whitehouse High School student of the time (a young man, by the way). Paul had an incredible wit and was a master of "word play". And when he was sitting between the turntables and in front of that big old studio microphone, he could do no wrong! But "away from the microphone" may have been another story. There are at least two versions of the following tale.

Marybeth Vaughn

Duane Stephens

Memorial services for Duane Gray Stephens, 81, Tyler, are scheduled for Saturday, October 29 2016, at 2 p.m. at Landmark Baptist Church, 11125 University Blvd., Tyler, 75707.

Mr. Stephens passed away on October 26 in Tyler. Duane Stephens was born Nov 26, 1934 in Nacogdoches, Texas to the late Edward C. Stephens and Edith Stephens. He grew up in Nacogdoches and graduated from Nacogdoches High School in 1953. He began his rodeo career in 1952 and thrilled rodeo fans for the next 15 years.

He toured the rodeo circuits, with Sandra by his side, across the United States, from Texas to Wisconsin and from Florida to Oregon. Duane's bullfighting prowess and popularity of his horse acts earned him many return engagements. He was known for "Dancing with bulls in close proximity." He was inducted into the Texas Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2008.

Duane attended Stephen F. Austin State University in Nacogdoches where he met and married his love, Sandra Lee Wall. Sandy and Duane were named "Cutest Married Couple" on the SFA campus for two years. His income from rodeo sent Duane and his lovely bride Sandra through SFA.

Moving to Tyler in 1968, he devoted himself to growing his law practice, raising a family, and numerous charitable acts including March of Dimes Service Award for Distinguished Voluntary Leadership in the fight against Birth Defects, Personalities of the South Honoring America's Leaders 1972 Edition, Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity Samuel Houston Chapter 1967-1968, Duane G Stephens of the State Bar of Texas Tri Lawyers Association, Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer's Association 1975, The Supreme Court of the State of Texas Attorney and Counselor at Law 1972.

He practiced law for five decades where he was known by judges, colleagues, clients and friends as a living legend.

After his rodeo days, he owned and operated the Vizcaya Cattle and Horse Ranch. He brought the sport of Team Penning to East Texas. Duane successfully competed, winning many championships throughout the U.S. up through his golden years.

He emphatically loved his family, friends and God. He took great joy in all that they did. He was a wonderful father, husband, grandfather, friend and our "Mr. Wonderful." He was preceded in death by his wife of 58 years. Survivors include children, Dustin Stephens and wife Kristin, of Whitehouse, Desiree Stephens and godchildren, of Tyler, and Julia Roberts and husband Kevin, of Tyler; brother F.L. Steve Stephens and wife Pollyanna; sister-in-law, Linda Bass and husband Sam, of Nacogdoches; 10 grandchildren; one great-grandchild; and many nieces, nephews, cousins, many friends.

He attributes whatever success he has had to the power from above ALMIGHTY GOD

Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on Oct. 29, 2016                    

Harry Loftis  

Judge Harry Loftis (1921-2003)

Judge Harry Loftis was a founding partner in the law firm of Loftis & Roberts, which eventually became known as Roberts & Roberts Law Firm.  Judge Loftis was born in Brownsboro on July 22, 1921 and raised in Tyler, where he graduated from Tyler High School. He earned degrees from Tyler Junior College and The University of Texas at Austin. He joined the Army Air Corps during World War II and served in France, England, and Italy. He flew glider missions behind enemy lines and was awarded several medals and citations. In January 2003, Judge Loftis shared his wartime accounts as part of a Library of Congress project to preserve the stories of veterans from World War II.

For 13 years, he served as the District Attorney and then as the County Judge for Smith County, Texas. In 1975, Judge Loftis received the T.B. Butler Award which recognizes outstanding contributions in leadership, service or community improvements. He was Tyler Junior College’s Outstanding Ex-Student of 1964 and received the Tyler Jaycees top honor, the Earl Story Award, in 1952. He was a president or board member of Tyler Jaycees, Texas Junior Bar Association, Smith County Red Cross, Tyler YMCA, Kiwanis Club, Strutters, Mother Frances Advisory Board, Tuberculosis Association, Chamber of Commerce and Texas Rose Festival Association. He was a director and chairman of the board of old Rose Capital Bank and a lieutenant governor of Kiwanis International.

As chairman of the Tyler Chamber of Commerce’s education committee, he worked diligently to make Texas Eastern University (now The University of Texas at Tyler) a reality. He was a member of Marvin Methodist Church, where he served on Board of Stewards and taught the Friendly Bible Class. Judge Loftis died December 9, 2003 in Tyler. He will always be remembered as a good husband, a good father, and a good man.

Ernest Leon Wimpey, Maurine Wimpey

George Wimpey  

                                                Services for Horace Glynne Staples, 66, Tyler, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Wednesday, May 14, 2008, at Tyler Memorial Funeral Home with Dana Ivey and Ramon Ivey officiating.Burial will be in Pleasant Retreat Cemetery under direction of Tyler Memorial Funeral Home.

Mr. Staples died May 10, 2008, in Tyler.

He was born Aug. 6, 1941, in Tyler to the late H.C. and Nellie Staples, and was a lifelong resident. He was a graduate of Whitehouse High School and received his associate's degree from Tyler Junior College. He was the owner/operator of Glynne's Water Well Pump Sales & Service and was a Baptist.

He had served with the 82nd Airborne in the U.S. Army and was a Tyler firefighter for 17 years. He was a member of the Texas Ground Water Association, treasurer of the East Texas Chapter, and life member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars. He was preceded in death by brother, Larry L. Staples; sister, Dorothy Jean Staples; and niece, Rebecca Ann Moose.

Survivors include his wife, Judy Staples of Tyler, sons, Wayne Staples of Chandler, DeWayne Staples and Jennifer Shackelford of Tyler; daughters, Lisa Staples Phillips and husband Billy of Tyler, Michele Staples Warden and husband Teddy of Bullard; grandchildren, Brittany Staples Dennis and husband Sean of Tyler, Brandon Staples, E1, U.S. Marine Corps of Tyler, Natalie Nulf of Tyler, Kevin Staples of Tyler, Suzanne Warden of Bullard, Heather Nulf of Tyler, Zachary Warden of Bullard, Jessica Shackelford of Tyler, Kevin Shackelford of Tyler, Travis Shackelford of Tyler; sisters, Rita Staples Bohlmann and husband Jim, Helen Noose and husband Roger; several nieces and nephews.

Pallbearers are Matthew Harris, Joe Grudza, Michael Cummins, Bill Johnson, Mark Sarver and Collin Ferris
Honorary pallbearers are Russell Bohlmann, Gregory Bohlmann and Dusty Hymer Staples. The family wishes to extend very special thanks to the staff at East Texas Medical Center for all of your hard work and prayers.

Family will receive friends 6-8 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association and American Diabetes Association.                                                                                                                                 

                                                Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph from May 12 to May 13, 2008                    

Glynne Wayne Staples  

Glynne "Wayne" Staples, 50 of Whitehouse, TX passed away Sunday, May 7,2017. Wayne was born in Tyler on October 16,1966 to Glynne and Judy Staples. He was a graduate of Whitehouse High School and then recieved an Associate degree in Business at Tyler Junior College. Wayne resided in Whitehouse and has been a long time member of Mt. Carmel Baptist Church.

He was a certified pump installer for the family business " Glynnes Water Well Pumps and Service". He was a member of both the Texas and East Texas Ground Water Associations. Wayne was a faithful member of the "Hunger For Love" Ministry where he helped prepare food to be served to those in need of nourishment every Saturday morning.

Mr. Staples is survived by his Mother: Judy Staples of Whitehouse, Sister: Lisa Staples Martin and husband Marlon of Troup, Twin brother: Bennie DeWayne Staples and Jennifer Shackelford of Tyler, Sister: Michele Staples Warden and husband Ted of Bullard.

Nieces and Nephews are: Brittany Staples Dennis and husband Sean of Whitehouse, Brandon Staples and fiancee Kellie Morrow of Tyler, Natalie Nulf of Tyler, Kevin Staples and Megean Huddle of Whitehouse, Jessica Shackelford and fiancee Max Garrison of Houston, Suzanne Warden of Galveston, Kevin Shackelford of Tyler, Heather Nulf of San Antonio, Travis Shackelford of Tyler and Zachary Warden of Bullard.

Great Nieces and Nephew include EmmaLee and HannahLynn Staples of Whitehouse, William "Liam" Mklaren of Tyler
Extended Family: Mark and Heidi Eslicker of Tyler, Jamie and Matthew Puccio of Tyler, Jason and Rachel Eslicker of Tyler

Mr. Staples was preceded in death by his father: Horace Glynne Staples, Grandparents: Guy and Evelyn Kline, HC and Nellie Staples and his Beloved Dog "Macy" Pallbearers are Brandon Staples, Kevin Staples, Kevin Shackelford, Travis Shackelford, Sean Dennis and Matthew Harris. Honorary Pallbearers include Zachary Warden, Jason Eslicker, Mark Eslicker, Gus Ramirez, Pat O'Neal, Keith Tittle

Visitation is Saturday, May 13, 2017 at Memorial Funeral Home on Hwy 64 West beginning at 10am. The funeral service will follow beginning at 12 noon with Ramon Ivey officiating. Burial will be at Pleasant Retreat Cemetery. In lieu of flowers the family request memorial donations made to Hunger For Love 11179 CR 168 Tyler, TX 75703
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on May 11, 2017                    

Larry Wimberly

Mary Wimberly

Garry Wimberly

Charles Wayne Wright

Douglas Brown

Ernest Ray Deal

Linda Faye Dark

Joe Richard Rasberry

Thomas Wayne Tomlinson

Julia Tomlinson

Freddie Mack Ray

Alan Barnes

Services for Lethan Alan Barnes, 77 years of age, of Tyler, will be held on Tuesday, October 8th at 10:00 a.m. at Stewart Family Funeral Home with Dr. David O. Dykes and Rev. Ron Wells officiating. Burial will follow at Cathedral in the Pines in Tyler under the direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home. Dr. Barnes passed away Wednesday, October 2, 2019 in Christus Trinity Mother Francis Hospital. He was born September 13, 1942 in Abilene to Hoyt and Nettie Barnes.

Alan was devoted to God and family. He was passionate about encouraging others to achieve both spiritual and intellectual growth. Alan was a member of Green Acres Baptist Church where he enjoyed singing in the Choir and teaching Sunday School. A graduate from Texas A&M Class of 66', Alan was a proud Aggie often wearing maroon. For almost fifty years, Dr. Barnes was a professor and academic counselor at Tyler Junior College. 

Alan was preceded in death by his parents, Hoyt and Nettie Barnes; his brother, Wilman Barnes; and his loving wife, Barbara Barnes (Martin). He is survived by his loving family including his wife, Nan Barnes; his children, Chrissy, Terry, Tandy, and Patrick Barnes; and his grandchildren, Mia, Bailey, and Sarah Barnes.

Pallbearers will be Rick Stewart, Alan Fisher, Joe Dark, Jim Reed, Mark Mueller, and Clint Chamberlain. Honorary pallbearers will be Gideon Members of East Camp Tyler.

Visitation is scheduled from 6:00 - 8:00 p.m. on Monday, October 7th at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway in Tyler.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to either of the following: Gideons International, P.O. Box 131997 Tyler, TX 75713-1993 (check memo: "For Bibles") or Centrepoint Ministries, P.O. Box 2464 Lindale, TX 75771. October 6, 2019
                                                                         

Willard Rhone

B. G. (Bill) Hartley  

Bill Hartley was a good man. His steadfast faith, devotion to family, loyalty to friends, unflinching optimism and uncompromising integrity inspired everyone who knew him. His attention to bringing untrained future bankers into the profession and working tirelessly to train them is well known. He was sought after to become a member of over fifty institutions and charitable organizations. He loved people and loved to help others. Bill passed away Monday, May 28th, 2018 in Tyler.

He was born August 22, 1929 to Maedell (Patterson) and Earl Hartley. He married Billie Boyd on January 3rd, 1959, with whom he had two children, Jane Alice and Patrick Boyd.Bill held three positions in his entire professional career - all of which he was sought after to accept. First, after his graduation from Mt. Pleasant High School, he was asked by a local bank president to join the bank's staff. He did and found a great love for banking. He worked up through the various departments starting by "pitching checks". During this time, as he was too young to have been drafted by World War II, but still wanting to serve his country, he went to enlist in the U.S. Army. This was a time when the Army did not want any more men so instead he enlisted in the National Guard where he served for six years. After eight years with the bank, and after three years of urging, he joined the State Department of Banking where he worked for five years becoming first an Assistant Examiner and then as the Examiner in Charge for the San Antonio district.

Having made so many friends in Tyler in 1960 he was asked to be in charge of a new bank to be located in a suburban location and known as Southside State Bank. The bank opened its doors on October 1st, 1960. Business came slowly at first, but with the help of wonderful men such as the first Board of Directors: Murph Wilson, Edwin Russell, Bill Curtis, W.H. Hudson, A. Earl White, G.J. Loetterle, E.L. Howard, Sidney Bradford, M.D., Bruce Brookshire, and T.C. Harvey, the bank flourished and became a leading financial institution in East Texas. During Bill's 54 years as President and CEO its assets rose from $0 to $6.375 billion, while its locations grew from one to 60. He was completely devoted to Southside Bank, passing up three separate opportunities to be president of the Texas Bankers' Association because he did not want to give up time from the Bank that such a position would require. He served two years as an officer with the American Bankers Association.

Services for Bill are scheduled for Friday, June 1st, 2018, under the direction of Jackson's Burks-Walker-Tippit funeral home. Officiated by Rev. Dr. Doug Baker, a graveside service at Rose Hill Cemetery will begin at 10 a.m. followed by a memorial service at 11 a.m. in the sanctuary of Marvin United Methodist Church. The family will greet friends after the service in Pirtle Fellowship Hall.

Survivors are his wife, Billie, his daughter and family Jane, Mike and Hartley Coker, his niece Brenda Tyner and her husband Tommy and their family, sister-in-law Jeanette Boyd Irwin and her family and a tremendous number of friends. Bill was predeceased by his parents, his sister Wanda Hartley Dalton, and his best pal, his son Patrick Boyd Hartley.

Tyler Morning Telegraph Obituary

Patrick Hartley

Hallye Rae Tyner 

Hallye Rae Tyner was born May 17, 1925, in Wortham to Dr. D.A. and Marguarite Bounds. She passed away on Oct. 15, 2013, in Tyler. She was preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Joe Bounds; her husband, J.W. Tyner; and her stepson, Gordon C. Tyner. She is survived by her daughters and son-in-law, Mitzi and Robert Parks, of Tyler, and Zoe Anna Tyner, of Tyler; grandchildren, including Leslie Parks, Dustin Parks, Andrew Myers and Zoe Lawhorn, all of Tyler; nieces, Patricia Vogel, of Groesbeck, Bonnie Andoin, of Beaumont; one nephew, Joe Ed Bounds, of Mexia; and cousin, Hill Howard Jr., of Wichita Falls.Hallye Rae attended Kilgore Junior College and was one of the original Kilgore Rangerettes under the direction of Gussie Nell Davis. She remained a part of that organization as a Rangerette Forever. Hallye Rae graduated from Stephen F. Austin University with a degree in education. Her primary work and enjoyment in life was her role as wife and mother. She was an accomplished homemaker in every sense of the word and created a beautiful, welcoming and comfortable home for her family and friends. She and her husband raised paint horses and traveled extensively to cutting horse shows and competitions in the United States. They also traveled to foreign countries as ambassadors of the American Paint Horse Association. She was a gracious and charming host, companion and friend. She is remembered by all who knew her for her Christian faith, unfailing kindness, compassion and concern for the welfare of others.
Services for Hallye Rae Tyner will be 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, 2013, in the chapel of Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home with Dr. Paul Powell officiating. She will be laid to rest in Rose Hill Cemetery. The family will receive friends at Burks Walker Tippit from 5 to 7 p.m. Thursday.
Pallbearers will be Harvey Vogel, Tom Andoin, Michael Dunn, Paul Dunn, Andy Myers and Dustin Parks.
The family wishes to express appreciation to special caregivers, Oletha, Eva and Judy.
Family requests memorials be made to Green Acres Baptist Church; Meals on Wheels; or The Hospice of East Texas Foundation.       

                                               Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on Oct. 17, 2013                    

Thomas Hall

J. C. Henderson

J. C. Hibbard

J.B Harrison

Martha Caroline (Mattie) Harrison

Bertha Edna Roberts

John William Roberts Sr.

John William Roberts Jr.

Don William Roberts

Allie Burns

Gilbert Burns

Billy Frank Burns

David Roberts

George Davis

Zelma Yarbrough

Mary Louise Yarbrough

Helen Ruth Tyner

J. W. Tyner

Gordon Charles Tyner

Lois Pike

  Shirley Smith   Services for Shirley Terry Smith, 82, of Whitehouse, are scheduled for 10 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009, at the Whitehouse United Methodist Church with the Revs. Charlotte Austin and Chuck Bratz officiating. Burial is at Whitehouse Cemetery under the direction of Lloyd James Funeral Home.Shirley Terry Smith was born July 11, 1926, in Whitehouse to the late Millard and Nina McCutchan Terry. She died Feb. 4, 2009, after a brief illness.

During Shirley's career as newspaper reporter, photographer and writer she worked for the Tyler Star, the Whitehouse Journal and the Tri-Country Leader. She personally wrote, published and delivered Smitty's Shopper during the early 1960s and Homefolks in 1981-82. Shirley was also an author, publishing "Whitehouse: 1840-1960," and "ByGones in 1989."

Shirley is remembered for her Little League baseball team, the Whitehouse Scorpions. Two generations of boys will never forget Coach Shirley and her unique coaching style.

In 1994 Shirley Smith was chosen as Mrs. Yesteryear. She participated in the Senior Citizen Spelling Bees, winning several first-place trophies and going to the state finals. A lifelong member of Whitehouse United Methodist Church, Shirley sang in the choir and served as Sunday school superintendent.

Shirley married Herschel "Buddy" Smith on April 11, 1945. Their children are Laura Spann of Liberty City, Marsha Farr (deceased), Russell Smith and Brian Smith, all of Whitehouse. She has nine grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren.

The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Memorials may be made to McCary's Chapel UMC Food Pantry, 5758 Old Highway 135 North, Kilgore, 75662.                                                                                                                                 

                                  Feb. 6, 2009                    

H.G. ? Lusk 

Marybeth Vaughn

Marybeth Vaughn died at her Tyler home Thursday night, Sept 5, 2013 after an extended illness. She was born November 6,  1934 in Henderson, Texas and was the eldest of the two daughters of Hugh J. and Zilpha Vaughn.

The Vaughn family published the Tyler Star weekly newspaper for decades; she was a writer and well known photographer. She and writer Bobby Moore produced many feature stories for the Star, written by Moore and photographed  by Marybeth.   In her later years, she owned and operated Star Publishing, a printing enterprise. 

Marybeth has one surviving sister, Diane Rhodes of Tyler.

Jim Vaughn

Memorial services for Dr. James Miller Vaughn, 94, Tyler, a local philanthropist and TJC Board of Trustees member, are scheduled for 11 a.m. Saturday, July 7, at First Presbyterian Church with Dr. Stuart Baskin officiating.

Dr. Vaughn died Wednesday, July 4, 2007, at home in Tyler.

Dr. Vaughn had his hand in many goings-on in the Tyler area, and his legacy in Tyler will live on long after his death, friends and family said.

"Dr. Vaughn was a great friend of Tyler and his loss will be deeply felt by everyone in our community. He's been involved in so many life-enhancing opportunities throughout the community," said Dr. William R. Crowe, president of Tyler Junior College.

As for his close friends, Vaughn's passing reminded them of a man who will leave a lasting impression.

"Besides being a fine and caring doctor, he was generous, loved life and his numerous friends," said Jack Flock, a longtime friend of Vaughn. "I was privileged to serve with him on the TJC board of trustees as well as on the First Federal Savings and Loan board. I feel a great sense of loss, and I'm saddened to lose our dear friend."

On June 2, Vaughn and his wife of 70 years, Bonna Bess Vaughn, Tyler, celebrated another anniversary with a reception at their home.

Together they had two children, James M. Vaughn Jr. and wife Salle Warner Vaughn of Houston, and daughter, Bette Barton Vaughn Benton of Houston; grandchildren, Virginia and Geoffrey Angulo of Houston, Britt and Elaine Benton of Austin, Blake and Stacey Benton of Houston; and seven great-grandchildren.

Born Oct. 23, 1912, in Tyler, Vaughn, son of Edgar H. and Lillie Mae Miller Vaughn, was educated in Tyler schools, attending Tyler Junior College, The University of Texas at Austin, and University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, where he received his B.S. and M.D. in 1937. He was a Lieutenant Commander in the Navy, and was an EENT physician for 50 years. He was a member of First Presbyterian Church, and was preceded in death by his parents, Edgar H. and Lillie Mae Miller Vaughn, and son-in-law, Matthew Hall Benton III.

He was a member of the Smith County Medical Association of which he was past president; past chief of staff at Medical Center Hospital; past chairman of the Board of Texas Eastern School of Nursing; and past president of East Texas Hospital Foundation.

He received several awards, including Tyler Junior College's First Distinguished Alumni Award in 1962, Texas Eastern School of Nursing's 1977 "Doctor of the Year" award, UTMB's Distinguished Alumnus Award in 1977, "People of Vision" award in 1984, UTT's Award of Patriot of the Year in 1989, and 1993's T.B. Butler Award as Tyler's Most Outstanding Citizen.

He was serving on the foundation boards of Trinity Mother Frances Health System, East Texas Medical Center, University of Texas Health Center at Tyler, and Member Emeritus on the Board of The University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston at the time of his death.

He served on the Tyler Junior College Board 46 years, and served as Director Emeritus on the Tyler Junior College Foundation. He became a member of the Chancellor's Council of The University of Texas in 1974.

As a businessman, Vaughn was the former director for the Lone Star Steel Company of Dallas, The Peoples Life Insurance Company of Tyler, InterFirst Bank, Tyler, and General American Oil Co. of Dallas. He was a longtime director of the First Federal Savings and Loan; and director of the Vaughn Foundation, Dr. Vaughn gave generous amounts of money to both TJC and UT Tyler.

Honorary pallbearers are Jack Flock, Mic Alleman, Jeff Buford, Chester Vaughn, Bob Faulkner and Rod Mabry.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to charity of choice.                                                                     

                                                Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph from July 6 to July 7, 2007                    

Roy L. Lilly

Clara Lilly

Mildred Lilly  

  Services for Mildred Lilly, 87, of Tyler, will be held on Monday, Aug. 11, 2008, at 10 a.m. at Burks Walker Tippit Funeral Home with Pastors Roy Thoene and Sherman Mayfield officiating. Burial will follow at Meador Cemetery.

Mildred passed away Friday, Aug. 8, 2008, in Tyler. She was born Oct. 14, 1920, at Elberta Switch (Tyler, Smith County) to the late Roy L. and Clara Nolen Lilly. She attended Whitehouse schools and was a graduate of Tyler High School and Federal Institute. She was a lifelong member of Pleasant Hill Baptist Church where she was a faithful member and taught a ladies' Sunday school class for a number of years.

Mildred touched many lives with her generous, giving spirit of service and friendship.

She began her career as a bookkeeper for Irving Machine Shop. Later she joined the firm of Kemm Manufacturing, a spin-off of Sledge Manufacturing Company, as office manager. Later Levi Strauss Company bought this operation and she served as office manager for several more years. At retirement, the Company flew her to their corporate headquarters in San Francisco where she was honored for her excellent service.

After retirement Mildred learned to cook. She took much pride in this achievement and enjoyed serving "country style" meals to her family and friends. She was an avid bridge player and also enjoyed watching baseball games. Her family was her pride and joy and her nieces and nephews were frequently referred to as her "children."

Mildred was preceded in death by her parents; infant brother Johnny; a sister, Lucy Lilly Deen and her husband Walt; nephews, John Deen and Rolen Lilly.

Survivors include brothers, Paul Lilly and wife Theresa, twin brothers Wade Lilly and wife Evelyn, Willie Lilly and wife Virginia of Tyler; nieces, Beth and husband Doyle Starnes of Tyler and their son Taylor of Austin, Gail and husband Joe Thigpen and their son Andy of Tyler; nephews, Roy Lilly and wife Ann of Tyler and their daughters Elizabeth of Dallas and Margaret Ann of Fort Worth, Bud Lilly and wife Debbie and their son Zach of Whitehouse and their daughter Amanda and husband T.J. Goodpasture of Whitehouse, Kent Lilly and wife Jan of Tyler, Don Lilly and wife Amy and their daughter Lauren and their son Peyton of Whitehouse, Ted Lilly and wife Cathy and their daughter Sarah and their son Adam of Longview, Mason Deen and wife Allene of Schertz; and great-nephew Ryan Lilly and Mindy of Van. Also surviving are several cousins and a host of friends.

The family would like to express deepest appreciation to the staff at Reunion Plaza Senior Care Center and the caregivers at Legacy Hospice for their comfort and careful attention to Mildred during her last days, and also to Jackie McCalla, a longtime faithful family friend.

Pallbearers are Roy Lilly, Bud Lilly, Kent Lilly, Don Lilly, Ted Lilly, Mason Deen, Doyle Starnes and Joe Thigpen.

Family to receive friends Sunday 3-4:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Pleasant Hill Baptist Church.                                                                                                                                 

                                                Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph on Aug. 10, 2008                    

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Also, see Bobby at the Carnegie Library Taylor Auditorium in Tyler, Texas, Nov. 8, 2019. The show is an annual event commemorating the life of the late musical stylist, Dyanna Dawnn. Musical entertainment, door prizes and refreshments will be provided by the local chapter of the Dyanna Dawnn Fan Club. Local performers are invited to participate. Email  editor@thetylerchronicle.com  for entry forms and more information. Admission is free. 

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" Mueller Gives New Meaning to the Term 'Useful Idiot', " Writes Kunstler                                                          

Who imagined that in the climactic scene of the blockbuster RussiaGate fantasy, when the curtain was ripped away, the Wizard at the controls would turn out to be… Captain Queeg! We need not rehearse all the depressing particulars of Robert Mueller’s six-hour public humiliation in two House committee hearings in order to reach a set of conclusions about the conduct of his rogue investigation and the perfidious report issued in his name.

One is that Robert Mueller could not have run his investigation. There is even reason to question that he was briefed on the day-to-day developments by the people who did run it — since, for instance, he apparently never heard the phrase “Fusion GPS,” that is, the swarm of flying monkeys who delivered the whole shebang’s predicate documents known as the Steele Dossier simultaneously to the FBI, The Washington Post, and The New York Times beginning in 2016. By his testimony Wednesday, Mr. Mueller gives new meaning to the term useful idiot.

The two-year inquisition was run by attorneys Andrew Weissmann and Jeanie Rhee, two arch Hillary Clinton partisans (the latter a lawyer for the Clinton Foundation), leading now to the conclusion that the Mueller Investigation itself was no less a Clinton operation than the Steele Dossier. I wonder if it will become known whether Mrs. Clinton herself was in regular communication with Weissmann and Rhee during these years, or who were the intermediaries between them. Surely federal attorney John Durham has the mojo to seize phone records of the Mueller Team and find out exactly who was checking in with whom.

I, for one, even doubt that the lingering assertion of Russian “interference” in the 2016 election — taken as dictum by too many dupes — has any merit at all. Rather it was just a foggy byproduct of the mighty gaslighting effort by experienced Intel Community specialists working the zealously biased and credulous news media into a lather of bad faith. All of the Russians and “Russian agents” lassoed into narrative appear to have professional connections to either the CIA, the FBI, the US State department, or Mrs. Clinton’s various networks of myrmidons in the DNC, the Obama administration, and Fusion GPS. These relationships were all sedulously ignored by the Special Counsel’s office — and now they can’t be.

Hence, it is easy to imagine that Attorney General Barr and his lead investigator, Mr. Dunham, must now entertain the unappetizing prospect of examining the roles of Mrs. Clinton and the foregoing cast of characters in this melodrama for the purpose of discovering whether this was actually the seditious conspiracy that it appears to have been — with rather horrific possible consequences of grave charges and severe punishments.

In all this long and excruciating public playing-out of dark schemes, Mr. Trump, first candidate and now president, seems to have acted as little more than a tackling dummy for the Mueller Team and its backstage Clinton confederates. He tweeted childishly about the deeply partisan composition of the Mueller Team when he should have mounted a forceful legal opposition to the effrontery of their selection in the first place.  The Long Emergency: Su... James Howard Kunstler Check Amazon for Pricing. 

It’s interesting to follow the pronouncements of the bit-players in this spectacle, now that Mr. Mueller has inadvertently destroyed the basis of the sacred narrative. Rep. Jerold Nadler turned up yakking with Anderson Cooper on CNN last night, looking every inch like the Mayor of Munchkin Land, bloviating against the supposed imminent Russian takeover of America (read: by witches) and the now-receding fool’s errand of impeachment, which would only further expose the criminal culpability of his own Democratic Party in this sordid misadventure. Mr. Cooper looked deeply pained by the chore, and yet his own professional credibility is on the line after two years of allowing himself to be played like a flugelhorn by the folks who matter in this country, and he contested nothing in Mr. Nadler’s mendacious pratings.

And now a fretful silence will descend around this colossal goddamned mess as the momentum of history shifts against the perpetrators of it, and the true machinery of American justice is brought to bear upon them. The playing-out of Act Three will probably coincide with epic global financial disorder in the months ahead, further obscuring what people and nations can do to arrest the collapse of Modernity and its sidekick Human Progress.

Reprinted with permission from Kunstler.com.

The Biggest Danger of Uncontrolled Immigration

By Michael S. Rozeff                                                

The extent of our economic freedom and the defense of our property rights are the key factors in our accumulation of wealth (goods and services) and a rise in our standard of living via the division of labor. But economic freedom and property rights depend critically on our laws and institutions, that is, the kind of government we have.

There is no question that we’ve moved away from the good laws and institutions that promote capitalism and embarked instead on a course of bad laws and institutions that promote socialism. This is why over a period of decades our living standards have not grown as much as they could have, and why some large portions of Americans can’t seem to get ahead, drop out of the labor force, live on welfare or even live on the streets.Immigration is good for a country under two conditions. First, the country has the good laws and institutions that protect economic freedom and property rights. Second, the immigrants assimilate to the good laws and do not change them for the worse.

The socialist aspects of our current system are its bad laws. Immigrants don’t do Americans any good if they burden those parts of our system that offer “free” or subsidized goods and services. We cannot have a welfare state and allow unlimited immigration. Too many immigrants will opt for the free benefits. The wealth transfer is a tax upon working taxpayers. This amounts to greater socialism and economic retardation.  

In order to benefit from immigration, as we have in our pre-1930s past when the welfare state and socialist regulatory laws were minimal, we need to get rid of these bad laws and institutions. This being unlikely at present, immigration becomes a worse and worse problem. It must be stopped, but stopping it requires a wall and police state measures. As George Reisman notes, the welfare state becomes a police state with unlimited immigration.

Then there is the second condition, which is that immigrants assimilate to our laws and institutions if they are the good laws supportive of and consistent with capitalism, private property rights and economic freedom. If they assimilate to what we have in our country today, this means adopting and supporting a system that has large socialist elements. This is definitely undesirable in terms of promoting the growth of wealth. We do not want to teach immigrants that American prosperity owes to our panoply of socialist interventions.

Worse yet, there are conflicting sentiments among immigrants to contend with. Some or many come because they want to work, educate themselves and get ahead in ways they couldn’t where they came from. But some or many also bring with them sentiments and political attitudes of their mother countries that they’ve imbibed and do not realize are contradictory to economic freedom and private property rights. Once within the bosom of our system with its socialist elements, they are likely to fall right in line with them, thinking they are being true Americans in supporting laws like Obamacare, Medicare for All, or other socialist laws and administrations.

In other words, the greater the immigration, the greater the support for socialism, both because the immigrants learn that here by assimilation and because it’s consistent with their prior political training and attitudes. The fraction of Americans supportive of capitalism then declines and socialist legislation becomes easier and easier to pass.

This dire situation will come into being even faster when existing American socialists and newly-minted socialist leaders among the immigrants actively organize and proselytize among immigrants susceptible to their appeals.

What are the political attitudes of immigrants? There is no one answer. The answers vary from one country to another. What Sweden, Germany and America experience may be three different things.  

I’ve found one recent paper (October 2016 in the Journal of Politics) that examines our situation with respect to Mexicans in our country. Mexicans constitute about 1/3 of our immigrant population. The title is “Partisanship by Invitation: Immigrants Respond to Political Campaigns”.

The study examined two elections: 2006 and 2008. The authors, James A. McCann and Katsuo A. Nishikawa Chávez, find that the Democratic party benefited much more highly from its partisan appeals than did the Republican party. The detailed findings led the authors to conclude

“Barring a major shift in the dispositions of Republican lawmakers and party activists towards identities and issues that Mexicans and other immigrant groups hold dear, a shift that appears improbable at this juncture, there is likely little chance that Republican campaign messages in any electoral environment could pull the Mexican-born toward that party, even if Republican candidates themselves are perceived as personally attractive figures.”

Although the Republican party has been no stranger to socialist legislation, such as extending Medicare to prescription benefits, the Democrats are worse. They typically propose the socialist extensions and campaign for them for years on end until they become law.

The biggest danger of uncontrolled or unlimited immigration is that it shifts American politics even more greatly toward socialism.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          

Michael S. Rozeff [send him mail] is a retired Professor of Finance living in East Amherst, New York. He is the author of the free e-book Essays on American Empire: Liberty vs. Domination and the free e-book The U.S. Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline.                           More from Michael Rozeff

Do You Really Want to Be a Republican or a Democrat?

Another fascinating and thought-provoking essay by Michael Rozeff                               

My main purpose is this. I want to suggest how most of us can get closer to our heart's political and social desire. The exceptions are those immoral persons who insist on lording it over other people against their wills, i.e., the authoritarians of any stripe.  

I present an imaginary scenario. It is not meant to be a detailed photograph    of a new reality. It is to suggest the concept to you as a possible new reality.    I am following in the footsteps of Paul    Emile de Puydt.  

Suppose that local    government remains as it is. Suppose that at the beginning of the year, you    sign up for your preferred national government. You enroll yourself for one    year. Next year you may make a different choice. 

To keep matters simple,    suppose that you have three choices: Republican (Red), Democrat (Blue), and    Libertarian (Coral). But in the back of your minds, understand that there    can be more choices. There can be Green, Red Lite, Blue Lite, Yellow, and    so on.  

 If you choose Red, you agree to abide by Red's national government.    If you choose Blue or Coral, you agree to abide by their national governments,    respectively. You may choose Red and your neighbor may choose Coral. Each    of you decides to abide by your own selected national governments.   

The meaning    of national here is not that there is one nation, one society, and one national    government. It means only that there is a government whose members live in    many localities. Hereafter I'll drop the term national and just refer to    government. The Reds, Blues, and Corals live all over the place in crazy-quilt    patterns. You may choose Coral and your neighbor may choose Blue. That's    the same kind of thing one finds if one maps out the religions and churches    that people sign onto.   

I won't try to mimic perfectly the government preferences    of existing Reds, Blues, and Corals. I will merely suggest some of their    preferred policies in order to show how this system can work. Yes, there    will be many details and questions that any thoughtful person can raise.    But I am not trying to answer these in advance. 

 By consulting Republican platforms, Republican votes and the actions of    Republican administrations, we build up an idea of the Red government. I    suggest to you that those who sign on to Red government for themselves can    have most of it for themselves without forcing those who sign on for Blue    government into Red government. The same goes for the Blues (and the Corals).    They can get most of what they want without forcing others into their government.     

Consider health care. The Reds don't want government-run health care. They    want to maintain the existing system but with reforms. The Blues want basic    security in health care for everyone. Each of you who wishes these two systems    can have it without making the other belong to your system. This is a crucial    point. Nothing at all prevents a Red adherent from subscribing and paying    for and being regulated by the Red system's rules, while at the same time    a Blue subscribes to his system and lives with it. There can be Red Medicare    (or whatever) and Blue Medicare, just as there are different insurance companies    and hospitals and medical plans. The Blues don't have to force the Reds into    their system in order to get what they want, anymore than they must force    those who want to patronize rock concerts into seeing the operas that they    prefer. The Corals, by the way, don't want government involved in health    care, and their government won't require any funds from them for that purpose.      

Why should anyone be fighting with his neighbor over his neighbor's choice    of health care system when this alternative is feasible? At present, no one    has a choice of national government. The government claims the right to regulate    health care. Therefore, everyone fights and tries to get his own way. Everyone    tries to make everyone else pay for what he gets. Presented with a choice    of government, the fighting can cease. Each person can get what he wants.     

Those who, given a choice, still insist on making everyone kowtow to his    system under one government are, in my opinion, advocating an evil thing. They do not think it's evil, however. They think it's good to make everyone do the same thing because the government tells them to. Their reasoning usually comes down to some notion that "society" would fall apart unless everyone is made to obey. They have some notion of a collective or a unitary society or a single nation or one people, and they place this notion above that of any individual person. To my way of thinking, these ideas are all wrong.      

It's not a good thing for the government to tell everyone what to do. They    abuse the power. They don't know what's right for everyone. They prevent    people from bettering themselves. Society won't fall apart. In fact, the    notion of one society is flawed. This notion of one "society" is deeply ingrained among persons of most all political persuasions. Even the Corals frequently use it without even realizing it. I could pile up an enormous list of quotations that use this notion of society. I've no doubt used it myself. It's a dangerous idea because all people supposedly in one society are not united and uniform in their social and political preferences. In that sense, society is a mythical construction. It serves to support the idea of a single government for that single society. That's what makes it so insidiously dangerous. Finally, the idea that the collective is above the individual person is wrong too. The collective invariably comes right back to an elite few who speak for the group, and that's nothing more than government again with all its attendant ills.      

The fact of the matter is that any national government that purports to    speak and act for a unitary society is actually a small group of persons    who claim to be deputed to act on behalf of another group of unidentifiable    persons. Any claim of government to act on behalf of everyone cannot be verified    by any open and freely-made agreements. I know of no government that is annually    endorsed and chosen freely by those who want to have it. All governments    impose on those persons under their rule. None are instruments that arise    from consent. They all lack the legitimacy of open consent by persons who    voluntarily make known their choices and agree to stick by them.   

I will not    belabor the point that government by choice is possible by going through    each and every one of the issues that divide people politically and socially.    I will merely mention some more of the issues that do not require a monolithic    (monopoly) national government: voting rights, economy and job creation,    energy independence, open government, civil rights, abortion, retirement    security, education, fair elections, science and technology, drugs, and welfare.    For example, the Reds might sign on to a government that, among them, enforces    no abortions, while the Blues and Corals countenance abortions. The Reds and Blues may enforce various economic rules, taxes, and subsidies among their own but not other supporters in order to achieve their versions of economic health and job creation. The Corals may engage in laissez-faire. The Blues may foster teachers' unions and required education from age 3 onwards, while the Reds may foster curricula that they favor.      

Again, the crucial point here is that there are no reasons why each group    cannot choose what it prefers in these areas, and these are the areas that    the major political parties list on their web sites and discuss in their    platforms.   

Defense is somewhat more difficult because what each government    does may affect persons choosing a different government. Nothing prevents    the Reds (or Blues) from raising armed forces from among themselves and stationing    these forces in foreign lands and entering foreign conflicts. If war starts,    their enemies might attack everyone, even those who didn't subscribe to that    government. What's likely to happen, however, is that since the Reds or any    war-making government have to pay for their wars by collecting money and    soldiers from those who voluntarily subscribe to that government and that    policy, they will find their capacity to gather resources and manpower for    these wars to be far, far lower than under the present system of monopoly    government. When people have a choice about fighting and paying for fighting    because they must bear the costs, the deaths, and the injuries, they are    likely to make a far different choice than when a government forcibly extracts    their treasure and blood from them, while stirring them up with propaganda    and concocting international incidents that lead to war.   

Warfare will be    a case of the "good" driving out the "bad" from the market, at least to a greater extent than we get under the present system.      

Now I ask you, do you really want to be a Republican or a Democrat? Will    you willingly and voluntarily pay for the kinds of government they now bring?    Will you willingly submit your persons and property to their rules and regulations,    which you do when you choose a government? Or will you seek out other choices    in government?   

I predict that given a choice, vast numbers of persons will    not choose anything remotely resembling the kind of government we have today.    That discrepancy between what we have and what we might have is a measure    of the unhappiness that existing government causes.   

Paul Emile de Puydt recommended    choice in government in 1860. This was on the eve of the world going in exactly    the opposite direction. Whatever progress has been made since then has been    due to liberty in free markets, not to the monopoly governments that grew    and grew and grew in size, strength, and power, until they brought two world    wars upon mankind along with genocides, nuclear weapons, unending warfare,    and vast economic instabilities. The time has come to reverse directions,    to stop thinking in terms of single societies ruled by single governments    that lack legitimate consent.  

The time has come to start thinking in terms  of choice in government.

Michael S. Rozeff [send him mail] is a retired Professor of Finance living in East Amherst, New York. He is the author of the free e-book Essays on American Empire: Liberty vs. Domination and the free e-book The U.S. Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline.  

More from Michael Rozeff

New U.S. Law Blurs The Line Between Hate Speech And Hate Crime               

By Michael Rozeff

Eleven years ago, this essay argued against hate-crime laws. One argument read “People can eventually be accused of hate crimes when they use hateful speech. Hate crimes laws are a seed that can sprout in new directions.” This has now come to pass, I am sorry to say. This week, the Congress passed S. J. Res. 49, and President Trump signed it, making it part of the U.S. legal code.

The law rejects “White nationalists, White supremacists, the Ku Klux Klan, neo-Nazis, and other hate groups…” But why? Because of their ideas? Because of their expression of these ideas? No government that stands for freedom and free speech, whose charge is to protect rights, should be singling out specific groups by name and by law declaring them as outlaws or threats because of their philosophies. If they have committed a crime, such as defamation of character or incitement to riot or riot itself, then charge them and try them. But American government has no legitimate authority to single out some of its citizens in this way. This, furthermore, is an exceedingly bad precedent. Who’s next?

The resolution is too specific, but it’s also dangerously vague. The term “other hate groups” has no known definition. Suppose that this term is defined by a group like the Southern Poverty Law Center. The SPLC currently names 917 groups as hate groups (see here for a list). Their criteria are not restricted to violent actions. They comprise SPEECH. They say “All hate groups have beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics.” They are very clear about this: “Hate group activities can include criminal acts, marches, rallies, speeches, meetings, leafleting or publishing.”

This Congressional resolution is a declaration that certain kinds of groups, some named but many, many others open to inclusion, are to be attacked by the U.S. government. The law urges “the President and the President’s Cabinet to use all available resources to address the threats posed by those groups.” The term “threats” in the first paragraph is vague, dangerously vague. However, the very next paragraph singles outfree speech actions when “hundreds of torch-bearing White nationalists, White supremacists, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis chanted racist, anti-Semitic, and anti-immigrant slogans…” The same sentence joins this with violent actions “…and violently engaged with counter-demonstrators on and around the grounds of the University of Virginia in Charlottesville…”

This law regards free speech as a threat, linking it to violence, painting them with one brush. There can be no justice that can stem from such a completely sloppy and inexcusably amateurish legal treatment. This linkage is made clear in paragraph seven with this language: “…communities everywhere are concerned about the growing and open display of hate and violence being perpetrated by those groups…” There is no distinction made here between the “open display of hate” and “violence being perpetrated”. As I predicted 11 years ago in arguing against hate crime laws, hate speech is being identified with hate crime.

I am just as uncomfortable with the notion of defining and singling out “hate speech” as some sort of new danger or threat or harmful activity or crime, to be dealt with by government or courts of law as I was 11 years ago with the idea of “hate crime”. The standard categories of crime are quite enough without adding to them a government laundry list of prejudices and aversions that everyone is not supposed to express or feel, under penalty of government law. 

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The Doctrine of Statism

By Lew Rockwell

The Patriot Act that was rammed through after the September 2001 attacks was one of the more egregious blows against liberty in our lifetimes. It shredded core rights and liberties that had been taken for granted for centuries. Liberties are never lost all at once, but the Patriot Act, as disgusting in its details as in its name and the rhetoric that surrounded it, was for the United States the turning point, the law that best exemplifies a full-scale embrace of statism as a national ideology. It is a law so severe, so outlandish, as to cause people to forget what it means to be free.

This is why I believe Ron Paul’s book Liberty Defined to be one of the most important statements of our time. He defines liberty clearly and cleanly as freedom from coercive interference from the state. That is how the liberal tradition from Aquinas to Jefferson to Rothbard understood it, too, for there is no greater threat to liberty than the state. Its powers must be crushed if we are to revisit what liberty means..

Ron goes further to apply the principle of liberty in many of the most controversial areas of modern life. The purpose here is not to detail some governing blueprint. What Ron seeks to do is much more important. He seeks to fire up the human imagination in ways that permit people to think outside the prevailing statist norms..

In 1945, Ludwig von Mises wrote a similar book called Omnipotent Government: The Rise of the Total State and Total War. It is probably the most blistering and thorough attack on National Socialism ever written. He details the peculiar characteristics of Nazi-style statism (its nationalism rooted in the worship of bloodlines). Just as importantly – and very unusually for this genre of writing – Mises sought to explain how Nazism is only a symptom of a larger problem, which is statism itself. He regarded statism as a special doctrine that people come to embrace often without entirely understanding its teaching and claims. It emerges within a context of economic or security emergency..

There is always some great excuse for the trashing of the human freedom that built civilization as we know it. If the state cannot find one, it is glad to invent one. A population that is ideologically gullible or afraid for its security can permit government to run roughshod over people’s rights and liberties, and a government that gains such power never gives it back on its own. Rights and liberties must be reclaimed by the people themselves, and the spark that makes this happen is reversing the conditions that permitted the rise of statism. The people must lose their gullibility through ideological enlightenment, and they must lose their sense of fear that the world will fall apart if the tyrant is not in control. .

Part of this process of enlightenment requires an understanding of what was lost when we gave up liberty, and what can be gained by reclaiming it. Mises’s book did not overlook this task, with a pithy description of the traditional classical liberal vision:.

In order to grasp the meaning of this liberal program we need to imagine a world order in which liberalism is supreme. Either all the states in it are liberal, or enough are so that when united they are able to repulse an attack of militarist aggressors. In this liberal world, or liberal part of the world, there is private property in the means of production. The working of the market is not hampered by government interference. There are no trade barriers; men can live and work where they want. Frontiers are drawn on the maps but they do not hinder the migrations of men and shipping of commodities. Natives do not enjoy rights that are denied to aliens. Governments and their servants restrict their activities to the protection of life, health, and property against fraudulent or violent aggression. They do not discriminate against foreigners. The courts are independent and effectively protect everybody against the encroachments of officialdom. Everyone is permitted to say, to write, and to print what he likes. Education is not subject to government interference. Governments are like night-watchmen whom the citizens have entrusted with the task of handling the police power. The men in office are regarded as mortal men, not as superhuman beings or as paternal authorities who have the right and duty to hold the people in tutelage. Governments do not have the power to dictate to the citizens what language they must use in their daily speech or in what language they must bring up and educate their children. Administrative organs and tribunals are bound to use each man's language in dealing with him, provided this language is spoken in the district by a reasonable number of residents..

We could add to this beautiful list of traits of a liberal society. There is no welfare state (and there was not before Bismarck and FDR).There are no passports (and there were not before World War I). There are no government identification cards (there were not before World War II). People can use any currency they want to use (people could do so before the Civil War). They can accumulate wealth and pass it on to their children with the full knowledge and expectation that their children’s children will benefit too (so it was before World War I). They can innovate in the commercial marketplace without fear of courts, lawsuits, regulators, taxmen, and the customs house. They can negotiate all contracts, associate or disassociate, and hire and fire as they see fit. They do not hear government propaganda piped into stores and other public places. They do not even have to care about politics because the state is so limited and nearly powerless that not even the worst of people can change its essential functioning..

This is not a far-flung dream. Mises’s explanation here is a composite of how liberty has worked in various times and various places over the last several hundred years. And he wrote this as a reminder of what people have lost in surrendering their lives and the functioning of society over to government power..

The point that Mises was making with his book was that it is not enough to hate a particular regime; we must oppose the ideological underpinnings of that regime and see what it has in common with the universal experience of tyranny. Nor is it enough merely to oppose government. We must also come to love liberty, to see and understand how it works even though we live in times when liberty is ever less seen, and ever less understood. This was the burden of his great book: to highlight Nazism as a particular application of the broader menace of statism itself..

This is also the point of Ron Paul’s Liberty Defined. Yes, he opposes government as we know it. Much more importantly and much more profoundly, he understands the liberty that we do not know, and he strives to help us to love it, dream of it, and work for its achievement..

It doesn’t surprise me that Ron’s own son Rand Paul turns out to be the only member of the U.S. Senate to dare to stand up to the Patriot Act and call it what it is. He has staked his political career on his action to stop its reauthorization. It is truly the case that if we can’t see what is wrong with the Patriot Act, we can’t see what is wrong with any despotism in the past or the present. If we can see what is wrong with it, we have a good start on beginning to see what is right about human liberty..

May 26, 2011.

Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. [send him mail], former editorial assistant to Ludwig von Mises and congressional chief of staff to Ron Paul, is founder and chairman of the Mises Institute, executor for the estate of Murray N. Rothbard, and editor of LewRockwell.com. See his books..

Copyright © 2011 by LewRockwell.com. Permission to reprint in whole or in part is gladly granted, provided full credit is given.

 What Is "The Epoch Times"?

A few days ago we discovered a new publication which may merit your close attention. This is a newspaper which purports to publish unbiased news. The copy which came into our hands is a full sized, broad sheet newspaper of about 48 pages.  If it does what it says it does, it deserves to be read by every American.  More....9-17-2019

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Upcoming In-Depth Series on "The American Drug Culture"    9-17-2019 

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Things are rarely what they seem. This is a basic fact of life which has impressed itself upon me indelibly during the past decades of my life. So while I am not quick to brand everything I see or hear as a conspiracy, neither am I quick to dismiss conspiratorial theories when they are presented. It is true, of course, that some such ideas are initially more credible than others. For example, in my opinion, the likelihood of a conspiracy in the shooting of President John Kennedy is far greater than the notion embraced by some that the earth is hollow and is inhabited by human-like reptiles from another planet!

We will be exploring some of the widely held conspiratorial theories in the future... and some not so widely held. We will do our best to provide whatever information is available to substantiate or perhaps discredit these ideas, and you can decide for yourself whether or not they are credible. (The  stories will be published as they are written and are thus incomplete. You may follow them as they develop.)

International Bankers Seek Global Control 

We call this the "Grand Daddy of All Conspiracy Theories". Once its parts are exposed and placed under the light of scrutiny, it is not difficult to understand. But for reasons which will be discussed later, it is extremely difficult to accept. Our effort will be to collect and publish information which forms the basis of the theory. After you have learned all you can about it from every source you can, then YOU decide whether to embrace it as fact, fancy, or perhaps something in between.

See more on banks and bankers on "Banker Robbers", Page 22

 Fluoridation of Public Water Supplies 

 Is There a Cure for Cancer?

-TC-

The following from:

CHRONICLE ARCHIVES, Environment Page

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Gov’t says wood is illegal if U.S. workers produce it

Thursday, August 25, 2011

The Justice department bullies Gibson without filing charges

The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department’s interpretation of a law in India. (If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.) This action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India.

On August 24, 2011, around 8:45 a.m. CDT, agents for the federal government executed four search warrants on Gibson’s facilities in Nashville and Memphis and seized several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. Gibson had to cease its manufacturing operations and send workers home for the day, while armed agents executed the search warrants. Gibson has fully cooperated with the execution of the search warrants.

• Raid shut down Gibson factories and cost company money

This is the second time that federal agents have raided Gibson facilities and disrupted production – this time causing lost productivity and sales.

• Wood seized was Forest Stewardship Council Controlled

The wood the Government seized on August 24 is from a Forest Stewardship Council certified supplier and is FSC Controlled, meaning that the wood complies with the standards of the Forest Stewardship Council, which is an industry-recognized and independent, not-for-profit organization established to promote responsible management of the world’s forests. FSC Controlled Wood standards require, among other things, that the wood not be illegally harvested and not be harvested in violation of traditional and civil rights. See www.fsc.org for more information. Gibson has a long history of supporting sustainable and responsible sources of wood and has worked diligently with entities such as the Rainforest Alliance and Greenpeace to secure FSC certified supplies. The wood seized on August 24 satisfied FSC standards.

• Nearly two years later, no charges have been filed

In 2009, more than a dozen agents with automatic weapons invaded the Gibson factory in Nashville. The Government seized guitars and a substantial amount of ebony fingerboard blanks from Madagascar. To date, 1 year and 9 months later, criminal charges have NOT been filed, yet the Government still holds Gibson’s property. Gibson has obtained sworn statements and documents from the Madagascar government and these materials, which have been filed in federal court, show that the wood seized in 2009 was legally exported under Madagascar law and that no law has been violated. Gibson is attempting to have its property returned in a civil proceeding that is pending in federal court.

The Justice Department has asked the judge to stop the court case indefinitely.

• Information sought in raid was already made available

Since 2009, Gibson has fully cooperated with the Government’s investigation of wood and has provided substantial documentation regarding Gibson’s wood-buying activities over the years. Yet, the Federal Government raided Gibson’s facilities on August 24, 2011, without warning or communication of any kind. Had the Government simply communicated with Gibson, Gibson would have cooperated without having to stop its production and send workers home.

• Not about illegal logging, not about conservation, not about the environment

The U.S. Lacey Act does not directly address conservation issues but is about obeying all laws of the countries from which wood products are procured. This law reads that you are guilty if you did not observe a law even though you had no knowledge of that law in a foreign country. The U.S. Lacey Act is only applicable when a foreign law has been violated.

• Gibson is innocent and will fight to protect its rights

Gibson has complied with foreign laws and believes it is innocent of ANY wrong doing. We will fight aggressively to prove our innocence.

For more information, please contact:

Henry E. Juszkiewicz

c/o Gibson Guitar Corp.

309 Plus Park Blvd.

Nashville, TN 37217

(615) 871-4500 Extension 2405

www.gibson.com

About Gibson Guitar:

Gibson is known worldwide for producing classic models in every major style of fretted instrument, including acoustic and electric guitars, mandolins, and banjos. The Gibson Les Paul guitar is the best-selling guitar of all time and bears the name of the late, great Les Paul. Gibson’s line of Robot guitars, including the revolutionary new Firebird X, represents the biggest advances in electric guitar design in over 70 years. The Gibson Foundation is the philanthropic arm of the Gibson Guitar Corp., and dedicates its time and services to making the place a better world for children through its support of music, education, health and human services. Founded in 1894 in Kalamazoo, Michigan and headquartered in Nashville since 1984, Gibson Guitar Corp.’s family of brands now includes Epiphone, Dobro, Kramer, Steinberger, Tobias, Echoplex, Electar, Flatiron, Slingerland, Valley Arts, Maestro, Oberheim, Baldwin, Sunshine Piano, Take Anywhere Technology, J&C Fischer, Chickering, Hamilton, and Wurlitzer.

Visit Gibson’s website at www.gibson.com.

For breaking Gibson News: Press RSS Feed.

Follow Gibson on Twitter at www.twitter.com/gibsonguitar and Facebook at www.facebook.com/gibsonguitar.

Gibson, 1-800-4GIBSON (1-800-444-2766) or www.gibson.com

Contacts:

Jeremy Singer / Gibson UK, 020 7167 2144 / Jeremy.Singer@Gibson.com

Chris O’Hearn / Gibson Australia 61 2 9929 2257 / ThrillHillEnt@BigPond.com

      NOTES ON EARLIER SEIZURE      

In 2009, more than a dozen agents with automatic weapons invaded the Gibson factory in Nashville. The Government seized guitars and a substantial amount of ebony fingerboard blanks from Madagascar. To date, 1 year and 9 months later, criminal charges have NOT been filed, yet the Government still holds Gibson’s property. Gibson has obtained sworn statements and documents from the Madagascar government and these materials, which have been filed in federal court, show that the wood seized in 2009 was legally exported under Madagascar law and that no law has been violated. Gibson is attempting to have its property returned in a civil proceeding that is pending in federal court.

The Federal Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. has suggested that the use of wood from India that is not finished by Indian workers is illegal, not because of U.S. law, but because it is the Justice Department’s interpretation of a law in India. (If the same wood from the same tree was finished by Indian workers, the material would be legal.) This action was taken without the support and consent of the government in India.

Unbelievably enough, this was not the first time that the Gibson factories have been raided for this same reason.

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.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight... 
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The Tyler Chronicle Cookbook FIGGY FIGGY PUDDING

“So, bring us some figgy pudding, bring us some figgy pudding, bring us some figgy pudding and bring it out here!”

We hate to burst your Christmas Bubble folks, but the good ol’ traditional English figgy pudding may not be the treat you were hoping for.  But rather than go into a lengthy diatribe about the shortcomings of the “real deal” we’ve done something far better. We concocted our very own  version of  a Christmas pudding guaranteed to make the traditional “figgy” pale by comparison

Can you imagine a “pale pudding”? Well, actually, no. Me neither

But look, you can get away with this, because nobody in America or in most other parts of the civilized world has a clue as to what a real, genuine “figgy pudding” is. Only in England do they know… and even they don’t. 

So, let’s get with it!  Here’s some of what  you’ll need. 4 eggs, 2/3 cup melted butter, 1 1/2 cups brown sugar, 1 teaspoon salt, 1 ¼ cups all purpose flour (sifted), 2 ½ teaspoons baking powder, 2 cups whole milk, ½ cup chopped dates, ½ cup chopped pecans or walnuts, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon  and 1 teaspoon ground nutmeg, 12 marischino cherries, four pitted prunes (finely diced), a heaping tablespoon of grated orange peel, and one pound of chopped dried figs.

*1 cup breadcrumbs.... And a partridge in a pear tree...

Moderately hot oven; 350 degrees F.

HEAT milk and figs but do not boil. Cook for about 10 minutes, stirring frequently.

COMBINE cinnamon, salt, sugar, baking powder, nutmeg and flour.

BEAT eggs one minute at high speed. Then add butter, orange peel, fig mixture and bread crumbs.

SLOWLY add flour and mix until blended. Do not over mix.

BAKE in a bundt pan placed in a  pan of hot water for about 2 hours.

NOTE: If you overcook, the pudding will come out more like a  cannon-ball than a pudding. Take it out of the oven to cool as soon as it begins to slightly pull away from the side of the bundt pan.  Experience is the best teacher here. For a moister pudding increase liquids slightly. For a cake-like texture, add less milk.

NOTE: Halloween and Thanksgiving recipes are being moved to CHRONICLE ARCHIVE, PAGE 26.

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