Kenneth Tofel has announced his candidacy for Precinct Three justice of the peace.

Tofel and incumbent Roy May Jr. are both candidates in the March 4 Republican primary. There is no Democratic candidate for the seat.

Tofel said he was urged to run for the offi ce.

“I have ultimate respect for the of-fi ce,” he said. “I believe it’s the peo-ple’s court and not the offi cial’s.”

Tofel pointed to his military back-ground as preparing him for the position. He rose to the rank of captain.

Tofel was born in Schulenburg, raised in San Antonio and has resided in Washington County in Precinct Three for almost 20 years.

After high school, at the age of 18, he joined the U.S. Marine Corps. From 1973 -82, Tofel served in a variety of enlisted leadership positions spanning from team leader on the USS Inchon stationed in the South Pacifi c to series senior drill instructor with the responsibility for over two thousand Marine recruits. While assigned as a drill in-

structor at Parris Island, S.C., he attended Beaufort Tech-nical College where he completed his studies in criminal justice. In 1982, he commissioned as an U.S. Marine of-fi cer where he spent the next 13 years as a specialist in logistics, environmental law, and federal maintenance.

In 1989, Tofel was selected to the position of command-ing offi cer/inspector Instructor within the Marine Corps Reserves command where he held more than 50 military non-judicial punishment cases.

On June 21, 1991, after devastating fl oods swept through Texas, Oklahoma and Arkansas, Tofel said he coordinated thousands of assets to save citizens, livestock and machinery.

Three months after the incident, Tofel was promoted to chief environmental offi cer, II Marine Aircraft Wing, responsible for federal, state, and local environmental compliance across the U.S.’ eastern seaboard.

After retiring from the U.S. Naval Service with over 21 years of service, Tofel began serving as a senior Marine instructor at Plaquemine High School in Louisiana.

Living just outside Baton Rouge, he hoped to spend more time near his aging parents, so upon hearing the

By CAITLIN HAHNStaff Reporter

Brenham police are investigating an armed robbery at Radio Shack here Tuesday.

Police said a man entered the business and pulled out a handgun.

“A black male wearing a black ski mask, gray sweatpants, a gray hoodie and black gloves entered the store around 2:58 p.m.,” said Cpl. Chris Jackson. “After walking around for a few minutes, he pulled out a black handgun and a black bag and demand-ed cash and electronics.”

The employees put several items of elec-tronics in the bag and undetermined amount of cash.

The suspect then went out the back of the store and fl ed the scene.

He was last seen getting into an older mod-el Ford Taurus. Witnesses told police he went south on Highway 36.

“We have the surveillance cameras and are currently following up on the investigation,” Jackson said.

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ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed says “a lot of people” are still stranded in their cars on the highways nearly 24 hours after a winter storm slammed the city, but he is not sure of exactly how many people.

Reed said the focus today will be on getting food, water and gas to people still on the highways. The roads became gridlock Tuesday when schools, businesses and government offi ces all let out at the same time.

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WEATHERTonight: Partly cloudy skies. Low near 30. Winds south-southeast at 5-10 mph. Thursday: Partly cloudy skies. High 63. Winds southerly at 15 to 25 mph. Readings for the 24-hour period ending at 7 a.m. today: high 36, low 27. trace of precipitation.

TODAY’S THOUGHT “The wisdom of the wise, and

the experience of ages, may be pre-served by quotation.”

Isaac D’Israeli, English author (1766-1848).

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Hydrant flushingmay affect clarity

of city’s waterThe city of Brenham will be conducting fi re

hydrant testing throughout the city during February.

This testing may cause the water to be dis-colored, city offi cials said.

They stressed that the water will be safe to drink but if there is discoloration, residents should run the cold water in taps throughout their homes for 5-10 minutes or until the water clears.

City offi cials also advised against doing laundry until the water has cleared, or do to a load of dark clothing fi rst.

Water customers received a fl yer about the hydrant testing in their last utility bills. More information is also available at the city’s web site: www.cityofbrenham.org.

TODAY’S VERSE What good will it be for a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?

Matthew 16:26

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Ginnin’ up some heavy cottonRoberto Lopez (right) holds his hands up to show that the 405-pound bale of cotton is balanced on the scale as Texas Cotton Gin Museum Director Linda Russell (left), and Jan and Terry Todd record footage for a documentary Tuesday afternoon at the gin. The cotton gin workers ginned two bales of cotton, one at 405 pounds, the other 410, in one day for the Todds, who are going to use the items in an Iron Man competition. This event, started by Terry Todd, involves weightlifting five different items, include cotton bales. They also filmed footage of the ginning of the bales for a documentary that will be shown during the actual competition.

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CNC machining course debutingNew Blinn course teaches students latest techniques

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Blinn College’s A.W. Technical Educa-tion Center is offering a new machining course that will keep its students on the cutting edge of industrial training.

The center is debuting its new computer numerical controlled (CNC) machining course in February, and anticipates the class fi lling quickly. The Hodde Center is also offering registration for Machin-ing 1038, an introduction to machining course beginning Tuesday. That will be mandatory for students seeking entry in CNC machining.

Students trained in CNC machining are in high demand by industry employ-ers. CNC lathes are rapidly replacing older production lathes due to their ease of setting, operation, repeatability and accuracy.

Employees of those local companies have already fi lled the fi rst two courses, and Hodde Center Director David Yea-ger said he expects there to be high de-

mand for the course’s summer offerings. The Center will establish a wait list for students who wish to enroll when future classes are scheduled.

“Many businesses are moving to CNC machines because they’re much more ef-fi cient,” Instructor Brisco Humes said. “Students with CNC training looking for work have a signifi cant advantage over those who only know manual machin-ing.”

The CNC course includes 84 hours of classroom and lab instruction, which cov-ers the basics of running a CNC machine, including tool and work setup, reviewing programs and understanding G and M codes. Students will have a chance to be-come nationally certifi ed by the National Institute for Metalworking Skills (NIMS) on both lathe and mill machines. NIMS sets the industry skill standard and certi-fi es workers’ individual skills.

“We are excited to offer this training

for new and incumbent workers,” Megan Costanza said, Blinn’s dean of workforce education. “Local industry offi cials have advocated for a CNC program and been instrumental in debuting this training.”

Unlike CNC Machining, Machining 1038 is an introductory course that teach-es students the basics of machining, such as how to operate a manual machine, read blueprints and make precision measure-ments. Students will receive a lifelong workplace safety certifi cation by the Oc-cupational Safety and Health Adminis-tration (OSHA) and have the opportunity to become NIMS certifi ed.

To move on to CNC Machining, stu-dents must be certifi ed in Machining 1038 or demonstrate they’re knowledge-able in the basics of machining.

The course will be offered Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays from Feb. 4-May 9 and has been scheduled to accom-

Tofel seeking JP Three position

WASHINGTON (AP) — Con-gressional Republicans swiftly and sharply rejected President Barack Obama’s vow to act on his own if lawmakers won’t help him create jobs and narrow the nation’s yawning income gap, insisting he’ll accom-plish little in a divided government without them.

“The authority he has doesn’t add up to much for those without op-portunity in this economy,” House Speaker John Boehner said after Obama’s State of the Union address before a packed House chamber and a prime-time television audience.

“The real answer is for Obama to refocus his priorities and work with us on the things that we can achieve together to create jobs and promote greater opportunity,” he added.

Obama’s aim to move beyond a pat-tern of political crises and division is further complicated by the fact that 2014 is a midterm election year, with control of Congress at stake.

Hoping to gain the political initia-tive, Obama summoned lawmakers to create jobs, overhaul immigration laws, combat climate change and more, and said he would act unilat-erally where possible if they won’t compromise.

“America does not stand still, and neither will I,” the president de-clared. “So whatever and wherever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more Ameri-can families, that’s what I’m going to do.”

Vice President Joe Biden under-scored that blunt message today as Obama prepared to take his pitch on the road, starting with visits to sub-urban Maryland to highlight his call for raising the minimum wage and to Pittsburgh to build support for im-proved retirement security.

“The president will take action where in fact he thinks it will spur action in the state or in Congress,” Biden said on “CBS This Morning. “We’re just not going to sit around and wait for the Congress if they

GOP sayspresidentcan’t acton his own

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Photo courtesy of Blinn CollegeBlinn College Workforce Education Instructor Brisco Humes demonstrates one of the new computer numerically controlled machines located at the A.W. Hodde, Jr. Technical Education Center here.

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TOFEL

Keese Esther Mary Keese, 98, wid-

ow of Alton Keese, died Jan. 27, 2014 in Br-enham.

E s t h e r Keese was born Sept. 9, 1915 in Deanville to Vincent and Julia T h e r e s a Popek Of-c z a r z a k . She was

raised in the Birch Community and resided in Houston for 22 years before making her home in Brenham.

On March 30, 1937, she was married to Alton B. Keese at

Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Houston. A member of St. Mary’s Catholic Church, she was active in the Brenham Deanery Council of Catho-lic Women and the Catholic Daughters of America. A volun-teer with the Hospital Auxiliary Services, she was also active in Bread Partners of Washington County.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Charles and Nelda Keese; daughter and son-in-law Tammy and Clay Good; grandchildren Kathleen Bed-rich and husband Thomas, and Susan Nienstedt and husband, Greg; William Good, and Dan-iel Good; great-grandchildren Jeremy Bedrich, Lucy Nienst-edt, and Lily Nienstedt; sister Jean Matelski; brother Alton

Ofczarzak; and a sister-in-law, Vlasta Ofczarzak.

Esther was preceded in death by her parents, Julia and Vin-cent Ofczarzak, her husband Alton Keese; brothers and sis-ters-in-law Ben and Marcella Ofczarzak, Daniel and Doris Ofczarzak, Ernest Ofczarzak, and Jimmy and Mary Ofczar-zak; sisters: Helen (Poehl) and Batch Drachenberg, Julia and Aubrey Houston, and Jimmy and Lauraine Seidler; brothers-in-law Garland and June Keese, and Lynn Keese; sisters-in-law Nelline Boyd and Janette Ofc-zarzak.

Serving as pallbearers are Bill Keese, Alton Ofczarzak, Mark Ofczarzak, Michael Poehl, Gary Beach, Jay Barrow, Ernest D. Ofczarzak, Bobby Houston,

David Ofczarzak and Darrell Ofczarzak.

Memorials may be directed to St. Mary’s Catholic Church of Brenham.

Funeral services are pending and will be announced later.

Funeral arrangements for Es-ther Mary Keese are entrusted to Memorial Oaks Chapel, 1306 W. Main, Brenham. To post a tribute to the family, visit www.memorialoakschapel.com.

MarburgerHenry J. Marburger, 82, of

Brenham, died Jan. 28, 2014, at Brenham Nursing and Rehabili-tation Center.

Funeral services are pending at Memorial Oaks Chapel, 1306 W. Main St., Brenham, Texas (979) 836-4564.

choose not to act.”For their part, House Re-

publicans were departing for a two-day retreat on Maryland’s Eastern Shore. Obama’s prom-ise to wield his presidential power was certain to be part of the discussion — and so, too, ways to gain concessions from the White House in exchange for increasing the nation’s $17 trillion debt ceiling.

From Boehner down, there was little evidence they intend-ed to move Obama’s way.

“Too many people are falling further and further behind be-cause, right now, the president’s policies are making people’s lives harder,” Rep. Cathy Mc-Morris Rodgers said in the Re-publicans’ offi cial response.

The State of the Union speech came at the beginning of the sixth year in Obama’s presiden-cy and was replete with all the political pageantry that Wash-ington can muster. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Gins-burg opened her arms wide to give a grinning Obama a huge hug as he walked past her on the way to the speaker’s rostrum.

The galleries ringing the fl oor were crowded with guests, also part of the traditional setting. The evening’s longest — and most bipartisan — applause went to one of them. Army Sgt. 1st Class Cory Remsburg, grievously injured by a road-side bomb in Afghanistan, ac-knowledged the cheers from his seat next to fi rst lady Michelle

Obama.By contrast, Obama’s men-

tion of the health care law that bears his name brought cheers from Democrats and silence from Republicans, who have spent the past three years trying to repeal a program they loathe.

He said he didn’t expect Re-publicans to change their minds but challenged them to offer improvements. “If you have specifi c plans to cut costs, cover more people and increase choice — tell America what you’d do differently. Let’s see if the num-bers add up.

“But let’s not have another 40-something votes to repeal a law that’s already helping mil-lions of Americans.”

Republicans have yet to of-fer a comprehensive health care alternative, and the remarks ap-peared to be an attempt by the president to frame the issue to his party’s advantage in the long campaign ahead for con-trol of Congress.

Brenham school district’s ac-ceptance towards opening of a Junior Reserve Offi cer Training Center, he relocated here.

For almost 20 years, Tofel worked with the now nationally recognized program, providing discipline and mentorship to the students.

When he retired from that po-sition in 2012, Tofel said he was

responsible for awarding more than $3 million in scholarships to BHS students and erecting the joint ROTC-Texas Parks and Wildlife instructional facility.

In March 2012, he was of-fered the position of factory and fi eld superintendent at Carlton Manufacturing where he direct-ed the contracting for Fortune 500 companies and overseeing

millions of dollars of construc-tion.

For more than a year, Tofel oversaw and streamlined the construction and subsequent national grand-openings of Starbucks Coffee locations. Af-ter 18 months expansive corpo-rate leadership, Tofel said he re-signed to pursue a career more community focused.

Tofel is the recipient of the Navy Achievement and Navy Commendation Medals and a graduate of the National De-fense University Executive Course, Warrant Offi cer course, United States Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare School and the U.S. Naval Justice for Senior Offi cers.

He is an active member of

Champion Fellowship Church, Republican Party both national/local, National Rifl e Associa-tion, Veterans of Foreign Wars, American Legion, Marine Corps League and past member of the Marine Mustang Association of Marine Corps Offi cers.

Tofel is also a member of the honor guard at the funerals of local veterans.

He has been married for 31 years and has two children. His son Charles is pursuing a career in government security. His daughter Allison is taking part on a year-long mission to Africa and Malaysia.

Tofel said that “earning the respect of others has been the hallmark of my career.”

Thomas Randle, a Brenham High School graduate who has gone on to become superintendent of the Lamar Consolidated school district, will be guest speaker at a Black History Break-fast here Feb. 8.

The program, being sponsored by the Br-enham Activist Asso-ciation, will be held at 9 a.m. in the Blinn College Student Center.

Randle, a 1971 graduate of Brenham High, has been the superintendent of La-mar CISD since July 2001. Before joining the Lamar CISD he served as superinten-dent in the La Marque school district for I

six years. Randle received his bachelor’s and mas-

ter’s degrees from Texas A&M Univer-sity and began his career in education as a teacher in Sweeny,Texas.

After receiving his doctorate from Okla-homa State University, he held administra-tive positions in the Conroe ISD serving as assistant principal, principal and assistant superintendent for secondary education.

He is active in civic, community and pro-fessional organizations and serves on nu-merous boards, including TASB Risk Man-agement Fund, UIL Legislative Committee, Texas FFA Association, Texas Association of School Administrators, Texas Associa-tion of Supervision and Curriculum Devel-opment, Texas Academic Decathlon and the Texas Business and Education Coalition.

Randle is the past president of the Texas

Association of School Administrators and the Texas Association of Supervision and Curriculum Development.

He served on the Commissioner’s Cabi-net of Superintendents, on the Policy Com-mittee on Public Education Information, advisor for the Recommended High School Plan with the Texas Education Agency and is an adjunct professor with the University of Houston-Clear Lake, Lamar University and Texas A&M University.

Randle was named 2011 Superintendent of the Year for Region IV and was a state fi nalist for Superintendent of the Year.

He is the son of the late Mary D. Burton and is married to Ruby Whiting Randle. They are the parents of four sons: Gayland, Brian, Clayton and Taylor.

Tickets to the breakfast are available by calling 451-0863 or (979) 203-3566.

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The Brenham Police Department during the 24-hour period ending 7 a.m. today responded to 23 calls and

Central communications had 1,176 radio transmissions and 79 calls to the 911 emergency phone system during the 24-hour period ending at midnight Tuesday.

A breakdown of the 911 calls: Brenham Police Department, seven; Washington County Sheriff’s Offi ce, four; Emergency Medical Services, fi ve; 26 hang-ups or abandoned calls; 15 non-emergency calls; and 22 outbound checks on abandoned calls.

Police are investigating a armed robbery at Radio Shack here Tuesday (see story, Page One).

The department’s website address is www.ci.brenham.tx.us/police.

———Brenham Fire Department had no calls during the 24-hour

period ending at 7 a.m. today.The fi re department’s website address is www.ci.brenham.

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Washington County Emergency Medical Services calls for the 24-hour period ending at midnight Tuesday were:

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The Washington County Sheriff’s Offi ce during the 24-hour period ending at 6 a.m. today were:

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Justice of the Peace Doug Zwiener supplies daily reports coming through his offi ce, which handles charges recorded against subjects taken to the Washington County jail. Charges and activities for today were:

Fugitive from justice/parole violation — State of Arkansas (no bond)

Possession of a dangerous drug — Class A (Burnet County warrant)

Theft by Check — Class B (Washington County warrant) Possession of a controlled substance — Class A (Washington

County warrant, two counts)Credit or debit card abuse — State jail felony (Washington

County warrant)Issuance of a bad check — Class C (Washington County war-

rant, four counts)Violated promise to appear — Class C (Washington County

warrant)Speeding — Class C (Washington County warrant)Criminal trespass — Class B (two cases)Total of bonds set: $17,500.

Brenham Beat

BRENHAM SONS OF CONFEDERATE VETERANS CAMP MEETINGProfessor Caroline Crimm will give a presentation to the Bren-ham Sons of Confederate Veterans Campduring its Tuesday meeting. Camp members and visitors are welcome. Its meetings are always open to anyone interested in the Civil War period. Dinner is at 6 p.m. and the program at 7. The camp meets at the Sealand Steak and Seafood Restaurant at 2100 E. U.S. 290.

BATTEN FOUNDATION FUNDRAISER, SHOPPING EXTRAVAGANZAThe Luke and Rachel Batten Foundation luncheon fundraiser and shopping extravaganza will be at Blinn College Student Center Feb. 7 from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Luncheon will begin at 11:30 a.m. and cost is $50 per person. The speaker will be Dr. Gary Clark of Texas Children’s Hospital, who ranks among the world’s leading authorities on rare and devastating infant neuro-logical disorders.

CELEBRATION OF LIFENew Beginnings LIfe Ministries will present the 2014 celebra-tion of Life Feb. 20 from 6:30-8:30 p.m. There is liminted seat-ing, and to register or for more information call 836-0397.

WASHINGTON COUNTY LADIES LIONS CLUB CALENDARS The Washington County Ladies Lions Club members are cur-rently selling 2014 calendars. Proceeds of the calendar sales will benefi t the Washington County Healthy Living Association Se-nior Center and the Texas Lions Camp. The calendars are $20 each and are available from WCLLC members or can be found at Parts and More, Woodman of the World Insurance and Nor-man’s Pharmacy.

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modate students who wish to work part-time while complet-ing the course.

To help relieve the upfront costs for Machining 1038, a four-payment installment plan will be offered for the fi rst time this year, and grants or scholar-ships will be offered to all stu-dents.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Nearing the leg-islative fi nish line after more than two years of bickering, the House passed and sent to the Senate today an almost $100 billion-a-year farm bill containing a mostly symbolic cut in food stamps and preserving most crop subsidies.

The measure, which was approved 251-166, had solid backing from the Republi-can leadership team, even though it makes smaller cuts to food stamps than they would have liked. The bill would cut about $800 million a year from the $80 billion-a-year program, or around 1 percent. The House had sought a 5 percent cut.

The legislation also would continue to heavily subsidize major crops for the na-

tion’s farmers while eliminating some sub-sidies and shifting them toward more politi-cally defensible insurance programs.

House Agriculture Chairman Frank Lu-cas, R-Okla., who has been working on the bill since 2011, called the compromise a “miracle” after years of setbacks. An early version of the legislation was defeated on the House fl oor last June after conservatives said the food stamp cuts were too modest and liberal Democrats said they were too steep.

The House later passed a bill with a high-er, $4 billion cut, arguing at the time that the program had spiraled out of control after costs doubled in the last fi ve years. But cuts that high were ultimately not possible af-

ter the Senate balked and the White House threatened a veto. The Senate had sought a cut of $400 million annually.

The savings in the cost of the food stamp program would be generated by cracking down on some states that seek to boost indi-vidual food stamp benefi ts by giving people small amounts of federal heating assistance that they don’t need.

That heating assistance, sometimes as low as $1 per person, triggers higher ben-efi ts, and some critics see that practice as circumventing the law. The bill that was passed Wednesday would require states to give individual recipients at least $20 in heating assistance before a higher food stamp benefi t could be authorized.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama’s plan to raise the minimum wage for federally contracted workers is winning praise from unions and labor activists, but it could take a year or more before any hikes take place and the impact may not be as widespread as some advocates had hoped.

Obama announced in his State of the Union address Tuesday that he will sign an executive or-der setting the minimum wage for workers covered by new fed-eral contracts at $10.10 an hour, a hefty increase over the current federal minimum of $7.25.

“I think it’s a huge step for-ward in that every action head-ed in the direction of lifting wages puts pressure on Con-gress to act,” said Mary Kay Henry, president of the Service Employees International Union, which has spent millions to help

federally contracted workers and fast-food employees orga-nize protests and strikes to de-mand higher wages.

But the increase is only ex-pected to cover about 10 per-cent of the 2.2 million federal contract workers overall, since most of those employees al-ready make more than $10.10. It won’t take effect until 2015 at the earliest and doesn’t affect existing federal contracts, only new ones.

Another wrinkle: The order won’t affect contract renewals unless other terms of the agree-ment change, such as the type of work or number of employ-ees needed, according to White House offi cials.

That caveat is raising con-cerns for Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., who has spent months urging Obama to increase wag-es for contractors. While El-

lison called the announcement “a great fi rst step,” he said he wants to make sure it’s imple-mented the right way.

“If you renew a contract, we expect everyone to make $10.10,” Ellison said.

Ellison said White House offi cials have estimated about 200,000 low-wage workers would be affected by the order, including food service workers in federal buildings, security guards, and groundskeepers.

The White House has not said whether the wage increase will be indexed to go up as infl ation rises, but that is also something Ellison would like to see once the executive order is drafted.

Obama hopes his order will pressure Congress “to get on board” and pass legislation in-creasing the minimum wage to $10.10 for all employees.

The move is sure to add to the

growing debate about whether workers in low-wage industries like retail and fast-food should be paid more. And it is winning wide praise from Democratic lawmakers who want to pass a wage increase this year.

Obama’s announcement was a victory for labor unions who have stepped up public pressure on Obama to help raise wages. Government contract workers — with the backing of unions and other worker advocacy groups — have held protests seven times since last May to protest low pay for those work-ing at landmark government buildings, including the Penta-gon, the Smithsonian museums and Union Station. Those pro-testers have specifi cally called on Obama to raise their wages through an executive order.

Matthew Shay, president and CEO of the National Retail Fed-

eration, said raising the mini-mum wage would place a new burden on employers and hinder job creation.

“It’s simple math — if the cost of hiring goes up, hiring goes down,” Shay said.

Over at the U.S. Chamber of

Commerce, senior vice presi-dent Randy Johnson said the order appears very limited, but he’s waiting to see details. John-son also questioned if Obama has authority to issue an order that confl icts with current mini-mum wage legislation.

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ActionCOACHThe Washington County Chamber of Commerce wel-comed ActionCOACH with a ribbon cutting Monday at the chamber offices. Pictured are owner David Barham, family, friends and representatives of the city, county and chamber.

R. Hal Moorman, part-ner in the Brenham law fi rm of Moorman Tate Haley Upchurch & Yates, LLP, served as the course director and one of the panelists in the 15th an-nual Building Blocks of Wills, Estates and Probate Course of the State Bar of Texas.

The panel session was broadcast as a live webcast Jan. 24.

This seminar is the second largest annual seminar that the Texas Bar sponsors.

This is Moorman’s 10th year to serve as course director.

He is a Fellow of the American College of Trust and Estate Counsel where he serves as a regent.

He is listed in The Best Lawyers in America and in Texas Monthly Super Lawyers, is board certifi ed in civil trial law and estate planning and probate law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, and serves on the board of the Texas Board of Legal Specialization.

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The price of oil held above $97 a barrel today, awaiting data expected to show rising crude in-ventories and a further cut in U.S. central bank stimulus.

By early afternoon in Europe, benchmark U.S. crude for March delivery was down 10 cents to $97.31 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Tuesday, the Ny-mex contract surged 1.8 percent, or $1.69, to close at $97.41.

Analysts have forecast U.S. oil supplies rose last week, suggesting weaker demand. Weekly stockpiles data is likely to show increases of 2.1 barrels in crude oil stocks and 1.6 million bar-rels in gasoline stocks, according to a survey of analysts by Platts, the energy information arm of McGraw-Hill Cos.

The report from the industry-funded Ameri-can Petroleum Institute showed late Tuesday that crude stocks rose 4.75 million barrels last week.

The report from the Energy Department’s En-ergy Information Administration — the market benchmark — will be out later Wednesday.

“Alongside the continuing cold weather in the U.S., the increase in the (Nymex) price is be-ing explained partly by the expectation that the newly-opened southern section of the Keystone XL pipeline will result in crude oil destocking at Cushing,” said analysts at Commerzbank in Frankfurt in a note to clients.

Cushing, Okla., is a major trading hub for U.S. crude and the delivery point for the Nymex con-tract.

Investors are also cautious before the outcome of the Federal Reserve meeting ending today. Offi cials are widely expected to cut the central bank’s monthly bond buying that has under-pinned an economic recovery.

Oil prices have been underpinned by the Fed’s stimulus because it has kept the dollar from strengthening, making oil more affordable for traders using other currencies.

HELSINKI (AP) — Angry Birds creator Rovio Entertainment Ltd. says the popular game’s home pages have been hacked, two days after reports that the personal data of its customers might have been accessed by U.S. and British spy agencies.

Rovio spokeswoman says the hacking lasted a few minutes early today and that end-user data “was in no risk at any point.”

The hacking came after documents leaked by former National Security Agency contractor

Edward Snowden suggested that the NSA and Britain’s GCHQ had been able to extract infor-mation through a host of smartphone apps across the globe, including the Angry Birds game fran-chise.

Rovio has denied the claims, saying it does not “share data, collaborate or collude” with any spy agencies and that it would re-evaluate third-party advertising networks.

The Cancer Clinic has an-nounced the opening of its new location in Brenham.

Dr. Terry Jenkins will now be splitting his time between the Brenham and Bryan clinics, and serving as a physician for the new Cancer Clinic here on Tues-days and Thursdays by appoint-ment only.

Jenkins has taken over the of-fi ce practice for Dr. Raj Cheru-ku, who has returned to San Angelo.

Jenkins earned his medical degree from the Georgetown University School of Medicine in 1975. He then completed his internal medical residency at Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., and a fellowship in medical oncology and hematology at Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio.

Jenkins joined the Cancer Center in July 1997 and his list of awards and accolades are un-surpassed. The Cancer Clinic, established in 1982, treats an av-erage of 60-70 new patients each month in addition to current pa-tients.

This is almost 15,000 patients encounters each year. The Can-cer Clinic specializes in all types of adult cancer and can compre-hensive care to 99% of adult cancer patients in this area.

They do not treat pediatric patients. Breast, colon, lung, lymph node and prostate cancer account for 60 percent of those treated at the Cancer Clinic.

The Cancer Clinic here is located at 605 Medical Court, suite 202.

Chrysler-Fiat merger continues

Thurs.,Fri. & Sat.Jan. 30th, 31st and Feb. 1st

Moorman is instructor againat State Bar of Texas seminar

MOORMAN

DETROIT (AP) — Chrysler and Fiat will be known as Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV as they move forward together as a single company.

Fiat’s board of directors agreed on the new name today, with headquarters for tax pur-poses in the United Kingdom. But the board sidestepped the thorny political issue of whether the true headquarters would be in the United States or Italy.

The announcement came on the same day both Fiat and Chrysler announced fourth-quarter and full-year earnings. Chrysler once again propped up its parent company, which would have lost money with-out the U.S. automaker’s strong profi ts.

Shares of the combined com-pany will trade jointly on the New York Stock Exchange and in Milan, Italy.

For each share of Fiat, share-holders will get one share in the new company, which will trade with a symbol of FCA.

The new company will main-tain signifi cant research, engi-neering and fi nancial operations in Fiat’s hometown of Turin, It-aly, and on Chrysler’s sprawling

offi ce complex in Auburn Hills, Mich.

This avoids political contro-versies in Italy, where Fiat is the largest private employer, and in the U.S., where the government saved Chrysler by funding its 2009 bankruptcy.

The corporate line on the headquarters location is that it’s on an airplane. Currently many of its 22-member leadership team have multiple offi ces in Auburn Hills, Turin and other parts of the world. Like Ser-gio Marchionne, CEO of both companies, they spend hours on corporate jets fl ying to meet-ings and to visit factories and other operations.

Little is expected to change in the way the company works. Already Chrysler and Fiat have joined to design three vehicles, the Dodge Dart compact, Jeep Cherokee SUV and the upcom-ing Chrysler 200 midsize car.

All three models share en-gines, transmissions and other technologies developed in both places.

The location of the corporate brain could change over time, but nothing about that was re-vealed today.

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Lifestyles

DRT Donates Book to LibraryMary Whigham, left, president of the Dr. Richard Fox Brenham Chapter, DRT presented “The Daughters, A Dozen Decades of DRT” to Andria Heiges, Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library supervisor. The book chronicles the birth of the organization in 1891 and is dedicated “to all the pioneer women who birthed the Republic of Texas, our ancestors and their friends, those known and unknown to us.” Illustrated, the Dr. Richard Fox Brenham Chapter appears on pages 247-248. Originally chartered in 1893 as the “Independence Chapter,” it was renamed “Dr. Richard Fox Brenham Chapter” in 1983, in memory of the Mier Expedi-tion martyr. The chapter meets monthly on the lst Thursday at 3 p.m. in the Blinn College Student Center and currently has 20 members. Membership is open to those whose ancestors came to Texas prior to Feb. 19, 1846, or came as a colonist with Austin’s Old Three Hundred, or any colonies authorized under the Span-ish or Mexican governments before the Texas Revolution or those authorized by the Congress of the Republic of Texas, or served as an officer or private in the service of the Colonies or of the Re-public of Texas, or was a recipient of a land grant authorized by the Provisional Government of the Republic of Texas. For more information about the chapter, visit the website, www.brenham-drt.com.

Club News

American Legion AuxiliaryTheAmericanLegionAuxiliarymeetingJan.16beganwithapot-

lucksupperforthepostandunit.Theauxiliarymetafterwardopen-ingwiththepledge,preambleandprayer.

PeggyKramerreadtheNovemberminutesandshefollowedwiththetreasurer’sreport.

TerryBriedenannouncedcardsweresentforillnessesanddeaths.Announcementsofbothscholarshipwinnersweregiven.BriedenhadsharedEvelynKlausmeyerhadprepared45giftbags

forveteransinnursinghomesandwasassistedintheirdistributionbyBrieden.

Theunithasatthistime177paidmembers.Thequotais235mem-bers,whichmeanstheyareat74percenttogoal.

Theconstitutionandby-lawswerepreparedbyFrancesGarzawaspresentedbyBrieden,andshewilltakeittotheMid-WinterConfer-ence.

DorisDraehngaveherfindingsinpreparationfortheannualspa-ghettifundraiserMarch8.Itwasvotedtocharge$8whichmeanstheywillnetmoneyforthe2014programs.Fourticketswillbein-cludedinthenextnewsletter.

Betty Wiesepape won the door prize and donated her $5 to thecancerfund.SteveMillerwonthe50/50anddonatedbacktotheunit$20.

ThemeetingendedwiththeLord’sPrayer.

Brenham High School Debate Team Wins Awards at El Campo

TheBrenhamHighSchooldebateteamcompetedatElCampoHighSchoolrecently.

WillCornandRaRaWillsplacedthirdoverallincrossexami-nationdebate.

HannahWinkleplacedinthetopsevenextemporaneousspeak-ersoutof49students.

MatthewDeskimadeitsemi-finalsforimpromptuspeakingandextemporaneousspeaking.

Corn also made it to semi-finals for novice extemporaneousspeaking.

Davis Mayhew received fourth place for current issues andevents;Cornreceivedfifthplaceincurrentissuesandevents.

School News

WC Ladies Lions Conduct Induction CeremonyWashington County Ladies Lion Club recently held an induction ceremony. The induction ceremony is the symbolic beginning to a members service as a Lion. The new members introduced, from left, Marilyn Williams, Lucie Barnette, Marsha Doebler, Char-lene Craigen, Bonnie Clark, Mari Perry, Cheryl Gaskamp and Darlene Boecker received their pins and certificates. Anyone wanting to join the club can contact any Lion member or go to their Facebook page.

WC Ladies Lions Sponsor Bluebonnet State GirlThe Washington County Ladies Lion Club sponsored Winter Brooks to attend the Bluebonnet Girls State in Seguin. This Girls State program educates the youth in the duties, privileges and re-sponsibilties of American citizenship.

Presenting the Police Office with Blankets for ChildrenWashington County Ladies Lions club presented the local police chief and officers and Washington County sheriff with blankets for children in need. These blankets are handcrafted by local Lady Lions blanketeers. The blankets provide love, a sense of security, warmth and comfort to children who are in need.

Groves of Brenham Named to Fall Dean’s List at Southwestern University

GEORGETOWN—EmmaGrovesofBrenhamhasbeennamedtothedean’slistatSouthwesternUniversityinGeorgetownforthefall2013semester.

Tobeselected,studentsmusthaveatleasta3.6gradepointav-erageona4.0scalewithatleast12gradedhoursandbeingoodstandingwiththeuniversity.

Applause

Scott & White Auxiliary Earn Pins, Bars for HoursThe Scott & White Hospital - Brenham Auxiliary had its quar-terly meeting Jan. 27 at Scott & White Hospital. Pins and hour bars were awarded to those who had reached a milestone during the previous quarter. Pictured along with their accumulated number of hours are, front row, Jan Wilhelmsen, 2,000; Bes-sie Jones, 3,300; Mary Horak, 5,700; Nathaniel Evans, 2,200; Herb Foelber, 1,000; and back row, Judy Whitaker, 900; Lori Sladek, 700; Maria Cadwallader, 900; Bernice Gaskamp, 4,000; Jean Miller, 400; Dorothy Wiesepape, 400; Bill Nein-ast, 800; Jeannine Neinast, 4,500; and Barbara Dietzmann, 2,100. Not pictured are Ivonne Galvis, 200; John Gunn, 400; Linda Hermann, 800; Rita Hugo, 400; Barbara Jackson, 500; Ernest Koepf, 900; Edith Lehmann, 3,100; Lauryn Neisig, 100; Betty Thomas, 5,700; and Cristine Weige, 100. The aux-iliary performed in excess of 10,000 hours of volunteer service during 2013.

Around in Circles

LOSANGELES(AP)—Ev-ery so often, Brandi Koskiefinds dozens of photos of her3-year-olddaughter,Paisley,onher iPhone — but they aren’tonesKoskiehastaken.

“There’llbe90pictures,side-ways,ofthecornerofhereye,hereyebrow,”saidKoskie,wholives in Wichita, Kan. “She’sjust tappingherwayright intomyphone.”

The hidden photos, all shotbyPaisley,illustrateaphenom-enon familiar to many parentsin today’s tech-savvy world:Toddlers love selfies. Obser-vantentrepreneurshavecaughton to these image-obsessedtots, marketing special appsthat make taking photos su-per-easy for little fingers. Youcan even buy a pillow with asmartphonepocket so toddlerscantakeselfiesduringadiaper

change.But toddlers aren’t the only

onestakingphotosnonstop.It’snot unusual for doting parentsto snap thousands of digitalphotosbythetimetheirchildis2.Today’stoddlersthinknoth-ingoffindingtheirownbiopicstoredinadevicebarelybiggerthanadeckofcards.

Whilethebarrageofimagesmaykeepdistantgrandparentshappy, it’s not yet clear howsuch a steady diet of self-af-firming navel-gazing will af-fectmembersof thefirst truly“smartphone generation.” Tot-centricsnapshotscanhelpbuildahealthyself-imageandboostchildhood memories whenhandledcorrectly,butshootingtoomanyphotosorvideosandplaying them back instantlyfor ademanding toddler couldbackfire, said Deborah Best, a

professor of cognitive devel-opmental psychology at WakeForest University in Winston-Salem,N.C.

Theinstantgratificationthatsmartphones provide today’stoddlersis“goingtobehardtoovercome,”shesaid.“Theylikethings immediately, and theylikeitshortandquick.It’sgo-ingtohaveanimpactonkids’abilitytowaitforgratification.Ican’tseethatitwon’t.”

JulieYoung,aBoston-basedbehavioral analyst, has seenthatfirsthand.Shewas recent-ly helping her 3-year-old sonrecord a short birthday videofor his cousin on her iPhonewhenhestoppedmid-sentence,lungedforherphoneandshout-ed,“Mom,canIseeit?”

“It’scaughtontheendofthevideo.Hecouldn’tevenwaittoget the last sentenceout,” said

Young,whohastwosons.“Thesecond the phone comes out,they stop, they look and theyattack.”

NowYoungandherhusbandmaketheirsonswaittolookatanewvideoorphotountilafterdinneroruntiltheotherparentcomes home, when everyonecan watch together. They arecareful to sit with their kidswhen looking at photos andhaveadoptedthephrase“prac-ticepatience”asafamilyman-tra.

It’snaturalfortoddlerstobefascinated with their own im-age (think mirrors), and thatinterestplaysanimportantde-velopmentalroleastheydevel-opasenseofself,childdevel-opmentexpertssay.Watchingavideoagainandagaincanalsohelpmoveeventsfromshort-tolong-termmemory,Bestsaid.

DENVER(AP)—Potatthecountyfair?Whynot?Colorado’sDenverCountyisaddingcannabis-themedconteststo

its2014summerfair.It’sthefirsttimepotplantswillstandalongsidetomatoplantsandhomemadejamincompetitionforablueribbon.

Therewon’tactuallybeanymarijuanaatthefairgrounds.Thejudg-ingwillbedoneoff-site,withphotosshowingthewinningentries.Andalivejoint-rollingcontestwillbedonewithoregano,notpot.

ButcountyfairorganizerssaythemarijuanacategorieswilladdafuntwistonDenver’salready-quirkycountyfair,whichincludesadragqueenpageantandacontestfordioramasmadewithPeepscandies.

“WethoughtitwastimeforustotakethatleapandrepresentoneofthethingsDenverhasgoingon,”saidTracyWeil,thefair’smarketingandcreativedirector.

Theninemarijuanacategoriesincludeliveplantsandclones,pluscontests formarijuana-infusedbrownies and savory foods.Home-made bongs, homemade roach clips and clothing and fabric madewithhemproundoutthecategories.

Judgeswill lookonlyatplantquality,notthepotencyorqualityof the drugs they produce. Other contests — patterned after Am-sterdam’sfamedCannabisCup—alreadygaugedrugqualityandflavor.

Topprize is $20, plusof course a blue ribbon.The fair alreadyhasagreenribbon—awardedforusingenvironmentallyconsciousmethods.

Theentrieswillbeshownina“PotPavilion”openonlytopeopleover21.Alongside thepotentrantswillbe24categoriesofhome-madebeer,fourcategoriesforhomemadewineandonecategoryfor“spiritsandliqueurs.”

Prizeswillalsobegivenforspeedyjoint-rolling,thoughfairor-ganizers insist there won’t be any marijuana consumption on-site.Competitors in theliveDoritos-eatingcontestwillhavetoacquiretheirmunchieselsewhere.

Eventhephotographsofthewinningplantswillbeviewableonlybyadults21.Organizersdon’twant4-Hcompetitorsinthepopularrabbitandgoatcontestswanderingbyapotdisplay.

“Wehavealotoffamiliesandkidsatthefair,ofcourse,andwewantedtoberespectfulofthat,”Weilsaid.

Denver’sfairisfarfromtraditional,though.DenverCountydidn’thaveacountyfairuntil2011.Organizerswantedanurban,hipele-mentalongsidetraditionalfairfavoriteslikeaFerriswheelandcottoncandy.

Toddlers love selfies: Parenting in an iPhone age

PARIS (AP) — You knowthat dream you have of beinginvited into someone’s homewhiletravelingin,say,Paris,andbeing served themost deliciousmeal?BistroyLesPapillesisthatdream.

Each night, the chef preparesastarter,maindishanddessert,muchofitinspiredbythecuisineof France’s southwest. Just likein someone’s home, there’s nochoiceandnooptingout.Comehungryandyouwon’tbedisap-pointed.

The restaurant’s walls arelinedwithwine,anddinerspicktheirbottlefromtheshelvesbe-forebeing seated—sometimescreating awkward moments if

you’re browsing bottles abovesomeoneelse’stable.

The starter is often a beauti-fullypresentedsoup:Yourbowlarriveswith cubesof ham,per-haps, some fried parsley and adollopofcremefraiche,allpiledin the center of the bowl. Thesoupcomesinaseparate,elegantservingbowlwithaladle.

Maincourses tend tobe sub-stantial and meat-based, like adelicious thick-cut duck breast,servedoverrootvegetables.

This is not the realm of veg-etariansorpickyeaters.Onare-centvisit,adinerataneighboringtableaskediftherewasanythingotherthanduck.Thesolutionof-feredwasthatshecomebackat

lunch,whenthere’samenuwithchoice.

Next comes dessert and acheeseselectedbythechef.

It’s more a marathon than ameal,butthelaidbackwaitstaff—especiallytheownerwithhisthick Southern French accent—makesitallfeelleisurely.

Thisisamealyou’regoingtoneedtowalkoff,soafterdinner,headtowardtheriverforastrollthroughtheParisoftheimagina-tion. A night walk along Paris’“quais” — or even a taxi ride—isthebestwaytoseethecitylitupinitsfullglory.

Butawordofwarningtothoseundertaking a walk in centralParis: One of the struggles oftourist Paris is that the areasyoumostwanttovisitandstroll—clusteredalongbothsidestheSeine — tend to be devoid ofgood, reasonably priced food.Youcanstopalongthiswalkfora glassofwineor a coffee, butsticktorecommendedplacesforanythingmore.

YoucanstartyourwalkontherueSaint-Jacques,whichbeginsacross the street from the res-taurantandwilltakeyouallthe

waytotheSeine,overabridgetoIledelaCiteandtotheplazainfront of Notre Dame cathedral.Thefacadehasbeencleanedre-centlyforthechurch’s850than-niversary, and it is particularlystunningatnight.

Fromhere,cross to IleSaint-Louis(viaabridgebehindNotreDame) for a drink at the CafeSaint-Regis.Continuedown themain drag of Ile Saint-Louis tothe venerable ice cream shop,Berthillon.Ifit’safterdinner,itwilllikelybeclosed,butkeepitinmind for thenextday.ManyPariscafes serve the icecream,which is like Italian gelato, butthere’s nothing quite like theshop itself, with its colorful ar-rayofflavors.

CrosseitherthePontMarieorthePontLouisPhilippeandwalkalongtheriver’srightbank,backin thedirectionofNotreDame.Follow thequai to theHotel deVille,Paris’cityhall,whichhasan ice skating rink in front un-tilMarch.Rentyourskatesandworkoffallthosecaloriesunderthestars.Goforanafter-dinnerspinonaweeknight,andyou’lllikelybeatthecrowds.

Paris eatery like a dinner party, offering customers home feel

Marijuana contests join county fair in Colorado

From Staff ReportsThe Buccaneers signed six

players to its 2015 roster, in-cluding four pitchers.

The players include: (from left to right back row)

Dakota Brewton, LHP, Bren-ham High School

Nick Masarik, RHP, Colum-bus High School

Dominic Thorton, OF, Cy-press Falls High School

Walker WInders, IF, Belton High School

Justin Penney, RHP, Lehman High School

Nathan Alexander, RHP, Bra-zosport Christian High School

“This year we were really focusing on quality than quan-tity,” Blinn coach Harvey Mc-Intyre said. “Last year we lost so many players who we had to replace. This year, it’s a rela-tively small group.”

The coaching staff focused more on recruiting pitchers this season because of a change in Region XIV Conference play. Conference play will consist of

a four-game series with double-headers on Thursdays and Sat-urdays instead of a three-game series in the past.

“With that schedule, you can never have enough pitch-

ing depth,” McIntyre said. “We still have a little bit to finish up. We’d like to get two more outfielders and two more pitchers.”

The Banner-Press • Wednesday, January 29, 2014 • Page 5Sports

The Cubette basketball team (24-3, 12-1) plays Mag-nolia away today at 6 p.m.

The Cub basketball team (17-9, 7-4) plays Magnolia at home today at 7:30 p.m.

The Cubette soccer team (4-3-3) plays Huntsville at home today at 6 p.m.

The Cub soccer team (3-7-1) faces Mabank there at 5 p.m. Friday.

The Cub golf team plays at Panther Trails in The Wood-lands today.

The Cubette golf team plays at a tournament in Mag-nolia today.

BrenhamWeek At A Glance

The Panther basketball team (5-13, 0-5) plays Somer-ville at home today.

The Lady Panther basket-ball team plays Somerville at home today.

Burton

The Eagle basketball team (10-6, 7-1) plays at Lifestyle Christian Friday at 7:30 p.m.

BCA

The Buccaneer women’s basketball team (17-3, 7-1) faces Trinity Valley Commu-nity College at home at 5:30 p.m. today.

The Buccaneer men’s bas-ketball team (13-8, 4-7) plays at San Jacinto Junior College at 7:30 p.m. today.

Blinn

Weekly Briefs

Blinn baseball signs six players to 2015 roster

From Staff ReportsThe Cubettes dropped from fourth to eighth

in the latest Texas Association of Basketball Coaches’ poll (TABC). Brenham

lost their first district contest last week against No. 19 Mont-gomery (50-48).

Brenham and Montgom-ery are the only 18-4A teams

ranked, while there are no boys District 18-4A teams in

the poll.The Cubettes (12-1, 24-3 overall) have three

district games left this season and are current-ly in second place behind Montgomery (13-1, 24-3 overall).

TABC PollGirls 4A1. San Antonio Brennan (26-1)2. Aledo (21-2)3. McKinney North (20-4)4. Canyon (24-3)5. Barbers Hill (26-2)6. Frisco Liberty (21-3)7. Georgetown (23-6)8. Brenham (24-3)9. Trimble Tech (24-4)10. Dallas Adams (24-3)11. Arlington Seguin (20-8)12. Mansfield Summit (18-7)13. Schertz Clemens (24-4)14. El Paso Hanks (26-4)15. Houston North Forest

(18-1)16. Tomball (19-6)17. Houston Wheatley (22-2)18. Tomball Memorial (21-4)19. Montgomery (25-4)20. Plainview (21-7)21. Corpus Christi Ray (22-7)22. Wichita Falls Rider (22-6)23. Amarillo (19-8)24. West Mesquite (21-6)25. Flour Bluff (20-6)Boys 4A1. Alamo Heights (26-1)

2. Fort Worth Dunbar (15-3)3. El Paso Andress (22-2)4. Lancaster (21-4)5. Highland Park (23-3)6. Houston Wheatley (21-4)7. Frisco Heritage (19-2)8. Dallas Kimball (16-4)9. Fort Bend Marshall (19-7)10. Beaumont Ozen (21-5)11. Beaumont Central (21-4)12. San Antonio Brennan (23-4)13. Friendswood (20-6)14. Everman (19-3)15. Amarillo (17-5)16. Schertz Clemens (23-4)17. Fort Worth Trimble Tech (17-6)18. Dallas Lincoln (14-5)19. Dallas South Oak Cliff (18-5)20. Frenship (21-4)21. Nederland (18-6)22. McKinney North (19-5)23. Byron Nelson (20-6)24. Austin LBJ (15-9)25. Kingwood Park (22-7)

Cubette basketball drops to No. 8 in latest TABC poll

From Staff ReportsDave Campbell’s Texas Foot-

ball released its Winter 2014

edition of the magazine. Sev-eral local players were honored including some Cub players.

Senior offensive lineman Austin Schlottmann was named the best high school OL in the state and was also named to the All-Texas High School First-Team Offense.

Junior running back Earnest Patterson was named the District 18-4A Player of the Year.

Burton’s junior out-side linebacker Louis Brown was the 13-1A Player of the Year.

Here’s a list of the DCTF All-Texas High School Offense and Defense:

Grab Friday’s paper for Dave Campbell’s Final Class 4A and 1A Top 25 and next year’s top 10 for each classification.

All-Texas High School First-Team Offense:

Player of the Year and Best QB — Kyler Murray, junior, Allen (5A)

Justin Stockton, senior RB, Cibolo Steele (5A)

Larry Rose, senior RB, Fair-field (3A)

Fonzale Davis, senior WR, South Oak Cliff (5A)

Davon Allison, senior WR, Wichita Falls Rider (4A)

Tee Goree, senior WR, Car-thage (3A)

DaMarkus Lodge, junior WR, Cedar Hill (5A)

Devlin Gilligan, senior TE, SA Johnson (5A)

Evan Brown, senior OL, Southlake Carroll (5A)

Austin Schlottmann, senior OL, Brenham

Zachary Ledwik, senior OL, La Grange (3A)

Trent Andrews, senior OL, Bosqueville (1A DI)

Ty Barrett, senior OL, Dallas Skyline (5A)

Ian Sadler, senior UTIL, Ar-gyle (3A)

Cole Hedlund, senior K, Ar-gyle (3A)

Superlatives:Best QB — Kyler Murray,

Allen (5A)Best RB —

Justin Stockton, Cibolo Steele (5A)

Best OL — Aus-tin Schlottmann, Brenham

Best WR — D a M a r k u s Lodge, Cedar Hill (5A)

Second-Team Offense:

Patrick Mahomes, senior QB, Whitehouse (4A)

Xavier Turner, junior RB, Birdville (4A)

Terry Gilbreath, senior RB, Wellington (1A DII)

Jared Reagan, junior WR, Booker (1A DII)

Bryce Reeves, senior WR, Graham (3A)

Kerry Thomas, senior WR, A&M Consolidated (5A)

K.D. Cannon, senior WR, Mount Pleasant (4A)

Joseph Gannon, junior TE, Dallas Bishop Lynch (PVT)

Neal Bess, senior OL, George Ranch (4A)

Max Jones, senior OL, Ste-phenville (3A)

Najee Toran, senior OL, Ga-lena Park North Shore (5A)

Adrian Goodacre, senior OL, Carthage (3A)

Jacob Reid, senior OL, Wall (2A DI)

Desmon White, senior UTIL, DeSoto (5A)

Chance Nevarez, senior K,

Cubs’ senior Schlottmann named Dave Campbell’s Texas Football’s best OLRB Earnest Patterson named DCTF District 18-4A Player of the Year

From Staff ReportsThe Brenham Knights of Co-

lumbus will hold their annual free throw contest Sunday, Feb. 9th at St. Mary’s Gym (the PAC).

Registration begins at 12:30 p.m. with the contest beginning at 1 p.m. for the boys and girls.

Prizes will be awarded in six age divisions for both girls and boys. A district game will follow at 2 p.m.

Registration for the Wash-

ington County Little League is now open until Jan. 31. You can go to www.gowcll.com to register online.

In Person Registration (Birth Certificate copies are only re-quired if you have not previ-ously played Little League):

Wednesday, Jan 29 from 4:30 — 7 p.m. at the All Sports Building at Hohlt Park in Br-enham.

The cost will be $75 (this will cover a team shirt with players last name and a team cap) per

player and $150 for two or more if you register from now until Jan 25. A late fee of $10 will be added for players registered on-line during the late registration period of Jan 26 to Jan 31.

Also, tryouts are set as below (only need a glove to try-out and all kids will be placed on teams):

Monday, Feb 10 at 5:30 for Peewee Softball and Baseball

Tuesday, Feb 11 at 5:30 for Minor and Major Softball and Baseball

Tryouts will be cancelled if it rains. Please confirm by call-ing the rain out # listed on the WCLL website www.gowcll.com or check for updates on our Facebook page.

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DEAR ABBY: I have been with my husband for 19 years.

I offered his plumbing services to a married couple I work with.

While he was fi x-ing the problem, he became friendly with their adult daughter.

She was lonely and I knew the family, so I wasn’t concerned. Their relationship developed into something more and we separated.

He ended their friendship and we reconciled. Things were go-ing great, but she continued to contact him.

He has suddenly decided he can’t live without her friend-ship and has decided to divorce me in order to continue it with her. He swears it’s platonic, but something he can’t live without.

He hopes we can “still be friends!”

My question is how to move on from this. I have to see her enabling parents every day at work, and all of this happened under their roof. I feel betrayed on every level, especially by my husband, who was my best friend.

Every aspect of my life, in-cluding my job, has been af-fected.

Have you any advice for moving past this without all of the anger I carry? I don’t want to leave my job. It pays well and the commute is easy. But every time I see either one of the par-ents, I want to cry and scream.

P.S. My husband and I still live together as “roommates,” as this is all very recent, and we haven’t fi gured out our living ar-rangements yet. -- WRONGED IN NEW ENGLAND

DEAR WRONGED: I do

not for one minute believe that your husband’s relation-ship with this woman is strictly platonic, and neither should you. Consult a lawyer now, while you and your husband are still “roommates.” Make sure he doesn’t hide any assets because, after 19 years of mar-riage, you should be

entitled to a healthy share of them.

I agree that you have been wronged, but for now hang onto your temper. “Best friends” don’t treat each other the way you have been treat-ed.

It may take the help of a religious adviser or licensed mental health professional for you to let go of your anger.

******DEAR ABBY: My friend of

fi ve years, “Gigi,” has a heart of gold.

However, we were raised dif-ferently. Gigi comes into my home when I’m not here and borrows whatever she needs without telling me.

And whether I’m here or not, she feels free to go through ev-

erything -- personal documents, my drawers and cabinets. Noth-ing is safe from her fi ngers or her eyes.

I have tolerated her behavior because when I tried talking to her about it, she became upset and started crying, which made her husband irate.

I’m now dating a man who values his privacy, and my friend’s behavior bothers him.

He’s friendly with Gigi’s hus-band and deals with my friend only out of respect for her hus-band.

How can I get her to leave things alone without her having another meltdown?

I don’t want to lose a friend, but my boyfriend has a valid point that I happen to agree with. -- INVADED IN TEXAS

DEAR INVADED: How does this woman get into your home when you’re not there? Does she have a key? If she does, ask for it back or change your locks. And when you know Gigi is coming over, place anything you would pre-fer this nosy woman not pe-ruse out of sight or under lock and key. That way, you can reclaim your privacy without being directly confrontation-al.

DEAR DOCTOR K: My fa-ther recently had a heart attack.

His doctor recommended car-diac rehab, but he refuses to go because he “already has a gym membership.”

How important is cardiac re-hab?

DEAR READER: Cardiac rehabilitation is a safe, proven way to reduce risk factors for heart disease.

Dr. Daniel Forman, direc-tor of the exercise testing lab at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assis-tant professor at Harvard Medical School, feels strongly about the subject.

He says that for reducing deaths and in-creasing quality of life, cardiac rehab ex-ceeds any pill or procedure.

Like your father, many of my patients push back on the idea of cardiac rehab. They too wonder why they can’t just go to the gym.

But there’s a lot more to cardiac rehab than exercise.

Cardiac rehab is a structured program. It does include exercise, but it is initially done in a medical setting, under close observa-tion.

As a person ramps up the exercise, the reaction of the heart is being monitored.

Exercise is heart-healthy, but it has to be started slowly and gradually increased.

In my experience, most people who have had a heart attack are not like your father.

They don’t just go back to the gym, like your father would like to do.

On the contrary, they are afraid to exercise again after a heart at-tack -- and failing to exercise regu-larly only increases their risk of another heart attack.

My patients who have had that fear are greatly reassured to learn that cardiac rehab provides the opportunity to exercise in a safe environment.

A cardiac rehab team may include a phys-ical therapist, a nurse, a nutritionist, and a psychologist or social worker.

The team assesses an individual’s risk factors for heart and blood vessel disease. Then the team members work with the pa-tient to:

-- Teach and support lifestyle changes. These include weight control, a heart-

healthy diet and quitting smoking. -- Develop a tailored exercise plan. They’ll also help the patient get started,

and help integrate exercise into daily rou-tines.

-- Monitor and help control blood pres-sure, cholesterol and blood sugar.

-- Assess mental health problems related to heart disease and provide counseling.

-- Improve communication with doctors and other health care providers.

If your father is worried about the cost of entering a cardiac rehab program, tell him that Medicare and many other insurance plans cover cardiac rehab programs.

Patients generally qualify if they’ve had a heart attack, angina, angioplasty or stents, open-heart surgery or a heart transplant.

I hope you’ll be able to convince your fa-ther to enter cardiac rehab.

He will enjoy it and he will learn how to protect his heart -- and it will likely give him more years of good health.

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Cardiac rehab involves more than simply exercise

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Your BirthdayThursday, Jan. 30

Concentration will be the key if you want to meet your goals this year. You must not allow yourself to be distracted by other people or personal problems. Think carefully about your mo-tivations and make pragmatic decisions that will lead to the highest rewards. It’s time to start putting yourself fi rst instead of catering to the demands of ev-erybody else.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 19) -- You may feel depressed today if you allow unpleasant memo-ries to keep you brooding. Don’t place limitations upon yourself by refusing to get involved in something new.

PISCES (Feb. 20-March 20) -- You can earn some extra mon-ey if you make intelligent use of your creative talents. Explore the possibility of a small business venture and consider looking for a partner.

ARIES (March 21-April 19) -- You stand to make signifi cant gains through a female contact. Traveling for business will be fruitful. You will communicate comfortably and effectively. Be ready to help children with any problems they might experience.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20) -- Estrangement from your lover is a strong possibility. Avoid in-volvement in secret affairs that may damage your reputation. Read personal papers carefully at this time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20) -- Your ability to communicate with charm will help you attract the partner of your choice. This is a good time to formulate and complete contracts and agree-ments.

CANCER (June 21-July 22) --A romance can develop through work-related functions or busi-ness trips. Be wary, as thisconnection may damage yourreputation and set you back pro-fessionally.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) -- So-cializing and travel should be on your agenda. You will make agreat impression if you turn on the charm and reveal your outgo-ing nature. Gambling for enter-tainment will be fun for you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) -- Real estate will turn out to be lucrative. You can make changesto your home that will increaseits value. Take time to investi-gate an issue that may be causing anxiety in an older relative.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23) -- Catch up on email today. Dis-cuss any personal problems thatare bothering you with your rela-tives. Get involved in humanitar-ian groups that are important to you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 22) -- Professional advancement ison the horizon. Your consistentability to fi nish work on time will enable you to set a good ex-ample, and you will receive rec-ognition.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 23-Dec. 21) -- It’s a good time to ask for favors. You should join a group with a humanitarian cause. Your reputation will grow basedon the company you choose to keep.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) -- Put some extra time, effortand money into beautifying yourhome environment. Investmentscan be lucrative if you makecareful choices. Don’t allow family members to upset you.

STOCKHOLM (AP) — Henning Man-kell, one of the world’s top-selling crime writers in recent years, says he has cancer.

The Swedish author, who turns 66 on Feb. 3, wrote on his website today that he re-ceived “a serious diagnosis of cancer” after going to a hospital to check out a hernia in the neck.

“I had one tumor in the back of my neck and one in my left lung. The cancer could also have spread to other parts of my body,” he said.

Dear Editor,Many people in Washington County 65 years of

age or older have recently received a mailing for application for ballot by mail. It is completed for the voter except for signing.

I have called the county clerk and even though it is addressed to her the clerk’s office, they had no part in the mailing.

I have worked with early voting and assisted with the mailing of ballots. In the past, there have been some voters that mailed a like application but then came in to vote in person not realizing they requested a ballot by mail and therefore should follow through with that request.

It may be just as convenient to vote in person during the early voting period or on Election Day. There is no paper work for the voter other than signing for the ballot and then marking it accord-ing to his/her wishes. And the saving to the tax-payers would be in excess of $5 for each voter for the supplies for voting by mail, postage, and the cost of handling.

However, election laws do provide for voting by mail and it may be the preference of the voter who is qualified to utilize this procedure.

G. L. SchroederBrenham

Dear Editor,For some time now, people have been saying

that the status quo has to change. Even as ap-proval ratings for Congress are at an all-time low, everyone seems to feel as though their representa-tive is doing a great job.

If that’s the case, then we should all stop com-plaining. If that’s not the case then we must all look at the ones in office and look at their chal-lengers. Don’t assume anything. Meet them all and engage in this process. If we really want to change, then we all have to do the hard work.

I understand that we all have busy lives and family to take care of, but our future and that of our children are at stake. Even though I know some of the candidates, I will still try to find out why they are running and whether or not that meshes with my beliefs. If a candidate doesn’t an-swer your questions, question your loyalty. They work for us.

Our community has many good people work-ing for us and there are some that may not be. Do we know? Go to the town-hall meetings, go to the websites, check out the Facebook pages and ask around. Even if you are unable to meet them all, you can find a record of their actions.

If you work hard to pick your representatives, your representatives work hard for you too.

Sandra KindtWashington County

TEA Party Chairman

Monday was the 69th anniversary of liberating the Auschwitz concen-tration camp in Poland. That camp was only one of many torture and death camps operated by Germany throughout Europe. It then became the poster or most often used name for what has become known as the Holocaust.

Mass torture and murder, how-ever, was not limited to German oc-cupation. Joseph Stalin was carry-ing on similar programs in Russian occupied areas, but not quiet on the same scale as Hitler.

Genocide was also occurring on the other side of the world. Hampton Sides’ “Ghost Soldiers” is a cannot-lie-down, blow-by-blow recounting of the holocaust perpetrated by the Japanese.

The book is the history of the 1945 rescue of the Bataan Death March survivors remaining in their death camp. The operation is considered the great-est rescue mission of WWII.

Reading that history spawned a longing for a do-over. That desire for a do-over is not a wish for rec-reating any of the horrors, tragedies, or triumphs documented in the Sides’ book. The history, how-ever, refreshed memories of a case passing through my hands as Chief of the Army’s Litigation Divi-sion in the Pentagon in 1974.

The claimant was a Filipino claiming reimburse-ment for service as a Philippine Scout in World War II. There were, however, two major problems with the claim.

First, the 30 year old claim was way past the time limit established for filing such claims. The lyrical plea for ignoring or waiving the time limits, however, was a classic, and I wish I had retained a copy.

Second, the evidence in support of the claimants service was sparse, shaky, and weak at its best. That is why I would like a do-over.

No one considering the evidence had any real knowledge of the role the Philippine Scouts played in harassing, sabotaging, and disrupting the Japa-nese forces occupying the Philippines for almost four years. The rescue of the prisoners from the Cabanatuan POW camp with the death of only two U.S. soldiers and two POWs would not have been possible without the assistance of two Philippine Scout units and many Philippine civilians manning water buffalo carts to evacuate very weak, sick and disabled prisoners.

Had I had an appreciation of those facts in 1974, I would have taken a closer look at the claim to de-termine whether there was a factual basis for the claim and, if so, whether there was a way to get around the time bar.

“Ghost Soldiers” is a must read for history buffs. The book reminds readers that atrocities occurred in and around the Pacific as well as in and around

the Atlantic. As just mentioned, Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia normally come to mind whenever atrocities are mentioned. The hatred in those theaters was directed most-ly at minorities like Jews, gypsies, and dissidents.

This book demonstrates that there was just as much virulent ha-tred within Japanese military ranks. In that case, every non-Asian was considered subhuman. Starvation, beheading, disembowelment, refus-al of water and shade, fatal “water treatments” (not the benign water

boarding of Iraq), confinement in unventilated spaces with too many prisoners, many of whom suf-fered from dysentery, for anyone to sit or lie down, refusal of medicine, and doctors required to ampu-tate limbs without anesthetic are just some of the things considered to be normal treatment for any non-Asian by Japanese soldiers. The only reason the Japanese atrocities did not rise to the numerical number of those in Europe is that the population of the hated non-Asian minorities was much smaller than that of the subject minorities in Europe.

Another little appreciated fact found in “Ghost Soldiers” is that there was a WWII American Mata Hari. Claire Phillips was an American living in the Philippines in 1941. Her husband was in the U.S. Army and became one of the casualties of the Bata-an Death March.

As Phillips began to hear of the mistreatment of the POWs, she lay nude in the sun to get a tan so she could claim to be Italian. She then opened a cabaret in Manilla under an Italian alias, staffed it with exotic dancers, and built it into an exclusive club for senior Japanese officers.

She and her dancers milked the officers of all types of military intelligence that would be passed on to the Philippine Scouts. She also used profits from her cabaret to buy medicine, food, and other life essentials that she have smuggled into the POW camps.

Because she kept notes on the information gleaned from the Japanese in her brassiere, her code name was High Pockets.

Phillips was identified as a spy by the Japanese, tried, and sentenced to death. For some reason, the death sentence was not executed. She survived the war and returned to the U.S.

So here’s the perspective.The stoic suffering of those who died in or sur-

vived the sadistic confinement by the Japanese and the bravery, endurance, and tactics of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci and Captain Robert Prince with their small band of Army Rangers and two small units of Philippine Scouts is all the evidence needed to understand why those Americans who lived through the Great Depression and then went on to free the world are called the Greatest Genera-tion.

Holocaust type atrocities were not assigned to the dust bin of history with the end of WWII. They continue today wherever Muslim Jihadists have a toe hold. The minorities in the dross hairs of those beasts are non Muslims and other Muslims who do not share their radical beliefs. Beheadings, indis-criminate killings with suicide bombers, and tor-ture are commonplace.

We must not forget.Bill Neinast is a retired colonel and attorney

with the U.S. Army. He lives near Burton.

In Perspective —

Liberating Auschwitz

Letters to the Editor

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President Obama couldn’t have been more emphatic. Critics of the Affordable Care Act were predicting it would encourage employers to stop offering health insurance to their work-ers, forcing them to find new, and possibly more costly, coverage on the Obamacare exchanges. The president had long scoffed at such predic-tions, and at a White House news conference last April, he sought to put the idea to rest once and for all.

“For the average American out there, for the 85 to 90 percent of Americans who already have health insurance, this thing has already happened,” he said of Obamacare. “And their only im-pact is that their insurance is stronger, better, more secure than it was before. Full stop. That’s it. They don’t have to worry about anything else.”

Obviously, millions of Americans who purchased health coverage on

the individual market did have something to worry about. And now, it’s becoming clear that some who have health coverage through their job should be worried, too.

Recently Target an-nounced it will drop the coverage it offers part-time employees, effective April 1. They will now be required by Obamacare’s individual

mandate to find coverage elsewhere.Target has a lot of part-time employ-

ees, but just a few of them — about 10 percent — opted for coverage through the company. Now, they will most likely purchase insurance on the exchanges.

“The launch of health insurance marketplaces provides new options for health care coverage that we believe our part-time team members may pre-fer,” said Target human resources chief Jodee Kozlak.

Target isn’t alone in making such a decision. Home Depot, Trader Joe’s

and others have also dropped coverage for part-time workers. More companies will certainly follow, because Obam-acare offers a clear incentive for them to drop such coverage, especially since they can now say they’re actually do-ing workers a favor by allowing them to buy coverage they “may prefer.”

“This saves the company some mon-ey, and to the extent that workers who were getting coverage now get subsidies (which will depend on their incomes and to some extent their ages), they are pushing some of their costs on to the federal taxpayer,” says Yuval Levin, a former Bush administration official and much-read analyst of Obamacare.

Perhaps more importantly, though, Obamacare could be creating a two-tier system inside the employer-based system. Good coverage is still a ben-efit, and companies will include it as part of the compensation packages it offers the most sought-after workers. But employees lower down the ladder? Not so much.

“The employer offering of health insurance will be more and more tied to attracting high-value workers,” says

Bob Laszewski, a respected health care industry expert. “Employers who em-ploy a lot of lower-paid unskilled (like Target) will more often eliminate ben-efits and send them to the exchanges. Employers who employ a lot of highly skilled and harder-to-recruit workers will more often maintain benefits.”

And that doesn’t mean just part-time employees. Obamacare could affect health coverage for millions of Ameri-cans who didn’t think they would be affected.

Until Jan. 1, Laszewski notes, “the only place a company’s workers could get quality, guaranteed issue health insurance at group rates was at the employer.” Companies that canceled coverage were essentially throwing workers out on the street.

That’s no longer the case. “Now, the employer can back away,” says Lasze-wski. “Particularly for lower-paid workers, the Obamacare subsidies ap-proximate, or even better, a typical em-ployer contribution.”

From a company’s standpoint, what’s not to like? If the company has less than 50 employees, it can stop paying for the

health coverage of its lower-end work-ers — actually, of all its workers, if it chooses — and let the taxpayers pick up the tab. Even if the company has more than 50 workers, and can’t find a way out of paying the big-employer penalty for not providing coverage, it can drop coverage, pay the fine, and still likely come out ahead.

But companies might still find that generous coverage is an attractive thing to offer the most sought-after work-ers. They’ll keep providing coverage to people at the top. Thus the two-tier system.

Of course, that’s not exactly what Obama and his Democratic allies promised when they sold the plan. In fact, they assured the public something like that wouldn’t happen: “Full stop. That’s it. They don’t have to worry about anything else.”

The president’s assurance was ut-tered long before his you-can-keep-your-coverage promise was exposed as false. Now, Americans know better than to believe what they hear.

Byron York is chief political corre-spondent for The Washington Examiner.

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The Conservatist —

New coverage cuts portend more problems with Obamacare

From The Banner-Press files, here’s a look at how things were 20, 30 and 40 years ago.20 years ago

First United Methodist Church announced its new director of youth ministries is Kevin T. Gilmore.He also serves as campus director of the Wesley Foundation at Blinn College.Gilmore received a bachelor of science degree in recreation, park and tourism sciences from Texas

A&M University.He served as summer youth director at First United Methodist, Lake Jackson and senior counselor

at Sky Ranch Summer Camp in Van, Texas.He also served on the leadership council for the Wesley Foundation at Texas A&M.

30 years agoRichard W. Underwood, technical assistant to the chief in the photographic technology division

at the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, was the guest speaker at the luncheon of the Brenham Rotary Club.

Underwood is a photographic sciences and photogrammetric consultant in the NASA staff for such projects as the Space Shuttle and photographic application from all past NASA manned space-craft projects.

40 years agoWalter C. (Boots) Guelker of Burton has announced that he is a candidate for county commis-

sioner. Guelker is a lifelong resident of the Burton area.He graduated from Burton High School and served his country in the Korean conflict in 1951

and 1952.

A Glance Back

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editor on subjects of interest to its readers.All letters should be no more than 400

words in length, and should include the writ-er’s name, address and phone number.

We will not publish street address, email ad-dress or phone number.

All letters become property of The Banner-Press and are subject to editing for length, content, grammar, punctuation, etc.

By The Associated PressToday is Wednesday, Jan. 29, the 29th day of

2014. There are 336 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History:On Jan. 29, 1964, Stanley Kubrick’s nuclear

war satire “Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb,” starring Peter Sellers (in three roles) and George C. Scott, premiered in New York, Toronto and London.

On this date:In 1845, Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven” was

first published in the New York Evening Mirror.In 1919, the ratification of the 18th Amendment

to the Constitution, which launched Prohibition, was certified by Acting Secretary of State Frank L. Polk.

In 1929, The Seeing Eye, a New Jersey-based school which trains guide dogs to assist the blind, was incorporated by Dorothy Harrison Eustis and Morris Frank.

In 1936, the first inductees of baseball’s Hall of Fame, including Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth, were named in Cooperstown, N.Y.

Today in History

First Amendment

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitu-tion prohibits the making of any law respect-ing an establishment of religion, impeding the free exercise of religion, abridging the free-dom of speech, infringing on the freedom of the press, interfering with the right to peace-ably assemble or prohibiting the petitioning for a governmental redress of grievances.

It was adopted on Dec. 15, 1791, as one of the 10 amendments that comprise the Bill of Rights.

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Legal Notice

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS

AGAINST THE ESTATE OFJIMMY RAY SMITH,

DECEASED

Notice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentary

for the ESTATE OFJIMMY RAY SMITH,

DECEASEDwere issued on January 21,

2014 in Cause No. 2013-134pending on the docket of the

County Court at Law ofWashington County, Texas;

Sitting in Matters Probate, to:

FLORENCE MAY SMITH

The residence of saidIndependent Executor is

Washington County, Texas.The post office address is:

c/o William H. Betts, Jr. Betts, Walters &Mutscher, P.C.P. O. Box 1118

Brenham, Texas77834-1118

All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which is

currently being administeredare required to present them

to said Executor at the aboveaddress within the time

and in the mannerprescribed by law.

DATED this 21st day ofJanuary, A.D., 2014.

FLORENCE MAY SMITH,Independent Executor

of the Estate ofJIMMY RAY SMITH

Deceased

By: William H. Betts, Jr. Attorney for the Executor

NOTICE TO ALL PERSONSHAVING CLAIMS

AGAINST THE ESTATE OFPAUL C FOLSOM,

DECEASED

Notice is hereby given thatoriginal Letters Testamentary

for the ESTATE OFPAUL C FOLSOM

DECEASEDwere issued on January 21,

2014 in Cause No. 2013-144pending on the docket of the

County Court at Law ofWashington County, Texas;

Sitting in Matters Probate, to:

BETTY A. FOLSOM

The residence of saidIndependent Executor is

Washington County, Texas.The post office address is:

c/o William H. Betts, Jr. Betts, Walters &Mutscher, P.C.P. O. Box 1118

Brenham, Texas77834-1118

All persons having claimsagainst this Estate which is

currently being administeredare required to present them

to said Executor at the aboveaddress within the time

and in the mannerprescribed by law.

DATED this 21st day ofJanuary, A.D., 2014.

BETTY A. FOLSOM,Independent Executor

of the Estate ofPAUL C. FOLSOM

Deceased

By: William H. Betts, Jr. Attorney for the Executor

Legal Notice

THE STATE OF TEXAS

TO: The Unknown Heirs andLegal Representatives ofJOHN MICHAEL BAKER,

deceased.

You and each of you arehereby cited, required and

commanded to appearbefore the County Court atLaw of Washington County,

Texas, to be held in thecounty courtroom in the

courthouse of said county inthe city of Brenham,

Washington County, Texas,such appearance to be at orbefore ten o’clock a.m. of thefirst Tuesday next after theexpiration of ten days from

the date of service, exclusiveof the day of such service,

which day and date ofservice shall be the date ofpublication that this news-paper bears, and which

appearance shall be at suchtime on such Tuesday, which

will be the 18TH day ofFEBRUARY, 2014, by filing

written answer to the applica-tions hereinafter mentioned,contesting same, should they

or any of them desire to doso, which applications will at

such 10 o’clock hour andsuch place to be acted on,

said applications havingbeen filed by CAROLYN

BAKER, in said court on the16TH day of JANUARY2014, and now pending

therein, in a proceeding onthe probate docket of said

court, styled “In theMatter of the Estate of,

JOHN MICHAEL BAKER,Deceased”, the file number

of which applications and thedocket number of which pro-ceedings is #2014-007, thenature of such applicationbeing an APPLICATIONFOR DECLARATION OF

HEIRSHIP AND anAPPLICATION FOR

LETTERS OFADMINISTRATION

on the Estate ofJOHN MICHAEL BAKER,

deceased.

The name and address ofthe attorney for applicant, orthe address of applicant is:

WILLIAM H. BETTS, JR.P. O. Box 1118

Brenham, Texas 77834

Attorney Ad Litem:CHARLES L. BRADFORD

105 E. Main Street, Ste.206ABrenham, TX 77833

Witness, Beth Rothermel,Clerk of the County Court at

Law of WashingtonCounty, Texas.

Given under my hand andseal of said court, at office

in the City of Brenham,Texas, this 24th day of

January, 2014.

Beth RothermelClerk of the County Court atLaw of Washington County,

Texas 100 E Main St.Ste 102, Brenham, Texas

77833

By:Yanira Garcia, Deputy

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SEEKING NURSES ANDNurse aides in Bellville in

long term care. Please emailor call Celina Shariff at

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SUBWAY IN BRENHAMHiring for FT/PT All shifts.

Apply in person at any of theBrenham locations after 2

PM. NO phone calls.

SANTA FE CAFEAt 302 First Street, hiring

P/T & F/T positions for cook& short-order cook .Mon-FriNO calls. Apply in person.

Philips Veterinary Hospitalhas an opening for an experi-enced veterinary technician.We are a fast paced mixedanimal practice. We provide

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Help Wanted

OFFICE ASSISTANTFor First Baptist Bellville.

This is a part-time position of20 hours per week. We arelooking for someone who isefficient, organized, creative

and proficient in MicrosoftOffice products with an

emphasis on Publisher. Aknowledge or willingness tolearn church database soft-ware is also necessary. Mail

resume to 504 E. StraussSt., Bellville, TX 77418 or

fax to 979-865-3645.Resumes must be received

by February 21, 2014.

NOW HIRINGFull-time or Part-time ware-house person wanted for

delivery, furniture assembly& cleaning. Apply in personM-F Flexible schedule but

Saturday a must!Schleider Furniture

307 S. Austin, Brenham.

Livestock & Supplies

Beautiful, Gentle, BrangusBreeding Females

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1 Bdrm, 1 Bth Apartment $500 Mth. $500 Dep.NO pets. Please Call

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Apartments

BRENHAM HILLS APTSNew tile & paint. 505 W 3rd.2/1~ $675; With $500 dep.

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2/2 GARAGE APT305 Jefferson $650 Mo/

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OLDE OAKS APTS2-1 With washer & dryer

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Acreage

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Homes for Rent

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3 Bdrm 1 1/2, Bth, GarageCHA, W/D conn. Water &

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HOUSES FOR RENT 3/1, W/D + apl. some utilities

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Real Estate

2/1 HOUSE FOR SALENear Lake Somerville

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REAL ESTATE ADVERTISINGIn this newspaper is subject

to the Fair Housing Act whichmakes it illegal to advertise

“any preference, limitation ordiscrimination based onrace, color, religion, sex,

handicap, familial status ornational origin, or an inten-

tion, to make any suchpreference, limitation or

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Homesource CraftsmenAll Wood Custom Cabinets

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Restore Stained Woodworkand Cabinets (Like New)

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AAZ CONCRETE WORKDriveways, Sidewalks, Patios

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A&M vets give calf a spring in its stepCOLLEGE STATION (AP) — A

tear slid down Kitty Martin’s face as she recently watched her 11-month-old calf walk. Though a bit unsteady after spending most of his life sick, it was the result Martin wanted.

“That was amazing. That was like Christmas for me,” she said as she led the bovine around the Texas A&M Large Animal Hospital off University Drive in College Station, slipping him treats along the way. “I’ve never loved an animal so much in my life.”

Hero went into the vet hospital two months ago without the use of his back legs. He now walks fi ne with two pros-thetics, thanks to the veterinarians at A&M.

The calf’s two back hooves and part of his tail were lost during a four-day freeze last April, said Martin, his care-

taker and owner of the Selah Ranch All Animal Rescue in Greenville, Va. Mar-tin rescues animals “that nobody else wants” and keeps them at the ranch, she said, adding that it’s on its way to becoming a nonprofi t and soon will be moved to the Brazos Valley. She res-cued Hero at the beginning of May, and managed to nurse him through an in-fection. The calf was not able to stand without risking further injury, so she contacted universities across the coun-try to see if any experts believed he had a chance.

A&M’s vet school agreed to take a look at him, so Martin placed the 500-pound calf in a trailer and made the 1,250-mile drive from Virginia to College Station in November. He ar-rived in critical condition and had to be placed in the ICU, but managed

to undergo surgery by the end of that same month.

A&M veterinarians removed rough-ly two inches of bone and fi tted the calf into a temporary prosthesis that helped him learn to walk again while the stumps healed, said Dr. Ashlee Watts, an assistant professor in large animal surgery. The calf was not in pain and began walking right away, though he was weak for roughly two weeks because he hadn’t walked in so long.

“After the surgery he was pretty comfortable and did quite well — he didn’t have any major complications, and pretty much acted like a normal cow,” Watts said.

Seven weeks after his surgery, Hero was fi tted into the prosthetic legs. Right now, his biggest risk is contract-

ing sores that could lead to an infec-tion, according to Watts. Martin has to change his prosthetics twice a day and carefully watch over the animal to en-sure he’s not uncomfortable.

Hero is scheduled to leave the ani-mal hospital this week, Watts told The Eagle newspaper.

The calf made headlines after ani-mal rights groups sent Martin emails saying she was wrong for keeping Hero alive after suffering through his injuries. Martin said the calf has even received death threats, so he’s mov-ing to an undisclosed location for his safety.

“I brought him out here not knowing whether he was going to his death sen-tence. I was told that if they felt that it was against his quality of life, that he would be put down,” Martin said. “And

I had no idea whether he was going to walk out of here or not, but I love him that much to take a chance.”

Transporting Hero from Virginia and undergoing the surgery has cost Mar-tin roughly $25,000, she said. Fans of Hero have donated around $8,000 and Martin is accepting donations through her Facebook page: www.facebook.com/SelahRanchRescue.

Martin, a former veterinary techni-cian and a native Texan, said she hopes Hero can serve as a therapy animal for wounded warriors and special needs children who visit her ranch.

“I think everything that he’s been through and the spirit that he’s come through — I think he’d be an en-couragement to people that are going through that kind of trauma in their life,” she said.

Texas girl in Oklahoma hospital after skydiving fallTULSA, Okla. (AP) — A 16-year-old Texas

girl who plummeted more than 3,000 feet to the ground in an Oklahoma skydiving accident sur-vived and is recovering from her many injuries, a doctor said Tuesday.

Dr. Jeffrey Bender, a trauma surgeon at OU Medical Center who treated Makenzie Wething-ton when she was fl own Saturday from a skydiv-ing school in Chickasha, said the girl hurt her liv-er and broke her pelvis, lumbar spine in her lower back, a shoulder blade and several ribs. She also has a broken tooth.

“I don’t know the particulars of the accident as I wasn’t there. But if she truly fell 3,000 feet, I have no idea how she survived,” Bender said at a news conference at the hospital, where the girl’s parents also spoke to reporters.

Not only did she survive, but she was in good condition Tuesday, Bender said, and was expect-

ed to leave the intensive care unit. Still, she has a long recovery ahead. Bender said it will be sev-eral weeks before she can bear any weight.

The girl’s parents agreed to let her perform the jump, but her father, Joe Wethington, now says the skydiving company shouldn’t have allowed it.

“I don’t think she should have been allowed at 16 to go up there and perform that type of jump, no matter what I say or she says, she shouldn’t have been allowed,” Joe Wethington said at the news conference. “I fi nd it very hard to believe that the rules and regulations in Oklahoma are that lax. I think there is a fl aw there somewhere, and I don’t think it’s through the state of Oklahoma. I think it’s the company. I’m not sure.”

Nancy Koreen, director of sport promotion at the Fredericksburg, Va.-based U.S. Parachute Association, said its safety requirements allow

someone who is 16 to make a dive with paren-tal consent, though some drop zones set the age higher.

Robert Swainson, the owner and chief instruc-tor at Pegasus Air Sports Center in Chickasha, defended the company Tuesday. He noted that the father went up with his daughter and was the fi rst to jump.

Makenzie, from Joshua, Texas, was making a static-line jump, where a parachute is connected to a lanyard that’s attached to the plane and opens automatically when a diver exits the plane.

Swainson said Wethington’s parachute opened OK, but she began to spiral downward when the chute went up but not out in some kind of mal-function. Swainson said a parachute can develop such a turn for several reasons, but that Wething-ton and other divers were given instruction dur-ing a six-to-seven-hour training session before-

hand on how to deal with such problems. He also said Makenzie had a radio hookup in her helmet through which someone gave her instructions.

“It was correctable, but corrective action didn’t appear to have been taken,” said Swainson, who has run the skydiving business for nearly 30 years.

Swainson said he did not jump out to help Wethington because there’s no way he could have reached her and another jumper got cold feet and refused to make the jump. Swainson said it was protocol for him to remain with the frightened person because instructors don’t know what that person will do.

“The most I could have done is screamed,” he said.

Koreen, from the U.S. Parachute Association, spoke generally about skydiving rules and didn’t want to directly comment on Makenzie’s case.

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Women’s Monday Night Dedicated League

Week 16 of 27 January 13STANDINGS:1. Spiess Insurance2. Bayer Carpet3. Tegeler Toyota4. Bipolar Rollers5. Mama’s Kitchen6. Waldie’s PharmacyTEAM SCRATCH GAME:Spiess Insurance, 710TEAM SCRATCH SERIES:Waldie’s Pharmacy, 1759INDIVIDUAL SCRATCH

GAME:Kim Kaliszewski, 211INDIVIDUAL SCRATCH

SERIES:Douise Jinkins, 518HANDICAP GAME:Aletha Thistlewaite, 254HANDICAP SERIES:Karen Cooper, 648

Week 17 of 27 January 20STANDINGS:1. Spiess Insurance2. Bayer Carpet3. Tegeler Toyota4. Mama’s Kitchen5. Waldie’s Pharmacy6. Bipolar Rollers TEAM SCRATCH GAME:Spiess Insurance, 714TEAM SCRATCH SERIES:Bayer Carpet, 1736INDIVIDUAL SCRATCH

GAME:Kim Brinkman, 236INDIVIDUAL SCRATCH

SERIES:Karen Cooper, 510HANDICAP GAME:Sheila Demery, 265HANDICAP SERIES:Pat Gravenmier, 663

Local Bowling Scores

Aledo (4A)First-Team Defense:

Player of the Year and Best DL — Derick Roberson, se-nior, SA Brennan (4A)

Myles Garrett, senior DL, Arlington Martin (5A)

Xavier Washington, senior DL, Cedar Hill (5A)

Thomas Ferguson, senior DL, Denton Guyer (4A)

Somari Wright, senior LB, Cameron Yoe (2A DI)

Justin Phillips, senior LB, Pearland (5A)

Zach Whitley, senior LB,

Galena Park North Shore (5A)

Jake Blomstrom, senior LB, Katy (5A)

Chance Waz, senior DB, Pflugerville Hendrickson (5A)

Armani Watts, senior DB, North Forney (4A)

Peyton Elliott, junior DB, Wolfforth Frenship (4A)

Adrian Hynson, senior DB, CC Flour Bluff (4A)

James Washington, senior UTIL, Stamford (1A DI)

Austin Walter, senior RET, Crosby (4A)

Zach Sinor, senior P, Medina Valley (4A)

Superlatives:Best DL — Derick Roberson,

SA Brennan (4A)Best LB — Justin Phillips,

Pearland (5A)Best DB — Chance Waz,

Pflugerville Hendrickson (5A)Most Versatile — James

Washington, Stamford (1A DI)Second-Team Defense:

Jordan Wells, senior DL, Na-vasota (3A)

Lance Norman, senior DL, Anson (1A DI)

Colton Schwartz, senior DL, Lago Vista (2A DI)

Koda Martin, senior DL, Manvel (5A)

Sione Teuhema, senior LB, Keller (5A)

Jordan Mittie, senior LB, Aledo (4A)

Josh Meno, senior LB, SA Madison (5A)

Eric Wiatrek, senior LB, Falls City (1A DII)

Jamal Adams, senior DB, Hebron (5A)

Villi Carter, senior DB, Eu-less Trinity (5A)

Ed Paris, senior DB, Mans-field Timberview (5A)

Dalton Herrington, senior DB, Hallettsville (2A DI)

Armanti Foreman, senior UTIL, Texas City (4A)

Yzerick Oliver, senior RET, Houston Worthing (3A)

Junior Morales, senior P, Mo-nahans (3A)

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From Staff ReportsPlenty of fresh faces can be

seen at Leroy Dreyer Field this season. The Buccaneers return just five players from the 2013 team, and 22 freshmen will be biding for their first collegiate game. Ten sophomores are on the Bucs’ roster.

“We’re young and I think we’re going to have to deal with some inconsistency, but that’s part of it,” said head coach Har-vey McIntyre, who is entering his seventh season as the Buc-caneers’ coach. “That’s part of not having 200 at-bats, that’s part of not throwing 50 innings at this level. But I think we’re as talented as we’ve ever been.”

Blinn begins its season Friday at 4 p.m. at Leroy Dreyer Field with a doubleheader against Frank Phillips College. The team ends the three-game series at 11 a.m. Saturday.

Three of the returners, pitcher Robbie Dickey, first baseman Cul-len Gassaway and outfielder Nolan Brown, played in the Texas/New Mexico all-star game in October. The other two returners are pitch-ers Tyler Day and Cole Doherty.

“Even though we don’t return many guys, I think the substance of the guys we do return is equal to having 10 guys back,” McIntyre said.

Dickey will be a key player for

the squad. The right-hander be-gins the season as the No. 1 junior college prospect in the nation, ac-cording to Perfect Game USA, a national baseball scouting organi-zation.

Dickey put up a 3.82 ERA last year and averaged al-most eight strikeouts per game in 73 in-nings. He solidified the rotation after Taylor Cobb became injured with a strained ulnar collateral ligament in his throwing arm.

Dickey has made significant improvements on the mound during the offseason, which includes topping his fastball out in the mid-90s.

“He’s emerged as one of the top arms in the state,” McIntyre said. “When we were recruiting him out of high school, we thought he could grow up to be this guy, and he’s gotten there and he’s got a chance to go win for us every day.”

Day and Doherty will also be key arms for the Buccaneers, as they combined to throw for over 43 innings in 2013. Weston Wick, who showed top-of-the-rotation potential as a freshman, will prob-ably miss the entire season after undergoing Tommy John surgery during the offseason.

Gassaway is a power first-base-

man and has experience in the field. He was a middle-of-the-line-up hitter as a freshman and batted .312 with 39 hits, 27 runs scored and 17 RBIs. He was among the best at getting on base (.417 on-base percentage).\

“He’s a very steady guy for us,” McIntyre said. “He should start to hit for more power and have a big year for us.”

Brown is versatile and can play any of the three outfield positions. He will likely hit at the top of the lineup.

“Last year we threw him out there every day in the spring and he got better because of it,” Mc-Intyre said. “This year, he’s got a chance to continue to grow and re-ally be a great player.”

The freshmen class features a variety of speed, fielding depth and plenty of talent.

“Our pitchers have to learn to attack the strike zone and mix up their pitches, our fielders have to make the routine plays and our offense has to under-stand that moving a runner over can be just as big as hitting

a home run,” McIntyre said.The conference schedule has

been expanded to 40 games instead of the 32 contests last year. Region XIV Conference series now consist of four games split between Thursday and Sat-urday doubleheaders. It was three-game weekend series last season.

“If you have a bad month, you’re not out of the mix by any means,” McIntyre said. “I think it’s going to come down to how much depth you have on the bump. I think, without a question, your starters are going to have to suck up in-nings. And if they can, I think you give yourself the advantage mov-ing forward.

“At the conclusion of the Fall semester, we felt that almost every one of our players made strides in the physical, mental and emo-tional areas of the game. Our players wouldn’t be able to make the strides they have without the countless hours that our assistant coaches Jonathan Ogden and Jor-dan Kopycinski spent with them each day.”

Young players will need to step up for Blinn baseballBuccaneer team features 22 freshman and just 10 sophomores

DICKEY

Matt Keyser/Special to The Banner-PressSeveral Blinn Buccaneer sophomores stand in front of the scoreboard at Leroy Dreyer Field.