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Broncos suffer disappointing loss in OT

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By Sandy Anderberg

Two big plays made by the Panthers proved to be the line between winning and losing for the Broncos Friday night in Panhandle.

Finishing regulation at 28 all, the Broncos and Panthers headed for overtime in the District contest. According to head coach Gary Jack, the Broncos struck first and opted to kick the PAT to go up by seven. Down to third down with 15 yards to go, Panhandle neared the goal line in an attempt to get six. They got the score and chose to go for two on the conversion and earned the one-point win.

Broncos celebrate after scoring against Panhandle. Enterprise Photo / Matthew Martinez

“It was a good game,” Jack said. “It was a heartbreaker. The loss hit the guys pretty hard. We fought back from 0-15 deficit and played well after the first quarter. But we let them have two big pass plays that were both for scores; one in the game and one in overtime. We should have made the play, but didn’t.”

Several players contributed in the game and played great on both sides of the ball according to Jack. Trevor Cobb made some great catches and was solid on defense racking up 16 tackles, one sack, and big hits all night. Tyler Burch and Ryan Isbell made some big interceptions for the Broncos as well.

Offensively, Jack cited Cobb, Burch, Jonah Sell, and Diego Santos with making great catches and quarterback Chance McAnear with making great throws. Charles Mason also had a big game for the Broncos.

The Broncos will take the week and regroup as they prepare for another tough game against Stratford at home next Friday night. “Stratford will be tough,” Jack said. “It is turning into an interesting district race. But we are right in the middle of it.”

The Broncos will face off against the Elks Friday, October 26, at home in Bronco Stadium beginning at 7:00 p.m.

Ruth Pauline “Polly” Robertson Shelton

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Ruth Pauline “Polly” Robertson Shelton, age 88, died Saturday, October 13, 2012, at Vidor.

Graveside services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, October 20, 2012, in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon with James Shelton and Charles Yeager, officiating. Interment will follow in Citizens Cemetery with arrangements by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Ruth Pauline "Polly" Robertson Shelton

Polly was born May 5, 1924, in Clarendon to James Alonzo and Ina Ann Hahn Robertson. She married Cecil Holt Shelton on October 20, 1941, in Clarendon. She had been a resident of Amarillo before moving to Vidor 22 years ago. She was a life member of the PTA and was a Church of Christ member. She also loved jigsaw puzzles and sold Tupperware as her hobby.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband in 2001; her sister, Belva Mae Robertson Castleberry Nolan; and her brothers, Alvin Ray Robertson and James Harold Robertson.

Survivors include her daughter, Velma Ann Anderson and husband Frank Wayne of Vidor; her son, James Marshall Shelton and wife Cynthia V. of Amarillo; three grandchildren, Melodie Ruth Farmer and husband Jimmy, Walter Wayne Anderson and wife Gayla Joan, and Carrie Ruth Hands and husband Dr. Martin; four great grandchildren, J.P. Schnack, III, Marshall Wayne Schnack, Christina Gayle Anderson, and Ethan Wayne Anderson.

Marie Black

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Marie Black, 81, of Wellington died on Wednesday, October 3, 2012, in Amarillo.

Services were held on Saturday, October 6, 2012, at the Church of Christ with Phil Collard, minister officiating. Burial followed at the Memorial Gardens Cemetery by Adams Funeral Home.

Marie Black

Marie was born on June 9, 1931, in Wellington to J.D. and Nellie Wisdom Gibson. She married Bill Black on August 2, 1948, in Dodson. He died in 1967. She operated the Skyrocket Donut Shop for 17 years and managed Allsups Convenience Store #49 for 16 years in Wellington. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

Marie was also preceded in death by a grandson Shane Black in 2008, a great grandson Cody Black in 2011, by a brother Charles Gibson in 1967, and by her son in law Tony Hunter in 2009.

She is survived by two sons, Jimmy Black and his wife Vicki of Wellington and Kenny Black and his wife Donna of Clarendon; two daughters Pam Hunter and Kim Clancy both of Wellington; a brother John Gibson of Lubbock; three sisters Bernice Needham and Helen Gollihugh both of Wellington and Mary White of Clarendon; by eight grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren.

The family requests that memorials be made to the Jack Needham Memorial Scholarship Fund or Home Delivered Meals in care of Adams Funeral Home, 1300 East Avenue, Wellington, TX. 79095

Hedley heritage keepers

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In the days before the Cotton Festival, Hedley area residents held an annual Old Settlers Picnic on the Tom Tate Place northeast of Hedley. In the 1950s, the picnic merged with the Cotton Festival, but members of the Tate family are still active participants in the celebration. Shown here are four generations of the Tate family: Kaylan Cosby, Kennedy Cosby, Juanell Tate Carson, Nanci Cosby Johnson, Susan Carson Cosby, and Addison Tate Reed. Jaunell is the daughter of the late Tom and Myrtle Tate and lives on the Tate Place with her husband, Bill Carson, and they own Moffitt Hardware in Hedley. The place has been in the family for more than 100 years. Susan Carson Cosby lives in Amarillo with her husband, Stan, and Nanci and the girls live in Oklahoma. Enterprise Photo / Kari Lindsey

Don’t Mess with Texas

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As a grand finale to National 4H Week, members and their families helped make Texas beautiful by picking up trash off Highway 287. Included in the 30 bags collected were pieces of tire, plastic bottles, aluminum cans and Styrofoam cups. Other fun treasures included Leonard Haynes’ trailer light. The members were treated to hamburgers at the Donley County Activity Center afterwards. Although this is a good service project for 4H, the Texas DOT reminds all travelers - Don’t Mess with Texas! They say one out of every two Texans litter. Don’t be “the one.” Courtesy Photo / Chardy Craft

Opinion: Let’s become tolerant of intolerance

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Is there a way to overcome religious intolerance? In America, the question holds critical importance because American society is highly religious and remarkably diverse and – on religious matters – considerably more politically polarized than 25 years ago.

Fred Gray.

The United States prides itself on welcoming people of different faiths. The Bill of Rights begins with a guarantee of freedom of religion.

Over the last generation Americans have grown more comfortable talking about race, ethnicity, gender, and sexual orientation, but not faith. It’s too personal and divisive – too explosive. We haven’t completely figured out how to conduct a productive conversation among people whose cherished religious beliefs – exclusive God-given truths – cannot be reconciled.

Many Americans harbor unfavorable attitudes toward those who harbor different beliefs, notably Muslims and Mormons, but also evangelical Christians, Catholics, Jews, and the most disdained group of all, atheists.

The Bill of Rights also promotes freedom of speech – even hateful speech. When it comes to free speech, it is always edifying to see how people deal with opinions, particularly religious opinions they despise.

Take for example, the members of the Westboro Baptist Church. That name always gets folks’ blood boiling. Anyway, this group is based in Topeka, Kansas, and their point of view may reasonably be described as loathsome to most people in America.

Westboro’s philosophy is rooted in Marxism – Groucho Marxism. “Whatever it is, I’m against it,” Groucho sang in “Horse Feathers.” That pretty much sums up this ugly, hateful group. It seems to be anti-everything and is conspicuously anti-gay and anti-Semitic, and has gone the extra mile to earn the scorn and contempt of most Americans by picketing the funerals of soldiers and Marines killed in combat. It calls those deaths God’s punishment for America’s acceptance of homosexuality.

Since being obnoxious and intolerant does not violate the Constitution, and since these people are clearly beyond reasoned argument, and since there are so few of them, you might have thought that a wise response would be to ignore them. That’s what prudent people have sensibly urged. However, good, decent citizens– and more than a few indecent ones – have started gathering around to taunt the Topekans.

They do so in a manner that makes America an inspiration to the world: They shout sexually charged vulgarities and other choice insults and threats. These are not exactly teachable moments. Free expression has been reduced to distasteful simultaneous monologues between the bigoted and the crude.

“A free society must oppose absurd attempts to silence people and to suppress ideas or to ban books that disagree with us,” according to Michael Meyers, executive director of a major metropolitan civil rights coalition. “The fable of ‘protecting’ our children from the ‘hate speech’ is exactly the cry of those who have long opposed positive social and cultural change.”

Even so, isn’t hate speech deplorable? Some people define hate speech as an opinion they dislike, Mr. Myers said. Besides, he said, “hate speech is not unconstitutional or illegal.”

A censorious streak runs stubbornly through this country that regards itself as a bastion of tolerance. It has led to the removal of a billboard that challenged immigration policies and of another that quoted a biblical passage condemning homosexuality. It kept an antiwar message from being put up in Times Square during the 2004 Republican National Convention. It stripped shelters of notices about a free health care information line for gay men and lesbians. Many other examples abound.

Besides being “lazy and disreputable,” censorship can boomerang, Mr. Myers cautioned. Let it prevail and there will be nothing to top other towns and cities from suppressing the speech that we revere – that in favor of pro-life, pro-choice, pro-gay marriage, pro-defense of marriage act, plus many other examples.

Even though we may hate each other’s hate speech, we must not become intolerant of intolerance. When we do that we get on that slippery slope that is a very real threat to our republic, and put democracy and the free exchange of ideas, regardless of how loathsome they may be, at great risk.

District Court hears several pleas

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The District Court heard seven please resulting in three convictions and four deferred adjudications when it met in Clarendon on Monday, October 1.

District Attorney Luke Inman, assisted by Greg Buckley, prosecuted the cases for the State of Texas with the Honorable Judge Stuart Messer presiding.

A total of $14,500 in fines was assessed as a result of the pleas that took place on October 1. In addition to the fines, the defendants were required to pay a total of $3,091.50 in court costs and $52,042.81 restitution.

Jacque Tonnette Martin was placed on probation for a period of three years for the third degree felony offense of driving while intoxicated 3rd or more. Martin pleaded guilty and was convicted and sentenced to ten years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ, but the sentence was probated for a period of three years.

Martin, 52-year-old resident of Clarendon, was arrested in Donley County by Department of Public Safety Trooper Chad Simpson for the offense that took place March 7, 2012. Martin was indicted by a Donley County Grand Jury on August 29, 2012.

Pursuant to the plea agreement, Martin is required to pay a $3,000 fine to Donley County, and is also required to pay $558 in court costs, complete 200 hours of community service, and all DWI requirements under Chapter 49.

Isaias Ramirez was placed on probation for a period of six years for the third degree felony offense of unlawful restraint. Ramirez pleaded guilty and was placed on deferred adjudication for the offense.

Ramirez, 22-year-old resident of Hedley, was arrested in Donley County for the offense that took place January 8, 2011, and was indicted by a Donley County Grand Jury on March 7, 2011.

Pursuant to the plea agreement, Ramirez is required to pay a $6,000 fine to Donley County, and is also required to pay $383 in court costs. If Ramirez violates probation, he could face up to ten years in Institutional Division of the TDCJ.

Jerry Lynn Norwood was placed on probation for a period of two years for the state jail felony offense of possession of a controlled substance. Norwood pleaded guilty and was placed on deferred adjudication for the offense.

Norwood, 47-year-old, was arrested in Donley County for the offense that took place December 1, 2011 and was indicted by a Donley County Grand Jury on June 27, 2012.

Pursuant to the plea agreement, Norwood is required to pay a $500 fine to Donley County, and is also required to pay $443 in court costs. If Norwood violates probation, he could face up to 2 years in TDCJ.

Allen DeWayne Brown was placed on probation for a period of two years for the state jail felony offense of evading arrest. Brown pleaded guilty and was placed on deferred adjudication for the offense.

Brown, 26-year-old resident of Childress, was arrested in Childress County by Childress Police Sergeant Justin Hunter for the offense that took place March 10, 2012. Brown was indicted by a Childress County Grand Jury on June 25, 2012.

Pursuant to the plea agreement, Brown is required to pay a $1,000 fine to Childress County, and is also required to pay $385.50 in court costs. If Brown violates probation, he could face up to 2 years in the State Jail Division of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Clinton John Stevens was convicted for the state jail felony offense of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle. Stevens pleaded guilty and was convicted and sentenced to six months in the Donley County Jail.

Stevens, 35-year-old resident of Wichita Falls, was arrested in Donley County for the offense that took place June 22, 2010 and pleaded guilty to a complaint filed by the State on August 12, 2010.

Pursuant to the plea agreement, Stevens is required to pay $473 in court costs.

Shayne Aric Spindler was placed on probation for a period of four years for the third degree felony offense of money laundering. Spindler pleaded guilty and was placed on deferred adjudication for the offense.

The 26-year-old Spindler was arrested in Hall County by Estelline Chief of Police Mike Warren for the offense that took place May 23, 2012. Spindler pleaded guilty to a complaint filed by the State on September 24, 2012.

Laura Hommel King was convicted for the third degree felony offense of aggregated theft. King pleaded guilty and was convicted and sentenced to five years in the Institutional Division of TDCJ after a contested punishment hearing.

King, 33-year-old resident of Clarendon, was arrested in Donley County by Donley County Sheriff Charles “Butch” Blackburn for the offense that took place June 7, 2011.

King was indicted by a Donley County Grand Jury on August 29, 2012.

Pursuant to the plea agreement, King is required to pay $473 in court costs and $51,902.81 restitution.

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