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“I think he killed himself,” insisted 76-year-old former judge Alexander Ne mer. “I mean, look at the photos. Part of the man’s head is missing. Something blew it off. There’s a picture of a cat licking the inside of his skull when he’s there on the ga rage floor. I would generally say something took the top of his head off.”
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Outside. of the contemporary news paper coverage, the DPS report on this 74-year-old Black man’s death is all that’s left. Everything else is missing.
The official details of the crime, so far as they exist, are limited to a report issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS), dated Oct. 15, 1976: County, Ander son; Place of Occurrence, Palestine; Victim, Frank J. Robinson; Offense, Questionable Death
named Robinson, and another bore Doro thy’s maiden name, Redus. The playground for the A.M. Story Middle School sat below the front of the Robinson residence, between the school itself and Variah (“Vibrant Life”), the street the Robinsons lived on the end of. And on the day Frank Robinson was killed, six boys were playing football on that play ground and actually heard or saw something relevant to the man’s death.
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“I’m not here to speculate,” Nemer said. “I’m only here to tell you what happened.”
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Dorothy’s new, red 1976 Old smobile was parked in the right bay of the garage and, in front of it, sat a gasoline roto tiller and a lawn vacuum sweeper. The bag for the sweeper was draped over the handle of the rototiller. Ranger Prince’s report in dicated that the rototiller, the lawn vacuum sweeper bag, and the front fender of Doro thy’s car all had shot damage and that some of the shot struck the catalytic converter and muffler under the vehicle and some rico cheted off the front bumper and lodged in the back wall of the garage.
The initial DPS findings, filed by Prince, an officer of Company F of the Texas Rangers, is 12 pages long and communicates that agency’s discovery in some detail. On Wed., Oct. 13, 1976, Robinson — a retired school superintendent and prominent Pal estine civil rights leader — was killed by a single 12-gauge shotgun blast to his fore head, the barrel of which had been pressed directly against the flesh covering the bridge of his nose between his eyeballs. The top and right sides of his head were blown away. The physical evidence, mostly confined to the front half of the left bay of the two-car garage adjacent to and behind the Robinson residence, was described as follows:
Davies pressed on, asking Nemer if the photo in question actually proved that the victim shot himself or that he was shot, pos sibly by someone else. I reminded Nemer that Texas Ranger Bob Prince had testified at the inquest and said there was no gun powder residue found on the victim’s body. We asked Nemer how that was possible.
Ignoring the disturbing image this statement conjured, Texas Public Radio re porter David Martin Davies and I pointed out that that was why we were there. The crime scene photos, autopsy files, police records, and the actual inquest documents were all gone, vanished, and no one — in cluding myself and Davies — could find them.Nemer simply informed us that he gave the inquest files to the court clerk when the hearing was concluded.
There were two spent shells found on the ground, both of the same caliber and brand and shot number as was found in the weapon. One was found beside the right arm of the victim and the other one was found approximately three feet from the
We exchanged sideways glances. It was a dubious claim, and the old judge we were talking to followed it with a glaring non sequitur.
Body was laying on its back in a sprawled position, feet slightly spread, left hand laying on the left side of chest, and right arm laying back, pointed upward. Victim was fully clothed, top part of head blown away from obvious shotgun wound. Brain matter and blood were on the walls sur rounding the body, and on the floor sur rounding same. Head was resting against closed screen door [approximately half way down the left wall of the garage bay] which entered into the house from garage.
Frank and Dorothy Robinson’s resi dence sat on a hill just west of the A.M. Sto ry Middle School (formerly the A.M. Story High School) and north of most of the rest of the neighborhood, which was called Haven Acres. Robinson dabbled in real estate and had developed Haven Acres himself. One of the streets into the neighborhood was
The six boys who provided details are James David Allen, 11, white; David War den Brown, 12, white; Charles Hardy Greg ory, III, 11, white; Jeffrey Todd Kale, 11, white; Carlos Aaron Sepulveda, 12, Hispan ic; and Donald Eugene Watkins, 13, white. All six heard four shots, and Hawkins said he saw a white man standing behind Rob inson’s fence when the last couple of shots were fired. Earlier that morning, Story stu dent Michael Kevin Peterson, 11, white, said he saw a white man in a white van leaving the Robinson residence.
After local law enforcement officers completed their crime scene analysis, Pal estine Police Chief Kenneth Berry — who had been on the job only 18 months after 17 years with the Waco Police Department — announced that the official autopsy re
vealed no traces of gunpowder residue on Robinson’s body and termed his death a ho micide. By Friday, Oct. 15, the police issued a public plea for help in the investigation of the “shotgun slaying.” Chief Berry said, “We have no suspects, but we do have leads we are working on.”
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By that following Monday (Oct. 18), Chief Berry’s mind had changed. Within a week of Robinson’s death, Berry was claim ing an absence of nitrate or gunpowder resi due on a person who fired a shotgun was not uncommon. And in a matter of days, many whites in the community already accepted the narrative that Robinson’s wounds were self-inflicted, while most Blacks contended it was an assassination. Dr. John Warfield, a University of Texas professor and the na tional secretary of the Black Political As sembly, told the Austin American-Statesman at the time, “Black people there have little faith in the police department. … [The Pal estine police] are not prone to provide jus tice for Black people.”
The 1976 death of Palestine civil rights champion Frank J. Robinson is still highly controversial.
A 12 gauge, double barrel, sawed off shotgun, SN X4313, Ranger brand, was found with stock resting on victim’s legs, and barrel laying onto the concrete floor. In the chamber of the shotgun was found one spent round and one live round, both of #8 shot, Remington Peters ammuni tion, with spent round being in left barrel.
State Rep. Paul Ragsdale (D-Dallas) also spoke with the Statesman, and his senti ments echoed Warfield’s. “The people there
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By the middle of last year, Davies had begun his own research on Robinson’s “questionable death.” A few months before my piece in the Fort Worth Weekly, he had requested records pertaining to Robinson’s death from the Palestine Police Department, and, on May 26, 2021, Donna Thornell, one
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Frank J. Robinson had known Abe Wil son, a Hollie-Jawaid forebear directly affect ed by the Slocum Massacre, and Robinson had gone on, again, to become a local civil rights champion. In fact, he and two other Black men from Palestine, Rodney A. How ard and Timothy Smith, had sued the An derson County Commissioners Court over race-based gerrymandering and won their suit in a Smith County Federal Court in
Frank’s response was simple and straightforward. “I’m not afraid ’cause they won’t be getting nothing but an old man.”
It was mid-July 2022 when I got a phone call from Davies, an award-winning San Anto nio journalist. Since 1999, he had been the host and producer of Texas Matters, a weekly radio news magazine and podcast in which he examines the questions and issues facing the Lone Star State. Davies had done piec es on the Slocum Massacre after my book on the subject came out in 2014 and while I was working with the descendants of that pogrom for a historical marker. The marker effort was a grueling and uphill but eventu ally successful slog, thanks in no small part to journalists like Davies, who covered it for NPR. I think we both knew then that there was still work to be done.
Staff members at the Austin-based bi monthly were aware of my book The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas and my work with massacre descen dants to get the historical marker. Former Observer staffer Michael Barajas had also written a powerful feature on the unmarked mass graves in the Slocum area, titled “Where the Bodies Are Buried,” in the Ju ly-August 2019 edition of the magazine. And three months later, I was mentioned in the October Texas Monthly cover story “The Bat tle to Rewrite Texas History” as part of a new generation of writers and scholars trying to set the record straight. Then, when Amer ican conservatives declared Critical Race Theory (CRT) Public Enemy No. 1, I wrote about meeting Anderson County Historical Chairman Odom with Slocum Massacre de scendant Hollie-Jawaid in the July 7, 2021 edition of the Fort Worth Weekly:
In late December 2015, Constance Hol lie-Jawaid and I were still working on the final plans for the dedication ceremony for a Texas state historical marker com memorating the Slocum Massacre. The fight to get the marker approved had been grueling, and, on that particular day, we had traveled to Palestine, Texas, to meet with the marker effort’s chief antagonist, Anderson County Historical Chairman Jimmy Ray Odom. Odom’s beliefs about the Slocum Massacre were almost com pletely contradictory to ours, but — in conversation, anyway — he was a straight shooter. Our historical and cultural dis
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So, Davies called me in mid-July to discuss researching the suspicious circum stances surrounding Robinson’s death. He said he was working on an October piece for the Texas Observer and an NPR podcast ex amining the subject in more detail. And he noted that when he discussed the details of his story with the Observer, they suggested that he reach out to me.
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The statement was dumbfounding.
can still see my parents talking to Frank in the kitchen,” Green, 82, told me. “My dad told him, ‘If you don’t leave these white folks alone, they’re gonna kill you.’ ”
1973 and prevailed again on Dec. 23, 1974, when Anderson County challenged the rul ing in the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Howard and Smith’s attorney had been the husband of former Texas Gov. Ann Rich ards, Dave Richards.
But Robinson, Smith, and Howard didn’t stop there. They immediately be gan working on a lawsuit to establish sin gle-member districts so the local Black vote would also be protected in city council elec tions. Austin attorney Larry Daves worked with the trio on this suit, and, in late 1975, they achieved a consent decree that forced Palestine into redistricting. The trio’s ef forts opened up Anderson County to Black political representation, a say in how the community was run and how the county was governed.Then, in mid- to late-1976, Robinson began working on (among other things) a local scandal, specifically reports that Black citizens who lived north of him were being charged for city services that they didn’t receive. It became the next injustice that he turned his attention to. On Labor Day weekend of that year, he expressed as much to longtime friends Sidney Earl and Vita Childs Palmer, whom Robinson and Dor othy had known since their college days at Prairie View A&M University. The Palmers’ daughter, Eloyce Green, had grown up refer ring to the Robinsons as “Uncle Frank” and “Aunt Dorothy,” and she remembered Rob inson discussing the scandal with her father at their home in Tyler during a Labor Day visit.“I
Anderson County historian Norris White and others feel like Palestine has let FJR down.
are very much concerned that it is a possible politicalWarfield,assassination.”afterwhom the John L. War field Center for African and African-Amer ican Studies at UT-Austin is now named, expounded on his remarks to the Statesman “It is clear that this Ku Klux Klan-style murder and terror is as real on the 200th birthday of this immature nation as it was in the 19th century. There is a conspiracy in this state to obstruct the political rights and the political awakening of Black and brown people and the powerful potential constitu ency they represent.”
Davies and I had both been watching the current Texas legislature’s ongoing ger rymandering tactics across the state with various and, I’m sure, comparable levels of consternation and dismay. And we were both aware of Frank J. Robinson’s work and genuinely troubled by the ways in which the current Republican attempts to ensure white electoral primacy undermined every thing Robinson had fought and probably died for. Robinson believed Blacks ought to have a say. Robinson believed Blacks should
agreements notwithstanding, I respected him for Jimmythat.had taken some heat in the press for his straight-shooting, and he was upset with me. And when we met that day in late December, he let me know this in no uncertain terms. At that point, how ever, the marker was secured. Constance — a descendant of victims of the atroci ty — and I had won the argument, so we could be magnanimous. I let Jimmy air his grievances without response or com plaint.
I pushed on along with the chief spokes person behind the efforts to erect a Slocum Massacre historical marker. Descendant Constance Hollie-Jawaid and I co-wrote a screenplay on the subject while continuing to try to raise awareness about the atrocity and remind people that the victims of the carnage are still buried in unmarked mass graves. And something that was said when we first met with Anderson County His torical Commission Chairman Jimmie Ray Odom about the approved marker stunned us.
After… the discussion regarding the marker ceremony concluded and the air was a hair more convivial, I asked Jimmy why there was no historical marker for a Black activist named Frank J. Robinson — and his response was as straightforward as it was “Oh,shocking.theykilled him,” Jimmy said.
Odom and the Anderson County His torical Commission had so adamantly op posed our Slocum Massacre marker that we were forced to go around Anderson County and appeal directly to the Texas State His torical Commission. And because Odom and the local commission had engaged in so many ridiculous machinations and stall tactics, the state consented to our request. And here Odom was, unwilling to concede an atrocity committed 115 years earlier but flatly acknowledging an assassination just 40 years previous.
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have a seat at the table. The most recent Re publican-apportioned voting maps seemed flagrantly designed to limit the voices of persons of color in particular.
And Warfield’s political conspiracy ref erence was directly aimed at sitting Texas Gov. Dolph Briscoe, who had vocally op posed President Lyndon Baines Johnson’s 1965 Voting Rights Act and referred to South Texas as a “little Cuba” just a month earlier.Warfield also told the Statesman that he thought the assassin waited for Robinson in the office connecting the house with the ga rage and observed that “these are the kinds of things that create a climate that legitimiz es the thing that happened to Frank.”
Ragsdale noted that many locals be lieved Robinson’s death was the result of a sanctioned hit executed by a hired killer from somewhere else.
I had planned to do more research into Frank J. Robinson’s death at that time and maybe even write a book on the subject, but one project or another interfered or led me on to other stories.
HateIt’scrime.afairly new legal term in this coun try, but it was made a crime by Texan Pres ident Lyndon Baines Johnson in Title I of the 1968 Civil Rights Act. It became against the law to use, or threaten to use, force to willfully interfere with any person because of race, color, religion, or national origin and especially when that person is participating in a federally protected activity, such as at tending school, patronizing a public place/ facility, applying for employment, or acting as a juror in a state court or voting.
1968. One hundred and three years after the end of the Civil War.
Corsicana’s new billboard struck me the wrong way. It was morbid. Or maybe I was being morbid.
seize Anthony Bewley, a white abolitionist pastor, and return him to Cowtown to pub licly lynch him. Rumors still persist that fol lowing Bewley’s Sep. 13, 1860 lynching, his bones were prominently displayed at a local business for years after the act.
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The most recent owners of the Robin sons’ former residence were out when we came by, so we examined the house and the adjacent two-car garage from the street and
As I left my West Fort Worth home, veered east and headed for Palestine, my mind was jumbled with thoughts on this subject. When I began my journey on I-20, I recalled that a group of Fort Worth citizens had actually traveled to Kansas in 1860 to
I arrived in Palestine midmorning on Fri day, July 29, 2022, and the early steps in the investigation that Davies and I took were inauspicious. Davies’ preliminary research indicated that the Robinson residence was directly behind the A.M. Story Intermediate School but said the street they lived on was no longer there. My initial research focused on the street itself, and I said it was still there. So, off we went in search of 819 Vari ah. It was still there and so was the original Robinson residence — we confirmed it with images from old newspaper clippings — but the A.M. Story Junior High was gone, hav
ing become a large, overgrown vacant lot. I thought it was strange. Generally speaking, school districts repurpose school buildings instead of raze them, especially if they have historicalAlonzosignificance.MarionStory came to Texas from Louisiana at the age of 21 and taught math in a little town called Midway before moving to Palestine in 1912. He taught math at the community’s Black high school, Lin coln, for five years and then took a job as the superintendent of the state’s Deaf, Dumb, and Blind Institute for Colored Youth. In 1924, he returned to Lincoln High School and served as the principal and a math teacher until his retirement in 1949. In 1953, the Palestine Independent School Dis trict opened the Alonzo Marion Story High School for Blacks, and, after desegregation, the facility became a junior high — which it was at the time of Robinson’s death — and then an elementary school. But as Davies quickly uncovered, the original A.M. Story building was demolished by a tornado on Nov. 15, 1987. It was rebuilt as an interme diate school at a different location in 1990. The Category 3 cataclysm traveled 200 miles on that November day, leaving several dead and millions of dollars of destruction in its wake, but it had passed right in front Frank and Dorothy’s old house without leaving so much as a scratch.
of the department’s administrative assis tants, responded with a short letter inform ing Davies that “due to the age of this case, there are no files available/located with the Palestine Police Department pertaining to Mr. Robinson.”Davies,then, like me, got busy with other projects, and it was a year before he picked it back up and contacted me for an assist and an extra eye on the case.
At Corsicana, I exited and turned left to finish the drive to Palestine on 287 South, and then it started all over again. A few miles past the Richland-Chambers Reser voir, I saw a sign for Kerens, where a Black man was mysteriously burned alive in the town jail on Dec. 13, 1890. And a little far ther down, I saw a sign announcing a right turn for the Freestone County seat, Fairfield, where three innocent Black men — Johnnie Cornish, Snap Curry, and Mose Jones — were seized from the county jail, transport ed 14 miles west to Kirven, and burned at the stake one after another in the wee hours of May 7, 1922, for the alleged murder of a young white woman.
As I exited I-20 and headed southeast on 287 South, I remembered that the city of Mansfield had refused to desegregate its schools for a decade after desegregation be came federal law.
Was it any wonder that so many of us consciously or subconsciously averted our eyes to this history? Didn’t it sabotage ev erything we’d been taught to believe about ourselves, our state, and even our country?
A year after my book on the Slocum Massacre was released, I published Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror with Eakin Press. In it, I detail the circumstances and facts about the doz ens of persons of color who had literally been burned at the stake in Texas. And, as 287 led me through Midlothian, I thought of Steve Davis, an innocent Black man burned at the stake in the Waxahachie area on May 12, 1912. Then, when I finally reached I-45, and turned south, I was soon greeted by a new billboard inviting tourists to Corsi cana. It labeled the town Texas’ Favorite Detour, which disturbed me because I knew it wasn’t for an innocent Black man named Jonas “John” Henderson. He was pulled off a train headed for Fort Worth in Hillsboro, transported to Corsicana, and ceremonially burned at the stake in the town square on March 13, 1901, for allegedly murdering a white woman he may never even have met. And there’s a photo collection in the Dallas Public Library that documents the act?!
then drove around Haven Acres. The name of the main access street running in front of Haven Acres had been changed. It was now known as Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., and Robinson Avenue intersected it at the 1700 block. This was encouraging and grist for a discussion of bizarre serendipity versus simple happenstance. A questionable, con troversial death. A tornadic rampage that destroyed the historic school. And then the community’s MLK Boulevard placed and dedicated right down the hill from the scene of the possible crime and a subsequent nat ural disaster. It figuratively — if not literal ly — reeked of a guilty community. Neither Davies nor I are superstitious, but it seemed almost silly to assume it was a coincidence.
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We made our way to the Anderson County Courthouse and spent most of the rest of the day shuttling back and forth be tween the bowels of the courthouse and Pal estine City Hall. The staff members were great, but we got nowhere. No folders, no files, and no relevant paperwork. We spent hours in the courthouse basement thumbing through multiple tomes of legal documents but found nothing pertinent. Frustrated, we pressed the assistants in the County Clerk’s office, and they referred us to the county clerk himself, Mark Staples. We’d contact ed Staples beforehand, and he, in fact, was the one who sent us to the basement file room. Coincidence or no, he was out the day we told him we’d be there. A couple of city hall staff members subsequently referred us to the office of James Todd, Justice of the Peace, Precinct 3. Todd, 68, had been a JP in Anderson County since 1985 and, before that, the chief of police in Elkhart. They thought he might know something or be able to help us.
was personable, knowledgeable, and forth coming. Well aware of the controversial in vestigation into Robinson’s death, Todd was unequivocal.“Itstinks to high heaven,” he said of the suicideDaviesruling.and I questioned him about the reported four shots, noting the 12-gauge shotgun’s two-shell capacity, and asked whether it was reasonably feasible that Rob inson could have fired the double barrel, break action shotgun four times, cracking it open to remove spent shells and reload, without getting gunpowder residue on his person. Todd succinctly confirmed what other law enforcement officers I had spoken with had already told me. It was practically impossible.Listening in, Todd’s secretary said we should go talk to County Judge Jeff Doran. Doran, 71, was also personable and amica ble, and he agreed with Todd. Though he wasn’t in the area at the time, he comment ed that the results of the virtually unprece dented inquest into the cause of Robinson’s death weren’t universally well-received in the community and conceded that many Anderson County citizens, Black and white, felt and still feel that the local justice sys tem got it wrong. Then, as the discussion proceeded, Davies and I asked him about the imposing Reagan Park statue of John Reagan, the former Postmaster of the Con federacy and the first Railroad Commis sioner of Texas. Following his release from prison after the Civil War, Reagan returned to Palestine and quickly became unpopular. He told his fellow former Confederates to go along with the occupying Union troops. His former compatriots mistakenly viewed him as a traitor, but Reagan was playing the long game. He knew the sooner the citizens of Palestine complied, the sooner the Union troops would leave and Palestine could get back to going about their business — es
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Todd’s courthouse office was lined with baseball bats and sports memorabilia. He
Asanswers.previously noted, Palestine Police Chief Berry declared Robinson’s death a murder and then reclassified it as a suicide because he somehow straight-facedly rea soned that they could establish no motive for a homicide. And on Oct. 20, he told the Austin American-Statesman that “no one saw anybody near [Robinson’s] house the day he died,” even though testimonies to the contrary submitted by five white middle schoolers and one Hispanic child were al ready part of the investigative record. Ber ry’s perspective on the case did not jibe with that of Roy Herrington, the longtime An derson County Sheriff. Now both deceased, Berry’s and Herrington’s disagreement, oth er inconsistencies, and outside parties com paring Robinson’s convenient demise to the assassinations of Medgar Evers and Martin Luther King Jr., led to a special inquest of the incident.Noneof the sitting Justices of the Peace had law degrees, and somehow the county inquest fell to a 30-year-old municipal court judge. Judge Nemer scheduled a formal in
He noted that it had even donated some of its early, horse-drawn trolleys to its “little sister” city, Dallas, and that the most valu able asset Palestine and Anderson County possessed in those days was its slave popu lation — their slaves were worth more than anything else in the economy. And after the Civil War, the most valuable asset the com munity had was eradicated. Doran didn’t shill for the Confederacy, but he did say Rea gan brought the railroad to Palestine after its economy had been flattened and ensured the city’s prosperity for the next 150 years.
quest before a six-person “coroner’s jury” for Nov. 16, 1976, and empaneled the unse questered jurists the day before, which was 11 years to the day before the 1987 tornado tore through Palestine. Nemer also instruct ed Chief Berry and others that a “gag rule” would be imposed on every trial participant to prevent them from elaborating on their testimony after the inquest was over.
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In the newspapers of the day, it went well for Palestine. The whole city seemed to be on trial, and, in the end, Robinson’s sui cide acquitted the white community and ab solved the longstanding cultural institutions that whites cherished. Nemer’s inquest was conducted by local attorneys Richard Han dorf and Melvin Whitaker, with assistance from Black State Assistant Attorney General Anthony Sadberry. In a 1982 interview with the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, Sadberry indi cated that “he was bound by his profession to accept the ruling of the court” unless he could produce “concrete, conflicting evi dence,” and he couldn’t. But he wasn’t sat isfied. Of his cohorts and the leaders of the community in general, Sadberry remarked that they seemed “very interested in vindi cating that Damningtown.”evidence was blatantly ig nored, and every narrative that bolstered the “suicide” theory was stressed. The tes timony of A.M. Story middle schoolers was discounted, and a local mortician who claimed Robinson’s body was “tampered with” at the scene of the crime was never called to testify. The testimony of Robin son’s wife, Dorothy — a chairwoman of the Texas Advisory Council for Technical Voca tional Education and a recent recipient of an achievement award from the National Asso ciation of Negro Business and Professional Women Clubs, who was in Minnesota at the time of her husband’s death — was hardly an obstruction for what her attorney, David Richards, later described as a “steamroller” toward a foregone conclusion. In his 2002 book Once Upon a Time in Texas: A Liberal in the Lone Star State, Richards writes, “There was no evidence to support the suicide the ory, no notes, no indication of despondency or health problems. Yet the power structure apparently could not live with the murder alternative and were committed to the sui cide rationale. The trial was so painful and the atmosphere so tense that much of it is blotted from my mind.”
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It was a contemplative evening for me. Outside of a handwritten, unilluminating paragraph or two in a ledger provided to us by Todd, we found no other investigation documents or evidence. More questions than
Sadberry, now deceased, was haunted by the inquest outcome. “I can’t say in my own mind I am satisfied with the outcome of the inquest,” he told the Star-Telegram in 1982. “I don’t feel sure about what took place.”
First up for Davies and me on Saturday, July 30, was a local Black historian named Norris White. Soft-spoken, cautious, and thought ful, White wanted to make sure we knew he hadn’t come to Palestine until the early 1990s and, when he found out about what Frank J. Robinson and others achieved, he was shocked by the absence of any real recognition of those achievements or indig nance about Robinson’s death. A 54-year-old academic with some edge, White prefaced ALL INTERESTED PERSONS AND PARTIES:
When Davies and I solicited his opinion on why Robinson’s accomplishments, lega cy, and horrific end were so little-known, he was frank.“The Black community knows about it,” he said but noted that hardly anyone outside of that demographic or even Frank’s generation reflects on the incident. “It was over and done. People don’t talk about it.”
pecially where the Black population was concerned. Reagan is still practically omni present in the community, but there is nary a hint of progressive folks like Frank J. Rob inson, who was certainly one of the state’s most important Black civil rights leaders. Palestine hardly claimed him.
“It doesn’t pass the smell test,” he said. “It wasn’t a suicide.”
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On that point, Doran was starkly real istic. “You have to understand. Before the Civil War, Palestine was the fourth-largest city in the state.”
Davies and I then tracked down Ben Campbell, 81, a local historian and the re cent author of Two Railroads Two Towns Campbell confirmed Doran’s comments about John Reagan and the railroad, but he also echoed Todd’s and Doran’s general sen timents about Frank J. Robinson’s death.
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But he insisted the inquest went where the evidence led it and stood by the inquest’s declaration of suicide. Nemer also claimed he “knew Frank as well as anybody” and that the political establishment in Anderson
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“The history of East Texas speaks for it self,” he said. “There are no intricate plots. The plot is, ‘Let’s go kill that nigger.’ It may be 160 years since the Civil War ended, and post-civil rights, but the mindset is the same.”The sense that White got from everyone he interviewed was remarkably similar. “Mr. Robinson was a guy for everybody, and to a lot of people, that’s what’s so hurtful about it.”
formant with whom Davies and I had both spoken on separate occasions to mind. The source would say a lot but nothing on re cord. They had been involved in the local justice system and Anderson County histor ical circles. They had actually questioned a member of the local judiciary who had been an attorney involved in the Robinson inquest about the unconvincing outcome, and that individual, who was then a sitting judge, cautioned the source in no uncertain terms to leave it alone. He even threatened to charge the source with contempt of court.
It was unfamiliar, heartening territory for
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his interview with us by laying out several books that he felt explained the history of the Black experience in East Texas, and one of them was my book on the Slocum Massa cre. I was flattered but more impressed by some of his recent efforts, which paralleled ours. In February 2018, he published a story about Robinson’s accomplishments in the Palestine Herald-Press, and it cost him a job. Undeterred, he dug further into Robinson’s death and spoke with six local Blacks and one white, ranging in age from their 60s to 80s. And what they agreed to share was communicated only under Norris’ prom
White and the folks he interviewed sug gest that that’s what is most a shame. For the past 46 years, nobody has really done anything about what many perceive to be Frank’s assassination, and they feel like the community has let Robinson down. But Norris White isn’t naïve. “Lemme tell you, when I first got here, this was the running joke: ‘Black may be beautiful, and tan may be grand, but white is the color of the big boss man.’ In other words, ‘Don’t step out of line, nigger.’ And that’s the sentiment. That’s East Texas. That’s the East Texas I worked under 30 years ago, and that’s the East Texas I live in today.”
We located a 73-year-old Black man that Frank J. Robinson had mentored and who would speak on the record instead. His name is James Robert Smith. The Palestine NAACP secretary at the time of Robinson’s death, Smith rejects the inquest’s determi nation. “I believe it was a setup and related to an undercurrent of old money. Frank was causing a rift that these people didn’t want.”
and I spoke with Nemer the follow ing Sunday morning. As late as 2017, he had served again as a municipal court judge in Palestine, and he had actually just cam paigned unsuccessfully to become the town’s next Friendlymayor. and well-spoken, Nemer was possessed of an uncanny recollection of the inquest proceedings. “I knew one day that ex actly what we’re doing would come to pass.”
Norris White’s comments and the strict confidence he had to offer to obtain his in formation brought another confidential in
Later, collating, considering, and weighing the interviews and information we’d collected so far led to another heady night. Over the last decade, I’d spent a lot of time researching and writing about some incredibly dark history in East Texas, and Robinson and his cohorts appeared to have been proverbial beacons of light. And now, 46 years after his sketchy death, I’d met nothing but Palestine citizens — Black and white — who didn’t believe Robinson had committed suicide.
Smith believes Frank was killed and his death was made to look like a suicide to discredit him. “Suicide is like voodoo taboo [for Black people], so we don’t do that.”
Davies and I finished the day trying to locate other interviewees but without much luck. We wanted to speak with Rodney A. Howard, the surviving member of the trio who had challenged and defeated the gerry mandering regime of Anderson County and Palestine on two separate occasions, but he was busy and hard to pin down. I thought, like Norris White’s anonymous sources, and ours, Howard was reticent to speak with us. And I understood why.
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He knew someone would eventually show up at his door asking questions about Robinson’s death. And he admitted that county officials needed someone to handle the inquest and that the 30-year-old “was the easiest mark available.”
ise of complete confidentiality. After those conversations, including two with Black men who had been middle schoolers at A.M. Story when Robinson was killed (and who corroborated the white middle schoolers’ accounts) but knew better than to come for ward, Norris was emphatic.
Howard, 80, had worked with his elders Robinson and Timothy Smith in the earlyto mid-1970s as an energetic protégé, young but equal and willing to put in the work and stick with it. A civil rights champion in his own right, he didn’t waste time with plati tudes. When we told him Nemer dismissed the notion that the local powers that be ever sweated Robinson and, by extension, the work of the trio, he almost grinned. “Well, I think Frank was a big threat because they didn’t wanna see the county change. We were working on a level of political power that they didn’t want us to have.”
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Howard and Timothy Smith had also received death threats back then, and How ard went a stretch or two sleeping on the floor on the side of his bed farthest from a window, with any weapons he had at his side.“I think he was killed, myself,” How ard said. “Those of us who were close to him and worked with him … we knew he was too much of a fighter to do something like that.”
“I can’t speak for them,” Nemer re sponded, like an implacable totem of the old guard.“Well,” Davies continued, “how do you think Frank should be remembered?”
accomplish that. He felt like it was his mis sion, and he did it to the best of his ability.”
County was “not the least bit afraid of Mr. Frank.
“I certainly would agree with that,” Ne mer replied. “That’s the truth.”
“First, I think Frank J. Robinson should be remembered as a good person,” Nemer said. “Second, I think he should be remem bered as a community activist who led the way to doing a lot of good and, ultimately, brought the Black and white communi ties together. It takes leaders to accomplish things, and he certainly, absolutely, positive ly was a leader who did his darn level best to
Shouldn’t we make sure FJR is not for gotten? Isn’t the truth of the matter obvious, and don’t we owe it to folks like Robinson, Rodney Howard, and Timothy Smith to do our part?Perhaps the citizens of Anderson Coun ty who want the statue of John Reagan to re main in Reagan Park should consider erect ing a new statue of Frank J. Robinson, just as impressive, to face him. Perhaps the citi zens of Texas should interject the upcoming election rhetoric with the spirit of Rodney Howard, Timothy Smith, and FJR.
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In a recent phone call with Daves, the trio’s attorney in their final case against the Palestine City Council, the retired lawyer agreed. Robinson “was a threat in the sense that he was taking on the status quo, and he was trying to drag the community into the modern age. There was a long, long histo ry of white supremacy there, and the atmo sphere was intimidating. I think Frank was a threat to the power structure there because he was trying to undo the last 100 years of history in the region.”
When Davies and I finally sat down with Rodney Howard and told him Nemer had a high opinion of Robinson but still stood by the inquest verdict, Howard spoke very plainly. “He would. Quite a few of them, that’s the spin they wanted to put on it.”
“And you don’t think some people didn’t like that?” Davies said.
DaviesPeriod.”wasn’t having it. We both knew Robinson had been working with Ragsdale on something bigger and with broader im plications.“Robinson and Ragsdale were getting ready to expand on their successes,” Davies said, “where they would take what Frank had done here and move it to 11 different counties across East Texas … and so, though he presented himself as a nonthreatening figure, he was actually doing incredible things through the courts and bringing about the empowerment of African-Amer ican communities throughout East Texas.”
Howard mourns his old friend Frank and doesn’t believe the “official” version of Robinson’s demise. “What reason did Frank have to kill himself? He totally caught his wife off guard. He caught the Black commu nity off guard. He caught all the people who worked with him off guard. He and Dorothy were not struggling. They were living de cent. I didn’t see anything that would indi cate that he would go off his rocker and do something like that. He had too much to live for and be proud of.”
And Frankyet. J. Robinson is gone, and his legend doesn’t really live on. And the past several incarnations of the Texas legislature verge on violating Title I of the 1968 Civ il Rights Act every other session, making a mockery of everything Robinson stood for, fought for, and probably died for — and hardly anyone pays his memory much less his legacy any mind or heed.
Frank and Dorothy Robinson married in 1930, not long after graduating from Prairie View A&M University.
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Last week, I, along with basically anyone else who watched the debacle unfold on Sunday Night Football, proclaimed that the Dallas Cowboys had likely played their last bit of meaningful football for the 2022 season. All three and a half quarters of it that there was. The shameful offensive display against the Buccaneers, compounded by quarterback Dak Prescott facing what appeared to be a poten tially month(s)-long absence due to injury, left little for fans to cling to for hope. I had cate gorically called the Cowboys dead at the scene and laid the blame for their demise squarely at the Florsheims of owner Jerry Jones and the senseless personnel decisions he and his wild band of Arkansan man-children made in the offseason by gutting precious offensive depth for seemingly no purpose.
If this past week is any indication, the ’Boys should be able to pick right back up where they left off before Prescott went down and could be in the mix along with a scary-looking Philadelphia team for the divi sion crown whenever No. 4 does return. That is, of course, until they inevitably get blown out by New York next week and I have to grab my shovel to start digging Fluffy’s grave again. Here’s to rolling with it. l
On top of the beastly performance of Parsons, cornerback Trevon Diggs had a stellar game as well. He helped keep a lid on Bengals All-Pro wideout Ja’mar Chase, who let slip an unflattering evaluation of Diggs as a player just before the game. Diggs proved him wrong by allowing only two catches for 14 yards while covering Chase. Diggs also had a potential game-saving tackle on Tyler Boyd late in the fourth quarter which forced Cincy to punt the ball away, and the Cowboys’ subsequent drive won the game with Maher’s buzzer-beating field goal. It was spectacular.
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Yet if there’s one thing Jerruh apparent ly loves more than Johnny Walker Blue and preying on emotionally vulnerable airport ticket clerks, it’s proving me wrong. Enter: the current requisite ginger-haired Cowboys backup QB Cooper Rush to serve me up a heaping helping of humility-flavored black bird. With a very respectable 19 of 31 for 235 and a TD in just his second NFL start, Rush
If pro sports were a time-traveling De Lorean, overreaction would be the garbage that fuels its Flux Capacitor™. The emotion al investment of obsessively following a team makes it such that one’s mood becomes an analog of the highs and lows of that team’s performance. Usually, an exponentially in flated one. Success is elation on par with the euphoria of hot air balloon travel through the Aurora Borealis with highly potent peyote coursing through your bloodstream. Failure, the digging of your favorite childhood pet’s grave during a 100-year rainstorm.
However, credit for the victory really, ultimately belongs to the defense. Not sure how it works in the jungle, but in this game, the lion feasted on the tigers. Micah “The Lion” Parsons had two of the Cowboys’ six sacks of Cincy’s Joe Burrow on the day. Joe Shiesty looked absolutely terrified of No. 11, a guy who just looks completely unblockable. Unless of course he’s being held. Which he is on basically every play because what else can you do? (Hopefully one day the zebras actually start calling it.) The tilt was Parsons’ second consecutive multi-sack game and puts him on pace for a laughably unbelievable 34 sacks this year, a number that would shatter the single-season record of 22.5 currently shared by Pittsburgh’s T.J. Watt and Hall
regularly read this column (a few friends, my mom, and my editor) can attest, I, just like any fan, am prone to the proverbial pulling of the patella. But overreaction is what makes sports fun. So let me just yank my hopes and dreams up out of the ditch for a moment.
Jokes aside, the win over Cincy was a commendable full-team effort. Along with Rush’s solid performance, the patchwork offensive line managed to keep the interim QB1 upright and cleared lanes for a fairly decent running game. Heretofore untrust worthy kicker Brett Maher went perfect on the day, going 2-2 from beyond the 50, in cluding a last-second game winner. Even the much-maligned coaching staff elevated their performance. OC Kellen Moore called a nifty script of plays through the first few posses sions, which helped spot the Cowboys a quick 14-3 lead, while head coach Mike McCarthy obviously had his boys much better prepared to play than the week prior, evidenced by the fact that the team cut the penalties commit ted a week ago in half from 10 to five. The team as a whole also played with more heart and grit than many might have expected they had. We’ll choose to ignore the confusing de cision to decline a penalty that would have resulted in a Cowboys first down and some very questionable clock management late in the game and give Big Mike due credit.
The outcome is the type of thing that only someone who stumbled upon a 2022 Sports Almanac wedged in between the seats of a time-traveling DeLorean could predict. Just as it took only a single evening to torpedo the hopes and dreams of the Cowboys faithful last week, over the course of one afternoon, suddenly the doomsday clouds have parted, and a giant ray of sweet, sweet sunshine has come beaming through. Cooper Rush is our shining knight in silver and blue armor. Let’s start planning the parade route now!
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of Famer Michael Strahan. It also makes 17 career sacks in Parsons’ first 18 games in the league, a feat never before accomplished since they started tracking sacks in1982.
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Can you believe it? Cincinnati quarterback Joe Burrow was outplayed by a guy making only his second NFL start.
led Dallas to a stunning 20-17 victory over last season’s Super Bowl runners-up the Cin cinnati Bengals on Sunday. The shocks are still reverberating from AT&T Stadium.
A week removed from the entire football world pronouncing their season all but over, the Cowboys set out to prove everyone wrong. Have they?
I am certainly not immune to emotional ups and downs. As the four or five people who
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While I still have serious doubts about the long-term viability of this year’s Cow boys, especially while they’re without Dak Prescott (just stop it with the Rush > Dak nonsense), I feel infinitely better about them being able to get by until he returns, which, if the Joneses are to be believed, could be much, much sooner than anyone expected as early as next week against the Giants on Monday, according to Stephen Jones. I definitely don’t buy that, but the optimistic assessment is encouraging. With a game they should have lost in hand and a defense that looks totally legit, they’re playing with a lit tle house money and can avoid a, um, rush to bring Dak back.
There isn’t another game on the ’Stang schedule this season that SMU players and fa natics will want to win more, so the Frogs will need to treat their cross-metro rival with more respect than in previous years if they want to repossess the Iron Skillet for the first time in three seasons. l
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Saturday will mark the 101st meeting be tween schools who are as similarly different as the cities they’re from. The Iron Skillet, the traveling trophy, is supposed to symbolize a hard-nosed rivalry, a working-class artifact rep resenting universities whose student bodies are classically anything but. I expect the Frogs to win, but fans will need to be satisfied with pass ing the test and not necessarily acing it.
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Dykes’ return to Dallas has the potential to be the most dramatic game of the season.
lege pigskin is Disney-fied into two ginormous conferences, leaving everyone else (possibly even TCU) out in the cold. The Mustangs start ed their season with two decimations of lessthan teams: UNT and Lamar, by approximately 30 points each. The Mustangs returned from College Park, Maryland, on Sunday with their first loss. The seven-point defeat was thanks to two fourth-quarter touchdowns from the Terra pins in a contest where SMU held the advantage starting late in the first quarter. Tanner Mor decai (#8), a senior from Waco, is no stranger to the TCU faithful and burned Maryland for just shy of 400 yards, but he coughed up the ball three times in the form of two interceptions and one lost fumble. His favorite target, Rashee Rice (#11), also a senior and from the greater Fort Worth area, accumulated 193 yards on 11 recep tions and remains his quarterback’s favorite and most reliable connection.
Southern Methodist could very well be in the conversation for a new round of conference realignments, depending, of course, on how long the current landscape keeps its shape before col
TCU head coach Sonny Dykes will face his own employment post-hiring evaluation in a Gallop test — see what I did there?! — against his former team, the SMU Mustangs, on Saturday around brunch o’ clock in Dallas. Dykes himself is paid untold millions (reports indicate between 4 and 5, but TCU’s private status precludes them from having to publish such information), and it’ll be the fandom’s job to determine what kind of value donors are re ceiving. Dykes won’t have 177 opportunities to produce the right answer — probably more in the neighborhood of 140 — and the one-hour timeframe will stay true.
As much as it pains me to write this, and it’s not something you have to admit to any Mus tang-faithful in your life, SMU is a real team now. I’m certainly not suggesting there wouldn’t be shame in losing thrice in a row, because the humiliation would be acutely felt at the highest levels of boosterdom, but in the past, this game was probably approached with flippant dismis siveness from Funkytowners, patting the Ponies on their snout as big-conference brothers, assur ing them that if they were to pull one over this time, it’d be a complete fluke rectified by five consecutive defeats. Those days are gone.
TCU is hoping to keep their undefeated status against a classic rival they haven’t beaten since 2019.
The Pony Express hasn’t risen from the Death Penalty, but these Mustang backs are serviceable, including Mordecai. While surren dering yards in the running game sometimes seems like death by a thousand ant bites, it’s preferable to allowing blue-and-red receivers to streak downfield in man coverage, situations where the purple secondary has shown vulnera bility versus previous opponents.
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The Terps were able to run and pass with balanced efficiency against SMU for more than 200 yards each, but the pass-happy ’Stangs con sistently broke through with splash plays for ex tra yardage. TCU’s new defensive coordinator, Joe Gillespie, should consider bracketing Rice with Tre’Vius Hodges-Tomlinson (#1) coupled with safety assistance, forcing Mordecai to seek receptions elsewhere.
Odds are that many reading this have complet ed the Gallup test, or something like it, at some point in their schooling or working careers. For the lucky ones who haven’t, it’s a personality as sessment to determine if you’re an ideal candi date for whatever job or company you’re inter viewing for. The test consists of 177 questions, or “pairings,” that must be answered quickly, usually within a span of 20 seconds, upon be ing presented a scenario and a group of possible responses. Gallup, a management consulting firm, is paid untold millions for administer ing the test and interpreting the results to nail down perfect employees for their clients.
In college football, there’s an understood strategy when it comes to coaching personnel: “If ya can’t beat ’em, get ’em.” I’m not suggest ing in a holistic manner that losing twice in a row to the Dykes-led Ponies was the prover bial nail in Gary Patterson’s TCU coffin, but it didn’t help. Hell, Texas had tried more than once to lure GP (a guy they lost to with regular ity, even when his win/loss ratio was down), and they finally found the opportunity to smatter him in burnt orange this season, with at least satisfactory results thus far.
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Will Douglas (left) described his longtime friend and former teacher as a gentle giant.
Friday’s concert will feature around a dozen guitarists who were former students of the great master. The concert will be held every September to ensure that scholarship funds are available for Texas Wesleyan Uni versity’s newest scholarship.
Dailey founded The Guitar Studio soon after moving, and the first location was just behind Ridglea Theater. Douglas, who now owns and manages the studio at its current North Hulen Street location, said Dailey was as dedicated to teaching as he was perform ing.
Dailey’s death from an undisclosed illness last fall left a void in the local clas sical guitar community, Douglas said. To honor the life of the 65-year-old pedagogue and performer, Douglas and past friends of the revered teacher are organizing a benefit concert 7:30 p.m. Friday at Texas Wesleyan University’s Martin Hall. Ticket proceeds and donations will fund the Michael Dailey Scholarship that will be awarded every year to a music major who demonstrates financial need.The choice of Texas Wesleyan as the beneficiary of the scholarship was intention al, Douglas said, because Dailey volunteered much of his time performing and teaching at underserved public schools near and around the university.Bornin1956 in Midland-Odessa, Dai ley was the son of an Osage Native American father and Caucasian mother. He grew up in Phoenix, Arizona, and began teaching him self guitar at 4. By 16, he had toured with an opening act for the Grateful Dead and soon after had performance credits with Eric Clap ton, John Denver, Stevie Nicks, and Linda Ronstadt, among others. Dailey moved to Fort Worth in the early 1980s for his wife at the time, pianist Janet Dailey, to study with concert pianist Steven De Groote.
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Like many of Michael Dailey’s guitar stu dents, Will Douglas remembers his former teacher as much for his mentorship as his weekly“Mylessons.firstlesson with him was in Novem ber 2001,” Douglas recalled. “I was a fresh man. I felt really lost after 9/11. I had just left home when this horrible thing happened.”
Former Dailey student Deanna Valone said he was extremely gentle with his stu dents.“He always met you where you were at as a student,” she said. “I didn’t know about classical guitar when I started lessons in 2006. I came to lessons with this junky steel-string guitar. Michael would suffer through that. I had just learned this hard piece. I guess Mi chael felt like I was doing well. He gave me my first classical guitar. He just gave me a guitar. No one had done anything like that before. It was super-amazing and overwhelm ing. He cared about music so much. He want ed people to reap the fruits of it.”
Cyndi Reep, who knew Dailey for the last 20 years of his life, said he had a soft and caring voice that calmed anyone he spoke with.“He loved to help everyone through sharing his wisdom and knowledge,” Reep said. “He once said, ‘Everyone needs a quiet place to rest their soul.’ For me, he was that person. He helped me through some of the toughest stages of life, like losing my mother, and changed me as a person in the process. I learned to not sweat the small things and that the path of peace was the key to happiness. He will forever be a huge part of my life and who I Douglasam.” said the Fort Worth guitar com munity is still mourning the loss of their mentor and friend. The vast majority of Dai ley’s students have stayed on at The Guitar Studio, something that Douglas says is a testament to how loyal the deceased teach er’s friends and students remain. The local classical guitar community owes much to the long-bearded and kind-hearted man who was never seen without his guitar.
Friday’s concert at Texas Wesleyan will fund a scholarship in memory of an influential guitar teacher and performer.
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Dailey, a tall and imposing man, was a gentle giant who saw potential in Doug las even as the teenager failed to realize the amount of work it takes to be a professional musician. The chance meeting and subse quent lessons led Douglas to major in music at the University of North Texas.
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Every sip of the Cactus Flower was light, citrusy, and boozy.
Every bite of the Pesto Pizza was a de light. Ripe cherries burst with fruity juices that complemented the herbaceous pesto and sweet caramelized onions.
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The Cactus Flower, my only drink that night, was a citrusy delight accentuated by hibiscus notes and agave. The fruity, floral flavors covered up the ample tequila that left me buzzed.Bottled Blonde sells several appetizers that lean toward Italian cuisine (mozzarella sticks, pizza rolls, balsamic-glazed Brussels
Considering Bottled Blonde’s compar atively smaller size, those figures can be accounted for only by packed nights and lots of imbibing. A recent weekday eve ning found the venue to indeed be bustling with folks of all ages ordering shots, cock tails, and Neapolitan-style pizzas. Bottled Blonde, the Fort Worth outpost of the Hous ton-based chain, offers patio seating, large lounge tables that can easily seat 20, and a wraparound bar. On the night of my visit, large TVs showed sports while country mu sic blared from speakers.
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The Forager Pizza was laden with juicy roasted mushrooms, crisp and mildly bitter arugula, gobs of rich and creamy Fontina, and generous sprinkles of thickly shaved parmesan. The crust was thick, chewy, and lightly charred. For $16, I was expecting a larger pie, though. The personal size could serve two if they weren’t too hungry.
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sprouts), and I sprung for the fried calamari and shrimp. Generous portions of thickly battered squid mingled with plump crus taceans. Both benefited from a squeeze of lemon and a dunk in the accompanying rich tomato sauce. The seafood was fresh, firm, and delicious.Mywaitress recommended the boneless wings with a mix of Buffalo and lemon pep per seasonings. Around a dozen plump and deep red chunks of breast meat came with celery, carrot slices, and a side of ranch. The results were a flavor overload with the initial zing coming from the lemon pepper before the heat of the Buffalo sauce caught up.
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tracks as Kenny Rogers, Barbara Mandrell, or Alabama but with a dance twist, like something you’d hear at a disco or a rave.
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For live performances, Childs will rock the keytar along with Matt Carter on guitar and Ed Love on drums. The trio has been rehearsing for a show to air on COP’s You Tube channel as part of the streaming event Virtual Temple 6 that will air Friday, Oct. 14, through Monday, Oct. 17.
“I want to create something that brings in all of my interests,” he said. “I want to publish a single that I think [Fryer], myself, and the label will be proud of, too.” l
(From left to right) drummer Ed Love, G.W. Childs IV, and guitarist Matt Carter are ready to fill dance floors this fall.
“It’s like [Childs] comes up with the sketch of the song, and I help him develop it,” Fryer said, “and we gather musicians to give the country twang to it.”
Childs’ first release will be “Tarrant County.” Originally slated for release last year, the song was held because Childs said the label bosses didn’t feel there was enough interest in it at the time. Childs kept working on the records while building out a live show. Now, when “Tarrant County” comes out, it will be as a “digital record” with an A and B side on all platforms, including Bandcamp.
For years, DJs at country venues have sprin kled in hip-hop and R&B anthems amid the two-steppin’ twang-and-fiddle tunes, but locally it wasn’t until G.W. Childs IV came along a couple years ago when two-steppin’ and hip-hoppin’ were mixed together all on the sameWorkingtrack.with producer John Fryer (Nine Inch Nails, Depeche Mode, Stab bing Westward) out of the L.A. label COP International (Stabbing Westward, Junk Sista, Sick Jokes), the single father of two sons and ranch hand is set to release several new tunes classified intriguingly as “Rodeo DanceTheMusic.”term, Fort Worthian Childs says, comes from Fryer. “It’s its own thing getting its ownMixingniche.”country tuneage with EDM beats sprouted from Childs’ ’70s boogie-lov ing past. He described the forthcoming
“Listeners can expect a synthesis of elements of nostalgia summing up to a pol ished pop but with an electro-country lean,” Childs said. “It’s geared towards dancing and lifting people up somewhere in between where it just kind of feels good.”
With his blend of country and hip-hop, G.W. Childs feels he has found his niche.
Childs said “Tarrant County” is mostly about his hardscrabble father and also the modern, technology-influenced cowboy in general. The song is also about growing up and being away for days while hauling cattle from ranch to ranch.
Childs’ fall releases feature several prominent local musicians, including Tom my Luke on violin and Joe Savage and Sum mer Emerson on backing vocals.
Childs said his goal is to bridge worlds to create a new one and showcase elements of the old world he loves before they’re lost.
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Childs plans on performing soon and releasing his new material in November.
“Disco always made people feel good at the time,” Childs said. “It was a fun era, and [Fryer] has been a big influence on me.”
Fryer is particularly excited. “It’s RDM, baby. You’ve got EDM, and you’ve got FDM, which is Farmers Dance Music, and now, it’s the new progression to Rodeo Dance Music.”
This isn’t Childs’ first rodeo. *groan* He’s been a working musician since 1996 and has written six albums with the band Soil & Eclipse and one with another COP outfit, Deathline Int. All this, plus he’s pro duced “numerous” remixes on Spotify, in cluding ones of the Charlie Daniels Band’s “The Devil Went Down to Georgia” and Glen Campbell’s “Rhinestone Cowboy.”
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SUN 9/25: Angelus Apatrida (Spain), Hidden Intent (Australia). (TIX @ LolasFW.com.)
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Amplified Live (10261 Technology Blvd E, 214-350-1904): FRI 9/23: Warbring er & Heathen (outside); Whip It: 80’s New Wave Party (inside). SAT 9/24: Revocation (outside);
Lola’s Fort Worth (2000 W Berry St):
THU 9/22: Playtown Blues Jam w/special guest
Jerry Clark. FRI 9/23: Wayne Toups & Squeeze box Bandits. SAT 9/24: Hunter Cox & John Hart.
lea Room. SUN 9/25: The Building A Legacy Tour w/ARTIFAS in Ridglea Theater (TIX @ TheRidglea.com.)
Rail Club DFW (3101 Joyce Dr, 817386-4309): WED 9/21: Hellzapoppin Circus. SAT 9/24: HED P.E. MON 9/26: Raven w/Riot Act and Headbanger. NOTE: The Rail is now un der new ownership.
SAT 9/24: Cole Swindell. (TIX @ BillyBobsTexas.com.)
The Ridglea (6025 Camp Bowie Blvd, 817-738-9500): FRI 9/23: Jeff Zero in Ridg
The Post at River East (2925 Race St, 817-945-8890): THU 9/22: Blakely & Green berg. FRI 9/23: Dexter & The Moonrocks. SUN 9/25: Guthrie Kennard, Guitar Frenchie, Rachel Stacy and Adeem the Artist. MON 9/26: Escuela Grind w/Test. (TIX @ ThePostAtRiverEast.com.)
Arlington Music Hall (224 N Center, 817-226-4400): THU 9/22: An Evening with Suzy Bogguss. SAT 9/24: Janie Fricke, Tennes see Whiskey Chris Stapleton Tribute. (TIX @ ArlingtonMusicHall.net.)
Growl / Division Brewing (509 Abrams St, 682-252-7639): WED 9/21: Caustic Casanova w/Grandelus. SAT 9/24: The Midway, 52hz, Whale, Eve. (TIX @ Facebook.com/GrowlGetsLoud.)
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Tulips FTW (112 St Louis Av, 817-3679798): THU 9/22: Bob Mould (solo), Electric: Distortion, Blue Hearts. FRI 9/23: Rebirth Brass Band w/ Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio & Chris Wat son. MON 9/26: The King Khan, Miranda & The Beat, Phantomelo. (TIX @ TulipsFTW.com.)
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MASS (1002 S Main St, 682-707-7774):
FRI 9/23: Final show at MASS featuring Royal Sons, North by North, Summit Valley. (Thanks for the memories!)
Billy Bob’s Texas (2520 Rodeo Plaza, 817-624-7117): FRI 9/23: Drake Milligan.
Scat Jazz Lounge (111 W 4th St, 817870-9100): FRI 9/23: Chris Milyo, Ricki Der ek & His Big Band. SAT 9/24: Stefan Karlsson. SUN 9/24: Black Dog Jam. (TIX @ ScatJazzLounge.com.)
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Lava Cantina (5805 Grandscape Blvd, 214-618-6893): WED 9/21: Alex Aguilar, Jacob Armitage. THU 9/22: Two Tons of Steel, Mike Mancy Band. FRI 9/23: Blake Nation Trib ute to Blake Shelton. SAT 9/24: Le Freak. (TIX @ LavaCantina.com.)
Andy’s Bar (122 N Locust St, 940-3128985): THU 9/22: Zebra Troop w/ Kalid Abdul, Sordelo, Juuls & the Sun Room. FRI 9/23: On Holiday, Madeline, Shooting Tsars, & Gluestick. SAT 9/24: Fury in Few w/ Party Hats, Motor sports, Sw!tch. SUN 9/25: North by North, Said The People, Radio Wore, Matchstick Ghost. (TIX @ AndysDenton.com.)
Fat Daddy’s (781 W Debbie Ln, 817-453-0188): THU 9/22: Breaking Bad Co. FRI 9/23: Le Freaky. SAT 9/24: Appetite For GN’R w/ Mötley Krüe. (TIX @ FatDaddysLive.com.)
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The executive director has determined the application is administratively complete and will conduct a technical review of the application. In addition to the renewal, this permitting action includes the incorporation of permits by rule related to this permit. The reasons for any changes or incorporations, to the extent they are included in the renewed permit, may include the enhancement of operational control at the plant or enforceability of the permit. The TCEQ may act on this application without seeking further public comment or providing an opportunity for a contested case hearing if certain criteria are met.
OPPORTUNITY FOR A CONTESTED CASE HEARING. You may request a contested case hearing if you are a person who may be affected by emissions of air contaminants from the facility. If requesting a contested case hearing, you must submit the following: (1) your name (or for a group or association, an official representative), mailing address, daytime phone number; (2) applicant’s name and permit number; (3) the statement “[I/we] request a contested case hearing;” (4) a specific description of how you would be adversely affected by the application and air emissions from the facility in a way not common to the general public; (5) the location and distance of your property relative to the facility; (6) a description of how you use the property which may be impacted by the facility; and (7) a list of all disputed issues of fact that you submit during the comment period. If the request is made by a group or association, one or more members who have standing to request a hearing must be identified by name and physical address. The interests the group or association seeks to protect must also be identified. You may also submit your proposed adjustments to the application/permit which would satisfy your concerns.
The deadline to submit a request for a contested case hearing is 15 days after newspaper notice is published. If a request is timely filed, the deadline for requesting a contested case hearing will be extended to 30 days after mailing of the response to comments.
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The Kessler (1230 W Davis St, 214-272-8346): FRI 9/23: Avi Kaplan. SAT 9/24: Matt Nathanson. TUE 9/27: Seratones. (TIX @ TheKessler.org.)
Notice Issuance Date: September 9, 2022
MAILING LIST. In addition to submitting public comments, you may ask to be placed on a mailing list for this application by sending a request to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. Those on the mailing list will receive copies of future public notices (if any) mailed by the Office of the Chief Clerk for this application.
This application was submitted to the TCEQ on August 26, 2022. The application will be available for viewing and copying at the TCEQ central office, TCEQ Dallas/Fort Worth regional office, and the Fort Worth Public Library-Diamond Hill/Jarvis, 1300 Northeast 35th Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas beginning the first day of publication of this notice. The facility’s compliance file, if any exists, is available for public review in the Dallas/Fort Worth regional office of the TCEQ.
Legacy Hall (7800 Windrose Av, 972-846-4255): FRI 9/23: Jack Russell’s Great White w/BulletBoys, Kingdom Come. SAT 9/24: Live 80. (TIX @ LegacyFoodHall.com.)
Plano Balloon Festival (Oak Point Park, 2801 E. Spring Creek Parkway):
THU 9/22: Plano Symphony Orchestra. FRI 9/23: Party Machine. SAT 9/24: Moving Colors. (TIX @ PlanoBalloonFest.org .)
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Further information may also be obtained from Fort Dearborn Company, 4601 Pylon Street, Fort Worth, Texas 76106-1918 or by calling Mr. Danny Macy, Scheduler at (817) 769-6807.
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Rubber Gloves (411 E. Sycamore St, @RubberGlovesDentonTX): FRI 9/23: Golden Order, Sparrows, Omni. SAT 9/24: Rub
If any requests for a contested case hearing are timely filed, the Executive Director will forward the application and any requests for a contested case hearing to the Commissioners for their consideration at a scheduled Commission meeting. Unless the application is directly referred to a contested case hearing, the executive director will mail the response to comments along with notification of Commission meeting to everyone who submitted comments or is on the mailing list for this application. The Commission may only grant a request for a contested case hearing on issues the requestor submitted in their timely comments that were not subsequently withdrawn. If a hearing is granted, the subject of a hearing will be limited to disputed issues of fact or mixed questions of fact and law relating to relevant and material air quality concerns submitted during the comment period. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the Commission’s jurisdiction to address in this proceeding.
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Trees Dallas (2709 Elm St, 214-741-1122): WED 9/21: Little Jesus & Divino Niño. SAT 9/24: Invasion 14 After Par ty featuring Two Tons of Steel. SUN 9/25: Rare Americans. (TIX @ TreesDallas.com.)
NOTICE OF RECEIPT OF APPLICATION AND INTENT TO OBTAIN AIR PERMIT (NORI) RENEWAL
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Emo Night (inside). SUN 9/25: Heart To Gold. (TIX @ Amplified-Live.com.)
MANSFIELD
Rebirth Brass Band, originally from New Orleans, plays Tulips FTW Friday.
‘N’ Chug 2022. SUN 9/25: The Mauskovic Dance Band, Forbidden Frequencies. (TIX @ RubberGlovesDenton.com.)
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APPLICATION. Fort Dearborn Company, has applied to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) for renewal of Air Quality Permit Number 21320, which would authorize continued operation of the Offset Printing Plant located at 4601 Pylon Street, Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas 76106. AVISO DE IDIOMA ALTERNATIVO. El aviso de idioma alternativo en espanol está disponible en https://www.tceq.texas.gov/permitting/air/newsourcereview/airpermits-pendingpermit-apps. This link to an electronic map of the site or facility’s general location is provided as a public courtesy and not part of the application or notice. For exact location, refer to application. http://www.tceq.texas.gov/assets/public/hb610/index. html?lat=32.825555&lng=-97.344722&zoom=13&type=r. The existing facility and/or related facilities are authorized to emit the following air contaminants: exempt solvents, hazardous air pollutants and organic compounds.
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The Haltom Theater (5601 E Belknap St, 817-677-8243): FRI 9/23: Gored In The Heart Of Texas Fest 2022. SUN 9/25: Mausole um, Instinct, Filth Embedded, Devour the Unborn. (TIX @ Facebook.com/HaltomTheater.)
Granada Theater (3524 Greenville Av, 214-824-9933): FRI 9/23: Cigarettes After Sex. SUN 9/25: Mild High Club.. (TIX @ GranadaTheater.com.)
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PUBLIC COMMENT. You may submit public comments to the Office of the Chief Clerk at the address below. The TCEQ will consider all public comments in developing a final decision on the application and the executive director will prepare a response those comments. Issues such as property values, noise, traffic safety, and zoning are outside of the TCEQ’s jurisdiction to address in the permit process.
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bogus and that Users will not claim that any such filing is bogus;(7) waives all defenses; and (8) appoints Secured Party as Authorized Representative for User, effective upon User’s default re User’s contractual obligation in favor of Secured Party as set forth below under “Payment Terms” and “Default Terms,” granting Secured Party full authorization and power for engaging in any and all actions on behalf of User including, but not limited by, authentication of a record on behalf of User, as Secured Party, in Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate, and User further consents and agrees that this appointment of Secured Party as Authorized Representative for User effective upon User’s default, is irrevocable and coupled with a security interest. User further consents and agrees with all of the following additional terms of Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use Payment Terms: In accordance with fees for unauthorized use of AARON EUGENE HILL© as set forth above, User hereby consents and agrees that User shall pay Secured Party all unauthorized-use fees in full withing ten(10) days of the
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Copyright Notice: All rights reserved re common-law copyright of trade-name/trade-mark, AARON EUGENE HILL© as well as any and all derivatives and variations in the spelling of said trade-name/trade- mark, Common Law Copyright©1997 by Aaron Eugene Hill© Said common-law trade-, name/trade- mark, AARON EUGENE HILL©, may neither be used, nor reproduced, neither in whole nor in part, nor in any manner whatsoever, without the prior, express, written consent and acknowledgement of Aaron Eugene Hill© as signified by the red-link signature of Aaron Eugene Hill© hereinafter “Secured Party.”
HONORABLE CHRISTOPHER D. CHILES JENNIFER POLK, respondent mother; DANNY LEE, respondent father; LORIE POLK, respondent legal guardian; WAYLON LEE, WARREN LEE, and any unknown putative father of WAYLON LEE and WARREN LEE,
WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEATH AND HUMAN RESOURCES By Counsel, Kent L. Bryson, State Bar No. 7274 Assistant Prosecuting Attorney Cabell County, West Virginia Counsel for Petitioner
IN THE CIRCUIT COURT OF CABELL COUNTY, WEST VIRGINIA WEST VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN RESOURCES, ex rel., Summer Wright, Social Service Worker, Petitioner, v. CIVIL ACTION NO. 22-JA-74
With the intent of being contractually bond, any juristic person, as well as the agent of said juristic person, consents and agrees by this Copyright Notice that neither said juristic person nor the agent of said juristic person, shall display, nor otherwise use in any manner the common-law trade-name/trade- mark AARON EUGENE HILL©, nor the common-law copyright described herein, nor any derivative of any variation in the spelling of AARON EUGENE HILL© without the prior, express written consent and acknowledgment of the Secured Party, as signified by Secured Party’s signature in red ink Secured Party neither grants nor implies, nor otherwise gives consent for any unauthorized use of AARON EUGENE HILL©, and all such unauthorized use is strictly prohibited, Secured Party is not now nor has ever been an accommodation party, nor a surety, for the purported debtor, i.e. “AARON EUGENE HILL,” nor for any derivative of, nor for any variation in the spelling of said name nor for any other juristic person, and is so indemnified and held harmless by Debtor, i.e., “AARON EUGENE HILL” in Hold-Harmless Indemnity Agreement No. AEH-062097-HHIA dated the Twentieth Day of the Sixth Month in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Seven against any and all claims, legal actions, orders, warrants, judgments, demands, liabilities, losses, depositions, summonses, lawsuits, cost, fines, liens, levies, penalties, damages, interest, and expenses whatsoever both absolute and contingent as are due and as might become due now existing and as might hereafter arise, and as might be suffered by, imposed on and incurred by Debtor for any and every reason, purpose, and cause whatsoever. Self- executing Contract/Security Agreement in even of Unauthorized Use: By this Copyright Notice, both the juristic person and the agent of said juristic person hereinafter jointly and severally “User” consent and agree that any use of AARON EUGENE HILL© other than authorized use as set forth above constitutes unauthorized use of counterfeiting of Secured Party’s common-law copyrighted property, contractually binds User renders this Copyright Notice a Security Agreement wherein User is debtor and Aaron Eugene Hill© is Secured Party, and signifies that User.(1) grants Secured Party a security interest in all of User’s interest in assets, land, and personal property in the sum certain amount of $500,000.00 per each occurrence of use of the common-law-copyrighted tradename/trade-mark AARON EUGENE HILL©, as well as for each and every occurrence of use of any and all derivatives of, and variations in the spelling of, AARON EUGENE HILL©, plus cost, plus triple damages;(2) authenticates this Security Agreement wherein User pledges all of User’s assets, land, consumer goods, farm products, inventory, equipment, money, investment property, commercial tort claims, letters of credit, letter-of-credit rights, chattel paper, instrument, deposit accounts, accounts, documents, and general intangibles, and all User’s interest in all such foregoing property, now owned and hereafter acquired, now existing and hereafter arising, and wherever located, as collateral for securing User’s contractual obligation in favor of Secured Party for User’s unauthorized use of Secured Party’s common-law-copyrighted property;(3) consents and agrees with Secured Party’s filling of a UCC Financing Statement in the UCC filing office, as well as in any county recorder’s office, wherein User is debtor and Aaron Eugene Hill© is Secured Party(4) consents and agrees that said UCC Financing Statement described above in paragraph “(3)” is a continuing financing statement, and further consents and agrees with Secured Party’s filling of any continuation statement necessary for maintaining Secured Party’ perfected security interest in all of User’s property and interest in property, pledged as collateral in this Security Agreement and described above in paragraph “(2),” until User’s contractual obligation theretofore incurred has been fully satisfied;(5) consents and agrees with Secured Party’s filingling of any UCC Financing Statement, as described above in paragraph “(2)” in the UCC filing office, as well as in any county recorder’s office; (6) consents and agrees that any and all such filings described in paragraphs “(4)” and “(5)” above are not, and may not be considered, date User is sent Secured Party’s invoice, hereinafter “Invoice” itemizing said fees Default Terms: in event of non-payment in full of all unauthorized-use fees by User within ten(10) days of date Invoice is sent, User shall be deemed in default and: (a) all of User’s property and property pledged as collateral by User, as set forth in above in paragraph “(2),” immediately becomes I.e. is, property of Secured Party; (b) Secured Party is appointed User’s Authorized Representative as set forth above in paragraph “(8)”; and (c) User consents and agrees that Secured Party may take possession of, as well as otherwise dispose of in any manner that Secured Party, in Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate, including, but not limited by sale at auction, at any time following User’s default, and without further notice, any and all of User’s property and interest described above in paragraph “(2),” formerly pledged as collateral by User, now property of Secured Party, in respect of this “Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use,” that Secured Party, again In Secured Party’s sole discretion, deems appropriate. Terms for Curing Default: Upon event of default, as set forth above under “Default Terms,” irrespective of any and all of User’s former property and interest in property, described above in paragraph “(2)” in the possession of, as well as disposed of by, Secured Party, as authorized above under “Default Terms,” User may cure User’s default only re the remainder of User’s said former property and interest property, formerly pledged as collateral that is neither in the possession of, nor otherwise disposed of by, Secured Party within twenty (20) days of date of User’s default only by payment in full. Terms of Strict Foreclosure: User’s non-payment in full of all unauthorized-use fees itemized in invoice within said twenty- (20) day period for curing default as set forth above under “Terms for Curing Default” authorizes Secured Party’s immediate non-judicial strict foreclosure on any and all remaining former property and interest in property, formerly pledged as collateral by User, now property of Secured Party, which is not in the possession of, nor otherwise disposed of by, Secured Party upon expiration of said twenty- (20) day default-curing period. Ownership subject to common-law copyright and UCC Financing Statement and Security Agreement filed with the UCC filing office. Record Owner: Aaron Eugene Hill©,Autograph Common Law Copyright ©1997. Unauthorized use of “Aaron Eugene Hill” incurs same unauthorized-use fees as those associated with AARON EUGENE HILL© as set forth above in paragraph “(1)” under “Self-executing Contract/Security Agreement in Event of Unauthorized Use.”
IN THE INTEREST OF THE MINOR CHILDREN: Waylon Lee, DOB: 03/27/2012; 22-JA-74 Warren Lee, DOB: 02/27/2015; 22-JA-75
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Please take notice that this matter will come on for preliminary, adjudication and/or termination of parental rights of the above listed parties and any unknown putative fathers or any other appropriate relief before the Honorable Christopher D. Chiles, Judge of the Circuit Court of Cabell County, West Virginia, on the 7th day of November, 2022 at 9:00 a.m., at which time and place you may be present to protect your interests, if you so desire. You are further advised that the minor child(ren) and respondents in this proceeding shall have the right to counsel at this hearing and every stage of proceeding; if you cannot pay for the services of counsel, the Court shall appoint counsel for you; and said proceeding can result in permanent termination of parental rights. You are further advised that if an answer or appearance is not made by you at said hearing, thereafter, judgment upon proper hearing and trial may be taken against you for the relief demanded in the petition, i.e. permanent termination of parental, custodial, or guardianship rights. An original and copies of the petition has been filed in the office of the Circuit Clerk of Cabell County, West Virginia, at the Cabell County Courthouse, and a copy of said petition is available for each respondent at the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office upon request. You may also contact the Prosecuting Attorney’s Office to obtain the name of the attorney appointed to represent you.
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