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JEB Tales by John Ed Bartmess, Jr Opinions Page 3A April 28, 2021, Catahoula News Booster Open government requires open debate By: Leo Chappelle The best news from the Police Jury meeting this to quitclaim a tiny portion of land to the parish inquire in depth, nor to state a potentially past Monday, April 26, 2021, is that property tax just big enough to accommodate the culvert, or controversial opinion. millage rates won’t be going up. The Police Jury maybe grant a right-of-way. But no substantive When your elected representatives won’t adopted the rates sent over by Matt Taylor. The discussion of the alternatives in the issue took speak up, you, the voter and taxpayer, are not not so good news is that when it comes to taxes place until the too-short culvert had been getting your money’s worth. I believe our little and government services in Catahoula Parish approved and the meeting was over. The actual talk put it honestly and helpfully: The jurors there is no happy ending without economic meaningful discussion occurred with Police don’t want to be embarrassed. growth. Consequently, we still need more tax Jurors who lingered in the hallway only later Well, who does, right? But here’s the thing; revenue to provide for our own needs. after the meeting had adjourned. embarrassment is not fatal. Cowardice is, The other good, and not so good news, is that My question was, “Why are you talking about however. When it results in the failure to get to after the meeting the Police Jury met with a the issue now instead of in the public meeting all the facts needed to make the right decision, citizen who had addressed the Jury concerning and on the record?” During what diplomats in it’s fatal to good representative government. the need for a longer culvert. Bear with me the old “Cold War” days used to call a “frank Previously, public participation in Police here while I map this out. exchange of opinions” (that’s when you’re in Jury meetings met with almost active The problem was that the length of installed DEFCON 2 and the next step is nuclear war) discouragement. Under Harold Sones as culvert approved was going to be a net of 40’ with Harold Sones and Jeryl Evans after the Jury president that has not been the case. too short. The reason was that to put in more meeting we arrived at what I think is the However, the big problem still remains, culvert would require installation and work on root of the problem in Catahoula Parish those with the easiest access to the “bully private property. At the end of the meeting, government: Politicians are risk averse. When pulpit” of public address, the Police Jurors the short culvert was all that was approved to the Catahoula News Booster is recording themselves are simply not taking advantage the great dissatisfaction of the landowner. the proceedings live on Facebook, they are of what, in this case, is not merely their Now there may have been a simple legal fix afraid of being embarrassed in public. So, freedom, but their obligation: Free Speech. to this problem if the landowner were willing the inclination is not to ask questions, to They owe it to you. JEB Tales By John Ed Bartmess, Jr. Maybe Dad was Telling the Truth About a year ago, I was on my computer and when he was in school, he had gotten into In the Early 1950’s my grandfather, George googled “Oklahoma Land Rush” and it stated trouble for painting black stripes on the white Lorn Bartmess, came driving up in a 1936 Dodge there was more than one land rush, the last deer statue. I now know that there is a white panel truck. He had retired from the Packard being in 1893. Maybe Dad was telling the truth deer statue because I have seen it on my Motor Car Company where he had painted cars after all. computer. in Detroit, Michigan. He had worked there since The next story that dad told was that he knew Later I found out there really is a Biggs Horn World War II and wanted to move back to the Tom Horn. Well, first of all, I had never heard born in 1905 who was buried in the White south. of Tom Horn. However, the more I learned Deer Cemetery who had a brother named Tom The first thing Grandfather Bartmess made clear about Tom Horn the more I doubted Dad had Horn. Biggs Horn also had a son named Tom was that he was not to be called grandfather, ever known him. According to what you read Horn. grand paw, grand poppa, or any other grand. We Tom Horn worked for the Wyoming Cattleman’s Who knows, Maybe Dad was telling the truth. were to call him “Dad.” Association as a killer for hire or was falsely Dad saw an empty little shotgun house that my accused of a crime he did not do. Actually, the Editors Note: The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed father, “Big John”, had built for a sharecropper a first time I ever heard of Tom Horn was when by various authors do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and few years before. Dad asked, “Could it be moved Steve McQueen played him in the movie Tom viewpoints of the Catahoula News Booster or any employee thereof. to the banks of Sargent Lake where he could Horn. Later I learned that Tom Horn was an Army The Catahoula News Booster is not responsible for accuracy or com- rent boats and sell bait to fishermen?” scout who led the American troops into Mexico pleteness, and will not be liable for any errors, or omissions. All opin- Mr. Melvin Nugent, who operated a road grader that captured Geronimo, the most feared Indian ions are provided on an as-is basis and have not been edited in any for the Catahoula Parish Police Jury, agreed to leader in the nineteenth century. Later it was way. drag the little house to Sargent Lake. The little learned that Tom Horn had actually talked house must have been well built because it Geronimo into giving up and coming in. Tom made it to the lake in one piece. Horn was a cowboy, soldier, range detective, and My grandfather, now known as Dad, was born Pinkerton agent, in the 19th and 20th Century Catahoula News Booster in Sullivan County, Missouri on April 21, 1893. old west. The more I learned about Tom Horn The Catahoula News Booster is the Official Journal of the His father was Simon Peter Bartmess, and his the more I thought, “Just another of Dad’s tall Town of Jonesville, Village of Harrisonburg, Village of Sicily Is- mother was Julia Daily. George L. Bartmess tales.” married Elsie Maude Gayer in 1915. They were However, once I asked Dad, “Why in the world land, Catahoula Parish School Board, Catahoula Parish Police Jury, parents of at least three sons and two daughters. did you name your youngest son such a gosh and Tensas Basin Levee Board. POSTMASTER: Send form 3579 Dad was a great storyteller. One of the stories awful name as “Biggs?” Dad replied that was to Box 188, Jonesville, Louisiana, 71343. Periodical class postage he told us was that he was born in a covered before the Great Depression, he and his best wagon during the Oklahoma land run. However, friend, Biggs Horn, had bought a small ranch paid at Jonesville, Louisiana. Kim Cloessner, Publisher Identifica- when I took American History in the eighth near White Deer, Texas. I asked how big, and he tion Number is SECDUSPS556-720. Published every Wednesday. grade, we studied that the Oklahoma Land Run replied, “Just 1,000 acres,” and that was a small Subscription rates: By mail in Catahoula Parish-$25.00 annually, was in 1889. “Wait a minute,” I thought, “My ranch in that part of Texas. They lost the ranch grandfather was not born until 1893. However, during the Great Depression. elsewhere in Louisiana-$30.00 annually, out-of-state-$35.00 an- he was born in Missouri so maybe that part was I knew there was a White Deer, Texas because nually Catahoula News-Booster, 103 3rd Street, P.O. BOX 188, true.” my father, “Big John” Bartmess, told me that Jonesville, LA 71343. 318-339-7242.
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