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Governor issues disaster County Legal Notice Policy declaration for storm- It’s Like This Produces Confusion, Risk stricken counties By BOB PALMER By ED STERLING

An election judge during Tuesday’s Constitutional Amendment Known Only to God Election reported voters confused about where they should vote. One Feds set hemp rules couple went to at least three places trying to find a poll. No one should be surprised. MarionJefferson County JimplecuteCommissioners ordered It was 98 years ago when the first of four soldiers was laid to rest the notice announcing which polls would be open run in the Marshall Texas Agriculture Commissioner Sid Miller on October 29 announced in the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery. News Messenger rather than in the . the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s release of interim final rules for I have watched the changing of the guard at Arlington. You should We wonder what Harrison County residents thought when they the U.S. Domestic Hemp Program. if you ever get the chance. If you are not affected, you should have read a legal notice telling them where to vote in Marion County. The rules, part of the 2018 Farm Bill, serve as a framework for your pulse checked. Jimplecute You already know the Marion County Commissioners made this states like Texas that are planning to build an industrial hemp growing It is a sad comment on our world that American soldiers are still retaliatory reprisal against the for demanding documents program. With federal guidelines in place, the Texas Department of fighting and dying in places like Afghanistan and Syria. Fortunately, that the public is entitled to view and investigative reports about Agriculture can now submit a state hemp plan to USDA for approval, no GIs were lost in the raid that took out ISIS leader Abu Bakr al- the Sheriff’s Department based on the fallacious argument that an Miller said. The rules can be found online at usda.gov. Baghdadi, but few weeks slip by without an announcement of the e-Edition is not a publication. “This is the big leap forward we’ve all been waiting for,” said Miller. death of a serviceman or woman. Legal notices in the Marshall News Messenger is an expensive “I want to make it clear – it is still not yet legal to grow industrial hemp Thankfully, modern technology can identify virtually all of the proposition for both county government and residents. in Texas. But we are one step closer to allowing farmers to get this bodies, but that was not the case almost a century ago. exciting new crop in the ground.” A one-year subscription to the Marshall News Messenger, if a On Memorial Day, 1921, an Unknown was exhumed from each Marion County citizen wanted to read Marion County legal notices, HarveyMiller said disaster he expects continues to submit the Texas plan for an industrial hemp of four cemeteries in France. The remains were placed in identical coststo the approximatelyJimplecute $180 per year and can even cost up to $240 if program in 30 days or less. caskets and assembled at Chalon sur Marne. Army Sergeant Edward you only want to read the daily print edition. A full year subscription F. Younger, wounded in combat and highly decorated for valor, costs only $30 in Marion County. selected the unknown soldier for World War I by placing a spray of Gov. Greg Abbott on October 28 extended the disaster proclamation white roses on one of the caskets. Those remaining were interred in Responding to a Texas Public Information Act request, County he originally issued on August 23, 2017, for counties affected by the Meuse Argonne Cemetery, France. Auditor Shanna Solomon provided documents showing Marion Hurricane Harvey that brought loss of life and damages estimated at Countythe Jimplecute spent $1,429.34 in October for legal advertising in the more than $125 billion. On November 11, 1921, President Warren G. Harding officiated at Marshall News Messenger. The same notices would have cost $490 in the interment ceremonies. In the proclamation, the governor authorized the use of all available . That is a waste of almost $1,000. resources of state government and of political subdivisions that are The War to End All Wars, was not the last war for our country, Don R. Richards, an award-winning journalist, cum laude graduate reasonably necessary to cope with the disaster. however. of the Texas Tech law school and Associate of the Law Review, pointed Original counties named in the proclamation were: Aransas, Austin, Following World War II and Korea, President Dwight D. out to Marion County leaders that the Marshall News Messenger does Bee, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Colorado, DeWitt, Fayette, Fort Eisenhower signed a bill in 1958 to select and pay tribute to the not meet the requirements of Texas law for Marion County legal Bend, Galveston, Goliad, Gonzales, Harris, Jackson, Jefferson, Jim Wells, unknown soldiers of those two wars. The World War II Unknown thenotices. Jimplecute Karnes, Kleberg, Lavaca, Liberty, Live Oak, Matagorda, Nueces, Refugio, was selected from 19 remains exhumed from military cemeteries in theRichards Jimplecute who is board certified in Administrative Law represents San Patricio, Victoria, Waller, Wharton and Wilson. Hawaii, Europe and the Philippines. in the matter of Marion County’s failure to recognize Abbott later expanded the list to include the counties of: Angelina, Two Unknowns from World War II, one from the European Theatre as the county’s newspaper of record. Atascosa, Bastrop, Bexar, Brazos, Burleson, Caldwell, Cameron, Comal, and one from the Pacific Theatre, were placed in identical caskets Richards has issued a demand letter to Marion County asking Grimes, Guadalupe, Hardin, Jasper, Kerr, Lee, Leon, Madison, Milam, and taken aboard the U.S.S. Canberra, a guided missile cruiser commissioners toJefferson “meet theJimplecute express requirements of Texas Law.” Montgomery, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, resting off the Virginia capes. Hospital Man First Class William R. Update: “Vaping” cases The letter advises commissioners that the only way to follow the law Trinity, Tyler, Walker, Washington and Willacy. Charette, then the Navy’s only active duty Medal of Honor recipient, is to “select the for publication of the county’s selected the unknown Soldier of World War II. The remaining casket required legal notices.” received a burial at sea. Jimplecute’s The Texas Department of State Health Services on October 29 reported Marion County has continued to publish legal notices in the Marshall Four unknown Americans who had lost their lives in Korea were that 165 Texas cases of severe lung disease have been identified so far News Messenger after the Nov. 1 date Richards set in the disinterred from the National Cemetery of the Pacific in Hawaii. Jimplecute in people who report “vaping” before developing symptoms. demand letter. Further legal action will follow. Master sergeant Ned Lyle, U.S. Army, made the final selection. One case was reported to have resulted in death. State health officials The may not be the only ones requiring legal remedy for Caskets for both World War II and Korean War Unknowns arrived Jimplecute are gathering more information on about 13 other possible cases these misplaced notices. in Washington on May 28, 1958, where they lay in the Capitol to determine whether they are consistent with the symptoms and Rotunda until May 30. “I am stunned,” a caller to the said this week after being substance use seen in cases in Texas and 48 other states. told the county’s tax sale notices were being printed in Marshall. “Has That morning, they were carried on caissons to Arlington National Patients range in age from 13 to 75 years old, with a median age anyone sued the county to delay the sale because of improper notice?” Cemetery. President Eisenhower awarded each the Medal of Honor of 22 years. About one-quarter of the people affected in Texas are and the Unknowns were interred in the Plaza beside their comrade The caller described himself as a “long-term land buyer” at the minors. Three-quarters are male, and nine in 10 report vaping THC or of World War I. county’s tax sales. He plans to investigate further. marijuana,TEA reports possibly test resultsin conjunction with other substances. Almost all were hospitalized, with many requiring intensive care. Twenty six years later, on Memorial Day, May 28, 1984, President Marion County Commissioners should immediately recognize Ronald Reagan presided over the interment ceremony for the they have madeJimplecute a mistake that costs taxpayers money and places the Vietnam unknown service member. Like his predecessors, he was results of tax sales and other notices in jeopardy. The notices must be The Texas Education Agency on October 30 reported that Texas laid to rest in the plaza of the Tomb. Jimplecuterun in the to be legally binding. fourth graders taking the 2019 National Assessment of Educational It is quite possible that DNA testing could identify the Arlington Every notice printed in the Marshall News Messenger and not in the Progress in mathematics improved from two years ago, outpacing the remains, but these Unknowns still serveMore their from comrades PALMER, and on Page their 7 digs the hole county commissioners are in a little deeper. A national average. smart man would stop digging. However, for eighth-grade students, mathematics scores declined slightly, dropping below the national average for the first time since 2003. Furthermore, eighth-grade reading scores showed the largest decline, mirroring a large decline across the nation. JeffersonJimplecute NAEP is a random sample test of reading and mathematics in fourth and eighth grades, overseen by the U.S. Department of Education and conducted every two years in every state. 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