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EADE Write Letters of Their Opinions .... Send Your Letter to P. O. Box 480040, Linden Alabama 36748 will in Editor gas, tobacco, and alcohol sold in Dixonfs much more will it cost us just to live in The Democrat-Reporter Mill be taxed? Dixons Mills than it cost us now? Most communities the size of Dixons B. How much will it cost the people of The bottom line to all this is if the addi- Mills struggle to meet their financial obliga- Dixons Mills for salaries for the mayor, city tional cost to the citizens of Dixons Mills tions when they are incorporated. As citi- clerk, and 5 councilmen? will be worth the possible benefits we may zens of Dixons Mills we have the right to C. Why has the board not had a feasibili- or may not gain. We need to make our deci- have our questions answered before we sign ty study done to consider the income versus sions based on fact not just a pipe dream a petition or vote on mcorporation, cost to operate an incorporated Dixonis that can never be achieved Please consider Information is the only way to make an Mills? these questions and ask the incorporation informed decision concerning incorporation D. If incorporation fails the people who board for some real honest and solid facts to of Dixons Mills. signed the petition to incorporate may have base your decision on. Visions are wonder- There is no doubt that the cost of shop- to pay for the associated cost. What will the ful and visions are free but incorporation is ping and doing business in Dixonfs Mill will cost be for each person who signed the peti- not free so decide if the visions are worth increase if incorporated but by how much? don? the cost. A. How much will city imposed sales E. Ad valorem taxes can be imposed by taxes be in addition to what we are already the city and include additional taxes on Thank you. paying? homes, buildings, land, and possibly cars. Melvin Dixon and 1. In addition how much more will the trucks, four wheelers and so on. Just how Concerned Dixons Mill residents. ir: " Comments by the editor are opinions, reasons, or recommendations... Send your written and signed opinions to the Editor, P. O. Box 480040, Linden, Alabama 36748 History continues to repeat in politics. Elect a dummy once, elect another dummy a generation later. Take it from the church Sunday School class elec- tions to the the Cardinals electing the pope in Rome and from the Boy Scout Troop leaders to the White House occupant. As many local, state, and national political self- styled experts declare Sarah Palin can't win the presi- dency, they refuse to see what she accomplished in Texas and Wisconsin. She would be what Democrats call a real "community organizer." As hopeful as we can be, there is a chance she can wrest the Republican presidential nomination away from the ultra liberal Democrat Mitt Romney. Some folks fault Romney for being a religiousman who can have more than just one wife. Were he a Democrat, he could have some concubines like the tbrmer Arkansas governor had in addition to multiple wives. Folks get upset with this although it was God's cho- sen people who were living this life style from as long ago as five or six thousand years. It got changed when the homosexuals got control of the Catholic Church more than a thousand years ago. They skew Jesus' words to mean that a man could have only one wife period. Read the text and Jesus was talking about sending his disciples into all the world to preach the gospel, and the idea was for them to take only one wife with them on their journeys. Understand, taking five or six wives on a mission trip would give the impression that disciples of Christ were rich, which was not the ideal way to preach the gospel to poor people. It is just like we poor folks can't relate to Mitt Romney. Neither can he relate to us. Not only can Sarah Palin relate to us, she is one of us. We can relate to her and she will understand. The Morman has no idea how to budget for a pay- roll and income taxes much less a household. Most of the rest of America can't figure out income taxes either. ALABAMA POLICY INSTITUTE Coal fired Alabama on hit list By Gary Palmer and cated 23% of their 2011 after-tax income to holds. Cameron Smith energy costs. This is more than twice the Utility MACT would cost taxpayers an As if an economy struggling to recover national average Of l 1% of after-tax estimated $11 billion per year to enact an~ were not enough, Alabamians are truly income, enforce. The direct benefits of the rule art starung to feel the financial pinch of tnps to In a study released April 23, 2012, estimated by the EPA to range from the gas pump and higher monthly electric researchers with the American Legislative $500,000 to $6 million. In other words, the bills. The cost increases impact more than Exchange Council (ALEC) offer state-by- cost to taxpayers outweighs the benefitS by just travel and utility bills; they are built into state impacts of what they describe as the roughly 1,800 to one, even by the EPA's virtually every item made or transported in EPA's regulatory train wreck, most favorable estimates. the United States. From groceries to clothes, According to the study by ALEC, Despite the successes in environmental kitchen table discussions about budgets are Alabama is on the EPA's 10 "most wanted" quality improvement in the U.S. since the becoming more difficult for families across list. early 90s, the EPA has promulgated more Alabama. Alabama derives 41% of the state's dec- regulations in the first two years of the To make matters worse, the federal gov- tricity from coal, an energy source the Obama Administration than it did during ernment is adding to the mounting fiscal Obama Administration and the EPA the entire first term of the Clinton burden. Taxpayers face an army of federal despise. Through a variety of exceedingly Administratiou. bureaucrats tasked with regulatory develop- expensive and overreaching regulations, the Congress must act to gain coutrol of and ment and oversight - more than 270,000 of EPA has placed a specific target on states take responsibility for executive agencies them at the end of 2010. Each regulatory that rely on coal for affordable and reliable that are over-regulating America's economic employee enforces specific regulations pub- energy. With the failures of cap-and=trade engine, placing barriers between bnsinesses lished in the Federal Register. The Register and carbon taxes, the environmental lobby and success and, consequently, driving up has grown by more than 3.000% since has focused its efforts on eliminating coal- the cost of living in America. Otherwise, 1936• from 2.620 pages of regulations to generated electricity through EPA's regula- politicians may find themselves unable to more than 80~000 at the end of 2011. tory power, restart an engine they allowed to stall. The U.S Environmental Protection Through one rule alone - the Utility Gary Palmer is president and co.founder Agency (EPA) is one of the most aggressive Maximum Available Control Technology _ of the Alabama Policy Institute (API), an regulatory entities, developing layer upon (Utility MACT) Rule - the EPA would independent, non-profit research and edu- layer of rules that place economic burdens require retrofits for up to 753 coal=fired cation organization dedicated to the preser- not only on businesses but on anyone using electrical generation units and affect the ration of free markets, limited government energy - especially the 27 million lower- price and reliability ~of electricity for and strong families, which are indispens. income households in America who dedi- approximately 15 millibn American house- able to aprosperous society. i Send Letters to: Box 480040 Linden, Ala. 36748 ii We don'teven read the letters which are not signed; nor dowe read mass or electronically'produced letters. • I~ I Published every Thursda> at The Demccrat-Reporler at 108 b~'J,~l Coats Avenue, Linden. . Marengo County, Alabama 36748. Postma.~ter, please .,,,end changes of addre~;~s to: P. O. Box 480040. Linden, Alabama 36748 Telephone 334/2-95-5224 Linden Reporter established 1879. Marengo Democrat establishod 1889. Consolidated 191 I as The Democrat-Reporter. Periodicals postage paid at Demopolis, Alabaraa. Subscription prices include sales tax plus postage and handling. In Marengo, Clarke. Choctaw. Sumter. Greene. Hale. Pen-y, Dallas. and Wilcox Counties. annual subscriptions are $35.00. Outside these above noted counties in Alabama, $50.00 Outside Alabama $60.00. E litor-Phb lsher Goodloe Sutton i Office Manager Barbara Quinney Sports = " " " JimDeWitt Production Manager Henry Waiters Production AssistantAngela Compton June 1, 2012 of what really happened, while this tragic event is the worst I have To the Editor, I would like to state that Joel Ratcliff was ever seen, what happened afterwards it This letter is being sent in regards to the not demonstrating how to play the Russian probably the most inspirational thing my botched,article "Russian roulette ends in roulette to anyone. I assure you there were eyes have ever laid upon. I cannot tell you suicide' printed on the front page of the no games of any kind being played that how moved I was to watch his loving sister Democrat-Reporter dated Thursday, May night. Also. the .38 special revolver did not desperately attempting to breathe life into 31. 2012. I was witness to the tragedy, and belong to J.C. Etheridge. It was owned by him using the very air from her own lungs. my version of the story is one hundred per- me. And lastly, Joel did not place the Ifyou, Mister Editor, had seen this for your- cent accurate regardless of what you may weapon to his temple, and there was no exit self, then you would have printed an article have been told. Some way, and I don't wound. The loads in the pistol were light more in harmony with the feelings of family know how, portions of information in the target rounds and not designed to inflict and friends. Maybe you did not know the reports obviously became skewed. It is my severe damage. You would not have known facts, and if this is the case you should not responsibility as a citizen to correct any mis- the injury was a head wound unless upon have printed the story. takes the MSD, the coroner, or the newspa- close inspection. Sincerely, per might have made and report the version I would also like to make the remark that John R. Drinkard OLD TIMES BY THE LATE JOEL D. JONES ORIGINALLY PUBUSHED OCTOBER 15, 1936 The Court of County Commissioners met in Linden on defendant and required m answer the same; that the renewal of Monday, Jan. 3, 1902, to settle the question as to whether the courthouse be enjoined; and building of a new one upon Marengo should have a temple of justice. The full board was Section to be enjoined; that the contract for the new court- present. Two sets of contractors were present to bid on the house be delivered up and cancelled, and that the warrants building, each had his plans and specifications. Messrs. issued be delivered up and cancelled. Judge William Dobson & Hand's bid was ac epted at $30,. 50, and the Smith Cunningham and Mr. W. H. Tayloe fil.ed the biU l or_th _com- plan adopted. Warrants or bonds with interest were issued, plainants. In accordance with the prayer of the bill and the amounting to over $40,000 to cover the cost of the building, mandate of Judge Anderson, injunctions were issued to all The next act of the court was to take a vote on the location parties enjoining, all from building the courthouse on the pro- of the new building. Several lots were tendered by the board, posed location until further orders of Chancery Court. The but only two were considered. Judge Cunning, ham offered to injunction bond filed in the cause contained the names of 39 donate a lot on the comer of East and Center street, the lot to persons, and without any question was the best answer given contain 10 acres Mr. E. C. Coats offered the block between in any court of this county. East and Abott Streets and between Coats and Eight Avenues. The decree of Hun. Thomas H. Smith was filed in Chancery Messrs. Trigg and Miller voted for the Cunningham lot and Court April 15, 1902. The questions were argued before Messrs. Chapman and Walker for th e Coats lot. Proceedings Chancellor Smith at Livingston March 25th. The Chancellor were at once instituted to prevent the moving of the court rendered an opinion, in which he clearly demonstrated the fact house, as the constitution expressly declares this cannot be that the commisstoners had no authority to let the contract for done except on a vote of the people._ the removal of the courthouse from its then present site. He A bill of complaint was filed in Chancery Court by Thomas held that under the Constitution no courthouse or county site, D: Matkin and others vs. Marengo County and others on can be removed except by a majority of vote of the electors of Monday, February 10, 1902, as was also injuncted bond for the county. The Chancellor. therefore, overruled the $10,000.00 as fixed by Judge John Anderson. The bill alleged Commissioners court. that the General Assembly of Alabama in the year 1802 donat- After the decision of the court, that the Commissioners ed a certain tract of land known as the southeast qtiarter of could not build the courthouse on the lot in section 5, they section 32, Township 16. Range then purchased a lot on the 3 east, for a permanent seat of extreme Southern comer of the justice for Marengo County, the same being the ground the then courthouse was located. That the incorporated limits of the town did not include the land on which the new 'court house was proposed to be erected. old corporation and authorized the Contractor to build upon it, claiming that they were within the law if they built within the corporation limits. By this time, buildings began to go up in the new part of town, and the old town people The bill further alleged that began to move to the new town, the Commissioners Court held and the enjoiners began to real- its sessions behind closed ize that they had made a mis- doors and let the contract for a take by entering court proceed- building .at the price of ings that the county was very $30,750, on Section 5, much in need of a new court Township 15, Range 3 east, house, and the place for it was which removal would be con- in the central part of town Old trary to the law, which pro- town at that time was a very vides that "no courthouse or small town, with but little bust- county site shall be removed hess, but the few who were in except by a majority vote of business at that time, did not the qualified electors of the want to move their business. county." It further alleged that However, they realized that if there was no unappropriated the courthouse had been built money in the treasury of said on the same spot of the old one, county with which to defray that the curt house would .not the expense of building a hold the business of the old courthouse, and that no special town. tax has been levied as provided The late when we look around for the in the Constitution. Joel Desaker Jones men that took stock in this fight It further alleged that mere- over the removal of the court- bers of the board were financial- house, while it has been 34 years ly interested in lands lying near ago, we only find but few now the proposed location, and without their vote the removal of living, W. K. Chapman of Thomaston, he being one of the the courthouse would have lacked adoption. It also alleged Commissioners. judge John C. Anderson, the Judge who that bonds for the sum of $40,000 had been issued and deliv- granted the injunction and fLxed the amount of the bond, and ered to the contractor, itemized and sworn to as required by also W. H. Tayloe of Uniontown, one of the attorneys, and J. law, and no election had been held authorizing the issuance of M. Miller of Gadsden, attorney for the Commissioners are still the bonds, living. The bill prayed that Marengo County, corporation, the By this legation there was a lot of money spent by both Commissioners' court. Samuel P. Prowell, individual and as sides, and the expense of one side came out of the people's Probate Judge of said county and as judge the principal judge money. of said court, John S. Trigg, Julian K. Chapmanr Charles H. Making mistakes clearly demonstrates that we are still Miller and Charles D. Walker, each individually and as mem- alive, for dead people make no mistakes. bers of said court, and the contractors may be called as parties So long until next time. I I I 1 ! I I 1 ] 1