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GAINESVILLE - Cooke County Commissioners Court discussed during a special emergency meet-ing Wednesday, April 29, Open Texas orders issued by Governor Greg Abbott Monday, April 27. Commissioners approved a 50 percent occupancy limit for cer-tain county businesses including county government offi ces by May 18. Included are adjustments to some offi ces to ensure safety. “At least for the time being we are still going to be restricted by appointment only,” Cooke Coun-ty Judge Jason Brinkley said of the county courthouse offi ces. Abbott released three executive orders but “the main one that ap-plies to what’s pertinent today is GA-18. It’s an order to start the process to reopen Texas,” Brinkley said. “His current executive order expires on Th ursday (April 30) and so this order would take eff ect the following day which would be May 1. Th e main thing that order does is it allows businesses, not all businesses, but most businesses to

open at 25 percent of occupancy.” Brinkley also said the order al-lows rural counties who have fewer than fi ve active cases to open at an occupancy level of 50 percent. He added the counties must have a COVID-19 testing center and fol-low some other guidelines. Businesses which, for now, re-main closed, are “hair salons, nail salons, gyms, personal care busi-

nesses, bars and things of that nature,” he said, adding “barber-shops, cosmetology businesses still remain closed.” He added as much as local of-fi cials may want to modify these provisions, they do not have the ability to circumvent the gover-nor’s executive order. Precinct 4 Commissioner Leon Klement questioned why the order

allows movie theaters to open but doesn’t permit barbershops to op-erate. Brinkley said his understanding is the reasoning behind the order is that barbershops and hair salons require personal contact with pa-trons whereas movie theaters do not. “So you go to a movie theater,

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COOKE COUNTY - Cooke County Pandemic Information Page on Facebook released CO-VID-19 case counts for Friday, May 1, 2020. Offi cials noted the total active cases are at three. Six individuals have tested positive for the virus and have since re-covered. Of the 319 individuals who have

received testing for coronavirus, 287 have tested negative. Th ere are 23 pending results and zero fatali-ties so far in the county. Th e geographical breakdown for positives indicates four individuals in Gainesville have tested positive while fi ve individuals in unincor-porated areas of the county have tested positive. Th ree of the posi-tive results were for individuals who are between 20 and 29 years of age; one was between 30-39;

one was between 40 and 49 years old; one was between 50 and 59 and two were between 60 and 69 years of age. Offi cials also noted in recent posts that unincorporated towns and communities are those with fewer residents, no mayor and no city council. Th ese areas are governed by Cooke County rath-er than their own city govern-ments. May 1 signaled the fi rst phase

of opening Texas businesses which have been closed due to the threat of coronavirus. Th e Texas Depart-ment of State Health Services en-courages residents to read Gover-nor Greg Abbott’s Report to Open Texas. Th e link to the report is http://ow.ly/OWOV50zto3j. For more COVID-19 public health information including in-terviews with county and city offi -cials visit Cooke County Pandemic Information Page on Facebook.

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MUENSTER - County healthcare facilities including Muenster Me-morial Hospital continue to moni-tor and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. During a Wednesday, April 29 Muenster Hospital Dis-trict board meeting, Muenster Me-morial Hospital Chief Executive Offi cer Brian Roland noted the dis-

trict is hoping for a small business administration loan. “If this goes through and every-thing gets approved, everybody that has been furloughed will be unfur-loughed and brought back because the whole idea with the paycheck protection program is to keep all of your employees working,” Roland told the board. He said the plan covers the hos-pital payroll for two months. Th e

loan amount is $1.2 million. “And as long as we use 75 percent of that for payroll… you can use other funds for your utility bills, your mortgage,” he added. Th ere is a time limit for utilizing the funds, he said. “What we are going to do is, we put our plan in place with a pro-gram,” he said. “Anything we don’t think we’re going to spend for that


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75 percent, we will actu-ally leave in the bank because that’s what you have to even-tually pay back.” He said he does expect the district to use all the money set aside for payroll. Approval of the board was required, Roland said. Is everyone who was fur-loughed required to be brought back? board mem-ber Beverly Fuhrmann asked. Returning staff to work is based on the [full time equiv-alent] count, Roland said. “Technically, you do not have bring everybody back,” he said. “You have to look at the amount of monies you are spending and make sure you’re at that 75 percent. So there might be modifi cations that we do on the staffi ng that we bring back to make sure that, again, I don’t want eight people sitting around taking care of two patients… But we have to see what all of those numbers look like.” Roland noted there are “maybe seven employees who’ve been furloughed 100 percent.” Other furloughed employees have had their hours cut by only 20 percent. Deciding where to place staff members for optimal benefi t to the facility is key but “the idea is that we bring back as many as we can,” he said. He added he hopes the gov-ernor’s plan to reopen some local businesses including restaurants will make indi-viduals feel more comfort-able getting out in public and will help bring patients back to the district’s facilities in Muenster. Th e board voted unani-mously to approve a resolu-tion for the paycheck protec-tion program. Roland also reminded board members there is still

a rule in place prohibiting visitors from entering the hospital. He also noted the hospital is in the process of utilizing antibody testing. Th e hospital will use the fi rst set of available tests for its employees and is working with Cooke County offi cials to determine who should have the COVID19 test. Health care workers, fi re de-partment members and fi rst responders will take priority, Roland said. Additional an-tibody tests will be supplied for health care providers to test patients. He also said staff members keep close count on personal protective equipment. Th ey inventory masks, hand sanitizer, isolation gowns, disinfectant, and gloves, he said. “We are monitoring that on an ongoing basis,” Roland said. “At the same time, we are looking at all of the mon-ies that are potentially avail-

able to us.” COVID-related funds have included grants for PPE and training and funds allo-cated for rural health care. Hospital employees are also being temperature checked before they enter the facility, he said. Th e board also voted unan-imously to approve minutes of the February 2020 regular meeting and to approve the fi nancial packet for March 2020. Roland also said the dis-trict board did not have any physician credentialing to consider during the meeting. Th e board also unanimously approved monthly policy and procedures- pandemic response and water treatment plan. Th e next three dates are set for Muenster Hospital District meetings are May 27, 2020, June 24, 2020 and July 29, 2020.

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Livestream To ContinueGAINESVILLE - Cooke County Commissioners Court may soon resume its regular bimonthly meeting schedule accord-ing to Cooke County Judge Jason Brinkley. He also announced follow-ing an executive session at Monday’s commissioners court meeting, his plan is to once again open the meetings, beginning May 18, to the public with proper social distancing standards in place. A You-Tube livestream of com-missioners court meetings will also be available for now. He also noted following the executive session cer-tain county businesses are allowed to open at 50 per-cent occupancy unless the number of positive CO-VID-19 cases increases. If cases increase substan-tially, he said, the county will have to begin allowing

businesses to open at 25 percent capacity. “And then the Gover-nor’s Phase 2 and all that is conditioned upon testing results statewide,” he said. “So just because we are able to open at 50 percent at those establishments doesn’t mean that this isn’t still a very serious situation and everybody needs to be doing their part on social distancing and being sure to make responsible health care decisions as this thing progresses.” Th e commissioners took no action regarding the recall of EMS infusion pumps and on sending the pumps back to the manu-facturer for evaluation. EMS Director Kevin Grant said his agency was preparing to send its two-channel infusion pumps in for regular servicing and “they informed us that there was a Level 1 recall

from the FDA on our infu-sion pumps.” He said the infusion pump is required to dis-perse certain critical medi-cations in specifi c dosages to patients. “Typically, we have to be within fi ve per-cent of the dose we are giv-ing,” he said. “With the pump we have, it’s 13 per-cent. So, for critical medi-cation, it’s too high.” “We probably use the infusion pump probably two or three times a week,” Grant said, adding EMS is able in some cases to use hospital pumps which it then returns to the hospi-tal. EMS has ten of the pumps, Grant said, add-ing he believes there are “almost 21,000 recalled [pumps] across the coun-try.” Th e pumps cost approxi-mately $7,800 per device and the county is eligible to receive some compensation

for each recalled pump, he said. He added notifi cation about the pumps did not arrive until Th ursday, April 30 and so far, the county doesn’t have replacements for the infusion pumps which are commonly used by EMS and fl ight services across the nation. He said the pumps will have to replaced. He said EMS has adjusted its pro-tocol under a consultation of Dr. Doug Lewis and there are some medications that will not be given. Th e commissioners also approved a supplemental agenda item to accept ap-proximately $47,697 from the CARES Act Provider Relief Fund. Money de-rived from the stimulus package must be used only for COVID-19 related ex-penses, County Auditor Shelly Atteberry said. Th e court took no ac-tion on the county annex remodel project and on the status and future needs of the commissioners court room. Th e commissioners discussed acquiring carpet squares with appropriate backing for the public seat-ing area in the courtroom. Human Resource Di-rector Elizabeth Huchton noted approximately 70 percent of county employ-ees have completed cyber security training. “Everybody in each [county] department has worked on it some if not completed it,” she said. Deadline for completion of the training is June 14, she added. Th e commissioners took no action on the cyber se-curity agenda item. Com-missioners also took no action on the new CPS court but Brinkley said the building is undergoing


Billie Williams

Services A graveside service for Billie Jean (Monroe) Wil-liams, 93, of Gainesville, is scheduled for 10:00 AM on Wednesday, May 6, 2020 at Fairview Cemetery with David Gray offi ciat-ing. Mrs. Williams will lie in repose from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Tuesday, May 5 at Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home. Mrs. Williams passed away May 1, 2020 in Gainesville.History Billie was born July 26, 1926 in Gainesville to Oran E. and Mary Ann (Lang) Monroe. She moved to Denton at an early age and graduated from Den-ton High School. She continued her education at Texas Women’s Univer-sity where she received a

Bachelor’s Degree in Home Economics. On June 1, 1948, she married Charles H. “Chuck” Williams in Denton. Mrs. Williams enjoyed painting china for her family, judging fl ower shows, and playing Bridge and Dominoes with various groups. She was a mem-ber of the Garden Club, Daughters of the Ameri-can Revolution, Daughters of the Texas Revolution, Stanford House, and was a charter member of Hillcrest Church of Christ, where she was an Elder’s wife.Survivors Survivors include: daugh-ter Janet Williams of Lake-wood, CO; son Craig Williams and wife Pam of Sunray, TX; daughter Linda Huff and husband Nathan of Abilene, TX; grandchil-dren: Nikki Wallace, Susan Wilson, Amy Scroggin, Lindsey Moreno, and JT Huff ; fi fteen great-grand-children; and many other beloved family and friends. Mrs. Williams was pre-ceded in death by: par-ents Oran and Mary Ann Monroe; husband Chuck Williams; brother Don Monroe; and brother John Monroe. Serving as honorary pall-bearers are: Larry Beck, Jer-ry Wiggington, Bob Scott,

Jack Bills, Alan Hill, and Chris Hundt.Donations Memorial contributions may be made to: Hillcrest Church of Christ and Home Hospice of Cooke County. You may sign the online register at www.geojcarroll.com.

Billie Marie McCoy

Services Graveside service for Bil-lie Marie McCoy, 93, of Gainesville, are set for 11:00 AM Th ursday, May 7, 2020 at the Fairview Cemetery in Gainesville with the Rev. Mark Loewen offi ciating. No visitation will be held.History Billie was born on Febru-ary 5, 1927 in Gainesville to Price Dietz and Gladys (McCollum) Dietz. She passed away on May 3, 2020 in Gainesville. Billie was a member of the First Christian Church, Eastern Star, VFW Auxil-lary, and the Reading La-dies Book Club.Survivors She is survived by her son H.P. McCoy and wife Joann of Mansfi eld; granddaugh-

ter Meredith Cronenwett of San Diego, CA; grandson Nick McCoy of Danville , VA; and great-grandchil-dren Miles McCavitt and Conner Cronenwett. Billie was preceded in death by her parents; hus-band Harry McCoy; and daughter-in-law Tanya Mc-Coy.Donations Memorial contribu-tions may be made to the First Christian Church of Gainesville or Muenster Health & Rehabilitation. You may sign the online registry at www.geojcarroll.com.

Angeline “Angie” (Knabe) Lutkenhaus

Services Angeline “Angie” (Knabe) Lutkenhaus, age 96, of Muenster passed away on Friday, April 24, 2020 in Gainesville, Tx. A private service was held on Monday, April 27, 2020 at 11:00 AM with Rev. Joseph Keating offi ciating. Th e ser-vice was under the direction of Scott Funeral Home in Muenster.History Angie was a twin to the late Adeline (Knabe) De-vers and was born on Sep-tember 20, 1923 to the late Albert and Anna (Stoff els) Knabe. She was one of 22 children all born at the home in Muenster. She was raised on a farm northwest of muenster where she worked hard in helping care for her young-er siblings as normal chores while attending to her nor-mal chores of milking cows, chopping and picking cot-ton, and topping corn for feed. Angie attended Sacred Heart School and later worked at Camp Howze in 1943 during the war. Th ere, she met and married Roy Schumacher. Together they had two daughters: Diane and Ruby. When Angie and Roy’s marriage ended, she attended beauty school in Wichita Falls, TX. And re-ceived her degree in Octo-ber 1946. Angie fi rst worked in Hereford, Tx. until mov-ing back to Muenster. She worked in Mrs. Tony Gremminger’s Beauty Shop until September 13, 1954 when she worked in Mabel Colliers Coaksey’s Beauty Shop in Saint Jo, Tx. She later brought her salon busi-ness back to her hometown and opened Angie’s Beauty Shop in a rented building from John Fisher. Angie married Arthur

B. “Bobby” Lutkenhaus in 1958. Angie and Bobby had six children together and eight children in all. Angie and Bobby lived the early part of their marriage on the Lutkenhaus family farm until moving to town where they purchased a home on Main Street in Muenster, moving her beauty salon to that locations as well as in a garage which Bobby had remodeled. Angie worked hard caring for and rais-ing their children while she worked long hours in the salon 5 ½ days a week un-til her late seventies to early eighties due to health and age to work part time. An-gie worked approximately 73 years as a hairdresser before retiring due to her declining health. Angie will always be re-membered for her compas-sionate spirit and for giving heart to all who were blessed to have known her. Th ose who knew Angie were truly blessed by her humbleness, giving heart, and radiant smile. She would help any-one even if it meant doing without herself. She was an amazing woman who loved her family. Over the years, Angie cooked many Sunday dinners and Holiday meals for her children, grandchil-dren, and their friends to gather together for dinner and fellowship. Angie was an amazing cook and wonderful seam-stress who made many quilts as gifts for her chil-dren and grandchildren every Christmas that were made with unique designs and stitched with love. Angie loved her fam-ily and always had some-thing she baked, ice cream, and many other snacks for her children and later her grandchildren who would often walk over to her house after school. Th ey all hold those times with their mother and grandmother as special memories in their hearts that will be forever treasure. As Angie’s health began to decline, she moved in with her daughter Janel for a few years until she later moved to River Valley, stay-ing there until her passing.Survivors Angie is survived by son: Robert “Bobby” and wife Linda Lutkenhaus, Jan and wife Clara Lutkenhaus, Troy and Tina Lutken-haus, Donny Lutkenhaus, and Duane Lutkenhaus all of Muenster; daughter: Janel Harding of Aubrey, Tx.; sister: Sister Anselma Knabe of Fort Worth, TX.; 30 grandchildren; 29 great grandchildren; 12 great great grandchildren; sons-in-law: Robert “Bob” peek

of Duncan, Sc. and Lee Russell of Oklahoma City, Ok.; and brother-in-law: Frank Cardwell. Angie is preceded in death by parents: Albert and Anna Knabe; hus-band: Arthur “Bobby” Lutkenhaus; daughters: Diane Peek and Ruby Wimmer Russell; grand-children: Melissa Koel-zer, Shawna Wimmer, Tina Marshall, and Da-kota Lutkenhaus; great grandson: Clint Sicking; brothers: Albert, Gilbert, Adolph, Leonard, and Ar-nold Knabe; and sisters: Lorin Morrison, Adeline Devers, Lillian Cardwell, and Margaret Schmitt. Due to the COVID-19 restrictions, Angie’s beauti-ful life will be celebrated at a memorial service at a later date. Th e family wishes to thank everyone for your prayers and care during An-gie’s passing.Donations Memorials in Angie’s name can be made to the American Cancer Society in honor of her daughters and granddaughters.

Fay Freeman

Services Fay Freeman, 91, passed away on April 28, 2020 in Denton, Texas. Th ere will be visitation at Meador Fu-neral Home Chapel, 1204 E. California Street, Gaines-ville, Texas on Th ursday, April 30, 2020 from 6:00-8:00 pm. Graveside service will be on Friday, May 1, 2020 at 2:00 pm, at Nelson Grove Cemetery, Wood-bine, Texas.History Fay was born on Sep-tember 13, 1928 in Burns City, Texas to Th omas King and Lucy (Kays) King. She married Rollie Wilhoit in 1945 who preceded her in death. Fay also married Mack Freeman, also pre-ceding her in death. Fay was a Charter mem-ber of the Woodbine Church, Woodbine, Texas. She worked as an Assembler at Weber Aircraft.Survivors Fay is survived by son; Bob Wilhoit and wife, Ju-die of Krum, Texas, daugh-ters; Dena Cromer and husband, John of Denton, Texas and Debbie Hanks and husband Jack of Krum, Texas. She is also survived by 7 grandchildren and great grandchildren. She was preceded in death by husbands, a daughter: Sandra Williams, step son; Wayne Wilhoit and 8 sib-lings.


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As you probably already knew, the next six months of 2020 presidential campaigning are going to be ugly. I do not say this happily, but I do so based upon a lifetime of watching candidates run

for election and reelec-tion. Almost invariably, politicians return to what worked successfully in previous campaigns. Consider the most re-cent presidential election of 2016. When exit polls across the nation asked actual voters whether their opinion of the two candidates was favorable or unfavorable, their an-swers were Donald Trump 38% favorable and 60% unfavorable, and Hillary Clinton 43% favorable and 55% unfavorable. In the same survey, just 36% of voters found Clinton to be “honest and trustworthy,” while 61% did not. For Trump, the numbers were even worse:

33% saw him as “hon-est and trustworthy,” and 64% did not. It is fair to conclude that with numbers as bad as the ones real live voters gave the 2016 Republican nominee, the only reason Trump won an electoral college victory and the White House was because he was running against Clinton. Th e cold, hard truth is that if Trump had been running unopposed in 2016, he would have lost decisively. Now comes further na-tions evidence of Trump’s increasingly challeng-ing situation in 2020. A sweeping survey of more than 22,000 vot-ers in all 50 states, done

by researchers at Rutgers, Northeastern and Har-vard, found that every single governor won a higher rating than Trump on handling the coronavi-rus. Th is is not a partisan divide. Th e four governors who get the highest ap-proval numbers on han-dling the pandemic are three Republicans a lone Democrat: Ohio Repub-lican Gov. Mike Dewine (83% approval), Mas-sachusetts Republican Gov. Charlie Baker (80% approval), Maryland Re-publican Gov. Larry Ho-gan (80% approval) and, the only Democrat to get similarly high marks, Kentucky’s Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear (81%

approval), whose numbers in his deeply red state are 30% higher than Ken-tuckians give Trump. Nationally, voters give their governors an average approval rating of 66% on their response to the pan-demic, while these same voters give Trump just a 44% approval rating on his handling of the coro-navirus. As of this day, it is clear that Trump, when faced with the biggest cri-sis of his presidency, has, in the eyes of most voters, failed to lead, to unite or to comfort the country nearly as well as the na-tion’s governors have done and are doing. Donald Trump, even his staunch supporters will

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As of April 30, the corona-virus pandemic has killed 61,500 Americans in two months and induced the worst economic collapse since the Great Depression. And if history is our guide, the economic crisis, which has produced 30 million unemployed Amer-icans in six weeks, may prove more enduring, ru-inous and historic than the still-rising and tragic death

toll. Th e Spanish fl u of 1918-1919, the deadliest pan-demic in modern history, infected an estimated 500 million people worldwide, a third of the planet’s popula-tion, and killed an estimat-ed 20 million to 50 million victims, including 675,000 Americans. “Adjusting for the dif-ference in the size of the American population then and now,” writes Chronicles columnist Roger McGrath, “that number will be equiv-alent to two million deaths today.” Yet, the Spanish fl u did not shut America down. As the Spanish fl u hit and spread in 1918, the U.S. raised, trained and equipped an army of 4 mil-lion men, sent 2 million soldiers to France, broke Gen. Erich Ludendorff ’s army, and turned the tide in favor of the Allies.

By December 1918, Doughboys were arriving in New York harbor -- having sailed home from Europe’s battlefi elds on fl u-infested transports. As the scourge continued to take its toll, Woodrow Wilson sailed to Europe, participated for months in the Paris Peace Conference, returned, went on a nation-al train tour to sell his Paris treaty and League of Na-tions, and suff ered a stroke. In September 1919, Gen. Pershing led his victorious troops in victory parades in New York City and Wash-ington. Th is writer’s father, a teenager then, was in the D.C. crowd. In the history books of the 1950s, World War I, Wilson and the Senate battle over the treaty he brought home and U.S. membership in the League of Nations loomed far larg-er than the Spanish fl u that

had killed as many U.S. sol-diers as the Kaiser’s armies. But the Great Depres-sion, to which our current crash is now being com-pared, did not last for just a year like the Spanish fl u. Th e Depression lasted from the stock market crash in October 1929 to the eve of World War II. Economically, it was dev-astating. Unemployment during the 1930s never fell below 14%. In 1937, it was back up to 17%. At the bottom of the De-pression, the stock market had lost 90% of its value, and the GDP had fallen 50%. Not until the end of FDR’s second term, in 1940, when the U.S. began to gear up for the war, did America really begin to pull out of it. FDR’s New Deal, howev-er, while it did not cure the Depression, was a historic political triumph for both

the president and his party. From 1930 through 1946, Democrats con-trolled both houses of the Congress every year, elected and reelected FDR four times and gave him a 46-state landslide in 1936, losing only Maine and Ver-mont. What this suggests is that the economic devastation we have brought upon our-selves to battle the pandem-ic may prove more lasting and historic in its impact than the terrible losses of human life to COVID-19. Politically, the Depression worked for the Democratic Party like no other event in history. After the Crash of 1929 under Herbert Hoover, the GOP held the House and Senate for only four of the next 50 years. From 1932 to 1968, the GOP lost the presidency in seven of nine elections. Only Dwight Eisenhower’s two terms in the 1950s in-terrupted a 36-year reign of the Democratic Party in the White House. Richard Nixon broke the Democratic dominance and took back the White House for the Republicans in 1968. But it would still take another dozen years before the GOP won con-trol of either house of Con-gress. President Trump predicts a V-shaped recovery, the greatest boom in U.S. his-tory. But it is well to recall what happened to the GOP when it failed to deliver in the last Depression.

Just as the Civil War was the defi ning event of the 19th century, giving us 13 Republican presidents from Lincoln to Hoover and only two Democrats -- Grover Cleveland and Wilson -- how and when we emerge from this new Depression may tell us which party not only wins 2020 but also dominates the new era. And as one sees the grow-ing divisions along political lines, with conservatives and populists calling for the country to be opened up, and liberals and Democrats calling for continued shel-tering in place, both seem to realize the stakes. Democrats may proclaim that they are eager to see the pandemic come to a swift and early end and the economy to return quickly to the robust state it was in last February. But the cold political in-terests of the Democratic Party today are what they were in Hoover’s time, to pray that the president fails, and fails badly, so that they inherit the estate. Patrick J. Buchanan is the author of “Nixon’s White House Wars: Th e Battles Th at Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever.” To fi nd out more about Patrick Bu-chanan and read features by other Creators writers and cartoonists, visit the Cre-ators website at www.cre-ators.com.

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Editor’s note – Letters to the Editor refl ect only the opinion of the author and not that of Th e Weekly News of Cooke County. Facts contained in Letters to the Editor are claims of the author only. Th e (...) denotes areas that have been edited.

To the Editor,

On April 23,2020 I had a procedure known as TURP, at the Baylor Scott White Hospital. Th e state-ment I am writing about is the excellent treatment I received there. I want to rave about the excellent treatment/ care I received from an excel-lent bunch of people at the Baylor Scott White Hospi-tal in Sherman Tx. From the moment I was escorted into the admittance offi ce to the prep room to the surgery room then to the recovery room and last the hotel room as I call them. For someone dreading this procedure, the journey was the best experience, I have ever received in any hospi-tal. At each of these loca-tions the well-trained staff along with my surgeon were so involved with my

well-being, and explaining the next step in this proce-dure. Th ey give you such a great felling of knowing they know what they are trained to do. Even the most unlikeable person in the room (I my mind) the anesthesiologist relived my anxiety, what a great guy. Even with everyone wear-ing a surgical mask you couldn’t help but notice they were smiling, and their voices were so reas-suring. It was like I was the only patient there; I wasn’t. Now is the time where you either like the hospi-tal stay are not. When I got to my room, I hadn’t had anything to eat for about eighteen hours. I asked my nurse Connie if I could have something to eat. What she did was give me a menu and then dialed the kitchen for me, was I surprised to fi nd out was technically the kitchen was closed till the evening meal but I could order anything on the menu and they would bring it to me in a few minutes. Never have I enjoyed such a great meal in a hospital and the ones that followed. Even my night nurse would give me ice cream and pudding talk about the royalty treat-ment, I got it. If it sounds like I am bragging on the admin-istration, staff and physi-

cians of the Baylor Scott White Hospital, I am. An-other tad-bit for your info B.S.W.H has the highest CMS rating of any hospital within a one-hundred-mile radius.

Ken ArterburyWhitesboro

To the Editor,

Th is letter is also in re-sponse to the letter to the editor printed on April 22. Th e letter was not meant to question our intelligence but to say we were ignorant in some areas, one example science. “Ignorant: lacking of knowledge, unawareness” “Stupid: Lacking normal intelligence, foolish, irra-tional” Example: If I had heart problems, I would seek out an expert such as a heart doctor and not a plumber. A plumber is an expert in plumbing not a heart ex-pert. Th at does not mean the plumber is not intel-ligent: he is just ignorant about treating the heart. On the other hand I would not seek out a heart doctor to fi x my plumbing. Do we need to listen to our scientists? Yes, we do! When this Coronavirus

fi rst came into light, our President said it was a hoax and would be gone soon, not to worry. Again his words not mine. He fi red the experts. When your house is burning you do not go set fi re to the fi re station. Some defend ev-erything he says and does. Just because he is a Repub-lican does make him all knowing. No one on the earth knows everything. Except the weird of OZ and that was a hoax. Why is our President in such denial about such things as spread of pan-demic disease, global warming, etc.? In years to come there will be more bottles in the ocean than fi sh. If we are not doing this, who is? We as Americans need to wake up and smell the coff ee. Become a caring nation about our environ-ment, loved ones, and gen-erations to come. Th is has nothing to do with poli-tics, being a Democrat or Republican. It is about not being ignorant about what is happening around us. It is beyond me why we re-fuse to listen to the experts when the proof in the pud-ding.

Sincerely,

Lafaun BrockGainesville

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COOKE COUNTY – Th e following cases were fi led and decided in the 235th District Court.

Cases Filed Cooke County et al, vs. Darrel Keith Edington, tax cases. Cooke County et al vs. Bob Flook, tax cases. Cooke County el al vs.

Jessica Irene Espinoza, tax cases. Shane Bishop vs. Os-car Alberto, injury/dam-age professional mal-practice. Jesse Gonzales vs. Kim-berly Kay Gonzales, di-vorce. Elizabeth Gerilla-Cle-ments vs. Matthew Caleb Clements, divorce.

Cases Decided Cristal Alise Sanders vs. Bradley Don Sanders, agreed judgments, di-vorce. Lisa Garcia vs. Isaias Garcia, agreed judgments, divorce. Lorie Sapergia vs. Ver-non Sapergia, agreed judg-ments, divorce.

235th District Court Cases Filed, Decided

Cooke County Sheriff

Logs Incident ReportsCOOKE COUNTY - Th e following incidents were reported to the Cooke County Sheriff ’s Offi ce. Cresah Marie Montgom-ery reported criminal mis-chief less than $30,000in the 2000 block of County Road 113. Ricky Lee Taylor report-ed burglary of a habita-tion in the 1700 block of County Road 123. Prohibited substance/item in a correctional/civil facility was reported in the 400 block of northbound I-35. Possession of a con-trolled substance less than

1 gram was reported in the 600 block of North Deni-son Street in Gainesville. Possession of a con-trolled substance less than 4 grams was reported at County Road 106 and County Road 101. Jaimie Sue Ellen Miller reported theft of a fi rearm in the 7000 block of FM 1198. Callisburg High School offi cials reported engaging in organized criminal ac-tivity in the 300 block of Dozier Street in Callisburg. Carl Wayne White re-ported fraudulent use/pos-session of credit or debit

card in the 2000 block of County Road 107. Mildred Moss Norris reported theft of property less than $750 on Dear-born Street in Road Run-ner. Marsha Ann Campbell reported burglary of a building in the 3000 block of County Road 155. Possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram was reported in the 2000 block of East Highway 82. Arrest Log Tommy Joe Th ompson Jr., 51, possession of a con-trolled substance less than

4 grams, driving while in-toxicated. Jackie Paul Powers, 42, failure to appear-dangerous drugs, failure to appear-possession of a controlled substance less than 200 grams, tamper/fabricate evidence, possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram. Norma Leticia Castillo, 39, no driver license. Chance Ray Sanchez, 22, driving while intoxicat-ed, possession of marijuana less than 2 ounces, tam-pering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to im-pair.

COOKE COUNTY – Starting Friday, May 1, 2020, the Cooke County Library will be extending its curbside pick-up ser-vice to fi ve days a week from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Th e Library has been off ering curbside pick-up only on Tuesdays and Th ursdays. By extending this service patrons will be able to reserve and pick up materials three more days a week. Patrons can re-serve materials by calling the library or by signing into their library card ac-count online and reserving materials there. Th e Library will also be off ering remote printing, copies and faxing services. From outside the library, patrons will be able to ac-cess the Library’s printer by using their phones. Pa-trons must connect to the Library’s Wi-Fi network from their phone and then should be able to print di-rectly to the inside copier. Copying and faxing ser-vices will be available by using specifi c procedures that follow the current so-cial distancing guidelines. Please call the library to inquire about this process. To help contain the spread of the Coronavirus or COVID-19 within our

community, the Cooke County Library will re-main closed to the public. However, we continue to off er many digital services and virtual programming.

Staff members continue to provide assistance by phone and email. For updated in-formation and the virtual program calendar, click on the library website: cooke-

countylibrary.org. If you have any questions regarding the new services or any other issue, please contact the Cooke County Library at 940-668-5530.

County Library to Extend and Off er More Services

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work including sheet rock installation. Th e commissioners unanimously approved a resolution for submission of a grant application for the Coronavirus Emer-gency Supplement Fund-ing Program and took no action on the $447,954

County Transporta-tion Infrastructure Fund Grant. Commissioners ap-proved the following con-sent agenda. Minutes from the April 27 and April 29 meetings. Fiscal Year 2020 budget amendments. Payment of monthly bills.

Agreement with Otis El-evator Company for annu-al inspection of courthouse elevator. Indigent cremation of one individual. Contract between the Cooke County Library and Record Books, LIC for its RBdigital Unlimited Com-ics Collection. EMS applying for AFG

grant for personal protec-tive equipment. All members were pres-ent for Monday’s meet-ing. Th e following commis-sioners court meeting dates are scheduled May 11, May 18 and May 26. Meetings will likely be held twice monthly begin-ning in June.

SAINT JO – Th e Saint Jo Riding Club traditionally awards scholarships to se-lected area graduating se-niors who are planning to pursue agricultural or other related degrees. With 32 applications received, the selection committee had a tough job narrowing it down to just fi ve recipients.

In the end, the club voted to add one extra scholarship for a Saint Jo Graduate to bring the total to six recipients. Th e Riding Club is proud to announce the following winners: Th ree Scholarships for $750.00 each to Saint Jo ISD graduating seniors: Hunter Garrett, Kymber

Faith Pitman, and Rachael Vogel. Two Scholarships for $500.00 each to graduates from other area schools: Cooper Craig Harris and Alyson Todd. One Scholarship for $500.00 to an active SJRC member or family member: Logan Morman.

Saint Jo Riding Club Awards Scholarships



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and I think it’s great they opened the movie theaters, I’m not against that but you go to a barbershop that’s fol-lowing on the strict guide-lines that’s keeping the place clean and letting one per-son in at time and a movie theater, I’ve never seen one cleaned out between movies. I just fi nd that interesting,” Klement said. Brinkley noted businesses which remain closed dur-ing the COVID-19 pan-demic include bars, gyms, swimming pools, interactive amusement venues such as bowling alleys and arcades, massage establishments, tat-too studios and cosmetology venues. Klement said he’d encour-age individuals to appeal to the governor’s offi ce to encourage the opening of barbershops and hair salons noting most of these venues are small businesses, owned by local people who main-tain high standards of clean-liness. Klement said he’s been in contact with some salon owners who sent him infor-

mation which he forwarded to Abbott’s offi ce.` He said, as a rule, these businesses are clean and well-maintained and owners would allow only one person in at a time for services and would require face masks for protection. “I don’t know…. that just gives me a little burr under my saddle,” he said. “You know mom and pop shops try to make a liv-ing and we’re going to open a movie theater.” Klement also said he un-derstands businesses such as grocery and ranch supply stores serve a public need but cannot understand why smaller venues which also provide essential services must remain closed. Brinkley said he’s reached out to Abbott’s offi ce and has also been in contact with Rep. Drew Springer about the possibilities of safe ways to reopen additional busi-nesses in the county. He also noted May 18 is the date, according to Abbott, for a potential Phase 2 for open-ing Texas businesses includ-ing salons and barber shops. Another concern is resi-dents with much higher

COVID-19 positive cases who travel to Cooke Coun-ty to do business, Precinct 3 Commissioner John Kl-ement said. Along with his news con-ference, Abbott issued a comprehensive report for the reopening of businesses, Brinkley said. “It does out-line various precautions our businesses need to be taking as well as individuals what precautions they need to be taking… I know it’s impor-tant that we note this isn’t the end of the story as far as this virus is concerned. We’re still going to be deal-ing with it for the foresee-able future,” he said. He reminded residents the governor’s latest ad-dress is linked on the Cooke County homepage. He also said unless things change within the next 24 hours it looks as if the coun-ty will meet the criteria for businesses to open with 50 percent capacity. “I would advocate for the 50 percent but I would like to get ev-eryone’s else’s thoughts.” Leon Klement said he wants to make sure no one believes he is trying to

minimize the danger of CO-VID-19 but “Life has to go on also and so does business and we can’t keep people penned up forever, and the more you do, the more stressed out everyone gets. I think since we can go to the 50 percent we surely need to.” He asked what will hap-pen if the county contin-ues its practices and then has “an explosion of cases.” Th en what?, he said. “I don’t think we will but I’m just playing the what if.” Brinkley said things will change if the county posts an infection rate greater than 12 percent adding the other trigger is three positives per 1,000 residents. He pointed out the county has approxi-mately 40,000 residents. To change the standards, the county would have to have 120 active cases, he said. Brinkley also said the county’s hospitals haven’t reached capacity and offi -cials he reached out to did not receive any negative feedback for using the 50 percent capacity principle for reopening unless there are more cases identifi ed in the next 24 hours. “If something happens, we’ll do our best to make that known to everybody,” Brinkley said, adding resi-dents must continue to practice social distancing and safe hygiene practices. Th e commissioners also voted following an execu-tive session to implement $13,500 in security devices for county offi ces. Leon Klement noted the devices are glass shields to protect county workers and the public. “It’s a good health and safety item to include in our business offi ces where we in-teract with the public,” Leon Klement said. “You see them in all the doctor’s offi ces and everywhere.” Brinkley noted the secu-rity implements will be per-manent. Precinct 1 Commissioner Gary Hollowell said the devices will be framed with wood and will include open-ings to allow individuals to conduct their business with offi cials through an opening in the glass. “Th ey will be an attractive safety addition for the pub-lic and for the workers of the courthouse,” Leon Klement said.

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GAINESVILLE – Gaines-ville Police Department received the following inci-dent reports. Pamela l. Perez reported criminal mischief in the 500 block of North Chestnut Street. An incident of deadly conduct discharge weapon as reported in the 500 block of North Commerce Street. Melissa S. Barthold re-ported theft of property in the 800 block of East Cali-fornia Street.

Tractor Supply Company TSC reported theft of prop-erty, criminal mischief in the 1700 block of Grand Avenue. Evading arrest was re-ported 1000 block of North Taylor Street. Joshiekah T. Jeff erson re-ported criminal mischief less than $750 in the 400 block of Preston Street. Jennifer N. Ivie reported theft in the 1200 block of South Grand Avenue. Dorothy M Hubbard re-

ported unauthorized use of a vehicle in the 500 block of North Clements Street. Maria D. Morales report-ed burglary of a habitation in the 500 block of Ritchey Street.

Arrest Log Fernandez M. Downey, 25, possession of a con-trolled substance less than 1 gram. Tabatha A. Barron, 34, possession of a controlled substance less than 1 gram.

Gainesville PoliceReceive Reports

Marriage License Requests ReceivedCOOKE COUNTY – Th e following applications for marriage were received by the Cooke County Clerk’s Offi ce. Anthony James Th omp-son, 25, Denton and Cassie Marie Greenwald, 24, Den-ton. Matthew Allen Kammer-er, 49, Nocona and Cecilia Ronquillo Bag-Ao, 33, No-cona. Jonathan Cody Stiltner, 33, Fort Worth and Brandi Marie Kendrick, 34, Fort Worth. Ivan Clark Camp, 55, Little Elm and Sarah Ann Dorsey, 50, Dallas. Randy Joe Bales, 61, Denton and Susan Elaine

Richroath, 59, Denton. Erin Wayne Gregory, 29, Denton and Kyra Michelle Pizana, 28, Denton. Aaron Gene Burroughs, 46, Gainesville and Melissa Joyce Henry, 46, Dallas. Paul Gabriel Ellis, 23, Akron, Ohio and Victoria Sinaitakala Maynard, 22, Rosemount, Minnesota. Cassidy Lee Keen, 33, Sanger and Dominque Mi-chelle Lenoir, 31, Sanger. Giovanni Carranza, 26, Gainesville and Perla Jazmin Ballard, 22, Gainesville. Paul Charles Walder, 38, Celina and Isabel Arlene Mirosek, 28, Celina. Michael James Santilli, 34, Corinth and Amanda

Lynn Garza, 33, Corinth. Dylan James Comeau, 27, Valley View and Sarah Eliza-beth Kearns, 25, Denton. Daniel Walker Dunn, 39, Dallas and Jose Miguel Car-bajal Juan, 23, Dallas. Joshua Peter Sullivan, 26, Irving and Emily Sue Nich-ols, 26, Krum. Charles Andrew Bryan, 59, Copper Canyon and Audra Cooley Van Horn, 50, Copper Canyon. Matthew Liam Millis, 24, Coppell and Madeline Claire Rainwater, 22, Lewis-ville. Christopher Joe Garrison, 32, Norman, Oklahoma and Amanda Joan Lambert, 30, Oklahoma City.

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