| The Story | Chlorine pellets explode at
the Bridgeport City Pool causing an evacuation. |
| News worthiness (on a scale of 0 to 5) | **** |
| The Spin | "Visit the Bridgeport City
Pool - a pool which is now officially cursed." |
| The Story | Rumors float that Clay Poynor
and/or Billy Hamilton will take a run at Justice of the Peace C.D.
Archer in the next election. |
| News worthiness | *** |
| The Spin | See what happens when you
place a phone call to the ACLU about alleged police abuses? In this
county, you might as well have said you had consulted Satan. |
| The Story | Joan C. Covici of Dallas writes a letter to the editor stating "As a correspondent for non-profit prison reform groups, I find that many TDCJ units show a strong preference for the Protestant Christian (Jesus) ministries. The Catholics, Jews, Buddhists and other non-mainstream groups have received little respect from the TDCJ chaplaincy program administrators." |
| News worthiness | * |
| The Spin | To the 20% of Americans that
are Catholic, it came as quite a surprise to learn they were
"non-mainstream". |
| The Story | "An antique plane . . . made a
hard landing in a field just north of the Boyd Raceway . . . Friday
afternoon . . . . According to Texas DPS Trooper John Hallenbeck,
a wooden propellor on [the] plane broke while [the pilot] was flying
from Brownwood to Gainesville for an antique plane show." |
| News worthiness | ** |
| The Spin | I'm not getting in any plane
where (1) the word "wood" precedes "propellor" or (2) the word
"antique" is used at all. |
| The Story | Former Decatur resident Josh
Brawley is featured in a six page layout in "Exercise for Men Only" and
the Messenger reprints one
of the photos (picture
is here). |
| ws worthiness | * |
| The Spin | Now that isn't exactly one
of those farmer-holding-a-five-pound-tomato-in-our-sweet-little-county
photos that we are so used
to, is it? |
