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      Letter to the Editor: Dear Editor, The Comfort Wood Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution would like to say "Thank you".
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Pokin' Fun
Poultry made easy
'Doc' Blakely
      A fifth grade teacher was quizzing her students about cultures. She asked a red headed, freckled-face boy, "What's a Hindu?" The kid said, "Lay eggs?" My friend Morris is one of those mischievous types although he is nearly all grown up today and recently retired.
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Chinese exports pose health risk
By PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Copley News Service
      The scandal of imported products from China has accelerated to a level that the public should demand "China-free" labels on anything that goes into a mouth. This includes not only food, vitamins and medicines but toothpaste and toys which, as all parents know, go into children's mouths.
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Candidates scramble for presidency that will come with baggage of Iraq
Dan Rather
      Look at them run, all the Republican and Democratic candidates for president. They have been at it for many months now, charging ever harder toward a goal that's still more than a year away - debating, unveiling policy proposals, burnishing their images.
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From the archives
Malaria an early hindrance to education in Wharton County
Janet Hobizal
      In 1922 a new building was built on the original site of the brick building and in 1953 a new high school was built, as well as E.A. Greer School and the former high school became a junior high and elementary schools. The Louise Hutchins Elementary School was built in 1960. There are now five publ...
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