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Museum experience

Letter to the Editor:

We had the privilege this weekend of visiting the Wharton County Historical Museum for the first time.

We were researching Shanghai Pierce for an exhibition this coming summer by the Little Compton Historical Society. This exhibit will feature 10 people who were born in Little Compton, R.I. who became famous.

This museum is absolutely beautiful with wonderful exhibits, which would appeal to many interests. The museum is a gem! There is also another jewel there as well. Janet Barrett-Hobizal did a tremendous job steering us in the right direction in our research and giving us help and her time beyond the call of duty. She is doing a superb job.

Our only regret is that we live too far away to visit the museum more often.

Don and Judy Truchon

Little Compton,

Rhode Island

Christmas trees

Letter to the editor:

Check your tree boxes and light boxes! I recently purchased a 3-foot pre-lit mini Winston pine Christmas tree at Wal-Mart. It is item number 001860928 and vendor number M-P60029C. The tree sells for $15.96.

On the box is a caution: Prop 65 Warning: Handling the coated electrical wires of this product exposes you to lead, a chemical known to the state of California to cause cancer, birth defects and other reproductive harms. Wash hands after use.

Prop. 65 is a California law passed to tell the public about chemicals in products that can cause cancer, birth defects and reproductive problems. This caution also appears on the other pre-lit trees sold by Wal-Mart. I also started looking at the boxes of lights that we bought after Christmas last year and they too have the caution on them.

I couldn't help but wonder, is the state of California the only one which knows about the lead content? These trees and lights, as well as the many toys pulled from the store shelves, were made in China. It's a shame that you can't even buy your 4- year-old granddaughter a small tree without there being some cautions relating to lead. I hope that all of you who have bought this or the other trees will return them to the store.

Jerry Bahn

Wharton

Where's the Love?

Letter to the Editor:

Love is not just a feeling; you must put action behind it. People marry and divorce daily because they have not grasped this ideal. It has taken me a lifetime to understand. Love for one another with action can make this world a better place.

What happened to the thinkers of this world? War does not beget love. Deep thought must go on first, weighing the pros and the cons. What is love? Love rejoices in the truth, is patient, is kind, keeps no record of wrongs, never fails, is not rude, does not boast, is not proud, is not self seeking, is not easily angered, does not delight in evil. In this list three things remain: faith, hope and love. And the greatest of these is love (1 Corinthians 13). Let's try love. What do you have to lose?

Sandra Sneed

Wharton

City intersection

Letter to the Editor:

The City of Wharton owes the public for destroying the flower beds at the Guffy Park parking lot and Armstrong Mini Park. Besides restoring these two areas, there are two other areas that the public needs improved:

• The intersection at Texas 60/Richmond Road and FM 102, which has needed widening for a very long time. The large amount of traffic that passes through this dangerous intersection is sufficient to warrant improvement.

• The intersection at Fulton, Armstrong and Kelly streets desperately needs white lines adjacent to the four stop signs. There are many near accidents because drivers fail to stop. The crosswalk in the very center of the intersection is dangerous for school kids going to and from the nearby junior high school. The white lines on the streets will remind motorists to stop.

Hopefully, the once really nice prickly pear cactus that graced this intersection near Wharton Feed and Supply will some day have lots of yellow flowers again. Since it was hacked down, the "improved" visibility has not made the intersection safer.

C.J. Hobbs

Wharton

New elementary

Letter to the Editor:

In reference to the article in the Nov. 7 issue of the paper regarding the naming of the two wings that are under development at the new school, I feel this is a good start to a still questioning situation. To name the second and third grade wing Minnie Mae Hopper and the fourth and fifth grade wing C.W. Dawson is commendable to the school board. I once was a student of Wharton Training High School (Dawson Elementary). It was and still is a good school for learning. With the closing of this prestigious institute and the closing of Minnie Mae Hopper, it is truly a blessing to see that someone had the foresight to try and preserve the remembrance of these two fine schools.

Keep the memories alive!

Jack C. Moses

Wharton