Published: December 10, 2007 04:41 pm            

12/9/2007 Letters to the editor

Thanks for help removing train from finger

Dear Editor:



I would like to extend a special thanks to Jeff Rector for his quick thinking in removing a toy wooden train track that had “accidentally” become wedged on my finger. My Dad and Mom were at a meeting in Fort Worth and an hour away. After some pulling, a little vegetable oil and a few giggles, my grandmom called my folks and, in no time, Jeff was dispatched and on his way. However, when he asked for a hammer and a screw driver, I had to grab my gray toy kitty, even though he promised he wouldn’t hurt my finger. He proceeded to use the screw driver and a little pressure to splinter the chunk of wood — pain free.

I hope he has been able to use the purple hair clip I gave him as my gift (along with a hug). Although my Daddy is also a fireman with the Liberty Chapel Volunteer Fire Department, I think all of those firemen are among the very best. Thank you Jeff.

Sincerely,



Joelle Watson

3-years old



Leah King (the grandmom)

Cleburne



Thanks for supporty by TEAM School

Dear Editor:



I would like to thank the community of Cleburne and the students and staff of the Cleburne TEAM School for their continued support of my nephews, Brian and Wesley Rickert. Brian and Wes unexpectedly lost their Mom in November. The school opened up their doors and hearts to us. They provided a wonderful potluck supper and the opportunity for fellowship that was needed and greatly appreciated. When I returned home to Virginia I went knowing that my nephews are surrounded by much love and support. The TEAM School is more than a team, they are a family.

Thank you again for all you do.



Sharon Moore

Ridgeway, Va.



Remembering Dr. Narciso Cinco

Dear Editor:



Editor’s note: This is an open letter to residents of Cleburne.



Dear Cleburnites,



This time I return again to Cleburne to eulogize another Cleburne colleague in Dr. Narciso Cinco, an

EENT specialist who joined the Kimbro Medical Center in the mid-’70s. Cinco was a pre-Sputnik graduate of the U.P. College of Medicine, the first Medical School established a century ago by the American colonizers in the Philippines.

Through the Exchange Visitors Program, he pursued his post-grad training at famous Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, earning the distinction as the last of bi-specialists in eye, ear, nose and throat. He returned to academia in homeland Cebu, teaching at two medical schools and establishing a lucrative EENT practice. A renown optician, Dr. Claro Cinco, joined him to form a progressive eye center in the Central Philippines with charitable clinics especially serving the underprivileged Muslim villages in Mindanao.

In disgust with the political dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos, he uprooted his moorings and immigrated to the United States in the mid-’70s by accepting a job as medical director of a big mental hospital in Baltimore. Knowing Dr. Cinco at our medical school, I suggested his name to Dr. Kimbro, who without hesitancy, offered him to head our EENT department.

While in Cleburne, Dr. Cinco had touched many patients with eye, ear, nose and throat problems, not only with his expertise but with his good humor and zest for life. He was also active with the local Rotary Club and the Catholic church. Aside from his busy practice he managed to participate in many a medical eye missions to the Philippines, Mexico and Nepal. He was instrumental in bringing the ORBIS, a charitable flying eye hospital, to Cebu, training local eye doctors in the latest surgical techniques.

Although naturalized as American citizens in 1981, Dr. Cinco and wife, Carmen, opted to return to their native home, the Camiguin Island in 1994, to establish a charitable eye clinic under the Kahayag Eye Foundation serving the poor and the underprivileged patients in that southeastern Philippine region.

Because all their children are in America, he and Carmen spent their vacations yearly to visit their children either with daughters Bonnie Cinco Rodriguez and Dr. Nancy Cinco in Virginia, with son, Dr. John Cinco, now a medical colonel serving in the U.S. Air Force, or with two other professional sons in Ray and Jerry in California.

While vacationing with daughters Bonnie and Nancy in Virginia, he succumbed to a cerebral hemorrhage on Nov. 4.

Sincerely yours,



F.O. Sunio, M.D.

Denton



Thanks from Johnson County Heritage Foundation

Dear Editor:



On behalf of the board of directors of Johnson County Heritage Foundation, I want to thank the following people and businesses for their help in restoring the oldest log courthouse in Texas. As you know some demented coward tried to burn down this historic building this spring. The old logs are tough and would not burn. We lost the floor, ceiling, doors and windows and all of the furnishings and historic documents. This thoughtless act set us back about six months, but we are back and better than ever. There is still a reward of $6,000 for the arrest and conviction of those who did this.

Many people have stepped forward and contributed to helping us. Jack Wylie, a quality building contractor, volunteered his time and talent in restoring the exterior and interior. Casey Dugger and Dugger Electric donated their time and materials. Brandi Miller of W&M Roofing helped with the roof, and Rick Bailey donated the sand for the stone work. Peter and Betsy Harty, of Accents, stepped up to the plate and again donated most of the interior furnishings.

Bob’s Furniture Outlet helped with some of the accessories items. Commissioner R.C. McFall and Sheriff Bob Alford have been invaluable in helping since the beginning. Daniel Moralez, Pete Hobby, Jack Carlton, Billy Cate, Ardie Muldoon, Theo Embry and Christmas in Action were especially helpful with much needed elbow grease.

We especially want to thank all those who helped by making a contribution in the boxes set up at all the local banks. We could not have done any of the restoration without financial help from Chesapeake Energy, Save Old Cleburne, Judge Roger Harmon and the Johnson County Commissioners Court and the city of Cleburne, who all made generous donations. We now have in place at the Chisholm Trail Outdoor Museum the Wardville Courthouse, the Robinson and Roe Stone Pavilion, the restored Wardville Cemetery, a restored stagecoach that was used in several John Wayne movies, three Indian tipis, and 56 life-size longhorn and rider silhouettes. We have room for 15 more. Call if you would like to have your brand or initials on a steer.

Our next projects are a stage station and blacksmith shop. We have had more than 600 first-graders from Cleburne ISD visit our site on field trips and learn about the history of our county. We have had visitors from all over the world visit and sign our guest book. We have started a new guest book and invite everyone to come visit this historical site. Because we are an all volunteer organization we are open when we have someone who can be there. Until further notice we will be open when the gate is open and/or when an appointment in advance is made.

If you would like to schedule a family or corporate event, call us at 817-648-1486 or 817-648-5058. If anyone has historical artifacts they would like to loan or donate as we continue to build, please let us know. We are dedicated to preserving our history and to making this the best tourist attraction in our area.

Respectfully,



David Murdoch

Cleburne



Read my letter, Mr. Williams

Dear Editor:



What kind of medication are you on, Mr. Don Williams? Nowhere in my letter did I say anything about killing all the Muslims. I did say that the Muslims want us dead. I cannot understand people like you who read some “trigger” word and go off raving on subjects that were not only not mentioned but were not even inferred. I won’t even try to figure out your Oklahoma remark.

If you had calmly read my letter, you might have some idea about what I actually said and why we had better win this war. I mentioned no countries. You were the one who mentioned Iran. I only said that they were Muslim terrorists. It would be so much easier to correct your mistakes if you could be factual or accurate. But I do realize that facts are something that can interfere with an emotional tirade. I may be an idealistic old man, but like your son and my son, who both enlisted, I also enlisted, served, received an honorable discharge and am probably as much aware as you that kids are the ones fighting all wars. I was there, were you?

I have another question for you in response to your statement (relating to what you read somewhere) and that is if this war is over oil, then why have we not simply taken it? Instead we are spending billions of dollars and thousands of lives trying to help those people build a better country in which to live. You might ask your son about the improvements we have been trying to make. I thought we had this settled several years ago, but apparently you have a new burr under your saddle.

Could it be that your son re-enlisted against your wishes? My cousin’s son left for Iraq last week, and I wish him, your son and all the troops over there good luck and wish we could bring them home by Christmas. If you would actually read my letter you might better understand why we must be there.

As for there being no weapons of mass destruction, there were some found and reported by UN inspectors on the news recently, but it was probably opposite “The Simpsons” so you failed to see it. And I imagine that I read several times as much in a day as you do in a week, and none of mine is related to professional sports. As a matter of fact I record the world news from Asia and Europe from 4-5 a.m. weekdays and BBC on the weekends, since their news is more news and less slanted liberal bias like our ABC, NBC and CBS, which spend so much of their time fawning over Hillary Clinton.

Speaking of ding-a-ling Democratic nut cases, could you be Cindy Sheehan’s brother? Go back and read the letter, Mr. Williams, there are not just a few idiots that want us dead (your words again). Muslims are 25 percent of the world’s population, meaning they outnumber us five to one and they double about every 26 years.

You remind me of somebody driving down the road and when his oil light goes on he keeps on driving because the engine didn’t immediately seize up. Down the road there will be a destroyed engine. Remember these people are indoctrinated from birth that their only means of salvation is to kill an infidel, and while some of us in America may be crazy, we are all infidels, and they will eventually kill us, especially if people like you keep your heads in the sand.



W.V. Bonds

Cleburne

        

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