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VIRGINIA CARVER

Funeral services for Virginia Carver, 76, of Floydada, were held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, October 31, 2001 at the First United Methodist Church in Floydada. Reverend Wendell Horn, pastor, officiated.

Burial was in the Floyd County Memorial Park under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Floydada.

She died Monday, October 29, 2001 at Mangold Memorial Hospital in Lockney.

She was born on November 20, 1924 in Lillian, Texas to the late Mr. Hilary Lee Rafferty and Mrs. Fannie Elizabeth Sealey Rafferty. She moved to Floydada from Hillsboro in the early 1930's. She attended schools in Cedar Hill and graduated from Floydada High School.

She married Bemous V. Carver in 1967 in Floydada. He preceded her in death on January 4, 1974. She worked at Leonard's Cafe as a waitress and a cook. She also worked at Hammonds Sheet Metal.

She was a member of the First United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by two brothers and three sisters.

Survivors include one son, Darryl Lindsey of Lubbock; one brother, Bob Rafferty of Jacksonville, Texas; four grandchildren and one great-grandchild.

The family suggests memorials to the First United Methodist Church, P.O. Box 719, Floydada, Texas 79235 or to the American Cancer Society, 3411 73rd Street, Lubbock, Texas 79423.

LOUIS MARTINEZ, SR.

Funeral services for Louis Martinez, Sr., 67 of Plainview, were held Monday, October 22, 2001 in the Lemons Memorial Chapel. Reverand Glen E. Godsay, Associate Director of Missions for the Caprock Plains Baptist Area, officiated.

Burial was in the Plainview Memorial Park under the direction of Lemons Funeral Home.

Martinez died Thursday, October 18, 2001 in Covenant Hospital Plainview.

He was born August 14, 1934 in Kenedy and married Brenda Gutierrez on August 18, 1956 in Lockney.

Martinez attended school in Kenedy before moving to Lockney. He lived in Providence until January 2000 when he moved to Plainview.

He was a farmer in the Providence Community and was employed by Boyd and the late Keith Jackson. He was a member of Primera Iglesia Bautista in Plainview.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Rita Blanco and Ester Rodriquez, both of Plainview and Nora Vela of Victoria; two sons, Louis Martinez, Jr. of Zapata and Davis Martinez of Tulia; three sisters, Fidencia Duran of Westbrook, Lupe Martinez of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico and Juanita Garza of Albuquerque, New Mexico; and 13 grandchildren.

LAULESS PARKEY

Graveside services for Lauless Jones Parkey, 85, of Ridgecrest, California were held at 3:00 p.m. Saturday, October 27, 2001 at Floydada Cemetery with Kenneth Free, pastor of City Park Church of Christ, officiating. Services are under the direction of Moore-Rose-White Funeral Home of Floydada.

Mrs. Parkey died Tuesday, October 23, 2001 in Ridgecrest, California.

She was born on March 12, 1916 in Cone to the late Mr. Richard Alexander Jones and Mrs. Orlie Hammack Jones. She grew up and lived most of her life in Floydada, until moving to Ridgecrest, California in 1979. She married Dewey Jackson Parkey on April 3, 1945 in Portales, New Mexico. He preceded her in death in 1966. She was a retired Licensed Vocational Nurse and had worked at Caprock Hospital. She joined the Church of Christ at the age of 12 and was a member of the City Park Church of Christ in Floydada.

In 1957 she became a member of Floydada Rebekah Lodge Number 77, transferring to Desert Primrose Rebekah Lodge Number 412 in Ridgecrest in 1980. She worked though all the chairs of the lodge during her years as a member. She received many awards for her service and she enjoyed the many friendships she made there. One of the awards she received was the Decoration of Chivalry.

She was also preceded in death by three step-sons, Dewey Parkey, Bernie Parkey and Jon Parkey; two grandsons, Gregory Kirk Skrabanek and Mark Edward Parkey; two great-grandchildren, infant son of Rosemary and Don Parkey and Joseph Parkey, son of Gary and Patsy Parkey; five brothers and three sister.

She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Anthony V. and Pura Taylor; one step-son, Glen Parkey of Amarillo; three step-daughters, Patsy Skrabanek of Dallas, Peggy Thornton of College Station, and Gladys Chadwick of Midland; four grandchildren, Sandra V. Workmon, Celey T. Gaskill, Rockie Stevens and Stephan Dolsck; 23 step-grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren, Sean Anthony Workmon, Kayla Marie Gaskill, Noah Stevens, Anna Stevens, John Stevens, Jill Marie Dolack and R.J. Dolack; and 37 step-great-grandchildren; seven nieces and four nephews.

SIDNEY "JOCKO" PERRY

Funeral services for Sidney Wilson "Sid" Perry, were held at 11 a.m. Wednesday October 24, 2001 in the First Presbyterian Church. Reverend Quin Oakley officiated.

Burial was at 2 p.m. in Memory Gardens Cemetery in Amarillo by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Directors, in Amarillo.

Mr. Perry died Saturday, October 20, 2001, in Amarillo.

He was born December, 20, 1919, in Floydada, the son of the late John Tom and Addie Perry. He was a retired carpenter and superintendent of several construction projects nationwide, including Holiday Inns.

He was a member of Carpenters Local 665 in Amarillo where he lived for 60 years before moving to Dumas in 1990. He enjoyed woodworking and attended First Presbyterian Church.

On June 3, 1939, he married Verlene Kilpatrick in Kress. She died January 12, 1988. On June 12, 1990 he married Opal Mae Johnson in Dumas.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Robert Perry and Thomas "Tommy" Perry, all of Amarillo; a stepdaughter, Janan Green of Stratford; two sisters and a brother-in-law, Louvinia Brown and Betty Jo and J.W. Gilbreath, all of Floydada; 14 grandchildren; 15 great-grandchildren; and six great-great-grandchildren.

Three brothers, John Everett Perry, Charlie Madison Perry and Thurman Luther Perry; a daughter; Linda Kincade Brum; and two grandsons, are deceased.

A VIEW FROM THE LAMPLIGHTER

We don't expect CBS to report it, and we don't expect NBC or ABC to report it, and most assuredly we did not expect the New York Times to report it, but the other day there appeared a report on a Hebrew language radio station in Israel (Kol Israel and relayed on October 3 by IAP News) that said it all. We'll get to it in a minute.

We read it in a report in the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, a monthly magazine that seems to keep pretty close tabs on things involving the middle east. The magazine is edited by Richard Curtiss, a former Foreign Service Officer (whom I know) with extensive experience in the middle east. In one way it was startling, but in another way not entirely surprising.

But first some background. As faithful readers of this column may know, we have occasionally went against the grain. In terms of foreign policy, we have said things that most media outlets will not say, or won't even mention. We have railed, for instance, for many years about, the situation in the Middle East. We have said, on probably too many occasions, that a day of reckoning would some day come, when the folly of our mid-east policy would come back to haunt us, that our slavish devotion to the state of Israel would some day come back to cause us trouble, that some day our "faithful ally" would be revealed as nothing more than an opportunistic band of people who are taking us for a ride. We have said, and taken a lot of heat for it, that America has become the dog wagged by the Israeli tail.

And before we go any further, we will say again what we have said before. We believe Osama bin Laden is someone who needs to be hunted down and exterminated. That is the very least we can do, under the circumstances. Whether or not he had a direct hand in the World Trade Center disaster, he is, by his own admission, at war with the United States of America and will do what he can to see us humbled. For the sake of our own peace and security he should be done away with. Whether the campaign of aerial bombardment is the way to do that is arguable, but the goal of ridding the world of bin Laden can hardly be argued against.

Having said that, we will also say that no peace and security will prevail until a different approach is adopted in the Middle East. We can get rid of one bin Laden. Another bin Laden will take his place. He gets many of his recruits from among those youngsters who, rightly or wrongly, believe we have adopted a policy that Israel is always right, no matter what it does. For those folks who see their homes bulldozed, high rise apartments for Jewish immigrants from around the world constructed on their own farms, many of which have been in the family for generation after generation, for those folks no amount of explaining will ever suffice. All they see is people coming into their own country, from Russia, from the United States, from Germany or wherever, uprooting their olive groves and creating "settlements" on land that used to be theirs. The bin Ladens of this world thrive on the resentment created by those acts. If the current bin Laden is disposed of, another will rise in his place.

Back to the radio station account of what it called "an acrimonious meeting" of the Israeli cabinet. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had already issued his now famous blast when Bush was trying to piece together a coalition of nations to oppose, and, if possible, rid the world of terrorists. Bush had already termed Sharon's comments "unacceptable," which, in diplomatic terms, is pretty rough language. So a cabinet meeting followed, in which Foreign Minister Shimon Peres cautioned Sharon to temper his remarks, lest the government encounter "a public relations disaster."

Whereupon an agitated Sharon stormed at Peres, and we quote the comments as carried (again--in Hebrew) on radio station Kol Israel and distributed by IAP News, "Every time we do something you tell me the Americans will do this and do that. I want to tell you something very clear; don't worry about American pressure on Israel, because we, the Jewish people, control America, and the Americans know it."

To date we have seen no response from Sharon denying the report, nor have we seen widespread dissemination of the report in America's national media. We suspect there is a reason.

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