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Convenience or laziness? A fi ne line
I wasn’t sure what to think
the other day when I received
an e-mail press release from
Suddenlink, our local cable
provider, about a new service
they’re offering.
It stated: “. . . Customers
will no longer need to fi nd a
ringing phone to check who
is calling them. They can
now see who’s calling on
their TV screens.”
Come again?
That’s right. TV Caller ID
has arrived.
Apparently, when the
phone rings, a banner pops
up across the bottom of the
TV screen to tell you who is
on the phone. You have to
have a combination of Suddenlink
phone and digital
TV services to make it all
work.
On fi rst thought I thought
this was the most ridiculous
thing I had ever heard
of. Who is so lazy that they
can’t get out of the recliner
and walk maybe 15 feet to
the phone. Or, if you
happen to be in bed
watching TV, simply
turn your head and
look on the nightstand
to see who so rudely
interrupted your television
viewing by
calling.
On second thought,
however, I can see
the advantage in TV
Caller ID.
What if your favorite program
is on (let’s say, for instance,
The Offi ce), and the
phone rings. Do you get it?
Well, that depends on who
it is, of course. My mother,
yes; solicitor wanting me to
buy siding for the house, no.
Now, with TV Caller ID,
you don’t have to even take
your eyes off the TV screen
in order to make that vital
decision.
Before I was too critical of
how lazy a person has to be
in order to want this service,
I remembered that several
Kevin
Lewis
years ago Nancy and
I found this cool talking
caller ID at Radio
Shack. When the
phone rings, a voice
tells you who is calling.
So, in essence, I
haven’t had to take
my eyes off the TV
for awhile now.
All this reminds
me of a song by Brad
Paisley. (Come to
think of it, a lot of stuff reminds
me of songs by Brad
Paisley. Seems like every
other column I write about
something that reminds of a
song by Brad Paisley.)
This latest one is called
“Welcome to the Future,”
and he talks about how technology
has changed since he
was young:
“When I was 10 years
old,
I remember thinkin’ how
cool it would be,
When we were goin’ on an
eight hour drive,
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If I could just watch T.V.
And I’d have given anything
To have my own PacMan
game at home.
I used to have to get a ride
down to the arcade;
Now I’ve got it on my
phone.”
What will they think of
next for our phones?
I have a feeling it will be
the picture of the person
calling popping up on the
TV screen.
Wait, don’t some countries
already have that?
— — —
To learn more about Suddenlink
TV Caller ID, visit
your local Suddenlink offi ce
or call toll-free 1-866-269-
4386.
(Kevin Lewis is editor of
the Herald. Contact him at
806-296-1353 or kwlewis@
hearstnp.com. Unfortunately,
he does not have
Caller ID at work.)
Making a difference
Teresa Young/Wayland Baptist University
Wayland student Russell Daniel (left) and staff members Tammy Coleman and Penny Poole remove
weeds and debris from flower beds at La Mesa Elementary in preparation for laying protective material
and decorative bark during Wayland’s Degree of Difference Day held Saturday. (See Monday’s Herald
for stories and more photos.)
Obama sees consensus outside Congress
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Barack Obama
sees both “unprecedented
consensus” from outside
Congress on his drive to remake
the nation’s health care
system and obstructionism
by some on Capitol Hill.
“The historic movement
to bring real, meaningful
health insurance reform to
the American people gathered
momentum this week
as we approach the fi nal
days of this debate,” Obama
said Saturday in his weekly
radio and Internet video address.
The consensus “includes
everyone from doctors and
nurses to hospitals and drug
manufacturers” — even
Republican governors and
former GOP lawmakers,
Obama said.
It does not extend to congressional
Republicans,
however, as nearly all of
them oppose the Democrats’
health care proposals.
The president noted that
California Gov. Arnold
Schwarzenegger, former
Senate Majority Leaders
Bob Dole and Bill Frist, all
Republicans, and former
Health and Human Service
chiefs Louis Sullivan and
Tommy Thompson, who
both served in Republican
administrations, have all
come out in favor of overhauling
health care, even
though they differ on some
specifi cs.
Budgets get brief relief
from Clunkers taxes
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Struggling states and towns
got a dose of badly needed
money this summer from a
Cash for Clunkers program
that poured hundreds of millions
of dollars of tax revenue
into their budgets.
Now, like the auto industry,
recession-ravaged governments
are seeing revenue
fall off as car buyers take a
breather from the frenzied
sales of July and August.
That means less money for
schools, roads, public safety
and other projects that get
much of their funding from
sales tax collections.
And while offi cials welcomed
the shot in the arm,
the extra clunkers money
won’t come close to fi lling
the gaping holes in their
budgets or do much to solve
News Briefs
the worst revenue downturn
in decades. decades
“It is chump change,” said
David Zin, an economist
with the Michigan state senate’s
fi scal agency.
State and city offi cials say
their budget problems are
too severe for one government
program to fi x.
Militants attack Pakistan
army HQ, take hostages
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan
(AP) — Heavily armed militants
were holding up to 15
soldiers hostage inside Pakistan’s
army headquarters
early Sunday more than 12
hours after they stormed the
complex in an audacious assault
on the heart of the most
powerful institution in the
nuclear-armed country.
Six soldiers, including
two ranking offi cers, and
four militants were killed
in the attack by assailants
who wore military uniforms.
The strike appeared to be a
warning to the military that
its planned offensive on the
insurgents’ stronghold along
the Afghan border would be
met with attacks against targets
across Pakistan.
The government said the
assault on the headquarters,
which followed a bloody
market bombing and a suicide
blast at a U.N. aid
agency in the past week, had
strengthened its resolve to
push into South Waziristan
— a mountainous region
home to al-Qaida leaders
where security forces have
been beaten back by insurgents
before.
The spasm of violence
was confi rmation that the
militants had regrouped
despite recent military operations
against their forces
and the killing of Pakistani
Taliban leader Baitullah
Mehsud in a CIA drone attack
in August. His replacement
vowed just last week
to step up attacks around
the country and repel any
push into Waziristan.
Army spokesman Maj.
Gen. Athar Abbas said “four
or fi ve” assailants were
holding between 10 and 15
troops hostage in a building
close to the main gates of
the complex in Rawalpindi,
a city near the capital, Islamabad.abad
No senior military or
intelligence offi cials were
among those being held, he
said.
Turkey, Armenia
sign historic accord
ZURICH (AP) — Turkey
and Armenia signed a landmark
agreement Saturday
to establish diplomatic relations
and open their sealed
border after a century of
enmity, as U.S. Secretary
of State Hillary Rodham
Clinton helped the two sides
clear a last-minute snag.
The contentious issue of
whether the killing of up to
1.5 million Armenians during
the fi nal days of the Ottoman
Empire amounted to
genocide is only hinted at in
the agreement.
“There were several times
when I said to all of the parties
involved that this is too
important,” Clinton said.
“This has to be seen through.
We have come too far. All of
the work that has gone into
the protocols should not be
walked away from.”
The Turkish and Armenian
foreign ministers signed
the accord in the Swiss city
of Zurich after a dispute
over the fi nal statements
they would make. In the
end, the signing took place
about three hours later than
scheduled and there were no
spoken statements.
Clinton and mediators
from Switzerland intervened
to help broker a solution,
U.S. offi cials said on condition
of anonymity, in keeping
with State Department
regulations. Better ties between
Turkey, a regional
heavyweight, and poor,
landlocked Armenia have
been a priority for President
Barack Obama, and Clinton
had fl own to Switzerland to
witness the signing, not help
close the deal.
Columbine C
killer’s mom
had h ‘no inkling’ about son
DENVER (AP) — In the
fi
rst detailed public remarks
bby
any parent of the two Columbine
killers, Dylan Klebold’s
mother says she had
no idea her son was suicidal
until she read his journals
after the 1999 high school
massacre.
Susan Klebold’s essay in
next month’s issue of O, The
Oprah Magazine, says she is
still struggling to make sense
of what happened when her
son and Eric Harris killed 12
students and a teacher in the
shooting rampage at Columbine
High School in suburban
Denver. Twenty-one
people were injured before
Klebold and Harris killed
themselves.
“For the rest of my life, I
will be haunted by the horror
and anguish Dylan caused,”
she wrote. “I cannot look at a
child in a grocery store or on
the street without thinking
about how my son’s schoolmates
spent the last moments
of their lives. Dylan changed
everything I believed about
myself, about God, about
family, and about love.”
The killers’ parents have
repeatedly declined to talk
about the massacre. They
gave depositions in a lawsuit
fi led by families of the
victims, but a judge in 2007
sealed them for 20 years after
the lawsuit was settled
out of court.
In her essay, Susan Klebold
wrote that she didn’t
know her son was so disturbed.
Pageant focuses on
enhanced beauties
BUDAPEST, Hungary
(AP) — It was a night for
unnatural beauties. Contestants
showed off breast implants,
nose jobs and face
lifts as Miss Plastic Hungary
2009 strove to promote the
benefi ts of plastic surgery
in a country where artifi cial
enhancements are viewed
mostly with a wary eye.
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Obituaries
Linda Arnold
Linda Arnold, age 97,
passed away Friday, Oct 9,
2009, in Lubbock.
Funeral services will be
held at 11 a.m. Monday,
Oct. 12, 2009, at Seth Ward
Baptist Church under the direction
of Lemons Funeral
Home. Pastor Jim Ritter will
offi ciate and interment will
follow at Parklawn Memorial
Gardens.
Open visitation will be
held on Sunday from 4-8
p.m. at Lemons Funeral
Home.
Linda Elsie Blok was born
Jan. 28, 1912, in Kalamazoo,
Mich., to Jacob and Adrianna
(Singeles) Blok.
Linda worked as a nurse’s
aid for many years. She was
a member of Seth Ward
Baptist Church where she
had served as the Rebekah
Sunday School teacher for
many years along with being
the past WMU president
and was very involved in
the church choir. She read
her Bible daily and enjoyed
leading Bible studies.
Linda also enjoyed knitting,
crocheting, cross stitching
and doing crossword
puzzles. She was an especially
loving grandmother
who enjoyed spending time
with her four granddaughters
Faye Bufe
HALE CENTER — Funeral
services for Faye Bufe,
82, of Hale Center will be at
2 p.m. Monday in Abernathy
Church of Christ with Steve
Gauntt and David Bennett
offi ciating.
Burial will follow in Abernathy
Cemetery by Abell
Funeral Home and Flower
Shop of Abernathy.
Mrs. Bufe died Friday,
Oct. 9, 2009, in Lubbock.
She was born Jan. 15, 1927
in Olney and married Wilford
Bufe on Feb. 5, 1944,
in New Deal. They moved
their family to Hale County
in 1951 from the New Deal
area.
Leroy Charles Daffron
Private memorial
services for Leroy
Charles Daffron, 70,
will be held at a later date.
Cremation services were
under the direction of Lemons
Funeral Home.
Mr. Daffron died Saturday,
Oct. 3, 2009, at Covenant
Hospital in Plainview.
He was born Aug. 25,
1939, in Olton to Willie and
Mary (Fisher) Daffron. He
was a lifelong Olton resident
and a graduate of Olton High
School.
He served in the U.S.
Army during the Vietnam
War. He worked for Warrick
Enterprises in the maintenance
department.
He married Deborah Callan
on Jan. 20, 2003, in Pla-
Police sort 2,000
cases in garage
DALLAS (AP) — The
Dallas Police Department is
trying to determine if more
than 2,000 family violence
cases stored haphazardly in
the garage of one of its 35year
veterans were handled
properly.
Family violence advocates,
prosecutors and police
are worried that some of Detective
Mickey East’s cases
may not have been properly
fi led with the district attorney’s
offi ce. Offi cials are reviewing
department policies
to determine what rules may
have been violated, including
ones that require detectives
to keep evidence in its
proper place.
East said he had taken the
documents home to organize
them and put fi les together.
“I made a mistake,” he told
The Dallas Morning News.
Attempts by The Associated
Press to reach East on Saturday
were not immediately
successful. He has been temporarily
assigned to the police
auto pound.
Dallas police say it could
take weeks, if not months, to
sort through the unorganized
mound of police records.
and their
families.
She was
preceded
in death
by parents;
her husband,
John
Arnold;
a daughter,
Sheila
inview.
He was a
member of
Seth Ward
Baptist
Church.
Survivorsinclude
his
wife; two
sons, Rob-
ert Daffron of Lubbock and
Lesley Daffron of Colorado;
one daughter, Donna Daffron
of Colorado; one sister,
Evelyn Daffron of Olton; one
half-sister, Karen Daffron;
three grandchildren; and numerous
nieces and nephews.
His parents, two brothers
and two sisters are deceased.
Online condolences:
www.MyPlainview.com
Plainview Daily Herald — 10-11-09
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Being there for Plainview families
in their hour of need for 70 years
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ARNOLD
Arnold; and brother-in-law,
Edgar Arnold.
Linda is survived by her
granddaughter, Paulinda
Gibson and husband Dale of
Halfway and their children,
Jennifer, Ricky and Chelsey;
her granddaughter, Nikki
Langston and husband Bobby
of Plainview and their
children, Sha and Shawn;
her granddaughter, Bonni
Arnold-Thomason and husband
Scott of Lubbock and
their children, Avery and Addisson;
her granddaughter,
Mary Ellen Devin and husband
Lyndan of Plainview
and their children, Tasha,
T.J. and Meagan; greatgreat-grandchildren,
Shane,
Riley and Mia; and sister-inlaw,
Bonnie Wright.
Memorials in Linda Arnold’s
name may be made to
Seth Ward Baptist Church in
Plainview.
Online condolences:
www.MyPlainview.com
Plainview Daily Herald — 10-11-09
She was a member of Hale
Center Church of Christ.
Survivors include her husband;
two sons, Howard Bufe
of Dallas and Harold Bufe
and wife Linda of Abernathy;
two grandchildren; and three
great-grandchildren.
A brother, Travis Jennings,
and a granddaughter,
Lori Bufe, are deceased.
The family suggests memorials
to Children’s Home
of Lubbock, P.O. Box 2824,
Lubbock, TX 79408; or to
Hope Lodge of Lubbock, c/o
American Cancer Society,
3411 73rd Street, Lubbock,
TX 79423.
Online condolences:
www.MyPlainview.com
Plainview Daily Herald — 10-11-09
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Death Notices
Julia Masten
Services for Julia Masten Masten,
94, of Plainview are pending
with Lemons Funeral Home.
Mrs. Masten died Saturday,
Oct. 10, 2009.
Online condolences:
www.MyPlainview.com
Plainview Daily Herald — 10-11-09
Mary Beth Moon
Services for Mary Beth
Moon, 48, of Plainview are
pending with Lemons Funeral
Home.
Mrs. Moon died Friday,
Oct. 9, 2009, in Lubbock.
Online condolences:
www.MyPlainview.com
Plainview Daily Herald — 10-11-09
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