This is the report from the Nacogdoches County Sheriff’s Office that list the reports from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day AND this is the report from the Nacogdoches County Jail that lists the arrests made from 6 a.m. of the previous day to 6 a.m. of the listed day.
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Jason Bridges Pct 4
An ongoing investigation by the Nacogdoches County Constable office Precinct 4 has lead officers to identify a second suspect that ran from officers from a large marijuana field that was growing near the Shawnee River. On Friday July 8, 2011 Deputy Allen with the Constable Office Precinct 4 and Game Warden Heath Bragg located a large amount of marijuana plants that had been planted in a remote area near the river bottom. Officers found two suspects on site, but one suspect fled the scene on foot and was not apprehended. Due to the heavy brush and thicket the suspect was able to elude officers in the woods. A DPS Helicopter was called in and deputies secured the area, while a search began for the suspect for several days.
Guadalupe Chavez
Officers secured the area as dark fell upon them Friday night and deputies remained in the area continuing the search for the suspect and maintaining security over the marijuana field. Constable Bridges stated that the removal of the marijuana plants started around 6;00 am Saturday morning, with the assistance of the Texas Parks and Wildlife and the Nacogdoches County Sheriff Office who also provided equipment that was needed for the removal of the marijuana plants. Nacogdoches County Road and Bridge also provided additional equipment that helped officers remove the marijuana plants.
Constable Bridges stated that there were over 1700 marijuana plants that were removed from the field that has been placed into evidence. Constable Bridges could not give a total weight on the marijuana, due to the evidence has to dry and then be taken to a lab for further testing. Bridges stated that the studies that have been done on the federal level show that one marijuana plant is capable of producing of just over 2 pounds of marijuana during its lifetime. So that should give some kind of estimate of what the marijuana field was capable of producing if it was not found. This Marijuana field had the potential to grow over 3000 pounds of marijuana during its lifetime if it had not been found.
Constable Bridges stated that the second suspect who ran from the marijuana field has been identified and a warrant has been issued for his arrest. Deputy Constables from precinct 4 were able to positively identify J Guadalupe Chavez that is 34 years of age. A warrant for possession of marijuana a 2nd felony has been issued for his arrest. Bridges stated that charges may be enhanced at a later date when finally results of the marijuana come back from the laboratory.
Constable Bridges stated that this is still an ongoing investigation and we are attempting to identify other suspects in this investigation. The Nacogdoches County Sheriff Office is also assisting with the investigation along with the Drug Enforcement Agency and the Texas Parks and Wildlife.
The City Council of the City of Nacogdoches recently passed modifications to the city’s noise ordinance.
The new law adds “vibrations” to the ordinance as well as setting limitations on the distance noise or vibrations may be heard.
From a fixed location or in a vehicle, the ordinance makes it a violation to emit a sound or vibration from a fixed location or a moving vehicle, “at such volume or at such hour or producing such vibrations as disturbs the peace, quiet, comfort, repose, health or safety of persons of ordinary sensibilities”. It also provides a violation if such noise is generated between the hours of 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m. and is plainly audible at a distance of 50 feet from the building, structure or place where the noise is originating from.
The new ordinance also makes it a violation for vehicle sound equipment that generates sound or vibration to be audible for more than 30 feet from the vehicle where the sound or vibration originates.
“The law basically says that if a car stereo is audible or emits vibrations at anytime that can be heard at a distance of more than 30 feet, which is about two car lengths, the operator or owner of the vehicle can receive a citation”, said Sgt. Greg Sowell of the Nacogdoches Police Department. “The law allows our officers to initiate enforcement action without a citizen complaint, especially on vehicles that are in violation. We believe that this ordinance will greatly enhance our ability to effectively control noise in the city”.
Violators can be fined up to $500.00 for each violation in Nacogdoches Municipal Court.
The police department will begin enforcement of this ordinance immediately.
This is a complete list of reports responded to by the Nacogdoches Police Department
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A thorn in the side of area boating enthusiasts may provide a ray of hope for some cancer patients, according to recent research findings at Stephen F. Austin State University’s National Center for Pharmaceutical Crops.
(Click to make larger) Texas Parks & Wildlife representatives remove giant salvinia from B.A. Steinhagen Lake near Jasper. The samples are being used by researchers at Stephen F. Austin State Universitys National Center for Pharmaceutical Crops who are studying the cancer-treating potential of the invasive plant.
Researchers at the center have discovered that giant salvinia, one of the most noxious invasive species in the world, has promising medical potential that could provide a novel approach to controlling the species.
The team recently discovered that extracts of giant salvinia can effectively inhibit the growth of human tumour cells with minimum damage to normal cells. The researchers are also the first to have isolated a class of compounds responsible for the bioactivities.
“Our research opens a new door to positive control of noxious invasive plants,” said Dr. Shiyou Li, research professor and director of the center, which is housed in the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture at SFA. “Also, our elucidation of the chemical composition of giant salvinia will help researchers better understand the molecular mechanism of invasion.”
Giant salvinia, also known as water fern and kariba weed and by its scientific name Salvinia molesta D. S. Mitchell, is a fern species native to Brazil. Since 1939, it has invaded lake and river systems in warm climates. Climate change, particularly increasing temperatures, a longer growing season and rising carbon dioxide levels, have increased both the abundance and diversity of invasive plants. Giant salvinia currently is one of the most widespread and environmentally, economically and socially destructive invasive plant species in the world.
Giant salvinia is able to double in number and biomass in less than three days in optimal conditions and forms dense mats on still waters. The plant can regenerate even after severe damage or drying. The explosive growth of giant salvinia not only adversely affects the natural ecological system of the infested region, but it also causes considerable economic damage and sanitation problems.
Dense mats of salvinia reduce dissolved oxygen levels and block all sunlight from penetrating the infested water body, causing macrophytes and microscopic algae that form the base of the food chain to die off. The animals that feed on the algae may die, too, and so on, up the food chain. This pest also threatens cultivated aquatic crops, and it can clog irrigation and drinking water lines and foul hydroelectric plants. Salvinia-infested waters cannot be used for boating or other recreational purposes.
Since 1980, the tiny salvinia weevil – Cyrtobagous salviniae, Curculionidae – has been introduced into most regions invaded by giant salvinia. The weevil is a strict specialist and has successfully controlled salvinia for years in some regions. Other attempts to control and eradicate salvinia through chemical and mechanical means have failed and may lead to an environmental backlash caused by the introduction of chemicals or bio agents into the ecosystem, Li said.
“For many years, I have promoted utilization as an effective and environmental approach to control invasive species,” Li said. “I believe that positive actions such as identification of useful chemical components in existing invasive species and subsequent development of these species as medical or pharmaceutical crops would stimulate harvest and utilization.”
Part of the NCPC project is funded by the National Institute of Food and Agriculture of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Li is the principal investigator, while Drs. Ping Wang, Guangrui Deng and Wei Yuan participated in the research and were responsible for the primary isolation of the compounds.
Chris Moret of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department and his crew have collected about 1,000 pounds of plant matter in East Texas for use in the study. To date, more than 30 different compounds, including four new compounds, have been isolated from the giant salvinia. Further tests of the bioactive compounds isolated from giant salvinia are ongoing in Dr. Bharat B. Aggarwal’s lab in M.D.AndersonCancerCenter in Houston.
“Dr. Li and I have been discussing all the results we have jointly obtained with this plant, and it is looking extremely promising,” said Aggarwal, a professor in the Department of Experimental Therapeutics, Division of Cancer Medicine, at M.D. Anderson.
“We are very excited about the potential that exists with it, especially in the area of cancer, and I am very optimistic about what could result from this collaboration.”
Aggarwal added that securing funding for the continuing research is the biggest obstacle for the researchers to overcome in the short term. “Without funding, we can only do so much. So, that is going to be one of the limiting factors.”
Li said his team is grateful for the strong support their research has received from SFA’s Board of Regents and administration, the local community, and elected officials, including U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison and U.S. Rep. Louie Gohmert. The NationalCenter for Pharmaceutical Crops has received funds from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Education, SFA research development grants and private donations.
“I applaud Dr. Shiyou Li and his talented team of researchers and scientists for their innovative work right here in Texas to solve some of our country’s most pressing scientific problems,” Hutchison said.
“Under Dr. Li’s leadership, the NationalCenter for Pharmaceutical Crops at SFA has helped bring Texas to the forefront of medicinal plant research. Through their commitment to collaboration among a diverse range of fields from agriculture to biomedicine, they are achieving groundbreaking advancements in the treatment of many life-threatening diseases like cancer.”
Dr. Steven H. Bullard, dean of the Arthur Temple College of Forestry and Agriculture, said pioneer studies at the NCPC have made SFA an international leader in researching pharmaceutical crops.
“In the last several years, the center has dedicated its research to identifying novel anticancer and antiviral agents from native plants in Texas and noxious invasive species and to securing national strategic pharmaceuticals,” he said. “The team has tested 1,200 plant species native to Texas and isolated more than 600 compounds, including 106 new structures.”
Li has developed the first high-yielding cultivar of anti-cancer Camptotheca and Trichome Management technology to induce drug production. Both the cultivar and the technology have been granted patents. In 2005, his team identified leaves of Sweetgum as a high-yielding alternative source for imported shikimic acid. A limited supply of shikimic acid is the main reason for the global shortage of the antiviral drug Tamiflu.
Li and his colleagues at National Cancer Institute, M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, New York Botanical Garden and University of Puerto Rico have developed the concept and principle of pharmaceutical crops. With the support of a team of international leading scientists, most recently, they launched Pharmaceutical Crops, the only international peer-review journal in the field, with Bentham Science Publishers.
For more information about the NCPC at SFA, visit www.ncpc.sfasu.edu.
Organizers of the upcoming 14th annual Scare on the Square are seeking food and non-food vendors, church groups, organizations, and businesses to fill available booths at the popular Halloween event. Slated for Saturday, October 29h, 2011 the family friendly fall festival attracted over 9,000 people to the historic brick streets of downtown Nacogdoches last year.
Vendor applications are available at www.ci.nacogdoches.tx.us, by clicking on city departments and then Main Street. Forms are also available at the Main Street Office, located at 202 E. Pilar Street, room 216 in downtown Nacogdoches. A limited amount of booth space is available, so vendors are encouraged to make reservations early. The deadline to apply for space is October 14th. You can also call organizers at 936-559-2573 and have a form faxed to you.
Scare on the Square will be held from 5-8 p.m. and will host a variety of activities and events, including a haunted hay ride, pet and children’s costume contest, pumpkin baking contest and the popular haunted house.
For more information or questions about Scare on the Square please contact the Nacogdoches Main Street Office at 936-559-2573 or via email at obriens@ci.nacogdoches.tx.us.
Chris Herrington, Contributing Writer
Parents often ask me why their children are having such a tough time making their way through the world. I tell them that they themselves have no idea what kinds of pressures these kids are under now days. Let me give you a hint as to what our kids go through on a daily basis so that you can have even an inkling of what they are facing. I was listening to the radio that was being broadcast at the SFA gym this last Monday night from 3 until 6 PM. The songs are available on YouTube. Here are two of the ones I remembered.
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Best Night Of My Life Lyrics
[Jamie Foxx] http://www.notablebiographies.com/news/Ca-Ge/Foxx-Jamie.html
(Foxx, 44, describes putting the moves on a girl who is 21; they are drinking, he wants to see her in less clothing, and he wants to have sex with her, hoping that it will produce a child; he is hoping that she wants to have the time of her life with him for the night. There are no real consequences for this relationship, no on-going relationship or continued support in any way inferred. Our children may not have a clear sense of what a relationship is other than getting drunk and having sex.) This is not a moral examination of whether getting drunk, having sex, or having casual relationships are appropriate modes of conduct; I leave that to each family to police for themselves. In other societies and in other times, that young people would engage in these things is a matter of historic fact, especially due to the previously shorter life spans. I am merely asking people to think about the pressures that our youth feel in facing music, movies, TV, and radio that infers that the practices of these life choices are quite common.
The lyrics for Foxx’s song go like this:
I’m feeling good
I’m having fun
this is the best night of my life
girl can i be real?
I just wanna feel on your booty
that’s not a big deal
shawty you drinkin gon that Martini
I wanna see you in a bikini
or better yet a thong
baby what’s wrong?
tryna tell your girls what’s you purpose of this song
ooh, I want you closer
like a model of a poster
I wanna get ya to the car to the crib
up the stairs to the bed
in the morning you’ll be cooking us set
oooh baby, I love the smell of your perfume
and if we were kids I’d be breaking curfew
to stay up with you,
you gon need a scarf?
wrap your head cause it’s gon get wild
if we keep lovin’ like this, we might make a child
a daughter, a son, whichever one
girl your second to none
I’m feeling good
I’m having fun
this is the best night of my life
we off the Patron
and both of us gone
girl this gon be the best night of my life
you coulda been anywhere in the World
but you’re right here with me girl
and if we go home and make love
this could be the best night of your life
so girl let me ask you a question while we’re sipping bud
are you going home with me
after the club
thats a yes or a no, I’m just letting ya know
where this night can go
and girl I’m hoping you could see things my way
cause I just want your love to stay
tonight, tonight
I could be your bartender, tell me what you’re sippin’ on
girl, I’m not a travel agent so what you trippin’ on
you say I think I could make it happen cause I’m famous
nah, I’m just tryna get it cracking cause we faded
get you to my crib, spend some time alone
barely over 21 that mean you kinda grown
ermm, and I’m tat tat tatted up
come out to that bread
I’mma stack it up
where you born
baby girl back it up
http://www.elyricsworld.com/best_night_of_my_life_lyrics_jamie_foxx.html
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Chris Brown …………Make a Movie….
(We see a similar plot, alcohol, Patron is a favorite, and this time all of it needs to be documented in a video. He seems of have even less real feelings for the young woman; he just wants his fantasy and then he will be a director. She has the kind of talent that looks best when she is doing what? Read it for yourself. Here are the lyrics, hardly touched, well slightly.)
The perfect storm is Twista and Chris Brown ya dig
I got a new one for ya
Lets make a movie baby
Twista got cars
Big swagger
I’m a rock star like Mick Jagger
And I got bars that I spit faster
You a hot star no (girl) badder
So let me take you on a ride
On a journey with the one that you call daddy
Who gon make you get it wet
But this time we gon do something romantic and different
I’ll tell you about it when we get on the movie set
I was thinking that we could just make a sex tape
Plus I think yo face cute when it’s a HD
Maybe I could tape you and you could tape me
When I pull my h2 up to your h3
You know that you want to be in this movie
So don’t be acting like a trippin’ with a stranger mission
Recording you while you lovin’ me down below
Switching the camera angle when we change positions
You could be the director aiming the camera down at me
Filming me licking until you say cut
Ready for any footage you wanna get
Ain’t gotta call nobody else because
I do my own stunts
Its the X rated version of a box office hit
I see you ready to strip for this
So let me get the music in, get the tape in, get the cameras in (oh oh oh ohhh)
Baby we don’t need no script for this
I’ma throw a couple thousand baby strip for this
Let me pull my camera and make a movie yeah
Starring you and me yehhh
Baby we don’t need no actresses
Let me tell you what I’m working with, I’ma break your back with this
Let me pull my camera out let’s make a movie yehhh
Starring you and me yehhh yehhh, girl
Shawty we gon make a movie
Got me lovin it when I’m feelin on the booty
Especially when I can blame it on the alcohol
Coz it do something to me
She look better than any chick in my perimeter
Sexy, I wish I could film every bit of her
Kiss her neck down to her stomach and then I’ma
Tell her we could be in a personal cinema
I let you hold the camera first and then I hold it then
Cuz I wanna see how its coming out and goin in
Let you see such a freak in me, I hope this never leak on TMZ this is 50 world star or CNN
Baby girl you kick the world off the axis
Im yo director, filming you for practice
And you know I think you a hell of an actress
Especially when I’m shooting you on a matress
Shawty straight to the top that’s where we headed
And I’ma see my name in the credits
And be the (stuff) if you let it
See somethin that you not really feelin
Then we can always go back and make an edit
I’ll be sippin on Patron platinum
She knew about the rapping
But didn’t know I’d be on acting
Now a personal reality show
So then, get the tape in, get the cameras in (oh oh oh ohhh)
Baby we don’t need no script for this
I’ma throw a couple thousand baby strip for this
Let me pull my camera and make a movie yeah
Starring you and me yeah
Baby we don’t need no actresses
Let me tell you what I’m working with, I’ma break your back with this
Let me pull my camera out let’s make a movie yeah
Starring you and me yeah yeah
Girl.
[ From: http://www.metrolyrics.com/make-a-movie-lyrics-twista.html ]
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Our children expect to be able to do certain things as the grow up, buy alcohol and cigarettes, have certain rites of passage like having sex and acting out on their 18th birthday. Let’s not pass up the people our children look up to.
Miley Cyrus smoking from a bong:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXorgMrrkyw&feature=related
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I’m wondering how long it has been since you looked at your child’s film and audio library. You may be fueling a full blown rebellion by supplying them with the very things that are giving them the idea that you are old and stupid. And wouldn’t you feel foolish if you had bought something that you would hate for your child to have and then handed it to them. Ask yourself about the clothes you’ve bought, the music and videos you’ve bought. How is that working out for you? So, do I believe that rap and rock need to be pulled off the shelves? Heck no. I listen to it myself! I talk to my nephews and nieces about everything. If you are old enough to ask the question, I give them the answers. If I see that they are listening to this or watching that, I follow up, download the lyrics or view it for myself. I try to provide things that I feel are substantial and supporting. I do not recoil or judge the choices they make. But I am not ignorant of the things they get into. If I thought they were doing something that I thought would do them harm, I would deal with it directly. I am not without a rudder; I just don’t want to be their conscience. I point out the lyrics, I ask questions, and I am nosey to a fault. I am fearless and without shame. I don’t even pretend to know it all, but I can look things up, and I don’t mind awkward conversations.
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Chris Herrington can be reached at herrington@everythingnac.com
A graveside service for Mr. Meltruem Lee “Bill” Mills, 83, of Houston, Texas will be held on Wednesday, July 13. 2011, at 10:00 at Greenwood Cemetery in Garrison, Texas with Bro. Bill Taylor officiating. Mr. Mills was born on September 30, 1927, in Nacogdoches, Texas to the late Dewey A. and Vera Socia Mills. He passed away on Sunday, July 10, 2011, in Houston, Texas. Bill served his country in the US Navy. He retired from Oteco as a supervisor. He was a simple man and liked simple things in life. He loved animals and working in the yard and watching things grow. He spent most of his time with his family and he like to cook on the grill for them. Bill is survived by a daughter, Lynn Mills Bryant Naranjo of Houston; sister, Sarah Elizabeth Smith of Timpson; grandchildren, Jason Alan Bryant and wife, Nancy of Bartlesville, Oklahoma, Jaimie Aline Naranjo of Houston and Jonathan Andrew Naranjo of Houston; great-grandchildren, Tyler Atwell Dixon, Ashlyn Elizabeth Dixon, Jackson Maximus-McDaniel Bryant and Addison Quinn Bryant all of Bartlesville, Oklahoma; one nephew, Kenneth Smith of Timpson; as well as numerous other extended family and friends. In addition to his parents he was preceded in death by four brothers, Dewey Mills, Jr., James Harold Mills, Thomas Gene Mills and Robert Allen “Bob” Mills. Visitation will be held on Tuesday, July 12, 2011, from 6-8 pm at Taylor Funeral Home. Arrangements are under the direction of Taylor Funeral Home of Timpson. To sign an online register or to convey condolences please visit www.taylorfh.net.
Services are pending for Dr. Roland C. Bunge, 91, of Nacogdoches. Dr. Bunge was born on April 4, 1920 in New Liepzig, North Dakota to Frank Otto Max Bunge and Ida Wojahn and passed away in Nacogdoches, Texas on July 11, 2011.
Betty T. Jones passed from this life on July 10, 2011. Born Betty Irene Thomas on January 23, 1928 in Atlanta, Georgia, she was the fifth of ten children of Charles Mitchell Thomas, Sr. and Jennie Pearl Meek. A loving, cheerful and gracious lady, she was a lifelong Baptist who loved the Lord.
Betty T. Jones
Betty grew up in Atlanta, Georgia. She married Van Buren Jones of Waco, Texas on December 21, 1948. They relocated to Midland, Texas in the early 1950’s before eventually moving to Houston in 1956. In Houston, they regularly attended White Oak Baptist Church, where Betty often taught Sunday School. They were avid members of the White Oak “42 Club” and made lots of dear friends during these years. Betty worked as an executive secretary for many years, and opened her own travel agency, Woodlands Executive Travel, after moving to The Woodlands in 1975. She later sold the agency but continued to work as a travel agent until retirement, specializing in cruises and trips for seniors to Branson.
In 1999 Betty relocated to Nacogdoches, Texas to be near her son Clifton and her grandchildren, where she lived in Northway Landing Apartments. In late 2008 she was diagnosed with dementia and had to move into assisted living at The Arbor; in 2009 she was transferred to The Rock Haven Nursing Home, where she lived until her death. She was much loved by the caring folks of Rock Haven, who took good care of her the entire time she was there.
Betty loved traveling and as a travel agent she was able to travel to many exotic places around the world. She rode the Orient Express across Europe, she walked on the Great Wall of China, and she saw many other places in between. Perhaps her favorite destination was Israel, where she was able to visit the Holy Land.
She had many dear friends over the years, and could astonish her children with her amazing ability to remember the names and details of neighbors and church friends from many years ago. She loved plants and gardening, playing 42 and “chickenfoot” with dominoes, “marbles”, and other games. She often reached out to others who were in need or hurting, displaying genuine Christian charity and love to those with whom she came in contact.
Betty was preceded in death by Van, her father and mother, her daughter Carol Jones, her brothers Charles M. (“Bubba”) Thomas, Jr. and Paul E. (“Pete”) Thomas, and her sisters Frances T. (“Louise”) Brown, Annie Pauline T. (“Polly”) Horton, and Norma T. Mayeske. Survivors include her brother Max W. Thomas and sister-in-law Remona of Dallas, Georgia; brother Blake A. Thomas and sister-in-law Wanda of Smyrna, Georgia; brother Frank S. Thomas of Atlanta, Georgia, and sister Melba T. McClain of Avondale Estates, Georgia.
She is also survived by her son Greg Jones and daughter-in-law Juli of Smithville, Texas; son Travis Jones of Houston, Texas; son Clifton Jones and daughter-in-law Rhonda of Nacogdoches, Texas; and her daughter Janice Jones of Portland, Oregon. She also leaves behind ten grandchildren, three great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
Visitation will take place from 5:00 p.m.-7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, July 13, and services will be held at 10:30 a.m. on Thursday, July 14, all at Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Home in Nacogdoches, Texas. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Park in Nacogdoches.
In lieu of flowers, donations may be made to Rock Haven Nursing Home, 401 S.E. Stallings Drive, Nacogdoches, TX 75964-7204.
Arrangements are under the direction of Cason Monk-Metcalf Funeral Directors, located at 5400 North St. in Nacogdoches, Texas. Online obituary and guestbook posted at www.casonmonk-metcalf.com.
