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Sweetwater Reporter
Monday, February 7, 2011 ■ Page 3
Obituaries
CHARLES HOMER
MARTIN, SR.
charl.es homer martin, sr.
Funeral services for Charles Homer Martin, Sr., 72, of
Sweetwater, will be held at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2011,
at McCoy Chapel of Memories with Mike Sells officiat-
ing. Interment will follow at Garden
Memories Cemetery under the
direction of McCoy Funeral Home.
A visitation will be held from 6-8
p.m. on Monday, Feb. 7, 2011, at
McCoy Funeral Home,
Martin died Thursday, Feb. 3,
2011, in Lubbock.
He was born March 9, 1938, in
Fort Worth. He married Loretta
Hennington on April 16, 1982, in
Sweetwater. He grew up Pentecostal
and was a truck driver for over
40 years and enjoyed boating. He
loved spending time with his grand-
children and great-grandchildren
and loved being a family man.
Survivors include his wife, Loretta Martin of Sweetwater;
two daughters, Brenda Ramey and husband Keith of
Sweetwater and Darla Jones and husband Wayne, Jr. of
Sweetwater; one son, Charles H. "Chuck" Mart ins Jr. and
wife Trish of Sweetwater; five step children, Joetta Cline
and husband Phil of Oklahoma, Trena Bryant and husband
Jesse of Arkansas, Patricia Popejoy of Sweetwater, Vanessa
Popejoy and husband Russell of Sweetwater and Willie
Popejoy of San Angelo; four sisters, Virginia Conatser of
Waco, Carolyn Goldman of Waxahachie, Dorothy Austin
of Irving and Mary Clark of Bella Vista, Ark.; two broth-
ers, Billy Martin and wife Linda of Springwood and Troy
Martin of Greenville, S.C.; 19 grandchildren; and 18 great-
grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his parents; four brothers,
one sister; and one great-grandson.
Pallbearers will be his nephews, Stanley Keeling, Kelly
Martin, Steve Martin, Mike Martin, Kenny Martin and
Virgil Martin, Jr.
dorothy louise waddell
Funeral services for Dorothy Louise Waddell, 78, of
Midland and formerly of Sweetwater, will be held at 2
p.m. Monday, Feb. £ 2011, at McCoy Chapel of Memories.
Burial will follow at Garden of Memories Cemetery, with
Fred Church officiating. The services will be under the
direction of McCoy Funeral Home.
Waddell joined her Lord and Savior on Thursday, Feb. 3,
2011, in Midland.
She was born on Nov. 7, 1932, in
Fisher County to Ernest and Lillian
(Lee) Perkins. Because of her fam-
ily's frequent moves, she attended
six different schools in 11 years.
She graduated from Spur High
School in 1950. She went on to
graduate from Methodist Hospital
in Dallas as a registered nurse in
1955. Upon graduation, she moved
to Roby and worked at Cogdell
Memorial Hospital as a labor and
delivery nurse. It was during that
time that she met Jimmy Ross
Waddell, and they were married on March 23,1957.
They lived in Roby until moving to Lake Sweetwater in
1968. She devoted all of her time, energy and love to her
four children.
She was actively involved as a room mother, PTA officer,
Brownie and Boy Scout leader, and Sunday School teacher.
She spent countless hours driving a boat around Lake
Sweetwater skiing with her children and their friends. In
addition, she prepared numerous meals.
Survivors include her husband of 53 years and their chil-
dren and spouses: Jay Ross Waddell of Austin; Vicki and
Barry Will ingham of Midland; Kelli and Matt Patterson
of Burkburnett; and Jim Bob and Wendy Waddell of
Midland; eight grandchildren, Leslie Thompson (Brian)
Bradye McQueen (Josh); Lexie and Jackson Willingham
Katherine Pattersoi Jordan Waddell; and Logann
and Harlie Moore, She has one great-grandson, Slade
Thompson. Additional survivors inclu e her five sis-
ters, Eudine Conrad of Midland, Laverne Hughes (Jack)
of Lewisville, Clarece McCain (James) o1 Midland,
Shirley Church (Fred) of Sweetwater and Minta Eury of
Duncanville.
Dorothy was preceded in death by her parents and by
her brother, Ernest,
Pallbearers will be Tann Pace, Kyle Lawrence, Tom
Meek, Craig Johnson, Ronnie Williams and Perry Church.
Honorary pallbearers will be Jay Lawrence, Beau
Patterson, Dean Church, Todd Moore and Max Headrick.
francisca al.cala
Francisca Alcala, 87, of Sweetwater, passed away Sunday,
Feb. 6, 2011, at Rolling Plains Memorial Hospital.
Funeral services are pending at Cate-Spencer & Trent
Funeral Home. Arrangements are under the direction of
Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home.
Four children injured
in two bus crash
DOROTHY LOUISE
WADDELL
Four children were
injured Thursday morning
in a two bus rear end crash
in Scurry County.
Among those injured
were 15 vear old Mary
Ann Por o, lo-year-ol
Zach Harty eight-year-old
Haygen Halkowitz and sev-
en ear-old Devin Moore
The crash occurred in
I lerml gh at 9:50 a.m. on
Thursday morning. The two
vehicles involved were a
2006 Thomas bus driven by
Ronnie Roemisch of Loraine,
and a 1992 International bus
driven by Charlene Mason
Dacus of Hermleigh.
The first bus was stopped
in front of Hermleigh SD
unloading ch ildren. The sec
ond bus pulled up behind
the first bus, yet failed to
stop. Weather played a
major part in the crash due
to cloudy weather and icy
conditions, as the roadway
was covered in ice.
AT, of the children are
listed in good condition at
Cogdell Memorial Hospital
in Snyder. As of Friday,
Harty lad already been
released from the hospital.
The crash is under inves-
tigation by Trooper Jason
Ray McMillan.
Honor
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that normally wouldn't be able to make it to Washington
D.C are able to do so. Those taking the flight will visit and
view the WWII monuments and other monuments at no
cost to the veterans. The memorials were built as a trib-
ute for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice, the WWII
veterans.
"The nation is losing about 1,100 veterans a day,"
Ballenger said. "Time is of the essence."
For those wanting to donate to the honor flights, dona-
tions can be mailed to West Texas Honor Flights P.O. Box
125 Council Bluffs, Iowa 51502.
"No donation is too big or too small," Ballenger said.
"Donations can even be made in memory of a veteran,
simply write it in the memo field of the donation."
For those wanting to take part in the honor flight,
an application car: be requested by calling 1-855-322-
6638 or going online to www.westtexashonorflight.org.
Applications can also be picked up at Hardin-Simmons
University at the Dyess Welcome Center near the Cedar
Street entrance or the Taylor County Veterans Service
Office.
"It's one day of our lives for a lifetime of freedom,"
Ballenger said.
Super Bowl ads: Eminem,
Darth Vader, catering dogs
MAE ANDERSON
Associated Press
But a pair of commercials by automakers took the early
trophy for online buzz.
A two-minute ad for Chrysler starring Eminem and
a Volkswagen ad featuring a mini-Darth Vader that
went viral before it even aired were two of the most
talked-about spots during advertising's big night, Super
Bowl XLV, in which Green Bay Packers defeated the
Pittsburgh Steelers 31-25.
Clin r was one of nine automakers that took advan-
tage of advertising's biggest and most expensive show-
case, at $3 million for 30 seconds, to try to show they're
back after two tough years for the industry.
The cinematic third-quarter Chrysler ad starred
Eminem driving through Detroit and introduced a new
car, the Chrysler 200 sedan, amid gritty scenes of the
city. A voiceover talks about how the city has survived
g ng through "hell and back."
"This is the Motor City and this is what we do,"
Eminem says.
The Chrysler ad was "the big story of the night,"
according to NM Incite, a Nielsen/McKinsey Co. that
tracks 01 e buzz.
Consumers repeated the "imported from Detroit slo-
gan over and over in online buzz, the company said.
"It was a very risky commercial, but it scored very
well with our panel that rates the ads, said Tim Calkins,
Clinical Professor of Marketing at the Kellogg School of
Management.
Another hit was a Volkswagen's ad that showed a boy
in a Darth Vader costume trying to use "The Force" on
objects, including the Passat.
It really wasn selling a car, it was selling a feeling,
and it tapped into its target market of families very
effectively, which you usually don't see in a car ad," sa
Robert Kolt, an instructor at Michigan State University
College of Communication Arts & Sciences.
Volkswagen released the ad early on Youtube.com
and it had than 13 million views before the game even
started.
Elsewhere, celebrities and humor dominated. A scant-
il clad Kim Kardashian broke up with her trainer for
Skechers, Roseanne Barr took a I g hit from a log in
a Snickers ad and comedian Joan Rivers, her head at
least, became a GoDaddy girl.
According to the USA Today Super Bowl Ad Meter,
the best-scoring ads featured dogs: A Doritos ad that
showed a man taunting a dog and getting smashed
under a glass door, and a Bud Light ad that showed dogs
catering a party. The newspaper uses a panel of viewers
who rate the commercials as they watch them.
After avoiding the Super Bowl for two years as it went
in and out of a government-led bankruptcy, General
Motors came back with five ads for Chevrolet. In one
ad, a seemingly mundane car dealership ad is disrupted
when a Camaro suddenly morphs into the Bumblebee
character from the "Transformers" movies.
One miss was daily coupon website Groupon's fake
public service ad with Timothy Hutton, which appeared
to b( a plea for help for people of Tibet but instead
touted a deal from Groupon for fish curiy.
While aiming for humor, "It wasn't a very effective
piece of communication and clearly rubbed some people
the wrong way;" Calkins said.
A Homeaway.com ad featuring a "test baby" smushed
against a window also garnered negative reaction from
ad experts and "didn't resonate with people," Calkins
said.
Some ads, predictably, drew criticism for being enter-
taining without doing much to sell people on the item
being advertised.
Among those was an ad for Lipton Brisk Iced Tea in
which an animated Eminem explains why he doesn't
usually do endorsements. He throws a business type off
a roc when he refuses to rename the drink "Eminem."
"It was confusing, and it didn't say a lot about the
product," Calkins said.
Not all ads went for laughs. Motorola Mobility's
6o-second spot during the second quarter played off
of the famous Apple ad "1984." The dialogue-free
Motorola ad shows a worlc where drones dress all in
white and wear Apple iPod-like earbuds and a man uses
a Motorola Xoom tablet to free and woo a girl.
The message is that Apple has become an oppressor
rather than a liberator, and show Motorola's tab t as a
worthy opponent to Apple's popular iPad, said Bill Ogle,
chief marketing officer of Motorola Mobility.
'A lot of people just try to go for laughs," he said.
"There are all kinds of sex and monkeys and horses
(during the Super Bowl), but what we were trying to do
is a bit more of a serious story."
Two women die
ai er boat capsizes
STANTON, Texas (AP) — Two West Texas women have
died after their boat capsized during a family fishing trip.
Martin County Sheriff John Woodward says Melody and
Kyle Cook were fishing along with Kyle Cook's son, Kevin
Cook, and Kevin's wife, Erin Cook, when their boat cap-
sized on Lake Thomas on Saturday evening.
Woodward tells the Midland Reporter-Telegram that
the boat overturned.
Authorities say Kyle Cook stayed with the boat while his
wife, son and daughter-in-law tried to swim to shore in
34-degree weather.
Kevin Cook and his wife reached shore, but she later
died at the hospital from hypothermia. Melody Cook never
made it to shore and her body was found Sunday morn-
ing.
Woodward says Kyle Cook was rescued. Both he and his
son were treated and released for extreme hypothermia.
Sweetwater
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City Commission
to moot Tuesday
The City Commission of the City of Sweetwater will
meet in regular session at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 8,
2011, in the City Commission
Room of the City Hall, 200 E. 4th Street.
1. Call to order.
2. Invocation.
3. Pledge of allegiance.
4. City Commission to consider approval of minutes
for the meeting held on Jan. 11, 2011.
5. Action Items:
A. City Commission to consider approval of the
Comprehensive Annual Financial Report (Audit) for the
fiscal year ended Sept. 30, 2010.
B. City Commission to consider approval of an ordi-
nance ordering an election of the qualified voters of
the City of Sweetwater to be held May 14, 2011 for the
purpose of electing the mayor and two city commission-
ers (Precincts 1 and 3); designating a polling place and
appointing election judges.
C. City Commission to consider reappointment of
Larry Ludlum as City appointee to the Auditorium
Board with term expiring Feb. 28, 2013.
D. City Commission to hear the annual report to the
Commission regarding Racial Profiling Statistics.
E. City Commission to consider authorizing staff to go
out for bids on ACS asphalt and Grade 4 crushed rock to
be used in 2011 streets seal coating project.
F. City Commission to consider reappointments of
members of the City/County Airport Zoning Board, Ben
Turner as city appointee and Paul McCarthy as alternate,
city appointee, both terms to expire Feb. 28, 2013.
G. City Commission to consider entering into Executive
Session pursuant to the provisions of 551.071 and
551.072 of the Texas Government Code to consult with
the City Attorney regarding pending and threatened liti-
gation and to deliberate on the purchase, sale or lease of
real property.
H. City Commission to consider entering into Regular
Session.
I. City Commission to consider any action necessary
from the
Executive Session.
6. City Manager's Report.
A. Election calendar is in packets.
B. City staff is working on a $50,000 matching grant
from Oncor for energy efficiency projects.
C. We received notification that we have once again
been approved for the Texans Feeding Texans Grant in
the amount of $16,459.73.
D. Feb. 15, 2011, we will make a payment for bond
interest of $378,736.
E. .Ian nan sales tax remittance from the state was up
43.5% from the prior year and is up 17% year to date
($112,725.78).
7. Public Input,
8. Adjournment.
Verizon
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MIDDAY ON WALL STREET
Today's Trading
Change
DOW
12,147.74
+55.59
NASDAQ
2,783.73
+14.43
S&P
1,317.78
+6.91
General Motors
36.81
+0.22
Ford Motor Co.
16.09
+0.37
AT&T
27.77
-0.20
Pepsico, Inc.
63.58
-0.26
I S<i Corp.
16.69
+0.20
Archer-Daniels
36.05
-0.04
GE
20.85
+0.29
Deere & Co.
93.68
+0.47
McDonalds Corp.
73.43
-0.63
Chevron Texaco
97.46
+0.35
Exxon Mobil
83.78
+0.50
Fst. Fin. Bnkshs.
50.13
+0.49
Coca-Cola
62.44
-0.12
Dell
13.98
+0.09
SW Airlines
12.04
+0.32
Microsoft
28.11
+0.33
Sears Holdings Co.
83.76
+0.10
Cisco
22.26
+0.21
Wal-Mart
56.01
-0.02
Johnson & Johnson
60.70
-0.14
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