KILGOROUND
BILL WOODALL

NEWS YOU likely can't use, but which is interesting nonetheless:

PRODUCTION of ethanol sufficient to fill a sport utility vehicle requires enough corn to feed a person for a year, according to a commodities analyst discussing the increasing price of grain.

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IN THE newspaper business, probably in your business too, we visit with a startling array of people employed in a wide assortment of jobs. Most of those people, even those who enjoy their work, seem to approach their jobs as if they are just that - jobs to be tended several days a week except when on vacation or sick leave.

BUT from time to time we meet people who appear to have found their calling - job that gives them genuine happiness.

AT LEAST two of the latter type are working in Kilgore today.

ED Finley, the pastor at Leverett's Chapel Baptist Church, may be the hap-

piest person we've ever met. If you want to see Ed smile, just mention his congregation.

AND Susie Prater either genuinely loves helping people or she's just remarkably cheerful.

WE'VE known Susie now in three different "jobs" but all were essentially the same - her job is helping people. We met her when she was the coordinator of volunteers at the Community Crisis Center, followed her to Presbyterian Children's Services and we've watched her settle into her new project as director of Helping Hands.

ALL of us should find occupations that make us as happy as Ed's and Susie's seem to have made them.

PERHAPS not coincidentally, both their jobs involve service to their community and their neighbors.

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A JOURNEY of a thousand miles begins with a leaky tire and a broken fan belt.

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IS anything in life as satisfying as finishing a remodeling project and watching the carpenters and painters finally move out of your living room?

HAPPY birthday today (Sunday, the second day of the first round of NBA playoffs) to Danny Henry, Darren Mallett, Keri Monroe, Debbie K. Evans, Regina Traxler, Ken Norris, Jennings James, Jeff Harborth, Arnold Rossum, Kim White, Colette Renee Hicks, Ruby Williams, Richard Rossow, Polly Pate, Joan Watson, Linda Joyce Stafford, Tommy Phillips, Adam Clark, Linda Anthony, Stella Roper, Jess Todd, Brian Allen Gacanich, Tommy Headricks, Kenny May, Nathan Roberts, Robert Lee Mumphrey, Janeece Mumphrey, Marlon Loyd.

CELEBRATING birthdays Monday are Elizabeth Chappell, Darrell Edwards, Karen Justin, Jonathan Michel, Roger Thompson Jr., June Terrell, Carrie Rozell, Pat Haynes, Jo Allbright, Alton Craig, L.G. Denmon, Bobbie Scott, Tita Harris, Frankie Johnson, Lanie Samford.

AND happy wedding anniversary Monday Kim and Ann Rowe, Ronnie and Elizabeth Chappell, Kelly and James Owens.