Junior has always had a strong sense of community and has occasionally been active in local politics. In the early 1980s, a lake was proposed that would cover almost the entire family farm. Junior, his family and neighbors organized for a fight that would last for the next 20 years. Utimately, it was a successful one.
One of the most memorable statements, I ever heard from Junior was at the first meeting concerning the damming of the Paluxy River in Glen Rose on February 25, 1985. The modern day carpet baggers were explaining their plan to take private property to develop a shallow mud hole in the Paluxy Valley.
Somewhere in my records, there is a note card with his exact words.
When a speaker noted the size of the project, your Dad spoke up with words were something like “that would be all of the bottom land, and, they are not taking any of it".
For a moment, the room and the speaker, got kind of quiet.
I guess those words were the first salvo (from the Save the Paluxy / Dinosaur Valley association ) of a 20 + year conflict.
Mike Allen, friend, neighbor, fellow river defender
(note – after the 20 + years, no bottom land has been taken from anyone)
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