[Adger Smith]

I was talking to an old friend that knows a lot about the Hallsville situation. He said "if you noticed the ad said nothing about a Dragstrip" It is being marketed as "Land". He feels it will all end up in the hands of the attorneys that are involved in all the law suits. He even feels the "Bankruptcy" was a form of protection. I think he has some very good points. It's a shame that all this has happened. I cut my teeth racing at the older Hallsville track. The old one had each lane as 2 seperate tracks with grass in the middle, of your car. It also had a stoplight starting system. This is the new Hallsville track that RA Gray built.The last one to operate the track had a dispute with the land owner that had leased,to the track, a portion of the shutdown. (over the hill, past the finish line) That caused the track to go to 1/8 mile because of the short shutdown. The original builder of the track, RA Gray, had some long term lease deal with the landowner & actually paved the shutdown area into the other property. In years past we would leave Texarkana & go to Paris Tx on Friday night & I-20 at Tyler on Saturday & Hallsville on Sunday. Paris was 75 miles west of Texarkana, Hallsville was 75 miles S/W I-20 106 Mi. S/W. There is alot of good racing that has gone on at that track. What a shame!