The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1974 Page: 5 of 15
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Thursday, August 8, 1974
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Page Five
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BIRD, DOG — B.J., a blue jay, sits with friend
Charlie in a basket. They've been friends since B.J.
was found on a golf course in Greensboro, N.C., by
the Gerald Parker familv.
Dear Mr. Edyter:
I read in the paper tother
day where them congressmen
what’s been argyin’ back and
forth twixt one nuther on that
House Judiciary Committee
finely wound up they little
set-to by votin’ to persent 2 or
3 articles fer depeachin’ the
president to the full House of
) Representatives. Ya know, I
wrote and told ya about the
scandulus way they’uz carryin’
on up there here while back.
Why, I even went so far as to
call alia that bunch on that
committee a bunch of
fruitcakes.
W-e-1-1!! I’ll have you to
know that I come acrost a
couple of old biddys down
town tother day that done give
me my comeupperance about
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Community
Center Schedule
Social Security, Aug. 12 and
Aug. 26.
Downtown Lions Club,
every Thursday at noon.
Evening Lions Club, every
Thursday evening.
Veterans of World War I,
Monday, Aug. 19, at noon.
Business Men’s Full Gospel,
second Monday of the month.
Rotary Club, every Tuesday
at noon.
Saddle Club, third Tuesday
of the month.
Country Jamboree, third
Saturday of the month.
Square Dance Club, first
Saturday of the month.
Veterans County Service
>Office, Monday through
Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Office
Phone 586-3261; Home Phone,
586-6179.
County Welfare Office,
Monday through Friday. Office
Phone 586-2270.
Pre-School County
Immunization, Monday, Aug.
5. 1 to 4 p.m.
T. B. Clinic, Wednesday,
Aug. 14, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
Lions-Teachers Banquet,
Aug. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
callin’ that bunch “fruitcakes.
They give me to understand
right quick like that them folks
on that committee was US
Representives and that I’d ort
to be more respectful of ’em
and not be goin’ ’round callin’
’em a bunch a fruitcakes. Fact
is, they’uz one a these old
sisters that’d dope got her
hackles way yonder heisted up.....
about the whole deal. She sed
that them folks was up there
doin’ the job that the
Constitution called fer ’em to
do and that even if they did git
a little outta patience with one
nuther that still t’weren’t no
call to refer to ’em as
fruitcakes. She also didn’t
waste no time atall a nointin’
out the fact that the way things
had turned out, what with Mr.
Nixon ownin’ up to some a the
things he’d been charged with
only went to show that them
fellers knowed what it t’was
they’uz doin’ after all.
She didn’t actual come right
out and make no accusin’
remarks towards me, but she
did kinda incinerate that she
had her a purty good notion
who it t’was that’uz a shore
nuff fruitcake. Course now, I
aint a aimin’ on jumpin’ into
the middle of the question that
she brought up as to who the
actual fruitcake is. They’s some
things that’s best left unsaid.
Now, ever since I listened (I
couldn’t git a word in
edgewise) to them old gals, I
have give what they sed a
considerable amount of
thought. And, I dunno, maybe
so they might a been sumpum
to what they sed. It could be
that I’uz a mite too rough on
’em and heaped just a little bit
more criticizum on ’em than’uz
what they needed. I shore nuff
didn’t mean to pour more on
’em than’uz necessary. I’uz
kinda like the old maid skule
teacher that’d never had a date
before in her life, and when she
finely did git a date with this
good lookin’ feller, why, first
off she proposed to him.
Course he run from her like
he’d been shot from behind
with a load fulla ice cream salt.
Somebody ask her why she’d
popped the question to him
’fore he’d even commence to
court her. She said that it just
seemed like the natural thing
to do at the time. I reckon
maybe that’s the reason I
called them committee
members a bunch a fruitcakes.
I didn’t aim to overdo it.
I wonder how many folks
rekolect that there miricle
vitimin tonic they used to have
on the market a good many
years ago. The name of it t’was
“Hadacol.” Now this here
Hadacol was supposed to cure
everthing from ingrowed
toenails to real bad cases of the
Dropsy. The makers a this
Hadacol layed claim to the fact
that if ya’d just take a good
dose a the stuff twice a day,
why, it’d give ya enuff energy
to make ya wanta box 10
rounds or so with Joe Louis.'
And arthyritis? Just stick to a
daily dose a Hadacol and fergit
about it. I’ll tell ya sumpum
else about that Hadacol, too.
It’uz 16% alcohol, and if ya
took a real big king sized dose
of it, why ya could git you a
real humdinger of a buzz on
that’d last fer an hour or more.
Real fine stuff that Hadacol.
Now it t’was that Ole
Woman had her some kindly of
a little ole potted plant of
some kind or nuther, and
she’uz havin’ a dickens of a
time gittin’ the pore little ole
thing to grow. The more she’d
tend to it and nurse it, the
worser off it’d git. She dosed it
with pert nigh ever kinda plant
food that a body could
imajine, and she just watered
the fire outta it. She near
’bouts drowned the pore little
outfit is what she done.
Howsomever, it didn’t make no
never mind what she done to
it, it just kept on a gittin’
puneyer and puneyer.
First news ya know it’d
done puneyed itself down so
that the leaves commence to
turn brown. Then the stalk
looked like it’d died. Now I’d
been takin’ purty libural doses
a this here Hadacol ever day
HOUSEHOLD HINTS
Discolored handkerchiefs
may be whitened by soaking
them in cold water to which a
pinch of cream of tartar has
been added.
Clean a floor mop by
washing it thoroughly and then
soaking it in a solution of
%-cup bleach for one gallon of
water. Rinse the mop and dry
it on a clothesline. You may
also soak the mop in a pail of
ammonia water. But never use
a combination of bleach and
ammonia.
Let the children make a
jigsaw puzzle on the next
bad-weather day. They will
need some lightweight
cardboard, glue, scissors, and
old magazines. First they
should cut some colorful
pictures out of the magazines.
Then they should glue the
pictures to pieces of the
cardboard and allow the glued
pieces to dry. The final step is
to cut the dry pictures into
Elvin L. Kimball et ux to E.
Edward Spangler et ux,
warranty deed, lot 6, block 6,
Kermit Heights.
R. B. Estel et ux to Alan C.
Williams, warranty deed, lot 8,
block 3, Fleetwood Addition,
Kermit.
Sophia Howard Dunbar to
John Moseley Walker Jr. et ux,
warranty deed, lots 1,2, 3, 4, 5
and 6, block 49, Original Town
of Kermit.
Maxine J. Flayler to Dale
Beard et ux, warranty deed, lot
12, block 7, Memorial Park,
Kermit.
Wilbert Hoover et al to
Maxene Moon, warranty deed,
lots 17 and 18, block 91, First
Addition, Kermit.
Claburne E. Jones et ux to
Raul Madrid et ux, warranty
deed, lots 3,4 and 5, block 81,
First Addition, Kermit.
Leona Mae Page to Gary
Lynn Warren et ux, warranty
deed, south 10 feet of lot 3, all
of lots 4, 5 and 6, block 66,
Wink, 2nd Unit.
Alan C. Williams et ux to
Kenneth R. Van Deman et ux,
warranty deed, north 14 feet
of lot 11 and south 58 feet of
lot 11 and south 58 feet of lot
10, block 2, Kermit Heights,
Kermit.
L. K. Rummun et ux to
Carroll Dean Simpson et ux,
warranty deed, north 40 feet
of lot 17 and south 10 feet of
lot 18, block 21, Plaza
Addition, Kermit.
Joe Glen Harper to Abram J.
Boyd et ux, warranty deed,
lots 23 and 24, block 19,
Underwood Addition, Kermit.
George A. Barber, a single
man, to Robert C. Bandel et
ux, warranty deed, lot 23,
block 23, Underwood
Addition, Kermit.
RACQUET CLUB OFFICERS
Shown above are the three officers of the recently organized Kermit Racquet Club. The officers
are (left to right) president Mrs. Bob (Tillie) Husky, vice president Kent Mitchell and
secretary/treasurer Mrs. Ann Hill. (Staff Photo)
Bill Hobby To Speak At Luncheon
and it seem to be helpin’ me
considerable. So-o, I got to
thinkin’. If that Hadacol’d help
me, then why t’wouldn’t it
help that little puny haff dead
plant. So I commence mixin’
up a fourth a teaspoon a
Hadacol in a cup a water ever
day and poured it around the
little devil.
Low and behold!! The littl^f
devil commence to perk up and
commence turnin’ green. I’d
come to figger I’d missed my
callin’. I should a been a
flowerest. I got so excited
about that little plant I decided
I’d really give it a helpin’ hand.
I mixed up a whole tablespoon
a Hadacol with a cup a water
and poured it on it. Yer
righter’n rain. It died just
bigger’n Dallas. A little bit
helped but a whole lot was too
much. Ole Woman never let me
hear the last of it nuther.
I thank ya kindly ,
Boll Weevel Willie
P.S. I still say they’s a bunch a
fruitcakes!!
BWW
MONEY BACK
YEARS LATER
A Lewistown (Idaho)
resident opened a letter and
out fell $100 in one- and
five-dollar bills. A note with
the money was signed by a
name the Idaho man, Homer
Tumelson, couldn’t make out.
It fread: “Remember back in
19,36 or ‘37, when we were at
the Black Lady Mine southwest
of Elk City? You lost some
money. Well I found it and I
want to return it to you.”
County judges and school
superintendents from 47
counties will be honored
August 14 at a luncheon on the
Mid-Continent Campus of
Texas State Technical
Institute, with Lieutenant
Governor Bill Hobby as guest
speaker.
The special event is planned
by State Tech in appreciation
for the participation of these
educators and officials in
off-campus and campus-based
training through TSTI. General
Manager Lovell Pillow points
that the cooperation of these
people in the 47 counties
served by the Mid-Continent
Campus has been vital in the
successful training of hundreds
of students.
The day’s events will begin
with a reception at 9:30 a.m.
in the Blue Room of the TSTI
Campus Activity Center. A
recognition program will be
presented by faculty members.
State Senator Max Sherman
will present Lt. Gov. Hobby as
speaker at the luncheon.
Campus tours , will be
conducted in the afternoon.
Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby, elected
in 1972, has long been active in
civic and political affairs. He
has served on presidential
committees, the Texas Air
Control Board, the University
of Houston Board of Regents,
and the Houston Chamber of
Commerce Board of Directors.
President of the Houston Post,
he has held offices in several
newspaper organizations.
Since his election as
Lieutenant Governor, he has
been named Chairman of the
Energy and Natural Resources
Committee of the National
Conference of Lieutenant
Governors. He also serves as
Chairman of the Governor’s
Energy Advisory Council,
Hobby is a graduate of Rice
University and served three
years in the office of Naval
Intelligence. He is married to
the former Diana Poteat
Stallings, and they live in
Austin with their four children.
Mid-Continent Campus of
Texas State Technical Institute
will begin its fifth year this fall,
offering 16 full programs, and
with an anticipated enrollment
of more than 500 students.
RUNS SCORE
AT FAST CLIP
Baseball fans who like lots
of scoring would hav6 had their
fill during a recent Pioneer
League game at Great Falls,
Mont., in which the host club
buried Ogden, 32-14. The 46
runs established a league record
for most runs in a game by
both clubs.
The host Giants batted
around in three innings, scored
nine runs in the first frame, 11
in the fourth and eight in the
fifth.
Mercifully, the game was
halted after eight innings by a
curfew or the total might have
gone still higher.
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Parks, Phil. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 8, 1974, newspaper, August 8, 1974; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1034993/m1/5/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.