The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1967 Page: 2 of 8
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Page 2 - Thursday, November 9, 1967 - THE HUMBLE ECHO
Pacific Newsletter
By Johnny Perry
Humble Peace Corp Volunteer
Editor’s note - Johnny
Perry,Humble High School
Early Settler
J.W. Rhoads
Dies Monday
James William Rhoads,
85, an early settler in the
Humble area, died Monday
in Houston. Funeral serv-
ices were held Tuesday
at the Humble Funeral
Home chapel with Rev.
Owen Dry officiating.
Rhoads at one time oper-
ated a grocery store in
Humble and worked in the
oil fields here.
Survivors include a son,
Thurston Rhoads of Hous-
ton; a daughter, Mrs. Ma-
bel Coker of Baytown; five
grand children and 11 great
grand children.
Burial was in Rosewood
Memorial Park cemetery
under direction of Humble
Funeral Home.
Lone Star
Group Seeks
Used Toys
The Lone Star Commun-
ications Assn, is working
with the Humble Lions Club
in picking up and repairing
toys for Christmas bas-
kets.
The group asked that re-
pairable toys be left at
these receiving stations:
Treadwell Cleaners, Smith
Cleaners, Blair Hardware,
Humble State Bank andLe-
land Super Mkt. Telephone
number to call for pickup
is HI2-3457.
and University of Houston
graduate serving in the
Peace Corps and writing
this column for The ECHO,
tells us he has received
several letters from home
and welcomes more. His
permanent mailing ad-
dress: Johnny Perry,
Peace C o r p s / Majure,
C.E. Adams
Funeral Here
On Tuesday
Charlie Elmer Adams,
49, a lifelong resident of
Humble, died Sunday in a
Houston hospital following
a brief illness. Funeral
services were held Tues-
day at the Humble Funeral
Home chapel with Rev. G.L.
Johnson officiating.
Adams lived on FM 1960
west of Humble.
Survivors include three
sisters, Mrs. Charles
Fields and Mrs. Morgan
Childers of Humble and
Mrs. John Beeson of Deer
Park, three nieces and five
nephews.
Burial was in the old
Humble cemetery under di-
rection of Humble Funeral
Home.
Discussion Group
Meeting Sunday
The Crisis in Commun-
ity discussion group is to
meet at 7:30 p.m. Sunday
in the Humble Methodist
Church fellowship hall.
Discussion subject is to be
delinquency.
Child care is to be pro-
vided.
Marshall Islands 96960.
Moen Island, Truk La-
goon-- Peace Corps train-
ing is over for my group.
Trainees, now Volunteers,
will soon be leaving by
ship, a huge white freighter
with the romantic nam Pa-
cific Islander, by DC-4,
seaplane, and motorboat
for their district assign-
ments.
In the village of Penia
on Udot it’s a sad time as
Volunteers prepare to
leave the little village that
has been their home for
the past months.
As I’m in mass com-
munications I am leaving
Penia a week ahead of the
rest of my group to fly
to Saipan, Mariana Islands
for a week conference on
the development of mass
media in Micronesia.
But before leaving Truk
here are some interesting
notes:
Truk is famous for its
love sticks. Trukese love
sticks, though now made
almost exclusively for sou-
venir s , are hand-carved
pieces of wood shaped like
a sawtoothed dagger. The
story of the love stick is
that a young man would
show his love stick to his
favorite girl, and a few
nights later he would shove
it through the side of her
thatch house where she was
sleeping and poke her with
it. Of course, the girl knew
whose love stick it was
by feeling the edges. If
she welcomed his at-
tentions, she pulled it on
through inviting the owner
to crawl into the hut along-
side her or else she pushed
the love stick back out...
telling the owner to “get
lost.”
The downfall of the Truk-
ese love stick came when
the people began moving
out of thatch walled dwell-
ing intoe.solid wall houses.
Pity!!
When the Japanese oc-
cupied Truk, they came to
stay. A good example of
this is the miles and miles
of old rusty Japanese rail-
road rails that must be in
Truk. At one time they had
track nearly circling some
of the larger islands.
The old rails are still
used. Not far from where
I lived on the island of
Tsis one of the over-the-
water-benjos or toilets was
connected to the shore by
three or four of these old
rusty rails. They are still
being traveled....but for a
little difference reason!
One custom of Trukese
men is the simple act of
holding hands. It is not
uncommon to see two men
walking or talking while
holding hands. It’s a sim-
ple gesture of friendship.
In Truk, and thoughout
Micronesia, land is passed
down through the female
line. One man I talked with
could live on the land of
his mother, and also the
land of his wife, but he had
none of his own.
Another Trukese custom
is for the immediate mem-
bers of the same family
to sleep together on the
same mat. This usually
means that one large mo-
squito net is hung over
several mats and the fam-
ily sleeps together under
the net. This was the cus-
tom of the family I lived
with on Tsis.
w nut; x d.iu jjiing uown a
quiet trail on Tsis I hap-
pened to meet the High
Commissioner of the Trust
Territory, the highest of-
ficial out here and appoint-
ed by the U.S. President.
He was making a tour of
Truk and happened to stop
by. After a brief conver-
sation about the Peace
Corps in Truk, he went
down the trail and on to
Trust Territory Head-
quarters in Saipan and his
business of running the
government, and I went the
other way down the trail
continuing my business of
looking for those old rusty
Japanese rails that lead
to the you-know-what.
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Pundt, John. The Humble Echo (Humble, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 9, 1967, newspaper, November 9, 1967; Humble, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1036530/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Humble Museum.