The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1997 Page: 4 of 18
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Thursday, May 8, 1997 / Tht Comanche Chief / Pa«e 4A
By Dorothy F Robertson
Alfred Way land Evans came to
where 1 was working this week
and asked if we could use a symp
bucket at the museum That is one
of the items needed when the
cooking of the sweet homemade
sorghum syrup is the finished
product and reads for keeping
That is just what we have been
looking for Only this one was not
suitable for keeping sorghum
syrup We do need some syrup
buckets to sit at the old null
A few vears ago. our father grew
the sugar cane and tned his had
making the homemade sorghum
symp. which took the cooperation
of many friends and family There
w as an art to know just how long
to cook the symp. how hot to keep
the fire underneath to copper vat,
and to know when the symp is the
proper texture
The final step in the cooking
process is cooling the thick and
rich, pure sorghum symp as it
flow s out of the vat That is when
the symp is put into jars, jugs or
symp buckets-sometimes one-half
gallon buckets; sometimes one
gallon buckets
Lowery Easley has set the com-
plete symp operation, ready for
use, with everything except for
the mule to walk around the juice
crushing mill, at the museum
When I was a kid, we kept our
symp, that was made in the fall, in
the cellar and would use it as we
needed it to make candy or to put
in cakes, cookies, or popcorn bads
We ate a lot of sorghum syrup md
hot biscuits One dish, we as lads
liked, was to take leftover biscuits,
slice them in half, and drop them
into a skillet of boiling hot symp
flavored with a large pat of home-
made cow butter
This concoction was thinned a
little with hot water, then baked in
a hot, wood stove for a few
minutes That was lip smacking
good'
Recalling the process of making
the sorghum from my childhood
began with stripping the cane of
the blades, then cut it in the field,
and piled it on the wagon Then,
the stripped canes would oe put
through the crusher to squeeze out
the juice The juice is caught from
a spout and poured into the
cooking vat
Different troughs in the copper
cooking pan or vat are used over
an open fire The juice begins to
foam and that is skimmed and
removed Soon the symp begins to
be cooked down, and then, the
symp is moved with scoop-
paddles from one compartment
into the next adjoining one until it
gets into its final stage Dad set the
operation on our hill northeast of
the high school in order to have
level ground for the pan
It is estimated that it took about
eight to ten gallons of juice to
make one gallon of symp The old
homemade syrup had no additives
There was nothing taken out or
put in It is very difficult to find
sorghum symp in the stores any
more, for some reason, but some
of us still enjoy the taste of good
sorghum symp
The symp making pan, squeeze
mill, pots and pans used in the
operation can be seen in the im-
plement area, thanks to Lowery
Easley for sharing it with us
To complete the display it would
be nice to have the gallon symp
bucket, one half-gallon bucket,
along with a Mason fruit jar and a
quart fruit jar or two on the shelf
above the old copper pan
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Intermediate and
]r. High School
U.I.L. Results
The Comanche Intermediate and
Junior High Schools participated
in the 1997 UIL Competition on
Tuesday, April IS.
Those competing in the compe-
tition were:
Ready Writing: Third Grade
4th, Caitlin Coleman
Fourth Grade 3rd. Tanner
Hicks
Fifth Grade I st. Kimberly Wil-
liams. 6th. Danielle Bailey
Seventh Grade 4th, Shayla
Stepp
Stery Telling: Third Grade
3rd. Brandon Drake. 4th, Bess
Luker
Number Sense: Fourth Grade
I st. Katie Varner. 2nd, John Schu-
man. 9th, Ausencia Ramirez
Fifth Grade 2nd, Clint Ferrell.
3rd, James Oxford, 4th, Victor
Arredondo. 7th, Brandon Kidwell
Sixth Grade 1st, Alaina Mc-
Donald, 2nd, Laura Johnson; 3rd,
Chance Isham
Seventh Grade 1st. Margaret
Toal, 6th, Stepp
Oral Reading: Fourth Grade
6th, Sandi Underwood
Fifth Grade 2nd, Lauren Tur-
ner, 3rd, Geoffry Dudley
Picture Memory-Team
Fourth Grade 1st, (Nicole Inck,
Adam Johnson, Ashley McPher-
ran-100%, Matthew Rodmquez,
Varner, Tanna Walker)
Fifth Grade 1st, (Kassie Abbey,
Jessica Bmzas, Pietro Guistino-
alt 100%, Amy Stmbe-100%,
Amy Turner, Williams-100%)
Listening: Fifth Grade 1st,
Josh Swears, 6th, Stephen Co-
horn •
Sixth Grade: 1st, Michael Hoge,
I st, Chad Strew
Music Memory-Team: Fifth
Grade 1st, (Bailey-100%, Keith
Kimmel-100%, Sarrur Patel, Angie
Rios-Alt 100%)
Sixth Grade: 2nd, (Alice Berg-
mark, Anthony Sandoval, Dawson
Hicks, Brandon Johnson)
Maps, Graphs, & Charts:
Fifth Grade: Matthew Byrd, 5th,
Marshall Whitney, 6th, Michaela
Walker
Warns^ GradC 5th’ ^ W-
Seventh Grade: 1st, Taylor Ab-
bey; 3rd, Kate Whitney, 6th,
Tonya Wilkerson
Spelling: Sixth Grade 2nd,
Chasity Nichols; 6th, Jarrett
Bates
Eighth Grade: 6th, Kaimi Esco-
bar ^
Dictionary Skills: Sixth Grade
1st, Nichols; 2nd, McDonald, 4th,
Bergmark
Seventh Grade 1st, Toal, 2nd,
Stephanie Ortizl; 6th, Jessica
Arredondo
Eighth Grade 6th, Tiffany Gore
Impromptu: Seventh Grade
5th, Megan Clifton
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These students received a Certificate pf Achievement from the Duke University Talent Identifi cation
Program, MAP. MAP (Motivation for Academic Performance) is a program that focuses on the high
achiever by drawing attention to positive performance, sharing pertinent inform a-ti on, and providing
avenues to enrichment opportunities. To qualify a student must be in the 4th or 5th grade and have a
T A AS reading TLI score of 94 or above or a math TL1 scote of 88 or above Students who qualified and
enrolled in the 1997 MAP Program are Kassie Abbey, Randy Arnold, Anthony Arreola, Danielle Bailey,
Scott Bearden, Geoffrey Dudley, Pietro Giustino, Michael Glasgow, Tanner Hicks, Jeremy Holland, Seth
Jones, Terry Kolb, Nathan McDaniel, Virginia Mosier, Justin Shelton, Daniel Sims, Aaron Turner, Amy
Turner, Tanna Walker, Heather Wilson, and Bnttany Watson
Hospital Nurses to Sponsor
Jr. High End of School Dance
Eighth Grade' 5th, Jack Boden-
hamer
Poetry: Sixth Grade 4th, Ste-
ven Easley
Eighth Grade 1st, Gerald Dud-
ley, 4th, Haley Damron
Prose: Eighth Grade 2nd,
Kathleen Cobb, 3rd, Kimberly
Hidrogo
Highway Patrol
Investigates Nine
Traffic Accidents
The. Texas Highway Patrol
investigated 9 rural traffic
accidents in Comanche County
during March, 1997 according to
Sergeant Bobby Harpole,
supervisor for this Fhghway Patrol
Sergeant Area. These accidents
resulted in 0 deaths and 8 injuries.
The total rural traffic accidents
for Comanche County for this year
is 42, which resulted in 3 death
and 25 injuries
The twenty-two counties which
comprise Highway Patrol District
6A have had a total of2,049 rural
traffic accidents this year, which
have resulted in 51 deaths and
L504'injuries
This compares to 1,961
accidents, 53 deaths, and 1,534
injuries reported dunng this same
period last year.
By Rachel Hilliard, RN-BSN
The fund raising efforts of the
hospital nurses continue We were
able to purchase the automated
vital signs monitoring device re-
cently A special thanks to Dr
Poehlmann, Dr Eisenrtch, Charl-
sie Fanning, and The Norwood
Family, and many others for your
help in our efforts It is really a
time saver m emergency situa-
tions!
Our next project was the Easter
Basket Give Away and we raised
$170 00 from it That combined
with some donations allowed us to
purchase a new wheel chair that
we really needed A special thanks
to Dr Ball for her part in that
Now on to our next endeavor
We will again be sponsoring an
activity for Jr High students An
“End of the Year Beach Party”
will be held on May 16th, 8-11
p m , at the Community Center
We need your support and partici-
pation
There will be fun, food, music,
and door prizes Come on out and
help us to continue to raise those
needed funds and have a good
time while you are doing it. Any-
one interested in helping, donating
door prizes, or just making a dona-
tion to our Equipment and Im-
provements Fund please contact
the hospital at 356-5241 Thank
you for your continued support!
Shiloh Cemetery Working
The Shiloh Cemetery
Association will have a working
and business meeting on Saturday,
May 10 The business will be at
11 00 a m Bnng a basket lunch
Ice and bread will be furnished
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Wilkerson, James C., III. The Comanche Chief (Comanche, Tex.), Vol. 122, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 8, 1997, newspaper, May 8, 1997; Comanche, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1039614/m1/4/: accessed April 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.