The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 9, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 24, 1987 Page: 4 of 34
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Christmas
COW POKES
3y Ace Reid
Christmasl Christmas! The word itself and
by itself is like a chime, and what ear is so deaf
or heart so cold that it does not summon up
the very symphony of life — the church bells'
mellow note, the scrabble of feet on the cold
morning stair, the welcoming cries of reunion
with families and friends, the high, excited
pitch of children's voices, the whir of the egg
beater and the hiss of the hearth fire, the tinkle
of a music box, the released word of love.
Now the sounds of Christmas come mar-
ching down the years and blend into one great
melody in which one hears again, somehow,
the lilt of voices that speak no more, with the
comfort that surpasses understanding.
Christmas is a time when we all make our
own special music, heard and unheard, and In
the name of Him whose natal day we here ob-
serve, let no one be omitted. Let us bring to
the season laughter and song, the free ex-
pression of gratitude and affection, the word
of forgiveness, like the melting ice, the hope,
faith, courage, and joy without which the
world falters.
We wish you all the muslp of Christmasl
Walter E. Buckner
First printed in the
Xan Marcos Record
Christmas 1961
Editorial / Opinion
"The vital measure of a nesvsoaDer is not its size ■
“The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size
but its spirit'
Llano New*, Thursday, December 24, 1987
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
PagoA-4
Predatory traders
Sen. John Heinz, R-Pa., worried about
protecting American jobs against unfair
foreign trade tactics, tells a distrubing story
that could be called "The Cake of the
Mysterious Photo Albums."
Last year, the United States proved that
South Korea was dumping photo albums in
this country at 65 percent below their cost of
production. Washington, exercising its right
under international trade agreements, slapped
special duties on the albums.
As expected, Korean shipments of the
product plummeted. But a funny thng hap-
pened. Residents of Singapore went mad for
photo albums, and last year imported 10 to
every person there. Similar madness stuck
Taiwan and Hong Kong.
The next funny thing was photo album ex-
ports from Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong
to the United States soared by as much as
1,300 percent. Of course, the albums were
South Korean, routed through other countries
to avoid U.S. anti-dumping duties.
This is customs fraud and is hardly limited to
minor items like photo albums — although
American album-makers do not consider the
matter mihOr. f^epl arid coffee are similarly
"laundered" to get around U.S. duties and
Talk of Texas
IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN HERE
— In the middle 1950’s, part of-
Texas “seceded” from the United
States.
It happened when Mrs. Irene
Pearl Smith Cliett of Waller County
and the Federal government got into
a hassle over taxes. When Uncle
Sam claimed half of her 700-acre
farm, she retaliated by withdrawing
her property from the protection of
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TEXAS PRESS
ASSOCIATION
the U.S. government.
She proclaimed that her acreage
was the Republic of Eneri (Irene
spelled backwards) and that its
capital was La rep (an anagram of
Pearl). She also telegraphed the
president demanding that “foreign’’
planes (those of the U.S.) quit flying
over her nation.
Next she demanded that Eneri be
given a seat in the United Nations.
She also asked that the U.S. grant
foreign aid to her “developing”
country.
Her goal was to dramatize the
problems an individual can encoun-
ter in dealing with the bureaucracy
and her Republic of Eneri made
headlines for awhile. However, Mrs.
Cliett died before she could take her
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WALTER L. BUCKNER, ]
T.H. CUNNINGHAM,!
FRED TAYLOR................................ New* Editor
SARAH BUCKNER......................... Life St via Edbar
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HAZEL LONG...........
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BARBARA BURFORD...
LYNDA PIERSON.......
BRIDGET SMALLWOOD.
COLUMNISTS; Hal
NEWS CORRESPONDENTS;
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The Customs Service estimates that 10 per-
cent of our imports are fraudulent. A National
Treasury Employees Union study adds that the
scam annually coata this country $19 billion in
lost sales, $8 billion to $12 billion of gross
national product, $1.5 billion to $2.2 billion In
federal taxes. $2 billion in customs revenue
and 600,000 jobs.
Customs officials say they lack manpower
to police fraud by our trading partners. The
remedy? Don't anlist an army of customs
sleuths. Allow U.S. manufacturers to seek
redress; they know when they are being had
and by whom.
Heinz backs an amendment to the pending
trade bill that would let victims of customs
fraud sue for damages in the U.S. Court of In-
ternational Trade. He likens this remedy to
those long available to victims of antitrust and
securities violations.
The trade bill, however, probably will be
,vetoed by President Reagan. Heinz ought to
offer the anti-fraud amendment as a freestan-
ding bill. American producers deserve such a
weapon against predatory traders who ere.
sadly, too nufherous.
San Antonio Express-News
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From the Sidelines
By Fred Taylor
Good ole terra firma
By Jack Magalre
case to court and Waller County —
all of it — remains a part of the U.S.
LETTERS
Thank you
Editor's Note: This is a copy of a
letter sent to Llano’s Peggy Tatach.
Dear Peggy:
Thanks to your hard work last
year, District 7 was awarded the
third place prize for service/rehabil-
itation in the state! We know that
this award is the result of many
hours on your part to ensure that
cancer patients are receiving our
services. Thank you for a job well
done.
You should know by now that the
American Cancer Society, Texas
Division, is conducting a promotion
of our service program this January.
If you haven’t already, meet with
your public information chairman to
plan some publicity in your com-
munity. Consider using more than
one type of media. There are, after
all, so many: newspaper, radio,
television, church newsletter, bulle-
tin boards, etc. Enclosed are tome
good samples to help you decide on
your own promotion.
Please do not hesitate to call if we
may be of help with this project.
Merry Christmas and Happy New
Year to yon and your family I
Mia aeiener
Field Representative
District 7
American Caacar Society
Service/Rehabilitation Trainer
District 7
For coaches
Dear BdHur
The Texas Department of Public
Safety, in an effort to make the roads
a lot safer to travel, submitted a
three-page news story on how to
prepare yourself for winter driving.
To their credit, they are doing their
best to keep everyone informed on
such matters to make sure you
survive under hazardous driving
conditions.
Every paragraph is important with
instruction! on how to psll out of a
skid, don’t touch the brakes when on
ice, watch out for bridges, since they
will always freeze over first, slow
down and allow extra travel time, to
name just s few.
The only problem is that if you do
everything according to the book,
you take out all of the fun and
excitment of learning what it’s like to
get into a mean skid in the first
place. What it’s like to dig yourself
out of a snowbank and other such
good things like that.
There was a time, once in my life,
that I had the privilege of driving a
taxi up in the state of New York in
the foothills of the Allegehnys. Now
there is a real fun place to drive. The
spring, summer and fall are really
beautiful, but oh, those winters. To
top it off, my employer did not
believe a taxi should have chains. It
ruined the ride for the customers and
beat the daylights out of fenders.
Well, it was fine and good to try to
please the customers, but that sure
didn’t help the driver very much
when you had to take a customer up
a snow-covered road where no other
fool driver had been. The customer
gets a bit unhappy when you don’t
quite get there and they finish the
trip walking while you try to dig
yourself out of a snowbank.
The employer did have one good
idea. Each driver took a turn driving
the oldest cab in the fleet down the
most vacant street or open parking
lot and you had to deliberately put
the cab into a skid and see what it
was like to try to get out of it. It was
very educational, to say the least.
There was only one major draw-
back. The boss also believed that
taxicabs should have governors on
them to make sure the drivers stayed
within the speed limits. I don’t know
if you have ever had the privilege of
driving such a vehicle equipped like
that, but I can assure you, it’s a lot
safer driving on snow or ice thaivftat
being able to have some emergdiK^F
power when you needed it.
As for my most interesting esca*
pade on snow and ice, it didn’t come
in a taxi, but in my first car, which
was a 1929 Model A Ford. I was
traveling in Massachussets whehf
snowplows had cut trenches where
roads were supposed to be. Trav->
eling at the break-neck speed oft
about 10 mph, I came info a shallow-!
turn that was glazed over with ice.|
The Model A went into a skid, turned',
completely around without touching:-
either snowbank and went merrily on
down the road like it was supposed to?
go.
Not willing to leave well enough :•
alone, and kind of enjoying the
excitement for a change, I went back
to try it again. Fortunately, the snow
was soft and there was a neighbor
with a shovel and a lot more
who passed with smiles on thei,
faces.
Like the man who finished his firs"
airplane flight said — Good ole ter
firma... the firma the ground th
lessa the terror. That also goes fc
ice on the highways.
THE
Wanderer
’Tis the season for running noses.
The cedar fever season, that is. All
of the cedars which cover west
central Texas start pollinating
shortly before Christmas, and they
keep it up until about mid February.
They bring on the water-eyed,
runny-nosed cedar fever that can
approximate the symptoms of every-
thing from a common cold to
galloping consumption. It’s more
than likely that the honking of
thousands of noses being blown will
drown out the sounds of the
Christinas season.
There’s a big run on facial tissues
in the stores at this time of the year,
and every canny merchant has laid in
a plentiful store of the tissues.
Don’t be surprised if when you
meet end greet a friend on the street,
the reply you get sounds more like
“Honk, honk.” It’s the sound of the
cedar fever season. During this
season almost anybody can tell you
nearly a day before the wind is going
to blow out of the west. It’s when his
mouth tastes like the floor of a bird
cage, his head feels like a bushel
basket, he can barely breathe, and
his nose thinks it’s a fountain. The
drug stores will do a land office
business in antihistamines, most of
which won’t do any good, and the
doctor who was fortunate enough to
specialize in allergies will be
swamped.
Most victims will simply sweat it
out, honking like Mexican taxis and
dreaming of a clime where cedar is
completely unknown. The Wanderer
has many times threatened to move
to Arizona or New Mexico, but then
along comes March, and the cedar
season is over, and nothing comes of
it.
aate<
luck, not bed coaching. The coaches
and athletes gave 110 percent, but
things just didn’t seem to go our
my.
Our uuauccsssfulnes* this year
■ay have been caused by lack of
support and enthusiasm of the
people in this team, but certainly not
Res the students, lea chan and
eoaohoa. Any oonchlng staff needs
tit ■ develop a wtaning meet, and
ainsothey had only two yoors lowerk
wMi the tibbi, what do you
expect, a eritudo? Bet even so, wo
fed mi couches dM an astwomly
war feat fetth la oar
concerning the Llano High School
coaching staff, maybe you should get
the facts straight.
The Supporting Students
of Llano High School
Contribution
Doer Editor:
Wo, at the Llano Head Start
Coaler, wish to thank the Kiagaland
Senior Cltiseea Coaler far their
Kathy Monies
Director Llano Hood Start
By Hal Cunningham
Well, if you can’t move, just honk
and blow, and suffer with the rest of
us.
-w-
The Wanderer has been on a
peanut brittle binge with the micro-
wave oven lately, and most of his
little friends he’s fed it to want the
recipe. Anyone who’s tried peanut
brittle on a conventional eookstove
knows you have to cook it forever,
and then it may or may not get hard
and brittle. The microwave method
also is a time-consuming process. It
takes eight minutes cooking time,
and it always works. Here’s how:
One cup sugar
One cup nuts — peanuts, pecans
or whatever
One half cup white Karo
One-half teaspoon salt
Cook in microwave for six min-
utes. stopping to stir shout every
minute and a half.
Add one teaspoonful p( oleo and
one teaspoon of vanilla and cook two
minutes more in microwave.
Add a heaping teaspoon of baking
soda, stir like mad and pour out on a
lightly buttered aluminum Ml.
When It hardens, in about twenty or
thirty minutes, break, eat and enjoy.
The Wanderer uses a quart Pyrui
measuring cup to cook Brittle, and
he's tawed off the handle of a
wooden spoon, so ha can
leave It In the cup while
That way you don't drool hot
•yrup over the kitchen floor,
con got you in big trouble with the
Httfe woman.
tf yea juat fellow the recipe.
don’t try to got original, you ran
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