The Town Tattler (Electra, Tex.), Vol. 66, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, August 31, 1998 Page: 4 of 4
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COW POKES
a
mantle of foreign smoke; an
insidious immigrant slipping
disdainfully past checkpoints
and barbed wire.
The streets are hollow and
silent. I've heard no bird song
this morning, the tenth dim
may depend
to
ourselves, make amends
mend our attitudes.
Like the multitudes of other
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55 Aggie
Leonard who^B
won Cong. 1
Medal of Honor
56 support for
50-across
59 Lynch of the
Dixie Chicks
60 NASA astronaut
Armstrong
61 cow owners
group (abbr.)
The Original.
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32 TXism: "can't hunt
with an empty "
33 Terrell newspaper
38 TX story (2 wds.)
40 TX-sized communi-
cations co. (abbr.)
41 small state with a
big rooster (abbr.)
42 publisher’s opinion
49 baby horse
51 in the country
52 Gov. (1942-46)
Stevenson (init.)
57 TXism for "want to
58 near El Paso:
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"Now, I bet you'll watch but fer fellers cornin'
- outta side roads!"
Letters To The Editor
To the Editor:
There is nowhere in the
Bible, where it is talking about
Black or White.
There is nowhere in the Bible
where it says that because our
skin is a different color that
white is better than black or
any other color.
Now, because 1 am a Black
American, it does not give a
City employee the right to tell
me or whom ever he is talking
to, to talk about my race, my
color, where my ancestors
came from or any other racist
remark.
There were two people put
on the Earth in the beginning,
Adam and Eve. Now you tell
me if they were black or white
or any other color.
No matter what color or race
you are, we are all brother
and sister in God's sight. Like
it or not.
You people that are racist
better take a long look at
yourself, because you are no
better than me or anyone else.
There are other things I can
say about the City on racism. I
am not a person that likes a
mess, but I will let you know
how 1 feel.
God says to forgive and
forget. I will forgive and
forget, but forgetting doesn’t
go away just like that. It takes
awhile.
it’s our
nature to expand. And
besides, there are more birds
from ar0URd here than people, so if
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6ti Charley & Orbison
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at another hectare of forest or
amount' of ’ Jabbed a plow into one more
destructive. exPanse of virgin prairie. "We
behavior- from her human need more space* —
children, and now here we are nature to
— eyes watering and mucous
membranes burning
man-made fires leagues away
in Mexico and Guatemala.
For several days, much of
the parrot confessed, Texas has been lost in a weird,
"I'm just windless twilight beneath
" The
valuables.
the stereo ’ although we're always sorry
for it later.
Mother Earth has long been birds," we'd say as we hacked
warning us she would tolerate ---------
only a limited
backtalk and
By Ace Reid
44 founder of TX Belo
media co.: Alfred
Belo
45 TXism:" have to
get better to die" (sick)
46 TXism: "want it so
could spit"
47 monthly lodging expense
48 TXism: "out kilter"
50 type of saw
53 this TX Cassidy was
Addams Family “Lurch
54 TXism:", dice”
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today, and I
children walking to school.
Those of us forced to venture
out find others edgy,
impatient. In Wit
see a back-df-tH£-e£#n
starting to work its way
forward.
And although this particular
instance isn't our direct doing,
we're no less culpable, because
we've compiled our own
’ resume of environmental
transgressions.
"Don't worry about the
ACROSS
1 a replica of this
Columbus ship
sailed to TX in ’92
5 source of cheap oil:
United Emirates
6 TXism: "spends his
looking for
shade" (lazy)
7 pre-owned pickup
8 TX George Strait's
"Marina Del
9 TXism:"
squirrel up a tree"
16 TXVikki Carr'89
release:" Hombres1
18 Spaniard who mapped
much of TX:
Leon
20 TXism: “gets
with the chickens"
21 Valley pheasant:
chacha
22 Buchanan
24 Fort Worth Zoo
has huge
condor vulture
30 Cowboy Casillas’
horse racing bus.:
Farms
34 TX singer Roy (init.) 62 internet provider
35 El Paso mountain:
Sierra de
36 TX performers
go on this„ .
37? Stephenville’ Is 5
seat of this county
39 Johan’s last name
in the mysterious
Boerne Bible
43 TXism: "happy as a
small dog
big bone"
a few die, it's no big deal — it's
not like it’s the end of the
world or anything.
"Those other little critters?
Hey, there's plenty of room ..
. they’ll just go find someplace
else to live."
We've laughed at and even
persecuted environmentalists;
tree-huggers and enviro-
freaks the mildest of the
epithets hurled their way.
day in a row, and the familiar , may hurt to admit they've
neighborhood busyness is been right all along and we’ve
markedly subdued, with all been so wrong, but the fate of
who can be inside air race may depend on our
conditioned homes and willingness to humble
buildings. ourselves, make amends and;
At the elementary school a
few blocks from our house,
27 social companion
28 TXism:" -
loop roper" (bad)
29 TXism: "every
then"
31 TX Charley Pride's
"Where Put
Her Memory?"
"little critters" we so callously M
consigned to their fates in w
favor of our wants, we can't
"just go find someplace else to ■
live." fl
There's no place to go. Like
,it "or not, over there is over M
here and here is there because fl
we're not only one world, ®
we're all leaves on the same
life-vine. Mother Earth IB
doesn't acknowledge our thin fl
borders or self-assigned
sovereignties and there's proof
of it in the sunless,
child-empty streets outside
my window.
But too many among us are
prone to unrepentance and so
stubborn, they've been known
to pluck out their own eyes
rather than see an unwelcome
truth.
Like cruel and recalcitrant &
children, they’ll insist, if not B
too publicly, "There's more **
people around than anything
else, so if a few die over there
somewhere, it's no big deal --
it's not like-it’s the end of the
world or anything..
Is it nbt?
Best listen up, children . . .
Mama's talking.
And this may be the last
11 TXism: “he's all
beer and no
12 Exxon forerunner
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York minute" I
14 TXism:tight he 1
squeaks when he walks"
15 TXism: "it don't
up"
17 saloon receptacles
19 yearly event for
environmentalists
*23 Sonora is a leading
wool,& ctr.
24 car cooling (abbr.)
25 TX pro strike-out
king (init.)
26 chili is state
there'll be no outdoor recess
noticed few
(abbr.)
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M’2 TX'pferennialS' •
3 TXism:"
own poison"
4 TXism: "hot as
of mesquite coals
9 Alamo City letters
10 pollen causes this
type of reaction in
some Texans
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JESUS IS WATCHING
A burglar broke into a house
one night He shone his
flashlight around, looking for
valuables, and when he picked
up a CD player to place in his
sack, a strange, disembodied
voice echoed from the dark
saying, "Jesus is watching
you".
He nearly jumped out of his
skin, clicked his flashlight off
and froze. When he heard
nothing more after a bit, he
shook his head, promised
himself a vacation after the
next big score, then clicked
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by Sally Rogers
the light back on and began Listening to Mama
searching more valuables. We never listen to Mama, .
Just as he pulled
out so he could disconnect the
wires, clear as a bell he heard,
"Jesus is watching you."
Totally rattled, he shone his
light around frantically,
looking for the source of the
voice. Finally, in the corner
of the room, his flashlight
beam came to rest on a
parrot.
"Did you say that?" He
hissed at the parrot.
"Yes,"
then squawked,
trying to warn you.
burglar relaxed.
"Warn me, huh? Who do you
think you are any way?"
"Moses," Replied the bird.
"Moses" the burglar
laughed. "What kind of
stupid people would name a
parrot ’Moses'?"
The bird promptly
answered: "The same kind of
people that would name a
Alice Gilbert ■ Rottweiler 'Jesus'!"
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