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Thursday, October 15,1998
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safety and visibility top parents" Hal-
loween wish list. Neither has to be
' tricky if parents and children follow
these suggestions from the Amen-
can Optometric Association (AOA)
tenal are visible to drivers even at
speeds of 70 to 80 mph. By Compari-
son. white material is visible only up
to speeds of 50 mph Be sure the ma-
terial is placed so children are seen
front the front, back and sides.
•Adults can go even further to
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have positive outlooks. They are
thankful for every moment of life
and appreciate being alive.
I have talked with successful
people who started out in large, poor
families living on scraps of food and
sleeping in one room. They were
fortunate to get an education and
build a good life. They don’t think
life is unfair.
1 think life is a gift to be opened
daily, and the person opening it
should be thrilled with anticipation
of what the gift might be.
That fifth grader sure got me
thinking. I wish him well. I hope he
finds some beauty in life and has
experiences that will make him re-
alize his potential.
He is ^worthwhile and full of
promise.
I want him to know that.
De Leon Peanut Co.
W. Alamante, De Leon, TX
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WE’LL HAVE GOOD NEWS
FOR THOUSANDS OF TEXANS.
WILL YOU BE ONE OF THEM?
Every day, banks and businesses report unclaimed cash and valuables
to the state—uncashed checks or refunds, forgotten bank accounts, jew-
elry and the other abandoned contents of safety deposit boxes.
Once each year, in an effort to reunite these unclaimed assets with
their rightful owners, we insert the most recent Unclaimed Property
list in the Sunday editions of 33 daily newspapers across the state.
In the past year, we’ve returned more than $38 million in unclaimed
property to Texans.
But more than $800 million remains unclaimed. And in selected
Sunday newspapers, we ll print the updated, latest edition of the list.
• Pick up a Sunday newspaper carrying the list and look for
your name and the names of your relatives.
• Or call us toll-free at 1-800-654-3463.
• Or visit our Web site at <http://www.window.state.tx.us>.
• Or write to Comptroller John Sharp, Unclaimed Property
Section, P.O. Box 12019, Austin TX 78711-2019.
If you find your name on the list, give us a call, drop us a line, or send
us an e-mail at <undaimed.property@cpa.state.tx.us> and we ll
get you back together with your property.
Monitor welcomes
letters to the paper, they must be
signed and have an address and tele-
phone number so we can verify the
authenticity. Monitor re-
serves the right to edit all material
submitted for publication.
Any erroneous reflections upon
the character, standing, or reputation
of any person, firm or corporation
which may appear in the columns of
Monitor will gladly be
corrected upon being brought to the
attention of the publisher.
Z>« 2«m'« Monitor, P.O. Box 50,
De Leon, Texas 76444 (USPS Publi-
cation No. 013988) is published
weekly every Thursday by Chupp
Publishing, Inc. at 100 West Reynosa,
De Leon, Texas 76444. Periodicals
postage is paid at De Leon, Texas
76444.
Postmaster: Send Address changes
to De Leon's Monitor, P.O. Box 50,
De Leon, Texas 76444-0050
Charles Chupp
Tracy Chupp Holdman
Co-Editors
Jeanette Ward
Advertising
Donna Coan
Office Clerk
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set by making sure any holes in yards
are filled, steps repaired and loose
ratlings tightened. Porch or yard
lights should also be turned on and
property cleared of any lawn equip-
Er
He who is waiting
for something to
turn up might start
with his own
here.
I noticed the class got
fairly quiet when he said
those words. Everybody
seemed to withdraw a
little. The youngsters be-
came rather pensive.
There was a sadness in
the room. We spent the
next few minutes discuss-
ing the comment.
After awhile things got
back on track and the
class lightened up. I was
in front of the kids for some forty
five minutes, then sat down, feeling
that at least the kids had something
to think about the rest of the day.
It has been a few days since I
spoke at the school. I have told some
adults about the comment the young-
ster made. Most of them agree that
life is unfair. Now these are healthy
people, above average in every way,
able to have everything they want
and do exactly what they want to do.
And they think life is unfair.
I know that bad things happen to
good people. Most of the bad things
that have happened in my life I have
brought on myself. I take full respon-
sibility. I don't consider life to be
unfair. I think life is what you make
it.
Some of the happiest people I
have known have horrible, crippling
diseases. Their eyes shine and they
with one-third of the flour mixture, apples. Roll pastry to 15x11 inch
Repeat layers, ending with flour rectangle. Place over apples; turn
edges under and flute. Bake at 400
degrees for 10 minutes. Reduce heat
to 325 degrees; bake 30 minutes
more. Remove from oven. "Dowdy"
the crust by cutting through the crust
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I spoke to a fifth grade class the
other day. I had a good time. I was
impressed with how smart the kids
were. They answered questions,
asked a few and were attentive. Af-
ter doing some yo-yo tricks and tell-
ing them about some of my fifth
grade experiences (like when I mis-
spelled the word crochet and thereby
missed being champion speller of the
school), I got down to the main topic
of the day: truth, fairness and build-
ing goodwill.
We got into some pretty deep dis-
cussions, especially for a fifth grade
class. One youngster seemed so very
bright. His hand shot up every time
I asked a question. I could tell right
away he was the best student in the
class.
At one point when we were dis-
cussing fairness in dealing with
people and situations, that bright stu-
dent raised his hand. When 1 called
on him, he said three words that I
surprised to hear. He said "Life is
unfair."
I told him he had probably read
that somewhere or heard it from
someone. I thought surely he had not
lived long enough to come up with
that conclusion about life. It was
painful to me to hear an eleven year
old boy, especially one who showed
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Apple Butter
4 pounds cooking apples, peeled
and sliced
'/» cup apple cider vinegar
3 cups sugar
1 cup firmly packed brown sugar
1 teaspoon ground nutmeg
Place sliced apples and vinegar
in a 4-quart slow cooker. Cook, cov-
ered, at HIGH 6 hours. Stir in sug-
7> nutmeg'. Reduce setting to
tea9P?on 8rou"d'*u‘me^..... LOW{ cook, covered, 4 hours. Cool:
Store in refrigerator. Yields 6 cups.
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1998 CAN DRIVE—The DISD competed for the most cans(food) collected for the Ministerial Alliance Food
Pantry. (L to R) Kristin Burnette, representing Perkins Middle School, 850 cans; Kara Gray representing De ^muchpromise7 utter what I per”
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700 cans. A certificate was presented to Ministerial Alliance Chairman Bro. Paul Ransberger at the 1998 Home-
coming Football Game Festivities.
Taking safety seriously adds to Halloween fun
Ask children what they like best *Costumes can be both frightful ’People who get behind the wheel
about Halloween and the answer is and visible if parents decorate them Halloween night should be extra vigi-
lant when traveling neighborhood
roads, the association says. Reduce ■»
speed and make sure windshields, I nA
headlights and mirrors are clean. Dnv- " AXV
ers who have difficulty seeing at
night should avoid driving on Hal-
loween. ’ ‘
•Have an adult accompany trick-
or-treaters. Be sure children walk on
sidewalks or yards, not in the street.
Look both ways carefully at street
crossings and try to cross at comers
with street lights if possible. A bat-
'tery-operated light or lantern adds an
extra measure of visibility . . . and
soda. Cut in butter until mixture is the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and
crumbly. Stir together molasses, hot salt; toss with apple slices. Place in
water, and 7< teaspoon baking soda 13 x9x2 inch baking dish. Combine
Pour one-third of the molasses mix- the molasses, water, and 3 table-
ture into unbaked pie shell; sprinkle spoons melted butter; pour over
with one-third of the flour mixture, apples. Roll pastry to 15x11 inch
•Costumes can be both frightful
and visible if parents decorate them
likely to be costumes and treats. But . with iron or sew on reflective fabric
‘ ‘ or tape or self-stick decals. Retrore-
flective material is the most effective
way to make children visible to driv-
ers.
Optometric studies show that
•Children want to be scary and people who wear retroreflective ma-
spooky; parents want them to. be
Seen. Fortunately, says the associa-
tion, make-up meets the specifica-
tions of both sides Make-up offer
children a safer, more natural view
than that offered by masks, which
may not fit well or have adequately
sized eye openings. With hypo-aller- make Halloween safer for the younger spookiness
genic make-up in scary colors and a ***’-----—.....-*—‘
i parent's help in makeup artistry, a
•_ child can sport a customized disguise
without hampering vision. Parents
. shouldtakecaretokeepmakeuppar-
ticles aftftqJpliclfbA ofll of Mldidh^ * nftfitdr'oilWr ob^cfl IMtfnight trip dren can make Halloween the treat of
eyes. a young child. ■ / a holidayit Wai meant to be.
nuisance seems logical.
Shoofly Pie
1 ’/j cups all-purpose flour
Vi cup sugar
!4 teaspoon baking soda
'/«cup butter
'A cup light molasses
!4 cup hot water
% teaspoon baking soda
1 unbaked 8-inch pie shell
Thoroughly stir together the do, just buy frozen puff pastry and
flour, sugar, and V. teaspoon baking use that.) Chill pastry. Mix together
soda. Cut in butter until mixture is the sugar, cinnamon, nutmeg, and
Brought to you by
Farmers & Merchants Bank
Serving De Leon and Surrounding Communities
For Over 90 Years
mixture. Bake at 375 degrees for and apples with a sharp knife. Re-
about 40 minutes. Cool. turn pandowdy to oven for 10 min-
Apple Pandowdy is a molasses or utes more. Serve warm. Serves 6-8.
maple-flavored deep-dish apple If you have never made apple
dessert. Traditionally the dessert is butter, you should try this. I have
dowdied before serving. Dowdied made it in the oven before and it does
means the crust is broken up with a take a long time for you want to get
spoon or knife and stirred into the it to that dark, rich color. Here is an
apple filling before serving. Oddly easy slow cooker method.
enough, over the years this kind of
"messed up" appearance has come
to be applied to people rather than
to desserts! Often we refer to indi-
viduals as dowdy in appearance.
Apple Pandowdy
Pastry for 2-crust 9-inch pie
% cup butter, melted
Vi cup sugar
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85th 1
Birthday
Celebration!
A birthday celebration
will be held Saturday,
Oct 17 for Clara Bruton's
85th Birthday!
The Birthday Celebra-
tion will be held at the
First United Methodist
Church's Heritage Hall
from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.
Bring only the memo-
ries of spedal days, spe-
cial hopes, and spedal
dreams of days gone by. j
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Do you remember that old song
that says, "Shoofly Pie and Apple
Pandowdy makes the eyes light up
Halloween is a fun time for chil- tu*nmy say, "Howdy"? Some-
dren. yet it need not scare their par- one tel' me w^at th® name of the
ents. The key is to see and be seen, song is, please. I thought you might
says AOA. And by following these enjoy some history on those two reci-
suggestfons, both parents and chil- P®s as well the recipes.
ShooflyPie is a very famous
PenasylvaniwPutch recipe. Thereis
no firm theory on how the pie got *
its name, but the explanation that the
sweetness of the pie made flies a apples
- Vi cup light molasses
'/< cup water
3 tablespoons butter, melted
Roll out pastry to 15xll-inch
rectangle; brush with some of the !4
cup melted butter. Fold in half.
Brush with more butter; fold again
and seal edges. Repeat rolling again,
brushing with butter and folding. (If
this is more work than you want to
JOHN SHARP
TEXAS COMPTROLLER
OF PUBLIC ACCOUNTS
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