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Level: Intermediate!
The Party Line for June 13, 2011
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Weather Stats
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life.
You finally make it into your twen-
34. Add as an attachment
38. Thinly scattered
39. Northeastern American state
40. Decorative design
43. Sea eagle
44. European river
45. Ancient kingdom near Dead Sea
49. Pick on
50. Easily manageable
51. Ingratiating insincerely
53. Commercial
54. Combining radio waves
56. Political divisions
58. Football’s biggest event (abbr.)
59. Genus of true owls
60. One to whom something
is mailed
63. It can sometimes be full
64. Bird of prey
65. Diarist Frank
35. Marched through
36. A sharp high-pitched metallic sound
37. Between northeast and east
38. Sports magazine
40. Female horse
41. Away to supervise
42. Tantalum
44. Was in session
45. Bahrain capital
46. Prayer
47. Membranes
48. Belong to an earlier time
50. Affirmatives
51. South Dakota
52. Sinatra hit Way”
54. Villain’s enemy
55. Away to conform
57. Doctor of Medicine
nal publication, not today’s date. Mat-
tie’s daughter, Dixie Dellinger, retains
Mattie’s P.O. Box 744, Center, Texas
75935 address and welcomes com-
ments. You can also send them to the
Light and Champion at 137 San Au-
gustine Street, Center, Texas 75935.)
Today is June 13,2011. The birth-
days for the week are:
(I failed to mention that June 5
was the birthday of Center’s Mrs.
Rex Payne (Phabrice) who made a
big difference with her life spent in
Center for over 50 years)
June 13: Ann Jones, Mary Anna
Menefee, Gay Gunnels, Shane Mau-
rice McLendon (my
nephew), Chad Christian, Billy
Wayne Adams and Lula Bowlin.
June 14: Walter Anderson, Alice
Wesfi Jeffery Allen Tindol, Mary
Windham, Jan Oliver and Betty
Mooney. It is die wedding anniversa-
ry of Mr. and Mrs. James Campbell.
June 15: Henry Clay Harris, Car-
rie Ann Fairchild, Michelle Hughes
and Johnny Covington. It is die wed-
ding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs.
Dixon Hooker.
June 16: Edith Warr, Misty Lane
Hughes and Peggy Dean. It was die
“1 find that the harder I work, the
more luck I have. ” - Thomas Jeffer-
son
You will be glad to know that
Dowell Youngblood is recovering
satisfactorily from his cancer ailment
and is back home. He has rented an
apartment in die big comfortable
assisted living complex on Loop 500
not too far from the college.
His address is Lakeside Village
Assisted Living, 1468 Loop 500
East, Center, TX 75935. He abend-
ed church services Sunday at Hurst
Street Church of Christ but had to
leave early because of his weakness.
Mattie
Dellinger
Leon
Aldridge
Terri
Lacher
Dowell said that he received over
200 cards after his address was print-
ed in this column. He will appreciate
hearing from friends again.
Harold Hansen, retired South-
ern Baptist minister, is teaching Dr.
HookePs Men’s Bible Class at First
Baptist Church, while Dr. Joe is re-
covering from his recent surgery.
Bro. Harold invites all the for-
mer and interested new members
to come on Sunday morning and be
prepared to give Dr. Hooker a big
welcome back with a full house of
members when he does return.
The class meets in the big Fel-
lowship Hall and a man and wife
can enjoy being in the same Sunday
School Class together. The women
members help with the duties of the
Sunday School Class. Sunday School
starts at 9 am and they enjoy a sing-
ing of gospel songs prior to the les-
son.
Margaret Ann Smith Hawthorn
sent the words to the rhyme men-
tioned in part recently. She enjoys all
tiie old tilings we write about Here
are her memories of the words used
in jumping rope:
Mother, mother, may I go Down
tiie river to meet my beau? No, my
darling, you can’t go Down to tiie riv-
er to meet your beau.
Daddy, Daddy, may I go Down to
tiie river to meet my beau? Yes, my
darling you may go Down to tiie riv-
er to meet your beau.
For the week ending June 11 the daily temperature
and precipitation levels ran: June 05: 85/69 degrees
- precip 0.02; June 06: 84/70 degrees - precip 0.35;
June 07: 87/68 degrees - precip 0.70; June 08: 86/59
degrees - precip .0; June 09: 84/59 degrees - precip
.0; June 10: 89/64 degrees - precip .0, June 11: 90/67
degrees - precip .0.
For the week ending June 11 the highest tempera-
ture was 90 and the lowest 59. The precipitation, week
was 1.07 inches, and for the month 1.67 inches; month-
ly average 5.30; year, to date 23.66 inches. Toledo Bend
Level 172.22.
10 Years Ago
Week of June 1,2007
The Light and Champion
After 71 years Tenaha HS was demolished to make room for new building.
40 years Ago
Week of June 1,1977
The Champion
Kim Idem, 10 years old, was crowned 1977-78 Imperial Miss Texas,
Countess Division.
20 Years Ago
Week of June 1,1997
The Light and Champion
Morris Cammack made 10K contribution to Pinkston Scholarship
30 Years Ago
Week of June 1,1987
The Light and Champion
Brian Martin Taylor was honored in Washington D.C. for essay.
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(Editor’s Note: Mattie’s Partyline “
columns ran for many years in local I
newspapers, the Center Champion
and the Light and Champion. No ed-
iting has been done in reprinting to
preserve the personality and historical
aspects of her original compositions.
The column is published exactly as it
was written and originally published.
References to individuals and events t
will be relevant to the date of the origi-
birthdays of Lois Gann, Lois Rhodes
and Imogene Jackson.
June 17: Norma Rudd, Sheila
Fleming Amerman, Todd Allen,
Maelinda Swanzy and Peaches Con-
way. It was the birthdays of Thelma
Delaney and Jean Lawson.
June 18: Steve Howard, Jimmy
Wulf and Laura Jeanne Butts. It is
the wedding anniversary of Dr. Joe
Hooker and wife Marion.
June 19: Marcelle Jackson, Jasen
Watlington and Janan Ross.
June 20: Joe Shofner, Edwina
Samford and Edwin Gann. It was the
birthdays of Willie Lout and Jo Mal-
lory.
life. Releasing the belt drive mech-
anism with the handle mounted le-
ver launched the mower to moving
slowly around the yard, doing the
job it was designed to do.
Mowing the grass at home for
an allowance, on the other hand,
was a chore, one of many chores
on the list that earned me 25 cents
a week. Not much money by to-
day’s standards, but not bad for
the late 1950s. While mowing for
my grandfather was a fun chore,
somehow having to mow for my al-
lowance was anything but my idea
of fun. Chores in general never ex-
cited me much until it dawned on
me one day that no grass mowing
for mom meant no allowance mon-
ey. An added incentive was that
my mother didn’t cut me much
slack when it came to cutting the
grass to make her yard look nice,
and she was the one reviewing my
chore list every Saturday before
issuing any allowance.
Soon after making the connec-
tion between working and income,
I figured out that the shortest route
to get a raise from my quarter a
week was a summer job. So, where
“Know where I can buy a used
lawn mower,” someone asked me
a few days ago? “Afraid not,” I had
to tell them, adding that I was a
couple of years removed from
owning or operating a lawn mower
having given up mowing in favor of
hiring it done.
There was a time when I en-
joyed mowing and grooming the
yard. That time was when it didn’t
take as long to recover from the
aches and pains such physical la-
bor induces. However, die thought
of mowing lawns the other day cre-
ated a crop of good memories.
Mowing the lawn at home on
Redbud Street as a kid in Mount
Pleasant was a chore to earn an
allowance - a necessity. But, mow-
ing the grass at my grandparent’s
house in Pittsburg? Now that was
fun. Funny how grandparents
have a knack for always making
the worst task seem like fun.
My grandfather’s lawn mower
was an old Sears and Roebuck reel-
type, self-propelled, power mower,
the only one of its kind I recall see-
ing. The old green mower with big
yellow wheels and a wooden roller
device trailing them personified
my grandfather. Both were out-
dated - even then, but both were
hard working and both were reli-
able to a fault. One pull of the rope
wrapped around the cranking hub
on the old mower and it fired to
did I go to increase my standard of
living over the two-bit allowance?
Mowing yards. For at least a cou-
ple of summers, keeping yards
around south-side Mount Pleas-
ant neighborhoods neatly cut not
only raised my standard of living,
but transformed my pocket money
from the rattling kind to the fold-
ing kind—converting green grass
to green in my pockets.
For some reason, thinking
about lawn mowers the other day
also set me to wondering how
many lawn mowers I’ve owned
over the years. I never came up
with a number, but I definitely re-
membered buying my first. Not
quite up there with my first car
or my first date, but a vivid mem-
ory no less, and it coincided with
the purchase of my first house. It
was bright yellow and sliced right
through the thick carpet of San
Augustine grass surrounding my
first house on Dogwood Street
in Mount Pleasant. That experi-
ence miraculously turned what
had been a chore into a source of
pride. As I stood in the street and
admired the sight and the smell
of the newly mowed grass, all of a
sudden I knew what my mom felt
when she chided me to keep the
yard looking nice. It wasn’t punish-
ment, it was pride.
Looking back now, I also real-
ize how my dad tried to explain
that theory long before I was old
enough to understand. “Dad,” I
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The next few years are like tiie
training wheels on a bicycle. Every-
thing you learn is supposed to keep
you from wobbling and falling down
when you become a teenager and
move into junior adulthood. You turn
sixteen and life is full of firsts: first
relationship, first job and getting a
driver’s license, which usually brings
your first real grounding, which in
my case, my father said I would be
thought second-graders paid that grounded until I turned 80 years old.
much attention to science class? All this while you are frying to figure
I used to wonder where tiie years out why you have hormones that take
went Now, I wonder where tiie de- you on tiie roller coaster ride of your
cades went Have you ever thought
about what it would have been like if
you had to re-live any or all of those ties, when you get your first real pay-
years? The first five years of your in- check from your first real full-time
troduction to life is like a crash course job, and you realize your take-home
preparing you to meet tiie great big pay doesn’t allow for those simple lux-
world. You learn how to feed your- uries, like rent, utilities, and grocer-
self, dress yourself, and tie your own ies. Somewhere in tiie twenties and
shoes. You are too small and can’t thirties, you not only begin to fly solo
read tiie fine print, and if you can, you outside tiie comfort of your parents’
usually can’t understand it Everyone home, butyou may possibly be caring
tells you what to do, and you are often for dependents of your own, whose
too short to reach tiie water fountain
without a boost
As time flies by
Aging - why does it come rush-
ing at us like a runaway train? Small
children have absolutely no concept
of age. If you ask a three year old
how old they think you are, they will
gauge their answer by how much
bigger you are in size compared to
them. They will look curiously at you
and then respond with their guess-
es ranging anywhere from eight or
nine to perhaps one hundred and
nine. The question of age can cause
us stop and think before answering
because sometimes tiie reaction to
our answers is often hysterical, if not
downright disturbing.
When celebrating a birthday in
my late 50’s, my sweet young grand-
daughter asked how old I would
be on my next birthday. Thinking I
would be clever, I told her I was going
to turn 39. She laughed, but saw right
through me. She answered, “That’s
impossible, Grandma. Uncle John is
34. That would mean you were only
five years old when you had him, she
said, “And, that’s impossible,” she
said tiie second time with empha-
sis on tiie world “impossible.” Who
CLUESACROSS
1. Monetary unit of Iran
5. Soared the seas
11. Ornamental box
12. Involuntary
16. German term for Prague
17. Lethal dose
18. Where rockers play
19. Quality of being based on
one’s own feelings
24.12th letter of the Greek
alphabet
25. People of Asia
26. Uttered
27. Unhappy
28. British pop duo
29. The Muse of history
30. Greek cheese
31. Semi-aquatic fish-eating
mammal
33. Horse racing list
CLUES DOWN
1. Carpenter’s saw
2. Sudden arrival of something 33. Sunscreen rating
3. Peninsula between the Red Sea34. Old Hess Corp.’s name
and the Persian Gulf
4. Impasse
5. Pepper’s partner
6. Perceptible by the ear
7. Stephen King’s clown tale
8. __and behold
9. Related on the mother’s side
10. A fish worth finding
13. Of I
14. Convicts
15. Having a tail
20. __masse
21. Culinary specialist
22. Kind of fur
23. What couples say
27. One with unusual powers
of foresight
29. Connecticut
30. Fed’l Housing Administration 61. Starting price
31. Smallest whole number 62. Junior’s father
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