The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1980 Page: 4 of 11
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right for a particular pressure group. Almost daily on
television some minority leader threatens that “his people”
will most likely riot and ravage and burn and pillage if a city,
county, state or the Federal government does not reverse
some decision already made. •
Baldly put. it is a demand to change the law or a threat
that those who are dissatisfied will take the law into their
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few gallons of gasoline, with
no thought to making what
anyone coukf reasonably call
a sacrifice. Unless our atti-
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Published each Monday and Thursday by the Nor Tex
Press. Inc.. Mt. Pleasant. Texal. Mailing address: The
Clarksville Timest P.O. Box * 1021, Clarksville. Texas,
75426. Second class postage paid at Clarksville, Texas,
75426.
Subscription prices: $8.50 per year in Red River County
and for U.S. Armed Forces members; $10.00 in adjacent
counties; $13.50 elsewhere. Contact the circulation depart
•meat for rates to foreign countries.
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character, reputation or standing of any firm, individual or
corporation will be gladly corrected uon being called fcwtfie
attention of the publisher. The dividing line between the
news and advertising is the *ine which separates information
of pulbic interest from information disseminated for profit.
The Times is not responsible for copy omission. .
typographical errors or any unintentional errors that may
occur in advertising other than to correct it in the next issue
after it is brought to the attention of the publisher. All
advertising orders are accepted'on this basis only.
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does not mean that an individual or even a group of ethnic joke,
individuals may not be suppressed or have certain rest raints
placed upon them for the welfare of the entire populace.
Conscription into the Armed Forces in time of s'ar is
one such action. So is imprisonment for crimes agains t the
State or nation. And also, are eminent domain procee* lings
when one must involuntarily yield property needed foir the
public welfare.
All of these extraordinary proceedings, however, liave
tedious and detailed built-in buffers against the abuse of a
citizen.
The attitude which seems to be threatening the en tire
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almost lame and elderly, but we again fail to recall that fatalities
1 soared in the summer, and there was certainly no
causes. There were endless report* by authorities and *jr-conditioning then other than that provided by nature.
Among the more solemn reminiscences of our early
youth were visits with our doctor father to rural homes
where on lay dying.
It was especially eerie after dark at the old country
uarters without air-conditioning were repeated at length, flickering kerosene lamp.
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opened so that everyone could be in some sort of cooled
atmosphere.
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WhOe watching this, we were struck by a totally
irreverent thought.
A half century ago, or even more recently, did anyone
ever die of heat exhaustion? When no house or building was
air-conditioned, did this pose a th^ tA life? qul<)Uy ^ck and forth t
We don’t seem to recall any rash of such deaths. Maybe The object of this sort of pre-death wake would be lying
it was officially classified as apoplexy, as there was a lot of in one of the rooms on a bed, perhaps sprinkled with water
that then, but it is a mortality classification hArdiy ever used for some coolness, at least..Ladies took turns, one on each
any more. There was sun stroke, but was there heat "de of the bed,-'fanning the stricken' one with an old
exhaifHnn? - . cardboard or wicker hand fans, which created a bit of a
, ,, \ breeze, albeit a hot one.
Goodness knows, folk it labored long and hard in the ' These ministrations, which included bathing the dying
aypimer sun then, in the cotton fields and cotton gins and one’s face with cloths dipped in cool well water, might go on
lumber mills and endless other employment* calling for all night, or even for several nights br days. There TB
i someone to carry on.
Were these heat-related deaths? No one will ever know,
a bucket of water in the face followed by a glass of course, but one thing for sure: modern air-conditioning
Bittersweet i
By Joe Pinaea, Jr?
to cancel the contract. The
______ classic ad was the one that
celebration'foT "the ''fourth offer®4 th® membership for
that the term “Independence “1® “because of ~ ”
Day" is sort of out of date. It Now there must
seems that the old U.S.A, customer^
has, in fact, become so de- RELIEF: Everyone will
pendent upon other nations, ^® ^appy to know that the
especially in the area of new owners are painting the
energy, that perhaps she “Unpainted Furniture Store”
needs to write a new deciar- looks one hundred percent
ation to let the world know better, and it’s very ap-
that, if necessary, she can be propriate, too; because they
self-sufficient. located just next door to,
When the first document X™,8to™
was isgned in 1776, the SILLYSCOPE: If find the. J
signers pledged their lives horoscope so frantically ab-
and their fortunes; and many 9urd that I cannot help shar-
of them lost both. Our society inK 8om« of .ita “wiadom” with
has grown so accustomed to Y°u trom time to time.:
the “good life", that we have ARIES: Moon is in your
great difficulty conserving a th<t
TAURUS: Change of
ETSU Plans I
July Folklore I
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Symposium I
The J. Mason Brewer *1
Folklore Symposium an an- ■■
nual summer event at East
Texas State University, will
be sponsored by the Depart I
ment of Literature and I
Languages in connection with \ I
the graduate mini-course JI
“Contemporary Folklore" ! I
July 14-17 and July 21-24. I
The symposium honors I
Brewer, the nation’s major I
black folklorist before his
death in 1975. He . was a
distinguished visiting profes I
sor at ETSU.
Speakers at the sympo-
sium will include Martha
Emmons of Waco author of
“Deep Like the Rivers: Stor-
ies From My Black Friends"; I
Paul Patterson from Crane,
author of “Pecos Tales”; and
Jim Lee of Denton, biogra
pher of Clarksville novelist
William Humphrey.
The authors will speak
on three fields for which they
are known—black folklore,
cowboy folklore and redneck
folklore. Also, the authors*
new books will be on sale.
“Mody C. Boatright Day"
will be proclaimed on July 17,
to honor the deceased editor
of the Texas Folklore Society. ’
Boatright edited the pulica- ;
tions of the society for 20
years. Dr. and Mrs. Ernest
Speck of Alpine, son-in-law
and daughter of Boatright,
will be speakers for the day.
Their topic will be “Mody
Boatright and Western Folk-
lore."
The public is invited to
attend the symposium.
“mooning" is a no-no.
TAURUS: Change
plans proves beneficial when
_ww. you discover that your zipper
tude changes"the much “ broken. (Incidentally, that
needed new declaration will aPP®i* “ probably a Scorpio),
never be written. GEMINI: One who •
HONEYMOON OVER: 9®®m«d “out of this world"
There are several want ads in turns out to be a refuge* •
our local paper by individuals ""om it "The Empire Strikes
offering for sale memberships “ch "
in a well-known health studio CANCER: Lawsuit
which opened doors here boomerangs in your favor,
about six months ago. unfortunately th^ attorney’s
Everyone thought it was ^®®s W’P® out the profit,
going, to be so much fun LEO: Capricorn is in
building a new body, and picture. You should be
when they discovered work advised that Richard Nixon is
was involved, it was too late * Capricorn.
The Clarksville Times
(USPS 116480)
In our uneducated opinion, the United Stat es has a
constitutionally-guaranteed system for the protect! on of the
rights of all its citizens unequalled in world history. -
Never, to our way of thinking, has a form of government
leaned over backward to guard individual liberties as has
America.
But, we must confess we are concerned that Uncle Sam
may be tilting backward so far that he is in danger of
toppling completely over. So many of these people are unfortunately looking to
Our democracy to based on majority rule, with a myriad take offense at any imagined affront or slight, a* witness the
of safeguards for those in the minority. Such a government fuss kicked up whenever a public figure tell* a tasteless
It is an impossible position for officials. We note that
President Carter is now in hot water because he has agreed
to appear at the NAACP national convention but could not
visit a national gathering of Hispanics. Women in Virginis
say that LL Gov. Robb have delivered them a “mortal insult"
by agreeing to speak to an organization called the Old
Dominion Boatmen Club. Why? The Club, whatever it to,
excludes women, that's why!
•' These are such pointless objections. Why should not an
elected official be able to talk to any or every group he
desires?
..... t . .. . The danger lies in the minority groups carrying out
elaborate and time proven system to the refusal of minonty their threats to storm the barricades, to break forth in
groups to accept the will of the majority when the matter to senseless vandalism and violence. -
One of these days the majority to likely to get enough of
And. let us understand clearly, we are not talking such antics and take to the streets themselves.
necessarily about racial minorities. We are talking of a ll And folks, that would be tragedy indeed. When a few
organized groups which are not in the majority, and our try these lawless tactics, that's bad enough, but when many
society is turning to these. There are the gays, the women’s decide to settle the question, that's war!
libbers, the anti-ERA group, the senior citizens, the
religious divisions, as well as the blacks and hispanics and
orientals and American Indians and on and on and on. guarantee success for any given point of view, but one which
The thing that frightens us as much as anything are the does result in reasonable equity among citizens.
threats to "go into the streets" when things don’t go just ' It would be well for all to realize tips.
Did Heat Kill Back When ?
A Personal Reminscence
During the recent sizzling hot spell, the Metroplex
headlines and TV-casts were filled with an u
hour-tO-hour' update on those dying from heat-related
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doctors and medical examiners on why such and such a
demise could be from the torrid temperature or from some
other fatal, immediate, ailment.
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The plight of those who departed this mortal coil in houses, without screens, and with the sick room lit only be a
-- quarters without air-conditioning were repeated at length, flickering kerosene lamp.
City officials heated to such a state that public shelters were The whole community would have gathered and the
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men stood and sat outside in small groups, smoking and
‘ talking quietly about the crops and mules and whatever.
There were always a few wagons with children peacefully
asleep on quilts in the wagon beds.
The women would be on the porch with the night sounds
broken by their subdued conversation and by the squeaking
of rocking chairs and the liouse floors as folks walked
sure beats those old paper fans!
VIRGO: Combine humor ,oet *hil® J w“ “ the shop.
<• and diplomacy and make ------a---— —
significant gains. After all, *ve an “occult" experience,
politicians have been riding H*ve no fe^- Remember,
this gravy train for some
time now.
LIBRA: You recover
from last years “Fling" (and
it’s about time). The real who seems evasive may just
question is, were you the be puzzled; on the other hand
"flinger” or the “flingee?” he or she may despise you
SCORPIO: Persons with a passion,
make claims based on nebu- -
lous sources. One of these PISCES: You become
persons will be or next Presi- aware of remarkable coince-
dent. ' * dence: Your mailman is mar:
SAGITTARIUS: Your ncd to your great aunt's step
extrasensory perception is niece whom you have never
back in working order. Sorry «n®t and don't wish to, now
about the money and friends that you know her hubbv.
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Watson, Gavin, Jr. The Clarksville Times (Clarksville, Tex.), Vol. 108, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1980, newspaper, July 10, 1980; Mt. Pleasant, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1295766/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Red River County Public Library.