Breckenridge American (Breckenridge, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 98, Ed. 1 Sunday, May 18, 1958 Page: 3 of 8
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Way Texans Lived Fifty Years Ago
Can Be Seen At Small Town Of Reno
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Of iiti luoiles fht*
Mor* ami \fa* uav luik.% liviti half
a «nttirv ai'o. stop for a visit the 1
nexl Unit* vuu drivt* through tInn j
p&rt *f Northeast Texan.
Heno, as ealm as its Nevada i
tiaiue>ake I* bustling, is a stunt t
thrur r;jsl ot ifi I.a-I
iiiai t'ootitv on I S Hi ;hs'. ay
Aiui the iv won't lie any doubt
about where to sto i
I he store is Fiank Dewt-ese's j
and it oeru|ues the • aine > uihluu' j
in vs Iki• |a t>i dad the busi 1
nrSft ill IHJI li "n.wii to be a land j
ill.Ifi* ill lliel|- jMlt.V
lit •! • « v# . is the u ito displuO !
eil the Mmi e aiut buc v Tbi ie also j
have heeii a K t o| othel « hanj£
e< but 11<<( It Hit* has delated t). !
[H-Ut i Se t«iir not even itu* il j
vat uiei i hunts w fcci have built and j
op#i ated tore* aiul departed dur i
that jhthm!
bant \Vewe* se fuither of Frank. I
bltioght the i lair iiii l i all hi*- stole !
until In* >!« atft 22 N>afl dfO Slni t |
tfitfi. t 14I1K iiu !**♦ hais beeii u I
tht )«b
It* plot,ably as iirtie thanked
b* riitirv u^> iiiucltTit tii^rrhandis
li i a* alt v plat*- \ uu talt tit til
It.; out fbiiir; Ibeie a *l*a>% all |
Abbett, Sommer
& Company
Ml'/ Tftflar Street, Furl wartb
ln\<-ntnifiit Sntiritli'H
Muolii|<tl Humla, tuimlmMt
I'ompaii) Shaira, Siotka, ut In-
dtUllUi. Oil auit I'ubllr I (tilt;
iW| *lilrl
4% UN SAVINGS
Insured ti|> in tluuim
Mil..il••>■■ III iiitt-tflmrul $ I tlUO M
I 'll AS. W SUMMKK
W«*t Iriw Krprr «>nlNtlv«
Boa 747 Ht r« ketif ftt!ge, TtlW
old fasniotieti n<*oo cheese. Von
tt!! Ueweese how muc h you want
He whark* it off and .sells n to
you
"Can't beat it —the best flavor in
rheese vou ever tasted. savs
Frank
To former residents retuinini1
after tontf absence, there is a pu/-
/li!iki differeiue That s the loeati iu
uf the store.
It's on the ru'ht as vou trawl
east through Reno, but oldtmiers
recall it usetl to 'it beside the tail
road a quarter mile to the south
They jacked up the butitling ami
moved it with a team id mules in
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While the structure is far from
antique, the sjjfns of at-V are untiiis
takable The lai^e brick centci
beam "'till stands Some ot the M
showcases -.till remain in use And
the ceiling, smoked by a^joiteJ
types of stoves over the years,
i& a tie ail giveaway
"We Meut liom w .^tl to coal uii
to Coal, and lHi % to K'a& Oeweesc
recalls
Now he and his wife, the toruit-!
Mable t euley, stand arouini an
open heater in the center of the
store to virlt with thelt customers
It Noil think business conditions
are a little tough nowadays, let
If i aiik fell vou about the period im-
mediately after World V\ar I
"Prices tell so U.w overnight,
he relates "that mv father and 1
went to the store one night arid
maiked the merchandise do*vn
mote than ii.uuu
"Yeah, 1919 was worse on us
than the depression in 1930. We just
snuggled to keep going like every-
one else "
i hanges in the wav people live
rttfrcted operations of the commuu-
it> -tore as much as anything else
lake the ice house which used to
stand in back
"Used to." says Deweese, "I
could sell pounds of ice a
da>, but now 1 would do good to
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SUNDAY . WAV 18. IS5&—QRECKENRlDGE AMERICAN—3
MEMBTRS OF 1^58 BUYS CHOlft Top bill l'm< i r Ij. ►. Stuaru,
Han y l.rdtjetter Bob Shapiro. D:ck C.3rev anil fticharil kominoer.
Second fioni top I ravis Toland, Jackie Walker Jci i" Wiij iini, Tun
Ball. Tom Smith, arid Steve Wi .d. Third from top: John rtaglsr,
Kenny Harriih. Butter Cleyy. Goity Ledbetter. Ai thur Nutt Tom
l • rd, bkip Anderson, and Hex Care</. Bottom rov<: Ben J. Dean III,
fiiiiiny Hughes, Ray Wilkerson, Freddie Payne, Charles Zapata,
Nandy Wtnttakei Ste/c hanna, Walt Black Joev Kniciht, Robert
Alien, and Craig Nairold. Mike Gallac|her is only boy missinq. He
was rehearsing for Hansel and Gretel when picture was taken.
ANNOUNCING the opening of
BILL'S PLACE
Al.HANY HKiHWAY
tut nit-i h Cravey's Station
Minnows - Gasoline - Cold Beer
Hlf I MORSE, Owner-Operator
Fhitnr 111
sell a dime si \iuith every three
mouths
"Ire sales went out taster than
ansthing 1 ever saw Everybody
has refrigerators Uuw.
Hefoiv travel to Paris became
so ea'-v. the store also handled
dry goinls
"We sold shoes, clothes ami pie re
goods," savs Frank "but when the
cars t ame around vve itult handling
them."
He remembers when people didn't
ask tor a little parka&e of this or
that When they came to town, they
stocked uj> for weeks ahead-
Sugar, syrup and lard came >n
barrels.
".fust dipped what you wanted, '
says Deweese. "Black strap and
iight strap were tbe only kinds ut
syrup we had, and people would
bring m their own containers and
draw up a burketfuil, or how much
they wanted.
His luther used to send Frank
three miles into Paris with a team
of mules and a helper lor a load
of groceries, usujllv around 1,500
pounds Ihe trip took from early
morning until nightfafl.
Last veai Frank suffered a slight
heart attack He savs that s slow-
ed down quite a bit, but he's still
on the )ob
Pennsylvania Primary Tuesday May
Determine Stassen's Future Status
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AMERICAN PRINTERS
114 E. Elm St. Breckenridge, Texas
By ASSOC I AT FD PRESS
The Pennsylvania pumaiy elec-
tion next Tuesdav nnibabiy will
determine Harold Stassen's politi-
cal future.
The onetime l>ov wonder who
served three successive terms as
governor of his native Minnesota,
having been first elected at a
age of 31, is pitted against the
Pennsylvania Republican organisa-
tion's candidate for governor, Ar-
thur McGouigle, and William Liven-
good Junioi, former state Secre-
tary of internal affairs.
Stassen has been referred to as
the bounciest man in politics. Three
times he has failed in bids for
the Republican Presidential nomi-
nation. He also holds some sort of
record for bumping heads with
the wrong people on the national
scene.
His string of staggering rebuffs
began hack in 1940 when he served
as tloor manager for the late Wea-
dell Willkie at the ItMO GOP nation-
al convention.
When the Eisenhower administra-
tion took over in 1M53, Stassen
was made mutal security director
in charge of the inulti billiun dollar
foreign aid program. l.ater, he be-
came President Eisenhower's ad-
viser on disarmament at $20,000 a-
vear with cabinet rank. <
More than once Stassen's utter-
ances have iangled nerves t h e
length ami w idth of Pennsylvania
Avenue.
In 19f>t> Stassen worked hard to
have the then governor of Massa-
chusetts. Christian Herter. replace
Vice President Richard Nixon as
Lisenhower's running mate for a
2nd term.
Stassen t'reased the skills for his
departure from the President's ot-
ficial familv when lie clashed with
Secretary of State Dulles. This
fuss centered on Sta.ssen's criti-
cism that Dulles was taking a nega-
tive attitude toward disarmament
negotiations witli Russia It became
only a matter of time before Stas-
sen was to pack his bags and make
his exit.
Even Stassen's severest critics
and the* number quite a few, con-
cede that the man tenacity. It
seems that the more difficult the ob-
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AMERICAN PRINTERS
114 I ELM HI 9-4411
stacle, the harder he tries to over-
come it. Probably no man in po-
litical history has been counted out
so often a-, the towering blue-eyed
Minnesota!!.
Assuming that the 5(i-year old
transplanted Minnesota!! wins next
Tuesday's primary and Is success-
ful in the November gubeinatui lal
election, what then?
As governor he would have a
.strong claim on the Keystone
state's id-vote delegation to the Re-
publican national convention which
mil help pick the i960 Presidential
nominee It is a thoroughly logical
supposition that he would use the
Pennsyh auia governorship to get
the presidential nomination.
That, in turn, could well mean
another tussle with Vice President
Nixon, the current front-runner for
the nomination.
Having recently bought a home
at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania,
Stassen is a legal resident of the
state. Some Pennsylvanians, how-
ever, consider him an outlander.
But he took it in stride when die
Pennsylvania GOP party organisa-
tion tossed cold water on his lad
for the nomination and branded
him a carpetbagger.
However, Stassen believes that
besides owning his home in ihe
state, his 4-year term as President
of the University of Pennsylvania
completely qualities him for the
right to seek the governorship.
Whether Stassen takes the Giant
step back to the poliical summit
will be determined by the voters
come May 20th.
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Each year in the United States j
1,250,000 acres of farmland are tak-
en out of cultivation for housing i
developments, factories and high-!
ways, reports the Department of
Agriculture.
Mexicans Below
Bend Area Get
Mail In Texas
KL PASO — Practically all res-
idents of Mexico immediately south
of 'lexas' rugged Big Bend area
cross the Fi u Grande for their mail
and supplies.
They use "Class B" ports of en-
try places so small that many
of theui are not on the maps. They
were Net up by the Immigration
and Naturalisation Service.
Deputy Dist. Director Joseph
Cushman returned recently from a
gruelling week-long inspection trip
uf tlice ports. Het said everything
is "shipshape."
The seldom heard from ports
include Porveuir, Candelaria, Rui-
dosa, Chinati, Redford, Lajltas,
Castalon San Vicente, Stiinveil's
Crossing and Boquiiias.
Marcus T. N'eelv, district direc-
tor of the service, was partly re-
sponsible tor their being ports.
Tor a hundred years peopie in
tnat part of Mexico have been
i rossing the riiyer to buy their groc-
eries and supplies for the simple
reason they couldn't get them any-
where else," N'eeiy said.
Although this done with the "tac-
it consent" ot the l&NS it reaiiy
wasn t cricket at all by the rule
book
Customs was so entrenched that
most ot the aliens who traded at
the iittie Texas riverside stores
and commissaries and learned tu
have their friends send them their
mail to Texas stores because it
was much faster.
Communication with the interior
of Mexico from the south side of
the Big Bend is almost non-existent.
So, The l&NS created the Class
B ports. Class B means that no
alien may enter through these ports
unless he is a resident alien in ih?
in the United States, has a non-
resident border crossing card, ov
is a United States citizen.
Then the word spread, by word
of mouth through the stores, thnt
aliens must report for crossing per-
mits. A team of immigration of-
ficers was amazed to find hundreds
of applicants for the cards fold-
ing ti.e Rio Grande to the 10 ports
tor registration.
That was about three years ago
The system continues to work well,
Cushman said.
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