The Gilmer Mirror (Gilmer, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, June 15, 1996 Page: 4 of 20
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he wanted to charge another hey, who knows where it could hunters call the “Eagle’s Nest.”
This writer is almost sure that it
lead from there?
(By assuming that this dis- being that I am.
“women”) and let’s drop all these pretensions about “protect- lished a phone line a couple of
to pick a phone number out of just have a “bad connection.” I
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But I can’t seem to help
myself when it comes to this
phone thing. Somewhere in the
back of my mind, I have the
years ago in case of emergency
situations arising, but that
didn’t last and I’ll tell you why.
A troubled youth from some
“home” for the terminally ado-
lescent in Gladewater decided
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Every month, I would have
to call Kilgore as well as Tulsa
or somewhere up that way to
cancel the wayward youth’s
call to “843-5256” and found
that his “gravy train” had just
been “derailed” because I had
pulled the plug on both him
and me.
forks that extend on up about 30
feet higher.
In this fork there is a nest
made of leaves, stick, straws and
feathers to a height of about four .
have no connection.
But as for the “touch some-
one” part of it, I think I am
blessed indeed as a certain high
official is facing a sexual ha-
rassment suit for wanting to
do that. .
I won’t name the fellow, be-
cause I took a vow not to criti-
cize him ever again a couple of
months ago. And he and his
lovely wife are wildly popular
with the American people, if
you believe the polls. It’s just
me, isn’t it? I just don’t “get it.”
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I HAVE TO tell you what I
think is the worst invention in
the history of the human race.
It happened in Boston, Mass,
in the year 1876 in our own
country known then and still
to this day, at least for now, as
the United States of America.
This native of Scotland who
later became an American
called, “Mr. Watson, come here.
I want you!”
I’ve often wondered about
how fond this guy really was of
ol’ Watson. It seems to me they
had kind of a suspicious, maybe
even kinky, relationship.
But, by now, you’ve prob-
ably guessed that I am refer-
ring to Alexander Graham Bell,
the inventor of the telephone,
which has now been expanded
to “tele-everything” in this age
. of computers.
Call me anti-social. Call me
anti-American. Call me any-
thing else derogatory that you
can think of. Just don’t call me
on the phone. I don’t want to
talk to you. If you have some-
thing to say to me, say it to my
face. I make an exception for
those who are physically im-
paired or incapacitated.
I believe we have come to
the point in human history
where we are way too “inter-
connected.” I never wanted to
know that much about you and
if you wanted to know all about
me it just means you are too
nosy and you need to get a life.
As you may have guessed by
now, I don’t have a phone. I go
back and forth on this. I estab-
all of us.
Thanks again, Gilmer.
Lou Ramey Gaw
Betty Pankhurst Barrett
thin air with which to delude
the long-distance operator. It
just so happened that this
worthless piece of human de-
bris (that’s the infamous Rush
Limbaugh’s term, not mine;
but sometimes it does apply)
picked my number.
MONTH AFTER month, I
received long-distance bills
from two phone companies for
dozens, if not hundreds, of calls
I did not make. In fact, I went
a year there without making a
single long-distance call. Some-
one else was making up for it
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ing society and its youth.”
That was supposed to be your job, parents. Or are there so
few parents or even parent surrogates left out there that the
children are no longer being supervised?
And if you answer that the economy went so far south
that both parents have to work even when junior is not even
out of diapers, we would agree. But our economic condition
didn’t happen entirely by accident Our “globalist” federal
government has ignored the plight of the American family.
It used to be the norm to “teach your children well,” but
also to allow them the free will to make certain choices as
they matured, just as God does for all of humanity.
Uncle Sam, who now is more appropriately called "Father
Sam” of a lot of households in this country, has got more on
his plate than to have to continue to regulate the airwaves.
It’s going to be all he can do to keep sending those checks
every month.
Why bring children into the world if they are to be raised
by frogs or dogs?
Television is no substitute for parents, and that would still
be true if all so-called “offensive” advertising were taken off
permanently tomorrow.
: We made a decision in this country long ago that the vast
majority of TV networks and stations would be owned by
private entrepreneurs.
There’s no going back on that one. If the frogs and dogs
and the messages they are sending to your kids worry you,
try to steer them toward watching the frog named Kermit
and the dog named Wishbone, both of whom have their own
very wholesome shows on the Public Broadcasting System.
big-time, though, for my in- and some ofthem want to hear
ability to “reach and out touch mine back. I think most people
someone.” “ - --
tell us about
time to come.
KRIS-TV has made a deal with Seagram’s, a leading
maker of distilled spirits, to break a now 48-year-long prece-
dent against exposing the television audiences of America to
ads for any intoxicating beverages other than beer and wine.
In the commercial, the dog carrying around the Crown
Royal bottle is said to be the valedictorian of his class in
obedience school whereas another dog who has only a
newspaper he is fetching for his master in his teeth is de-
clared a mere graduate.
Well, as you might expect, we must condemn in the stron-
gest possible terms any depiction of the newspaper business
-in a less than favorable light.
To imply, as Seagram’s now is doing in an advertising
campaign its executives hope to expand nationwide, that
. having one’s lovable canine be trained in obedience school to
fetch the news of the day merits a lower station in dog life
; than to bring one’s master a jug of 90-proof is anathema to
* every fiber of any journalist’s being.
Rep. Joe Kennedy, D-Mass., (yes, one of theKennedys) took
1 to the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives Tuesday to
| decry this development.
It is true that his Irish namesake and grandfather made
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much of his early fortune during Prohibition through "rum-
. running,” the generic term for smuggling various forms of
liquor into the United States from overseas during the
1920s.
And it is rumored that the Kennedy family still gets its
cut from every bottle sold of a certain hard liquor product
But we will cut Rep. Kennedy some slack here and give
2 him credit for a sincere concern about heightening demand
among young people too tender in years to drink legally for
this highly intoxicating product
For no one of any rationality would argue that depicting a
handsome, begging-to-be-petted, tail-wagging hound dog in a
TV commercial would not appeal to kids.
, Rep. Kennedy linked the “Seagram’s dogs” to the
“Budweiser frogs.” In both cases, children are seemingly the
target audience, even if it is unintended by the makers of the
, admittedly creative works of advertising art
We would conclude by saying that since everyone knows
that neither alcohol- nor tobacco-based products are likely to
be outlawed in the United States of America, there needs to
be a similar standard when it comes to advertising.
It is true that this newspaper has accpted ads, not very
often but every now and then, for places of business licensed
by the state of Texas to sell Seagram’s and other similar
(products.
If this society is going to continue in its hypocrisy with a
phony “war on drugs” which is really just a war on the
American people (another U.S. Supreme Court decision
eroding the rapidly disappearing safeguards of the Fourth
Amendment was announced this week), we must say that
the two mind-alteringand often lifespan-shortening sub-
stances deemed “legal” by the hypocritical powers that be,
alcohol and tobacco, no longer be subject to any commercial
restrictions.
Bring back those marvelously innovative commercials
from days of yore for the “Marlboro Man” and the “Virginia
Slims” ladies (excuse us, feminists, we meant to say
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Free will, free choice
U.S A. was founded on liberty, not censorship
The decision by T. Frank Smith, owner of an NBC-TV
network affiliate station in Corpus Christi to air a very
cleverly made commercial involving a dog with a big bottle of
liquor around its neck is sure to be controversial for some
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When God put creation to-
gether, water was ahead of fire; phone mi
Both of them were in their tion pure
graceful individual is a “he,” I
am exhibiting anti-male “sex-
ism,” but odds are it was yet
another case of “testosterone
poisoning,” as the feminists
like to say.)
I HAVE TO confess that I
love not having a phone now. I
dislike hearing phones ring at
the office even. But that’s busi-
ness. I hate it when people call
me. Let’s face it. I’m a
hatemonger when it comes to
this particular innovation in
technology.
You might ought to pray for
me in my condition of being
unable to “reach out.” I don’t
4A — THE GUMER MIRROR, Gilmer, Teras June 15,1006
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Dear Editor: Not only was there a strong
. We would like to express our feeling of nostalgia through-
appreciation to all those who out the weekend, there was
helped make our Gilmer High also a great feeling of pride for
Classes of‘45 and *46 reunion the Gilmer that is still home to
a great success.
To our local merchants who
so generously supplied door
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I have once again identified is not an eagle’s nest, but there
myself as the selfish, narcis- is an extra large gum tree over
sistic, solipsistic and almost there, and about 50 feet above
hopeless case of a lost human the ground the tree has three
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ISSN No. 8750-0884
ESTABLISHED AS
THE TEXAS Mirror
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prizes, to the Chamber of Com-
merce/Y amboree Association
and VFW for their cooperation
in the use of their buildings,
wo say a special thank you.
One highlight of our week-
•nd was the school bus tour of
Gilmer provided by GISD. The
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sneaking suspicion that God feet. From the ground it looks as
didn’t want us to be “jabber- if eagles, crows, buzzards, hawks
ing” on the phone, “surfing” or some large bird built this nest
the Internet and watching in and added to it from year to
an almost “zombified” state year, until now it is really large,
television and the VCR, etc., It is the lagest and most fasci-
etc., etc., all the time. nating nest this writer has ever
seen.
I HAVE TO beg the forgive- ..
ness of those telephone addicts K.llgOV€ College
out there. You know who you epAo p .»
are. I don’t want to talk to you. PV r)OSting
outnnviblesonedThonunb contracting seminar
vice at this time. If you need Wanting to learn how to sell
assistance, please dialthe Op- to “Uncle Sam?” Th, Kj
erator, but frankly.m myopin- College Smanl Business Devel-
ton, you are probably an mop- opment Center (SBDC) is host-
erabe case. c ing a seminar on government
(No surgeon that I know of contractingentitled,"SeuingTo
hasever successfully removed The Government.' Tuesday,
a telephonic earpiece from the June 18from 1:30 to3:30p.m. at
fleshly earlobe of a truly dedi- the KC Small Business Devel-
cated phone-aholic. Research An.n 1.ta •+ im
is ongoing at the Mayo Clinic Apie cCentssultctoin Long
but results to date have not view(NexttoBlakeFurniture).
been promising.)
I would like to meet you in There is no charge for this
person and face-to-face if you seminar. For registration or for
have something to say to me, morn information, call the Small
Then, ifl really don’t like what Business Development Center
I’ve heard and you are not that at (903) 757.5857 or (800) 333.
physically imposing, I can just 7232.
came out a few weeks ago. It
found that America as a na-
tion suffers from sleep depri-
to vation on a massive scale.
I’ll give a “nodding” agree-
ment to that conclusion, just
before I nod off to sleep. -
transactions being made on my times away from the mindless
number. banter of the madding crowd.
The phone companies kept AN OPEN MOUTH almost
saying they would investigate, necessarily leads to closed ears
but they apparently never did because we humans can’t seem
beyond having traced the root to perform both functions at
of the problem to a number in once. I know I can’t. When I’m
Gladewater. The AT&T and talking, I’m thinking of what
GTE representatives both said I’m going to say next. I couldn’t
there was really no way to rem- care less what you are about to
edy the situation short of my say. Sometimes I get to talking
paying an additional monthly so fast that I can’t even hear
fee to block “third-party" trans- myself think. That’s generally
actions. when I begin to get into trouble.
At that point, I had a deci- it truly hurts me to have to
sion to make. Would I pay the answer phone calls, because
folks at the phone company most of the time, it seems, the
even more money to do what meaning being communicated
they should have done them- is not what I want to hear,
selves, i.e., protect my account And, if it is, I would rather be
from fraud, or wouldl just can- “up close and personal” in the
cel my phone service yet again? same room with the literal
You know the answer. And human being (not his or her
that’s why I won’t answer. telephonic image) who is de-
I would have loved to have livering the message. Then I
seen the expression on the can give you a great big hug,
delinquent’s face when he said pat you on the back, etc., and,
EDITOR'S NOTE: The follow
ing is another in our series of
columns by the late D.T. Loyd,
schoolman, banker and local his-
torian. These columns originally
appeared in The Gilmer Mirror
during the 1960s and early
1970s.
ROAMING THROUGH
OUR FORESTS
THE WOLF CAVE—Deep in
the woods west of Sand Hill and
east of the mountain park or
rest area on State Hwy. 155
northeast of Gilmer is a fairly
large cave that everybody in that -
area calls the wolf cave.
The entrance into the cave is
about eight feet tall and six feet
wide and situated under a large
rock on a beautiful mountain
stream which trickles down from
hills.
Nobody knows exactly how
far back under the large rock the
cave goes, because, if anybody .
has ever explored its depth, we
never heard of it, as it seems
that you lose your desire to see
how far it goes when you get
down and peer into its darkness.
Animals have made beds of
leaves as far as you can see into
the cave, which makes you feel
that it might be a wolfcave or
some other animal den, although
we have never chased any kind
of animal out of it, but there are
several people who are better
acquainted with it than this
writer.
You can not get very close to it
except by walking at least one-
half mile. The last time we vis-
ited it we went most of the way
by jeep, then walked the remain-
der of the distance. This would
be a fine trip for a group of Boy
Scouts or Camp Fire girls when
the weather is warm.
THE EAGLE’S NEST — Not
far from the wolf cave is what
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punch you out right on the
talk too much. I know I have at scene.
times. I used to want to be a III try to leave you still at
broadcaster in my youth. least semi-conscious so that
But now that I am heading you can make it to the nearest
“over the hill,” I crave quiet phone (but, of course) so that
. you can dial 9-1-1.
And, in the unlikely event
is no lie. Gets us in shape for all kinds that you “TKO" or even “KO"
The Bible says it was in the of fires me?
water when he was found; Even the kind that we can’t Well, at least you won’t ever
This is reasonable the way it measure its size have to try to call me again. I
sounds. Humbly submitted, pick my fights rather carefully.
Now we realize that fire was ___ - __though. My “flight" response
on its way L.C. Johnson, Gilmer is fairly well-honed at this
It took them both to make fpoint in my life.
Moses’day. SIPOUl IClim------ But if you put me in a coma,
So when you have already The Gilmer Mirror welcomes that will be fine. Unlike a lot of
been to the water and been bap- letters to the editor on subjects folks, I cherish sleep. Eight
tixed of interest to readers. hours a night, at least.
This puts you in good shape All letters must bear the One of those fabled studies
for the fires. handwritten signature of the conducted by the “experts”
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