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Wednesday, December 27, 1995
The Boerne Star
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Opinion as
SIDEWALK SURVEY
YEARS DAN
OKAY...
A resolution that can be kept
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Write a letter
to the editor
Aldridge
I don’t remem-
ber making
any. art •
did I probably
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..1 RESOLVE
, NOT T’
rCHANGE A
THING!
WHY NOT
MAKE A
NEW YEARS
RESOLUTION
YOU'LL STICK
WITH?
It’s that time of the year again.
Time for those infamous words that
ring hollow right as the new year
rings in.
“I resolve ...” the words on the
paper reflected. “I resolve ...” But
that’s as far as the sentence went.
“I resolve this year to determine
why it is always this time of the year
that my pants resolve to shrink.”
The laundry does a great job
eleven months out of the year, and
then right around Christmas, they
must turn up the hot water. That’s
the only thing I can think of that
would cause the waistline of my
pants to shrink. It’s awful.
While munching on the last left-
over homemade molasses cookie, I
have to take a deep breath to cover
the last inch and a half of my stom-
ach to fasten my jeans.
Visions of the pumpkin pie still
dance in my head while I’m trying
to figure out why I can’t fasten the
collar button on my dress shirts.
They fit fine up until somewhere
around Thanksgiving.
To make matters worse, while
I’m reading the morning paper and
holding my breath to prevent a bar-
rage of flying buttons, I can’t find
the sports page for all the ads
heralding “Lose Fat Overnight.”
O.K. I admit it. My problem is
that I love to eat. And it borders on
masochism to start the day holding
your breath to appear slim and trim
after three turkey and dressing din-
ners. However, it’s hard to lose
weight when handicapped with an
intense love for mashed potatoes
and gravy, sweet potatoes and
brown sugar, casseroles and cakes,
hot rolls and cold egg nog.
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J.L. STEWART
What New Year’s res-
olution if any, did
you make and keep
this year?
To loose
weight. I did-
n’t get the
desired
results I
and I got more
n
the communi-
Joe D’Orsogna
Boerne
I tried to stop
smoking but 't
didn’t work.
Andrea
Mangiaracina
Boerne
ist but I did
spend more
time with my
four kids and
less time at
work. I also
read the Bible
through.
Gordon Jones
Dallas
" Boerne
Thirty Years Ago
December 30, 1965
A story recently filmed at the small town of Waring
will appear on the Early Morning Newscast “Seven”
on January 3, 1966 at 7:15 a.m. on Channel 12,
KONO-TV.
The first buck Alvin Brandt saw this season sup-
plied him with venison for Christmas. He killed the
four-point buck on December 23. The unusual thing
about the buck was his horns. One side had three
points, on the other side, the horn was knocked down
with a five-inch stub almost covering the left eye. This
is truly a freak of nature.
A southbound Southern Pacific engine, two cars
and a caboose was hit by a station wagon at the
Blanco Road crossing at 2 p.m. Monday. The station
wagon hit the side of the train, bounced off and land-
ed on Stahl Street. The driver was uninjured.
Forty Years Ago
December 29, 1955
WANTED - Second hand steel anvil, old style in
good condition. Also 40 to 50 gallon iron wash pot.
WOOD FOR SALE - Fire place heater and cook
stove size, $9 per cord. Straight liveoak, any size, $10
per cord delivered.
FOR SALE - 1951 Chevrolet 4 Door. One owner,
runs perfect, original finish, one of our best, $595,
Kendall Motor Co.
FOR SALE - 15 good pigs, $7 each. See Charles
Alexander, Bergheim.
Fifty Years Ago
December 27, 1945
Willie Pape, Sr., age 50 years passed away
December 23...Mr. Pape lived in San Antonio and for
many years was one of the best sandlot pitchers in and
around San Antonio and has pitched many ball games
for and against the old Boerne White Sox.
For sale at the Schultz Furniture Store:
Kitchen Cabinet, $19.95
1 Electric Iron, $7.95
5-piece Living Room Suite, $64.95
Mattress, $19.95
Unfinished Baby Cribs, each, $4.50
Chest of Drawers, $21.95 and $24.95
Table and 2 Chairs, $14.95
Phone 170
I focused more
on my chil-
dren. The old-
est being 15
and youngest
3 keeps me
very busy.
Susan Jones
Dallas
that’s another of my downfalls. All I
can follow is my nose and rumbling
stomach, and I always follow it to
the refrigerator.
As of this writing, I have not
selected which diet that I resolve not
to follow this year. I’ve browsed the
selection of diet books at the phar-
macy, and I’ve clipped a few of the
health club ads for consideration.
These health club ads are too
enticing, I have to admit. Why, I
can’t even enjoy my sweet rolls, bis-
cuits and jelly without being bom-
barded with the question of whether
I’m overweight.
The answer’s still the same for
me. I’m not overweight, I’m just
under-tall for my size.
Besides, who can muster any
desire to stay trim when you can’t
even get any respect at home.
Just yesterday, the kids were argu-
ing over a candy bar in the kitchen.
I don’t know how I missed it. Must
have been left over from a
Christmas stocking. I thought I
checked them all.
Anyway, the battle was raging.
“It’s mine,” one said. “Is not, it’s
mine,” the other one countered.
“All right then,” son Lee said. Just
eat the candy bar. But don’t blame
me when you’re big and fat like
daddy.”
If that wasn’t bad enough, it real-
ly hurt when they both went out to
play and left the candy bar on the
kitchen cabinet.
“I resolve ...” I started to write
again. “I resolve in 1996 to find an
easier way to unwrap a candy bar
without being noticed.”
Now there’s one I might keep.
And yes, that was me guarding
the food trays at many of the
Christmas open houses around town
the last few days.
Now that Christmas is over and
the trays of goodies no longer
appear at the office, I’ll be driven
back across the street to the Valley
Mart convenience store and stock-
ing up on Grandma’s molasses
cookies. You know, the ones in the
little blue cellophane wrappers?
Freud notwithstanding, experts
still disagree on which basic need
generates the strongest drive — sur-
vival, love, sex, food, etc. With me,
it’s no contest though. I love to eat
and I hate to diet.
Diets have never worked for me.
And there’s not many I haven’t
tried. I’ve done the Dallas diet,
probed at the protein diet, been
scared by the Scarsdale diet and
monkeyed with the banana diet. I
couldn’t even score higher than 7.5
on the Bo Derek diet although it was
a lot of fun.
Any diet has to be followed, and
DULL HI UVU..
Tray Priddy
Feeling lonely,
shabby...
Dear editor:
December 11 at the County
Commissioners’ Court, I appealed to
commissioners to use their regulato-
ry power to slow development, pre-
senting I thought, good evidence
that all developments should have to
build a road to the adjacent property
line whereas rules now merely
require them to build cul-de-sacs at
the endpoints of their roadways.
Currently, they can sell lots all
around the roadways so that the
roadways, eventually maintained by
the county, serve only to provide
service to the residents of the subdi-
vision.
These roadways, although desig-
nated public, are in actual fact, pub-
licly funded private roadways
because they serve only the resi-
dents of the development and their
invitees because they go nowhere
else in the county except as a path-
way from their residence to the
nearest public roadway and are
“quicker than light” submitted to the
county for approval and the com-
missioners, being kind-hearted
souls, pass them for approval even
quicker.
Roads to the property lines would
ensure other residents of the county
the right to connect to the roadways
constructed by developers and when
the adjacent properties are devel-
oped, provide good movement
throughout the county.
I am told by everyone that the
developers need to make as much
money as possible to increase the
tax base the county needs to finance
new services for new residents made
necessary by the developments.
I am also told the marketplace
Everyone should take
an active part in cuts
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We agree with U.S. Sen. (R-Texas) Kay Bailey
Hutchison when she cites "one wag in Washington •
says the national debt has been run up on the
‘American Distress Card: The card that pays your
children back - in debt."
The Republicans have a decent plan. It just does-
n’t, in out opinion, go far enough and allow every-
one to participate in cuts.
Most Americans have expressed their desire to ‘
balance the budget and, as Hutchison says, “cancel .
this card." As Americans struggle to live within their
means, they want the government to do the same, -
yet a Democratic president refuses to compromise
with a Republican plan. Politics - pure and simple.
The Republican plan submitted will slow spend-
ing until by 2002, revenues will exceed spending.
According to the Republicans, and despite
Democratic waiting, spending on Medicare over the
next seven years would increase each year from .
$178 billion in 1995 to $294 billion in 2002 .. a 65
percent increase.
Social Security spending would increase each year
from $333 billion in 1995 to $480 billion in 2002 ..
a 44 percent increase
Medicaid spending would increase from $89 bil.
lion in 1995 to $127 billion in 2002 -- a 65 percent i
increase.-
The missed opportunity is that although some spe-
cific areas of the government would experience
actual cuts in spending, overall federal outlays
would increase every year, rising from $1.5 inllion
in 1995 to nearly $1.9 billton in 2002 - a 22 percent
increase.
We think that both sides, the Republicans and the
Democrats, are missing the real opportunities to
realize savings while they continue to battle along
party lines.
With "non-essential government services at a
standstill during the impasse, the key to real savings
lies in the politician’s definition of "non-essential"
services.
We would advocate keeping the parks and tourist
attractions open. We would advocate keeping the
muscums and art exhibits open.
Far more tax dollars could be saved by a shut
down of “non-essential" services like the IRS.
OSHA. and other regulatory agencies.
Imagine the savings if the Congressional staffs .
were cut by 60-70 percent and elected officials actu-
ally did their own research, wrote their own memos,
did more of their own work. What if they used pub-
lic transportation to get to and from work? What if
their retirement program were less lucrative and
more like the retirement programs of most working
people?™
Hutchison advocates, “We will have the best of all
worlds: a balanced budget and a strong economy in
which hardworking taxpayers are able to keep more
of what they earn.
Our proposal to Republicans and Democrats is
that elected officials take a more active role in join-
ing in those tax dollar savings by tightening the belt
just as the wage earners have had todo. ,
requires these nowhere streets things? Or should I wear my tattered
because the safety of children jeans, my patched, black t-shirts and
requires no cross traffic in residen- keep my goat and cattle population
tial areas. to the level where the grass is strong
I dressed for this presentation as and healthy and keeps the soil hold-
properly as I could, appearing there ing on the steep hillsides, and do the
in my “funeral and wedding” dress, best I can for the land that God and
but alas in my combat boots because my parents saw that I was entrusted
it seems I have thrown out all my to care for?
high heels. Should I keep the grass heavy
The commissioners felt my pre- where I know the water flows in the
sentation was a waste of their and sinkholes in the ground to water and
the county’s time, and apparently so nourish all of us or buy a bauble of
did both newspapers, because I gave some sort to put on my body so I
both a copy of my presentation and will be esteemed in the community?
neither paper reported it as a news- I sure hope others will let me
worthy occurrence of the commis- know what they think as I am feel-
sioners’ court meeting. ing pretty lonely and shabby.
I can understand this reasoning. Carol Grosser
After all, I am overweight, not good- Boerne
looking, always bordering on being Worth the ejfort...
improperly attired because the holes Dear editor,
keep cropping up on my clothing We at the Boerne High School
like grasshoppers in summer. . Science Department would like to
But I have made a conscious say thank you to all of you in the
choice. My mother left me the land community who have supported us
that she and her husband carefully throughout this eventful 1995 year!
cherished throughout their lifetimes. We began this year with our
If there was a choice of overgraz- biggest local Science Fair ever. As
ing and sending the children to -
school a little less polished in attire
than the professionals buying up the
old homesteads, they sent us to
school a little less polished and by
necessity, a little less self-esteemed,
maybe even a little frayed in mind
and body.
As much as I hated the decision as
a child, as an adult I now see their
point. Should I run a few extra goats
or cattle so that I can appear in the
community suited out as someone
important, someone to be listened to
and reported about?
Maybe I should be someone to
appear in the cameos of residents or
the photogenic sessions of important
people about town doing important
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Aldridge, Leon. The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 52, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 27, 1995, newspaper, December 27, 1995; Boerne, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1620053/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Patrick Heath Public Library.