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THE PALMER RUSTLER -Thursday, August 13, 1964
The Sports
[ Shots
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
A. P. Sports Writer
The trophy El Paso High
School should have received 43
years, ago for winning the state
basketball championship now is
in its possession.
It just goes to show that right
will win out although it may take
40 years and it may be by acci-
dent.
But when El Paso High got the
trophy as champion of 1922 it
brought to a climax a fabulous
story that has been told and re-
told over the decades, embellish-
ed and broadened and added to.
El Paso finally got its just de-
serts because of the publication
of a book “Towering Texans” in
1950.
El Paso found out about it only
recently and it was through the
efforts of Clyde Hucket, a sports
writer on the El Paso Times, that
it came to light then.
HUchet thumbed through the
books one day and came across
a chapter titled “Case of the
Missing Trophy.” It related the
following:
The Lindale basketball team
of 1922 swept through the state
tournament like a prairie wind
and was awarded the trophy for
winning the title.
But from the first there had
been suspicious glances thrown
the way of the Lindale team. The
players had beards that were
much thicker and longer than
schoolboys of that day even
though the age limit of the Tex-
as Scholastic League was 21
years.
The director of the Texas
Interscholastic League, the late
Roy Bedichek, and his athletic
director, the late Roy B. Hender-
son, had inspected the beards
and they were suspicious, too. So
they investigated and found to
their satisfaction that there was
just too much age manifested
on the Lindale team.
Several members of the team
were considered over the legal
limit but only one player was
used by the League a couple of
months after the tournament.
Bedichek also called for a return
of the trophy.
But Lindale wouldn’t return it
and hinted that if anybody
tried to get it there would be
heck to pay.
Lindale had been suspended
for a year and when the year was
up it asked for reinstatement.
But Bedichek asked: “Where’s
the trophy?” Silence greeted
this query.
For five years Lindale made
the request for five years the
league asked the question:
“Where’s the trophy?”
Finally, Lindale sent the tro-
phy back. It looked rather moth-
eaten and the League, after
dutifully accepting it and re in-
stating Lindale, put it in a store
room that carries a collection of
the ages.
When the League suspended
Lindale it forfeited the 1922
state championship to El Paso
High, since it was the runner-
up.
It was reading about the
trophy that caused Huchet to
wonder: how come El Paso High
didn’t get the trophy?
So he wrote the League and
inquired what it had done with
the cup. Back came the reply
that the trophy had been found
in the store room and would be
sent to El Paso High.
Ie eventually came and they
made quite a thing of it. Living
team members and their families
were present for a special as-
sembly when the trophy was pre-
sented.
Who wrote the book “Tower-
ing Texans”? Well, modestly for-
bids saying so but on the front
of the book is this name where
an author always is listed: “Bv
Harold V. Ratliff.”
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No Quick Cure
For Skunk’s Most
Potent Weapon
BY HAROLD WATERS
Associated Press Staff
FORESTBURG ,Tex.,—take it
from an expert, John Anderson,
there is no quick way to cure
yourself after you’ve been hit
with a skunk’s most potent
weapon.
“There isn’t any easy way to
get rid of the smell,” says And-
erson, 62-year-old former farm-
er. “For the most part, “I just
let the sun and wind wear the
smell out. It’s a little slow, but
it works.”
Anderson is operator of a
skunk farm in this Montague
County town.
“I trap them, breed them, buy
them, sell them, and descent
them; all sizes,” he says.
Twelve years ago Anderson
started varmit hunting and rais-
ing on a commercial basis,
He was hospitalized with a
heart condition in 1952 and at
that time his doctor told him
he would have to forego the
hard farm labor he had been
use to.
During his stay in the hos-
pital a nurse gave him a book
telling of the demands for var-
mints, and that was the begin-
ning of a new career. When be
was released from the hospital,
he ordered a book describing the
method of descenting skunks and
became expert by practice.
The Washington Merry-Go-Round
dy DREW PEARSON
"WASHINGTON — Attorney Democratic candidates for the
General Kennedy was being
cross-examined by a group of
Its The Law
Civil or Criminal
Court actions fall into two
House and Senate. Said one Ken-
nedy partisan:
"Up in Rochester, we had a
great love and respect for your
brother. Two hundred and fifty
thousand people lined the streets
when he came up there. The
only way we can carry upstate
New York again is by having
the civil case which takes up another Kennedy on the ticket.”
most of our court time, a person'
or a business, for example, may
seek damages or “relief”.
classes—civil and criminal. In
A car accident may give rise
to a civil suit when you sue for
damages claiming that the driv-
er of the other car is to blame
for the harm you suffer. The
same accident becomes a crimin-
al action if an officer picked up
the driver, for example, for
I driving while intoxicated. The
civil suit covers private offens-
es or “torts”; the criminal action,
public offenses or crimes.
Centuries ago the courts
sought to limit court actions. If
the facts failed to fit exactely
into well-worn pigeon holes, the
courts could do nothing for the
party who was wronged, no mat-
ter how much he suffered or
how much property he lost.
As against this old common
law system, a new system—
equity—came about a few cen-
turies later. “Equity” gave a
remedy where the “law” gave
none. Under the law generally
you could not sue to prevent
somebody from continuing to
harm you; equity gave you the
right to an “injunction”—a court
order, halting the wrong on
penalty of court punishment. It
could prevent someone from
trespassing on your property.
Under the “law” you could not
compel a person to carry out ex-
act terms of his contract. You
could merely sue him for the
money it cost you. But under
“equity” you can get “specific
performance”, that is, the court
can order a contractor, for ex-
ample, to sell you the exact piece
of land you contracted for, or
old master painting you paid for
—and not something “just as
good”.
And so now private court ac-
tions are civil suits—which come
under the law or under equity,
or criminal actions which the
public, through the district at-
torney, is a main party.
Centuries ago two kinds of
courts heard law and equity cas-
es respectively, but in Texas to-
day our District Courts can try
both kinds. In fact they may also
hear felony criminal cases. By
cutting down on the number of
different kinds of courts hear-
ing different kinds of cases, our
system of justice has simplified
court machinery and made it
that much more useful to the
people.
(This newsfeature prepared by
the State Bar of Texas, is writ-
ten to inform—not to advise. No
person should ever apply or in-
terpret any law without the aid
of an attorney who is fully ad-
vised concerning the facts in-
volved, because a slight variance
in facts may change the applica-
tion of the law.)
“I’ve given that a lot of
thought,” replied Bobby Ken-
nedy, “and last week I talked to
a couple of my friends and de-
cided not to run.”
His reply brought down the
house.
However, close friends of Bob-
by’s say that he has now made
up his mind to run in the state
where his friend says he is so
popular—New York.
It is known that President
Johnson would be delighted to
have the Attorney General on
the ticket as Senator from New
York. It’s also a fact that Bobby
is extremely popular among the
Catholic, Jewish, and Negro vot-
ers, would also get a lot of other
support.
Finally, the cleavage in the
Republican Party with Goldwat-
er champion Clare Booth Luce
scowling at the liberal policies
of Sen. Ken Keating, the Repub-
lican incumbent, should make
the race a walk-away for Ken-
nedy.
The Attorney General is only
38 years old. He has been one
of the most devoted brothers in
American history. He did a su-
perb job of managing his bro-
ther’s campaign. He took the
knocks, let his brother get the
praise. He was at his brother’s
elbow during all his most dif-
ficult crises.
And recently, Bob Kennedy
has shown a real insight into
foreign affairs, made a shrewd
move in going to Poland where
he demonstrated, by the crowds
that followed him in the street,
how popular the United States is
with the great mass of people,
despite their government. This
proved the fallacy of the Gold-
water argument that the United
States should give the cold
shoulder to the satellite nations.
However, being only 38, Bob-
by could have a great career in
the Senate, and in eight years,
or even twelve, still be young
enough to make a run for the
White House rather than going
in the side door—as Vice Presi-
dent—in case of tragedy.
—War vs. Baseball—
It was 1:30 a.m. Dean Rusk
had been at his desk all evening.
Cables were coming in from Sai-
gon, Hong Kong, the Philippines,
regarding attacks on U. S. de-
troyers and American retalia-
tion. The Secretary of State
looked tired.
“Here is the text of Ambassa-
ing what was happening. The
night wore on. Finally, betwen
3:30 and 4 a.m., the Secretary
of State went off to bed.
The next day he was up at his
desk at the usual time. Later,
the TV networks asked for an in-
terview regarding the Vietna-
mese crisis. Rusk was exhausted
but accomodated them. The in-
terview took much longer than
anticipated, but he was patient.
Later that day, State Depart-
ment officials were shocked to
learn that local TV outlets had
failed to use the interview which
Rusk had taken time out to give.
The Reason: Baseball. The ball
game was considered more im-
portant than the threat of war.
—Goldwater and Peking—
State Department experts
have been trying to figure out
just what connection, if any,
there is between the American
election, the argument between
Moscow and Peking, and the de-
liberate attack on U. S. destroy-
ers in the Gulf of Tonkin.
Only conclusion the experts
can reach is that the Goldwater
candidacy is duck soup for the
Red Chinese. It fits in exactly
with their thesis that you can’t
get along with the Western
World.
The Russians have been argu-
ing that nuclear war is so catas-
trophic no nation can afford it,
that the capitalist world doesn’t
want war, that President John-
son is a reasonable man. Khrush-
chev has repeatedly said that the
old Marxist doctrine of inevit-
able war between capitalism and
communism is out of date, that
co-existence is the only alterna-
tive.
Now, however, the Chinese
Reds can point to one U. S. can-
j didate for President who has de-
nounced co-existence and whose
party has officially gone on re-
cord for removal of the hot line
between Moscow and Washing-
ton, the teletype line set up to
prevent accidental war.
This is what the Chinese have
been telling the Russians—name-
ly, that you can’t trust the capi-
talist West and that the United
States at heart wants war.
—Behind The Scenes—
Frank Kluckhohn, former New
York Times correspondent, re-
cently dropped by the Republi-
can National Committee, is now
a hate-crusader for the Christian
Crusade, operated by Rev. Billy
Hargis. Kluckhohn, author of
various hate books on President
Johnson, spoke in Dallas last
weekend . . . Sen. Mike Mans-
field, D-Mont., the Majority
Leader, offered coffee and cook-
ies to Pierre Salinger after he
was sworn in as the new Senator
from California. “I’ve got to be
nice to this guy,” said Mansfield.
“I need his vote.” . . . Congress-
man Bob Jones of Alabama has
come up with an idea for a
dor Stevenson’s speech to be de-i memorial to Franklin D. Roose-
livered at the U.N. tomorrow,
Mr. Secretary,” said one of
Rusk’s aides. “Do you want to go
over it?”
Rusk took time to read over
the speech, made a couple of
minor suggestions.
He drafted some cables to be
sent to American allies report-
velt. Roosevelt loved people and
would not appreciate a mauso-
leum of marble and stone, says
Congressman Jones; therefore,
he proposes a visitors’ center in
Washington as a memorial to the
late FDR.
(Copyright, 1964, by the Bell-
McClure Syndicate).
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CHURCH DAMAGE—This small Greek- Orthodox church in
Pachiammos, Cyprus, was damaged during the Aug. 9 air raid
against Greek Cypriot positions in northern Cyprus. The UN
said the cease-fire between the Greek and Turkish Cypriot
communities were being “generally observed” except for
isolated and often accidental incidents.
June, July and August are his the United States, Canada, Fran-
busiest months. Anderson ships ce, England, Japan and Alaska.
animals every week during these
three months.
His orders come from all over
5 ' SAFE
u. 5 SAVINGS BO
Recently Anderson had approxi-
mately 40 skunks on hand, young
and old. He had several orders
to fill from that stock. At the
time he was working on an or-
der for Bedford, England. The
order consisted of two baby!
skunks, two pair of baby rac-
coons, three dozen prairie dogs
and two baby ring-tails.
Prairie dogs are his latest ven-!
ture. He has several dozen in
captivity but released eight to
see if they would start a prairie
dog town on his property.
People come from near and'
scented.
- Carl Kirksey, 18, of Wichita
Falls, for instance came in with
a 4-week-old skunk. He wanted
it descented before it got old
enough to start stinking. •
Anderson told him the cat was
already old enough for that.
“These babies can start stink-
in’ soon as they get here. You’re
just lucky she never got excit-
ed,” the skunk expert told
Kirksey.
“These little girls aren’t hard
to descent. You ought to try
destinkin’ an Ole Tom, a big
one.
“Those fellers’ will bite you,
scratch you, and spray you at
the same time.”
As the youth left with his
odorless kitten, Anderson urged
him to be sure and take good
care of her.
“Feed her a boiled egg, some
milk, a little calf liver and all
the dog pellets she’ll eat. She’ll
get as fat and fluffy as any kit-
ten you’ve ever seen.” ,
About four years ago an epi- /
demic occured among wildlife
in Montague County. At one
time he estimated that about 80
per cent of the wildlife had died.
It’s just now getting back close
to normal in animal population.
“When hunting was good in
these parts, I could catch 20-25
varmints in one day with no
trouble. In fact the best day I
ever had I caught 44 skunks.
The next day I caught 43. Man
I had everything on the place
full of cats,” he added.
“If I could find just two good
hunters who would really mind
their business and hunt, I think
that in two weeks we could
catch enough animals to fill all
my orders,” he said.
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