The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1958 Page: 3 of 6
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By V«rn Sanford
This is the tine of the year
when snakes begin crawling again.
Not uii snakes are poisonous,
but i'. is well to watch out for
them.
Most of the snakes you'll find
mound the yard probably are
grass or garter snakes. In your
'fishing trips, however, you are
likely to encounter poisonous
makes.
in Texas we have lour poison-
ous snakes. Mt>st frequently
mentioned is the rattler. There are
several different brands of rat-
tlers, and all are dangerous. They
don't always warn, either, before
they strike.
Until rs will be found around
brush ai I rock piles, under leaves
r d around old lumber piles. Fre-
quently they get out into the op-
tn and especially during that per-
iod of the day when it is not too
hot. Watch out for them!
If you spend a great ,|ea] of
time in snake ountrv it would be
a bood idea to take along a snake
bite kit and know how to u«e it.
One of the most practical kit?
is made by Cutter Laboratories
of Berkeley, Calif. You can buy
one at any drug or sportii g goods
store. Ask for the Cutter Conipak
Suction Snake Bite Kit. It's pock-
et size, only ab:>. :! .lu-nes lon'^
and 1 inch in diameter. It is tub-
ular in shape and its soft rubber
case makes into three suction
cups.
This is one item that should
be a must in every fisherman's
tackle box and in every hunter'*
pocket.
If you are bitten by a snake,
use your kit immediately. Then
tiet to a doctor hb quickly as you
can. Don't take a drink of li-
quor, either. Remain as calm as-
possible. Don't do anything that
will increase blood circulation.
Contrary to the belief of many,
rattlesnake bites are not always
fatal. They'll make you sick
euough to wish that you could
die, but actually the mortality
fiom snake bite, properly treated,
is less thun 1%. It is only 10-15
per cent without any treatment.
So, don't get excited. Be calm
p.nd treat yourself with your kit .
. . carefully and properly.
Now, about some of our other
Texas snakes. One of these days,
while you are out fishing, you are
bound to encounter a water moc-
casin. There are several varieties
of moccasins. Let me warn you
here and now—all are dangerous!
Copperheads and coral snakos
me the other two poisonous
snakes to be found in Texan.
There are fewer of them, hut they
are just as dangerous.
A final word of caution. Don't
get smart with snakes. Once in
awhile some fellow thinks he
knows it all and tries to impress
his friends. It's bad business
monkeying with snakes. Snakes
are not playthings.
While we're on the subject—
a wor 1 of warning about spiders
and scorpions also is jn line. They
can make you very sick. Smash
them every time you get a chance.
It is well to remember that
most snake bite kits, such as the
Cutter, may be used to counter-
act bee stings, spider and insect
bites also.
Fibcrglaf* Fishing Boat
To the Whitehouse Boat Co. of
Fort Worth goes the honor of
producing the first fiberglass boat
made especially for fishermen.
And Jack Ziller of the Hilly
Disch Marine Service in Austin
had the distinct pleasure of being
the first to launch one in the
Highland Lakes area of Central
Texas. .lack sljd a blue and white
beauty off a Little Dude trailer
onto the smooth surface of Lake
Travis the other day and gave it
a good workout. It planed easily
with a 5 >2 hp Buccaneer motor.
The 14-foot "scout" has: a 59-
Inch beam and weighs just under
Ask for olir
Easy Term-.
FIRST, BE SURE
your plumbing, gas, elec-
trical connections and tin
work is in order.
Save Waste
by checking now!
"A STITCH IN TIME-
SAVES YOU MONEY
FROM ROOF TO CELLLAR
WE CAN SERVE YOUR HOME NEEDS
We have a
trained group
of workmen
tu give you
service from
roof to
base meat.
KOEPPEN-BALDWIN, INC.
Soft glow of gas
light returns to i
patios, porches, etc.
The gas light with its warm,
friendly glow has returned to the
American scene after many years
to lend graciousness and charm
to outdoor illumination. It may be
used wherever the homemaker
chooses—on patios, on porches,
along sidewalks, steps, or drive-
ways and beside swimming; pools.
The gas light is easily adaptable
to posts or fastens easily to sills
with ready-made brackets.
The gas industry some months
ago began ballyhooing the gas
light purely as a promotional
stunt, never expecting that its
sales success throughout the coun-
try would be phenomenal. Quot-
ing one gas company sales and
promotion manager: "To repeat
an old saying, the gas lights are
selling like hot cakes. Seems as if
everybody wants one."
T'.io Lone Star (las Company
has ordered a freight carload of
gas lights for arrival the week of
July 20. Coming from Evansville,
Indiana, the car with 2,200 gas
lights wa; scheduled to arr.ve in
Greenville July 23, where it will
drop 500 units for distribution to
east Texas towns served by Lone
Star. Dallas will receive 500,
Waco 600, Wichita Falls 250, Abi-
lene 250 and Fort Worth 200. A
Phone HO 5-1775
305 W. Woodard
200 pounds. It hrs bui t-in air-
tank floatation and will safely
handle motors up to 40-hp.
Whitehouse also makes a 13-
fojt "Ringer" for fishermen. It
i. the same width as the
"Scout," hut w< ight about 25
pounds lighter. Its hp capacity is
15.
These two models bring
Whitehouse'.- 1058 line of boats
to nine different kinds. With nine
colors lo chose from, the boating
enthusiast now has 81 choices.
Who s lid boats weren't competing ,
with automobiles?
Prices range from the little j
Ranger at slightly less than $300, j
to the Giulctta, a 21-foot, inboard
job with a 430 hp motor, at $7,-
500. That's getting up into the
automobile class too, eh?
Anyway, if you don't think
these Texan- are in the boating
business, just drop in for a look-
see at their huge factory just
south of Fort Worth. The growth
of this company has been phenom-
enal—and they are still growing.
Now that they have entered the
fishing boat field their growth is
sure to expand even more rapidly.
Fiberglass has definite advan-
tages over metal or wood. It is
next to impossible to puncture a
hole in a fiberglass boat by ram-
ming a log or dock or a submerg-
ed object, regardless of how sharp
it is. A fiberglass boat doesn't
rot, nor will it dent. Its color is
impregnated in the fiberglass,
therefore, it doesn't have to be re-
painted.
Fishermen who have tried the
fiberglass boat like its quietness.
It glides through the water
smoothly. There is no big echo
when it strikes an object. And
when you drop something In the
bottom of the boat there isn't
that resounding "boom" that oc-
curs in a metal boat ... to scare
the fish away.
It will beach as easily and
| withstand the grave) and rocks
[ ju"t as well as, if not better than,
a metal boat and much, much bet-
ter than i< wooden boat.
So, we predict a pretty
healthy future for Whltehouse'.-)
two new products for the fisher-
man, the "Scout" and "Ranger."
huge banner on the side of the
freight car will read: "Another
Carload of Qas Lights lor Lone
Star Gas Company." Meanwhile,
the company has sold hundreds of
the gas lights throughout its op-
erating territory in Texas.
Today's gas lights are almost
exact counterparts of their prw
genitors of the country's "Gas-
light Era" of the distant past.
The lamp is lighted by shoving a
(laming- match through a hole in
its base. The fire ignites gas fed
ii.to the lamp's burner through a
length of copper tubing. The
burner is surrounded by a white
"mantle" made of aluminum ox-
ide, and it's housed inside a
square glass and metal case that
tapers toward the bottom and is
about 20 inches tall and nine in-
ches wide across the top. The
lamp usually sits on an eight-foot
post of steel or iron pipe, and ths
whole thing is hooked up to the
customer's main gtts supply by un-
derground pipe.
Most custometd keep their xa;
lights burning continuously.
The first practical use of gas
in modern times was for street
lighting. When William Murdoch,
i llritish engineer and inventor,
lighted his cottage with manufac-
tured gas in 1792, he literally op-
ened up a whole new industry ttnd
changed the living habits of the
civilized world.
The first public street lighting
with gas took place in i'all Mall
in London on January 28, 1807.
In 1812, Parliament granted ! a
charter to "The London & West-
minster Gas Light A Coke Co.,"
and the first gas company in the
world came Into being. In the
United States, Baltimore In 1810
was the first city to light its
streets with gas.
Use of natural gas in America
came into being in Fredonia, New
York, in 1820, when the first ga.-'
well was drilled to a depth of
twenty-seven feet. Industrious
citizens hustled the gas into town
via lead pipelines. In 1858, Fre-
donia went on to establish the
first recorded corporation to serve
natural gas to business and resi-
dential customers.
Fredonia's discovery of natural
gas opened the rapid expansion of
the industry in the decade that
followed. Manufactured gas was
in wide use too, in later years of
the 19th century.
During the decade from 1865
to 1875, much of America, as
well as other countries, was light-
ed by gas. The lamplighter be-
came a familiar figure, the streets
at night took on a warm, friendly
glow.
In nostalgic memory, the "Gas-
light Era" was a period of unhur-
ried, gracious living, never to be
forgotten.
In addition to outside homes,
the gas lights are illuminating
warehouses, motels, parkine lot?,
and drive-in movies. A small pri-
vate airport in North Little Rock,
Arkansas, has placed fifty gas
lights along its runway to guide
nighttime fliers onto the field.
Drivers are safer when the
loads are dry, and the roads are
safer when drivers are dry.
There would be fewer pedes-
trian patients if there were more
patient pedestrians.
One request gets
all M. S. medals,
says Gen. Gard
Former army servicemen may
now obtain all their military serv-
ice medals by making one simple
informal request without having
tc substantiate their right to thi*
medals, Maj. Gen. Robert G.
Gard, commanding general, VIII
US Army Corps (Reserve), ha.-:
announced.
Many veterans apparently fail
to claim their service medals,
earned by active duty with the
army, because they are unable to
recall specific dates of military
service and cannot name the med-
als they are entitled to. Actually,
a veteran does not have to prove
his right to a medal. The army
will obtain the proof from the
veteran's service record.
Under the simplified "ask and
receive" procedure, the army will
send the veteran all of the med-
als, as they become available, his
service warrants simply in re-
sponse to the ex-serviceman's
written request stating "send al!
medals to which I am entitled," or
words to that effect. He may, o!'
course, list the medals to which
he believes he is entitled.
Important Piinl
It is most important that the
ex-serviceman give his full name,
service number, current address,
and approximate dates of service
in order to identify the proper
lecord. Since records are filed
according to service, such a:;
FRIDAY, AUGUST 1, 1958
THE DENISON RRESS, DENKSON, TEXAS
PAGE THREE
World War 1, World War II, and
post World War II, receipt of this
'nfermution will expedite action
in processing the request.
This project is being handled
along with current operations and
there might be a considerable de-
lay before receipt of the medals.
The Department of Defense urges
that, once a request has been
made for the medals, no further
• iction be taken by that individ-
ual. Follow-up or tracer in-
quiries will tend to cause further
delays in the receipt of medals by
the individuals.
Military service medals avail-
able to qualified ex-servicemen
and women include the following:
World War I Victory Medal,
Army of Occupation of Germany
Medal (post WWI), Women's
Auxiliary Corps Service Medal,
American Service Medal, Ameri-
can Campaign Medal, F.uropean-
African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Medal, Asiatic-Pacific Campaign
Medal, World War II Victory Me-
Army of Occupation Medal
post WWII), Medal for Humane
Action (Berlin Airlift), National
Defense Service Medal, Korean
Service Medal, Armed Forces Re-
serve Medal, United Nations
Service Medal and Philippine
Service Ribbons.
Service Ribbon
A service ribbon is issued with
each service medal when avail-
i ble. It is the same color as the
suspension ribbon of the service
medal it represents. Also issued
with service medals when avail-
able are Service Stars, for battle
participation; Bronze Arrowhead*,
for participation in combat para-
chute jump, combat glider land-
ing or amphibious assault landing;
battle and service clasps and/or
devices; and the Berlin Airlift de-
vice, for participation in the Ber-
lin Airlift ( June 18 to September
30, 1949).
Servicemen on active duty
should apply for service medals
for which they are eligible
through their commanding officer.
Qualified army ex-servicemen
cr women or their next-of-kin
may send their applications to
Commanding Officer, Army Rec-
cris Center TAGO, 9700 Page
Boulevard, St. Louis 14, Missouri.
Applications from army retired
personnel and those with reserve
commissions or warrants should
be sent to The Adjutant General.
Department of the Army, Wash-
ington 25, D. C.
AIRMAN JOHN S. SLOAN
SERVING AT ISLAND NAVAL
AIR STATION, SAN DIECO
SAN DIEGO, Calif. — John R.
Sloan, airman, USN, son of Mrs.
Virgie M. Sloan of C30^j West
Owing, Denison, Texas, is serving
at the North Island Naval Air Sta-
tion, San Diego, Calif.
"The Bible and Agriculture" i
the title of a leaflet just released
by the Texas Agricultural Exten-
sion Service. It may be obtained
from county agents or the Agri-
cultural Information Office, Col-
lege Station, Texas. Ask for L-
146.
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Anderson, LeRoy M., Sr. The Denison Press (Denison, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 6, Ed. 1 Friday, August 1, 1958, newspaper, August 1, 1958; Denison, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth329089/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Grayson County Frontier Village.