The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 48, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1986 Page: 4 of 28
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1 HE ALBANY NEWS
1 lit' Albany News
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Oldest journalistic venture west ol the Hrnzos
Editoi Publisher
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t w ecu La'IH mil pcijjHc Will telld tile
rook oil and relateii a« ti\ itie- Hopefully
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urn out isn't as large .is lhe> art counting
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Moran is lortunate to ha>e a group ol
liverse individuals, some ol whom don't
, , ; li , ii Moran to promote their town
and its ieisuiesses and peoph
I la aook nil promises to lie a ureal da', ol
tun lor the entrants in the contest. the spec
mines ihe judges and i ei vont in uvid.
Miss l exas, Jonna (• it/.gerahl, will hi- pri
-eni i.. perform on her fiddle Sat urda> ev en
11,. ail i' the rook oft silt will be followed
hy ,t open fiddlers contest and an old
fashioned street dance which will last until
t he w ee hours.
I lie day w ill begin w ith an arts and crafts
fair, a goat roping, a countr\ musical, a li'ii
arts show and sale and c til a horseshoe and
washer t hrowing contest
i ooit vviil be abtimia i. I h; oughout I hi da>
w ith v i ilors being able lo . huo.se from ham
i ,r ers, barbecue, and "I course, lajitas
Make plans to head for Moran on Satur
day and lie prepared to havt a mod lime,
be. ause thai is what it sounds liki is in
store.
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THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1986 ALBANY IEXAS 76430
PAGL4 A
By I'at Lidia Jones
If you've wondered why I'm still
writing about Grandmothers, I'll tell
you. I was at a Study Club meeting not
long ago. The program had to do w ith
cooking. Our guest speaker was ill and
unable to give the talk and demonstra
tion. Virginia Baker, the club program
chairman, improvised, She suggested
i hat each of us tell some favorite child
hood memory of a favored food or re
cipe, or something on that order.
At first, it seemed slow going but as
always, those women came through
with flying colors. It was a fascinating
time, as first this woman, and then that
one told of things they remember fond
lv from years back. The majority of
these involved a grandmother.
I wrote last week of my maternal
grandmother, Pauline Wright of Gates
ville. This week, I give equal time to
my dad's mother, Mary Arizona
Elizabeth Barham Lidia, called Zona.
She and her husband, Thomas Jeffer
son Lidia lived on a farm at Oak Dale,
about five miles out of Stephenville in
Erath County.
I always thought of Grandmother as
old. It was only after I had attained a
good many years myself, that I knew
when I spent time with her back at the
farm, she was a relatively young
woman.
When (irandpa died, she sold the
farm and moved in with her eldest
daughter. With the exception of visits
to her other four children and various
relatives, she stayed there the rest of
her life.
For the most part, Grandmother was
a lousy cook and housekeeper. It
wasn't her fault. While she had her
own home, it was overrun with old
maid sisters and sisters in law.
bachelor brothers and brothers in law,
I- ids, grandchildren, cousins, nieces and
nephews. Anyone, everyone was
welcome. She could stretch a meal to
cover any amount of hungry drop ins.
There was bed space as long as Grand
mother had room on the floor for one
more pallet. Anyone was welcome,
anytime.
She was a tinv, sturdy little woman.
She had baby fine hair that she wore
skinned back into a knot at the back of
her head. When she came to visit us,
my mother would cut the top and sides
of Grandmother's hair and give her a
home permanent. The back, Mother
braided and rolled into a bun.
Grandmother loved to crochet, and
like everything else, she went at it as if
she were paid by the job. Once when
she was younger, she knitted a hand
some two-piece burgandy-colored dress
for my mother.
She read when she could find the
time, listened to the radio, read every
word in the newspaper, and was up on
current events, until she was well over
ninety years old. Her comments on
world affairs were sharp and to the
point.
Grandmother worked at least two
crossword puzzles everyday. Her
vocabulary was incredible. Crossword
puzzle books were a favorite gift to
give to her, and the tougher, the bet
ter.
She cared nothing about clothes.
When she w as older, she would come in
some mornings with her dress on,
wrong side out. If it was called to her
attention, she'd laugh and say, "If it
doesn't bother you, it doesn't bother
me."
Grandmother had a marvelous sense
of fun and humor. She w ould tell a fun
ny story, and then elbow her listener to
make sure he got the joke. She was a
good yarn spinner, and a great listener
too.
One story she never tired of telling
concerned my dad out on the farm. It
was a true story; I know , because I was
present. I was four or five years old,
and I was sitting on the wagon seat
with Grandmother, w hile Grandpa and
Daddy loaded the wagon.
All of a sudden, a lizard ran up one of
Daddy's overall legs and down the
other leg. He leapt into the air, scream
ed, and began tearing off his clothes.
We knew nothing of the lizard's
travels, so we froze in horror at the
sight of Daddy, yelling, jumping up and
down, as he stripped off his clothes.
Grandmother grabbed me, hid Dad
dy from my sight with her hand and
said, "Don't look, child, your daddy has
gone insane."
I still get tickled when I thin^t of
Grandmother telling that on Daddy. I
can still feel her nudge.
One day when Grandmother was
about ninety, she was talking to me,
and she remarked that she was glad
ten grandchildren, before her eyesight
had begun to fail. I was the youngest of
those grandchildren. When she asked
to see my quilt, I had to tell her that
she hadn't ever made one for me.
"Well, that will never do. I'll start
piecing your quilt today!"
And she did. It is one of my most
prized possessions. Although she
couldn't see well, and was over 90,
every stitch was placed with a love I
never doubted for a moment of my life.
She lived to be 97 years old. I always
thought I was her favorite grandchild.
It was years later that in several con
versations with my cousins, that I
discovered that each of the ten of us
thought he was Grandmother's
favorite. What a beautiful job she did
of spreading the gift of love evenly.
By Lyndell Williams
Texas Press Association
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Trving to save state dollars, Texas
Comptroller Bob Bullock warned last
week that state spending increased in
April for the second consecutive
month.
But Gov. Mark White questioned the
accuracy of Bullock s report and in
sisted that his austerity plan would
meet its savings goals by September.
White also called himself the most
conservative Texas governor "in quite
some time," a characterization which
amazed some observers by its hold
ness. White, after all, has raised taxes
twice.
His statement was a political reac
tion to criticism by his GOP opponent,
Bill Clements, who stumped the state
last week calling White a heavy
spender.
Clements labeled himself as the
underdog, w hich is true since White de
I'eated him in '82. But in terms of cam
paign spending, Clements has the
resources to wage an impressive cam
paign.
Replay '82
After election results showed both
White and Clements winning their par
t\ nominations without runofts, the
politicians at the( apitol seemed to set
lie back to watch the main event: a
replay ol '*2.
On election night. Clements
gathered the public support ol his two
defeated opponents, Tom Loeffler and
Kent Hance. in an immediate show of
Republican unity
By contrast, White hasn't announced
whether he plans to meet with his op
ponents. particularly Andy Briscoe mil
I ton ' row tier
t hi I'alrh W n«*
1 hi- president of the I'exas Keseari h
I i in \ustin based organi/ation
*hich conduct* private reiearcn on
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consumer alert
state capital highlights
By Attorney General Jim Mattox
MAGAZINE SI BSC RIPTION
RIP-OFFS
Those California telephone boiler
rooms are busy again this spring call
ing unsuspecting Texans. My Con
sumer Protection Division tells me that
the newest phone fraud reaching us
from the West coast involves sales of
magazine subscriptions.
The Scam
Consumers are told that they can
buy subscriptions to a large number of
magazines for "only pennies a week."
However, when the consumers receive
invoices for the subscriptions, they
find that they've been billed for hun
dreds of dollars. If the consumer
refuses to pay, she may be told that her
conversation accepting the offer was
tape-recorded and that she had entered
into a "legal contract."
What The l.aw Savs
The legality of such a contract is cer
tainly questionable under our state's
Consumer Protection Act. The tape
recording makes no difference; it is
merely a tool of the boiler room
operators to scare people u ho would
otherwise simply say "No. 1 didn't
agree to this and I'm not paying for it
First, a contract may be cancelled, or
rescinded, in legal terminology, based
on a mutual mistake of fact, that is, if
both parties were mistaken as to a fact.
More importantly, in this instance, a
contract may be cancelled because of
misrepresentation by the seller. Those
representatives may involve either the
consumer's rights, obligations, or
remedies, or qualities of the product or
services question. Any failure to
disclost a fact to th> cansumt r may hi
used to cancel a contract also, if tht
consumer can shon that hi u ould >mt
havi littered into thi contract if hi had
hi i n informi d of that tact Ail of thesi
consumer rights are set forth in the
Deceptive Trace PracticesConsumer
Protection Act.
Recovering Money
Some consumers who have paid for
magazine subscriptions purchased
through telephone sales organizations
have not received their magazines I he
fact that the companies are not in this
state and may not be found through
directory assistance or otner normal
methods of locating businesses makes
is very difficult to recover any money
lost to these shysters.
It is always best to deal with people
and companies you know, or in this in
stance, with the magazine itself, if you
wish to subscribe. Telephone pur
chases always involve a certain amount
of risk. But phone purchases of
magazines from a third party involve
more than the usual risk that you'll be
ripped off.
For More Help
Our offices in Austin, Houston, San
Antonio, Dallas, McAUen, Lubbock and
El Paso are continuing to investigate
consumer complaints concerning falsi
advertising and numerous other con
sumer matters. If you have a complaint
about a consumer matter, feel free to
contact the nearest regional office and
ask for a complaint form. The Attorney
General's Office is the people's law
firm. We're here to help you.
state government financing, last week
said the Texas Legislature probably
will have to raise taxes next session.
Jarred Hazleton told Houston
business leaders that costs in educa-
tion, prisons and state agencies have
spurred state needs to outpace the
growth rate of state revenues.
Again, the falling price of oil has
caused losses in state revenues in
severance taxes and oil related sales
taxes.
Teachers Score "A"
Texas teachers performed better
than predicted on the controversial
literacy exam, with almost 97 percent
passing.
The state education agency had pre
dieted five percent would fail, but
whether their success will appease the
teachers who had hotly protested
White's reform remains to be seen.
Conference Clash
The issue of convicted killer Henry-
Lee Lucas' hoax on Texas lawmen
cropped up in the political race for at
torney general last week.
One of the Republican AG can
didates. Ed Walsh, is a former William
son Countv district attorney who sue
cessfulL prosecuted Lucas lor one of
the many murders Lucas said he com
nutted.
Last week, after \ttorney General
,lim Mattox issued .i report indicating
Lucas could not have committed many
of those murders, Walsh interrupted
the press conference to defend his
record
Walsh criticized Mattox lor not sup
porting levas law officers, while Mat
to* said some Tcvas Rangers should be
criticized for being too eager to • lear
some unsolved murder cases oil the
hcok s
Community Calendar
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Nutrition Program Meal - Youth C enter, 11: ill am
Lions Club Luncheon - Longhorn, 12 noon
Mental Health (link - Depot, 1-4:10 pm
PTC) Meeting & Program - NSES Cafeteria '< 41 pm
Fandangle Rehearsal - Youth ( enter, 8 pm
Community Ac tion Program - Depot, I 4 *0pm
( hamherot Commerce Luncheon - Ft. Griffin Cien
Mdse., 12 noon
7 St.ite I rac k Meet - Austin
Fajita ( ook-Off Championship - Moran
I )istru t 1 4-11 Roundup - Vernon
Senior Bible Presentation - First Baptist ( hurt h
Blood Drive - Church ol Christ. 10:10 am (> pm
Hospital Board - Board Room, 1 pm
Mbany Duplicate Bridge Club Pioneer Building
1:10 pm
VVC T( OC. |oh Training- Depot, 10-11:10 am
Nutrition Program Meal Youth C enter II 10.im
1 adies Golf Assm iation - Golf ( ourse, I pm
AARP Meeting - I trst C hristian ( hurt h. <> 10 pm
Wrestling Matt h - Nail Stadium, 7 pm
Nutrition Program Mial Youth Center II 10. ir
Kivvanis C luh luncheon IL Griffin, 12 noon
Spring Hand ( om erf M IS Auditorium
All-Sports Banquet NS|S( aleteria, 7 pm
| imiess ( lub I um heon It C.ritlin 12 noon
Democratic Run Oil I lection 'am 7 pin
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