Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 2009 Page: 2 of 20
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PAGE 2A • POLK COUNTY ENTERPRISE • THURSDAY, APfelL 9,2009
Oil companies once offered souvenir sketchbooks
20.000 EGGS STUFFED — City of Livingston Administra-
tive Assistant Stacy Edwards, left, and Toni Fuller, special
eventss/tourism coordinator put the finishing touches on plans
for the 10th annual Easter Eggstravaganza that begins at 9:30
a.m. at Pedigo Park. Volunteers from Trade Days, First Baptist
Church, Pine Ridge Health Care and Girl Scouts helped stuff
20.000 eggs for the events
Egg hunters c
days to Easter
LIVINGSTON - Area
youngsters will search for about
20,000 candy- and prize-filled
eggs hidden in the Trade Days
Pavilion hunting area at Pedigo
Park at II a.nt. Saturday.
Peter Cottontail will be
available for photos also
beginning at 9:30 a.m.
Immediately after the egg
hunt, specially marked eggs
may be redeemed at Pavillion A
for additional prizes donated by
local businesses.
nt down final
gstravaganza
\
&eas will be divided into the
following age groups: 3-4, 5-6,
and 7-$.
A separate hunting area will be
provided" for children who need
assistance’from parents.
The first 200 children in this
group will receive an Easter bag
stuffed with candy and prizes.
There will be a drawing for
a boys and girls bicycle for
children ages 9 to |2.
The event will be held rain or
shine Saturday.
FEMA: Emergency planners
prepare for hurricane season
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agency representatives, engineers,
planners, media, meteorologists
and other response, recovery and
hazard mitigation professionals.In
her speech. Acting Administrator
Ward discussed reforms and
improvements in the areas of
preparedness and training, logistical
management, communications,
disaster operations, recovery, and
m legation. Site‘highlighted the fact
that FEMA now has 236 pre-scri pted
mission assignments with 29
different departments and agencies
to expedite disaster response. She
added that the agency continues
to provide regional evacuation
planning support to hurricane prone
states. Ward stressed how critical
federal, state, territorial, tribal, and
local relationships are to successful
disaster response. “If we do not plan
together, train together and develop
policies and procedures together,
front the start, we as an emergency
management community will never
be as effective as we should be,"
Ward said. “FEMA Administrator
Nominee, Craig Fugate, like DHS
Secretary Napolitano, recognizes
just how critical this is and knows
that we need to continue to
improve and expand our lines of
communication and engagement.'-’
Another key focus for Mrs.
Ward was the importance of public
information this hurricane season.
She highlighted FEMA’s use of
new tools and technologies, and
the incorporation of social media
into outreach efforts through use of
YouTube, Twitter, and Facebook.
“ There are so many ways the public
gets their information today,” said
Nancy. "Wg need to'continue to seek
out communications tools outside
the traditional forms of media.”
Acting Administrator Ward
concluded by telling conference
attendees that she is “excited about
where we are heading, excited
about what we can accomplish, and
excited about the opportunity that
now presents itself for all of us to
come together and do what’s right
for those that we are entrusted to
serve every day.”
FEMA leads and supports the
nation inari sk- based,comprehensi ve
emergency management system of
preparedness, protection, response,
recovery, and mitigation, to reduce
the loss Of life and property and
protect the nation from all hazards
including natural disasters, acts
of terrorism, and other man-made
disasters.
A lot of parents these days
are worried about whether
xJLthei r chi Idren are spendi ng
too much time on their computers
or texting inappropriately.
Advertising for everything—
wholesome and unwholesome—is
everywhere on the internet, and
predators prowl social networking
sites looking for gullible victims.
The new media has become as
freewheeling as the Old West.
So maybe we should take a break
and remember a simpler time,
an era when corporate America
or openly shady sorts could
influence vulnerable-to-suggestion
youngsters with words and images
printed on paper.
A public relations effort by one
powerful Texas-based corporation
certainly helped shape my life back
in the late 1950s — in a positive
way.
Like most Baby Boomers,
I learned about smoking and
drinking from the people we used
to credit with having the power
to mold children — adults, not
clever advertisers. But it was an
oil company that helped fuel my
interest in Texas history.
I was nodding off in the easy
chair in front of the TV one night
in 1996 when Austin writer and
historian Ken Ragsdale called
shortly before 10 o’clock.
“Didn’t wake you up, did I?”
asked Ragsdale, then an active man
in his 70s. “I just got back from
my four mile walk and wanted to
let you know I’ve got some stuff
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PHOTO COURTESY MEL BROWN
Brown’s Humble Service Station on S. New Braunfels Avenue in San Antonio offered full
service “regular” gas at the pumps near the awning or white “unleaded” gas at the white pump
on the side of the building.
I want to give you. Been cleaning
out my office. You can have it or
throw it away.”
The next day, Ragsdale helped
me load several large shopping
bags in my Baby Boomer Buggy,
a sports utility vehicle.
That night, I began digging into
the bags. Ragsdale had given me
some nice things for my Texana
collection, including something in
a white envelope that caused me to
pause.
The arrival of a similar envelope
more than four decades ago had
been as exciting as the happy
day a few years earlier when my
small gray plastic, baking soda-
powdered U.S.S. Nautilus from
Kellogg’s had finally shown up in
the mail.
On the left side of the envelope,
the distinctive lettering read: “Your
Copy of Texas Sketchbook.” Below
that was a drawing of the famous
Rose Window at Mission San
Jose in San Antonio. Beneath that
it said, “Humble Oil & Refining
Company."
The envelope held a pristine
copy of the “Texas Sketchbook:
A Collection of Historical Stories
from the Humble Way.” The 102-
page softcover book, first published
in 1955, was illustrated by the late
artist E. M. (Buck) Schiwetz. (The
oil company revised and reprinted
the book in-1958 and again in
1962.)
Humble, a Texas oil company
created in 1911 which in the 1970s
became Exxon and in the 1980s
had bad luck in Alaska with an oil
tanker named the Valdez, published
thousands of copies of the Texas
Sketchbook and distributed them
for free to anyone who wanted one,
including school kids.
Terrell woman gets 'Best of East Texas' award
for Kaufman County preservation efforts
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When: Thursday, April 16
Time: 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.
Flag presentation by li vingston
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w rist bands will be available.
LUFKIN — Jean Ann Abies Flatt
of Terrell, a longtime advocate of
preserving local and Texas history,
has received the Best of East Texas
Award for her work.
The award is sponsored by
Best of East Texas Publishing of
Lufkin. It was formerly sponsored
by the East Texas Historical
Association.
Bob Bowman, who owns Best
of East Texas Publishing with his
wife Doris, presented the award
Tuesday night before the Terrell
City Council.
Pervious winners of this award
include Bill OONeal of Carthage,
Eliza Bishop of Crockett, Ralph
Wooster of Beaumont, Mattie
Delfinger of Center, James
Wilkins of Tyler, Max Lale of
Marshall, Willie Earl Tindall of
San Augustine, and Dan Utley of
Austin.
Flatt has been chairman of the
Kaufman Country Historical
Commission, historian for the
First United Methodist Church
of Terrell, member, director
and President of the Terrell
Heritage Society and a volunteer
genealogist at the Terrell Terrell
Public Library. She has also
served on the Texas Historical
Commission. !.(: „ir
“For over 20 years, she has
worked tirelessly to preserve
the history of Terrell, Kaufman
County and Texas. Her efforts
were recogni zed by a proclamation
of a day in her honor in 19%
and, under her leadership, the
County Historical Commission
has received the Distinguished
Service Award of the Texas
Historical Commission every
year since 1995,” said Bowman.
“Jean Ann just doesn’t preserve
history. She brings it to life by
acting it out in costume to make
it understandable to children, and
she writes a quarterly newsletter
for the Kaufman County
Historical Commission, and has
written booklets about various
aspects of the county.”
The award is shaped like an old-
fashioned water pump. Bowman
said it symbolizes the role of
historians like Flatt to extract
history from the East Texas’
history aquifer.
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Reddell, Valerie. Polk County Enterprise (Livingston, Tex.), Vol. 127, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 9, 2009, newspaper, April 9, 2009; Livingston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788777/m1/2/?q=music: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Livingston Municipal Library.