Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 6, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 5, 2000 Page: 4 of 16
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PAGE 4, Sfmiaoto [fan) Sentinel, Sunday, November 3,2000
Opinion
The election
by M. Gene Dow. Publisher
M
Local people are turning out in near-record
numbers at the early voting polls. A* of Thursday
. noon, over 900 early votes had been cast and the total
through the last day, Friday, may well reach the early
voting record of 1,089 which
was set in 1992.
There's only a couple of not- VjP4**
so-hotly contested local races to
draw the voters to the polls.
State-wide candidates are, for the g
minority party hopefuls, who are
not given much of a chance at
getting elected.
So, obviously, the main
interest of voters is the
presidential race between Vice-
President Al Gore and Texas
Governor George W. Bush.
There is no way that we could vote for Gore. He is
for abortions, even late term; bigger government,
more give-aways of our tax dollars. He has no energy
policy other than getting rid of the oil and gas
companies; no agriculture sense; environmental
concerns that could wreck this country; and is sure to
continue the weakened military, poor foreign
relations, lack of morals and untruths of the present
administration.
Gov. Bush, on the other hand, stands strong
against abortions, wants to give back some of our tax
dollars rather than promoting bigger government and
spending. He wants to bolster Social Security rather
than robbing from it, plans an energy policy that will
save our oil and gas industry without threatening the
environment, and can help bring back common sense
to the justice system. He will surround himself with
knowledgeable people to help him deal with foreign
affairs, military preparedness and needed domestic
improvements. Most of all, he is a man of morals who
can restore some respect to the high office.
Bush may not make the greatest president we’ve
ever had, but he won’t hurt us the way Gore could.
So for you two or three thousand other local voters
who will be voting on Tuesday, we urge you to vote
for Bush.
* • *
THE OLD INDIAN CHIEF SAYS— "No matter what
others say, vote as you choose, but please vote!"
TooeAO
THE ONLY PEOPLE
who ideally know
HOW TO RUN OUR
GOVERNMENT
ARE ALL IN
HERE HAVING
COFFEE/
*****
Texas Tales
By Mike Cox
MINDING YOUR OWN BUSINESS
A little added value from your newspaper
Days P...
Five Years Ago... 1995
Five years ago, on November 3, 1995, Joseph C.
Lampley, D.O. opened his medical practice in Seminole.
He came here from Colorado. He earned his Bachelor
of Science degree from Oklahoma Christian University,
Ten Years Ago... 1990
Secretary of State George Bayoud announced that
more than 7.7 million Texans registered to vote on
Nov.6, 1990. An all-time high for a gubernatorial year
general election.
In 1990, the state estimated that there were 12.5
million eligible voters, 7,701,499, or about 62 percent,
were registered, Bayoud said. The previous high for
gubernatorial year general election was 1986 when
7,287,173 Texans were registered.
***
Twenty-five Years Ago...l97S
This week, twenty-five years ago, school officials,
insurance adjustors and firemen continued to search for
the cause of a fire that caused thousands of dollars in
damage to the Seminole fteldhouse.
Letters to Sentinel
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* You can measure the quality of your customer
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By Don Taylor
Co-author of "Up
Against the Wal-Marts".
You may write to him at
P. O. Box 67
Amarillo, TX 79105
Good meeting
TO THE SENTINEL:
I want to thank the people of Seminole (and Gaines
County) for welcoming me to their community on
October 26 for a Texas Department of Agriculture
town hall meeting. I know all too well that the life of
a farmer, rancher or agribusiness person is hectic, so I
appreciate all of you who took the time to attend.
—This fall 1 visited with hundreds of folks from--
across the state and together we got a lot of work
done. This is our second year for the town hall
meetings, and they definitely have been productive.
We talked about drought, marketing, water, the next
legislative session, federal initiatives and rural
economic development, and I gathered tremendous
insight from you all.
Rural Texas is vital to the entire state and our
efforts together will help us see it thrive. Again, thank
you for you interest, enthusiasm and work on behalf
of all Texans.
SUSAN COMBS
State Agriculture Commissioner
Missed event
TO THE SENTINEL:
As a long-time resident of Seminole and a member of
the Senior Citizen group with the name Recycled Teens,
I was disappointed that this newspaper chose not to
cover our Jamboree held on Saturday, October 28.
We were hosts to over eighty visitors from town in
Texas and New Mexico. Perhaps this event was not an
earth-shaking happening, but it was important to us,
most of whom are readers of this newspaper.
JO HALLER
Seminole
Editor's Note: It was not a matter of choice, just a “senior
moment," we forgot.
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M GENE DOW
Editor and Publisher
David Fisher............................................ News Editor
Joyce Dow........................................ Social Editor
Cody Dunn............................................. Sports Writer
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problems. If life is going well for you, rejoice and be
grateful. Being thankful can lower your stress level and
help you live a healthier, happier life.
* Work toward simplicity. Divide complex projects,
into smaller, less difficult tasks. Write short sentences
and paragraphs. Avoid using voluminous, polysyllabic,
metaphorical discourse when small, common, words
will convey the same meaning. ,
* Be courteous. 1 often observe rude, ungrateful
people. However, I’ve neverim
person who wasn’t courteous. Courtesy is a mark of
class, and an important factor in building a profitable
business or career.
* Read junk mail only when you’re looking for direct
marketing ideas. Once in a while you may find a good
idea you can use or adapt to your marketing efforts.
Remember that most junk mail is junk, so filter ideas
carefully.
* Get the job done. Many people use the lack of
resources as an excuse for not accomplishing anything.
Find ways when there are no ways. You increase your
value to others when you develop a reputation of getting
the job done anyway. If your work for yourself, doing
more with less will help you make more money and can
keep you profitable when others are failing.
* Wherever you go, whatever you do, try to look your
best. Your appearance is important. Sloppiness may
cost you dearly in both credibility and money. Shine
your shoes and iron your clothes.
* Allow time for thinking. If your schedule keeps you
too busy to think, you’re too busy. Everyone needs some
time to “sort things out.” Thinking is the source of
Hog-killing time
came with first cold
snap in early days
The first real cold snap of winter signaled
hogdritting time, a practical and social oceaston tn The
early days of Texas on par with stump clearing, bam
raising, quilting bees and revival gatherings at the
river.
Many of the first Texans to arrive from the
southeastern United States relied on pork. They
brought smoked hams and cured bacon with them to
eat along the trail. They also brought milk cows and
oxen, but beef was rarely considered as food.
Hogs were easy to come by and easily raised.
Some were kept penned up, but that meant they had
to be fed. Com was the principal field crop, needed
for ground meal and for lye hominy. Of course, a
little com may have found its way into hospitable
home brew.
Far better to turn the hogs loose especially in East
Texas and the Hill Country and let them root for
themselves. With their inquisitive snouts so near the
ground, they enjoyed a diet of acorns, fallen fruits and
berries, and tender green shoots.
When the weather was cold enough—a good, dry
norther was ideal—families herded in their rooter
hogs. Neighbors joined neighbors, going from farm
to farm. Each hog was dispatched with a blow to the
head. He was skinned, butchered, scraped and boiled
in large vats. Everyone from grandpa to the youngest
school boy had a job to do.
The old expression “everything from the oink to
the tail” was close to the truth. Hams and slabs of
bacon were rubbed down with coarse salt and spices
before they were hung in the smokehouse to be cured
over slow-burning fragrant hickory chips. Smaller
parts were sliced into roasts, loin steaks and chops.
Bits and pieces were cooked, often mixed with
venison, and stuffed into casings for sausage. Pigs’
feet (minus the cloven hoofs) were pickled in vinegar
with bay leaves and peppercorns. Fat was rendered
for lard and tallow.
While the men were working, so were the women.
They prepared a bounteous harvest meal of fresh pork
chops, platters of fried venison, maybe a wild turkey.
Biscuits, combread, milk, butter, mustang grape jelly
Md <5Jr?e Me^l, with perhaps a
cobbler from tne fast of the summer’s dried peaches.
The wild cattle, the ones we now call Longhorns,
could fend for themselves on a diet of mesquite
beans, grass, brush and some types of cactus. But '
early settlers considered the Longhorns unfit for
eating. During the War Between the States,
Confederate army contractors drove cattle across the
Sabine to feed the troops in Virginia. Many a Reb
wrote home: “This army beef is awful. I will be
might glad to taste bacon again!”
After the war, trail drivers pushed cattle up the
Chisholm to the railhead where it was then shipped to
beef-hungry diners in the North. Beef production has
since become an important industry in Texas.
But in rural Texas, the first cold snap still means
hog-killing time if only in memory.
Bits 'n pieces...
He is content with little has everything.
***
An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes
creativity and innovation. Careful thought often solves which can be made in a very narrow field,
little problems before they become big, highly visible Niels Bohr (1885-1962)
Physicist and Nobel laureate
ones.
ACROSS
1 in Grayson Co.
off hwy. 75
5 TX mohair destination
6 TX Farr brothers
group: *_ of
the Pioneers"
46 TX-sized social event
47 TXism: "best I ever
laid _ on*
48 TXism: "he plays _
_ close to the vest* |
51 release (2 wds.)
52 TX Debbie Reynolds'
The Original
7 TX choreographer
Tommy (init.)
8 TXism: *if he ain't
hemming, _
hawing*
9 TXism: *__
molasses in January*
15 female horse
16 in Washington, TX:
Republic Museum*
19 TXism: *__
bout* (about)
!1 "warmed a chair*
again
!2 daggers
!7 song: Texas
When__’
!8 detective
!9 college graduates
>0 sunflower is a TX
_ crop
>2 TX electronics co.
I3 TXism: *
_ the
horses!* (hurry)
8 Rockport ‘Where
the fun never _*
17 chest muscle
>8 unfasten
>9 fish fins
1 Cowboys 'Rocket*
and McKnight
4 TXism: *l could _
_ horse* (hungry)
5 legendary TX
pitcher (Inlt.)
’The Singing
TXism: ‘don't give a
hoot___holler*
status of TX George
H. Bush (abbr.)
DOWN
1 moon to
Houston: 'The
Eagle _
landed’
2 ‘bear* south of
the border
3 in Runnels Co.
on hwy. 83
4 this Plano school
won the national
Academic Decath-
lon in '93
8 cowboy covers
9 affliction of a Spur,
Maverick or Rocket
0 TXism *hasta
_ vista*
1 TXism: 'got
knocked down a
peg _ two*
2 College Station's
*__way*
TEXAS
CROSSWORD
by Charley & Guy Orbison
Copyright 2000 by Orbison Bros
‘legal eagle*
charge (2 wds.)
LBJ alma mater
TXism: "Bible
thumper*
cruise in the Gulf
Civil War ship U.S.S.
_ was sunk
off Galveston
moral values
San Antonio street:
_ Adams
deg earned at
a TX university
TXism: ‘dull as
week-_soda pop*
Orbison and K.D.
Lang with "Crying*
Midland AM radio
advanced medical
student
in '54, TX Willie
Shoemaker__
long-lasting record:
485 victories in
one season
long Gulf fish
P 462
an org. of support
for TX George W.
"You Gotta Have
ar _in the Hole*
"North Dallas Forty*
writer Gent
TXism: 'ponies up*
where some Texans
ski in Colo,
nickname of TX
prisoner Carrasco of
'74 Huntsville siege
TXism: ‘could shoot
the eye out of _
_* (good shot)
•The Voice* (Inlt)
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Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 94, No. 6, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 5, 2000, newspaper, November 5, 2000; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth838140/m1/4/: accessed April 25, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.