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PAGE 4, Seminole (Texas) Sentinel. Wednesday. November 22. IMS
Turkey trivia
By M. Gene Dow, Publisher
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We received an article last week from the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service at AIM, giving us
all the information we ever needed to know about
turkeys. Since we are now approaching the
Thanksgiving season, we thought we might pass
some of the information on to you. Or in case
we’ve got some "cyberspace’
out there using the ^’orld
Wide Web an Internet, or just
E-Mail, you can retrieve the
information via "e-
chenaultl@tamu.edu’ In
cyberspace lingo, that’s an E
Mail document by Edith A.
Chenault at Texas A&M. listed
under education category.
• • •
THE OLD INDIAN CHIEF SAYS- ’Proud the
birds—doves bring peace and storks bring tax
exemptions."
• • •"
The world’s heaviest turkey on record weighed
86 pounds and was grown many years ago in
England.
The turkey hens consumed today axe
traditionally raised to 14 10 16 weeks of age and a
live weight of 14 to 18 pounds. From that, there
would be 9 to 12 pounds of ready-ao-cook or
dressed. meaL
The toms (males) arc raised If ic 22 weeks of
age, a live weight of 30 pounds and a dress weight
of 14 pounds and up.
Large turkeys raised for aramnaami
consumption reach 27 lo 30 weeks oc ttjk axe 1
weigh mare than 45 pounds alr«e
This year, about 285 milunr iuszhs «dE he
raised in the United Sana, ur 2 itemsn: iron.
1994’s total of 289 million The 295 nulUon
turkeys translates mio 6.61 billica pounds of live
turkey, or 5.2 billion pounds of iead> 4>coot
turkeys.
Americans consume atout 15 percent of those
birds or 44 million turkeys, at Thank^gn mg.
which is celebrated on Nov. 23 this year. About
7.3 percent art consumed at Omsanas and 6 3
percent at Easter.
The average American eats about l&J pounds
of turkey each year. That seems kike a lot until you
remember that most of d is consumed as sausage
or deh meaL The sandwich is America's favorite
way to eat turkey.
Fewer than 10 percent of turkeys are raised ’on
the range.”. Most are raised in large poultry
houses.
Domeslicalod turkeys don't fly, but wild turkeys
do. That's primarily because of the larger breast
bone and amount of breast meat which defeats
their ani-mprt to become airborne They just
physically can't get their bulk ofT of the ground.
Most of the turkeys are while broadbreasted
turkey's, not the traditional brown or golden birds
see" in many holiday decorations.
If the traditional oven-baked method doesn't get
the taste buds in a frenzy, it is suggested that cooks
try their hand at smoked turkey's. Cajun-style deep-
fried turkey, or grilling tenderloins.
Some other popular alternatives to turkey
include game hens, roaster chickens, regular
chickens, quail, ducks and geese.
• • •
DID YOU KSOW-The Santa Anna Wildlife
Refuge near McAllen harbors more endangered
species than any other in the country.
Oops! Wrong Car
Levta is one of Ar man popular women in ‘
Perryton. She mo*es quacklv from family to
volunteer actnruy ao work. She wears tennis shoes
a lot became she's always on the run. She makes
calls constantly from her car telephone.
\ The other day Leviia was going to meet a friend
at one o’clock in front of Ellis movie theater in
Perryton. The movie has happy hour from 1 pm
until 6 pm During that time. 32 ounce drinks cost
only fifty cents. People haul them away by the box
load.
On this particular day, Leviia brought a Big
Mac and fries with her while she waited for her
friend. The friend usually drove a van, but the van
was in the shop, so the friend was driving her
grandmother’s white Lincoln.
& Leviia popped Into the theater and bought a 32
ounce drink to go with her Big Mac and fries.
When she left the theater after buying her drink.
Levita saw the white Lincoln parked in front of the
theater. She jumped in the front seat on the
passenger side to wait for her friend.
McDonald’s put onions on Levita’s Big Mac.
She does not like onions, so she carefully spread a
napkin over her lap and began removing the onions
from the hamburger.
She started to eat.
About midway through the meal, an older lady
came walking down the sidewalk with a stricken
look on her face. She was looking directly at
Levita.
Levita know in an instant what had happened.
The lady asked in an agitated manner. "What
are you doing in my car?"
In her haste to explain what had happened,
Levita, excited, spilled the napkins with the
onions. As she emerged quickly from the car, the
32 ounce drink turned over and began to soak into
the car’s fine interior carpeting.
Tumbleweed
Smith
Levita tried to tell the lady how sorry she was,
that her friend told her she was going to be in a
white Lincoln and would meet here at the theater at
one o'.clock, etc. The more she talked, the more
excited she got. Levita does not get irito trouble
very often.
The older woman drove away looking
disgusted.
After a while the sheriff called Levita and told
here the woman had pressed charges. "There was
some vandalism because the car smelled like
onions, and of course the carpet was damaged."
"I’ll be glad to pay to have the mess cleaned
up," cried Levita, beginning to get concerned.
The County Attorney called and wanted to gel
some details on the case.
News spreads quickly in Perryton. Levita
received phone calls. Callers asked if she has been
arrested.
Levita, feeling terrible, went to the high school
football game that night. People in the stands
shouted to her, "Hey, Levita. I’ve got some
hamburgers. Let’s go pick out a car and sit down
and eat them.”
The sheriff and county attorney later told her it
was all a joke, that the lady had not filed charges.
Levita is waiting to get back at her buddies.
Serious Business
Political pundits in Washington had wondered, Tf
the government shut down, would anyone notice?"
Back home, your phone calls, faxes and letters have
noticed what the national polls had missed: This is
about the serious business of balancing the federal
budget. In fact, the president and Congress would be
missing a great opportunity if we did not balance the
budget after years of effort and being so close.
Your children are inheriting the burden of interest
on the national debt that is now $187,000. In one day,
24 hours of continued debt amounts to an increase of
$2 billion-207 million-888 thousand-158 dollars and
34 cents—that’s enough money to buy a hamburger,
french fries and a soft drink for every person in the
United States and Mexico. However, economists
Beef Up Your Word Power
with Dr. Charles Somervill
y.wplanation n. - making something plain or clear
to the mind
Incnnyrims adj. - (pronounced in-kong-gni-us) -
- “out of line” with what ought to be
TuatinB n. - the act of taxing, usually without
representation
Example of usage when foregoing are
combined:
As loan
explanation of
tUtUhuton personal
property, the one
thing the Duke finds
incongruous is
paying
someone else
for something
you already
%
own.
predict balancing the budget will lower interest rates
on loans for you home, your car and your credit card
by two percent
The president said time and again he was for a
balanced budget. At times, the president has said a
balanced budget could not be done for 10 years, then
the president said perhaps eight or nine years; lately,
his last suggestion was the same as our Balanced
Budget Act—seven years to a balanced budget We
agree on a seven-year balanced budget, and there is
an "umpire" that both the president and Congress
already agree on for sewing the budget as truthfully
meeting a balance.
The president was the first to propose that we use
CBO figures in determining a balanced budget.
While that may seem trivial about who determines the
figures that reach a balanced budget, the fact is that
estimates the president would rather use are off by
$900 billion from CBO’s figures, allowing him to
have $900 billion more in spending and taxing.
When he took office, he told Congress that budget
numbers should be determined by the Congressional
Budget Office (CBO) which Mr. Clinton himself said
were "independent numbers...closer to right than
previous presidents have been." Late last Week,
Congress with the help of 55 Democrats in both the
House and Senate joined Republicans to re-open
government with the only condition being a promise
by the president and Congress to use CBO numbers.
Before we allow government to continue to spend
your tax money, government must first commit itself
to balance its own budget, just as every hardworking
family across America does every day. Running
government is serious business, requires serious
numbers and leaves no room for miscalculations or
political posturing.
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STATE CAPITAL HIGHLIGHTS
Child Support Cases
To Increase; Morales Shifts
Responsibility
by Lyndell Williams & Ed Sterling, TPA
by Congressman Larry Combest
AUSTIN — With an eye on
the end of 1998, when the
number of child support cases is
expected to total about 1 million,
Attorney General Dan Morales
made proposals last week to shift
the responsibility of processing
child support cases to his agency.
Doing so, he said, would reduce
the burden on Texas’ courts and
save the state money, although he
did hot give figures on how much
would be saved.
Some of Morales’ proposals
include authorizing the attorney
general’s office to:
■ Order paternity tests, which are
now authorized only by courts;
■ (jdthef information about miss-
ing or uncooperative parents;
■ Enforce child support orders by
garnishccing wages and filing liens
on property without court approval.
Morales’ proposals would re-
quire new legislation that could be
filed for consideration by the Texas
Legislature in 1997.
Because about 95 percent of
Texans ordered to pay child support
do not dispute their parenthood
or the amount of payment, courts
needlessly serve in a rubber-stamp
role.
“There is no reason why our
overburdened judicial system should
have to handle tasks that could eas-
ily be handled administratively by
our child support staff,” Morales
told the Austin American-Statesman.
Since 1990, the amount of
child support the attorney general’s
office has collected each year has
increased 185 percent to about
$500 million, while the caseload
has increased 75 percent.
Moses Rejects AIDS Grant
Texas Education Commissioner
Dr. Mike Moses returned a $1.35
million federal grant to develop a
school program for the prevention
of AIDS and sexually transmitted
only programs,” Moses added.
Moses wrote a letter dated Nov.
2 to the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention in Atlanta,
informing the agency that the TEA
would not accept funding totaling
$450,000 for the remaining three
years of a 10-year initiative.
Debbie Graves, a Texas Edu-
cation Agency spokeswoman, said
Moses canceled the grant for “pol-
icy and personnel” reasons.
Graves pointed out that the
state’s new education code passed
by the Legislature in the spring
requires that the school curriculum
must stress that abstinence is the
only method that is 100 percent
effective in preventing pregnancy
and sexually transmitted diseases.
But the federal grant stresses die
use of an abstinence-based rather
than an abstinence-only approach,
she explained.
The classes have not been
scheduled since last December
when Moses’ predecessor. Dr.
Lionel “Skip" Meno, suspended
them because of a disagreement
over how much influence the
state should exert over local
sex education classes, The Dallas
Morning News reported.
Agency Audit Figure Lower -
A state audit of the Texas
Commission on Alcohol and Drug
Abuse has identified $15.2 million
in questioned costs, $8 million less
than estimated.
The commission, which oversaw
Texas drug treatment and preven-
tion programs, was placed under
conservatorship in April fay Gov.
George W. Bush, after allegations
were raised that millions of dollars
were misspent because of lax rules,
poor supervision and dishonesty.
State officials have negotiated
and settled claims with 20 of 35
treatment service providers on the
diseases.
But, last week, Moses said he
would be willing to reconsider
recommending continuation of the
grant “provided the Centers for
Disease Control can furnish assur-
ances in writing that Texas school
districts will not be told how to
teach sex education or health ed-
ucation.
“This includes permitting Texas
school districts lo utilize abstincnce-
audit list.
Other Highlights
■ U.S. Rep. Frank Tejeda, D-
San Antonio, has confirmed that
the tumor removed from his brain
on Oct. 3 was cancerous. Tejeda,
50, told the San Antonio Express-
News that his physicians have told
him he has “years or decades to
live.”
■ Texas Utilities Electric Co. has
filed a request with the Public
Utility Commission to refund cusx
tomers $4 million because of lower1
than expected fuel costs from June
through September. If the PUC ap-
proves, the refund would be made
as a credit on January bills. *;
■ The newest justice on die Texas1
Supreme Court is Janies Baker-:
who served nine years on the 5tl|!
District Court of Appeals in Dallas,*'
Baker was appointed to the court by
Gov. Bush to fill the vacancy left1
by the resignation of Justice Bob;
Gammagc.
■ Comptroller John Sliarp says
a new program to help Texas
families pay future tuition will
open for enrollment Jan. 2. Th(|,
Texas Tomorrow fund will allovf
parents to pay now for college
tuition later. To sign up for a stattf-
mailing list, call (800) 252-5555.
■ The U.S. Supreme Court re-,
fused to hear the appeal of for-
mer U.S. Rep. Albert Bustamante,
a four-term San Antonio Democrat^
who was convicted in 1993 of rackv
ctccring and accepting an illegal'
gift while in office. The court lei-
stand Bustamante’s federal convict
tion, which was upheld last Fcbru-;
ary by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals in New Orleans. He i$-’
serving a three and onc-lulf year*
term in an El Paso federal prisoni;
Bustamante, 60, lost his office in!
1992 to Republican Henry Bonilla.;!
A&M College of Medicir*e
tops for family practice
COLLEGE STATION — For Or
third year in a row, the Texas A&M
University Health Science Center
College of Medicine will receive the
Texas Academy of Family Physicians’
Medical School Award.
The Medical School A war'd
agnizes the College of Medicine is
efforts to increase the number of physj-
cians practicing family medicine ih
Texas. •:
The award recognizes that more than
25 percent of the College of Medicine’^
1994 physician graduates elected to
continue their medical education in fam-
ily practice residencies.
Thai percentage is the highest amoAg
the state’s seven allopathic medical
schools, TAFP officials say. •;
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