The Graham Leader (Graham, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 8, 1950 Page: 2 of 20
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• TNI ORAHAM LEADER, TNUISOAY, JUNK I, IfSO
FISHERMEN URGED TO USE
GREATER CAUTION IN BOATS
An unusual number o( I960
boating fatalities has prompted
safety experts to appeal to fisher-
men and other aquatic devotees
for greater caution.
The Executive Secretary of the
Game, Fish and Oyster Commis-
sion said report* to Austin head-
quarters indicated that only great-
er safeguards will avert even
more tragedies.
The high rate of water fatalities
apparently is caused by a record
surge of new boat operator* to
Texas waters. Several individual
accidents have cost more than one
life. One of the worst to date was
the drowning of four persons when
a boat overturned recently in Lake
Worth.
The Executive Secretary said re-
ports from fieldmen indicated the
high loss of life is primarily due
to overloading and to unfamiliar-
ity with new motors now available
for the first time in unlimited
variety and quantity.
He explained that too many peo-
ple are fooled by so-called gener-
ous seating space in a small boat
and that the average 12-foot or
14-foot boat has a full load when
it has three adults aboard. Life
preservers should be standard
equipment. They may come in the
form of a bouyant cushion or life
jacket. A oeddle is indispensable.
Emphasis was made that per-
sons thrown into the water by an
overturning boat should stay with
the boat and resist the inevitable
impulse to try to swim to shore-
' The motor age, which has made
oars unfashionable, has increased
hazards. Some boaters put mbre
power at the stern than their boat
is built to handle, causing threat <
of assorted disasters, including
swamping the craft.
The Executive Secretary said
boats should be bouyant enough at
all times to lift easily to oncoming
wave* instead of plunging into
them. Watercraft should never be
loaded to the point where they
lose their “life,” becoming top-
heavy, loggy and unstable or hard
to steer. Improper loading courts
disaster as much as over-loading.
Oftentimes carelessly operated
motorboats endanger swimmers.
Boat* frequently are turned, back-
ed up or started nway from docks
without regard to ffte Safety of
persons in the water. Growth of
surf-boarding and surf-skiing has
added to the general perils.
--#-
Kill Grasshoppers
Now Soys Co. Agent
Now is one of the most oppor-
tune times for killing grasshop-
pers, says County Agent R. 0.
Dunkle.
Grasshopper* hatch from beds
ranging in size from a few square
feet to an acre or larger. From
these beds the young hoppers
spread out and cover the farm.
Spraying these beds now as the
young hopper* are hatching out is
a very effective means of reduc-
ing the number of them during the
coming months.
Thoroughly spray the area where
the grasshoppers are hatching with
toxaphen at the rate of one to one
and one-half pounds per acre. Mix
tht toaphene with a sufficient
amount of water to ddver the area-.
This chemical should be handled
with caution but is not poisonous
to animals grazing the sprayed
MEN'S and LADIES' LEVIS
NOCONA BOOTS
WORK ami DRIVING GLOVES
BELTS and BILLFOLDS
QUALITY MERCHANDISE FOR HORSEMEN
YOUR BUSINESS APPRECIATED
GRAHAM SADDLERY
For Form, Ranch
Early aummer weather in Texas
ta often characterised by violent
electrical storms. These stores*
emphasize the necessity {or light-
ning protection, says R. 0. Dun-
kle, county agent.
He says that farm property
losses from lightning average
about $10 million per year to say
nothing of the estimated lives lost
and the 800 to 1,000 rural people
who are injured each year by light-
ning. Something can be done to
prevent these losses.
Dunkle points out that lightning
rods, when properly installed and
maintained, will give practically
complete protection to buildings
against damage from lightiRng.
He recommends that the installa-
tion of tods be done in accordance
^ith the National Code for the
Protection Against Lightning.
He says it is very important
that all metal bodies inside build-
ings be grounded and bonded to-
gether to prevent electricity from
jumping from one body to another.
The metal tracks for feed carriers,
feed or hay elevators and the
heavy hardware on barn doors
should always be grounded and
tied inte the lightning rod protec-
tion system on the barn.
A metal roof, electrically bond-
ed, properly grounded, and pro-
vided with air terminals to protect
rhimneys or other non-metallic
projections, usually gives satisfac-
tory protection. He says the metal
roof will give little or no protec-
tion unless it is grounded and
bonded and here again he says do
the job according to the National
Code.
If you have lightning rods on
the farm buildings, he suggests
that you give them a periodic
check to be sure they'll perform
their duty should the need arise.
If you plan to install rods, be sure
they are installed according to the
National Code. It mean* you’ve
got a good job..
•PERSONALS
Reuben Leftin wax a business
visitor in Breckenridge Monday
and Tuesday.
A
Bill Kurk of Paducah spent last
week end with his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. F. M. Kurk.
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Juna Is a Marrying ManHi and It Mum
Ploasant Latter-Writing far tfia Brida
This.il .the time of the year
rrhen ketagw liters ora in a swoon
about saeing someone soon to
spoon under n Juna moon, a wish-
ful inclination uannlly sat tl' II
measures. It is that sort of mslodic
publicity which has added to the
legend of June being a month
when most people get married.
June, statistically speaking, ifl
slightly out front as a marrying
month. But people get married
any and all the time and June just
seems tq get a disproportionate
share of credit or blame for it
There is, however, sufficient in-
terest in the subject of marriage
this time of year to warrant con-
sideration of some of the social
obligations of a bride, her family
and her friends. For one of the
pleasant social duties of a bride
is to write letters of thanks to the
people who have given her gifts
and to respond appreciatively to
those who’ve written their con-
gratulations and good wishes.
Thank-you letters should be
written as soon as possible after
each gift is received. This is man-
datory even in the case of the
eccentric distant relative who
gives the bride that aaip* **t of
plastic ashtrays which the latter
gave her last Christmas. And it is
a standing inviolate rule not to
send printed greeting-card thanks
Personal letters, written by hand
on personal stationery, are re-
quired.
Failure to observe the ritual of
thank-you lettera is almost certain
to offend. The husband himself
must do it if the bride is illiterate
or forgetful. Socially, the wife is
obligated to write the thank-you
letters, for in this instance she is
the better half.---- - " ,tz
Jus how the wife became known
as the “better half” in a marriage
waa once explained in a letter
written 100 years ago by Henry
Martyn Seville, then a student at
Andover, to his sister, Mary, who
hdd been recently married. He ask-
ed the timeworn “How does mar-
ried life agree with you?"' and
went on-fb write. An opinion waa
spoken more than 2,000 years ago
at a feast of a disciple of Plato,
upon the choice of wives . . . Man
waa craatad male and female with
a duplicate sat of limbs and per-
formed his locomotive functions
with a rotary movement, as a|
wheel. Re became in consequence
so excessively insolent that Jupi-
ter split him in two. Since that
time each half runs througl? the
world in quest of the other half.
If the original halves mate, they
are a very loving couple; other-
wise they are subject to a miser-
able scolding, peevish and uncon-
genial matrimony.
That explanation has some flaws
in it, but it indicated an effort
on thb part of a man to write a
pleasant letter to his newly-wed-
ded sister. Any impending or re-
cent wedding obligates friends and
relatives of the pair to write let-
ters. Benjamin Franklin once
wrote the following letter to a
young friend, Polly Stevens, jusb
before she was married to a phy-
sician, William Hewson:
I am sure you are a much bet-
ter judge of this affair on your
own. ... I assure you, that no
objection haa oecur’d to me.
His person you see; his temper
and understanding you can
judge of; his character, for any-
thing I have ever heard, it un-
blemished. ... I do not see but
that the agreement may be a
rational ona on both aides.
You fancy that if you do not
prove a great fortune, you will
not be loved; but I am sure that
were I in this situation ... I
should think you a- fortune suf-
ficient for me without a shil-
ling. ... I shall be confident
whether you aecept or refuse
Franklin wrote her another
i iiinnwiHai her for her judg-
ment.
Personal lettera nave their place
in asking and giving advice on
matters of the heart, whether or
hot marriage develops. Recently,
this; Utter containing a loaded
question waa received by a column-
ist writing for the Chicago Sun
Times:
I am a boy, IS, who is going
with a girl of 12. She says she
loves me, but I don’t believe her.
Anyway, I didn’t know what love
was until I looked it up in the
dictionary. When I did, I found
I was in love with a cute girl 14
years old at school. Do you think
Mlaa Gretehen Ta
Diana Fisher left
Camp Tree lies at Glen
where they are spending the week
and are receiving special training
for work la the Y-Tsen for another
year. They were accompanied by
their Adult Counselor, Miss Jean
Remington. Mias Young is the
newly elected president of Y-Teen
end Miss Fisher is song leader.
I should go with the girl who la
more my ego or leave them all
alone until I get olderT
It was signed “Handsome Boy.”
In public servants ‘
Community faith in our competence and trust-
worthiness is deep-rooted in the experience of
families are have served.
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