The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 104, Ed. 1 Monday, March 18, 1968 Page: 4 of 8
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WHO WAS THE BUSIEST
FIGHTER OF ALL TIME $
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Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Page Four Monday, March 18, 1968
Second Win
LOCKING THE BARN DOOR
Down through the years this
great country of ours has been
blessed with some great con-
servationists, men with wisdom
rand vision who could think clear-
*'ly and accurately. The present
sorry state of affairs, conserva-
vtionwise, has been predicted all
got down on his knees in the gut
. '. . and the water cameupto his
mid-chest. He waited, pretend-
ing to fish all the while.
On came the big boat heading
directly toward the fisherman,
never slowing down . . .theskip-
per, thinking that the wader was
standing in water at least four
“too well by Aldo Leopold, Ding feet deep. When he roared into
^Darling, Nash Buckingham, T. long casting range of the fisher-
v'Gilbert Pierson, Arthur A. Al- man it was too late. The large
'•"len and Logan J. Bennett, to name rig plowed a furrow through
only a few of them. They, all of the sand flat and came to rest
4them, told us what would happen in water no more than inches
>vbut we ignored the warning. deep, stuck but good!
v., The late Aldo Leopold, in an Our poletoter then got to his
-.’address he gave in 1947, pointed feet, waded to his anchored boat,
the way to our present chaos in and went elsewhere to continue
* no uncertain terms.‘‘The basic his fishing leaving one sur*
’.'’.defect,” he said, “is this: We prised speed boater high and
.^have not asked the citizen to as- dry.
"’sume any real responsibility. We MARK YOUR CALENDARS
,r>have told him that if he will vote Bass fishermen should mark
•' right, obey the law, join some their calendars for two. big up-
organizations, and practice what coming tournaments. The first,
"conservation is profitable on his the $10,000 Texas Open Invi-
'■ own land, then everything willbe tational Tournament, is set for
^all right. The government will do April 1, 2 and 3. The second,
Sthe rest.” the State Bass Tournament, will
Bees Top Permian;
Play Odessa Today
The Kermit Bees held off a Rivera gave up five runs and four walk, and went to third on a
Abe the newsbov' in
15 YEARS BEGINNING IN
1905, AVERAGED EIGHT FIGHTS
AND ALMOST "THREE RASSLING
MATCHES A MONTH 5ABRAHAM
MOLLANDERSKY TOTALED
1,309 FIGHTS AND 307
TUG O' WARS IN HIS CAREER!
Distributed by king iFtattires Syndicate [
determined Permian rally in the
seventh inning here Thursday,
and came out of the melee with
their second win of the season,
8-6.
Kermit carried an 8-4 lead
going into the seventh, after the
Permian B team had come up
hits during his tenure on the double by Dailey.' Gary Smith
mound.: hit a sacrifice fly totally one
Permian loaded the bases in run, and Guy CocWs single
the first, but Moore escaped with- brought in two more. ’
out a run. A single and two After Moore walked, Terry
bases on balls put runners on Greene chased home two mere
all sacks with two out. Moore with a single. The final run
then proceeded to strike out of the inning resulted from an-
Ellis to get out of the jam. other base on balls, a wild pitch
The visitors tallied their first and an error.
in the third when Martin Permian scored three in the
run
Jal High School Athletic Di- assistant coach at Ft. Stockton,
rector and Head Football Coach Blume is a graduate of Rice Uni- _________
Doyle Howell, has been invited versity and was an outstanding with three runs in the sixth. Two
to speak at the Football Clinic athlete in both baseball and foot- doubles, an error and a ground-
at New Mexico Highlands Univer- ball. He will serve as head base- qU£ scored two runs, with the
sity on June 6,.7, and 8. He has ball coach and as backfield coach tying run at the plate. However,
accepted the invite, and says he for the varsity football team. The Bees pitCher David Rivera got on a ground out and scored on a errors, two singles, a passed
will discuss his ideas on the Panthers also have a new athletic the batter to ground out to third single by Goza. ball and a walk accounted for
split: end and the offensive line director and head coach, Gene to end the rally and the game- The Bees went into the lead the runs.
. . . The baseball tournament in Mears, who will report about The victory gives the Bees a for good in the fourth, scoring Kermit came back in their half
Monahans the past week end was the middle of June. He replaces 2.o record to date after two of six times on only three hits, to tally twice. With one away,
the first ever held there. Eight Fred W. (Pete) Hickman, who their scheduled games were can- Bobby Dunham led off with a Melvin Williams singled and
walked with one away, advanced sixth to make the score 6-4. Two
” He said a lot more, but his
■•'concluding sentence seems to add
‘up the present situation com-
;!:pletely. ‘ The upshot is that
b woods, marshes and natural
■streams, together with their re-
spective faunas and floras, are
^headed toward ultimate elimina-
tion.” He couldn’t have been
' more accurate and correct. We
continued on our merry way,
ignoring all warnings, in quest
of the individual almighty dollar
and content to leave the responsi-
bility for nationwide conserva-
tion welfare to somebody else.
Now, at long last, we find our-
selves rushing around in circles,
trying vainly to undo some of
"the damage that has been done.
; Now we have government agen-
cies whose job it is to insure,
as best they can, that what re-
• mains of our great outdoors be
cared for and improved. We have
bureaus for outdoor reclamation
' and restoration, reforestation,
purification of water, rehabilita-
tion of our marshlands and es-
tuaries, and so on
ing frantically to lock that big
■ barn door after the horse has
«been stolen.
Well, it’s a long step in the
right direction. Sincerely, we
, wish them luck. But we’re think-
• ing it’s gonna take just a mite
more than luck. It’s gonna take
an effort by all of us.
■ SURPRISE . . .
YOU’RE AGROUND!
’ Everyone who enjoys wade
fishing our bays and lakes has
had the experience of having wild
C boatmen run wide open through
j? their fishing grounds. There’s
\ one gent I know real well who
^ may have found the cure for such
, foolishness as this. And there
is another gent who owns a large
■ cabin cruiser who will probably
? think twice before he speeds
} close to another wading fisher-
^ man.
The fisherman, a friend of
mine but I won’t call names,
was wade fishing near Port
O’Connor one day when he looked
up and saw the large cabin cruis-
er coming, wide open, from
across Matagorda Bay. The boat
was really moving, throwing up
white spray in all directions
and leaving a real roller of a
wake. Now I wonder, thought the
be held April 25, 26, 27 and 28.
Both are scheduled for Sam Ray-
burn Reservoir in East Texas.
All the dope on the Texas Open
can be had by writing Tourna-
ment Chairman Sam Malone, San
Augustine, Texas. For complete
info on the State Bass Tourney
write Earl Golding, Times-Her-
ald, Waco, Texas.
NUTRIA VS FLOATS
W'ord comes from Johnnie
Springman of the Ridgewood
Yacht Club on Lake Waco that
THIS UMPIRE
ISggl tMS
r> hiinri pi nhian has accent- presented to the outstanding hit- Saiurday, March 30, will be the fiye innings He was relieved
, ff or fnhppnme the league’s *er anc* P^eher. Cold weather date of the Junior Relays. Both by Rivera going into the sixth,
ed an offer to b g ^ held the crowd down the opening events will be held a.t Walton who finished out the game. Moore
a rest, take a vacation, are the PlaJf 01 the teams.
Also on March 30,
Sul Kermit will host the District 2-
sic, or ^ur^Wwor,
with less experienced ump r g ^ established as a State Nor- at the home course of each dis-
crews- mal College by a bill signed trict member once during the
--” April 4, 1917. The name of the season . . . James (Willie) Cleve-
BITS OF WISDOM institution was changed to Sul land who made such a fine show-
Common senseis seeing things Ross State College by an act of ing a„ the oitat e Golden Gloves
the 51st Legislature. Today, the tourney in Ft. Worth, received
school is the smallest state sup- ten telegrams from well-wish-
ported college in Texas . . . L. ers prior to his semifinal scrap.
Don’t resent growing oldj some W. (Butch) Blume, assistant On his^return to Kermit, he ex-
as they are and doing them as
they should be done.
persons using styrofoam floats never have the opportunity football and track coach at Katy pressed appreciation for
nnrtpr- fhpir hntisPhnats nr ma. PQ ^ High School has been hired as thought, and vowed to do even
under their houseboats or ma-
rinas had better do some check-
ing. He reports that nutria have
been making holes in the plastic
foam floats on Lake Waco pre-
paratory to building nests for
their young. It is suggested that
if these varmints are causing
problems on your lake it might
r/ps
FOR
mm
by Vern Sanford
better next year. Cleveland im-
mediately plunged into his new
assignment: as one of the mana-
gers on the Yellow Jacket base-
ball team. Gary Roark is the
other manager . . . Comes a let-
ter from Antigua, West Indies,
inviting us to the first Annual
allowed only one run off two
hits in his five-inning stint.
BOWLING
ROAD RUNNERS LEAGUE
Team W
Ft. Stockton Oil Well 63
All Sports Trophy 61
Magic Wash 51
Baker Oil Tool Co. 50
Serv-All Grocery 49
Oasis Builders 46
Borden’s Distributors 43
Buster’s Well Service 43
P&N Trucking 40
ABC Enco Service 34
High Team Series —
All, 2391
High Team Game — Serv-All,
856
High Individual Series—Jerry
Willmon, 675
. High Individual Game — Zeda
(Pampfire
USE EMPTY PLASTIC BLEACH
BOTTLE TO MARK A GOOD
FISHING HOLE.
Rivera walked. Danny Rivera
then lined a single to score both
runners.
Permian then came up with
their seventh inning rally which
fell short.
Coach Don Paris’ team will
be at home again today (Monday)
with a 4:15 p.m. game at Yellow
Jacket Field. Opponent will be
the Odessa B team.
BOX SCORE
be wise to cover such floats with ugjg TWO DUCK CALLS—Carry two duck calls—one Sailing Week, June 8, through
galvanized screen oitch the other low. Use the higher pitch on dirty June 15. Sailing Week is creat-
FISHING FORECAST § P ’ , . , + f • j nr ra;n nnup iow Ditch ^ by the Antigua Hotel Associa- Green, 246
Well, what’cha know ... I days when there IS a M , A nitoh r>nll nn don, which has invited Antiguan Season’s Highs
mu co- said in last week’s forecast that call is for those dead calm days. A Dlgu P ^ i leaders and prominent Amer- Team Series — All Sports
all try- I expected some decent fresh a “dead calm” day will sound too loud and unnatuiai. icarii) Caribbean, Canadian and Trophy House, 2505
i__i „ oHaii? locf ___Hi__—L ~ rn
*** British sailing figures to judge
TRY FOR TWO—When your partner hooks a speckled the races, and press and tele-
trout, cast your bait immediately behind the hooked fish, vision. So, all you yachtsmen,
as;:*;**? - - *— “ si=5SS5*
water stringers to show up last
weekend and, by golly, they did.
Just goes to show ya . . . if
you guess often enuff, you’re
bound to guess right once in a
while.
Yep, it was a pretty good
weekend for bass fishermen (also NOISE LURES LING—When you’re fishing offshore
crappie) on lakes scattered ail ancj h.gwe a school of ling milling around but not striking,
around Texas. A friend of mine ^ “noising” them into action. Ling are a very curious,,
fished a big private lake north figh Th win come to a noise. Try bumping your foot
andLcau£ht ethtbass hat we5> against the side of the boat 0ften y0" Can make them
eS over 40 pounds . . . Falcon strike by frothing up the surface with your rod tip,
Lake below Laredo saw some gafLor oar.
good strings of bass and crappie ! ***
. . . Sam Rayburn produced good HYPO THOSE SPOONS—If you have your own photo-
graphy darkroom, try this trick for brightening up silver
spoons. Instead of throwing out the used fixer mixture,
just drop in your spoons and let them sit overnight. Next
morning they will be bright like new.
BEWARE THE FEMME—Watch out for female mos-
water fishing shouldn’t continue quitos if you don’t want to get bit. Scientists have dis-
through this weekend if the oi’ COVered that male mosquitos don’t have a mouth shaped
weatherman will just calm the for bjting How to tell the female mosquitos from the
Wacarn’tas“ymuch for saltwater, males is your problem. Wish we could help you!
All Sports
■ Betty Tay-
Team Game
Trophy House, 925
Individual Series
lor, 687
Individual Game — Geneva
Burdick, 264
PERMIAN
Matthews, ss
Martin, 3b
Parker, 3b
Jordan, 2b
Goza, c
Cox, lb
Ellis, rf
Ownby, cf
Gain, cf
Maney, If
Ansley, p
Winfred, p
Totals
ATTACH A BARREL SWIVEL TO KERMIT
YOUR LINE AND TO THE LEADER Greene, cf
THIS RIG WILL ALLOW BAIT TO Davis, If
MOVE NATURALLY. _ Williams, If
D. Rivera, 3b, p
Dunham, lb
Dan Rivera, 3b
Goertz, rf
Dailey, rf
Smith, c
Richter, 2b
Shaver, 2b
Cook, 2b
Phillips, ss
Jones, ss
Moore, p
Totals
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strings of bass . . . bass and
bream fishermen did well on
Murvaul ... the Highland Lakes
above Austin saw strings of bass,
crappie and catfish come in to
docks . . . and so it goes. I
see no reason why good fresh
This is the Outlaw
they are talking about.
however. Tides are gonna be all
wrong . . . so go to your favor-
ite lake and pass up the bays
this weekend. Good huntin’ and
fishin’ — Fred.
LURE RETRIEVER—A very efficient plug knocker for
fishing lures hung on underbrush is one of those tele-
scoping golf ball dippers. The kind dubs use to fish their
golf balls out of water hazards will do the trick.
fisherman, if that character is don^ KILL DRAGON FLIES—Those dragon flies that
gonna see how close he can BRAVES GET PINSTRIPES
come to running me down... and The Atlanta Braves, hoping to
he decided to find out. “put more speed and dash into
At the time he was standing in the ball club>>> have adopted
water no more than a foot deep new pinstripe uniforms for the
trying to hook up with a flat- coming season. The home uni.
It’ ▼
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by
FLORSHEIM
land on the tip of your rod live mainly on mosquito wig-
glers. They also devour thousands of mosquitos on wing.
feeding redfish. There were form will be white with blue
some shallow guts running st0Ckings. The road uniform will
through the area however and our be gray with blue pinstripes
fishing friend stepped off into one ^ blue st0ckings.
of these where the water was
slightly above knee-deep. He then uiAAruruvxnjn^u innnr r ‘
RIFLE SIGHTING—You don’t need to zero your high-
powered rifle at 200 or 300 yards. Get it dead center at
25 yards and you won’t miss a deer up to 200 yards or
more, if you hold right.
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Green, Maud. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 31, No. 104, Ed. 1 Monday, March 18, 1968, newspaper, March 18, 1968; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905191/m1/4/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.