The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, September 4, 1961 Page: 3 of 8
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Doctors Glue
Human Bodies
TOKYO, Japan — How many
times have you read an adver-
tisement for a glue that “holds
anything?’’ Well, 11 surgeons
at Tokyo University’s medical
school have discovered some-
thing new for glue to hold to-
gether — the human body.
The surgeons, headed by Dr.
Seiji Kimoto, have successfully
wasted together 60 dogs and 20
rabbits following operations.
n,ast December, they applied
the adhesive to a human body,
and they were successful.
This new method of closing
wounds in the body has proved
to be better than theneedle-and-
thread used for centuries. Cuts
on the skin, veins, windpipes,
and intestines were closed in a
matter of minutes with the ad-
hesive. Within a week, the glue
was absorbed by the body, leav-
ing little trace of the cuts.
The experiments began in
February, 1960, with attempts
to locate an adhesive which
could be used safely on a hu-
man body. After numerous tri-
als and errors, Dr. Kimoto
found that an American syn-
thetic resin adhesive used in
electrical work met all quali-
fications.
The adhesive can be applied
on wet surfaces, was found to
be harmless to human organs,
is easy to sterilize, and will not
deteriorate at normal body tem-
peratures. Furthermore, it has
strong and quick adhesive pow-
er and can be absorbed into
the human body safely within
a few weeks, a long series of
tests proved.
The Strange Boojimi Tree...
Is It Ending or Beginning?
The strange boojum tree may
be nearing extinction, J’hen
again, it may not.
No one knows very much
about the boojum’s past, pres-
ent, or future. Most botanists
aever have seen one, because
t thrives oniy in the hostile
central desert of Mexico’s Baja
California, the National Geo
graphic Society says.
Some dendrologists believe
the boojum is a dying remnant
of a large family. Others think
the tree may be the forerunner
of a new line.
But everyone who has seen a
boojum tree agres on one thing
■there is nothing like it.
One botanist describes the
young boojum as “an unside-
down carrot improbably pro-
vided with slender, spiny, and
usually leafless branches, which
seem to be stuck helter-skelter
into a tapering body.”
Larger trees lose the small
branches and grow thorns in
their trunks. The skinny boles
may reach a height of 40 to 50
feet, tapering to a point from
a base only a foot or 18 inches
in diameter.
Older trees frequently branch
in an eccentric manner toward
the top, sending out sinuous
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Trail Blazer, 52
Hacking Through
Brazilian Jungle
WASHINGTON — A tough,
wiry fellow, Frank Herbst, 52,
has the distinction of being the
only reconnaissance engineer,
or trail blazer, working for the
Inter-American Geodetic Sur-
vey, a United States Army map
ping group hacking its way
through the backlands of Bra-
zil.
A former United States mar-
ine and member of the French
Foreign Legion, he has been
with the survey for 12 years.
His job is to select the points
and lines which surveyors who
follow him use to make accur-
ate maps.
Herbst admits that the job
has become “softer” because of
the use of tiny reconnaissance
planes, but there are times
when he has been in the jungle
for'more than four months with-
out : seeing a fellow American.
TRY THE WANT ADS
Relatives Visit
In Seales' Home
Guests the past week in the
home of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph
Seale have been her parents,
her brother and his daughter.
Mrs. Seale’s parents are Mr.
and Mrs. H. L. Vaughn of Ter-
rell. Her brother and his daugh-
ter are C. R. Vaughn and
Sandra of Port Arthur.
Woman’s League
Names Officers
Members of Zion Lutheran
Woman’s League met Tuesday
night, Aug. 29, in the home of
Mrs. Myles L. Pattillo and elect-
ed the following officers to
serve during the coming year:
Mrs. Gene Choate, president;
Mrs. J. T. Wilcoxson Jr., vice-
president; Mrs. Joe Ethridge,
secretary, and Mrs. Pattillo,
treasurer.
Mrs. John Lee Stuart opened
the meeting with scripture read-
ing and prayer. Mrs. D. H. Pol-
lard led the discussion of the
topic, God at Work in Our Com-
munities. Roll call was answer-
ed with reading a scripture
verse on Salvation and the
meeting was closed with repeat-
ing the Lord’s Prayer.
Others present were Mrs. Wil-
liam Reid and Mrs. John
Pierce.
limbs. Sometimes the top of the
tree itself curves downward un-
til the tip touches the ground to
form an arch.
Natives of Baja California
call the tree a cirio, or wax
taper, because it suggests an
altar candle. Botanists call it
Idria columnaris.
The boojum is not a cactus
and not a tree in the usual
sense. But it is admirably
adapted to desert life and can
grow in a place that goes with-
out rain a year or more.
The trunk’s resinous outer
cylinder protects a large spongy
core.- When the soil is damp,
the inner pith stores moisture.
The leaves appear only at
favorable seasons . and are
capable of manufacturing great
amounts of food in a short
time. In dry weather, the leaves
fall.
Joseph Wood Krutch, the
writer and naturalist, wrote of
the boojum: “It dominates the
landscape and imposes upon it
an air of dreamlike unreality.
If one is reminded of anything,
it is either the imagined sur-
face of some distant planet or
of one of those reconstructed
scenes from a remote geologi-
cal era when there were no
real trees, only huge club moss-
es and horsetails magnified to
gigantic size.”
It is startling to come sud-
denly upon a grove of boojums
The tree got its popular English
name from such an encounter.
Godfrey Sykes, the renowned
desert ecologist, first saw the
tree in 1922. He gazed intently
for a few moments and then
said, “Ho, ho, a boojum, def
initely a boojum.”
Sykes was thinking of Lewis
Carroll’s poem, “The Hunting of
the Snark,” an account of an
expedition to find a legendary
creature which sometimes took
the form of a boojum, an in-
habitant of lonely desert shores.
Carroll wrote: “But oh, beam-
ish nephew, beware of the day,
If your Snark be a Boojum!
For then you will softly and
suddenly vanish away, And nev-
er be met with again!”
In the poem, the snark was
a boojum, and it swallowed up
a baker called Ho.
Brotherhood
Names Officers
Northside Baptist Church
Brotherhood met in Fellowship
Hall Monday night, Aug. 28, for rect questions of their married
BY
LOUISE. ALIEN
One of the hardest things
parents learn — if they ever
:lo — is how to “turn loose” of
their children. Without realizing
t, parents often continue to
treat offspring as though they
were perennial adolescents,
even after they marry and have
children of their own.
Think how many young mar-
riages might be saved if par
ents living in the same town
would show their children the
same right to privacy they do
other friends. How much did
their new car cost? Did they
borrow to pay? What time did
they get in last night? How
many times have they hired a
baby-sitter this week? Is the
daughter-in-law playing too
much bride? Son-in-law buying
a new boat instead of saving
for Junior’s braces? The per-
son who waits for a friend or
neighbor to volunteer informa-
tion may be tempted to ask di-
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Kermit Office Supply
113 So. Poplar
JU 6-3355
NOTICE OF SALE
Sealed bids will be received
in the office of the Director of
Business Services, Kermit Pub
lie Schools Administration
Building, 601 So. Poplar, Ker-
mit, Texas, until 5 p.m. Tues-
day, September 5, 1961, for one
used 1959 Chrysler Windsor
4-door sedan.
Bids will be opened and tab-
ulated at a meeting of the
Board of Trustees of the Ker-
mit Independent School District
to be held at 7:30 p.m. the
same date at the same location.
The School reserves the right
to accept or reject any bid sub-
mitted, for the best interest of
the School District.
Harold W. P. Miller
Director,
Business Services
(Aug. 28-31; Sept. 4c)
Congratulations
Births of five babies, two
boys and three girls, were re-
ported by Winkler County Me-
morial Hospital Saturday morn-
ing. The News extends congrat-
ulations to the following par-
ents.
Mr. and Mrs. K. L. Perci-
field, Kermit, a son born Aug.
30.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Young,
Jal, N. M., a son born Aug. 30.
Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Barnett,
Kermit, a daughter born Aug.
30.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Epling,
Kermit, a daughter born Aug.
31.
Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Thorn-
hill, Kermit, a daughter born
Aug. 31.
a business meeting and election
of officers. The following offi-
cers were named for the new
year:
Jack Calvert, president; Dean
Crawford, vice-president; Wil-
liam Brooks, .secretary - treas-
urer; Bob Wills, personal stew-
ardship leader; Jay Martin,
World Missions leader;
Bill Clark, Christian witness
leader; Clayton Day, Royal
Ambassador leader; U. R.
Neely, pianist; Dee Wilson, song
leader; and B. S. Beck, social
leader.
Rev. M. V. Pruett, pastor,
brought an interesting message
after the business meeting and
a social hour followed the pro-
gram.
HELMS VISIT IN
G. R. SWEETEN HOME
Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Helms
of Bell Gardens, Calif., have
been visiting in the home of
Mr. and Mrs. G. R. Sweeten,
116 North Avenue C.
The Helms were enroute to
Paris, Texas, to attend a re-
union of the Helms family, the
first reunion in 64 years.
childen.
Curiosity about loved one’s
affairs is natural. How cour-
teous we are in satisfying it is
the important thing. Parents
whose children live at a dis-
tance have a sporting chance
to remember this principle.
Since they aren’t familiar with
all of the details in their chil-
dren’s lives, they develop less
morbid interest in their activi-
ties than the ones who live
nearby. When the two gener-
ations do get together, the re-
lation has enough freshness that
a few adroit questions may not
seem impertinent. But even
then diplomacy is in order. i
Marriage counselors have be-
come quite an institution in
American life. They help ease
young people out of the selfish
role of the individual into the
mature experience of give-and-
take for successful marriage.
But so far as we know no city
or town has come up with a
parent counselor, who helps
ease Mama and Papa out of
telling grown-up children how
to manage their affairs.
i'HE WINKLER COUNTY NEWS, Kermit, Tex
Monday, September 4, 1961 PAGE THRE
TWO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS MARRIED IN WHEELCHAI
CHICAGO, 111. — Two Uni-
versity of Illinois students who
were crippled from the waist
down after separate accidents
in 1958 were married in Chi-
cago. Thomas D. Sherman,
and Katherine Mario said th
if they are destined to sper
the rest of their lives in whee
chairs, they will do it togeth
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as well as
LIFE Insurance!
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Kermit.
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“Your Southwestern Life Man”
105 N. Oak 6-3071
DOLLY'S DINER
OPEN EVENINGS
Starting Tuesday, Sept. 5
Family Style Meals
Served 5:45 to 8:00 P.M.
Monday through Friday
NOON HOURS:
11:30 A.M. to 2:00 P.M.
207 West Winkler
Anthony’s Will Be Closed Labor Day---
Shop These Big Values Beginning Tuesday
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CONTRACTORS’ NOTICE OF
TEXAS HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION
Sealed proposals for con-
structing 0.043 miles of drainage
structure and approaches lo-
cated at Intersection of High-
way -302 and Bellaire Road in
Kermit on Highway No. SH 302,'
covered by C 479-4-11 in Wink-
ler County, will be received at
the Highway Department, Aus-
tin, until 9:00 A.M., September
13, 1961, and then publicly open-
ed and read.
Plans and specifications in-
cluding minimum wage rates
as provided by Law are avail-
able at the office of W. A.
Davis, Resident Engineer, Mon-
ahans, Texas, and Texas High-
way Department, Austin. Usual
rights reserved.
(Aug. 28-Sept. 4c)
Dr. A. 0. Thomas
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Williams, Nev H. The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 24, No. 35, Ed. 1 Monday, September 4, 1961, newspaper, September 4, 1961; Kermit, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth905312/m1/3/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Winkler County Library.