The Winkler County News (Kermit, Tex.), Vol. 30, No. 50, Ed. 2 Sunday, May 1, 1966 Page: 2 of 16
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George
Elliott
Retires
George C. Elliott, field super-
intendent for Humble Oil and Re-
fining Company, Kermit area,
Monahans district, is retiring
May l, after almost 37 years of
service with the company.
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott, who live
at 915 Robinson, state they are
planning to continue living here
where they have many friends
and will continue to be active in
church and civic affairs. Elliott
is outgoing president of Kermit
Evening Lions Club. Mrs. El-
liott is active in Pink Ladies
Auxiliary to Winkler County Me-
morial Hospital.
Elliott is a recognized mem-
ber of Permian Basin Petroleum
E ngineers. He was fir st employed
in the petroleum industry in 1929
and says heis proud of his per-
sonal safety record. He has nev-
er suffered a lost-time disability
injury. “Safety/* he says, “is
a way of life and should be prac-
ticed in our daily lives.*’
Mr. and Mrs. Elliott are the
parents of three children, A son,
Glenn Elliott, is vice-president
of Weekly and Valentie, an ad-
vertising firm in Houston. A
daughter, Linda, and her hus-
band, Dr. Richard L. Gushwa,
live in Houston where he is a
practicing physician and surgeon.
Another daughter, Carolyn, and
her husband, Earnest Sandoval,
live in Odessa where he is office
manager of Lee Optical Company.
The Elliotts have many plans
for the future, including a trip
to Houston and the Texas Gulf
Coast, to catch up on some de-
layed fishing and visiting with the
children and grandchildren. They
also are to visit relatives in
Central Texas and their love of , ,,
travel and sight-seeing includes letter written by Mrs. Wilbur the other man and my husband
plans to visit many places they Dease to Bits and Pieces, a
have never seen and the Philip- monthly magazine published by
pine Islands are on their list Mabe! E. Brown in Newcastle,
The Winkler County News, Kermit, Texas
Sunday, May 1,1966
and another thing...
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and, another thing is . . . of gleefully sent out the information
all things! of a great change in kitchen re-
Maybe you remember about frigerators. Could it possibly be
that heavy refrigerator which is rollers?
still my mortal enemy. Have Nope ... it says “Nowthey’ve
tried and tried to get it out of invented a refrigerator with a
the kitchen to finish cleaning and see-through door. An interior
put down new linoleum. Well -. . . light, activated by the door han-
so far, it’s still the winner, die, lets you see through the door
into the refrigerator without
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REMEMBERING — Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Lease are shown in their grocery store on Under-
wood Street, looking over an issue of Bits and Pieces, a publication devoted to pioneer happen-
ings and residents of Wyoming. A story written by Mrs. Lease of their experiences in the state
is printed in this issue of the magazine. The story is re-printed below. (Staff Photo)
Mrs. Wilbur Lease Writes of
Pioneer Days in Wyoming
(NOTE: The following is a so one day the latter part of April,
for 1967.
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Wyo. The publication is devoted
to true stories and happenings
of pioneer days in Wyoming. Mr.
and Mrs. Lease spent many years
in Wyoming before coming to
Kermit. They now operate a
neighborhood grocery at 700 Un-
derwood.)
Dear Mrs. Brown:
I am enclosing a check for an-
other year’s subscription to BITS
and PIECES which we have cer-
tainly enjoyed since the first
number. I look through them
again and again and have es-
pecially enjoyed the Wagon Train
pictures of many friends I knew.
Since my husband, Wilbur, and
I came to Wyoming in 1914, I
feel about like one of the old-
timers, too.
decided to go about 90 miles
to the mountains to fish. They
looked out from their bedrolls
the following morning to find
about two inches of snow on the
ground and it was still snowing
so they immediately started for
home.
After many difficulties, they
had driven to about four miles
from Lusk when they could go
no farther as the snow was about
a foot deep and a terrible bliz-
zard was raging.
But, one problem has been
solved. That’s how to get its 30-
inch width through a place about
29 inches wide. So simple an
answer it’s ridiculous.
The answer came from ... of
all places . . . Amsterdam, N. Y.
(New York State, that is.)
There used to be a pretty young
woman who lived and worked
here. Her name was Myrt
(Myrtle) Peacock. Bye-’n-bye she
and a handsome fellow, Jim Rob-
erts, who worked at the post
office, got married. Bye-’n-bye
they moved to Amsterdam, N. Y.
They’re a nice, happy family.
Myrt sent a note this week
along with her renewal check
for The Winkler County News.
(They still like to know what’s
going on in Kermit.)
Here’s what she says:
“I read with great interest of
your account in moving that re-
frigerator. The same thing hap-
pened to us a few years ago
when we moved into a new apart-
ment. Only we thought we’d be
stuck with a refrigerator in the
living room, since that was the
only way to bring it in.
“We did get it into the kitchen,
though, after opening the refrig-
erator door and kinda zig-zagging
it through the door. But, it’s no
one-person job!”
You know, it takes smart folks
to think up simple answers like
that. I never would’ve.
That door is at least three
The third day after the bite. inches thick, plus a handle which
comes out and then turns up . . .
it swings back flush with the
box . . . look, mama . . . it’s
at least five inches thinner.
opening it.
Humph .
You just wait, though. Jane
Blackburn Glover and I have
something up our sleeves, thanks
to her.
Jane bustled in with a new
gadget book and there on the
back page is a glowing account
of these teflon things you put
under appliances and they glide
easily along. Four of ’em cost
... believe it was $1.35. We
ordered immediately. Have heard
nothing more.
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and, another thing is, have you
heard the rumor that Mary Wil-
liams has her husband, Jack,
worried about finances?
It was about 15 years ago
that Mary and Jack took off to
celebrate their silver wedding
anniversary, going by airplane
into Mexico. The plane ran into
serious icing conditions, the pilot
almost coul4 not control it and
things were rough and touchy.
Finally they cleared the moun-
tains and Jack says it was so
close he could’ve reached out
and got a handful of mountain
top. They made it to Chihuahua
and Mary was very ill for more
than three hours. That ended her
flying career. She’dhave nomore
of such.
Well, it was a short time ago
Mary developed a great longing
to see the children in California
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MR o and MRS. D. J. BATES
Miss Hunter,D. Bates
Exchange Vows
. , , , Miss Welda Jean Hunter be-
going by air was her only came bride of Donnie Joe
zard, they walked in to Lusk
and the next day hired four horses
to go and pull the car into town
as it was right in the middle
of the road.
They rented two saddle horses
and rode the 20 miles to camp.
Snow was drifted over the fences
and up to second story windows
in town.
I expect some of the ranchers
will remember that storm as
stock was lost in it and cattle
froze to death.
We were sentto Walden, Colo.,
in the fall. We lived there near-
hope. She decided she’d try.
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to the grandchildren. Came time
McKenzie of Odessa, flower girl,
was dressed in blue peau w|fit
empire bodice, topped with wh™
re-embroidered lace coat. Her
headband was of blue peau cov-
ring ceremony held in the sane- ered with white lace. She scat-
Bates Friday, March 25, at 7
n-nhian, „ . . - , . , . ,, xxug cexemuny iiex.u mine exeu wxin wnite xace. one scat-
only problem now is finding to leave home and Mary couldn’t r.apo Tomnl. R,nMcf „ ' . . .
o pvtra mflnnnwor which is tuary of Grace Temple Baptist tered rose petals from a wh^g
the extra manpower
still needed.
GEORGE ELLIOTT
They followed a fence with a
telephone wire on it to a de- ly three years and came to the
serted shack several hundred feet new oil field in Osage, Wyo., in
from the road. They stayedthere 1923. The mud was so deep when
two nights and two days. There we left the depot that Wilbur
was an old stove and a tub of hired a car to take us out to the
coal there but no stove pipe. Glenn Camp and he had to push
There were several gallon cans *be car UP ©very hill,
in the little attic. They cut the When we lived at the Mississip-
cans and made a makeshift stove- P* Delta Camp my husband de*
We first went to the oil field pipe. They melted snow to drink. cided to S° fishing and camping
near Basin, Wyoming, and then All they found to eat was some a£ain- The three children, myself
to a small camp 20 miles from wormy oatmeal but before they and Hazel and Howard Potter
.Lusk, Wyoming,, in the first part got away they even at some of went, too. We had two cars and
of 1918. The camp consisted of that. brand new tents. We camped by
only two buildings, mainly to There was a bed and several the creek near what is now “A”
hold down the claims. silver coins lay on the bed. They Ranch* We stayed three days in
A young couple from Okla- left the coins, they decided mon- sPHe °f rabl aad then started
homa lived in the other building ey wasn’t so much after all. home. When we got to Sundance,
Wyo., the rain turned to snow
and by the time we made about
12 miles it was a real blizzard.
Our car ahead was completely
stuck in the mud underneath the
snow and it was dark.
Howard got his car turned
around and we all piled into it.
Those of you who know them
might be interested in the re-
mainder of Myrt’s writing:
“Spring has arrived, finally.
We had some later-than-usual
snows this year. The trees are
budding and the golf courses
are open ... a sure sign.
“I’m still working and looking
forward to a school business of-
ficials conference next month to
be at the famed Grossinger’s, a
resort area in the CatSkillMoun-
tains.”
Thanks, Myrtle. I’ll never again
look at that old refrigerator with-
out thinking of you.
ftad her specs. You wear Church to Kerralt-
glasses, regardless of what kind,
know what that means. There was Parents of the bride are Mr.
no more time to hunt so the and Mrs. W. E. Hunter of 545
plan was for Jack to find ’em South Cedar, Kermit. Parents
and mail them to California, of the bridegroom are Mr. and
Mary flew away, even if she Mrs. C. S. Brown of Stanton,
couldn’t see very well . . . the
While this battle still rages
about putting rollers under re-
frigerators and cook stoves
comes this bit of information ...
some , outfit in New York has
lace basket.
John William Rainwater of
Odessa served as best man and
John Watson was groomsman.
Ushers were Bobby Manning of
El Paso and Bubba Van Deman
of Kermit. Lighting candles were
kitten riding- as extra baggage The church was decorated with Danny Hunter, brother of the
In Monterrey Park she viSfed candelabra holding white tapers bride, and Gary Shaver, Ring-
with a daughter'and familv Mr and large blue ribbons> flanked bearer was Lane Armstrong,
ond Mrc by baskets of white gladioli. Fam- Mrs. Hunter wore a blue lace
f _ Timmv n oif" &Y pews were marked with blue dress with matching accessories.
Mr s. Brown, mother of the bride-
aides woufd arrive7 About two When presented in marriage by groom, wore blue lace with black
if *her father, the bride watfwearing accessories. Both wore corsages
before Te was Cleave tl g0Wn of sdkHfau de of white carnations.
.____, „ soie. The empire bodice was The fellowship hall of the
never made it to California 7 styled with a ^wel neckHne and church was the setting for a re-
What’s Jack’s financial worrv? long lace sleeves which tapered ception honoring the young cou-
Well you see Marv lovld that °!er the wrist* Her A-line skirt, pie. The table was spread with
—JSL y u4io nJr twn hm.rc with soft fullness in the back, was white lace over light blue, with
highlighted by a detachable wat- crystal and silver appointments
y’ teau train, overlaid in re-em- and a blue and white centerpiece. 1
she’ll want to fly to all directions ^"fength The wedding cake was three-
Lj J ______ tiers of silk illusion fell in a tiered, the tiers separated by j
flying
to cover 1,150 miles
to see the other kids.
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Permit
Helen Help Us!
Youth Asked for It
mist from a peau half-hat out- Grecian supports, topped with,
lined in scallops of lace dotted bride and groom figurines anc
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A SLAP ON THE WRIST
Dear Helen:
I don’t think you were funny,
when “Happily Surprised” wrote
Wilbur sat on the back holding about seeing a teenager with a
all the bedding. We drove to the
big house where Rosses lived and
when we stopped we found we had
lost my husband off the car so
Howard went back to pick up
Wilbur and the bedding.
The seven of us slept on the
floor and kept the fire going. We
stayed there two nights and
three days before the blizzard
stopped. That was in May, also.
butch haircut and your reply was,
“Boy or Girl?”
Sure, there are kids that make
the rest of us teenagers look like
a disgrace, but you don’t have to
condemn us all.
What if you said, “I actually
saw a husband’s socks being
darned the other day,” and I
answered, “By the husband,
natch?” You’d be pretty mad
your parents have the answers,
or at least they’ll see that you
get them from experts. There’s
nothing disgraceful about human
development. You should be able
to question your folks about the
sexual parts of your body with
the same freedom you’d use in
discussing a lump on your arm.
If you do, you’ll save yourself
months of needless anxiety be-
cause the odds are about 500 to
one you’re perfectly normal.—H.
with crystal and seed pearls. Her
bridal bouquet was white glam-
elias with cascading white
Frenched carnations and long
white satin streamers mounted
on a white Bible. On her way to
the altar, the bride and her fa-
ther paused for the bride to pre-
sent her mother with a long-
stemmed red rose. After the
ceremony, when leaving the al-
tar, the bride presented a long-
stemmed red rose to Mrs. Brown.
I Love Thee, The Wedding
Prayer and The Lord’s Prayer
decorated with blue flowers and
frills, white wedding bells and
tiny lovebirds. Miss Donna Mar-
tin and Miss Sheila Westfall^
served. Mrs. Neeld presided a^-
the registry table.
For traveling, the bride chose
a light blue Irish linen two-piece
suit with black patent accessor-
ies and corsage from her bridal
bouquet. She is a 1965 graduate
of Kermit High School, where
she was a member of the Na-
tional Honor Society and was in
several other activities. She has
attended Columbia Secretarial
Dear Helen:
Mrs. Ross had 50 baby chicks about me knocking wives, would-
which she had brought into the n’t you?
pantry out of the storm. Several
times a day some child would
open the door and we would have
to chase the little things back
in.
Please give yours elf “ten lash-
es with your typewriter ribbon”
and stop with the stupid jokes.
were sung by Mrs. Paula Neeld
of Carlsbad, N. M., cousin of the College in Odessa and is pres-
bride, accompanied by Mrs. L. L. ently employed by McDonald and
Morris, organist. Pickens, attorneys at law, in
Attending the bride were her Odessa.
_ . . I „ . maid of honor, Miss Sue Shurt- Her husband is a 1962 gradu-
Just because you reach 16 does leff, and bridesmatron, Mrs. John ate of Kermit High School, and
not mean you have to stop having Watson of Jal, N. M., wearing has just recently completed serv-
fun, Shary. We are three 18- sleeveless, floor-length, A-line ing three and one-half years in
year-olds who still get excited gowns of blue peau. The empire the United States Air Force, with
oyer Christmas We also cry bodices were designed with jewel M
at sad movies and laugh and gig- necklines. A silk organza cab-
This isn’t the last you’ll hear Sle when we Please. As for being bage rose with a circle Qf gllk
from me, but now I am leaving
The third day, Mr. Ross took for church. —MAD TEENAGER
a team and wagon along and pulled Dear Mad:
the Bank with
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our car through the snow drifts
to go to Upton, Wyo., but the
gumbo was rolling and you know
what that meant! The cars stayed
there but all seven of us piled
into the wagon and went on to
town.
We stayed in a hotel room that
night and had to buy Genevieve
new shoes as her shoes had
shrunk from being wet and around
the fire.
Such wonderful hospitality of
Mr. and Mrs. Ross to take in such
a bedraggled and muddy outfit
as we were! Some of the Ross
family lives in Newcastle today.
We lived in the oil field and
in Newcastle and Wyoming for
30 or 35 years so really do con-
sider myself an oldtimer and
my hope is that I will live long
Yes, SIR.
But one lash will do this time.
When people stop laughing at
themselves, they’re too darn ser-
ious . . . sez this wife who thinks
YOUR joke is funny.—H.
Dear Helen:
My problem has been bother-
lazy and loafing; who doesn’t
sometimes? If Shary stopped hav-
ing fun because she turned 16,
she never really had a good time
to start with. Growing up is the
best part of being a “silly, giggly,
crazy kid” — it isn’t the end of
fun.—IT’S THE BEGINNING. —
HAVING A BLAST
Cleopatra used green paint un«
if lids andlashes/
illusion formed headpieces. They
carried dainty white lace fans
covered with blue Frenched car-
nations with blue satin ribbons
tied in love knots. Miss Rosa
19 months of the time spent on
Guam. He is presently employe^
by Republic Supply Company ilP
Odessa.
After a short wedding trip to
El Paso, the couple is at home
in the Kingston Apartments
Odessa. J0f
was 13 my mother gave meabook
on human reproduction. It said
boys develop in many ways by the
time they are 13 or 14. Now I’m
in my mid-15’s, I’m beginning to
worry. My mind has developed but
my body, no. I thought you might
have a good suggestion, you
usually do.—BOY BABY
P. S. I’m not girlish or any-
thing — r m quite active in sports.
Dear Boy:
A quiet talk with your father
enough to move back there and would quiet your fears
be a Wyomingite again.
Just a little reminiscing, Mrs.
Brown, I remember you before
you were married and I wish you
much success with your maga-
zine.
Mrs. Wilbur Lease
700 Underwood
Kermit, Texas 79745
but
that’s too embarrassing, isn’t
it? It’s a shame that boys so
often can’t discuss growth and de-
velopment with their parents —
because they need reassurance
(the kind you don’t always get
from books) just as much as girls
do. Sometimes more.
I could guess you’re simply
a late developer, but having this
confirmed by a doctor would be
Note: Mrs. Lease’s husband worth twice the fee. Let your
was an ’’old time” shooter in mother know you’re worried and
the Osage field. Iam sure many pm sure she will make an appoint-
people will remember the Leas- ment._H.
es. Their son Maurice, their NOTE TO READERS: So many
daughter, Mrs. Genevieve Minter 0f your letters start, “I’m afraid
and several grandchildren still something’s wrong with me,but
live in Newcastle. I went to pm ashamed to ask . . Why
school with Maurice and Gen. be ashamed? Your fears are
—Ed. shared by thousands of teens, and
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