The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1995 Page: 2 of 41
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9 P.M. UNTIL,
(First Thursday of the month)
Served Wlti
2620IH-10 • Orange, Texas
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Orange County. Whenever you turn onto
Highway 62, pause lo think about those who
have gone before you. and don't forget the
gensntffona to foiow. fi tie highway were named
tor thle pioneer famty. maybe I would be a Me
eaaier to remember. R would certainly be a 1
tribute to fa adrt and detormtoattor
Orange County, The Wnfrea and Ms descendants.
> County wee held at The Southern Pacific, which rune through the
now a field of brueh Wlnfree property, had two sets of tracks
CWbomo Weal was elscled as ttw first afiowed saatoound and weetoound trains tc
Congraaaman from tola area for the flepubfic of one another. Hence, the road waa named
Texas and signed the Texas Declaration of Lane Road There was onoe a laMrtl and a i
Independence. Abraham Wlnfree served as the town along toe road. Over toe course of time,
name waa changed to Tulane Road. Several
theories about the change have been suggested
ren Its own school district. The school • either someone confused the spelling, or a
was eventually consolidated with school teacher decided Tulane was more
aw (now Bridge City), which offers an pleasant.
Newspaper Boy
rm awful odd and hungry sir, ash
I have no coat upon my back, no shoes upon my feet.
Never mind, air. how I look, don't look at me and frown.
Paper boys are gone; they amt no more.
On January 1,1950, Just barely 10.1 started throwing the
AueHn-American. Tin was pretty young, bid given Momma's
economic oondMoa I was a nacesafiv.*.
I had 100 papers on that route. Since toe papers had to be out
attain., I got about 4^0 and was back home in time to go to
school On Sundays, the paper averaged one hundred pages,
and 1 coutdrR carry them afi. So. I woukfiake one third of the
Ahar 46 years, py memory is dkn, but I do recal that R was teafiy
odd In toe winter. Unbearably odd. I probably dkRft make $35 a
In January. 19$J. I want to work as a Page, and gave up my first
paper route. But I waanl through.
In September of 1051, after my stint as a Page was over, I
/ inherited Pars big route. He went off to ASM. One hundred
! seventy papers, and I had not turned it. In retrospect, the
worst part of both routes was not the day to day delivery of
papers, (I wasn't going anywhere anyway), but the collecting,
j About the 26th of the monto, I would have to start knocking on
doors for the month's paper bifl. Back then, they didn't bill in
yours. The paper boys had to absorb aH skips and non-
• paying people. Since the paper boy ody made $0.66 per paper
* a month anyway, sknptomalhemaficB tefls you R was a bad ded
for toe paper boy. But nobody cared. I remember very well
trying to oolect from the Reverend Charles Barclay at the First
Christian Church, who owed me for seven months at $1.66 a
1, or $11.66. Again, as set out above, this $11 55 was
Early 40'a photograph,
Mr. and Mrs. Lawranci
of
Lawranca
Wlntraa and chlldran on
t hair way lor a buggy
rtda.
Young boy In tlm
cowboy hat aaalad In
backsaat la Laatar
Wlntraa.
mine. There was no doubt he owed me because the receipts
you gave the customer when the bifi was paid were still in my
book. The Reverend Bardoy informed my Httie 13-yearold self
that he must have paid R, that he was not going to pay R, that he
was a friend of the Publisher, and RI stopped throwing the paper
as I threatened to. he would get me fired. What's a kid to do?
Later on, on January 20,1966, the Reverend Bardey gave the
Invocation at the swearing-in of LBJ. in Washington. I did not
pray wfth him. I cursed him. To quote my brother Pat, The ones
who wave the Christian flag the highest aren't necessarily the
best Christians." And curses on everybody else who ever
cheated me or any other paper boy out of their money.
Maybe its a good thing we don't have paper boys anymore.
We now have food stamps, medicaid, and minimum-wage Jobs
which we supplement with welfare.
Luvya’WUiie
P.6. I believe the Reverend Bardey is deceased. Looking
down or looking up, I hope he reads this and knows he stiU owes
a kid $11.55 in 1953 money.
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Tournear, Charlotte. The Penny Record (Bridge City, Tex.), Vol. 37, No. 7, Ed. 1 Wednesday, May 24, 1995, newspaper, May 24, 1995; Bridge City, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1169879/m1/2/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; .