Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 36, No. 4, Ed. 1 Friday, September 11, 1992 Page: 4 of 16
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PAGE 4, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, SEPT. 11,1992
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Fairbanks it took us from twenty
was coming up. We stayed
around. That’s the last trip
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TO THE
FAIR
Commissioner Pct. 3
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William L Fischer
Unity Village, Missouri 64065
IN MEMORY OF
BUCK WALDING
we flew to Tokyo, Japan. We
got in to Tokyo just as the sun
year old son, Neil Walding,
who when grown saw service in
Viet Nam. Neil died in 1974.
Buck: "After we got to shore,
we came back to San Antonio.
I stayed at home a few days
and went to Topeka, Kansas,
that country, Floyd County,
Matador, Lockney, Plainview
and Crosbyton.
"I was in the service with my
wife’s brother at R andolph
Field. We were instructors in
a ground school there. My
wife was from LaCrosse, Wis-
consin. I spent nearly nine
years in the Air Force. In 1940
I was at Fort Bliss. From there
flight over the North Pole.
When we left Fairbanks we were
in the air all the time until we
returned. There was no place
to land. We could see Russian
ships in the distance.
"On the last flight I made we
were out over the Aleutian Is-
I made in the Air Force.
"After I was discharged we
came to LaCrosse, Wisconsin,
and I worked there for the
Southern Pacific Railroad for a
few months. Then we came to
Floydada for awhile. We went
from there to Acuff, east of
Lubbock. From there we went
to Waco, where I did contract
work for two years, came back
to Lubbock and then I came
down here in December of 1966
and remodeled a house. When
I got that done, my wife came
and I have been here ever since.
"I was appointed to serve
part of a term as Commissioner
for one who had just resigned,
and later was elected and served
two four-year terms as Justice
of the Peace."
C. W.: Mrs. Walding was em-
ployed by the Dell City School
System, I believe for nine
years. She was one of the most
highly respected persons ever
connected with the Dell City
School. She passed away a
few years ago.
Buck was one of the most out-
standing gardeners in Dell City.
When I saw him Friday morning
(20th) (at the time this article
was originally written), he
had just finished setting out
thirty-six tomato plants.
He will be greatly missed.
When your horse is on the
brink of a precipice it is too
late to pull, the reins.
— Chinese Proverb
then to Fairfield, California
and went from there to Fair-
banks, Alaska. My wife was
with me in Alaska. We lived
at the base in Fairbanks. She
stayed there by herself when I
was out on flight.
"I was an electrician and a
crew member on a B- 29 Bom-
ber. We flew weather missions
over the North Pole. From
Buck Walding was a native of
Floyd County, Texas.
Buck: "My dad owned a place
about three miles south of Floy- to thirty hours to make the
dada. I am familiar with all
lands. We got over there and
there was a big storm on, and
Admiral of "The Ocean Seas"
which entitled him to certain
envolvements of office. They
willingly financed a second
voyage for Columbus, which
left Cadiz, Spain, Sept. 25,
1493. With a fleet of 17 ships,
and a 1000 colonists. With a
fair wind the fleet reached the
West Indies in 21 days. On the
return to Spain some of the
sailors complained to the King
and Queen that Columbus was a
cruel taskmaster and that there
was no gold or silver in the
West Indies. Columbus denied
the charges and the Spanish
rulers believed him, and again
financed him for another ex-
ploratory expedition to the West
Indies. He left Sentander, Spain
with one ship and two Caravels
May 30, 1498. When he returned
from this voyage and made his
report, Columbus was granted
money for a fourth expedition
of exploration to the West Indies,
the purpose of such expedition
was to find a passage to the
Indian Ocean between Cuba and
the "other world" discovered
four years before. This was
Columbus last voyage which
returned to Spain, November,
7, 1504. Queen Isabella had
died and King Ferdinand refused
more aid to Columbus who was
in bad health and died May 20,
1506.
LARRY & KAY
KARR
Join us at the fair! (L-R) Jesse Ford, Colquitt Warren and Fran
Hedrick will speak on Sunday during the Cowboy Poetry and Story-
telling event at the fair. This is a new addition to the fair this
year and should be a fun time for all! Hope to see you there!
***
We are always glad to see Brother Charley Pierson, pastor of the
First Assembly of God Church in Dell City. He came out Thursday
afternoon, September 3.
The following is from a tape
I made with Buck Walding in
the spring of 1990.
C. Warren
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Women may be smarter than
men, but I've never seen a man's
shirt that buttoned in the back.
— Ruth Brown
I went to Kerns, Utah, then to
Camp Kilmer, New Jersey, then for seven days, just fooling
through the Panama Canal to
New Guinea, To Holandia and
the Phillipines. Iwas a 385
Electrician on an airplane.
WORK
Whatever the internal cause,
people are interested in work.
In a recent survey of 24, 000
people who were studying new
things, by far the most popular
had to do with developing new
skills in order to fill their jobs
better or find better jobs to do.
In human dynamics, work is a
necessity. Of course we need an
income, but the real therapeutic
element in work is that it builds
a person's self-esteem. It makes
him feel useful ft removes a
feeling of emptiness. Work can
be a burden or a blessing, de-
pending on how you look at it.
Overseas we did what we were
trained to do, but I spent most
of my time loading and un-
loading bombs. We usually
did everything in the world that
was to be done.
"On Okinawa there were thirty-
seven air strips when we were
preparing to invade Japan.
"When the war was over, I
was on an island in the South
Pacific. We were loading up
to come home, and we got a
report that a storm was coming
when the ship was about half
loaded. We went back to shore
and the ship put out to sea. In
about three days the ship came
back and finished loading and
we came back to the states and
landed at Tacoma, Washington,
ft was late when we got in and
they wouldn't let us off the ship
until the next morning. There
was lots of company around the
ship and we’d send for a ham-
burger or something. Lots of
time we didn’t get the ham-
burger, even after they did get
back. That's the way life was
in the army. "
Buck and Emerald Marie
Whaley of LaCrosse, Wisconsin
HHHHHHHHSHSHSHS SHSSNS====== were married March 10, 1945.
Christopher Columbus, “Admirei of the Ocean Sea" Tn 1946 they adopted an eight
Jerry, Lynda and Ryan Ziler paid me a visit Saturday afternoon
(5). I enjoyed their visit very much.
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THE VOYAGE OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506), one of the world's great navi-
gators, geographers, oce anographers and explorers, was born in
Genoa, Italy, one of the great seaports of that nation. His father
was a weaver of wool which might have been the cause of Columbus
going to sea at the age of 14 years, that is to get away from the
drudgery of the Weaver's Shop.
Columbus married the daughter of a Portugese explorer and geo-
grapher who was employed by Prince Henry the Navigator of
Portugal. Columbus had access to the maps and charts of his father-
-in-law, and that gave Columbus the opportunity to meet other
men of science who held with Columbus that the world was round,
and that India and the Spice Island could be reached by sailing
West over the Atlantic Ocean.
At that time a lot of superstitious and ignorant people believed
that the world was flat, surrounded by a limitless sea full of
dragons.
There was such a demand in Europe at that time for spices that
one successful voyage around South Africa and back across the
Indian Ocean would make the ship owner rich.
Columbus went to the various Kings of Europe, and submitted
his plan of sailing west over the Atlantic to reach India. None of
the crowned heads would give him financial assistance to carry out
his plan. King John II, of Portugal listened attentively to Colum-
bus, and then told him that there were too many difficulties in the
plan. King John II, then without Columbus knowledge, arranged
for an expedition using Columbus plan. King John II's crew,
mutinied and turned back, and his expedition failed, as it should
• have.
In 1485, Columbus went to the rulers of Spain with his plan.
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were busy driving out the Moors
and expelling the Jews from Spain, and they kept Columbus
waiting for seven years. Finally Queen Isabella agreed to finance
Columbus' plan, and on August 5, 1492 with a fleet of three ships,
the Santa Maria of 500 tons capacity and the Nina and Pinta of 50
tons capacity, each were purchased and anchored in Palos, one of
the great sea ports in Spain. The Santa Maria was the only one
of the three ships that were decked. The other two were merely
opened boats called Caravels. The jails of Palos were emptied
to fill out the 88 men necessary to man the three ships which
sailed out of Palos, August 5, 1492.
Sailing west by a little south, on October 12, 1492, Columbus
sighted land on one of the islands of the Carribean Sea. Columbus
thought that he had reached east India, and he called the natives
Indians. There were no spices, but some of the natives had trin-
kets of gold and silver which greatly excited Columbus' sailors.
On Christmas Day, 1492, the Santa Maria was wrecked on a
reef off the coast of what is now Haitia. The natives on shore
helped save the cargo and loaded it in on the Nina. Columbus
took seven Indians on board who agreed to go with him to Spain.
The Nina and the Pinta, both reached their home port, Palos,
Spain on the same day.
Ferdinand and Isabella were so well pleased with Columbus'
report that they rewarded him generously and appointed him
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