The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1952 Page: 2 of 10
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Owner A Publisher
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MRS. BILLY GENE CROCKER
Society Editor A Bookkeeper
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^BB^ Wherever you live in Texas, the oil industry
is your neighbor. For the Texas oil Industry is the bread-and-butter, the
opportunity, the daily work of some 190,000 Texas men and women.
The girl who sits next to you in die bus; the hearty-looking man
who wavus as you pass on the highway; the family behind you at
the PTA: in Iten, they all could be, some certainly ace oil workers.
Bookkeepers, stenographers, executives, drillers, roughnecks, stillmen,
g, doing all the things
t ever do again. Makes
id cold and achey inside,
and I went fishing or
a long way I’d ay a little
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ed. Now someti
ALF ROBERSON
Advertising Manager
HOWARD BAUGHMAN
Linotype Operator
JIMMIE A. STEPHENS
Apprentice Printer
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So Others May Walk
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Thin year the need for funda is grantor than ever. The rea-
son why all should give so vividly described below in an
article sent to The Sun by Mra. Richard Shelton of Fort
Worth. Author is Rolens Johns Graham.- ?
I’m just a little shaver and of course folks don t
nay much attention to me but, Mister, I m just like
Hi kids. I like baseball and football and you know
3 what, once when our team scored I got so excited
I swallowed my chewing gum.
I like marbles—gosh you ought to see my ag-
gies. I like funnies, too, and I’d like to romp with
my dog Stumpy. Daddy says he’s not much of a
dog but all the same I like him—he understands
me. When I sit all'quiet like he,sneaks up close to
me. Sometimes he sits up on his haunches and
whines like he is saying he is sorry—and some-
times he just licks my hand. Yes, Stumpy under-
stands.
I’ll bet my Daddy is the best fisherman ever
was. We used to go way up in the mountains to
fish. Scon a? we got the things unpacked we’d
stick trout flies all over his hat and Mother would
say “Jim, don’t you ever dare make fun of my
hats.” Then he’d put hi§ hat on all crooked and
sav, “Come on Jimmy, this is no place for a couple
of‘he-men. Let’s go fishing.” He would grab my
hand and away we’d go and I’d almost split my
pants trying to take long steps like Daddy.
When we’d get to a good looking spot—little
quiet pools or ripples — Daddy would pull his
waders, up around his hips, step down into the
stream and then wink at me and say, Watch
Sharp, Jimmy, I’ll show you how to catch ’em. I’m
going to catch the granddaddy.” And he’d say,
‘‘Nope, I changed my mind. I’m going to leave old
granddaddv right here for you to catch when you
get big enough to wear my waders.”
I wish you could see my Daddy shoot birds,
MiBter. I’ll bet he’s the best dog-gone shooter in
the whole world. He was teaching me to shoot.
He used to call me Jimmy Retriever because when
he’d shoot a bird in a grain field I’d get it for him.
Sometimes I’d pick most of the feathers off—
they were so soft and pretty and I liked to see
them flutter away in the wind.
We used to have a lot of fun—Mom and Dad
End Sue and me. But—well—things have changed
At our house. Dad and Mom keep trying awfully
hard to laugh like they used to but it doesn’t
Bound the same—it isn’t bubbly any more—least-
Kn«|pe not to me.
You see, Mister, 1 guess I won’t ever romp with
9tumpy any more. And I won’t be able to wear
Daddy’s waders or catch that old granddaddy
fish. I won’t be able to go shooting or retrieve
Daddy’s birds. And I can’t play marbles—or do
any of the things boys like to do, like play base-
H ball or football.
And Sue—well, Sue was my sister—Sue isn’t
here any more. Sue and I had polio and Sue—well,
she died. Me?—well, they say I won’t ever walk
again. So you see, Mister t how things have chang-
ed.*
All I can do now is read the funnies, listen to
the radio, and rub old Stumpy’s head. Good thing
I can use my hands, isn’t it? I told you Stumpy
" derstands—he gets as close to me as he can
i looks right at me qs if he was saying, “I know
about it, Jimmy, I miss Sue too—I know you
“ play—but I’m right here by your side.”
ks won’t pay much attention to what I say
11 listen to you. So please, won’t you tell
to forget to do their share. They don’t
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silver. In
out the brevity of words
sages of all times. For ^
The Declaration of Independence contains
words.
The Ten Commandments contains 297 words*#'
Lincoln’s Gettysburg address contains
words. '
The Lord’s Prayer contains 56 words. ;
The two commandments that comprise the
whole law of God contain 23 words.
BUT the OPS order setting the price of cabbqge
contains 26,911 words. _
again—like me. But a lot more of them will live
to walk and play again if people will just remem-
ber to give to the March Of Dimes.
So pjease, Mister, won’t you tell them about
Sue and me and tell them not to forget? Tell them
not to let the polio kids down. The next one might
be theirs.
into
could «iv«. the state
-off toward what might be-
the worst polio year in Texaa
nary.
Dr. W. A. Spencer, director ©I
the Southwest Polio Center In
Houston, this week verified « re-
port that Harris County is having
an unusual number of patients for
this time of year. Galveston health
•officers recorded* 21 cases since
—
It’s a sign of prosperity when men’s pants bag
at the pockets instead pf the knees.
Many a man thinks he has an open mind when
it’s merely vacant.
An old-timer is one who remembers that when
two girls discovered a man following them they
called a cop. (Now they match for him),
Nature is wonderful. A million years ago no-
body knew that we’d have to wear glasses; yet
look how conveniently she located our ears. •
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American National Insurance Co.
I Phone 1623-F-2 — Grand Saline, Texan
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Harle, Neil. The Grand Saline Sun (Grand Saline, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1952, newspaper, January 17, 1952; Grand Saline, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1017086/m1/2/: accessed June 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Van Zandt County Library.