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PAGE 2 THE MATHIS NEWS, Thursday, October 9.1980
(USPS 334-040)__
Country Crossroads
Garage Sale To Go Into History
As Truly An American Invention
l|£Kf£rgiMr
by KEITH GUTHRIE
American as an apple pie!
A commercial by Chevy
capitalizes on the recognition of
this American dream with the
ditty whose refrain runs:
“Baseball, hot dogs, apple pie
and Chevrolet...”
But I have a nomination for a
word that is truly all American
- invented in suburbia, practic-
ed the length and breadth of our
land and sure to be glorified by
some country singer before too
long.
What could be more
American than the Garage
Sale? (Evidently born when
some housewife found her
closets bulging, but hating to
part with even one goodie, she
reasoned: “Surely, somewhere
there is someone who is a big-
ger junk collector than me, and
just maybe, just maybe, they
will pack my stuff off if I
charge for it. (She had already
tried to give it away with no
luck).
And, so the first garage sale
was born. Our heroine put the
family car outside and set up
her store in the garage and hur-
ried to the weekly newspaper
editor to place an ad.
“How shall I classify it?” the
editor asked. Stumped for a se-
cond, the young mother rose to
the occasion as she reasoned:
“It’s in my garage - why not a
GARAGE SALE.” Little did
she know that she had opened a
great, new American culture
due to change lifestyles in
suburbia.
Where else could you buy a
perfectly good windmill made
out of two empty beer cans and
a half of a coat hanger for 50
cents? Or better still, a black
evening gown with a “$500”
label for just $1? And surely,
Aunt Jo ould never know her
“art object” wedding gift went
for 75 cents! Racks and racks
of size 8 dresses (seams ex-
panded to size 10) went for a
wistful $1.
Garage sales roll together
the bargain basement pitch
with the carnival air of an auc-
tion, capped with the zeal of a
camp meeting. Customers are
allowed to browse, pinch, pun-
ch, try on, test and are usually
warned: “It’s got a button
missing”, or “waffles stick
sometimes, but the grill is real
good.”
Actually, the building in-
dustry should work to have a
law passed banning garage
sales entirely. Just think, if all
of these goodies sold in garage
sales were forced to remain in
suburbia’s closets and
storerooms, they would soon be
bulging and folks would have to
add an extra room or
storeroom onto their home.
Can you imagine the unhappy
legislator who got conned by
the building industry into pro-
moting such a piece of legisla-
tion when untold millions of
American housewives found
that he was depriving them of
fulfilling the great American
dream (plus emptying her
storeroom)?
The legislator’s epitaph
would probably be like the one
on Boot Hill: “Here lies Joe,
shot by an irrate wife, no more,
no less.”
If you haven’t been to a
garage sale, go to one this week
- you’ll like it, and maybe, just
maybe, you’ll come home with
a goodie that you just couldn’t
live without.
| Church
I Directory I
X
SACRED HEART
CATHOLIC
118 South Aransas
Father Henry Heese
PRIMERA IGLESIA
BAUTISTA
526 N. Hwy. 359
Reverend Dorso Maciel
LAKE VIEW
BAPTIST
F.M. 3024
Reverend Jack Brundidge
ST. MARY’S
BAPTIST
Corner Duval-Laredo
Reverend John C. Caruthers
GETHSEMANI
PENTACOSTAL
314 S. Atascosa
Reverend Max Garcia
FIRST
EVANGELICAL
LUTHERAN
Orange Grove
LAKE AREA SUMMER
MINISTRY CHAPEL
Pernitas Point near
Fiesta Marina
WEST SHORE
BAPTIST CHAPEL
F.M. 534
Pastor Wright Price
ARGENTA
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Off F.M. 888 and 1040
Minister Joe Wolf
ST. PIUS X
CATHOLIC
Sandia
Father Seamus McGowan
FIRST BAPTIST
404 S. Bee
Reverend Clif Abshier
MENNONITE
721 W. San Patricio Ave.
Reverend Jose Calderon
CHURCH OF CHRIST
407 E. Rockport
Pastor Bill Fricks
ST. JOHN OF THE
CROSS CATHOLIC
Orange Grove
FIRST CHRISTIAN
308 E. St. Mary’s
Minister R. E. Bream
FAITH CHURCH,
U.C.C.
Hwy. 624, Orange Grove
ST. PATRICK
CATHOLIC
Old San Patricio
LAKESIDE
BAPTIST CHURCH
F.M. 534
UNITED METHODIST
Corner Duval-Hackberry
Reverend Charles Simpson
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Hwy. 624 West
Orange Grove
JOHOVAH’S WITNESS
E. Fulton
Elder Cristobal Garcia
CORPUS CHRISTI ABBEY
Arrowhead
Rt. Rev. Henry Hoenig
LAKE CORPUS CHRISTI
COMMUNITY CHURCH
Arrowhead Airport
OUR FATHER’S HOUSE
F.M. 534
Pastor Robert Gallagher
FIRST BAPTIST
Sandia
Reverend Audie Morris
PEACE UNITED
Tynan
Reverend John Donaldson
BETHANIA TEMPLO
220 S. Duval \ ■
GRACE LUTHERAN
1205 E. San Patricio
FIRST BAPTIST
Orange Grove
TEMPLO BETH'EL
1400 E. San Patricio Ave.
ST. PAUL LUTHERAN
Left on F.M. No. 796
Tynan
Camp Amigo
CHURCH OF GOD
Lake City
WMHW
This Church Directory published
courtesy of the following
Mathis businesses:
Bee County Co-Op
Hub Pharmacy
Jimson’s Department Store
Mathis Grain and
Elevator-Corp.
Villarreal Mercantile Co.
Unconscious Mind Is
Topic Of Lecture Friday
A truly unique and
fascinating person, Jacqueline
Johnston, a business woman
from Corpus Christi, will give
an introductory lecture in
Mathis, Friday night on Astro-
Soul.
The lecture will be held in the
Community Room of the First
State Bank Oct. 10 at 7:30 p.m.
Anyone interested is welcome
to attend. Price at the door will
be $3 per person.
According to a brochure,
Sketching
¥? V *
The Oxford English Dic-
tionary describes weeds in a
very snobbish way. It says in
effect that they are plants that
hinder the growth of superior
vegetation. Emerson had a
kinder word. He simply said
that a weed was a plant whose
virtues have not been
discovered. Both in their way
were probably correct.
I was brought up to hate
weeds. Dad was probably the
cause of this feeling. He could
not stand the sight of a weed, if
it grew anywhere near his
cotton, or maize patch. When
the tares began to get big
enough to be visable, he would
call forth his army, sharpen
the goose neck hoes, and lead
us (the army) to that part of his
field that he wished to defend
against this noxious plant. We
fell upon the enemy with fiend-
ish fervor, always effecting a
great slaughter, but never
completely destroying the
persistant weed. By the time
we had gone over the entire
hundred or so acres, the enemy
had grown replacements, so,
though weary from battle,
were compelled to regroup,
resupply and repeat,
were compelled to regroup,
resupply and repeat.
When I got my farming down
to putting in a small plot of
earth in garden stuff, I grew to
like the idea of keeping the
area free of weeds. At this
point I discovered that weeds
had pecular personalities.
Some of them were sustained
by a long tap root, and if I
would choose to pull them up
after a rain when the ground
was soft, they would respond
nicely to being thusly removed.
Other weeds had a small root
system, but boasted a wide
spread of limbs and foliage,
plus perhaps a few sticker
things. Other weeds were soft
and brittle, but they were
deceptive. I had better get
every bit of them, or they
would sprout ten fold what ever
I left of them.
I found that weeding the
garden transported me to the
inner-most calm in my
thoughts. I was doing my
garden and myself a great
service, and the smell of the
disturbed earth carried me
back to my childhood days
when my greatest concern was
whether or not Dad was going
to let us have Saturday Af-
ternoon for a holiday. (He
usually didn’t)
My wife seems to get the
same reaction from washing,
or ironing. The smell of the iron
on the damp cloth produces a
very domestic sort of odor, and
she can let her thoughts drift to
whatever makes Mothers and
wives happy. Of course, per-
manent press and knit cloth
has about robbed woman of her
ironing trance.
For the past few years I have
been reading and seeing ad-
vertisements about other
methods of gardening that are
to say the least, rather
disturbing to me. These ad-
vocates of a new system say
that it is not at all necessary,
nor is it advisable to till your
soil. Just sort of scuff it up a
little. Don’t pull weeds, suf-
focate the rascals by putting
down a carpeting of black
plastic, leaving holes for the
tomato plants that you insert.
With this done, go fishing, read
a book,'write a weekly column,
or something that relaxes you
while your tomatoes grow up to
admire the exterior decorating
that you have done for them.
Sounds like it might work, but
then I’d be deprived of some
innermost thinking.
These revolutionary idea
men say that the plastic can be
used year after year. When the
last tomatoe vine has been
pulled up, roll up the plastic
and store it in the barn. Pill
bugs won’t mind being en-
scounded in black plastic for
the winter where they will be
safe from chilling winds, and
other things that make them
uncomfortable.
But I like to pull weeds.
Many times when I should be
doing something else, I will see
a weed in my garden plot, and
before I know it, I am down on
my all fours. When I pull that
weed, I usually see another one
that needs taking care of, so in
going for that one, I see others,
and before you know it, my
roomie calls out the back door
that supper is ready. Reluc-
tantly, I pry myself from this
enobling weed pulling venture,
dust off my pants, wash my
hands and get ready to eat. I
know that I had a lot of
pleasure getting those weeds,
even if there were not a
vegetable growing in the
garden.
They say that there are
exceptions to all rules, and if
there be one for weed pulling, it
has to be when the Brazos
berry row needs that treat-
ment. Brazos Blackberries are
equipped with sharp thorns
that turn back. That means
they will let you reach down,
but contest you when you start
back.
I can easily clip the weeds
out of a quarter of my garden
by the time I have gone
through the agony of pulling
them out of that 150-foot berry
row. But I like blackberries,
and the pies, jellies and things
that they make, and so do my
Church brethren and neigh-
bors, so I just get with the
program and get the weeds,
and leave a little blood here
and there.
What a way to go!
Astro-Soul is the “spiritual
science of understanding and
experiencing the fifth
dimension and the unconscious
mind. It is going into other
dimensions without the in-
fluence of theology, dogma, or
religion, It is a highly refined
program that offers man the
tools to answer his questions in
life. It helps man understand
that he is a free soul incarnated
into a physical body to find
spiritual fulfillment and ac-
complishment for himself.”
The brochure continues to
inform the reader that when
Astro-Soul helps one “un-
derstand there is no death, that
as a soul he is, he has been, and
always will be, a tremendous
healing takes place. Astro-Soul
is not for everyone. It is for
people who are sincerely
searching for the answers to
the mysteries in their lives.”
Astro-Soul was founded in
1968 by Dr. Francisco Coll. Dr.
Coll has been active in the field
of spiritual research for more
than 35 years.
Johnston has owned
Galleria, a dress boutique,
Steonehenge, a book store, has
collaborate with her son in a
restaurant, John’s Mom, and
now owns an antique store
called Jackie’s, 4242. S.
Alameda. She also does in-
terior design and will soon add
another new line of clothing to
her antique store.
Johnston travels widely
around the country giving
lectures and beginning
programs for Astro-Soul. She is
the wife of a prominent Corpus
Christi architect, Leslie
Mavrey, and together they
have five grown children, he
has two and she has three.
“It’s a matter of program-
ming,” she said in an interview
with the Washington D. C.
Times-Communicator in 1978.
“Most people are taught to
think of themselves as failures.
The really successful people
have either escaped that
programming, or they have
changed it. Maybe this has
happened to you..... For me,
life is one big learning ex-
perience. The more I stick my
neck out, the more opportunity
I have to learn. Failure is
nothing to be afraid of. You can
learn more from your mistakes
than you can from the things
you did right.”
She has been involved with
the Astro-Soul program nine
years and was recently in-
terviewed on Channel 3’s
Morning Magazine.
Summer Lakers
By Bobbie Hammock
Three students from Munich,
Germany, Edith Ries, Harold
Ries, and Hilde Lemmer arriv-
ed in the United States six
weeks ago for an extended holi-
day in America and Mexico.
Arriving in New York by
plane, they then flew to El
Paso, Texas,'Where they pur-
chased an automobile to
enhance travel. They are
familiar with train and bus
travel in Europe and felt confi-
dent that by having a car
available to them they would
enjoy each and every minute
spent in the U.S. and Mexico.
The trip thus far has netted
them 7000 miles. Next stop
before again boarding the
plane back to Germany is New
Orleans, where they will un-
doubtedly enjoy the world of
American Jazz.
Two other students were with
they said they had no problems
conversing at all, either here or
in Mexico.
They have toured the United
States on one other occasion. In
1972 the five of them spent six
weeks in New York and
Florida. One of the things they
found a bit strange is the fact
that in traveling the U.S. there
are fewer traffic accidents and
is much less congested. They
were quite curious about the
enforcement of speed laws
though, because it wa obvious
to them that not everyone on
U.S. highways and freeways
drive at the same speed.
Harold related an incident in
which he was stopped by a
policeman in 1972, doing 90-
plus. “Not easy,” he said,
“talking an American
policeman out of a ticket.” He
was successful, however, and
*
Harold Ries, Hilde Lemmer and Edith Ries, Summer Lakers
from Munich, Germany.
them until a week ago. They
had a week’s less holiday and
returned to Germany earlier.
They were Gerti Tukamts-Stolz
and Roland Stolz.
The entourage was complete-
ly fascinated by our country
and Mexico and feel the
customs of the two countries
are not too uncommon to theirs.
They have found that people
are more friendly here and
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trying to locate all Eagle
Scouts now living in the Gulf
Coast Council. We hope to use
the list as a reference and
resource aid for camporees
Eagle presentations and other
Scout related projects.
We need your help in locating
the Eagle Scouts who may not
be active in the council at
present.
Please send any names and
addresses of Eagle Scouts
(parent’s addresses are helpful
if you don’t know the Scout or
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TWENTY-FIVE YEARS
-AGO-
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. McBride
notified Mr. and Mrs. Fred'
Weber this week that they
would be stationed back in the
United States by Thanksgiving.
They have been in Guam for
the past year and now will be
back in San Diego. Mrs.
McBride is the former Darlene
Dodson of Mathis.
TWENTY YEARS
-AGO-
Marin^ Pvt. Jose M. Villar-
real, son of Mr. and Mrs. David
Villarreal of Mathis, completed
four weeks of individual com-
bat training Sept. 19 at the
Marine Corps Base at Camp
Pendleton, California.
The course included the
latest infantry tactics, first aid,
demolition, field fortifications
and advanced schooling on
weapons.
FIFTEEN YEARS
-AGO-
One of Mathis’ older citizens,
Mrs. Necanora V. Ruiz, will
celebrate her 99th birthday
Sunday with family and
friends.
Mrs. Ruiz was born on Oc-
tober 12,1866 in the Acienda El
Alamo Municipio de Vallecilla
Nuevo Leon, Mex., the
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Juan
Villarreal.
She lived in Mexico for 56
years before moving to Mathis
in 1922.
TEN YEARS
-AGO-
A pageant to elect Miss Bee
County College will be held Oc-
tober 10 in the Fine Arts
Auditorium at BCC. Mona
Miller and Rosie Villagomez of
Mathis will be among the 18
contestants. s
FIVE YEARS
-AGO-
Leota Horner, Laura Kridler,
Marjbrie Happner, Regina
Hedgcoth and Edna Earl Shaip
were in Dallas last week atten-
ding the Eastern Star Grand
Chapter.
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does drive much more slowly
nowadays.
Not only traveling in the U.S.
and Mexico, they have also
toured almost all of Europe.
They also toured in Spain, Ita-
ly, Greece, Turkey, Israel and
Bulgaria.
One of the most pleasant
adventures while here were
adventures in eating, they said.
Harold enjoyed the hot flavors
of the Mexican food; however,
Hilde carried with her at all
times a six-gallon jerry can fill-
ed to the brim with fresh cool
water. They were also surpris-
ed at the different varities of-
fered to the U.S. residents.
They sampled many kinds of
different food, and all agree
that the usual fare in Germany
is mild in comparison. The only
spices used in German cooking
is black pepper, and then only
sparingly. It was a nice change
from the usual, they said.
They were impresed with the
National and State Park
systems and said in their coun-
try a wildlife reservation and a
picnic area together was out of
the question. The price too was
a surpise to them, for in Ger-
many, in fact in all of Europe,
the cost to leisurely camp and
picnic is much more expensive.
They wondered how such
beautiful parks throughout the
See LAKERS, Page 8
This W eek
In Mathis
THURSDAY, October 9
10 a.m. - Friends United, First Methodist Church
2:30 p.m. - Story time, Public Library
7:30 p.m. - Mathis Fire Department
SUNDAY, October 12
5 p.m. - Game night, American Legion Hall
MONDAY, October 13
8 p.m. - Crossroads Group, First State Bank Community
Room
8 p.m. - Mathis Lodge AF&AM, Front and Rockport
TUESDAY, October 14
9 a.m. - Weber P.A.C., Weber Elementary
9:30-12 noon - Legal Aid, Community Center, 300 W.
Fulton
12 noon - Rotary Club at Ranch Motel Restaurant
1:30 p.m. - Room 1, Intermediate work session
WEDNESDAY, October 15
6:30 a.m. - Kiwanis Club, Curlee’s Restaurant
9 a.m. - Social Security representative, 300 W. Fulton
1:30 p.m. - Room 14, Hardin Elementary work session
County Records
MARRIAGE LICENSES
Hector Luis Ramirez and
Esmeralda Jimenez
Ramon Riviera and Palmira
Beltran
Ricardo Frausto and Fran-
cisco Trevino
Francisco Fernandez and
Rose Mary Hinojosa
Teodoro Leal, Jr. and Irene
Trevino
Milton Edward Hedtke and
Debra Ann Orsak
Loyd D. Branson and Carolyn
Ann Haley
Daniel Gaitan and Ida
Amador
Rollin L. Hutton and Gwen-
dolyn O. Kibbey
DISTRICT COURT
Carol Ann Krause Pullen vs.
Mark Patrick Pullen - Divorce.
Sarah Alice Dillard vs.
George Oliver Dillard -
Divorce.
Beverly Ann Sens vs. Her-
man Louis Sens, Jr. - Divorce.
Coyladene C. Ordener vs.
Francis A. Ordner - Divorce.
Dianne Nichols vs. Thomas
Arthur Nichols - Divorce.
Olivia A. Gonzales vs. David
S. Gonzales - Divorce.
Jovita L. Adams vs. Curtis H.
Adams - Divorce.
Rosette Lon Hubble vs. Gary* 1
L. Hubble - Divorce.
Nancy Cardenas vs.
Reynaldo Cardenas - Divorce.
Elizabeth Ann Arnold vs.
Ronald Anthony Arnold -
Divorce.
Mary Grace Hiracheta vs.
Alex F. Hiracheta - Divorce.
Phyllis Jo Redding vs. Ira
Dell Redding - Divorce.
Juanita De La Fuente<
Alvarado vs. Tomas Alvarado -
Divorce.
Pamela Eileen Heard vs.
David Thomas Heard -
Divorce.
Marlene De Ette Fiegel vs.
Carl Adolph Fiegel - Divorce.
COUNTY COURT
The State of Texas vs. John
Thomas Carpenter - DWI - $255
-1 yr. probation. .
The State of Texas vs. Juan
J. Rodriguez - Possession of
Marijuana, 2 ounces or less -
$240 - 6 months.
The State of Texas vs. Arthur
See RECORDS, Page 8
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