The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1968 Page: 3 of 8
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Hi - my thoughts are on my
utility room today since I have
a guilty conscience. I should be
out there sewing on school cloth-
es instead of sitting here typing,
tout that’s par for the course
for me. I spend so much of my
time in that room. I do my
sewing, ironing, washing and
just about everything in there.
The room is rather large and I
took one big corner of it for
my sewing corner. I have a
large table with my sewing ma-
chine on it. On the walls over
the table I put up two large
pegboards. I painted one coral,
one turquoise, then put all my
thread, scissors, yard stick, de-
corative stitch discs, pins, etc.
on hooks on these hords . Every-
thing is within sight and reach
and I don’t have to dig in sew-
ing boxes or cabinets for the
things I need now. Alongside the
pegboards I had a little space
left and I couldn’t stand it, so
I:took two cardboard napkins
boxes that open at the top, took
the tops off and covered them
with turquoise contact paper
and. tacked them to the wall.
Heal handy for holding patterns
I’m using at the time, sewing
machine book, etc. When I’m
sewing I like to have everything
right there and at the same
time not having the sewing ta-
ble cluttered up so badly.
There is a door in the utility
room that leads to the garage
and by the door I made a key
holder to hang on the wall. You
can fcuy all sorts of key holders,
but you can make one easily
the way you want it. I toought
a 1-2” thick piece of plywood
about 12” x 21”, First I padded
the board on one side with a
thickness of cotton batting, then
I, cut a piece of heavy beige fa-
bric, (a lot like burlap) cover-
ed, the batting with this and tack-
ed it to the back of the board,
stretching it tightly to keep it
from; sagging. I took some
brightly colored rick - rack and
glued it around the outer edge
as a border. Next I cut var-
ious shapes from different colors
of fc£t - flower shapes, circles,
etc. I placed these all over the
board and in the center of eacn
of these pieces I stuck a dra-
pery hook to hold the keys. I
cut. a. strip , of felt for each of
these shapes with a .‘window”
cut in the "center and inserted
a small card with the Identity
of each key printed on it. Then
I glued these-over each key hol-
der. Since I always have some
keys around that open who
knows what I cut a big question
mark of felt to hold these keys
and I put those keys in ques-
tion on that hook until I either
know! what they unlock or until
J decide to throw them away.
The normal thing would be to
throw them away I guess, but
I’.m one of those people who
Would save a.box of ’strings too
short to use”, so I’ve got a
problem.
Say, something else that is
Ciuick and easy to do that the
kids love to have - banks made
from beer cans. I say beer be-
cause the the tab opening in the
fop is large enough for 50
cent piece to go through. Wash
them cut good, and cover them
watJh anything I have some
covered with felt, vinyl, contact,
material - you name it. One
is in brown felt and on the
outside I glued some coins J
(children’s play money). One is
with safety pins pinned all over
the sides for - you guessed it-
pin money. That. pains me to
say that! My husband has one
.on the desk and every evening
he puts his change in it and this
is my get rich quick method.
He never knows how much is in
there, so I’m usually ahead
of the game - that is I was un-
til I sat here and put it in
writing. Maybe he won’t read
the paper this week.
My oldest daughter wanted
a pin cushion for her room
and one day when I was scouting
around in an antique shop I
found a beautiful old brass slip-
per, that hit me as just the
thing for her dresser. I filled
a piece of red suede cloth
with cotton batting very tightly
and stuffed this into the open-
ing of the slipper and it makes
a perfect pin cushion. It is larg-
er than the ones usually, sold
in the stores and it’s a little
different..
Something I made recently
for my small daughter was a
box to hold her 2001 crayolas.
I took a cigar box and covered
each side, top, bottom with a
different color of felt. I glued
them in place and lined the in-
side with contact paper. On the
top of the box I put three co-
lors of felt and glued rick -
rack over the seams. Then I
cut iut her name in felt letters
and wrote across the top with
these letters - Laura’s Cray-
ons. This is better than hav-.
ing them dumped all, over
the carpet or bedspread and
that’s what she usually did since
those crayola boxes tear up s,o
just seem to disntegrate.
I guess I had better stop and
get to that sewing I was talking
about. So, I’ll he around next
week with whatever I have been
doing and I hope with what some
of you have been doing as well,
See ya’. Donna.
Send your questions, answers
and ideas to Donna, Care of
Mathis News, P. O. Box 38, Ma-
this, Texas*
Astros Start
Home Stand
This Friday
The Houston Astros will have
a heavy diet of indoor baseball
beginning Friday, July 26 when
they return to their home in the
astrodome to play 16 games
over a 17 day period running
through Sunday, August 11.
The San Francisco Giants, Los
Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia
Phillies, New York Mets and
Pittsburgh Pirates will provide
the opposition for the Astors
who are hoping to push into the
first division.
Willie Mays, Willie McCovej
and Juan Marichal will lead
the Giants in night games Fri-
day, July 26, Saturday, July 27
and a 2 p.m. game Sunday, July
28. Marichal, who is in shoot-
ing distance of becoming a 30
game winner, will pitch either
Friday or Saturday night accor-
ding to Giants manager, Her-
man Franks.
The Dodgers will play night
games Monday, July 29 and
. Tuesday, July 30 with the Tues-
day night game a special
• ‘Family Night” with the re-
duced ticket plan plus a color
TV set going to the largest fam-
ily at the game. The July 30
game will start at 7 p.m.
The Phillies move in for a
weekend series with night gam-
es Friday, August 2, and Satur-
day, August 3 and a 2 p.m.
game 'Sunday, August 4. Satur-
day night will 'be ‘‘Surprise
Night” with special gifts for luc-
ky fans, and Sunday will be
‘‘Family Day”.
The powerful Pirates close out
the long home stand with a big
five game series that includes
night games on August 8, and
August 9, a day - night double-
header on August 10 with the
game starting at 1:15 and the
night game at 7:30 p.m. and
will conclude the series with
a 2 p.m. game on August 11.
A country music show featur-
ing the Buck. Owens Show is
set for 6:30 p.m. on August 10
prior to the night game with the
Pirates. This night game is a
makeup game and was not on
the orignal schedule.
August 11 will be ‘‘Father -
Son Day” as the sons of the Ast
tros players take on their dads
in a special contest before the
regular game.
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Housewife Loses 62 Pounds
In Seven Months Sensibly
Mrs. Elaine Holt, wife of A.G. ing a good cook, pies, cakes,.
Holt, local- contractor, is living cookies and everything sweet
evidence that weight can be were always in abundant supply
taken off and a slender figure
regained through the TOPS -
take pounds off sensibly - Pro-
gram.
At this time last year, Elaine
weighed 188 pounds. This is
hard to believe when you see, her
around town. She is now a
very ■ trim, energetic and vi-
vacious lady and r.ow wears size
ten clothes. These size tens
have taken the place of the size
16 and 18 she wore only eleven
months ago.
She revealed that she had. to
have a shot against possible he-
patitus infection last summer
and was weighed by a local
doctor to ascertain how much of
the serum was needed. That’s
When she found out she was at
an ail time high of 188 pounds.
Having spent the past ten or
twelve years going up and
down in weight, she asked the
doctor for some diet program
and medication. He prescribed
some medicine which enabled
her to take off 18 pounds,
and there her weight reduction
halted. At her wits end, she
■contacted the TOPS club in
Beeville and-joined the program.
The High Hopes group of
TOPS in Beeville now had a
sincere and dedicated member
and sire proceeded to be queen
and she partook of these goodies
all the time. She said that she
bought an average of six half
gallons of ice cream each week
for the family and xeally got
her share and then some.
Every day she would put off
going on a diet and cutting down
on her eating until the next day
or tomorrow?* and as she put it,
‘‘tomorrow just never came”
until she found TOPS: TOPS,
she said; operates on the group
therapy idea and the competition
for losing the most weight
among club members is very
keen. Much like the alcoholic
must crave alchohol, she feels
she craved food, and the sweet-
er the better, any time of the
day or night.
Just losing the weight and
getting down to a trim size 10
dress was a real battle she feels
would have been impossible
without TOPS, but she quickly
added that keeping that same
trim figure is a battle too. She.
still wants and loves to think
about eating all she wants of
anything she wants, tout has to
put off eating these things until
tomorrow, instead of putting
off quitting eating them.
She feels like a million, has
more vim and vigor, and en-
joys life- to it’s fullest, now that
of excess, poundage to
around.
carry
for the week, every week she doesn’t’ have that 62 pounds
toy losing more weight than any
other member. At the end of the
year, weight losses for the in-
dividual members were tallied
and Mrs. Elaine Holt was
crowned “TOPS. Queen For The
Year” for the High Hopes
Group.
She repeatedly said that she
didn’t' want any publicity fer
herself, during the interview,
but that if it would help some-
one else with a weight problem,
she would be glad to eooper-
i ate.
She could laugh at some of
*her problems now. tout they
weren’t a hit funny a short time
"ago. Food had become the most
l-portant thing in her life. Be-
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Winebrenner, Mary Cornett. The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 37, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 25, 1968, newspaper, July 25, 1968; Odem, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1044706/m1/3/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Odem Public Library.