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Page 2 - The Odem-Edroy Times
Thursday, November 19,1998
Texas Capital H ighlights
By Ed Sterling
With the opening of the 1999
Texas Legislature two months away,
state lawmakers itching for a quick
start began prefiling bills last week.
A sampling of pre-filed legisla-
tion:
Sen. Jane Nelson, R-Flower
Mound, filed a bill that would abol-
ish parole for violent offenders.
Rep. Tony Goolsby, R-Dallas, filed
a bill that would require the
Department of Public Safety to
ensure that residents age 75 or older
can control the vehicles they are
licensed to drive.
Rep. Senfronia Thompson, D-
Houston, filed a bill that would
increase classroom teacher and full-
time librarian salaries by $6,000,
beginning with the 1999-2000
school year.
Rep. Joe Pickett, D-El Paso, filed a
bill that would make it a state jail
felony to mark with graffiti a public
or private school or institution of
higher education.
Reps. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo,
and Bill Seibert, R-San Antonio,
filed a bill that would make state
and county jail inmates reimburse
that state for the costs of their jail
stay.
Rep. Steve Wolens, D-Dallas,
filed a bill that would amend the
Texas Open Meetings Act to include
"staff briefings" - certain meetings
at which a governmental body
received information from third
person, including government
employees.
Politicos to Get Walking Papers
In a mild allusion to standing
Attorney General Dan Morales,
Attorney General-elect John Cornyn
last week said politics will have no
place in his administration.
While Cornyn did not give exam-
ples of the office's duties being com-
promised by politics, he said it has
influenced decisions "on whether to
defend or not to defend state laws."
Morales defended, however,
decisions he has made in office, say-
ing he based them on a choice to
have a "strong, independent per-
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Cornyn told the Austin America-
Statesman his "standard for reten-
tion" at the attorney general's office
is "pretty simple: Number 1, no
political hacks, and Number 2, peo-
ple who are doing their job."
He said the attorney general's
office is staffed mostly by people
who have been "faithful public ser-
vants. .. They're not political people,
they're just doing a good job. And
as I said, to the extent that they con-
tinue to do a good job and they
don't play politics, I intend to ask
them to stay.
"The only people I think who
need to be concerned are the people
who have politicized the office."
In other news, Cornyn said his
transition team would be led by
Larry York, who served as first assis-
tant attorney general from 1973 to
1974 under Democrate John Hill.
Bush Denies Role in GOP Coup
Gov. George W. Bush last week
said he had nothing to do with the
Republican Party's push to replace
House Speaker Newt Gingrich.
A rumor aired on national televi-
sion "credited" Bush with making a
call indicating that if he was to lose
the presidential election in 2000, he
wanted it to be because of him, not
because of Gingrich. The call pur-
portedly resulted in swift action by
the party to withdraw support for
Gingrich.
Karen Hughes, spokeswoman for
Bush, said the rumor is groundless.
Bush said his wife and twin
daughters will figure into his deci-
sion whether to run or not, and that
his main priorities are child literacy
and working with the 1999 Texas
Legislature.
Other Highlights
Insurance Commissioner Elton
Bomer has signed an order adopt-
ing an appointment process for pro-
fessional engineers to serve as qual-
ified windstorm inspectors. After
Feb. 1, all engineers must be
approved and appointed by the
state insurance agency.
Last week, the University of Texas
board of regents considered a pro-
posal by UT President Larr^
Faulkner to reopen the observation
deck of the campus clock tower. The
28-story, 231-foot-tall building has
been closed since 1975.
The University of Texas is acquir-
ing through gift and purchase the
Suida-Manning collection of 700
Old Masters paintings and drawings
valued at nearly $35 million. The
collection will be unveiled in March.
Haskell County - the home coun-
ty of Lt. Gov.-elect Rick Perry - is
considering a bid for the low-level
nuclear waste repository project
that failed to win acceptance in
Sierra Blanca last month Haskell
County is 50 miles north of Abilene.
Looking
Backward
TEN YEARS AGO - 1988
John David Cass of Odem
received the National Future
Farmers of America's highest degree
of membership, the American
Farmer Degree in ceremonies at the
FFA Convention in Kansas City. A
1986 graduate of Odem High School
he is a junior at Texas A & M
University majoring in range man-
agement. He is the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Joe Cass and his FFA advisor
was Jim Underbrink.
Beth Green was one of the win-
ners in the Pre 4-H Division of the 4-
H Food Show. She is with the
Rocking O 4-H Club.
Pvt. Anthony I. Casarez, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ismael G. Casarez of
Odem and 1988 graduate of Odem
High School, has completed basic
training at Fort Dix, N. J.
Cub Scouts in Pack 35 spent
Saturday distributing food bags to
Odem residents as part of the BSA
Good Turn, Scouting For Food.
Cubmaster is Robert Mancias.
OHS drama students attended
Moody Fine Arts Tourney and
brought home five trophies and six
ribbons. Participating were Esther
Baucom, Roxanne Luna, Nancy
Puga, Marcos Ortiz, James Green,
Kim Thompson, Michael Winters,
Joe Garcia, Rachyll Dempsey, Bryan
Pope and Alyson Thornton.
TWENTY YEARS AGO - 1977
James M. Poynor of Sinton was
named Manager of the Federalland
Bank Association of Robstown at the
regular meeting of the board of
directors of that organization.
Mrs. Juan Mancias submitted her
resignation as librarian of Odem
Public Library when the board met
in regular session. Attending the
meeting were Mrs H. H. Brown, Mrs.
Donald Halepeska, Mrs. H. B. Sipes,
Mr. J. E. Fox, Mrs. Raul Cantu, Mrs.
R. C. Reed and Mrs. Della Mae
Baylor.
Kimberly Johnson was feted on
her fourth birthday Sunday with her
mother, Mrs. Marshall Quinn host-
ess at a Raggedy Ann party.
Attending were Ray Quinn, Jennifer
Quinn, Danell Quinn, Eric Thomas,
Jason Walker and Angie Mayo and
the honoree's grandmother, Mrs.
Rhea Quinn of San Patricio.
J. B. Whatley and four men from
Riverside drove to Poponas
Colorado, north of Denver for a
hunting trip. They brought back two
elk and three deer. Whatley's son,
Robert Whatley, Don Horne and
Larry Bickham of Odem and Edwin
Miller of Bishop hunted west of
Trinidad, down Mexico way.
Mr. and Mrs. Doyle Curtiss of
Odem her brother and wife, Mr. and
Mrs. Buddy Austin of Houston and
Jeffrey Curtiss of Huntsville spent
the weekend in Lake Charles,
Louisiana.
Trey and Kay Savage of Corpus
Christi spent the weekend here with
their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. B.
H. Cornett while, their parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Linton Savage were on
their hunting lease.
Maria Dokken, Rhonda White
and Tina Jamison made up the
Odem Green Hand Quiz Team that
placed third at the District
Leadership Contest at Bee County
College.
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These Boots Are
Made For Walkin'
Sally Barnes-Soliz
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Editor
Pop psychology was in its
birthing process during the early
60's, and Dr. Spock's owners man-
ual for parents was about the only
thing of its kind at that time.
When I was about two years old,
my mother decided to test Dr.
Spock's assertion that the human
toddler, like all other animal life-
will be cognizant of and stay with-
in a given distance of mother—a
survival instinct we are all born
with. Or supposedly so.
So, one day while walking in the
park, she turned me loose, and off
I went. And kept on going full
speed. She snatched me up just as
I was about to barrel into heavy
street traffic several hundred feet
from where I started from.
It seems as if I've been running
ahead ever since. Not running
away, but running to. To what?
Well, that's the point. I guess I've
always had to find out.
When I was eight years old, I
received my first pair of hiking
boots. I took the gift seriously, and
one morning, quite early, told my
mother I was going to be 'walking
around' all day.
With 2 quarters slipping around
inside the sole of one of my boots, I
set off for an adventure.
The adventure that day was a
thorough perusal of the local strip
mall, which was especially exciting
since I was unsupervised, and the
exhilaration of freedom was elec-
trifying. [My mother always per-
mitted my outings, saying, 'All
right, but don't talk to strangers.'
Evidently, in those days, the real
sickos were dangerous only after a
conversation of sorts.]
Shortly after the excitement of
my day outings wore off, I decided
to try it in the middle of the night.
The obvious lack of permission
added a new layer of fascination, I
guess. I climbed out of my window
at around 2 a.m. one night, and
was amazed at the transformation
that 1970 suburbia made after the
sun set. It was a whole new world,
one with shadows that shifted con-
tinuously across the well-mani-
cured lawns.
My big mistake was allowing a
cohort to come along...the big plan
was to walk down to a new store
called '7-11' at the end of the
street, and see if it really stayed
open 24 hours.
Well, we were busted before she
made it out of her window, and
that was the end of my nighttime
walkabouts.
We lived in Frankfurt, Germany
when I was in my early teens; a
huge, bustling city. My favorite
weekend activity was to board a
bus and go all the way to the end of
the line, just to see where it was. I
knew that city like the back of my
hand after awhile.
It's no surprise to me, then, that
I picked up and moved 1500 miles
away from the rest of my family.
My mother wasn't happy about it,
but she was certainly accustomed
to this behavior by then.
To deny myself the joy of explo-
ration would be to deny my her-
itage. My ancestors were hard-
working German immigrant farm-
ers. They left their families and
their homeland for something
totally unknown. No means of
communication, save for slow cor-
respondence, ensured that many
family members would never see
each other again. As a young teen,
my great-grandfather sailed away
from his home, and with him took
the burial shroud made for him by
his mother. She never expected to
see him again.
Now, the logistics of physically
moving around from place to place
are distasteful to me. I realize now
that the true challenge lies within
me-to explore uncharted frontiers
in my own life pathways. Life
goals, career, parenting-these are
all areas of learning opportunity.
This is another way of saying that
things do not always go the way
you want them to, and even
tragedies and losses must be given
their due. Instead of blazing a
career path only, or a parenting
path only, I am trying to learn
what it's like to blaze my very own
'spirit path.' If I succeed, it will
meld all pathways of my life into
one, and that will be the best
adventure of all.
I just have to watch out for that
traffic.
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