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MATHIS NEWS
(USPS 334-040)
Thursday, May 5,1988
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Someone said that the average
person usually dug his grave with
his teeth and, if that be true, I have
always had plenty of tools with
which to do the job. I started out by
growing a couple of extra teeth in
my upper ridge. The things got big-
ger and more in the way. Mama said
that she had the same problem as a
girl and finally had to have them
removed. I dreaded the ordeal, but
was sure that a visit to the dentist
was inevitable. Sure enough when it
got to the point that I had to manual-
ly pull my upper lip over my
“Tusks” (as they were called) when
I smiled, Dad took me to Hamlin,
hunted up a dentist and stood by
while the doctor administered the
novacane, got his biggest forceps
and forceably removed the offen-
ding incissors. I will say in passing
that I was scared to within an inch.
When they came loose, I was most
sure that they were a part of my eye.
Then a few years later, I grew
another surplus tooth. This time on
the lower gum. Another trip to the
dentist. Hohm boy! I wondered if the
agony would ever stop. Evidentally,
that part of it did, but there was
more to come.
When I was in my middle 20’s and
preaching for a large congregation,
I became aware of unusual pain in
my hands and knees, as well as my
ankles. I was trying to stay up with
the activities of the young folk in the
congregation and that meant a lot of
going, planning and sometimes
physical activity.
I finally went to a doctor, who told
me that I had inflamatory
rheumatism and from the looks of
what he referred to as “those
grapefruit in your throat,” your ton-
sils are going to have to come out
before you are any better.
So, a tonsillectomy, during which
time my lower teeth Were loosened
by the gag to keep my mouth open
while the doctor got his “fiddle str-
ing” around my grapefruit and
removed them. I must have been a
stubborn patient, as the operating
room ran out of ether and more was
sent for. I woke up buried in blankets
and dripping sweat in a room with no
ventilation, in an attempt to sweat
four cans of ether out of my system
before I took either pneumonia and
didn’t wake up at all.
That ordeal gave me only tem-
porary relief; but, before I had to
see the medical world again, a doc-
tor who was attending Roomie after
her several operations, observed the
pain I experienced while trying to
either arise or be seated. He said
that my teeth were bad and that I
had better get them taken care of
before I woke up some morning and
couldn’t move.
I thought that he was exag-
gerating, until one morning I woke
up and couldn’t move. You talk
about being scared, I was more than
that.
With Roomie’s patience and en-
couragement, about noon, I was able
to swing my feet off the bed and the
first thing that I did was go to a den-
tist. He took a full mouth X-ray and
determined that of my 26 teeth, 18
had pus pockets under them and my
jawbone that was badly damaged by
pyorrhea.
Anytime you happen to be going
through Tyler, ake a gander at the
People’s Bank Building, the tallest
in town and on about the 12th floor is
where I lost my beautiful teeth. Not
a cavity in the bunch, but they had to
go to make room for a set of acrylic
plates.
Dr. Gordon Snider, a member of
the church, obliged me by removing
four or five at a time. Twenty-six is
not a big number, unless it
represents the number of teeth that
you are going to lose.
After a session, Roomie drove me
back to our little shot-gun,
preacher’s home at east mountain
and stood by while the brethren
dropped by to see if I made it and to
offer condolences, or whatever. I am
known as a free bleeder and that
ordeal gave me a chance to prove it.
Roomie reacted in her usual way,
she gagged more than I did and
made some strong resolves about
taking good care of her teeth and she
has.
The deal with the dentist was a
temporary set of dentures, followed
in a few months by a permanent set.
My temporary set was fitted about
five days from my last pulling. I only
lost two Sundays in the pulpit. The
For Responsible
Leadership
and
Continued Growth
of our
School District
— VOTE FOR —
G. W.
McCOWN, IV
Place 6
(INCUMBENT)
— AND —
Atanacio 'Tony1'
MARTINEZ, JR.
Place 7
MATHIS ISD
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
May 7, 1988
Pol. Adv. paid for by G.W. McCown IV, Rt. 2, Box 50, Mathis, Tx. 78368
Sketching
By John L. Norris
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first Sunday I had no teeth, the se-
cond Sunday, teeth was all that I
had. The aprons to my dentures
were too high, so my mouth looked
like a China closet.
When Gordon opened his office
Monday morning, I squirted in like a
watermelon seed and told him to
start on some of that “painless den-
tistry” he had spoken about. He
ground the plates down to size, lec-
tured me about not wearing them in
my hip pocket, or a cup of water in
the cabinet and sent me home with a
pocket full of sample boxes of Doctor
Wernert’s adhesive powder,
calculated to soften the presence of
the plates and to hold them in place.
Before I got the permanent set, I
was to eat boxes and boxes of that
stuff. Ugh!
As an old black man told me,
“Dem is false teeth preacher, Dey
ain’t nuthin real about them.“ How
true, how true!
I have never taken my plates out
except for washing, or severe illness
since then. I did lose them in bed
quite often at first and this disturbed
Roomie a lot, as I usually found
them under her when I missed them.
Too, one morning I awoke to find the
lower plate hanging horseshoe like
out of my lower mouth. It didn’t take
me long to be able to catch them in
mid-air when I coughed. It beat hav-
ing to get on my knees to retrieve
them from the floor.
What a way to go!
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The Mathis Lake Area Lions Club
would like to express their apprecia-
tion for the public’s support of the
Lions 3rd Annual Barbecue.
Don Stone, Paul Stone, Bobby
Gonzales, Eloy Urquizo, Locario
Gutierrez, Daniel Ramirez, Coach
Ron Dauphin, Rainbow Bread, But-
ter Krust Bread, HEB, Pepsi Cola
and the Mathis News were especial-
ly helpful in making this event a suc-
cess.
All funds from the barbecue will
be applied to the Lions Club scholar-
ship fund, which awarded two $1,000
scholarships to Mathis High School
graduating seniors last year.
Juan Blanco
Lions Club President
Diseases and Surgery of The Skin
ADRIEN PRONOVOST, M.D.
Dermatologist
Beevile: 301 S. Hillside Dr., Suite 9, 358-6005
Corpus Christi: 13701 FM 624, Suite A, 387-8927
Next to Riverside Hospital
Keep Progress In Our City's Future.
★ RE-ELECT ★
JOHN A.
WALBROEHL
MATHIS CITY COUNCIL
Place 2
Vote Nay 7 for Continued Positive Leadership
YOUR SUPPORT WILL BE APPRECIATED!
This space had been reserved to answer any questions
my opponent had for me. To date, I have received no
questions.
Return the City of Mathis
to the care of
responsible, dedicated leaders
on May 7.
Please Support These
City Council Candidates:
Homer Del Bosque
PLACE 1
John A. Walbroehl
place 2
Margarita Paiz Rivera
PLACE 4
Pd. Pol. Adv. by John A. Walbroehl, Box 563, Mathis, TX. 78368
Chamber Notes
by Lee Brown
The Chamber held its regular
monthly meeting Tuesday, with 26
members attending.
A name change, to include Tourist
Bureau, was voted on and approved
by the members.
Mary Lou Hursh, Chamber
manager, was presented a floral ar-
rangement thanking her for her
great job on the membership drive.
Membership has grown from 50 to
100 members.
Mary Lou will be taking a two-
month leave of absence from the
Chamber and I will be filling in for
her. New office hours will be from 11
a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Fri-
The Chamber will hold a nun-
mage sale Saturday, May 14, from 7
a.m. to 3 p.m. at the old Lakeway
Ford location on San Patricio
Avenue. Please clean out your
closets, garages and etc., and bring
any saleable items by the Chamber
office. Businesses may also donate
new items for the sale. For pick up of
larger items, call the Chamber of-
fice at 547-6112. Mike Chapa is the
chairperson for the sale.
Donna Shurley, Director of the
Brush Country Co-Op, was our
speaker Tuesday. She told us about
job placement for handicapped
students.
Masonic Hall Redecorated
(Editor’s Note: Evelyn Brown
wrote the following article,
describing the recent rejuvena-
tion of the interior of the Mathis
Masonic Lodge.)
by Evelyn Brown
When Lee Lanphier of Corpus
Christi came to Mathis to see his son
preside at the Masonic Hall, he was
proud that Brent Lanphier was Wor-
shipful Master; but, Oh! That place!
Out of pride and the love of his
fellow men, he offered to pay for a
new tile floor to replace the crumbl-
ing old one. The Masonic Brothers
decided that was wonderful, but why
not paint the walls in the reception
and kitchen areas first? Then, any
drips would be discarded along with
the old floor.
City Lumber Company offered a
good deal on supplies, so the
Brothers called their families and
their Sisters, members of Mathis
Chapter #874 Order of the Eastern
Star, to help them by moving the,
Sisters’ articles out of one area.
The men moved the rest. Soon,
everything including the kitchen
refrigerator had been removed,
leaving the field clear for the
painters.
They hadn’t realized what space
they had. It stretched a long way and
what nice, high ceilings they had. So,
the men called the women again.
This time, they asked them to please
bring their paint brushes and come
help.
The first night, the people painted
a while, picnicked a while and then
painted again. By the end of that
evening, what had been painted
looked white and wonderful. What
had not looked endless.
The next night, Gary Strunk
brought his power sprayer to handle
the job because the tilers tvere
scheduled to come in a few days. On-
ly Gary, Brent and Bob Moorhouse
worked that night — very late — but
the paint was on where it was sup-
posed to be and it had been done in
time. Bill and Ruth Cox hung around
and brought the snowmen some
hamburgers when they got hungry.
To make a long story short, the of-
fer of a new tile floor has re-
juvenated the old building, the home
of Masonic Lodge #1133 on Front
Street — which is located over an
early location of the First State
Bank.
The gorgeous clean walls called
for a new formica counter-top, new
lighting fixtures and new table
linens. Members use the location
often and regularly.
Now they are proud of their bright
and much prettier place.
Besides the people mentioned
above, others who joined in the labor
of love included Maye and Trade
Lanphier, Sissy Strunk, James O.
Kirby, Evelyn Brown, Harold
Johnson, Bill Herod, Johnny and
Regina Hedgcoth.
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