The Odem-Edroy Times (Odem, Tex.), Vol. 25, No. 39, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 23, 1976 Page: 6 of 6
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ODEM-EDROY TIMES, Thursday, Sept. 23, 1976
RIGOTTI
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Operative, Inc.
He and his wife, Bettee, have
two children, Mike of Austin,
and Cheryl Holman. Cheryl
and daughter, Kelly, reside in
Sinton.
REYNOLDS-
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jection to the letter. Judge
Percy Hartman told him and
Tackett that “we are going on
record as asking for (the in-
surance-premium allocation)
letter.”
Hartman told both sides that
a decision on the market value
of the plant by the court will be
given at a Thursday meeting
due to start at 1:30 p.m.
many. He would go out of his
way to show a good deed, but
no one ever heard him say he
had done so. “Just keep your
left hand out of sight while you
are using your right hand”,
may have been a good
description of the way Jack did
his good deeds.
Among the many hearts
saddened when news came to
Odem that Jack had lost his
long, hard battle for life, next
to the hearts of his relatives the
hearts of 0. W. Nolen Sr. and
this writer may have felt the
deepest loss. And the words of
one near and dear to him:
“Jack was a wonderful per-
son,” is echoed in the hearts of
many who had known and
loved Jack Parker. I am glad it
was my privilege to have been
counted his friend.
price of electricity, which has
remained the same since
1973.” He noted that the con-
sumer price index has gone up
33 percent since the last in-
crease in electric rates.
Despite recent price in-
creases brought on by rising
fuel costs, the average cost of
electricity per kilowatt hour
today is about the same as it
was in 1950.
The CPL President pointed
out that his company had been
undergoing stringent cost-
cutting efforts and saved
customers millions of dollars
through improved efficiency
and materials management.
The work force has been
reduced by more than 180
through attrition since the
beginning of 1975. Several
construction projects have
been cancelled or delayed.
PATH—
PORTLAND-
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training at Ft. Leonard Wood,
was on his way with the first
contingent of U. S. Army
servicemen headed for the
Pacific theatre of war. It was
almost five years before Ted
and Jack saw each other again.
But they kept in contact.
Jack spent 18 months at
Adak, Aleutian Islands, where
he was a shipfitter, helping
repair ships that had been
damaged. He was following the
same line of work he followed
in civilian life - welding. He
served to the end of the war as
a volunteer in the U. S. Navy.
When Jack and Ted had
received their discharges and
returned to Odem for a visit
they headed straight for the
Nolen home to visit their
mutual friend. No doubt, after
those visits Nolen had some
more real stories to add to his
long list of tales - if he were
successful in getting Jack and
Ted to tell some of their
history-making experiences.
Neither was prone to tell those
stories - they preferred
listening to Nolen tell the s ame
type tales that had thrilled
their boyish hearts.
I am sure I liked Jack first
because he was Ted’s friend.
But I soon liked Jack because
he was Jack! No one could ever
say that Jack had an iota of
put-on, or show-off in his
makeup. He was Jack Parker,
the same wherever one met
him. If Jack had a conviction
(and he had many of them) he
stood by that conviction, if he
had to stand alone. He voiced
his convictions in firm, but not
belligerent words. He reserved
for himself the right to have his
own opinions and ideals and he
granted the same right to his
fellow man. He was an
unassuming person and one
who shyed away from telling
his troubles - including the
intense suffering he did during
the last two years of his life.
“He was almost apologetic
about his suffering,” said one
of those near to him.
He valued friends highly and
proved himself a good friend to
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Theater. This will be capped
Saturday night with a huge
street dance, the music to be
urnished by the Five PMs.
During the entire
celebration, a carnival will be
in operation, a giant flea
market will be open all day
Saturday, and an art show-sale
will be in progress. Rotary
Club will sponsor their annual
fish fry at 12 noon, Sunday, Oct.
10, at the Community Center.
All types of booths including
food, entertainment and sale of
many items such as plants and
other knick-knacks, will be
operated by civic and women’s
organizations.
WELFARE-
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Business and Professional
Women Club, announced that
this club will hold a Silver Tea
Nov. 13. The proceeds to go to
the emergency fund for abused
and neglected children.
Don Cureton, Juevenile
Probation Officer, was present
in an advisory capacity. He
brought out the need for a
Juvenile Shelter or Center.
Marcia Gillen, Program
Director of Protective Services
from Corpus Christi, talked to
the Board about child abuse.
Jane Hertel, Protective Ser-
vice Worker from Sinton
requested help in sorting out
the clothing that has been
donated to foster children.
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that an increase is justified
from any way you look at it.”
Autry indicated that he
anticipates additional appeals
will be filed with the utility
commission if the rate request
is rejected by other cities. CPL
has a 30-day period following
any final city council action to
file an appeal.
Autry emphasized that the
utility company is caught in a
“cost squeeze” between the
rising costs of “just about
everything we buy and the base
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females and juveniles, in-
firmary, and an area for those
on the work release program.
“Rehabilitation is the name
of the game,” Moody said, in
explaining the reason for some
of the requirements. There will
be no windows that open, but
glass panels 3 or 4 inches wide
will allow the inmates to see
out but no one to see in.
Emergency power is
provided for each of the four
floors. Closed circuit TV will be
used in security and the closing
of doors can be handled
electrically from control
rooms.
Juveniles that must be
detained for longer periods of
time are transferred to the
Aransas County facility in
Rockport.
HANCOCK-
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doctor advised him to change
climate, and the family moved
to Liberty County where her
father bought a section of land.
Miss Allie was about seven
years of age when the family
moved to Liberty County and
she remembers well the sec-
tion of land was turned into
farming land. And she just as
well recalls that she saw their
crop completely destroyed by
the heavy rains and violent
winds that raked the area
several miles inland when the
1900 storm destroyed the town
of Galveston and wrought
havoc along the coast for miles
inland.
The next move the Hancock
family made was to Jefferson
County, and the family settled
near Dayton and her father
engaged in rice farming. One
ot the most vivid memories
Miss Allie had of her years
spent in the Dayton' and
Beaumont area was the
coming in of the first oil well,
old Spindletop. She recalls that
the well blew out during the
week and she and a group of
friends drove to see the still
spouting oil well the following
Sunday. And just as vividly she
recalls seeing money passing
from hand to hand in a constant
stream that day. She was not
quite sure just what was going
on by that money exchanging
hands, but she heard enough to
know that it had to do with
gambling. She smiled and said,
“I did not know quite what it
was all about, but it was an
interesting sight”.
Miss Allie attended school
one term in Port Lavaca. That
was the only school other than
one and two-teacher schools
she ever attended in getting
what formal education she
received. But as scant as her
formal education was she was
a selt-taught. well-read young
woman. She and her sisters
encouraged by their parents to
read good literature, think for
themselves were and keep
abreast of what was happening
in the world around them. Good
books, historical, religious and
fiction lined the shelves in the
Hancock home library. And
Miss Allie had read all of those
books.
Mis Allie brought two great
things with her when the
Hancocks moved to Odem in
1911; a well grounded faith in
God and a library of wide
scope, and she shared both
with her new friends in Odem.
At the age of 15 Miss Allie
had been converted and joined
a Baptist Church in a little
town named China in Jefferson
County during a camp
meeting. And from that day
until this day, Miss Allie has
lived the faith she professed at
the age of 15 years.
She and her mother were two
of the charter members of
First Baptist Church in Odem
when that church was
organized in 1912. She was
serving as secretary in a
Sunday School that had been
organized before the church
was organized here. She has, at
one time or another taught
Sunday School classes from
beginners through adult
classes. And she was present
and helped organize the Ladies
Aid soon after the Baptist
church in Odem came into
existence. She worked in the
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women’s work of the church
with zeal and consistency,
regardless how many times the
title of the Ladies Aid was
changed through the years. She
was a leader in the Baptist
Young Peoples Union (now
known as Baptist Training
Union) right down through the
years.
Miss Allie has not been only a
great worker in the church life
of Odem, she has also been a
successful business woman
and a talented club woman.
She received her first business
training under the guidance of
her father when he opened a
grocery store here after
closing the feed store he had
opened during the time the
SAU & G R. R. was.being built
through Odem and he had the
contract to supply the feed for
the teams used in building the
road bed from Odem to George
West. The feed store was
housed in a long metal building
which stood on the site where a
frame building (rent property
of Miss Allie’s) near the SAU &
G R. R. track on Highway 77.
The Hancocks lived in a
rented home in Sinton for six
weeks while their home was
being built (where the Raska
Mobile Home office is now
located) in Odem. As soon as
they came to Odem, their
father purchased a 100 acre
farm west of town in 1910. The
home that the family moved
into in Odem in 1911 has been
Miss Allie’s home since that
day. The home has been moved
to First St. in recent years, but
Miss Allie had her widowed
sister, Mrs. Sam Stanley share
that home. Miss Allie had
shared the home in its new
location with her niece and
husband Mr. and Mrs. Francis
(Red) Logan until he accepted
a position with a Calvert bank
and the couple moved there.
But the couple saw that their
two “Aunties” were living
together before they left town.
(Mrs. Stanley and her late
husband until the Logans left
town.
Following the death of her
father Miss Allie and her
mother continued running their
grocery business until the
mother's health failed and
Miss Allie sold the stock to J. B.
Clark, another merchant in
Odem, and devoted her full
time to caring for her ailing
mother, with the help of her
sister and brother-in-law.
The two years Miss Allie was
staying close to her mother
was the only lapse in Miss
Allies church attendance and
her civic duties.
The large number of books in
the Hancock home library
became the first informal
public library in Odem. She
shared those books with high
school students and adult
readers in the community long
before the Odem Public
Library was organized in 1934.
Miss Allie was there for the
organizational meeting of that
public library, and many books
from her private library are on
the shelves of that public
library today. They became
part of the first books to go on
the hew library shelves. And
Miss Allie worked many years
with the Odem Public Library,
and she is one of its rlegular
customers today. Few books of
historical and fictional nature
have found their way into the
library that Miss Allie has not
read. Now that she is confined
to a wheel chair, she has books
brought to her from the library
by Mrs. R. J. Lane, with whom
Miss Allie had shared her
personal library years ago.
At various times Miss Allie
worked for other merchants
after the death of her parents.
She worked for Robert Bell and
for a shorter while for G. B.
Scull as a sales lady in their
general merchandise stores.
She even worked one year as
saleslady in the Dunn General
Mercantile Store in Sodville.
She recalls the first morning
she worked in the Dunn store
she left Odem at 7 a.m. with
Mr. Mullens who was em-
ployed in Dunn’s gin at Sod-
ville. and the two arrived at the
Dunn store at 11:30 a.m. after
having been stuck in the mud
twice as they made their way
to Sodville over a dirt road that
was a quagmire after a heavy
rain. She chuckled as she said,
“I remember Mr. Mullens’
words when he opened the door
for me to get out of the car
were: ‘Thank God you kept
your mouth shut while I was
trying to get the car out of the
mud holes’”.
Almost 25 years ago Miss
Allie and her niece opened a
variety store in the building
which George Bauer owns and
rents now. Miss Allie, who had
never walked without a
decided limp due to an early
physical condition was further
handicapped five years after
she and her niece had opened
their store. She fell and broke
her left hip in a home accident.
However that did not slow Miss
Allie down to any great degree
after the normal recuperation
period following the broken
hip. She was soon back at her
duties in the store and was
again active in her church and
civic duties. But a second fall
five years later put her in a
wheelchair and forced her into
retirement.
Miss Allie helped organize
the Woman’s Study Club which
was active in Odem for a
number of years. And her
broad scope of knowledge
gained through her long years
of reading habits and her acute
interest in world affairs made
her an enviable member of the
club.
Although she has been
confined to her wheelchair for
the past 14 years and un-
derwent major surgery a few
months ago, Miss Allie is more
.regular in her church and
Sunday School attendance than
are many persons one-half her
age. She was in her place in
both Sunday School and Church
at First Baptist Church Sunday
and her heart received added
tlirills when both her Sunday
School Class and the
congregation sang “Happy
Birthday, Miss Allie” in
recognition of her birthday.
Following the church service
Miss Allie was honored with a
dinner at Gin’s Little Red Inn
with her sister, Mrs. Stanley as
hostess.
The table was laid with a
colorful cloth and centered
with an arrangement of red
carnations and fern in a
milkglass vase.
Those attending the dinner -*
were Miss Allie. honoree. Mrs1,
Ada Mayo, Miss Martha
Montgomery, the honoree’s
nephew and wife, Mr. and Mrs.
C. E. White, Mrs. W. W. '
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Mrs. Stanley.
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over the arrival of a new great-
grandson, Brent Warren
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born Sept. 5. His parents are
Mr. and Mrs. Mark Mullinix
and the little fellow weighed in
at six pounds.
His maternal grandparents
are Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Fagan )
of Sinton and his paternal
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Ralph Mullinix of Brownsville.
In addition to her newest
great-grandson, Mrs. Lane has
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