The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1961 Page: 3 of 11
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Mrs. Leonard Blunt, Historian; Mrs, Alex Lopez, Chaplain.
JrtrJ 4l Party
Little Miss Dawn Gainley
was honored on her 2nd
birthday with a party given
by her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
George Gainley, Jr. of Ed-
couch.
The house was decorated
with multi colored balloons
and a chains of peppermint
stick candy, hung over the
table which held the birthday
gifts.
The birthday cake was
decorated in white with pink
flowers and held two pink
candles. Bright colored
sugar cookies and fruit punch
were served to those attend-
ing. Party favors were pep-
permint sticks and balloons.
Those attending included
Mrs. Bill Stewart and
children, Ricky and Georgia;
Mrs. Ben Deason and
daughter, Rena; Mrs. Robert
Johnston and daughter, Tam-
my; and Mrs. Charles Guest
and daughter, Anna all of
Edcouch.
Special guest was the
honoree’s grandmother,
Mrs. O. C. Younger, and son,
George of Edcouch.
Mrs. Robert Bray, aunt of
Mr and Mrs. J. M. Rey-
nolds of Mercedes left last
week for a vacation trip
which will take them to
Salem, N. C. where they will
visit relatives of Mrs. Rey-
nolds. They will also visit
Mr. Reynolds* brother,
George Reynolds and family,
in Kansas City, Kan. They
will also visit in Denver,
Colo, with Mrs. Reynolds*
brother, Mr. and Mrs.
Charles Armfield.
the honoree, and Mrs. Rob-
ert Lieck, aunt of the
honoree, and children Eliza-
beth and Edith, of Mercedes
also attended.
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DO IT YOURSELF GOVERN-
MENT
Day by day in every way
people are becoming more
and more concerned about
bigger and bigger govern-
ment in Washington.
Some ask what they, as in-
dividuals, can do not only to
stop the growth of power in
W ashington but also the con-
sequent inroads on their own
freedom.
Well, what can they do?
There are 180 million people
in the United States. Can any
individual, or even a small
group, have an appreciable
effect on national policy?
The cornerstone of our
governmental system is
local self-government. The
best way to protect local
self-government is to exer-
cise it. This must begin with
the individual. If he has a
problem he cannot solve,
then a solution may be sought
through the cooperative ef-
fort of a number of in-
dividuals, without any level
of government entering into
the picture.
In some cases, of course,
government action is ne-
cessary. When that is the
case, those affected by the
problem turn first to the
level of government closest
to them—town, city, or
county. If the problem is
larger in scope, then perhaps
the power of the state
government may properly be
invoked.
Only when the problem
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cannot be resolved effective-
ly at any other level should
the federal government be
brought in.
As for the federal govern-
ment, all must realize that
the present concentration of
power in Washington did not
just happen.
It was caused—caused by
too many people demanding
too much from Washington
instead of working closer to
home to solve their problem,
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FEDERAL AID LEADS TO
FEDERAL CONTROL
Nineteen years ago, a de-
cision by the Supreme Court
included this down-to-earth
statement; “It is hardly a
lack of due process for
government to regulate that
which it subsidizes.**
In other words, federal
“aid** (paid for, of course,
with tax money from all pie
people) to state and local
governments inevitably is
accompanied by federal con-
trol of the activities for
which aid is provided. We
have seen that happen. It is
still happening.
When you carefully ex-
amine the principle involved
you cannot disagree with it.
The section of government
which takes your money in
taxation should be responsi-
ble to you for the wise and
proper spending of that same
money.
Put another way, it means
that federal control will fol-
low federal expenditures.
Local self-government
can be reinstituted and re-
invigorated only by individu-
als working together in their
own communities. It is a do-
it-yourself proposition.
It has to be.
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TO EACH HIS OWN
By Vern Sanford
Every outdoorsman who fishes
and hunts regularly has bogged
his car in mud or sand.
If he’s the kind who likes to
travel the back woods seeking
virgin waters and lands, he’s
going to get stuck again sooner
or later.
There are a few items you can
carry in your car, to be used as
aids to avoid getting stuck—or
if you do get stuck, to help free
the car.
Naturally, such items include
a jack, tire chains, a shovel, and
a tow rope or cable. But on the
list should also be a block and
tackle with plenty of rope, a tire
pump, a sharp axe, and an ad-
ditional jack..
There are some products on
the market that may also help.
One is a traction pad to place
under the wheels. Another is a
new device made in Houston
that uses the wheel that’s spin-
ning as a power source to pull
your car out of a hole.
Chains, of course, are to keep
you from getting stuck, and
they will do the trick unless you
drop into one of those bottom-
less bogs. But when you buy
That self-starter, how-
ever, sometimes fails and
people turn to the federal
government and ask for
legislation for a federal aid
program when my best judg-
ment tells me this aid should
come from other sources.
If I oppose legislation for
federal aid I am accused by
some of being unconcerned
about the problem sought to
be resolved.
These people equate the
problem to a federal solu-
tion. And in so doing they
don*t see any difference be-
tween the problem on the one
hand and the federal solution
on the other. To these to re-
ject the one is to disavow
the other.
Others may appeal to me
to oppose a federal govern-
ment solution. Then likewise
they may oppose any effort
to solve the same problem
at some other section of
government or by joint or
individual endeavor.
This latter group refuses
to realize that some prob-
lems are too significant to
ignore and unless resolved
somewhere else will eventu-
ally demand and get federal
attention. Those who oppose
one proposed answer without
offering an alternate solution
do not contribute to long-
range stability of govern-
ment and freedom of in-
dividuals.
I believe it to be my re-
sponsibility as your repre-
sentative in Congress to op-
pose those spending pro-
grams which I conceive to
be outside the proper scope
of federal jurisdiction, I also
believe it to be the responsi-
bility of every person in
these states to seek the solu-
tion of all such problems
as close to home as is con-
sistent with the ability to
solve the problem.
In this way solutions are
more basic, costs are lower,
personal freedom is less in-
terfered with, and the
mechanisms of federal
government are left free to
deal with those matters that
are necessarily a federal
government function.
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VISITORS FROM HOME
Among visitors from home
in the office this week were
Don Florence of Raymond-
ville; O. C. Hamilton and
Scott Toothaker, both of Mc-
Allen; Dana Liddell of
Brownsville; J. K. Liddell of
Harlingen; and Elwood D,
Knight of San Juan.
Mercedes, Texas, Thursday. SSmSTSu*"”**** “ *
your speed up to about 10 or 15
miles per hour and drive as
much as possible in high gear.
The momentum will carry you
through minor bogs.
There will be times when you
have to use second or low gear,
but when you do, try to avoid
spinning the wheels excessively.
Spinning only digs the ruts
deeper.
If you must stop, do so only
on relatively firm ground or on
a stretch where you can again
build up that 10 or 15 mile per
hour speed.
If necessary, walk ahead to
find another stopping spot be-
fore starting again. It might
involve considerable walking,
but it beats wasting an hour—
and plenty of hard work — in
breaking free of another bog.
Now suppose you’re in Mlly
country. Even in wet weather,
there isn’t a lot of danger in
bogging because the soil usually
is rocky. But such soil can get
mighty slick. Sometimes it’s
difficult to maintain enough
traction to make a grade.
You can attack this problem
in several ways.
First back off and try to get
a better running start. Don’t
try a 60 mile per hour run.
Drive at a safe speed. You can
judge what a safe speed is by
the terrain.
It’s always well to remember
that if you store all your heavy
gear in the trunk of the car it
puts added weight on the drive
wheels, for increased traction.
A third way of licking the
problem is to turn around and
back up the grade.
Final step is to partially de-
flate the rear tires, for better
traction. The tire pump is for
pumping up the tires again
when solid ground is reached.
One of the worst bogs you
can get into is the kind in which
the car sits on its housing and
the four wheels just spin free.
Usually this is the kind of a
bog that requires a truck or
tractor to free you.
However, with a lot of work
—and two jacks—you can free
your car, but it’s a two-man
job.
First, place the jacks so they
won’t slip. Then carefully jack
up both wheels at the same
time! Next you and your part-
ner get on one side of the car
and shove it off the jacks. The
wheels will come to rest out-
side the ruts .... we hope.
Do the same thing with the
front end of the car.
Now with the housing free
you can build brush paths and
drive out of the bog.
Needless to say, one should
avoid bogs whenever possible.
But if you do hit one, you can
get out with a little thought,
some ingenuity and lots of
work.
It’s all part of the outdoors-
man’s game.,
Real bargains in typewriters
at The Mercedes Enterprise.
chains, get a size that will fit
snug on your wheels.
Loose chains will beat holes
in your fender wells even if
you’re driving only 10 or 15
miles per hour. Also when the
chains are loose, your wheels
often will spin within them. In
deep ruts the chains can be
thrown off the wheel entirely.
Auto supply firms sell a spring
device for keeping chains tight.
These help greatly.
When you’re driving down a
wet, dirt road, stay in the ruts.
You may do a lot of bouncing
around, but the cars that made
the ruts packed down the earth
for at least halfway decent trac-
tion.
Ruts will also help you stay
on a slippery road. Get out of
those ruts and you may skid in-
to the ditch.
Let’s suppose you’re driving
down a coastal beach heading
for a hot fishing spot and you
get stuck in some loose sand.
Best procedure in this in-
stance is to use the shovel to
clear a path ahead of the car,
if that is the shortest way out.
If backing out is shorter, then
clear the wheel paths behind the
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For added traction partially
deflate the tires. Then they
won’t sink so deep in the sand.
You can use the same method
in mud. But to get the car mov-
ing, you’ll have to “rock it”
back and forth by rapidly
changing from low to reverse
to low gear several times.
If you hit a bog in timber
country, attach the tow line to
the frame and the block and
tackle to a nearby tree. Get the
car “rocking” by the low-re-
verse-low gear method and have
your partner tighten up on the
block and tackle. It’s slow work,
but it will free the car.
Some outdoorsmen have jeeps
with winches mounted on the
front end for just this purpose.
They just winch the car out of
a bog.
In brush country, use the axe
to cut brush to pile in the wheel
paths. Jack up each wheel and
lay a solid matting of brush un-
der each. Extend the paths to
solid ground, and you can drive
out surprisingly easy.
Even with standard tires —
no chains or mud grips — you
can negotiate extremely muddy
roads if you drive with care.
First, as I’ve pointed out
earlier, stay in the ruts. Work
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Harvey, J. Edwin. The Mercedes Enterprise (Mercedes, Tex.), Vol. 46, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 24, 1961, newspaper, August 24, 1961; Mercedes, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1090571/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Dr. Hector P. Garcia Memorial Library.