The Mathis News (Mathis, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 20, 1983 Page: 2 of 11
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Country Crossroads
Granny’s Salve, Born Of Need,
Will Become Family Tradition
By Keith Guthrie
Old, secret family recipe
handed down for generations.
That’s the stuff that produces
yarns. And that’s the stuff that
has been concocted at our
household.
“Handed down for genera-
tions?” Yes, I’m sure that in
generations to come the
members of the Guthrie clan
will tell wild stories of the
wonderful cures of Granny
Guthrie’s miracle salve. And,
no doubt, they will guard the
yellowed slip of paper that car-
ries the “priceless” recipe and
bring it out only on the rarest
occasions.
We are told that great
discoveries come out because
of great need. Perhaps
Granny’s Salve evolved in this
manner. But it will probably
make a better story for future
generations if a bit of mystery
is added to the formulation of
the “greatest healer” of
modern times. How about a
dash of secret herbs, added
slowly to the mixture as it sim-
mers over an outdoor fire, in
the dark of the moon.” That
great need. We had an old cat
that loved to go Tom-Catting
and in the process he brought
home all sorts of cat problems,
including a good case of
mange. The first couple of
times the wanderer brought
home a scaly head we took him
to the vet, but after a couple of
office bills we considered other
alternatives the next time the'
lover came home something
less than socially acceptable.
Throwing back to the days
when we had a pack of hound
dogs at Bercl'air, I
remembered that we treated
mange with old crank case oil
laced with sulphur. It was a
sure cure.
The idea of old, black oil
didn’t appeal to Granny, but
the next day (after the dark of
the moon) she had come up
with her own version using
vaseline instead of the oil.
Granny’s Salve (laced with
secret herbs) worked wonders
on the cat, and in the process of
doctoring him, Granny
discovered that it was curing a
strange malady that had been
affecting her fingernails for
sounds like a real winner. several years.
. And, without a doubt the Need I say more — Granny’s
Granny’s Salve came out of Salve has a permanent spot in
Church § Directory
SACRED HEART
CATHOLIC CHURCH
118 South Aransas
Father Henry Heese
LAKE VIEW
BAPTIST
F. M. 3024
GETHSEMANI
PENTACOSTAL
314 S. Atascosa
Reverend Max Garcia
ARGENtA
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Off F. M. 888 & 1040
Minister - Joe Wolf
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
404 South Bee
Reverend Clif Abshier
CHURCH OF CHRIST
407 E. Rockport
Evangelist-Ken Chumbley
FIRST CHRISTIAN
CHURCH
308 E. St. Mary’s
Minister - R. E. Bream
ST. PATRICK
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Father Louis Joseph
Old San Patricio
UNITED METHODIST
CHURCH
Corner of Duval & Hackberry
Rev. Mary E. Raper
Rev. Terry Dowdy
JEVOHAH’S WITNESS
East Fulton Street
547-9303
LAGARTO COMMUNITY
CHURCH
(next to the Lagarto VFD
Pastor-John Donaldson
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
Sandia
Reverend Audie Morris
BETHANIA TEMPLO
220 South Duval
FIRST BAPTIST
CHURCH
Orange Grove
ST. PAUL LUTHERAN
Rev. Waldemar Wendel
Left on F. M. #796
Tynan
HARMONY ASSEMBLY
OF GOD
Pastor John Doud
219 South Aransas
TEMPLO BETHEL
1400 East San Patricio
PRIMERA IGLESIA
BAUTISTA
526 North Highway 359
Reverend Dorso Maciel
ST. MARY’S
BAPTIST
Corner of Duval & Laredo
Reverend John C. Caruthers
TEMPLO EL REDENTOR
606 S. Live Oak
Rev. Santiago Longoria
WEST SHORE
BAPTIST CHAPEL
F. M. 534
Pastor - Wright Price
ST. PIUS X
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Sandia
Father Seamus McGowan
MENNONITE
721 West San Patricio Ave.
Guillermo Tijerina
St. JOHN OF THE
CROSS
CATHOLIC CHURCH
Orange Grove
FAITH CHURCH, U.C.C.
(Congregational)
Evangelical & Reform
Highway 624, Orange Grove
LAKESIDE
BAPTIST CHURCH
F. M. 534
CHURCH OF CHRIST
Hwy. 624 West
Orange Grove
Minister - John L. Norris
CORPUS CHRISTI ABBEY
Lake Arrowhead
Rt. Rev. Alfred Hoenig
OUR FATHER’S HOUSE
F. M. 534
Pastor Robert Gallagher
PEACE UNITED
Tynan
Rev. John Donaldson
GRACE LUTHERAN
CHURCH
Rev. Waldemar Wendel
1205 East San Patricio
MT. PISGAH
BAPTIST CHURCH
Duval & Pecan Streets
547-2074
Rev. H. E. Young
NEW LIFE FAMILY
CHURCH
Pastor - Wayne Blythe
Highway S59 North
Orange Grove
This Church Directory published
courtesy of the following
Mathis businesses:
Western flu to
Sunrise Beach Campground
Hub Pharmacy
Ranch Motel & Restaurant
Mathis Grain and
Elevator Corp.
Villarreal Mercantile Co.
our mpdirinp cabinet and getSt
called on to cure everything
from mange to.....
The secret herbs? Well,
Granny just smiles when you
ask about that, but when the
dark of the moon rolls around
don’t be surprised to see a pot
brewing in our backyard.
GOSPEL-
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time evangelism to serve as
Music Director for the National
Conference of Southern Baptist
Evangelists for the year 1979-
80.
Rev. Abshier and the
members of First Baptist
Church want everyone to feel
welcome at this special event.
Connie and Allison come to us
well prepared to share a Gospel
Music Concert. Admission is
free. A love offering will be
taken to encourage and support
the ministry of Connie and
Allison Ware.
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Looking Back, The American Way
I notice that people are in-
clined to sort of re-cap the
previous year, when a new one
begins. The big corporations
publish an annual financial
statement and the figures are
mind boggling. Think of one
concern making a few billion in
12 months. But that is the way it
is, it is the American Way. The
big companies have found ways
to take over smaller opera-
tions, by buying a lot of stock in
them, and then approaching
the stock holders with an offer
for the remaining stock, which
few investors would want to
refuse.
I used to wonder what these
big companies did with all that
sway. After reading a few
magazine articles on the sub-
ject I have discovered that they
spent it. Our telephone com-
pany, the one who appears
after before the various city
councils, asking for rate in-
creases, has just about finished
a $200 million building in
Manhatten. They already have
one of comparable worth a few
miles away in New Jersey.
In this instance, Uncle Sam
has lowered the boom, so as to
speak, and made the company
divest themselves of a great
part of their operation, so’s not
to have a monoply. This
renders the new $200 million
shack, both rather worthless,
as well as a big investment,
that could go down the drain.
Oh Well, they can always ask
for another rate increase.
We drive up to any gas pump,
have’ir filled up, and read the
financial report in the paper
when we get home, and find
that the high price we are pay-
ing for the fuel is reflected in a
few billion dollar profit. They
keep saying that they are going
to use all the loot to locate and
develop new sources of fuel, so
that they can lower the price.
I’m ready for them to start dig-
ging.
Now as far as my last year’s
report is concerned, I can’t
publish a resounding profit for
the bottom line. Just say, along
with millions of others just like
me, that I barely made it
without having something
repossessed. I did have a pair
of shoes put in presentable
shape. The heels on these
babies set me back $8.50, a sew-
ing job added another buck and
a half, and that along with tax
got me out of the shop for just
under eleven buffos. No use to
talk about the old days when a
new pair of the best shoes were
going for $7.50.
We often hear from some
friends who write once a
year.They mimeograph their
newsletter and send it folded in
the card that they send at the
same time. These epistles
recall the number of trips taken
to see relative; where they
spent their two week’s vaca-
tion; the number of weddings,
births, etc., and the general
health of them and their
families. We enjoy knowing
these things.
As far as letter writing is con-
cerned, I find myself getting
more and more dilatory about
it. Seems like more people are
seeing things in the same way,
and if postal rates keep climb-
ing, it shouldn’t be too long
before we can call about as
cheaply as we can write. Oh
well! Anyway, whereas I used
to carry on a rather volumious
correspondence, I now have
about three people to whom I
write a couple of times a mon-
th.
Now back to the farm. In
looking back over the past
year, I find that due to my
miscalculations, the unex-
pected weather conditions, and
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my careless attitude, I have ex-
perienced some reverses. I
really don’t like to talk about
my troubles, but since this
seems to be the time of year to
do such things, I’ll depose
myself and divulge a few.
To begin with, the first warm
days of spring started my
gardening finger to itch. In
answer to this delightful urge, I
plowed and planted a sizeable
plot that we, due to its general
appearance, hastily refer to as
“the garden.” Most of the little
seeds sprange to life, and to
nurture them I put out a little
more fertilizer, and activated
my push, big wheel, garden
plow. To put the finishing
touches on the project, I loving-
ly applied a goose-neck hoe.
Then I began to notire that
we were surely getting into a
drought situation. Oh well, I
thought, I’ll water this once,
and by then we should be get-
ting some delightful spring
showers. Wrong, we got drier
and hotter, and then one day I
noticed that my entire garden
was showing signs of more and
more brown leaves. I increased
the supply of water, but it
seemed that the garden was
determined to die. It did.
Too, I began to notice that
our trusty means of
transportation was beginning
to falter. At least two expensive
trips a month to the car fixing
facility barely kept it on the
road. I finally decided to buy a
new car. That is another story.
What a way to go!
Highlights And Sidelights
by-Lyndell Williams
AUSTIN—Amid the hail-
fellow-well-met bustling of
opening day legislative cere-
monies last week, House
members almost unanimous-
ly voted Gib Lewis as speak-
er — and Texas senators
pondered in back rooms
whether to honor or reject
Gov. Bill Clements’ lame
duck appointments.
And taking advantage of
the waves of television
crews that swarmed the
Capitol, Comptroller Bob
Bullock said state revenue
estimates weren’t up to
snuff before announcing he
would run for governor in
four years.
Bullock’s announcement,
which came a week before
Gov.-elect Mark White’s
inauguration, puts White be-
tween a rock and a hard
place. One week before tak-
ing his oath, the conserva-
tive Democrat White found
himself pressured by Clem-
ents’ Republican forces from
the; right, and Bullock’s
liberal Democrats from the
left.
White did not have an
easy week.
Clements had taunted him
by naming several anti-
White politicos to positions
of power, including strong
bosses John Connally and
Billy Clayton and members
of Clements’ own staff, and
then daring White to come
up with the votes to bust
them in the Senate.
Bloody Fighting
A handful of Democratic
senators were maneuvering
for the 16 necessary votes
to reject all of Clements’
appointees, so that White
could replace them with his
Democrats. Only 11 senators
were needed to block any
given appointment, and they
claimed the votes were
there, but a blanket rejec-
tion would avoid perhaps
two weeks of bloody floor-
fighting that could scar the
Senate for months to come.
Meanwhile, Clements was
saying the votes weren’t
there, that he would whip
White on this issue, even
as he departed the Gover-
nor’s Mansion. White main-
tained silence publicly, but
lobbied hard for the magic
votes.
No Competition
In the House, members
elected Gib Lewis, D-Fort
Worth, as the new speaker
by a vote of 144-2. The al-
most unanimous election
was the highest vote total in
anyone’s memory, and left
Lewis as the first urban
speaker in more than 30
years.
House members immedi-
ately voted to give Lewis
broader powers, including
handpicking all members of
the Appropriations Commit-
tee and the prerogative of
firing committee chairmen
and vice chairmen.
State Rep. Carlyle Smith,
D-Dallas, who opposed
Lewis for the speakership,
criticized the action as weak-
ening the limited seniority
system that was enacted
following the Sharpstown
Scandals to weaken the
power of the speaker.
New Beginning
For his part, Lewis said
he gets along very well with
White, and then promised
the House will investigate
alleged expense voucher
abuses by Houston Rep.
Ron Wilson.
Even though the Travis
County district attorney said
his office found no basis for
prosecuting Wilson, the new
speaker said the House will
continue the probe into the
case.
Wilson’s committee budg-
et was overspent by some
$9,000 last year, largely
because of some $17,000 in
expenses claimed by Wilson.
Phone records revealed that
while Wilson was claiming
travel expenses to Austin,
his telephone credit card was
used to charge calls from
other cities.
Although he represents a
Houston district, Wilson
lives in Austin, where he
attends law school.
Ten Face Gramm
The controversial Bryan
Congressman Phil Gramm,
who switched political par-
ties and resigned his seat to
deliberately set up a special
election to his advantage,
now finds himself facing
nine Democrats and a Lib-
ertarian in what was sup-
posed to be an easy battle.
State Democratic Party
Chairman Bob Slagle, mean-
while, may have really ham-
pered Gramm’s plan for a
Crisp FCIC Certified
Leona Crisp, agent for
Southwestern Crop Insurance
Association in Tynan has
achieved Certification from the
Federal Crop Insurance Cor-
poration to sell and service in-
surance coverage on cotton,
corn and grain sorghum.
According to F.W. Crouch,
Jr., director of FCIC, Leona
Crisp earned the Certification
by participating in an intensive
training program recently con-
ducted in Corpus Christi and
successfully passing an ex-
aminations that required a
knowledge of all aspects of the
federally-backed insurance
program as well as the
coverage available for in-
dividual crops produced in Bee,
San Patricio, Live Oak and
other surrounding counties.
The training and testing pro-
gram was initiated in the fall of
Births
Bunton
Willis and Bonnie Bunton are
happy to announce the birth of
their son, Hugh Bennett. He
was born at P&S Hospital in
Alice January 9 at 3 p.m. and
weighed eight pounds.
Grandparents are Lela Bun-
ton of Mathis, O.J. Bunton of
Roswell, New Mexico, Margie
Allen of Statesboro, Georgia
and the late Bennett Allen.
Brown
There’s a new girl in town
and her name is Kali Kathryn
Brown! She was born January
11 at Spohn Hospital in Corpus
Christi and weighed seven
pounds 12 ounces.
She is welcomed home by her
big sisters, Christie, Jennifer,
and Alison, and her parents
Char and Powell Brown.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. C.S. Brown of Mathis and
Mr. and Mrs. H.N. Lamkin of
Monahans.
Cavazos
Mr. and Mrs. Jose Luis
Cavazos proudly announce the
birth of their son, Jose Luis,
Jr., born January 12 at 1:01
a.m. at Riverside Hospital in
Robstown.
He weighed seven pounds 14
ounces and was 21 inches long.
He was welcomed home by
his two big sisters, Melody Ann
and Bridget Lee.
Maternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Felix Amador
and paternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Luis Cavazos, all
of Mathis.
Gonzales
Mr. and Mrs. Hector and
Yolanda Gonzales of Ft. Worth
proudly annouce the arrival of
their new baby girl, Hanna
Angela, born Wednesday,
January 12, at 9:30 p.m. She
weighed seven pounds eight
ounces and was 19 inches long.
She was welcomed home by
her 2V2 year old brother, Gus.
Maternal grandparents are
Mr. and Mrs. Joe and Maria
Magana and paternal grand-
parents are Mr. and Mrs. Hec-
tor and Angelica Gonzales, all £
of Ft. Worth.
Richa
Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Richa
of Shiner are pround to an-
nounce the safe arrival of a
baby boy, John Edward, born
Thursday, December 23, at
Huth Memorial Hospital in
Yoakum at 6:26 p.m. Little
John tipped the scales at six
pounds 15V2 ounces and
measured 19 3/8 inches.
He was proudly welcomed
home by his 5 year old brother,
Michael Travis and his 3 year
old sister, Kelly Marie.
Proud grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. John Polasek of
Mathis and Mr. and Mrs. Ed-
ward Picha of Taft. Great-
grandparents are Mr. and Mrs.
Jerry Picha of Taft and great-
greandmother is Mrs. John
Polasek, Sr. of Jarrell.
His mother is the former
Irene Polasek of Mathis.
Roach Speaks
On Beatitudes
The Lydia Sunday School
Class of the First Baptist
Church of Mathis, met January
8, at the home of Mrs. Arlene
Roach, for their regular mon-
thly meeting, with 17 members
and two visitors present.
The president, Mrs. Audrey
Herod, called the meeting to
order. Mrs. Mattier Perser
gave the opening prayer.
Lola Caffall gave the devo-
tional. Her theme was on “New
Year’s Resolutions.” Her inten-
tions were to use one of the
Beatitudes each month as her
New Year Resolution. She
spoke on and gave the defini-
tion of the First Beatitude,
“Blessed are the Poor in
Spirit” mentioned in Matthew
5:3. Each time Lola Caffall has
a devotional, she gives each
one present some reminder of
the devotion which she has
given. This time she gave each
a book mark with, “The
Beatitude January 1983,”
printed on them.
The secretary, Mrs. Edna
Craft, read the minutes of the
last meeting and the
treasurer’s report. She also
read a letter from our
children’s home in Beeville and
a letter from Jeanette Flores,
our little girl that the class
sponsors.
The secretary gave the 1982
annual report of the class.
After all the other business of
the class was taken care of, the
president turned the meeting
over to the hostesses of the day
for our social hour.
The visitors were Mrs.
Velma Moore and Mrs. Melin-
da Olney.
We were served delicious
cake, sandwiches, nuts, coffee
and hot spiced tea.
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