Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 196, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 22, 1985 Page: 3 of 33
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Sunday, December 22,1965
MINERAL WELLS INDEX
Scott E. Blasor named
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A Christmas story
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Now it was nearly 10 p.m. The
sergeant finished his cup of coffee.
He turned to Jose and he said, “It’s
LIBRARY DONATION - Gary Stretcher (left), presi-
dent of the Mineral Wells Rotary, and Willie Casper,
chairman of the Boyce Ditto Municipal Library Board,
add a little Christmas to the Rotary’s generous dona-
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the Christmas spirit and all
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“Help Your Neighbors Celebrate
Christmas The idea is that Jewish
volunteers will staff essential ser-
vices of several United Way agencies
on Christmas Eve and Christmas
Day. so that Christmas can celebrate
their holiday. “It is a way to help out
our neighbors and it doesn’t cost
anything but time.” says Kerness,
who is the author of a new book,
"Fund-Raising,’' published by Cot-
tage Press
Scott E. Blasor...
promoted with BRG
■rgeant did the same.
They put on fatigue caps (no
helmets), and they blackened the
barrels and sights of their M-l rifles.
Eight other soldiers joined them as
they climbed in a camouflaged com-
mand jeep, and they drove about
three miles west. They climbed out
and began moving up a hill through
thick brush. They were a night patrol
but not looking for a firefight. They
were trying to spot isolated remnants
of Japanese.
Then it happened. It happened so
quickly and so terribly that the
sergeant was filled with horrible
guilt. The little patrol of Americans
was caught in the most dreaded of all
infantry actions - infalade fire.
A Japanese patrol of possibly 50 or
60 troops caught the Americans from
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his neck the night he died as his bebe
Jesus was born.
The sergeant still wears that St.
Christopher's medal on this
Christmas 1964 , 42 years later. He
will wear it until he dies. For it is, at
once, a symbol of a young boy's devo-
tion and of a former sergeant's en-
during guilt.
I know, I was his sergeant.
Monday, Dae. 16 records recorded
one incident of criminal mischief and
two arrests
An unknown subject entered
Maltien Gas A Oil, Inc by "kicking in
the door,” but no items were
accounting and administrative ac-
tivities
Blasor is an active
community affairs an
serving as a Vice President of the
Mineral Wells Chamber of Com-
merce and Treasurer of the United
Wsy. He is a graduate of Mineral
Weils High School and holder of a
MBA from Tarleton State University.
Blasor’s wife, Cindy, to a teacher in
the Mineral Wells School System
They and their two year old son,
Evan, reside in Mineral Wells
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become a U.S. soldier. He said he had
learned that Mexican boys could
become U.S. citizens. He desperately time to go now, Jose. ” Jose stood up,
either flank in a withering fire of
automatic weapons. The sergeant hit
the ground, rolled down a small slope
and did not move. The gunfire stop-
ped, and the Japanese apparently
figured they had wiped out the patrol.
They returned higher into the hills.
The sergeant lay on the ground un-
til daylight. Then he searched for his
seven men. Two still were alive,
though seriously wounded.
A few feet from where the sergeant
had lain all night, he stumbled across
the small body of Jose Jiminez Gar-
cia. Jose no longer had a face; it was
blown away and the top of his head
was gone.
The sergeant made the Sign of the
Cross and cursed himself for letting
his men die. In about an hour, the
company commander and some 50
soldiers arrived. The grave registra-
tion people collected the bodies and
put them in canvas bags.
Now it was Christmas Day. The
sergeant sat down and wrote a letter
in English, addressed to the village
priest at Hidalgo, Mexico The letter
said simply, “Rev. Father, please
convey to the mother of Jose Jiminez
Garcia that her son died fighting for
the United States, and that Jose died
with his prayer come true. He died an
American citizen."
About a month later, a small
package arrived at the sergeant's
unit, still on Guadalcanal.
Inside was a note which said, “Sr
Sergeant, Vaya con Dios, senora
Maria y Garcia Jiminez."
With the note was a St.
Christopher's medal on a silver
chain. It was the same medal that a
skinny little Mexican kid, Jose
Jiminez Garcia, was wearing around
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tlon to the library fund in the amount of 1500. Bob Cox.
vice-president of Rotary completes the good cheer and
community support trio. Casper, incidentally, is a past
president of Rotary.
VP-Finance at BRG Co
The Board of Directors of Braaos
River Gas Company has announced
the election of Scott E. Blazor to the
position of Vice President-Finance
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Charlotte Ann Harrington was ar-
rested for shoplifting at Alco. Gerald
_ Taylor of 1211 S.E. 2nd. Ave. was ar-
rested for disorderly conduct
Tuesday, Dec. 17 records showed
two arrests.
John Henry Walker of 410 8.W. 4th.
Ave. was arrested on a Palo Pinto
County capias pro fina warrant.
Leonard Ray Denton was arrested
for no drivers license.
Wednesday, Doc. IB offense
reports included an assault charge
by a woman who received a broken
nose at 5:20 p.m. on S.E. 6th. St., sim-
ple assault of a man by a white male
suspect in the Marr’s Short Stop at
816 S. Oak Ave., and theft of nine
movies from Video Movie Center by
checking out to a false address
Wednesday arrest logs booked two
persons William Lamar Hibbits of
1406 S.W. 8th. Ave. for driving while
intoxicated. Mavis S. McDeall of 1907
S.E. 8th. St. was arrested for public
intoxication.
Thursday offense reports included
a hit and run. Leah D. Cheek was
struck in a crosswalk while en route
to Houston Elementary. The driver
fled the scene. The child sustained
minor injuries and was treated and
released at Palo Pinto General
Hospital according to the police
records.
Here’s one tax break you can’t afford to pass up. Your
Individual Retirement Account can shelter up to $2,000 of
1985 earnings if you act by April 15...then shelter another
$2,000 for 1986 and every year ’til retirement.
All contributions and interest are tax-deferred ’til
withdrawals begin. If both spouses work, your two yearly
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Your IRA can grow fast, but don’t lose out on 1985 tax
Shelter up to $2,000 of 1985 income by
April 15 in a high-earning IRA.
served as Treasurer, and has been an
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The war in the Pacific was goinj bmckened his brown fsce. The
badly then. The base recruiting of- sergeant did the same,
fice'r enlisted Joe Garcia. They
taught him how to shoot an M-l rifle,
use a gas mask and a bayonet, how to
march, how to salute and to give only
his name, rank and serial number if
he should be captured.
Jose spoke little English, but he
had a bright mind, a courteous man-
ner and was obedient to a fault. After
13 weeks they put Jose and 1,500
other new soldiers on a ship and sent
them to the Pacific.
Soon many of these new troops
found themselves on Guadalcanal
where the U.S. Marines had wiped
out most of the Japanese Resistance.
By Christmas, 1942, only remnants of
Japanese were left, hiding in the
gloomy hills but making sporadic
raids on U.S. troops.
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unauthorized disclosure was made,
we would like to extend to you our
most sincere apologies."
Under the current privacy law that
the administration wants to rewrite,
such a disclosure would be a criminal
offense.
GOLD STRIKE: Federal property
managers are trying to decide what
to do with 47 pounds of gold that has
been gathering dust for 20 years or
more at the National Institutes of
Health The gold, shaped into cones
for use in brain scanner tests, was
apparently stashed away and forgot
ten after the experiments ended in
the early 196<>s In 1980. an employee
discovered the gold in a cabinet
where research equipment was
stored
At today's prices, the gold cones
are worth a total of 8180,000 They are
being kept in a safe al the NIH credit
union
When inspectors learned of the
gold earlier this year - it had
evidently been forgotten again —
they recommended it be turned over
to the General Services Administra-
tion'for use by government agencies
or for sale A decision on disposal of
the gold is expected any day now —
with the health agency getting credit
in case it needs precious metals in
the future Assuming NIH officials
remember they've got the credit,
that is.
KUDOS OF THE WEEK We tip
our hats to Elton J Kerness. head of
the Jewish Community Center of
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Bennie, Bill. Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 196, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 22, 1985, newspaper, December 22, 1985; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1170408/m1/3/?q=%221964~%22: accessed August 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.