The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1962 Page: 2 of 8
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Shiner Gazette—Shiner, Texas Thursday, November 15, 1962
COMMENTS FROM
CONGRESSMAN
CLARK W. THOMPSON
Sth TEXAS DISTRICT
November 15, 1962
Dear Neighbors:
I am dictating this letter just
as I leave for Washington where
there are many loose ends to be
gathered up and preparations to
be made to follow through on
the various projects which af-
fect our area. Just confidential-
ly, between old friends, I am
going to take my Libbie off
somewhere and hide her where
she will have to rest for at least
a week or two. Then, we will
be back to stay until the new
Session of Congress starts.
My generous editors always
permit me to use this column to
express my deep appreciation
to the people who have so con-
sistently elected me to public
office through the years. This
time, I want you to know that
my thanks have a particular
meaning. I have never exper-
ienced a campaign like the one
just concluded. Generally, our
races are clean and are run on
issues rather than on condem-
nation of another candidate—
be he the incumbent or other-
wise.
By your vote you demonstra-
ted most emphatically that you
were not to be misled and that
after long and faithful service
you were not about to be talked
out of a public servant who had
long proved his faithfulness and
devotion to duty merely be-
cause some unknown came
along and tried to tell you
otherwise.
In my next letter, I want to
give you some facts about some
legislation which is often mis-
understood and which is used
by hate organizations in an ef-
fort to mislead the general
public.
For the moment, please ac-
cept my deepest appreciation.
As I have told you before, I like
my work and I like the people
I work for; and I am happy to
continue on the job as long as
you think I am needed.
Sincerely yours,
Clark W. Thompson
Always do right. This will
gratify some people, and will
astonish the rest.
-:-o-
For a treat in real beauty,
don’t miss the Queen’s Ball at
Legion Park November 18. The
Queen and all attendants will
be in full costume. Another part
of the Fall Festival sponsored
by SLA P-TC.
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The Peach Creek Philosopher Favors
Government Experiment Of Bringing
Weather Forecasters Close To Home
The Peach Creek Philosopher
on his Johnson grass farm on
Rt. 3, Shiner drops internation-
al affairs and discusses the
weather this week.
Dear editar:
Some people don’t think the
world makes any progress, but
it does.
For example, take weather
forecasting. A while back a lit-
tle shower caught me out in the
open without a
raincoat and I
got soaking wet.
What I was do-
ing was chang-
ing the props
from the north
side to the
south side on a
fence of mine.
You’d think a fence would lean
in the same direction all the
time but mine leans one way a
while then leans the other, and
it keeps a man pretty busy
sighting down it to see which
side to put the props on.
At any rate, the day had been
clear and sunny until I sudden-
ly looked up to discover a cloud
had turned up and rain was
pouring down.
After I got home and dried
out I pulled out a newspaper
I’d been saving for a rainy day
which is a lot easier than cash
and read a long article on a new
experiment in weather fore-
casting.
According to it, the govern-
ment is experimenting with
more community forecasting
stations. It’s one thing, it said,
HAJEK MARKET
Phone LY 4-3134 — Shiner
Friday & Saturday Specials
Round Steak, lb.... 70c
7-Steak, lb.......60c
Chops & Chuck, lb. 45c
T-Bone Steak, lb. . . 60c
Hamburger, lb. . . . 45c
Chili Meat, lb. . . . 45c
Stew Meat, lb. . . . 45c
Pan Sausage, lb. . . 45c
Pork Sausage, lb. . 65c
Chili Links, lb. . . . 40c
Bologna Sausage, lb. 50c
Bread, Ige. loaf . . 25c
We are prepared to do your
slaughtering and processing at
a reasonable price.
We pay market prices for hides.
Chicken, Veal, Pork and Mutton
Barbecue and Hot Sausage
Every Saturday.
to get the weather report for a
general area covering a fourth
of the state, but what farmers
need is a station that’ll forecast
the weather right at home.
This will be a great improve-
ment and a sample of progress.
I don’t mean to say the local
station will be any more ac-
curate than the big-city station,
when you’re living on a globe
that’s traveling through space
as fast and far as this one is
every 24 hours, it’s possible to
predict what the weather ought
to be tomorrow but a lot easier
to tell what it was yesterday
and a man is still going to get
caught in a rain, but the pro-
gress comes in being able to
pinpoint the blame.
There’s very little satisfaction
in getting mad at an anony-
mous weather bureau in a near-
by city, but when somebody
living in your own community
says it’s going to be clear to-
morrow on your farm and it
rains, you’ve got something to
go on. You can call the bureau-
crat up and tell him what you
think.
In many cases, forecasting the
weather is like predicting who’s
going to win a football game or
an election. People read it, but
the best way to find out is to
wait and see, with the assur-
ance that whatever it is, half
the people are going to be dis-
appointed.
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
Only one mail pouch was
ever lost by the Pony Express.
-:-o-:-o-:-o-:-
IN MEMORIAM
In loving memory of Ray-
mond Vincik, husband, father
and grandfather, who passed
away November 13, 1958.
It’s four years ago that,
You was called away.
We who loved you so much,
Miss you more each day.
Gone is the face we loved so
dear,
Silent is the voice we loved to
hear.
You had a smile for everyone,
A heart as pure as gold.
To those who knew and loved
you
Your memory will never grow
old.
Loving and kind in all your
ways,
Honest and good to the end of
your days.
Upright and noble in spirit and
mind,
What a beautiful memory you
left behind.
If ever a love existed,
If ever a sweet flower grew,
If ever a soul filled its mission
on earth,
Then, dear one, it certainly was
you. *
His Wife, Children
and Grandchildren
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Texas has 90 “packaged”
hospital on hand, ready for al-
most instant use following ene-
my action or a major natural
disaster. Most of them are lo-
cated at least 15 miles from as-
sumed strategic target areas.
The hospitals, costing $21,000
apiece, were provided by the
federal Office of Civil and De-
fense Mobilization as part of a
nationwide stockpile program.
They are administered in Texas
by the state Office of Defense
and Disaster Relief, with tech-
nical cooperation from the Tex-
as State Department of Health.
Outgrowths of the mobile
army hospitals developed and
tested during the Korean War,
they can be completely install-
ed by 40 or 50 people in four
or five hours. In one test ex-
ercise an installation was made
in 70 minutes by experienced
personnel.
Local civil defense organiza-
tions in designated locations
store and otherwise manage the
hospitals and equipment. Em-
ergency conditions such as the
Cuban crisis are occasions for
making sure the hospitals are
in a high state of readiness.
Each unit—already crated for
instant shipment into stricken
areas, is a complete 200-bed
affair with facilities for three
operating rooms, a pharmacy,
x-ray service, clinical labora-
tory, sterilizing room, central
supply room, and electrical
power supply.
Each hospital weighs 24,000
pounds and contains 8,000 in-
dividual pieces of equipment,
including a 1500-gallon water
tank and pump for emergency
water supplies. There are also
complete medical supplies, from
surgical caps and gowns to
ether and alcohol which are
separately packaged and mark-
ed to avoid fire hazards.
Local civil defense authori-
ties provide refrigeration for
items such as insulin and blood
derivities. Antibiotics and other
materials with expiration dates
are labeled “deteriorative” to
indicate they must be period-
ically inspected and rotated.
State civil defense and health
authorities estimate that em-
ergency hospitals will have to
provide at least half the total
hospital beds following a major
emergency, since most conven-
tional hospitals are located in
metropolitan centers which may
be targets of enemy action.
Doctors and nurses to staff
emergency hospitals will be re-
cruited from the community
where the unit is installed for
service, according to present
planning.
* * *
It may be socially gallant for
a man to relinquish his coat to
his wrapless lady to ward off
the chill of these November
nights. But physiologically
speaking, it’s foolish.
He probably needs it more
than she does.
Both sexes have insulating
layers of fat, but the fat of a
normal woman is thicker than
that of a normal man. And the
fatter a person is the better
cold weather can be tolerated.
One of the most remarkable
facts of human physiology is
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Phone LY 4-3871
that we all are equipped with
our own private thermostat.
Normal body temperature va-
ries between 98 to 99 degrees.
When atmospheric temperatures
rise or fall from normal tem-
peratures, the thermostat goes
into action.
This built-in regulator is a
tiny maze of nerve cells in the
mid-brain. If the day is hot, it
re-routes blood from internal
organs to skin capillaries, dilut-
ing the flow with fluids drawn
from skin and muscle tissue and
from the liver. Sweat glands on
skin surfaces dilate and exude
perspiration. Body temperature
is reduced by the dilution of
blood and exudation of sweat.
The sweat evaporates and your
skin cools off.
If the day is cold, the regu-
lator concentrates the blood and
diminishes the flow through
skin capillaries. Sweating is mi-
nimal and the blood courses
through internal organs deep in
the body.
Result: you feel cold and have
to put on a coat or an extra
blanket to stay comfortable.
As a fact of human physio-
logy, body temperature remains
unchanged at about 98.6 de-
grees, even though the air tem-
perature might vary from zero
to over 100 degrees.
However, harsh direct con-
tact with the cold—especially
icy water—can lower the inter-
nal body temperature if ex-
posure is prolonged. Death
usually occurs when the body
temperature falls to 77 br 70
degrees.
A number of factors, includ-
ing age, amount of fat tissue,
degree of physical fitness, phy-
sical exercise, and clothing, af-
fect the ability of man to ad-
just to cold environmental tem-
peratures.
My Neighbors
humble opinion ...”
Lavaca County HD
Council Meets
Lavaca County Home De-
monstration Council met No-
vember 5 in the new Lavaca
County Office Building. Seven
I clubs, 16 members and two
guests were present. The usual
opening exercises were held.
Mr. Parker of the Texas For-
est Service from La Grange,
was on hand to explain the
many causes of fires of today.
He stated trash burning by the
women of today caused a great
majority. This could be correct-
ed by proper rubbish burners.
He urged for all to check their
rubbish burner.
Education expansion chair-
man reported on the open house
that council hosted. She also
reminded all of the annual
luncheon to be held in Yoakum
November 13.
A letter was read from the
Volunteer Council of Travis
State School thanking Council
for the nice boxes of cookies
sent to them. Each Home De-
monstration lady baked cookies
for the open house and those
that were left over were sent to
Travis State School in Austin.
The , nomination committee
chairman, Mrs. Vladik Pesek,
presented her slate for officers
for the coming year. They were
as follows: Mrs. Guthrie Blahu-
ta, chairman; Mrs. J. H. Landry
Sr., vice chairman; Mrs. Hugo
Albrecht, secretary; Mrs. Hen-
ry J. Lorfing, treasurer. The
slate was elected by acclama-
tion.
Mrs. Blahuta reminded coun-
cil officers and committee
chairmen to have their annual
reports and expense for the No-
vember council, this being the
last for the year 1962.
Miss Burmeister gave some
highlights of both the National
and State agent conventions
from which she just returned.
The National being held in Chi-
cago, Ill.
Council was closed by sing-
ing “Ever Onward.”
Mrs. W. A. Foxell, THDA
chairman, reported on two let-
ters she had received, one from
Mrs. Clarence Davis, state treas-
urer and the other from Mrs.
John Hanselka, district director
from district 10. She asked all
clubs to be thinking about their
delegates to be elected to attend
the spring district meeting.
Election of delegates to be held
in January.
Mrs. W. P. Faulkner return-
ed to her home in Lubbock Sun-
day following a month’s visit
with her mother and aunt.
Mrs. Arno Wagener and
Glenn, accompanied by Miss
Clara Wolters of Schulenburg,
spent the weekend in San An-
tonio.
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Sedlmeyer, Lee J. & Sedlmeyer, Mrs. Lee J. The Shiner Gazette (Shiner, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1962, newspaper, November 15, 1962; Shiner, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1171194/m1/2/: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Shiner Public Library.