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TALK OFT
By Jack Maguire
FOOTNOTE TO
HISTORY—Religion has had
a role in Texas history for
more than
400 years. Historians now
agree that a day of
Thanksgiving, and probably a
second, was observed in Texas
80 "years'before the Pilgrims
even arrived . at Plymouth
Rock in 1620.
On May 21, 1541, the
Spanish explorer, Coronado,
stopped in the Palo Duro
Canyon in his search for the*
seven legendary cities of gold.
He was so grateful for the
friendly reception by the .
canyon Indians that he
ordered a Mass said and a day
of celebration. In 1959, a
plaque was placed in the
canyon claiming it as the site
of the first Thanksgiving.
In 1596, Juan de Onate
brought another expedition of
400 soldiers and 130 families
up from Mexico. On April 30,
1596, they camped on the Rio
Grande near the present site
of El Paso. Onate took formal
flight; but
livestock and
chickens must, have
farmers and
possibility of
irritating to
generation. The young pilots with
limited
considering the hassles
hauling, towing, finding
America—an event that is
now celebrated each Spring.
The #§t religious worship
service actually recorded as
such was not held until 55
years after the Pilgrims had
settled in. On May 16, 1675,
an expedition sent to convert
the Indians camped near the
present town of Uvalde. A
Mass was said and more than
1,000 Indians attended.
DOWN MEMORY LANE—
On May 18, 1902, an ”F4t'
tornado (an ’’F-5” is the
strongest) struck Goliad,
killing 114 people. It is one of
the most powerful such storms
ever to hit the United States
this far south.
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SPORTAHOLICS—In 1890,
50 prominent Denison men
- decidedthey wanted -a place to
hunt and-fish and agreed to
put up $100 each to-find one.
Failing to find a suitable site
close by, they chose acreage 18
miles, west . of Creede,
Colorado, and established the
Denison Rod and-Gun Club
there. By 1905, members had
purchased 200 afcresnorthof
Denison—site of the club for
the last 93 years.
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STAYING POWER—Texas
wine may be good for your
health!
For years, French scientist
Serge Renaud has argued that
fermented grape- juice .i&jgood
for the heart. His new studies
show that it may reduce the
risk of dying from other ills as
well. His study of 34,000 men
indicates that two or three
glasses of wine each day
reduce the risk of cancer.
That’s good news for Texas,
the nation’s fifth largest
producer of wine.
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SWEET SERVICE— In
1919, three Fort Worth men
bought 13 Curtis JN-4’s and
started the Fort Worth Aerial
Transportation Co. One of the
nation’s first
airlines, its
was delivering iiohtersbiftfethe slowly with the
candy madelobyo,a lota! J r -
manufacturer.-}' n
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by: Rod McQuery
The IRS has borne the brunt
of some unfriendly trans-
gressional scrutiny lately. I am
amused by most of what I
hear. I do not watch TV,, but
__________ word has it that televised
possession of the arch and •£Xp^a?S1 have,; testified that
: W lRS!4szcHtde, rude, and
s’. ’'^sPfln^U/that
! c’erfamjoifoJks ;-i, have
brufahggd.'by enthusiastic IRS
t3x-fci*rorists. What fc tragic is
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searing wind. Likely his brief technological development.
.. career ' contributed . He lived through the very
mother’s end of the Texas frontier and
Bob to contributed to the heartland
had popular acceptance of
the technology simply because he
Valparaiso School of Music thought aviation would be
and spend summers at Culver fun, and he had the
Military Academy. and ability to
Bob Richardson returned to imagination take flight.
Electra in 1916 and soon *
married Sue Dale, but his
flying days weren’t over. The
military had found a practical
use for aircraft and Bob
joined the Army Air Corps
when the US entered World
War I and trained at Call
Field near Wichita Falls, a
base long since turned to tract
housing. Just before he was to
ship out to France sihe ,War;
ended. He ‘ may have' quit
flying to support his family, .
though his job search during
the Great Depression resulted
in a career at the Corpus
Christi Naval Air Station. 1
never heard of any other
reasons for his later opinions
about aviation’s stunning
progress.
In 1965 I managed to get
some information about his
airplane from my
grandfather, a man so modest
as to be almost self-effacing,
when we went to an open
house at the naval air station.
When I bought us tickets for a
brief city flyover in an already
outdated DC-3 he said that it
was his first flight in almost
fifty years. It was also his last
before his'death a few weeks
before his eightieth birthday.
‘As* decade reached, its
;■ < frantic conclusion ^declared
NASA 8s waste of money; . ,
wiather MtelliteS superfluous, '• ® , s,*e* - .
’ ’ Thanksgiving
lunar exploration worthless
and he remained a staunch
with patterns of wind where Prohibitionist to the end.
panicked rabbits scampered. a man who also insisted
People would look up and that history is useless, Bob
wave, including children Richardson would be
inspired then and there with surprised that his early flights
the startled would be interesting to people
scattering other than his family.
-----; annoyed Americans take to
ranchers. The technological development
a crash was because we enjoy the freedom
the older and challenge to experiment
„ , .i science and its
probably found flying had applications. Our government
--J entertainment value has never had to impose
of material progress because its
the means are available for
right time and place to get experimentation, whether to.
airborne, the cost of gasoline young aeronauts in 1910 or
and not to mention weather young cybernaughts in 1990.1,
problems. Eventually wear
and tear and rough landings would
approval of The Town Tattler, damaged the airplane. '
■ Monoplaife ’s o^o^M4b^-4.oiilgSL<>fc<>*Uputer
pieced gktfiered dust in theftin hackers, but he and? they are
garage or someone’s barn, or participants in the same
? the church of yoiir choice this ousted: , : way , in snow and democratic process .of
Sunday.If-you are new in
? town, all the churches are
listed in the phone book. They
* will be more than glad to help
■ you. It’s the best place in the
world to make GOOD friends.
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jokes and making penpals.
... What giant corporations
with disgustingly great cash-H
flows and big IRS tax troubles"
neefi.|is ra slick, smart, money-
losing. mercenary like me. I R|
think I have found my niche
as a highly paid, professional
Non-Proflteer.
Take a look at some of my H
recent good ideas. The
combination chainsaw repair-
shop-vasectomy clinic ("Lotsfl
Qur Operations are Noisy")•
made even less money than
the combination tuxedo
rental-vasectomy clinic ("Befl
impotent, Look impotent"),
and cost dozens of dollars of
shack renovation to
implement.
Further, they have stayed
away from my liposuction
transfer Station, (where you
can donate good old American
fat to a charity that ships it all g
overseas tp inject into starving I
natives) -^-in droves. My garlic,
chili, and barbecue flavored
antibiotics? for edible but^
terminally sick barnyard ®
ca^flmg on fairly
■r,-. - -! eco-sensitive&f|
so far. Since these are all suc^^
obviously. great ideas,
difiusing| profitability must bej*
what they are great for. SinctO-a
this swell column is"®*
copyrigh^d, I might just
share another potential gold-^B
free mine or two.
IRS *ax code. I
read fhit the recent tax
reform package added 820 H]
Pages tp the 9450 page code
. .. - * ire a couple of
good editprs to double that, at
the number of horror stories
that are documented and
undentibly true. What is
ridiculous is the way our well-
paid ^representatives are
sti^dfBlF pretending to be
shocked • and horrified.
Learning that certain jr$
agents can be
despicable is
surprising as
chicken blood
Sander’s business ax.
The Internal RevenueB]
Service is an outfit created to™
extract ’money from the
masses —to the tune of 1.5 Ki
Trillion dollars (I always Ru
capitalize Trillion when it
describes money) per year,rc
and exists' merely to keep thew
government chugging along, '
not make, a lot of new friends.
I would .giiess that a sensitiveM
and ‘sympathetic IRS agent™
has about the same
professional , future as a Mi
hangman' who loves teiiingfl
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