Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1961 Page: 2 of 8
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ble with it. As soon as folks
across the pond start eating our
bread they start fergitting which
side is buttered and who butter-
ed it. I wish they was some
angle to deal making them put
the butter on the right side.
Ed Doolittle says he was read-
ing where some farmer in Mary-
land allows as how he ain’t go-
ing on daylight saving time this
Summer, claims it’s too hard to
git his roosters set up in the
Summer and back in the Fall.
With farm products running 81
per cent of parity and living
costs up 27 points, farmers is
now 46 points down. If you add
the fact we’re living in a semi-
military age and using a 50-cent
dollar, that farmer in Maryland
is in fer a long spell of difficul-
ties and it ain’t going to be
about his roosters.
I see by the papers where poli-
ticians in some countries don’t
have it so good. To git back in
the good graces of the Sultan,
the Pasha of Marek, whatever
that is, had to kiss the Sultan’s
foot. Over here, the politician
that says the wrong thing just
announces he has been misquot-
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DEAR MISTER EDITOR:
Taxes has got me skinned
down to one pair of pants and
my vote but as long as I can hold
on to that vote I aim to make
a few observations about the sit-
uation from time to time.
Fer instant, I see where the
American taxpayers has ad-
vanced $20 million to the United
Nations tokeep it from going
broke. Russia advanced nothing,
the piece said.
The same piece went on to
show that we’ve paid 48 per cent
of the U.N. Children’s fund and
Russia 2 per cent. We paid $30
million into the fund fer U.N.
Technical Assistance and Rus-
sia paid $2 million. We give $23
million to help git clothes and
food fer the Arab refugees and
Russia wouldn’t give a dime.
In the last 10 months, the
piece showed, the American tax-
payers has put, not counting the
Congo, $116 million in the Unit-
ed Nations program and Russia
has put $17 million.
I ain’t agin the United Nations
Mister Editor, in fact I’m strong
fer it, but it looks to me like
considering we’re footing most
of the bills, we could make ole
Krushchef keep his shoe on and
quit beating up the furniture
with it at the next session. The
chances are we paid fer the fur.
niture—and maybe the shoe.
Along them same lines, I’m
glad President Kennedy has
started giving away our farm
surplus to starving people in
other lands. It ain’t doing noth-
ing here but rotting away and
costing us millions fer storage
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. French
are the proud parents of a
daughter born March 16th in a
Cleburne hospital.
She was named Willa Kay &
weighed 5 pounds and 7 ounces
at birth.
Proud grandparents are Mr.
and Mrs. T. T. French and Mr.
and Mrs. Ribble of Sweetwater.
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Burleson Dispatcher,
March 23, 1961
PAGE 2,
CROWLEY
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by Sherrill Dickeson
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Mrs. Carl Hampton and Mrs.
Floyd Hampton spent from Sun-
day to Wednesday visiting rela-
tives in Slaton and Lubbock.
Mr. W. S. Horn was confined
to his home last week because
of double pneumonia.
Miss Laura Mac Haley of Cle-
burne, and her niece, Kathleen
Peters, of Alvarado were dinner
guests Sunday of Mrs. Ruby Bo-
vell.
northers come barreling in a-
gain in October.
And it all takes place right
in the city limits.
The Crowley Methodist-Pres-
byterian Youth Fellowship is
sponsoring a Mexican Supper
Saturday night March 25, at the
Methodist Church.
Adult tickets are $1.00 and
childrens tickets are 50c. Meals
will be served at 6:00, 7:00, and
8:00.
Mr. and Mrs. Gene Skelly
were honored at a house warm-
ing at their new home in Crow-
ley last Thursday night. It was
given by the Friendship Class
of the Crowley Methodist
Church. Members of the class
served refreshments to the
guests.
Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Nichols of
Amarillo, Texas spent from Sat-
urday to Thursday of last week
visiting her mother, Mrs. E. J.
Roundtree, and sister, Mrs.
Floyd Hampton. On Monday
they all visited another of Mrs.
Roundtree’s daughters, Mrs. Edi-
dth Dunn, of Ft. Worth.
CROWLEY GIRL HONORED 45
TEENAGER OF THE WEEK
two to New York aboard an
American Airlines jet.
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GENE HARRIS BUTANE CO.
Mrs. Margie Harber and Mrs.
Eunice Rhine of the Crowley
Public Schools, were among over
500 lunchroom people to attend
the District V., Texas State Tea-
chers Association, Lunchroom
Section on Saturday, March 18,
in Mineral Wells, Texas.
There were numerous exhibits
and demonstrations by the
wholesale suppliers. Mrs. Mel-
bagne Ryan, Directors of Cafe-
terias for the Irving Public
TEXAS
By Vern Sanford
with the beat bait being live
shrimp. But when a peak trout
run is on, the two dozer bait
camps around the bayou often
can’t meet the demand. So if you
plan to fiah Offat’s Bayou, be
sure to take along some bottom-
bumping plugs and spoons.
Cast out and let the bait or
lure sink to the bottom. Then
work it in slowly with gentle
jerks.
In cold weather the trout are
sluggish and don’t strike hard.
They just tap lightly at the bait.
It’s tight-line fishing with quick
reflexes. When you feel a nibble,
strike gently. Strike with your
wrist and not your arm. Speckled
trout have tender mouths and
striking too hard will just tear
out the hook.
But once on the hook, a trout
will shake off its sluggishness
and put up a real scrap. Again
because of the tender mouths,
you have tto play them all the
way—no horsing.
Offat’s Bayou trout generally
run two to three pounds in size.
Sometimes anglers will hit into
schools of five-pounders, and on
occasion some eight and nine
pounders have been caught.
In addition to the speckled
trout, a good many flounders
and redfish also are caught. The
reds are usually “rats” of two
or three pounds. Once in a while
some bulls of 15 or 20 pounds
are taken. But if you want big
redfish consistently, you’d better
spend your time surf-fishing or
working the jetties along the
coast
Is Offat’s Bayou popular for
winter fishing? One Sunday
morning in December I960, a
total of 269 boats were counted
on the bayou. Each boat con-
tained two to three fishermen.
BOB’S CLEANING & PRESSING
“Fast — Friendly — Fair”
By Fort Worth Press
Sherrill Dickeson, a Paschal
senior, outstanding in service
activities, was recently selected
the Press’ Teenager of the week.
She is the daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. W. Dickeson of Crowley.
Sherrill is active in school,
church and 4-H Club activities.
She is a representative to the
Service Council and Junior Red
Cross. She’s a member of the
Honor Society, the Pan - Am
Club and the Paschal volleyball
team.
Sherrill is a volunteer office
assistant during her study per-
iod.
Last spring, she received the
Altrusa award and won both
the local and district competi-
tion in the “Make-It-Yourself-
With-Wool.” She placed third
in the state, and has twice been
selected to model in the State
Fair.
She has served as County
Council 4-H Club president and
also as junior leader. A mem-
ber of the Crowley Riding Club,
the youngster is now training
a 10-month old colt at her fam-
ily’s farm home.
Despite this heavy schedule,
she is also active in her church
and for two years has been a
reporter for the Burleson Dis-
patcher.
At Crowley Presbyterian
Sherrill is a teacher and active
in youth work. She also plays
the piano at her church.
For her service to others,
Sherrill has been named THE
PRESS Teenager of the Week.
She thus becomes eligible for
competition as Teenager of the
Year, who’ll receive a trip for
Schools, presided at the general
business meeting. Mrs. Mary F.
Turner, President of Texas
School Food Service Association
Orange, Texas, spoke during the
program period. Audrey’s of Ft.
Worth presented a hair style
show. A smorgasbord luncheon
was served in the Pavilion with
dinner music provided by the
Mineral Wells High School Stage
Band. After the luncheon, the
group was divided into three
sections for a buzz session.
Crowley Texas
Fine Food —- Fast Service
Weekdays
6:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Sundays
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
spot in cold weather.
Blue northers that barrel
down in the winter put a chill
in the water and “blow the
tides” out of Galveston bays.
These northers cause waters to
funnel rapidly out into the Gulf,
and it is common for bay tides
to drop as much as three feet
below normal. The chilled water
coupled with the tide drops,
cause speckled trout to move
into the deep holes in Offat’s
Bayou in great schools.
So, Offat’s Bayou fishing
hinges on cold weather, and the
colder the weather, the better boarders take over until the blue
the old salts like it.
Anglers fish Offat’s Bayou in
two ways. Most of them work
near the mouth of the bayou at
the start of a cold wave. The
mouth is just about 100 yards
wide where the bayou joins with
West Bay. Anglers will get
ome fish entering the bayou,
but actually the best catches
take place a day or two after a
cold wave hits. Then the anglers
work the bayou proper—waders
walking out to the edge of the
itepoff and outboarders work-
ing the middle bayou. Fish re-
main in the bayou until bay
tides return to normal and the
water warms up a bit.
It’s strictly bottom fishing
Offat’s Bayou, a salt water
body of water located within
the city limits of Galveston, be-
comes amecca for thousands of
speckled trout fishermen every
winter.
Not just fishermen from the
Galveston - Houston area, but
anglers from all over the state.
It’s the upper Texas Coast’s
sailing, outboarding and water
skiing center in the summer, and
one of the most talked-about
trout fishing holes on the West-
ern Gulf Coast in the winter.
Offat’s Bayou is just three
miles long and a mile wide at its
widest spot. It’s generally 20 to
i, 30 feet deep.
Once it was a meandering and
sluggish bayou typical of the
many found on the Texas and
Louisiana coasts. But the build,
ing of Galveston turned it into
a top fishing and recreational
body of water.
Just a few years after the
,, terrible 1900 storm that cost the
lives of 7,000 Galvestonians,
huge dredges moved into Offat’s
Bayou, widening and deepening
it to provide part of the fill for
the city’s grade-raising and pro-
tective seawall.
Deepened and widened, the
bayou soon became a top trout Waders ran an estimated thou-
sand. The trout catch for the
day was close to 15,000. And on
that particular day the temper-
ature stood at 38 degrees.
Offat’s Bayou comes into its
own as a speckled trout spot in
October. The peak runs usually
take place in December. Janu-
ary and February. By the time
April rolls around, the trout
runs are over.
When warm weather comes,
the trout fishermen vacate the
bayou for the bays and open
gulf waters. Then the water ski
fans, sailing enthusiasts and out-
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Deering, R. G. K. Burleson Dispatcher (Burleson, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 23, 1961, newspaper, March 23, 1961; Burleson, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1256257/m1/2/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Burleson Public Library.