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Talk of Texas
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Letters to the Editor
Vote no
Dear Editor:
The LLANO NEWS
WALTER L. BUCKNER, Editor Md Publeher
T.H. CUNNINGHAM, Plri 8 ill
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Dear Editor:
Kids Boosters
Dear Editor:
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Dear Editor:
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If you got to church, Sunday, just
in time to hear the benediction, you
know you forgot to set your clock
ahead before you went to bed
Saturday night. Daylight Wasting
Time officially started at 2 a.m.
Sunday, but you didn't have to sit up
until 2 a.m. to change the clock. You
could do it before you went to bed, or
you could forget the whole thing and
be late for everything Sunday.
“Wul young man, I hope that agricultural
college did a better job teachin’ you how to
punch cows than rollin’ cigarettes!”
began on September 11, 1842 when
General Adrian Woll’s Mexican
army of 1,400 men invaded Texas
and took San Antonio. His next
target was to be Austin because he
knew the capture of the capital would
end the Republic’s indopendonee.
When word of San Antonio’s fall
reached Captain Matthew Caldwell
in Gonzales. he called for volunteers
Television commercials.
People who just happen to have a
picture of the baby in their billfolds.
People who get interviewed on TV
and throw in “You know” every ten
words or so.
Million dollar a year athletes who
feel underpaid.
Sandwiches with tomatoes in them.
Tomatoes are good, but they make
the bread soggy.
Coconut bon bons in a box of candy.
Fair weather friends who don’t
know you when you’re in trouble.
Fresh air fiends who can’t be happy
without all the windows open.
Little old biddies who demand that
the air condition be turned off in
church.
People wh crunch celery while the
host is asking the blessing.
Comic strips that try to be serious.
Persons who dye Easter eggs
without boiling them.
People who greet you like long lost
friends, but won’t tell you who in the
hell they are.
HOT STUFF — Cooking killed
more women in early Tano than
FRED TAYLOR.........
SARAH BUCKNER.....
ANN MILLER..........
HAZELLONG..........
A.C. KINCHELOE......
BARBARA BURFORD...
LYNDA PIERSON.......
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Overeas - eaR er writo ferquete.
Eastland.
His fame did not end with death,
however. His body was embalmed
and placed in a glam casket which
still rests today in the lobby of the
Eastland County Courthouse.
I would like to thank your staff
once again for sponsoring me in the
Little Miss Texas Beauty Pageant.
I’m proud to say I brought home the
Overall crown.
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Cook-otf senenal hulrman
Robert Warren,
Chief Buchanan VFD
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Little Miss Texas 1988
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extra miles to purchase the alcohol
outside of Kingsland, but many
others will not.
Used to I would go eat Mr. Gatti’s
pizza in Marble Falls maybe once a
month. However, now that Mr.
Gatti’s pizzas are “available” in
Kingsland, I now eat it once a week!
Now when a person stops at
Kingsland’s Circle K, they come out
with maybe a coke and bread, but if
this issue passes, they will come out
with a couple of six-packs of beer and
bread.
Also, the argument that the sale of
alcohol will help the local economy
quickly disappers when one starts
adding up the negative impact the
freer flow of alcohol will have on our
community. What community needs
more car wrecks, more divorces,
more litter, more bars, more alcoho-
lics, more violence, more deaths
caused by drunk drivers? Kingsland
does not! It will cost us greatly.
For the sake of our large senior
adult population, for our families,
and for our young people, I urge all
citizens in Kingsland to vote no on
April 9.
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Editorial /Opinion
"The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
You come to work and find a 60
Minutes team waiting in your office.
You put your bra on backwards,
and it fits better.
Your son tells you he wishes Anita
Bryant would mind her own busi-
ness.
You try to write a letter, and your
electric typewriter argues with you.
You open up your morning news-
paper and the inside is blank.
You pick up a cute kitty out in the
woods, and it isn’t a kitty.
You look in the obituary column of
the paper and find your name there.
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Some of The Wanderer’s favorite
peeves:
People who call on the telephone
and just start talking without identi-
fying themselves.
Waitresses who spill coffee in your
saucer.
People who have to go to the
restroom just as the waiter brings
the dinner check.
Okra in any form.
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You know it’s a bad day when:
You want to put on the clothes you
wore to last night's party and there
aren’t any.
You turn on the morning news, and
they're giving emergency routes out
of the city.
You kiss your wife good morning,
and it isn’t your wife.
The sun comes up in the west.
Your boss tells you not to bother
taking off your coat.
You jump out of bed in the morning
and miss the floor.
The bird singing outside your
bedroom window is a buzzard.
You wake up, and your braces are
locked together.
Your horn gets stuck when you’re
following a group of Hell’s Angels on
the freeway.
You put both contact lenses in the
same eye.
Your pet rock snaps at you.
You walk to work and find your
dress is stuck in the back of your
pantyhose.
Your wife says, “Good morning
Bill," and your name is George.
Your blind date turns out to be your
mother-in-law.
The check for your income tax
refund bounces.
The phone rings in the middle of
the night, and it’s the IRS calling.
THE ROCK THAT CURED —
They were called "madstones," and
they were as valuable as gold to the
few early Texans lucky enough to
own one.
Applied to the bite of a rabid dog,
the stone’s magical powers were said
to draw off the poison and prevent
the otherwise always fatal disease of
rabies. It was believed to be equally
effective against rattlesnake and
black widow spider bites-
Until 1885, when Louis Pasteur
developed a vaccine against rabies,
the madstone was widely used.
There are recorded cases of persons
riding horseback hundreds of miles
to use one.
Real madstones were a rarity.
They are the same amulet common
in Europe before the Crusades. They
are bezoars—stones formed by any
of the concretions in the alimentary
Legislation is pending before Congress In
Washington which threatens the long
standing Texas Right to Work law by forcing
union membership on thousands of construc-
tion workers against their will.
The National Right to Work Committee has
warned that union officials and lobbyists will
be out In force on Capitol Hill urging senators
and representatives to vote for companion
bills S 492 and HR 281.
Enactment of the big labor-backed
measures is a top priority for union officials in
the 100th Congress, the legislation would
boost union treasuries by expanding com-
pulsory unionism in the construction industry,
and would weaken the Texas Right to Work
law under the guise of a technical amend-
ment.
The bills, according to the committee,
would impose compulsory unionism contracts
on hundreds of thousands of independent
construction workers before they have even
an opportunity to express their will regarding
union affiliation.
Those companion bills would coerce
workers, aven in Texas, by making prehire
agreements between contractors and unions
immediately binding. Concern is also voiced
about job referral systems run exclusively by
union officials and manipulated to harass and
discriminate against workers who exorcise
their right to refrain from union membership.
We should instruct our elected represen-
tatives and senators in Washington to vote
against those bills and help preserve our
freedom of choice and to help keep our state’s
Right to Work law strong.
COLUMNISTS: Hal Cunmighom, Marlym Hal and Jahn Kuykendel.
NEWS CORRESPONDENTS! Ruth Deel, ReBhe Kewierechko, Lettl
Wycheff, Jamie Palm, Floyee Siauehter and Jeme Hama.
The reason I am against the selling
of alcoholic beverages in Kingsland
can be summed up in one word —
availability. Let me explain.
When alcohol is made more
available, then increased alcohol
consumption and abuse will occur.
Granted, some people will travel the
to help the Buchanan VFD and Woll immediately retieated back to
EMS. the Alamo where hto troops had been
We appreciated all those who did garrisoned.
the cooking, were a part of the On September 26. Won asked for
judging or helped in the program. an armistice. Qarw «aata the
Lastly, we wish to thank all the independence or Tmr had been
members of the VFD and EMS and --4
their friends who worked together to '
make this year’s cook-off a ruMom.
This cooperation & greaty apprec-
atod and makes aH of us proud to say
we belong to the Buchanan VFD and
EMS.
The Umm News eoDrito fatten to the odher
I thought there might be some
interest in the latest happenings of
Lisno Kids Boosters.
First, The Little Orange Book, a
student directory, is on sale now for
$3.50. All proceeds will go toward
Project Graduation and other chemi-
cal-free activities for the young
people of Llano County.
Secondly, on April 18, at 6:30 p.m.
in the Llano High School gym, there
will be a faculty vs student
basketban game. One half will be
women faculty vs girl students and
one half will be men faculty vs boy
students. Advance tickets are on sale
from Kids Booster members. Tokets
will also be sold at the door.
Admission will be 82 for adults and
81 for students. There will be great
organs of cud-chewing, multi- cornerstone of the about-to-be-built
stomached, horned animals. Such county courthouse. He was the
concretions, however, are formed lucky—or unlucky—frog.
only rarely. Rip remained entombed without
Treatment of poisons bites re- food, water or sunlight for 31 years,
quired soaking the madstone in and somehow survived. When the
warm milk. Then it was applied to courthouse was demolished to make
the affected area where it would way for a new one and the old
adhere until it had apparently drawn cornerstone was opened on Feb. 18.
out the poison. The treatment could 1928, Old Rip emerged alive and
be repeated, provided the stone was well
soeked inwarm milk before each His survivnl startled naturalist.
aPPlsaton: ___■ __4 ..1 - -___ throughout the world, and no scien-
Indians introduced the madstone — 7,9 ‘1m. ..
to Spanih mm Angio’uettets in tificerplanationofhowOldRipdidit
Texas.Theydincovered them in the h~ ever been made. However his
stomachs, kidneysand heartsof deer story made headlines everywhere,
they slaughtered for food. How they and Rip became the most famous
determined their curative powers frog in history.
can only be surmised. He was the star of an early sound
Originally called "Indian stones” movie. President Calvin Coolidge
by the settlers, they later became welcomed him to the White House,
“madstones” because they suppos- At the St. Louis Zoo, more than
edly cured bites of rabid animals. 40,000 people turned out in one day
Today only a few are known to exist. to stare at him. His only response to
this adulation was to eat as many red
FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY — San ants as visitors would feed him.
Antonio’s Salado Creek, which me- Old Rip was not destined to bask
anders through Fort Sam Houston, in the limelight long, however,
was the site of the last major battle Death came, apparently from pneu-
fought within what now are the city’s monia, less than 11 months after he
corporate Hmits. was released from his first entomb-
It's known as the Dawson Massa- ment. He died on Jan. 19,1929, after
creandtheBattfaofSafadoCreek.lt ' • Texas-style blue norther chilled
Kingsland More thanks
PubUabed weekly at 813 Berry Street, Hano, Texas 78643. Entored te
the Hano Pest OOee as second dam, postage pold at Liam, Texas,
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By Hal Cunnlngh
entertainment between quarters and
at half-time. This is one game you’ll
not want to miss!
Last, but not least. Project Gradua-
tion night will soon be here. Plans for
a fun-filled evening are in the works
right now. We are in need of people
who will ’sponsor a senior,’ for a
donation of 825. Of course, any and
all monetary donations will be
gratefully accepted, but we also need
donations of time from people who
want to help.
Llano Kids Boosters
Peggy Najar, Secy
to help put an end to Mexico’s plans either Hmm or chdbirth. ’
to recapture Texas. In LaGrange, That’s the word from reeearchers
Mosby Dawson also began asaem- at Dallas’ Old City Park where
hHng tro«y to go m Caidwell’s ■Id vobretosnrecreate ths way that 19th
Dawson and 53 men left LaGrange centruy cooks prepared meals.
September 16. On the 18th, a scout Storm wore rare, so hot coals were
reported that Caldwelr’s forces and fW* onto the
one raised by Texas Ranger Captain hearth under lorgetrivet. Then the
Jack Hays already had attacked the tic was for thecooktopic pot
Mericnn at szmA. c. n___— and pans on the trivets with one
Mexicansetsdedocrmek.Dawon hand holding up her Hoor-
immediately ordered a march to the , - „ «■. -na. 5.
battle site - a hill overlooking what "lg ™mdoa nt “
now is Fort Sam Houston. always prevent a calamity. Often the
En route, however, Dawson and intanae hent (u to 140 demreen
his men were ambushed by Mexican
toUSm. Dawson lost 35 men in the to the bmp akrta
massacre, 15 were captured and which woman wore both winter and
peges, deuhlo-epaeed and typed M paeoMo. The staff resorves the
right to odk aB lettems neeerdhng to necepted etemderds. Per farther
Maamattan ml The Unmo News at 915/247-4433.
We would like to thank the general marched to Mexico City and jailed. fatalltles often resulted,
public for its support at our Meanwhile at Salado Creek, the
Firehouse Chili Cook-off fast week at battle ended on the afternoon of the mm**
Black Rock Park. We want you to 18th. The Menicaas lost 60 tiled and nB THAT BINDS DrauMri the ;
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American Independence ■ Day on
July 4.
Newspapers of the time reported ,
that several Texas communities 3
marked the hoiday with barbecues, 3
speeches and the Bring of guns.
Not all Tanana thought each a ;
celebration was patriotic, however.
IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN HERE carped •d :
-HwNatgozemeeeothat. "ALsemed to forgot that it wan :
y —d to the national holiday of a foreign *
T. ■"8’“ country; al nationelity...was oom-
tourist attractions. plotely fact Our dtteem forgot that ;
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 1988, newspaper, April 7, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585752/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.