The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1988 Page: 3 of 18
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COWPOKES
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It seems to The Wanderer that the
big flap in Washington over the idea
of dropping the drug running
charges against Panama’s Manuel
Noriega in return for his stepping
down as dictator is just a tempest in
a teapot. The drug indictments
against Noriega are nothing but a
formality, at best, for there isn’t a
Chinaman’s chance that Noriega will
ever be extradited to the United
States to face the charges. However,
neither Congress nor the Capitol
press corps is ever happy unless they
have some tempest in a teapot to
trumpet about.
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BAWNARA BURFORD......
BMDGETSMAULWOOD. ..
IT WAS THE LAW — Today the
bikini reigns on Galveston beaches,
but once swimmers had to meet
more modest sartorial requirements.
In 1893, the island city fathers
decreed that anybody appearing on
the sandy expanses, or swimming in
the Gulf, had to be "‘clothed in a
costume sufficient to cover the body
from neck to knee, arms excepted.”
Failure to comply resulted in a 910
fine.
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POSTMASTER SENID ADDRESS CHANGE TO LANO NEWS, DOX
197, UANO. TAS 70608.
Our Llano High School Yellow Jacket
baseball team has finished its regular season
schedule and deserves a big pat on the back
for having the ability, courage and discipline
to make the playoffs for the second time in the
three years after baseball was introduced here
in 1986
The Jackets will travel to Austin Monday
to play a strong 3AAA team In bi-diatrict com-
petition, La Vega High School of Waco. La
Vega is currently rated number one In Texas
3AAA circles with a perfect 18-0 record for
1988.
Uano has played a tough schedule. They
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have won over some very good high school
baseball teams including SAAAAA Austin
Reagan twice and Austin Johnston.
Fan support has been important to this
young team and it might well be one of the
contributing factors In this coming Monday
evening game In Austin against La Vega. Plan
to attend the game, which begins at 8:30 p.m.
at Westlake High. Our team will appreciate it
as well as the coaches and managers and team
helpers. *
We all wish you well. Jackets, Good Luck
and Boat La Vagal
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Commander Highland Lakes
Chapter 198 Disabled
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greener on the other side of the
fence. I am happy to be living on the
greener side, right here in Llano.
As a professional educator and as a
parent-to-be, I support our adminis-
tration 100 percent. I pray they will
be here five years from now when my
child becomes a student.
Malinda Hoerster
Llano
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Editorial/Opinion
'The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
express my satisfaction with this
school system.
Under the present administration,
I have felt support and cooperation
that I never experienced in any other
school district. I have been a teacher
for six years and this year has, by
far, been the best year I have
experienced. I attribute this to the
support I have received from Mr.
Studebaker and Dr. Moore, and from
the cooperative attitude of my col-
leagues.
Administrative decisions are made
with the purpose of providing the
best education for all the children in
Llano County. The school is efficien-
dy run. The staff members work
hard to provide for the needs of the
students. I have been provided with
quality materials necessary for a
successful kindergarten program. I
have the opportunity to work with
experienced personnel with a posi-
tive attitude.
We can always work to improve any
situation, but in evaluating the entire
elementary school system, I find it
difficult to see many areas in need of
vast improvement.
I believe it is important for the
citizens of Uano County to realize
how fortunate we are to have
administrators like Dr. Moore and
Mr. Studebaker. Let’s back these
professionals! Their background and
experience are very valuable to us.
The decisions they make are inten-
ded to ■benefit the children in our
county.
. I urge you to keep up with issues,
vote carefully, and support the fine
school system we have.
Remember, the grass always seems
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Memorial Day is about remem-
bering. What we remember on this
very important annual observance
isn’t pleasant. This is a day to
consider war, a day to think about
what war does to people. Memorial
Day calls on our nation’s people to
ponder the price paid by their war
dead. The reflections that haunt the
minds of America’s veterans today
are very personal. What they see are
images of pain, suffering, and death
— mostly death. This is a day
dedicated to those who died. Our
veterans cast their memories back
two decades to Vietnam — or four
decades to images of Korea and
World War II. Others see battles that
raged on the fields of France 70
years ago. Still others, standing at
the rails of ships in the Persian Gulf
today need not look back more than a
few scant weeks. The smell of smoke
• from the big guns is all too fresh in
their nostrils. ..
Memorial Day isn’t just for veter-
ans. It’s for all Americans and in one
sense, we ask a great deal today
from those who have never worn a
military uniform. We ask them to put
their imaginations through a very
difficult task, placing themselves in
the position of those who have seen
war and death up close. We
understand that this is a great deal to
ask of people who have never had to
master the extreme emotions of
wartime service. Yet, this is the stuff
of which Memorial Day is made, and
all we ask of people is that they try to
get at least a flavor of the sacrifices
so many were called to make. We
realize that these aren’t happy
I had the opportunity to go to a
sheep and goat raisers meeting at
the livestock center which is really a
nice facility. The people of Llano are
to be commended for having such a
good facility and for being willing to
share it.
We had about 50 sheep and goat
people at the meeting and most of
them from outside of Llano and we
really had good treatment. The
Rodes of Llano County are very good
hosts and project the friendliness
that the county has. Also, had a good
chance to visit with one of my dear
long-time friends, James Rode of
Buchanan Lake, and he still is the
best cowman in the country. I always
enjoy visiting with him.
Then I spoke to the American
Legion Convention that you were
having in town. I think you are so
friendly In this county that you may
have too many people coming in here
and wanting to have meetings, but
we did enjoy it
I guess the thing that concerned me
most of aU and really saddened me is
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NEWS CORRESPONDENTSs Bath Deel, BMtoa Kuril Ahi, Latte
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theUnited States is still the foremost
example that determined people can
break the chains of tyranny. We've
proven that freedom is not a threat to
national unity. In our country, people
of the most varied backgrounds live
in real harmony. Sometimes, in the
day-to-day clashes of current events,
that harmony might seem question-
able. Our democratic institutions
even encourage all that discord and
dissent. That loud diversity seems to
be the very secret of our harmony.
Out of the fiction of conflicting
opinions, consensus is reached and
nothing is stronger than the unity of
the American people when they’ve
shaped a consensus. I don’t mean to
indicate that we have achieved
perfection. Looking only at our
government’s response to veterans, I
could cite several areas where we fall
somewhat short. However, Ameri-
ca’s claim to greatness doesn’t stand
on any claim to perfection. It rests on
our ability to aspire to perfection. In
America, if we believe something is
wrong, we can try to change it. Our
democratic institutions are the tools
we use to create change. When
groups of people have common
concerns, they can gather their
strength together in organizations
like the Disabled American Veter-
ans. With that strength, they can
apply pressure to create change
where change is needed, and it is
working. Look just at those issues of
concern to veterans — the DAV and
our nation’s other veterans’ organi-
zations have built an enviable record
of influencing public policy. From
one day to the next — even from one
year to the next — the improvement
may be difficult to see. But you can
see the advances in clear focus when
you take a longer view.
In the years after World War I, a
miserable situation faced veterans,
particularly disabled vets. It was a
real mess. Today much remains to be
done. We’re still working toward
perfection. But life for the disabled
vets has improved vastly since the
1920s. The struggle for perfection
isn’t unique to veterans’ affairs.
Americans are concerned about all
kinds of issues — everything from
education to foreign policy, from the
environment to international trade.
Americans aren’t shy about expres-
sing their views. Conflicts arise and
out of conflict grows compromise,
and America moves closer to its
vision of perfection.
On Memorial Day, it’s important to
remember all of this as we pause to
remember our nation’s war dead.
Without all of this, our observance of
Memorial Day would be a sad and
morbid affair. We would be recalling
the sacrifices of young men and
women without cause. We would be
mourning senseless death. Certain-
ly, we mourn on Memorial Day, but
we can also celebrate the priceless
gift we’ve received from those who
sacrificed their lives in the cause of
freedom. That gift is America. That
gift is everything our nation means
to you, to me, to all our country’s
citizens, and to people throughout
the world. With the vision of that gift
in their hearts, our war dead drew
their last breath. They died knowing
that their lives have been vested with
deep and abiding meaning. So, on
Memorial Day, we should celebrate
that meaning as we remember the
sacrifice our war dead made on our
behalf.
stalking daintily down the walk. He
uttered a piercing shriek and swore
off the demon rum.
The dormitory manager's wife took
an extremely dim view of her cat’s
new look, and of course, The
Wanderer and his friends were very
sympathetic.
At this time, Culp Krueger roomed
across the hall from The Wanderer.
Years later, when Krueger was a
senior state senator and became
Governor for a Day, he issued The
Wanderer an official pardon for
dyeing the domoritory manager’s
tomcat.
Surely there must be some statute
of limitations on dyeing tomcats, but
whether there is or not, it’s
comforting to have official condone-
ment.
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the large infestation of mesquite
trees into Llano County. For so long,
it seemed that Llano County was
immune to mesquite trees. Of
course, I was raised up in Concho
County and we have never been
immune to them, I don’t think. We
have been fighting them. They are
just one of the biggest water thieves
in the world.
It is estimated that you will lose
about 200 gallons of water a year
from a mesquite tree.
I realize that it is not a whole lot of
my business except that I am a state
official and I am concerned about
what happens to people everywhere
in the state, not just in my 25th
Senatorial District. We have plenty
of mesquite trees to worry about, but
I would hope that people would start
looking at these old trees differently
and try to make firewood out of them
instead of letting them take over
your land and your water.
Bill Sims
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While rummaging through his
collection of trash and treasures
recently, The Wanderer ran across
his official pardon issued by the
governor of Texas. And what did The
Wanderer ever do that he needed to
be pardoned? Well, that’s a long
story.
It was back in the early 1930's
when The Wanderer was living in
the little campus dormitory while
attending the University of Texas.
That was during the Great Depres-
sion, when, as cartoonist Ace Reid
used to say, “Things were so bad,
folks were hunting rabbits on the
shares with a borrowed dog.”
Nobody had any money, so young
people had to find their pleasures
inexpensively.
The dormitory manager’s wife had
a white Angora tomcat, of which she
was quite.proud. The Wanderer an
three of his little friends decided that
tomcat would look good red.
They made a trip to Kress’ variety
store and invested in a packet of
bright red dye. One of the group had
a married cousin who lived a few
blocks from the dormitory; so they
picked a night when the cousin and
his wife were away from home and
took over his garage.
While three of the bunch whipped
up their red dye in a wash tub, the
fourth went out to catch the cat. With
the dye mixed up and the cat caught,
they were ready to proceed with the
business.
No one who has never tried to hold
a yowling, fighting, clawing, spitting
tomcat in a tub of water can imagine
what happened next. The directions
on the dye packet said to boil the
material to be dyed in the dye
mixture, but since it just wasn’t
practical to boil a very live tomcat,
they had to settle for periodic
dunking and letting the cat surface
for breath. They were working
toward bright red, but the best they
could achieve was a shocking pink.
During all this process, the cat’s
yowling and caterwauling reached
such a volume that the neighbors
called the police, who came with
siren going full blast. The cops came
in one end of the alley as The
Wanderer and friends went out the
other. Where the tomcat went,
nobody knew. Anyhow, the four
culprits were back in the dormitory
and snuggled in bed like they’d been
there for hours within a very few
minutes. The Wanderer always
wondered what those police officers
thought when they found a tub full of
red liquid in the middle of that
garage with enough red dye spla-
shed around that it looked like
somebody had dismembered a body.
Just after daylight the following
morning, an inebriated student came
staggering in from a night on the
town and was confronted by a
shocking pink Angora tomcat
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thoughts, but we’d point out that
fervent hope marches side by side
with all the pain associated with this
day. It is the hope of peace —
permanent, lasting peace — that lies
in the hearts of all Americans. Peace
for our own people, peace for people
throughout the world. It is a tragic
thing that a million and a quarter
men and women have died in our
nation's many wars and armed
conflicts over the two centuries.
They paid a horrible price, but it was
the price of freedom. Those men and
women purchased your freedom and
my freedom. If Memorial Day is
about death, it’s also about the
individual rights and freedom' en-
shrined in the United States’ consti-
tution. If the observance of this day
involves memories of suffering, it
surely entails our nation’s freedom
from domination by foreign powers
as well.
Memorial Day means the hope of
peace and freedom for others
throughout the world. Our war dead
have laid that hope in the hands of all
people — those who live in other free
nations and those who live under the
yoke of dictatorship. I know such a
statement might sound like nothing
more than a little harmless — but
overblown — nationalism, but I
really think that statement holds up.
Despite all the criticism our nation
takes from others around the globe,
we're still the beacon of freedom for
the entire world. If you doubt this,
take some time to watch a naturali-
zation ceremony, talk to some of the
people who are swearing their
allegiance to the United States as
brand new citizens. Let them tell you
why they’ve chosen our country.
Their words will touch and surprise
you and no matter how patriotic you
may be, you’ll learn something new
about how precious the promise of
America really is. Such an experi-
ence helps those of us who were born
in America to gain new awareness of
things we often take for granted.
Just one of those things is the
meaning of the American experi-
ment.
More than two centuries have
passed since that experiment began
with the American Revolution, but
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 19, 1988, newspaper, May 19, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585755/m1/3/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.