The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1988 Page: 4 of 19
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Talk of Texas
By Jack Msgwire
From the Sidelines
By Fred Tayler
To cruise or not to cruise?
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Today Texas is the third largest
market in the world for trucks. Only
the rest of the U.S. and all of Canada
buy more.
not a financial problem, a fish
behavior problem. They have an
aquarium of tropical fish that have
co-existed in fishly peace and
harmony for three years, but all of a
sudden the other fish are eating the
tail off the big fantail goldfish. It’s
tail looks like the comb of a rooster
THE READERS WRITE — From
Llano comes the question: "What is
Texas’ longest river?"
It’s the Brazos. It stretches for 840
miles and drains 41,400 square
miles, including 600 in New Mexico.
The Double Mountain Fork, one of
the three streams that form the
Brazos, arises in New Mexico and
flows intermittently into Texas.
It joins the Clear Fork and the Salt
Fork in Texas to form the Brazos—
river that the Spaniards christened
the "Arms of God.”
The Brazos has six major tributar-
ies—the Navasota, Yegua, Paluxy,
Little Brazos, Little and Bosque
rivers.
Help is on the way for Texans who are fun-
ctionally illiterate and for those who want to
help them learn to read.
A toll-free literacy information hotline is
now in operation and will be administered by
the Texas Literacy Council, a division of the
Texas Department of Commerce.
POSTMASTER, SEND ADDRESS CHANGE TO LLANO NEWS, BOX
187, LLANO, TEXAS 78643.
The better campaign promise would
be, "I elected. I’ll heckle congress
about this and that, and if they won’t
do it lay the blame on them.”
it doesn’t really make a great deal of
difference, because when one of.
them is elected, what he does will
depend entirely on what he can
browbeat a recalcitrant congress into
doing.
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WALTER L. BUCKNER, Edtterasri PubRaber
SARAH BUCKNER
T.H. CUNNINGHAM, Pubiaher Emoettus
lime they had, go on page after
page
Some of the ads start getting a bit
ridiculous. The list names world-
renowned people you just might
happen to meet if you take a cruise
on their ship. About all I would ever
meet would be some bus boy, if that
is the proper word for a cruise ship
employce, holding his hand out for
the traditional tip, and who also
makes a nasty face if it isn't to his
liking.
Serving I Jann. Mane Cennty amd the •ighiamd Lakes area
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The magazine even gives expert
tips on tuxedos. If I ever get to go
on a cruise. I sure don't want to
waste my time trying to gel into one
of those stuffed shirts, for sine.
Efficient
Dear Editor:
Enclosed are copies of correspon-
dence between me and the insurance
department of your hospital. It took
several minutes for me to compre-
hend that Mr. Carruth’s Insurance
had already been filed.
This degree of efficiency literally
astounded me. The name of your
hospital has been added to a very
short list of hospitals my children
may admit me to, if I am uncon-
scious.
Any superlative one would wish to
use would not be enough to express
my delight with your hospital. I know
where-of I speak — lam still trying
to get Mr. Carruth’s insurance filed
for care he received in Lubbock in
March of this year.
My most hearty congratulations to
you and your staff.
Phyllis Stephenson
Andrews, Texas
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I made the mistake of picking up a
magazine devoted solely to travel via
a cruise ship, and as I casually
thumbed through the pages, it is
quite obvious that the designer and
writer for the magazine had been
well-trained in the art of convincing
another person to take a cruise. It
doesn't matter what the destination
might be, the idea is that you just
Dear Editor:
The Llano American Legion auxil-
iary is pleased to announce it will be
sponsoring the annual Halloween
Carnival, October 29 at the American
Legion Hal.
All organizations are again invited
to eet up booths to provide an
exciting and safe Halloween cele-
bration for the kids of Llano— young
and aid alike.
To reserve your booth space, please
. call Beth Cuthbertson at 247-4214.
Deadline is October 15. Ten percent
assessment on net profit
Ann Vogt and
Beth Cuthbertson
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DON’T THEY REMEMBER? —
Only 17 motion pictures have ever
been produced concerning the fall of
the Alamo.
Of these, only ten actually dealt
with the battle itself.
This Hollywood oversight con-
cerns Paul Hutto, a New Mexico
historian. He says that 41 movies
have been made about Billy the Kid,
38 about Custer's last stand and at
Editorial /Opinion
"The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
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TRUCKIN’ IN TEXAS — The Lone
Star State is now the truck capital of
the world.
Chevrolet, Ford and Chrysler—the
nation's three op automakers—each
sells more trucks annually in Texas
than they do conventional cars. In
1984, Chevrolet delivered 127,787
trucks—mostly pickups—in Texas
but only 87,154 cars. Ford sold
almost twice as many trucks as it did
other cars.
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Oh, the ships are nice and white.
Astro turf added to give the ’
impression of green grass growing
on the top deck, but there is still one
thing that bothers me a bit, and that
is the inclusion of swimming pools. If
I ever get on a cruise ship, there will
be one thing I will not need and thot
is a dip in a swimming pool. I would
just as soon have all of the water out
there in the ocean and a nice dry ship
to enjoy. What if the swimming pool
sprung a leak and sunk the ship?
Naturally this is just a bunch of
nonsense. Nothing could possibly go
wrong and just look at all of the
fishing you can get to do if you have
a long enough line.
It all comes back to the simple
question. In cruise or not to cruise? I
only had to take one little peek at my
checkbook and the answer was a very
clear, emphatic "NO." Well, at least
the pictures were pretty.
I notice none of the ads or
accompanying stories have any
comments or suggestions on what to
do if you get seasick. Another claims
there are 32,000 miles of spectacular
coastline and 15 kinds of whales. The
nicest looking whale I ever saw was
in the Museum of Natural History, so
why go looking for whales? Of
course, if you were seasick and
hanging over the rail you might
accidentally see a few whales here
and there.
I like the ad that tells about the
efficient crew they have. They are so
friendly and experienced and, get
this, "who have sailed on over 100
different ships.”
That sort of worries me. Why did
they have to change ships so many
times? Did they sink or run aground?
Of course the bottom line is a real
“MAGGIES” IN 04? — Although
women were barred as students from
Texas A&M for decades, there were
two who enrolled in 1899!
They were Mary and Sophie
Hutson, daughters of a faculty
member. The girls were accepted as
full members of the student body
and even wore uniforms of the Aggie
cadet corps—except that theirs were
tailored as skirts. The Hutson girls
left the campus in 1904.
It was more than 60 years before
A&M admitted another woman.
THE SIGNS OF TEXAS — In a
Forth Worth maternity shop: “We
furnish the accessories after the
fact.”
NEWS CORRESPONDENTS: Ruth Deal, Eritea Kewierchha, LetBo
Wyckeff, Jaml Palm, Steph inli Batos and Jonet Bana.
“Hey Jake, throw that cigarette away,
the Surgeon General says they’re
harmful to your health!’’
school girl friend home from the
junior prom and had a flat tire that
they took three hours to fix.
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In these days of public controver-
sy, you can get up a demonstration
against almost anything. Witness
the problem the Texas Jaycees are
roaring into over their rattlesnake
sacking c note ate. It seems that
hordes of vounmatera have been
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marching through the streets canty-
lag placards decrying the Jaycees for
cruelty to retfinonabao The Wan-
defer has bettered for Io, there many
yean that there to only ome thing to
do to a rattesnake — kill it. Seema ;
Rhe mosdy it’s a core of the kids jusi
wanting to demonstrate.
The glowing advertising goes on
and on. I can become a “weekend
wanderer” or an “island hopper”
and just look at the pictures, all in
living color as they say. Even the old
white-haired man sitting in the deck
chair just happens to have a young
maiden standing nearby sipping on
some kind of a cool drink.
If the advertising doesn't get you
hankering to take a cruise then the
letters to the editor with glowing
testimonials of what a wonderful
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COLUMNISTS! Hal Cummigham, Maya Hele and Jeter Kuybendal.
off. The locomotives were doing a
mile a minute when they hit head on.
Most of the crowd loved the
spectacle, but not all. Two watchers
were killed when the locomotives
exploded on impact, hurling steel
into the spectators. More than a
dozen were seriously injured.
Those who escaped injury pro-
nounced it a great show. However, it
was never repeated anywhere in the
U.S.
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ONE DAY BOOM TOWN —
Crush, Texas, isn’t on any map and
never was. But in a state where
boom towns are as common as
horned toads, Crush has a special
place in history.
It was born on a September dawn
in 1896, grew to 50,000 population by
noon, and then was only a ghost
town by dusk. Today there is no sign
of where it stood along the Katy
Railroad's main line north of Waco.
Crush was created, became a city
within hours, and then disappeared
all because of a train wreck. The
crash was the first and only one of its
kind ever staged in Texas.
It was the brainchild of W.G.
Crush, the Katy's general passenger
aeent. He decided to stage the wreck
in . rder to profit from the spectators
he hoped to lure there on special
excursion trains. He succeeded.
Weeks before the planned disas-
ter, it was publicized national-
ly. Crush erected bleacher seats in
pastures along the tracks aiM invited
everybody to ride Katy special trains
to the site. They came by the
thousands.
At 5:10 p.m., the two doomed
trains began their runs from points
two miles apart. The engineers
opened their throttles, then leaped
The introductions are pure fantasy
land with such titles as "Port of the
Month," "Ship of the Month" and
quite naturally. "Cruise of the
Month.”. Wouldn't you know it?
Here I have never been on any kind
of cruise ship and right off the bat.
the advertiser wants me to make it a
once a month happening.
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The hotline number is 1/800 441 7323 (1/800-
441 READ).
A task force report to the 70th Texas
legislature shows that one of five adult Texans
cannot read, write or perform basic math skills
well enough to be a productive member of the
work force. One out of every three Texes ninth
graders never complete high school.
More than 86 percent of all Texas prison in-
mates are high school dropouts.
The cost of illiteracy in Texas is estimated at
$17.12 billion a year in lost income, lost tax
revenue, unemployment insurance, adult
training and education and the increased cost
of crime, welfare and prisons.
The U.S. Department of Labor says that by
1980, three of every four jobs will require e
high school diploma and additional training.
Work and earning prospects are clearly limited
for those without the basic reading skills.
The Texas Literacy Council was created by
the 70th Texas legislature. Its goals are to
make literacy instruction available in every
Texas community, to identify and coordinate
available literecy service, to breek the cycle of
illiteracy by providing services to individuals in
need and to promote literacy projects for the
economic well-being of Texans and the Texas
economy.
It is difficult to imagine that one of every
five adult Texans cannot read this
editorial...but it is a fact. The ability to read...a
road sign, a restaurant menu, a drug store
prescription, a newspaper...is an invaluable
skill which most of us take for granted. It is
our responsibility to hlep those who can't
read.
Remember the hotline number is 1/800-441-
READ.
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Silliest environmental flap of the
year: the group of Austin ecologists
who have occupied several limestone
caves in the Austin area to prevent
real estate developers from closing
them up and thus threatening with
extinction several species of spiders
and insects that they say live in the
caves. The Hill Country of Texas to
fall of limestone caves, and The
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 8, 1988, newspaper, September 8, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585910/m1/4/: accessed June 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.