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PAGE SIX BRENHAM BANNER-PRESS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1967
The Nation's Alcoholics
Saturated Soldiers in a Misunderstood War
By ROGER DOUGHTY
NEW YORK—(NEA)—Pin-
pointing the saturated soldiers
of the nation’s ever expand-
ing army of hard-core alcohol-
ies is something like looking
for flower people in San Fran-
cisco’s Haight-Ashbury dis-
trict Open your eyes and
you’ll find them blooming all
around you.
But it’s something else when
you try to find a so-called
“problem drinker." There are
plenty around but few people
care to claim the title. "
That’s one reason why a
recent report by the National
Institute of Mental Health
labels alcoholism as the most
misunderstood health problem
in the United States today.
Problems that people refuse to
talk about just have to be mis-
understood.
As John W. Gardner, secre-
tary of Health, Education and
Welfare s a y s. "No other
national problem has been so
seriously neglected as alcohol-
ism "
A quick look at the report
explains why the problem
drinker has become such a
problem in this land of moon-
shine for the masses
Seventy per cent of
Committees
Announced
nation’s excessive drinkers per cent, but nobody can be
could easily be mistaken for sure.
teetotalers, at least on the Just about everyone who
surface. They live in respect- has ever crawled out of bed
able communities and, accord- with a blistering hangover has
ing to the report, perform reached the point where he
“more or less effectively” in thinks he S an alcoholic, and
their jobs he may be right. But the fig-
ures are hard to come by.
The Skid Row bum, once the "It is impossible to deter-
symbol of the excessive mine," states the NIMH re-
drinker, doesn’t fit the Jet Age port, “if the rate of alcoholism
image. Today’s stereoty p e is increasing, decreasing or
might better be the Martini- remaining steady."
gulping professional to whom Or, as one volunteer worker
the liquid lunch has become a
grant from the National Insti-
tute of Mental Health, re-
ported recently that a national
policy to promote drinking in
the family would help prevent
the development of problem
drinkers in the future.
The commission recom-
mended that the legal age for -
buying alcoholic beverages be
reduced to 18 in all states (it
is 21 in most) in one move to
"assist young people to adapt
themselves realistically to a
predominantly drinking
for Aho holi c s Anony- society." The lowering of the
mous says, "You can do a lot age, the commission feels,
for people who really want would make liquor available
help and who are willing to to young people "in a more
admit that they’ve gone as reasonable, healthier context."
far as they care to go where Family drinking, normally
drinking is concerned. But restrained, hopefully would go
you can’t do a thing for people a long way toward getting
who want to kid themselves; young people pointed in the
and that takes in a lot of right direction
people. "People brought up in total-
Those people are the prob- ly abstinent traditions who
lem drinkers. : later take up drinking ap-
Since Prohibition didn’t parently are more likely to
work, most experts are of the become problem drinkers,"
opinion that the best way to the commission found.
handle the drinking problem Few problem drinkers were
is through an education pro- found in Italian, Jewish and
gram aimed at young people, Chinese families where :
or tomorrow’s potential prob- alcohol is usually introduced
lem drinkers. to members of the family in
A 17-member commission "a relatively routine and un-
working out of Stanford Uni- emotional manner."
the figure may run as high as 87 versity; with a $1 million (Newspaper Enterprise Assn.)
way of life.
Assuming there are about 80
million people in the United
States who take a drink now
and then, and taking into con-
sideration the rough estimate
of 4.5 million alcoholics, the
odds on any drinker falling
into the bottle would appear to
be about one in 18. But the
report is quick to note that
the figures are about as vague
as the memory of a man after
a three-day drunk
It’s estimated that excessive
drinking costs, industry about
$2 billion a year But probably
the most staggering statistic
— and again this is only an
estimate—is that drinking is
a factor in at least half of all
fatal traffic accidents The
: =0
veyed through flowery words
or grunts of satisfaction, each
occasion was a reaffirmation .
(Continued from Page 1)
Editor Banner-Press they gave, 1/2 teaspoonful of
Sir =this 1/4 teaspoonful of that.
Congratulations on the re- made the reader aware that
: cent recipe supplement to your the end results dared not vary — of the eater’s sincere belief sioner of Precinct Cne, which
Pe SUPP - one whit from the author’s that- chili was strictly a mas-is the bridge area, said that-
culine dish in both construc- the county bought extra land—
for the bridge and they (High-
way Dept.) said there would be
like Washington County.”
J. S. Gratehouse, Commis-
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THE SKID ROW BUM, once the symbol of the excessive
drinker, doesn’t fit the Jet Age image. Today’s stereo-
type might better be the Martini-gulping professional to
whom the liquid lunch has become a way of life. -
For 'Dimes'
I Chairman of the 1968March
‘ of Dimes, Wilfred C. Dietrich,
I has announced his committees
: for the coming drive. Goal for
I the March of Dimes this year
i is $7,000.
V The committees are Miss
I Margaret Mittelstaedt, mail-
• er; Mrs. Arvle Elliott and
I Mrs. William S. Houston, team
! co-chairmen; W. C. Schwartz,
I dance; Mrs. Travis Voelkel,
i Mothers March; Mrs. Robert
V Lange, film booking; Monroe
A Gaskamp, coin collectors;
• Carl Wendler, street cam-
I paign chairman, J. D. Mueller,
! campaign treasurer; Tom Wh-
0 itehead. Radio Station KWHI,
i and Robert Gilmore, Banner-
V Press, publicity chairmen;
i Aubrey Hyatt, poster publi-
V city; Eddie Van Dyke, school
I cards; Winston Dahse, gen-
! eral assistant and showing of
I film; and Miss Bobbie Mor-
: row, publicity chairman, (re-
I sponsible for sending com-
1 mittee news to news media).
V Mrs. Voelkel, Mothers i
1 March chairman, besides be-
V ing assisted by her commit-
I tee members, may call on the
! Konza Klub and Circle K, ser-
I vice clubs on the Blinn Col-
lege campus.
1 The Street Campaignchair-.
1 man, Carl Wendler, has con-
— tracted the help of the Bren-
ham Future Larmors of Ame-=
1 erica" Chapter members—n.
* . Jar 13, Kiwanis lub mem-
bers on Jan. 20 and Lions
Club members on Jam 27.
paper. It’s fullness and scope
is a credit to those who devo- claim of perfection. A perfe-
ted their time to its creation. ction delightful to the fortun-
And the ladies, as usual, did ate diner’s taste buds. And a
themselves proud in revealing perfection that, at times, due
their most treasured recipes, to the richness of the mixtu-
The exacting measurements res,could be challenged in the
name of gastronomic toleran-
ce. All in all, though, it made
delightful reading and gave the
reader an appetite far in ex-
cess of his system’s normal
demand.
But, with all the exacting
measurements, the flurries of
folding, mixing, and stirring,
it was the lone male’s contri-
bution that gave your publish-
ing efforts a solid culinary
forindation. I am referring to
Bill Patman’s recipe for chili
con carne. Always shortened
to chili. Chili that delecta-
ble and tasty condiment dis-
covered, sampled, and praised
by Columbus on his first voy-
age to the Antilles. There he
found the Carib Indians enjoy-
- ing - "An open fire roast they
did call barbaycue-" seasoned
with various chilis. There was
also "-A masterly stew of fl-
aked meats, native cereals
(pinto beans) grandly spiced
with herbs and condiments un-
known in Espana. A Europe-
an’s first taste of chili. The
ton and consumption. But at
various times the ladies, their
arms loaded with Kitchenpro-
/-DE OLIVE’S
EWORKS
a new bridge in the near fut-
vider, their minds bent on des-, ure. .
Waller County Auditor W. P.
truction, have leaped on the
basic chili recipe with who-
AGNES KASPROWICZ
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FOR AN
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Herms said that the Waller
Commissioners Court is being
ops of joy. Their intent, to
change, bend, warp, or de-
stroy one of the few perfedfault, it is the fault of the High-
recipes in the world. A mis-
guided female once tricked
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me into sampling a bowl of
so-called chili-"’ - made from
an old family recipe-" in whi-
ch she had dumped a box of
raisins. A concoction that
would put any garbage dispos-
al to shame.
Men seldom, if ever, stray
from the straight and true pa-
th when preparing chili. A
story has been told that Pan-
cho Villa, while on a raid,
stopped at a hactenda and de-
manded a meal. The cook, out
way Dept. He pointed out that
the Highway Dept said if the
county got the right of way it
would get a new bridge and that
is why the four lane road is
there now.
Herms said, after the right
of way near the bridge was
built, the Highway Dept. held
out for the other right of way
to construct a new section of
Highway 290 and the only thing
to do then was hold the bond
election.
The election was held in
November 1966 and was de-
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FIRST BALE OF COTTON IN 1909--In another of a series of pictures of the “old days,"
brought in by Washington County residents, the first bale of cottor in the county in 1909
is shown in front of the Winkelmann and Bohne Store in downtown Brenham. The Brenham
firm had just purchased the bale. Mr. John F. Spreen of Route 5, Box 32, who brought in
the picture reports that where the picture was taken is now the back of the Penney’s .
and City Food stores. He did not know the identity of the family that raises the first
bale of cotton. Do you? •
of beans, ‘dumped a can of
green peas into the chili pot.
Pancho promptly shot the wr-
etched fellow and continued
his career of banditry. Had to-
day’s system of rapid comm-
unications been in force then,
there is no doubt but that the
chili lovers of Mexico would
have escorted Pancho to Mexi-
presented.
Gratehouse said be would
He pointed out that the
bridge was only 20 ft. wide.
feated by a vote of about - go to work on he rest of the
6 1/2 to 1. Herms quoted
area and get it moving.
A. T. Rose, president of
the Brenham Rotary Club, said
was inadequate, with frequent
accidents damaging lives and
property and U.S. 290 was the
press of exploring and dis- co City and heaped fabulous
covery evidently prevented honors upon his head for per-
Columbus from further dwell- forming such a necessary pu-
ing on these tasty viands. But
once discovered chili needed
no press agent to hurl highly
seasoned phrases to the world
in it’s behalf. Each partaker
was a complete admiration
society within himself. Whe-
ther his adulations were con-
from an October 27, 1966 is-
sue of the Hempstead News _.__
which, said taxes would be that Waller County has.” the and Austin.
key to the bridge” since in- Paul LaRoche emphasized
dustry is moving that way the safety angle. He said the
and the possibility for growth Highway Dept. has profes-
is greater. sional people and hated to think
it was agreed that a meet- of someone having a heavy
conscience for what could hap-
pen.
Ed Mather showed a map
doubled if the bond issue pas-
natural route between Houston
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So’ it is with great satisfa-
ction that I re-read Bill Pat-
man’s chili recipe. He doesn’t
dally around with partial sp-
oonsful of this or that. He ap-
proaches the subject boldly
and direct. One half cup chili
powder he says and one half
cup he means. His generosity
with garlic also show he’s a
man of direct action. A kind
of a man who can be trusted
with the big spoon when chili
is to be made. And a man who
is trusted with the big spoon
around the chili pot is a man
to be trusted in other lines of
human endeavor. Proof that
the voters of this district
knew what they were doing
when they elected to his pre-
sent office.
C. M. Terry
Brenham
sed.
Judge Taylor suggested that
the case for a new bridge could
be argued a little stronger
since Waller County has the
right of way there now. He
said, "Give us ten days not-
ice and we are ready to argue
the case and present the facts
again.’
Tom Whitehead, Sr., presi-
dent of the Brenham Industrial
Foundation and spokesman for
the Washington County dele-
gation, suggested that both
county groups arr ange a meet-
ing with the State Highway
Commission and the case be
ing will be set up soon with
the Highway Commission and
both groups will attend. All
elected officials’ will also be
invited to the meeting.
Whitehead opened the meet-
ing and told the Waller Com-
missioners that the Washing-
ton County group did not want
to tell them what to do, but
was only there to discuss pro-
blems of mutual concern, and
offer assistance to the Brazos
River Bridge problem. _
The Brenham Banner Press
Published Afternoons Monday through Friday
By the Banner-Press Inc.
depicting how grain trucks
come from West Texas, us-
ing Highway 36, then 290 on
to Houston.
Luther Utesch said the main
thing is to get the bridge built
for the time being.
The Washington County de-
legation at the meeting inclu-
ded: Woodrow Free, Tom
Whitehead, Sr., Ed Mather,
Luther Utesch, Paul LaRoche,
Warren Hartley, A. T. Rose,
and Bob Gilmore.
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• (Continued from - Page 1).
Before entering the Army
Mable was a teachers aide at
the Alton Elementary School
and the Pickard High School
in Brenham.
Mrs. Mable said she was
awaiting more information ab-
out her son’s death from the
defense department. >
PFC Mable is survived by
his parents three sisters and
four brothers. They are Mrs.
Sterling Jameson of Midland,
Mrs. Etta Rainbolt and Lau-
ra Donnell Mable of Houston.
James C., Thomas A., Eli
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Gilmore, Robert K. & Chambers, Bert L., Jr. Brenham Banner-Press (Brenham, Tex.), Vol. 102, No. 250, Ed. 1 Friday, December 15, 1967, newspaper, December 15, 1967; Brenham, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1647777/m1/6/?rotate=270: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Nancy Carol Roberts Memorial Library.