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Page 4 - Friday, June 6, 2003 Brady Standard-Herald
Way Back When
by Tootsie Mitchell
Letters to the Editor
J Local veteran challenges medical cuts,
'put your patriotism where your mouth is'
Do doctors still make housecalls?
rowing up during the
I TDepression, you didn’t go to
A the doctor unless it was an
emergency
Rochelle had two doctors Dr
Martin and Dr Matlock
in 1935. I had a very bad sore
throat Mother took me to see Dr
Matlock He gave me medicine and
mopped my throat
Mother gave him three Rhode Is-
land red hens People couldn’t pay
cash so they used chickens, turkeys,
pigs for then doctor fees
About three months later, my
throat was again in bad shape
Mi ther said w c needed t< > keep the
hens for eggs so she got a man who
lived in a tent by the cotton gin His
name was Red C’onner He had two
mules and moved the boxcars up and
down the railroad track
He said he had an old Indian solu
lion for my throat I remember part of
it being roots from an Algerita berry
vine and iodine He mopped my throat
and it got better
I always had throat problems until
Dr Jordan took my tonsils out in
1942
Doctors back then made house-
calls, if necessary
(iranny Cates delivered most of
the babies in the early years around
1912 Most of our medicine was home
remedies Lots of Vicks, castor oil,
black drought and aspirin were used
with coal oil and sugar and always
coal oil on cuts
One time my uncle gave me a
spoon of whiskey and honey for a
cough Everytime I saw him. I would
tell him I had been coughing a lot
In my early teens Dr Jordan was
our family physician Laterinmy late
teens. Dr Robert Hayes wasour fam
ily doctor
Times have changed so much It's
sometimes harder to see the doctor.
Last week my stomach tube came
out The hole will close up in four
hours so I drove 00 miles per hour to
get to Brady
In the emergency room, I filled
out papers and waited an hour and a
half and still no doctor.
It was noon, and everyone was
out When you can't talk, it's difficult
to explain what you need. Since I
can't talk, a lot of people think 1 can't
hear, and they shout
I finally found Jo Wright, and in
five minutes I had a new tube
I do appreciate the Brady doctors,
the hospital and everyone in the ER.
The next time I will get my wife to
call them and see if they will make
housecalls
They would come fix me up for
three red hens
Dear Editor,
The time has come; the war for all
intense purposes is over We have
heard those for war voicing their sup-
port tor the troops in Iraq Many people
have forgotten about the troops over
in Afghanistan They are still in com-
bat situations everyday.
Many people calling those against
war anti American and unpatriotic.
Then there are those who are against
the war. many of them saying they are
for the soldiers but against the war.
There are those who say that they are,
thinking about the troops and want
them home out of harms way and out
of this situation.
When all is said and done and our
troops start heading home after all of
the welcome home ceremonies and
Iraq is on the mend, many of our
□ Chamber EVP appreciates community
support, explains why Brady is ’home’ -
troops will face the realities of "after
war affects." Many will be dealing
with wounds that will need medical
care for the rest of their lives, and
many others will be dealing with the
psychological affects of war, such as
post-traumatic stress disorder. Many
others will need some form of psychi-
atric help
I think that those on both sides of
the issue need to know that the very
same troops that you claim to support
will be coming home to tremendous
cuts to the Veterans Administration's
medical benefits.
Many veterans along with those
who are currently serving in Afghani-
stan, Iraq, South Korea and all over
the world when they have honorably
served their country, they may not
have immediate access to medical care
Many troops will need some form
of psychological counseling; quite
frankly, those services may not be
available to them, because of the bud-
get proposal put forth by the Bush
Administration.
I myself receive my medical ben-
efits, but I believe someone needs to
speak out on behalf of these troops.
So I say to all, whether you are a
Republican or Democrat, all those
who say they care for our troops-
whether you were for the war in Iraq
or against it—put your patriotism |
where your mouth is. It is incumbent
upon you to write or call your Con-
gressional Representative. 2
ALVIN D COLE :
United States Veteran
Brady, Tex.
The price of best friendship
A s I recall, the last time I had a
A cat broken it cost about $60.
We had a cat named (Datmeal.
and we didn.t want him wandering
off and soiling the reputations of any
of the female felines in the area, so we
took him to Dr Dave Rosberg, our
local DVM, and had him broken
I know, the procedure is commonly
called having the cat li xed," but that's
a misnomer He worked fine —too
well, in fact and we didn’t want him
to work at all So we hail him broken
But that's not the point The point is
that 1 was scandalized at having to
spend actual money on an animal
with no fiscal value whatever
So you can imagine my surprise
when alert reader Steve Martin sent
me an Associated Press story about
Honus, a dog living in Pullman. Wash
ington, who recently had a heart
defibrillator installed
Honus, of unidentified bleeding,
belongs to Bryan MacDonald and his
wife, who named the dog after base-
ball player Honus Wagner He
(Honus) (the dog, not the baseball
player) suffered from a condition
called ventricular tachycardia, in
which the heart beats irregularly.
This caused the poor mutt to be
weak, vomit a lot, and sometimes
drop easy infield fly balls The
MacDonalds had to take I onus to the
emergency room about every two
weeks lor lidocaine shots, which was
a pain, not to mention their carpet
cleaning bills
So they decided to have the pooch
fitted with, according to the story, a
defibrillator "similar to the one that
regulates the heart of Vice President
Dick ( Cheney No half measures for
the Macl Donalds, you can be sure of
that The operation, including all the
hardware, the wiring, the cat scan,
and the mop bucket fee, normally
costs a whopping $30,000 Evidently,
fixing a dog is slightly more lucrative
than breaking a cat Dr Dave, you
might want to look into that
The surgery went fine, and the
result was a much happier Honus,
cleaner nigs, and poorer MacDonalds
Luckily. Medtronic Inc . a company
based in Fridley, Minn., donated the
defibrillator ($15,000) and the two
leads ($6.000each) The MacDonalds
only had to pay part of the $2,500
hospital costs, since they had the pro-
cedure done at Washington State
University's veterinary hospital
The question Tm sure you're ask
ing yourself is, "Hey, if Medtronic
was going to give away a free defibril-
lator, why did they give it to a dog?
Wasn't there a human somewhere who
needed one and couldn't afford it?"
The answers to those questions are,
respectively. "I don't know," and
"Most likely."
But this is America, by George,
where we have a constitution, and
that constitution says, in Article V( 'R.
section MTV, row ATM, seats IV and
V.that if a large corporation wants to
garner advertisement by giving ex-
pensive medical equipment to pot
lickers, and even w rite off such dona
tions as charitable contributions on
their federal income tax returns, then
that's just fine and dandy So there
This whole story makes me won- |
der, however, if the defibrillator was
actually necessary. Sure, the Mac—|
Outdoor
Outpost
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KENDAL HEMPHILL
I Donalds triedlide aine sh< ts but there
may have been some other treatment
which could have put Honus back on
his feed. Daily massage, for instance,
or mud baths, or several hours per day
in a Jacuzzi
Anyway, Honus is one lucky pup,
to have owners who care for him as
much as the MacDonalds Not all
dogs are as fortunate for proof, I
submit a recent survey conducted by
the World Leaders in Insignificant
and Meaningless Surveys, the Brit
ish The most unlucky breed of dog.
barks, whines, and growls to a palm
sized console, translating the beast,s
emotions into categories such as frus-
tration, happiness, anger, etc. The
handset then displays one of 200
choices, in human languages, to tell
the owner what the dog is saying.
The story, sent to me by alert reader
Anne Casselman, is vague on what,
exactly, the 200 human translations
are Presumably the phrases would be
somewhat beneficial to a dog needing
to get a point across Such as —"Hey,
hey, I drink out of there! Why don't
as determined by a poll of readers of you just go in my water dish, and save
()ur Dogs magazine, is (ierman Shep
herds Alsatians, the Reuters story
claims, are involved in more acci-
dents than < other canines swalle owing
toys, getting their heads stuck in cat
doors,etc Interestingly,the most com
mon calamity suf fered by dogs of all
types is falling into toilets
yourself a walk dow n the hall?"
"All right. Mr Opposable Thumbs,
it you don't open this door and let me
out right now. that (Oriental rug in the
den is history."
"For years I've been your best
friend, chased off that Bozo in the
gray suit every day, kept the cat exer-
Which begs the question. "Why do cised, even emitted outstanding odors
dogs have such an affinity for toi
lets ’" Give them a water dish some
where else, and they still seem to want
to drink from the porcelain bowl This
has been one of the great mysteries of
mankind, and dogkind, lot centuries
I he good news is that we may
soon be able to find out the answer,
thanks to a wonder ful de vice invented
by the Japanese Takara Company A
fellow named Masahiko Kajita,
known as the "Doctor Dolittle of Ja
pan," has come up with a way fo r dogs
to actually communicate with their
masters This invention is called
"Bowlingual," and if that doesn't re
let to the toilet bowl, I don't know
w hat it refers to
A collar around the dog,s neck
holds a microphone which transmits
to let you know when there’s a change
in the barometric pressure What
thanks do I get? I barf up one batch of
assorted lizard parts on the kitchen
floor, and I m banished to the back
yard forever Thanks a lot, buddy
"It wouldn't kill you to take me to
a spa now and then ”
Anyway, that's what I would want
some of the phrases to say, it I were
the dog Of course, with my luck, the
best the monitor could come up w ith
would be. ‘Oh no. not Dr. Dave
AGAIN "
Kendal Hemphill is an outdoor
humor columnist who doesn't care
how much you think your cat is worth
Really. Write to him at PO Box 1600,
Mason, Tr 76856 or jeep@ tstar.net
HAVE YOU BEEN BAPTIZED INTO CHRIST?
The apostle Paul said 'Therefore I endure all things for the elect's sake, that
they may also obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory
1 (II Tim 2 10) According to Paul noone is saved without being in Christ. How
then did the apostle Paul teach believers to get into Christ? "Know ye not, that
so many of us as were baptized into Christ were baptized into his death'’
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death that like as Christ was
■ raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk
’ in newness of life (Rom 6 3 4). Paul further said "For ye are all children of
God by faith in Christ Jesus For as many of you as have been baptized into
Christ have put on Christ (Gal 3 26-27) From these scriptures we are forced
to conc lude that we must have an obedient faith that leads us to be baptized
into Christ if you have been taught that you were saved before being
baptized into Christ, you need to reconsider what the inspired apostle Paul
■ had to say Remember, he was guided by the t
, Holy Spirit to say it, whereas those who tell you A
1 otherwise are not N
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Dear Editor:
Many times I have been asked how
1 can do the job I do with so much
enthusiasm I felt this an appropriate
time to explain why I have so much
faith in Brady.
Trista Day, a nine-year-old girl is
hit by a car and the whole town pulls
together to make sure the family has
all that they need. Everyone is con-
cerned because, let’s face it, when it
comes to children we begin to see we
are all one family.
As Curtis Owens stated in his
speech at this year's Chamber ban-
quet, '- your kids are my kids." By the
way, her second grade teacher, Martha
Thompson, met the ambulance at the
hospital—showing the love our teach-
ers have for their students.
We have seen it time and time
again—whether it be a family left
homeless because of fire, Trevor
McBee's amazing recovery, the Sep-
tember 11 tragedy, stranded families—
this town is full of so many loving
people who care and want to help.
Having a tender heart is a sign of
someone who cares about those around
them. Look at your neighbor; they are
a tender heart, too. In small towns
people pull together and help each
other out. One of the terms I use when
telling someone they might want to
move to Brady is this..,we have that
old "rebuilding barn standard" if our
neighbor's barn burns down, we will
pitch in and have it rebuilt in no time.
Our hearts ache for the families of
soldiers, the boys and girls who used
to spend time with our children in our
homes are now fighting for our free-
dom, so we proudly gather at the court-
house and bid them farewell as they
head off to war. 3
We still hold hands and say a prayer
on the courthouse lawn, have a water-
melon supper before the big fireworks
show, take our kids to the carnival,
plan vacations around the Goat Cook-
off and golf tournaments and make
sure the kiddos see Santa when he
makes his appearance on the square.
There are so many reasons Brady is
a wonderful place to live. The events
that go on through the year bring people
to Brady, but the people of Brady are
why they want to move here. d
Take the time to watch the sunset
over Brady Lake, walk barefoot in the
grass, play in the sprinkler with your
kids and chase down the ice cream
truck! 1
Thank you! 3
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