Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 325, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 15, 1976 Page: 4 of 52
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THE. DEXTON RECORD-CHRONICLE
Sunday, August 15, 1976
Denton Rambler
Some things we wish would come to stay ...
But others we hope would go away.
Denton ROTC Offers
More Than Airplanes
Sunday, Aug
State Bri
Cor
The folks in Denton would carry clubs ... If they
could kill those pesky white grubs.
In August the June bugs lay their eggs ...
Which turn to grub worms with tiny legs.
And no respect has this hungry worm ... As he
eats grass roots at every turn.
— If by mid August he isn't obliterated ... By
spring our lawn is completely perforated.
And then high tempers begin to heat ... As we
roll our grass into the street.
. course which served, they must be retired from active
Denton High School offers a course wn t duty
includes learning what makes airplane high Junior ROTC is offered as an elective ...
leading a July 4 parade with colors held Tie , subject which may have one unit credit for
and even setting off rockets the course - each quarter it is taken. For one year of
if is aerospace educa . Air aerospace education — three quarters
taken by members of the Texas 93 rd students- may have one unit of physical
Force Junior ROTC Squadron at Denton sunet waived P > ical
High School, beginning its secon year is AM uniforms and textbooks are provided
freeby the Air Force, and there are no
military service obligations connected with
the high school aerospace education "
Brooks Holt
Let The Good Rhymes Roll
By KERRY GUNNELS
City Editor
Brooks Holt looks at the world with a sense of
gentle irony and sympathetic humor
As city secretary of the City of Denton, Holt
spends most of his time keeping up with the
avalanche of official records generated in City
Hall
But in his spare time — and during slack
hours of the day — Holt takes pen in hand and
engages in his more unofficial role as "Poet
Laureate of City Hall.”
about life’s little dramas — real or imagined —
among friends and neighbors
And besides, he’s never had any complaints,
yet
"Whenever 1 write a poem for somebody,
they seem surprised, at first, real pleased
about it," Hoti said. "I guess it's because they
don't get anything like that from anybody
else."
boredom of the long months at sea as the
member of a gun crew on a troop transport, he
started writing a novel, and continued with his
outflow of rhymes,
“I used to write letters to my wife in verse
sometimes as many as seven pages long,"
he recalled.
Only recently, Holt took the dusty
manuscript of the novel off a shelf and is in the
process of rewriting it.
fall.-----______----------------.-----
The color guard. 12 members strong,
participated in football halftime activities
as well as graduation and the summer
parade and one of the cocurricular ac
tivities was a rocketry club
"ME TRY TO develop things outside the
normal school hours that students might be
interested in." Leland L Rudiger. Lt Col
USAF (Ret) explained
Rudiger, like SM-Sgt. Clyde Abel, who
will be teaching the aerospace courses with
him, is retired Although high school
aerospace instructors wear the uniform of
the branch of the military in which they
program
“ITS THE only course in high school that
offers three things in one course." Rudiger
indicated 'Academics about the aerospace
age, leadership education and many ex ′
tracurricular activities
"I know of few other classes where the
students can govern and run (the class
themselves. Abel added
“They have to assume responsibilities for
the mistakes they make,” he said
€ Teachers are a happy lot...when they put
/ fewer dollars into taxes and more into
retirement. Our annuities make it easy.
WHETHER IT BE a new baby for one of his
co-workers, the departure of a favorite
secretary or the birthday of a city employe.
Holt is ready to commemorate the occasion
with a poem.
He is slightly embarassed when asked about
his penchant for verse
"I don't write poetry," he says. “I just
rhyme.”
And while Holt probably will never challenge
the likes of Keats, Whitman or T. S. Eliot, he's
content to spread his own special brand of
philosophy with its humorous observations
HOLT’S REPUTATION as a verse-maker
has spread beyond the bounds of City Hall He
says he gets requests all the time from people
for poems about birthdays, anniversaries and
other special occasions
More than once, he's walked into someone's
home who has one of his works framed and
hanging on the wall
“Isn't that something''" he says with a grin.
Holt began his hobby when he was in college
at Southwest Texas State University at San
Marcos.
He was editor of the SWTSU school paper and
one of his assistants wrote verses "I just sort
of got started doing the same thing. " he said
The hobby blossomed while Holt was in the
Navy during World War II. To ease the
"I DON'T KNOW if I can get it published, but
why not try.” he said.
Today, a great portion of Holt's poetry
revolves around the problems involved in
running a city:
"Aspirin in the desk is here to stay
Because those problems won't go away
.My nerves do tingle and my knees do knock.
I feel like I’m saddled with a concrete block."
But Holt manages to retain a positive
viewpoint admist the pressures, problems and
worries:
"But square the shoulder, lift the chin.
Try to let the sunshine in.
Grit your teeth, smile and say :
'Tomorrow should be a better day.'”
Let’s talk happiness. Professionally.
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T. W King, Jr.,C.L.U.
First State Bank Bldg
Telephone 387-3588
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Southwestern Life M
Helping paote posor to peteor.
Foot Race Ends In Arrest
: Denton police arrested a man on
: suspicion of burglary Saturday, but an
: officer had to chase the suspect all over
'a neighborhood to do it.
• Two officers answered a suspicious
person call at about 6 a m Saturday.
: and when they arrived at the in-
tersection of McKinney and North
Wood streets, they saw a man running
; from a store.
One officer chased the man through
the yards of two residences on Wood
and then through the backyard of a
house on Crawford Street before a wire
Strike May Cost
fence along a hedge tripped up the
suspect and ended the chase i
Returning to the store, the officer
found a box of items on the ground
Police said a witness living adjacent to
the store stated she saw a man putting
items into boxes. He took the boxes to a
vacant house on the opposite corner of
the intersection, she reported
Officers went to the house and
recovered more than $200 in mer-
chandise
In other events, a late-model car was
stolen from a realty company parking
lot on I-35 sometime between Friday
evening and Saturday morning. The
citizen reporting the theft said he had
been keeping the car for its owner, who
was in California
The man said the car doors were
unlocked and that the keys were under
the seat
. Two calves were reported stolen from
a pasture on Woodrow Lane south of
Spencer Road. The owner reported that
they were taken sometime between
noon Friday and 1 p m Saturday
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Tractor Owners .
The effects of a now four -month-old strike against the Big
: Four tire companies may roll right into Denton County
farmland this fall.
Most local tire stores report depleted supplies of farm and
■ truck tires, a situation which Jack Briscoe of Briscoe Tire Co.
: and others say will worsen if the strike continues into fall
. plowing. Currently, United Rubber Workers (URW) officials
' and officials from Goodyear, Firestone, Goodrich and
J Uniroyal are negotiating on noneconomic issues, a process
that union officials say means possible settlement is still a
: good two weeks away.
Most local tire dealers report adequate supplies of
: passenger car tires, though not in all sizes But a two-week
continuation will seriously deplete those inventories also.
In fact, the local Goodyear store has been forced to send
: many new tires back to keep auto assembly plants supplied
"We're only supplying tires for adjustments (replacement
guarantees) and car dealers." Paul Gage, Goodyear
manager said. "We re in very serious straits Of course, we
: are taking orders on a raincheck basis
And while independent tire company dealers say their
business has increased as a result of the Big Four shortages.
• several dealers foresee that other rubber workers may join
the strike in sympathy Bill Payne of Payne Tire Co., points
out that Dayton employes went on strike Aug. 6 and suggests
the sympathy strikes may force company officials to fall into
line more quickly with URW demands
"After all. 90 per cent of all the goods in America are
shipped on tires," one dealer observed
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WASHERS & DRYERS
SEPARATELY
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G.E. 18 Foot Refrigerator,
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G.E. 20 Foot Chest Freezer,
White Porcelain Enamel. Was $459.95. ..
G.E. 8 Foot Chest Compact,
Was $309.95 ...................
Tappan 30" Gas Range,
Was $239.95..........
G.E. Dishwasher,
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WASHERS
G.E. No. $300 NOW
14 Lb. Choice of
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$319.95......400
DRYERS
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NOW
2179
G.E. No. 7300
16 Lb. Avocado 1
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$369.95 514
289*
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G.E. No. 7400
16 Lb. Mini
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$389.95 .... 342
GE. No. 6200
16 Lb 2 Thermo
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$254.95 ......229-
, G.E. 8350
18 Lb. Choice of
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19 Lb. 3 Thermo-
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Zenith
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Was $305.00. 2/5
Now
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Was $435.00.... 369
RCA 25"
Console. Wainut.
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G.E. 25"
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RCA 19"
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G.E. 10"
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