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The Albany News
TEXAS PRESS
1996
Thursday, June 5, T997
The Albany News
Since 1875
Oldest K»umaiist»c venture west .if the Brazos
Editor Publisher IXmnx A Lucas
Managing Editor
Melinaa L Lucas
Advertising Business Manager
Bettv Yierte:
■Moran Correspondent
Audre* Brooks
Staff Reporter
Bohbv Horecka
Composition
Kirr. Rollins
Once Assistant
Jessica Lucas
Clean-up Week
Is Here
This week has been designated as the
official clean-up campaign sponsored by
the Albany Chamber of Commerce and
th* City of Albany
Local residents and business owners
art- asked to clean up their own property,
then joift other volunteers Saturday morn-
ing at the depot to work on public areas.
The campaign is held early in June in
order to get the town m shape for the
thousands of visitors that will be visiting
later in the month for the Fort Griffin
Fandangle.
However, that should not be the only
reason we clean up Albany — we should
do for ourselves as well.
This is a great place to live, but it takes
work to keep it that way.
Volunteers are needed on Saturday to
be sent out in small groups to tackle
problem areas in the downtown area and
along Main Street
Those who able to come on Saturday
morning are asked to bring lawn mowers,
gas-powered weed eaters, etc: The Cham-
ber wiirprovide trash bags and cold drinks.
If you are not able to come Saturday,
contact the Chamber office to be assigned
a spot to be cleaned up on a another day.
But be sure and coordinate with the Cham-
ber so the effort can be as organized as \
possible. \
This is a special time of the year for
Albany. We will have more guests in town
in-the next couple weeks than the remain-
der of the year combined. So we must put
on our best "face" and be good hosts.
Please clean up those junk piles you
have been meaning to get to yourself, and
generally spruce up your property. The
real winners will be those of us who live
here year round.
Don't forget that BFI will also provide
dumpsters at the Chamber office on Th urs-
day through Saturday for public use. There
are a few rules, such as no paint cans, old
tires, batteries and other prohibited items.
The city will also have its chipper set
up in the lot to the west of the Chamber
for tree limbs and brush.
Several local businesses have already
started cleaning up, painting and spruc-
ing up, which is certainly helping the
effort.
It is time for the rest of us to get
started.
ponderings by Pat
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By Pat Lidia Jones
What is going on"1
Last Saturday. I read the paper as
I usually do. cover to cover Except for
the comic page; which really isn't
very funny anymore, and the cross-
wonJ puzzle, and bridge game it was
pretty depressing
At Bavview. Texas, a fellow has
been arrested for sexually abusing a
six-year old boy He had two prior
convictions for the same thing This
man had been living with the small
child's family for the past ten months.
The little boy s mother defended her
child"? molester, saving, "He didn't
do anything." and added that he
helped her around the house, with
cooking and the laundry and ex-
penses,
She gets my "What a Mom!" award.
In Midland, Texas, a man and his
two teen-aged sons are in jail on
charges that they sexually assaulted
a thirteen-vear-old girl and her two
younger sisters, ages seven and ten.
The father is thirty-eight and his
sons are eighteen and nineteen.
My "Like Father/Likje Son' award.
In Hope, Arkansas, a twenty-six
year old man got angry at his sixty-
five-year-old mother for accidentally
driving into a ditch. He stoned her to
death.
The "Biblical Mother's Day" award.
An Arizona couple were arrested
when their plane from Moscow landed
at Kennedy Airport in New, York. The
charge? Assault, harassment, and
endangering the welfare of a child.
The victims? Two four-year-old girls
they had just adopted from a Russian
orphanage. Fellow passengers and
flight attendants reported that the
"new parents slapped, hit, choked,
and screamed" at the little girls dur-
ing the entire ten-hour flight.
My "Welcome to the USA, You
Lucky Kids" award.
Then myriad therapists and Catho-
lic priests who hold the confessional
above any crime or anyone's safety
makes me want to scream. Who is the
one here ,who aids and abets? Is the
church above the law? Are any of us9
In a world full of cruelty and mean-
ness, I paused to remember a day
long gone by.
Let your mind drift a bit with me.
Do you remember:
• when Cowboys and Indians,
Eeny, Meny, Miny and Moe were not
racial slurs?
• when you taught your children
to speak to strangers?
• when a parent would say, "Ifyou
get a spanking at school, you'll get
another one when you get home"?
Do you remember:
• when' no one in our netk of the
woods had ever seen a credit card,
TV, VCR, a microwave, a dishwasher,
automatic washer and dryer, a com-
puter, a cellular phone, a garbage
disposal unit, a water bed, an ATM, a .
male with long hair and earrings who
wasn't a pirate in a movie, walk-in
closets, a Polaroid camera, UPS and
FED X, or glass skyscrapers?
• when nQ one went to the doctor
unless he or she was desperately ill;
when yoti didn't knowasotil who was
suing someone or being sued; when
the President, Governor, and mem-
bers of the Senate and House were
highly respected and trusted?
• when movies had no curse words
or graphic sex? (Of course, they did
have chain-smoking and lots of drink-
ing.)
• when spanking was the punish-
ment of the day, when you never
heard of "grounding," MIP, or 911.
• when a guy wore a baseball cap
only when he was playing baseball,
and then not backwards, unless he
was the catcher? '
• when there were no skateboards,
roller blades, electronic games,
SNOOZE buttons on alarm clocks?
• when we got letters or postcards
or telegrams or phone calls instead of
answering machines. Caller-ID. and
E-mail, when stamps were three cents
and postcards were a penny?
• when they made ice at the Ice-
house. and you bought great blocks of
it. or it was delivered to your house
according to the amount on your ice
card that was placed in the front
wi,ndow?
Do you remember:
• when there were trains and
trucks everywhere, and hoboes and
bums rode them, and panhandled at
houses nearby'7
' • when there were adventure seri-
als at the Saturday matinee movies:
Jungle Jim. Flash Gordon, and oth-
ers, and we laughed and applauded
The Three Stooges. Laurel and Hardy,
and Our Gang Little Rascals)? And
we stayed all afternoon
• when milk was delivered to your
door, in town, and it was in a bottle.
Your mother carefully poured off the
cream which had risen to the top. and
she saved it for coffee or making ice
cream and other goodies.
• when the only mail you got were
letters and bills especially for you,
and we never heard of "junk mail"?
• when no one knew, about calo-
ries, jogging, bran, food fiber, low-fat,
abs, stairsteppers. liposuction,
tummy tucks, breast implants, and
contact lenses?
•when Keds*o9t-$#.00, candy cost
a penny, candy bars were five cents,
and so were Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper,
Pepsi, RC, 7-Up, Orange Crush,
Grapette, Delaware Punch, and Big
Red, none of which were in cans?
• when the most checked-out book
in the AHS Library was, How Green
Was My Valley, which had the word
"breast" in it? The page was almost
% worn out, and there were arrows
drawn pointing to that forbidden
word.
• ever hearing or saying the F-
word when we were in high school in
the 40's or 50's?
• when most families had one car
if any, one bathroom which the whole
family shar ed and onp paycheck? And
we all knew the same songs regard- ,
less of our ages.
• the days when Mother prepared
three meals a day from scratch, and
the family sat down to the table and
ate together'.' And the chicken was
fresh, because Mom just wrung its
neck, singed the feathers off, and
cooked it?
Do you remember:
• when children played pretend
games, made mud pies, played
"house", dress up, shoot-em-up, Sling-
ing Statues, London Bridge, May I?,
Red Rover, School, Follow the Leader,
Tag, Hide and Seek, Anty Over, and
I Spy? None of these cost a penny.
• when store-bought toys were a
jump rope, jacks and ball, marbles,
roller-skates, (the kind that clamped
to-a kid's shoes and worked with a
key), kite, chalk for hopscotch, a ball
and bat, paper dolls, a doll, a toy cap
gun, a tricycle, a wagon - or a bike if'
■you were really lucky?
• when we spent endless hours
playing in a sand pile or drowning
each other with the garden hose?
Oh, yes we were a pretty innocent
bunch. Bad behavior was frowned
upon by parents as well as the rest of
the community. Teachers, law en-
forcement-officersj in fact, almost all
adults were regarded with respect
and admiration.
If we had ten-speed bikes,
Nintendo, videos, television, and ev-
ery adult in one's family vying to
make us happy, who knows how we'd
have turned out?
And we all work feverishly to have
a more simple uncomplicated life—
j£5}
round and about
By Emalyn (Sam) Gillispie
Chad and Sage Parsons and Sarah
Woodward left this past week for a
tour of Europe. The Clacks, who are
teachers in Breckenridge, were in
charge of a group of young people
making the trip. It did not start off on
a good note because when the group
got to DFW Airport, they found out
their through-flight to London had
been cancelled. The good news was
they could be routed on another plane,
but it was at a terminal clear across
the airport. If you know DFW, you
know what that means. Betsy said
they did a fast run, which reminded
her of a commercial we have all seen,
to the other plane, making it in time
for the young ones to board. They will
Stop in London and then go on to
Germany and other places. They will
begone two weeks and I wish them a
great time.
The annual dance recital was held
last Saturday night to the delight of
the families, friends and just people
who like to go and see the children
dance. As usual, Betsy Parsons did
an outstanding job with the presen-
tation of the group. One hundred and
two students of dance entertained
the audience. The costumes were just
beautiful and the senior girls, Alexia
Dunlap and Shawna Boone, each did
a solo. There was a group of Small
ones who brought down the house'
with their rendition oftheMaceriana.
Congratulations to Betsy and crew\
Fandangle practice is in full swing
and there are more cast members'
than in a number of years. Betsy has
agreat program going and we hope to
see the seats filled every night.
The tour guide group met at the
Old Jail to get instructions and infor-
mation to use in their tours. If you
would like to participate in this group,
please contact the Fandangle office.
If you have a group who is interested
in a guided tour, you can also contact
the Fandangle office and make an
appointment for a guide. This service
has not been offered before, but,I for
one am glad to see it take place. The
guides can show the visitors so much
more than they would be able to see
on their own.
We were sorry to hear that Dick
Shelton was injured in an accident
this past week. He was attacked by a
bull and lay out in the field for sev-
eral hours before he was found. A
care flight took him to Hendrick Hos-
pital. At this writing he is in serious
condition.
Etna Pate is still recuperating from
her injury. We hope she gets along all
right. Miss her at the Fandangle prac-
tices.
Was talking to Sherry Enloe and
she is trying to put together a history
of all past public officials who have
served our county. If you have knowl-
edge ofa family member who filled an
office, would you please send a pic-
ture ( about a four by five) and a short
history of the office they served and
when, who their family was and so
forth. She would appreciate your help.
Send the information to Sherry Enloe,
Shackelford County Courthouse.
Sherry Enloe traveled to Houston
last week and played in the Texas
Women's Golf Associate Tournament
held at the West Columbia Golf
Course. This tournament has been
going on for 64 years and Sherry ha#
played in it for 20. She used to play
with the masters, but she said she
did not get enough, practice to play
that any more. Last year she made a
hole in one and won prizes. This year
she said all she won was for ball
money. But I call her a big winner.
, She stayed at a condo on the banks of
the Columbia Lake and when she
was not playing golf she was fishing.
Several women took advantage of this
opportunity to fish. Sherry caught
two good-size bass while others.\lvere
coming up with nothing. Two ladies
from Corpus gave up trying to catch
fish and in their disgust gave Sherry
their rods and reels. "To me that was
as good as getting a prize for playing
golf. Way to go Sherry.
Everyone take care and hope to
see you in Albany at the Fandangle.
This is Sam
and I will see you Round and About'
letter to the editor
— Task Force chairman thanks workers, community —
Dear Editor:
Project Graduation #10 was a huge
success.
Cathy Woods, chairman of the
event and her helpers did a wonder-
ful job entertaining the 95 students
and friends. This was an all night
lock-in drug and alcohol free party
following high school graduation.
The committee chairman were:
Publicity- Brenda Picquet, Food -
Debra Ruff, Theme & Decorations -
Jana McCoy, and Prizes - Margie
Tidwell.
Using the foyer and snack bar of
the new gymnasium added greatly to
the evening's festivities. Food of all
sorts was served during the party.
Videos were available to watch in
this area also.
The old gym was filled with Las
Vegas games plus a D.J. for listening
. and dancing. Students bought gifts
and prizes from "the store" with their
winnings from the gaming room-
At the conclusion of the party a
drawing was held for two $500 cash
gifts to a senior boy and girl given by
the Task Force. .
Each senior received a special gift
and a personalized laundry bag full
of prizes.
The Task Force thanks the chair-
men, Cathy, Brenda, Debra, Margie,
Jana and the many workers and
school personnel for making this
Project Graduation a special one for
the Seniors of 1997!
We wish each of the 39 graduates
a successful life in their individual
pursuits.
Ann Jones
Chairman, Task Force
Community Calendar
JUNE 2-8
JUNE 5
JUNE 6
City-wide clean-up
Immunization clinic - Resource Center, 9-11 am
Lions Club - Lone Star Eatery, 12 noon
Fandangle practice - Prairie Theater, 8 pm
Chamber luncheon - Lone Star Eatery, 12 noon
Impact kick-off party - High school gym/campus,
6 pm-12 midnight
Visions of Hope AA meeting - Call 762-2447
for location, 8 pm
Community clean-up day - Meet at Depot, 8 am
Exhibit opening - Old Jail Art Center, 6:30 pm
Commissioners court - Courthouse, 9 am
Hospital board • Hospital dining room, 7 pm
School board - Supt.'s office, 7:30 pm
City council - City Hall, 5 pm
Fort Griffin Fandangle - Prairie Theater, dusk
Fandangle parade - Downtown, Albany, 6 pm
Fort Griffin Fandangle - Prairie Theater, dusk
Fandangle 5000 - Courthouse square, 8 am
JUNE 7
JUNE 9
JUNE 16
JUNE 18
JUNE 19-21
JUNE 26
JUNE 26-28
JUNE 28
"A People's Heritage Center" - American Legion Hall.
Please come by and visit in the morning during May, 1997 when the
"OPEN FLAG IS FLYING." Your interest will be appreciated. Thank you.
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