Jacksboro Gazette-News (Jacksboro, Tex.), Vol. 91, No. 36, Ed. 1 Monday, February 1, 1971 Page: 6 of 6
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JACK COUNTY WELL RESUMES
ACTIVITY, ANOTHER TEST WELL
PROPOSB IN SAME TERRITORY
Are UFO's Only Flights of Fancy?
By ANGELIQUE JONES
The Air Force has stopped
their investigation into Uni-
dentified Flying Objects, but
the students of Jacksboro
haven’t.
When asked, “Do You Be-
lieve in Flying Saucers?”
Some of the answers were
Social
dUcu/ufy
A Social Security represen-
tative is in Jacksboro every
2nd and 4th Wednesday of
each month. He is located in
the Assembly Room of the
Court House and is there
from 9:30 a. m. until 12:00
noon. He will be happy to help
you with any of your Social
Security and Medicare prob-
lems.
Question: My father, a wi-
dower, died recently. He was
receiving a social security
check. I wish to file the burial
payment but because of my
work am unable to go to the
social security office. Is it
possible for me to take care
of this matter by telephone?
Answer: Yes. The neces-
sary application form can be
completed by telephone and
mailed to you for your signa-
ture and return. Cali 334-
3311.
somewhat humorous.
Debra McAnear remarked,
“I believe in UFO’s but not
in people from outer space.
“I’m convinced they come
from the center of the earth,
but who let them out or why,
I don’t know.”
Steve Covert said, “If there
are UFO’s, I wish they would
show themselves.
"1 would volunteer to run a
taxi to pick them up if they
would come to visit.
“Actually, I play golf with
them twice a week and we use
their tentacles for golf tees.
“I would like to take some
girls and investigate. If I do
find one, I’ll let you know.”
Dede Waits replies, “I
believe there are people on
other planets because I saw
a UFO once. It is redlculous
to think that, with all the other
galaxies in the universe, there
is not another planet capable
of supporting life comparable
or even advanced to that on
Earth. Maybe there are not
little green men, but I do think
there are other living crea-
tures besides earthlings.”
PERSONAL..•
Mr. and Mrs. Estes Rey-
nolds of Richardson were re-
cent guests of the John Arm-
strong and Lawson Rogers
families.
Valentine y
Chocolates
are
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City Rexall Drug Store
Jack County
Hospital Notes
ADMITTED
Jan. 20-Minnie Duncan,
Maude Sherill, Glenda Hen-
derson.
Jan. 21—Ronnie Richard-
son, Evelyn Jameson, Willie
Mae Bennett, W. W. Morrow,
James Riggs.
Jan. 22--Bessie Ross.Odis
Isbell, David Leon Cowley, Jr.,
David Cowley, Oscar Tackle.
Jan. 23—H. 0. Coe, Virgin-
ia Hutto, Johnna Armstrong,
Rhonda Freeman, Jennifer
Ogle.
Jan. 24—Kenneth Keyser,
Danny Hensley, Fred Melio,
Lyon Owens, Leola Furris,
Margaret O’Hara.
Jan. 25—Leola Fitzpatrick,
Adele Mathis.
Jan. 26—Morris Castle.
DISMISSED
Erma Applewhite, Lee Bo-
ruff, Lewis Furguson, Ben-
jamin Keener, Glenda Hender-
son, George Noah, Ray Kuhn,
Annie Dixson, Clail Cantrell,
James Riggs, Paula Bowen,
W. W. Morrow, David Leon
Cowley Jr., Otis Isbell, David
Coleman, Clarance Wright,
Ronnie Lee Richardson, Min-
nie Duncan, Owen Lyons,
Jeniffer Ogle, Danny Hens-
ley, Velma Jackson, Willie
Bennett, Maude Sherrill.
Wizard
Wells
By MRS. R. V. JONES
There will be singing at
the Wizard Wells Baptist
Church Friday, Feb. 5, 7 p.m.
Mrs. Bus Pinion, Mrs. W.W.
Morrow, Mr* W. F. DeLong,
Mrs. R. V. Jones, Mrs. Cor-
die Hitchcock and Mrs. Annie
Hitchcock visited Mrs. A. H.
Sampley who had surgery
Wednesday at All Saints Hos-
pital, Fort Worth.
Mrs. Cassie Lewis of Gra-
ford visited the W. F. DeLong
home this week.
Mrs. Troy Dean Counts and
Judy of Fort Worth were guests
in the Hob Counts home Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Edgar of
Albany visited in the Jerry
Edgar home over the week end.
Bucky went back with his
grandparents.
Bob Akin of Monroe, La., is
a guest in the Joe Shook
home. He is a brother of Mrs.
Shook. Bob also visited Mr.
and Mrs. J. C. Akin of Vine-
yard.
Bob Miller of Bridgeport,
Mrs. Joe Thetford and Mrs.
Marvin Davis of Balsora
visited Mrs. Sallie Eubank this
week,
The onset of winter brings
many a thing
Birds strung on highlines like
beads on a string,
Feathers puffed out against the
still cold
And, chirping forlornly, look
weathered and old;
Now darting together to peck at
the seeds.
Dropped on the snow from the
garden weeds.
Clouds low and murky like
smoke where fire smoulders,
Tingling fingertips, scrunched
up shoulders,
Icicle draggers along every
eave,
Lacy frost patterns that fair-
ies might weave!
Trees wearing nothing, not
even a shred I
Pastures and croplands de-
pressingly dead.
Falsely bright daylight - the
sunrays look chill,
Brown lifeless grasses now
carpet the Mil,
Or snow blankets spread to the
far horizon
And cars wrapped in ermine
are inching along!
Jackets and greatcoats, mit-
tens and sweaters
Deter the north wind, butbind
us in fetters!
Contrasting these, the cheery
indoors-
Deep, cozy armchairs, car-
peted floors,
Warmth and companionship
good food and fun,
Everyone busy from sun until
sun
At duties and hobbies put off
all the year
To be done when the long nights
of winter are here!
I didn’t write that last verse
a week ago when the ice storm
was on. All the mentioned
luxuries were available during
the storm, but it takes elec-
tricity to appropriate them-
and that we didn’t have out in
the country.
Our wells are rigged with
electric pumps (for which we
are fervently grateful most of
the time), but very few are left
from which one can draw water
with a rope and bucket.
We moderns have become so
technologically adept that
we sometimes get to thinking
we can run everything per-
fectly, but the Lord can com-
pletely immobilize us in a
matter of hours, or ever
minutes. Simply by setting in
motion His laws of nature. You
see, despite our scientific
sophistication, He is still run-
ning things I
That ice storm really set us
back to the dark ages-and
I do mean DARK! The house
was so dark in the daytime we
almost had to feel our way
around. At night we groped
about by the light of a flick-
ering candle, and now we have-
blobs of candlewax every-
where. I never wanted to turn
on a light so badly in my life!
Our teen daughter had a girl
friend visiting from Oklahoma,
and that no-light, no-water,
NO-TV business simply left
them aghast. They hadn’t
known people could live like
that! They didn’t know what
to do with themselves. They
couldn’t WASH THEIR HAIR!
If it hadn’t been for transistor
radios I doubt whether they
would have pulled through!
I do look back and wonder
how we ever read and sewed
by oil lamps, and we never
dreamed of lighting a lamp in
the daytime. As for candles-
no wonder Abe Lincoln studied
by the firelight! (And there
went THAT bit of sentimen-
tality!)
One can get along after a
fashion without lights, but
water is a different story. Our
willing and capable son-in-law
kept us supplied with enough
water from town to wasii
dishes, drink, make coffee and
take a "thimble” bath once in
awhile, but mostly we went un-
washed.
The girls didn’t know it
was possible to wash dishes in
. less than a sinkful of hot soapy
water not to take a sponge bath
and feel clean. But they really
got a taste of how it used to
be and I think it was good for
them. They had just never seen
a time when simple things were
not available for the asking.
Now they are more grateful.
Sister Geraldine is a great
coffee lover, but since her
range is electric, I wondered
how she brewed her coffee. She
assured me she could make it
on the old space heater she had
dragged out of mothballs - in
lieu of the failure of their cen-
tral heating system, and that
"If you can keep warm and
have a pot of coffee, you can
live a long time!”
While you townspeople were
living it up by the fire, farmers
were out in the weather feed-
ing livestock, and the telephone
and electric service men were
working night and day trying to
restore normalcy.
At least we got refrigera-
tors defrosted automatically
for once even though we did
have to rush the frozen foods
from the home freezer to the
food lockers and put the milk
in the north room!
Another thing - we were out
of time! Every clock in the
house was electric. Only hus-
band’s wrist watch told us
when It was time for “Days
of Our Lives” - which we
couldn’t watch on a dead tv.
I decided I wouldn’t be caught
so poorly prepared anymore.
I took the burner out of our
old Aladdin lamp to town with
me so I would be sure to get
the right wick and mantle.
Oh, yes, Sam styles, our
man who has everything in
his flea market, fixed me
up with all the necessaries -
and I walked out and left the
burner lying on the counter!
As my teen says, “Way to
go, Mom!”
By PEARLIE ANN
BYERS MASK WOLFE
The winds of change are
fresh and new for us oldsters
as we visit our old neighbor-
hood and hometown.
On a bright sunshinny Mon-
day morning we see no shirts,
skirts, sheets and pillow cases
gently blowing on the clothes-
line. The wind of time has
blown them inside. Automatic
clothes dryers have taken
care of that.
No more can we seek the
smoke from our neighbor’s
chimney and say “wind’s
from the north--coming a
cold spell—maybe we can
kill hogs.”
But why not feel glory
in the fresh winds of change.
The deep freezer is full of
food ready for our conven-
ience. Rural electric lines
are at our door. Fresh wind
of time have blown in the
washing machine, dryers, re-
frigerators, freezers, radios,
TVs and many other powered
gadgets to make life easier.
Covered wagons have been
blown by modern winds on
to our television screens so
that the generation of today
may see the early day mode of
travel.
The old oaken bucket in the
well has been replaced by
piped water into the home by
way of electric pump. No
longer do folks let down by
rope the bucket into a well for
fresh cool water, but inside the
home ice water can be pre-
pared instantly with cubes
from the refrigerator.
The wind of time has blown
the old No. 3 wash tub out and
replaced it with the modern
bathtub and automatic washing
machine, and many other uses
we oldsters remember.
Yes, the winds of time have
changed things--and we are
grateful for the good changes.
The Cosden-Stewart well
No. 1, in Jack County, near
Jermyn, again drove the plug-
ging crew from the derrick
last week when it began to shoot
oil, mud and water all over the
derrick. The crew had begun
to pull the 10-inch casing. All
of the small casing had been
removed, and the well filled
with mud and cement. On
Saturday and Sunday, it was
reported by citizens visiting
the well that it flowed between
fifty and seventy-five barrels
of oil. . .
Death of Mrs. Gray
After an illness of three
weeks the death angel came
and bore away the spirit of
Mrs. Mary Jane Gray, wife
of Don Gray, Jan. 16, 1921.
Mrs. Gray was born April
27th, 1893, and married Don
Gray Feb. 21, 1909. To this
union five children were born,
two of whom had passed ovei
to be there to welcome their
mother when she finished her
work here.
Mrs. Gray was converted
and joined the Methodist
Church, South, when young,
and had lived a true Christian
life. She was loved by all who
had known her.
On Sunday afternoon at 3:30,
with a large concourse of rela-
tives and friends, tlw funeral
was held at the Hostle ceme-
tery, conducted by Rev. Pat
Leach.
PERSONALS...
Loving Spiller is here from
Fort Worth to visit his par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. George
Spiller.
Misses Quilla Umsted and
Hettie Mays of Vineyard were
shopping in town Saturday
Mrs. W. R. Green of Bar^
ton spent Tuesday in Jacks-
boro.
W. M. Glidewell, one of the
prosperous farmers and
stockraisers of the Finis
country was in Jacksboro on
business during the week.
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By ROY A. BOX
Soil Conservation Service
Range seeding time is here, seeding rates, seeding me-
and for those who have their thods, time to seed, and etc.,
land plowed and ready, any the Soil Conservation Service
time now would be good to get can give you help in solving it.
the sedding operation done.
Land being seeded to grass,
that has been in crops, should
be plowed in the fall. Enough
time to do a good job of seed-
bed preparation will then be
available. If the seedbed has
not already been prepared,
with the present drought, it
might be loo late before it by MARY LEE
!£ *WZJ3l '» -ime fast becoming a
true, when the native grasses, TnlaJor problem ln y°ur arfT?
which have an earlier seed- ^ 80’ you may nee<^ a
ing date than the time pasture That’s the youth recreation
grasses, are to be planted. Pr°sram of the Police Ath‘
Those who broke land last letic Lea?ue-
fall and planted oats that You see> in the l)ast 10
failed because of dry weather Years> arrests of young poo-
have a very good seedbed on P'e have increased more than
which to plant. If some of the l three times as fast as the
oats remain, a light going over population growth, according
withatandem disk would put to FBI statistics. In 1968
the land in first class condi- there were 4,466,600 serious
tion for planting. crimes reported, and almost
half of the arrests for them
King Ranch bluestem, in a were 0f persons under 18
mixture with some of the good years 0f a(fe jn the first six
native grasses, such as El months of 1969 that rate rose
Reno sideoats grama and by n percent, and is continu-
tadiangrass, continues to be J to jncrease in mo.
good for most of the soils crime is a loca, I)roblem.
going to range grasses.
It is your concern and mine.
Some are waiting for enough When young people ca„ the
moisture to grub and seed on , p0iice pigs, swine, fuzz, rat,
land infested with mesquite ran(j sneer at law ancj order,
trees. Some are planning to we are bea(]jng for anarcbyi
and the time is past due to
do something about it. We
can help stop this terror by
1 working with the police and|
law courts to develop sound
activities for the young peo-
rake the trees into windrows,
so as to get a better seedbed.
This will also make it possible
to use sedding equipment on
land which would otherwise
need to be seeded by hand.
If vou have aDroblemhavinz
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