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Page 2—Hondo Anvil Herald, Friday, May 26, 1967
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MEMORIAL DAY...
We have come once again to
that time of year when Americans
pause to honor the memory of those
who have given that last full meas-
ure of devotion on battlefields at
home and abroad. As Abraham Lin-
coln said: "It is fitting and proper
that we do this."
As we pay our respects to the
nation's war dead, it also is fitting
that we turn our thoughts to the
peace for which we all pray. It is
fitting, too, to reflect on life — not
death—and on ways in which life
may be preserved.
No more fitting time than
Memorial Day could be found for
this reflection, for the holiday signals
the beginning of the summer high-
way carnage. In a year's time more
people are killed on our highways
than died in combat in all of World
War I.
Automobiles are safer today
than they have ever been. So too,
are the highways over which we
travel. That leaves the problem
squarely on the shoulders of the third
element in any design for greater
highway safety — the person behind
the wheel.
One of the great freedoms we
Americans share is the right to travel
in our country when and where we
please. It is a freedom to be preserv-
ed for all of us. Let's not abuse it.
Our Cotton-Pickin' Problem
Farm surplus problems continue
to beset us all, directly or indirectly.
At the head of the list just now is
cotton.
In storage and costing our Gov-
ernment over $1 million a year just
for the accomodation, is more than
$1 billion worth of cotton. Maybe It
looks more impressive, or depress-
ing, this way: $1,000,000,000, and
no cents, to keep the figures roupd.
Presently the biggest single
commodity remaining in the price-
support inventory, cotton's respon-
sibility for its problem is attributed
to the quality being grown.
Low quality, short staple cotton
represents the bulk of the crops
planted and harvested. Texas pro-
duces 80% of the nation's short fibre
cotton.
Most of the cotton in Texas, the
nation's largest cotton - producing
State, is grown in the high plains
country where dust and drouth have
priority over natural rainfall. Irriga-
tion is limited.
Farmers in that area find short-
staple cotton easier to grow. It is
hardier, resists drouth conditions bet-
ter and matures earlier. The result-
ing bales of cotton find a limited
market.
With the growing popularity of
synthetic blends and the changes
made in textile technology and
labor-saving automation, the market
demand is for higher quality, long
fibre cotton.
While some cotton is still grown
in Medina County, it is no longer
one of its leading crops as it once
was. Government cotton assistance
is said to have helped Texas' eco-
nomic future in general although
"government meddling" is still the
basis of many a farm argument. -
Under prevailing circumstances,
•the cotton farmer might not be in
"high cotton" but the products manu-
factured from his crops are. Prices
of cotton-made goods, from bedding
to summer wearables, seem bent on
a rocket-propelled jump to the moon
just to keep the pace.
In department stores catering
to "women of distinctive taste", the
price range of the better cotton
dresses (frocks, they're called) or
suits begin at $100, "moderately
priced." An example of the bold evil
at work in the cotton patch after the
crop leaves the farm.
Granted that one is supposed
to get what one pays for, it would
take a mighty long row of cotton
choppin' to round up a century note
to pay for just one little old new
home - growed - cotton frock, honey
chile.
Wouldn't it?
-EGM
OUR REAPERS
NEW AND RENEWALS
D'Hanis--Frank Gapen; Pear-
sall--Bailey Crain; W. Colum-
bia--Joe H. Biry; Woodsboro--
B. G. Oefinger; Rio Medina —
Alfred Kauffmann; Devine —
Wm. C. Ketchum; Corpus Chris-
ti-- Lloyd Lindeburg; San An-
tonio--Vincent Haass; Eugene
M. Willette; Hondo—Ben
Oefinger; Mrs. R. ]. Graff; Ed-
mond D. Lively; Elgin Stiegler
Dr. F. R. Rozeil; Jean Ulbrich;
and R. C. Bless Jr.
San Antonio--Mrs. J. Sureddin,
Wa! ter Winkler, Mrs. F. W.
Renken, Kathy Wurzbach, Dan-
iel Harris.
Randolph AFB, Tex.--Maj. A.
H. Schroder. Sedona, A-
rizona--Mrs. C.C.Caudel.
Asheboro, N. C.—Curtis Brad-
en. Lompoc, Calif.--Morton
Mechler. Decatur, Ala.--Char
lie Ward.
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IT’S
OLD PHILOSOPHER WANTS IN ON
The Expert-Judging Racket
Editor's note: The Old Phil-
osopher on his Johnson grass
farm wanders out of his field
this week, but that's his look-
out.
Dear editar:
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One of the fine things about
reading a newspaper is that a
man can find such a wide choice
cf things in it about human
nature he can't understand.
For example, I have been
puzzling for days now over an
item I read in a newspaper
last week. According to it, a
bunch of art experts inspected
a Texas oil man's cclbction of
paintings and decided threo-
fourths of them were fakes.
Now up to then, the pictures
had suited the owner, his friends
liked them, everybody was im-
pressed, but now that the ex-
p< rts say they are fakes, all
the pleasure has disappeared.
I don’t understand this. I
knew a 4 - year - old once who
wouldn't eat any apple on
Christmas morning except the
one Santa Claus put in hei-
st: eking, but in a couple of
I years she had come to the no-
! Con that it didn’t make any
| difference where an apple came
from so long as it tasted good.
Couldn’t tell by biting into it
| whether it came from the gro-
■ eery store or the North Pole,
i I heard of a western rancher
. once who found out Kansas City
I steaks were somehow consider-
i td better than any others and
I hence brought a little better
| price, so he shipped lus cattle
• in a town in Kansas, held them
■ there a week, then took them
i on into Kansas City and sold
| them and got a big laugh out
| of all (he people there who were
f idling lake steaks.
| Cnderstand. I’m not quali-
8007 AM ! 10 discuss art. I'm not
» JLNb «| even qualified to discuss farm-
PICNIC TIME
and time to think of
I
FOODS
Potato Chips
★ Salad Dressing
WALTON HOWARD
Distributor
Hondo, Texas
ing if you get right down to it,
but I can’t figure out a busi-
ness where you have to call in
an expert to tell you whether
or not you should like a given
painting.
Of course if you’re going in-
to the financial aspects of it,
that’s a different matter. An
original by a celebrated artist
naturally is worth more than
a copy, the same as it is with
a dollar till, but that’s for ex-
change purposes, not for look-
ing at.
It's a good racket, though,
and I wish I could get in on it.
Can you tell me how I can
convince the public the “J.A.”
brand of Johnson grass, if it
was originally grown by me, is
worth a hundred times the
ordinary kind7
Yours faithfully,
J. A.
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
Now brand 1 em easy fer as thin as they are you might brand
right through 'em . "
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by BISHOP E. H. JONES
of The Episcopal Churcb
Where Action Is
There is a favorite saying to-
day, especially among young
people, "1 want to be where
the action is.” It is the expres-
sion of an understandable de-
sire to be involved in the real
issues, the real struggles and
the real decisions of our time.
Sometimes it is implied that
Church people and Church
leaders are not “where the ac-
tion is," that they are remote
and irrelevant in what they
are saying and going. Some
priests and ministers have turn-
ed. to, more secular pursuits
because of this feeling. As one
views the situation, two com-
ments are in order.
The first is that the indict-
ment is too severe. It is un-
doubtedly true that some chur-
ches keep aloof from the strug-
gles for a better social order
i. e., for justice and peace and
brotherhood, some ministers do
keep on answering questions
people arc not asking. But more
and more the Church of today
is involved, deeply involved,
in the application of Christian
principles to man’s social as
well as his personal life. This
involvement is not oniy in
terms of protest and pronoun-
cement, but even more in
awakening God's people to
their total mission and their
total responsibility. There is a
steady effort, usually without
fanfare or publicity, to show
John McAnelly, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John E. McAnelly, is
among the 27 students named
from Hardin-Simmons Univer-
sity, Abilene, to Who's Who
in American Universities and
Colleges. McAnelly is a
music major from Hondo.
Judge and Mrs. Jim Duncan
accompanied by Mr. and Mrs.
Frederick Bohmfalk visited
their children, Mr. and Mrs.
Jimmy Duncan and Dorothy
Anne Duncan in Marble Falls
last weekend. They had such
a wonderful time they plan
another vistt in July.
May C. Koch will leave by
plane Sunday to spend her va-
cation with her son and family
Mr. and Mrs. Tommy Koch and
son Mark Allen, in Borger.
ANOTHER VIEW of Hondo's May 31, 1935 flood
shows the old Bandera Avenue (now Ave. M.) as it
appeared from the present S. P, depot after the
water had subsided several feet. (Photo by Dr. O.B
Taylor).
that the Church is to society
as a man’s conscience is to a
man.
The other comment is that
God’s action takes place with-
in as well as without — and
often the first must precede
the second. A new world is
based on new men and new
motives. The Church continues
to confront men with the neat!
for rcpc'ntanee, forgiveness
and a new beginning. There is
“action" in genuine prayer
and worship as well as in the
secular witness of the Christian
in his .daily life and in his
social relationships.
WORM CASES
NOW TOTAL 35
MISSION — Screwworm casas
in Texas continue to climb, with
four additional-cases announced
by Southwest Screwworm Erad-
ication Laboratory officials
Monday (May 22).
The Texas total for the year
now stands at 35.
Uvalde County reported two
more eases over the weekend.
Both cases are located on
ranches along the Frio River
in the Knippa Community naar
Highway 90. The. new cases
bring Uvalde County’s total to
five for 1967.
Bandera County reported its
second case of the year, on a
ranch 18 miles northwest of the
Medina community. The coun-
ty’s first case occurred May
19.
Treatment of araas reporting
new cases began immediately,
according to Dr. M. E. Mea-
dows, Jr., veterinarian in
charge of field operations. Hot-
spotting operations or air-drop-
ping of 160,000 sterile screw-
worm flies over each of the
case areas got underway with
screwworm program officials
and county Extension Service
agents of each of the counties
cooperating in planning the
program. Three successive
weekly air distributions of flies
are planned over each ranch
as the battle against screw-
worms continues.
HONDO
ANVIL HERALD
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SOUTH TEXAS
PRESS ASSOCIATION
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end the country It eefe.
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Mall. Published every Friday
In Hondo, Texas, by Associated
Texas Newspapers, Inc. W. E.
Berger, President; Lillian G.
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McDade, Editor.
The Castrovllle Anvil Eet. 1886
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Consolidated ... Oct. 17, 1903
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putation of any peraon, firm
or corporation, which may ap-
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be corrected upon being
brought to the attention of the
publisher.
EDITOR S CORNER
—————
San Antonio, Texas
May 14, 1967.
The Anvil Herald
Thank you very much for
the copy of The Hondo Anvil
Herald, I do appreciate your
kindness in sending it.
My sister sailed last week
for England, full of ideas for
their flower shows) We both
enjoyed the Hondo show very
much. It is not often the
flower arrangements overpower
the horticulture, but the Hondo
show proved that your gardeners
grow as well as show."
I am sending the paper on
to Mrs. Reed,complete, so that
she can show it to the editor,:
of their paper which as I recall
is just about the same size. I
know she will enjoy all of it
and especially the picture of
Dr. Taylor with her flower ar-
rangement, since we had the
pleasure of meeting her that
day- Sincerely yours,
Margaret Kane
(Mrs. Paul A. Kane)
SS BENEFITS SHOW
INCREASE IN COUNTY
A total of $818,137,596 in
social security benefits w a s
paid to residents of Texas
last year, up ten percent from
the year before.
At the end of 1966, 2,386
men, women, and children in
Medina County were receiving
benefits at a monthly rate of
$131,462, James E. Forbus, so-
cial security district manager
in San Antonio, Texas, report-
ed today of this total, 1,846
were older people receiving
benefits as retired workers, the
wives and husbands of retired
workers and as the surviving
widows or aged dependant par-
ents of workers who have died.
"But social security is not
just for older people," Forbus
pointed out. Three hundred
and twenty-seven young widow
and children in Medina County
were receiving monthly bene-
fits amounting to $14,435.
FAMILY PROTECTION
Practically every young
family in Medina County has
survivors protection under so-
cial security that can be worth
$75,000 or more, and equally
valuable disability insurance
protection.
The average worker, he
said, can expect to collect
more than the value of his
social security tax contributions
just in the benefits payable to
him and his wife in retirement.
If he does not live to r e t i r e -
ment, his family stands to col-
lect far more than the contri-
butions he has paid; and the
same will be true if he should
become totally d i sa b led for
work before 65.
Monthly payments to the
family of a worker who dies,
leaving two or more children,
can range from $66 to $368 a
month, depending on the work-
er’s average earnings under so-
cial security.
BENEFITS
Social security survivors
benefits, Forbus said can be
paid to the family of a young
man who has worked and paid
social security contributions
for as little asayear and a
half during the three years be-
fore his death.
Benefits tfe Iht;mother ,»nd
children continue tlntil the
youngest child reaches 18, or
indefinitely, if the child has a
disability which began before
his 18th birthday and makes if
impossible for him to work and
become self-supporting. Under
a change in the law enacted in
1965, a child’s benefits can be
or she continues in school.
Since the Social Security
Program has had many chang-
es in the past years, Forbus
suggests that anyone having
a question about social secur-
ity call or write the social
security office.
Mrs, Bob Kollman spent
last weekend in San Antonio
with her brother and sister-in-
law, Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Gaines.
Mrs. Bob Kollman is in Col-
lege Station this week to see
her daughter, Mrs. R. B. (Patsy)
Moore receive her Master’s
Degree. She was accompanied
by her sister and brother-in-law
Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Wiede
of San Antonio.
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At Graduation Time, it's our proud privilege
to congratulate each and every member
of the Class of '67.
Grads, you're really great!
Bank will be Closed Tuesday, May 30, in observance of Memorial Day
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