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P AG E 4* Seminole (Texas) Sentinel, Wednesday. August 9,2000
Opinion
Truthful sayings,
By M. Gene Dow, Publisher
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• Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in his
shoes. That way, if he gets angry, he’ll be a mile
away...and barefoot.
• A clear conscience is
usually the sign of a bad
memory.
• If you must choose
between two evils, pick
the one you’ve never tried
before.
• The best idea about
housework is to sweep
the room with a glance.
• Not one shred of
evidence supports the
notion that life is serious.
• It is easier to get
forgiveness than permission.
• For every action, there is an equal and opposite
government program.
•Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
•A closed mouth gathers no feet.
• If you look like your passport picture, you
probably need the trip.
• Always yield toiemptation, because it may not
pass your way again.
• Bills travel through the mail at twice the speed of
checks.
• A conscience is what hurts when all your other
parts feel so good.
• Eat well, stay fit, died anyway. <
• Men are from earth. Women are from earth. Deal
with it.
• No husband has ever been shot while doing the
dishes.
• A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand
• Middle age is when broadness of the mind and
narrowness of the waist change places.
• Opportunities always look bigger going than
coming.-:— -
• Junk is something you throw away three weeks
before you need it.
• There is always one more imbecile than you
counted on.
• Artificial intelligence is no match for natural
stupidity.
• Going to church doesn’t make you a Christian any
more than going to a garage makes you a mechanic.
• Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to
recognize a mistake when you make it again.
• By the time you can make ends meet, they move
the ends.
• Someone who thinks logically provides a nice
contrast to the real world.
• The only time that work beats a path to your door
is when you are in the bathroom.
• Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for
they shall never cease to be amused.
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THE OLD INDIAN CHIEF SAYS— 'No matter
how bad things get, you have to go on living, even if
it kills you.
Giddings carousel horses up and running
A passing carnival ran into financial trouble years ago
near Giddings and left an old carousel to cover some of
its debts. The Merry-Go-Round had 28 painted wooden
horses on it. All the mechanical equipment was in
working order, even though it was in need of repair.
It was moved into town despite objections from
residents who said they would prefer that piece of junk
go somewhere else. A circular building was built in
Firemen’s Park to house the carousel. It’s an old fashioned
kind of building, with wooden walls that fold down
halfway all the way around to allow cross ventilation.
Over the years, the carousel was placed into the care
of various civic clubs around Giddings. It was operated
only once a year, during the city’s July 4th activities.
Very little work was done on the horses, which began
to deteriorate. WJ
ovefltiei
things started happening.
A wood sculptor in Giddings, Wayne Peters, was
asked to restore the horses. Wayne carves museum-
quality figures. ’1 got bunged up in a car wreck in 1976
and was out of commission for about a year,” says
Wayne. “Sitting on the patio was unproductive, so I
started whittling as part of my rehab.”
He has a small shop behind his house where he works
in a wheelchair with a tool kit on it. “I took one horse at
a time and worked on it,” he says. “I’d take them apart
completely. Carousel horses have about 20 pieces in
them. These had caulking compound, all kinds of cement
and glue, nails, all types of stuff that had been used in
repairingthese things. Even these old corrugated fasteners
used to hold two pieces of wood together. All that junk.
I took all the hardware out ol them and tenlaced tliem
Tumbleweed
Smith
►rate. When the Qidtfmg* fire department took*,1
openmlrm
with wooden dowels. There’s no nails in them now.
None of them had ears or tails. Most of them didn’t have
eyes. Some didn’t have legs or feet. Parts of the head
were missing. I just made pieces and put them back
together. I cleaned them up, sanded them down and took
all the olApai# off. I used bondo, the same stuff they use
ttrpatch mitpmobile bodies.”
He repaired all 28 of the horses. The project took
years.
After getting the horses ready to paint, he sent them to
a professional firm that specializes in painting carousel
horses. He made sure that real horse hair was used in
making the tails on the horses.
Wayne gave the firemen a lifetime guarantee on his
work. “On my lifetime, not theirs," says Wayne, who is
84 years old.
Wayne is handicapped and rated totally disabled. He
has a left arm that is not of much use to him. “I work
single-handedly,” he jokes. “But disabled is not unable.”
The carousel in Giddings is now used several times a
year and is kept in good shape. People from a large area
go to Giddings with one special purpose in mind: to ride
the carousel with the pretty horses._
A TEXAS VOICE
The big day
By Steve Marta indale
You remember what it’s like. Come on, think back
a bit.
You can’t believe the time will ever arrive; you’ve
been waiting all your life. For the past year or more,
people have been asking you about it. “No,” you
would say. Then your mother adds, “That comes next
year.”
You marvel at what you’re missing. Your
You suspected as much. Yes, everything is going to
be different.
These clothes are different from your normal day-
to-day attire. Actually, they are a lot like what you
wear to church on Sunday. They restrict movement
more than you’re accustomed to. The shoes seem to
meld your toes with your feet. And, of course, they all
seem to scream out, “Don’t you dare get me dirty.”
Ok' OK small fee lOLpay to acquire the goal that
imagination takes you to enchanting worlds where
secrets open before you.
Other, older kids get so many opportunities that
you’re “not old enough for.” All the new friends, new
ideas, trips...just being away from home and the same
old environment every day is an exciting concept.
Summer comes and you just don’t think there is any
way you can wait. The older kids arc around more.
Some of them are teasing you: “You have to start this
fall.” “Boy, this is your last summer of freedom.”
“It’s tougher now; I wouldn't want to be in your
shoes."
But you know they’re playing mind games with
you. You know they don’t really mean it. Maybe
that’s part of being one of them, like having a
password to get into the “club house" you and your
friends built in the woods. Maybe you’ll understand
once you’re part of this new club.
There is so much to learn, so much to discover.
DRAG DAYS OF SUMMER
The summer oh-so-slowly passes by, long days of
monotony. You keep asking your mother how much
longer. She finally circles the big day on the calendar
and crosses out days spent. “There, that’s how much
longer.”
You don’t think you’ll make it.
Things finally begin to take on a new air as more
and more X’s appear on the calendar. There is talk of
buying new clothes.
“You can’t very well wear what you used to wear,
now can you?"
lies ahead. You will wear the clothes, try to keep
them clean and learn to function in them. Of course,
that’s probably another secret.
SUPPLY LIST
What’s this. More shopping? Surely you can’t wear
all the clothes you have now. What? Supplies?
Shriek!
It’s almost here. It really is going to happen. Today,
you’re going shopping for supplies. Your supplies.
Things you can put your name on.
There’s a ruler. You’ve always wanted your own
ruler. A pencil. A special writing tablet. Not even
Mom and Dad has a writing tablet like this. Scissors.
Crayons. Glue.
And a cigar box to put them in.
The last night, you don’t think you can go to sleep.
It’s like Christmas Eve. But, before you know it, your
mother is waking you.
“It’s the big day.”
A good breakfast is important, you’re told, and you
manage to eat something even though it is difficult to
do so. You tug and yank and cinch and tie yourself
into your new clothes, with Mom’s help, or course.
And you’re off.
“Wait, dear, we have to take pictures first.”
Clutching the cigar box to you, your hair waxed
down, your clothes neat and in place, you squint into
the rising sun as your father snaps photos.
It’s nice to be so important. And who in the world
can be more important than a kid on the first day of
school.
—R
STATE CAPITAL
Texas first to have internet
auction of unclaimed property
by Ed Sterling, TP A
AUSTIN — Texas is the first
state to have conducted an Internet
simulcast of an unclaimed prop-
erty auction, state Comptroller
Carole Keeton Rylander said last
week.
Online bidders from the United
Kingdom, New York, California,
Connecticut, California and all
comers of Texas were among the
successful buyers at the July 22
Unclaimed Property Auction.
“The Internet simulcast of
Texas’ annual traditional-stylo
Unclaimed Property Auction was
an unqualified success,” Rylander
said.
“Seventy-one auction lots were
sold to online bidders, for a total
of $34,501. Though no state had
ever before held an Internet simul-
cast of an unclaimed property auc-
tion, I am delighted to report that
Texas pulled it off without a
hitch.”
Overall, the auction ofjcwelry,
coins and other items found in
abandoned safe deposit boxes
raised $365,769 for public educa-
tion and other state programs.
Thcauctionchannel.com, on its
interactive Web site, allowed 384
online bidders from at least 25
states and six countries to compete
in real time with approximately
300 bidders on the auction floor
in San Antonio.
“Government is stuck in the age
of Atari and Commodore, while
the rest of the world is on fast-for-
ward to web-based management
and e-commerce,” Rylander said.
“The Unclaimed Property Auction
demonstrated that state govern-
ment can use technulugy in new
ways to give the public the level
of service they have come to ex-
pect.”
AG Announces Settlements
Attorney General John Comyn
announced settlements with
Allstate Insurance companies and
their collection agency, Credit
Control Services Inc., regarding
collections practices against mo-
torists that Allstate believed to be
at fault in collisions with its poli-
cyholders.
Comyn’s office investigated
complaints that the companies
used misleading and deceptive tac-
tics to collect auto “subrogation”
claims against motorists that
Allstate believed to be uninsured.
A subrogation claim results
when an insurance company has
paid a claim to its own policy-
holder, then-seeks; Jp/efqverf
money from the party the com-
pany believes was at fault, Comyn
said.
As part of the settlement the
companies agreed not to charac-
terize any subrogation claim as a
debt, credit obligation or other
matter that could affect a person’s
credit or credit rating report or tdj
disclose any subrogation claim to
any credit bureau.
Other Highlights
• Larry Faulkner, president of
the University of Texas at Austin, '
last week proposed an end to
charging students pcr-crcdit-hour,
plus various itemized fees, and
instead roll all assessments to-
gether in a lump and call it “tu-
ition.” It is up to the Texas Legis-
lature, which convenes in January,
to consider the proposal.
• Liberty County last month
became Texas’ latest — and 121 st
— county to be quarantined for
Africanized honeybees, said Paul
Jackson, chief inspector for the
Texas Apiary Inspection Service,
a unit of the Texas Agricultural
Experiment Station. State bee in-
the Texas A&M University Sys-
tem agriculture program.
• Agriculture Commissioner
Susan Combs is looking for uni-
versity or college students to work
at the Texas Department of
Agriculture’s Food and Fiber Pa-
vilion at the state fair, Sept. 29-
Oct. 22, and serve as paid interns .
in the agency’s regional offices .for
the fall semester. !
spectors ate monitoring bcc trap
lines across the state. The bee has
spread along a line from south of
Houston to south of Lubbock, to
El Paso.
• Bo Pilgrim, senior chairman
of the board of Pilgrim’s Pride
poultry processing in Pittsburg,
Texas, received the Distinguished
Texan in Agriculture Award from
How {6 contact your
Representatives ’•
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If you have questions, and want anr
swers, to any subject that involves our
elected lawmakers, both state and na-
tional. here is how to get in touch with
them
U’.S. SENATORS:
Phil Gramm, Republican
Room 179, Russell Bldg.
Washington, D. C. 20510
Telephone: (202) 224-2934
Kay Bailey Hutchison, Republican
Room 703, Hart Bldg.
Washington, D. <C. 20510 ,
Telephone: (202) 224-5922
U.S. REPRESENTATIVE
Larry Combest, Republican
• 19th Congressional District
1511 Longworth HOB
Washington, D.C. 20515 ‘
Telephone (202) 225-4005
Fax# 202-225-9615
STATE SENATOR
Teel Bivins
31st Senatorial District
P.0 Box 12068
Capitol Station, Room 118
Austin, Texas 78711
Telephone: (512) 463-013J
Fax: (512) 475-3733
P.O.Box 1673-Ph (915)682-0455
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STATE REPRESENTATIVE
Gary Walker
District 77
c/o House of Representatives
P. O. Box 2910
Capitol Station, Room 305
Austin, Texas 78768-2910
Telephone: (512) 463-0678
Fax:(512)463-1094
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