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_ n - - By H. M. BAGGARLY
(Continued From Page One)
a war be a Republican?
I'RING OL'R YOUNGER yeWs, we
always tended to put certain people on
pedestals. When we read after noted
writers or listened to top flight commenta-
tors on radio or telev ision we accepted them
as authorities simply because of their age
itid position. We considered them some-
thing more than mere flesh and blood.
But as time passes, more and more we
tend to accept them as only mere mortals.
As we listened to Bill Moyers and Eric
Sevareid during the Republican convention,
we found it so difficult to place them in the
same class, not that we discount Moyers, but
because we know hint better than we do
Sevareid.
After all. Moyer's credentials cannot be
sneezed at! Fie was for a time Presidential
press secretary and was editor in chief of
Newsdav. a leading daily in the New York
area. In addition he had his own commentary
on the PBS television network and is often a
panelist on TV shows.
I T IN SPITE of this, we hav e just nev er
considered Movers an authority even
though he is to the extent that anybody is an
“authority.”
Tous. he was never anything more than
a minor aide to Lvndon Johnson. He was an
ordained Southern Baptist minister and just
wasn't considered a journalist or newsman.
Especially following the JFK assassination
he made himself av ailable to LBJ. mostly as
an errand boy . We travelled with him during
Johnson's train trip through the Deep South
during the l%0 campaign. He had our
credentials in his pocket when we boarded
the train at the Washington Union Station.
Others had picked up their credentials the
day before. If we had anv questions or
needed anv favors performed, we looked up
Bill Moyers.
Later, when we were in Washington and
wanted in the White House, we had only to
call either Liz Carpenter or Bill and they
would telephone the Secret Service to let us
through the gate.
When he became LBJ's press secretary ,
we questioned his ability. We never ques-
tioned Pierre Salinger's abilitv and we never
questioned George Christian. Moyers may
have been as qualified as either Salinger or
Christian, but we just never felt that way.
(We never felt that way about Ron Ziegler or
Ron Nesscn. either.)
VAKE IVAN SINCLAIR, for example. Ivan
■ was once an aide to Lyndon Johnson.
He's now Jack Hightower's administrative
assistant. Ivan held other important jobs in
the Executive Department and in Wash-
ington.
II we heard todav that Ivan had been
named press secretary we'd probably react
about like we did when Movers received that
job (Sorry about that, lvani.
And Ivan probablv would be as compe-
tent as anv of the others.
Seriously, it's just that we tend to
underestimate those persons whom we know
best and place on a pedestal those we don't
know at all!
I hat's why it's difficult lor a medical
doctor, even with experience, to return to his
hometown to practice. Too manv people
remember him when. . .and he looks not so
tall as he is.
Speaking ol Movers, when LBJ was
encouraging us to join his stall and we w ere
offering the excuse that we didn't want to
dispose of this paper which tor verv real
-casons would have been necessary , he said
hat our experience at the White House
ould unlock the door to anv future
cwspaper job we wanted
“Look at Bill Moyers." he said. He
as just a so-so journalist and he left here to
eeome publisher of Newsdav. makes
• ore money than I do!"
AfEVER WAS A TRIER saying than the
■Wone about the grass, across the fence,
lo'iking greener
Jobs in the White House, or in many
Washington offices, look glamorous. . .but
they include a lot of pressure We doubt if
many who hold them are very happy.
Certainly they are never relaxed. And many
we have known, in both the public and
private sector (John Masterman of NBC. for
example), often dream of editing a small-
town weekly! They see it as low pressure,
freedom to say and do what they wish, an
easy going life.
And how wrong they are!
E OFTEN THINK about how many
people we are expected to please.
Maintaining a staff has been a problem since
the early days of World War II. Many
demand concessions not even available to
"the boss.” Then one must make some
attempt to please the advertisers. After all.
they pay the rent. Then there are the
subscribers and readers. There won’t be any
advertisers if there aren't any readers. Then
there's the Wage and Hour people, always
breathing down one’s back. And Internal
Revenue. Then OSH A comes around to
complain about scraps of paper on the
darkroom floor, an untidy restroom, or
perhaps no "exit" sign over the back door.
Or maybe they want an electric typewriter
grounded or a guard around the big press.
Then there is someone to make sure you
aren't accepting a classified ad including the
phrase "for men only.”
Then the post office snoops around to
make sure we aren't mailing papers to
delinquent subscribers, that we compute
weekly the percentage of advertising in each
edition, that we publish a statement of
ownership and circulation within ten days
after we file our annual statement on
October 1. And they are interested in
whether or not we publish news of lotteries.
We are not to advertise or publish the results
of drawings where the public has bought
chances. The name of our paper must appear
on each page of each edition including
inserts, those grocery or insurance supple-
ments which we often run
And we haven't even gotten down to the
rules and regulations affecting political
advertising. The government itself some-
times can't ferret out the law. Sometimes we
get contradictory instructions. Sometimes
we get instruction one week and two weeks
later those instructions are changed or
cancelled.
And there's the sales tax. We must
collect it on each single copy as well as each
Texas subscription. . and report it rcgularlv
which we do.
And we must be careful to post a sign in
the building w hich informs the employees of
the minimum wage, a store license certifi-
cate. and an OSHA report which includes
infractions and actions taken to correct the
infractions.
And all our records must be kept for
several years in case somebodv wants to
come along and examine them. Our ware-
house was vandalized sometime back and we
found old records, cancelled checks, and the
like, scattered within a radius of two blocks
E WOULD URGE all those who are
seeking release front the pressures of
city life to retire to the country and publish a
newspaper where you have no one to please
except the help, the advertisers, the
subscribers, the post office. Internal Re-
venue. Wane and Hour. OSHA. FPA. the
slate comptroller, the secretary of slate,
social security, the Employment Com-
mission. . and voursclf.
IGGEST LAUGH OF last week was a
picture of Bob Price in Thursdav
morning's Amarillo News The caption.'
Mission to Kansas C ity " The storv? ' Bob
Price left Amarillo yesterday to attend the
presidential selection portion ol the Republi-
can National Convention in Kansas City.
Price said the purpose of his trip was ‘to
make sure President Ford keeps Ronald
Reagan in mind as a vice presidential
candidate, should Reagan lose the nomin-
ation.'
Remember how Richard Nixon used to
call Price everv morning to see if it was time
to go to the bathroom?
Hill is to the northwest of
Mvrtle Springs Mountain, or
the chain of hills in the
community by the same
name and nearby Fincastle.
On the south is another
series of hills for which I
have no name. They come in
close to Povnor and drain
into C addo ( reek near Fos-
ters ille or Brushv ( reek.
I he stretch of roadway
(today it is State Highway
175) that came out of black-
land Dallas and meandered
through Kleberg. Scagovillc.
Kaufman. Pauline and Ath
ens eventually went straight
wav up laRue's Main Street
on its w ay to Jacksonville. As
I remembers it. the road was
torturous drive in a high-
slung Model I Ford, light
and gummy on its way out
Dallas' Second Avenue
through Kaufman. Kemp
and Mabank Impossible to
travel during the rainy sea-
son When a family went to
Dallas, they wanted to make
sure it didn't come a hard
rain along the Trinity before
they returned home.
But modern highways
have changed that today.
I he 1930s brought forth a
strip of white nhhon all along
the scenic route, a highway
that not only changed the
mode of travel hut the life-
style of a people. It made
country general stores like
my dad's obsolete, except as
service to its immediate
neighborhood, and Henry
Ford gave a new breath to
IN THE MILL
East Texas Village Life In
Late Teens Described
Hv ELTON L. MILLER
Correspondent
I here seems to be a rim
around the land that encom-
passes the lush, green valley
dominated bv Caddo Creek,
and named for an Indian
tribe that once called it
home The rim on the west
ern side of the village seems
to look dow n charmed, but in
awe. at the placed people
who adore the handiwork of
the Lord and who worship
Him- at least once a week.
I he wide variety of oaks—
a mighty oak from a tiny
acorn grows the hickory,
elm. huge sycamores, ca-
tawha. willows along Hall-
mark Branch, you name it
the tree is there. It had
been said that anything
grows in l.aRue, and that's
true Anything from the
si mi tropical up.
It s soil is a sprinkling of
reel, iron ore ladcncd hill-
sides to pepperv. white sand.
Sptmg and fall gardens flour-
ish larrots and turnip
gui ns to watermelons and
corn, sweet potatoes and
spinac h
Ibis is the area that has
ev er v l fling I i ei flow ing
springs, ever running
sin .mis like Pierce- ( reck.
Hallmark Brain h imptving
into the Caddo that travels
east and southward into the
murkv Nechcs River (also
named for Indians that roam-
ed the land) and thus to the
sea.
From the earliest days, it
was a land of plenty, except
in days of serious drouth
when the gentry fell back on
the canned gi>ods they had
put up in early spring when
vines grew well in the loose
ground, f anning time was
when the womenfolk charm
ed their men into dragging
up fire wood and starting a
blaze under the cast iron
wash pot. The water filled to
the- brim, the males vanished
to whatever their tasks of the
day were and the women
started packing pickles, peas
and potlickcr. Sometimes,
mav it be said, the men
showed up again to solder
the tin cans for the cooking
process.
To the northeast of the
town is the now-famous (by
flank Tolbert's admission)
later Hill Mountain. It is
thiisiallcd because from the
distance it looks like- the
ole time- taler hill that grand
dad had out the hack of his
old place In it he stored the
crop of sweet potatoes
(yams) tor tin winter, later
THE TULIA (Swisher County) HERALD
UNiikdy Letters By WHIUms
THURSDAY. AUGUST 26. 197b
Ramos Awarded Tulians Get
ROTC Scholarship Wj Qeqrees
Two students from West 21
Two students from West
Texas State University have
each been awarded a two-
year ROTC scholarship, ac-
cording to LTC Charles L.
Laakso. professor of Military
Science at WTSU.
Patrick Cannon, son of Dr.
and Mrs. Thomas Cannon of
Canyon, and Rosendo Ra-
mos. son of Mr. and Mrs.
Alfonso Vega of Tulia. were
given the scholarships based
upon their performance this
summer at the ROTC Basic
Camp at Fort Knox. Ken-
tucky .
West Texas State was one
of only two schools that had
more than one student win a
scholarship at the camp. The
scholarship will pjv for the
students' tuition, books and
fees in addition to $100 a
month during the school
v ear.
Lesvia Vela Gets
Master’s Degree
KINGSVILLE — Former
Tulian les Vela received the
degree of Master of Arts with
specialization in Bilingual-
bicultural education and soc-
iology during commence-
ment exercises at Texas A At
I University.
Miss Vela was among the
first 100 Texas educators to
receive such a degree, as
Texas A \- I is a pioneer in
the field of Bilingual Bicult-
ural education in undergrad-
uate. graduate, and post
graduate levels Miss Vela is
a graduate of Tulia FTigh
I'nb) and West Texas State
L'niversitv (”1). She is em-
ployed bv the Midland Inde-
pendent School District.
She plans to attend Texas
Tech L'niversitv and work
towards her Doctorate in
Multicultural Studies and
Behavioral Sciences.
Blount Heads
Young Farmers
The Young Farmers held
their annual steak barbecue
Saturdav. Several members
and one guest attended as
well as wives and children.
Volleyball was enjoyed.
After the barbecue, the
Young Farmers held elect-
ions. Bobbv Blount was
elected president; Mark Do-
val. vice president; Johnny
Dunn, secretary; Richard
( ombest, treasurer; and Don
Sanders, reporter.
The sixteenth annual
Young Farmers ( onvention
will be held in Lubbock
September IM at Van's Koko
Palace. 5201 Avc. U). Regis
tration begins at 12 noon and
all area Young Farmers are
urged to attend.
Anyone interested in join-
ing Young Farmers may
attend the meetings held on
the 3rd Monday of each
month at 8 p.m.
•
The Cross towers over the
contemporary scene with as
much power as it ever had.
Men have not diminished it
with their rejection—they
have only closed the door to
its help and its hope.
country living.
There is yet a healthy
place in the commercial life
of such communities in the
country, crossroads store.
Luther Crawford shepherds
sin h an establishment today
in I.aKue and there is still a
community center where you
can buy pinto beans and corn
flakes in little, old New York.
But these were the clays of
mv childhood in a small. East
Texas town. l.aRue is an
example of how life was in
the late teens and early 1920s
wfieri everyone was carefree,
happv and God-fearing,
church going citizens of a
land of liberty and freedom.
Three hundred and
twenty one West Texas State
University students were
awarded diplomas in com-
mencement exercises Aug.
14.
Graduates front Tulia are
Richard Birkenfeld. Rt N.
with a Bachelor of Science
degree; Roberta Burrow. Rt.
2. with a Bachelor of Science
degree Billy Jackson. I(K) 1
N Collin, with a Bachelor of
Science degree; Virginia
Watson. 30 Fannin Dr., with
a B.k helor of Science degree.
Farmers Hear
PHI Leaders
I he State Association of
Young Farmers of Texas
officers met Aug. 13.14 at
Seven A Ranch Resort in
Wimberlv.
On Saturday the group
heard two guest speakers.
Kenneth Moss, lubbock. Di-
rector of Field Activities tor
Texas Farmers Union and
Jay Nantan. Texas Farmers
Union president. I he spe ak-
ers presented the new insur-
ance plan 1FU have for the
voungcr tamilv which is to be
considerably cheaper.
T he state convention to he
held in San Antonio in Janu-
ary was discussed, it was
reported that Lane Palmer
would he the keynote speak
er of the first general ses-
sion.
Ihe Young Farmers wives
will have a boon luncheon
with a stvle show and a guest
speaker The group discus-
sed the possihilitv of secur-
mg Paul Harvey as guest
speaker lor the- banquet and
it not Mr Harvev. the possi
hilitv ot getting Moe Bands,
a native ot San Antonio, to
entertain at the banquet and
plav for the dance after
w ards.
I he officers decided to sell
the Tonng Farmer ot lexas
caps again this year.
Officers and their families
enjoyed all the activities at
the resort. The officers and
advisor attending were- Gars
Odom. Sulphur Springs;
Tommy Jack Stuart. Robs;
Pearson Knollc, Sandia;
Howard Smithson. Dimmitt.
Luther Sherrouse. Brenham; tv
’Tween i
By H. RUTH BBLL
Teens, are you unhappy at
home? with friends? with
dates? Adults, are you un-
happy with your relation-
ships, business, success,
yourself?
Do people like you ? Do you
want people to like you? How
can you know how people
feel about you? The answer
is in reaction.
How do you react to other
people? to one you like? to
one you do not like? How do
people react to you? If you
arc unhappy with the way
you relate to people or if you
are unhappy with your per-
sonality you must pay a price
to change. And only you can
pay the price.
To make a change you
must study other people's
reactions to what you do and
say. Be sensitive to things
you do that turn people off.
When you develop a deter-
mined. inspirational dis-sat
isfaction with yourself, then
you can change. Easy steps
to beginning personality
change: (1) listen to others.
(2) don't argue. (3) present
your views when asked. Do
not impose them. (4) If you
have a problem with some-
one else, instead of blaming
hint, start with yourself.
Analv ze w hat you do to cause
antagonism. Then analyze
what you can do to bring
about peace and good rela-
tionship.
Usually the things we do
not like in others are charac -
teristics that we don't like in
ourselves. It is easier to see
the faults in others
Those who are insensitive
to feelings ot others are the
ones who usuallv get hurt
easily.
(5) Keep vour mind open
to recognizing reactions of
other people to you.
(to live the Golden Rule
Treat others the wav vou
would like for them to treat
vou Don't treat others the
wav vou would not like to bc
treated.
School Menu
Monduv, Aug. 30
Western burgers, corn on
cob. lettuce wedge, dressing.
1 i pt milk, junk applesauce.
Tuesdav. Aug. 31
Chicken. dressing, gravv.
candied sweet potatoes,
green bean salad, loafbrcad.
butter. 1 j pt milk, peanut
butter cake.
Wcdncsdav, Sept. I
Raviollt casserole, mixed
greens, frito and bean salad,
corn bread. ' i pt. milk,
chilled sliced peaches,
lhursdav. Sept. 2
Roasl beef, gravv. mashed
potatoes, lettuce and spinach
salad, hot rolls, butter. 1 i [it
milk, cherrv cobbler.
F riday, Sept. 3
Tuna and noodle casse-
role. green peas, carrot and
raisin salad, cranberry mut
lins. 'i pt. milk, whipped
Jcllo.
Norman Risingcr. Madison
villc: Don Gattis. Austin;
( alvm Shelton. Silverton and
l.erov tioodson. ( amal ( nun
Board Renews
WIA License
AUSTIN—The Texas Wat-
er Development Board has
approved renewal of weather
modification licenses for
four applicants, including
Plains Weather Improve-
ment Association of Plain-
view-.
The renewals were ap-
proved routinely, with no
witnesses appearing.
The other renewals ap-
proved were those of Irving
P. Kriek, Inc-., of Texas;
Atmospherics. Inc-.. Fresno,
Calif.; and the Colorado Riv-
er Municipal Water District
of Big Spring.
All the renewals are tor
State fiscal year 1977.
The applicants now hold
valid weather modification
licenses and report in their
applications that there are no
changes in personnel on thc
basis of whose qualif ications
the licenses were issued
originallv
John T. C arr. Jr., director
of the T'WDB W eather Modi
fication and Technology Di
vision, notes that "licenses
are issued on the basis of
qualifications: permits un-
issued on the merits of
individual projects" so re-
newal ot the licenses doesn't
mean anv particular projects
by the applicants arc
involvcd.
IRT II I I\ I IRSI
DR. SCHWEDE
Schwede Wins
Doctorate
At A&M
On the evening of August
h. (i.irv James Schwede was
awarded ttic- degree Doctor
of \etermarv Medicine cum
laude from the t ollcge of
Veterinarv Medicine at lex
as A\ M University. Dr.
Schwede is a 19'I graduate
ot lulia High School He has
accepted a position in a
group practice in San An-
tonio
Among the- guests present
were Diana Schwede; Tv.
Iris, and Kenna Godwin of
lulia. Mr and Mrs J H
Schwede of Anderson; Mr
and Mrs Donald ( rocker of
l ubbock. Mr and Mrs I rn
esi Boehm of Anderson; and
Mr and Mrs Alan Boehm ot
Brv an
TULIA DRIVE IN
AUGUST
— ■ . m tmmme
Adults $150
Children Under 12 75c
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August 27-28
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August 29-30
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Baggarly, H. M. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 35, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1976, newspaper, August 26, 1976; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth507013/m1/4/: accessed June 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.