The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas • Page 3

It Occurs To Me SUNDAY MORNING. 1970 tg i 01 a il 7'A Accidents Unavoidable? Sheer Hog wash Bv LIN 1 MILLS EDITOR AT ALMOST every turn today we hear those who say that everything, including the language, is changing. The so called modernists say we've got to accept four letter profanity "real. man. that's because it's the wav it JOHN R.

GARDNER Candidate The hippies have a way out language all their own that will pass when the hippies pass. Teenagers have always had a few expressions typical ot Gardner Files For Constable John H. Gardner tiled Saturday as a Democratic candidate for the office of County Constable. Precinct 3. He resigned Jan.

25 from Two Retire From Corps OfEngineers Two longtime employes of the U.S. Army Engineers' Galveston District have retired after a total of nearly 70 years of service. Joe E. A. Eberle, supervisory accountant, is a veteran of 40 years' service and Charles E.

Kirchem, supervisory accounting technician, has 29 years' sen-ice. Both were employes of the finance and accounting branch. Eberle. native of Waynoke, is a 1927 graduate of Ball High School and attended Draughon's Business College. All of this service has been with the Galveston District except for a brief period.

1956 to 1959, when he was employed by the Southwestern Division in Dallas. Before embarking upon his career with the Engineers In 1929 he was employed as a route carrier by the Galveston Daily News, a Western Union messenger, and later as a billing clerk with Clarke and Courts Printers. Eberle, the father of two sons and a married daughter, resides at 8fH 24th Street. Kirchem, a native of Galveston. attended Jesuit High School, and Draughon's Business College.

His career with the Engineers started in 1941. Prior to that time he was employed by the Santa Fe Hallway, Morgan Steamship Lines, and for four years, owned and operated a retail grocery store. Kirchem lives at 1112 17th Street w-ith his wile. Gertrude. They have one son and two grandchildren.

Isle Restaurant Grand Opening Set This Week The i i a opening tor the Montevev House i a ReM aii rant at t31S Stewart Road will be hold at! this week it was announced Saturday The Sflih location of a Houston based company, the Galveston restaurant will host diners during Us "Grand Opening Week." Sears Starts New Catalog Sales Office Operation Soars. Hoehuck and l'o 's veston siore will administer the operations ot catalog sales offices in I.a Marque and City in order to provide additional service customer theie. The catalog sales oflice.s in both cities, which i become the Galveston County Sheriff's Department where he has been employed since August 1966. He worked for the Hitchcock police department prior lo that time. Gardner's public announcement follows: "A constable's duties consist of 50 per cent serving civil processes, and the balance is assorted criminal work of all levels.

He is the bailiff fur the Justice of the Heace Court, and serves the various warrants and civil papers of that court. He is responsible for transferring prisoners to and from court. "I feel that 1 am well qualified for the office of Constable of Precinct 3 due to my nine years i in the law- enforcement field. "During these nine years in law enforcement, I have taken several police courses through the Texas AM Extension program. I have had wide experience in investigations and general police work and in such areas as the proper handling and processing of prisoners in transferring them from one institution to another and in police supervision.

"I am a graduate of the American Police Communications Extension School, the United States Department of Justice. Federal Bureau of Prisons, and have also attended several courses in riot control, criminal procedures and civil processes. I hold active membership in the Sheriff's Association of Texas. The Texas Peace Officers Association, arid the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employes AFL CIO Union Local No. 1521 "I have attended the Galveston Community College, and the Southwestern School of Heal Estate in Houston." Gardner, his wife Shirley and their six children, Terrie Lynne, 16: Debrs Sue.

14; i a A 12; John H. 10; Thomas Lee. and Vicki Jean. 7. reside at 9221 Highway 6 in Hitchcock.

had pr sly reported directly to Dalbs. Texas The change is ettectivt' Feb- rii.uy 1970 Mimne.c 'ragm. lialveston manager explained a a nui uber ol advantages w.iuld he table lc cutomer in Ci! and La Marque as a re- Milt ui" tlu- satellites Tin- catalog sales desk will operate in the Cratfm "1)111 rutomer will also have m.m\ nl the i tit a reiail i Fur example we plan to include an appliance depart im-nt in both since-, with professional appliance salesmen on The slore." Y.i- gin continued, i provide its I.a a and Texas City Datelines i complete merchandise a we plan in the ID bave MM Min.it) le items available. such as lawn moweix and we hope to include complete paint a in boih -tores Texas City La Marque ciis i continue lo henelii trom nislnmer emce opera- tmns the (i.ilveslon store Texas Cilv a i will be Dave Morrison, a producl ol Sears Management Training Program and a lormer division maiiagei ot Ihe lialvo- ton store Mr- True! Kltfin i a i manager ut the Marqin 1 operalmn their generation and always will, ihest tads coming and going. Then there's technology, which is creating realistic new words because ot the new way we live in the computer age.

WITH THE coming of new ways of doing things, meanings of old xvurds change. One common old word ihat needs changing in our modern society is ACCIDENT. I'm talking about automobile accidents. Everybody knows thai most accidents aren't really at all. They're caused by drinking, speeding, tailgating.

poking along, lane hopping, i i foolhardiness, indolence and just plain old a i carelessness. Accidents are not nmdents when driving is harum scaruni. wild, wreckless. devil may -care, impetuous, hotheaded, hasty, hurried, mad. desperate, furious, breakneck, foolhardy, hairbrained, daredevil and death defying.

Add some of your own words. We still think of accidents as being something unavoidable. Thai's sheer hog wash. Our behind the times dictionaries define accidents in terms of something that's unexpected and unintentional, something that occurs purely by chance. NUTS.

may claim that accidents are unintentional, but how can we honestly say that when we drive like we drive' 1 It we're honest about it, we could say a great many of our accidents are premeditated. When we drive like we're just asking for an accident, that's premeditation in a real sense. Even intentional. Nobody's going to argue that only one parly i often the cause of an accident involving two ur more vehicles. But that still makes accidents causeable.

And ail too often lou many of us picture ourselves as being the innocent party, to which something happens by pure chance. We are blameworthy to a real extent when we could but don't prevent an acciden' for failure to drive defensively. We need a new word to replace "accident. The new word should be descriptive, of course, something that immediately conjuries up an image of torn up automobiles, of injury MAYBE IT shouldn't he a word that places blame, per but it ought to remove old fashioned notions that accidents occur bv chance or from unknown We've got the navy blue, to be exact. Shaping up for spring along lean vesly lines, slriped for good measure.

Just Ihe kind of layered look that says today in no uncertain terms. Acetate bonded acetate for sizes 3-11. causes, that accidents are events that cause- loss or injury ur death not due to any fault ur misconduct. There are words we now use inlerchangably with accident that do a fair job of accomplishing this goal, words like wreck. crash, collision, crack up.

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