The Port Arthur News from Port Arthur, Texas • Page 20

W-TIIE NEWS, Port Arthur, Texas Friday, March 30, 1973 What a mule can reach 72 voter City 50-year list grows I I 9 LENTEN GUTOEPOSTS By Eddy Arnold When I was a kid growing up in the hills of Tennessee, we a 200 acres with mules, and the most headstrong, stubborn, cantankerous one of them all was old Tobe. On Sundays, the animals' day of rest as well as ours, Tobe had to stay in the barn while the other mules were turned out to pasture, or else he'd jump the fence and run off. When anyone asked dad why he put up with him his answer was always the sajne. "Behind the plow," he'd say, "Tobe comes up to standards." That was dad's philosophy in a He wasn't bothered by surface differences and idiosyncrasies in people or mules. Standards, that's what he cared about.

Dad died when I was 11, and we had to sell the farm, staying on as sharecroppers. They were hard years, but mother's smile her indomitable faith never wavered. She gave me my first music lesson, teaching me how to pick out "Sweet Bunch of Daisies" on a borrowed guitar. Before Jong I was performing at most every picnic or supper around. Our hill- country neighbors liked my songs so well I decided I would make a career of singing.

At 17 I left home for the radio station in Jackson, IS miles away and discovered how awful I really was. I didn't come up to even i i musical standards, but I made up my mind I would practice until I did. Woodlawn honors told Eighth graders led the honor at Woodlawn Junior Hiph School for the lirst semester. They were Joanne Berwick, Cathy 31aze, Pani Crceory, Gina Moore arid FLhonda Weber. Four ninth graders John Arisen.

JudyCalanach, Janet Griffith and Tam-ny LaRue also straight No seventh graders Tiade the hieh honor list. Making the "VB" honor roll were: NINTH Darla Barton. Monica Bishop, Lee Black-nan, Kathleen Boeh-n, Nena Bond, Deborah Boudreaux, Kurt Chacon, Janet Clark, fiandy CJolcaux. Joe Collins, Joan DeBlanc. Shcryl Edwards.

Fannie Feazell, Billy Barrett, Brenda Scales, Chris Harris, Julia Hilton, Kara Hoilcway, Myrleen Horton, Terri Howeli. Sharon Jones, Waldo Lopez, Janie Me- BrooTi, Johnny Patin, Julie Pinson. Jana Karl Seijura, Mona Sheppard, Lynelle SiTJonak, Vivian Ja-nes StarU, Suianne Straub, Karen Sharon Teiiple. Kathy Vandiver and Wilson Weber. EIGHTH jTUDE.

Mark Elan- chard. Mark Clopton, Mar it a Clo- tesux. Robin Copeland. Kathy Covington, Ann Digiovanni, Randy Eakin. Mary Lynne Garcia.

Mary jjaze. flobert i i juidry, Leonard Hale. Kathryn Hunker, Jodie Hyslop. Dan Lee. Lisa Locke, Mike McEathern, Cynthia Mitchell, Marilyn Motycka.

Debbie Nceb. Veronica Noyola. Bob Peck. Barbara Pousson, Catherine Ra-nsey. Mark flin- petoe.

Kyle Scafl. Bill Schas, Owen Schipplein. Lou Stilth. Marian Stafford and Belinda Vinccai. SEVENTH Linda Aile- nan.

Robert Barnett. Patti Bethel, Ronald Block. Fton Brack, Bret Brauninfier. Mary Broussard, Kyle Cain. Richard Carter.

Rodney Castilie, Chance. Donna Chance, Jeff CWey, ttox- anne Culver. Christy Dauphine. Debbie Deljce. Gres Dis "nukes, Lane Duhe, Oonna Edwards.

Stacy Fox. Patti Freeiian, Gerald Garcia. Jane Soins, Kristy Hale. Kathryn Harvey. Dolly Hobbs, Julie Donna Key.

Man LaRue. Paul Darren MiUer. Jsne; Mark Mary ton. Wendy Dean Hichard- Ana SincJeiary. Michelle Tannert and Brian Thilcrfeaux.

WATER NEEDS The manufacture of one ton of Steel requires fin.OOO gallons of water. One ton of rayon takes 3W.W In order to eat, look a job driving a hearse for a Hmcral home, 1 was given a room and 25 cents a run, and the rest of the lirne I could practice my music. Occasionally I'd make a dollar playing at a square dance. A a a Memphis, St. Louis, Louis- viilc; but the type of taverns and clubs and dives i booked me were wrong for my kind of singing.

The clientele was usually loud and bawdy, interested in off-color lyrics, i I i a i in country ballads, I'll never forget the night a drunk dumped a stein of beer into my new guitar because I wouldn't play his favorite barroom song. But you sec, I couldn't play that kind of music because of those standards. And finally when 1 was good enough some of the right folks took notice and I began playing for audiences who liked what I had to give. By now, though, my wife Sally and I had two kids and I worried about being away from home so much. I knew what a family is without a dad, and so when Jo-Ann and Dick reached their early teens, I quit the circuit to spend more time xrith them and entered the most frustrating few years of my life.

We couldn't seem to see eye to eye on anything -clothing, hair, school work, hours, duties around the house. The more I cracked down, the more i they became. And that's when I got thinking about old Tobe. He was an aggravating i a i headstrong and self-willed, ill-disposed to restraint, But out in the field, where it mattered, Tobe came up to standards. And so I stopped preaching and started doing some listening and made a discovery about my kids and a lot of others today.

Externally their life style may be different from my generation's. But where standards are concerned for things like honesty, perseverance, courage to stand up for what they believe is i they often do better at reaching them than some of us. Not long ago 1 saw an example of this. My son Dick told me lie was going to apply a job in the news department of a TV station. "That's great, Dick," I said, "I know the general manager.

I'll go down and put in a good word." He frowned. "I'd rather go alone," he said. "If I'm not good enough yet to get the job, I shouldn't get it." At first I was a little hurt. Then I realized what he was saying. He wanted to be up to standards.

I felt as proud of him that minute as when he carne home shouting, "Dad, I got the job'" registration still good A Greer, Jefferson County tax assessor-collector, reminded persons who registered during 1972 that their voter registration is permanent. The tax official said that he had received several calls asking whether those who signed up to vote last year needed to do so again. "If you vote once every three years in a primary or a i name stays on the rolls," Greer said. Persons wondering if their voting certificate is current can check by looking at their certificate. The following names are among those on a list of 50- year residents released by Port Arthur City Hall.

These citizens will be honored in conjunction with the Diamond Jubilee Celebration in May. The citizens will receive certificates designating the owners as "Distinguished Citizens." The list is based on information received by the mayor's office. yiFTY YEAR RESIDENTS Beulah DeJean Dionne, 0. J. Dionne, Olivia Boudreaux Dionne, Charles Dolce Lena Gralino Dolce, Victor Dolce, Peter Dolce, Cecil Lupo Dolce, Edwin pomaschk, Angella Thiodeaux Domingue, S.

Domingue, L. G. Douglas, Elotse Goodwin Douglas, Agnes Cowart Drake, Emma Dee Droddy, H- C. Dugas, Ivy Quebedeaux Dunn, Raymond Dunn, Mary Roman Dunn. Paul Duplant, Febronie Duplant.

ily Hebert Duplantis, Lottie Marie Hebert Duplantis, Eddie Estelle McAfee Earle, W. D. Eastman, J. W. Edgerton, Mildred Carson Edgerton, Mary McFarland Elam, Tom Ellis, Ruby Lee Darby Elrod, Marcile Hankins English, Joey Erwin (Mrs.

A. CO; Hilda Rhodes Erwin, Louise Erwin, Jack Erwin, Christine Landes Evans, Mrs. A. J. Fanguy, Scott Faircloth, Flora McDonald Fant, Edwin L.

Farrow, Henry W. Fears. Evalyne McAuliff Felder, George F. Ferris, Mary Domaschk Fischer, Hilton Fischer, Olic Fischer, Leslie W. Flowers, Stella Witherup Flowers.

Edgar Follett, Lcona Follett, E. Follett, Hazel Suite Foote, Henry Foote, Grace Wendling Foote, Vivian Underwood Fontenot, Vincent Formagus, Hazel T. Forrest, Paul Forsythe, Ollic Forsythe, Paul Forsythe, Morris P. Fortune. Agnes Lloyd Frasier, Sydalise Thompson Fredeman, George Alton Frensley, Bernice Goodwin Frensley, Robert Edward Frensley, Anthony FunicelH, Gussie FuniceHi, Frances Martha Furchner, Gladys Furlow, Victor Garcia, Edith Davis Gardner, Carl P.

Garner, W. Matt Garrett, Winnie Garrett, Juanita Garsea, Eugene Gaspard, Emil Gautreaux, Leonpre Landry Gautreaux, Alvin P. Gentil, Norman Gentil. Elia George, Harry Gerbens, Alma Toler Gibson, Florence E. Gifford, Edna G.

Gilbert, C. G. Gill, J. R. Gillard, Frank Girolamo, E.

C. Glidden, Delia M. Glidden, Gladys Hollifield Going, George J. Gondron, Audrey Gonsulin, Georgia Gonsulin, Vera Goodwin, Calvin C. Grady, Tony A.

Graffagnino, Lucile Dolce Graffagnino, Feme Balliette Green, Earl S.Griffith. FOR CONTINUED GROWTH AND PROGRESS RE-ELECT Robert P. Walker COUNCILMAN IN DISTRICT 6 VOTE IN CITY ELECTION, TUES-, APRIL 3 (Pol. Adv. Paid for By Robert P.Walker) Your one-stop for OPEN 8:30 A.M.

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