Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 42

mr I 1 1 If I 1 I -I CORPUS CHR1STI CALLER Thun July 10 1975 ARE YOU LOOKING FOR iness would cost HELP for your CHILD? Brcoum of: Learning Disabilities Perceptual Problems Problems with Reading Spelling Math suMMfx is ms ms to catch upi individual attsntion for each child ACADEMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICE ANN NICKIRSON DIRECTOR 5440 Everhart Rd-SuHo 1 991-7377 Erma Bombeck the car seat? The ones that are new and have the metal springs ripping into your leg everytime you slide into the seat?" down $396" I said and what about those little tables that some people put their forks and tongs on when they cook out of doors instead of using a garbage can lid?" would run you about $595" Busily he tallied up the total "Can you believe it? $1241 would not only buy me happiness it would buy me ecstasy!" the recession for you There was a time when $1241 would have bought hysteria! Goren on Bridge in the Caller an old chestnut going the rounds -that money can't buy happiness The other night my husband was squinting over a book when he said "How big is the lightbulb in this lamp?" "I think it is 40 watts" I said have a bigger one in your sewing machine How much would a 150-watt lightbulb cost?" 89 cents" He recorded 89 cents on a slip of paper how about salt and pepper shakers for the table? I've heard of some families that have one set for the stove and one for the table How much would an extra set cost?" "You could get a little cheapie for a buck or He scribbled down $1 and continued are pencils selling for these days? The little wooden ones that you put whole newspaper One that hasn't been turned inside out clipped folded bent spindled mutilated and littered all over the bathroom before I get to read it?" "Fifteen cents" 1 said tirediy he said touching a ballpoint pen to his tongue "Are they still selling those little woven cushions for by the phone and write down messages when someone calls?" think pencils are still a dime or 15 cents What are you doing?" see And what about a simple comb? One that I could have for my very own without hair in it that match mine Are they out of sight?" "A comb costs about 29 cents" "Very good Now what about a whole newspaper?" "A what?" i OUR ENTIRE STOCK SPRING AND SUMMER 1 FASHIONS REGROUPED AND FURTHER REDUCED MANY ARE LESS THAN PRICE Poet publishing ALL SALES FINAL- again at age 88 3209 Alameda i By DENNIS MONTGOMERY stop at she says MOUNT VERNON AP) decided to go right Poet Beulah Bell first broke Advancing age she says Just into print with a protest sbng herr work harder: "I Now after a 57-year hiatus let tte grass grow under publishing again my feet You use thegift thU "The first thing I wrote of apes to you You know i in the 18- what tomorrow holds" note was any year-old black woman says "It was i protest song during the war I called it the Soldier OUTPOHERS THE POWDERS Unlike most latter day war-protest songs this one was for fighting and the right of blacks to do some of it Then '32 Mrs Beil dashed off the eight-verse song after the UJ5 Army refused to induct her brother for World War I It was a time the song notes for setting people free at home and abroad Va cup cleans the wash beautifully and gets out most greasy oily dirts 215 105 59 -'t fv li 1 9 I cl 1 9 9 0 I Renamed Friendly Ad- a t-Protest among 60 pieces published in "Two 7S-pagei soft-bound volume Mrs Bell paid to have printed "I take it with she says "It cost too much I guess make it back" Sales she says are going rather well Copies are distributed through area groceries and drugstores Divided into sections titled Sacred Young Love Family and Patriotic her poems reflect her rural heritage with homespun language simple rhythm and often a touch of earthy humor Born in Cape Girardeau Mo Mrs Bell attended school through the ninth grade and made education her profession studied up on some subjects so I could pass the exam and I taught she said "That was about 1907 1 guest" wu a country school down at Rock Ledge If somebody take me in a hone and buggy have to ride a freight train in the caboose Some very amusing things happened" Then wu the time she says he wu chased to class by a pack of wild hogs something which seems funnier now than it did at the time Later die married and moved to Mount Vernon where she was active in the church the school and dvil rights efforts She organised the forerunner of the load PTA and reared two children Through the years she continued writing as a hobby "I had to go on tha state when I wu a little older when my husband and ion paesed" she says A welfen caseworker noticed a stack of her poems on a table one day and encouraged her to seek an outlet' "I bed quite a few poems piled up by that ehe says must have been along about Adeal with a' New York publisher fell through "but I BATH SIZE FOB REVLON GIANT SIZE FLEX $oTtN SHAMTOO MIWSOIM 1 disposable $199 diapers daytime 1 hi a 39 $99 SPECIALS FOR JULY 10 11 12 1975 OVEKHfiHT 17 OZ i.