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THE VICTORIA ADVOCATE, Wednesday, April 7, 1999-3A Newspaper writing was what I wanted to do summer before beeinnine teach One thing I've noticed about Kelton in recent years is thatwe seem to be closer in age than we were during the summer of 1954. Back when I was the boy from Ballinger at the Standard-Times. titled "Sam McGoo and Texas Too," which is still in print from Cow Hill Press at Commerce. Fortunately for all who admire Kelton's work, Patterson would have a greater influence on his writing than his art. ing at Crane, where Kelton would be one of his students, Patterson did day work on the ranch.

After World War II, Kelton' did the cartoons for a book about cowboys that Patterson had written, us can look back in our lives and find people who had an influence on what we are today, I give Elmer Kelton a great deal credit for my decision to make journalism a career, and while" the $eeJs had been sown by a good leacrtier in high school, Jo Stallings, who knew something )bout newspapers and how to 5 each journalism rather than just mt out a school newspaper and Iearbook, it was Kelton who elped me to decide that newspaper writing was what I wanted to be doing for the rest of my life. mm Henry's Journal A giveaway every day in The Victoria Advocate, the newspaper that pays for itself that pays tor itself A What I would be doing was gathering farm and ranch news and writing for the "Top 0' The Windmill" agricultural column while Kelton took a leave of absence to take his wife hbme to Austria for the summer and, as I recall, he had only a week or two to introduce me to what I would be doing. I particularly remember the first day on the job when he took me around San Angelo to meet the people in the agricultural agencies and we also made a swing through the two hotels frequented by West Texas stockmen, the Angelus and the Cactus, that being a time when a lot of livestock deals were made in the hotel lobbies. When I look back at that day, I probably learned more about gathering news within a couple of hours than I did before or have on any day since. It is really great when a young person starts out in any business to have someone experienced who is patient enough to show them what it's really all about, and I think my future was firmly established that very day.

Kelton had his start back at. Crane High School with Paul Patterson, who was honored on this his 90th year by the Texas Folklore Society at its annual meeting in Midland this past weekend. One of the sessions was devoted to him with Kelton a paper, "Paul Patterson: Teacher, Mentor, Friend." Henry Wolff Jr. Contributed photo Elmer Kelton. me on what I am today.

I would imagine most everybody in Texas must have heard of Elmer Kelton by now due to his prolific writing of western novels and the 42 years that he was an agricultural journalist, including that time during the drought of the 1950s when I worked with him a time that contributed to his classic Texas novel, "The Time It Never Rained" but some might not know that he once had a desire to be an artist. Patterson and Kelton first met in 1939 on. the McElroy Ranch where Kelton's father was foreman and Patterson's brother, John, was a steady hand. That Each year at the Texas Folklore Socifety meeting where we have opportunity to see each other, I always think back to those days -heri I was trying to decide what Imiht do for a career. While I adMsecome interested in journal-ijsrrfand had met Kelton while Serving as a reporter for the future Farmers of America Chapter at Ballinger High School, ijt wasn't until just before the end jf rrty senior year that an opportunity dame up to work the summer Of '1954 at San New owners to upgrade TV stations I MlM Don't miss the DEAL of the Day coupon If running Monday thru Friday.

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