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El Paso Herald-Post from El Paso, Texas • 7

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-2 'V' j-v sr 'l- EL PASO HERALD-POST Tuesday February 7 -is- "rr PASO HERALD-POST Tuesday February 7 1961 Quilt for $270000 El Paso Families Flock -'j 1 i To Recreation Centers Records Given miiMPniiJttinMHosil HOLLYWOOD Feb 7 Important records from the Einstein literary estate were made available to Allied Artists 5 which is a television spe dal about the late sdentist 3COMPLETEL Ask Mrs Carroll bought some ice cream for us all he explained want Mrs Carroll the Strout article continued the nation 68 out of each 1000 workers now want jobs and get them for the statistic But unemployment is human This kind of thing makes a heart a die for his fellow man but it is also a fact that the fortitude of all the Mrs Currys is what helped make America great not the soft living of today ONE OF YOUR MANY READERS Try Begging Husband Not to Smoke at Table SAVINGS UP TO By ANN CARROLL DEAR ANN: I got a bang out of the letter from the wife about the bed her husband wanting a tightly tucked top sheet and she wanting a loose-at-the-foot top sheet these little things that grind away at nerves while nations topple and people starve My gripe is smoking at the table I can put up with cigaret smoking Ann though I smoke thank heaven But my smoking at the table depression suffered for years These are typical conditions When Wendell Bradley a reporter from the Washington Post called on the Robert Curry family at Hagerstown Mrs Curry ON 1 1 VN Tf 1 sft 4 Vigoro Fertilizer Vertagreen Fertilizer Peat Moss Garden Teels Insecticides i Charcoal Easy Terms Arranged! sent her 10-year-old son upstairs to get the light bulb She put it in the table lamp in the living room the only bulb in die house Curry been eating lunch since November when her husband lost his job easy once you get used to it she said Four of the five children played around her as she talked to the visitors Did the children get three meals a day? ones that go to school do she said The smaller ones at home get breakfast and maybe a slice of bread and jelly at noon For dinner there are fried potatoes and bean soup one night perhaps cabbage the next always had something for dinner she said Mommy eat most of the time observed Belinda 9 from tne floor She spoke cas-ucally without stressing the matter Her brother Bob told me later about his good luck some men had given him a quarter v'1' ft -i -T I i VT- NEW UPHOLSTERY IS A DOUBLE VALUE It will both beautify and prolong -the life of your furniture CLOSE OUT Last Patterns In NYLON COTTON PRICE fit 6 UPHOLSTERY 4521 Dyer LO 5-51X1 x-r-'- 1705 TEXAS I Corner Texas Ave Dallas St DELTA DRIVE RECREATION An Identical center has been built at Nations-Tobin Park in Northeast El Paso A third center converted from a warehouse has been completed at Ysleta Cost of the three centers is more than $27000 By KEN FLYNN Fun for the entire family is the theme of the new recreation centers according to Park and Recreation Director Bryce Lammert If the crowds flocking to the new centers at night are any Indication the Recreation Department is living up to its theme The City has spent more than $270000 on construction of the Delta Drive Recreation Center in the area in back of the El Paso Coliseum toe Nations-Tobin Recreation Center at the new Na-twns-Tobin Park in Northeast El Paso and the converted barn and precinct headquarters the Ysleta Recreation Center AH three centers are in full swing with large crowds at night that range in age from grammar school children to grown-ups Typical of an average evening at the Delta Recreation Center would be: 1 A basketball league in progress with four to six games each i on the beautiful hardwood-cushioned floor 2 Classes in arts and handicrafts for younger children 3 Meetings of grownups The Los Compadres Civic Club Lulac Council 8 and other organizations have held regular meetings at the Center The meeting room well lighted can seat from 40 to 50 persons 4 The Delta Teenage Club an organization of teenagers of the Delta drive area which was formed when the Center was built They meet regularly and are the Center's "best customers" A similar recreation program is in progress at die Nations-Tobin Recreation Center and die Ysleta Recreation Center Both the Nations-Tobin and Ysleta Centers have adjoining swimming pools The Nations-Tobin pool opened the latter part of last summer The Ysleta pool will be open this coming summer Both the Nations-Tobin and Delta Drive Recreation Centers are identical in floor plan and structure The Ysleta Recreation Center was formerly a barn warehouse and precinct headquarters It was purchased from the County and converted Into a beautiful center at a cost of about $70000 All three centers have showers and dressing room facilities for men and women The Nations-Tobin and Delta Drive Centers come complete with two kitchens each Wh'rn the City purchases two boxing rings for the centers curtains will be installed The movable boxing rings also will be used as stages (Mr Lammert said plans have been made to purchase weightlifting and other gymnastic equipment Mayor Raymond Telles and members of City Council have not yet field formal ribbon-cutting ceremonies open ing the centers Ji i' Seeds r-Vj--i '4 No other food provide much protein i at so little cost 4 with few ealorieef even before I put the dinner on the table is driving me wild The smell of the cigaret smoke spoils appetite for a meal a woman has put much thought and hard work into preparing Why it dull my tastebuds is beyond me He dribbles ashes over the table cloth He puts out his oigaret in the dinner plate after he has finished Sometimes die children fan away the smoke as they eat My husband finishes first and lights up Long ago I gave up protest ing 1 wonder if other wives endure breach of manners MOANING MONA DEAR MOANING: Try getting on your knees and begging him to wait until he Is In bis easy chair to light up Let die children kneel too Will help his digestion Breach of manners is right People who mash cigarets in a dinner plate- well raised Those who blow smoke across a meal at table are mules Yellow Hammers Seen DEAR ANN CARROLL: This morning in my front yard I feasted my eyes- on a pair of beautiful Yellow Hammers the first I have seen in El Paso in my 10 years of residence Ann the Cardinal is of the Finch family and is sometimes called the Redbird Cardinals live in die Eastern United States They range from South Dakota Southern Minnesota to Mexico Since early 1900 Cardinals have been spreading farther Northward and Westward MRS HELEN McARDLE 3333 Pierce Avenue Distress Anxiety DEAR MRS McARDLE: The following birds were seen in the area by the local Audubon Society members but not on the national which was Dec 21: Pied-billed Grebe Pintail Cinnamon Teal Redhead Ring-necked Duck Buffi ehead Common Merganser (female) Ring-billed Gull Burrowing Owl Canyon Wren Curve -billed Thrasher Western Bluebird Starling Solitary Vireo Cardinal (male) DEAR ANN CARROLL: I applaud you for your answer to Mamie the poor gal with the big house maid three automobiles and unpaid bills It took a lot of nerve to bare that kind of living to strangers alone the whole town through a newspaper Just before reading your column I had read in The Christian Science Monitor an article titled Is Human by Richard Strout The following remarks are taken from it is human beings It is distress anxiety vro-ken homes downturn in the business cycle in Baltimore has put the Sparrows Point steel plant on part time Farther west in Hagerstown Md there fe dironic It ie a medical faet that bearing loeeee change aa lima goes by Sonotone has developed a new hearing aid combination to help you-STEP BY STEP-aa your hearing changea Discover how yon can aolve your jpr dreda of dollara Cot the facts on the economical way to better now and in iho future Ask today for FREE booklet "3 MAGIC STEPS to Bottir Hearing SONOTONE 318 lit Noll Bldg KE 3-3012 very uiy on flavor very low on fat An appetizing aid to weight 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