The Facts from Clute, Texas • Page 33

THE FACTS Itocwnter 3,1997 3C BRAZOS LIVING Yesteryears: From the files of'The Facts' The following are excerpts from back issues of The Facts. this week in December 30 YEARS AGO (1967) A Lake Jackson medical Jlpctor reports that a teen-age girl patient suffered an E. Coli infection last week from a cut suffered fit a popular mud slide on Oyster £reek. The doctor said the girl punctured her foot and that the E. Coli gtfganisms caused a bad infection jp the foot.

He said that E. Coli is common around sewage or Untreated water. j-: The mud slide is located on the northwest corner of the City Park, "off FM 2004, but it is on Retrieve prison Farm property. The doctor recommended that parents keep their children away Aom the slide. i- From the Youth Beat column The national report on what's happening So-called fashion authorities predicted "fall of the skirt" in £967, said Glamour magazine in of this year: 'Tor town, short skirts have had it.

They've so far out you won't even be peeing them around any more." another look! We continue predict short, short skirts, way- Ait hosiery, more blouse-shifts, shifty skivvies. Teens will stay abort. It's their identity. Young adults don't and won't abandon tfae grooved look to the teens. Meanwhile, the fashion magazines, the high-priced international design set and the trade papers continued to crank out predictions that fall as skirts continue to rise.

tC fc Here's what's showing at the iSaovies: t- Showboat Theatre: Grand Prix, James Garner and Eva ie Saint; also, A Man Could Oet Killed, starring James Garner, Melina Mercouri, Sandra Dee and Tony Franctosa; and King's Pirate, starring Doug McClure. Velasco Theatre: Games, starring Simone Signoret. Surf Drive In: Jane Mansfield in Playgirls After.Dark. SO YEARS AGO (1947) Freeport football fans have a right to be proud after the 1947 season because of a great showing made by former Exporters on college teams. Such stars as Gene Shannon, Charlie Royalty, Bob Jinks, Tommy Murray and James "Bo" Landers have stood out exceptionally well on the teams where they have played.

Shannon, Jinks, Murray and Landers have flashed their wares while playing with the Tyler Apaches. Royalty was a big cog on the freshman squad. All six of the boys were All-District competitors in 28-A. Royalty, Shannon, Jinks and Murray played on the. great '46 team that went undefeated in district play, while Landers played in '45.

These six boys have done a lot toward putting Freeport on the map in football. Here's what's showing at the movies: Showboat Theatre: Lula Belle and Scotty, Roy Acuff in Hi Neighbor, Allan Lane as "Red Ryder" and Bobby Blake as "Little Beaver" in Marshal of Cripple Creek. Lake Theatre: Dark Passage, starring Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall; Fear in the Night, starring Paul Kelly and Kay Scott Ora Theatre: Trail to San Antone, starring Gene Autry; The Virginian, starring Joel McCrea, Brian Donlevy and Barbara Brighton; and Rainbow Island, starring Dorothy Lamour, Eddie 102 years of living Courtesy photo Ella Lucindy Anderson Oliver recently celebrated her 102nd birthday. She was born on Nov. 13, 1895 in Houston County.

Though she has lived most of her life in. East Texas, she moved to Angleton in 1995. Oliver was married to Venson Oliver for 50 years. She has five children: Floyd Oliver of Clute, Faye Matula of West Columbia, Othela Cox of Houston, Estell Hill and Malcum Oliver, both of Lufkin. She is also the mother of Ethel Mettlen, Raymond Oliver and Loyd Oliver, ail deceased.

She has 22 grandchildren, 43 great-grandchildren and 19 great-great-grandchildren. Oliver is a member the O'Quinn Baptist Church in Central. HGTV suggests space saver: Multipurpose equipment Scripps Howard News Service A continuing compendium of tips and tricks gleaned from programming on Home Garden Television: Spaceyidea: When purchasing equipment for the home-office, try to find equipment that serves multiple purposes. For example, a unit that serves as a scanner, fax machine and printer will save you a lot of space. 21st Century Home Watering stakes: hard, dry ground can be dif- ftcult to drive a stake into.

You can make the task easier by using a watering stake. Simply hook a garden hose to a stake, slowly working it into the ground. Then remove it. It will leave a nice, moist hole that a stake can be easily driven into. The House Doctor Tight and warm: Quilters: When you sew the strips of the quilt together, always sew along the length of the grain.

Doing so will keep your fabric tighter, which helps you sew a more accurate line. Sewing across the grain will not result in clean lines. Simply Quilts Bracken and Gil Lamb. Velasco Theatre: Crossfire, (tarring Robert Young and Robert Mitchum; and Merton of the Movies, starring Red Skelton and Virginia O'Brien. 65 YEARS AGO (1932) From a Facts editorial: It is impossible to estimate the value to the community at large and to individuals of the work which the National Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis has accomplished, and is still accomplishing in combating the dreaded disease which is popularly known as "the white plague." There is no disease, doctors tell us, that is quite so universally prevalent as tuberculosis.

Indeed, Dr. Logan Clendening, one of the foremost writers on medical topics, states in one of his books that probably every human being has at one time or another been infected with the tuberculosis bacillus. Most people recover without help, but there is a very high percentage who, unless the course of the disease is checked, are certain to die at an early age. The prevention and stamping out of tuberculosis is largely a matter of education. We know a great deal more about this disease than our parents did.

Curing it is not a matter of climate so much as it is a matter of rest, quiet rest, ample nourishment and exposure to the sunshine. The cure of the disease, if taken in its early stages, Facts file photo Leonard Smith, portraying Scrooge's ghostly harbinger, Marley, warns the citizens against a lack of Christmas cheer as they partake of the food booths on a comfortable park bench at Galveston's Dicken's on the Strand in 1990. is said to be reasonably, assured. Its prevention is easy when everybody who may be exposed to it understands the elementary principles of sanitation. This education is the work of the Association for the Prevention of Tuberculosis, which is supported by the pennies paid by millions of Americans every year for the Christmas seals with which to decorate Christmas letters and packages.

Anything from one cent up is an acceptable contribution. WISHE There is no better evidence of the spirit of helpfulness than to put these Christmas seals on the envelopes of all of your Christmas cards and packages. Compiled by Rhonda Moran A LITTU Free Gift With Purchase Bring your Brazos Mall receipts dated December I 15 to the Customer Service Booth by Center Court. For receipts totaling $200 and receive a free 8" plush Annabelle For receipts totaling $300 and receive a free I plush Annabelle Extended Holiday Shopping Hours Saturday, December 6 9 am 9 pm Sunday, December 7 I I am 6 pm Annabelle's Wish Benefitting Make-A-Wish The Annabelle's Wish video and Annabelle ornament is available at the Customer Service Booth near Center Court for 16.99. Two dollars of every purchase will benefit the Make-A-Wish Foundation.

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