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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
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Teaching and learning at junior livestock show
nee again, another
I successful Cherokee
I County Jr. Livestock
Show has come and
gone. It has been happen-
ing for 65 years.
This gathering of kids is
without a doubt the big-
gest, most competitive event
each year in the county. No
other single event has the
sheer number of kids and
coaches (parents) who work
together for a single goal.
These kids spend many
hours for weeks and months
working with their animals or fabricating
and building their shop projects. This in
turn keeps young minds and hands busy
doing something productive. As the old
saying tells us, “an idle mind.....”
Kids who won probably are feeling good
about their efforts. Some probably think
they could have done better.
It is this introspection that will make
them more competitive next year. And
if there is no next year, this is a teach-
ing moment for those who go on to a job
or higher education. No doubt there are
kids and parents analyzing what they did
right and what they did not do right. The
experience of trying and succeeding or try-
ing and not succeeding is a great teacher
and motivator.
That is the beauty of our economic sys-
tem and also of the Cherokee County Ju-
nior Livestock Show. We give these kids
the option to succeed or fail on the merits
of their hard work and planning. It is,
in a sense, a microcosm of
what the real world is like.
On the last day of the
event, the auction of live-
stock and shop projects is
where the real world greets
our growing businesswomen
and businessmen. They
learn the value of hard
work measured in dollars
and cents.
A case in point, Layne
Hawkins raised more than
$11,000 with the assistance
of her Lookout 4-H team
to win the Queen’s contest.
Miss Hawkins told me she raffled off two
iPads and a Yeti Cooler, sold Mother’s
Day baskets, held two barbecues and a
fish fry. She also had a bounce house at
the Spooktacular Bull Bash and two bake
sales to raise the total of $11,221.80.
Learning how to speak to a group, create
a presentation and asking people to buy
raffle tickets are some of the talents she
learned from this experience.
With more than $30,000 raised by
the Queen’s contestants and more than
$280,000 paid out for livestock and shop
projects, I believe all theses kids have
learned their economics course lessons
well.
Congratulations to the participants, par-
ents, teachers, volunteers and all associ-
ated with the 65th edition of the Cherokee
County Jr. Livestock Show.
Your hard work will pay dividends and
make a big difference in the lives of our
young people. Kudos!
ROBERT GONZALEZ
herald@mediactr.com
American
^^Holks with dim memo-
^Lries of World War II re-
call the “coming home”
of troops, and atten-
dant triumphal celebrations
that reverberated around
the globe.
Believers in democracy
- weary of Movietone news-
reels’ gory war scenes at mov-
ie theaters, dismal commen-
taries on radio and troubling
newspaper accounts - were
ready for news of loved ones
returning home — a place,
someone said, where when
you go there, they have to
let you in.
Perhaps no one splashed
wider smiles in this dark
era than actress Marjorie
Main (1890-1975), a well-
known movie character who
never thought of herself as a
“pin-up.”
When we had little reason
to smile during America’s
half-decade of war years,
she teamed up with Wallace
Beery on the silver screen as
a crusty, “rough and ready,”
pipe-smoking actress who
made us laugh.
Later, the laughs became
guffaws as she partnered
with Percy Kilbride in 10
Ma and Pa Kettle movies
(forerunners of TV’s All in
the Family). Her homeliness
in each movie moved her
ever lower on the “pin-up
DR. DON NEWBURY
newbury@speakerdoc.com
beauty scale.” Marjorie’s
name never appeared on
the glamour list headed by
Hedy Lamarr, Yvonne De-
Carlo, Joan Leslie and Rita
Hayworth.
Had Main been a “fuse-
lage feature,” she’d have
been shown in a high-
necked dress and a “don’t -
you-dare” scowl, her rolling
pin raised high.
With this brief backdrop
in place, history reveals that
Marjorie--or Mrs. Kettle,
or the Indiana actress who
quickly changed her last
name to avoid embarrassing
her preacher father--was
named “Occupation Girl” in
a spirited election conducted
by the 96th Infantry Divi-
sion, nicknamed “Dead-
eyes.” (They joked about
electing the “girl they’d most
like to occupy an island
with.”)
Lubbock’s Choc
Hutcheson, who edited the
382nd regimental newspa-
per, remembers the wildfire
movement favoring Miss
Main. (Even the unit’s
adopted dog mascot put his
paw print on her ballot.)
When the actress heard
that she’d won--relegating
Miss Leslie and Miss De-
Carlo to distant second and
third-place finishes--she
was delighted. She promised
to greet them upon their
return to the states, with as-
surances that she would not
be wearing a swimsuit.
She insisted on dining
with the troops, first serving
them in the chow line. She
was quickly replaced on the
line, however, when it was
discovered she was plopping
two steaks on the plate of
each GI.
Indeed she made movie-
goers think of moms, what
with much of her humor
wafting from the kitchen.
In her Ma and Pa Kettle
Back on the Farm movie,
a city guy paid a visit,
requesting a coddled egg for
breakfast.
Bumfuzzled, she did an
end run, explaining that
recently she “broke her
coddler.” Such homespun
humor endeared her to a
nation.
TAXING I thou^hts
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2014, to finalize your return - assuming
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One more quirk: If you live and work
outside the United States, you may qualify
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try and expect to meet the requirements
for foreign tax exclusions or deductions
after April 15, you might need to file Form
2350.
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U|QU POINTS |
^Holks along El Camino
Real are still seeing
life through a thick
yellow film as the
pine curtain explodes with
blooms and clouds of sticky
yellow pollen. The rains
help a little but we have
to wait for nature to take
its course before the pol-
len can disappear. We’ve
had lots of things going on
around here, so I had best
get right to your six bits’
worth of news.
I said my goodbyes yesterday to an
old friend in Jacksonville. Charles T.
Jones passed away on Saturday at his
home. Charles Jones loved a good laugh
as much as I do, and he and I hit it off
the first time we met. He was a good
man with a great personality and he will
be missed in our lives. Please keep his
sweet wife, Ann; his girls, Leigh Ann
Murray and Leslie Jones; his grandchil-
dren and all the rest of the family in your
prayers during this time of mourning.
Folks from one end of the county to
the other congregated in Jacksonville
from Thursday until Saturday for the
Cherokee County Youth Livestock Show.
The rain, the mud and the big storms on
Friday night didn’t slow the show down
one bit. The cows got a little skittish,
the mud got a little sloppy and little kids
playing hard got really dirty, but the
show went on. This is a testament to the
young people, their parents, Ag teach-
ers, 4-H Club leaders and countless other
volunteers who work hard to make this
show a success each year.
In fact, from all I’ve heard so far, this
could very well be one of the biggest
livestock shows yet. You could see the
pride on the faces of all the young people
as they showed off their projects to the
judges and all the many visitors that
came to enjoy the show. You can’t put a
price on the smiles I saw on the faces of
our young people at the show, but area
folks did their part at the sale on Satur-
day night by paying out lots of money to
some hard-working kids.
A big thanks goes out to everyone who
did their part again this year to make
the Cherokee County Youth Livestock
Show a huge success. Give yourself a big
pat on the back; you’ve earned it!
When the storm came in on Friday
night with lightning flashing, thunder
rumbling, torrents of rain and high
winds, the stands and building were
packed with people. It wasn’t the best
place to be in a storm, but Charles Dick-
erson kept the show going on from the
announcer’s booth. In fact, he did such a
good job, I thought he had been person-
ally trained by Frank Diamont himself.
A big thanks to Charles Dickerson for
being a great announcer for an untold
amount of years. He is the voice of the
Cherokee County Youth Livestock Show.
When the show was over and everyone
started going home, we
found out there were trees
down, power outages and a
few car accidents involving
trees. Spencer and Christy
Smith got home from the
show and found their roof
ripped off and lying on top
of Spencer’s work truck.
Spencer and Christy and
all their kids had to go stay
at Carlton Jones’ house.
Things are bad when you
have to go stay with Carl-
ton Jones. I would have
just slept in the car.
No one in Alto had any lights when we
got home from the show, but I was so
tired, I didn’t even care. You don’t need
lights to sleep. Things looked better
when daylight came for most folks but
there were some big messes that had to
be cleaned up. The lights came on for
most of us by 7:30 on Saturday morning.
Lots of folks picked up limbs and debris
before heading back to Jacksonville for
the rest of the livestock show and sale.
Brother James Littlefield is retiring as
the pastor of Calvary Tabernacle United
Pentecostal Church after 24 years of
leading their flock. The church will be
giving him a retirement party on Sat-
urday April 5 at 7 p.m. in the church
fellowship hall. (For complete story, see
pg. 5B in this issue of the Cherokeean
Herald.)
Brother Littlefield and his wife Betty
are nice folks and fortunately for us, they
aren’t leaving Alto. He is just retiring
from being a full-time pastor. He says he
wants to spend more time fishing for fish
for a change. I guess after a fellow has
been busy fishing for men for 24 years,
a big catfish or a nice crappie might be
a nice change. I’ve seen some fish that
were smarter than some men and they
might not be so easy to catch. You can’t
just say “covered dish dinner” and fill a
boat up with fish like you can a church.
Good luck on your retirement, Brother
and Sister Littlefield.
I ran into Bill Hudson at the Livestock
Show and he told me that his son Josh
Hudson had been accepted to Texas A&M
and will start classes in the fall. Josh
has been in and out of my house since he
was a little kid running with my boys.
Congratulations to Josh on his accep-
tance into Aggie Land.
I guess I’ve covered just about every-
thing that needed to be covered in this
issue. If you have some news that needs
telling just give me a call. If you want it
spread quicker, just drop by the beauty
shop or one of the coffee drinker hang-
outs in the morning and tell them not to
tell anyone.
I’ll see ya next week! And remember,
There will always be somebody more
successful, more beautiful, more
talented. You have to realize, you’re
not running their race. You’re run-
ning your race!
CHRIS DAVIS
elcaminoreal@consolidated.net
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