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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 20 Nov.
30, 2012
From the
Editor
Had a great Thanksgiving,
but it’s always good to get back home.
The good news this time was that we didn’t THINK we had any huge issues
to have to immediately deal with other the picking up the hardwood for the
foyer. However, that was “Just
Wrong!” Thanks to the Department of
Transportation’s (DOT’s) last minute requirements that we would have to start
accepting debit cards for van pool subsidy payments on January 1, 2013, I spent
more time than I should have while in
I’ve been gone most of the
afternoon. I came home to find the
garage full of leaves as I’d left the door up resulting in me having to get out
a blower to do a little “clean up” prior to backing in. Carolyn was amused most of the afternoon, watching 5 deer wander around in the back
yard. We really don’t like them
“munching” on our plants, but she assures me that for most of the afternoon,
they had been eating on the acorns that we had blown out to the edge of the
yard. You just have to learn to live
with them and understand that it was us who really took over “their” land.
I know that Carolyn is
anxious to get the tree up, but I’ve convinced her to wait until the flooring
is done on Friday. I wouldn’t put a lot
of money on whether they’ll finish on Friday, but they say they will. Paige wants to “help” so waiting until
Saturday makes a lot of sense. Although
as Karen says, “Paige’s “helping” is mostly her saying how pretty the ornaments
are and explaining that she doesn’t want to help hang them because she’s afraid
that she’ll break one. Whatever, she
wants to help Nana and Nana looks forward to the “bonding time.” I trust that your decorating is near
completion, shopping is done, and you can just sit back and wait for Christmas
to arrive. That said,
I know that I’m a dreamer.
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Content
Contributors for the Week
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Geary
McDowell
Jim
Whitson, Class of 1957
All
those who sent messages to the Email “Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
The Cars We Drove in the
‘50’s and ‘60’s
This will bring back
memories to many of you. Click on the
link below and reminisce about earlier times.
http://cruzintheavenue.com/CarsWeDrove.htm
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Grandpa’s Wooden Chest
I hate to hear the lawyer
say
The things my grandpa gave
away.
Like his old truck to Dad
and Mom
And world war medals to
Uncle John.
My name was called
And something was said
About an old wooden box
Underneath
his bed.
Just a worn out chest
With a rusty hinge
But I knew Grandpa kept
Something
special within.
When I opened the lid
All I could see
Were some unused tools
And a
letter to me.
A large fancy cloth
With two long strings
A small wooden hammer
Among
other things.
He wrote a man’s job
Is to be a
good husband, father and a friend.
I built my life as best I
could
By the tools laid here
within.
He said the compasses remind
me that life has boundaries
So live your life within.
The square proves true and
so should you
When dealing with all your
friends.
Be an honorable man and walk
uprightly
According
to the plumb.
The level teaches us to
treat all men equal
Instead of
only some.
And now it’s your turn
To start
your journey for knowledge, love and faith.
So live your life by the
Square and Compasses
And tools
of your trade.
Many years have passed by
since I first opened
Grandpa’s
wooden chest.
The tools he gave me, the
words he wrote
The
challenge to be my best.
Today I’ll visit Grandpa
At the place where he was
laid
To let him know he can be
proud
I’m a Master of my trade.
--Jack Sutton,
Alumni Website
We have renewed the account that Wanda
Jackson had set up at the photo sharing website, picturetrail.com for the
Roosevelt Alumni: http://www.picturetrail.com/rooseveltalumni. She had posted many pictures from past
reunions, class panels, and old schools buildings along with write ups about
them. We thought you might find these
interesting if you haven’t visited this site in the past.
Interesting
Tidbits
You Hate to Exercise Alone
You don’t exercise because
you don’t want to exercise alone. If you
had a companion like this, you would be exercising regularly. Enjoy!
Turn on the sound, run in full screen (left click the little box at the
lower right of the You Tube screen)
http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=xiB3wlvWktw
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You Might Be a
Redneck
This
is not the usual “you might be a redneck” joke.
It is beautiful and thought provoking.
http://thefamily.com/2011/12/01/18780/
News
Winning Recipe
Bonnie
(Pollard) Phillips, Class of 1964, was the winner of the 2012 Leader Holiday
recipe Contest sponsored by the publishers of the Jefferson County Leader, the
Arnold-Imperial Leader, and Grand Times.
Her recipe for Bacon Cheeseburger Spaghetti was chosen by the judges as
the best of 70 recipes entered in the contest.
Congratulations, Bonnie! And,
thanks for sharing the recipe with our readers.
Bacon
Cheeseburger Spaghetti
10
oz. uncooked spaghetti
1
lb. lean ground beef
2/3
cup chopped onion
6
slices ready to serve fully cooked bacon, chopped
1 ˝ cup ketchup
1
cup chopped dill pickles
1
cup barbecue sauce
˝
cup prepared mustard
2
cups (8 oz.) shredded cheddar cheese
Cook
the spaghetti according to package directions.
Meanwhile in a large skillet, cook beef and onions over medium head until
meat is no longer pink, drain excess grease.
Stir in the bacon, ketchup, pickles, barbecue sauce, and mustard. Bring to a boil. Reduce heat, simmer, uncovered for 5
minutes. Drain spaghetti, stir into meat
mixture. Sprinkle with cheese. Remove from the heat, cover, and let stand
until cheese is melted. Yield: 6 servings.
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The
Roosevelt Senior Citizen Center serves lunch on Tuesday and Thursday from 11:30
a.m. to 1:00 p.m. The cost is $4 for
those 60 and over and $5 for the younger generation. Stop in and enjoy a good meal while visiting
with your friends.
The
menu for next week is as follows:
Tuesday,
December 4th: Beans with Ham,
Cole Slaw, Cornbread, Salad Bar, and Cinnamon Rolls
Thursday,
December 6th: Lasagna, Green
Beans, Rolls, Salad Bar, and Fruit
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A Southern
Kiowa Christmas
The
Southern Kiowa Chamber is continuing to finalize plans for A Southern Kiowa
Christmas on December 15 in Snyder. The
event will start with Breakfast with Santa from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. in the school cafeteria. Pancakes, Blue & Gold Sausage, milk,
coffee, and orange juice will be served.
The cost is $5 for adults and $3 for children. Vendors will be at the tennis courts from 9
a.m. to 5 p.m. selling their wares. The
Snyder FFA Show Team will be serving lunch from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Ag
Building on
In
the very near future the Chamber will be selling tickets for their annual
Christmas giveaway. At this time they
plan to give away $500 cash, a trailer, a big screen TV, other electronic
items, bicycles, and other items.
Tickers are $1 each. You do not
need to be present to win.
Begin
planning now to be in Snyder for A Southern Kiowa Christmas on December
15. It is sure to be an enjoyable event
for the entire family.
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The
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you looking for just the right gift for a friend or family member? You just might find that gift in the
Birthdays and
Anniversaries
We
have compiled all of the birthday and anniversary information we could from
Wanda’s files. We are sure we are
missing some. Please send us the
birthdays and anniversaries for your family and friends so that we can have as
complete as list as possible. We are
going to start with what we have from Wanda’s files so if we miss you, please
send us the information so we have it for the news next year. In addition, should any of the birthdays we
list be wrong, also please let us know.
Happy Birthday
To:
December 1 – Joel
Shockley, Class of 1981
December 1 – Joel Hebensperger, Class of 1992
December 1 – Garret
December 2 – Jay Howard, Class of 1993
December 3 –
December 3 – Sam McNeill, Class of 1962
December 3 – Johnny Starcher, Class of 1977
December 4 – Daniel Valderas
December 5 – Wilma (Cook)
December 6 – Monte Webb
Humor
Twenty
Dollars
On their wedding night, the young bride approached her new husband
and asked for $20 for their first lovemaking encounter. In his highly aroused state, her husband
readily agreed.
This scenario was repeated
each time they made love, for more than 40 years, with him thinking that it was
a cute way for her to afford new clothes and other incidentals that she needed.
Arriving home around noon
one day, she was surprised to find her husband in a very drunken state. During the next few minutes, he explained
that his employer was going through a process of corporate downsizing, and he
had been let go.
It was unlikely that at the
age of 59, he’d be able to find another position that paid anywhere near what
he’d been earning, and therefore, they were financially ruined.
Calmly, his wife handed him
a bank book which showed more than forty years of steady deposits and interest
totaling nearly $1 million. Then she
showed him certificates of deposits issued by the bank which were worth over $2
million, and informed him that they were one of the largest depositors in the
bank.
She explained that for more
than three decades she had ‘charged’ him for sex. These holdings had multiplied and these were
the results of her savings and investments.
Faced with evidence of cash
and investments worth over $3 million, her husband was so astounded he could
barely speak, but finally he found his voice and blurted out, “If I’d had any
idea what you were doing, I would have given you all my business!”
That’s when she shot him.
You know, sometimes, men
just don’t know when to keep their mouths shut.
Food for
Thought
Best Stated Pro Gun Argument
Regardless of where you
think you stand on gun control, the following is thought provoking and makes
one stop and think.
"The Gun Is
Civilization"
by Maj. L. Caudill USMC (Ret)
Human beings only have two means to deal with one
another: reason and force. If you want me
to do something for you, you must either convince me by reason or force me to
do your bidding under threat of harm.
Every human interaction, without exception, falls into one of these two
categories. Reason or force, that's it.
In a truly moral and civilized society, people would exclusively interact
through reason as force has no place as valid social interaction. But the only thing that removes force from
the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as that may sound to some.
When I carry a gun, you cannot deal with me by force. You have to use reason and try to persuade
me, because I have a means to negate your threat or employment of force.
The gun is the only personal weapon that puts a 100-pound woman on equal
footing with a 220-pound mugger, a 75-year old retiree on equal footing with a
19-year old gang banger, and a lone guy on equal footing with a carload of
drunken guys with baseball bats. The gun
removes all disparity in physical strength, size, or numbers between a
potential attacker and a defender.
There are plenty of people who consider the gun also to be the source of "bad
force." These people think we'd be
more civilized if all guns were removed from society, because they believe a
firearm only makes it easier for an armed mugger to do his job. That, of course, is true only if the mugger's
potential victims are disarmed either by choice or by legislative fiat. The argument has no validity when most of a
mugger's potential marks are armed.
People who argue for the banning of firearms are asking only for automatic rule
by the young, the strong, and the many, and that's the exact opposite of a
civilized society. A mugger, even an
armed one, can make a successful living only in a society where the state has
granted him a monopoly of force.
Then there's the argument that the gun makes confrontations lethal that otherwise
would result only in injury. This
argument is fallacious in several ways.
Without guns involved, confrontations are won by the physically superior
party that inflicts overwhelming injury on the loser.
People who think that fists, bats, sticks, or stones
do not constitute lethal force, watch too much TV, where people take beatings
and come out with a bloody lip at worst.
The fact that the gun makes lethal force easier works solely in favor of
the weaker defender, not the stronger attacker.
If both are armed, the field is level.
The gun is the only weapon that's as lethal in the hands of an octogenarian as
it is in the hands of a weight lifter.
It simply wouldn't work as well as a force equalizer if it wasn't both
lethal and easily employable.
When I carry a gun, I don't do so because I am looking for a fight, but because
I'm looking to be left alone. The gun at
my side means that I cannot be forced by another, only persuaded. I don't carry it because I'm afraid, but
because it enables me to be unafraid. It
doesn't limit the actions of those who would interact with me through reason,
only the actions of those who would do so by force.
It removes force from the social equation... and that's why carrying a gun is
both a civilized and a civilizing act.
So, the most civil societies are those where all citizens are equally armed and
can be persuaded only through reason,
never by force.
Obituaries
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
http://www.234enterprises.com/Roosevelt%20Cemetery%20Layout.htm
http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=cr&CRid=99397&CScn=roosevelt&CScntry=4&CSst=38
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