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Carolyn Niebruegge May Michael L. May 
Vol. 2, Is. 22 Dec.
14, 2012
From the
Editor
Well, Christmas is “a
comin’”--honest--not “Obama’s Christmas of free stuff” but the REAL
Christmas. With that lead in I want to
prep you for an upcoming video in this issue sent to us by Lena Rutledge Harris
titled “Say Merry Christmas.” It is so
well done and brings to the forefront that the season is not the “Holiday
Season” it’s CHRISTMAS! Don’t
misunderstand me I totally respect and support the beliefs and celebrations of
the Jewish (Hanukkah), the celebration of Las Posadas by many in
With Christmas upon us, I am
facing a dilemma maybe not that different from yours. What in the world am I going to get my wife
for Christmas? Over the years Carolyn
and I have not always exchanged gifts on Christmas since in general, throughout
the year, we have pretty much brought in those items that we thought we
“needed.” However, as the years have
rolled on, we have tried to correct our errors of the past so that each of us
has a surprise to enjoy for Christmas.
There have been a couple of great surprises in our gift exchange over
the last few years. Two years ago she
gave me an iPod bringing to the forefront that this was an item I had been
missing out on and didn’t even know it.
I love the iPod. I believe the
same Christmas I gave her a Kindle--which she totally used and enjoyed--until
last year when I went out on a limb and got her an iPad. I really didn’t know how much she’d use it,
but thought she might enjoy it. Well, I
hit the jackpot, the Kindle got put on the shelf and the iPad was an instant
hit! I sent a text to Karen last week
asking for suggestions for her Mom. I
stated that I wanted something that would have a similar impact as the iPad. Her response, “Forget it, it ain’t gonna’
happen!” Well, my quest continues. I’ve let my mind wander through all the
possibilities like a DeWALT 20 V 3.0 Ah 6.5 in. circular saw, a new Little
Wonder self propelled leaf blower, a new 10 ft. utility trailer (big enough to
haul my tractor with the snow blower installed), a new F350 Powerstroke Diesel
pickup, etc. I feel quite certain that surely she would
enjoy at least one of the above items.
I now have the Christmas
gift for her temporarily “shelved” because I’m just clueless and writing this
editorial is currently higher on my list of priorities. I did run into a lady at the Ford dealer
yesterday who was buying a Christmas gift for her husband. Thought I’d take a chance and ask her if she
had a suggestion. Interestingly she
suggested a Stihl BR600 backpack blower.
She said, “I asked for it, got it for my Birthday, and it’s so powerful,
it will blow down trees!” However, as it
would be, Carolyn already has one of those.
I’m not kidding, we each have one of them which we use regularly to “tag
team” our leaves. We also have a Little
Wonder rolling leaf blower (ours is not self propelled), but as Karen says,
“Big Bertha, as she calls the blower, will “live” at her house. We’ll bring her over anytime you want, but
she WILL return to our house until you need “her” again.” That’s really alright with us as they have
more storage space than we do.
I just as well close this
down and get back to my Christmas gift for Carolyn. Wonder if she’d consider the F350 as a
“family gift” and not feel shorted? I
personally think that would be a “step up” from the iPad. Jus sayin’
mlm
Content
Contributors for the Week
Jerry
Alford, Class of 1959
Charles
Curtis, Class of 1965
Evelyn
(Lanterman) Walters, Class of 1953
All
those who sent messages to the Email
“Bag”
Thank
you all!
Remembering…
Words You Don’t Hear Anymore
Enjoy the pictures as you
read the words. Unless you were born
before 1970 you probably don’t relate.
For those of us born earlier, we definitely remember these.
http://www.sodahead.com/living/words-you-dont-hear-anymore/question-1866711/
Thoughts from
the Squirrel Lair
Say Merry Christmas
Do you hate hearing “Happy
Holidays” rather than “Merry Christmas” like I do? If you do, you’ll love this. It truly relays my sentiments. 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?v=ln01p1M2cH0&feature=youtu.be
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Merry Christmas to All
Click on the link below and
enjoy one of the best Christmas cards ever.
After clicking on the link, click on the angel.
http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=2007134554829&source=jl999
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Christmas Goats
To help put you in the
Christmas mood! These little guys are so
energetic and they love to romp! 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/embed/b4_EdJ-XkUA?rel=0
Editor’s note:
I wonder if this could have possibly been filmed at Brandy and Michael Saville’s? lol
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.
Cooperton Valley Picture Trail
The “
Interesting
Tidbits
So, You Think You Know Everything?
A dime has
118 ridges around the edge.
A cat has 32 muscles in each ear.
A crocodile cannot stick out its tongue.
A dragonfly has a life span of 24 hours.
A goldfish has a memory span of three seconds.
A "jiffy" is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second.
A shark is the only fish that can blink with both eyes.
A snail can sleep for three years.
Al Capone's business card said he was a used furniture dealer.
All 50 states are listed across the top of the Lincoln Memorial on the back of
the $5 bill.
Almonds are a member of the peach family.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
Babies are born without kneecaps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2
to 6 years of age.
Butterflies taste with their feet.
Cats have over one hundred vocal sounds. Dogs only have about 10.
"Dreamt" is the only English word that ends in the letters
"mt".
February 1865 is the only month in recorded history not to have a full
moon.
In the last 4,000 years, no new animals have been domesticated.
If the population of
If you are an average American, in your whole life, you will spend an average
of 6 months waiting at red lights.
It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.
Leonardo Da Vinci invented the scissors.
No word in the English language rhymes with month, orange, silver, or
purple.
On a Canadian two dollar bill, the flag flying over the Parliament building is
an American flag.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop
growing.
Peanuts are one of the ingredients of dynamite.
Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis
is the longest word in the dictionary.
Rubber bands last longer when refrigerated.
"Stewardesses"
is the longest word typed with only the left hand and "lollipop" with
your right.
The average person's left hand does 56% of the typing.
The cruise liner, QE2, moves only six inches for each gallon of diesel that it
burns.
The microwave was invented after a researcher walked by a radar tube and a
chocolate bar melted in his pocket.
The sentence: "The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses every
letter of the alphabet.
The winter of 1932 was so cold that
The words 'racecar,' 'kayak' and 'level' are the same whether they are read
left to right or right to left (palindromes).
There are 293 ways to make change for a dollar.
There are more chickens than people in the world.
There are only four words in the English
language which end in "dous": tremendous, horrendous, stupendous, and
hazardous
There are two words in the English language that have
all five vowels in order: "abstemious" and
"facetious."
There's no Betty Rubble in the Flintstones Chewables Vitamins.
Tigers have striped skin, not just striped fur.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one
row of the keyboard.
Winston Churchill was born in a ladies' room during a dance.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Your stomach has to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks; otherwise it
will digest itself.
. . . Now, you know everything!
News
Jerry
Hayslip’s Peanut Brittle Factory
Jerry
Hayslip reports that the assembly line for the peanut brittle starts Friday,
Dec. 14. So if you want some, give him a
call at the Hanna House. The number is
580-726-2161. If you are local, you can
stop by and pick it up. The price is $25
a gallon or $6.25 a quart. For first
timers, Jerry’s brittle is not “jaw breaking” like you get in the store. If you are in
Editor’s Note: We know that if you sample a piece of Jerry’s
peanut brittle, you will have to buy some.
If you can’t sample it, take our word that it is as good as you can get
anywhere. In fact, Mike says it is the
best he has ever had. We will be picking
up an order when we come to
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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 18: Chicken & Rice, Mixed
Veggies, Rolls, Salad Bar, and Chocolate Cake
Thursday,
December 20: Hot Dogs w/chili, Potato
Salad, Baked Beans, and Cookies
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A Southern
Kiowa Christmas
A
Southern Kiowa Christmas sponsored by The Southern Kiowa Chamber is almost here. The big event is Saturday 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
Vendors
who will be selling their wares include:
crafts & toys; jewelry; homemade headbands 7 hair accessories; Rodam
Field Skin Care; It Works; Hot Wheels; thirty-one Bags; Scentsy; Tutu’s and
hair bows; wreaths; Paparazzi Jewelry; desserts and drinks.
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Are
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 15 – Levi
Elliott
December 15 – Jackie Todd
December 15 – Nelson Davis, Class of 1952
December 15 – Dortha Vanderpol
December 16 – Eva Sparks
December 16 – Billy Glenn Pitts, Class of 1956
December 16 – Ken Heskett
December 17 – Alaysha Nicole O’Neal
December 17 – Lisa (McCollom) Liles, Class of 1975
December 18 – Betty Callen
December 18 – Joe Balderas
December 18 – Alice (Rudkins) Newman, Class of 1979
December 19 – Christy Pina
December 19 – Jason Green
December 19 – Monty Lapar
December 19 – Joe Don Nash, Class of 1960
December 20 – Dwight Skinner
December 20 – Doyle Krieger
December 20 – Helena (Robbins) Cooper
Happy Anniversary To:
December 18 – Nick
& Rachel Ambruso
Humor
Ole and Sven Working at the Airport
Ole and Sven were drinking buddies who
worked as aircraft mechanics in
Ole said, "I vish ve had somethin ta drink!"
Sven says, "Me too. Y'know, I hear ya can drink dat jet fuel and get a
buzz. Ya vanna try it?"
So they poured themselves a couple of glasses of high octane hooch and got
completely smashed.
Next morning Ole woke up and is surprised at how good he feels. In fact he feels GREAT! NO hangover! NO bad side effects. Nothing!
The phone rang. It was Sven who asks,
"How iss you feelin dis mornin?"
Ole says, "I feel great. How bout you?"
Sven says, "I feel great, too. Ya
don't have no hangover?"
Ole says, "No dat jet fuel iss great stuff -- no hangover,
nothin. Ve oughta do dis more
often."
Sven agreed. "Yeah, vell, but dere's yust vun ting."
Ole asked, "Vat's dat?"
Sven questioned, "Haff you farted yet?"
Ole stopped to think. "No."
"Vell, DON'T, 'cause I'm in
OH, stop laughing and forward this to someone who needs a good laugh!
From the Email
“Bag”
December
7, 2012
Loved your
story Mike. Best to you and Carolyn.
Merry Christmas.
George Farrar, Class of 1969
Food for
Thought
Men Find Careers in Collecting Disability
Dec. 3, 2012
Americans are
very generous to people with disabilities. Since passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act in 1990, millions of public and
private dollars have been spent on curb cuts, bus lifts and special elevators.
The idea has been to enable people with
disabilities to live and work with the same ease as others, as they make their
way forward in life. I feel sure the large majority of Americans are pleased
that we are doing this.
But there is another federal program for
people with disabilities that has had an unhappier
effect. This is the disability insurance (DI) program, which is part of Social
Security.
The idea is to provide income for those
whose health makes them unable to work. For many years, it was a small and
inexpensive program that few people or politicians paid much attention to.
In his recent book, "A Nation of
Takers:
In 1960, some 455,000 workers were
receiving disability payments. In 2011, the number was 8,600,000. In 1960, the
percentage of the economically active 18-to-64 population receiving disability
benefits was 0.65 percent. In 2010, it was 5.6 percent.
Some four decades ago, when I was a law
clerk to a federal judge, I had occasion to read briefs in cases appealing
denial of disability benefits. The Social Security Administration then seemed
pretty strict in denying benefits in dubious cases. The courts were not much
more openhanded.
Things have changed. Americans have grown healthier, and significantly lower numbers die
before 65 than was the case a half-century ago. Nevertheless, the disability
rolls have ballooned.
One reason is that the government seems to have gotten more
openhanded with those claiming vague ailments. Eberstadt
points out that in 1960, only one-fifth of disability benefits went to those
with "mood disorders" and "muscoskeletal" problems. In
2011, nearly half of those on disability voiced such complaints.
"It is exceptionally difficult --
for all practical purposes, impossible," writes Eberstadt, "for a
medical professional to disprove a patient's claim that he or she is suffering
from sad feelings or back pain."
In other words, many people are gaming or
defrauding the system. This includes not only disability recipients but health
care professionals, lawyers and others who run ads promising to get you
disability benefits.
Between 1996 and 2011, the private sector
generated 8.8 million new jobs, and 4.1 million people entered the disability
rolls.
The ratio of disability cases to new jobs
has been even worse during the sluggish recovery from the 2007-09 recession. Between January 2010 and December 2011, there
were 1,730,000 new jobs and 790,000 new people collecting disability.
This is not just a matter of laid-off
workers in their 50s or early 60s qualifying for disability in the years before
they become eligible for Social Security old age benefits.
In 2011, 15 percent of disability
recipients were in their 30s or early 40s. Concludes Eberstadt,
"Collecting disability is an increasingly important profession in
Disability insurance is no longer a small
program. The government transfers some $130 billion obtained from taxpayers or
borrowed from purchasers of Treasury bonds to disability beneficiaries every
year.
But there is also a human cost. Consider
the plight of someone who at some level knows he can work but decides to
collect disability payments instead.
That person is not likely to ever seek
work again, especially if the sluggish recovery turns out to be the new normal.
He may be gleeful that he was able to
game the system or just grimly determined to get what he can in a tough
situation. But he will not be able to get the satisfaction of earned success
from honest work that contributes something to society and the economy.
I use the masculine pronoun intentionally,
because an increasing number of American men have dropped out of the workforce
altogether. In 1948, 89
percent of men age 20 and over were in the workforce.
In 2011, 73 percent were. Only a small amount of that change
results from an aging population. Jobs have become physically less grueling and
economically more rewarding than they were in 1948.
The Americans With
Disabilities Act helped many people move forward and contribute to society. The
explosive growth of disability insurance has had an opposite effect.
Obituaries
Useful
Links:
Becker
Funeral Home of Snyder, OK
http://www.beckerfuneral.com/?page=snyder
Ray
and Martha’s Funeral Home of Hobart,
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http://www.picturetrail.com/sfx/album/listing/user/rooseveltcemetery
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