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chief’s son dropping by to rape a white child or stir up a local controversy until Col. Warren’s son, by a previously living but now dead wife, graduates from A&M \(or West Point or one of those signed to this very damn same fort. Now, handsome, prudish, young, flat-bellied, Lt. Warren causes his battle-scared, fat old, formerly invincible pappy to feel inferior when the two of them are bending over in the presence of pappy’s nymphet wife. And all this uncomfortableness plus some sneaky doings by the most obnoxious officer since Capt. Queeg soon transforms the pastoral tranquillity of life at the fort \(not a thing to worry about in the old days, but a few hundred bloodthirsty, sex-crazy Comanwon’t go into those climactic details. It might spoil the movie which, speaking seriously, we have been told Blood Reckoning may soon becomefor you. We will simply add a word of advice. Be sure and read it from the beginning to get the full benefit. J. MILNER LETTER FROM KENEDY: `pool players i have known’ KENEDY POOL, OR POCKET BIL-LIARDS as it is referred to in polite circles, is no longer the favorite pastime in Kenedy. It has long since been replaced by bowling, dominoes, and television. There was a time when it reigned supreme from Front Street through Main. Then there were pool tables over cafes, in beer joints, and barber shops. Pool was considered a more or less fashionable way for the village male to while away his time. Now the pool halls have dwindled to two. The tables are old. The cushions are dead. Of late, however, there has been a resurgence of juveniles into the pool halls. Perhaps, the movie, “The Hustler,” motivated them. Now parents here worry again about their offspring in pool halls. They fret about the bad environment and moan that junior would make a great athlete if only he would give up pool. Meantime, junior hopes to someday become a mediocre pool player. The main pool hall here is in a long building. Formerly a newspaper occupied the space, There are about seven tables. Toward the back of the hall they descend in order of disrepair. The front tables have flourescent lighting. The back tables are beneath twohundred watt light bulbs which half blind the players. The back tables are usually reserved for the juveniles when the regular clientele fill the front. The place is owned by a Latin called by all and sundry, “Big Ears,” because of certain aspects of his physiogomy. He can speak no English, but apparently he hasn’t needed to do so to get ahead. It faces Front Street which has numerous beer joints and parallels the Southern Pacific Railroad tracks. Across the track is Mexican and Negro town. Corrine and Jimmy There are definite differences in skill among the pool hall habitues. The inhabitants, who usually protect their dimes like Fort Knox guards, play only those they feel certain they can beat or at least break even with. A good player can’t get a game unless an equally skilled player is present. The others look away, explain that they aren’t feeling well, or that they have business elsewhere. The top player here is Corrine, who speaks of himselfin the third person. “Come, you want to play Corrinne? Let’s see how good you are.” He will say. Once in a while a “hot” player will beat him, but the law of averages always favors Corrinne. Jimmy is the keeper of the pool hall while Corrinne is away. He has been around longer than most can remember. He speaks three words of English: “shoot,” and “you lose.” The Mexicans say that fifteen or twenty years ago nobody could beat Jimmy, that he could run three or four scratch tables straight, that he toured the surrounding country playing the sharks of other towns. Now his eyes are weak and wattery, but he still plays a very good game for the house. A local Latino politico was discussing the game. “You watch the ones that take their time. They play the best pool around here,” he said. “Corrinne, and Albert play slow and don’t miss. Jimmy is a slow player, too. He can’t shoot as good as he used to though. I remember one time when an out-of-town shark came in the pool hall. Nobody would play him. He wanted to shoot for five dollars a game. Jimmy said he didn’t have but ten dollars, but he would play that up. They got to playin’ and Jimmy slowly got ahead of him and before the day was over he had won about sixty dollars.” Hymns and Pool One day I was playing Corrinne and faring badly, when two Negroes came in. It was Saturday and they were dressed immaculately for East Kenedy. Both wore suits and the effect of eight or ten beers. One walked up to Corrinne, “Hello, Meskin,” he said. Corrinne replied, “Hello, white boy.” After getting this established, they settled down to a game of pool. A Negro from the West Coast J. Wayne Rides Again STATE BOARD OF INSURANCE State of Texas DALLAS BUD SHRAKE is a lefthanded sports columnist for a rightwinged Dallas newspaper which is distributed daily in the a.m. and bears the pointedly provocative name, “The Dallas Morning News.” Morning newsman Shrake is more than somewhat offbeat as far as sporting writers gowhich is far enough for most. He is somewhat offbeat in that he does not even attempt to suppress his un-American urge to communicate with sports page readers through the use of complete sentences. And, as if this were not unAmerican enough, Mr. Shrake has had the gall to actually complete a full-length \(by pre-WW II Obviously he hoarded the time to do it like a Blood Reckoning, but has nothing at all to do with Texas politics, Bantam Press, of paperback original fame, is the publisher. Results of Shrake’s unprofessional time-hoarding may be found, attractively jacketed \(the cover shows a man carrying an and revolving amid other colorful samples of our cut-rate cultural progress, at your nearest friendly apothecary, supermarket or bus station. We are uncomplimentary toward this sports writers’ novel finishing because everyone knows that a newspaperman must always talk about writing a book, but never really write it. It is not even required that he begin it. Completing it is not only unAmerican, as we point out above, but downright un-Texan. Shrake claims he accumulated the time to write Blood Reckon. ing by saving up such unused intervals as the waits for majorettes to wiggle onto football fields at halftime, awkward silences in conversations, etc. This does not, however, reduce his felony; it increases it. THE PLOT briefly, and using Mr. Shrake’s own words, is “about John Wayne and meeny, meeny savage Indians.” It is set in those glorious days when folks were either good or bad, through and through, and any man who was a man kept busy chasing Injuns and things, and toting pistols affectionately known as “hawglaigs,” having purely \(honwith pretty retired whores who operated saloons, and stuff like that. The particular blood reckoning Mr. Shrake has chosen to record \(and it is exciting recording, however blase one claims to be toward takes place in northwest Texas, beginning somewhere around Nocona, I would guess, and ending in a blood-splattered boxed section of Palo Dura Canyon. Thro ,,gh either research or imagination \(there is an authentic tone to some of the pivotal episodes, at least to a lay buff of Comanche pioneer and Injun Texans who live lives of loud desperation and are quite liberal \(Note to the author’s boss: Liberal in the litblood-letting. Crinkly-faced John Wayne convincingly portrays Colonel John bleshooter who shows up for this assignment with a 20-year-old bride who has never shared his bed, and a midsection that flows gently o’er his regulation belt buckle when he bends forward. COL. WARREN and his pretty young rejected Pi Phi wife maintain a tensely sterile, but not unhappy life together there at the fort with only an occasional LEGALS CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO S. C. Barczewski, Defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: hereby commanded to appear before the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County. Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before, 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 27th day of August, 1962, and answer the FIRST AMENDED petition of plaintiff in Cause Number 123,624, in which S. W. Barczewski is Plaintiff and S. C. Barczewski is defendant, filed in said Court on the 12th day of March, 1962, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgement in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing between said parties: Plaintiff alleges that plaintiff and defendant lived together as husband ar d wife in comparative peace and domestic tranquility for a relatively short period of time, but the defendant then commenced a studied and deliberate course of conduct toward plaintiff, without, any just cause or provocation on the part of plaintiff, which constituted both mental and physical cruelty towai d plaintiff. On or about August 10, 1961, defendant left the home of plaintiff and defendant, without any just cause or excuse, and since such time plaintiff and defendant have not lived together O\\ Tit e . cohabited as husband and N Because of such cruel treatment, outrages, and excesses on the part of defendant toward plaintiff, their further living together as husband and wife is insupportable. Three children have been born of and during the marriage of plaintiff and defendant and plaintiff asks that the custody and control of said children be awarded exclusively to plaintiff. Plaintiff further requests that defendant pay suitable monies toward the support and maintenance of the minor children. During this union there was a relatively small amount of community property acquired which plaintiff asks be awarded by the court to the plaintiff for the use and benefit of plaintiff and the three minor children of plaintiff and defendant. All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s First Amended Original Petition on file in this office, and which reference is here made for all intents and purposes. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR., Clerk of the District Courts of Travis County, Texas. Issued and given under my hand and the seal of said Court at office in the City of Austin, this the 10th day of July, 1962. 0. T. MARTIN, JR. Clerk of the District Courts, Travis County, Texas By: JOHN DICKSON, Deputy CITATION BY PUBLICATION THE STATE OF TEXAS TO Patricia Mitchell Clements, defendant, in the hereinafter styled and numbered cause: hereby commanded to appear before the 98th District Court of Travis County, Texas, to be held at the courthouse of said county in the City of Austin, Travis County, Texas, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of the first Monday after the expiration of 42 days from the date of issuance hereof; that is to say, at or before 10 o’clock A.M. of Monday the 20th the first amended petition of day of August, 1962, and answer plaintiff in Cause Number 120,339, in which Olen W. Clements is plaintiff, and Patricia Mitchell Clements is defendant, filed in said Court on the 30th day of January, 1962, and the nature of which said suit is as follows: Being an action and prayer for judgment in favor of plaintiff and against defendant for decree of divorce dissolving the bonds of matrimony heretofore and now existing betwen said parties: Plaintiff alleges that Defendant, disregarding the solemnity of her mariarre vow and her obligation to treat Plaintiff with kindness and attention, has commenced a course of unkind and cruel treatment towards Plaintiff, which continued with very slight intermission, until the filing of this petition. On divers occasions, while Plaintiff lived with Defendant as aforesaid, Defendant has been guilty of excesses, cruel treatment and outrages toward Plaintiff, of such a nature as to render their further living together as husband and wife insupportable. There were no children born to or adopted by Plaintiff and Defendant during this marriage. All of which more fully appears from Plaintiff’s First Amended Original Petition on file in this office, and which reference is here made for all intents and purposes. If this citation is not served within 90 days after date of its issuance, it shall be returned unserved. WITNESS, 0. T. MARTIN, JR.,