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by donna scheibe alexander
Trinidad's peaceful "sleepy nothing more intimidating
little town" reputation was than stand by the side of the
shattered this week by big road and watch the bingo
bold newspaper headlines de- players pass by.
daring an ape man was Local lawmen weren't too
running around loose in the alarmed about the ape man...
area at night, in fact Sheriff's Deputy
The nearly seven foot tall Choice Lovelady hazarded a
"hairy-man looking" appari- guess that it could have been
tion was alleged to have been a black angus bull grazing by
spotted by several women the roadside...but Mrs. A.C.
who were returning from a
Gun Barrel City bingo game
last Tuesday night. "The
Creature" who seems to get
taller and hairier every time
the tale is told was alleged to
be standing along side of
Highway 274-so close, said
the Corsicana woman, that
she could have touched him
Big Foot's Brother, per-
haps? Cedar Creek Lake's
own Abominable tourist at-
traction? We can't conjure up
Gray, who called Lovelady,
said she knew the difference
between a four legged bull
and a two legged man.
Deputy Benny Rolison
more or less confirmed the
bull story---at least he dis-
covered that one was loose
about the time that Mrs. Gray
spotted her ape man. And
when another car full of
women, also returning from
the bingo game, allowed that
the "thing" might have been
Resources (TDHR) has been
enforcing the federal law
passed in 1974, and on July 1,
the department sent out a 17-
page memo to all public
water systems advising them
of standards they must meet.
Feedback from many city
and privately owned water
systems indicates that -- like
so many other federal protect
the poor people legislation -- it
is almost impossible to be in
compliance with federal
standards for pure water.
Certainly not for the small
towns and private systems
.operators. Adding insult to
injury is the law, now en-
forced, that compels each
water system to test the
water each month for several
contaminants, including 10
inorganic chemicals, six
organic pesticides,
murkiness, radiological
contamination and microbes.
A sample must be sent to the
TDHR for chemicaland
bacteriological analysis, and
if the water fails to meet
federal standards, the water
company is in trouble.
Back comes a letter from
TDHR that advises the water
system operator (city or
private) that the water is not
quite fit to drink. They, says
the government, all water
customers must be advised in
writing that their water lacks
the government seal of
approval.
What is a public water
system ? Any system,
privately or publicly owned
that serves 25 or more per-
sons or has at least 15 service
connections that are used at
tomers that its water is
inferior can also be fined
$5,000.
The Safe Drinking Water
Act is not without its critics -
in fact, at the moment it can
claim few proponents, but
especially critical is James
M. Rose, executive director of
the Texas Water Develop-
ment Board.
Rose said in a recent press
release that there wasn't
enough time to thoroughly
study and analyze the com-
plex set of options about
water quality. As a result, he
said, "the effort lacked clear
direction and suffered from
insufficient coordination."
Rose charged that the lack
of standardized criteria, and
the inadequate and inac-
curate techniques used by the
various federal agencies for
measuring environmental
impact is hampering and
seriously delaying water
resource planning and
development•
"There is reflected a great
readiness, almost im-
patience, on the part of the
from me to all parents,
grandparents, aunts, uncles,
or friends of the family who
has children.
The book was brought to my
attention last week by Lu
Sutton and Jeannie Walker,
friends of the library, as they
were pouring soft drinks and
preparing cookie trays for
children who completed the
summer reading program at
the Malakoff library.
Lu had seen the book when
one of her children checked it
out from the library. Jeannie
checked it out for that day.
Steve Sutton, it was report-
ed, had nearly wrecked the
family car while Lu read
from the book to him on a
recent trip.
My curiosity was aroused. I
checked with Jeannie the
following day to see if the
book had been returned to the
Library. It was there.
It is classified as a child-
ren's book. I recommend it to
adults.
Rather than attempt to do a
book review I will give you
excerpts.
Andrew is the baby in a
federal government to in-
tervene," he complained, to the editor
Wise words, and worth
listening to, but in the
meantime, what about all
these water systems who are
sending in their little sample
each month to the TDHR?
Most of them couldn't pay the
$5,000 fine if the government
enforced it. In fact a great
many of them wwould have a
hard time scraping up enough
postage to mail notices to
their customers that the
government doesn't approve
Most of the news that we
hear and read consists of
murder, greed and lust. How-
ever, there are good things
happening also, and I'd like to
report just one of the many
nice things that has happened
to me recently.
I lost a money bag last week
that contained cash and
checks. Within thirty minutes
a call came from Chief Wil-
son. Mrs. Lonnie Wallace had
ing the scene by Randall
Enos.
She said, "Just because
Andrew is the baby, he gets to
sit in the front seat. It's not
fair."
"He touches valuable
things like my peach pit
collection. One time he des-
troyed my entire pipe cleaner
village. It took me two whole
days to make that village."
"He can wreck a person's
room in eight seconds flat. If I
even go near his toys, he
screams his head off. It's not
fair."
"Sometimes he bites me.
He pinches too. When I hit
him back, he hollers as if I
were killing him. My mother
says: It's wrong to hit a
person who is smaller than
you."
"Andrew is a pig. You
should see him eat spinach.
He spits it out and gets it all
over his face, his hands, his
hair, everything. My mother
has to keep scraping it off
with a spoon. All she ever
says is Oh, what a wonderful
little spinach eater Andrew
is."
"The other day I acciden-
tally happened to knock over
my bowl of From Loops and
sliced banana. I got a two
hour lecture on being messy
and not paying attention.
Nobody called me a wonder-
ful little Front Loop eater."
If you have children, know
children, or occasionally visit
friends who have children,
visit the Malakoff Public
Library and check out "It's
Not Fair". While you are
there, look through the other
selections that are available.
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a Loch Ness Nessie, but a an animal, the mystery seem- least 60 days during the year• of their drinking water.
" ed to have been solved found the bag and carried it to
real, honest-to-God Ape .. This includes campgrounds ........ ..,
,, " wmen needn't lau h, . % , Mr Wilson's home
Man, m bound to have La g and other pubhc ac- /z.-, \\;., /44 " •
curiosity seekers running up however. Some of us can commodations that serve /f_ ,.- . I was happy to get the
and down Hwy. 2741ooking for remember a few years hack tourists and special groups a -t.(/7 Nxv I m.oney%vack, but the nicest
our own specialS, when Henderson County s for a limited time each year. fT/ ____/ mmg aout this experience is
Maybe som ensing finest we. p uu!ng some 30oayspasSandit'stime /qA: "".."'J ImVl.ng t o pp'tunity -to
me sm will set u an strange objects that were e le meet Mrs wallace
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all-night stand, selling re- flying around Cedar Creek TDHR. What happens if this '- ,k. .,
freshments to the hunters Lake in.weird•aircraft corn-sample again falls below The name Isaac means CarvaBeidler
who will surely hunger and plete wRh bhnkmg !lghts. federal standards? Then laughter. Malakoff, Texas
thirst after their quest for the That was when somethmg or ,m.-- "-.AAAAAA --
latest mysterious monster, someone was mutilating cat- [, "v'v''r''vrrr'v''v''r'"v'v'r -I
Old timers aren't taking tle and leaving their car- •
, casses m the pastures minus
this too seriously--after all it s " ' I • I
been only a couple of years or tongues, brains, and sexual ) H I ,.
SO since Boogie McCormack oran.s. .. ff ,B'JVJVJV •
and his Caney City cronies lnen, oz course, mere coula ,P',P',P'IIdF'JP'P'P'' u %
• "1 a 25 be a perfectly natural ex-
clmmed to have kll ed ([ ff ff • W' 4[
foot rattlesnake, complete p!anation. Some Trlnldad!ans V "" !
claim mat me appanuon
with so many rattles that . r J I
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Boogie couldn t count them Jb ]b
all and sent them off to some several local joggers who just . 1,
museum happen to like running in the ([:
The snake's scaly hide was CO0!.of the nigh! a!ong that f n 1 0 I q .
n-i'ed to the wall of Boo-ie's parucmar stretch oz roao. m J .... m _, m ,--, ....... r
mlneralwaterandsocialing mB: ;hnata:°Ul:n2t bemaaS $ JNOUtrlCK S lealltl >
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