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Show Page 2 Thursday, June 23, I960 THE VALLEY VIEW NEWS GIBBS GARAGE AND BODY SHOP Goes! Anything - Someone once told me how you can tell whether a Texan is lying or not. You watch his lips real close, he said, and if they move, hes lying. I guess Texas and Texans have been the topic of more jokes and stories than any other subjects on earth. I dont know why they should have this distinguished honor, but I would like to add a couple of stories to the list. thing in Texas is big. Everything theyve got is bigger than anything anyone else has. This attitude probably started when Texas joined the Union and couldnt stopp telling people that theirs was the biggest State. I don't know what effect Alaska had when it joined the Union on Texas, but theyll think of something. It wouldnt surprise me if they decided to buy Alaska and make it a part of Texas just so they wouldnt have to eat crow. If you The first one concerns a radio operator on duty want to throw a Texan into a near fit, ask him in the tower of a large airport. He had been on duty if Texas has the smallest or biggest midgets. some time, directing the takeoffs and landings of But on with the story. It seems a foreigner airliners. Nothing ususual happended till a call came went into a bar in Texas for a glass beer. Incidentally, in that surprised him. This is Piper Cub L345876. I a in this case is anyone who isnt a Texan, foreigner have 2,000 Texans aboard and Im requesting land- and this includes anyone living in the U.S. AnyAll right, wise guy, the radio ing instructions. way, this gent sits down and asks for a glass of operator yelled back, this is no time for jokes. Get beer. The bartender served him a bucket of suds off your radio and let important calls come in. that contained no less than five gallons. Our friend This is important, came back the reply. Im waitwas taken aback and said, Dont you have a small ing for landing instructions. glass of beer? That, the bartender said, is a But I understood you to say that youve got small glass of beer. We never serve a large glass a piper cub with 2,000 Texans aboard, the radio unless you ask for it. Not wishing to argue, the operator said. A piper cub only hold four people at customer drank the beer and then asked for a cigar. the most, now what gives? He wasnt too surprised when he got a cigar about All I know is Ive got 2,000 Texans and I three and a half feet long. Im not much of a smokwant to land, said the pilot. If you dont believe me, er. Dont you. have a smaller cigar? Sorry, the give me landing instructions and then be down there bartender replied, this is a small cigar. Whats the when I land. matter, partner, dont you know everything in Texas The radio operator gave the pilot his landing is big? instructions and then went out on the field to see The customer shrugged his shoulders and lit up. for himself what was going on. A while later he asked the bartender the direcThe plane landed, the door opened, and out tions to the mens room. Go through that door and came 2,000 men, each one about an inch high. The then turn left. You cant miss, the bartender told radio operator was speechless. The pilot straightened him. The patron went through the door but instead of him out. Nonchalantly, he said, Dont be so surturning left he turned right and fell in the swimming prised, buddy. Those are Texans with all of the pool. As he came up for air he could be heard yellbaloney removed! DONT FLUSH IT! FOR HEAVENS SAKE, ing, The second story concerns the fact that every DONT FLUSH IT! 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