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Show In the summer, we raised a garden and helped out by picking cotton for the cotton fanners. It cents per didnt pay much-35-5- 0 hundred pounds, but it helped out. Picking cotton in a blazing Texas sun is hard, hot, work, but it sometimes made the difference between having shoes for the winter and not having shoes. Shoes usually sold for about $1 ' per pair. Sometimes we picked blackberries and strawberries and were paid twenty cents a lug or crate. This was good money in those days, when $1 per day was the usual rate of pay for a grown man. Thursday, October 13, 1983 The Salma Sun back-breaki- Usually, when younger people speak of the good old days, they are talking about a time when they were still in school, living at home, no wife, no children, no responsibilities. he bought a few, but necessary groceries, made a house payment, bought a few clothes and shoes for us kids in the winter and somehow I remember once, I was hired to , managed to have a little money for Christmas. This would have been plow for a neighbor. Nothing was almost impossible without the old, said about my pay, but I assumed I faithful mail-ordwould be paid in cash. At the end of catalog. We had a little land and always the day I was paid off in watermelplanted a large garden so we had ons! In those days there were few plenty of potatoes and green stuff. tractors and I did all this plowing Most of the time we had a milk cow with a team of mules and a Georgia and a few pigs. We had an old stock plow. The sand was hot and I dasher chum and mama would was barefoot. You can imagine how make butter, shape it into squares I felt when I found out my pay was a in a butter mold, and when we had large pile of watermelons that I more than we needed, she would would have to carry about a quarter trade butter and eggs at the store of a mile to my house. I finally got a for things like salt, sugar and team and wagon to haul them in, coffee. but you can believe that that was Butter was ten cents a pound and the last time I did any work for that eggs were ten cents a dozen. Flour old skin flint! was $1 a sack and so were potatoes. Even though summer meant hard Flour and feeding those days came work, it was the best time. There decorative patterned bags and the were fresh berry pies and fresh empty bags were used to make vegetables and we didnt have to dresses, shirts and bonnets. About wear shoes. all we ever got in the way of store In our community, every Sunday the minister would be invited to a bought clothes were overalls, jeadifferent home for Sunday dinner. ns, shoes and coats. Invariably, this dinner would be southern fried chicken. Mama was chicken hearted and I was always elected to kill the chicken. I always dreaded to sefe our turn to have the preacher roll around because we had to be on our best behavior and because us kids always got the wings and backs of the chicken if we Not so with people in my age group. When we say in the good old days, we mean bade in the 1930s when times were really rough and Fm not sure they were the good old days. ' Where I grew up in central Texas, some people had their meat and dairy animals, but were still poor as I suppose most people were at that time. We lived in an old, single wood walled house with a fireplace. In the winter time, it was rough hying to take a bath in front of the fireplace in a number 3 washtub with a blue Texas norther blowing through the cracks on one side and the, fireplace roasting us on the other. My daddy worked as custodian for the local high school and earned $13 per week. With this grand sum, er back-to-ba- Women Win Again; Jogathon Saturday Last Tuesday, Oct. 4, Bryce Valley and Escalante came to North Sevier. North Sevier Jayvee girls won against Bryce Valley 15-- 8 and Open Daily 9 to Restoring the Diversion Robert Jensen, president of Salina Creek Irrigation Company, oversees the restoration of the irrigation water diversion that was partially detroyed by the got any at all. That preacher could put away more chicken, biscuits and gravy than two people could. Summer meant getting away once in a while to fish on the creek bank for white perch, going at night with an old carbide lamp, listening to our old hounds baying coon-hunti- hard on the trail and finally the climax when the dogs treed the floods earlier this year. The diversion has been completely restored. It was originally built by Civilian Conservation Corp workers in the 1930s. cream. The movie cost seven cents under twelve years old. Sometimes we could sneak in and some of the smaller kids would remain elven year olds for several years. Our clothes were boiled in an old iron wash pot outside. I always had to build mama a fire and keep it going. The clothes were hand scrubbed coon. on a ribbed wash board. Both the Summer meant watermelons chilled in cold water, a Saturday movie when we could afford it and ice clothes and us kids were washed with homemade lye soap that would dean the dothes and take the hide off us. Winter time would start with the first frost, when we killed hogs, made sauage, hams, and lye soap. It meant cuting and stacking wood. It meant having to run out in the cold to the privy and it meant school. In 1941, the war started and we moved to Houston where my daddy went to work in the shipyards and that was the end of my good old or maybe the beginning. days, Who knows? 9 15-- 2. The girls did a super job. Ann Marie Jensen served six straight points in the first game and Kathy Glover served for six points in the second game. We played much better here than we did when we traveled to Bryce Valley and Escalante. NSHS varsity and girls Escalante varsity 15-- 3 15-- beat 1. Jan Marshall served for 10 straight points in the first game and Lisa Willardson served for seven points in the second game. We then ' faced Bryce Valley varsity. The Wolf Women won 15-- 6 and 15-- Jan served for seven points in the first game. This Saturday at 10 a.m. the girls athletic department at NSHS will be to raise sponsoring a money for their program. The race will start at 10 a.m. in front of the high school and go to the. new city park and back to NSHS (5 miles). Runners are asked to collect pledges. These sheets are available in the NSHS office. A total of $25 will be given to the person with the most pledges. First place winners in age groups from 5 and 6 to over 18 also will receive $25. Everyone is welcome to come and jog. Tobe eligible for prize money, a jogger must have at least $10 in 3, jog-a-th- Our Reg. ) 0.97 8.97 Black Vinyl Gun Case e cotton lining, plastic handle and D holder. Save! Our 12.97, Scope Model Case, 9.97 Lint-fre- North Sevier High News By Trade Bennett NSHS Advertising Manager. School is one eighth over already according to midterms which were given out during the last week in September. School is going by quiddy. School rings were ordered last week. There was a long weekend for UEA so the students could have a break and the teachers went to school. Yearbooks will be sold this Wednesday, Thursday and Friday at noon in the commons area. The prices are $16 plain and $18 for name on vinyl cover. Its going to be a great yearbook so everybody come buy one! INCOME TAXES Business & Individual In House Computer Service HEATHS ACCOUNTING & MANAGEMENT SERVICES Valdo D. Heath WD-4- 0 Enrolled to practice before Internal Revenue Service Salina, Utah 550 Weit Main Help . Phone 529-757- 6 1MD b ! raetweneiiwin Lubricant Hunting Knife, Shaath I steel blade. Pakkaj Bulky Ortorf acrylic with 1 Heavyweight cotton protect from mob- - I Stainless scheH knit. 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