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Page Four — YOAKUM HERALD-TIMES, Yoakum, Texas Tuesday, January 26th, 1960PAY YOUR POLL TAXInsure your Right To Vote.LAST DAY JAN. 31stGame Magazine Has ArticleOn Black DrumAustin — The drum is a valuable commercial fish, it is very tasty, and is considered by many to be a fine game fish, according to Ernest G. Simmons in his very interesting article, •‘Drumming Along”, in the January issue of TEXAS GAME FISH.Sponsored by American Legion Post No. 395Yoakum Area Legends Recorded In Poetry By Former Trail DriverColored folks of the Yoakum area were also among the trail drivers of pioneer days and some of them recorded interesting descriptions of those days in poetry, it was learned here this week during an interview with descendants of the Perry Giles family. Picture-taken at the trail driver monument site, Highway 77-A and West Gonzales Street, was the occasion for the interview.Perry Giles, who passed on many years ago at age 89, was a Yoakum cowboy famous throughout Lavaca County as a broncho buster. He was also a trail driver. His son, WarrenGiles, now an elderly resident of Yoakum, lives on Haller Street near the trail driver monument and sometimes stakes a horse out for grazing in that grassy part of town by the highway.Warren explained that Perry Giles had another son who was more of a poet than the rest of the family and wrote down some Yoakum, Texas legends in a poem about trail driving. This was the late Walter Giles, native Yoakumite who passed on recently in California at the age of 84 years. The poem by Walter Giles reads as followes:Simmons, a marine biologist for the Texas Game and Fish Commission, points out that the arum’s position as an edible food is indicated by the fact that they comprise a major portion of commercial food fish sold in South Texas. Some opinions of persons who know the fish, writes Simmons, indicate that the fish is of little value. Never-thless, ‘‘Many a fisherman has enjoyed battling a drum, especially while he thought he had a redfish on the hook.”The magazine’s January issue cover carries a lifelike painting of the drum by San Antonio artist, Clay McGaughy.Other articles of interest in the magazine include one on Texas bisons, “Vanquished Lord,” by Bob Slaughter; one on the Big Hill Bayou Management Area, called “Modernizing the Marsh,” by Ed Holder; an interesting piece on fossil oysters entitled “Neptune’s Memento,” by Sandra Pounds; one on Lake J. B. Thomas, by Tommy Hart; and a picture round-up of the public deer hunts held in Texas this year.OCR COW-BOY DADDIESEre a million leagues of range lands Werre streaked by shining roads Or smoking, puffing freight trains Rushed on with heavy loads.Great herds of Texas longhorns Went north on Kansas trails While rollicking songs of cowboysi Disturbed the sleeping vales.They knew the Texas ranges Wet swamps to burning sands And every mile of windswept way They knew as they did their hands They rode the waring prairies From Red to Rio Grande And all herd bosses liked to work With Texas cattle hands.When horses then were needed They herded with Mustangs And roped them in the round-up Out on the open plains...They lashed front feet together And pulled their heads to side Or tied them to a Live Oak And saddled them to ride.Then riders straddled leather And broncs leaped to the sun,And pitched and screamed, and bellowed, The cowboys throught it fun.They trowelled them; they rowelled them; They lashed them with the quirt;They left not an inch of hide on them That did not ache and hurt!The Sweating bronchos foamed up Like lather for a shave,And all that foam blood stained with red Before they would behave.But when cowboys got through spurring And lashing them like that,Those pitching Texas dogies Got gentle as a cat.Now when lifes road gets rocky And effort brings you pains,Remember our cowboy daddies Who tamed the wild Mustangs! Remember it is never too late;That victory rides with a fighting mate, And you can win as sure as fate!Just tame your wild Mustangs!miofRcpaGiM,hrGiyebeanatHlt;hepeyuwlallnesatoiexm;wiso;thlt;inleacalajgawaseiovthlt;rigiyatbaawateireiar:Gishanfirtaifliwiveith.pemttO(geCVicifof
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Yoakum Herald Times
Yoakum, Texas, US
Tue, Jan 26, 1960
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