European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - March 5, 1987, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 14" the stars and stripes thursday March 5.1987 if you have Good handwriting you re Lucky and unusual. Mine isso bad Hal i m All but lost trying to write without a typewriter. I find notes i be written to myself and they Are frequently to illegible thai i have to throw them away Undeck Phemy Miu rom who in my memory looks like Diane saw yer taught me to write in the third Grade but i can t blame my handwriting on her i blame la on something called the Palmer method a system used by Many Public schools when . Don t know anything about the Palmer method even today i hate to write the name except it Wai a style totally unsuited to my character and ability. The Rales and manner of writing were drummed into my head so often that i recall every detail of How it was supposed to be done. I m not certain whether Ray jail Unitas because of a physical inability or a temperamental unwillingness to conform to rules that seemed idly to me. Mist Rose was quite dear How the wanted to to do were to take the Pencil and bold it Between the thumb and Index linger. The thumb had to be completely extended not Bent at All the Pencil thick almost straight up because it was held against the finer above the knuckle not Down in the Crotch of the hand. The Little Finger was curled underneath and Rode on the paper. Each Day miss Rose went up and Down the aisles inspecting our hands As we did push pull and continuous circles Between two lines on a pad of paper. A natural gift even at that age i recall being impressed by miss Rose Beauty and being excited when she Bent Over next to my desk and look my hand in hers to Reform it in the manner prescribed by Palmer. She would lean Over to see if there was tight coming under my wrist too. You were suppose to have Light coming under your wrist. The wrist was not to touch the desk. The whole motion came from the Ghoul Der and your Arm was an Arch Between your hand and the under part of the muscle of your forearm. The Finger of the hand Wernol supposed to move by themselves. It was very unnatural i could no More do what miss Rose and Palmer were asking me to do in those penmanship classes than i could eat an ice Cream Cone slowly. It was not my nature. At Home my Grandfather John Reynolds worked withe. He had Learned to write in a Little school in Redruth Cornwall England and he had a Fine firm legible hand. I greatly admired my Grandfather but i was totally unable to duplicate his handwriting and it strikes me now that i must have been coming of age because recall no being very worried about penmanship. I wished i could write As be a note Bull simply fell he could Andl it s mystery to me Why some people have Good hand writing and Why others have writing that s so hard to read it i probably Tor he same reason that some people arc Suneet Tan Aado Benait not maybe m ask Diane Sawyer to come Over and hold Myhand and set if she can Leach me How to be six feel tall. To Tribune mrtle Beitat sad Farewell to famed restaurant by Joe Murray Lufkin Texas it had been is years since i thought about eating at the san Jacinto inn. I Only wish 1 had remembered it sooner. If enough of Shad maybe things would be different today As it is the historic restaurant is history. Eat drink and be Mournful for it has closed. After 70 years at the san Jacinto Battleground it s finally lost the Bat the joined by my discerning dinner companion Cousin Bubba i drove 290 Miles to pay my last respects paying $ 18.95 for one of the inn s last suppers Platter after Platter of shrimp and oysters fish and Chicken and made from Solch biscuits. 1 never thought i see the Day Cousin Bubba and t would walk away from a couple of Doten boiled shrimp still on the table but in the end the inn outlasted us. Too bad that Frank Bobo. Manager for nearly 20 Yean can Tsay the same. We be literally run out of Money he said. But ours is a Houston company and we be been Here a Long time. There s no Way we d take bankruptcy. Sowe re quilting while we can still pay our Bills. As always a class operation. The san Jacinto inn bad been in business since1917 and was As much a landmark As the san Jacinto Monument and the battleship Texas which it stand alongside of at the Houston ship Channel near the Lynchburg ferry. The inn boasted dinner accommodations for As Many As 700 guests in what was once a rambling old Seaside style dance Hall perched partially on stilts to keep it High and dry in an average year it has served up pounds of fish 55,000 chickens 200,000 pounds of shrimp 1.7 million oysters 50,000 crabs and half a million hot biscuits not counting what Cousin Bubba and 1 that had been in the Good years. Business was no longer what it once was due to the dismal econ omy the Distant location and moreover a change in dining Habib. As dictated by the conscience of the diet conscious Good tasting Rood is no longer Good for so. But who wants to live forever especially now that the san Jacinto inn is shut Down this much is for sure nothing remains the same. And that includes the inn having to remain won t Rule out the possibility of reopening. Indeed the Day May come when the Economy come around and people have come to their tenses about their sense of taste. 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