The Wyandotte news-herald. (Wyandotte, Mich.) 1943-1963, 1945-01-08
Texas Horses Make
Tough Steaks

RIGOR MORTIS now begins to
set in and we are beginning to be-
leve It's about time to leave Dallas
:. before we have to start paying
taxes. The mayor down here has
already paid US visit asking for
our vote but the fee back in
wyandotte seems more alluring +.
Besides, when we take off our only
pair Of socks they now stand up
straight against the wall of the
airport terminal.
Things were dull in the terminal
today. A buck private dropped his
sad sack on the tile floor -. send
ing waves Of cough medicine slosh-
ing Ill over the place. Besides
mourning the loss of his life-giving
plasma he did complain about
his extra underwear getting all wet
with alcohol.
Then there were two would-be
civilian passengers fighting over
one available plane seat. With lefts
and rights below the belt they
knocked themselves out. The crowd
yelled for murder and were
disappointed. AS 1t turned out the
one available seat was on the stew
ardess' lap and they looked too
old to enjoy it.
With our last vitamin pill in
side u and with corns at both
places we decided to take q
train as far as FL PaSo. This is
called the milk run with the
passengers getting off to push every
other mile. AS 1t should be the mil
itary are comfortably seated :.
and the civilians are allowed to
hang out the windows. The soldier
boys get q big kick out OF this
but the railroad officials want to
put Q stop to their tossing peanuts
-. like at monkeys in q ZOO.
To pass up mention of the dining
ear on the Texas & Pacific Railway
wouldn't be fair to decent cookery.
As you bite into a piece of meat
and look out the train window
-. you can hear the Texas horses
scream. Horse meat wouldn't be
near so bad If you didn't have to
see them prancing on the plains
with every mouthful.
On this trip the colored walters
did their bit to make life interest
ing. The diners didn't object to
their shooting crap in the kitchen
>. but the aisles became quite
crowded when loaded dice brought
out six-inch knives that weren't
sharp enough to cut the horsemeat
:. but did good job on a darky's
face.
Twenty hours later we pulled in
to e Paso. Put in q long distance
call 10 our favorite undertaken :.
Ralph Nixon but the pay phone
wouldn't take the slugs we brought
along. Funny, they worked in every
other city.
The e Paso airport is a beautiful
place. A terminal of Spanich archi-
lecture overlooking the Mexi-
can border. Cathedral bells ring
out from the roof towers the
entire scene making us quite
ashamed Of Detroit's clubhouse set
up.
Here the air traffic is light &.
with civilians taking off without
wait. Flying over the mountains of
West Texas and Arizona is both
fascinating -. and stomach turn
ing. The warmer the weather {.
the rougher the trip. Safety belts
are tightly fastened all the way
=. and If you're lucky the stew
ardess falls in your lap. You've
got to be extra lucky not to have
one Of those cardboard cans up to
your face at the time. An hour and
q half later they set you down at
Tucson .. and as you walk down
the gangplank into the hot Arizona
sun you think of home and
Happy Sage :. and silently hope
he's frpeZinO his ears off