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First haircut since May, before I left Indiana. God, I looked like a sheepdog I needed a trim so badly, and I'd grown out so much of my hair there was a massive Cousin It-like pile on the floor after we'd finished.
Cut by Kacey of Gene Juarez Salons, though she did it in my apartment. Punk rock.
These are currently on show at Gene Juarez, downtown Seattle. They're from a self-portrait series of 11 prints, made using an old Nikon FE2 35mm SLR. No autofocus! It was pretty hard work - I ended up getting roughly one print for every roll and a half of film I shot ... But I think it was worth it in the end.
I am on leave from Vietnam in this pic--I am the blond guy with the short hair--scanned at 600 dpi from small and tarnished photo
The KOM League
Flash Report
For
March 7, 2019
This report has been placed on Flickr at: www.flickr.com/photos/60428361@N07/47310622721/ In order to learn the story about the young man who was separated from his family at age four and to learn nothing more for 17 years you’ll have to click on the aforementioned link. And, there is an offer of something, for free, that has been in the making for 14 years.
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The offer of something for nothing—i.e. free
KOM COMMISSIONER: I’ve stalled for a year and have not pitched the past 14 or so years of Flash Reports that now require three storage boxes to house. Is there anyone left who would want them? I’d love to keep them, but my wife is opposed and no one else in my family has any interest. I’ll await your answer and directions. How about the Kansas Historical Society? The Missouri or Boone County Historical Societies? Cooperstown? They might be the best bet.
I know they stored a lot of scouts’ reports in the past when the scout cleaned out his office or died and someone did it for him.
I’ve finally made the first steps to organize the dozens of file boxes (around 75 of them), eliminate and archive what is left. I’ll send my archives to the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection at the State Historical Society along with several organizations I’ve helped keep alive through the years. I’ll need to live to the age of at least 110 to get it all in order. That means I have 23 ½ years left, for sure.
I’m always good for breakfast, soup, or liver and onions when you are. OL’ CLARK- aka Bill Clark—former major league scout and now living full time in Columbia, Mo.
Ed reply:
I will put your offer to offload those old Flash Reports in my next report, if there should ever be one. Like you, no one in my family has any interest in them. I couldn't even find a library or historical society who would take and use them even for starting bond fires or crude insulation.
One thing I can do is go somewhere for breakfast. I usually do one with the great grandkids every Saturday morning but I decided about a half an hour ago I'm not up to the challenge today. I'm sending my first wife instead.
Put down the date. place and time that suits you best for a breakfast encounter and I'll schedule my doctor's visits around that date.
Someone told me spring training has started. I'm taking this year off from baseball again.
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Plea:
If anyone can give those old Flash Reports, neatly sorted, and firmly packed, a home let either Bill Clark or the guy who wrote them know of your intentions. Otherwise, a big stack of paper will go into a local recycling bin.
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The dean of KOM league sportswriters
E. L. Dale of the Carthage Press hired Fletcher Cupp to write sports and other articles in the early 1930’s when it was a two newspaper town.
In recent weeks an article that Cupp wrote, that went nationwide, was shared in this forum. It was a great interview he did with Carl Hubbell which should have put to rest the issue as to where the Hall of Fame hurler was born. All the major sports publications had it as being in Carthage, Mo. but they were wrong as Cupp documented. Even five decades later one of Cupp’s successor’s at the Carthage Press, Corky Simpson, had a face-to-face interview, with Hubbell, who was still telling the story the same way he had done with Cupp when he was the all-star pitcher with the New York Giants.
But, this article is not a rehash of Cupp and Hubbell but one that intrigued me. This article appeared in 1943. For as long as I can remember I heard the stories that circulated around my hometown about the friendship that had developed during WW II between Cupp and the most famous male movie actor in the world.
Cupp was a fixture at all sporting events in town and covered baseball in Carthage during its time in the Arkansas/Missouri league as well as its entire time in the KOM league. It is no exaggeration to say that he was the dean of KOM league sportswriters. He also held the position of the official scorer for KOM games for both the Cardinal and Cub affiliates in Carthage.
Thus, when I came across an article published August 13, 1943 and spread around the globe by the Associated Press, I knew I had discovered how the link between Cupp and Gable came to pass. When writing one of my books I was interviewing a former player in Pella, Iowa. There came a time in the interview when the fellow asked “How did you write about Cupp and Gable?” For the few of you who have read my books you’ll know that subject didn’t make it into any of my published works
In researching that era I did find references in the Carthage Press where it would be mentioned that Gable was visiting in Carthage. One writer, for the Press, opined that the owner of Boots Motor Court ought to advertise on highway signs on highways 66 and 71 that “Clark Gable slept here.” He was sure that would cause ladies, traveling with their husbands, to demand they sleep where Gable did.
One night, in particular, comes to mind of the fellow I was interviewing in Pella, Iowa. I guess its okay to mention names. Duane Ballou recalled having an early afternoon lunch with his teammate Oscar “Pappy” Walterman. Shortly after the meal began Cupp came into the restaurant, the C&W, which was located on the north side of the Carthage square. That is only mentioned for the Tiger theater was located on the west side of the square and the Crane Theater was about a block east of the restaurant. As the two ballplayers ate, Cupp asked them about the previous night’s game and solicited comments about the opponent for that evening’s game.
Ballou said as they were finishing their meal the door of the café swung open wide and clad in a leather jacket and aviator cap stood a guy who yelled out “Fletch.” According to Ballou, Cupp went to the door, greeted the fellow and walked him back to the booth where he and Walterman were sitting.
Cupp announced “Boys I want you to meet my friend, Clark Gable.” Both Ballou and Walterman said they felt uncomfortable and didn’t know what to say. What they said was “Good meeting you” and then excused themselves and headed out to the ballpark. Can you imagine what their teammates said when told they had just met Clark Gable?
Often I’ve wondered what some young lady who was a movie fan would have thought had she recognized a fellow who had been on the big screen at the Tiger and Crane theaters many times. Some of you Carthaginians, from that era, may wonder how I’m going to conclude this story. I just did.
Now here is the AP story from 8/13/1943
Former Carthage, Mo., Sports Editor Tells of Raid He and Gable 'Enjoyed' Over Germany
By WILLIAM S. WHITE --UNITED STATES BOMBER STATION IN ENGLAND, Aug. 13 -(AP)—After he and Capt. Clark Gable had just been missed by a chunk of flak on a Fortress raid over Germany, Master Sgt. Fletcher Cupp, former sports editor of the Carthage, Mo., Evening Press and correspondent of the Kansas City Star, sent this message back home to his old boss: (Ed note: E. L. Dale Carthage Press Editor and later KOM League President). "As soon as this war is over, I'll sure be glad to meet that deadline of yours again." Cupp, radio operator and gunner' on the Fortress "Ain’t It Gruesome," yesterday was on his 15th raid over Germany when the flak burst tore through the ship three feet from where he was standing. It was a close call for the former movie star, standing near. It was one of 15 such bursts that the ship survived, but Cupp didn't know how near he was to the bad news until after landing back in England. "I had just left my regular position in the radio room to go back into the waist and fix a fuse," Cupp said. “I heard something like a tin can dropping and just thought maybe one of the boys had dropped an ammunition case or something. When we got down I saw the hole made by that tin can."
"Ain't It Gruesome" was "all over the floor." he added, ''and ours were the huskiest evasion tactics I've ever seen. I believe it was I he roughest raid I've been in yet, although they are all rough enough. You see, we were in the lead ship, and of course they go for that ship. "I understand we were up there for about two hours, but it seemed a little more like 20 to me. "The sensation doesn't change much; it. runs about like this: The worst time yesterday—as always— was on our way toward the target area. When we got over the target area itself, everybody was much too busy to think about anything but what we were doing. On The Alert Every Minute "Of course, even coming back you are plenty on the alert. The other feller is pretty sly about letting you alone a little while and then jumping you—sometimes just before you get to the English coast." Captain Gable, who went along to take shots of enemy fighters on attack for a gunnery training film was nearby as the-flak hit the top turret. "Captain Gable was standing within two feet of that turret," Cupp recalled. "That flak rattled around up there and dropped on the floor. I didn't see what the captain 'did; we were all pretty busy up there then." Cupp, big and redheaded, has been in the Army 16 months and three or four of those have been spent in England. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Cupp, live on RFD 1, Carthage, Mo
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Encouragement to write another Flash Report:
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Well done my friend. Your stories and humor are well appreciated. Jason Wallace—Grandson of Bob Saban—former member of the Carthage Cubs and numerous other teams.
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John, Thank you for all the info and great photos of the past and all of your photos w/that wonderful Canon. You are a remarkable man to keep history going of the KOM and all the really good baseball that was played in towns in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Missouri, in the 40's, 50"s and 60's. You are very special....,.THANK, THANK, AND THANK YOU Norris Dorsey. Wood River, Ill.
Ed reply:
Well, it is great hearing from Norris Dorsey on a snowy day in March. Glad you enjoy the photos. My camera is a Nikon and I do have a lens about the size of a cannon but it is made by Sigma.
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Three or four other folks sent along messages that I interpreted as meaning they would like to hear the full story of the young man who was born in Joplin and left there when his mother died. If you recall his father re-married (maybe) and headed west with a ‘pocket full of money” and got as far as El Paso, Texas before dumping the young boy.
When starting to delve into the details of the abandonment of the young man I said to myself “self” I have plowed this same ground in the past. Calling on the memory power at my disposal I looked up the telephone number of a reader who dropped off the “reception” list a few months ago. In making the call I found the person wasn’t mad at me or fed up with the reports but rather he had changed his e-mail address. As a result of that contact here is the message received.
“Hi John, good to hear from you again. I was concerned that you had discontinued the KOM Reports and retired to other interests. So, now I’m catching up on reports missed and find them very interesting. As you probably know I was an avid fan of both the KOM and Western Association Leagues. Especially, with the Joplin Miners I had the opportunity to see some future major leaguers and some guys who didn’t quite reach the majors but played at higher levels than class D and C. But, I still remember some of those in D and C who had a lot of talent but no luck. All this is to let you know that I sure would like to be on your report list again.
I reread the McKibben story you researched. My Stepfather, Earl McKibben, was born and raised near what was Picher, OK and had quite a number of relatives there for some time. However, most of them later moved to Arizona and California. My twin brother, Jerry, and I played in the four states area from ages 9 to 24 after which we both got married and moved to different parts of the country. During our early years we were not legally McKibbens. Rather our birth name was Jackson. We discovered this when we both enlisted in the Webb City Company of the National Guard. You might imagine the shock of this revelation and the subsequent conversations within the family. An adoption process followed and all was made well and whole. While I know the McKibben families, I know none of the
Webb City area Jackson’s.
John, this is unquestionably more than you wanted to know, so I’ll bring this to a halt. Just to add, when my brother and I visit we replay some of the past games and marvel at how good we were. Isn’t it amazing how old age memories and reality collide and produce stories about things that never happened as now told?
Please keep up your good work and add me to the active list. Thanks much. Gene McKibben-St. Peters, MO
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Altering the history of the KOM rosters
All of the research undertaken regarding the McKibbens had to do with a person identified as Harve McKibben in all KOM league historical records. He was always referenced in the Miami newspaper as being an Indian lad. He was born in 1922 at Quapaw, Okla. and was a star athlete at Miami, OK high school before serving in WW II with two older brothers.
At this juncture I’m setting the historical narrative on the Miami, Okla. and KOM player straight. The fellow’s full name was John Harvey McKibben III and was born March 14, 1922 in Lincolnville, Okla (Notice how that fact was made to coincide near the current date.) John Harvey McKibben the first was born in Ohio, in 1854, and then moved to Appleton City, Missouri. There he had a son John Harvey II in 1891. From Appleton City a number of the McKibben’s moved to Indian Territory where John Harvey Jr. farmed until he found the minerals beneath the surface were more valuable than the grass his cows were eating. He became a very successful miner and developer of mines.
In 1920 John Jr. married a full-blood Indian by the name of Anna Quapaw. Their first son was named after his father and grandfather. Thus, John Harvey McKibben III was half-blooded Quapaw. His maternal grandmother was named Mes-kah-na-ba-nah and for short she was called Minnie.
John Harvey McKibben III was one of only four players, from the Miami club of 1946, who the Brooklyn Dodgers selected at the end of that season to play in their organization in 1947. The 1946 Miami-Brooklyn relationship was like a lot of post-war agreements made between big league and minor league teams. In this case Brooklyn gave Miami $1,000 seed money for 1946 and in return they got to select six players from that team at the close of the season. As it turned out Brooklyn was only impressed with four enough to sign them for 1947.
Harvey McKibben, the Miami baseball player died Feb. 19, 1965 in Tulsa, Okla. but up to shortly before his passing he lived in Colorado Springs, Colorado He had an older first cousin, Harold John McKibben, and the following is about him. Harold’s father was named Norman and he got his first name from a great uncle who died July 1, 1863 at the Battle of Gettysburg. This will all unfold, in chapters, on a weekly basis, until the story can be put to rest.
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Harold John McKibben becomes and “unbecomes” Juan Chavez
Primary Resource: El Paso Evening Post September 14, 1927 page 1.
Harold John McKibben, 21, who says he lived for 17 years under the impression that he was the son or Manuel Gomez Chavez, wealthy Parral, Chih., rancher, today, planned a nationwide search for his parents. He said he will ask newspapers throughout the country to broadcast his strange story. A faint hope that his mother may be alive was fanned to life, he said by Mrs. G. F. Cole, 3707 Durazno, who kept the boy for three weeks after he was abandoned in 1910 by his father and step-mother when he was four years old “She said my mother may be| alive, though that is only a surmise," he said. "Others who knew my father say my mother is dead.”
The young man is awaiting the arrival of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Chipps, who are due home from, California in a few days. He was abandoned by his father and stepmother at a rooming house Mr. and Mrs. Chipps ran in 1910. Meanwhile a report that his father may have come here from Joplin, Mo., is being investigated.
Mrs. Cole and Victor Benedetti at the Hotel Savoy declared that there can be no question about the identity of the young man after they saw him today. (His) parents went away "As a baby in rompers he played with my dog at the Hermes rooms,' which Mr. and Mrs. Chipps operated,” said Benedetti. “His father and step-mother disappeared, leaving him with Mrs. Chipps. They never have been heard from.
"Mrs. Chipps wanted to keep him, but decided she couldn't care for him because they were building an apartment house and she was busy. “Manuel Gomez Chavez, Parral rancher, took the boy. Four years later he brought him to El Paso. The child spoke nothing but Spanish and had forgotten us." Trying to stir memories Benedetti took McKibben for a stroll past the old rooming house at Overland and Stanton. But the young man remembered nothing definite about his early life. Benedetti has a photograph of the boy of four which Mrs. Chipps had made when he was turned over to Gomez Chavez.
Mrs. Cole planned to adopt the child and kept him for three weeks. Then she changed her mind. She kept a photograph of the boy’s father which was in the child's hand bag. She said she forgot to put it back when he was returned to Mrs. Chipps. Today she gave the picture to McKibben. “He was a happy, bright little fellow," she recalled. "He was right at home among strangers.” After Mrs. Cole decided she couldn't adopt him, the late Mrs. Albert Steinwach of Juarez kept the boy for a few days. It was at Mrs. Steinwach’s rooming house that the Parral rancher first saw him. “The boy looked so much like the rancher that he decided to adopt him,” said Mrs. Cole.
El Paso editor’s note: How he felt when he discovered last week that he is an American, after he had lived for 17 years as a Mexican with a Mexican name at Parral, Chih., and Mexico City, was described today by Harold John McKibben to an El Paso Post reporter. His authorized story, as he told it, follows:
By HAROLD JOHN M KIBBEN-- As far back as I can remember I have always felt alone, even as a child I was always sad. There seemed to be something that I had missed in life. As a boy at Parral, Chih, where I was reared, and in the field as a member of Pancho Villa's revolutionary forces at the age of 16 I felt that I was not born to that life. I was constantly groping for something—I did not know what. All alone and my associates seemed to consider me a person apart from themselves. They called me "The Gringo.” Perhaps it was because of my actions. Maybe the person who first called me by that name knew the story of my origin, though I did not know it then.
Then came the day when Manuel Gomez Chavez, who reared and educated me as a Mexican, told me I couldn't enter Mexican politics because I was American born. It is impossible to describe how that news thrilled me. I knew I had found part of that intangible something which had caused me to feel sad and lonely when I should have been a happy, carefree boy. Yearns for Mother. When I read the copy of a court order which placed me in the custody of Manuel Gomez Chavez I felt that I must begin a search for my parents. It is real parental love that I have been wanting all these years. My instinct was crying for the love of a real mother, though I did not know it. That yearning has caused me to resolve to forgive my father for abandoning me when I was a baby. Three days and two nights on the train from Mexico City to El Paso felt like an eternity. I lived a lifetime. I could not begin my search soon enough. A passenger offered me a cigaret and I smoked for the first time in my life.
I am not unappreciative of the things the people who reared me did for me. But I feel that I have lost much of my life—much of the things other boys accept as commonplace and in ordinary parts of family life. It is too late now for me to go to a university. So I will attempt to continue my career in the literary world. I will write stories and a book of Mexican stories. That may be the means of finding my father. He may see my name somewhere. Two pictures of Harold John McKibben. One was taken after his parents abandoned him when he was four years old. The other picture was taken today.
The saga continues, courtesy of the El Paso Herald September 13, 1927
Youth’s Mother Dead; Stepmother Beat Him, Records Reveal is an American-- Secrets of the strange and shrouded life of Harold John McKibben, American youth, whose story electrified El Pasoans and whose 21 years of existence eclipses the romantic and picturesque lives of adventurers and swashbucklers of fiction, were revealed Tuesday in a search of musty records at the county clerk’s office.
How the mother of the lad died when he was but a few weeks old; how a woman, purported to be the wife of his father, whipped, mistreated and half-starved him, and how the child was finally abandoned are disclosed in a court petition found among the manifold records of the county.
J. A. Chipps, former Juarez saloon man and owner of an apartment house at 205 West California street, who is now visiting in California, and the petitioner, said in the instrument that the woman purporting to be the wife of the child’s father left the boy with his wife for a few hours while she went downtown shopping and that it was the last he ever heard of the couple.
The petition on which the order to turn the child over to Manuel Gomez. Chavez, a wealthy Mexican. living near Parral, Mexico, follows:
State of Texas—County of El Paso. “Before me, the undersigned authority sworn on oath deposes and says: “That Harold John McKibben is a minor of the age of four years; that he has been abandoned by his parents, and has not the proper parental care and guardianship. That “That on or about the 1st off June, 1910. the father of said child came to the house of affiant, with the child and some woman, purporting to be his wife; that the mother of the child died when he was but a few weeks old; that said woman mistreated the said child and whipped him and did not give him sufficient food; that the affiant and his wife helped care for and feed and clothe said child when said parties were in the house of affiant; that on or about the 30th of June, 1910. the woman purporting to be the wife of the father of said child, came to the wife of affiant and asked her to take care of said boy for a few hours until she returned from downtown; that this is the last affiant ever heard of or saw said parties; that they have abandoned said child; that affiant has cared for said child from said date to the present time, but owing to the condition of his wife as to health, is not willing to longer care for him. “Wherefore your affiant prays that said child be declared a neglected child and that the court make such record in regard to the disposition of said child as may appear best for his physical and moral welfare. “J. A. Chips. ‘Sworn to and subscribed before me this day of September. 1910. “Albert S. Eylar. County Judge.”
A search of the county records failed to reveal a record that Gomez had adopted the boy although the juvenile court record of the case, which Gomez gave to the lad, was found. The juvenile record shows that the petition of Mr. Chipps, charging McKibben with being a neglected child and the order that he be turned over to the care and custody of Mr. Gomez, who shall at all times be responsible for the education and maintenance of the child subject to the order of the court, was heard. A notation at the bottom of the juvenile record, the writing of which, court house attaches said, is judge Eylar’s, says, “Party to whom child was given is a wealthy Mexican living near Parral, Mexico. Wife speaks English. Have no children. Will adopt boy. ” The record, which McKibben has in his possession and which lie says Gomez gave him, is an order by judge Eylar turning the child over to the care and custody of Gomez, attaches at the clerk's office said.
Although no records of adoption were to be found, the attaches stated that persons are not required to record such papers and that the majority of adoptions are not recorded, It was explained that many persons prefer not to record adoptions, as they don’t want the children to find out their relationship.
Chris Aranda, jr., deputy county clerk, said that the county judge ordinarily does not give adoptable children to persons wishing them, but that he sometimes makes out the adoption papers. An El Paso woman, who refused to be quoted, said she knew that Gomez adopted McKibben. She maintained that the youth "as not giving Gomez fair play, and that she knew personally the lad had been well taken care of by the Parral rancher. To the complaint that young McKibben is not showing the proper appreciation and respect for Gomez, the youth said: “1 certainly do respect and appreciate Gomez. I certainly appreciate all that he has done for me. But since I have learned that I am an American, I naturally want to find my parents and live in the United States.” Judge Eylar said Tuesday that he remembered the proceedings when McKibben was turned over to Gomez. ‘I and other interested persons thought that we were very fortunate in obtaining s home for the boy with Gomez. “Gomez was a millionaire and had the best of recommendations. I distinctly remember that the child was extremely bright and we often wondered why American parents would desert him. My recollection is that the child was of Irish-American blood. “There is no question in my mind about the boy being born in the United States and that he is an American.”
“Chipps and I often talked about the child and his foster parents. He told me that they loved the boy and that he was getting along fine.” Judge Eylar said that he did not know whether McKibben had been adopted by Gomez. The question of whether McKibben is an American is being investigated by immigration officials. A. J. Milliken, inspector in charge of the Santa Fe street bridge, U S. immigration service, said that if the boy’s father was an American, his mother a Mexican and born in Mexico, he was a Mexican and not a citizen of the United States. “If the boy was born in this country he is an American,’’ inspector Milliken said. “I do not think the boy or the court acting for him could commit an overt act that is depriving him of his U. S. citizenship, in turning him over to guardians in another country.” McKibben only this week learned his nationality, that his mother is dead, and that his father may still be living. He immediately came to where he arrived Sunday, at Hotel Rio Bravo. Monday evening he came to El Paso, his unmistakably American features allowing him to pass the Santa Fe street bridge without question, despite passport restrictions. “I have come to my country to live, and also to protest against a system which allows an American boy to be sent to live in country, and to have it kept from him,” McKibben said.
“I was raised as Gomez’s son.” McKibben said “Although I don’t recall that he ever told me that I was his son that is the impression I received of course. Gomez had no other children.
“Now that I know who I am, I recall dimly that as far back as I could remember I knew a few English words and I have always known the English phrase, “Not dead, but gone before,” although I have no idea where I learned it or where it came from.
An old servant I had once told me that when I was young I always spoke English and as far back as I can remember I had a Baby ring with the initial “H” on it.
When I was in the revolution the soldiers nicknamed me the “The Gringo,” because of my light complexion. But of course I never suspected that I was an American that Gomez was not my father.
“When I was 12 years old Gomez and his wife brought me to Juarez and El Paso.” “Perhaps Gomez was required to report to the judge who made his your guardian,” it was suggested to McKibben. For a moment the youth seemed lost in thought.
“I remember Gomez took me to a place that he told his wife to wait outside for him. When he returned to his wife, who had waited in a car or carriage, I don’t just recall which, he said to her in Spanish, ‘I was afraid they were going to take the boy away from me.’”
When 16 years of age, McKibben became a soldier under a General Garcia, a relative of Gomez’s, he said and fought with Villa throughout the revolution, being wounded twice and one time barely escaping from a firing squad.
“I was put in a prison at Torreon along with other prisoners,” McKibben said, “an order was received to shoot all the prisoners above the rank of second sergeant. I was a second sergeant, so escaped.
“Gomez treated me harshly at times when I was a boy, “the youth continued “but after I was 16, he did not whip me anymore. Part of the time he lived at Parral and at other times in Mexico City.
“I had attended the ‘Anexo a la Normal’ school in Chihuahua City for three years previous to entering the army and had learned some English for I had forgotten all I knew of it as a child.
“About four years ago I entered the military academy at Mexico Cit. I went to school there for about six months. When I left the school I took a position with Camus and company, a dramatic company.
“Still later I wrote stories for the Democrata newspaper of Mexico City. 1 wrote tales for the Sunday paper. I had started writing when I was 11 years old and had had some articles published in ‘Minutillo.’ another Mexico City paper.
“Gomez did not like to have me write. lie told me it was better to learn business than to write poems. Of course, I tried to write poems at all times of day and night and you could hardly blame him for that.”
Politics seemed to McKibben to offer wide possibilities and he was laying his plans to enter that field last week when happened to see Gomez in Mexico City. “1 had not seen but about twice in four years. He asked me why 1 did not come to see him. When I went to his house he handed me a paper and said. ‘You know English. Can you translate that'.” The paper, McKibben said, was the record of the adoption.
“After reading the paper I was almost too surprised to question Gomez.” McKibben said. “I asked him why he had not told me before and he said that he liked to have me a Mexican. He always did say I was the brightest boy he knew.
“I had about 4,000 pesos. I gave them to him. He said that he didn't want any money, but I told him that was to pay him for my schooling and for having taken care of me.
“That was a week ago. I got on a train to come to the United States. It is my country. Of course I will have to start my life all over again, but I prefer to live among my own people.
“Perhaps I am not the only American boy who has been given to Mexican guardians and kept in that country ignorant of his identity,” McKibben said. “It is not right that a boy should be kept in ignorance of his nationality or his parentage.
“I want to get work so that I can make money and go to school here, but, of course, I want to find out who my people are.”
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Tune in next time
In the forthcoming episodes we’ll learn what happened to the American lad after he found his true identity. Was it good, bad or indifferent? Here is a clue—it was that and more and the final item I have uncovered left me exclaiming “What?”
This story should be wrapped up by the time the summer heat arrives.
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-- Buddha (560-483 B.C.)
Peace, to have meaning for many who have only known suffering in both peace and war, must be translated into bread or rice, shelter, health and education, as well as freedom and human dignity.
-- Ralph Johnson Bunche (1904-1971)
Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run the sword is always beaten by the spirit. Soldiers usually win battles and generals get the credit for them. You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war. If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots.
-- Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
-- Albert Camus (1913-1960)
We know how to organize warfare, but do we know how to act when confronted with peace?
-- Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910-1997)
Human Beings, indeed all sentient beings, have the right to pursue happiness and live in peace and freedom.
-- The XIVth Dalai Lama
Peace, in the sense of the absence of war, is of little value to someone who is dying of hunger or cold. It will not remove the pain of torture inflicted on a prisoner of conscience. It does not comfort those who have lost their loved ones in floods caused by senseless deforestation in a neighboring country. Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free.
-- The XIVth Dalai Lama
If you want to make peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
-- Moshe Dayan (1915-1981)
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
-- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
There can be no peace without law.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
I like to believe that people in the long run are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it.
-- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890-1969)
Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.
-- Desiderius Erasmus (1469-1536)
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
-- Ben Franklin (1706-1790)
It is possible to live in peace.
-- Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
-- Andre Gide (1869-1951)
We look forward to the time when the Power of Love will replace the Love of Power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.
-- William Gladstone (1809-1898)
Peace is every step.
-- Thich Nhat Hahn
If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace.
-- Thich Nhat Hanh
Peace-making is a healing process and it begins with me, but it does not end there.
-- Gene Knudsen Hoffman
The goal toward which all history tends is peace, not peace through the medium of war, not peace through a process of universal intimidation, not peace through a program of mutual impoverishment, not peace by any means that leaves the world too weak or too frightened to go on fighting, but peace pure and simple based on that will to peace which has animated the overwhelming majority of mankind through countless ages. This will to peace does not arise out of a cowardly desire to preserve one's life and property, but out of conviction that the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
-- Robert Maynard Hutchins (1899-1977)
Nothing is more precious than peace. Peace is the most basic starting point for the advancement of humankind.
-- Daisaku Ikeda
They shall beat their swords into ploughshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
-- Isaiah, II:4
Peace is the respect for the rights of others. (El respeto al derecho ajeno es la paz ).
-- Benito Juarez (1806-1872)
A truly free society must not include a "peace" which oppresses us. We must learn on our own terms what peace and freedom mean together. There can be no peace if there is social injustice and suppression of human rights, because external and internal peace are inseparable. Peace.is not just the absence of mass destruction, but a positive internal and external condition in which people are free so that they can grow to their full potential.
-- Petra Karin Kelly (1947-1992)
But peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings.
-- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
-- Malcolm X (1925-1965)
We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war but on the positive affirmation of peace. We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war. Somehow, we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race, which no one can win, to a positive contest to harness humanity's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all the nations of the world. In short, we must shift the arms race into a peace race. If we have a will - and determination - to mount such a peace offensive, we will unlock hitherto tightly sealed doors of hope and transform our imminent cosmic elegy into a psalm of creative fulfillment.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
One day we must come to see that peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but that it is a means by which we arrive at that goal. We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means.
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968)
If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.
-- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)
All we are saying is give peace a chance.
-- John Lennon (1940-1980)
If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.
-- John Lennon (1940-1980)
As things are now going the peace we make, what peace we seem to be making, will be a peace of oil, a peace of gold, a peace of shipping, a peace in brief.without moral purpose or human interest.
-- Archibald MacLeish (1907-1982)
Blessed are the peacemakers for they shall be called the children of God.
-- Matthew, V:9
It is a good moment to repeat that a war is never won. Never mind that history books tell us the opposite. The psychological and material costs of war are so high that any triumph is a pyrrhic victory. Only peace can be won and winning peace means not only avoiding armed conflict but finding ways of eradicating the causes of individual and collective violence: injustice and oppression, ignorance and poverty, intolerance and discrimination. We must construct a new set of values and attitudes to replace the culture of war which, for centuries, has been influencing the course of civilization. Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.
-- Federico Mayor
Peace may sound simple - one beautiful word - but it requires everything we have, every quality, every strength, every dream, every high ideal.
-- Yehudi Menuhin (1916-1999)
Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.
-- Maria Montessori (1870-1952)
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
-- John Muir (1838-1914)
Dream always of a peaceful, warless, disarmed world.
-- Robert Muller
There is no way to peace; peace is the way.
-- A.J. Muste (1885-1967)
Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.
-- Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)
The more we sweat in peace the less we bleed in war.
-- Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (1900-1990)
This is the way of peace: overcome evil with good, and falsehood with truth, and hatred with love.
-- Peace Pilgrim
Five enemies of peace inhabit us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
-- Francesco Petrarch (1304-1374)
To reach peace, teach peace.
-- Pope John Paul II
If you want peace, work for justice.
-- Pope Paul VI (1897-1978)
The true and solid peace of nations consists not in equality of arms, but in mutual trust alone.
-- Pope John XXIII (1881-1963)
Peace will be victorious.
-- Yitzhak Rabin (1922-1995)
Peace, development and environmental protection are interdependent and indivisible.
-- Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, 1993
Peace is not the product of terror or fear.
Peace is not the silence of cemeteries.
Peace is not the silent revolt of violent repression.
Peace is the generous, tranquil contribution
of all to the good of all.
Peace is dynamism. Peace is generosity.
It is right and it is duty.
-- Bishop Oscar Romero (1917-1980)
It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962)
The structure of world peace cannot be the work of one man or one party or one nation. It must be a peace which rests on the cooperative effort of the whole world.
-- Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)
Here then, is the problem we present to you, stark and dreadful and inescapable: Shall we put an end to the human race; or shall mankind renounce war?
-- The Russell-Einstein Manifesto, 1955
In the hearts of people today there is a deep longing for peace. When the true spirit of peace is thoroughly dominant, it becomes an inner experience with unlimited possibilities. Only when this really happens - when the spirit of peace awakens and takes possession of men's hearts, can humanity be saved from perishing.
-- Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965)
Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
-- Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677)
Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
-- Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
I was once asked why I don't participate in anti-war demonstrations. I said that I will never do that, but as soon as you have a pro-peace rally, I'll be there.
-- Mother Theresa (1910-1997)
All works of love are works of peace.
-- Mother Theresa (1910-1997)
If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.
-- Mother Theresa (1910-1997)
Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defenses of peace must be constructed.
-- UNESCO Constitution
We, Veteran's for Peace, view peace as a positively active and creative process which requires courage, commitment, endurance, vigilance, and integrity. Peace is a struggle toward unity, and it is characterized by an absence of violence in all its forms, including discrimination based on gender, age, race, religion, social and economic status, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. Those who labor for peace are called peacemakers because they tirelessly pursue nonviolent solutions, work for economic and social justice, celebrate diversity, and strive to build relationships between adversaries through education, conflict mediation, and humanitarian relief. We recognize that peace is both a means and end simultaneously, and that it is never finally or fully achieved. This is because change and growth require some degree of tension or conflict. Historically, such conflict has provided the impetus for military solutions. Thus we, Veteran's for Peace, strongly believe that the greatest obstacle to peace is militarism with its reliance on violence and war. We further believe that peacekeeping action should only be accomplished by a legitimate international body.
-- Committee to Define Peace, Veterans for Peace
Time itself becomes subordinate to war. If only we could celebrate peace as our various ancestors celebrated war; if only we could glorify peace as those before us, thirsting for adventure, glorified war; if only our sages and scholars together could resolve to infuse peace with the same energy and inspiration that others have put into war.
Why is war such an easy option? Why does peace remain such an elusive goal? We know statesmen skilled at waging war, but where are those dedicated enough to humanity to find a way to avoid war>
Every nation has its prestigious military academies - or so few of them - that reach not only the virtues of peace but also the art of attaining it? I mean attaining and protecting it by means other than weapons, the tools of war. Why are we surprised whenever war recedes and yields to peace?
-- Elie Wiesel
Peace is always beautiful.
-- Walt Whitman (1819-1892) - Leaves of Grass
Media Day workouts Juan Manuel Marquez, Frankie Gomez, Jorge Linares and Dmitry Pirog in Los Angeles on July 26, 2010 for their July 31 bouts where Marquez wil face Juan Diaz in a rematch and Gomez will face Ricardo Calzada, Pirog will face Daniel Jacobs and Linares will fight Rocky Juarez at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada
Photos By Gene Blevns/Hoganphotos.com
Media Day workouts Juan Manuel Marquez, Frankie Gomez, Jorge Linares and Dmitry Pirog in Los Angeles on July 26, 2010 for their July 31 bouts where Marquez wil face Juan Diaz in a rematch and Gomez will face Ricardo Calzada, Pirog will face Daniel Jacobs and Linares will fight Rocky Juarez at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada
Photos By Gene Blevns/Hoganphotos.com
Researchers from CIMMYT and the Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, traced the conservation and abandonment of maize landraces over the last 50 years in Morelos, Mexico. The Juarez-Oliveros family took part in the study and in this album showcase their family maize varieties and the family heritage in maize farming. The study used a collection of 93 landrace samples, collected in 1966-67 and stored in the CIMMYT Maize Germplasm Bank, to trace the 66 donor families to explore the reasons why they abandoned or conserved their landraces.
Photo: E. Orchardson/CIMMYT
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Media Day workouts Juan Manuel Marquez, Frankie Gomez, Jorge Linares and Dmitry Pirog in Los Angeles on July 26, 2010 for their July 31 bouts where Marquez wil face Juan Diaz in a rematch and Gomez will face Ricardo Calzada, Pirog will face Daniel Jacobs and Linares will fight Rocky Juarez at Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, Nevada
Photos By Gene Blevns/Hoganphotos.com
I got a haircut today. I decided to grow my hair out long again, and the grown-out, shaggy pixie (dangerously teetering on "mullet status") was not doing it for me. So I went to Gene Juarez and a lovely student named Justin did this for me. I LOVE IT. SOOC.
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Student artists with Gene Juarez Academy of Federal Way offer patrons manicures Feb. 8 during the annual Care Fair at the McChord Club and Community Center.
Student artists with Gene Juarez Academy of Federal Way will offer manicures during the 7th annual Operation Care Fair Jan. 24 at the American Lake Conference Center on JBLM Lewis North.
General Gene Renuart (third from left), Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, with other U.S. and Mexican Government officials prior to the start of the Bell-412 Helicopter Formal Delivery Ceremony in the SEDENA Hanger, at Benito Juarez International Airport, Mexico City, Dec. 15, which marked the official handover of five helicopters to the Government of Mexico under the Merida Initiative. (Photo by David Suarez, U.S. Embassy Mexico City)
General Gene Renuart (center), Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command, speaks with John Brennan (right), Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter-Terrorism, and Carlos Pascual (left), U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, prior to attending the Bell-412 Helicopter Formal Delivery Ceremony in the SEDENA Hanger, at Benito Juarez International Airport, Mexico City, Dec. 15, which marked the official handover of five helicopters to the Government of Mexico under the Merida Initiative. (Photo by David Suarez, U.S. Embassy Mexico City)
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Estado de Guerrero, Municipio de Benito Juárez, Hacienda de Cabañas, México del 19 al 29 de marzo de 2015 - Se llevó a cabo el Segundo Encuentro de Muralistas del Sur Organizado por el Movimiento de Muralistas Mexicanos (MMM).
En representación de la Argentina participaron a través del Muralismo Argentino Contemporáneo (MAC): Rubén Marcelo Minutoli y Osvaldo Rubén Ocampo apoyados desde el Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina. Representando a México estuvieron: Paulina Genea, David Flores, Goyo Ursulo, Usiel, Gerardo, Enrique Soberanes, Anyansi López Martínez y El Maestro Polo Castellano.
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A Flock Of Seagulls,Naked Eyes,Gene Loves Jezebel,Nu Shooz,Animotion, Annabella's Bow Wow Wow, Rob Juarez
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Gene Juarez Academy student Katie Dillon, right, works on client Gina Warner, of JBLM, Jan. 24 during the annual Operation Care Fair event at the American Lake Conference Center on JBLM Lewis North.
Student artists with Gene Juarez Academy of Federal Way will offer manicures Jan. 24 during the 7th annual Operation Care Fair at the American Lake Conference Center on JBLM Lewis North.
Estado de Guerrero, Municipio de Benito Juárez, Hacienda de Cabañas, México del 19 al 29 de marzo de 2015 - Se llevó a cabo el Segundo Encuentro de Muralistas del Sur Organizado por el Movimiento de Muralistas Mexicanos (MMM).
En representación de la Argentina participaron a través del Muralismo Argentino Contemporáneo (MAC): Rubén Marcelo Minutoli y Osvaldo Rubén Ocampo apoyados desde el Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina. Representando a México estuvieron: Paulina Genea, David Flores, Goyo Ursulo, Usiel, Gerardo, Enrique Soberanes, Anyansi López Martínez y El Maestro Polo Castellano.
Gene Juarez Academy students Katie Mosso, back left, and Katie Dillon, middle, work on clients Stephanie Hindricks, of Lacey, left, and Gina Warner, of JBLM, Jan. 24 during the annual Operation Care Fair event at the American Lake Conference Center on JBLM Lewis North.
Estado de Guerrero, Municipio de Benito Juárez, Hacienda de Cabañas, México del 19 al 29 de marzo de 2015 - Se llevó a cabo el Segundo Encuentro de Muralistas del Sur Organizado por el Movimiento de Muralistas Mexicanos (MMM).
En representación de la Argentina participaron a través del Muralismo Argentino Contemporáneo (MAC): Rubén Marcelo Minutoli y Osvaldo Rubén Ocampo apoyados desde el Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina. Representando a México estuvieron: Paulina Genea, David Flores, Goyo Ursulo, Usiel, Gerardo, Enrique Soberanes, Anyansi López Martínez y El Maestro Polo Castellano.
Students from the Gene Juarez Academy in Federal Way give visitors free manicures Saturday, Feb. 20 during the annual JBLM Operation Care Fair at the American Lake Conference Center on Lewis North.
Estado de Guerrero, Municipio de Benito Juárez, Hacienda de Cabañas, México del 19 al 29 de marzo de 2015 - Se llevó a cabo el Segundo Encuentro de Muralistas del Sur Organizado por el Movimiento de Muralistas Mexicanos (MMM).
En representación de la Argentina participaron a través del Muralismo Argentino Contemporáneo (MAC): Rubén Marcelo Minutoli y Osvaldo Rubén Ocampo apoyados desde el Ministerio de Cultura de la Nación Argentina. Representando a México estuvieron: Paulina Genea, David Flores, Goyo Ursulo, Usiel, Gerardo, Enrique Soberanes, Anyansi López Martínez y El Maestro Polo Castellano.
the gene juarez salon and spa. i liked the colors and the shapes. it kind of had a retro feel to it...made me think of the old dick van dyke show that i would watch on nick at nite :)
I went back to Gene Juarez Academy to get my hair cut because it was driving me crazy. I get very anxious when I get my haircut by anyone other than Courtney.
The stylist was doing really well and then the instructor came over and started cutting away like she was Edward Scissorhands. I almost started hyperventilating.
In the end it's shorter than I wanted it, but I'm trying to be okay with it, and will now fly Courtney out here every time I need a haircut.