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Afterward, chatting over coffee and pecan rolls at an officers' club reception on the air base, Ike Eisenhower gave the sermon his endorsement, and told a little about his own taste in preaching: "Mamie and I were having an argument about what denomination the chaplain belonged to. Mamie thought he was an Episcopalian. I knew he wasn't a Presbyterian when he said 'trespasses' instead of 'debts' in the Lord's Prayer. But I knew he wasn't an Episcopalian. They are too darn dignified. I like to be enthusiastic...
...Born. Lyndon Johnson was born and bred to politics. His grandfather, Sam Ealy Johnson, Indian fighter and cattleman, and his father, Sam Ealy Jr., a backslapping rancher and real-estate man, were both members of the Texas legislature. When Lyndon was born, in a little frame house among the pecan and sycamore trees along the banks of the Pedernales River, grandfather Sam rushed out to tell the neighbors: "A United States Senator's been born today...
...just the man to do it. He had inherited some land, and by leveling and irrigating more, transformed desert-like land into a 4,000-acre cotton farm. It helped make the Mesilla Valley one of the important U.S. cotton-producing areas. By pioneering with the planting of pecan trees between the cotton rows, Farmer Stahmann had brought a new commercial crop to the valley and made himself the U.S. pecan king. Farmer Stahmann's latest agricultural experiment was with geese...
...Cookies: 1½ cups sifted flour, ¼ teaspoon each of soda, salt, vanilla; 1½ cup each of butter or shortening, and brown sugar; 1 egg; 1 egg yolk; 1 egg white; ⅛ teaspoon maple flavoring; 1 cup pecan halves. Sift together flour, soda and salt. Cream butter. Add sugar gradually, then egg and egg yolk; beat well. Add flavorings. Add dry ingredients gradually; mix thoroughly. Arrange pecan halves in groups of three on greased baking sheets to resemble head and hind legs of turtle. Mold teaspoonsful of dough into balls. Dip bottoms in egg white and press...
LeRoy Autrey, 2402 Pecan St., Texarkana...