Pianos Have Keys... • by Dr

Vol. IV No. 32 Week of June 25 to July 1, 1981, Lubbock, TX Price 25e Proponen Nuevo Programa Mesa Directiva Tiene Junta de Refugio En Lubbock Refugio temporal para familias Cunningham Ia semana pasada. gastos del apartamento. Sobre Matthews, Bozeman que no tengan donde quedarse quizas "Para que una familia sea elegible, "Es muy necesario un programa sera dispuesto para el primero de tiene que ser primeramente de bajos como este ya que nuestra oficina Julio se es que sc puedan hacer los Lunes, 7:15 a.m. ingreso," dijo Solis. Tambien dijo recibe solicitaciones casi diariamente arreglos por oficiales de la ciudad. que probablemente, el refugio seria de familias que no tienen endonde La critieria, cantidad de renta, y por un corto tiempo, "no may de dos quedarse," dijo Solis. Ahorita el otros detalles seran arreglados por el semanas." Durante ese ticmpo la unico lugar que ofrese refugio director del servicios a la comunidad, familia tendra que andar buscando temporal es el Salvation Army. Eliseo Solis, la directora de trabajo y una vivienda permanente. El director del Salvation Army, relacion. humanas, Carolyn Lanier; "Espero que la majoria de las Don Miller, dijo que ellos solamente y el director de la agencia de La Mesa Directiva de la Escuelas de Lubbock tendran familias no usaran las facilidades por tenian lugar para 18 hombres y 6 viviendas D.C. Fair. Se espera que una junta el Lunes por la mar ana para recibir comentarios y mas de 5 dial." dijo Solis. mujeres pero que no tenian estos oficiales se junten en el cercano El programa es limitado a sugestiones tocante como implementar Ia nueva orden de facilidades para familias o parejas futuro para determinar los detalles. personas quien haigan recien Ilegado casadas. Juez federal Woodword en como desegregar las escuelas Actualmente se esta considerando a Lubbock y que fucron sacados de Dijo Solis que este programa un apartamento en la area Green Bozeman Elementary y Matthews Jr. High. sus casas por causal extranjeras a quizas sera bastante para las Fair. La propucsta fue aprovada por La desegregacien fue ordenada el mes pasado por el Juez ellos. La renta probablemente sera de necesidades de su oficina pero que cl gerente de la ciudad Larry Woodword y se llevara acabo este proximo an° escolar. $5 a $10, solamente para cubrir los actualmente habia mas demands. La junta empesar a las 7:15 de Ia manana en las oficinas de Ia administracien de las escuelas en el 1628 Calle 19. Personas quien desean dar sus opiniones no tienen que estar Espere El Gran Menudazo en Ia agenda. La administracion de las escuelas estara presentando diferentes planes para consideracion de la mesa y al final de reciberan las opiniones del publico. El Proximo 24, 25, y 26 No Falte, Haga Planes All Pianos Have Keys... • By Dr. Jose A. Cardenas and sisters has always been exemplary; whole thing in my head. The word "keys" think of it, I must have been in high father at work and break the news to him. considering that my father had once fixed Foi .iany years, my t,rie and only your performance most be exemplary, lost its beauty for evermore as I put the ;chcol when I learned thus "he-stuns" He drove home within 15 minutes and by his papers so that he could visit Mexico. claim to fame, notoriety, and too." whole thing together. "All pianos have was not an English synonym for the end ofanother 15 minutes. both He sent for the teacher and the achievement centered around a peculiar Polonius' farewell lecture to his son keys." "restroom." brothers and my older sister had been confrontation began. it could have lasted circumstances in my early life which Leartes seems pale in comparison to the Only a few months before, we had run "yes, Pepe." (I was also in high school called home from school. My little sister for a long time except that the teacher seems to impress other people. weeks of indoctrination which I received. up and down the street as we awaited the when I learned that my name was not went to stay with relatives. was so sure of herself that she cut her own This distinguishing characteristic was The day of entrance came and went arrival of our new second hand piano. Pepe.) The family discussion was followed by throat. not that President Lyndon B. Johnson without making much of an impression Several of my austs had pianos. One of "No!" a trip with my father to the garage, which "Pepe says that you have piano at once invited me to dinner at the White on me. The teacher and many of the other them even had a pianola —a player piano "No, what?" was followed by the entire family and half home, that it does not have keys, and that House, nor that a school was named for students spoke only in English by state — which she let me use I have always "No! All pianos no have keys." of the neighborhood. Several it plays," she told my father. me, nor that I was the first American law, and since I didn't understand much regretted my short legs because they kept "Yes they do." neighborhood comadres — extended I wish you could have seen my father's Superintendent of Schools in Bexar English, I withdrew into very me from learning to play the piano. I "No." family — cried over our misfortune and face. I had unknowingly torpedoed the County. satisfactory, self-directed and once saw George Gershwin learning to "Yes. All pianos have keys." expressed condolences to the family. teacher by having told my story in My sole claim to fame appear5s to be individualized activities such as drawing play the piano by putting his fingers on With the help of a whole room full of Just about the time that my father was Spanish using the troublesome have that I was a student at the University of cats on my Big Chief tablet. or conversing the keys of the player piano as the music extremely interested amateur translators, going to start hitting me with a two-by- instead of the elusive tech. Texas at the tender age of 15. in Spanish about relatively non- roll depressed them. I figure that I could I compiled my next sentence — my four, I decided to give it one more try. I In the excitement, my father had For years I have heard myself academic topics with other children who have learned by this same method except longest one up to that day. looked at Dad straight in the eye and carried the two-by-four to school. introduced by admiring and sometimes shared my ignorance of the English that my legs were so short, my feet would "We have apiano at home. It does not asked him to hear me out. My father's Silently he lifted it to his shoulder. In a envious acquaintances as, "This is Jose language. not reach the pedals, so I had to crawl have keys." (Heck, that was a paragraph, name is Justo and throughout his life he cold, authoritative, and even fear- A. Cardenas. He enrolled at the Sometimes the affairs of the teacher under the piano and pump it with my not a sentence.) has used it more as an adjective than as a inspiring voice, he said, "Look, I don't University of Texas at age 15." Very and the English speakers proved to be hands. That kept my hands occupied. "Oh, but it doesn't play." noun, so in fairness to me, he decided to know what is going on in here. I am going frequently, I hear the rebuttal, "I enrolled interesting. Sometimes I peeked at the Though I played "Uner the Double "Quo dijo?" let me tell my story. to say something, and I am going to say it in college when I was 16," but in all instuctional activities going on around Eagle" until the paper wore out, I never "Quo no toca." I told the truth, the whole truth. Well, just once. We have a piano at hope, it honesty, in my entire lifetime I have never me, though I must admit that my learned to play the piano. "Yes, it plays." almost. I left out the stuff about drawing does not have keys, and it does play." heard one of these unimpressed attention span was limited, and I would This goes to show you that I had no "Look, Pepe. All pianos have keys. If cats since I knew that my father would My father just waited for somebody to pretenders who wish to undermine the again concentrate for hours on my "cat" mean background in pianos. Yet the ones you have a piano at home which does not never accept the idea of one of his sons say something, but I knew that no one significance of my accomplishment say, drawings — Mexican gatos, or what the I had seen could not compare with the have keys, then it is not any good. It going to school to draw cats. which any would. Any question about he said would be the same as calling him a liar. "So did I." Americans call "Tic-Tac-Toe." glorious instrument made available at doesn't play. All good pianos have keys." fool could stay at home and do. Therefore, I must conclude that my One day when I had been in school for considcragle expense to complement my Even today I still remember that After I finished my story, my father Finally the principal, a little pale, said, having enrolled in college at the age of 15 about 6 weeks, the teacher was sister's music lessons.

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