THE BATTALION FROAY. APfUL 25. 1M0 cause SM ts resen’es. ■ontinuesto ! oil and gjj kout said, "quisitonof ifornia by a Id expand t the regula-1 unt of cob-I i panics cat rs or o' dling credit I spokesman, I : two days of | ie staff, leet again i: J the board I to act on by I ^ FHOAY, APfflL 25, 1960 Small town postmaster lives ‘Happy^ly n ofArtbif r manoftlie attempted speaker of j ,to quit tli, tor the BaJ. I’-a«t Press International .ppyJcary Reckling fits right I jA the 672 residents of Happy, ^Town Without a Frown.” 1 Lkline the town s 45-year-old l JSer is a native of Centralia, \fZ he came to this Panhandle omunity two years ago after beat- four local applicants for the job. I*, jgeply religious man, Reckling I Jrried for a time that he might be *!^a as an outsider by the folks in Eov but that’s no longer the case. Tuitok I ve overcome ab tbe ob ' Ldes,” he said. / Letters from throughout the na tion arrive regularly at the tiny, buff- colored brick building located just west of the railroad tracks. Correspondents curious about the origin of Happy s name direct their inquiries to the quiet Swisher Coun ty town’s post office, where locals exercise the building’s front double doors scores of times every day. Reckling handles each inquiry carefully, often tucking a pen-and- ink Happy postcard and a page of town history he typed himself into the return letters. lender son GOP bid may suffer United Press International AUSTIN — Democrats will be fair I ome but John Anderson, R-Ill., will have to be careful about soliciting Republicans for the 40,719 signa tures he needs to get on the ballot in Texas as an independent candidate for president. J A quirk in Texas law resulting from I last year’s celebrated “Killer Bee” episode makes any Democratic voter eligible to sign a ballot petition for an independent presidential candidate but bars Republicans from signing if they vote in the May 3 GOP pres idential primary. Anderson must collect the 40,719 equired signatures between May 4 jd July 14 to win a spot on the Nov. 4 general election ballot. Gov. Bill Clements said he doubts Anderson’s candidacy will have much impact even if he is on the ballot. "I don’t think that Mr. Anderson would draw much water in Texas,” the Republican governor said. “I do not think his candidacy in Texas will have any substantial effect on our Texas election process.” Anderson’s difficulties in getting on the ballot were considerably les sened by the secretary of state’s dis covery of the quirk in provisions of the election code intended to pre vent primary election voters from signing petitions to nominate inde pendent candidates. Democrats’ signatures will count even if they vote in their May 3 prim ary, Strake said, because the Demo cratic Party is not holding a presiden tial primary, but only a “beauty con test” between President Carter and Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass. “We discovered this fluke the Houston port cargo increases in ’79 United Press International HOUSTON — Cargo moved through the Port of Houston in creased 12 percent in 1979, officials said Thursday, although imports of foreign oil and autos declined. Ship channel refiners received 31.02 million tons of foreign oil in 1979 compared to 33.04 million tons in 1978. Oil is the port’s top com modity. The 6 percent decrease was the first after years of steady in creases. Auto imports, also up steadily dur ing the 1970s, fell 8.7 percent, from 219,472 units to 200,441. PLITT Southern 'TZtoftrj I try to respond just as quick as I can, he said, “because it’s important to them.” Some people say Happy got its name before the Anglos populated the area in the late 19th century. In those days, the story goes, it was known as the “ Happy Hunting Ground of Plains Indians. Others say cowboys who drove their cattle to market railed it “Hap py Draw,” because it was a re freshing oasis, replete with water and grass, for their tired stock. The Hugh Currie family settled just east of the present site of Happy in 1891. Currie became the town’s first postmaster and a roadside his torical marker says the Curries built their home — known as “Happy Hol low” — nearby. In 1906, the railroad pushed through and a well was drilled to supply trains with water. Not long afterward, the post office was moved alongside. Some local historians claim the lit tle community, 33 miles south of Amarillo, was named for the emotion a man and his son, lost in a blizzard, felt when they spotted the Currie home. Chavae Mooney wrote Reckling on March 10, asking for some details of Happy’s heritage. “My name is Chavae and I am in the second grade in Greenwood, Missouri. We are learning about let ter writing and the postal service. I like the name of your town since I like to be happy. Would you please send me something with your post mark on it? I will be watching the mail.” The same day, hundreds of miles away in the Houston suburb of Pear land, Gina Lambeth printed her let ter to Reckling. “Dear Postmaster, "I am in the second grade. We are learning to write letters, ” she wrote. “I like the name of your town. Could you please send me something with your postmark on it?” Reckling also receives mail from adults, including a man in Margaret- ville, N. Y., and a Fort Worth woman who suffers from rheumatoid arthritis. "She wanted me to mail some wedding invitations to Fort Worth,” Reckling recalled. “So I fixed ’em up to give her a Happy postmark. It just thrilled her to death. I enjoy helping someone if I can.” Reckling plans to visit her on his next trip to Fort Worth, where he once lived with his wife and attended Southwestern Theological Semi nary. Last year Reckling served as cha plain for the state association of post masters and has spent 13 years with the postal service as a carrier, letter clerk and now postmaster. ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo ;°S, h SKYWAY TWIN ££ other day, said Austin Bray, an attorney in the secretary of state’s office. “We had been telling people the petitions had to be signed by qualified voters who did not vote in the primary election of either party. But the law says any qualified voter can sign who did not vote in the gen eral primary election of any political party that held a presidential primary.” The celebrated flight of the “Killer Bees” — 12 senators who eluded a statewide manhunt by Texas Ran gers for five days last year to block approval of a presidential primary bill — may thus have given Ander son’s campaign a big boost in Texas. Strake said Anderson’s Washing ton lawyers contacted his office last week about the requirements for getting on the Texas ballot as an in dependent. In addition to the petition, Ander son will have to submit before July 14 a formal application to be on the bal lot, designate his vice presidential running mate and file a list of his electors for the Nov. 3 election. The secretary of state’s office — headed by a Republican for the first time in 100 years — declined to spe culate publicly on how Anderson’s campaign would affect the GOP nominee’s propsects. 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