NordheimNews
GOD first, Heavenly Father, when people are lonely and feel down on themselves, they worry and feel abandoned. They waste their waking hours on things they can do nothing about. Precious time is lost and wasted. We ask in this prayer to give them hope and turn around their doubts and fears toward a renewed spirit of taking a new course to shake off their worrying and loneliness. Help them forget all the negativeness and focus on the positive ways that is all around them. The joy and happiness that comes to us all in through prayer is in the name of our Dear Savior, Jesus Christ, in whom we now pray. Amen. Keep in your prayers, those who are ill, suffering, or are in harm’s way.
At the Market Days for the Museum here in Nordheim, I had the opportunity to move my newspaper viewer as I had my son, Roger, to take it and place it in the museum. The reels of 50mm that contains several years of newspapers on each roll and is magnified 18 times and projected on a mirror inside the reader to the screen in front of the reader. When I was using it, it still was hard to read as the print I was trying to read, was still small and at times I had to use a magnifying glass to read some of the articles. I've been wanting to give it to the museum for many years as all it does for me is gather dust. Bruce Morisse, who took The Nordheim News over from his parents, had the foresight to copy all the news items copied on reels from when Homor Blanton, originator and owner first started publishing in 1904, until 1956. Mr. Morisse went on to own many other newspaper companies all around South Texas until he retired and sold them. All the copies of each weekly editions were reproduced and are in the Nordheim Museum and another copy was in a safety deposit box at the bank here in Nordheim. Another copy is in Austin in their archives. There once were copies of the original newspapers in tubes on the second floor of the old fire station but have since turned into crumbles. I still need to go to the museum and clean off a lot of dust, take the back off to get to the mirror, clean up the screen and magnifier, and teach someone how to load the reels and focus the printing of each page to a reading level. The fifty years of newspaper articles are a history of Nordheim and reading each page brings back so many memories of places, names, activities, and black and white pictures that are recorded in those reels. There were news items of out-of-town places such as Cabeza, Weesatche, Cuero, Yorktown, Runge, and areas such as the State, Nation, and World News. Thank you, Bruce, for preserving Nordheim's history.
