The Howe Enterprise (Howe, Tex.), Vol. 11, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 6, 1975 Page: 1 of 6
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THE HOWE ENTERPRISE THURSDAY FEBRUARY 6, 1975
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Drought
State?
Texas worldwide reputation as a drought area is
certainly suffering.
Last year one Howe area farmer with a rain gauge
recorded 60 inches of rainfall, and if the weather of the
past week or so is any indication, he might even see it go
higher this year.
Sixty inches of rain is about 10 more inches than occurs
annually in London, England, which is known for its
almost constant rainfall and fog. And a few years ago I
had occasion, when living in Oak Ridge, Tenn. to do
some research into rainfall amounts in the United States,
and according to a book of census and related data, Oak
ridge had the highest average annual rainfall of any
inland city of the United States. The average was 54
inches.
There are cities along the Gulf Coast and in the coastal
areas of the Pacific Northwest that exceed this figure, but
if you get a couple of hundred miles away from the coast,
rainfall averages in excess of 50 inches a year are rare.
Last year we outdid them all.
So if you’re wondering why you’ve had a cold you can’t
shake for the past six months, we can now confirm there
is good reason.
Speaking of colds, one has been going through the
Echols family the past week, and we have discovered
that everyone has his own idea on how to get rid of one,
and is willing to share it. If I had tried all the remedies
offered, I would have been (a) drunk for a week, (b) down
at the morgue from an overdose of drugs, or (c) in bed
with an array of team spouting things around me making
life more miserable than the cold already has.
Of necessity, I came up with a remedy of my own. Stay
at work and keep your mind off it as much as possible.
That’s the standard remedy for all businessmen and
women.
A f w dead and mutilated cattle found lying around the
Howe ar* i in the past few days brings up the big mystery
of the cattle mutilations that seems to be the main topic
of conversation recently on some radio stations in Texas.
It seems in West Texas and Oklahoma there have been
a number of mysterious instances of cattle being found
dead and cut up in strange ways, giving rise to a new
group of cattle mutilation investigators similar to the
UFO probers.
The latest theory advanced over a Dallas radio station
this week is that a group of Devil Worshipers is using
cattle for some type of rite.
If we have any Devil Worshipers hereabouts whacking
up cows and leaving them lie, we’d like to ask for an
invitation to the next rite so we can bring a butcher knife
and a saw and take a couple of steaks home.
Howe’s downtown polecat was seen heading south a
few days ago and hasn’t been smelled from since. The
skunk, which regularly perfumed the east end of
downtown for several weeks, apparently decided the
weather might be better somewhere south, or perhaps he
was driven away by some Devil Worshipers.
Anyway, “Punk” George reports he saw the old
veteran skunk, sporting a limp and a kink in its tail, head
across Hanning Street about 7 a.m. a few mornings ago,
sniff at city hall and decide he wanted no part of it, then
head across the tennis courts to the Baptist Church
po: ch, where he found Baptist hospitality not to Jiis
liki. g, and finally headed on south down Highway 5.
We wish him Bon Voyage wherever he went.
Police Probe Mystery
of Butchered Calves
Howe police have been trying
to match butchered parts of
Lions to Hold
Charter Dinner
On March 1
The Howe Lions Club will
hold its Charter Night Banquet
at 7 p.m. Saturday, March 1,
and the high school cafetor-
ium, beginning at 7 p.m.
The newly formed club now
has more than 25 charter
members and meets the first
and third Fridays of the month
at 6:30 a.m. at Stan’s Kountry
Kitchen.
Lions club members and of-
ficials from other clubs in
North Texas are expected to
attend the Match 1 banquet.
Tickets also are on sale by
Lions members to anyone
wishing to attend.
The banquet originally had
been scheduled for Feb. 22,
but was postponed because of
another event previously
scheduled for the cafetorium.
cattle found in two sections of
the Howe area, but say:
1. The parts don’t match, and
2. They aren’t sure anything
illegal is involved even if they
did match.
About a week ago, according
to Police Chief Mike Rollins,
the hide and hind quarters of
two calves were found behind
the Westwood Manor Apart-
ments.
Shortly afterward, a boned
out hide of a calf with the hind
quarters missing, was found
about two miles east of town.
“We tried to match them up
but they turned out not to be
from the same calves,” Rollins
said.
They have had no reports of
any calves being stolen, so for
the time being police are hav-
ing to assume that someone in
the apartments—and someone
else east of town—have
bought some beef at today’s
cheap prices and engaged in a
bit of home butchering—then
threw away what they didn’t
want.
No.28
Lankford
To Retire
From Board
Who’S EXCITED?-—If you think junior high school
basketball games aren’t exciting, don’t tell this lady,
presumably a mom,* who was rooting for Van Alstyne
Saturday night in the finals of the Junior High Tourna-
ment in Howe, The picture at the right was taken just as
the final buzzer sounded and Van lost, 33-32. For added
emphasis the photographer snapped some nervous
hands, right, during one of the game’s tense moments.
Atty Rules Mayor’s Race On-
Robe rts Says He Will Run Again
Howe City Attorney John Hill
has determined that the may-
or’s post must come up for
election again this year, and
incumbent Mayor Dwain Rob-
erts immediately announced
that he plans to seek re-
election.
Confusion had arisen over
whether or not it would be
necessary to hold another elec-
tion this spring, since Roberts
was elected to the post only a
year ago. It had become va-
cant in January last year when
Ray Houston resigned as may-
or. Roberts, then a council-
man, was appointed to the job
until the April election, and
was elected to it at that time.
The confusion arose as to
whether he was elected for a
full two-year term or if he was
merely elected to fill out the
remaining year in Houston’s
term.
City Council still has to for-
mally set the April 5 election,
but it will be on the agenda of
the Feb. 20 council meeting.
In the meantime, city officials
said, persons wishing to file to
run for any of the posts up for
election may do so. March 5 is
the filing deadline.
R.L. Cate, one of two council-
men whose terms expire, has
said he does not plan to run
again unless some overriding
circumstances cause him to
change his mind. Overton Jay,
the other councilman whose
term is up, says he is not yet
ready to state his plans.
District Title at Stake
Friday’s the Night for Bulldogs
The Howe Bulldogs will put it
all on the line Friday night
here against Sanger in their
quest to win the District 14-A
basketball title.
The game, which begins at
8:30, will probably decide the
winner of the second half
championship. If Howe wins
and goes on to defeat Van
Alstyne and Frisco—two of the
district’s weaker teams—in its
final two games of the season,
the Bulldogs are probably
going to be the second half
winner. They would meet
Sanger in a post-season game
for the overall championship.
But if Howe loses Friday,
according to Coach Ricky
Clements, “it’s all over for us
as far as the district title is
concerned.”
The Bulldogs put themselves
behind the 8-ball Friday when
they were upset by Pottsboro.
Then they came back Tuesday
in Howe to win decisively over
powerful Pilot Point.
Against Pottsboro Friday, the
Bulldogs were confused by
the Cardinal ball
control game, and came out on
the short end, 38-32. “Our
boys just weren’t playing to-
gether well,” Clements com-
mented after the game.
Howe’s consistent high scor-
er, Vincent Hash, had only 2
points in the contest.
David Davis scored 14, Ron-
ny Davis 12 and Tony Wall 2.
Tuesday they had a relatively
easy time in defeating Pilot
Point, 57-49, while holding
their turnovers to seven.
Hash scored 25, Ronny Davis
15, Dave Davis 10, Charles
Landes 5 and Wall 2.
Meanwhile, the varsity girls
amassed their longest winning
streak of the season, winning
two games the past week add-
ed to a win the previous week.
Coach Clements says he is
confident they will make it
four in a row Friday against
Sanger.
“It took us most of the sea-
son to get everything toge-
ther,” he said. “In the last
three games the defense has
come around, and that has
made the difference.”
Clements said the guards—
Tina Underwood, Cherie Sas-
Principals, AD
Get Extension
Of Contracts
The contracts of the Howe
Independent School District’s
two school principals and that
of Athletic Director Norman
Dickey have been extended by
thje school trustees through
the 1976-77 school year.
The trustees, meeting in
executive session following the
regular meeting Monday
night, considered the contracts
of L.H. Linker, high school
principal, Donal Gilstrap, mid-
dle and elementary school
principal, and Dickey.
The contracts of all three
were to expire at the end of
the 1975-76 school year. The
board reveiws the contracts
annually. The effect of Mon-
days action is to give each a
two-year contract.
Bond Rate
Drops Sharply
The interest rate on munic-
ipal-type bonds has dropped
sharply in recent weeks, but
Howe school board members
Monday decided to continue
their “wait-and-see” posture
on approving an addition to
Howe High School,
the latest figures indicate that
interest on municipal bonds
has failed to 6.54 per cent
from 7.08 per cent a month
ago. A week ago, the rate was
6.59 per cent.
The bond rate is still well
above the 5.20 per cent aver-
age of a year ago.
ser and Donna Trammel—
have had to switch this year to
a man-to-man defense from
the zone they played last year.
“They have really come
around in the past couple of
weeks and have done an out-
standing job,” Clements said.
Friday, they defeated Potts-
boro, 40-37, with Debbie
Adams and Diana Lankford
scoring 18 each and Terri Mc-
Daniel 4.
Tuesday they donwed Pilot
Point, 47-33, with Terri Me'
Daniel scoring 20, Debbie
Adams 17 and Diana Lankford
10.
Scouts Launch Fund Drive
A group of Howe Business
and professional men. held a
luncheon meeting Tuesday in
Howe with Dr. Truman Wes-
ter, president of Grayson
College to kick off the local
Sustaining Membership en-
rollment Drive of the Texoma
Valley Council of the Boy
Scouts of America.
Dr. Wester, chairman of the
council, told the group that a
goal of $200 has been set in
Howe as part of a council-
wide goal of $16,522.
The Scouts receive 67 per
cent of their funds from the
United Fund, 30 per cent from
the Sustaining Membership
enrollment and three per cent
from trust and other funds.
The United Fund has allo-
cated $35,600 to the Texoma
Valley Council this year.
Tuesday’s meeting was held
at Stan’s Kountry Kitchen.
The fund drive is being held
in February in conjunction
with Boy Scout month.
Grady Lankford, the senic
member in terms of service o
the Howe School Board, ar
nounced Tuesday that he wi
not seek re-election this year.
Lankford has served 12 year
on the Howe board and pre
viously had seved six years o
the old Dorchester board. H
is thus rounding out 18 year
of school board service.
. Lankford, a Dorchester dairy
man, announced three year:
ago that he would not seel
re-election at theat time, thei
changed his jind at the las
minute. But this year, he said
his decision is definite.
“I was persuaded to run
again last time in the final few
minutes before the filing dead-
line closed. It was against my
better judgment, and I can say
for certain this time that my
decision is final,” he said.
“Some good men filed last
time, and I feel certain some
will for for the spot tis year.”
Lankford said his decision is
based solely on a conviction
that it is time for someone else
to take the job. “I have enjoy-
edserving on the board, but
would like to rest and devote
more time to other things,” he
said.
He is a national director of
the Associated Milk Produ-
cers, Inc. and is active in
several other organizations.
Lankford said of his years on
the board that he is proud-
est of the fact that he helped
play a role in the building
program that resulted, in the
present high school-elemen-
tary school complex.
“We were real fortunate that
we started the building pro-
gram when we did. We saved
the district a lot of money.
“In the mid-60s the voters
approved a million-dollar bond
issue for a building program,
and all the money hasn’t been
spent yet. By building when
we needed to and using the
money when the time was
right, there’s no telling how
much money the taxpayers
were saved.” He said the
district was fortunate to have
N.R. Langford, contractor,
living here. “He always bid
well under the others on local
school construction and saved
us many dollars.”
Lankford has had four child-
run in the Howe school sys-
tem. All have graduated ex-
cept one daughter, who is now
a sophomore.
He was first elected to the
GRADY LANKFORD
Trustees Set
Election Date
Howe School Trustees
Monday night formally set
the election for two seats on
the board for April 5.
The last day to file for the
race is March 5. Absentee
voting will be from March 16
to April 1.
The polling places again
this year will be at the Howe
Middle School and the Dor-
chester Baptist Church
Annex.
The places now occupied by
Grady Lankford and Board
President Jack Norman are
up for election. Norman has
said he will run again, but
Lankford says he is retiring.
No one has yet filed for
either of the positions.
board about two years after it
was consolidated with the
Dorchester board.
Antenna Thief
Makes a Haul
An antenna theif has been at
work on South Maple Street in
Howe.
Police Chief Mike Rollins re-
ported that two Citizens Band
antennas attached to cars
belonging to Ray Bledsoe wer
taken off the cars Sunday
night. They were valued at
about $60.
Tuesday, J.W. Jones, also of
South Maple, repored that an
industrial band antenna was
stolen of a Texas Power and
Light Co. car parked at his
home. Police believe it also
was taken on Sunday night.
There is no estimate of its
value.
JAYCEE OFFICERS—Officers of the newly formed Howe
Jaycees are, left to right, Tommy Haynes, secretary -
treasurer, Curtis Simmons, president, Mike Rollins, vice
president, and Ercel Pyland, director. Not present for the
picture were Larry Wall, director, and Rex Swanner,
state director.The Jaycees meet on the first and third
Monday nights of each Month in the high school
cafetorium at 7-30 p.m. They plan to hold a charter
banquet in late March. Simmons asked that any interest-
ed men between 18 and 40 contact a Jaycee member
about joining.
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