The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 68, No. 39, Ed. 1 Friday, September 30, 1983 Page: 1 of 4
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Volume 68, No. 39 4 Pages Population 383 Altitude 2,100 Feet HARPER, GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS 78631 Subscription: $6 per year locally; $7 others 25$percopy
Friday, September 30,1983
Barbara Gabriel
wins futurity
In rodeo you have to
pay money to win money.
At the 16 TBRA Grand
Prairie Futurity entry
fees cost $300.00 per hor-
se, and with 211 entries
the winner would take
home a large amount of
money.
That’s exactly what
Barbara Gabriel,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
R. E. Peril, did. Barbara,
riding two different hor-
ses, won a first on “Just a
Blob” and a second on
“Harper,” winning a total
of over $20,000.00 cash,
two saddles, and a buckle
with diamonds in it, and
two monogrammed sheet
blankets.
Barbara presently
resides in Floresville, Tex-
as, with her husband Er-
nie and her two sons,
Kelly BiU and J. P. The
whole family has rodeo in
their blood. Kelly has re-
cently won the Lester
Meier Youth Finals All-
Around Junior Cham-
pion, riding one of the
horses his parents train-
ed.
Barbara, with her sis-
ters Jo Beth and Carolyn,
was raised around the
rodeo circuit. She compet-
ed in many local youth
rodeos, high school rodeos
and college rodeos.
She is an example that
practice almost makes
perfect.
J.L.S.
FFA, FHA raise funds
with frosh slave sale
The Slave Sale was held
on Wednesday, Septem-
ber 21. Everyone enjoyed
themselves including the
freshmen. Some quotes
were as follows:
Sharon Tatsch — “The
slave sale went very well
and there wasn’t any vio-
lence involved. It is a
good means of initiation.”
Coach Kincheloe — “It
is a very good idea but the
kids get ripped off. The
owners shouldn’t use
their slave to get back at a
teacher.”
Stacy Stadler and Deb-
bie Bode — “It was a total
blast!”
Marc Kruschka —
“Terrific, no it was stu-
pendous, no it was al-
right.”
Paolo Gianotti — “It
was excellent and my
slave performed well.”
Linda Schlueter — “The
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Barbara Gabriel takes home big rodeo money in barrel riding.
Tourism brought county
$9.6 million last year
Gillespie County last year received an
estimated $9.6 million in spending by
U.S. travelers, a national study com-
missioned by the Texas Tourist De-
velopment Agency has disclosed.
Its rate of growth, 14 percent over
1981 receipts, was five percent over
that for the state as a whole.
The travel study, done by the U.S.
Travel Data Center in Washington,
D.C., found that the county last year
had 189 travel-related jobs, with a pay-
roll estimated at $1.7 million.
It also realized an estimated $84,000
in local and county taxes paid by travel-
ers.
The study measures the economic im-
pact of all overnight trips and day trips
at least 100 miles from home. Thus it
includes spending by Texans as well as
by out-of-state visitors. Trips for all
purposes are in the picture.
For the state as a whole, 1982 travel
meant $13.7 billion to the Texas
economy.
The nine percent increase over 1981
traveler spending was five times great-
er than the 1.8 percent growth of the
U.S. travel industry.
Travel industry employment last year
in Texas rose to 283,917. The figure
was up four percent over 1981 — six
times above national travel industry
employment which fell two percent last
year.
Texas also received an estimated
$316.8 million in state taxes paid by
travelers. Another $161.6 was paid in
local and county taxes.
The Travel Data Center said that the
state figures would have been “sub-
stantially higher” had it been able to in-
clude estimates of spending by inter-
national visitors to Texas.
A separate study for the Tourist De-
velopment Agency found that nine per-
cent of last year’s 35.4 million visitors,
an estimated three million persons,
came from outside the United States.
Nearly half were from Mexico.
Laletta Esquell, 4-H president, and Roxanne Esquell, Jr. 4-H president,
present Debbie White, FHA president, and Tammy Martin, FHA
treasurer and 4-H treasurer, with a check for $100 donation for the
Playground Equipment Drive.
67 attend 4-H meet
October release set
for antlerless permits
Texas Parks and Wild-
life Department officials
remind hunters and land-
owners that dates and
locations for issuance of
antlerless deer hunting
permits will not be an-
nounced until October.
Department field
personnel currently are
collecting deer census
data to be used in deter-
mining permit issuance
rates in individual
counties and portions
thereof.
Landowners may
obtain their permits,
normally issued at the
county courthouse or
other public facility, in
late October or early
November.
In most counties of-
fering an archery-only
deer season October 1-3,
bowhunters may take
antlerless deer without a
permit unless the county
is designated as “bucks
only” for the archery
season.
As a result of passage
of the Wildlife Conser-
vation Act by the Texas
Legislature in its last
session, the Parks and
Wildlife Department now
has authority over wild-
life resources in all
counties. Some counties
may offer antlerless deer
harvest where it was not
allowed in the past, but
permits may not be
issued in some counties
where deer populations
are low.
Another result of the
Wildlife Conservation Act
was the removal of
special protection for
“spike” bucks in all
counties having a deer
hunting season. Spike
bucks are treated as any
other buck under the
current system, officials
said.
On Monday, September
12, at 7:30 p.m., there
was a large attendance at
the Harper 4-H meeting
in the school cafetorium.
The meeting was called to
order by the president,
Loletta Esquell. The
registration of 4-H mem-
bers was part of the even-
ing’s program; having 67
members to register and
approximately 30 adult
leaders to sign up.
Discussion was made
concerning the Commun-
ity Service Project, and it
was decided to give a do-
nation to the ambulance,
and to the Harper School
for playground equip-
ment.
The 1983 4-H County
Awards Banquet will be
held Tuesday, October 4,
at 6:30 p.m. at Pioneer
Pavilion at Lady Bird
Johnson Park. All 4-H
members who have com-
pleted their project re-
Women attend workshop
Approximately 30
women from deaneries in
this area attended a work-
shop on September 18 at
St. Joseph’s Church in
Devine. Billie Lang, presi-
dent, and Gertrude Jung,
treasurer, represented the
Fredericksburg Deanery.
The workshop consist-
ed of sessions on com-
munity affairs, organiza-
tion services, legislation,
church community, and
family and international
affairs. Also Rev. Msgr.
Collins, ACCW modera-
tor, spoke on the Seton
Home for unwed mothers
in San Antonio, of which
he is the head.
slave sale was great!
Everyone had fun and the
freshmen were good
slaves.”
Some slaves quoted:
Andy Nations — “Not
exactly what I expected,
and my knees hurt from
kneeling so much.”
Kendra Fields and Toy
Brocksch — “Look out
freshmen next year!”
Kirk Stokes — “I really
hated it, but 111 like it
next year.”
Sonja Stevens — “I like
it a lot, but I wouldn’t go
through it again.”
Danise Rogers — “I
thought it would be worse
than it was!”
The F.H.A. sold Sonja
Stevens to Donald Wilson
for $5.50. Tammy Wil-
son was sold to Adonica
Harper for $3.00. Mr.
Warmker bought Tracey
Wienecke for $5.00 and
Andy Nations for $9.00.
Sharon Tatsch needed
help in the office so she
bought Shirley Moore for
$6.00. Leslie Robinson
was sold to the junior
girls for $7.00. Adonica
Harper and Holly White
battled for Tina Hruschka
and paid $10.00 for her.
Debbie Bode, Lisa Bode
and Stacy Stadler bought
Danise Rogers for $5.50.
Eric Teague was sold to
Ron Thome for $13.00,
which was the highest
paid for a slave. The
F.H.A. made $65.00
whenevery slave was paid
for.
The F.F.A. sold Kirk
Stokes to Tyler Wilke for
$3.00. Mr. Warmker
bought Steven Davis for
$5.00. Mackey Lange
worked hard for the
$8.50 Jimbo Sivells paid
for him. Kenny Bode
wouldn’t give up until he
bought Toy Brocksch for
$12.00. Jeff Bode paid
$7.00 to have Royce
Lumpkins as his slave.
Jeff Asher was bought by
the junior boys for $9.00.
For $9.00, Kendra Fields
was a slave to Linda
Schlueter, Wanda Bark-
er, Tammy Martin, Moni-
ca Shaughnessy and Chris
Ussery. Edward Davis
made Allen Tatsch slave
for the $10.00 spent on
Allen. Tyler .Wilke spent
$10.00 on Craig Ed-
wards, while Jim Peril
bought Heath Bratcher
for $5.00. Jason Wanner
sold to Edward Davison,
Jerry Reddick and
Donald Wilson for $8.00.
The F.F.A. made slightly
more than F.H.A. with
$92.00.
The freshmen wish the
upcoming freshman class,
this year’s eighth graders,
a lot of luck.
T.L.M. and M. J.S.
County adds three
new peace justices
port will receive medals.
All 4-H’ers parents and
friends are asked to bring
a side dish and, in addi-
tion, each person is asked
to pay $1.00 to help de-
fray the cost of the meat.
Those planning on attend-
ing are reminded to call in
reservations by Monday,
October 3, to the County
Extension Office at 997-
3452 or 997-3157.
—Kim Klaehn, Reporter.
By JIM DALGLISH
Gillespie County has three new peace
justices, effective Saturday, October 1.
County commissioners, in their
regular meeting Monday, appointed
Eleanor Ottmers, Precinct 1; Maurice
Schuman, Precinct 2; and Charles
Kiehne, Precinct 4. Ottmers also serves
as secretary to the county attorney.
In this year’s budget, commissioners
set salaries for four JPs at $4,000 each
per year. That move cut the salary of
Precinct 3 Justice of the Peace Garland
Taylor from $14,310.
Commissioners said they had to ap-
point and set salaries for four JPs to get
into compliance with state law.
The new budget includes office ex-
penses of $5,067 for each JP, plus a
$15,865 joint justice court budget for
supplies, postage, autopsies and a
secretary for Precinct 3.
In past years, the Precinct 3 JP, elec-
ted by only the voters of Precinct 3, has
served the entire county.
County Judge Mark Wieser said the
details of officing and secretaries for
the other three JPs have not yet been
worked out, but commissioners decided
to appoint the three additional JPs this
week because the new budget goes into
effect October 1.
“I urged the court to either appoint
them or decide what they wanted to
do,” Wieser said. “I didn’t think Judge
Taylor would be taking care of the other
three precincts” after his salary is re-
duced.
Whenever a JP is not available in a
precinct the responsibilities fall on the
county judge.
OLD JAIL
In other business, Wieser proposed to
develop the old jail above the county
courthouse into a records depository.
“It was called to the state’s attention
that a lot of counties were not taking
care of their records.” Wieser said.
So the legislature had a Texas
Court Records Manual compiled. The
manual tells what records must be kept
for how long and which ones can be
destroyed.
“I have asked the departments to sur-
vey their records and tell us which ones
they want destroyed,” Wieser said.
Currently, records “stored” in the old
jail can not be effectively retrieved.
“The state will help us set up an in-
dexing system,” Wieser said.
The county judge said 43 feet of
shelved records from the tax office can
be thrown away.
“We are running out of space in the
courthouse,” he said.
INVENTORY
He also proposed an inventory of all
county property.
“Right now there is no system for
finding out what we own,” Wieser said.
The labor for tagging and listing the
property would be done internally, and
the only cost will be for the tags, Wieser
said.
“I think in the long run, it will pay
off,” he said.
4-H volunteers are valuable Park board
The value of the time
and out-of-pocket expens-
es that volunteer leaders
donate to the 4-H pro-
gram is estimated at
about $1 billion a year in
the U.S. Almost 620,000
volunteer adult, junior
and teen leaders assist the
4-H program across the
nation. Texas boasts some
22,000 adult and teen
leaders._
These leaders each do-
nate about 220 hours per
year to 4-H. Their con-
tributions deserve special
recognition, and that’s
part of th reason for Na-
tional 4-H Week, Oct. 2-8,
notes the state 4-H pro-
gram leader with the
Texas Agricultural Exten-
sion Service, Texas A&M
University System.
to meet
The Harper Park Board
will hold a special meet-
ing on October 4 in the
community ballroom of
the park.
We urge everyone to at-
tend.
Harper news
by Rickie Tatsch Phone 864-4107
Margaret and Pete
O’Sullivan of out the Lon-
don Road spent the week-
end in Baytown with
daughter and son-in-law,
Susan and Don Barton
and grandchildren, Kaci
and Eric. They also served
as godparents at Eric’s
baptism.
Karen Galle, Lisa and
Kara, also of Hie London
area (neighbors of Bill
and Ted Kiser), were here
from New Ulm visiting in
the Lutheran Church,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Tatsch, Bill and Heath
visited with Dorothy
Metzger on Sunday.
David Bonner of Ama-
rillo and Robert Bonner
of Virginia spent the
weekend with their par-
ents, Mr. and Mrs. L. L.
Bonner.
Ruth Kramer, a Wat-
kins representative, re-
turned earlier this month
from Nashville,, Tennes-
see, where she attended
the fourth annual conven-
tion of Watkins, Inc.,
dealers from throughout
the U. S. It was a three-
day convention.
Also earlier this month,
David Colwell and James
Barker were honored
with a fish fry and all the
trimmings by their par-
ents and friends: Mr. and
Mrs. James Colwell, Mr.
and Mrs. A. B. Barker
and John, Mr. and Mrs.
Benny Barker and Wanda
Kay, Mr. and Mrs. Ron-
nie Lumpkins and family,
Mr. and Mrs. Elmo Lump-
kins, Rev. and Mrs. J. C.
Turner and Mrs. Lydia
Bierschwale. The 33-lb.
channel cat was caught by
David and James on a re-
cent fishing trip. David
has returned to San An-
gelo College and James is
enrolled in Tarleton at
Stephen ville.
The Ecumenical Prayer
and Study Oroi^ met the
third Tuesday of the.
month at the home of
Cindy Hendrickson, with
a good number attending.
Charles Sivells, Grover
and Darlene of Marble
Falls visited with the
Howard Sivells family,
Sunday.
Mr. and Mrs. David
Stehling honored their
daughter, Danielle, on her
third birthday with a par-
ty Sunday afternoon at
the park.
Mr. and Mrs. Jim
Tatsch and sons honored
Mrs. Ferd Tatsch on her
89th birthday by taking
her out to eat on Satur-
day. Other birthdays cele-
brated this weekend were
those of Vera Arlitt, An-
nette Maner, Lynn Hart-
mann, and Clark Bier-
schwale. Dorothy Metz-
ger and Timmy Wilson
had theirs on Wednesday
the 28th.
When Poke and Gena
Bonner went to San An-
tonio, Friday, and met
their son Robert who flew
in from Springfield, Va.,
a voice from behind them
asked for a ride to Har-
per, and it was their other
son, David, who had
flown in from Amarillo to
surprise them. Also visit-
ing over the weekend was
Robert’s brother-in-law,
Billy Roy Smith, from
Duncanville, Texas.
Don’t forget the Legion
and Auxiliary meeting at
the Legion Hall next
Thursday, October 6, at 7
p.m.
Mr. and Mrs. Hubert
Rahe and Diann spent the
weekend with Shirlene
and Richard Cowie at Ft.
Worth. It was Shirlene’s
birthday on the 23rd.
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