The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1980 Page: 1 of 16
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THE LLANO NEWS
VOLUME 89
LLANO. LLANO COUNTY, TEXA8. 78843
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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 1980
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Trustees Hire
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New Principal
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School .District Board of Trus-
tees mqt Tuesday evening,
July 8, *nd hired a new Llano
•HMi - School principal, an
•administrative assistant for
t^ ^jyttj^t,- and several new
.“The new principal will be
Don ^RpBbins.. He will be
taking the placf of Joe Bailey
Stnipson, who has resigned
that position (o take over as
gdminfcttatiye assistant,
bobbins'will come to Llano
from Big Spijng where he was
an assistant principal.
*-,#The.jc4> of administrative
assistant was created recently.
Superintendent Jon Tate said
thaw assistant will help take
sdnft of the burden in connec-
tion with this job. He will be
going such things as coordi-
nating the district’s transpor-
tation,’ service, supervising
maintenance, and bettering
coordination between schools.
The assistant will report to
Tate. Simpson will take over in
Ms new job ,/uly 14, 1980.
Also hired were Mrs. Judith
Robbins of Big Spring to teach
high school English, Charles
Munsell of Rocksprings as
band director. Pat Carrigan as
r high school biology teacher
and coach, and Mrs. Betty
Little to teach kindergarten.
Mrs. Little had previously
tapght in Burnet.
K Also aocepted at that meet-
ing were'the bids for bread
products, dairy products, gas-
oline and paper products.
Austin Baking was awarded
the bid for the bread products,
Superior Dairies was awarded
the bid for dairy products. Gulf
Oil Company was awarded the
bid for gasoline, and Nation-
wide was awarded the bid for
paper products.
A bid for some of the
cosmetology equipment used
by the district, which was to be
sold, was submitted but was
tabled for now.
* Tate said he would like for
the district to have the option
of holding on to the equipment
and using it in physicist
education classes or finding
some other use for it.
The trustees accepted a bid
from Keystone Insurance with
|he Southwestern States In-
surance Agency for student
insurance. And they approved
the income poverty guidelines
for July 1, 1980 through June
30, 1981 for free and reduced
school lunches.
A date for the 1980-81
budget hearing was to be set
Tuesday, but Tate reported
that he was not ready yet, and
wished to study the way the
budget is set up even further.
That date for a budget
workshop will be set at a
workshop meeting scheduled
for the board Thursday, July
17.
Tate also reported that a
team from the lexas Educa-
tion Agency had visited the
district to study four different
areas in the school system.
They requested that they be
able to meet with the board,
tell them how these areas
needed to be improved, and to
assist in planning in these
areas. A noon meeting was
scheduled for Thursday. July
17 for this purpose.
Trustee Eddy Gould was
named as a delegate to
the Texas Association o f
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PEOPLES SAVINGS and Loan won first place in the commercial, out-of-town
division of the Land Parade of the Kingsland Aqua-Boom. (Llano News photo)
THE THUNDERBUTT Chili Team won eighth place in
the cooking division of the Great Llano Chili Fast.
Those on the team included, front row, Sally Wat-
kins of Houston and Susan Ratliff of Llano; back
row, Jim Watkins and Head Cook Jim Pat Watkins
both of Houston, and Bryant Patliff of Llano.
_________________(Llano News photo)
$30,000 in Colton
Telephone
. Workers OK
Goes Up in Smoke Contract
Many Attend
Aqua-Boom
Water Conservation
Urged by City Officials
Four accidents occured in
the county during the period
which began July 2.
On Wednesday. July 2. at
about 4 p.m. David A. Mc-
Haney, 21. of Dyess Air Force
Base. Tx.. was involved in a
one-car accident.
Investigating officer Bill
Shipp said McHaney was
driving south his 1979 Fiat on
Hwy 16 when he ran off the
road on the right shoulder, hit
a small bridge and embank-
ment.
McHaney was kept at Llano
Memorial Hospital overnight
and then released. The acci-
dent occured about 3.4 miles
south of Llano.
Early Thursday morning, a
1980 Peterbilt truck-tractor
and a semi trailer driven by
Darrell Wayne Holcomb. 31.
of Houston was involved in a
fiery accident about 8.6 miles
east of Llano.
Shipp said that about 3
a.m., Holcomb was traveling
east on Hwy. 71, East, he ran
off the left shoulder and when
he tried to cut back onto the
road, his load of cotton, tipped
over. It caught fire and burned
about $35,000 worth of cotton,
plus the trailer and part of the
tractor.
Holcomb is the owner of the
truck, and it was leased to Ray
Belleau and Sons of Houston.
The owner of the cotton is not
known.
Holcomb was not injured in
the accident.
On Fnday, July 4. Douglas
Haggard, 14. of San Antonio,
was traveling north on the
Ferguson Power Plant Road at
Hoseshoe Bay in a 1977 Jeep.
He failed to manuver a curve
and lost control of his vehicle
and it turned over.
He was injured and taken to
the Burnet Hospital. His pas-
senger, Steve Tower. 20, also
of San Antonio, was also
injured and taken to Burnet.
Shipp said the accident
occured at about 6:15 p.m.,
27.2 miles east of Llano.
On Saturday, July 5, on
Texas 16, at about 8:25 p.m..
Shipp said Milton Anthony
Whitemen, 23, of San Antonio.
Sait Angelo • Communica-
tions Workers of America'
Saturday, June 28, announced
ratification of a three-year
contract with General Tele
phone Company of the South-
west.
Tentative agreement on the
new contract was announced
June 9 by Federal Mediator
Vincent Guy of Dallas. The
union terminated a 26-day
strike June 11 with essplovees
returning to work beginning
June 15.
The agreement increases
wages and benefits by over
$42 million over the three-vear
life of the contract.
Wage increases over the
three years amount to 30.3
percent, including cost-of-liv-
ing adjustments not to exceed
6.5 percent in 1981 and 1982.
Other improvements within
was traveling south on a 1977 ,he thrce ye,r pcriod inc|udc
Kawasaki. benefit changes for vacations,
hospitalization, and medical
treatments, pension program,
premium pay for night and
certain holidays, savings plan,
a new holiday, expanded life
insurance plan, and increases
in car fare mileage, per diem
and incidental meal allow-
Whiteman said the motor-
cycle began shimmying, he
lost control of it, and turned it
over in a ditch.
He was taken to Llano
Memorial Hospital, and had a
severe laceration of the knee,
and was skinned up and
bruised up.
Kingsland's annual Aqua-
Boom was again a big success
this year. Despite the hot
weather and lack of rain. •
crowds poured into Kingsland
for the three-day celebration.
Some of the winners in the
individual contes1 were:
Outside decorations o n
stores which partxipated:
Peer Too won first: Bowen’s
Pharmacy won second; and
Curtis Wooley won third.
Inside decoration: Bowen s
Pharmacy, first; Peer Too,
second; and McGee's De-
partment Store, third.
Winners in the land parade
were as follows:
Commercial out-of-town
floats; People's Savings and
Loan, first; German American
Restaurant, second; and
Mechanical Bui!, third.
Commercial in-town floats:
Bowen's Pharmacy, first;
Highland Lakes National
Bank, second; and Bill Lewis,
third.
Organizational. in-town:
AARP, first; Kingsland Pack
No. 303. second; and the
Kingsland Chamber of Com-
merce and Junior Miss Float
tied for third.
Organizational, out-of-town:
Stonewall and Hamilton
Chambers tied for first; Llano
and Menard Chambers, se-
cond; and Oatmeal, third.
The results of the boat
City Manager George Rog-
ers is requesting that everyone
not waste water by over-wat-
ering their lawns, etc. in the
city of Llano.
Rogers stated that at the
present time, the city has
water in the river and the
P'£rrS Sherry .jJ lin*.
Dry, first; Jonathan Morgan this extremely hot. drv weath-
second; and Earl Stubbs and er will break. In the meantime.
Dennis Moore, third
Organization; AARP. first:
Highland Lakes C.B. Club ;,opp"n”g'
second; and Cub Scout Pack
NO. 303, third.
Commercial: Nine Oaks,
first, Red Sleeve Construction,
second; and Billy Evans Auto,
third
the pumps are running almost
24 hours each day without
As a means to keep the
extremely high demand from
peaking each day, Rogers is
requesting that customers who
Infant Swim Youth Rod©0 S©t
class set fop ^is Weekend
An infant swim class will
begin at the Llano City Pool on
Wednesday, July 16, running
until August 8.
The class will meet from 9
until 10 a.m. Mondays, Wed-
nesdays, and Fridays, and tor
the benefit of the working
mothers from 5:30 until 6:30
p.m. on Tuesdays and Thurs-
days.
The cost of the class is $15.
All interested persons should
call Coni Milliorn at 247-5467.
The Llano Youth Rodeo will
be held Saturday. July 12. at
the Llano County arena.
For the first time eissce the
Great Llano Chill-Feat was
begun, a team from Llano ;
placed in the top ten.
The Thunderbolt ChIH •
team, consisting of Bryant and -
Susan Ratliff of Llano, and
Jim, Sally, and Jim Pat ’
Watkins of Houston and for-
merly of Llano, took eighth
place in the cooking division of
the chili cookoff held Saturday,
July S.
Taking first place was Joe
Elam’s team from Plano with
their ’Plano Chili”, lob Hof-
fman, Jr. of Ingram took
second with his “Boll of
Chili”.
Taking third was Malcom
Foa’s team from Austin.
A total of 43 teams compet-
ed in Saturday’s cookoff.
In the showmanship divi-
sion, Malcom Fox’s team from
Austin placed first with their
"Chili Disco”.
Larry Otto’s team. “Rebel
Chili” took second in that
division. Those on the team
are Larry Otto of Kingsland,
Virginia and Fritz Otto of /
Llano, and Robert Warner of
Kingsland. /
Taking third in that division
was Joe Well’s team, “Horse-
apple Chili”. On the team are
Wells, of Austin, Les Inman of
Llano, and Kelly Letfeste of
Llano. ;
This was the first year also,
that teams from Llano placed .
in the showmanship division of
the competition.
Jim Myers of Llano won the
Snuff Spitting Contest. j
Other events taking place
that day were the egg toss, a
washer pitching contest (unof-
ficial), a beer chug-a-lug con-
test, and a tarantula fan* (atuo .
live east of Highway 16 do
their outside watering on
Monday, Wednesday, and
Friday, and those who live on
the west side to do their
watering on Tuesday, Thurs-
day, and Saturday. He sug-
gests that anyone who needs
to water on Sunday to do so.
but to be conservative.
Rogers added that at the
present time. Llano is in a
much better situation with its
water than many cities, and
with the continued cooperation
in conserving the present
water supply, any emergency
situation would hopefufijTbe
avoided.
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CALENDAR OF
Events
The entry deadline is July
10.
Those interested in helping
to sponsor this event, or
This event is sponsored by needing more information,
thb Llano Roping Club, and please contact Britt Hopson or
will be produced by Lester Jimmy Decker. All donations
Meier of Fredericksburg. will.be greatly appreciated.
The Pee Wee division will See any roping club member
begin at 4 p.m., and the Senior for advance tickets to the
division will begin at 8 p.m. rodeo.
THURSDAY, JULY 18
Pee Wee tournament, 7
p.m. Ambulance Board meets,
7:30 p.m, *
FRIDAY, JULY 11
AARP meets. 10 a.m.. City
Park. Pee Wee tournament, 7
p.m.
SATURDAY, JULY 12
Youth Rodeo, arena.
MONDAY, JULY 14
Com miss toners’ Court
meets. O.E.S. meets. Masonic
Hall. Duplicate Bridge, 7 p.m.
Head Start meets, 7 p.m.
TUESDAY, JULY IS
Veteran’s Service Officer, In
Llano, Courthouse.
WEDNESDAY, JULY H
Veteran’s Service Officer In
Kingslpnd. Courthouse annex.
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ABOUT $35,000 worth of cotton burned when the driver of this Peterbilt truck-tractor end semi trailer-
Darrell Weyne Holcomb of Houston, ren off the shoulder on Hwy. 71 east early Thursday morning about
8.6 miles east of Llano. He tried to cut beck onto the road, and the truck, loaded with cotton, turned over
end began burning. Holcomb was not injured In the accident. ** ’
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PEE WEE ALL STARS selected recently were, front row, left to right, Matthew Welker,
ick Winfrey, Dane Saucier, Brad Hatfield, and Russell Hodges; middle row, Walter Smith
Hondo Overstreet, Mike Stewart- Rusty Tatsch, Jeff Kuykendall, end Craig Bethel); beck
John Kuykendall. James Saucier, Kirk Winfrey end David Schulte. (Phot* by
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Cunningham, T. H. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 10, 1980, newspaper, July 10, 1980; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1037819/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.