The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1983 Page: 4 of 16
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Llano News, Thursday. July 7, 1983
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The Veterans Administra-
tion and Department of Justice
now are 2‘/i years into their
effort in Texas to collect debts
owed by veterans who attend
school under the Gl Bill. Most
of the monies owed the VA
stem from educational over-
payments while the veteran
was in school or from
defaulted education loans.
Under VA’s program of col-,
lecting debts of $1,200 or less,
Waco-based VA District Cou-
nsel Richard J. Jones so far
has received more than 13,468
debt cases totaling more than
$8,325,023. In response to VA
demand letters 2.362 Texas
veterans in the Waco VA
Regional Office area already
have repaid in full debts
totaling more than $1,174,742.
Another 2,658 veterans now
are repaying a total of nearly
$1,550,500 through repayment
plans. The District Counsel
staff has filed suit in state and
federal court on another 2,002
cases totaling $1,006,607. The
four U.S. Attorneys in Texas
PUBLIC NOTICE
At the request of the Office of the General Counsel of the Public
Utility Commission, the Commission has established Docket No.
5113 to inquire Into pressing issues involving the entire
telephone industry In Texas. Docket No. 5113 will deal with many
Issues resulting from the impending divestiture of American
Telephone and Telegraph Company and Southwestern Bell
Telephone Company. Some of those issues include establishing
the service areas of Southwestern Bell after divestiture and
assessing the impact on other telephone companies in Texas, in-
cluding General Telephone Of The Southwest, of current settle-
ment arrangements between Southwestern Bell and those com-
panies. Additionally, Docket No. 5113 will deal with the issues
arising from the Federal Communications Commission's Final
Order in Docket 78-72 (the Access Charge Docket) as they impact
all telephone companies, including General Telephone Company
Of The Southwest. It is anticipated that Docket No. 5113 will be
evidentiary in nature. RATES FOR GENERAL TELEPHONE COM-
PANY OF THE SOUTHWEST MAY BE DETERMINED BY THE
COMMISSION IN OR AS A RESULT OF THIS PROCEEDING. In-
terested parties seeking further information or desiring to par-
ticipate in Docket No. 5113 are advised to write to Rhonda Col-
bert Ryan, Secretary and Director of Hearings, Public Utility Com-
mission of Texas, 7800 Shoal Creek Boulevard, Suite 400N,
Austin, Texas 78757 or telephone the Public Utility Commission
Consumer Affairs Division at (512)458-0223 or 458-0227, or (512)
458-0221 TTY for the deaf.
General Telephone I^kl3
>R. FELIX T. TYBOR
OPTOMETRIST
103 N. LLANO
PHONE 997-2850
FREDERICKSBURG. TEX.
have also filed cuit on
numerous VA cases referred to
them during the last 2‘/$ years.
VA’s aim is to collect the
debts in instances where the
veteran hasn’t made repay-
ment arrangements. The vet-
eran first is notified by letter of
the indebtedness, and advised
that about 30 days remain
after its receipt to pay the debt
in full or make other arrange-
ments for payment before
necessary court actionr is
taken. Further, VA now is
authorized to charge interest
and administrative costs on
those debts.
Debts in excess of $1200 are
referred to the Department of
Justice. As a general rule, the
department will demand
immediate repayment of the
debt and is prepared to litigate
the matter in court. It also will
use various post-judgment
remedies such as taking liens
on properties, garnishing and
attaching bank accounts and
other liquid assets.
MONOGRAM'S
by Stormy
Contact Mrs. Jody (Stormy) Jonas
JULY 7, 1983 marks the data Llano residents will be able to begin buying Mrs. Baird's
products. The delivery system from the Mrs. Baird's Austin plant will be a bit more
modernized then this scene depicting the early days when the Baird boys delivered
bread in the family sales wagon, but the emphasis on freshness and qualityremams
lust as important as It was In the early 1900's.
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A "Kaffee Klatsch’’ hosted
by Mrs. Baird’s Bread will
held Thursday, July 7 on the
Llano County courthouse
Square at the gazebo.
Family member Carroll Baird
will represent the Baird
Bakeries and will present a
token gift to Llano City Mayor
John Landon. The public is
cordially invited to attend the
coffee at the gazebo.
Beginning Thursday, July 7,
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Llano residents will be able to
buy the most popular brand of
bread in Texas. Llano is being
added to the Highland Lakes
Country area served by Mrs
Baird's Bakeries, the fam-
ily-owned and operated Fort
Worth based company that has
been baking for Texans for 75
years.
Mrs Baird’s complete line of
bakery products, ranging from
various sizes of white and
wheat bread, multi-grain pro-
ducts, hamburger and hot dog
buns, to cupcakes, fruit pies,
honey buns, donuts, cinnamon
rolls,- danish, angel food cakes
and'English muffins, will now
be delivered fresh daily to
stores in Llano.
Mrs Baird’s Austin Plant
General Manager J.R. Craw
and Austin General Sales
Manager Joe Williams are
heading the team responsible
for this new service to the
Llano area. Austin is one of the
nine Texas cities where Mrs
Baird's bakes products for
distribution to customers
throughout the state and
beyond.
To assure that Mrs Baird's
products are always “baked
with family pride", 17 mem-
bers of the Baird family are
currently involved in the
day-tqtday operation of Mrs
Baird's Bakeries. Today, these
Baird family members contin-
ue the proud tradition estab-
lished by Mrs. Ninnie L. Baird
in 1908, when she first baked
and sold products from her
Fort Worth home.
Her son Hoyt Baird, who
delivered bread on foot as the
first route salesman for the
company, is currently Chair-
man of the Executive Comm-
ittee for Mrs Baird's Bakeries.
Mrs. Baird’s grandson Vernon
Baird is Chairman of the Board
and Chief Executive Officer.
Six additional grandsons, as
well as nine third, fourth, and
fifth generation Baird family
members work today with over
3,000 other employees to
produce the finest bakery
products possible. The busi-
ness Mrs Baird began, as a
means of supporting eight
children when she became a
widow at an early age. has now
grown into the largest family-
owned bakery in the country.
Having earned a reputation
in her neighborhood for baking
good bread, Mrs. Baird began
her baking business in her
kitchen, with the help of her
four sons. She baked her first
commercial loaves in her
wood-fired kiltchen stove. Her
sons initially delivered the
bread in baskets on foot after
school, later switching to
bicycles for deliveries.
AS more people bough! Mrs.
Baird's bread, she bought a
commercial oven from a local
hotel, enabling her to bake 40
loaves at a time. To cover the
cost of the $75 oven, she paid
$25 in cash and the balance in
bread and rolls.
Mrs. Baird also got her
landlord to allow her to
remodel the small one-room
building behind her rented
home, so she could move -the
oven into it and do her baking
there. As business grew, the
family buggy was converted
into a sales wagon, driven by
her son Hoyt. The family first
began using a sales truck in
1917, and additional sales
routes and bakeries began
operation in later years.
If someone had told the
founder of Mrs Baird's
Bakeries when she began this
business in her home 75 years
ago that il would become the
size it is today, she probably
wouldn't have believed it.
Fortunately, since she lived to
the age of 92, she participated
in much of the expansion,
continuing as Chairman of the
Board until her death in June,
1961.
In her memory, the Texas
Senate passed Senate Reso-
lution No. 13 in 1961, stating
Mrs. Baird "has been a living
example for mothers, wives,
business executives. Christ-
ians, and people the world
over." A humble lady, Mrs.
Baird often said she was far
prouder that her children hgd
grown up to be good citizens
than she was of the fact that
she had founded a successful
business.
The success of Mrs Baird's
Bakeries lies in the principles
she originally instilled in her
family and in her business.
Today the employees of Mrs
Baird's Bakeries remain ded-
icated to continuing this proud
tradition of producing the
finest quality bakery products
available, for citizens of Llano
and other areas throughout
Texas and New Mexico.
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Cunningham, T. H. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 7, 1983, newspaper, July 7, 1983; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1053231/m1/4/: accessed April 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.