The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1987 Page: 4 of 27
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Rodeo
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
One of ths premier events in the Texes Hill
Country end the Highland Lekes sree will be
held this weekend In Lleno when the Llsno
County 51st Annuel Rodeo end Perede get un-
derway beginning et 4 p.m. Friday with tha
parade through downtown Ueno.
Our own state representetive Anne Cooper
will be leading tha parada as parsda marshal
and a large number of floats, horses, rodeo
contestants, marching groups and lots more
will be perticipating.
Immediately following tha parada Llano Boy
Scout Troop 301 will be serving a barbecue
dinner on the grounds of Llano's historic Llano
County Courthouse and will set up a model
campsite for visitors to inspect.
All of tha above will be building up to the fir-
st night of the Internationel Professional
Rodeo Association sanctioned rodeo at the
arena adjacent to Llano's Community Canter.
Pledges have been received from many of the
nation's top professional cowboys and
cowgirls who will be competing for their share
of the $17,000 payoff
Another highlight of the weekend will be the
naming of a rodeo queen and rodao king from
among a host of entries.
An added feature this year will be members
of the Austin Parachute Team who will be
"dropping in" at the rodeo both Friday and
Saturday nights just prior to the 8 p.m. start.
Rodeo fans and local sponsors alike are ex-
cited about the prospects of this being one of
the truly outstanding rodeos to be held this
year in Texas. It sounds as though it is already
a success. Plan to attend and take some frien-
ds along.
Llano's first market day will be Saturday
from 9 a.m. around the Llano County Cour-
thouse.
Rodeo tickets are on sale until parade time
Friday at Llano National Bank, Llano Feed and
Supply, Haase's and the Llano Chamber of
Commerce.
WLB
Editorial /Opinion
“Thu vnAl mpiiiure of a new sooner is not Us size ■
’The vital measure of a newspaper is not Us size
but its spirit"
Llano Newa, Thursday. Jane 4,1987
Arlhur Hays Sulzberger
Page A-4
Charities Checked
Year after year, tha good citizens of Texas
exhibit compassion and generosity by con-
tributing millions of dollars to charitiss In the
state. Consequently wo have nearly 332.000
tax-exempt charitable organizations which
control about $16 billion in assets.
Texas is fortunats to have such ample
resources devoted to helping those in need.
Are those funds really being used for
charitable purposes?
You may be surprised to learn that we do not
knowl
The State has no information and no method
of routinely monitoring the Income and ex-
penditures of charities. Tha generosity and
good will of the citizens of Texas are com-
pletely unprotected.
That Is why I am supporting and promoting
a bill filed In the Texas Legislature that would
require charities and charitable foundations to
fils annual statements with tha Texas Attor-
ney General's Office.
The proposed legislation would require each
charity to file a copy of its annual federal tax
statement, plus basic information such as the
names of trustees and tha data of incor-
poration. Charities which solicit funds from
non-members would bo required to segregate
charitable funds from membership funds.
The bill would prohibit charities from using
funds received for charitable purpoees for any
other purpose. Any violations would subject s
charity to loss of all tax-exempt status, plus
possible civil penalties if a lawsuit is brought
by the Attorney General.
Tha bill would allow the Attorney General’s
Office to routinely review and audit the
charities in order to batter assure Texans that
their generous contributions are being used
for the purposes for which they intended.
Religious organizations, private colleges
and those charities with gross receipts of less
than $25,000 per year would be exempt from
the law.
The legislation was prompted by recent
problems with some charities and foun-
dations. Investigations by the Attorney
General's Office found conflicts of interest
and wasteful spending by trustees of one
major foundation. Another foundation with
more than $100 million in assets was spending
as little as $6 million a year on charity, and an
Investigation resulted in several persons being
convicted of criminal wrongdoing.
We also found a charity that had been
soliciting funds to provide the last wishes of
terminally-ill children, that had done nothing
for the children.
This bill will ssnd a message to the trustees
and staffs of all charities that they have to ser-
vo the public and not themselves.
We want Texans to feel confident that when
they set money aside for charity, their state
government will make sure that it is used for
charity.
Jim Mattox
Attorney General of Texas
Letters to the Editor
Shocked
Dear Editor:
Being a military wife in the Air
Force, when a tragedy happens In
any branch of the military, it hits a
lot closer to home than being a
civilian. I was shocked and appalled
when I saw that the Llano hospital,
the city utility office and the chamber
of commerce did not have their flags
at half staff.
President Reagan had requested
at the memorial service, that flags
should be flown at half staff through
Memorial Day for the 37 men who
lost their lives on the USS Stark.
The LLANOfeNEWS
Serving Llsno. Usno County and tha
Highland Lakes area ainca IMS.
Published every Thursday at 813 Perry Street. Ueno. Texas 70043 En-
tered in the Usno Poet Office as second cleae mall under the Act of
Congress of 1878. U8PS 318-788
WALTER L. BUCKNER. Editor and Publisher
T.H CUNNINOHAM. Publisher Emeritus
FRED TAYLOR.................................. ........News Editor
SARAH BUCKNER ..................................Ufa Style Editor
ANN MILLCR..... .................................Editor's Assistant
HAZEL LONG..............................Kingsland Chronicle Editor
A.C. KINCHELOC............. Printing Dept. Supervisor
DON SUMMERS............ .............. Compositor and Darkroom
BARBARA BURFORD...................................Bookkeeper
DOOtE VIERUS. ............................. .....Advertising Sales
UNDA WEEMS.................................... Advertising Salsa
BRIDGET SMALLWOOD.........................Production Assistant
COLUMNISTS: Hal Cunningham. Marilyn Hale and John Kuykendall.
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NEWS CORRESPONDENTS. Ruth Deal. Eohne Kowterschke. Lottie
Wyckoff. Jamie Pehn. Noyce Slaughter and Janet Herron
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Uano County: 1 yee* *11.88. 2 years 822.40. 3
years 832.88. Including tax. Elsewhere In Taxaa: 1 year 818.80. 2 years
838.80. Indudhig tax. Out of state: 1 year 834.00. 2 years 80S00. Including
tax. AS payaMa In aduanoa Oversees - oak or write for quota.
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be signed and no longer than two standard pages,
lyped H eoselbls Tha staff reserves the right to edit
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Tha Uano News at 81S/347-4433
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I had called the chamber of
commerce, no answer. I called the
hospital, not once, but twice and
asked them to lower their flag to half
staff. No result. I talked to a city
police officer in front of the fire hall
and requested the same, and again
no result. In my opinion. I am
ashamed of the insensitivity of these
businesses for not respecting the
deaths of these men.
Kay Mikulfcnka
San Antonio
Reply
Editor's Note: Llano County Judge
W.R. (Bill) Miller received the
following letter as a result of. a
request for a study of the intersec-
tion of SH 29 and RR 1431 (Fuzzy's
Corner) where an accident recently
claimed the life of Mary Fones.
Martin Mosley had appeared before
Llano County Commissioners re-
questing the county to ask for such a
study. This is the response from the
Stale Department of Highways and
Public Transportation. — FT.
Dear Judge Miller: t
Mr. Stotzer has receive}! your
recent letter concerning traffic con-
ditions at the intersection of SH 29
and FM 1431. This is to let you know
that we will study this Intersection
along with its past accident history to
see what, if anything, might be done
to improve conditions at this loca-
tion. As soon as our studies have
been completed. Mr. Stotzer will
advise you of our findings.
We appreciate your concern about
traffic safety and we certainly regret
to learn of the accident you referred
to In your letter. Thank you for
calling this matter to our attention.
William C. Garbade
Chief Engineer of
Safety and Malntenafk<
Operations.
— 7i
i i
Hey Jake, if that ole pony can run forward as fast
as he can run backwards you have got a
world champion!”
THE
Wanderer
If there's anything that's plentiful
in The Wanderer’s neighborhood,
it’s cats. In fact, they’re so plentiful
that you can't go outside without
stumbling over them. It all began
with a mama cat that had been done
wrong and gave birth to three
kittens. These grew up and begat.
And how they begatl They just about
founded a dynasty.
Now Hazel and The Wanderer are
not against pets. They both grew up
with pets. There were cats, dogs,
and Hazel even had a pet billygoat
that she trained to haul her all over
Valley Spring in a red wagon to the
envy of her compatriots. But this cat
situation is a whole new can of
worms.
For example. Fay Godwin, good
friend and neighbor across the
street, had a stray cat give birth to a
litter of kittens up on a high shelf in
her garage. The only way she could
get to her kittens was by jumping
onto the hood of Fay's car, then to
the top, and thence up on the shelf.
When Fay wanted to go to town, she
had to choose a time that suited the
cat, and there were always cat tracks
all over the car, which Fay keeps
immaculate.
Twice Fay has gone through this
routine, and now the cat is expecting
again and eyeing the garage. Fay
has been leaving her car in the
driveway, so the cat can’t get to the
shelf. Of course, may of our readers
have suggestions on how to remedy
this situation, short of burning down
the garage, and we’re sure Fay
would be glad to hear them. First,
her garage door is so heavy she can't
pull it down, and to install a door
opener would mean replacing the
door. Second, the shelf on the rafters
is part of the garage, and she hates
to tear off a corner of the garage. So
what to do?
Ruth Fain, who brings Hazel
lettuce, says she can't walk in her
garden without stumbling over cats.
The climax occurred Thursday
morning when Mrs. Wanderer hur-
ried in the house with a sack of
groceries in each arm. leaving the
door open. In walked a kitten right
behind her and took up a habitat
under the sofa. Now getting a stray
cat out of the house isn't as easy as it
might seem. Hazel closed all of the
doors out of the living room and
stationed The Wanderer by the
outside door with a broom while she
poked frantically under the sofa with
a mop handle. She was about to try
to entice it out with a bowl of milk,
but there The Wanderer put his foot
down, telling her, "If you feed it,
you're forever with cat.” Hazel and
the kitten played hide and seek for a
while until she eventually moved the
sofa and chased it out the door.
Now when she finds a cat at the
door, which is frequently, she shoves
it over toward Frances Costner s or
Evelyn Gould’s homes. Maybe they
Talk of Texas
THE HOLIDAY THAT ISN'T —
December 20, not March 2, should
have been Texas Independence Day.
That was the date when. Texans
first declared themselves to be
forever free and independent of
Mexico.
It all started on Oct. 9, 1835, when
a cadre of Texas volunteers over-
powered the Mexican garrison at
Goliad. They not only captured
valuable arms and supplies, but their
action cut all communication be-
tween the Mexican presidio at San
Antonio and the headquarters in
Mexico City.
This so elated Philip Dimitt and Ira
Ingram, two of the officers involved
in the Goliad capture, that they
wrote a formal Declaration of In-
dependence. On December 20. they
assembled Goliad residents at the
presido of Nuestra Senora de Loreta
where 91 of them signed it.
Since November 14, the General
Council had been meeting at San
Felipe to serve as a provisional
government pending the opening of
the Convention planned to begin at
Washing ton-on-the-Brazos on March
1. From Goliad, a committee was
sent with the Declaration to San
Felipe to obtain approval.
The Council reviewed the docu-
ment and referred it to a commit-
tee. Some of the members found it
embarrassing because negotiations
were going on with Mexico to
determine if Texas would demand
independence or work out some
cooperative arrangements that
would appease both sides.
For these and other reasons, the
Council decided the timing wasn't
right. It ruled that the Goliad
Declaration had been adopted in-
considerately. It went into the files of
the Secretary of State, never to be
resurrected.
The seeds of independence had
been planted, however. When the
Convention met at Washington-on-
the-Brazos March 1, they made their
Declaration the next day.
• • •
YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW —
Movies have been popular in Texas
for nine decades.
In 1896. Dallas. Houston and San
Antonio each had established thea-
ters offering "pictures that move"
on Thomas A. Edison's "Vitascope"
system.
• • • *
FIT TO PRINT — Texas once was
the editorial headquarters of what
then was America's most widely
circulated publication.
It was "The Iconoclast," edited
and published by W.C. Brann, a
railroad fireman before he decided to
enter journalism at the age of 21.
His Waco-based magazine had an
international circulation of more than
100.000.
Brann used the publication to
By Hal Cunningham
need cats.
-w-
Over in Austin, the legislature has
been dragging its feet all through the
140-day regular session, doing no-
thing about the state’s multi-million
dollar deficit but hope it will go
away. It hasn't. Now they’re moan-
ing that there isn’t time left in the
session to take up the budget
problem, and Governor Clements
has called a special session for June
22 to make up a budget and pass an
appropriations bill. If they run true
to form, the legislature will argue
and bluster through the special
session and push through a stop-gap
budget and appropriations bill at the
last minute that doesn't satisfy
anyone.
There has been a lot of propaganda
among legislators to change to
annual sessions of the legislature
instead of every other year. That
would give them the opportunity to
waste more money, but that’s about
all. It’s been years since we haven’t
had to have a special session to do
what they didn't do in the regular
session.
In a special session, the governor
sets the agenda, and the legislature
can only consider what he tells them
to. They can use up a regular session
blustering and in-fighting and intro-
ducing thousands of screwball bills
that never se4 the light of day, but
dodging the most important issues.
By Jack Magaire
Baylor University. His attacks devel-
oped many enemies, and he was shot
to death in 1896 in a street brawl in
Waco.
His death also ended his unique
publication.
IT’S A FACT —• Texas was the
home of this country’s last canni-
bals.
They were the Tonkawa Indians.
To them, eating human flesh was
both a gastronomic delight and a
religious experience.
The Tonka was especially liked to
eat the heart of a slain enemy. They
believed that this enabled them to
acquire some of the deceased's
courage and ability to wage war.
• a a
IN THE BEGINNING — More
than 25,000 different archaeological
sites have been identified in Texas to
date.
AD GUB — Few people outside of
Dallas had heard of the Neiman-
Mareus Store before 1934.
young Stanley Marcus per-
Vogue and Harper's Bazaar!^"
the nation’s top fashion magazines.
Neiman's first ads offered only tun,
but they made the store famous.
THE SIGNS OF TEXAS - On a
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 4, 1987, newspaper, June 4, 1987; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1114273/m1/4/?q=hamilton+county: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Llano County Public Library.