Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 47, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1980 Page: 4 of 12
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LEVELLAND—Building per-
mits issued in Levelland for the
current year now total more than
one million dollars as total
permits issued during March
reached $313,100, bringing the
year-to-date total to $1,256,391.
Dwelling permits for the month
totaled $163,500, upping the year’s
figure to $559,500, while only
$10,000 business permits were
issued.
In other words...
by Don Richard*
HEREFORD—A crackdown on
the sale of cattle for slaughter
from 30 feedlots was announced
recently by the Food and Drug
Administration and the Agricult-
ural Department as a result of an
investigation by those two
agencies that disclosed illegal
uses of the alleged cancer-causing
drug diethylstilbesterol (DES) to
stimulate the growth of feeding
cattle. Several area feeding firms
were involved in an order to delay
slaughter of cattle due ,to the
investigation. Among the local
feedlots involved are Diamond A
Ranch and Pol an Grain & Cattle
of Hereford, Hill Feeders in Hart
and Taylor Feed Yard in
Dimmitt. Also, Coronado Feeders
and XIT Feeders of Dalhart,
Plainview Feedlots in Plainview
and B&X Cattle Co. of Tahoka.
LAM ESA—-Federal
Judge Halbert OT
District
Wood wait!
approved a plan which will
redraw' Hie Dawson County
Commissioners’ precinct lines to
give Mexican-American voters a
60 per cent majority in Pjrecinct 1.
Woodward also reopened the
filing period for candidates in
Precincts 1 and 3, extending it
through 6 p.m. last Wednesday. In
addition, he reserved the right to
postpone the start of absentee
voting in the May 3 Democratic
Primary from April 14 to April 21,
if necessary, to give the county
time to print new ballots in case of
additional filing.
BROWNFIELD—Former city
councilman Speedy Lindsey was
appointed to fill an unexpired
term on the Brownfield City
Council during a recent meeting.
Lindsey was appointed to replace
Bill Noble who resigned on March
20. Noble resigned to prevent a
conflict of interest after a bid
from Robert L. Noble Agency was
accepted to provide insurance to
the city. Bill Noble is a partner in
that firm.
FORT STOCKTON—Pecos
County law enforcement officials
fed the fires at the municipal
incerator with nearly a half-mil-
lion dollars worth, of confiscated
narcotics and ^assorted drug
paraphenalia recently. A~ portion
of the narcotics, which had been
stored for use as evidence, dated
back to a 1977 arrest by the city
police of a suspect who had 300
pounds of marijuana in the trunk
of his automobile. Over 800 pounds
of the 1,200 pounds of marijuana
burned were confiscated in an
arrest of two suspects west of
Fort Stockton near the Firestone
Test Track exit in early 1979, the
largest haul ever netted by a local
law enforcement agency.
* BOWIE—At approximately 9
a.m. Thursday morning, April 3,
Decatur police officer James
Leroy Bennett, 45, stopped a
brown and white Chevrolet
Impala on Highway 380 about two
miles east of Decatur. The car fit
the description of one involved in
a burglary in Bridgeport earlier
that morning. According to one
witness, as Bennett walked
toward the car, the driver got out
with a rifle in his hands and
gunned the officer down. He then
jumped back into his vehicle and
sped away. About two hours later
llijipio Veloz Jr., a 17-year-old
laborer from Mineral Wells, was
captured by Newark Chief of
Police Johnny Guerea and Wise
County Constable W. R. Jones on
FM 1*655 three miles east of
Forestburg. Hijinio was denied
- bond and now awaits the Grand
J[ury hearing. Bennett was the
first officer in the history of the
Decatur Police Department to be
killed in the line of duty.
Remember when...
25 YEARS AGO
All was in readiness for a mass
inoculation against polio for all
first and second grade students in
Gaines County. The Salk vaccine
was said to have proved 80-90
percent effective and health
officials, who had already laid the
groundwork for the inoculations,
were ready to begin as soon as a
supply of the vaccine was
received.
Seminole physicians were due
to receive an automatic shipment
of the new polio vaccine, but had
no word on the exact date.
Edwin Young was named to
represent the local American
Legion post at Boys’ State. The
Seminole High School junior was"
chosen by a committee made up of
faculty members at the high
school and was the second young
man to be sponsored by the
American Legion which paid
including transportation to and
from Austin.
Gaines County commissioners
renewed their agreement with
Texas A&M' Experiment Station
to assure the continuance of the
cattle experiment that was being
conducted. The agreement was
entered into for local experiments
to determine the cause ot the high
rate of calf deaths occurring here.
Wind-whipped flames destroyed
a dairy barn belonging to R. W.
Pittman that was located one and
a half miles east of town/
The prices of 10 pound weights
of staple groceries were advertis-
ed by the local stores as 79c for
sugar, 69c for that amount of
flour. Shortening sold for 69c for
the three pound can, eggs were
39c per dozen, oleo was 19c per
pound and a dollar would buy 10
tall cans of tomato juice. A can of
beets sold for 71 l- cents and a
pound box of . crackers was a
quarter.
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20 YEARS AGO
Former city councilman C. ().
Wright was employed by the city
in an advisory capacity to work
With city aldermen and" engineers'
on completion of the city’s $250,000
water-sewer expansion program
Construction was getting un-
derway on a $20,(KK) Seminole
State Bank expansion project that
would add a drive-in facility to the
bank’s services.
ed to spearhead the comprehen-
sive investigation into every facet
of the situation in Gaines County.
The lead role in the musical
“Carousel-' at McMurry College
in Abilene was won by Lent a Ball,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. (). A.
Ball, who was majoring in
elementary education.
Sue Garrett and Donald Hatley,
both 10, were crowned queen and
king of Christ’s Ambassadors of
the Seminole Assembly of God
Church. The king and queen
received a June trip to a youth
camp at Crude Ranch in the
David Mountains.
Women goiters from Seminole
held top honors at the Lower
Plains Women's Golf Association
tournament. Bess Curry walked
away with tourney medalist title
and Johnnie Stanley took the low
net ot field score'.
10 YEARS AGO
Jake Bennett of'Bennett Motor
Company received the highest
honor any Ford salesman can
earn at a banquet in Dallas. He
was named winner of Ford's Top
Hatter Award for his - sales
performance during 1969.
“Desperate \mhrose." a three
act farce set in the wild and wooly
West went on stage at the high
school auditorium. The Seminole
Noon Lions Club raised the
curtain on their hilarious spring
fund raising' project .with pro-
ceeds from ticket sales ear-mark-
ed for financing their various and
many community projects.
Miss Toni Patterson, bride-elect
of Hylton Nolen, was honored at a
bridal shower in the Fellowship
Hall ot the FirstTmited Methodist
(Lurch
Miss Kathy Bogues. bride-elect
ot .Jimmy Nelms, was the honoree
at a bridal shower in the
Fellowship Hall of South Seminole
Baptist Church.
Seminole Cable TV held open
house in its ot I ices.
Fnknown thieves broke into the
two press boxes at Wigwam
Stadium sometime between
Thursday and Monday. Taken,
according to school of ficials, were
three amplifiers, three micro-
phones, two horns and two gallons
of white paint.
Cheryl Chambers, daughter of
Mr^mid Mrs Aubrev Chambers,
Plans calling for a study of tlie^Avas announced as the valedictor-
sourcea and needs of senior urn ot the I97n Semmoie Hmh
resources
citizens in Gaines County were
announced. Persons interested in
participating in the study and
becoming part of the county study
were asked >to contact County
Judge Charles Lawrence at the
courthouse. A 22-member com-
mittee had already been appoint-
ian ot the 1970 Semmoie High
School graduating class. Myron
Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Marvin Lewis, was the salutator-
ian. The contest for top honors
was extremely close with Miss
Chambers having a margin of
three grade points, She held 482
over Lewis's 479.
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By Jack Maguire
HOW IT BEGAN—An unknown
saddle-maker in a field artillery
battery at San Antonio’s Fort Sam
Houston “invented” the seat belt
70 years ago.
The idea for the safety belt was
born March 2, 1910, when a young
lieutenant, Benjamin D. Foulois,
became the first pilot in the
history of military aviation. He
took off that morning from Fort
Sam's parade ground for the/
seven-minute flight that was t6
give the ITS. a new defense
weapon.
Foulois’ flight was a success,
but he had trouble staying in the
cockpit of the bouncing little
plane. During a break for lunch,
he mentioned his problem to (’apt
Fred Austin, commander ot a
field artillery battery, and asked
him for suggestions.
(’apt Austin asked the battery
saddler, an enlisted man whose
name has been lost to history, fo
try and solve the problem. The
saddler took a four-foot length of
strap from an Army trunk and
suggested that Lt. Foulois use/it to
lash himself to the seat on future
flights.
The idea worked and the safety-
belt became standard equipment
on every airline. In recent years,
it has been required in autos, too.
' YOU MIGHT LIKE TO
KNOW—That basketball, not
football, yTas the first athletic
contest staged under the aegis of
the Southwest Conference
The Southwest Intercollegiate
Athletic Association was founded
in 1914. On January 30. 1915, Rice
Institute's basketball team tram-
pled Baylor 45 to 10 at Houston to
inaugurate competition in the new
conference.
Football as a conference sport
began the following fall
WHAT'S IN A NAME?—“Caba-
llero.” the Spanish word for
gentleman soldier, has its. origin
in an ancient term used to
measure land.
In early Spain "cabelleria”
meant that portion of real estate
taken as the spoils of war which
was alloted to a cavalryman in the
King's army. During Spain’s rule
of Mexico, however, a caballeria
came to mean a parcel of land
granted to a colonist who agreed
to keep one armed man mounted
and ready at all times to fight for
the King.
These mounted knights came to
be called “Caballeros.”
IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN
HERE—When an alligator died in
Morris County in 1978. his
obituary appeared in newspapers
around the world.
His name was Big A1 and he had
been a fixture in the county for
more than 20 years. He became
famous because a local steel plant
used his picture and stories about
him in a public relations
campaign. Big A1 was proof that
the company had kept the air and
water around its operations pure
and wholesome.
Big A1 was slightly more than 12
feet long. When he died, workers
at the ^steel plant' made him a
coffin out of a native pine tree. His
grave was two feet wide and 15
feet long.
A formal funeral service was
held with mourners toasting Big
Al’s memory with Gatorade. Now
a monument marks his gravesite
near the town of Lone Star.
IT'S A FACT—The world's
largest college campus is in
Texas.
The Texas A&M University
System, which has schools, farms,
agricultural experiment stations
and educational activities all
around the state, claims a tot.yl
campus of 55,125.5 acres.
(Copyright. 1980, by Jack Ma-
Guire)
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Ask the people
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“What is your feeling about the editorial column in last
Thursday’s issue of the Sentinel regarding the printing of
legal notices and ballots in both English and Spanish?”
I think we have an obligation
the -now* to every
person in Seminole in the best way
possible. In order that effective
communication can be accom-
plished, I say 'Print it in both
languages'." Barry Owens, Min-
ister of Music at the Seminole
First Baptist Church
"I'd say answers to the question
most come from the voting rights
act of 1964. That's when Texas
was put under the voting rights
act by the federal government,
and that is what creates the
necessity for minority language
on legal notices and ballots. Funds
to pay for these come from the
each case. Certainly, to comply
with the law that requires legal
notices and ballots to be printed in
minority languages complicates
election procedures. It is more
work and it is more expensive,
but, no matter, it is the LAW!"
Delbert Warren, Gaines County
Democratic Chairman
"I think the legal notice and
ballot printing should be in both
languages because i ttiirtk a Tot of
the Spanish-American people here
speak both languages, but thtfy
read and understand Spanish
better. I'm sure it costs more, but
we don't have anything to sav
about it because it is a federal
law." Mary Baldwin, %Gaines
County Auditor
"I really do not feel that the
bi-lingual ballot system was a
serious problem in this last
hospital board * of directors
election. I do not feel that it was
excessive expense, i do feel that
The reason'why the multi-lingua I
problem during elections has
come about is. because of the state
and Washington (D.C.) bureau-
crats." Larry Turpen, adminis-
trator of Seminole Memorial
Hospital
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Day, Marshall. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 73, No. 47, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 13, 1980, newspaper, April 13, 1980; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1128074/m1/4/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.