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STAMFORD AMERICAN!
Octobar 10, 1985
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
Short Takes
By Jennifer Craig
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State Capitol Highlight*—
Yours faithfully,
loam programs boosted the
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2) establish the Texas Farm
and Ranch Finance Program,
and 2) facilitate the manage-
Mauro wants voters to 1)
continue the Texas Veterans
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all three programs last spring,
but Texas voters must give
final approval on a total of 14
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are El Paso, Houston, San An-
tonio, Fort Worth and the
For AU Your
Insurance
Needs
ing the state asking voters to
pass not one, but three pro-
posed constitutional amend
AUSTIN — As Election Day
nears, Texas Land Commin-
ute goal is to pump new
vitality into the agriculture in-
By LYNDELL WILLIAMS
Tex os Press Association
cational Agriculture Teachers
Association Distinguished
Jake, I kept tellin’ you all hell wuz breakin’
loose outside. All you did wuz snore louder!’
Office. School Supplies
Office Furniture.
Equipment
Printing
And like the vet programs,
this would use 1800 million
bonding authority, not tax
money, to provide the original
loan money. Several farm and
. ranch groups endorse this
The Thompson brothers
have been reared in the Stam-
ford area and are active in
community affairs. Both Mr
and Mrs. M.D. Thompson
were at one time employed in
the Huston Hardware store
and are familiar with the
business.
Thompson has been en-
gaged in farming, along with
other business activities. He
was for years manager of the
Farmers Co-op Gin.
It’s a case of do or die this
week when the Stamford Bull-
dogs host the Haskell Indians
at Bulldog Stadium this Fri-
day in another District 5-AA
battle It’s “do” for the Bull-
dogs if they want to stay in
Sesqaicentennial Funds
To help celebrate Texas’
150th birthday next year, the
state asked 40 large Texas cor-
porations to contribute
•400,000, or lie million total,
but the donations received are
much smaller, only |1.5 mil-
lion.
As a result, the scope of the
year-long celebration will
have to be trimmed.
Planners hope to attract out-
position are yet to be outlined
by the council but it to under-
Land Program.
The Legislature and voters
provided 1600 million in bond-
ing authority then, and the
popular program has used
most of it to make 22,000 loans.
Mauro stumps across state for
amendments; White visits Japan
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bilities will be supervision of
the summer youth programs.
The Rev. and Mrs. Burgin
Watkins of Childress are in
Stamford Memorial Hospital
suffering with injuries re-
ceived in a two car collision
Monday shortly before noon at
the intersection of Highway
277 and a county road at Haw-
ley. The Rev. Mr. Watkins, to-
gether with another Methodist
minister, Rev. Ivan E. Allan,
were enroute to Abilene to at-
tend the Wilson lectures at
McMurry College. The Rev.
. Mr. Allen was not Injured.
124 E. Ham on
773-3621
longtime Fire fighter, teaches
fire technology, hydraulics,
administration and other
courses in that college and the
surrounding arena.
Stamford County Line In-
dependent School District tn
regular meeting of the board
of education last Thursday
night, Oct. 2, voted to pur-
chase the old bank building on
the southwest corner of the
square.
The building has housed Tri-
County Education Coopera-
tive and the school and hospi-
tal tax office for several years
renting from the First Na-
tional Bank. The school dis
trict has exercised its option to
buy the building and will do so
Nov. 1 for 2U.5OO.
Eight members of the Stam-
ford College Class of 1910 will
be given special recognition
during the 75th anniversary of
St. John’s United Methodist
Church and the Stamford Col-
lege Reunion Sunday, Oct. IP.
Four members of the 1910
class are planning to attend
Whoever sits in a big office and des-
ignates days and weeks for special
observances has had a busy week this
week. The week of October 6-12 is Na-
tional Fire Prevention Week, National
4-H Week and National Hire the Handi-
capped Week. In addition the entire
month of October is Cooperative
Month.
Anyone who has ever been involved
in a fire can appreciate the need for a
special week to call attention to fire
prevention rules and techniques. Even
just watching a forest Tire and large
hotel fire on TV makes one realize the
enormous strength of fire. ,
Stamford is lucky to have a good
paid fire department in addition to its
volunteer forces. Because of this, we
enjoy one of the lowest key rates for in-
surance in the state.
Thaw
Merchants
Service Barber Shop
106 W McHorg
Veteran* Housing Program
Proposition Eight extendi
the Veterans Housing Assist-
ance Program by providing
•500 million in bonding author-
ity, enough to make several
thousand partial home loans
to veterans. ------ — -1
The program, first enacted
in 19S3 to accomodate modern
veterans, many who live in ur-
ban areas, was modeled after
I was pleased to find out that my
soap box speeches did some good about
people registering to vote. We passed
out all the blanks we Had at the office
and tried to help find some more.
The job is just half done though. Now
you have to get out and vote Nov. 5 or
vote absentee if you will be out of town
on that day.
Subwnplien RaW>
Hi Jonw and Kartell countie.
Support
Stamford.
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Wash and lubrication
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Dear editor: ;
From the time George
Washington was President
down to 1M0, the country ran
up a national debt of one
trillion dollar*, which, II
PIONEER^ ON PARADE—10 year* ago
Stamford to host West Texas firemen
good in worry
about U.S. debt
Editor'* note: The Old
Philotopher on Mt Johntotf
graft farm on Paint Creek
claim* Washington is worry,
ing about ths wrong problem
whan It worries about the nq,
t Iona I debt. ...
Meanwhile, a top White aide
predicted that Peggy Reason,
the “housewife” that White
picked to serve on the Public
Utilities Commission, would
be elected as panel chairman
White is also class to filling an
expired term on the panel,
probably with Department of
1 Community Affairs head
; Rafael QuintiniUa.
Last week he named former
Democratic Party director
Joe Gagen, now working for
White’* old law firm, to the In-
dustrial Accident Board.
public hearing*.
He and other supporters
have also rounded up im-
pressive endorsements from
the community and business
sector*.
Mauro’* point is it doesn’t
cost taxpayers, and besides
providing a benefit to veter-
ans, the program pumps mil-
lions into local economies and
industries .
Because of the economic im-
pact, not only veterans but
realtors and several other
homebuilding industry and
civic groups are backing this
amendment.
Last spring the Legislature
passed this new program, now
Proposition 10 on the ballot,
which would provide similar
loans to farmers and ranch-
Echo Farms Dairy Co. of
New York introduced the milk
Taken from the filet of the
Stamford American. October
», l»7S.
The Stamford Bulldogs,
after two weeks of rest with an
open date, will be seeking
their fourth consecutive win
when they travel to Colorado
City to play the wolves Friday
night at 7:20 p.m. in a District
6-AA contest. The encounter
will open district competition
for the Bulldogs while the
Wolves dropped their first
game, 14-6, to Cohoma. Coach
Matt Chalmers who scouted
the Wolves and has seen them
place twice said that their
strengths are site, quickness
and attitude. “They hit just as
hard at the end of the game
even if they were losing as
they do at the start of the
game,” Chalmers said. •
Offensively the Wolves
operate out of an 1 Formation
and run power plays, a spring
out pass, and pro-set with two
halfbacks and two pulling
guards, like the old Green Bay
Packers did.
from the last legislative ses-
sion was a program to stream-
Xthe way the state man
its various public lands
BUNKLEY
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quarters years, the national
debt has doubled to two trillion,
dollars, and went up several;
more million while you were*
reading this.
This has some people in;
Washington worried. “W
one said, “we don’t even
computers big enough to
die such figures,”
This indicates some of the
slow thinking in Washington.
They’re worrying over the!
wrong problem.
The problem is not that the!
debt is too large but that ouri
computers are too small. For-5
get the debt and get to work on!
bigger computers. Do you re-!
alize the danger the country I
could be in if the national debt’
got so big nobody could write
It down?
Another example of slow
thinking envolves the s
chip people. For a while
high-tech chip business was
booming but lately It has
fallen on hard times.
You see, the chip people be-
came so expert that they mail*’
■ged to build a chip about the;
size of your thumbnail or at>
least a toenail that’d store a;
million pieces of information;
and then kept on building;
things, before long they’d run;
out of profitable market. They;
should have asked farmers;
about the sorrows of produc ;
ing too much.
Back to the national debt;
that has jumped from one tri)-;
lion to two trillion in four and;
three-quarters years, plus the;,
millions more it went up be -
tween the first paragraph of;,
this letter and this one.
We are told not to worry!
about it, that things are going
well, Inflation is whipped and
It’s morning in America.
It should be remembered
however that there are people
who have waked up on i
bright, sunny morning to di*-;
cover they have a terrific;
hangover.
Taken from the filet of the
Stamford American, October
11, IMS.
Change in ownership of one
of the largest and oldest retail
stores in Stamford was an-
nounced this week. Milbum D.
Thompson and W.A. (BUI)
Thompson have purchased the
Huston Hardware from Cle-
burne Huston, effective Oct.
15.
Milburn D. Thompson will
be manager, in active charge
of the store; and his brother,
W.A is an inactive partner.
Mrs. Milburn Thongion will
be with the store in charge of
the housewares and gifts.
The new owners announced
that the store will continue
operating with the present
personnel and under the same
policies as in the paat. It will
Chalmers and Anderson
both said it would take a
strong Stamford effort to beat
the wolves. Anderson said the
Wolves are a better team than
any Stamford has faced with
the exception of Brecken-
ridge. The Bulldogs have been
concentrating on improving
techniques in workouts rather
than getting into a lot of con-
tact work
' Fire department personnel
from 15 towns wgl gather in
Stamford Saturday, Oct. 11,
for the 47th semi- annual Mid-
West Texas Firemen and Fire
Marshals’ Association
meeting. Registration wlU
begin at 10 a.m. at the fire sta-
tion. The women’s luncheon
and business meeting will
begin at 11:30 a.m. and will
feature a style show at the
Lions Club building on the
square. The meeting will
begin at 1:30 p.m. in the coun-
cil room of the city hall.
Speaker will be Jim Nichols,
instructor at Tarrant County
Junior College. Nichols, a
PIONEERS ON PARADE—20 years ago
Huston Hardware is sold to Thompson brothers ]
it’s the same case if they want
to call their season successful
by putting down Stamford,
something almost as impor-
tant to Haskell fans as a dis-
trict championship.
The Bulldog backfield will
start Jack Harkins or Ronnie
Jones at quarterback. Bob
Isbell, Gene Schackelford or
Mike Matthews at halfback
and Jack Kennedy at fullback.
Changes will definitely be
made on Stamford’s defensive
line and new faces will appear
in the starting line up.
Lee Walker, who has served
as manager of the Stamford
Board of Qty Development
____ since January 1MB was as*
contention for the league signed this week to anew poM-
crown after dropping their' tionby the city council. He will
first loop encounter against become Director of Parks and
the Hamlin Pied Pipers two Recreation.
weeks ago and for the Indians - Complete dataiN of the new bottle in 1879
tife- th-Mcdicare
Supplements
Hokanson
Insurance Agency
202 L Hamilton
Off. 915-773-2626
A* noted in an article on the front
page, October is attendance month for
students in Stamford schools.
Stamford is not alone in its push for
good attendance. Every school district
In the state will have a big push on dur-
ing the month since the average daily
attendance recorded during this month
and a month during the spring will be
used to determine how much money
the district will receive from the state.
The Graham paper states that each
student absence will cost their district
a minimum of 173.75 per day and each
day of attendance will result in a gain
of state funds by a like amount.
- -y 1 don’t know if the figures are the
same for the S1SD, but the bottom line
is that attendance means money. The
b^Mr the attendance, the more money
the district will get from the state and
the less it will have to get through
^chool district taxes.
Parents can help the system by
. scheduling doctor’s appointments and
the like around the official attendance
time. In most schools this is at the start
of second period each morning. You
can check with the school office to find
out their official time.
BIO 31
Take the time this week to thank the
firemen, both paid and volunteer, for
the work they do And then take some
time to look around -your house and
business to eliminate potential fire
hazards so you don’t have to see them
on a professional basis.
I can’t ever think about 4-H without
remembering all the stock shows I
went to when I would tag along with
my dad and hold pictures while they
dried. Judy Moritz was in 4-H and al-
ways blitzed the opposition with her
Jersey cows. Later on Belinda Burk-
inan made the boys wish girls weren’t
allowed in 4-H as well as FFA. As
many ribbons as the Oman girls have
won, they will have to go a way to top
Belinda’s totals.
My nieces in Arizona are 4-H mem-
bers now. They compete in a variety of
projects and seem to enjoy every
minute of it. ■-
One thing I really like about the 4-H
system is the way it rewards participa-
tion and not just the one who excels.
4-H blue ribbons are not limited to just
one entrant, but to as many as the
judges feel earned a blue^ ribbon
Every kid is made to feel important
and is rewarded for his effort
4-H has come a long way in its 50+
years of existence. Programs today
range from the animal and canning
projects of yesterday to aerospace and
computer projects of tomorrow.
If you have some spare time, why not
consider offering your services as an
adult leader for an area 4-H Club.
There are clubs at Avoca, Ericksdahl
and Lueders (Berryhill Club) in addi-i
tion to the clubs in Stamford, Anson,
Hamlin and Hawley/Hodges.
STAMFORD
AMERICAN
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John Mooney.
Jennifer Craig
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