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Leader Vol. 85, No. 48 STAMFORD, JONES COUNTY, TEXAS 79553, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1984 American Vol. 63, No. 23
Election activities set here this weekend
Gramm to
talk here
on Sunday
Cong. Phil Gramm, can-
didate for the U.S. Senate, will
bring his 1984 campaign to
Jones County when he stops in
Stamford this Sunday.
Gramm will meet with area
residents at a 5:30 p.m. recep-
tion Sunday in the Lion’s Club
Building. His stop in Stamford
is one of the first in the rural
area north of Abilene.
A fiscal conservative from
College Station, Gramm drew
much attention last year when
he resigned from his
Democratic seat in the U.S.
House after being punished by
party leaders for supporting
President Reagan in some key
votes. Gramm registered as the
Republican candidate for the
same seat and was re-elected.
In the Republican Party
primary, Gramm had little
- trouble defeating three other
opponents with an extraor-
dinary 73 percent of the vote.
He is now opposed by Lloyd
Doggett of Austin in the race
for Sen. John Tower’s office.
Gramm, a former college
professor, will discuss his
* stands on the budget, the deficit
and other issues of this year’s
campaign. Residents from
Jones and surrounding counties
have been invited to attend the
political reception.
Slight drop
reported in
enrollment
Stamford Public Schools had
registered 849 students as of
Wednesday morning, the sec-
ond day of classes.
The district-wide total is just
slightly down from the 851
students registered at the same
time last year. Superintendent
John McGaughey said the
enrollment figures would prob-
ably increase as more students
registered late.
At the high school, 231
students were registered. A
total of 140 students had been
registered at the junior high
level. Reynolds Elementary
reported an enrollment of 209,
while Oliver Elementary had
277.
The breakdown of classes as
of Wednesday was: Seniors, 52;
Juniors, 46; Sophomores, 68;
Freshmen, 65; Eighth grade,
78; Seventh grade, 62; Sixth
grade, 73; Fifth grade, 50;
Fourth grade, 77; Thira grade,
76; Second grade, 68, First
grade, 75 and Kindergarten, 58.
Stamford School Board
members approved the paving
of the bus parking lot recently
constructed next to the tennis
courts.
The board voted unanimously
to accept a bid for $20,790 from
West Texas Construction Co.
Also approved was a lease
agreement between the district
and Orient Street Church of
Christ concerning the use of the
church building for the junior
high classes. The schools also
entered an agreement with the
First Baptist Church. The
church’s educational rooms
will be used for the kindergar-
ten classes until Oliver is
vready.
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Cong. Charles Stenholm—
The Sixth Annual Funday in honor of Cong. Charles Stenholm and his wife, Cindy, will begin at 5
p.m. Saturday in Ericksdahl. Three other members of the U.S. House of Representatives —<
Cong. Beverly Byron, Cong. Ed Jones and Cong. Bill Chappell — will attend the event for
Stenholm, who is seeking re-election in November.
Ag Committee schedules meeting
The Agriculture Advisory
Committee will sponsor a
special meeting as a forum for
area farmers at 2 p.m. Satur-
day in Stamford.
Cong. Charles Stenholm will
host the meeting, which will be
at the Lions Club Building, on
the east side of the square. Also
attending the meeting will be
three members of the U.S
House of Representatives,
Cong. Beverly Byron, Cong.
Bill Chappel and Cong. Ed
Jones. The meeting is open to
the public.
Saturday’s meeting will pro-
vide area farmers an oppor-
tunity to discuss the future of
agriculture with two of the U.S.
House Agriculture Committee
members. Both Cong. Stenholm
and Cong. Jones are members
of the Ag Committee. Also ex-
pected to be part of the discus-
sion is the 1985 farm bill. This is
Cong. Beverly Byron
an opportunity for area people
to have a say or place sugges-
tions before the committee.
The Stamford meeting is the
last of five Stenholm has
scheduled throughout the state
to study various topics ranging
from agricultural needs to
small business problems.
The first meeting will be held
Thursday at the Amfac Hotel in
Dallas-Fort Worth Regional
Airport. Stenholm will speak to
the National Council of the
Transportation Executives for
Farm Cooperatives. His sub-
ject will be the transportation
problems facing today’s farm-
ers.
On Friday morning.* Sten-
holm will address the National
Conference of Women En-
trepreneurs at a meeting in the
Adam’s Mark Hotel in Houston.
This conference is part of
President Reagan’s Initiative
Cong. Bill Chappell
for Private Sector programs,
which is sponsoring 20
meetings across the nation. As
chairman of the Subcommittee
on Energy. Environment and
Safety Issues Affecting Small
Business, Stenholm will speak
on a variety of issues affecting
small businesses.
Stenholm will have a third
meeting set for the Fairmont
Hotel in Dallas at noon He will
speak to the members of the
southwestern cotton industry
The seminar is sponsored by
the USDA Extension Service
and the Texas Agricultural Ex-
tension Service of Texas A&M
A^a member of the House Agri-
culture Committee. Stenholm
will give an update on the
agriculture issues in Washing-
ton. DC.
The representatives will take
a tour of Dyess Air Force Base
in Abilene Saturday.
Cong. Ed Jones
Stamford opens season in Eastland
Stamford will open the 1984
high school football season on
the road in Eastland Friday
night.
The game will mark the
debut of Fred Strickland as
head coach and the Bulldogs'
return to AA classification.
Strickland comes to Stamford
from Grapevine, where he was
an assistant coach. He brings
with him coaches Ray Snider,
Tony Thompson. Glenn Coles
and Nancy Wateres.
This season will see Stamford
competing in AA after four
years at the AAA level. De-
creases in the enrollment in re-
cent years moved Stamford in-
to the smaller classification.
Stamford, predicted to finish
second in the district race,
open^ up against a district
favorite. Eastland, which most
prognosticators have selected
to win District 11-AA, was the
state AA champion in 1982
Eastland High School Prin-
cipal Keith Wadkins has of-
fered tips to Stamford followers
on how to get to Maverick
Stadium. Wadkins said if you
drive through Albany and
Moran on Highway 6, you need
to turn onto U.S. Highway 80
when you get to Cisco. Highway
80 will take you to Eastland. He
said to stay on that road and it
will take you directly to the sta-
dium, which is right next to the
road in the northeast part of
town.
If you plan to drive on In-
terstate 20. Wadkins said to exit
at the Best Western Motel on
the right. He said go left, under
the overpass and stay on that
road, which is U.S 80. until you
get to the stadiurh
Stenholm's Funday
will be Saturday
Cong. Charles .Stenholm of
Stamford and his wife, Cindy,
will be honored at the Sixth An-
nual Funday on the Ericksdahl
picnic grounds Saturday.
Funday is a yearly event
sponsored by “Friends of
Charlie.’’ Stenholm is unop-
posed this fall in his bid for re-
election as the U.S. Represen-
tative from the 17th District.
The annual Texas-style picnic
will begin at 5 p.m. at the picnic
grounds of Bethel Lutheran
Church, just a few miles away
from the Stenholm farm.
Some of the congressman’s
colleagues are planning to at-
tend this year’s Funday. Sched-
uled to attend the event are
Cong. Ed Jones, D-Tennessee,
Cong. Beverly Byron, D-Mary-
land, and Cong. Bill Chappell,
D-Florida.
These members of congress
will be present throughout the
evening. They come from dis-
trict’s in their states that are
comparable to the 17th District
in Texas.
“This will be a good oppor-
tunity for people to visit with
them (the representatives) and
have a part in extending our
Texas hospitality,” said Don
Starr, campaign manager.
Cong. Jones is the senior
Democrat in the Tennessee
delegation. He is a member of
the House Agriculture Commit-
tee and chairman of the Sub-
committee on Conservation,
Credit and Rural Development
His subcommittee has jurisdic-
tion over USDA credit pro-
grams, water and soil conser-
vation programs, the Farm
Credit Administration and the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
A lifelong farmer, Jones is
the fourth senior majority
member of the Agriculture
Committee. Local farmers will,
have a chance to meet with
Jones at the special Ag meeting
in Stamford at 2 p.m. Saturday.
Congresswoman Beverly By-
ron serves on the HouseArmed
Services Committee and is
chairwoman of the House Panel
on Arms Control and Disarma-
ment. A third-term member,
she is also a member of the
Congressional Task Force on
Small Business
Cong. Chappell serves as a
senior member of both the Ap-
propriations Committee and
the Military Construction Sub-
committee. He is also the rank-
ing majority member of the
Defense Subcommittee.
Funday annually draws some
of the leading Democrats in the
area, state and nation. Last
year, Stenholm’s Funday at
traded Texas Sen. Lloyd Bent-
sen, who was considered a
Democratic vice-presidential
candidate for a while.
Tickets for the festivities are
$10 per person. The Funday
menu will include fried chicken
and barbecued beef with all the *
trimmings Iced watermelons
will be served for dessert
For more information about
Funday call 773-5521 The event
should be over by sunset
Newsbriefs
Football tickets to be sold at Eastland
General admission tickets for the Stamford-Eastland foot-
ball game will be sold only at the gate of Maverick Stadium in
Eastland tomorrow night
All tickets will be general admission and will be $3 per per
son Student tickets may be purchased here for $2 at the
School Tax Office until 4 p.m Friday.
Tech exes plan bus trip to Lubbock
The newly chartered area chapter of the Texas Tech Ex-
Students Assocation is planning a trip to Lubbock for a Red
Raider football game
A chapter for the counties of Jones. Haskell. Knox and
Throckmorton was formed this summer with 33 charter
members The group is planning to charter a bus to Lubbock
for either the Tech-Baylor game on Sept 29 or the Tech Tulsa’
game on Oct 27.
All Tech exes or Raider fans are invited to the trip For
more information about the trip or the club, contact Chino
Chapa in Stamford at 773-3621 or Bailey Toliver in Haskell.
Box 497. 79521
Brownies, Scouts to register Tuesday
All girls or mothers interested in joining the Brownies and •
Girl Scouts can register from 4:30pmto5:30pm Tuesday
The registration, which will be $3 per girl, will be at the
Chamber of Commerce Office on the east side of the square
For more information, or if anyone is willing to help the Girl
Scouts, contact Pam Martini at 773-2411 before 7 p m or
Margaret Barnett at 823-3728 after 7 p.m
Booster Clubs to meet next week
Both high school Booster Clubs will.meet next week
The Band Boosters will meet at 7 p.m Monday at the band
hall On the agenda is the election of a secretary and the
finalization of plans for the upcoming pre-game supper
The Athletic Boosters will meet at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the
high school cafeteria The varsity boys and their parents are
scheduled to attend the meeting.
Bulldog football pages debut In Issue
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and sponsored by supporting local merchants and
businesses For a look at this week's Bulldogs turn to pages 6
and 7.
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