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By Ace Reid
COW POKES
STAMFORD AMERICAN
September 6, 1984
Drought may spring water plan
name officers for 74-75
by Chino Chapa
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Bulldogs to open with Quanah team
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By LYNDELL WILLIAMS
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dis-
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Highway Landscaping
The State Highway and
Public Transportation Com-
mission has set aside $1.5 mil-
lion for the first year of a land-
scape development and reha-
bilitation program to enhance
highway right-of-ways across
the state.
or .tending of any firm, individual or corporation will be gladly corrected
i^on being called to the attention of the publisher
Taken from the files of the
Stamford American,
September 3, 1964.
Football, Stamford style,
will be unreeled for inspection
of fans Friday night when the
Bulldogs play the season
opener with Quanah, a team
coached by Keith Miles, a
former Bulldog.
The game will be played in
Quanah, starting at 8 o’clock.
Coach Larry Wartes, head
mentor at Stamford, and his
co-workers have been working
hard on a rebuilding program
which has but nine returning
lettermen as a nucleus. Com-
petition for the other posts has
been keen.
In a pre-season scrimmage
with Albany, the Bulldogs
looked good, scoring three
touchdowns to the one for the
Lions. On the other hand,
similar reports come from
Quanah The Indians had pret-
ty much their own way in a
scrimmage with Burkburnett.
According to the Quanah
Association, has transferred
to the Stamford office and has
assumed the duties of loan
representative here Sept. 3.
Craig joined the association
Jan. 2, 1974.
He attended Spur High
School and is a graduate of
Texas Tech University with a
Bachelor of Science degree in
animal production.
Craig and his wife, Christi,
have one daughter, Cathi, two
months old. The Blackwells
reside at 1101 Texas Street.
The Stamford Historical
Society will meet at the Lions
Building Monday, Sept 9, at 7
p.m. Regular meeting date of
the group has been changed to
the second Monday in each
month.
The program will deal with
outstanding or unusual women
or men who are a part of
Stamford heritage and other
topics in local history.
The Stamford Bulldogs will
open their 1974 football season
at 8 p.m. Friday in Bulldog
Stadium against a strong
Breckenridge Buckaroos
Tribune-Chief, Coach Miles, in
his first season at Quanah, will
field a small but fast and ag-
gressive team this year, with
a 24 member varsity squad.
The Indians have a fast ball
carrier in John Holmes who
although weighing but 118
pounds, can run the 100 in 10
flat and has done even better.
Coach Wartes said Tuesday
that starting lineup had not
been selected for the Bulldogs
but he listed the following as
those likely to play:
Quarterbacks, Rusty Kelley
and Ronnie Jones; fullbacks,
Danny Cook and Keith
Kainer; tailbacks, Ronnie
Jenkins and Harrison Cole;
wingbacks, Jimmy Doan and
Bob Isbell; centers, Buddy
Box and George Smith; defen-
sive safety, Max Jones;
guards, Raymond Gomez and
Eddie Jenkins; tackles,
Roland Acosta, Johnny
Massey and B’.J. Barnett;
ends, Marc Loworn and Dan
Taylor.
squad.
Stamford Head Coach Bill
Anderson said that the
Buckaroos are led by Billy
Robinson, a 226-pound bullish
fullback who operates up the
middle out of a wishbone at-
tack. Stamford’s success in
the game will depend heavily
on stopping Robinson, Ander-
son said.
Breckenridge is rated just
behind a powerful Cisco team
in District 9-AA, and Anderson
called the 1974 Buckaroo
squad “their best in the last 10
years." •'
Nada Shoujah came to
Texas and discovered she
likes horses and horseback
riding.
The 17-year-old Lebanese
girl is in Stamford visiting
relatives and will return to her
native land next Sunday with
seven weeks of pleasant
memories.
Nada, whose father is cousin
to Fareed Hassen, local
businessman, is visiting the
Hassens and other relatives as
part of her graduation gift
Dorothy Craig
Chino Chapa..
Publisher
... .Editor
STAMFORD
AMERICAN
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Ba"eries—Wash and Lub
Vehicle Inspection *
The sun is three million
miles closer to the earth dur-
ing our winter than in our
summer.'
Taken from the files of
the Stamford American,
September 5, 1974.
Officers have been elected
for the 1974-75 school year for
the various classes at Stam-
ford High School.
Kyle Childress was named
senior class president. Other
senior class officers are Mary
Crockett, vice president;
Brenda Bragg, secretary, and
Marinell Hargrove, treasurer.
Junior class president is
Jana Spitzer. Other officers
are Ellen Petty, vice presi-
dent, and Lisa Osment, Secre-
tary-treasurer.
Gay Lynn is sophomore
class president and Martha
Humphrey is vice president.
Shelly David is sophomore
class secretary-treasurer.
Heading the freshman class
is Libbie Grantham. Susan
Hargrove is vice president
and Judy Reed is secretary-
treasurer.
Craig Blackwell,' former
Igan representative in the
front wheel. In addition,
pedals should not touch the
ground when the bicycle is
tilted at least 25 degrees. This
is to prevent the pedal from
striking the ground and caus-
ing a spill.
Chain guards are so impor-
tant that there are federal
regulations requiring them on
bicycles having single front
and rear sprockets. “Never
remove a chain guard, be-
cause shoe laces or a loose
pants leg might get caught be-
tween the chain and sprocket
and cause a serious accident,”
Sowards said.
Don’t forget about bicycle
safety either, he warned. A
bicycle should be visible from
every angle at night. It should
have a front reflector, rear
reflector, and pedal and spoke
reflectors.
Sowards added that, since
many children will be riding
their bicycles in heavy traffic
to school lor the first time this
fall, now is an excellent time
for parents to go with them
and work out the best path to
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While educators were pre-
occupied with Butler’s resig-
nation, U.S. Senate hopefuls
Lloyd 1 Doggett and Phil
Gramm were exchanging
barbs over which one was
more steadfast i aS support
of right-to-work laws.
It all started last week when
Gramm, speaking to a group
of county officials, accused
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plans to concentrate on urban
projects in Dallas, Houston,
Fort Worth, San Antonio,
Amarillo and Austin during
the first year of the project,
which will provide vegetation
to enhance aesthetics of high-
traffic areas such as freeway
interchanges and interstate
loops.
Landscapers will t use a
minimum of 60 percent native
plants for the project—a
movement away from the
standard irrigation systems—
to reduce mowing and water-
ing expeneses.
After the initial planting
year, landscapers will main-
tain and evaluate the program
for two additional years
before possibly extending the
new method to lesser-popu-
lated areas.
Published every Thursday at the Stamford American office at IM E
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The first public zoo in the
U.S. was the Philadelphia
Zoological Gardens, Phila-
delphia, Pa., which opened in
1874.
Reserve seat tickets for the
game are in limited supply.
O.M. Isbell, high school prin-
cipal, said Wednesday that he
had but 30 left and had ex-
pected to sell out before Fri-
day.
The Bulldog band, with
many new members, will
make its first appearance of
the year as will also the drill
team, twirlers and cheerlead-
ers.
Ground breaking for the
new Central Presbyterian
Church building has been set
for Sunday, Sept. 13, it was
decided by the building com-
mittee following approval
the congregation on plans
date.
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areas and from the coastal cities.
He said the bill failed because of con-
troversies over the control of the slate’s
rivers and because it had a clause that
would have helped farmers buy water-
saving irrigation equipment. Although the
water plan failed, it came close to being
passed, and that is as close as any water
plan has come. So Montford believes a
workable compromise is near and that
some water legislation can be passed dur-
ing the 69th legislative session next year.
Montford also had some other in-
teresting things to say. In his study of the
water situation, he found that 70 percent of
the water used in Texas is used in agricul-
ture. However, contrary to popular belief,
most of that water is not used by cotton
farmers to irrigate. The most water, the
far majority of all water used in ag, is used
by the rice farmers along the coast, where
their representatives voted against the
water plan.
The state senator made one more obser-
vation worth noting. He said that West
Texas has to start looking to the future.
And that means finding a new crop, or at
least alternating use of the land.
Cotton has been the staple. But it no
longer makes sense to grow cotton year
after year. Continuous planting ruins the
ground’? nutrients. And the cotton market
no longer makes cotton “king.” Montford
said it’s going to be hard for farmers to
break away, but they have to start looking
at growing potatoes, grapes and other
crops if we’re going to preserve the land
and the farming industry.
General
Welding
Works
ing from metal to plastic uten-
sils in prison dining halls,
thereby cutting off at least one
source of materials that in-
mates can fashion weapons
out of.
They also are hoping to get
metal detectors installed
quickly and keep a special - Spur office of the Rolling
27-member task force of cor-
rections officers busy search-
ing for hidden weapons
The effects of this year’s drought may
produce something good for the future of
this state. While the drought has been
tough on the agriculture economy, it has
also affected other areas that never before
were concerned with the use or conserva-
tion of water.
For years West Texas politicians have
gone to Austin with a call for a water plan
for the entire state. For years the rest of
the state has turned a deaf ear. But this
year, they’re listening.
Rain has been scarce in Texas this year.
Many cities, even the ones located along
the Texas coastline and our own Capital,
have had to impose water rationing pro-
cedures. The drought has made them pain-
fully aware of what it feels like to be low on
water If anything good can come from
this year’s dry weather, it will
statewide concensus for the need
water plan.
Luckily for West Texas, we(
vendetta, and the Legislature
went along, voting to replace
the existing 27-member elect-
ed board with a 15-member
appointed board.
Reaction to Butler’s resig-
nation was mixed, with his
supporters saying Butler had
been made the “scapegoat”
for the Legislature’s own fail-
ings to adequately fund public
education.
Butler's detractors, howev-
er, said his resignation did not
come soon enough.
A gruff, imposing man, But-
ler was perceived by many as
an iron-fisted ruler of the
board.
His resignation followed
criticisms that the current
board was attempting to ham-
per implementation of the re-
forms and that the Texas
Education Agency was
couraging local school
tricts to circumvent
changes where possible.
Butler will be replaced by
the current vice chairman,
Paul Mathews of Greenville.
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Doggett of voting against the
Texas right-to-work law on
several occasions.
Doggett, who spoke to the
same group only minutes
later, said Gramm was “flat
wrong,” and challenged the
Republican congressman to
find an instance in which he
had voted against the right-to-
work law.
Gramm obliged by having a
campaign aide cite several
votes in which the Austin state
senator had voted against
right-to-work provisions in the
Texas Legislature and in the
1974 constitutional convention.
While Doggett said those
votes were on bills that
needlessly duplicated present
law or proposed constitutional
provisions that would simply The highway department
have cluttered up a document
lawmakers were trying to
unclutter, Gramm accused
Doggett of attempting to “run
away from his record.”
However, Doggett later got
in his own shots at Gramm by
labeling the College Station
Republican a “far-right ex-
tremist" who had opposed
funding for the space pro-
gram, revenue sharing for
cities and other programs that
had benefited Texas.
STAMFORD AMERICAN
i USES 517-3*01
AUSTIN — An era in Texas
public education ended this
week when State Board of
Education Chairman Joe Kel-
ly Butler announced he would
resign from that post effective
Friday.
Butler, a Houston business-
man who had chaired the
board for nearly a decade,
said in his resignation letter
that he was stepping down
now so the newly created Leg-
islative Education Board
could have a free hand to im-
plement the education re-
forms passed this summer by
a special session of the Legis-
lature.
“I am convinced that the
responsibility for the policy
and planning functions of the
Texas Education Agency
shofld lie with the Legislative
Education Board until such
time as the appointed board is
installed," Butler said in the
letter.
Butler was a very contro-
versial figure during the de-
bate on the education reforms
He and the board, rightly or
wrongly, took much of the
heat for the crisis that many
people believed existed in Tex-
as schools.
Dallas billionaire H. Ross
Perot, who headed the Select
Committee on Public Educa-
tion, made abolishing the
elected board a personal
Luckily for West Texas, we( have
another up and coming representative
who is looking out for the interests of this
region. John Montford, a state senator
from Lubbock, is holding his ground in
Austin. Montford’s endeavors have been
so earnest for this area, that people in
Austin have labeled him “that nut who
thinks West Texas is a separate state.”
They say Montford is like that because
he encourages people in West Texas to
stick together. At a press meeting last
month, he had some key things to say.
Montford introduced a water bill to the
Texas Legislature, but it was defeated by
the votes from the larger metropolitan
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Prison Violence
Violence in Texas prisons
continued last week with four
inmates stabbed—two fatally
That brings total stabbings
in Texas Department of Cor-
rections units in August to 39
Prison officials said they
hope to cut violence by switch-
Correct bike size Important to safety
Buying the right bicycle so
that it fits the rider correctly
is an important step that could
prevent many of the bicycle
accidents that occur in Texas
each year.
Last year 50 persons were
killed and 3,085 injured in
bicycle accidents reported to
the Texas Department of Pub-
lic Safety.
“Many parents purchase
bicycles that are too large for
their children, hoping they
will grow into them,” said Dan
Sowards, Chief of the Hazard-
ous Products Branch with the
Texas Department of Health.
“This is a dangerous practice
because the child may not be
able to handle the bike.”
He said a rider should be
able to straddle a bicycle with
both feet flat on the ground,
while leaving no less than one
inch between the crotch and
the bike frame's top tube
There should be at least
three and one half inches of
clearance between the pedal
and the front fender or tire to
prevent a toe from getting
caught between the frame and
8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Monday • Friday
CLOSED SATURDAYS
c Except 2nd Saturday
Each Month
J.A. likens |
conventions to
pep rallies
Editor's note; The Old
Philosopher on his Johnson
grass farm on Paint Creek I
reports on the Republican con-
vention this week, more or
less.
Dear editor:
Luckily it happens just once
every four years, but watch-
ing a political convention is an
experience hard to describein
any form anybody who didn’t
see it can understand.
It’s sort of like a disorgan-
ized high school pep rally with
nobody directing the cheers.
At the Republican conven-
tion, every time a speaker
mounted the rostrum and
prepared to unleash his
oratory, delegates would
begin yelling and stomping.
Sometimes they held him up
for 10 or 15 minutes. I got the
impression they didn't want to
hear what he had to say. Then
when they saw they couldn’t
head him off and were in for it,
they quieted down. But let him
pause at the end of a sentence,
even to just take a sip of
water, and the yelling bursted
out again.
If you want a convention to
run on time, don’t allow your
speakers to pause between
sentences. Delegates don’t
pay any attention to what a
speaker’s saying, but if he
pauses they think he’s said
something worth yelling
about.
I was completely bumfuz-
zled during the acceptance
speech of Mr. Reagan.
There are some mighty
thirsty delegates here, I said
to myself, because at every
few sentences he spoke they
interrupted and began yelling
“Four more beers!”
It was explained to me they
were saying "Four more
years.”
Some pundits say political
conventions are now out of
date and unnecessary, that the
platforms and the nomina-
tions are like some hay I’ve
got here on the ground—al-
ready cut and dried, that all a
convention does is bale it,
regardless of the protein con-
tent.
Nonetheless, there are
politicians already laying
plans for the convention four
years from now, and cities
angling for the job of hosting
it.
Incidentally, one of the in-
teresting things about the Re-
publican convention in Dallas
was the security fence erected
around the convention hall to
keep the protesters out and the
delegates in. There was some
concern at first over whether
it was strong enough. I could
have relieved them of that
worry easily. You see, I’ve got
a cow out here on my place
that’s the world champion
fence-breaker. She doesn’t
pay any more attention to a
fence than a politician does to
a promise. I could have
shipped her to Dallas and had
her turned loose inside that
fence. If she couldn't break
through, they’d have Jcnown
that fence was strong enough.
I wouldn’t have charged much
for the loan of her.
Yours faithfully,
J.A.
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Chapa, Chino. Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 6, 1984, newspaper, September 6, 1984; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1215791/m1/4/?q=mission+rosario: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.