De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1984 Page: 7 of 12
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TEXAS AMERICAN LEGION.........Seventeenth
District Commander 0. Burl Lutz of De Leon (right)
shakes hands with National Commander Keith Kreul
March 31 in Austin, where Kreul, who just returned from
a Central American tour, spoke in favor of aid to war-
torn El Salvador before the Texas Legion’s executive
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De Leon Free Press, De Leon, Texas 76444
“Already, at least eight
Texas counties are in
various stages of forming
Ag Development
corporations, and officials
in another seven or eight
counties are interested in
establishing them. A new
seafood processing plant
along the Gulf Coast...a
cheese manufacturing ______
plant in the dairy country television
around Sulphur Springs , a politicians.
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beef processing plant in Dear Editor:
Texas...and a I guess the two least used minutes I
a politician’s about answers were never
he’s going to come out yes or no,
are so to while away the time I
started counting the
number of times he said
" T’ and “ah.’' In three
minutes I counted 14.
You see, the use of “uhs”
and “ahs” gives hirr time
Gives Hints For Politicians
On Television
Note: The way on earth a reporter
Creek can phrase a question a
Editor’s
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Philosopher on his Johnson politician will a newer with
Grass Fann on Route t a flat-out yes or no.
comes np with an Idea for a j was listening to a
for politician oeing
interviewed the other
evening. After a few
his round-
in
vocabulary when
being interviewed
“yes” and “no.”
^Apparently there's
bringing real decentralized “uh’
economic gains to all the
people of Texas at the
the pockets of fanners and grassr<*’tfi level
ranchers.. We’ll be
creating new jobs and |
LOG HOME |
CONSIDERATIONS d
Log homes can provide F
long, trouble-free, ■
economical service if
certain precautions are
taken. For energy
efficiency, logs should be at I
least 9 inches thick and 1
should be machined on I
three sides for tighter I
joints. Logs also should be N
dry before building and
should be protected during
seasoning and storage. "
After debarking, logs
should be dipped in a
preservative chemical and A
should be pressure
preservative treated after •
shaping and cutting to size.
Walls and floors made with
untreated wood must be
protected from moisture
and soil. Exterior logs
should not be painted or
varnished.
Central Texas...and a
potato chip plant in the words
Panhandle would
collectively be worth
hundreds of millions of
dollars in new business for
Texfi.
"We can initiate each of
those with Ag Bonds. We’ll
be putting more money into
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whether
candidates,
members,
presidential
cabinet
congressmen, senators, or
governors, are limited
strictly to yes or no
answers’ The moment one
tries to filibuster, turn his
microphone off. Maybe he
could be allowed an “Uh,
yes” or an “Uh, no” but
anything beyond that,
silence him.
I believe the public would
go for such a program. The
only trouble is, would any
candidate show up?
Uh, I doubt it.
Yours faithfully,
to think what his answer
ought to be. He’s
struggling to figure out not
what he thinks he thinks,
but what he thinks will
please the most and offend
the least. For example, the
answer to “Do you favor
.school busing?” would be,
“Uh, I favor uh whatever
will uh give a quality
education to uh all
children ”
I got to thinking. Why
doesn’t a TV network
arrange a public interest
broadcast where all the
participants.
Authored by state Sen.
and
by
Texas
delegation
members
own
I’m
food
businesses
generate I
was
1983
help
and
Act
the
to
farmers
AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER
URGB_CONGRESS TO EXEMPT TEXAS AG
Our producers are left with
only 28 cents of that
consumer dollar. It doesn’t
take a financial genius to
figure out that Texas is
getting the smallest slice of
the pie.”
Under the new Ag Bond
Program, county
commissioners courts may
charter non-profit
agricultural development
corporations. The
corporations may, in turn,
issue tax-exempt revenue
bonds to finance marketing
and processing facilities
which are at least 50
percent owned by farmers
and ranchers.
“This will offer Texas
producers the financial
opportunity to move into
more profitable marketing
and processing stage,”
Hightower said. “It will
bring the value-added
money back to Texas...if
we don’t allow the program
to die before it really gets
going.”
Texas agriculture
generates nearly $10 billion
a year in direct farm sales.
Add on shipping, the little
processing we do in the
state and retailing, and the
i total food economy in
Texas generates some $37
billion in annual sales and
employes one out of every
’ five workers.
CLAY GOLDEN won
first place in the 12 to 18
months category of
Springtime Parade of Kids
March 31 in Stephenville.
His parents are Jackie and
Patty Golden.
Grandparents are Mr. and
Mrs. Bob Koonce of Clyde
and Mr. and Mrs. Sebom
+ Golden. Great
grandparents are Mrs.
Lorine Koonce and Mr. and
Mrs. Harvey Johnson and
Mrs. Carrie Frazier of
Gorman.
tax-exempt financial
mechanism. But, in their
eagerness to limit this
program, i
policymakers are
proposing restrictions so
tight they would choke the that the Texas economy is
opportunity in Texas to losing the value-added
death. money that consumers
• “Our new Agricultural spend for food and fiber.
Developement Bond Seventy-two percent of the
Program is a sensible, consumer dollar goes for
inexpensive means of the blue denim, the frozen
allowing fasrmers to help onion rings and the
themselves, but it also has hamburger, processed and
the clear public purpose of marketed from the raw
helping lead a true agricultural products
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Commissioner Jim recovery in our state
Hightower is urging because of the jobs and the
members of Congress to new wealth that would be
refrain from “nipping in created by the addional
the bud the flowering of food processing businesses,
new food processing We talk about when the oil
that would and gas industry might
hundreds of return economic prosperity
millions of dollars in the to Texas. We contemplate
new economic activity for prosperity as more and
the state. more computer companies
Hightower says Congress settle in Texas. Nobody
is largely unaware of the would suggest passing
state s new and unique legislation to stifle their
Agricultural Development economic future. Well, the
Bond Program, passed by truth of the matter is that
the 1983 Texas Legislature, our Ag Bond Program has
Legislation backed by the potential of matching
the Regan Administration both of those in stimulating
is pending before Congress, new economic growth. It
That legislation (HR4170) holds such promise that
would severely cut back on several other states are
the use of Industrial monitoring its success and
Development Bonds to modeling their
finance local projects, such programs on ours.
as that envisioned under asking for Congress to give
the Ag Bond program. this program a chance to
Hightower recently met flower.”
with the members of the
Congressional Ted Lyon of Rockwall and
other state Rep. Bruce Gibson of
of Congress, Godley, the Agriculture
urging an amendment to Development
the pending legislation that passed
would exempt Ag Bonds Legislature
from the bill individual
“Some of the abuses of cooperatives build their
IDB’s truly have been own processing and
scandalous,” Hightower marketing facilities,
said, “so I certainly Hightower explained,
appreciate the necessity of “We are a major
closing loopholes and producer of raw
tightening controls on this agricultural products. We
grow cotton, onions and
livestock like no other state
can. But the vast majority
Washington of the marketirtg and
processing is done by out-
of-state firms. This means
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Appearances
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Louisiana Hayride- Shreveport, Louisiana
Friendship Force- Cuest Performer. Tokyo, Japan
Also Appearing
* Wes Westmoreland *
Stephenvile * National Fiddle Championship Age 16
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A Special Entertainer For The Special People
Who Are The Customers And The Friends Of
The F&M Bank
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* Tammy Henson *
Daughter of Mr. A Mrs. Troy Morris
* DafnaBane *
Brownwood > Formerly With Kalico - Now With Stephenville Opry
La Don
Restaurant
Hwy 6 West.
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Full Service
Restaurant
BAR-B-QUf WITH AU THi TRIMMINGS
Fish Buffet - S - 0 P.M. Friday*
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OUR THANKS TO ALL THOSE WHO HELPED US REOPEN: TO
CLAYTON FOR ALL HIS EFFORTS, TO RONALD-ESPECIALLY FOR
THE ROCK WALL, AND A VERY SPECIAL THANK YOU TO JAN AND
JERRY FOR THE LONG, HARD HOURS SPENT REMODELING -
YOU’RE GREAT!
Buffet Lunch 11 A.M. - 2 P.M.
Salar Bar Open 11 A.M. - 0:30 P.M.
BRCAKF AST ORDSRS PRSPARKD ANY HOUR.
Steak - Seafood - Sandwiches
Phone M3-21M
For Orders To Go
WK HAVE COMPLETED REMODELING
(ALMOST) AND ARE NOW OPEN.
Hours 5 A.M.- 9:30 P.M.
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Wilkerson, Gayle E. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 12, 1984, newspaper, April 12, 1984; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1247686/m1/7/?q=waco+tornado: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.