De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1990 Page: 2 of 8
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Walter W. Dawkins
God saw he was getting tired
And a cure was not to be.
So he put his arms around him
And whispered “come with Me.”
With tearful eyes we watched him
Suffer and saw him fade away.
Although we love him dearly,
we could not make him stay.
A golden heart has stopped beating
Hard working hand to rest.
God broke our hearts, to prove to us
offsets the usual heating effect of
descending air. The rain shafts
were seen on the Fort Worth radar
until near midnight, and then they
disappeared.
It may be the downward thrust of
air continued even after the rain
ended. In so doing, it would heat at
the rate of 5.5 degrees F for every
1,000 feet of fall.
The downward force of this air
from the old, dried-up thunderstorm
must have been fierce, for heated air
tends to rise, not fall. The bases of
the thunderstorms that night were
8,000 to 10,000 feet above the ground.
If the air temperature in the
dissipating cloud at a height of 20,000
feet was 20 to 25 degrees F, then the
falling air would be heated by
compression another 100 degrees by
the time it reached the ground and
this, added to the initial
temperature, would be close to the
140 degrees observed on the
thermometer at the bait shop.
Except for the film story on file at
the television station in Fort Worth,
there is no other record of the most
unusual Texas storm.”
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Editor - Gayle E. Wilkerson
Managing Editor - Cindy Beaty
Assistant Editor - Glenda Wilkerson
Staff Photographer - Ronald Wilkerson
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Gonzales, Lois Loudermilk, Bessie
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Lewis, female Lewis, T. A. Nowlin,
Gladalupe Reyne, Wayne Williams
June 7- Lewis Perales, Wilbur
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No. 150080) is published weekly every Thursday at 304 South Texas, De l^eon,
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De Leon, Texas 76444-0320.
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1 few burnt stalks
i fields in the area,
B sun went down on
scorched and wilted
at sunup Wednesday.
No one knows for sure how it was,
i but the thermometer outside the
Charley Riddle Bait and Tackle
: Shop in Kopperl jumped from near
70 degrees about midnight to 100
degrees in just a few minutes and
the highest was 140 degrees. There
June 8- Christine Lewis, inf.
female Lewis, Jack Boyd, Tommy
Edith
Dickie, Ella Alldredge, Una Clamon,
Rosa Bennett, Arra Nelson, Freida
Keim, A. E. Kineyard
June 9- Derwin Isham, Connie
Ratliff
Friday, June 15- Barbecue on bun,
pinto beans, carrot/raisin salad
w/cabbage & mayonnaise, oatmeal
cookie, milk, bread, butter
Monday, June 18- Oven fried fish,
creairfpk*role slaw, baked beans,
pineapple upside down cake,
cornmeal yeast rolls, tartar sauce,
butter, milk
Tuesday, June 19- Covered dish
Wednesday, June 20- Beef
w/spaghetti, peas & carrots, plain
tossed salad w/French dressing,
jello w/topping, peanut butter
cookies, milk, bread, butter
was nothing wrong with the
thermometer; it was working all
right the next day and, if anything,
was reading a little low.
The event would have gone
undocumented except for veteran
cameraman Floyd Bright who,
hearing of the incident the next
morning, recorded it on film.
Several attempts have been made
to explain the phenomenon, but this
probably is what happened.
Scattered thunderstorms had earlier
been detected in the area by Fort
Worth radar, but they disappeared
off the scope shortly before
midnight. The weather observations
at Waco showed a high overcast,
light southwest winds and a
temperature at midnight at 87
degrees. There had been a trace of
rain from earlier thunderstorms.
Characteristic of all thunder-
storms is the rain shaft falling from
the center or forward portion of the
storm, bringing cooler rain and air
from the cold temperatures of the
higher portions of the cloud. This
cold rush of air and rain evaporating
moisture into the air as it descends,
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Applicants may qualify for loans
covering 80 percent of production
loss of 30 percent of actual physical
loss but not to excedd $500,000.
Loans are at 4.5 percent interest and
must be secured. The term
normally is seven years but may
vary depending on the type of loan.
“As a rule, loss of production
should be 30 percent or more the
eligibility,” Johnson said,
Graduates
To Attend
Ranger
Junior
College
Six De Leon High School
graduates have signed letters of
intent with Ranger Junior College to
attend school there on band
scholarships, beginning in the fall
semester.
Jennifer Sanders, Julie Nowlin,
Rebecca Schwesig, Kevin Witte,
Sharon Fleming, and Denise
Wilcoxson have all indicated they
plan to attend RJC next semester.
Sanders, the daughter of Wayne
and Clara Sanders of De Leon, plays
clairnet and plans to pursue a career
in business and computers.
Nowlin, the daughter of Larry
and Karleece Nowlin, is a seven-
year student of the clarinet.
Schwesig, the daughter of Patsy
Schwesig, is also a seven-year
clarinet student
Witte, son of Audrey McBride of
Dublin, is a five-year student of the
trombone. While at De Leon High
School, he played second chair
trombone and was a member of the
Stage Band. He hopes to pursue a
career in criminal justice.
Fleming, the daughter of Gayion
and Debbie Fleming, is a six-year
student of the alto saxophone, which
she played first chair while at De
Leon High
Wilcoxson, the daughter of Jessie
and the late Brooks Wilcoxson, is a
seven-year student of the flute. She
also plays French horn. She served
on the De Leon High Flag Corp
through her high school career and
plans to study business upon
entering college.
“Afi six of these students are fine
young adults who will no doubt prove
• to be valuable assets for Ranger
Junior College and its band
program,” said RJC Band Director
Bob Johnson. "We’re making a
concerted effort to expand and
Improve our band at RJC and by
recruiting students of this caliber,
we tool confident that we can do just
that”
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Admitted Franklin, Lois Whatley, Elsie
June 4- Tommye Haile, Walter Surface, Ethel Leeper, Guadalupe
Mazurek, Derwin Isham, Allene Reyna
Garrett, Freida Keim
June 5- Carmen Stapp, Carolyn
supervisor if they have production
or physical losses and are unable to
obtain credit elsewhere.
FmHA disaster emergency loans
may be used to restore or replace
damaged property, cover
production losses and deliquent debt
installments, help with family living
expenses, repair or replace essential
buildings and machinery and
refinance debt.
Discharged
Junen 4- Freida Keim, Tina Coan,
Wilkerson, Eula Goates, Cipriano female Coan, Cynthia Hemmen,
female Hemmen, Mozelle Rhymes,
Juanita Henderson
June 5- Eula Goates, Walter
Mazurek, Allene Garrett
June 6- Jack Wyatt
June 7- Rosa Rodriquez Perez,
Kim Gonzales, infant Gonzales,
Tony Gauna, Guadalupe Reyna,
Simmons, Thelma Dipon, Connie Wayne Williams, T. A. Nowlin
Ratliff, Stella Rider, R. V. Singleton,
Betty Andoblo
June 8- Myrtle Cummings, Mae Haile, Cipriano Sapien,
Quinn, Mollie Echols
June 9- Francisco Rodriquez, Lee
Roy Moorehead, Ed Glover
June 10- Roy Kinser, Mollie
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De Leon Free Press, De Leon, Texas 76444
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TOWN TALK
L. Downey’s took refuge In their
storm cellar, which soon was filled
with neighbors seeking shelter from
this unusual and frightening storm.
The heat and searing wind were
stifling. Moithers wrapped their
crying babies in wet sheets and
towels to prftect them from the
intense heat. Fire sprinkler systems
were set off, car radiators boiled
over and panic-stricken women
were crying, thinking the end of the
world had come.
The cotton field of rancher Pete
Burns was scorched by the hot wind.
It was an average stand of cotton
which he had plowed on Tuesday.
The wind and the heat carbonized it,
leaving only
standing. Coi
green when tl
Tuesday, weri
‘However, farmers with losses
should check with the FmHA county
supervisor for a determination.”
ASCS Texas State Executive
Director Terry Harman said ASCS
has a number of programs to help
farmers and ranchers in the event of
a natural disaster.
The Emergency Conservation
Program allows ASCS to share in the
cost of rehabilitating farmland,
including reshaping for erosion
control, debris removal, fence
repair and restoring structures.
Ranchers may be allowed to graze
livestock or cut hay on ASCS
cropland and purchase necessary
grain at 50 percent of the posted
county price.
Under the Emergency Feed
Program, ASCS may pay half the
cost of replacement feed for
livestock owners who lost 40 percent
of their feed crop as a result of the
disaster.
Harman said eligibility for
assistance programs is determined
on an individual basis by ASCS
county committees and that
producers should contact ASCS
offices in their counties.
Twenty-eight of the 54 disaster-
declared counties have been listed
as eligible for Public Assistance.
Cities, counties, state and some non-
profit agencies in those counties can
now apply for federal funds to assist
in repair or replacement of public
facilities such as roads, bridges and
public buildings.
The counties receiving Public
Assistance are: Archer, Brown,
Callahan, Cass, Clay, Comanche,
Cooke, Denton, Eastland, Erath,
Freestone, Hamilton, Houston,
Jack, Kaufman, Leon, Mills,
Montague, Navarro, Palo Pinto,
Parker, Red River, Shackelford,
Throckmorton, Walker, Wichita,
Wise and Young.
The last day for applications for
three major programs-Temporary
Housing, Individual and Family
Grants, and Small Business
Administration loans-is July 1,1990.
Deadline for farm programs will be
announced at a later date.
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Wilkerson, Gayle E. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 14, 1990, newspaper, June 14, 1990; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1247873/m1/2/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Comanche Public Library.