Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 10, 1983 Page: 4 of 23
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Editor's
Philosopher
note The Old
on his Johnson
grass farm on Paint Creek
tackles a minor problem this
week
Dear editor:
When there are mammoth
problems facing a country,
problems nobody has the
answer to, you might as well
take time out and think about
a little problem
Consequently, 1 have prac
tically nothing to say about
Lebanon, except that it seems
to be the wrong country to
■send a peace keeping force of
1,200 to, where there are nine
different fanatical factions ,
shooting at each other, an in-
herited trait I suppose
because it’s been going on for
a couple of thousand years.
Switzerland would have been
a better place to send a peace-
keeping force. That country
hasn’t had a war in 100 years.
I have no answers to that
problem and don't know
anybody who does, therefore I
will concentrate on profes-
sional football.
1i
PIONEERS ON PARADE—10 years ago
Three Stamford
hurt in Dallas
men
State Capitol Highlights—
PIONEERS ON PARADE—20 years ago
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
!
a lawsuit to force the U.S
secretary of agriculture to
release surplus grain for a
27-county area in West Texas
called off state auditors after
the corrections board chair-
man told him the board does
Prison Audit
The $300 million prison con
Hance of Lubbock
Doggett has made few visi
ing interiors of commercial
buildings about two weeks
ago This program has been
carried on by the fire depart-
was released from the hospital
within hours
riie Stamford High School
FT’A held its first meeting Oct
Tech University after gradua-
tion, and he is the 10th Paint
Edwin Livengood, senior in
Paint Creek High School, has
been named as the winner of
the 1963 DeKalb Agricultural
The nation's first presiden-
tial mansion was at number
one Cherry Street in New York
City. The city served as the
U.S. capital from 1789 to 1790
Senate Have
With primary campaigns
By LYNDELl WILLIAMS
Texas Press Association
A Wyoming economist
estimates acid rain is costing
approximately $5 billion a
year in damage to forests,
soil, crops, buildings, fish and
That’s my brother-in-law. He came here six
months ago with $10 and a shirt and he ain’t
changed either since.”
Taken from the files of
the Stamford American.
November 7, 1963
Supporters of flood control
for the Califorina Creek
watershed will find out Thurs-
day night whether it is feasible
to build a series of flood con-
trol dams on the small but ill-
tempered stream Surveryors
and engineers from the State
Soil Conservation Board have
been in the area ail this week
inspecting the watershed and
looking for possible sites for
water impoundments.
The conservation specialists
will make their report tonight
in the council meeting room to
the steering committee that
has been pushing the flood
say the grain, which costs agriculture.
Mattox, who faces a bribery
indictment in Travis County,
has enough troubles without
making more enemies
leads — it may be beneficial
and it may not
control work The meeting will
be at 7:30 p.m
The Stamford Fire Depart-
ment started its annual pro-
gram of sketching and study- Accomplishment Award given
to outstanding seniors in voca-
tional agriculture depart-
ments. To earn this award, he
excelled in scholarship,
ment for many years and leadership and farm program
depends on volunteer firemen
to do most of the leg work
review the deterioration
status Two weeks ago, Bent-
sen asked Block for a federal ..interviews with local Black
federal inspectors and state investigation of the grain
inspectors are headed on a col- situation and got no adequate
lision course response, in his view
Collision Course
Blocks says that federal o ... a
figures have the deterioration the release of the grain, which
level at 1 percent. Stat^. in he says will cost millions to
! distribute
activities during his four
years in high school. Edwin is Missions” by James Short,
missionary to Mexico. '
situation and got no
response, in his view
Block, meanwhile, is
waiting for Congress to order
the son of Mr and Mrs. Homer
s Each volunteer fireman is Livengood. He has been presi-
assigned a block, or a group of dent of the FFA and vice
buildings, he is responsible for president of the senior class
familiarizing himself with the Edwin plans to attend Texas
structures and making a
report at one of the depart-
ments regular meetings each Creek High School student to
Monday night. receive the DeKalb Award.
weeks of harvest' .A 29 and picked Sharon Terrell
as I heir new FFA Sweetheart
lor the 1973-74 year Sharon, a
Stamford High senior, will
represent the chapter in lhe
Double Mountain District
Sweetheart Contest and will
also assist the chapter in other
activities She is the daughter
of Mr and Mrs Jerry .Terrell
The Stamford High Schoo)
Band, under the direction of
Kandy Hamiliton, brought
home a number one rating
from the University In
terscholastic League Region
II Marching Congest in
Abilene The band snared a
one rating from each of the
three judges. Stamford was
the only band in Class AA to
win a Superior rating
Sixteen boys and their spon-
sors from Jerusalem Baptist
Mission in Stamford and First
Baptist Church in Lueders at
tended the Regional-Texas
Baptist . Royal Ambassabor
Rally at Hardin-Simmons
University in Abilene After
touring the university cam-
pus, the boys heard a message
on “Reaching Out in
The question there is how do
fans, when they settle down
before their TV sets on Sunday
afternoon or Monday night,
decide which team to pull for?.
If a team from your own.
area is playing, it’s natural to
pull for that team But what if
two teams, neither of which
you're for or against, are play-
ing? What if you're from
Idaho and the Washington
Redskins are playing the Los
Angeles Raiders? You've got
to pull for one to get the max-
imum fun out of the game y
I have done some research-
on this. For example, one guy
I know would be against;
Washington because the Red-
skins and Congress live in the;
same town
Another guy I know would-
be against Los Angeles
because he was stationed at a
miserable camp in California
during World War II He's op-
posed to everything from
California, except maybe the
A-Team and seedless grapes
Others of course pull for a
team they've got a bet on-
They are contrasted to those
who bet on the score per
qurffter’i They don't care who
wins. They are somewhat like
the Houston Oilers and the
Tampa Bay Buccaneers They
dofi't seem to care very much
who wins either
There is a parallel between
world problems and profes-
sional football Even when a
world problem is solved and
the football championship
decided, you know a new
series will start over again
nekt year.
Yours faithfully,
J A
diesel luel shortage, has pro-
gressed to more than 15,000
bales ginned and another 1000
on the gin yards after about
seven
telephone survey in and
around Stamford Wednesday
morning showed about 1009
bales waiting to tie ginned and
15,161 tied up in the ticking
The three Stamford gins.
Smith. Grantham and
and area Farmers Co op. showed a total
residents, public officials and <>t 5017 hales ginned and 475
’ more on I he yards ...
Senate Inquiry
The issue will be settled one
way or the other if U.S. Sen.
Taken from th(’ files of
the Stamford American.
November 8. I97.i
Following a meager turnout
of local residents to an- open
house last Friday at the Stain
ford Mental Retardation
Outreach Center, a near
standing room only crowd at
tended an open forum answer
ing questions bn the center
Friday afternoon More than
50 Stamford and area
Three Slumlord young men
a fourth who formerly
lived here were injured early
Sunday morning in a one car
Jarrell Sharp, accident in - Dallas Most
the Stamford seriously injured was Clifton
Bell, who suffered a fractured
hip a broken leg. a broken yaw
and the loss of many teeth, as
well as facial lacerations He
was to lx- moved to Abilene by
ambulance this week Ronnie
The political partisan over
tones of the controversy iyo- struction program, which has due to swing into heavy action
only a few short weeks from
now. the U.S. Senate can-
didates of both parties are
state quiet, using the time to raise
and line up local
about half a million dollars
monthly to store, could feed
livestock in the drought area
through the winter
The target of their suit, John
Block, made no comment on
the legal action. , •
Block, a Republican, has
said he lacks authority to Lloyd Bentsen gets the^enate
release the corn because it has Agriculture Committee to
not deteriorated to a low
enough grade
On this point, it seems,
faced cost overruns and
mismanagement charges, will
be audited by an independent
firm and not the
auditors. • funds
House Speaker Gib Lewis organizations
Bob Krueger, still regarded
as the Democratic front
runner, has a statewide
not have confidence in the organization far ahead of his
state auditing team. rivals, liberal Lloyd Doggett
The full independent audit of Austin and boll weevil Kent(
will take about six months "
Upon its completion, the state
and is musty, weevily or is not a farmer or rancher, auditor will begin continuous ble gains expect in the Golden
moldy. The two Democratic with more ammunition about monitoring of all aspects of Triangle area, where he ap
officials launching the lawsuit his lack of knowledge of prison financing. parently is gaining headway
towards the labor endorse-
Jackson Candidacy ment But in Austin, observers
Texas black leaders last already speak of a Doggett-
week reacted cautiously or not Mattox match-up for the At
to the announced torney General slot in '86
Hance reportedly is gaining
ground among Houston con-
Congressman servatives
In the GOP primary, Phil
leaders in East Texas pro-
duced a cautious response: let regional candidates, Ron Paul
Jackson run and see where it and Rob Mosbacher
Paint Creek FFA student receives DeKalb award
Elmer Bell received a broken
jaw and.w^s released from the other aquatic life, and drink
harvest, sidelined this week hospital. Walter Burnett ing water, reports National
by inclement weather, and by received some bruises, but Wildlife magazine.
spectors says 53 percent offhe
grain deteriorated while in
AUSTIN — Controversy storage
over whether to release
federally stored corn to
relieve drought-ridden ranch- obvious, especially as Texas
ers in West Texas continued to Democrats jockey for
build as a partisan issue last leverage to prevent a
week Republican president from
Texas Agriculture Commis- winning re-election A foul-up
sioner Jim Hightower and At- on Block’s part could hurt
ty. Gen. Jim Mattox initiated Reagan state-wide, not just in
West Texas
But the issue could blow up
in the faces of Hightower and
Mattox, if their deterioration
The lawsuit claims that the claims prove wrong.
grain stored in Planview is un- The error would provide
fit for human consumption detractors of Hightower, who
is not a farmer or rancher,
with more ammunition about
clergy attended the forum
paneled by stall members of
the Abilene Regional MH MR
Center to iform listeners of the and
service to be expected of the
center
The Rev
chairman ol
Board Advisory Committee of
the Abilene Center, told the
group that the center was ex
pected to "touch all the spec
trums of a person's life'" ■
The local center is assisted
by staff members from the Phillips received a broken leg
Abilene Center as needed The .and has been moved to Stain
center will be open six days a ford Memorial Hospital,
week, with doctor's hours
established as needed
The Stamford area cotton
Grain controversy prompts both
lawsuit and U.S. Senate inquiry
at all
presidential candidacy of ac-
tivist Jesse Jackson
Houston
Mickey Leland was concerned
Jackson's race might damage Gramm enjoys the highest
the traditional DemocAtic name recognition, but
coalition beyond repair. Houston Republicans point out
For the most part, reported that their county contributes
more votes in the primary,
which could benefit their two
By Chino Chapa
“Tuesday at 4 p.m., there will be an ice
cream social. All ladies giving milk
please come early.’’
“Wednesday, the Ladies Literary
Society will meet. Mrs. Johnson will sing
‘Put Me in My Little Bed,’ accompanied
by the Reverend.”
“The service will close with ‘Little
Drops of Water.’ One of the ladies will
quietly start and the rest of the congrega-
tion will join in.”
“Thursday at 5 p.m., there will be a
meeting of the Little Mother’s club. All
wishing to become Little Mothers will
please meet the minister in his study.”
Lord knows there are countless more
examples of erring preachers and their
bulletins. But we must be able to forgive
their grammatical sins. I know I’ve
repented for my writings several times.
It’s hard to communicate precisely when
you’re dealing with many words.
Now if you haven’t read your bulletin
lately, that means you haven’t picked one
up. And if you haven’t picked one up, that
probably means you didn’t go to church
to get one. It’-s almost impossible to leave
a church without a bulletin in your hand.
So be good, go to church and read your
bulletin Bulletins spread the Word in
more ways than one.
“On Sunday,ITspecial collection will be”
taken to defray expenses of a new carpet
All those wishing to do something on the
carpet please come forward and get a
piece of paper.”
In the past we’ve taken a close look at
written excuses to teachers and letters to
the Welfare Office. These lists were com-
piled as examples of miscommunication.
Well, we’ve come upon another such
list. This one proves that even the good
can do bad. It is a list of written blunders
taken from,church bulletins.
These are* sentences, that when you
read them, you know what they’re sup-
posed to say, but they don’t say it the
right way. These sentences have gaps in
them, holes of communication. You
might say it’s a “Holey List.”
Now everybody knows what a church
bulletin is. It’s the preacher’s turn at
writing. Some people say the clergy
.. doesn’t have a prayer when it comes to
publishing, but they do have connections
in high places.
You can pick up a bulletin after church
each Sunday. If you were reading your
bulletin like you should be, you might find
some real interesting items such as
these: « * '
“This afternoon there will be a meeting
in the north and south ends of the church.
The children will be baptized on both
ends.”
“This being Easter Sunday, we will ask
Mrs. Swanson to come forward and lay
an egg on the altar.” s
Dear Sir:
Oh, ho, ho! When I become
King!
Sincerely,
Harrison Dyer
Dallas
Wildlife's Ranger Rich
magazine. Insects may be
knocked into a lake or stream
by wind or raindrops, which
The saying “rain is good for
Again, our thanks to the fishing" is true, says National i
Stamford citizens for your
support of our public school.
Sinceerely,
Robert B. Schuchert
k Student Council President brings insect-eating fish, such
as bluegills, to the surface,
where it's easier for people to
Dear Sir: . . catch them. Raindrops also
St. John's Methodist Church break up the smooth surface ,
was able to go to a tax-funded of the water, making it harder
authority to receive monies to for fish to see people fishing.
Dear Editor: re-roof the church? Where are
The student council the members'’ Where are the
representing the Stamford lines drawn for normal
High School student body, maintenance and historical
wants to take this opportunity preservation? Will the church
to thank the citizens of Stam ask for tax funds to pay the
ford for the passage of the plumber to repair a drip?
school bond issue in the Tues- Now the church is asking
day election. that same authority for some
Although most of you do not fantastic (I almost said ungod-
have children or grand- lyi amount of money to repair
children in school today, we the broken roof beam and
are grateful to you for associated damage
recognizing the need for i trust all the church
modernizing our school members are good taxpayers
bqildings and making the and never carp about their
necessary repairs to make the taxes
buildings meet safety and fire
standards.
These improvements will
allow for greater pride and
respect, more adequate learn-
ing space and conditions, and
an improved teacher-student-
community awareness.
ft
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COW POKES
By Ace Reid
Church bulletins interesting
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November 10, 1983
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Chapa, Chino. Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 10, 1983, newspaper, November 10, 1983; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1253219/m1/4/: accessed June 30, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.