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“I really regret the increas-
ed racial tension that has
built through this action," he
who will help us build and
heal, not divide and destroy."
A call for major reductions
in the funding of I JSC and for
commission. The mayor is an
accountant with Brown,
Graham & Co.
is also found in the resolution.
Coleman said the resolution
passed by the NACO commit-
tee outlines what ESC grant
recipients should be doing
and asks for control of every
LSC office by local govern-
ment.
"This way, the local people
could determine areas of ser-
vice provided and monitor
what goes on. We could insure
that the funds spent for LSC
were validated," Coleman
said.
"A decision was made by
TRLA to limit services in this
area only to migrant farm
laborers. There is no local in-
put at all into this decision, so
here in this county, they
serve no one who is poor ex-
cept the ones they consider
Council operation.
Conkwright was elected
led the 45 counsils of the
South Central Region in
membership growth. In 1980
Conkwright was asked to be
on the program at the Na-
tional i--------„
Scouts of America.
Conkwright is past presi-
system here. While some sources claim there is
less than a ten percent chance of the MX missile
coming to the local area, some residents and
groups are warning that the region had best keep
its guard up if citizens hope to avert the presence
of the controversial missile.
countant for the board, an at-
torney for the district and in-
surance and retirement
policies.
after voting, Precinct 3 Com-
missioner Bruce Coleman
commented, “I voted for the
resolution because I feel our
DA and his staff do a good
job, but I don't feci DA
assistants should be able to
practice privately as well as
in county office."
Precinct 4 Commissioner
James Voyles agreed with
Coleman’s
By CHERI WARD
Staff Writer
A Deaf Smith County Com-
missioner has been in-
strumental in the passage of
a resolution calling for strong
local governmental control
and decreased funding for the
Legal Services Corporation
(LSC).
I^gal Services Corporation
is a federally funded program
that supports legal aid for
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Board members will also
hear the Chief Appraiser's
statement of progress and
will discuss re-organization
of the board
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"I don’t feel that there's a
conflict or that we can keep
quality people without allow-
ing them some opportunity to
supplement their income. I
think it is a service to the peo-
ple of the county," countered
Saul, who then offered to
meet with individual commis-
sioners to discuss the matter.
The discussion ended with
an apparent agreement to
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Meeting Set
By JIM STEIERT
Managing Editor
Deaf Smith County com-
missioners approved the
First National Bank of
Hereford as the county’s
depository during a regular
session held Monday morn-
ing.
County fathers heard bids
submitted by the FNB as well
as from the North State Bank
of Amarillo.
The Hereford State Bank
did not submit a bid on the
county depository
The First National Bank of-
tery with the U.S. Army in
1957 and states. “I can hardly
be taken for a peacenik.
There are many alternatives
to deploying the MX in
shelters for a shell game,
though. They could be placed
on subs or surface ships, or
even in the existing
Minuteman missile silos for
which they were originally
designed."
The local food firm head's
reasons for opposing the
missile echo the sentiment of
many area producers.
“A project like this
develops its own momentum,
regardless of its merits.
Emplacement of a land-
based shell game system
would be obsolete before it
was completed and would in-
crease the likelihood of a Rus-
sian strike by the fact that
defense funding would be
diverted from methods that
are an effective deterrent.”
Ford opined.
"This project could destroy
the economy. It would be the
largest project in the history
of man, costing over $108
billion based on today's
economy," he charged.
(See MX, Page 2)
"The most important issue
is what can be done to see
that the kids get the quality
education they need. It would
be wonderful if people would
use the interest created by
this election to become more
involved in the things that the
community and their
children are involved in,"
said Townsend
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in Toxas/New Mexico region.
Deaf Smith County rancher
and farmer Jim Conkwright
was honored last week in
Amarillo during the annual
Llano Estacado Council Boy
Scouts of America Awards
Banquet.
Conkwright was one of four youth. Both years the council
men presented the Silver
Beaver Award. This is the
highest award given by the
council of Boy Scouts of
America.
Conkwright was also
presented with a plaque in
recognition of his two years
serving as council president, dent of the Texas Hereford
During his two year term, the Association and Hereford
Llano Estacado Council went __
from last place in the nation Tax Board To Meet
Conkwright was active as a
Boy Scout in Hereford's
Scouting program. In 1975
and 1976, he was a member of
the Tierra Blanca District
Committee. In 1976 he began
two years service as Vice-
President of Llano Estacado
Council where his respon-
sibilities covered the Ad-
ministration functions of
By JIM STEIERT
Managing Editor
The talk out of Washington
these days is that there is on-
ly a 10 percent chance of the
controversial MX missile
system ever being deployed
in the West Texas-New Mex-
ico area.
Frank Ford, the head of Ar-
rowhead Mills here and a one-
time commander of a nuclear
missile battery is warning
residents not to let their
guard down, however, and is
urging a concerted effort to
pare the likelihood of the MX
going in here down to zero.
Ford has been working
closely in recent weeks with
representatives of a number
of major commodity
organizations and has also
kept the mail system busy
with messages to con-
gressmen, senators and Air
Force officials.
He’s developed a veritable
file of messages from goverp-
ment officials he's been prod-
ding into opposing the MX
and emphasizes that local
citizenry must get involved in
a showdown situation if the
people here hope to avert the
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services provided in some
areas, but at the same time
states that, "numerous Rural
I.egal Aid Corporations and
other legal service
groups...also funded by Legal
are
operating, we believe, in un-
controlled, militant and
destructive fashion.”
The resolution also states
that some offices funded by
LSC are, “inflaming racial
presented to members of Con- division." Coleman said the
gress as the official position
of county governments and
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He points out that some im-
portant allies have been pick-
ed up along the way.
"We’re getting all of the
commodity groups on record
against this boondoggle,”
said Ford.
Among the notable com-
modity groups in the Panhan-
dle which have already pass-
ed resolutions in opposition to
the deployment of the MX
missile here are the Texas
Wheat Producers Associa-
tion, the Texas Com Growers
Association and the Texas-
New Mexico Sugar Beet
Growers Association.
Ford pointed out that the
Lubbock-based Grain
Sorghum Producers Associa-
tion is also expected to follow
suit in the near future.
"We could be facing a new
dust bowl. The MX could
destroy life as we know it
here in this area and I think
thousands of individual
citizens are ready to band
together to take every legal
means at their disposal to see
that further waste of time and
money on this fraud is avoid-
ed," stated Ford.
Ford commanded a
nuclear-armed rocket bat-
Commissioners Approve
Depository
unanimously agreed to ac-
cept the bid offered by the
home-town First National
Bank.
Commissioners became in-
volved in a discussion with
District Attorney Roland Saul
concering assistants in DA's
office after considering an
item pertaining to a Criminal
Justice Grant for the county
DA's office. Coleman's sentiments,
Commissioners passed a stating he felt that conflicts of
resolution stating the interest might arise but Saul
county’s intention to continue disagreed with the commis-
participating in the Criminal sioners.
Justice grant system, and "I don’t feel that there's a
This map, provided by the office of Rep. Kent
Hance of Lubbock, shows the massive cluster of
MX missile shelters that could be concentrated
on prime farmland in Deaf Smith County and
surrounding areas under one alternative of the
Air Force plan for deployment of the missile
Improvements
The State Department ol
Highways and Public
Transportation will conduct a
meeting on March 5 at 7:30
p.m. at the Deaf Smith Coun-
ty courthouse in Hereford, for
the purpose of discussing the
need for and suggested alter-
natives to the possible im-
provement to U.S. Highway
60 in the vicinity of Hereford
from F.M. 2943 to a county
section road approximately
three miles southwest of U S.
385
All interested citizens are
invited to attend this public
meeting to express their
views.
migrant workers," said Col- Under Fire
eman.
"Then, they don't seem as
interested in serving the
rights and needs of individual
people as they are to sue
government bodies and effect
governmental change,” he
continued.
Bill Beardall, attorney for
the Texas Rural Legal Aid of-
fice located in Hereford, said
TRLA is a private, non-profit
organization formed express-
ly for the purpose of defen-
ding the rights of migrant
farm workers.
Beardall said funding
received by the local office is
especially earmarked for the
representation of migrant
seasonal farm workers and
(See MIGRANT, Page 2)
Townsend Files
fered the county interest on
its deposits at the same rate
as U.S. Treasury bills at the
time of deposit plus .25 per-
cent.
The FNB offered loans as
required by the county at 6.5
percent per annum interest
and no service charges.
The North State Bank of-
fered interest on deposits at
the rate of U.S. Treasury bills
plus .26 percent, but the in-
terest rate on borrowed
money was listed at the
prime rate.
Commissioners
in 1976 the Jaycees selected
him as one of the "Five
Outstanding Young Men in
Texas."
Conkwright has held many
positions in the Chamber of
Commerce, Water Board,
Methodist Church and Kings
Manor Methodist Home. He
served two terms as Presi-
meeting of the Boy dent of the Hereford Indepen-
dent School District.
In 1979 the Chamber of
Commerce named him
"Citizen of the Year."
Residents Warned: Maintain Guard Against MX
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Reagan administration will
be looking for ways to slash
the national budget which ap-
proaches $1 trillion this
year,” he continued.
The resolution, which pass-
ed a committee of NACO
members last month, is
similar to a Coleman-
authored resolution passed
by Deaf Smith County com-
missioners and the state
association of commis-
people, often poor or minority sioners, Coleman said.
group members, who could The resolution
not otherwise afford it. The acknowledges effective legal
area branch of the LSC is
Texas Rural I^gal Aid.
Bruce Coleman, county
commissioner for Precinct 3,
developed and promoted a
resolution which he said
would probably pass a vote of Services Corporation
the general assembly at a
convention of the National
Association of County Of-
ficials in July.
The resolution would then
become part of a platform
Council Honors Conkwright
With Silver Beaver Award
Rotary Club. In 1974 he met
with President Ford
Council President in 1979 and representing. Agriculture and
re-elected again in 1980
Under his leadership, the
Council compiled an outstan-
ding record of service to
increased racial tensions are
the most important reason
their recommendation for for the passage of the resolu-
legislation.
Coleman said this platform
is one of the strongest in-
fluences on Congressional
legislation, and NACO serves said. “What we need is people
as tne nation-wide voice of
local government.
"The climate in
Washington is favorable to
both fund reduction and local implementation of its charter
control," Coleman said. "The requirement of local control
Mayor, Commissioners
To Seek Re-Election
The terms of Mayor
Bartley Dowell and city com-
missioners Ed Coplen and
Wes Fisher expire in April,
and all three have announced
intentions to seek re-election.
Mayor Dowell announced
Monday that he had filed for
re-election, he will be seeking
his third term The mayor
mentioned two factors that
helped him make the
decision-a desire to see the
completion of a paving pro-
gram, and to finish a term as
president of the Region 2,
Texas Municipal League
Association.
Coplen, owner of the
Western Auto store here, will
also be seeking a third 2-year
term as city commissioner.
Fisher, associated with
Barrett-Fisher Produce, is
seeking a second term on the
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Members of the Deaf Smith
County District Tax Ap-
praisal Board will hold a call-
ed meeting at 7:30 p.m.
Thursday, February 12, in the
city commissioners cour-
troom.
Board members will
discuss bond premiums and
liability insurance, an ac-
presence ot sprawling com-
plexes of missile shelters
literally in their back yards.
"A little effort now can
head off a lot of trouble and
expense later. We’ve already
seen the Air Force waste $15
million on scoping hearings
whichjjave done little but tie
up the energies of the people
of this area," said Ford.
Ford, like many other
residents of this area, is con-
cerned with the potential loss
of farmland which would
come with the deployment of
the missile system in the
Eastern New Mexico-West
Texas region.
"Putting the MX missile
system here could be ab-
solutely devastating on the
Panhandle as farm homes,
cropland and irrigation
systems would be
destroyed," he commented.
"Hereford would be the
most damaged town of any in
the whole proposed system,"
he charges.
Ford has been actively in-
volved in battling the Air
Force in its consideration of
the Panhandle for the MX
missile system for a number
of months now.
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Bill Townsend, 37, a
Hereford resident for the past
10 years has filed as a can-
didate for the Hereford
School Board in the upcoming
April 4 at-large election.
Towensend's filing sends
the list of school board
hopefuls here spiraling to six.
Other candidates who have
filed include Tom Simons,
Jerry Walls, James Self,
Anne Ivey and R.C.
Hoelscher.
Townsend came to
Hereford from New Mexico
and is employed with Gar-
rison Seed Co. as a research
agronomist.
He is a member of a
number of professional
groups associated with the
agronomy industry.
Townsend has worked with
the Kids, Inc. program here
for a number of years as both
a coach and umpire.
He and his wife. Barbara,
are the parents of three
children, Brian, 11, a student
at Bluebonnet. Brienna, 8. a
student at Aikman, and a
daughter. Bethany, two.
"I believe all people should
be involved and concerned
with the educational
process." stated Townsend.
"We have children in
school and the process is go-
ing to be important to them in
the coming years, as well as
to us. We hope to be a part, in
some small way. of the conti-
nuing performance of the
school system and in further-
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ing the improvement of the
educational process. I don't
think there's a system ex-
isting that can't be improved
upon and people can have a
part in improving this one if
they will become active in en-
couraging and informing
their children, teachers and
board members," he con-
tinued.
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Steiert, Jim. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 160, Ed. 1 Tuesday, February 10, 1981, newspaper, February 10, 1981; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1348296/m1/1/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.