The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 258, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 3, 1985 Page: 1 of 26
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84th Year, No. 258, Deal Smith County, Hereford, Tx.
Lake hearing postponed until August
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Concerning dike permit
Trucking company may file
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of sexual assault
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Family squabble
ends in suicide
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bearing on whether the U.S Fish and fowl and other wildlife, could impede poundments of water could be main-
While public comment was ac-
cepted at a Texas Water Commission
iTWCi hearing in Canyon Tuesday.
the family in January
Arrests made Tuesday included
TUESDAY S HIGH 88 < normal 91
record 102 in 19671
OVERNIGHT LoW normal 65
record 55 in 19241
PRECIPITATION 09 inch of rain
recorded this morning at KPAN
studios
OUTLOOK Mostly fair tonight, low
Ul the lower 80s Sunny and warmer
Thursday. high near 90 Slight
chance of thunderstorms for the re-
mainder of the July 4th weekend,
highs in the low 90s. overnight lows
mid-60s
as temporary
loans and
the west end of Buffalo lake near
Umbarger.
Rodney Krey, refuge manager for
the Buffalo Lake National Wildlife
Refuge, said the hearing did not
count as an official proceeding
because the chief hearings examiner
was ill and unable to be present for
the meeting
The public hearing was scheduled
after the Buffalo lake Water District
Board decided the granting of the
amended permit The board said
Stewart Dike which impounds
shallow water for migratory water-
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The hearing is expected to be re-
scheduled for sometime after the
middle of August
be repaired and the lake allowed to
fill
later the water district board said
house, she told police
The death was ruled a suicide by
bvtheRo-
gusided the
heeling at
Other incidents investigated Tues-
day included two reports of windows
shot. one with a rifle, the other with a
HB gun. and the report of criminal
trespassing and vandalism to a va-
cant mobile home
Richard Hunter. Ri 3. Hereford,
reported the theft of an air com-
pressor valued at $550 from the back
of his pickup
Two men were ticketed for allow-
ing their dogs to run loose and police
tried to settle a dispute between
several teenage girls
A Dimmitt teenager was reported
missing by his mother, who said he
left her company while they were at
a Hereford dentist's office Monday
MARWAN KHOURY
...medical technologist at DSGH
ANNIE BRASHEAR
...war bride, proud American mother
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Best wishes for speedy recovery go
to a couple of well-known Hereford
men. Homer Garrison. president of
That feller on Tierra Blanca Creek
says what the world needs is more
stow readers and fewer fast talkers.
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Editions combined, deadline changed
Today's edition at The Hereford Brand is a combined Wednesday-
Thursday paper since no paper will be published on July 4th The
holiday is one of four observed by The Brand during the year.
Since the office will be closed Thursday in order for employees to
observe the holiday with their families, deadlines for classified ads
will be changed. Calls will be accepted until 9 a.m. Friday for ordara
or rhaagM in the ri ossifies pages
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The Brand. along with many of-
fices and stores in Hereford, will be
closed Thursday for the July 4th holi-
day We hope you and yours have a
safe and joyful Fourth of July!
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Department of Agriculture of-
ficials delight in computing the
amount of production by U.S.
farmers Their most recent com-
putation reports that one American
farmer produces enough to feed 78
people.
We're not sure how they arrive at
this but we do know one thing for
sure," according to the recent issue
of Southwest Farm Press "A lot of
farmers aren't making enough to
feed their own families!"
a.m. meeting in the Canyon City
Commission Chambers included
those from both opponents and pro-
ponents of Stewart Dike Several Ca-
nyon area residents voiced their
disapproval of the structure and in-
sisted the main dam be repaired
Abo attending the meeting, accor-
ding to Krey. were representatives of
several pro-wildlife, who also
represented the Audubon Society and
the Sportsman's Clubs of Texas
Larry Smith of .Albuquerque was
there on behalf of the Wildlife
Association, and Steve Johnson from
Tuscon represented the Defenders of
Wildlife
According to Krey their presence
indicated that the struggle over
maintaining the area as a wildlife
refuge or restoring it to a water-
based recreation area is no longer a
local issue
it's a regional and national
issue,” he claimed Buffalo Lake is
a National Wildlife Refuge, not a city
or state park The Buffalo Lake
Water District Board is now going to
Dressed in cap and gown on
graduation day, a young man handed recovering from heart surgery in
his diploma to his father with this Lubbock's Methodist Hospital,
remark Cleatus Savage, owner of Savage's
Well. I finisbed law school to Barbecue, is recovering from recent
please you and mom Now I'm going surgery in the local hospital
to become a motorcycle cop like I’ve 000
been saying since I was six."
Aid. coats only a dime and can
change cotoes like a chamelon. The
black dot was about one-fourth inch
in diameter
Shortly after we took our seats. I
looked down and my black dot had
changed to a bright green Lavon’s
was still Mack, and several
neighbors had amber and black drta
(See BULL. Page U)
tamed in a portion of the lake bed
Krey said comment recorded
Tuesday will have about the same
status as written comments submit-
ted to the TWC. He said the
Wildlife Service is issued an amend- the flow of water into the deeper part
ed permit authorizing a small dam at of the lake should the main dam ever
According to the Hereford police Forensic Pathologist Dr Ralph Erd-
report. Mrs Nichols had obtained a mann of Amarillo. Deaf Smith Coun-
restraining order prohibiting her ty Sheriff’s deputies and the criminal
husband from entering her district attorney's investigator were
residence Nichols reportedly rode also at the scene
up to the house on his motorcycle. Services for Nichols are pending at
and entered by the front door while Rix Funeral Directors of Hereford.
Local man convicted
Hereford
Bull.g-76
A 35-year-old Hereford man who his wife was locking the garage and :a
had been ordered away from his back door. 4
wife's home died of a self-inflicted Nichols became violent with tus \
Au cnunv smith wauth ne 1x1. e.aiu ----" -------«gtandinu before the naturalized citizena who have chasen "Coming from a country where man, meaning ' "stateless."
Khuut saya hale — x- m, ana u«4 »• “» of mhtscgnsytrthFhome. you coldt even open your mouth, gniirememperafeelingsotfear.of
somectadieretorararmostpatrtatie sszr “ an awzpreisabnesaganaahag napene.woommMolciry'wou
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news, who don’t think past Hereford, he was IB to visit relatives. After Mid Ft ll Bia that you can do still becomes emotional when speak- and muel of aU freedom of religion- afraidtheUmtod Stales would
and who don't know what goes on they were hare for approximately anything you want, say anything you ingsofher American citivenship. thisiswhy-came"heg wires ana "EPrshdsr received her citizenship
beyond our own private little worlds one month the 1967 war in his coun- want...” "This is the Met country in the There are no barbed wires, and brasnear recuiveaneruemzemt p
we have plenty to learn and to be try broke out The family cdmt “Americans in this country take whole world," exclaimed Brashear, there is no wall to keep you in," pro- papers in December ui 1965 and
"hankfusrorontheFourthotJuy.5 return homeandthewr'derinitely mheir"tteedom for granted,"‘stated "worth nghtingfors a country thatis claimed Brashear.... was the happiest day - iny
The freedom I have right now decided for the family to stay in the Marwan. "if just once, the people worth laying your life down for and Breashear recall* being a person life she said
would not exist if there was no states Khoury was raised here in the could go outside of the states and that is what I did when I signed my without a country " So adamantly isBrashear proud
Fourth of July,” declares Marwan United States, attending school, look at what freedom is from citizenship papers!" said Brashear When Breashear left Germany bean American tha shesays toe' n
Khoury, a. a medicai technologist at graduating, and then going on to col- there" "I took the oath that I would give that country immediately took her meone doesn t like it here she 11
Deal Smith General Hospital lege Khoury was 17 years old when The native Americans are often my life for my country and I still citizenship from her Her visa card
People don’t know what the he took the test for citizenship and subject to gentle chiding by the mean it," she declared was marked "staatenios in Ger
A local trucking company hopes to business deal and he was trying to
file criminal trespass charges obtain a clear title when the
against an Amarillo recovery firm repossession took place He said he
after a man entered its shop without was most interested in getting back
permission to repossess a pickup shop equipment he had attached to
The owner told police the pickup the pickup
gunshot wound Tuesday night after wife and 12-year-old son before going
an altercation with his wife and son. outside and firing the gun, according
Melvin Nichols, whose address to statements the two gave to police
was not known by police, died shortly They said he fired several shots at
before 10 p m from a single gunshot the front door before turning the gun
wound to the head The small han- on himself
dgun used int he suicide was found Nichols' 14-year-old daughter
near his body, which police witnessed parts of the incident from
discovered on the front porch of his across the street at a neighbor s
She said the boy had once told her he have to compete with groups that *
should probably leave home so she have power and money ”
would not have to take care of him Local members of the board were '
She told police her husband had left not avaialble for comment this mom- u
A Hereford man was convicted The pair had offered the three 72
Tuesday by a Randall County district students a ride to Canyon after their m
court jury of sexual assault on an car ran out of gas. but the woman Be
18-year-old West Texas State Univer- testified they were instead driven to E
sty student, the country and the men put out of =5
Lavon and I attended the annual Clinton Ray Clark. 2«. had been in- the car while she was assaulted.
Texas Press Association convention dieted for aggravated sexual assault The Randall County. District At Bl
at Austin the past weekend, and we but the jury found him guilty of the torney’s office saidPrittistscheduled 4k
thought one of the more interesting lesser offense for trial on the same~ offens5
programs was on Effective Stress The victim testified Monday in sometime next month.Prittstestified ■
Management". court that she was forced to perform during the twoday trial that the 5
As we entered the seminar room. sexual acts with Clark after he and a assault never took placeU
people at the door placed ''Biodots" companion. Charter Monroe Pritt. Clark y marned snd hrt "ife 7
onour hand it works like a ther- picked up her and two mate cosnpa- testified during the trilas "eleac i
mometer, clings to skin like a Band- nions Dec 18 on Interstate z7. cording to the DA s office in Canyon
it would not light the issuance of the testimony must seriously considered
permit if the FAWS agreed to is that given at the hearings, when
remove the dike once the main dam attorneys for the TWC. the FAWS
is repaired and the Buffalo Lake board will be
The water board still maintains able to cross-examine all par-
Umbarger Dam will someday be ticcipants
restored, and the drained lake The hearings examiner assumes
returned to its original capacity the rule of a judge during such a pro-
However the Bureau of Reclamation ceeding. Krey explained, and said a
recently recommended instead that hearing cannot be official without his
two additional dikes be built and the presence
dam lowered so that small, deep un- Comments during Tuesday 's 9
The Hereford D 9gun_
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Curtis, Jeri. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 258, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 3, 1985, newspaper, July 3, 1985; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1430244/m1/1/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.