The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 8, 1984 Page: 3 of 26
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With unfailing good humor, Ms. everything from walleye, bass, crap- coyotes, we’d be overrun by both.
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Counting turtles, there may be 16 throughout the Canadian River
species to look at.
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Fritch itself, “the heart of Lake
Meredith,” is a spunky little Panhan-
dle town of 2,500 north of Amarillo
and just south of Borger. It lies mid-
way between Dallas and Denver and
is closer to the state capitals of New
Mexico and Oklahoma than Austin.
Fritch considers itself the gateway
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we’ve designed to help you organize your personal
business and financial affairs. And, S.O.S. can help
you re-organize your life in the event of changes in
marital status, retirement, disability or a death in
your family.
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Ms. Poling photographed a variety
of places around Lake Meredith and
Irene McKinster
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foreclosures last year.
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cats to a springtime romp with a
family of coyotes.
museum jammed with visual
delights rarely found in larger and
more sophisticated facilities.
It showcases the wildlife and ar-
cheological wonders of the Texas
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FRITCH, Texas (AP) - Beneath
the water tower and across from the
Dairy Queen is a tiny museum with a
dead rattler, a live catfish and a
director named Midge Savage who
says:
“Each day I come in and do a head
count to see who’s eaten who during
the night!”
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Perhaps the most imposing
diorama is one depicting a golden
eagle, its mate and a nesting eaglet
— a common scene along the rocky
Featured Artist
Jan Bradford has been named artist of the month by
the Deaf Smith County Library and several of her
works are currently on display at the facility. Ms.
Bradford has been painting approximately 15 years.
She enjoys painting Indian designs and scenery in oils
and watercolor.
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“If you’re newlywed, recently divorced, widowed,
or lost a member of your family; and you’re confus-
ed as to what needs to be done and how to go about it
to reorganize and redirect your life, call me!”
"Our specimen is in a sunning posi-
Uon," said Ma. Savage, “and he’s
about four feet long.”
The diamondback is said to be
among the largest and most
dangerous serpents in North
America, and Ms. Savage’s
"specimen" looks it.
“He was caught on an oil lease in
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It features five aquariums contain- "They also kill lots of rabbits and and no one is allowed to own one,"
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The percentage is expected to be tional Monument, an archeological
less this year, said Aycock, and “we goldmine still under development by
take that to be an encouraging sign the National Park Service.
that most of them are going to make Archeological traces of prehistoric
“Coyotes will eat anything and one ledges of the canyons and the breaks
f their favorite foods is of the Canadian River.
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add weapons fashioned from turkeys, raccoons, coyotes, eagles
Alibates flint are on display in the and pronghorns, the latter an
museum. antelope-like deer.
The museum, which resembles a "You can hunt the pronghorn
desert outpost in a very old John legally, but the ranchers won’t let
Wayne movie, was dedicated in 1976 you,” said Ms. Savage. “And the pro-
as a bicentennial project of the City nghorns are all on the ranches. Soit’s
of Fritch, the National Park Service Catch-22. You can but you can’t.”
WASHINGTON (AP) - A little
over half of the 30,000 or so Texas
farmers who have taken out $1.5
billion in federal loans are behind on
their payments, but the federal
government doesn’t expect to be
owning a lot of farms.
The policy of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture is “if anybody has a
chance of making it, we stay with
them,” said Merlin Aycock of the
Farmers Home Administration, the
farmer’s lender of last resort.
Most of Texas’ total $13.7 billion
farm debt is in commercial loans,
but in 1963, Texas took out more
federal farm loans than any other
state — $287 million. Arkansas was
second with $151 million. FmHA has
a total of about $25 billion loaned na-
tionally.
Texas’ 51 percent delinquency rate
is fourth highest, in the nation,
Ayeock said. Florida has 61 percent,
Georgia 60 percent and Arizona 57
percent.
Aycock said the figures are
misleading anyway because any bor-
rower more than 15 days late on
payments is categorized as "delin-
quent.” He said the department has
no figures on how many are further
behind than that.
"We’re not unduly concerned"
about the delinquency rate, he said.
The Texas Department of
Agriculture is concerned about the
delinquency rate and has charged
that Reagan administration
economic policies are responsible.
The U.S. Department of
Agriculture blames circumstances
beyond its control — especially
weather — for farmers’ economic
hardships.
Half of the farmers listed as delin-
quent are behind in their payments
by three years or more, said Heather
Ball, a TDA economist, “and that we
have from FmHA’s own figures.”
There are no delinquency or
foreclosure figures on commercial
loans, she said.
Farmers can only borrow from
FmHA if they cannot get a commer-
cial loan.
Although foreclosure is an option,
the agency avoids it, Aycock said. Of
FmHA’s 270,000 loans, 253 have been
foreclosed.
“We realize these are unusual
times for everybody,” Aycock said.
Foreclosure, he said, is “the ab-
solute last resort. There’s no merit in
that for us, taking the farm. We don’t
want somebody’s farm.”
Ms. Ball said 42 Texas farmers
were foreclosed on by FmHA during
fiscal year 1963. Another 642 were
sent “acceleration letters,” which
means the farmer must pay the full
amount of the loan or face possible
foreclosure.
FmHA “discontinued” 526
farmers, Ms. Ball said. That meant
they sold out voluntarily rather than
have a forced sale that would bring
them less money.
Of Texas’ 254 counties, 161 are cur-
rently labeled disaster areas
because of a two-year drought.
Emergency loans account for about
half of the amount Texas farmers
have borrowed from FmHA.
The delinquency rate on the
emergency loans is 82 percent, ac-
cording to TDA.
“Throwing more loans at them is
not the answer,” said Ms. Ball.
But Aycock said FmHA assesses a
farmer’s balance sheet annually,
usually at the end of the crop year,
and if it appears a farmer will even-
tually be able to pay, he is carried or
refinanced.
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High Plains and the fish and fowl Savage as she and a visitor peered at unyielding land.
found in and around nearby Lake a large mouth bass, which peered Actual dirt, rock and vegetation
Meredith, a sparkling oasis in this right back. from the area are used in the
dry and windswept geographic The most visually stunning of the foreground along with small animals
region known as the Llano Estacado, exhibits are six lifesize dioramas of and reptiles indigenous to the High
or staked plains. preserved wildlife in their natural Plains — including a diamondback
sign at the Lake Meredith Aquatic 4 dedication” and the home of the
Wildlife Museum that warns: hungriest catfish in captivity.
"Beware of Catfish.” Ms. Savage said the museum at-
Jorene Corbett, Executive
Vice-President of S.O.S., will
conduct a seminar at
Hereford State Bank Wednes-
day, July 11 at 2 p.m. in the
Friendship Room. This is a
free courtesy service from
Hereford State Bank.
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By MIKE COCHRAN Assoclated Canadian River system, and tools habitat. They include bobcats, rattlesnake.
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Museum showing off Texas High Plains
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Parsell, Reed D. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 4, Ed. 1 Sunday, July 8, 1984, newspaper, July 8, 1984; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1451368/m1/3/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.