The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 96, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1984 Page: 1 of 12
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The Hereford
Nov. 14, 1984
84th Year, No. 96, Hereford, Tx. Deaf Smith County
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Lawyer to view local TRLA situation
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While the petitions have supposed- directors
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Clubs to comment on school renovation
(See SCHOOL, Page 2)
Buffalo directors dwell on Stewart Dike
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ed tonight so that copies of the signed day. Wyly is scheduled to meet at 5
petitions could be hand delivered to. p.m. with the Deaf Smith County
Contacted this morning TRLA's of- several Hereford residents who fear
fice in San Antonio, Wyly said he has TRLA activities discourage new in-
not formed an opinion about the dustries from locating in the county
Special Donors
Mr. and Mrs. Gerald Smits of
Soaplake, Wash., gave blood Tuesday
during the Key Club Blood Drive. The
★ Hustlin’ Hereford,
home of Charlie Callaway
Local Roundup
Lubbock to host pesticide hearing
Ana farmers will have a chance to comment in person about the
Texas Department of Agriculture’s proposed pesticide safety
regulations by attending a TDA hearing Thursday in Lubbock
The hearing is one of just three taking place in the state following
TDA’s published report of the regulations in the Texas Register The
meeting is planned for 2 p.m. at the Lubbock Civic Center.
Deaf Smith County Commissioners, without waiting to see if the
regulations go into effect as written, Monday voted to make the
county regulated under TDA herbicide use guidelines and banned
the use of butyl ester 2,4-D during the cotton growing season
The new regulations are the result of a year-long study by the
TDA. beginning when a Pesticide Use Task Force was appointed in
November of 1983. The Task Force conducted interviews with
farmers, aerial applicators, chemical company representatives,
farmworkers and environmentalists before writing the regulations
King's Manor dinner set Thursday
The annual Founders Day Dinner at King’s Manor is scheduled
Thursday night with Willia P. Wright Jr. at Abilene as the guest
speaker.
The dinner will be held in the ILamar Garden Room beginning at 7
p m. The dinner is sponsored by the King’s Manor Founders Associa-
tion and all members of the association are invited. Interested per-
sons may attend the dinner by purchasing a $25 annual membership
Wright is an oil company jobber in Abilene and widely known in
the field of photography He has taught photography at two Abilene
colleges. He will present a computerized slide program on China for
the program here.
School enrollment down slightly
Three fewer students were enrolled in the Hereford Independent
School District Monday than were signed up a week earlier, the
HISD weekly report indicates
A total of 4,848 youngsters were enrolled in the school district at
the beginning of this week. At this time last year, 4,918 were on the
HISD rolls
Broken down by primary schools, there were 527 students at
Aikman, 547 at Northwest and 458 at Tierra Blanca. West Central
paced intermediate school enrollments with 394 while Bluebonnet
had 342 and Shirley 314
La Plata and Stanton Junior High Schools had 547 and 592 students,
respectively. At Hereford High School. 901 youngsters were signed
up as of Monday.
The legality of the dam. a matter
yet to be resolved between the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service and the
Texas Department of Water
Resources. has also become a source
of contention between the water
board and FWS The TDWR. accor-
ding to refuge manager Rodney
Krey, twice told FWS it did not need
an amended permit to reconstruct
the dike
“Then all of a sudden they said we
needed one," Krey told the board at
Tuesday’s meeting held at the refuge
center south of Umbarger.
The original permit was issued in
Stolen Thunderbird recovered
A 19M Ford Thunderbird stolen last month from Hereford Ford
Lincoln Mercury Inc., 301 W First St., has apparently been
recovered. Hereford police reported this morning.
A suspect in the case was being held in Lubbock County Jail Tues-
day afternoon as a prisoner of the Lamesa Police Department. Ac-
cording to the local report, the young man and his father are
suspected of operating a vehicle theft ring.
The Thunderbird has a retail value of more than $14,000. It was
taken from the local lot during the morning of Oct. 3.
Meanwhile Tuesday, Hereford police looked into three incidents of
minor theft and one apiece of domestic disturbance and vandalism.
One arrest was made on a warrant charge.
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ly been circulating for the past two
By KIMBERLY THOGMARTIN
Staff Writer
An investigator with the Legal Ser-
vices Corporation has responded to
citizen requests to visit Hereford and
listen to complaints about the local
office of Texas Rural Legal Aid.
Wendell Wyly, a staff attorney
with the LSC’s Washington, D.C. Of-
fice of Compliance and Review, is
By KIMBERLY THOGMARTIN
Staff Writer
Despite at least two board
members feeling the issue did not
merit such attention, the Buffalo
Lake Water District board of direc-
tors had another spirited discussion
of the controversial Stewart Dike at
Tuesday night’s regular meeting.
TUESDAY’S HIGH: 77 (normal: 59 record: 99 (1932))
OVERNIGHT LOW: 49 (normal: 32 record: 9 (1916))
OUTLOOK: Partly cloudy tonight with a low in the upper 30s. Winds
are to be 4 to 15 miles per hour from the south, switching to northerly
by morntag. Thursday to expected to be partly cloudy, hove a high in
the tower 99s and northeasterly winds of 5 to miles per hour.
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political attitude in Hereford regar-
ding TRLA
“I’ll be there to find out what the
complaints are," he stated. “We’ll
determine if they are valid and what
we can do about them."
“I haven’t been to Hereford,” he
added. “So I can’t comment on the
atmosphere there regarding TRLA."
Meanwhile, a citizens petition
drive in connection with alleged
political activities of the local legal
aid office was to have been conclud-
The petition lists eight separate
demands of the Legal Services Cor-
poration. including that Hereford’s
TRLA office be forced to serve equal-
ly the poor of all races. "They need
jobs and individual legal help more
than social reform," the petition
states.
Wyly said he is not sure of what his
schedule will be during the three
days he is here, but that he will make
his time available to anyone who
wants to meet with him. On Thurs-
scheduled to arrive in Hereford weeks, it has only been since Sunday
Thursday afternoon and meet with that participants have identified
the public through Saturday. Wyly themselves and offered comments to
has spent the past few days meeting the media. Betty Martin of Louise’s
in San Antonio with TRLA officials in Dress Shop in Sugarland Mall told
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By REED PARSELL --------------------------------------------------------------- students managed to attend school
MembJSSXJXe .study To help board make decision reported. He claimed it is difficult to
and other varieties of clubs are to be ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- gauge, however, if the incentives
asked their opinions about how the would host all HISD seventh and Shirley The decision is non-binding, program had any effect on atten-
school district should spend its 21 4 eighth graders while Stanton would stressed Bill Townsend, board presi- dance
million allocated for capital im- become part of HHS. which would dent. No decision was made on whether
provements add ninth graders to its ranks In other business Tuesday. HISD to approve a proposed sex education
In the next few weeks. Hereford In- It has been estimated by district Superintendent Harrell Holder an- - or “emotional and physical
dependent School District officials officials the junior high revampment nounced the average daily atten- development" - course at the
are to appear in pairs at the club would initially save HISD around dance during a recent four weeks intermediate-school level The cur-
gatherings Information ac- 2140.000 per year in order for the was 4.564 That figure is crucial in riculum committee, chaired by
cumulated from those encounters is change to come about, however. determining state funding, which is Marilyn Culpepper, is to recommend
to be used by the school board when around 2200,000 would have to be partly based on the "ADA" for that a specific plan for attack at the next
it finalizes its renovation and con- spent on additions to La Plata and October period. school board meeting
struction plans Stanton Dr. Holder said the October ADA Board members approved nomina-
Among the projects being con- A seven-and-a-half-minute proved more than budgeted Though tions for a 15-member textbook selec-
sidered are renovations of Shirley In- filmstrip has been made to help with he described the 96 3 percent atten- tion committee, which is to have
termediate, Stanton Junior High and the club presentations. It was shown dance as "excellent," Holder noted Holder as its chairman
Hereford High Schools. Other Tuesday evening during a regular the percentage was higher during the Among the books up for considers-
possibilities include establishment of meeting of the HISD board of educa- first four weeks of school tion this year are science and math
media centers at three elementary tion. Several school district person- In order to encourage youngsters offerings for elementary students,
schools. additions to La Plata Junior nel helped make the visual aid. in- to go to school in October, an incen- according to Marc Williamson, assis-
High School and an indoor, poor- eluding Dan Dudley of HHS and ad- tives program was established to tant superintenden for instruction
weather athletic practice facility ministrator Mal Manchee. award perfect attendance Helping He called the textbook selection pro-
south of Whiteface Stadium. In preparation for dispersement of with the project were three area cess “a monumental task" and ex-
Citizens’ opinions are especially capital improvements funds, board restaurants which contributed free pressed appreciation for the work be-
being sought about the proposed con- members Monday agreed to have coupons for approximately 34,000 ing done
solidation of the two junior high Lubbock architect Herb Brasher worth of food,
schools. The La Plata structure draw up plans for remodeling of Eighty-five percent of the district’s
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couple is visiting Mrs. C.M. Hicks of donate, receiving mugs and t-shirts
Hereford. They heard about the blood for their effort. (Photo by Lisa Ball)
drive on the radio and stopped to
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Some feel issue unimportant the board does not plan to tak any
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1974 for construction of the small resolve," responded Deaf Smith quested to act by the Texas Depart-
holding dike on the west end of the County board representative Garth ment of Water Resources.” He did
lake. The dike was later damaged by Thomas. point out to Klett, however, that the
a flood, and Krey began reconstruc- Enoch Henderson, who several failure of FWS to file an amendment
tion two years ago after the drained times asked that the discussion be to the water permit "demonstrates
lake and land surrounding it were tabled pending word from the FWS your unwillingness to abide by the
turned over to FWS as a wildlife solicitor, finally relented and sug- laws of Texas "
refuge area, gested that Johnson and board presi- In other business, Krey reported
Board member Charlie Johnson dent Ted Abrahamson draft a letter on progress toward completing cam-
has contended the FWS should file an stating the board’s concern to Charls ping and picnic facilities at the lake
application for an amended permit. Nemir , executive director of the area, and how FWS plans to spend
But FWS. apparently not wanting to TDWR the recent 9339,000 congressional ap-
give in so easily, has hired a solicitor Abrahamson later distributed propriation announced last month by
to battle it out with TDWR attorneys. copies of a letter he mailed late last Rep Jack Hightower
Johnson has claimed those month to Ellis Klett, FWS Assistant Krey also told board members a
negotiations have taken too long Regional Director in Albuquerque report by the Bureau of Reclamation
Tuesday night he challenged the The correspondence was in response which will suggest how to repair the
board to get involved in the dispute. to a letter from Klett, read at the Oc- main dam at the lake is expected to
"This is a conflict that we’re very tober meeting, suggesting that rela- be issued "any day now.” The BOR’s
much in the center of," Johnson told tions between the water board and report was due out in September, but
his fellow board members . FWS might be strained if the board the process was slowed because of a
“But it hasn’t been given to us to continued with its objections to needed environmental assessment
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Parsell, Reed D. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 96, Ed. 1 Wednesday, November 14, 1984, newspaper, November 14, 1984; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1477835/m1/1/?rotate=90: accessed July 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.