The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 222, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1986 Page: 1 of 10
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May 15, 1986
Avenue. It will then move east to the
Bull Barn area where it will circle
for an overnight camp. The train will
THE WAGON TRAIN TRAIL ...
... on the side of a support vehicle.
Sugar beet farmers can harvest
their crop and comply with the
Agricultural Stabilization and Con-
servation Service 50-92 conservation
program --as was originally
planned- to receive their payments,
Rep. Larry Combest reported today.
Combest said the program "will be
like It was to begin with” for sugar
s
eeruezacans
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A feller on the wagon train says
you know you’re getting older when
you burn the midnight oil after 9 pm.
county in the state and we boast
some 400,000 acres of irrigated land.
The rich agricultural products
have attracted such industries as
Holly Sugar, Arrowhead Mills, Frito
Lay, Hereford Tortilla Factory, a
number of national and international
That toiler on Tierra Blanca Creek
says we’ve opened the gates for the
Texas Wagon Train and we welcome
aD the participants as honorary
citizens of Horsford and Deaf Smith
County today!
MOLSTURE: A trace of rain.
OUTLOOK:-
percent chance
high near 9.
Bull Barn and in
for Canyon Fri-
ranks No. 1 in agricultural income in
the nation. Major products are
wheat, grain sorghum, sugar beets,
corn, grant seed, potatoes, onions,
lettuce, carrots, cabbage, cotton,
soybeans, rye and barley.
Three million head of livestock per
year are led and slaughtered in a
50-mile radius of Hereford. Irriga-
depart Friday morning to head for
Canyon.
Spaghetti will be served to the
wagon train participants today at
5:30 p.m. by arrangement of the
Deaf Smith County Sesquicentennial
Committee.
Texas music from the Chamber
Singers will open an evening of ac-
tivity in the Bull Barn at 7 p.m.
Following the choir, the winner of
Tom Draper at Frio parted this 30-yearold Plymouth,
complete with political opi
Tent Wagon Train will be following today. The train
will be pulling into Hereford around 2:30 p.m. Riders
HEFEFOpN
the local historic figure look-alike
contest will be announced and
special introductions made. Winners
also wiD be announced for best
wagon train participant costumes,
best team of horses, and best in-
dividual horse.
From 8 p.m. until 10 p.m., three
bluegrass bands will play. Cloggers
and square dancers will cut a rug
during that time, also.
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HostIIn' Hereford welcomes the Texas Wagon Train!
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day Aborning. The train started in Sulphur Springs and
will end up to Dallas. (Brand Photo by Shawn
Cockrum)
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Hereford Hustlers and various proximately 2:30 p.m. today. The
county and city officials welcomed county courthouse, schools and
the Texas Wagon Train into Deaf several businesses win be taking a
Smith County at noon today during a recess for the event.
lunch break near the Tom Draper Traveling north on US-385, the
farm at Frio. train will turn on Country Club
The greetings were to precede the Drive, proceed east to South Main,
train’s rolling into Hereford at ap- and then go north to New York
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y&t, and they are going to take the difficulty of reaching the $144 billion
responsibility for it,” said Rep. deficit target in the Gramm-Rudman
Delbert L Latta of Ohio, senior balanced budget law. .a.
Republican on the budget panel, who “We’re writing this" budgetina
opposed the measure. "They’ve got straightjacket," said Rep. Marvin
them (the votes) pretty well lined Leath, D-Texas, a conservative who
up.” said he reluctantly supported the
beet farmers. -
The ASCS at first had allowed Country Squire Dinner Theater. hard, meticulous work to make it bills Parts don’t just come to you.
beets to be a part of the reserve pro- "I got acquainted with the director seem natural, to get the characters people don't just walk up to you and
gram wherein farmers could receive of Adventure Theatre, Tami to flow together,” said GiliDand who offer you a part. And your bills can’t
partial payments for the crop on set- Logsdon, and I went to a cold reading admitted he's learned a lot. be paid by the parts alone,” says
aside land. After the beets were and tried out for any part,” smiled The group had just three rehear- Gililland.
platUert the ASCSchanged the mling Gililland. He remembers well sals with the characters Tom, Huck. He said that other professional ac-
and prohibited heet. frm the pm- because in the cold reading he had to and Joe acting alone. Then the full tors that he knows work as waiters or
gram. That decision was going to take the script he was given and read cast rehearsals were started, lasting bartenders when they can’t get a
cost area beet farmers several a role cold in front of an audience and two weeks and leading to last Satur- part.
mink- dollars the director day’s opening night. Gilliland said he would like to go
rnmhew said he met with USDA GiliDand read for the part of Tom “We've stopped rehearsals now into direction of movies, plays. and
chief Richard Lyng Wednesday Sawyer and Huck Finn for the play and we play every Saturday,” said musicals. “Really, rd just like to go
after a letter mailed several weeks "Tom Sawyer”, Mark Twain’s un- GiliDand. GiliDand said the actors into any part of the performing
ago went unanswered. Combest said forgettable classic about the life of a work very hard on stage blocking arts," he said.
he received a telephone caD Wednes- boy growing up on the river. But and projecting their character “I’d like to be another Cedi B
day night which annmmcrd the latew because of his size and age. Gililland gestures. DeMille, he said seriously,
change. was cast into the part of Huck Finn Of his director, he said. She gets Gilliland admitted that at this
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expected to win in House
WASHINGTON (AP) - The The budget committee adopted the House’s military budget. The deficit
House, finishing work on its fiscal Senate's decision to add $7.3 billion in target could not be met otherwise
1987 budget, appeared poised to join taxes to the 36 billion Reagan submit- because Congress refuses to touch
the Senate in calling for a tax in- ted in February. But while the entitlement programs and the nation
crease and a sharp cut in President Republican-controlled Senate pro- is saddled with payments on a debt
Reagan’s proposed military buildup, posed 8301 billion for the military in exceeding 82 trillion, he said.
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8994 billion spending plan drafted by 3285 billion. House members to support the
the Democratic-controlled House House Republicans propose no Republican alternative, but, “My
Budget Committee would win, and a more taxes than Reagan. But they Latest count is we’re behind.”
Republican alternative somewhat too would pare back Reagan's 8320 The House Democratic plan would
doser to what Reagan requested billion defense request, to 8293 leave a deficit of 8137 biDion, 37
would lose. billion. billion below the Republican plans.
“This is going to be a Democratic The spending plans aD reflect the
To our Mow Tuans who are part
of the Texas Wagon Train and aD our
other visitors during this special
Texas Sesquicentennial event, we ex-
tend a special welcome to hospitable,
hustlin' Hereford and Deaf Smith
County!
tian's finest bed yards,
iial committee Wn are proud Mur
for your ap- uBsril sad reftgluw «
pearance for months and we hope the Webavenomeschurchesreprenen-
thetra! facilities in the southwest, an e-
Our e aunty's name comes from celent YMCA facility, and many
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helping Sam Houston defeat Santa We tesw you? enjoy yur tegja
Ama and Ms troupe at San Jacinto, hustlin’ Hereford and we salute the
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Local family has stage presence
By CINDY SMITH According to Gililland he is the us to the point where it looks good
Staff Writer next to the oldest actor. Aunt Polly and seems natural, not just reading
Nineteen-year-old Matt GiliDand beats him out by a few years, and the our lines or blocking. but making it
recently made his debut at Adven- other characters are still in high come out very real, very natural."
ture Theatre in Amarillo and became school. "For example. I am not Matt
the second member of a Hereford “Of my fellow actors,” began GiliDand on stage-1 am Huck Finn,"
family to be on stage this month. GiliDand, "it always seems very, said Gililland. For anyone in high
How did the 1965 Hereford High very professional even though we are school that is thinking of going into
graduate “make it” to the top? He very young and we perform for acting. Gililland stressed that it is
said he went to see his mother, Amy children. much harder than it seems.
Gililland, currently starring in her “Something a lot of people can't “Whenever you get out on your
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temporary home of The Texas Wagon Train
Nib Yem, No. St, Deaf Smith County, Hereford, Ti.
j Texas Wagon Train rolls into town today
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Curtis, Jeri. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 222, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1986, newspaper, May 15, 1986; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1478049/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.