Stephenville Empire-Tribune (Stephenville, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 204, Ed. 1 Monday, September 13, 1976 Page: 1 of 8
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Phone All Departments 965 3124
Stephenville, Texas 76401
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Texas Pecan Weevil
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Academy of Sciences said today.
Young Voters Sought
AUSTIN-Workers in a statewide voter
Jaycees' Effort
Well Rewarded
Glen Rose
Laundromat; Buddie 7-11 No. 1 and 2;
the fund for Muscular Dystrophy.
Couple Dies
Glen Rose-A prominent Glen Rose
Innoculations
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Correction
On-the-job training will be offered, with
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Government Officials Say
1976 Corn Crop Adequate
NEW MUSEUM DOCENTS-The Historical House Museum
started a course for new docents this morning. Two of those
attending are shown above: Mrs. Elby Fowler and Mrs. Ada
Hord. Others attending were Anna Claire Boyd, Brandy Davis,
Payne finally forced the pickup to stop,
and arrested the two men. The pair are
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record 5.89 billion bushels now predicted is
more than enough to keep all expected
foreign and domestic customers happy.
But some producers and transporters of
corn, wheat, rice and other crops for those
customers aren’t too happy, it appears.
Related Agriculture Department reports
of considerable shifting around in the
grain-export markets may not help.
The reports were designed to resolve registration drive are making a concerted
the controversy over the relationship effort to reach young Texans, according to
between fluorocarbons and the earth’s Sec. of State Mark White, who is directing
ozone layer. The panels said there was the registration project.
we are competitive
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abrasives, the company produces grind-
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can be assured that they will be given the And Jerry Lewis’ kids will thank the at Memorial Hospital in Cleburne,
opportunity to get their shots as quickly as Jaycees. Mr. Reynolds was apparently the pilot of
the aircraft, which crashed in an open field
prior to lapdmg at a private landing
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stead of Tuesday. The meeting is set
for September 18 at the Stephenville
Recreation Hall.
measures will not be effective.
Each year in early fall pecan weevil
adults emerge from the soil and move
into pecan trees to mate and deposit their
eggs. After an egg has been deposited,
the larva will develop inside the pecan,
cut a hole in the shell about Fs inch in
diameter and emerge from the pecan as
a fully grown larva in late October
through December. Larvae will tunnel
into the soil 4 to 12 inches. Much of the
pecan weevil’s 2 to 3 year life cycle is
spent as a larva in the soil. Larvae that
enter the soil this fall will emerge in
August or 1978 with the exception of
about 10 percent of these larvae which
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Reynolds was currently serving his first
term as county commissioner of Somervell
County.
The Reynolds are survived by three
daughters, Gina Starnes and Rita
Reynolds at Glen Rose, and Debbie
Burgess of Graham.
Mr. Reynolds also is survived by three
brothers, Louis Reynolds, Herschel
Reynolds, and Clifford Reynolds, all of
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Funeral services are pending.
Late last week, for example, 18
congressmen from wheat-producing states
- including House Agriculture Committee
Chairman Thomas S. Foley, D-Wash., and
the powerful chairman of the House
Appropriations Committee, Rep. George
Mahon, D-Tex. - urged President Ford to
boost the wheat production-loan rate to
$2.50 a bushel.
in the atmosphere.
The panels said the reduction in ozone,
which shields the earth from dangerous
ultraviolet radiation, could lead to
increases in skin cancer and potentially
great chnges in the earth’s temperature
and climate.
regulated or banned, the National developing pecan kernel to determine if it
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But two academy panels which studied applications of 80 per cent Sevin at the being held by Erath county law
begin innoculations in October. Sufficient ably behind schedule due to the inability of
publicity will be given in the newspapers, the four pharmaceutical companies
and on radio and television on the arrival involved to produce the vaccine in
of the first shipment of vaccine. Everyone sufficient quantities. /
Norton Company
To Employ More
by Barbara Lancaster the individual being trained by the
The Norton Company is one of the foremen of the department. The amount
world’s largest manufacturers of coated of time needed to train the workers will
abrasives, international in scope, with depend on the degree of complexity of the
plants all over the world. The plant here operation they are training for.”
has plans of employing up to 200 people. The company offers a hot lunch
Hal Wilsey, manager of administration program, sponsored by the Texas State
for the company says, “We have hired 63 Commission for the Blind, with Glen
people, and we plan to hire another 100 to Hankins as cafeteria operator.
150. The additional employees will be Gene Daley is manager of operations
production workers in the factory, for the plant, with six managers under
manning the machines and producing the him: Michael Hailey, manager of
orocarbons from aerosol spray cans have applications should be applied to pecans joined in the chase in which speeds
damaged the earth’s protective ozone as the pecans reach the dough stage. This exceeded 90 miles per hour and forced
shield and will have to be selectively can be determined by cutting through the traffic off Highway 377.
now trying to organize registration drives
in most colleges,” White said. “Young
Texans represent a large pool of the
electorate that remains untapped, and we
hope to register a large percentage by the
Oct. 1 deadline for registering to vote in
the Presidential election.”
White contends that most people,
regardless of age, tend to vote once they
complet the process of registering.
“Studies indicate that between 80 and 90
percent of registered voters do vote,”
White said. “All it takes to register in
Texas is filling out a postcard, so if we can
get our message to the people, we should
see an upswing in Texas voting
performance, which has been falling
steadily for more than a decade.”
Registration applications are available
through cunty tax assessors or by calling
White’s office in Austin toll-free at
1-800-292-9602.
“Anyone interested in helping us
register voters-especially young Texans-
can get in tough with us at this number,”
White said.
A higher rate would allow them to store is winding down, but corn and soybeans
their 1976 harvest, without selling at a loss, start coming in in significant amounts in
and get new financing, the congressmen two weeks. The peak of the shipping
said. season hits in early October, the group
About the same time, the American said. ,
Waterways Operators announced the The aim of the task force, chairman Tom
formation of an emergency task force of Gladders said, is to help the corps get
the domestic water carries industry to dredging equipment operating in the river
work with the Army Corps of Engineers to to facilitate barge movements and to help
deal with a water shortage that has cut coordinate efforts to assure“that rules on
barge capacity in half on the Mississippi loading and size of flotillas and special
River traffic regulations are efficiently commu-
The swine flue vaccine continue?' to
make news.
According to Mrs. Betty Heath, First we have the vaccine,” continued Mrs.
Lady’s Volunteer Chairman, notices were Heath. ___
recently mailed out with September Social Erath County will receive a limited
Security checks advising all persons to supply of the bivalent variety of vaccine
take their swine flu innoculations intended for persons 65 and over. This
immediately. vaccine will innoculate them against the
"While the program was scheduled to two primary strains of influenza which
begin in September, no vaccine is concern health officials.
available anywhere at this time,” advised The $135 million program, sponsored by
Mrs. Heath. the public health department and financed
“We are hopeful that we will be able to entirely by the government, is consider-
The AWO group said that the water level nicated to operating personnel.”
is the lowest in 16 years and the corps has The, congressmen organized by Rep.
suggested the river could be closed to Jack Hightower, D-Tex., said the $2.50
loan level - recommended in a farm bill
Ford vetoed in the spring of 1975 - would
“provide immediate relief to farmers and
provide some insurance to the banks that
finance their operations.”
Hightower said that the National
Association of Wheat Growers had told
him that Ford last week rejected its
request for a $3 loan level.
The pecan weevil, one of the most will emerge as adults during August of pecan weevil infestations. Reapply the
damaging pecan insect pests, has been 1979. -___ insecticide if rain occurs soon after the
observed emerging in Erath County, when pecan weevil infestations are application. There should be an interval
reports County Extension Agent ( Agricul- severe, this pest can destroy a large of 10-14 days between applications. When
ture), Richard Gary. To prevent pecan portion of the pecan crop. Feeding of using any pesticide, read and follow the
weevil damage the adult female weevils adult weevils causes the nuts in the water directions given on the pesticide label
must be controlled before they deposit stage to drop. After the kernel begins to carefully and use the insecticide only as
eggs in the developing pecan. Once the harden, the nut is susceptible to egg directed.
eggs have been deposited control laying. Adult weevil populations in the
orchard will vary greatly from year to .
year, but in heavily infested orchards \AIm Arrecree
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present in most years.
Frequently certain trees in the orchard Two men wanted by Fort Worth Police
are more heavily infested than others for the theft of a pickup they were driving
Begin checking trees now to determine if were apprehended Thursday after a high
there is a need for pecan weevil control, speed chase that began in Dublin and
Several methods of checking pecan ended five miles south of Comanche,
weevil infestations have been developed. The pursuit began at Sunset Hill
Washington AP - Even with the corn The rate is now $1.50 a bushel. navigation temporarily if the situation insufficient evidence to state precisely White says statistics indicate Texans
crop forecast down by 5 percent from early Farmers borrow money under the persists. the extent of damage to the ozone shield. between the ages of 18 and 20 participate in
August, government officials maintain the program to finance growing or marketing Farmers from the so-called breadbasket Philip Handler, NAS president, said in elections less than any other population
their crops using the grain as collateral states of the Mid-west normally ship about a letter to the White House that a one or segment, with the 21-24 year bracket
until they ‘sell it or default it to the 80 per cent of their export grain by barge two year delay in actual implementation following close behind.
government, which then sells it to cover to Gulf ports. of a ban or regulation would not be “We have contacted officials inav“waar
Ruby Ham, Geraldine Ham, Maurine Shell, Luda Curtoys, the problemisaid any ban or regulation of rate of 3 pounds per 100-gallens-ef water enforcement officials________for Fort
Lucile Ray, Becky Koller, Peggy Jones, Louise Smith, Billie aerosol spray cans should be delayed one may be needed to effectively control Worth police. ■
Martin and Nancy J. Allen. (Staff Photo). to two years until completion of further
studies on the ultimate effects of the ’ ----------—_________
reduction in the protective shield of ozone
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abrasives,” • finance; Jesse Lewellyn, manager of
“We have a large number of manufacturing; Gene Mayes, manager of
application forms we are selecting engineering; David Pinson, manager of
from,” he said. “We have temporarily production control, Hal Wilsey, manager
stopped taking applications, but we plan of administration and George Lott,
to start again when needed.” manager of purchasing.
In regard to salaries paid by the Nineteen currently work in the
Norton Company, Wilsey replied, "We program maintenance area and approxi-
don’t pay the highest wages in town, but mately 25 work in the office and in
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The Stephenville Jaycees received Septic Tank Service; Coca Cola company;
$852.80 in contributions the past Labor Day Safeway; Buddies; Piggly Wiggly,
weekend in the big jug, by people who Stephenville Empire Tibune; KSTV
enjoyed the rest stop and wanted to give to Radio; Walker’s Wrecker Service; Turney
Walker Tractor Company; Texas Highway couple, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Reynolds,
Department; J.C. Riggs, Stephenvile were killed instantly yesterday about 8:00
Recreation Hall; Stephenville__Office p.m. when their Cessna 172 crashed upon
Supply; landing four miles west of here.
Parhams’ Grocery; City Electric; Also injured in the crash were Teddy and
Bramlett implements, and many other Gina Starnes, the dead couple’s daughter
businesses and individual^ who contri- and son-in-law.
buted their time and supplies to make this Mr. Starnes is in very serious condition
Telethon and Rest Stop the great success it at John Peter Smith Hospital in Fort
was, the Jaycees want to say "thank you”. Worth. Mrs. Starnes is in serious condition
in_terms of pay clerical work. In addition to coated
The people of Stephenville contributed Texas Power and Light; Linda Jackson;
$2,966.94 to the Jerry Lewis Telethon. Leon Gordon.
People and firms who have contributed Mary’s Bakery; the Ice Company; The
in a special way include: Farmer’s First Stephenvile One Stop; (No. 1 and No.2);
Bank; Stephenville State Bank; Barron’s Foster Children’s Home, Church of Christ;
Jarring of limbs gives an indication of approximately at 12:45 a.m. after Dublin
weevil presence in trees at any given Police Sgt. George Mitchell and patrolman
time. To accomplish this, place a large Mike Hall receiveda dispatch stating that
sheet under a tree and jar the limbs with a white pickup had left a Stephenville
a padded pole. Weevils will drop to the service station without paying for gas.
ground and remain motionless for a short Minutes later, the pickup approached
period of time. Placing emergency cages Dublin at a high rate of speed and was
under known infested trees and stopped on North Patrick by Dublin Police
periodically recording catches has been but sped away before an arrest could be
useful in determining the period of adult made.
weevil emergence and indicating the Dublin police and Texas Department of
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