Hudspeth County Herald and Dell Valley Review (Dell City, Tex.), Vol. 34, No. 47, Ed. 1 Friday, July 19, 1991 Page: 5 of 12
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JULY 19, 1991, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Review, PAGE 5
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Erica Clark, 18, of Mansfield, Texas, is the first young woman to be elected pres-
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My father had a theory that, as the child in the womb
goes through the various stages of the created animal
world, so in early years it continues its progress through
the primitive history of man: and it is therefore most
necessary, he would say, that children should travel, at the
time when in their epitome of history they are nomads by
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dates will have to be taken more
more seriously, ” said Maynard.
"In the past, when candidates
were planning strategies, the
girls in the election were just
sort of an afterthought. "
"It's really nice to know that
one of us girls could be elected
to that position, " said Dell
City FFA treasurer Kay Slaughter
who was attending the conven-
tion for her first time.
Clark, 18, will postpone her
college studies to pursue her
duties in her new post. She
will travel more than 50, 000
miles and deliver about 1000
speeches as she criss-crosses
the state representing the Texas
FFA.
Clark was elected from a field
of nine candidates who presented
their campaign speeches to the
delegate body Thursday morn-
ing. Normally there are ten
candidates representing the ten
areas of the state association,
but Area TV's candidate, Justin
Ransom of Wichita Falls was
disqualified for a violation of
campaign rules. Ransom will
be allowed to serve as a state
officer.
Other state officers are Davon
Taylor, Ropesville; Royce
Gemgross, Wall; Heather
Dollins, Katy; Trent Ashby
Henderson; Tobin Boe nig,
Marion; Dennis Degner, Hills-
boro; Jo Ann Petty, Kennard;
Lance Bradley, Calallen.
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help: the rest is cruelty, not justice.
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FFA members witnessed a
historical first as state conven-
tion delegates elected Erica
Clark of Mansfield the first
female state president in Texas
FFA history. Clark was named
president of the 54, 000-mem-
ber agricultural youth organi-
zation at the conclusion of its
annual convention held in El
Paso July 9-12.
Two women have served as
president of the national organ-
ization; numerous1 young ladies
served as president other state
associations. Many have
served as state officers in the
Texas FFA, but for the associa-
tion's top spot the gender
barrier was long and difficult
in falling.
"It's been coming for a long
time, " Clark said in an inter-
view with the El Paso Times.
"I feel fortunate to be the one. "
In the last five years, many
lady FFA'ers came ever so
close. In four of the last five
years, a female candidate
finished second.
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Saddam Hussein appears human. He is sub-human.
When he withdrew from Kuwait City he ordered kerosene dumped
into the city's water supply -- for no earthly military reason.
When he torched the oil field he did it with malice,
systematically.
A scorched-earth retreat can be militarily useful.
Setting the biggest fire that ever was was not a "military act";
it was the pure-meanness mischief of a pathological psychopath.
Dr. Henry W. Kendall, Nobel laureate in physics at MIT, and Dr.
R.L. Garwin, a physics colleague, have been mobilizing our best
scientific brains to see if there is not some better way to fight
such fires.
They found the challenge to be monumentally complex.
For example, when I asked about the potential for extinguishing
the fires with explosives. Kendall explained that these wells are
infinitely more complex than a pipe in a hole. Each may involve
six to eight concentric pipes reaching different depths under varying
pressures.
Also, Saddam Hussein surrounded each well with an assortment of
mines -- different makes, different depths, Some explode under
pressure. Some you must pass over a certain number of times
before they explode.
The on-site scientists came away with enhanced respect for such
fire fighters as Houston's legendary Red Adair, but a mine field is
a unique problem not usually met in that profession.
Access to each well must somehow be cleared.
Presently, the most promising technique involves an enormous
"leaf blower',' a powerful machine capable of blasting a clean strip
of desert 30 feet wide and a foot deep, detonating or tossing aside
any and all explosives.
And there is yet a more sinister problem.
A burning well is a lesser ecological menace than a gushing
well, which may create a lake of oil, dozens of square miles of oil
up to four feet deep.
When that lake of oil congeals under a skim of tar, explosive
gases are trapped underneath with the potential to convert a
disaster into a catastrophe.
And nobody has ever before had to deal with minesweeping
underneath a lake of oil.
Several nations are competing with an assortment of techniques
for dealing with these problems, each hoping to win some lucrative
contracts.
There are 15 teams now working in the burning fields, and The
Union of Concerned Scientists-as well as our federal government are
presently most confident of the orthodox techniques employed by
traditional oil-field fire fighters, with some additions, will get
the fires out.
The subject of war reparations is on the back burner for now,
but somewhere up the road ahead the responsibility for these fires
and the astronomical costs of putting them out and their grave
costs to the world environment Saddam Hussein should have to pay.
It's a sorry audit of the "wages of sin" if this post-war
reconstruction ends up costing us more than it costs him.
(c) 1991, Los Angeles Times Syndicate
"I'm really not sure why it
took so long, " said Dell City
FFA advisor Tom Maynard,
a long-time observer of Texas
FFA politics.
'The area associations were
electing female presidents and
state officers, but when it
came right down to it, the
delegates would just back out
of it, " he said.
Becky McClinton served as an
agricultural science instructor
for four years before being
named as the state association's
executive secretary. She is
the first female to serve in that
capacity and offers an explana-
tion as to why Texas was the
last bastion of male domination
in FFA leadership.
"Female role models in agri-
cultural science have not been
that plentiful, " she said. There
are still only 55 female agri-
cultural teachers in the state.
Most student look around and
see men in the leadership roles. "
'The new semester courses
which offer more non-traditional
subjects into agri-science
programs have attracted more
girls, and more young ladies are
taking leadership roles on the
local level, " she said.
Current Texas FFA member-
ship is about 35 percent female.
"I think that the breaking of
this barrier will change the
complexion of future state FFA
elections because female candi-
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