The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 21, 1988 Page: 1 of 26
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Deer Capital of Texas
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Rain this week
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1988 rain to date
1987 1-month total
breed. The steer was bred by James Esse of
Campleton, Texas. Osbourn also showed the champion
British heavyweight breed.
Approval of a one-year extension
to the superintendent's contract and
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GRAND CHAMPION STEER - Courtney Osbourn has
just won the Llano County Junior Livestock steer show,
with "Jambo," a 1,260-pound heavyweight European
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On the inside . .
senior; swine: Neda Jo Bauman,
junior; Chad Wootan, senior; lambs:
Mark Schulze, junior; Dane Saucier,
senior; goats: Nikki Meador, junior;
Kyle Rode, senior.
A complete list of all of the
placings, champions, and grand and
reserve champions in each division
can be found on Page B-6.
Traffic report
lists injury
The Texas Highway Patrol inves-
tigated three rural traffic accidents
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ted in no deaths and one injury.
The twenty-three counties which
comprise high patrol district 6B had
a total of 5382 rural traffic accidents
in 1987 which resulted in 169 deaths
and 3284 injuries. This compares to
6802 accidents, 154 deaths and 4097
injuries reported during 1986.
Washington was exciting and I will never fa
memories and the experiences we all shared.
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seemed to really care about us and our community. It
was nice to see a person be so personal with high
schoolers
Williamsburg was also a nice thing to see. It was great
to see all of the history and the way the people did
things in the olden days. It was nice to talk to the
character actors to learn about the history of the colony.
Ford’s Theater was the best thing that I did all week.
It was neat to see the sport where Lincoln was
■5osinstod The play was also done well. It was a
beautiful play for a beautiful building and city.
Arlington Cemetery was a beautiful place. It made me
fighting to keep our rights. The changing of the guard
was so respectfully done.
All of these things were very nice. They are just a few
of the great things to do and see. I would love to see it
all again.
Mr. Gorbachev, they did not get to be near or be part of
any of those events.
Bodo, Dame Pearler, Mark Schulze, Chad Wootan,
Noda Jo Bauman and Kayla Osbourn.
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participate in some of the question and answer
sessions. Sightpeeing was also included In ths
government. I also saw some real exciting places while
" I was up there.
The seminars that we attended were interesting. I
especially enjoyed them because I have never been to
one before. One of my favorite seminars that I attended
was the diplomatic seminar.
I also enjoyed the trip to Williamsburg I thought it
was fun to go inside the stores and see how they made
things the old-fashioned way. My tour guide was real
good, so I learned a lot about the place. The food that
we ate there was also very different and questioning to
try.
Our free day on Friday was the best part of the week.
I am really glad that the Close Up Foundation let us
have this day. I am so glad that I got to see my all of the
places that I did on my free day.
The National Cathedral has to be one of the most
exciting places to see. The building was so large and
beautiful. I thought that the stained glass was
gorgeous. I would love it if I could have stayed there
longer and explored some more.
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Editor’s Note: The following stories were written by
the eight Llano High School students who had the
privilege of traveling to Washington D.C. as part of the
“Close Up” program. The program gives students the
week-long vieit. NNheugh they were pe
of the summit meeting bitwise President Reagan and
Williamsburg was so fascinating. I never dreamed
that was basically where our government started. The
town was so neat and it still upheld its old traits and
characters. I thought the people really played the
earlier days well.
The free day was fun, too. I thought you took us to
some important places that my bus just could not reach.
The subway rides were a lot different than what I ever
imagined. On television, it shows the subway stations
all torn up and really trashed. These stations were very
nice and I think if I lived there, I would take it often.
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’ The 64th annual Llano County
•Chamber of Commerce banquet will
be held January 23 beginning at 7
•p.m. at the American Legion Hall,
according to Bryan Miiller, chamber
president.
» Highlighting the 1988 banquet
will be the presentation of the
"Outstanding Citizen for 1987 and the
naming of the Hall of Fame
honoree. These awards are tradi-
: tionally made by the most recent
recipients of these prestigious a-
wards.
Sharing top billing with the award-
winners will be guest speaker of the
evening, Clayton W. Williams, Jr.,
of Midland.
Theme for the banquet will be
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Llano students review Washington 'Close Up'
Crabtree, Jr. with his 246-pound
heavyweight hampshire.
The grand champion gilt was
shown by Tory Virdell and the
reserve champion was shown by
Chapel Schuessler.
There were only two entries in the
heifer division and the Maine Anjou
shown by Chapel Schuessler, won
grand champion honors and the
Hereford shown by.Kody Wagner
was named reserve champion.
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My visit to Washington D.C. was very fun and
exciting. I had a great chance to learn more about our
"When you go to the major shows,
you won’t see any better exhibits
than what you are seeing here
today.”
Those were the words of Ken Cook
of San Angelo just before he chose
the grand champion steer of the
annual Llano County Junior Live-
stock Show held Friday and Saturday
at the Community Center.
Standing in the ring were three
massive steers all weighing in more
than 1,200 pounds and all were
black, to which Cook commented
that even though he might seem to
be partial to black in the eyes of
some people, “you could paint these
three green and they would still be
the best.”
With that, he walked over and
shook hands with Courtney Osbourn,
whose 1,260-pound European hea-
vyweight named "Jambo” took the
top honor of the show. The second
place European heavyweight was
brought in by Chapel Schuessler. It
weighed 1,270 pounds and "County
Liner” was picked as the reserve
champion. Osbourn’s steer was bred
by James Esse of Campleton and
Schuessler’s by J.H. Schuessler of
Llano.
Other judges had simiar praise for
the quality of the Llano stock show.
Judge Joe Beherns of Voca compli-
mented the youths and their advisors
for having a lot better show this year.
“You have real high quality
here,” Beherns said as he pondered
his final decision. "They are good in
all classes and they are a lot harder
to judge this year.”
Beherns then stepped forward and
picked Bradley Kassell for exhibiting
the grand champion market hog, a
224-pound middleweight crossbred.
Capturing reserve honors was Bert
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Staff member Larry Jones of the
Llano County Tax Appraisal Office
was at the meeting to report on the
disposition of the Wayne Hurd suit
concerning his property at Horse-
shoe Bay.
The 1985 original appraisal value
was reduced from $21,855,637 to
$8,110,574. Taxes of $130,696 were
paid, while the reduced value called
for a tax of $48,501 or a refund due of
$82,195.
In 1987 the original value of
$23,231,110 received a new appraisal
value of $9,963,483. After computing
the original taxes paid and those due
after the new appraisals, a credit for
1988 of $8,735.52 is stijl on the
books, according to Scott.
The suit against the appraisal
district was brought by three Horse-
shoe Bay developers in an effort to
get unsold lots classified as "inven-
tory" so they would be taxed at a
lesser value than "market value”
which the district has been using.
The out-of-court settlement was
reached when both sides agreed to a
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in Llano County during Decombeke -ereshrfaeing of the schoor’s tennis
1987. Acconding to Sergeant Smith. courts highlighted the January 14
supervisor for this highway patrol meeting of the Llano Independent
sergeant area, these accidents resul- . School District's board of trustees.
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Superintendent's contract
reappraisal by an outside firm, which
both parties would accept and whose
decision would be final.
Priorities List
Superintendent Moore presented
the board with a list of major facility
projects for the Llano ISD for 1988.
In order of their importance as
suggested by Moore, they are:
• Additional desks, chairs, cafe-
teria tables, etc. for the new school
buildings at an estimated cost of
$30,000.
• Chalkboards for main elemen-
tary building, annex and O’Henry
building at a cost of $4,500.
• Conversion of existing high
school band hall to two classrooms
and modification of heating and air
conditioning at a cost of $5,000.
• Renovation of elementary annex
(first grade), central heat, A/C,
carpet, lower ceilings, enclose win-
dows, new doors, new lighting, etc.
at a cost of $50,000.
* Install hand dryers in rest rooms
at high school and junior high at a
cost of $4,000.
• Central heat and air conditioning'
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Commodities to
the group, but hod each one write a short story about
their trip and what they liked the best of the things they
saw and heard. We hope you enjoy their Close Up
Raymond Pape of Rocksprings
judged the angora goats and was
impressed with the quality of the
mohair. He picked a registered doe "
kid shown by Janet Burke as the
grand champion and & registered
billy kid shown by Kelly Miller as the
reserve grand champion.
Following the completion of each
division, there was a contest held to
see who would win the junior and
senior showmanship trophies which
were presented at the sale. Before
making their selections, each judge
gave the exhibitors tips on how they
could be better exhibitors.
Showmanship awards were pre-
sented as follows: cattle: Kayla
Osbourn, junior; Chad Wootan,
The premium sale was just slightly
lower than the 1987 eale. This year
the total was 851,225 as compartd to
852,925 last year.
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Osbourn has top steer; Kassel l wins swine show
patriotism with red, white and blue
colors prominently displayed in and
around the Legion Hall. A color
guard from the U.S Navy and Marine
Reserve Center in Austin will be on
hand to present Colors.
The guest speaker, Clayton Wil-
liams, is an Eagle Scout, oilman,
conservationist, rancher, banker,
high tech businessman and an
Aggie.
He is owner of Clajon Gas, the
largest privately-owned natural gas
company in Texas and Williams
County, which has drilled more than
800 wells across the county, and
today operates more than 400 wells.
He has farming and ranching
operations, and owns ClayDesta
National Bank in Midland, one of the
city’s largest. He also owns Clay-
Desta Communications, the first
totally digital microwave long dis-
tance telephone network in Texas,
and honors. The two he treasures
most are the Distinguished Alumnus
are the Distinguished Alumnus
Award from Texas AAM and the
Golden Plate Award from the
American Academy of Achieve-
ments.
The steak dinner will be catered by
Brothers' Bar-B-Q. Tickets to the
banquet will sell for $10 each and
may purchased at the chamber
office, from chamber directors or at
the Llano News.
arrive Tuesday
Free government commodities,
cheese, butter and honey will arrive
in Llano Gounty January 26.
The distribution sites are Llano
Senior Citizens 1:30 to 2:30. Kings-
land Lions Club 10 a.m., Tow
Volunteer Fire Department 10:30
a.m. and Buchanan Dam Volunteer
Fire Department 2 p.m.
First of all, I sever thonght I would see Washington
D.C. Ive always dreamedo D.C. being a big "story
tale.” I thonght the hihlighta of the trip wore the
Williamsburg viit and the M8 day.
members George Mayben and Curtis
Osbourn.
sbourn later expressed the same
concern as last year when he
opposed the extension, saying, "I
feel a person should nearly complete
his contract and then ask for a
renewal. I don't favor a continuous
extension of contracts, even though
this appears to be the policy of most
schools.”
The school’s seven tennis courts
will be resurfaced in the near future
at a cost of $9,725. The low bid was
submitted by Trans Texas Tennis of
Austin.
In the lamb division, the Schulzes
walked off with the top honors. First
it was Mark Schulze with his grand
champton 127-pound lighweight
mediumwool lamb. Angela Schulze
followed with the reserve grand
champion with her 113-pound hea-
vyweight finewool lamb.
Judge Gary Jennings of Fredonia
also had high praise for the animals
and their exhibitors.
"I really appreciate the depth and
quality of these lambs,” Jennings
said. “Most of them are showing
good volume of muscle and finish.
You have certainly done a lot of work
with your animals this year.”
Returning for another year as judge
of the poultry division was Wilbert
Seipp of Fredericksburg, and he was
more than pleased with the show this
year.
"Not only did you have a fine
group of broilers, but this year you
divided the show into a junior and
senior division and that was very
good,” Seipp said. "Tell the mom-
mas and pappas, grandmas and
grandpas, aunts and uncles and
Akissin' cousins they all did a good job
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Superintendent Dorman Moore’s
contract received a one-year exten-
sion to three years in a split vote of
the board. Voting for the extension
were board president George Wen-
tsch, Wayne Brascom, Carolyn
Goodson and Billy Ratliff. Voting
against an extension were board
thi school gets to continue its participation in the Close
Up prognun, too.
David Laxom
My favorite things about my Washintong trip are
numerous. Thore wore on many things that I loved.
Some of these things were going to see Lamar Smith.
Wiamsburg, Ford’s Theater. and Arlington Ceme-
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