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Crosby County's Oldest Business Institution - Established January 7, 1909
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Volume 70 The Crosbyton Review, Croabyton, Texas 79322. Thursday, December 28, 1978 I 5 C nt> 'Number 52
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A MESQUITE and brush
thrasher, designed and constructed
by Jack Hash, as viewed by the
Inventor as "the best thing yet
devised" to help control mesqulte
growth on ranchland. '
Weed District Future
Depends On Election
Future of the Crosby County
Noxious Weed District will be
decided In an election called for
Saturday, Jan. 20. The question of
whether to continue or discontinue
the district is to be made.
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All county qualified voters are
eligible to cast ballots.
The noxious weed control district,
encompassing the entire county,
was formed following a Dec. 13t
1975 election. A recall election was
held in 1977.
Review Will Have
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New Publisher
Jack Hash Views Invention As
Solution To Mesquite Problem
"Crosbyton has the world's
largest gin, may be the first town to
use solar energy, and now we have
Vi.u fir on, Ok,
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By JIM REYNOLDS
BABY CROP
The cotton crop was a little lean
this year, but it appears that the
baby crop early in 79 will be a
bumper The community's popula-
tion is due to grow appreciably
between January and March
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MICRO-WAVE IN USE
Dama Dunlap says the micro-
wave oven she won in Saturday's
drawing is being put to good
use She was cooking on it
Christmas morning1 Dama express-
es "a big thanks' to-merchants who
made it possible
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NOT REALLY GOOD BYE
Flashbacks of lond memories in
Crosbyton keep surtacing as we
attempt to put out our final Review
issue
Then there are Rick and Debbie
Ball, special triends constantly!
The telegram bearing all those
names when we received the West
Texas Chamber of Commerce
Community Service" award
the many late nights Billie Jo and
Charles Freeman brought goodies
to the office Mrs Loyd E
Fowler's delicious surprises
Dick Snodgrass offering to put
chains on his pickup and let us take
it to print after a snow storm
Billye Stockton covering Old Set
tiers so we could attend a
convention Hubert Curry's
encouragement and advice
Sandra Witt always having kind
remarks in her notes" . , Ruby
Swindall.'s eagerness to help us and
Crosbyton;
Larry Yowell always being willing
to keep our camera gear operable —
or offering use of his equipment
Doyle Redding bringing In a half
Saa VIEW Page Four
the world's biggest 'lawnmower',"
claims Jack Hash He believes that
the "biggest mower" — a mesquite
and brush thrasher — which he has
created "could be a solution to the
problem" of mesquite, which has
haunted ranchers since they began
to grdze cattle in West Texas.
Hash, local spray pilot - Inventor,
sees his creation as "the best thing
yet devised",to combat mesquite. It
mows the vegetation off to ground
level "without bothlng the grass."
He explains that root plows
"disturb the grass and create weed
problems, sometimes even requir-
ing reseeding of grass and causing
the land to lay idle three or four
years " Another advantage Hash
sees to his "mower" Is th^t it is
"several times cheaper, per acre,
than anything else on the market."
COMMERCIAL USE
Hash s device,, mounted on a
Gallon T-500 grader which he
purchased via sealed bid from the
U S Forest Service; was first used
"on a test basis on four or five acres
at Carroll Himmel's place.
,,He then decided that "the L7
(Ranch) would give us a good, big
testing ground right here at first."
I R French Jr of Midland, owner
of the L7 Ranch, flew here Friday to
watch Hash's creation in action
Hash anticipates "really getting
Crosbyton Man
Perishes In
Truck Collision
A 21-year-old Crosbyton
resident, Claud Wayne Underwood,
perished about 8am Saturday In a
two-truck accident, six miles north
of Hatch, N M
Although details were not known
here, one source told The Review
that the vehicle driven by Under-
wood struck another truck from the
rear The local man was killed
Instantly
A driver for the Monty Livestock
Express of Amarillo, Underwood
was making a haul from El Paso to
Albuquerque, N.M This was to
have been his last "run" before
returning home for the Christmas
holidays.
Sh LOCAL Page Eight
after it" commercially "immediatei-
ly after Christmas." Several are®
landowners have contacted him
about removing mesquite from their
places, but he will do a consider-
able amount of work at the L7
before moving to a different site.
MOWS MESQUITE
'TALLER THAN CAB'
When operating Thursday on the
See JACK Page Six
In an announcement being made
jointly today in four towns, The
Crosbyton Review and ihree other
Panhandle - South Plains towns will
have new newspaper publishers.
"We plan to announce The
Review publisher in the next few
days," according to Wendell Tooley
of the Tooley-Reynolds Co., which
now owns the Crosbyton, Floydada,
and Lockney newspapers.
Jim Reynolds, publisher-editor
— and along with his wife, Beth —
owner of The Review for the past
61/2 years, will become publisher of
the Hesperian Publishing Co.,
which consists of two semi-weekly
publications, The Floyd County
Hesperian in Floydada and The
Lockney Beacon. Reynolds also will
be editor of the Floydada paper.
Reynolds is to assume duties in
Floydada Jan. 1, although the
family does not plan to move from
Crosbyton until this summer.
Tooley, publisher of The Floyd
County Hesperian for 13 years and
publisher of The Lockney Beacon
for 6Vi years, and his wife Mary
Tom have purchased The Tulia
Herald from H. M. Baggarly-. They-
plan to move to Tulia immediately.
The Tooleys also are majority
stockholders in The Slaton
Slatonite.
"We appreciate the people of
Crosby County and the East Plains
very much and we want them to
have the quality of newspaper they
want and deserve," Reynolds said.
"The fact that Beth and I wanted to
retain part ownership In The
Review depicts our confidence in
Crosbyton's future.'
"The Review — under the cap-
able management of Hubert Curry,
Billye Stockton, and others — has
long been recognized as one of the
quality weekly newspapers In West
Texas. We want to keep It that
way," the present publisher states.
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Reynolds adds that "Beth and I
appreciate, more than anyone can
imagine, the people of this com-
munity, the support and kindnesses
they have extended to us, and the
many, many friends we have In
Crosby County."
House Burns Wednesday
Fire Destroys Marley
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Family's Yule Dreams
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Jackie and Sheila Marley had
saved money for Christmas and
placed items for their two small
children — and each other — in
lay-away. Last Wednesday, Marley
"found the watch he had wanted for
a long time" — A Christmas
surprise from his wife — lying in
the ashes of a seven-room house the
family was renting.
The Marleys' dreams had gone
up in smoke — literally. All their
possessions had been lost in a fire
last Wednesday morning, five days
before Christmas.
"They lost everything . . . the
only thing they saved was the cloths
on their backs," NanolUa Gal I i more
told The Review. She and her
husband Kraig owned the frame
house, four miles north of Crosby-
ton on Farm Road 651.
ESCAPE INJURY
But, more important than their
belongings, the Marleys escaped
the burning dwelling without
injury.
Mrs. Marley — who had worked
on the night shift at West Texas Gin
until about 6:30 a.m. before return-
ing to her home — awakened about
10 a.m. and found herself coughing.
"She said she sat up in bed,
smelled smoke, and saw flames in
the living room, which Is adjacent to
the bedroom," Mrs. Gallimore
said.
Mrs. Marley found her two young
children -* Cindy, 3V4, and
Kenneth, 2 — In the back
See FIRE Page Eight
WINNING ticket for a micro-
wave oven Is drawn by Misty Marsh
as she prepared to hand it to Lewis
McDaniel, president of Crosbyton
Chamber of Commerce. Dama
Dunlap was the winner of the grand
prize, given at the Saturday after-
noon drawing by 22 Crosbyton
merchants. See story on Page Two.
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R C. STARK drew E.B.
Buckner's name Saturday for a
color TV given by Ball's and
Flowers N' Things. Rickey Ball
looks on as Stark holds the winning *
slip.
'Mild' Recession Foreseen By Babson
By Babson's Reports, Inc.,
Wellesley Hills, Mass
A year ago, our forecast for 1978 anticipated
further progress on the business front
Despite a long coal strike, an advance to peak
levels of Interest rates, and the appalling
decline In the value of the U.S. dollar against
the stronger currencies of the world, general
business did actually display more staying
power than had seemed attainable. Un-
fortunately, the specter ot Inflation — about
which we had warned — also made Its
presence felt during the past year. This cruel
"hidden tax" proved to be a dual-edged
sword: On the one hand, the Inflation
psychology prompted buying of durable goods
and home In expectation of higher prices, thus
helping to sustain the powerful business pace;
on the other hand, Inflation was Instrumental
in generating 'he flight from the dollar and the
V consequent poor performance of the stock
Business And Financial Forecast For 1979
market. So, 1978 saw public confidence
undermined by anxiety over the twin forces of
inflation and soaring Interest rates even while
there were healthy advances in Industrial
activity, employment, personal income, and
corporate profits.
1979 - SOME LETDOWN
FOR BUSINESS
As 1979 makes Its debut, the present
uptrend In the business cycle Is already
considerably longer than the average life span
of this nation's expansion phases. This does
not automatically — and of Itself — mean that
a trend reversal Is imminent, but a cyclical
upturn which has lasted 44 months Is
obviously vulnerable. After careful considera-
tion of all relevant factors, the staff of
Babson's Reports predicts that the American
economy will slip Into a recession In 1979.
Unttl early fall, It appeared that enough
business vitality ^xlsted to sustain the
economic upslant through the better part of
1979, or at least to avert a recessionary
setback In the course of the year.
The situation was changed, however, when
the Administration and the Federal Reserve
tcnk radical measure to dampen the forces of
inflation and to arrest the weakness of the
dollar. The chief steps were the further boost
In interest rates and the tightening of credit,
plus the implication there might be further
moves if necessary. With Interest rates
extremely high, prospects are obviously
unfavorable for such economic barometers as
Inventory accumulation, home building and
general construction, > business capital
expenditures, and consumer purchases of
automobiles and other high-priced Items.
DEEP, PROLONGED RECESSION
UNLIKELY
Though a recession is now more a distinct
llklihood than a mere possibility, its probable
severity is a matter of debate. A good deal will
depend not only on how much additional
pressure the nation's leadership will bring to
bear upon Inflationary forces but also on its
degree of determination. To back off too soon
or to fall to administer enough pressure could
allow inflation to regain momentum quickly,
perhaps necessitating subsequent measures
far mpre harmful to the economy than a job
properly done at this time.
With the economy at Its present extremely
high level, the anti-inflation game plan will
not produce traumatic consequences.
Babson's foresees, instead, a winding down In
the business tempo of sufficient Intensity and
duration to qualify technically as a recession
See MILD Page Seven
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