The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 83, No. 2, Ed. 1 Sunday, November 5, 1989 Page: 1 of 34
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November 5,
1989
35c
22 Pages - 2 Sections
Plus Supplements
Briefly
Vote Test
A logic and accuracy test on
Gaines County vpting machines
will take place at 5 p.m. Monday
in the computer room in the
basement of the courthouse.
Jamboree
The regular monthly
Higginbotham Jamboree will
take place at 7 p.m. Nov. 10 at
the Higginbotham Community
Building.
Several local and area bands
are set to perform at the event.
There is no admission charge
and a concession stand will be
provided.
Play Set
The drama and choral
departments at Seminole High
School will present the musical,
"Bye, Bye Birdie" Nov. 4,6 and
7 at 8 p.m. at the high school
Little Theatre.
Tickets are available for $3
per person at the high school
office.
Reservations can be made by
phone, but tickets must be
picked up within 48 hours of the
reservation being made.
Treasured
Memories
The Treasured Memories
Club will meet at Higginbotham
Community Center at 9:30 a.m.
Tuesday.
The organization is currently
in the process of making
southwest-style throw pillows
and are continuing sweat shirt
designing.
Those attending are asked to
bring slick or glitter paint for
sweat shirts and one yard of
unbleached heavy domestic for
pillows.
A covered dish luncheon will
be available at noon.
Notary Laws
The Texas Notary Public
Association will present a
seminar on Texas notary law and
procedure from 9 a.m.-noon
Nov. 29 at the Gold Room of
Seminole National Bank.
Pre-regisuration is $55, or will
be $60 at the door. More
information can be obtained by
calling 512-346-7428.
The seminar will cover all
duties and responsibilities of the
commissioned notary, all the
laws affecting notaries and the
new laws that became effective
in September of this year.
Deaths
Vidales...
See Page 3
Weather
This Year
Date
Hi
Low
Prec.
Oct 30
59
37
.00
Oct. 31
67
32
.00
Nov. 1
51
32
.00
Nov. 2
55
24
.00
Nov. 3
—
24
.00
(Readings taken at 7:30 a.m. daily)
Total rainfall for Oct .00"
Total rainfall this year 9.68"
Pr<
Last Year
1988
Hi ■
Lo
Oct. 30
69 v
46
Oct. 31
59
52
Nov. 1
79
45
Nov. 2
69
45
Nov. 3
84
50
Total rainfall, Nov.
88.
.00
.00
.00
.00
.06"
Total rainfall, 1988 20.04"
Record Nov. High, 1952.. 89'
Record Nov. Low, 1976..... 5*
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Average Nov. rainfall c>4
Greatest Nov. rainfall,78.3.45"
Avg. Nov. Days over 90°...... 0
Avg. Nov. Days under 32°.... 13
Average Nov. Snowfall ..1.4
Greatest Nov. Snowfall,'8014.r
(Official NWS record* maintained by
John E. Moffan. Record* am for (to pe-
riod, 1951-80).
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Seminole
Sentinel
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Vol. 83, No 2
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Seminole (Gaines County), Texas 79360
Sunday, Nov. 5, 1 *>89
Amendment election set for Tuesday
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ANDREWS
EMERGENCY DISTRICT-The gray area shown above on the county map in the northeast part of
Gaines is the area proposed for an Emergency Service District. If approved, the district would levy its
own taxes and manage the operations of the emergency ambulance service and fire departments.
Fifty called as prospective
District Court Grand Jurors
Fifty Gaines County citizcns
have been summoned to serve as
prospective grand jurors for the
new terflrof 106th District Court.
Notified to report to the
Courthouse at 9 a.m. Thursday,
Nov. 9 are:
From Scminole-Jose Alaniz,
Irma Laura Almagcr, Jack
Wesley Barber, Jewell Priddy
Bell, Mary Bergen, Don Carson,
Raul Cavazos, Patsy Tcague
Condit, Dick Shane Davis, Trina
Lovclle Draughan, Riki Jann
Fisher, Chon Gonzales, Clyde
Eldon Graves, Mclvin Lee
Hodges, Jr., Ed Roy Jones, Cccilc
Fuller Kephart, Dcbra Kay
Lammons, Danny Joe Lujan,
Manucla L. Luna, Jackie Suzetle
Middlcton, Annie Raynes
Muntzert, Jerry Don Parum, Ulna
Norris Rash, Bryan Edward
Reed, Jerry Lee Rigdon, Elias J.
Sanchez, Kenneth Wayne Siglc,
Joe Smith, Kimbra Okccfe Smith,
Lyndell F. Smith, Patricia DeWilt
Thomas, Emmett S. Walkins,
Bobbie Crow Wood.
From Seagraves—Terri Lyn
Barron, Jose Chavez, Ida Evans
Cole, Lonnie Dunson, Donna
Feachiscur Freeman, Vcncta
Dunlap, Maurine Petty Jones,
Carolyn Sue McKenzic, Melissa
D'Ann Moore, Juanita Tame/.,
Mary Warren Thames, and Rhea
Don Wingo.
31,571 more bales ginned,
total reaches over 90,577
Gaines County cotton gins
continued to stay busy this past
week, with the 18 gins responding
to The Sentinel's fourth weekly
survey reporting a total of 31,571
ginned for the week, bringing the
total bales ginned for the season to
94,868.
Last year, the fourth survey
produced 90,577 bales from 17
reporting gins.
Regionally, the U.S. Department
of Agriculture's Lamesa Classing
Office continued operating on
Saturday and Sunday to handle the
increasing sample workload.
There were 28,709 samples
classed during the week ending Oct.
25, which brought the season's total
of 58,991. That is about 15 per cent
of the estimated 390,000 for the
season, according to Don Lewallcn,
area director.
Quiz
By M. Gene Dow, Publisher
FROM THE SCRIPTURES—"Wisdom is found on
the lips of him who has understanding." Proverbs
10:13
* * *
John Golmon, assistant superintendent for instruc-
tion, for the Seminole schools, has been passing out an
interesting "quiz" around the
schools this fall. It is not a test of
mathematical ability, as it may at
first seem, but more a guage of
your mental flexibility, creativity
and recall. Few people have been
able to solve rhore than half the 25
questions on the firct try, but many
times the answers to others will
come after several days. Some that ® „
seem difficult or unsolveable will Gene w
suddenly become very simple. Each of the questions
below contains the initals of words that will make the
statement correct. For instance, "16 O. in a P." is 16
ounces to a pound.
1.26 L. of the A.
2.7 W. of the A.W.
3.1001 A.N.
4.12 S. of the Z. _
13. 8 S. on a S.S.
14. 3 B.M. (S.H.T.R)_
15.4 Q. in a G.
16. 24 H. in a D.
17. 1 W. on a U.
18. 5 D. in a Z.C.
19. 57 H.V.
20. 11 P. on a F.T.
21. 13 isa B.D.
22. 29 D. in F. in a L.Y..
23.64 S. on a C.
24.40 D. and N.oftheG.F.
25. 50 S. in the U._
5.54 C. in a D. (with the J.)
6.9 P. in the S.S.
7.88 P.K._
8.13 S. on the A.F.
9.32 DJF. at which W. F.
10. 90 D. in a R.A.
11.18H. onaG. C.
12.200 D. for P.G. in M.
Normally, when we present a quiz of any kind in
this corner, we will supply the answers cither here or
elsewhere in the same issue; but these you might need
to sleep on for a day or two. So, will wait and give
you the answers Wednesday. Good luck!
* * +
THE OLD INDIAN CHIEF SAYS-Evcrybody has
20/20 hindsight.
* * *
A small boy, doing his homework, asked:
"Grandpa, will you help me find the common denomi-
nator?"
"Good heavens, you mean they haven't found that
yet?", asked Grandpa. "They were looking for that
when I was a boy in school!"
♦ • *
DID YOU KNOW?—Dallas consumes more canned
spinach than any other city in the United Slates.
(After all, somebody has to be first.)-Old Farmers
Almanac.
Seagraves, Loop vote
on emergency district
Also J. A. Jones and Jane
Kisncr Stafford of Loop; Pattie
Coleman Harmonson and Bobby
Dale Smith, Denver City.
Qualily statistics showed grades
on samples continuing high, mostly
originating from irrigated acreage.
Grade 21 was 24 per cent; grade 31
was 40 per cent; grade 41 was 20
percent; and all light spotted grades
totaled 10 per cent. Barky
reductions came to 24 per cent of
the total classed.
Fiber length average was 34.05,
while fiber strength averaged 26.61
grams per lex.
Micronaire ligurcs continued on
the low side. Samples miking in the
35-49 base range came to 53 per
cent; 33-34, 12 per cent; 30-32,21
per cent; 27-29,11 per cent; and 26
and lower, 4 per cent.
And, according to U.S.D.A.
officials, farmers were reluctant to
sell at current offers of 1750 to 1850
points over loan rates.
Gaines County voters, as well as
those around the state, will vote at
their various polling places Tuesday
on the fate of 21 proposed
amendments to the Texas
Constitution. In addition, voters in
the northern and northeastern
portions of the county will be voting
on whether or not to set up an
Emergency Service District.
Commissioners Court called the
election at its Sept. 25 meeting, after
conducting a public hearing at
which several persons from that part
of the county were present.
If the measure is approved,
commissioners, based on
recommendations from within the
district, will appoint a five-person
board to manage the district and
establish the necessary tax rate.
After the first of the year,
commissioners will then determine
one or two-year terms of office for
the appointed board members.
Following that, board members will
be elected by the district.
The taxing district, if approved,
would not go into effect until 1991
and the anticipated tax rate at this
time would be 4 cents per $100
valuation. A 10 cent per $100
valuation is the maximum rate that
will be allowed.
Polls for both the Emergency
Services District election and the
constitutional amendments election
will be open from 7 a.m.-7 p.m. a!
the various polling places. (See list
of county polling places elsewhere
in this issue.)
A total of 35 persons had voted
absentee shortly before the 5 p.m.
Friday deadline.
(See Sample Ballot, Section 2,
Page 5)
Proposition 1 on the ballot deals
with limiting the salary of the
lieutenant governor and speaker of
the house to not more than 1/2 of the
governor's salary and to limit die
salary of a member of the legislature
to not more than 1/4 of the
governor's salary; Proposition 2
would authorize the issuance of an
additional $500 million of Texas
water development bonds for water
See ELECTIONS, Page 2
Gaines County
Voting Locations
PRECINCT 2-Gaines County
Civic Building
PRECINCT 3--Seminole
Elementary School Bovs Gym
PRECINCT 4-Semi'nole
Chamber of Commerce Building
PRECINCT 5 - - Loop
Community Building
PRECINCT 6--Higginbotham
Community Building
PRECINCT 4, BOX 1-
Seagraves Chamber of Commerce
Building
PRECINCT 8»Seagraves
Community Building
Only eight
building
permits issued
Building permits issued by the
City of Seminole in October, the
first month of the fiscal year, totaled
the same as in September, but
valuation of those permits was down
considerably.
A total of eight permits were
issued in October, valued at S1,500.
In September, eight permits were
also issued, valued at S81,500. In
October of 1988, seven permits for
structures valued at $201,250 were
issued.
In ihe calendar year, valuation
amounts to $952,880, compared to
calendar year valuation of
$1,450,596 in 1988.
During October, no ma^or
valuations, such as houses or
commercial structures were started,
with valuation coming from six
mobile homes and two alterations
or additions to dwellings.
One electrical permit was issued
during October, compared to three
in September and two in October of
1988. A total of 31 electrical
permits have been issued since
January of this year.
See PERMITS, Page 2
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SPLAT!!--Gaines County Sheriff Jon Key shows the results of a
whipped cream pie thrown in his direction at the EMS Volunteer
booth during the Seminole Junior Study Club Halloween Carnival
Tuesday. Key "volunteered" as a target for the booth, proceeds of
which went to the volunteers for their many projects. In addition,
several other organizations participated in the annual carnival,
which was held at the Gaines County Civic Building.
, (Sentinel Photo)
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