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September 16,
1990
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14 Pages -1 Section
Plus Supplements
Briefly
Ae-Oil
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ie annual Ag-Oil Day
sponsored by the Seminole Area
Chamber of Commerce will take
place Sept. 20, and persons
wishing to participate are urged
to contact the chamber.
Those wishing to donate to.
the event, those wishing to help
with the food, and those who
want to set up a booth can
contact Belinda Bornstein at the
chambcr office, 758-2352, for
more information.
Open House
Gaines County Public
Library will host an Open
House, Sept. 27 from 2:00 to
5:30 p.m.
The public will be able to
view the new room addition at
the library, and special
displays will feature literacy
program materials including
the Lauback method for
classes that will begin in
October.
The public is urged to
attend.
Booster Club
The Seminole Booster Club
meets each Monday at 7:30 p.m.
at the athletic fieldhouse to
conduct business and see films
of the previous week's game.
Anyone wishing to join the
club is urged to attend the
Monday meetings.
Breast Unit
The mobile breast unit from
Women's and Children's
Hospital in Odessa will be in
Seminole Sept. 27.
Starting at 9 a.m. that day, the
unit will be located in the
parking lot of Seminole
Memorial Hospital.
To make a reservation,
persons should call Brcnda
Johnson at the hospital, 758-
5811.
Square Talk
"DINK" AYRAIN tells about
backpacking ... DEBBIE
GRESSETT back on the job...
LAPHANE BURKETT Artist
of the Month ... JEAN MOF-
FATT reports the game ...
GEORGE CRISTY conducts
17th Broom Sale...
Deaths
Loeppky...
See Page 3
Weather
Date
Sept. 10
Sept. 11
Sept. 12
Sept. 13
Sept. 14
This Year
Hi Low
89
85
87
87
63
58
58
58
58
Prec.
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.00
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.00
.00
(Readings taken at 7:30 a.m. daily)
Total rainfall for Sept 85"
Total rainfall for 1990 11.12"
(Jan. .46"; Feb. .84"; Mar. .74";
Apr. 1.39"; May, .58"; June, Tr.;
July, 3.67"; Aug. 2.59")
Last Year
Prec.
.00
Tr.
.05
.07
Tr.
Total rainfall, Sept. *89 88"
Total rainfall, 1989 8.79"
Record Sept. High,'59 103*
Record Sept.Low, '75 40*
Average Sept. rainfall.. 2.28"
Greatest daily rainfall, '69.3.60"
Greatest Sept. rainfall,'74..7.45"
Avg. Aug. Days 32°& under ...0
Avg. Aug. Days 90? & over...14
(Official NWS records maintained by
John B. Moffatt. Records are for tlie pe-
riod, 1949-10).
1989
Hi
Low
Sept. 10
75
59
Sept. 11
72
58
Sept. 12
82
58
Sept. 13
54
48
Sept. 14
74
47
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Vol. 83, No. 92
Seminole (Gaines County), Texas 79360
Sunday, Sept. 16,1990
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1,610 in Gaines County
receive Social Security
According to a report recently
issued by the Social Security
Administration, 1,610 residents of
Gaines County received retirement,
survivor, or disability benefits
through the Social Security
Administration asof Dec. 31,1988.
This represents a slight 0.5 per cent
decline from the 1,618 local
residents who received social
security benefits one year earlier.
Nationally, the number of persons
receiving retirement, survivor, or
disability benefits through the
Social Security Administration was
38,627,022, or 1.1 per cent greater
than the 38,189,946 national
recipients at the end of 1987. It
should be noted that none of these
figures include recipients of benefits
through the Supplemental Social
Security program.
Social Security's retirement,
survivor, and disability program
affects more Americans than any
other single federal program. Some
15.7 per cent of all Americans
received either retirement, survivor
and disability benefits through
Social Security at the end of 1988,
unchanged from 15.7 per cent in
1987. Some 11.8 per cent of all
residents of Gaines County received
such benefits at that lime compared
to 11.5 per cent in 1987.
With the exception of federal
civilian employees and certain state
and local government employees,
the overwhelming majority
employed Americans pay the Social
Security taxes which support and
maintain these benefits. The Social
Security Administration estimates
that approximately 95 per cent of
'RED' ALERT--" Raider Red," the mascot of the Texas Tech Red
Raiders, along with a member of the Tech "Saddle Tramps" spirit
organization, visited Seminole Friday, unscathed by the Red Raider
51-35 loss to Houston Thursday. "Red" showed up at the Seminole
Junior Study Club Potato Bake and the potato sack races and also
put in an appearance at the Seminole-Andrews football game. And,
thanks to the Seminole Volunteer Fire Department, was able to get
aboard one of the fire engines. (Sentinel Photo)
GCAD turns down
monthly payments
Farm tour to kick
off Ag/Oil Day
Entity payments was one of the
items discussed at the regular
meeting of the Gaines County
Appraisal District Tuesday.
A request was made by the City
of Seminole at a previous meeting
to allow entities to make monthly
payments instead of quarterly
payments in an effort to obtain
better interest rates.
Although the board sympathized
with the entities, a check with the
State Property Tax Board in Austin
revealed that the State Code
specifically calls for quarterly
payments by entities and that is how
the procedure will continue.
The board also amended two
board policies during the meeting
dealing with disbursement of funds
and partial payments.
Concerning disbursement, dual
signatures will now be required on
all checks written for $2,500 or
CofC, hospital
meetings slated
The Seminole Hospital Board and
Seminole Area Chamber of
Commerce Board will hold their
regular monthly meetings this week.
At 6 p.m., the hospital board will
hold an executive session to meet
with a candidate for the
administrator's position.
During the regular meeting,
which will begin at 7:30 p.m., the
board will consider use of hospital
"acUities, consider approval of the
.tome health budget, consider
funding the pension plan and
consider the hospital annual cost
report. They will also hear regular
monthly reports, and, in executive
session, hear the quality assurance
report.
The chamber board will discuss
Ag/Oil Day and hear reports on
booster club flags and chambcr
plaques.
irore, and, when only one signature
is required, the chairman of the
board, secretary of the board, chief
appraiser or office manager are the
only persons authorized to sign
checks. In addition, the board will
have been considered to have given
approval on all payroll checks at the
time salary schedules arc accepted
with the annual budget.
Among the items in the partial
payment policy, all partial payments
must have the chief appraiser's
approval and shall be either a
contract and an agreement set up for
the taxpayer. Also, the bookkeeper
must keep a ledger on each account
See GCAD, Page 2
The annual farm tour, held in
conjunction with the annual Ag-Oil
Day sponsored by the Seminole
Area Chamber of Commerce, will
begin at9 a.m. Sept. 20 and visit the
eastern part of the county. Air-
conditioned buses will be provided,
and will return to the Civic Building
in time for the noon banquet.
Visited first will be the Lee
Jameson farm, where a cotton
management program run by
computer will be shown. Following
that stop, the farm of Charles
Medlin will be visited, to show
forage cotton with sorghum, his
compliance plan for the Farm Bill.
Harlan Miller's pecan orchard and
sheep operation will be the third
stop, while cotton conservation
tillage, with cotton sewn in wheat
residue, at the Eddie Foshee farm
will be the fourth stop. The final
stop will be on land owned by
Wesley Butchee, where a LEPA
irrigation system will be
demonstrated.
All interested persons are urged
to take the tour.
Tax statements
to be mailed
on October 1
Tax statements for 1990 will be
mailed Oct. 1, according to Gaines
County Chief Appraiser Betty
Caudle.
Persons paying taxes in October
will receive a 3 per cent discount,
while those paying in November
will get a 2 per cent discount, and
those paying in December will
receive a 1 per cent discount.
January, 1991, payees will pay
the actual amount due, with
penalties and interest to begin Feb.
1 of 1991.
More information is available at
the appraisal office or by calling
758-3263.
Change of face
By M. Gene Dow, Publisher
FROM THE SCRIPTURES-- "My leanness rises up
against me, and bears witness to my face." Job 16:8
* * *
By now, you have already noticed, I have replaced
my picture with a caricature drawing. I am sure that
after some 161 consecutive
columns, appearing twice each
week, you arc getting as tired of
seeing my mug as I have been.
Purpose is mainly just to personal-
ize this column a bit. The carica-
ture was drawn by an artist during a
Tandy Radio Shack meeting in Fort
Worth in August. I have been
pondering since that time whether
or not to use it. I am not exacUy
crazy about it, but at least it's
different and probably beuer than that old, overused
picture. Hope you like it
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Remember a while back when I listed a bunch of
town names and suggested mascots? I saw a very
appropriate combination while in Indiana. We drove
through a town named Frankfort, Ind. When we
passed by the football field, seen painted on the score
board was "Home of the Hot Dogs!" I would like to
hear Frankfort High School's school song, wouldn't
you?
* * *
THE OLD INDIAN CHIEF SAYS-Tht worst jolt
most of us ever get is when we fall back on our own
resources."
* * *
The main topic of conversation, sportswise, while
in Indiana was Eric Dickerson's refusal to take a
physical exam to determine if he was able to continue
playing with the Indianapolis Colts. When the Colts'
owner finally fined Dickerson a cool $625,000 and
would not allow him to be traded until after the
trading deadline, Dickerson said, "If I had known they
wanted me to take a physical I would have taken it."
It reminded me of a story about a company em-
ployee who refused to signup for a pension plan that
required 100% employee participation. Sam's boss
and his fellow workers pleaded and cajoled, but to no
avail. Sam said the plan would never pay off.
Finally, the company president called Sam into his
office. "Sam," he said, "here's a copy of the new
pension plan and here's a pen. I want you to sign the
papers. I'm sorry, but if you don't sign, you're fired, as
of right now!"
Sam signed the papers immediately. "Now," said
the president, "would you mind telling me why you
couldn't have signed earlier?" "Well, sir," replied
Sam, "nobody explained it to me quite so clearly
before."
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DID YOU KNOW?-Harry Lemaire. Seminole's first
band director, composed the schools'* Alma Mater
employed Americans and their
families are covered by Social
Security and that more than two out
of three aged Americans depend
upon Social Security for more than
50 per cent of their incomes.
Retired workers and their
dependents account for the majority
of Social Security recipients both
nationally and in Gaines County. At
the end of 1988, 1,060 residents of
Gaines County received social
security retirement benefits, up from
1,051 in 1987, or by 0.9 per cent.
Retired workers and their children
and spouses made up 65.9 per cent
of all persons receiving retirement,
survivor, or disability benefits in
Gaines County.
As of the end of 1988,
27,389,930 Americans received
retirement benefits through Social
Security, up from 26,987,874 in
1987, an increase of 1.5 per cent.
This figure includes retired workers,
their spouses, and their children.
Retired workers, their spouses and
their children constituted 70.9 per
cent of all persons in the United
States receiving retirement,
survivor, or disability benefits at the
end of 1988.
Another 400 persons in Gaines.
County received survivor benefits
as of the end of 1988, while 424
persons received such benefits in
1987, representing a decline of 5.7
percent. Persons receiving survivor
benefits represented 24.8 per cent
See SOCIAL SECURITY, Page 2
Sales tax
rebate up
for Seminole
Seminole and Seagraves went
opposite directions in sales tax
rebates for July, according to figures
from the State Comptroller's office.
Seminole received a payment of
$19,798.37, compared to
$17,908.60 during the comparable
last year, an increase of 10.S5 per
cent. For the year, Seminole has
received $210,220.29, compared to
$201,562.07 for the comparable
person last year, an increase of 4.30
per cent.
Seagraves received $3,441.44,
compared to $3,887.65 in the
comparable period last year, a
decrease of 11.48 per cent. For the
year, Seagraves has received
$38,347.71, compared to
$39,683.83, a loss of 3.37.
Checks to cities state-wide
totaled $76 million, an increase of
5 per cent over last year. This
month's checks reflect taxes
collected on July sales and late
August.
Some other area cities did not
fare as well as Seminole during the
period.
Andrews reported a loss of 7.19
per cent for the period, but still
showed a 9.94 per cent increase for
the year: Lamesa had a 4.26 per cent
decrease for the period and an 8.83
par cent decrease for the year;
Brownfield Showed a large 31.53
per cent increase for the period, but
just a 2.13 percent increase for the
year; Denver City had a 9 per cent
increase for the period and a 15.24
per cent increase for the year; and
Plains showed a 27.15 per cent loss
for the period and 13.25 per
loss for Um year,
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