The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1997 Page: 8 of 36
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PAGE EIGHT A
THE TULIA (Swisher County) HERALD
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1997
MAURO
BARBARA SCROGGINS gave
information on Liberty Suites, a new
Tulia enterprise. Barbara bought the
former Crow motel and turned it into
a retirement complex for assisted
living, an alternative to nursing
homes. She is having open house on
Jan. 1 if you would like to tour the
new facility.
HAPPY SENIOR CITIZENS
have held their last meeting for this
year. They will have a business
meeting and potluck supper on
Thursday, Jan. 8, at 6 p.m.
HAPPY CHAPTER OF the Or-
der of the Eastern Star held their
Christmas party on Tuesday evening,
Dec. 16, in their hall. The Christmas
gift exchange is always exciting.
Novalene Toles served cake, ice
cream and cider or coffee to Loucse
White, Joan McDonald, Bob Har-
grave, Pat Hargrave, Foy Acker,
Phoebe Cole, JaNet Lindsey, Pat
Glasscock, Gladys Haley, Sandy
Cosby, Judy Shipman, Betty Hob-
good, and Mary Neal Henry.
THE WOMAN'S STUDY Clubof
Happy met for their Christmas party
on Dec. 16, in the home of Willa Jane
McManigal. Novalene Toles led the
club collect. Roll call was answered
with aChristmas tradition. Willa Jane
McManigal presented the program
on Christmas traditions.
Gifts were exchanged by Willa
Elliott, BelindaGoode, Pal Hargrave,
Karen Hargrave, Willa Jane Mc-
Manigal, Joann Odom, Ora Mary
Sims, Sara Tirey, Novalene Toles,
and Dcannc Poc. Refreshments of tea
sandwiches, pickles, olives, chips,
fudge and divinity, ice cream sundaes
with coffee or tea.
HAPPY STUDENTS GOT outof
school at 2 p.m last Friday, for
Christmas vacation. Happy cowgirls
will play in the Caprock tournament
Dec. 29-31. Happy Cowboys will
play in the Crosbyton tournament
during those same dates.
I RECEIVED THE Stewart’s
Christmas letter. J. J. has received her
Magna Cum Laudo Tech Bachelor
degree in music and education. She is
being wife to Marty Middleton and
mother to Haven. Heather is half-
way through her third year at Hardin
Simmons. Dusty is a student at
WTA&M. Ramie has adjusted to
being the only child at home, but with
anew puppy, Trudy. Jerry and Cindy
are busy doing overtime. Brother Jerry
got to go to Promise Keepers rally in
Washington D.C.
Among the WTA&M graduates on
Friday evening were J J. Harvey with
a B.^. in nursing; Rachel Collins
with a bachelor of arts degree; and
Jill Mayfield with a bachelor of sci-
ence.
I ATTENDED THE Paramount
Terrace Christian Church Christmas
pageant at the Civic center last week.
It was slightly different from last
year's performance, but just as good,
just as wonderful. If you have never
seen it, you pick up tickets at the
Paramount Christian Church. They
cost nothing, but you do have to have
a ticket to get in. Fred and Louncttc
Carter have been one of the partici-
pants in the years past. David
Gazzaway is now on the Board of
that church. Melvin and Phyllis
Bradley joined that church. I served
as a facilitator during their Fresh Start
seminar this year. They have a great
ministry.
IT IS SLEETING and freezing in
this country on Saturday, Dec. 20.
They predict that we may have a
white Christmas, but the snow will
fall on Christmas Eve and will be
over by Christmas Day. Winter is
here. The temperature is around the
freezing mark, but the chill factor is
down to 8 degrees. I watered my trees
just before this hit. Mother always
said that letting trees and shrubs get
too dry in the wintertime is the reason
that they froze out.
EVERYONE ASKS, "Are you
ready for Christmas?" I tell them,
"NO" After all, I have another whole
week. But the Christmas spirit just
lasts longer that way. I don't even
have anyone to examine all my
packages under the tree. Isn’t that
wonderful! I learned that my kids
could rewrap them better than the
first time. There were never any
surprises. Well, that is their problem.
I rather like pleasant surprises.
I wish you each a Merry Christmas!
Please call 655-1408 and tel! me about
it. I love to hear your good news.
result of wrong information given the
governor, Mauro said. Later, Bush
had to correct himself when it was
shown that rates had gone up. In ad-
dition, Mauro continued, auto insur-
ance companies were making their
largest profits in over a decade.
Before Bush was governor, insur-
ance companies kept only about 25
percent of the premiums paid by Texas
families. Now, they keep almost 50
percent, Mauro said, adding that the
companies were not being required to
refund money from tort reform savings
to Texas families as the law stated
they must.
"When I'm governor, we'll enforce
a 75 percent 'loss ratio’ on auto liability
insurance. It's really very simple.
When I’m governor, insurance com-
panies will only get to keep a quarter
of every dollar they take in auto li-
ability premiums," Mauro said.
That plan would put $1.1 billion in
the pockets of Texas families, not
corporate coffers, and that was the
key focus of Mauro's Texas Families
First campaign.
Mauro said that as he toured the
state trying to decide whether he
should run for governor, he talked to
Texas families and asked them their
concerns. He discovered that many of
them felt that although government
was taking more and more of their
money, it was concerning itself less
and less with the daily lives of their
families. He combined those concerns
with his core values system and ex-
perience as a successful politician to
create Texas Families First, he said.
Other elements of that program in-
clude an abolition of the motor vehicle
sales tax and no sales tax on food and
medication.
In addition, he wants to give fami-
lies the right to choose their own
physician.
In education, he pointed out that
families across Texas expressed a
concern to him that qualified indi-
viduals either arc leaving or are not
entering the teaching profession be-
cause of low pay. To address that
concern, he is proposing a pay in-
crease, along with the suggestion of
giving new teachers a $5000 signing
bonus. That would encourage talented
individuals to enter the profession, he
said.
On the subject of classroom over-
crowding, another concern of those
with whom he visited, Mauro sug-
gested borrowing $2 billion from the
permanent school fund to build school
buildings. The money would be paid
back over a 30-year period, he said.
After laying out some of the points
of his Texas Families First campaign,
Mauro began to speak of the differ-
ences between himself and Governor
Bush. Most of those differences cen-
tered around the people to which the
two candidates listened. That is a
difference Mauro sees between him-
self and many of Texas’ recent former
governors.
"Most governors get mansionilis,"
he said, explaining that they listen to
what he referred to as Austin insiders,
harkening back to Bush's initial an-
nouncement on auto insurance rates.
continued from page one A
"I announced (for governor), not
because I dislike Gov. Bush. I think
he is a heck of a nice guy. We just have
a different vision of Texas. He listens
to the Austin insiders who put their
clients first. My first priority is Texas
families," he said.
A second difference Mauro ad-
dressed, in response to a question from
the audience, was concerning the
frmily backgrounds of the two. Unlike
the governor, whose grandfather was
a senator and whose father was a
former president of the United States,
Mauro said his great-grandfather
emigrated to Texas, landing in
Galveston. They moved to Bryan and
became tenant farmers. His grandfa-
ther had a third grade education and
operated a business. Mauro’s father
flew as a pilot in World War II and
went to college on the G. I. B i 11. Mauro
pointed out that he went to Texas
A&M and the University of Texas
Law School using student loans.
"I wish my dad had been president,
but I’m pretty proud of what my father
is. We'll do all right,” he said.
Finally, Mauro addressed what he
saw as one of the most important
differences between himself and Gov.
Bush, one that related back to his
desire to go out and meet with the
people who elected him to office. That
difference was experience.
Mauro pointed out that he had
worked in 16 statewide political
campaigns and had been elected to
public office four times.
Also, he drew attention to several
former governor's who were supposed
to unbeatable. The most recent was
former Gov. Ann Richards, who
Mauro felt was the most popular
governor in his lifetime. Despite her
popularity, she was defeated by Bush.
"The first time I ran for office, I was
33 years old. I had never held a public
office, and I didn’t have a prayer. The
week before the election, a Texas poll
came out and I was running third and
had four percent of the vote. A week
later, after the election, I ran first into
the runoff, so I know what it's like to
run as an underdog," he said.
Over his subsequent career, Mauro
said he has learned a lot of lessons. He
has made his mistakes, but they arc
behind him. He will not have to learn
how to be a governor while he is
serving. He has learned to stay in
touch with people around the state,
and to ask the right questions of his
advisors.
"I was shocked when Gov. Bush let
the bureaucrats in the Insurance
Commission convince him that the
insurance rates had gone down. All
you had to do was talk to somebody,
anybody who buys auto insurance,
and they had gone up.
"My point is, because he was out of
touch and didn't ask the rightquestion,
he's really kind of embarrassed.
"I would have never gotten caught
in that. I've been in office too long. I
might have gotten caught in that bind
in 1983 or 1984, but not now. I've
been down that road. I ask that ques-
tion the second and third time because
if you don't, you won’t get the right
answer," he concluded.
SWISHER ELECTRIC Co-op
donates to Tulia Day Nursery
for underg round storm shelter.
Manager Charles Castleberry
present check to Joyce
Childers, nursery director.
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Hannah Sue Hill
Brian and Felicia Hill of Tulia are
proud to announce the birth of their
daughter, Hannah Sue, born
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 1997 at 3:11
p.m.
Hannah weighed 6 pounds, 2
ounces and was 18 1/2 inches long.
She was bom in Northwest Texas
Hospital in Amarillo.
Proud grandparents are Peter and
Linda Clark of Tulia and Jim and
Emfly Hill of Tulia. Proud aunts and
uncles are Jason and Karen Anglin
and Brad and Theresa Hill and cousin
James all of Tulia.
Haley Nicole Milner
Derek and Jennifer Milner are
proud to announce the birth of their
daughter, Haley Nicole.
Haley was bom Nov. 29,1997. She
weighed 7 pounds 11 1/2 ounces.
Grandparents are Linda Milner and
Danny and Miko Tucker of Tulia.
Great-grandparents are Ward and
Nancy Fisher, Dan and Mary Tucker
of Tulia, Harvey and Lucy Milner of
Amarillo and Lee and Pat Domer of
Tustin, Calif. Great-great-grand-
mother is Lillie Tucker of Tulia.
front, Kennlth Brock, Candice Hernandez, Angie Zuniga and Father John Salazar-Jimenez. 11th and
12th graders built float for Parade of Lights and won second place. They are donating the $100 prize
to Catholic Youth Organization. They are all members of Church of the Holy Spirit.
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Thursday, December 25,1997
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built of seasoned barn wood by John Culwell. Proceeds will
benefit the Senior Citizens Building Fund. —Courtesy photo
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The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 52, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 25, 1997, newspaper, December 25, 1997; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth507381/m1/8/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Swisher County Library.