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VOL. 90 NO. 14
TWO SECTIONS
THE TULIA (Swisher County) HERALD
THURSDAY, APRIL 8,1999
CPS Rainbow Room Named
In Memory Of Pat Garrison
by Patricia Gardner
Herald Staff Writer
Sunday, April 11, dedication of the
Pat Garrison Rainbow Room is sched-
uled from 2 to 3 pjn, at the offices
of the Texas Department of Human
Services, 219 SE 2nd Street. The
dedication launches Child Abuse
Awareness Month in the area.
A rainbow room is a special room
where parents and children can visit
together with each other while coun-
seling at the department It has been
this year's goal for all Region I Child
Protective Services offices to pro-
vide such a room, and gives Swisher
County an opportunity to honor a
past worker.
The late Pat Garrison worked as a
caseworker for Swisher and Castro
counties from October, 1990 until
her death in November, 1995.
Mrs. Garrison devoted her time
and energies to children and their
futures throughout her life and ser-
vice to the county. She was espe-
cially sensitive to those children in
harm's way and wanted to make a
difference in their lives.
Mrs. Garrison tried to fulfill those
wishes every day of her life not only
as a caseworker, but Sunday School
teacher, mother and counselor. Any-
one who spoke of Mrs. Garrison told
of her love for people and especially
children.
Her influence and love was felt
throughout the Panhandle. Once when
she needed to attend a meeting in
Amarillo and a foster mother needed
a sitter for the little girl she was
fostering, Mrs.Garrison took thechild
with her to the meeting. Children
loved and respected her. Many of the
special needs children she helped
went to her funeral.
Mrs. Garrison was a member of
Parents of Special Education Youth
organization, member Hale County
Crisis Center, member of Psi Chi
sorority at WTA&MU, member of
Women's Missionary Union and
member of High Plains Association
for counseling and development.
She held degrees from Baylor Uni-
versity and Wayland Baptist Univer-
sity and a master’s degree from
WTSU.
Tom and Mary Garrison and chil-
dren Alice Burnett of Woodlands,
Park, Colo., Kathy Garrison of Ama-
rillo, are expected to attend the spe-
cial presentation. Joe Garrison of
Astoria, Ore., will not be able to
attend. Other dignitaries with CPS
throughout Texas are expected to
attend.
Swisher County Child Welfare
board President Gwyn Ann Shannon
andRegion Iboard President,Robert
Gardner will be masters of ceremony.
When parents and children are es-
tranged from each other, they some-
times need to be placed in foster
homes outside their familial home.
Parental visitations are encouraged
by officials with CPS to encourage
reuniting of families when whatever
caused the split is resolved. The Pat
Garrison Rainbow Room is designed
to expedite that reuniting.
The Rainbow Room to be dedi-
cated to Mrs. Garrison has been deco-
rated and furnished with youthful
items and in colors pleasing to chil-
dren. The children will be able to
play games, color in books, watch
TV or just visit with each other.
The public is invited to come by
TDHS offices Sunday and view the
room as well as honora great Swisher
County woman.
Mid-Plains R ural Telephone
Annual Meeting Coming Up
by Patricia,Gardner
Herald Stgff Writer
In 1949, the Rural Electrification
Association announced it would as-
sist rural areas in forming coopera-
tives for the purpose of getting tele-
phones into residences that had none.
M.I. McGehee and O.K. Woodall
went to work securing funding for the
venture, and Mid-Plains Rural Tele-
phone Cooperative was formed on
Jan. 23,1950, when around 500 rural
residents crowded into the Tulia High
School auditorium that Monday to
apply for telephone service.
There were a few farmers who had
private access to telephone service,
but the majority of rural residents did
not. Those first private phone lines
into rural areas were barbed wire
draped atop extra tall wooden fence
posts. Some remnants of those lines
can still be seen around the Amey
area and east of Silverton.
Roy Stockett and Bayard Sadler
are two of the, original board mem-
bers still living.
Sadler actually lived at Vigo Park
in the earlier years, but has since
moved into Tulia. At Mid-Plains’ in-
ception, exchanges were set up in the
Bean, Elkins, Redmon, Umbarger,
Goodnight, Kress, Clcta and Gurley
communities. There wereeight mem-
bers on each line, and so one had to be
mighty patient when using the tele-
phone.
It was a new addition to the house-
hold, and waiting did not seem a
problem. As a matter of fact, often
times party members would visit over
the line rather than travel to the other’s
house as they had done in earlier
years. There was certainly no privacy
on those phone lines then!
Also, emergencies were quickly
responded to now that so many other
community members were acces-
sible. For example, while feeding her
cals one winter, an elderly woman
RYLEE SHURBET, KAILEY TODD and RONDA SHURBET found
Easter eggs during the traditional Easter egg hunt sponsored by
Tulia Chamber of CommerceandRSVPat Mackenzie Park Saturday.
They are the grandchildren of Milton and Lanefte Dovel. Temp-
eratures were moderate but winds were enough to bend over
Easterxbunny*s ears. There wasn't a single egg left of the 3.000
plus donated by B & R Thriftway. —Staff photo Please see MID-PLAINS on pg2A
ACADEMIC UIL CONTEST WINNERS from Tulia High School who placed In the top three
and advance to the Regional tournament in Odessa are Brooke Miller (front left), Melissa Williams,
Charisea Ewing, Molly Gardner; back row Shane Anderson, Matthew Thompson, Vivek Patel, Cash
Rogers and David Hulsey. -Staff photo
Tulia High School Takes
UIL Honors Once Again
had slipped on ice at her back door
arid broken her hip. She mariaged'to
crawl into the kitchen and pull the
telephone off the wall to the floor
where she was. All she had to do now
was wait for someone to be talking
and interrupt them to say she needed
help, which didn’t take long.
The woman was quickly discov-
ered and taken to the hospital by a
party line member. In 1963, the tradi-
tional telephone lines began going
underground and party lines were
upgraded to five members.
In order to allow usage by others
on the line, calls into Tulia were cut
off in three minutes. This was a bit of
a problem if you were calling for
parts and the fellow on the other end
had to go see if he had the part.
Businesses soon learned to call the
farmer back if they did not return in
time to respond.
Residents did not mind the incon-
venience, though, as thephone saved
a trip into town for a non-existent
part.
By 1967, all the lines were buried
and party lines were cut down to three
persons per number. Placing lines
underground really improved service
for the rural residences of the county.
No longer was service interrupted
when high, gusty winds blew, nor
when ice storms coated the lines.
By 1969 extension phones, mobile
telephone service and updated equip-
ment and office systems had made
the telephone an everyday item in
rural homes. Then in 1973 came the
ultimate luxury of private lines when
the Elkins exchange was split into
two and the Vigo Park exchange was
formed.
By 1975, all exchanges were on
single party lines and zero plus toll
access for long-distance. Members in
the same exchange could call each
other by simply dialing the last four
digits of their number.
In early 1997, Mid- Plains again
updated to modem day stature when
fiber optic lines were buried along
rural roads. With those lines came the
final step into the world of the twen-
tieth century for rural phone resi-
dents. Phones became highly reli-
able, service was secure and quality
became top-rate.
New emergency access in the form
of911 callswercsctintoplaceandno
longer did residents depend on party
members discovering their plight or
injury as had our woman in the 1960s.
In December, 1997, farmers and
ranchers were able to connect home
computers to their telephone lines
and access the Internet. Now they
had joined the rest of the world in
technology and privilege.
by Patricia Gardner
Herald Staff Writer
Tulia High School has consis-
tently carried off honors in Universal
Interscholastic League events
Junior Bull Riding
Circuit Established
A spring series of junior bullriding
rodeos will be held in a three county
area which includes Swisher,
--Briscoe/Vand Floyd Counties:-
Buck’cm Boys Productions presents
the future stars of the PBR series
with the following age divisions: six
and under, sheep riding; eight and
under, calf riding; 11 and under, steer
riding; 13 and under, Pee Wee bull
riding; novice bull riding; and open
bull riding.
This series will include eight sepa-
rate dates at different sites. There
will be a buckle awarded for points
accumulated in the series. The finals
of the scries will be at Tulia on July
3, 1999. Call 823-2139 for more
information.
The different Sites are: April 10,
Floydada, Floyd County arena, 2
p.m., open bullriding, 7 p.m.; April
24,Tulia, Cobb-Wheeler-Mote arena,
2 p.m., open bullriding, 7 p.m.; May
8, Silverton, Wood Memorial arena,
2 p.m., open bullriding, 7 p.m.; May
22, Floydada, Floyd County arena, 7
p.m., open bullriding only; May 23,
Floydada, Floyd County arena, 2
p.m.; June 5, Tulia, Cobb-Wheeler-
Motc arena, 2 p.m., open bullriding,
7 p.m.; June 19, Silverton, Wood
Memorial arena, 2 p.m., open
bullriding, 7 pan.; July 3, Tulia, Fi-
nals, Cobb-Wheeier-Mote arena, 2
p.m., open bull riding, 7 pjn.
First Baptist Church
Presents Musical
The adult choir of the First Baptist
Church will present an Easter musi-
cal drama entitled "Once and For
All" this Sunday evening, April 11,
at 6 p.m. in the sanctuary of the
church.
The choir, dressed in costumes of
Biblical times, will depict the cruci-
fixion and resurrection of Jesus.
The musical was created and ar-
ranged by Tom Fettke with dramatic
narration by Max Lucado.
The public is cordially invited to
attend this worship service.
Nursery’s Bunny
Drawing Snares
Tape Recorders
Tulia Day Nursery's "BunnyGive-
Away" drawing netted $60. Proceeds
will be used to purchase new tape
players forclassroomsatthenursery.
The winners of the Bunny Give-
Away were Judy Bean, Brittany Bra-
dley, Shanna James, Grace Gage,
Brittney Franks, Joscl, and Shane
Brock.
Stuffed bunnies were donated by
Tulia Banking Center.
throughout the past year. This year is
no exception as THS students repeat-
edly return from area contests with
superior ratings for their efforts.
Competing in district academic
UIL contest Friday, March 26, on the
campus ofWTAMU in Canyon, these
students placed in the top three and
will advance to regional tournament
in April in Odessa: Vivek Patel, first
in persuasive speaking; Charisea
Ewing, first in informative speaking;
Shane Anderson, second in persua-
sive speaking; David Hulsey, second
in informative speaking; Brooke
Miller, second in news writing; Mel-
issa Williams, second in poetry; Cash
Rogers, third in prose; Chad Fincher,
third in Lincoln -Douglas debate; and
Molly Gardner, third in persuasive
speaking.
Also competing at Canyon and
placing in the fourth through sixth
place positions were Jenny Rogers,
mathematics; Ches Tucker, number
sense and mathematics; Brooke
Miller, number sense; David Hulsey,
ready writing; Dallas Cypert, current
events; Alyssa Irlbeck, literary criti-
cism; Joe Moody, computer applica-
tions; and Adam Bean,news writing.
THS student's UIL performance
continues to be spectacular.
County Schools In FFA
SoilHorse, Bug Contests
by Patricia Gardner
Hendd Staff Writer
If you were given a video of 100
bugs and told to memorize them in
just a few days, what do you suppose
would happen? That is what three of
our Tulia High School FFA students
did recently when they traveled to
area towns competing in judging con-
tests in the entomology division.
Once at contest, the students viewed
dried bugs and had to identify them
within a time limit Trying to win a
first place at WTAMU were Jamie
Walker, Devrce Gardner and Tony
Doss. Tony was sole compedtor in
entomology at Clarendon and will
automatically advance to state.
Four other THS FFA students par-
ticipated in judging horses at the
same contests. To judge a horse as a
pcrfcctspecimen, one must rate physi-
cal conformity, specific breed traits,
muscle structure and overall condi-
tion of the horse. Representing THS
at Canyon were Blaine Barnes, Laci
Johnston, Chris Gibson and Jeffrey
Allen. Competing in the horse judg-
ing class at Clarendon were Blaine
Barnes, Jeffrey Allen and Laci
Johnston.
Alyssa Irlbeck, Tammy Carter,
Jamie Walker and Devrce Gardner
were in hot pursuit of top honors in
land judging as representatives of
THS FFA in Tarleton, Canyon and
Clarendon. To properly identify soil,
the students must feel it for texture,
type and quality. They judge dry and
wet soil in order to detect permeabil-
ity, mixture and chemical composi-
tion.
Brad Bom an and Dustin Menzer
represented THS FFA in the live-
stock judging division at Clarendon
College.
The first round of competition for
these teams was held at Tarleton
University in Stephenville on Thurs-
day, March 25. On Friday, March 26,
students pitted themselves against
other area participants on the campus
of WTAMU in Canyon. Then on
Saturday, March 27, THS students
were among some 1,600 others from
across Texas and as faraway as Boul-
der, Colo., testing their judging skills
at the Clarendon College Judging
Contest.
Representing Kress High School
at the contests in Canyon and
Clarendon were Chad Brunson, Jus-
tin Cantwell, Jason Flick, and Truett
Hayes. At WTAMU, Chad Brunson
placed seventh high in horse judging,
and the team earned the eighth place
spot. They competed against 70 to 80
other teams.
In the horse judging trials at
Clarendon, Justin Cantwell scored a
fourth place and the team came in
second.
Tonja Hendricks, Lacey Durham,
Wendy Chavez and April Weatherly
represented KHS in wool judging.
Currently results of the WTAMU
Please see FFA on pf 2A
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