The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. SIXTY-SECOND YEAR, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1987 Page: 2 of 10
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JANUARY ft, 1987
Owls teams sweep four
games from
The Reagan County girit
vanity kept fans on the edge of
their seats Tuesday night in
their 50-45 win over McCamey
while the boys vanity walloped
McCamey 70-47 in Big Lake
basketball action.
The boys vanity played super
basketball as they took charge
of the game from the start. The
Owls jumped out to a 21-9 first
quarter lead and never looked
back. Sam Thompson led the
Owls scoring with 26 points
and was aided by J.D. Garland
with 4, Roland Sal dibar 2. Kelly
Baggett 1. Joel Griner 5. Shane
McCutchen 8. and Scott Lipsey
and Keith Bitner with 12 each.
Jimmy Thomas is the RCHS
coach and is in his second year
at Reagan County.
The girls vanity now sports an
8-2 season record following
their 50-45 win over McCamey
here Tuesday night. The girls
vanity led 34-20 at the half, but
McCamey stayed in the game
on free throws. The Owls lost
4 of their 9 players to fouls in
the ballgame.
The Reagan County girls won
the Tint half of the game with
34 fint half points to McCamey' s
20. But McCamey came back in
the second half outscoring the
RCHS girls 25-16.
Stacie Beam had 15 points in
the game and Jennifer Nelms
added 1. Jene Freeman 6.
Patricia Valadez 10, Sutton 2,
Harkleroad 2, Vargas 3, Sheba
Minnick 7, and Sharon Floyd 4.
The girls junior vanity and the
boys junior vanity also made
clean sweeps against McCamey.
The girls JV beat McCamey's
JV 32-23 and the RCHS boys JV
beat McCamey' s boys JV 40-39.
In the girls JV game things
were fairly even the first half
with the Owls leading 14-13 at
halftime. The RCHS girls out-
scored the Badgen 18-10 in the
second half to coast in for the
win. Marrow had 12 in the win
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and was followed by Rees with 2,
Bray 6, Amanda Rees 4, Amber
Harkleroad 2, and Lawler with
6. The girls JV has a 7-2 season
record.
The boys JV held off a 4th
quarter charge by McCameys JV
to win 40-39. The Reagan Coun-
ty boys led 20-12 at halftime and
28-21 at the end of the third
quarter.
Rubio led the RCJV with 16
16 points followed by Valadez
with 6, Turner 2. Castillo 2,
Levario 4. and West with 10.
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PHOTO FINISHING • OFFICE SUPPLIES • PRINTING
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STATE CAPITAL
HIGHLIGHTS
By Lyndall Wiliami
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
AUSTIN—New Year’s at the
Capitol rang out the Texas Ses-
quicentennial and rang in the
collection of new taxes passed
just weeks ago to replenish the
dwindling state treasury
Beginning New Year’s Day,
retail shoppers pay an addition-
al 1>« cents in sales tax and
motorists pay an extra nickel
per gallon of gasoline.
While Capitol halls fell silent
over the holidays, the lawmak-
ers themselves were busy hack
home preparing for what many
predict may i»e the toughest
session of the century.
And supporters of Gov.-elect
Bill Clements busily prepared
for his Jan. 20 inauguration.
Right after New- Year’s Day,
inaugurations were held for the
down-ballot state officials: At-
torney General Jim Mattox,
I wind Commissioner Garry
Mauro, Treasurer Ann Rich-
ards and Agriculture Commis-
sioner Jim Hightower.
Flag Down Under
One of the last of the 150th-
year tributes was the planting
of an official Texas Sesquicen-
tennial flag at the South Bole.
r
Texas scientists there braved
a 60-degree below zero wind
chill factor to do the icey deed.
In Austin, the Scsquicenten-
nial Commission continued
winding down amid reports the
economic slump somewhat
hampered financial expecta-
tions of the celebration.
Post-Vote Analysis
Post-election campaign re-
ports show the governor’s race
alone cost the two candidates
over $25 million, the costliest
in Texas history. Clements
spent about $6 per vote; Mark
White. $8.
The supreme court justice
race by state Sen. Oscar Mauzy
cost $1.6 million, or nearly the
one-year budget for the entire
court.
One of the largest contribu-
tors to the White campaign
was Texas Commerce Banc-
shares with $28,600. White
backed the new interstate
hanking legislation and Texas
Commerce was the first to
lienefit from the law when it
merged recently with Chemi-
cal New York Corp.
Uti.itv industry figures gave
over $40,000 to Clements, w’ho
wants White’s appointees to re-
sign from ^ie Public Utilities
Commission Also targeted for
politic#! extinction is the PUC
counsel, Austin attorney Jim
Boyle, u/ie of the bright spots
of competence in the past ad-
ministration.
Mattox, Herald, News
Last week. Attorney General
Jim Mattox asked a state dis-
trict judge to force The Dallas
Morning News to hand over its
circulation figures. A rival
newspaper has already sup-
plied similar information.
Mattox is investigating pos-
sible deceptive trade practices
bv The News and its cross-
town rival, the Dallas Times-
Herald. The Herald originally
filed a complaint on The News,
which filed a countercom-
plaint. Then the Herald sued
The News.
In the meantime, Mattox has
to deal with charges by The
News that his actions are po-
litically motivated. The Herald
endorsed .Mattox for re-elec-
tion, and The News endorsed &
his opponent.
Other Highlights
• Department of Public Safe-
ty officials said the state's seat
belt law saved at least 200 ac-
cident victims in 1986. Some
60 percent of Texas motorists
wear seat belts regularly, they
observed, compared to the 10-
15 jiercent before the law.
• A census report says Texas
growth is slowing, but it’s still
the third most populous state %
after California and New York.
We’ve got 16.68 million Tex-
ans now.
• Texas prison officials are
checking a recently resigned
prison guard's allegations he
witnessed harassment of in-
mates and corruption by other
guards.
One alleged incident involves
the stealing and selling of scrap
copper. Another involves the
heat-stroke death of an inmate.
• The Consumer Union wants g
auto insurance rates in Texas "
lowered by almost six percent
instead of the 9.8 percent hike
recommended by the State
Board of Insurance staff.
• State Sen. Bill Sarpalius,
D-Amarillo, was hospitalized
for cracked vertebrae after
his four-wheel drive vehicle
flipped twice on a Canadian
River outing. His son, also a
passenger, wasn’t injured. The
senator expects to be present
when th(> Legislature convenes {
Jan. 18.
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Werst, David. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. SIXTY-SECOND YEAR, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 8, 1987, newspaper, January 8, 1987; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth657312/m1/2/?rotate=90: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.