The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1985 Page: 5 of 12
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MAY 9, 1985
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Madge Weatherby attends
library conference in Dallas
Madge Weatherby, Reagan
County Librarian, attended the
annual Texas Library Association
Conference in Dallas, Texas on
April 23-26. Approximately
2,500 public and school librarians
attended from the entire state.
The theme was "Cooperation:
Connections That Work*. Mrs.
Weatherby attended several
workshops as a member of the
Childrens Round Table Division.
Mrs. Weatherby was also ap-
pointed a member of the Tex-
as Voices, 1836-1986 state com-
mittee. This committee will
bring "Texana" scholars to local
communities to feature presen-
tations and group discussions
covering Texas books that can
be found in your local library.
These presentations will be held
in March and April, 1986, in con-
nections with the Texas Sesqui-
centennial year.
Program presentations were
made to the delegates by several
outstanding authors such as
Mary Higgins Gark (suspense,
intrigue and romance writer);
Robert A. Caro (biographer of
Lyndon Johnson); Lois Duncan,
Barbara Park, and Paula Danzin-
ger (authors of books for young
adults); and Arnold Lobel (auth-
or of children's books). These
programs were especially inter-
esting as the books that were
featured may all be found in the
Reagan County Library.
Paula G. Paul, junior fic-
tion author, was also featured by
Eakin Press with her new book,
"Sarah, Sissy Weed and the
Ships of the Desert*. Paula G.
Paul is the daughter of Sarah
Griffith of Barnhart, Texas. Part
of the historical research for this
book was done through facilites
of the Reagan County Library.
Martin Rees, 91, points at the detail in his
carving of a bird feeding its young. The
spikes on the cactus are toothbrush hairs,
but the rest is wood. All but the dead lizard in
the bird s beak was carved from the same
block of wood.
Utility rates to increase
Carver not just whittling Dixie
The price of electricity to resi-
dential and commercial custom-
ers of West Texas Utilities Co.
will increase slightly this month
as the company's summer rates
go into effect.
The summer-winter rate dif-
ferential for the two classes of
customers was proposed by the
Public Utility Commission of
Texas staff during negotiations
in WTU' s rate case last fall.
Beginning with May billings,
residential and commercial cus-
tomers will be charged 3/4-cent
more per kilowatt-hour. Resi-
dential base rates rise from 3.22
cents to 3.97 cents per KWh,
while commercial base rates rise
from 3.43 cents to 4.18 cents per
KWh.
Coincidentally, there will be a
fuel factor adjustment raising the
cost of fuel from 3.14 cents per
KWH to 3.5949 cents. This
means that residential rates,
including fuel costs, will go from
6.36 cents per KWh to 7.5649
cents, and commercial rates, in-
cluding fuel costs, will go from
6.5 cents to 7.77 cents per KWh.
The new base rates and fuel
cost factor will be effective for
bills rendered during the month
of May. The summer rates con-
tinue through October.
The season rate differential
has been used by many compan-
ies for many years. The main
reason is that the cost of service
is higher during the peak usage
season, or summdt months.
Also, higher rates serve as an
incentive for customers to con-
serve and trim the peak demand.
Card of Thanks
I would like to extend my heart felt thanks to all of those
who kept me in their thoughts and prayers during my stay in
the hospital. The food, cards, flowers, gifts, visits, and es-
pecially the pr' <ers remind me again that true friends are
priceless.
Thank you again,
Mina Storey
By ELEANOR RANSBURG
The Times
Martin Rees of Shreveport has
been a woodcarver since he was in
his teens. Now 91, he is the oldest
member of the year-old North Lou-
isiana Wood Carvers Association
and believes his style of carving is
unique.
While most woodcarvers fashion
free-standing objects, Rees brings
his subjects to life by re-creating
their natural environment.
"1 do realistic carvings with back-
grounds," he said, fingering his con-
ception of a bird feeding its young.
What began as a heavy wooden
chunk now features a busy, feather-
ed parent with a slender lizard in its
beak as it stands over a nest of
hungry young uns.
Instead of being perched on a
block of wood, though, the bird is
nestled in a colorful setting of prick-
ly cactus, barren rocks and a desert
sky
"This one took about four months
to do, but I think I give my carvings
lj/e when I do them like this,” Rees
SAid.
Rees' workshop at his home on
McCutchen Avenue is an amazing
nest of organization Hundreds of
tools, perched on neat rows of nails
and ledges, line the walls Rees said
he has them separated into two
groups, "the ones I bought and the
ones I made ”
He starts his carvings by pulling
ideas from several folders of maga-
zine pictures. There are scenes of
deer, birds, squirrels, cats all
photographed or sketched in their
natural habitats.
“I never copy a picture as it is,"
We now have a good selection of
Kodak film. See at The Big Lake
Wildcat.
Rees said. "I usually pull things I
like from three or four of them and
then put them all together."
After sketching a picture on
paper, he does the same on a block of
wood, usually sugar pine Then he
carves a groove around the subject,
which is usually in the foreground,
and uses a chisel, a scorp and a
marconi to scrape out the wood
around it.
That's when the background be-
gins to come alive.
One of his efforts features a pair
of friendly raccoons near a cypress
stump, while another shows a couple
of alert deer. A third boasts a bobcat
hiding in a tree from two yapping
dogs.
“Carving is no longer just whit-
tling, it's an art," Rees said “These
hands are the best tools God ever
made, and when you have a hobby
like woodcarving, you can make it
as simple or as intricate as you want
to."
Rees is teaching his style of wood-
carving to some of the 78 members
in the local woodcarvers group,
an-
at
which is celebrating its first
niversary tonight at 7 p.m
Barnwell Center.
“When I go to shows, I never see
carvers with work like mine," he
said "There isn't even a category
for it. Who knows’ Maybe our new
club can attract some interest in it."
xxx
Martin Rees is the brother of
Horace Rees of Big Lake. The
above story about Martin Rees
ran February 25, 1985 in the
Shreveport Times.
Mid-Year Crop and
Livestock Report
AUSTIN...The Texas Crop
and Livestock Reporting Service
will begin contacting farmers and
ranchers across the state in mid-
May for 1985 crop information
and mid-year livestock inven-
tories.
State Statistician Dennis Find-
ley emphasized that information
from these surveys is very im-
portant to the entire agricultural
industry. "The current economic
uncertainties of agriculture are
weighing heavily on most pro-
ducers' production and market-
ing decisions. These mid-year
crop and livestock estimates
will provide farmers and ranch-
ers wjth information they can use
to adjust their plans for 1985."
Results of the confidential
interviews, conducted by mail or
in person by field enumerators,
will be published in July.
To reduce survey costs, Find-
ley is urging farmers and ranch-
ers to return the mailed question-
naires as soon as possible. The
reported information will be com-
bined for state and county esti-
mates.
Annual county estimates are
published for livestock, dairy,
poultry, cotton, field crops, small
grains, fruits and pecans, vege-
tables, and cash receipts from
the sale of farm products.
Carlene W. Tankersley
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007 Broadway
MERTZON, TEXAS 76941
915-835-2002
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McCammon
Boutique & Gifts
P.O. Box 967
Fell Spraying Service, Inc.
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Tordon
Quality Work
Dependable Service
Ph. 884*2751
or 884-3611
Big Lake, Tx.
We will be glad to talk to you about your needs!
884*2215
CITY OF BIG LAKE UTILITY RATES - EFFECTIVE NAY 1, 1985
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covered
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1st 2 MCF (MINIMUM)
Next 4 MCF
Next 6 MCF
Over 12 MCF
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the protection of Mort-
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Call today and let your fast,
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Big Lake, Texas 76932
1st 3000 Gals. (Minlmunt'
Next 5000 Gals.
Over 8000 Gals.
Loading Rack
NATURAL GAS
INSIDE CITY
RATETEB BTLTTTTG
UNIT
5. 90
6. 50
6.85
7 . 34
AMOUNT
11.80
26.00
4 1.10
PER DAY-LESS
THAN MINIMUM
$0.3879
Residential
Small Commercial
(Wash room - commode)
Medium Commercial
3.33
1 . 30
1.40
POTABLE WATER
10.00 $0.3288
6. 50
OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS
RATE PER BILLING PER DAY-LESS
UNIT AMOUNT THAN MINIMUM I
8.85
9 . 75
10.28
11.01
17.70 $0.5900
39.00
61.68
5.00
1 . 95
2.10
15.00 $0.5000
9.75 ------
4.76 per 1000 gal. - no quantity rate ($0.20/barrel) POTABLE
SANITARY S El
5. 50
9.00
12.00
5.50
9.00
12.00
$0.1833
$0.3000
$0.4000
(Barber/Beauty Shops,Grocery Market,VFW)
Mobile Home/RV Parks
Mo tel/Ho tel,etc
5.50 (per space)----- ------
9.00 + 2.00 per room
(Establishments with individual room and bath as a unit)
Large Commercial || 12.00 + $0.50/1000 gal.water; Nov - Feb
(Service station ,car wash,laundry, restaurant , delicatessen)
Not Classified II See Separate Schedule
(Reagan County, Reagan County Schools)
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Residential
Small Commercial
Large Commercial
(Mobile home/RV Park)
6. 50
9.75
SANITATION
6. 50
9.75
20.50.per dumpster
(6.50 per space)
$0.2137
$0.3205
$0.6740
8.25
13.50
18.00
8.25
13.50
$0.2750
$0.4500
18.00 $0.6000
8.25 (per space) —
13.50 + 3.00 per room
9. 75
14.65
9.75
14.65
30.75 per dumpster
(9.75 per space)
$0.3205
$0.4816
$1.0109
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Werst, David. The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 9, 1985, newspaper, May 9, 1985; Big Lake, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth658372/m1/5/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Reagan County Library.