The Big Lake Wildcat (Big Lake, Tex.), Vol. SEVENTIETH YEAR, No. 36, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 7, 1995 Page: 1 of 22
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 7,1995
Column 1
September 7, 1995
RCHS hopes to erase last year's 0-0 tie in season opening game of 1995
Owls host Ozona in first game
It's time to turn the lights on ev-
ery Friday night all across Texas!
It's football season and the Re-
agan County Owls will host the
Ozona Lions at 7:30 P.M. Friday
night in James Bird Stadium. The
Friday night game is the season
opener for both teams, and the tradi-
tional start of football season in all
high school classifications.
The Lions should be hungry fora
win since the last time they won
against Reagan County was in 1989.
Last year the Lions set the tone of
the game and tied the Owls o-o in
Ozona. The game was a moral vic-
tory for the Lions as they had been
on the losing end of things for sev-
eral years before. In 1993 the Owls
won 59-7 while trying to keep the
score down. In 1992 the Owls beat
the Lions 37-0, and in 1991 RCHS
won 41-7. In 1990 RCHS won the
season opener against the Lions 29-
13. The last time the Lions beat the
Owls was in 1989 on a last second
field goal when the Lions won in
Big Lake 12-14.
Ozona is in district 5-2A and
they won district last year with a4-
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0 district record and a 7-2-1 season
record. This year the Lions arc
picked by area sportswriters to end
up third in district play in a district
that includes Iraan, Eldorado, Van
Horn, McCamcy, and Anthony.
Walter Hargrove replaces Don
Payne as Ozona's head coach.
Hargrove will have the Lions in a
wishbone offense, but Reagan
County coaches will be ready for
anything from the wishbone to no-
back in the back field.
Ozona has 9 returning lcllcrmcn
and 6 returning defensive and 4 of-
fensive starters.
Reagan County Coach David
Steele said, "Ozona is supposed to
be a pretty quick team and we will
just have to be ready for some
speed." He added, "We know the
quarterback is pretty quick and
doesn’t mind running with the ball
on sprint outs. We will have to
watch where he goes for sure."
Coach Steele said he has a lot of
confidence in his offensive line and
they arc the key to success this year.
The offensive line he is counting on
includes Eric Dodd at right tackle,
Casey Kohutck at right guard,
James Mead at center, Michael
Subia at left guard and Matt Isom at
left tackle. "These arc the guys who
will make it all happen from open-
ing holes for our backs to protecting
the quarterback in passing situa-
tions."
Coach Steele explained that he
was pleased with both scrimmages
this year. "We use scrimmages to
get ready for the season and not to
really prove anything. We saw a lot
of things we liked and some very
pleasant surprises. We arc pleased
with Scrvando Carrasco coming
around and making a good running
back. We also arc pleased we have
an experienced line. The rest of
everything is good and will improve
as time goes by."
It also is no secret that the Owls
arc thin in depth.
Texas Football Magazine also
picks the Lions to finish third in
district play behind Iraan and
Eldorado. Texas Football singled
out TE-DE Adam Carroll as a player
to watch for Ozona. Carroll had 52
tackles, along with 4 blocked punts.
Harris Rating system has the
Owls as 11 point favorites in the
game against Ozona.
Harris picks district 8-3A with
Greenwood as the team to beat in
week 1. However, The Harris Rat-
ing System changes as teams
progress through the season. Harris’
rankings and power ratings in week
on with district teams includes the
following:
Rank
Team
Rating
30
Greenwood
186
38
Sonora
185
117
Crane
171
147
Kcrmit
166
155
Reagan Co.
164
176
Col. City
160
The first column indicates the
ranking in class 3A. The rating
column is the power rating Harris’
System assigns to a team that week.
SEVENTIETH YEAR
Number 36
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N otes
Landowners
The Big Lake Chamber of
Commerce is compiling a listing
of hunting leases to be sent to
prospective hunters in this area.
If you would like your lease
added to the list, please contact
the Chamber office at 884-2980
by September 1. If you are listed
now and would like to make
changes or deletions, please con-
tact the Chamber office.
Chamber banquet
Mark your calendars for Octo-
ber 1? and plan to attend the an-
nual Big Lake Chamberof^Orn-'
merce awards banquet. Noted
Author Elmer Kelton will be the
guest speaker for the evening.
Kelton recently had a big hit with
his movie "The Good Old Boys”
on TNT recently starring Tommy
^ee Jones and Sissy Spacek.
Didja know?
More than 88,966,370 merit
badges have been awarded by the
Boy Scouts of America through
1994. these badges laid end to end
would stretch from Chicago to
Angeles, a distance of more
tan 2,000 miles.
Class of '86
Attention all graduates of the
class of 1986! The 10 year re-
union is fast approaching and we:
need your help in organizing
lomecoming festivities. The
class of H6 will meet at 6:00
?.M. Tuesday, September 12 at
Hero's Pizza. If you arc inter-
ested in participating and are
unable to attend this meeting,
] ease call Molly Garner at 884-
3540 or Karen Dorsey at 884-
2981.
Weather
This Year
Date
Hi
Low
Rain
Aug.
31
92
65
.00
Sept.
01
86
57
.55
Sept.
02
85
58
.00
Sept
03
89
60
.00
Sept.
04
91
62
.00
Sept.
05
91
62
.00
Sept.
06
94
63
.00
(Readings taken at 8:00 aan.
dally).
Rainfall for January
.57
Rainfal for February
1.05
Rainfall for March
.33
Rainfall for April
1.80
Rainfall for May
3.01
Rainfall for June
1.03
Rainfall for July
.18
Rainfall for August
1.23
Rainfal for Sept.
.55
Rainfall for 1995
9.75
Last Year
Total rainfall for1994 ...11.49"
(Jan. 242; Feb. .05; Mar. 09; Apr.
1.19; May 2.82; June .15; July .72;
Aug. .00; Sept. J ,08; Oct. 1.55; Nov.
252; Dec. .97; total for 1994.11.49.)
(Official records maintained by the
Natural Resource* Conservation
Service.)
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Kent Kwik and Southside
League to sponsor menudo
cook-off Sept. 16 & 17th
Kent Kwik and the Southside
League will have its 4th annual
Menudo Cook-off September 16
and 17. There will be lots of fun and
great eating during these two days.
Saturday, September 16, will
begin with aco-ed 4 man intermedi-
ate tournament. Entry fee will be
$40.00 with 1st, 2nd and third place
T-shirts being awarded. A washer
pitching tournament will be held.
First place will receive a cash award
along with 1,2, and 3rd place T-
shirts. A toy walk will also take
place in the afternoon. A dance will
be held at the Rancho Grande pro-
vided by Big Ed & Co.
Sunday will be kicked off with
the mens' volleyball tournament.
Entry fee will be $50.00. Cash
awardsalong with 1,2,and 3rd place
T-shirts will be provided. There will
be a cake walk and bingo in the
afternoon. The menudo judging will
take place at 5:00 p.m. Also an
added feature to this years activities
will be little Mr. and Mrs. 16 dc
Septicmbrc for ages 3-5 years of
age. There will also be another
washer pitching tournament with
1st place receiving all the pot.
For further information contact
the following: booths-884-3485,
884-3361; volleyball 884-6846,
884-2622,884-3444; cook-off 884-
6874 and king and queen contest
884-2824.
1995 RCHS football coaching staff
Reagan County football players will be coached by a top rated staff
again this year with head coach David Steele in his second year at the
top spot RCHS football coaches are top row l-r Lynn Calley, Trey
Gardner, David Steele, Bottom row l-r is Jimmy Whiddon, Ray Brown,
and Randy Hicks. All coaches are back from last year and the
cohesive coaching staff has been busy preparing the Owls lor Friday
night's season opener in Big Lake Vs. Ozona.
1995 Reagan County High School fightin' Owls
56-70 to be ticketed for "failure to conserve fuel"-not reported to insurance company
Craddick sponsors law aimed at
keeping speeding offenses secret
Driving the desolate highways of
West Texas, all you can think about
is getting where you need to go~
and getting there fast.
If you arc not on an interstate that
means zooming along at a pace
quicker than the posted 55 mph
speed limit. It also means risking a
ticket and the boost in auto insur-
ance premium that often follows.
A new Texas law, sponsored by
Rep. Tom Craddick, R-Midland, is
designed to keep insurance compa-
nies in the dark about speeding tick-
ets given to motorist who go be-
tween 56 mph and 70 mph on state
highways. (You can drive 65 mph
legally on interstates in rural areas.)
Craddick's law classifies those
speeding offense as fuel conserva-
tion violations. When the state
passed a law in 1974 to comply with
a federal mandate to lower speed
limits to 55 mph, the impetus was
fuel conscrvalion--not highway
safely. Under the law, a motorist's
history of fuel conservation tickets
would not be disclosed to insurance
companies, which consider traffic
offenses when assessing a
policyholder's risk and, ultimately,
his or her premium
The law look effect in the spring,
yet Craddick wails impatiently for
the Department of Transportation
and the Department of Public Safely
to put it into motion.
He says it is easy: The law should
apply to tickets on any road where
the speed limit was 70 mph before
the national speed limit look effect
in 1974.
"They haven't implemented it,
quite frankly, because they don't
want to do it," Craddick said.
Not so fast, say stale officials
who don't think it is quite that
simple.
"We and the Department of
Transportation arc going full speed
ahead on it to try to gel this thing
implemented," said Maj. Charles
Graham, of the DPS traffic law en-
forcement division. "But it would
have been a physical impossibility
to have done it on the day the bill
was signed. We re going to have
some problems with it. Wc arc hav-
ing some problems with it."
Problem one: Not all highways
had speed limits of 70 mph in 1973,
and roads that were 70 mph in 1973
won't necessarily be 70 mph again if
Congress votes later this year to
erase the national speed limit.
Problem two: Speed limits con-
sidered safe in 1973 may not be safe
today because traffic congestion has
escalated on urban and suburban
freeways and highways.
"What was 22 years ago, has
changed so drastically," said Gary
Trictsch, director of the traffic op-
erations division of the Transporta-
tion Department.
DPS also must figure out the
mechanics of classifying some
speeding offenses as fuel conserva-
tion violations, Graham said.
"Wc would have to have our of-
ficers put that on the ticket so that
the courls and our records division
can deal with it," he said. "Wc arc
having to write new computer
programs. It won't be that difficult
to tell our people how to handle it It
will be more difficult, though, in
dealing with the courLs.”
Insurers say the new law hurts
conscientious drivers because those
who get ticketed for speeding will
be treated the same as those who do
not. As a result, premium breaks
afforded drivers without tickets
won't be as lucrative because the
ptxil of those drivers will be larger.
"It essentially means those who
really arc responsible and do their
best to follow the traffic laws could
end up subsidizing those who arc
able to mask their less-responsible
behavior," said Susan Slivinskc, se-
nior account executive with the In-
surance Information Institute in
Austin.
Rick Gentry regional vice presi-
dent of the institute, said, "The bot-
tom line is people who speed and get
caught will love this hill; people
who obey the speed laws probably
won't."
Craddick recommends that any-
one ticketed for what should he a
fuel conservation violation raise a
stink if that ticket information gets
in the hands ol an insurer.
"Since it is supposed to be in
effect, and it's not supposed to be
reported, I would think they’d have
a claim with the state if the state
doesn't do what it is supposed to do,"
he said.
Mascot Camp is September 9th
Registration for the Cheerleaders Mascot camp will be held Saturday
at the high school gym starling at 8:30 A M. with the camp starting at
9:00. The camp will last from 9-2. A program for parents will start at
2:00. Varsity cheerleaders Nicole Acosta, Ashley Tarvin, Michelle
Quinncy, Amanda Lcvario, Sha Bloxom, and Sarah Rankin will be
instructors.
The varsity will be assisted by the J V cheerleaders Wendy Thompson,
Amy Lcvario, Sparkle Stcnix, Julie Sandcl, and Jamcsia Evans. Thcgirls
attending will be instructed in yells, chants, jumps, and chcerobics. Each
girl will receive a certificate. Mary Tatum will be supervising the camp.
Cost is $7. Campers need to bring a sack lunch and wear comfortable
clothes. Drinks will be furnished. To pre-register, call Mary Tatum at
884-2259.
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