Rains County Leader (Emory, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 17, Ed. 1 Tuesday, October 6, 1998 Page: 10 of 16
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FISHING &
WILDLIFE
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Feed grain producers will statler Brothers to
receive 100% PFC payment k- c„|nh„r cnrinos
The Emergency Farm Financial shares designated for 1999 or MC HI wlll|JIIMI "jfw
Applications being taken
for game warden academy
Texas Parks and Wildlife (TPW)
is taking applications for a game
warden cadet class scheduled to
start June 1999. Applications will
he available starting October 1 and
will be accepted through October
31.
Twenty-five cadets will be
accepted in the 46th Game Warden
Academy, which will begin its
seven-month training on June I,
1999. More than 600 people applied
for the 25 positions in the previous
cadet class that graduated in No-
vember 1997
Applicants must be 21 years old
on or before June I, 1999. and have
a bachelor's level degree from an
accredited college or university
with major course work in criminal
justice, natural resources, environ
mental science, fish or wildlife
management, parks and recreation
or a closely related field. The
degree requirement must be met
prior to the starling dale of the cadet
class
To be accepted, applicants must
meet the minimum eligibility re-
quirements and successfully com-
plete a written examination, region-
al interview, final interview, a phys-
ical agility test held in Austin, and
an extensive background investiga-
tion. Applicants must successfully
complete each step before advanc-
ing to the next step.
After graduation, the new game
wardens will be assigned to vacant
stations throughout Texas with the
responsibility of protecting the
state's natural resources. Game
wardens also protect lives, enforce
the Water Safety Act and conduct
standard peace officer duties.
Applications may be obtained
from TPW regional law enforce-
ment offices or by writing to TPW,
4200 Smith School Road, Austin,
TX 78744 or by calling 800-792-
1112. Packets may also be obtained
at the following TPW regional law
enforcement offices: San Angelo
915-651-4844; Fort Worth 817-
831-3128; Rusk 903-683-2511;
Houston 281-646-0440; Mount
Pleasant 903-572-7966; Temple
254-778-2851; or Corpus Christi
512 289-5566.
Relief Act provides producers with
AMTA (feed grain) contracts the
option to receive FY 1999 PFC pay-
ments as two 50% payments or a
100% payment at any time during
FY 1999.
You may request to receive 50%
or 100% of your payment at any-
time from October 1998 to
September 1999. If you elect to
receive 50% of the payment in a
specific month, you may elect to
receive the remaining 50% any sub-
sequent month, but no later than
September 1999. If you do not noti-
fy the county office of the month
you want to receive your payment,
your entire payment will be issued
no later than September 1999. If
you signed a PFC contract that has
beyond, you do not need to re-sign
the PFC. However, you will need to
specify what month or months you
want your payment.
For all cash rented land the owner
must sign for a zero share on the
PFC or you must provide a copy of
a cash rent lease or other documen-
tation signed by the landowner that
shows that you have the farm cash
leased for the 1999 crops if you
want your payment before June 30.
1999. Tenants may no longer use a
cash rent self certification statement
unless payment is requested after
June 30, 1999. A letter to the coun-
ty office from a landlord stating that
you have the farm cash leased for
the year may be accepted.
Deposits to Permanent
School Fund up again
Tax on wildlife valuation
topic of Athens meeting
"Farmers and ranchers in Central
Texas are asking if the new wildlife
tax valuation is a better way to go in
the face of pressure to maintain
their current ag exemptions,” said
Neal Wilkins, Extension wildlife
specialist in College Station.
"We’ve brought together all the
experts with the best information in
an evening seminar to help
landowners decide."
To quality for wildlife tax valua-
tion. land must be actively managed
for wildlife with at least three of the
seven require1 practices. This
newly-passed wildlife designation,
with the same benefits as open-
space agriculture, may be attractive
to some landowners.
The Texas Agricultural Extension
Service Texas Parks and Wildlife
Department in Henderson, Navarro
and Kaufman County Extension
Offices will sponsor a meeting on
Property Tax Appraisal for Wildlife
Management Use Qualifications
and Planning on Tuesday, October
27. 1998, from 6 to 9 p m. at the
Cain Center. 915 South Palestine.
Athens, Texas, to examine qualifi-
FISHING
^ REPORT
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I VKF. FORK: Water fairly
dear, 86 degrees, 2.5' low; black
bass to 12 18 pounds are good on
watermelon-colored 10" Power
worms, flukes and jigs fished off
the main lake points in 15 to 25 feet
of water Crappie are slow on min-
nows fished around the 515 bridge
and over brush piles in 15 feet of
water Channel and blue catfish to
six pounds arc good on stinkball
and nightcrawlcrs fished near the
creeks Yellow catfish are slow
LAKE TAWAKONI: Water
slightly stained. 88 degrees. 3.8'
low; black bass are fair on plastic
worms, Rat-L-Traps and topwaters
fished on or near the surface
C rappie are slow White bass are
lair on s'abs fished oil the humps in
14 to 30 feet ot water Striped bass
to eight pounds and hybrid stripers
to four pounds are good on I 25 to
2 o/ slabs and Chug Bugs Channel
and blue catfish to 30 pounds are
fair on stinkball Yellow catfish are
slow
cation guidelines, benefits and how
to put together a wildlife manage-
ment evaluation.
To register for this free seminar,
contact the Henderson County
Extension Office at 903/675-6130.
Texas Archeology
Awareness Month
reaches into
classrooms
October is Texas Archeology
Awareness Month (TAAM), and in
preparation for the activities and
celebrations across the state, the
Texas Historical Commission has
compiled useful information for
fourth- and seventh-grade teachers.
Texas Archeology in the Class-
room, a classroom resource devel-
oped and produced with financial
support from the Texas Council for
the Humanities, provides a wealth
of interesting and exciting learning
activities that focus on Texas arche-
ology and Native Americans. This
resource, available throughout the
year, includes more than 20 lesson
plans and supplemental materials
for fun and educational activities.
For more information, contact:
Pat Mercado-Allinger, Archeology
Division, Texas Historical Com-
mission. (512) 463-6090.
If your Leader has 10-98 on it,
it's time to renew!
Texas General Land Office de
posits to the Permanent School
Fund (PSF) have gone up for the
third consecutive fiscal year, driven
by two big oil-gas lease sales on
stale lands dedicated to the fund,
according to Texas I.and Commis-
sioner Garry Mauro, who chairs the
School Land Board which oversees
the sales.
Final accounting shows that for
the 1997-98 fiscal year ending Aug.
31, the deposits totaled ‘210,517,382
- up from $198,130,523 for fiscal
1996-97.
The ’96-’97 deposits were up
from $ 155,171,040 for fiscal 1995-
96, which came in higher than the
1994-95 deposits of $123,745,992.
The state's fiscal year runs from
Sept. 1 to Aug. 31.
Rains County is one of only a
handful of counties that still has its
Permanent School Fund lands. The
funds are paid at a rate of $228 per
student per year. Based on en-
rollment figures of 1,376 in May of
1998, Rains County received ap-
proximately $313,728. According
to the Rains County treasurer’s
report published in July of 1998,
our Permanent School Fund con-
tained $6,920,827.40.
“We had two outstanding lease
sales in fiscal 1997-98 - the best in
several years,” Mauro said. “These
lease sales demonstrated that drill-
ers continued to have a lot of confi-
dence in finding profitable produc-
tion in Texas, especially for natural
gas in the gulf coastal bays and out
in the gulf to the 10.3-mile state
jurisdiction boundary.”
There are 13.3 million acres of
state land and mineral rights dedi-
cated to the PSF, including four
million offshore acres. Total de-
posits to the fund, which was creat-
ed in 1854, topped the $7 billion
mark in May At the end of the fis-
cal year, total deposits were $7.08
billion - with more than $3 billion
of (hat amount coming during
Mauro’s tenure as land commis-
sioner.
Energy companies put up $34.7
million in high-bid bonus money in
the April 1998 lease sale, which
was the biggest since 1976 and the
seventh highest sale in the history
of the sales.
The October 1997 lease sale
brought in $23.6 million in high-
bid bonuses, and the two sales to-
gether were the best since the
1980s when the price of oil and gas
was much higher.
Most of the deposits to the PSF
come from oil and gas production
royalties, lease rentals which are
payments made before production
is brought on line, and the “bonus-
es” which are high bids for the right
to drill on state property. Receipts
also come from a variety of other
sources, including land sales, min-
ing permits, timber, grazing, and
coastal leases and easements, and
payments by the federal govern-
ment for offshore production near
the state boundary (which amount-
ed to $17.56 million for 1997-98).
A West Texas windpower pro-
ject, in conjunction with the Lower
Colorado River Authority, brought
in $139,000 for the PSF.
The PSF has a market value of
more than $16 billion, which repre-
sents land office deposits, capital
gams and value of investment as-
sets
LEGAL MATTERS
LAKE
REPORT
The Sabine River Authority has
released the following information
on Lake Fork and Lake Tawakoni,
taken on Oct. 5th for 24 hours end-
ing at observation:
LAKE FORK: Lake elevation
402.74 Maximum temperature 85,
minimum temperature 70. A total of
3.08 inches of precipitation was re-
corded during the week
LAKE TAWAKONI: Lake eleva-
tion 434 22 Maximum temperature
90, minimum temperature 66. A
total of 5.10 inches of precipitation
was recorded dunng the week.
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KIDS FIND OUT ABOUT
REAL LIFE
All single parents who apply for
welfare in Texas are required, as a
condition of their receiving cash
benefits, to cooperate with the
Child Support Program of the
Office of the Attorney General.
They are required to furnish infor-
mation about the absent parent so
that we can collect support.
Many needy families with chil-
dren are poor because the absent
parent is not contributing financial
support. In many cases, if both par-
ents were paying to take care of
their children, as they should be, the
family would not need taxpayer
dollars.
Mothers who are young and single
Most single parents who apply
for welfare are women who were
never married to their children's
fathers. In fact, the majority of our
caseload consists of single mothers
who were originally referred to the
Child Support Program because
they applied for welfare
Many of these single moms
became parents as teenagers. It is
no secret that young women who
become single parents as teens face-
long odds against their even com
pleting high school, let alone col-
lege. and their economic prospects
are grim.
Some young, single mothers beat
the odds and build wonderful lives
for themselves and their children
But the reality is, most don’t. And
under recent federal welfare reform,
many will find that public assis-
tance is not the safety net it once
was.
Welfare used to be called Aid to
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SECRETARY OF STATE ALBERTO R. GONZALES
by Attorney General Dan Morales
Families with Dependent Children
(AFDC). It is now called Tempor-
ary Assistance to Needy Families
(TANF)—and it’s called “Tempor-
ary" because, under federal welfare
reform, the benefits now run out
after two years.
Trying to support a family alone,
without an education, never was a
very good plan. Now, it is not a plan
at all Young people need to under-
stand this.
What are we doing?
Here at the Office of the Attorney
General, we believe that it is vitally
important to teach kids, before they
make the major life decision to
become a parent, that the law will
hold them responsible for support-
ing their children For this reason,
we have introduced a curriculum
called Paternity and Parenthood
(PAPA) for high school and middle
school students.
Through PAPA, students learn
that we can positively identify a
baby’s biological father by means
of a blood test—which a court can
order them to take We teach them
that being young, in school, and not
having a job arc not excuses for
lack of support Some kids are sur-
prised to learn that even if they join
the military or leave the state, they
will still have to support their chil-
dren
Many kids have no idea how
much it costs to support a child, and
they don't think beyond the time
when the child is a baby. We teach
them that their responsibility will
last until the baby is 18 years old.
For many, the PAPA class is a real
eye-opener.
We also stress the positive side of
parenthood. Being a parent carries a
lot of responsibility, but it is a
source of great joy as well. We par-
ticularly strive to teach young
mothers and fathers that their chil-
dren need to see them, hear from
them, and know that they are loved
by both parents, regardless of
whether the parents stay together
For more information
The PAPA curriculum is available
on the Attorney General s web site
at www.oag.state tx.us. The cur-
riculum is also used in PAPA pres-
entations at public schools.
For a hard copy of the PAPA
Curriculum, write to the Research
and Legal Support Division. Attn:
Brochure Distribution. Office of the
Attorney General. P.O. Box 12548,
Austin. TX 78711-2548
The Statler Brothers will be
appearing at the Civic Center in
Sulphur Springs on Thursday, Nov.
5th, at 7:30 p m Special guest will
be Tara Lynn.
Tickets went on sale Monday,
Oct. 5th, at the Civic Center Box
Office in Sulphur Springs. Tickets
may also be charged by phone by
calling (903)885-8071.
Since March 9, 1964, the Statlers
have established an impressive his-
tory. Here are some of the high-
lights and most notable facts,
The Statler Brothers have been
known for many years as a group
that listeners can rely on for classic
down-home country music. Their
patented harmonies, good humor
and keen lyrical sense have high-
lighted countless hit songs over the
years, including Bed of Roses (their
first hit for Mercury/Polygram in
1970), Pictures, Do You Remember
These, Class of '57, Whatever
Happened to Randolph Scott,
Thank You World. I'll Go to My
Grave tun ing You, Your Picture In
the Paper, Thank God I 've Got You.
Do You Know You Are My Sunshine,
Who Am I to Say, The Official
Historian on Shirley Jean Berrell,
Here We Are Again, Nothing As
Original As You, Charlotte !f Webb,
Don 't Forget Yourself Don 't Wait
on Me, Hello Mary lu>u. Too Much
on My Heart, Count on Me, Only
You, Forever, More Than a Name
On a Wall, A Hurt I Can 't Handle
and Ita Sinall, Small World.
They have won over 500 awards
including...
• Three Grammy Awards (Best
New Country and Western Group,
1965; Best Contemporary Perfor-
mance by a Group, 1965; Best
Country Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group, 1972)
• Nine Country Music Associa-
tion Awards (Vocal Group of the
Year, 1972-80 and 1984; Top Five
Finalist, Entertainer of the Year,
1979; Composer-Member Don
Reid for Atlanta Blue, No. 1 Song
in the Nation, 1984)
• Forty-eight Music City News
Awards (Top Vocal Group: 1971,
1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976,
1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1981,
1982, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987,
1988, 1989, 1990, 1991, 1992,
1993, 1994, 1996, 1997; Album of
the Year 1979, 1980, 1981, 1985,
1986; Comedian: 1980, 1982, 1983,
1984, 1985; Single of the Year:
1984, 1986, 1987, 1900; TV Special
of the Year; 1984, 1985, 1987;
Country Music Video of the Year:
1985, 1986, 1988; Entertainer of
the Year: 1985, 1986, 1987.
• Four Music City News-Song-
writers awards (voted by fans)...
1982 Don ’t Wait On Me (H Reid/D
Reid); 1985 Elizabeth (J. Fortune);
1986 My Only Love (J. Fortune);
1987 Too Much On My Heart (J.
Fortune).
• A. C. Nielson-Best Syndicated
TV Special (1982 An Evening with
the Statler Brothers).
• The Singing Ncws-The Fan
Award (1981 Favorite Male
Singers).
• Virginia Broadcasters Award-
Distinguished Virginian of the Year
(1986).
• People’s Choice Awards (1987
Finalist).
• International Country Music
Awards (Best International Group
1976-81).
Truck Driver’s Country Music
Awards (Best Country Vocal Group
1975-79).
• American Music Awards (Best
Country/Vocal Group 1979-81).
• Academy of Country Music
Awards/Group of the Year 1972 and
1978.
• Virginia House of Delegates
Resolution (1991)
• Virginia State Senate Reso-
lution (1991)
• People’s Choice - Top Three
Finalists (1993)
A National Harris Poll was
recently conducted to name
America’s favorite singers. This
was the results as reported by the
Associated Press: (1996)
1. Frank Sinatra
2. The Statler Brothers
3. Reba McEntire
4. Garth Brooks
5. Whitney Houston
6. Vince Gill
7. Barbra Streisand
8. The Beatles
9. Alan Jackson
10. Michael Jackson
The walls of their museum house
hundreds of awards from all ever
the world.
The Statlers have earned fourteen
gold albums, four platinum albums,
double platinum album (1980) and
triple platinum, as well as platinum
from the movie Pulp Fiction
(1995).
Also, a specially designed award
commemorating 15 million sales
has been presented to the Brothers
by their record company Polygram
Mercury that they have been with
lor 25 years. This award also repre-
sents 15 million albums.
They have received 32 BMI
Awards.
They pioneered the way for
groups in country music, headlin-
ing, producing and promoting their
own concerts when the prevailing
wisdom was that groups simply
could not make it in country music.
Not willing to take no for .an
answer, the Statlers did it all them-
selves, succeeding despite good
advice to the contrary.
The Statlers have appeared on
dozens of TV shows...including
Mike Douglas, John Davidson,
Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell
Sisters, Solid Gold, Hee Haw, Pop
Goes the Country, That Ole
Nashville Sound, Nashville Now,
Crook and Chase, the Music City
News Awards Show (hosting 10
times)). The Country Music
Association Awards Show, and
countless specials. They have been
invited to appear at the White
House a total of six times, including
a televised performance for the late
Anwar Sadat at a White House state
dinner. Their syndicated TV spe-
cial, An Evening with the Statler
Brothers was the 1982 Country
Music Syndicated Special of the
Year , highest rated by AC Nielson.
They have co-hosted two additional
TV specials... Another Evening
With the Statler Brothers and a
Christmas special, Christmas
Present In 1991, their own Statler
Brothers Show premiered and
received the highest rating on TNN
as well as the entire cable network.
The Statlers were honored with
an anniversary TV show marking
their 30th year in show business.
The celebration took place on
Music City Tonight on TNN com-
plete with surprise guests and lots
of Statler history.
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