The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1977 Page: 4 of 12
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THE DUBLIN PROGRESS, THURSDAY, MAY 12,1977, PAGE 4
Erath County 4-Hers Head For State
"Eighteen Erath County 4-H
members will compete in state
competition during State 4-H
Round-up in June,” explained
Marsha Stabel, assistant county
Extension agent (agriculture).
"First and second placf senior
winners in District Eliminations
Contests are qualified to ad-
vance to the state-wide contests
held on the Texas A&M
University campus," Mrs. Stab-
el further explained.
The Erath County rifle team
won the District contest. Team
members were Ken Koonsman,
Mike Monerief, K*rk Johnson,
and Will Farrar. Ken was
second high individual of the
contest, and Will was third
high. The. team is coached by
Billy Eel Koonsman and Len
Monerief.
Kenny Weldon , and LaNell
Chumney won first with their
Beef Cattle Jr. Symposium
Demonstration. Lou Chumney
and Tricia Weldon coached the
team.
The Range Evaluation team
composed of Mike Hart, David
Martin, John Allen, and Brian
Rhodes won first in the District
contest. Rickie Tackett, former
4-Her has assisted with the
team, and Stan Ellison, range
specialist wit|j*,the Soil Con-
servation Service, will help the
team prepare for state com-
petition.
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The senior dairy judging team,
composed of Larry Woolley,
Sherwyn Wood, Cheryl Tackett,
and Liz Traweek, won second. District contest to make a team.
Larry Woolley was the third
Dublin Native To Double
Worth Of Tarleton U.
Tarleton State University’s
value is going to about double in
the next few years as the result
of a massive building program
and the kingpin of this growth
will be a soft-spoken former
graduate named “Sy" Norris.
As an undergraduate called
William S. Norris he occupied a
room in the building one floor
above the present office of the
university engineer.
In-between he managed to
get advanced degrees from the
University of Texas and Texas
A&M University, followed by an
almost 22-year stint in the U. S.
Army Corps of Engineers.
"I covered a lot of territory,”
said the Dublin native. "1
served nine year^ j in Africa,
Vietnam, France, and Germany
in addition to posts all across the
U. . S. alternating between
combat' engineers and public
works."
This included everything from
the office of post engineer at
Fort Kn6x to building port
facilities in the Somali Republic.
In Somali, the Russians built the
road that led to the port. They
kept a friendly, if distant,
relationship with Americans.
The bananas from the young
nation Jraveled down the Rus-
sian road to the American docks
to become world trade.
Norris decided to retire as a
colonel in 1975 and "come
home" to Erath County where
he landed the job as university
engineer,
"There’s no difference be-
tween the university and the
Army as far as engineering is
concerned," Norris observed.
"It’s the same problems in
maintenance and construction
everywhere you go, only the
numbers at the top of the forms
are different."
He is now the man that holds
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ENGINEERING TSU’S FUTURE-“Sy”
Norris, the university engineer at Tarleton
Stale, surveys the plans for expansion that
will about double the school’s value in the
next few years. In the background la the
swimming pool addition to the new
gy mnasium which goes Into use soon.
New TP&L Lignite
Plant In Final Stages
A new lignite-fueled elec-
tric generating unit is in the
final stages of testing, near
Henderson, in East Texas, and
when the unit is placed in
commercial service, sometime
in the next few weeks, Texas
Power & Light Company’s
dependence on higher-priced
natural gas for boiler fuel will be
further reduced.
The new, 750,000-kilowatt
unit, Martin Lake Number One,
is owned by Texas Power &
Light, Dallas Power Sc Light,
and Texas Electric Service
Company. TP&L will receive 60
percent of the electricity supp-
lied by the new unit. 1
Three additional lignite-
fueled units at^Martin Lake are
scheduled 46 be placed in
service, respectively, in 1978,
1979, and 1983. Each of the
units will also be of 750,000-
kilowatt capacity. They will be
the largest known lignite-fueled
generating units in operation.
Texas Power & Light and its
afficliates have previously pla-
ced four other lignite units on
line. Two are the Big Brown
units near Fairfield, which
produce a total of 1,150.000-kil-
owatts. Two others are Monti-
cello Units One and Two, near
Mount Pleasant, which together
produce 1,150,000-kilowatts.
Currently 40% of the electri-
city supplied to TP&L customers
comes from lignite-fueled gen-
erating plants. By the end of
1978, the company expects to
have more that 60 percent of its
electricity generated from lig-
nite.
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the purse-strings on millions
and millions of dollars of new
construction at Tarleton.
“I’m like the owner’s repre-
sentative; I’m the official project
coordinator,” Norris explained.
“I write the specifications and
the Texas A&M University
System inspector here for
different phases of the construc-
tion and act as the go-between
for what the users want and
what the builders can do. ”
Even a partial list of TSU
construction for the next four
years is awesome. It includes:
completion of the home econo-
mics and gymnasium additions
(including a new pool and diving
facilities); renovation of the
science building; large additions
to the industrial education
building; a new football sta-
dium; a new electrical distribu-
tion and street lighting system;
a central mall; improvements
and developments on 2,000
acres of ranch and farmlands;
and, the "piece de resistance”,
a new $6,258,600 fine arts
center.
Of course, this means even
longer hours for Norris who has
no such thing as a typical day.
He can be found doing a variety
of jobs like designing a gutter
system, perhaps searching out
the warranty for a broken
aircoiyditioning compressor, in-
specting the roof of a building,
studying new Occupational Saf-
ety and Health Administration:,
regulations, borrowing a back-
hoe for an agricultural contest,
and securing custodial services
for a student organization
function.
While Norris isn’t in direct
contact with the students, he
does work with the Student
Senate on such projects as
additional signs, bulletin boards
in the dorms and new sidewalks.
Come to think of it, all this
activity may make him wish for
the peace and quiet of combat in
Viet Nam.
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high individual of the contest.
Martin Fulcher is coach of the
team.
The senior entomology team,
coached by Sandra Pierce and
Travis Barnes, placed second in
the district contest. Team
members were Sharia Marugg,
Donna Traweek, Joan Diener,
and Jean Diener. Joan was
second high individual of the
contest, and Donna and Sharia
tied for third high individual
honors.
The senior horse judging
team, composed of Crystal
Akers, Sue Kelly, Kathy Crow,
and Darbi Allday, won fifth in
the district contest. Bill Bradley
and Rosie Russell coached the
team.
Connie and Dixey Davis tried
out for the senior livestock
judging team. Laura Howie
participated with them in the
This group placed ninth in the
contest.
In the junior division, Erath
Cdunty had a firsf place winner
in the Jr. Horse Demonstration
Contest. Sam Jackson, coached
by Mrs. Shirley Jqckson, won
this contest
The Jr. Rifle Team, coached
by Len Monerief and Billy Ed
Koonsman, won second in the
District contest. Team member
Jeff Berry was second high
individual in the contest. Other
team members were Monty
Jones and Konnie Koonsman.
One rifle team member, Jimmy
Crow, was unable to compete
d«£ to an arm injury.
Barbara Tankersiey won Sec-
ond in the Jr. Open ClaSs
Demonstration Contest. She
was coached by Mrs. Dorothy
Tankersiey.
Jr. Entomology Team mem-
bers Bobby Teague, James
Diener, Jack Diener and Jane
Diener captured second place
honors. Jane was the second
high individual. Sandra Pierce
coached the team.
The Jr. Horse Judging Team,
composed of Sam Taylor, Terri
Bradley, Todd Pair and Tim
Taylor won second in the
District contest. Sam was third
high individual. The team was
coached by Bill Bradley.
The Jr. Livestock Judging
Team, composed of. David
Larner, Barry Whitehead, Billy
Brown and Gwenda Ford,
placed third in the District
contest. David Larner was
fourth high individual of the
contest. The team was coached
by Marsha Stabel, assistant
county Extension agent.
"We are very proud of these
Erath County 4-Hers. They have
spent many, many hours pre-
paring for these contests Also,
we appreciate the hours the
volunteer leaders have spent
coaching the teams," concluded
Mrs. Stabel.
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Smith, W. Leon. The Dublin Progress (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1977, newspaper, May 12, 1977; Dublin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth779250/m1/4/?q=Homecoming+queen+1966+North+Texas+State+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dublin Public Library.