The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1998 Page: 5 of 14
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Friday, March 6,1996
Letters To
The Editor
Dear Editor
The members of the Bosque
Shrine Club would like to thank the
The Clifton Record
The Shrine Club has been given
credit for sending $23,690 to the
Children’s Hospital in Houston and
t)>e Burn Hospital in Galveston.
This is what the Shriners work
tor, to help the children. When you
put your cans in the trailer, you help
them too.
We thank you,
George O’Neal
Bosque Shrine Club
Corrections,
Clarifications
Cltf Kennedy Slighted
In Wednesday Editorial
In the Wednesday editorial, “Clif-
ton Cubs — So Close, Vet So Par,”
senior Clif Kennedy was uninten-
tionally omitted from the write-up.
Kennedy, who was among four se-
niors — not three, as the editorial
stated — playing their last basket-
ball game for the Cubs, was a very
integral part in the success of the
Cubs this season, and especially so
in the Bi-District contest
The Clifton Record apologizes
for this omission, and for any incon-
venience it may have caused
Kennedy or his family and friends.
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The Reason For No Blessings
Is Because There Has Been
No Confessing
How many times
do you go to God in
prayer and expect
an answer almost
as quick as you fin-
ish your prayer?
And there are
those who will ex-
pect God to at least
answer by the end of the day.
When it does not happen, we are
quick to say, “Well, if Gold really loves
me and cares about me, like the Bible
says, then He would have answered
my prayers. So, since He does not an-
swer my prayers, I see no sense in
going to Sunday School or church
each and every Sunday.”
My friend, many are the times that
our pastor has stood up in front of the
congregation and said, ’’God’s timing
is not ours, nor our ways, His ways.”
I am a firm believer in that state-
ment. Too many times God has had
to remind me of who is in charge.
For God to answer your prayers,
you must first confess your sins to
God. You need to repent of them,
give them to Him, so that He may
cleanse your soul Ask Him for em-
powerment over those sins. Then
God will hear your prayers. You
must turn your eyes towards Him.
You must meet Him on His terms.
He will settle for nothing less.
So the next time you get down on
your knees and pray, be sure to do
a self check up first. By this I mean,
ask yourself this one question. Am
I praying from my mouth, or from
my heart?
I feel that many times when we
pray, we pray from our mouths. Those
requests are selfish and 99 percent
of tiie time, what you want is not what
God knows you need.
On the other hand, when we pray
from the heart, our prayers are
lifted up to God, and we seek his
wisdom in this request. If we seek
Him first, He will always be with us
in everything concerning that re-
quest.
If you don’t seek Him first, don’t go
running to Him later, asking, “Why
did you let this happen to me?”
Goodnight Station
a Texes Country Bed & Breakfast
located in the ‘Top of the Hill Country ”
P.O. Box 124
Clifton, TX 76634
Paul and Evelyn Bostick - Hosts
(254) 675-BEDS (2337)
TWO AMIGOS
MEXICAN FOOD
ALL YOU CAN EAT BUFFET
Monday & Thursday 11 am.-2 p.m. 5-8 p.m.
Sundays 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Adults— $4.95 Children 11 & under—$2.95
Children Under 5 Eat FREEI
Banquet Room Available.
Seats Up To 40 People.
Call for Reservations.
ORDERS TO GO
ALWAYS WELCOMEI Q
502 South Ave. G 4
Clifton, TX
Open 6 Days A Weekp^^,
11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Closed Tuesdays m i
675-6636
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Texas Peanut Farmers
Celebrate Record Crop
GORMAN — March is National Pea-
nut Month, and Texas peanut burners
have a lot to celebrate during the first-
ever Texas Peanut Week, Manh 15-21.
Peanut consumption was up 1.3 per-
cent in the 1996-97 production year and
has further jumped 83 percent since Au-
gust 1997. Although other peanut farm-
ers across the U.S. say their business is
in a bit of a crunch, the Texas peanut in-,
dusty is thriving.
‘The 1997 Texas peanut crop set a
state record,” sgys Mary Wsbb, executive
director of the Texas Peanut Producers
Board. “Basedon the current crop report,
we topped 405,OO0 tons.”
That adds up to a farm gate value of
more than $200 million. Shelters, shqjpers
and handlers are affected by flie increase,
contributing to an overall econot i lie value
of around $1 billion. Up about 16 percent
from 1996 and 34 percent from 1995, the
1997 yield places Texas as the No. 2 pea-
nut-producing state, behind Georgia.
The peanut is not realty a nut but a
member of the, legume famity which in-
cludes peas and beans. Texas produces
four types of peanuts: Runner (78 per
cent), Virginia (13 percent), Spanish (7
percent) and Valencia (2 parent).
Now with the recent relaxation of the
federal government quota program of
peanut production allotments, Texas is
plowing ahead toward more record-
breaking years.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture
program, established in the late 1930s,
was designed to help stabilize peanut
i—now poundage quotas
—passed down through generations, the
program defined who, where and how
many peanuts could be grown for sale
within the United States.
The largest allotments were initially
guaranteed to farmers in the traditional
peanut-producing states of Georgia, Vir-
ginia, Alabama and North Carolina—
those farmers whose ancestors got into
the peanut-growing business long before
most Texans. Hie 1996 federal fianm bill
now allows poundage quotas to be trans-
ferred In limited quantities across county
lines within each state.
That means a bigger yield for Texas
farmers. They are now able to transfer
peanut poundage quotas to other parts
of Texas that are highly suitable for pea
nut farming, but have not traditionally
been used in that manner
This shift has been occurring for the
last five years,and atan accelerated pace
during the last two. Now two-thirds of the
Lone Star State’s peanut crop is grown
in newer, nontraditional peanut-produc-
ing areas of West Ttexas, and it’s no won
da. The region’s dry air, ample water for
irrigation and vast tracts of sancty soil
provide ideal conditions for peanut pro-
duction.
“The combination of lower peanut pro-
duction costs and decreasing cotton
yields in lAfest Texas have fueled this
western movement,” says Ttexas A&M
University Professor and Extension
Plant Pathologist Thomas A. “Chip” Lee.
“If production of additional, ratha than
quota, peanuts continues to be at least
as profitable as it has been ova the last
two years, then Texas farmers will be
growing a lot more of them,” Lee contin-
ues. “Of course, development of new
markets for peanut sales is an integral
part of peanut production success.”
Texas farmers have worked around
the quota system by selling more than
half oif their peanut crop in overseas mar-
kets. What started out as a way to bal-
ance the lbnrt of alfowable domestic sales
grew to make Texas the leading peanut-
exporting state last year. In 1996,56 pa-
rent of file state’s peanuts were sold
abroad, mostty to Canada, the Nether
lands, Germany and Mexico. Ttexas’ next
targeted overseas market is Asia, largely
untapped by U.S. peanut growers.
“Right now we’re looking primarily at
Indonesia,” says Webb.
i say the quota system could be
f dismantled when it expires in
2002, and Tfexas could find itself at the fore-
front erf a radically different peanut mar
ket If that happens, things could realty
get wild in Texas.
“Ttexas farmers could have the poten-
tial to run the entire UJS. peanut indus-
tiy” Lee says.
Clifton
Antique Mall
In A Beautifully Restored
Limestone Building.
Downtown Clifton in Scenic
Bosque County.
Open 7 days
Mon.-Sat. 10-5:30, Sunday 1-5
206 W. 5th (Hwy. 219) (254) 675-2300
ANTIQUES &
COLLECTIBLES
121 N. Avenue D
Clifton, Texas 76634
(254) 675-8133
Air-Conditioned Building
Grandview
’ Antiques, Crafts,
& Collectibles
301 Criner Street
Grandview, Texas
. (254) 866-2977
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Hwy. 144 S.
Walnut Springs, TX 76690
Kay Moore
254-797-8201
254-797-4019
Another
Old Junk .-
Store
P.O. BOX 105
Walnut Springs, TX 76690
254-797-8981
^ Deposit Your Time At
“THE BANK
ANTIQUES”
Hwy. 144
Walnut Springs, Texas
mmdtjdy,Codf,&Brads
Owners: Bennett & Ruthie Morrow
(254) 797-5651
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ANTIQUES, COLLECTIBLES
A. ID “GENTLY USED” JUNK
Hwy. 174 & Hwy. 56
near Kopparl
7 6 Lake Whitney
We Buy!!!
254-889-3332 ' J
Antiques • Collectibles • Gifts
The Country Windmill
(West Side Of
Lake Whitney Dam)
Laguna Park, Texas
(254)622-2272
MAIN STREET
Antiques & Interiors
103 N. Main — P.O , Box 946
Meridian, TX 76665
Antiques & Collectibles
Spaces available
(254) 435-2227
Cactus Hill
Trading Post
Antiques .
Collectibles
Glassware
Hwy. 6 O 22
Meridian, TX
Western Stuff
Furniture
Consignments
(254)435-2660
Buy A Sell
Emmett & Carol Pryor
KEEPSAKE COTTAGE'
ANTIQUES
Grande &. Las Cruces Streets
Laguna Park, TX
I (254)622-3993
JuaneU Jean
& Sandie Hanks
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Smith, W. Leon. The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 103, No. 19, Ed. 1 Friday, March 6, 1998, newspaper, March 6, 1998; Clifton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth788236/m1/5/?q=Lamar+University: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Nellie Pederson Civic Library.