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A-4—THE NEWS-TELEGRAM, Sulphur Springs, Texas, Sunday, February 19,1999.
Weather
Gladys
For the Record
Sulphur Springs for February 18,1989
Now* Telegram
Temperatures
8 am
36
10 am
38
12 noon
38
2 p.m
38
4 pm
38
6 p.m
36
8 p.m
38
10 (tm
36
Midnight
38
2 am
37
4 am
37
6 am
37
8 am
37
Friday Saturday Sunday
Normal High 57 60 (
Normal Low 36 37 :
Last Year High 66 56 !
Last Year Low 41 52 2
Record High 84 83 84
Set In 1959 1986 1986
Record Low 11 9 6
Set In 1980 1978 1978
Rainfall to date: Month 4.40
Normal rainfall: Month 3.01
Local February History
Average mean temperature, 48.0 degrees; warmest February
(mean), 53.0 in 1976; coldest February (mean), 32.1 in 1978; average
daily high, 60; average overnight low, 36; extremes recorded, 85 in
1976 and 1980 and 2 in 1985; highest rainfall. 7.45 inches in 1965;
lowest rainfall, .67 of an inch in 1972; average number of rainy days,
7. o
Nation’s weather
A storm socked southern Virginia and northern North Carolina
with snow, sleet and freezing rain Saturday, downing trees and power
lines and causing dozens of traffic accidents, as snow fell across the
Northwest.
Widely scattered snow showers fell over the northern Plains, the
central High Plains of eastern Colorado and western Kansas and the
upper Mississippi Valley.
The storm that began Friday night left up to 8 inches of snow in
North Carolina and up to 6 inches in Virginia by early Saturday.
Three to 5 inches of sleet covered the northern coastal plain of North
Carolina.
Icy roads caused numerous accidents Fnday in the mountains and
foothills of North Carolina, and sleet and snow made driving espe-
cially treacherous along Interstate 40. A school bus canying 40 high
:hool and middle school students slid off an icy rural road near
Raleigh, but there were no injuries.
Ice accumulations downed power lines and trees in Mecklenburg
County.
Temperatures around the nation at 2 a.m. EST ranged from 23 de-
grees below zero at Hibbing, Minn., to 73 degrees at Key West, Fort
Lauderdale and Homestead, Fla. 1
Texas weather
Residents in many parts of West Texas and North Texas awoke to a
soupy, foggy day on Saturday.
Deaae pockets of fog were reported in many areas, but they were
disappearing as morning passed.
There also were reports of light snow in the northern Panhandle,
where overnight temperatures were in the 20s.
Elsewhere, the early morning temperatures are mostly in the 30s
and 40s.
The coolest spot in the state was Dalhart, where it clipped down to
28 degrees, while the warmest reading at 4 a m was 53 degrees
recorded at Brownsville.
The skies in West Tfexas were expected to be partly to mostly
cloudy for the remainder of Saturday.
In North Texas and South Texas, it will be mostly cloudly through
Saturday night t *
Scattered drizzle is expected along the coast and over parts of East
Texas and Deep South Texas
The highs will range from the low 40s to the low 60s.
Lows tonight will range from the upper 20s in the Panhandle to the
mid 50s in the lower Rio Grande Valley.
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move here until the summer of
•83.” she said
The following fall Howell began
teaching first and second graders at
Miller Grove. She has since moved
to North Hopkins High School
where she teaches special education
students.
“Tom was the last ag teacher
hired at Sulphur Springs and with
Ross Perot and House Bill 72, we
were afraid that he was going to
lose his job," Howell noted. “If
that happened, we wanted to make
sure we had the dairy operational.”
It was January 1985 when the
Howell's began milking.
“I was so proud that very first
time," Howell recalled. “We had
eight cows in the bam and I was a
nervous wreck. But we got through
it and we’ve continued to grow
ever since.”
With no background in dairying,
Howell said she relied on informa-
tion supplied from veterinarians,
local dairymen and she “read
Names
in the news
Diana Ross plans to
hit road with tour
NEW YORK (AP) — Diana
Ross, who is resuming her singing
career after taking time out to marry
Norwegian tycoon Arne Naess and
give birth to two sons, says she is
driven to be supreme at everything
she does.
“I have to be better than the best.
Super-everything," the 44-year-old
said in an interview in March's
Vanity Fair magazine.
Ross, whose career began in the
1960s as the lead vocalist of the
Supremes, is planning to record an
album and go on tour.
She said she has a “motherly in-
stinct" toward the young black sin-
gers of the 1980s.
Hagman may need
J.R.’s influence
VENTURA. Calif. (AP) — Actor
Larry Hagman can have a helipad if
he keeps it quiet during prime time,
bet the “Dallas" star might aeed
JR. Ewing’s influence to swing the
observation tower he's seeking for
his new home.
The Ventura County Planning
Commission granted Hagman's
helipad request Thursday dcsirnc
me neighbors' opposition. The
panel, however, refused to approve
a zoning variance allowing nun to
build a 40-foot observation tower
with an unobstructed view of the
countryside.
Hagman, who plays the vil-
inous J.R. Ewing on “Dallas,"
and his wife. Mm, bought close to
30 acres north at Ojai in Ventura
County and plan to build a 20,000-
square-foot, split-level home.
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everything" she could get her
hands on. “Once I found something
that worked, I kept a record of it.
Even if something didn’t woriCT^
kept track of it so I’d. know what to
do or not do the next time,” she
said.
Howell said she is proud of her
accomplishments in (he industry in
such a short time. “My percentage
of calf loss is three percent. If I do
lose a calf, it’s generally because
they didn’t get good milk from the
mother. I’ve gotten lo the point
where I can spot a sick cow before
all the symptoms start showing
up,” she noted.'
Currently the Howells have 145
cows including heifers, calves and
bulls. They also have 77 cows in
the bam and 17 calves on the bot-
tle: At one point, according to
Howell, she had 37 calves on the
bottle.
“That was a lot. We try to break
them into groups of six because
that’s easier to handle, but it
usually ends up being eight or 10 in
a group,” she said.
Preparing to head to the ham.
Howell told of a typical weekend
for her and her family. /
It starts early — usually around
2:30 a.m. “That’s when I start to
get ready for the 4 a.m. milking.
Tom handles putting out the alfalfa
and the hay. and hie checks things
like the water: He spends most of
the weekend repairing anything that
needs to be repaired."
With the milking finished.
Howell marks and treats any sick
cows she may have. By 10:30 or 11
a.m., the family heads back to the
house for lunch and household
chores. By 2 p.m. it’s back to the
bam for the afternoon milking.
Although Howell handles the Sa-
turday milking (a milkhand has the
day off), she is assisted in the bam
by her sons. “They never milk if
I’m not in there to supervise," she
noted. “We have some cows that
kick and I know which ones do and
which don't."
By 6-6:30 p.m., it’s time to clean
up the bam and bottle feed the cal-
ves.
Sunday \t the one day the family
gets te-sle£p in — until 7 a.m. “Wc
get up and work fast, feeding the
calves and doing what we can be-
fore going to church," Howell said.
Afternoons are spent tending to
what needs done.
Having changed to her royal blue
coveralls, Howell reflects over her
Star Young Fanner award.
“It was a lot of hard work and it
didn’t come overnight. I had an in-
terview back in October (1988)
with six or seven Young Farmer
officials. They stayed for lour hours
and asked all kinds of questions. I
had no idea how I did ... I didn't
receive any positive feedback from
them.
“All along I didn’t think I did a
good job on the interview. From
October to January I thought about
the interview a lot 1 thought about
things I should have said and
didn't. Then I decided, if I wan that
was OK and if I didn’t, that was
OK. too.” she said.
Howell said as site sat at the
Young Fanner convention in Cor-
pus Christi listening to resumes of
those competing against her for the
top honor, she felt somewhat in
awe.
"The first runner-up was a man
in the poultry egg business who had
70,000 hens and farmed 1300
acres. Some of the others did more
than that. I thought Tm just a
small dairy owner. I can't compete
against these people’," she said.
As she sat with her eyes closed.
Howell said she heard her name
called and thought, “I must be
dreaming.” For her efforts. Howell
was presented two plaques, a
$1,100 savings bond, an engraved
Seiko watch and an all-expense
paid trip to Minneapolis. Minn.
But while the plaque bears her
name. Howell emphasizes that it’s
because of her family that she was
able to win. “We’re a partnership. I *
couldn’t do it without Tam and he
couldn't do it without me. And we
couldn’t do it without the help of
Andrew and Mathew. It's a partner-
ship all-around.” she said. '
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Keys, Clarke. Sulphur Springs News-Telegram (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 42, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 19, 1989, newspaper, February 19, 1989; Sulphur Springs, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth816072/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Hopkins County Genealogical Society.