The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 88, Ed. 1 Sunday, September 1, 1991 Page: 1 of 16
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September 1,
1991
50c
16 Pages -1 Section
Plus Suppllmsnts
Briefly
4-H Year Begins
4-H Clubs of Gaines
County will begin a new year
in September.
The monthly meetings will
consist of an inspiration,
business session, program,
recreation and refreshments.
Many other fun activities are
planned for the various clubs
during 1991-92.
Persons interested in
joining the 4-H arc asked to
call the Extension Office at
758-2241
Names Needed
Persons knowing the names
of Gaines County servicemen
and women who served in the
Persian Gulf during the recent
war or were in the service in
any location in this country or
overseas during that conflict
are asked to contact Dan
Yates at Thelma's One-Stop.
Potato Bake
The annual Seminole
Junior Study Club Potato
Bake will take place at the
Gaines County Civic Building
Sept. 6, with serving to begin
at 5 p.m. and last until 7:30
p.m.
Advance tickets, priced at
$4.50 for adults and $2 for
children, are currently
available from any club
member or at the Merle
Norman Studio.
Tickets will also be
available at the door priced at
$5 for adults and $2.50 for
children.
Chapel
Renovations
The M.S. Doss Foundation
is currently in the process of
adding offices and a
conference room to the
Community Chapel.
During the construction,
there will be limited use of the
chapel for functions, until the
completion of the work,
which is scheduled for April
of 1992.
Artist of the Month:
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Weather
Date
Hi
Low
Prec.
Aug. 26
88
64
.00
Aug. 27
90
64
.00
Aug. 28
90
63
.03
Aug. 29
97
64
.00
Aug. 30
-
64
.00
(Reading* taken at 7:30 a.m. daily for
previous 24 hours.)
Total rainfall for Aug. 1.29"
Total rainfall for 1991 15.59"
(Jan. 1.58", Feb. .24", Mar. .37",
Apr. .00", May Tr., June 2.43",
July 9.38")
Last Year
1990 Hi Low Prec.
Aug. 26 97 63 .(X)
Aug. 27 95 63 .(X)
Aug. 28 95 63 .00
Aug. 29 96 65 .00
Aug. 30 97 65 .00
Total rainfall, Aug. '90.. 2.59"
Total rainfall, 1990 ...... 14.75"
Record Aug. High, *77.... 108*
Record Aug. Low, 74 ...... 51*
Average Aug. High ...... 93.2*
Average Aug. Low ........63.8*
Average Aug. Rainfall .... 2.18"
Greatest daily rainfall, 68 4.46"
Greatest Aug. rainfall,71 7.50"
Avg. Aug. Days 32°& under.. 0
Avg. Aug. Days 90" & over 24
(Official NWS record* maintained by
John K. Moffati Record* arc for the per
iod, 1949 90).
Vol. 84, No. 88
Seminole (Gillies County)* Texas 79360
Sunday, Sfpt, L1991
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TALKING PEANUTS-Dr. Chip Lee, Plant Pathologist for the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service based in Stephenville, talks peanuts with a group of peanut producers Thursday. The
group toured four county peanut farms and then, at a barbecue lunch provided by Western Peanut
Growers, listened to Lee give an assessment of the county crop.
(Sentinel Photo)
Peanut farmers School Board approves
challenged miHjon budget
to higher yields
A challenge was issued to
Gaines County Peanut Farmers
by a Texas Extension Service
Plant Pathologist following a
peanut tour in the county
Thursday.
Dr. Chip Lee, based in
Stephenvillc, challenged farmers
to increase their yields by 3,000
pounds per acre.
"It can be done," said Lee.
"All it takes is knowledge."
Lee said the right herbicide,
minimum tillage, proper beds and
the right irrigation can produce
8,000 to 9,000 pounds per acre in
the not-to-distant future. He also
said that with the right techniques
he "could envision possibly as
much as a 50 per cent yield
increase in the county right now."
Lee also said the state-wide
crop looks "super" at this time,
and, with "another good rain in
Central Texas," the state crop
could be a record.
During tours of the Johnny
Aten, Danny Mcllwain, Clay
Jeter and Jim Campbell farms,
discussion centered on variety
demonstrations, water
management, irrigation systems
and how much water to apply al
different stages of growth,
fertilization needs and common
diseases, such as pod rot and leal
spot.
The tour was co-sponsored by
the Texas Agricultural Extension
Service and Western Peanut
Growers, which provided a
barbecue meal following the tour.
Labor Day
closings listed
The Labor Day holiday
Monday will result in the usual
number of closings in Seminole.
Most retailers surveyed
indicated that they would close
for the holiday Monday, but
would re-open at their regulai
time Tuesday.
All three financial institutions,
Seminole National Bank, First
National Bank and the Seminole
Branch of Andrews Savings and
Loan, will be closed Monday and
will re-open at the regular time
Tuesday.
The U.S. Post Office in
Seminole will offer no home
delivery or box service Monday,
but the usual schedule will
resume Tuesday.
All governmental offices will
be closed Monday, as will the
Seminole schools. Those offices
and school will resume as usual
Tuesday.
The Sentinel offices will also
be closed Monday, but will be
open at the regular time Tuesday.
school year.
Although the tax rate to
support the budget will not be
officially passed until Sept. 16,
the proposed rate contains a 16.6
cent rate per $100 valuation, and
county equalization of 9.4 cents
per $100 valuation. The major
portion of the tax rate, though,
will be set by County Education
District No. 6 at a meeting this
Tuesday, Sept. 3. Although no
rate for the CED has been
approved, it is believed that rate
will be between 74 and 76 cents
r»f*r $100 valuation arut ronhl
Local man given
life sentence, fine
The Seminole School Board as high as 78 cents, meaning the
approved a $16,178,479 budget tax rate will probably be in
for the 1991-92 school year at a excess of SI per $100 valuation,
special meeting Thursday , Two public hearings were held
approximately $2 million less prior to approval of the budget,
than the 1990-91 budget. one with representatives from
According to Superintendent county oil companies and a
Robert Ryan, the difference was general public hearing,
construction costs in last year’s Oil company representatives
budget. were very complimentary to the
Built into the budget is a two- board for keeping budget to the a
and-one-half per cent salary minimum, while during the
increase for auxiliary personnel, public hearing, the board said
while professional personnel will they will keep it that way.
receive the state salary schedule In response to a question
increase, which is $1,140 per concerning ways to possibly cut
costs, board member Gary
Matthews said that while the
board had always taken care to
review the budget, they now will
look at the cost of several items
to sec if the school ’district is
getting its money’s worth in an
effort to maintain at least a
constant local tax rale.
According to the law, the CED
rate this year carries a minimum
of 72 cents, while next year the
minimum is 82 cents, in 1993.
the minimum rate will be 92
cents, and in 1994. the minimum
u/ill In $1
A Gaines County jury
convicted and handed down a life
sentence for a local man charged
with indecency with a child.
The trial of Hipolito Flores,
38-year old mechanic from
Seminole, was conducted in
106th District Court Wednesday
before Judge George Hansard.
Assistant District Attorney
Dibbcn Rowe represented the
State in the prosecution of the
case, and David Greenhaw,
attorney from Odessa,
represented the defendant.
Flores was accused of fondling
a local 10-year-old girl in an
incident on August 12, 1990. The
girl was nine at the time of the
incident.
The prosecution only called
two witnesses to the stand and the
defense three in the
guilt/innoccncc phase of the trial,
and the case went to the jury
shortly before 5 p.m. The jury
deliberated just 25 minutes to
hand down the guilty verdict.
In the punishment phase of the
trial, the defense called three
more witnesses. After receiving
its instructions from the judge,
the jury spent less than an hour to
concur on a life sentence in the
Texas Department of Criminal
Hail, rain
damage cotton
Wednesday
While just three-hundredths ot
an inch of rain fell Wednesday
afternoon in Seminole, along
with some wind, some farmers
west of Seminole got something
they didn’t want or need—hail.
Weldon Jenkins, who farms
three miles north of Pioneer gin,
which is located west of
Seminole, said heavy hail
damaged a circlc-and-a-half of
cotton al his farm and that he had
heard of damage was done to the
crop at some other farms in that
general location.
In addition, heavy rain, as
much as two inches in some
spots, was reported northwest
and southwest of Seminole.
Justice and a $10,000 fine. Flores
had previously been convicted
and sentenced to a 7-year prison
term in 1983 on a charge of rape
of a child.
After the trial, Flores was
placed back in county jail where
he will remain about two to three
weeks before transfer to the state
prison.
Will contest
suit filed in
district court
An unusual contest of a will
and executor of the estate,
involving a deceased Gaines
County man has been filed here
in 106th District Court.
John W. Shannon, Jr. of Plano,
and Kathleen Williams of
Middleburg, Florida, stated as
being the only known surviving
relatives of John Shannon Gunn,
are contesting the probate of a
will naming Conney Menix as the
executor of the estate.
The contestants are claiming
that the last will and testament of
John Gunn was executed as result
of undue influence exerted over
the deceased by the proponent,
Colmey Menix.
Sometime last summer, Gunn,
who lived alone with no close
relatives to care for him. was
admitted to the Veteran’s
Hospital at Big Spring for
treatment of alcoholism.
The contestants claim that
Menix learned of Gunn’s
condition and his wealth and
secured his release from the
Veteran’s Hospital on August 9,
1990. then placed him in a
secluded farmhand shack on the
Menix *s farm, where he was
provided large quantities of
liquor and little food. In the
meantime, Menix was said to
have obtained power of attorney
over Gunn’s affairs and executed
and filed a new will, on August
18. 1990, nine days after he had
custody of Gunn. Gunn died just
a few weeks later of malnutrition.
James Calon. local attorney, is
representing the contestants, and
is asking that the last will not be
probated and letters testamentary
issued in Menix’s behalf.
Daniel L. Adcock of Lamcsa,
representing Menix. filed an
answer last Friday, denying att
allegations. _
HAIL DAMAGE»Several cotton plants, including this stretch four miles north of Pioneer Gin west
of Seminole, sustained hail damage Wednesday afternoon as the result of a storm that roared
through Gaines County. Damage reports were confined to the western portion of the county, along
with rains which dumped up to two inches in some spots.
(Sentinel Photo by Gene Gaines)
Grand Jury
to meet
Thursday
Several criminal charges will
be brought before the Grand Jury
for 106th District Court here
Thursday.
The Grand Jury, scheduled to
begin investigation of the cases at
9 a.m., includes:
Gcnlyn Marie Anderson, Anita
Diaz, Mari; Dolores Hcrmosillo,
Terri Lynn Howard, Christopher
Myles McMannis, Lora F.
Moore, and Robert Lawrence
Steffens, all of Seminole; Randy
Garza, Wanda Carrol Kennedy,
Linda Templeton Kinney, Alvin
Lester Landers, and Josic Nerios.
all of Scagraves.
Hospital Board,
Staff to meet
A special joint meeting in
executive session of the Seminole
Hospital Board and the medical
staff of Seminole Memorial
Hospital will take place
Wednesday.
The meeting will begin at 7
p.m. in the board room of the
hospital.
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