The Harper News (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 8, Ed. 1 Friday, February 18, 2005 Page: 2 of 8
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From the Editor
We welcome a new
contributor to the paper
this week—Stefan Kaiser.
He has drawn the wonder-
ful cartoon on this page
and we hope to see a few
more of his creations.
Harper has been
quite busy in the last week
with its Sweetheart
Banquet, progress on the
library, basketball play-off
games and new EMTs
becoming certified. We
should be proud to live in a
place where so many peo-
ple work to benefit others.
However, (and this
is my mantra), if you are
not out there giving back
to the community, you are
missing the boat!
The new library
needs lots of workers, the
VFD needs more volunteers
as Harper grows, the
school needs mentors to
help students who are
behind and need extra
nurturing, not to mention
church work, the
Community Help Center,
and school booster clubs.
Kudos to all those
persons who planned,
served, cooked, decorated
and cleaned up after the
banquet on Saturday night.
For many of the widows in
attendance it was a chance
at reunion with old friends
in pleasant circumstances.
Kudos to the
Lutheran Ladies who go
the extra mile (actually
two) and pick up trash off
of U. S. Hwy. 290.
ADOPT A HWY'
LITTER CONTROL
'NEXT. 2 MILES:
' LUTHERAN ’*
' WOMEN
OF HARPER
Please note that
I’ve changed the regular
deadline from Tuesday
before publication to
Monday. Because so many
people wait until the last
minute to submit things, I
find I must spend late hours
every Tuesday getting
items in the paper. An ear-
lier deadline will allow me
to leave the office by dark.
Thank you for helping with
this.The deadline for the
next issue is Monday,
February 28,2005.
Save a
place on your
calendar for
the annual
Lion’s Club
Pancake
Supper.
The band will play
and classes
compete
to earn
prize money
Where:
The School Cafeteria
When:
March 19,2005
6:30 p.m.
Money to go toward
scholarships and
Texas Lion’s Camp.
?
The Harper News
February 18, 2005
West Texas
Mule Deer Hunt-
2000
Howdy out there!!
I know you ain’t
heard me say no less than
fifty times that I like West
Texas. Well, here it is
again—”1 Like It.”
Now, right after
Thanksgiving, I packed up
my old blue truck, headed
west, that is, to Marathon,
then twenty-three miles of
gravel road that takes at
least an hour to drive. If
you are in a hurry, forget
that.
Anyway, made it
about 1:00 p.m. to the ranch
house. Fred met me and his
cousin, Curtis. We sat and
visited a while until C. B.
showed and then visited
some more.
It came time to hunt
and Fred had a new
Volkswagen hunting buggy.
d e ’ s H
:
Neat rig—smooth-and quiet.
He said it would go any-
where, so we crawled in.
Drove through the first pas-
ture, didn’t see any deer,
still pretty early for the
deer to show. Made it to
the next pasture. Fred has
really improved his place—
water piped (with twenty-
one miles of water lines)
and feed. The mules are
first class. Slick and pretty.
We stopped every now and
then and glassed.
Sure did need Fred’s
help in seeing these deer.
My eyes need a little adjust-
ment here. Forgot to tell
you, C. B. is riding shot-gun
in the back seat with us.
Fred spotted this
old one-eyed buck and told
me to shoot. I hit him a
glancing shoulder blow and
he ran down in the big
draw. I got him down the
next shot. Fred took that
little hunting buggy right
p C
down to him. Loaded him
up, the deer that is, and we
found one of those places in
a gravel bar that was not
part of “going anywhere
with the buggy.” So we
three got down on hands
and knees and raked gravel
with our hands out from
under it. Fred got back in,
shot the gas to it and it
climbed right out.
Made it back to the
ranch house and almost
foundered myself on Curtis’
cooked backstrap.
I decided to stay
and ride with Fred and
Curtis in the morning. We
loaded up and took off
about daylight—saw lots of
deer. Then we saw this
good one! We made it
around further up the hill
and Fred cut across country
and doggone if we didn’t
high-center our hunting
buggy.
Me and Fred and
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■kids will not be your paying
customers. More important
One of a series on
"How to Fail in
Business"
Starting_a
restaurant is often a~hlcih
risk decision. And because
so many people are anxious
to help, it can be a very
easy decision. Helpers
include the guy who "just
happens" to have an empty
building (It also "just hap-
pens" to be the scene of
three-in-a-row recently
failed restaurants.) Then
there’s the restaurant sup-
ply house with any easy-
pay plan. Other factors in
making for an easy decision
are the availability of your
401-k retirement fund
accumulated at your last
employer - who downsized
you - and finally visions of
no income and the wolf at
the door
Add to these, the
self-delusion that nothing
could be easier than run-
ning a restaurant - after all,
the kids like Momma's
cooking, and I can run the
cash register - right?
WRONG!!
For starters, your
is this self-delusion of ease
of operations. This self-
delusion is probably the
main culprit, in littering the
landscape with so many
shattered dreams and
empty purses. It just looks
so easy! Sadly for the
unwary, it is no different
than any other business. The
business must deliver
something customers need,
want and will pay for. And,
as in all businesses, the
owner must successfully
cope with those non-oper-
ational things of account-
ing, taxes, financing, per-
sonnel practices, etc.
Sometime ago,
we met with a potential
client-couple who had just
opened their dream
restaurant. They came from
successful management
careers in a large compa-
ny. To open, they had used
most of their combined
retirement funds. They
served passably good food,
in a fair location, loaded
with all new equipment and
furniture. Looked great!
As we chatted
about the business, a very
young guy with an apron
wandered in from the
kitchen, handed the owner
the menu for the day and
told him how much to price
each item. (Gasp!!) Now our
considerable inventory of
business skills do not
include how to cook - let
alone how to educate a
totally untrained restaurant
operator. Consequently we
made a hurried exit and
offered up a silent prayer
that the owners would at
least be lucky enough to
quit before they lost it all.
In about two
months the "For Rent" sign
was up in the window again.
Take heed. It is not
a requirement to become a
statistic by opening a
restaurant, but success
requires a lot more than
money and desire.
Yes, restaurants
can be quite ^successful, but
that is another story for
another time.
Bill White
The Business Advisor
830 997 9142
bill.fbg.tx@earthlink.net
Dear Editor,
I can’t think that
when I was reading your
editorial that many people
were thinking the same
thing I was.
Yes, most people
are concerned about their
wells and water resources.
The roads are windy and the
community needs to slow
down, specially the young
ones. But, to say that the
size of lots to be sold,
should be no less than fifty
acres and to down talk the
manufactured homes that
are moving in, I would have
to say that most of the man-
ufactured homes look bet-
ter than some of these
structures along Main
Street. People move out
here because they can
afford to have the land that
they want and a home that
they want and it’s most
people’s dream to have
what they have out here.
The school district
brings a lot of young moti-
vated people that will make
Harper a GROWING commu-
nity. How do you think the
businesses will survive with
out us. Our family really
enjoyed the Kids’ Korrral
for our youngest until some
people thought it had to go.
We all have our
space out here in Harper,
but we all need a communi-
ty and friends and neigh-
bors to become who we are
and what we do. I am sur-
prised that you want to
keep Harper a non-grow-
ing, unpopulated, area.
Most of the eating places
can’t even be opened for
dinner, which would be
nice, because they don’t
have the business. I am sure
they would like to see their
business grow. But you
can’t grow with out people.
Sincerely,
J. Dunning,
a Harper resident.
Dear Editor,
One thing I noticed
in this weeks paper was the
letter to the editor where
it was suggested that all
subdivisions should be
broke into 50 acre tracts.
As somebody that is looking
for land in the Harper area I
can say that an individual
could NOT afford a 50 acre
tract as it would cost them
about 250,000 and the pay-
ments would be approxi-
mately 2,500 per month and
as I’m sure you know, there
are no jobs that would pay
that kind of money around
there.
Thanks,
V. Bierschwale
Scottsdale, AZ
(Editor’s note—As a result
of last week’s editorial, I
got a call from Johnna
Townsend, who works for
Sam Spears of Spear
Homes, Inc., of Kerrville,
and who invited me down to
visit and see first hand their
manufactured homes. I
went, toured a manufac-
tured home waiting to be
delivered and also a devel-
opment of only manufac-
tured homes between
Kerrville and Ingram
(Windmill Ridge) and I was
impressed! These homes
looked good and seemed
to be well built. They have
10-year warrenties and last
as long as a “site built
home.”
The installation,
foundation and tiedown
are regulated and inspect-
ed according to state stan-
dards in addition to county
inspections and regulations
of water and waste water
treatment. In a develop-
ment with restrictions that
are monitored, most manu-
factured homes look as
nice as “site built homes.” I
believe that developments
with manufactured homes
can be an asset to Harper if
landscaped and well-main-
tained, the same as “site
built homes.”.
In developments
without restrictions, many
homes appear to lack main-
tenance and are an eye-
sore.
Harper has always
been a community of
friends and neighbors who
supported and helped each
other which is not always
the case in more densely
populated areas. We would
hope to keep that commu-
nity spirit alive and contin-
ue to be proud of the area.)
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Submitted bv Jenness Rogers, Postmaster
Orders are a safe, easy
alternative to sending cash
through the mail. They can
be purchased at any Post
Office, or from any rural let-
ter carrier, and are avail-
able in values up to $1,000.
Whether you are
sending money to loved
ones or just paying a bill,
the Postal Service can help
you make the transaction
fast, safe, convenient and
economical.
Postal Money
Some smaller communities
have a Post Office but no
bank, so money orders are
convenient for the sender
(Continued on page 5. See
“Post Office.”
Curtis finally pulled the
front end around some,
which made one hind wheel
get traction. So I thought I
would stand up on the right
back corner of the rig for
more traction. Fred poured
the coal to that air-cooled
engine and we were air-
born.
Curtis fell back in
the gravel and I hung on—
too late to jump. Finally
jerked one hand loose but I
was bending the pipe with
the grip of the other one.
Curtis told me later all he
could see was broken legs,
arms, back and everything
also.
“Course Fred didn’t
know I was there. We
stopped and Fred got that
deer with three out of three
shots. I walked across up to
him nd Fred made his way
around to us. We picked
him up and made a short
drive. Killed a coyote on
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the way back. I appreciate
Fred’s and C. B.’s friendship.
Sure had a nice time.
As always I thank
the good Lord for one more
hunt. Had a blowout on the
way back to town. Got it
fixed and made it aback
home.
See you down the
road next time. Stay well
and healthy.
/
/krtOfJs SAeAK THAN ute/Zbs t
Harper
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