Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 19, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1981 Page: 4 of 10
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The SDN
Column
Shootin
local dance hall Christmas night.
Witnesses told Ward County depu-
ty sheriffs that Jose Villalobos Oli-
vas, SOS West 15th Street, had been
shot in the head while arguing with
an unidentified man at the Yellow
Rose Lounge near the 1-10 and
Loop 404 intersection. Sheriff John
Ashcraft stated thet the witnesses
had said they did not know what
the quarrel had been about, but
they saw one man pull out a pistol
and shoot the other behind the left
ear at dose range. Ashcraft added
that a warrant has been issued for
the arrest of a man in connection
with the killing, but he was with-
holding the suspect’s name pend-
ing the arrest.
SNYDER — Two Snyder women
were taken to Cogdell Memorial
Hospital recently for treatment for
injuries after one fell through a
plate glass window at a local store.
Winnie Garner, an employee at
Gray’s Style Shop on west side
of the Snyder square, fell as she
was dressing a display in the
window facing the sidewalk at
about 10:30 a m. She was taken to
Cogdell Hospital by Palmer EMS
ambulance. Mrs. Bill Wood, who
suffered cuts from flying glass ion
the mishap was taken to the hos-
pital by a private car. Ms. Gamer
was apparently knocked
unconscious by the fall and the
extent of her injuries were not
immediately determined.
BROWNFIELD - Postmaster
Howard Davis has announced his
retirement from BrowdBehl Post
Office effective Dec. 91. His period
of postal service spans 38V» years
from the first day of city mail
delivery on April 1. 190 to the
present time. Davis began his
work as a sub deck in the old
building now occupied fey the
Brownfield Police Department,
then served as regular clerk,
superintendent of mails and
assistant postmaster until appoint-
ment to he postmaster Oct 1.1965
when Wm C. Brown retired
© Copley Newt Service
DIP YOU HEAR THAT,CLOVIS? THE PRIME RATE HIT TMY-ONE!.... CLOVIS?.
HEREFORD — The Hereford
Medical Association announced
that $4,459.88 has been raised this
year through the Project
Christmas Card Campaign. This is
the 24th year that the members
have asked Hereford residents to
donate the money they would
normally use to mail Christmas
cards locally to the fund. Proceeds
are used to help Deaf Smith
General Hospital purchase needed
equipment and to provide funds for
scholarships to students entering
the health-care field. This’ year,
proceeds will be used to purchase
Remember when
pointed for another two-year terty
Brom Marchbanks and HJohn
Pillow of Seagraves were harKjed
two-year terms to serve ‘‘ with
holdover members Jaynes
Phillips, Don Moore and Doyle
Hankins. . *
A mobile unit of, the Lribbock
blood bank wa^ irj Seminole for 6
special collection to reftl^ce blood
20 YEARS AGO
A new masthead topped the
Seminole Sentinel beginning with
the first of the 1961 edition. Scrap-
ped after a decade of use was the
masthead at the top of the page
which depicted the history of
Gaines County from the days of the
Indians to the modem-era oil and
agriculture. The new masthead
retained the identity of Seminole
with the city’s adopted symbol, the
Indian.
Gaines County’s new sheriff,
Floyd Taylor, started his tenure of
office with a clean slate...literally.
New Year s Eve celebrants stayed
out of trouble and the calm re-
mained through New Year’s Day.
Not a person was jailed during the
first two days of the sheriffs term.
Gaines County’s agricultural
gross for 1960 was estimated at a
whopping $17,064,520, but the
figure was still short of' the
$18,770,000 estimate for 1959.' The
drop in the estimated gross
income was blamed on a smaller
cotton crop.
The first in a a series of three
two-hour orientation and training
programs for members of the
Memorial Hospital Auxiliary got
underway.
A meeting to organize a sympho-
ny style orchestra for Seminole got
underway in the SHS band hall. A
total of 17 persons* expressed
interest in becoming members of a
symphony and were urging all
amateur and professional or semi-
professional musicians to help
form the orchestra.
Two Seminole High School
students held district level offices
of Future Teachers of America.
Kent Moore and Mary Baker were
elected at the FTA convention at
Midland to the posts of district
president and financial secretary,
Chamber of Commerce banquet.
Texas Tech University J^ead
football coach, Jim Carlen, Who
completed the most successful
season for a first-year coach in the
Southwest Conference, was the
featured speaker.
a video cassette player for educa-
tional programs at the hospital.
MONAHANS — A 33-year-old oil-
field worker was shot to death at a
Governor Preston Smith was in
Seminole-Tor an informal family
viSit. Goyernor and Mrs. Smith
landed df Seminole airport at 11
a.m. to goloAhe home of his sister
and her family, Mr. and Mrs.
AlberC McGuire, for Junch. It
marked the governor’s first visit to
Gaines County, where he grew up,
since his first gubernatorial cam-
paign three years before.
Delbert Warren was appointed
to replace outgoing hospital board
member E.D. (Six) Calfee of Sea-
graves who asked not to be ap-
replace blood required by Carl
Bennett)during a recent illness A
total > of 33 pints of blood w&s
needed. ,i
Seminole High School s Indian-
pulled out a 44-43 ~ victory ovef
Perryton in the final round of a
Borgfer basketball t(&rnament
Gene Sims was the team’s leading
scorer with 15, ahsfDonald JLoberts
was next with 11(
Ask the people
-
Would you share the New Year resolutions that you have
One of them is to not bite my fin-
gernails for the whole year. Fig-
uratively or literally! Another is to
help out more at Happyville Day
Care Center and do my bit for the
Lord and those who are providing
such a marvelous and rewarding
■ l
service at the center.” Mrs. Jack
Harkins, at loving member of the
congregation at First Assembly of
God Church jf
don’t make a resolution as such, I
just re-avow that that is what I am
going to do.*’ Rosa Ray Welch, 608
SW 15th St.
“I’m going to go on a low
cholesterol diet and do something
for myself. Then I have made a
resolution to be nicer to other
people!** Tina Carson, bookkeeper
at C.R Cope Enterprises
By Jack Maguire
1 “My resolution is to be nicer.
Y’know, I’m tacky sometimes...
real tacky! But I’rri going to
be so sweet * my customers
won’t know me in i961. I’m not
never die. They don’t fade away,
either-at least, not in Texas.
Here they become schools. An
example is Fort Ringgol<j. r. f
It was established bn the Rid
Grande in 1848 by Zachary Taylor
FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY —
Wesley, a tiny hamlet in
Washington County, has only two
dozen residents but is a “cradle”
of Czechoslovakian culture in
Texas. \
as a cavalry post and it trained.its"
respectively
The town was fettled in 1861 by
University School of Law
coaching job and see to it that my
going to sass ’em back; I'm going
last horse soldier in 1944. It was de
activated and declared surplus
that year and remained vacant
until 1946.
Then it became the entire public
school system of Rio Grande City.
Barracks became classrooms for
elementary and junior high stu-
dents. Even the brig (its barred
windows still intact) is the treat
ment room for the school nurse.
German immigrants. Later Czech
pilgrims began arriving. They
liked the area and renamed the
town Vesali, which means “Joy-
ous” in their language. Here the
first Czech-Moravian Church in
Texas was founded in 1886.
In 1889, the Rev. B E. Laciak,
who liked to paint as well as
preach, decided to redecorate the
interior. He painted the inside
walls to look like gray bricks.
Since he wanted the interior to
look like the walls of Jerusalem,
he also painted white columns to
symbolize the palace of Solomon.
Each column is adorned with a
Star of David.
The First Czech literary club in
Texas also started at Vesali.
The name of the community was
changed to Wesley about the turn
of the century when a post office
was established there
Um QUENCHER - An Austin
firm is marketing a new self-
defense item for women called
“Repel."
It’s a small vial of synthetic
skunk oil which a woman can clip
to her bra or panties. If molested,
•he simply snaps th^vtel with bar
fingers and the attacker is greeted
with the moat offensive odor
Imaginable One whiff and the
woukUw raplet usually flees.
Unlike the real thing, “Repel'’
doesn't repel for long The scent
weehee off the skin with snip and
teeter ft's sold with a neutraliser
thet remove* the odor from doth
boys play better ball so we’ll have
a winning football team at
Seminole High School that tiie
whole conference will fear and
admire.** David Bomstein, bead
football coach and athletic
at Seminole High School
“My New Year resolution?......
to wipe up the spills without
complaining; I’m going to refill
the water glasses and coffee cups
so fast they’ll think they didn’t
drink it and be so cheerful they’ll
wonder if it’s me.” June Young,
waitress at The Steak Place, 2224
Hobbs Highway
15 YEARS AGO
A blazing gas well which burned
for three and a half days near Loop
before being extinguished shot 40-
foot flames that were visible at
Seminole, more than 20 miles
away. The well blew out early
Wednesday and was quenched by a
Red Adair crew Saturday. No one
was injured.
Parents in Seminole were urged
to caution their youngsters about
picking up and biting into strange
beans they might find...they could
be deadly poisonous castor beans.
The warning came after a quantity
of the beans were spilled from a
truck at a Seminole highway ‘inter-
section.
Seminole's first babv of 1966
waited until 19 and a naif hours
after the new year jiegan to make
hfes appearance. He was John Paul
Gomez, born to Mr. and Mrs
Amador Gomez at 7:30 p m on
New Year's Da v.
Seminole had its coldest weather
of the winter when mercury dipped
tea Mbvertnglkdegrees
Charlotte Lawrence, a SHS
bailor, reigned over the school’s
basketball games as queen. Her
aft andante ware Lucia Salmon,
Katy LaFottette, Nila Norton and
m-----
l haokalarv putting opal the
Upriver 100 miles, Fort McIn-
tosh, another frontier Army post,
has been incorporated into.; the
campus of Laredo Junior College
HOME IX) TEXAS — There’s a
good reason why Rockport has
developed a colony of more than
200 Vietnamese refugees.
Most of the 200 who have settled
In the Gulf coast city came from a
South Vietnamese coastal town
named BenTni. In English, Ben Da
translates Into “rocky port.” Even
more amazing Is the /act that the
Texas resort looks much like the
homeland of the refugees.
The newcomers first settled In
other part* of the IJ,S. In 197B, two
families looked on a map, dlscov
ered Rockport and moved to
Taxas. The others have followed In
a steady stream since. ;
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Day, Marshall. Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 19, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 4, 1981, newspaper, January 4, 1981; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1128102/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Gaines County Library.