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Jackie Hatfield, Manager
Llano County Chamber of
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The Llano News
(USPS 316-700)
Serving Llano, Llano County and the Highland Lakes area
Since 1880.
Published weekly at 813 Berry Street, Llano, Texas 78643
Entered in the Llano Post Office as second class, postage
paid at Llano, Texas, under the Act of Congress of 1878.
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By Dr. Lawrence Lane
Superintendent of Schools, Llano ISD
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COLUMNISTS: Marilyn Hale, John Kuykendall
NEWS CORRESPONDENTS: Shirley Muery, Marjorie
Nied, Bernice Schuyler, Floyce Slaughter
WALTER L. BUCKNER, Editor and Publisher
SARAH BUCKNER
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Dear Editor:
Recently, several auodads were
donated to the "Hunt for the Hun-
gry" program.
Our normal procedure is to pass
on the whole animal to a needy
family. There are so many people
who cannot accommodate this
much meat
In comes Mike Reagor, Bill
Wootan and Derrell Staedtler. These
three men volunteered to process
the auodads and at no charge for
processing or storage, Miiller's
Meats ground and packaged the
meat
This meat will be distributed
through the Senior Citizen Center
to 47 needy families and/or individ-
uals.
By Ace Reid
Dear Editor
The T&H agriculture company of
Kansas City, Kansas, 8907 State
. Ave. 66212, has received a permit
to dump 2,880 gallons of treated
effluent per day into the Llano
River in segment 1415 of the Col-
orado River Basin. The effluent is a
product of the D.D.T. cleanup go- jl _ Alw
tnio°n at 201 e"m tmimi in io in roe
The permit application states
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I tors in the vicinity have no signifi-
cant aquatic life use.
The company doing this says
they will do a good job of treating
this water to make it safe. They say
they can get all the D.D.T. out of
the water before they dump it into
the river. What if an error in judg-
ment is made? What if someone is
a little lazy one day?
The least they could do is apply
it to land so if there is a problem
the effect* 'vill not be so devastat-
ing. The best **y to do this would
be for them to pay the City of
Llano to apply the effluent to our
effluent disposal site.
I would like to know what the
candidates for Llano Water Com-
mission feel about this. , .
Thank you,
Tom Dow Johnson
Llano
Kids at Work ,
adolescence than a boy's. But boys and girls
who have a healthy regard for themselves
are likely to think well of each other, too.
We add one more comment: Take into
account the parents whose jobs don't lend
themselves to day-long visits by children.
Some* Tmm Foraaf Sarvfca and Tteaa
Agrtcutuni EMntion Strict ’ 03-3044
"Git offa my lap! Don't you know
a pickup man when you see one?"
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The ataN raacrwc the right to odE aS letter* according to aoooptod etandarda.
For farther Mennatton ceil The Ueno New* el (*11)347-4433.
Since this coming Sunday la Mother's
Day. I believe it is only fitting that I tell you
about my mother, who Influenced my life
more than any other person on earth. It Is
my fervent wish, that as you read this col-
umn, you will remember your mother and
how she was a supportive and encouraging
force in your life, too.
In his book, "Mothers, Leadership, and
Success", Guy R. Odom reported that
through his research he had verified that
all succesaful and effective leaders are nur-
tured by dominant mothers. Please note
that he said dominant, not domineering
mothers. He describes a dominant mother
as one with strength of character, strong
will, and a clear sense of values that she
p4reses on to her sons and/or daughters. He
points out that Winston Churchill,
Franklin Roosevelt, Douglas MacArthur,
and Dwight Eisenhower, to name a few, all
had strong, dominant, mothers who were
the chief molders of their respective son's
and daughter's lives.
' While I am certainly not a great leader, I
guess I should be, because my mother. Ma
' bel Myrtls Johnson Lane, was truly a clas-
' ale dominant mother according to Odom's
’ definition. Mabel Johnson was raised on a
dairy farm, dirt poor, and she developed a
"true grif to be able to finish high school
and nursing school and be graduated as a
registered nurse. That true grit made her a
very strong-willed person but that was a
good thing because that is the only way she
could "hold her own" and survive while she
was the life-long soul mate and wife of my
tether, Bayless Lane. Dad thought Attila the
Hun was a moderate wimp; no patsy would
have lived past breakfast in the Lane
household.
Now don't get me wrong, mother had a soft
( side to her, too. My brother, George, and I
benefited greatly from bofh our mother's
' firm and cushioning sides. The following
examples will amply, illustrate mother's
tough and tender sides.
She was a career woman/homemaker be-
fore Hillary Clinton made that a politically
correct thing to do. On the other hand, as
much as she loved her nursing career, she
set It aside to be a full-time mother and wife
for George, dad and me before my fourth
birthday. She never nursed full-time again,
but she kept up her RN magazine subscrip-
tion for 40 plus years and always kept In
touch with her fellow nurses who she had
"trained and nursed with."
When my father, brother, and I worked
cattle at the ranch at Moore, Texas, mother
was right there with us herding and direct-,
Ing. It was the same situation when we
worked the watermelon and broom corn
fields and she usually brought us lunch, too,
at those times. When renters moved out of
Spending a day at wprk may be easy for
children of people in professional Jobs. But
what about the welder, the cafeteria cook,
the carwasher and those who work in
hazardous environments? Their children
may never reap the benefits of "Take Our
Daughters to Work Day" because their
parents* workplaces don't look like the
offices of the Ms. Foundation.
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R REFUSING Tt> FAY school
districts for their empty seats during "Take
Our Daughters to Work Day" last year, the
Texas Education Agency reversed Itself. In
the process, educator* had some sound
advice to offer.
First, the Ms. Foundation - founder of the
event - should schedule the day during the
summer, when most students are out of
school, thus eliminating many attendance
problems. This year's event was on
Thursday.
Next, Include boys. We know the event was
conceived to build self-esteem in girts. And
we've read the studies that suggests a girl's
self-esteem plummets more sharply during
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Precipitation provides only temporery
relief from fire danger in areas of
dormant grass and brush.
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one of the family's 22 rent houses, mother
was right there with us scrubbing, painting
and wall papering.
It was mother who saw to it that George
and I both, attended Sunday school and
church regularly. As in most families in
America, she was the one who passed on the
spiritual torch through her deep faith in
God. Dad attended church but usually due to
Mother's prodding.
By the same token, it was mother who
said that George and I "had to get our educa-
tions." To her, education was the great
American equalizer that enabled common
folk, like us, to "get ahead." It was due to
mother's never ending belief, support, and
prodding that George and I both got doctoral
degrees. Yes, my aunt Nina taught me to
read and my uncle John was a splendid
professional role model, but it was mother
In the day-to-day support role that helped
me "stay the course and finish." I can still
vividly remember eating breakfast while
listening to mother continue to read a novel
to me. The novel was one that I had to make
a written report on at Trinity University
for an English literature course. I had read
deep into the night but since I was a squad-
man on the basketball team I was physi-
cally exhausted and fell asleep before I fin-
ished reading the book. Due to mother's
"breakfast reading" I finished the book and
wrote the report in the library before class.
That was kind of unfair competition for my
fellow classmates who had only normal
mothers.
So that's my mother, tough and tender,
fair and firm, caring and kind. George once
said our mother was a "velvet gloved tyrant"
because she touched softly, but always
firmly enough to get you to go in the direc-
tion she thought you should go. 1 laughed
and said that "ijpjBukUcinsniber • .fcxitofifi'
when she took the glove off!" However’
George and I both agreed that we were ex-
tremely lucky to have a mother who cared
enough and was strong enough to give us
what Dr. James Dobson calls "tough love."
Today my 89-year-old mother Is just as
strong-willed and independent as ever. She
lives in her own small home, on the near
south side of downtown San Antonio. A
survivor of four heart attacks in the past
two years, she still Is driven In her own car
to church, the store, and the hairdresser. As
she told me by telephone* recently, "I can
still get to the important places.” When you
come from stock like Mabel Myrtls John-
son Lane, you realize you should have .
surely amounted to a whole lot more than
you have at this point in your life.
Thanks Mom, and I am still trying to do
better. By the way, the card Sandy and I sent
you this week was just for "starters." This
column is my real Mother's Day present to
you.
Editorial/Opinion!
""A# vital measure of a newtpaptr is not its size, but its spirit."
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