The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 223, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1977 Page: 1 of 10
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share in the payments
Another complicating lector in putting
the program together it that there it a cap
of two cents a pound in the subsidy
meaning that if the New York spot price
of raw sugar drops below U.S cents. the
guaranteed amount swill be less than the
13.5 cents set as a target.
13.5 cents set as a target
Recently. the New York spot price of
raw sugar has been slightly less than 12
cento, meaning a full potential subsidy of
around U.S cents to bring it up to the
13.5 level
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Beef Referendum Details
To Be Explained Tonight
Extension agent and Extension I ivestock
Specialist Dr John McNeil Both men
Will provide more detailed information
about the upturning referendum
"SATURDAY’S RAINFALL was more
widespread than Monday s.' Mrs Page
explained. On Monday, we received an
inch of rain here at the farm but it didn't
even sprinkle . mile west of us We're
certainly happy* to get the moisture, the
wheat is really looking good now," she
added
The Bruce Coleman farm at Walcott
reported an inch of ram. with lighter
accululations toward the north
Mrs Clint Homfeld reported that no
rain fell at her husband s farm 4* miles
northwest of Hereford on Monday
afternoon, but a total of .75 inches of
moisture fell there Saturday night
"It may not be as much rain as some
people have received, but we re happy to
take anything we can get." Mrs. Homfeld
commented
MONDAY’S THUNDERSTORMS bed
gehopped through the county, leaving
good moisture accumulations in some
areas while only traces were reported in
others.
Some of the most vaned reports came
from within the city of Hereford itself
KPAN radio at 218 East Sth recorded
3B inches of moisture, while the Holls
Sugar Corporation's Hereford plant
indicated that while ram was pouring in
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According to Conkwnght. the beef
development plan is a propored national
checkoff program that would be financed
through assessment as spelled out in the
beef marketing order If approved the
plan would provide some SJO to MO
million per year for beef research,
consumer aad producer information,
promotion and market development
To be eligible to participate in the beef
referendum, beef and dairy Cattle owners
must register with their county
Agricultural Stabtliution and Conserve
turn offices, and must then return to their
county office to vote
The New York spot price is foe raw cane
sugar, meaning that formulas will be
used to convert sugarbeet sugar to the
"< juivalent basis' in the New York
price, another complicated step in
computing actual subsidy payments
About JO per rent of the 11 million tons
of sugar used annually in the United
Stales comes from domestically produced
sugarbeets. 25 per cent from cane, and 45
prr cent from imported raw cane sugar,
according to USDA
WASHINGTON (AP) Some details of
• federal sugar subsidy plan announced
by President Carter last week to help
financially pressed sugarbeet and
sugarcane producers probably will be
disclosed this week, according to sources
in the Agriculture Department
1 he program involves some complies
ted forumlas on how to allocate the
subsidies between fanners and proses
tors.
As outlined briefly by the White
House, the program "would provide
supplemental compensation to growers of
up to two rents a pound " for sugar when
pnees drop below the New York spot
market prices of 13.5 cents a pound for
raw sugar
But designing the program is much
more involved than the White House
description indicates For one thing, no
federal subsidies will go directly to
four commissioners h
overall bike of $39 088 ,n addition to
seven per cent of that total for retirement
52.286 65 for social security aad
approximately $’.900 for workman s
compensation
Estimated operating expenses of the
new jail facility are MS 305 New slate
guidelines necessitate the addition of four
jailers their salaries will be paid from
revenue-shanng funds
The cost-of-living raise and high costs
were the mam reasons the commissioners
gave for approving the take hike in the
preliminary county budget
A public hearing for both the
revenue sharing and counts budgets was
scheduled for 10 a m June 13 at the
County Courthouse
The court Monday also approved a
revenue sharing budget for the 1977.7g
fiscal year The total budget of $273. JOB
Will be divided as follows
$200,000 for transportation. $50,000 for
general government. $12,500 for special
services. $9,208 for county repairs and
$2.00 for health The transportation funds
also will be divided with $39,000 going to
Precinct 3. $12,000 to Precinct I and the
remaining $149,000 to be divided at a
later date.
The budget was ammended to transfer
$3,500 from road and building funds in
both Precincts 2 and 4 to Precinct 3 The
$ .000 will be used to pay repair bills
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Austin in 1950 a year after he began
his dental career. His parents and
brother, then an attorney with
Phillips, lived in Amarillo and had
lauded the opportunities ot the
Panhandle
Even though it had a small
population about 2.5000 and its
nickname wav The Town Without A
Toothache" because of the flounda
ted water. Hereford became home
for the dentist, wife Gladys and
three month-old daughter Cindy.
Steven wav bom shortly after the
family arrived
I came here to raise my family."
Cavness said "Another reason I
moved to Hereford was a goodly
percentage of the businessmen were
young people, under 50 It's still like
that--it's a young town, a
progressive town "
Cavness now is one of three
practicing dentists in Hereford and
he is the first to admit. "We need
more We all have a lot of patients "
Between his clients and hobbies
he also golfs, hunts, fishes,
refinishes old saddles and dabble in
photographs Carness. particularly
his hands, slay busy
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Spirit lMd«i* for Hereford High School will be theeo newly elected
cheerleaders. Left to right, front row. are Rhonda Hall. Sonya
Hacker, Tonja Black and Judy Griego Pictured on the bock are Staci
Vo Direct Payment to Sugarteef Growers “
Subsidy Plan 'Complicated
farmers Instead, they money will be paid
to processors who then will pass along
higher prices to producers
Also, even if the maiimum of two cents
a pound is paid by the government
sugarbeet farmers probably will get no
more than about 1.2 cents a pound, with
the processor getting 0 8 cents a pound
according to USDA technicians
This is because historically farmers
contract at the start of a season with a
processor for the sale of their sugarbeets
A final settlement is made based on the
market price for sugar, the sugar content
of the beets and other factors covered by
the contract.
Normally farmers get 60 to 62 per cent
of what the sugar brings on the market
and the processor gets 38 to 40 per cent
The Idea is to divide the federal
subsidy along these same lines, meaning
that both the processor and farmer will
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Commissioners Hike County Tax Rate
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By JIM STE1ERT
Brand Farm Editor
Grain could be harvested from as much
as 60 per cent of the acreage which was
planted to dryland wheat in Deaf Smith
County following timely showers which
fell Saturday night and again Monday
JOHN FUSTON, county ASCS
executive director explained. "We have
some w heat that is so thin the weeds are
going to take it over, and the severe
damage inflicted by wind and blowing
sand earlier this year cannot be
discounted, but with the additonal
rainfall of Saturday and Monday, we are
going to cut some dryland wheat now .
Probaby 60 to 70 per cent of the dyrland
wheat that was planted in the county will
but cut now. That might sound a bit
optimistic, but is a ballpark figure.”
Significant rainfall was received in the
western portion of the county where
dryland farming is a way of life on
Saturday night
Mrs Bill Page reported that moisture
accumulations varied from .60 to 1.30
inches in the vicinity of Bootleg Comer on
Saturday night in widespread showers.
Scattered thunderstorms deposited an
additional inch of moisture in that same
vicinity Monday afternoon.
Details about the proposed Beef
Researeh and Information Act will be
explained tonight at 8 o clock tn the Bull
Barn in a special county.wide meeting
JIM (UNKWRIGHT, chairman of the
Deal Smith County Beef Development
taskforce will outline details on the
upcoming beef referendum
The program is designed for all beef
and dam cattle ow ners of the count v. and
will include two slide presentations about
the Beef Research and Information Act
One is prepared by the Texas
Agricultural Extension Service, and the
second by the Beef Development
Taskforce
A period for questions and comments
from producers will also be held
Joining Conkwnght on tonight's
progrsm will be Juston McBnde county
FFA To Honor
Top Achievers
A local resident will receive an
honorary membership in the Hereford
FFA and the winner of the coveted
DeKalb Award will also be named during
the annual Hereford High School FFA
Parents and Member Banquet tonight at
7 .30 in the HHS cafeteria
The DeKalb Award is prevented to an
FFA student who has posted the highest
academic and productive accomplish
menu in scholarship leadership aad
cooperation
The FFA Foundation Award, scholar
shin and leadership awards, certificates
" "tent aad profit ismj awards will also
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The Branding Iron
HaP Cavness: From Dentistry Evolved Hobby
By PAUL SIMS
Managing Editor
Patients of Hereford Dentist H A
"Hap" Cavness may have the
pretties! dentures around
ravness when he's not drilling a
tooth often can be found at home
making jewelry, a hobby which has
spawned from his dental practice
"I think my framing as a dentist
has been the primary source of my
becoming involved in the hobby My
training in dentistry has made it easy
and a very natural thing for me to do
this other thing." said Cavness. who
prefers not to be called an artist even
though he paints occasionally and is
adept at casting jewelry
"My artistic talents are limited
only to ms own personal tastes. I'm
not trying to please anybody but me
I do it for fun and I don't consider
myself an artist ”
Which means the only things he
sells are his dental services
"I've stayed strictly away from
any commercialization All of the
jewelers here in town are my good
friends I have a right to give
anybody anything I want to but I
don't have a right to sell anybody
anything I am not a jeweler "
Cavness moved to Hereford from
THE BEEF RESEARCH and Informs
turn Alt serves as enabling legislation
and authorized the Secretary of
Agriculture to conduct a referendum
among beef producers to determine
whether they want a beef development
plan developed by an industry wide
committee
BY PAUL SIMS
MaMgtogEdtto.
The addition of four employees to the
Deaf Smith County Sheriffs Office the
cost of operation of the new jail facility
and a five per cent pay raise for county
personnel were reasons the commiasioo-
approved • Proposed tax rate ot
$1.25 during their regularly scheduled
meeting Monday at the Deaf Smith
County Courthouse
The tax rate, which would become
effective at the start of the 1977-78 fiscal
year Oct I, is 10 cents more than the
current rate. The new figure was
•PProved in relation to the approximately
M.000.000 worth of property in Deaf
Smith County with a $96,000,000 tax
base
The estimated collection rate is 90 per
cent or $86,400 The new tax rate on that
amount will create $1,080,000 tn actual
taxes.
..P* projected county budget for the
19 -1- 8 fiscal year is $267.989 48 With
receipts of $1,983,836 98 (excluding
revenue-sharing funds) and disburse
menu of $2,153,312.06. the projected
balance at the end of the fiscal year
Sept 30. 1978. i, $98,514.40. a figure
which was low enough to cause concern
among the commissioners
Last year's disbursements amounted to
Si.982.285.32
The five per cent salary increase will
apply to all county personnel except the
Timely Rainfall
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Sims, Paul. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 75, No. 223, Ed. 1 Tuesday, May 10, 1977, newspaper, May 10, 1977; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1347943/m1/1/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.