The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 86, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 21, 1994 Page: 1 of 14
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Reception
A retirement reception
honoring Jean Wilson will
take place Monday, Aug. 22,
from 3:45-4:30 p.m. at the
board room of the Set
School Administral
Building.
Field Day
A peanut neld day will
take place Monday beginhing
at 8:30 a.m. at the Gaines
County Park.
The noon meal and
program will begin at noon at
the Party House at the park.
More information can be
‘ obtained by contacting the
Gaines County Extension
Office, 758-4006.
‘Official’ Time
Because of confusion as to
times at the various Seminole
schools, times for arrival,
dismissal, bus times, etc., will
be calibrated by the time on
Cable Channel 36 on the
Seminole cable system.
More information can be
obtained by contacting the
school administration
building, 758-3662.
Blood Pressure
Clinic
Medical Arts Home Care of
Denver city will sponsor a
free blood pressure clinic
Aug. 25, from 10-11 a m. at
the Dairy Queen on the Hobbs
Highway in Seminole.
All interested persons arc
urged to attend.
Football Tickets
Season football tickets are
currently on sale to the
general public at the Seminode
Schools Administration
Building.
The price of each book of
tickets is $17.50 (five home
games at $3.50 each).
Ribbon cutting
The Seminole Chiefs will
conduct a ribbon cutting at
11:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug.
25, in observance of the grand
opening of NAPA Auto Parts,
600 South Main.
The public is invited to
attend the Ceremony and
grand opening event.
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Date
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Week
Low
Prec.
Aug. 15
79
64
Tr.
Aug. 16
95
61
.00
Aug. 17
102
62
.00
Aug. 18
104
65
.00
Aug. 19
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70
.00
.(Readings taken at 7:30 a.m. daily for
previous 24 boon.)
Total rainfall for Aug.... Tr."
Total rainfall for 1994.... 9.40"
(Jan. .52", Feb. .09", Mar. .19",
Apr. 1.24", May 4.28", June .24"
July 2.84")
Last Year
Date, '93 Hi Low Prec.
Aug. 15 95
Aug. 16 97
Aug. 17 95
Aug. 18 94
Aug. 19 94
Total rainfall Aug. *93......2.14"
Total rainfall, 1993........17.32"
Record Aug. High, 1977 .. 108*
Record Aug. Low, 1974 .... 51*
Average Aug. High........ 94.09
Average Aug. Low........68.22*
Average Aug. rainfall......2.18"
Greatest daily rainfall,'68 4.46"
Greatest Aug. rainfall,75 7.50"
Avg. Aug. days 32* ft under.. 0
Avg. Aug. days 90* A over.. 24
(Official NWS raconts are maintained by
Jotm B. Moffan. Reconk are for the per-
iod, 1922-92)
Vol. 87, No. 86
Seminole (Gaines County), Texas 79360 © 1994
Sunday, August 21,1994
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SISD enrollment
climbs to 2,325
Following the fourth day of
classes in the Seminole Schools
Friday, enrollment totalled 2,325,
43 more students than the first day
of school Tuesday.
All schools showed an increase
in enrollment from Tuesday, with
the exception of Seminole Primary,
which showed a net loss of four
students.
There were 409 students at FJ.
Young Friday, compared to 402
Tuesday; 373 at Primary, compared
to 377 Tuesday; 365 at Elementary,
compared to 360 Tuesday; 589 at
junior high, compared to 572
Tuesday; at 589 at high school,
compared to 571 Tuesday.
By class at F.J. Young Friday,
there were four special education
students, the same as Tuesday; 36
pre-kindergarten, three more than
Tuesday; 183 kindergarten students,
one less than Tuesday; and 186 first
grade students, five more than
Tuesday.
At Primary, there were 203
second graders, 31 more than
Tuesday; and 170 third graders, 35
less than Tuesday.
Elementary saw seven special
education students, the same as
Tuesday; 191 fourth graders, two
more than Tuesday; and 167 fifth
graders, three more than Tuesday.
Junior High had 202 sixth
graders, 10 more than Tuesday; 199
seventh graders, four more than
Tuesday; and 188 eighth graders,
three more than Tuesday.
In High School, there were 184
ninth graders, 13 more than
Tuesday; 143 10th graders, five
more than Tuesday; 128 11th
graders, the same as Tuesday; and
134 12th graders, also the same as
Tuesday.
Commissioners, hospital,
city meetings slated this week
COMPUTER LITERACY—First graders show th«ir computer skills in the Writing To Read
laboratory at FJ. Young School during the first week of school. All students had initial training
during kindergarten and the first grade class, with Lucy Nichols as instructor, allows students to
further expand their computer knowledge. (Sentinel Photo)
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IN GAINES COUNTY
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Federal loans up to $57.3 million
Special to The Sentinel
According to information
provided by the Department of
Commerce, federal lending
activity in the form of direct
federal loans and federally
guaranteed loans and liabilities
under federal insurance
programs in Gaines County
amounted to $57,329,000
during fiscal 1993.
These sums were not
included in any totals of direct
federal expenditures in Gaines
County. However, they
amounted to ^,01.0% of total
direct federal spending during
that same period. The total of
federal loons and federally
guaranteed or insured loans in
Gaines County nad increased
sharply by 48.6% from
$38,568,000 during fiscal
1992.
Nationally, federal loans and
guaranteed loans and liabilities
under federal insurance
programs amounted to $390.6
billion during fiscal year 1993.
This was equal to 30.7% of
total direct federal spending
during this same period. These
had increased by 17.7% from
$331.9 billion during fiscal
1992.
The federal government
provides a source of credit for
almost every sector of the
national economy according to
the Office of Management and
| Budget. Those borrowing
money through the federal
government include students,
homeowners, small businesses,
utilities, exporters, and state
and local governments among
others.
During fiscal 1993, total
direct loans made by the
federal government amounted
to $15.3 billion dollars while
federally guaranteed loans and
federal insurance liabilities
were $375.3 billion. Direct
federal loans in Gaines County
were $11,940,000 during fiscal
1993 while federally
guaranteed loans and federal
insurance liabilities were
$45,389,000 during that year.
Direct federal lending in
Gaines County had increased
by 35.7% from $8,799,000
during fiscal 1992 while
federally guaranteed loans and
insurance liabilities had
increased by 52.5% from
$29,769,000 during fiscal
1992.
Direct federal loans in Texas
had increased by 13.7% from
$758,199,000 during fiscal
1992 to $862,181,p00 by fiscal
1993 while federally
guaranteed loans and insurance
liabilities had increased by
9.7% from $97*01708,000
elderly and handicapped. These
programs accounted for $13.1
billion or 85.6% of all direct
federal loans during fiscal
1993.
Twenty other loan programs
were responsible for the
remaining $2.2 billion or
14.4% of direct federal loans.
However, federally
guaranteed or insured loans and ;
federal insurance programs arc
responsible for the
overwhelming majority of
federal financial activity. These
programs do not necessarily
involve^ :apy . outright federal
expenmttt#esT' Instead the 7
during fiscal 1992 to
$30,162,580,000 during fiscal
1993.
While the national total of
federal lending activity was
substantially greater during
fiscal 1993 thar( it had been in
fiscal 1992, there are usually
Significant annual fluctuations
in the level of federal lending.
Changes in local and national
levels of federal lending
activity are often strikingly
different, sometimes even more
so than differences in local and
national economic conditions.
Most federal disaster relief
programs are funded through
loans and guaranteed loans.
Additionally, many federal
insurance programs are
specifically designed to insure
against natural disaster. Federal
financial activity whether direct
or indirect is clearly
responsible for a significant
amount of economic activity
nationally, in Texas, and in
Gaines County.
Some of the better known
direct federal loan programs
include commodity loans to
support farm prices, rural
housing loans through the
Farmer’s Home
Administration, water and
waste disposal system loans,
and housing loans for the
federal government agrees to
guarantee payment of tliestr
Three entities have set meetings
in Seminole Monday.
At 10 a.m., Gaines County
Commissioners will meet in special
session to consider paying accounts
and approving two road crossings
and conducting a budget work
session.
The Seminole Hospital board will
hold its regular monthly meeting at
6:30 p.m.
In addition to regular reports,
including those of the administrator,
health care center administrator,
St. Mary Hospital, the medical staff
and financial, the board will
considcr/approve the purchase of a
communications system, pool
steps/lift for the fitness center,
wheel chairs for the health care
center and a WonderGuard system
for the health care center; consider
items for surplus, give approval of
a resolution for a health care center
resident trust fund; and
considcr/approve the final payment
for acceptance of the health care
center. In addition, an executive
session for quality assurance and
personnel will be held. Following
the executive session, the board will
conduct a budget work session.
At 7 p.m., the Seminole City
Council wilt
loans in the event that the
borrowers fail to repay them.
In the case of federal
insurance programs, the federal
government provides a direct
guarantee against loss. Total
federal guarantees of the type
amounted to $270.1 billion
during fiscal 1993. Federal
flood insurance guarantees
were $256.0 billion during
fiscal 1993 while federal crop
insurance guarantees were
$12.6 billion during that year.
The Federal Flood insurance
program accounts for 68.2% of
direct federal insurance with
crop insurance being
responsible for another 3.4%
during fiscal 1993.
The total volume of loans
guaranteed by the federal
government was $105.2 billion
during fiscal 1993. Some of the
larger federally guaranteed loan
programs include mortgage
insurance for homes, various
veterans loan programs,
guaranteed student loans. Small
Business Administration loans.
Farmers Home Administration
loans, and Rural Electrification
and Telephone loans, total
guaranteed loans through these
programs were $99.1 billion.
These programs accounted for
94.2% of federally guaranteed
loan programs.
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meet to conduct a
second public hearing on the 1994
TCDP grant and authorize an
application for the grant, consider
a request for a school crossing guard
and consider adoption of a tax rate
for the 1994-95 fiscal year. An
executive session for land purchase
will be held, followed by an open
session to take action, if any,
relative to the executive session.
Following that, the council, if
necessary* will consider
authorization to begin
condemnation proceedings on just
under 10 acres of land east of
Seminole.
Chamber
to check
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sign repair
The Seminole Area Chamber of
Commerce board discussed varied
items at its regular meeting
Wednesday.
- At least two of the signs at the
western and eastern entrances to
Seminole have been damaged and
authority was given to check into
the price of repairing the signs.
Also, it was reported the chamber
was approached about sponsoring
the appearance of a circus in
Seminole, but the board declined,
since the VFW organization has
sponsored and intends to sponsor
circuses in the future.
In addition, reports on the first
bale of cotton and Yard of the Week
were given, as well as the recent
school employee coffee and
upcoming Ag/Oil Day festivities.
New oil producers
completed in county
Mobil Producing of Midland is
preparing to conduct a new pool
wildcat plugback eight miles
southeast of Denver City. The well
is designated as the No. 65 Hft JID
. and currently bottoms at a depth of
7,400feet. It is in a 1,280-acre lease
in the CSD&RGNGRR Co. Survey,
Gaines County.
It was originally completed in
1986, pumping seven barrels of oil
per day plus 35,00 CF gas and 46
barrels of water from Clear Fork
perforations at 7,418 to 7648 feet
into the hole.
* * *
Shell Western Exploration and
Production Inc. has posted first
production figures for a pair of new
wells in Gaines County’s Flanagan
Field, about 11 miles southwest of
Seminole.
The wells are designated as the
No. 161 and No. 191 Flanagan Unit.
They showed ability to pump 106
and 39 barrels of oil per day, plus
20,000 and 28,000 CF gas arid 213
and 305 barrels of water,
respectively.
Bottomed at 7,369 and 7368
feet, they will produce from
Gloricta/Clear Fork perforations,
ranging from 6,036 to 7,296 feet
into the wellbores.
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The No 7720 Denver Unit has
been flnaled by Shell Western
Exploration and Production, Inc.
It is a developmental well in the
Wasson Field, Gaines County.
Drillsite is two miles south of
Denver City. Location is in a
27,848-acre lease in the Public
School Land Survey A-1039.
Daily potential of four barrels of
oil plus 350 barrels of water was
posted with the Railroad
Commission. The well went to a
5,077-ft. bottom, and production
will be from perforations in the San
Andres Formation. 4,895 to 5.077
feet into the hole.
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Dow, M. Gene & Fisher, David. The Seminole Sentinel (Seminole, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 86, Ed. 1 Sunday, August 21, 1994, newspaper, August 21, 1994; Seminole, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1049270/m1/1/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Gaines County Library.