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Tough assignment
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
Texas' 1968-89 budget will, in all probability,
show a deficit if figures from state Com-
ptroller Bob Bullock are accurate.
His office says that Texas will have an
estimated $35 1 billion for budget use...down
slightly from the past two years.
Bullock said late last week that neither the
state finances nor the Texas economy is as
vibrant as in the past and the state's economy
will expand modestly in the next two years.
Estimates also indicate that there will be
less money available for general spending
because of the state's reliance on dedicated
funds and the $1 billion deficit being carried
over from the most recent budget.
The bulk of the budget money will come
from tax collections, which are expected to
total about $20 billion.
Tax receipts are expected to be about 3 per-
cent less than currently being collected, and
the drop is the first biennial decline in some 30
years. Bullock pointed out.
Editorial/Opinion
"The vital measure oj a newspaper is not its size ...A
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger ^
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LJano News, Thursday, January 15, 1987
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Talk of Texas
Boxing champ learns in jail
By Jack Maguire
FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY — Jack
Johnson, the only Texan ever to
become world heavyweight boxing
champion, learned the tricks of his
trade in jail!
In 1901, when the young Galves-
ton black began boxing, Texas
outlawed prizefights. Boxers could
be sent to Huntsville for two to five
years for fighting in the ring.
However, the law could be skirted by
so-called “exhibitions."
These were billed as "scientific
demonstrations." They were legal if
admission was free, no money was
bet and the pugilists weren't paid.
Galveston boxing fans got around
the law by forming an Athletic Club
and hiring a famed boxer, Joe
Choynski, to run it. He was paid $500
monthly.
On February 25, 1901, Choyniki
scheduled himself against young
Johnson for a scientific demonstra-
tion of boxing at the club. Admission
was free, betting was outlawed, and
the “demonstrators" weren’t paid.
However, when Coynski knocked out
Johnson in the third round, both
fighters were jailed.
For 24 days they remained behind
bars waiting for a recalcitrant judge
to free them, but it was a bonanza for'
Johnson. The two fighters were
allowed to spar almost daily for the
benefit of other inmates and jail
personnel. In these sessions, Choyn-
ski taught Johnson the professional
tricks of boxing that the neophyte
could never have learned except
from a superb trainer.
Once out of prison, Johnson left
Galveston for the career that would
make him one of the great boxers of
all time. On Dec. 26, 1908, he won
the heavyweight championship of
the world from Tommy Burns in
Australia. He remained the cham-
pion for seven years, finally losing
the title to Jess Willard in Havana.
Cuba, on April 5, 1915.
* • •
THF. READERS WRITE — J.T.S..
who sees "Talk of Texas" in the
Seminole Sentinel, says: "Many
Texans celebrated the New Year
drinking booze. Did this slang term
for liquor originate in Texas?"
No, this addition to the vocabulary
is from Philadelphia. It became a
synonym for liquor around 1840
because a distiller there named E.G.
Boozer began putting alcohol in
small bottles to please the trade.
• • •
HANDWRITING IN THE SOIL —
Geologists are predicting that Texas
and Mexico won't always remain
close neighbors with only the Rio
Grande dividing them.
A geological rift that runs north
and south through Colorado and New
Mexico is widening by about one
millimeter each year. Eventually, it
will turn eastward at El Paso and
follow the Rio Grande to the Gulf.
When that happens. Gulf waters will
flood the rift and create a new ocean.
Scientists say this rift in the
earth's crust is the third-largest
found thus far in the world.
However, they estimate that it will
MEMBER 1987
TEXAS PRESS ASSOCIATION
The LLANO fe'NE^S
Serving Llano. Llano County and the
Highland Lakes area since 1889
Published every Thursday at 813 Berry Street. Llano. Texas 78643
Entered in the Llano Post Office as second class mail under the Act of
Congress of 1878 USPS316 799
WALTER L BUCKNER. Editor and Publisher
T H CUNNINGHAM. Publisher Emeritus
FRED TAYLOR
SARAH BUCKNER
MARY BROWN . ....
ANN MILLER............
A C KINCHELOE........
DON SUMMERS.........
BARBARA BURFORD
OOOIE VIERUS..........
MILLIE ALLEN
BRIDGET SMALLWOOD
NANCY TRIBBLE
News Editor
......... Life Style Editor
Kingsland Chronicle Editor
......... Editor’s Assistant
Printing Oept Supervisor
Compositor and Darkroom
.................. Bookkeeper
Advertising Sales
Production and Office Supplies
Production Assistant
Advertising Sales
COLUMNISTS Hal Cunningham. Marilyn Hale end John Kuykendall
NEWS CORRESPONDENTS Ruth Deal. Eoline Kowierschke. Lottift
Wyckofl. Cookie Walker. Thelme Price and Floyce Slaughter
SUBSCRIPTION RATES Llano County 911.80 per year, including tax
Elsawhere in Texas. 913 par year. Including tax. plus 96 postage 119
Out of-state 916 per year plus 919 postage 934 All payable in advenes
Oversaes - call or write for quota.
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The Llano News solicits letters to the editor concerning issues of local
interest Letters must be signed and no longer than two standard pages
double spaced and typed if possible The staff reserves the right to edit
all letters according to accepted standards For further information call
The Llano News at 916/247 4433
be two million years, or more, before
the Rio Grande can accomodate
cruise ships.
• • *
■This MODERN WORLD — Kevin
Gatlin of Austin tells us that a shop
in that city’s suburban Oak Hill has a
vending machine that serves up live
worms or minnows at the drop of a
coin!
• • *
IT'S A FACT — When the viaduct
across the Trinity River, which
connects Dallas with its Oak Cliff
suburb, was built in 1912, it was the
second-largest concrete bridge in the
U.S.
Known now as the Houston Street
viaduct, it is still in use.
THE SIGNS OF TEXAS — On a
San Marcos beauty shop: “Chat 'n'
Curl.”
* • •
TEXANS AT WORK — There are
at least seven communities in the
Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex with
shops dedicated to serving immi-
grants from India.
An estimated 7,000 former resi-
dents of places like New Delhi,
Calcutta and Bombay now call this
area of Texas home. As many as
5,000 live in the two major metro-
plex cities, and hundreds more
reside in suburban towns.
Dallas. Fort Worth, Mesquite,
Garland. Richardson, Arlington and
Irving all have shops specializing in
foods common in India. Other shops
sell saris and other clothing favored
by Indian women.
TONGUE FOOLERY — German
immigrants who settled near the
Guadalupe River in Kendall County
in 1854 called their settlement
"Lager Behahlichkeit."
It was an appropriate name for a
townsite in the timbered hills and
alluvial meadows laced with dozens
of springs. The German translates
into English as "Camp Comfort.”
The original name didn’t play in
early Texas, however. It was too
hard for non-Germans to pronounce.
Soon it became plain “Comfort.”
• * *
YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW —
That the University of Texas Inter-
scholastic League started 75 years
ago as a debating society. It was
established.as a debating league in
Abilene in 1910 and slowly ex-
panded to include all scholastic and
athletic competition in Texas high
schools.
• • •
IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN HERE
— Texas has three official and
unofficial anthems.
"Texas. Our Texas,” the official
state song, was adopted in 1929.
However, the most sung and most
recognized is "The Eyes of Texas,"
the alma mater of the University of
Texas since 1903.
Least known of the three is called
"Bluebonnets." It was written in
1933 by Julia D. Booth and Lora C.
Crockett and is the official flower
song.
• 99
THE GOOD OLD DAYS — Oran
Milo Roberts spent only 35 cents to
gel himself elected governor of
Texas in 1879 and that was borrowed
from a frtend. He spent ft to send a
telegram accepting the nomination.
Salas tax collections will increase by only 2.5
percent above the the current level because of
the small economic growth and the 1987 tem-
porary tax rates expire Aug. 31. 1967.
Oil taxes are expected to fall nearly 20 per-
cent over current levels because of low prices
and declining production. Income from oil and
natural gas taxes amounted to 12.7 percent of
collections in the 1986-87 budget, but will only
account for a total of 10.3 percent in the next
two years, Bullock said.
State population projections show that we
will likely have about a 2.3 percent growth in
the next two years. The value of the state's
gross product will climb from $283.6 billion
this year to $290 billion in 1989 for a 2.3 percent
increase.
Our Texas legislators have their work cut
out for them in finding areas where they can
hold the line on spending —a tough assign-
ment.
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“Ole steer, don’t look like we’re doin’ so good!
From the sidelines
Desk cleaning time
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By Fred Taylor
If the first full week of the new
year is any indication of what the rest
of the year might be. it is going to be
a very rough year. I took an extra day
off after the first in keen antici-
pation of the arrival of another
grandchild, but that event has been
delayed, so it was back to work as
usual on Monday’
It was one of those hectic days—a
car wreck in the morning, a fire
after noon and plenty of pictures in
between. The long day ended with a
meeting and more pictures at the
Llano County Soil and Conservation
District meeting. Disaster came in
the form of lightstruck film that
wiped out all of my pictures.
With reluctance I called the Llano
Fine Arts Guild to let them know
another picture would have to be
taken of the officers. The swearing in
of District Clerk Wanda Osbourn and
County Surveyor Fred Thompson
were lost, along with the fire pictures
and the award presentation to
LCSWCD directors who were pre-
sented by Otto and Marvin Rusche.
The Youth Range Workshop, at-
tended by Felicia Wagner and
Shawn Nowlin, had their pictures
taken to no avail.
Other people must have been
having some "Monday” troubles.
The weekly TV Log listing which
normally comes in Thursday or
Friday the week before hit a snag
somewhere down the line. It didn't
arrive until the paper was already on
the way to the press. While there
were quite a few wrong titles, at
least most of the basic programming
remained the same.
• * *
At least not everyone got off to a
bad start in 1987. There is one
grandfather in Llano County who
received a very kind card from a
19-year-old granddaughter. He re-
fused to be identified but wanted to
share the pleasant experience with
other grandparents. It simply read:
"Pa-Paw,
"Thank you for everything. You
are always there whenever I need
you. I hope that someday I may be
able to return all your caring. I love
you more than words can say.
Anytime I need strength I know to
turn to you. As hard as times may
get I know that you believe in me,
and that makes me push harder to
achieve my goals. I will forever be
'your little girl.’
"Love always, Kimberly.”
Well, I haven’t met Kimberly, but
I can pass on to her that she has a
very proud grandfather, and from
the way he speaks about you, the
feeling is mutual.
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Why is it that politicians feel it is
so necessary to record all of their
activities while in office? It is
certainly more expected of the bjg
wheels in the federal government
even though there are a few who
probably wish they hadn’t recorded
everything.
Governor Mark White has re-
cently provided all of the news media
with a list of accomplishments while
he was in office. The large brown1
envelope marked “From the Office
of the Governor" cost $1.58 to mail
and contained 82 pages of informa-
tion.
You don't think he expects the
news media to reprint all of that
information, do you? According to
his press secretary, Ann Arnold, the
news media is supposed to keep the
information on file as reference
material. Sort of sounds as if he will
be wanting the job back four years
hence.
Well, that takes care of one stack
of paper. Wonder what’s in this
other stack?
THE
Wanderer
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For a number of years it seemed
television was about the spell the
doom of the motion picture industry.
The natives were sitting at home
watching the idio box and staying
away from the movies in droves.
Then the television programs began
to get sorrier and sorrier, and the TV
stations began to crowd in more and
more commercials, and the tele-
vision industry began to realize that
it was a lot easier to run movies on
TV than to dream up and produce
good programs themselves. The only
trouble was that the movie industry
wouldn't release their films for
television, and about all they oould
get hold of were oldies that everyone
had seen years ago and didn't care to
see again.
Eventually, a sort of armed truce
was worked out between the video
and film industries with television
getting some of the later and better
movies and some of the film studios
even producing movies especially for
television. That was an improve-
ment. except that soon greed got the
better of the TV nabobs, and they
began to fill the movies so full of
commercials that the viewer couldn't
be sure whether the hero kissed the
heroine or ran to lap up a plate of his
favorite dog food, or whether the
villain seduced Little Nell or a
contented cow.
Then along came the VCR's. And
it just could be that they'll one day
put a stop to all that.
As more and more people have
VCR's (video cassette recorders),
movies are befllKITllg to become
popular again. More and more good
movies are becoming available on
video tape, and television program-
ming isn't improving a bit.
You can rent a movie on video tape
for a day and night for less than the
average price of one movie ad-
mission. You can play the tape on
your VCR for the entire family to see,
plus as many guests as you can invite
in. When the phone rings, as it
always does, you can stop the tape
right there until you've shut up the
phone without missing any of the
movie. You can put some popcorn in
the micro-wave and enjoy all the
comforts of the theater without
having to dress up and go out to do.
so. You can even stick chewing gum
under your chair if your wife doesn't
catch you at it. Then when the movie
is over you press the "rewind"
button and go to the bathroom.
When you get back the tape will be
rewound, and you may even get a
small rebate from the rental agency
for having rewound it.
But best of all. you can see a whole
movie without a single interruption
for commercials.
It might be best to enjoy that state
of affairs while it lasts, because we
read in TV publications that the big
advertising agencies are getting
worried about this vast developing
entertainment field without any ad-
vertising. and they're making plans
to try to get their commercials
inserted into video tapes. Somebody
always has to come along and louse
up a good thing.
Another great advantage of the
VCR rs to separate two TV programs
that are on different channels at the
By Hal Cunningham
same time. For instance. The
Wanderer wants to watch
M*A*S*H*. and Hazel likes Wheel
of Fortune, both of which are on a(
the same time. Answer: Watch on{
and tape the other to be seen laterj
and everybody's happy. Of courset
most VCR owners run into a bit of
trouble in the beginning, because
most VCR's are made in Japan. anJ
the Japanese are famous for being
unable to write understandable ini.
structions in English. Eventually^
though, most VCR owners figure
out for themselves. !*
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Many sports maniacs even watclK
one football game and tape-records,
another at the same time, to be seerre
later. The Wanderer hasn't gone!
that far. because one football gama^
is about all he can take in one day^
and he can't work up much interest
in a game he knows is already overt
The movies they make today don’t
seem to compare with some of thos^«
of yesteryear, but there ar^ enough'
of the fine older films on tape to keefg!
the senior citizens happy for quite r!
while. 2*
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Congress seems to be having fr'
ball with its witch-hunting, with botht
the House and Senate conducting*
special investigations and appointing
special investigators. Next probably!*
will be a special investigator tor'
investigate the special investigators.;!
The Wanderer, though, has a better!
idear How about a special investiga-*!
tor to Investigate Congress? We’ll-!
bet some of those sterling char-’
acters' skirts aren’t too clean.
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 96, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 15, 1987, newspaper, January 15, 1987; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1114178/m1/4/: accessed July 13, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.