The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1995 Page: 1 of 18
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Volume 107, No. 13
Deer Capital of Texas
Thursday, January 12, 1995
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Stockshow entries set new record
Once again this year, a record
number of entries are slated for the
Llano Jr. Livestock Show and Bake
Show this weekend. A total of 489
entries have been recorded for the
199S Show coming up at the
Community Center.
A year ago, there were 441
entries by 181 exhibitors. Although
the number of exhibitors has only
increased by one this year, the
youth are taking on more projects.
"I think it shows that our youth
are branching out a little more and
that's good,” said Stockshow
Association Chairman Dennis Hill.
Some of the numbers include 242
market hogs, up from 194 last year,
and 52 lambs, up from 45 from a
year ago. There are 25 steers, 2
hfifers, 37 breeding gilts, 69 goats,
.36 broilers, 18 turkeys,'1 and 8
rabbits entered in the show.
The show, which begins at 8:00
a.m. Friday with judging of various
animals and continues through sale
time on Saturday evening at 6
p.m., culminates months of work
for county 4-H, FFA, and FHA
members. ,
Director John Kuykendall said
that this year's show promises to be
one of the biggest and hopefully
best ever for Llano.
Exhibitors are required to spend
ample time necessary to care for
their projects and must be present
to show the animal. Some will go
on to shows in Ft. Worth, San
Antonio, Houston, and even El
Paso.
Hill is impressed with the
amount of work the exhibitors take
on each year and thinks it will help
the youth in many ways in life.
"There are so many intangibles
that are in addition to academics
that employers will be looking
for,” Hill said. "Raising these
animals teaches our kids a lot of
those things like honesty,
teamwork, integrity, dependability,
and responsibility.
"It's also a positive way to give
families something they can do to-
gether."
The show times are as follows:
Friday - rabbits 9 a.m., poultry
10 a.m., goats 1 p.m., swine 4
p.m..
Saturday - lambs 9 a.m., cattle
12:30 p.m.
Weigh-in times begin at 8 a.m.
on Friday for all animals except for
cattle, which will be weighted in at
3 p.m. Weigh-ins end at 8:30 a.m.
for rabbits, 10 a.m. for poultry,
lambs and goats, and 11 a.m. for
swine.
Bake Show
The food division of the show
will feature baked goods in Junior
(elementary and jr. high) and Senior
(high school) categories. Judging
begins at 9:30 a.m. and the foods
will be up for sale following
judging.
The sale usually begins at around
11:30 a.m. However, the grand
champion cake and pie will each be
sold during the auction sale.
There will be several classes of
goodies prepared by contestants
including butter cakes, oil cakes,
chocolate cakes, double crust pies,
single crust pies, pecan pies, drop
cookies, bar cookies, fudge,
divinity, sweet yeast breads, quick
breads, and nutritious snacks.
The prize money for cakes and
pies is $10 for first, $8 for second,
and $6 for third. Prize money for
all other categories is $5 for first,
$4 for second, and $3 for third.
Barbecue
The traditional barbecue lunch
will be served at about 11:00 a.m.
Saturday. The barbeque, which
benefits the 4-H program will be
served in the banquet room of the
community center. Proceeds from
thfe lunch will make up a large
portion of the 4-H budget for the
entire year.
The 4-H Adult Leaders
Association and the 4-H Council
will prepare the meal that is always
a good one.
Auction **
The auction sale begins at 6 p.m.
Saturday evening. Auctioneers are
Donald Jordan and John W.
Schuessler with Walter Milliorn,
Jimmy Decker, and Jackie Justis
serving as ringmen.
Alternate auctioneers are Milliorn
and Decker and the sale lineup will
be under the supervision of Paul
Schuessler, David Schulze, and
Clinton Long.
The 1994 premium sale netted
$65,565 for exhibitors, up about
$5,000 from the year before. The
grand champion steer, raised by
Kayla Osbourn brought $1,750 in
1994. «
Plan
to attend
the 1995
Livestock
& Bake
Show
Jan. 13-14
Greenwood
Library will
get a new
home soon
The Greenwood Exchange Branch
Library will be getting a new home
soon.
Llano commissioners court
unanimously accepted the donation
of a building in Greenwood Acres
on the west shore of Lake Buchanan
for the new site of the library.
The commissioners heard a report
from Greenwood Acres resident Dr.
Jim Spidle that Ruth and Bob Deal
of Jamestown, California had said
they would donate property in
hopes it would be a branch library
and community center. Spidle said
that the property had been appraised
by the county at $58,740 and had
been on the market at $49,500.
He went on to say that his group
which has special interest in the li-
brary will pay $2,000 for the realtor
involved. The commissioners
agreed to pay closing costs which
could be about $1,500. Dr. Spidle
said his "people" would also under-
take refurbishing of the facilities.
The branch library had closed in
the Fall of 1994 when the building
housing the library had first been
offered to the county for purchase
and later sold.
The 1994-95 county library bud-,
get calls for $12,120 for Greenwood
Acres Branch.which is about 7% of
the total library budget. *
Dr. Spidle pointed out that there
were 450 library card holders in
1992 and 7.651 publications were
checked out.
County Judge J.P.Dodgen said he
had inspected the site and ques-
tioned the legality of the donation
to the county. He had asked the
county attorney for an opinion. "I
don't think there is a problem here,"
he said. '
In other action the
commissioners:
•Approved a contract with the
Valley Spring Volunteer Fire De-
partment and donated $500 to them.
•Selected Jesse Nopolez, Charles
Watkins and Bob Battle to the 1995
Salary Grievance Comipiltet.
•Approved the expenditure of
$4,350 to reconstruct fencing on
road easement along 1,500 feet of
Slator Ranch property on Hwy.
152.
•Approved the bond for Deputy
Sheriff Duane L. Nobles.
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LCRA to begin
relocating deer
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CHARGE .... Justin Milan (12) was whistled for the charge on this drive agalnstf Comfort
Friday night. The Llano Tellowjacket varsity boys squad couldn't keep up with the hot
shooting Comfort team as they fell. 65-84.
Dredging may be stalled
Just about two weeks after the
City of Llano began its dredging
project in the Llano River to
remove sand, the U.S. Army Corp
of Engineers contacted City
Manager Tom Donaldson and
threatened to issue a stop work
order citing that a permit was not
obtained.
Apparently, according to
Donaldson, a letter was issued to
the city on June 11, 1993, stating
that the city did not need a permit
to remove sand from the riverbed.
Llano was issued a project number
and told to proceed.
But, Donaldson said, upon
hearing of the start of the project,
the Corp of Engineers notified the
city of a rule change that said a 404
permit must be obtained first.
"They told me that we needed to
get a grandfather clause but we were
never informed of the rule change,"
Donaldson said. "They (Corp of
Engineers) knew full well we had
an ongoing project and they failed
to notify us of any changes to we
proceeded as scheduled."
Friday, the city receiyed the okay
from Texas Parks and Wildlife for
the project but on the same day,
Barry Osbourn of the Corp of
Engineers contacted Donaldson and
came for a visit to look over the
project Monday.
As of press time Tuesday, a stop
work order had not yet been issued
to Llano and Donaldson said that he
plans to continue removal of sand.
"We have one bulldozer that
we've been using and the LCRA
(Lower Colorado River Authority)
loaned us two others," he said. "The
LCRA is also helping us fill out
the 404 permit and that went very
well (Monday)."
Some heavy rains around
Christmas time sent the river on a
rise but apparently, no damage was
done and draining resumed last
week.
During Monday's visit by
Osbourn, Donaldson explained the
need for the project and how the
d would be used to fill low areas
san
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und the river.
AUSTIN - The Lower Colorado
River Authority plans to round up
deer that are overpopulating its
properties'in Llano and Fayette
Counties and relocate them to
northern Fayette County where deer
populations are low.
The deer roundup is scheduled to
begin in mid January and continue
through February.
The LCRA has obtained a permit
from the Texas Parks and^Wildlife
Department to capture as many as
100 deer on its properties near
LCRA’s Ferguson Power Plant in
Llano County and up to 50 deer at
the Fayette Power Project property
in Fayette County.
The deer will be set free at
LCRA’s 180-acre Cooper Farm
Resource Area north of La Grange
and on nearly private lands that are
part of a regional wildlife coopera-
tive called the North Central
Fayette County Wildlife Manage-
ment Co-op. The co-op's members
account for about 22,000 acres of
ranch and farm lands.
The co-op was formed as a non-
profit organization in early 1993 to
support healthy and diverse animal
and plant populations in the region.
Among its goals arc to encourage
successful wildlife management
practices, to improve wildlife habi-
tat and populations and to prevent
poaching.
"The deer populations around our
Ferguson and Fayette properties
n.
have gotten too large for the
amount of food that is available
naturally," said Ed Whitmore, >
LCRA project manager for the deer
relocation.
"Our goal is to help the deer sur-
vive and help keep them from being
a nuisance to nearby residents, par-
ticularly in subdivisions near Fer-
guson," Whitman said. '»
The areas where the LCRA will
be relocating the deer could support
many more deer than currently in-
habit the areas, he added.
Plans call for LCRA crews to set
out feed at two Llano County sites
along Lake LBJ about 10 to 15
days before the roundup begins.
One site is on FergUSon plant
property and the other is at LCRA’s
Baird Place just north of Ferguson.
Then the crews will set up nets
on poles to capture the deer at the
feeding areas. The nets will be set
up in open areas to help keep the
deer from being injured, Whitmore
said. . {
After catching the deer at the
Llano County sites and relocating
them, the crews will move to two
locations on the .Faye^e plant
property, Whitmore said.
The LCRA successfully relocated
39 deer in January 1994 from
Fayette plant property to the
Cooper Farm tract. This is the first
time the LCRA will be relocating
deer from the Ferguson plant area.
Rainfall in Llano County for past eight years
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1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1322,
1223
1994
January
0.78
0.29
3.43
0.31
* 2.6
3.62
1.46
1.35
February
2.77
0.46
2.36
3.8
0.88
6.22
2.62
2.75
March
1.41
1.39
2
2.92
0.47
2.18
1.29
1.13
. April
1.05
1.51
0.9
2.95
2.69
1.7
4.76
1.32
May
4.59
1.87
3.62
2.2
8.27
8.25
1.75
5.2
June
4.89
3.11
3.21
0.7
6.8
9.08
4.23
1.48 '
July
1.28
3.14
0.27
3.45
0.96
0.97
0
1.33
August
3.82
0.46
0.74
1.12
0.55
0.93
0.23
1.62
September
2.65
1.85
1.56
3.64
1.41
0.86
1.36
1.6
‘ October
0.13
0.67
1.82
3.73
2.21
1.02
3.77
4.31
November
2.21
0.3
0.69.
2.59
0 35
5.69
1.38
2.51
December
l.84
1.69
0.17
0.53
10.67
2.29
1.59
3.33
TOTALS
27.42
16.74
20.74
27.94
37.86
42.81
24.44
27.93
Average annual rainfall for Llano County based on 100-year figures is 25 inches.
Records courtesy of Wolf Mountain Ranch
Weather
CnitHT Wolf MmaUIb lanah
January '95
High
Low Rain
Jan. 3
45
33
.00
Jan. 4
44
28
.00
Jan. S
43
26
.00
Jan. 6
63
37
.10
Jan. 7
63
28
.00
Jan. 8
74
35
.00
Jan. 9
. 74
37
.00
•Courtesy..Wolf Min. Ranch
Rainfall for Jan. ____17-
Total for 1995 • .17"
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WEATHER OUTLOOK
Courtesy Randy Rieman/
LCRA Water Resources
Friday: Mostly clear
skies with slight
chance of rain
6 to 10 day outlook
Tkmps: Above Normal
Precip: Below
Normal >
30 day outlook
TfcMPs: Normal
Precip: Normal
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 107, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 12, 1995, newspaper, January 12, 1995; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1140490/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.