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2 —LEVELLAND-HOCKLEY-CO. NEWS-PRESS, Wxfamdaj, AngvU 31, 198S—
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Just
Rambling
With
Stephen Henry
People who hate their work
are slaves - no matter how much
they make.
The News-Press kicked off
its annual 10-week football con-
test last weekend.
The contest features 20
games each week with the indi-
viduals with the best guesses
earning prize money. First place
is $20, second is $15, and third
is $10, with the individual accu-
mulating the best season record
earning $100.
Monday morning, staff
members discovered the first
week’s contest has three mis-
takes. There are two games
number 2 and two games num-
bered 14, and there’s an error in
game number 7. As a result, all
three of those games will count
as automatic correct choices.
The contest is being spon-
sored by Lobo Lanes, Roy Reid
Tire Co., Harrell Budding Sup-
ply, Texas American Bank, The
B.B.Q. Place, Levelland Kawa-
saki, Bradley Agency, Tri-Care
Pharmacy, Smitty’s Muffler,
Cheetah Plumbing, Turck’s
Meat Market, Sonic Drive-In,
Pizza Hut, and First National
Bank.
Contest entries must be in
by 5 p.m. Fridays.
GETTING READY-Rows of empty chairs and covered typewriters faced typing teacher Michael
ready for the year to begin. (Staff Photo)
Comptroller heralds recovery
State Comptroller Bob Bul-
lock said recently Texas govern-
ment will end it’s fiscal year
next week in the black for the
first time in two years.
“When the state closes its
books on the 1988 fiscal year
August 31, we’ll be ahead by
McCATHERN
Where has the summer
gone? South Plains College
students started classes Wed-
nesday and area public school
students start classes Thursday.
, The start of school seems the
appropriate time to tell the story
about the school teacher who
entered her classroom after
lunch and found a group of
small boys kneeling on the floor,
huddled together. *
She asked them what they
were doing.
“We’re just shooting dice,’’
was the reply.
“Oh,” said the teacher with
a sigh of relief. “I was afraid
you were praying.”
Learning to express yourself
can be the key to success in
most situations.
We heard about a guy who
went on a spiritual retreat and
asked the preacher if it was okay
to smoke while praying.
The preacher replied, “Cer-
tainly not.”
After a few minutes of . .
silence the same guy reworded P“ce income from those
■ 8 industries with debt. In 1981,
we had a $78 billion federal
deficit. In 1987, we had a $221
morning.
He said in 1948, Harry Tru-
man won an upset victory over
Tom Dewey by making a whistle
stop tour around the nation tell-
ing people what he stood for and
what needed to be done to im-
prove the conditions of this
nation. “More importantly than
that...I want you to remember
what it was like during those
Truman years in West Texas
and in the nation as a whole
because we had the oil industry
doing great. The ag industry
was doing great, business was
doing great, working people
were doing great, main street
merchants were doing great...If
you remember back then what it
was like in Levelland, Te. ?. .
when we were all making a prof-
it in whatever we were doing.
There’s no reason it can’t be
that way today, except for the
fact that we’ve got a group of
people who are making policy in
this nation that is totally differ-
ent from what it was during
Truman years,” said McCath-
ern.
“Since 1981, we’ve seen
we’re trying to run this nation
on debt rather than on earned
income. That income starts out
in rural America. It starts with
the oil industry, with the ag
industry, with the small town
merchants and moves through
the economy. We’ve seen them
destroy those industries and re-
his question: “Is it all right if I
pray while I smoke?”
“Of course,” answered the
preacher.
Larry Crabtree, publisher of
the Vernon Daily Record, told
about a boss who found a young
secretary and a junior executive
smooching in the storeroom.
The boss demanded an ex-
planation.
“Well,” said the secretary
as she straightened her clothes,
neither of us smokes or drinks
coffee.”
billion federal deficit. We’ve
seen the trade deficit go from a
positive figure in 1981 to $170
billion deficit in 1987. We’ve
seen our federal debt grow from
$800 billion to $2.5 trillion in
1988. The interest on our federal
debt today — that’s your tax
dollars and mine that are going
to pay the interest on that feder-
al debt is more than the entire
budget was during Harry Tru-
man’s years as president. We’re
just totally destroying this
nation from the inside and
we’ve got to change that,” said
the Hereford Democrat. '
McCathem, who is going up
Levelland A Hockley County
News-Press
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Established 1925 and continuing the Hock lay County Herald,
the Levelland Daily Sun-Nows, the Levelland Surveyor, and the
Froe-Praas.
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Stephen Henry..................
Jane Batson, Mason Polk.....
Marlene Lucas...................
Mary Pierce.....................
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Assistant Editor
Staff Writer
Sports Writer
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Classified Manager
Composition Director
............Composition
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from page 1 -
against Combest for the second
time, is making an issue of polit-
ical action committee contribu-
tions maintaining he is not
accepting contributions from
“industries that really don’t
have our good and our welfare
at heart.”
He attacked Combest’s rec-
ord on agricultural commodity
prices, oil and gas issues and
import issues.
“The only way to change
policies is to change politicians
who have written the policies,”
concluded the political hopeful.
He labeled a balanced budget as
a priority if elected. He also
repeated a challenge to Com-
best to debate him in evfery
county in the district.
COMBEST
legislatively but I’m from that
old (John) Tower school of poli-
tics, that is, that you don’t judge
someone, in the legislature by
the number of bills they’ve
passed but by the number of
bills they’ve stopped,” said the
Republican who is completing
his second term as U.S. Repre-
sentative of the 19th Congres-
sional District.
‘ ‘The future of West Texas is
looking brighter and continued
strong, proven leadership is
needed to see that our future is
secure,” said Combest. “New
opportunities are opening up in
the 19th District, and together
we can turn those opportunities
into reality.”
, “The best form of govern-
ment is a government of the
people and I believe I have
successfully represented the cit-
izens of the 19th District,” Com-
best said.
Combest is a member of the
House Committee on Agricul-
ture and sponsored the Plant
Stress and Water Conservation
Research Facility on Lubbock’s
nearly $100 million, and that’s a
sure sign the Texas economy is
rebounding, ’ ’ Bullock said.
Last year at this time, the
state was in the hole $745 mil-
lion. At the end of 1986, the
balance in the General Revenue
Fund was minus $231 million.
Bullock made the announce-
ment at the West Texas Council
of the Texas Chamber of Com-
merce’s mid-year meeting Fri-
day morning in Abilene.
The dramatic turnaround
from a large deficit to a positive
balance in just one year is furth-
er evidence of Texas’ strong
economic recovery, Bullock
said.
He said that state income
from sales taxes, motor fuels,
insurance, oil and natural gas
and the franchise tax are all
better than expected.
“It’s another clear indication
that the Texas economy bottom-
ed out in the spring of 1987 and
is in a sustainable recovery,”
Bullock said.
continued from page 1
Texag Tech University campus.
He helped write the 1985 Farm
Bill which he says has been a
success.
“I supported and successful-
ly amended the 1985 Farm Bill
to provide income protection for
High Plains cotton producers. In
preparing the next farm bill I
intend to work just as hard to
extend the income-protecting
legislation to include wheat and
feed grain producers, ’ ’ said the
congressman.
He said he continues to seek
a national energy policy. He
maintains he is a defender of
small business in Congress and
cites the seminars he has con-
ducted in the district to inform
business men and women of ex-
port and government contract
opportunities.
While in office, Combest has
earned several awards from con-
servative organizations in recog-
nition of his voting record for
reducing federal spending,
eliminating government waste,
and reducing the deficit.
King Crossword
ACROSS
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10. Try or test
11. Mountains
(So. An.)
13. No score
(Tennis)
14. ()vum
15. Negative
reply
16. Keel-hilled
cuckoo
17. River
(Scot.)
18. Heart
(Anat.)
10. Tedding
machine
21. Demonstra-
tive pronoun
22. Sea eagle
23. Medieval
type of
short tale
24. Full of bones
"26. Sheds, as
feathers
29. ()flen
(poet.)
30. In what
manner
31. Unit of
length
(Rangoon)
32. From
*). Fresh
:)4. External
seed coaling
35. Measure
of length
37. About
38. Whirling
40 To set right
DOWN
1 Frugal
2. Wander
3. Evening
(poet.)
4. Chinese
„ river
5. Maxim
6. tiang (dial.)
7. Conclude
8. Flat
' 9. City (It.)
10. Small plot
See Classifieds for Solutions
of ground
12. Classify
14 Ever
(poet.)
17 Lair
18. Boys or
girls (poss)
20. Arid
21. Greek letter
23. Humble
24. Rapid rise
ih .price
25. Bid
26. Cut,
as hay
27. Legisla
tive as
sembly
(Scand.)
28. Condiment
30. Biblical
king
33. Glacial ice
34. Keel-billed
cuckoos
36. Thrice
(mus.)
37. Hail!
39. Lira (abbr.)
Commissioners skip
through short agenda
Commissioners Bill Thetford
and J.R. Stanley, along with
County Judge Don Avery,
moved quickly through a short
agenda Monday morning.
Commissioner El Lea Hens-
ley was recovering from surgery
in Methodist Hospital in Lub-
bock and Commissioner Sam
Langford was out of town.
Because two of the commis-
sioners were absent, those pre-
sent decided to pass on accept-
ing the audit tabled at the last
meeting and will consider it at a
later meeting.
They agreed to publish the
indigent health care guidelines
used to determine which appli-
cants may receive aid. The year-
ly publication of the guidelines
is state mandated- f
The commissioners also
agreed to provide aid to five
applicants. The applicants were
seeking assistance with shelter
and utility payments, and the
aid totaled $350. Aid to six
applicants was denied because
the applications were incom-
plete or the requests were for
the first month’s rent, an item
not covered by the guidelines.
The commissioners will meet
again at 11 a.m. today for a
budget hearing and at 10 a.m.
Thursday to canvass the votes
from the hospital bond election
and take necessary actions.
FR^JNT continued from page 1
drop too low for too long a time.
“Any time weather gets be-
low 60 degrees, we’ll have very
little maturation activity in
plants. We’ll also get lower lint
quality. The maturation slows a
great deal even in the 70s be-
cause the heat unit accumula-
tions are in a low state,” said
County Agent T.A. Vestal.
“We can expect cotton will
be slowed by this weather and it
will take a few days to catch up.
Generally, the first of Septem-
ber is when we see this kind of
weather. It is something we can
live with,” Vestal continued.
“A lot of yield potential and a
lot of quality lint depend on
what September and October
bring. We could not stand a lot
more of cool, moist conditions
and still expect good yields and
quality.” ■
The NWS predicts more
favorable farming weather for
the rest of the week. Conditions
will remain generally cloudy
with 30 to 40 percent chance for
afternoon and evening showers,
but temperatures will return to
the high 80s.
Mack Hicks of Whiteface
Farms said the recent change in
weather was probably beneficial
because the difference in tem-
perature allowed the moisture to
soak in and become available to
the plants.
“The temperature was not
that detrimental right now. The
low of 57 didn’t last too long. I
don’t think you’ll see any ad-
verse effects because the soil
temperature was so hot to begin
with. If the weather breaks, this
will be good for us, ” Hicks said.
Several farmers in the
Whiteface area planted black -
eyed peas in fields where cotton
was hailed out earlier this sum-
mer. Hicks said the peas are
right on schedule and full of
blooms.
LOBOS
season after doctors discovered
a cervical vertebrae missing in
his neck.
The discovery was made
after Latham took a head slap
during a workout last week.
Latham complained of numb-
ness, and after a trip to team
physician Prasert Punhong, La-
tham was taken to St. Mary of
the Plains Hospital in Lubbock
for further examination. It was
revealed that the vertebrae was
missing, which required bone
graft surgery Monday after-
noon.
“Todd didn’t take a really
hard hit, it was just that this
particular hit caused the prob-
lem he had to come to the
surface. It could have happened
anytime, and he is fortunate
that the incident came about
without any retil traumatic ex-
perience taking place,” Level-
land team trainer Tom Falan
seiid Tuesday.
“It’s quite unfortunate for
Todd, first of all. As far as our
team goes, no player is indis-
pensable. There is always some-
one to jump in and take over.
But I hurt especially for Todd.
He was a tremendous athlete,
and he was one of the leaders on
our tetun. He will still travel
with the team, and he is going to
be one of our honorary captains,
but it is hard to see an athlete go
down to something like that. I’m
just glad that he will be able to
lead a normal life, and that this
was found without any serious
injury taking place,” Leaf stat-
ed.
The Lobos will go with the
starting backfield of quarter-
back Timmy James, along with
continued from page 1
fullback Patrick Dawn and tail-
back Jay Fortner, although Leaf
stated that a backfield rich in
runners would see several ath-
letes in action during the eve-
ning.
“We’re fortunate to have
three good fullbacks, and they
will all see the ball. Dawn, along
with Tony Golightly and Derek
Permeter, should all see action.
At tailback, Jay and Larry Dent
will see most of the action, but
we hope to get Brad Duncan and
Curtis Hall in there, as well,”
the coach said.
Lamesa coach Clyde Noon-
kester stated that the Tors have
to answer a few questions that ■
will determine the outcome of
their season.
“Well, in our first two
scrimmages, we looked good
and bad. We mainly looked
good offensively, but we seem-
ed to be lacking a bit defensive-
ly, and that could have been due
to the opponents we had. We’re
probably a lot like Levelland, in
that we don’t have a lot of
people with Friday night experi-
ence. We hope to make it a good
ball game, though,” the coach
said.
The Tors will run out of a
wishbone formation, utilizing
Sean Curbow (6-0, 210, Jr.) at
fullback, along with senior Tim
Hogg (5-10, 186) and junior
James Williams (6-0, 198) at
tailback. Quarterbacking the
squad will be either junior Brock
Cartwright (5-11, 156) or Mi-
chael Stansbury (6-1, 158, Jr.)
The LevellEuid junior varsity
is scheduled to face Lamesa at 7
p.m. Thursday at Lobo Stadium.
FIESTA
continued from page 1
at 10:30 that morning. It will
include the Nifty Fifties and
Mustang Car club along with a
fire truck from the Ropes Volun-
teer Fire Department.
Memorabilia of Ropes his-
tory during the 20s will go on
display at 11:30 a.m. and from
the 30s at 1:30 p.m. in the com-
munity building. The public is
invited to bring pictures,
antiques and other historical
items for the display.
Hamburgers and fixings will
be served for lunth by the
Ropesville Lions Club from noon
to 1:30 p.m.
The Kitchen Klatter Band,
featuring music on instruments
found in the kitchen, will enter-
tain the crowd at 2 p.m.
Bob Gibson will deliver a re-
port from the Texas Department
of Agriculture at 3:30 p.m. Re-
ports from the Ropesville Com-
munity Development Corp.
committees will follow.
At 4 p.m., there will be a
drawing for a quilt and a barbe-
cue grill, sponsored by the
Ropesville Senior Citizens and
the Ropes Emergency Medical
Service.
The Fun(d) Fiesta benefits
the Ropesville Community De-
velopment Corp., and planners
hope to make it an annual event.
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