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and most recently over 3000 firefight-
ers for Hurricane Harvey.
The TIFMAS program is managed
by the Texas A&M Forest Service and
is a product of the Texas Fire Chiefs
Association. The program uses local
personnel and fire apparatus to aug-
ment state resources for incidents
that overwhelm the local response ca-
pability. In order to participate in the
program fire departments and fire-
fighters must train to specific national
and state standards before they can
be mobilized to assist the state.
Locally, the CFD has firefighters
trained to the several levels within the
TIFMAS program that include wild-
land firefighter, structural firefight-
er, and multiple levels of command
and control. The CFD has used local
grants and training opportunities to
be able to serve as a fire department
under the TIFMAS program.
This assignment is a part of mobi-
lization of about 15 wildland fire en-
gines and command personnel to the
Panhandle region. The object of the
mobilization is to pre-stage fire engines
to respond to anticipated fire weather
conditions. Humidity was expected to
sink to the low teens on Sunday and
Monday with high winds through the
area. As fires were reported, the as-
signed strike teams would assist the
TFS units dispatched to those fires.
267 students on 80 teams from 57
schools participated in the Panther
Creek FFA Invitational Horse Judging
Contest on Tuesday, February 27, at
the Goree Expo Center. Panther Creek
FFA teacher, Cindy Dockter, reported
that this was the largest participation
to date and the event grows larger ev-
ery year.
The following are the first three
ranks in each division. For complete
results, visit www.judgingcard.com
and choose Online Results.
The results of Horse Judging were:
Individual - 1st was Elizabeth Bry-
an of team Taylor Co. with a score of
364, Taylor Bass of team McCulloch
Co. was 2nd with a score of 360, and
in 3rd was Taryn Morris of team Llano
Co. with a score of 356.
Team - Canyon Lake was 1st with a
score of 1007, 2nd was McCulloch Co.
with a score of 1006, and Taylor Co.
was 3rd with a score of 1001.
The Panther Creek FFA Invitational Horse Judging Contest brought students
from 57 schools to the Goree Expo Center on Tuesday, February 27. Santa Anna
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The Coleman Fire Department re-
sponded to a State Mutual Aid As-
signment on Friday, March 2. The
Texas A&M Forest Service and Texas
Department of Emergency Manage-
ment, based on weather forecasts for
the Panhandle area of Texas and for
the Permian Basin, issued a request
for the Texas Intrastate Fire Mutual
Aid System (TIFMAS) to be mobilized
by the State. Governor Greg Abbott
authorized the request and local agen-
cies were asked to respond.
The Coleman Fire Department was
contacted on Thursday evening, re-
questing a wildland truck, if avail-
able, for the State response. The CFD
did mobilize one wildland truck with
a three-person crew to assist with
the response, and it ultimately be-
came part of a 5 wildland truck strike
team assigned to the Childress, Texas
area.
TIFMAS is used by the state to pro-
vide different types of assistance for
disasters across the state. TIFMAS
has responded to wildfire outbreaks
before, supplying over 1000 local
firefighters to the 2011 wildfires. The
state has also called on TIFMAS re-
sources for the Memorial Day Floods
in San Marcos and Wimberley area,
TIFMAS requests CFD to
respond in Childress
Panther Creek FFA hosts
Horse Judging at the Goree
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golf and frisbee; you use a disc
and release it from your fingers,
and try to put the disc in the goals
in different points of locations.
Playing disc golf is also good for
going outside and getting exercise
while spending time with your
friends and family.
“Disc golf also has low impact on
people and many doctors support
the idea of disc golf being one of
the safest sports to get around to,”
Kim Little said.
In 1965, George Sappenfield was
a recreation counselor in college.
One day he was playing golf and
noticed some kids outside with
frisbees; and realized that one
could play frisbee and golf togeth-
er. Disc golf was born.
With the idea of disc golf be-
coming a sport, George Sappen-
field became the Parks and Rec-
reation Supervisor for Thousand
Oaks, California. After that, the
game of “Disc Golf’ grew in pop-
ularity and spread throughout
North America.
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The results of District 7 Junior
Horse Judging were:
Individual - Kylee Brown of team
Llano Co. was 1st with a score of 338,
Gage Behrens of team McCulloch Co.
was 2nd with a score of 335, and Ellen
Boness was 3rd with a score of 325.
Team - Llano Co. was 1st with a
score of 935, Tom Green Co. was 2nd
with a score of 870, 3rd was Taylor
Co. with a score of 843.
The results of District 7 Senior
Horse Judging were:
Individual - 1st was Elizabeth Bry-
an of team Taylor Co. with a score of
425, Taryn Morris of team Llano Co.
was 2nd with a score of 419, and Pay-
ton White of Tom Green Co. was 3rd
with a score of 416.
Team - McCulloch Co. was first
with a score of 1183 and Taylor Co.
was ranked 2nd, also with a score of
1183. Llano Co. was 3rd with a score
of 1163.
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A disc golf tournament was held
at Memory Lake on Saturday,
March 3rd, in Coleman, and it
was a new way for the community
to come together.
The premiere disc golf event in
Coleman was sponsored by Tony’s
Discs of Brownwood. Kim Little, of
the Coleman Community Coalition
Type B Economic Development
Council, helped with the creation
of the disc golf course at Memory
Lake.
The Milton Autry Memory Lake
Disc Golf course had the first disc
tournament. The time it took to
make the tournaments happen
took about three to four months
to design. Having Memory Lake
for the course took longer because
it had to be cleaned out and pre-
pared for the golf course which
took eight to ten months at Mem-
ory Lake, according to Little.
Disc golf is a unique way to put
two sports into one. It’s similar to
While attending South Ward School
in Coleman about 1957, one of the
earlier books I remember reading was
“On Jungle Trails” by Frank Buck. It
was written in 1937. The book was a
grade school boy’s dream! It was a
combination adventure story and ge-
ography primer, and was once used as
a sixth-grade textbook in Texas’ public
schools.
Frank Buck was born on March 17,
1884, in Gainesville, Texas. He later
moved to Dallas, and dropped out of
school after the seventh grade. His first
animal-related job was working as a
cowboy. While still a teenager he left
home to travel the country, taking jobs
as a carny and a bellboy. In 1911 he
was living in Chicago when he decid-
ed to trek to Brazil, buy exotic birds,
and resell them to pet shops. He net-
ted $3,000. While working as a bellhop
at the hotel, he met and married hotel
resident Amy Leslie, drama critic for
the Chicago Daily News. He was 17;
she was 41. The unlikely couple soon
divorced, and in 1928, Buck married
Muriel Reilly, a Californian. Their only
child was a girl named Barbara.
Buck’s methods seem beastly to us
today, but from the twenties through
the forties, Frank Buck was celebrated
for his jungle adventures. Buck spent
more than thirty years hunting, captur-
ing, and delivering wild animals to cir-
cuses and zoos worldwide. He regularly
engaged in breathtaking exploits such
as subduing a king cobra and lasso-
ing a tiger, and he detailed his brushes
with death in a series of popular books
and movies. But some of his contempo-
raries criticized his methods ... many
of his animals died during capture or
while being shipped. One modern zoo
historian noted that Buck’s first book,
Bring ‘Em Back Alive!, “might more apt-
ly have been titled, ‘Kill Most of Them
Along the Way.’”
For the next quarter century Buck
traveled constantly. He made a few trips
to Africa, Australia, and South America
but focused on Malaysia, Borneo, and
other parts of Southeast Asia. He later
estimated that over his lifetime he had
collected 39 elephants, 60 tigers, 62
leopards, 52 orangutans, 5,000 mon-
keys, and 100,000 birds, among other
creatures.
In 1920 he was commissioned to ac-
quire the entire lot of animals for the
new Dallas Zoo. Three years later he
was hired
as the di-
rector of the
San Diego
Zoo but was
promptly
fired for ar-
rogance,
ineptitude,
and ques-
t i o n a b 1 e
veterinary
practices.
Despite
many fear-
less encounters with dangerous preda-
tors, Buck was afraid to fly, and he al-
ways traveled and transported animals
by boat.
In 1939 and 1940 three million peo-
ple visited Frank Buck’s Jungleland,
his exhibit at the New York World’s
Fair. In the late forties Buck moved to
San Angelo, where several members of
his family lived. He died on March 25,
1950.
So far, I think many of you are won-
dering what this has to do with Cole-
man County, other than my reading
of a book. About 1990, I made a color
copy of an oil painting done by Nor-
man Rockwell in 1937 of Frank Buck.
I made this copy for Barbara Larick,
whose husband died in Coleman in
1983 while serving as pastor of the First
Christian Church. Many of you will re-
member Barbara when she worked for
Tyson Pharmacy for a number of years
before moving to Houston. Barbara was
Frank Buck’s daughter.
I visited with Barbara several years
ago by telephone and made a pho-
tographic print of Barbara’s favorite
scene ... a Coleman County sunset. If
Barbara still receives the Coleman pa-
per, I hope she will enjoy reading this
article. I think of her often.
I keep learning more and modifying
my views of the detailed history of Cole-
man and passing it on. I hope you enjoy
reading and seeing images and stories
of Coleman County’s past. For more
detailed information about our local
history, please purchase a copy of my
new book. They are available at Terry
Studio, 302 W. College Avenue in Cole-
man. You can contact me at ralphter-
ry@verizon.net or check out my studio
website at www.terrystudio.net or call
at 325-625-5317. The server for my on-
line history of Coleman County at www.
colemanhistory.com is currently down.
That’s all for now. See you soon ... until
then ... have a great history!
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