Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1981 Page: 1 of 17
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Stamford back 'Offensive Player of Year*
Griggs wins
Abilene show
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reserve honors
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County centennial meeting
scheduled Monday In Anson
Curtains rise Saturday
for annual senior play
Part-time inventor
strive? to save lives
engineer, has come up with a truck
mounted device that will remove
24,000-48,000 square feet of smoke
RONNIE GARCIA
...linebacker
and reeled off a 91-yard run from scrimmage.
The 5-10,170-pounder returned • punt 58 yards for a touchdown
It's showtime, folks.
The curtains rise promptly at
7:30 p.m. Saturday in the Stamford
High School auditorium when the
1981 senior class at SHS presents
“You’re Only Young Once” by
Glenn Hughes.
Admission to the annual event is
$3 for adults and $2 for students
Tickets may be purchased from
any senior, senior sponsor or the
night Of the performance.
Directing the senior play for the
13th season is Lillian Southerland,
drama instructor at Stamford
High. Because there is only one
performance, Mrs. Southerland
guiding the team to the final four, former head coach Jerry Taylor
was named Area Coach of the Year.
will be answered in the zany
performance of ‘You're Only
Young Once” Saturday night in the
EDWARD GARDNER
...running back
Community honors country
Americans in outdoor fete
kidnapped and were being held for
ransom,” Harrison began. “Today
we are gathered here to give thanks
for their safe return.”
Harrison praised the leaders of
this country for seeking a peaceful
solution to the hostage crisis. “We,
the American people, acting
through our elected loaders, have
obtained the long-lost freedom with
said. “Let’s resolve to give thanks
that pur sons, brothers, fathers and
others are still home with us
instead of dying in a foreign land."
Harrison's speech was followed
be a prayer of thanksgiving by the
yards a carry and gaining over 100 yards
game of the year came in a Homecoming contest against
In this time and day when a per _
son is supposed to get nowhere
without a good college education,
Things ors jumpin' at Lincoln High—
H's just another day at Lincoln High School and that's not usually normal. From left, Jana Hughes flirts with
football star Benito Forex, principal Gary Jenkins watches vice-principal Tracy Wilson and secretary
Local merchants other
buildings around the town have
displayed yellow ribbons Io
remembranes of the hostages and
the nation’s pride in the sacrifice
Singlg Copy
The citizens of Stamford took a
few moments out of their daily
schedules last Thursday afternoon
to honor 52 Americans that
returned to freedom after 444 days
of captivity in a foreign land. * •
A formal ceremony was held on
the Stamford square across from
the Chamber of Commerce building
where 52 tattered American flags
waved from the balcony. The flags only a small loss of lives," Harrison
had been flying the colors of
freedom since first put up last
spring to honor the hostages in
Iran.
The program opened with the
Stamford High School band playing
“This Land Is Your Umd.”
showing barrows. The barrow and
market steers show begins
Tuesday and continues through
Saturday.
Showing steers are Jim
Muehlstein of Stamford; Deborah
Server, Mike Byrd, Regina Kelly
and Dave and Dan Byerly of
Hamlin; Jason Propst of Anson;
and Mark and Darla Beasley and
Stephen Hicks of Hawley.
The families of the youths will
accompany them to the show along
with Gary Stanford, Jones County
Extension Agent.
welcomed the , crowd of
approximately 250 people.
"Over 400 days ago, we all were
hurt and very sad that some of our
countrymen and women had been
the attention of the Fort Worth Fire
Department after nightmarish
biases killed over 100 people in Las
Vegas and White Plains. hTY.
“I became interested in this
because of all the people that die in
smoke," Vaaquez explains. “I
__ _______ asked ’Why hasn’t anyone built
five inventor At the present, he has something?* I had a unit in mind *
eorne up with an apparatus that he
A meeting has been scheduled Monday night at 7:30 p.m. in
Anson to organize the planning committee for the Jones County
Centennial Celebration this summer.
The founding and organization of Jones County is recognized as
Jujy 17,1881, when the first Commissioner’s Court was held. This
summer marks the 100th anniversary of the county's
organization.
Joe Edd Boaz, county attorney, has asked that all citizens of
Jones County, past or present, who are interested in helping plan
the events of the Centennial as well as working on committees
attend the first meeting Monday night in the district courtroom in
the Jones County Courthouse.
Persons who cannot attend the meeting but would like to work
on this project or suggest ideas tor the project should contact
Boaz at the county attorney’s office In Anson at 828-3771.
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Kelley Griggs, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Griggs, won a Reserve
Grand Champion trophy for a pen ’j
of broilers at the Abilene Livestock
Show Jan. 19-21 in Abilene.
Griggs received $150 for his pen
of broilers at the show. He won
Grand Champion trophy a week
ago at the Jones County Livestock
Show in Anson. He is a member of
the Stamford FFA.
Wade Shurley, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Wayland Shurley, showed a
second place Hy Cross Barrow at
the Abilene show.
Shurley”was among a group of
Jones County 4-Hers that showed
entries at the regional show. Other
members of the Ericksdahl 4-H
club, which Shurley is a member, to
show animals in the Abilene show
were Greg Schoonmaker, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Darryl Schoonmaker,
and John Edkahl, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Ed Ekdahl.
Deborah Server, took second
place for a lightweight herford and
medium weight Hereford.
drop from top
Fullback Edward Gardner, who gained 1,518 yards and scored
26 touchdowns last fall, has been named Area Offensive Player of
the Year by the Abilene Reporter-News.
Gardner is a first team selection on the honor teanCone of two
Bulldogs togain such distinction. Joining him on the first team is
hard-hitting junior linebacker Ronnie Garcia. Another
linebacker, Tony Wilde of Class AAAA Brownwood, was named
Area Defensive Player of the Year.
Stamford landed four more players on the three teams of the
best high school football players in the Big Country. Named to the
second team were senior center Benito Perez and senior end Kyle
Whittemore. On the third team are senior quarterback Mike Cox
and senior guard Lewis Alambar.
The Bulldogs, expected to finish in the middle of the pack in
District 7-AAA, upset Breckenridge in their first league game and
advanced to the state Class AAA semifinals. For his efforts in
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United Way drive
Gardner, Garcia all-area1'
Twenty-four members of the
county 4-H club are planning to
show entries at the Fort Worth Fat
Stoqk Show which begins today.
The Heifer division begins today
and runs through Sunday
Exhibiting heifers wjJU be Keith and
Stephen Hicks, ■ Jennifer and
Teresa Hicks and Mark and Darla
Beasley, all of Hawley, and Emily
DeBusk of Anson.
Shurley, Eric _ and Fritz
Richards, Tracy and Ky Kuenstler,
Schoonmaker, Matt Muehlstein
A proclamation honoring the The ceremony, conducted under
former hostages was read by brilliant blue skies, was a long-
Mayor Martin Blacknburn and the awaited event for the community
story of the yellow ribbons told by and an end to a dark period In US.
Jane Miller of the Lioness Club, history.
expects a large crowd and urges
early ticket purchases.
The setting of the play is at
fictious Lincoln High School which
bears a striking familiarity to
Stamford High. The plot revolves
around a “trick" played on the star
football player prior to the big
game of the season. The efforts of a
good-intentioned friend to get his
buddy out of trouble provide for
humorous twists to events.
“Somewhat unusual treatment is
given the prologue and epilogue
which we think the audience will
enjoy.” Mrs. Southerland says.
Gary Apple plays Ron Dayton,
the football hero who gets caught
with a carton of cigarettes in his
locker. The question facing the
school administration is “Is he
guilty?" Regardless, Hugh
(Gabby) Gallagher, played by
Benito Perez, tries to help his
friend out. The more he tries to
help, the more trouble the two boys
get into-. ’
Lloyd Funk plays the football
coach, Gary Jenkins the stern
principal and Tracy Wilson the
vice-principal who finds the
contraband in Dayton’s locker.
Is Dayton guilty?
Can Gabby help his friend out?
Can a budding romance between
two school administrators work
out?
Does Lincoln High win the big
p^f^—ing only a high school five minutes. His idea has caught
diploma. / —
At least that’s what Pete Vaaquez
is trying to prove.
A native of Stamford, Vaaquez
left a future of working in the fields
and moved to Fort Worth where be
now works for Menasco, Inc., and
Lioness Club, and the 52 faded and
tattered flags atop the Chamber
building was brought down by
members of the Stamford Lions
Club.
The ceremony was concluded '
with the “Star Spangled Banner”
played by the SHS Band and sung
by the crowd and the Rev. Ron
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L.ad.rVol, 81, No 43 STAMFORD, JONES COUNTY, TEXAS, 79333, THURSDAY, JANUARY », 1tg| Arm
Honoring Our Hostages—
Lions Club members take down the 52 tattered American flags that
, honored the hostages taken in Iran for almost a year. The ceremony
took place last Thursday on the Stamford square under the direction
of the local Hons and Lioness Clubs. (Greg Jafeiewici phwo).
Finaftotals are still coming
in on the Stamford United
Way campaign drive.
As of Tuesday afternoon,
the local total had reached
$18,586.90, just $118.10 short of
the original goal of $16,660.
Any contribution cards that
are still out should be turned
in to the Stamford Chamber of
Commerce. Any late gifts that
individuals would like to
make to send the community
over its goal would be greatly
appreciated says local
chairman Birger Haterius.
LakeView.
Garcia was the comer of a defense that entered the season with
many question marks. The junior linebacker recovered two
fumbles and intercepted two passes during the season and led the
team in tackles He also led an aggressive pass rush that
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Jaklewicz, Greg. Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 59, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 29, 1981, newspaper, January 29, 1981; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1205228/m1/1/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.