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at Homecoming
I
my youth. The gentle, powerful words
he spoke left powder marks on the fore-
head of time because he was a poet He
loved the thin book he would hold with
long white fingers as he read to motley,
ungrateful urchins at the one-room
schoolhouse on Friday afternoon
‘ Perhaps some of the others know
now that we crucified a genius with
whispers and giggles, which must have
been heated points of knives to his soul,
as he tossed pearls into the pigsty.
“His lonely heart had felt the mighty
songs of the night wind across a
deserted prairie and the symphony of a
restless herd beneath the wide rafters
of stars. He had tasted the potent wine
of mist, scented with purple sage in the
silver graiLof a summer morning, then
yieldep to nis restless spirit in becom
ing a troubadour The words he spoke
were jewels, cut fine and strung
perfectly as a rosary in the soft hands
of his dreams
“So he tied the conventions of his
broad, untamed country on the bridle-
less mustang of necessity and with a
final flourish of his wide-brimmed hat.
he rode away into obscurity. '
v Take time as you attend your home-
coming celebrations this tall to look up
your former teachers and tell them
thanks
Forgotten folks
This weekend Texas Tech is having
its Homecoming. On October 24 Stam-
ford High School will have its Home-
coming celebration.
All too often in the hustle and bustle
of getting ready for the football game
or for the class reunion party, we for-
get about a very important group of
people who played a role of untold im-
portance in our education
I’m talking about teachers. They are
probably the most influential people,
outside of our parents, with whom
most of us will ever come into contact.
(That last sentence doesn’t end with a
preposition thanks to the work of
teachers.)
Just think about it. You spent about 8
hours a day, 5 days a week for 12 years
or more with teachers. Teachers
played a large role in making you the
person you are today
Doug Meador wrote about the memo-
ries left him by a former teacher His
word pictures are proof he learned his
lessons well
“The tall man whose long hair
touched the shoulders of his buckskin
jacket placed the toe of his boot in a
stirrup and rode out of my life long
ago. But his eyes burn through the
blanket of years and the gentleness of
his voice is a ghost in the catacomb of
Stat* Capitol Highlight*—
Chances improve for sales tax
increase with Gib Lewis’ support
By LYNDELL WILLIAMS
fexas Press Association
AUSTIN — Like the Texans
al the Alamo who held as long
as they could. House Speaker
Gib l^ewis last week was over-
run by the waves of pro-tax
legislators led by Gov Mark
White White had a good week,
all the way around
l^wis and his band of anti
tax House members had held
out for a month and a half
They had hoped to force more
budget cuts and forestall tax
action until the regular ses-
sion convenes
But matched against a de-
termined governor and a wili-
ng Senate, they crumbled un-
der the odds Even most skep-
tics now agree the belea
guered re-election campaign
of Gov Mark White just bot-
tomed out and is on the re-
bound The tax victory will at
'east silence complaints that
• hire cannot exercise leader
" in the legislature
I .ist week s Democratic vic
: in an East Texas special
election 58 to 42 percent was
touted as a clear message of
support for White
White was feisty enough last
week to blast President Rea
gan once more for tailing to
impose an imported oil fee and
a slap at Bill Clements charge
be has no influence with the
White House
Writing on Wall
Only the day before his
reversal. Speaker lewis cnti
cized senators tor failing to
make more budget cuts Over-
night. he must have read the
writing on the wall
Some pro-tax legislators
were prepared to sabotage et
forts to lower the deficit, even
as the state approaches the
day when it will write hot
checks In the face of all that
and with time running out.
lewis decided the inevitable
had better be done quickly
Most Capitol watchers think
it s just a matter of a few more
days before the sales tax is
raised another 1-1/8 cents,
even though the anti-tax
House faction is very much
alive and well
Last Hurdle
Now that I-ewis has agreed
to support White's tax plan,
the last major hurdle the gov
ernor must leap is the Ways
and Means Committee where
the tax bill has languished.
last week, after l-ewis
reversal, the committee
began public hearings on tax
proposals Dominated by
GOPs and conservative
Democrats, the pane) is not
likely at this time to send a
favorable tax report to the
floor
The anti-tax bunch also
pushed the House to approve a
ban on state income taxes,
which pro-tax folks say will
die in the Senate, and they 11
try to stonewall a sales tax
hike unless the legislature
settles the budget cuts issue
But since the pro-tax forces
have maneuvered around
Speaker lewis, they re think
mg victory , not compromise
Instead, lawmakers favor
mg a tax hike are hoping to get
enough votes to wrangle at
least an unfavorable report
out of committee and to the
House floor There they'll try
to leverage enough votes to
pass the tax and sent it to the
already willing Senate
Texas Supreme Court
Texas Chief Justice John Hill
last week said Lewis and Lt
Gov Bill Hobby have joined
his campaign to have Texas
judges appointed by the gover
nor instead of elected
I cnfisnlidaird with The American Jui\ I 115,
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Trxa'r7«M3
last week, the State Bar
declined to take a position and
will poll Texas lawyers on
which method they favor
State Bar president William
Whitehurst said the issue is
too divisive The other Texas
Supreme Court justices agree
Hills plan would have a
15-member commission sub
mit three nominees to the
governor who would appoint
his favorite So tar Gov
White says he favors elected
judges
Campaign Jails
Highlights from the cam
paign trail, where numerous
charges and countercharges
were slung
State Senator-elect Richard
Anderson was sworn in last
week following his special
election win over Edd Har
gett The GOP lost a legal bat
tie which claims Anderson
violated the Constitution by
not first resigning his county
judgeship
The Mark White campaign
committed another of those
pesky mailing list mistakes by
sending a letter to his oppo
nent ' wife, asking tor Slo.ooo
Former Texas First lady Rita
Clements declined to send a
contribution
White and Bill Clements
have started up the television
ads war early, and tx»th are
running negative image mes
sages about the other
Clements had laid off for
awhile presumably not want
mg to lose ground by attacking
White while 'he Legislature
grappl'd with the budget
crisis
But with polls showing him
trailing Clements. White
launched another media blitz
and elements didn t waste
much time getting back into
the tray w ith his ow n commer
v lais
LETTER TO THE EDITOR
The parent sponsor group
feels the young people of
Stamford are special We are
proud of you It is an honor to
be able to have another spirit
rally after the Stamford vs
Breckenridge bail game This
is for you
For a dollar ypu can snack
listen or dance to the music
machine, or watch the same
game on video from 10 until 12
at the MyGaughey Building
Parent, this is tor our junior
and senior high students. -<>
please tell your younger
children to help us and don t
try to enter unless you are of
age The younger ones in the
building are those with their
parents w ho are sponsors
Thanks to the new sponsors
we’ve added to our group and
thanks to all who help with
food, etc The best of men
don't win all the time but they
never give up Their mistakes
make them stronger We II tie
stronger We re backing the
Blue Crew. GO BI.I E
education reform in our
Mate s history-----
Governor Whites admmis
t rat i on has dealt with the
priorities of the present and
future of Texas not the past
Bill Clements said m 1982 that
he did not know of a housewife
qualified to serve on the
Public Utility Commission
Governor White knows that
there are millions of women
qualified to serve on all state
boards and commissions He
named a housewife to the
Public I tility Commission
and appointed the first black
woman Secretary of State In
three years he appointed
more women than all previous
gov ernors
We need your help to re
elect Governor White Work
ing together we can assure a
victory for Governor White
and the women of Texas Nov
1
Sincerely
Mrs W M Liner
Albanv
Dear editor.
Women in Texas have a
great deal to lose if Governor
Mark White is not re-elected
Nov 4 - a voice m state
government, a strong in
fluence with the chief ex
ecutive of Texas and appoint
ments to powerful state
boards and commissions
What do you have to lose if
Mark White is not re-elected’’
We lose a Governor and First
Lady of Texas who are
friends strong supporters of
equal rights for women and
advocates of public programs
to help women and children in
our state
What will you gam if Bill
Clements is elected ’ Nothing
For example Bill Clements
did away with the state com
mission for women alter nnlv
two months in office He
turned bjs hack on the school
children of Texas providing
neither solutions nor commit
ment to education (dnernor
While fought for and signed in
to law the most progressive
Dear editor
.A Little Boy
Prays for His Dog
Dear Gixl
They say my dog is dead
He had the softest little head
He was so good he d always do
Most anything I told him to
Kind God
Sometimes he d chase a cat
He wasn t often bad like that
And if I called him.
back he came.
The minute that I said
his name
Please God
If he feels scared up there.
Won’t you please let him sleep
somew here
Near you'' < th. please take
care ot him
I love him so' His name is
Tim
Please slow down on coun
trv roads for vour sake and the
people who live on them They
arc not race tracks Better to
tie ,i little late than never Stop
and smell ’tie roses along the
wav
Mi' John J Adams
COW POKES
By Ace Reid
STAMFORD AMERICAN
S*pf*mb*r 25, 1906
“When you hear somebody talk about the
population explosion, they ain’t been on this
road!”
PIONEERS ON PARADE—10 years 090
J. Fike Godfrey to speak at banquet
Taken from the /iles of the
Stamford American Septem
be- 23 1976 /
The annual Stamford BoJrd
of City Development and
Chamber of Commerce ban
quet will be at 7 30 p m Mon
day at Stagecoach Inn here
The banquet will have as its
speaker J Fike Godfrey, ex
ecutive vice president of West
Texas Chamber of Commerce
Originally, the speaker for the
banquet was Dr Thomas Kim.
McMurry College president
Entertainment for the ban
quet will be Stacy Angle of
Knox City a young singer who
appeared before last year s
banquet w ith her sister Gwen
This year however both
Angle Sisters will not be able
to make the banquet, but
Stacy has agreed to appear
Master of ceremonies for
the banquet will be Charles
Stenholm Danny Blain.
Chamber of Commerce presi
dent, will be out of town and
unable to attend
As in interlude during last
Friday's regular session of the
city coumcil. a rebuttal was
issued in relation to an
editorial which appeared in
the Sept 16 issue of the Sta*m
fo'd American
The editorial dealt with the
infrequency of garbage collec-
tion in the city and the serv ice
provided residents It cited in
stances when garbage pickup
was sometimes 12 days apart
and recognized that impass
able alleys were sometimes a
factor
The editorial also alleged
that collection was sometimes
infrequent when alleys were
dry
Making the rebuttal were
Mayor I F Hudson and City
Manager H R Macomber
Hudson expressed appres la
tion of the stand presented in
the editorial and said there
were probably some points
well taken
Stamford Inited Way will
kick off its 15176 drive Monday
noon with a luncheon at the
Lions Club building on the east
side of the square
Charles Hafter I W chair
man and Fareed Hassen.,
campaign chairman made the
joint announcement
Attending the luncheon will
be local businessmen I W
workers and individual mem
tiers of local civic orgamza
tions
This year s I W budget is
$16,230 marking about to per
cent over the amount raised
1st year
Stamford School board
meeting Thursdav night Sept
16 submitted to Texas Educa
tion Agency for final approval
an auto mechanic tool list
totaling $20,967 01
The state w ill pay 69 percent
ot the amount or $14 467 24
while the local share is .11 per
cent
Hon Meador 2a. fva' as
sumed duties as pastor of
First Assembly ot God
Church 1302 Compton sue
reeding the- former pastor
Brother Ray Helms
Secrets are
made to pass
on to others
Editor'« note The Old
Philosopher on hi» Johnson
grass farm on Paint Creek
looks at government secrets
this week, without revealing
any
Dear editor,
According to a newspaper
article I read the other day
while waiting for the TV even-
ing news to be over, there are
at least a million government
workers who have access to
secret, military information
This put a new light on the
problem of keeping foreign
spies from finding out what
we re up to A million’’ Why in
most towns if just two people
know a secret it won't be more
than half a day before the
whole town knows it Makes no
difference if the secret is true
or not
Keeping a million people
from teihng what they know
would require the restructur
mg of human nature lt d be as
hard a job as keeping some
..busy bodies from teihng what
they think they know Wit is
not the spice of hfe, gossip is
Keeping secret an impor
tant secret for any length of
time is a near impossible
undertaking For example, we
tried to keep the secret of the
atom bomb from failing into
the hands of other countries,
but nowadays, a bright college
student failing football but
passing chemistry and
physics can tell you how to
make one Keeping the pro
cess secret is like trying to
hide the secret of the bicycle
Now there are some secrets
like communication codes
beamed to submarines at sea
that certainly need protecting
and anybody who d reveal
them ought to he shot at sun
rise if you need t«> salt that
long
But in a nuclear war. the
targets are going to tie the
cities and everybody knows
where they are oh there may
tie one or two nobody has ever
heard of because they don t
have an active chamber of
commerce but most likely
there aren t bomb worthy
any way
The big secret in the world
today is not where the nuc lear
tsimbs are going to (ail The
Mi ret is flow to Keep them
from being fired in the first
place Any tody who knows is
free to let that cat out of the
bag
Yours faithfully
.1 \
PIONEERS ON PARADE
Katy track from Stamford to Rotan to be rebuilt
lanen from the files of the
Stamford American Septem
ber 22 1966
Work is scheduled to start
(kt 3 on rebuilding the Katy
railroad track from Stamford
to Rotan, it was learned this
week
T G Cox of Stamford main-
tenance of way superintendent
for the railroad in this area,
said he had instructions to
employ 25 men for the work
These men w ill be added to the
some ten who normally work
on the 42 miles of track
Cox said he did not know if
the new connection between
the Fort Worth and Denver
and the Katy railroad tracks
in Stamford would be built at
the same time
Trains from Rotan are
routed from Stamford to
Wichita Falls on the Fort
Worth and Denver but in
changing from one line to
another the cars are reversed
on the present tracks and a
new direct transfer route has
been surveyed, one that would
not necessitate backing the
train in changing tracks
Stamford s new supennten
dent of schools and the board
of trustees along with their
wives, were special guests at
the first meeting of the Slam
ford Classroom Teachers As
sociation The banquet was
held at Cliff House Monday
night
The new superintendent
Woodie E Beene and Mrs
Beene, arrived in Stamford
this weekend and Mr Beene
took over his new duties Mon
day morning
Mrs James P Dobbins in
troduced Mrs Jewell Harris
a teacher in Jefferson Junior
High of Abilene and immedi
ate past president of the Texas
Classroom Teachers Associa
tion
Mrs Harris described the
tremendous progress being
made in the world today call
ing this the age of automation
and the computer There will
be jobs aplenty in this age
she said, but only for those
who are skilled
Members of the school
board present were Vernon
Loworn, Dr Harry Haynes
Dr Tony Selmon, Clayton
Childress, Eugene Swenson
Joseph High and James H
West Wives <>f all memter'
were present except Mrs
West
The City Council last week
in regular session approved a
budget for the coming fiscal
year of $411 630 The figure is
less than the $416 183 budge! in
1965-66
City Manager Harry Steen
son said of the total figure
$188.5/25 would he allocated to
the general fund for salaries of
police department, fire de
partment and other expenses
Other expenditures in the
tiudget include $73,233 for the
water system $11200 for
capital outlay of all «iepart
ments and department re
quirements and $1 W 272 for
water revenue bonds and in
terest and general obligation
bonds and interest
The final stamp of approval
was voiced by the city council
last Friday for a master plan
for Stamford »hen Hunter and
Associates of Dallas was given
the go ahead to begin work on
the project
In hi.s presentation to the
council in May, Hunter said'
his firm would not actually
make the- plan hut *ouid do
all the manual work The city
would be the actual planner
and his firm would advise
The master plan w ill include
studies of history of Stamford
and a forecast for growth how
the land is used and how it best
can be used street improve
ments and parking facilities
community facilities and city
utilities schools, recreational
facilities and public txjildings
!>•> animals play games’’
’’<1? Wild!!*,- magazine
reports that animals ap
jKirentlv have more fun than
we originally thought (’him
panzee juveniles like human
( hiidren play follow the lead
er hide- and seek king of the
hili and tug o-war Young
right whales playfully butt
against th«-ir mother and slide
off their brows, and river of
ters repeatedly slide* down
st ream hanks
Some say carrying nutmeg
in the pocket prevents
rheumatism
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Craig, Jennifer. Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 65, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 25, 1986, newspaper, September 25, 1986; Stamford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1215514/m1/4/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Stamford Carnegie Library.