Stamford American (Stamford, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 29, 1988 Page: 4 of 22
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PIONEERS ON PARADE—10 years ago
Cotton harvest about half done
State Capitol Highlights—
Bob Bullock airs differences with
Clements on school finance issue
Police Report
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CRIME OF
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PIONEERS ON PARADE—20 years ago
Two Bulldogs earn All State honorable mention
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LETTERS TO
THE EDITOR
Published every Thursday at the Stamford American office at 124 E '
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J.A. looks at world
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Thank you all,
Ray A. Clark
STAMFORD
AMERICAN
Concentration Camp Scenario
A recent influx of 5,000 Central Amer-
icans has legislators, church and legal
aid attorneys worried over concentra-
tion camp scenarios in South Texas.
The aliens, most of them from Nica-
ragua, live in squalor while the immi-
gration agency processes them, but
since most are here illegally, the agen-
cy does not fund their wait. They are
here to claim asylum, but may just be
The weekend coming up is eagerly
awaited each year by rabid football
Tans and hated by those who aren’t.
There isn’t another time when so
many games are crammed into so lit-
tle space. You have to be in shape to
handle it.
Get fresh batteries in that remote
control and clear a path from the couch
to the refrigerator and another one to
the bathroom so you can make those
Sometimes you get caught up in the
feelings of the season and later find out'
that “caught” is just what happened
Such was the case with the item we
included in News Briefs a couple of
weeks ago about the ill youngster who
wanted the Christmas cards to be
listed in the Guinness Book of World
Records. Only problem i$ that the child
doesn’t exist.
In reality, an English youngster,
Mario Morby, is in remission from his
cancer and his name is already listed
in the 1989 book for having the world’s
largest collection of postcards.
I can only hope that the people in
Florida who have been inundated by
cards had the time to share them with ’■
nursing home residents or state school
residents or someone else who would
really appreciate receiving a card,
even if it was from a stranger.
National
Editorial
Aaaociation
Ranchers, Environmentalists
Environmentalists and ranchers
from West Texas clashed last week at a
public hearing on how to run the expen-
sive Big Bend Ranch as a state park.
Ranchers say pumas and other pred-
ators will kill livestock and deer on
ranches for miles around unless park
officials implement a predator control
system in harmony with theirs.
Sierra Club members want a mora-
torium on killing predators for two
years while a study is done.
Meanwhile, city lawmakers seeking
parks for their areas are eyeing the new
purchase to see how much budget it will
eat up.
West Texas lawmakers, who say the
Parks and Wildlife board made envi-
ronmentalists happy when they bought
the ranch, want commissioners to pro-
tect the local economy.
Short Takes
• The insurance industry has asked
the State Board of Insurance for an 11
percent hike in homeowners insurance
rates. The board will consider the rate
hike proposal Jan. 18.
• In the $432 million rate increase
Houston Lighting & Power seeks from
the Public Utility Commission, an audit
done for the PUC claims HL&P made
several bad decisions in early stages of
South Texas Nuclear Project construc-
tion.
That project had costly overruns and
is the heart of the power company's
rate hike request. Additional key find-
ings are expected before the PUC votes
on the hike in March.
• Some Houston-area legislators will
likely seek changes in the law to limit
what they call “excessive'* legal fees
attorneys charge Tandowners in con-
i’ ve decided to adopt one of Gar-
field’s 1988 resolutions this year in-
stead of coming up with one I won’t
keep.
Therefore, “This year, I pledge to
lose weight and get in shape! No, no,
be realistic, Garfield. That’s a bit
much to bite off. Perhaps I should set a
bit more realistic goal....I pledge to
establish contact with aliens from an-
other planet.”
Of course, one prerequisite to watch-
ing all the New Year’s Day (or the day
after as the case is this year) is to be
alive to enjoy the games.
Celebrate if you want to on New
Year’s Eve, but do it wisely. If you
plan on drinking, don’t drive at all or ;
designate a non-drinker to drive. If you
will be on the roads, be sure to buckle
up. You may be partying wisely, but
that doesn’t all the people on the high-
ways are as smart as you. Take pre-
cautions about their recklessness too.
George O. Harrell of Anson will be-
come justice of tlie peace in justice
precinct 1, filling out the unexpired
term of the late Albert Storey. J.H.
Martin has been serving as JP under
temporal appointment by the com-
missioners court.
Two members of the 1968 Stamford
Bulldog football team received honor-
able mention for All-State honors. Jerry
Rice was mentioned as linebacker and
Martin Alambar as offensive guard.
Only one Iowa Park player made the
first team, but there were none on the
first squad from Granbury or Big Lake.
The City of Stamford is in a healthy
condition with assets more than three to
one over liabilities, an audit report by
James Rodger. Certified Public Ac-
countant of Hamlin. Friday revealed.
professional instructor herself.
It takes Tommie approximately six to
six and one half weeks, working six to
seven hours per day, to complete one
doll, according to what kind of doll is
being made. Materials utilized in the
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Crime Prevention
Tips from SPD*
Christmas is over for another year.
Kids are playing with new toys and par-
ents are dealing with Hie bills. RealH .
we hope everyone liad a nice Christ -
mas.
Now. what are you going to do with
the new VCR or TV set. Maybe the sor.
got a new bicycle and the daughter got
a new radio. Be sure that you record tlx*
serial number off any item you may
have received that you feel is of value.
Also mark these items, such as ingrav-
ing your driver's license number on
your VCR or bicycle. Also keep any
booklets or pamphlets on tliese items
Tliese contain model numbers and
sometimes serial numbers as well as
diagrams or pictures.
Be sure to do this as soon as possible.
Burglars and thieves don't take hoh
days.
Editor's note: The Old Philosopher on
his Johnson grass farm on Paint Creek
ashs an odd question this week.
No Financial Santa
Republicans have yet to submit their
reform plan and the estimated in-
creased spending that goes with it,
though it is expected to be far leaner
than plans by Democrats.
Proposals to reform pubiltschool fi-
nancing will likely use up the estimated
$1.6 billion surplus available to this
Legislature.
Bullock hinted it will not be enough to
fund the reforms. “There a (legal)
priority for mental health Whether
schools will be a priority, I don't know.
There's no financial Santa Claus."
John and Rita Mooney
Jennifer Craig.......
West Texas
Press
Association
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$12.90
$16.00
Dear editor:
Over the past few weeks I’ve been
writing down bits of information I run
across in newspapers and dropping
them in a box on my desk
The other day 1 looked them over and
have come to an important question I'll
get around to asking by Hie time I get to
the end of This letter.
As everybpdy but Washington knows,
even if the Federal budget gets bal-
anced, some time or other, the country
will still owe over two trillion dollars on
its national debt, at a cost of over $150
billion a year in interest alone.
As far as any body knows, every
other country on earth owes similar
amounts of money and is borrowing
more to pay the interest on what it can't
pay back.
Without going into the plight of otlier
countries, take the situation in the U.S.
We've borrowed about $500 billion from
abroad. It's estimated we ll need $85
billion to save the 500 busted Savings
and Loans, $160 billion to clean up nuc-
lear plants. $36 billion to save the outfit
that lends money to farmers, undeter-
mined billions to help the homeless, un-
told billions to repair the country's
roads and bridges, countless billions to
clean up polluted rivers and oceans, bil-
lions and billions to fight drugs and
crime, more billions to build more jails,
and a few million to give Congress a
raise.
Moreover, according to a report by
the U.S. Federal Reserve Board, which
I stumbled across at tlie bottom of an
inside page, U.S. corporate debt, ex-
pressed as a percentage of corporate
assets, is 104. In other words, business
has joined credit card holders in owing
a lot of money.
Now you add up all this, throw in tlie
debt and spending plight of every otlier
country on earth, including tlie fact $400
billion is being spent every year to de-
fend countries from each otlier, and tlx*
total cost to keep the world going be-
comes so mind-boggling that you natu-
rally scratch your head and ask tlie
question:
Can tlie world afford itself?
SIAMFOKD AMtKILAN
December 29. 1988
By LYNDELL WILLIAMS
Texas Press Association
BUNKLEY
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C.E. Bunklay, R.Ph.
Yours faithfullv.
J.A.
fleeing poor economies
Private charities support them in the
interim, and those groups worry the Rio
Grande Valley will become a "concen-
tration camp" for refugees.
Local officials don't like the burden,
and claim many aliens are criminals,
diseased and competing for scarce
jobs.
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During the week of Dec. 18-25. Stain
ford Police investigated three burgla-
ries and one tlieft. F our arrests were
made. Two accidents were investi-
gated and six traffic tickets were
issued. Three prowler calls, five distur-
bance calls and 43 miscellaneous calls
were answered. h »
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Taken from the files of the Stamford
American. December 28. 1978.
The assault on area cotton gins con-
tinued amid clear and dry weather over
the Christmas holidays as a long line of
cotton-laden trailers attacked gins dai-
ly. -^Wnaking of the dolls includes pure silk
Cotton harvest took little holiday as
about the same number of bales were
brought to gins during the last seven
days as during the previous week
However, more bales remained on
gin yards as the incoming bales over-
powered the ginning capacities of gins.
While about 75(8) bales were har-
vested during each of the two previous
one week periods, the number of bales
on gin yards jumped from 2700 last
week to more than 4000 this week.
Stamford gins cautiously estimate
that the harvest is about half complete.
Stamford police and fireman re-
ported a quiet Christmas weekend with
no mgjor fires or disturbances re-
ported.
Two men received stab wounds in a
Christmas Eve altercation. No cliarges
have been filed in connection with the
stabbings. However, disorderly con
duct charges were filed against four
men. including the two involved in the
stabbing.
A true artisan lias come to Stamford
Her name is Tommie Potter. 48. and a
native of Japan. Her craft is making
Japanese dolls, an art that is seldom
seen now days..
Mrs. Potter, and her husband. Don.
came here recently when they opened
Potter's Produce, a fresh fruit and
vegetable market located where Davis
fruit stand used to lie on North Swen
son. The Potters came here from An-
son, where they had another produce
market.
Doll making is no'hobby for Tommie,
it is her profession. She has iieen mak-
ing dolls for the last seven or eight
years, since Iter graduation from the
famous Sakura school of doll making in
Japan. She received her diploma there,
inscribed with her professional trade
name, and with that diploma became a
During tlie night of Dec. 22. Winn's
was burglarized. Entry was made by
climbingA 2-inch gas pipe to the roof.
Subjects/removed ventilation cap and
slid intoxhe interiof of the building. Exit
was made-by breaking chain link on
back overhead door which allowed
suspects to raise back door.
Items taken included 24 Timex
watches, one Kodak disc camera. 15
assorted knives, five “Priority Male"
brand name jackets and “Priority
Male" brand name shirts.
A reward of up to $1000 may be ob-
tained for information leading to the in-
dictment of anyone committing a felo-
ny. Up to $50 reward may be obtained
for information leading to the recovery
of stolen property. If you have informa-
tion about this crime or any other
crime, contact the Stamford Police
Department at 773-3647 or Jones County
Crime Stoppers at 823-4111.
“With the energy crunch and the stock
market like it is, I can’t make it. Why now I
can't even git a flu shot on Medicare.”
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School Supplies
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By Jennifer Craig
important trips during commercials
without missing so much as one play.
The remote control has to be in tip top
shape for those quick changes from
one game to another...after all, who
wants to vvatch one game at a time.
demnation lawsuits against state and
local governments.
Houston judges reportedly ordered
payments of hundreds of thousands of
dollars at legal rates as high as $500 per
hour
• The State Preservation Board se-
lected Houston and San Antonio firms
to oversee a proposed $147 million res-
toration and expansion of the Texas
Capitol.
• Monte Hasie, a Lubbock financial
consultant, last week was named chair-
man of the State Board of Education.
• Rep. Bob Ricliardson. R-Austin.
filed a bill to restrict temporary in-
mate furloughs and give the Depart-
ment of Corrections clear direction as
to who will be eligible for release.
• House Speaker Gib Lewis wants
lawmakers to consider proposing a pay
increase for themselves to voters.
Taken from the files of the Stamford
American, December ?6. 1968
Six new faces will be seen around the
Jones County courthouse after the first
of the year wlien elected officials are
sworn in for another term.
Ehslly the veteran among those who
will be retiring is District Judge Owen
Thomas of 10th District Coi^t. He will
be succeeded by J. Neil Daniel of Abi-
lene.
Judge Thomas has been a familiar
figure at Anson for a number of years.
Not only has he served as judge for 28
years but he also was twice elected dis-
trict clerk and three times Jones Coun-
ty judge. What's more, his father before
him was district judge.
Dave Reves. who has served the
county as sheriff for 16 years, also will
be leaving office. He is being succeeded
by Woodrow (Woody) Simmons of An-
son.
Simmons says he will keep Arden
Beasley as.one of his deputies and Mr.
and Mrs. Beasley will move back into
the apartment at the jail and Beasley
will take over position as jailer, one he
has held previously
Another veteran who will be stepping
down is Lem Ruark, commissioner of
Precinct 3. a post he has filled for 14
years. Ruark is being succeeded by
V.A. McGee.
Louis Johnson, who served a number
of years as Jones County Democratic
chairman will take over duties of tax
assessor-cfllector. a position held by
A.J. French Jr. for eight years.
Ed Paynter, who has been district at-
torney for the 42nd district Court at
Abilene, will take over the combined
job of serving both the 42nd and 104th
district courts Richard Price has lield
the district attorney position in Hie
104th court
Total assets of the city are $4,105,432.
86 while the liabilities are but $1.174.210.
23, with $1,115,000.00 of this represent-
ing bonded indebtedness and an addi-
tional $34,445.00 interest payable in tlie
future years on these bonds.
At the close of business on Sept. 30 the
city had $125 in petty cash, $254,333.75 in
cash in the bank and $339,516.43 in in-
vestments.
West Texas Utilities Co., through its
president. Roff Hardy, has announced
plans to build a $15,000,000 to $20,000,000
power plant on Lake Phantom in Jones
County.
Mr. Hardy appeared before tlie Abi-
lene city council Thursday, seeking to
buy land for the plant, to contract to use
water from the lake and to obtain an ex-
tension of their company's franchise
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Deqr Editor,
I would like to express my sincere
and heart-felt thanks to all the par
ticipants in the Bethel Lutheran Church
program so thoroughly enjoyed by so
many people this year. Without their
hard work, time, effort and talents the
program would not have been so spe-
cial. The program, “Christmas — A
Giving Time," was well organized and
professionally executed by all involved.
Again, special thanks to Mr. and Mrs.
Sammy Nauert, the Senior Choir mem-
bers, and especially to the kids After
aii, they are what Christmas is about,
starting with atiny baby born long, long
ago
fabric that must be special ordered,
and it is used for the doll's clothing. Cot-
ton is used to make the form of the
body, which is then stuffed with wood
shavings to give it the human shape
State Comptroller Bob Bullock Thurs-
day said Texas cities will end 1978
receiving more than $424 8 million as
their share during the last 12 months of
the local option one percent sales tax.
St a in I ord s payments to date total
$114,390.20. compared Jo $105,536.06 lor
the same period in 1977. The increase
represents an eight percent boost.
the city received in December $20.
947.77. compared to $17,226.22 last year.
West Texas Utilities Company
recently installed special meters and
recorders tor about 350 customers as it
initiates a comprehensive study of elec-
tric usage patterns in its service area.
Tlx* 350 customers comprise a ran-
dom sample chosen by computer from
througliout the WTU system. Only resi-
dential and small commercial custom-
ers are included.
:TI»ese are the two classes of custom-
ers we know very little about, so far as
their electric demand habits are con-
cerned." said Darwin Breeding, man-
ager of WTt "s Rate and Regulations
Depart men)
Motorists driving in Texas during the
holiday weekends should have no prob-
lem finding gasoline, but they will have
to pay sharply higher prices than they
did a month ago.
Tlx* average price of premium gaso-
line at full-service pumps has reached
70 cents per gallon for tlx? first time in
Texas - an increase of 1.2 cents per
gallon over the average price just be-
fore Thanksgiving. Regular and* un-
leaded fuel increased by 1.3 cents per
gallon each to 64.9 cents a gallon for
regular and 68.1 for unleaded.
COWPOKES By Ace Reid
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AUSTIN — In endorsing legislation
intended to reform public school fund-
ing last week. Comptroller Bob Bullock
described his difference^ with opposi-
tion forces led by Gov. Bill Clements.
“I really disagree with those (law-
makers) who would cuss and condemn
our judicial system, our judges, be-
cause of their own failure to do what
should be done.”
Bullock also retold a story Clements
told him about how Clements' father
moved from a rural town to Dallas to
give his son a better education.
* ‘That's what this is all about. To keep
people like Bill Clements' father from
having to do that.”
Clements still has room for rebuttal
in the preliminary jockeying on this
issue, the most crucial before the Legis-
lature.
His opposition has been against court-
ordered reforms and in favor of legisla-
tive reforms.
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