De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1984 Page: 1 of 10
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This group of 4-H members, parents, and exchange 4-H
Paper Out Early Next Week
FREE PRESS CONVERTING TO
NEW FORMAT WITH NEXT ISSUE
Drought Conditions Persist
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FOLK DANCING.
members from McPherson, Kansas, gathered for folk dancing at the Peach and Melon
Festival slab Monday night. An ice cream supper was also enjoyed A total of 20 kids
and three leaders arrived June 23 and will depart June 29.
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there will be a Monday
noon deadline, rather than
Tuesday noon, for news
items and classifieds.
The Free Press will be
closed on Wednesday, July
4, for the holiday, as will
most other businesses in
DeLeon.
Since the July 4th holiday
falls this year on
Wednesday, the regular
day to mail the newspaper
each week, the Free Press
will be printed a day
earlier on Tuesday, and
mailed on that day. This
will ensure subscribers of
picture prints at the Free
Press office by Thursday.
July 19, to be included in
the special Peach and
Melon Festival edition on
July 26.
come by
Courthouse Central Texas
office in
Rain is nowhere in sight.
Such has been the case for
months in this area.
A dry year last year was
multiplied with a dry ________
winter and hence, a dry earlier than is the normal Engineers Station at Lake
case. Proctor reports the
There wiU be little hay to following highs and lows
he baled for use next for the past week:
High Low
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Comanche. before July 13 or to the
For those persons in De county barn on the 29th of
' June.
saving
expense.
Advertising rates per
column inch wiU be higher
but advertisers win receive
the same dollar value for
advertisers often had to their advertising space.
winter Date
Cattlemen have June*
culled their herds due to June 21
lack of pasture and/or June 22
water. June*
As (bought ronditisao June M
receiving their paper at the
regular time, enabling
them to take advantage of
advertising published in
the issue.
With the early paper
comes early deadlines
Display advertising will be
picked up Friday, and
respectively, at this tfcne of
year __
Many peanut producers deluged
have irrigated to plant, er dwtroyi
to get planted peanuts up, corn crop and much of the
or both. sorghum.
Hay growers found it With the absence of rain
necessary to begin has come high
watering in May, much temperatures. The Corps of
FREE PRESS TO MAKE PICTURES FOR
QUEEN CANDIDATES AND DUCHESSES
FOR FESTIVAL
the Free Press office on
Wednesday, July 13, at 2
pm. Pictures will be made
at that time.
All candidates and
duchesses must have their
4-H members friends
from McPherson, Kansas,
arrived on schedule
Saturday night at the
courthouse. The group was
awfully tired, as they left
Kansas at 6:00 a.m. and
arrived here at 7:15 p.m.,
states Galen Chandler,
County Agent. The
Comanche County 4-H
Council welcomed them
with punch and cookies as
they mingled with their
new-found friends from the
North.
Peach and Melon
Festival queen candidates
and duchesses who wish to
have their pictures made
by the Free Press at no
charge are asked to be at
In the newspaper
industry it’s called “SAU”,
Re-Certification Necessary To Receive
Food Cofflinodl ties
June* through July 13 is between 10:00 a.m. and will be July 10 from 9 to 11
time for all those persons 2:00 p.m. to receive cheese a.m. in the De Leon City
receiving the free food and to recertify. After the Hall, or you can also come
commodities each month to 29th, come by the to the courthouse
be re-certified. Courthouse Central Texas Gustine persons come to
All those persons already Opportunities office in the courthouse any day
signed up are to come to Comanche before July 13 or to the
the county barn of Precinct r
2 in Comanche on June * Leon, re-certification day
spring and summer, so far.
The total rainfall for the
year is 9.93 inches, as
reported by the Corps of
Engineers Station on Lake
Proctor.
In 19*, the total at this
time was 15.22 inches 1991
and 19* were wet years
with MJH andMAl inches, prevail in thtapartof the J<me25
of the nation has been
with rainfall.
The Free Press will have In the newspaper produce several sizes of the
a new look next week! industry it’s called “SAU”, same ad to fit the various
Instead of the regular or Standard Advertising newspapers in which the ad
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now will be only six
columns. The 1H”
olumns readers have been
accustomed to will now be 2
1/19”, thus
easier reading in both news
and advertising.
There are still plenty of
activities planned for the
~ / , Annette exchange tnp. We hope
and Greg Priddy, Rodney they all have plenty of fun
and Randy Stephens, Kevin while they visit and us here
Witte, Todd Davis, Wade in Comanche County,”
Whitehead, Dana Bruton, says Chandler
Unit
Newspapers nationwide
are converting to the new
format on July 1.
Until now, each
newspaper had it’s own
providing column width, and sizes
varied. National
Lynn Turner, Gail
Loudermilk, Wendy
Boswell, Lexi Carney, Julie
Nowlin, Jason and Johnny
Conine, I>ee Ixieffler,
Allison Corder, Beryl Ann
Turner, and Tjwanah
Smith.
4-H'ers From McPherson,
Kansas, Visiting In County
Sunday was a big day at Lynn Turner,
Promontory Park at I^ake
Proctor. Everyone met
there around 4 p.m. for
swimming, skiing, and lots
of visiting. All the families
brought plenty of food for a
covered dish supper
\ Comanche County A
H’ers hosting those from
Kansas are: Stacy Smith,
Jana Stephens.
VOLUME 99, NUMBER 4
TEN PAGES AND TWO INSERTS
THURSDAY, JUNE 28, 1994
mathematics,
New priorities for public
the
their instructional dollar
also
report
be
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Charles
William
and
each
Monday through Friday
from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Department.
On the prior Monday,
three defendants received
area.
At
de ceon we press
“Serving De Leon For Over 90 Yean."
instructional salary dollar
these schools,
which range in size from
science, down this way: 19 percent
social studies, and foreign for vocational education, 15
languages—averages only percent for electives, nine
about 45 percent of the percent for competitive
sports, six percent for
health and physical
education, and six percent
for special and
District Attorney JAndy
McMullen represented the
State in the cases.
of
allocation
September 17.
To file a claim, call 915-
646-7533 in Brownwood
mammoth operation was
more than impressive.
At the ranch, guests were
treated to fresh lemonade IP J
followed by a cutting horse
exhibition that would HI
excite not only the horse
enthusiast but spectators,
whether or not they had 7®$!
ever ridden before. i
The King Ranch is
famous for its horse
teU
the
ranch’s history and outlay
as well as all aspects of the
830,000 acre operation
around Kingsville.
For those who have an
appreciation for good
cattle, good horses,
beautiful ranchland, the
A 220th District Court
jury. last Wednesday
acquitted a 23-year-old
Mexican national of two
counts of aggravated
assault and kidnapping.
Miguel Angel Rivera was
ordered released by
District Judge James
Morgan after the Jury
returned its verdict.
Rivera was charged with
abducting his estranged
wife, Maria; mother-in-
law, Maria Lopez; and the
Riveras* infant at
knifepoint in Bangs on Jan.
3.
Gayle WHkerson's
TOWN TALK
Be sure to give
generously when a baseball
player contacts you this
week for funds to help
support the summer
baseball programs in De
I jeon.
De Leon • Home Of The Annual "Peach And Melon Feolival”
and Melon Festival
concession stand, out of
The High School Instructional Dollar
Where It Goes
Texas school districts.
The study is based on
to meet David’s lovely data from 19 districts,
wife, Sherry, and she is a
doU!
Even with a schedule
filled with meetings to
provide those in attendance
with a better insight as to
what is going on in the
newspaper industry, there
was still time set aside for representative will be in De
family entertainment. L«on on the following
If you have never seen Mondays from 9:00 a.m. to
little children feed sea gulls 12:30 p.m.: July 2 and 16,
from Captain Clark’s August 6 and 20, and
triple-deck Flagship, I
hope someday you can.
Having gulls follow as we
eased through the water
and being fed by both
children and adults, the
sound of laughter and good
times were in abundance.
Earlier, the League
released a preliminary
report based on partial
data from only 12 of these
districts. League
President, Jared Hazleton, Among
observes: “While the data
from the 19 districts yields 140 to 2,349 students, the
which differ share of the instructional compensatory
from those dollar devoted to the core
from the 12- academic
sample,
Texas Research League.
The Austin-based public
son, policy research
David, rather than practice organization reported the
law, decided to return to finding in connection with a
the newspaper business he study of resource
has known for a lifetime, allocation in a
and apply himself to those representative sample of
things he loved the most.
We had the opportunity
Davis
Crain,
charged with burglary of a
Rivera was arrested Jan. building, entered guilty
4 and released to pleas before Judge
Brownwood police on a Morgan, who assessed
traffic violation. On Jan. 25 identical three year
he was returned to the
The County-Wide
Vegetable/Flower Show
Also, a visit to King will be held Saturday, July
Ranch was scheduled 7, in front of the stores on
Friday evening with eight the north side of the
chartered buses courthouse square,
transporting the AH entries must
convention-goers to entered between 10:00 and
Kingsville. Each bus had a 10:* a.m. Judging begins
tour guide to
passengers about
their vegetables i *
flowers for sale. All entries
must have been grown or
cared for by the 4-H at last month’s Chamber of ranged
members. There are two Commerce meeting which eyesores around De Leon
age divisions._______________would follow up on___________(Cont’d to Page 3
One Man Acquitted,
Three Receive Probation
The prosecution stated probated sentences from
Rivera allegedly >|ook the Judge Morgan
hostages from Bangs to
Gustine by way of
Brownwood and
Comanche, where the
woman escaped and caught
a ride with a passing
motorist.
£» MJ
Vegetable/Flower Show
Dote IS Jllly 7 the betterment of De Leon. Smith, the
' Presently, the Chamber were buying supplies, such
at 10:* a.m. Immediately is sending one Chamber of as soft drinks for the Peach
following the judging, Commerce director to the
many 4-H’ers will offer city council meetings in
and order to be better informed their own pockets.
about De Leon. Also, a As far as new ideas to
committee was appointed benefit De Leon, the list
from removing
Our thanks to Marsha
Sides for furnishing the
boys’ baseball team
pictures this week. The
girls and T-ball teams will
appear later.
Last week our family
attended the Texas Press
Association’s Summer
Convention at the Corpus
Christi Marriott. Without a
doubt, this was a most
enjoyable trip.
We drove to San Antonio
and spent Wednesday
night. On Thursday
morning, we went to Bill
and Judy Wilkerson’s
paper in Pleasanton to look
at their operation.
Bill and Judy are also co-
publishers of the De Leon
Free Press, making them
our bosses. However, we
seldom get to see them due school education in Texas
to the large operation they can be carried out by
have in South Texas. reallocating existing funds
These two people are to accomplish many of the
undoubtedly the most recommendations made by
delightful people that I’ve the Governor’s Select
ever met or known, and Committee on Public
certainly we feel it is an Education, according toa
honor to be associated with report released by the
individuals of this nature.
After graduating from
taw school, their
before
who
identical three
sentences in the Texas
Comanche County Sheriff’s Department of Corrections
probated and 31,000 in fines
and court costs. The two
had made restitution for
the allegedly stolen items.
Jesse Escobar pleaded
guilty to burglary of a
building, the Mount
Pleasant Church, and
received a five-year TDC
probated sentence, fined
|1,500, and ordered to make
restitution of 31,433.66 to an
insurance company that
covered the church
property.
The judge dismissed an
improper criminal
complaint theft charge
against Kenneth Hatley, a
used car dealer.
averages which differ share of the instructional compensatory (i.e.,
somewhat from those dollar devoted to the core remedial) education. In
obtained from the 12- academic curriculum general, the larger high
district sample, the ranges from 32 to 53 cents, schools devoted more of
general pattern of salary Generally, schools with their instructional salary
expenditures and the larger enrollments have a dollar to electives and less
relatively higher share of to vocational education,
than did the smaller high
schools,
core courses. The
On the average, the rest disclosed
of the high school At the campus level, high
instructional dollar broke (Cont’d to Page 2)
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP
MEETING HELD BY
CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Last Tuesday night a inquiries made from
general membership various industries
meeting of the De Leon interested in the De Leon
Chamber of Commerce area.
was held at Eaton’s Cafe At present, the
with approximately 20 Chamber of Commece has
people attending. approximately *,000. This
The meeting was held in amount is quite a contrast
order to discuss from two years ago in
suggestions and ideas which, according to
made which pertained to Chamber President Johnny
the betterment of De Leon. Smith, the directors
Presently, the Chamber
and
major findings are not
changed significantly.”
The study reveals that going for the academic
the core academic
curriculum in the sample
high schools - defined as
all courses in English,
SOCIAL SECURITY
REPRESENTATIVE'S
SCHEDULE ANNOUNCED
The Social Security
Library
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25’
Per Copy
Public
761+U2
Comanche
Box 141 T
Comanch®*
horse names as Old Sorrel,
San Peppy, Wimpy - the
first registered American
quarter horse, and Little
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BEARCAT CHEERLEADERS----Theae members of the De Leon High School vanity cheerieadtaw squad
attended a National Cheerleaders Association camp hold recently on the campos of Tarleton State University.
Participating in the three-day clinic were (from left) MkheDe Price, Kim Caraway, Debbi Frank, Kristi Shupp, and
Lana Keith. Not pictured is cheertsader Michele Corr, who was act able to attend the camp.
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Wilkerson, Gayle E. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 4, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 28, 1984, newspaper, June 28, 1984; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1247809/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.