The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Page: 1 of 12
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April 19, 2011
Vol. 3. Issue 15
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Special appearances by Mr. &
E. J. "Jeep” Webb
ByRusty Berry
5-10 mile per hour winds, sunny
skies, and a temperature above 50
. The other 15 years we
have seen sleet, snow, hail, and 60
that the 3000 eggs were ready to be
picked up!
When Peter Rabbit’s helper got to
Wal-Mart to pick up the 5 or 6 cases
of candy eggs, the store’s assistant
manager wanted to know how the
Peter Rabbit to deliver. The highly
anticipated call came that same af-
children back after Armandariz had
taken them a few months ago
Armandanz’s Facebook p™
listed the two dead boys as his sons
The page described him as being
from Amarillo and mentioned Tu-
lia High School fro records found
land is nearly as fiat as a hoecake
so these steep hills look like moun-
tains to me ) As Mom and I drove
stall one and I was so blessed to
have access to it! I told Mamma
right then that I was sorry for whin-
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Swisher County Library 1
127 SW 2nd
I'ulia, TX 79088
CITY WIDE EASTER EGG
HUNT Scheduled for APRIL 23rd
at McKenzie Park, start time is
10:30 am. There will be over 3000
Easter eggs and @ 160 prize eggs.
ffi'’
back onto HWY 86, West.
The purpose of this letter is to
commend the custodial staff of the
Swisher County Courthouse and
the Treasurer or whomever it is that
purchases that nice tissue for the
restrooms Our stop at Tulia was
a blessing. We wanted to express
our sincere gratitude to the town of
Tulia and the citizens of Swisher
County.
We took a few minutes to pose
with my camera in front of a beau-
tiful tree on the west side of the
Courthouse, which I am enclosing
as documentation to corroborate
my story. On behalf of my pre-
cious Mamma and me, "THANK
YOU," to the tax payers of Swisher
County!
we quickly
found them The Ladies' Room
was clean as a pin I don't know
who is responsible for that work,
but we appreciate them Anyway,
I took the first stall and Mamma
attend. ' Most local churches have special
You are invited this Easter Sun- Easter Sunday services scheduled,
day at 10:45am to a concert with Have a wonderful and very blessed
MPRTC General Manager
Brent A. Kennedy
I . | —_ . — . , auuvipaicu vail vailrt. inai oaniv ai-
Kennedy laK6S Part in temoon from the store confirming
National Conference
the Courthouse and thank them for
their nice facilities and for sharing
them with strangers.
I took a small sample of your tis-
sue with me for documentation. It
is a quilted, two-ply, measuring 4
3/8 by 3 1/2 inches per sheet. Jack-
son County Courthouse, located in
theJair city of Altus, Oklahoma,
offers to our visitors a quilted, two-
ply tissue. 3 1/2 by 6 1/2 inches
per sheet I suppose I could say,
"What we don't offer in width we
try and make up for in length!" (By
the way, when ya'll get a chance to
visit, I want you to know that our
facilities are located in the north
side of our courthouse)
After our pleasant and refresh-
ing respite at your courthouse, we
decided to drive around Tulia. We
meandered through the neighbor-
hoods, by the Post Office and a
school Just before leaving town
we stopped at some quick-stop
store and bought another round
of refreshments, Diet Cokes and
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Tulia, TexM
Court House
BBS
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Tiik SwisherToixty News
A. Kennedy, joined leaders from
telephone cooperatives across the
nation as they met with policymak-
ers.
With the Proposed National
Broadband Plan looming, NTCA
has been working to ensure the
interests of rural telecommunica-
tions subscribers are represented in
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conversation to point some inter-
esting formation, an intense color
in the soil or the beautiful hues of
the sky. (My sister-in-law is from
south Texas. We could clearly see
why she carries on so about her
After learning that Armandariz state!)
Our trayels eventually led us
to Tulia. It was about here that
we heard "the call of nature." We
didn't realize how large Tulia
(Printed with consent of
Borger News Herald)
Jack and Deb Stone of Muleshoe, Easter.
The1 Tulia city wide Easter Egg Miss Tulia Pageant Scheduled Saturday
Former Tulia Man
Charged With The
Murder of Two Sons
Gabriel Armandariz , 28, called
911 Wednesday and confessed
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Webb to be inducted into the
TGCA Hall of Fame
chapters in Borger, Canyon,
Pampa, Dumas,
handle, Perryton,
Deer for I
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during their recent stop at the Swisher County Courthouse.
They found the facilities at the Courthouse to be worth of
praise.
Swisher County Visitors Give
Praise Where Praise is Due
charges. He pleaded "guilty in that Editors note: The Swisher County News was delighted with this
case He listed a Tulia address at Letter to the Editor and thought it worthy of front page status. We
the time, said Amarillo police Sgt. would like to invite Joy Nored and her mother, Jane Hamilton, to
Brent Barbee. °
Armandariz also was convicted
in 2005 in Graham of failing to
identify a fugitive and in 2009 in
Breckenridge of interfering with an
emergency call, according to DPS y0 tbe citizens of Tulia and has used a lot of courthouse facih-
records. Swisher Countv Texas t,es in her hfetime.)
Authorities began a search for Recently, my precious Mamma Wel1’ in all seriousness, genu-
Armandariz’s children after in- and I weretraveling from Altus, ]ne conviction fell on me as Ireal-
vestigators determined that the Oklahoma to Roswell, New Mex- h°W 1 7^1 1?°),kingra 11
ico. We decided to take the scenic
route and are so glad we did. The
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Longtime Borger ISD
ployee E.J. **JeepM Webb
been selected as a 2011 Hall of s*stant. football coach
Fame inductee by the Texas Giris returning to Borger in
Coaches Association (TGCA). During his career, Webb also
Webb will be recognized at an served on the Board of Directors
awards luncheon during the f°r the Texas High School Coach-
2011 Summer Coaches Clinic es Association, received several
on Wednesday, July 13th at the awards including a special award
Omni Southpark Hotel in Austin, from the Panhandle Sports Hall
Webb started his time in Borger of Fame for his work m AAU the
in 1958 as an assistant coach be- Community Builder Award from
fore moving to Canyon in 1960. the Masonic Lodge of Texas and
Webb returned to Borger as the Mirabeau Lamar Award for
an assistant football coach Public Education from the Masons,
and head track coach in 1966 After his retirement from coaching
During the years from 1966-1997, in 1997> Webb continues to serve
Webb held several positions in the as a bus driver for Borger ISD
Borger athletic department coach- works as an official in track
ing football girls basketball, boys meets at the international, national,
and girls track and boys and girls colligate and high school levels,
cross country Webb also served Webb is married to his wife Nor-
as an assistant principal for several ma and has three children, Terry,
years as well as starting Fellow- Tana Stephens of Lubbock and
ship ot Christian Athletes (TCA) Tye Webb of Amarillo. They have
three grandchildren and five great-
It Happened One
Easter
It happened one
rural communities behind MPRTC
has been very active in communi-
cating the need for modification of “West Texas spring you know1
the Proposed National Broadband Maybe three years we have had the
Plan for the last year
In addition to meeting with law-
makers and providing important degrees,
insight on the impact and opportu-
nities created by rural telecommu-
nications companies, conference
attendees also heard from leader-
ship m the Obama administration.
National Telecommunications and
Information Agency (NTIA) ad-
ministrator Larry Strickling, Fed-
eral Communications Commission
(FCC) Chairman Julius Genach-
owski and Agriculture Secretary
Tom Vilsack addressed the gather-
ing.
While some progress is being
made, both MPRTC and NTCA
will be continuing their efforts to
see further modification to the Pro-
posed National Broadband Plan.
Telecommunications infrastructure
and access to state-of-the-art ser-
vices, including exceptional broad- '^TfeekHs cZ’Jick up^gs wfth’150 prizVeggT We have heard
band service, keep rural communi- • r- r »<«- »-*/- n„.„- D„kk:» „„n „„
ties viable and part of the global
economy.
Stinnett, Pan-
Stratford and
White Deer for boys and girls.
Webb graduated from Tulia
High School in 1949 and par-
ticipated in football, basket-
ball, track, boxing and baseball
After high school, Webb attended
West Texas Teacher’s College,
where he played football, graduat-
ing in 1955 and received a Mas-
's. • ter’s Degree from WT in 1963.
Webb began his coaching ca-
reer in Littlefield in 1955 where
he was the head basketball coach
and an assistant football coach.
After two years on the Borger coach-
ing staff from 1958-1959, Webb
moved to Canyon to serve as ath-
letic director, head football coach
and track coach. During his time at
Canyon, Webb won district in foot-
ball and state in basketball, along
with starting the girl’s basketball
and track programs for the school.
em. In 1965, Webb moved to Pampa
_ ,,___ has t0 serve as th® fread track and as-
been selected as a 2011 Hall of sistant football coach before
" 1966
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cellphone photo he’d sent to the
infant’s mother appeared to show
the^ boy deceased ^The children s landscape, terrain, mountains and
was charged with of Ol£ journey w’as well worth the C1OUS °ft.wlde’ tl.s’
and remained jailed r=„t= t= t=v= sue on both of the tissue holder in
Friday on a $1 5 million bond
Cynthia Bradley, who works your beautiful state, we stopped in
with the mother in a restaurant in Memphis, TX for gas and snacks. . - .t T
Sudan, about 50 miles northwest of As We left there headed west, we ‘£g ®nd 1 was r
-------------- 1 passed through wide opened spac-
working with an attorney to get her es as we]| as many of your smaller
i___i. a __a zhed towns like Lakeview or Turkey.
We marveled at the courage and
PaBe tenacity of the early settlers (and
present day ranchers and farmers)
who traverse the terrain of flat,
dry plains, deep gorges and steep
. hills or mountains. (I live in Altus
on Armandariz show him as having where most of our surrounding
lived in Amarillo. Phone numbers - - ■
Easter, NO fisted for relatives were discon-
EGGS* Peter Rabbit could not find nected.
any eggs to hide! Lowe’s, who had Relatives told police Armandariz ^iong we often interrupted our
been so generous in trying to make had been staying with his sister
sure Tulia would have a happy Eas- an(j other relatives while involved
ter, did not get their shipment of In a custody dispute with his ex-
candy eggs in. It appeared that Ad- girlfriend, tine mother of tine slain
kmson Candy had quit business and children, who was living in West
there were no candy hiding eggs to Texas,
be found. L„. I .' J„.._
Ross James, one of Peter Rab- his sons were staying at a cer-
bit’s helpers, placed a frantic call to tajn house, police obtained consent
a local Wal-Mart looked promising. t0 search it from one of the tenants
The Manager at the Georgia Street an£j founj the bodies. It was not
pi‘tededMOpSy i“f“ !.”“edia“ly Cl“r Wh° °Wned F“'dia m??
boys, molher sent the dis- that"courthousesofferaccesslor1^ o®1 u/!.dlrec"ons
turbmg cellphone picture from Ar- strooms, we decided to stop right
mandariz to his sister, who called there Sure enough,
Armandariz on Wednesday to find - • • —
out where the children were, ac-
cording to court documents. Ar-
mandariz said they were staying
- w cu iu miuw uuw mt wfrh a baby sitter, but police later
heTper plannedto transport the egg£ f°und the babX sl“er had aot kept took the third. Now I am sorry to
"Just throw them in the back of the th®m in more than two weeks. say that almost immediately I be-
pickup truck,” he said The assis- Several of Amiandariz s rela- gan t0 whine, and since we were
tant manager paused, a concerned tives gathered Friday outside a ones in there at the time,
look on his face It was then that we one-story house in Graham to place j fgfi free to whine aloud to Mam-
vi.av ----, 3 016010031 Of abOUt ma afiout fijg faCt my toilet
not on the same page. A big dose 100 stuffed animals so gusty winds tissue-holder would only allow me
of miscommunication and 3000 hen would not blow them away. Sev- to roll off about two sheets at the
eggs later, the store manager apolo- eral relatives said dozens of people time. I wanted to be able to get all
gized to his assistant for leaving the gathered there for a vigil Thursday j wanted with one pull, you know?
all-important word “candy” out of night, and about two dozen candles gfie sa[(jt "Well I was just thinking
his request. r J <••*—
Peter Rabbit did get his eggs that children
year. Wal-Mart was able to get the
candy eggs for the hunt and the Tu-
the lawmaking and regulatory dta- iia Kiwanis Club generously footed
logue. The purpose of these efforts the bill. MH
is to ensure that a technological di- The weather has also presented
vide is not created with redirection some challenges for Peter Rabbit
of funding to urban areas, leaving through the years. Of the last 18
" years, “We have had some weath-
er experiences,” said Mr. James
bodies were found Thursday valleys*. . well, the entire vista
Armandariz v— -■ ■■ - -
capital murder and remained jailed rou^we chose totake”
Like many travelers entering
Memphis, TX for gas and snacks,
that showed the infant hanging by
Joy Nored, right, and her mother, Jane Hamilton, are shown
a
that every day is a blessing, just eBBs
others!” * businesses for tlieir generous sup-
Through the years, many have port of our community.
been involved with Tulia’s Easter This year as preparations are be-
egg hunt. The Tulia Chamber of ing madc for the Easter egg hunt, a
Mid-Plains Rural Telephone Co-
operative (MPRTC) recently took
part in the National Telecommu-
nication Cooperative Association
(NTCA) Legislative and Policy
Conference in Washington, DC
MPRTC s General Manager, Brent realized that they realized they were netting
of miscommunication and 3000 hen would not blow them away. Sev-
gized to his assistant for leaving the gathered there for a vigil Thursday j wanted with one pull, you know?
remained along with photos of the about how wonderfully wide the
tissue is. Some places only have a
narrow, one-ply tissue " (Mamma
SlllBeiCtosQIgodiEridaya
Easter Week Activities Are
Planned Across Community
Easter Weeks activities are TX at First Assembly of God, 321
planned for several sites in the S. Austin.
ua.v aw. ..a.., a..w . - —......„..lv . r'.___S HOW tO ' """"" ” ‘
mile per hour winds, just to mention Tulia Sonic are instrumental in pro- attend these. Wednesday - Servic-
hidden along with the Helms will preach about Pi-
Thursday - Services at First Three age categories. Sponsors are
to the killings his two sons about
10 hours before the bodies of the ! x'
children , Gatlin, 2, and Luke, 8 I
months, were 1
to documents released Friday by
authorities in Graham, 75 miles MJ
northwest of Fort Worth.
Police began investigating Ar-
mandariz after one of his sisters 4 re-
reported seeing a cellphone picture
chrwizarl tha infant hanoino hv 1
the neck, according to an arrest
warrant affidavit obtained by The
Associated Press. Armandariz had
sent the picture to the boys’ mother
Texas Department of Public
Safety records show that Arman-
dariz had been arrested three times
since 2002, the first on Aug. 17 of
that year in Amarillo on second-
degree felony drug possession
Gabriel Armandariz
Lowes, the Good Shepherd, and community. Make plans
few. We just have to remember v<ding the prizes Up to 300 prize es at Calvary Baptist Church. Rev
uiui vtvij m vivuuiu^, JU‘JV 1 r
some days are more blessed than candy eggs Be sure to thank these |ate
others!” businesses for tlieir generous sup- — - -
United Methodist Church. Rev. Tulia kiwanis Club, Tulia Cham-
Kay Reed will preach on Jesus. ber of Commerce. Eggs donated by
-------------------- ~ , , — , . . Friday - Services at First United Lowes.
Commerce, Tulia Kiwanis Club, sPecia* °PPortun,ty “as Preseatadlt" Methodist Church. Youth Director Special appearances by Mr. &
Tulia Day Nursery, RSVP, Tulia self Who wants to be Mr and Mrs. gbawn Castillo will preach on the Mrs. Peter Rabbit is planned, bring
Senior Citizens, and the Progressive Peter Rabbit? Perhaps a Kiwanis Centurion. Everyone is invited to your camera!
Study Club. Carla Cosby always member ( ha), a high school student - -
showed up to help and is greatly (not cool), or the wife of Peter Rab-
missed. James Hart always brought bit’s helper( mad),Ross (too fat) 9
his loud speaker to officially an- Hmmmm, who will it be You,
nounce the start of the hunt. perhaps^
It takes about two hours of prepa- . - —
ration to get ready for the hunt, with Hunt is scheduled for Saturday KaieidOSCOpe Club will hold the 2011 Miss Tulia Pageant on Saturday,
the actual hunt only lasting about (?P, 23 at 10:30 am at McKenzie Aprii 30 at 6:00p.m. in the Tulia High School Auditorium. Ages to enter
10 minutes Like human vacuums, O*erJ?PP®5g®Sw2 are 4, on or before 4/30/2011 to 12th grade. Forms may be picked up at
• d ♦ VDokku .,,,11 k» ™ all schools, as well as the Tulia Chamber of Commerce and Styles &
atadead run....a talent that you lose Mr. & Mrs. Peter Kaomt win oe on Smiles. Due date t0 enter is on or before 5:00 pm, Friday April 22,2011.
with age. hand • • • (mayoej jj.questions call Samantha Lange at 668-4658.
return to Swisher County soon.
By
Joy Nored
Altus, Oklahoma
To the citizens of Tulia and
Swisher County, Texas.
Recently, my precious Mamma
and I were traveling from Altus,
blessings of the Swisher County
Courthouse Ladies’ Restroom! As I
have already said, the facility was
as clean as a pin, there was a gra-
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Hooten, Patsy. The Swisher County News (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 15, Ed. 1 Tuesday, April 19, 2011, newspaper, April 19, 2011; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1249039/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Swisher County Library.