The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1984 Page: 4 of 19
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The outcome of the national defense debates
which will begin soon in Washington will have
an Important Impact on Texas’ economy.
According to a recent study by Bob Bullock s
state comptroller’s office, Texas ranks third
nationally in the receipt of defense funds. Only
California and Virginia were ahead of Texas. In
1982, $12 million was plowed directly into the
Texas economy. In addition, every $1 -awarded
to Texas military contracts has the Impact of $3
in the economy.
Texas’ $12 billion In defense dollars repre-
sented 6.6 percent of the U.S. total, while
California received $32.3 billion or 18 percent
and Virginia got $12.1 or 6.8 percent.
According to Department of Defense projec-
tions, the Texas defense industry could top $16
billion by 1987. In 1982, there were 255,716
Military spending will grow as we strive to
keep America and much of the rest of the world
free and obviously it will help keep Texas’
economy moving.
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CUNNINGHAM
A.C. KINCHELOE....
DON SUMMERS.....
EUGENIA COOPER ..
MELINDA BUCKNER
Department of Defense civilian and military jobs
In Texas.
The Texas defense Industry is a source of
strength for the overall state economy. Defense
spending and the jobs that accompany It
generally are not severely impacted by changes
In economic conditions, such as recessions or
slow-downs. The defense Industry also stimu-
lates activity In other sectors of the state’s
economy such as tourism and retired military
people choosing Texas as their home after
completing their service years.
"the pre-minist6rial society.** 1 said to
myself, in my youthful anoyance, "I
would rather be dead than belong to
that gang."
The Wall Street Journal says that
federal law prohibits interstate banking
within the United States but that
doesn't seem to be stopping the banks.
The article reported that Citicorie, the
big New York Bank holding company.
A Bishop Looks at Life
By Everett II. Jones, Retired
Bishop of the Episcopal Church
Serving Llano, Uano County and the
Highland Lakes area since 1889
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cotton crop hit Llano County. Bugscuffle
and Whistleville ginned a total of 1200
bales of cotton, and Bugscuffle built up
a bit with several new stores opening up
but the prosperity didn't last. 1883 was
a hard, dry year.
Originally, the road from Burnet to
Mason is said to have wound past the
Phillips ranch. Whistleville. over a deep
white sand bed. .But Ollie Phillips
established a store in Bugscuffle and
got a court order re-routing the road
from its original sandy course to a route
over hard ground near his store. That
re-routing sounded the knell for Whis-
tieville. and the two communities
gradually merged into the community
now known as Valley Spring.
The area underwent a vast change in
economy over the years, and now. to
The Wanderer's knowledge, there isn't
an acre of cotton in Llano County.
As Carlos Ashley once told The
Wanderer, the landowners discovered
it's easier to sit around and watch cattle
grow than to farm, and the area now
produces some of the finest cattle in the
state.
That may not be the way it happened,
but that’s the way we heard it. The
Wanderer wasn't around in those days
to see for himself.
was organized by the Legislature and
the new town became the county seat.
SPORTS NOTE- Houston’s Astrodome
boasts the largest electronic scoreboard
in the world.
The board is 27 feet high. 35-plus feet
long and has the capacity of 43.000
television screens. It provides stop-ac-
tion, slow motion, zoom shots, graphics,
animation and of course. Instant replay.
The Waco Times Herald reports that
the Jnternal Revenue Service has
obtained a computerized list of the
estimated incomes of two million
American households and has begun to
test whether it can help track down
people who fail to pay their taxes.
Alexander Hoffman, who represents
the Direct Marketing Association says
concerning the marketing list purchase
• by the IRS; "If the IRS is able to
undertake this effort on a national basis,
it may make the public afriad to have
their name on any mailing list, afraid to
buy anything by mail."
My religious state of mind in this
period is indicated by the fact that when
Bishop Capers asked me to teach a
Bible class at the school on Sunday
mornings. I said 1 would rather not.
I had long hoped that I could attend
Columbia University in New York City. I
think it was as much the appeal of that
great cosmopolitan center as it was the
attraction of the Un! zersity itself.
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YOU MIGHT LIKE TO KNOW-That
Bexar and Medina Counties have the
largest Alsatian palliation in the world
outside of A!sai;c-l^>rrainc.
Castroville, 20 miles west of San
Antonio, is the "capital" of the Texas
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ministry. My grandfatherand two of my
bekns. and dead cats, the TMA
recommends that modern-day cures are
more effective, "to put it mildly.”
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acquired a steam whistle for his gin and
sawmill-the first steam whistle in that
part of the country.
He would get up at 4 o'clock in the
morning, and as soon as • he got up
steam would blow the whistle, announ-
cing he was ready for business, which
must have made him real popular with
the late risers.
By Jack Maguire
FOOTNOTE TO HISTORY-Resid
ents of Presidio del Norte, the settle-
ment that preceded the present Presidio
were known to early Texans as "a bad
lot." There was good reason for the
reputation.
Presidio del Norte was established in
1759 by the Spanish at the junction of
the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos in
the Big Bend. A year later, Apaches
attacked and almost destroyed the
settlement. However, on September 20. , County until 1875 when Presidio County
1760, the Spanish defeated the Apaches
in the Battle of Ruiodosa Creek.
The Comanches also were a threat,
and to hold their ground between this
tribe and the Apaches, the town allied
iiself with the former. They became, as
one historian says, "allies, spies,
powder purveyors (and) receivers and
buyers of stolen goods of the Texas 9
Comanche."
This arrangement pleased the Span-
ish because it helped to keep the
Apaches in check. When Mexico won its
independence and took control of Texas,
that government also approved the
activities of the residents of the town in
helping the Comanches.
Once Texas won its Independence
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uncles were clergymen. There were
many devout people on both sides of our
family. The matter of being ordained
was frequently mentioned to me. The
chief "mentioner” was a dear friend,
the late Bishop James S. Johnston, the
predecessor of Bishop Capers.
However. 1 was not ready, emotio-
nally or intellectually, for that decision.
1 remember there was a group of fellows
who went around the University campus
in a bunch. They looked glum, pious,
and unattractive. I was told they were
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“Oh my go«h, now I know why wo ain't got a calf
crop, last year I forgot to turn thorn bulls Into tho
holfor pasturol"
Defense spending
produced a great deal more.”
Whatever you may think about the uses and
abuses of alcohol, it is easy to see why those
trapped behind the Iron Curtain, including the
Russians themselves, would be driven to the
bottle. There is nothing good to spend their
money on; they are bored, cold, frustrated,
silenced-and tired to death of cabbage.
Survivors are not in the mood or condition for
hard work. In rural areas of Poland, for example,
‘‘inactive’’ males age 45 to 55 nearly doubled
between 1970 and 1978, to 13.2 percent. A
shortage of able men for the factories and
armed services has, in fact, been a nagging
worry for Moscow’s leaders. One result has
been a sad shortfall in productivity—WITICIT the
late President Leonid Brezhnev publicly lament-
ed.
That is the gist of demographers’ reports on
the state of the Soviet citizerfs'and the inhabit-
ants of nations in the grasp of the Kremlin.
What the ‘statistics show is that the Moscow
brand of government, while it may yet presume
to take control of the world by military might, ~
has failed in the basic purpose of society-to
care for human beings.
If the facts recounted here have seemed in the
past to be of interest mainly to scholars, they
now merit a closer look by people everywhere—
especially any who may consider putting their
necks under the Soviet yoke."
U.S. NEWS & WORLD REPORT
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- What an irony! At, the very time the Soviet
Union is blustering about mounting more nuc-
lear rockets to “defend” its way of life in
Eastern Europe and Russia, there comes a
report that should make people thankful that
they live outside that benighted empire.
It now turns out that the Soviet Union and its
‘ ' 'paptive countries are almost unique in reversing
the world’s historic advance to longer life.
Jean-Claude Chesnais, in an exhaustive study
in the French magazine La Recherche, observes
that, between 1965 and 1980, life expectancy at
birth in the U.S.S.R. declined from 66.2 years to
61.9 for males and from 74.1 to 73.5 for
females. In today’s world, this points to an
astonishing failure in the Soviet system’s
ability to care for people.
Chesnais’s tables show a marked lengttfening
of life expectancy, on the other hand, even for
several underdeveloped countries.
Meanwhile, in the same period, the United
States continued Its steady progress, with life
expectancy reaching 69.9 years for males and
77.8 for females.
“In 1980, the sale of alcoholic beverages was
80 percent up on 1970....In 1980, each inhabita-
nt paid for cloth, clothing, underwear and .
socks and stockings, taken together. ..
“It is especially alarming that thpse who die
are predominantly men in the mqst productive
years of their working lives, who could have
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Subscription Rates: Llano County $10.00 per year. Elsewhere in
Texas $12.50. Out of-state $14.00. All payable in advance.
I had also considered journalism.
When I graduated from high school I
began working as a reporter on the San
Antonio Express: 1 continued to do so
for six summers. I loved the newspaper
world (1 still do) but somehow it
represented to me such a day-to-day
outlook on life; I wanted work with a
wider and more eternal frame of
reference, where 1 could more readily
indulge my interest in philosophy^
I had also considered teaching. 1 had
an offer to stay at the University as a
fellow in the philosophy department,
but I felt the need for a change of scene.
At this point another friend, the late
Bishop William T. Capers, offered me a
chance to teach high school English in
the Episcopal boys' school, then known
as West Texas Military Academy (now
Texas Military Institute). I jumped at
this offer because if would give me more
time to think about the future, and
would enable me to save money in order
to go to graduate school.
I enjoyed teaching, but not enough to
choose it for a career. 1 especially
enjoyed working with some of the boys
on the school paper. And 1 came to a
deep and sincere respect for teachers all
ovdr the world! ...
Like the prodigal son. 1 wanted to be
out on my own and in the big world. The
interesting difference is that for me the
big, wicked city was the place in which I
found God in a new way and where 1
began the excitement of my theological
training.
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The Texas Medical Association says
that warts are caused by viruses not by
frogs or toads. Mark Twain is blamed
for spreading the misconception in the
Adventures of Tom Sawyer. While there
are some unusual home remedies such
as "spunk water stump", burned
The Houston Telegraph and Texas
Register Of April IS, 1840 •carried the
following s'tory: "No Murder-Nobody
was murdered yesterday. Perhaps we
shall have two murders today to make
up for it. --No O. Sun.
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The” Texas National Dispatch, the
newspaper of the 1986 Sesquicentennial
Commission suggest that Texas cities
may have a "twin city" in South
Australia and might do well to attempt
to locate each other. Both states were
"born" in I836 and will have a joint
celebration in I986. We call it "SesquT--”
centcnial". The South Australians will
celebrate “Jubilee 150.”
Twin towns, those with similar size,
economic pursuits and climate will also ;
have their schools "twinned." The hope
is to interchange between the two towns I
will grow ihtough exchange visits, joint J
school pnykdKtd the like.
Yop will have to agree that Jubilee ■ •
150 it a lot easier to say and write than ’
Sesquicentennial. Z
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As 1 neared graduation from college I
began to think more constantly about
what my vocation should be. ■'This
thinking was stragely entangled with
my religious uncertainities.
Alsatians. The community was founded
if) the 1840's by Henri Castro, a French
Jew. He recruited settlers from many
countries, but the first to arrive were
' the Alsatians. '
Castro's dream was to establish “a
new and better France." However, the
Alsatians were farmers and their only
goal was to work the land and make a
modest living. More than a century
later, their descendants are still farming
the area.
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got permission from the Federal Home
Loan Bank Board to buy First Federal
Savings and Loan Association ot
Chicago with assets of $.1.95 billion.
Then in another action Citicorp got
permission to buy New- Biscaync
Federal Savings and Loan Of Miami
which has assets of $1.8 billion.
The article went on to say the
Citicorp's person-to-person consumer
finance subsidiary hgd 112 officers in 31
states. The holding company has $10.5 *
billion in housing loans outstanding,
only $2.5 billion of which are in New
York State where the central bank unit
is based. "
Edftorial /Opinion
Llano News, Thursday, January 19, 1984 Page 4A
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Soon the community came to be
known as Whistleville. A store was
opened. ancP they even had a post
office.
Uncle Billy is said to have enjoyed a
flourishing business with his gin and
sawmill, and in the year 1880 ginned 20
bales of cotton at $3 a bale.
That kind of business eventurally
attracts competition, and before long
Uncle Davie Owens built his own cotton
gin and sawmill a half mile south of
Uncle Billy's. For a, while there was
intense competition/ between the two
small communities'! For reasons un-
known, Uncle Davie named his town
Bugscuffle. Both little towns arc said to
have boomed in 1882 when a bumper
Driving through the quite little ,
community of Valley Spring, one
wouldn't think very much ever happen-
ed around there, but it wasn't like that
back before the turn of the century,
according to Rick Smith. San Angelo
Standard Times writer, who quotes an
old, crumbling issue of The Llano News
that probably has lone since crumbled
to dust.
The issue contained an interview with
the late J-.B. Mayes, a former Llano
justice of the peace and early Valley
Spring resident.
"When we moved to the Eaker
place.” Mayes said. "That section of
Llano County was just an old Indian
settlement with a few early-day families
living close together for protection
against the Indians."
Uncle Billy Phillips, son of a pioneer
settler, had a ranch near Valley Spring,
and in the spring of 1879 he put up a
cotton gin and later added a sawmill.
His ranch grew into a small town known
as Phillips Ranch.
The village was beginning to attract
settlers, and before long Uncle Billy
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From the sidelines
from Mexico in 1836, the policy
changed. Texas ruled Presidio del Norte
"off limits" because of the commu-
nity's dealings with the Comanches.
Most residents responded by moving
across the river to Ojinaga. Mexico,
where their motives wouldn’t be
questioned. ' . < <
In 1850. a new village developed at
the present site of Presidio, three miles
up the Rio Grande from the original
settlement. It was a part of El Paso
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DO YOU REMEMBER Fred Lowery,
the blind East Texan, who became
world famous as an entertainer by
whistling?
Lowery, who learned to make whistl-
ing an art while picking cotton, went on
from the Texas School for the Blind in
Austin to star on national radio with
Rudy Vallee and other big name bands.
HE also performed at the White House
for President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Lowery has just finished his bio-
graphy, aptly titled "Whistling in the
Dark." It’s a fascinating story of a
sharecropper’s son who made it in the
big time.
, (Copyright, 1984, by Jack Magaire)
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interest. Letters must be signed and no longer than two standard
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 12, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1984, newspaper, January 19, 1984; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1289522/m1/4/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.