The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 139, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 11, 1981 Page: 2 of 32
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In December, prices for
wholesale food, ready for sale
to consumers, dipped 0.4 per-
cent after 0.5 percent in
it would translate to a 7.8 per-
cent annual rate.
But economists forecast
sharp energy and food price
increases soon.
Old age is golden I've heard it said.
But sometimes I wonder as I get into bed.
With my ears in a drawer.
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And a terrible pain is in my back.
■ My hearing is poor, my sight is dim.
Most everything seems to be out of trim.
But I’m awfully well for the shape I'm in.
I thank the Good lard for all that s been.
If I could live it over. Fd de it again
• The moral is. as this talk we unfold
That for you and me who are growing old.
: It's better to say. TlB fine" with a grin.
*' Than to let them know the shape we re in
The Labor Department also
reported that the nation's
unemployment rate dipped
from 7.5 percent of the
workforce in November to 7.4
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Mrs Conkwright met her
husband while attending col-
lege at Texas Tech Universi-
ty They lived in Lubbock for
a year before moving to
Hereford to help operate the
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smothering foam over the engines and the derailment area
until about 5 a m. Saturday.
At one point during the incident there was concern that fuel
tanks on the overturned engines might explode and firemen
moved individuals back from the area
Santa Fe officials notified the Heretord VFD that one of the
train units had ignited again about 6:30 Saturday morning
and the tanker unit with foam was dispatched again
Firemen remained at the scene Saturday morning until
shortly after 9 o'clock.
Santa Fe spokesman R L. Dickson estimated damages in
the train derailment at SI .3 million
"The engines are salvageable None are completely
destroyed." said Dickson ,
The derailment occurred on a transcontinental main line,
according to Dickson and forced the rerouting of traffic from
Amarillo to laibbock and then back to Govis.
Dick on reported that "very little" traffic disruption was
encountered by Santa Fe as a result of the derailment.
A crew of some 35 Santa Fe employees from Govis.
Hereford. .Amarillo and Lubbock plus a railroad emergency-
crew from Tulsa. Oklahoma was on the scene Saturday,
working toward a goal of having the mam track open again
by 6 p.m.
The emergency crew brought in specially equipped Cater-
pillar tractors with sidebooms to aid in clearing the tracks
and a wrecking crew worked to pick up derailed cars and set
them aside Heavy-duty cranes were also on hand to lift the
derailed engines
Extensive track rebuilding was also expected to be done
Saturday.
Pioneer Gas Co. told police
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percent last month. The
number of jobless workers
stood at 7.8 million at the end
of 1980,1.5 million more than
in December 1979.
The department said that
wholesale, oty producer
prices, rose another 0.6 per-
cent in December. If that
pace continued for 12 months,
—Texas Briefs
For Shoplifting
that someone siphoned 15
gallons of gas from a com-
pany pickup parked at 543
Willow Lane.
Melody Moore, 117 Juniper,
told police that her purse was
stolen from classroom in
Hereford High School.
The purse was valued at
$15 and Moore told police no
cash was in the purse.
Police issued 14 citations
and investigated one minor
accident.
AUSTIN. Texas (AP) -
Austin sold $45 million in city
utility-revenue bonds and $17
million in general^ obligation
bonds Thursday at record
high interest rates.
Officials said all bids were
un'der the state-required in-
terest rate ceiling of 10 per-
cent but about 2 percent
higher than the city paid paid
previously.
A low bid of 9.02 percAt in-
terest on the revenut bond
from First Boston Corp.fc
Associates will cost the city
$55.6 million in interest, of-
ficials said.
The low bidder for the
general obligation bonds was
First City national Bank of
Houston at 8.28 percent, an in-
terest cost of $16.4 million.
government said today. And
1981 begins with energy
prices once again ac-
celerating at a double-digit
pace.
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AUSTIN, Texas (AP) —
What the Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department calls the
"most significant" fish catch
of 1980 was made by Jim
Kimbell of Pittsburg, who
landed a 14-pound 1‘z-ounce
largemouth bass at Lake
Monticello in Northeast
Texas.
Kimbell’s fish was a
Florida largemouth that had
been stocked in the lake and
broke a 37-year-old state
record. Department
biologists had predicted the
introduction of the Flcrida
strain of fish would produce a
state record.
A dozen or so other fish
records were set in 1980. in-
cluding an 871-pound great
hammerhead shark, caught
by Mark Johnson of La Mar-
que out of Galveston on July
4.
November. This falloff is con-
sidered an aberration
because of continued heavy
slaughtering of farm
animals, and should be
reversed soon, economists
said.
Gasoline prices rose 1.5
percent in December follow-
ing a 1.7 percent jump the
month before. Home heating
oil prices climbed 1.9 percent
after rising 0.9 percent in
November, the department
said.
The 11.7 percent accelera-
tion in 1980 prices, before
seasonal adjustment, is a
small improvement from
1979’s 12.6 percent advance.
The slight slowdown could be
traced to energy prices,
whirti rose 27.2 percent after arrested for shoplifting at
soaring 62.7 percent in 1979, M E. Moses & Co. in
the department said.
A moderating influence
through 1980 was prices for
finished food, which rose 6.5
percent following a 7.6 per-
cent climb the year before.
Prices for finished
wholesale goods other than
food and energy rose 11 per-
AUSTIN, Texas (API -
The Veterans of Foreign
Wars state headquarters in
downtown Austin is for sale.
Billie L. Dorris, state adju-
tant quartermaster, said the
VFW wants to find a new site
where it would be the only oc-
cupant of a building. The
organization uses only seven
offices in the present five-
story building at 11th and San
Jacinto Streets, just
southeast of the Capi’ol
grounds.
We want to get out of the
real-estate business." Dorris
said.
The VFW built the heqad-
quarters in 1956.
While in Lubbock, the cou-
ple had part of their house
built and then moved it to the
ranch and it now serves as
the ranch headquarters.
After We moved the house
here we finished it and then
remodeled about eight years
ago We lived in it along with
the sawdust. For awhile
there the painter would take
messages for me if I was
away from the house." Mrs
Conkwright laughed
There have been a few in-
conveniences with the house
because it sits just up from
the Palo Duro Draw If there
is a large amount of rain fall,
the draw fills covering the
bridge, which is the main en-
trance to the house, and leav-
ing the family marooned until
the water level drops
We moved here in July
11964 > and the next spring a
•- inch of rain fell and
covered the bridge to the
house That happened twice
Then, in 1979 there was a time
it started to rain before the
kids got home from school
Another woman was here
waiting for her kids, and we
couldn't decide whether to go
ahead and cross the bridge
before it was covered or wait
and see what would happen-
ed It was really kind of a
scary feeling." she con-
tinued
Although Mrs Conkwright
graduated from Tech with a
degree in child development
she only taught school the one
year the couple lived in Lub-
bock
"I never really get in to it
(teaching! 1 don't know if I
really would want to teach
again 1 know I wouldn't want
to teach in the public
schools." she stated
Even with all the activities
she is involved with including
the Women's Division of the
Chamber of Commerce and a
local study club. Mrs Con-
kwright still finds time to
needlepoint, sew and 'rear-
range the furniture "
■ I never get lonely There
are times I will stay here two
or three days without going to
town, but civilization is close
if I want to go to the town."
she said
Even when they can't find
ranch hands, can't find so-
meone to work on a windmill,
or interest rates go up and
cattle prices go down a per-
son can't get pessimistic
about the business because
things will get better soon
Mrs Conkwright said
"I guess with a business
you own and operate like Jim
and Colby do. you can't help
but take pride in it." she said
ing last spring’s sharp but
short recession. Manufactur-
ing jobs rebounded by 500,000
and construction by 175,000,
although employment in both
areas remains "well below
pre-recession levels,” a
Labor Department economist
said.
Total employment — as
measured by the
department’s monthly survey
of households — stood at 97.3
million people last month,
still some half-a-million
below the February 1980
peak.
The department’s Pro-
ducer Price Index in
December stood at 254.7,
before seasonal adjustment.
That means that an item
costing $100 in 1967 sold for
$254.70 in December 1980.
Marshall Cooper, Executive Director of Girls Town (left) was in
Hereford Friday to aceept a S388 donation from Xi Epsilon Alpha. Nan
Ganthreaux (center), Ways and Means Chairman, and JoAnn Richburg,
(right), president of the club, presented the check to Cooper. The money
was raised through a recent fund-raising project sponsored by the Beta
Sigma Phi Chapter.
them steer the pickup as he
drove across the ranch
Mrs Conkwright en-
courages her children to
become involved with their
activities.
west side of Hereford. Firemen remained at the
scene of the derailment throughout the wee
hours of Saturday morning. (Brand photo by
Mauri Montgomery)
CLARA LOUSE SHORE
Gara Louse Shore, 89. died
Thursday at Kingsland. Tx.
She had lived in Hereford for
many years before moving to
Kingsland some five years
ago.
"ervices will be held Mon-
day at 10 a.m. at Rose Chapel
of Gililland-M atson Funeral
Home with Rev Olen Griffing
from Gran Prairie. Tex. of-
ficiating Burial will be at
West Park Cemetery under
the direction of Gililland-
Watson Funeral Home
Mrs. Shore was bom Dec.
15. 1891 in Hereford. She mar-
Hereford volunteer firemen clamber over the
side of a sprawled Santa Fe locomotive to spray
fire-snuffing foam on spilled diesel fuel at the
site of a spectacular derailment about a half-
mile west of the Highway 385 overpass on the
M.E. Moses & Co.
Sugarland Mall.
Police arrested the girls for
stealing about 5 packages of
makeup
Joe Auda, Lynette Apart-
ments, reported that so-
meone broke the front and
back windshields out of his
car causing about $400 in
cent last year compared with damages.
9.3 percent in 1979.
The nation’s unemploy-
ment picture continued to im-
prove in December, with the
number of jobs and the fac-
tory workweelc expanding
slightly.
Since May, joblessness
ranged from the 1980's peak
of 7.6 percent and the current
7.4 percent. The Labor
Department had put peak
joblessness at 7.8 percent, a
figure revised downward in
this report.
The Carter administration,
in its soon-to-be-released
economic outlook, will
predict joblessness rising to 8
percent in this year's second
quarter, a forecast echoed by
many private economists.
In 1980, however, employ-
ment gains were registered
beginning with July, follow-
WASHINGTON (AP) -
Wholesale prices rose 11.7
percent in 1960, only slightly
less than the year before
despite the recession, the
itself. Two of the engines subsequently caught
fire following the derailment as spilled diesel
fuel was ignited. Damages in the derailment
were estimated at >1.3 million according to a
Santa Fe spokesman. (Brand photo by Mauri
Montgomery)
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The Conkwrights have two
daughter. Robin. 14. and
l.eshe. 11 They do a share of
the ranch work in addition to
gymnastics, choir, music
lessons and their mvolvement
with the 4-H program.
Sometimes they paint
fences l^slie really enjoys
working outside Thex like to
ride horses and bottle-feed a
calf if necesary," Mrs Con-
kwright said
She said the girls have
learned to entertain
themselves having grown-up
in the country
"They don't mind being
alone They will ride horses
or skate down at the barn
They are both good readers 1
really think it's because they
we-e raised out here and had
to learn to entertain
themselves I think it has
been an advantage for
them." she explained
Both girls learned how to
drive at a ven young age
Their grandfather would let
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AUSTIN, Texas lAP) -
Robert A. I-ansford. native of
Carrizo Springs, has been
named State Coordinator of
the Governor's Division of
Disaster Emergency Ser-
vices, officials said Thurs-
day. *
I^nsford has been deputy
coordinator.
Co. Jim Adams, director of
the Department of Public
Safety also announced the ap-
pointment of Vernon E. Cole,
Austin as manager of the
Driver Improvement and
Control Bureau in the DPS.
ARISPY O. TRAWEEK
Services will be held for ried l-angdon H Shore He
Mrs Arispy O. Traweek, 90, dled July 7.1951
of 125 Beach at 2 p.m. Mon- Survivors include two
day in the Avenue Baptist daughters, Mrs. Florene
Church. The Rev. Buster Rose and Mrs. Zelma Laird,
Grigg, pastor, will officiate, both of Kingsland; two
assisted by The Rev. Bob sisters, Brucie Rose and Ola
Huffaker, pastor of The Rose, both of Amarillo; three
Nazarene Church. Burial will grandchildren; and six great-
be at West Park Cemetery grandchildren,
under the direction of Rix
Funeral Home.
Mrs. Traweek died Friday
at Deaf Smith General
Hospital.
Mrs. Traweek was bom
Feb. 20.1890 in Bowie County.
Tx. She married A.S.
Traweek Nov. 14, 1909 in
Snyder. Living in the Lub-
bock area since 1944, they
moved to Hereford in 1976.
She was a housewife and a
member of Avenue Baptist
Church. Mrs. Traweek's son,
Emmett, was killed during
World War II.
Survivors include the
widower of the home; g
daughter Bonnie McCathem
of Hereford; two sons,
Aubrey Traweek of Westway
and Albert Traweek of
Jacksonville. Tx.; five grand-
children and six great-
grandchildren.
‘ It gets a little hectic
sometimes running back and
forth to town when there are
extra things going on There
have been times that I have
driven into town two or three
times a day," she said
When Mrs Conkwright is
not playing the role of the
mother, she is involved with
the county 4-H program
"I was in 4-H when I was
growing up and have always
enjoyed it. 1 guess really it is
at the top of list." she con-
tinued
One of the projects she was
involved in with a 4-H group
was a clean-up day The
members worked together to
pick up cans along Highway
385 which runs in front of the
entrance to the ranch The
Still Kicking
Three Santa Fe diesel locomotives lie sprawled
crazily alongside the rail bed where they derail-
ed Friday night in a spectacular accident on the
west side of Hereford. The searchlights of one of
the engines still pierce the night eerily as if the
engine were still kicking and trying to right
Prices Up Only 11.7%
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Steiert, Jim. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 80, No. 139, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 11, 1981, newspaper, January 11, 1981; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1348253/m1/2/: accessed June 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.