The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 88, No. 123, Ed. 1 Friday, December 23, 1988 Page: 2 of 46
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Page 2-The Hereford Brand, Friday, December 23,1988
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house at Hereford State Bank. The group performed holiday
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Dear Editor:
I am 8 years old.
Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus.
Papa says, "If you see it in The Sun it's so."
Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?
Virginia O'Hanlon
115 West 95th Street
Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been
affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe
except what they see. They think nothing can be which is not
comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether
they be men's or children's, are little. In this great universe of ours man
is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless
world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping
the whole of truth and knowledge.
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as
love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abount
and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary
would be the world if lher were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary
as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then,
no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should
have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with
which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.
No believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in
fairies! You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the
chimneys on Christmas Eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if they did
not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody
sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The
most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men
can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not,
but that's no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or
imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
You tear apart the baby's rattle and see what makes the noise
inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the
strongest man, not even the united strength of all the strongest men
that ever lived, could tear apart. Only faith, fancy, poetry, love,
romance can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal
beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world
there is nothing else real and abiding.
No Santa Claus! Thank god he lives, and he lives forever. A
thousand years from now Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years
from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood."
Additional
as well as
medical aid, will be going out in the
Witnesses saw a flash of light high
in the sky as the jet plummeted
toward the ground; there was no
communication from the cockpit as
would have been expected if the
pilots encountered flight control pro-
blems, and the wreckage was strewn
over miles of Scottish countryside
with the cockpit section found more
than three miles from other large
parts of the aircraft.
But none of that is conclusive
evidence that a bomb detonated
aboard the jetliner.
U.S. officials said an anonymous
caller to the U.S. Embassy in
Helsinki, Finland, said Dec. 5 that a
bomb would be planted aboard a Pan
Am flight from Frankfurt, West Ger-
Mr. and Mrs. Augustine Coronado
arc the parents of a girl, Kristine
Nikole, bom December 21,1988.
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DEPART 5
John Bro
Andrea Ho
Sandy Sts
Gaye R«
sion on Judicial Conduct and called
for the judge's removal from the
bench.
On Wednesday, a coalition of
church leaders, some with large gay
congregations, publicly criticized
Hampton and asked him to repudiate
the statements.
The cause of Wednesday’s crash
that killed all 258 people on board and
more than 20 on the ground has yet to
be determined, but there were signs
today pointing to an explosion.
WASHINGTON (AP) - If a ter-
rorist bomb brought down Pan Am
Flight 103, a 25-minute delay of the
jet’s departure from London may
provide investigators with their big-
gest advantage. It kept the wreckage
on land, instead of falling into the
ocean.
Firefighter awarded
Volunteer firefighter Tim Homer received the Firefighter
of the Year Award recently at the Hereford Firefighters’
annual Christmas party. Homer has volunteered 15 years
with the fire department.
many, to the United States within
two weeks. Flight 103 began in
Frankfurt on a Boeing 727, then
changed planes to a Boeing 747 in
London. But there has been no
evidence that the telephone tip was
related to the crash of Flight 103.
The wreckage of Flight 103 is ex-
pected to provide more definitive
clues, and while it is strewn over
miles of countryside/at least it is not
hundreds of feet under wintry seas,
some aviation experts noted.
Columbia University.
A retired school teacher, she
taught English and speech at Here-
She was a member of the Retired
Teachers Association and Delta
Kappa Gamma. She was a member
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care for queers cruising the streets
picking up teen-age boys. I’ve got a
teen-age boy.”
Hampton’s statements outraged
the gay community, which filed a
United Methodist Church with Dr.
Jordan Grooms, retired Methodist
Samaritan Retirement Center in
Amarillo.
Memorial services will be held at
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Yes, Virginia, there
is a Santa Claus
This famous editorial, "Is There A Santa Claus," first
appeared in The New York Sun on Sept. 21,1897. It was written by
Francis Pharcellus Church, an assistant to the Sun's editor.
"We take pleasure in answering at once and thus prominently
the communication below, expressing at the same time our great grati-
fication that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The
Sun:
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services will be held i
Tuesday in Rose Chapel at Gilil-
land-Watson Funeral Home in
Hereford with Dr. Grooms officiat-
ing. Burial will follow in West Park
Cemetery.
Miss Crawford was bom Sept. 8,
1900 in Snyder. She graduated from
Texas Womens University in 1918,
and received a master's degree in
1950 from Northwestern University
in Chicago, she also did graduate
&
Judge admits mistake
years in prison instead of a max-
imum life sentence on Nov. 28 in part
because the two men Bednarski was
convicted of killing were homosex-
uals.
“These two guys that got killed
wouldn't have been killed if they
hadn’t been cruising the streets pick-
PATIENTS IN HOSPITAL
Domingo Alvarado, Bearl
Broyles, Debra Ann Coronado,
Infant Giri Coronado, Murlene I.
Gaines, Cecil R. Lady.
Art Lewis, Clarice M. McCaslin,
Francisca Morrison, Lon A. Mor-
ton, Lester A. Mullins, Mary
Poarch.
Martin G. Ramirez, Jena Raw-
ley-Whitaker, Edelmira Silva, Inf.
Boy Silva, Thelma Watson.
"Each subject has a one-day,
comprehensive examination."
Sanders, who plans to work
on her master’s degree next
semester, said the school day
was over by 3 p.m.
"That didn’t leave us much
time for sight-seeing, though,"
Sanders said. "The sun goes
down around 3:30 p.m. each
day, so you could only get about
30 minutes of good sight-seeing
in each day during the week."
Sanders said her favorite
place was the Tower of London
"because there is so much histo-
ry behind it, and the Crown
Jewels are so pretty."
she taught English at Amarillo and
Tascosa high schools.
For seven summers, she super-
Correction
In the hospital board story in
Wednesday’s Hereford Brand, the
Brand erroneously reported that the
hospital’s November loss on operat-
ions was $90,000.
That figure was incorrect.
The hospital’s total operating
revenue for the month was $577,-
339, including $206,015 in tax
receipts.
The hospital’s total operating
expenses for the month were
$400,379, for a net of $177,002.
The Brand regrets the error.
Local Roundup
Police arrest one
Hereford police arrested a man, 18. on thursday in the 600 block of
North 25 Mile Avenue for driving while intoxicated, left turn from the
womg land, and second offense of no liability insurance.
Reports included damaged Christmas decorations in the 400 Hock of
Sunset Drive and the 200 block of Centre Street; damage to a vehicle in
the 600 block of Irving; assault with a motor veheile in the 400 block of
Miller Street;
Assault in the 200 block of Whiteface Street; theft of a $50 rin in the
800 block of Brevard Street; theft of $8.03 worth of gasoline in the 100
block of South 25 Mile Avenue; a dispute between neighbors in the 200
block of Avenue H; and a terroristic threat in the 900 block of North Lee
Street.
The Hereford Volunteer Fire Department was called to a dumpster
fire in the alley between the 300 blocks of Main and Miles Streets.
Police issued eight citations on Thursday and reported two non-injury
accidents.
’’Young At Heart Singers” perform
The "Young At Heart Singers" from the Hereford Senior
Citizens Center performed earlier this week at an open
Santa gets tailwind
Tonight will be lair with a low of 25.1 North-northwest winds will
decrease to 10-20 mph during the evening.
Saturday will be mostly fair and a little cooler with a high near 50.
North-northcast winds will be 5-15 mph.
Christmas Day will be partly cloudy. The morning low will be 25,
with the high around 55.
This morning's low at KPAN was 27 after a high Thursday of 52.
County arrests one
The Deaf Smith County Sheriff's Office arrested a 47-ycar-old man
on a driving while intoxicated jail commitment; a dog bite was reported
on Rabbit Road and harassment was reported two miles south on Farm
to Market Road 2943.
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STACIA IRENE CRAWFORD
Dec. 22,1988
Stacia Irene Crawford, 88, of r
Amarillo, dial Thursday at Good of 'Polk Street United Methodist
church, where she taught Sunday
School for many years.
Survivors include several nieces
10 a.m. Tuesday at Polk Street and nephews
United Methodist Church with Dr. Memorials may be made to Polk
---------------------------1 street United Methodist Church,
minister, officiating. Funeral Hidden Falls Ranch, or to a favorite
Pm charity
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240 people at least who received
food assistance over and above the
basic CSF effort,” said a CSF
spokesman. vl„ ,
Overall, more than 600 needy of Energas and the Hereford Key
substantia] food available to them
this Christmas. I’d say this means
the community struck a major blow „
against holiday hunger this year," he few days" said the spokesman’
added. Donations to CSF will be accep-
CSF also sent vouchers for utility ted through Dec. 31 at the offices of
and clothing assistance with food The Hereford Brand, 313 Lee St
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DALLAS (AP) - A judge’s admis-
sion that he used a “poor choice of
words" in explaining why he lighten-
ed the sentence of a killer whose vic-
tims were gay has done little to ease
the demands of gay rights activists
and others who want him removed
from the bench.
State District Judge Jack Hamp- ing up teen-age boys,” Hampton told
ton apologized Thursday at the
Dallas County Courthouse before
leaving town for the holidays.
“He has cast a reasonable doubt
into the minds of people across this
nation about Dallas justice,” said
William Waybourn, president of the complaint with the Texas Commis-
Dallas Gay Alliance. “He has raised
the question of his judicial fitness
and ability to be impartial. This
question cannot be answered with a
simple apology."
Hampton told the Dallas Times
Herald last week that he sentenced
Richard Lee Bednarski, 18, to 30
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clubs, church groups and individu- packages this morning,
als as assistance efforts were vouchers for this help,
coordinated by the charities. medical aid 1----~
"Figuring a conservative estimate next few days.
of four persons per family in the „,lv~
™™iCstS’ *?al s a? days sorting donated food items and
_.u >_ a boxes of food for the
needy, prior to this morning’s
pickup and delivery by a crew of
volunteers that included employees
people in our community will have Club. " ••w.v.w.m
Additional vouchers for medical
assistance to some applicants who
requested it will be sent within a
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