The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 50, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 16, 1971 Page: 1 of 20
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Previous Attorney General’s ruling says
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The Hereford Brand
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70TH YEAR - NO. 50
HEREFORD, TEXAS, 79045, THURS., DEC. 16, 1971
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with the assault on a 15-year-old ' victim, told investigating officers
girl. Perez is out on bond await- his brother was killed during an
and Lamb remained just that
Plant officials refused to an-
through the week feilowing a swer any other questions about
vague statement issued by plant
According to police reports
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The High brothers were ar-
from the police dispatcher that
celebration of the National Asso-
brothers were both standings
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“I don’t feel this would hurt
the economy any at all," Smith
said. “Here in Texas we have
a good tax structure. The only
state that has a better per capita
The article however, came
out in the Sunday Amarillo cap-
Local merchants who plan to
open on both Saturdays and
Sundays to get more out of
Christmas shoppers will face
the possibility of a stiff fine, ac-
cording to Justice of the Peace
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ter margins unusually narrow in
recent weeks the forthcoming
He said he discussed such a
program with former vice presi-
dent Hubert Humphery and as
about the federal government
getting involved. He was told by
Humphrey, who is chairman of
Rural Development committee,
that such a proposal was remov-
ed from offering because the ad-
ministration felt it would cut
down on federal revenues.
25 YEARS SERVICE - Jimmy Gil-
lentine, publisher of the Hereford
Brand, presents bookkeeper Atha
McIver with a gold watch for the 25
"If any merchant is proved to
be in violation of the Blue Law.”
and some of the couples were
not ready to stop.
1 John L. White, brother of the
years of service she has given the
Hereford Brand. The presentation
was made Monday at the Brand’s
Christmas party
still a mystery
The mystery surrounding the logical time to schedule a short-
Monday closing of Wilson Beef time closing.”
A $3,781.10 bill from bounty-
District Attorney Andy Shuval
to the county commissioners
court will have to be paid, re-
gardless of apparent unwilling-
ness of county officials
The bill, an itemized minute-
by-minute total of work Shuval
has done on legal proceedings
of land for use in the widening
of West U.S. 50, was mailed to
each of the county commission-
ers last week. It turned out to
be the most important on an
”He figured all of this out on
5 per cent bond market and pre-
sently the bond market is real
good," Hartman said.
The school system now has a
Al bond rating with Moody, one
of the top rating companies.
The school board, in a meet-
ing in late November, looked at
improvements in several areas
of the system and these im-
the high school auditorium and
building a new library at the
high schocl.
“These are not the only needs
we have, but they are the ones
we can see and know have to be
done," Hartman told the board.
Davis recommended to the
school board that it not delay
its decision any later than mid-
February since that is usually
A group of about 50 persons
filed by the receiving line Tues-
day to meet the state’s top offic-
ial then later heard him briefly
discuss a variety of items rang-
ing from state taxes to the re-
vitalizing of rural America.
Governor Preston Smith, here
under the sponsorship of the
local units of the Texas State
Teachers Association and the
Classroom Teachers Association,
sprinkled his short talk with a-
musing stories, then got down to
more serious matters of intrest
to local citizens.
The murder cases against
Wesley High and Alfred Turner
High, charged in the June 11
shooting death of a Plainview
band leader, will begin Friday
in District Court.
The trial comes on the final
day of a scheduled week of cases
heard in Judge Archie Mc-
Donald’s court. In two other
cases heard this week, Harold
Lloyd Kilman was sentenced to
four years in the state peniten
tiary for forgery and passing
and Raymondo F. Guerra who
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the closing or about the plant,
saying the release “should an-
swer all your questions."
The closing was brought to
According to previous opin-
ions of the Attorney General,
the duty of a county-district at-
torney is to represent a county
in all cases in district and in-
ferior courts. However, a coun-
ty shall not put condemnation
and legal proceedings in the
line of the job unless it is stat-
ed in the duties.
An Amarillo county attorney.
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Martinez Mid Wesley High.
The two science rooms at
Stanton would cost about $55,000
including equipment for the
rooms.
The dressing room addition at
Stanton Junior High was esti-
mated at $25,000.
The addition of a dressing
room for visiting football teams
at the high school field house
was estimated at $20,000 while
the paving was estimated at a-
bout $50,000 for the areas be-
hind each of the stadium seat-
ing areas.
An all-weather track. using
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plane there.
He then checked with the
Clovis airport and was able to
land there. He then drove to
Hereford for the reception be-
fore going on to Amarillo where
hewas one of several guests at
the annual TSTA’s "Lesgislative
Appreciation Dinner.”
“As I was driving into Here-
ford I noticed the large number
of cattle-feeding operations and
packing plants and this brought
to mind the recent National Gov-
ernor’s Conference I attended,”
Smith told the group.
“At that conference we voted
48-2 to lanch a program that
would offer tax incentives to
companies that will locate in
rural American cities such as
Hereford."
argument with the High bro-
thers.
Also injured in the incident
were Chester Collins who was
shot in the thigh, Harold J. San-
ders who was shot in the groin,
and Raymond Lemons of Lub-
"This is the most outlandish
thing I have ever seen," com-
missioner Donald Hicks said.
"What do we pay him $12,000
a year for, anyway. I think it
is wrong tor a fellow to bleed
the county for every dollar he
can.”
if this is what he says he work-
ed, then this is probably what
we will have to pay him."
The bill, which included a
large number of phone calls
of 10, 15 and 20 minutes,
amounted to just over 94 hours.
The eight page letter itemized
every minute and hour spent
on the proceedings, including
conferences with the county
commission, phone calls to out-
of-town persons, filing of deeds,
and others.
manager Donald Day.
The two-paragraph statement
did little to inform the people of
all the whys of the closing that
put about 200 employes out of
work for two weeks.
The statement read:
"Donald Day, manager of the
Hereford Wilson Beef and Lamb,
announced that the company’s
Hereford plant will be closed for
a two-week period preceeding
Christmas and is scheduled to
re-open on Dec. 27
otherwise dull agenda Monday
during the court’s regular ses-
sion.
who provided the previous At-
torney General’s ruling, said
the county can hire the coun-
ty attorney to represent it in
such proceedings, but addition-
al payment over and above his
salary shall be paid.
In Amarillo, the county at-
torney said, the condemnation
and legal proceedings used to
be handled by the county at-
torney, but that was changed
But, each time the county at-
torney represented the county
system cut down to 4% on its
bonds.
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one store which opposed the law
and opened on both days. The
owner was fined $25.
“I want them to know this is
not a set fine of $25 for the vio-
lation.” the judge said.
"I don’t want them to think I
have already made up my mind
that the fines will be the maxi-
mum automatically. But, they
have had their warning and the
fines will certainly be stiffer
than that first one."
The Sunday Closing Law pro-
hibits the sale of certain items
on both Saturday and Sunday.
A store can open up one day, but
by law must close .he other day.
One local store contested the
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ing the dressing room facilities
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when he arrived in Lubbock, a tax structure is Ohio and I don’t
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possibly up to $500,000 without Monday by representatives of
an increase in taxes But, if we Brasher, Goyette and Rapier
EXTTAINING IT ALL — Gov. Preston Smith em-
phasizes a point with his hands during Tuesday’s
visit here. Smith was honored at a reception at
the Country Club before traveling on to Amarillo
for an appearance that night.
Photo by Betty Koelzer
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Association, with Mrs. Carolyn Walters, second
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Roy Hartman, left, jointed in this conversation.
Photo by Betty Eelzer
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The Governor arrived a little
behind schedule because of bad
। weather. He said he left Austin
where the weather was nice, but
light late last week, but no offi-
cial announcement was made
then An article did appear in
the Amarillo paper, but was re-
leased without the knowledge of
the Wilson officials.
Day had talked with an Ama-
rillo Globe-News reporter about
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the older of the two told him of
the shooting
the closing, but was under the
impression nothing would ap-
“Mr. Day indicated plant re- near in the paper until the offi-
pair work will take place during cial announcement was made
junior high, an all-weather track
ed to A.A which would help the at the stadium, paving the park-
mg lot at the stadium, enlarg-
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would hurt or eat down on fed-
eral revenues.
Architects and Engineers of
Lubbock.
The improvements included
additional science rooms at
Another possible angle to call I Stanton Junior High, an enlarg-
a $500,000 issue would be to get ed dressing room at the same
ing trial.
The two High brothers, repre-
sented by John Broadfoot of
Amarillo, were charged with idl-
ing James Edward White, 35,
of Plainview.
He said he doubted that Tex-
ans will have too much of a tax
bill next year if the economy is
good, but added that a state tax
bill will not be decided on until
a special session of the leg-
islature is called. No date has
been set for that yet, he said
He received several commend,
ations from persons at the recep-
tion, including one on his stand
on pay hikes for teachers against
the ploicy of the President’s
wage-price-freeze.
In a statement to the Brand,
Smith said it was honor to meet
with members of the local TSTA
and Classroom Teachers Assoc-
iation.
called a bond issue of $500,000
we would be looking at 11-year
bonds instead of the usual 10,"
Hartman said.
The $3,781 bill, based on 94
and-one-sixth hours of work, is
equal to $40 per hour, the min-
imum attorney fees now being
charged.
The commissioners voiced
made at the time of
pleaded guilty to rape charges
and was given 10 years in the
state pen.
Guerra earlier was sentenced
to two years in the pen on
charges of burglary.
He and Tommy Perez were
charged with rape in connection
in such a case, the county was
required to pay him extra out
at the general fund.
The county commissioners be-
came concerned when they
were presented the bill and sev-
eral voiced strong disapproval
of the bill, saying it was in ex-
cess of what should have been
charged, if anything.
"I've been here a long time
and I have never seen any-
thing like this," commissioner
Marcus Latham said, "But,
strong disapproval because they
said it was nowhere near the
amount paid out on the wid-
ening of U.S. 50 east toward
Canyon several years ago.
When that proceeding was be-
ing done, the county paid the
lawyer only $500 for the entire
operation. Then, the lawyer
was paid by the parcel at $50
apiece.
In this case, at $50 per par-
cel, the bill would have a-
mounted to $850 instead of the
$3,781.10.
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Colored People (NAACP). Ave. G.1He said when.he 8010
BY MARSHALL DAY
News Editor
A possible $500,000 school im-
provements bond issue, without
an increase in local taxes, will
be decided on by the school
board when it meets Jan. 11 for
its monthly meeting.
The possibility of the $500,000
bond issue came as a surprise
after the school board had ear-
lier said the highest it could go
on a bond issue would be
$300,000. However, even with the
increase, there still would be no
jump in local taxes.
Bob Davis, bond consultant
for Columbian Securities of Am-
arillo. notified school superin-
tendent Roy Hartman that, with
certain changes, the local sys-
tem could raise the bond issue.
"He (Davis) said we could go
with a $300,000 to $400,000 and
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27 parents. Undoubtedly the stand- tion this week. Shops that do
ards we set for our teachers are open on both days ar in viola-
the standards that will be the tion of the controversial Sunday
basis of the future quality of Closing Law, or Blue Law.
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after he announced to the audi- | on the h and carrying
ence that the dance was over
hold for contunued improvement Nelson said, “the penalties will
in all fields is the key to the be much stiffer than they were
good news we see in the future in the first incident.”
of our state,” he concluded. I The “first incident" Involved
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Nelson said several shops
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SMITH VISITS WITH HOSTS - Hosting Gov.
Preston Smith’s visit to Hereford Tuesday, were
members of Texas State Teachers’ Association,
with Roger Huber, second from left, as president
of the Hereford group, and Classroom Teachers'
shooting, White was killed after
soon
the time of the year when bond
sales are not as good.
Preliminary schematics pre-
sented by representatives of
Brasher, Goyette and Rapier in-
die a t e d the improvements
would amount to $505,000.
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