The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 118, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 16, 1984 Page: 1 of 30
thirty pages : ill. ; page 21 x 13 in. Digitized from 35 mm. microfilm.View a full description of this newspaper.
Extracted Text
The following text was automatically extracted from the image on this page using optical character recognition software:
$
---ZSL XI “STIrva
XI
Culinary Delights
(See Lifestyles, Page AB)
Father Egan claims
t
The nudging, according to Father already happening. Wel’ll just need costs.
4
Joe Egan of St. Anthony's Catholic to tell them how to go about making
donations.”
Egan knows what can happen lay leaders in Hereford are planning
when a community decides to do
K
give to. Included in that group is the something about a hunger crisis,
having been through it before. Five
years ago, he was parish priest of a Hereford State Bank Community
x
church in Cassopolis, Mich., that
m
#
Brand
i
a
<
84th Year, No. 118, Hereford, Tx. Deaf Smith County
28 Pages
30 Cents
Help requested for bird probe
Concerns diseased waterfowls found
K%
Accord not part of new policy
Reagan aide says about Cuba pact
By O.G. NIEMAN
)
from a knee injury sus-
BUI Lange, who to suffering e
be taken at 2 p.m. Monday in the
work at Deaf Smith County
1006
of the existing structure represents the
A ,
obg
(See BULL. Page 2A)
t
$
1
♦
>
8
8888888888888888888888555588888888888858888888885888
Local Roundup
County, appraisal boards meet
Locals wish to contribute to Ethiopia
By KIMBERLY THOGMARTIN —------------------------------------- » / gMOB■■---T- -
'That policy reflects our serious
concern about Cuba's international
behavior," Speakes said. "We see no
evidence that Cuba is prepared to
fundraising efforts for next month.
Egan said a committee meeting is
set for Monday at 10 a.m. in the
Church, is from a number of
Hereford residents who are ready to
contribute but have no idea who to
Accounts have been opened at both
Hereford banks, and religious and
3
'M1
some 1.500 of them are entitled to a
hearing could delay implementation
of the agreement, reached Friday
after four years of negotiations
"We're certainly willing to talk to
the Cubans if they are willing to
reenter the family of nations."
Speakes said But he and other ad-
ministration officials made it clear
fourth grade class at St. Anthony's
School, which made $142 one morn-
ing selling cupcakes.
The Hereford
Sunday
Dec. 16, 1984
Room. The funds are under the name
"Hereford Save-A-Life in Ethiopia
Fund."
Egan pointed out that not only
Ethiopians but millions of persons in
24 countries in Africa face famine
because of a three-year drought
there.
“I find it symbolic," Egan mused,
“that we are talking about feeding
the starving in Ethiopia while we are
surrounded by all this grain." Egan
also feels the Christmas season is a
Funds established for Lange
Medical funds have been established at both Hereford banks for
"Upon notification, wildlife
biologists will collect specimens and
have them analyzed to determine
cause and circumstances of death."
the release stated.
Although playa lakes are impor-
tant as wintering habitat for
migrating waterfowl. FWS said, they
can also prevent a threat by hosting
diseases deadly to ducks and geese
in an effort to reduce waterfowl
diseases, the Interagency Playa
Lakes Disease Council was formed to
coordinate waterfowl disease in-
vestigation and research and provide
public information.
The council is made up of
representatives from FWS. Texas
Parks and Wildlife, Texas Tech
University and the Hereford-based
Texas Waterfowlers association. Jim
Steiert and Mike Smith of Hereford
were named to the council.
Steiert said Wednesday he is not
aware of any major kills in Deaf
Smith County so far this winter He
also stressed that diseases which af-
fect birds are not a threat to human
health. “It's not the same cholera
that affects humans," he pointed out
Anyone who discovers dead or dy-
seen in identifiable form in Texas in
1863. As society changed over the
years, however, exceptions started
finding their way into the law.
In 1863, the law shut down just
about everything on Sunday in
Texas. It was illegal to work yourself
or anyone else on Sunday and carried
a then-extreme fine of $10 to $50. To-
day, the fine is $100 for first-
offenders and $500 for each subse-
quent offense
Gradually, some necessities were
listed as exceptions. However, there
continued to be prohibitions against
such things as bowling, horse racing,
gambling and “dances at disorderly
houses, low dives and places of like
character." It wasn't until 1M1 that
tion problems," Cuba's official news
agency Prensa Latina reported
During his speech, Castro said
Cubans who went to the United
States dunng the Mariel boatlift did
not include any who were mentally ill
or responsible for “bloody acts," the
news agency said.
Castro said these refugees includ-
ed hundreds of people who sought
asylum at the Peruvian Embassy
compound in Havana before the
boatlift began. Prensa Latina
reported.
The Cuban leader was quoted as
saying the ceiling of 20,000 visas a
year was carefuly analyzed during
the talks The two sides could not
agree on a minimum number and
6
STILL 7
days to Christmas -
I
DRAT I I FOR60T
EDDIE RICKENBACKER ‘
Letters accepted until Monday
Though Friday was the announced deadline far turning in totters
to Santa Claus, additional gift requests may be inserted in the
Brand's front-door mail slot up until $ a.m. Monday.
Any notes turned in after that time will not be accepted.
As has been the case for the past several years, the Brand is for-
warding ail CtotoUnas present requests to Claus’ North Pole
residence. All letters are to be reprinted in the Brand's special
Christmas issue Sunday. Duc. 23.
Jail bids to be acted upon
Action on recently-received bids for renovation and construction
4 L,
N
4
4
I
By KIMBERLY THOGMARTIN
Staff Writer
i 3-"
5 0. a ll
n
Staff Writer
Local ecumenical leaders have
found themselves under pressure to
collect money for victims of starva-
tion in Ethiopia, but the pressure is
not coming from the higher-ups
That feller on Tierra Blanca Creek
says what this country really needs
is a car that gets 100 miles to the
gallon and runs on junk mail.
oOo
If at first you don't succeed, tell
folks you weren't even trying.
oOo
Doc Blakely, who spoke here
several years at a chamber banquet,
says Americans have an apathetic
attitude about voting, "but what can
you expect from a population that
spends half its salary on food and the
other half on losing weight.”
oOo
There is word reported out of
Austin that the legislature will study
the controversial Blue Law again.
The law was no problem in the
Roman Empire, or when it was first
- f r
courthouse by county commissiloners. •
OnDee. 4, commissioners learned the lowert bid was $1.56 million
by Sam J. Smith Construction of Amarillo. Though $1.55 million was
budgeted for the project, $120,000 has already been spent for ar-
chitectural fees.
Work at the jai to to involvetwo phases. The first to adding a 30-by-
30-foot recreation facility to one side and an expanded holding area
tained at Ms place of employment
A native of Hereford, Lange recently moved to Gainesville, where
he is hospitalised. He and his wife Tammy Lange have two
daughters, one of whom recently underwent surgery.
Donations may be taken to Hereford State Bank or the First Na-
tional Bank of Hereford
stimulate the people much to get in- would help with the organization’s
volved," Egan predicted. “That's administrative and public relations
Hereford
Bull ~-2Ma
Straight On
This semi-truck found large trees don’t were received by passengers in the
have much give Friday afternoon on the wreck’s other participant, a pickup truck
west edge of Highway 385. Minor injuries which had its front end smashed in.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife service -------------------------------—
is asking hunters and landowners for the regional office in Albuquerque,
help in its investigation of waterfowl “Each year thousands of waterfowl
diseases affecting birds on playa die from bird cholera, botulism, and
lakes in Texas. New Mexico, other diseases.” The FWS is asking
Oklahoma and Colorado. people who find dead birds on playa
According to a news release from lakes to notify them of the locations
to Havana were among 129.000
Cubans who flocked here from the
port of Mariel in 1980. Since then, the
United States has accepted 2.000 to
3,000 refugees a year. mostly
relatives of Cubans already in the
country.
Regular U.S. visas will be issued in
Cuba again as a result of the agree-
ment. The process was suspended in
1980 when Havana refused to
repatriate "Marielitos" with
criminal records or mental problems
— many of the same people now be-
ing returned.
Castro went on nationwide televi-
sion and radio Friday night to an-
nounce "agreements between Cuba
and the United States on immigra-
quOntheBc
(See Sports, Page 1
mdanadbaded < - ■ J.WsdUW
they did not think President Fidel agreed that both countries would try
Castro's government met that to use the quota to its maximum,
qualification Castro said
Relations were broken in 1981 after The 20,000-visa ceiling is the same
the appropriation of virtually all U.S. limit applied to immigrants from
property on the island However, the other countries to the United States
United States has diplomatic rela- Senior administration officials,
tions with virtually all countries in briefing reporters at the White House
the world, including many with on an anonymous basis, said the
whom there is sharp disagreement deportations could begin within 30
The "excludables" due to go back days.
Church Women United and the “I think we can safely say that 99 good time to begin a campaign,
Ministerial Alliance. percent of the money we send will go "because people’s hearts are open
“I don't think we'll have to to Ethopia," Egan assured. The rest now."
week, with the Hereford City Commission to lead off at 7:30 p.m.
Monday in City Hall, 224 N Lee Ave
Directors of the Deaf Smith County Appraisal District, mean-
while, are to assemble in the 402 W. Fourth St. office at 7 p.m. Thurs-
day. Agenda items include ratification of bills and an office report.
City commissioners are to consider, among other things, the se-
cond reading of a franchise stipulation concerning Energas. Matters
pertaining to high school tournaments at the public golf course and a
request street lights be placed on Fifteenth Street between Centre St
and Highway 335 are also on tap
Furthermore, a contract to to be drawn up with the county concer-
ning city use of the jail, N. Highway 385 storm sewer matters are to
be eyed and an executive pension to slated to discuss a replacement
for Dudley Bayne, who is retiring from his city manager’s position
effective next summer.
“I just heard about two kids in the took part in a community-wide fund-
same family who have asked their raising effort for the starving in
parents not to give them Christmas Cambodia. The tiny town set a goal
presents but to give them the money of $5,000 and raised $10,000 instead,
to send to Ethiopia," the new parish "I‘ve gone through these. I know
priest related. "In fact, they’ve they work. We’re going to put prayer
already given some of their own into action."
money." The money raised will go to the
Earlier this week, Egan and a Church World Service, an in-
volunteer committee met during the terdenominational organization that
noon hour to get the ball rolling. In- is well-established and known for
eluded were representatives of keeping overhead at a minimum.
isolated problem,” White House change that behavior "
spokesman Larry Speakes said Fn- The Cubans, most of whom were
day as he announced a deal that convicted of crones committed in
would clear the way for the yearly this country, could be going home
immigration to the United States of beginning in mid-January. But a
up to 3.000 former Cuban political federal judge's ruling in Atlanta that
ing waterfowl is asked to contact the prisoners and 20,000 other refugees.
Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge. Announcing the accord. Speakes
P.O. Box 549, Muleshoe. Tx 79347. said. "The conclusion of an agree-
The telephone number is (106) ment on this issue does not signal any
946-3341 change in U.S. policy toward Cuba."
WASHINGTON (API - The
Reagan administration is ruling out
further talks with Cuba despite an
agreement providing for the return
to Havana of more than 2.700
criminals and mental patients
"We are treating this as an
/
StS
XI "setr -
-e -a
Upcoming Pages
Here’s what’s next.
Search Inside
This issue can be searched. Note: Results may vary based on the legibility of text within the document.
Tools / Downloads
Get a copy of this page or view the extracted text.
Citing and Sharing
Basic information for referencing this web page. We also provide extended guidance on usage rights, references, copying or embedding.
Reference the current page of this Newspaper.
Parsell, Reed D. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 118, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 16, 1984, newspaper, December 16, 1984; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1477857/m1/1/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.