The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 123, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 23, 1984 Page: 4 of 46
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A CHRISTMAS PRAYER
By Robert Louis Stevenson
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Close the door of hate and open the door
of love all over the world.
Deliver us from evil by the blessing that Christ brings,
and teach us to be joyful with clear hearts.
“Help us rightly to remember the birth of Jesus,
that we may share in the song of the Angels,
the gladness of the shepherds,
and the worship of the Wise Men.
May the Christmas morning make us happy to be
Thy children and the Christmas evening bring us
to our beds with grateful thoughts, forgiving and
forgiven.
Several years ago a lady preacher
became the leader of a religious sect follow-
ing the death of her husband, who had
founded the group. Everything went well
for a couple of years and then there arose a
good sized problem: the lady became “with
child,” to put it in the Biblical jargon. This
lady was very resourceful and folks who
follow cults will generally believe anything
they are told, so the lady announced that
she was carrying a miracle child. God had
once again chosen a mortal vessel to
miraculously be with child. A great spirit of
expectation swept the group. A miracle
baby was coming. Great wonders awaited
this event. Surely God was bringing into the
world a new prophet to lead his people out of
the wilderness. Then the child was born! It
was a girl.
Did you ever wonder what would have
happened if the Christ Child had been a
girl? Would the shepherds have rushed in
from the fields to peer with awe and wonder
at the new bom babe? Would wise men have
travelled from the East to bring gifts if the
new king was the new Queen of Peace?
Would they have kept their gifts, ignored
the star, and waited for a better birth?
Would Joseph have been as proud, or would
he have felt tricked? Would Mary have felt
fulfilled or betrayed?
Would anyone have recorded the birth.
ceremonies at the capital in Austin
Highway 33 found a home thru Parmer county Tuesday when the
commissioners there voted to grant the right of way for the road on
the north side of the Santa Fe tracks all the way to the New Mexico
line.
Construction of a handsome, native rock club house was started in
the city park addition of the state park this week by CCC workers.
This building will be the recreation center of the park and will also
serve as bath house and locker rooms for the swimming pool and golf
course
Dear editor:
When something goes wrong, some
people will tell you, "Write your Con-
For Jesus’ sake.”
Amen
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Dear editor:
Mr. Nieman again misses the point
about recent lawsuits against the
County and the school Talk not
cheap," Hereford Brand Sunday,
December 161.
The fact is that both the County
and the school board made bad deci-
sions which have cost all taxpayers
money, including the Plaintiffs in
each suit. These expenses could have
been avoided entirely
in the case of the school board,
they had the choice to voluntarily
change the election system at no cost
to the taxpayers. Instead, they made
the decision to be sued knowing that
they would lose in court and that they
would have to pay not wily their own
attorney’s fees but those of the Plain-
tiffs In addition, the board chose to
hire an attorney from Houston at
$185 an hour
As for the County, they have fought
and lost this lawsuit at every turn for
the last three years All of the money
they have spent could have been
avoided in the beginning had they at-
tempted to settle the case Rather,
even now, after losing for the last
three years, they are continuing to
spend money to avoid the court
order.
Mr. Nieman attempts to put the
proximately 30 years behind with his
mail.
It’s not a pretty sight, imagining
an ex-Congressman in his old age
still answering letters written to him
30 years ago.
Moreover, if you think the average
Congressman has an impossible job
answering his mail consider this: On
one day alone House Speaker Tip
O’Neill received 5 million pieces of
mail.
Confronted with such a monstrous
figure, I rise to Congressional
heights and say, "No comment."
And yet despite the massive flow of
mail you can write your Con-
gressman and get an answer.
As I undertand it, it’s done with
computers A staff members reads
your letter. Say it’s in favor of a
nuclear freeze on the nation deficit.
He punches the nuclear freeze button
and out comes a nuclear freeze let-
ter, duly signed by the Congressman.
If your letter is against nuclearly
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<Editor’s note: The Bootleg
Philosopher on his Deaf Smith Coun-
ty grass farm this week discovers
another problem confronting Con-
gress.)
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• 75 YEARS AGO
That 'others think of their Panhandle friends was demonstrated
receptiysby the receipt of a large box via express by Mrs. Bullock.
Upon examination the large box was found to contain nothing but
leaves. Mrs. Bullock has very graciously divided them among her
many friends. They have been a source of great pleasure to many.
Judge John P. Slaton of Hereford was in Austin yesterday to con-
fer with the state board of education regarding the sale of an issue of
3125,000 Deaf Smith court, house bonds. These bonds bear four per-
cent interest and mature in forty years, with an option of ten years.
50 YEARS AGO
James V. Allred became governor of Texas at noon Tuesday when
25 YEARS AGO
Enn Wertenberger and Mrs. Ray Cowsert won first place prizes in
the Hereford Christmas lighting contest, which was judged Friday
night
W.H. "Cuby" Kitchens, basketball coach at Hereford High School,
has been selected state basketball team dunng the annual Texas
Coaching Association clinic in Dallas next summer. Kitchens will
have charge of a team of 12 outstanding high school cage stars from
the northern portion of Texas
"Rain and melting snow and ice this week certainly brightened
farmers' prospects of yielding as much as 20 bushels to the acre in
some Deaf Smith County dryland wheat fields," said County Agent
J W "Lefty" Thomas Friday.
10 YEARS AGO
As the harvesting season draws to a late conclusion in this county,
local officials report that total farm production plummeted from
average yield in past years Wheat farmers were plagued by a spr-
ing drought which virtually destroyed all dryland grain in the
western portion of the county. Of 236,276 acres planted to wheat,
118,926 । more than half) were barren due to adverse weather.
‘First places in Hereford's Christmas Lighting Contest were
awarded to the Raymond White home, 214 N. Texas, total home
decoration; the J.W Robinson, 213 Cherokee, decorated doorway;
and the Ansel McDowells. 207 N. Texas, window decorations.
1 YEAR AGO
More delays in the Department of Energy's final selection of a
jnuclear waste repository are foreseen by Wes Fisher, Hereford’s
mayor Fisher is one of three area residents attending a DOE con-
ference in Washington, D.C. titled, "Civilian Radioactive Waste
Management Information Meeting-Nuclear Waste Policy Act
I(NWPA) of 1982 "
t Lebanese troops today clashed with Syrian-backed Druse rebels
south of the U.S. Marine base, where Marines wounded an American
television reporter bearing videotaped Christmas greetings to the
embattled troops.
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“I tried to make you something,” she apologized,
“but I messed up. That’s why I’m late. I’m so sorry.”
Her friend looked at her and her eyes filled up. “No,
it’s I who should apologize. I spent five minutes in a
store and a few dollars of my husband’s money for
your giftY ot spent hours, with- me in your heart,
working Withyour hands for me. The gift you couldn’t
give me is worth a thousand times more than the one I
so easily picked up for you. I can’t tell you what it
means to me that you actually created for me!”
And at that moment, pur would-be gift maker came
to understand three things better than she ever had
before: the nature of friendship, the value of “things,”
and the spirit of Christmas giving.
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followed the life, or volunteered as
disciples? Would there have ever been a
triumphant entry with people shouting
hosannas and spreading palms in front of a
donkey?
Would she ever have been able to impress
the multitudes? Would every miracle have
been met with, “Why isn’t she at home
where she belongs?” Or, “Yes, she fed 5,000
with five loaves and two fish, but a man
would have done it with three loaves and
one fish.”
The attitude toward women then would
not have allowed anyone to be excited over
any savior, no matter how great, if the
savior was a woman. God sent girls to
homes He was not pleased with. Women
were property owned by a man. If a couple
was caught in adultery they stoned the
woman and congratulated the man. The
place of women is not where it should be
now, but it has come a long way from where
it was. Much of the credit for the change
must be given to this babe bom in a barn
1900 years ago. He began the process of our
discovering the worth of every person -
even female-type persons. The work is not
done but thank God it was started that night
when the angels sang, “For unto us this day
is born a Savior.”
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$hly Her friend smiled and gave her a nice
0dghttgift * and continued smiling when she got
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raff asa^ocrastinator and a fumble-fingers and as
u&itn/uiy friend. In her mind she saw her friend
A Christmas story
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It was Christmas Eve already. There were only
three hours left until her friend’s Christmas party. One
thing after another had kept her from going out shopp-
ing for a gift for her best friend, and now it was too
late; the stores were closed. She was starting now to
feel that particular guilty despair such a situation
creates.
But there is nobody more resourceful than someone
caught without a Christmas gift at the last minute. She
cast her eyes around the apartment for something of
her own she could take to the party. That favorite
vase? That statuette on the coffee table? No. Unfor-
tunately they knew each other so well, she and her
friend, tht anything she took her from her own home
would be recognized. And although her friend liked the
vase and the statuette very much - indeed, openly
coveted them - to offer them would be a tacit admission
that she hed failed to go shopping in time.
Idesperation now, she remembered that she had a
bagofcyarn, and some hoops in her closet - leftovers
from a mrame class she had attended a year ago.
Her heart leaped. Could she, in three hours, make
some-sort of a gift out of macrame? She had never
become really good at it, but maybe she could make
something that would pass as a gift.
She settled herself on a footstool in the living room
and began tying the nearly forgotten knots around the
edge of a hoop. Her fingers seemed to remember how it
was done. Time began to flow like a river through her
heart,, lulling, dispelling her anxiety, making her feel
serene. Tier eyes saw the pattern forming, but in her
mind she saw her friend smiling upon receipt of this
special handmade gift.
It wet well for a long time. But she found that she
hadmadea bad knot sometime before. A flaw. It would
take two hours to go back, untying all the way, correct
it and then start forward again. And the clock struck.
It was-time for the party already. Her three hours were
gone, nd-the gift wasn’t finished. Panic rose in her
breast, and worst, disgust with herself. She cursed
if you do. what chance have you minute. To get through his 459.700
got that he'll ever read your letter? letters. it'd take of course 459,700
According to a letter I ran across minutes, or 7,661 hours.
in the Atlantic Monthly, Congress Assuming he spent eight hours a
gets 200 million pieces of mail a year, day reading his mail, it'd take 956
That's 459,700 pieces per Con- days to get through one year's supp-
By REED PARSELI.
Eddie Reinauer thinks he and
other members of the Deaf Smith
General Hospital board of directors
are owed an apology by the Hereford
Brand.
His belief, stated Tuesday during
the hospital board's December
meeting, stemmed from a story-
printed last month which reported
DSGH Administrator James Bullard
had been granted a 34.000 raise. That
action resulted from a 3-2 vote by
board members.
Reinauer, who stated such news
should not appear “predominately
across the front page,” claimed the
reporter - me - had not prior to
publication contacted Board Presi-
dent Frank Zinser Jr. to verify the
figures. As such, Reinauer said, the
newspaper should apologize to the
DSGH directors.
In making his request. Reinauer
showed himself to be in violation of
what he maintained was my wrong.
Not once prior to Tuesday's meeting
did he ask me if I had attempted to
contact Zinser. His unqualified ac-
cusation against the Brand was as
unverified as he claimed my story to
have been.
For the record, I did try to contact
Zinser. In calling to reveal the
Bullard decision, board member
Charles Allison stressed I should
check the figures. When there was no
answer at Zinser’s residence the
following morning. I called Bullard
and he confirmed his revised salary
numbers Though another verifica-
tion would not have hurt. the
pressures of a morning deadline
prevented further checking of what
was certain to be true
State law requires public access to
any employee's salary which is at
least partly funded by taxpayers
Many readers were no doubt in-
terested to learn how much Bullard
makes since he is a well-known local
public figure Failure to print such a
disclosure would be a disservice.
Furthermore, as Dr Allison
pointed out, no notice of the Bullard
salary issue was made prior to the
closed session it came out of the
blue," he said
No, Mr. Reinauer, neither the
Brand nor I apologize We covered
our bases and resent any unfounded
assertion to the contrary
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freezing the deficit, the anti-freeze balem on Deaf Smith County citizens
button is punched, thus saving your who have been forced by their own
radiator. governmental bodies to sue for basic
If you're undecided on the issue, civil rights rather than on the of-
there’s an "undecided" button to ficials who refuse to recognize the
punch. wrongs that have occurred in the
Thus a Congressman can write past. Until our elected officials
459,700 letters a year without com- realize that the law requires them to
municating with anybody. do certain things, all of us will have
Yours faithfully, to pay for their mistakes.
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Dear editor:
As this Christmas season ap-
proaches. we can't help but think of
the several y oung families as well as
everyone else who have lost loved
ones this past year The first
Christmas without a loved one can be
extremely sad
We ask everyone in our community
to join us in a prayer that God will
bless these families and give them
extra strength and comfort during
this Holiday Season
in His Lave,
Gary & Jackie Hammett
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Parsell, Reed D. The Hereford Brand (Hereford, Tex.), Vol. 84, No. 123, Ed. 1 Sunday, December 23, 1984, newspaper, December 23, 1984; Hereford, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1477862/m1/4/: accessed July 11, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Deaf Smith County Library.