The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1988 Page: 3 of 25
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Tourism Week
COWPOKES
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Letters to the Editor
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Another small crisis has arisen in
Talk of Texas
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It would be no trouble at all to get
up to your ears in debt with a credit
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around the state. The wall would
stretch 3,617 miles around the
perimeter. Only the coastline would
remain open for "free trade.”
The wall would require 32 billion
bricks — nine million per mile.
There might or might not be gates.
Apparently Texans aren’t the only
ones who think it would be a good
idea to barricade the place. Thus far.
residents of 48 other states and
seven foreign countries have antied
up their $18.36.
If the wall is never built, contribu-
tors will nevertheless have a souven-
ir for their efforts. Each member who
joins the society receives a hand-let-
tered certificate and an honest-to-
The courthouse dock was approxi-
mately right on three sides Saturday.
That’s a big improvement. However,
the east face, which is the one the
tourists and travelers see first, was
still hung on 8:30, as it has been for
months.
W. Reynolds
Kingsland
ployees that in order to reduce
insurance cost each female is only
allowed to have one child. If she
wants more children, she will have to
pay her own medical expenses. And
male employees who carry their
wives on their insurance will be told
that after the first child, he will
either have to have a vasectomy or
pay for his own health insurance.
Don’t laugh, because that is where
we are headed. More and more of
our civil rights are being taken away.
More and more of our freedom, upon
which this country was founded, is
being snatched from us. When one
group is allowed to tell another
group what they can and can’t do, a
certain amount of precious freedom
is forever lost.
I believe that an employer has the
right to place certain restrictions in
the workplace. I believe an indivi-
dual has the right to not sit amongst
smokers in a restaurant or on an
airplane, if he or she does not choose
to do so. But I do not believe it
should be carried so far as to start
stepping into the personal homes
and lives of American citizens.
Anti-smokers have campaigned to
rid the nation of smokers. Right. And
Hitler campaigned to rid the world of
Jews. I think it is time we all realized
that the anti-smoking issue has gone
too far. But this letter is not about
smoking vs. non smoking. It is about
freedom vs Communism.
It should be remembered here that
the sale and usage of cigarettes is
quite legal. As long as it is legal, it is
a matter of choice. For Americans,
that means freedom of choice.
Anti-smokers have the right to
choose to live and work in smokeless
environments. Smokers have the
same right to choose.
This country was founded by men
and women who fled countries where
kings and dictators ruled even the
personal lives of those unfortunates
who lived there. For all the years
since, America has been looked upon
with awe and reverence, because we
are free. There are those in this
country who would destroy that
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month on their credit card bills, but
never quite catching up. Thus, a
credit card can be a convenience,
sometimes a lifesaver, or it can be a
millstone around your neck. There’s
Governor Bill Clements has proclaimed May
15-21 as Texas Tourism Weak, coinciding with
National Tourism Weak, which will provide a
positive economic impact on Texas.
Texas has embarked on a bold now adver-
tising campaign to boost Texas tourism and
our state will spend an estimated $5 million on
tourism advertising this fiscal year.
The campaign will feature "Texas, a Whole
Other Country." It will promote the unique
aspects of Texas that make it different from
any other place.
The Highland Lakes Tourist Association will
take advantage of the state campaign to bring
tourists Into the Highland Lakes area. Texas
anticipates thousands of responses to its ad-
vertising campaign. The HLTA will acquire
20,000 of those names, people who have
I have been looking at the clocks at
the courthouse for months and not
one dock has correct time.
How does this appear to visitors to
our county? The beautiful flag flys at
the top of the courthouse — but we
can’t afford to keep up with the time.
I’d like to praise the ones who
have beautified both east corners of
the courthouse grounds. Thank you
for that pride.
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Editorial /Opinion
The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
At a routine visit to the doctor for a
blood pressure check-up recently,
Hazel told on him, complaining to
the doctor that when she served
green beans, he would only eat two
beans. “Now, Hal.” said the doctor,
“I think you should eat four beans.”
Thereupon, Hazel started buying
these long green beans, about five
inches long. Now The Wanderer
contends that each of those should
count as at least two beans, but he
hasn’t had much luck promoting that
idea. The girls can be unreasonable
at times.
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The Wanderer’s home. There’s
generally one of some kind going.
The Wanderer is no lover of many
popular vegetables. In fact, you can’t
show him anywhere in the Bible
where it says okra, squash, beets
and cauliflower are fit to eat. His
favorite green vegetables are maca-
roni and cheese and mashed pota-
toes with slow-flow gravy. His idea
of a pretty garden is a field of waving
macareni.— --- 4 a .....
Just a few words in regard to the
recent article on Lacy dogs.
I have read about the three-way
cross of the Lacy dog, being of
coyote, greyhound and just hound. I
don’t know and can’t prove this
statement is wrong. But in 1965, an
article came out in the Fish and
Game book that they were a
three-way cross.
After reading the article in the
magazine, I called John Lacy and
asked him if it was true they were a
three-way cross, and when the dog
came to Texas.
He told me they were a breed of
their own, and his granddad, George
Lacy, went back to Huntsville,
Missouri, and brought a pair of the
dogs to Burnet County, Marble
Falls, Texas, to work and gather wild
hogs in 1863.
John Lacy was 84 years old in
1965. He is the father of Hellen Gibb
of Burnet. She is the wife of Lawson
Gibb. John Lacy was married to
Maud Hale. She was a telephone
operator at Round Mountain.
The Lacy dog runs in several
different colors: blue (or slate), (red
or sable), blonde, black, black and
tan, blue with sable specks over their
eyes and on their feet and legs.
I have raised them for a number of
years and I believe what John Lacy
told me. They are a true breed of
their own. When there were pups to
be sold or given away, the people
called them Lacys, just as if you were
getting pigs from one of the Osbourn
family: "I am buying an Osbourn
pig.”
Of course this doesn’t make you
wrong and me right We can believe
as we wish. But we do know they are
a good working dog, and they do
work in the lead getting hogs or
cattle to follow them to be penned.
Paul Lynn
Llano
1 'Somebody better go tear down that
mistletoe before that ole bull tears down
all of my fence!”
“This is your Chamber of Com-
merce, it is also a reflection of the
attitudes of the people of the
community;” 35 out of 450 is indeed
a poor reflection.
On their handbill, the chamber
closes by asking, “Where is your
civic pride?” Perhaps that should '
read, "Where is our civic pride?”
If they were to change sides on this
issue, they might see where public
opinion lies. Many feel it is stupid to
help an organization that is over-
whelmingly against what they belie-
ve in, particularly where the odds are
so great.
no longer encourage the incorpora-
tion of Kingsland, cease to carry the
petition and not work for its support.
It is difficult to understand how they
can try to promote an issue that is so
contrary to public opinion. THis was
demonstrated the night of the
meeting when only 35 out of 450
were for the incorporation issue.
When they sent out their “help
appeal” it went to all postal patrons
and not just the limited few voters
whom the opposition thought would
carry the election. It is indeed
unfortunate , that a few private
interest can drive a wedge between
the chamber and the people.
Paragraph 4 of the handbill said.
freedom, if you allow them to. Stand
up for your rights, while you still
have rights to stand up for. Preserve
this country, not only for yourself,
but for those who will follow you.
I do not advocate smoking. I do
advocate freedom. The original foun-
ders of this magnificent country, and
countless American veterans, gave
up their lives so that you and I could
live free. Their supreme sacrifices
will be rendered meaningless if you
and I do not speak up to preserve our
freedom.
If you do not smoke, don’t shrug
your shoulders and think, "Oh well,
this doesn’t affect me.” Because the
next freedom that is taken away
might be something that does affect
you. As stated earlier, this letter is
not about smoking and the perils
therein. It is about preserving and
maintaining "the land of the free.”
I love America. Love her freedom.
Do you?
COAAAFSPONDENTS: Ruth Deal, Eelne Kowierechka, Lette
L, Jome Pahm, Floye Shanehter aed Jumet Eomen.
DO FENCE ME IN — For an
investment of $18.36 (the price
commemorates the year Texas won
its independence), any citizen can
help to build a wall around the Lone
Star State.
The idea — which already has
picked up almost 4,000 supporters
anxious to keep Texas for Texans —
began with a song. Six years ago,
Kenny Bob Parsons, a country
western vocalist, popularized a bal-
lad called “The Great Wall of
Texas.”
This inspired a Dallas-based group
to start an organization dedicated to
following the example of the Chinese
and putting a barrier 40 feet high
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News usBrita Botora to tho edtor
already expressed an interst in visiting Texas.
These 20,000 will receive by direct mail an in-
vitation to vacation in our beautiful lakes area.
Tourism directly benefits all business In the
Highland Lakes. When a family stays over-
night or visits an attraction in Uano County,
they'll be spending money that Is recirculated
over end over again...bringing now money Into
our area.
The tourist industry in Llano and Burnet
Counties produced over 90 million in travel-
related payrolls and 583 jobs were supported
by tho travel industry, according to a 1000
study, "Economic Impact of Travel on Toxas
Counties."
Next to a really good general rain, tourism
can continue to mean more jobs and more
money for our whole area.
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The Chamber cries "help!”
In the Bluebonnet Advertier this
week, the Kingsland Chamber of
Commerce had a circular or handbill
appealing for help - financial or other
wise.
They should first help-themselves.
They should publicly announce they
IT WAS THE LAW — The East
Texas hamlet of Jasper once had a
law prohibiting an unmarried woman
from going with a man for a drive in
an automobile unless they were
accompanied by a chaperone.,
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ACRES OF JEWELS — Frank
Woodward’s Agate Ranch, 16 miles
south of Alpine on State Highway
118, is the world's only source of red
plum agate.
The beautiful agate, distinctive to
this spot in the Big Bend of the Rio
Grande, is only one of the gemstones
that bring rockhounds to the 4,000
acre ranch. Some 70 varieties of
agates, labradorite, jasper, blood-
stone and other gems can be found in
abundance on the ranch. Opals
aren’t as plentiful, but they often are
found.
Visitors are welcome to hunt
gemstones for a small fee.
goodness clay brick from the D’Han-
is kiln, the state’s oldest. Its factory
is in the hamlet of D’Hanis west of
San Antonio.
Whether the Great Wall of Texas
Society succeeds with its project
remains to be seen. To many
outsiders, however, it means that the
message is clear when this state’s
highway signs warn: "Don’t mess
with Texas!”
We are constantly reading in the always the temptation to go over-
financial pages of the papers that the board with your credit card, seeing
business world is attempting to curb all of that easy credit and not
the widespread use of credit cards realizing that there must come a day
and thus to decrease the plastic of reckoning when you’ve got to pay
money economy that has swept the up.
country in recent years. Apparently, many businesses make
But then, on the other hand, almost deals with the credit card companies
every mail brings glowing offers to market their products. Here’s a
from financial institutions and other samplgg of one month's plastic
well-established companies offering montyoffers. From Exxon, a Seiko
to sell VISA or Mastercards. And calcufRtor-type electronic phone dir-
then, at the end of the month, all of ectory for $29.95 or $5 per month, a
the credit card companies, oil 117-piece tool kit for $189.95 or $15 a
companies, and everybody else who month,' and a w .ole array of
issues credit cards, piggyback their Emerson, Sony, and other electronic
statements with envelopes full of gadgets that can be bought on credit
colorful circulars and brochures and paid out monthly.
advertising marvelous things you From American Express came a
can buy and charge to their credit packet of about 50 color circulars
cards, paying for them in small (or offering diamond rings, Tandy com-
not so small) monthly payments. puters, Dutch flower bulbs, a big
People carry credit cards for several Marantz stereo high fidelity music
reasons. Many like to avoid carrying system, a big Sharp audio-video
much cash around and to pay a group center, exercise bicycles, Guicci
of their bills with one check at the fashion watches. Berlitz language
end of the month. A few carry them learning equipment, early warning
as status symbols thinking they radar detectors, RCA video record-
enhance their public image by ing cameras, telephone answering
flashing credit cards. Many carry devices, art masterpieces, Sony
them for their revolving charge 41-inch TVs, and roll-top desks, just
account value, paying a little every to name a few.
I was watching the news on TV
thisvevening, and I saw where an
Austin employer has now crossed
boundaries and thinks he can tell his
employees what to do with their
personal lives. He has informed his
employees that they have a certain
amount of time to stop smoking, or
else they will have to pay for their
own health insurante. As the impact
of this hit me, I looked at my children
and sadly realized that the America
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 12, 1988, newspaper, May 12, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585754/m1/3/: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.