The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1988 Page: 4 of 20
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There is an election issue coming
up that’s very important to Llano
County’s well being and progress.
It's a dual bond issue to renovate and
improve the Llano County Memorial
Hospital and to build a new Llano
County Library. The county commis-
sioners can call a bond election to
build the library, but by some quirk
may insure
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FRED TAYLOR.........
ANN MILLER..........
HAZEL LONG..........
A.C. KINCHELOE.....
BARBARA BURFORD...
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build a new
Some people call me Old Glory, others call
me the Star Spangled Banner, but whatever
they call me, I am your Flag, the Flag of the
United States of America ... Something has
been bothering me, so I though I might talk it
over with you ...
son, Chairman, House Committee on
Insurance, P.O. Box 2910, Austin,
Texas 78769.
If you want to see a beautiful
place, go out and look at the
Robinson City Park. And it’s well
kept and clean, something seldom
found in public parks. The improve-
ment program now under way will
enlarge the usable area of the park
and make it a much more attractive
and usable place to picnic or just to
sit and enjoy nature.
der any place over 20 years old and
over five miles from a fire depart-
ment too great a risk to insure.
We live in a 30-year-old wood frame
house eight miles from the nearest
fire department. In the past three
years, our insurance premium has
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in reading the Wanderer’s letter
and what he said about Quitaque, I
was reminded that I lived in that
little cup rock town when I was IS
(‘m now 76%). I’d love to visit
Quitaque again, too, but had I known
the definition of that name, maybe
I’d have moved on over to Flomat
before I did!
Thanks again
Dear Editor:
INTO THE WILD BLUE — Texas’
first aviator went aloft in the fall of
1910.
That was decades after Jacob
Brodbeck, the Fredericksburg school
teacher, made his famous flight near
San Antonio in 1865. And it was
March 2, 1920, when Lt. Benjamin
D. Foulois made the first military
flight in U.S. history at San
Antonio’s Port Sam Houston.
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School nurse, retired
SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Hano Coumty: 1 year 811.65,2 yuan $22.40,
3 years $32.50. Ebewhen to Texaet 1 year $19.50, 2 yean $38.00.
Out-of-state: 1 yean 834, 2 yean 868. AH payable to advance.
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Published weekly at 813 Berry Street, Hano, Texas 78643. Entered to
the Llano Peet Office as second dan, postage paid at Liane, Texas,
under the Act of Congress of 1878. USPS 316-700
and parking facilities for the emer-
gency medical service, improvement
of the laundry, docton’ area, auto-
clave and sterile supply, an emer-
gency generator and power supply,
improvement to the electrical system
and air conditioning, expansion of
the lobby and entrance, an enlarged
and improved operating room, em-
ergency room and out-patient fac-
ilities and sprinkler system for the
building.
None of this is cheap, and the cost
will run in the neighborhood of a
million dollars.
But, it may be the most important
million dollars the county ever spent!
Llano’s hospital is not the average
little-town hospital. This is proven by
the many letters written by city folks
who have needed the facilities of our
hospital. Almost without exception.
NEWS CORRESPONDENTS: Ruth Deal, Eollme Kowlerachke, Lettie
Wyckoff, Jamie Palm, Stephanie Bates sad Janet Hama.
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Martin Schneider
DeKalb, Texas
Thank you
Dear Editor:
POSTMASTER: SEND ADDRESS CHANGE TO LLANO NEWS, BOX
187, LLANO, TEXAS 78643.
Mn. VeraHicke
Llano
Legion, VFW, DAV; so many I can
not name all.
The chamber of commerce is and
should be the hub of our city and
needs cooperation. The Lions Club is
helping all it can. We have a great
community center and senior center
that is a wonderful meeting place
five days a week. Our Kingsland
Hills Care Center is beautiful and
one of the best. We have numerous
beauty salons and barber shops.
Also, everything necessary to make a
lady beautiful.
Our square dancers are beautiful
to watch, civic-minded and hard
working. We have very efficient law
officers in our county. Praise God for
them, as they do not have an easy job
taking care of us older people’s
driving. Thank God for all our
beautiful churches and for the many,
many people who fill them every
Sunday. If you don’t attend, please
go, for Jesus walks among us, loving
us, and whether you know it or not,
he cares for Kingsland.
Everyone, please cooperate in
every way to make Kingsland even
more loving and a better place, if
possible. Also, our post office has
efficient and friendly people to serve
us.
If I have missed anyone, I am sorry
I missed you.
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The motto of our hospital might
well be. “We care.” And that’s what
distinguishes it from many other
small town hospitals. Anyone who
has ever been a patient in the Llano
hospital knows that care is the first
consideration from the top brass
down.
Llano has undergone a slow but
steady growth over the years, and
our hospital needs to grow with the
community. During the almost thirty
years of its operation, it has touched
the lives of many Llano County
people. It has saved the lives of a
number of them. By and large, a «
community’s hospital is one of the 2
most important and vitally necessary
installations of the area.
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voters
Monday. Most working people know
that the world operates the year
round, and It’s only school teachers
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Legislature election steering com-
mittee in the CAPCO region and all
those persons involved with the
election, I would like to thank you for
your coverage of events and publica-
tion of press releases from the
CAPCO office.
The election would not have been
a success without your support. We
look forward to working with you in
the future success of the Texas Silver
Haired Legislature.
J.L. Akridge, chairman
The third-grade students and
teachers wish to thank the following
community service groups for mak-
ing our field trip a success: Mr. and
Mrs. Steven Alexander, Llano Mem-
orial Hospital staff, Dr. Bob Simpson
and staff, Mrs. Margie Jung and tax
office staff, Herman Raesener, Bob
Battle and postal workers, Mrs.
Evelyn Gould, Mr. John Wiley, Mrs.
Laverne Miller and Tom Hall.
Llano third grade
Remembering
Dear Editor:
calling for such an election. That
petition is now being circulated, and
if you haven’t signed it, you’d best
run, not walk, and do so. Copies of
the petition can be found in many
businesses and public offices around
town. For instance, The Wanderer
knows that there are copies at the
Hoerster Clinic, Corner Drug Store
and Llano Library.
The need for a new library is acute,
because the present library has
outgrown the available space, and
the present library building is
needed badly for use as an office for
the county clerk’s office, which also
has outgrown its space.
The hospital is a good building and
well-built, but it’s almost 30 years
old and in need of repair and
modernization. Nothing lasts forev-
er.
Improvements at the hospital in-
clude replacing the leaky roof, office
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Remember, ‘the
When I cornu down your street, you just stand
there with your hands in your pockets and I
may get a small glance, then you look away. I
see the children running around and shouting
... they don’t seem to know who I am ... I saw
one man take off his hat and then look around.
He didn’t see anybody else with theirs off so
he quickly put his hat back on.
Is It a sin to be patriotic any more? Have you
forgotten what I stand for and where I’ve been
— Anzio, Korea, Guadalcanal, and Vietnam.
Take a look at the Memorial Honor Rolls
sometime, of those who never came back to
keep this Republic free ... One Nation Under
God ... When you salute me, you are actually
saluting them.
Well, it won’t be long until I’ll be coming
down your street again. So, when you see me,
stand straight, place your right hand over your
heart... and I’ll salute you, by waving back ...
and I’ll know that...
YOU REMEMBERED!
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Editorial/Opinion
"The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
WALTER L. BUCKNER, Editor and Publlaher
SARAH BUCKNER
T.H. CUNNINGHAM, Publlaher Emeritus
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The life you save may be your
own. From snakebites to heart
attacks, from fish hooks to boating
accidents — I’ve seen it all! Years
ago, when there was no ambulance
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Last week The Wanderer tried for
three days to get to the library, but
something always came up to
prevent it. He got there Saturday
morning to find the library closed for
Memorial Day, which wasn’t until
they are very surprised at the
efficient and caring service they - and government employees who ask,
“How many days do we get off for
increased from 8350 a year to 8850,
with steadily reduced coverage.
We have never filed a claim in the
18 years we have lived here, but are
down to only one company that will
offer us any insurance. If this
company decides not to renew our
policy next year, the Federal Land
Bank will probably demand the
balance due on our loan on the
house.
I have written the chairman of the
State Board of Insurance, the
chairman of the House Committee on
insurance and my state senator for
help in reversing the trend for rural
insurance.
I have suggested to them that a
rural home owner’s insurance pool
be established similar to the pools
for high-risk automobile drivers or
workmen's compensation coverage.
If a policy holder does not file any
claims for some period of time - say
five years - the premiums could be
reduced as an incentive not to abuse
insurance coverage.
With the insurance industry’s posi-
“Banker Tufernal said I wuzn’t only under
capitalized but I wuz also over financed!”
The Lnno News eollcits k
However, it was L.L. “Shorty”
Walter who was Texas’ first civilian
aviator. He built his own plane to the
Houston machine shop where he was
foreman. In either October or
November, 1910, he took the plane
up.’
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Aviation historians believe that ,
this was the first sustained flight by
a civilian in Texas. ..
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I remember sometime ago, people lined up
on both sides of thes treat to watch the parade
and naturally, I was leading every parade,
proudly waving in the breeze. When your dad-
dy saw me coming, he immediately removed
his hat and placed it over his heart ... remem-
ber? And you, I remember you. Standing there
as straight as a soldier. You didn’t have a hat,
but you were giving the right salute. Remem-
ber your little sister? Not to be outdone, she
was saluting the same as you, with her right
hand over her heart... remember?
What happened? I’m still the same old flag.
Oh, I have a few more stars since you were a
boy. A lot more blood has been shed since
those parades of long ago.
But now I don’t feel as proud as I used to.
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ByHalCunnigh
COLUMNISTS: Hal Cunningham, Marlyn Hate and John
Please let us drop the subject of
incorporation now and let us start
advertising what a beautiful and
wonderful place this is to live in and
to retire in. This is a very friendly
country village and has beautiful,
caring people.
My husband, Orville, and I moved
from Lubbock and San Angelo here
25 years ago, because of its beauty of
wildflowers, water, deer, squirrels
andiglrious people. So many things
have happened since then. Now, we
have'good water, a sewer system,
paved streets and good commission-
ers to care for them, working with
the people in the sub-divisions. We
have many hard-wroking people to
thank for this.
We have had Dr. Brock from the
beginning and now have several
other doctors to help out. Two drug
stores, two groceries, man restaur-
ants and many, many more busines-
ses. We have a great July 4,
Aqua-Boom celebration every year
that folks come from far away to see,
which has been made possible by
many merchants and Highland Lakes
Bank, Kingsland National Bank,
Peoples Savings and Loan, American
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service in my Sunrise Beach area,
I have helped transport patients,
applied first aid, and on numerous
occasions called the Llano Memorial
Hospital to announce arrivals of
would-be patients.
Later, things changed for the
better. Besides our capably-staffed
hospital, our town acquired our
present-day EMS unit. I do not
believe we have any idea of how
many lives have been saved and how
much suffering has been alleviated
because of this community team, the
Llano Memorial and our emergency
medical service unit.
To lose this team would be a
personal aagedy to every family in
Llano unty.f First of all, many
dOctors, understandably so, prefer to
practice medicine in a city with a
hospital.
If there were no hospital in Llano,
the closest one would be approxi-
mately forty miles away. Add the
problem of no ambulance service and
the sum total of the problem is time,
precious time, that is so instrumental
in the saving of lives.
Although most cases that come to
our hospital stay there for the
duration of their illness, some do
not. These cases, because of their
seriousness, may require a larger,
more specialized facility. In these
instances, our local hospital plays a
vital role in patient treatment. It is in
our hospital these patients are
stabilized so that they will be able to
travel.
Now, let's talk money. The
average cost per day in Llano
Memorial Hospital is about 8200 less
than the Austin hospitals. It is also a
financial advantage for Llano County
families to use our local hospital
simply because it is close to home.
Travel expenses and lodging expen-
ses for the family visitors become
practically non-existent.
Furthermore, our Llano hospital
employs 70 tax-paying citizens who
would become jobless if our local
facility closes.
Most importantly, the passing of a
bond election would mean a mere
810 a year increase in the average
property owner’s taxes.
Speaking from the perspective of a
school nurse of 20 years, I see a
tremendous need for our hospital. It
is there when we need it.
Yes, the Llano Memorial Hospital
and our paramedic team can make a
difference in life and death and has
made a difference in the lives of
many Llano County residents!
I urge you to support the Llano
Memorial Hospital. We cannot af-
ford to lose it. Show your support by
signing the petition that is now
circulating so that we can have a
bond election. And then remember,
vote yes — the life you save may be
your own.
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 31, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 2, 1988, newspaper, June 2, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585757/m1/4/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.