The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1988 Page: 4 of 20
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Hano News, Thureday, August 11,1988
A Guest Editorial
important reminder
By Fred Taylor
From the Sidelines
Hunting season approacheth
Earlier in the year it didn’t look too
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LETTERS
The LLANO NEWS
Concerned
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Wanderer
off of the dry conditions. August
might be a little rough, but at least
FRED TAYLOR.........
ANN MILLEI........
HAZEL LONG..........
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BARBARA BURFORD.:.
BRIDGET SMALLWOOD
opened.
Of course, if you have to be going
some place at a more than leisurely
pace, you sure have to watch out for
the hunters with binoculars who are
so intent on watching the deer and
finding that big buck, that they
forget there are other people on the
lifetime to learn to be a farmer.
The United States must watch carefully
against increased dependence on agricultural
commodities imported from other countries
Real economic security for the United States
requires that the nation produce the food it
needs. This, in turn, means protecting the lend
and preventing its spoilage. The day may
come when climatic conditions will reduce
America's food production capability. Form
states may experience depopulation through
thoughtloss policies. The demands for food
abroad may reduce America's food stocks to a
dangerous degree.
These threats seem for away, but the
drought of the summer of 1988 is a reminder
that the ability to grow crops in abundance is
the basis of the good life and wall-being of the
United States.
North America is noted for its
canyons and chasms. The most
famous and the papa of them all is
the huge Grand Canyon of Arizona,
the mightiest hole in the ground
you’ll ever see.
Other notable chasms include the
Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone
River in Yellowstone National Park
and Palo Duro Canyon in the Texas
Panhandle. However, if it’s a deep
canyon you’re looking for, the Royal
Gorge of Colorado will do very
nicely.
The Royal Gorge is narrow, and it’s
deep. The turbulent Arkansas River
-at the bottom looks like a piddling
'trickle from up on top. The gorge is
spanned by a bridge said to be the
world’s highest suspension bridge,
towering 1053 feet from the bottom
of the gorge for an unsurpassed
view, while an inclined railway takes
passengers down to the bottom of
the canyon where the Arkansas River
and a railway run aide by aide.
Royal Gorge Park attracts more
than a half million tourists annually,
probably only exceeded by Grand
Canyon itself. The high suspension
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“Yore gonna go free. No where in this law
book does it say it’s illegal to steal a sorrel
hoss with four stockin legs.”
on the bucks are getting better with
each passing week. If the deer can
survive the usual rush of road
hunters, there should be some very
good deer left for thes archery and
gun season.
Eoline Kowierschke
Castell
Guest editorial by
Anthony Harrigan,
USBIC Writers Syndicate, .
Washington, D.C.
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WALTER L. BUCKNER, Edhter and Publaher
SARAH BUCKNER
T.H. CUNNINGHAM, PabMaher Emeritus
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HALF-WAY TOWN — Whites-
boro. Grayson County, is located so
perfectly on the exact ridge of a
geographical divide that rain flows
off into two directions.
Showers falling on the south side
of the town’s Main Street flow to the
Gulf of Mexico via the Trinity River.
Rain falling on the north side of
the same street travels to the Gulf
via the red and Mississippi rivers.
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HIGHWAY DAZE — State High-
way 21 can be confusing because in
some areas it is marked only with the
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Typesetter ud Beekkeeper
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couple of men in a pickup who had Fortunately there has been enough
rain in recent weeks to take the edge
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good for tiie deer. The rains were
slow coming and the forage had not
developed as good as in years pst.
root systems.
Symptoms of the disease include yellowing
and browning of the leaves, defoliation and
twig loss.
In the case of live oaks, the most
predominate oaks in Central Texas, the
disease travels from one group of trees, called
a motto, to the next motto through the root
system.
There may be good news on the horizon,
however. A Kerrville inventor, Dovid Evons,
hes a patent pending on what he calls a "cure'
for oak wilt. He says In promotional material
mailed to this newspaper, that his formula is
86 percent effective in reversing the effects of
oak wilt and oak decline and which he says
will also protect healthy trees from becoming
diseased.
I hope his claims are valid. It hurts terribly to
see one of Texas' most beautiful naturdl
resources, its oak trees, diseased and dying.
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bridge was built as a tourist petty jealousy that are beginning to
attraction and to not a highway undermine Llano’s public institu-
bridge. It forms one entrance to the tions. And they aren’t doing the
Royal Gorge Park, and you can either community one bit of good,
walk or drive across. -w-
The gorge to an awesome sight, and one of Llano’s favorite outdoor
it’s interesting to see how such summer sports to going out to the
attractions affect different people, park to feed the ducks sod geese.
The Wanderer can sit and gaze into Those critters never seem to fill up.
Grand Canyon by the hour. Every ami they could easily polish off 1o
time the light changes, it’s a loaves of bread at one feeding. Qo
different picture. Yet, he saw one out to the park near the two pump
family into the canyon and a houses, and start tossing pieces of
youngster exclaiming, "Motherl Do bread around, and if the ducks are in
you mean we drove a hundred miles the water, they’ll come padding to
out of our way to see this holer" shore. And if you feed them a couple
Another elderly couple were looking of evenings in succenalon, next
at the canyon, and the wife was not evening you’ll probably find them
impressed. Her husband was ex- lined up on the bask waiting for yoa.
plaining that it was all made by -w-
water. “Humph!” said the wife. Aside from improving end bennt-
“When does it get full!” To some a fying the city park, the city employ-
/ big canyon to an awesome sight To ess sre doing an excellent job of
others it’s merely a hole, keeping it clean. You don’t find
How to get there if you want to see many municipal parks that ctoan and
Royal Gorge? Take Interstate 25 uncluttered. Even after thorn hes
north to Pueblo, Colorado, and turn been a large event or celobrathee in
left on Highway 50, and go eight the park, very shortly afterwards,
miles psst Canon City. Canon City to you’H find all the boor cans and
the home of the Colorado State rubbish picked up god the park neet
Prison, but Colorado’s jailbirds and dean again. They’re doing a tpe
won’t bother you, if you don’t job out there,
bother them. .w.
initials ”OSR.”
Travelers who know their history
realize that the initials stand for
“Old San Antonio Road.” The oldest
road in Texas, it was known to the
Spanish as “El Camino Real,” or
“The King’s Highway.”
In 1929. the Legislature ordered
that State Highway 21 shall always
be known as tile Old San Antonio
Road.
A fungus infestation lo spreading across
Texas which la killing, or has killed, thousands
of Hill Country oak trees.
A San Antonio Express News story said
Minnesota and Texas have the worst esses of
oak wilt In the country, end the area between
Kerrville, Bandera and Comfort in our Hill
Country Is the biggest problem area according
to Mork Peterson, staff forester for the Texas
Forest Service office in Son Antonio.
Peterson sold he is assisting in control effor-
ts with several ranchers In the Boerne area as
part of a federal program to battle the dreaded
disease.
Causing particular concern at this time of
the year is th possibility the fungus can be
spread to living trees through firewood. Once
infested, there is no cure and the trees will
slowly die, according to Peterson.
Ho said the fungus is spread by sap beetles
in Sponish end rod oaknyhile live oaks tran-
smit the infestation threeigh their interlocking
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Jealousy to never an admirable which to becomlagraa estabihahed
quality. V toft uncurbed, it can thzztriml argsataetisa, toweriMgdj
bzcotoe a gren-eyed monster that a new producon, "West s tde
destroys reason. No matter how Pecos," to be podmeed seota The
smart you are, or think you are, group, aa outgrowth of Unno’s
there’s always someone a Htte Soequiceotenaiai productiom, has
smarter or with more accomplish- succonefully predated “Harvey”
menta. There are a couple of cases of and "Diel Mfor Muter.”
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houses are a little further apart. Just
drive slowly and start looking for spotted a good buck and had come to
deer. a complete halt right in the middle of
You don’t see too many camera the country road. They didn’t even _ _ . __
hunters, but there are some lens hear the sound of the approaching there has been enough1 growthto
attachments that are available with car and didn’t see it until it skimmed provide sufficient forage for both the
cross hairs like the scope on your by, right under their noses. Glancing cattle and the deer in most places.
rifle which gives you the effect of in the rear view mirror, they saw the If you haven’t checked yw deer
hunting for deer and a picture to pickup was in the process of doing a lease, it might be a good thing to
show just how good your aim was the sideway leap to get out of the center lookit over. Some good supplemen-
instant you tripped the shutter. of the road. It was sure a temptation tal feed wouldni‘t hurtt either, and
if that isn’t exciting enough for to let out a blood-curdling scream as Extension Wildlife Specialists rec-
you, maybe you can have someone I went by, but they looked bigger ommend more than just corn,
along to say “bang” and give you a than me and1 wasn’t sure my bucket According to them, a straight grain
few sound effects. In any event, the of bolts could outrun their bucket of diet could lead to acidosis,(toxic
deer for the most part are quite bolts. buildup) and animal death. Whatev-
content to let you look them over. If For those of you who haven’t been er the case, hunting season approa-
they do scramble to leave the scene, to Llano to check on the quality of the ches and the Deer Capital of Texas
it is a good bet that someone took a deer, 1 can report that they appear to will be ready for another round of
shot at them before the season be in very good shape and the antlers action.
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successful industrial-technological societies
— Japan, for instance — must import food in
vast quantities. Food is the No. 1 strategic
resource for a nation.
The United States has come to think of
America's food surpluses as the greet It may still be two months to bow
problem, but that's only in a short-term sense, season and three months to the
As fer back as the New Deal of the 1930s, regular hunting season, but don’t
Secretary of Agriculture Henry Wallace think prospective hunters are wast-
espoused a policy of farm scarcity. He didn't ing any time getting ready for the
realize, as Mr. Bromfield pointed out, that a duest 0f the whitetail deer in Llano
farm "is a fortress of security." In this connec- County. . .
tion, the Americen people don't want to lose • akemosta nycveni ngalittie Past
_ . _ . . . . , 7 sundown and pick out a country roao
their farmers in e migration to cities. If more \ _ preferably aidirt road thatis not
farmers ate nodded, they can't be recruiter' traveled too much andwhere ranch
like office or Industrial workers. It takes' a
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In the industrial-technological world of the
late 20th century, Americans take for granted,
the availability of vast supplies of farm
products at low prices. And because only a
small percentage of Americans now lives and
works on farms, little attention is paid to the
central importance of agriculture to this coun-
try.
The Soviets are well aware of the importan-
ce of agriculture because their collective
farm system has failed to produce the food
needed by the Soviet peoples. If Mikhail Gor-
bachov loses power, it most probably will be
because he is unable to restructure Soviet
agriculture so os to produce more food.
In the midst of the drought season, I have
been reading "Pleasant Valley" by novelist
Louis Bromfield. This is on account of the
restoration of throe Ohio farmers in the 1940a.
The late Mr. Bromfield was a great believer in
the central importance of the land. His com-
ments made more than a generation ago boar
3 consideration in this summer of drought. He
wrote:
"We have boon inclined, in our wild In-
dustrial development, to forgot that
agriculture is the base of our whole economy
end that in the economic structure of the
nation it is always the cornerstone. It has
always been so throughout history and it will
continue to be so until there are no more men
- on this earth."
There's nothing automatic about
agricultural abundance. Neglect of the land
can cause a people to perish. In many parts of
the world today, food supplies are inadequate
With 6 billion people on this planet, as against
• 2 billion less than a half century ago. the
demand for food is enormous. Evon the most
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Congratulations to Frances Hyatt
for having the conviction to write the
letter in last week’s issue of the
Llano News. I, also, am quite upset
and concerned about the potential
showing of the movie, "The Last
Temptation of Jesus.” It is sad when
we have writers of such untrue
Biblical accounts of the sinless One.
It is too bad we have such sick
minds.
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1988, newspaper, August 11, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585764/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.