The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1988 Page: 3 of 25
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thought that the Indian blanket,
brown-eyed Susans and white this-
tles that bloom later in the spring
were prettier than the bluebonnets.
Shultz. He's also probably strong
enough to twist Congress’ tail when
it needs it, which is frequently.
However, Shultz probably wouldn’t
have the presidency as a gift. Sadly,
many men who are capable of
handling the presidency shun it like
poison.
national energy security by giving foreign
nations an even geeter share of the American
energy market.
A recent Congressional study concluded
that between a fourth and half of the price
increase brought on by an oil import fee could
be passed along to the foreign producers.
However, 100 percent of a price increase gas
tax here at home would be passed along to
you and ma.
I'm tired of American taxpayers being
treated like stepchildren. I think its high time
we stopped fooling around and started telling
Washington to lighten our load and put it on
those outside our border* who are getting all
the gravy.
FRED TAYLOR.........
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the event, said, "A big thank you must be paid
to all the wonderful people who attended the
Stylos N‘ Tastos O' Llano. Your patience and
courteous ways made everything so much
more enjoyable for all concerned. Thank you
for showing your community spirit in such a
commendable way."
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will be
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The United States is approaching or la
already importing more than half of our total
supply of oil to run this country. It is essential
that wo strive to make it profitable for
domestic energy producers to develop now oil
resources.
The now chairmen of the Federal Reserve
Board, Alan Greenspan, is calling for a 15 cent
increase in the federal gasoline tax, and he is
against Congress enacting an oil Import foe.
Setting a temporary oil Import fee that puts
a floor under the price of oil la an excellent
way our government can help bring the
domestic energy Industry away from the brink
of disaster, according to Texas Congressman
Lamar Smith. •
A gas tax would seriously threaten our
has gone through seven annexations
since 1985.
Again, I say, concerned well-in-
formed citizens are our only defense
Llano County has had good
seasons and bad for bluebonnets.
During a good season the hills and
pastures will be solid blue with the
flowers. And during a bad season —
well, wait a couple of weeks and
look.
Excuses, excuses, excuses
Planning for the present and
future of Kingsland is everyone’s
concern.
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example of this to Granite Shoals. It
Nestor J. Thompson
Kingsland
Does our chamber of commerce
wear two hats? One when it seeks
financial help and support for its
year-round activities and another
when it endorses a map of incorpor-
ation of Kingsland?
If it must endorse a map and said
map is limited to only four square
miles, let it include areas where the
people live, Kingsland as we know it
today. Later we can annex miles of
empty highways, or dead railroad
rights of way, instead of annexing
the people who are being denied the
right to vote.
Voting is exercised only by people.
Local issues only by local registered
voters - no outsiders - all voters
should have their say.
It has been said business is behind
incorporation. This is hard to be-
lieve. A man in business should
realize that it is the permanent
residents who support him year
round and not just during the
vacation periods. By the same token,
we citizens should recognize those
who are attempting to disrupt our
peaceful retirement community.
Let’s have our chamber put on the
first hat with a smiling face and
openly endorse a revised map taking
in the people of Kingsland, or better
yet, encourage dropping the whole
issue and get on with our lives as
before.
However, if we must vote - let’s all
vote.
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1 yen 832.0. ■••wh*** ta Tezam l yww $19.30, 1 yuan 838.00.,
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if you haven’t yet expressed your
concern regarding this treacherous
law, which could cause thousands of
helpless elderly nursing home resi-
dents to lose their homes needlessly,
now is the time to act. Contact your
state legislators. Let them know
where you stand on this issue and
how you wnat them to act when
action on this law js being consid-
ered. Don’t let anyone rob you of
your home. Register your opposition
now while it can have some clout.
Don’t wait until it’s too late.
rain in either January or February
and very little in March, there aren’t
going to be enough bluebonnets to
make a corsage for a midget.
Bluebonnets need good rains in
January or early February at the
latest. The rain simply wasn’t here.
From the way it looks right now,
perhaps the best idea might be to
offer a prize to the first person to find
a bluebonnet. About all we can hope
for now is that good rains within the
next few days may bring on a good
Last weak'* style show and tasting presen-
tad by Llano County merchants and restauran-
ts waa a rousing success. The fashions and
models showing them wore outstanding. as
was the food as prepared by a host of
reaturants and producers.
And the citizens of the area who attended
the affair are to be commended for "being
there."
Chamber of commerce director Bill Reinke,
who was in charge of the arrangements for
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With their usual bad taste, the
White House press corps keeps
hounding President Reagan with the
question, “Are you going to pardon
Oliver North, John Poindexter and
that crowd?” For Pete’s sake, they
haven’t been convicted of anything
yet. It was always The Wanderer’s
understanding that a person was
innocent until proven guilty, and to
pardon a man before he’s convicted
of anything would seem to be a tacit
admission of guilt. The president is
wise to refuse to answer that
question, and the press corps are
unwise to ask it.
Hopefully and urgently your for
better consideration and treatment
of the elderly of Texas.
Earl Mohler
Llano
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to exceed 25 cent* per one hundred
dollar assessed valuation?
Will you reject incorporation and
higher taxes and regimentation as
something not in yours or Kings-
land’s best interest?
“If you can hold out a while longer, I may be
able to get almost what you paid fer
this place.”
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One annual event that might as press release that they sent out to
well be forgotten for this year is the newspapers every year, good and
bluebonnet trail. Since there was no . bad. In addition to the promotional
Amid all the hoopla, the sound and
the fury, the razzle dazzle and the
outpouring of oratory that’s prelim-
inary to electing a president, there’s
one person who would make a
natural for a nominee who has been
completely overlooked. That is Sec-
retary of State George Shultz. He’s a
man who never loses his cool. He
thinks over everything he says
before he says it, and what he says is
always exactly what he means. He
has traveled all over the world
negotiating treaties, mediating dis-
putes, and refereeing international
brawls. When there’s an interna-
tional brush fire anywhere in the
world, they seem to send for George
It was a most enjoyable gala and one which I
am already looking forward to next year.
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COLUMNISTSt M Cumminehom, Marym Hal and Ms Kuykendel.
poop, it always contained the
statement, “The flowers are lush
and lovely.” On several occasions
when bluebonnets were scarce as
hen’s teeth. The Wanderer changed
“lush and lovely” to “sparse and
scraggly." This didn’t endear him to
the big wigs in the HLTA, but he
operated on the theory that you can
lie to all of the people some of the
time and some of the people all of the
time, but you’d best not try to lie to
all of the people all of the time.
There is nobody madder than a
tourist who has been lied to, and you
can bet he won’t be back next year.
There is no place on earth prettier
than Llano County during a good
bluebonnet season, but let’s face it
— every year is not going to be a
good season.
NEWS COMRESFONDIITSt Beth Denl, Eelhne Kowietechke, UMI*
Wyche*, Jaret* Ma, Heye Menehter amd Jamet Hemen.
good. “Mary was out of school for a
reason I cannot mention in this note
But she was not playing hooky.” The
note was signed “my mother.”
Now all of us have been tardy from
time to time. Have you tried this one
lately: “I would have been on time,
but the bell rang.” Or how about
this: “Have you ever tried to find
toilet tissue in this school?”
Perhaps the following are a few
better examples of the modern era if
it could be called that. “I had jet
lag.” wrote one student. How about.
“My waterbed leaked and I spent
two hours mopping up water.” Do
you suppose this could happen?
"My garage door opener broke and I
couldn’t get my car out of the
garage.”
Sickness is always a sure-fire
excuse, but you need to make sure it
is applicable to the right person. One
boy claimed “morning sickness”
and another had an “uncontrollable
stomach.” One girl reported absence
because of “hot contacts.” The
teacher was not sure if that would be
classified as medical or business
excuse.
Naturally it is always best to blame
the problem on something or some-
one else. How about this excuse for
lack of homework: “My locker ate
If you see more and more people
looking down in the mouth, har-
rassed and harried, it’s due to the
approach of April 15, the Doomsday
of the Internal Revenue Service.
Congress has again "simplified” the
income tax laws, which has so
complicated them that no layman in
his right mind would even attempt to
make out his own income tax return.
In fact, the tax laws are so
complicated that even the IRS
doesn’t understand them. If it ever
does, we’ll all be in trouble.
Be that as it may, whenever you
get your completed tax return. it’s
going to be bad news.
it.” Another claimed: “My truck ,
drove itself into a pothole and
couldn’t get itself out.”
The one I really liked was the
student who said, “My cat snatched
my car keys and ran under the couch
and I couldn’t make it come out. I
had to spend the entire day coaxing
the cat out.”
When all fails, there are some
studens who are very honest about
their problems. For example:
For being tardy: “Total irrespon-
sibility on my part.”
For being absent: “Just lucky.”
And for missed homework: “My
mother couldn’t do it.”
I had a little better one than that:
"My mother wouldn’t do it.”
The news release from Concordia
College expressed the thought of one
student who was planning to become
a teacher some day, that they were
learning to have a sense of humor in
their profession.
I sure wish some of my teachers had
gone to Concordia. I don’t recall any
of them having much of a sense of
humor, especially after that one
excuse that said, “I thought I was
sick, but the doctor said I wasn’t.”
That was one excuse that really paid
off in the end — literally.
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Concordia Lutheran College in
Austin gave its students an
interesting assignment. They were
to come up with the most creative
excuses they could find that were
turned in by high school students in
an effort to justify their absences,
lack of homework or tardiness.
Urgent
Dear Editor:
; If what I heard said recently,
quote: “Everyone in America (USA)
to only three paychecks and one
catastrophe removed from abject
poverty and homelessness,” it to
Mgh time that every older person,
especially every senior citizen, took
note of that fact, and let it prompt
him to use his vote more wisely than
we have sometimes down.
How, if we were all as alert as we
should be at election time, and had
exercised care and wisdom in our
choices of candidates, could it
happen here in Texas that we could
-elect such a careless, unfeeling, and
uninformed group of legislators as
those who voted to approve the now
infamous spouse impoverishment
Hen law, otherwise known as Senate
Bill 298.
This bill, soon to have become law
unless alerted, outraged senior
Editorial /Opinion
‘The vital measure of a newspaper is not its size ■
but its spirit" . . . Arthur Hays Sulzberger
To find these excuses the Concordia
students surveyed some 1,500
schools in Texas requesting the
secondary teachers and attendance
officers to reply in a brief question-
naire that had been submitted. In all
there were 300 responses and from
that group and the following are just
a few of the more creative excuses.
You will notice that many of them
vary from the old standbys that were
used many years ago showing the
students certainly keep up with the
N times and also the new inventions.
Others, though, are quite familiar to
some of us who went through some
of the sameqroblems when we went
to school.
For example:
“Someone super-glued my car tires
to the ground.” Sure chould have
used that one on my bicycle, which
was my only transportation to and
from school.
For the absentee, this was pretty
M The Highland Lakes Tourist As-
to sociation used to have a standard
citizens objected vehemently to their
elected officials, “would allow the
Texas Department of Human Servi-
ces to place a lien on the home of a
beneficiary in the nursing home if
that person did not have a spouse or
dependent child living in the home.”
Had not wiser heads prevailed, this
damaging law would.. have taken,
effect April 1, 1988. But, thank
heaven, several more sensible and
sensitive legislators petitioned the
TDHS board to postpone action until
the attorney general could rule on
the legality and advisability of
enforcing this law.
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Buckner, Walter L. The Llano News (Llano, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 31, 1988, newspaper, March 31, 1988; Llano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1585905/m1/3/: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Llano County Public Library.