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Page 10-Giddings, Texas, Times & News-Thursday, July 22, 1993
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NOT PUMPKINS - Noah Fischer
of Kt. 1, Giddings shows off two
extremely large cantaloupes he
grew in his home garden this year.
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• Businesses
• Storage
• Room Additions
•Classrooms
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1-Cub Cadet 154 low boy tractor
1-Gilson Lawn Tractor with 48' mower
CONROE
801 1-45 South
(409) 539-1886
Janice Friday, M.D
IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE
• Building Moving
• Offices
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16, of Giddings was northbound on
CR 226 and ran off the right side of
the road, rolling over at the curve at
the country club
Miss Oltmann and the passenger.
Amy Brown, also 16, declined to be
treated for a few minor cuts and
scratches
Community Transit Service is now accepting applications for regular part-time
drivers for Bastrop, Elgin, Austin Commuter, Central Office, Giddings, Red
Rock, Doak Springs, Schulenburg, Flatonia and the surrounding areas. Appli-
cants must have a CDL "Class B" license or better with a good driving record
and provide a copy of MVR from the Dept, of Public Safety. Applicants must
also have dependable transportation, telephone, be insurable and be sympa-
thetic to the needs of the elderly/public. Applicants will be subject to drug
screening. Deadline for applications will be 7/31. Applicants may be obtained
at your local neighborhood Combined Community Action centers and/or at the
Central Office, located at 400 Gresham, Smithville, TX 78957. For additional
info, call (512)237-3991.
SLOWING TRAFFIC - Summer
vacationers coming through Gid-
dings along with those taking off
early for the weekend had traffic
backed up for four blocks to the post
office in downtown Giddings Friday
about 1:15p.m. due to a slow-moving
Southern Pacific freight train.
It probably would’ve been longer
than that during the 10 minutes or so
the tracks were blocked but a lot of
motorists took a detour through the
underpass. That helped some.
The melon at the right weighs 33 lbs.,
while the one on the left weighs 28
lbs. The world champion cantaloupe
weighed 39 lbs.
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MANY SIZES & OPTIONS: Paneling, Floor Tile, Carpet,
Restrooms, Partitions, Air Conditioner with Heat
TRACTORS
1-IH 1466 Tractor with cab and air
1 -Ford 5000 Tractor, excellent shape
1 -Ford 1210 Diesel Tractor with 5' belly mower
1-Ford 4000 Diesel Tractor
1 -Farman M Tractor
THE OPENING OF HER
INTERNAL MEDICINE PRACTICE
IN SMITHVILLE
APPOINTMENTS TAKEN
JUNE1ST
Office hours Monday-Friday
9 a.m. -12 Noon, 2 p.m. - 5 p.m.
Sat. 9 a.m. -12 Noon
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TRUCK WASH
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LUNCH SPECIALS -
MONDAY THRU FRIDAY
$4.95
EVENING SPECIALS:
6-9:30 P.M,
THURSDAY
FRIED CHICKEN
$4.95
ERIDAY.
FRIED FISH
$4.95
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OIL PRICE TUMBLES - Oilmen
in the Giddings Field probably
aren’t in the best of spirits right now
with crude oil prices tumbling to the
$17.50 a barrel range.
Horizontal drilling still seems to
be plugging along at a fairly good
rate in the Giddings Austin Chalk
Field this summer, but if crude
prices don’t stabilize soon and start
moving back up, drilling could start
slowing down considerably in the
months ahead.
At the $17.50 a barrel level, oil was
at its lowest level in three years,
mainly due to indications that Iraq
might soon be allowed to add its oil
to an already over-supplied market.
Domestic production of oil has
plunged to its lowest level in 35 years
while America’s dependence on
imported oil jumped by 9.2 percent
in the past six months.
It may be another 5 or 10 years off,
but with oil exploration in the U.S.
continuing to decline, one of these
days we’re going to have another oil
crisis -- unless the government finds
some way to encourage oil drilling in
our own country.
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Chicken Fry Sunday
to benefit Lincoln VFD
The Lincoln Volunteer Fire
Department will hold their annual
summer chicken fry this Sunday,
July 25 at the Lincoln Community
Center. Serving will begin at 10:30
am
Plates will cost $4 50 for adults and
$3.75 for children. All plates to go
will cost $4 50.
See the ad in this issue for more
details.
NOT COLD WATER - One old
remedy for cooling down the sex
drive was to take a cold shower But
that may have been exactly the
wrong thing to do.
Now researchers say that taking a
cold shower or bath actually has the
opposite effect, according to a
controversial new study by the
Thrombosis Research Institute in
Chelsea, England
Volunteers who took a cold bath
each day had higher levels of sex
hormones, boosting potency in men
and fertility in women.
Those who took cold baths also had
an increase in white cells, which
fight off colds and flu.
After the paper comes out this
week, if you see people running
through their water sprinklers in
their front yards or spraying the
water hose on their husband or wife,
you’ll have a sneaky suspicion why I
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serious injuries when the Blazer
they were in veered into the ditch
and rolled over on CR 226 close to the
country club 3 miles south of
Giddings Sunday, July 18 at 8p.m.
DPS Trooper Don Claxton repor-
ted that the 1985 Chevrolet Blazer
driven by Calene Denise Oltmann,
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City of Brenham studies
entry into cable TV service
The City of Brenham is consider- Premium channels are also
ing the possibility of entering the marked up more than 200 percent,
cable TV business, saying it can for example, Northland pays $5 25
provide an almost identical service per customer for HBO, but charges
for a significantly lower cost to $10 72, according to Bottoms report
customers Bottoms said a “mirror package"
Ron Bottoms, the city’s director of of Northland’s basic service could be
public works, told the Brenham City provided by the city at a cost of
Council last Thursday that a TV $14 90 a month
cable system was one of the Premium channels would also be
“byproducts” of a study into a cheaper, including HBO at $8 a
SCADA (Supervisory Control and month
Data Acquisition) network the city is In addition, a city system would be
investigating capable of providing a pay per view
SCADA would send and receive service, and it is being designed such
information, and also allow the city that it could accommodate up to 120
to remotely control some operations, channels, he added
such as continually monitoring A city-owned cable system would
sewage lift stations, electrical and also provide “competition for what
water use, wastewater treatment is currently an “unregulated
plant functions, and water product monopoly,' said Bottoms
ion. About 50 cities already operate
While several types of systems can systems, he added
be installed, the city's study showed "And inherent in competition is
that coaxial cable is the most going to be lower rates and better
cost-effective, said Bottoms service Competition is healthy," he
In addition to being used for a said. “The consumer wins through
SCADA network, it also allows the competition.
“capability to provide TV cable to in addition, all revenues will “stay
citizens," said Bottoms. local," said Bottoms
A TV cable system can provide “Were not profit-oriented Every-
revenue to pay for a SCADA system, thing that we make is going to be
which has considerable startup either plowed back into paying for
costs, he told the council the SCADA and cable system, or it's
Bottom's projections are that going to be plowed back into the
through revenues from a TV cable community, " he said.
system, along with fees from alarm "We would have local control over
monitoring, the city could pay off the cable rates. Because we are public
system and begin realizing "some servants - the staff and the council -
financial gains" after 11 years. we are accountable to the people
There are also other reasons for We ll provide a very good service at
the city to enter the cable TV a very affordable rate because of the
business, including providing com- fact that we have to account to the
petition, he added. people."
Figures gathered from program- A city-owned system would also
mers show that Northland Cable, have the capability of doing more
currently the only cable TV local programming than Northland
company here, pays $2 90 a month is currently doing, said Bottoms,
per subscriber for its basic package Cable TV should be viewed as
Customers, however, are charged another utility, and the city has
$22.90, a markup of 790 percent, said experience in running those ser
Bottoms. vices, he told the council.
1-Ford 101. 4‘bottom plow
1 Ford 101,2 bottom plow
1-Corsicana5 shank renovator-seeder
1-20H. goose neck cattle trailer
1 -Contiental post hole digger
’ Mohawk 9 shank chiesel plow, reconditioned & repainted
1-Ford 917 flail mower
1-5 ft. poll-type shedder
1 -Used OMC grinder/mixer
1-3 pt. sweeper
1-Tye 10 tt. no tile drill
GOOD USED HAY EQUIPMENT BARGAINS
1-Vermeer 605D Round Baler
1- 4-Wheel rake
1-JD 346 Square Baler
1-New Holland 499,12 ft. mower conditioner
1 -Ford 535,9 ft. mower conditioner
1-Ford 537,9 ft. mower conditioner
1 -Ford 508 pull-type hay rake, reconditioned and repainted
1-Ford 563 bale unroller/staker
1-New Holland 275 square baler
1 -John Deere 1209,9 ft. mower conditioner
1 -New Holland 315 square baler
1-Kuhn GMD-66 disc mower
1 - Massey Fergerson 126 square baler
1-Front-end bale fork
1-Priefert bail buggy
1-PZ CM210 3pt. disc mower
1-Hesston 5400 Round Baler
1-Hesston 5580 Round Baler
1-New Holland 256 Hay Rake
NEEDING RAIN - One of the
things I think all of us in the Lee
County area can agree on right now
is that we need some rain.
After all the rain in the
springtime, it's amazing how things
have dried out in the Lee County and
Central Texas area during July.
Although it still hasn’t hit the
100-degree mark so far this summer
and has generally been in the
mid-90s, we've had strong southerly
breezes for most of the month, which
has sapped much of the topsoil
moisture
At least the subsoil moisture that
we’ve been able to stockpile during
the rainy years has come in handy
now. But we’re getting to the point
where we're going to need at least an
inch or two of rain for the pastures,
hay meadows and crops.
Of course, things could be worse
Look at the flooding that has been
occurring along the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers during the past few
weeks, doing well over a billion
dollars in property and crop
damage.
Those areas have been receiving
way too much rainfall, swelling
rivers in states like Missouri, North
Dakota and Minnesota. Just last
Friday one area reported 7 inches of
rain overnight. But here in Central
texas we haven't been getting
enough rain to settle the dust.
Even though the temperature
hasn't climbed as high as it usually
gets this time of the year in our area,
it sure felt extra hot Monday
afternoon That’s because the heat
index was 103 degrees at the Austin
Weather Service. This is how hot it
seems when you add humidity to the
temperature.
Some of our relatives from up in
the Hill Country at Harper were here
Monday and were complaining
about the heat. They said it doesn’t
seem nearly as hot up there since
they don’t have all of this humidity
because they’re at a higher elevation
and the air is drier.
This is the time of the year when
those air conditioners and ceiling
fans are going full blast. Wait till we
get our next electric bill. It won’t be
a pretty sight!
It's going to be a double- whammy
for many people who are also
pouring the water to their lawns and
flower beds this month. But whatcha
gonna do - let everything die?
And I think a lot of us would think
we're dying if we couldn't sit under
the air conditioner this time of the
year.
BY B. P.
Hwy. 71 West & FM 609 La Grange, Texas
Phone 409-968-3187
GIANT MELONS - The dry
weather hasn't kept several Lee
Countians from growing a number of
giant-sized cantaloupes this sum-
mer.
Wallace Weaver of Lexington and
Noah Fischer of Giddings both
brought some monster-sized canta-
loupes to the Times & News office
that they had grown in their
gardens.
The largest Mr. Weaver raised
was nearly 28 pounds and the largest
grown by Mr. Fischer was 33
pounds.
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