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PAGE 4, HUDSPETH COUNTY HERALD-Dell Valley Revivew, JUNE 22, 1990
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Public Notice
year.
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IMPORTANT NOTICE
458-0227, or (512) 458-0221 teIetypewriter
for the deaf.
of Texas,
Suite 400N,
the Public
Cindy Goodloe of Nogal, N. M.
Cindy had a booth selling
cowgirl and cowboy equipment
at the Cowboy Symposium. She
also breaks and trains horses.
Mr. Cannon: ”I graduated from
Texas Tech in 1979 with a B. S.
degree in Wildlife Management.
I worked in Colorado three years
then Went to Utah State for my
Masters degree in Range Science.
I worked with the elk. After that
I worked for Texas AGM as mana-
ger of the Texas Experimental
Ranch on the SMS land in Throck-
morton county. I finally decided
to come back to Texas Tech for
a P. H. D. in Wildlife Manage-
ment.
"We started a study of the Prong-
horns (antelopes) on the Double
U Ranch March 5, 1990. My
wife Jane, is with me and we
have a crew of three undergrad-
uates. We trapped 90 antelopes
with the use of helicopters. We
corralled them and put 58 radio
collars on them to keep track
of home range causes of morta-
lity, and birth rates. Fawns
were fitted with transmitters and
monitored daily. So far 13 of
20 fawns tagged have been killed
by predators: coyotes, mountain
lions and eagles. We’ll cont-
inue to study the antelope for
two years, most intensively
during the fawning season. At
in a sea of "Save the Whales"
bumper stickers. To learn to
speak New Hampsha, try this
exercise: Waitah, latah, bring
a bottle of beah heah. "
***
TOO MANY RED-HEADED
INDIANS
I grew up in the town of Child-
ress, Texas, where Judge A. J.
Fires, the first County Judge of
Childress County practiced law
for forty years, 1887-1927.
Temple Houston, who, as I
remember, was the youngest son
of Sam Houston, and was born in
the Governor’s mansion in Austin
in 1860, also practiced in Child-
ress.
Judge Fires and Temple Houston
were associated in some cases
but they were never partners.
C. C. Broughton, a long-time
friend of mine who practiced
law at Childress for nearly forty
years, told this story:
"You know, Temple Houston
practiced here for a while, yes,
went over to Oklahom a and
later came back here and pract-
iced here a while. And now,
Judge Fires told me this: That
when Temple Houston came
back, he asked him, ’Well, I
thought you was just making
money and just doing fine over
there in Oklahoma?’ Which he
was, but he said ’Yeah, but if
you will remember, my dad
spent a lot of time over there
with the Indians, and there was
too damn many red-headed
Indians claiming kin to me. ‘"
***
In Dell City, Saturday morning
(16) I had the pleasure of meeting
Dr. Russ Pettit, Associate Prof-
essor (retired) of Range Manage-
ment from Texas Tech University
at Lubbock.
Dr. Pettit is a native of the
State of Kansas, got his Bachelor
of Science Degree from Fort
Hays Kansas State College, a
Masters Degree from Texas Tech
and a PHD in Range Management
from Oregon State University.
He taught at Texas Tech from
1969 to 1989 when he retired. Dr.
Pettit was with Kem Cannon
who is working on his P. H. D.
in Wild Life Management.
We went to Rosita’s Cafe for
a long visit. Dr. Pettit said that
one of his students at Texas Tech
was Melanie Gentry of Dell City.
We found out that Melanie is
working in Lubbock, but her
parents, Phyllis and Lynn Gentry
came down to the cafe and met
Dr. Pettit and Mr. Cannon and
had a fine visit with them.
Dr. Pettit had done range work
in this area in 1979 and had be-
come well acquainted with the
late Martin Lewis. He was
saddened to learn of the death of
Mrs. Margaret Lewis and Martin.
Mr. Cannon said: "Dr. Pettit
coached the Range Plant team at
Texas Tech for many years, and
had one of the winningest records
of any coach in international
competition, leading Texas Tech
to many first and second place
finishes. Dr. Pettit is probably
the most knowledgeable person
in the Southwest on plants of the
range. We are working on a
Pronghorn (Antelope) project,
and Dr. Pettit came out (Thurs-
day, June 16) to advise and con-
sult with me and my crew on
plants of the range, and has been
very helpful to us in trying to
determine what we’ve got out
here. "
this time we are camped at
Deep Well on the Double U
Ranch. ’’
Dr. Pettit has to return to
Lubbock Tuesday (19). I expect
to see Mr. Cannon again. He
and Dr. Pettit are very interest-
ing and entertaining conversat-
ionalist. They both were very
fond of Mexican Food, and we
had Rosita to come up from
the kitchen so that they could
tell her how much they enjoy-
ed the food.
***
When Iwas over in Lubbock
I went down by MacKenzie Park.
There was General Grant sitting
up there on his big stud horse,
all in bronze on a 20 foot
pedestal. A drunk came along
pulled off his hat and spoke to
Grant.
Drunk: "General, what are
you going to do when you come
back to life ?’’
General Grant: "Well, I’ll
tell you. The first thing I am
going to do is to killa thousand
damn pigeons. "
***
This final word on the Cowboy
Symposium and celebration at
Lubbock. Since this event is
not a money-making scheme,
but an effort to preserve the his-
tory, stories, legends, art, car-
tooning, rodeo performing, etc.
It may become one ot the great-
est events in the West. Ihave
already reported that there were
people there from coast to coast.
Everything about it is entirely
informaL It is a shirt-sleeve
meeting. 'There are no ticket
takers. You can come and go
at any time, whether you have
paid your $5. 00 for each day
or not which entitles you to see
and hear any and all the perfor-
mances of the day at the Univer-
sity Center. So far as I know,
the performers are all volunteers.
Since I came home (June 6) I
had a letter from one of the per-
formers (a poet) who said that
there were 47 poets there this
or call
A copy of the Cooperative’s Private Pay
Telephone Service Tariff and the revised
tariff showing proposed rate change for
local coin calls are available for
inspection at the Cooperative’s Business
Office in Dell City, Texas and the Public
Utility Commission in Austin, Texas.
Persons who wish to intervene or part-
icipate in these proceedings should notify
the Commission as soon as possible. A
request to Intervene, participate, or for
further information should be mailed to
Charley Russell, the great Western Artist, who had many friends
among the Indians of Montana, said that some people thought that
an Indian didn’t have a sense of humor.
’They just didn’t know the Indian, " Charley said, "In World
War I, an Indian Chief came to see me nearly everyday to see
how the war was going. "
Chief: "How’s the war going today, Charley?"
Charley: "Real bad, Chief, real bad, they are killing lots of
men on both sides. "
Chief: "Kill ’em Indians?"
Charley: "No, Chief, white man kill ’em white man. "
The Chief went off down the street chuckling.
***
From Captain James H. Cook’s "Fifty Years on the Old Frontier":
Many persons have an idea that the Indian has no sense of humor,
but some Indians whom I have known seemed to see the funny side
of things fairly well. On one occasion about thirty years ago, a
large party of Ogllala Sioux came over to my ranch in Sioux County,
Nebraska from Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota for a visit.
Among the party were some of the last of the prominent old men
of the Sioux. Chief Red Cloud, Little Wound, American Horse,
No Water, Big Road, He Dog and other famous old warriors.
Upon my return from a ride out on the range, I rode into their
camp and met these old friends and their families who had driven
so far to make me a visit.
Among them was an old Indian I had never seen before, named
Wolf’s Ear. As Iwas about to leave, the old man asked me to
come to his teepee, stating that he had something to tell me.
I followed him over, went in and sat down. He produced a pipe
from the "Heart boy", filled it with tobacco and the inner bark
of the dogwood tree and we "m ade little smoke. "
Then he solemnly told me in a low voice that a few years
previous, he had had a white man friend living in the Black Hills
country. When ever he visited him, this white friend always
killed eight or ten cattle for him and the few families who would
always accompany him on such a visit, so they could have a fine
feast and take plenty of meat back home. I asked what became
of him.
"He is dead, " responded Wolf’s Ears sadly.
"What killed him?" I inquired.
"I don’t know, " answered the old Indian.
"Well, " I replied, with as straight a face as I could assume,
"I will tell you what killed him. Giving eight ot ten cattle to an
Indian would kill any white man. I shall be sure not to do such
a thing now that you have told me what happened to your other
friend. "
Wolf’s Ears saw the point, and he had a hearty laugh as I departed.
I could hear the old Indian still laughing mightily after I had
gone a hundred feet from his teepee.
***
Lisa and Gary Connors of Durham, New Hampshire sent me a tape
with a lot of valuable information about their state.
The speaker said that New Hampshire is a rural state of about
one million people. Next to Rhode Island, New Hampshire is the
most industrialized state in the nation.
"The outsiders have taken over. New Hampshire speech is dying
out. The real yankee is getting to be an endangered species.
High tech industry is here. In New Hampshire all words that end
in er, are pronounced as if they ended in ah. Rockefeller is
pronounced Rockefellah. " Most towns in New Hampshire are
mill towns. We have no sales or income tax. The state is awash
The tariff and rates for Private Pay
Telephone Service were prepared in
accordance with the Rules of the Public
Utility Commission. The monthly rate for
one-party Private Pay Telephone access
line service is $41.40. The rate for
Selective Class of Call Screening and/or
Billing Number Call Screening is $5.00
per month.
the Public Utility Commission
7800 Shoal Creek Boulevard, J
Pursuant to the Rules of the Public
Utility Commission of Texas, Dell
Telephone Cooperative, Inc. hereby gives
notice that the Cooperative has filed an
application with the Commission for
approval of a tariff for the provision of
Private Pay Telephone Service as a new
service offering and a tariff revision to
change the rate for a local message from a
public or semi-public paystation from 10F
to 25€ per local call.
Consumer Affairs
458-0223 or (512)
The proposed change in rate, to be
effective July 1 , 1990, for local calls
made from Cooperative-provided pay
telephones Is requested to revise the
tariff rate of 1of to 25 per call based
on the cost of providing the service.
This change will result in a gross revenue
Increase of $1,145 per year or 1/27th of
one percent of the Cooperative annual
operating revenues. Only users of the
Cooperative’s public paystations will be
affected.
Austin, Texas 78757
Utility Commission
Division at (512)
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