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CITIZENS JOURNAL, ATLANTA, TEXAS, AUGUST 25, 1983-PAGE 11
AFTER DEFROSTING THE FRIG'
Milam's Easter Lily Blooms Twice
By JOHN BRIDGES
Eastei nnes but o. -e a year, and
thus EasU lilies blooin but once a
year.
Such is usually the case-but not
always.
Gladys Milam of Queen City has ac-
cidently found a way to make her
Easter lily bloom for the second time
in four months.
Gladys's sister gave her a potted
Easter lily this past spring. Gladys
planted the flower next to her garage.
Like most other flowers of the same
kind, Gladys' lily bloomed for several
weeks, then died.
The fact that Gladys' Easter lily
bloomed again is nothing surprising;
the surprising thing is that Gladys'
flower has already bloomed again-
just a few months after it had seeming-
ly died for the remainder of the year.
How-the reader asks-did this hap-
pen?
It seems that Gladys decided to
defrost her deep-freeze in early June
and figured that laying the ice around
her Easter lily might help it as well as
other nearby flowers. So she put "a
whole dishpan full" of ice on the lily.
In a few weeks she noticed that
several green sprouts had come up,
"but I didn't pay much attention to
them," she said.
Time passed, then buds started for-
ming on the flower, "first thing I knew,
a new plant came up."
On Tuesday, Aug. 16, she said the
buds opened up revealing an Easter li-
ly for the second time this year.
"I don't know what caused it to
bloom for the second time," she said.
"We just guess maybe that the the ice
caused the plant to think it had gone
through winter and that was time to
bloom again."
STARTS AS DANCER. MODEL
Hurt Heals With C&W Music
By ALAN SMITH
Whether we would like to admit it or
not, most all of us at one time or
another have fanatasized about grabb-
ing a microphone to rear back and sing
behind a full orchestra...or heck,
maybe even just behind a harmonica
in front of thousands of people- in front
of lights and cameras, center stage.
Most will never get that chance.
Cindy Hurt got hers, and when she
got it, she went after it.
The 27-year-old blue-eyed brunette
from Deerfield, 111., and niece of
Linden's Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Morris,
says that being a country-western
singer may look exciting and dream-
like but it's very hard work.
"Success in this business does not
come overnight," she said. "People
find this hard to believe, but if I wanted
a job that would pay me a lot of money,
I certainly would not have made the
decision to be a singer."
Cindy explained that after she pays
for her band members' salary and
their costumes plus travel expenses,
she doesn't have too much left over for
herself.
"People would find that hard to
believe if they knew what I bring in a
month," she said.
Cindy, who has charted six singles
off her first album, "Talk To Me," said
another thing people don't realize is
the cost involved in making an album
or single.
"When everything is paid off, there
isn't much left for me," she said.
Like many singers, Cindy got her
start by singing in the church, and
although she makes her living with her
voice, she says to this day she is more
comfortable dancing.
"To tell you the truth, I didn't want
to be a singer. Dancing is my first love,
and what I feel I'm best at doing," she
said. "I'm very self-concious about my
singing but not my dancing."
She attended Butler University in In-
dianapolis, Ind., and was one of three
in the history of the school to be ac-
cepted with a tri-major in voice,
drama and dance. She said she could
last only a year because of the pace.
"I just burned myself out," Cindy
said.
What she did was embark on a work-
study program which enabled her to
work and go to school simultaneously.
She did TV commercial voice-overs
and sang and danced at conventions
and industrial shows thereby incor-
porating all her talents.
"I was able to get way ahead of my
classmates because of all the ex-
perience I was getting," she said.
After her college days, Cindy went
back to Deerfield which is not far from
Chicago. Chicago proved to be her spr-
ingboard.
SHE AND THREE other girls put
together an act called Magic, which
combined singing and dancing.
"We got very popular because there
were just no female acts which com-
bined harmony and choreography,"
she said. "It was a lot of fun."
While she was in the group, Tommy
Martin, president of Churchhill
Records, for whom Cindy now records,
came to see Magic but was not in-
terested in the group Cindy says
because they mimicked other sounds
and had no style of their own.
"But, he said he liked the little
brunette and wanted to see what he
could do for me," she said.
Believe it or not, Cindy turned him
down flat.
"I said no because I knew I wasn't
ready. My voice wasn't where I
wanted it to be, and I also knew my
departure might break up the act. I
wanted to stay with the group," she
said.
Magic stayed together three more
years before all decided to go their
separate ways.
"I called Tommy back to see if he
were still interested," Cindy recalled.
As it turned out Martin and his
record company were still interested
and Churchhill signed Cindy to a con-
tract and produced the album which
helped Cindy to be named Billboard's
New Female Artist of the Year in 1982.
Although Cindy said she could make
more money as a dancer or model (she
modeled in her college days) she chose
singing because neither TV commer-
cials or modeling could give her the
contact with people.
The list of big-name stars with whom
Cindy has toured with or opened for is
as long as a country song with ten
verses and includes names like Roy
Clark, Marty Robbins, David Frizell
(she toured with Frizell in place of
regular partner, Shelly West)
Also, Roy Orbison, Mel McDaniels
(she'll be seen with him in September
on "All That Nashville Music") the
Bellamy Brothers and the Oak Ridge
Boys.
Her dream is to open for both the
Osmonds and the Statler Brothers.
Cindy Huftt
GLADYS MILAM SHOWS off her Easter lily that can t
FlOWef Power tell time. The flower is currently blooming for the se-
cond time this year.
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she said.
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county. Tuesday night Queen City
councilmen got their first look at that
city's preliminary budget for 1983-84.
The good news for Queen City
residents is that the tax rate will re-
main at the current 13 cents per $100
valuation. The other good news is that
it's not going to cost as much to run the
city this year.
"Our operating expenses have
decreased and our sales taxes have in-
creased," said Mayor Charles
Lawrence.
"I haven't projected any more in-
crease in sales tax for the coming year
because no more new businesses have
come in.
"Revenues from Stauffer Chemical
won't be figured in until next year.
That should give us a gain of 30 percent
in revenues in one year.
"I'm going to go out on a limb and
say that citizens here can look forward
to about two more years, anyway,
without a city tax increase," Lawrence
said.
Preliminary revenue and expense
figures show $266,079 budgeted for
total revenues and $161,119 in total
operating expenses.
There are no carryover funds in the
budget this year, but Lawrence said he
expects there to be $25,000-$30,000 in
next year's budget.
Included in the budget this year is an
across the board salary increase for ci-
ty employees of $610 a year.
Lawrence said he calculated five
percent of the total salaries, divided it
by the number of employees and gave
each one an equal raise.
"The reason for that is, as the years
go on the difference between the
highest and lowest paid employee gets
more and more out of proportion."
Included in budget expenses this
year is road repair on "a couple of
miles" of streets, which Lawrence
estimates will begin in about two
weeks.
A public hearing on the budget is
scheduled for Sept. 8 at 7 p.m.
THE RAILROAD crossing on Lanar-
ck Street has been of great concern to
the city for some time.
A little over a year ago, the city
received a $95,500 federal grant from
the Department of Highways and
Transportation to put up a light and
signal system at the Lanarck Street
crossing.
Work on the signal system has been
delayed because the crossing itself is
in such disrepair, Lawrence said.
"We held off on putting up the
system because the poor condition of
the tracks and street made it not feasi-
ble.
"I was unable until a few days ago to
get word from Missouri-Pacific that
they would fix the crossing. Finally
Tom Bryant of Mo-Pac in St. Louis has
promised me they would upgrade the
crossing and make it so two lanes of
traffic can pass at the same time, so it
would be in compliance with safety
standards."
Lawrence said the city's part of the
bill for the signal will run about $5,225.
IN ADDITION the council passed an
ordinance suspending the effective
date of a Southwestern Electric Power
Co. rate incresae for 120 days from
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Citizens Journal (Atlanta, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 44, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 25, 1983, newspaper, August 25, 1983; Atlanta, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth336087/m1/3/: accessed July 12, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Atlanta Public Library.