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Opinion Pa
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The Albany News
Thursday, March 8/2001!
The Albany News
Since 1$75
Oldest journalistic venture west of the Brazos
Publisher Donnie A. Lucas
Editor
Melinda L. Lucas
Advertising Manager
Donna Margrave
Moran Correspondent
Audrey Brooks
Photography Assistant
Jesus Cisneros
Typesetter
Betty Viertel
Office Assistant
Jillian Lucas
editorial
Chamber Awards
The Albany Chamber of Commerce recog-
nized the hard work and achievements of sev-
eral local residents who strive to make Albany
and the county a great place to live.
It was a go.nSPB'anque't. The atmosphere was
phasing, the food delicious and the speaker
entertaining.
But it was the awards that set the night
apart.
Shirley Caldwell named as the recipient of
the Cornerstone Award - the highest honor
the Chamber can bestow on a local resident.
Shirley was cited for her tireless contribu-
tions to both local and statewide-historic pres-
ervation. She is a longtime member of the
Texas Historical Commission and has served
as the vice-chair. She won't admit to having
much to do with Shackelford County receiving
one of the first courthouse restoration grants
from the state. The $2 million project is near-
ing competition and ail those in the know say
that it probably would not have happened
without Shirley's advice.
The work (hat the Commission does is im-
portant and we are very fortunate to have
Shirley representing us as citizens of Albany
and as Texans.
Several other awards were announced, in-
cluding Citizen of the Year Susan Jones. Su-
san is another tireless worker who doesn't
know how to take no for an answer in accom-
plishing her dreams. She was instrumental in
the organization and success of the Shackel-
ford County Community Resource Center? It
was another.well-deserved honor.
Volunteer of the year was Jeanine Hill, who
has helped with several different projects in
the community. Most noticeable have been her
contributions to the Chamber's Main Street
Playhouse produc ions. She is also an avid
Albany Lions and Lady Lions fan.
Bert Jones was picked as the Farmer/
Rancher of the Year, while Prairie Star was
dubbed Business of the Year, along with own-
ers Treca Edington, and Eddie and Deneen
Edington. Prairie Star has made its mark in
Albany this past year and is employing over a
dozen people.
Finally, the Teachers of the Year were
named. Shelly Watson was Moran's choice and
Ann King was selected in Albany. Shelly is
new to public schools, but has evidently made
quite an impact in Moran. Ann is a longtime
Albany second grade teacher who has put in
countless hours the past three years writing
for grants for the grade school.
We commend all the recipients of these
much deserved awards.
poriderings by Pat
By Pat Lidia Jones
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In this age of terrorists and school
shootings, I would have probably been
shot by a casino SWAT te,am.
Recently I was reminded of one of
the worst events in my Las Vegas
, experiences.
Back in the 1980's Bob and Nancy
Green and A.V. and I had combined
my birthday trip to Las Vegas with
the annual Antique Gun Show there.
All four of us go our separate ways,
regrouping in the evening to share
our day's experiences. I'd like to tell
you one of mine.
The gun show was held at the Sa-
hara Hotel, and we had booked our
rooms there months in advance, had
deposit slips and confirmations in
hand. "Over booked" came the
unregretful voice of the check-in per-
son, as we were handed our deposit
money.
Finally we got rooms at the Las
Vegas Hilton nearby. This Hilton
Hotel is huge; boasting over 3,000
rooms.
• A.V. asked me to meet him at the
gun sh 7 for lunch the second day we
were there. I did and he joined me,
carrying a rifle with a scope. After we
ate, he asked me to take the gun back
to our hotel with me; he would be
along later.
I protested mildly, suggesting he
put it in a case or a gun sock or
something. I didn't think it would
look good parading around with a
naked gun. "Nonsense," he said as he
headed back into the show.
The gun and I took a cab to the
Hilton. I cradled the rifle under one
arm, and consciously kept a pleasant
look on my face. I walked through the
lobby, carefully avoiding the casino. I
was the only one on the elevator to our
floor.
As I unl . ed the door to our r >om,
I sighed with relief. Then I heard a
voice behind me, and I turned to see a
policeman about ten feet down the
hall. He had his hand on his gun,
though it was still in the holster.
He said, speaking in a.slow, firm
voice, each word separate from the
others, "Put-the-gun-down-on-the-
bed, lady-and-step-away-from-it."
He stood then holding the door
open, and suddenly a second security
guard appeared, his hand on his gun.
He asked my name and repeated it
into his walkie-talkie.
By this time, I had placed the gun
on the bed and was backing away.
The third uniformed man, head of
security, now appeared. He also kept
one hand-on his gun.
He asked if the gun was loaded. I
said it wasn't. I picked it up and
checked it. It wasn't loaded, thank
goodness. He asked it I had ammuni-
tion. I said no.
They began to relax; I didn't. They
confirmed my identification. One wan-
dered around the room. The book on
my bedside table, was entitled, "Cor-
pus Delicti, A True Story of Murder."
, They now asked for my explana-
tion, which I gave. As always when
nervous, I babbled. They said I couldn't
keep the gun; 1 must take it to the
vaults. I asked if they were down-
stairs, and I was informed they were
across town.
Suddenly I knew I didn't want to do
that. Gathering my tattered nerves, I
asked if I could put the gun in. an
empty gun qase which A.V. had
brought with him, anticipating mak-
ing a purchase. I would lock it, I
promised. They agreed, so I went to
the closet, got out the case and laid it
across a chair. As I unfastened the
clasps, they all three put their hands
on their holsters.
I prayed there was not a gun in the
case. There wasn't. They relaxed again
and so did I. I placed the gun in the
case and locked all three locks. They
wanted me to take it to the vaults; I
talked them into letting me keep it in
the room. I swore I wouldn't take it
out of the locked case. They reluc-
tantly agreed and left.
I was reduced to a bundle of raw
nerves.
The phone rang, and I thought it
would be Security telling me they'd
changed their minds. It was Bob
Green.
He said, "Say, I've got a gun of
Abe's. I'll bring it down to your room."
"No," I shrieked, "don't come near
my room with a gun." I explained
why. Bob said then that he would
come to our room, get the locked case
and the key, arid take it back to his
room and put the other gun in it. I
agreed and said, "Buf don't bring it
back."
A few minutes later, there was a
loud knock and a voice called, "Secu-
rity." My heart stopped. I opened the
door. It was Bob, grinning.
That evening at dinner I discov-
ered that Bob had come through the
lobby just as I had, and up the eleva-
tor, carrying in plain sight, not one
but two guns. .
The double standard is alive and
doing well in Las Vegas, Nevada, girls.
remember when
By Joan Halford Farmer
The history of the Butterfield stage
is colorful and rather brief, but was
nonetheless a very important part of
the growth of the frontier.
Stagecoaches offered a tempting
target for outlaws. Black Bart, Jessie
and Frank James, amongothers, were
well-known hold:up men of the stage-
coaches. Members of one Oklahoma
gang of outlaws fenced their stolen
goods through the infamous Belle
Star, wife of bad man Blue Duck.
One hundred years after the first
Butterfield stage left Tipton,-Missouri,
headed through the southwest and
down into the heart of Texas and on to
California, three men repeated a por-
tion of that trip. James Robert (Bob)
Green, Robert E. Nail and A.C. Green
were the three. Bob is a flying rancher
and for this adventure, they named
his plane "The Clerety Wagon II,"
after the specially built coaches Mr.
Butterfield used throughout the
southwest.
Their trip began near Matt Franz
stage stop in Throckmorton County.
Franz was the grandfather of Francis
Free Morrow of Albany and Mavis
Pertle of Throckmorton. The trail con-
tinued from Franz Station to the Clear
Fork Station, located on what is now
part of Lambshead Ranch. Smith's
Station was the next stop and was on
a creek in west Shackelford county on
what is now known as Chimney Creek
Ranch, owned by the descendants of
L.G. Davis and operated by Robert
and Ruby Waller. The last station in
our area was located near Fort Phan-
tom Hill in the corner of Jones County.
What they followed on this search
from the air would at times be two
faint white tracks around the edge of
a hill or climbing a summit. The rocks
at the old water crossings were still
marked with grooves worn by the
whee's of the old Butterfeld stage-
coaches.
The buildings at the stage stops in
this area are only a memory. In most
cases, they were actually the home of
the stage keeper, his wife and chil-
dren. These pioneers furnished fresh
horses, relay drivers and men to ride;
shotgun.
The old Butterfield stages served
history as it lingers...
the frontier in a special way. All of
them enabled the people of the fron-
tier to hear from kin and to pass their
messages < back to the families they
had left behind as they moved west.
These messages told of births, deaths,,
marriages, how crops were dr offer- .
rible droughts or the blessing of good,
rains.
Today we use the United States;
Postal Service for these same mes-
sages. The difference, of course, is
that we can walk a couple of blocks, or
even jump in our car, and in minutes
.arrive at a building flying the United
States flag, enter the building and
walk up to a small slot in the wall,
drop our letter in and our message is
on its way.
By Emalyn (Sam) (.iillispie
Last week 1 wrote about the begin-
ning of the Apache Kid. This week I
will tell you the rest of the story.
The Kid and his men were found
guilty of mutiny and desertion and
erach was sentenced to death by firing
squad. General Miles was upset with
the verdict and ordered the court to
reconsider its sentence. So they were
resentenced to life in prison. Miles
was still unhappy with the sentence
and he reduced it to ten years. They
were to be sent to Alcatraz Island in.
California rather than Fort
Leavenworth Military Prison.
On reviewing the trial, the Judge
Advocate General's office was con-
vinced that prejudice existed among
the officers on the court-martial and
they remitted the remainder of the
sentence. So by November, the Kid
and his group were back at San Carlos.
But they were arrested again and
tried for the assault to commit mur-
der in the wounding of A1 Sieber. The
four were found guilty and were sen-
tenced to seven years in the Territo-
rial Prison at Yuma.
The sheriff of Gila County was
Glenn Reynolds. He was not happy
about the trial of the Kid, but he was
told to escort him to prison. Glenn's
wife Gusti had a premonition about
the trip to Yuma and did not want
Glenn to go. But he had a job to do, so
he chose a deputy, W.A. "Hunkeydory"
Holmes, as guard. The stagecoach
owner, Gene Middletoil was the driver.
The three men were armed. The
Kid and one prisoner named Hos-cal-
te were considered dangerous. They
were shackled at both wrists and
' ankles. The other prisoners were
shackled by twos, leaving each man a
free hand. Ont horse thief, Jesus
Avott, was left unshackled.
After spending the night at River-
side, the coach had to go up a steep
hill and all prisoners but Kid and
Hos-cal-te were put out to walk. As
the coach was ahead and disappeared
over the hill, the prisoners overpow-
ered Glenn and Holmes. It w;is sah
that Holmes died of fright and Glenn
was killed with Holmes' rifle.
Middleton was alsoshot and wounded
with Holmes; rifle, but he survived.
The prisoners unlocked their shack-
les and disappeared. The horse thief,
Jesus Avott, using one of the. horses
from the team, rode into Florence and
reported the news.
The Apache Kid lived an outlaw
life until the 1920's or 1930s It was
reported that in 1905 he was killed by
Frank Slaughter, who had moved from
Palo Pinto and had a ranch in New
Mexico. He was also reported killed
by a posse in 1907 and as late as 1930,
it w. s reported that he was seen at
the San Carlos Reservation.
The Apache Kid's name was
Haskay-bay-nay-natyl, which means
"the tall man destined to come to a
inysterious end." It appears that he
lived up to his name.
round and about
By Sam Gillispie
' The weather has been beautiful
the last few days. We have had rain
and then warm sunny skies. The
fruit trees"are blooming and we all
hope they don't get frostbit.
The iace Shuttle has been.sit-
ting on the runway at Dyess Air
Force Base waiting for the weather
betweei here and Florida to clear.
The rain could destroy the tile on the
shuttle, Mickey, Tricia and Paul went
over Saturday to see it and were
really impressed. They thought it
was a beautiful sight.
Robert Boyd, wife Kay and baby
Payton came to Albany Saturday
from Arlington to spend the week-
end and visit friends and family,
Every year the Brookshire Com-
pany awards their employees with
recognition. The company has 12
stores in Texas and this year they
chose Josue Martinez as Mr. Aggres-
sive Hospitality, and J.J. Cisneros
as Sacker of the Year.
. Albany is reeling from last Thurs-
day's events. It started with the dis-
covery of a car wreck on the Nine-
Mile Hill. The weather had been cold
and ice had formed on the highway.
The vehicle carrying Joe Allen Jones,
Martin Cook and a woman from
Tuscola had gone off the road and
down the hill and could not be seen
until morning. All three people were
killed. Then we heard tiiat Billye
Patlerson had passed away. My third
phone call that morning told me
about Worlia Sazama, who«had also
died. I want to offer my sympathy to
all families and friends.
You may have read about a car
catching fire on the Breckenridge
highway last week. I had a phone
call ffom Breckenridge and discov-
ered the people in the car were cous-
ins. Jeanie Twobee and Deanie
Newcomb, the "daughters of the late
Marvin Edward Newcomb, were com-
ing back from San Angelo and had a
flat just outside of Albany, Jeanie
got out to change the tire and discov-
ered smoke coming out from under
the hood. When the hood was raised',
they discovered the fire. Jeanie wants
to thank everyone who stopped to
help. She was transferred to the
•Breckenridge hospital but was re-
leased that night.
The area lakes ar# still catching
water and now that all the tanks are
full, maybe Hubbard will be able to
catch more when it rains again. The
lake at Cisco caught about a foot
more ofwuter this past week. It was
still muddy when it was checked.
Hopefully I will be getting to go fish-
ing soon. The weather is getting
warmer and I will be able to get out.
I have been working on my tackle
box to make sure I have all the equip-
ment I need when that time comes.
This is Sam
And I will see you Round and About
Community Calendar
MARCH 8 Lions Club - Icehouse, 12 noon
MARCH 9 Chamber luncheon - Ft. Griffin, 12 noon
MARCH 11 Albany Baseball Assn. - Lutheran Church, 8 pm
MARCH 12-16 SPRING BREAK
MARCH 12- Commissioners court - Courthouse Annex, 9 am
Literacy & ESL classes - Resource Center, 10 am
Storm Spotters refresher course - Former Head Start
building in City Park, 6:30 pm ,
MARCH 13 GED class - Resource Center, 9 am
Stenholm representative - Courthouse Annex, 3-4 pm
Al-Anon - Friendship Baptist Church, 5:30 pm
- v • Toastmasters - Aztec Reception Room, 6 pm
MARCH 16 AARP Tax Aide - Resource Center, 9 am
MARCH 19 Hospital board - Clinic board room, 7 pm
School board - Supt/s office, 7:30 pm
MARCH 20' tarly release from classes for UIL hjeet -1 pm
MARCH 21 City council meeting and budget hearing - City Hall,
5 pm
MARCH 23 UIL academic meet - Albany Schools
MARCH 28 "Alert Albany" Day
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Lucas, Melinda L. The Albany News (Albany, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 8, 2001, newspaper, March 8, 2001; Albany, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth413805/m1/4/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 15, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Old Jail Art Center.