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Copies of '‘Windmilling.”
the history of Swisher Coun-
ty. are still available at the
Chamber of Commerce.
County Judge's office. Poppy
Hulsey, 995-3622. Dorothy
Jennings, 99S-3283. and Sat-
urday from 10 to I at the
Memorial Building.
The Tuun Herald
COVERING SWISHER COUNTY LIKE THE SUNSHINE
VOL. 70. NO. 32
THE TULIA (Swisher County) HERALD
THURSDAY, AUGUST 10, 1978
TWO SECTIONS
VL (g®18!itsif BDBTfflL City Proceeds On Lake
Water, OK’s Containers
,By H. M. BAGGARLY
UNCLE /LB of Claude In hla “Plowin'
^■Out The Corners” column quotes Mrs.
Irene Pomeroy of Abilene who suggests that
an old maid pine could well be one that had
never been axed.
Uncle Zcb recently attended a meeting
at Wayland College.
UK CONTINUES. “To make coming
■■home more perfect, we decided to drive
•o I ulia before eating lunch Wc stopped at a
little place advertising Mexican food just off
the highway. It was delicious. I want to go
hack and get a repeat. I can't remember the
name, hut I will he hack.
'■ Slopped h\ to sec mv former pastor.
( harles Davenport, in Tulia. and tried to
find my old school teacher. Mr. W O. Puctt,
bui missed them both. I didn't even get to
sec mv tavoriie Demixrat Editor H. M.
H.iggarlv I -very-one w as hiding out I plan to
spend a whole dav in Tulia There is
something verv special about lhat town
Bless sou. Plainvicw, and a generous
blessing left over lor Julia A big blessing
lot ( laude and gelling hack home."
BIVI PLOPI.K can take comfort In the
■ skvrixkcting price of gold unless il he
that small handful who own a little of it.
and its ultimate value even to them may he
questionable.
•\ rise in the price of gold means much
more than an i>rdinarv price hike which
occurs for one reason or another.
TRADITIONALLY, haa been the
ommmlity that people have tended to
invest in when thev fear all other commo-
dities. slinks, proper!v. hank accounts,
p tot v. even government Ixtnds. are
me ' i hi nine worthless
Golil is supposed lo he one of the few
i inimodttH s that has survived an economic
i lash, a lallen ginemmcnl. while main
laming its value.
It is supposed to he something akin to
treasures in heaven” whuh wc are
admonished Iotas up' Il is supposed to have
i w rnal value something that is unaffected
hv times and circumstances
M il I I Ol Al l things, supposedly,
W di 'ps when wc hav« runawav inlla
•ton except gold
Il is had news to see the pnee of gold
S-’ing up and up and up Not onlv docs il
indicate a dropping confidence in the
cionomv hut il drives up the price of many
commercial items that we bus It has nuns
industrial uses such as tooth fillings
Wc have run been one of those people
who has utmost trust in gold VS, lend to
believe that when the crash comet. if and
when few il am |>civons wilf csia|x- We
don't see anv thing remaining of much value,
unless n he land
■ l S>1 \S||\I IS our mayor problem
W| I neve that there is a
person alive who isn’t aware that there is
something fundamentally wrong with our
soc *etv.
We talked to two persons recently who
agree thal all. including people, institutions,
and government, are living bevond their
incomes We are demanding, and in most
instances receiving, a standard of living to
which we arc not entitled, economically
speaking
VS, suggested as much Iasi week in
discussing those people, including even ihc
dropouts, whec demand a standard of living
front vexiciy which cannot he economically
justified
■ I S 11MI ID ask ourselves, '‘(an my
■ lanulv on mv income afford ihree cars
and a pickup’ Can we alford a $ SO 1*10
home? tan we afford to buv all our fcxxl
prepared or nearly prepared at the fexxf
stow?”
( an I affeerd any non necessity if I have
no more ihan the down payment, ihc
promise of a g««xf crop al gcxxl prices six
months from now a jivb that I can’t live on
now but I'm expecting periodic raises down
the road, whethe r or not I'm worth it. even if
I have lo strike?
WHERE ARE MANY artifteial ways to
■ live beyond one's means. There arc
even enough credit cards in circulation that
we can gel hv indefinitely by kiting'
I here are people who haven't been
square with Sears since World War II!
There arc people who annually exhaust
the loan value of their life insurance policies
in order to have a merry Christmas!
WIT WHEN WE speak of “living beyond
^Ptme v income” wc arc thinking of
something much more relevant to our society
and economy ihan merely exhausting our
weekly or annual salary, uur credit, and the
credit perhaps of our closest relatives and
friends.
More significant is the question. "Are
we exhausting the resources of M liher
Earth’"
We are all acquainted with a possible
depletion of such vital resources as fossil
fuel, water and even the land. We are
warned lhat we are losing a measurable
amount of top soil each year—and the small
amouni lhat covers our earth is almost as
infinitesimal as the layer of ozone which
protects us from deadly rays of the sun.
Certainly we do not have to be reminded
of water depletion. And the only argument
concerning oil depletion iv the amount of oil
remaining. Wc all know thai there will be no
more fossil fuel created by Mother Earth.
BV FT WE ALL live like tomorrow Is to be
W the end of the world and the object is to
use up our remaining resources todav before
thev are all destroyed'
What folly it is for one person to get
behind the wheel of a $10,000 automobile
which drinks 70c worth of gasoline every 10
or 12 miles, not to mention other costs such
as oil. freon, antifreeze, rubber, monthly
alternator repairs, and the like, and drive lo
Plainvlew or Amarillo with the expectation of
saving a few pennies on an item or two! Or
perhaps driving to church with the spouse
bringing up the rear in his own gas guzzler
since it isn't convenient for him lo come 15
minutes earlier' Or driving up and down
Broadway, hack and forth, toot toot, hack
and forth, world without end. amen, toot
tout!
l ISTION ISN'T ”< an John or Mary. or
their parents, jltord this transpor-
tation?” hut "Can humanity afford the
wanton waste of the earth’s diminishing
resources’” Almost as important. "Can we
afford to add lo our trade imbalance by
wasting gasoline?”
Ull HAVE BUMPED Into one person
ww who is attempting lo do something
about this problem Murray Travis has by
choice (perhaps necessity’) traded his worn
out big e*r for * more economical small car
Hul this u lx4 aU be is doing lor ihc cause of
conscrv at ton.
We made a trip with him (he other day
and he slopped al the self sen ice punip in a
filling station (saved 9v a gallon at this
particular station)
I hen he noted that he was making a
serious effort to "kill several birds with one
stone” in his various trips A minister's job
requires many out-of-town trips, denomin-
ational activities, visits to hospitals, as well
as personal trips He is attempting to
combine as mans of these trips as possible,
saving mileage
■ T MATTERS NOT where one find.
I himself in a hotel room, in an airplane,
watching the news on television, he sees
nothing but a steady stream of automobile
traffic, ranging from nuxferalelv heavy to
bumpor-io-bumpcr. people going, often
alone, (o and fro'
VSe are reminded of the World War II
slogan. "Is this trip neccssarv’"
We have used the automoble in this
discussion not because it is ihc onlv culpr.'
hui because it tvpifies the hundreds of wavs
Americans are wasting their resources,
individually and collectively, or extrava
games . extravagances they can't afford
either personally or collectively.
split THEIR efforts to trust l.i gold.
■^the ru h as well as the poor have much to
lose in event of an economic crash. We have
a lot ot smart alecs who purport to have
sure cure ways "to survive the coming
crash ” Included arc the "gold boys” whom
wc'vc just discussed. Bui they won't
completely escape
People who are doing their part to
hasten an economic collapse, postal workers,
firemen, cops, teachers, truck drivers,
automobile workers, all striking for higher
wages and benefits; the oil and gas boys
wanting deregulation and higher prices for
their products; the power and telephone
companies wanting higher rate*; hospital
and health care facilities which have boosted
their charges 1000 per cent since 1150. eight
times the advance of ordinary living exists,
and are unwilling even to slow down their
demands, the military wanting more and
more armaments: will all be In the Mime boat
if and when the craah comes.
Ml HAT DIFFERENCE will It make If
WW you amassed 50 million dollars, hul a
(C ontinued On Page Two)
Jay Naman To Speak For
Farmers Union At Hart
JAY NAMAN
Slate President Jay Naman
of Waco will he the featured
speaker when Castro County
Farmers Union has a mem-
bership and rcorgani/.ational
meeting Monday night at 8
o'clock in the Hart High
Schcxil cafeteria.
Meal and drinks will be
Tulia City Council, meet-
ing Tuesday night, approved
the recommendation of the
Mackenzie Municipal Water
Authority to endorse an ap-
plication for a grant from the
Economic Development Ad-
ministration for 75 per cent
of the cost of a filtration plant
and an application to the
Season Grid Tickets
Go On Sale Monday
Season tickets for all the
I1~8 Tulia Hornets' home
football games w ill go on sale
at the High School office
beginning Monday. August
14. The book of five tickets
for the five home games will
sell for $15.00 Beginning on
the evening of September 8.
which is the dale of the first
home game, the reserved
seat tickets will sell for $3..50
per game.
Patrons who have bought
season tickets in past years
will have until September 1
to claim their same seats.
After that date, the tickets
will be sold on a "first
come-first serve” basis.
Direct any inquiries to the
High School Principal s of-
fice at 195-2751 or 115-4872.
Scramble Sunday
At Golf Course
There will he a scramble al
I ule Lake Golf Course on
Sundav August 13. Tee off
lime is I 30 p m Names
must he turned in by 10:00
j m Sundav morning Bring
a covered dish tor the meal
after play. Everyone is wel-
come. golfers and duffers,
men and women. Entrs fee is
$2.00 each
More information is avail-
able at 115-3400. the Golf
Shop
Hill Caravan Slated For
Tuesday Afternoon
lexas Attorney General
fohn Hill. Democratic no-
minee for Governor of Texas,
will bring his campaign to
Tulia for the third time
1 ucsilav. August 15. Hill will
not he with the caravan on
this trip; however, he plans
to he in Tulia and Swisher
Counts once more before the
election.
In the caravan w ill be Slate
Representatives John
Highani of Temple and
Dannv Hill of Amarillo
JOHN Hil l
The Hill entourage will be
at the Willie Room of
Swisher Electric Cooperative
from 3:55 until 4:30 p.m..
arriving here from Dimmitt.
The public is invited to
stop hv for coffee and dough-
nuts and attend the reception
for the visitors.
Hill said Monday Texas is
one of 12 slates participating
in an agricultural gain mar-
keting conference called by
the Kansas legislature to
investigate the possibility of
forming an interstate com-
pact of grain producing
states.
Hill sent a representative
to the initial meeting last
month A second meeting
will he held in Topeka in
October.
"Texas is one of 12 states
represented at this confer-
ence to explore the problems
ir, grain marketing prac-
tices." Hill said.
(Continued On Page Two)
Farmers Home Adminis-
tration for a loan of 50 per
cent of the cost of water
transmission lines.
In two recent meetings
representatives from Floy-
dada. Lockney, Silverton and
Tulia met with the Mac-
kenzie Municipal Water
Authority and discussed the
possibility of securing match-
ing funds for building a
water treatment plant, raw
water lines, pump station
and storage and transmission
lines to serve municipal wa-
ter needs of the four towns.
Total cost of the Filtration
plant, treatment, pumping
station and lines to (he four
towns is estimated at $11,-
152.000. Cost of the water
treatment plant and associ-
ated costs which would be
the responsibility of the wa-
ter authority would be an
estimated $1,792,000 of the
total figure. Pump stations
are estimated to cost $1,027,-
000 and pipe lines
$8,267,000.
Since the proposal is
financed on a per capita
basis. Tulia's responsibility
would he about 51 per cent of
water authority commit-
ments. Conversion to Mac-
kenzie water would result in
drastic hikes in monthy w ater
bdls to customers in the four
towns.
Neil Taylor, manager of
Mackenzie Municipal Water
Authority, said that if not
another drop of water was
put tn Mackenzie dam. the
four cities would have
enough water for four and a
half years with what is
presently in the lake. It is 28
per cent full and the depth is
101.8 feet.
Due to its depth. Lake
Mackenzie has a minimum of
evaporation, a problem at
more shallow lakes.
Tuba’s water usage for the
(last five 1 cars has been on
the increase. Gallons
pumped in 1973 were 331,-
278.000: 1974 . 392.531.000;
H’S. 374.845.000; 1976.
405.364,000; and I9’7. 404.
640.000.
Tulia city councilman re-
ported Tuesday night on a
survey conducted on the use
of trash containers for Tulia
and voted to accept bids for
containerization on Sept. 5.
After a contract is let for
the containers, installation
w ill be completed within 60
to 10 days, said John Gavte,
city manager, and the system
will he ready by Dec. 1, at
(Continued On Page Two)
CARLA WAYNE
Carla Wayne Honored
By Texas Legislature
The Texas House of Re-
presentatives has passed a
memorial resolution honor-
ing the daughter of former
State Representative Ralph
and Mrs. Wayne, formerly of
Tulia.
Carla Diann Wayne. 14,
was killed in an automobile
accident Nov. 1, 1977 on her
way home from school in
Brownwood. She was the
youngest of three children.
The resolution extends
House members' sympathy
to Deputy State Comptroller
and Mrs. Wayne. Carla's
sister, Melanie, her brother,
Ralph, and her grand-
parents. Mr. and Mrs. L. J.
Wayne of Tulia and Mr. and
Mrs. E. W. Collins of Fay-
etteville. Ark.
Ralph Wayne, owner of
four Texas radio stations, is
chairman of the board of
Central Plains Savings As-
sociation of Tulia. A grad-
uate of Tulia High School, he
was news director of KFDA-
TV in Amarillo before his
election to the Texas Legis-
lature.
Swisher Takes Top
Honors, 4-H Judging
Swisher County took top
honors again this year at
District 4-H judging. Having
both the largest number of
Senior entries to qualify to go
to State and also having the
largest number of Junior
blue ribbon winners, accord-
ing to Judy Carlisle. CEA.
Qualifying for State judg-
ing were:
Julie McClurg-Achieve-
ment
Lee Burnett—Beef
Neal Odom—Agriculture
Kevin Odom — Conser-
vation of Natural Resources
James Avcnt—Gardening
Tamara Vineyard—Food
Conservation & Safety
Denise Thompson—Dress
Revue
Andy Stewart — Photo-
graphy
Other Senior entries were:
Debbie Parker. Citizenship.
2nd; Robin Wright. Clothing-
participant; Kyle Odom.
Field Crops. 2nd; Dana
Reed. Food Preservation.
2nd: Tonya Vineyard.
Health. 2nd; Angclla Parker.
Home Environment. Partic-
ipant; Vicki Been. Leader-
ship. red: Roxann Watson,
public speaking. 2nd; Forrest
Mote. Sheep. 2nd; Mike
Been. Swine, participant.
Following are the Junior
plactngs:
Achievement—(boy) Steve
Young, blue
Achievement—(girl) Shir-
ley Steinfath. blue
Beef—Dwayne Simons,
blue
Bicycle—Molly Parker,
white
Citizenship (boy) Paul
Finch, blue; (girl) Angel
Edwards, blue
Clothing—Dayna Foster,
blue
Consumer
Education—
Katie Montandon. blue
Dog Care & Training—
Wendy Albright, red
Electric—Jim Bob Been,
blue
Entomology—John Bush,
blue
Family Life—Kenee Little-
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furnished at the salad sup-
per.
County Vice President
Doug Higgins invites all
present members as well as
all persons interested in farm
problems and Farmers Union
to be present.
New meter connections re-
ported by the City of Tulia
since last week: R. C. David-
son. Westwind Apartments
No. 9; Bob Holder. 900 N.
El Paso; Faith Assembly
Parsonage. 228 N. Austin; H.
M. Scrugg. 700 N. Collin;
Doris Lacey. 814 N. El Paso;
JeiTy Green. 415 N. W. 7th;
Raymond Ellis. Westwind
Apartments No. I.
•
Marriage licenses issued
by the county clerk since last
week: John Roland Lynn. 111.
Dallas, and Pamela Sue Har-
man, Tulia; Sidney Jake
Weeks. Vernon, and Barbara
Ann Morton. Quanah: LeRoy
Padron. Tulia. and Maria
Angel Segura. Kress.
•
Patients admitted to Sw-
isher Memorial Hospital
since last Tuesday: Mrs.
Norvell Breedlove. Mrs.
Kenneth Milner. Lawrence
Drake, Mrs. Carl Jackson.
Mrs. Juan Castillo. Mrs. Ada
Melton. Mrs. Rota Keegan.
Mrs. Oreta Evans.
BORN TO:
Mr. and Mrs. Juan Cas-
tillo. Box 496. Edmonson, a
girl.
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New- subscribers to the
Tulia Herald since last week:
L. J. Rice. Box 347, Hart.
Texas: Wavne Blount. 705 N.
Armstrong. Tulia. Texas: Bill
Remmenga. Box 811, Tulia.
Texas: Dr. Clifford Trotter.
3800 Paramount. Amarillo.
Texas; John Payne. Box 302.
Happy. Texas; Mac Devin.
Route V Box 84, Tulia.
Texas; Bill Pearson. Box 411.
Happy. Texas.
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TULIA MARKETS
WHEAT 2.70
MILO 3.45
CORN 4.00
SOYBEANS 5.00
•
Temperature extremes for
the week were 95 and 57.
Rainfall measured .96 of an
inch.
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Baggarly, H. M. The Tulia Herald (Tulia, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 32, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1978, newspaper, August 10, 1978; Tulia, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth506062/m1/1/: accessed June 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Swisher County Library.