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THE TULIA (Swisher County) HERALD
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 1990
CofC Banquet Informal
’Wear Boots And Jeans Or Whatever You Feel Most Casual In'
JUBILATION — Robyn Scott (32) and Cynthia
Coslow (42) flash "we'ver number one” signs and
Nikki Altman (10 at left) receives a congratulatory
hug from a friend seconds after the Lady Hornets
had nipped the Dlmmitt Bobbies, 57-56, Friday
night to become district co-champions. Fellow
Tulia High students storm onto the Hornet Gym
floor to join the celebration. A booster flag waves in
the background.
— Staff photo
Lady Hornets Challenge Canyon In Bi-District Friday
The Lady Hornets and Canyon Lady Eagles have
split in warmup games this season but when they
take the Amarillo High court Friday night, all the
marbles will be on the line: the bi-district champion-
ship and the right to advance in the playoffs.
According to a report late Tuesday night, the
match Is tentatively scheduled for 7 p.m. That time
is subject to change.
Canyon— 1-3Achampion.second ranked instate
and owner of a 27-4 record — downed the Lady
Hornets here 58-35 on Dec. 5. However, the Tulia
girls — 2-3A co-champ, 24-6 and seventh ranked in
state — upset the Lady F.agles 48-45 on their court
Jan. 5.
"Boots and jeans or whatever you feel
most casual in” are the recommended
attire for the Tulia Chamber of Com-
merce Banquet next Thursday night.
In keeping with the theme of "Pioneer
Spirit—Prairie To Pride", the event will
be "strictly informal," according to Bill
Daniel, CofC executive vice president
Decorations, prepared by the Women's
Division, will bear out the theme.
Serving at the Feb. 22 banquet begins
at 7 o'cock in Ezra Jones Cafeteria at
Tulia High School.
Dr. Lowell Catlett, a renowed
speaker, will address the gathering,
There is still time to purchase tick-
ets to the annual Tulia Chamber of
Commerce Banquet on Feb. 22.
Priced at $12.50 each, the tickets are
available from the following sources:
Chamber office, First National Bank,
First State Bank, Bluebonnet Sav-
ings, The Tulia Herald or CofC direc-
tors.
Potential Law Enforcement
Students To Be Interviewed
Bob Russell, director of Amarillo
College Law Enforcement programs,
will be in Tulia Monday, Feb. 19, to
interview student applicants.
He will conduct interviews for the
Basic Police Academy and Prison
Continued on Page Two
Prison Foundation Work Begins February 19
February 19 is circled on a calendar
hanging inside the job site office at the
future home of the Swisher county
Criminal Detention Center.
That is the date Charlie Clark and
David Joiner anucipatc foundation
work will begin at the facility, located
west of Tulia.
A registered engineer is required to
"set the control points" for the founda
lion, says Clark, the construction super-
intendent.
Charles M. Walker Co. of Amarillo
was the successful bidder on the pnson's
foundation. Tulia Concrete and Con-
struction will work with Walker in sup-
plying the foundation concrete, "which
is footings and beams," Clark says.
A. C. and Dusty George operate the
local firm.
Awarded the plumbing bid was How -
ards Mechanical, Inc., of Amarillo.
Another Amanllo contractor, Lynn
McMcnnamy, has received the electri-
cal bid.
"Nodetermination on the termite bid"
has been made, the superintendent adds.
EIGHT BIDS IN MARCH
H. A. Lott, Inc., the general contrac-
tor, is ready to release drawings forcight
other facets of the massive $7,986- mil-
lion project. These proposals from con-
tractors arc due in March.
Clark says masonry and dry wall bids
must be received at the local site by
March 9. March 21 is the deadline for
painting, flooring, acoustical, fencing,
millwork and paving bids.
Information about any of these seg-
ments of the project is available at the
job site office for H. A Lott.
INFORMATION FROM LOTT
Following is bid data released by
Clark for the information of area con-
tractors:
Job—Swisher County Jail, Tulia,
Texas.
Mail address—HCR3 Box 5B, Tulia.
Texas 79088
Phone numbers—Office, 806-995-
2252; Fax. 806-995-2267
Job site contacts—Charlie Clark,
superintendent; David Joiner, project
engineer
Job site location 9/10 mile west of
1-27 on Hwy. 86
2-20-90—1-5 p.m.—Orientation
Continued on Page Two
Centennial Issue..
Deadlines Arrive!
The Big Centennial Edition of
THE TULIA HERALD
will be published July 12.
Deadlines for family history,
club and church histories and
former Swisher County resi-
dents who have excelled in
various endeavors are this
Thursday, Feb. 15. There is no
charge of publishing this mate-
rial, but a $5 per photo charge
on family history is made to
help defray reporduction
costs.
April 1 is the deadline for
the artist contest for the front
page of the edition.
Glancing Inside..
•Wayne Ehly's condition im-
proves following Thursday
accident; Kay Sturgess"show-
ing signs of improvement";
Nazareth High senior Lorelea
Acker discovered to have brain
tumor. Friends open love fund.
Page 2
•City Council awards seal coat-
ing contract hears pool renova-
tion needs. Page 3
•Cowgirls and Swiftettes in Fri-
day bi-district games; Naza-
reth and Kress boys bound for
playoffs. Page 4
•Gary Vaughns find old news-
paper "mats" in roof. Page 11
which Daniel hopes will number close
to 300. Dr. Catleu is a professor at New
Mexico State University.
A traditional feature of the Chamber
Banquet is the recognition of the Out-
standing Man, Outstanding Woman and
Outstanding Soil Conservation Award.
V. H. Harman Jr. and Barbara Finch, the
1989 elite citizens, are to recognize their
successors. Recipient of the Soil Con-
servation Award will be introduced by
Tom Davey, district conservationist
with the SCS.
SPECIAL FEATURES
Termed by Daniel as the "Swisher
County Centennial kickoff," the ban-
quet will open with the singing of
"Happy Birthday" to this county.
To conclude the bountiful meal will
be "a gigantic birthday cake," which
may be designed in the shape of a w agon
wheel.
Prepared by Dorothy Boyetl and her
school cafeteria staff, the meal will fea-
ture roast beef with gravy, baked pota-
toes, broccoli spears, relish plate, tossed
salad, "Tulia's own" hot rolls and butter
and tea or coffee.
4-H Club members are to serve the
meal.
County Judge Jay Johnson is to be
master of ceremonies and will extend
the welcome and introduce out-of-town
guests. Michael Flowers will present
musical numbers and the Rev. Bessie
Bishop, pastor of First Christian
Church, is to voice the invocation.
Outgoing director awards are to be
presented by Danny Johnson before the
outgoing Chamber of Commerce presi-
dent passes the gavel to his successor.
Jan Irlbeck. After handing the 1989
president award, Mrs. Irlbcck w ill intro-
duce 1990 officers and directors.
Women’s Division officers are to be
recognized by Shirley Smith, president.
Introductions of reigning Miss Tulias
will be made by Ellouisc House .
15 Nominated For
Outstanding
Citizen Awards
Who are Tuba's Man of the Year
and Woman of the Year for 1989?
Their identities will remain a se-
cret until the Chamber of Commerce
Banquet next Thursday night.
Fifteen individuals representing a
cross-section of the community were
asked to serve on the selection
committee, which met last week to
choose the elite citizens. But even
members of the anonymous commit- •
tee do not know names of the hon-
orces, according to Bill Daniel, ex-
ecutive vice president of Tulia
Chamber of Commerce.
Nominations from the public were
received for eight women and seven
men.
Each committee member voted for
his/her first and second choice. First
place votes counted one point and
second place was worth one-half
point.
Votes were counted by Daniel,
who alone knows the outstanding
citizens' identities. Family members
of the honorees obviously will be
made aware of the selections prior to
the banquet
The CofC executive was "real
pleased" with both the number and
quality of nominations received.
He encourages individuals who
nominated persons not selected for
the honor to re-submit the names
next year. Some previous honorees
were not chosen the first or second
time their names were presented,
Daniel explains.
The selection committee "basi-
cally" consists of different individu-
als each year.
Application For Private
Club Approved By TABC
Following a Thursday hearing in Austin, Hallic Huttash—a hearings examiner
for the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission (TABC)—recommended that an
application by Tack Shed for a Private Club Registration Permit and a Beverage
Cartage Permit be granted.
The application stated that the Tack Shed is a 30x31 foot log cabin structure
located on the north side of Farm Road 1318, approximately 6 1/2 miles cast of the
Tulia city limits.
Continued on Page Two
Country Editor
By Wendell Tooley
HOW ABOUT THOSE LADY
HORNETS?.....back in the play-offs.
Fact is, we still have some neighbors in
the play-off this Friday night Happy,
Nazareth, Kress and Silvcrton.
Jim and I will do our best to get action
shots of these games and have them in
next week's Herald.
Our congratulations and best wishes
to the Lady Hornets.....and our
basketball neighbors.
•
LIKE I’VE SAID BEFORE.....if I
had it all to do over, I would have made
a doctor and specialized in allergies ...
Annual School Spring
Break Starts Friday
Students and faculty members in the
Tulia school system will experience a
three-day holiday from studies, starting
Friday. School will be out Friday,
Monday and Tuesday for the spring
break.
Classes are to dismiss at the regular
hour this (Thursday) afternoon and will
not resume until next Wednesday morn-
ing, Feb. 21.
.. and opened my practice somewhere
in Texas. We were down near Austin
last week and my younger son, Keith, is
suffering from cedar allergy.
Monday morning I visited with our
daughter, Wendy. Wendy lives in Can-
yon, and she has some sort of "Canyon”
allergy.
I consistently have an allergy from
June through the first fall freeze. I would
suppose our allergies arc w hat we used
to call "hay fever."
•
ITS REALLY HARD to find the
candidate for governor who believes
"right" on all the issues. By the time you
take into consideration how to finance
schools, control drugs, for or against
state income tax, abortion, or lottery to
raise state money.
The Texas League of Women Voters
will publish a tab newspaper insert on
each candidate and his or her views on
the issues. Wc hope to distribute that
special tab in The Tulia Herald just
before the primary elections. Perhaps it
will help all of us really understand each
candidates "platform" for election.
This week I received an interesting
Continued on Page Two
1Miracle Kids' Overcome Obstacles
Geneva And Dean Harman Always Rebound From Physical Adversity
By Jim Reynolds
Since the offspring of Dean and Geneva
Harman and Chester and Mary Elliff arc double
cousins, "they should all look alike, but they
don't," Mrs. Harman jokes with family mem-
bers.
"Wc may not look alike, but we probably act
alike," chimes in her daughter, Judy Bowc of
Lubbock.
This prevailing sense of humor—plus a deep
and abiding faith, strong family tics, love and a
sturdy West Texas heritage — have carried Ge-
neva and Dean Harman through the potholes
which have been liberally entrenched along
their road of life.
The Harmans discovered "when Geneva was
about 25 years of age that she was afflicted with
a very slow developing type of muscular dystro-
phy known as limb girdle.' "
Family members explain that "this particular
dystrophy affects principally muscles in the
arms, legs, back, shoulders and neck. The prog-
ress of the disease has been so slow that she has
been able to bear and successfully rear five
children.
"Even though she has been physically handi-
capped for many years and whcclchairbound for
about 25 years, she has continued to perform all
the tasks that our society expects of a modem
housewife, except for the last few years."
Despite her physical difficulties, Mrs. Har-
man — whose father came to Swisher County
before the turn of the century — wears a
constant smile as her badge of courage. Her wit
has also remained.
Her philosophy on life is summarized by a
sister-in-law, Mary Elliff: "The main thing is to
be happy and love each other."
CREATIVE INDIVIDUAL
Never one to ponder her problems, Mrs.
Harman is a creative individual who "stays
busy."
When Geneva rarely "gets dow-n," the mood
lasts only a brief time.
Mrs. Harman, who traditionally makes
Chnstmas gifts for her family, was "a little
depressed" in December because the holiday
was drawing near and her gifts had not been
prepared.
Her sister-in-law discovered an instant cure.
Mrs. Eliffs beauty operator, Jamie Martin,
introduced her to : " Texas Pearls," which are
produced by inserting marbles into colorful
bandanas to form a chain or necklace. Mrs. Eliff
was intrigued because "I've got to have some-
thing to do every minute."
After making a set of the beads, Mary could
hardly wait to demonstrate her newfound crea-
tion to her sister-in-law.
Armed with marbles, beads and bandana
handkerchiefs, she headed for the Harman resi-
dence at the eastern edge of Tulia.
"Here, you can do this," Mary said as she
demonstrated.
"I believe I can," Geneva quickly responded.
"Well, get busy," her sister-in-law good-
naturedly suggested.
Mrs. Harman did just that. In the remaining
days before Christmas, she produced sets of
colorful Texas pearls for her two daughters,
three daughters-in-law, and five granddaugh-
Continued on Page Four
BIBLE CORRESPONDENCE — Geneva and Dean
Harman discuss a study course on Hebrews which
he Is authoring. The Tulia couple started a world
Bible correspondence school In 1967.
— Staff photo
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